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Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag Sails With the Pirates
"History is our playground."
That's how Sylbain Trottier, an associate producer on Assassin's Creed IV, describes the potential of the historically-minded Assassin's Creed video game franchise.
"Playground" is a good word for these games—they are built as open worlds like Grand Theft Auto, but rather than simply allowing players to run around stealing cars and soliciting (or killing) prostitutes in fits of wanton destruction, Assassin's Creed invites you to romp through any number of ancient set pieces and rub elbows with historical icons. Since the original Assassin's Creed was released in 2007, players have been able to purchase high-tech steampunk-like gadgets from Leonardo da Vinci, hobnob with Richard I of England, and even fight in the American Revolution alongside George Washington. But as the series drags well past its tenth major release, gamers and critics alike have breathed a collective sigh over the games' repetitive gameplay, confusing plotlines chock full of science fiction lore, and general lack of innovation.
"This time, we want to bring a lot of freshness to the brand," Raphael Lacoste, the franchises art director, says of the newest game. So with a new Assassin's Creed mandated for each successive holiday season, how is Ubisoft planning to breathe new life into the franchise? With pirates, of course.
Well, to be more precise, there's one pirate here that's really key. And he's not just any pirate; he's "a pirate trained by assassins."
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag takes place in the Caribbean in 1715 during the "golden age of piracy," Ubisoft told Speakeasy at a recent preview event in New York City. The new story thus falls between the most ancient and contemporary storylines picked up by Assassin's Creed so far. To situate it in the overall lore of the series, ACIV is something of a sequel and a prequel at the same time. The modern day portion of the game will pick up where Assassin's Creed III left off. Desmond, the main character who has spent the last few games jumping into various historical epochs to play the role of his ancestors thanks to the animus machine (think "The Matrix" meets "The Magic School Bus"), is dead, and the end of the world has been narrowly averted. For the first time in series, players will instead play as themselves—embodying faceless and voiceless recruits to Abstergo Entertainment, the friendly face of AC's token giant evil corporation that's trying to root out the Assassin's throughout history.
As for the historical gameplay, ACIV comes before the events of ACIII. The "pirate trained by assassins" is a new hero known as Edward Kenway, who is the grandfather of ACIII protagonist Connor. Gameplay-wise, ACIV also picks up a kernel of inspiration from ACIII by bringing sea exploration and combat into the mix. Through Edward, players will command his or her very own pirate ship known as the Jackdaw.
Lacoste and Trottier say that the Jackdaw is essentially "the second main character of the game." While vehicles in previous Assassin's Creed games have been all but disposable or interchangeable, the ship will evolve alongside Edward. Players must recruit and train a crew for the vessel, though the developers admitted that building the threat of mutiny into the game was too complicated design-wise. If the Jackdaw is destroyed in a particularly nasty bout of naval combat, it's game over. And while naval gameplay was only required for a handful of levels in ACIII, it will comprise one of the two core pillars of ACIV. Ubisoft says that gameplay will split roughly 40-60 between sea-based and land-based gameplay.
And then, of course, there are the pirates themselves. Famous seafarers like Blackbeard, Calico Jack, Charles Vane, and Anne Bonny will all appear in ACIV, Ubisoft says, though it's not clear what role each of them will play in the overarching illuminati-esque intrigue of the Assassin's Creed universe. Still, it's hard to deny Blackbeard's potential as an entertaining villain.
"I think of him as the first marketing guy," Trottier said of Blackbeard, describing the myths that say the notorious pirate would go as far as setting his beard on fire to intimidate his enemies.
Ubisoft is calling Assassin's Creed 4 the "first naval open-world game." This is something of a misnomer—in 2004, Firaxis released Sid Meier's Pirates!, a game that abandoned most of the strategy-heavy features that first made Sid Meier famous for his Civilization games to focus on the simple fun of wrecking ships and roaming the seas. But while Pirates! was generally considered to be the casual counterpart to the oppressively intricate Civilization series, Ubisoft insists that Black Flag is as serious a successor to Assassin's Creed's landlubbing legacy as they could provide.
"We like to say it's the HBO version of pirates," Lacoste concludes.
Ubisoft says that Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag will be released on October 29, 2013, for the Xbox 360, Wii U, PlayStation 3 and 4, and "all other relevant consoles" (which basically means it will come out for the next Xbox). Watch the debut trailer below.


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One of the things I need to learn is how to write when I don't feel like it. Today was a pretty blah day. I fixed the bug in my visualizations, took a couple of screenshots, and sent the results to my research supervisor. I met someone for lunch. I puttered around a bit with some drafts for an article that I've been meaning to write for a few months now. Argh.
I can understand why the article's so important, but I'm gettig paralyzed by the thought of my words being in print! Uneditable! Gasp, gasp.
I really should just whack myself over the head and tell myself that as long as I get _something_ in, that's better than nothing. This is not alwys true, of course, but it generally is.
Life is about showing up.
I need to break that article down into even smaller things. Lots of little blog posts on my internal blog, if I have to.
As long as I get it done.
The other trick I need to learn is keeping a whole bunch of ideas that I love writing about. I breezed through the ten speeches for the Competent Communicator certification because I had so many things I'd been wanting to talk about. If I have a file with all sorts of things I can write longer pieces on, then I can almost always write about something I'm passionate about - whatever that passion is at the moment.
<wry grin> I know! Maybe I need to stop looking for interesting people and start surrounding myself with the most uninteresting people instead. ;) That way, I'll be sure to be the first person in the lab each morning and the last to leave it each night.
Right. <laugh>
Must learn how to hack this. I need to be more in the mood to write, and I need to have the discipline to write even when I'm not quite in the mood to do so.
