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Beijing, Feb 2 (IANS) The police chief of Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi province, has been removed from his post due to a scandal involving his role in covering up his son's drunk driving offence.
The decision was made Friday at a session of the 13th Taiyuan Municipal People's Congress, the local legislature, which appointed Liu Suiji to replace Li Yali as the city's police chief, reported Xinhua.
Li, also former deputy police chief of Shanxi province, had already been placed on probation within the Communist Party of China (CPC) for one year over accusations that he attempted to cover up his son's drunk driving offense.
A video showing Li's son, Li Zhengyuan, beating up a police officer went viral after it was posted to Chinese social media sites Oct 28, 2012.
The video shows Li Zhengyuan assaulting an officer after being stopped for a traffic violation. Officers then forced him to take a blood alcohol test, the results of which indicated that he had been drunk driving.
Instead of taking him into custody, some other officers walked him home.
An investigation by the CPC discipline authority found that Li Yali had abused his power while handling his son's offence.
Li was suspended from his police post and removed from his post as CPC secretary of the Taiyuan public security bureau Dec 7.


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Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Cleveland - Richfield
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Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Cleveland - Richfield
About the hotel
Property Location
Located in Richfield, Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Cleveland - Richfield is close to Furnace Run Metro Park and Sleepy Hollow Golf Course. This hotel is within the vicinity of Brecksville Reservation and Boston Mills Ski Resort.
Make yourself at home in one of the 67 air-conditioned rooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and coffee/tea makers, as well as phones with free local calls.
Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities
Take advantage of recreation opportunities including an indoor pool and a fitness center.
A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is served daily.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Free self parking is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
- Indoor pool
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 67
- Number of floors - 4
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free self parking
- Fitness facilities
- Free breakfast
- One meeting room
- Free WiFi
- Laundry facilities
- 24-hour business center
Room Facilities
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Free local calls
- Shower/tub combination
- Air conditioning
- Flat-panel TV
- Premium TV channels
- Coffee/tea maker
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- Satellite TV service
- Free toiletries
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- Hair dryer
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BA breaks down the Big West Conference, including our projections for regional teams, player of the year, pitcher of the year and top prospects.
|1. Matt Chapman, ss/3b/rhp, CS Fullerton
|2. Taylor Sparks, 3b, UC Irvine
|3. J.D. Davis, of/rhp, Cal State Fullerton
|4. Matt Imhof, lhp, Cal Poly
|5. Scott Squier, lhp, Hawaii
|6. Nick Torres, of, Cal Poly
|7. Reed Reilly, rhp, Cal Poly
|8. Joe Chavez, 2b, UC Riverside
|9. Richard Prigatano, of, Long Beach State
|10. Koby Gauna, rhp, Cal State Fullerton
|11. Jimmy Allen, 3b, Cal Poly
|12. Tyler Kuresa, 1b, UC Santa Barbara
|13. Antonio Gonzales, lhp, UC Riverside
|14. Michael Hill, 3b, Long Beach State
|15. Zach Varela, rhp, UC Riverside
|16. Andrew Rohrbach, rhp, Long Beach State
|17. Clay Williamson, of, Cal State Fullerton
|18. Connor Spencer, 1b, UC Irvine
|19. Kyle Ferramola, rhp, Cal State Northridge
|20. Andrew Morales, rhp, UC Irvine
|1. Justin Garza, rhp, Cal State Fullerton
|2. Dylan Hecht, rhp, UC Santa Barbara
|3. Thomas Eshelman, rhp, Cal State Fullerton
|4. Jake Jefferies, 2b, Cal State Fullerton
|5. Brian Mundell, 1b, Cal Poly
Big West
Baseball Members (First Year): Cal Poly (1997), UC Davis (2008), UC Irvine (2002), UC Riverside (2002), UC Santa Barbara (1970), Cal State Fullerton (1975), Cal State Northridge (2001), Hawaii (2013), Long Beach State (1970).
Checking out: Pacific (to WCC).
Conference Tournament: None.
Team to Beat: Cal State Fullerton.
The Titans have a very deep pitching staff that pounds the strike zone better than any in college baseball and an athletic lineup built around two marquee talents.
Player of the Year: J.D. Davis, of/rhp, Cal State Fullerton.
A proven run producer who hits for average and power, Davis also brings 92-94 mph heat and a good breaking ball to the bullpen.
Pitcher of the Year: Justin Garza, rhp, Cal State Fullerton.
Like rotationmate Thomas Eshelman, Garza is a premier strike-thrower, but he is the more electric of the two, with a 90-94 fastball, plus change and solid cutter.
Freshman of the Year: Phil Bickford, rhp, Cal State Fullerton.
The unsigned No. 10 overall pick in the 2013 draft, Bickford's calling card is his explosive fastball, but he still must refine his secondary stuff.
Top 25 Teams: (4) Cal State Fullerton.
Other Projected Regional Teams
Cal Poly: The Mustangs had their best season in 2013, spending time in the Top 25 and earning a No. 2 seed in the Los Angeles Regional—and several key pieces are back this spring. Ace LHP Matt Imhof has developed an improved changeup to go with his low-90s fastball and quality curve. At the back of the staff, RHP Reed Reilly is a resilient stopper with good command of an 89-93 heater from a deceptive delivery. Mashers Nick Torres and Brian Mundell are back to anchor the middle of the lineup, while CF Jordan Ellis, SS Peter Van Gansen and C Chris Hoo make the middle of the defense strong. Expect 3B Jimmy Allen to put up a big senior year, and juco transfer Zack Zehner to bring additional physicality and speed.
UC Santa Barbara: In coach Andrew Checketts' second season at the helm, UCSB made its first regional since 2001, elevating expectations for this year. The staff returns its top nine pitchers from a year ago, led by wily ace RHP Austin Pettibone, who attacks hitters with a high-80s fastball, good changeup and big slow curve. Sophomores Justin Jacome and Robbie Nesovic join him in a promising rotation, while lightning-armed So. RHP Dylan Hecht—who can run his fastball up to 97—anchors the bullpen. Nesovic doubles as a key run producer in the middle of the lineup, alongside sweet-swinging senior 1B Tyler Kuresa. Cameron Newell and Joey Epperson bring athleticism to the outfield, and So. OF Andrew Calica is an X-factor. He was a big-name recruit who was hampered by a back injury last year but is healthy now.
Notable Storylines: The Big West sent three teams to regionals last year for the first time since 2009, and it appears to have five or six potential postseason contenders heading into 2014. In addition to the three teams that made the NCAA tournament last year, UC Irvine, Long Beach State and maybe UC Riverside should be in the mix. The Anteaters boast a nice group of veteran hitters led by 3B Taylor Sparks, who led Team USA in batting (.396) last summer and has the most raw power in the Big West. But RHP Andrew Morales (10-0, 1.89) is the only proven commodity in a rotation that lacks power arms . . . The Dirtbags should be more potent offensively this year if talented Jr. OF Richard Prigatano can follow up a solid sophomore year with a big junior year and Sr. 3B Michael Hill can stay healthy for a full season. Dynamic Garrett Hampson rates as the league's best freshman position player and could be LBSU's next great shortstop. Long Beach needs answers on the mound, where it hopes LHP Ryan Strufing can bounce back from injury to anchor the rotation . . . Riverside is excited about the four upperclassmen in its rotation. RHPs Zach Varela and Jacob Smigelski can each run their fastballs up to 92 and showed feel for three pitches, while LHP Ben Doucette is an undersized bulldog with his own solid three-pitch mix. The pick to click is Jr. LHP Antonio Gonzales, who can reach 91 from the left side and has flashed a swing-and-miss breaking ball. The Highlanders call Jr. 2B Joe Chavez an "explosive" player with speed and power potential, leading the lineup.


