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Ever have those dreams where you're falling, and just before the "SPLAT"...you jerk awake? I've always wondered what would happen if I just kept sleeping to the end of that dream. Would I go "splat", or "bounce"?
Would it "hurt"? Well, I don't know, I've had vivid dreams of being injured, yet, not "feeling" it. Dreams are so mysterious, aren't they?
Anyway, a co-worker/friend yesterday went sky diving for the first time. He's the best man in his friend's wedding, and the groom thought it would be a grand kick off for the bachelor party for the guys in the wedding party to sky dive.
Only, the groom is the only one in the wedding party with the experience, and, my friend is afraid of heights.
He told us there will be a 3 hour training seminar before the jump, and that everyone would be taking a breathalyzer before being allowed to jump. Oh yeah, I would tease him that I was going to sit at the airport so I could listen to him scream all the way down.
Believe me, he's one of those impish, devilish, smart asses at work..hard to be mad at him because he's too damned silly.
I told him I wanted to see him "bounce" and he asked why..so I told him it would be better than seeing him "splat". He got a laugh out of that. I did tell him he needs someone to video tape this and post it on Facebook so that those of us who had to work can see how he did. He hasn't yet, I figure he's sleeping in because the bachelor party would begin after the "jump". And there has been no phone calls of anything going wrong, so I'm figuring he did fine. Probably screamed all the way down knowing him.
And, I'll see him at work over the weekend, where I'm sure he will have us rolling with laughter with his telling of it all.
I can say this for certainty....I wouldn't care if it were paid for already...there is absolutely NO WAY IN HELL anyone is going to convince me to jump out of a perfectly safe airplane!
Not afraid of heights at all...just don't see any sense in jumping out of a plane if I don't have to.
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Sep 14 @ 8:32PM
Over the years, I have had frequent dreams of losing my teeth. Quite upsetting actually.
I have had a few falling dreams too, but wake up before I hit the ground.
It's funny the things we all dream, and what possible meanings they have.
Sep 15 @ 8:18PM
I would never go skydiving as I see no practical reason to jump out of a perfectly good plane.
I don't know of anyone who has ever dreamed of the part where they hit the ground in a dream. Wonder what the results would be if they did? As for dream's meanings sometimes a dream is just a dream or that second helping of something you had for dinner. Other times it is your brain making sense of problems.
Sep 16 @ 12:06PM
My daughter has had dreams where she dies like getting her head chopped off. I am not kidding or BSing either. After her killing things fade to red to black and she sleeps on. I never really have anything bad happen to me in mine very often.
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Scoliosis is described as the side curve with the spine. In many of situations, scoliosis is actually idiopathic i.e. there is not really specific factor behind this curve of spinal cord. The problem is just not for the weak pose or even holding a heavy book carrier. Discovering the disorder early will cause good medical care and doesn't produce any specific long-term issue or disability.
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The three Kardashian sisters have recently been on the cover of Vegas Magazine- the famous entertainment magazine of choice for Vegas visitors. Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian look so sexy in bikini and confident in showing off their perfect body curves. Let's see the the most breathtaking photo shoots of the sexy trio of Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian on the cover of Vegas Magazine in June, 2010.
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A wide range of stair lifts for curved staircases are now available in the market to enhance the lifestyle of people with disabilities. Curved stair lifts are slightly more expensive than straight stair lifts, but will definitely enhance the value of your building.
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Standard designs of air knives come as a straight line of blade that is fixed onto an assembly line machine for vertical blasts of air. But what if there is limited space? How can air knives throw off air at a wider area then? All it takes is a small adjustment in the shape of the blade. Instead of a row of a row of holes, a simple solution is a Curved Air Blade. The following will explain its fea
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Staircases come in all sizes, but stair lifts by default are straight. As a result, a curved staircase needs a custom stair lift.
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– The deal for Batista to return during WrestleMania XXX season is something he and Triple H have been working on for several months now. Batista will be working TV tapings, pay-per-views and even some live events. The deal will see him stick around for at least some time after WrestleMania XXX.
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Arthur Warren Waite said "I do" and then hatched a plot to poison his in-laws to inherit their fortune. With his boyish good looks, he charmed into marriage the daughter of wealthy Grand Rapids business tycoon John E. Peck in 1916. He then wasted no time executing what he believed to be a flawless scheme to hijack his wife's inheritance. The plot went awry when a mysterious telegram set off a sequence of events that ultimately exposed his immoral ambition to poison all other Peck heirs.
