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On a consolidated basis, net revenues for the first quarter totaled 6.52 trillion yen, an increase of 15.7 percent compared to the same period last fiscal year. Operating income increased 31.8 percent to 675.4 billion yen, while income before income taxes, minority interest and equity in earnings of affiliated companies was 739.0 billion yen. Net income increased by 32.3 percent to 491.5 billion yen.
Positive contributions to operating income totaled 220.0 billion yen, consisting of 100.0 billion yen from marketing efforts, 100.0 billion yen from changes in foreign exchange rates and 20.0 billion yen from cost reduction efforts. Negative factors totaled 57.0 billion yen.
Commenting on the results, Takeshi Suzuki, TMC Senior Managing Director, said, "We posted substantial increases in both revenues and profits, our highest ever quarterly results. Operating income showed a steep increase of 163.0 billion yen compared with the first quarter of the previous fiscal year, due to improved marketing efforts, including higher sales volume and improvement in the product mix, and cost reduction efforts which offset higher raw material costs."
Consolidated vehicle sales for the first quarter amounted to 2.16 million units, an increase of 71 thousand units compared with the same period last fiscal year.
In Japan, vehicle sales decreased by 43 thousand units, to 500 thousand vehicles. Operating income increased significantly by 103.6 billion yen to 396.6 billion yen, due to an improvement in the product mix, including strong sales of the Lexus LS series, boosted by the introduction of the hybrid model in May 2007, as well as an increase in domestic production to meet brisk overseas demand.
Vehicle sales in North America totaled 762 thousand units, an increase of 15 thousand units.Operating income increased by 20.1 billion yen, to 160.2 billion yen. The successful launch of new models such as the Tundra and the Lexus LS, and strong sales of models with high fuel efficiency like Prius contributed to the results.
In Europe, sales increased by 25 thousand vehicles, to 333 thousand vehicles. Operating income increased by 2.0 billion yen, to 38.5 billion yen, due to the successful launch of the Auris earlier this year, and continued steady sales of the Yaris and the Aygo.
Sales in Asia increased by 29 thousand vehicles to 222 thousand vehicles. Sales volume is steadily increasing, mainly in Indonesia, and the South East Asian market in general showed signs of continuing recovery. As a result, operating income in the region increased by 19.6 billion yen, to 49.6 billion yen. Our consolidated subsidiaries in China also contributed to the increase.
In the other regions including Africa, Oceania and South and Central America, sales reached 345 thousand vehicles, an increase of 45 thousand units. Operating income totaled 38.6 billion yen, a considerable increase of 22.7 billion yen.
TMC estimates that the projected consolidated vehicle sales for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2008 will be 8.89 million units, which is unchanged from TMC's initial forecast announced in May 2007. The company's consolidated revenues and earnings forecast for the fiscal year also remains unchanged, with consolidated net revenues of 25.0 trillion yen, operating income of 2.25 trillion yen and net income of 1.65 trillion yen.
(Please see attached information for details on financial results. Further information is also available on the Internet at www.toyota.co.jp)
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This release contains forward-looking statements that reflect Toyota's plans and expectations. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause Toyota's actual results, performance, achievements or financial position to be materially different from any future results, performance, achievements or financial position expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors include: (i) changes in economic conditions and market demand affecting, and the competitive environment in, the automotive markets in Japan, North America, Europe and other markets in which Toyota operates; (ii) fluctuations in currency exchange rates, particularly with respect to the value of the Japanese yen, the U.S. dollar, the euro, the Australian dollar and the British pound; (iii) Toyota's ability to realize production efficiencies and to implement capital expenditures at the levels and times planned by management; (iv) changes in the laws, regulations and government policies in the markets in which Toyota operates that affect its automotive operations, particularly laws, regulations and government policies relating to trade, environmental protection, vehicle emissions, vehicle fuel economy and vehicle safety, as well as changes in laws, regulations and government policies that affect Toyota's other operations, including the outcome of future litigation and other legal proceedings; (v) political instability in the markets in which Toyota operates; (vi) Toyota's ability to timely develop and achieve market acceptance of new products; and (vii) fuel shortages or interruptions in transportation systems, labor strikes, work stoppages or other interruptions to, or difficulties in, the employment of labor in the major markets where Toyota purchases materials, components and supplies for the production of its products or where its products are produced, distributed or sold. A discussion of these and other factors which may affect Toyota's actual results, performance, achievements or financial position is contained in Toyotas annual report on Form 20-F, which is on file with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.


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PISTORIUS Jan Ferdinand (*1. 7. 1899 Pilsen) Dalmatian port Oil on cardboard, 31 x 50 cm, framed, undated, signed lower right. Czech landscape and portrait painter, pupil of F. Engelmüller.
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From merlot to mulch, artwork to advertising, fishing charters to fine jewelry, the 16th annual Northern Neck Family YMCA's Festival of the Trees has something for everyone on your holiday list.
From left, Festival of the Trees volunteers Lisa Shivers, Michelle Ritter, Lisa Valdrighi, Liz Allen and Sarah Pittman display some of the auction items.
The festival will open with a Lighting of the Trees cocktail Party Friday, December 6, and continue through Sunday, December 8, at the YMCA facilities, 39 William B. Graham Court, Kilmarnock.
Get ready for Christmas and help the community by attending the festival and bidding on items donated by local merchants, artists and craftsmen, said YMCA executive Mark Favazza.
"The array of available goods and experiences is truly astonishing," said Favazza. "You can bid on everything from paddleboard lessons to oysters and shrimp, holiday decorations, spa services, and even school tuition. And that is just a small sample of what's available."
The festival benefits the Guardian Program, which provides crucial services, ranging from preschool programs to senior activities, to the citizens of Lancaster and surrounding counties, he said.
Schedule of activities
Friday, December 6, 6 p.m. Lighting of the Trees cocktail party and silent auction begins. By reservation and ticket, the party features food from area restaurants and a variety of affordable gifts and opportunities. Live auction items available this night only. Childcare is available for a nominal fee at the Wiley Child Development Center. 458 Harris Drive, Kilmarnock. Tickets for Friday night are available from the YMCA.
Saturday, December 7, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Exhibit hall opens to the public with music and silent auction items.
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|By Neobez (Neobez) on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 01:48 pm: Edit
|By Over30 (Over30) on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 01:50 pm: Edit
Yes. Some people will tell you to avoid this because it's exhausting, but my son didn't have a problem with it. If you're taking writing, you'll do that first, then can chose which ones to do next.
|By Neobez (Neobez) on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 01:51 pm: Edit
k thank you. I'm taking the SAT I for the second time in October, then SAT IIs in November. . .December will be my back up for either one which I do poorly on.
|By Skiowad (Skiowad) on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 02:07 pm: Edit
Each test is one-hour long. That adds up to ...three hours (it took me a while). This is the same as taking an SAT I. However, the breaks are a little different, I think. I've never taken any SAT II's.
|By Jer728 (Jer728) on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 02:10 pm: Edit
I just did it last weekend and it was no problem at all for me. If I remember correctly, the break between the 1st and 2nd tests was like 10 minutes while I think the break between the 2nd and 3rd was only one 1 minute. Many people only come for one or two tests, so by the time the third one rolls around there are usually only a few people left.
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My daughter took three SAT IIs last Saturday, and asked me to post that it was not hard at all to take three on the same day.
She was warned by others here not to do so, but felt it wouldn't be a problem, and was correct.
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Baked Zucchini Casserole
1-1/2 lb zucchini
1-1/2 cups fresh bread crumbs
3/4 cup cheddar cheese, grated
1/4 cup minced onion
2 tablespoons parsley
2 tablespoons butter
1-1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
2 eggs, beaten
Slice zucchini; cook in salt water for 5-7 minutes. Drain and add rest of ingredients, except butter and ¼ cup cheese. Place in 2-quart casserole dish. Dot with butter; sprinkle with cheese and bake uncovered for 30 minutes at 350 degrees or until browned on top.


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Nic Cage is in a 'RAGE'
Nicolas Cage is back to his famous tantrums and 'Cage-isms' in his new film, 'RAGE' (RLJ Entertainment) (originally known as 'Tokarev' but the name was changed); an action-suspense thriller about a reformed criminal (Paul McGuire); with a dark secret. He used to be a gangster who killed a man when he was 17 who he got into an altercation with years ago.