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Tremlett Family
Of Ottery St. Catchpole, Devon, England
Unity "Mockridge" Tremlett- Hufflepuff- half-blood
Barney Tremlett- Ravenclaw- pure-blood
Both own and operate Mockridge and Tremlett in Diagon Alley. They make and sell wizarding jewelry.
Ignatius Goodwin Tremlett- Slytherin
Veronica Maisie Tremlett- Hufflepuff
Cyprian Geoffrey Tremlett- Slytherin
Lucretia Augusta Tremlett- Hufflepuff
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Where do you live?
7: Hogsmeade, Moray, Scotland
7. Both professors at Hogwarts: Ancient Runes and Potions
What houses were you in at Hogwarts?
8. Ravenclaw and Ravenclaw.
What are your blood statuses?
6: Spouse 1 is muggle-born, while Spouse 2 is a pure-blood.
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Spouse 1: Marie Elora Bonham
Spouse 2: Beaufort Will Ackerley
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1. Hamish Oliver, Hufflepuff
2. Maisie Druella, Ravenclaw
3. Galvin Walter/Cormack Geoffrey, Gryffindor/Gryffindor
4. Orla Muriel, Slytherin
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6. Lorcan Otto, Gryffindor
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Marie and Beaufort Bonham-Ackerley with Hamish, Maisie, Galvin, Cormack, Orla, Seamus, Lorcan, Rowena and Phineas.
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-Live in Cokeworth, England.
-Make livings as Hogwarts professors. Spouse 1 is the Potions professor and Spouse 2 is the Ancient Runes professor.
-Both in Gryffindor.
-Spouse 1 is half-blood and Spouse 2 is pure-blood
LN: Zeller
Spouse 1: Aaron Leonard Zeller
Spouse 2: Terra Silene Imago Zeller
Child 1 (G): Melania Verity Zeller "Lanie" -Gryffindor-
Children 2 (G & G): Emma Poppy Zeller "Emmy" -Ravenclaw- & Maisie Leanne Zeller "Maze" -Ravenclaw-
Child 3 (G): Ariana Daphne Zeller "Ari" -Hufflepuff-
Children 4 (G & G): Kendra Daisy Zeller "Kady (KD)" -Slytherin- & Marietta Lily Zeller "Mari" -Gryffindor-
Child 5 (G): Hestia Alice Zeller "Ti" -Slytherin-
Children 6 (B & B): Leonard Maximus Zeller "Leo" -Gryffindor- & Peter Nicolas Zeller "Pete" -Hufflepuff-
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We live in Mould-on-the-Wold, England
I am and Quidditch commentator and my husband is a player for the Chudley Cannons. I am a Gryffindor and he is a Ravenclaw.
Jennifer Amanda Bonham
Kieran Joshua Samuel Mockridge
1. Cadmus John- Slytherin
2. Poppy Arabella- Slytherin
3. Cormac Dai- Slytherin
4. Daisy Marietta- Ravenclaw
5. Alice Carlotta- Slytherin
6. Penelope Violetta- Ravenclaw (twin)
7. Otto Lorcan- Ravenclaw (twin)
8. Elladora Rose- Hufflepuff<-- the black sheep lol
Our owl's name is Ianto
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The family lives in London, England. The husband is a DADA professor and the wife teaches Astronomy. The wife is a hufflepuff and muggle-born and the husband a slytherin and a half-blood. Husband: Demitri Septimus Mordaunt Wife: Lilia Willa Ogden Mordaunt Children: 1. Wilhelmina "Mina" Aurora- Slytherin 2. Minerva "Minnie" Poppy-Ravenclaw and Gideon Cedric- Gryffindor (twins) 3. Cornelius "Neil" Arthur- Slytherin 4. Owen Aidan- Slytherin 5. Eloise "Ellie" Alice- Ravenclaw 6. Agnes Bridget- Gryffindor 7. Lysander Gregory- Slytherin Owl: Athena


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Dairy Queen
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REVIEW: Eizo S2231WE-BK Part 6
The Eizo S2231W comes with 10 buttons for controls, although only 5 of these are needed to use the menu. The buttons are located in the centre of the lower frame.
The button labels can still be read with ease when these is sufficient light. However, in the evenings, even with a light source beside the monitor, reading the labels requires patience. This is especially trying because 5 different buttons are in use and the labelling is illegible.
The brightness sensor is located on the very left and the LED which displays the status of the monitor is located on the far right. A bright blue LED indicates that the monitor is in ready mode and orange indicates that it is in standby mode. The LED does not glow when the monitor is switched off. The LED can also be deactivated completely in the OSD. The brightness sensor works perfectly and adjusts the brightness values automatically if desired. This function is deactivated in the monitor's factory settings.
The buttons on the Eizo S2231W are easy to understand and give good tactile feedback, but are almost impossible to read in non-ideal lighting.
The button is used to switch the monitor on and off. The button lowers and the button increases the column of the speakers. It is not possible to mute the speakers, either directly or via the OSD. The button changes the signal input and the button grants access to the pre-defined profiles (Custom, sRGB, Text, Picture and Movie). The button opens the OSD and acts as a confirmation button within the menu. The following buttons are used for navigation: , , and .
Eizo sticks to the tried and tested; the OSD has not been changed noticeably, either optically or in terms of the navigational structure, in the past few years across the various ranges. Naturally, the clear structure of the menu is an advantage, but the design and the need to click one by one to reach your desired result could to be improved.
Image parameters (only available in analogue mode)
This menu option allows the user access to automatic image adjustment, vertical bar correction (Clock), flicker and blur correction (Phase) and image position change. In addition, the signal output location can be changed and drawings or lines can be improved using the Smooth function.
Eizo offers 5 pre-defined modes: Custom (user-defined), sRGB, Text, Picture and Movie. Each mode can be selected comfortably using the button. Once the button has been pressed, the OSD menu opens and further improvements can be made.
Various image parameters can be changed and optimised under this menu option. The current display mode determines what parameters can be changed. Custom mode allows the user to make the widest range of changes. The following values can be adjusted: Brightness, Contrast, Colour Temperature, Gamma, Saturation, Hue and the Gain setting(RGB).
In addition, the standard values can be restored comfortably. However, before they are reset, the user must confirm the request again. This helps avoid changes made in error.
All values are given in percentages. Unfortunately, one click is not automatically equal to 1 percent. This, two clicks are necessary to raise or lower the brightness value by one percent. On the other hand, for the Gain settings, 2 to 3 clicks are needed per 1 percent.
