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WWE Studios is taking their movies seriously. They're not just making vehicles for wrestlers. They're hiring real filmmakers and casting established actors, like Halle Berry in The Call or Niels Arden Oplev directing Dead Man Down. For horror, they are taking a franchise that used to be a joke and making it scary again.
Leprechaun: Origins stars WWE superstar Dylan "Hornswoggle" Postl as the famous monster, and a cast of new and veteran faces. The original series had six parts that eventually included Leprechaun In Space and Leprechaun Back 2 tha Hood, with Warwick Davis as the creature.
Zach Lipovsky got the chance to direct Leprechaun: Origins. He's made a number of short films, many while he was a contestant on the filmmaking competition On the Lot. I got to meet Lipovsky in San Diego when he was at Comic-Con presenting Leprechaun: Origins to the fans. The film is in theaters August 22 and VOD August 26.
Dylan told us he doesn't have much dialogue in the film. Was that already in the script as a conscious decision to keep him more of a silent menace?
Yeah, the decision was, that was a symptom of a bigger decision which is how do we make a leprechaun threatening? What are all the things that culturally people just think leprechauns are these silly, non threatening, non scary things. So when we were trying to reinvent the origin of what this mythology and this creature could be, one of the things was that he's cracking jokes or has this Irish accents won't be as threatening as if he was more a creature that still verbalizes, but more of a creature. Like Gollum, this disturbed, disgusting thing that's crawled out of the earth to come and take your gold. That was the approach and it really works well with all the sound design of these terrible screeches and growls. It's making noise but it's not saying clever one-liners.
Was sound design a big factor in the production of Leprechaun: Origins?
Yeah, they had one guy whose entire job was just the leprechaun noise. He spent two months just working on that.
Do you know what materials he used to create the sound?
No, I mean, they're mavericks with that stuff, just taking from everywhere and putting it together.
Is this the first Leprechaun film actually set in Ireland?
The first one has a little bit in Ireland and the leprechaun gets shipped to the States. That's where he's originally captured, but generally the whole film takes place in Ireland. It's kind of part of the feeling of going to an ancient place. It's still modern day but you're going into a place that's kind of forgotten to time.
So how do these characters stumble onto the leprechaun and accidentally steal his gold?
It's a bunch of teens that are on a trip in Ireland, two couples. There's kind of this town that's off the beaten path and not even the driver will drive them there. He drops them off out of the perimeter, your first sign that something's wrong. They go into this ancient town where there's a group of Irish that you can tell the town is down on its luck and something has been messing with them. The teens get wrapped up in the story of a town that's being plagued by a killer leprechaun, and things go wrong from there.
Do you have to step up the kills in a post Saw world of horror?
I think with anything, you're trying to find some sort of originality and it's difficult to come up with new ways to kill people because a lot of people have been killed over the years in really interesting, creative ways. So we really tried to think of ways that were unique to this approach to this leprechaun. What are ways that we can kill people that only would fit in this movie, and trying to think of things that hadn't been done and that would be something that stick in people's mind as an iconic way of doing something like that.
Does your leprechaun have special powers or advantages as a killer?
Well, leprechauns are clever. They're cleverer than you are, right? So they might cause you to make mistakes that could end in people's death. And then there's also just his size, being so small kind of leads to it being a creature that is just out of view and coming at you from below, that kind of stuff. We came up with some pretty creative uses as well of him getting his gold back from people in pretty grotesque ways.
Do the people know they have his gold, or is it a case of mistaken identity?
It's not as specific as that. It's approached in more of a general way. It's hard to say without giving away too much.
Does Warwick Davis pop up in your movie?
No, we looked into it and it didn't happen but it was something we were exploring.
So you wanted him on your end. Did it get to him?
I don't know the specifics of what went down but I know that it was explored and then it couldn't happen for whatever reason. He wasn't available or something.
Was that part written out or did someone else play it?
