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Christian M'Pumbu Defends World Title Against Attila Vegh Live on Spike TV; In conjunction with Orthrus Promotions
Newport Beach, CA. (January 7, 2013) – The title fights continue for Bellator MMA as the promotion announced today Bellator Light Heavyweight World Champion Christian M'Pumbu will put his World title on the line against knockout artist Attila Vegh on February 28th from New Mexico's Santa Ana Star Center.
Tickets for the event are on sale January 11th and range from $25-$90. Tickets can be purchased at ComcastTix.com, Bellator.com or by visiting The Santa Ana Star Center box office. The event will broadcast LIVE starting at 8 p.m. MST on Spike, as well as in Spanish language on mun2. The preliminary card will be streamed LIVE and FREE on Spike.com starting at 6 p.m. MST.
M'Pumbu defends the title that he won in the inaugural Bellator Light Heavyweight Tournament by storming through the competition, delivering three highlight reel knockouts along the way to capturing the Bellator Light Heavyweight World Title. With previous victories over Richard Hale, Marcus Vanttinen and Stefan Struve, M'Pumbu is primed for another explosive finish on February 28th.
"I am extremely excited about this opportunity to defend my Bellator Light Heavyweight World Championship," M'Pumbu said. "I look forward to getting back in the cage and putting on a show for all of the amazing Bellator fans throughout the world. On February 28th, I will have my hand raised and remain Bellator Light Heavyweight World Champion."
For Vegh, the Slovakian finisher is currently riding an eight fight win streak, including his Bellator Light Heavyweight Tournament Finals knockout victory over longtime MMA veteran Travis "Diesel" Wiuff. For the man they call "Pumukli", winning the Bellator Light Heavyweight World Title would be nothing short of a dream come true.
"This fight is all I am focused on," Vegh said. "I've never worked harder for something in my life, and on February 28th, I will hold that belt and become the new Bellator World Champion."
"Both Christian and Attila made incredible runs through their respective tournaments, and I expect nothing but fireworks on February 28th," said Bellator Chairman & CEO Bjorn Rebney. "New Mexico's own Orthrus Promotions is going to provide Bellator with tremendous support and we're very excited to begin our partnership."
For more information, visit Bellator.com, follow Bellator on Twitter @BellatorMMA, follow Bellator Chairman & CEO Bjorn Rebney @BjornRebney and check out Bellator on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Bellator
About Bellator MMA
Bellator MMA is the world's largest tournament based Mixed Martial Arts organization. Televised to nearly 500 Million homes worldwide in over 107 countries, Bellator's majority owner is entertainment giant Viacom. In the United States, Bellator can be seen on Spike TV, the MMA television leader. With over 150 world-class athletes under contract, Bellator is home to many of the sport's top mixed martial artists. Bellator's founder & CEO, Bjorn Rebney, an experienced fighting sports and entertainment executive with a deep commitment to the purity and integrity of the sport of MMA and its athletes. Bellator's core philosophy is that title shots should be earned, not given. This belief gave rise to Bellator's real sport, tournament-based format, which gives Bellator's tournaments a true playoff feel that keeps the sport true and distances itself from the subjective side of fighting sports found in organizations that utilize a matchmaking/casting formula. Bellator Fighting Championships' executive team is comprised of top industry professionals in television production, live event orchestration, fighter development/relations, venue procurement, sponsorship creation/development, international licensing, marketing, advertising, publicity and commission relations. Bellator is based in Newport Beach, California.
About Spike TV:
Spike TV is available in 98.7 million homes and is a division of Viacom Media Networks. A unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), Viacom Media Networks is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. Spike TV's Internet address is www.spike.com and for up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs, visit Spike TV's press site at http://www.spike.com/press. Follow us on Twitter @spiketvpr for the latest in breaking news updates, behind-the-scenes information and photos.
About mun2
mun2 is the leading Hispanic cable network for young millennial adults 18-34. From reality to music, on-air to digital, mun2 creates original content that resonates across a multi-screen platform. Young, vibrant and unabashedly Latino, mun2 has a distribution to over 38 million households. The network is part of Telemundo Media, a division of NBCUniversal.
About Orthrus Promotions
Orthrus Promotions is a professional entertainment company, bringing the very best in entertainment value. Orthrus currently operates and hosts concerts in several states, but proudly calls New Mexico their home. Originally a music entertainment company, Orthrus has now expanded into the fight scene, partnering with Bellator, to bring great MMA events to the people of New Mexico.


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Lyrics To Go (Tumblin' Dice Remix) by A Tribe Called Quest
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Goin' on an' on to the rhythmic variation
Wakin' in the mornin', I still represent the nation
When I speak of nation, please don't make the deviation
Rebels of the party who create the jump sensation
Mind is a pit of different information
Microphone is on, so I cross communication
Boggle at the party then you got the boggle-ation
Decapitatin' foes, yo, as if my name was Jason
Makin' all the fellas at the party lose composure
Hook up the beat with the mic an' it's over
A Tribe Called Quest, we on the run for whatever
Trials an' tribulations that we have to endeavor
Brothers know my steelo, it's a letter to the better
If you see a shorty that you like then you sweat her
Silly with the microphone, in other words, I'm loco
Six foot zero with my height, complexion cocoa
Representin' on the mic, it seems to be my daily
I can do a split an' turn around like Alvin Ailey
But when it comes to days like this I got lyrics to go
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It's like that y'all
C'mon y'all, it's like that
I know it's been two years but see the Tribe was never fallin'
Would have tried for singin' but that stuff was not my callin'
The mic is in effect, so you know I'm never stallin'
Walkin' through the door an' all them suckers started haulin'
Talk a lotta trash but no one can seem to beat it
Pull out your microphone an' watch the Phifer make you eat it
The MCs they get jealy when the girly's on my belly
Kick a slow dance like my brother R. Kelly
Today's a hip hop draft, will I be top seeded?
Worked too frickin' hard while all the rest were gettin' weeded
Steady kickin' styles so I can reach that other level
Don't worry about gettin' gassed, I push the pedal to the metal
Always wanted this 'cause it surely beats a scramble
I'm Jordan with the mic, wanna gamble?
This I dedicate to all the honies that be boglin'
'Cause at the end of the night, y'know Malik will have his Trojans
But when it comes to nights like this I got lyrics to go
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Please proceed with caution 'cause the lyricist is fatal
I can kick your little monkey ass like Kato
Formulate your rhymes like a child forms Playdo
Calm an' serene like the study was Tayo
Poetry machine with correct mechanisms
Immune to disease, I defeat organisms
That are waitin' in my path, I overstep the critters
Give your ass the willies an' your moms'll get the jitters
Winners turn to losers, losers are forgotten
Tangle in my fore with hopes that I stop rockin'
Never will that happen, only if it is permitted
Wait, I think somebody shitted
I guess that will be me 'cause I'm the only one MCin'
I go for what I know doin' a show for human beings
Always try to lead, yo, never will I follow
Blowin' up the spot like Fred did to Rollo
An' when it comes to days like this, I got lyrics to go
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At Super Frat, it's Twitter in Focus with Daily Show correspondent, Al Madrigal.