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Nick Martin and Christine Costello, from Durham, in North Carolina, visited County Durham as part of an exchange programme through Duke Engage and spent four weeks shadowing Durham County Council's One Point youth workers.
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2002 Cheval des Andes Argentina & Chile (Red Blends) "Vistalva Vineyards"
Winery: Cheval des Andes
Vintage: 2002
Wine Name/Vineyard: "Vistalva Vineyards"
Wine Category: Argentina & Chile (Red Blends)
Grape blend: 60% Cab & 40% Mal
Region: Mendoza
State or country: Argentina
Price: $70
Cases produced: 3,400
KWG Score: 95 (based on 5 reviews)
Ken's Wine Rating: Excellent (97.99-94)
Review date: October 15, 2006
Wine Review: This wine was my favorite wine at this year's Boston Wine Expo. This wine has excellent balance. This wine is smooth as silk, until it turns into it dry finish that goes on and on. Wow!! What a wine. Enjoy - Ken
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Get an overview of this hotel5-star beach resort with a full-service spa
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Nestled on the beach, this Maret resort is 0.1 mi (0.2 km) from Escape Break and 2.6 mi (4.2 km) from Hin Ta and Hin Yai. Silver Beach and Coco Splash Waterpark are also within 1 mi (2 km).
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Spend the day relaxing on the beach or pampering yourself at Le Meridien Koh Samui Resort & Spa's full-service spa.
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All 77 individually decorated rooms feature free WiFi and Select Comfort beds. Conveniences include living rooms and refrigerators, and guests will appreciate thoughtful touches like bathrobes and slippers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Enjoy the umbrellas and sun loungers for a relaxing day at the beach. Pamper yourself with a treatment at the full-service spa and enjoy amenities at Le Meridien Koh Samui Resort & Spa like an outdoor pool and a fitness center.
Dining options at the resort include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Express check-in
- Library
- Picnic area
- Ferry terminal shuttle (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Shopping center shuttle (surcharge)
- Babysitting or childcare
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- 24-hour front desk
- Poolside bar
- Beach umbrellas
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Porter/bellhop
- Express check-out
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Year Built 2009
- Restaurant
- Coffee shop or café
- Beach sun loungers
- Free self parking
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free WiFi
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Outdoor pool
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Spa services on site
- Luggage storage
- Supervised childcare/activities
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Shopping on site
- Pool umbrellas
- Beach towels
- Total number of rooms - 77
- One meeting room
- Number of floors - 2
- Wedding services
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Garden
- Multilingual staff
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Premium bedding
- Separate sitting area
- Access via exterior corridors
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Slippers
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Dial-up Internet access (surcharge)
- Separate living room
- In-room massage available
- Free newspaper
- Partially open bathroom
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Separate bedroom
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
- Sleep Number by Select Comfort mattress
- Room service (limited hours)
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6 AM and 10 AM.
Latest Recipe - Overlooking the ocean and garden, this restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Open daily.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the resort include an outdoor pool and a fitness center.
Spa Services
Le SPA has 5 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include deep-tissue massages, hot stone massages, Thai massages, and massages. The spa is equipped with a spa tub. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and reflexology.
- Number of treatment rooms 5
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body treatments
- Body scrubs
- Facial treatments
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Prenatal massage
- Spa tub in spa
- Thai massage
- Reflexology
- Massages
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 12 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: THB 950 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: THB 1,800 per vehicle (roundtrip)
Hotel Name
- Koh Samui Meridien
- Meridien Koh Samui
- Meridien Koh Samui Resort
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.
Awards & Affiliations
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December 01, 2010ROTM - Acronym of the Day
Right On The Moneycybersex - Word of the Day Jargon
This refers to the notion of having sex while being online. No, you can't really "do it" over the net, just as you can't with phone sex, but users can visit chat rooms or IM with each other as a form of stimulation.
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A person who is capable of multitasking without suffering a decline in performance. Research shows that as of 2010, only one in 40 people can effectively multitask.�
December 03, 2010digitally grounded - Word of the Day Jargon
A form of punishment given to children, tweens, or adolescents by their parents due to excessive online usage, visiting websites that are not allowed, sneaking online after hours, cyberbullying, or any other kind of online misbehavior. It is a modern form of discipline in a technological era where sending kids to their room isn't necessarily relevant because they can often text or access the Internet. The purpose of grounding is to teach a lesson by depriving kids of their social connections, which now includes technology.
A young person who is "digitally grounded" may be forbidden to use electronic devices (either completely or partially), forbidden to access Facebook or other sites (for a week or two), forbidden to use a cell phone (for social use), and may also include no TV or video games for a specified amount of time.�
Historical perspective: In 2010, the Pew Internet & American Life Project published a report that captured part of the "digital grounding" trend. It said 62% of parents said they had taken away a cell phone as punishment.
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Quit Scrolling
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What You Doing?
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Right Back at Ya
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Close Of Businesshydraulics of the situation - Word of the Day Jargon
An MBA buzzword meaning to know and understand all aspects of how something works in order to make the necessary alterations.
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Every One
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Synonymous with a crawler, this is a program that searches the Internet and attempts to locate new, publicly accessible resources, such as WWW documents, files available in public FTP archives, and Gopher documents.
Also called wanderers or bots, spiders contribute their discoveries to a database that Internet users can search by using a search engine. Spider technology is necessary because the rate at which people are creating new Internet documents greatly exceeds any manual indexing capacity (although search directories prefer the manual approach).datasphere - Word of the Day Jargon
A play on the word "atmosphere," this refers to data that is transmitted via satellites.
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An audio/video (multimedia) file format for the Macintosh platform. MOV files, which have the .mov file extension, are playable on the Windows operating system if you have the QuickTime Movie Player application installed.
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Did I Say That Outloud?
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Talk To You Latercyberstalker - Word of the Day Jargon
"Cyberstalking" refers to contacting a person online persistently, especially out of obsession or derangement. For example, if a man sends a woman threatening e-mails or repeatedly contacts her via her social networking page, he could be charged with a felony.
A "Google stalker" is when someone locates you by doing a search on Google and then incessantly emails you. They are said to be Google stalking (or cyberstalking) you.
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Thick Between Ears
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The science of coding messages so they cannot be read by anyone other than the intended recipient. Cryptography is the mathematics of security, and it includes encryption, authentication, and integrity. It is used in almost all d-commerce situations (such as cell phones) and is invisible to the end-user.
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A common phrase used to mean very, very, very fast, as in, "We finally got a high-speed connection."
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- fiber-optics
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Department Of Redundancy Department
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Abuse Of Bandwidth
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For Your Edification
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A Web site that provides links to information organized into a categorical, alphabetical hierarchy. Yahoo! is the most popular online search directory.
Unlike a search engine, which uses bots to sort its information and relies soley on Internet technology to operate, a search directory is human-organized, meaning that real people actually edit the links and classify them into the directory. The result of this distinction is easily apparent when doing an online search: instead of a search engine spit-out of hundreds of thousands of results (many of which are irrelevant), a directory comes back with links that are more accurate and better organized. If you don't know the actual URL of a Web site you want to see, try searching Yahoo! first; if you still can't find any interesting, related information, then go to a search engine (and take time to learn how to use the "advanced search" feature).
