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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 161, January 5, 1999
ARSC T3E Downtime for Upgrade
Yukon and Chilkoot's hard drive capacities were increased to over 500GB each over the weekend of Jan 30-31.
Yukon will be down again from 6am, Saturday, Feb. 13 through 8am, Monday, Feb 15. It will come back up with 272 PEs! Certainly a nice upgrade.
MPI Message Tags On Yukon
[ Many thanks to Brad Chamberlain of the University of Washington CS department for this contribution. ]
This article details the use of MPI message tags in C on yukon using Cray's implementation of MPI as well as the MPICH version, based on one user's experience and problems and a bit of advice from the comp.parallel.mpi news group.
MPI's various Send/Recv calls take as one of their arguments a user-defined integer tag, used to distinguish messages from one another. In one model, these tags might be chosen explicitly by the user to represent different types of messages that their program might utilize. Another method of generating tags is to start with a small tag (such as 0) and cycle through them in an automated manner.
The range of possible tags varies from implementation to implementation of MPI. The MPI standard requires that all implementations support tags in the range 0..32767, however any particular implementation may use a larger upper bound if it desires.
The way to determine an implementation's upper bound in C is to use the MPI function MPI_Attr_Get() . The short description of MPI_Attr_Get() in the MPI 1.1 standard is as follows:
int MPI_Attr_get(MPI_Comm comm,int keyval,void *attribute_val, int *flag)
Retrieves attribute value by key. The call is erroneous if there is no key with value keyval. On the other hand, the call is correct if the key value exists, but no attribute is attached on comm for that key; in such case, the call returns flag = false. In particular MPI_KEYVAL_INVALID is an erroneous key value.
The name of the attribute that describes the tag upper bound is called MPI_TAG_UB . Thus, impatient programmers, such as the author, that want to quickly determine this value, might make the following call:
{ /* INCORRECT code to find maximum tag value */ int tagub,flag; MPI_Attr_get(MPI_COMM_WORLD,MPI_TAG_UB,&tagub,&flag); }
It turns out that this call is incorrect. MPI attributes are actually returned by giving the user a pointer to the value (presumably to get around the problem of different attributes having different types in C). As a result, code to correctly find the bound would look like this:
{ /* code to find maximum tag value */ int *tagub,flag,maxtag; MPI_Attr_get(MPI_COMM_WORLD,MPI_TAG_UB,&tagub,&flag); if (flag) { maxtag = *tagub; } else { maxtag = 32767; } }
Using this code on the T3E, we find that the upper bounds are as follows for the two MPI implementations:
Cray MPT MPICH MPI_TAG_UB 65,534 1,073,741,823
(Editor's note: Both Fortran and C have the same limits on the T3E. )
When exceeding these bounds (in this case using an MPI_Irecv call), each implementation halts with a message as follows:
Cray MPT: --------- -MPI- ERROR FATAL: world rank 0, comm 0 In call MPI_Irecv, [-496, class MPI_ERR_TAG], [Invalid tag argument] bad tag argument MPICH: ------ 0 - MPI_IRECV : Invalid message tag 1073741825 [0] Aborting program ! [0] Aborting program!
Thus, the result is that MPICH supports a higher tag limit (for those users that need it) and provides clearer error messages, in that it gives the illegal tag number (for those users that exceed it). Although this last point seems like a minor one, debugging an MPI program after it's cycled through 65,534 tags is no small task, and the extra information is appreciated.
Co-Array Fortran Web Site: "www.co-array.org"
Dr. Alan Wallcraft of NRL maintains an important web site for CAF users, http://www.co-array.org/ . It contains:
- A short introduction to Co-Array Fortran
- The complete language definition
- I/O in Co-Array Fortran
- Why not just use MPI?
- A subset easy to translate into OpenMP Fortran
- A Subset Co-Array Fortran to OpenMP Fortran translator
- Discussion of implementations
- Sample programs
- Links to earlier papers
- A request for feedback and links to new CAF papers/programs
Here are some comments concerning this site, from Alan:
In particular it includes a list of the parts of the language missing from CF90 3.1 and a link to a module that provides the missing intrinsics. This CF90 stuff is the most important for T3E users.
Note that I also now include an implementation of sync_images, because a) the original CF90 version was broken, and b) all my sync intrinsics have debugging and deadlock detection options. Any routine that starts with USE CAF_INTRINSICS will get the module version rather than the intrinsic.
From AAAREAD.ME in Co-Array_cf90.tar.gz:
A module providing the Co-Array Fortran intrinsics missing from CF90 3.1 for the T3E. Also includes a generic Fortran 90 wall time subroutine and a few example Co-Array Fortran programs.
From caf_intrinsics_t3e.f90:
module caf_intrinsics implicit none ! ! Co-Array Fortran intrinsics missing from cf90 3.1 on Cray T3E. ! ! sync_file, sync_memory, ! sync_all, sync_team, ! start_critical, end_critical. ! ! Also includes a reference implementation of sync_images. ! This may be slower than the intrinsic version, but has ! debugging and deadlock detection capabilities. ! ! Call caf_init once on each image at the start of the program. ! Add use caf_intrinsics anywhere these "intrinsics" are called. ! ! Environment variables: ! caf_sync_debug is set to turn on debugging (default off). ! caf_deadlock_seconds controls deadlock detection (default none). ! ! Call caf_reset to change debugging or deadlock detection status. ! ! Alan J. Wallcraft, NRL, October 1998. ! With modifications by John Reid, November 1998. !
Also, wtime.f90 is my attempt at a portable wall clock timer based on F90's SYSTEM_CLOCK. It has worked with all compilers I have tried it on so far, although at least one version of NAG F90 had a timing granularity of 1 second.
T3E/O2000 Scalability Paper
"PEMCS" is the "Journal of Performance Evaluation and Modelling for Computer Systems." PEMCS has several papers on line, including this new posting:
Comparing the Scalability of the Cray T3E-600 and the Cray Origin 2000 Using SHMEM Routines, by Glenn R. Luecke, Bruno Raffin and James J. Coyle, Iowa Sate University, Ames, Iowa USA
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HPF User Group meeting
> HUG'99: The 3rd Annual HPF User Group meeting > > The Third Annual High Performance Fortran User Group (`HUG') meeting > will be held on May 24-25,1999 at the Renaissance Wailea Resort Maui, > Hawaii. This meeting follows the first two meetings in the series held > in 1997 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, and in 1998 in Porto, Portugal. > It provides an opportunity for users of HPF to meet each other, share > ideas and experiences, and obtain up-to-date information on current HPF > implementations and future plans. > > The HUG meeting will include: > > * invited presentations by HPF users & technology providers > * contributed talks > * panel discussions > > There may also be a poster session and demonstrations. > > The HPF User's Group meeting will be followed by an HPF Forum Meeting > on May 26 at the same location. > > > Further information about this event will be available on the HUG'99 Web > page at: http://www.icase.edu/hug99 > > Enquiries may be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Quick-Tip Q & A
A:{{ Imagine... You've saved all issues of the T3E Newsletter as separate files in a single directory. Can you generate a list of all articles, by issue ? }} Thanks to one reader for this solution: cat ./* egrep '(^ARSC T3E Users) (^ \* )' In case you don't use egrep, it's a powerful cousin of grep which lets you use regular expressions in your matching criteria. The above egrep command uses some common syntax: The " " character OR's the alternatives which it separates. For instance, egrep '(this) (that)' would match all lines containing "this" or "that". The "^" character matches the start of a line. For instance, the above command would only match "ARSC T3E Users" if the "A" appeared in column 1. The "\" character indicates that the next character is to be taken literally (the "\" itself is not matched). This is often called "escaping" the next character. In the above command, "*" must be escaped because it is also a character with special meaning to egrep. A couple of other important special characters: The "$" character matches the end of a line. The "*" character indicates that 0 or more occurrences of the previous character must be matched. The "." character matches 1 occurrence of anything. Here's another solution which grabs the article headings instead of the table of contents by matching the two leading/tailing *'s: cat ./* egrep '(^ARSC T3E Users) (^ *\*\* .* \*\* *$)' The second alternative says to match all lines that: begin with 0 or more spaces which are followed by 2 *'s, a space, 0 or more of anything, 2 *'s, 0 or more spaces, and the end of the line. Either of these two solutions could accidentally extract lines that aren't actually titles, and the first extracts them from the table of contents while the second extracts them from the body of the newsletter. Q: Which is better at retrieving multiple migrated files? yukon% dmget A B C <or> yukon% dmget A yukon% dmget B yukon% dmget C
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OAKLAND -- Jose Canseco, among the first to arrive, slipped into the familiar No. 33 jersey that was waiting for him inside a suite reserved for the 1989 A's reunion. The former outfielder tugged playfully at the uniform that no longer fits as well as it did during his super-muscular youth.
