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How true! :)
How cute, Luv! I had a skirt like that once!!
The wind has been terrible in Texas..along with the cold..I'm with d'Ogee..I'd run back in, too..
I finally let my eldest kitty into the garage..I have the timer set so I won't forget her..The kitties love to climb on my car and look out the glass in the door. I haven't wanted to even open the kitchen door to the garage to let them play..
This will be longest frigid spell I can recall.
LOL..a poodle skirt!
How very sweet, Teenie!
Sorry I missed breakfast, but do the the view! :)
I envy that kitten! Precious graphic, LUV.
I want that puppy!! Maybe in my next life?? :)
Brilliant sunshine today. Almost tempted to catch a tan. :)
4 minutes and Silky RACED back in from the garage..LOL
I knew she would not like it THIS cold...
I have a teddy bear in a poodle skirt that my granddaughter made for me. It is most adorable!
Thank you, t-pammy!
I noticed you said ALMOST! :)
Btw...she also made one for the hubby and put it in Marine Corps Dress Blues...he is very special!
I did a few personalized ones a couple of years ago and have been working on a few others. It's almost dinner time here, and will post the ones I have so far. I'd love to use Dave's and Luv's with their names on them, and have a few others to post later (maybe tomorrow!) Here goes.....
Awww....how special they both must be! Do they reside on your bed?
Thank you!
They reside in the spare bedroom.
For those of us having to live with pain. I have also been living with daily pain for 2yrs. from back surgery. I'm bringing this up now, as I've finally found a good amount of relief. I would like to share it with you, so perhaps it could help you all. I take a pill called Gabapentin 300mg once a day for nerve damage. I ALSO have been going to water therapy, twice a week for almost 6 weeks. The pool is heated and is salt water, with some chlorine. The therapist gives you exercise's they feel good for you.
It is really helping alot. One day I went to the dentist. I pushed the elevator button-nothing! I went, Oh S ! I'm going to have to walk the stairs. Mind you, it was only to the second floor, but best guess, there were about 50 steps, if not more AND I did it with NO pain. I couldn't walk up stairs for over two years, at least. I can't tell you how excited I was and still am that I've some relief. My doctor said when ordering water therapy that it cannot hurt. And it doesn't!! Look at it like a another possible option to look into. I would be thrilled if this could help ALL! God Bless!!
These are UNBELIEVABLE, Billie! I laughed.....I giggled.....I thought How Cute...How nice of Billie to do this..........Then I saw MINE!!! And I said "That's the BEST of all of them"! :) :) :) Thank you so much, Billie!
Loved it!! LOL!!
You're more than welcome to use mine. He sits proudly on my desk.
Thanks for the info. I was prescribed Gabapentin prior to surgery to deal with the nerve pain in my leg.
Having to wait for year for surgery, damage was done, and I'm still limping with a weakened R leg. GRRRRR
Thank God for your improvement tiapam!
I would not operate at all without my timer..LOL
For those not in pain, water aerobics are wonderful for...well...just because! Less pressure on the joints and feels so good! Any exercise you do on land, you can do in water. I did them for about 5 years and it was well worth it!
Thank you, Meg!
LOL..Mine's on my oven..When it wears out..I am buying a new oven..
I cannot live without a timer! I have one shaped like an egg and it is the best one I've ever had. Bought it a Radio Shack before my hubby passed away and that is almost 7 years ago and it has never had a new battery! Its amazing! If it stopped tomorrow, I would immediately run to get another timer!
I think that more than half of us would say that they are a "Polar bear".
Do they make Polar teddy bears? LOL.
Awwww....I had forgotten about that one! So cute, Jaycee!
Yes. I will never forget it.
Glad you enjoyed that, Conor. I sure did, too!
Loved your beautiful opening today, Billie! Loved hearing E. sing his Teddy Bear song. I had a doctor's appointment, plus a bunch of other stuff and just have been tied up most of the afternoon and evening.
Thank you!
I bet it WAS Goose bumps, Mary Lou! The video I posted almost gave me goose bumps thinking of such a happening so many years ago and how smooth it was all handled.
Just darling, teenie!
What a cute, cute video, teenie! Enjoyed that!
Enjoyed reading about your experiences back then, Dave! Memories are wonderful!
Pretty Cool....indeed!
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Reconstructing evolutionary trees by maximum parsimony. Suppose we manage to sequence a particular gene across a whole bunch of different species. For concreteness, say there are n species, and the sequences are strings of length k over alphabet Σ = {A, C, G, T}. How can we use this information to reconstruct the evolutionary history of these species?
Evolutionary history is commonly represented by a tree whose leaves are the different species, whose root is their common ancestor, and whose internal branches represent speciation events (that is, moments when a new species broke off from an existing one). Thus we need to find the following:
• A (binary) evolutionary tree with the given species at the leaves.
• For each internal node, a string of length k: the gene sequence for that particular ancestor.
For each possible tree T, annotated with sequences s(u) ϵ Σk at each of its nodes u, we can assign a score based on the principle of parsimony: fewer mutations are more likely.
score(T) = (number of positions on which s(u) and s(v) agree).
