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Location of Anville Town in Unova.
Anville Town (Japanese: カナワタウン Kanawa Town) is situated in the northwestern part of the Unova region. It is accessed by riding the Battle Subway's Anville line (shown brown on the subway map) from Gear Station in Nimbasa City; no battles are required to be able to go to this town. On the weekends, some Trainers come to this town to exchange items.
Places of interest
A Depot Agent handing out lost-and-found items lives in the south-eastern house, initially giving the player a Rare Candy. When visited, he will give a vitamin, Max Revive, or Max Elixir for each set of seven consecutive battles won at the Battle Subway since last visit, capping at ten.
The turntable
Anville Town is known for its connection with locomotives, and every day a different train engine can be found on the turntable in front of the town's Roundhouse, most of them a part of the Battle Subway system of trains. A Worker on the bridge will explain their origins, inner-workings, and/or capabilities.
|Train 1
|Today's train car is a Hyperspeed Train! It runs faster than a rocket! It runs quieter than an air conditioner! I can see! I can see it! That lovely smooth curve! Ah, I wish I could reach out and touch it! I can see it so clearly! But I cannot touch the Hyperspeed Train! It really is hyper technology! As you can see, we engineers are always seriously dreaming that someday the dream will become a reality!
|Train 2
|This is a Single Train! It's the oldest train in the Battle Subway. It's for a loop line to go around the Unova region! Do you know Tubeline Bridge? The train that runs on it is this Single Train.
|Train 3
|This Super Single Train is a new mass-produced car! It's an environmentally friendly train, because they revised all the parts to drastically reduce power consumption! Newer trains have to be built in a way that's both functional and environmentally friendly. Compared to the past, they've improved significantly.
|Train 4
|This car is a Double Train! This is a mass-produced car from a decade ago! Compared to a Single Train, the number of parts was reduced so it could be built for a lower cost. The number of parts influences the budget and construction time. The streamlined and beautiful design of the Double Train is still valued today.
|Train 5
|This Super Double Train is a new mass-produced car! Such a streamlined and refined design! Beauty and utility working together! That kind of beautility is unique to mass-produced train cars! It uses the same train car as a Super Single Train. The only difference is the appearance. It is a superb train car that will go down in the history of the Battle Subway!
|Train 6
|This car is a Multi Train! Few cars of this model were produced. This is a test car to develop future mass-produced cars that will replace the old Double Trains. The technology born during the creation of this train car made the Super Single Train and Super Double Train possible!
|Train 7
|This train car is a Super Multi Train! This is the latest train car! Improved acceleration and deceleration! Automated train-car controls! It's full of cutting-edge technologies. Also, a regeneration brake system, a car-body tilting system, a whatchamacallit system, a thingamabob system... I don't remember all the details, but it's just a big festival of all the latest technology!
|Train 8
|This train car is a Wi-Fi Train! It is the fastest long-distance high-speed train in the Battle Subway! This is called a pendulum car. Its body tilts while going around curves, so it can run without slowing down! Faster! Farther! Our engineers' spirits are infused in it!
|Train 9
|As you know, this is a local train to Anville Town! Isn't it just so cute? This one is a little slow and heavy. When it runs, the whole train sways. The train car is the same model as a Single Train. Because it is an old train car, I hear the maintenance is hard, but it's the one I always ride, because I loved it as a kid!
|Train 10
|This train car is the kind that ran a long time ago. Compared to contemporary train cars, it has more parts, so I heard it was difficult to build. The old train cars built with lots of small parts have their own unique beauty and attract a lot of fans. Those cars no longer run in the Battle Subway, but I hear they're still used in a faraway region. Ah... I'd love to be on that train!
|Train 11
|This train car is a new train to run in the future! Wooo! Cool! Super cool! The latest motor breathes fire! Uh-oh, if it really breathed fire, that would be bad! But it is full of the latest technologies! It's undergoing a lot of testing. It's called a gauge-convertible train. It's a sweet car that can adjust its wheels to run on any rail!
Every Saturday and Sunday, except on days when the Worker talks about the Hyperspeed Train, traders are present in town, who ask to trade their items for items in the player's bag.
|In exchange for two Escape Ropes (on weekends)
|PP Up
|In exchange for one Star Piece (on weekends)
|Full Restore
|In exchange for twenty Poké Balls (on weekends)
Pokémon Black and White
Anville Town has a population of 13, excluding the Trainers who come to town during the weekends. It is the third smallest town in the Unova region.
Variable scoring
A flute track will be added to the background theme if the player is near a flautist playing on the bridge overlooking the turntable. When trying to talk to the flautist, instead of dialog, a message saying, "A beautiful tune is spreading throughout the town..." will be displayed. She is there every day of the week.
|Ultra Ball
|In grass at the north of the town (hidden)
|Rare Candy
|From a man in the house at the southeast of the town
In the anime
Jessie and James arrived at Anville Town in Meowth's Scrafty Tactics! having followed the Subway tracks, and stated it would be an important part of their plan. Team Rocket's mobile research lab arrived there in Purrloin: Sweet or Sneaky?.
- Anville's Japanese motto is カナワとは交差する鉄の輪.
- Anville Town is the first city or town in the Pokémon world to not be physically connected to another location by a route or cave, yet is not an island.
- It is also impossible to use Fly to access this town, being the first to do so. It can be only accessed by the Battle Subway Brown Line.
- It is also the first of two settlements not to be represented by a city or town icon on the map, instead being represented by a generic location icon. The other is the Village Bridge, which does not have any icon.
- Both of these are also the only two settlements in a main series game, other than a player's hometown, not to feature a Pokémon Center.
Name origin
|カナワタウン Kanawa Town
|金輪紋 kanawamon, a pattern based on interlocking rings. 金輪 (kanawa) also means "metal rings". Can also be from 鉄輪 kanawa ("iron rings" or "iron wheels").
|Anville Town
|From anvil clouds, anvil and ville.
|From rotonde (roundhouse) and the French bourg (town).
|Possibly from the Latin ferrum (iron).
|Possibly from roteare (roll) and Eolo (Aeolus, Greek ruler of the wind).
|Pueblo Biscuit
|From biscuit, bisque.
|가륜마을 Garyun Maeul
|Possibly from 가 (駕) ga, to drive or carriage, and 륜 (輪) ryun, wheel.
|Chinese (Mandarin)
|金輪鎮 Jīnlún Zhèn
|From 金輪 kanawa. Means "metal wheels", but the two words 金 and 輪 also refers to "gold" and "rings" respectively.
|This article is part of Project Cities and Towns, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on every city and town in the Pokémon world.


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LONDON, June 28 (UPI) -- Britain will seek "intensified sanctions" against Iran if talks over its nuclear program don't show more progress, British Foreign Secretary William Hague says.
Hague, commenting Tuesday in London, praised the European Union's decision to proceed with a ban on Iranian oil starting Sunday and warned more punitive actions from Western nations could be forthcoming.
The comments came following "frank but difficult" negotiations between Iran and the E3+3 nations -- France, Germany, Britain, China, Russia, and the United States -- in Istanbul, Moscow and Baghdad that produced little headway.
The two sides have agreed to have follow-up, technical level meeting Tuesday in Istanbul.
The EU Foreign Affairs Council announced the latest package of sanctions Monday in Luxembourg.
Hague asserted Iranian negotiators have so far "failed to agree any concrete steps to address the international community's serious concerns" about the country's suspected nuclear weapons program.
"The U.K. government will argue for intensified sanctions over the coming months if there is no progress made in these negotiations," Hague said, adding, "it is not too late for Iran to give a more promising response to the offer of the E3+3, but they have not yet done so."
The sanctions called for import contracts on Iranian oil to be terminated by Sunday and for EU insurers to stop providing third-party liability and environmental liability insurance for the transport of Iranian oil.
The new measures "reflect the international community's resolve and our determination, to intensify the peaceful pressure on Iran until it starts to build confidence that its nuclear program is purely peaceful," Hague said.
First approved in January, the measures outlaw the export of key oil sector equipment and technology to Iran as well as new investments in Iranian petrochemical companies.
Trade with Iran's public bodies and central bank in gold, precious metals and diamonds is banned as well.