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The War to End All Wars was distinguished by the advent of "modern" trench warfare. All along the Western Front, the troops dug in and what resulted was a stalemate. Inches were gained slowly and at the price of copious misery and blood. Sure, there had been breastworks since as early as the Roman Times, but trench warfare in the First World War stood, and stands still, as a symbol for the futility of war.Among the knowledge gained from that four-year debacle was the lesson that the war itself must be won, but not every last blood-sated inch (or, in deference to the Continent that paid for that lesson in blood, ever last blood-sated centimeter).So what's this got to do with law?Well, it would not be an original thought for me to claim that a trial is like warfare. I'll concede, there is considerably less ordinance in a courtroom than on a battlefield but there are parallels nonetheless. And sometimes, lives are, literally, at stake.Which brings me to the Jodi Arias trial.I confess that I have watched little of the proceedings - my "watching" limited to catch-as-catch-can while trudging miles on the treadmill - but I have listened to a fair amount on Sirius while driving back and forth. And what I've concluded is this; "enough is enough." However skilled a litigator Maricopa County prosecutor Juan Martinez may be, you'll please forgive the analogy if I claim, he's beating this thing to death. OK, OK, Mr. Martinez, we get it! You don't think Arias' claim of self-defense holds up.An apocryphal story (or at least some version of it) is told in every law school. The story goes like this:A guy is on trial. He is accused of biting off another fellow's nose in the heat of a bar fight. Let's call the accused fellow Mr. Lecter. Let's call the newly noseless unfortunate a Mr. Hurt.One of Mr. Lecter's accusers is on the stand. Let's refer to him as one Mr. Veracity. Veracity is being cross examined by Lecter's counsel, a Mr. Moore.Moore is questioning Veracity, "So, Sir, you claim my client," (he crooks a scythe-like finger at Lecter) "bit off Hurt's nose, is that right?"Veracity nods. "Yes sir," he says.Moore swells up, pirouettes a half-turn towards the jury, raises an eyebrow in incredulity. "Mr. Veracity. Sir," he says disdainfully over one shoulder, "did you actually see my client bite off Hurt's nose?"Veracity squirms a bit, "No sir, I didn't."Here is where Moore should have left it; a dramatic pause, a thank you. A polite nod to the judge. But he did not. He wanted more. He wanted to crest the angry swell of breastworks, charge through the wafting toxic gases, leap the concertina wire, and capture that last inch (or centimeter) of decimated soil. And so he says, "Mr. Veracity. How dare you!?" In low, dramatic voice, "How dare you. You did not actually see Mr. Lecter bite off Hurt's nose, is that right?!""I did not.""How then, Sir, can you claim to these good gentlemen and women of this jury" - he sweeps is arm in a benevolent arc - "that Mr. Lecter is responsible for this heinous crime?" He is up on the tippy toes of his Johnston & Murphy Cap Toe Oxfords.Veracity says quietly, "Because I saw him spit it out."By any measure, Juan Martinez is a bulldog. But contrary to the sometimes public perception that what you want in a courtroom is a bulldog, where a bulldog rightly belongs is among, well ... bulls. Finesse in a courtroom is almost always the better course. Even on the radio, you can see the juror's eyes glazing over, their mouths gaping open in yawns at Martinez's relentless, dogged pursuit of Jodi Arias.What you have to win in a courtroom is the war, not every inch (or centimeter) of the war-torn earth. After nearly 30 years of trial work, that's my two cents' worth anyway. Two-and-a-half weeks of salacious grilling of Mr. Arias is, in my estimating anyway, making the point only that Martinez should be commended for his stamina.Is Jodi Arias guilty?Well, with apologies to Nancy Grace, I hold the quaint notion that that's for the jury to decide.I do know this, however; enough is enough. Get what you need and move on. It is the result that matters, not that you have bettered your adversary at every turn, won every skirmish, or landed the greater weight of body blows.What is needed is not a bulldog. An artist might be better, one who paints an Escher-like painting that circles back upon itself to an inevitable and inescapable conclusion.Rohn K. Robbins is an attorney licensed before the bars of Colorado and California who practices in the Vail Valley with the law firm of Stevens, Littman, Biddision, Tharp and Weinberg LLC. His practice areas include business and commercial transactions, real estate and development, family law, custody, divorce and civil litigation. He may be heard on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. on KZYR radio (97.7 FM) and seen on ECOTV 18 as host of "Community Focus." Robbins may be reached at 970-926-4461 or at either of his e-mail addresses, firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Digital presentation - The director of Muriel's Wedding, P.J. Hogan, and star Toni Collette reunite in an original comedy with heart. The Moochmore girls are certain they all suffer from some kind of undiagnosed mental illness—because if they're not crazy then they're just unpopular. Their mother Shirley (Rebecca Gibney), unable to cope with her demanding daughters and unsupported by her philandering politician husband, Barry (Anthony LaPaglia), suffers a nervous breakdown. After Barry commits his wife to a mental hospital (telling his constituents that "she's on holiday") he finds himself alone with 5 teenage girls he barely knows. Desperate, he impulsively picks up a hitchhiker named Shaz (Collette) and installs her in his home as nanny to his daughters.
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Xerox will move a manufacturing operation from China to the Smart System Technology and Commercialization Center (STC) in Canandaigua, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced today.
The state will invest $750,000 in the plan through the State University of New York College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany that partners with STC.
The move is expected to create and keep up to 100 high-tech jobs over the next five years, according to a release from the governor's office.
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I've been working on some patches which aim to provide logic and configurability options for renderers with native subtitle support. See my streamablesubs branch.
In summary:
- Supported subtitle formats are defined in the renderer configuration. If a video is supported and it is associated with a supported subtitle, both the video and the subtitle will be streamed. If there are not any supported subtitles, the video will be streamed/transcoded according to PMS/subtitle configurations.
- Skip transcode subtitles can also be defined. If a video is being transcoded and contains "Skip transcode" subtitles, the video will be transcoded without subtitles. The subtitles will be streamed instead. This is only relevant to natively supported external subtitles.
- For renderers without native subtitle support, behaviour should be the same as before.
- The patches make use of a new class which presents a backwards-incompatible change, some plugins might need to be updated.
I am currently not satisfied with subtitle selection logic for natively supported external subtitles. Some improvements have been introduced but the logic remains primitive. To improve this, I would like to develop the new DLNAMediaSubtitleList class further and perhaps also develop a similar class for audio tracks. I would appreciate some feedback from the PMS team... if the changes presented so far seem feasible to you then I will spend the time to implement the final ideas for your review.
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The Biomanufacturing Research Program (BioMAN) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has received $10.4 Million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new technologies and manufacturing platforms that will provide an emergency supply of medicines for front-line military medics. This project is part of DARPA's Biologically-derived Medicines on Demand (BioMOD) program, which aims to manufacture biologic drugs on demand in a forward operations setting where resources are often limited and make these drugs available in 24 hours.
MIT will be responsible for developing innovative methodologies for engineering robust, flexible microbial strains capable of synthesizing multiple protein-based therapeutics, as well as portable device platforms for rapid manufacturing of multiple biologics with high purity, efficacy and potency at the point-of-care.
