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Pastor Daniel Omowumi, the owner of the warehouse and residential building on which the ill-fated Dana Air aircraft landed, yesterday said his family was saved from being killed because of a meeting he was attending in church on Sunday.
The Living Faith Church (Winners Chapel) pastor told The Nation that he could not recognise his property when he rushed back home on hearing about the incident.
Omowumin said: "I left for church in the morning with my mother, wife and children. After church, I entered into a meeting that delayed us from going home. I was still at the meeting when I received a call informing me of what had happened. I left my family in the church and rushed back to access the extent of damage but I could not even get to my property or even recognise it with what was left of them.
"As I speak with you now, the only thing that I have is what I am wearing. I had six containers in the warehouse. Four of the containers were loaded with kitchen items while the other two had educational materials in them. I also lost printing machines and four of my fish ponds were destroyed. I had some Sports Utility Vehicles parked in there that were completely damaged.
"I cannot estimate the amount of what I lost; it will run into millions of naira. The properties are beyond repairs. The warehouse was built on four plots of land. We slept in church yesterday and my family has remained their since. We no longer have a home."
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The outrage continues after the owner of Hampden's Cafe Hon copyrights the word "hon." She says she did it for business reasons.
Gigi Barnett explains why the debate is heating up again.
"Hon" is a term of endearment Baltimore knows well, but the debate over who owns the word is brewing again. It comes just as Honfest–an annual block party tribute to Baltimore's old school beehives and boas–starts next weekend.
Back in December, protesters picketed Honfest founder Denise Whiting's stores. They were upset that she has gotten a copyright on almost every play on the word.
"This is our word. This is our city and now it's owned by one person," said Carolyn Roberts.
Whiting said then and maintains now that trademarking "hon" is something any good businesswoman would do.
"'I'm a very hardworking entrepreneur and I love Hampden and I love Baltimore and I've spent a lot of time and energy doing whatever I can that's positive for the city," Whiting said.
On the list: anything with the "hon" logo, political or religious statements and even cat eye glasses are out.
"Right now, the sticking point is the glasses. Just because she has the right to do it, sometimes just because of the right to do something doesn't mean [that] you should do something," said Lou Catelli.
Even business owners who have shops here in Hampden must pay Whiting $100 if they want to set a table outside during Honfest. Folks who organized last year's picketing say they'll be back next week to picket again.
Last year, thousands of people joined a Facebook group protesting Whiting's trademark.


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I've read occasional tit bits on Richard M. Stallman, one of the guys behind the open source movement, being an irritating bug for big firms that have invested heavy into Open source but it was when I read a particular write up from this week's Forbes that I though about the whole episode again. Back in January 2003, he had come to my home state to lecture in one of our universities (
Cochin University
) and though me and a few friends wanted to attend the event and check the guy for ourselves, we couldn't because we were around 300 miles away and stuck up with other things. It was post 2003 that I realized to a small extent that this man really could be dangerious for corporates but then slowly with time, I kind'a forgot about hairy man.
I've just returned from a super refreshing break that started off last Friday early morning along with three other (IT) friends of mine. Basically, to change routine and put the rest of the world behind me and be REALLY free, jobless, loose and totally independent.... for a change. A long drive to a former French beachside colony (Pondicherry), which is around 200 miles from Bangalore, was THE best break I've had so far this year. Beautiful country side with beautiful friends with beautiful food (ooh, I think I carnivorized on around 7 different varieties of meat) and a beautiful drive have just made this THE trip of the year.
Thanks to my born-to-be-wild trip, I find my inbox loaded with mails, mails and more mails. Apart from the work related ones and the personnel ones, keeping pace with this blog's reader's comments and private mails also took a toll. Fortunately I've done a good job of labeling and filtering all possible emails within my gmail account and therefore, searching for specific mails is a breeze but I kind'a missed the interesting discussions that popped up. Bummer.
Anyway, coming back to where we started off, I was flipping through the latest issue of Forbes and came across an interesting piece titled "
Toppling Linux
" which I simply couldn't resist sharing it with all of you. Infact, being more of a non-Linux guy, I was hoping to hear some input from you guys because this matter seems to be taking more serious overtones for maybe dozens of big time IT businesses, hundreds of thousands of users and yet, I've missed out on the nitty-gritty details big time.
the article
Hope you've read it and taken notice.
If you haven't, or if you're not a registered user and your pretty lazy to be one, here's the gist:
There's probably no one who knows Windows and wouldn't know Linux at the same time. Linux is way too popular now (nothing new) and enough to drive around $15 billion bucks worth of hardware, software and services for various industries as quoted by the article.
The article primarily concerns it self with one dangerous hairy man by the name of
Richard M. Stallman
(that Wikipedia link must have been edited bigtime by his fans) - a 53 year old anti-corporate (and I guess that's much worse than anti-establishment) that probably wants to see
software free of charge. Basically that tech giants are "evil" and "enemies of freedom" because they make tons of dough by enforcing patients and copyrights instead of giving it all away for free. A little bit on the pro-capitalist swings of Linux is also mentioned with biggies like HP, Red Hat, Google, Amazon, and Sun have together poured in billions to provide another alternative to Windows and therefore take on Microsoft and its OS monopoly.
The Linux movement probably started with Stallman but taking a look at this guy's calling and the way he's getting biggies down on their knees, it sure does looks like he's going to end it:
"Now Stallman is waging a new crusade that could end up toppling the revolution he helped create. He aims to impose new restrictions on IBM and any other tech firm that distributes software using even a single line of Linux code. They would be forbidden from using Linux software to block users from infringing on copyright and intellectual-property rights ("digital rights management"); and they would be barred from suing over alleged patent infringements related to Linux"
Now this sounds scary. The implications are obvious. Linux and all its derivatives which are built on the basis of free software and open source just might have to bite the bullet.
But who is Stallman anyway?
Before we get to the potential problem of Linux, lets take a quick look at this guy first and see what's he up to anyway. He's the guy who way back in 1985, formed and presently runs the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Or maybe you'll understand him better by one of his famous quotes :"the prospect of charging money for software was a crime against humanity"
Apart from "crimes against humanity" which he was against, he also holds licensing rights to crucial components that make up the Linux system. You'll find nice stuff written on wikipedia about him and you can probably guess why. There's obviously a lot more but we'll forget that part.
The other side was that apart from sounding like your typical communist, anti-establishment, anti-corporate leftie, this guy was pretty psyched up that companies never let him play around with their product's code. Apparently,
"A Xerox laser printer was a key culprit. In the early 1980s he called on hackers to fight their oppressors by helping him create a free clone of Unix, naming it GNU."
So he along with a couple of programmers, hackers or whatever they wanted to call themselves set out on a mission to get GNU to work and provide another alternative. But they simply couldn't. That was when an unheard of and now-open-source poster boy by the name of, you guessed it, Linus Torvalds came up with what Stallman and gang couldn't - an OS kernel. And the rest is history as you know it.