Iran insists its nuclear enrichment activities are meant solely for civilian and industrial uses, as permitted under international treaties, and argues the International Atomic Energy Agency has failed to turn up any evidence of diversion of nuclear materials toward military uses despite frequent inspections.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi suggested Tuesday that Europe should reconsider the oil embargo and "adopt more rationality in dealing with Iran," the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
Speaking in Cyprus -- which assumes the rotating EU presidency Sunday -- Salehi said, "We got used to sanctions as they are not new to us but we hope the European Union will review its unilateral sanctions with more rationality," adding, "confrontation will be to no one's benefit."
Citing its "special status in the Middle East," Salehi said he expected Cyprus to act as a bridge between Iran and the European Union during its presidency.

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Dances of Universal Peace Sept. 13
Belfast — North Carolina-based musician and songwriter Kathleen Hannan will teach and lead Dances of Universal Peace Saturday, Sept. 13, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the "Eusta Bee Church," 17 Court St.
The dances and songs, based on sacred phrases from spiritual traditions around the world, are easy to learn, joyful and enriching. Hannan, on guitar, will be accompanied by bassist Vic Tredwell. This event is free and open to the public, with donations accepted for use of the space. For more information, visit kathleenhannan.com.
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The Postal Service announced on Wednesday that it would get rid of Saturday delivery of first-class mail, which has been declining in volume in recent years.
USPS will continue to deliver packages – a growing part of its business – on Saturdays, and post offices with Saturday hours will stay open on the weekend.
Donahoe told reporters on Wednesday that the change would save about $2 billion a year. USPS lost roughly $16 billion in fiscal 2012, around 70 percent of it due to defaults on required prepayments for retiree healthcare.
Postal officials believe they have the authority to move unilaterally on five-day delivery because the government is currently funded, through March 27, via continuing resolution. Donahoe also said he hoped to work with Congress over the last six weeks of the current continuing resolution to clear up any questions over the USPS decision.
Lawmakers have mandated six-day delivery through the appropriations process for around three decades. In their letter, Connolly and Graves request "that USPS immediately provide a legal justification for this proposed action, including all documents related to this decision, whether produced internally, contracted out, or by another government entity, and the opinion of counsel upon which you relied to make this important decision."


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MANHATTAN, Kan., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- College students with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder need support from family members and university staff to succeed, a U.S. researcher says.
Kristy Morgan, a recent doctoral graduate in student affairs and higher education at Kansas State University in Leavenworth, said ADHD affects 1 percent to 4 percent of college students and the transition from high school to college is the most difficult.
Morgan interviewed eight freshmen -- four men and four women -- to talk about their transition during their first semester of college. All lived on campus and were at least an hour away from home.
Morgan found the ADHD students did not adequately plan their college transition, nor did they factor ADHD into their decision-making about college, but rather chose a school based on how the campus felt.
"Most of the students found college to be tougher than they had expected," Morgan said. "Even with the availability of resources, they still felt overwhelmed with accessing these resources."
Students who had ADHD management strategies in place -- such as ways to keep a schedule or study for tests -- had established those before college, Morgan found, but those who did not have strategies in place before they went to college felt overwhelmed.
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Alexi Giannoulias and a Mark Kirk proxy held dueling conference calls Friday morning to debate Kirk's vote against the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act, which created a lending fund for small businesses, and provided them with $12 billion in tax cuts. The bill passed Thursday over Republican opposition.
"Congressman Kirk believes that tax cuts for the wealthy are the best way to get our economy moving again," Giannoulias said. "There's a name for his theory. It's called trickle-down economics. Unfortunately, we know how that turned out. After eight years of Bush/Kirk trickle-down economics, we've seen skyrocketing debt, ballooning unemployment and the wealthy becoming wealthier while everyone else is being left behind. Yesterday finally offered Congressman Kirk a chance to correct his abysmal economic record."
Ward Room asked Giannoulias whether the bill would have helped his family's Broadway Bank, and how it will help banks in similar situations.
"Community banks are being decimated by this recession," Giannoulias said. "We've seen community banks that were forced to close their doors. The ones that are still in business have been told to increase their lean loss reserves. The goal behind this bill is to provide $30 billion to provide liquidity to these banks. This is a common-sense bill to inject some liquidity into these banks."
To defend his vote, Kirk's campaign arranged a conference call with Brad Close, vice president of public policy for the National Federation of Independent Businesses, a small business group in Washington, D.C.
Close said his group's 10,000 members are more concerned with income tax cuts and labor issues than loans, so he didn't fault Kirk for voting against the bill.
"Most of our members have told us that they don't want more loans, they don't want more credit," he said.
Instead, they're opposed to the health care law, card check legislation, and, especially, President Obama's plan to allow tax cuts for Americans earning over $250,000 to expire. Kirk opposes that plan, while Giannoulias favors it.
"The tax rates are the top issue," Close said. "Most of our members are going to pay their taxes on the individual rate. You're looking at folks in the 20 to 240 employee range. If Congress fails to extend all the rates, it's going to hit small business hard."


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This telecast, full of little jokes and surprises everywhere, I tell ya! So this week marks the first regular week of the competition; sorry, well have to make do with only three hours of broadcast glitz instead of five. And this is the first time well get to size up all of our marginally famous in marginal areas crew at once. I can feel your excitement through the screen!
Can I Bend Your Ear for a Tick?
Everyone files out and tries to look snazzy in their costumes most thoroughly failing at that this week are Melissa and Mark in head-to-toe Minnie Mouse polka dots. Minnie knew that polka dots were best as an accent only. Keep that in mind next time, yall.
Samantha gets the night a-going with an introduction of our guest judge. As you recall from last week, Earl Grump has been called away to London for the week. Sitting in for him is Baz Luhrman, a name you probably know from Moulin Rouge, but which you should instead know from Strictly Ballroom, both because its a way better movie and because it has much more to do with ballroom dancing, which is in fact relevant to the show at hand. Take note of that and file it away, Quentin Tarantino. Baz says hes going to be concentrating most on performance aspects of the dances.
Tina Sparkle Motion
There are still a million couples left, so luckily were jumping right into said dances. Up first are Joanna and Derek. By virtue of not pissing off Len, Joanna led the field last week and came away with the highest score, so she and Derek are feeling a bit of pressure to dominate again with the jive. Joanna has a bit trouble keeping up the speed, but shes determined to come out and have a blast.
If by a blast she means enough extra hair to outfit a Pussycat Dolls tour, then she is on a roll. The hair is all in service of their wild rocking aesthetic; its accompanied by lots of black and white fringe and rhinestones -- the overall effect is something like a naughty mop. Derek participates in the theme with a black pleather jacket. Their jive to What I Like About You is really frenetic. The song is super-fast, and Joanna has her mouth open like an idiot the entire time so forgive for running a bit out of breath and getting her kicks tangled sometimes. Or, you know, dont forgive her. Judgy Judgingness, Mayor of Judgment City.
Our real judges concur: Carrie Ann she went for the dance with gusto, but her feet were sloppy and out of control at times. Bruno says he sees her thrrrrrriving on this show, but that her flicks and kicks werent precise. The adorable Baz chooses to ignore all of that and comment on the relationship between Joanna, Derek, and the dance and says the connection between them all was lacking.
Backstage, Samantha gets Joanna to say yet again that her nerves were wracked coming in to this week. Scores: 6 from Carrie Ann, 7 from Baz, and 6 from Bruno for a total of 20.
Leave Me Breathless
Queen of the Chlorine, as Tom dubs her, Natalie Coughlin is up next with Alec. Natalie didnt make much a splash last week, so theyre on the lookout for any ways Natalie can shape up her skills. One biggie appears right away in their quickstep rehearsal; Alec discovers Natalie has been holding her breath during the dance because, I dont know, shes never lived on land before or something. He teaches her breathing techniques more appropriate for dancing, and now we get to see them in action.
Their quickstep (to an atrocious rendition of I Want You Back) starts off a little slow to my eyes; very little quick stepping. But when the quick stepping finally happens, Natalie looks great at it in her long lavender gown. Props to Alec for the white vest and slacks combo too.
The judges are overall pretty please with the performance, while picking pickled peppers. Bruno exclaims, Theres a buzz! in this room, and youre part of it! He is a living, breathing feather boa. He cautions Natalie to let go and relax more. Baz agrees and says he could tell she was tense, but when she relaxed in the second half she lit up the room. CA pronounces Natalie her favorite competitor, and says she should get used to thinking of Alec as an extension of herself. Wow, constructive advice with no nitpicking. I guess Natalie really is Carrie Anns favorite. Hard-hitting Backstage Reporter Samantha asks Natalie if she breathed during the dance. No, Samantha. She collapsed and then disintegrated. This is her ghost you see before you. Just like in The Sixth Sense! When thats over, Natalie gets her scores: triple 7s.