"To make and release such medications on fast timescales will require orders of magnitude improvements on today's manufacturing practices," commented J. Christopher Love, lead investigator and associate professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, in a press statement. "The goal for BioMAN is to transform biologic drug manufacturing from a time-consuming, step-wise process to a tightly integrated one for small-scale production." The implications are tremendous, according to Love. "Imagine how having rapid access to drugs in remote settings could change lives or how such new capabilities might promote better global access to these costly drugs through distributed production."
BioMAN, part of MIT's Center for Biomedical Innovation (CBI), seeks to develop new knowledge, science, technologies, and strategies that advance the manufacture and global delivery of high quality biopharmaceuticals. "In BioMAN, we have created a unique ecosystem, where MIT and other affiliated faculty work closely with the biomanufacturing industry, as well as government and regulatory communities, to examine key issues in biomanufacturing and see new manufacturing innovations implemented," said BioMAN's program director, Stacy Springs.
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Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons, a cultural lightning rod. Her critics wished she would just shut-up, and her fans hoped she never would. So in 2005, when Hanna stopped shouting, many wondered why. Through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews with Hanna, The Punk Singer takes viewers on a fascinating tour of contemporary music and offers a never-before-seen view into the life of this fearless leader.
Official selection of SXSW, HotDocs, AFIDocs, Seattle.
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Patty, I could not get anything to openon this Blog. Mmmmmm
Patty, do you have a link to your blog? There's not a link in your post.
Lainy/Gavin she is my friend on FB so I will send her a message!!
Lots of prayers-Cathy
Sorry! Hope this works!
There you are! And a very pretty lady at that!!
Costa Rica!!!! I have been there 2 times and just love it.
You reminded me of Teddy with your prayers. He NEVER prayed for himself but for everyone else. And he prayed all day, just like you. It brought him such comfort, I cannot begin to tell you. One other thought, your girls will never be alone they have each other and if you ever have to leave them, know that you will always be around them. I know that one first hand thanks to Teddy! Continued prayers coming your way, you are doing quite well and that makes me happy!
Patty...did you know that we have our very own blog thread on this site? Would you mind placing your link? This would assure it not becoming lost.
Hugs and love,
Lainy: Thank you for your words of encouragement!!
Marion: I would be happy to post my blog to the blog thread on this site! Unfortunately, I'm not sure what you're referring to. What is it and where is it at?
Hi Patty,
Thanks for posting the link to your blog. I'm sure that Marion will correct me if I am wrong here. But I think what Marion is meaning is could you start a new thread on the blog part of the site where your opening post has the link to your blog. As it is right now, your blog link is posted in the middle of this thread so some people might miss seeing the link amongst all of the posts on this thread. Confused? I am! But I hope you get what I am saying! Of course, if I'm wrong in this then I'm sure Marion will jump in and save us all! Help!!
Best wishes,
PS - If what I am saying is nonsense and makes no sense to you at all, then I will use the excuse that it is late here in Scotland and I am sticking to that excuse!!
Patty...yes, it is like Gavin mentioned. BTW Gavin is staying up way too late. I am keeping track,Gavin.
Patty, your blog is wonderful and it would be a shame if others could not partake in your life.
To find the appropriate section:
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scroll down to Blogs (it is close to the bottom of the page)
Enter: New Posting and voila....you are there.
Can't wait.
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Ha ha! Somehow I knew you would be keeping track Marion, I can always rely on you to keep looking out for me! I'll try and get to bed earlier tonight, even though it is the weekend!
Gavin and Marion: I posted my blog back in the 'blogs' section with the link as the first post. I hope this is what you were referring to!! If not, feel free to remove it and give me more guidance. Thanks again!
Thats it Patty, thanks very much! Hopefully now your blog address won't get lost amongst all of the other posts! Thanks again.
Best wishes,
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I have reported this problem 17th July to Ribbonsoft but got so far no response. I first noticed this when trying to make a PDF export for a 297 mm x 630 mm page size. The application froze and I got no PDF file. Using standard page sizes worked ok.
There was something strange also in the preview window: I had drawn the drawing using meters as unit and 1:100 scaling. However in print preview window the scaling had to be set to 10:1 to fill the page. The units for custom page size in current drawing preferences seems to be always millimeters, but the odd scaling would IMO hint that the values are not interpreted correctly.
The same problems were present also when trying to print to file using real printer driver.
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South Carolina's governor was in Aiken on Monday promoting a plan he says will protect your property. It is a response to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on eminent domain. That ruling made it easier for governments to seize homes and land for either government or business. News 12 investigates Governor Sanford's plan.
It's some of Aiken County's most majestic land. You might remember this place, it's New Bridge Polo Club, where September's popular Gold Cup Polo Tournament was played.
But the government can take this land because of the recent Supreme Court ruling on eminent domain. If land can make more money doing something else, like holding an amusement park or airport, it's Uncle Sam's.
"It makes me feel very sad that that could happen," said Eugene Gibelli, New Bridge property owner.
Eminent domain takes a lot of agricultural land, and here in Aiken the fear is that horse farms could be taken as well as popular spots like Hitchcock Woods and the Steeplechase grounds.
These aren't pie in the sky ideas of what could be seized, according to realtor Jane Page Thompson.
"Any good lawyer can justify any reason the Supreme Court gave to seize land, that's a very real and scary scenario," Thompson said.
In this January's legislative session, South Carolina's Governor Mark Sanford wants to narrow who can seize your land. Right now appointed and elected people can; Sanford wants to make sure only those elected have that right.
"An eminent domain bill that would narrow the scope of what you could condemn for, narrow the number of entities that can condemn," Gov. Sanford said.
Jane Page thinks Sanford's plan is the right solution.
"I'm glad that the governor of South Carolina has really stood up and said South Carolina is going to really come down and define specifically what eminent domain is and is not," Thompson said.
The hope is that changing the laws will mean more security for Aiken horse country and other places across the state.
Closely tied into eminent domain is the hot topic in Aiken County, Tax Increment Funding, or TIF. Governor Sanford says he'll also look into changing the wording in the TIF bill.
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The Immaculate Conception School Parent Teacher Association will hold a Souper-Douper Soup and Sandwich Lunch and Basket Raffle from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 10 at the school, 100 Sherman St., Dennison.
The menu will include various soups, sandwiches and desserts. A raffle, featuring more than 25 gift baskets, will be held.
