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A new fic... actually relatively old, I wrote it a long time ago... in hoes of creating a story of several chapters, but I think I have enough of those for now... and I was truly hoping to write a romantic oneshot one of these days so I decided to post this up, see what you guys thought. I hope you enjoy it. Read and Review.
"Hinata, Hanabi is calling you" she simple scoffed and walked away.
I pity her, poor girl. She had a good family, her mother was nice as well as her father, but they died. She went to a foster home, where she was for a while. She was like a doll. Her skin was perfect, not even one mole, no irregularity, 100 perfect. Long, soft, silky raven hair, a hair any girl would want since it was perfect, just like her skin and face. Her small button nose, her plump lips, her big lavender eyes, her long eyelashes and lovely eyebrows, everything about her was perfect since little. Since little many different offers of adopting her came, all because of her perfection. She never liked anyone. Her arrogance exceeded anyone's for she had been betrayed once, when her parents died. She lost her faith in adults and thus she was unreachable. A doll.
Her arrogance made all those offers dissipate and at seven she no longer had any other offer. Until one day. A rich man came and adopted her gladly. She was a doll, and thus she didn't say anything. She had learnt etiquette and was the perfect little lady. With her long dresses and her cute shiny shoes, her hair in small curls and her innocent angelic look. She grew up like that, being treated as a princess, with her 'sister' Hanabi and her 'brother' Neji, her 'father' Hiashi and her 'mother' Makoto. They loved her, she loved no one. She grew up, as I said as the perfect little lady, her manners were prefect, her looks were astonishing, her physical condition exceeded anyone's, her IQ surpassed the 250 and her poker face was irremovable.
Now, years after being adopted, she was the same. A beautiful girl, with huge intelligence gifted for sports and an arrogance that exceeded any limits. I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, I, am Hyuuga Hinata, and this, is my story.
"Hinata, please come forward and resolve this" I glared at the teacher who simply gulped. I cocked an eyebrow. How many times will teachers fall for that idiotic thought. They always think that since I "don't" pay attention that they can catch me by sending me to resolve a question or something and they think I won't be able to answer. I stifled the urge to crack up laughing. Naïve. I approach the board and stare at the advanced calculus question. Easy. I take the whiteboard marker and write the answer. I turn to the teacher who sighs and I take it as an okay, I walk back to my seat and once again stare outside the window. I stare at the entrance and look at the football team practising. I rolled my eyes. The bell signalled the end of the class so I proceeded to pack everything up. I saw everyone waiting for the sensei to tell us we could pack up yet I didn't care. I stood up, startling everyone and walked towards the door. The sensei glared at me.
"Hyuuga, sit down" I cocked an eyebrow.
"Why should I?" he showed me a detention slip and walked towards me, handing it to me. I snorted and crumpled the offending piece of paper and threw it, entering exactly in the bin. I gave him my back and went out the door. I heard the amount of people rustling around, the ruffling, the yelling, the laughter. I walked past all of them. I could feel the looks of the boys. Lustful... yet hateful.
"Look... it's the ice princess..." I grind my teeth. I knew who it was and I truly wasn't in the mood to talk back to little miss bitch. I kept walking, ignoring the pest that was following me. A pull on my wrist made me jolt back and I closed my eyes to contain myself, I could feel the friction between my teeth, a little more pressure and they'd break. I turned to bright pink hair that repulsed me. I glared at her.
"What?" I asked as politely and cold as I could. She giggled.
"oh you're so funny! Look, as everyone knows I'm the princess here, the queen bee, as many other would call me... and... they've been complaining about you... I need to know what in the hell have you done now" she said in an overly sick tone.
"Not only a hypocrite but a liar. How cute. It's not my problem if the male species thinks I'm better than you, it has nothing to do with me Haruno, now leave me alone and go kiss the Uchiha's ass, that'd get you in a good mood... or maybe offering whore services to the soccer club?" I said as offhandedly as I could, my eyes not shifting. I saw her tremble and walk away. A sigh left my lips as I walked to the music room.
"Hyuuga-san!" I heard someone call. I turned around and found the Uchiha walking towards me.
"Uchiha-san... may I help you?" I knew he noticed in my tone that I didn't really care if he wanted or needed something from me because I needed him to talk fast and leave. He flinched slightly but kept eye contact with me.
"Um... well... since I'm class representative along with the dobe... we were assigned to tell you the whole grade chose you to be the ball organiser... along with me... so I came to tell you that... We need to get together soon to organize all and appoint each person to their jobs" I blinked. I only heard yada yada yada, ball organiser, yada yada yada get together yada yada yada... I raised my eyebrows and held a hand up to stop him from talking.
"You talk too much... I don't care about that, organise it yourself" I said about to leave until he grabbed onto my injured wrist, I winced and he let go, but his eyes were still glaring at me.
"I won't work for you, it's also your responsibility" I rolled my eyes.
"What ever... those people need to get lives... Just tell me what to do and I'll do it, I don't have much free time to plan idiotic parties that will only help the destruction of livers" he cracked a smirk.
"that's fun" I blinked and stared at him bored.
"That's all?" he nodded, I did the same and walked my path towards the music room again, cupping my injured wrist. I finally arrived to my sanctuary, I smiled. music... my friend... it won't betray me... no it won't... unlike humans... unlike living beings.
I walked to the piano and finally a smile broke out on my face. A pained, hurt smile... but a smile... unlike the mask I wear almost always... my fingers pose themselves on the keys of the piano, almost as if they had a life. The room, lit by the natural light, shadowed by the trees, the golden light that made the golden details in the room shine. The small porcelain dolls in the shelves on the wall glowed due to the golden light, making an aura of beauty surround them. I finally breathed. In the whole day, I finally opened my eyes and breathed. I pushed a key down, rejoicing in the melodic sound, and then more and more keys, like an addiction.
Why do they leave me all by myself?
Why do they use me and break me down?
Why do they hurt me, why do they leave me?
Why doesn't any body stick around?
Why doesn't anyone stay here, why do they leave me
Don't they realize I'm a porcelain doll?
Small, unsure, beautiful, breakable.
If I sit here waiting to be wanted,
Something good will pass me by
Many people look through the windows
But seldom do they ever look into my eyes.
Why doesn't anyone stay here, why do they leave me
Don't they realize I'm a porcelain doll?
Fragile, helpless, unwanted, breakable
They can't tell that I am sweet
They can't tell I'm like a porcelain doll
Beautiful and demure
But played with one too many time
Unknowingly I began to sing... this song I had wrote it... it described my broken life, I still felt the stinging pain of my wrist but the music covered the pain. I heard clapping. My eyes raised to see a person with wild fiery curls, porcelain skin, honey eyes... tall... a man. My smile blurred away as I stared at that man. He walked towards me and his hand raised my chin so my eyes locked with his. He smiled at me.
"A beautiful, beautiful porcelain doll" for some reason... that phrase... made me crack up, break the shell. A tear slowly fell, damping my cheek. His smile was so sincere. A blush dusted my cheeks and my lavender eyes refused to unlock from his honey-almond irises. A small, hurt smile made it way back to my face.
"Sing, my beautiful doll... just like a mockingbird... sing... let it out" he said softly to me as he inhaled my scent, his face hid in my hair, I could smell the masculine, comforting scent, it was based in vanilla. My eyes unwillingly closed and my fingers once again carried on with the song.
Why am I not numb to this?
Why can't I let it all escape my mind?
Don't let me sit here collecting dust
But please be careful, please be kind
Why doesn't anyone stay here, why do they leave me
Don't they realize I'm a porcelain doll?
Lost, alone, unsure, kind, demure,
Small, fragile, helpless, breakable.
He sat beside me, his eyes warming my cold heart, melting it. I stared at him through my bangs. He turned to me once again, his eyes meeting mine... but slowly we closed our eyes, as his lips approached mine and we kissed. A chaste, sweet kiss, that melted all the ice that caged my heart. He caressed my face and I sunk into his touch, his hands went down to my wrist, where he carefully cupped my wrist and softly with the precision of a medic a green chakra covered it and cured it.
"You see all these dolls?" I nodded, softly, a heavenly smile on my lips. "I recycled them... I fixed them... gave them a home... I gave them someone who wouldn't leave them alone... who would protect them from being broken... just like you" the sadness that remained in my heart, every damn day, the grief that clouded my mind... it was fading away. I sighed happily. Maybe little by little... he'll glue the pieces together... and I'll be his new porcelain doll... one he will be proud of... one that will glow above the others. He stood up as he took my hand and pulled me with him, I felt like walking on clouds, the burden of hatred, grief, sadness... it all faded away.
