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The agent of Didac Vila has revealed that the left-back is desperate to return to San Siro this summer and prove himself at AC Milan.
The Rossoneri acquired the 22-year-old Catalan from Espanyol in January 2011 but he made just one appearance in Serie A before being returned to the Liga outfit in June on a season-long loan.
According to the player's representative, Vila is looking forward to linking back up with Milan as the full-back now feels he's ready to make a big impact at the Giuseppe Meazza.
"Didac would like to return to being a Milan player," agent Raul Jimenez Verdu told Milannews.it. "However, he is aware how difficult it is to carve out a space for himself in such a big team.
"But we are looking forward to meeting with Milan to assess the boy's future.
"Didac is coming off an excellent season in which he was the outfield player who played the most minutes throughout the entire Spanish Liga. He missed only one game and scored three goals."
The agent then explained that there is no chance of the youngster returning to Espanyol but hinted that there are other clubs interested in his client, throwing up the possibility of Vila being loaned out for another year.
"Well, we are talking about a player who has put himself on display in the Spanish championship, has played almost all the time, is just 22 years old and has distinguished himself in the Spanish Under-21 side," he pointed out.
"I do not exclude anything; the possibilities are many. But were are not in a hurry and we will assess the situation with great serenity."
Vila is expected to be included in Spain's squad for this summer's Olympics in London.

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Just updated this blog to Rails 5.0.0.rc1 from 4.2, since this is a pretty small hobby blog app the update was quite simple and smooth.
1) Update your Gemfile, then
bundle update rails
# core part of rails 5
gem 'rails', '~> 5.0.0.rc1'
gem 'turbolinks', '~> 5.x'
# use the same web server
gem 'puma', '~> 3.0'
# use latest master branch to make bundle resolve dependencies
gem 'kaminari', github: 'amatsuda/kaminari'
gem 'simple_form', github: 'plataformatec/simple_form'
gem 'rspec-rails', github: 'rspec/rspec-rails', tag: 'v3.5.0.beta3'
# Fix for https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara/issues/1592
gem 'capybara', github: 'jnicklas/capybara'
rails app:update to update the configuration files(
d to check the diff and
y to overwrite if it's ok.
3) Create
app/models/application_record.rb like this
class ApplicationRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
self.abstract_class = true
4) Update for turbolinks
This is equal to bind on
DOMContentLoaded, or jQuery
ready events
$(document).on "turbolinks:load", ->
Also check the official guide on upgrade your rails app
# in config/initializers/delayed_job_config.rb
Delayed::Worker.delay_jobs = true
# in your spec
Assume you follow DelayedJob readme example to configure it like this:
Delayed::Worker.delay_jobs = !Rails.env.test?, what it does is in test env it doesn't delay the job, meaning DelayedJob is being transparent, the job you put will be executed in "real time". In most cases you don't even need to worry about it, your test should be just fine, but recently it caught me…
To give some background, I'm working on a API centric rails project. In order to authenticate with API we pass in access token for every request, and that's done in the middleware layer. Since access token is stored in cookie, and in middleware we can't access browser cookie directly, so another tool called RequestStore is used. If in the same request, what you stored in RequestStore you can access it later no matter the context, a unrealistic example would be you store a cookie value to RequestStore then use it in model later. Don't do that :).
The code below is a simplified version to illustrate the flow.
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
before_action :set_api_access_token
def set_api_access_token
RequestStore.store[:access_token] = cookies.signed[:access_token]
class Authentication < Faraday::Middleware
def call(env)
env[:request_headers]['Authorization'] = RequestStore[:access_token] if RequestStore[:access_token]
Every api request happened inside the rails
ApplicationController stack should have the access token being set, but what would happen in a different context like rake task or DelayedJob where you need to send request to the API? The
before_action is not gonna be executed there so
RequestStore[:access_token] would be nil. This is an easy-to-spot issue if you try it once, but if you follow the TDD work flow and write test for it first, then it'll fail you.
Delayed::Worker.delay_jobs set to
false in test env, the job will be executed immediately in the same request, so the
RequestStore[:access_token] still contains the value and will pass to the Authorization header in the middleware, spec passed but but in real world env it failed. Typical false positive result.
# in config/initializers/delayed_job_config.rb
Delayed::Worker.delay_jobs = true
# in your spec
# here is the code to enqueue a job to DelayedJob queue
visit post_path(post)
# run it manually
# expectation
expect(api_endpoint).to have_been_requested
Delayed::Worker.new.work_off returns an Array like
[1, 0] indicating succeeded job counts and failed job counts. I've also seen some people testing against that like
expect(Delayed::Worker.new.work_off).to eq([1, 0]), personally I don't think it's necessary.
[2, 0]? That's just noise.
I guess what I encountered is a rare case, but definitely an interesting case. I kinda prefer this way to mimic real world environment to prevent any possible regressions.
Commercial time: If you're about to build a API centric rails app, be sure to check out the awesome gem called spyke made by @balvig, the slogan is "Interact with remote REST services in an ActiveRecord-like manner."
ActiveJob is the headline feature in Rails 4.2, the Active Job Basics on RailsGuides explains the philosophy and usage very well, make sure you've checked that first. However there're some gotchas if you want to use it right now in your Rails 4.1 app. Here I'm gonna show you how to install it in 4.1, and things you need to take extra care of.
activejob to your
Gemfile then
bundle install.
Create a
active_job.rb file under
config/initializers and paste code below.
require 'active_job'
# or any other supported backend such as :sidekiq or :delayed_job
ActiveJob::Base.queue_adapter = :inline
Now you should be abel to load ActiveJob in your rails app without error.
Note that the one you installed is not the one inside the rails repository, that has a version of 4.2.0.beta2 same as Rails at the time of writing, the one you installed is version 0. You can find the archived source code from its original repository.
To create a job, you have to manually create the
app/jobs folder first, then follow the same naming convention to create your job class file like
class GuestsCleanupJob < ActiveJob::Base
queue_as :default
def perform(*args)
# Do something later
GuestsCleanupJob.enqueue(record, options)
before_perform etc.
enqueue has changed to
# Rails 4.2.beta2
Rails.application.config.active_job.queue_adapter = :delayed_job
# Rails 4.1
ActiveJob::Base.queue_adapter = :delayed_job
p.s. I haven't checked ActionMailer. I'm currently using it with DelayedJob and so far so good.
ActiveJob is very convenient, it provides a unified interface for the job infrastructure that allows you to switch the backend easily.
But as you can see there're big diffs between the latest developed version and the one now we're able to install in Rails 4.1.
Is it worth it to make the effort to try it now, and push these small upcoming changes when you upgrade to Rails 4.2 to your mental stack? My suggestion is if you're just right about to implement a queue system and willing to adapt to it, then it's OK, otherwise maybe better just leave the current app running as is and wait for a more mature timing.
That's all.
When you run
rake middleware you'll see
use ActionDispatch::Static in the development mode but not in production mode.
In normal case, you should not set that to
true unless for trying production mode on local machine. As the comment on the source code suggested:
Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)
In your rails app, when you need an envionment variable like
ENV['TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY'] for local deveopment, where do you put them? Simply set them before you start your rails server as a one time thing, or just put them under ~/.profile or ~/.zshrc?
