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Season 5: Episode 78: The Marine BiologistAfter reading their college alumni magazine's update on Jerry's career and pointing out that George isn't mentioned at all, Elaine is intercepted on her way to work by Kramer who gives her the electronic organizer he received as a gift from his bank. Then, after George reveals his love of whales and Kramer heads for the beach to hit golf balls into the surf, Jerry runs into Diane Dekanne, an old college friend who, having seen the magazine, inquires about George. Impressed with Jerry's claim that his friend is now a marine biologist who specializes in whales, Diane asks for George's phone number and calls him for a date.
When the alarm on Elaine's new organizer irritates exiled Russian author Yuri Testikov, he throws it out the window of their limousine. So, after Kramer claims to be giving up golf after getting off only one really good shot all day, Jerry receives a call from a woman named Corinne who found his name in an electronic organizer that hit her in the head. Meeting to discuss the accident, Jerry vows to find the culprit and demand payment of Corinne's medical bills, while Elaine complains to Kramer that she already transferred her entire address book into the organizer and is now lost without it. After being accused by Jerry of carelessly throwing it out the window and hitting Corinne, Elaine retaliates and complains that some questionable information he gave her about Tolstoy embarrassed her in front of her new author.
Told she cannot have the organizer back until Corinne's medical bills have been paid, Elaine hatches a plan to tape Testikov's confession, thereby protecting herself from any liability. However, while readily admitting his guilt, a noise from her hidden tape recorder disturbs the temperamental writer and, accusing Elaine and Jerry of spying on him, he throws it out the window hitting Corinne again. Meanwhile, when a whale is in danger of dying at the beach, George is forced into action and saves the giant mammal by removing a golf ball that was obstructing his blow hole. But, finally admitting that he is not really a marine biologist, George quickly loses Diane's respect and affection while, after visiting her in the hospital, Testikov falls in love with Corinne and takes her back to Russia.
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So I thought that I would just put some thoughts out there about what I'm seeing on IGN and the gaming community so far. Keep in mind that I don't really read the articles and mostly just look at the headlines and read the things that really interest me which tend to include the consoles that my boyfriend and I own. (PS3, DS/3DS, PSP, iPhone/iPod Touch). Warning: profanity...but you probably knew that already.
Uncharted getting a perfect 10: Wow, really didn't see that coming... >.>; Well I thought it would get a really big score but not something that extensive. I guess I'll have to find someone with a copy and try that out.
Batman Arkam City coming in second: Really, I could kind of care less, although it looks very well done and yet another that I should try out (and probably won't get into).
Sonic Generations: So excited. I got the chance to play the demo on a friend's Xbox and I have to say that I really enjoyed it although it seemed really fast (duh, I know, but still) and I didn't play it long enough to see if there were any special stages like my beloved Sonic and Tails 2~
Super Mario 3d Land: Excited, but not enough to get it when it comes out. So honestly couldn't care less about the things being announced for this game although it'll turn out to be a good game (I'm not a Mario hater by the way).
3DS on the rise: Glad that it's making some kind of comeback now that the bad launch is in the past. Just wait until the new year, new games, new systems sold because of Christmas therefore a bigger audience and more games~!
Sidenote: Kid Icarus...'nuf said.
3DS update coming soon: ABOUT FUCKING TIME...sorry, yeah, gotta give us something Nintendo. Thanks [?].
PSP Vita: really hope my boyfriend buys one so I can oogle at it like he did with my 3DS when I first bought it. However the only thing that is holding him back is his current PSP and the fact that the PSP Vita will essentially be like the PSP Go (stupid idea Sony, seriously WTF...no UMD case my ass) without a UMD case and he's planning to buy Final Fantasy Type-0.
Anyways, that's about it, when there's more news I'll talk about it more...just wanted to get my thoughts out somewhere about these things.
Feel free to comment with your own thoughts...no bashing (you can bash the games, but not me)

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first-time unemployment claims continue to hover at the relatively high level of 360,000.
Jamie and Gladys, both of whom were first-time offenders, were sentenced to life.
"I definitely thought twice about running," says Claire Sabel, a first-time marathoner who has been training since the summer.
That only makes his first-time achievement all the more remarkable.
One was 29, the other 65; one was a first-time burgess, the other a veteran member.
It is only the first-time visitor to the Alps who bridles under the Judas kiss of the wind called fun.
This, for the first-time, came to our knowledge last night, after his return from wherever he had been.
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The Liberty Exemplifies The Deterioration Of RCI: Liberty of the Seas Cruise Review by WECoyote
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The Liberty Exemplifies The Deterioration Of RCI
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
This cruise was a 5 day cruise. I can't think of one day that I had a decent meal. The food was so pedestrian and unappealing. There was little to no seasonings used on the food. It was virtually the same menu day after day whether you went to the dining room or buffet. It does not matter where you sail, on RCI you are going to ave the same menu every time. The lack of diversity gets old real quick. The food really reached the bottom on this trip. Norwegian now has better food the RCI, and THAT is saying a lot!
We started sailing with RCI back in the 90's. Every cruise was an experience and every cruise was dining heaven. Starting in 2007, RCI started removing the perks that frequent cruisers received More on RCI ships. The food on all the ships started being the same and the quality started dropping. It is interesting to me that all these changes coincide with Adam Goldstein being named to be the CEO for RCI. Mr. Goldstein, congratulations to you for destroying what used to be the ultimate experience.
The crew used to take pride in being aboard. They kept their heads high and greeted everyone warmly at all times. Now the crew members keep their heads down and avert their gazes as if they are ashamed of being aboard. Maybe it is the way of the world, but I doubt it. I think that the leadership of RCI is rubbing off on the crew members. In other words, "All we are interested in is the first time cruisers and get rid of the old timers who remember what real cruising was all about".
The RCI entertainers were very good and enjoyable. The contract entertainment wouldn't and shouldn't be allowed to perform on the street corners in Laughlin NV or New Orleans. Less
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Cabin review:
The cabin was kept immaculate as always. There were no problems encountered and the room attendant was excellent.
Port and Shore Excursions
Lamanai Mayan Ruins
The ruins were fantastic and something to see. However, our guide left a lot to be desired. He was so locked into minutia and repeating everything over and over that he lost the interest of the entire group with a couple of minutes at every stop.
The bus ride was long, but that could not be avoided. The boat ride in to the ruins was an hour and 20 minutes. That was excessive, especially as there was no animal, plant, or anything else or interest seen during the trip. The trip out was only 40 minutes and we saw many different interesting critters. The additional 40 minutes we could have had at the ruins if we had taken the shorter route in would have been very welcome.
The food we were served for lunch was acceptable for the most part. I say for the most part because I cannot eat curry and the chicken was curried. the rest of the meal was palatable but nothing to write home about.
We took the Fury Snorkel and Beach Break. My breakdown of the ratings are this: Snorkel 2 and beach break 5.
The snorkel sites were very good. There were a lot of different sea critters to see and the water was extremely clear. The problem with the snorkel was the they tried to group the people and herd them like a bunch of cattle or sheep, It was not enjoyable at all to be hit with arms and/or flippers every few seconds. Further, the snorkel equipment was one size fits all. That worked well for my wife, but mine leaked continuously in spite of being swapped out twice. I am an experience diver and I am very well versed in dive/snorkel equipment.This stuff was garbage.