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
Little anecdote. In attempting to get a male friend of mine to watch with me this week, I told him there was a wrestler on. That didnt do much to convince him, but he watched anyway, and when Chuck came on he said, Chuck Liddell is not a wrestler. Hes a cage fighter. How is that different from wrestling? I asked. Its not fake. So at this time Id like to apologize to Chuck.
This week, he and Anna Trebunskaya must dance the tango. Their rehearsal footage is all about Chuck mastering the intensity of the tango. His
wrestlercage fighter snarls and attitude seem tailor made for this dance, and Anna tries to cater to his sensibilities by working some fightery type stuff into their number. Meanwhile Chuck gets new tattoos on his scalp. I think one is a lightning bolt.
And then they dance the tango! To Seven Nation Army. And at this time, Id like Chuck to apologize to me. No, just kidding. It wasnt that bad. Theyre all in black, and Chuck has his game face on, and he really looks like hes giving it his all, bless him, but hes just not that graceful. The judges agree with me. Baz says he doesnt know what Uncle Len would say, but he loved seeing him out there feeling the fear and doing it anyway. Carrie Ann says she was a little frightened during the whole, but their dance had a lot of impact, which is a good thing. Bruno says the tango was savage and primeval, and he could tell Chuck worked very hard on the dance. Aw. Everybodys rooting for him. Me too. Scores: 6 from CA, yet another 7 from the lovely Baz, and 6 from Bruno for 19.
Spot, in the Name of Love
Melissa was guilty of freaking out a tad from nerves last week, and Brunos ghoulish giggling didnt help. This week shes trying to play it loose, and taking it a little too far as most of the rehearsal footage is her giggling and goofing off. She and Mark are dancing jive to Having Me Some Fun Tonight in the aforementioned red and white polka dots, and she manages to pull the moves off a lot better than she did in rehearsal. Which is to say she actually made it through the moves, although her legs were all over the place during the kicks. Her face definitely looks like shes having her some fun though, so points to her for keeping in the theme of the routine.
Carrie Ann begins; she was worried about Melissa last week because she was so beige, but this week she was bright red in spots. I dont know where you got that metaphor from, but nice job Carrie Ann! Baz liked the obvious joy, but cautions her to work on her precision. Bruno, I dont even know. Backstage Melissa explains (ahaha) that the waltz was a bit stiff, but she felt free to have a lot more fun in the jive. The judges approval of her joy doesnt really show in their scores: 7-6-6 for 19. It is Dancing with the Stars though.
Well, That Was Unexpected
Michael Irving kind of bombed but not as much as youd think from his scores last week. This week hes all about making it up to his partner Anna Dimidova. And shes all about doing a better job catering to his strengths. So were agreed that everybody sucked, but this weeks quickstep will be better.
This weeks costuming certainly is. I love their coordinating hot pinkness and Michaels sharp gray suit. They quickstep to Too Darn Hot and are much better than last week. Michael is still no Jerry Rice, but hes no slouch either. He moves across the floor pretty well and seems to really be in the dance, which is a pretty big accomplishment for the second week. He finishes with a very adorable thumbs up and grin toward the camera. As for the judges, Bruno gives the thumbs up to the choreography and says he appreciated the additional content this week. Baz calls Michael a natural performer although he does point out that noticeable tic Michael has of sticking his tongue out while dancing. Aw. It just means hes concentrating really hard.
And it turns out my DVR has swallowed huge chunks of the show, namely Michaels Carrie Anns thoughts on Michael, his scoring session, and backstage interview. Curse you, U-Verse! From what I gathered through alternative means, he and Anna earn 7s from Carrie Ann and Baz, and a 6 from Bruno for a total of 20.
Listen To The Rhythm; Dont Be Scared
When my recording cuts back in, Debi and Maks are out on the floor doing their tango. (And I am shaking my fist menacingly at AT&T, just so you get the complete visual.) A horrible version of Roxanne is their soundtrack, and everything is Moulin Rouge inspired. It also seems very short, but for all I know I missed a full minute. Debi looked a little jerky during the turns, but overall I think the routine went well. Baz of course says he loved the song, and thought that the love/hate story really came across. CA calls Debi a drama queen, and says she worked it on the dance floor. She also notes that Debis arms and neck are a little long, which makes them edit their holds sometimes, but it works. Bruno says Debi is a feisty ball-breaker (Debi: What?), and thinks she was good but can be better when she completely relaxes. Backstage, Samantha says their pre-existing love/hate relationship helped them out, and Debi and Maks agree. Then they get triple 7s for blackjack. Not bad.
A Bit of Musicality, Please!
Oh my Lord, there are still like a million couples left to dance. Next up are people I forgot were even on here: skateboard guy Louie Vito and Chelsie Hightower. Louie impressed the judges last week, and he hopes his and Chelsies youthful exuberance will be just as impressive as they tackle the jive. Theyre not very interesting in rehearsal, but well see.
Turns out that youth is best conveyed by them wearing leather jackets and Louie doing snowboardy flips . Theyd better be glad DANCMSTR isnt here. When its finally quickstep time, Louie does all right with the steps, though he seems to be thinking his way through them. He needs to get the music in him.
Carrie Ann loved Louies energy, but advises him to listen more to the music, just like I just said! Bruno thinks Louies trying to coast on being cute and loveable, but Baz on the other side of the coin thinks that loveableness is appealing and talks about joy some more. He scores 6-7-6 for yet another 19.
Most Sensational, Celebrational, Inspirational, Muppetational
Continuing my personal parade of Oh yeah, hes on here too, is former teen idol Aaron Carter, dancing with Karina. Aaron topped the mens leader board last week, so hes also feeling pressure to keep up the pace. That must be leading to those tense moments of frustration during rehearsal. That, or theyre both just seriously frustrating people.
They drew tango this week, and before you can say I wish I were watching The Muppet Show instead of this, the camera flashes to Animal, yes, Animal of the Muppets sitting up in the balcony at the drums! Statler and Waldorf really shouldve been up in the balcony with him. But I guess even they have places they wont go.
Aaron and Karinas tango I dont even know about, because Animal is there and Im thinking about how great entertainment used to be. But from what I can tell, they danced to The Muppet Show theme, and Aaron acquitted himself very well. AND THEN THERES GONZO AT THE JUDGES DAIS AT THE END! He is my third favorite Muppet, following Grover and Kermit. Oh, and the judges all thought Aaron rocked. He gets triple 9s for 27, which seems quite a bit much. I think at least 4 of those points belong to Gonzo.
Kelly Osbourne is up now. She and Louis made a very good impression on the public consciousness last week, and are hoping to retain that good opinion through their tango. I guess the goal is to make Sharon Osbourne cry every week. Louis seems like the type to worry more about dancing than crying, so I dont know how it will work out for them. Out on the floor, Kelly is wearing this awful braided hairpiece across her hair like Heidi only not cute. Kellys rehearsal footage shows her getting all cerebral and neurotic, which is a shame, because this mightve been a nice tango otherwise. As it is she slips up right near the beginning and never quite recovers, spending most of the rest of the routine behind the beat.
The judges handle her with kid gloves and say all manner of supportive things to her, while telling her she kind of blew it tonight. With all this sympathy and empathy going round, Kelly might be better off than if she had rocked this dance. I know Im really rooting for her now. The judges too, clearly; she earns a 6 from Carrie Ann and 7s from Bruno and Baz. 19 is this weeks 21. Backstage Samantha makes Kelly verbally beat herself up a bit so we can hear it, because that is who Samantha is.
Kathy Ireland didnt make much of an impressive debut, but shes here again, still smiling, because she is an attractive, confident, businesswoman. Perennially optimistic, Kathy and her partner Tony are all set to quickstep tonight, although Kathy is still uncomfortable with the holding part of the hold. Shes very timid, and she dances as if Tony is a block of old cheese. The number itself is very pretty though, set to Shall We Dance, and Tony and Kathy are very elegant if clashing in maroon and light purple. When theyre done Carrie Ann tells Kathy to be less of a cold fish. Bruno says the same and reprimands Tony for not drawing Kathy out more. Im trying, he says with just the merest hint of disgust. After an unenlightening backstage chat with Samantha, they earn triple 6s for 18.