Well it works but I'm not happy with that. Because first it belongs to a specific project and expose them to global env make me feel a little bit uncomfortable, second, what if you happend to have more than one twitter integrated app, how do you name the variables to solve naming collision?
If you're using Pow, there is a perfect solution for you.
Pow provides these 2 files for you to config pow and setup any environment variables.
Before an application boots, Pow attempts to execute two scripts — first .powrc, then .powenv — in the application's root. Any environment variables exported from these scripts are passed along to Rack.
Convention here is putting
.powrc under git version control, and override or setup any project specific environment variables to
```diff .gitignore
```ruby .powenv
export TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=foo
export TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=bar
BTW, you must run this command to restart pow manually so these scripts will be loaded.
$ touch ~/.pow/restart.txt
[Pow Document: Customizing Environment Variables](http://pow.cx/manual.html#section_2.2)


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WASHINGTON — Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty called on Tuesday for more than $2 trillion in tax cuts for individuals and businesses over the next decade and two to three times as much in federal spending reductions and loophole closings, saying that such policies would drive rapid economic growth.
In the first major policy speech of his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Mr. Pawlenty intensified his criticism of President Obama's economic policies, accusing the Democratic president of being satisfied with a "second-rate American economy" and ignoring the country's fiscal problems.
But Mr. Pawlenty, of Minnesota, also used the speech to lay down an economic marker for his Republican rivals, essentially daring them to go further in calling for large tax and spending cuts to appeal to conservative voters during next year's primaries.
"The United States is still home to the most dynamic and entrepreneurial people in the world," Mr. Pawlenty said during a speech at the University of Chicago. "They've been discouraged and weighed down by President Obama's big government and heavy-handed regulations. They deserve a better deal. I'll give them one."
Mr. Pawlenty's proposed tax and spending cuts go well beyond anything being sought at this point by the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill, and were dismissed by Democrats and their allies as fiscally unworkable and skewed to the wealthy and big corporations at the expense of working people.Continue reading the main story
Under his proposal, the corporate income tax rate would be reduced to 15 percent from 35 percent. Individual federal income tax rates, which currently go as high as 35 percent, would be flattened to just two rates: 10 percent for the first $50,000 of income and 25 percent for income above that.
He also called for elimination of all taxes on capital gains, interest income and dividends. And he proposed eliminating the federal estate tax.
Mr. Pawlenty suggested that the government would recapture much of the lost revenue through higher levels of economic growth.
A spokesman for Mr. Pawlenty said after the speech that the former governor opposed any changes to individual tax deductions or credits, suggesting that he would leave intact the mortgage interest deduction and other tax breaks.
Instead, the spokesman, Alex Conant, said Mr. Pawlenty would get rid of business tax breaks. As an example, he pointed to Mr. Pawlenty's recent calls for the elimination of subsidies for energy companies, including ethanol producers.
Mr. Pawlenty said his goal would be an economic growth rate of 5 percent a year, a level well beyond what the United States had been able to sustain for more than brief periods in recent decades.
The American economy is currently growing at a rate of about 1.8 percent.
Isabel V. Sawhill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who served in the Clinton administration, said it would take extremely deep cuts in federal spending and the elimination of individual tax deductions to offset tax cuts of the size that Mr. Pawlenty is proposing.
"We need that money to reduce the deficit," Ms. Sawhill said. "If we use up all of these loopholes and all of these spending cuts to pay for very large, new tax cuts, we will have nothing left over to deal with what is a huge, gaping hole between revenue."
Ms. Sawhill also said Mr. Pawlenty's assumption of 5 percent growth over a decade was "highly unlikely." She said that "long term growth has rarely been more than in the 3-percent range. That would be near the upper bound of anything that's realistic."
In addition to broad tax cuts, Mr. Pawlenty said that as president he would seek temporary authority to freeze government spending and to impound up to 5 percent of the federal budget until the nation's budget is balanced. And he called for cuts in programs that are better done by private companies.
"We can start by applying what I call the Google test," Mr. Pawlenty said. "If you can find a good or service on the Internet, then the federal government probably doesn't need to be doing it." As examples he cited the Postal Service, Amtrak and federal home-mortgage agencies.
He also said he would overhaul the tax code, calling it a "9,000-page monstrosity" that is "chock full of special deals for special interests."
Chris Chocola, the president of the Club for Growth, a conservative antitax group, called Mr. Pawlenty's proposals "outstanding," and said he "is exactly right in calling for cleaning up the tax code by instituting flatter tax rates and eliminating tax loopholes and giveaways."
But Michael Linden, the director of tax and budget policy for the Center for American Progress, a liberal research group, called the plan "sheer fantasy."
Mr. Linden said the drastically lower tax rates would cause "huge, massive deficits" by reducing federal revenues to historically low levels. And he said that Mr. Pawlenty's promise to reduce federal spending to only 18.5 percent of America's gross domestic product would force huge cuts in programs and services.Continue reading the main story


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text: This is obvious, but we should continue to applaud Rahshon...and then some. We're all caught up in wins and losses and love him...but i thought a lot today about how impressive it is that he: stayed after the WM firing when so many of his friends left and continues to show class on the court. He could've taken the easy road out and we wouldn't have had any hard feelings. Instead, he stayed and has been all class in the face of a couple of rebuilding years....his last 2 years. I realized how much i appreciate and admire the kid today. Like Grayer, Fred, Julo, Fizer and Jake - he will always be one of my favorite Cyclones...but in a different way. Good on you, Rahshon.


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Suburban street has no less than EIGHTY potholes which council refuse to fix
WELCOME to Britain's most potholed road.
With 80 craters in its 100-yard stretch – five for every house – Rothbury Avenue, Jarrow, surely holds the record.
Residents, most of them pensioners, say it has been a problem for at least 30 years and just keeps getting worse. But South Tyneside says it cannot afford £5,157 for repairs.
Resident Brenda Melia, 67, said: "I'm disgusted."
Neighbour Frederick Lazenby, 80, said: "It's worse than any other street in Britain I know of."


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Archive for August, 2006
High demand gonads
"The mentality that I had going into interviews was that I didn't need the job. It's kind of like when you like a girl, you don't show her that you like her, then she wants your nuts real bad."
"I'm sooo going to go to my next interview and say, "You want these nuts, don't you?""1 comment
Six days
The company is moving the weekend of September 8th. That's next Friday. This week I've been training the marketing and IT folks who will be taking over. Saying that the past few days have been rough is an understatement and coming to the realization that the company will only be around for six more days is jolting.
I have very few job leads and an answering machine that blinks with calls from corporate recruiters who sound like strip club DJs — not that I would know what a strip club DJ sounds like.