So What's Stallman's Beef?
I guess he's pretty pissed off that a college kid beat him up and got much of the credit. No, just kidding. Maybe more. A lot more. He's probably pissed off that Linux and open source does not play along with his stated goal of giving it all away for free and instead, continues enforcing patients and copyrights. Besides, that's what he was against when he started decades back right? So Linux is a complete failure for him...at least to a certain extent.
"As programmers wrote hundreds of building blocks to add to Linux, Stallman's Free Software Foundation persuaded them to hand over their copyrights to the group and let it handle licensing of their code. Stallman wrote the central license for Linux: the GNU General Public License or GPL. For his part, Linux creator Torvalds never signed his creation over to the group--but he did adopt the GNU license, granting Stallman further sway."
And What's He Planning To Do?
"Stallman hopes to use that licensing power to slap the new restraints on the big tech vendors he so reviles. At worst it could split the Linux movement in two--one set of suppliers and customers deploying an older Linux version under the easier rules and a second world using a newer version governed by the new restrictions. That would threaten billions of dollars in Linux investment by customers and vendors alike."
"In recent years Stallman and the FSF have been cracking down on big Linux users, enforcing terms of the existing license (GPLv2, for version 2) and demanding that the big tech outfits crack open their proprietary code whenever they inserted lines from Linux."
What's The Problem With This Whole Episode
The problem is that Linux is growing. Apart from so much investment already pumped in, everyone or atleast a good chunk of users are starting to use it one way or another. Now if Stallman continues, no pun intended,
Linux growth with such stipulations, then firms won't be so comfortable dandling with risks associated from Open Source (apart from the already debated ones).
Stallman has a new license in place (GPLv3) with even more tight restrictions and a virtual blanket ban on
"anything that would protect or enforce copyright and other digital rights"
. The article sites Red Hat apart from other smaller firms that might take a serious hit since Red Hat depends on code from people who don't work at RedHat and presently does not have the capacity to have an all out in-house development team to replicate the same with GPLv3 licensing norms.
"IT managers want to buy stuff that puts them at as little risk as possible. If there was a risk that Stallman could become such a loose cannon, that's something most IT managers would have wanted to know before they bet their companies on Linux,"
The article sites a few more examples from real life where companies have thought against Linux because of the GPL licensing issue apart from a link showing
tech companies that Stallman could hit
(Don't miss it!).
Definitely an interesting read I must say.
What do you guys think? What does Stallman mean to you? Can this guy really wreck the open source community (is he part of it anyway or is he some sort of a splinter extremist Taliban group?), the whole line of Linux based products and anything else remotely connected to this issue?
I'm really curious to hear from some of you guys out there especially the guys who are heavy with Linux and its open source offerings. I mean, just read the article guys - if much of it is true, that big companies like HP have sent lawyers begging for this hairy man to backtrack on his stringent licensing norms, then I guess we're really talking about something real serious that could affect hundreds of thousands of users and billions worth in business. Or should I just brush this guy off (again) till I catch him again in Forbes later?
One things for sure though - I bet Microsoft must be giving out a wicked laugh behind the scenes.
I've got to run. But this article has got me wanting to do some more RnD on Linux and hairy people and see where all this can go.
I'm a slave of the programs and imprisoned in the grid. Please don't release me!
PS: I didn't use a spell checker so expect to find LOTS and LOTS of syntax and semantic errors in my post
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Oct 17, 2006
That hairy guy is a danger to himself and others. He is too much of an extremist in a moderate world. He is inflexible and it has to be his way or no way. I am on several mailing lists and whenever the license issue rears up the hairy guy is almost universaly despised. The open source community is deeply divided on the *pl license issue and it is the source of many flame wars as bitter and biting as linux and windows flame wars. He wont stop the open source movement but he can send it backwards and slow it down a lot. This is self defeating and is like cutting off his hairy nose to spite his hairy face.
George Alexander
Oct 17, 2006
I was hoping to hear from you first since you're the Linux dude at ITtoolbox. Thanks a lot for the input. I didn't know this guy was so much of a danger and even had so many people within the community that see him as a clear and present danger to growth. I thought much of the fireworks was between Windows and Linux only and that this issue was probably peanuts compared to MS vs The rest (of the open source world). When the guy first came here around three and a half years back to a university in my state, I remember reading much from the papers that made him sound like a hero (we also had a state government was pro-communist back then) and I thought "yeah, maybe he is. Besides, it's open source" but I didn't read the other side of Dr. Jeckel in depth. The article does state that he's bound to loose both ways. Frankly, I hope he does. I don't mind gifting him a Gillete Mach 5 or something to help him with that hair though :-)
Lewis Cunningham
Oct 17, 2006
Extremists of any sort bother me. He does have a lot of followers though. That has always been my biggest turn off on open source. The fanatics who think it is the ONLY way. It's just one way. I don't have a problem with people, or companies, making a profit off of their work. They invest the time and money to create something, why shouldn't they get paid for it. The fanatics don't agree. From what I have read, Linus is more along the lines of give it away and let the users decide how and where to use it. He seems very non-fanatical and directly opposed to the stallman types. I don't know him. That's just what I have taken away from interviews and articles I have read. LewisC
Oct 17, 2006
From what I remember Linus only went for the gpl2 license under a lot of pressure. He is steadfastly against the gpl3 license. Yes he is more of the let the users do what they want type of guy and I believe it is more Linus than anyone else who got the open source movement really rolling.
Unknown User
Oct 17, 2006
The article sounds like typical media alarmist exaggeration. It is confusing two quite separate things - Linux, an operating system; and GPLv3, a new version of a licence. People are free to choose whatever licence they want to apply to their software. Linus Torvalds chooses to stick with GPLv2 for Linux. Richard Stallman may not like that, but so what? How is that going to "destory Linux"?
Payton Byrd
Oct 17, 2006
Geo, Unfortunately, Torvalds only controls the kernel of Linux. If Novell spins off their Linux business (like, I tell you) and that spinoff goes daffy and adapts GPLv3 for the stuff like Evolution and Mono, then that's a really big problem because much of the future of Linux depends on products like Evolution and Mono. Mono going GPLv3 would be a major set back for .Net on Linux because it would drive many developers right back to Java and destroy much of the headway that .Net is starting to make in the non-Microsoft world. Don't forget, X, Gnome and KDE are all seperate entities apart from the Linux kernel, and any or all of them could go GPLv3 in spite of Torvalds. A GPLv3 version of X would mean nearly every desktop client would be linking to GPLv3 code and thus, depending on the position of a presiding judge, could cause every program linked to the X libraries to become GPLv3 regardless of whether the author intended such a disaster to befall their product.
