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Capitol reporter Mary Wilson covers Pennsylvania politics and issues at the Pennsylvania state capitol.
Hunters could collect a bounty for coyotes under a measure passed by the state House.
The legislation would allow the Pennsylvania Game Commission to turn hunters and fur-takers loose on the coyote population and collect $25 for every carcass they bring in.
The measure wouldn't give the commission any additional funding. Instead, the agency could take as much as $700,000 from its own revenues, most of which come from hunting license fees – a revenue source it has called "relatively fixed."
The coyote population is described as "likely" increasing, but, more to the point, the animals are encroaching on suburban and urban areas. Hunters have been rewarded for killing coyotes in other states the past, but the Pennsylvania Game Commission has suggested such methods "did lead to any significant population reduction."
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The main reason was that about 70 percent of a coyote population has to be removed annually in order to cause a population decline. Even then, coyotes - like many other species - have demonstrated an ability to offset population declines by increasing their litter size. It's spurred by a built-in biological mechanism that responds to population deficits.
A bounty system has never successfully eliminated or significantly reduced coyote populations anywhere in North America. Coyotes have a superior ability to adapt to a changing environment. Attempts to reduce coyote populations in western states using year-round poisoning, hunting and trapping resulted in millions of dollars being spent over many decades with little reduction in coyote numbers. The result of any predator control method is temporary and often very localized. No measurable good ever resulted from the Game Commission's predator bounties in the 1900s. They truly were a waste of money.
The Game Commission has not taken a position on the bill. But Sarah Speed, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania chapter of the Humane Society, said money shouldn't be diverted from other Game Commission programs to keep coyotes by way of a shoot-on-sight method. She also voiced concerns that the coyote control program could result in reckless firing on pet dogs.
The measure passed without debate in the House, with a vote of 111-78. It now goes to the state Senate.
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"A bounty system has never successfully eliminated or significantly reduced coyote populations anywhere in North America."
So why is the house and senate passing this measure? The evidence shows it does not work.
The bounties spoken of that failed were in HUGE desolate states in the west several times larger than Pa, with very small human populations, huge coyote populations and a fraction the number of hunters Pennsylvania has. The statement: "A bounty system has never successfully eliminated or significantly reduced coyote populations anywhere in North America" is VERY misleading. The only way to know if a bounty will work is to implement it. It can always be repealed. Although there is little doubt it would work given our specifics.
The environmentalist nutjobs and antihunters don't care about facts Skip. You make very good points as to why a bounty would have a very good chance of working in PA, not Utah. Not New Mexico. PA.
Lets do it! Its badly needed. Way too many deer, pet and livestock killers around right now.
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Reviewed: 06/04/08
Sure the story's okay, but the gameplay really is not very good
Assassins Creed is a curious beast, I was looking forward to it with a fair amount of enthusiasm. I adored the idea of playing an assassin during the Crusades. Then I actually started playing the game, the first couple of hours were met with a harsh and not entirely undeserved amount of hatred. Then the game managed a complete 180, and I began to like it, and then the game somehow managed to veer wildly off course and flip the metaphorical car and set itself ablaze. Though, I suppose at the end of the day its decent. Also, take heed there is a minor spoiler in this review (I use the word loosely, as you find out in the first two minutes of the game anyway).
What one would assume from all the various trailers is that in Assassins Creed you just run around as an assassin running about the holy land just assassinating people for the hell of it. While that is true, there is the fact that the game actually takes place in the year 2012. You see, in the game you actually play as some guy named Desmond Miles who was kidnapped by a group of people. After being kidnapped Desmond was strapped to a device called The Animus to live the blood memory of his ancestor Altair to find some Templar treasure (I affectionately refer to it as The MacGuffin) for some vague not readily apparent reason. Which is okay I guess, as long as you get to kill important Crusaders alls well right? Its fine in theory, but the problem with that lies within the fact that the game seems almost begrudged to remind you of the fact that youre not really Altair, youre just some chump playing at being Altair. Even when you start to get really enveloped into the story of Altairs assassinating the game has the screen go to white and say fast forwarding to a more recent memory. Perhaps its just me but that somewhat ruins the experience a tad. Hell even the story in the real world is somewhat boring and sort of boils down to an evil group wanting to do evil things with the MacGuffin.
That being said the story of Altair is that one day when he and his assassin brothers were out trying to reclaim the MacGuffin. They got attacked by some Knights Templar and Altair got separated from the other two. Having failed he returns to the Assassin Orders headquarters where the leader casts Altair down to the lowest rank in the order for having failed his mission and disobeying the Creed. To regain his lost honor he must go out and assassinate nine targets. I actually rather like the memory storyline, because unlike the real world stuff it is actually interesting. Perhaps its because it casts an interesting take on historical fact, but it is quite entertaining.
One thing thats worth noting about the way they tackled the story is that in essence you cant die. When you do do something that would otherwise result in your death (say taking a header off a tall building, fighting twenty guards at once, landing in water) you just get desynchronized. Which is all fine and dandy, but it does sort of take away from the challenge a bit. The Animus crap also really does take away from immersion with the fact that youll be running through Damascus (or Jerusalem, or Acre), having a good time running from rooftop to rooftop when suddenly youll just slam right into a large blue wall with bits of computer code flashing around it whilst a little box comes up to inform you that the memory cant access that area just yet.
Also when you do inevitably decide to engage in a bit of killing (or even tracking) and lock onto an NPC a computery box appears around the person as bits of code just jump around the person while the screen flickers around. Having a lock on system is all fine and dandy, but having one that instantly kills the immersion just seems to me like it was a bad design choice. For instance slash a city guard and off fly biological symbols and bits of code.