"Sucks getting old," Canseco, 50, cracked.
Actually, based on the good vibes Friday night, getting old didn't look so bad. With the passage of time, the '89 champions were all smiles, having had 25 years to come to grips with the earthquake that disrupted their four-game sweep of the Giants, their anger at Canseco for his controversial book and, more recently, the death of beloved pitcher Bob Welch.
On Saturday, they can simply raise a toast to one of the greatest teams in Oakland history.
"It was an earthquake Series, and there were some unfortunate things," ace Dave Stewart said. "But I do believe through it all that it brought two sides of the bay together. And that was a good thing."
Stewart, the World Series MVP, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch Saturday as part of a pregame celebration for the last Oakland team to win it all. Friday's behind-the-scenes gathering was a low-key affair, a chance to renew acquaintances. In Canseco's case, there was a lot of catching up to do.
This marks his first appearance at the Oakland Coliseum since his 2005 book "Juiced," in which he detailed his own anabolic steroid use and named Mark McGwire, his famed "Bash Brother," as one of his fellow users.
For that reason, Canseco is unsure how Oakland fans will react when he is introduced Saturday.
"I really am nervous right now. I don't know," said Canseco, who hit 254 of his 462 career home runs for the A's. "I'm kind of scared and nervous and excited at the same time. ... I'm hoping we can focus on baseball and celebrate the game."
Canseco, who still looks strong enough to hit one to the tarps, apologized for writing the book, even as he stood by its contents. He said he was put "between a rock and a hard place" because his publisher, HarperCollins, wouldn't go forward with the project unless he named names.
"I regret writing it, no ifs, ands or buts about it," he said. "I regret putting my friends in the book, even though it was a true accounting of what happened to me in major league baseball.
"The reason I (wrote) it was not a good reason. I was angry at the time with Major League Baseball. ... I think eventually my youth, my lack of experience, my anger toward Major League Baseball for not being able to find a job at 37 years old really overwhelmed me. I wasn't thinking correctly."
While his reaction from the crowd remains in question, his A's teammates embraced him readily. Even Stewart, who didn't always see eye-to-eye with the outfielder when they played together, said he was "genuinely glad that he's here."
"How many years has it been? Whatever took place back then as far as our team was concerned, it couldn't have been that bad because we were always in a position to win. He was a big, big piece of that," Stewart said.
Dave Henderson, asked how fans might react to Canseco, said: "I think it's going to be fine. I've been around Billy Buckner and others. People forgive. Time heals wounds."
And if not? There are plenty of other things for A's fans to cheer. The '89 team went 99-63 during the regular season and outscored opponents 712-576.
Rickey Henderson, who is here for the reunion, led the American League with 126 walks and 77 stolen bases. Carney Lansford, who is also in town, just missed the batting title at .336, a shade behind Kirby Puckett's .339.
Their manager, Tony La Russa, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame next weekend.
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The '89 players will wear jerseys Saturday with a BW patch in honor of Welch, the former Cy Young Award winner. Welch died last month at 57 in his Seal Beach home. The Orange County Coroner's office has not yet released an official cause of death.
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ISLA VISTA, Calif. - One of the more dangerous spots in Santa Barbara County is now much safer. A new fence has gone up on the edge of a large open space on Del Playa Drive in Isla Vista with a 50-foot drop to the beach.
It's expected to save lives in an area that has been known, for years, to be very risky for residents, mainly college students.
Since last fall, there have been two deaths and at least two serious injuries linked to falls from Isla Vista cliffs.
UC Santa Barbara External Vice president, Rhandi Siordia said, "cliff falls have been an issue in Isla Vista. We have had fatalities, injuries, thinks like that. Building the fence was our way of making sure every single park has protection."
Sciordia led the student effort to raise funds for the fence. He found out, it would cost $6000. In just a few weeks, the students came up with $1000. After making a request to local leaders, the county provided $5000.
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Final details of how Perpetual, the NZ funds management and advice firm formerly owned by Pyne Gould Corporation (PGC), will operate under its new structure have emerged on Australian specialist financial website Investment Operations and Custody (IO&C)*.
Readers may recall that, under a somewhat complicated arrangement, PGC merged Perpetual with Australian firm van Eyk Research before selling it on to UK-based investor, Andrew Barnes.
Barnes, who had previously headed up ASX-listed Australian Wealth Management (which itself had been spun out of Tower Australia and is now owned by IOOF), will take over as head of the Perpetual/van Eyk investment business in Australia and New Zealand, according to IO&C.
At the same time, the newly-structured business will attempt to head off critics by Chinese-walling its funds management and research/advice operations.
Under the new arrangements, long-standing head of van Eyk Research, Mark Thomas, will take charge of the firm's original business researching funds and investment products for Australian financial advisers leaving Barnes to run funds, IO&C reported.
While not so well-known in New Zealand, van Eyk carved a name for itself in Australia over many years as a premier supplier of independent research to financial advisers. The fact that van Eyk also runs a billion-dollar plus multi-manager investment product under the Blueprint brand kind of puts a dent in the 'independent' image so a more delineated operation does make sense.
The potential conflict of interest is not so serious for van Eyk in New Zealand, however, where its research clients are few (especially after losing its major client, AMP NZ, earlier this year).
Naturally enough, though, van Eyk does provide services to Perpetual.
Perpetual NZ, which boasts about 10 Authorised Financial Advisers (AFAs) amongst its staff, also had about $300 million under management in various funds at the time of its merger with van Eyk. According to the Perpetual website, van Eyk acts as adviser to its funds while the group also offers Blueprint products to New Zealand clients.
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Truth is, it's time to replace Gilbride.
With what looks like what's going to be a much more potent offense next season, we need a much more aggressive OC.
It is what it is.
Loyalty will not win us championships and will only get our HC fired.
BTW, I'm looking forward to watching the New York Browns next season!!!
Killdrive is NOT a creative person. The problem is that he likes to think he is, but any of the times he calls plays like that direct snap to Bradshaw or that fake reverse to Cruz, those are just gimmick plays that, like the long bombs, have a low % rate. By the same token, he seems to avoid some common sense things: play action (especially when Wilson is on the field and the defense pretty much MUST respect that run threat no matter what), using Shotgun formations for what they're actually designed for (passing), etc.
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I am fortunate to be able to have and use this venue to voice my concerns about the direction of our country. Each week I hear from many of you. At times, I must admit I'm a little embarrassed by the acknowledgements and the degree of praise I receive. I think readers recognize I'm writing from the heart. It's not so much how I put the words on paper, but perhaps the passion and belief behind what I try to convey.
Like many of you, I'm concerned about the direction of our country, the attitude of our people and the things we see that are clearly not moving the nation in a positive direction. My goal here is to voice concern from a position that I hope the majority can agree needs attention. I also hope to encourage our leaders to put aside their party affiliation and hidden agendas designed to further divide the nation and stonewall needed legislation.
