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The village head (里長, sato-osa) is the highest-ranking, and usually the most powerful, shinobi of a village and the administrative and military leader and main representative of that village. Although each village usually has only one village head, the actual day-to-day governing is generally shared with various councillors and top-ranking shinobi. Each village has their own way of deciding on the village leader, using methods as diverse as democratic elections and hereditary succession. The head of shinobi villages of the Five Great Shinobi Countries wield the greatest power of the village heads and are particularly respected. They are the only village heads allowed to bear the name of Kage.
Known Village Leaders
- The five Kage
- The Hokage of Konohagakure
- The Kazekage of Sunagakure
- The Mizukage of Kirigakure
- The Raikage of Kumogakure
- The Tsuchikage of Iwagakure
- Orochimaru of Otogakure
- Hanzō, Nagato, and Konan of Amegakure
- The Hoshikage of Hoshigakure (Anime only)
- Shizuka's mentor and Shizuka of Nadeshiko Village (Anime only)
- Seimei of Takumi Village (Anime only)
- Jōmae Village Head of Jōmae Village (Anime only)
- Disonasu of Hachō Village (Anime only)
- Tonika Village Head of Tonika Village (Anime only)
- Senji, Hisen and Shibuki of Takigakure (Light novel and OVA only)
- Tsukino and her father of Tsukigakure (Game only)
- Enzo Tenrō of Yumegakure (Game only)
- Malice of an unnamed village (Game only)


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Federal government frontbencher Stephen Smith says this year's election will be a ''toughly-fought" contest with recent opinion polls putting Labor within ''striking distance'' of the Coalition.
Speaking after the release of the first Newspoll of the year - which shows Labor's primary vote has risen six points to 38 per cent, while the Coalition's vote has dropped two points to 44 per cent - the Defence Minister, Mr Smith, said he had always expected Labor to become more competitive in the new year.
''I always believed that as we moved into 2013, that people would see the start of a political competition and that Labor and the Prime Minister would be very competitive,'' Mr Smith told reporters in Perth.
''At the end of 2012 and the beginning of this year, you essentially see a range of polls which, whilst they have the Coalition in front, have the government within striking distance.''
Despite Labor's recovery in its primary vote, the Coalition retains the lead on a two-party-preferred basis, 51 to 49 per cent. The last Fairfax/Nielsen poll of 2012, had the Coalition ahead, 52 per cent to 48 per cent.
''Whether that's on a two-party preferred basis, 48-52, 50-50. I've always thought we would be competitive and it would be a toughly-fought competition,'' Mr Smith said.
Mr Smith said that he thought the polls were reflecting the Australian community's lack of confidence in Opposition Leader Tony Abbott as a potential prime minister.
He added that he expected the next federal election to be held in the second half of the year.
''I'm expecting September, October, November, a full three-year term,'' he said.
Finance Minister Penny Wong told ABC TV that there was only one poll that counted - the election.
"That's decided not on you and I having a discussion about polling, it's decided on who people think has got the head and the heart to run the country, and who's got the economic plans for Australia's future,'' Senator Wong said.
Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey said he was sceptical about poll results during the festive season. But noted that the Coalition had expected the polls to narrow.
''At a federal level they always do,'' he told 2GB on Tuesday.
Acting Opposition Leader Warren Truss said that polls ''come and go''.
''There'll be a lot of them in the year ahead. It's an election year after all. Some will be up and some will be down,'' he told reporters in Lismore.
''All elections are hard and this one will be particularly difficult.''
In Tuesday's Newspoll, Prime Minister Julia Gillard retains the lead as better prime minister, polling 45 per cent to Mr Abbott's 33 per cent.
The poll did not bring good news for the Greens, who find themselves in single digits, down from an 11 per cent primary vote in the December poll, to 9 per cent. The Greens have not commented on the poll.
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Welcome to Peirce Island!
The island is 27 acres in size and is owned by the city of Portsmouth. It separates the Piscataqua River from the "South End" of Portsmouth. It holds many aesthetic views including salt marshes, tidal pools, rocky cliffs, and meadows. There are also several activities such as outdoor pool, walking paths, playgrounds, and boat launches.
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King Earns Preseason Honors from Baseball America
King Earns Preseason Honors from Baseball America
Jan. 31, 2013
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State junior Jared King picked up his second preseason All-America accolade as he was selected by Major League Baseball scouting directors to Baseball America's All-America team, the publication announced Thursday.
King, a third-team member, is just the second Wildcat under head coach Brad Hill to earn All-America honors from Baseball America, joining Nick Martini (2011). Coupled with his second-team honor from Perfect Game, King is the second K-State player in the last three years to earn multiple preseason All-America accolades as Martini was also honored by Collegiate Baseball and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) prior to the 2011 season.
A native of Dublin, Ohio, King led the Big 12 during the 2012 regular season with a .378 batting average en route to First Team All-Midwest Region honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and Second Team All-Big 12 accolades. King concluded his sophomore campaign in the top 10 of the Big 12 in 10 offensive categories, including top-five marks in overall average (second; .377), total bases (third; 127), multi-hit games (third; 27), slugging percentage (third; .577), hits (fourth; 83) and triples (fifth; 4).
King enters the 2013 season eight points shy of entering K-State's career top 10 for batting average and one point shy in slugging percentage.
Baseball America annually polls major league scouting directors to vote on the team and make their selections based on performance, talent and professional potential. In the past, the preseason All-America team has been a predictor of the top rounds of the draft as 15 draft-eligible members of last year's teams were selected in the top three rounds.
The Wildcats begin the 2013 season at The Citadel Memorial Challenge, February 15-17, at Riley Park in Charleston, S.C. K-State opens the season against High Point before taking on The Citadel and George Mason.
Following another trip to South Carolina to play Coastal Carolina, Elon and Kentucky, the Wildcats begin their 31-game home schedule and a 19-game homestand with a three-game series against Oakland, Friday-Sunday, March 1-3, at Tointon Family Stadium.
Season tickets are on sale for as little at $75, an affordable average of just under $2.50 per game. Fans can order season tickets online at www.k-statesports.com/tickets, by phone at 1-800-221-CATS or at the K-State Athletics Ticket office inside Bramlage Coliseum.


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I was given a copy of this book by a friend in order to get me up to scratch on ASP.NET. So far I've created a new ASP.NET Web Site using Visual C# and saved it in "C:\LearningASP\CS\"
Now I'm on page 14 chapter one were the book states:
The main panel in the Visual Web Developer interface is the page editor, in which you'll see the HTML source of the Default.aspx web page. Edit the title of the page to something more specific than Home Page, such as Welcome to Build Your Own ASP.NET 4 Website!:

[B]<title>Welcome to Build Your Own ASP.NET 4 Website!
The book's bold type implies that this is code we are editing rather than an entire new piece of code however in Default.aspx there isn't any  tags present. My Default.aspx looks like this:
<%@ Page Title="Home Page" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.master" AutoEventWireup="true"
CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>
<asp:Content ID="HeaderContent" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="HeadContent">
<asp:Content ID="BodyContent" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent">
Welcome to ASP.NET!
To learn more about ASP.NET visit www.asp.net.
You can also find documentation on ASP.NET at MSDN.
But the book implies that I am editing a title tag within html tags that already exist with "Home Page" as the content, I can't find this anywhere in the project. So I tried replacing the entire Default.aspx file with the code in the book but then the output differs from figure 1.12.
The code included with the book is different again:
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<title>Welcome to Build Your Own ASP.NET 3.5 Web Site!</title>
<form id="form1" runat="server">

Hello there!

The time is now:
<asp:Label ID="myTimeLabel" runat="server" />
There's no instruction to strip down the header from:
<%@ Page Title="Home Page" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.master" AutoEventWireup="true"
CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>
Note: I'm using Visual Studio 2010 and not Visual Studio Web Express.
