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It's all about Barack Obama! A man so obsessed with himself — as celebrity, as the center of everything, as "being Barack and not being Barry" — that he is scheduled to deliver a speech tomorrow directed to the nation's children in schools ("students"); the speech is dominated by: himself.
Note that Associated Press (link, above) refers to this speech tomorrow as Barack Obama's "talk," emphasizing the "be cozy with the leader" perspective, emphasizing the "special celebrity advice" personna that Obama used, with mainstream media assistance, to coast into the Office of U.S. Celebrity: it reveals a corrupting lack of formality (and in that, is suggestive, is seductive, in other words, toward an as-yet unrevealed end, or so it's implied).
Celebrity, not Presidency, that is the presentation method that Barack Obama has been revealed as engaging in many, many times: "dear leader" before charmed subjects while not engaged as public servant with an explanation of tasks to be completed and how. The charmed subjects, then, "believe" they want to please the Dear Leader but they can't specifically state why other than that there is some wafting seduction at work. Nor does (nor can, in Obama's case) explain what work he's engaged in, just that you-the-servant-are-joined-with-him, though there's never any clear explanation as to where it is you're being led. Again, seduction.
"Fuhrer" means, by the way, "Leader"; on the other hand, "President" means employee-hired-to-serve (and at a limited length of time, limited in scope), a Presidency, then, as public-servant, not a monarchy to rule, contrary (again) to the Barack Obama Administration as described by similarly dubious Key Adviser, Valerie Jarrett ("ready to rule from day one" so she declared last Fall).
The speech by Barack Obama, to be delivered tomorrow from a public school in Arlington, Virginia, is to be broadcast nationwide to participating schools. This version of the planned speech, released today, was only available for the public to review in printed form after parents and other citizens nationwide complained as to the earlier attempts by the complicit Department of Education to coordinate lesson plans asking school-age children to define how it was they could "serve" Barack Obama in response to this scheduled presentation tomorrow; this speech in this (latest) version, just released, is the latest round of messaging from Barack Obama and is now scrubbed of the earlier-planned (and announced by the Dept. of Ed.) requirement to serve Obama while the corrupting subtextual message remains: in this latest speech, it's all (continuing to be) about Barack Obama, not the nation, and that easily transitions to, it's all about the ideology that the Celebrity espouses.
The wording of the speech, at first blush, appears relatively innocuous; yet, on closer examination, the subterranean ploys remain: subtle, sneaky messaging. Children are led into a context that suggests to them to "join up, join with, be a subset of him, the speaker, this entity calling himself 'Barack Obama, President'" while the formality of the Office held by this (or any) individual — in the context of our nation and our nation's government — is minimized to a point of near-ignoring: while the nation is suppressed as issue, the individual ("Celebrity") is the message.
…the president tried to pull a fast one, nearly succeeded, and was caught in the nick of time.
The risk was never really in the speech: it was always in the course material, and in the words that the children's teachers would say, puppet-like, to accompany the president's speech.
Anybody with half a wit could see that. And now that the president's scheme has been well-and-truly sprung, his minions have retreated to a fall-back position that says, in essence 'see, we told ya there was nothing to worry about…'
Nothing to worry about my fat lazy arse!
We have seen a sneak preview of what this president is up to. There's more than plenty to worry about.
The speech remains an indoctrination text for and about an individual, the speaker, this persona children are then asked to heed. The absence of formality with children as public individuals by an adult individual using the Presidency to promote himself to those public (and vulnerable, impressionable) children is indecent.
Emphasis 1 — on the presence and person of "Barack Obama," the speaker with the message;
Emphasis 2 — on the influence of his points of view (follow his advice, it leads to him);
Emphasis 3 — associate with the "others" Barack Obama describes in the message, they're little children mentioned by him (so you are one, too, as also. then, part of his story);
Emphasis 4 — service is with (and defined by) the speaker;
Emphasis 5 — solutions identified by the speaker and message are Leftwing causes (note the mention of "curing cancer and AIDS" while there's no mention of curing diabetes, Alzheimers, arthritis or Multiple Sclerosis, or any number of other chronic, degenerative diseases that continue to pose demonstrative threats to humanity, civilizations and ours and other nations' economies — the point here is that "cancer and AIDS" are singled-out as desired goals to "cure" and particularly emphasized, as is also the mention of "the environment" in combination with "cancer and AIDS"); and,
Emphasis 6 — there's this discarded, de-emphasized thing rarely mentioned, called "the nation," which is minimized, deemed of little importance.
Hot Air presents a break-down analysis of the speech contents by word-type with counts, respectively, by type, that supports the Emphasis List I just presented, above.
Update II: I've run the speech through a word frequency counter and found the following results:
* 56 iterations of "I"
* 19 iterations of "school"
* 10 iterations of "education"
* 8 iterations of "responsibility"
* 7 iterations of "country"
* 5 iterations each of "parents", "teachers"
* 3 iterations of "nation"
In other words, Barack Obama referenced himself more than school, education, responsibility, country/nation, parents, and teachers combined…
And, also from Hot Air, comments section this time, reader "faraway" (on September 7, 2009 at 1:05 PM) makes a keen observation, as follows:
(Obama is to read/perform this)
"You'll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free."
(faraway says this is…)
Social justice
(…and faraway is right about that)
Note that "social justice" is the Marx rallying cry: it may sound all hippy-dippy-mom-and-pie-ish but what it means is some people want to change the U.S. government (and our nation accordingly) to take away the property of some citizens to then "redirect" it to he/she/it who those doing the redirecting think "should" have it (more than he or she whose property it is).
"Social justice" works elegantly as a description of freely-self-guiding individuals acting in a civilized manner in applying their individual property to those who they want to bestow with gifts or otherwise, aid and assist for personal reasons. That's what our Republic is written into existence to "allow" or at least to prevent government from taking away from all free men (citizens).