New Steps, New Steps, New Steps!
Last week Mark Dacascos and Lacey Schwimmer earned more buzz for their soundtrack than their dancing, so heres hoping this week theres something more to talk about. They have quickstep this week, and during rehearsal Mark seems to be having trouble getting all the steps down. This shows out on the floor as he messes up on some steps right at the beginning. His face is clearly disappointed, but he recovers quickly and gets through the rest of the routine quite well. He and Lacey look very Fred and Ginger too, by the way. I love quickstep costumes. Bruno docks Mark for leading too much with his heels, but says he is a good dancer, and is great at selling the dance. At that Mark looks a little confused but happy. Baz gives Mark props for recovering from his errors so well, and not falling apart. Carrie Ann wants him to relax, just like they all want everyone else to do. Speaking of everyone else, Mark and Lacey also earn triple 7s for 21. So I guess 21 is also this weeks 21.
Time After Time
There are three more couples yet to go. Obama, why? Well, at least Mya is finally on. Last week she wowed with an underscored Viennese Waltz and won the salsa relay. This week she and Dmitry have to take on the jive, and Dmitry wants to make sure his choreo is technically unimpeachable, even though Len wont be around to see it. I admire that, while being glad Len isnt around to see it.
So their jive. Its awesome. First off, Dmitry is dressed like Zip Martin from Down With Love, so thats an automatic win. But, the jive is awesome on its own merits as well; Mya steps the steps wonderfully, and I hope they get the encore.
I think Bruno sums it up well for the judges: You pumped that jive! Yeah. Mya and Dmitry score triple 9s too, tying them with Aaron at the top of the chart.
Tom DeLay follows Mya, so talk about your emotional roller coasters. Im only willing to talk here about how gross I think Tom is as a dancer, so Ill just say thank goodness I didnt have to recap last weeks Wild Thing experience, but curse my stars for giving me a DeLay tango. Tom is having trouble picking up the dramatic head movements of the dance, and on top of that, he comes down with a pre-stress fracture in his foot, which sounds like something I made up to stay home from Field Day in the 4th grade. Seriously, what is that? Anyway, once hes over the pre-stress, hes into the tango. It goes pretty smoothly, I mean it doesnt go horribly, until right up at the end when Tom almost drops Cheryl during their dramatic finish. Whoops!
Carrie Ann is glad Cheryls not hurt, but in the most horrifying portion of the evening advises Tom to squeeze his butt cheeks together more. And here I thought he was already too uptight. Shows what I know. Baz thinks it was graceful, and Bruno elegant; I think theyre both off, but Im not a judge. Tom gets the mark of the beast for 18.
And the Osmond brings up the rear. So, Donny is a bit of a polarizing figure, but I have to say his willingness to be ridiculous is more endearing than otherwise to me. Yes, I saw College Road Trip. Last week he made a respectable bid for fan support he was neither so bad as Tom DeLay, nor so ringery as Mya. This week he and partner Kym Johnson (who is another plus in his column in my book) are dealing with Donny being extremely old. Because 51? Why, youre practically living on broth and Absorbine Jr. by then. Donnys a miracle, is what he is. Kym somehow convinces Donny that he looks younger when he does their jive moves correctly, and true to her falsehood, he is kind of spry there out on the floor. He overshoots the energy just a tad, but their mod secret agent routine still looks really cool.
All of the judges tell him to continue to
drink Pepsithink young and feel young, because its really making him look good while he dances. Good advice, everyone. Donny earns 8s from our regular judges and a 9 from our guest, giving him a score of 25 and a very respectable third place finish for the evening.
And thats all the dancing and all the stars we have for tonight. They tossed a few little treats to us viewers, and so overall it was a pretty good two hours that otherwise couldve been 1.5. Thats more than I can usually expect from this show, so Im happy. Now if youll excuse me, Im going to politely discuss a few things with a few customer service representatives. You I hope will stay tuned, because MsFroggy is on deck to tell you all about this weeks results!


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I just wanted to take a quick break from threat modeling to point to a video that Valorie passed on to me that's nothing short of remarkable (from the blog of one of my favorite magazines, Mental Floss):
The magic happens about 3 minutes into the video, when the game speed kicks up from Unbelievable to Utterly Insane.
And then, once the player's beat Utterly Insane mode, the blocks become invisible. And the player STILL manages to beat the game.


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Screening of SHOWTIME® series Years of Living Dangerously
The AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy presents an exclusive screening of episode three of the new SHOWTIME® series Years of Living Dangerously followed by a Q&A with Joseph Romm, Chief Science Editor.
It's the biggest story of our time. Hollywood's brightest stars and today's most respected journalists explore the issues of climate change and bring you intimate stories of triumph and tragedy. Years of Living Dangerously takes you directly to the heart of the story in this awe-inspiring and cinematic documentary series event from Executive Producers James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Last night I watched a movie that I had for a while in my future watchlist, called Hostel. Overall, for watching it at 12AM, the movie has enough gore to tickle my senses and enough sex to amuse me. Sex and violence - the recipe of success. Note that my all-time favorite horror House on Haunted Hill or my all-time psychological semi-horror, the Saw Series didn't need sex to be successful, at least to me.
Last night I watched a movie that I had for a while in my future watchlist, called Hostel. Overall, for watching it at 12AM, the movie has enough gore to tickle my senses and enough sex to amuse me. Sex and violence - the recipe of success. Note that my all-time favorite horror House on Haunted Hill or my all-time psychological semi-horror, the Saw Series didn't need sex to be successful, at least to me.
PC Addict
"Hey, excuse me for a second, I need to set my status message to 'BEING BURGLARIZED, I'LL BRB'!"
Carve Yourself
No Man
This is an extract from an older entry of mine, from some days ago. Today I finally saw the movie "Yes, Man" after DiNosey gave me a link to find a good version of it. It takes a movie like this to make me realize that maybe saying Yes to certain things, it would be much better. Then again, it takes a lot of will to do so.
I am sure that I will still consider rejecting a call if I don't know the number [and probably even if I know the number and I don't feel like talking - which is 90% of the times], that I'll still shamelessly reject invitations because that feeling is too persistent to be removed in a matter of hours..
I admit my faults. I exposed them, what more can I do? The movie, anyway, is very interesting. It is one of those stories which leave you with something more than just some quotes or good special effects. Although it is regarded as a comedy [and Jim Carrey - as always - does a great performance], in its quintessence, it is rather dramatic. And which better actor can coat a dramatic situation into a funny story than Jim Carrey? :)
Some lyrics which describe my state [and not only mine.....]
Hazard Thoughts
The End Of Nothing In Particular
I didn't have a "group of friends" like every normal person did. When I did, it was for a short period; as well as when I [thought I] had a real friend, it turned out to be bullshit. DiNosey said just some moments ago that I "give all or nothing". It's so true. But it isn't only about me here. Because I have tried. One person who came close to me, left. So I take it that even if it was supposed to happen for me to find a friend, something had to appear to fuck it up.
All I got from there were acquaintances. I can say that I have some pleasant memories as well, but most of the memories are of me going there and seeing others in groups, sitting on the stairs and listening to music, alone.
I have no sadness that I am leaving college, except for me not saying that I am a student anymore. What brought another feeling of enstrangement was the sudden change of location which occurred in the last semester. I could've at least remained with the memory of the previous place to which I went so many times, but that was taken away, too.
Thus, I leave this place, expressionless, the way I left so many things lately, with the same "state". I believe that I could've survived if I were an Equilibrium character with nothing to make me "give all".
For you to give me a reason to hate you
And now that I have this, there is nothing to stop me
I will destroy you, as you to my psyche
For this pain is never to be forgotten"
[Vehemence - Saying Goodbye]
Hate => Indifference. Destruction => Self-destruction. [It's quite worse.] :)
"They think they know who I am."
I don't quit smoking. I know that smoking "can kill", but I smoke like a Turk. Well, maybe not like a Turk [Abby makes me talk like this], but definitely like a heavy smoker. I feel like headslapping myself.
I fall for the wrong men. ALL THE TIME. Even now. They are either married, dead, far away, not interested, interested but not in a relationship, committed, drawings [yes I liked a drawing once], serial killers, rockstars, players, assholes, etc. Is it just me or some people are somehow destined to fall only for the wicked and the wrong ones? I feel like headslapping myself.