Sound is also reasonably well done, but the problem is outside of story characters theres about four voices for the entire game. It also doesnt aid the game when those same three, four voices repeat the same lines over and over, verbatim! For instance save a woman from a bunch of guards shell thank and make sure the people know what you done. Fine, thats all peachy, but save another person, the same line with a different voice! It particularly begins to wear thin when you have to save people in excess of seventy times. Also the crowds have no variation in their speech as you wander through the towns save for the voice acting. That said the story important characters have decent voice acting. Granted its not the best, but they do sound quite good. But there is one curious thing regarding the acting. Everyone has their accent, they sound authentic, yet for some reason Altair just sounds too American. Dont get me wrong, I dont necessarily hate the voice actor, he did a good job. Its just that I suspected someone with an accent is all.
Now lets talk gameplay shall we? One would make the reasonable assumption that most, if not all of the game consists of assassinating your targets. Unfortunately most of the game consists of walking to the various cities and gathering information on your target. Which would be okay if not for the fact that for the most part the information gathering missions have a strange difficulty sense. For the most part gathering the information is really very easy. For instance sitting on a bench and somehow listening in on a pair of people talking (despite sitting about a block away, youre still able to hear them perfectly) is really easy. The pick pocketing ones are also easy, just watch a couple of people from about five feet away, then walk behind one of the guys and lift the info from them. Which is particularly amusing, because youd think a man wearing a white robe, with a sword on his hip and a multitude of knives would be easily noticeable. Theres also interrogation where you just go up and beat the man, sure they suggest you wait until hes in seclusion but not one person will move to stop you, not even the city guard when you ram your spike into his gut.
There are also missions that assassins from the order will give you for information. These usually fall into the category of killing a certain number of people with a time limit. However a couple times there were missions where they would ask me to run about the city and collect flags within a time limit. Which also have the requisite box with computer jargon flickering around it. One problem I have with these informer missions is the fact that you will fail with no adequate explanation. One of the informers tells you to go off and kill some chump for him, so you go and run him through with the spike. Walk away from the kill with nary a witness get close to the other target and suddenly youll fail.
The other problem with the informer missions is that there is almost nothing you can do that wont arouse the guards suspicion. Walk down the street and mind your own business, they somehow sense that your up to no good. Go to the center of town and walk by a building and theyre on your ass. Perhaps its because of his robe, and the assortment of knives, but they will suspect you for no adequate reason. Also you can run through town at full sprint jump up and start scaling buildings yet for some reason they dont treat you at all suspiciously unless you happen to graze one of them of course. Unless theyre actively searching for you, you can run all up and down buildings leap nimbly from window to window with nary a second glance. However if you try to walk through an archway without the cover of a group of monks theyll somehow treat you like you just murdered the entire citizenry of Damascus. Conversely you can murder a squadron of guard in full view of every citizen, save someone and engage in a quick conversation with the person you just saved and just stand there hands clasped together and theyll not suspect you, regardless of having a long sword on your hip, and a short sword on your back.
Also when you do inevitably get on the wrong side of the guards it is embarrassingly simple to escape them. Normally what you need to do to escape them is climb some buildings and run to a nearby gazebo with large canvas flaps and theyll just run by it. Or climbing the top of a large tower and dive off it and land in a platform full of hay, and theyll be none the wiser. Youd think theyd be able to see Altair dive off and land in the hay, but no, they always just lose sight of you.
Another thing regarding the crowds is the fact that more often then not therell be beggar women running up to you, blocking your path betwixt you and the target, and if its a pick pocket mission youll instantly fail and have to evade, or cut down the guard. Sure, you do get the option to just grab the offending beggar and hurl them across the way, but youll still fail. Another thing is the fact that there are some NPCs that have the ever so delightful habit of slamming into you with all there strength and sending you sprawling, which of course the guards take offense to. Another irritation with the guards is the fact that early on in the game you are given a horse, to ride from Masyaf (the city for the Orders headquarters by the by) to any one of the three cities. Which I appreciated, because that means I wouldnt have to run from one place to the next. The problem with this is the fact that when your riding the horse if you are going any faster than walking speed every guard between you and your destination will hunt you down. Its somewhat perplexing, considering that the reason they give you the horse is to get to the city quickly, yet if you do go quickly youre suddenly a marked man. To me, it seems like a cruel joke on Ubi Softs part.
However, the game really does pick up when your actually on your way to assassinate someone. After getting the permission from the local Assassins Bureau youre on your way to go kill that corrupt official. Which is quite fun actually, the blending in and getting close to the target and then the actual assassination is good. However, the problems with the actual assassination are the fact that there are too few of them. Also the fact that before and after actually assassinating the target the game puts in long cut scenes in which the target goes on lengthy monologues. Then after the assassination you have to go on the run and escape the guards and soldiers. Finally I was having a good time, but like I said, these dont happen nearly enough.
Also around the sixth assassination it really seems to do away with the whole stealth aspect of the post assassination rigmarole. Because from that point on your almost always engaged in a swordfight with a number of guards. Both before and after the hit you fight through waves and waves of guards. Which in itself isnt a bad thing, because the fighting is somewhat enjoyable if not a little bland. You get four weapons, fists, the wrist blade, the short sword and knives, and the long sword. Outside of the short and long sword the other weapons are useless in a fight. Punching the armed guards will get you gutted, and the wrist blade is only good on guards that are unaware that your going to stab them. Sure the knives can be used to kill an enemy at a distance but when your encircled they are really rather useless.
Whilst the fighting is simply adequate I think it shouldve been more focused on the actual assassinations. The game is aided little when you consider that the last hour or so becomes like Dynasty Warriors (in that your cutting through waves of guards or soldiers to get to the target.). Also theres the fact that the game is not especially long. Something like seven hours, and when you beat the story mode there is really no reason to go back through it again. Its a shame too, because this game couldve been really good. However such as it is its just a remarkably bad affair. Sure the assassinations were fun, but they did not occur nearly enough.
If you really want to try this game, rent it. The game can easily be beaten in a couple of days, and itll save you the money of actually buying it. Granted its not the worst game made, it is by no means good. Its a shame too because Ubi Soft has shown that they are quite adept at making good stealth games (Splinter Cell) and good sword fighting games (Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones). Its just that I cannot in good conscience recommend this to anyone.