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From The Bottom Of My Heart
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An electronic library provides online access to public catalogs, CD-ROM indexes, online databases, audio files, and video conferencing tools. As with public libraries, you'll need a certain amount of mastery in order to find what you're looking for in an electronic library.wiki - Word of the Day Technical
The ability to work collaboratively on a document, where everyone may add or edit text. A "wiki" is a type of Web site or tool for doing jointly authored writing using the Internet. The idea is that this kind of "open editing" allows for easy interaction between users and/or groups and is effective in collaborative authoring.
In the industry, "wiki" is said to be "the simplest online database that could possibly work." It is a server software and its main advantages are ease-of-use, global access, and low cost. Like blogging, it allows anyone the ability to publish their writing directly on the Web, however, this kind of free expression comes with a caveat: DBEYR.
The term wiki originates from the Hawaiian word for "fast" or "quick" and was coined in 1995 by Ward Cunningham. In March 2007, the word wiki became a newly recognized English word.
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This technology allows a user to access the Internet via a satellite that orbits the earth. A satellite is placed at a static point above the earth's surface. From a fixed position (also referred to as GEOS), the statellite is able to maintain a reliable connection to the antennas on the earth. It orbits the earth at the exact speed of the earth's rotation. Because of the enormous distances signals must travel-from earth, up to the satellite and back down again-IoS is slightly slower than high-speed connections over copper or fiber-optic cables.
In remote regions of the world, Internet over Satellite is a viable option because installing the cable backbone necessary for Internet connectivity is not economically feasible or physically possible. This technology represents a big step toward building a "global village," and it's an example of how wireless technology can connect parts of the world that previously had little or no technology, let alone access.
December 23, 2010ultra-wideband - Word of the Day Jargon
UWB uses a huge swath of radio frequencies to transmit minute pulses of information allowing the signal to go through objects. The applications include radar imaging of buried objects (popular with the Pentagon).
December 24, 2010hacker ethic - Word of the Day Jargon
A set of moral principles common to the first-generation hacker community. According to hacker ethic, all technical information should, in principle, be freely available to all. However, destroying, altering, or moving data in a way that could cause injury or expense to others is always unethical.MML - Acronym of the Day
Made Me Laugh
December 25, 2010nigritude ultramarine - Word of the Day Jargon
Google finds over 250,000 web pages that refer to "nigritude ultramarine", a phrase that translates roughly into "dark blue." This strange phrase appeared in many blogs and Web sites in 2004 as the result of a search engine marketing challenge.attribute - Word of the Day Jargon
A trait, characteristic, or property of an entity. In the computing world, it generally refers to a column name or field in a database.2b@ - Acronym of the Day
To Be At
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One of the two most common types of image formats used on the World Wide Web (the other being GIF). The shorter extension, JPG (without the E), is usually used in association with PC platform files.
A standardized image compression mechanism, JPG is named after the original name of the committee that wrote the standard, the "Joint Photographic Experts Group." JPG is designed for compressing either full-color or gray-scale images of natural, real-world scenes. It works well on photographs, naturalistic artwork, and similar material; not so well on lettering, simple cartoons, or line drawings. JPG handles only still images, but there is a related standard called MPEG for motion pictures. JPG is "lossy," meaning that the decompressed image isn't quite as sharp as the one you started with. (There are "lossless" image compression algorithms, but JPG achieves much greater compression than is possible with lossless methods.) JPG is designed to exploit known limitations of the human eye, notably the fact that small color changes are perceived less accurately than small changes in brightness. Thus, JPG is intended for compressing images that will be looked at by humans. If you plan to machine-analyze your images, the small errors introduced by JPG may be a problem, even if they are invisible to the eye.
On the Web, there are image archives set up for Web designers to acquire graphics easily. These sites usually display thumbnail versions of images that may be GIFs or JPGs. Clicking on these thumbnails will usually link you to the larger, higher-resolution version of the same image.
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A play on words, it marks the demise of a dot-com company.RTSS - Acronym of the Day
Read The Screen Stupid
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An alternative to Wi-Fi, it is a protocol for wireless networking (at 1.6 Mbps and increasing to 10 Mbps). HomeRF is a leading RF technology backed by corporations such as Compaq, Motorola, National Semiconductor, Proxim, and Siemens. Like Wi-Fi (also known as 802.11b), HomeRF operates on the 2.4 GHz spectrum but differs in that its signals hop among different frequencies (or bands) within the radio frequency spectrum.TISNT - Acronym of the Day
That Is So Not True
December 28, 2010RMETTH - Acronym of the Day
Rolling My Eyes To The Heavens
December 30, 2010Red Book - Word of the Day Technical
Another name for the CD-DA audio CD format introduced by Sony and Philips, the Red Book standard defines the number of tracks on the disc that contain digital audio data and the error correction routines that save sound from minor data loss. The format allows for a total of 74 minutes of digital sound to be transferred at a rate of 150 kilobytes per second (K/sec).discussion board - Word of the Day Jargon
A common name for an interactive message board, this is a place on the Web where users may post and read announcements on topics of common interest. A person interacts with a discussion board by submitting forms or sending in e-mail messages to be posted via a Web browser (as opposed to newsgroups, which require a newsreader). The boards are a popular way to interact online, because they are easy to navigate and easy to use for responding to another person's message.TPT - Acronym of the Day
Trailor Park Trash
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Online jargon, it is a nickname for the drug heroin, as seen in texting, online chat, instant messaging, email, blogs, and newsgroup postings.


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Kazakhstan government officials have accused Uzbekistan of violating its airspace with an unmanned drone aircraft, backing the claim up with video showing the purported incursion. The incident happened February 16 in the area of Beyneu, on the far western end of the Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan border, according to KTK TV, citing sources in the security services. The government also has released a shaky video of the drone, which you can see at KTK's site. The drone, to The Bug Pit's untrained eye, could be either a Hermes 450 or a General Atomics MQ-9. And it's engaging in some un-dronelike behavior, buzzing close to the ground near some apartment blocks.
From KTK:
The UAV crossed the border of our country and went deep into the territory of Kazakhstan. The incident was reported to KTK correspondents by informed sources in the power structures. The aircraft was located in the Kazakh air space for about fifteen minutes. And it went unnoticed by air defense units because it flew at too low an altitude. The drone, presumably belonging to Uzbekistan, flew near two border posts, turned around and headed back toward the border and escaped to a neighboring state. Representatives of the Air Defense Forces and the intelligence units of the Ministry of Defense are involved in the situation. Whether the Uzbek authorities will be sent a protest note, is still unknown.
(Tengri News picked up the story and translated it into English, as well.)
Uzbekistan isn't known to operate any drone aircraft of its own, though it has in the past allowed the U.S. to launch reconnaissance drones from its territory. Any possible explanation seems hard to believe. Has Uzbekistan been operating a sophisticated drone program without anyone knowing? It doesn't seem implausible that the U.S. is secretly operating drones from Uzbekistan, but they would presumably be directed to the south, to Afghanistan, rather than buzzing Kazakhstan border towns. I'll try to do some digging, and anyone with knowledge, theories or wild speculation is welcome to drop a line.