But in the mouths and minds of Marxists (Communist/Socialists), "social justice" is them using our Republic to replace it with theirs: a communist process by which personal property is forcibly removed from he/she who owns it and then redirected toward he/she/it who the Marxists/Communists/Socialists think "should" have it, be it an individual's home, land, child (redistributed to teachers unions to be indoctrinated, parental involvement grossly reduced if not undermined, etc., to produce another Marxist), your income, your property.
And it is what Obama-and-associated are about: they want personal property with or without any citizen's permission, but by force of government demand. Individuals exist in such a plan to serve the ruler, in other words, and the issue of private property and individual rights (what our Constitution sets into being) are then swept away into the past to become memories, antiquities, part of that "old, White man" stuff (apparently that includes our Constitution since the Constitutional declarations are today being greatly urged into ineffectiveness or overwriting by the Left — so goes away our Constitution, and so will go our nation as it has existed from birth to pre-Obama).
Michelle Malkin has been consistently right about this issue:
"I repeat: It's not the speech, it's the subtext; Update: Don't let me, me, me down"
An ongoing lie by Barack Obama that he has repeated numerous times before the public — and which he has included in the text of tomorrow's performance — is that, so he claims and repeats, he "was raised by a single mother" and which he uses to then lead others into a misty-sympathy-following along his less-than-honorable path to self.
He was born to a woman who had already married a man (not a single mother at that point); he remained with that mother and her husband (not a single mother then); he was taken to Indonesia by his mother where she married another man there (not a single mother then, either); he lived in Indonesia, adopted by that man his mother married there (no single mother there, either); he was later relocated back to Hawaii where he was left with his two grandparents and where he remained until a college-age young adult (two grandparents raised him there and then, no mother, single or otherwise, present).
Thus, this line that Obama continues to use for purposes of a tear-reaction and some sort of subterfuge misery index ("I was raised by a single mother, so I…[fill-in the blank of what issue he can then use to leverage among an audience]") is a lie.
There appears to have been one brief period of time that his mother qualified as single, legally, and that is after the divorce from the first man and before the marriage to the second man (though it's also argued she was never legally married to the first, so the marriage to the man in Indonesia is legally supposed to be her first marriage), anyway, there was a short period of time in his younger years before the move to Indonesia when the "first" man moved back to Africa and the mother, with child, Barack, remained in Hawaii — but with the two grandparents nearby — so this is not at all substantiation of Barack Obama as having "been raised by a single mother."
Question remains: why does Barack Obama use this lie (among many others) and for what political purposes? Is the man continually suffering abandonment or is he intentionally reinforcing his own mythology to the public? Is he unable to read his own factual dates of residencies and with whom, where or does he intend to confuse nearly anyone about what those facts are? Is anything he says reliable?
Any parent, particularly, who has such questions should never persist in exposing any child to such an influence. If there's a question there as to reliability, there's little to be had responsibly by persisting to expose any child to such an influence or influences.
I see I'm not the only person who notices this ongoing mythology by Barack Obama…
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August 1981
Gallop poll shows 63% of Americans favor ratification of Equal Rights Amendment, but does not predict ratification because of great opposition in South, Midwest, among Republicans, and older Americans.
November 1981
National Organization for Women (NOW) organizes series of rallies in support of ERA with former first ladies Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson leading the notables.
18 January 1982
Former Presidents Carter and Ford issue a joint call for ratification of ERA.
January-May 1982
Georgia, Oklahoma, Virginia, Illinois, Florida, Utah, North Carolina all reject ratification.
30 June 1982
ERA extension comes to a close; ERA dies.
6 September 1991
At their annual Tailhook Convention on the third floor of a Las Vegas hotel a group of drunken, abusive Navy pilots form a gauntlet in a hallway where they force 83 females (some officers) to pass, mauling, fondling, stripping off the women's clothes, and assaulting them.
Thirty-year-old Lt. Paula Couglin takes on the Navy by filing a complaint over her treatment at Tailhook.
Tailhook scandal exposes cultural and generation gap between old-guard Navy admirals who say "what's the big deal?" and are convinced that any women who were sexually assaulted must have "welcomed it."
October 1991
Americans sit riveted to televised Senate Judicial Committee hearings of Conservative Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas; he is accused of sexual harassment by University of Oklahoma law professor and former employee Anita Hill.
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For three days the country focuses on nothing else; soon the phrase "They just don't get it!" becomes popular short-hand to describe the Senate's attitudes.
Political scientist at Oregon State University, James Foster believes Hill-Thomas hearing is a pivotal event in American history:
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Fallout over the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings includes the following:
Political consultant Hank Sheinkopt who advises Braun in Chicago says of Hill's treatment by the Senate:
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Pat Robertson, head of the Christian Coalition, lashes out at Iowa's proposed state ERA during keynote speech. He says feminism "encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians."
Reporting on the convention, columnist Molly Ivins writes "...the Republicans spent much of their time peddling fear and loathing, but it was more silly than scary, like watching people dressed in bad Halloween werewolf costumes...Many people did not care for Pat Buchanan's speech; it probably sounded better in the original German."
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The election results:
January 1993
Despite election gains, women are still in monority in government:
President Clinton appoints three women cabinet members: Janet Reno, Donna Shalala, Hazel O'Leary and Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg.
February 1993
New Senator Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL) rattles Senate colleagues by demanding that they not renew design patent for United Daughters of the Confederate whose logo incorporates the Confederate flag. Moseley-Braun argues the federal government should not sanction such a flagrant symbol of slavery.
19 August 1993
Columbus (Ohio) Police Chief James Jackson denies charges he is sexist and says his career has been dedicated to advancement of women and minorities; the misunderstanding arose from his remarks 20 April at the A.M.E. Chuech at 639 E. Long Street when Jackson said:
"....Ladies....I know...about women's lib, but the Bible still says, and it always has, that the man is head of the household, and you are his helpmate. You don't lead him, you follow. You don't want to do that, then get out of the way. You know, God says for the sake of our children we must have these priorities."
8 February 1994
Navy Judge Captain William Vest throws out remaining charges against 3 Navy fliers accused in Tailhook scandal ruling that the top officer in charge (Admiral Frank B. Kelso) witnessed the drunken debauchery at Tailhook, lied about his knowledge of it, and manipulated the initial investigation such that the evidence was not reliable.