This I had written a long time ago, I had the beginning and didn't know how to continue it. I searched for a song that fit her feelings, and Porcelain doll of Megan McCauley, it just fit exactly like a piece of a puzzle on the last void. It simply was perfect to how she felt, so I decided to make this a oneshot. Pretty simple... but I liked the part of the music room. I dunno, since everyone's got different tastes. I hope you enjoyed this.


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(Psst. Hey, it's Natasha, or NTProductions (t∣b∣c). Remember me? Haha, nope. This is pretty much a Headcanon fanfiction where I crossed Okami with Fire Emblem. Kinda weird, I know, but hey, aren't we all? And besides, I love it. If your wondering, the text follows Lissa, Frederick, Cordelia, Lucina, and Morgan-all characters from Fire Emblem: Awakening-mourning for the loss of their Exalt, Chrom, and his wife, Akira. Akira is pretty much Robin. Except she's from the Moon Tribe. You know, in Okami. and the character "Waka", in this Headcanon, is Akira's brother (HES A CANON CHARACTER FROM OKAMI. THATS ANOTHER STORY.) Also, if your wondering, Lissa is Chrom's sister, Frederick is his head knight, Cordelia is a Pegasus Knight that is madly in love with Chrom, and Lucina and Morgan are Akira and Chrom's children. The Moon Tribe Cataclysm has happened, and Chrom and Akira have "disappeared". A year later, they are pronounced dead. Anyways, I hope you enjoy! This took me a while and, while it may not make much sense to most people, I thought I'd finally be active on something! So yeah. Thanks! ~Natasha)
How could he be gone?
My brother was the strongest person ever... he couldn't just die.
But he hasn't come back from the Moon in months. Yeah, this one was supposed to last a while... but then ten months went by. Then eleven... and twelve... and he still hasn't returned. We haven't heard from Waka, either. He's gone too. Hasn't written or anything in weeks.
No one from the Moon has done anything since Chrom and Akira disappeared. When he was little, my brother was always so determined to be the best leader ever, even if he wasn't the Exalt. He said if he wasn't the Exalt, he'd be the head army commander- and he'd do everything to protect the people. I said I'd heal everyone in his army so they could keep fighting- that's why I became a cleric. And we made a promise that we'd make it happen. We'd call the best group the Shepherds... Shepherds to protect the sheep.
And when we met Akira, she was a stranger girl who was collapsed in a field without memory. But I took an instant shine to her. She was just fun! And when she married Chrom, I was so excited to have her as a sister-in-law.
But then that demon guy Yami came and we found out the truth... I almost thought Ill of her but then Waka came and told us the whole story. Waka's cool too. He's just... weird.
So when Chrom, my brother, my inspiration, and Akira, one of my best friends, were deemed... gone... I couldn't comprehend it. I've asked Frederick about it...
I just... can't right now.
For once in my life I've found it hard to do anything- hard to function, let alone serve as the textbook role model for people. It's hard to picture, but I am simply a mess inside, no doubt about it.
Milord meant the world to me- yes, I was a tad over-considering at times but after the death of his parents- when hearing about it as an apprentice I swore to myself I'd do all I could to protect milord, even if I didn't become his right hand man like I had. When that did happen, and I became the guardian of him and Lissa, I took my job very seriously. I never let anything happen to either of them while Emmeryn led the country. I tried to help her as well, but slowly, I became more inclined to milord and lady.
It was really incredible, how well Emmeryn took pressure. Milord had always looked up to her. When we found Akira, I was rather suspicious. Who with sense would not be? She was a stranger with a foreign name that claimed to know nothing of who she was- but miraculously knew Chrom's own name. Gods, I was skeptical. And my entire theory was proved right when that Demon fellow Yami arrived. I said nothing in the matter but I knew what milord was thinking- he knew I had been right all along. But when Akira's brother Waka showed up... we all learned that it was necessary- amnesia was far easier to believe than her true heritage and story.
As such her marrying milord became no longer an irksome detail for me. I knew why she did such a thing and I really took a shine to her afterwards- most of the Shepherds did. When she died, along with Chrom, it came to a shock for everyone.
Especially Cordelia, who was devastated by Chrom's death completely...
I can't get over it.
I just can't! People think me to be perfect and a military genius, but how do I live up to such a thing after the man I was enamored with died without me telling him at all!? I should have been tougher... I should have been courageous enough to tell him and resilient enough when he said he wasn't interested. There were so many should ofs... all of which I never did.
People tell me I shouldn't nitpick myself so much, that I'm my worst critic, but this takes it over the edge...
What happened to Captain Chrom?
He never did anything wrong- at least not in my eyes. He tried so hard to prevent a bad future... he did, for a while. But then whatever killed him happened... and he took Akira with him this time.
I can't say I didn't care about Akira dying, though. She had crazy ideas that somehow worked and often times they were fun to execute. One of the most distinctive laughs in the army came from her when something funny happened. But what really mattered to me is that she never treated me badly because I wanted Captain Chrom. She always understood and actually made jokes about it from time to time- about me 'stealing her man' or 'riding off with him in the sunset'. Idle quips like that made me feel better about loving him without him doing the same for me... so when I did find someone who I could be with, it was easier to let go. But I would always harbor attraction for him. I thought he'd always be there... I expected so- he was made immortal by Akira. I thought I had finally made peace with myself...
You see, this is a very hard concept to explain to children...
Everyone in the castle is sad for some reason.
See, I'm not sure why cause it's all ok... well, my daddy and mommy went away for a while but that's ok! I think they're just so cool, no matter what they say people will miss them when they leave.
But people have said that they won't be coming back for a while. I guess I'll miss them too, if they're gonna be gone so long.
I wonder what happened? Everyone looks at me all sad like sometimes now. What are they so worried about? It's like something really bad happened.
Maybe I'll ask Morgan, even though he's younger than me. Maybe he knows cause he asks people so many things...
I wonder what happened to mommy.
I always liked mommy. She was my favorite person in the whole entire world. I loved her even more than daddy.
Me and mommy always read together. She always showed me cool things like Tomes and her horse, Cole. I'm only little, so I can't do much yet. But I'll be able to do stuff soon! I can start doing magic when I'm all growed up, when I'm ten. But everyone's so sad now. I wonder why, so I asked people all about it and they only answered a little, so I listed to the grown ups all talk...
Hey, what's Death?

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Underneath certain rocks, or if you bomb out the carpet from the Bedroom, you will find a trapdoor. If it leads to the Retro Treasure Room, the trapdoor will have a visible ladder in it. It can also appear when using We Need To Go Deeper!
The Retro Treasure Room is a small area which, unlike the rest of the game, is in the style of a platformer. There are two ladders, the second one leading to an item from the treasure room pool. Make sure this is the RTR trapdoor if you have not yet completed the floor. RTR trapdoors have a ladder in them, while regular ones do not. Both can appear in the bedroom.
There is a chance that instead of treasure, the RTR will lead to a Black Market, instead.
The Retro Treasure Room is based on the treasure room from The Legend of Zelda.
If you leave and re-enter when there is still at least 1 enemy in the room, additional treasure will spawn.


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Cfx - matlab
Dear members
Is possible use MATLAB together with ANSYS-CFX? More specifically, is possible create a user routine ou user function in MATLAB and read this routine or function in ANSYS-CFX?
I can´t believe that the only way to insert a aditional function in CFX is through FORTRAN!
Thx for all!!
short answer NO you cant
this is because
1 the solver is written in FORTRAN
2 you need the FORTRAN compiler to write your script and create the program in the low level programing language( i think its assembly but might be wrong)
Thx!! for your objective reply!
I will try to create a user function by FORTRAN. But I am new in this program language. Can you or someone help me to find many examples for study how to implement a new user routine by FORTRAN in CFX.
Is very dificult to understood the explanation about user FORTRAN in CFX help.
why would you want to create a user function in fortran? what you want to archive :confused:
I study heat exchangers with the tow-phase flow thermosiphons tecnology!
The heat transfer between evaporator and condenser is modelate by a analitical equation (in MATLAB) that nowadays I change the values manualy every 200 steps.
I want to automate through a user routine!!
CFX has the expression language CEL so most of the time fortran is not required to do functions.
Glenn Horrocks
Thx! but CEL is not sufficient for me!! the work fluid that contais inside of the tubes (heat pipes) have physical characteristics that change whit temperature and pressure that are modelate by a analyticall expression.