After Paul departs for a night out with his wife; (Rachel Nichols) and leaving the daughter in the house alone with two boys; Pete the detective (Danny Glover) tells Paul the bad news about his daughter missing. Paul recruits his old crew members to seek his own brand of justice after his daughter, Caitlin is originally thought to be kidnapped and killed by the Russian mob, but it turns out her death was ruled as accidental. I originally thought it was a carbon copy of Nic's film, 'Stolen' but it's a slightly different plot with a twist. It's currently available On Demand which is how I viewed the movie and will be released in theaters on July 11. It also co-stars Peter Stormare.
The film was directed by Paco Cabezas, written by James Agnew and Sean Keller and produced by Richard Rionda Del Castro and Michael Mendelsohn. It was shot on-location in Mobile, AL. in the scorching hot summer heat of 2013. It features footage around the area promoting the town that no one has ever heard of until now. It shows the skyline, the cemetery and the downtown streets during the car chase scenes; which I found the most exciting believe it or not! Does this mean that Mobile, AL is the new Hollywood or a new tourist attraction?
It seems like it was a low-budget film made for TV instead of cinema and the editing was rushed and needs improvement. I credit the cast and crew for all their hard work and efforts filming in that excessive heat as they did a fantastic job creating the production; especially with the car chase scene and blowing up real police cars but the movie is not on my A-list. I'm not one to sugarcoat I tell it like it is!
I have no clue how Nic chooses his screenplays, but even though this movie wasn't his best film; he's really powerful in this flick with his famous rants. He shows real, raw emotion and energy in the violence scenes and that's what he's known for in his films. I admit I really like him. He's a really talented actor and looks good in this film. He just needs to pick better scripts. As the film's slogan clearly states, 'The Past Never Stays Dead' neither will this film; it will just go straight to DVD and On Demand!
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The Most Effective Form of Birth Control
Would you guess that it's the pill? The patch? Sorry, try again. Despite the popularity of the pill and its hormonal cousins the patch and the ring, a recent study found that those who relied on an intrauterine device, or IUD, as their birth control method were 20 times less likely to become pregnant. The primary reason is because the IUD leaves no room for user error; while the pill and the patch require perfect compliance in order to be effective. Women may forget to take the pill every day or neglect to put the patch on. With the IUD, patients don't have to worry. IUDs are small, T-shaped pieces of plastic or copper inserted into the uterus and can prevent pregnancy for up to 10 years. It's a bit more invasive than simply swallowing a pill—requiring a doctor to insert or remove it—but it's almost foolproof.
Article by Corrie Pelc and Janet Scherr © Family Health & Wellness Magazine published by Style Media Group.
Article appears in the January/February 2013 Issue of Family Health & Wellness Magazine.


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The International Math Olympiad has begun in Madrid. For those interested here is a link with a little info:
The Competition Begins
Also, MathFest begins in Madison, Wis. at the end of the month. Is anyone going?.
I think Russia is the only team to get 6 gold medals.
However, IMO is scored on collective scores (as opposed to the real Olympics which are measured by gold medals first).
Therefore, China wins this year with 5 gold and 1 silver. (Last year it was Russia, I was hoping for Russia to win again this year).
Congratulations to China!


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|[Graded]Little Monsters of Mayhem; Tenken
|Topic Started: Dec 8 2011, 01:51 PM (1,545 Views)
|栄 Snow
|Dec 8 2011, 01:51 PM Post #1
Dark Lorde of the Sith
(OOC: I remember you had another name and all I could remember was it was Little Monsters or something :P Low muse kind of?)
Arc Link
Axel wandered into Onibas Town, he had never been here before and had a certain curiosity towards it. Apparently it was the place of merchants, you could find anything here which would prove rewarding for him that is if he could find what he was looking for. He wandered down the streets, as usual he received some strange looks which then provided the questions; "Is it my eyes or hair?" or "Do people not think a boy my age should be wandering alone?" Those two questions crossed Axels mind every time he received a strange look from a passerby and if it wasn't one of those questions then he didn't know what else it could be, well it more or less depending on who the look was from. Axel soon found himself on 'the' street, Lotus Street apparently it was where the dealers where and apparently the place where you could find anything.
Axel walked along the street, Jack appeared walking behind him. Jack turned his head around and around, literally around and around, as he scanned the many people that crowded the street, he pondered at the many street shops that had been set up by the many dealers that either sat down on a rug or shouted to look at their wares. Axel walked along, he had already been approached by several dealers whilst Jack simply used his very adjustable body to look over and around the shops. He would often snicker, although at what at Axel had no idea, he gave a shrug as Jack would say something but what he said was something far too long and useless to either understand or to actually respond to.
He soon reached the middle of the street and sighed, was there anyone who could help him?[/url]
|博 Tenken
|Dec 9 2011, 04:21 AM Post #2
Hoennese and proud!
[[OOC: My title idea was Delightful Little Monsters but we can call the sequel that :P
...or we can turn this into an arc o.O]]
It was a funny thing that Eric Bashere also found himself, an alone child in Ghost Lotus Street in Onibas Town on this fine day, and he too was receiving odd looks as being a child alone as much as for the large black snake that was wrapped around his neck and was peering around, looking for something interesting to buy.
OK, not so much odd looks as exclamations of terror.
"What about thossse onesss?" Jessica hissed in Eric's ear, looking around and spotting some bright lamps -yes, lamps- that she rather liked, "I think thosssse onessss would look great in the lounge."
"You sound like a wife," the young teenager complained irritably, "And we're not here to buy &%^$ing lamps! I'm just here to see what there might be that will help, you know, magically, and that does not include household supplies for the last time!"
"Fine," she hissed irritably as they entered the middle area of the "street" that had a few cafes on either side, "Whatever, let'ssss just look for your sssstupid magic itemssss then."
As he entered a cafe and bought a small hot chocolate, Eric sighed again at the weird looks he was getting from people, especially adults, due to Jessica's presence. He knew it was odd for him to have a snake, he was more than well aware that snakes were usually deadly and yes, he also knew that Jessica's species was reknowned for it's venom.
He wasn't an idiot.
Still as he walked back out onto the street and finally spotted someone with some magical-looking curios he realised how visceral people were against him having a snake, the store owner loudly telling him to stay away and that he didn't want any trouble. Sighing, since he knew it'd be fruitless to argue, Eric turned and walked away, passing another boy about his age -or maybe a bit younger he didn't care or know- he began to ruminate quietly to himself, shaking his head as he was already ostracised and wishing his snake had just acted like a scarf.
Like usual.
|栄 Snow
|Dec 9 2011, 07:51 AM Post #3
Dark Lorde of the Sith
[OOC: Hmm an Arc is rather possible, though I can't remember how many Arcs a character can be in XD.]
Axel turned his head to the left and then to the right as he continued to walk down the street, there wasn't any stall or shop that took his fancy. Well, it wasn't a particular shop nor a particular stall he was looking for it was more the shady character that one tends to find in streets much like this, that one shady character that knew more about anything than just a single look from a passerby. Unfortunately Axel could find no such person, so Onibas Town started to become a little drag but this was his first time here so he may as well let enjoy it ... Problem was, Axels' definition of 'enjoy' changed very much from time to time so how would he 'enjoy' Onibas Town? Walk around, look at the sights? Grab something to eat? Actually eating sounded like a good plan at the time, Jack who had appeared out of Axels head bent down and looked at him so he was viewing Axels face upside down and vice versa. "Wondering what to do are we? Why not -" Jack began but soon stopped, he spotted something or someone. Axel saw the stitched mouth widen before Jack vanished, he had obviously saw someone who was of some interest, however Axel did not know whom.
With a sigh Axel shrugged and walked, it wasn't until another boy passed him did Axel take interest in Jacks strange 'behaviour', if you could call it that. The boy was a little smaller than him, but perhaps around the same age as himself. He seemed to be a rather posh-looking boy as well, but there was something ... Off about him and not meaning that black scarf which was actually a snake - wait a minute. Axel walked behind the boy, a little distance away and looked at the scarf the boy wore around his neck, except it wasn't a staff at all. It was a snake, Axel could see the movements of itself adjust around the boy's neck and shoulders, the slide of its scales and it seemed some of the other people in the town had also noticed it. Axel had become intrigued so much that he was now stooped, leaning over as he tried to look closer at the snake before his curiosity got the better of him and he ended up lightly 'headbutting' the boy in his shoulder, his hair brushing on the snake.