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KERRY O'BRIEN: Struggling in the current row over preference deals with minor parties and electoral rorting allegations in Queensland, Federal Labor has returned fire on both fronts.
In Parliament today, the Opposition sought to draw two Howard Government ministers into the controversy with allegations of suspect enrolments.
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DARREN BOEHM, FORMER INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE: I was actually approached by this staffer from Riley Street, Woolomoloo and asked where my preferences would be going.
I asked that staffer what he was offering and he said, "We can't offer you money - however, we can offer you some printing."
TIM LESTER: This one-time candidate for Federal Parliament is part of a wind shift in the cash-for-preferences controversy today, the chill turning on the Government.
KIM BEAZLEY, OPPOSITION LEADER: Prime Minister, in the light of the public funding provided to the Liberal Party and given the widespread claims in reporting of serial rorting in your party...
TIM LESTER: In Federal politics, shifting blame is part of the artform.
Even so, as Question Time began, it seemed a little rich for Labor to talk of serial rorting in the Liberal Party.
On Friday, Kim Beazley stood down his Community Services spokesman as Federal Police began investigating the circumstances around Wayne Swan's infamous envelope of $50 bills delivered to a Democrat campaign officer in 1996.
And another Queensland Labor frontbencher is fighting claims not of suspect preference deals, but suspect enrolments.
Con Sciacca insists a woman listed at his address in ALP membership records was not enrolled to vote from that address.
CON SCIACCA, LABOR FRONTBENCHER: These people, who were part of my extended family anyway, were put on my house as a mailing address, and as soon as it was found out she left to go to Melbourne in 1993, she was no longer renewed.
TIM LESTER: The fuss has forced Kim Beazley to seek a clean-up of his membership lists.
Now, how to turn the heat from this issue back on the Government.
KIM BEAZLEY: Will you do as I have done and order a national audit of the Liberal Party's membership?
JOHN HOWARD, PRIME MINISTER: Let the Leader of the Opposition clean up the mess in his own backyard before making false allegations about my colleagues.
TIM LESTER: And at a press conference earlier...
JOHN HOWARD: People aren't suggesting that my colleagues have been involved in these practices.
TIM LESTER: They are now.
First, on the question of preselection deals, meet Darren Boehm.
The 1998 Independent candidate for the Sydney seat of Cook claims a Liberal Party staffer approached him during the campaign in what he insists was a clear attempt to buy his preferences.
DARREN BOEHM: Definitely, definitely.
He didn't come out and wave cash in his hand, and he admitted.
He says that they can't do that and I told him that it was okay, I wanted to know what he was offering, and he told me he was quite prepared to do the printing, and I did see that as a purchase, yeah, or an offer to purchase.
TIM LESTER: So what does Darren Boehm claim the Liberals offered?
To pay thousands of dollars of his campaign costs.
DARREN BOEHM: The Liberal Party was offering to print my material, at the cost of $7,000, in exchange for my preferences.
The approach was to make sure the Liberal Party got that seat at any cost, and that's what they were aiming at, and didn't care who they went to to get it.
TIM LESTER: The Liberal who won the seat, Bruce Baird, and the staffer accused of making the approach both deny Darren Boehm's claims.
Both also declined our invitation for an interview.
There's also the branch-stacking claims which have dogged the Liberal Party in South Australia this year.
So in its hunt for ammunition, Labor has been fossicking in Adelaide.
SIMON CREAN, SHADOW TREASURER: Prime Minister, are you aware that contrary to the Commonwealth Electoral Act, two persons enrolled at Senator Hill's personal, private address in Adelaide for the entirety of this year have in fact been living in Sydney for that whole period?
TIM LESTER: In fact, not quite the whole period.
Labor suggested the alarm went off when a Queensland false enrolments case hit the press on November 23.
SIMON CREAN: Are you aware also that on Friday November 24, the very next day, that the two persons falsely enrolled at personal, private residence of Senator Hill changed their electoral address to Sydney?
JOHN HOWARD: I'm not familiar with the details in relation to Senator Hill.
I'll take that part of the question on notice and if I have anything useful to say to the House, I shall do so.
TIM LESTER: Senator Hill said no to a
7:30 Report
interview, but called the claims "a grubby and unjustified attack on his family."
He says the two people concerned are his son and daughter-in-law, who moved to Sydney earlier this year and neglected to change their electoral roll address until recently.
Labor then turned on Jackie Kelly, with claims of a suspect enrolment at her address and a preferences-for-campaign-costs deal in the 1996 Lindsay by-election.
BOB McMULLAN, OPPOSITION HOUSE LEADER: Minister, in light of the fact that at last year's election for the Penrith City Council, two minor parties - the No Badgerys Creek Airport Party and the Marijuana Smokers Rights Party - gave their preferences to the Liberal Party, will you advise the house whether the Liberal Party paid for the how-to-vote cards for these minor parties, and what other assistance was given to them?
JACKIE KELLY, SPORT & TOURISM MINISTER: Let me assure the House there were no brown paper bags that I know of.
TIM LESTER: Jackie Kelly also declined to comment.