Rating: 1.5 - Bad
Product Release: Assassin's Creed (US, 11/13/07)
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It blows my mind that for one second anyone could believe that a new law is a means to an end. Laws against DUI, rape, robbery, etc... Never prevented any of the afore mentioned atrocities.
Murder. Several laws against that I'm sure. I don't need to know the verbiage of any of them to know in the morel fiber of my being that such acts are wrong.
Let us reduce the body count from thirty to ten. That's ..... Better/less wrong. ???
I was fed plenty of morel fiber when I was a kid. That must be my problem and the reason why it's impossible for me to digest how any law written in the next six months could do any better than the original 10. (Then again... We made it illegal to share those with the youth at some point)...
We decided as a nation long ago that it was no longer PC to keep things simple in terms of right and wrong. Therefore... Go ahead and ban hi cap magazines. Ill be here with millions of other people shaking my head the next time 20 innocent people get shot up or run over or blown to smithereens by some Godless whack job. This problem won't go away as any real attempt at a solution has long since been deemed unconstitutional.
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The only real question is why is everyone afraid of lawful citizens using a right that is clearly spelled out and now recently has even been ruled upon.... Yes it will take time for these things to re-enable our rights in areas we were intended to have the right to self defense. Terrible horrible things can happen when almost any right is abused, but we don't eliminate the right because of it...
Freedom has a cost and sometimes it is tearfully high but were always so quick to point at the "right" when in reality only the person and people who did the action are responsible.
I do not need or want to be safe from all harm but I do want to be free.. I want the right to make choices others strongly disagree with and I want the right to go my own way and I want my right to defend myself, my family and my nation...
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We've decided to limit discussion of the Sandy Hook shootings to the two other threads on the topic for now. Please direct your input to those.
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Who owns you?
Lots of interesting things to think about in the past few pages, I think while we're at it, we ought to consider some more....
While the question of bans of this, or that do have a relationship to the 2nd Amendment, there are other natural rights than those listed in the Bill of Rights. In fact, I believe that there is an amendment or two that mention that not all our rights are listed there.
Some will argue that by simply banning some things, our fundamental rights are not violated (and the boldest may even claim they are not even truly infringed).
I don't see it quite that way, and neither do a lot of us. And it is because of that and our personal experiece that we disdain what the gun ban crowd call "compromise".
I've been watching this closely since 1968, and doing more than just a casual bit of reading of history. And I understand the effects of the law of unintended consequences.
What they want now, is to begin with, what they got in 1994. And perhaps just a little bit more. We did it for 10 years, to no significant (and some will say no discernable) effect on either general crime, or mass shootings.
That September day in 2001 woke up a lot of people to the simple fact that evil does exist, and doesn't need a gun to kill. Gun control support fell, and has been in decline ever since. We, as a nation, and as individuals have more important problems that need attention than assault weapon bans.
Forget the militia clause in the 2nd Amendment for just a bit, because, frankly even though true, it simply isn't relevent for the majority of the people. Arguments or even discussions about it put us squarely in the category of anarchist loonies for a huge segment of the people today. Of course, a lot of people (maybe a third of colonial America) thought it was craziness to rebel against the Crown, too. But, that was then, and this is now, right?
So, consider this, the proposed bans on "hi-capacity" (and who gets to decide what that is?) magazines and "assault weapons" are not just about taking away our ability to buy/own military style gear, but they are also about taking away our ability to own what the POLICE use to protect us!
Another point to consider is that by the anti's focus on "assault weapons" (their made up term for semiautos with military style) they have actually made them the most desirable arm to own and use for both good AND evil!!!
Some ask, "why are these killing machines so popular?" The answer may well be "Because you made them that way, idiot, with your hamfisted attempt to make them illegal!" Forbidden fruit is very attractive, and get it while you can is a powerful motivator as well. And that entirely ignores the past 4 decades or so of our entertainment industry glamorizing guns that look like "assault weapons".
Back in the 1960s you could get an FAL. You could get an AR-15. You could get a semi auto Tommygun or a Mini 14 in the 70s. And you know what, sales were relatively small. Steady, but not tremendous. Also back then, you seldom saw machineguns in movies, outside of a war movie, and tommyguns were on the Untouchables.
That changed. Drastically. And so did we. Art imitating life, or vice versa?
Hi cap mags?
Who owns you? Go ahead, ask yourself, its ok. Just be prepared to face the real truth. If you are a citizen of this great republic, and over the age of majority, you would think the answer is "why, me, of course! I own myself!"
But, really, do you? DO WE?
Got news for you, gang, when you give, or allow, someone else the authority to determine what it is in life that you NEED, you don't own you anymore.
All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.
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ZW3D 2014 Beta: Built-in translator to open Solidworks, Catia, NX files
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When I checked the export, I found it supports to export the file to Catia V4 or V5, which is great for me, good job. Furthermore, it supports opening the Solidedge file, anybody try it?
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Everyone, please try more!
Any feedback is welcome.
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Hi, i tried to open solidedge parts and a large assembly, looks working good. I tried to open Pro E files, works good for parts but the program crashes when try to open Pro E assembly...it must be fixed
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Dear Domeni9580, thank you for your feedback, I tried open several Pro/E assembly files in ZW3D 2014 beta, both of them can be opened successfully. Could you please upload your crash Pro/e file to forum or sent me the file by email. (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Thank you in advanced
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Hi William, i will send you something as soon as possible. I have another question: I usually use Arial Narrow for text in styles, on 2014 version I can't change the default text style in roughness symbol, I would have Arial Narrow everywhere. Tanks in advance.
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Hi Domeni9580, you are right, changing the text attributes doesn't affect the Welding and Roughness symbol. I will report it to R&D team and fix it in official release.
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Interested ot know how successful this is.