I don't consider myself a radical, a revolutionary or someone who sees a conspiracy behind every tree. There are simply subjects that I don't see appearing in the national media, however, that should be covered and I'm concerned why they are ignored.
I make these points because it reflects what I hear from many of you when you contact me. One of my concerns when I began writing this column a couple years ago was the fear of offending some readers or advertisers who ultimately pay the way for this free newspaper. I'm surprised at the number of you who express concern about speaking out and expressing their views either in letters to the editor, guest commentaries or comments on the web site. Fear of retribution is a major concern for many of you.
The concern that in this land of free speech many have been silenced by fear, not of what others will think, but more so by what others may do, is an alarming trend. Respectful disagreement has taken a back seat in this day and age. One can easily see how outspoken individuals can be labeled "crackpots" or "nut cases" and the media and our politicians should take the blame for making citizens fearful about speaking out.
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That is a great idea, just might do that myself.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
That is a great idea, just might do that myself.
Quilt outside of the box!
They look like archive boxes from office suppliers
How clever and handy you are. I like this idea. Thank you for sharing.
Great idea! Scraps seem to multiply in storage, don't they?
I like the look of this but I would put tops on the boxes to keep out the dust, etc. Love the pegboard idea as well.
Central Maryland
You are my kind of friend. Use what you have to make another use for it.Love the boxes. I would put a color scrap on the front for easier looking.. Rescrue. Recycle. Reuse. Thats what Lara says on Flea Market Flip. Hugs
Very impressive! Well done, both of you.
My best is the least I can do.
Wonderful! I think I would color code the boxes so the yellow box would be yellow scrapes etc.
That is great...You are talented....Good job....


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How determined detectives cracked cold case murders
SPOKANE, Wash. - The murders of Yolanda Sapp, Nickie Lowe and Kathleen Brisbois in 1990 were cold cases for decades, and while technology helped catch a suspect, it was the dogged determination of investigators that cracked the case.
The DNA matches that linked Douglas Perry to the trio of murders from the spring of 1990 weren't possible at the time of the killings; the technology just wasn't there. However the detectives who investigated the Sapp, Lowe and Brisbois murders saved the evidence anyway, not knowing what would finally lead them to the killer.
Investigators who worked on the murders at the time remember these case clearly just because there were so many victim in such a short time. Even though the cases went cold, the search for answers never stopped.Detectives crack cold case murders
Detectives combed each murder scene, looking for anything and everything that could answer one question: Who killed three women in fourth months?
"At that particularly time we were pretty sure we probably had a serial murderer working, just didn't know who it was and where to go from there," former Spokane County Sheriff's Detective Jim Hansen said.
Hansen was one of the original detectives investigating the murders, chasing down lead after lead before the cases went cold.
"It just kind of goes on the back burner, never goes away, but it's always on the back burner," he said.
It was evidence collected by Hansen and his colleagues back in 1990 that finally helped crack the murder cases this year.
"Satisfied that maybe something you did when you did it was worthwhile," he said.
Four years ago a full DNA profile was created of the suspect; this September suspect DNA found on some of the evidence was linked to Douglas Perry. Detectives went to Carrie Johnson's office in the Spokane County Sheriff's Forensics Unit to see if Perry's fingerprints matched ones found on one of the victim's personal items. It did.
"That was an 'Aha!' moment because it connected two of the homicides together," Johnson said.
The case immediately came back to Johnson, who collected evidence 22 years ago at two of three murder scenes. The case came full circle for her when she helped match the prints.
"You always hope," she said. "There are a lot of cases you work on for years and years and think 'Geez are we ever going to solve them?'"
It's just the beginning of getting answers that eluded investigators for decades.
Johnson added that advances in DNA technology made a huge differences in connecting the dots in this case.
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Sounds good, but kind of short notice..
Really hope people show up..
Problem down here in Florida. It is such a pro gun state, really not to much to complain about, yet anyway..
They seem to keep passing laws here in support of ownership of weapons.
So far the idiots in D.C. are just preaching what they "want" to do..
Again I like the idea..
But I do really believe the big march will be on D.C.. Once the idiot Biteme and Nappy put something officially in writing..
Then I think the fat lesbo bitch Rosie, who goes nowhere without her 6 armed bodyguards, and her million mom march. Her show will be dwarfed by millions showing up in D.C..
I really feel Nappy and Bitme, have no clue that gun owners can fight back.
They must have a T.V... Are they watching the incredible sale of weapons and ammo, with just a few words out of their stupid mouths..
Do they really think people are buying and going too rush too turn them in?
If so, their stuck on stupid.
I really feel the big march will be on D.C.. and don't think their not thinking what I am thinking..


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I will add my 2 cents in on this one. I also believe Mr. Lindsey is full of shit. I do however respect Musibike's right to express himself with out personal attack. A forum is an open discussion of ideas and whether you agree with them or not, personal attacks are off bounds. Win your point with sound research, not name calling.
Anyhow, Israel does have a semi-secret nuke program. It was sold to them by the french after attempts to steal our technology fell through.
Global warming is real and man is the cause during this particular time frame. Many times in the past climate change has affected the Earth. This was brought on by massive co2 emmision from super volcanos or particulate matter in the air blocking sunshine released from massive meteor strikes or any of another host of climate changing issues such as Sun activity. All these are natural based changes and ther is nothing we can do about them. What we can do however is recognize our profound affect on our air quality and our responsibility to it. We have pumped billions of tons of waste chemicals into the air. How do we not expect something to happen eventually. The same way our water quality has dramatically been impacted it's the same for air. We once thought the skies infinite as we did our oceans. There is no natural factor to account for this temperature change. The sun isn't doing it, The earth's core isn't growing hotter. Only the atmosphere has changed. The course of the rise in co2 emmissions exactly corresponds with our rise in industrial output. When BushII came to power he commisioned a study on the enviroment, intending to use his fuzzy science to manipulate the figures to keep us out of clean air treaties and pollution control measures for his friends in industry. When the report was delivered to Bush he was sorely dissappointed. The facts were so bad as to be beyond manipulation. He then discredited his own report and his own scientists by dimissing the findings.


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|2009-12-31, 12:44
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^Any good fantasy world can make you feel this way (and the best inspire you to write your own fantasy worlds...or fanfiction ). In fact, the popularity of many fantasy novels, especially children's fantasy, is the character arc of transforming from mundane to the magical (this film handled the transformation quite well, especially the slow breakdown of the human body as Jake slowly becomes more and more Na'vi). (Of course, there are many good medias res fantasy worlds as well.)
Conversely, this transformation can be horrible, as seen in District 9 just a few months previous.
|2009-12-31, 14:28
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Just watched it the other night at Imax, in 3D. The visuals were breathtaking. They were really good. When it first sorta glided you through the trees I got that downhill roller coaster feeling. It took me awhile to settle in because we sat too far forward, but once I did I was immersed. I couldn't tell if the avatars were actors heavily modified with CG and make up, or if they were entirely CG. Can anyone clarify?
The plot isn't very good though. I didn't really like any of the characters (except the colonel, but that's probably because he's the closest thing to something badass in the movie. Maybe I'm just a retard that way), they were pretty standard archetypes. (including the colonel >_>)
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|2009-12-31, 21:36
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It was decent. Saw it in theaters in 3D. But I think people are overrating how epic it was. The visuals were impressive, but the story was a familiar one...most notably in Dances with Wolves and then The Last Samurai. If I could break down the film in a few words I would label it as Final Fantasy meets Dances with Wolves. Still worth the money none-the-less. I don't see myself adding it to my favorites collection when it comes out for home release though.
|2009-12-31, 22:59
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I thought the movie was okay. The special effects and James Horner's score are amazing, and I'm a major scenery porn lover so I liked all the focus on Pandora's environment. But as cool and imaginative as the whole world of Pandora is, I found the story hard to get emotionally involved in since most of the characters, except for Dr. Grace and Colonel Miles Quattrich, seem so flat to me.