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Definitely not Predator or Reaper [MQ-9]. Looks a bit like a petite Israeli Hermes, but maybe too small. Probably Chinese. Wing Loong?
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Police spokeswoman Holly Joshi says the chase ended when the vehicle crashed into another car in a city intersection Wednesday afternoon. She says the driver attempted to flee on foot but was apprehended.
Joshi says the passenger was armed and refused to surrender. He was shot and killed by police.
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WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Sen. Bill Rabon filed a bill yesterday in the state legislature that would raise the speed limit on some North Carolina roads.
The bill would allow the DOT to set a maximum speed limit of 75 miles an hour on certain interstates.
"We're trying to get people from point A to point B in a more timely fashion," Sen. Rabon said. "Seventy-five is not unreasonable. A lot of people drive 75 already. Not that that makes it OK, but I think in the long run it might even help with enforcement."
Rabon, a Southport Republican, is one of three primary sponsors of Senate Bill 709. The bill says the Department of Transportation will have the ability to determine on the basis of engineering and traffic that a higher maximum speed is needed.
To increase the speed limit, the bill says it has to be safe under the conditions of the interstate to do so.
Drivers we spoke with liked the idea.
"Everybody already drives 75 and above anyways, so I don't think it will be a big deal," driver Brian Harris said.
We reached out to the Highway Patrol for a statement, but they did not want to comment unless the bill becomes law.
We spoke with another driver who said he drives 85 already, so raising the speed limit would make what he's doing closer to legal. He did not want to go on camera.
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Four families in northeastern New Brunswick are entering the holiday season in mourning after a car slipped off an icy road and plunged into the Tracadie river, submerging the four young people inside it.
Marie-Hélène Gauvin, Tommy Losier, Alexandre McGraw and Brian Basque — all between the ages of 17 and 20 — were at a popular spot by the river in the early hours of Saturday morning when the weather turned, said Aldéoda Losier the Mayor of Tracadie-Sheila.
The dirt road used to access the area was coated in ice, he said. When the group tried to leave at 1 a.m. the car — reportedly a birthday gift — struggled up a hill before sliding off the road into the river.
The tight-knit community is in shock, and mourning the loss of four people who had so much ahead of them, he said.
"They just started living…. This is catastrophic. For us, [the loss of] four people is shaking up a community."
On Sunday, after all the victims' family members had been notified, RCMP released their names and ages: Ms. Gauvin, 17, of Pointe Canot; Mr. Losier of Ste-Rose, 18, Mr. Basque, 19, also of Ste-Rose and Mr. McGraw, 20, of Losier Settlement.
The car was found in a part of the river that is about 1.5 metres deep and nine metres wide, the mayor said.
RCMP retrieved the vehicle on Saturday afternoon and said all four bodies were discovered inside.
The accident happened on an unserviced road off Route 370 near Tracadie-Sheila, about 70 kilometres northeast of Miramichi, New Brunswick RCMP said.
Typically at this time of year, the winter weather makes it difficult to use that road to access the spot, part of the old Tracadie Military Range, for cars other than all-terrain vehicles, the mayor said. To access the area, vehicles have to drive on a dirt road on hilly terrain, he said
On Friday evening, the weather had been relatively nice, with no ice or snow, he said. But by early Saturday, it began to rain and around 1 a.m., the road had become slick with ice.
"On their way back at around 1 a.m., they tried to get up the hill, but their car wasn't able to make it," Mr. Losier said. "It went down, and they were unable to stop it. It turned upside down and went into the river."
The car was a birthday gift to Mr. Basque from his mother, a relative told CBC News on Sunday.
The four friends were out celebrating his 19th birthday, Jean-Claude Doiron told the CBC.
"They were having fun… a party," he was quoted as saying. "It's real hard for [his mother]."
Moments of silence were held during services at area churches on Sunday to pray for the friends and families of the victims, said Claude Landry, the MLA for the area.
It's a shock to the community
"The church was full," said Mr. Landry, who attended the service. "It's a shock to the community. Everybody knows everybody down here."
Community residents turned their Christmas lights off on Saturday night, out of respect for the victims' families and friends, said Mr. Losier.
"Just three or four days prior to the big event of Christmas time, it's tough for the families, the parents and grandparents," he said.
The impact of the accident reaches beyond their community alone, Mr. Losier said, as the victims were all from big families which have longstanding roots in the area and surrounding city centres.
We're all mourning the loss of these four young people
"People know each other, and these are extremely hard times for these communities, these families," said Cpl. Chantal Farrah of New Brunswick RCMP. "And we're all mourning the loss of these four young people."
Saturday's tragic accident also stirred up memories of the January 2008 highway crash that killed seven high school basketball players and an adult chaperone near Bathurst, N.B., roughly 100 kilometres away.
That crash, on a slushy patch of highway, killed 17-year-old Codey Branch and his teammates Daniel Hains, 17, Nick Quinn, 16, Nathan Cleland, 17, Javier Acevedo, 17, Justin Cormier, 17 and Nicholas Kelly, 15. Also killed in the crash was Elizabeth Lord, 51, the wife of coach Wayne Lord who was driving the 15-passenger van.
Anna Acevedo, the mother of Javier, said the news of Saturday's accident made her incredibly sad.
"I can relate to what these people are feeling right now," she said from Bathurst, N.B. "It's hard to lose a child. That's the worst thing that can happen to a parent."
Ms. Acevedo has since become an advocate for transportation safety.
"When that happens, there's nothing we can do about it. But we have to try to make it a positive," Ms. Acevedo said. "It's not an easy thing. For me, it's been five years, but it feels just like it was yesterday. But I can relate to the parents; My thoughts are with them."
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So good its good: a B-movie masterpiece.
Look, I was blown away by this movie. Your expectations should be set pretty low and cheesy according to the title, so I couldn't believe how much exploitation fun this delivered. This goes way above the "so bad its good" films, this is clearly satire, intentionally satirical, and it delivers Chainsaws, Hookers and a hard-boiled Hollywood crime reporter. Plenty of boobs and blood, excellent picture quality on the blu ray from the Slasher Classics Collection in the UK that has clearly not been monkeyed with because some flaws in the print can be seen, which is terrific. Audio is a bit disappointing, probably because of the low budget production conditions, but its pretty muddy and difficult to hear. There's a rockin' soundtrack that still sounds good though. Overall amazing. A+++
Beautiful People (2014)
If you can get past the opening home invasion scene, the next one drags into oblivion...
A group of foul thugs pick the wrong house (I guess) to do their second home invasion on in this film. I mean, I wouldn't know because I had enough after 30 minutes. Most people switch off after ten, so I can help you more than them I suppose.
So what's wrong with this movie? Well, the situation is as harrowing as Funny Games, which it is clearly "inspired" by, but the acting and writing here are so painfully stilted and poor that there is no reason to keep watching. Sure the thugs say horrible things to these poor people, but during the twenty minutes of intimidation tactics that come after the opening credits, there's just no way to keep going unless the bone in your head the perceives truth and reality is broken. I'm not sure if its a language-barrier thing, because I heard some thick accents, but the performances are equally bad from the Father as from the Cockney Home Invader, who gives some of the worst line-readings this side of Samurai Cop.