I wonder how much a strip club DJ makes.1 comment
Last Friday we went stargazing at the Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve. We showed up 15 minutes late and joined a raucous group of Adventure Girls, Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve volunteers and two member of the University of Texas Astronomy Club. We viewed Vega and Jupiter from three telescopes just outside the Preserve's main building. At 8:30 we were instructed to finish up our stargazing, gather our belongings and begin forming a line at the beginning of the trail behind us. It was at that point that I hauled ass back down to the parking lot to get Maly's stroller. I hurried back through the gravel parking lot, through a mini trail, up two flights of stairs, over a bridge, through another trail, battled two tree-perched ninjas and finally met Elise and Maly to begin our tour of whatever it was that we were going to be touring in the dark on this rocky trail. We put Maly in her stroller and made after the rest of the group that had a good head start on us. We hurried to catch up with the others, along the way Maly was bouncing around in her stroller as I plowed over rocks and limbs. If she grows up to be a normal physical funtioning human I will be surprised after the jarring I subjected her to on the trail. We finally caught up with the rest of the group as they were circling the end of the trail and heading back to the Preserve. I still have no idea why we were guided down that trail after dark. My guess is that there were members of the UT Astronomy Club hiding in the bushes attempting to recruit Adventure Girls. Thankfully we showed up late and dodged the $3 per person fee otherwise I would've had the Preserve pay for Maly's accupuncture therapy.No comments
The dream you dream you'll never have
It was previously decided that upon our return from Des Moines on Sunday, we would start putting Maly to sleep in her crib and employ the baby monitor. Up until this point Maly had been sleeping in a cradle that her maternal Grandpa made for her.
I didn't sleep well that night. Not well at all. I don't think Elise slept well either.
On Monday night we recounted our individual experiences from the night prior.
It was pitch black in our bedroom. We were both lying on our backs, ready for sleep.
"Oh, hey!"
"I had a really weird dream last night."
"Oh, yeah. What happened?"
"We were sitting on the floor in our bedroom with a couple of our friends. I said, 'Hey! Y'all listen to this'. The room fell silent as I grabbed the baby monitor. I turned the monitor up as loud as it would go and giggled as I whispered, 'Shhhhh. Listen.'
Thump-thump. Thump-thump. Thump-thump. Thump-thump. We heard the baby's heartbeat. We could all hear the baby breathing, too.
Then there was a something like a growl. We all fell dead silent and everyone's eyes got huge. Then a sudden thump, a fraction of a whimper and then silence from the monitor. Something was in her room and…"
"Uuuggh!!! Why did you have to have THAT dream?!?!"No comments
Turkey legs and holy water
I took Thursday and Friday of last week off so we could spend a long weekend in Des Moines for Maly's baptism and to visit with Elise's family.
Steve and Joanne picked us up from the airport and engulfed Maly in the fighting-for-possession-grandparent-death-hug. It was fun to watch and we couldn't blame them; they hadn't seen Maly since she was two weeks old.
We drove over to Elise's parents' house just in time to catch up with Grandma T. and break in Steve's new gas grill with some salmon filets and put Maly to sleep. After dinner Steve and I went to Dahl's for a bottle of scotch and returned to the house so the girls could go to the grocery store for less important things like actual groceries. The men stayed back in case Maly woke up. When the girls got home we all congregated in the kitchen and talked until 2 a.m.
We got a late start on Friday. Grandma came over with bagels from Panera and Steve cooked bratwursts on the grill. After dilly dallying until noon, Elise and I left Maly with her Great, Gran and Grandpa and we had a day to ourselves at the Iowa State Fair. We walked the Grand Concourse and took a ride on the Skyglider when we first arrived. I don't remember where all we went but we went into a little flea market area and to a barn to see the 3090 lb. Brangus bull. We went to another barn to hear a children's joke telling contest. We went to a building to view all of the photography submissions on exhibit. I think it was at that point that we needed some state fair grub. I have to have a smoked turkey leg at a fair to remind myself of why I rarely eat turkey legs. Elise sat down to a pork chop sandwich, apple sauce and pork and beans. We stayed out of the heat long enough to regroup and head back out into the crowd. We went on a boat ride through "Ye Old Mill" – a pitch black and slow ride that lends itself to complete blindness and bruised foreheads for those seeking to endulge in the way of the smoochiness.
It was getting late at that point. We walked around the fairway for a while and mosied among the people who should not be legally permitted to wear shorts in public. We stopped and bought ice cream and sat on the curb to watch more people. We decided to call it a night and head home. We walked all the way down Capitol Ave. to find that we parked Joanne's car in front of a fire hydrant. We had a ticket waiting for us under the windshield wiper.
We drove back to Steve and Joanne's where they all ate sandwiches. I was still full from my charred jumbo yard bird leg. We stayed up late again and talked a lot about my current job situation. We hashed a lot of things over and I heard some great and reassuring stories from Steve and Joanne. Then it was off to bed.
Elise and her mom went to a baby shower that Elise's childhood friends threw for her. I'm certain they cooed and giggled and frolicked and talked about how sexy Elise's husband is. While they all did that, Steve and I went to pick up some ink jet cartridges and then to Zook's to check out some iron horses. I'm eyeing an Ultra Classic Electra Glide. After oggling over motorcycles we headed back to the house for a late lunch and to wait for the girls to come home.
Once the girls got home, we drove Sacred Heart in West Des Moines for mass and for Maly to be baptised. For the majority of the mass I had to walk around the lobby of the church because my
horns kept poking out daughter started making a fuss. While distracting Maly by walking around and peeking my head back into church, Heather's little daughter, Juliet started following me around. She reached her hand up near where I was holding Maly next to the door and that's where her hand found the holy water font. Juliet also just happened to have a temporary tattoo from the fair in her other hand.
"Can we use that water to put my tattoo on?"
"Why not?"
"Because it's holy water."
"And because Jesus doesn't like tattoos."
"Why not?"
"I guess because he couldn't afford one himself"
"Can we use this water to put my tattoo on?"
"Why not?"
"Paybacks stink, don't they? Come on… let's use the sink in the bathroom."
After mass a lot of Steve and Joanne's friends and members of the church stayed for Maly's baptism. The ceremony was performed by Father Remi who is from Nigeria. I grinned each time he said, "Brooduhs and seestuhs" and when he referred to my daughter as "Moddy Eedizibud", I secretly wished that, even though it wouldn't be of the same culture, that Father would have said "Hooray!"
After the cermony we all had a nice reception in the church's meeting room. We had cold cuts, Hors D'oeuvres, punch, wine and cake.
After the reception we took Maly to Gran and Grandpa's house to go to sleep. Elise and I drove over to Eric and Kim's new house and talked in the living room until it was time to go to bed. Elise and I drove back to Steve and Joanne's and went to bed.
We had a huge breakfast on the deck Sunday morning and the better part of the day was spent visiting with everyone. Steve and I spent a good while swapping all of the digital photos we had taken on separate cameras over the course of the weekend.
Sunday flew by and before we knew it, we were standing in the Des Moines airport saying goodbye to Steve and Joanne. The first leg of our flight coincided with Maly's bath and bedtime so she let the plane know that she wasn't happy with having to be on a plane. There was a couple sitting a few rows in front of us that glanced back at us whenever Maly would cry and give us "the look". Said look is generally given by people who don't have/like children and usually tend to warrant having their eyes gouged out with grapefruit spoons and fed to them with a habanero aioli.
The second leg of the flight from DFW to San Antonio was peaceful as Maly slept and we evesdropped on the ladies behind us who talked about theatre in Manhattan and foyers.
