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Keep in mind that Character Bashing is now prohibited. Making fun of certain characters/character pairings leads to a pointless thread filled with insults and general rule breaking.
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When did you decide to be done with Sakura?
# I did get over her after the meeting with Naruto in the Iron Land. It kind of makes me feel that she deceives him too many times.
What about you?
when she lied to naruto!
the ep when naruto transformed into sauske then sakura ran into the real sauske and seild somthing dont exactly remember what
that's actually the moment i found a bit of respect for her character. yeah she lied, but ask any guy who's ever been shot down. they will tell you that all they ever really wanted was a chance. she was willing to give naruto that...
Yea, when she totally tried to lie to his face in the Land of Iron. That made me so angry.
When she lied to naruto
Definitely Iron Land. Or, the Kakashi vs Sasuke fight where she attempted to assassinate Sasuke. No one's feeble assassination will harm my lord!
Another Sakura hate circlejerk?
When she was introduced. I never cared for Sakura.
When she was introduced in the series.
Well it's not like I hate or dislike her...But yeah the time when she did not believe in Naruto and deceive her....That's really made me sad and angry.
When Part II/Shippuden started and she STILL didn't have any boobs
I will never be done with her
When Naruto asked her to eat lunch together and she was looking for Sasuke in part 1 as soon as their teams were decided.
I don't think her personality is very good in general.
I've never been "done" with her. When she lied it made me mad only because it comoletely spat in the face of Hinata's confession. I did respect the fact she was doing it to keep her friend from getting hurt.....wrong way to go about it lol! Her initial personality was ubearable, but her shippuden relationship has grown into a sister like status and I do like that lol!
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When she was introduced. I never cared for Sakura.
yeah,tottaly agreed
i was over in part 1 , as soon as she appear i was like wow this character sucks , then shippuden happen & in the kasekage arc i was like wow sakura & then after that arc i was like wtf happen & started hating her ever since
Oh man when she gained no fighting skilled at all until part two. She was totally useless.
she is by far my favorite female character, the amount of character development that has gone into this character cannot be described by words.
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We mostly keep our sports at a distance, where we can consume them as entertainment and dissect them sarcastically. But death is real, and if you follow the Columbus Crew, it just invaded your space.
"You have so many questions," coach Robert Warzycha said. "Why? When? What happened?"
By now Crew fans have seen reports on the death of 22-year-old rookie Kirk Urso, who lost consciousness at Park Street Patio early Sunday and was pronounced dead an hour later at Grant Hospital. The coroner's report was inconclusive, so those grappling with Urso's death must wait for the why as they process the what.
For those in the Crew locker room, it's going to be a long process.
"We just try to get through it," Warzycha said Wednesday. "We got back to our normal routine today at practice. There were moments that we were still thinking about it. Probably that's normal. That's going to happen for a while. We're always going to remember the guy."
On Twitter, Crew players posted heartfelt tributes to Urso, many of them lauding his vibrant locker room presence. With a home match against Toronto FC this Saturday and another against the star-studded L.A. Galaxy looming Wednesday, they'll no doubt have their teammate on the mind.
The task of navigating that stormy emotional current weighs heavily on Warzycha and his staff.
"All of those guys, we work together every single day. We see each other every single day. So basically, they're going to look up to somebody to get them through these difficult times," Warzycha said. "We have to give them some directions, and then together help each other."
The ripple effects extend outside Columbus. In Chapel Hill, they're reeling from the loss of the man who captained the Tar Heels to the 2011 NCAA Championship. ("Captain Kirk," they called him.) UNC alumni joined the digital wake, sharing their admiration for Urso.
In Chicago, the friends and family Urso grew up with can't quite comprehend the loss of the bright young prospect who was always smiling. The guy seemed to leave an impression wherever he went.
Now he's gone, and there are no easy answers. There is no next season. You don't just laugh it off and move on.
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- Fresh-market vegetable prices surge above last year
- Most crops late
During January through July, preliminary data indicated that shipments of fresh-market vegetables – excluding potatoes and melons – from domestic sources were up 3 percent from a year earlier.
During the first seven months of this year, farm prices for fresh-market vegetables averaged 14 percent above a year earlier, according to the latest USDA Vegetables and Melons Outlook.
After declining 4 percent from a year earlier this past spring, farm prices were expected to average at or below a year earlier this summer, with weather-delayed crops coming to harvest and crowding the market through August.
During January through July, preliminary data indicated that shipments of fresh-market vegetables – excluding potatoes and melons – from domestic sources were up 3 percent from a year earlier. Import shipments during this time were lower due to the winter freeze in Mexico. Most of the gain in domestic movement occurred prior to May, with volume lower each month May through July.
According to USDA, the May-July decline likely reflected planting gaps and reduced yields caused by the cool, wet spring in California, drought in Georgia, and periods of extreme heat and flooding in the Midwest and East.
Shipments from domestic sources, which account for the majority of volume during summer months, were 7 percent below a year earlier in July but were expected to increase in August.
Area for harvest of 11 selected fresh-market summer vegetables (excluding melons, onions, and potatoes) was forecast to rise about 1 percent for this past summer to 269,300 acres. This compares with a 2 percent increase last summer and steady area this past spring.
Only four of the 11 surveyed crops registered increased acreage, with most of the increase coming from a 17 percent advance in carrots and a 6 percent gain in head lettuce.
Fresh-market carrot supplies (largely from California) had been chronically short since the severe February freeze with the surge in summer area likely reflecting a need to normalize supplies after several months of sustained high prices.
A 9 percent reduction in summer area was noted for snap beans with marginal declines for four other crops, including tomatoes (down 1 percent).
California, accounting for 48 percent of this year's summer-season vegetable area (up from 46 percent a year earlier), increased its acreage 4 percent.
New York, the second-leading summer-season producer with 16 percent of fresh-market vegetable acreage, was expected to harvest 1 percent less area than a year ago, largely because of small reductions in snap bean and sweet corn area.
New York is the leading source for fresh-market sweet corn, cabbage and snap beans in the summer. Michigan, the third leading summer fresh vegetable state in terms of area, expects to harvest 19,500 acres this summer—the same as a year earlier.


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I don't know how long it has been exactly – maybe a year – but I have a new favorite radio station thanks to columnist colleague Michael Penkava.
I've been listening to music on the radio steadily for about 45 years, and I have had to chose the stations I tuned in based on the kind and the amount of music they played, unless I was interested in news or a ball game, and that's a whole other story.
I couldn't choose my own station until I was in seventh or eighth grade and I had my own transistor radio. Before that, I had to listen to what my parents listened to, and that led to appreciation of music and news I wouldn't have otherwise had. Or not.
I often didn't want to listen to the music they listened to, so I tuned it out and let my imagination play, and worse things could have happened to me.
The last blowup I had with my parents' music came when I was 14 years old, and it was a wintry spring Saturday afternoon, and we were making the eight-hour drive from Donnellson, Iowa, to South St. Paul, Minn. My mom, dad and I were squeezed in the front seat, and my four younger brothers and sisters were squeezed in the backseat of the Impala station wagon.
And playing on the radio was the live Metropolitan Opera of New York, brought to you by Texaco every Saturday afternoon. I wasn't a fan of opera, and the sound was particularly excruciating that afternoon. My imagination wouldn't play. I was trapped, and the arias pounded in my head.
After two or three hours of that, I vowed never to travel again long distances with my parents. If they were going to visit relatives in Minnesota, I would stay home in Iowa. I simply couldn't take it anymore. Whether my vow was carried out, I don't remember. We didn't make that many trips to Minnesota. But I don't remember any other operas, so I'm thinking I won out one way or another.