I have a "slight" narcissistic personality
- has a grandiose sense of self-importance [APPLIES]
- is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love [APPLIES]
- believes that he or she is "special". [APPLIES]
- requires excessive admiration [SEMI-APPLIES, I don't need it excessively]
- has a sense of entitlement [APPLIES]
- is interpersonally exploitative [SEMI-APPLIES]
- lacks empathy [SEMI-APPLIES]
- is often envious of others or believes others are envious of him or her [APPLIES in the first case]
- shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes [APPLIES in my mood swings]
The minute that I see an unknown number on my cell phone, I reject the call. I also reject invitations to go out and feel rather odd when I am being surrounded by people [even those I like, with 2 exceptions].. I also find myself telling someone that I want to meet them, but when I face the event, I can't wait to get away. I feel like headslapping myself.
I talk about myself too much. I tend to comment on my personal life even when someone asks for my advice, and this annoys ME. I feel like headslapping myself.
I am compulsive, therefore I have "Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rules that must be applied rigidly" and "Intrusive thoughts may involve violent obsessions about hurting others or oneself" [I cannot swing in a damn swing chair if someone's near me]. Oh, and I have obsessions too. I feel like headslapping myself.
I am avoidant and often close even the messenger if someone engages in a conversation with me [and imagine this in real life]. I hate calling people and being called on the phone because I have to put on that "mask of sanity" and friendliness. I feel like headslapping myself [not really].
I can be very intollerant and acid and often people don't realize that I swear them in the face, with a smile [but I am NOT a hypocrite]. The feelings of dislike towards someone consume me very much. I am very possessive. Try to mess with something/one that I "own" and I'll really become a bastard. I am also slothy. Very.
My moods come in black and white. I'm either in a good mood or bad. There is no middle. I need a middle. I feel like headslapping myself.
Well, that's all for now. I finished picking on myself. Oh, and only I can do that. This entry is so boring. And I make no sense.
Insa am o problema si se pare ca, in timp, a inceput sa devina din ce in ce mai ciudata. Mi se par [aproape] oribile pozele cu copii stirbi. Cand ma uit in albumul meu de cand eram mica si vad pozele in care imi lipseau dintii, ma ia durerea de cap. Cand vad poze cu copii care rad si le lipsesc dintii, nu vad ceva dragut, nici scump, ci urat. Da, la copii, lipsa dintilor inseamna crestere, e ceva frumos etc, nu e acelasi lucru ca la 50 de ani, cand iti pierzi un dinte, dar PENTRU MINE, e scabros. Cand VAD un copil stirb care rade, ma trec fiorii.
Poate am eu probleme, nu stiu.
Sleep Paralysis
Dreams such as these cause your body to go into fear response, so your body releases adrenalin, your heart beats faster, you break out in a cold sweat and – often – you freeze, unable to move. These are natural physiological responses to fright. Sometimes you even wake up partially, opening your eyes while your mind is still dreaming. At this point something really interesting happens. Because your eyes are open, images of your dark bedroom are arriving at your brain at the same time as your brain is also seeing your dream, so, rather confused, your brain comes to one conclusion: all of this must be taking place out there, in the room! So you see your dream presence apparently in your bedroom. Often this is enough to completely frighten you awake and that is when the presence disappears but the sweat lives on. You may still feel the freeze and be unable to shout out or move.
Even if you don't open your eyes, a frightening dream can sometimes jump you out of your dream too fast while your physical body is still in safe sleeping mode. Think about it: when you fall asleep you have all those active dreams but your body is more or less still, apart from the odd twitch and your rapidly moving eyes under your eyelids. This is the body's way of going into safe mode: your muscles are quietened so that you don't get up and act out your dreams and hurt yourself. But when your mind wakes up before your body – such as in a very frightening dream – your physical body can't shout or move because it is still in safe mode."
[© Jane Teresa Anderson, January 2005]
Hey thank you for finally someone explaining me how this thing goes. I finally have a valid, composed explanation of sleep paralysis, state that I have been experiencing for a long time, before I ever thought that such things can exist.
Anyway, this comes because I had a terrorizing dream that I was dead, last night. I dreamt that before I died, I poked someone's both eyes with a pencil, in self defence. After that, there was a contest and although I fairly participated, the team of rich people won. I really needed the prize [I don't quite remember what it was, but I was very disturbed], so I went to the place where there were 6 or 7 white limos, waiting for each contestant. I entered one and I stayed NEXT to the driver, who had shoulder-length curly hair. As he started the car, I realized that he was taking me somewhere else, so I told him to let me go, but all he said is "No, in fact I will quite enjoy this ride" so I opened the door as the car was in full speed and I jumped.
Then I found myself already dead, but talking to the people around me. They were calming me down, telling me how they will bury me and how my body will start to decay in a few days and I was terrified. I was telling them that I don't want to die, but they told me "It's too late, you are already dead, you know..". I never really dreamt that I was dead before.
I normally don't discuss my dreams here, but this one stuck with me.
I really had no reason to continue using a profile that I constantly considered deleting. Therefore, it's gone. :) I just wanted to notify, so I won't be bothered with "what happened to my hi5 account" questions.
As well, my esFLOG account will be soon cleansed. I will keep only the accounts that I have "feelings" for, like the VF one, which is my most important.
I love abandoned houses, villages, places. I love that eerie scent of old-age poetry that eludes from its windows, embraced by that cold touch. They are as cold as a corpse can be, colder than the "ambiental temperature". When I touched a corpse, it seemed colder than normal. Why is that?
I am often leaning toward the extremist, bastardly and violent way of questioning certain methods of perception of human beings around me. On my online forums, I am often in charge with making photo contests. Two of the exposed themes are the Seven Sins and Seven Virtues in Christian religion. There is no question about the Seven Sins entries, we always get a fake pose with a knife for Wrath or a couple kissing for Lust [as if Lust was ever only about idiot couples kissing], but whenever there's the Virtues theme...I get bludgeoned [=to hit with heavy impact].
People either post photos of the Sin or something totally unrelated, an example could be, a few days ago there was the theme: Virtue - Temperance/Self-Control. I got two entries of photos against alcohol abuse, and THREE entries with girls with bags full of food, full of alcohol, saying "I don't have the photo of the Virtue, I might as well post one of the Sin".
My question is: are you plain retarded? And if you do this online without any remorse, then you'll be one of the public mentally challenged people who will depict a Virtue through a Sin and make a horde of brainwashed "adults" blindly believe in you. I don't blame those who don't think with their mind, it is "sometimes" demanding for a primitive thing to think on its own. In a less ironic tone, I don't ask you to think because you can't, others think for you and it feels fine.
So I notice that when it comes to Sins, people can express a lot, show a lot, pose a lot. The Virtues - hard to achieve in life - are obviously hard to pose for as well. Evil is the easy way, even in a damn photo, while the good is harder even to fake. Too bad.
Here ya go:
"They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims. "
Guess what that definition is for? Sociopaths. Guess to what I'd give this definition? Bullies. And guess what place in society do the bullies have? HIGH! Why? Because you worship them and follow them like sheep. They are your local glamour girls and gigolos. Notice, I asked "to WHAT" and not "to WHOM". If one feels frustrated and beats the crap out of a bully, he'll be punished and expelled and once again, the bully is the hero.
And once again, you draw a Virtue through a Sin. Their glamour and success achieved by humiliating others while posing for some sort of magazine. And it all starts from when you're young and you're "prize-winningly" stupid enough to think that it's "cool" to depict a Virtue through its opposite, to get away with it and to even be rewarded.
Radio si Stari
Star Wars Joke
I came to the conclusion that:
Sawah = Sarah
Wyan = Ryan
Wuv = Love
And I don't pick on the l8r. My question is why, why is this need to talk like a total retard? Why is it cool to pose with a comforter in your mouth, in a baby pose when you are over 4 years old [usually from 13 to 21]? It wasn't enough to see girls typing and talking this way, now boys too!?
Why this stupid and totally useless way of trying to be "lovely" and why so many fans of it...? And why do you write "hy" instead of "hi"? Please, explain to me. This time it is NOT a rhetorical question.