Today's Celebrity Quote of the Day is from Chris Evans:
"The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people – they're ravenous – they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans."


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There is more to be told in this story, if I can prove it to be so, but in the course of my research to determine if my theory is right or not, I hit a snag. The only reference to John Mann that I can find is in an Oakland County history book, which says he settled on section 5 in Milford and he was the father of Sarah O. Mann Honeywell. All other documentation I have found - which is to say deeds - refers to John Mann Jr. - lots and lots of reference to John Mann Jr., enough to confuse me to no end. So this post presents my analysis and theory about the preponderance of John Mann Jr.'s in Oakland County from 1830-1860.
1. Starting with the land patent in 1835, I think that John Mann Jr., of Washtenaw County, MI who acquired the patent in Milford twp. was the son of John Mann and Agnes of Luzerne, PA (see [B] in age chart below). I am guessing that he came out to Michigan before everybody else to scope it out and he acquired the land in Milford at that point. I am thinking he was born some time before Sarah Oliver Mann, which is probably 1795-1805. We don't know who his spouse was. Why he was listed as being from Washtenaw County is a subject I am still considering. He might have come with other Mann relations we don't know about or he might have stayed there temporarily because Washtenaw was a center of German culture in Michigan at that time. Research is ongoing on this point.
2. As for the two other land patents acquired in 1837 by a John Mann Jr., I'm thinking they were made by John Mann, son of Earnest Mann and Catherine Cruts, 1814-1885. These people are ALL my New Jersey relations. See the following patents, all granted in Oakland County, Michigan:
Anna Mann 14 Aug 1837 5-N 11-E 32
Earnest Mann 10 Aug 1837 5-N 11-E 34
Earnest Mann 14 Aug 1837 4-N 11-E 4
John Mann 14 Aug 1837 5-N 11-E 32
John Mann 2 Nov 1837 5-N 11-E 29
Rebecca Mann 18 Aug 1837 4-N 11-E 3
George Mann 12 Aug 1837 5-N 10-E 19
All the patents listed here were made by siblings, children of EM and CC, all acquired within the same timeframe, all state they are "of Macomb County, MI" which is where their parents settled, and all patents were located near one another in the Oxford/Addison area of Oakland County.
The next question is WHY was the 1837 John Mann referred to as Junior since the NJ family did not have a John Sr.?? One possible explanation is that the NJ Mann family traveled out together with John Mann from PA (b. 1790s, see [B] in age chart below), and since he was the elder of their group, they had to differentiate. Certainly the Jr. designation did not always indicate father-son relationship at that time, only that there were both an elder and a younger person of the same name in the area at the same time.
3. I maintain there was also a third John Mann Jr. involved in this story, born about 1819 in PA (see [C] in age chart below), but he would not yet have been old enough to be acquiring land patents in 1835 or 1837.
So now let me put aside the #2 John Mann Jr. associated with Oxford/Addison (he was not from PA, but NJ), and present a simple layout of the Pennsylvania John Mann's involved. It must be noted that this familial association is only a supposition at this point as we have no documentation that states the parents of [B] and [C] below. With that said, their family tree MIGHT look like this:
[A] John Mann b 1775 + #1 Agnes + #2 Mary
[B] John Mann Jr b 1790 + ???
[C] John Mann Jr b 1820 + Adeline
Here are the ages of each John Mann starting with first patent in 1835:
1835 1840 1850 1860
So let's see how all this works out:
- 1840 census of Milford fits for [B] (50-59) and [C] (20-29) - where was [A]? I think he did not migrate until later with his daughter Sarah's family. The Honeywell family were still in Dallas, Luzerne, PA in 1840.
- 1840 deed from [C] to David S. Mann - where was David before this - maybe he moved from PA later?
- 1850 census of Milford fits for [A] (79), living near daughter Sarah's family
- 1850 census of Highland fits for [C] (31)
- 1850-51 deeds from [C] selling Milford properties
- Have not yet been able to locate [B] in this census!
- 1860 census of Milford fits for [B] (70), again near Sarah's family
- 1860 census of Osceola, Livingston, MI fits for [C] (40)
Possible Scenarios:
1. [A] died in PA and did not migrate to MI, in which case the Oakland Co. County History book is mistaken about Sarah Oliver Mann Honeywell's father - instead the reference would have to be to Sarah's brother.
OR [A] did migrate to MI but probably after 1840. His daughter Sarah does not appear in Milford until 1850. [A] probably died in MI sometime after 1850.
2. [B] is the guy who acquired the land patent in Milford 1835. He appears there in 1840 and 1860 - not sure where he was in 1850. We really don't know anything of him or his family (if he had one, but I am assuming that [C] was son of [B] because of deeds naming [C] and wife Adeline in the Milford area in 1850s). Also there could be some confusion between [A] and [B] in 1850 and 1860 census because the ages are off somewhat. This John Jr. deserves much more investigation.
3. [C] appears throughout, and according to another family tree, he died in 1863, but so far no documentation of that.
Please contact me if you have feedback about this analysis, and especially if you have any documentation that might support or refute these ideas in any way!


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Far Rockaway Man Wanted In Pennsylvania Shooting
Police officials in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania are still looking for a Far Rockaway native wanted in the January shooting inside a motel parking lot, where the victim was shot in the leg, according to published reports.
Police believe the alleged shooter to be Trevor Hart, 20, of Far Rockaway who, on January 18, is accused of shooting Darnell L. Johnson in the right leg inside the parking lot of an area Quality Inn. The shooting is believed to have occurred following a birthday party at the same motel, attended by a large crowd.
Chambersburg Police are alleging that a man attending the birthday party got into an argument with some other men at the same party just after midnight that morning. It was after the fight that shots were fired from a car leaving the parking lot, police said. It is unkown what make or model car Hart is believed to have allegedly fired the shots from.
Johnson was shot and wounded in the upper right leg and taken to Chambersburg Hospital by another person prior to the arrival of emergency service personnel.
Hart is still at large, according to police. He is charged with aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person and carrying a firearm without a license.
Police issued a warrant for his arrest in July. Anyone with information about his whereabouts should contact police at 717-264-4131.


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Amarante Champs-Elysées's 39 soundproofed rooms provide minibars, free weekday newspapers, and safes. LCD TVs come with satellite channels and pay movies, and guests can stay connected with free WiFi. Bathrooms offer hair dryers, designer toiletries, bathrobes, and slippers. Phones and desks are also standard.
