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Skip to comments.Gay couple asked to reverse shirt at Dollywood
Posted on 07/27/2011 6:44:22 PM PDT by feralcat
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A lesbian couple is asking for changes at Dollywood after an employee asked one of the women to turn her T-shirt reading "marriage is so gay" inside-out to avoid offending others on a recent visit to the Tennessee theme park complex.
Olivier Odom and Jennifer Tipton said Tuesday they want the park to be more inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families after Odom was asked to reverse her shirt when they visited Dollywood Splash Country next to the Pigeon Forge amusement park. The story was first reported by WBIR-TV in Knoxville.
Dollywood spokesman Pete Owens said on Tuesday that Dollywood is open to all families, but their dress code policy is to ask people with clothing or tattoos that could be considered offensive to change clothes or cover up.
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If I wore a Confederate flag shirt to the park, I wouldn't be surprised if I was requested to turn it inside-out. But that's the park's right. I wouldn't be surprised if she wore the shirt just to get a reaction and cause a stink.
As best I remember, Dolly herself has no issues with homosexuals, and is well-liked and respected in the gay community.
You have to try to look that ugly. Really.
I see, so now we cant possibly be offended . . . only the PC types?
Reminds me of the time I saw some creep at a Jason's Deli wearing a "Everybody Has AIDS" T shirt . . . I was hoping management would ask him to leave.
"We are allowed to offend you, but if you offend us we will sue!"
The mere sight of this "couple" is offensive to about 97% of the population
thats a woman??
Card carrying member of the nags no doubt.
What a beautiful couple. They will certainly have some beautiful offspring.
Not-a-product-of-rape-homo thread. There goes my theory that all Dykes are rape victims. They don't make bags thick enough.
At a gay wedding, how do you tell if the bride is blushing?
Better if it is two "women." People like that should not be able to reproduce.
Why do so many "lesbians" go out of their way to appear mannish???? Do they want to be men?
One of the reasons I love Dollywood and why we take our children there. I am sick and tired of the gay agenda being shoved on us as a civil rights issue. It is a choice issue and a choice they are free to make. But I am free to not associate with the perversion of those who want to mandate and take away my choice.
Private property. Follow the rules or get the @#&%^$! out.
Nasty! I would just like "her" covered up 'cause she's gross! But I think Dollywood is owned by the Herschend family (Silver Dollar City in Branson), and they are very conservative.
Its worse then that. They look like aging men, no penis, low earning potential and having raging pms. Who the hell would be attracted to that?
Leave 'em alone. They're just trying to be dicks.
OMG, your comment cracked me up. lololololol
>>"Nasty! I would just like her covered up cause shes gross!"<<
There is a difference between covering a tightly cropped (pointy) head and being hidden. One is a matter of tact, one is a matter of life and death.
I don't want to see her man arms just like I don't want to see Michelle Obama's. That doesn't mean I want either woman to wear a Niqab or Burqa. To compare that is silly.
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That sure looks like a man on the right.
not really, to some it comes naturally....
her hate, just "effervesces"...
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It was an inappropriate shirt - has nothing to do with "inclusiveness." They should not have been wearing that in a family oriented theme park in front of families and children. That's the bottom line. The park has the right to ask for common decency on the part of its guests - with an emphasis on the fact they are guests. Unless they have evidence that anyone else would have been permitted to wear clothing with inappropriate phrases on it besides them, they have no case.
Man hands?
Man hands?
I will have to sleep with the lights on, rocking back and forth and crying hysterically.
Who has the photo "That which is seen cannot be unseen?"
well....I said, I was sorry......
Here's that pic., you desperately requested.
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One of my favorite kinds of investments is a high yielding company that pays monthly. As I was researching companies for an experimental high-yield portfolio (you can see the portfolio here) I came across what I consider to be the absolute best in breed when it comes to monthly dividend payers.
Company Overview:
Main Street Capital (NYSE:MAIN) is a Business Development Corporation that IPOed in 2007. Since that time, it has proven itself to be among the best managed BDCs in the industry and grown its investment portfolio, dividends and share price at an enviable rate.
Like all BDCs Main Street lends to smaller companies. In this case to the lower middle market companies (LMM) segment of the economy. These are underserved companies that make $5-$300 million in revenues and EBITDA between $3-$20 million. Main Street's typical loan is between $2-$15 million and for lengths of 3-7 years. The loans are used for growth financing, acquisitions, ownership buyouts, recapitalizations and other areas generally reserved for Private Equity companies. Main Street, unlike some other BDCs, isn't interested in startup companies. Instead the company prefers to invest in mature and proven firms. It utilizes a hybrid loan/equity strategy. This means the company makes various kinds of loans as well as take equity stakes in companies. The equity stakes are typically 5-50% of a company and sometimes include controlling shares. As of the end of 2013 the company averages 33%shareholdings in their equity positions. This hybrid approach allows for a mix of high income used to pay the dividend, as well as capital gains which grows the NAV. This causes share price appreciation and pays for special dividends. Though there are about 30 BDCs for investors to choose from there are certain things that make Main Street the absolute king of BDCs and monthly dividend stocks in general.