Axel would still be stooped low, his hands in his jean pockets before he would take one out and rub his head slightly, "Eheh ... Sorry 'bout that." Axel would then say.
|博 Tenken
|Dec 10 2011, 01:46 AM Post #4
Hoennese and proud!
[[OOC: Technically as many as you have plot threads available, so 3]]
Eric had finally found a place he had not been yelled at to vacate immediately when a few strange things occured around him. For one he felt a... twinge of some kind in the presence of magic he always carried inside of himself, a predilection that made him a bit curious as to what was nearby. There was something that was reacting with his own inner powers, something that was closer than he expected there to be that would react with him in this place. He ignored it though, he was here to shop for curios and so as he and Jessica perused the wares of a small stand it was the second oddity that took place a moment later when something or someone bumped into his shoulder, staggering him ever-so-slightly in place and making him raise an eyebrow to turn and look at the slightly-taller but possibly-slightly-younger boy who he had noticed earlier. Why had he bumped into him, Eric wondered, was it something to do with him being crazy or just...
Well, at least he apologised and Eric narrowed his eyes slightly, nodding his thanks and analysing the boy in front of him, taking everything about him in and seeing him properly for the first time. He was taller than Eric, a bit over half a foot taller which was fine since Eric hadn't gone through his growth spurt yet, and he was a bit heavier set as well. However he seemed... weaker than Eric, his body didn't look as hard and the way he held himself was a lot less assured in his own strength. That was a normal thing though, Eric hadn't met anyone his age who held themselves the same way as he held himself.
His clothing was rather mundane, pretty commonplace for anyone their age with a casual shirt-jeans combination and he was a bit stooped, probably from bumping into Eric's shoulder which was considerably lower than his head -it had been his head, that was the only part of him hard enough- which was fine but also odd, since why had his head been down there.
"It's no trouble," he said slowly, eyes un-narrowing as he filed away his catalogue of the boy into his mind, "Everyone makes mistakes and runs into people on purpose I'm sure." His face said he was emotionless but his tone was joking, amused, and he turned back to the man in front of him and shook his head, indicating he didn't want anything after all then turned back to this boy, his snake rising up properly and quite openly to stare at him as well.
"I'm Eric," he said with a small half-smile, a curious one that spoke volumes of mystery somehow yet also just said 'hey' at the same time, "And this is Jessica. Do you, uh, live around here or something?"
|栄 Snow
|Dec 11 2011, 12:41 PM Post #5
Dark Lorde of the Sith
Axel returned to his normal posture as the boy he bumped into turned around and regarded him, on closer inspection the boy was somewhat interesting. The boy had 'normal' eyes, two dark blue-ish orbs, normal in comparison to Axels own two red orbs. "It's no trouble," the boy said as he turned around, he spoke it rather slowly and Axel wasn't sure whether it was intentional, whilst he inspected Axel, or he was just being polite, either way the boy was what Axel considered normal, his appearance mostly the only thing not 'normal' was the snake that was wrapped around the boys shoulders like a scarf. "Everyone makes mistakes and runs into people on purpose I'm sure." The boy then said, the black snake shifted slightly as it raised its head and it too began to look at Axel whom bobbed down slightly and looked at the snake, he saw its tongue flicker and his curiosity was intrigued, the snake had raised its head properly as Axel looked at it his finger coming up to his mouth as he pulled his lip slightly. In a sense it was like Axel was drawn to the snake rather than the boy, his curiosity almost made him mishear the boy's name. Eric.
Eric, why was that name familiar? Perhaps Axel would remember later, his eyes blinked a few times as he remembered the boy was still there. He turned his head to look at Eric, "Oh, ... I apologize again I almost ignored you. I am Axel." Axel said a slight laugh, "Geez, you're memory ... Tut tut. He also asked if you lived here." Jack said as his head popped out of Axels' chest, his neck was slightly visible as his head bent up to look at Axel whom looked down, "Thank you Jack." Axel said as he looked back up at Eric, "No, I don't live around here. I am just passing through, I heard this town was where you can find anything, but perhaps you cannot find everything." Axel continued his voice changing to a rather 'given-up' like tone towards the end, by this point he was well aware that Eric would regard the little talking to himself a little strange but Axel didn't really care. Axel gave a smile as he looked down at the snake, "Hello Jessica" Axel then said to the snake as he gave a small wave and a smile.
"Do you just choose what you hear or do you just ignore everything?" Jack said as he materialized behind Eric and began to use his very flexible body to begin to look at Eric and inspect him, even passing through his body at some points as if he were scanning his organs. Axel gave a roll of his eyes as he looked back at Eric, "So what about you Eric? Do you live around here?" Axel then asked, his left eyebrow raised slightly.
|博 Tenken
|Dec 16 2011, 05:35 PM Post #6
Hoennese and proud!
"Do I look like I live around here?" Eric chuckled back, "And did I word it that way? It was my mistake if I did I thought I made it clear that I'm not from here either." Now he wasn't sure if this other kid just wasn't quick on the uptake or was simply cautious for his own sake but Eric didn't really care. Either was amusing, and either didn't matter, for the other boy was taking a very unwholesome interest in Jess and the snake was, for the moment curious. There was a taste to the air about him, something Jessica wasn't sure about and she flickered her tongue at him a few times before shaking her head slightly then turning back to Eric, her eyes unreadable to any but Eric who smirked after he saw her gaze.
"Just passing through huh," he said, that unreadable smile on his face now too, "Well do you have anywhere interesting that you've noticed so far? I've only been in town about a day now and I just slept most of yesterday due to having travelled through the night so I'm looking for something to do."
He was telling the partial truth, he had in fact gotten into the city the day earlier but he hadn't slept that night, he'd spent it exploring Onibas Town, specifically the fringes around the main street that everyone came to this town to see. Eric had not come for that, he had come for a reason and had spent that night hunting that reason.
A traitor to his Guild.
He had tracked the woman here, a woman who had sold Guild secrets from Grimoire Heart to a man from Tartaros and a man from Raven Tail, men Eric had killed on his way to track down this woman. She had to know she was being hunted, and by whom and he had evidence that she knew the men she'd sold too were dead, but none of that mattered. She was out of places to run, other hunters had been sent in to make sure the kill was secured and Eric had been sent in to be the ferret to flush out the hare. And flush out he would, as soon as he found her she would drown in a torrent of magical water the likes of which she, as a fire mage, would have no way to survive.
Ah, but a focus was needed on the present, a focus on this boy his own age who had taken an interest in Eric's companion. It wasn't unheard of, a lot of kids and people around his own age found Jessica fascinating, Eric himself among them, but something about this one seemed more... curious. Watching the boy's reactions to the snake, who was now looking him in the eyes again, Eric smiled bemusedly at what he was seeing.
Jessica was even more intrigued, every time she looked away she found herself drawn back to him, or at least not him exactly but something near him, something around him - something else had a smell she couldn't place and since she couldn't place it mentally and she was having trouble placing it lexiconically or geographically she would have to focus on him until she did. She hated an unsolved riddle after all.
"Heck," Eric said after a moment, amusement clear on his face, "If you know anywhere good to eat that'd help too - I'm starving. Want to join us? It's nice to see a friendly face, even if you are a stranger and if you're a little strapped I can pay, I have more than enough."
|栄 Snow
|Dec 20 2011, 01:34 PM Post #7
Dark Lorde of the Sith
"Do I look like I live around here?" Eric said with a chuckle, "And did I word it that way? It was my mistake if I did I thought I made it clear that I'm not from here either." Axel watched as Eric looked at Jessica who seemed to give him a look in return, "Just passing through huh," Eric continued with a smile, "Well do you have anywhere interesting that you've noticed so far? I've only been in town about a day now and I just slept most of yesterday due to having travelled through the night so I'm looking for something to do." The boy asked, "Afraid not, in fact I'm looking for somewhere interesting or perhaps a place to get information..." Axel said as he trailed off towards the end, his eyes now looking at Eric. Who seemed to be rather curious with him, although maybe he was just very protective of the snake Jessica as Axel had been preoccupied by it and had been paying it more attention than Jessica, "Say, does Jessica speak? Like we do? Just I met this snake guy some time ago and his snake could actually speak a little, although it was broken English." Axel asked Eric although it was also to Jessica as he looked down and smiled at the snake before he returned his attention back to Eric.