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Amarante Champs-Elysées features free WiFi in public areas, a meeting room, and a business center. Valet parking is available for EUR 25.00 per day. The front desk has multilingual staff on hand 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. This smoke-free hotel also has a porter/bellhop.
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within the week upgrading suspension a bit. tossing around air eventually but the heights driving me crazy so just gona go H&R/bilsteins for now. was either gona get from AWEtuning online or ECS...shipping kind of a pain so anyone know out here if they offer better comparable prices.
i was thinking STS but last time i called i was actually told be better off to buy myself online...kind of odd but hey. shoots
average price for installs out here.


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What's next for Coco Martin
Coco Martin is looking to make a comeback on the big screen after the hit series "Juan dela Cruz," which will air its final episode this October.
"After this, kahit one week lang na pahinga. Pero may gagawin siguro akong movie. Gusto ko gumawa ng isang mainstream at indie pagkatapos ng 'Juan dela Cruz,'" Martin said during a press conference for the primetime series' October 25 finale.
The 31-year-old actor said that if given a chance, he would like to do a horror film with actress-host Kris Aquino, who is dubbed the "Queen of Horror" after starring in hits like "Feng Shui" and "Segunda Mano."
"Gusto kong gumawa ng horror movie. 'Yung comedy hindi talaga. Siguro pitik-pitik. Pero gusto ko horror at may konting action," he said. "Kung may pagkakataon gusto ko makasama si Ms. Kris Aquino."
Known for his roles in acclaimed independent films, Martin went on to star in mainstream movies as an ABS-CBN artist. His last film, the romance-drama "A Moment in Time" co-starring Julia Montes, was released in February this year.
Martin said he is also looking forward to reprising the Juan dela Cruz character, as he bared plans of a film adaptation of the primetime series.
"Siguro after nitong 'Juan dela Cruz,' kapag final na 'yung script at meetings para sa production, saka pa lang mapa-finalize kung kailan ang shooting at kung kailan din ito ipapalabas.
"Actually nakaplano naman talaga, pero ako, hanggang 'di pa nag-start ang meeting, hindi ako umaasa. Pero sana ay matupad na madala sa pelikula. Baka next year po," Martin said.
Airing weeknights after "TV Patrol," "Juan dela Cruz" sees Martin as the everyman-superhero who is torn between being the prophesied "Tagabantay" and being the "Anak ng Dilim." (MNS)


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David Haye and Dereck Chisora have been branded "thugs" for their disgraceful brawl in Munich.
Lennox Lewis' former mentor Frank Maloney blasted the two for shaming not just British boxing, but the whole country, and says neither should be allowed to fight again.
Chisora faces a ban of at least two years when he faces a British Boxing Board of Control misconduct hearing on March 14.
And Maloney claims they must hammer him and Haye to restore the sport's battered image.
Maloney was appalled by their scrap at Chisora's press conference following his points loss to WBC heavyweight king Vitali Klitschko.
"It was like two thugs fighting in the street," said Maloney, who is Haye's former promoter.
"It's a pity they didn't put in such effort in the ring when they were fighting the Klitschko brothers. If they had, they might both be world champions today.
"They should be punished for bringing the sport into disrepute, they should be banned for life.
"The Board has to take positive action here to restore the image of boxing. What hurts me most is the damage this has done to Britain around the world."
Maloney, who promotes Olympic bronze medallist David Price, is adamant both fighters must be prevented from cashing in on the publicity they have received.
And he has called on the Board to block any attempt by Haye to get his licence back to fight Vitali.
"Neither fighter should be allowed to earn anything on the back of this," he said. "That can't be allowed to happen.
"The Germans would turn out in their millions to see Vitali beat Haye, but he cannot be allowed to cash in on this."
Although the Board cannot ban Haye because he no longer holds a fighter's licence, they are sure to reject any move to get it back.
Chisora, in a statement issued by his promoter Frank Warren, said: "I acknowledge that my actions were totally unprofessional, with or without provocation.
"With a cool head and the benefit of hindsight, my actions were regrettable to say the least and I am deeply embarrassed."
Former WBA king Haye put out his own statement and said: "I am bitterly disappointed to have been a part of what transpired.
"I also hope Dereck Chisora is able to learn from his mistakes this past weekend, right the wrongs and then go on to fulfil his potential."
It seems unlikely that Chisora will get that chance now.


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One of my goals for the new year is to reduce my body fat to below 20% and I wondered if anyone out there has any good tips?
I train about 5/6 times a week in some form usually made up of the following; Run - 1/3 times (including a race), Five a Side Football - 1-2 times, Spin Cycle - 2 times (usually)
I have always been very active, especially playing football more regularly until about 2007 when I took up running, I haven't been able to reduce my body fat percentage. I have lost weight (from just under 14 stone to around 13 - although I wasn't overweight and never have been) and have lost quite a lot of upper body muscle (I don't like working out in the gym). My diet have improved tremendously over the past couple of years, eating more fresh food and less junk (although I have a massive soft spot for chocolate).
I don't really want to diet or calorie count and I enjoy my current varied regime but I wondered if any fellow Runners World subscribers have any great tips that have been tried and tested.
Thanks in advance.
One simple tip - Maintain muscle at all costs. So many people trying to lose weight do not consider this basic point.
Diets and many exercise programs cause the body to lose muscle and it is the muscle, the bodies 'fat burning furnace' that you need to focus on maintaining. Lose the muscle and what is going to burn off the fat?
On top of that all you also need to consider: calories in < calories out. Work the two together and you can achieve what ever you desire.
I changed sports 1.5 yrs ago; my first goal reshape my entire physique for my future ultra endurance goals and to that end I lost 55lbs in under a year. I maintained the muscle I needed and dropped off all the soft wobbly stuff and it was easy, and with every thing I have ever achieved it is done drug free.
There are many methods that can be used to reduce body fat and for each you can judge them on the risk / benefit ratio. Consider this risk / benefit ratio similar to how Ski runs are marked:
The beginners run will get you down the mountain but whilst on the one hand it offers the lowest risk of 'injury' it also has the least benefit to the skier. Then you have the black diamond slopes for the expert skiers, these have the highest risk of 'injury' but they also provide the greatest benefit.
The ideal slope would have the least risk of 'injury' but also offer the greatest level of experience.
If you are looking for a way to lose the soft wobbly stuff what you want is a method that will not cause 'injury' to the body (undue loss of muscle and poor body composition) whilst offering the greatest benefit (loss of unwanted body fat)
There are many ways of tackling this problem all with different degrees of injury / benefit ratios and the method that scores highly (low risk / High benefit) is High-density weight training. This is NOT low weight / high reps, this is not High Intensity training, this is about increasing the volume of weight moved over a shorter and reduced unit of time. My core utilisation of this was heavy kettlebell workouts with 15 second rest between sets and reducing rest between heavy weight training work sets also to seconds rather than the 3 minutes + on I used on strength work. The only down side to this method is my max strength did suffer some what but if you wish to target fat loss use this method on large compound movements, decent poundage but reduce the rest intervals.