1. Managerial Excellence: The best description of Main Street's management team is from their website. "Main Street's management team includes a unique group of professionals with over 100 years of investment experience, each of whom has significant experience in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and private equity investing."
2. Management Invests Alongside Owners: While many BDCs have excellent management, what makes Main Street's so special is its dedication to aligning its interests with that of shareholders. From the beginning of his tenure, CEO Vincent Foster has been buying shares of Main Street. In fact today. Mr. Foster is the single largest shareholder of Main Street Capital. He owns over 1.4 million sharesof the company worth $39.25 million. In fact, management owns 9% of Main Street's shares. Unlike many management teams who obtain free or reduced price shares through generous stock option grants, Main Street's management buy all its shares at market prices.
3. Lower Operating Costs: Main Street Capital is an internally managed BDC with total expenses just 1.7% of assets compared to 3.2% average expenses for internally managed BDCs and 3.6% for externally managed BDCs. This means that Main Street has the lowest operating costs of any BDC in operation. One of the reasons for this is the previously mentioned insider ownership. With management investing much of its own personal fortunes in the company's long term success, it has an incentive to keep the operations as lean and profitable as possible.
4. High and Growing Yield: Since IPOing in 2007, Main Street has increased its dividend from $.33/quarter to $.495/quarter which is an increase of 50%. This represents an 8.5% compound annual growth rate, CAGR. This is the fastest dividend growth rate of any BDC. In fact it is among the fastest dividend growth rates of any high yielding company, REIT, MLP or any other investment vehicle. In addition, according to the last earnings report during the 4th quarter of 2013 Main Street Capital achieved a record high of NII/share of $.60/share. This is 23% higher than the recently raised dividend. NII stands for Net Interest Income and represents the money from which dividends are paid. NII/Share is the number one thing that all BDC investors should monitor. If NII/share dips below the dividend then the sustainability of the dividend is in doubt and future growth cannot occur. With Main Street we see NII/share growing quickly which fuels fast growing, high and sustainable dividends. In fact Main Street's dividends are so well managed that during the great financial panic of 2008-2009, when every other BDC was eliminating or greatly reducing its dividend, Main Street was able to maintain and actually raise its dividend throughout the duration of the crisis.
The apparent drop in 2008 is a transition from quarterly dividends to monthly. Main Street started off with a $.33/share dividend that grew to $.36/share and then was raised to $.125/month which is equal to $.375/share.
Speaking of yield, there are two aspects to Main Street's dividend. First is the regular monthly dividend which has grown at 50% in the last 6 years. Then there is the semiannual special dividend generated from the company's taxable capital gains. As a BDC, Main Street is forced to pay out 90% of taxable income as dividends. It is allowed to keep up to $1/share in taxable capital gains. Once that limit is reached a special dividend is required and management believes that the special dividend will be paid out for at least several more years.
For the first half of 2014 CEO Vincent Foster has asked the board for a $.25-$.275 special dividend. This would place the total yield of Main Street at 7.2-7.3%.
One final comment must be made on the nature of the dividend. While most BDCs dividends are taxed as regular income (and so these BDCs should be held in tax deferred accounts such as Roth IRAs), Main Street's dividends are partially taxed as long-term capital gains. In 2013, about 30% of Main Street's dividend will be taxable at the lower 20% long-term capital gain rate. Management anticipates a similar rate going into 2014.
5. BDC hyper growth: Whereas most BDCs pay high dividends but seldom grow them, Main Street has proven itself a master at both high yield and growth.
In the last 6 years not only has the dividend grown at 8.5% CAGR but the NAV has grown at 9.1% CAGR. Net Asset Value is the value of a company's investments. It can be thought of as book value for financial companies such as banks and insurance companies. A growing NAV is a sign of a healthy, thriving and well managed BDC. In addition, the easiest way of valuing a BDC is by looking at their price/NAV. This is equivalent to price/book value for banks or insurance companies. If a company's book value grows then its share price is sure to follow. Thus, along with the fast growth in dividends, the fast growth in NAV is one of the drivers of Main Street's best in class market returns.
6.Total Returns:
Main Street Capital is a rare and precious gem in the investment world. Not only does it have a high and fast growing yield but its best in industry management is capable of growing its NAV quickly. This helps to fuel share price appreciation more appropriate to a growth company than a boring and high yielding BDC.
In the last 5 years Main Street Capital has returned CAGR of 18.1% in share price appreciation alone. Add in dividend reinvestment and that growth rate climbs to an astonishing 28.84%. This makes Main Street Capital one of the greatest investments of the last 5 years.
7. Cheap Access to Capital
One of the things that critics of Main Street point out is that the company trades at a high premium to NAV of 1.73. What this means is that investors are willing to pay $17.3 for every $10 in Main Street's portfolio. The reason for this premium is the proven track record of management to not only operate as a great BDC but as a private equity firm as well. Main Street Capital is rightly being priced higher because of its track record of growth, in NAV, NII/share and dividends. The premium represents confidence in the best management in the industry to keep firing on all cylinders. Just as there is a premium to Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock because of Elon Musk and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) because of Warren Buffett, so too does Main Street trade at a premium because of its exceptional management.
