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Released: Sep 01st, 1993
Running Time: 75
Director: Casey Shadow
Company: Electric Productions
Cast: Jerry Butler, Sean Michaels, Raven Richards, Ariel Knights, Tony Montana, Michelle Monroe, Aisha
Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: Feature
Generally speaking, this never-released 1990 production boasts some above-average sex, though there are only four scenes. The best has to be Aisha's seduction of Butler, with its long 69, but the Michaels/Richards and Monroe/Montana couplings aren't too far behind; you're bound to like Michelle's energetic riding of Tony's cock.
Jerrv Butler plays a vicious would-be drug lord who's got it in for the two cops (Tony Montana, Sean Michaels) who are investigating him. Jerry has them killed. Little does he realize that Sean's cop girlfriend (Aisha) turns rogue by the violence and vows to get Butler by fair means or foul — which, of course, she does.
It takes a certain amount of guts to bring out this feature now, when the whole censorious community is going crazy about violence in the media — because this tape depicts several gun slayings, an electrocution, and even a guy set on fire! (Worth an extra half A in my book.) However, there's no sex mixed with violence.
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I haven't seen any evidence that Haye has this kind of mentality versus dangerous men, dangerous in excess of his natural ability to dominate them. His non-effort against Wlad was a total embarrassment. I personally feel I learned something about his mental limitations in that fight and have no problem using that to inform my pick.
My guess is Haye would get a sniff of Dempsey's punching, then run away in the ring. Haye has time to prove me wrong.
It has nothing to do with mental limitations but his lack of ability, Haye got outboxed not outbrawled. Anyone who's ever tried to brawl with Haye has been knocked out. Are Mormeck and Chisora not dangerous men? Enzo was scoring pretty brutal KOs on the way into the Haye fight too. Did Haye mentally fold in those?
Is Sam Langford mentally weak because he couldn't beat Jack Johnson? What about Napoles against Monzon?
Haye doesn't have the ability to fight on the front foot by bobbing and weaving, slipping jab and throwing short left hooks. He can't do any of those things and prefers to fight on the backfoot and counter. His footwork is also nowhere near as good as Wlad's
Fighting on the back foot and countering works well against Dempsey, Dempsey twice was dominated against a counter punching pot shotting mover. It doesn't work well against Wlad and no ones ever beat Wlad that way
I'm not even picking Haye here, but your criticising him for a losing a pure boxing match against the best of his time, Dempsey didn't face the best of his time
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Monday's Eyes on the Road column provoked an unusually large outpouring of emails from readers with their own takes on the math needed to decide if switching to a hybrid makes economic as well as psychological sense. Here's a sample from my inbox. (Some letters have been edited.)
Tim Shates writes: I found your analysis interesting, but I think you could have made the significance of the interest component more clear. For example, if you were going to get a new car anyway, you'd be paying that interest no matter what.
We were among the first people on the list when the Prius was announced in the summer of 2000. The timing was perfect because my wife's lease on her old vehicle was up that October, so she was going to have to do something no matter what. Well, she's been quite happy with the car. It now has about 75,000 miles on it and still gets around 50 miles per gallon on average. I'm still not ready to trade my old car in yet, but I did one better -- for my 10-mile daily commute I use a 50cc scooter that gets around 90 miles per gallon.
Certainly, it would be different if my car was on its last legs. I did pick an arbitrary starting point for my calculations, which is my own personal situation. Still, I think a lot of people are in my shoes, wondering if it makes sense to trade in a car that's not so good on gas for one that is. That said, it's not clear that I would be better off buying a Prius than I would be to buy a conventional, high-mileage subcompact, and pocket the savings on the sticker price.
Derek Helling writes: Interesting analysis, but you seem to have omitted a big item -- the estimated life of the hybrid's battery and its replacement cost.
I read somewhere that a hybrid's battery will last about five years and cost several thousand dollars to replace. This was a couple of years ago, so prices may have gone down -- and hopefully, battery technology has improved.
How does this affect your equation?
Toyota offers an eight-year, 100,000-mile warranty on the hybrid-drive components, including the batteries. Replacing the battery pack after warranty could cost several thousand dollars.
Marcia Morrison writes: If your concern is primarily initial cost and good gas mileage, you should run the numbers again, assuming a used Prius instead of a brand-new one. I drive a 2001 Prius, and consistently get right around 45 mpg. The original model (in the U.S.) has been around long enough now that you can often find them used. If you spent $16,000 on a good used Prius, and re-ran the numbers based on that, you might come out ahead with the Prius. I'm not saying that you must buy a used car. My point is that you need to be clear about what your highest priority is: having a new car with new-car warranty, having the hatchback model instead of the original four-door design, or saving money overall on your vehicle purchase and operation costs.
Russell A. Jenkins writes: One economic aspect of the hybrid/traditional debate is rarely addressed -- the unfortunate consequence of geographic chauvinism. Up here where it is often bitterly cold in winter, the batteries, electric motor, special hardware, extra circuitry, etc. are little more than dead weight for the tiny internal-combustion engine to move. So, does the hybrid become a seasonal toy like the Miatas, Boxsters, and Solstices? For those of us suffering well-differentiated seasons, there is little economic benefit from a hybrid.