Why is so difficult to have access the one book our pdf that explain step by step how to implement a user function in CFX? Thx!!
:rolleyes: It always amazes me how many times people start a task the difficult way. I'm pretty confident you can model the HE without even touching fortran
you can easily model real fluids in cfx, you just need to setup the appropriate materials.
I think it´s possible, you can use FORTRAN, C or MATLAB.
will keep that in mind :cool:
Just repeating chleanth's comment - most functions like this can be done using CEL with no need for fortran. Can you explain what in your function cannot be done in CEL?
How to implement fortran in CFX is described in the documentation. For simple stuff like just returning a CEL variable it is not too bad (I think you use a junction box for that. But I have never had to use fortran in CFX since I was using CFX4 in 1999. Ever since CFX5 was developed I have managed to do everything in CEL.
Glenn Horrocks
I got the same problem. for example. i have to measure velocity in pipe. it is transient simulation, and at different timestep i got different velocity values at the output and i can see that value in CFX post. if i want to integrate that value from 0 to T. do i have to write the function of CEL at the CFX-Pre or CFX Post?. how to access with different timestep? because as same as camilo_costa i might have to export 200 steps to data matrix end then do all the calculation in Matlab.
how to couple
hello friends
i am going to optimize rotor 37,for that is there any coupling tools are available
I have a MATLAB optimization code and the objective function will require results from ANSYS CFX. The Setup is like this: Ansys Turbogrid - CFX Pre - Solver - Post - Result to MATLAB - MATLAB create new geometry - Start new cycle again starting with turbogrid.
The ANSYS Programme will be in Ansys workbench. I dont know how to link it with MATLAB and vice versa
thanks in advance
The look you describe sounds simple to implement as a batch (windows) or shell ([L]unix) script.
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2005-03-11 at 10:17:00 am #10804
In Electronics, U.S. Firms Seize Momentum From
JapanKodak, Apple Use Software,
Outsourcing to Gain Share As Sony Struggles to Grow(March 05) — For 40 years, Japan ruled the lucrative business of consumer
electronics. Its manufacturing wizards — Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer — designed
the world's hottest televisions, stereos and cameras. In the U.S., once-proud
names such as Admiral, Magnavox and RCA were sold or went under.
Now the momentum has shifted, and it is American companies
that have some of the best-selling gadgets in the U.S. — among them Apple
Computer Inc.'s iPod digital-music player, Eastman Kodak Co.'s EasyShare digital
cameras and palmOne Inc.'s Treo mobile-phone and e-mail device.
The Americans' edge comes from their skill at writing
software for new digital chips and from low manufacturing costs. While many
Japanese companies spent years debating the merits of outsourcing versus keeping
production in-house, U.S. companies have been quick to strike deals with
contract manufacturers in China and elsewhere.
The latest sign of the U.S. resurgence came Monday when
Sony Corp. named the head of its U.S. operations, Welsh-born American Howard
Stringer, as chief executive of the whole company. Mr. Stringer's top priority
is to reverse Sony's loss of market share to companies such as Apple, Kodak and
Microsoft Corp. Microsoft's Xbox game machine saw sales rise 27% last year and
is stealing customers from the Sony PlayStation and Nintendo Co.'s GameCube.
What's happening in consumer electronics is the same
phenomenon bringing upheaval to television, music and other media industries:
The long-awaited conversion of pictures and sound into digital data is
shattering old business models and opening the way for new competitors. In the
$125 billion consumer-electronics market, Japan's companies are finding that
their longtime strength in manufacturing and engineering isn't as crucial as it
once was.
Instead, as the industry adopts the ones and zeros of
computers, the skills required to make music players, video recorders and
cameras are more akin to computer design and programming — a field where the
U.S. still leads. American programmers are proving adept at writing software to
process sound as digital bits, eliminate the red-eye effect in cameras, or
smooth out jagged edges on a high-definition display.
"Software is an area where the U.S. has a strong advantage
going back two or three decades," says David B. Yoffie, a Harvard Business
School professor and strategy expert. "It's no surprise that most of the
interesting consumer-electronics products — the iPod, TiVo and Treo — are
coming out of Silicon Valley. It has to do with being close to leading-edge
Decades of brand building and technology development by
Japanese companies leave them with plenty of strengths. In revenue terms, Sony
and Matsush*ta Electric Industrial Co., maker of Panasonic products, still far
outweigh U.S. rivals. Sony has annual revenue of about $20 billion in the U.S.
alone — roughly twice Apple's global sales in 2004.
Some Japanese companies have made big investments in
liquid-crystal display and plasma screens — a wise bet, since these flat-screen
TVs have turned into a hit. Osaka-based Sharp Corp., for example, has taken the
world-wide lead on LCD televisions. Its net profit rose 32% for the nine months
ended Dec. 31. In Japan, the second-largest market for gadgets, local brands
still dominate.
Still, the revival of U.S. brands is a remarkable
turnabout, and reflects U.S. companies' ability to focus on areas where they
have an edge while farming out everything else. Kodak's digital cameras use
off-the-shelf chips but marry them with proprietary software to simplify
picture-taking, manipulation and printing. The software can automatically
balance color, remove red-eye, and allow a photo to be cropped on a camera's
screen. Kodak's latest EasyShare model makes it possible to transfer and print a
cropped and color-optimized picture wirelessly at the touch of a button.
Such software "is where we will differentiate our products
in the future," says Greg Westbrook, general manager of the Rochester, N.Y.,
company's digital-camera business.
Kodak outsources key components and manufacturing — unlike
its top Japanese rivals. Sony's Cyber-shot and Canon Inc.'s PowerShot cameras
use proprietary chips designed by the companies. Sony even has its own factory
to build the chips. Such vertical integration has long been a hallmark of
Japanese makers, allowing them to control the pace of new introductions. But in
the shift to digital, relying on in-house chip design and assembly plants can be
a costly albatross, Kodak believes. It saves money by using a standard Wireless
Fidelity, or WiFi, chip to control its wireless photo-transfer feature.
Both Sony and Canon do final assembly of their cameras in
company-owned factories. By contrast, Kodak moved its camera manufacturing to
China beginning in 1999. More than 70% of its cameras are built today by
low-cost contract manufacturers there. "Our competitors were later to get to
China. We have an advantage for being first and for being there in a big way,"
said Kodak's Mr. Westbrook.
Last year, that paid off as Kodak's lower costs allowed it
to meet demand by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other retailers for inexpensive but
powerful digital cameras, says Chris Chute, a camera analyst at market watcher
International Data Corp. Kodak has leapfrogged Tokyo-based Olympus Corp. and
Fuji Photo Film Co. in the past two years to take the No. 3 spot world-wide in
digital-camera sales, says Mr. Chute. Kodak still trails Sony and Canon.
Canon and Sony officials say they still see advantages to
keeping a large part of camera-making in-house. Proprietary technology such as
lenses and imaging sensors "is what distinguishes Canon's cameras from our
competitors' cameras," says Richard Berger, a spokesman at Canon headquarters in
Tokyo. "We are managing to increase market share in the global market. So
whatever we're doing, we're doing something right."
A Sony spokesman in Tokyo, Gerald Cavanagh, says producing
components in-house helps engineers design better products because they can get
parts made to the exact specifications they want. "That's the key to our success
in the business," says Mr. Cavanagh, adding that Sony "will certainly outsource
where we think there isn't any…added value."
Kodak's strategy of combining off-the-shelf chips,
proprietary software and outsourced manufacturing is being replicated elsewhere.
The newest version of Apple's iPod digital-music player, the iPod Shuffle,
combines a digital-audio chip from SigmaTel Inc. of Austin, Texas, and Apple's
own music-management software. It is assembled in Taiwan by Asustek Computer
The iPod beat Sony's Network Walkman to market and has won
raves for its ease of use, giving it a 70% market share. Apple also offers
iTunes, an Internet-based music-downloading service that works with iPod's
software so music can be easily transferred and arranged on the player.
Sony long tried to push the MiniDisc, a silvery disk player
that was little more than a shrunken CD player. When it did finally switch to
the same hard-disk technology used in the iPod, it initially refused to include
the widely used MP3 music format in favor of a proprietary Sony format. Although
Sony, unlike Apple, owns its own music division, its music-downloading service
hasn't caught on.