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* We can hope that Penny was the ''first'' orphan Medusa abducted and sent into mortal peril, but we don't ''know'' it. Likewise, although it's not spelled out, it would have been unwise to let Penny tell anybody what was going on in the Bayou, and fairly simple (what with the easy access to shotguns and crocodiles) for Medusa to see to it that she told no tales.
* Cody leaves the room with the trapped, sentient, ''talking'' animals, with [=McLeach=] telling him he won't ever see them again. We never see anything that contradicts the obvious implication that he slaughtered them all.
** Well, it did seem like [=McLeach=] immediately tricked Cody into leading him to the Eagle, then tried to kill him, leading directly to [=McLeach=]'s own death. All of this appeared to happen in sequence with no time to go back and kill and skin the animals for sale. There again, though, it raises the question of what happened to the chained up animals. All the characters seemed to just forget they existed. That would mean that they all slowly starved and dehydrated to death. Or worse, if Joanna, who appears to be a Lace Goanna ''(Varanus varius)'', remembered they were all there and went back, the rest of the animals might have had to watch the carrion eater eat them one by one as they died.
*** Frank the frilled-neck lizard, used his tail once to unlock his cage. Surely he could do it again, and successfully get the keys again with Joanna nowhere nearby to stop him.
*** Also, surely Miss Bianca, Jake, and Bernard would go back to free them once Cody told about their fate.
*** Not to mention that, once Cody was safely home, he probably told the authorities all about [=McLeach=] and his poaching operation, including the location of his base. It's not a stretch to assume they would have been rescued and set free.
* Joanna is seen to be afraid of [=McLeach=] -- which leaves open the question of whether she was always that mean.
* Think about how the whole crocodile falls scene in the climax of Down Under must have looked like from Cody's (an eight year old!) point of view.
* Speaking of the crocodile falls, when Mcleach shines a light on them, they immediately go into the water, almost like it's a signal that they associate with something edible going to be given to them. He even yells "That's right babies! Suppertime!" It's very likely that this isn't the first time he's fed someone to crocodiles.
* The death of Marahute's mate gains a whole new layer of depressing when you remember that eagles are monogamous. She had loved him and ''only'' him and would have been with him for her whole life...but she didn't get the chance because [[MoralEventHorizon McLeach killed him]].
* Among the swamp critters from the first film is Old Grandpa, a turtle in a Confederate army cap. Given the very long lifespans that turtles can attain, it's possible he ''actually witnessed'' the U.S. Civil War.
* Oliver's troubles with taking off and landing are actually quite true to life--albatrosses don't fly so much as soar, and so HilarityEnsues whenever they have to interact with the ground in any fashion.
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* It makes you wonder how mice manage to encode a message in what is presumably the Pacific Fleet Headquarters at Pearl Harbor during the "Message Montage" scene.
** Clearly the R.A.S. has had hackers infiltrating human computer systems for a while. If there's ever a third Rescuers film, the Internet is likely to make their work easier. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a mouse.
* No-one in the Rescue Aid Society thinks of sending Penny's message-in-a-bottle to the police. [[LampShading Lampshaded]] by Penny:
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** Given the reporter's reaction to what Penny said at the end of the movie, it's likely that [[InvisibleToAdults the mice don't interact with adults]].
*** Which doesn't mean that they couldn't send it in as an anonymous tip. An unsigned letter (or if it is, just R.A.S., which could mean anything to someone not in the know) explaining, "Hey, we found this message in a bottle telling us that there's a kidnapped little girl in Devil's Bayou. You should tell the local authorities so that they can help her." with the original letter would likely be enough for the police to take action or at least inform their Louisiana counterparts.
* Considering it's one of Disney's most financially successful and critically acclaimed features, you'd think it would be a good business move to release a soundtrack for the first movie, especially since it had an Oscar-nominated song. Thankfully, the 3 Music/ShelbyFlint tracks are included with the newer edition of the ''Down Under'' soundtrack.
** They've released at least a partial soundtrack before. I grew up with a cassette tape of songs from the Rescuers.
** I don't know about a cassette, but I've seen LP copies of what amounts to a book on tape (both on Amazon and once even in the flesh (unfortunately, it was already in somebody's hand...oh well.)
* The encoded message (that you see in Hawaii) simply said that the boy had been kidnapped in Australia. Australia is a large continent. How did they know where to go?
** The coordinates from the first report (the one transmitted by those that witnessed the kidnapping) may have been included along with the message. I don't remember actually seeing the message, so its possible.
* When Bernard tries to keep their mission hush-hush, Jake immediately reveals he knows all about the kidnapped boy, proclaiming that it's hard to keep secrets in the outback. But when they get to [=MacLeach=]'s place and hear him taunting Cody about Marahute and the eggs, Jake has no idea what he's talking about, nor does he recognize where they're headed or that Marahute has a nest there. So apparently Jake doesn't know everything going on in the outback.
** FridgeBrilliance: Jake was just trying to impress the tourists.
* So Percival C. [=McLeach=] may have only stuck in school till third grade and may be a lowly poacher, but on several occasions he's shown to be BookDumb but StreetSmart. Then how do you explain his actions towards the golden eagles? Instead of selling them to a zoo or bring them into society possibly making millions, he sells them on the black market. Considering how he's still hunting smaller animals and the way his shack looks, the first golden eagle didn't make him rich, so why should Marahute? Even if all of this can be explained by a greed for money and so forth, he employs Joanna to eat Marahute's eggs so golden eagles can stay rare.. what the fuck is wrong with him? Each of those eggs could be worth millions!
** Not making it past third grade may have something to do with his poor decision making. Also, the father eagle apparantly was brought in dead, and Marahute is alive. That might explain the assumed difference in value.
** Objection, OP. He can't sell them to a zoo ''because he's a wanted man!''
** Another thing about zoos is that you can't just pull a wild animal out of its natural habitat and stick it in a zoo, especially if its not poking its nose dangerously (dangerous to both the animal and any humans) into areas heavily populated by humans, and most of those animals would simply be released somewhere else. No zoo is ever knowingly buy an animal from a poacher, and [=McLeach=] would be pretty obvious as a poacher, having an extremely rare bird in his possession and all.


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Smart growth isnt. Its advocates generally prefer little or no growth, and it often is anything but smart.
Instead of promoting social equity, smart-growth policies can frustrate the aspirations of disadvantaged families for upward mobility and even prevent them from maintaining current living standards.