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Kerry On Retirement of Justice Stevens
Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) today released a statement lauding Associate Justice John Paul Stevens' 35 years of service to the United States Supreme Court.
"Justice Stevens is an American treasure. In an age of fierce partisanship and greater polarization on the Court itself, Justice Stevens stood out not for his ideology, though his convictions were deeply held, but for the way he combined scholarly wisdom with an instinct to boil the law down to its impact on average Americans and their lives.
"Justice Stevens reveres the Court, which is why in announcing his retirement he gave President Obama and the Senate the time to nominate his successor and fill the vacancy before the coming October session. We should do so with civility and purpose. This will be a test of the Senate at a time when this and other huge, unavoidable legislative challenges demand action. We've had a record number of filibusters and cloture votes aimed at delaying and deferring work that had to be done. That's a political strategy for the next election, not a way to govern. I opposed both of President Bush's nominees to the Court. There's nothing wrong with genuine disagreement. But we need a fair and swift confirmation process for the Court vacancy, and even as an enormous responsibility has been added to the Senate agenda this year, we must also break through gridlock and finish legislating on urgent priorities including financial reform to help our economy, and comprehensive energy and climate change reform. We can do all of these things and still confirm a new Justice."
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I'll have to admit to a few false starts with "365 Motorcycles You Must Ride".
I didn't quite know what to make of a book that is basically a series of very brief one-page entries on a whole bunch of old motorcycles that I'd probably never see, much less ride.
But after flipping through the pages two or three times, I started to enjoy it.
I'm not sure who came up with the premise.
That question is unanswered, as is the reason why the Cycle World logo is on the cover.
And for that matter, also unanswered is the question of why there are 365 entries and not 10 or 100 or 250 is not answered. But it doesn't really matter.
The three authors, each of whom is either a motorcycle journalist, writer, editor or all of the above, have put together their ultimate wish list of motorcycles.
It's highly unlikely that you'll agree with every entry on the list and you may have one or more favorites for which you could argue should have been included.
But that's all part of the fun -- reading about the bikes (many of which may be unfamiliar) and agreeing or disagreeing on the list and creating your own.
In fact, maybe they should have left some blank pages at the end of the book so readers could add their own favorites.
The book is printed in a small format size of about 6.5" by 8.25" and averages about one motorcycle per page.
It's loaded with photos but very little text; a couple of paragraphs explaining why the bike is on the list, along with a brief "Factoid" style checklist of pros, cons and background that serves as context.
It's also interesting to note that the authors didn't just include the obvious dream bikes, like the BMW R100RS, Ducati 916 or Harley-Davidson Model 1 -- motorcycles on everyone's Top 10 list.
They also list a few "lemons", such as the Suzuki Tempter (anyone remember it?) or the Honda NSR500, in the theory that riding the bad helps sharpen comparisons with the good.
This also helps make the book less boring -- after all, if the list included only the expected, what fun would it be?
The chance of encountering more than a handful of the bikes described in this book are slim; of actually riding them, negligible.
But I can pretty much guarantee you'll come away with a deeper and richer understanding of motorcycling and how we got to where we are today.
Reading about these motorcycles is like looking at the pieces of a puzzle still in the box.
Each one may not make sense in and of itself, but one slowly develops a recognition of patterns and the bits and pieces taken from here and there that became the breadcrumbs that led us down the path from pneumatic tires to shaft drive to four-cylinder DOHC engines.
In fact, think deeper about this and you may also find yourself with a better understanding of what might come next.
Two sayings come to mind: "Everything old is new again" (author unknown).
And how about "The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different". (Aldous Huxley - Author of Brave New World).
Maybe we won't see a Megola five-cylinder radial engine located inside the front wheel any time soon, but some of the old ideas are still valid and when pulled from the dustbin of history and cleaned up with modern technology, can propel us forward.
This is one of the reasons why history is so important and why, in the end, 365 Motorcycles You Must Ride is a valuable gem.
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Mahanoy City hikes taxes 2 mills to deal with worsening blight
MAHANOY CITY To fight blight, the borough is raising taxes.
At Wednesday's meeting, the council formally adopted the 2014 operating budget that includes a 2-mill real estate tax.
The operating budget of $1,147,029.94 raises the millage from 30.524 to 32.524 mills. The assessed value of each mill is $23,377.86. The total assessed valuation of property in the borough is $23,377,860. The median value of a 2-mill increase for taxpayers is $17.39.
The new budget is slightly above the 2013 budget of $1,143,980.
During the council's November meeting, when the budget was tentatively adopted, Councilman Raymond Cavenas described how blight issues are becoming worse and the borough has been called on to deal with dangerous buildings.
"Due to this fact (dangerous building issues), council has decided to take a proactive measure in addressing blight. The borough cannot simply keep dipping into other funds and moving money as these incidents occur. So council is instituting a new fund called the 'blight fund.' This fund will be directly funded with tax revenue for the sole purpose of addressing blight and dangerous conditions that arise within the borough," Cavenas said in a prepared statement.
According to borough Manager Daniel Lynch, the difference between the 2013 and 2014 budgets is very small, allowing for no tax increase, but the continuing need for funds for blight problems led to the creation of the blight fund. If the borough receives funds through court proceedings or the sale of an abandoned lot, the money would go into the blight fund.