So maybe we should buy them for the environment. That leads to an aspect of the hybrid/traditional debate that has been little-explored: What is the total environmental impact of a hybrid versus a traditional modern car? What is the environmental expense of mining, transporting, and smelting the lead required for those extra batteries? What about the environmental impact of generating the additional sulphuric acid for these extra batteries? What about the eventual impact of recycling these extra batteries when they must be replaced? Then there are the additional environmental costs of the replacement batteries, etc. And if people recharge their batteries using household current, they simply displace pollution to wherever the power is produced, sort of like walking the dog so it does its business in someone else's yard. How ethical is that?
So, tally up all these hybrid-only factors and compare them to a modern gasoline- or diesel-powered car over a vehicular lifespan of 150,000 miles. Some would argue that 200,000 is more likely with modern cars, so run the totals for various scenarios. I suspect that these analyses will reveal little environmental benefit from the hybrids. Bottom line: Hybrids are a market response by the car makers to American liberal guilt. Or is that too cynical?
Guy Guthrie writes: Your column was extremely timely for my situation: I just finished the same calculations and ended up with a Prius last Thursday evening.
I commute 12,000 miles a year on the vehicle and retired a 1995 Lincoln Continental that got 20 MPG. (Yes, I really babied it.) I calculated it out that over a 10-year period at $3 a gallon I saved $6,833 in fuel costs. At $5 a gallon, the savings were $10,820.
I can see another trend in the works: The hybrid-car drive will achieve a point of growth that will allow it to dictate the market standards and force the hybrid concept as the new means of transportation. This is what Toyota is trying to go for: By being the first and best with the concept and then by "seeding the masses" with their vehicles, they will be able to dictate the future car market as Detroit does with gasoline cars now.
As the economics of our "protection" from actual fuel costs forces us to pay more for the gallon, the hybrid will be the next propulsion system for the car, and a likely transition to electric cars.
Anyway, it's blue and so far, it has impressed me.
Richard Guha writes: I was disappointed to see no mention of turbo-diesels. When I am in Europe, I always rent one and an impressed by both the acceleration and the fuel economy. We are used to looking at horsepower, where diesels are poor, yet in torque they are amazing, and it is this which gives them great acceleration. With only one engine versus hybrids' two, they are lighter and more spacious. In the U.S. we still use Diesel No. 2, a high-sulphur fuel designed for trucks and tractors. I understand that nest year, low-sulphur diesel fuel will become mandatory in the U.S., as it is in Europe. Turbo-diesels save more fuel, last longer, carry more and are cheaper to buy. It is a pity their image is so poor.
Modern European diesels are powerful and very efficient engines, but they aren't clean enough to meet current clean-air regulations in California and the Northeast, which are key markets for European brands. Tougher nationwide clean-air rules coming into effect for the U.S. in the next few years could rule out current diesels entirely, unless car makers are successful in their efforts to develop exhaust-scrubbing technology to filter out the fine soot spewed out by diesels.
Dave Marks writes: If you had plugged in the possibility of $4 a gallon for gas, then the wisdom of buying a hybrid would be even more obvious. Because then the issue becomes one of getting a cheap insurance policy protecting us against much-higher gasoline prices.
Even if the price of gasoline were to fall temporarily, the odds are pretty strong that we're going to be faced with higher (not lower) gas prices, given the inability of the producers to provide marginally enough supply now, let alone in the future.
Furthermore, if people wait until gasoline rises toward $4 a gallon, it will probably then be too late to even find a good hybrid, since supplies (of the Prius, for example) won't be able to meet the then-increased demand.
So buying a hybrid now 1) provides a good bargain now and a better bargain later, if prices rise; and 2) beats out the competition if prices rise and there aren't enough hybrids around to buy at current hybrid prices.
Patrick Mehr writes: I replaced two Dodge Caravans with two Priuses this summer. Two comments:
First, your math would look quite different if you had to replace your current vehicle anyway -- the position I was in in July when my two Dodge Caravans (respectively five and year years old) felt too large and too old now that both my children are college age.
I bought a Prius -- having waited just one week, not the several months everyone talks about. A dealer in Maine offered just the Prius I wanted at the lowest price of 40 dealers in the Northeast U.S. that received my email requesting their best offer; the Maine dealer delivered it to my doorstep in the Boston area. I liked my new Prius so much (50 mpg, handling, features, etc) that I purchased a second one a month later (before the post-Katrina gas prices of $3+ per gallon) from the same dealer who, once again, delivered the vehicle to my doorstep within a few days. I never set foot in that dealership!
My conclusion: If instead of having to navigate a collection of brick-and-mortar dealerships, car buyers had access to a Web-based Toyota purchasing system (similar to what buyers of a Dell computer are now well familiar with), the economics and wait times for Priuses would look like what I experienced, not like what your piece describes.
Second, here is another piece of math I suggest you do: What percentage of Americans buying a new car anyway would have to purchase one with 50+ mpg fuel efficiency (a Prius or equivalent) for Saudi Arabian oil exports to the U.S. to dwindle to zero over the next decade or two? And if that happened, by how many billions of dollars could we reduce our Defense Department's annual budget? If you then divide that last figure into the gallons of gas consumed annually in the U.S., you would get the order of magnitude of what the additional "tax to secure Middle Eastern oil fields" should be on gasoline to incorporate these externalities into the (currently artificially low) price of gasoline in the U.S.
The problem is that hybrids still consume petroleum, and vehicle travel will likely grow as the economy grows. Mass adoption of hybrids certainly would help reduce the potential growth in petroleum consumption, and might even reduce petroleum use. But hybrids alone won't allow the U.S. to free itself from dependence on oil.