Two years after Tailhook where 83 women were molested by 140 Navy officers, not one of the 140 was ever court-martialed; only 50 were ever given any kind of administrative discipline; the message: "Tailhook 91 -- They got away with it!"
"This is outrageous!" states Karen Johnson, national secretary of NOW and retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel.
16 February 1994
After a 37 year career, Admiral Frank B. Kelso retires "early" because of Tailhook:
"This issue.... won't go away. The lightening keeps striking all the time so I think it's best for the Navy to give it another leader."
Not appeased by this retirement, Rep. Patricia A. Schroeder (D-CO) leads 14 other Congresswomen in signing a letter to House Armed Services Committee Chairman demanding "immediate review and action" of Navy's Tailhook investigation. She writes
"This investigation of Tailhook has been mishandled from its tawdry beginning to today's embarrassing finale with Defense Secretary William Perry defending chief of naval operations Frank Kelso."
26 August 1994
Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch article marking the 74th Anniversary of Woman's Suffrage states: "trends in voting show a widening gender gap and a rise in women who vote" however, some groups do not vote:
These women feel disaffected, say voting "is a waste of time...an exercise in futility"; do not believe they can accomplish anything through the political process.
November 1994
Republican Party's "contract with America" scores big in the election; this election is touted as "Year of Angry White Males"; large gender gap appears in voting patterns:
November 1994
Nancy Putnam Hollister (R-Marietta) becomes first woman elected Lieutenant Governor of Ohio.
16 March 1995
Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment. In years following the Civil War, state lawmakers were angry that Mississippians had not been reimbursed for the value of freed slaves.
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THOMPSON-OKANAGAN — More than 50 centimetres of snow has already fallen at the Coquihalla Summit in less than 24 hours and another 25 cm is expected tonight, but after that we are soaring into above normal temperatures throughout the region.
The heavy snowfall on Highway 5 led to a travel advisory early this morning, it was lifted shortly after 7 a.m., and several vehicle incidents that have closed sections of the highway at the summit and the Great Bear Snowshed. An avalanche also hit Highway 5A north of Princeton, which has reduced the road to single lane alternating traffic.
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Sonakshi Sinha packs a punch on the sets of 'Akira'
Sonakshi Sinha was spotted shooting for AR Murugadoss' film 'Akira' at Mehboob Studios in Bandra, Mumbai.
The actress has been training for the action drama under a few martial arts experts from Thailand (Read full story here). In this film, Sona is said to have shed her typical damsel-in-distress image.
Is Sona trying to prove a point to her detractors about her choice of roles? I ain't complaining.
Also read: Sonakshi Sinha finishes 'first ever action sequence' for 'Akira'
Sonakshi Sinha on the sets of her upcoming film 'Akira'. Pics/Satyajit Desai
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The Bank Trailer (2001)
"Power. Corruption. Revenge." 06 September 2001 Drama, Thriller 104 mins
The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock market. When he joins O'Reilly's fold, he must first prove his loyalty to the "greed is good" ethos. Which way will he go? What does he have to hide?
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LONDON: It was an ambush. As Britain woke up Saturday morning to snowstorms and arctic temperatures, the attorney-general was preparing to be questioned on Radio Four's Today programme over government plans to scrap jury trials in complex fraud cases.
Instead, as the interview with John Humphrys ground to an end shortly after 8.30am, the urbane Lord Goldsmith found himself explaining why he had warned national newspapers not to reveal the contents of a top secret memo detailing a lengthy conversation between the prime minister and President George Bush over the direction of the war in Iraq.
"I wasn't seeking to gag newspapers; what I said to newspapers was you need to take legal advice," Goldsmith insisted as an increasingly irritable Humphrys accused him of trying to silence the media for political expediency. "It is not being used to save the embarrassment of a politician," Goldsmith persevered. "That is completely not the case at all."
It is unlikely this will be the last time Goldsmith will be asked about the memo, which first emerged in the offices of a little known Northamptonshire MP in June last year, and has metamorphosed into a major diplomatic incident.
The status of the now infamous five-page document concerning the meeting between Bush and Blair, on April 16 last year, has already reached mythic proportions among bloggers on the internet. It is the smoking gun to end all smoking guns, claim conspiracy theorists, who believe it details everything from an agreed date to pull the troops out, to plans to take the one-time rebel stronghold of Fallujah.
The one indisputable fact, though, is that part of the memo — 10 lines to be precise — concerns a conversation between Bush and Blair regarding Al Jazeera, the Arabic satellite television station that the US accuses of being a mouthpiece for Al Qaeda. According to those familiar with the memo's contents, Bush floated the idea of bombing the Qatar-based station. The Daily Mirror, which ran the story last Tuesday, claimed the prime minister talked Bush out of the plan. As they attempted damage limitation last week, government officials suggested Bush's comments were nothing more than a joke. It was preposterous to suggest Bush would countenance such an idea, the officials said. The White House described the allegations as 'unfathomable' although according to those who have seen the memo 'there is no question Bush was serious'. But whether said in jest or not, the memo reveals Bush's profound obsession with Al Jazeera, an obsession that stretches from stucco-clad government offices in Washington to the tin huts located behind the razor wire in Guantanamo Bay. Why is the most powerful man in the world worried about a 24-hour news organization?
Salah Hassan, an Al Jazeera camerman, was arrested by US forces in November 2003, while filming the aftermath of an attack on a US convoy near the city of Baquba. Following his arrest he was surprised to discover he had been trailed by US troops for weeks and had been secretly photographed at the scene of other attacks. When he was interrogated, he was accused of having prior knowledge of attacks on coalition forces.
At the heart of the accusation is the fundamental tension between journalists — largely Arab reporters catering for an Arab audience — who say they are anxious to cover the story from both sides, and a United States that regards reporting on some aspects of the resistance as tantamount to collaboration with terrorism. None of which would matter much were it not for the ferocious tenacity and professionalism of Al Jazeera, factors which have made the station an international phenomenon. Most gallingly for the US, its reporters have told a story that Washington either disagrees with or would rather remain untold: that the kind of war America is prosecuting in Iraq is messy and heavy handed; that civilians are too often the victims, and that the guerillas are not shadowy sinister figures but ordinary men with more support than politicians would like to acknowledge.