Underlying this whole messy saga, the question of just what is fair when a major party wants to entice questions from a minor one?
Why shouldn't one party help another?
But then the Government has enjoyed Labor's discomfort on the issue - it can hardly be surprised the Opposition is now out to show the problems aren't all on its side.
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Things are generally safe here,obviously don't leave your stuff unattended for too long but there's a 5% chance it would go missing. Campus Police installed these blue help signals around campus and tbh I go to my dorm ,which is the farthest, at 2am and still feel very safe but just be attentive and alert.
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Our campus police are highly responsive and available. They have a number of programs designed to educate students about sexual assault, personal safety, and self-defense. A significant number of crimes on campus involve students from off-campus and alcohol at cross-campus parties. I feel pretty safe on campus and in the dorm. However, coming from a big city background, I don't think you should drop your guard when walking alone even in the most idylic setting.
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Any crime on campus tends to be petty, involving loss of or damage to belongings. It is extremely rare to hear about a threat to anyone's physical well being. Still, Public Safety is a very visible presence on campus. Officers are generally very friendly, and the department is well stocked with accomplishments. This is one place where you do not have to worry about being alone at night, which gives much more flexibility in deciding whether or not you'd like to study in the library until midnight. Dorm security is also very good. You can't get into any of the residence halls without your OneCard (student ID). However, you should still be careful to check who's behind you before you open the door for them.
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I love summer. I also love disco music. That is why I was excited to bring my daughter to the Scarborough Music in the Park event in mid-July. Motor Booty Affair (a disco cover band) was playing and the night was beautiful. The best part—it was work. The Scarborough Fire Department teamed...
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Vermont advocates pushed for passage of legislation in 2012 that required schools to teach students Hands-only CPR and the importance of an AED (automated external defibrillator). Its efforts like these that have raised awareness to the need for public access to defibrillation and a strong chain of survival...
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THANK YOU MARIO!The first game in the Super Mario Bros. series, but the fourth game overall that stars Mario, and the game that singlehandedly kicked off the The 8-bit Era of Console Video Games. After appearing in Donkey Kong, Mario Bros., and Wrecking Crew, the Mario Brothers moved on to the game that set loads of standards. Not just for platformers, but any genre that used conventions established in this game.The general story is that Bowser, the ornery King of the Koopas, has conquered the Mushroom Kingdom and had all of the subjects turned into background textures— er, bricks and shrubbery. The Mushroom Kingdom's Princess is the only one who can revert his black magic, but he has kidnapped her in order to prevent this. Mario, ever the gallant one, storms several castles looking for her. Unfortunately for Mario (and you), Bowser has several body doubles, and there's no way to tell who's the real one, so it's a long road ahead.The original game was remade with SNES graphics along with the other NES titles in Super Mario All-Stars. There was also a Game Boy Color port called Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. This included a Challenge Mode where you had to get a high score, collect five Red Coins, and find the Yoshi Egg in each stage; a two-player race mode; badges and other images awarded for achievements; a high-score table; extra utilities and printables; a hidden "You vs. Boo" mode (a one-player version of the two-player game); and a hidden conversion of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. There was also an Arcade Game called VS. Super Mario Bros.Nobuo Uematsu has stated that the theme music, originally created by Koji Kondo, should be Japan's national anthem.
This game provides examples of:
- 1-Up: Trope Maker for the collectible kind. The green 1-Up Mushrooms have appeared in almost every other Mario platformer since.
- Actually a Doombot: The first seven "Bowsers" are actually regular enemies who are somehow disguised as him. Flinging fireballs at the fake Bowsers will reveal their true forms (along with a fat bonus to your score).
- All There in the Manual: The Koopa are a clan of turtles known for their powerful magic who have brought the Mushroom Kingdom to ruin by transforming its citizens into the bricks you break (and thus the items are "gifts" from the transformed citizens to help you) and various other background objects. The only one who can break this curse is the daughter of the unseen Mushroom Kingnote , Princess Pea..., er "Toadstool"note , which is why Bowser has kidnapped her. This bit of lore was dropped in later games.
- Alternate Company Equivalent:
- The Great Giana Sisters. So much that Nintendo actually threatened to sue, causing it to be withdrawn from the shelves. The later Giana Sisters games went through Derivative Differentiation.
- Sega's Alex Kidd in Miracle World was not such an obvious clone, but still fits the trope (and was correspondingly packaged with or built in later models of the Master System).
- Always Night: Worlds 3 and 6note .
- American Kirby is Hardcore: The American instruction manual makes repeated references to enemies being killed. The Japanese manual merely says they are defeated.
- Animated Adaptation:
- The Super Mario Bros. Super Show adapts elements of both this and Super Mario Bros. 2.
- Also, the anime movie The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach.
- Antepiece: The game has great level design involving interesting yet accessible setpieces. One tool it'll use is to build up to a complicated setpiece with an "antepiece". For example, in the first level, there's a part with a staircase followed by a pit; jumping up the staircase without falling into the pit, and then getting over the pit, is a rather hard and scary proposition. So there's a part right before it which is mostly the same, except the pit won't kill you. This allows you to practice the setpiece in a safe environment. You can read more and see a picture of this setpiece-antepiece pair here.