The beach break was fantastic. It was a private beach and the facilities and amenities (including beverages) were very good.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The Torture Paradox
ALWAYS RIGHT (CONT). Torture is a confused and confusing subject these days, so I won't try to hide the fact that the thoughts which inspired this post's title emerged from a series of confused, almost random responses to the Time Magazine interview with Stephen King. Here are some excerpts. Read the whole thing if you think the ellipses might be obscuring King's brilliance.
STEPHEN KING: So who's going to be TIME Person of the Year?
TIME: I really don't know, there's a very small group of people who make that decision.
I was thinking, I think it should be Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.
Yeah. You know, I just filmed a segment for Nightline, about [the movie version of his novella] The Mist, and one of the things I said to them was, you know, "You guys are just covering — what do they call it — the scream of the peacock, and you're missing the whole fox hunt." Like waterboarding [or] where all the money went that we poured into Iraq....
You know, this morning, the two big stories on CNN are Kanye West's mother, who died, apparently, after having some plastic surgery. The other big thing that's going on is whether or not this cop [Drew Peterson] killed his... wife. And meanwhile, you've got Pakistan in the midst of a real crisis, where these people have nuclear weapons that we helped them develop...
So you've got these things going on... and instead, you see a lot of this back-fence gossip. So I said something to the Nightline guy about waterboarding, and if the Bush administration didn't think it was torture, they ought to do some personal investigation. Someone in the Bush family should actually be waterboarded so they could report on it to George. I said, I didn't think he would do it, but I suggested Jenna be waterboarded and then she could talk about whether or not she thought it was torture.
And the guy says to me — the Nightline guy — I didn't get the guy's name.... he said to me, "If we didn't cover cultural things, we wouldn't be covering you and The Mist, and promoting the movie." And I'm like, "Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan aren't cultural." They aren't political. They're economic only in the mildest sense of the word... Britney Spears is just trailer trash.... And yet, you know and I know that if you go to those sites that tell you what the most blogged-about things on the Internet are, it's Britney, it's Lindsay. So I think it would be terrific [to have them as TIME Persons of the Year]. There would be such a scream from the American reading public, sure. But at the same time, it's time for somebody to discuss the difference between real news and fake news...
...Britney is now famous for being famous. Her sales have gone down with almost every album, bigger and bigger jumps, so that nobody really cares about her music anymore. They care about the tabloid headlines and whether or not she's wearing panties. I mean, is this an issue that the American public needs to turn its brainpower on? Britney Spears' lingerie, or lack thereof?
I'll pass your suggestion along. So you're a news junkie?
I got hooked by my wife. You'd be surprised, or maybe you wouldn't be surprised, being that I'm around John Mellancamp a lot — he and I are doing this play. But it's the news 24-7. Always on.
Here are some of the random comments that ran through my mind as I read, in no particular order:
The first substantive issue he can think of is waterboarding?
"[H]e said to me, "If we didn't cover cultural things, we wouldn't be covering you and The Mist, and promoting the movie." And I'm like, "Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan aren't cultural." Huh? This guy has sold more books than any other living writer and he says, "I'm like..."?
He seems to be saying that he only got turned on about politics by his wife and hanging around with John Mellencamp. And yet he's presumably "cultural" while Britney is just "entertainment" and "trailer trash." John Mellenkamp? And this is the guy who has sold more books than any other living writer? John Mellenkamp?
Yeah, the context suggests that his proposal to waterboard Jenna Bush is facetious, but this is a guy whose aggregated fictional body count makes 24 look like Heidi. Is there some part of him that really does want to see the President's daughter waterboarded? Maybe while staring censoriously at the latest media exploitation photo of Britney without panties? Or in his fantasy is Jenna not wearing Britney's panties, either? After all, that would make the tableau more politico-cultural than trailer-trashy, right? Sure it would.
This guy has been fictionally postulating the existence of evil as a definite living force for 30 years now, and yet he regards waterboarding as one of the prime issues facing a nation whose enemies cut off the heads of their own family members for sartorial offenses. Is all that imagery of evil phony -- pure empty "entertainment"? Or is evil for him really just a melodramatic symbol of whatever he happens to disapprove of?
Stephen King has spent his entire creative life thinking up sensational new ways to kill people and inflict pain upon them. And he's righteously indignant about waterboarding?
I actually don't disagree with Stephen King that Time Magazine should name Britney Spears and Lindsey Lohan as their "Persons of the Year." Although I would also add Paris Hilton. The trio does symbolically embody the transformation in the body politic (NSFW) the MSM are working so indefatigably to bring about. The citizens of the modern progressive state they deem necessary and desirable are weak, brainless, greedy, corrupt, vulnerable, and somehow aggressively supine. The government the media elite envision for us is well equipped to service those who have the animal instinct to fall on their backs and submit to the sugar daddy who already owns them.
That's why there's such a disconnect between the pyrotechnical outrage over waterboarding and the comparatively blase treatment of real torture. King's deliberate mixing of the subjects of torture and voyeurism forcibly invoked the memory of a photo so awful, and yet so sickeningly relevant, that I'm posting it only as a link. But I demand that you go look at it, especially if you're one of the ones who rant about waterboarding as torture and believe that our media are more disposed to flaunt sexuality than cover "substantive" matters like egregious human rights violations.
Here's the link. Here's the story that documents the facts:
"At first, they kept Ms. Wang in isolation. Two collaborators monitored her. She was denied sleep and forced to stand still in the corner of the room. The next day, she had to sit on a chair with her hands tied behind her back to the back of the chair. At night, they had her wear a motorcycle helmet.
"The guards kept chopsticks and a basin of cold water ready to use, and whenever Ms. Wang closed her eyes, they poured water over her and hit the helmet hard with the chopsticks.
Sound a bit like waterboarding? Unspeakable. Where's Amnesty International? Where's the New York Times? Somebody should do something. Somebody did. Her guards.
"Two guards from Benxi, holding electric batons, shouted, "We will see who is tougher!" The two men tore Ms. Wang's shirt open and shocked her breasts with two electric batons for 30 minutes.
"Afterwards, they made her stand still for the entire night. The next morning, guard Guo Tieying asked Ms. Wang nastily whom she would follow. Ms. Wang replied, "I will follow the teachings of Falun Gong."
"Guo Tieying immediately brought in two guards and several collaborators to torture her. They tore a bed sheet into strips and tied her legs in a cross-legged position (with legs double-crossed, as in the 'full lotus' position). Next they handcuffed her arms behind her back and tied her upper body to her legs, making Ms. Wang look like a ball. Then they suspended her in the air by the handcuffs, with her hands still behind her back.
"She suffered excruciating pain from this torture for seven hours.
"Afterwards, Ms. Wang could no longer walk with her back straight, but was bent over, nor could she sit straight. Her breasts were disfigured by the intense shocks, and eventually developed serious infections."
So, all you hyper-moral pacifist purists, if you could learn Ms. Wang's location and save her by waterboarding a captured guard, would you do it? Or is her permanent crippling and disfigurement a satisfactory consequence of your own personal interpretation of right and wrong? That's what you seem to be saying by your absolute opposition to any form of physical coercion, even if it doesn't maim or kill.
But if that's really your position, then you've entered the paradox zone. You have to explain -- to your own satisfaction -- why it is less moral to commit a lesser crime in order to prevent a larger crime than it is to enable a larger crime by refusing to commit a lesser crime. You can't allow the SWAT sniper to shoot the kidnapper who's holding a knife to your spouse's throat. You can't acquit the woman who kills her rapist in an act of self defense. You can't acquit the father who kills a child-molester in the act of sodomizing his infant daughter. In all these examples the killers are guilty of the same order of crime you're too moral to commit.