As a result Al Jazeera has seen itself under almost constant attack by a White House whose instinct has been to control the media since the war in Afghanistan. The US military has harassed its reporters. Its offices in Baghdad and Kabul have both been bombed by the US and reporters have been detained, threatened and abused.
The reason, perhaps, is not so difficult to fathom. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the station, which now enjoys a viewership of some 50 million, began broadcasting a series of messages from Osama Bin Laden. It was a remarkable scoop, but one for which the station would pay heavy consequences, convincing the US that Al Jazeera was, at the very least, infiltrated by Al Qaeda. Was Osama using the broadcasts to send secret messages to his followers?
By the April of 2004 — and the first battle of Fallujah — US official loathing of the channel had reached a tipping point. Its focus was the figure of Ahmed Mansour, who reported from the city.
According to Sami Muhyideen al-Hajj, an Al Jazeera cameraman arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 and detained in Guantanamo Bay, US interrogators are obsessed with the idea of Al Qaeda infiltration of the channel and asked about Mansour over 100 times. On separate occasions the reporter and producer has been accused of membership of the radical Muslim Brotherhood (which he denies) and forming 'improper' relationships with Mujahideen leaders when he covered the Russian wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya.
"I don't know why they would ask about me over a hundred times," Mansour told the Observer last week. "But the American authorities did not hide their extreme annoyance and fury as a result of my coverage of the first Fallujah campaign in April of 2004.
My sole crime was broadcasting the reality of a war I was witnessing."
Mansour has become something of a cause celebre, lionised almost as much in the West as he is in the Middle East. And the fact remains, despite the plethora of accusations against Al Jazeera by its political enemies, so far only one case of Al Qaeda collaboration has been brought to court — that of Taysir Allouni in Spain. A celebrated war correspondent who has interviewed Osama, Allouni was jailed for seven years after being cleared of the main charges in a case some claim was more political than evidential.—Dawn/The Observer News Service


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We are at the close of another school year and all that it brings. Seniors are looking to go out and make their mark on the world, the other classes are getting ready to move one step closer to graduation, and the 8th graders are scared to come to WHS not knowing what to expect!
I want to thank everybody for a great year! Individually and as a whole we have accomplished much. Whether it be in the classroom, the athletic fields, the stage, or another forum, Bulldogs have gone out and made many positive and lasting contributions to their school and community.
With change comes opportunity. As our Seniors graduate and move on, this opens a wealth of opportunities for the Class of 2014. What will you do to set yourself apart next year? Have you done all you can to set yourself up for a successful future? Have you narrowed your college or career choice down? In 12 short months, you will be taking the stage to receive your diplomas as well. It will be here before you know it. Dont let it creep up on you. You are in the driver's seat and have control of your future. Make it a bright one!
I hope everyone has a safe and prosperous summer. I hope to see you all back here in August rejuvenated and ready to have yet another great year at WHS!


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You can sign up in person at a 30 minute introduction session on Tuesday at 6pm OR on Saturday at 10:30 (please be prompt). Or you can sign up for the classes right here on this website and clicking on the "Live Licensing Classes" on the Wednesday you wish to start classes. Pssst... you won't be penalized if you can't make it and start a different Wednesday instead.
Can I just show up on a Wednesday to start without pre-registering at a seminar?
No, you must attend a Tuesday or Saturday seminar to register or sign up online before 12 noon the Wendesday you'll be starting.
What are the requirements to get a real estate license?
You must be at least 18 years old, be a legal US resident, Honesty: Applicants must be honest and truthful. Conviction of a crime may result in the denial of a license. Failure to disclose any criminal violation or disciplinary action in an applicant's entire history may also result in the denial of a license. For further information, see Help Avoid Denial of Your License Application and Application Eligibility Information (RE 222) $245, Dept of Justice/FBI live scan and fingerprinting. TIP: The fingerprinting may be done prior to your exam, and costs approximately $75 Here are the required form and instructions for the fingerprinting.
How and when can I re-schedule my exam date?
The fastest and easiest method is using the BRE's (Bureau of Real Estate) online licensing system: http://www.dre.gov/examserv.htm You may reschedule an exam date at any time. The BRE charges a $15 reschedule fee.
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Yoy'll leave the testing site with results in hand. You must wait until you get outside to open it though.
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There is no limit on how many times you can take the exam. The BRE charges $60 per exam sitting. We recommend scheduling a new date immediately if you find that you failed. That way the material stays fresh in your mind. You can reapply online or by calling 877-373-4542.
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The objectives of this study were 1) to probe the effects of visual motion adaptation on early visual and V5/MT cortical excitability and 2) to investigate whether changes in cortical excitability following visual motion adaptation are related to the degree of visual dependency, i.e., an overreliance on visual cues compared with vestibular or proprioceptive cues. Participants were exposed to a roll motion visual stimulus before, during, and after visual motion adaptation. At these stages, 20 transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) pulses at phosphene threshold values were applied over early visual and V5/MT cortical areas from which the probability of eliciting a phosphene was calculated. Before and after adaptation, participants aligned the subjective visual vertical in front of the roll motion stimulus as a marker of visual dependency. During adaptation, early visual cortex excitability decreased whereas V5/MT excitability increased. After adaptation, both early visual and V5/MT excitability were increased. The roll motion-induced tilt of the subjective visual vertical (visual dependence) was not influenced by visual motion adaptation and did not correlate with phosphene threshold or visual cortex excitability. We conclude that early visual and V5/MT cortical excitability is differentially affected by visual motion adaptation. Furthermore, excitability in the early or late visual cortex is not associated with an increase in visual reliance during spatial orientation. Our findings complement earlier studies that have probed visual cortical excitability following motion adaptation and highlight the differential role of the early visual cortex and V5/MT in visual motion processing.