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The rest of the Giants followed suit Tuesday night, cruising to a 5-3 win over the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. Pence set the tone early, crushing a Chad Bettis fastball over an entire section of seats in left field and onto a concourse at the back of the stadium. The homer traveled 476 feet, according to ESPN Stats & Info, and was the longest in the majors this season.
"I don't trust that," said Belt, who had four singles. "That was 500 feet. I'm marking it down -- 500. All of my hits combined probably were hit as far as his."
Said manager Bruce Bochy: "That was one of the furthest I've ever seen. It's one of those you just enjoy watching, and you appreciate his talent."
The least impressed person in the visiting clubhouse at Coors Field was the man who hit the homer. Asked what he could say about the homer, Pence smiled.
"Nothing," he said.
Asked again, Pence started talking about Yusmeiro Petit, who pitched six solid innings to earn his first big league win since he led the Arizona Diamondbacks to an 11-0 victory over the Giants exactly four years prior. "He's extremely humble," Pence said. "I'm pretty over-ecstatic to hear that news. He definitely deserves it."
Pence changed gears again, pointing out that Belt had another strong night. The first baseman tied a career-high with four hits and is batting .367 in August.
"It was awesome to see Brandon get four hits in front of me," he said. "You get a lot of opportunities to drive someone in."
Pence sounded very much like the player who wanted one more day with his teammates last fall, then another and another until the Giants were parading down Market Street. This season will end with a slow walk out of the AT&T Park clubhouse on Sept. 29, and when Pence, a pending free agent, leaves, there is no guarantee that he will return. But that didn't stop him from soaking up every bit of Tuesday's win, one of the cleanest the Giants have had in months.
They pitched well, starting with Petit, who gave up two runs over six innings in his first start of the season. They got big hits, with Pablo Sandoval following Pence's blast with a solo homer. It was the first time all season the Giants hit back-to-back homers. They defended well, too, particularly in the seventh inning when center fielder Gregor Blanco's running catch and second baseman Marco Scutaro's sliding stop halted a Rockies rally.
"It's been disappointing what's happened this season, but that doesn't mean we can't turn it around and play the baseball we're capable of," Pence said. "I love the energy we've had the last few weeks."
Pence's manager felt the same way.
"We played well tonight," Bochy said. "We did a nice job on defense and with our pitching. Those things go hand in hand. You get a guy out there throwing strikes, and the defense is crisper. It was a well played game."
The Giants haven't had many of those this season and haven't had many hitters in recent years as powerful as Pence, who took over the team lead with his 16th homer. The club has made it well known that Pence will be an offseason priority, and he showed Tuesday that he hasn't slowed down after the age of 30. The homer was his third this season that traveled at least 459 feet, but Pence didn't want to talk about it. He looked around the clubhouse, where several players sat on a couch laughing and others danced to the victory music.
"It's a lot of fun going hard," he said. "We have to black out the standings and play every game like it's a playoff game."
Torres was placed on the disabled list last week with a left Achilles strain, and Bochy said the tendon is fine. But the foot surgery might be an insurmountable hurdle for a player who has had a rough year and has always relied primarily on his speed.
"I know that's what Andres has been thinking about," Bochy said. "When he comes back, you see how he's running. It's such a big part of his game."
Torres hit just .250 in his return to the Giants and proved to be a surprising liability on defense.
"It's fair to say that it wasn't the type of year he was hoping for and we were hoping for," Bochy said.
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It makes it quite hard to keep your focus on the actual modifications you started out to do (and verify), thus creating an opportunity for errors to creep in (and an overall reduction in efficiency).
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Umpire Interference, yes or no..also need help with a "terrible" umpire
First I would like to know if these 2 rulings were correct. Everything here is based on ASA softball rules.
sit 1... I am the plate umpire, a runner on 3rd base,, a passed ball on the pitch, the catcher goes back to my left to retrieve the ball, the runner from third comes into home to try and score. I position myself to see the play. However I did not realize that the ball took a wierd hop and ended up right behind me. The catcher grabs the ball and tosses it to the pitcher who is in position to attempt a tag. However, the ball hits me square in the back and the play is not made. I shook my head in disbelief and sent the runner back to third for umpire interference. My understanding of the rule is that it is umpire interference if the umpire prevents or hinders the catchers throw to retire or attemt to retire a stealing runner. Was I correct here?
Sit 2. I am the base umpire, the plate umpire never pays much attention to the game. The players constantly complain that he is out of postion and makes biased calls against certain teams, and does not know the rules and he also will never make the difficult calls. Once again, runner on third, passed ball, umpire just stands there with his hands on his hips, he doesnt move at all, runner comes running in to home, the catcher blindly pitches the ball back to the plate, he hits the umpire square in the back, the pitcher however is not in position to make the catch, and the runner scores. The catcher complains about the umpire being in the way, and the plate umpire has no idea what umpire interference is, and states that he has never heard of it so there is no such thing. I clearly see the play unfold and make the ruling of umpire interference and send the runner back to third. Was I wrong for this?
Sit 3... This same umpire that was in sit 2 has made several bad calls and refuses to get into position to make the calls, several times he has not made his own calls and wanted his partners to make the call, yet several times he has also made his partners calls for them without being asked to then looks at them and smiles. He took a foul ball to the mask last week and actually stated to the batter that he did it on purpose and because of that, when they got back into the field thier strike zone was going to shrink drastically. The next batter came up to bat and asked him if he was ok, the umpire responded with "what do you F%$#@*G care?" Then proceeded to strike him out on pitches that actually hit the ground in front of the plate. When this team got back to the field, he did actually shrink the strike zone and walked the 1st 4 batters on 17 pitches. Many of which looked like "pipe shots", now before you say anything, I know you cannot argue balls and strikes, but that is not my issue. He has admitted to two of us that he calls pitches at the chin a strike deliberately so the batters will swing at them, popping them up so they can be caught for an out. He is very inconsistant on the strike zone as well. Refuses to listen to any of his fellow umpires when they try to help him. He will call the pitch before the catcher even catches the pitch, calls foul balls before the ball hits the ground or before passing the bags, calls "fair Ball" even after being told that it is not proper mechanics. He will let the players influence his calls, and has his roomate in the stands making cat calls and making fun of his partners some of the time.