In addition, what critics fail to realize is that Main Street is able to use its premium to great benefit for shareholders. This is because, to grow its investment portfolio BDCs must either borrow or sell additional shares. Legally the company is not allowed to borrow more than the value of its assets so all BDCs must occasionally sell additional shares in a secondary offering.
When a company does a secondary at a share price greater than NAV it automatically becomes accretive to existing shareholders rather than dilutionary.
For example, if a company has a NAV of $10/share but sells shares for $15/share, then it is selling $1 of value for $1.5 and automatically making a profit. That $5/share premium that new investors are paying is automatically added to the NAV and makes the company more valuable. Well, it does if management is smart and can then take the free money and invest it at a high rate of return. This is an area in which Main Street's management has proven to be masters. Even if the secondary offering initially appears to dilute existing shareholders, if shares are sold above NAV (the higher the better), then the NII/share will increase and so too will the dividend.
This high premium to NAV is creating a can't lose scenario. If the stock price stays high then existing investors make capital gains while collecting steadily growing dividends. Management can then raise cheap capital to reinvest and further grow the portfolio, NII/share and dividend. This further raises investor's income as well as the share price. As the market's confidence in management grows so does the premium to NAV (as well as the NAV itself). This means that the longer Main Street can execute well, the bigger it grows and the cheaper and more accreitive does new capital become to existing shareholders. It is a way to ensure that a proven winner keeps winning.
8. Portfolio Diversification:
According to its 2013 year end investor presentation, Main Street Capital's investment portfolio is $1.15 billion spread out over 169 companies. No investment represents more than 3% of the portfolio or 2.5% of the interest income. Only 2 of the loans are on non-accrual status meaning the company is not making payments. This 2.3% non-accrual status is among the lowest in the industry and shows the care with which management performs due diligence on a company before giving tit a loan or buying stock in them.
51% of its loans are in the Lower Middle Market segment (meaning small companies) and the average yield on this segment of the portfolio is an astonishing 14.7%. Yet 86% of these loans, which carry increased risk, are First Lien loans. This means that in the event of a bankruptcy Main Street would be first in line to collect on its debts when the company's assets were sold off. 93% of these LLM loans are fixed rate and pay monthly which helps Main Street pay its investors.
37% of the portfolio is Middle Market companies which are larger, more stable and less risky. The average yield on this segment of the portfolio is 7.8%. While this is lower than the riskier LLM segment, it is still higher than the 7.3% total yield that Main Street is paying investors. In addition, 94% of these loans are floating interest rates which means that Main Street stands to benefit from rising interest rates.
9% of Portfolio is in private loans. There are 15 total companies represented in this segment. 95% of these loans are secured and 98% on a First Lien basis. The average yield is 11.3%
Valuation and Future Performance
Valuing BDCs is both easier and more difficult than most companies. Traditional metrics such as EPS and PE ratios don't matter as much as does NAV, NII/share and price/NAV.
The 5 year average price/NAV is 1.53, indicating that the current share price is 13.1% overvalued.
However, another way to value a BDC is by adding the yield and the CAGR of the dividend together. This is an estimate for total returns since the dividend yield is what drives the price of BDCs. In this case we have a yield of 5.6-7.3% (depending on whether one includes the semiannual special dividends) and a dividend growth rate of 8.5%. This indicates that investors could expect to earn total returns of 14.1%-15.8% CAGR going forward. Taking into account dividend reinvestment we get anticipated future returns of 20.5-24.25%.
Taking into account the anticipated 5 year returns and discounting by the stock market's 1871-2013 CAGR of 9%, I get a fair present value of $43.36-$46.69/share. This indicates that Main Street Capital is trading at a 26-35% discount to fair value.
Technical Analysis:
The short-term technical signals are mildly bullish for this stock. There is moderate support at $34.49 with almost no resistance to speak of above the current price. The latest candlestick pattern is a neutral Bullish Harami. This basically means there is little short-term risk to the stock at its current levels, other than a general market correction.
Main Street Capital is truly a buy and hold forever stock. During the great financial panic when it seemed that another depression was upon us, management steered the company to calmer waters all the while maintaining and raising the dividend. The track record and shareholder friendly nature of management is truly outstanding and should give long term investors the greatest confidence that management is investing alongside you and your best interests are being served. Despite being at near record highs, I do not hesitate to recommend Main Street Capital as a long-term very strong buy. I recommend all investors initiate a position and add during dips. Main Street Capital is the kind of generational wealth creating juggernaut that deserves a place in every portfolio.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

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The Kapoho tide pools was a great place to go for shallow depth snorkeling. When the tide is low, you're only a couple of feet from the bottom and the fishes.
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I went here a couple years ago and was totally impressed! Swam with lots of turtles and saw a lot of fish. This time we entered a different side , the one with the largest pool and the water was very murky and it looked like there was some sort of oil or substance in the water which freaked us...
The Kapoho tide pools was a great place to go for shallow depth snorkeling. When the tide is low, you're only a couple of feet from the bottom and the fishes.
Visibility is pretty bad when you move around since the water gets very cloudy when the warm top layer mixes with the colder lower layers, but if you swim...