It was written out. There were some ideas of ways of having a cameo that could be fun, kind of honoring the past and starting anew kind of thing, but it just didn't work out.
Is this the biggest film you've made so far?
I directed a Syfy movie that was really fun called Tasmanian Devils. Same budget level but it was kind of a different scale.
Really, Leprechaun: Origins has the same budget as a Syfy movie?
Well, it was a big Syfy movie. It was one of the biggest ones they had done. Then I produced an ultra low-budget horror film called Afflicted that came out a few months ago.
The VOD release is a new model. Are you excited about it?
Yeah, I just want as many people to see it as possible. If that means on any screen, I'm cool with that. I'm really excited by how new media is kind of changing the way people watch stuff and watch what they want when they want rather than having to wait forever or go to a theater where it might not be playing near then or whatever the case may be. It allows for smaller type films to be seen by more people.
So you're not precious about people seeing it on the big screen?
I mean, it's always going to be a better experience. I am always pro-theater but it's not always available for everyone because it takes a lot of effort to do that. If it's possible, then absolutely. If not, then it'll stand up on your big widescreen TV.
I don't think a generic AMC Theatres is necessarily a good presentation anymore.
I mean, I usually, for my own preference, in L.A. we're lucky to have really nice theaters that really cater to the cinephiles that live there. Definitely some of the more lower rent theaters can be a challenging experience. You may as well just stay home.
Did the original Leprechaun franchise have any presence in your life growing up?
I was aware of it pop culturally I guess. I hadn't sit down and watched them all the way through. Once this film came around, I did and really went through them and also researched online what the fan base liked about them. I incorporated the elements in a fan kind of way, like props in the back of certain scenes that you would remember from other ones, and character names where if you were a fan you'd probably be able to pick them out.
Are there any Easter eggs from space or the hood?
Not from space or the hood, but there's a tricycle in the back of a scene that's really famous from the first one.
Did you watch the series all the way through Back 2 tha Hood?
Yeah, I watched through most of them. That was a while ago now, probably a year and a half or two years ago. It's pretty funny. A lot of that stuff, they did very well what they were doing. It wasn't really relevant to what we were trying to attempt because it was really a totally fresh perspective. I didn't have a lot of experience with the previous franchise and that kind of allowed me to have a fresh slate to start from, but just honor the heritage that we have.
When you wanted to become a filmmaker, did you want to make horror films?
I've always been a fan of the genre, like horror/sci-fi/fantasy/adventure. That's always been the space that I loved the most. Horror has turned out to be a really great starting ground because many huge directors started in horror and worked their way to the larger scale stuff. I've always loved all those genres which is why I come to Comic-Con every year just as a fan. This is my fifth now. Exploring all that stuff, horror and fantasy, I like stuff that combines genres. There's a film I'm working on now that's contained horror but sci-fi, so it has giant robots and people dying.
Has that been announced yet?
Will that also be with WWE Studios?
No, just one that I wrote that I'm trying to get made.
Would it be bigger scale or could you do it on a Leprechaun budget?
Still smaller scale. There's something about being able to keep it small and contained allows you to have a bit more ability to have control, but also just try riskier things. The bigger it is, the more general it has to be.
Dylan is used to playing to big arenas. Did you have to direct him much to give a film performance?
No, because he started his career as a nonverbal performer. That was what he was famous for. In this, it's a creature who also is fairly nonverbal, so all his talents, communicating with his eyes and his body language, all that kind of stuff worked really well here. Also, just the pure endurance. He as a wrestler is a really amazing athlete and can put his body through a lot. We definitely had to do that on this. He had to go through hours and hours of makeup and film all day, doing really arduous physical stuff. I think if it had just been a normal actor in there, they wouldn't have been able to keep up the way he did and never give up.
He did say he had a tough time with the makeup so were there times you had to help him through it?