Matt Brach writes: I myself have been trying to do this same analysis, and believe there is a different opportunity-cost approach needed.
Instead of comparing the annual fuel costs and cost of ownership of a hybrid versus your existing car, you should have compared the Prius to another new non-hybrid vehicle in the same class with the equivalent features, horsepower, torque, etc. For example, take the new Civic non-hybrid, which fully loaded is around $19,000, without any discount, and gets 31 city/38 highway (per Edmunds.com). Let's assume an average of 35 MPG. We now have:
Marginal MPG = 13(48 - 35)
Marginal Cost of New Vehicle = $7,000 ($26,000 - $19,000)
Assuming gas at $3 per gallon, if my quick and dirty math is right it would take 300,000 miles to recoup the $7,000 difference, or 20 years of driving 15,000 miles a year.
At $5 per gallon it would still take 175,000 miles.
In short, if you are buying a new car, purchasing a hybrid makes almost no economic sense. This is without even factoring in maintenance costs: When is the hybrid going to die? Even Toyota doesn't really know -- I think they are giving 100,000-mile warranties on the hybrid aspect of the motor. A good four-cylinder Honda can get 150,000 miles with minimal maintenance costs.
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Again this sad sad sad conception of animal as mere food-problem to solve... Like dental floss ads, this print is so boring and SAD.
The product makes the pig dissapear (as it causes gas after you ate it). Or something like that.
That's me!
Is that so? Okay then.. but if you're not familiar with the brand (like me), you definitely won't get this.
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I got it.
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I get it, but does pork really cause acid reflux, compared with, say, a brandy soused trifle, or a stonking curry? Maybe it does.
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Really? Was this done by adults? Poor concept and weak visual.
Doin' it for the points
I like it. It's so simple and minimal and the idea is clear: alka-seltzer makes the (memory of the) food disappear.
The most amazing ads I've seen in my entire life! Thanks for easily letting me know what Alka-Seltzer does and how it makes my life easier. I will definitely buy this product, whatever the hell it is! You have humbled me BBDO. Thank you and love you.


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I'm trying to encrypt a string, part of it is to XOR the text with IV string. After having some difficulties I ended up in stackoverflow where a guy gave the following code:
import sun.misc.BASE64Decoder;
import sun.misc.BASE64Encoder;
import java.io.IOException;
public class StringXORer {
public String encode(String s, String key) {
return base64Encode(xorWithKey(s.getBytes(), key.getBytes()));
public String decode(String s, String key) {
return new String(xorWithKey(base64Decode(s), key.getBytes()));
private byte[] xorWithKey(byte[] a, byte[] key) {
byte[] out = new byte[a.length];
for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
out[i] = (byte) (a[i] ^ key[i%key.length]);
return out;
private byte[] base64Decode(String s) {
try {
BASE64Decoder d = new BASE64Decoder();
return d.decodeBuffer(s);
} catch (IOException e) {throw new RuntimeException(e);}
private String base64Encode(byte[] bytes) {
BASE64Encoder enc = new BASE64Encoder();
return enc.encode(bytes).replaceAll("\\s", "");
It seemed to work except for 2 issues: The result string becomes longer. When tried to do XOR between "abcdefgh" and "abcdefgh" I got : "aaaaaaaaaaaa". Secondly, result of two identical strings becomes "aaaa...." - string of "a"s....
So the two questions are:
- Why is the resulted string becomes longer?
- Why the result of XOR between identical strings consists of list of "a"s...?
This is homework, appreciate any help.


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The top menu bar has ends that protrude a little outwards from the sides and then wrap down like a scroll. The little triangle that is the wrap-down is there, but the horizontal extension that should protrude out from each side is missing. The other menus such as in the side bar sidgets look fine. It is just the top menu bar that is missing the extension to the left and to the right. Any ideas what is causing this? See http://www.davidmaloney.com/wp/
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This is a discussion on A purely fun "what if" within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Originally Posted by Guantes Draw and tell him, "On three we both shoot." love it.... you have 2 choices son....stick that toy gun up your ...
you have 2 choices son....stick that toy gun up your own a$$ so i dont have to get my hands dirty and we'll wait for the cops to get here together
i'm gonna stick this real one in your ear and we'll wait for the coroner together....but thats gonna screw up the rest of my day so i would suggest you choose wisely...
and it takes a real lazy sonofabitch to not just reach for a pack of gum yourself...correct that and you can earn a living instead of robbing stores for a living...
A quick blow to the nose or the collar bone and then restrain him.You knock him the eff out!!
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Him: "Who's WE?"
"Smith, Wesson and ME!" (draw and hold in face)
Him: leaves wet stain down front of jeans
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"Thats not a gun....this is a gun."
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Draw and say
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A 1911 is Not an obsession, it's simply a recognition that it's THE Gun. :-) All others are runner ups. And hey, if all else fails, aim for the nose and fling it to knock out your foe. Let's see y'all do that with a kel-Tec. ;-)
Thats funny! Great posts. LOL.
I would purposely drop my item right in front of him and when he bent over to pick it up he would get a knee full of wranglers in the face. I then would let his parents know this want to be punk is more than welcome to come stay with me at the ranch and learn a thing or two about an honest days work by building miles of fence with no vehicle access and if he wants to walk thats fine its 23 miles to the closest town. Also all my broke horses would be at the back end of the ranch with only the broncs up close that way if he wants to leave real bad he'll have the ride of his life trying.