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|With the increase of multimedia applications on the internets, security in digital video information has become more important. For instance, in commercial Video-On-Demand (VoD), PayTV, and Pay-Per View applications, it is very critical that only the customers who have paid for the service can enjoy the high-quality video. Since video data are transmitted through public internet, it is thus possible that one un-authorized person somehow obtains the data during the transmission. On the other hand, it would also be a good idea to provide a down-grade version of videos to potential customers as preview before they decide whether they want to subscribe to the service or not. As such, the idea of Perceptual Video Encryption has been introduced in the past few years. Different from traditional fully confidential video encryption, perceptual video encryption does not require the encrypted video signal to be robust to all the complicated and time consuming security attacks. The main aim is to introduce a fast and efficient algorithm which provides a certain level of protection to the video signal. In addition, as the encrypted signal will also be used as the preview, quality assessment of this downgrade video signal is also another important issue to consider. In this thesis, we propose that the perceptual encryption can be performed at a stage within the video encoding process that had never been considered before: the transformation stage. To this end, we first design a number of new unitary transforms based on some plane-based rotations in the flow graph structure of the well-known discrete cosine transform (DCT). We demonstrate that these new transforms are performing as efficiently as the DCT does in the coding of predicted residual signals. Then, our new perceptual encryption is constructed by using these new transforms together with the DCT but alternately, i.e., we select one out of multiple transforms in each video block according to the encryption key. This algorithm is tested extensively with the H.264 and MPEG-4 codec. Both the PSNR-based and SSIM-based results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of our new encryption algorithm. In order to evaluate the proposed scheme fairly, a full analysis of various assessment schemes is performed. In addition, several improved extensions on the proposed scheme are presented. Finally, security analysis is also performed to test the resistance of our algorithm to different types of attacks.
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Madre de las Aguas extends east from the Haitian border. This mountainous region shelters the headwaters of 17 rivers that provide energy, irrigation and drinking water for more than 50 percent of the Dominican Republic's population.
This region ranges in elevation from 3,280 to 10,128 feet (1,000 to 3,087 meters), making for a high degree of habitat diversity and endemic species.
About 90 percent of the area's amphibian and reptile species, 43 percent of the butterfly species, 10 percent of the bird species and 94 percent of the bat species are unique to this area. Found 30 million years ago in North America, the now endangered solenodon is a small shrew-like mammal found only on the island of Hispaniola. A member of the rodent family, the rare hutia, can also be found in these forests. Of the 300 birds found in the Dominican Republic, 27 can be found nowhere else in the world, including the Hispaniolan Woodpecker and the Narrow-billed Tody.
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Album Rating: 3.0But he has a voice of an angel.
ill give you that, his voice is really good.
Album Rating: 2.5His vocie might've been better if they acutally layered it
Album Rating: 3.5I do agree with your points of repetition and a noticeable lack of chemistry in some points but think this is a bit better then you give it credit for. Regardless I think if this band sticks with this style and further develops it they can really do big things in the scene.
Album Rating: 3.0Pretty bland album.
Album Rating: 2.5Why give a band credit when they pretty much let Jonny turn them into Dance Emarosa Dance?
Album Rating: 3.0You're probably right, that's most likely why the old singer left, he wanted to go a more metal/hardcore route.
This is a much better route for Johnny, he can stand out more without having to share the vocal output with an absolutely horrendous screamer.
Understanding in a crash: Johnny craig doesn't have a mullet anymore? where'd it go?
also lol what's with your name. I never noticed it until I typed it XD
Album Rating: 3.0he's got a good voice, but he doesnt do much with it. or maybe thats just the disconnect between the preconceived music and the new vocals.
im the boy that sets your girl on fire...?
I agree he didn't really record them. But I think he kind of recorded them. But not really. You know what I mean?This Message Edited On 07.11.08
^Relax! We're friends! We both like Pokemon! Well, of course, I like it in a lame, ironic, trendy scenester sense and you probably actually like it, but that's something. And we both consider TBS a favorite band.
Meh fuck it I hate you.This Message Edited On 07.11.08
i thought by just casually glancing that the album cover was of an f'd up vag.
This band is very ew, especially the singing in my opinion.This Message Edited On 07.12.08
Album Rating: 3.5yeah I mean fuck that yo, who wants to listen to som fagot who can actually sing
what we need more of is more whiney emo vocalists who rip off Anthony Green !!!!!1
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Album Rating: 3.5Oh I do like Anthony Green's vocals tbh just not the sub par clones
And Johnny Craig aint one of 'em imo
these guys are playing with belle epoque lol
Just heard these guys. It was the definition of alright. Guy needs to learn to control his voice better.
Album Rating: 3.5Hes better than Anthony Green tho'
Album Rating: 3.0I really like the vocals on "Heads or Tails? Real Or Not"
Album Rating: 3.0
Hes better than Anthony Green tho'
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Ronald I. Keizer
Macon, N.C. — Ronald I. Keizer, United States Navy Retired, passed away March 26, 2014.
He was a member of Lakeside Lutheran Church in North Carolina and was a loving father, grandfather, companion, avid bowler, fisherman, traveler, comedian and patriot.
He leaves to cherish his memory to his daughter, Kim Keizer-Wojtasiak and husband John; grandson Cory Wojtasiak; companion, Brenda Ott; sisters, Ruth Honkinen, Carolyn Robinson, Gloria Hannon; and numerous nieces, nephews and friends. He was predeceased by his wife, Gloria Dawn Keizer. He was formerly of Virginia Beach and Rockland.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, April 5, at 11 a.m. at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Chapel with Chaplain Brian Stamm officiating. Memorial donations may be made to Relay for Life of Chesapeake, 4416 Expressway Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23452.
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Local author at Apprenticeshop
Rockland — Renny Stackpole of Thomaston will read from his recent book, "Sea Letters," Thursday, April 10, at 7 p.m. at The Apprenticeshop, 643 Main St. Admission will be $5.
As its title implies, the book is a compilation of letters of the Andrew Pinkham family, a seafaring family from Nantucket. Set against the backdrop of the war of 1812, the Pinkham letters are a glimpse into the lives of Pinkham and his two sons, Alexander and Reuben. The chronicle tells the often-harrowing tales of life at sea, both in times of war and peace.
A native of Nantucket, Stackpole taught history and served as curator at the Nantucket Historical Association. He moved to Maine in 1985, helped with the restoration of the schooner Bowdoin and served as director of the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport. His reading is part of the Second Thursdays At The Apprenticeshop series.