I would not recommend this movie to even the most eager gorehounds, and that is the only crowd who will get past the brutal opening ten minutes. Oh, this is also one of those movies where they show you a monster during the opening credits because they aren't planning on showing it to you for another very slow hour, or what feels like an hour. I watched half of it, but life's too short. And bear in mind that I've seen A Serbian Film and Martyrs, so if the writing and acting is good enough I can stomach some strong horror, but there's no redeeming features in the first half so I'm out.
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Tropic Thunder is a movie about a movie playing another movie
Apparently, Ben Stiller met actors who were in Platoon and talked about it like they'd been to war, and that struck him as ridiculous and many years later, he helped turn that thought into a war movie.
Tropic Thunder is basically a self-aware action-comedy, a satire on the vanity of movie actors. Its easy to misjudge it, I've found. On first viewing, I just didn't think there were enough jokes. Its a strange animal because it has its feet equally in the action and comedy camps. Its almost as much about becoming the thing, as it is about satirising it. The movie I think is interesting in the way it pushes through the meta stuff to get to some kind of reality. It would make a good introductory text for a class on the nature of truth and reality, if not for how easily misunderstood its dialogue about race and disability groups are. While its clear to me that the intention is to make fun of movie actors at all times, I can understand how some people might have felt the movie was irresponsible in its messages with the "Simple Jack" storyline and the blackface storyline.
I know Downey Jr. was conflicted about accepting the role of a method actor who gets so immersed in his role as a black seargent that he can't drop character, but I'm glad he did accept it, because he's hilarious. He steals every scene he's in. As does Tom Cruise, who many didn't recognise until the closing credits, back in the day. Some of the team players get forgotten. Jay Baruschel is an excellent straight-man. He's the character we relate to, the one actor who hasn't been swallowed up by vanity. Jack Black also has a bit of a thankless job. He's unpleasant as the Fatties star, unpleasant as the drug addict, and has one hilarious scene when he's tied up to the tree. Steve Coogan also has an important part, and he plays it well.
Back in 2008, I was expecting maybe Zoolander or Anchorman, which have maybe 50% more jokes. Tropic Thunder is a different animal. Its a bit more measured, but its way more exciting and immersive than any of the other over the top comedies it gets lumped along with.
Trainwreck (2015)
Risky title for a Judd "35 mins too long" Apatow movie.
Amy is in her 30's, still living like she's 21, and wild even for that. She's not actually that likable here (this coming from a massive fan of her sketch show) but is joined by the completely affable Bill Hader and the adorable Brie Larson, so it balances out. Oh, and LeBron James is in there for some reason. For what feels like forty-five minutes.
Trainwreck is hilarious, and that's all you need to know before going in. However, as a companion piece to Amy's sketch show, or a movie in its own right, its pretty disappointing. It lacks the structural and cultural anarchy of the sketch show, and is pretty bloated and conventional for an Apatow comedy. There are about 50 terrific laughs, more than worth the price of admission, but considering the fact that Schumer's show has set a new standard for sketch comedy, I'm going to suggest that she can do better than "Trainwreck."
In romantic comedies, protagonists need to be likable, and her persona here is a selfish brat with no redeeming features. That's fine for a regular old comedy, but here there's no reason to care whether she ends up happy or not, therefore its easy to get bored between the jokes. There's a serious lack of coherence to the plotting. There's no progression, it just plays like a series of moments, far too many of which don't feature Amy Schumer, they instead feature LeBron James (for some reason) or Amy's father in an unnecessary nursing home plot. So many characters, so much unnecessary subplot.
Her character is also not quite deep and nuanced enough to justify the length of this movie. But then again, no earthly human can justify the way Apatow movies outstay their welcome. I liked Knocked Up and 40 Year Old Virgin, but in general the man doesn't seem to have an entertainer's sense of when to get offstage. Next time, more sketch comedy, or a movie with one of her TV directors please.
First Knight (1995)
Lancelot and Guinnevere: The Disneyland Version
First Knight is an odd duck. Pretty much everyone is miscast. Julia Ormond overdoes pretty much everything, just relentlessly acting, and completely lacking the grace and subtlety required to play a noble. Richard Gere clearly was having a laugh: he doesn't bother hiding his American accent most of the time, and plays Lancelot as a one-note ladies' man, instead of as the charismatic character of legend. Connery possesses the gravitas to play Arthur, and plays him sincerely, but he brings far too much baggage from being "Sean Connery," to make him believable.
The whole thing feels about as authentic as Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride. This is truly a prime example of Hollywood's excesses getting in the way of a good time. Yes, its fun if Richard Gere tosses his hair and acts all seductive, and yes I suppose its fun if there's a Wipeout-style obstacle course inserted into the Arthurian legend, but if there isn't a certain basic realism or internal logic to the characters, then a non-parodic narrative film like this is pretty well doomed. These aren't people, they're a bunch of cardboard cut-outs, play-acting around a round table.
Boys and Girls (2000)
Makes American Pie look like Citizen Kane
The year after American Pie, both Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan signed on for the worst script either of them had ever read. My guess is that they had absolutely no better offers that year, because this is a pretty cynical cash-grab. Its just falls flat in every way.
They both play minor characters, which further adds to my theory that this film was a preexisting "make lovers from friends" script featuring Forlani and Prinze Jr's characters that was forced into the old pie-tin once American Pie became a huge hit.
The acting is stilted, the dialogue is horrid, Claire Forlani is miscast as anything but an ice queen and Prinze and Biggs seem like they did a last minute switcheroo in an attempt for both to play against type, but Biggs can't play confident and Prinze is too good looking to be believably shy. I've seen worse movies, but I strongly recommend you don't see this one.
its just not good in any way.
Predator (1987)
When I was like 10 a friend told me there was a movie where this alien hunts down dudes and kills them one by one...
Predator is an epic, primal adventure; a fight between man and beast, hunter and prey, a tale of survival of the fittest. The Predator is a creature with neon green blood, thermal vision, an invisibility cloak. Its prey are a bunch of bros with guns, including classic parts for Carl Weathers and Arnold Schwarznegger. If not for all of his other career-making role in The Terminator, this would be my first exposure to Arnie, as we called him then. He represented, in this movie, the absolute best a man can be. He's good-looking, strong, makes decisions, and says things like "get to the chopper" without a shred of irony. He also says "if it bleeds, we can kill it," and "Do it, do it now!" which are just fun to drop into any dinner party.
The movie is a masterclass in pacing for action films. It works equally well as an action and horror film. In fact, it is the originator of a structure that I have come to think of as the Predator Structure, where people are hunted down and die one by one until only one remains. Its standard blu ray release has incredible sound quality, but just a passable picture. The film was shot with a lot of low lighting, and that doesn't tend to pop on in definition. Its murky and grainy, but still looks better than the previous DVD release.
The only thing that has not aged well are the special effects related to the alien technology: the Predator's heat vision and invisibility cloak always looked bad, but they look positively silly in high def. Once you're used to them, you can easily look past.
Who am I kidding, my love for Predator and Arnie in this movies goes way beyond the measured art of reviewing. This was a childhood favourite of mine and yes I had an awesome childhood. I first heard about it on the handball courts in primary school from this description "an alien hunts down a bunch of marines and kills them one by one, its awesome." I instantly wanted to watch that movie as soon as I could, and I loved it then and have loved it ever since.