I pull my weapon and yell: "this ones real! down on the ground NOW!!"
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Pull yours and ask punk can you run faster then 1250 feet per second?
Hitler once said, The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.
1: Put him in a headlock, give him a noogie, and tell him, loudly "You're so cute! Now, you go out to the car and play with your sister, like a good boy, and quit trying to scare the nice lady!"
2: Say, in your best fey voice, "Oooooh, such a big GUN you have there, would you like to come home with me and have some fun?"
3: Eject your sleeve gun, and say... "You talkin' to me? ARE you talkin' to me? Well there ain't nobody else here!"
4: Say, "What we have here, is failure to communicate." while drawing your weapon and poking his forehead with it.
But I have to admit the "on the count of three" was the best response!
Seeing as how this is a joke filled thread,How about this?: Watch the video between 1:44 and 1:54
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If your head is up your *$$ you are unaware of danger. You are in the perfect position to kiss it goodbye.
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I'd tell someone to dial 911 and also tell the clerk to call for a cleanup at the register cause "this young man is about to piss himself", then grin maniacly. Then tell him to pull the trigger.
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If guns kill people, then:
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it's a good idea, and I know how hard it is to have decent art printed onto toilet paper (having used this exact medium years ago).
My only question is, would women find this tasteful or offensive? It seems more like a thing guys would enjoy.
Still, very good.
"A new media channel."
Cool to see something different come out of Brissy though!
I'm on the fence about this one. Sure, it's a good place to have the conversation, but unless they printed more text that they aren't sharing, I don't see the value proposition. Where's the promise of relief?
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I presume that this is something rather simple, but I've been playing with it a while now and I'm not getting far...
My *new* plugin - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/realsatisfied-widget/ has no version number in the directory.
My readme.txt uses
Stable tag: trunk
My plugin file currently has
Version: 1.3.5
yet no version appears in the directory or on the W.org page... and this means no updates are offered to users (right?)
I'm sure I have something wrong, but just can't see what it is...
I had been tagging releases, but stopped as I understood it was optional. I thought had followed Otto's steps here (http://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2012/06/09/the-plugins-directory-and-readme-txt-files/) but still nothing...
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Sometimes journalism is not doing what it should do. Problems of this type can be seen for example in the coverage of September 11th, the lead-up to the Iraq war and the coverage of the War on Terror. But on a not-so-serious level, things don't always go well either. A few examples.
Did RTL manipulate the audio of a demonstration against Zorreguieta at Princess Ariane's baptism? - View the video and the photo is the headline above an article that DeepJournal published yesterday.
In response to this the critical blogger and former news man Stan van Houcke writes:
"I can still remember the time of Ulbricht well. The time when this communist apparatchik would wave condescendingly to his people on East German television. Those were the days. The communist mass media were in on it, otherwise Ulbricht would never have been able to keep up the con for so long. So every time the leader appeared on-screen, the people cheered and the sun shined. Everyone liked him, no one ever booed or bahhed. People were careful. This approach seemed so successful that the Western commercial mass media quickly adopted it. In particular on American television you never, ever see a dissident, and you never hear the voice of a dissident on commercial radio. The sun always shines, and dissident tones are filtered out. Today I got news from Daan in which I read - to my great horror - that the era of Ulbricht is now upon us here in the polder. Read it for yourself: Did RTL manipulate the audio of a demonstration against Zorreguieta at Princess Ariane"s baptism?" [Zoreguieta is Jorge Zoreguieta, the father of the Dutch princes Máxima Zoreguieta,married to future king Willem-Alexander of Orange].
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It is not the first time to place some questionmarks regarding the media.
September 23rd. Prison Planet publishes a spectacular article. The email that I sent to Prison Planet the following day remains unanswered: "Your top- article CNN: The war with Iran has begun is last years news."
September 28th. I receive an email by a reader of DeepJournal, concerned about the headline in an article by the New York Sun Attack on Iran Said To Be Imminent. I had read it earlier because of the alarming headline in the RSS feed calling for my attention. The article read: "Yesterday"s edition of Le Canard Enchaîné, a French weekly known for its investigative journalism, reported details of an alleged Israeli-American plan to attack Iran"s nuclear facilities." Apparently not every journalist knows that canard is not only French for the word duck, but also means journalistic blunder. A newspaper with the word canard in the title might be a reason to pay some attention; checking the original French article and the website of the newspaper proved the hunch. Under the title of the newspaper it reads: "Journal saritique". Not deterred by hunches or suspicions, author Benny Avny writes: "Like most stories in the French paper, the article was based on unnamed sources who said that in order to reduce casualties, the attack against Iran is planned for October 15, the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan." Sentences like this make you smile and wonder at the same time. I returned the email to the reader. No email to Avny, he should have known better.
October 7th. A headline in the Sunday Herald reads: UK 2017: under surveillance. An email I sent the following day remained unanswered:
Dear Sir,
Looking at the date line it seems like you published your article today (Sunday, October 7, 2007). The reactions to your article are from today (and yesterday) too. But the report [PDF] you refer to seems to be from 2006, including the "surveillance society" quote from Thomas. And another thing, the number 2017 does not show up in the data base of the Surveillance Studies Network .
Am I mistaken, is something else not right?