We didn't get home until almost midnight and were both sad that a long, relaxing weekend had to come to an end.No comments
Monthly Maly Letter: Month four
Dear Maly,
You turned four-months-old this past week. You've become such a fun baby. Your personality is really starting to shine through and you're an absolute blast to be around! Except when you cry. And when you insist on hiding the TiVo remote when Dog the Bounty Hunter is on.
You have reached many milestones this month. You laugh more and more each and every day. Your Mom is jealous because she tries all day to get you to laugh to no avail. When I come home, you and I have a regular gigglefest. You love it when I sing 80's pop songs to you. Unlike your Mom, I know very few 80's pop songs by heart so I have a feeling she will start winning you over soon. It's wicked scary how astute your Mom is with 80's music.
Nothing is more fun than making you laugh. You have a very dedicated laugh where you want to make others laugh with you. You also have a very shy laugh where you turn away and hide your giggles with your fist. You can be very bashful and it's absolutely adorable. You're very smitten with me and I call you on it all the time. And every time I do you try that much harder to hide it as you keep a constant check on me from the corner of your eye.
We took you swimming for the first time this month. It wasn't really swimming, more like anxiously holding you in a $30 inflatable pool from Target as you splashed and giggled while we wondered if the mosquito larvae in the pool would creep into any of your orifices and conveniently turn you into a evil blood sucking alien when you reach the age of fourteen.
You have been really honing in on your motor skills this month. You grab and hold onto your feet now. You also hold onto most objects that we can fit into your hands, although, you don't really know what you're doing with your hands so it's pretty painful to watch you jab your baby duck rattle into your eyeballs.
You're very good at holding your head up now. You used to lay back and turn your head to take everything in. Now you're much more determined and can lean forward in your car seat or swing so you can look at things at your leisure.
We don't have the same evening schedule as we did last month. Now I bathe you at 7 p.m. and move you to our bedroom where I try to distract you with either 1) singing 80's pop music or 2) some really weird song that I make up about Santa Clause renting a van and driving on the ocean floor with Jimi Hendrix to Transylvania to open a beauty salon called "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" while I put your diaper and pajamas on. After bathing and dressing you, your Mom or I have to rock you to sleep. You used to fall asleep while sitting up in my arms as I walked you about the house.
You discovered the joys drinking water just the past weekend. We went to your Grandma and Grandpa's house and your Grandma let you drink from an icy glass of water. I don't think you swallowed much of it but we could all tell you really liked that new sensation of something other than breast milk passing your lips. It was cute to watch you grab for the cup and bring it to your mouth and lick the outside of the vessel frantically until Grandma tilted it enough to let water reach your mouth. You're such a determined little creature.
I love you more than ever and I know that that love can only grow exponentially as each minute passes. I want to see everything as new and innocent through your eyes as you grow and take in your new world. I want to taste water again for the first time and hold and protect and nurture you. I want to make sure that there is always a reason for you to giggle.
Never ever, ever, ever stop laughing. If not, I'll have to stay alive that much longer to make sure you do.
I love you, junior.
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Harry Potter my ass
Maly is going to be so enthralled when she's old enough to realize that her Daddy was so cheap and thought that the free comic books he received in the mail today from the Federal Reserve Bank would be a source of entertainment for years for the entire family!
"Hey, Dad! After we read The Story of Foreign Trade and Exchange, can we go and watch The History of Spreadable Cheese Food Products at the IMAX again?"No comments
Stomach knots
I'm having a hard time putting into words the way that losing my job has emotionally broken me down. Last Wednesday while at the office I began composing an email to my boss to spill my guts and tell him that this situation has devastated me and that I should get more out of this deal. Sending that letter just didn't feel right in my heart of hearts. It was at that point that I totally lost it. I locked myself in the front office and indulged in a break down. I called my Dad for advice and wound up talking to both of my parents for over an hour. They somewhat set my mind at ease but it doesn't disolve the fact that I am being laid off.
I'm finding it very hard to start my job search. I'm in denial. I've been forced into this situation. I have an emotional attachment to my job and I'm being stripped of that.
Today is the day where I am to begin training the big company to take over operations. I woke up this morning and completely lost it again. I sank my head in my hands and broke down again. I can't remember the last time I've been this emotionally fucked up. I've never used the word fuck on this website so that's how bad it's been. I'm not myself. My stomach knots a lot now. Every hour or so my eyes will just glass over and I can feel my heart sink and my eyes involutarily look down and the flow of serotonin ceases as my mind stops to focus on all that is bad in life right now. And a Morrissey song is playing in the background.
I've experienced depression in the past and know that it will eventually pass. I hate being depressed. It's depressing.
Better than doing the killin' yourself
Q. What's better than being retired and sitting in your den with a wet bar, a gun cabinet and dead animals hanging on the wall while watching The Hunting Channel in HDTV?
A. Being retired and sitting in your den with a wet bar, a gun cabinet and dead animals hanging on the wall while watching The Hunting Channel in HDTV and in surround sound while lounging in a XROCKER WITH TWO HEADREST SPEAKERS, BUILT-IN LIGHTED SUBWOOFER WITH A MAX OUTPUT OF 80-WATTS AND EXCLUSIVE AFM™ TECHNOLOGY.
You can really hear a shoulder bone shatter and blood gurgling in a Spanish Goat's lungs. Now that's entertainment. Or reason to never turn your back to my dad when exiting the den.No comments
Two month old English muffins
"Hmmpfh, these sour dough English muffins are good!"
"Those aren't sour dough English muffins."
"What are they then?"
"Regular English muffins."
"Ewwwwwww…"1 comment
Job search: Day 1
Elise found my first post-baccalaureate job for me in the Austin American-Stateman. When we went under at the end of the dot-com boom, I found my next job in the AAS. I found my current job in the AAS. So now I'm purusing the AAS for my next job in case I don't find what I love to do in the meantime.
I've sent my resume along with a cover letter to seven potential employers. Here are the employment positions that peaked my interest:
Job 1: Outside sales for the best local gutter sales and installation company.
Why?: Nice commission potential and I would be able to stand outside and point at peoples' roofs.
Job 2: Wholesale mortgage sales executive for the 7th fasted growing national lender.
Why?: Position is offered as "a career changing opportunity" and I could use one of those.
Job 3: Outside sales for a local scaffolding company who is expanding into bleacher sales.
Why?: Bleachers are needed because people need to congregate and sit at varying levels.
Job 4: Account manager for the leading global provider of customised Corporate Information Solutions.
Why?: Because the actual job description is pretty close to what I do now and feel comfortable doing.
Job 5: Admissions Representative/Educational Sales for a certain Culinary Academy that may or may not be in the state of Texas and somewhere near or in the vicinity of Austin
Why?: That would be my way in – my way to pursue what I love. They offer tuition reimbursement.
Job 6: Regional Sales Manger for a fast growing manufacturer of electrical interconnect and electronic interface products.
Why?: The job description sounds very interesting as the job requires automation/process control knowledge and the territory is in my neck of the woods.
Job 7: Business manager of natural food sales of restaurant quality, gourmet Italian foods that can be found in your grocer's freezer.
Why?: Food, good. Sales, good. And my dad was a food broker in his working days.
All of these opportunities offer benefits. Benefits are something that people really take for granted when they have them.