"Heck," Eric began to say and Axel raised an eyebrow at the boys sudden amusing face, "If you know anywhere good to eat that'd help too - I'm starving. Want to join us? It's nice to see a friendly face, even if you are a stranger and if you're a little strapped I can pay, I have more than enough." Eric then said and food did seem very appealing, Jack however soon appeared. "You gonna trust this kid? Come on just turn Feral, kill some people you know you want to, hell you wont even remember!" The skeleton said, Axel shook his head, although it would look weird since to Eric it would seem as if he was saying no to him, but then Axel spoke, "I haven't seen anyway to eat really, but I think there's some sort of cafe or restaurant just down the street that I've heard from people here and its supposed to be the best in town. Only one way to find out really." Axel said a small laugh as he pointed past Eric to a shop on the left corner of the street, the shop was actually the food join he had just mentioned.
Axel would then walk past Eric before turning around, "So, let's eat." Axel then said with a childish grin on his face.
|博 Tenken
|Dec 21 2011, 02:31 PM Post #8
Hoennese and proud!
This boy, this Axel, was definitely an odd person for Eric to have met and the other boy was slightly wary about his over-fascination with Jessica. Sure, the first time he'd met her he'd probed and prodded until he knew basically everything about her before he'd even walked away with her wrapped around his shoulders, but this child seemed... preoccupied about something, as though there was something else weighing on him, or something else pushing him to be so damn inquisitive.
However Jessica preempted any answer Eric might have given by just talking herself.
"You," she hissed slowly, undulating back and forth as she looked at Axel, her bright green eyes flashing in the sun as she swayed, "Are ssssaying that you met another... like me? How curioussss, to meet sssssomeone who hassss met sssssomeone who could ssssspeak like I can... and here I wassss thinking I wassss alone, I ssssuppose Englissssh issssn't that hard to Masssster after all, eh Eric?"
Eric just shrugged and smiled, he was more interested in observation for the moment, especially when they headed off to the nearby cafe.
Axel seemed... ecstatic, gleeful even as they entered, saying something about eating in some catchy way -that Eric totally missed because he couldn't even begin to muster the slightest iota of caring- and instead the darker of the two boys focused instead on the menu on the far wall, narrowing his eyes slightly as he decided what he'd order.
"Let's grab a table," he said though in a more friendly tone, "I don't really want to eat and run and I definitely don't want to have to stand."
However there were no open tables, everywhere was occupied as clearly this was one of the more popular cafes in Onibas Town. That was no trouble though, Eric simply motioned Axel to wait for the moment then walked up to a man at a nearby table who was eating with his wife. In a very low tone so nobody else could hear except the curious man, Eric explained that if they didn't vacate their table here and now he would nuke them and everyone else in the cafe in an instant. To make his point he activated an edge of his aura, so his eyes began to glow red and, one alarmed look later, Eric had a table for him and his new companion.
"So, tell me about yourself," Eric said as a waiter brought them menus, "Are you a mage? What do you do for fun? Why're you here in Onibas?"
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|Dec 24 2011, 12:01 PM Post #9
Dark Lorde of the Sith
It was not Eric but rather Jessica who responded to Axels question about her, "You," she said at first, "Are ssssaying that you met another... like me? How curioussss, to meet sssssomeone who hassss met sssssomeone who could ssssspeak like I can... and here I wassss thinking I wassss alone, I ssssuppose Englissssh issssn't that hard to Masssster after all, eh Eric?" Axel looked down and blink, his mouth opened as if he were to gawp at the snake, "Ugh ... No, not quite. This other snake couldn't speak as well as you could, it was broken sentences and only a few simple words really." Axel responded, as Eric gave a shrug as they entered the cafe. "Let's grab a table," Eric said suddenly and Axel simply turned and gave a nod, "I don't really want to eat and run and I definitely don't want to have to stand." The boy continued however there were no available tables, as Axel finished scanning he saw that Eric motioned for him to wait here before he went off and spoke to a man and what appeared to be his wife and Eric told them something, something that made them leave.
They walked past and Axel looked at their faces, Eric had spooked them. Although not entirely sure of what he had exactly said, it was definitely something to invoke fear into them. Interesting. Axel joined Eric as he sat down opposite and a waiter brought them a menu each, "So, tell me about yourself," Eric began the questions, "Are you a mage? What do you do for fun? Why're you here in Onibas?" The boy continued and Axel looked at him as he had done before, "Straight to the point I see. Well, yes I am a Mage. What do I do for fun? I don't know really. My 'fun' changes as much as the weather really," Axel began as he looked at the ceiling, there was a fan that was going around slowly, not too slow but slowly, before his head was brought back down and his eyes drifted onto Eric once again. "I'm only in Onibas in order to find something, well ... Someone really. But it seems I have not found what I was looking for." Axel replied as he played with a spoon on his side, simply prodding it away and then back to him, "What about you Eric? Firstly, I think you being a Mage is almost a certain since not many normal kids our age have companions such as your Jessica here. Secondly, I find there's something about you thats rather interesting, maybe its just because of Jessica I don't know." Axel then said as he gave a nodding motion towards Jessica.
What would Eric say to that? They were just as curious as each other perhaps one was more curious than the other, it was hard to say what would happen and what would not happen.
|博 Tenken
|Dec 27 2011, 09:46 AM Post #10
Hoennese and proud!
Eric nodded thoughfully at Axel's answers, or at least he pretended to be thinking about them thoughtfully. His mind had actually tangented, thinking about his own target as soon as Axel had said he was here looking to find someone, though he wasn't forthcoming about who he was after. That was fine, if Eric was pressed -and no doubt he soon would be- he wouldn't have revealed who he was after. Hell, he probably wouldn't have even revealed he was after anyone, it made it far too easy to track things about yourself that might be better left unsaid.
At least from Eric's point of view they would be.
Still, he was thinking now about his mark, the woman who he was tracking and who would die by his hands. He still had to find her, and frankly this whole meeting and moment was a waste of his otherwise useful time, time he could be using to break the criminals and lowlifes of this town, men and women who would be able to give him the information he needed... or find it out for him.
"Well, I suppose turnabout is fair play," he chuckled when Axel made his own observations, "Though I don't personally think that just because you use magical items, travel with a clearly magical being or are otherwise unique makes you necessarily a mage - I might just be someone who utilises the mundanity of my talents extremely well."
He shook his head though, dismissing this idea.
"But I'm not - you're right in that I am something of a mage. I like to think so at least, it hardly does to think of oneself as less than one actually is but it's also not helpful to boast..."
He cut off at a light squeeze from Jessica, a squeeze that was mainly a constriction around his throat, not enough to restrict his breathing but just enough to say he should probably stop talking so much right now, it was not helpful for their situation.
"So, what do you want to eat?" he asked instead, a waitress appearing a few moments before he spoke and asking if they were ready, "I'd just like a chicken caesar salad for me and would I be able to get a half chicken for my snake?" the order was odd but, to her credit the waitress just blinked then nodded, taking it all in stride, though Eric doubted she saw many snakes every day while waitressing. When Axel had ordered Eric finished his thought from before, and added another question.
"As for there being something interesting about me? It's probable, I'm not exactly a boring kind of person you know... I enjoy being in the thick of things, particularly when those things turn out to be a bit chaotic... what about you?"
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Tour Stories: So, You Really Wanna Be in Show Business?
How did we make this growth happen? In that time, we put out a gang of vinyls, albums, tapes, CDs, clothing, etc. (all of which you can check out on our site, if you don't know our repertoire), and we constantly reinvested in ourselves and made sure our logo symbolized quality and forward-thinking music. I'm not a music critic and I can't be at all objective about the records we put out, but we are craftsmen and we try to create exciting musical experiences. As little kids, we grew up with whole albums as experiences, sitting next to a speaker for an hour knowing you were about to experience a whole record, not fast forward through some shit. The time and effort we put into our music is what makes it timeless and makes people gravitate towards it.