Elsewhere Sony's insistence on in-house technology has
caused it trouble. Its digital cameras, cellphones, computers and printers use a
proprietary storage card called Memory Stick. Most other camera makers use
industry standard Secure Digital cards. Sony has spent eight years developing
its preferred technology for the chip at the heart of digital televisions and
continues to push it long after Philips Electronics NV and Intel Corp. dropped
the technology as too costly. More than a dozen companies, including LG
Electronics and Samsung Group of Korea, have embraced a different kind of chip
made by Texas Instruments Inc. as the centerpiece of their digital TV sets.
Some of the hottest products in television aren't TV sets
but digital video recorders that store dozens of hours of programs and allow
people to watch their favorite shows when they feel like it. The field was
pioneered by TiVo Inc. of Alviso, Calif. Although TiVo has struggled to find a
successful business model, its software remains a standard for ease of use. Many
Americans are now using digital video recorders supplied by their cable-TV
companies, which in turn buy them mostly from Motorola Inc. and
Scientific-Atlanta Inc.
As the success stories multiply, more American companies
are getting the confidence to get back into consumer electronics. RadioShack
Corp. was a consumer-electronics pioneer in the 1960s and 1970s and made the
first laptop computer, the TRS-80. In recent years, however, it turned into a
reseller of Asian-made goods and cellphones.
Now the Fort Worth, Texas, company has embraced the new
business model used by Apple and Kodak. This month it is bringing a home-grown
product to RadioShack shelves: the Cinego home-theater projector. The
phonebook-sized device includes a built-in DVD player and can project a sharp,
100-inch image on a screen. It costs about $1,300 and is designed to compete
with plasma-screen TVs, which are usually around 42 inches diagonally and cost
$3,000 or more.
"As we move from analog to digital, it's our turn to
shine," says RadioShack President David J. Edmondson, who will also become the
company's chief executive in May.
The Cinego's software ensures that the data from the disk
in the DVD player stays in digital form until a processor converts the zeros and
ones into light projected on a screen. The result is a device that requires
fewer components to produce a sharper image.
The device uses a Texas Instruments digital-TV chip.
RadioShack is outsourcing assembly to Taiwan's Lite-On Group, which builds
notebook PCs, cellphones and digital projectors. "China will have a low-cost
manufacturing advantage, in my view, for the next 400 years," says Mr.
RadioShack got the Cinego's technology by acquiring
Ignition Inc., a small Dallas design house. Ignition came up with the idea of an
all-in-one portable home theater after seeing people cart business projectors
home on the weekend so they could hook them up to DVD players for a cheap
big-screen experience. Ignition and Texas Instruments shopped the idea to
Japanese manufacturers but found little interest. The prototype was a bulky 15
pounds and companies were skeptical that the home-theater market could expand
beyond a few technology enthusiasts.
RadioShack was convinced it could shrink the size and cost
of the device. In the first half of 2004, engineers from RadioShack, Ignition
and TI pared the machine's size and weight by nearly half, in part by using
digital audio chips and a digital amplifier. At first the machine's 200-watt
light bulb melted the plastic case after an hour of use, but engineers from
RadioShack and Lite-On figured out a way of redesigning the fans to keep the
temperature under control.
Getting the product to market required a final maneuver to
outfox Japanese competitors. RadioShack discovered in August that 200-watt bulbs
were in tight supply because of their popularity in projection televisions and
Japanese-branded business projectors. With help from Texas Instruments Chairman
Thomas J. Engibous, RadioShack persuaded German bulb maker Osram GmbH to free up
a supply of bulbs destined for other customers. Mr. Engibous pointed out that
consumers are more likely to use their projectors frequently and need
replacement bulbs, creating long-term demand


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The Laughter Song is a song from the second episode of the first season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, and the first song of the series. It is sung by Pinkie Pie when she and her friends travel through the Everfree Forest in search of the Elements of Harmony.
When Pinkie's friends are frightened by a grove of trees that are enchanted by Nightmare Moon to give them scary faces, Pinkie sings the song to show them that fear can be defeated just by laughing at it–a lesson that would lead Twilight Sparkle to realize that Pinkie embodied the element of laughter.
Daniel Ingram composed the Laughter Song to Lauren Faust's lyrics as a demo for Hasbro Studios.[1] A video of the song is available on Hasbro's website. Music from this song is used in the Swarm of the Parasprites game on The Hub's website. The song is also included in the My Little Pony Live Show.


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I have heard of friends who told me that they have met a "mini-joanne" somewhere out there. Once, Jane and Yihui told me that they have a friend from NUS who looks like me. I was wondering if the circle of friends were refering to the same person.
I have been curious about this "mini-joanne". What is meant by "mini-joanne"? Is she a mini version of me? and in what ways?
Ironically, she has already presented herself around me for quite sometime just that I was slow to notice. She is Chew Yien, a bubbly sunshine girl. Like Jane and Yihui, Chew Yien is also one of the NUS Make It Real programme participants. Apart from mountaineering, she does adventure racing, I think she dives too (ok, I only know this much of her so far:)) She took part in the adventure races I organised, mainly Ace Adventure Challenge, Adventure Singapore, SAFRA AVventura Race…wow.. the lists never end! This little iron lady is very active in all the adventure activities! (ahem .. so am I!)
I finally took noticed of her at the SAFRA AVventura Race in 2006. She took part in the race, and I have captured her in my camera. When browsing through the photos, I spotted her and mistook her as me. I was curious about how I would appeared in the race as a participant when I was one of the race officials. At that instance, I fully agree that she resembles me in appearance to some extend, and I could finally put her face to "mini-joanne"!
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I must say, the above photo did not fully portray the resemblance in us. You probably need to see us in person. Anyway, Chew Yien was whining about being nicknamed as "mini-joanne" and that I should be nicknamed as "Big Chew Yien" instead. Hello girl, yours truly existed before you, so it's obvious you know!
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Not long ago, Pamela Stafford, a board member of the Historic Ocala Preservation Society, conducted an informal poll about the historic Marion Theatre downtown.
Not long ago, Pamela Stafford, a board member of the Historic Ocala Preservation Society, conducted an informal poll about the historic Marion Theatre downtown.
"It's amazing to me that most people are not even aware that the Marion Theatre is still open. And 90 percent have never been to a movie there. It's no wonder the theater has been struggling," said Stafford.
But there are people who want to change that. People like Buddy Martin, who recently started the grassroots initiative Save the Marion Theatre after the City Council toyed with not renewing its lease with the cinema chain struggling to fill seats.
"We've got about six-to-10 people who are totally committed to keeping the Marion Theatre open," said Martin. "There is no political agenda. Our only goal is to preserve and promote this historic building and make it a profitable business."
If successful, he pointed out, local folks keep their jobs in a down economy and downtown businesses stand to prosper.
Take May 20 for example.
On that humid evening, the group hosted a Pirate Party in honor of the opening of the Disney movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" at the two-auditorium theater.
Part of the festivities included Clearwater pirates Ye Mystic Krewe of the Santa Margarita, who captured Ocala Mayor Randy Ewers and then "invaded" downtown in a huge, rolling pirate ship (the Santa Margarita, of course). They eventually released Ewers, turned friendly and tossed beads to hundreds of families.
Many then entered the theater to see the movie.
"People . . . brought their families and just had a delightful, good old-fashioned night out at the movies," said Stafford.
She said 1,100 tickets were sold for opening night of the 3D movie, which was a record for the local theater. But it also ranked the Marion Theatre as the Carmike Company's third highest in box office receipts out of all its theaters in the country.
"It was definitely a highlight in the chain of theaters," said Stafford.
"We're ecstatic," added Martin, noting the turnout "exceeded everything we thought could happen."
And all of downtown, including restaurants and shops, benefitted from the pirate street party. "Rising tides raise all ships," he said.
He estimated that $50,000 in revenue was added to downtown Ocala in the seven-to-10-day period beginning May 20, simply because of the Save the Marion Theatre group. After all, if not for the concerned residents who cared enough to urge a one-year lease extension on the city-owned theater, he said, it would have been closed as of April 30.
Stafford said optimistically, there will not be a need for the group in a year, but until then, they will do everything they can to get "seats in the seats."
Their next effort is a downtown street-party scheduled for June 24, opening day of the Disney movie "Cars 2." The festivities likely will include bumper cars, a pit-crew competition and an antique car. More details, as they become available, will be posted on the group's Facebook page titled "Save Ocala's Marion Theatre" and printed in the Star-Banner and Ocala.com.


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Skip to comments.Rabbis speech called hateful (because he expressed Conservative views).