No. There's a really awesome makeup team. It was more it just took so long and it's a really painful process. Sometimes it took longer than we were hoping but other than that, he did everything he could. He was game.
Who are the other characters you cast in Leprechaun: Origins?
There's kind of two groups in the film. There's the kids but then also the Irish folks. They're some really great character actors that people will probably recognize. One of them is Garry Chalk who's been in a million TV shows. He's also the voice of Optimus Prime and Conan from the cartoon days. He plays an awesome antagonist/protagonist Irish guy that's kind of dubious. He's really great. All the actors for the kids are fairly new, all from Vancouver which was really great to bring all the actors who had been in my short films that I had grown up with in that community. To be able to do something bigger with them was really fun.
When you read the script, were you already casting your short film cast members?
Yeah, it was a mix of people I knew of but hadn't worked with yet or people I did know and people I had known. It was kind of a mix of everyone in the community but there was a few, like Mary Black who's, again, a very recognizable actor in Vancouver and is in tons of movies as well. I knew instantly she would be perfect for one of the older Irish women. It was great to be able to get her in there. She did a really good job.
In success, are you on board to direct Leprechaun: Origins II or whatever comes after Origins?
Yeah, it's really interesting. Obviously the franchise has legs because so many of the previous ones were made. I don't know if this one's going to space but we'll see. Definitely the film leaves it open to continuing. This film does complete it's story and a lot of the characters don't make it to the end but it definitely is an origin of setting up what this mythology is and what this creature is and our new take. So seeing where it could go would be really cool.


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We've noted that in Philadelphia this was the warmest meteorological spring on record -- the March 1-May 31 period -- and same was true across the nation.
The average temperature for the 48 contiguous states, 57.1, was a full 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit above the long-term averages, according to the National Climate Data Center's monthly report.
Incredibly, 46 states experienced above-normal temperatures, with Washington and Oregon being the only exceptions.
More incredibly, with only five exceptions, every state east of the Rockies had their warmest springs in 118 years of recordkeeping.
The outliers were North Dakota, Minnesota, and South Carolina, all of which had their second-warmest springs, and Maine and Florida, were the 2012 spring was only No. 3.
In addition, the 12-month period that ended on June 1, 2011, represented the warmest year on record in the 48 states.
As for May, itself, the abnormal heating backed off just a shade. Washington and Oregon actually finished with below-normal temperatures, and Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming were normal.
Every place else was above, and it was the fourth-warmest May in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and third-warmest in Delaware.
Around here the first week of June is off to a refreshingly cool start, with temperatures in Philly running about 4 degrees below normal through yesterday.
And now it appears that a sea breeze will spare the region of a potential heat wave.
Temperatures will warm well into the 80s on Sunday, but the National Weather Service's latest thinking is that a "back door" front will push southward and allow onshore winds to penetrate into the mainland.
Surf temperatures remain siginficantly above normal -- near 74 at Cape May this afternoon -- but the air over the Atlantic is still chiller than it is over land.
The updated Climate Prediction Center forecast still sees chances favoring above-normal temperatures into the third week of June.

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Sunday, August 15, 2010
Crispy Vegetarian Spring Rolls (A real Treat)
Let me begin this post by wishing all my Indian readers A VERY HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY. I started the day by explaining to my eight year old (who has lived in UK since he was 2 ) why this day is celebrated in India as Independence Day and how we used to go to school very early in the morning to hoist our tri-colour. Explaining it to him also made me remember things about our history that I had not thought about for a long time, and that was good. We fnished our mother-son talk by me reading to him part of the book Great Freedom Fighters of India in the Amar Chitra Katha Series.We read about Lokmanya Tilak and although he listened to it like any other story I enjoyed answering all his questions . It's a great series by Amar Chitra Katha which makes everything so enjoyable for a young children to read understand, rather than just read about history only from a textbook. I definitely recommend it.