Move ahead 45 years, and that wouldn't happen because of the proliferation of personal music on MP3 players and cellphones that really are powerful computers. You can have a full load of kids in the car, and they won't hear the music you are listening to on the radio. Their heads will be plugged into their earbuds and their own music, completely unaware of what you are saying or listening to.
Talk about soothing the savage beast.
The new radio station really isn't a radio station but a website, Pandora.com. You create your own radio stations based on the kind of music you like. Yes, that's plural. And it's free, although for $3.99 a month, you can pay for the service, and you get imprecise benefits.
The price is low enough, but I'm satisfied with free. You listen to commercials for 15 or 30 seconds occasionally, but it's nothing that is long or intrusive.
I have created ambient new age, classical, contemporary Christian, country, Christmas, jazz and two rock 'n' roll stations. Something for almost every mood.
To create a station, you start typing in the name of artists you like, and it starts playing their music, along with music by similar artists. You can add to your list by giving songs and artists a thumbs-up. And if you don't like where the music is taking you, you can always give it a thumbs-down, and it stops the song and moves on to the next piece.
My favorite station is the 1960s, '70s and '80s rock, playing upbeat familiar classics. But over the year, it has become a grab bag of musical genres. Give guitarist Leo Kotke a thumbs-up, and it gives the computer the idea that you like similar artists, and if you like them and give them a thumbs-up, too, soon enough Pandora will be playing sets of guitarists.
Same goes with Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, and soon enough you will be getting sets filled with John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Or Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings.
That takes you away from the Beatles, Pink Floyd, the Steve Miller Band, Led Zeppelin, Journey, Gordon Lightfoot and Dire Straits. To get back on track, you might have to thumbs-down perfectly good music, one piece after another, to get back to classic rock.
But sometimes, I like the mix of genres and I let it go, which only feeds the other sets.
Listening to Pandora ties you down to a computer, although I am sure smartphones can pick it up, and you probably can get a device to listen to it in your car, but that comes with a fee and we're not willing to play that. There are enough radio stations available on the car radio to keep us happy.
Even on Saturday afternoons. But no Metropolitan Opera. I'd gladly pay Pandora a handsome premium if it came down to that.
• Dick Peterson, who lives in Woodstock, is a mental-health advocate. He is a freelance writer and a former Northwest Herald Opinion Page editor. He can be contacted at email@example.com.


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Because of the durability of fired clay, pottery remains a superb record of the development of civilization. Ceramics are also one of the most common art forms: in most cultures ceramics were used at different social levels and for many activities such as eating and drinking, religious practice, and household decoration. Hard-waring and ubiquitous, ceramics have been a medium for the exchange of artistic ideas and techniques. Today every home contains ceramic objects.
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Dodgers Off Season and World Series
First of all, congratulations to Andre Ethier!! Ethier has been named the 2009 Major League Baseball's Clutch Performer of the Year! Andre led the Majors with six walk-off hits, including four homers. Congrats Andre! A Well deserved award for you!!
I was watching Game 5 of the 1969 Mets-Orioles series on MLB TV. I love to watch old games and take a look at the suroundings like fans in suits, ties and hats. I noticed a sign for Royal Crown Cola. I think it was back in the 80's that I used to work for this company. I remember Lee Majors used to advertise Diet Rite, a product of RC Cola. Remember him playing the bionic man in The Six Million Dollar Man. Here is a commercial I found of Lee Majors and his son from back in 1986
Talking about the bionic man, Mariano Rivera sure is some tough hombre. He is the only closer in the postseason that has not had a meltdown inning.
Did you know that during Charlie Manuel playing days in Japan, he took a fastball in the chops which took out a large portion of his teeth and shattered his jaw?
Well, is the battle of the P's for game six of the World Series. Two old vets in Pedro and Pettit I think I want the W.S. to go seven so that I watch more "beisbol.".
Meanwhile between the McCourt's divorce (see this blog for updates http://www.dodgerdivorce.com/ ) and now that Padilla shot himself on the leg, is never a dull off season for the Dodgers.
I went to the LaPrensa,com from Nicaragua and read the report in Spanish. He got there on his own and he said "it was a light accident. The dimwit is OK and back in his ranch. Actually, the way our countries in Central America are, who knows what really happened there.
And because I never get tired of watching Gibby's walk-off homerun in the 1988 World Series and listening to Vin Scully, here it is:
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Wow. You're not kidding about it not being a dull off-season for the Dodgers so far. The McCourts' divorce aside (I love that Dodger Divorce web site!), I can't believe Padilla shot himself in the leg. Crazy!
Gibby's walk-off! I'll never forget that game. Ever. Epic. No other words for it. Congrats to Ethier. He's one of the good guys.
I heard about Padilla and I hope he will be okay! Congrats to Andre and I too hope that the McCourt's divorce doesn't hurt the team.
Great for Andre!!! He deserves it. And a great way to end your post with My Favorite Kirk at the plate! Have a great offseason kid.
Emma, I'll never get tired of watching Gibby's HR!! Almost brings a tear to my eye. Awesome video of the entire sequence!
Keep an eye on that site for some entainment during the off-season.
Glad you also appreciate Gibby. When the D'backs come to town, he takes a few minutes to sign autographs for fans.
Thanks. I think is unavoidable that this divorce will hurt the Dodgers. We just hope that is not too painful.
He is favorite Kirk too!! I hope you will keep your blog updated from time to time. I will miss you. Keep me updated of any of your writting projects.
I never get tired of watching it either. My friend LTD23 found it and put a link on her facebook. Thanks for stopping by! I was pointing out the baseball diamond on Longden to my brother and he too never noticed it before.
Awesome. My friends and I used to mimic the arm pump around the bases when we played whiffle ball in the backyard. I do a pretty good Eck impression, so I was always humiliated… every time. LOL.
Emma: CONGRATS TO ANDRE! I voted for him hehehe even though Mariano Rivera was one of the candidates….hehehe don't tell any of my Yankee fan friends…..my love for Andre just took over when I voted. Congrats to him. Gosh, Gibson looked like he was in a lot of pain during that at-bat. What a dramatic homer. And a great call by Scully, too. We should keep in touch🙂
Padilla shot himself? I thought I saw something to that effect earlier, but glanced past it to something else. I'll have to go find out the details. Sorry the Phillies couldn't take it to a Game 7 – believe me, I was really bumming. But, now I can get back to thinking "randomly" for the winter – it's so much more fun than thinking in a focused manner🙂.
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Andre deserved the award, he was definitely not the guy opposing teams wanted at the plate in the 9th inning when it was close….. I am not sure what will be more intense this off season the trades or the who gets what with the McCourts…
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Ethier may be the most underrated player in baseball, and proved this year that he is a very valuable performer.
Hey Jeff,
I do a good imitation of Eck too. I am a lousy player, but I like to roll my eyes at the ball a la Eck.
more congrats to Andre for the Silver slugger award!! Yeahhh!
I know what you mean. i was able to watch the W.s. all relaxed. Still, I would have traded places with you in a heart beat.
agh.. don't mention the McCourts. I rather think of the dynamic duo of Andre and Kemp!
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4/7/09 Good Luck Rockies !!
One of the reason I enjoy blogging on MLBLogs is I'm surrounded by people who have a passion for baseball. I tell you what, I have butterflies in my stomach in anticipation of the Rockies home opener. Is it just me? Blogging has given me a new perspective on baseball and I feel like I'm the verge of seeing something special from the Rockies.