Posted on 05/16/2012 1:16:19 PM PDT by Zetman
A rabbis declaration that he is an Islamaphobe and an accompanying speech at a Tea Party forum in San Mateo earlier this month has been called racist and hateful by the state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Rabbi Nachum Shifren and all the other candidates for U.S. Senate were invited to a candidates forum May 3 at the American Legion Hall in San Mateo, co-sponsored by the San Mateo County Republican Party and My Liberty, a local Tea Party group.
Shifren told a cheering audience, I am an Islamaphobe and everything we need to know about Islam, we learned on 9/11.
Segments of his seven-minute speech have been posted on YouTube.
When asked directly by the Daily Journal Tuesday, Shifren responded: Did I say that?
He told the Daily Journal that he is not an Islamaphobe but stood by his comments about 9/11.
I may have made the comment in the heat of the moment, Shifren said. Im a Jew. I hate no one. Im not a racist. I dont hate Muslims.
The group calling him a racist, CAIR, might be racist themselves, Shifren said.
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Liberal's define 'hate speech' as speech that they happen to hate.
Actually, the Truth has become hate speech. It is why Mao instituted PC and "allowed" certain ideas only......and the leftist instituted "hate speech" in America.
It is to control speech (unconstitutional) and determine worldview. What people hear over and over and over becomes the "truth". Hitler/Goebbels etc. knew that as did the syphilitic Lenin who took control of the minds of all the children. Pavlov was a one time friend of his.
Worldview is shaped in childhood, btw, but anyone can have their perceptions changed by what they see and hear constantly. Media and schools promote the Big Lie—Marxism/socialism 24/7. Truth has a special ring, though, and HAS to be SHUT DOWN in Winston's world where there is a Ministry of Truth.
They're aren't many of us who are crazy about Islam.
Islam is a race?
Known him for a long time. Rabbi Shifrin would be the kind of man needed to shake things up here.
The California Republican Party won't touch him with a ten foot pole though.
Might? Might be racist? CAIR hates Israel, hates Jews, hates conservatives...
Islamophobia is a term originally coined by the Muslim Brotherhood as part of a campaign to advance their totalitarian cause by stigmatizing and silencing those who oppose them. The celebrated novelist Salman Rushdie (himself subjected to a death sentence for, in effect, being an Islamophobe) and his fellow writers have it exactly right in their manifesto Together Facing the New Totalitarianism, when they say, We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of Islamophobia, a wretched concept that confuses criticism of Islam as a religion with stigmatization of those who believe in it. Or as the satirist Andrew Klavan has defined it Islamophobia: the irrational fear of having your head chopped off.
There is indeed a threat from Muslim fanatics who are not few in number, and it is in the interest of those fanatics to label those who oppose them hostile to all Muslims and thus to deflect attention from their malign intentions. Several of the authors of the Think Progress attack on Spencer and Horowitz and their colleagues are supporters and apologists for Hamas, Hizbollah and other Muslim terrorist organizations.
In their new pamphlet, Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future, Horowitz and Spencer have created what amounts to a biography of this malign concept. Their work shows how the term Islamophobia originated with the Muslim Brotherhood, is connected to violent protests over cartoons about Mohammed, the growing number of blasphemy laws in Europe, resolutions against this form of racism in the UN, and prosecutions of notable opponents of Islamic terror such as Oriana Fallaci and Geert Wilders. They show, too, how what began as a political strategy by the Muslim Brotherhood has now spread to American higher education and has, like political correctness and other such mad experiments cultured in the campus laboratory, the potential to break out into the larger political culture.
Islamophobia is a hoax comparable to The Protocols of The Elders of Zion. As Horowitz and Spencer show in this important work, it is an effort to protect Islamic terror by silencing its critics through a direct assault on the Bill of Rights.
Why won't the Republican party touch him? Just from his title sounds like a fine person to demonstrate how the caricature of the Republican party as the Christian party is not completely true. Or is it that the Republican establishment is allergic to religion?
The CA GOP has been neutered. It is non-existant and the state is a one party state. The Democrats run everything here and what is left of the Republicans here are only concerned with their little fiefdoms and little else.
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I moved somewhere new today, a nice little village, quite and peaceful. The name of this place... I'm not quite sure at the moment, no signs, no banners, nothing to give away the name, even my GPS couldn't pick this place up. One of my friends told me about this place. Since this was my first time being here I didn't really know anyone, I didn't know what was what. I parked my blue Honda Civic inside a conspicuous looking parking lot--there weren't too many cars there currently. When I got out of my car, I was greeted by a person who looked to be wearing some strange ranger-style clothing. He took my keys and hung them up for me then asked me to follow him. I did as he said, looking around at my new home, a quite, peaceful town, away from the cities and towns. The buildings looked like something out of old history books, something from around Roman times. I didn't give them much attention as they weren't that on my mind right now.
I walked inside the building I was lead to and met someone who seemed for too cliché for words--old and wise, the typical village elder look to him. His left eye seemed to be made of glass and he had a nasty scar leading through it, I chose not to pry into is injury though. They were the old identifiable traits which made him stand apart from other village elders seen in games or films. He told me that, until a place can be sorted for me, I'd be staying in the inn... An inn. I thought he'd surely meant a hotel but as I was lead there, well not to be literal or anything but it really was an inn. I walked in and was given a room key right away, everything all ready, my bags already in my room, everything was set up... like I had been expected. I looked outside and something caught my eye, a peculiar statue I hadn't noticed upon arrival, as if it had only just been erected. A statue of a bird... Of a raven.
I left my room and went to check up on the new strange statue and sure as hell, it was gone again. I looked all over town, then looked up at my room. On the ledge was, yet again, a raven. I started to get a weird vibe from this place but I didn't have the time to dig into it. I went back to my room and lay on my bed, looking at me window, nothing was there, but I felt something come over me, some strange feeling telling me to look outside the window. That's when I saw it again, the statue of the raven. I didn't want to look at it anymore but I-I couldn't look away. Something about that statue, something about it felt evil, like thousands of years of pent-up malice and hatred.
The next morning I awoke in my room, got dressed and looked outside. The statue was still there. It was much clearer then before, with something written underneath it. I could barely see but from what I could read, it said 'Ravager neRe' in that exact way. I sketched the drawing and the words in exactly the same manner then left my room. While walking up to the elder's home I was stopped by someone. She didn't look like the rest of the folks, she seemed to be an outsider like me. As she opened her mouth the words echoed through into my head 'The statue, I know you've seen it... Run from here.' Paralytic and cautious, boiling blood and sweat-drops, I couldn't think. My shaking figure was confused. The ominous statue, what is with it?
I finally made my way to the elder's house, inside he was making tea, two cups for one person. "Sit down," he said.
How does he know I was coming, how did the innkeeper know? "What is going on here?" I questioned. His confused face shown that he needed more to go on. "How did you know I was coming, what about the innkeeper?" I asked him.
He gave me a straight answer, or at least I thought it was. "It's a small village Edward, of course we knew you'd come here. You had questions, we heard your car before you arrived."
I sighed in relief, then showed him the sketch of the statue. "Then what about this? Why can I only see it from my room? And what does Ravanger neRe mean? What about the name of this village?" I questioned, determined to figure out what was going on.
"What do you mean? You can see it right now if you turn around."
With widening-eyes and fear pouring out of me I turned around as quick as I could to see it there, staring at me, taunting me, its red eyes bearing down on my soul, like it was trying to devour me. "As for those words, that is the name of the town. Now I have work to do, please leave," he said.
I managed to walk outside, but as soon as I left the statue was gone again, I decided to--- Wait! How did he know my name? I never one told anyone my name upon arrival. Something about this isn't right. I questioned every villager I could find and they all said the same thing, but one name kept popping up, and I know they didn't mean the bird by the way they phrased it, they kept mentioning Raven, like it was a person.
The rest of the day was normal, but even so I wrote down everything that was said to me. Something was off... First there was this mysterious person name Raven, and second of all everyone acted like this phenomenon was normal, like every place had it. I just couldn't make the link. I only stopped working for food, drink and to use the bathroom. Before I knew it the entire day had passed and I still had no information. I decided to rest my head for the day and get a fresh start tomorrow. While picturing everything in my head I heard a loud scream, definitely from a female. I burst through my door and leapt down over the bannister of the stairs, I landed on my feet but got hurt a bit. As I charged outside the sight was horrendous. The young female from earlier was impaled, by crossbow bolts, all through her body. No chance of survival... Just looking at her body made me vomit. I collapsed on the floor.