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The 2011 World Superbike Championship concluded Oct. 17 at Portimao in Portugal, with a different rider winning each race.
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The British Grand Prix at Silverstone this coming weekend is the venue for the 5th and 6th rounds of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup. The Cup's first visit to this classic venue is even more exciting as it will see early Cup leader Philipp Oettl back in action against current points leader Arthur Sissis.
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After an exciting tussle in the last few laps of the Moto2 race in Estoril, Portugal, Sunday, Stefan Bradl (Viessmann Kiefer Racing) managed to hold off Julián Simón (Mapfre Aspar) to claim victory, with a poignant rostrum finish for Yuki Takahashi (Gresini Racing) who came third less than a week after the tragic death of his brother.
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How are you guys even getting the saves to work in jailbreak mode? I've tried numerous offline saves for PS3 games and none of them will work.
I've tried both from XBM and FTP. I'm having major problems from XBM with copying game saves to the PS3. I don't get the "copy" option for transferring my saves from USB flash drive.
When I try to FTP my saves they will not work either. This leads me to another question. Isn't it time for some coder to look into a PS3 file resigner like we have for the 360? I mean we have to resign all of our 360 saves to our profile before they will work.
Now, with jailbreak, we need something like this for the PS3. I know where to FTP the saves to on the PS3 HDD but they will not work. They don't even show up as available for the games. They do show up from FTP but not from the actual games while playing from PS3. It's time for looking into a PS3 file resigner.
Yeah, I'm not sure on the DIR for it either. However in the latest patch they will allow for save game backup, that you should be able to find.
To date I don't believe there is a way to get to the save game. Can anyone confirm this? If you happen to find it, definitely please upload it :)
Can somebody upload theirs. I don't need this for my Jailbroken console. I just need this for my online account. If somebody can upload theirs to this thread or send me a PM.
It wont work. You can put in a fat32 formatted usb drive to your ps3 and copy your game save to it, then upload it to the net, but it's linked to your psnid only. So the only way to get a hacked save is for someone to hex edit it. Kind of like what ppl were doing for forza3 gave saves. If anyone knows any good hex editors, get in touch with me, hopefully someone will figure out a way to hex edit it for unlimited money and things like that.
Here's what the files look like from the GT5 save onto a flash drive:
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Wait gt5 works for jailbroken ps3 now? Doesnt it require 3.5 firmware to run the game :0?
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hey guys loading the game save is easy. use your ftp on ps3. on your computer open hdd0 on ps3. then go to save data and look for game folder. copy and paste the gt5 and pdi file. make sure you overwrite it.
Has anyone found a nice save game for this game?
Something with all Gold or Completet the S. Vettel Challenge.
I will post my EU save for this one later.
It has;
Every race (Except Endurance) golded for A and B Spec.
A Spec level: 26 (i believe, may be higher!)
B Spec Level; 32 or 33 (not at home now so don't know 4 sure)
Licences; All Gold Except IA10, and IB.
Challenges: Karts, Top Gear, Sebastien Loebb Gold
Credits; 20,000,000!
Cars; Don't know, about 200, very fast cars including the X2010.
Someone found a better save?? :)


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Pleasant but unremarkablePosted on 04 / 04 / 2013
Nice little restaurant/shop, cool and quiet. You tick the boxes on a printed menu, hand it over to the friendly staff and collect your food when it's ready. I tried the vegetarian steak while my wife had the deep fried prawn (fake of course). I'm a big fan of fake meat style veggie food and I'm sad to say that both dishes were incredibly bland. The rather dry and chewy vegetarian steak was served with French fries (which would have been useful to know in advance since I also ordered a plate of fries to go with it) plus a spoonful of baked beans placed on some lettuce - a very odd combination. My wife said that the prawns had no flavour whatsoever.
I regret not having the chicken rice or fish curry like other diners as these looked much more appealing, but seeing the 'steak' on the menu had intrigued me. Wrong choice sadly.
In my experience I would have to say it was very expensive for the portion size and quality of the food. Not one I'll be checking out again. There's a small veggie stall several doors up on the left with more choice and better prices which I will try on my next visit to the area.
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Georges Simenon returns
Georges Simenon
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G eorges Simenon (1903–89), the author first of pulp fiction, then of detective novels and romans durs, who wrote extremely quickly, disliked "literature" and had a voluptuous interest in both fame and money, was admired by, among others: Gide, Cocteau, Céline, Anouilh, Colette, Mauriac, Somerset Maugham, Thornton Wilder, T. S. Eliot, Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys. The public homage and private fan letters of his coevals were flattering to Simenon, but also embarrassing. "I wish I liked the work of my friends who write", he said in When I Was Old (one of his many autobiographies). "I try to make myself, I try to pretend, for it's rarely true . . . . I like them as men, while regretting that I cannot admire them professionally."