Courier Publications' A&E Editor Dagney C. Ernest can be reached at (207) 594-4401, ext. 115; or email@example.com.


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Defending champion Petra Kvitova, Angelique Kerber and Sara Errani are the latest players to qualify for the WTA Championships, leaving only one spot up for grabs in the exclusive eight-woman tournament.
Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova, Agnieszka Radwanska and Serena Williams previously earned their way to Istanbul, where every Grand Slam champion and runner-up this year is scheduled to be in the field for the season finale on Oct. 23-28.
Li Na can secure the eighth and final spot on Friday by defeating Radwanska in the quarterfinals of the China Open or if Marion Bartoli, who is also in the quarterfinals, loses to Carla Suarez Navarro. Bartoli would need to win Beijing and the Moscow title next week to overtake Li.
The fifth-ranked Kvitova hasn't had the type of season many expected after a 2011 in which she won six titles (including Wimbledon), rose from No. 34 to No. 2 and was named Player of the Year. But even though "disappointing" and "Kvitova" have been used in the same sentence all through 2012, she still made the semifinals of the Australian Open and the French Open (where she fell to Sharapova both times) and the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, where she lost to Williams in the best match of power tennis in 2012. The 22-year-old Kvitova, who dealt with injury and illness early in the season, also won titles in Montreal and New Haven.
Kerber came out of nowhere to make the U.S. Open semifinals last year and carried that confidence into 2012, cracking the top 10 for the first time, reaching the Wimbledon semifinals, winning her first two career titles and taking a tour-leading 60 victories into her quarterfinal match against Sharapova in Beijing. The 24-year-old German is up to sixth in the rankings.
The pint-sized Errani's breakthrough performance rivals Kerber's. Errani, 25, spent years in the shadows of fellow Italians Flavia Pennetta and Francesca Schiavone, relegated to little more than a doubles specialist. But a racket change in January and noticeable improvement in her fitness have changed everything. After beginning the year ranked 45th, Errani has climbed to a career-high No. 7 by winning won four titles (she entered 2012 with two) and advancing to the French Open final and U.S. Open semifinals. That's on top of a stellar year in doubles with Roberta Vinci, as they've combined for eight titles, including the French Open and U.S. Open, to grab the No. 1 ranking.


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Subject: [ARIZARD] Good Afternoon
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:08:54 -0500
Hi All,
Just checking in to see how everyone is today. Our snow was a little
bit of excitement for this area, and I am glad to see the roads
appear to be clear now, so that we don't have to fight ice in the morning.
How is everyone's new year going? Any new discoveries of on-line
sites? I wish I had more time for research, and I am sure that some
of you may have good suggestions for each other as to new places to look.
Jeri Helms Fultz's Izard County website is a good place for those of
you new to the list:
And, a great source for Arkansas books and materials would be Desmond
Walls Allen's site:
If you have sites to contribute, we are all ears!!!
Thanks and blessings to all,
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EDMONTON, Alberta -- Ten days from now, Sebastien Bourdais will probably have a much better idea what his future holds.
After staking his claim for a record fourth consecutive Champ Car World Series title with a convincing victory at the Grand Prix of Edmonton, Bourdais is waiting for a call from the Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One team. STR has an option that expires at the end of July for the 28-year old Frenchman's services in 2008.
STR co-owner Gerhard Berger and team principal Franz Tost publicly praised Bourdais at the European Grand Prix this weekend, saying that the Champ Car star did everything that was expected of him in what amounted to a full-scale audition for an '08 race seat at the recent Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium.
At Edmonton, where he was at his dominant best in earning his third race win of the 2007 season, Bourdais said that people should avoid jumping to the conclusion that he will be on the F1 grid in 2008.
"It's not black and white," he said. "There are a lot of factors to consider, and I would be very happy to continue here in the states with Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing.
"Obviously, I'm really happy that I got to drive a Formula One car at Spa. If there's one place you want to be testing, it's over there. It's a great track. It was an awesome feeling and I had a ton of fun.
"So if that was my last time in an F1 car, it was a great memory to leave with."
The smart money is betting that even though he is playing it down, Bourdais will indeed end up in F1 next season at Toro Rosso -- or a rebranded version of the team under the direction of Nicolas Todt.
Speculation in Europe has Todt (the son of Ferrari sporting director Jean Todt) acquiring STR from Red Bull magnate Dietrich Mateschitz and running it under the ART Grand Prix banner that has won the last two FIA GP2 championships with drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton.
The younger Todt also happens to be Bourdais' manager. He reportedly hopes to maintain technical links with Red Bull Technology to benefit from design director Adrian Newey's expertise. Through the Todt connection, ART could also emerge with stronger links to Ferrari, which will continue to supply the team's engines in 2008.
Clarification of the relationship between Formula One's "works" and "second" teams will be a key factor influencing Bourdais' decision to accept an F1 offer -- if it comes.
But not the only one.
Bourdais says it would be hard to walk away from one of the best open-wheel rides in America. On the other hand, the birth of his infant daughter Emma has Bourdais and his wife Claire longing to return to a European base, closer to the grandparents.
Mario Andretti, the 1978 world champion, has lobbied for Bourdais to get an F1 opportunity for the last couple of years, and Andretti hopes his time has finally come.
"I think it's a wonderful thing that Sebastien is finally getting some attention," Andretti said at Edmonton. "Formula One, for a single-seat driver, is the ultimate test, no question about it. It has always been. And Sebastien deserves a good opportunity there.
"I think he has been overlooked and underrated in every way. He is a very special talent, and he has shown that over and over again."
Andretti's concern is that Bourdais' team doesn't measure up to his talent.
"That's a question mark," he admitted. "Toro Rosso could be one of the top three teams next year, though they certainly haven't shown it so far. But F1 has had that problem for many years. Unless you go to one of the top three teams, you have no chance to show that you can win. But you can show moments of brilliance with a secondary team and get noticed.