The difference is that the first example (snippets 1 and 2) demonstrates using a master page to define common layout, and using a content only page for the actual content. In such a case, the default title is within the master pages title element in the head element. This is overridden in the comsuming content page by the title="something" attribute in the @PAGE directive at the top. The second example (the one you created) is an example of a content page, with no master: it does everything, and the @PAGE directives change. Some attributes are no longer required, such as which master page it's using. I hope that helps.
That does help. But I think that means the book is wrong.
When you create a website in Visual Studio you have two options: ASP.NET Website and ASP.NET Empty Website.
ASP.NET Website will give you a basic template to get started. It'll have a master page file, some content pages, some login pages, style sheets and whatever else. The Empty Website won't have that... all it has is a web.config file and it is the developers task to create each file needed for the page.
The other possibility is you're missing something from earlier in the book? A lot of development books have some code files that can be downloaded from the web or pulled from an accompanying CD... in which case you might find the files they're referring to in the state they're in. I don't know for sure since I don't have that book but I'd read everything BEFORE chapter one (if you haven't) and see if it references this.
Book probably isn't wrong here -- the defaults changed a bit. Using a different version of Visual Studio don't help.
I'm having this exact problem. Has anyone found a solution? I'm using the software the book suggested, but still it won't work. It does, however, allow me to produce myTimeLabel in a browser if I use script instead of code-behind.
I have the same problem, I get a syntax error with "Handles Me.Load". I have Visual Studio Web Developer 2012 and .NET 4.5
Is there a forum thread other than this for errors/corrections/updates to the book?
AFAIK every SitePoint book has a "corrections" or errata page. The one for this book is http://www.sitepoint.com/books/aspnet4/errata.php though not much help at present I'm afraid.
Corrections and Typos
No known errors at this time
I removed the carriage returns and the page ran. (I'm actually a ColdFusion developer, and CF ignores whitespace, but overnight I remembered something about other languages not being so generous. CF rocks, btw.) To be fair, the book has that little continue arrow dealeo but I didn't see it.
So mine looks like this:
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load myTimeLabel.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString()End Sub


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- Double check your spelling.
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- Try searching for an item that is less specific.
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First-Ever Fantasy Doll Collection From Two Leading Artists
Stunning doll collection unites the fantasy art of Nene Thomas with the doll artistry of Cindy McClure. Exquisite costuming, sculpted dragons.
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Available exclusively from The Ashton-Drake Galleries, each collectible fantasy doll is full of glamorous details. Inspired by Nene Thomas's visionary artwork, Cindy McClure sculpts each doll with elegant anatomy and musculature, realized in artist's quality resin. Each mystical maiden is dressed in nothing but the finest materials, with lavish costume adornments, simulated jewels, sculpted armor and more. The removable sculpted dragon that comes with each doll is a work of art in itself. Don't wait to bring the powerful romantic fantasy of these two fine artists into your home. High demand is expected, so order now!
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The State Highway Patrol graduated the first of two overlapping classes of cadets on Friday in a move expected to beef up a personnel roster that dwindled in recent years as the agency's cadet classes failed to keep pace with attrition.
Eighty-one cadets donning gray and black dress uniforms graduated in the 153rd class, believed to be the largest in the patrol's 80-year history. More new troopers will graduate April 5 with the 154th class, which has 64 members.
Their addition is expected to bump up staffing to around 1,600 sworn officers, a level the patrol hasn't seen since 2006. That will mean troopers can do more proactive work, rather than being limited sometimes to a more reactive role because of smaller staff sizes, said Col. John Born, the patrol's superintendent.
"You start just getting into a reactive mode, so you're not able to prevent crashes, you're more responding to crashes," he said. "So what this class will do is help us recover from that."
The patrol ended up short-staffed because it didn't graduate any cadets in 2008 or 2010 and was losing about 60 people annually, mostly through attrition, spokeswoman Lt. Anne Ralston said. The number of troopers, she said, at times dropped to "critical levels," when posts operated at minimum staffing and some didn't have night shifts.
The newest troopers will be added to 37 of Ohio's 57 patrol posts to help increase staffing to what the patrol considers appropriate levels, typically about a dozen officers to have three shifts at a post, Ralston said. The troopers report to their new posts Saturday to begin field training guided by veteran officers.
Kaitlyn Griffith, a 22-year-old from Orrville who is joining the Canton post, said she thinks the higher staff numbers will boost safety for the public and for troopers.
"With more of us out there, when we need backup, we're going to get it sooner," she said.
The class speaker and top overall performer, Brian Cowles, a 21-year-old from Poland, said he was relieved and proud to be finished with the 22 weeks of training, which included driving and munitions instruction -- his favorites -- along with criminal and traffic law, physical fitness, crash investigation and other topics. He also said he's happy to be part of the boost in staffing.
"It feels really good," said Cowles, who will return to suburban Youngstown to work at the Canfield post. "I'm glad I was able to get in, because I've always wanted to do this since I was a kid."
The training is seen as an investment for the patrol and its $300 million-plus annual operation. It costs roughly $38,000 per cadet, which includes their pay and benefits during training and expenses such as outfits, meals and ammunition, Ralston said.
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Christopher Kane-The perfect mix of pleating and lace, very lady-like with an edgy twist (and in fun spring colours!)
Matthew Williamson-Gypset perfection fit from Miami to Ibiza!
Sass & Bide-(I'll let the gorgeousness in the photos speak for themselves)
Topshop Unique-bohemian yet elegant, j'adore!
(all photos via style.com)
To sum in LFW SS11: Burberry was defiantly the highlight, as it always is.
Sass & Bide is def the new favorite, and it was over all a pretty impressive fashion week!
Any favorites? Let downs? Opinions?
I'm interested to hearing what you though of this season's London shows!


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Studies find a strong correlation between long periods of sitting and elevated risk of illness or injury. Experts call this "sitting disease."
The JustStand Wellness Summit is an annual event dedicated to sharing perspectives about the science of sedentary behavior and creating healthy work environments. Thought-leaders and researchers from around the world come to share ideas and findings.
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Kingdom Hearts II
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ROXAS IS SORAS NOBODY, THERE ARE TWO (2) TWILIGHT TOWNS IN GAME, ANSEM IS THE GOOD GUY, AND YOU CANT BEAT SEPHIROTH, CLOUD BEATS HIM!may follow. Read on at your own discretion.
edit Plot Summary
Set a year after the events of the first Kingdom Hearts, Sora wakes up from a deep sleep. Sora then finds an old "Weirdy Mcbeardy" called Yen Sid, or DISNEY backwards, who gives him some new clothes because his are way too small and totally stupid-looking. They were too small because Sora went through massive puberty; including a hundred wet dreams and the development of a deep man voice. Yen Sid then tells him that he has to stop yet another set of evil buttheads with his huge car keys. Sora then travels around various Disney (Registered TM) worlds and is assisted by various colourful characters including a bipolar duck named Donald and a mutt named Goofy, who all try to find and destroy Organization XIII. In the end, Sora findsRiku and together they defeat the dumbee nothings and skip merrily off into the sunset eventually finding kairi on their home world. After you experience the ending of Kingdom Hearts II, you will feel like going limp because the games' ending is so soft-core it made anyone who played it TEAR THEIR HAIR OUT, BEAT THEIR HEAD INTO A WALL AND WRITE A NOTE SAYING "GODDAMN IT WHY WON'T SORA KISS KAIRI?!" The reason for this being, that Sora was beginning to question who he was as a "person" and was beginning to see his best friend Riku in a whole new light.
edit Gameplay
The gameplay has drammatically changed since the first game. Now, With a whole SECOND COMMAND MENU!!! For one thing, Haley Joel Osment's voice changed between games.
edit Drive Gauge
One of the cooler features. This allows Sora to absorb fellow party members, and turn into another form of himself. For some reason, he gets stronger, However suffering from a problem simmiliar to premature ejaculation, he can't keep the forms up for too long before he reverts.