I do have to commend Cameron for managing to make Quattrich quite threatening during the final battle even though he's probably physically weaker than Jake at that point.
|2010-01-01, 00:12
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Elements of mankind seems infected with this "rape, pillage, extract" disease that ruin a good day for the other 80% of the population (whether they're minions for these psychopaths or the ones in the way).
I enjoyed the film quite a lot... but that's recognizing the basic "Fern Gully Dances with Wolves" underpinning. I've meet real Quattrich types and real "corporate bozo" types so even those characters aren't so "over-the-top" as some might think. All the character development, however, did suffer from the "no time, too much to see" problem so they're left somewhat sketchy.
The Dr. Grace subplot and getting her wish wasn't that cheesy... though it did telegraph Jake's end solution so thoroughly a doorstop would get it... so it goes.
I liked the little chopper pilot -- reminded me of a KC-135 pilot and a search&rescue Blackhawk H-60 pilot I worked with.... they both looked quite cute in their flightsuits and were gumchewing smartasses
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|2010-01-01, 08:20
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three quarters of a billion dollars.
Most movies that are "successful" typically get revenue drops of up to 60% on their 2nd weekend. Avatar's revenue dropped 1.8%
Also, the weekday releases of Avatar 2nd week of release have actually seen it making more money than it did it's first week of release.
Post 1st week of release, the idea that Avatar was going to bomb was just trolling perpetuated by butt hurt people on /tv/ who had invested many troll points in predicting Avatar would fail. That's why that one day when that new Alvin movie got released where it made a few million more than Avatar did, everyone got on the troll car to harp about Avatar failing.
It had a 237 million dollar production budget with 150 million dollars allocated to marketing. Combined that's only 15% more expensive than the Dark Knight.
|2010-01-01, 08:26
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|2010-01-01, 08:27
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We're so far gone
|2010-01-01, 09:49
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|2010-01-01, 13:16
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Still what I found so true in the movie is the corruptness in humans. I mean Avatar was a geniune display on how corrupt and greedy, war-hungry, humans are. And I do admit that the whole Jake falling in love with the Navi native, was a bit and the whole "love-scene" where they did the bad thing lol, was like.
It display a beautiful story line on how people who have lost all hope(Jake), manages too find hope in life(Navi).
But still I really am curious how the sequals will carry on the story... if there will be one.
I mean the movie ended perfectly, Jake got his wish and got too be with Navi girl, and who knows perhaps now he is the leader of the Tribe etc etc. And the Humans who left the earth are now on a long 5 years trip too Earth. So if there is a sequal I doubt it will have Humans as enemys.
|2010-01-01, 13:33
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^From various interviews, Cameron has expressed interest in producing novels that explore life on not only the Na'vi's world, but other moons orbiting the gas giant in the sky.
His next movie, though, is Battle Angel Alita...then again, this has been his next movie since 2000 or so.
|2010-01-01, 16:30
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A rather depressing article about how companies in the real world are doing things AT LEAST as bad as in the film to indigenous peoples around the world. Said people also have the disadvantage that unlike the Na'vi they aren't three meters tall, hideously strong, and can call upon mighty animals to fight beside them, so they don't even have the option of driving out the f@%¤kers who rape their lands with force.
|2010-01-01, 17:13
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|2010-01-01, 17:15
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You could probably provide hundreds of such links and documentation... until the large extractive corporations and their executives are made responsible for their actions - it is unlikely to change.
|2010-01-02, 09:08
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|2010-01-02, 10:00
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Why? Because Ferngully was one of my favorite animated movies when I was a child, and I read that dances with wolves got 7 oscars, including best picture, and that the Sioux Nation liked it so much they even adopted Costner as an honorary member. Bit funny that negative remarks about the movie just made me more interested.
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Jennifer Lawrence & More: 2013 Critics' Choice Movie Awards Red Carpet
The film industry's hottest stars were out for the Critics' Choice Movie Awards on Jan. 10 — check out the greatest looks on the red carpet!
The 18th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards, hosted by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, finally arrived on Jan. 10, and we loved seeing the film industry's most talented show off their finest fashion! From Jennifer Lawrence to Nina Dobrev to Anne Hathaway, the celebs arrived at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica ready to shine. Check out all the stars' best looks and tell us who YOU think shined the brightest!
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Re: Personal Space Tours: Upd. w/ Seasons Themed Room
Congrats WaveLightning on getting to lvl 120.. and also kudos to everyone postin about their spaces that are wanting to show, as it helps in many ways for those wanting to see.
This week we got the Mystic Arcade Personal Space (see next post)
anyone who would like to show, post here & let me know so I can add to the listing.
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Mystic Arcade Personal Space
Mystic Arcade Personal Space
Code Mystics Inc.
Take a trip back in time to the lobby of the Mystic Theatre. It's a great place for old-style arcade video games. Visit often and check out the movie marquee for a new '80s-tribute movie title each week. Complete your personal arcade with classics like Frogger, Centipede, Time Pilot, Asteroids, Lunar Lander, Adventure, and more, sold separately. Includes:
1. Mystic Arcade personal space.
2. An animated glow-in-the-dark T-shirt exclusive to owners of the Mystic Arcade.
3. Mystic Arcade Theatre Poster.
4. Mystic Arcade Garbage Can.
Available in the Estates store for $3.49
Unlockable Rewards: NO
14 Wall Hanging slots
Video Tours:
This video provided courtesy of madouda
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BBC Dr Who
Casino Penthouse
Casino VIP
Mysitic Arcade
Cutteridge Demonic
Def Jams
Dolphy Room
Eden Vigilarium
Emo Ray
Ghost Busters
Gnome Curling Secret
Granzella Japanese Tea
Glittering Sands
Gz Burger
Homegrown Lab
Race on Garage
Japanese Apt
LBP Pod
Living Room Stage Set
Lock a Doodle
Jewel of the Skies
London Pub
Sunset Yacht
Peakvox Ninja
Monument Valley
Pacific. Rift
Nebula Airship
Carlas Coffee
Palace of the Seven Winds
Rathet and Clank
Raven Barracks
Red Bull House of Skate
Downpour Diner
Summer House
Sunlit Meadow
SVER Barracks
Underwater Apt
Uncharted Fortune Hunter
Valor Barracks
Irish Pub Vee Mee
Vsari Throne Room
Winter Villa
o. I would like to update my list please. I find it easier to list the spaces that I do NOT have rather than listing the ones I do. If you wouldnt mind, please update my list to exclude the following:
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Musicality Club House
Musicality Club House
A unique live music venue perfect for hosting club gatherings. Up to four players can grab an instrument and jam/compete against other club members. Comes complete with all music packs - Dance, Rock and RnB. Please note, in order to access this Club House you will need to have purchased the Club House slot from either the Estates Store or the Clubs menu (available in Options).
Available in the Estates store for $4.99
Unlockable Rewards: YES
Video Tours:
Musicality (Apartment version) - video provided courtesy of cbeyond
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A House of Hogsmeade
A House of Hogsmeade
Sony Computer Entertainment
The only all-wizarding village in Brittain, Hogsmeade is situated close to Hogwarts. The Hogwarts Express travels to and from the village's station.
Available in the Pottermore store (at Mall2) for $6.49
Unlockable Rewards: NO
Video Tours:
***note: tour is available thou local chat will not work in the space, and owners can't use any furniture (only from pottermore) and everyone will have default pottermore clothing.
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Yoosh.!!!! I need a tour of the season changin personal space.
Thanks in advance.!