An overlooked underdog team just waiting for the right moment to show the world that they're a force to be reckoned with.
I believe, but then I've always believed…D
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Hey D,
The countdown to the home opener is on! Time to put a fresh memorycard and batteries in the camera, dust-off my cap, dig out the glove, figure out what to take to get autographed, print out a list of the Hagg'n rules, and wonder how I'm going to make it til Friday!
D – the Red Sox got their game in today and it was pure magic! We live for this!
As an Ianetta owner, I also can't wait for Rockies home games….
– Toby
R-Luv-Lol-I've had all that stuff ready for weeks. I'm going to put up a link on the sidebar as a quick reference to the Hagg'n rules. Are you showing up for BP?
JULIA-Nice, I know you were going crazy in anticipation. We do live for this.
TOBY-Welcome to the Rant brotha, I'll check out your blog…D
When my dad asked which Mets tickets I wanted him to try to get, I said all of them, but that wasn't going to happen, so I narrowed it down to the Rockies and a few other teams. I won't be rooting for them, but I'll be watching them!
http://mrmetbro.mlblogs.com (the parallel, the real one is in my nickname)
You can say that blogging has opened a new door of expression for your love of baseball. I know I seem to have a heightened passion and awareness of the game since I began writing again.
I can see some of the nuances and routines that used to just seem to flow with the game and go unnoticed. Blogging made me love baseball again beyond what I expected.
But winnig also brought that out too.
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BERLIN - A 65-year-old man thought to be sleeping while sitting upright on a Berlin underground train as it crisscrossed the German capital was actually dead, police said on Sunday.
"It's tragic," a Berlin police spokeswoman said. "We don't know how long he was sitting dead on the train nor do we know the exact cause of death yet. There are no indications of foul play. He seems to have died of natural causes."
The man was found in the U-8 underground train line that runs all night at the Weinmeisterstrasse station at 5:45 a.m. when a rail worker tried wake the man up by gently shaking him. Medics were called in but could only pronounce the man dead.
A preliminary investigation showed no indications of the man being murdered. A more detailed autopsy is planned for Monday.
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2010 Freshman Arduino Exposition
Eighty-two teams of students demonstrated interactive objects built using Arduino, an open-source prototyping platform at the Freshman Arduino Exposition. Teams chose from eight projects including turn signal clothing, self lacing shoes, secret-knock door lock, a computer mouse glove and a fortune teller game.
Scroll over the photos to read more about the projects.
Photos by Jonathan Cohen.


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So what did you guys think of the new Superman: Man of Steel teaser trailer?
If you have not seen it here is the link
I'm excited for it. I've been liking all the super hero movies that have been coming out lately and until I stop I'll keep watching them.
So who is going to the movies to see it?
I saw it wile waiting for DKR
I saw it in the theatre during DKR... although I didn't understand much I loved it :p
Yeah im going to watch DKR tommorow. Was it amazing? :D
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It's Official: Now We're Power Systems and i for Business
Published: April 2, 2008
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
As I sit here writing this essay back in my office in New York today, IBM's executives are getting ready to host the Town Hall meeting at the COMMON user group conference and expo that will finally and formally do away with the System i and System p brands and change the name of the i5/OS operating system for what is very likely to be the last time. I said "very likely" because this is Big Blue, after all.
Many of us had a hunch that this rebranding of the box and possibly the operating system has been in the works for some time, of course. Last month, in an article called Bye Bye System p and i, Hello Power Systems, I did some out-loud thinking about what IBM might be up to in a meeting two key executives--Mark Shearer, vice president of marketing and offerings for the Business Systems division, and Ross Mauri, general manager of the Power Systems division--were going to host at the Town Hall on Wednesday. Now, IBM likes to announce things on Tuesday, so if it were not for the fact that this particular Tuesday in 2008 was April Fool's Day, you might have expected the big announcement, billed as the "New Power Equation," would be held on Tuesday morning. Why IBM didn't do it on Sunday or Monday is a bit of a mystery. (Maybe IBM was betting that the System i trade press would be out of town, since we all tend to leave on Tuesday afternoon?) But anyway, here we are today and IBM is indeed, as I suggested, consolidating the System i and System p server brands into a new, consolidated brand, and the company has picked the dead obvious choice of simply labeling the servers developed and manufactured by its newly christened Power Systems division with the name--drum roll please--"Power." As in Power 520, Power 550, Power 570, and Power 595, whether the machine is running AIX, Linux, or the operating system formerly known as i5/OS.
While readers of The Four Hundred newsletter have over the years suggested a number of different ideas for changing the name of the OS/400 and then i5/OS operating system, and I have also been eager to see IBM rationalize (no, I did not mean Rational-ize) its integrated software stack pricing and naming conventions for the iSeries and System i platforms, I never thought IBM would get around to doing it with this rebranding. The hassle of changing an operating system name is right up there with changing your company name and Web domain. (Wink, wink.) But rebranding a server line, which only includes new iron, is a bit easier. So while my hunch about the server branding--which didn't require more brain power than that supplied by the HP-12C calculator that sits on my desk--turned out to be right, I was wrong that IBM would not also change the operating system name. Which is now--drum roll please--"i." In a pinch, if you just can't handle hanging a lower case "i" out there all alone, you can call it i for Business. And gone, too, are the "V" and "R" of version and release numbers, apparently. We are all one happy Power Systems family now, and we use the old dot release naming convention. So i5/OS V6R1, which just started shipping on March 21 and I would guess with all the paperwork and Web sites using that old name, is now just i 6.1, or if you can't handle that i just sitting there, you can call it "IBM i 6.1" or "i for Business 6.1."
Don't forget to backspace and retype a lot to get your word processor to allow you to lower case that little i. And if you think that you can get around this issue by having a standalone "I" automagically replaced by an "i" then you either better start working on your poetry, like e.e. cummings, start acting like a text-messaging teenager with too little time to capitalize, or begin talking in the second or third person. Just stay away from first person plural because people will think you are nuts.
So there you have it. The New Power Equation is, according to IBM's brochures and Web sites, Power = i + p.
If you wanted to be honest about it, based on my estimated 2007 revenues, it would be Power = i + 3.73 * p, and maybe on shipments (based on relative Power6-based 570 shipments since the System i variant started shipping in September 2007) it would be something more like Power = i + 6.45 p. I remember when Power = i + p, and that was a long time ago. And it depends on how generous you want to be to the old RS/6000 line as it tried to measure up against the AS/400. In 1998, one of the best years ever for the AS/400 system sales, IBM sold maybe $3.3 billion in systems, while the RS/6000 sold some $2.4 billion in systems; if you add in the $520 million in workstation sales, then the lines are at parity, more or less. If you jump ahead to 1999, when AS/400 sales dropped by 23 percent and RS/6000 sales held even as sales started drying up at the end of the year as Y2K issues caused a lot of overcapacity in the market, actual AS/400 and RS/6000 server sales (not including workstations) were on par: $2.495 billion for the AS/400 and $2.43 billion for the RS/6000, if you want to get precise.