edit Reaction Command
The triangle button was renamed "the win button". If the player manages to press the win button at the right time, they can peform attacks that would otherwise be unavailble to them (and win). This includes (but is certainly not limited too) Being able to climb up massive skyscrapers in an attempt to stop another suicide attempt, engage in frantic swordfighting (keyfighting?) which the player has no control of, and winning.
edit Magic Abilities
Sora's magic spells from Kingdom Hearts have been modified. MP (Magic Points) are now measured in a rainbow coloured "high" bar and starts at 100, with slight increases after certain story events are completed such as the first time Sora meets his dealer or the time when Kairi gives him magic mushrooms, candy and some white powder. Maybe some crystals too. When MP is depleted, an automatically filling pink bar appears and the character goes through withdrawal symptoms such as believing he has the power to draw magnetic objects close to himself through the force. It's also worth noting that the magic in this game is ENTIRELY USELESS, especially compared to the incredible power of the mystical plastic props the party carries around.
edit Mickey's Help
In certain battles, if Sora is killed and if Goofy and Donald are dead for the 20th time, there will be a second option called "I Won't Give up" where you get to use King Mickey(Yoda). Mickey has lots of moves up his sleeves(this is because he's mouse Yoda) but is unable to actually kill anyone due to a restraining order from Disney. Once the player has pushed the all mighty Triangle key 42 times, Sora shall be resurrected without the need of a Phoenix Feather.If King Mickey's Health bar drops to zero before that(which happens every f***in' time), then you've pretty much fucked up the rest of the game by killing him.
edit Medic Please
In this game Sora's great drug abuse in the first games comes back to haunt him as he experiences multiple personality disorder and will in some portions of the game look and act like someone else refusing to believe he is destined to defeat the 13 hairdressers and open the door to the unisex hair saloon and will instead force the player to go about mundane activities like delivering mail to birds.
edit Settings
Among worlds visited in the game are;
- Nazi Germany
- Lower East Side
- Magic Mountain, from Puff the Magic Dragon
- The Arch window
- The Round window
- The Square window
- The Door
- The Cupboard UNDER the stairs
- Your mom
- Stifler's mom
- Band Camp
- Shroomville
- Walmart
- Britney Spears' Head
- Neverland Ranch
- The 60's
- The 70's
- The 80's
- The Mushroom Kingdom
- Sora's Butt
- Mirrodon
- Poland
- Paris Hilton's house
- Bathroom
Plus return to:
- Castle Oblivion - A central American private school whose alumini includes a sexually confused boy, a freak, a fuck and 13 nobodies. Now THAT's sounds like a good school.
- Traverse Town - For all your homeless needs.
- Germany - meet the popuklace who are 10% angrier then in any other world
- Hollow Bastion - same as last time except the castle is in ruins cos Leon and Aerith got pissed and had a fight, and heartless habitually view the world as a giant litterbox (if you were wondering what they meant by 'cleaning up Hollow Bastion'). It is also known as Poland as you get to be a builder while you're there.
- 100 Acre 'Hood - Gang area. Winnie the Pimp and his homies chill there.
- The World That Never More Than Once - When Sora finally up and killed himself as a result of his knob-ass existance, his inner knickerbocker torment and sexual transgressions fused with a large bowl of porridge to form massive city, home to Marvin the Martian. Other notable residents include Hayden Pantierre (who owns a penthouse at the House of Fuggery), Hayley Joel Osment (exporter of generic anime poses, jailed for feather faggotry) and Jesse McCartney (who?)
- The Never World That Was Once Maybe - Exactly the opposite of the above.
edit Enemies
The main enemies Sora faces are:
- Heartless - these are manifestations of light, born from the light in people's hearts. Examples include the Neo Geoshadow, the Sunnyside and the Testiball. The Pureblood Heartless are yellow-eyed, stumpy fuckers are reputed to be Tom Cruise in disguise for the fact that they try to fuck Sora (as he bears an uncanny resemblance to Katie Holmes). Emblem Heartless, on the other hand, are keen advocates of cosplay, and in the game A Sore, Fucking Retard, and Donald (that's a shit enough name) will encounter Aerith Heartless, Chuck Norris Heartless, Adol Hitler Heartless (able to make almost anyone die just by eating lots of liquorsquish) and Yu-Gi-Oh. The most powerful of all Heartless is a Sephrioth cosplay reject in shit latex pants who spent too much time on the tanning bed, and as a result looks like a cross between a West Side pimp and my old gym teacher. The Heartless symbol looks like a cervix, in contrast to the Nobody logo which is a penis.
- Nobodies - ripoffs of Nobody. They are just Heartless who give full vent to their satin-laced kitchen sink tendencies and time-paradox fetishes by dressing up in silver latex jumpsuits, moving around like Mick Jagger and stealing pictures of boys with wank hair to wank over them wankerishly. Thankfully, a certain porcupine headed boy with a certain suggestive, mouth-watering 'weapon' can defeat them.
- Sexless - don't worry, they'll appear in Kingdom Hearts III. What are the Sexless, you may wonder? Well, stifled by KH's Disney Trappings, the sexual frustrations of nearly everything in the universe manifested themselves as these grotesque yet oddly familiar beings. What do they look like? Well, take a large bowl of potato soup and dump it over Angelina Jolie: give it at least four days for the mixture to harden. Surgically attatch a pair of magic stilletos (preferably gold in colour) to her, slick back her hair with a large vat of testicular bodily fluid. Wrap a ten ton purple octopus around the whole thing and you have...Angelina Jolie? WTF!
edit Bosses
There are a hell of a lotta bosses in this game, so here's a few of the main ones:
- Organization XIII - Also known as the other thirteen Men in Black. Only the last few members are facede because the rest of them were raped by Riku previously. However, the remaining few are annoying and all are poofy, so watch out.
- Sephiroth - This crazy hair punk-rocker make a return, with his massive fuck-off sword and annoyingly long hairstyle. Run and hide, asshole.
- Chuck Norris - The ultra-super-mega-secret boss of the game. He's unbeatable, but nobody has realized that yet.
- Hider Mushroom - The token third-party in any and every game. He's not fun enough.
- David Hasselhoff - After defeating Mansex, the player is giving the option to fight him. His moves include motorized legs, expanding chest bones, and Your Mom.
- Mansex - The final boss off the game, using his homoabilities.
- Pence - Makes Sephiroth look like shit, in terms of power. Once again, run and hide, asshole.
- Selphie - Selphie hears rumors of a relationship between Sora and Kairi (her love interest), although this rumor is only partly true. Her weapons include her giant-ass flame thrower, her heat-vision eyes, and the wooden stick thing Tidus fights with in the first Kingdom Hearts. The reason she doesn't use her jumprope is because she brought it to a sleepover at Kairi's house one night and it broke for reasons you can probably guess.
- The Heartless Nobody - This aberration of nature is created when you take both body and soul out of a human. The battle is instantly won.
edit Reception
During the first second of availibility in japan, Kingdom Hearts II sold 727,591 (X1) copies, Which was considered a great achievement considering Square Enix forgot to ship the covers with the discs. No refunds where given. However they did make it upto the now hurt Japanese RPG'ers by re-releasing the game with the discs, Causing everyone to pay 99.95 Munnies, again. After much raving and ranting from the vicious and now hostile fanboys, Kingdom Hearts II was released in North America a Year later, And the people of North America confined themselves in solitude to play. After a confusing 2 months, People started to come out of solitude. Europe doesn't have electricity.
Unfortunatley, a group of cosplaying fanboys went missing on there way to the cosplaying party of the year, and when there dead bodies where found by the search party of a missing search party of the fanboys, Police stated that they had all been cosplaying as Sora, when a massive outbreak had happened on the subject of whether or not it was possible to complete the game in the time it takes to complete the tutorial on your first playthrough (2-3 hours.) When suddenly a cosplayer whipped out his 'Keyblade' and tried to 'Seal' an oncoming female pedestrian. This proved dangerous as the female was actually someone who had completed the game on Proud Mode, and was level 99.