I woke up in a room--not my room at the inn, but a different one, I walked down the stairs, it was completely different... Was this all a dream, was everything that happened in the village a dream? I opened up the door and saw I was still there, just in a different house. The woman's body has been moved and the blood had been cleaned up. As I walked around all I got was 'Good morning Edward." And "I hope you slept well Mister Foster." I walked into the church and began praying to God to help me. During my prayers I heard a noise, like something in the church. Looking in the noise's direction, I saw a poem. I read it out loud:
The obvious see with their eyes,
Not with their minds.
You seek the deathly prize,
Of the raven divine.
Eyes on eyes, never breaking,
Closing will close.
Answers are your for the taking,
As Raven flows.
The villagers, the statue, the poem, it's all linking to something, but what could it be. That poem has never appeared in the Bible before. Just what the fuck is going on here...
Back at my home I spent hours putting together the pieces of my puzzle, they were fitting together somehow but it felt like ramming the wrong pieces of a jigsaw together to try and make a picture. Did that woman figure all of this out, did she know what all this meant? Was she... killed because of all this? I need to figure this out and quickly. Night began to fall as my work began to overcome my patience, in anger I flipped my table open and charged towards the elder's house. Fiercer then a lightning storm and the boiled up rage just screeching to be realized from inside my being.
Bang! Bang Bang! Nobody answered, but the door was unlocked, it swung open but there was no sign on the elder, like he had just vanished without so much as a squeak. I tried knocking on the other houses but they were all the same, abandoned, not a single sign of life.
I looked outside to see the statue, its eyes still bearing down on me. Wherever I went it was taunting me. I left the house, still staring at the thing, walking ever closer towards it. My eyes began to ache and had to close down on my only chance to inspect the statue, for when I reopened my eyes it was gone. I ran back to my house is disarray and slammed my door, locking it behind me.
I sorted the table out and gathered my notes together. I wrote down the events of what just happened, for the first time I saw the statue from the outside, every time I was outside it had gone... What was different about this time? I thought. I started questioning my own sanity. This can't be real, I must have drifted into some form of deep sleep, a nightmare. None of this made any sense... I can't trust anyone here--they know something, they're hiding something from me and I will find out what it is. I decided to crawl into my bed, pondering the situation, trying to bind the pieces together before falling into a deep sleep.
Bright and early next morning I woke up in my bed, looking up at the strangest event ever. A blood stain carved my roof, a message. I jumped out of bed vomited in disgust, my bed was covered in blood, my forehead, my hair, my eyes, all bloody. I never paid attention to what the message said I just ran to my shower and turned it on. I tore away at my clothes and threw them aside, before standing in the shower for a good two hours, making sure I was cleaned, I mean I was clean within the first ten minutes...I was trying to clean my mind, wash away the fear, clear the Raven's cacophonous call away.
After my shower I made my way back to my room, staring at the message on my roof... Glaring at the next piece of my puzzle. I took my phone out and took a picture of the words, then stared at my phone, the picture, the fucked up message... 'Raven is always watching you.' Yet again I studied my information. Putting together that Raven was more than a bird now, maybe she is some form of God to these backwater people. But I had yet to figure out the death and the poem, the true answers still eluded themselves from my page. Seeing with the eyes, not with the mind. That must mean I have to see whatever this is with my own to eyes instead of brushing it aside and thinking to much, but what about the rest of the poem?
A deathly prize from a divine raven? Maybe her death had some stronger connection here then I first realized... Maybe this divine raven, which seems to control their idiotic brains, told them to kill her? I'll leave this part aside for now and move on. Eyes never breaking and closing will close... Wait! I thought... I remembered the difference, every other time I left I never had contact with the raven, its physical appearance was lost to my eyes each time, I always took my eyes off it, closing and door, looking around... But last night I kept staring at the creepy statue, if that's what it really was... It only disappeared when I looked away. Maybe I have to reach the raven while staring into its eyes the whole time... That has to be it, if not then I'm stumped... I should have asked that woman what she meant before she died! That was my best shot and I fucked up!
The last two lines... Possible meaning if I do reach it the answers will come my way...
I walked around the village in my usual manner, talking to people and such, watching the young children play, killing time until next nightfall. I put up a façade of not knowing, I didn't want anyone to catch on to me, I can't die like she did... After gathering the some answers, fitting together piece to piece, one still plagued my mind... How they knew my name? I went to the only café in the village and ordered some food, a small pizza, ham and mushroom on top of it. It took a while to arrive...
Strange how the only place of modern technology is the café. A normal microwave, a typical takeaway oven for pizzas and such, a cooker with 8 hobs on top. I was amazed by the originality of this building, it really reminded my of home, I started missing my job as private investigator... But I still felt like one here, trying to figure this out. My pizza arrived finally. The ham was laid out differently then normal pizzas--this one was laid out like a raven. I stood up and launched the pizza against the wall.
Everywhere I go that damn raven is haunting me, what do fuck does it want from me? I walked back home and locked myself inside, watching the time go by, waiting for one a.m. I knew everyone would be missing again, so I threw my camera around my neck and set off, opening my door and leering at the bastard raven. The situation felt like some wild western showdown, which one could shoot first? I took every step with extreme caution, crawling ever closer to the ungodly raven... I finally reached it after five minutes--it felt more like five years--my heart was beating fast, the sound of my sweat hitting the floor could be heard from miles away. I didn't know what to do next, I just touched the statue, I tried pushing it... I wish I never tried pushing it...
My hand! It went through the raven, like some kind of doorway, I pushed it in as far as I could... The only noise heard, was the simple 'Click' of a switch. The raven began to... to move! Its demonic caw pierced my eardrums, making me fall to the floor, screaming and covering my ears. After a few minutes of shear pain I finally pulled myself together, looking up at, at nothing? The raven was gone. Did I miss me chance again? I held my head down to the floor, noticing the panel was missing, I looked in closer and closer, just as torches flared up, revealing a staircase... My curiosity got the better of me, no turning back now I thought. I took picture of the staircase and began to climb down, like I was plunging myself into hell itself.
The stairs led to a cobbled pathway, torches leaned against each wall, hundreds of them, leading to a massive door. I barely managed to push the door open, taking every bit of my strength... Inside was a room, four walls, one roof, one floor, each with two words sprawled across them... Ravager neRe... The towns name? why was it here... I looked around but nothing. The door slammed behind me with the sound of menacing laughter, across the door was one simplistic word... Anagram. I swear I could feel my mind explode, this just adds to the puzzle... Could it mean Ravager neRe was an anagram? What could it possible mean?
Green Raver? Reragev Near? Grave nerear? Never arager? No. None of these made sense... Maybe the capitals had some important meaning... Two words, two capitals, one N, one V, One G, two A's, Three E's and three R's... That's when it hit me! The word Raven, Raven could be made! that had to be one of the words, the other began with R... R. A. N. G. E. R. Raven Ranger or Ranger Raven... If these are the words, then why these words? Sure some of the villagers wore ranger type clothing I thought... Ranger clothing, the Raven... Ranger Raven. Who is that?
I decided to move on, leaving the room from the only exit on the far left wall, leading to another pathway... But this one was different, wooden floorboards and lights? Why the sudden change. I didn't want to go any further but... I couldn't control myself. I just had to see what was going on. A new door was ahead of me, not as big or heavy as the previous one, but ominous all the same. In this room, was the body of the woman from the other day, lying on an altar. Like she bad been sacrificed. Next to the altar was a blood-soaked statue, of a woman wearing ranger clothing, a raven on her right shoulder and a crossbow over her left... I could take it anymore... I bolted out of this place with the haste of a bull, running away... All the while a voice rang into my head... One sweet and innocent... The words she spoke only added to my fear.
"Run as far as you want Edward... I will find you." I charged straight out of the passages, pushing the giant door open with inhumane strength, then kept on running. I ran into my house, pack my things into flight-cases, placed them into the truck of my car and drove off into the night.
It's been, three years since this all happened. I got my old job back and straight away I was sent on a murder case... It seemed like the other ones I used to deal with... When I arrived on the crime scene the body of a man was there, multiple holes in his body. We inspected the body further, maybe he was shot? Stabbed with something? The body was found inside an old warehouse, I looked around for more clues but I couldn't find anything... I felt strange though, off-key... Like something wasn't right. I walked towards the windows of the warehouse. I thought I was seeing stuff. I giggled to myself when I saw the raven statue. That thing was still on my mind... as I was staring at the raven I over-heard the cops talking.
"Maybe this guy was killed by a crossbow, there are bolts all over the place." I span around with widened eyes, disbelieve took over me, until one other cop came around a corner with a folder and handed it to me... He told me to look at it. There was only one piece of paper, with just six words:
You're next, Edward.