To my way of thinking, if we really wanted to be honest about it, we would all hark back to our high school physics and realize that power = work / time, and then recall that Einstein proved that time = money, (don't you recall that Economy = money * consumption squared?), and just say that the New Power Equation is really about saving IBM a lot of work, a little bit of money on printing and Web collateral materials, and a lot of money (perhaps) by eliminating confusion in the marketplace. Now, there is one Power-based server line--same feature codes, same price list, same optional features, same maintenance fees, and so forth--and it supports three operating system platforms: i, AIX, and Linux. And one virtue in this is that most people writing that triple play for operating systems will start with "i" because ending with it will look like even more of a typo. So maybe the real equation, based on revenues, would be Power = i + 3 * a + 0.73 * l, where i is for hardware allocated i partitions, a is for AIX partitions, and l is for Linux partitions.
Shearer has been giving the simplification speech for IBM's various divisions even before he took over the iSeries Division three years ago, when it was a separate business. (I first met Shearer at an infrastructure simplification meeting for mainframe customers up in Somers a number of years ago.) And while I did not see the Town Hall meeting--COMMON and IBM apparently did not think that people who could not make the user group meeting would want to watch the announcement live--I did talk to him a bit about the branding and product line changes before the announcement.
"I have been with the System i community for three years, and this is the best news for the community since the AS/400," he explained, referring to the convergence of the System/36 and System/38 merger that created the AS/400. "This is a major transformation of the System i, and now we have one set of terms and conditions, one set of maintenance, one set of Power Systems products. And four our i clients, this provides a long-term commitment, since the i operating system will run on IBM's mainstream server products. This is all about i being mainstreamed," Shearer continued. "Now we can tell our customers that i runs on the highest volume enterprise servers in the market, and it runs on the PowerVM hypervisor. We are now preparing for the next 20 years for the i operating system."
By the way, IBM doesn't like the term "convergence" and has instead opted for the slightly different "unification" as a means of describing the simplification of its product catalog and the rebranding of the OS/400 and i5/OS platform for what is presumably the last time. I think the difference is that convergence implies that eventually one platform would go away, while unification implies that some things remain distinct. This is obviously a notion IBM wants to dispel.
According to Ian Jarman, now manager of Power Systems software and formerly the System i product manager, the user group, software vendors, end user, and other people polled by IBM as research behind the branding moves overwhelmingly were behind the name change for the operating system. When asked if IBM should have changed the name of the operating system on Power6 iron, 83 percent of those polled said yes. What IBM did not share with me is any data about what they thought the name should be. It is not clear if customers presented choices or IBM asked their opinions about whatever options it was mulling. But Jarman gave some hints. "People wanted us to go beyond the traditional OS/400 and i5/OS slash-style contructs and to simplify the name," Jarman explained.
If you want to see the official announcement on the IBM Web site, which bills the converged Power Systems as "a major new platform that provides a compelling new choice for companies of all sizes," you can check out the partially updated Web materials here and you can also read a short announcement with some hardware feeds and speeds on the i-enabled Power 520 Power 550 servers and the new Power6-based JS12 blade server at this link. (I will cover the hardware announcements separately.)
Two observations. First, Power is a very popular word on the Internet, and i stands alone a lot, too. So IBM has created two brands that are, once again, hard to search for on the Web. This is annoying, but not the end of the world. The second observation is that as far as I can tell, we are not going to have another conversation about rebranding for the product line for a long time. Not at least until IBM moves OS/400, er i5/OS, er i for Business to the X64 platform after acquiring Advanced Micro Devices. (I am kidding. Well, about the AMD thing, anyway.)
Progress Is Our Most Important Product
i5/OS V6R1 Ships, And Shops Begin to Move
Bye Bye System p and i, Hello Power Systems
IBM Readies Big Power6 Boxes, New X64 Servers
Q&A with IBM's Mark Shearer: Still Mister System i
IBM Readies Some Sort of System i Announcements at COMMON
Entry System p Servers Get Power6 Chips, System i Boxes Await
The Power6 Server Ramp: Better Than Expected
IBM Aims for Server Expansion in 2008, Including System i Reincarnation
Q&A with Marc Dupaquier, Former GM of IBM Business Systems
The Official 2008 TPM System i Wish List
Readers Riff on the 2008 System i Wish List
A New Year, A New IBM Systems and Technology Group
More Details Emerge on IBM's Upcoming Power6 Server Launch


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Many of you know Judah Friedlander as Frank Rossitano on "30 Rock," but he's most proud of his World Champion title. What is he the world champion of? Everything. There's literally nothing he can't do. Need proof? While Friedlander will be filming the final season of "30 Rock" this fall, his World Champion persona will take over the political world.
Seriously though, Friedlander is a thoughtful comedian who takes a lot of time to craft his act, as well as the World Champion — a guise he employs during his stand-up with hilarious results. He spoke with me about how the World Champion was born, the Champ's (possible) foray into politics, the final season of "30 Rock" and his experience on "American Splendor."
How did you come up with the idea for the Letter C Tour, which stops in Columbus, Canada and Caroline's Comedy Club (in New York)?
It's the most comprehensive tour ever about the third letter in the alphabet. It's an underappreciated letter, you know. Every city and country in North America that starts with the letter C submitted, and these were the three that I picked.
How did Columbus make it?
I felt Columbus needed it, and they earned it. And Buster Douglas is from there and he's a champion, so I figured the World Champion should come there too.
Is the World Champion going to run for president in 2012?
If people put me on the ticket, I'm on it. I'm not a very political guy; people are going to have to write me in on the ballots.
What is your platform?
I'm going to fix every issue. You name it, I'll fix it. And I'd like to announce that I have some top secret information. The main stream media has not reported it yet, but I have 100 percent proof that Obama and Romney are both going to endorse me.
I have photographic proof that they will endorse me, even if they haven't made it public yet. I'm the first non-Republican or Democrat to be endorsed by the incumbent president as well as his opponent.
How did the World Champion moniker come about?
Well I've been doing stand-up since 1989, and my act has always been very joke-heavy. I write a lot of jokes. It's always been escapism comedy; it's not, "Hey let's bond together and notice how we all thought that one commercial was stupid." I don't do stuff like that. My act was also very much about playing off the audience.
Now, let me digress for a second. By playing off the audience every once in a while there's some audience members, or some people will blog, who talk about how the comic is playing off the audience because they don't have any material. That's not always true. I like to play with the crowd because I like to come up with things on the spot as well. It's better than just giving someone a word-for-word thing. That's like a play.
Since my act is very joke-heavy and audience interactive-heavy, over the years it became much more of a strong personality and persona-heavy. One of the ways the World Champion thing came about was it seemed like every comic was trying to bond with the audience and relate to the audience. I decided to take the opposite approach — there's no way I can relate to anybody here because I'm just so incredible.
The act also, not on a completely blatant level but a more subtle level, is making fun of how society and people are so self-promoting and just into themselves and greedy and arrogant. I think people have become much more narcissistic. I think there's always been a lot of that in this country and there's more and more, especially with social media now.
Sounds like there's a lot going on with the World Champion title.
It wasn't just something I thought of overnight; "Hey, I'm going to be this guy." It's something that is always evolving and changing, too. It's not a gimmick. It's not something I'm stuck doing, and not every joke I do is about sports or karate or whatever. All my presidential stuff can be done with a different persona. It doesn't matter which persona or personality I'm taking on. The World Champion is a theme throughout, but it's not limiting.
Tell me about the last season of "30 Rock."
Yeah, it's like the senior year of high school.
A little bittersweet like high school?
Well, high school wasn't bittersweet for me — I couldn't wait to get the f--- out of there. I looked at high school like prison, just do your time and get out.
But "30 Rock" is a lot of fun. I'll miss people and stuff like that, but it's also we're coming in to our seventh season. We've been doing it a while and … the show is going to go out on a high note. I'm really looking forward to what they come up with.