KH2 was also awarded 'Most Shiny Cover' and the coveted 'Has more Yaio then Hentai and/or Yuri' award. When it was considered a candidate for 'Best RPG on the PS2 thats not a Final Fantasy game directly' award, the panel went missing during testing the game. It was speculated they went missing at about the point in the game where you select 'New Game', which had proven to be the hardest part of the game by the unsuspecting masses.
Square Enix also cashed into the Japanese fanbase again by re-re releasing the game as a 'Final Mix'. This Final Mix included Pot,Crack,Ice,Speed and the worst of them all, Panadol Rapid. It was estimated that Japan's Population will never get over the brutal and swift attack Square Enix has brought upon the fanboys.
edit The Real Reasons for KH2
It's really a big scheme by Square Enix to secretly bring forth that people who are Light (White) can overcome the Darkness in other people (Black.) A sequel would have never been created if it wasn't for the millions of crazy fangirls who get their parents to spend a million dollars on every piece of Kingdom Hearts merchandise. KH2 made parent's lives worse because of the new existance of Axel and Roxas - whom spawned a fanfiction breakthrough where millions of horny teenage girls sat in their basements writing and reading boylove sex fics where the two are mushy, gushy, fluffy, sappy, rapist freaks that are all over each other, the worst of these written by authors like kurosora1984, His Last Walk, City Girl Dreamer, Rose Riku, and Naive-Symphony - who all should be smacked in the head for not realizing that they're wasting their time writing sappy love stories about fictional video game character BOYS with a pedophillic relationship. But hey, Disney loves fanfiction writers - they're the ones who spend the most money on their half-assed games.


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The Glenwood girls soccer team suffered its first loss of the season in a weekend tournament at A-D-M on April 29-30.
The Rams battled Des Moines Hoover in the tournament opener on Friday to 0-0 tie after regulation and two 10-minute overtimes. Glenwood dominated the game, out-shooting Hoover 27-3.
TABOR - Four-peat?
Whose to know if a new word will be coined by the newly minted four-time Corner Conference champion Fremont-Mills boys track team on Tuesday in Tabor, but one thing is for certain: the Knight boys dominated the conference meet on Tuesday just as they have the last four track seasons.
Lisa Lothrop and Matthew Stewart have announced their engagement. Ms. Lothrop and her fiance are planning a June 17, 2011, wedding at Havelock United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Neb.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Dr. Robert and Rhonda Lothrop of Glenwood. Her fiance's parents are David and Brenda Stewart of Murdock, Neb.
The irony of President Obama announcing to the American public on May 1 that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. special military forces in Pakistan hasn't gone unnoticed in the past 72 hours.
It was on May 1, 1945, when the world learned through a radio broadcast that Nazi Germany dictator Adolph Hitler had committed suicide.
Julie Kalambokidis and Suzan Reeve have been foster-adoptive parents as well as advocates for special needs children and families for most of their lives. So when these two Glenwood mothers ran into roadblocks, red tape and misinformation on care options for their special needs children and heard nightmare stories from other mothers navigating the same issues, they knew there was a problem.
So what did they do?
PACIFIC JUNCTION - High wind gusts are being blamed for a motorcycle accident Friday afternoon on U.S. Highway 34 near Pacific Junction that left a 45-year-old Omaha man with critical injuries.
An investigation by the Mills County Sheriff's Office determined Christopher Cercena was driving a 2008 Kawasaki motorcycle westbound on Highway 34, less than one-half mile east of the Interstate 29 interchange, shortly after 3 p.m., when severe winds caused him to lose control of the bike.
The Glenwood boys golf team edged Council Bluffs St. Albert 179 to 199 in a non-conference dual at Dodge Riverside Golf Course in Council Bluffs on Thursday.
The Glenwood boys track team was able to make history and re-write the Glenwood track record books at the 101st running of the Drake Relays last weekend in Des Moines.
COUNCIL BLUFFS - Council Bluffs St. Albert's Jane Watasaburg scored a 50 to win individual honors but the Glenwood girls, led by Chelsee Bird's 53, took home the dual victory, edging the Saintes by four strokes, 252 to 256 at the Dodge Park Golf Course in Council Bluffs on Thursday.
The Glenwood boys soccer team improved to 8-1 on the season and 7-0 all time at Creighton University's Morrison Stadium with a 1-0 victory over Harlan last Tuesday.
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MET Gala 2012: Fancy People Are Fancy
"January! January! Is it true you sent your son to live in Guatemala with his nanny?" – Asked just before this pic.
Mainly because of breasts, here's a massive gallery from last night's MET Gala featuring your favorite celebrities at their most fanciful including:
"Post-Baby Body" Beyonce. If she was so pregnant, where's this baby now…
Gwyneth Paltrow who surprisingly didn't ride Beyonce down the red carpet (Did you know they're black friends?) More importantly: Side-boob.
The only suitable angle of Cameron Diaz.
Camilla Belle.
A lamp wearing underwear.
Carey Mulligan demonstrating exactly what a woman will marry after having sex with Shia LaBeouf.
Scarlett Johansson's way too restrained breasts.
And why Giselle Bundchen shouldn't leave canisters of gel where Tom can reach them i.e. near the waterslide.
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Polo, Anyone?
While it was first spotted on a few of springs runways such as Altuzarra and Pucci (far left, middle) it was Fall's runways that brought the snakeskin trend to life. Prada, Chloé, and Missoni all showed coats of rich python skin, and covetable snakeskin bags were held at Louis Vuitton, Bottega Veneta and Valentino.
Cocktail dresses in a snakeskin print have a sexy and classic shape, shedding the bad rap typically given to snakeskin prints.
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The Crap We Missed – Wednesday 1.11.12
Welcome to Wednesday's The Crap We Missed where we've captured what could be the last terrified moments of Cuba Gooding Jr.'s life, Sam Woolley and Layla Flaherty almost convince me that all Housewives programming isn't soul-sucking putrid feces shat into my TV by Satan himself. (It is.) And 50 Cent provides the black microphone pic to end this meme – that exactly 4 people on the entire internet are even aware of – FOREVER!
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Decoding Dating Profiles Part II: 10 More Guys You Want To Avoid
If his online dating profile has any of these red flags… move on to the next one, sweetheart!
-Amber Soletti
My original top 10 dating profile red flags intended to save you the ridiculous amount of time that I have now forever lost by corresponding with and/or going out with some total losers I met online was apparently very popular. So, I've gone on to provide you with ten more guys to avoid!
Disclaimer: To any of the men whose online dating profiles inspired and unknowingly lent to the quotes that comprise my post, let's all hope for your sake that knowing is truly half the battle.
1. "Bonus Point" Guy
You know this guy, the dude that gives "bonus points" for anything and everything. If you "have cookie baking and/or cookie eating skills," check this out, you get bonus points. If you're as comfortable in Manolos as you are in flip-flops or hiking boots, in his book you are the recipient of MAJOR bonus points. Trust me when I say the bonus to you comes from avoiding this guy who clearly likes to play "games" and keep "score." He will spend the majority of your relationship playing Wii or X-Box in his undying quest to accumulate "points."
Read Decoding Dating Profiles: The Top 10 Guys You Want to Avoid
2. Webster
Here's a hint: if a guy's dating profile requires a dictionary to understand, including him seeing "remuneration as a somewhat limited levy of attainment," forget the dictionary and allow me to translate: I am an insecure guy who will overcompensate for my shortcomings by constantly talking over your head in an attempt to impress you with my knowledge of really big words. P.S. I also suck in bed and will therefore incorporate my SAT vocabulary into talking dirty to you, so as to hopefully distract you from what will probably be the "nadir [lowest point] of coitus [sex] of your entire being [life]."