For example, Marylands Prince Georges County, although perhaps the countrys most affluent majority African American jurisdiction, also has its share of poverty. A recent report by a commission dominated by smart growth advocates recommended that the county push most development into poorer, more densely-populated areas adjacent to Washington, D.C. Only modest growth would be permitted in a middle ring of established suburbs. Little, if any, growth would be permitted in rural areas of the county.
The effect of these policies on the working poor would be devastating. Many of are newer residents who were able to afford to buy their own homes on small lots in the countys inner ring. Some are elderly couples who have lived there for decades. Others are renting single-family homes or garden apartments. There are few high-rises. As development and redevelopment are channeled into these areas, property taxes will rise along with property values. Current residents will be forced out, their homes replaced by higher-rising and higher-priced structuresthe classic gentrification scenario.
However, with urban gentrification, at least some displaced residents have the option of moving to the inner suburbs. With smart growth, where will the poor suburbanites go? Many will be unable to move up to the more expensive homes in the middle ring and will have to return to the inner city from which they so recently escaped. Is this social equity?
There needs to be room for an orderly progression from poverty to affluence. Smart growth policies interfere with the ability of poor, often minority families to make these incremental improvements in their lives.
In the rural outer ring, small family farms may no longer be profitable. Without smart growth, the farmer can sell the land at its fair market value for a more lucrative purpose. With smart growth, it will be difficult to find a buyer, and any sales price will be artificially lower, reflecting the restrictions on its use and onward salability. Is it social equity to make the farmer bear the burden of maintaining open space for others to enjoy as they pass by?
Another stated goal of smart growth is environmental protection. However, it can just as easily be used to frustrate local attempts to protect the environment. In the early 1970s the Congress tried but failed to enact a smart growth precursor, which, inter alia, would have required states to preempt local decision making that would restrict development of projects of regional concern. This was as environmentally unsound as it was anti-home rule. Local jurisdictions should reject efforts to entice them to give up local land use power. Otherwise, smart growth becomes just another pretext for centralization of regional decision making?
Smart growth tries to channel investment to locations other than those dictated by the market. If these locations were economically attractive, smart growth legislation would be unnecessary. Given equal risk, most developers invest where they will earn the highest rate of return. This is socially desirable; it creates more wealth, more jobs, and more tax revenue. Faced with smart growth, developers may look elsewhere for higher return rates, taking jobs and the tax base with them. If all jurisdictions in a region have the same restrictions, lower returns may have to be accepted, resulting in a poorer and less efficient economy.
If smart growth isnt so smart, and assuming that suburban sprawl is undesirable, the tools already exist to reduce that sprawl and vindicate concerns about the environment, the economy, and social equity. Among others, master plans can predict where the market will lead investment decisions so that infrastructure can grow with demand. Zoning can be used to separate incompatible land uses and to provide for a panoply of different parcel sizes in different areas. Mixed-use development can be permitted for Main Street-type projects. New towns, such as Columbia, Md., and Reston, Va., can be encouraged where farms are no longer profitable. Flexibility and the willingness to change past decisions when they dont work are crucial.
Growth seems to occur naturally along transportation corridors, whether the transportation is the private automobile, a public bus, a train, light rail, or intermodal. We can plan for this growth along existing corridors and plan for transportation along new corridors suggested by the marketplaceor we can put our collective head in the sand and try to repeal human nature and the laws of economics.
If it really is necessary to oppose the natural market for development, states and municipalities should put their money where their mouth is. Instead of the stick of smart growth, the carrot of incentives, such as tax breaks and redevelopment bonds, can be used judiciously to subsidize lower rates of return for those who are willing to invest in politically desired areas.
The greatest source of sprawl may be the separation of jobs from residencesthe commuter syndrome. Smart growth advocates concentrate on forcing more intense development closer to existing employment centers. Too little attention is paid to efforts to encourage job growth closer to where people want to live. This should be an important component of any anti-sprawl strategy. In addition to siting job-producing projects in the suburbs, telecommuting sites can be established to make it easy for distant employers, including the federal government, to accept such arrangements.
Perhaps, however, sprawl is not the real problem, and neither is the environment, the economy, or social justice. Perhaps smart growth is just another form of NIMBY on the part of affluent exurbanites who fear the encroachment of those they left behind on their flight from the city.
By David L. Cahn, JD 87
Cahn is a federal government attorney who resides in Upper Marlboro, Md. He provided this Viewpoint in response to the Smart Growth feature article in the January 2001 issue of GW Law School magazine.
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Florida Georgia Line were at the CMAs this evening, performing live on stage as part of the opening act with Luke Bryan. The best part of their performance of their song "Cruise" was Taylor Swift standing up and dancing in the front row as she pointed to the guys on stage:
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The provision is aimed at holding health insurance companies accountable for how they spend the money collected through premiums. It compares the dollars they spend on health care costs vs. other overhead costs — like marketing, salaries and administrative expenses.
Under the law, small-group and individual-plan insurance companies that annually spend less than 80 percent of premium dollars on medical care owe their customers a rebate. For insurers to large businesses, the percentage split is 85-15.
This is the first year the provision is in effect, and insurance companies that owe rebates must pay them by Wednesday, Aug. 1.
Here's a look at the health care rebates, by the numbers:
The employer could also use the rebates as a lump-sum reimbursement to the accounts that pay premiums, or spend it in other ways that "benefits its employees," according to the Department of Health and Human Services. This can include lowering co-pays or adjusting cost-sharing to cut group insurance costs.
Employees should contact their employer for details about how their rebates will be distributed.
Whether they owe a rebate or not, insurance companies in every state have to notify their customers by Wednesday if they've met or failed this part of the law.
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In an operation led by Stirling Council Trading Standards officers, between 600 and 1,000 letters, each containing about £20 were found.
The cash was sent from people all over the UK, duped into entering a competition to win up to £1.28m.
Stirling Council said the money is now in the process of being returned.
More than 500,000 people in the UK are thought to be seduced by similar scams every year, losing more than £320m.
In many cases the same victims are targeted repeatedly by the scammers.
The Stirling mail box was the sole address in the UK for people to enter the competition.
Trading standards officers found consumers were sending £20 to the mailbox in an effort to increase their sweepstake or "winnings" from £821,000 to £1,258,000.
Investigations by police revealed the letters were being sent to another mail box in Vancouver in Canada.
Bogus lottery, prize draw and sweepstakes, are sent out by mail, e-mail or telephone in their hundreds of thousands and inform consumers that they have won a major cash prize.
To claim a prize, consumers are asked to send money upfront to cover administration, processing fees, taxes or to increase their "winnings".
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In many cases the cash prizes either do not exist or the recipient only has a tiny chance of winning the promised pay-out.