Secondly I would like to say a big Thank-You to each and everyone of my reader who has visited by blog regularly inspite of my very irregular and sometimes none at all posting. You readers have been so good , not only visiting my blog but also dedicating posts to me and giving me credit for inspiring you to cook and think about cooking in a different light. Gosh thanks a ton for all that love and appreciation. It has also motivated me to take that effort again to start posting again.
So here's what I have today. It's the summer holidays going on currently in England and as I work in a school I too get to enjoy 6 weeks of summer holidays. I have recently come back from my holiday in Italy and now is the time to catch up with everything pending like deep cleaning the house, cooking something different other that the daily fare, spending time with my son watching DVDs together and going out for a Pizza with him and of course catching up with friends and a bit of entertaining.
Last week I had a friend over for lunch and I made these veg spring rolls which we all loved. Vegetarian because at present we are not eating any non-vegetarian food as it is the month of Shrawan which is a auspicious month in the Hindu calender. And although I am not a very staunchly religious person I do like to follow certain practices only because they teach you self control. Particularly in the west where restaurant menus are so dominated by chicken , pork and beef . (Although I draw the line at chicken and fish and would never ever dream of eating pork or beef. ) So no non-veg food for a month at least and for 4 months (the entire Chaturmaas till after Diwali) if I can manage it. Not so difficult is it? And the one ingredient I love and always rely on to make my veg dishes perk up is Paneer.:)) Yes gorgeous , delicious, creamy full fat paneer. It never let's me down. That's what I used here too.
So what you need for 16 to 18 spring rolls is:
Ready made store-bought spring roll wrappers (available in Indian or Chinese grocery stores) OR Sheets of Filo Pastry (available in all big food stores)
Note: If you do get the special spring roll wrapper they are already in the correct square shape and size, so that one wrapper makes one roll, but if you are using filo then you will need to cut out the sheets into approx 5" X 5" squares. Also remember to keep the pastry or wrappers covered with a damp tea towel as they dry out very easily.
For the filling:
1 cup each of finely chopped or grated of the following veggies
carrots, beans, spring onions, cabbage ,coriander
1 cup of frozen or fresh corn kernels
1 cup of green peas
1 cup finely diced paneer,
1 cup boiled noodles (optional)
1/2 cup finely diced chestnut mushrooms (optional)
1 red chilly finely diced
1 tblspn chinese soy sauce
1 tblspn sweet chilly sauce
1 tblspn chinese five spice
1 tspn hot chilly powder
1 tspn of garlic paste, 1 tspn of ginger paste
Salt to taste
Oil for cooking
Heat 3 to 4 tblspns of oil in a wide pan or wok
Add the garlic and ginger paste and fry on low heat for few minutes
Add all the other veggies and mushrooms and stir them all frequently
Add the five spice, chilly powder, salt soy suace and sweet chilly and cover and cook until vegetables are cooked but still have a bite in them.
Lastly add the boiled noodles and paneer, give it all a good stir ,
Give it a taste and adjust all the seasoning according to your taste
Let this filling cool completely before you start making the rolls
Making the rolls:
Lay out a wrapper on dry surface with one corner towards you. Place a large tblspnful of filling near the corner .
Now roll that corner over the filling twice. Next fold inwards the the two side corners so your roll will be closed from the sides. Roll up the rest of the wrapper up to the corner away from you . Apply a bit of water to this corner so that it sticks firmly to the roll.
Do all the rolls in the same way. make these in advance at least a few hours before you want to fry them, so that they have a chance to seal well.
Fry in hot oil and drain over kitchen papers
Serve with sweet chilly sauce, schezuan sauce or any othet sauce of your choice.
Make loads of these if you are entertaining as it is very likely that they will be the star attraction particularly when your friend know that you made them at home:))
15 comments:
- Happy Cook said...
Lov spring rolls andthislooks crispy and delicious.
- 12:02 pm
- Jyoti said...
Bookmarked.. Will try it soon..