Not the same thing? Well, not quite the same as the media depiction of such choices. Ordinarily, the comparison is put to us in terms of individual torture versus mass murder; i.e., would you torture a terrorist to prevent the nuking of New York? It's a deceptive shift in perspective, intended to be disorienting. It's so much harder to imagine death on a vast scale than prolonged, painful suffering on an individual scale. Your mind isn't wired to imagine a single horrible death multiplied by five million and further multiplied by five million varied individual experiences of suffering and loss. There's a subtle misdirection at work. Most of us fear pain and suffering even more than we fear death. Here's the better queston: would you commit one act of torture to prevent five million acts of slow, agonizing, sadistic, dehumanizing torture? If not, why not?
What's really odd is that the reputedly moral stance against any form of torture is so often adopted by the so-called progressives who are so busily insisting on atheism as a superior philosophical stance for the national culture. The anti-waterboarding lobby probably has more members in common with Richard Dawkins's anti-God army than with the backward Christian soldiers who are willing to torture a terrorist to save a city. But it's the Christians who are risking irrational damnation. The rationalists are defying their own devotion to mathematics as the ruling principle by refusing to take personal responsibility for a reprehensible act by one unit on behalf of millions of other units of their own species. Ironically, such sacrifices make more empirical sense in a godless universe than in a divinely judged universe in which death is not the final, fatal end of accountability.
The thing is, in reality, all of these philosophical paradoxes are beside the point. It's all so much simpler than that if we're a nation of brainless, characterless, spread-legged cows like Britney, Lindsey, and Paris. All the harping on waterboarding is undertaken in the certainty that most of us know we couldn't withstand even as mild a form of torture as this. In fact, waterboarding is about as far as our individual imaginations can take us. We're better able to envision not being able to breathe for a few seconds than to comprehend unanesthetized castration with a dull knife or public limb-by-limb amputation followed by disembowelment or -- well, something truly impossible -- like being beheaded live (!) on videotape by a religious fanatic with a rusty pruning saw.
If we can't imagine surviving it or doing it ourselves, that's supposed to be the end of the discussion. In the progressive egalitarian model, all people are basically the same. Regardless of our origins and cultures, we're no better and no worse than anyone else. If we couldn't commit acts of deliberate premeditated cruelty, neither could anyone else. Unless the evil handful of real oppressors in the world provoked us beyond endurance. So if ordinary people are committing acts of savage violence, it must be because of that handful of real oppressors, who are objectively evil -- because their crimes, even if they are nominally lesser, are codified and cold-blooded rather than spontaneous and passionate. The waterboarding of the oppressors is worse than the beheadings and mutilations of the universal everyman. There's no basis for comparison at all. Thus, no comparisons will be drawn.
But there's a hole in the egalitarian facade that is perfectly exemplified by Stephen King. Here's a man who has no problem at all with imagining in vivid detail the very worst things that can be done to a human being. Yet he still pretends that waterboarding is worse than any crime committed by the devotedly savage among us. His outrage about waterboarding has to be a pose. His suggestion that Jenna Bush be waterboarded for the purpose of humiliating his political nemeses is both hypocrtical and voyeuristic. And Time Magazine's willingness to give him print space without interrogating his lifelong penchant for sadism is evidence of the phony moralism of those who presume to be our philosophical mentors.
So: How do you pussies feel about all the MSM's Britney-Lindsey-Paris crotch shots (still NSFW) now that you know you're really leering at a portrait of what you've become? Don't know what to say? I'm sure America's Dickens would be happy to explain it to you better than I can.
John Mellencamp's Political Disciple
I feel better already. How about you?
UPDATE. Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the link. If you're enjoying the comments here, you might also enjoy the reader comments on these posts at Vox Popoli (libertarian-Christian something-or-others) Transterrestrial Musings (Rand Simberg), and this forum (sci-fi/horror nerds?) What's most interesting is that those who are most critical of this post are unanimous in not attempting to answer the direct questions I asked here. They grab the hot potato and run off to some favorite ideological corner where they can deal exclusively in abstractions, statistics, and political/moral rhetoric. There's no sense that for them a debate of this sort ever passes from the academic to the reality of bitter choices and bloody consequences. They seem to think that war itself can be made sanitary if interrogations are polite. Simberg sums them up well as "morally unserious." I'm personally surprised at how many of them actually act out the dim, passive template I drew of them in this post. I'm less surprised at the additional evidence that many of them can't read, having misunderstood my argument as "we do it because they do it too." I'm amused that so few understand that what a fiction writer writes says a great deal about his psyche and desires. (If you're still not understanding me on this, try to write a fictional rape-murder scene. See if you can really do it. Then lecture me about why Stephen King's fiction isn't relevant because it's only fiction.) But go read what the people have to say and see what you think.
UPDATE 2. Hats off to Eric Scheie at Classical Values. Unlike Christian-libertarians and other pillars of ultimate morality, he experienced a visceral reaction to the example of Chinese torture and failed to dismiss it as irrelevant to American foreign policy or the predictable result of an alien authoritarian government dealing with a weird cult, but called it out as a shocking illustration of the difference between torture and severe unpleasantness. Even Reynolds was more affected by Stephen King's provocative Person of the Year nominations than he was by a demonstration of real torture.
I have a bigger question for all of you who understand Eric's response. How do you interpret the non-response of so many aelf-avowed moralists to such repulsively documented facts? For my part, I think the latter generations are chock full of functional sociopaths. They think they're moral, they (many of them) think they believe in God, but in reality all their thinking is really only about themselves and the various poses they adopt to appear estimable in the eyes of those whose admiration they seek.
The first question I asked -- "If you could learn Ms. Wang's location and save her by waterboarding a captured guard, would you do it?" -- was an easy one for authentic Christians, as 'Joshua Chamberlain' explained in his comment. He said: "As a Christian, I would be happy to stand before God and explain that, if I had a choice between harming the guilty and seeing harm done to the innocent, I would choose protecting the innocent every single time. If the Lord chooses to damn that, so be it."
The Vox Popolis of the world will never understand that faith is not entirely about unquestioning submission; it's also about conviction in the spark of goodness we carry as individuals. If it should turn out that God disapproves of Christian morality, then damnation is preferable to betrayal of what we hold sacred. If it's wrong to hurt or kill the malevolent in order to save the innocent, there is no divine justice worth having. And there's no secular logic that makes life worth living.
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Citigroup has appointed former federal superannuation minister Nick Sherry as a senior adviser to its securities and fund services business.
Mr Sherry, a Labor senator of 22 years, joins the bank after retiring from politics in June.
He will be based in Australia and will have a regional role supporting Citi's pension fund clients in the Asia Pacific.
The chief country officer for Citi in Australia, Stephen Roberts, said he was delighted to have Mr Sherry joining the firm.
"He joins a team with local capabilities and international reach, well positioned to provide custody and administration services in Australia to support the needs of the fastest growing pool of superannuation assets in the world," Mr Roberts said in a statement.
Mr Sherry was a minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments between 2007 and 2012. Portfolios he held at various stages include assistant treasurer, corporate law, small business, and superannuation – a policy area he took great interest in during his political career.
Mr Sherry said he was pleased to join the Citi team at a time of great change within the superannuation industry.
"There are many new demands and opportunities for the custody business which Citi can meet," Mr Sherry said.
"Citi's global and local presence, coupled with investment services, banking and capital markets operations will allow the bank to meet the full scope of a fund's requirements."