NEW & NOTEWORTHY We examined the influence of visual motion adaptation on visual cortex excitability and found a differential effect in V1/V2 compared with V5/MT. Changes in visual excitability following motion adaptation were not related to the degree of an individual's visual dependency.
- visual motion adaptation
- early visual cortex
- visual dependency
- cortical excitability
- transcranial magnetic stimulation
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Arcus senilis and the eye findings associated with high cholesterol are distinctly different.
What is Arcus senilis!! It is a gray or white arc visible above and below the outer part of the cornea — the clear, dome-like covering over the front of the eye, also known as arcus cornealis, Eventually, the arc may evolve into a complete ring around the cornea.
Arcus senilis is common in older adults. It's caused by fat (lipid) deposits deep in the edge of the cornea. It isn't necessarily related to high cholesterol, however. Arcus senilis doesn't affect vision, nor does it require treatment.
High cholesterol is more likely associated with a similar gray or white arc visible around the entire cornea (circumferential arcus) in younger adults. Even then, however, eye findings associated with high cholesterol are uncommon — typically affecting only people who have severe cases of high cholesterol and high triglycerides passed down through families (familial hyperlipidemia). Treatment is generally aimed at controlling cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
The average person who has high cholesterol doesn't develop an arc of any type. If you're concerned about eye health and high cholesterol, consult your doctor for an evaluation.


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How smartphones are reinventing movement of people across borders
Written by Rohan Samarajiva on August 27, 2015 — Leave a Comment
For most of human history, people have moved. It is only in the relatively short window after the establishment of the Westphalian state, especially after the collapse of the empires after the Second World War, that these movements have been constrained. The logic of globalization is based on the mobility of factors of production. Some […]
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A parsimonious indicator of good governance
Written by Rohan Samarajiva on March 23, 2012 — 5 Comments
As a research organization we like data. We worry about the best indicators, for anything. For the longest time, per capita GDP has been the simplest, least-imperfect indicator of prosperity. It has many shortcomings, but the alternatives have more. The newest run at it zooms in on happiness. If people in country A are happier […]
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Nappa Heritage Leather, 'M' Audio, Fold-Downs Sedan
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Nappa Heritage Leather, 'M' Audio, Fold-Downs Sedan
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Vehicle OverviewIncredible condition, 2003 M5 that must be seen in person to appreciate, Still smells like new inside! Titanium Silver Metallic with Black Nappa Heritage Leather, Fold-Down Rear Seats w/Ski Bag, Park Distance Control, M Audio w/Enhanced bass. We sold this M5 several years ago and are once again offering this for our customer who purchased from us. Service records dating back many years included, Original window sticker, Books, 3 keys, Parrot Bluetooth interface, Built-in radar system, Rear manual sunshade added by the owner. Price listed includes a set of four new Michelin Super Sport tires (current tires have good tread but have dry cracking from age). This is a garage kept car since new, no salt or winters.
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Please ask us about extended warranties that can be purchased along with the vehicle. Most late model vehicles are eligible for a 3-4 year waranty up to 60k miles (from date of purchase). The warranty company we use is called Peoples Vehicle Protection which is owned by Royal Administration. This company is registered with the NH Insurance Commission as well as the Better Business Bureau (BBB).
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Which is one reason the Bush Administration will not ease its frantic domestic hunt for terrorists even after bin Laden and his lieutenants are caught. It's conceivable that a cell somewhere in the U.S. is just waiting for bin Laden to die so that it can unleash some bloody vengeance. Despite events in Afghanistan, the FBI believes al-Qaeda will try to strike a large gathering of Americans or a prominent U.S. site here or abroad. FBI counterterrorism officials are in Utah scrutinizing security for the Olympics in February.
FBI leaders have believed for weeks that any surviving players from the Sept. 11 attacks who had been in the U.S. fled the country shortly afterward. In fact, its investigators are most intensely interested in finding al-Qaeda operatives who were based not in the U.S. but in Germany--Said Bahaji, Ramzi Binalshibh and Zakariya Essabar. Friends of lead hijacker Mohamed Atta, the three are suspected of having plotted the attacks with him in Hamburg and have been indicted on terrorism charges. As TIME reported last month, U.S. officials think Binalshibh was intended to have been the 20th hijacker on Sept. 11; he couldn't get a visa to enter the country for reasons that officials have not explained.
Outside bin Laden's inner circle, the most senior figure worrying U.S. investigators is Mustafa Ahmed, a.k.a. Shaikh Saiid, the bin Laden business manager and Sept. 11 paymaster who was in the United Arab Emirates until shortly before the attacks. Ahmed has the skills and connections to put together funding for another terrorist operation--and he doesn't need bin Laden's money. Investigators have learned over the past few weeks that al-Qaeda's money comes from many varied sources beyond bin Laden, including gem miners who help raise funds for the group in Tanzania; contraband traders in the Muslim-heavy border region where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet; and workers at charities throughout the Mideast.
"Bin Laden never needed to use his own money to finance his activity," says Jacquard. "He always found it from Islamic charities, solidarity funds for the Afghan jihad, etc. The flow of that money--more than $300 million per year--continues. And it will take years, if not decades, of Western pressure on Arab societies to submit the sources and conduits of such funds to regulation. If bin Laden disappears, someone else will step up and find the same funding he did. If no one steps up, the money will find its way to people at lower levels--until things radically change."
No one is predicting with confidence who might emerge to run al-Qaeda if its current leadership is decimated. Jacquard believes that one individual to watch in a post-Osama world is Rifa'i Taha, who leads al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, the group that claimed responsibility for the 1997 terrorist attacks on tourists in Luxor, Egypt. A co-founder of bin Laden's international jihad, Taha actually distanced himself from al-Qaeda earlier this year. He argued for focusing jihad activity on corrupt regimes in Arab lands, something bin Laden forsook to concentrate on the U.S. Taha's whereabouts are unknown, but last week, a well-connected Cairo publication reported that he had been arrested in Syria and handed over to Egyptian authorities. They would not confirm the story.