Love. Raven Ranger...


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Outgoing migration still has to use a Unix socket and or exec netcat, since there is no way to pass a migration fd into qemu via monitor commands, but incoming migration need not suffer from the complexity. * src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemudDomainMigratePrepareTunnel): Replace Unix socket with simpler pipe. Suggested by Paolo Bonzini. --- I've since been corrected; qemu_monitor.c has qemuMonitorIOWriteWithFD that looks like it can be used to avoid exec: on outgoing migrations by instead passing an open fd over a unix socket, although I have not tested that yet. However, this patch does not need to be held up by waiting for the followup patch that optimizes outgoing migrations. src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 49 +++++++++++++++-------------------------------- 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
Agreed, ACK. Paolo


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Family & Consumer Sciences
Career Clusters
HHS FACS Classes
Classroom Rules
South Dakota recognizes 16 career clusters, or broad career fields. students are encourage to study career clusters early in their high school experience, and to find one that matches their skills and interests. The choice of a career cluster provides a framework for a student's academic experience. The process engages students, parents, and educators. The 16 clusters include...
Family & Consumer Sciences is an academic discipline that combines aspects of social and natural science.
Family and Consumer Sciences deals with the relationship between individuals,families, and communities, and the environment in which they live.
The field represents many disciplines, including...
Nutrition & Wellness
Nutrition & Wellness
Parenting Skills
Human Development
Teaching & Training
Leadership & Service Learning
Junior High FACS
Employability Skills
Hospitality & Tourism
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Put things where they go. Including yourselves, things you own, and classroom items.
Things will not always be equal, but they will always be fair.
I will only discuss problems with you about YOU. Not about someone else. I never want to hear that's not fair.
In class I am always watching you. Even when you think I'm not!
If you are gone, whose responbility is it to get your make up work? RIGHT! It is your responsibility!
Use your time wisely. I will always give you time to work, it's up to you how you use it.
I'm your teacher, not your babysitter.
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I stayed at the Royal Phawadee for the first 7 nights and last 3 nights of my October trip to Southeast Asia. This is the second time I have stayed there (other members of my party stayed at cheaper alternatives). Being in the heart of Patong everything is with in walking distance, with the exception of day trips to other beaches (Kata has always been my favorite). The staff here is excellent and always very helpful and smiling. The rooms are always clean and the beds are some of the most comfortable I've slept in during my time in Southeast Asia. I love this hotel and will continue to stay there in future trips to Phuket.
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Dad in town and want to try one of 2 restaurants...Cava or Guu (on Church)? We enjoy and know a lot about both cuisines (Spanish and Japanese) . We are looking for the best food and fun experience (the whole group of us are foodies and have fairly high standards). We will be eating around 8:30pm on Thursday will there be a line up at Guu during that time?
Thanks for any insight!
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Additional Variable - Diffusive Transport Equation
I want to solve a transport equation for an additional variable that contains just the transient term and the source term. i.e. no need of diffusion and advection terms. Using the Diffusive transport equation and trying to set Kinematic Diffusivity to zero does not seem to work. Doing so, the solver throws an error and terminates after a few iterations. This is the error during the run.
Fatal bounds error detected
Variable: AggV.Dynamic Diffusivity
where AggV is the additional variable.
Should I set the kinematic diffusivity of the additional variable in the Pre to a sufficiently lower value instead of setting it to zero. Looks like setting it to zero is causing numerical problem
I am solving for a multicomponent gas phase problem where the diffusivity of all components are in the order of 10^-5 m^2/s.
Can anyone suggest a safe value for diffusivity?
Or is there any other way to "trick" CFX into solving just the transient and the source terms?
RadheShyam Das.
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Hi RadheShyam,
Based on your description it sounds like you still need the advection term. If that is the case, you can specify it is a "Transport Equation" and set your kinematic diffusivity directly as 1e-5 [m^2/s].
Syntax of "GRANTEMP " variable
How we insert the "GRANTEMP" variable in the expression?
We found the error; ERROR # 001100279 has occured in subroutine ErrAction. Message: Name_MOD: Error finding variable "GRANTEMP_FL2"
Re: Syntax of "GRANTEMP " variable
Dear Nut,
It seems you tried to access the granular temperature variable, and the variable has not been defined for your setup. This variable is internal to the ANSYS CFX solver, and it is only defined based on the physical models you have selected.
Without additional information, it is not easy to help.
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"I'm verbally committing to coach Flood," Patton texted ScarletReport.com after the game.
Patton ranks in as the 117th receiver in the class of 2013 and a three-star recruit. He was in the most contact with West Virginia and Purdue in his final three alongside Rutgers.
Patton will return to Rutgers the weekend of Dec. 7 for his official visit.
"I'm going to go up there and visit and hang out up there for a weekend," he told FOXSportsNEXT.com earlier in the month. "I really know everything about them because I've been up there about five times. I just want to hang with the players and the coaches and see how it is."
During the recruiting process, Patton cited his relationship with the coaching staff as one of the primary reasons for liking Rutgers.
"I talk to [linebackers coach Dave Cohen] the most," he said. "I get along with him well. I want to make sure I like it, and that I like he people up there before I make a decision."
Patton split time at running back and receiver as a senior at St. Elizabeth. The 6-foot-4, 180-pounder ran for 677 yards and 14 touchdowns and caught 48 balls for 761 yards and eight touchdowns.
Patton is the 20th member of the Rutgers class of 2013 and the second wide receiver.


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25 Activities That Are Better Than Shopping
After having spent so many years being consumed by consumer culture (watch the Story of Stuff), it's a strange feeling to find yourself with lots of time on your hands because going shopping has become a lot less important. It feels great, but I also don't want to fill all my new free time with watching TV. Good news: not spending money doesn't have to be boring! Here are 25 things that can be developed into new activities for your new "life of austerity". Most of these are things I've put on my own to-do list. Listed in no particular order…
1. Learn the names of flowers. Personally, I hit a wall after rose, daisy, sunflower, tulip, orchid and maybe hydrangea (sometimes I forget which one they are). Wouldn't it be cool to know them and pick a few intelligently for your backyard or patio, or give a unique one as a gift? Here's a basic start guide.
2. Get into historical biographies. I read a lot, but I've only recently discovered how fun biographies can be, and there were some crazy people back in the day. Potentially good ones: J. Edgar Hoover, Enoch Johnson (Boardwalk Empire's Nucky Thompson), Frank Lloyd Wright, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Alan Clark, Mother Jones and Mao Zedong. There are so many interesting political figures whose lives are much deeper than what we know from history. And they all broke the rules! Biographies are never linear and balanced, with nuanced plots like a great novel might have. The lives of other people, like our own lives, often take paths that make no sense at all. They can be inspiring, revolting, funny and sad. Here's a little more inspiration.
3. Learn to draw. Drawing is fun and anyone can start. It's a great break for your brain too, to try something new. Try this site to start.
4. Call your mother. I bet you don't call her enough. She loves you, you know.
5. Get back into an old sport. Remember when you played three sports in high school? How the heck did we ever do that? How cool is racquetball, tennis, field hockey, ice skating, surfing, soccer and every other sport you used to play? I love getting back into an old game.
6. Learn the names of trees.
I want to know a conifer from a broadleaf. Here's a cool online guide from Arbor Day.
7. Get into a new genre of music. I love music and yet I forget all about it sometimes. How about flamenco guitar, bluegrass, big band jazz, or reggaeton? There are so many genres to discover. Try Jango or Pandora.
8. Clean out every closet in your house. Here's a big project that will be well worth it. Donate or get rid of the stuff you don't use.
9. Start juicing.
After you watch Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead you may decide you want to eat less processed foods.
10. Take pictures. I still don't have a camera, but I've got a loaner from my dad. It's been so fun taking pictures again. There's nothing like candid shots.
11. Write an email. Respond to all of those emails you've been meaning to write thoughtful responses to. But first, read the The Sad Truth of What's Really in Your Gmail Inbox.
12. Organize your airline miles/loyalty programs. You might find you have a free hotel night or trip somewhere! I've also enrolled all my debit cards at SkyMiles Dining (they have it for other airlines as well) so every now and then I find I've gotten extra miles without any effort.
13. Turn old, lame jeans into sweet cutoffs. Can also be done with old, lame skirts that are below the knee and need some "dressing down".