"Talent will always surface, will always come to the forefront. I wish him well, because he is world-champion material with the right team."
It's unfortunate that Bourdais and Renault F1 czar Flavio Briatore couldn't agree on a contract in 2002, because Bourdais would seem to be a natural for the French team. But he chose to race in America for the last five years rather than be subject to Briatore's contractual demands.
Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso took the Briatore management route, and look where it got him. But Bourdais has no regrets about his highly successful five-year relationship with one of American racing's greatest teams.
Obviously I'm really happy that I got to drive a Formula One car at Spa. If there's one place you want to be testing, it's over there. It's a great track. It was an awesome feeling and I had a ton of fun. So if that was my last time in an F1 car, it was a great memory to leave with.
Sebastien Bourdais
Paul Stoddart gave Alonso his F1 break in 2002 in the team now branded Toro Rosso. Now owner of the Minardi Team USA in the Champ Car series, Stoddart says it's now or never for Bourdais.
"For Sebastien, it's the right time, but it might be the wrong team," Stoddart said. "It's going to be tough for Toro Rosso to move up the grid, no matter how good a job he does.
"It could be a no-win situation, but then you don't get many second chances in Formula One."
It's not realistic to believe that Bourdais or anyone else could have regularly scored points in this year's Toro Rosso car. But the combination of a motivated and talented new driver and potential design improvements from Newey and new recruit Geoff Willis could move the team into F1's top 10 next year.
Assuming he gets the call, Bourdais will have to decide whether scratching for points is a better alternative than continuing to beat up on his Champ Car competition.
John Oreovicz covers open-wheel racing for National Speed Sport News and ESPN.com.


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WORTHINGTON -- Authorities intercepted more than a pound of marijuana as it was being shipped from California to Worthington last week, and the two who received the package are scheduled to make a court appearance Monday, according to court documents.
Pranom Souvannarath, 29, and Somsalao Thonesavanh, 43, both of Worthington, are facing felony-level charges of controlled substance possession in the case.
Souvannarath was released on her own recognizance last week, while bail for set for Thonesavanh at $10,000.
The complaint states Thonesavanh was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine in South Dakota's federal district court in 2004.
According to the criminal complaint, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport Police contacted local authorities July 26 regarding a suspicious package observed at the airport.
The package, sent via overnight air from a mail store in Fresno, Calif., was addressed to a Kon Vongphackdy on Eighth Avenue in Worthington.
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Murray County Deputy Brian Gass and his K-9 partner, Bailey, conducted a sniff test of several packages at the hub, with the dog alerting to the Worthington-bound package. After executing a search warrant, the agent opened the package and found an amount of a green leafy substance inside a vacuum-sealed bag.
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Arrangements were made for a controlled delivery of the package to the destination address.
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The man picked up the package, and both he and a female entered the residence.
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The woman opened the door, and both she and the man were ordered to the ground.
The man, later identified as Thonesavanh, went toward another room, and an agent pursued him.
Both Thonesavanh and the woman, identified as Souvannarath, were detained.
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The two were arrested, and both declined to give a statement.
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Shanghai Shenhua on Monday challenged Didier Drogba's move to Galatasaray, claiming the Ivory Coast striker remains under contract with them.
On Monday, Galatasaray announced a deal that would see the 34-year-old Drogba join up with them immediately after the African Nations Cup, currently ongoing in South Africa.
But Drogba's Chinese Super League club, who he joined from Chelsea last summer, issued a statement on their website describing themselves as "deeply shocked" by the announcement, and insisting Drogba remains under contract in China.
"We understand that Drogba is eager to participate in the European Champions League," the statement added.
"Shanghai Shenhua Football Club and Drogba on July 1, 2012 officially signed a formal contract for a period of 2 1/2 years. The club has acted in accordance with this contract, and has effectively fulfilled the responsibilities and obligations of the club.
"Currently, Drogba is still a player of Shanghai Shenhua Football Club, the contract between the two parties is still within the period of validity.
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UNITED NATIONS, July 14 (UPI) -- An emergency session of the U.N. Security Council concluded without producing a resolution on the escalating conflict between Israel and Lebanon.
A statement generated by the council, read out Friday to reporters by Ambassador Jean-Marc de la Sabliere of France, the council's July president, lent Security Council support to the U.N. team of envoys dispatched to the region to help diffuse the situation. It made no mention of a cease-fire.
"The Security Council welcomes the secretary-general's decision to dispatch to the Middle East a senior-level team," the 15-member body said in its statement. "The Security Council calls on all concerned states and parties to extend their full cooperation to the team."
A U.N. spokesperson said the envoys had arrived in Egypt, where they would meet with Egyptian Foreign Minister Abu Ghait and then the secretary-general of the Arab League, Amr Mousa. The group will also travel to Israel, including the Palestinian territories, and to Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
The Security Council has lately been deadlocked in its responses to a variety of international crises, from Iran's apparent dismissal of a call to suspend uranium enrichment, to missile launches by North Korea, to a resolution on the continuing violence on the Gaza Strip, which came to a vote Thursday but was blocked by an American veto.
The council's failure to arrive at a strong statement on the situation in Israel and Lebanon, which appears to be boiling over into a full-scale regional conflict, further raises doubts over its ability to operate as a unified body.
During the two-hour long Security Council session, convened at Lebanon's request, statements varied widely on how the international community should interpret the unfolding violence.
Lebanon, which along with Israel was invited to address the council, condemned Israel's actions as "barbaric" and asked the Security Council to call for a cease-fire.
"I need not explain to you who is the victim and who is the aggressor, since Israel's military operations are clear acts of aggression and devastation aimed to bring Lebanon to its knees and to subvert it by any means," Lebanese Ambassador Nouhad Mahmoud told the council.
Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman reiterated his country's position that Israel's actions have been a direct response to Lebanon's declaration, through Hezbollah militants, of war against Israel.