I feel a little bit better now that I've dipped my toe into job pool but know that it's going to be a long swim once I get in.3 comments
Procrastinating in the name of glowing aliens
My weekend started by driving to the office Friday afternoon and letting the girls know that they will need to find new jobs. They were all shocked, but took the news relatively well considering the circumstance. One asked the other, "So, what do you think you're going to do now?" To which the other replied, "Would you like to Supersize that?"
I came home early, cleaned out the pool, and while shaking my head, paid the bills and wondered how we're going to make it in the coming months.
After dinner the three of us walked to Escarpment Village and had gelatos at Austin Scoops. We talked to Tim, the owner, about his family's new business. Earlier that morning Elise and I kicked the idea of opening our own kolache/breakfast taco/deli spot in south Austin. Tim was very nice and offered to talk to us at any time should we get serious about opening our own business. It's an option.
On Saturday we woke up and and drove over to Escarpment Village for the grand opening celebration for all of the new, local businesses. It turned out to be a tent crammed full of perveyors and little room to walk. We quickly left and had lunch at Subway and then to Home Depot for night light bulbs and weather stripping.
We came home and spent the rest of the day watching movies.
This morning I woke up and announced, "Today is Sunday. New classifieds are out." So instead of searching for jobs, I decided to remove the reverse osmosis water filtration system from our kitchen. Since I removed the filtered water faucet from the sink, we had to go to Lowe's for a sink faucet cover. Then to Target to return some clothes. Then to Wal*Mart for bubbles for Maly. Then we came home and instead of searching for jobs, I decided to drain the sediment from the water heater.
After bathing Maly we sat down to find that Cocoon had just started on the TV. Elise said, "I've never watched this movie in its entirety." I concurred. So instead of searching for a new job, we're watching Cocoon.2 comments
It stings
I found out on Wednesday that I will be losing my job in the coming weeks. The business that I've run for the past two and a half years is being sold. A larger entity is acquiring all assets, inventory and intellectual property but not our staff. The rug has been pulled out from underneath me and I'm totally dumbfounded. The thought of having to look for a new job, send out resumes, and endure unnerving interviews makes my stomach knot.
A huge part of me wants to find that job that will make me smile when I wake up in the morning – that job that doesn't feel like a job. I don't know what that job is though. They say, "Do what you love and the money will follow." I just don't know what I want to be when I grow up and I don't think I can make a temporary financial sacrifice while placing a huge bet on what a "dream job" may become. Since Maly was born I have pretty much exhausted our savings since Elise hasn't been working.
Everybody is confident that I'll bounce back. I'm not as confident as everybody else right now. I'm having a VERY difficult time with my resume. In my heart of hearts I was looking at the glass half full. Throughout due diligence I thought, "I'll totally be taken care of." I was wrong. I thought that because I was running a business that nothing but good things would come of it. I thought I could eventually own a small percentage of the company and in a few years, I'd be financially wealthy. I had visions of retiring early and traveling.
Now I'm looking for a job. I'm looking for a career. I'm looking to provide for my family. I'm facing change in the face and my temples are beading with sweat. I have a little photo of Maly that I printed out that sits on my desk. She looks at me and even though she's far from speaking at only a few months old, I hear her say, "You're going to fix it, aren'tcha Daddy?"
I made a mistake by not constantly keeping my resume updated. It's so difficult to think back at everything that I've done here and put it into words. The past three years are a blur. I've done EVERYTHING. I can't really put that on my resume although that's what I want to do.
I'm very curious as to where I will find myself in a month.2 comments


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IGN: In what ways will the game follow the movie, and in what ways will it seek creative license?
Glen: From Russia With Love is a very exciting movie with a strong story line, exotic locations, beautiful women, and lots of action. The game will follow the movie, but will have some extra twists, including a new ending. We will also feature new gadgets, weapons and vehicles and will throw in a couple new characters.
IGN: Will Sean Connery provide new voice-over work for the game? In what capacity is he involved in the creation of this title?
Glen: Sir Sean Connery recorded his voice for the game recently and we have the use of his likeness. He is very excited to be in a videogame and can't wait to see how it turns out.
IGN: Is the game a pure single-player game, or will there be multiplayer modes? Will it have co-op? How about online co-op?
Glen: In addition to single-player mode, FRWL will also have an incredibly fun and exciting four-player multiplayer mode. From the beginning, we have had a dedicated multiplayer team focused on making the best multiplayer experience on the console.
IGN: In what ways will this game take advantage of the current generation of graphics? Will it support 480i? Widescreen? Normal mapping? If not, what interesting graphic techniques are being used?
Glen: The game will support widescreen and progressive scan on all platforms. HD is being considered for Xbox, but it is not final yet. As for additional graphics techniques, the new engine allows us have much richer content, more art variation, and advanced shader functionality.
IGN: Will From Russia With Love offer split paths? Stealth? Pure action? Melee attacks? Tell us everything!
Glen: All of the above! From Russia With Love will have open-ended missions giving player's the chance to get through them in many ways, including using fully-integrated vehicles. In past Bond games, there were missions that were driving only, or stealth only. With From Russia With Love we will incorporate all of that into one mission, so it is up to the player to decide the best course of action. Should I run there or take the jet pack? Should I go in strong or quietly? We think this will make for a very cool gaming experience.
IGN: What kinds of vehicles will Bond and the player access? And in what kinds of situations will they be in?
Glen: We will have lots of classic cars from that era as well as a jetpack and other vehicles. As I alluded to earlier, the vehicles will be fully integrated into the game, so no longer are there just driving levels or just shooting. We will have levels that have driving in them, jetpacking and maybe even get into a boat in the same level.Continues


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Monday, February 1, 2010
Trade Waiting - Robin: Year One
Posted by Kirk Warren at 7:31 PM
Thought Bubbles: Guest Post, Robin Year One, Trade Waiting
13 comments:
- TexiKen said...
Chuck Dixon can do no wrong writing Dick Grayson.
I also like how seemless Dixon and Beatty made Robin: Year One and Batgirl: Year One sync up, you could read them one after another and never miss a beat.
- February 1, 2010 at 8:57 PM
Also, dick wears pixie boots in this.
Chuck Dixon is awesome.
- February 1, 2010 at 11:24 PM
- Sr. Lado Brillante said...
That's the first trade i'd buy!
- February 1, 2010 at 11:40 PM
- Médard said...
This sounds really good.
A couple of years ago Dixon also wrote a Nightwing: Year One story arc in Nightwing's series. Which followed Dick from his last days of being Robin to the transition to Nightwing. It was pretty good from what I remember.
- February 2, 2010 at 6:59 AM
- brandon said...
It's absurd that everyone seems to understand that Chuck Dixon should be on some variation of the Bat books for the rest of his career except DC.
- February 2, 2010 at 8:44 AM
- Daryll B. said...
Brandon, too true and on the nose man....too true...
- February 2, 2010 at 3:05 PM
- Matt Ampersand said...
From what I understand, he got into an argument with DC over his long term plans for Robin, right?
- February 2, 2010 at 4:03 PM
- Daryll B. said...
Yep Matt...just to help on this here's a tidbit from the past with links to other parts of the drama:
- February 2, 2010 at 4:26 PM
- brandon said...