Trading Standards officer Brian Wilson said genuine sweepstakes, prize draws or lotteries would never ask consumers to pay a fee to claim a major prize.
He said: "Always stop, think and think again if an offer sounds too good to be true."
"We all dream of winning a big money prize draw or lottery and scammers exploit that to their advantage.
"The cost to consumers of these scams is huge. Our prompt action in this case will have saved British consumers thousands of pounds."
The initiative is part of a regional campaign led by the local authority to crackdown on the perpetrators of scam mail.
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Has anyone else gotten a positive 2 days in a row? I never have but I did this weekend and I am a little lost.
I did take clomid this cycle and made lots of follies, somaybe thats it? I am just ovulating lots!?
Any experience with this situation would be great.
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i always had + 2 days in a row...that's just the way i surge i guess
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Yes we have gotten 2 days of positive using the Clear Blue ones with the happy face.
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Cool thanks ladies.
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I have frequently gotten positives 2 days in a row, usually it's just that you caught your surge on the way up and again on the way down
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Sports are Simplified by the Reduced Shakespeare Company
Mention sports in Washington to a sports fan and nobody laughs.
After all: The Washington Redskins' Dan Snyder sues the City Paper, Donovan McNabb is benched, no playoffs yet again and wait, there's a lockout of millionaires. There may yet be an NFL season. Sigh.
After all: The Washington Capitals, the best hockey team, and the best Russians never to make it out of the second round of the playoffs. Sigh.
The Washington Nationals, where being a game under even is a major accomplishment, a team that has Jayson Werth who gets millions for batting .216. Sigh.
The Washington Wizards, who may never make the playoffs in my lifetime—admittedly a modest goal.
The men's soccer team which had a 0-0 tie in its last game, I think. What a thrill.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company and "The Complete World of Sports."
Now that's funny.
You've got a few days (till January 24) to see the radically funny comedy troupe's take on the wide, wide, and even wider world of sports from cave man's earliest tug of wars to naked wrestling in ancient Greece, to the origin of curling and the burning question of why bowling is a sport—among the hundreds of subjects, countries, centuries and box scores tackled by the current RSC troupe and trope of three.
If you go, be prepared to run on stage and participate in the parade of nations, or just participate. Audience participation is one of the hallmarks of the RSC—doesn't that have the same initials as the Royal Shakespeare Company with the word Shakespeare?—and wacky irreverence, slapdash and sometimes slapstick comedy, and a willingness to tackle any subject no matter how small, how large how endless.
They are very good at reducing just about anything. Eric Cantor, are you listening? Reducing. Anything. No matter how large. Can they, is it possible that they could reduce the national debt?
Maybe not. But they could make it funny?
"We go back a ways," Reed Martin, one of the earliest members (he cam aboard in 1989) said. "It's kind of strange. Wherever we go, we're sort of famous. We have this built-in audience, built, over the years, and yet, we're not, I don't know, famous-famous."
But what they do have is a phenom, and it's gone, if not exactly viral, pretty huge. Several troupes tour with the RSC brand and shows, their works are collected in book form, and they've been all over the world.
Martin, in a way, is characteristic of the troupe and its history: he's been a real clown (is there such a being?) with Ringling Brothers, he's been a sports referee and he is what he is here, the bald one, who lends a certain intense, zany seriousness.
There is also his long-time partner in time and crime, Austin Tichenor, who looks a little like Will Ferrell, only funnier (sue me, SNL fans). He has that puzzled look of a lawyer in over his head, wondering why he didn't join a comedy troupe
Last, and perhaps least but probably not is Matt Rippy, the kid, who looks like a kid, as opposed to the adult family men Martin and Tichenor. He is oddly enough, also the webmaster for the group, acts in movies and, according to his bio, is studiously avoiding adulthood and so far succeeding.
The whole thing started with Daniel Singer, Jess Borgeson and Adam Long, the troupe founders who used to work their way, hat in hand, at Renaissance Pleasure Fairs in California, which were quite heady festivals back in the day. But they put together a show called "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) followed quickly by "The Complete History of America" and "The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged)," which surfaced at Fringe Festivals, (what a nice coincidence) and then ran for nine years at the Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly Circus.
All three have done improve, movies, television, voice over and a touch of standup. "I think all the credit in the world should go to our wives, our families," Tichinor said. "They don't get to so see us so much when we're on the road."
"People laugh no matter where we go," Martin says. "We're fresh, irreverent, whatever, naughty, there's nothing we don't make fun of but it's not, like we dis what people value. You might think in the South where people take their Bible seriously something might happen, but it really didn't. Noah in Baton Rouge, a little."
"It's hard work, sure," Tichenor says. "But we get to play in great places. We come back here (to the Kennedy Center), all of the time. People get us. Maybe a little too much. The local sports radio people talked this up on their shows and a whole bunch of people showed up one night, they booed, they yelled, they argued, it got kind of lively. We loved it."
So how do they pick people to bring on stage?"There's two kinds of folks—there's people who have that pick-me, pick-me look on their face and you have to pry them offstage, or there's people with their head down, or they get that fear look on their face. We don't pick them."
In this town, the Nationals, love of 'em or don't ever go, are the team of the national past-time, which is baseball. Which is:
"Boring," Rippy says. "That's the funny part. You know, every time we mention baseball, one of us faints dead away."
"One of the things about this is that every night, everywhere is different," Martin said. "When you add the audience participation, it's not just the people in the audience, but all three of us get surprised every time."
Even when there's boos on a Michael Vick joke.
"Too soon?" one of them asks.
Baseball has been very good to them. So has Shakespeare, the United States of America, God, the Bible, Hollywood—a lampooning of 187 of the best movies of all time, sports in general and coming to a theater near you soon, maybe in December:
"Christmas," Martin says. "We're going to do Christmas."
The abridged version, which means you don't have to unwrap the presents.
("The Reduced Shakespeare Company in "The Complete World of Sports" will be at Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater until June 24.)
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Hey everyone, have any of you ever Plasti-Dipped? Its a great product, but sometimes you mess up and need it redone. I'm going to help you guys learn a quick tip, especially for the newer people to the *Plasti-Dip, world!
Items Needed:
Goo Gone [I used the one I had at home, so free for me, But the 8 .oz is about $3.50 USD at *Ho Depot.
Some Micro Fiber cloths [Have at home. I believe you can get this at *Ho Depot as well.
and a bit of time!
Start out by letting the microfiber cloth sit in a bit of Goo-Gone
Then wipe the area you want to remove the Plasti-Dip from.
NOTE: This won't dissolve the Dip, it will simply make the dip tighten, and a bit easier to remove.
Do this a few times, [I did 5 passes over 3 coats.]
Now start peeling away The dip from a corner, and VOILA! Much easier to remove.