3. "Disclaimer" Guy
Any guy that actually feels the need to share with you in his profile that he's not a "guido who's life revolves around the gym," an "angry person," "gay, confused," nor has he "ever experimented in college," does NOT require any additional reading. If he describes himself as being "straight, like your gay friend that you can also have sex with," you may want to go as far as to flag his profile as inappropriate.
4. "Novel" Guy
If a guy's profile requires scrolling down just to get to the half-way point, you should probably click "next" without hesitation. You'll notice that he has exceeded the generous 1,000 characters that the majority of on-line dating sites allot. His "about me" write-up is probably abruptly cut off, but not before he was able to squeeze in, "If there's anything else you would like to know about me, feel free to ask." Trust me, when it comes to dating profiles, stick to the Cliff's Notes versions.
5. To Catch A Predator
These are the guys that are over 35-years old and looking to meet someone 18 and over for a "serious relationship." Seriously? You're 42-years old, a high school teacher, have a 20-year old daughter and are open to dating 18-years olds? Feel free to "date" and potentially move in with this dude if you don't mind him eventually leaving you for one of his students, or even worse, your future adopted teenage daughter, ala Soon-Yi style.


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Telstra has reported its first-half earnings at $1.6 billion after strong growth in the number of mobile subscribers countered the decline in revenue from its traditional fixed-line and Yellow Pages Sensis businesses.
- Malcolm Maiden: Pretty light on its feet for such a big gorilla
- Economy patchy but SMEs on the way up: Telstra chief
The country's largest telco added 607,000 new domestic customers and 321,000 international mobile customers during the first half.
This took the total number of customers to 14.4 million, with 6.9 million postpaid subscribers and 3.3 million mobile broadband users.
Mobile revenue increased by 4.6 per cent to $4.6 billion in the six months to December 31.
Net profit rose to $1.597 billion in the six months to December 31, from $1.468 billion in the previous corresponding period.
Telstra's shares ended six cents higher at $4.64.
''These results show we are delivering on our commitments. We continue to see our customer growth in key products and services, particularly mobile, said David Thodey, Telstra's chief executive.
The company also re-confirmed its 14 cent fully franked interim dividend.
Telstra has further cemented its position as the country's leading 4G services provider, having sold more than 1.5 million 4G devices and extending its super-fast network coverage to more than two thirds of the country.
There was more bad news from Telstra's fixed-line business, total revenue declined by 10.8 per cent, slightly better than its worst ever recorded decline in second half of 2012 at 11.1 per cent.
Revenue from the struggling Yellow Pages Sensis business continued its downward trajectory, declined by 12.5 per cent, an improvement from last year's 24 per cent fall. However, the growth in its digital revenue increased from 2.5 per cent last year to 11 per cent this year, signalling a shift from its print business to digital business.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Tallahassee firefighters are being credited with saving one of their own after a colleague suffered a heart attack during an obstacle course.
Tallahassee Fire officials said firefighter Steve Box participated in a physical fitness evolution last week, wearing his heavy uniform coat, helmet and air pack. He suffered a heart attack and collapsed while climbing a five-story training tower and was found unconscious. More than seven firefighters and paramedics rushed to his aid and began CPR. They also shocked him several times with a defibrillator.
Several hours after surgery, some of the firefighters credited with saving Box's life visited him in his hospital room.
Box, an eight-year veteran of the fire department, is currently resting at home and is expected to make a full recovery.
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Stunning Australian model Teer Wayde models some of her favorite pieces from the Simply Be lingerie line. She's wearing the Naturally Close Control body and the Naturally Close Pack of two plunge bras in Navy and Coral. I might have to check these pieces out. And why haven't I heard of her before? Hopefully we see more of her here in the U.S.
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WHEN little Una Grace takes to the stage today she will carry in her the legacy of another dancer with whom she shared a special bond.
Ellaline Vincent was just 15 when she lost her battle with cancer in 2007.
She was a gifted ballet dancer who trained with the Miss Diane Guliford School of Dance. But a love of dancing and the same middle name 'Grace', were not the only things shared by these girls, whose families are close friends.
Both underwent heart surgery at Southampton Hospital, remarkably sharing the same date, surgeon and hospital bed, with Una undergoing an operation to treat undiagnosed heart disease a year to the date after Ellaline was operated on for a rare heart tumour.
Despite her own fight with cancer, Ellaline came to six-week-old Una's bedside to support her and her family, who still treasure a photo of the teenager holding baby Una – both showing off their brave heart scars.
Sadly, hopes of Ellaline making a full recovery were dashed when she was found to have an inoperable brain tumour. But the talented dancer, singer and actress showed incredible courage to the end – even taking part in a show at the Lighthouse to raise money for Poole Hospital's Special Care Baby Unit two weeks before her death.
Now, aged seven, it is Una's turn to dance. Today she and little sister Lilly, five, will be in their first show, fittingly called Sweet Dancer – with Ellaline's Mother Jo Hart looking on from the audience.
Una's mum Eloise Flinter, who also trained with Diane Guliford years earlier, said it was all thanks to Ellaline.
She said: "Una dances ballet, modern, tap and musical theatre. None of this would be possible without Una being the chosen sponsored child dancer by Ellaline's Memorial Fund.
"This is a beautiful legacy for Ellaline. It is a magical, unique bond between the girls, and we all believe Ellaline lives on so strongly in Una Grace."
The Vivian Theatre School production of Sweet Dancer is at the Layard Theatre, Wimborne, today at 2pm and 6pm. Ailsa Vivian, the school principal and Una's teacher, was herself, like Ellaline, trained by Diane Guliford. Diane, now in her 80s, will also be a special guest for the first show.


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A man has died after being detained on Wednesday night in Melbourne's east, prompting a homicide squad investigation into the police involved.
Police detained the man after being called to the intersection of Martin Place and Hamilton Street in Gardenvale at 9pm. They were following up a report the man wanted to harm himself. Paramedics also attended.
The 47-year-old Gardenvale man was put into an ambulance. Police said that "as per usual practice", police accompanied the man.
Paramedics were treating the man in the ambulance but he died shortly afterwards while travelling to hospital.
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Microsoft Announces Surface Pro Pricing and Availability: 17W IVB Starting at $899 in January 2013by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/29/2012 2:15 PM EST
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quiksilvr - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkBecause at that price it better. Reply
Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkNope, no keyboard... Reply
retrospooty - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkIt does. ITs not bad priced either... You have to remember, this is a fully functional 64 bit windows intallation that can actually run enterprise apps at work, Also 1920x1080 at 10 inches is sweet. Reply
solipsism - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkI'm not sure I agree the price is good. I'm sure there are some use cases one could make for this device but for the price I think most would be better served by a laptop. Reply
B3an - Saturday, December 01, 2012 - linkTry getting a laptop with a quality 1080p IPS/PLS touch screen at this price.
You get Ultrabook hardware in this but with an actual good display. It's a very reasonable price. Reply
BellaLohan - Sunday, December 02, 2012 - linkmy friend's step-sister makes $69/hour on the laptop. She has been fired from work for six months but last month her payment was $19911 just working on the laptop for a few hours. (Click on menu Home more information)
http://goo.gl/YRqXc Reply
uhuznaa - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkJust hope that your enterprise apps are still usable when running on a 10" touchscreen with 1920x1080 pixels... Reply
Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkIt does not.