I'm on if you need the tour, let me know


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Yeah he did use to stare down the receivers a lot but when he was on he would carve up a defense like a Thanksgiving turkey. Those were rare moments though and I don't think there was a time when he backed up to make a pass when I didn't hold my breath. He got awfully hot in '02 though until the defense folded against San Fran and the refs cheated us. They had the nerve to issue an apology the following week which made me even sicker. Besides that, I thought we were on our way back to the Superbowl.
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due to the fact that I am from the Woodstock generation ...
my opinions may be chemically enhanced and influenced by severe episodes of memory loss
and YA had only 10 td's vs 22 pics.i don't even think Dave Brown can match that.
hey , he did really great for a temp hired gun.....but he wasn't a Giant long enough to qualify.
there were only 14 teams (10 of which sucked) and 2 divisions.....the championship was the ONLY playoff game.
he choked all 3 times......3 times 1 and done. (Romo-esque)
even Kerry Collins had a few post season wins (as an old hired gun....and equatable to YA as such)
this guy was one of the games all-time famous-for-nothing legends. Kelly...Tarkenton....there is
a long list of QB's with equal or better stats that never won anything.
he probably isn't even in the top 10 best of the ones without a ring.
for the record...
26th all-time passing yards. which is very respectable ,but not top 10.
18th all time in TD's (242) pretty good , but still not even close to top 10.
the only thing YA tittle was in the top 10 in was.....
9th all-time in interceptions thrown.
he threw 248 int's , but only 242 TD's
he actually threw 6 more pics than td's.
not even Favre can say that !!
in the '61 championship game we got shut out 37 to nothing - Bart Starr 37 YA 0
in the '62 championship game our only score was a defensive touchdown . YA 0
in the '63 championship game , YA threw 5 pics.
overrated , over-hyped ....regular season stats but big choker in the big games.
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due to the fact that I am from the Woodstock generation ...
my opinions may be chemically enhanced and influenced by severe episodes of memory loss
I'm getting old watching YA play was really great, his passing ability made the game great!


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Faculty research award apps due Oct. 10
By Meghan Villarreal
Senior Administrative Associate, Office of the Associate Vice President for Research
(Aug. 31, 2007)--The deadline to submit applications for the UTSA Faculty Research Awards is 5 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 10. The program promotes UTSA research and scholarship of the highest quality.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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The competition is open to full-time, tenure-track faculty, regardless of rank. Applications from assistant professors will be considered separately from those submitted by associate and full professors.
The Faculty Research Awards Committee will review, evaluate and recommend funding of the research proposals. Funding is limited to $5,000 per project; proposals must include a budget justification.
Read details about the Faculty Research Awards. For information on submission requirements and the application form, visit the Funding Opportunities Web site; select "Faculty Research Awards" under "UTSA Funding Opportunities."
Submit applications to: UTSA Office of the Associate Vice President for Research, Multidisciplinary Studies Building Room 4.03.60, 1604 Campus.
For more information, call (210) 458-5198.


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Passionate Breakfast
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FOOD in the Kitchen of Happiness! Breakfast is our middle name and we invite you to experience and celebrate the most important meal of the day… Albergo Allegria style. We passionately recognize: respect quality ingredients, culinary creativity prepared from scratch, present with excellence in hospitality.
Mornings promise the delicious aromas of locally roasted, fresh ground coffee and sautéed omelet fillings. The breakfast staff welcomes each guest as the kitchen is ready to satisfy the heartiest appetite. The antique marble sideboard and retro-blue cast iron stove present mounds of fresh fruit, steaming hot muffins, signature granola, yogurt, and toasting breads that are just a prelude to the entrees to come. Hand crafted loose leaf TAY TEA from 3 generation tea blender, Nini Ordoubadi, will impress any tea drinker. Also offered is an extended selection of The Republic of Tea choices.
Several breakfast dishes emerge hot from the kitchen every morning. The Chef's imaginative repertoire includes buttermilk pancakes with blueberries; local apples laced with cinnamon or bananas and finely chopped pecans. The menu changes every morning and on other days, guests are treated to stuffed French toast, Belgium waffles or crepes. The 'Kitchen of Happiness' also delivers a gourmet omelet including fresh local vegetables of the day and garden herbs or for the traditionalist — there are always two eggs any style, or Frittata. The morning protein accompaniments bacon, sausage or perhaps grilled ham with a light marmalade glaze.
We cater to your needs and can handle the following special requests:
|Celiac Friendly
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Just let us know when making your reservation to ensure that we have everything in stock for your arrival. Although we take great pride in catering to your needs, if you have severe allergies please call to verify if we can accommodate you.
Breakfast Hours are posted at front desk and are subject to change.
- 8:00 to 9:30 am Every Morning
- 7:30 to 9:30 am When ski slopes open at 8:00
- 7:00 am for Corporate Clients with prior arrangement
"What a wonderful, warm experience"
This was our first stay at this bed and breakfast and we cannot wait to go back. The place is immaculate, spacious, and inviting. The family and staff were wonderful! Our daughter has celiac disease and the gluten free baked goods and breakfasts offered were fabulous. We all looked forward to getting back to the house after long days of skiing and couldn't wait to see the baked goods that were waiting for us! We can't wait to visit again!


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Hope you're not in a hurry. Rotton is one of the many folks in this hobby with a lot of Real-Life™ distraction right now. No way to know when he might get through all of us sitting here with puppy-dog eyes.
From what Rotton's said, the smaller of the two sizes he's working on will fit a B-cup after the cloth layers under the armour are taken into consideration.
Plus, if you're going for a metal effect under the paint, you might want to try the same thing I use (third item down).


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My old hive swarmed right under my nose, and I was able to catch them, and through a series of containers have finally transferred them to a brand-new, hastily built hive.
The swarm -- now known as the new hive -- survived being dumped into a rubbermaid storage container, dumped into a borrowed TBH, and finally dumped into the new hive. (By the way, 11/64 air holes drilled into a rubbermaid container are just big enough to allow bees to get stuck halfway in and halfway out).
I checked them the day after the final hiving, and they were building comb down the gap between bars on one of the borrowed top bars. (The borrowed hive did not have comb guides yet). I pulled that comb off and placed it on the comb guides of new top bars.
I gave them a rest yesterday, but checked them again today. They are drawing straight comb on about ten bars, and there is one wavy brood comb I had pulled out of the old hive -- nothing in the old hive is particularly straight, but it's all workable -- near the hive entrance. They had attached the comb on the first top bar to the front of the hive.
Other than that, all seems right with the hive.
Now I would like to give them a break of several days.
After the mess in the original hive, I'm not sure if that would be wise.
It all seems straight now, but the comb is small.
What's the right balance between checking a new hive and letting them go about their business without interference?
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Dr. Steve Greene is now sharing his reflections and practical insights as a ministry leader on Greenelines, a new podcast. Listen at charismapodcastnetwork.com.
Learning who God created you to be will help unlock His unique purpose for your life
God doesn't create anything without value. He is the ultimate craftsman. And He designed you specifically to fulfill a unique role in His ultimate plan to establish His kingdom on earth.
Even though each of us has made mistakes, we still are a special work of the Creator's hands. He even takes time to know about our day-to-day lives. In fact, He is smiling right now, rejoicing as you seek to discover the masterpiece you are to Him.
The Bible says we are God's "masterpiece" and that He created us anew in Christ so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago (see Eph. 2:10, NLT).
This verse helps us understand that if we want to discover our mission or purpose in life, we first need to look at the masterpiece God has made us to be. While self-help books tell you to look within, the key to living the life you were meant for is to look to God and ask Him to help you discover your uniqueness.
After you discover who you are, then you can start figuring out what God has planned for you—the specific way He designed you to make a difference in the world for Him.
Here are three helpful steps for you to maximize your ministry with God and for God: (1) Embrace your S.H.A.P.E.; (2) Express your S.H.A.P.E. in service; (3) Empower others to do the same.
Embrace Your S.H.A.P.E.