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Madonna Dresses Her Age For Date With Boy Toy Brahim Zaibat [PHOTOS]
When she's not exposing her nipples, Madonna can acting act her age. Madonna and her boyfriend Brahim Zaibat are seen here out for dinner at the restaurant, Molto in Rome this past Sunday (June 10, 2012).
The war of words is heating up between Madonna and Lady Gaga. In a rather abrupt break during her concert in Auckland, New Zealand last Thursday, the 'Judas' singer ranted in front of her fans about what appeared to be an indirect reply to Madonna, the Hollywood Reporter said.
"It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves to put other people down or make fun of them or maybe make mockery of their work. And that doesn't make me feel good at all. That just makes me feel like I'm not being a good human being… I don't even want to fight back because it's more important to me to keep writing music," Gaga said in the middle of her performance of "Hair".
"Because that's really all I care about, is the music… things are really different than they were 25 years ago, and that's what makes "Born This Way" so relevant for me. We're socially in a different place and it's OK, we don't have to all slice and hate each other anymore," she added.
Recently, Madonna mashed up Gaga's hit single "Born This Way" with her own 1989 song "Express Yourself'" during the Tel Aviv concert of her MDNA tour. At the end of the performance, Madge shouted to her fans, "She's not me!", without mentioning who her target was.


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Design Considerations for Custom Binary Formats and Data Compression (Part 1)
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I will attempt to address some of the relative tradeoffs based on my own experiences, and experiences with various file-formats.
I will not address the matter of ASCII Text vs Binary file-formats here, and will assume the case where the data in question could not be viably represented in an ASCII format.
Similarly, I will focus more here on formats that can be processed "reasonably efficiently", rather than those focusing on maximizing compression. The primary use cases here are assumed to be for things like network communication and storage of game assets.
Note: I am not presently certain whether this is a "good" topic, or if it is presented adequately. Maybe it should be split up into multiple parts? (As-is, it is a little long).
Byte-Oriented Formats
These are generally much simpler than bit-oriented formats.
In the vast majority of cases, a byte-oriented format is likely to be sufficient for most general data storage needs, with bit-oriented formats more left for cases where either the data is overly bulky, or where there is significant need to minimize storage.
Generally, handling of byte-oriented data tends to be faster than that of handling bit-oriented data.
Within the confines of bytes there are still a few things that can be done to reduce storage requirements:
- Variable-Length Numbers;
- Encoding more items in less bytes.
Additionally, these are more fundamental in the sense that most bit-oriented formats will still usually require some sort of byte-oriented packaging format (such as using a TLV format to hold things like headers and similar).
Additional issues to consider:
- Flexibly representing data structures and allowing for future expansion;
- Allowing for seeking or resynchronization in stream oriented formats;
- Allowing for things like random access to (potentially compressed) data.
Variable Length Numbers
One simple trick for saving bytes is based on a pattern:
Small numbers tend to be more common than big numbers.
So, rather than always using 2, 4, or 8 bytes for a number, it may instead be practical to use less bits when it is practical to do so.
A fairly common scheme is to have small values represented as a single byte, with the high-order bit(s) used to indicate when the value is larger than a single byte.
For Example:
0-127 -> 0xxxxxx
128-16383 -> 10xxxxxx xxxxxxxx
16384-2M -> 110xxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
Another variant is using the high bit in each byte to indicate that the following byte contains more bits:
0-127 -> 0xxxxxxx
128-16383 -> 1xxxxxxx 0xxxxxxx
16384-2M -> 1xxxxxxx 1xxxxxxx 0xxxxxxx
With it then being specified whether the bytes come in high-low or low-high order.
The advantage of the former scheme is that the size of the value can be seen directly from the first byte, which can be used for a more efficient decoder, though with the tradeoff that the encoding/decoding logic tends to be more complex.
The advantage of the second is that the decoding logic is fairly simple, for example:
i=ReadByte(); val=0; while(i&0x80) { val=(val<<7)|(i&0x7F); i=ReadByte(); } val=(val<<7)|i;
Usually, the encoding logic is a little more involved though, but the level of complexity is typically "fairly similar" with either strategy (usually an if/else tree or a match/encode loop).
Another issue is how to best handle encoding signed numbers.
Typically, a few common options here are:
Sign-extending the most significant bit of the number;
Folding the sign into the least significant bit.
Sign extension has an advantage in that it allows for small positive signed and unsigned numbers to look equivalent, but requires the sign issue to be dealt with directly when encoding and decoding the numbers. This may in turn lead to a bit more logic in the case where both signed and unsigned variations are needed (since the logic for encoding and decoding the numbers may need to be repeated for each variation), or less efficient encoding if we simply encode all unsigned numbers as if they were signed (you may only be able to encode 0-63 in a single byte, regardless of whether the value represents a signed or unsigned quantity).
Sign folding has the advantage that it allows reusing the same number encoding/decoding logic for both signed and unsigned numbers by mapping all signed integers to unsigned equivalents. For example, we may map things such that the unsigned quantities map to signed quantities as:
0, -1, 1, -2, 2, -3, 3, ...
This may be done fairly straightforwardly:
//to encode: uval=(sval>=0)?(sval<<1):(((-sval)<<1)-1); //to decode: sval=(uval&1)?(-((uval+1)>>1)):(uval>>1); //or, expressed alternatively: if(sval>=0) { uval=sval<<1; } else { uval=((-sval)<<1)-1; } if(uval&1) { sval=-((uval+1)>>1); } else { sval=uval>>1; }
The downside is, granted, that signed and unsigned quantities naturally have different representations.
A few downsides of variable length numbers is that typically they are slightly more expensive to encode and decode, as well as their value generally needs to be known before they are encoded, as they are less subject to the strategy of emitting a placeholder and patching the value later, which will typically require leaving a space for the largest possible, or reasonable, value.
Packing more values into less bytes
This is basically using one or more of these techniques:
Using different bits within a byte or number to represent different values;
Assigning special meanings to various value-ranges, and switching to alternate representations based on these value ranges;
Optionally including or omitting things based on flags or value-ranges.
A very simple and common example of this sort of thing is a "flags" field, where different bits are assigned meanings, and may be set or cleared, or potentially small multi-bit fields are encoded within a flags field.
A simple example of using some of these would be encoding a sparse series of typically small integers as bytes:
High 4 bits gives the number of preceding zeroes;
Low 4 bits gives the numeric value.
So, we may encode the series of numbers 1,0,0,0,3,0,0,0,0,0,9,... as 0x01,0x33,0x59,...
However, it may not escape notice that the maximum run-length and value-range is very limited, and we may also want to be able to encode the end of a list.
The end-of-list case is easy: 0x00. By this, we simply do not allow a run of zero-zeroes to encode a zero.