As a result, we have one of the sickest global groups of fans who support everything we do; from live shows to recorded music to clothing. If you look at companies like Def Jux, Rhymesayers, Duck Down or Stones Throw; we all use a model of touring constantly, interacting with fans and selling our music hand to hand, while maintaining a traditional distribution chain for our products (CDs, vinyl, T-shirts, etc.) and maintaining a strong presence online. Leading up to working with Prince Paul (Souls), Tame One (Del), and Guilty Simpson (Opio) this year, we've always worked with like-minded artists when the fit made sense—like when Del collaborated with Gorillaz or Souls joined forces with Pharcyde to form Almyghty Myghty Pythons; and in the future we're hoping for a Casual and Sean Price album!
Gorillaz feat. Del – "Clint Eastwood"
Opio feat. Guilty Simpson – "Some Superfly Shit"
I've taken the same strategy in my own Clear Label Media Group venture, which helps independent labels to expose the wealth of talent we have in the Bay. It frustrates me that when people think of underground, it usually means "backpack" rap music. There's an underground in every genre and subgenre of music, talent that needs to be exposed to the world. I base my label on this variety, we're from the Bay, the land of everything from Natural Four to Sly & the Family Stone, Tower of Power, Tony Toni Tone, to Too $hort, to Hieroglyphics—Oakland encompasses all this music. As an artist and as a member of this community, I wouldn't be living up to my duty if I didn't expose the world to all the talent out here in all of its variety.
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To inform Portland's City Council of the public's highest priorities for funding unfunded maintenance, safety and other needs
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The Bigger Picture: Visual Archives and the Smithsonian
Archive: 07/2009 - Page 2
Destination: Niagara Falls
One of the top U.S. tourist destinations, Niagara Falls has been photographed countless times since the invention of photography in the nineteenth century, and referenced throughout pop culture, from Marilyn Monroe's Niagara to the Woody Woodpecker Show. Today, with a little help from the internet, tourists can post their Niagara experience for all to see. Currently, a search for "Niagara Falls" on Flickr results in over 330,000 photographs. Looking back to the nineteenth century, advances in transportation opened access to western New York. By 1841, steam-powered trains carried passengers from New York to Niagara Falls in as little as forty-eight hours. In this same year, M.H.L. Pattinson made the first daguerreotype of the waterfall, according to Anthony Bannon in the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Photography, 2008. About nine years later, Platt D. Babbitt set up shop, as the first "resident photographer on the American side." As seen in the above image, he photographed visitors as they stood by the edge, and then sold the resulting daguerreotypes as souvenirs. Bannon writes that "Babbitt…is among the first to make a photograph to enhance a tourist's experience." And shutters have been clicking in Niagara ever since!
Christin Boggs is an Intern at the Smithsonian Photography Initiative.
For It's One, Two, Three Strikes You're Out...
More cameras in more places. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the installation of red light cameras and the controversy surrounding their use that's continuing to spread across the country. More recently, I came across an article by Alan Schwarz in the New York Times that describes yet another kind of camera and software system; this one's currently being tested at San Francisco's Giants' stadium and records not only the speed and location of baseballs in motion, but every move of every player on the field. Four high-resolution digital cameras mounted atop light towers capture what's happening at two million distinct locations on the playing field below. The data streams into a control room where it's collected and analyzed. Baseball is a sport that's defined by and enamored with statistics, and this new technology is going to give fans torrents of new facts and figures to obsess over and argue about. It's also likely that data extracted from this system, which will cost about $5 million per stadium to install, will be used by major league teams to determine players' compensation packages, too. While Big Brother showing up at a ball field near you may indeed be news, it's hardly the first time photography's been used to monitor on-the-job performance. Early in the 20th century, Frank Gilbreth and his wife, Lillian used time-lapse photography to make images, like the one below from around 1914, to analyze workers' activities and measure their efficiency in the workplace. Which makes me wonder—while we're on the subject and if you're reading this at work—where are the closest cameras looking at to you? In fact, what cameras do you know or suspect are photographing you during the course of your day. Please comment to let us know.
The Bride Wore White (or Blue, Green, or Black!)
Wedding season is upon us, and so it is no wonder that this beauty, with her frothy veil and layers of lace has been very popular on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. Looking at this photo, I realized I didn't know why brides wear white wedding dresses and so I decided to do some digging.
Many brides assume that the tradition of the white wedding dress comes from the color's ancient symbolic association with virginity and purity, but in reality, the white wedding dress is a much more recent development. Surely brides wore white gowns before, but it was Queen Victoria who truly popularized this tradition. While royalty typically wore embroidered brocade and crimson robes for weddings, Victoria donned a white satin gown with layers of lace made by two hundred women and a white veil. The lavish dress and the wedding between Victoria and her cousin Albert in 1840 were written up and illustrated in thousands of publications worldwide. Soon, American etiquette books decreed that the white wedding was the "proper style." The white wedding dress became a symbol of wealth and social status—after all, white could not easily be cleaned or worn again outside of hot summer months, and very few women could afford to buy and wear a dress solely for one occasion. And most likely, our bride above made sure to get to the photographer's studio for that very reason—to demonstrate that she had the social standing and wealth to have a white wedding dress (and of course, to memorialize an important occasion, her youth, and beauty, as we all like to do!).
Even so, until recently bridal attire was simply dictated by what a woman had in her closet and by what was au courant. So, while brides in the Western world have worn white, they've also donned every other color of the rainbow (yes, even black!). For example, during the Civil War brides often wore purple to respect and honor the dead. By the late 1800s, American and European brides went wild for dresses in the bright, rich colors created by new synthetic dyes. During WWI, many women considered it their duty to give up a "white wedding" in wartime, and during the Depression most brides had no choice, simply making do with their best dress or suit. But in the 1930s, garment manufacturers began specializing in making wedding dresses, and an onslaught of bridal magazines filled with photographs began marketing the white wedding dress as part of a romantic ideal, a custom from "the earliest ages." And whether contemporary brides embrace or vehemently reject the "traditional" white wedding dress, it is this marketing, rather than any ageless tradition, that has made the white wedding dress a ubiquitous part of our visual culture.
Going for a bike ride? Don't forget the camera!
In keeping with our summer travel theme, I began to investigate some of the ways in which photographers were first able to travel with their cameras. To give a brief background, the invention of photography in 1839 coincided with the Romantic period and the Transcendentalist movement, both of which encouraged the pursuit of the picturesque landscape. Concurrently, the Industrial Revolution produced a growing middle class in America that typically worked 40-45 hours during the week and had leisure time in the evenings and during the weekends. As such, it was fashionable to spend free time travelling from the populated cities out to undeveloped land. And what better way to commute but by bicycle!
The cycling craze was short-lived, as the automobile quickly replaced the two-wheeled contraption as the ideal form of transportation. But the practice of photographing leisure experiences in nature clearly continues today, though in much greater proportions thanks to the ease of the cell phone cam.
Christin Boggs is an Intern at the Smithsonian Photography Initiative.