Despite the clear waters I was disappointed with the place. Did not see a lot of life as some claim and it seems that the corals have been suffering a lot.
Im not that big of a fan but we did go and all four went into the pool its neat how ocean water can come in and how its warmer. Kind of a hippy joint area but thats ok and has a life guard the day we were their the drive is real nice and lush area of island.
It was raining so plenty of parking space. It was nice for the neighborhood to provide a portable toilet and change place. There were some fish swimming close to to surface. I would snorkel here.
The tide pools have terrific snorkeling. However, they are not part of a State, County, or Federal park. You are trooping thru private residential areas to reach the tide pools. Please, be a nice guest and be respectful that people live in those house you are walking by, or the community may decide to throw us all out.
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We had the great good fortune to visit the tide pools in the company of a marine scientist from UH Hilo. This is a wonderful natural laboratory if you are interested in these amazing creatures or just like to get up close and personal with Hawaiian marine life. Access means a bit of a hike from where you park and...
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We were fortunate to have rented a home in Kapoho Beach Resort where the warm pools are found. Meant for residents and guests, we noticed many cars parked outside the gates with people walking in to the pools. We were unable to utilize the pools because of health issues but would have loved to. They looked most inviting.
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The Great North Dog Walk is the brain-child of Tony Carlisle and was founded by him in 1990. He has organised the event every year since and 2015 was our " Silver Anniversary "- 25th event. Tony is a former Teacher of Harton Technology College, in South Shields and is currently United Kingdom Fundraiser of The Year – for the 2nd time. Raised over £6.32 Million pounds for charitable causes. He has also donated 75 pints of blood and for this he holds the Emerald Award Certificate. The event has been supported by a host of celebrities in the past including Blue Peter, Record Breakers, Newsround, the Big Breakfast television show and more recently, CBBC Children's TV in March 2013. Click here to view CBBC's Who Let the Dogs Out coverage of The Great North Dog walk 2012.
In 1997 Tony wrote to Dame Catherine Cookson and her husband Tom and duly received financial assistance and their blessing and permission to have the walk renamed the Catherine Cookson Great North Dog Walk. Butcher's Pet Care Ltd sponsored the event from 2004 until 2010 and Pets at Home sponsored the event from 2011 until 2015. We would like to welcome our new Sponsor Pedigree for 2016.
This event is annual and measurable and the last dog walk was the 25th staging. It was held on Sunday 7th June 2015 with 26,423 dogs represented by 185 breeds, starting on The Leas, South Shields, England, United Kingdom, SatNav NE33 2JH. The 3 mile (4.8km) walk follows a coastal route along the cliffs with magnificent sea views. There are four different routes of varying lengths to cater for everyone within the community and over varying surfaces like grass, gravel and concrete. This therefore allows for baby buggies, wheelchairs, the young, the elderly, disabled and also older dogs to support this world record attempt. The event is Internationally recognised and holds the WORLD RECORD as the largest dog walk ever held (22,742 dogs). This is a record we would like to keep in the United Kingdom coupled with allowing interested parties to attempt this World Record and allow them to raise funds for the charity of their choice from the listed beneficiaries.


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Tropes appearing in this game:
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: When the Prince falls in a pit, he lands in what seems to be a sewer of some sort, but it is quite large and outfitted with the poles and obstacles encountered in the rest of the game.
- Action Commands: In a variant of this, the "Speed Kills" had to be executed by positioning the Prince in a specific location and were used to initiate, or pre-empt by killing off, combat instead of being used as Finishing Moves. More conventional examples show up against the bosses, which almost invariably need Speed Kills to be defeated.
- Affably Evil: The Dark Prince is often little more than a Voice with an Internet Connection; it never actually lies to you, since he's just the shadow of the Prince brought to life by the sands of time. Nor does it seem particularly malicious until much further into the game.
- Badass Princess: Princess Farah, returning to this role from the first game.
- Bag of Spilling: The Prince intentionally drops the Medallion of Time into the ocean in the opening cutscene, possibly believing he wouldn't need it anymore, or that he'd be letting go of the memory of Farah by doing so note , thus losing his time powers until he gets the Dagger of Time. He then loses the Water Sword when his boat is sunk by a catapult boulder, and lampshades this trope when he gets his first weapon in the game.
- Bash Brothers: The Ax and Sword twins, which are only beaten when you know that they work together.
- Battle in the Center of the Mind: The climax of the game, where the Prince pursues and finally rejects the Dark Prince.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: The Prince's daggertail. Painfully embedded into his arm and it can only be used by the Dark Prince as a weapon.
- Braids of Action: Farah's hairstyle falls under this category
- Big Damn Heroes: When the Prince and Farah attempt to get inside the palace, they quickly find themselves surrounded by a literal army of hundreds of sand monsters of all sizes; far too many to fight. Just when it seems like the heroes are about to be slaughtered, the voice of the Old Man rings across the noise, and everyone turns to see him standing at the front of what appears to be the entire population of Babylon."All hail the Prince of Persia: the greater hero the land has ever known! You have saved the people of this city, and we have come to repay the favor!"