At first it was believed he didnt like the cancellation of Robin, Nightwing, etc. Later it seemed he didnt like the plans for Drake and Grayson.
The speculation is that one of them gets off'd when Wayne comes back.
Who knows but few writers have had such an amazing command of a set of character for so long in the DC over the last few decades. He's even surpassed Jurgens' run on Superman IMO.
I just re-read Robin Flying Solo and its tremendous what he did with Drake in the early days in only a few issues.
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A Virginia offense that entered Saturday's game against N.C. State ranked No. 3 in the ACC in total offense – averaging 433.8 yards per game – turned in the lowest offensive output of the Mike London era. The Cavaliers managed 249 total yards against an injury-depleted Wolfpack defense. They also tallied four turnovers.
Consequently, Virginia dropped a game against one the weakest opponents remaining on its schedule. N.C. State won, 28-14, and now the Cavaliers have a steep road to climb if they hope to play in a bowl game come December. Virginia stands at 4-3 and needs two more wins to become bowl eligible. The Cavaliers still have a home date against Duke on tap. But their four other remaining opponents will pose significant challenges.
Blame should not be placed entirely on the offense for Saturday's loss, though perhaps a majority of it should. The Virginia defense allowed N.C. State quarterback Mike Glennon to pass for 231 yards and three touchdowns, revealing that perhaps the Cavaliers pass defense isn't as stout as its rankings entering Saturday's contest suggested.
"We were trying so hard," true freshman quarterback David Watford said. "But they were just more prepared than we were."
Three Up:
Defense. It wasn't as stellar an overall performance as the Cavaliers defense turned in a week earlier against Georgia Tech, but Virginia remained pretty sturdy for the most part. The pass defense, as we've already mentioned, didn't quite live up to its billing, but it wasn't exactly porous, either. One of the Cavaliers' goals each game is to allow fewer than 225 passing yards per game. So they didn't reach that object Saturday (231 passing yards allowed), but they didn't miss it by much. Also, Virginia forced two second-half turnovers. Safeties Rodney McLeod and Corey Mosley each recorded their first interceptions of the season. It's worth noting that of the 28 points N.C. State posted Saturday, seven came on an interception return. Another seven came after a Virginia interception gave the Wolfpack the ball at the Virginia 33-yard line.
Kickoff returns. Virginia's average starting field position Saturday was its own 37-yard line. Granted, that wasn't entirely due to the Cavaliers kickoff returns, but true freshman returner Darius Jennings and redshirt freshman tailback Khalek Shepherd certainly did their part. N.C. State was called for false start on the opening kickoff, which Jennings had returned to the Virginia 29-yard line. On the re-kick, Shepherd returned the ball 48 yards to midfield. Shepherd and Jennings combined to average 30.8 yards per kickoff return Saturday. The Cavaliers entered the game averaging 21.3 yards per kickoff return.
Kris Burd and Tim Smith. Burd tallied three receptions for 44 yards Saturday, which moved him into fourth place on the program's all-time receptions list with 130 and into seventh place on the program's all-time receiving yards list with 1,724. Smith caught two passes for 66 yards. His 60-yard touchdown reception late in the third quarter played a large role in keeping the Cavaliers in the game a little while longer. However, both Smith and Burd could have caught passes thrown by Watford that ended up being intercepted.
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Passing game. Virginia sophomore quarterback Michael Rocco threw for 36 yards Saturday. That's hard to fathom, considering he entered the game averaging 191.7 passing yards per game. At one point, Rocco threw 10 straight incompletions. That's also hard to fathom, considering Rocco entered the game with a 62.6 completion percentage. Something very clearly was wrong with Virginia's offense Saturday, and it wasn't all Rocco's doing. A few quotes from Coach Mike London:
On what was wrong with the offense Saturday: "I don't know. That's a good question. But it's disappointing. Too many turnovers, for sure. Too many turnovers that led to points."
On the play of Rocco and Watford (4 of 16 passing for 89 yards): "Obviously everybody saw it wasn't good enough. It wasn't a good enough effort from the quarterbacks in terms of throwing the ball and completing passes and catching the ball. The ball bouncing off hands and different things like that."
Again on the offense: "Our job offensively is to find that thing that we can get going and be consistent at."
Well, right now, Virginia's offense is anything but consistent. One week it can move the ball, but it can't score (particularly in the second half). The next week it can't move the ball and it can't score (in either half). Things seem to be moving in the wrong direction.
That may stem in large part from the quarterback situation. We've been over this before, so I'll try to be concise. The coaches' plan entering each game is to find Watford playing time in the first half. No matter what. They typically insert him in either Virginia's fourth or fifth series.
A week ago against Georgia Tech, Virginia replaced Rocco with Watford immediately after Rocco had thrown an interception. But no one paid much mind because the Cavaliers ended up winning that game. On Saturday, Virginia replaced Rocco with Watford immediately after Rocco had led the Cavaliers on a 14-play, 72-yard touchdown drive to give his team an early lead. In both situations, damage was done to Rocco's confidence, not to mention his rhythm. Not that you'll see London or offensive coordinator Bill Lazor publicly admitting as much anytime soon.
"Just stuck to the plan," Lazor said when asked after the game Saturday whether he was hesitant to pull Rocco immediately after his second-quarter touchdown drive.
Watford made his share of mistakes Saturday (three interceptions, one of which was returned for a touchdown), but he also provided a highlight or two (his 60-yard touchdown pass to Tim Smith comes to mind). The same could be said for Rocco. It seems apparent – at least to this reporter – that the current quarterback rotation is damaging the offense's overall development. I'm not saying a two-quarterback system can't work, and certainly Virginia is not the only school in the country trying to implement one. But the current setup isn't working right now. Not for Rocco. Not for Watford. Not for Lazor. Not for the team as a whole. This offense has shown it can be explosive and prodigious. It wasn't either of those things Saturday.
Running game. Virginia averaged 5 yards per carry in the first half. The Cavaliers, mind you, entered the game averaging 193.3 rushing yards per game and possess one of the top offensive lines in the country. N.C. State entered the game with a rushing defense that did not have a reputation for being either stingy or healthy. The Cavaliers trailed by seven points until late in the third quarter. And still, in the second half Virginia seemed to venture away from the run. In fact, the Cavaliers carried the ball five fewer times in the second half than it did in the first. During Virginia's first three offensive possessions of the second half – all of which ended in three-and-outs – the Cavaliers threw the ball seven times and ran the ball twice. The totals of those nine snaps: four rushing yards and seven incomplete passes. Virginia gained a season-low 124 rushing yards on a season-low 33 carries Saturday.
Pass defense. Glennon's passing stats – 20 of 36 passing (55.5 percent) for 231 yards and three touchdowns – were good. Were it not for a handful of drops by Glennon's receivers, his numbers would have been significantly better. Glennon oftentimes found his receivers open and got the ball to them, but the receivers simply dropped them. Had to have been a frustrating day for the Westfield graduate. One on of Glennon's touchdown passes, true freshman cornerback Demetrious Nicholson bit hard on a play-action fake and ended up several strides behind the receiver who caught the pass. On another one, senior cornerback Dom Joseph missed a tackle that would have limited the gain to less than 15 yards. Instead, the receiver ended up sprinting 79 yards for a touchdown. Glennon's target on his other touchdown pass was left wide open on a Virginia blitz.