"Both versions come with a Surface pen, but neither includes a touch or type cover." Reply
Impulses - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkRTFA... They clearly said it doesn't, it still undercuts any Win 8 i5 tablet in the market and comes close to the price point of some of the Atom ones. It's gonna force some price shifting in current and upcoming products IMO. Personally I think I prefer docking solutions like ASUS' (with an extra battery) but we'll see... 1920x1080 @ 10.6" is also gonna be interesting in the context of the traditional desktop & Office, I hope dpi scaling has improved substantially. Reply
Greg512 - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkThe price isn't bad at all, really. The MacBook Air 11" doesn't have anywhere near this quality a screen and is in the same league processing-wise. Plus, from a design perspective, I think the Surface is at least competitive with Apple's notebooks. If Microsoft or a third party releases a keyboard-battery dock like you describe, I can see the Surface Pro being a truly viable competitor in the ultraportable space, unlike the Surface RT which I find underwhelming in every respect compared to other ARM-based tablets. Still, I would like to see a high-quality touchpad integrated into a dock-able Surface keyboard. Touching the screen to do everything seems impractical. Reply
Alexvrb - Sunday, December 02, 2012 - linkDo you honestly think they're not going to account for the DPI increase? It's something you can adjust yourself if necessary, too. But I am willing to be it'll be OK at stock settings.
"Oh man Jim, I can't believe we shipped these without checking the desktop or Office. Also we put a bunch of sharp rocks in the boxes instead of padding. Damnit! Ballmer is gonna give us the chair!" Reply
GoodBytes - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkI think this is an excellent price for what we are getting.
All ultrabook's costs similar, and have only Windows 8 minimum resolution (1366 x 768) screen, using a shitty TN panel, and no digitize pen support, and they cost the same. And it's cheaper than the Mac Book Air, and you still don't have a digitize pen. Reply
Impulses - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkUmm, there's $1,000 ultrabooks in the market with 13" 1920x1080 IPS displays (better than the Air)... Larger batteries, more storage, and a real keyboard too. I don't think this comes close to making ultrabooks irrelevant but it should shake up some pricing and keep things competitive. Some Atom tablets have been priced much too high ($700) and some ultrabooks have been creeping up as well, this will be a nice counter balance. Reply
steven75 - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkHow is it cheaper than a MBA?
The Surface Pro is $1019 for the tablet + keyboard.
The MacBook Air 11" is $999 for the laptop (that of course includes a keyboard) and a class-leading trackpad.
Other interesting things is they both have an i5, same size storage, and are about the same size/weight (Surface keyboard adds weight). Reply
steven75 - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkAnd you can use the MacBook Air without a desk to stand it on. Reply
menting - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linksurface keyboard does add weight, but probably not 0.38 lb (the extra weight that MBA has over surface pro), but we'll say it's close enough
thickness and screen size are similar.
price, the surface pro is 20 bucks more than MBA.. considering that surface pro + keyboard is slightly lighter than MBA, we'll call this equal as well.
what the surface pro has that MBA doesn't is the resolution and touch screen. Reply
GoodBytes - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkMBA has no:
-> Touch screen.
-> Digitize pen support.
-> No micro-SD card. So I expend the storage of the Surface Pro, while I can't on the MacBook Air. Sure I use a USB memory key, but I have an ugly stick coming out of the side
Also, MBA:
-> Not a tablet
-> Can't run iOS App (Windows 8 runs Windows RT apps).
-> No XBox Music
-> I have to buy Windows. That makes the MacBook Air more expensive
-> Apple Windows 8 Boot camp drivers are laughable at best, even the ones from Windows 7 are a joke. Purposely made sucky to provide a horrible experience with Windows so that you have the illusion that MacOS is better just in terms of general experience (more responsive, more stable, etc).
So in the end, the MacBook Air is more expensive, and it's still not a tablet. Reply
winterspan - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkCan you point to a specific problem with BootCamp drivers in Windows 7? I run Win 7 Pro x64 on my MBA, and it runs great. Haven't had any driver issues whatsoever... Reply
ananduser - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkWin does work on a mac but not as good as it could work. For starters poor AHCI/ACPI support massively impacts battery life. Using a mac as a windows only machine offers poor battery life from the start. No optimus type switching under bootcamp. Furthermore the idea that as a Windows user I have to resort to bootcamp's shoddy BIOS emulation is rather insulting. You can't strip OSX of the mac either.
I don't understand why are you trying to sell macs to Windows users. Reply
melgross - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkMBA can have up to 512GB SSD, and 8GB RAM. It has an SD card slot. Two USB2/3 ports, and Thunderbolt. And one of the best backlit keyboards in the business.
It's much more capable. Reply
bountygiver - Sunday, December 02, 2012 - linkYou know upgrading to specs like this costs a bomb?
After upgrading to the specs you mentioned... BOOM $ 2000+ I can buy 2 Surface Pro with type keyboard with that.
Everyone up there are comparing the $1019 Pro and $ 999 MBA Reply
bountygiver - Sunday, December 02, 2012 - linkAlso... the SD slot is only available on the 13" MBA, not the 11" version... Reply
kmmatney - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkOh Noes! No XBox Music! Reply
bountygiver - Sunday, December 02, 2012 - linkI bet he got a xbox, so xbox music is an advantage to him Reply
gorash - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkZenbook Prime costs about the same, has 1080p and probably better specs. Reply
Cygni - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - link$899+$129 for the Type Cover so you can actually do anything with it? You've gotta be kidding. Too thick, heavy, and expensive to be a tablet or consumption device, too gimped to be a real productivity device.
Just like the RT, destined to fail. Only this time, even more expensively. Reply
menting - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linklet me guess..Apple fan? Reply
Cygni - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkActually just a fan of good products. An overpriced convertible with a kickstand trying to be jack of all trades and master of none like this is just a flatout bad product. And as with so many of these 'niche filler' products that people keep cranking out year after year, it's not going to be around long before the plug is pulled because that's not what people want. Reply
gamoniac - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkI agree with you on Surface Pro -- it is simply too pricey, even with the keyboard thrown in. Microsft better rethink about their pricing, coming from someone who really looked forward to Surface Pro...
I am not so sure about Windows RT just yet though. I think it has the potential if Microsoft can open up and get some apps in the AppStore. Or else, there is little reason to go for RT. Reply
melgross - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkHmm! Windows fanboy? Reply
TEAMSWITCHER - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkIt's not the price that bothers me it's the form factor. It's either a cramped ultra-book or a chubby tablet. I don't want either. Reply
faizoff - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkMan, I knew it was going to be higher than the RT version but this is kinda too pricey. At least if this was in the stores like BB I'd get an idea how it feels to navigate this thing. Don't have any MS stores near me to check them out. Reply
EnzoFX - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkHow could anyone have expected this for anything lower than the $1000 price mark? It is not an arm tablet. Reply
steven75 - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkIt's has basically the same components as a MacBook Air yet is more expensive (after adding the keyboard).
People seem to think Apple products are overpriced so when you price something MORE than the equivalent Apple product--yeah, people are going to complain. Reply
Zoomer - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkYeah, they both have a 1366 by 768 (native) screen. Oh wait. Reply
kmmatney - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkMicrosoft can't sell products that are the same price as Apple. That's what they tried to do with the Zune... Reply
Alucard291 - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkWell actually jokes aside but MBA is better spec than this trash >.> Reply
Taristin - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkIt's unfortunate that it's got a proprietary digital ink digitizer and not something useful like a wacom, with pressure sensitivity. It would have made a great tablet for drawing on, but as far as Ive been able to see anyplace, its simply an inking stylus and nothing more. Reply
JLQ - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkI haven't seen anyone (not even Microsoft) disclose what kind of digitizer technology they're using. Where are you pulling this information from? Reply
Taristin - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkFrom this source referring to Microsoft's patents for their ink system.
http://www.patentbolt.com/2012/06/the-patent-behin... Reply
jhoff80 - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkPure speculation. It's just as likely that they use Perceptive Pixel (who they acquired shortly after the Surface announcement)'s technology which uses a projected capacitive method. Reply
Taristin - Saturday, December 01, 2012 - linkEither way it's unlikely that the surface pro supports pressure sensitivity. And if that is the case, they missed out on a large demographic. Reply
JLQ - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkThanks for the link.