- Before that, the Prince becomes exhausted after killing the sword thug, and just when the axe thug is about to kill the Prince with a blow to his head, it gets shot from behind by Farah's arrows.
- Body Horror: When the Vizier plunges the Dagger of Time into himself to gain immortality, his back sprouts a scorpion which attacks him!
- Book Ends: The game ends the same way the first one began, with the prince telling Farah the events of the first game, starting with the exact same line.
- The Bus Came Back: Farah returns to her role from the first game.
- Chainmail Bikini: Farah's attire is hardly more than this. It's a good thing she's a distance fighter.
- Chariot Race: Much to the frustration of many players, a chariot race takes place. The player has to not only pick the proper way to turn, which may not always be obvious, but also ram into enemies along the way. This seems to be a favorite of Ubisoft's.
- Cosmic Retcon: Other than the Prince still remembering everything that happened, it's quickly revealed that, thanks to the events of the previous game, what was left un-retconned of the first game is now retconned out of existence as well.
- Cutting Off the Branches: The Golden Ending of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is actually made canon, which Kaileena acknowledges in the opening narration.
- Damsel in Distress:
- Kaileena is abducted by the Vizer's mooks in the first part, and she ends up dying at his hands by the end of it.
- Farah in the endgame is abducted by the now One-Winged Angel Vizer, and is rescued when he is killed.
- Deadpan Snarker: The Dark Prince is an absolute master of this, as evidenced by his response when the Prince sees people being herded toward the arena below.Prince: I should do something.
Dark Prince: Go ahead, fall to your death. That'll be of great use to them.
- Death of the Hypotenuse: Kaileena is killed by the Vizier and becomes the Sands of Time in order to set off the plot and make way for Farah. She is revived in the end, and declares that she will now seek out other worlds so that no one can ever abuse the power of the Sands again. This was actually quite well-received, given that most fans liked Farah better.
- Determinator: The Prince is this in a lot of instances. Most notably when the Prince chooses to ignore the cries of endangered citizens, much to Farah's disgust. He changes his mind once she leaves him with some sour words.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Farah does; see Spiteful Spit.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: In the ending, The Prince literally climbs the Tower of Babel to meet a god. It's a little-G instead of big-G, but aside from that...
- Dual Boss: The Twin Warriors.
- Dual Wielding: The Prince can do this, by picking up any sword or other weapon he come across for his free hand.
- First Girl Wins: The Prince still has feelings for Farah, despite the events of the first game being long overwritten by temporal meddling. Kaileena meanwhile ascends to a higher plane of existence after the sands are freed from the Vizier's control.
- Eleventh Hour Superpower: During the final section of the game, you obtain the King's Sword, a secondary-weapon that can One-Hit Kill any enemy in the game. You'll have plenty of opportunity to use it, too.
- Free Wheel: Done at the end of one of the chariot-driving sequences.
- Genre Savvy:Farah: I think I see a bell in the tower. Perhaps if you can get me to the next balcony I can sever its rope; you can use it to access the door switch.
Prince: With my luck, it will probably trigger some terrible trap. Or summon Sand Monsters. Or bring about the end of the world!
Farah: Would it kill you to show a little optimism?
Prince: Experience has taught me wishful thinking only leads to disappointment.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Throughout the game, Farah aids the Prince from a distance with her bow, whether it is to save his life or knock down a box for him. The Prince, in return, hits all of his enemies with his swords.
- Hates Small Talk: The Prince. Made clear when he can't even discuss his favorite color or fruit with Farah without complaining about why they would speak of such things and mocking Farah's favorite fruit, the pomegranate.
- Healing Spring: Not one body of water in The Two Thrones, but all of them. You can drink from any water you find to regain health, most notably the saving fountains, and it also changes the Prince back to normal if the Dark Prince has taken over.
- Heart Container: Golden fountains that are off the beaten path. If you're able to get past the obstacles without dying, your health will be permanently increased.
- Hellhound: Hunter Hounds.
- Here We Go Again: The Dark Prince sighs these words when Farah asks the Prince how he got the Dagger of Time.
- Hide Your Children: Children can be heard among the captured citizens, but none are ever seen.
- Hilarious Outtakes: Included is a blooper reel of things like the Prince fumbling his acrobatics and getting the Dagger of Time replaced with a rubber chicken.
- Heroic Resolve: When the Prince finds the dead body of his father, he decides to quit trying to change the past and accept his fate, which gives him the strength he needs to reject the Dark Prince once and for all.
- If I Had a Nickel: As the Prince says more than once: "If I had some sands for every time someone has said that to me..." Also doubles as a Bond One-Liner.
- Juxtaposed Halves Shot: The cover features The Prince and Dark Prince juxtaposed on each other, and provides the trope image for Superpowered Evil Side.
- Knight in Sour Armor: The Prince, essentially. He realizes, however, that most of the misdeeds in the world are, in fact, his fault, and that he needs to right them, but not without first bemoaning the events of his life.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: Trailers of The Two Thrones make no attempt to hide the fact that Kaileena is the empress of time and that she dies early in the game.