Daan de Wit
PS: It appears the date line changes as the days change, so the date line might not be connected to the article. But I"m not sure the people who replied to your article know that too. Was your article written this month?"
Kirstie Ball of the Surveillance Studies Network, whom I also emailed in the course of checking out the story, sent me a reply:
Dear Daan,
Thank you for your email. The report was published in November 2006, and the scenarios discussed in the report refer to 2016, not 2017 as stated in the article, so the article is incorrect. That article has been published now because last Friday, in Edinburgh, the Public Policy Network and the Scottish ICO held an event called "Surveillance in Scotland", in which the report featured, among other things. I don"t know the journalist involved. The dateline I think refers to today"s date. I imagine the article will be archived in a week or so.
I will contact the journalist and ask them to correct the piece. Perhaps you should too.
October 8th. One of the headlines by The Raw Story reads Secret Service shot at car of agent said protecting Ahmadinejad. The article was picked up by many media outlets and is as of today still posted online over at The Raw Story. It"s based on information from The Blotter.
A somewhat less spectacular story can be found there: an officer sitting in his car seat accidentally discharged his firearm into his seat and through the bottom of his vehicle.
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Emerson College Today
MLK Luncheon kicks off Heritage Month
Several noted speakers will take part in Emerson's African American Heritage Month, which kicks off Wednesday, January 23, with the Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton, Boston Common.
Student works as volunteer firefighter over break
Students sad that winter break is coming to a close are telling us about their extracurricular excursions on social media—everything from inventing a new cookie recipe to making a difference in their communities.
Emerson mourns Rex Trailer
Rex Trailer, a longtime Emerson faculty member and host of the TV show Boomtown in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, has died at the age of 84.
Leno, Menounos, community pay tribute to Trailer
Jay Leno '73, Maria Menounos '00 and the Emerson community are mourning the loss of Rex Trailer, iconic TV host and Emerson faculty member.
Alumna heads to Morocco with Peace Corps
Well-traveled alumna Jennan Al-Hamdouni '09 will spend two years in Morocco with the Peace Corps.
Pelton begins blogging for Huffington Post
Emerson President Lee Pelton has begun blogging for the popular news website The Huffington Post.
Film follows vet with PTSD
A documentary co-produced by an Emerson alumnus that follows a U.S. Marine veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder as he rode a bicycle from Boston to Washington, D.C., will premiere January 14.
Alum releases psychological thriller
In what he hopes will turn into a book series, Edward Weinman, MFA '99, has just released a psychological thriller, The Ring Road, that delves into the darkness of a murder in remote Iceland.


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By Candice Krieger
February 5, 2009
It's ITV's turn to face a backlash from viewers after a shambolic broadcasting of last night's FA Cup derby replay between Everton and Liverpool, which meant millions missed Dan Gosling's spectacular winner for Everton.
ITV, for no reason whatsoever, cut to adverts with barely two minutes to go. So, instead of watching Gosling's strike, many - including myself - were left watching an advert for Volkswagen (after checking my remote control just to be 100 per cent sure that it hadn't changed channel by itself).
The football returned with scenes of celebrating Everton players. ITV blamed "technical problems". Not sure why they didn't just go with "the snow" or Transport for London's favourite: "signal failure".
The blunders continued after the match and the station cut to the middle of a locker-room interview, before going back to the studio. Seconds later the screen went blank and the ITV logo came up, which was soon replaced by the image of a clock counting down. It was several minutes before the station resumed, switching to the news.So, those involved at ITV will no doubt be facing a frosty reception from their executive chairman Michael Grade this morning - while he sifts through his mail bags one assumes. And those at the Beeb, which has been making the headlines again after Carol Thatcher used the world "golliwog" in front of colleagues following a recording of the station's The One Show last week, are likely to welcome the respite – for now. Jonathan Ross is back on tomorrow.
If you missed Gosling's goal, here is it, courtesy of Setanta: http://www.offthepost.info/2009/02/football-video-dan-goslings-late-goal-knocks-liverpool-out-of-the-fa-cup/


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Let's face it, you most often get what you pay for at Harbor Freight...and that's being kind. Not so with these babies! I have a jewelry business and this is the only dapping set I've ever needed. I bought the set 10 years ago, and they are still in perfect shape. Be sure to keep them dry and maybe rub 'em down with a little olive oil from time to time. I've misplaced a few of the pieces over the years, so I'll be picking up another set soon. Love them!
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These are poorly made but OK for the price. If you need replacement punches for another set these may suffice. The punches are great for modifying for making oddball jewelry punches. The block isn't very good. Some holes are unusable and the edges of most holes are too sharp if you are making hemispheres. If you make precious metal jewelry and this is going to be your only set of dapping punches, get a better set.
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I use this to help me make rings faster. It's durable and has more sizes than I need but it's nice. Harbor Freight is my go to place for tools.
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Great value. The large assortment of punches and doming block are very well made. The wooden storage base is well made, compact, clearly marked with punch sizes and a secure place for the doming block. This will be a go-to tool for shaping and doming metal components in my jewelry studio.
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The surface of the concave dishes in the block were smoother than I expected based on previous reviews. Definitely a fair value considering the price paid.The block and dies were covered in a heavy oil/grease to prevent rust, which should be removed before use. Messy but understandable to have it arrive in good shape.