- Anti-Frustration Features:
- Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, due to its inevitably smaller screen resolution, allows the player to reorient the screen by pressing up, or pressing select so that the camera view stays fixed ahead of Mario. Likewise, the original game's Ratchet Scrolling has been slightly nerfed in this port so that Mario can slightly backtrack in a level, again to accomodate the smaller view of the screen.
- All-Stars and Deluxe will play a chime when the correct paths are taken in "mazes" like World 7-4.
- Art Evolution:
- According to this Iwata Asks, Miyamoto utilised external illustrators to flesh out his rough pencil sketches since Donkey Kong. When it came time to do this game's (Japanese) package illustrationnote , Miyamoto had to do the art himself, since there was no time left for him to hire a mainstream artist. This was the result.◊ It was Yoichi Kotabe who fleshed out the designs of the characters since then. Notable mention goes to Bowser. Miyamoto himself was aiming for the appearance of an ox for Bowser's design, even though he's supposed to be a turtle. Upon reflection on this, Miyamoto remarked, "I'd been drawing something completely incomprehensible - a turtle's body with an ox's head!" In a Mythology Gag, Midbus, Bowser's rival from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, more closely resembles an ox, with some boar characteristics thrown in.
- Within the game itself, the Super Mushroom, 1-Up Mushroom, and Fire Flower have completely different designs than those that became standard in later games. The mushrooms are much more realistic-looking, have different colors (orange and red for the cap of the Super Mushroom, and green and brown for the 1-Up Mushroom), and lack faces. The Fire Flower is a glowing disk. The mushrooms began to change with Super Mario Bros. 2 before settling into the most familiar design with Super Mario Bros. 3. The Fire Flower changed to its most familiar design with Super Mario World.
- The Artifact: Mario and Luigi being plumbers and travelling through pipes. This made sense in Mario Bros., which was envisioned as taking place in the New York sewers; not so much in the Mushroom Kingdom. However, it became an integral part of the gameplay and setting, and its incongruous nature helped create the series' World of Chaos reputation.
- Mario being able to hit enemies on top of a block by hitting the block below them (in fact, the whole concept of hitting blocks from below) is a hold over from the gameplay of the original Mario Bros., where it was your only means of attack (Mario couldn't Goomba Stomp in that game, so he had to knock an enemy on their back by hitting the floor below them, allowing him to run up and then knock them off the screen). Fortunately, this managed to fit in with the more flexible play style of this game (it helps that in this game, the move offs an enemy on the spot instead of just stunning them), so it was carried over into future installments.
- Artifact Title: Super Mario Bros. is a completely different game from the original Mario Bros., most notably lacking the 2P co-op mode from the original (being replaced by an alternating mode instead). As a result, Luigi's presence in the game feels rather thrown in, since it makes no difference whether the second player controls Luigi or another Mario. The sequels would try to remedy this by either: making Luigi into a selectable character with a different play-style (as seen in both versions of Super Mario Bros. 2) or by allowing both players to split the game's stages among themselves and throwing in a minigame version of the original Mario Bros..
- Ascended Glitch:
- The multi-coin blocks were reportedly a programming error that was left in because they liked it.
- The Minus World. On the cartridge version it was a glitch that sent the player to a level that didn't exist; it was only by sheer luck that the level was completely playable (though not finishable). When the game was ported to the Family Computer Disk System, it was replaced with completable Worlds -1, -2, -3, which were based on other glitched levels in the cartridge.
- Attract Mode: It features one, and the computer's one of the worst Mario players ever (most likely to minimize spoilers).
- Bald of Evil: Bowser. Averted in both the artwork and All-Stars.
- Battle Theme Music: Averted in both the original and Deluxe, played straight in the All-Stars version.
- Big Bad: Bowser.
- "Blind Idiot" Translation: In the story provided by the manual, the word "horsetail" (referring to the plants in the background of some courses) was mistranslated as "horse-hair".
- Boss Arena Idiocy: You know this one. You touch the axe to destroy the bridge Bowser is on.
- Bottomless Pits: Everywhere.
- Breakable Power Up: The Trope Codifier. The Super Mushroom transforms Mario into Super Mario, capable of breaking bricks by jumping into them from below. The Fire Flower transforms either regular Mario or Super Mario into Fire Mario, capable of throwing fireballs. Both powerups act as a Single-Use Shield, and upon being hit Mario reverts to regular Mario, losing the abilities granted him by the powerups.
- Bubbly Clouds: The "Coin Heaven" bonus areas.
- Cheat Code: If you get a Game Over, press Start while holding down the A button to start at the world you died in. Mercifully, if you forget which button and try pressing Start while holding B, nothing happens.
- Cheated Angle: In the original game, the Mario Bros. always have their head to the side they're walking towards, even when they aren't moving and the rest of their body is facing the screen. The only time they ever fully face the viewer is if they're dying.
- Chekhov's Gunman: See Gameplay and Story Segregation below.
- Collision Damage: All of the enemies deal this to you. Getting a Super Star lets you do this to the enemies instead.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Red mushrooms (extra hit point) vs. green (1-Up), red Koopas (they patrol specific areas) vs. green (they come straight at you).