Any plans for after the show's finished?
My next two projects are getting my album out by October, and then a stand-up concert movie that's also part documentary.
I start filming "30 Rock" in a few weeks, and that'll keep me busy until just before Christmas. I've been told that they're making the prequel to "Wet Hot American Summer" and that I'm going to be in that. I don't know any firm start dates, but I heard it might be happening in January.
Can you tell me about your experience playing Toby Radloff in "American Splendor"?
That was a great experience, and I want to get back to doing stuff like that, too. Doing "30 Rock" for the past many years, I've had to normalize my film work by like 95 percent. It's a bummer, but there's only so much time in the day.
"American Splendor" was great. I played a very different kind of role. Not only did I have to physically change my appearance, but I to change everything — my voice, the way I walked. It was really becoming another person.
I like being challenged and doing things that are different, and that movie was very challenging. They did a couple things in that movie that hadn't been done before. It was a biopic and there's that one scene where the actors are in the same shot as the real people they're playing. That was nerve-wracking. I remember Paul Giamatti and I talking about it because we were nervous. We're doing something that's never been done before and it was either going to be a complete disaster and be embarrassing, or it'll be good. It turned out cool.
It was very low budget, and it was challenging. Paul and I shared a trailer because it was a low budget film. I never knew if we were supposed to share the trailer, or if they just didn't have room for me and they were like, "All right, you and Paul can share one. He's cool with it." We had a hell of a lot of fun on that movie.
It was a very rich experience because I got to know the real people we were playing. And I got to know Cleveland really well, too. I feel that Cleveland was big character in that movie. It doesn't just take place in Cleveland; the city is a part of that film.
Did you enjoy filming in Cleveland?
Yeah, I drove there and kept my car there while I lived there for about a month, so I was always checking out the city. I still get back there every couple years, and I always meet up with Toby. We go hit thrift shops and stuff. We actually have some similar hobbies so it's fun hanging out.
He took me to a sale his church was having; it's like a yearly sale to raise money. I wound up buying about five things and two of them were things that Toby donated to the church sale. I think it was a "Beavis and Butt-Head" VHS tape, and the other was an old audio cassette player — one from like the public school libraries in the '70s. The sound quality was actually really good. It was Toby's grandma's. I told him, "This is really weird, man."


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Board of Regents for the University of Wisconsin System is looking for a new student representative to replace an outgoing student.
The Board of Regents establishes policies and rules for governing the UW System. The board also deals with budget issues and admission standards.
Student applicants must be at least 18 years old, enrolled at least half-time in a UW school and in good academic standing. They also must be Wisconsin residents and enrolled for the entire two-year term.
Applications can be downloaded at http://1.usa.gov/VQQ2i5 . Completed applications must be submitted to Gov. Scott Walker's office by mail or email by Wednesday, Feb. 20.
Because UW-Madison and UW-Parkside have each been represented on the board recently, applications will not be accepted from either institution.


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By Karl Terry, PNT Managing Editor
National Weather Service officials in Portales Wednesday say eastern New Mexico residents have proven themselves over the years as good skywatchers.
Kenneth Drozd, senior meteorologist with the NWS, along with fellow meteorologist Tim Shy, were in town conducting the second SkyWarn class of the year in Portales. The NWS class certifies severe weather spotters to act as eyes and ears on the ground when weather conditions turn bad.
"I think we've always had a tremendous response," Drozd said of participation on the High Plains. "Folks in the eastern part of the state are more intuned to the threat of severe weather."
Wednesday's class at Becky Sharp Auditorium at Eastern New Mexico University was held at the specific request of the Greyhound Amateur Radio Club. The audience was mostly club members and ENMU staff.
According to Roosevelt County Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Keith Wattenbarger, Roosevelt County has had 37 people take the class this year, down just slightly from 49 in 2007, following the tornado in March that hit a Roosevelt County dairy and killed two people in Clovis.
Drozd said he figures 100-120 have taken the class in Roosevelt and Curry counties this year. He says it doesn't have to be just emergency personnel taking the class, citizens with no formal emergency training are welcome.
"The more eyes and ears we have out there, the better," Drozd said. "It's a chance to actually save lives."
Wattenbarger credits a well-trained network of spotters working in southern Roosevelt County with helping get early warning out on the 2007 tornado that hit Clovis.
"Because Paul Luscombe (Dora fire chief) and his volunteers had the training, we were able to start tracking that storm very early," Wattenbarger said.
He said good spotting is also important to keep people from taking action unnecessarily. He said he is focusing his efforts onqualifying all tornado spots and developing a very clear protocol for activating the new sirens or the mass notification system that have recently been installed in Roosevelt County.
During the class Drozd and Shy focused on properly identifying the types of storms and the stages of development for severe storms.
Shy said that in New Mexico, radar coverage isn't as good as the NWS would like it to be and spotters play an important part in getting the word out early and providing credibility to what forecasters are seeing on radar.
Shy said a weather phenomenon called downbursts are often mistaken for tornadoes. He said a downburst, which is caused by a rapid cooling of air in a cloud, resulting in a sudden dropping of the air, can generate winds as strong as some tornadoes. But he said they're not tornadoes and making people understand that is often hard.
"There should be no shame in having your home destroyed by a downburst," Shy said laughing.
Shy said things have changed greatly since he came to the NWS in 2001. Today, through the NWS Web site, residents can get the same radar information that the forecasters in his office look at in real time, along with continuous updates.


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Giroux rallies Flyers past Columbus, 5-4
PHILADELPHIA Claude Girouxs backhanded, blind, stumbling swing at the puck was only supposed to knock it close to the net.
It turned into his 100th career NHL goal and No. 1 on his highlight reel.
Giroux scored the tying and winning goals 2:08 apart late in the third period, rallying the Philadelphia Flyers past the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-4 on Thursday night. He scored two of the Flyers five third-period goals and tallied four points as Philadelphia stormed back from a 3-0 hole.
Sometimes, you dont get the bounces, Giroux said, but we got them this time.
Giroux landed the biggest one, a no-look attempt from below the circle that got just enough elevation to beat Curtis McElhinney up high with 1:39 left.
I dont know what happened. Just trying to get it on net, Giroux said. It was in the air, end of the shift so I was a little tired.
Most of our goals are just shot on net and then go for rebounds. I think we did a good job of getting to the net and getting those rebounds.
The Flyers captain had tied it with 4:39 left.
Jakub Voracek, Braydon Coburn, Erik Gustafsson also scored for the Flyers.
Steve Mason got the win in his first game against his former team. The Blue Jackets traded Mason to the Flyers, and his strong season has helped keep Philadelphia afloat through its offensive struggles.
Made this night pretty special, Mason said. Its a difficult game for a goaltender to be a part of something like that, with the goals going in. But theres nights like these that come along every so often where your team bails you out.
Cam Atkinson, Jack Skille, Nick Foligno and Blake Comeau had goals for Columbus.
Giroux had no view of the net when he beat McElhinney for the stunning goal. Giroux is starting to come around after a lengthy drought to open the season. He is on a five-game scoring streak, with four goals and 10 points in that stretch.
He has helped push the Flyers into the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race.
Its always nice when you can look at it and see your team is in the playoffs, coach Craig Berube said.
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Romney Outspending Obama on TV in Swing States
Mitt Romney turned the tables on the president this week and is now spending more on television advertising in the swing states.