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I discovered while reading Entertainment Weekly that this movie was co-written by former Seattleite (and my ex-boss!) Tiffany Paulsen. She was co-owner of Cinema Espresso at the bottom of Queen Anne hill (now the site of Cafe Ladro) in the early-mid '90s, and had some small acting gigs, including "3rd Girl Killed" in one of the Friday the 13th movies.
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Bank of Montreal Falls on Profit Post: Toronto Mover
Bank of Montreal, Canada's fourth-largest lender by assets, fell the most in almost three years after profit excluding an accounting gain missed analysts' estimates and earnings from U.S. operations declined.
Bank of Montreal, the first Canadian lender to report fiscal fourth-quarter results, slid 4.5 percent to C$70.25 at 4 p.m. in Toronto, its biggest decline since Dec. 17, 2010. Net income for the period ended Oct. 31 was C$1.09 billion ($1.02 billion), or C$1.62 a share, little changed from C$1.08 billion, or C$1.59, a year earlier, the Toronto-based company said today in a statement.
"Factors contributing to the underperformance were pervasive, spanning domestic banking, capital markets and U.S. personal-and-commercial banking segments," said Brad Smith, an analyst with Stonecap Securities Inc. in Toronto.
Bank of Montreal almost doubled its wealth-management earnings from the same quarter a year ago, helped by a C$121 million securities gain from an accounting change. Profit from the lender's U.S. consumer bank sunk to its lowest in two years, while earnings from its capital markets unit dropped 27 percent as revenue from trading declined.
Adjusted earnings, which exclude some items, were C$1.64 a share, the bank said, beating the C$1.57 average estimate of 14 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Earnings missed estimates after adjusting for the securities gain, Smith said.
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"Taking in the security gains, they were below expectations, so I can see the rationale why the stock is down," said Ian Nakamoto, director of research with MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier Inc. in Toronto, which manages about C$4.7 billion including bank shares. "You've got a weak market and also you've got a bank that missed its earnings."
Bank of Montreal led the decline of Canada's six-biggest banks on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite Commercial Banks Index fell 1.7 percent, its largest drop since June.
The lender posted a record full-year profit of C$4.25 billion, or C$6.26 a share, up 1.4 percent from a year earlier, the firm said.
"It will take two or three or four days for the market to fully digest what the bank achieved in 2013," Chief Executive Officer William Downe, 61, said in a telephone interview. "We're going into 2014 with good momentum in the businesses, very strong capital and we think some significant opportunities."
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Bank of Montreal, which raised its dividend 2.7 percent to 76 cents a share, said revenue was little changed at C$4.19 billion in the fourth quarter. The lender set aside C$189 million for bad loans, down from C$192 million a year earlier.
Profit at the firm's private-client group, which includes insurance and mutual funds, climbed 90 percent to C$312 million from a year earlier, aided by the securities gain and rising stock markets that lifted assets under management.
Canadian consumer-banking profit rose 6.1 percent to C$469 million from a year earlier, according to the statement. Earnings from its Chicago-based BMO Harris Bank fell 24 percent to C$106 million, the lowest since Bank of Montreal doubled its U.S. deposits and branches through a C$4.1 billion takeover of Wisconsin-based lender Marshall & Ilsley Corp. in July 2011.
Earnings from the BMO Capital Markets investment-banking unit fell to C$229 million from C$314 million a year earlier. Revenue from trading slid by a third to C$235 million, led by declines in equities, interest-rate derivatives and Canadian-government securities trading.
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The bank said separately today that it plans to buy back as many as 15 million shares from Feb. 1, 2014 to Jan. 31, 2015.
The country's six biggest banks will post average per-share profit growth of 8.3 percent after excluding items, according to Robert Sedran, an analyst with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
"Wealth management is going to be driving earnings," Nakamoto said. "Canadian personal and commercial banking is going to continue to do well, but the upside surprise in my view is going to be from wealth management."
National Bank of Canada, the sixth-largest lender, reports results tomorrow, followed by Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto-Dominion Bank and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce on Dec. 5. Bank of Nova Scotia, the third-largest lender, reports the next day.


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In a time long forgotten, in a time when each man had to fend for himself and could not trust enough to stand any other's presence, demons freely roamed the earth alongside animals and men. There were giant demons with hooves and twisting horns, demons with wings and with snouts blunted at the nose and dripping venom from their razor-sharp fangs, demons with chalk-white skin and ruby eyes that would suck the blood from their hypnotized victims, demons of bone and sharp angles, and many more than any man could possibly imagine. Yet for all these differences, all the peculiarities unique to each clan, one hobby united them all: disseminating pain.
These were creatures of chaos, of war, and catastrophes invariably followed them wherever they went. Some delivered the bubonic plague much as one would offer toys to children, while others simply decimated any populations unfortunate to stand in their wandering paths and left the remnants to deal on their own with the hygienic issues resulting from the carnage. Some, however, delighted in producing more subtle forms of misery: either through torture or mating, they forced their own uniqueness onto humans, forced all manners of mutation. If perchance their victims survived the ordeal, they would observe the results of their experiments with an infernal laugh before leaving the monstrosities to their fate. While some were so hideous that they were slain upon sight, others were either powerful enough or resembled humans enough that they were allowed to live, heavily bearing the burden of their parentage in a lifelong bid to survive.