Unlawful Entry (1992)
Unlawful Entry: yes, double meaning.
All you need to know about Unlawful Entry is that its title is a pun. Ray Liotta is typecast as the creepy weirdo who has designs on somebody else's Madaleine Stowe.
This might have played as a twist if not for the fact that Ray Liotta is physically incapable of playing a good guy. The only real question is what he wants: does he want the money or the wife? Kurt Russell's character is completely blind about it though. I was shouting at my Laserdisc player at one point: anyone who tells Ray Liotta their security password has clearly never seen a Ray Liotta movie before.
The only other thing worth talking about here is the audacity of the title. It has two meanings. There's a house break-in. There's also a sexual assault. I honestly can't believe that passed quality control. Its just an icky title.
Movie is totally tepid and predictable. Do not recommend.
The Net (1995)
Gripping thriller or goofy time capsule?
I like "The Net." I first saw it back in 1996, on VHS probably. We probably didn't have the Internet yet, or it was very new to us. So this was all very exciting, but scary too. There was a great sense of fear around identity theft. In 2015, we are such internexhibitionists with social media and twitter that people become lax and then their private sex-text photos get shared with billions of people.
The Net is a good thriller with an excellent title that is elevated by the charisma of star Sandra Bullock (still a star in 2015, amazing). Bullock is an incredible role model as a female hero: she is smart, funny, feminine and likable. The main issue for The Net over the years has been the march of time itself. Thrillers require a certain immediacy and immersion, and the mentioning of goofy out of date technological jargon risks dragging you out of the moment. As a period piece, or a time capsule, The Net is perfect, but does it still work as it did for audiences in 1995?
Luckily, the Net is not really about technology, its about the nature of identity in a bureaucracy, explored through the lens of technology, with the interweb as a weapon, and those issues are still relatable, and a movie like The Net serves as a good reminder of how trusting we have become of our internet privacy.
Body Heat (1981)
Hot weather, hot suspense, cool moustache.
Its hot, temperature-wise. William Hurt and Kathleen Turner are passing the time by having an affair, when Bill gets a very bad idea: why not do away with her husband?
Had I known there was a neo-noir element in this movie, I might have watched it sooner. I pretty much expected a non-stop smut-fest. Well, there was hardly any of that, actually. This is not your explicit sex-drama like Last Tango in Paris; there's a lot of sweating, hot breath, horniness, but enough of a thriller element to keep all that from getting too awkward.
Speaking of awkward, I kept getting swept up by Body Heat, when suddenly William Hurt's moustache would creep up and spoil it. Bill just didn't do it for me, and I never really got why he would do it for Kathleen, but I just ignored that personal reaction and found an enjoyable thriller, of the hot-breathed variety.


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January 27th, 2013 01:05 PM #6
Yea, I might just do that because I tried saying "We aren't really wanting to share" and then I get "Oh come on! Just tell me!" And then I end up getting into arguments.
I did let someone tell me suggestions and ended up with "Umm...Emma (which was her name), and Lena (len-ah) would be good. I won't give boys names because I want it to be a girl." O_o and from the other person "I'd suggest Penny (her name)" lol
It's just super frustrating trying to tell people "I don't want to share" and having to argue. With this one girl, the one that would steal my names, she doesn't want to give suggestions, she just wants to hear names so she can add them to her list. She's really the one I'm super nervous about avoiding because she just doesn't seem to want to take no for an answer.http://www.amazon.com/Angel-Blackwood/e/B00SARZLFY -- My Amazon Author Page
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January 27th, 2013 01:10 PM #10
If only it were that easy to just tell them no!
My parents weren't telling people so they made up names that sounding funny with our last name and such, Larry, Harry, Kerry (last name ends with Kerry), and told people those if they pressed. I plan to do the same thing, I will tell people we are naming a boy Zachary, (Last name is basically Zachary too hahaha), and I need a clever Z name to do the same with girls.
My advice, if they are going to be ridiculous and not take no as an answer, be ridiculous right back to them! Perhaps suggest Angel and Cody jr? (I think Cody is his name??? Sorry if it's not haha!)
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January 27th, 2013 01:19 PM #12
It is but see, the thing with the juniors is several of these people have told me "Oh, why don't you do a junior?" >.< No.
I could say Thomasina Thomas :P or something. That's funny >.<
Now with this girl, she won't take that. I'm serious everyone, she's my stalker. She thinks she's madly in love with me and wants everything about our lives to be the same. It's weird and she bothers me. She's already asked me twice this morning on facebook what the names are. O_Ohttp://www.amazon.com/Angel-Blackwood/e/B00SARZLFY -- My Amazon Author Page
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Personally, I would just lie, lol. Say something about how you and your husband just cannot seem to find any names to agree on and there are no (insert gender) names that you guys both love enough, and how frustrating it is, and do they please have any suggestions.Gracie ~ Teen Berry ~ Not Expecting, Just Planning


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The Federal Communications Commission's new rule that requires telemarketers get permission to call or text solicitations went into effect Wednesday.
Originally passed in 1991, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) gives the FCC authority to issue telemarketing rules and regulations.
Changes to the rule went into effect Oct. 16. The changes require prior express consent for telemarketers to contact a consumer, and eliminated the prior "established business relationship" exemption between a business and a consumer.
Companies that sold something to a consumer before were free to keep calling based on old regulations.
An exception is still granted for calls that are placed manually without a pre-recorded message.
Dallas communication attorney Bob Miller with the Gardere law firm is a former attorney for the FCC.
"I'm on a do not call list, my wife and I are and we still tend to get calls," Miller said.
Miller consults companies about how to comply with the tougher new rules.
"They're going to have to conduct themselves to make sure that there are procedures in place, either on their website or in texting," Miller said.
Miller said large class action lawsuits against big companies involved in large scale "robo-call" computerized solicitation helped spur the new FCC limitations. Miller does not believe it will end telemarketing.
"If a lot of people put the kibosh on it and say I don't want to do it, then maybe the effectiveness will go away and they will reduce their telemarketing or they may do away with it all together. We'll have to see how the market reacts," Miller said.
Violations carry fines of up to $1,500 per call.
The FCC will enforce the new rules, but the agency was closed Wednesday due to the government shutdown.
The Federal Trade Commission tracks violations of "Do Not Call" lists, which are also supposed to keep marketers from placing unwanted calls.
The FTC was also closed because of the shutdown.
FTC and FCC representatives were not available Wednesday.
Here's a complete list of the TCPA changes from New York law firm Klein, Moynihan, Turco LLP.


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The fan forums are full of wild speculation about what might be in Markus Notch Perssons next game, but the devs over at Mojang are still experimenting with the precise form 0x10c will take. When I head over to Stockholm to visit them, Notch has only just decided its going to have textures.
What is clear, however, is that this is a project of considerable ambition, which brings together the principles of player-creation, multiplayer and resource-gathering that established Minecrafts success, and pitches that into an Elite-style space-game.
Except, unlike Elite, you take control of a person inside a ship rather than the ship itself which has a 16-bit brain you can program. Oh and there are seamless space-to-planet transitions, too.