The S.H.A.P.E. concept was developed by Saddleback pastor Rick Warren, who writes, "Whenever God gives us an assignment, He always equips us with what we need to accomplish it. This custom combination of capabilities is called your S.H.A.P.E."
Your S.H.A.P.E. comprises five specific characteristics:
Spiritual Gifts: A set of special abilities that God has given you with which to share His love and serve others.
Heart: The special passions that God has given you so that you can glorify Him on earth.
Abilities: The set of talents that God gave you when you were born, which He also wants you to use to make an impact for Him.
Personality: The special way God wired you to navigate life and fulfill your unique kingdom purpose.
Experiences: Those parts of your past, both positive and painful, that God intends to use in great ways.
Express Your S.H.A.P.E.
After you have a basic understanding of who God has made you to be, you can then use what you've learned to serve others. As you serve, you will get confirmation of your S.H.A.P.E. Confirmation will come in the form of inner fulfillment and outer fruitfulness (results). Fulfillment and fruitfulness are the signs you are maximizing your S.H.A.P.E. for service.
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As a leader, your job is to maximize your S.H.A.P.E. and empower and equip everyone around you to do the same. This is how the body of Christ maximizes its potential.
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Historical Area Flat with Balcony
Size70 m²
Floor No.1
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
- Baby cot
- Family/child friendly
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|Beco do Monte, 1170-248 Lisboa, Portugal
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The apartment is furnished and equipped and has 2 bedrooms, both with double beds. The apartment will be delivered clean. The beds are amazingly comfortable and the kitchen is fully equipped for you to prepare your meals and feel at home.
The area is served by 28 tram that runs through Lisbon from the Prazeres to Graça, an amazing walk with magnificent sights. The area has many supermarkets nearby, as well as restaurants, banks, close to the subway, bus and train.
House rulesNOTE: Payment in check-in of the tourist city tax since 01.01.2016, 1 euro per night For Each person, older than 13 yeard old, up to 7 nigts
The apartment must be delivered clean. a basic cleaning and bed clothes change once a week is included.
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
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|25 NZ$ per guest/night extra
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Reviews of this property
This was the second time we stayed in this appartment. The appartement is very nice and has a beautiful view from the balcony, overlooking the whole of Lisbon. Nuno is a very gentle host. The appartment is fully equipped and nicely renovated! It is a big of a climb, but that is good for burning calories after all the good food Lisbon has to offer. We can definately recommed to stay here for a few days or a whole week!
Nice flat, very clean and all you need in bathroom and kitchen. We did like the flair at the balcony, there you can feel the spirit of the town. Nuno is very friendly. Thank you for the nice time in Lisboa
Wonderul appartment in Graça with a nice view. It is quiet and has enough space for a family or two couples. Kitchen is okay, the beds are good and the small bathroom is fine. It is located pretty close to Tram 28 and only a 15 minute walk to Martim Moniz. We liked our stay there a lot.
Our stay in Nuno's apartment was amazing. The location is great (2 metrostations very near). We took a taxi to the apartment (about 18 euros), and he met us there, and let us in. It was very spacious, clean, exactly like the photos, plus the extra of an amazing view. Definitely coming back here!
A very nice flat - perfect for two couples or a family with two children (not too small children because you have to get up a very steep hill just before the flat). Beautiful view from the living room and balcony! Everything was very clean and tidy.
We walked into the city centre (about 15 minutes to Praca Figueira) and only used the metro once or twice. Just down the hill there is a square with cafés (Largo is a good one to have breakfast at the weekends) and the restaurant Ramiro (very popular) is just next to the square.
Just a few remarks on what could be easily improved concerning the flat: a mirror in one of the bedrooms and a trash can in the bathroom. We also had trouble with the key of the front door - I would change the lock sometime...
Very nice and clean apartment near the metro Line Intendente. Lovely little balcony with a beautiful view especially when the Sun sets in the evening. Close to metro, bus and tramline. 10-15 minutes walk to the city center of Lisbon and Rua Augusta. There is a supermarket ( Lidl) 200 meters from the apartment.
The apartment is located on the top of a small but very steep hill, so it can be a tough walk up to the apartment.
We only saw Nuno at the day of our arrivel, but he was helpful through e-mail, and available throughout the whole day, if we had any questions.
The only thing is that the head pillows are either very hard and high, or very low and soft. Maybe a pillow in between would be nice. But all in all we had a very nice
stay, and the apartment is highly recommendable. We wouldn't hesitate to rent the apartment another time, if we one day are going to Lisbon again.
Michael and Michéle from Denmark
Really a great apartment with a magnificent view over Lisbon. The arduous climb is quickly forgotten when you enter the apartment and enjoys the view.
Very clean accommodation and it is thought of everything. Even towels and tea towels, washing up liquid, salt and pepper, table decorations: everything available.
A super value for money.
Wirklich ein tolles Apartment mit einem herrlichen Blick über Lissabon. Der beschwerliche Aufstieg ist schnell vergessen, wenn man das Apartment betritt und den Ausblick genießt.
Sehr saubere Unterkunft und es ist einfach an alles gedacht. Selbst Handtücher und Geschirrtücher, Spüli, Salz und Pfeffer, Tischdekorationen: einfach alles vorhanden.
Ein super Preis-Leistungsverhältnis.
Apartment is super nice, very centrally located. However, little hard to find because very hidden in a narrow street. A large mirror would be desirable.
Wohnung ist super schön, sehr zentral gelegen. Allerdings etwas schwer zu finden,da sehr versteckt in einem Gässchen. Ein grosser Spiegel wäre wünschenswert.
Our apartment in Lisbon was very nice and had a wonderful view over the city. We immediately felt comfortable.
Unsere Wohnung in Lissabon war sehr schön und hatte eine wunderbare Aussicht über die Stadt. Wir haben uns sofort wohlgefühlt.
There were two in May in the apartment and are very excited. The apartment is well maintained and clean, very tastefully decorated. The beds had good mattresses, in the kitchen everything necessary was available. The bedrooms are located on the quiet side. From the dining area you have a great view of the city and we also often sat on the small balcony with a good view over the old town. There, however, fit only 2 chairs and a small table on it. We were able to stop us well in the apartment. This has made the sightseeing program relaxed. A Lidl supermarket with a small market hall is nearby. The nearest metro station is Intendente and about 400 meters away. From there it goes steeply uphill. The street where the house is located is very narrow and only at the upper access by car to drive. Taxis must therefore start from the top. The easiest way to get out the same list there too, as there are only a few meters to the apartment.
Nuno was a very friendly and accommodating landlord. As we flew back early, he took over the appointment of the taxi to the airport for us. Everything worked great. The taxi cost € 12.
The apartment and the city have absolutly loved it.
Wir waren im Mai zu zweit in der Ferienwohnung und sind sehr begeistert. Die Wohnung ist sehr gepflegt und sauber, sehr geschmackvoll eingerichtet. Die Betten hatten gute Matrazen, in der Küche war alles Notwendige vorhanden. Die Schlafzimmer liegen zur ruhigen Seite. Vom Essplatz hat man einen tollen Blick über die Stadt und wir haben auch oft auf dem kleinen Balkon mit gutem Blick über die Altstadt gesessen. Dort passen allerdings nur 2 Stühle und ein kleiner Tisch drauf. Wir konnten uns in der Wohnung gut aufhalten. Das hat das Sightseeingprogramm entspannt gemacht. Ein LIDL-Supermarkt mit einer kleinen Markthalle ist in der Nähe. Die nächste Metrostation ist Intendente und ca. 400 m entfernt. Von dort geht es steil bergauf. Die Straße, in der das Haus liegt, ist sehr schmal und nur am oberen Zugang mit dem Auto zu befahren. Taxis müssen also vom oberen Ende anfahren. Am leichtesten list es dort auch gleich auszusteigen, da es nur ein paar Meter zur Wohnung sind.