Buoyed by a 64 percent increase in his television spending (vs. only 2 percent for Obama) Romney is spending $22.4 million on ads in Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Colorado, Iowa and Nevada compared to $17.5 million for President Obama. In the previous week — and for several weeks before that — Obama had a spending edge. In the week of Oct. 1st, Obama outspent Romney $17.2million to $14.8 million.
This emerging gap in ad spending may account, in part, for the widening lead Romney is posting with each passing day in most polling.
In Florida, for example, Romney is outspending Obama by $1.2 million this week while Obama had spent $650,000 more last week.
The following list compares the advertising spending on television for the week of Oct. 8th compared with the spending for the week of Oct. 1. The figures include all spending by and on behalf of the candidate, whether from his own campaign committee, the national party or an outside PAC or independent expenditure:
–Romney – $6,530,661 ($3,504,993 previous)
–Obama – $5,323,353 ($4,147,140 previous)
–Romney – $4,381,999 ($4,403,999 previous)
–Obama – $3,861,100 ($4,286,664 previous)
–Romney – $5,093,574 ($3,937,296 previous)
–Obama – $4,377,565 ($4,599,713 previous)
–Romney – $2,387,209 ($979,094 previous)
–Obama – $1,628,946 ($1,710,591 previous)
–Romney – $2,513,668 ($1,248,731 previous)
–Obama – $1,429,518 ($1,544,132 previous)
–Romney – $1,464,319 ($709,931 previous)
–Obama – $853,024 ($897,540 previous)
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The realities facing the new administration have taken over the media headlines, but for one magical day—Tuesday, January 20—North Central College celebrated the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama along with the rest of the world.
On campus, gatherings were held in several locations, including Meiley-Swallow Hall where students, staff and faculty filled the Thrust Theatre and watched the wall-size projection screen with cheers, clapping and standing ovations. Afterward, a faculty panel, along with President Hal Wilde, shared their insights about the historic occasion. "On this day in history, we changed what it means to be an American," said Ann Durkin Keating, Dr. C. Frederick Toenniges Professor of History.
"At last we have a president who believes in the power of words," said Jennifer Jackson, professor of English. Added Stephen Maynard Caliendo, associate professor of political science, "Today is truly a new day—race is not a barrier to the country's highest office."
Several people with ties to the College were able to witness the inaugural events firsthand. Trustee Esther Benjamin '90 joined in the festivities, including the Mid-Atlantic Ball, after serving on a 10-member presidential transition team for global development. The team made recommendations on topics like foreign policy, economic development, education and financial assistance related to developing countries.
Other trustees on hand for inauguration events included Pat Pulido Sanchez, Holly Humphrey '79 and Robert Wislow '67, who also shared the presidential train ride to Washington, D.C.
Andrea Ayres '07 attended the inauguration as a former Obama campaign field organizer based in Jefferson County, CO. "As I stood next to fellow campaign staffers on the frozen hill of the U.S. Capitol, I couldn't help but look around in awe," she said. "Thinking about the past year and a half, I know how truly blessed I am to have worked on a political campaign that has rewritten the political paradigm. It wasn't hyperbole, everyone who worked on this campaign knew this was so much bigger than themselves."
Witnessing the event in person "was so much better than on television," said Julie Saflarski '10, who was attending a leadership conference in Washington, D.C. "At times the cheers were so loud I thought I'd go deaf."
Scott Gabbert, associate director of undergraduate advising, scored tickets for the inauguration from his Congressional office after he made a request last October. "Looking at the Capitol and hearing the actual inauguration going on, it was hard to put it into words," said Gabbert, who drove to the nation's capital, with his wife, Jill. "It was hard to take it all in."
It took more than five hours for Renard Jackson, assistant professor of education, to clear security and find his seat that morning. "When Obama raised his hand to take the oath, the most amazing hush fell over the crowd," he says. "We knew we were about to witness something amazing and it was worth the price of standing in line."
North Central NOW Winter 2009


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Casshern Sins
The Woman of the Tall Tower
Episode 7 | TV-MA
Lizbell is obsessed with building a giant bell to remind the world that beauty still exists. She scavenges parts from decaying robots, and Casshern's pristine body could be the final piece of the puzzle.
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Taking photos and pictures on phones has become a common occurrence in the past few years, so it's only natural that people also edit their photos right on their phones, wherever they might be, either to make them better or to just play around with the photos and images. The Android Market (aka Google Play as they now call it) is full of photo editing apps, some great, some nice, and some not worth mentioning. This roundup covers a few of the photo editing apps available for Android that we think are good and worth trying out. So continue reading to find out about them.
BeFunky Photo Editor
Available online for quite a while before coming to Android, BeFunky features more than 20 different effects (50 in Pro version) that can be applied to your photos and pictures. Each effect contains a thumbnail of the image with the specific effect applied, at the bottom of the page, so you can find out how an image would look with each effect without actually having to apply it before getting the preview. Photo frames can also be applied, along with basic editing features such as crop and rotate, changing brightness settings and more. Saving the photos and sharing them is possible through any sharing app installed on your phone.
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FX Photo Editor
FX Photo Editor has a total of 110 different effects that you can apply to your photos and images, with 10 preset themes available. The opacity in every effect can be changed in real-time, and multiple effects can be combined and applied to a single image. Your favorite effects can be added to the Favorites list for easier access. The Time Matrix feature allows you to express a particular time's atmosphere in a photo by selecting the year and then applying corresponding effects. Other features include texturing, vignetting, professional tools like histogram, B&W curve, and lots more.
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Pixlr-o-matic, developed by famous CAD design company Autodesk Inc. is one of the easiest to use, with a lot of different effects available in the app, along with additional ones that can be downloaded from an inbuilt store. The Randomizer feature lets you apply random effects to your photos and images with a single click. Lighting effects let you add drama, spark, grunge, burn, scratches and other looks to the images, along with color overlays that let you adjust the mood of the images. Images can be saved in the original resolution then shared through any sharing app installed on your phone like Facebook, email, etc.
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PicsArt – Photo Studio
PicsArt comes with PicsIn network support, through which you can view and download photos and images uploaded by users of the PicsIn network. Along with a lot of effects and filters like Stenciler, Cartoonizer, Sketcher that can be applied to the images, PicsArt contains quite a few other useful features. The Draw feature lets you draw things using the touchscreen, either on blank images or on existing saved images, while the Collage function gives you the option to make collages of different images. Sharing of images is possible both through apps installed on your phone, as well as uploading to the PicsIn network.
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PicSay – Photo Editor
PicSay Photo Editor is an award-winning photo editor app that lets you edit your photos and images with a plethora of effects and filters like Vignette, faux HDR, Tilt-shift, Pencil Sketch. Color adjustments, editing options like cropping and resizing, fixing red-eye and lots more are available. You can add different stickers to the images, like word balloons with editable text, titles, hairstyles, shapes, and lot of others available online through the app. Edited pictures can be set as wallpaper or shared through any sharing app on your phone.
[button link="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shinycore.picsayfree" icon="arrow" style=""]Download PicSay Photo Editor[/button][button link="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shinycore.picsaypro" icon="arrow" style=""]PicSay Pro Photo Editor $3.99[/button]
Lightbox Photos
Lightbox Photos lets you apply effects to your photos and images and share them on Facebook, Twitter, and the Lightbox.com network, which you can register on to share your photos as well as view photos uploaded by other Lightbox users. Geotagging photos, setting their privacy and simultaneously posting to Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr and Flickr is possible. You can use other installed camera apps such as PicsArt to take photos and then edit them within Lightbox. Saved images can be posted on your personal photo blog on Lightbox.com
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Pho.to Lab
Pho.to Lab features around 450 different effects available for applying to your photos and images, with all the effects divided into different categories. Photo montages can be created with automatic face detection, letting you change the faces in images in different ways. Animated cartoon effects and photo filters like Neon Glow, Fire, HDR, etc. can be applied. Collages can also be made by adding different images to a single image. Text can be added to images and then saved as contact icons or wallpapers, and also shared through sharing apps like Facebook and Twitter.