This persisted until one day a human arose with two such deformities. One was the Mokuton, the ability of wielding water and earth simultaneously to yield wood. The other was the Byakugan: silvery irises with no pupil. Through these eyes he was able to see the demons' trickery for what it was: simple chakra usage. He assimilated their techniques and roamed the land to remove the demon population while spreading his teachings so that another may take up his task of he were to fail.
Through this endeavor he would eventually gain from one of his foes a new doujutsu, the Rinnegan. The jutsus associated with the doujutsu were of such power that it would earn him the title of the Rikudou Sennin, the Sage of Six Paths, a man who would forever be remembered in legend first as the Scourge of Demons and later, when the era of demons faded from Humanity's forefront as memories were wont to do, the father of ninjutsu.
However, just as the memory of demons dissipated into naught, the one great resistance the hordes of Demons put up was also lost with the passage of time, and men also forgot all about a group that refused to pass away so easily. These were the animal totems, animals that had grown beyond their limitations, animals that had transcended the boundaries of both size and power. Some of these clans recognized the error of the Demon ways and yielded themselves to Summoning Contracts subjugating them to the service of humans, and some even fought among themselves to spread the way of peace.
There were however twelve who refused to tame their ways, who denied their defeat. Pushed to the edge, they did the unthinkable: the Twelve Legendary Clan Heads met to discuss an alliance of Demons. These Twelve Head Clans were by far the most powerful of their Clan and the very embodiment of the animals they represented: the Rats with their keen wit, the Oxen known for their determination, the Tigers with their unparalleled control over fire, the swift and numerous Hares, the Dragons with their might and power, the calculating and analytical but deceptive Serpents, the Horses with their infinite stamina, the quiet Rams known for their bull-headedness, the mischievous and clever Monkeys, the Rooster usually rejected for their overbearing self-righteousness, the Dogs and the impossible good luck on their side, and the Boars with their infamous greed and the resulting power from the treasure-trove of techniques and gadgets.
After a long and passionate discussion, the Twelve reached an agreement. The Clan Heads would renounce their individual existence to merge together for the greater good of the Demons. Thus was born the Juubi, a mighty Ten-Tailed Demon. When the Byakugan user faced this new monstrosity, even he could not see the individual animals, though he knew which they were. All that stood before him was a Demon with an enormous, oppressive chakra, and abilities that dwarfed even his own. The creature's tenketsu system shifted faster than even his Byakugan could follow, while the chakra disruption blades which had served him so faithfully in the past now shattered before the foul energy of the beast.
More frightening, though was the doujutsu that surpassed his own in sheer power: dimensional vortices appeared at the Juubi's command and black flames, unquenchable in their thirst, morphed and warped almost as if alive, both protecting the Juubi from attacks as well as harassing he who would be known as the Rikudou Sennin. Gravity itself would obey the Juubi while various animals in the area would find themselves marked by the doujutsu and constrained to follow the Juubi's will and statues of demonic nature would erupt from the ground on a whim from the Juubi.
It was losing battle for the Rikudou Sennin. Not only did the Juubi possess the standard chakra techniques the Rikudou Sennin had previously seen, but there were also effects which seemed as magic even to him. Creating a concentrated fireball that did not disperse, forming dragons out of water, creating an impregnable lava wall; all this and more puzzled him. After the Juubi split itself into two creatures, each as ferocious as the other, the Byakugan user suddenly understood the mysterious new abilities of the Juubi. Each of the Clan Heads molded their chakra distinctively and had a few properties unique to their molding method. By combining the different chakra systems, they were able to collaborate to mold their distinctive chakra into new combinations, thus creating a more versatile and much stronger arsenal of techniques.
However, even with this new insight, the human was unable to match the raw power and versatility of the Juubi. With his back was pressed to the wall, he attempted a desperate gambit: in a huge burst of chakra, he summoned his own Mokuton abilities to simultaneously hold his opponent at bay with wooden stakes while retrieving the paper manuscript from the heart of his opponent. As soon as it was visible, he snatched it away from his opponent, and forced all of his Mokuton abilities to assimilate the scroll into his own body.
In an ear-splitting screech, the Demon finally yowled in pain for the first time since the start of the battle and flailed its ten tails in all directions while blindly throwing its chakra around, causing unprecedented destruction in its vicinity. The man held his ground and ever-so-slowly, his opponent's very soul leaked out of its solid shell in the form of ethereal strands of chakra that coalesced into a black miasma before seeping into the Rikudou Sennin. After the process finally completed successfully, the Rikudou Sennin possessed both the power and the abilities of the Juubi, thus marking him as the very first jinchuuriki. Without much effort, the remainders of the Legendary Twelve Clans were cowed into submission and agreed to the same Contract as the rest of the existing demons.
A long period of peace reigned afterwards. The Rikudou Sennin seized the opportunity to investigate the properties of each of the Twelve Clans' peculiar chakra system and devised a set of twelve handseals which would mold the chakra in the peculiar way of the original Clan Head. Once this was done, he wrote down the properties of each animal from his own experience, and also made sure to record the different combinations that had been used in the battle, as well as any he invented. One prominent addition manipulated the very time-space fabric of existence, which he put to use by rewriting each of the Summoning Contracts that held the Animal Demons in his thrall. Instead of binding them to follow him, he allowed them their peace far away until they were Summoned by this new jutsu he had devised.