George Alexander
Oct 18, 2006
Interesting. So while Linus just controls the kernel, the rest of the OS will most likely move over to GPL v3. Something like that would probably sound the death knell for companies like Red Hat (or the death knell for their stocks pumped up by investors a plenty) which bundles hundreds of components and software.... unless they create an alternative to stick with GPL v2 code and something like that would be far from easy I guess. Even if companies like RedHat do try that alternative, worse would come when other coders might move over to development under GPL v3 and there would be different variants in the open creating disorder instead. Companies like Novell, HP, RedHat, IBM and Sun have convienietly ignored Stallman and have gone out of their way to get hundreds of thousands of customers to adopt Linux and indirectly sell their hardware will finally face the music if this guy sticks to his guns. ooh, I see tons of DRM issues come up. Knowing Stallman being a simpleton (I hear he doesn't even own a cell phone?), I don't think anything can buy him out either and reading about this guy's fanatical attitude, I don't think he'll back down either. Devil and sea huh? I guess the only people who'll be grinning in the background would be, yup, you guessed it - Microsoft.
Unknown User
Oct 29, 2006
The Linux kernel is GPLv2 only, and with the amount of contributors and copyright holders to pieces of code on the kernel, it is quite impossible that any one company can go against the comminuty and provide a GPLv3 Linux kernel. They'd have to rewrite huge amounts of code, and probably break compatibility with the comminuty kernel. The original GPLv2 states that the code can be licensed under GPLv2 or "any later version", which would be GPLv3. KDE and other major projects can thus be considered to be licensed under both v2, and v3 (once it gets out), whichever fits your needs the best, as long as they stick to GPLv2. The problems you talk about are, as far as I understand, only conserning code-lines that are specifically under GPLv3. On a side note; the GPL says, that in order for a license to compatible with it, it must not impose restrictions that go beyond those of the GPL. But since the GPLv3, with it's new restrictions in the DRM clause, the GPL would become incompatible with itself were it not for the "any later version" clause. And since the Linux kernel doesn't have the "any later version", GPLv3 code would be flat-out forbidden, because the modified Linux GPLv2 would consider GPLv3 as an incompatible license, would it not? Captcha=IANAL
Unknown User
Jan 11, 2007
You should do some research and get your facts straight some time. Stallman developed important basic components of the GNU system like the C compiler and debugger; by the early 90s, a complete system was ready that Linux was just put on top of. I suggest you take a look at the GCC source and changelog to see what kind of work was involved there. Without Stallman, there would be no "Linux" as we know it. And he also isn't behind the "open source movement" that appeared 1998, on the contrary, he rejects using that term for several reasons. It's really too bad that google spits out this junk blog crap among its first search results too often. A new kind of spam, I would say.
George Alexander
Jan 11, 2007
Thank you for the kind words Fritz, Incase you didn't notice, I had a
I'm really curious to hear from some of you guys out there especially the guys who are heavy with Linux and its open source offerings.
included hoping to hear from both sides and your post has added variety to this discussion. Thank you. There's no argument to Stallman's contribution to Linux but let's face it, when it came to the kernel, the heart of the OS, they simply could not realize that dream till Torvalds came into the picture. I think both Stallman and Torvalds were dependent on each other to turn their dreams into reality. Stallman's FSF built a good chunk the components that Linux uses while Torvalds built the kernal itself which combined the offerings from FSF. Both had it win-win (let's just put it that way for simplicity's sake) So I guess without Linux, there wouldn't be much of successful FSF either. Regarding the term "open source movement", I would agree with you to a certain extent though I wouldn't be dogmatic about it unless you look at it from Stallman's glasses. Frankly, terminology wise, I don't see the difference between "Free" and "Open" because Stallman himself wanted all software to be freely read, modifed, shared and used and he calls software possessing those charecteristics "Free" while some of us see "Free" as in just "freeware" with no source code. We're talking about a terminology that got coined somewhere in 1997-98but what was the FSF trying to do in the first place? Were'nt they trying to put in a culture where software was free, availabl to read, modify and distribute ever since they started? Maybe he won't use the term "Open Source" because in today's economy, someone needs to foot the bill somewhere along the chain. It's either vendor, the customer or the government. Oh wait. the USSR collapsed long back. regards,
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The one-and-a-half-hour dance special showcased the four remaining celebrities and their professional partners dance two separate routines; a traditional ballroom dance and a Latin dance that incorporated a small star solo.
Not surprisingly, both Nicole Scherzinger and Evan Lysacek ended the night with the highest scores. Each earned a cumulative score of 59 points out of 60.
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The Pussycat Doll singer left Judge Carrie Anne Inaba in tears after her fierce and sultry Argentine tango performance, which scored her a perfect score of 30 points.
"You brought me to tears…you're amazing for all the right reasons," Inaba said.
However, Lysacek wasn't far behind. The Olympic figure skater was the second star of the night to earn a perfect score. Lysacek came out of his shell and finally showed a little personality while performing to a rock inspired paso doble. The judges loved his performance and thought it was aggressive while technically balanced.
Football player Chad Ochocino was determined to redeem himself after his stint at the bottom two last week. His first dance, a Viennese waltz, earned him 27 points and was well received by the audience. With zero dance experience under his belt, the judges were impressed with his level of improvement.
"To come out and produce a waltz like that, fantastic," said Judge Len Goodman.
ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was also determined to secure herself a spot in the finals. She earned a total score of 56 points at the end. A nervous Andrews first danced to a Viennese waltz that the judges enjoyed despite a few technical errors. Later, she continued to please the judges with her edgy paso doble.
"That was amazing," Inaba said.
After a night filled with high scores, the decision is ultimately left to the voters to pick who will advance and who will be sent home. We'll see on Tuesday night which couple will continue their battle for the mirror ball trophy.


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See also: Cynical
Originated 1580–90 from cynic + -al.
cynical (comparative more cynical, superlative most cynical)
- Of or relating to the belief that human actions are motivated only or primarily by base desires or selfishness.
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
- I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received.
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
- Skeptical of the integrity, sincerity, or motives of others.
- Bitterly or jadedly distrustful or contemptuous; mocking.
1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark-for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.
- Showing contempt for accepted moral standards by one's actions.
1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter X, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:
- When he, at Neergard's cynical suggestion, had consented to exploit his own club […] and had consented to resign from it to do so, he had every reason to believe that Neergard meant to either mulct them heavily or buy them out. In either case, having been useful to Neergard, his profits from the transaction would have been considerable.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (medicine, rare) Like the actions of a snarling dog.
a cynic spasm
of or relating to the belief that human actions are motivated by base desires or selfishness
- "cynical" in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ISBN 978-0-395-82517-4.
- "cynical" in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–.
- "cynical" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.


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COLIN JACKSON wants a fresh bidding process for the 2019 World Athletics Championships to take place if allegations of corruption are proven against Qatar.
Colin Jackson wants a new bidding process if Qatar are found guilty of corruption
The IAAF's ethics commission are investigating two bids by Qatar's capital Doha for the 2017 and 2019 world championships following allegations of "brown envelopes" and bribe demands.