- Le Parkour: Much of the game is spent running up walls, jumping off of them and using your weapons to aid you in your parkour skills. Plan on jumping to your death...a lot.
- Legacy Boss Battle: The Klompa and Stone Guardian battles are a Call Back to the Brute minibosses from Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.
- Lighter and Softer: It's still darker than the first game, but it manages to find a happy medium between the first game's fairy-tale atmosphere and snarky protagonist and the second's darkness and edginess and improved combat.
- Mirrored Confrontation Shot: The cover for the Wii version, Prince Of Persia: Rival Swords, does this with the Prince and Dark Prince.
- Morality Pet: Farah acts as one for the prince.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Due to the events of Warrior Within, The events of the first game have been undone and the Vizier is back to try becoming immortal once again.
- No Body Left Behind: Sand monsters fade away quickly, dissolving into sand, which the Prince can then absorb to aid in his time manipulation powers.
- Off with His Head!: As the Dark Prince, the player can lop off many sand monsters heads with ease.
- Also, the axe thug attempts this on the exhausted Prince for killing off its twin, before it gets shot from behind by an arrow from Farah.
- Orbital Shot/Bullet Time: Happens near the end of the game, when the Prince leaps off from the highest floating platform to deliver the final blow to the transformed but weakened Vizier (Zurvan); the camera pauses at the dramatic moment for a 360 degree view of the action in a Shout-Out to The Matrix, after which point you get to perform a Finishing Move the moment the Dagger flashes.
- Our Monsters Are Different: Sand monsters.
- Pietà Plagiarism: When the Prince in his Dark Prince form sees his father Sharaman dead after obtaining his sword, he crumples to the floor in his "My God, What Have I Done?" moment and holds his father in this manner, all the while the Dark Prince's voice taunts him on how to save Sharaman's life.
- Ring of Fire: The battle with the Axe and Sword twins.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Ultimately subverted. One of the key elements in the prince's Character Development is his realization that going back in time to fix his mistake has only made things worse, and that he needs to accept them in order to save the day.
- Sheathe Your Sword: You can only win the final battle against the Dark Prince by refusing to fight and leaving the room via the staircase behind him.
- Shirtless Scene: The Prince spends a large portion of the game without a shirt.
- Shout-Out: The camera's pause and Orbital Shot at the climatic moment of the second-to-final battle in which the Prince leaps off to deliver the final blow to Zurvan is a shout-out to the Bullet Time mode in The Matrix.
- Spiteful Spit: Towards the end of the game, as Zurvan is about to make Farah his winged queen, she asks him for a request, and he comes closer, hoping for her to kiss him once more; instead, she spits in his face in defiance.
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Kaileena, a pivotal character in Prince of Persia: Warrior Within who survives in the true ending, is killed off within the first 15 to 20 minutes of this game. Subverted in that she continues to narrate the game after her "death", and is ultimately restored to her true form once the Prince defeats the Vizier.
- Superpowered Evil Side: The Dark Prince. As part of the corruption of the Sands, the Prince will occasionally transform into what he considers an abomination; his flesh turns to sand with Power Tattoos, and he is able to use the daggertail as a weapon. His health instantly regenerates upon absorbing sand, but constantly deteriorates otherwise. He also gets a handy little voice in his head that stays with him whether he's transformed or not. The voice is the mental manifestation of all his darkest desires, who tempts him with power and constantly belittles him whenever he tries to be anything except ruthless, arrogant, and violent. It's implied that the health draining out of the Prince is actually going into him, and when the former dies then he will have full control over the body. The Prince has to face him down and ultimately reject him in order to finally put his past behind him.
- Time Master: The Prince with his dagger. Not only are the sands the main plot device in the game, but being able to rewind when you make a mistake as a player is extremely useful.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Farah, which the Prince Lampshades.
- Unwinnable by Mistake: At the end of the Upper Tower, there's a section where you have to run up a wall to a dagger plate, then jump from a shutter to another dagger plate. Be prepared to use several sand tanks, or worse, lives before finding the right moment when you should bounce to the plate, especially when all other shutter jumps in the game are straightforward. Solution here It's also possible to skip all dagger plates to directly reach the ledge, but once again, you have to jump at the very right pixel.
- There's also a low chance to fall while running along the wall at the beginning of the Upper Tower.
- Villainous Breakdown: The Dark Prince suffers one at the very end of the game, screaming and begging you to come back when you abandon him.
- Volcanic Veins: The Dark Prince.
- Whip Sword: The Dark Prince uses a weapon like this called the Daggertail as his main weapon, and is very, very efficient with it.
- "World of Cardboard" Speech: Given in conjunction with the above Heroic Resolve.Dark Prince: What now, then? Gather up enough Sand, perform another grand rewind? Or perhaps you can return to the Island and travel back to a time when he might still be saved? Maybe rescue a Damsel in Distress along the way!
Prince: NO! You are right. I have been like a child: naive and arrogant, always rushing to undo my mistakes. Never facing the consequences of my actions. No more. I accept what I have done, and all that it implies. *transforms back, without water*
Dark Prince: What is this?! You have no water! How did you—?
Prince: You hold no power over me now! Begone! Retreat to whatever dark hole spawned you, and do not trouble me again.