That is a concern for me, because I was planning on using the tablet primarily for digital art. If it doesn't support pressure-sensitive input in Photoshop or Painter, then I'll be looking at the Thinkpad Tablet 2 or the Latitude 10 instead. Reply
uhuznaa - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkOK, this may mean it's revolutionary... or it's just awkward. It's not a laptop (because you hardly can use it on your lap without an adjustable display and a floppy keyboard, you *need* a table), it's too heavy and expensive for a tablet (and using Windows software with a touchscreen is just painful), it's too small and not powerful enough for an all-in-one desktop machine... So what is it? A bit of everything? Like Windows 8 is a bit of everything?
I can fully understand that MS is a bit in trouble right now and Surface certainly is fascinating, but still: I have no idea what this thing is actually good for. OK, there will be cases where it is just ideal, but as a mass product it looks like an epic fail to me.
I'm looking forward to a full review. If this thing has a standard SSD and the battery life is north of 8 hours it may be more than just a curiosity. If it's just an awkward ultrabook you can't use at you lap, hmm. Reply
althaz - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkIts the perfect product for me. Its a tablet, ultrabook and portable desktop in one. I can watch videos on the train (who am I kidding, I'll be playing football manager), do some coding on an aeroplane and when I go to a mate's place I can hook it up to his network and play some starcraft. I can do all this - but I get something truly ultra-portable that also lrts me comfortably surf the web on the couch (laptops suck at this). Reply
andrewaggb - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkI think with a dock so that you can use a desktop monitor/keyboard/mouse when at work and then just pick it up and go, it has potential.
The i5 should be powerful enough for anything you'd want to do, though you'd want the 128gb version to be sure.
I'd like a haswell version... but I have no idea if they'll do a 6 month refresh or wait a year to refresh... hopefully they'll do a refresh on both surfaces right before back to school next year. Reply
Kornfeld - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkI think the lack of docking option will be one of the reasons to choose other devices over the Surface Pro. Also, it's a bit heavy. That may sound odd, but if it does weigh 2.0 lb. that will make it still makes it heavier than some of Samsung's products that have an 11.6" screen. Info is starting to leak out on the Lenovo Helix. So far that seems the most attractive of these new slate designs.
If you can get a device that is much like an iPad or other 10" tablet that only weighs about 0.3 lb more and is a fully powered Core i5 system that snaps into some expansion device as desired to give keyboard, pointing device, and extra battery, why bother using a laptop and a tablet. You can do all of the things on the device that you can't do on the tablet. Battery life will be somewhat less, but it seems like 6 hours of real world use will be realistic.
It seems like the gap in these designs vs the tablets may continue to shrink in the new Shark Bay products. Reply
Zodiark1593 - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkNow, I wish intel had a better GPU. That's probably the biggest thing lacking for me. :/
I wonder if ULV Haswell will come with a quad core option? That would be quite awesome as well. Reply
JAH - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkAny guesses on how many hardware generations before we get to a W8Pro tablet for $500? Reply
bplewis24 - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkSo, I figured the price point would be north of $700, and it's actually $900.
Now I also assumed battery life would be significantly inferior to ARM tablets. Any idea what we can expect there? Reply
melgross - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - link4 to 5 hours, in theory. Reply
Dekker - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkI was afraid that it might be that low. That automatically means you will want to bring a charger (in addition to your detachable keyboard). So rather than ending up with an all-day ultra-portable fully-windows-compatible device, you will end up with an ultrabook type usage scenario.
Also, if I look at my own line-up of devices dumbphone, ipad, 11" MBA, 12" Dell notebook and Dell desktop - I would not know where the Surface Pro would fit in. It is not an obvious improvement to anything and there are no gaps/niches that it nicely fills up.
If I look at the three key metrics - performance, weight/size and price - I get the sense that the Surface Pro is not a breakthrough product that has the right trade-off.
Finally, if I compare the ipad and MBA software, I would conclude that there are hardly any ipad apps that would not need an UI rewrite to make sense on the MBA (and vice versa). I'd be eager to see how the Surface Pro bridges that UI gap. Reply
The Saint - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkWow, that Thunderbolt comment was really out of left field.
As a consumer not invested in the Apple ecosystem, is there any reason I should care about Thunderbolt? USB 3 seems completely fine for my needs. Reply
Reflex - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkI love the premise of Thunderbolt, but honestly its gone nowhere and its going nowhere. The types of tasks it is best suited for just don't make sense in the mobile space, or are too niche(hey, I still want an external graphics adapter!). And for the rest, USB3 is cheaper to implement.
I don't think MS is crusading against TB. They just don't see any reason to invest in a tech that is not going anywhere anytime soon. Reply
melgross - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkWell, USB went nowhere until Apple added it to the iMac. Reply
Reflex - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkWell they seem to be failing on this one. Pretty much the only devices available a year in are external hard drives. Looks like another Firewire to me. Reply
andrewaggb - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkI'm sure it's price and the intel exclusivity problem. Can thunderbolt even be used with a tegra/arm chip? If not you will create even more confusion between rt/8 because the accessories won't be compatible. That would be a total disaster.
And then how many consumers actually have thunderbolt gear? I'm going to guess almost none.
I agree thunderbolt would be perfect, IF, it was currently popular, open, and widely available.
USB isn't as flexible, but it's what almost everybody is currently using. Reply
Drgnx - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkThunderbolt has great potential for a universal docking solution as it actual uses hardware acceleration for Audio and video where as USB docks use software emulation which puts all the load on the processor. Thunderbolt is opening to all vendors now so I hope we will see more application for it in the future. Thunderbolt would be ideal if you want to use this tablet at home with a simple docking solution and plan to do anything CPU intensive. But I admit it is niche at this time, but I look forward to further applications in the future. I have an iPad 2 right now, and an iPhone 4S, but don't plan to buy and apple computer, when it is time for a new tablet I'd want a convertible hybrid like the surface, and by then the OS, the hardware, and thunderbolt should be more mature. Even iPad and iPhone had to improve to where they are now. Reply
ricardoduarte - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkThis is almost the same price of the ultrabook convertibles, and it has no keyboard and it seems almost the same thickness.
The only good point it has a stylus. Windows 8 RT is just annoying to use without a stylus once we are in the desktop mode (while using office, windows explorer:S, control panel, etc.).
I think microsoft is just wasting everyone's time. Reply
wrack - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkIf the 128GB is $999 with Keyboard & Touch Pen then I might think about it. Reply
EngSD - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkI dont understand the price comments - in Eurpoe the price of ultrabooks are well in excess of 1000 euros - this looks like it will be around 750 euros. About 200 euro more than an iPAD and for this you are getting real horse power, capable of high end multi tasking, total compatability with all PC programs, fast start up and come out of sleep mode, larger drive options, etc - a real computer as opposed to ARM based gadgets / tablets. You cant expect to get all this for the price of current ARM tablets - Android or Apple - you get what you pay for!! Reply
Galcobar - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkOne thing to keep in mind is the price comparisons between Europe and North America aren't usually apples-to-apples because the taxes are different.
European prices as listed typically include the value-added tax, while North American list prices exclude the sales tax(es), which vary across state, provincial and national borders.
If the tablet is sold in my neck of the woods at C$899 (it should since the US and Canadian dollars are at par, but Canadians usually get stuck with an additional premium), the provincial and federal sales taxes would push it to over C$1000, or $1140 with the keyboard cover. Reply
NXTwoThou - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - link"including 5W USB for accessory charging" That's kind of sweet, so you don't use up the usb port on your tablet. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkWhat in blazes is wrong with these people? The intel i5 chip is about the same size as the apple A6, if not smaller. Aside from some NAND, there is literally nothing to justify the $900 price tag vs the $500 of the ipad. So where is this $400 coming from? Reply
vkn - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkAre you for real? A porche is the same size as a corolla mostly smaller. Why is one thousands of dollars more than the other?