Jackson, the former two-time 110 metres hurdles world champion, said: "If other countries are prepared to bid and think it was a bad way that Qatar got the championship, I see no reason why not to have a new bidding process. That's only fair."
Qatar lost out to London for the 2017 World Championship but beat the American city of Eugene and Barcelona to become the first Middle East nation to host the event in 2019.
But IAAF ambassador Jackson believes the championship could be taken away from Qatar if there is shown to be any wrongdoing in the bidding process.
"If there has been corruption and there's time for a rebid, then yes, that should happen," Jackson, the former two-time 110 metres hurdles world champion, told Press Association Sport.
"I don't know if there is that time and the danger is if Qatar pull out and no one steps up to the mark we've lost a championship."
IAAF president Lord Coe has denied flagging up allegations of bribery ahead of the vote in 2011. Coe was a vice-president of the IAAF at the time of the vote and led London's final presentation in Monaco before the 26 members of the IAAF council cast their votes.
Coe has repeatedly denied he knew of major corruption within athletics during his time as vice-president.
He is understood to be confident that the IAAF ethics commission's investigations into the Doha bids will clear him of having had any knowledge.
The Qatar bid allegations are the latest controversy to beset the sport with athletics still reeling from the Russian doping scandal and allegations of a cover up by Coe's predecessor Lamine Diack, who has been arrested by French police on suspicion of taking bribes.
Colin Jackson celebrates winning his gold at the World Championships in Stuttgart in 1993
But Jackson insists that Coe is the right man to lead athletics out of its current crisis.
"I still think he (Coe) is the best man to do this job, I absolutely do," Jackson said.
"But he needs to be given time, a little bit of a breathing space so he can really focus on what is needed. At the moment he can't do that because he's trying to sift his way through other issues. So that really makes it difficult.
"What I would say to everyone is 'step away and let the man breathe a little bit. Let him see what needs to be done and then hit those points one at a time.
"At the moment things are coming at him from every single angle and people are pointing fingers right, left and centre. He hasn't had time to settle in the job and concentrate on what needs to be done in athletics."
UK Athletics recently drew up 14 proposals to clean up the sport, including life bans for drugs cheats as well as resetting world records because many were set when doping was more prevalent.
But Jackson, one of three British outdoor and indoor world record holders along with Paula Radcliffe and Jonathan Edwards, said he opposed the idea of expunging all track and field world records from the books.
"I'm against that and not because I still have one," said Jackson, whose 60m hurdles mark of 7.30 seconds in 1994 has stood the test of time.
"I say that because there are so many athletes' records out there that are completely clean. Why should those people suffer from athletes that have been banned?
"I've no problem getting rid of records of people who have been banned, but for those people who have had longevity their records stand for themselves.
"I was 18 years at the top of my game and, if you've been in the sport for as long as that, you do have a couple of dope tests along the way. So let's see sense."


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When it comes to phablets, Samsung basically pioneered the category with the original Galaxy Note. Many thought the device would flop, but it was really successful. The next year, Samsung released the Galaxy Note II, which I personally still use to this day. These large devices with a built-in stylus have so much versatility and ... Read More »


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"I thought that was a pretty novel idea, so I took that and ran with it," said game designer Alex Howell, 27. The football hero's request inspired Howell, a Montgomery native and former Auburn walk-on, to whip up a whole new mode for EA's NCAA Football game franchise.
The "Heisman Mode," which debuted this year on NCAA Football 13, allows gamers, including George himself, to play as Heisman legends.
Such exercises in creativity are part of Howell's modern life as an associate designer at EA. For three years, he has been the lead designer of the "Road To Glory" feature on NCAA Football, one of the most popular annually released titles on the market. He also contributes to other features, and does lighting design for EA's Madden NFL games.
Howell, who now resides in Orlando, Fla., gets much more of a chance to strut his stuff as a video game star than he did as a 5-foot-9, 166-pound Auburn running back.
"I never actually played one down at Auburn. That was my claim to fame. Everybody loved to tease me and harass me and make fun of me in college about that," Howell said. "I knew bigger things would come out of the things that I learned in football. I played in practice all the time. I got my butt kicked almost every single day. Just the experience was awesome."
Howell has since turned the tables on his former tormentors by landing one of the coolest careers a sports savant could imagine. He gets paid to fashion fulfilling virtual football careers for his players.
Crafting the Heisman feature was a blast for Howell. The engineer he teamed with was a good friend from grad school. Together, they delved into Heisman history to make the avatars authentic.
"I just can't tell you how much fun we had working on that mode," Howell said. "We did facial scans of every single athlete. We don't have them the way they look right now, we have them the way they looked back in the day; exactly what they looked like when they were in college."
The highly detailed design work involved in developing NCAA Football contrasts with the primitive games Howell played in his youth.
At the age of 4, Howell was playing Chop-Lifter on the Commodore 64. "It was the worst game ever," Howell said. "You would take a helicopter and go pick up people and go drop them off."
The division of labor in video game production goes like this: Engineers do all the code and make the game and the artists make the visuals of the game. As a designer, Howell's main function is inventing and bringing to life ideas for new and existing game features to keep the franchise fresh. And that requires a lot of testing and research.
"I try to get my hands on a game at least two or three hours a day and I spend most of the time writing design features for the current or future year," Howell said. "It's a very flexible role."
Owen Good, sports columnist for gaming site kotaku.com, has been following Howell's career and notes that the young designer is a powerful force in the sports video game galaxy.
"He gets the culture and the lifestyle. He strikes me as a guy who is highly motivated and really passionate about what he does," Good said. "Road to Glory is the best thing about NCAA Football."
A fair deal of fringe benefits also come with Howell's video game gig, like giant discounts on games and getting to stand on the sidelines at college football games.
"I try to go to as many Auburn games as I can," Howell said.
His workplace is also very conducive to creativity.
"We get cool perks here at the studio. There's no dress code to begin with, which is fun, because we try to keep it a laid-back atmosphere," he said.
And hey, free cereal.
"Every single floor in our studio has a cereal bar with free milk all day every day," Howell said. "We have Lucky Charms and that's all that matters."
Howell's road to glory
Gaming was always a main hobby of Howell's, but he didn't officially decide to make it his business until he went to grad school.
"It was always more this dream you never thought would actually happen," he said. "You play video games growing up, you play Madden, you play Mario (and you think) 'I don't even know how these are made."
In his junior and senior years of high school at St. James in Montgomery, video games that included game-building tools became available, and Howell started indulging his curiosity about game design.
"A game called Half-Life came out with a tool that allowed you to make levels and mess with some of the code," he said. "That really interested me."
Then, one day during football practice in the second semester of Howell's senior year, Tigers coach Tommy Tuberville called.
"I picked up the phone and he asked me if I wanted to walk on," Howell said. Howell had previously sent Tuberville a tape of his senior year football highlights.
Howell's growth as a video game designer was put on hold. "I kind of stepped away from it all during college," he said.