Gide was a key case. He corresponded with Simenon, boosted him, praised him in his Journal, and worked for some time on a long eulogy (never published and probably destroyed). Simenon enjoyed the attention, addressed the older man as Cher Maître – but found Gide's books completely unreadable. He managed to combine a supremely practical approach to the creation and economics of writing with a self-delusion so maniacal that it could at times be charming: "Maybe I am not completely crazy", he once admitted, "but I am a psychopath." Thus in 1937, when he was thirty-four, and by his own estimate had written 349 novels, he plotted his future career as a "real" novelist. "Everything . . . I have predicted so far has come to pass. So, I will win the Nobel Prize in 1947." This is psychopathic in that it sees only the monstrous self, misreading both the outside (literary) world and the qualities (indeed, existence) of others. Unfortunately for Simenon, in 1947 the Nobel Prize went to André Gide. And thereafter, for year after year, it kept on going to writers who weren't Georges Simenon. By 1961 he was so fed up that he told his diary he would refuse the prize if offered: "Let them fuck off and leave me in peace". But three years later, he was continuing to abuse "the cretins who still haven't awarded me their prize".
What do "literary" novelists admire in Simenon? The combination of a positive and a negative, perhaps: a mixture of what he can do better than they, and of what he can get away with not doing. His admirable positives: swiftness of creation; swiftness of effect; clearly demarcated personal territory; intense atmosphere and resonant detail; knowledge of, and sympathy with, les petites gens; moral ambiguity; a usually baffling plot with a usually satisfactory denouement. As for his enviable negatives: Simenon got away with a very restricted and therefore very repetitive vocabulary (about 2,000 words, by his own estimation) – he didn't want any reader to have to pause over a word, let alone reach for the dictionary. He kept his books very short, able to be read in one sitting, or (often) journey: none risks outstaying its welcome. He eschews all rhetorical effect – there is rarely more than one simile per book, and no metaphors, let alone anything approaching a symbol. There is text, but no subtext; there is plot but no subplot – or rather, what appears to be possible subplot usually ends up being part of the main plot. There are no literary or cultural allusions, and minimal reference to what is going on in the wider world of French politics, let alone the international arena. There is also – both admirable positive and enviable negative – no authorial presence, no authorial judgement, and no obvious moral signposts. Which helps make Simenon's fiction remarkably like life.
Though his romans durs may be superior, it was the seventy-five Maigret novels that were best known during Simenon's lifetime, and continue to be so. I first read some of them around the time the BBC did its memorable adaptations (fifty-two between 1960 and 1963) with Rupert Davies as Maigret and the excellent Ewen Solon as Lucas. Back then – a mere thirty years on from the publication of the first Maigret novel – France, for all its post-war recovery, still contained large stretches where life seemed to continue as in Simenon's fiction: the canals and waterways, small bistrots and family hotels, the enclosed towns and villages with their faces turned against the outside world, where history and rancour gathered, the bourgeoisie held sway, and faces were white. La France profonde still survived; nowadays, it exists in smaller and smaller pockets. As a French friend recently pointed out, La France profonde – so treasured by outsiders (and Simenon, though francophone, was Belgian and thus an outsider) – has become La France branchée.
What do "literary" novelists admire in Simenon? The combination of a positive and a negative, perhaps: a mixture of what he can do better than they, and of what he can get away with not doing
Penguin, Simenon's British paperback publishers since 1952, have begun the admirable project of issuing, at the rate of one per month, new translations of all the Maigret novels, to be followed by some of the romans durs. Rereading the first six (all first published in 1931) confirms both how solidly imagined and carpentered Maigret's world was; and also how far distant it now seems. It is a world that – even when colours are described – is rendered by the reader's imagination in black and white: it exists in the monochrome of Jean Gabin movies (and the BBC series); also, the monochrome of Henri Cartier-Bresson's first photographs, which are contemporaneous with Maigret's first cases. Here pipes are cleaned with chicken feathers; calling cards are delivered; horse traffic is still common, while cars contain flower-holders and "marquetry side pockets"; regional papers publish on a Sunday; and fingerprints are sent to Paris over the berlinograph. Maigret wears a bowler hat and an overcoat with a velvet collar, as well as a "celluloid protector" which cradles his tie-knot – all of which come as sartorial surprises (Rupert Davies definitely wore a soft hat of some fedora/homburg variety). When, in The Carter of La Providence, a man falls into a lock and is pulled out unconscious, one rescuer tries to bring him round by the method of tongue-traction: a rhythmical yanking on the waterlogged victim's tongue. I hadn't come across this form of artificial respiration since 1897, when it was used on Alphonse Daudet – for an hour and a half, long after he was clearly dead. Though it lacks any resuscitatory value, the technique had clearly lingered on as a folk remedy.