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Rahlan Kay
Relationships: A Sucka 4 Luv Story
Beginning sometime in the late 90s, a loose confederation of Hip Hop MCs, producers and DJs began meeting Monday evenings at Vince Woolums' (founder of the Rotation party crew) home. It came to be known as the Iowa City Beats & Rhymes Society. It was the epicenter of musical ferment in Iowa City, gathering together people who were as excited about house, techno and drum and bass, as they were about hip hop. It was a place to premiere your latest beat, listen to fresh freestyles and strike up collaborations.
Rahlan Kay was a regular attendee, and stood out even then as someone who had his eyes on the prize. He was never there just for the party. He was an accomplished MC, but also produced his own beats and had a sober-minded focus on making his mark as a performer and musician. As others moved away or fell by the wayside, Rahlan Kay kept focused, producing several full length CD releases, several of which have been reviewed in Little Village.
Relationships marks a departure from previous releases in that Kay has focused on his writing and vocal performance, picking beats by other producers to back him up. 500 Benz, Josh Michalec and Austin Switalski all contribute varied textures. Benz starts things off with a bang on "Break The Chain" with a cheeky (and uncleared) Fleetwood Mac sample. Michalec's "U" beat weaves 70s R&B with a stutter-swing beat. Rahlan Kay's flow over these varied, always deeply melodic beats is as self-assured as ever, but he's become more relaxed and authoritative. Over the years he's tried on various vocal styles, but on Relationships he's in the zone, using a simultaneously conversational and poetic cadence reminiscent of Jay-Z.
Each track is a tale of love: delirious, unrequited, lost, or on the edge of becoming real. Rahlan Kay isn't Barry White, or Rick James. He's open hearted and romantic while staying clear-eyed about the promises, challenges and dangers of love. Relationships is a concept album about the most tired preoccupation of pop music, but he pulls it off.
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Great review. Most are boring and fruitless. Would have been interested to hear your opinion on a few more songs but great review nonetheless.
Bought the album here, wasn't disappointed. Wow, Iowa has music?!?!:
Thank you A-G. Let me know what other songs you liked and your feedback.
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The facts and figures of Suguna, as of today indicate its growth and its reach. Being No.1 in Indian broiler production, 10th largest poultry enterprise in the world, Rs. 2030 crore turnover...
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The facts and figures of Suguna, as of today indicate its growth and its reach.
- No.1 in Indian broiler production
- 10th largest poultry enterprise in the world
- Rs. 5775 Crore Turnover
- 16 states
- 4,800 employees
- 23,000 + farmers
- 2 lakh channel partners
- 5 lakh people benefit from indirect employment
- 400 million chickens produced per annum
- 40 hatcheries
- 40 feed mills
- 2.2 million metric tonnes of feed production per annum
- 12,000 metric tonnes of processed chicken meat per annum
- First company in the poultry industry to implement Oracle E Business Suite Integrated ERP System
- Commissioned India's largest Automated Feed Mill in Hoskote near Bangalore
- First Poultry Company to obtain the direct soya procurement licence from the Government of Maharashtra in India to purchase directly from the mandi
- Successfully implemented NEFT and RTGS payment systems for farmers that will benefit the farmer society.
- Continuously working to protect and preserve environment by distributing over 32 lakh saplings
We are energizing rural India and are proud to say that our vision has come a long way. Today, suguna reaches the height of 5775 crores turnover.
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PSV Eindhoven are through to the knockout stage of the Europa League. They beat Italian club Sampdoria 2-1 in Genoa, guaranteeing themselves a first or second place in Group I. The Italians went ahead in the first half with a goal by Giampaolo Pazzini but Ola Toivonen equalised for PSV early in the second half and scored again near the end of the game to clinch the victory.
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Before there was emo, there was the Wedding Present, heart-on-sleeve whining about the one that got away. Before there was indie pop (in the way history has thus construed it), there was the Wedding Present, jangling away on NME's seminal C86 compilation in 1986. Unassumingly, the band trudged away for more than a decade, from 1985 to 1997, finding themselves often at the forefront of disparate scenes in American and British indie rock. They holed up in Chicago in 1991 to record their classic, Seamonsters, with Steve Albini and followed that up in 1992 by releasing a single each month of the year, a gimmick that lays claim to tying Elvis's record in Britain for having the "most hits in one year." The band, which has a tumultuous history, never officially broke up, but Take Fountain is their first in nine years.
Of course, calling the Wedding Present a band might be misleading. It requires a mathematician and an obsessed researcher to track all the releases and lineup changes regarding the Wedding Present, and Take Fountain only includes one original member: David Gedge. Incidentally, he's been the only constant throughout the band's history. After the Wedding Present released 1996's underwhelming Saturnalia, Gedge went on to form the winning pop duo Cinerama, crafting beautifully orchestrated songs with then-girlfriend Sally Murrell. When the couple broke up, so did the band. Perhaps Gedge was itching for the more straightforward approach to pop songwriting, the kind he explored in the Wedding Present's driving guitars and tales of woe and lust and in playing the roll he knows best: the cuckolded lover.
Unfortunately, since Satrunalia, not a whole lot has changed, and Take Fountain is ultimately disappointing. The album opens promisingly with the somber, moody and relentless "Interstate Five," which appropriately drives a steady beat home for more than eight minutes as Gedge weaves a story about — you guessed it — unrequited love. Strings are used evocatively and sparingly throughout the album, but they seem to be more of an afterthought than a necessity.
The other standout is "I'm From Further North than You," which contains endearing lyrics like "First time I saw your red bikini, I just couldn't help but stare." Coming from someone else, this kind of lyric might seem harsh and facile, but within the context of a man who has spent twenty years writing essentially the same song, it's more than passable — it's amusing.
Take Fountain won't satiate fans who have been waiting nearly a decade for a new Wedding Present record, but Gedge's return to the band that made him known is not unwelcome. Still, sometimes resurrecting the dead only reminds you of what killed it in the first place.
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...musing loudly
When I stop for a minute, I think, but often about the next thing... for a while anyway, until I remember not to do that and just think prayerfully or something-fully - it's the fully bit that matters.