At Auburn, he never played in a game, but he put his all into practices as a member of the scout team. His experience affected him so strongly that he inserted a scout team into Road to Glory's football practice sequences.
"Usually when you go to a practice (in a sports video game) it's just a first team vs. a first team," he said. Not so in the revamped Road to Glory.
"If you're the third-string running back, when you go to practice you're not going to practice as the first string, you're going to practice as the third string with the scout team to improve the first team's defense," Howell said. "It's verbatim what I went through in college."
Howell is most proud of his practice play during his sophomore year, the Tigers' 2004-05 season.
"Our defense was number 1 in the nation, and the scout offense always went up against the first team defense," he said. Howell said the scout team felt partially responsible for pushing the defense to be their best.
Howell majored in industrial design at Auburn but decided not to pursue it as a career because he didn't think his sketching skills were up to par. He was working as a server at Niffer's Place in Auburn, trying to save up money for grad school, when he found out about Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy, a video game design master's program at the University of Central Florida.
Howell enrolled and started a new life in Orlando, scoring an internship at EA while he was still in school. The powers at EA immediately made Howell head designer on Road to Glory.
Roy Harvey, former executive producer of NCAA Football, and current executive producer of Madden NFL Football, was one of the EA execs responsible for hiring Howell.
"There are probably only a handful of people with direct experience in the sport, the training and background he brought, and his energy and passion for video games," Harvey said.
He added that EA was so delighted with Howell's work that they started a fellowship to find more designers like him. "We targeted Division I sports schools and said 'send us your athletes that are not going on to the NFL and are interested in pursuing a career in video games."
Virtual happiness
Howell is a role-playing game expert, but it's not like he hovers over World of Warcraft all night. His mastery of the genre stems from adolescence. He and his older brother Brock spent their non-studying and sporting hours immersed in Mana, a multi-player game series popular in the '90s.
It was a bonding experience for the close siblings.
"We spent a lot of time together in general whether it was playing video games or playing Wiffle ball," said Brock Howell. He added that he's "exceptionally proud" of his little brother. Brock Howell is currently doing an orthopedic surgery residency in Chattanooga, Tenn. Alex Howell is determined to resume their video game partnership in the future.
"I'm gonna try at some point to get my brother to stop being a doctor so we can make a video game studio together," Howell said.
Role-playing games also served a deeper purpose for Howell, who said he was bullied in middle school and high school.
Aside from Brock, "I really didn't have any friends. Video games really became my outlet to escape the world," he said. "I could find another world in a video game that I was really happy in, and that definitely pushed me more than anything in the world to do what I do now."


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I'm always for Fakemon BUT most people seem to be focusing on design. I find that, to make convincing Fakemon, you need extreme dedication and fantastic attention to detail. For example, you need to not only make front and back sprites, but also party icons. If you want to go even further, you need to change (or delete) footprints, either enter new cries or make sure the Fakemon's cry lines up with whoever it's replacing, change their sizes, maybe even change how much experience they give. THEN, not only do they get new movesets, you have to balance the moves. For example, making sure there's always atleast one level 1 move so the Pokemon aren't stuck only with Struggle (I see this happen a lot with evolved Fakemon/inserted Pokemon), make sure they still have good moves if caught at a high level in the wild, make sure the Pokemon don't learn moves that are too strong too early and vice versa. AND make sure that they learn TMs and HMs that make sense, this step is very easy to overlook, and can become problematic if you change TMs. Oh, and don't forget to change stats and abilities so they're not just clones of the Pokemon they're replacing!
Really, this is why it's way easier to have Fakemon in fangames instead of hacks, haha. But if people can accomplish all (or most) of these essentials in a Fakemon hack, I think they deserve support and not have so many people brush them off because they hate Fakemon.
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Overall: I don't recommend Carepaths to anyone who utilizes electronic claim filing and/or invoicing features. They are almost unusable. If you are primarily seeking clinical data storage, they might be okay.


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infested that region, we sold these cattle and brought them to this side of the Rio Grande in Texas. I returned to Atascosa County, where I was interested in cattle, and have spent the remainder of the intervening time in South Texas.
I was married to Miss Ella Alberta Lowrey in December, 1917, and am now residing in San Antonio. I have cattle interests in La Salle and Dimmitt Counties in connection with W. H. and J. D. Jennings.
In September, 1919, I was elected secretary of the Old Time Trail Drivers' Association, which position I still hold. Being the son of an old trail driver, I complied with the request of Mr. George W. Saunders, the president, to give this brief sketch of my life.
I was born in Guadalupe County, near Seguin, April 7th, 1859, and spent practically all of my life on ranches. I first went up the trail with a herd of horses, in 1879, from Corpus Christi to Cherryvale, Kansas. This was one of the hardest trips I ever made. Our chuck wagon consisted of a Mexican mule about fourteen hands high. The next trip I made was in 1879, this time with a herd of two-year- old steers owned by G. W. Littlefield, driven from the O'Connor ranch near Victoria to Yellow House Canyon.


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The role of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt prior to abdominal tumoral surgery in cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension
Gil A, Martínez-Regueira F, Hernández-Lizoain JL, Pardo F, Olea JM, Bastarrika G, Cienfuegos JA, Bilbao JI.
Department of General Surgery, Clinica Universitaria of Navarra, 31008 Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
Magazine: European Journal of Surgical Oncology
Date: Feb 1, 2004Radiology [SP] General and Digestive Surgery
Major abdominal surgery can be contraindicated in some cirrhotic patients because of severe portal hypertension. The present study reports our experience of three patients with abdominal tumours prepared for surgery by transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS) in order to reduce portal hypertension and the risk of intraoperative bleeding.
Three patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension diagnosed with a right colon carcinoma, an adenocarcinoma of pancreas and a gastric and sigmoid synchronic tumours in the same patient. Because portal hypertension was the leading cause of surgical contraindication, neoadjuvant TIPS placement was proposed before surgery.
TIPS placement was performed without intra-procedure complications. An average reduction of 18 mmHg was achieved in portosystemic gradients. The planned operations were performed with a delay of 14-45 days after TIPS without intraoperative bleeding. Complications occurred in one patient without operative mortality.
TIPS placement allows a pre-operative portal decompression in cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension and abdominal tumours that require surgical treatment. This procedure reduces the risk of bleeding by reducing the portosystemic gradient and the varices around the tumoral area.
This procedure is less invasive than conventional shunt surgery, but it is not free of complications and should be performed by experienced interventional radiologists on selected patients. This is still an experimental indication of TIPS which efficacy must be confirmed in larger series.
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Hey dude, nice, but maybe you could put in a conclusion to round off the review. Nice first one though, but not sure I agree that Tommy is a 10/10...
Thanks man, i'll keep it in mind, plus i gave tommy the cat a 10 because it's different from the album version and gets you intrested.
Album Rating: 4.0first primus i ever heard
Not that big on these guys.