Here are 2 examples......I am the plate umpire, he is on bases, batter bunts the ball, pitcher fields the ball and the throw pulls the 1st baseman off the bag, but the ball gets there before the runner. He calls the runner out. The offense appeals the fact that the 1st baseman pulled his foot. He then looks at me and I tell him "yes I have a pulled foot at the bag", he changes his call to safe because of the pulled foot. The center fielder then says "but what about the tag" The umpire responded with "oh, he tagged him, ok he is out on the tag"
I am base umpire with a runner on 2nd base, so I am positioned between 2nd and 3rd bases (position C), long ball hit to left field, I move infield as I was taught to do when the ball goes to the outfiled area, (inside-out maneuver). As I am about ready to make my turn to face R2 and left field I hear the fence being hit. by the time I pick up the action in left field, I see the ball come down into the left fielder's glove, his back is to me at the time. At this time the R2 is now rounding 3rd and the BR is coming into 2nd. I visually pick the plate umpire up as he is signalling and out on the catch. Runners stay where they are, I inform the BR that he is out on the catch, he askes me why I am making that call, I told him I am not making that call I am just relaying the plate umpires call. A discussion ensued with many players for about 20 seconds, some were saying the hit was a home run, others say out, others were saying ground rule double. By this time I am confused as all hell, because I cannot see how these calls can be confused with each other. PU askes me for help, he tells me what happened on the play...which is this "fly ball hits the top of the fence, bounces straight up and back into the field of play where the left fielder fields it before it touches the ground" I say ok, so what is your question. he asks me if it is an out, I tell him no, he askes if it is a double. I say noooo. He then askes if it is a home run, I say nooooo. He then asks me...so what is it then. I tell him the ball is live and in play. he then says OH, OK.
How do you handle an umpire/partner like this? Please help. He does stuff like this EVERY GAME!!!!


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LAKE CHARLES, La. – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Volleyball team picked up its sixth straight victory on Friday night, taking a 3-1 (26-24, 25-11, 23-25, 25-20) final over McNeese State to set a new high for consecutive victories in program history.
The Islanders (15-6, 8-2 Southland) used another big rally in the first set, this time completing the comeback, on the way to a 3-1 match win over the Cowgirls (6-16, 1-8 Southland) at Memorial Gym on the McNeese campus.
Shannon Hullum had a match-high 16 kills while Brianna Brink picked up 11 as the only other Islander in double digits. Ivy Baresh had a high of 18 digs in the match, and libero Micah Nolan added 13 on the night while Logen Bourque had 47 assists to lead the team.
The opening set started out slow for the Islanders with McNeese taking a 16-10 lead before Alverson came up with a kill that started a rally. With the score 17-12, Alverson and Baresh came up with kills to cut the lead to 17-15 and force a Cowgirls timeout. After the break, a block assist by Alverson, Baresh and Brink tied the score up at 17-17 as the Islanders came all the way back from the six-point deficit. After the rally, McNeese regained the lead and would hold a 22-19 advantage before the final push from Texas A&M – Corpus Christi. Kills by Hullum and Baresh brought the score to 22-21, but the Cowgirls would once again take a three-point lead and hold set point at 24-21. Courtney Hall picked up a kill to make it 24-22 and three straight error by McNeese made it a 25-24 lead for the Islanders before an Alverson kill ended it at 26-24.
The second set was a complete turnaround from the first with Texas A&M – Corpus Christi taking control early on the way to a 25-11 win. Kills by Hullum and Alverson and two from Baresh made it a 5-1 lead as the Islanders never looked back. The lead grew to as many as 14 when at 10-5, a pair of block assists from Hullum and Tyger Holt started things followed by a Hullum kill, a block by Brink and Holt and then another combined block by Hullum and Holt to make it a 15-5 score. Back-to-back kills by Ashley Phelps and a block assist by Alverson and Phelps helped make it a 21-7 advantage. Phelps got it to set point with a kill and Bourque ended it with one of her own for a 25-11 final and 2-0 lead.
After the Cowgirls earned a 25-23 win in the third set, the Islanders clinched the match by taking a 25-20 final in a fourth set that featured eight ties and five lead changes as both teams battled for every point. Texas A&M – Corpus Christi trailed by one at 18-17 when a McNeese service error even the score at 18-18 and an Alverson kill gave her team the final lead of the match. McNeese called timeout while trailing 20-18, but a Bourque kill, a Baresh service ace and an Alverson kill after the break made it a 23-18 lead. Two straight by the Cowgirls made it 23-20, but back-to-back kills by Brink finished the scoring at 25-20 for the Islanders win.
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is sage really vegetarian
yo sage you really a vegetabletarian
Mon Jul 08, 2002 5:24 pm
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"no chicken / not even fish"
why would he lie?
Mon Jul 08, 2002 5:53 pm
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because it sells records to be a vegetarian, or a vegan.
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natalie portman is a vegetarian. She just laughs it off when they fuck up her orders. I heard she was none to happy about her likeness selling chicken for KFC. That's what happens when you sell your soul to George Lucas...bastard.
anyways, my impression of things seems to be that Sage is a vegetarian type. I myself am not, though I am definitely intrigued by it, mostly due to some interesting comments on this page. But here's my question, can you be a vegetarian if you hate vegetables? Cause that's my main problem I think. I really just don't like my greens.
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if he lied then he'd have to live a life of seclusion and never be able to eat or shop in public because if you're vegetarian or vegan stupid fucks try to catch you up...so if he was lying then he'd never be able to eat because christians who think that if you dont eat animals is wrong will follow him around and make sure he ate something against his diet and he'd get caught...
i doubt he is....
i'm a fake vegetarian..no chicken..but eat the fish
i'm a real underground rapper...my tape quality sucks...my records are warped and my cd skips
^my version since i eat fish...
Mon Jul 08, 2002 8:31 pm
MF Briks
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beign vegeterian is actually no that bad. you feel heallthy. thats about the only good thing. that shit is expensive i could tell you that.other than that its all gravy(which i think is diguting, gravy of course)
Mon Jul 08, 2002 9:48 pm
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word...being a "fake" vegetarian made me lose 30 pounds...equalling its the shit...soy tacos complete me
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i started drinking soy milk but i still will eat a human being.
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im experimenting with making my diet 50% vegetarian meals. if you think about it, 33% is easy since i rarely have meat with breakfast, i guess its more of me seeing if i can do it rather than some moral or health reason. it helps to be in a part of pittsburgh with a lot of foreign students, because indian, asian, and middleeastern food is definitely veg-friendly...