Gillerman also placed blame on Iran and Syria for the escalating violence, saying Hezbollah, along with Hamas, Syria and Iran, comprise "the world's new and ominous Axis of Terror."
"It is very important for the international community to understand that while Hezbollah executes this vicious terrorism, it is only the finger on the bloodstained, long-reaching arms of Syria and Iran," he said.
The United States, which has a reputation as a reliable supporter of Israel on the Security Council, also had strong words for Lebanon.
"Hezbollah's incursions across the Blue Line on July 12 were a deliberate and premeditated provocation intended to undermine regional stability and are contrary to the interests of both the Lebanese and Israeli people," U.S. Ambassador John Bolton told the council.
Bolton also repeated U.S. President George W. Bush's declaration that Syria and Iran should be held accountable for their role in the current crisis -- Syria as a material supporter of terrorism and provider of a safe haven for terrorists, and Iran for its financial backing of Hezbollah. He also called on Syria to arrest Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, who currently lives in Damascus, the Syrian capital.
Syrian Ambassador Bashar Jaafari told reporters his country had been denied participation in the discussions.
"The issue is wider than capturing a soldier here and there," Jaafari said, when asked what Syria would have told the council. "Hezbollah is a national resistance movement aimed at combating and fighting foreign occupation" and, as such, enjoys the support of Syria.
Later in the day, the Syrian mission sent a letter condemning its exclusion from the meeting, given, as Jaafari contended, "my country was subject to false accusations and direct threat in the context of Israeli aggression of Lebanon."
At the start of the meeting, the Security Council was briefed by Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari.
"We are emphasizing to all parties that a qualitative escalation of the conflict is in no one's best interests, and the space for diplomatic initiatives is quickly closing. All parties must do their utmost to ensure that this space remains open," Gambari said.
Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guehenno also briefed the council.
Soon after the meeting commenced, a defiant statement by Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, was broadcast.
"To the Zionists, you wanted an open war and you will have it," Nasrallah said.
Israeli assaults on Lebanon have meanwhile hit the country's main airport, a major highway, Nasrallah's headquarters, among other targets.
According to Israel, in the last 48 hours prior to the Security Council discussions, more than 500 katyusha rockets and mortar shells were fired into the northern part of Israel, killing 2 civilians and wounding hundreds more.
The release of three Israeli soldiers currenrly held in foreign custody -- one captured by Hamas June 25 in a cross-border attack near Gaza and two more captured by Hezbollah July 12 on Israel's northern border with Lebanon -- remain the focus of Israeli action.


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A 49-year-old Clarke County woman died when this Winterville duplex was destroyed by fire early Monday morning. A 2-year-old boy made it safely out of the flames. The fire started in a bedroom, but the cause of the blaze had not been determined Monday. Athens-Clarke County firefighters were called to the fire shortly before 2 a.m., and extinguished it in about 10 minutes.John Curry/Staff
A 49-year-old mentally disabled woman died early Monday morning in a Winterville duplex fire, Athens-Clarke police and fire officials said.
Clarke County Coroner Randy Garrett said an autopsy is pending in the death of Bonnie Sue Smith of 205 Old Hull Road. Smith was visiting acquaintances at a duplex on Timber Drive off Beaverdam Road near Winterville at the time of her death, Garrett said. The death is expected to be ruled an accident, he said.
According to Athens-Clarke police reports, an officer on patrol was dispatched to Timber Drive about 1:50 a.m., where he saw a man and a woman outside the burning home screaming, ''My baby, my baby!''
Firefighters were dispatched at 1:48 a.m. and arrived 10 minutes later, reports said. The fire was under control by 2:10 a.m.
A 2-year-old boy made it safely out of the fire, according to reports.
Rescuers could not reach Smith until the heavy flames in a rear bedroom were extinguished. Her body was found lying on the bedroom floor underneath a window, and she was pronounced dead at the scene, Garrett said.
Garrett said Smith was mentally challenged and had ''around-the-clock care.''
The two adults who survived the fire were identified as Terrance Mandell Hull and Sherelle Baskin, both 26, who both lived at the home with the toddler. Baskin is a nurse who may have been providing care for Smith, Garrett said.
Baskin and Hull were taken to Athens Regional Medical Center, where they were treated and released Monday for injuries sustained in the blaze.
Athens-Clarke fire investigators were still looking into the fatal fire Monday and were unavailable for comment. An official fire report lists a bedroom as the area where the fire started, but an exact cause of the fire was undetermined Monday. An upholstered sofa contributed to the spread of the fire, according to the report.
It was not known if the single-story duplex apartment had working smoke detectors.
It was Clarke County's second fatal fire in a little more than two weeks.
Hilda K. Stevens died Jan. 25 of smoke inhalation when suspected faulty wiring started a fire in her LeAnn Drive home. Clarke County had three fire deaths in 2002, all coming in the winter months.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Tuesday, February 11, 2003.
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i love ... couldnt stop laughing...ingenious! cant wait 4 more!
This fic's funny and well-written. With it I am surely smitten! Now update or the Half-Blood's stick Shall surely come your nose to pick! I wanted to make it whack you over the head, but I couldn't figure out how to make it rhyme. That's why I don't write with a poetic meter --- ever. Great job!
Hahaha!! Wow! "You need some work with your romance.Think with your head, and not your pants"... that was awsome! Oh man, anyhoo, sooooo.. Half Blood Prince... who oh who is he??!?! (notice how it rhymes with woe oh woe is me... wow, talent-- yes talent-- that right there). Wow, and HPHBP is coming out on July 16th 2005... I can't wait!! Until then, update soon!!! (10/10... +1 for the addition of the HBP... awsome)!
Bloody Brilliant!
Very Good. Loved the tongue depressor rhyme in the 1st chapter and stop encouraging Hermy. I mean Hermione to go for the Draco.
That was sweet!!
This is awsome!! UPDATE SOON
Very very funny! Who do you think the HBP will be? Update soon! Rating=10!- TC