- 12:40 pm
- Lyndsey said...
What a wonderful recipe. I have some spring roll wrappers in the fridge that I bought yesterday. I was planing on making vegetarian spring rolls so the timing couldn't be better!
- 1:03 pm
- Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal said...
wow, those are so scrumptious. I simply loooooooooooooooove this spring rolls and can keep on eating :)
- 6:56 pm
- Umm Mymoonah said...
Those spring rolls looks very crispy and yummy, have a nice time with your family and enjoy your holidays:-)
- 3:56 am
- Preeti said...
Nice to see you back Anupama. The spring rolls look amazing. Very tempting. I hope you enjoyed your trip to Italy. Incidently, I too had been to Italy last week, along with my hops to Switzerland, France and Germany. I am sure you peeped into the culinary world when you went there. I am being lazy and not posting beauiful colourful pasta I bought.
- 7:45 am
- Khaugiri said...
Lovely spring Rolls.... perfect crispy:)
- 1:50 pm
- Anonymous said...
Great post! I'm looking to make some changes in my own eating habits and learning to cook, so I appreciate your insight a lot! Thank you. I recently stumbled upon this blog like I did yours and I thought your readers may appreciate it: http://burisonthecouch.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/food-for-thought/
I've started to look for blog help more regularly and I think I'm going to add your blog to my list as well. Thanks for the post!
- 11:31 pm
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- rachel neil said...
Hi, My name is Rachel:
I really love your blog, I'll be trying out your recipes in the near future.
I was wondering if you'd like to do a link exchange.
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- 12:47 am
- Alkaline Foods List said...
As a family, we've been enjoying meals that revolve around root vegetables, easy to come by dark leafy greens and soul soothing broths.
- 1:01 am
- Ashwini said...
where do u get chinese spice powder...I liked your recipe of that oil free dahi vada ....very interesting ..i love food which is not deep fried ...
- 2:50 am
- Ragini Sharma said...
Very nice and yummy.
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- 1:02 pm
- plastikiniai langai said...
its is nice, so sweet!
- 6:44 am
- Chowringhee Lane said...
This blog are Awesome.. I love foods.. they are so tasty and delicious…!
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Voters disagree with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's controversial ruling in the New Haven firefighters' reverse-discrimination case by more than three-to-one, a new poll shows.
Voters also strongly oppose using affirmative action programs to increase diversity, according to the Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday morning.
"If you look at the data," Quinnipiac Assistant Director Peter Brown tells Newsmax, "what's most interesting is how large their objection is for diversity being a reason for affirmative action. The numbers are staggeringly negative."
In an unusual survey of 3,100 voters -- most national polls rely on about 1,200 respondents voters by 71 to 19 percent think Sotomayor was wrong to permit New Haven to throw out the results of a promotional exam for firefighters, simply because no African-Americans scored well enough to qualify for promotion.
Asked if Sotomayor's ruling, which has been appealed to the Supreme Court and may be overturned, would make them less likely to support Sotomayor's confirmation, 28 percent said they would be less likely to support her. Fifty-nine percent said her ruling would make no difference in terms of their support.
The results indicate Sotomayor and President Obama could be seriously out of step with voters on the importance of hiring decisions blind to a person's race or personal background, especially in the midst of a serious economic downturn when workers are competing for jobs.
By a 59 to 27 percent margin, even Democrats thought New Haven was wrong to disregard the results of the exam.
"It is obviously an area that those trying to block her confirmation may be able to exploit politically," says Brown. "There is clearly strong opposition from white voters about these programs."
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This government no longer cares what the people think. They are just a source of revenue.
Or how they would vote. After all, Supreme Court judges are APPOINTED, by the annointed, for life.
Yeah well, the people are racist, sexist, homophobic bigots who shouldn't be listened too (unless they're praising us....)