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I tried i didnt eat meat, fish, or chicken for 2 months but i was getting any protein so i was always dizy so i went back to eating Fish and Chicken but i still try to stay away from everything else.
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Being a vegetarian is not only healthy but to many people, it's morally right. I suggest reading the book
Animal Liberation
if this is something you're thinking about. I got sick one time and couldn't eat meat for a while - and during that time I really thought about it, and after that I could never eat meat again. There is so much suffering in the world - if I can end even a little suffering by not killing animals just for my pleasure/meals - then I'm all for the added "inconvenience" that it brings to me. I haven't gone over to the vegan side of things... I'm just trying to do my part ending the suffering one small amount at a time.
Additionally I just read an article recently from the NY Times about how corrupt the cattle industry is... it's awful how they are treating these animals. The meat that is on the shelves at the stores has been radiated and the animals were corn feed. Cows can't digest corn, so they develop tons of infections, and are then injected with steriods and antibiotics so they can live longer, and they feed them corn in the first place because it's government subsidized, cheaper and causes the cows to be fatter. It's all really appalling. People worry so much about clean/chemical free water - but they don't question the meat that they eat and the chemicals they injest with the meat. Ok, I'll stop now so I don't sound preachy... I just truly believe people should think more about what they eat.
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if you werent getting your protein then you should have went to Soy products...get some BOCA Burgers or make some Soy tacos...they have just as much protein and alot less fat...not to mention they were never living...
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some guy said that christians follow sage around trying to make him eat meat. what the hell is that about. being vegetarian has nothing to due with religion. if the christians find out that i dont eat tomatoes with they start to come at me like an angry mob with torches lit, and try to make me eat them. i doubt it.
poor sage...
just curious though sage, how many other people tend to follow you and try to make you eat meat? the muslims, jews, democrats maybe...?
adam from pensacola
Tue Jul 09, 2002 8:36 am
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those fucking Christians had me eating the flesh of Christ for long enough.
I still sneak sips of his blood when no one is looking.
Tue Jul 09, 2002 11:29 am
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Fuck that! I love a nice bloody steak. Yeah and fuck it, I eat swine too. Shits gooder than a mug. A big fat carnitas burrito, Ummm Some chorizo and huevos in the morning. Hellz yeah. There's so many chemicals and shit in the food, air, and water, it's bound to get us one way or another. Besides I'm not concerned with how it got on the plate, as long as it's there. Call me a caveman or what ever, but I still believe in the ol ways, Fire kills germs. Just my opinion.
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My brother lent me his PS3. I'm not sure why. But I do know I've already wasted several hours on it, first playing my old Ratchet and Clank games, then Resistance: Fall of Man, and Flow, and so on.
After I bored of the games (about an hour after turning it on), I decided to explore the home media functions of the PS3. The first thing I noticed was the menu item at the top of the media areas: "Search for Media Servers".
Three hours later, and a lot of experimenting, I have discovered the wonders of serving up media.
UPnP: The present and future of media sharing
UPnP is a protocol specification designed to provide sharing of media. The media can be anything, but normally you share out the usual suspects: pictures, audio, and video. The PS3 system software has an in-built UPnP client. If there is a compatible UPnP server on the network, the PS3 will detect it.
At this point, I took some time to figure out the ins-and-outs of UPnP. There are some great resources on the net. To learn more, Google is your friend. However, you don't need to know much about UPnP to benefit from it.
There are several UPnP servers available for GNU/Linux. The popular MythTV media center has a very nice UPnP server. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with the PS3 at this time. The GNU project has GMediaServer, an easy-to-use UPnP server. However, as far as I can tell, it only serves up audio
There are others, as well, each with their own features and constraints. I despaired of finding a decent, well-rounded UPnP server for GNU/Linux.
And then I tried MediaTomb.
Mediatomb installation
Installation of MediaTomb was quite easy, thanks to their pre-packaged repositories. Their download page provides instructions for many major GNU/Linux distributions. Me, I use Ubuntu, so I did this:
wget http://apt.mediatomb.cc/key.asc -O- -q | sudo apt-key add -
This step adds a cryptographic signature for MediaTomb's apt source. That got added in my next step.
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
This opens the apt repository list in a text editor. (Replace "nano" with your preferred editor.) Now, add this line to the end of sources.list:
deb http://apt.mediatomb.cc/ edgy main
Substitute "feisty" or "dapper" to match your version of Ubuntu. Also, you'll want to ensure the "universe" component is available.
You can accomplish the same thing by using the "System→Administration→Software Sources" menu item. Make sure the "Community-maintained Open Source software (universe)" item is checked. Then, click the "Third Party Software" tab, and click the "Add" button. Paste in the "deb http..." line, and click the "Add Source" button.
Now, update your repository catalog, and install MediaTomb.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mediatomb
Running and configuring MediaTomb
Run MediaTomb from the command line.
There will be a lot of information scrolling by. Ignore it for now. Give it a minute to finish configuring, then type "Ctrl + C" to interrupt the program. Let's quickly edit our configuration file.
nano ~/.mediatomb/config.xml
Feel free to use another text editor rather than nano. I typically use vi to do minor editing, and really don't use nano myself.
Immediately after the line that says "<server>" add a new line:
<protocolInfo extend="yes"/>
This is required for full PS3 support. If you find the PS3 doesn't recognize your MP3s, chances are you need to add this line to the
~/.mediatomb/config.xml config file.
Start MediaTomb again. Once more, a lot of information will scroll by. The most important one is at the end, and it will look something like:
2007-05-28 15:56:36 INFO: http://192.168.1.101:49152/
It's the "http:..." bit you want. Simply copy that into your browser's URL entry area, and you will get the MediaTomb configuration screen.
On the left, there are two viewing options: "Database" and "Filesystem". Click on the "Filesystem" tag, and browse to your media. Click on the "+" button on the right hand side. Choose a full scan, and make sure the "Recursive" option is checked.
That's it. It isn't nearly as hard as it seems, really. And once the system is set up, simply use the web-based interface to manage your system. The MediaTomb website has a lot of good documentation.
You'll have to restart MediaTomb by hand. There are some instructions for configuring it to restart as a service ("daemon", in Unix parlance), but I won't cover that here. This should be enough to get you started.
Unfortunately, the PS3 only supports encumbered media formats, like MP3, WMA, and Sony's own ATRAK format. Perhaps in the future they will add support for other formats as well, like Vorbis and Theora.