Nuno war ein sehr freundlicher und entgegenkommender Vermieter. Da wir früh zurück geflogen sind, hat er die Bestellung des Taxis zum Flughafen für uns übernommen. Alles hat super geklappt. Die Taxifahrt hat 12 € gekostet.
Die Wohnung und die Stadt haben uns super gut gefallen.
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text: Posted January 2, 2013 I like option three, where you win right away and keep on winning. Option two only seems to work for guys who luck into a franchise QB late in the draft. If you look at the best franchises out there right now, the ones that win and win big year in and year out, you'll see that most of them started winning under a regime right away and continued to do so. Pittsburgh started winning again consistently under Cowher, and in his first season. Green Bay started winning again under Holmgren Ravens under Billick Eagles under Reid, starting in his second season Colts under Dungy won immediately (having Manning as a soph didn't hurt) Saints started winning immediately under Payton Falcons started winning immediately under Smith. Then there's New England, which started winning in Belichick's second season, and it was his second stop. I guess I'm saying that a good coach will change the culture all by himself, he doesn't need a GM to build it through several years of roster tweaking. Who are you looking at in modern-era football that took years to build a consistent winner? The majority of those teams either had a great franchise quarterback or a great defense. Pittsburgh has always had a great defense which wins games. The same thing with the Ravens. Green Bay had Favre and then Rodgers. Colts had Manning as you mentioned. Saints had Drew Brees and the falcons had Matt Ryan. Of course New England has Brady. Who has had a great coaching history without a franchise quarterback or a great defense? I can't think of any. The quarterback was the most important factor that changed the culture by winning. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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you still should have some fall forage, and i would consider allowing them to store as much of that as possible and then supplement with syrup if needed to bring up to winter weight.
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The growing role of Abu Dhabi-based Tawazun Precision Industries (TPI) as a supplier of key machined parts for Airbus jetliners is highly visible at the Dubai Airshow, where the company is displaying titanium and aluminium structural components produced for the A330 and A320 aircraft families.
As a subsidiary of Tawazun Holding, TPI is an element of the United Arab Emirates' strategy to develop its industry and evolve a skilled workforce. TPI's focus is on engineering and manufacturing, with its Aerospace Business Unit successfully becoming a supplier for some 60 components on Airbus jetliners, and also working with other aerospace companies.
The TPI Aerospace Business Unit's Airbus programme activity started in 2010 with the manufacture of 1.6-meter-long titanium inboard wing spars on the A330, and it subsequently expanded to production of the jetliner's titanium outboard spars.
As part of its goal to secure additional Airbus-related work, the company has manufactured a series of developmental titanium ribs for engine pylons on Airbus' A320neo (new engine option) jetliner, which also are displayed at the Dubai Airshow.
The manufacture of aluminium parts involves forward fuselage frames for both the A330 and A320, including the A330's 3.84-meter-long Frame 17. Among the aluminium-manufactured parts are Class 1 components, which are critical to an aircraft's structural airworthiness.
TPI Aerospace Business Unit delivers its finished parts both directly to Airbus and to Airbus' Aerolia fuselage aerostructures subsidiary for assembly. Aerolia provided support for the shop floor deployment at the Aerospace Business Unit's facility, and also provided training. This process involved TPI personnel going to Europe, and the assignment of Aerolia staff members to the site – located between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, near the city of Sweihan.
"Aerolia worked with us at Sweihan for two years, assisting the industrialization," explained Marie-Laure Brice, Key Account Manager at the TPI Aerospace Business Unit. "This phase was completed several months ago, and as a result, we are now 'flying with our own wings' on this work package – ready for new opportunities."
The manufacturing resources at Sweihan currently include five-axis milling machines with the capability to produce titanium components with lengths of up to 2.5 meters and aluminium parts up to five meters long.
In addition to successfully developing its production capability, the TPI Aerospace Business Unit is meeting its goals of creating a skilled workforce. This includes an emphasis on 20 young Emirati graduates, including 12 women operating at different work stations on the company's shop floor today.


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Russian Finds "American Dream": RIC Alumna Tetyana Chmyrova
Tetyana Chmyrova '13
Tetyana Chmyrova was born in Russia, but America has been her home since the age of 16. After she earned her nursing degree at Rhode Island College in 2013, she decided to give back to the country that had adopted her. She has applied for a nursing position in the U.S. military. "To serve my country would be such an honor," she said.
Chmyrova came from a country where college prospects are limited. "My mother had moved from Russia to Ukraine when I was two. If I had stayed in Ukraine, I would not have been able to attend college," she said. "I might have made it into a technical school to learn a trade, but I wouldn't have been able to realize my dream of becoming a nurse."
She moved to America to live with her father, brother and stepmother in Canton, Mass., and enrolled as a freshman at Canton High School. She said, "I spoke not a word of English. I didn't understand anything the teachers were saying." In her junior year, after two years of ESL and Latin, she volunteered for Chernobyl Children International and found not only her voice but her vocation.
Each summer, children who have been affected by the fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 are flown to America from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. They receive 45 days of free medical treatment by American doctors, nurses, surgeons and dentists in Massachusetts, while living with American hosts. Chmyrova acted as translator for the families, making use of her ability to speak both Russian and Ukrainian.
By sitting in on the families' medical appointments, Chmyrova said she noticed that the doctors were not able to spend as much time with the patients as nurses. "I noticed that nurses went beyond standard care. They took time to get to know their patients. They focused on the healing of both body and spirit. That's when I fell in love with nursing," she said.
Chmyrova enrolled at RIC's School of Nursing because "it was a competitive school where the majority of students successfully pass the national nursing exam," she said. When she received her acceptance letter into the program, she said, "I cried so much. I had heard a lot of horror stories about people who had applied and been denied." That year she was also granted U.S. citizenship.
In 2013 she earned her BSN and applied to the Air Force Nursing Corp. Serving as a nurse in the military would be, what she described, her "dream job." Her application is currently being reviewed, and she hopes to hear from the recruiting officer by the end of August. In the meantime, she has passed the NCLEX (National Council of State Boards of Nursing) examination and is now a licensed registered nurse.
Looking back, she said, "One of the best decisions I ever made was choosing to come to this country. I am so grateful for all the opportunities America has given me, and I am grateful to Rhode Island College."


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It's what Ubisoft have done with the game mechanics that makes ZombiU a lot more unique than your standard zombie shooter fare.
You step into the shoes of a "survivor", someone who has yet to fall victim to the zombie outbreak that has plagued London. It's up to you to stay alive as long as possible and by any means necessary.
While the go-to weapon of choice is a sturdy, unbreakable cricket bat, you have your usual plethora of guns waiting to be found. Before too long you're introduced to "the prepper". He explains very little but he does get you up to speed on where you'll be the safest and equips you with a backpack to store things you may find.
Like any good survival horror, you have limited space in this backpack, and you'll have to organise what to leave behind and what to take with you. You'll even need to decide what to keep in the safehouse for any future survivors that may show up, and let's be honest, they will.
Unlike, well, almost every other game, once your character dies, they're dead. Permanently. If your death happened to be at the hands of the walking deceased, then your character becomes one and will roam the section of the map they died on. A quick cutscene passes and you find yourself controlling a new survivor who awakens in the safehouse, being guided by the same prepper. Rinse and repeat for every death.
While this may create some confusion with the story, it's soon forgotten as you head towards your goal and your previous character's shambling corpse. The double edged sword for this situation comes in the form of item management. Did your previous survivor horde the guns for himself or did he leave some behind as a safeguard? If he did the former then you'll be heading out as a new survivor with one cricket bat and a pistol with 6 bullets. If you manage to take out your previous self then you get to take back all the goodies you once had, but fail - and this is easier to do than you may think - and those items are lost for good.