The goal is to have it feel a bit like Firefly, says Notch. You can try to land on a planet but you mess up and, instead of having the ship just explode like it would in real life, the landing gear gets broken. Then you have to try to fix that by finding resources. Instead of the adventure being flying from here to here, its: I set the destination, oh god I hit a small asteroid and the cloaking device broke. I think they really nailed that kind of emergent aspect in FTL.
Its more of a forgiving game than FTL, however a long-form style of game without FTLs brutal cycles of life and death.
Id really like for stuff to go wrong, says fellow 0x10c dev, Tobias Möllstam. But I think we've managed to establish a philosophy where things can go wrong and were not going to judge too much. Like you run something at 120% and catches fire, but you just about make it. Its kind of cheesy but I like it. Having a programmable and customizable ship means that theres a lot more investment, and the game should reflect that and allow you to have it for a long time.
Notch specifically wants to recapture that demoscene era of programming when it was relatively simple for a single person to do everything. But will code-newbs such as myself even be able to play the game? Notch suggests we will.
Im trying to design the game so you dont have to know programming but you can share the code, says Notch. If you have a friend whos made this really awesome docking algorithm, you can put that on a floppy disk within the game and put that into your computer.
Were some way of a black market for docking mechanisms though the game doesn't have any netcode yet.
Right now its not multiplayer at all, Im just trying to figure out the actual mechanics for it, says Notch. With Minecraft I waited too long to add multiplayer, so that was a huge hassle. So now, as soon as its fun, Im going to do the multiplayer. But nothing in the game is fun right now. I need to figure out what is actually a fun game mechanic in all of this.
The fun will come, no doubt shortly after Notch has figured out how to get stairs working. Its a little more challenging than it might otherwise be, because Notch is working with the same physics model for both the simulated gravity of the ships interior and the weightless vacuum of space. The idea is if the gravity generator crashes and you accelerate, you kind of get pushed backwards. If you get hit by something, everything can go Bonk! You have wires, you have attachment parts that kind of hang down, so you can see [the effects of gravity and inertia] in how the wires hang. Thats one thing I dont like about space games: they focus on the ship instead of the people in the ship. I want this to feel a bit like Alien, where the ship has this personality. Thats one of the reasons Tobias was attracted to the project too: I also wanted to be a person on a ship youre always a ship its like a flight sim in space, when Id like it to be much more like a submarine simulator or something.
All these ideals stated, both Notch and Tobias are careful to leave the future of the project ambiguous.
We dont know where 0x10c is really headed, says Tobias. Weve built a lot of hype around it now we need to take a step backwards and not raise too many peoples expectations. I like hearing fans hypothesising about what will be in the game. I think I read someone saying, I want to have a station with automated turrets that identify incoming ships, and if theyre not identified theyll warn them and then shoot at them, fully automatically. And that sounded fun it wasnt so much that we should take that idea, as that we should make a game so people can do stuff like that. Because with Minecraft its been really rewarding to create that sort of environment.
But first, Notch still has those textures to sort out.
Im very tempted to go with the Minecraft look of like pixelated textures, he says, but I have the problem of planets being very very far away. If you go closer you dont want the pixels to be like 15 kilometers large. So it has to switch between different textures, and you dont want that switch to look bad. But maybe we could do it to intentionally look like games used to when they loaded in a texture. We could do that in a kind of ironic way.
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I'm intrigued, I know it is probably not going to be a smash hit like Minecraft was, but the ability of having a full programmable computer seems pretty cool! Wonder what kind of programming language it will use?
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Well I know both C++ and Java so I hope its good enough
In fact I just had a java exam 3 hours ago.I wonder when a nuclear warhead goes off, does the frame rate of real life drop?
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I am actually hoping they go old school and use BASIC, that would be sweet! Being that the CPU speed on the in-game computer runs at 100KHz it would be a great choice!
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Brad Boyd
Sorry, but when a good chain of posts gets pushed down closer and closer to the cut-off point I like to bring it back up to the top.
Like I've said before, I've been a Dutch Wonderland employee since 1996. I also am a seasonal season pass holder at Hersheypark. I'm very excited to see the changes being taken place, and I'd just like to post what I see happening in the future of DW.
I'm sure Herb Brooks is a great guy, and he must be good at what he does, coming from such a high position in Hershey. I'm looking forward to meeting him. Gary Chubb will be missed. He was a great leader and example to all of us. He's more than capable of doing a good job in his new position, and his record proves it. We all wich him luck back in Hershey.
You can expect to see some of the following changes at Dutch Wonderland:
-Paid parking (look at the new website. it is inferred.)
-The two parks will advertise for each other. We can expect coupons and discounts from each park for the other. Maybe Dutch Wonderland will be included on Hershey's season pass in the future to boost attendance at both parks.
-Pepsi products will change back to Coke products.
-Obviously, all those M&M Mars products will be tossed in favor of Hershey products.
-The parks paths will be fixed up.
-There will be an improvement in facilities as well I'm sure. (bathrooms, lockers, rentals)
-New food and catering fuctions are a must. Don't plan on bringing in a picinic lunch anymore either. That's one thing the Clarks missed out on. At a park, there is a lot of money to be made in food and parking.
But to give credit where credit is due, free parking and picinic lunches are a great way to keep the public happy. You decide which is better. I personally like the free parking idea, with picinic lunches. The key to a successful business is REPEAT CUSTOMERS.
-Look for an improvement in games. Again, another gold mine that the Clark's missed out on.
-In the near future look for an expansion into the under-used camping manor. Another wooden coaster may be in the works. It's been hear-say at the park for quite some time.
-I see some more water rides. A shoot the shutes ride, (like Knoebles, is it Skloosh?), was in the works a few years ago, at least I had heard. We'll see.
-The monorail will be undoubtedly improved. It's been falling apart for years. The in-park monorail fee will most likely be gone as well.
Aside from that, don't expect too many changes. Duke and his freinds will still be the mascots. Don't expect to see walking candy bars in Dutch Wonderland. There will be no name changes. The park will look the same and will only be better, with hopefully more visitors.
Good post, Brad and these are the things I'd expect to see Hershey invest in DW.
Like almost every park out there, there is room for improvement, but overall, I believe DW is one of the ultimate family parks.
I replied to you under the SKY PRINCESS post (your post entitled - WAIT A MINUTE) and asked for some recollections. Now that I know you've worked there since 1996, I'm sure you have some great stories you can share here.
Keep up the good work and keep us posted on any future developements at the park (of course, when you are permitted!)
> Good post, Brad and these are the things I'd
> expect to see Hershey invest in DW.
> Like almost every park out there, there is room
> for improvement, but overall, I believe DW is one
> of the ultimate family parks.
> I replied to you under the SKY PRINCESS post
> (your post entitled - WAIT A MINUTE) and asked
> for some recollections. Now that I know you've
> worked there since 1996, I'm sure you have some
> great stories you can share here.
> Keep up the good work and keep us posted on any
> future developements at the park (of course, when
> you are permitted!)
> Joe
Everything sounds good except for switching to Coke. Seriously I hope the best for Dutch Wonderland and Herhseypark as well.
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