- Your Princess Is in Another Castle: After the Prince defeats the Vizier's godly form, the game looks like it's ending with the Prince handing the Dagger of Time to the spirit form of Kaileena before she vanishes... except that when the Daggertail falls from his arm after he gets cured of his infection, it suddenly becomes a crown, and the form of the Dark Prince appears to claim it and to fight him, meaning that the game is not quite over.


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... almost rejoicing that their hero, Ahn Sun Su Chi, is about to again become their elected leader on Nov 8, at their general elections, but having to get on with their daily lives under the military rule. Construction and destruction is everywhere. In some ways, the littered and rubbled streets remind us of India. There are a huge number of magnificent Colonial buildings now abandoned and falling apart, as no one occupied these buildings ...
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We purchased our tickets beforehand from a ticket office that was hidden away in an obscure part of the town. When we entered we had a few overly animated conversations with the locals working there to understand where and how to buy the correct tickets. We opted for the overnight sleeper train in our own cabin.
The next day we arrived at the train station. Navigated our way to Platform 1 which we had kindly ...
Mayfair, on the Strand!
... of Yangon we're not likely to see otherwise, as there are lots of slum dwellings up against the railway track. Very basic housing, often just out of natural materials, though some with wooden walls and corrugated iron rooves. But the worst thing looks like the conditions outside, which are often muddy stagnant water, with sandbags and planks to pick your way over between houses and lanes. However, some houses have electricity, as evidenced by a ...
... wearing sarong like skirts and the women and children were wearing face paint. If Hong Kong was Asia Light, we were now entering Asia Max. I'd been exhausted from the day's travelling and had zonked out immediately upon arriving at the guest house so we were up and at em early the next morning to explore the city before the heat got too oppressive. The city is an attack on the senses. It was dirty, busy and crazy hot - there are millions of holes in the ground, most pavements ...
Across the river to another world
... walls then contained offering cabinets, with concertina grills in front of the solid gold Buddha images and silver "umbrellas" with silver George IV coins pinned to them. Eventually we came to the relic aperture where you can see the bejewelled case in the centre of the room and directly under the centre of the stupa, which holds (if you have binoculars) the small Buddhas hair. Here the crowds jostle to catch a glimpse of the article, pray to it and throw money offerings through a ...


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Soviet And Russian Space Programs
According to Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency V. Popovkin, it is likely that Russian cosmonauts will land on the Moon by 2020. Citizens of the Russian Federation, engineers or doctors by education, may apply for the program to be selected for the expedition. The Russian Federal Space Agency also announced its plans to build research stations on Mars. All that is yet to happen in future so why not look back into the past to see what space programs the Soviet Union and Russia had.
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On October 4th, 1957 Soviet Sputnik-1 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to become the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth orbit and trigger a space race between the USSR and the USA.
On November 3rd, 1957 Sputnik-2 became the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit and the first to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika. Laika died a few hours later from overheating and stress (in 1957 it was announced the dog died 6 days after the launch).
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The Soviets couldn't make a decent washing machine, but they could make a pretty darn good space program. Great job.
I hope you get back on track and develop a good successor to the Soyuz capsule. And it was a shame about phobos grunt. It would have been cool to see a landing on phobos.
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what's tang lung? bruce lee? or other?
i am yamashita tomohisa!
The Soviet Space program is so much more inspiring because it shows what raw brainpower can do with minimal resources. Western consumers get everything ready made and assume this is the normal state of human existence.
WTH are you talking about? The Soviet space program had the full weight of the Soviet government and industry behind it. It was a matter of national prestige. What minimal resources did they have to make do with and overcome, you know, with their raw brain power? lol
What industry? Just 16 years before the country was destroyed by the war.
The Red Star awaits you, Russia.
Hell yeah
Glorious pictures of a heroic past.
However, Russia's recent decision not to build a modern large rocket, and the recent failure of interstellar satellite missions and launches don't bode well for the current generation. There are many larger and more modern rockets and spacecraft being developed around the world and Russia has fallen behind.
The idea of a Russian space tug to transport men and material to and from the moon is a great idea. How this will be possible without a new rocket system remains to be seen.
Check out the Angara and Rus, both being developed by Roscosmos.
Besides, whadya need a new rocket for when you have good old Soyuz!
It's lovely when we all seeing the past of history about the Space; for a person to be proud, must accomplish some historic issue. The competitions between Soviet Union and USA; the best was the bunch of liars by the greater landed in Nevada Desert by American Astronautics. Was so good; forty four years after; no comments not even commemorated for any years went there. Such competition between the two countries; give lots of credit to the Americans, which today no one wants to talk about. The proved the bunch of liars human beings are; but another will come, why Americans came so reach not long after the end of second would war. Was and still has of a country that made so much money, but money from paper, dollars and the magic dollar bill. Now it's more dollars around the world, and not so much in United States .But England also made the same, and start before the Americans. Another one will come soon; and maybe the top secret idling for the last forty six years. Why human beings have got the courage of lying so much for so many years. I have to saying Soviet Union did more in the last 50 fifty years than USA did during his birth. Now I wish Russian could grasp and try putted some terrestrials on another planet ASAP.I cannot tell too much about me; even I, many times fill wondering about myself. We all know about evolutions not just on Earth, also on Universe. Changes are frequently; and the Earth is the one which could go very fast into many catastrophes, until disgrace will continue by men made. Ignorance and stupidity too much, only smiling or laughing just to show Agency of Intelligence. The Intellectuals their think have been for too long. A.Oscar
People really did walk on the moon. It really happened. Get your meds adjusted.