The other case can be handled via reserving part of the value range for trap-encodings, for example: 0-14=value is encoded directly, 15=value is encoded as a variable-length number. Now, suddenly, we can moderately efficiently encode a sparse collection of arbitrary sized numbers, and without wasting space for long runs of zeroes.
Another possible variant is that rather than the high bits giving zeroes, the bits indicate how many times to repeat a given value. This will slightly increase the cost of runs of zero (since they are now an explicit value, and we also lose the nice EOL special case), however, this will make runs of most other values significantly cheaper.
For example: 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,3,0,0,4,63,63,63,...
Could be encoded as: 0x61,0x32,0x43,0x10,0x04,0x2F,0x3F,...
Tagged Data and Escape Coding
Tagged Data is basically data where some form of tagging-scheme is intermixed with the data. Commonly this is accomplished by designating one or more byte-values as "special", and not allowing them to appear in normal data, or if they are, it is typically via an escape coding.
For example, we could consider 0xFF to be special and not allow it within ordinary data (example: JPEG). Whenever an 0xFF would appear, we may instead replace it with, say, 0xFF followed by 0x00, with 0xFF followed by other values being used to indicate various markers or tags.
Often, these formats rely on the ability to, when in doubt, scan forwards to the next marker.
This escape-coding case comes at a cost though, namely in that it typically results in a slight expansion of the encoded data, and in some performance-sensitive applications, may incur additional costs related to detecting and handling the escape-byte. It may also potentially hinder the use of fixed-size structures or file offsets, or in some cases result in additional use of temporary buffers.
It is sometimes an option to relax this requirement though, such as relying on heuristic measures to identify markers (example: ZIP, BZ2). In these cases, usually the marker will be longer, and may include check-values in order to help reduce the chances of a false positive.
These types of formats may also allow for optional extension markers, where if such a marker is encountered and is not recognized, the marker's data will be skipped over.
TLV Formats
TLV formats are another common strategy, where TLV stands for Tag Length Value. The Tag is a value that indicates what type of data is contained, the Length tells how big it is, and the Value is all the data for the tag. This construction is often referred to as a Lump or Chunk.
TLV formats often have an advantage in that they can be fairly readily extended without breaking existing implementations, and can easily hold a wide range of data. Very often, TLV formats are used for building the packaging for another file-format.
Depending on the format, unknown lumps may either be ignored or may potentially result in the data being rejected, and some formats will indicate whether or not the decoder should reject unknown lumps on a lump-by-lump basis.
A common example of a TLV format is RIFF, which is used to implement formats such as WAV and AVI (among others).
PNG and MKV are examples of formats which make use of TLV for their packaging (MKV being notable in that it uses variable-length encodings for both tags and lengths).
It is also possible to use both escape-coded markers and TLV, such as to allow for things like resynchronization.
For example, RIFF has a structure like:
tag:FOURCC, length:DWORD, value:BYTE[(length+1)&(~1)]
Where, some chunks (namely: 'RIFF' and 'LIST') may be nested, containing another FOURCC, followed by any number of other chunks. Most other chunks will simply contain data.
Another possible TLV format is:
0xFF, 0xEC, length:WORD, tag:FOURCC, value:BYTE[length-6]
Where FF EC is a magic escape-sequence, and the data uses an escape-coding scheme.
We might use an escape-case for the length, say:
0xFF, 0xEC, 0:WORD, tag:FOURCC, length:DWORD, value:BYTE[length-10]
Or, alternately, allow tag to be 0, at which point the lumps will be limited to 64k, but are appended together to form encode a larger payload.
A few other possible variants:
length:WORD, tag:TWOCC, value:BYTE[length-4]
Where chunk headers are a little more compact.
tag:VLI, length:VLI, value:BYTE[length]
Where tag and length are variable-length. This allows very compact headers in some cases, at the cost that they are more difficult to work with.
Random Access to Data
Generally, random access to data is achieved via the use of some sort of index structure, which may give the offset of each item within the file.
For example, in a video container format, we might encode the offset of every frame in the video file (such as AVI), allowing a video player to easily jump to any position in the file as is desired.
Something like a region-file in a voxel-engine might instead have an index table holding the offset of every chunk in the region, allowing those parts of the world to be decoded as they come into view.
In other cases, we may rely on the size of the data to calculate where to look. An example is in an array of fixed-size structures, where one can easily calculate where each member is, making an explicit index unnecessary.
Another example is a CBR format. In this case, we may have a format, such as for an audio or video file, and may calculate the offset within the file based on its time-value. Like with the array, if every frame (or group of frames) is encoded within a fixed-size box, then we can easily calculate where the frame is at based on the desired time-value and a known reference point.
In either case, to allow for such random access, it is important that the data can be decoded without reliance on preceding data. This may come at a (typically minor) cost to the compression efficiency, since data within the preceding chunk can't be used by the chunk in question, and as a result will need to be repeated.
Packages with Named Members
Sometimes, it may also make sense for a format to use names or keys to refer to data members.
Historical examples of these include the Doom WAD and Quake WAD2 formats, which used a flat directory of lumps with 8 or 16 character names.
A related use-case is the Quake PACK format, which was structurally similar to a WAD file, with the primary practical difference of having a much larger name field (56 characters), and storing a file-path (rather than a simple lump name).
Some formats also use a ZIP file to package up its contents, which has the advantage of being a fairly standardized container which supports both named members and Deflate. Examples: ODT, DOCX, and ORA (OpenRaster).
The advantage is that these allow the ability to dynamically refer to members via names or paths, which can be useful if storing data which is accessed by a name or path.
Sometimes it may also make sense to combine the use of named members with a TLV format, where certain lumps or chunks may be named, rather than by using an explicit directory. This may make sense when the number of lumps is small and the data is all closely related.
Data Compression via Deflate
This has been moved mostly to a new draft.
One simple and common option I will mention here is that of using something like Deflate (for example, via the common zlib library) to compress the data. This can significantly reduce the size for many types of data, and the data can be decoded reasonably quickly.
Many file formats (including, for example, PNG) have used this strategy with good success.
Designing a file format can be useful, but like anything, there may be pitfalls involved, like time/effort involved, or ending up with a format that no other software can read or write, ... So, it may make sense to balance these sorts of things against the needs of the project.
Most of these topics can be found in more detail elsewhere, such as on Wikipedia.
For those who want to know in-depth how various file formats work, it might be interesting to find and read the various file-format specifications.
Also note that file-format specifications may often be a source of nifty tips or tricks, or possible design ideas, ...
While this is far from a complete (or even adequate) coverage of the topic, maybe it is enough to hopefully at least be informative.
Article Update Log
27 Aug 2014: Writing Article
28 Aug 2014: Still writing Article
11 Sep 2014: Split article, data compression moved to new draft.