Unfortunately, the GOP politicians lack the courage to stand for something that matters. They need to make their case, and I'm counting on them to do it. It's not enough to ask a few token questions and hope the media will report fairly and the people will get it. They need to drill every point home, justify their positions clearly, point out that obama could have found a number of hispanics who were also qualified for the job (Estrada and Alberto Gonzales come to mind), and then vote against Sonia Sotomayor because she is a racist.
How about we disagree with her on everything!
"This government no longer cares what the people think. They are just a source of revenue."
The responsible are only needed for the revenue they produce to be redistributed to non producers.
We have been and are living in a "Mediacracy".
Not that it matters, the Court makes policy, just ask Sotomayor.
The GOP must learn to frame the argument from the majority of the US which is white America. Don't name call and call her a racist. That is stupid. Simply say every day in America, if a white man made a similar remark, even in jest or out of ignorance would immediately be fired. He would not be givened a chance to explain or restate his remarks. The best he can get is one chance to apologize and if the offended minority says it is not good enough, he is fired. If the Dems say that is an exaggeration, just remind them what happened to Imus. If the opposition to the appointment is framed is this simple illustration, many white guys in this country and whites in general can identify with it because in the work place events like this have happened or someone knew of someone who had been fired or demoted for it. MSM cannot stop this sentiment because it exists at the street level, a level many GOP politicians are out of touch with.
Too bad, the American people voted for her henchman, and nothing will prevent her from taking that seat on October 1. The American people are incapable of serious reasoning.
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First, I'm curious as to when Sotomayor ceased being a Puerto Rican nationalist who favors independence as she says she does in the preface. (The position, as she points out in the thesis, had received 0.6 percent in a 1967 referendum, the most recent such vote before she wrote the thesis.) I don't know that I've seen it reported anywhere that she favored Puerto Rican independence, which has always been very much a fringe position. . . .
Second, her unwillingness to call the Congress the U.S. Congress is bizarre in the thesis, it's always referred to as either the 'North American Congress' or the 'mainland Congress.' I guess by the language of her thesis, it should be said that she's seeking an appointment to the North American Supreme Court, subject to advice and consent of the North American Senate. This kind of rhetoric was very trendy, and not uncommon, among the Latin Americanist fringe of the academy.
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Isn't the US a republic so that it is not subject to the whim of public opinion on a daily basis? I would think that if the founding fathers wanted the Supremes chosen by the people they would have had them elected by the people. This whole thing cuts both ways and when/if conservatives ever get back into power, I want to have been consistent. Only agreeing to the rules that benefit your team at a given time is Liberal bread and butter. I have seen to much of it lately at FR as far as I am concerned.
I don't like Soto at all. But the Rats won and they get to chose her. She will be confirmed and there isn't really that much that can be done about it.
It's automatically racist if you disagree with Sorta-My-Whore.
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The Mirror Mask Trailer (2005)
"The Mirror Mask" 17 June 2005 101 mins
MirrorMask is a 2005 fantasy film designed and directed by Dave McKean and written by Neil Gaiman from a story they developed together, starring Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, and Gina McKee. The music used in the film was composed by Iain Ballamy. The film's story revolves around a young girl named Helena Campbell, who is sick of her family's career as circus performers. Helena's mother is hospitalized after they have an argument, and Helena finds herself trapped in a fantasy world shortly after.
Watch the official The Mirror Mask 2005 trailer in HD below or find more The Mirror Mask videos on Vidimovie.


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Discussion in 'Wii - Backup Loaders' started by ACWWFAN, Oct 15, 2009.
Can someone give me a link please? since i dont know its name i cant search it...
come on you know the name its all over here and google you just have to look youll see
k i actually dont know the name please just tell me or give me a link. i think its a a cios or something?
sorry, people here can sometimes be so unhelpful. while i dont think it can be downloaded off this site, for legal reasons, try a google search, the wad is called:
good luck.
are you talking about CIOScorp..?? well it is not just one .wad file, it is (almost) the entire IOS system on the Wii, and I think the latest package is the 3.4...!!