ZombiU is a genuinely tense title that sees you holding your breath and feeling insecure from start to finish. The majority of the game is spent with just a small circle of light from your torch lighting your way; it gives an amazing sense of claustrophobia and, when combined with tunnels or sewers, can leave you dreading each and every beep from your radar.
The radar is both amazing and frustrating at the same time. More often than not you'll be sneaking a glance at the map found on your gamepad and checking to see what the radar is picking up - so much so that you'll start relying on it. The gamepad can also be used to scan the rooms you're in and allow you to tag items / undead so that once you've put the scanner away you'll know where they are. These functions become go-to mechanics that you'll start depending on, and when you think you have nothing to fear, Ubisoft pull the carpet out from under you, leaving you a whimpering mess on the couch.
One of ZombiU's heaviest critiques is that not only are you given little ammo, but your melee attack seems, for the most part, completely and utterly inefficient; it's rather normal to have to put wood to skull at least five times before incapacitating a zombie.
The thing is, you're not playing as a soldier or hardened criminal/fighter; you're just a regular person with no fighting skills whatsoever. The game makes you feel weak. You still have guns, upgradeable ones at that, and you'll find more ammo than the first few chapters of Dead Space, but you'll also feel horrible, weak, and useless, and it serves to make the game even scarier.
You won't charge into a room, you'll creep. You won't walk up to a zombie with intent to kill, you'll turn your flashlight off and hope it doesn't see you. You won't let off a round from your shotgun before scanning the area for more zombies, and you'll probably stick to the silenced pistol instead of the brutal Magnum. The game is designed to make you fear what's around the bend, it's designed to feel like you're controlling an average Joe in a nightmare situation, and it's designed to be hard enough that you may consider changing to the "chicken" difficulty.
For those after a little more of a challenge, there is survival mode - a mode so hard that the Ubisoft game testers questioned if it was even possible to complete. It's the same game, but this time you only have the one survivor: if they die then it's game over, simple as that.
Graphically, the game doesn't offer anything that couldn't be done on the Xbox 360 or PS3, but it still looks amazing. While ZombiU is incredibly dark for most of the game, the lighting, fog, and lens effects really help set the scene for what is easily one of the most atmospheric games around. Sure, it's not perfect, you'll still get zombies clipping with objects and sometimes even being pushed through walls (it only happened once), but the game looks gorgeous.
Something that is quite often overlooked when looking at in-game audio is contextual emotion from the character you're controlling. One of the best features of ZombiU comes in the form of the survivor's grunts and groans as they do damage with the cricket bat. While the first hit or two are your standard action game sounds, after a few more clubbings you really start to hear the fear or adrenaline in their voices. It's a small inclusion but hearing your characters panicking tends to raise the level of tension.
With the delay of the pro controller in New Zealand we weren't able to get a good hands-on with the multiplayer mode. We did try to get it going with the Wiimote and nunchuck controller but it was basically unplayable thanks to a strange aiming method that just wasn't working. And, since there's no online multiplayer available, the multiplayer aspect has been removed from this review.
While ZombiU doesn't have a fully fledged online multiplayer mode, it won't stop you from caving in the heads of those dearest to you. With Miiverse integration, any survivor that becomes a walking corpse will make their way into other's games. It's not abnormal to round a corner to find someone from your friends list ambling around with a backpack full of loot. It can be satisfying if they're all alone, or it can add to the frustration if they died in a room with a few other zombies. Still, cave their head in, steal their loot and then post a picture onto their Miiverse for bragging rights.
ZombiU is a must-buy for gamers looking for something mature and difficult. You won't beat survivor mode on your first playthrough, you'll die a lot, and you'll fear the dark more than in the majority of survival horrors released in the last generation of gaming. While the game isn't perfect, it's easily the best title available in the survival horror genre at the moment. If you're one to run in guns blazing and get frustrated when that technique doesn't work, then you might want to sit this one out, having survivor after survivor die comes with a penalty, one that might dampen the entire experience for you.
Platform: Wii U
Classification: R18
Rating: 4.5/5


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This car is awesome! The new Murcielago has a bigger engine and more horsepower. The V12 has been increased from 6.2L to 6.5L and 580 horsepower to 640 horsepower. It will do 0-60 in 3.4 seconds (same as Z06), which is a half a socond quicker than the previous Mucielago.Overall, I feel this is an awesome car, and it should definitely top 200 mph. With 0-60 times nearly identical to Z06, it should be a great match-up between the two. Here is the article at Car & Driver
Arg..this would have been a fine post had you a) put in a pic and b) NOT BROUGHT UP A Z06 COMPARO!!! Although similar speeds this is not a competitor to the z06.
Am i the only one that finds it pathetic that a Corvette is running with cars multiple times as expensivs?
Quote:Arg..this would have been a fine post had you a) put in a pic and b) NOT BROUGHT UP A Z06 COMPARO!!! Although similar speeds this is not a competitor to the z06.
no, it's the ultimate $45K~65K performer, that's it's nitch market. Only problem is that the Z06 looks too much like a $45K car instead of what it should be, lol. Oh well still good car. But I agree with Clothio, Z06 get brought up too much and compared to everything, get tiresome. But that does say one thing about the Z06
Yeah, if I could afford a Lambo like that and I was in the market for a supercar, I wouldn't even look at the Z06. No offense.
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none taken, that was kinda my point. Z06 is a great performer, but it can't rank with the super cars since it doesn't have the looks nor the exotic handling. People can complain about the interior and what not, but you know a lot of people care what's on the outside sometimes. And why I think it gets kinda old when comparing the Z06 to super cars. I mean its fine when you see it compared to a Viper/NSX/Cobra R/etc. I just wish they came out with a C6R and call it just that and make it look exactly like the La Mans car with a price tag of ~$100K.
i wish they would atleast make it look as good as it did in its prime.
yea, the new C6 isn't my favorit styling, but least liked, I saw a black C5 on the freeway today and I couldn't stop staring at it, it was hugging the ground so nicely and just seemed so powerful and graceful at the same time. I'm starting to miss the flip up head lamps, since before it made the front end one color. Same effect the RX-7s had.
C6 could have been a lot better... The only thing I really like it the viper knock-off side vents and the scoop on the z06.
iono the side vents look different enough. that hood vent though.
Since the performance is similar, or at least in the ballpark I don't think its an undo comparison. It's been compared to the FordGT, which has been compared with the CarreraGT, which has been compared with the Murcielago, therefore lolBut yes the comparisons to the vette have become too common
I agree. The Z06 is a great car, with amazing performance for the money. I consider all the 100K+ mid engined cars to be far more exotic, and in a totally different category. Looks to me, like Lamborghini wants to play with the big boys, i.e. Ferrari Enzo, Porsche Carrera GT.
I thought Lambo was part of the big boys.I'd like to see a comparison between the Iguana and the Zonda .
It would like people to think it's part of the big ones, but it's not. Top tier are Enzo, Carr GT, and Zonda. McLaren Merc, Lambo Merci, are close but they're big heavy posh GT cars esentially. If the Lambo goes on a serious diet with the new HP it'll be much closer.


text: OK so i had a dead battery after getting it back from the auto shop from getting t-boned. So it wasnt driven daily for 2 and a half weeks so i think not keeping a constant charge on it finally ended its stock life. So i get a new battery, cool starts, drives, stereo works again sweet i think. So i get in the rush hour traffic and im idling and i see my battery light turn on then it shuts off. I coast off to the shoulder so i can put it in park and start it back up, starts up fine and i drive all the way home and have not had a problem since. I took it to Autozone had them test out my alternator everything passed. I bought a new alternator anyways a 145A becuase i always had a problem with my headlights dimming when i am playing my stereo. I guess my question is why would a brand new battery die on me on the freeway in idle and then fire right back up like there is no problem? All connections are clean and secure. Thank you.


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