After a while, the Rikudou Sennin grew restless even despite the monumental task and hand, and he took to travelling once again. He visited the lands he sought to protect when he first embarked on his journey, and was pleased to note the previously scattered families now formed into villages, and life in general was much easier and happier as a result. Wishing to further the progress, he helped these villages enter agreements with each other while continuing to spread his knowledge of the newly-baptized ninjutsu as well as liberally handing out Summoning Contracts to his more promising students wherever he went.
However, as he aged and his power waned, he slowly felt his control over the dreadful manuscript buried within his chest slip and the raging of the ten-tailed monster grow ever more agitated. He had no hope of defeating the monster if it were released even with the newfound knowledge: the difference in power between the two was simply too overwhelming. Therefore, the Rikudou Sennin settled for the best alternative: as keeping the tenant within his body forever or to send it to its death by dying himself were both beyond his abilities, he would separate the twelve entities and destroy the original manuscript once this was done.
First, to prevent the possibility of instantaneous fusion of souls back into the body of the ten-tailed Beast, he compacted the gigantic body into a ball and hurled it as far away from the Earth as he could, thus creating the moon. The strain from even this preparation was such that the Rikudou Sennin had to rest before attempting the next step. Unfortunately, even after recuperating for an entire week, this task proved impossible: even though he was aware of the characteristics of each Demon's chakra pathways, he was unable to discern where each one was within the tangled tenketsus spread throughout his tenant's jumbled chakra pathways, and analyzing the agreement between the Twelve Clan Heads proved as futile, for the Twelve Clan Heads had forsaken their identities even before they sat down to write the merger scroll.
In the end, he managed to tear the ten-tail apart into the Ichibi no Shukaku (one-tailed tanuki), the Nibi no Bakeneko (two-tailed cat), the Sanbi no Kyodaigame (three-tailed turtle), the Yonbi no Saru (four-tailed monkey), the Gobi no Irukauma (five-tailed dolphin-horse), the Rokubi no Namekuji (six-tailed slug), the Nanabi no Kabutomushi (seven-tailed horned beetle) and the Hachibi no Kyogyuu (eight-tailed ox), but was unable to separate anything else without it promptly returning to the remaining mass of chakra. Thus, he left the Kyuubi no Youko (nine-tailed fox) with the powerful doujutsu and with but a fraction less than a quarter of the Juubi's chakra. Most of the resulting tailed animals were entirely new ones, and even the Yonbi no Saru and the Hachibi no Kyogyuu were quite different from the mischievous Monkey and determined Ox that were merged into the ten-tailed demon.
The efforts left him drained, and while his nine tenants were less powerful even collectively than the ten-tailed beast, he knew that he could not hold these new demons inside him for long. All his life he had labored for peace in the world, and now in his death he would strive toward the same goal. Thus, he first detailed in a tablet his plans to deal with the Nine Tailed Beasts, the Bijuu, and then he called forth his most promising students: a Hyuuga, a Senju and an Uchiha.
To the Hyuuga, he extracted his own Byakugan, and yielded to him the divine task of keeping harmony through diplomacy. To the Uchiha, he advised actively enforcing world peace through force, the metaphorical "stick" to the Hyuuga's "carrot". To help them with this task, he offered a fraction the powerful doujutsu of the Kyuubi no Youko's eyes with all the supernatural abilities associated to it, even as the demon fox screamed itself hoarse. However, the Rikudou Sennin was careful to keep the ability to transfer powers, as he still had one more gift planned. As a result, the Uchiha was left with a dormant Sharingan while the Rikudou Sennin kept the Rinnegan which would have automatically activated the Sharingan. In his final act, the Rikudou Sennin gave his Mokuton powers to the Senju so that he may control the Nine Tailed Demons through their paper cores. His task done, the Rikudou Sennin left this world when nine Bijuu burst his chest open, giving birth to nine demons made of pure chakra without physical bodies to contain them.
For centuries afterwards, the Bijuu roamed the earth, wreaking havoc much in the vein of the demons of old until the sacred word of the Rikudou Sennin was lost in the flow of time. All of the Bijuu were at one point defeated and except for the Kyuubi, all were sealed into humans to form jinhuurikis. However, no one knew of seals powerful enough to potentially hold the Bijuu indefinitely, and breaking the vessel would invariably release the demon. Indeed, this was proven many times, and though many jinchuuriki died, nine Bijuu still existed. It was rumored in hushed tones amongst Sealmasters the world over that whoever would seal the Kyuubi would have found the formula to forever bind the Bijuu and subjugate the world to the Sealmaster's will. As it was, no one could devise a seal strong enough to hold indefinitely, and no one was powerful enough or sufficiently clever to seal the Kyuubi. No one, that is, until the Yondaime Hokage thrust the Kyuubi into a screeching toddler named Naruto Uzumaki.
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Update: It was brought to my attention that I have been negligent in my dealings with the Rinnegan and Byakugan. I've brought some modifications to reflect my interpretation of events. It's stated in Narutopedia that the Rinnegan of the Sage of Six Paths may or may not have originated from becoming a junchuuriki for the Ten-Tails. I'm going to assume that it had and that the Sage had the Byakugan and the Mokuton before that. On top of that, I'll also assume that the Rinnegan/Sharingan combination is powerful enough to transfer kekkei genkais to another person. So in short, in this story, the Sage had the Byakugan, and the Juubi had a mix of Rinnegan/Sharingan. When the Sage absorbed the Juubi, he gained all three doujutsus. Just before he died, he transferred the Byakugan to the Hyuuga, the Sharingan to the Uchiha and the Mokuton to the Senju.