Album Rating: 4.0Great album, review needs cleaned up quite a bit, nice bump.
Album Rating: 4.0Duplicate... Damn DB.
never actually heard this but track list looks good
Album Rating: 4.0If not a fan yet stick with studio recordings Frizzle Fry and Seas of Cheese. If you already like those then yah it is worth having in your collection.
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"I use it as my primary number. In fact, I actually changed my AT&T number so that it wouldn't be called directly from people who still used my old number. I have never given my *actual* AT&T number to anybody."
"I have not used it as much as I had expected. Most of my friends have not switched over to my new number since my cell phone number is still good. I have used it for new friends and placed it on my resume as my POC."
"Occasionally. Whenever people call me on that number instead of my old number."
"I have started handing out my [Google Voice number] instead of cell phone. So I use it 10-30 minutes a day.
"I did sign up but I have not made any use of it, unfortunately. I would have liked to but then work (life?) got in the way. I do plan to get back to it and exploring it further."
Does Google Voice do what you expected?
"Absolutely. There may even be more functionality I haven't worked with yet."
"Yes, and more."
"What I use it for and what i like:
* Routing all my text messages through one account and then to my cell phone
* I usually now only give out my Google Voice number, it's on my business cards for work and a ton of other places. I love being able to screen calls and track who's called online.
* I use a Google Voice app on my android phone (I have a G2 that I got at Google IO and it works ok with the phone)."
"It has far exceeded my expectations. One of cool features is the ability to set up multiple groups and voice mails for each different group. I particularly thought that I would get a lot of use from the voicemails. However with my phone ringing in all three locations —Home, Work, and Cell—I always have a chance to answer the phone. So I have not seen a lot of activity on the voicemail side. But hey, isn't that the idea to be more accessible (if you want). You can just as easily not be accessible and allow much to go to voicemail. I think the listen in feature is very very cool. There are times when I don't want to talk but am interested in the voicemail right now."
"I did not really understand what it was until I had the opportunity to play with it, and then I did not really have use for it. I guess that I was thinking that it would be more like Skype. We use a virtual PBX at our company and Google Voice would probably be a better option for that application, but the virtual PBX numbers and system are already established at this point."
"Oh yes. And more. It's really rethought the way I've used my telephone. I can block, redirect, turn on, off, conference without going though my telco at all. It's incredible."
"Overall, I am happy with the service. I have not used the outbound calling feature, but the other features are nice. I especially like the message transcription service. Over the course of my use of the service, the accuracy has improved, but it is still not perfect. It has been enough for me to get the general idea of the message, which has allowed me to determine if I need to step out of a meeting, etc. to call the person back (or if it can wait)."
"Yes, it works well. The transcription needs a bit of work but is very useful. I hate listening to voicemail so it's really a godsend."
"Yes. It works great. The voice quality is very good. The transcription of messages is good. Both the web and mobile web interface are very nice."
What complications or difficulties have you experienced?
"Not one."
"At first, calls were Caller ID'ed as 'Unavailable,' but after changing some settings, it works just fine."
"I use it extensively at work, I love the dialing feature. And it is great to build a database of those who call. The one difficulty is that when I go home it is not convenient to use the Web app to dial out. The time that it takes to go to the website, select the person, then have it dial you back gets pretty annoying. I was psyched when the GV Mobile app came out for the iPhone. Great app, but it too is still too time consuming when I want to call my wife or son."
"Mostly problems regarding calling directly though the phone. One has to quickly learn to call from the Web page or the 3rd party google voice applications. The text message (406) number helps a lot."
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So my question is, my aunt has been diagnosed 3 different times saying she has bone cancer, she has been sick for months with low blood pressure,swollen lymph nodes, well she ended up in hostipal ended up finding out she has a major body infection to the point it's in her blood and her white blood count is extremely low. Se had a stent put into her gullbladder and they find out that is whats causing the infection, well they relsesed her from the hospital today another she called the surgon that did her stent, and told her to go right back t hospital and said it was bad medical malpractice I just wanted to know If there is a legal standing on this, my opinion she shouldn't have been relsesed because she could barely walk
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If releasing her causes her to have any permanent problems, then she may have a claim. For now, it seems she has plenty of problems and just needs them taken care of. I would not go back to the same hospital. I would go to one where the surgeon is on staff so he can see her since he seems to have a handle on what is going on.
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Tamaqua state wrestling champion Garth Lakitsky, 18, was arrested for an incident in Ocean City, Md., recently, it was reported.
Lakitsky was arrested on June 7, charged with assault, resisting arrest and possession of alcohol by a minor.
The incident occurred about 11:25 p.m. when an Ocean City police officer observed a male sitting on a park bench along the Boardwalk and holding an orange water bottle.
The officer approached the male, later identified as Lakitsky. As he did Lakitsky, police said, attempted to hide the water bottle behind his back.
The officer asked Lakitsky what he had in the bottle and was told that he had found the bottle and then handed it over to the officer. The officer smelled alcohol in the bottle and asked Lakitsky about the water bottle but he refused to speak.
The officer then asked him his name, but Lakitsky gave a false name. He was told to stand up by the officer and turn around because he was going to be detained until his real name was learned.
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A police spokesperson said that thousands of graduating high school seniors come to Ocean City for celebrations that go on during the month of June.
Lakitsky went undefeated and became Tamaqua Area High School's first state champion in wrestling this past school year. He wrestled in the 215 pound class. He will play football next year at Lackawanna College, a two-year junior college located in Scranton.


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SAN ANTONIO (AP)– Dirk Nowitzki scored 26 points and the Dallas Mavericks halted San Antonio's winning streak at 12 games, beating the Spurs 103-94 on Friday night.
Shawn Marion scored 11 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter for Dallas, which probably took extra satisfaction finally handing the Spurs a loss. Last time the Mavs were in San Antonio, their season ended in a stunning playoff ouster to the Spurs.
Manu Ginobili had 31 points for the Spurs, 16 in the first quarter.
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Opener Anamul Haque struck his maiden international century as Bangladesh crushed West Indies by 160 runs in the second One-Day International on Sunday to record their biggest win in the 50-over format.
Playing only his second one-dayer, right-handed batsman Anamul smashed 120 off 145 balls to help Bangladesh post 292-6 before the hosts returned to skittle out West Indies for 132 in 31.1 overs for a comprehensive win that put them 2-0 up in the five-match series.
The victory at the Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium, Khulna bettered Bangladesh's 146-run win against Scotland in Dhaka in 2006.
Anamul shared 174 runs with skipper Mushfiqur Rahim (79), a record for Bangladesh in third wicket, which lifted the hosts after West Indies had put them in and reduced to 21 for two inside seven overs.
The duo fell just one run short of Bangladesh's highest ever ODI partnership set by Habibul Bashar and Rajin Saleh against Kenya in 2006 when Rahim was out after his 87-ball knock.
Anamul, the top scorer in the ICC Under-19 World Cup in August, had a nervous wait for his century that came off with a single off Ravi Rampaul in the 47th over of the innings.