- Color-Coded Multiplayer: There's no difference between Mario and Luigi in terms of playability.
- Color Contrast: Basic color contrasts such as blue, red green and brown contrasts are abundant (the grass and water levels), sometimes with black and grey (the underground and snow levels) or red, black and grey (the castles). The NES had an extremely limited color palette and they had very little memory to work with on the game.
- Cut-and-Paste Environments: The game only had 40 KB of memory, so they used repeating patterns three screens wide for decorative backgrounds such as hills and clouds. It also reused about two models for castle exteriors (small and large). On top of that, five entire levels were reused, as well as World 4-4 and 7-4 which would actually loop if the player takes the wrong path, and they used the exact same sprite for the clouds and bushes the only difference being the clouds were white where as the bushes were green.
- Deliberately Monochrome: World 6-3 is either this, or simply a representation of snow.
- Early Installment Weirdness:
- The backstory, All There in the Manual, explains how the Koopa clan transformed the citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom, and only the princess can undo this. Virtually all games never mention this; Super Mario RPG kind of backwards-references it in Peach being the most obvious White Magician Girl of the team, but even there it's more inference than anything. And heck: Peach having the ability to undo the Koopas' magic is the only reason Bowser kidnaps her to begin with. Future games have Bowser kidnap the princess mostly to lure Mario into traps, on those occasions he does even bother with villainy (see again: SMRPG).
- The game also used Ratchet Scrolling, which prevented players from going back. Most Mario games after this abandoned this type of scrolling for Auto-Scrolling Level in a few places while allowing backtracking in everything else.
- The timer also ticked away at a much faster pace compared to the later Mario games.
- Shells cannot be grabbed by holding the B button.
- When Fire Mario is hit, Mario goes all the way back down to small form. This was made more generous in later games, most notably the non-Japanese releases version of the original Super Mario Bros. 3.
- The princess has the sprite drawn with red hair and a white dress with red trim, likely using the palette for the mushroom retainers. Early official artwork also shows her much younger, possibly the age of a child - she wouldn't gain her proper adult appearance in the official art until The Lost Levels.
- The game is considerably less generous about coins and 1ups than later games in the series are (unless, of course, you make use of the famous Koopa shell glitch). Getting more than 9 lives makes the lives counter display glitchy symbols, and it's quite difficult to witness this without cheating.
- Early-Bird Cameo: The Disk System version (accidentally) contains Bloopers in the air in World -3, which would made a proper appearance in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.
- Easter Egg:
- If you wait long enough on the title screen, then a brief demo will start to play.
- Also, run out of time as Fire Mario or Invincible Mario.
- Elite Mook: Hammer Brothers.
- Endless Game: Famous for averting it, although technically, you can play the levels again after the ending.
- Every 10,000 Points/Law of 100: 100 coins equal a 1-Up.
- Excuse Plot: One of the classic staples of the video game excuse plot, also codifying one of its subtropes in the process; Bowser has kidnapped the princess and is trying to take over the Mushroom Kingdom, and Mario and Luigi have to save the day! Now press start and go save the day!
- Fireballs: From the Fire Flower, of course.
- Flying Seafood Special: Cheep Cheeps, which jump out of the water and into the air.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: There is actually only one Buzzy Beetle that can be killed with fireballs in this game. It's disguised as Bowser at the end of World 3-4.
- Guide Dang It: Each x-1 level has a hidden 1-Up Mushroom in it. Besides the one in 1-1, they only appear if you've gotten all the coins in the previous x-3 level or used a Warp Pipe (e.g. to get the one in 2-1, you need to get all the coins in 1-3).
- Hard Mode Filler: Some of the later stages. Namely Worlds 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-2, 7-3 and 7-4, which are harder versions of 1-3, 2-4, 1-4, 2-2, 2-3 and 4-4 respectively. In VS. version, these harder stages are bumped ahead and replaced with new stages that later formed part of The Lost Levels.
- Hard Mode Perks: The "hard mode" replaces all Goombas with Buzzy Beetles, which allows the player to get as many lives as they want by having their shells being kicked repeatedly against certain structures, much like a Koopa shell. It also makes clearing a whole row of enemies much easier - stomping a Beetle and kicking it to take out all the others is effortless compared to stomping all Goombas individually.
- Hitbox Dissonance:
- Super Mario's hitbox is normally twice as tall as standard Mario's, which makes sense. Crouching eliminates the top half of the hitbox, rendering it the same size as standard Mario's, which also makes sense. Crouching while underwater and then swimming causes Super Mario's hitbox to remain at half-height, causing enemies to pass through his upper half harmlessly, which does not make sense until you realize that you normally stay crouched when you jump this way, but there's no sprite for a crouched swimmer; so what you're actually doing is swimming while crouched, but the lack of sprites causes a visual glitch.
- Another strange thing related to hitboxes is the game's collision detection. If Mario is rising, he will take damage from hitting an enemy regardless of whether he is on top of the enemy or below it. On the other hand, if he is falling, he will cause damage to the enemy (assuming it's not The Spiny) regardless of whether the enemy is on top or he is. This can be confusing to players who are unfamiliar with the mechanics of the engine, and tool-assisted Speed Runs milk this for all its worth.