I have been looking back on old posts, reflecting on the books that have shaped my thinking and the blog-posts that have captured me that other people have written. I have several of my own blogs, many that are private and one where I have recorded some of those God-adventures of the early days of calling. I remember writing a while ago, as I reflected on the Indaba process on that widening of perspectives that was rendering my old thinking somewhat naive. This last few weeks seem to have done that again. A double-naivity. I am not quite sure how all of this pans out.
I know that I have a deep-down, gut-need to keep my writing going, to find time to read too. I keep thinking about 'poet-priest calling' which was actually something triggered by a Phil Ritchie post, that expression from which I have never been able to shift.
I long to read more and more and more stuff - articles, books ... and write, but I know too that I am to live the three dimensional life and some of this attraction to academia is an impulse for a safe space.
I wonder what kind of a priest I am becoming, if one at all.
There is much about me that dis-satisfies - I am much the same as I ever was but then I perhaps invested less of my imagination in 'ontological change.'
Looking back on my ordination, I can see now the parts that will etch themselves into my memory and they were all the aspects of it that I had not spent much time anticipating. They were, however, answers to prayers that were deeply a part of me but had never surfaced to verbalisation.
...my mum in tears telling me she was proud of me and I am kissing her hand - I am not sure why... I had never done that before. In New York, I had watched a priest kiss the hand of the bishop that we were travelling with, and I was so struck by it ...
...Canon Andie Brown's preach and his communication of the irresistible love of God and my hopes for the hearts of the people listening and then the unfolding of new-found faith in one of my guests, right there before my very eyes... visible... tear-stained...
...a consciousness of the strangeness of all of it - the ceremony. I can never shift this - it accompanies me everywhere I go.
I remember as a child standing at a road-side and objectifying the cars hurtling past me, just for a few seconds becoming capable of seeing them as if for the very first time.
On the birth of my first child, quite delirious with love for her, I saw everything as if I had landed from another planet, seeing the world as if for the first time because for her, each of her pointings to something, was to a new thing and so I saw it too... I really saw it...
...and so at my ordination, I stand there and I parade and I kneel and I turn and I sing and most of me is fully engaged, present in the moment but some part of me is wondering if it matters very much and to whom and what do they make of it? And what does He make of it? And mostly He smiles benevolently and it matters to God because it matters to us ... a little... but really he accommodates us, our need for pomp and circumstance and tradition. It is a rite of passage, an unusual rite of passage I suppose. There was a before and there is an after but as I say, much of me is very much the same.
... and so now I want to read ... but other stuff - stuff to fluff, to reshape, to provoke. I am fed up of Charles Raven and his dissatisfaction with a refusal to do orthodoxy on his terms, I am a little irritated by Rob Bell and his too trendy tendencies to twist and re-frame. Neither of their books have been finished but I will try. I want to read Borg and his Reading the Bible again for the first time. I might even read Spong and his texts of terror. I am ready to ask more questions. I want to know what I do with this lot now that my job is not to write pretty essays about it all but answer the questions of real people. I am disturbed by my bed-time Bible readings, where parts of her body are sent off to the nations and where he drops down on the threshhold decapitated near the ark of the covenant. I want to find better ways of communicating the irresistible love of God even whilst I walk with a congregation to the place where Abraham might execute his son.
...and when that stuff is not happening, mostly many conversations are.
I am beginning to understand that transition that I speculated about with Andii Bowsher. People treat you a little differently and it is still too early to articulate this. Some do not but many do. Conversations are more frequent and settle to a depth more quickly than they used to - small talk is smaller and takes up less space. This is good.
...and so much of ordained ministry carries about it that feeling of 'feeling most fully alive' and sometimes you need to get away to recapture this, as I did in a four hour round trip to Oxford today. Sometimes it requires an active and vivid imagination, so that when you are taken to tour the balcony of your church building, you can see the faces that would have sat there once upon a time during nineteenth century revival and you look down too on the preacher in the now absent three tier pulpit as he waves his arms around and mops his brow...
...and for much of the time it involves listening to the questions of the people around you, those that are expressed and those that are not and realising that their questions, for all your own credal assertions, are also very much your own.
Whatever this thing is that I am being called into, it is a good and rather painful thing, but it is a some-thing and I hope to be present in it more and more fully.
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- Pluralist (Adrian Worsfold) said...
This is quite interesting. You've treated your ordination seriously of course but it hasn't had a Tim Goodbody experience on you and you really don't want a sense of spiritual hierarchy.
There is nothing wrong with spiritual hierarchy if you have developed skills over time, but it is unlikely to come through a 'magic' ceremony.
Now you will say there is a difference between the supernatural and magic, at least an Anglo-Catholic would (ones that believe in the supernatural). I think there is rice paper between the two, and can argue why.
What's more interesting is that you both find Charles Raven offputting, an old world left behind, and (as I would) find Rob Bell to be trendy and slight. Big deal, all show.
But you are sort of looking around, at other sources of 'light' and some of them that your folks might think of as dangerous. Why do you want to read Jesus Seminar material and even Jack Spong (Rowan Williams said if he agreed with Spong he'd be a Quaker)? Is it that BOTH the evangelical past and the trendy publicity seekers are unsatisfying.
What happens if Bell is unsatisfying, Raven is anyway, Spong is unsatisfying and the Jesus Seminar has lost the plot? You're looking around and trying to find something to relate to ministry.
So I've a different suggestion along with doing ministry. Look at some sociology of religion and see how and where the theology ties in with that. Robin Gill is a reasonably orthodox person who strides both disciplines (and I'll claim he nicked some of my ideas) and of course there are the Niebuhrs, the more important one being H R Niebuhr. The issues are why people don't come through the door, and also what is implicit religion if such can be identified. A good start might be Habgood's Church and Nation in a Secular Age (published by Dave Lee Travis). I'm hardly recommending way out radicals here, just a different angle. And then, on ministry, is Peter Rudge - Management in the Church strides across theology, sociology and management theory and relates to those reports like the Paul Report and one I forget later and of course goes (Like H R Niebuhr) back to the sociology and theology of Ernst Troeltsch. These people will tell you far more, I'd suggest, if you want to reflect on doing ministry in society.