Citi's securities and fund services unit currently oversees custody and administration for $125 billion in Australian client assets and close to $US13 trillion globally.
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First Time Fantasticness: Carnival Pride Cruise Review by ebliss1
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First Time Fantasticness
Destination: Bahamas
Embarkation: Baltimore
The good.
There's plenty of it.
The boarding process was very smooth and did not involve excessive waiting or line-standing. Things went smoothly from the moment we arrived at the port until we got on board. Even a torrential rainstorm on arrival day didn't screw things up at all. The room was ready when advertised and was roomier than we had expected. We had heard horror stories about glorified broom closets for cabins, but ours was more than roomy enough for my wife and I and our teen daughter. The cabin stewards did a good job of cleaning the room unobtrusively and keeping everything stocked and the towel animals were a nice greeting More when we returned to the cabin. When we were out on deck during the sea days, the waiters circling the deck were fast and efficient and always seemed to be available. The Normandie Dining Room was fabulous. Our table team of Gairy and Peter were, hands-down, the best waiters we have ever dealt with, in any restaurant. They were always on hand just when we needed something and were absent when we wanted to eat peacefully. Remember: good service does not mean hovering over my shoulder waiting for me to need something. The food was surprisingly good. We had read some of the stories about people complaining about the food but after experiencing it for a full week, I'm guessing those complainers are the sorts of people who are never happy unless they are complaining or they are expecting something like it was hand-prepared by Wolfgang Puck just for them at every meal. Take it from me, I like to eat and I loved the food. The melting chocolate cake dessert was fabulous night after night. The comedy shows and the magic show were a lot of fun and very entertaining. My daughter experienced the heck out of Circle C and we barely saw her except on excursions and at dinner. She had a blast and is still texting all of her friends from the group.
The bad. Not much of it and mostly just nit-pickings. The Lido buffet on embarkation day is a little confusing. All of the buffet stations serve different food, but a lot of people didn't seem to know this and we heard a bit of grumbling about lack of variety and then those same people complaining when they saw others with different foods. The other complaint I had was that the Taj Mahal shows seem to have been designed in 1988, and not updated except for the costumes and dancers since then. The songs and routines were very dated, but the dancers and singers did the best they could with the material and we were entertained nonetheless. On the beach day at Half Moon Cay the buffet was a little lacking, and not really convenient to where the beach was. That said, the food they provided was tasty and there was plenty of it - just not with a lot of variety.
The ugly. The crew work a TON of hours. Every so often we would run into a crewmember that we recognized from a different job at a different time of day. It was actually a little uncomfortable seeing them working so many hours. Even at my regular job I don't work those sorts of hours 7 days a week. They do it, do it well, and do it with a smile (except for that one grumpy guy carving ham at the buffet - but that could have just been an off day for him). The crew were positively Disney-like with their work ethic and cheer.
Things of note:
I read a lot of complaints about the decor. I'll be honest, yes you see some large reproductions of classic art and some of it has nudes. Really, though, after a day and a half, it just blends into the background. You really don't notice it unless you focus on it.
The hammocks at the adults-only deck called Serenity are a great way to deal with ship movement. The deck may move under you, but they don't so they are very relaxing.
The photographers are all studio-quality and you really need either an iron will not to buy fabulous portraits and candids of yourself, or you need to budget in some money for picture buying.
The excursions are a little uneven. If you set your expectations a little lower than the "once in a lifetime!" type of writeups you see, you'll have a better time. They're good, but be realistic with yourself. Yes, you can swim with a dolphin or interact with stingrays (we did both), but hearing what some fellow cruisers were complaining about makes me think they walked into these things thinking they were getting a private lagoon with their own private pod of pet dolphins or stingrays. These excursions are volume businesses and you will be with larger groups. Everyone there wants to interact with the dolphins and stingrays, and there's only so much time for everyone to do so. Also, if you can, I highly recommend bringing your own mask and snorkel if you are doing any excursion that requires them. My wife and daughter had a lot of trouble with the loaners and their enjoyment suffered as a result. I brought my own and had no problems whatsoever.
Don't stand in line for the Normandie. Your seat is assigned and you'll sit in the same seat whether you walk in at the end of the line or wait for half an hour to be first in line. Get your portraits taken while the rest of the lemmings are in line, and then when the line disappears into the dining room, just walk in right behind them and voila, you're in the same seat!
Use the room service breakfast as your alarm clock. They are really good about getting the food to you at the time you request.
Eat in the Normadie for lunch and breakfast a few times. You will get different seats and different companions and the experience changes each time as a result. We had a lot of fun watching people who did not budget their time well running across the pier to get back onto the ship before it left Nassau.
The galley tour is free and enjoyable and adds a little something to the whole dining experience.
Wait until later in the week to buy pictures. Its easy to buy them each night since they look so good, but if you have some self-control and wait until later, you can really do some comparison shopping and decided which ones are the best, rather than just the best of that day.
If you like comedy, go to both the family-friendly and non-family-friendly shows. You'll see more material that way even if there is some overlap, but not too much.
If you sit in the upper level at the Taj Mahal, sit in the second row. The seats are tiered so that you get a decent view unless you are sitting behind Shaquille O'neal. The first row seems cool, but you will watch the show through the glass railing. Kinds kills the experience a bit.
The internet cafe costs money to use UNLESS you log into Carnival.com. Makes sense when you think about it since they'd be dumb to restrict access to their own marketing material, but if you want to do some research on the excursions or look into future sailings, you can do it free of charge.
If you want some free alcohol, the "art auction" provides free champagne and you are not obligated to buy anything or even stay past the observation time.
Yes, the deck does move. Don't sweat it. Just walk single file down the hallways so you're not bumping into each other as the ship moves. Also, if you're not the first one in the line, its kind of amusing to watch the person in front of you apparently weaving down the hallway like they're drunk. If you're prone to seasickness or feeling it, take some Bonine or get the seasickness patch. Once my wife started taking the Bonine, she relaxed, felt better and enjoyed the trip. Less
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Dr. Polly Stevens Fields
, named Full Professor in May 2003, serves as a member of the English faculty
since 1995. She received rank of Associate Professor in 1998 and was awarded
Tenure in 1999. She received her Bachelor's Degree in 1979 from Vanderbilt
University in Nashville, Tennessee, with a major in British Literature and
was conferred with the
For her work in the
classroom, Fields was selected by the Academic Deans at LSSU to receive the
1998 MAGB Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, bestowed by the Michigan
Association of Governing Boards. In addition to her endeavors as a teacher,
Fields is engaged in academic writing, along with research and scholarship.
She continues publishing both course texts for student use in Freshman Composition
courses at LSSU and professional works in the areas of her specialty, seventeenth-
and eighteenth-century literature. She has written, designed, and published
web pages for her courses on Milton, Shakespeare, Rise of the British Novel,
401-402 English Methods, as well as maintaining her own personal web page
of professional activities. Encouraging undergraduate research and scholarly
work by her students, Fields has sponsored student papers at the annual
Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters; she supervised the scholarship
of five LSSU seniors who presented their own scholarly research at the March
9-11, 2000 conference in Saginaw and the March 20-21 Michigan Academy Conference
at Hope College, Holland, Michigan.