14. Borrow P90x or Insanity from a friend. No need spending $120 on it. Get ready to be seriously challenged.
15. Clean your bathroom. Take a hot bath as a reward. With candles.
16. Take your dog to the dog park. Let him pee on some new trees.
17. Write down a list of all of your regrets in life. I always say I have no regrets. But there are a few things where I find myself wondering, "what if I…." (the majority of them being the financial mistakes I've made). I found that writing them down helped me to get the hell over it and move on with my life.
18. Bake a cake from scratch.
Chocolate. Black Magic Cake looks amazing. Just add an extra bar of Hershey's dark chocolate for extra decadence.
19. Foster a dog or cat from a local rescue group. They're dying for your help. Just Google your town and "animal rescue" and you'll find plenty of groups. I could do a whole post on volunteering opportunities, but that's for another time. This is just one thing that's simple to get involved in and you can decide how long you want to foster. Some groups will even help out with your costs.
20. Make dinner at home. I know you have some recipes you've been meaning to try.
21. Create a vision board. I know, I was inspired by 2 Broke Girls and their cupcake store vision board. I liked this article about using Ript to make a quick and easy vision board. I should post mine when I make it!
22. Learn a new language. Personally, I could spend the rest of my life learning new languages and feel fulfilled. I love learning new languages because it makes the languages I already know that much richer. I understand grammar a lot better because I know the 14 verb tenses of Spanish. It also makes traveling to new countries so much better, And I love being able to haggle in a different language, making the bargaining process so much better. It also opens up a whole new world of novels, poems and films that were otherwise only available as staid translations (Example: non-Spanish speakers think Shakira is a . The LA County Public Library offers free online language learning with Mango Languages, so check with your local library as they probably have something similar. I speak three languages fluently (English, Spanish and Persian) and definitely want to add Chinese and Arabic to that. And then for fun, I'd love to learn Italian and Portuguese to corner the Romance languages. Oh yeah, and definitely some elementary Japanese because I really want to visit Japan.
23. Start an herb garden.
I seriously need to do this. With just basil, mint and rosemary, you have the beginnings of extra flavor in all of your meals. I just discovered how good lemonade tastes with just a little bit of fresh mint, and I don't want to pay $2.99 every time I want fresh mint. And theres nothing like fresh basil on top of your pizzas, pastas and bruschettas. If you want even more herbs, grow parsley, marjoram, oregano and dill.
24. Create a portfolio of your skills. I love the idea of a portfolio for people who are not painters, photographers, designers, etc. A blogger could create a PDF compiling a few great posts, and then some of their skills, samples of projects they have helped others complete and anything else that you do that other people don't know about. Lots of people don't know I made a short documentary about Tajikistan. But I have all these skills of creating a story from raw footage, editing, handling interviews and so much more. I am eventually going to make a portfolio site that has articles, videos and other things I've created. But instead of focusing on just getting something up, I want to take my time to put together a really appealing portfolio. And whether it's a website or document portfolio, be sure to add where people can find you on LinkedIn, Twitter, Elance, Tumblr, etc. And don't forget a plain old telephone number.
25. Have your friends over. It seems like people have forgotten the great art of hanging out. I saw Demetri Martin at the LA Festival of Books and he said, "I would prefer to get paid to just hang out with my friends but nobody was paying me for that, so I do comedy instead." I totally agree with him. My absolute favorite pastime is to have friends over and lounge around and talk. I don't really care what we talk about, I love spending time with people. I guess that is another reason why I want to have a nice place to call home. But even in our 1-bedroom apartment, I am happy to see people come over to eat, hang out and spend time together. So when you're looking for something to do instead of shopping, do nothing. And call a friend to come over and do nothing with you.
How did you like the list? What are your new activities since you've broken the shopping habit? I'd love to hear from you!
16 Responses to 25 Activities That Are Better Than Shopping
As a young adult when I first starting getting income from work, when I'd get bored I'd simply head over to Target or the mall to "kill time" or to entertain myself. I've learned to kick that habit now, though I do like to browse online for some deals and fashion ideas I have a better balance.
Instead of shopping I like to walk around the neighborhood with my dog and admire gardens and architecture. I've also picked up the habit of FINISHING projects I've started instead of simply heading to the craft store to buy MORE materials. I used to have the most awful habit of picking up more yarn that I needed or could actually use- no more!
I used to shop A LOT. I've been to the mall maybe like 3 times in the past year. With Christmas shopping though, I realize why I need to continue to stay away from the mall. ouch!
i love spending time with my dog though and taking him to the dog park or dog beach is one of the best ways to avoid shopping : )
Shannyn, that is so true! The outlets were on my way home from my first job out of college and I can't count how many times I used to stop at Off 5th to see if I could find any deals (and I did, too many of them). That's awesome that you finish projects, I have been
I totally agree with both of you that having a dog can help create good habits and just hanging out with the pups is an activity in itself. Except now that it's winter I have to convince myself long walks are still fun!
Haha there I go, not finishing my projects :). I meant to say I have been focused on following through with stuff two. I have two other online properties I am working on, and it's been a challenge to create quality content for 3 unrelated sites!
I love this list. Especially the learn flowers and trees idea. I am horrible with that. I like the idea of being productive rather than spending money because you're bored.
Thanks Niki! I really made a list of things I want to do, but never get around to doing. I can't spend all my free time looking at my excel chart of debt and savings amounts 🙂
I have gotten a library card, been working out for a couple years now, and I'm learning how to cook. I've tried the following: wake up, work out, work (I have several sites), do some reading, and cook. Very little time left for shopping!!!
That sounds like an excellent day. I have been good about working out and doing new things but I still haven't figured out how to not get sidetracked by 45 minutes-3 hours of internet cruising. And now that I have a blog, I try to pass it off as "linkbuilding"! But I'm not fooling anyone.
I used to use shopping as a way to kill time or for entertainment. There are so many other things which are much better to do and don't cost money or cost very little. Thanks for sharing your great tips.
Some of my favourite things to do instead of shopping are gardening, reading and swimming.
Glad you liked it Kylie! I agree, it's nice to get into other habits and pastimes besides shopping. I am glad I don't care about shopping like I used to!
Loved this post. I used to go shopping when I was bored too. Like I would go downtown or to the mall and go from shop to shop and bring a lot of crap now. I don't anymore. Now I shop if I really need something and I shop mostly on the internet. I am not used to go shopping anymore and now I get actually overwhelmed of all the noise, the stress and the queuing when I do go to a shop. I really can't handle it anymore. And that is a really nice side effect of not shopping!
I meant to write bring crap *home in the above comment. 🙂
Ella, I love not going to stores anymore too! I had to stop by the mall with a friend last week and it was total sensory overload. I didn't need anything but everything was catching my eye. Those marketers know how to get me. Time has opened up for all those activities I wrote about!


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Definition Edit
Home network use of a computer means
|[t]he computer provides services to other computers on a home network. For example, the computer may be used as a file and print server, a multimedia server (e.g., music jukebox), or a gateway for sharing an Internet connection. The information processed by the computer varies based on the roles of the other computers on the home network.[1]
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I think that often, braces are used cosmetically, but because of the problems we have created with teeth and jaw development due to lack of natural length nursing, we as a society have brought on the need for a lot of this. We're not doing anything new with a penis that would cause a large percentage of men's foreskins to grow wrong and cause debilitating problems.
I guess we all go by what has happened to those around us, but I know one person in college who didn't get them out- till they suddenly started to inflame and another older person who suddenly developed problems too. That leads me to think the dentists are not totally crazy to offer this...
But any tooth can have issues, why are the wisdom teeth the ones that should be removed?
I had one removed, which had a cavity in it, when I was 25. It was such a terrible procedure that I opted to have another one drilled, rather than pulled, when I had another cavity at 30.
My husband had the "pre-emptive" removal, which was proposed to both of us by our dentists when we were in our teens, and had a much more complicated recovery as they had to cut into his gum to find the not-yet-erupted teeth. I thought what I went through was bad, but when he told me about his ordeal, I was shocked. And there was nothing wrong with his teeth!
I remember my dentist saying, "We'll let you keep your wisdom teeth if you keep them clean," like it was their choice, when I was a teenager. I walked right out of that office and never went back.
I see a lot of parallels with circ and always have.
.. that Americans routinely remove healthy wisdom teeth from people.
Asking on Twitter about this after seeing a tweet about it, and several people tweeted back that yes, it is a routine thing that is done to most teens, without any evidence of a problem, as prophylaxis.
I live in the UK, and wisdom teeth only tend to be removed here if there is a problem with them. ....
Anyway, slightly digressing from the forum topic, but thought it was an interesting comparison.
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