You can't honestly he comparing the price based on respective chip sizes. Reply
melgross - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkThis isn't a, I assume you meant, Porsche. It's just another tablet. Reply
vkn - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkYes. That's what I meant..
My objection was mostly to his comparison of i5 and a6 CPUs. As far as compute power, I think the comparison is valid at least relatively speaking.
Its definitely not just another tablet. It is more like a computer using a tablet form factor. It may not work well at all as a tablet alone without the keyboard. Reply
Dribble - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkIt might have a porche engine, but it's pulling a truck. It's got to run full blown windows. The arm tablets use much more efficient OS, so while they cpu's are slower the difference won't be anything like what it should be. Reply
kyuu - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - link... Seriously? Apple A6 vs. Intel Ivy Bridge i5 = no difference, and this should cost the same as an iPad?
I think the question is what are *you* smoking? Reply
kmmatney - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkWhy does it need an i5? Wouldn't an i3 be more than enough horsepower? Reply
Dekker - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkThis is where Microsoft's performance hungry software - that drove the desktop upgrade cycles from long ago - crashes into the reality of performance constraint mobile devices. Full-blown Windows (like Adobe Flash) is just not very suited to lower performance devices. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkI'm not saying there is no difference. But they surely cost about the same to make. Hell it is probably cheaper for intel to make an i5 than it is for apple to buy an A6X, but the fact remains one product is still $400 more expensive than the other. Reply
andrewaggb - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linksure.... but intel doesn't sell i5's and their supporting chips cheap, regardless of what they cost to make.
Surface RT is more comparable to the ipad and has a similar price to go with it. Reply
uhuznaa - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkA cheap plastic dock would make this at least a small and stylish all-in-one PC you could also use as a tablet by just plucking it out. Including this (so that people could just attach their display and keyboard/mouse to the dock and have at least a working PC) would sell this thing much better. It's not just a tablet, so why sell it as one? Reply
andrewaggb - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkI thought the same thing. I'm sure I can connect everything without a dock (maybe just need a usb hub), but it seems like a no brainer. Reply
RU482 - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkI've heard that Pegatron is manufacturing the Surface RT. Any speculation on who is manufacturing the Surface Pro for Microsoft?? Reply
RU482 - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkalso, any speculation on what model, or speed that i5 is?
I guess there are only a couple ULV i5s...unless they ARE getting the mythical 10W CPU Reply
spaz mk will - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkI wish these had been a reality a few years ago. I love my hp elitebook tablet and it's made engineering school awesome, but wow this thing would be perfect for that use case. Reply
gadjade - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkIs having S0ix on the Pro important? (how do you pronounce it?) I don't know on what's S0ix, tried to google it but there are no definite article like wiki. Thanks in advance! Reply
jhoff80 - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkS0ix = Windows 8's Connected Standby feature, which Ivy Bridge does not support. Reply
gadjade - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkThanks, so will be waiting for a Haswell Ultrabook then as I'm more worried about the battery life than the innards.
I really hope next year's Ultrabooks will have a double or fractional increase in battery life. Reply
PubFiction - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkI am surprised the price is pretty good.
But who cares about thunderbolt really, nothing accepts it yet, who knows if or when many things will seems to take like 5 years before companies really start using new ports honestly.
BTW the $100 upgrade to 128 gb is much more reasonable than most tablets which only get you a max of 32gb for your $100 increase. Reply
Origin64 - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkWhat I don't get is everyone's crusade /for/ Thunderbolt. Or HDMI for that matter. As long as DL-DVI, optical digital audio and USB3 work, all those new standards are, imho, completely obsolete.
I'm still waiting for cheap tablets that can compile x86...Guess I'll have to wait a few more years. Reply
kyuu - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkOptical TOSLINK only supports up to Dolby Digital 5.1, AFAIK. DL-DVI on a portable device is completely impractical.
Not that I care much about Thunderbolt. Its only real compelling use case is the niche realm of external GPU docks for mobile devices. Reply
SignalPST - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkanyone know if the 1080p screen is confirmed to be an IPS? Reply
TerminalVelocity - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkFor the listed price, this equipment should include a GPS. My employer would probably buy these by the armload except for that omission, and bluetooth externals are not an option due to the complexity and additional points of failure they add. If an OEM can replicate this with similar or better battery life + an integrated GPS unit, count me in. Reply
unclewoja - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkThis is perfect for me. I have an aging accounting package at work, but upgrading is just too costly for me at the moment. My accounting package doesn't have barcode capability so orders and stock takes are a pain and I have to go back and forth between the warehouse and office with bits of paper doing double entry.
An add on module for barcode scanning costs $4,500 + $500 p.a for "support". A new accounting package + hardware + implementation and data migration is $20,000+
This allows me to do any ordering/stock taking anywhere in the factory directly into my accounting software as well as printing and emailing from said software and gives me more functionality than a new accounting package in terms of portability. This is an absolute BARGAIN for my needs and situation. I also have other business colleagues who are also getting one for the same reason. Not only does it give us what we're needing in our businesses, but when it's home time, it's more than capable as a tablet or PC for most light duty tasks.
This may not be the runaway success that the iPAD was, but it will not fail and I don't see that this is aimed squarely at the consumers in the traditional tablet market.
If my experiences with Surface are great, then in all probability, my next phone would be a WP8 phone and W8 upgrades at work so keep a consistent OS across all devices which is EXACTLY what Microsoft want. They don't want a fragmented OS experience like Apple and quite frankly, neither do I. Reply
lmcd - Saturday, December 01, 2012 - link...isn't very impressive. I'd prefer the Samsung Chromebook loaded up with OpenSuse 12.x KDE or Linux Mint Cinnamon (for GTK+ integration), and all the parts in the screen plus the traditional big battery in the keyboard dock. Adding a bonus SSD in the keyboard dock (and eMMC storage in the tablet form factor) would also make a ton of sense. Ideally a 1600x900 panel.
Price based on Chromebook: should be around $600-700.
As an alternative, a Nexus 10 with previously mentioned operating systems, a kickstand and a surface-like keyboard would similarly be preferable.
This setup should come out to around $700.
*Sigh* GOOGLE PLEASE!
Or make PNaCl a reality, add more languages, and start supporting packages from other operating systems. Reply
lmcd - Saturday, December 01, 2012 - linkSorry for off-topic. Reply
Sahrin - Sunday, December 02, 2012 - link>I don't know what it is with Microsoft's crusade against Thunderbolt
Uh, they don't want to support locking customers in to an additional, needless upgrade cycle? I don't think I've ever seen you write something so irrational, Anand. Reply
jconan - Sunday, December 02, 2012 - linkDo you know which digitizer pen tech Microsoft is using for the Surface Pro? eg Sony Duo - ntrig; Samsung - ATIV & Pro - Wacom Some people have mentioned that when using ntrig with Adobe there is no pressure sensitivity because ntrig has been unresponsive to Adobe in providing API assistance. Hence only Wacom digitizers have full range of sensors working on Adobe. Reply
vision33r - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkThe market is not ready to accept a $900 tablet. It doesn't matter how much Microsoft wants to spin it as a Pro or premium tablet.
They've been trying to sell the Windows tablet that are over $800+ for more than 10 years.
The last good Windows 7 tab the Asus Slate cost $900 and sold maybe in the thousands that's about it.
The problem here is that it's too low end to be an ultrabook and too high for a tablet. You can buy Core i7 ULV ultrabook for $900 with 128GB SSD.
If the memory isn't upgradeable at 4GB, it's not very much to use with for a 64bit OS. Reply
ilkhan - Saturday, December 29, 2012 - linkAt that price its not worth it for a first gen surface Pro.
Gen 2, when it uses Haswell and hopefully adds a TBolt port, will be quite impressive. Even at ULV power levels I suspect haswell will be a beast of a CPU, with a sufficient GPU to do most things. TBolt for a docking GPU, using actual windows instead of the neutered WRT, will let it actually replace most laptops. Reply


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