A specialist in history
of the drama, in Post-Modern Literary Criticism, and in cultural religion,
Dr. Fields's conference presentations include national and international
venues. For four consecutive years, her scholarly essays have been accepted
for presentation at the prestigious conferences of the British Society, Oxford
University. In July 1999, she traveled to the University of Dublin to present
a paper at the Congress of the Enlightenment. Meeting every eight years,
the congress attracts a number of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century scholars
worldwide whose presentations explore contemporary views of Enlightenment
literature. A Delegate and a Chair at the Congress, her presentation paper
was "Samson Occom and the Invisible Slave: The Pragmatics of Eighteenth-Century
Missionaries and the Bifurcations of Racism." In the 1998 and 1999 meetings
of the Canadian Society, she spoke at the University of Alberta, on the topic
of "The Synecdochic Native-American," focusing on early missionaries in the
Sault area; the following year, her work was presented at the University
of Montreal, where Fields gave a presentation on eighteenth- century preachers
in Pre-Colonial America.
Nationally, Dr. Fields appeared on a panel in February at Yale ACLA 2000 conference. Her topic was "Silence of the Signs: The Death-Sex Nexus in Michigan Upper Peninsula Pictographs." She spoke in April at the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia on her recent publication, the Reverend Peter Davys, husband of Mary Davys, the novelist/dramatist. In Spring 2000, Fields's paper, "Samson Occom And/In the Missionary['s] Position: Consideration of a Native-American Preacher in 1770s Colonial America," was presented at the Yale Center for British Art. Receiving distinction as one of twelve papers nominated for publication winter 2000-2001, the essay will be featured in a special issue of the Wordsworth Circle, devoted to the dozen chosen essayists.
During summer 2000, Fields picked up her second UCLA Fellowship in June and July; working chiefly at the William Andrews Clark Rare Book Library of UCLA, she concentrated on her study of Anglican commemorative sermons, 1660-1800, in the Cartwright and Pam Collections. Engaged in the study of decency and shifting definitions, she is employing selected dramas and novels as parts of the hypothesis. In August, she presented her essay "Latin is Lethal: Davys in Dublin" at the British Society Conference, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She is also engaged currently in discussions about presenting a series of seminars on the history of the drama in the South in Scandinavia.
While in Europe, she engaged in research at the British Library and the Bodleian to bring forward her book on pulpit rhetoric in progress. During this time, she prepared an essay on the Native-American Metis, Jane Schoolcraft, "Forked Tongue" for presentation at the Canadian Society, University of Toronto, October 2000, and completed an essay "Reading the Signs: Death and Transfiguration in Ojibway Pictographs" for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference, Washington D.C., December 27-30, 2000.
In January 2001, she returned to England to present a paper at Oxford University British Society, St. John's College. Titled "The Fissured Body: Reconstructing Native-American Identity in the Canon of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1843)," the paper considered the implications of Post-colonial Native-American identity in the periodical Literary Voyageur, edited by Jane Schoolcraft and her husband, Henry R. Schoolcraft. January 2002, she is presenting a paper before the British Society, Cambridge University "Jane Leade, Jakob Boehme, and the Founding of the Philadelphia Movement. "
Presentations during winter and spring 2001-2002 include MLA where as Forum Speaker her topic is "Teaching Smarter: Theory in the Cluster and Electronics Classroom," New Orleans, December 27 - 30, 2001. For the April 2002 ASECS conference in Colorado, she is organizer and chair of a panel, "The Civil Pulpit: Sermons and Public Culture in 18th-Century England." Additionally, she participated in the Debartolo Round Table with a paper entitled, "Manners as Regulatory Practices in Charity Schools and Hospitals." Last year, she presented at the 2001 ASECS, New Orleans, in late April. The essay incorporated her work on 18th century Anglican preachers, focusing on Jane Leade, the visionary/writer/preacher whose textual emblematics impacted Francis Quarles, 18th century artist and preacher.
Her publications include a collected essay on Eliza Haywood entitled, "'Manly Vigour and Woman's Wit': Engendering Dialogue in the Dramas of Eliza Haywood" in Compendious Conversations: Methods of Dialogue in the Early Enlightenment, edited by Kevin L. Cope (Lang, 1994). In 1998, Fields published a chapter on the Anglo-Irish writer, Mary Davys, in Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Women Novelists (G. K. Hall, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Macmillan). Her book review of a Davys volume appeared fall 2000, in The Scriblerian.
Quite recently, her essay on the British playwright/actress, "Charlotte Charke and The Liminality of Bi-Genderings: A Study of the Canonical Works," was published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in the collection, A Pilgrimage for Love: Essays in Early Modern Literature. A third publication for 2000 is her featured article "George Lillo and the Victims of Economic Theory," one of nine essays featured in Studies in the Literary Imagination: Special Edition on the Drama, just released.. During this period, she also published two book reviews
Signing during fall 2001, with Oxford University Press for articles on 18th century women writers to appear in New Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), she wrote profiles of the novelist/poet Eliza Kirkham Mathews (d. 1802) and periodicist/essayist/poet Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins (1763-1828). These essays are scheduled for publication 2002 in the New DNB.
Publications for 2000-2001 included the commissioned articles in addition to the essay, "Samson Occom And/In the Missionary['s] Position: Consideration of a Native-American Preacher in 1770s Colonial America," presented at the INCS conference, Yale Center for British Art, April 2000. Selected and designated as one of the twelve essays for publication by INCS, the essay appeared in The Wordsworth Circle , in a special issue devoted to the INCS conference, Summer 2001.
A Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities in the Summer Seminars at St. Deniol's and Selwyn College, Cambridge University, Summer 2002, she conducted research at Cambridge on pre-Reformation Charity sermons and festivities, to bring forward her book, "The Tropes of Decency." An article derived from the research on the pre-Reformation Feast of the Fool is currently circulating.
Presentations during summer 2002 through spring 2003 included a presentation at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, July 25-28, "Politicizing the Romantic: Felicia B. Hemans, The Blackwood Review, and the Irish Troubles," presented with permission of the National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Committee. In June, she was Public Forum Speaker, and gave an address on Chippewa Ojibwa pictographs in Ontario Canada. During October, she made a presentation before the Mid-West Eighteenth-Centry Conference, Southwest Missouri University, Springfield, in addition to organizing a panel and charing: "Holy Visions: Sermons as Early Modern Spectacle." In January 2003, she presented before the British Society, Oxford University, speaking on "Political Firebrands: Felicia B. Hemans and Eliza Sophia Tomlins, Political Activists."
Presentations scheduled in 2003, included the British Society, Oxford University, January 3 - 6, "Political Firebrands: Felicia B. Hemans and Eliza Sophia Tomlins, Political Activists." Other conference papers were "Printed Rebellion: Felicia Hemans And/In the Edinburgh Review" at SHARP, The Printed Book Society, Claremont Graduate Schools, July 7-12, 2003. In addition, she was a delegate at Eleventh Congress of the Enlightenment. UCLA, Los Angeles. August 3-10, 2003, where she, also chairing four panels, she directed a session and presented a paper "Tell No One Your Story': Alienation, Exile, and the Penitent Prostitutes at the Magdalene Asylum."
Presentations during 2004 were Peering Through the Hole in the Canvas: Native-American Women as Iconographs." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Boston, Massachusetts. March 24- 28, 2004. Papers accepted for presentation included the following: "The Beguines: St. Hildegard of Bingen, as Mystic, Prophet, and Theosophist." IATL International Association of Theology and Literature, Le Moyne and Syracuse Universities, Syracuse, New York. May 19 - 25. (Calendar Withdrawal) and "Sturm und Drang of The Play Within, The Life Within: Charlotte Charke and Framing the Subliminal Self on Stage." Goethe Graduate Institute, University New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. July 24 - 28, 2004. (Calendar Withdrawal)
Work in progress includes her books, as discussed in the link "Recent Projects." Other short and long term projects incorporate an essay on fourteenth century mystics, as well as a work on "Identity and Impact: Theological Import of the Lady Moyers Lectures" Both will be circulating in 2004-5. One chapter-length work, "'My Bold Voice': Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Muzzeniegun or The Literary Messenger (1826)," the first publication in the Northwest Territories, is currently on a publisher's desk.