You can now use your media from any other networked computer in your household. I recommend VLC as a UPnP client. It's available for MS-Windows, Mac OSX, GNU/Linux, and quite a few other operating systems.
That's it! Go out and enjoy your media.
Mediatomb & scandinavic characters
Thanks for the info, I was searching for a media server to use with PS3 and this post hit the target perfectly :)
And here's one bit of information more for setting up mediatomb. It did not like scandinavic characters in id3-tags of mp3s, and threw errors like "iconv: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character", "... could not be converted to new encoding: invalid character sequence!". These can be fixed by adding following lines to ~/.mediatomb/config.xml in import-section:
Note that you have to delete the database (~/.mediatomb/mediatomb.db) and re-import the tracks for this to take effect.
Fuppes works well on Linux
Fuppes works well on Linux too, and transcoding of Ogg Vorbis and Flac for the PS3 should be working soon.
nice tip! will try this out
nice tip! will try this out with my ps3.. Thanks!
excelent tutorial this is my
excelent tutorial
this is my first day with my ps3 and I was wondering how to stream media
works great with ubuntu feisty
Linux for PS3
Although I don't have a PS3 I do know that Sony Partnered with terrasoft to make a distro of linux for the PS3 the current version is Yellow Dog Linux 5.01 you can find download links here
You should be able to install and have the option to boot into linux or into the PS3 normally for games. It won't have the advanced Graphics in linux though as part of the graphics chipset is locked down.
Happy Playing.
Ubuntu dapper installation problem
Is it possible to install this on Ubuntu dapper release? I'm not totally down with Ubuntu and the upgrade process yet, but get the following message when attempting a "sudo apt-get install mediatomb"
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
mediatomb: Depends: libsmjs1 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
How do I get around something like that?
Installed great - Streaming problem
Excellent write up. If a noob like myself can do it, anyone can. Only problem is... since I am such a noob, I may have botched something up here. My music streams to my PS3 great... for about 20 seconds. After those 20ish seconds pass, the music stops and I'm sent back to the main music stem of the cross media bar on the PS3. Did I break it? :P
Thanks lots!
Thanks for the article, have
Thanks for the article, have got everything working except I have the same problem as RJO - after 20 seconds or so, it flicks back to the media bar on the PS3 :-(
Indeed, i experience the
Indeed, i experience the same problem, but not only when i am listening music but always when i am connected!
cool. thanks for the info.
cool. thanks for the info. worked right away for me - at least mp3's so far. really cool to have my entire collection on the big screen.
however, i'm having problems getting images (tried .jpgs) to be picked up by the ps3. anyone have any luck w/ this???
i too cannot get images to
i too cannot get images to be imported into the database. everything else, including running as a daemon on my server (ubuntu), works great. i have the file package installed and can test for jpeg files using 'file' in a shell. not sure why mediatomb is ignoring them. any help would be appreciated.
"Daemon mode"
I wrote about how to start in daemon mode (start at boot)
If anyone is interested in how to do this you can find it here:
LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini,
LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini, Ethernet Disk Big Disk and Ethernet Disk Home Edition all to UPnP very well. www.lacie.com
The drives are affordable at about $250 each depending on capacity, and act as servers that can stream to 3 UPnP clients at once. XBox 360 can do it as well.
I saw a demo (Using PS3 and a set top UPnP box with LaCie drive) and was blown away by the easy setup and usefullness of UPnP. I'm not sure why this isn't more widely available in America. In Europe they have LCD TVs with ethernet/wireless and UPnP players built in as well as small set top UPnP player boxes so you can stream to any TV in the house.
Of course a Windows Media PC is also a UPnP server and PS3 will pick it up as such.


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The herding instinct is strong in many Shelties. They love to chase and herd things, including squirrels, ducks, children, and if an owner is not watchful, cars. Shelties love to run in wide-open areas. Some Shelties get so excited or anxious that they perform a fast series of tight spins without chasing their tails, a behavior unique to the breed.
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BERKELEY -- NFL star Marshawn Lynch of Oakland is being lampooned on the internet and TV for a photo showing his parked white Lamborghini protected by velvet ropes.
His people want to set the record straight.
The scene was staged, according to Mario Bobino, the director of "Family First -- The Marshawn Lynch Story," which concluded filming in Oakland last weekend.
"It was a prop for the movie," Bobino said Thursday. "We did that."
Lynch's representatives reached out to this newspaper to "set the record straight" about the photo, which was taken from an upstairs apartment window across the street from where the car was parked Sunday.
Since then, the photo has gone viral on social media, and has been shared by websites including CBS Sports, Deadspin, Washington Post and NFL.com. Bobino said two Bay Area news stations showed it.
Bobino said he had to talk the Seahawks' star running back into shipping the car to the Bay Area from Seattle to be used in what will be the film's fictionalized opening scene.
The movie begins with the Seahawks winning the Super Bowl and Lynch pulling up to an Oakland club in his luxury car, greeted by fans and paparazzi.
"You've got to remember, this is a movie," said Bobino, stressing that although Lynch portrays himself in the film, it is not a documentary. "It's 70 percent him, 30 percent Hollywood. He didn't want to do the Hollywood thing."
But Bobino, a 50-year-old Oakland native, said the opening scene is intended to highlight Lynch's climb to stardom from a rough inner-city beginning.
Lynch arrived with his Lamborghini at about 3 p.m. on Sunday, Bobino said, hours before the night-time scene was to be shot. "We put those (ropes) out there because we didn't want nobody messing with his car," said Bobino, who also utilized the ropes in the movie scene.
Lynch, who does few interviews with media, was not available for comment, but Bobino said the former Oakland Tech and Cal star is not particularly upset.
"Marshawn has been used to this type of abuse. He's not tripping on it," Bobino said. "His biggest thing is people have a false percetion of him."
Bobino said he hopes the film accurately portrays Lynch, 28, as a product of Oakland who loves his town and wants to send positive messages to kids.
There is no set release date for "Family First," but Bobino's Debonaire Productions is working with distributors and hopes it will premiere late in the fall.


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The Sleepy Eye Wide Awakes 4-H Club held their monthly meeting Dec. 16 at the Vogel Arena. There was time for some fun in the holiday season, but also for service.