- Idle Animation: Sort of. If you stay in one spot for 30 seconds, with a Hammer Brother nearby, the Hammer Brother will leave its perch, and actively start chasing you. Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels would introduce Hammer Brothers that actively chased the player from their first appearance.
- Infinite 1-Ups: Line a Koopa shell just right against a staircase at the end of 1-1 or 3-1, and your jumps will turn into a chain reaction, triggering loads of points followed by One Ups.
- Game-Breaking Bug: But woe to you if you exceed 127 lives, because the life counter will overflow into negative lives, causing your next death to be a Game Over.Details This was fixed in the Super Mario All-Stars version, which stores the lives in an unsigned integer variable which has a cap of 128 lives.
- In-Name-Only: Aside from the presence of Mario, Luigi, turtle enemies, and coins, Super Mario Bros. really doesn't have anything to do with Mario Bros., although it does have some similar elements (you can still attack enemies from below when they are on brick platforms).
- Invincibility Power-Up: The Super Star (aka Starman) and its famous jingle debut here.
- Jump Physics: The game has very well thought out jump physics, and the level designs were tailored around it. Mario can jump five times his height, can jump farther when running, and he mainstains just enough midair control to cut short a forward jump. Mario holds his momentum for a bit when he's in mid air or lands, even if the D-Pad is released. Even if he bumps into a wall in motion, he still holds his momentum and maintains mid air jump control. If he bumps his head into something, it quickly knocks him back down (the cramped castle levels are specifically designed to use this against you) but it won't stop him from moving.
- Knight of Cerebus: While the franchise would eventually feature much more wicked villains in the Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi games, Bowser is still this compared to Donkey Kong and Foreman Spike. Donkey was an Anti-Villain who was trying to get back at Mario for abusing him, and Spike was a regular human who also happened to be a jerk and a Bad Boss, but Bowser, the draconic Evil Overlord, is genuinely intimidating.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: The Princess being in castle number 8. This has become so ingrained in our culture that from every Mario game onward featuring the Princess being kidnapped, she'll always appear in World 8.
- Lethal Lava Land: The castle levels.
- Level 1 Music Represents: The overworld theme has become the iconic theme of the Mario series, as well as nearly every crossover and non video game appearance Mario has had.
- Magic Mushroom: The Unfortunate Name of the Super Mushroom in the NES version (though not the FC version).
- Marathon Level: World 8-1 is looooooooooooong. Even harder than making all of the tricky jumps is reaching the end before time runs out!
- Minus World: A famous example, coined by Nintendo Power's coverage of the glitch. Japan, meanwhile, discovered even more such worlds through a process that involves swapping out the game's cartridge with Tennis while the console's still running.
- New Game+: "A new quest", which you unlock by beating the game once and restarting at the title screen. Goombas are replaced with Buzzy Beetles, enemies move faster, and all of the levels with harder counterparts later in the game (i.e.: 7-2 is the harder version of 2-2) are replaced with said harder counterparts. Both All-Stars and Deluxe retain this feature.
- Nintendo Hard: Although at the lower end compared to other infamously hard games. A main issue is that one-ups are so uncommon; there are exactly eight hidden 1-Up Mushroom Blocks in the game, and Coins are far less common than in later Mario games, making extra lives in a game with no save feature much more precious to have. The VS. version takes this Up to Eleven - you start with only two lives, there is only a single hidden 1up block Details , you need to collect 250 coins to earn an extra life and the infinite lives exploits are removed. As if this wasn't enough, the original levels themselves are much harder; new, super hard levels are added in and Warp Zones don't take you as far forward as the originals. Even many expert NES Mario players never got past World 6, where they had to take a blind, running jump across a bottomless chasm and bounce off a Koopa Paratroopa onto a safe platform, where neither the Koopa or the safe platform were even on-screen from the jumping point.
- Pac Man Fever: Lots of sound effects from this game have turned up in children's TV shows, particularly in scenes set at arcades (there were arcade cabinet versions of the game, but it's unlikely any of those writers knew that).
- Palette Swap: Not just with enemies; the bushes and clouds use the same tiles.
- Backgrounds, too; Worlds 3 and 6 apparently take place at night.
- Pipe Maze: World 8-4. The pipes are the key to progressing through the level, and going down the wrong one will send you back to the beginning.
- Platform Game: Trope Maker and Trope Codifier for many platform tropes.
- Player Nudge: The dev team was afraid the player would confuse the mushrooms for something hostile and avoid them. To prevent this they structured the first level so that it was nearly impossible to avoid the mushroom after it was spawned, ensuring the players would see it was not harmful when it struck them.
- Ratchet Scrolling
- Required by the way levels were stored. Each "object" in the level had a "page select" flag which, when set, told the game to advance one screenful to the right. There was no code for going back one screen, however, and as there could be a variable number of objects per page, the algorithms involved would have been a bit too complicated for the NES, where every byte and every clock cycle counted (and they were already running low on ROM space as it was). So while the game could be told to go to the next screen, there was no way to start loading objects from the previous screen, hence why you can only go right.