The opener, who turns 20 on December 16, took 23 balls to reach from 90 to 100 but compensated soon by hitting Andre Russell for two sixes and a four in consecutive balls in the next over.
Rampaul, pick of the West Indies bowlers with career-best figure of 5-49, eventually dismissed Anamul who hit 13 boundaries and two sixes in his 145-ball knock.
West Indies were under pressure right from the beginning as the first four overs produced only five runs despite the presence of limited over cricket's one of the most destructive batsmen Chris Gayle (15).
Opener Lendl Simmons (9) fell to off-spinner Sohag Gazi (3-21) and the visitors' problem compounded when Gayle was dismissed caught behind off paceman Mashrafe Mortaza.
Gazi struck another crucial blow by removing Marlon Samuels (16) before left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak (3-19) broke the back of the West Indies batting order.
Both the teams travel to Dhaka for the third match on Wednesday.
Tamim Iqbal c Pollard b Russell 5
Anamul Haque c Narine b Rampaul 120
Naeem Islam c Narine b Rampaul 6
Mushfiqur Rahim c Simmons b Rampaul 79
Nasir Hossain c Gayle b Rampaul 4
Mominul Haque c Pollard b Rampaul 31
Mohammad Mahmudullah not out 3
Mashrafe Mortaza not out 18
Extras: (LB-6, NB-1, W-19) 26
Total: (in 50 overs) 292 for 6
Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-21, 3-195, 4-201, 5-265, 6-265.
Bowling: Rampaul 10-1-49-5, Russell 9-0-58-1, Sammy 5-0-35-0, Narine 10-1-48-0, Smith 9-0-46-0, Samuels 7-0-50-0.
West Indies:
Lendl Simmons c Iqbal b Gazi 9
Chris Gayle c Rahim b Mortaza 15
Darren Bravo c Rahim b Razzak 28
Marlon Samuels c Rahim b Gazi 16
Dwayne Smith lbw b Razzak 0
Kieron Pollard b Naeem Islam 25
Devon Thomas b Razzak 0
Darren Sammy c sub (J Islam) b Riad 12
Andre Russel run out 9
Sunil Narine c Iqbal b Gazi 10
Ravi Rampaul not out 0
Extras: (LB-2, W-6) 8
Total: ( in 31.1 overs) 132 all out
Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-32, 3-63, 4-65, 5-78, 6-78, 7-100, 8-111, 9-132.
Bowling: Sohag Gazi 7.1-2-21-3, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza 6-0-26-1, Abdur Razzak 5-0-19-3, Abul Hasan 1-0-9-0, Naeem Islam 7-0-28-1, Mahmudullah 5-0-27-1.


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Shopping with my mum yesterday, we had a quick browse rounf the Hotel Chocolat shop in Nottingham, where we were offered a free sample of the Mojito Cocktail chocolate . My mum declined as she is tee-total, but I, ever happy at the prospect of free chocolate, happily guzzled mine down . It's safe to assume that I liked it, as I then spent 6.50 on a little box of eight cocktail chocolates.
There are four flavours in this box : Margarita, Mojito, Cosmopolitan and Chocolate Martini , and with two of each flavour you can, if you're a generous sort, share and compare with a friend . I'm NOT the generous sort however, and with the reasoning that I would certainly need to eat both chocolates of a flavour in order to write an accurate review, happily kept the lot to myself.
The box recommends chilling these chocolates in the fridge for an hour or so before eating, so thats what I did, before taking them upstairs to bed with a good book!
A margarita is traditionally made with Tequila, Triple Sec (an orange flavour liquer), and Lime Juice . It's served in a martini glass , the rim of which is dipped in lime juice and then in salt.
The Margarita chocolate is enrobed in a silky coating of milk chocolate, criss crossed with accents in green and orange. The green naturally represents the lime aspect of the drink, although I'm not too sure what the orange accents are intended to represent. Taking a sniff, the main smell of this chocolate is certainly lime.
Taking a bite, I can see that the chocolate coating is rich and thick and there is a pale yellow cream filling. Having barely scraped the chocolate off with my teeth, I'm already getting that telling sensation that this chocolate is planning to pack a punch, and a real bite confirms this. There is a real alcohol kick to this chocolate - I get that burn at the back of my throat I often get when downing shots.
The lime flavour is clear and tangy, contrasting with the sweet milk chocolate and delivering a real kick of flavour, ably assisted by a subtle but still very present orange tang. There is also an ever so slight hint of saltiness here .
Without a doubt one of my favourite cocktails to drink, a mojito is a drink with strong flavours of lime and mint, a little sugar and ome white rum, served iced with a lime wedge, and is a wonderful refreshing summer drink.
The chocolate version is encased in a white shell, criss crossed with lime coloured chocolate and dark chocolate accents. Taking a bite into the thick white chocolate shell, the initial flavour is simply the sweetness of the white chocolate, and then my tastebuds are assaulted with a strong lime and mint flavour, while my throat yet again burns from the powerful alcohol kick of the run. The inside of the the chocolate is a smooth creamy paste speckled with mint leaves.
My word, this chocolate is powerful - delicious, and certainly an accurate interpretation of the mojito flavour, but the alcohol burn with this one lasted quite a while, and I would say this particular chocolate is not for the faint of heart.
I imagine this cocktail is probably one of the best known, being the staple diet of the SATC girls. Vodka, Cointreau, Cranberry Juice and a dash of lime juice are added to a mixer, given a good shake, and served over cracked ice in a martini glass .
This is another white chocolate coated one, with light and dark pink accents along the top. Again, the white chocolate shell is thick, leading to a smooth cream filling, which tastes fruity, although I detect more orange flavour, with the cranberry being a lot more subtle. There is still a hefty kick to this , but nothing near as powerful as that of the Mojito or Margarite flavours, and I found this one much easier to enjoy as it didn't leave me with the burning throat sensation . The sweet white choclate also remains a strong flavour, whereas in the others the chocolate has tended to be quickly eclipsed by the alcohol content .
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Chocolate Martini
This is a cocktail I'm actually not too familiar with, and I haven't been able to find any conclusive recipe on the internet, so I'm going into this blind. I do know from a quick scan of the ingredients listing on the box that this contains vodka though, as the other spirits listed on the box have all already been accounted for in the previous three chocolates.
This chocolate has a thick dark chocolate shell, with white and red lined accents on the top of the chocolate shell, which is again satisfyingly thick- in fact it seems thicker than in the other three varieties, and had a strong bitter taste to it . The filling of this chocolate is a rich velvety chocolate colour, and the main flavour of this is simply good quality dark chocolate with a powerful vodka kick . This is the simplest of the assortment flavour wise
I really enjoyed this little chocolate selection. The chocolates themselves were attractively decorated, and laid out in the box in such a way as to leave the flavours clearly identifiable .