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Hey buddy, can you please tell me the name of that book or magazine in which you saw that Zoey's Gastrodon news. --♫♪Adyniz♪♫ 05:17, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Just wanted to say, it looks awesome! Nice work ;) Blake Talk·Edits 16:17, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
it kinda should belong in the special abilities section though. i mean i get what you're saying, but is there anyway that stuff can be there?
people dont read the trivia anyway when they're looking for the abilities of Pokémon (; - unsigned comment from TheLastCharmander (talk • contribs)
You're userpage looks quite amazing, how do you get all of them boxes and such though?
- unsigned comment from ShinyGlaceon (talk • contribs)
Pretty much the Pokemon trainer boxes and grouping segments for each section into a box and such. Also userboxes? Don't quite understand those as much either. =[ Sorry if it's a bother I ask so much.
ShinyGlaceon 01:25, 15 February 2010 (UTC)ShinyGlaceon
{{User Likes Blue}}
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One last question. how did you get the userboxes like that so they only appear when you hit a show button? ShinyGlaceon 15:50, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
Can you create a user template for this? As in, User:Umeko/Pokédex? That could possibly be used in the mainspace. Maybe. When you're done, talk to Nate. ht14 02:10, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Next time, if the conversation starts on your user talk page, leave it there. Anyhow, it's not the main thing I wanted to talk about. Here. This may help you in your edits. It's specifically designed for those who have "nothing to do" on the wiki. ht14 03:39, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm guessing you hadn't seen {{User Dex Count}}? It's kinda the same thing as what you just made. —darklordtrom 05:08, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
{{User Dex Count}}
Awesome job with all the music stuff. Keep it up. I'd give you a Golden Chatot if we had one ;) --electAbuzzzz 15:05, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Wait until the other person replies and (dis)agrees before promptly editing that page. In other words, wair for a response before moving on. Thanks.ht14 04:28, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Yuck, really? Well, that's been there for a while, but I suppose I'll get rid of it. Thanks for the heads-up. LordArceus 01:33, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Congratulations! For being the best new user on Bulbapedia, you have been awarded the Golden Eevee Award for October, 2009 by the Bulbapedia editorial board!
Please place this template onto your userpage by putting {{User received GoldEevee|October, 2009}} among your userboxes.
From one Pennsylvanian to the other. Congratulations! -- MAGNEDETH 21:21, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Can you give me examples? CuboneKing 21:02, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
What does よみがえる伝説 mean? MaverickNate 14:05, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
How do i create an account on bulbawiki forums? * --T☆MMYSAN!♂ 01:53 December 5, 2009 Eastern Time
Why did you remove my color category descriptions on the List of Pokémon by color article? I personally think it makes the article more informative. Andros 1337 18:24, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
I regestered your HeartGold Friend Code on my Pearl game. My friend code is 0947 2869 1878. Give me a shout when you wanna trade or battle! User:?????
I did too! But I need to find out what my code is. When I do, I'l put it here. Just so you know, my platinum sucks. But I'm getting better.--user 02:03, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
I don't know if you're somewhat in charge of this right now but shouldn't the HGSS Dex entries be listed as "Currently unknown" or in Japanese with monospaced English (through the tt element)? It's because I'm seeing lots of Pokémon articles with the HGSS entries in English, making those unaware to think that the games' English versions have been released. =S Pokemon lover 19:01, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Sooo... yeah. I didn't get an edit conflict or anything, so sorry about that. And I didn't get one for when CK reverted it either, even though I was trying to revert it at the same time as him. R.A. Hunter Blade 05:12, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi there! May I see where this consensus was held? --Nick., something to say? 15:40, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Umeko! Are you going to keep updating the notes about Shudo's novelizations of the anime? They are truly interesting.
Guille Skye 16:28, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Umeko. =) Can you translate me this, please? It's because the only information that Google Translator gave me that I fully comprehended was that the service was shut down on December 14, 2002. Pokemon lover 17:17, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
I notice you've been updating the PokéGods page. I was wondering why you were doing so, and where you've been getting your information, if anywhere other than your head. Redstar 18:03, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Please and thank you in advance. —darklordtrom 13:36, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Not sure how much you know of this, but what do you make of this? We don't have that image in the Archives, and I'm wondering if it was released with certain games, like say FR/LG. ht14 22:42, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
I think this has practically no info... so help... do you have the game? ht14 15:15, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Well the real Sugimori's art is the picture with the real colors, the image before than this one. The another one is only a fanart.
Pedraito 21:15, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Pedraito 21:47, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
When you get online again, I need some translation help, if you could, please. MaverickNate 22:25, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Being new I have no idea whats going on.I won't make major edits, but I'll be a wiki gnome!--Pichyuu 22:57, 3 February 2010 (UTC)→×Pīchyūū
Thanks for the heads up, I'm still learning the ropes around here. I'll go easy with editing my userpage for now on. Ninterror 01:31, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Hey. I uploaded a better picture of that Generation 5 Pokémon for you. =) Pokémon1234567890 17:21, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
So then you're just stalking my activity then? Heh.
She herself also admitted it was auburn as far as she was concerned. Why is it you insist on keeping information that is clearly not correct? Getsuei 06:52, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
I love your HeartGold and SoulSilver party page. It looks so nice. I was wondering if you mind if I used the same style? --HoennMaster 05:53, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
See this (one between Murph and Panema). tc²₆tc26 16:46, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Just learned something weird. Canadians will not only have the English North American version, but also the French(from France) versions availlable for both games. However, the names will NOT be 'Coeur doré' or 'Âme argentée' but will be 'Or Heartgold' and 'Argent SoulSilver'. Maybe this trivia should be added to the HGSS game page(which is protected so only admins can edit.) The Canadian French version is the exact same as the one released in France.Here are the images from Toys R Us Canada : TokoyamiTheDark 19:52, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Can I have My userspace privelages back? I won't Edit it too often. I also edited the mainspace as much as I could. If I find anything I can edit I will.-DialgaMaster105 *Roar Of Time!!!* 18:11, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
He he thanks. I didn't take much notice of the event Pokémon template =P ★ たかはりい talk 01:30, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you edited the usertag on my page. You don't mind that I took it from your profile, do you? I couldn't find anything else for Pikachu Colored Pichu. If you do mind, I can take it off, however. By the way, why does everyone think that you are an admin, lol? I did at first as well, because I misread one of your usertags. Littlmiget123 02:58, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
What does eメールをうけとるか きめる properly translate to? ポケモンあいこうか 21:35, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I just LOVE your party template :D It's so colourful and pretty! So i take this to make my own, but there are some problems...the overworld sprite of Palkia and Pelipper doesn't show, and i don't understand how to show that my Froslass arrived from Hoenn by Pal Park..i hope you can help me :)
Good Bye, and keep working!