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Morrissey Signs One Copy of 'Autobiography' to Benefit PETAFans in Sweden were treated to Europe's only Autobiography book signing event, with over 500 fans from around the world lining up (some for more than 30 hours) for the author to pen his signature in a copy.
Madonna SEX Fish For Sale On EbaySpring is here and with the warmer weather comes the urge to spruce up your backyard. You've revamped the greenery, purchased a high-tech BBQ, and actually cleaned the pool for once.
Def Leppard's Phil Collen Raises $20K For Cancer ResearchJust in time for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month (November), Def Leppard's Phil Collen presented the Gerson Institute with a check for $20,000 to aid the organization's cancer treatment efforts.
One-Of-A-Kind Jimi Hendrix Film Sells For $10,000 On eBayIn a 10-day long auction, four never-before-seen 16mm color film reels of Jimi Hendrix were sold to an undisclosed buyer on eBay for $10,000.
Rare Beatles LP Sells For $15,000 On eBayA copy of The Beatles' first album released in the United States, "Introducing... The Beatles," has been sold for $15,000 in an eBay auction.
Michael Jackson Painting- Not Creepy Whatsoever


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How long have I looked forward to this day. The Vision Bleak's new album, Set Sail to Mystery has finally been released. A very promising piece of footage from the studio sessions had already been released months ago. The wait became even more painful after that. But now, the album lies in front of me. The main colour of the artwork has been changed from parchment yellow (the first three albums) into a dark rotten-wood brown. On the back of the album are the songtitles, in a elegant and curly writing. The Vision Bleak stay true to their archaic, gothic horror and mysterious image they build up for themselves.
But enough rambling about the image, because in the end only the music matters. Schwadorf announced that this would be their best album up to date. A daring statement, that meant that Set Sail to Mystery would be even better than Carpathia. That album gained its strength from the fact that it is a concept album, where all the songs are linked through a gothic horror story. Set Sail to Mystery isn't a concept album, so chances are one song or another may not fit in with the rest of the album, be it in lyrics or in music.
Schwadorf and Konstanz have the balls to begin their album with a nearly four minute long recited poem. A Curse of the Grandest Kind is a poem by the historical figure Lord Byron, written for his prose work Manfred. The poem is recited by the two band members and accompanied the music of a symphonic orchestra. The orchestra builds up towards the end of the song, but it isn't a headbanger or even a real metal song. There is no guitar to be heard on this one. But it fits in very well, as it adds to the build up of the atmosphere and mood needed to enjoy The Vision Bleak. Darkness has fallen, the stage is set. Let the drapery fall, the Deathship has set sail once more!
Set Sail to Mystery differs a lot from it predecessor, The Wolves Go Hunt Their Prey. The latter has most of its songs in more or less the same style, while the new album consists of various styles. Even more diverse than The Deathship Has A New Captain or my favourite Carpathia. Some songs are even made with another recipe than the "standard" The Vision Bleak song. I Dined With The Swans has Konstanz singing in a madman's voice. He sounds mad and evil, he whispers and shouts, he sings and he enjoys it. Which fits a song about a mad murderer (this murderer was said to drink the blood of swans before he killed someone). Another atypical song: Mother Nothingness is a very doomy song, heavy and slow. The guitars and the drums play a in slow tempo, the guitars shut up every time Konstanz begins a new line and play a dark melody when he ends the line. This start-stop riffing makes the song a little difficult to digest from the first time. I never expected such a song from The Vision Bleak: despite their dark nature they never showed a sign of doom. But after a few listening sessions it gets better.
Concerning the guitars, not much has changed. If you know the other albums, you know how the guitars sound. C-drop, heavy riffs that vary in tempo between the different songs. A Romance With The Grave is one of those faster songs, with those dark riffs pounding without mercy or ending. Descend into Maelstrom sounds a little like Secrecies in Darkness (of the Carpathia album). It follows directly after the intro, consists of fast riffs and orchestral contributions. Mother Nothingness is as mentioned above a very slow song. The guitars are heavy but slow, and the opening riff of this song reminds me of Celtic Frost's Monotheist's riffs.
For the drumming: nothing significant has changed since the previous release. It's not too technical, but still interesting. Varying throughout the song, with most of the drumming done on the toms and cymbals. The drums can clearly be heard in the mix, but luckily they do not dominate the music.
Next to the traditional metal instruments, The Vision Bleak also uses keyboards or orchestral arrangements. In I Dined with the Swans, the guitars are quiet during the verse. A piano plays a slow melody, and is accompanied by a high, eerie keyboard tune. The sort you'd expect in a Disney horror movie. It isn't scary, but it works for a mad murderer song. The normal feelings associated with murder (hate and rage, despair and hopelessness) are replaced with sounds (or emotions) totally unfitted for this kind of deed. To understand the idea behind this one, you need time and you must know the story behind the lyrics. In Descend Into Maelstrom or The Outsider the orchestrations give the song a certain feel of greatness and drama. These orchestral contributions make it easier to imagine a gigantic storm on the wild seas or an eternal life of despair and desolation in stygian catacombs.
The vocals still are what they were on the previous albums, mainly done by Konstanz in his clean, deep voice. Because of this way of singing the lyrics can be understood easily, adding to their importance (luckily these are still interesting). His range goes from totally a absorbed madman to omniscient storyteller. The lyrics are sung with passion, and in combination with the dark heavy music all pieces of the horror puzzle fall together. But there are also some changes in style. As already mentioned there are the madman's whispers and shouts on I Dined With The Swans. Mother Nothingness brings us vocals that are tormented with the thought that all life is just a spark in an absolute dark void. They are slow, deep and very intense: Konstanz as we never heard him before.
Schwadorf makes some vocal contributions too. He provides the more chaotic and desperate vocals. For example, in Descend into Maelstrom, he sings a couple of lines, beginning with the words: "Flashing lights! Chrushing seas!". At this point, the situation in the story of the song is without hope. On The Outsider he embodies the protagonist perfectly, his screams are emotional and filled with despair. Especially the line where he sings "In smell of ages gone". He sings the first words with pain, it seems as if he loses for a very short time the grip on his voice and lets it go. A chill goes down my spine every time I hear that line.
The lyrics are once more horror, but now some songs have lyrics based on real-world stories. I Dined With The Swans has already been mentioned. A Romance With The Grave is about making love to the dead: disgusting, but not impossible. The Outsider is the Lovecraft song of the album, which means supernatural horror as on the previous albums' songs.
This album is without doubt in the traditional style The Vision Bleak, but they have experimented a little bit on some songs. It turned out well, a mix of different styles that are all connected in their dark sound and their horror lyrics. However, because no real connection in story or concept the album is more the sum of very good songs than a collection of songs clinging to each other. Therefore I still choose Carpathia as my favourite, but Set Sail to Mystery is a good album that's worth the long wait. Fans will not be disappointed!


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Tarleton fans gather at Cowboys Stadium for LSC Football Fest
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
ARLINGTON, Texas—Tarleton State University's proud defenders of the purple and white converged on Cowboys Stadium, Saturday, Sept. 15 to witness the Texans take on Abilene Christian University in the 2012 Lone Star Conference Football Festival—an event that drew more than 33,000 fans across three days of competition.
The Tarleton-ACU rivalry, which dates back to 1920, was on display yet again in the two teams' 32nd match-up—this time on football's largest stage in Arlington. Despite a great effort by the Texans, unranked Tarleton fell to the No. 20 Wildcats, 34-31, in the final minutes of the contest.
"This was one of the greatest events I have ever been involved in as a player or coach, and our student-athletes got to play on the biggest stage in football," said the Texans' head coach Cary Fowler. "The greatest thing was the Tarleton alumni and fans. It was by far the greatest showing for all teams involved. TSU was out in full-force Saturday afternoon. A huge thank you from our coaches and players to all the Tarleton fans who were at the game."
Tarleton was one of nine LSC member programs participating in the 2012 Football Festival, now in its second year of existence after a successful inaugural event at Cowboys Stadium that drew 24,837 spectators.
"It was a privilege that the Lone Star Conference selected us to take part in this prestigious event. I believe that our athletics program is one of the top programs in the nation and that was backed by the tremendous support by our fans last Saturday," said Tarleton director of athletics Lonn Reisman. "We were extremely proud of the support from our fans at Cowboys Stadium. I felt like our fans were a level above everyone else. They showed tremendous Tarleton spirit and everyone associated with Tarleton should be proud of the way we were represented Saturday, not just in the game, but in the stands as well."