There will always be a photography
Recently photography has said goodbye to two industry icons. Polaroid stopped production of its instant film, and Kodak announced that it is retiring Kodachome, its oldest film stock, because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital age. As the Smithsonian and institutions of all sizes face the staggering challenge of digitizing their vast photographic collections in preparation for creating, shaping, and using virtual archives, the questions around "what photography is" are constant. How do you create the state of the art when the state of the art keeps changing? As shocking as it is to contemplate a vanishing species, the story of obsolescence is not new to photography (and perhaps, also fitting, as the introduction of daguerreotype portraits in the mid-nineteenth century single-handedly eliminated painted miniatures as an art form). Consider the Lewis family of New Windsor, New York, who became within a few years of photography's announcement in America the largest manufacturers of Daguerreotype equipment in the United States. By 1850 they held the most photographic patents and their operation was so large that Quassaick Creek, the small town where they built their factory, changed its name to Daguerreville. But in just a few years, cheap-to-produce tintypes and paper photographs made from negatives in turn replaced the daguerreotype. The population of the town, as well as the Lewis' rise to prominence in photographic history, came to a jolting halt. Often the history of daguerreotype to digital is a story of progress based on commercial gain, practicality, and sometimes just plain obstinacy. The wet plate collodion process was replaced at the end of the 19th century with dry plates, which offered growing numbers of photographers the option of glass plates already coated with a photographic emulsion of silver halides suspended in gelatin. The gelatin-based process greatly increased the speed of the plates, enabling shorter exposure times. And with more photographs, the popular appetite for photographs of all kinds increased as well. Change was not always welcomed warmly. For the most part, each new process was greeted with a mix of derision and anxiety. For example, the albumen process (which used egg whites to coat the plates and which produced a shiny, if sharp, image in various tones of purple, yellow, and brown) was described as having an "offensive and vulgar glare" (and possibly an equally pungent aroma) which was "detrimental to pictorial effect." Nevertheless, the process caught on, and by the 1860s it was in general use, and continued until the turn of the twentieth century. Photography journals printed recipes for using the egg yolks left over after the whites had been used for photographic purposes. Until gelatin paper replaced it, one supplier of albumen paper alone was using sixty thousands eggs a day. The latest fox in the henhouse of photography is digital imagery. Many of the digital imaging techniques were developed in the 1960s at research institutes such as MIT, Bell Labs, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, during research for applications to satellite imagery, medical imaging, and character recognition. And then there are the rest of us who, with cameras, PDAs, and cell phones, make all kinds of images for all kinds of reasons. There are some that see this as a distinct advantage digital cameras have over film cameras; others see it as the death of photography itself. But it seems that photography's short history has already proven that innovation is part of the nature of photography itself. For one thing, photography's progress gives us more things to see.
Merry Foresta is the Former Director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative.
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AboutI enjoy bein' Laura Mary Carrie and even dumb ol' Albert's Pa. If I could, I'd like to be your Pa too!
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My name is Charles Philip Ingalls I'm an ol' farmer. and proud of it. I do what god intended me to do. the lord's work if you will.
I attend church with my family, and friends on Sunday mornings. Hey, maybe sometime you can join us all for supper! Caroline makes the best meals. And even good ol' Edwards pays us a visit once or twice. Hey, don't be a stranger! Come inside! And I'll play you a song or two.
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RBC Revises Branch Hours
Over time banks adjust their hours to suite the needs of their customers. One perfect example is TD Canada Trust, they decided to add Sunday to their day of operations, allowing clients to bank any day of the week.
With that said, RBC has revised their schedule as well.
What is RBC's new schedule?
RBC has decided to revise their branch hours of operations, and I was able to get my hands on the new schedule. The new schedule is as follows:
|New Hours
|Monday - Tuesday
|9:30 am - 5:00 pm
|Wednesday - Thursday
|9:30 am - 8:00 pm
|9:30 am - 6:00 pm
|9:00 am - 4:00 pm
For those who may be unfamiliar with RBC's current hours, I listed them below.
|New Hours
|Monday - Wednesday
|9:30 am - 4:30 pm
|9:30 am - 8:00 pm
|9:30 am - 6:00 pm
|9:00 am - 3:00 pm
As you can see, the changes made are quite significant, seeing as Wednesday now has branches open till 8, 3.5 hours more than the old schedule. Saturday has also gotten a significant boost in time, as branches will now stay open another 1.5 hours. Monday and Tuesdays realistically have little change made to them seeing as it is only an extra half an hour, but then again that is just my opinion on the matter.
How does this change compare to other banks?
Do not get me wrong, these changes are great, it is a great step forward into providing clients with more hours to bank with RBC, however I still find RBC falling short of their competition.
TD offers probably one of the best hours of operations you can find. The majority of their branches are open from 8:00 am – 8:00 pm Monday to Friday, and 8:00 am – 4:00 pm on Saturday. Like I said before, TD has also decided to have branches open on Sunday, making them a great choice for anyone looking to have the ability to walk into a branch any day of the week.
With that in mind, are the changes RBC made enough to keep up with the competition? TD has been recognized as the highest in customer satisfaction among the Big Five retail banks. J.D. Power and Associates examines convenience/ facility in their study, which is no surprise TD scores high in that category as well.
RBC is making improvements, which is great, but I feel they could do much more, especially when you look at what TD is doing.
How do you feel about the new hours
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I think Google did a pretty good job of damage control by promptly bumping down Chrome's pagerank. I just checked and Chrome is now #57 in search results for the term browser, and Google has said they are going to keep this penalty in place for 60 days. In the big scheme of things, I don't consider this "scandal" much of a big deal. Sure, it isn't cool that Google's own guidelines were violated to promote a Google product, but I think the fact that an outside ad/pr agency that had a contract with Google was the one actually violating the guidelines should be considered. Google says that they didn't authorize the paid blog post campaign at the heart of this. While we can't be sure whether they did or not, it is plausible that the agency did it on their own. Since Google sanctioned themselves, I think they have done close enough to the right thing for this to be a non-issue. I'm using Chrome right now, as a matter of fact, and not feeling bad about it. I will be curious to see if the pagerank handslap has any effect of Chrome adoptation over the next two months. My guess is there will be very minimal impact.


text: Greg Laden gives the thumbs up to Sheril Kirshenbaum's new book The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us and sums up some fascinating takeaways about kissing: Kissing is not a human universal. Not all cultures do this. The history of kissing is complex and interesting, to the extent that we know about it. [Read More…]


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The Big Brother house has welcomed all 16 of this year's housemates - and they're all in for a shock.
There are a couple of familiar faces, plenty of big boobs, blokes who think they're it and plenty of characters which are clearly going to clash.
It was a less brash housemate who won the early Power Trip after a public vote, though.
So who will be on your screens for the rest of the summer? Meet your Big Brother 2014 housemates...
Tamara Stewart-Wood
The 24-year-old headhunter from London has promised to do whatever it takes to win, and mentioned backstabbing straight off the bat - earning her boos as she headed down to meet host Emma Willis.
She is fiercely independent and "can't stand women who just want to make babies and cook lasagne for their husbands". Find out more about her here.
Mark Byron
The 24-year-old Liverpudlian describes himself as an animated fashionista. He has previously appeared on X Factor and Shipwrecked.
He is very image conscious and has his hair professionally done four times a week. His love of Mariah Carey helped earn him a £5,000 cash reward in Big Brother's first Power Trip of the series. Find out more about Mark here.
Helen Wood
The 27-year-old from Bolton is another familiar face after she was "outed into the public", as she put it, for "sleeping with quite a well known person". She is alleged to have slept with England and Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney in 2010 while his wife Coleen was pregnant.
Now she hopes an appearance in the Big Brother house will help change perceptions of her. She owns a salon in Bolton, which she says is "gossip central" with women getting pampered all day. She rates herself easy to like and plans to be a friend to people in the house. Find out more about her here.
Steven Goode
The 23-year-old from Hertfordshire rates himself extremely successful and lists being British Prime Minister as one of his long term ambitions.
He is clearly not afraid to be ruthless, setting up in business in direct competition with his parents when he was 20. He now employs them - and his brothers. Find out more about Steven here.
Danielle McMahon
The 25-year-old from Glasgow is a lingerie model and strict Catholic who does not believe in sex before marriage, contraception or gay marriage.
She thinks people are quite impressed by her strong views, explaining: "you don't see many women these days with the moral highground." Find out more about Danielle here.
Winston Showan
The 27-year-old from Essex reckons he's "more smarter" than the average Essex lad. Sweary and prone to calling women "birds", he is a lad's lad and spends all his money "on the lads and chasing the ladies".
He goes to the gym daily and rates his type as "brunettes with nice breasts and a fit body". Find out more about him here.
Matthew Davies
The 23-year-old from Hertfordshire is a media graduate who admits he is a troublemaker and not afraid to voice his opinions. He also says he "can't stand people who have no intellectual capacity".
Already looking slightly shell-shocked as he prepared to head into the house, his admission he is intolerant earned him the first punishment on the Power Trip. Find out more about Matthew here.
Kimberly Kisselovich
The 23-year-old from California is a Playboy model with a law degree. She says: "I'm very comfortable and confident being naked."
Another one to rate herself ruthless, Kimberly says: "I'm prepared to be ruthless but that's just my personality.
"You need to be ruthless in law, you need to be ruthless in modelling and you need to be a bit ruthless in life." Find out more about Kimberly here.
Christopher Hall
The 23-year-old from County Fermanagh comes from a farming background but has set himself on becoming "quite a serious journalist".