I think my favourite flavour was actually the chocolate martini flavour - I loved the simplicity of it . I did enjoy all the flavours immensely, althoug I would say that people who dislike strong alcohol flavours would probably not enjoy these chocolates. At £6.50 these are quite expensive, but I do think they are of good quality.
These chocolates are not fair trade, as Hotel Chocolat in fact own their own cocoa farms, and only smallholdings are eligible for fair trade status on their produce .However, Hotel Chocolat do prvide funding and resources for the areas around their Cocoa farms in Ghana - providing education equipment and school uniforms, repairing properties, and providing tools for the farmers to use on their own smallholdings.
I heartily recommend this chocolate box - the perfect size for a self indulgent treat, or to share with a good friend over a glass of wine . They are chocolates to be enjoyed slowly and savoured, rather than just guzzled down .
4 stars out of 5 - one off for that strong alcohol burn!


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Horror Writer Brings 'Dusky Atmosphere' To DC's RAVAGERS
Sure, teenagers and horror stories almost always go hand-in-hand in the movies these days. But teenaged superheroes and horror?
Beginning with this week's The Ravagers #8, DC fans get to experience a teenage superhero book by a horror writer — with a tone inspired by his love of darker stories.
That's not to say new writer Michael Alan Nelson, known for his work on indie series like Fall of Cthulhu and 28 Days Later, is turning The Ravagers into a horror book.
In fact, he said he's not making The Ravagers "dark just for the sake of dark."
But he does want to push the characters into environments that "bring us to a better understanding of [the] characters," and that includes Nelson's "usual dusky atmosphere." And as recent issues and solicitations have hinted, that "dusky-ness" probably includes a confrontation from Deathstroke in coming issues.exclusive art from
Ravagers #9Intrigued? Read on. Newsarama asked Nelson about what he's starting this week in The Ravagers, and why he compared the teen heroes to soldiers and whether a Deathstroke will play a role going forward.
Newsarama: Michael, what are you hoping to do with the approach to The Ravagers as you take over writing the comic?
Michael Alan Nelson: Like most of my stories, I want to explore who these characters are and how they react to being in extreme situations. What makes them even more complex and interesting is that they're also dealing with being a teenager. That's a pretty extreme situation already. Add on everything else and you have a wealth of story potential.
So I'm hoping to explore just a fraction of that, really see who these characters are and how the unfortunate circumstances of their lives changes them, for good or ill, and how it shapes their relationships with one another.
Nrama: How would you describe the comic overall? What's the new tone and direction?
Nelson: I come from a horror background, so tonally I lean toward the darker hues of story telling. But I like that, since it makes the bright moments shine even brighter.
That said, I don't want to be dark just for the sake of being dark. It has to bring us to a better understanding of our characters, otherwise it's just gratuitous.exclusive art from
Ravagers #9The fun is seeing what characters learn about themselves (consciously or not) when put in these environments, so even though I'm bringing my usual dusky atmosphere to the story, it serves to develop the characters. At least that's my hope.
Nrama: How would you describe the team of characters? And what is it about the characters that you're hoping to highlight?
Nelson: I see them as a dysfunctional family. Everyone has issues, they all suffer from some form of PTSD, and yet they have no one else to turn to except each other. No one understands what it's like to go through what they've been through except a fellow Ravager. Much like soldiers in wartime, it's difficult to relate to someone who hasn't experienced combat. So how do they fit in to "normal" society? Can they? So, I'm hoping to highlight that internal struggle to find their place in the world and define their relationships with one another.
Nrama: Your first issue focuses on Rose Wilson and Warblade. What can you tell us about those two characters and their importance to the title going forward?
Nelson: This first issue of mine finds Rose and Warblade sort of on the wrong side of the fence: they're good guys. Well, when I say good guys, I mean they find themselves trying to help a town survive the aftermath of a rogue Ravager. But their reasons certainly aren't benevolent. They're pretty selfish. Even so, the idea of being a hero doesn't sit well with Warblade and he isn't afraid to voice his opinions on the subject. As for what follows, they certainly have a role to play in what comes next. And how they approach the coming complications is definitely informed by what they experience in these first issues.
Nrama: How would you describe issue #9 and the story you're telling as you start your run?
Nelson: Rose and Warblade are hot on the trail of a rogue Ravager who is having difficulty controlling his powers. They chase him into a small mountain town known as Hartsville where he loses control of those powers. Now the whole town is now in jeopardy. You'll have to read it from there to understand just why Rose and Warblade feel compelled to help the town, but as the story unfolds, the townspeople, led by their Sheriff, become more than hapless bystanders. They come together in a way that makes Rose and Warblade question aspects of their own lives. If they do good for selfish reasons, is it still good? They may not necessarily find the answer, but they at least start to ask the question. That, and other questions, will inform the rest of the series as we move forward.
Nrama: We got a surprise at the end of #7 with the appearance by Slade Wilson. How does that play into your upcoming run?exclusive art from Ravagers #9 Nelson: Well, if Deathstroke makes a significant appearance later on, and I'm not saying that he necessarily will, but if he does, I'm sure things would become...volatile. I will say this much. Such a confrontation would definitely leave bodies on the floor. The only questions would be how many and would his be one of them?
Nrama: It seems like the biggest challenge these kids face is that they were trained to be one way, but are fighting to become something different. How does that play into what you're doing in the book in the coming issues?
Nelson: It's everything to the story. While they're fighting to survive, they're also fighting to find their place in the world. But is there a place for them? That's got to be a pretty terrible thought. What if, through no fault of your own but by simply what was done to you, you weren't able to find a place to belong. What would that do to you emotionally? Mentally? Some of us would simply embrace what was done to us, throw the screw-it switch, and be the killer we were trained to be. While others would fight to find a more peaceful existence. Most would vacillate between the two. And it's that struggle that is the most fun to write. And each Ravager is different, with his or her own wants and desires. What Ridge wants is completely different from what Terra wants. And those individual desires color their unique responses to the world around them.Nrama: What does Ig Guara bring to the title?
Nelson: Awesomeness. I just love what he's doing. There's a spread in issue #8 where he asked if we wanted to see brains. Asking that question in and of itself is worth the price of admission as far as I'm concerned. And boy did he deliver. It's always a delight as a writer to see artists take your ideas and bring them to life in a way that's even better than you'd hoped. And Ig has been bringing page after page of awesome. I can't praise him enough.
Nrama: What does 2013 look like for the Ravagers overall?Nelson: Would you believe me if I said it was going to be all puppies and rainbows from here on out? Nah, neither would I. It's going to be tough for them and some won't fare as well as others. But there will be brighter moments, too. It may be fleeting, but happiness is there to be had. We'll just have to see who of them reaches for it.
Nrama: Is there anything else you want to tell fans about your work on The Ravagers and what's coming up on the title?
Nelson: Only that I've been having a great time writing the title and I hope they have as much fun reading it. Some pretty profound things are about to happen. I don't think any fan is going to want to miss it.
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