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Secrets of the Ark: A Broken Sword Game
Review by Randomer
"It's a good game, but for fans it may be unsatisfying"
Broken Sword 1 and 2 are the kind of game that lots of people have probably played but don't really seem to talk about much. They are heralded as awesome point and click adventure games and the third seems to be slated by the fans with its new 3D graphics and controls. Broken Sword 4 aims to please everyone and for this reason it seems to be a little lost and washed out. Still however it is a quality game and a must for Broken Sword fans.
No different from a lot of adventure games, relying on a tested and working system of events. You go somewhere, you look around, talk to people, uncover clues, progress through the mysteries, travel to nearby areas, sneak into places, break out of places and all sorts of things like that. There is variety in the puzzles, you will solve ancient riddles, plot escapes from mafia gangs and even hack into the Vatican City's computer network. Whilst there is nothing particularly new, there is Variety and it is satisfying.
The controls have been changed this time around. although you can control the main character directly using the direction arrows on the keyboard, there is now WASD command system like Broken Sword 3 had. Instead it is back to the point & click, or you can use complete point & click controls with there being a happy middle ground. Direct control for accurate sneaking and point & click controls for investigating and more relaxed game periods.
The game is not a particularly difficult one, whilst some particular moments will give you a lot of trouble, the sneaking and action has been turned down a bit and it is more relaxed, so for those less action hungry, you need not worry. One particular addition I must mention is that George now has a PDA, he can make phone calls whenever he wants to get updates on what other characters are doing, he can check his notes and at certain points there is a complex hacking mini-game used to break into computer systems, this can however be frustrating.
This game appears to have fewer locations than in previous games, however there remains the variety we have come to expect from Broken Sword games. From sleazy New York hotels to Turkish palaces. Military bases to communion wafer factories. It's a fun ride.
The staple of an adventure game like this. The story starts with a bang, like all the previous Broken Sword games. After the events in Glastonbury, George was questioned by the secret service and rumour spread about the world over what happened. George and Nico went their separate ways once again and George seemed to lose his friends and his patenting work went under. He works at a Bail Bonds, the only job he could get. One day a beautiful woman comes rushing in, screaming about manuscripts and the mafia. George jumps into action and the player begins his journey to recover a manuscript, translate it and find the treasure. But this is Broken Sword, things are never that easy.
This is an important point for fans of the series. One problem I have had with this game is its lack of returning characters. Whilst George and Nico are there, none of the other characters are and all the games have had their memorable characters. For example, you will impersonate BBC reporter Eamon O'Mara, and break into his hotel room, but you never get to meet him, I found this a great disappointment. Nico also seems different, there is less of the chemistry between her and George and long time fans may be left a little lost.
Still there are plenty of fresh new characters, a Viscount hobo, a man with a passion for geese, 'odd' priests, a mafia member who believes he is Elvis and more Nuns than any game before! It's a fun ride.
The graphics in this game are very nice and a bit less cartoon like than the previous game,, whether or not this is a good change or not is completely down to the player, I personally prefer it. This game has not had a console release so you really do need a computer that is up to the challenge as the game requires a lot of power for what it puts out graphically. Some of the animations are also lacking and there are some little graphical glitches that can annoy sometimes. Still however the graphics are nothing to be complained about, the designers really have gone into detail with things and the environments (particularly indoor ones are great).
George remains George, the humour is still there, but he seems to be taking this venture more seriously than before. The great jokes of broken sword are there and the conversations are clear and fun. The soundtrack does not intrude upon the gameplay and is mostly not noticed unless you are paying attention.
Replay Value:
Like most games, this game is best played one and possibly not again. There are some extras but they are nothing really fascinating as such. This game has a poor replay value.
Buy it, its worth it!
I am giving this game 8/10. It is a worthwhile game and is really a lot of fun to play, it may be a disappointment to some fans but most should find it a great continuation of an awesome series.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.0 - Great
Originally Posted: 12/29/07
Game Release: Broken Sword: The Angel of Death (EU, 09/15/06)
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Luckiamute River
The Little Luckiamute River cuts a bee-line through eastern flanks of the Oregon Coast Range before it falls in an ear-shattering moment at Falls City, while less than three miles away another sort of "fall" happens when mountain bikers gather and catch big air across a little piece of heaven called Black Rock Mountain.
It's called "Free Riding" and it's on a little piece of cycling heaven where the riders catch big air across 500 acres of Oregon State Forest at Black Rock Mountain in Polk County.
The volunteer organization that makes it all work is called the Black Rock Mountain Bike Association or "BRMBA" for short. Rich Bontrager, the association president, told me that the group is now seven years old and fifteen hundred members strong.
He noted that it all started with a simple dream. "I think we all need to help get people off the couch and out in the forest … to see that there's other stuff out here than the city pavement or a computer game – it's that sort of thing that draws folks – something new and different and exciting."
BRMBA member, Todd Glascow, a longtime rider, said that "feature" ideas are really born of the experiences that riders have as they take on trails across the United States. "Oh yes – we ride other areas, see other things and incorporate them into our own ideas and then take a spin on it. While some material is bought and some donated, a good majority of the wood that we use is fallen timber found in the forest."
Whether catching big air and enjoying the freedom that comes from speeding down a forest trail on two wheels, the riders agree that there's something for every level of experience at Black Rock Mountain. "You're out here in the trees and you're away from everything else," noted Glascow. "You're far away from the daily grind. You can have a stressful day or stressful week and you come out here and ride a bike – it's all gone!"
Polk County offers more stress-free zones as the Luckiamute River flows into the Willamette Valley. In fact, when you pull in to Oregon's very first state park called Sarah Helmick, located off Oregon State Highway 99 – you will discover a hidden gem.
"Oh yes – it really is a hidden gem," said Oregon State Park Manager Bryan Nielsen. "It's off the beaten path for sure, but the folks who've been coming here for decades like it that way."
It's a gem of a parkland that dates to 1922 when the Helmick family donated the land for future generations. "Back in the 1950s, camping really took off," said Nielsen. "Motor homes were invented, trailers were improving as technology was changing. The economy was improving and people had more free time. Parks like Sarah Helmick really took off were valued for their peace and quiet."
The park sprawls across 40 acres with plentiful picnic sites and play-spaces under the shady limbs of giant oak and maple trees. "It's great place to get out and stretch the legs," added Nielsen. "Just to enjoy a beautiful park and get away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life."
Less than twenty minutes east, the Luckiamute River slows and seems to meander on its way to meet the Willamette River as it course through a state park where they're trying something new. Luckiamute Landing State Natural Area is parkland without rental cabins, trailer hook-ups or play areas for the kids. It is a new park where they're turning the clock back to help restore wildlife habitat.
Park Ranger Steve DeGoey explained that the goal is to enhance nearly 1000 acres for wildlife including varied bird life and even endangered western pond turtles. It's a day-use parkland that invites hikers or river paddlers and it is waiting for you to explore anytime.