Joining the Texan football squad at Cowboys Stadium was the university's marching band, The Sound and the Fury, which provided halftime entertainment and music throughout the game, as well as Tarleton's cheerleading squads and the Texan Rider mascot, the Texan Stars dance team who performed routines on the sidelines and during halftime, the Purple Poo and Plowboys, and members of the ROTC Texan Battalion Color Guard who carried in the flags to midfield as part of pre-game ceremonies.
Conference officials reported this year's Football Festival attracted 33,180 fans for six games, including an estimated 12,000 spectators for the 4 p.m. Tarleton-ACU contest.
"Our second edition of the Football Festival was another great success and brought unparalleled exposure to our conference," said LSC Commissioner Stan Wagnon. "We had a national TV broadcast, we had a Top 10 play that was shown on ESPN's SportsCenter and then tweeted to more than 3.9 million followers, and we had a quarterback interviewed during a regional broadcast of the Texas Rangers baseball game.
"On top of that, we had better than 8,000 people from the Southlake and Temple communities who joined us and learned about the LSC, its member universities, and certainly our football product," Wagnon added. "We believe this event adds great value to holding membership in the Lone Star Conference and provides a unique experience for students and fans alike."
Prior to the Texans' kick off, Tarleton fans gathered at noon south of Cowboys Stadium for food, fun and fellowship at the Texan Alley Tailgate, sponsored by the university's Recreational Sports Department. It is estimated that more than 1,000 purple-clad faithful attended the tailgate, which featured live music by Tarleton alumnae Courtney Patton and The Mike Stanley Band, games and free food.
"It was a great atmosphere for college football," said Robert Nimmo, director of Recreational Sports. "The Texan Alley was well attended by students, alumni, family members and friends of the university. Numerous faculty and staff, as well as prospective students from the metroplex, also attended."
Official attendance reports released by the LSC at the conclusion of the 2012 Lone Star Football Festival include: Thursday – 3,426 (Midwestern State vs. Texas A&M-Commerce), Friday – 10,620 (Eastern New Mexico vs. Incarnate Word and Southlake Carroll vs. Temple), and Saturday – 19,134 (Angelo State vs. Valdosta State, Tarleton vs. Abilene Christian and West Texas A&M vs. Texas A&M-Kingsville). Each of the six contests averaged 5,530 fans in attendance, the LSC reported.
"We are creating an exciting atmosphere at Tarleton State University. Anyone who was in Arlington last weekend could see the excellent support of our fans just by looking into the stands," Reisman said, inviting fans to future athletic events. "We want to continue to spiral upwards and encourage people to come home and continue to support the Texans because our fans are so vital to our success."
This weekend the Texans will play host to the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds at Tarleton's Memorial Stadium as part of Family Weekend festivities. Kick off is set for 7 p.m. Fans are invited to tailgate prior to the game at Texan Alley, located adjacent to the stadium and Recreation Sports Center.
For the latest on Tarleton athletics and team results, please visit www.tarletonsports.com. Information about the LSC and its member universities can be accessed at www.lonestarconference.org.
Tarleton State University
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LG G Flex Review (T-Mobile) Review
Durable curved design; Colorful display; Very long battery life; Swift performance; Good multitasking features
Poor audio; Unnatural Rear Key placement; Display not as sharp as other flagships; Pricey
The LG G Flex's attention-grabbing curved display and self-healing design make it stand out, but the long battery life is our favorite feature.
Who says curved displays are only for TVs? With its G Flex smartphone, LG wants to put rounded displays right in the palm of your hand. The handset features a 6-inch 720p screen that's curved along its horizontal axis, which LG says can boost viewing angles while making the phone more comfortable to hold. The G Flex also sports a "self-healing" polymer back panel capable of resisting scratches and scrapes. T-Mobile is selling the G Flex for $28 per month for 24 months, which is slightly cheaper than the 5.7-inch Galaxy Note 3 ($29 per month). But is the G Flex's curvy design worth the price?
Unlike most smartphones, the crescent-shaped LG G Flex is curved along its horizontal axis, meaning its top and bottom edges rise up just a bit. The curved design is also meant to follow the contour of your face as you hold during a call, but the Flex is still quite a large phablet to handle.
As its name implies, LG's curved phone can actually flex. With the phone lying on its face, we applied pressure to its back, and were able to push it flat against a table. In fact, LG says it applied 80 pounds of weight to the G Flex during testing to ensure that it won't crack under pressure. This means you can sit comfortably with the phone in your back pocket without damaging it.LG G2, the G Flex's power button and volume buttons are mounted on its back, meaning you'll have to slide your finger to the center of the rear panel to turn the display on or off. In most cases this feels awkward, but the Flex's rounded design makes it a better implementation of the technology than the G2's linear body. This Rear Key form factor also means the G Flex's face and sides are completely buttonless.
Measuring 6.3 x 3.2 x 0.31-0.34 inches and weighing 6.2 ounces, the plastic LG G Flex is smaller and lighter than the partially aluminum built HTC One Max (6.5 x 3.2 x 0.41, 7.7 ounces) but heavier and thicker than the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (5.9 x 3.1 x 0.3 inches and 5.9 ounces).
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The G Flex could be the Wolverine of smartphones, thanks to its so-called "self- healing" capabilities. The back of the phone uses a resin coating commonly found on cars to fend off scratches. LG claims that this layer is durable enough to ensure scrapes from objects such as keys and wire brushes, although the phone is only meant to withstand minor injuries that result from jiggling around in your purse or pocket. Serious scratches can breach the G Flex's substructure.
LG says that the process can depend on the phone's surrounding temperature, so the warmer the environment the faster it gets rid of scrapes.
When we scraped the back lightly with a penny, the minor scratches faded away within a few seconds. However, when we created three slightly deeper incisions with a key, the scratches remained unhealed after three days.
This was especially apparent when watching a trailer for "The Avengers," as images had more of a yellow cast on the Note 3. The G Flex, by comparison, displayed colors that seemed more true to life. When we viewed the same Web page on both devices, the white background behind an article was a pure white on the G Flex, but looked more yellow on the Note 3. Still, the Note 3 was able to display more lines of text than the G Flex when in portrait mode.
The G Flex's display is also among the brightest at 467 lux, which breezes past the 323 lux smartphone category average. By comparison, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 reached a retina-searing 539 lux and the HTC One Max registered at 441 lux during our light meter reading.
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If you're not a fan of LG's Rear Key controls, the manufacturer does offer another option for waking up its display. KnockOn, which was introduced with the G2 last year, lets you turn on the display by simply tapping on it. The feature can come in handy when you want to check your phone without picking it up off your desk, but pressing the back-mounted button is usually faster.
During the LAPT Audio Test, the curved handset reached 79 decibels at its maximum volume, which is below the 80-decibel smartphone category average and the 83-decibel HTC One Max. The G Flex still rang louder than the 70-decibel Samsung Galaxy Note 3, however.
LG graced the Flex a slightly altered lock screen to fit its curved display. The Swing Lock Screen changes scenery depending on how you hold it. For example, if you tilt the screen downward, an outdoor scene will pan lower to show the ocean. As you tilt up, it'll show the sun and the sky.
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Dragging down from the top reveals LG's Notifications menu and Settings shortcut. At the top of this screen are 16 shortcuts to settings such as Quick Memo, QSlide, Vibrate, QuickRemote, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPC and NFC. LG also lists the 10 apps that are compatible with its QSlide floating apps feature, which include Videos, Browser, Phone, Messaging and Calendar. There's also a slider for quickly adjusting the phone's display brightness and ringtone, and just below this is your list of recently received notifications.
While this screen offers plenty of useful utilities and shortcuts, its busy layout makes it easy to miss notifications.
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Dual Window
If floating apps isn't your style, you can use the G Flex's Dual Window feature, which is similar to Samsung's Multi Window mode. Long-pressing the G Flex's back button will pull up a menu of 13 apps that are compatible with Dual Window, which include Google Chrome, Gmail, YouTube, Maps and Messaging. Tapping or dragging one of these apps will place it in the top or bottom half of the screen. Dual Window does exactly what its name implies--it splits the G Flex's screen in half between two apps. This is different from the QSlide feature, which lets you drag and drop apps in different windows around the screen. You can also resize these apps in Dual Window mode by dragging the bar in the middle of the screen up or down.