--Crikko 18:13, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
I need the following translated:
Thanks. MaverickNate 17:22, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
It seems that only the game infobox template is still kind of... old fashioned. As you are the project leader now, can you tell whether this would be good enough? A few changes here and there and it should be good enugh for use. What do you think? --Sher-e-Bengal- 11:38, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
Were the place, the maid, the butler named? tc²₆tc26 03:20, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
You edited your page more than once, how could you. TTEchidna 02:15, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Why is Pikachu written like that? Does it have a different meaning? --Midnight Blue 03:40, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for appreciating my sig xD BTW what's with all pink? Looks cute though... [email protected]$_ /usr/bin/apache2 -k restart 05:03, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey Umeko, what Pokémon and Moveset did you use to beat the Battle Hall? --HoennMaster 18:39, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
Could you please elaborate on what exactly this is? Needless to say, it surprised me to see it in the page. --The Great Butler 02:50, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Yeah it was bad. It was squashed down. --HoennMaster 19:39, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Umeko, sorry to bother you.
I wanted to add the Pokémon senryū and Quiz from this wiki: アニメスタッフデータベース, which also has articles for the Johto, Orange Islands, Advanced Generation and Diamond & Pearl sagas. But I couldn't find what kind of license it uses, to see if we can use this information here. Do you have any idea? Thanks ^^--KurowaSan 07:52, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm currently adding the Oblivia browser number to the disambiguation number pages. Was wondering if I should add the numbers for Oblivia (past) as well. Don't see anyone else online right now, so that's why I'm asking, haha. —♥ Jello 23:20, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
You should probably try to incorporate the picture from this post into the page you're making up.
--Archaic 05:23, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
See here. We have us a discrepancy.--immewnitythemew 18:24, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I got a much much bigger scan of the card; I think the dex entry is from SoulSilver. Mind getting the text from it and put it in the appropriate place on the page? MaverickNate 14:47, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Happy JAship. TTEchidna 04:38, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Hey there Umeko, congrats on Junior Adminship. Well done for you. I'm also wondering, did you get a personal message from me? I sent you one, you might of accidentally deleted it. Kay thnx Takharii ~ Talk! 08:25, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to change username to User:Launchballer, but it seems that I can't.--Thomas Michael William Patrick Sales 08:51, 22 May 2010 (UTC)


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Vanessa meets Laura Haddock (Vivian Wembley) and talks about her new movie Transformers: The Last Knight, her role as Vivian Wembley, taking her kid onto the set and about her memories from the set.
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Dead Pet Movies
The Dead Pet Movie Page
There aren't too many really good dead pet films so we dutifully watched them all and selected these as the very best:
Pet Sematary
I've seen rumors that another version of Pet Sematary is in the works, although for the life of me I can't figure out why. The original film version of Pet Sematary perfect. It also has the virtue of being not just a dead pet movie, but also a great zombie movie. The plot involves a man who finds an ancient Indian burial ground where he can bury pets, and once buried there, they return to life. It's as creepy and tasteless as it sounds.
Barking Dogs Never Bite
Yoon Ju hates dogs, or at least he hates barking dogs. To help preserve his calm, he kidnaps dogs in his building and dispatches them in various ways. A cute little chow is eaten by the superintendent, while another he flings off the roof. A woman in the management office is wise to him and sets out to thwart his dognapping. There is a disclaimer at the end which says, "No puppies were hurt in making this film," but you may question that statement after you've seen this film. Oh, yeah, it's a comedy. This was a runaway hit in Korea, honest. Directed by Bong Joon-Ho. Korean w/subtitles. 2002. 110 minutes.
Dead Pet
While Jake was away at Harvard, the family poodle has displaced his parents' affection . They regretfully inform Jake, he can't finish school as his tuition went for experimental surgery on Miko, their 13 year old poodle (played by Raindrop). He retires to his room only to find it has been converted into a pink poodle recovery room. Soon after, the poodle dies while in his care. He leaves home, but that is just the start of his problems. Kevin Cotteleer, writes, directs, and stars in this funny spoof on how tough it is to be a twenty something. Reminiscent of Spanking the Monkey, but far more light hearted. Music by SubLunar. 93 minutes. Unrated.1999. Film of the month October 2000.
Rubin and Ed
Howard Hessman (of WKRP in Cincinnati fame) is an outright bozo who is a member of an evangelical get rich real estate religion. While trolling for converts, he stumbles over Rubin, who lives with mom and keeps a dead cat in the freezer. These two hold their own losers' convention as they head out into the desert to bury Rubin's cat. I seriously doubt you can find this one, but it does have special effects by the immensely talented Chiodo Brothers. 1991. Rated PG 13.
Cold Dog Soup
If you liked Rubin & Ed, Cold Dog Soup is another dead pet movie to round out your weekend. Michael gets picked up at a health club and invited home to dinner. He's in for a 'pressure cooker" of an evening until Jasper, the family mutt, chokes to death on an anchovy. Being a nice guy, our hero volunteers to bury the pooch in the park. He bags the dog, leaves Sarah and her mom, and hails a cab for the park. This is not just any cab, though. This cab is driven by Randy Quaid. Quaid talks Michael into selling the dead dog rather than burying him. The rest of the film is spent careening through the city (what city?) trying to get a few bucks for Jasper. In a stupid sort of way, this is all very funny. From Handmade Films. (What happened to them?) Frank Whaley is Mike, Christine Harnos is Sarah, and Mushroom the dog is Jasper. 1989. PG 13. 90 minutes.
A white trash holiday, Gummo is one strange film about life in a lower class Xenia, Ohio. By carefully weaving real interviews and fictional scenes, Gummo's director Harmony Korine leaves you wondering if there is a line between the two. The opening scene is a little kid in rabbit ears and shorts pissing off an overpass onto cars on the interstate. Then it goes into a series of slightly disconnected vignettes. The lead, Gummo, picks up cash by shooting cats with BB guns so that he can sell the meat to the local Chinese restaurant. Technically, they try not to kill pet cats, just strays, but sometimes they goof. Brilliant. 1997. Rated R. Thanks to Ola Lundin.
The star of Baxter is a French speaking bull terrier who
always gets what he wants. His first owner is an old woman whom he
kills to get more interesting and active owners. His new owners are
great fun until they have a child. Baxter is put up for adoption
after he tries to kill their son. His third owner is a disturbing
Nazi obsessed little boy who puts Baxter through his paces. Slightly
disturbing. Thanks to Dustin Miller for the recommendation.
French/Dog. With subtitles. 1991. Unrated.
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The Big Red One Trailer (1980)
"Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart." 28 May 1980 Drama, Action, War 113 mins
A veteran sergeant of the World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
Watch the official The Big Red One 1980 trailer in HD below or find more The Big Red One videos on Vidimovie.


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Negative rates and Japan
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Taking a leaf out of the European policy book, the Bank of Japan on Friday introduced a negative interest rate.
Starting 16 February, it will apply the interest rate of minus 0.1% on a portion of funds that financial institutions hold at the central bank.
Along with the ongoing asset purchase programme, the Japanese central bank is hoping that the negative rate will help it attain the 2% inflation target.
It is also willing to cut the interest rate further into negative territory if needed.
It remains to be seen whether this new weapon will help Japan win its long battle against deflation, as there are limitations to which interest rates can be pushed into the negative zone.
At some point, it will start hurting the profitability of financial institutions and will make intermediation difficult, which can adversely affect economic activity.
Meanwhile, in the financial markets, the policy is likely to add to the ongoing uncertainty and volatility.