"We've planted about 440,000 shrubs and trees since 2011, so be sure to bring your binoculars when you come to visit. We've several miles of hiking trails too! We have a variety of birds and in spring the wildflowers bloom too. Plus, two ponds that are home to western pond turtles that like to warm themselves on the logs. They can be a shy animal so be quiet and walk softly or they quickly jump into the water."
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Jim & Mickey make music
I just found out that Jim Sturgess is on Twitter - http://twitter.com/mrjimsturgess. It's mostly in service of his music. Apparently he and his longtime girlfriend Mickey O'Brien (keyboardist for La Roux) are working on some music together. Full Story
One Day: the poster!
We talked about this a lot just now on the liveblog – the poster for the One Day movie has just been released. For those of you who loved the book… Yes? I say yes. I say a thousand times yes! To me it captures so many things about the story – the time, the years, the connection, the urgency…and a little pain. Full Story
Jim Sturgess: Best of British Talent
UK InStyle put together a portfolio of exciting young British stars for their March 2011 issue. Jim Sturgess is one of the featured players. There's video too. And if you're a fan of Misfits, you'll also be rewarded with some Robert Sheehan action in there. Also Douglas Booth, the really pretty boy Full Story
Now this is a trailer: Hanna edition
I know. It's one of my common refrains. That there is an art to cutting movie trailers and most of the time, Hollywood doesn't give a sh-t. Which is why when a really, really great one comes along, it's something to fist pump about. The film is Hanna, due in theatres in April, starring the always sublime Cate Blanchett and a surprisingly enigmatic Eric Bana. Full Story
Ending with Jim
Seems a good way to kick off the weekend, call it a day. Jim Sturgess is in Dubai still promoting The Way Back. I think someone gave him a pair of new shoes. At least those look like new shoes. And he was probably like – oh look, new shoes, I'll just wear them now, which is why they don't exactly match. Full Story
Jim + Colin on TV
A joint interview on Chatty Man. The best 13 minutes of my day. It's worth 13 minutes of your day too. They are promoting The Way Back. They are really, really cute together. Opposites. Jim the quiet, unassuming, reluctant movie star and Colin in the spotlight, always. He even concedes to this at the end, when watching childhood home video. Full Story
2 & 4 side by side
The other day at a London press conference for The Way Back I noted that there were no photos of Jim Sturgess and Colin Farrell, numbers 2 and 4 on my Five List, standing next to each other...and that was good for self preservation. Last night at the Spanish premiere of the film though, they did indeed go shoulder to shoulder. Full Story
2 & 4 together
How will I focus the rest of the day? Jim Sturgess and Colin Farrell, numbers 2 and 4 on my Five List, just showed up together at a presser for The Way Back in London. They did not pose side by side. In a way I'm thankful for it. Remember last week when Ryan Gosling and Jake Gyllenhaal stood next to each other and exploded your lady business? This can be dangerous, non? Here's an example of how Quiver can take on different forms. Full Story
Emma & Dexter in New York
The stars of One Day were in New York last night promoting separate projects. First my sweet Jim Sturgess at a screening for Heartless – the trailer is below – looking, as always, a little out of place and confused. It's adorable. Heartless, though directly by promising horror genre auteur Philip Ridley, probably won't get much attention. Full Story
November 2, 2010 Smutty Shout-Outs
This is for Emily G in Halifax who is missing her Nan. Shawna B requested for you some Jim Sturgess but specifically as Dexter and it appears I didn't get 'round to posting these shots of Jim back when they were shooting One Day in Paris: Dexter in his jammies meeting up with his ma, played by the indomitable Patricia Clarkson, brilliantly cast. Full Story
Jim, Owls, Colin
This is Jim Sturgess with his girl Mickey O'Brien last night in London at the Legends of the Guardian: The Owls of Ga'Hoole premiere. MUCH better hair this time over last time. Sigh. I love him. And I love Colin Farrell. And their film is finally arriving in theatres at the end of the year. Full Story


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I had a stupendously good teaching-award-winning Shakespeare professor, in a small seminar, and still don't like Shakespeare.
Yep. I read novels hidden under the desk while teachers lectured.
*raises hand* Guilty as charged. I used to do this a lot, and read through several Dick Francis mysteries during what was ostensibly a monthlong study of
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I consider myself now a good reader but that was something that developed over time, and largely independent of classes before university. I really don't think I had the intellectual maturity when I was a teenager to appreciate what was put in front of me. Perhaps this is true of others.
I had a mix of good and bad teachers. All of them put in the effort but some people are just more gifted at teaching. The best teacher I had used films of Shakespeare,
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The ombudsman found that "members of GRV's senior management team, including the CEO, not only ignored this behaviour but were active participants over many years".
Eight staff found to have breached the rules were in "integrity positions" such as stewards, and some were found to have bet on races they were officiating or for which they undertook the grading or box draw process.
Mr Stephens, who resigned in April, had argued that he did not breach rules because he made his bets during his lunch break.
But the ombudsman said in his report: "I do not share this view and consider that his conduct as the head of the agency with responsibility for regulating greyhound racing in Victoria was not appropriate."
The report found four integrity staff who breached GRV rules could not be terminated without the payment of $55,044 in compensation.
One senior manager placed 4409 bets during work hours totalling $508,705 over three years.
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"Considering the serious issues that have been raised by the ombudsman and the period in which they have occurred, I will be writing to the GRV board informing them of my intention to reconstitute the board," he said.
Dr Napthine said he would retain board chairman Peter Caillard in recognition of his positive contribution since his appointment in September last year.
The Office of the Racing Integrity Commissioner (ORIC) last year also launched an own-motion investigation into the broader racing industry after a series of tip-offs.
In a report also tabled in state parliament on Tuesday, the ORIC said it had investigated 165 employees and found 13 officials had breached rules governing betting.
Nine of those were employed at Greyhound Racing Victoria and four at Harness Racing Victoria.
Five people were subsequently sacked and one resigned, while the others received final warnings.
The ORIC recommended an overhaul of compliance at Greyhound Racing Victoria.
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Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks today at the closing session of the 19th International AIDS Conference. Below are the Leader's opening remarks:
"Thank you all very much. Thank you all very much. Good afternoon. What a beautiful sight you are to see. Thank you, Dr. Diane Havlir, for your generous introduction and your tremendous leadership as the U.S. Co-Chair of this year's International AIDS Conference. Watching the film and the slides, by all accounts this conference is a tremendous success. So we thank Dr. Diane Havlir and Dr. Elly Katabira for their great leadership in co-chairing this conference. Let's give them our fullest appreciation. Thank you Dr. Katabira. San Franciscans take special pride in Diane Havlir's role as the Chief of the HIV/AIDS at the University of California, San Francisco -- because that is where this all began. This is where we started to turn the tide together.
"It was 31 years ago when we first heard in our community that doctors at UCSF -- that would be the University of California, San Francisco -- were seeing cases unlike anything they'd seen before, symptoms that harkened back to the Middle Ages. Many of you could tell this same story. Quickly, AIDS began to take a terrible toll. Soon, we were going to as many as two funerals a day. Quickly we know that this was an emergency and that we had to pull out all the stops. We expressed our grief in plays. We took comfort in the AIDS quilt. We had renewal and remembrance in the National AIDS Memorial Grove.
"Twenty-five years ago, when I was elected to Congress, in my first speech on the floor of the House, I said that I had come to Congress to fight against HIV/AIDS. After my comment, some colleagues said to me: "why would you want fighting AIDS to be your introduction to the Congress of the United States?' Why did you say you came here to fight AIDS? I said: "I said it because that's what I came here to do.' But recognize that was the sign of the times in Washington, D.C.