- 27/07/2011, 02:27
- Rach said...
Thanks Adrian - a good reading list. Helpful... now to create more half hour slots in each day...:-)
- 27/07/2011, 21:07
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With the unveiling of the PS4 and the alleged "failure" of the Wii U, several gaming "journalists" and members of the online gaming community have very rapidly begun to make the claim that Nintendo, its hardware and its franchises are DOOMED. Dead in the water. Obsolete. Kaput and all that sweet music. They're going the way of Sega and will become third party.
It's not happening. Not anytime soon. And I'm going to explain why.
For an entire generation, Nintendo had the top selling console for the first time since the SNES. The Wii was a cultural phenomenon, so much so that the competition tried to emulate the same technology into their HD consoles in hopes of gaining the same type of success. For a while Nintendo was rolling dough; I remember nearly every financial review showcased Nintendo earning millions and billions of yen/dollars and how the Wii and DS were "printing money."
Nintendo reported their first loss in years, or decades rather, of half a billion in dollars. Sony reported a loss of over six billion the same year.
Fast forward to now where the Wii U is currently the latest and most expensive console on the market and after two months of speedy sales in a risky economic climate has now dropped to Vita level sales (even being outsold by the Vita a previous week, though not by much, in Japan).
Now stop me if you've heard this scenario before; a new piece of dedicated gaming hardware comes out, it's a little pricey and initially has very few games that people want to play on it and therefor does not sell many units. That sounds a lot like the PS3 and 3DS. Two platforms that started off unbelievably sluggishly, were seen as DOOMED but were able to turn things around and become pretty successful (especially in the 3DS' case which is currently selling faster than its predecessor).
Can someone provide me what facts or historical events that support the idea that the Wii U cannot make a similar turnaround? The 3DS' third party content is not exactly huge, yet it still has many well received games on it. The PS3 was not the primary console of development with multiplats yet it still had solid exclusives to support it. But those systems found ways to turn the course of history around. Nothing suggests the Wii U cannot do the same.
Which brings me to my next point; people suggest that Nintendo have become the modern Sega, with the Wii U following in the footsteps of the Dreamcast.
This is so unbelievably baseless that it boggles the mind that people seem to believe it so vehemently. Yes, the Wii U is weaker than its upcoming generation 8 brethren (this was obvious), yes it has a screen in the middle of the controller and yes it's doing something completely different from the competition.
But here's where the absent minded lose the argument; Nintendo's overall history is absolutely nothing like Sega's. Sega saw failure after failure after their first console. From the poorly supported Genesis add-ons to the horribly marketed Sega Saturn, the Dreamcast had a string of failures before it. Failures which lost Sega money.
Nintendo saw no such things happen. The N64 and the GCN are considered to be commercial failures and yet Nintendo turned a profit on both devices, making them financial success as oppose to commercial. Whether a detractor wishes to accept it or not, popularity and having the most units sold is not the road to success; profit is. The only major Nintendo device to ever be both a commercial and financial failure was the Virtual Boy. What Nintendo platform managed to flop as hard as that since then?
The bottom line is that history is on Nintendo's side. Even with the 3DS and all of the doom and gloom surrounding it, Nintendo has made the 3DS exceptionally profitable (the 3DS supposedly stopped selling at a loss roughly around September last year) so Nintendo is more than capable of adjusting its strategy to make a product successful if need be.
The bottom line is Sega's reasoning for becoming third party is an extremely particular case riddled with failure after failure in hardware. Nintendo's history is not even remotely similar to that. Linking Nintendo with Sega is a piss-poor argument at best and hold next to no water. And considering Sony's losses from the PS3 and its stock recently reaching "junk" status, going by the logic of those saying Nintendo is doomed, you may as well say that Sony is doomed nearly ten times over.
Whether your reasoning for believing it will happen is based on current events or simply because you want to play Nintendo software without buying Nintendo hardware, there needs to be at least some form of factual or historical evidence to support the claim. And frankly from where I'm standing there is none.
PS3 numbers were never as low as the WiiU at double the price. Nintendo has lost the people who made their wii a succes the casual, and most of the core gamers go with Playstation or Xbox for third party games. So whats left is the Nintendo fans, but how many are their left of them? Did it decline since the Gamecube era or increase? We shall see, but Nintendo better bring it all at E3 and never repeat E3 2012, that was a massive disaster.
wii u game sales have been insanely low you can rehash old ips for inly so long. First party games are good but sony does it well they have many amazing first party devs like naughty dog, quantic dream, SCE Santa Monica Studios etc who all produce very good first party titles that push what the console can deliver and all of which produce varied games, which is very important. I think nintendo should start making android/ios games along with their own peripherals etc because they no longer are relevant to the actual gaming scene. I mean come one they decided to give hd games a miss with the wii that shows their out of place mindset.
At some point If I said Sonic and Mario would end up in the same game I would have bveen beaten.
I think that it's possible for that to happen, but I think some people are going way overboard with their estimations as to when.
The money they have in reserves can't really be overstated. I think estimations were that they'd have to have their next 2 systems, not counting the Wii U, flop epically for them to be in serious proximity of that.
Even if Nintendo pulled out of the home console market, their handhelds must also fall off a cliff before opposing companies could even get a whiff of their franchises.
So, overall IMO, the perfect storm of perfect storms would need to happen in order for Nintendo to go third party anytime remotely soon. Both of its divisions would have to be hurting so badly.
Then, there's the fact that Nintendo has said that the games will go down with them pretty much, and I think they're stubborn enough to do that.
e3 2013 will be big, Nintendo has never really relied on 3rd part publishers that much so whats the worry?


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Netflix unveiled all 13 episodes of Eli Roth's new werewolf series Hemlock Grove.
I find this series to be very convoluted. They don't explain anything; you are just suppose to except it. I assume it is close to the book it is based on due to the authors involvement on the screenplays. However, the effects are really poor. You only see the transformation once, and it was terrible CGI.
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