There is a great deal of eating and drinking in Maigretland, often class-defined and sometimes indicative of criminality. Never trust a man whose "light" lunch consists of an omelette aux fines herbes, a veal cutlet in crème fraiche and a bottle of the finest burgundy. Contrast this with an honest breakfast of Maigret's: a hunk of bread, a terrine of paté, and a mug of white wine. A villain will order an 1867 Armagnac; an Etonian rotter will call for still champagne; while Maigret swigs his wife's home-made plum liqueur – and many, many other drinks as well. The Inspector is clearly, on the evidence of these first six books, a functioning alcoholic, forever at the beer, the wine, the fine and the Calvados; today he would be sent off to HR to help him share and confront his problem. It's possible Simenon didn't notice how much Maigret was drinking because the novelist was himself a functioning alcoholic at the time. He even drank while at the typewriter; and a sympathetic doctor suggested that on writing days he limit himself to just the two bottles of red, preferably neither too old nor too young. Patrick Marnham, in The Man Who Wasn't Maigret (1992), tells how the BBC's adaptations were so faithful to the books that "a temperance pressure group started to count the amount of alcohol Maigret drank in each episode and an Anglican bishop implored the producers to reduce it".
In the first Maigret novel, Pietr the Latvian, we learn that Maigret is forty-five, the son of a gamekeeper in the Loire valley, and a failed medical student; that he has a "proletarian frame" but looks after his hands nicely, and is married to a woman from Alsace who cooks le frichti (or "Swiss fries"). The next five books add very little to this back story: by the end of them we still do not even know that Maigret's first name is Jules (his wife calls him "Maigret"). If he was born in 1884, he is unlikely to have escaped war service, yet he makes no reference to having done so, or to the war itself. Does he have hobbies? Does he follow sport? Have a favourite newspaper? Political opinions? Is he interested in sex? A vague answer to the final question is suggested in Night at the Crossroads, where he is seriously vamped over several chapters by a pseudo-Danish femme fatale in (of course) a silk peignoir. She even reveals to him a "small round breast". Is he shaken or stirred? The most Simenon will allow is that Maigret "was savouring this most unusual familiarity perhaps a little too much". In one of the subsequent sixty-nine Maigrets, Simenon will allow his creature to climb into bed with a prostitute – but only in order to have a conversation.
So, towards sex, as towards everything, Maigret remains "imperturbable" – the adjective most commonly applied to him. He is "like a wall", "a monument of placidity"; in The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien he is described as having eyes "as still and dull as a cow's", and being coarse-featured. "There was something implacable and inhuman about him that suggested a pachyderm plodding inexorably towards its goal." He often seems inert and unreactive; silent, dull. He stares at people disconcertingly, and mumbles incomprehensibly. Part of this, of course, is deliberate investigatory technique. (Joan Didion once attributed part of her success as an interviewer to a frequent inability to find the right question: muteness made interviewees take pity and blurt.) But it is also Simenon's deliberate decision. By not fully characterizing Maigret, and offering few glimpses of his interior life, he invites us to fill in the blanks, which we happily and sympathetically do.