"Meanwhile, in San Francisco, we were ground zero, as we saw it, of the AIDS assault -- on our health, on our economy and on our community; on the lives of our dear friends. With death, denial, and discrimination against those with the disease, AIDS was not only a challenge to our scientific and medical professionals; it was a challenge to the conscience of all of us and it remains so to this day. We knew we had to organize, not just agonize -- and organize, not agonize, and organize not agonize we did. Over time, we learned, as many of you gathered here did as well, that the AIDS virus is a very resourceful virus -- it escaped defeat by mutating. And so too did we have to be resourceful. We adapted to the challenge, all of us. We were innovative in our thinking; pursuing new science; mobilizing in new ways; taking a fresh approach to prevention, to care, and research for a cure. All of it community based and evidence based. We knew early on that we needed an international mobilization against AIDS. We needed public-private and non-profit partnerships. We had to make a national decision to act.
"Here, in the United States Congress, our decision to act changed the lives of many people with HIV/AIDS, within our borders and around the world. With the leadership of Congressman Henry Waxman of California and Senator Ted Kennedy, we passed and funded the evidence and community-based Ryan White Care Act early on. We went further with our Minority AIDS Initiative and funding for pediatric AIDS care, and the list goes on and on. And most recently, with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, we are delivering substantial protections to people with HIV and AIDS. We worked in a bipartisan way, first with President Clinton to authorize and fund the Global Fund; then with President Bush to establish PEPFAR, thank you President Bush and President Clinton, and with President Obama to strengthen these initiatives. We thank President Obama for totally lifting the travel ban, enabling this International AIDS Conference to return to the United States for the first time since 1990. I was at that conference in San Francisco and I can tell you that we have come a long way. Not only because we don't have the ban and therefore scientists and all could come and join in the exchange of ideas and the intellectual challenges in sharing ideas etcetera -- but because of this conference so many people with HIV/AIDS from around the world join us. You are our strength, we welcome you especially.
"So I say that two decades after being criticized for mentioning the words "AIDS' on the floor of Congress, I was proud, in my four years as Speaker of the House, to work with Congresswomen Nita Lowey, to work with Barbara Lee, to work with advocates on the outside like Bono, and others to double funding for global health from $4 billion to $8 billion per year.
"To make far-reaching progress and "turn the tide,' action was needed and required from parliaments worldwide. On behalf of Members of Congress I want to welcome the many parliamentarians who were with us at this conference. Thank you for joining us because for our countries to be able to act, our legislative bodies must make a decision to move forward. And many have. Even in these difficult fiscal times, cutting back on our HIV/AIDS investments is a false economy that costs us more in the future in lives and in resources. HIV/AIDS is still adapting and so must we -- to turn the tide together.
"George Bernard Shaw once said the sign of a truly intelligent person is that he, I might add, or she, is "moved by statistics.' Clearly, everyone in this room meets that standard. Most of us though were also moved by individual stories. For many, our introduction to AIDS was one patient, one person at a time that led to these big statistic that are so staggering but all of you have many personal stories to tell. One of the personal stories that I have -- I lost so many dear friends in California, and across the country -- but I always remember Susie. Susie was the flower girl in my wedding. Susie died of AIDS, but not before becoming a champion fighting against the disease in schools, and colleges, and the rest. My patch in the AIDS quilt was stitched in her memory. Coming together here, again, many have your own stories to share. These stories have brought us to this conference.
"Speaking to you at this final session, again I say by all accounts this conference is a tremendous success. We leave here with increased optimism -- whether about advancements in science or prevention of mother-to-child transmissions. Yet this optimism must not make us complacent; it cannot, it must instead heighten our resolve. We have an obligation to be innovative and courageous in our thinking. Where there is scientific opportunity, we have a moral obligation to fund it. Where there are people in need of drugs and care, communities in need of protection, we have a moral obligation to provide it. And where there is discrimination, we have a moral obligation to continue to fight it.
"On the brink of the AIDS-free generation, we must carry on with determination, hope, and courage. Courage is one of the defining qualities that we always must bring to this. In doing so, we will succeed in turning the tide together. Thank all of you, to every one of you for your leadership, your activism, for your commitment to ending HIV/AIDS once and for all. Once and for all. Congratulations to all of you for making the 19th International AIDS Conference such a tremendous success. We all look forward to working together to bring an end to AIDS and to turning the tide together. Thank you all very much."
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2946?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Robert Muir resolved LUCENE-2946. --------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed fileformats is updated for 4.0 > change file format documentation from "bit-for-bit" to highlevel > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-2946 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2946 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Task > Components: general/website > Reporter: Robert Muir > Assignee: Robert Muir > Fix For: 4.0 > > > While reviewing website docs in LUCENE-2924, > I noticed the the existing fileformats is going to be pretty hopeless for 4.0. > Before it described the format "bit-for-bit", but with flexible indexing this is > somewhat silly (and who really wants a bit-for-bit explanation of some of the new formats!) > I think it would be much better to give a high-level overview, perhaps linking to javadocs or > even source code for the low-level details. > We probably should delay this until 4.0 is really close in sight (since things are changing so fast) but we can go ahead and think about it some now. > For example: > * high level explanation of what a codec is, and the various subsystems one is usually composed of (terms index, terms data, skiplist impl, postings impl, etc). We can reiterate that you can make your own, and hopefully this kind of documentation will actually encourage that. > * high level explanation of what StandardCodec is "composed of". For example assume its Variable Terms Index, Block Terms Reader, PForDelta docs and freqs and Simple64 positions. I think really this is the only codec we should try to "diagram" in any way. > * high level explanation (probably with links) of some of the components. For example we could explain what the purpose of a Terms Index is, and that this implementation uses a finite state transducer to find the terms block for a given term. In this case maybe we have an image now that Dawid made the toDot useful. > * high level explanation (probably with links) of some of the compression algorithms. For example, we could explain the basics of the available algorithms we have (vbyte/simple/for/pfor/...) and what their advantages and disadvantages are. > Some of the things i mentioned here are probably optional, for instance I think its "enough" to give a high-level overview of StandardCodec, but I can't help but think that explaining some of the architecture will be useful for new developers. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Don't know if anybody is interested, but I could finish it in a couple of days, right now it's at around 40%, I'd say Don't worry that Ayton looks like Oden, I've put original 2k cyberfaces because I don't have permissions from modders to put their work in, although I have quite a few of those downloaded, mostly from monzki (from NCAA/FIBA mods) and some of them from Maravich (Doncic, Hakanson). If they could allow me to use them, that'd be awesome
Also, if anybody is willing to collaborate as far as cyberface making or the boring stuff (tendencies/signature moves/ratings etc.), I'm really interested
And another thing, I don't have license for all the tabs in RED MC, so if somebody could tell me how to alter the birth years (20 of them are wrong), I'd be very happy.
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A mere lack of use of bones may also lead to a certain amount of atrophy from lacunar resorption.
In many instances the parenchymatous inflammation is a direct extension of the lacunar inflammation.
Fragment of lacunar, from a ceiling, with two panels in low relief.
Non ebur neque aureum / Mea renidet in domo 20 lacunar—In my dwelling no ivory gleams, nor fretted roof covered with gold.
The deposit in follicular or lacunar tonsillitis or angina is pulpy and not membraniform.
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Of or relating to a lacuna; lacunal.
Of or relating to a temporary absence of manifestation of a symptom.