- Deluxe does allow you to scroll back slightly, but only because the screen is smaller than the NES version's.
- Rearrange the Song: The VS. version totally redid the ending theme. In addition, a Hi-Score theme was also added.
- Save the Princess: And she's in another castle.
- Self-Imposed Challenge: Defeating Bowser in 8-4 with the Fire Flower. The actual task isn't hard, but getting to him with that power-up, much less getting and keeping the power up in World 8, is one of the hardest challenges in the game.
- Single-Use Shield: The Super Mushroom and Fire Flower power ups provide this. If Mario gets hit while in big form, he'll automatically revert back to Small Mario instead of dying.
- Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Worlds 3, 5 and 7, although "snow" in this game is just recolored trees and pipes. The All-Stars version of the game improves on this by making the ground actually look snowy.
- Super Drowning Skills/Super Not-Drowning Skills: Yes, both of them. If you're underwater, nothing aside from the standard timer can stop you from staying under for as long as you want. On the other hand, falling into a pit filled with water doesn't even slow your fall.
- This Was His True Form: If defeated with fireballs rather than being thrown into the lava, the Bowsers of Worlds 1-7 are revealed to be simple minor enemies which have taken Bowser's form, likely using more of that Koopa clan magic you only ever hear about in the manual.
- Timed Mission: Every single level. The timer also counts down faster here than in Mario's later games.
- Underground Level: World 1-2 and World 4-2.
- Under the Sea: World 2-2 and World 7-2.
- Unstable Equilibrium: Many parts of the game are much easier as Fire Mario, but if you do get hit, it takes two power-ups to climb back up to that status.
- Updated Re-release:
- VS. Super Mario Bros., an arcade version, has its difficulty adjusted for arcade play. Most notably the harder "filler" versions of early stages replace their easier counterparts and new stages were added to fill in the gap during the later half of the game. These new stages were later included in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.
- Super Mario All-Stars which also had, besides the first Super Mario Bros. and The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3. And, in an updated re-release of an updated re-release, Super Mario World.
- Super Mario Bros. Deluxe on the Game Boy Color, which also had The Lost Levels as Unlockable Content.
- When All Else Fails, Go Right: The Ratchet Scrolling prevents Mario from going left.
- Your Princess Is in Another Castle: There you have the Trope Namer.
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Skip to comments.Fox News: Pentagon on Lockdown; Shooting at Pentagon Metro Station
Posted on 03/04/2010 4:17:20 PM PST by kristinn
Nothing on the wires yet. No more news given than what I put in the headline.
I KNEW Big Sis and company would look
for an out for more monitoring, tracking.
They're foaming at the mouth to shut us
down and control the web.
I still sense a change at FNC. Maybe they
were warned of a coming clampdown and watch
your p's and q's.
UPDATING post no. 179:
2 Pentagon Police Officers Shot Outside D.C. Metro Station
Thursday, March 04, 2010
SNIPPET: The motive for the shooting in suburban Washington, D.C., wasnt immediately clear, but Fox News confirmed the gunman was identified as 36-year-old John Patrick Bedell.
A second person was being questioned by authorities, but sources say that person may just be a witness and not considered a suspect .
The gunman was calm as he approached the officers at the main entrance around 6:40 p.m., Pentagon Police Chief Richard Keevil said at a news conference. The officers asked to see his pass to enter the building; he started shooting without saying a word.
Long-term cannabis use increases risk of mental ills: study (AFP)
WASHINGTON Young adults who started using cannabis at an early age and used it for several years are at increased risk of being diagnosed with a form of psychosis, of hallucinating or having delusions, a study published Monday found.
WaPost uses FR to fact-check their stories - so they will not be exposed and embarrased for their blantant biased propanganda mistakes
My BG on this was on the UNIBOMBER and the Beltway Snipers
They paid quick and careful attention about TK - slow and sloppy on the Snipers - Chief Moose as a racist goon I spotted from Page One "Two white men in a white van!" (I said a plain brown wrapper ex-LE-interceptor with 2 black Muzzies) Who was dead on?
Both were logical cases - esp. TK - but took some time to develop and refine
Wacko! He needs to live so they
can give him sodium pentathal and
vigorously interrogate him, after
the other drugs wear off.
If it's the same guy, he mentioned Petraeus in one of his rants.
I wonder if the BDS-infected moonbat pothead even felt anything after he was shot in the head by the cops.
HUH? "nabbed Stack?" What did I do?????
BREAKING: I just talked with man who thinks he is father of Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell. Says his son has been slipping. about 2 hours ago via web
I'm the first person to find him, cops haven't called yet. But when I said I might have wrong man, he said "I don't think so" about 2 hours ago via web
Father tells me his son is a grat student at San Jose State. KNX1070 about 2 hours ago via web
Direct Twitter link to first comment.
Now, that sounds like our guy. Truther, seeking justice. We need to be careful of what we post in these cases. Putting innocent persons out as the perp could get us all sued.