towards sex, as towards everything, Maigret remains "imperturbable" – the adjective most commonly applied to him
While every Maigret case is a several-pipe problem, the Frenchman's investigatory techniques are far from those of Sherlock Holmes, who tends to sits in a chair and ratiocinate. Maigret occupies the scene of the crime, absorbs the atmosphere, makes himself irritatingly visible, and waits for things to fall into place. He works by a kind of sub-intuition. In Pietr the Latvian he explains what he calls "the theory of the crack in the wall": that within each criminal there is a human being, and that the policeman must wait until "the instant when the human being comes out from behind the opponent". In The Yellow Dog, Maigret is assigned a keen young assistant, Leroy, fresh out of police college. He is a technocrat, keen on forensics and fingerprints, whose notes on the case consist of what has happened, or might have happened, and identifying the problems to be resolved. Maigret's notes, by contrast, are short character sketches of the main suspects (the detective as novelist). When Leroy said "I deduce", Maigret interrupts with "I don't go in for deductions". When asked what he believes about the case, Maigret replies, "I never believe anything". When Leroy talks about method, Maigret – contradicting what he said in Pietr the Latvian – replies, "My method has actually been not to have one . . . it's a question of atmosphere, a question of faces". And when Leroy gets over-excited, Maigret hauls him back with, "Easy! Easy, my boy! No jumping to conclusions. And no deductions, remember?" This is a very romantic presentation of police work: you stand there, sniffing the air like some great pachyderm, appearing not to do much, waiting for the crack in the human being which leads to the cracking of the case. It's also a very attractive fictional sell. But in fact, it's only part of how Maigret operates: he frequently uses deduction, and technology, as well as more traditional police methods, such as beating a suspect up.
If Maigret is no reliable guide to his own methods, nor was Simenon, whose statements about his own life and beliefs were voluminous and often self-contradictory. In When I Was Old, he claims that "For thirty years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals". Which probably means something close to its opposite: that everyone, given certain circumstances, has within them the capacity to commit a crime – after all, even he, Simenon, had been a minor black-marketeer back in Liège during the First World War. Maigret certainly doesn't believe there are no criminals, though he has considerable sympathy for those unfortunates brought to crime by poverty, or forced reluctantly into association with professional crooks. He is therefore inclined to bend the rules, and take a nuanced view of justice: at the end of The Yellow Dog, he lies before witnesses to protect a waitress who has put strychnine in a round of drinks.
Of these first six books, Pietr the Latvian is the most hectic, and the most anxiously complicated, featuring a pair of identical twins who adopt triple identities. But it is impressive how swiftly the template of the classic Maigret novel is put in place: it is there by the opening paragraph of the second book, The Late Monsieur Gallet, where a crime is described as being "mundane, difficult and unforgettable all at the same time". There is great unease in several of the books about downward social mobility, which often entails taking on a false identity. Even some of the drinks operate with forged papers: a "false absinthe" and a "synthetic calvados" are fired down Maigret's gullet along with more authentic liquors. And in some of these thrillers, the pull of the roman dur is clear. Simenon can make the world feel equally strange and menacing whether a villain has a gun or not. In The Hanged Man of Saint- Pholien, there is a blackmailer who, on being paid off, burns the money; the psychological ramifications of this detail linger well after the crime has been solved. The Late Monsieur Gallet, concerning a case in which "everything, without exception, is fake", features a commercial traveller who continues to pretend he is going off to work eighteen years after being sacked; in reality, he spends his time soliciting contributions from ageing royalists for various legitimist projects, and then purloining their contributions. This is a rich novelistic idea which feels as if it deserves fuller treatment than a thriller can award it.
Apart from delivering the usual satisfactions of crime fiction, the Maigret
books work because they offer a continuous, reliable, easily re-enterable
world. Those early readers never had to look up a word in the dictionary;
and we later readers, whether foreign or French, never have to get out
histories of the first half of the twentieth century to understand what is
going on. Theodor Fontane's No Way Back is set against the
backdrop of the Schleswig-Holstein problem, which Palmerston said had only
ever been understood by three men (one of them was dead, another had gone
mad, and the third was himself, who had forgotten). The Penguin edition of
the novel therefore begins with four pages of historical background. There is
no need for any of this with Simenon. The world he describes may exist as a
moral and economic consequence of the First World War, but in the first six
Maigrets that war is mentioned on only two occasions, once as part of a rare
simile: The Carter of La Providence is set among the chalk hills of
Champagne, "where at this time of year the vines looked like wooden crosses
in a Great War cemetery". Where the larger, outer world has been, is and may
be heading does not impinge, any more than it does on, say, the world of
Jeeves and Wooster. We enter Maigretland confident that the weather will be
extreme, the Inspector will solve a seemingly insoluble crime, and that we
shall not need to Google anything. This blithe sense of security will now
continue for another sixty-nine volumes. One small but serious complaint:
Penguin have employed some of the best-known translators for this series.
They ought to be given a proper biographical note of their own, beneath that
of their Belgian paymaster.
Julian Barnes's books include The Sense of an Ending, 2011, Through the Window: Seventeen essays (and one short story), 2012, and, most recently, Levels of Life, which was published last year. He played the part of Georges Simenon in several BBC Radio Four adaptations of the Maigret stories.
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