Tito was up there in 2001, not 2010.
Chinese also declared the goal to make a manned expedition to moon.
They actually have quite an ambitious space program of their own.
Wow. Cosmonauts on the moon by 2020… only 50 years later than the Americans.
50. Years.
We saw no reason to send humans to the moon after our robots had already examined it before your people allegedly landed there.
lmao, I love this arguement every time it comes up I get excited. So here's what you do, get out your little telescope and look at the moon like astronomers have been doing for centuries. Now locate the lander and the american flag, you'll find it if you know where to look. Not enough proof? Lunar orbiters have snapped thousands of pictures of the landing sites and even been well-enough equipped to show the damn footprints on the surface. Sure all the photos can be doctored but you still have the ability to see the damn thing with your naked eye through a lens. Should have had your robots bring back some rocks with Helium 3 in them like our guys did. You know, the shit that only forms under cosmic rays and years of sitting in dust on the moon?
there is not clue that USA really went to the moon, first the space progran they had, took from the director of the nazy´s V1 and V2, wast so advance like the USSR, the 3 ppl who went to the moom, 2 died in misterious strange ways and the one who survived always said, never asked about the program to the moom….WTF??? the travel when the sun´s radation were too stronge and the spaceship wasnt prepare to that, it could be seen stars on the esenarie…the flag was movin like by a wind….everythin was prepare, how is it possible that after 50 years they didnt come back?? or why can not see by telescope? stop the lie…never none could go to there yet…thats what i belive….nice post
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For the past thirty years, the photographer Hiroshi Watanabe has split his time between Tokyo and Los Angeles. I met him at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park when he reported for his first day of work on the Bull City Summer project. He's a compact man who moves carefully but fluidly; at age sixty-two, he resembles a boxing trainer or a retired gymnast. On meeting, he said to me, "I have a question—why did you invite me? I don't follow baseball and I've never photographed it." He already knew the answer—I think he wanted to find out if I did.
A few days later, during one of that week's many rain delays, Hiroshi wandered into the dark, narrow room inside the left-field wall, behind the manually operated scoreboard on the thirty-foot Blue Monster. In this barnlike storage space, placard numerals are lifted and installed in the appropriate slots, facing outward into the stadium, to indicate runs, hits, and errors during games. Here's how Hiroshi described what he found there:
I saw all these panels with numbers on them. I realized that the number zero had a certain translucent quality the other numbers didn't have. The paint on the zero has been faded by more exposure to sunlight. This fading has made beautiful patterns—maplike, veinlike cracks. The passage of time offers different textures on different materials. In the scoreboard numbers, it's just faded paint. Only zero shows the passing of time I'm looking for. Read More


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Maia Eubanks (heavy, Rice) received a bye in the first round, then met
up with Brazilian Olympic bronze medalist and eventual SWUG gold
medalist Natalia Silva Falavigna in the quarterfinals. Maia used
footwork and speed to keep the match very close until the 3rd round,
when Silva was able open a lead and take the tight match by a score of
Whitney Daniel (light, Rutgers) advanced over Korea in the first round
due to an injury withdrawal. In the second round, she met Tina
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exchanges, no points went up for her and she lost a tough one
Stefan Webb (light, Metro State) drew Fabio Sottile of Italy in the
first round. He got down 4-1 early in the match, but was able to
press and attack to tie up the score 4-4. Unfortunately, his opponent
scored on a counter attack early in overtime, for a final score of
T.J. Leising (heavy, Santa Clara) drew eventual bronze medalist Robert
Vossen of Germany. T.J. worked hard through all three rounds and kept his
opponent engaged but fell short by a score of 2-0.
The coaches on the day were Dan Chuang, Jae Ho Kim, Yoon Kak Kim and
Linda Buell.
Tomorrow, competition concludes with the bantam and middleweight
divisions. Jason Hwang (bantam, Cal. State - San Bernardino) meets
Washington Marcelino of Brazil in the first round. Aziza Chambers
(bantam, Dayton) received a bye and faces the winner of Federica
Mastrantoni of Italy and Saule Sardarova of Kazakhstan. Jayson Grant
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2) Hossein Tajik, Iran
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IE has lost almost 4% market share in the last year, with most of those users moving over to Firefox, said NetApplications. Firefox was first launched by the Mozilla Foundation in November 2004. Apple Computer's Safari browser had 3.19% of the market in March.
The Netscape browser, which was once the market leader, now accounts for just 1.05% of the market, while the Opera browser weighed in with a slender 0.54%.
Microsoft is planning to launch its IE7 browser later this year, equipped with better functionality and improved security features, to help stall its gradual slide against Firefox.
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