Unfortunately, LG's Dual Window doesn't support social apps like Samsung's Multi Window mode does. This means you can't browse tweets in one window while combing through your emails in another unless you navigate to Twitter's mobile website in the browser.
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Guest Mode
Those who share their phones with children or spouses will benefit from the G Flex's Guest Mode. Another feature ported from the G2, Guest Mode creates a separate interface for others using your device that's protected by its own unlock pattern. This means you can handpick apps that others will have access to. For instance, if you don't want your child perusing the Google Play Store or combing through your Gmail messages or texts, you can leave these apps out of your selections for Guest Mode.
Web Browsing and LTE
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On average, it took a somewhat sluggish 8.7 seconds to load webpages, with speeds fluctuating between a speedy 3.9 seconds for LaptopMag.com to a lengthy 15.1 seconds for Yahoo.com.
The G Flex held its own in synthetic benchmark tests as well. In GeekBench3, a test that measures multicore processor performance, the handset scored 2,209, beating the smartphone category average of 1,683 by a significant margin. By comparison, the 1.7-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600-powered HTC One Max scored 1,902, but the Galaxy Note 3 (2.3-Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800) scored a higher 2,983.
The case was the same with Quadrant, which is a benchmark that tests a device's CPU, I/O and 3D graphics. The G Flex scored a roaring 22,590, which blows past the 8,544 smartphone category average and the HTC One Max (11,981). The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 came close to the G Flex with a score of 22,383.
LG's G Flex transcoded a video from 1080p to 480p in 6 minutes and 37 seconds using Vidtrim, which is faster than the average smartphone (8:09). Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 performed the same task more than a minute faster (5:15), but the G Flex still outpaced the HTC One Max (7:33).
However, T-Mobile cluttered the phone with its own apps that don't add very much to the overall experience. Other carriers such as Verizon tuck these apps into a folder, but T-Mobile's apps are strewn across the G Flex's main home screen by default. The T-Mobile My Account app presents your account information, device support and data usage in tidy dashboard, but other apps such as T-Mobile Visual Voicemail, T-Mobile TV, T-Mobile Name ID and Mobile Hotspot make the home screen too busy.
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Camera and Camcorder
The LG G Flex's 13-megapixel camera produces sharp and colorful images, but it's not best in class. When we shot photos of the Empire State Building with the iPhone 5s, LG G Flex and Samsung Galaxy Note 3, details looked sharper in the G Flex's image than the one taken with the iPhone 5s' 8-megapixel camera. Still, we preferred the vibrant colors in the iPhone 5s and Galaxy Note 3's shots.
The G Flex has no shortage of camera modes, from its dual camera feature that lets you shoot with both front and rear cameras to its Time Catch capabilities. This feature lets you retrieve five stills from before you hit the shutter button, making it easier to capture the moment you were going for. Shot & Clear removes photobombers and unwanted intruders from your photos, similar to Samsung's Eraser Mode.
LG can shoot video just as well as it captures stills. The outlines of cars and buildings in our 1080 video from a New York street corner looked crisp and sharp. However, we feel the Galaxy Note 3's camera renders brighter colors than the G Flex's.
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Battery Life
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T-Mobile offers buyers two options for purchasing the G Flex. You can either pay $28 per month over the course of two years, or pay the full retail price of $672 up front. If you opt for the monthly payment plan and cancel your service before the two years is up, you'll have to pay off the balance. The Galaxy Note 3 is available through T-Mobile for $29.50 per month for two years, or $708 for the full retail price.
If you go for the $70 unlimited data plan through T-Mobile, you'll be paying $98 per month, including the $28 cost of the device. Over two years this amounts to $2,352. While the Sprint version of the G Flex costs $299 upfront, a two-year unlimited data contract costs $110 per month, so you'd end up spending $2,939 over the same timeframe. A 4GB data plan on AT&T would also cost the same amount as Sprint over two years.
Overall, we prefer the Galaxy Note 3 because of its lighter design, better software and pen integration. But if you want epic endurance and snappy performance in an innovative package, the G Flex is a strong choice.
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When the former Motorola Semiconductor Corp. was preparing to send a pile of old components to the scrap heap in the early 1980s, Curt Gerrish had no inkling his idea to support the electronics industry with aftermarket parts would blossom into a multimillion-dollar business.
Gerrish, who managed Motorola's distributor accounts in the northeastern United States at the time, approached Motorola factory executives to ask for continued product support. But the company refused, saying it didn't want to maintain service for components it had already slated as end-of-life (EOL).
"The first products on our linecard were older Motorola parts like emitter-coupled logic, diode-transistor logic, resistor-transistor logic components, and transistor-transistor logic TTL," said Chris Gerrish, vice president of operations, sales, and marketing at Rochester Electronics Inc., whose father Curt founded the Newburyport, Mass., company in 1981. "In fact, we still have some Motorola product in stock 22 years later. Occasionally companies use them for spares and repairs."
Rochester has built a thriving business supplying original die for OEMs with legacy projects in the military and commercial markets. And the need seems to be growing as obsolescence criteria change. Where prod-
uct lifecycles were once tied to advances in technology, companies increasingly use metrics such as demand and return on invested capital, causing them to issue EOL notices earlier and more often.
According to PCNAlert, Pasadena, Calif., which offers a service for EOL notifications and a cross-reference data-base to source aftermarket components, 100 canvassed suppliers have deemed an average of 13,000 parts EOL each month since January 2003, many purging older parts in favor of new devices with higher margins.
Rochester supplies EOL wafers, die, and related tooling and process information for everything from volume production runs to a few parts needed to maintain legacy systems, in the end helping OEMs and EMS providers avoid board redesigns that could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Cost savingsEd Odette, Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) program manager for Lockheed Martin Corp., Bethesda, Md., estimates that it would take up to 24 months at a cost of roughly $2 million to redesign the circuit-card assembly single-line replaceable unit in the company's 25-year-old surface-to-air missile system. Though an aging design, the system was most recently used in tracking vehicles deployed by the United States during the Iraq war.
"By the time the device is redesigned, the new components could go obsolete," Odette said, adding that MLRS buys $25,000 to $50,000 in components through Rochester annually, accounting for everything from plasma-panel drivers to CMOS devices and TTL circuits.
"We try to keep pricing as close to the original manufacturer's price as possible," Gerrish said. "Sometimes it's not possible because of the small volumes. Our minimum is $50. A large percent of our manufacturing is for custom made-to-order parts, one-time needs for customers. It may be just 100 pieces."
Alternatives to companies like Rochester exist, but it could mean going through brokers at a potentially higher cost, Odette said. The use of alternate components is another option, although Odette said they can be purchased only after receiving authorization from Lockheed, which requires the parts be lab tested, screened, and certified.
Rochester conducts in-house electrical burn-in and military compliance testing at a 65,000-sq.-ft. test and manufacturing facility that sits next door to its 75,000-sq.-ft. distribution center. The center is stocked with 350 million devices and 3 billion die from more than 30 suppliers like Advanced Micro Devices, Altera, Cypress Semiconductor, Honeywell, Intel, National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, and Xilinx.
Continuing to grow With last year's purchase of an adjacent 14-acre lot, Rochester will add two new facilities. The first, a two-story, 75,000-sq.-ft. building, will include new test, burn-in, and engineering labs. Construction begins next month and completion is set for spring 2004. The second facility will span more than 100,000 sq. ft. and house production and warehousing functions.
Additionally, this week Rochester will open on-site failure analysis and scanning electron microscope labs, enabling it to expand its manufacturing product lines, certified military devices, and reliability monitoring.
Rochester, which generates more than $50 million in annual revenue, said approximately 80% of sales come from North America through an internal support team and distributors like Arrow, Avnet, and All American Semiconductor, which have global distribution agreements with the company.
Rochester's office in Luton, England, handles sales for Europe, while distributors in Asia send orders for processing to the Newburyport headquarters. Gerrish expects a slight shift toward the European market as the company ramps up a newly signed supplier agreement with Infineon Technologies A.G. Rochester is also hoping to secure contracts with the likes of STMicroelectronics and Philips Semiconductors.
The company's Long Term Supply program stocks wafers and die and will build products according to customer demand schedules. Within a year, Rochester also expects to roll out a program to enable it to reverse-engineer, fabricate, and test components for customers that can't find a specific part.


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