Instead of exchanging gifts among the members, they decided to Adopt-A-Family in need. Each 4-H family donated a gift basket containing: fruit, movie night items, kid's games, build-a-sundae, etc. or gifts for the kids in the family.
The Sleepy Eye Wide Awakes 4-H Club members also created 120 holiday door decorations for Divine Providence Community Home and Sleepy Eye Care Center residents.
After the events at the arena, several of the members went to Divine Providence and the Care Center to personally deliver the holiday decorations to the residents. They included the Dan and Mary Hoffmann family, the Keith and Sarah Lendt family and the Doug Rossbach family.
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This fact-based story of a man incarcerated nearly four years for crimes he didn't commit grippingly shows just how far awry the judicial process can fall. Alain Marécaux, who helped write the script, was arrested in the middle of the night in 2001 at his home in northern France. Director Vincent Garenq follows his point of view from start to finish in the drama adapted from Marécaux's autobiography. Alain (Philippe Torreton) and his wife, Edith (Noémie Lvovsky), are handcuffed and driven separately to police headquarters, where they learn they are among a group accused of numerous horrific acts of pedophilia, their own three children among the alleged victims. The press and the public feast on the lurid scandal, which makes headlines for months.
Guilty follows Marécaux's descent from frustration to desperation as his life is slowly torn to shreds. A barrister himself, Alain initially has a poignantly heartbreaking confidence that the mistake will be rectified quickly. Director of photography Renaud Chassaing's deft hand-held camerawork illustrates Marécaux's predicament with immediacy, the heavy clang of yet another prison door taking him ever deeper inside. Torreton's grim visage dominates nearly every scene, his subtle changes of expression revealing his transformation by life behind bars. Raphaël Ferret, as young Judge Burgaud, portrays a man caught up in the hubris of his own importance in the trial of a lifetime. His lack of emotion as he refuses to hear Marécaux's appeals is chilling.
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Seymour likes to drink out of the toilet.
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A seat-like object where you dis-charge feces from the anus.
"You get more ass than a toilet seat"
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A bowl for urinating or defecating into. However, people use this bowl to throw rubbish away and to spunk into and throw tampons into.
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"I kicked my boyfriend in the face as he was about to give me oral."
—Julia P.
Chances are he's probably not that hurt. See, the endorphins released when you're having sex keep feelings of pain at bay. "As long as he isn't bleeding, it's probably safe to just keep going," says certified sex therapist Marty Klein, PhD, author of Sexual Intelligence. Ask him if he's OK, then pull him in for a passionate kiss to get both of your minds back in the game.
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House pressures regulators to exempt community banks from capital requirements
If you ever wonder about those rare topics on which Republicans and Democrats agree, one area of shared concern is community banks.
At a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee today, to be chaired next year by Dallas Republican Jeb Hensarling, lawmakers from both sides urged regulators to exempt community banks from the Basel III capital requirements. Basel III was developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, a forum of global banking regulators, in the wake of the financial crisis.
Basel III seeks to increase the amount of capital that banks must hold as a cushion against a decline in the value of their assets. When the value of assets drops below a bank's liabilities, an institution is technically insolvent, which happened a whole lot during the 2007-8 financial crisis.
Not all of Basel III applies to community banks, but the framework (which must be implemented by U.S. bank regulators) does subject them to risk-weighted capital requirements. Community bankers say that, unlike big banks, they generally hold safe, simple assets and should not be subject to complex capital rules. Doing so would restrict their lending and make them less competitive against big banks, says the the Independent Community Bankers Association, a lobby group.
ICBA, which counts 613 community banks in Texas, wants its members to be exempted from Basel III entirely.
The Texas Bankers Association, in a letter sent to regulators last month, said "Texas banks, which were not involved in the activities that caused the Great Recession, should not be made to pay for the sins of others."
A chorus of House lawmakers chimed in for their local institutions today. "I would agree with the ranking [Democratic] member that it is a very open question whether Basel III should even apply to our community-based financial institutions," Hensarling said. "So, the bipartisan concern and support — let's hope it is a harbinger of things to come in the 113th Congress."
The bank regulators told Congress they are studying the concerns of local banks, but have found that the benefits of Basel III (which include fewer bank failures and less deleveraging in times of stress) outweigh the costs of compliance. Furthermore, they say roughly 90 percent of US community banks are already in compliance with the capital requirements.
"In the last five years, we have seen over 460 insured banks fail, and many hundreds more in problem bank status," said George French, deputy director for risk management supervision at the FDIC. "This painful episode has imposed significant costs on our national, and local economies, and illustrates the importance of banks having a strong capital base, so that they can continue to lend in their communities, even during periods of economic adversity."


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Brandon Crawford hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning Tuesday and Brandon Belt followed with a solo shot in the sixth. Asked later if he could remember the last -- and only -- time both Brandons went deep on the same day, Belt smiled and looked up at ceiling.
"I should know this," he said.
The answer is Sept. 18, 2011, a game early in the big league careers of both players. It was a 12-5 victory over the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field, and Belt and Crawford likely didn't get much clubhouse attention after the win. Pablo Sandoval homered twice and Mike Fontenot had a rare display of power. Even Matt Cain hit a homer that day.
"Oh man, nothing like that," Belt said, laughing. "You hit a bomb and then the pitcher does it, too. So you're nothing special."
If the first month of spring training is any indication, Belt might be done with the "nothing special" talk for a while. The Giants had high hopes for Belt as he entered his first spring training with a chokehold on the first base job, and Belt has done nothing to disappoint.
Belt is 12 for 25 in eight games with a team-leading three home runs. He leads the Giants with seven runs and is tied with Brett Pill in RBIs (six).
"Belt's been right on since spring training started," manager Bruce Bochy said. "He's thrown out good at-bat after good at-bat."
Tuesday's third at-bat was one of Belt's most impressive of the spring. Often benched against left-handers last season, Belt took Indians southpaw David Huff deep to right.
Afterward, Belt said this is the best he has felt in his time as a big leaguer.
"Everything is coming together," he said. "This is the most comfortable and confident I've felt in a couple of years. I'm getting a lot of confidence and I'm finding the right combination of mechanics."
Belt said he will keep making adjustments as needed, and his two seasons in the big leagues have taught him that they're always needed. But as the Giants headed for Wednesday's off day, Belt knew that his spring couldn't have gotten off to a better start.
"I'm seeing the ball really well right now," he said. "Everything feels good."
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/AlexPavlovic.