[WaPost uses FR to fact-check their stories -]
Interesting huh? They know FR is a good source of fast info, they use the info and then try to turn the story around blaming it on a Freeper.
You have a good memory for all political facts.
Still trying to sign off, lol.
[Theyre foaming at the mouth to shut us
down and control the web.]
For sure! Obama knows how these conservative websites have hurt him - and will continue to..
Under the magnifier they don't look the same. Eyebrows different, nose. Hard to tell for sure.
Major type, I apologize.
Have him have the father look at Bedell's cell number on his arrest record.. does the # look familiar?
Reports: Pentagon Gunman From Hollister
2 Officers Injured In Shooting
POSTED: 8:01 pm PST March 4, 2010
UPDATED: 9:26 pm PST March 4, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Multiple news sources are reporting that a man accused of shooting two officers at the Pentagon complex on Thursday is from Hollister.
Law enforcement sources identified the suspect as John Patrick Bedell, 36.
KNX Radio, which is based in Los Angeles, originally reported that Bedell is from Hollister.
The Washington Post then reported that when a call was made to a home in Hollister, a man identified himself as John Bedell and said he had a 36-year-old son in the Washington D.C. area named John Patrick Bedell before hanging up.
Two officers suffered grazing wounds when a gunman drew a weapon from his pocket and opened fire at the teeming subway entrance to the Pentagon complex at about 6:40 p.m. EST Thursday.
The officers wounds were not life-threatening and they were being treated at a hospital, said Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police.
"He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting," Keevill said. "He walked up very cool. He had no real emotion on his face." The Pentagon officers returned fire with semiautomatic weapons. Of the suspect, the chief said, "His injury is pretty critical."
The assault at the very threshold of the Pentagon - the U.S. capital's ground zero on Sept. 11, 2001 - came four months after a deadly attack on the Army's Fort Hood, Texas, base allegedly by a U.S. Army psychiatrist with radical Islamic leanings. In the immediate aftermath Thursday, investigators did not think terrorism was involved but were not ruling that out and did not discuss possible motives.
That's him, the father, it truly seems. This kid is from Hollister, California apparantly. I tracked it at least two hours ago down to the websites the kid ran, spamming trouble he got into, and lots of other things. Police are slow on this one, Freepers and CBS Radio apparantly are quick.
BUMP to post no. 403.
Hollister is nice rural country living in Calif.
The city is modern and we almost bought a house out there except a snake came down the hallway — I ruled it out.
Oh jeeze ..
Suspect is dead.
I feel bad for the father. Watching your son 'slip' as he put it down into something like this must be very hard.
Update: Medical examiner's office says suspect in Pentagon shooting has died — AP
As was expected, with that kind of head wound. Prayers for his soul (I dont wish eternal Hell on anyone—well, except maybe Kim Jong il), and of course also prayers for THOSE RECOVERING IN D.C., those heroes there today. They protected our beloved Pentagon and really walked the walk.
Ditto your comments.
Now the media can speculate why he did it.
Yes, me too. I will say prayers for his grieving father.
Who knows, might be related to the national educational protests today... a lot of crazies on UC and Cal State campuses
Damn ...
They sure did .. and right fine shots,
even as wounded as they were.
God bless 'em.
Meg Whitman supporter
Media speculation will be in full swing...
I don't like this...
It sounds like someone flipped a switch on this guy.
BIG SIS UNLEASHED: Homeland Security program digs 'into all Internet communications'
Feds weigh expansion of monitoring...
What do you mean? As in, intentionally blew one of his breakers?
I'm supposing there will be a suicide note found, now that we think we know who he is.
I used to drive a shuttle there by the front of the metro exit.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who said that Einstein 3 could only be discussed in a classified setting, speaks at the RSA conference on Wednesday
Imagine what they'll be doing with
the Census info .. coming soon.
Still not sure if we really have
to legally answer all the questions.
As Mark Steyn called her, "Janet Incompetano."
He's right.
I'm not clear on that either.
I want to answer the absolute minimum.
I find it interesting that he has a link to the Marine Marathon on his facebook.
I wonder if he was a runner, or if that would have been a great place for him to shoot up a bunch of Marines. The marathon is in 33 days, so he might have been planning ahead.
Wish we could get a conclusive answer
from someone who knows.
The law says you CAN be fined, but I've
also read that no one has ever been fined.
FR thread
Too many questions.
I don't like the form.
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Course Directory: United States / Texas / Boerne
Boerne, Texas Golf Courses & Discount Tee Times
Whether you're visiting Boerne, Texas for business or recreation, make a round of golf one of your top priorities. Boerne, Texas has many outstanding options for the avid golfer, including a wide variety courses and plenty of tee times to fit your schedule. Plan to play a new course during your stay in Boerne, Texas and take advantage of the incredible deals on tee times available through GolfNow.
All Boerne, Texas Golf Courses
Cordillera Ranch
18 holes over 7464 yards with a par of 721092 Clubs Dr
Boerne, TX 78006-6137
Fair Oaks Ranch Golf & Country Club
7900 Fair Oaks Pkwy
Boerne, TX 78015-4578
Tapatio Springs Resort
West End Johns Road
Boerne, TX 78006