And he won't shy away from arguments, saying: "I can be extremely argumentative if I'm passionate about something and have conviction in it." He's no fan of Kim Kardashian, calling her "the spawn of Satan". Find out more about Christopher here.
Pauline Bennett
The 49-year-old from Wolverhampton was given the opportunity to punish one housemate and reward another as she was given the first Power Trip of this series.
The 49-year-old's straightforwardness appears to have won over viewers in the early stages.
She says she is strong and feisty and does not "suffer fools gladly". She had a promising music career in the early 90s and had a top 10 single with Kylie Minogue - although the did tell Kylie she thought her songs were "s***". Find out more about her here.
Marlon Wallen
Big Brother contestant Marlon Wallen is a bit of a ladies man.
The 22-year-old - who doesn't dislike anything about himself - classes himself as a 'wild boy' and spends all his money on his appearance and going out clubbing.
Marlon says he would rather have money than love, quipping: "I would rather be lonely in a Ferrari, than in love in an old banger'."
He has an alter ego called Marlicio Silver and wants to show the world what he is all about which appears to be mainly 'girls and having a good time'.
Read more on Marlon by clicking here.
Toya A Washington
Big Brother contestant Toya A Washington is no stranger to the cameras.
The 29-year-old video blogger from London has been filming herself for quite some time already so a stretch on the Channel 5 reality show seems like the logical next step.
Though unfortunately for Toya, her most popular upload on YouTube is her hair review video which has amassed 1692 views so far.
Not one to be trifled with, Toya says that you wouldn't want to cross her and her favourite motto is: "Don't come for me unless I send for you."
Read more on Toya by clicking here.
Jale Karaturp
Big Brother contestant Jale Karaturp is sarcastic and dry and isn't afraid to say what she thinks, having strong opinions on immigration and hating weakness in others.
Jale likes to rant – especially about things she is passionate about such as "s*** drivers, terrible call centre workers, people who are s**t at their jobs and martyrs".
The 33-year-old lives on her own in a two bedroom house, because she "can't live with people", although she doesn't have any pets Jale would like to get a dog.
Read more on Jale by clicking here.
Chris R Wright
Big Brother contestant Chris R Wright gets on best with intelligent people as "willing stupidity is worse than natural stupidity," says the unemployed actor.
Chris is not entering BB to further his acting career. "I will walk through any open door right now just to check out the scenery," he says.
Chris explains his reasons to go into the house: "It's free rent, to lose weight and I can't afford therapy".
This music, movies, ideas, girls, individuality-loving 33-year-old lists "creativity, honesty and respect" among his traits.
Read more on Chris by clicking here.
Ashleigh Coyle
Big Brother contestant Ashleigh Coyle believes she has what it takes to survive the most famous house in the land .
If the 18-year-old does win she'd donate some of the winnings to charity, buy a nice car and take her family on holiday somewhere sunny.
The Derry girl has always lived in the same area and currently lives on a council estate and says it's 'one of the factors that gives her the drive to push further in her career'.
Ashleigh spends her money on clothes, shoes and her dog Gucci.
Read more on Ashleigh by clicking here.
Ash Harrison
Big Brother contestant Ash Harrison thinks he has what it takes to win BB15 - although he openly admits to being lazy.
The 26-year-old model from Manchester says his looks have given him "an easy, blessed life filled with women."
Ash has an easy going laid back charm that he often uses to his advantage and describes himself as an "unabashed flirt, who doesn't want to settle down".
Read more on Ash by clicking here.


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Jeff Nelson
Jeff Nelson would like to improve the City of Moose Jaw.
That was why he decided to run for city council in the upcoming municipal election.
"I love the City of Moose Jaw and I think it's a great place to live," said Nelson, 45. "I would like to keep it that way. I would like to help Moose Jaw to become an even better place than it is already."
Nelson said a priority issue is the aging infrastructure that needs to be replaced.
"The infrastructure is getting older and we don't have the money to replace it so it's something that needs to be really looked at," said Nelson. "I think we need to do research and a plan has to be made."
Research needs to be done on things such as sewer and water lines, Nelson said. The city also needs to come up with a plausible solution to figure out how to pay for the research and replacements.
He added that a lot of people are interested a dog park and the city needs to do something with the wild animal park.
"I think Moose Jaw is becoming a tourist destination and I would like to keep that part going and also look at attracting other businesses that would bring higher paying jobs," said Nelson. "So those are some of the things I'd like to do too."
Nelson is a chef by trade and an entrepreneur. He owns two catering companies in the city and also helps young people by teaching cooking at SIAST and the Regina Skills and Trades Centre.
Right now, Nelson is teaching a culinary arts program through the Saskatchewan Tourism Education Council and on weekends, he works on a session of exhibition grounds all in addition to his catering.
Nelson began his chef career in Moose Jaw and went to Toronto for additional training before returning to Moose Jaw where he has lived for the past several years. He has travelled around Canada, working in places such as Montreal, Toronto and along the West Coast.
"I think people in Canada are very lucky to live here and I think it's important that we give back to our community, our city and our province," said Nelson.
He said values - such as loyalty to his friends, family and colleagues, fairness for everyone and integrity - are very important to him.
"I am a bit of an introvert so I'm a deep thinker and I'm good at solving problems so I think I can be helpful," said Nelson. "I think those traits are good for someone that is going to be working with the public on council or any other kind of politics."


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Happy Mother's Day! I have beem exclusively BF my DD (3 mos old). I just became a WOHM one week ago. I pump 4-5 times during my workday. When I return to my DD in the evening I nurse her 3-4 times before bedtime. Over the weekend I nurse her 10-12 times all day long. But my problem is I am having excruciating nipple pain almost every time I nurse her directly now. It hurts so much I want to pump exclusively and not nurse her directly? She is with my MIL while I am at work and she has been giving her the pacifier, could the pacifier be changing my LO's latch on? Could the pump be confusing my nipple...my pump draws out my nipple so much, my LO's latch on is good but my nipple isn't drawn out as much as the pump draws it out? I should say I wasn't having any pain while I was home with her. She also drinks EBM from a Tommee Tippee bottle and that was introduced before and she was able to switch from the TT bottle to my breast with ease and no pain for me. Help I need advice. The pain is unbearable.


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Why Linden Lab Should Not Open The Content Migration Can Of Worms
When buying this package of textures, what you are really buying is a legal limited license to use and modify them according to your specific needs insides Second Life. You do not actually own them, nor the copyright.
The above are pretty standard terms for content creators within Second Life when they purchase textures. Textures really need to be sold as full permissions for people to use them in their creations and therefore the person selling the textures wants to place restrictions on use outside of Second Life. There are other items that will come with similar terms, building kits etc.
However they highlight an issue when it comes to Linden Lab's new world because I've seen a lot of talk of people wanting to know if they can bring their content across into the new virtual world Linden Lab have planned. Some content simply won't be compatible, some will. However even when it comes to content that is compatible Linden Lab should tread very carefully because of issues such as the Licence terms I opened this post with. Mesh and Textures are likely candidates to be compatible with the new world but just because they are compatible it doesn't mean Linden Lab should facilitate transfers.
Then there are issues that have arisen since Linden Lab's controversial terms of service change. Website CG Textures announced :
6th September 2013: Terms of Service update, using our images in Second Life is no longer allowed.
What has changed?
From 6 September 2013 you are no longer permitted to add our images to Second Life or other Linden Lab products. The use of textures downloaded prior to this date is allowed.
CG textures did not like the Linden Lab terms of service change and it remains a problem today, ten or so months on from when they were changed. The word on the street is that Linden Lab are trying to change the terms to reflect their intent but it has been an extremely slow process. However that's an aside, the simple matter is that migrating content that has been built with CG textures content would be controversial to say the least.
Much of the content in Second Life is created with items purchased from other Second Life users, someone may purchase a script, a texture, a part. They put them all together and create a widget but they don't own all of the content that has created said widget so they really do not have the permission to say it's ok to export the content outside of Second Life. To get such permission you would need to contact all involved parties and any parties involved in co-creating their content. This could get very labour intensive.
Then there is content that has been created by people who are no longer participating in Second Life, they are no longer around to seek permission from.