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PhotoFancie Lite
PhotoFancie Lite lets you add multiple images to a single image, then lets you edit each image in a single screen. Different properties of each image can be changed, like the layout, orientation, zoom levels, backgrounds and more. Using the Free style, you can move the images around in position, along with letting you edit them, while the Grid style puts all selected images on the screen in equal proportions. Saved images can be shared on social networks and other sharing apps on the phone.
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Super Photo
Super Photo is unique in the way that it lets you apply different effects to different parts of a single photo or image. By letting you paint an area of the image using the touchscreen, Super Photo applies the effect of your choice to the painted area of the image, as well as applying an effect to the remaining part of the image. Effects can be applied to the whole image at once as well. A total of 663 effects from different categories such as frames, colors, 3D can be selected and combined together. Saved images can be shared through any available sharing app on the phone.
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photo editor
photo editor, developed by Sony Digital Network Applications, Inc., gives you more than 40 high quality effects like sepia, oil painting, mosaic to apply to your photos and images, along with frames, stickers, etc. Common editing commands such as delete, undo, or redo appear on the screen for faster access. The size-change function lets you change the size of the image to your liking, up to a maximum of 1280×720. Unfortunately, photo editor is currently only compatible with a few phones, a list of which can be obtained here.
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Photo Wonder
Photo Wonder lets you apply some cool effects, filters and frames to your photos. Functions such as enlarging eyes, better skin, ant-acne let you edit portrait photos of people's faces to beautify them. Cropping, sharpening and other editing features are included, along with the ability to create collage images of up to 9 images at once. The Review option lets you review all previously edited photos with a single click. Saved photos and images can be shared on social networks by logging on to them right from the app itself, and through other sharing apps on the phone.
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Photo Grid
Photo Grid, as the name suggests, lets you make a collage of different photos and images in a single image by dividing the images into grids, with each grid editable individually. The layout of the images in the collage can be changed by a shake of the phone. Grids can be automatic or can be made manually by moving and placing the images around the screen. The High and Wide layout options let you make put your photos either in a list or row arrangement. Of course, single images can be edited as well, along with the possibility to share edited photos.
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Paintle gives you over 250+ effects to play around with, in addition to stickers and backgrounds. All the possible tools are shown on the screen at all times, so it's fast and easy to access different options without going through too many menus. One of its important features is that it gives you the option to rotate your photos and images freely, instead of the usual 90° steps found in other image editing apps. Saving, sharing and setting saved images as wallpaper is possible after you're done playing with the images.
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Aviary Photo Editor (Plugin)
Aviary is a photo editing plugin that needs to be run by selecting the share option on images in any other image app, then selecting Aviary to be able edit them with it. Features like manual and preset crop options, whitening and applying blemishes on images, along with the general slew of editing options like brightness, saturation, rotation are included. The number of effects included are too less though and hence puts the app at the bottom of the list.
[button link="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aviary.android.feather" icon="arrow" style=""]Download Aviary Photo Editor Plugin[/button]
And here we come to the end of our roundup of photo editing apps on the Android Market aka Google Play. Those are some of the apps that we think are some of the best available, but of course, there are quite a few more out there. If there's an app that you think we missed and deserves mention, let us know in the comments below. Good hunting, er, photo editing!


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Neutral Milk Hotel headlining Next@Wex
The Columbus Dispatch - February 04, 2014 04:31 PM
The Wexner Center for the Arts announced today that Neutral Milk Hotel will headline its annual Next@Wex Fest, which this year hits the LC Outdoor Pavilion on July 20.
Frontman Jeff Mangum last performed in Columbus in January 2013, when a sold-out crowd of enthusiastic fans filled the Southern Theater.
Tickets for Next@Wex Fest 2014, also featuring Circulatory System and Connections, go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 6 for Wexner Center members and at noon on Feb. 7 for the general public. Tickets are likely to sell out quickly.


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Surgery, no matter how minor, is a scary thing. You have to put yourself entirely at the mercy of total strangers as they cut open your unconscious body and shove their hands into it, trusting that their medical license is some kind of magic talisman that keeps them from doing anything terrible to you while they're poking around in there. Most of the time, everything turns out OK and our fears were all for naught. But every once in a while, a person wakes up from a fairly routine surgical procedure with a stomach stitched full of medical supplies, missing a chunk from their face, or taking dumps out of their freaking wieners.
So let's start with that last one ...
6 Surgery Causes Man to Start Pooping and Farting Through His Penis
We're very sorry we had to type that headline.
Delaware resident Joseph Swain had already been through enough by the time he underwent surgery for a reverse colostomy. He was recovering from diverticulitis, a condition wherein a hole forms in the side of your colon because of some cruel injustice you inflicted on a warlock in a past life. Part of his colon had to be removed, which called for the initial colostomy, a procedure in which your poops get delivered into a charming bag to the delight of your friends and family. The reverse colostomy was meant to reattach Swain's healed colon to his anus. Unfortunately, the doctors accidentally stapled his colon to his bladder.
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"I told you we should've taken a left turn at Albuquerque."
The results were exactly what you think they were -- Swain began passing fecal matter and feculent gas through his urethra. That's right -- Swain was pooping and ripping farts out of his dickhole. In addition to the agonizing torture of squeezing diarrhea through his wang, Swain was at a tremendous risk of serious infection, as well as losing all belief in the existence of a just and benevolent Creator.
We're pretty sure God gives you a pass in that situation.
Swain had to suffer through two weeks of boiling dickfarts before the mishap was corrected. Once his bodily functions were back to normal, Swain filed a lawsuit against the doctors who performed the reverse colostomy. The doctors maintain that the mishap wasn't their fault, insisting that Swain's terrible ordeal was an unfortunate result of his condition, although we hasten to note that "your colon may staple itself to your bladder" is not one of the documented symptoms of diverticulitis.
5 Surgeons Leave 16 Items in a Man's Body
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Seventy-four-year-old Dirk Schroeder went into a hospital in Germany to undergo surgery to treat his prostate cancer, which is surprising, because we assumed that all buildings in Germany were terrifying old castles made of chocolate. Everything seemed to go well at first, but for the next several months, Schroeder's pain level gradually intensified to an excruciating degree, which is the opposite of what was supposed to happen. Then one of his nurses noticed a pad of gauze beginning to ooze its way out of one of his surgery wounds. So Schroeder was sent back to the Bavarian Medical Palace, where it was soon discovered that his doctors had left no less than 16 different items in his body, as if they had confused his vivisected torso for the floor of a taxicab.
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"Open him back up; I need somewhere to spit out my gum."
The treasure trove of medical waste left inside Schroeder's body for no conceivable reason included an entire roll of bandages, a compress, several more gauze pads, a fucking needle, and part of a surgical mask, because why the hell not? Evidently the doctors expected Schroeder to die right then and there and were doing their best to turn his body into a time capsule.
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"Heartbeat? No, I'm listening for ticking. I lost my watch a week ago and I've looked everywhere else."
It took two additional surgeries to remove all the bullshit they had dropped inside the elderly man's body, putting a whole lot of totally unnecessary strain on a man in his 70s dying of prostate cancer. However, without a doubt the most beautiful detail of this story is the fact that the negligent surgeons refused to apologize or even acknowledge that they had done anything wrong. They went so far as to suggest that the items probably got inside his torso after the surgery, although they knew better than to try to concoct a specific scenario in which more than a dozen items directly related to surgery could've osmosed their way through his skin.
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"Looks like you managed to wedge my keys into your esophagus."
Schroeder sadly succumbed to cancer a few years later, but his family is currently suing the hospital that turned him into a medical waste pinata for $127,000, roughly $8,000 per item that the doctors left inside Schroeder's body and later claimed he crammed in there himself.


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Not big enough
Championship licensing
Posted 20 July 2010 - 11:31 AM
Not big enough
Posted 20 July 2010 - 12:26 PM
Why not give them 3 years in SL to sort it out then? Better that then leaving clubs in there who have already had their 3 years.
In fact I think any club who has managed to win through to SL on the pitch should be given a 3 year stay of execution to sort it out
Posted 20 July 2010 - 12:30 PM
Posted 20 July 2010 - 03:10 PM
Barrow would never have gone up, they'd fail ground criteria.
I think you are being deliberately evasive bowes. How is it any different whether a side goes in to administration on promotion or trying to win a tick in a box to try to get the chance to apply for a SL franchise?
Administration is the same surely no matter what the circumstances that cuased it. Clubs in the top half of the Championship are all chasing the dream of getting a tick so that they can apply for licence, not guaranteed promotion. That tick only lasts for the 3 year period that they are in for licences and then they have to try all over again. That to me is more destructive to clubs financially than the old P & R system.
I remember when .............................
"It is impossible not to feel a twinge of sympathy for Workington Town, the fall guys this season for the Super League's determination to retain it's European dimension, in the shape of Paris. While the French have had every assistance to survive, the importance of having a flagship in a heartland area like West Cumbria has been conveniently forgotten." - Dave Hadfield - Independent 25th August 1996.
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When words hurt: how to keep criticism from undermining your self-esteem
New Chapter Press, Jul 1, 1988 - Psychology - 213 pages
Whether you're on the job, at home, or with a friend, this understanding book will teach you how to minimize the negative effects of criticism and understand how and why it undermines your self-esteem. Learn to take control of your responses to criticism, analyze the motive andintent of your critic, deal with your responses, and much more.
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Amar'e Stoudemire has been working out for weeks, and he could be cleared to practice with the New York Knicks on Tuesday, according to Mike Woodson.
If he resumes practicing with the Knicks, Stoudemire could play in Friday's game against the Chicago Bulls.
Stoudemire, who had knee surgery in October, has yet to play this season but is making progress toward a return.
Amare's cleared to practice, tomorrow he'll be practicing with the Knicks NBDL team Erie BayHawks as the Knicks may not have a full practice. Woodson didn't rule out him playing as soon as this weekend, but won't rush him to return.
Gotta see how the knee holds up after full contact and 30+ mins of play. Usually there is swelling and soreness following play which STAT will have to maintenance for his career.
But Pat did it. Get the ice bags ready.
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Amar'e got thru practice with D-League team. Said his knee is sore, which is expected. Not sure when he will make his season debut.
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Amar'e on a possible 6th man role: "Whatever it takes to win...I'm all about winning."
Amare is a starter, period. Woody knows how to manage the rotation and there is absolutely no reason to play STAT off the bench. IMO "Amare has to play the 6th man" is simply the new "Melo is a selfish player" and "Melo doesn't play defense" BS. In Woody we trust, I believe coach Woodson will figure out how to play Melo, Amare and Tyson at the same time and there is no need to panic nor play our $20M guy off the bench.
Well said bro
Also Amare needs to learn to function with Melo... what if the Knicks run into a team like the grizzlies in the Finals who will have a roster advantage if Melo plays the 4 but lose that if Melo plays the 3? I know, I know, hopeful thinking but still something that should be planned for.
Having said all that, they all should get around 30 minutes each, so either way, they're all going to have to learn together for significant stretches of the game (and presumably at the end of games no matter what). I too, am not that worried - I think they'll be able to work it out - I mean, they STILL have never really had the chance for very long because of injuries going back to last year. I think Woodson will be a big reason why, but I also think having 3 quality point guards will be really key.
I think people are making too much of this being a "problem". No way having an all-star quality scoring big will not significantly help the team overall.
D'Antoni's run into the same problem with Howard and Gasol. Right now he's going to stagger the lineup as much as possible to keep them separate, but of course both being 36 minutes guys, there will be about 12 minutes they'll have to learn to coexist.
I think Melo is so versatile the he will do certain things with Amare on the floor, to keep Amare in the flow. He'll play more all around with Amare off the floor. Not too worried about Amare-Melo as I am about JR's shot reduction/selection when Amare is back. Even Kidd, the thinking is "oh I'm open, but I need to get Amare back in the flow", gun back in holster and looking to pass. this group will be fine, trust in Woody, he's had a season to figure out a system on the court.
STAT says all the right things as always. He seems a little apprehensive, I think. Perhaps he's been keeping an eye on what others are saying about him? If the doubt can't inspire him to bring what's necessary, to make his flaws his strengths and become the rebounder and team defender that this team needs, then is he a lost cause?
Like it or not once the results are in, we're stuck with him.
I don't see what the problem is.Woodson has said he expects the Anthony-Stoudemire dynamic to work, pointing to the Knicks' 8-2 record with them in the starting lineup since he took over as coach last March.
Only us Knick fans can find a way to complain about adding an all-star to the line up.smh
If there's any reason we think they can't co-exist together, it's because for a series of time we had that dumbass Pringles man as coach, who had no idea how to adjust his system to any damn person ever, instead forcing superstars with elite skillsets to adjust to his system which has never even won a championship and hell has never been effective without a future HOF point guard running it.
The key thing here to remember is that Woody isn't really using his own offensive sets, he's using D'Antoni's, he's just found a way to integrate Carmelo into them. If he can find a way to make Carmelo effective in an offense centered around the pick and roll, then he can find a way to make Amar'e effective in that offense too, especially cause there are few PFs in the league better in the pick and roll than Amar'e Stoudemire.


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A php button above the edit area would be nice.
There are a few phpbb mods that do this and it makes everything way more readable, plus a lot of people don't realise you can do [code=php]
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function multiply($var) {
if (is_numeric($var)) {
for ($i = 1; $i <= $var; $i++) {
$value[$i] = $i * $val;
} else {
$value = 0;
return $value;
$array = multiply($var);
foreach($array as $key => $value) {
echo "$key X's $val = $value<br/>";
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egami wrote:cool.
yup its a nice feature. But you see the problem that not many people know about it
Another forum that I am a member of has buttons for the popular code types.
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Was looking around to see if there was an option to create numeric lines as well, but came up like a man with a vasectomy..
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There are mods that add better highlighting, it seems that there are no admins here ?
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Not really.. if you email them they tend to respond, but from what I can tell they don't actively participate.
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Automatically adds an easy access button toolbar above the post textarea to allow quick tags in BBcode. This is an enhanced replacement for the Comment Quicktags plugin. No template editing required.
Requires the BBcode-Lite plugin (or some other kind of BBcode support).
Some buttons will only appear if the tag is supported (ie. img, center)
Smilie support coming eventually.
Requires the BBcode-Lite plugin (or some other kind of BBcode support).
Some buttons will only appear if the tag is supported (ie. img, center)
Smilie support coming eventually.
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