Many content creators would also not want their content migrated across to the new world and I'm not talking about full perms sellers here, I'm talking about clothing, building, accessories etc. Some of their content is dated and the new world will hopefully allow them to create more feature rich and vibrant content with new tools. They may very well not want their old content surfacing there at all as in the new world it may look far more dated than it does in Second Life.
Again, when you buy content in Second Life, most of the time you are simply purchasing content with a licence to use said content in Second Life. We don't own the content we buy, it's a concept that is easy to misunderstand but that's generally the way the land lies.
As uncomfortable as this may be for Second Life users, the safest route for Linden Lab to take is to not provide any assistance with migrating content. Content creators can choose whether or not they want to migrate their content once they understand what the new world entails and which content is suitable for the new world. They can then upload the content themselves, this really is the safest route for content creators and Linden Lab.
Linden Lab taking a hands off approach is also reassuring to existing content creators who would like their licence terms respected. This is a can of worms Linden Lab would be wise not to open and it's one that users and content creators should be prepared to accept as the safest route for everyone.
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You're so right. I completely forgot about that.
Possibly LL could plan having a new ToS, which would not be really 'labour intensive' — just force everybody to agree to it when they next log in to SL.
But now I understand that this might not be desirable, using your arguments.
Dang, there goes the best argument for moving over: clear migration path. It seems that LL's new world is getting less and less arguments to encourage people to move there — as opposed to go to the competition, which also promise snappy graphics.
Time for Plan B (see my own blog 🙂 )!
Although this is all highly speculative at this point, it seems to me even the few things that would be compatible for migration would have to be fully created by the user moving it.
Even with this limitation though, they will still run the risk of massive copybotting for the sole purpose of migration. What happens when a person illegally copies stuff to move for their own personal use, claiming fair use rights because they already bought it? I have a feeling that if migration is allowed at all, this will be a large scale problem content creators will be fighting like never before.
And if content creators have to go to the trouble of uploading new versions of existing SL1 content to SL2 will people be willing to pay for it if they already own the same items in SL1?
I have read so many times that people will not move to Opensim and leave their precious stuff behind so will the same argument be used again as a main reason not to move to SL2? Hell, there are people still using V1 viewers and the TPV's because the Lab's own V2/3 viewer never got universal acceptance (and will the Lab still allow TPV's for SL2 even?). Then there is open source High Fidelity which promises to adopt Hypergrid, allow owner's servers and change the nature of content security altogether.
I'm sure there will be many who want to give SL2 a try but still spend as little as possible getting some sort of inventory together while the vast majority will not be so keen. Some will be outright hostile even and feel cheated by the Lab for being forced to spend more money for what they already own. And how much is this about changing the business model anyway?
How much have you got in your SL1 inventory and how much did you spend on it and how long did it take to build? People will be thinking about all this I'm sure.
Moreover, one has to remember that SL1 is also built on people that have built some fantastic regions up with all kinds of role play games, entertainments and educational venues. I know for sure people that work and do business in SL1 are highly competitive and work tirelessly to keep their members while others will spam, poach and steal away players from everyone else. It is another reason Opensim struggles to persuade SL residents to give the free Metaverse a try. There is huge resistance to loosing players and customers. So it's not all about content even though that is a massive factor. It has a lot to do with unwillingness on the part of users to migrate to the unknown from what they know so well, especially when there are persuasive forces at work trying to hang on to them. I suspect people will stay where their friends are and the stuff they own already. Blue Mars failed to gain tracking even though it was built on technology far in advance of Second Life and the same for Cloud Party. Opensim has made some headway mainly because it is so like SL1 and has been around so long. In fact a lot of people have their feet in both SL and Opensim grids these days which came as the result of migrations when Linden Lab made yet another of its many legendary blunders. I have to wonder if SL2 will be the final blunder that kills the golden goose!
However, in my view, High Fidelity, which appears to have so much in common with Opensim, is the one to watch. Not SL2.
I will never join any project that has Philip on it, period.
I doubt ill join any other project from Linden Lab besides Second Life.
Indeed, EULAs are going to be an issue that will have to be considered by anyone that wants to transfer content from SL 1.0 to SL 2.0 or however else it's called, and I really think LL needs to amend Section 2.3 of the ToS pronto. Since you mentioned CGTextures, though, I'd like to toot my own horn a little and remind you of what I had written back then about the rather drama-whoring announcements issued by CGTextures and Renderosity.


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Based on a printed drapery fabric from 1950, Fission Chips is a pattern that designer Ruth Adler Schnee describes as "cut logs with different textures."
The design was cleverly named by the designer's husband, Edward Schnee, creative partner in the Adler/Schnee home furnishings store that helped introduce modernism to Detroit.
"I like to find shapes that are appealing," says Schnee about this design, and her work in general.
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The Parish of Borgue.
Monumental Inscriptions (M.I.'s)
The parish contains three burial grounds; at Borgue Church and at the old sites of Kirkandrews and Senwick churches. Transcriptions of all gravestones, along with their photographs are accessed via the menu on the left.
The Parish of Borgue used to be well known locally as "the land of milk and honey". This description continues to be appropriate today despite the many changes in agriculture in recent years. Roughly two thirds of the land in the parish is arable, the remaining third being woodland and rough pasture. The undulating landscape is unusual and interesting, consisting of small fields bounded by dry stane dykes, with characteristic rocky outcrops or knowes scattered randomly. The fertile areas between the knowes offer excellent grazing for dairy cattle, providing milk, and the knowes are often rich in plant and insect life, providing honey. The quality of both the milk and the honey that comes from Borgue is locally known to be unrivalled.
Many of the farmhouses and steadings form attractive groups of traditional buildings which were once populated by farmers, dairymen, shepherds, stockmen and agricultural labourers. Today, many farms have been merged to form larger units resulting in many redundant steadings and houses. Increased mechanisation has also brought about a sharp fall in the numbers of people involved in agriculture. Many of the former farm cottages have been sold as homes for retired people, whilst steadings have become complexes of holiday homes as farmers seek to diversify and find new sources of income.
The parish has several miles of coastline, every part of which is of great scenic value, being indented with bays separated by rocky promontories and sometimes sheltered by trees. Ranges of high cliffs give way to grassy heughs which are rich in both flora and fauna, and the occasional small sandy beaches are much enjoyed by both local people and holidaymakers. Farmers fortunate enough to own sections of this coastline have been more fortunate than their inland colleagues in finding opportunities for diversification.
The only permanent settlement in the parish that is of any size is the village of Borgue, whose inhabitants are proud to still retain their own church, hotel and school. They also retain a strong sense of community, and thanks to the influence of a long succession of distinguished and prosperous farming families, have been able to punch well above their apparent weight in local affairs.
Nowadays, the biggest population, in the summer months at least, is to be found in caravan and holiday parks such as Brighouse Bay Leisure Park. Among its facilities are a swimming pool, a golf course, launching facilities for small boats and a well-equipped shop.
Those people in the parish of working age, who are not engaged in agriculture or tourism-related employment generally commute to Kirkcudbright, Gatehouse of Fleet, Castle Douglas, or Dumfries. Kirkcudbright's growing fishing fleet includes several vessels owned and crewed by Borgue men, so Borgue is fast developing into "the land of milk, honey, tourists, scallops and prawns."
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By Associated Press 11:20pm, November 14, 2012 - Updated 11:21pm, November 14, 2012State Police say two men who tried to walk out of a department store wearing clothes they had stolen pointed a gun at an employee.
Troopers say about 8:45 PM Tuesday, two men entered the Wal-Mart in Wilmington. They took clothes on display, put them on and then left.
When a store employee approached the men, one of them displayed a handgun. The employee retreated, and the men fled in a car.
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Sarah O'Brien, Lady's Maid
"Well I'm not standing by while she brings misery and ruin on my lady." –O'Brien
Sarah O'Brien, the scheming, often nasty lady's maid to Lady Grantham, does not suffer fools. Nor does she waste an opportunity to act on any information she can exploit to further herself, the house, or those who have her loyalty, such as her mistress, Cora, and former footman, Thomas. While she and Thomas continue their below-the-stairs alliance, forged against Bates and William in season 1, the war has changed them both. O'Brien doesn't necessarily cease her malicious meddling, but she does demonstrate moments of compassion, in spite of herself.
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