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GENRE: Fiction/Contemporary Horror
SETTING: Colorado, USA
PURCHASE: link
FROM PUBLISHER: Halloween night, two buddies decided to play a cruel trick on the class brain...but the joke was on them.
They only wanted to scare their enemy to death...but their prank went awry and one of their friends ended up dead, her body ripped to pieces.
Soon seven teenagers were frantically fighting to save themselves from unthinkably gruesome ends...but something born in the pits of hell was after them-and they had no hope of escape.
CHARACTERS: Cory Fleming, Wesley Eagen, Leslie Vanderhorst, Jay Thorpe, Stacy Curvin, Scott Miklin, Ann Weatherby, Terri Sheehan, all are seventeen. Wesley and Leslie are dating, Jay and Stacy are dating, and Ann and Terri are best friends. Ann's very protective of Terri.
DEMONS: The two demons are 7' tall, muscular, nude, have three toes, red snake-like skin, red eyes, a forked tongue and tail, horrible breath, tapered teeth, 'fetid' breath like garlic, and walk upright like humans. They drink from a boiling pool of sulfur-smelling liquid.
MY THOUGHTS: On Halloween night, a group of seventeen-year-old friends go off to explore a cavern called Caverna del Diablo (Cavern of the Devil). They pair up and go off in separate directions and six of the eight get murdered by male and female demons. The synopsis would have you believe that a teen girl was accidentally killed by a classmate but that's not true nor does Wesley and Scott's prank have anything to do with anything.
This story was very boring. It was 366 pages of them wandering around in a dark cavern with just flashlights trying to hide from and outsmart two demons. I think the dialogue was both good and horrible at the same time. When they weren't saying terribly outdated things like going steady, def, bodacious, dork, dweeb, rad, out of sight, make it/do me (as in have sex), to the max, and plenty of other things that were outdated by the time this book was published in 1992, the dialogue was actually pretty good and descriptive. I think the story would have been better with some kind of four-legged creature instead of one not much bigger than a human.
My least favorite character was Stacy, who was very annoying and kept calling her boyfriend Jay 'honeybuns'. Second least favorite was Wesley, who thought he was above women and even punched his girlfriend Leslie in the jaw.
Favorite/goriest death scene was when a male demon ripped the breasts off one of the girls and ripped her throat open with his sharp teeth. Second favorite is when a girl got both arms ripped off. Third favorite is when the female demon bit off a male's genitals.
The ending is the worst. It needed a multipage epilogue but it only got not quite a whole page.


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Jacques Chirac clings to the idea bin Laden still lives but he wouldn't understand how sick one can get fighting Typhoid Fever with no antibiotics while hiding out in a cave in Afghanistan if he caught it on his pinky toe.
Chirac says no evidence bin Laden has died
PARIS - President Jacques Chirac said Saturday that information contained in a leaked intelligence document raising the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan last month is "in no way whatsoever confirmed."
Chirac said he was "a bit surprised" at the leak and has asked Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to probe how a document from a French foreign intelligence service was published in the French press.
The regional newspaper l'Est Republicain on Saturday printed what it described as a copy of a confidential document from the DGSE intelligence service citing an uncorroborated report from Saudi secret services that the leader of the al-Qaida terror network had died.
Silly Fwenchman Jacques Chirac is more concerned about who leaked the news than the actual content. Other than that, he has no comment.
What is today anyway? September 23rd? Thirty days hath September. One week left until the October surprise. Daily Kos and friends must be frantic.
I have had my doubts that bin Laden was still alive ever since the invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001. After all, he hasn't been seen on video. How can we be sure that it is really his voice in all the recordings?
Typhoid Fever is no longer a big problem in America because our caring civilization requires that children be immunized. We care about life. If Osama did indeed die of Typhoid Fever that's amusing to me. He deserved it and so much more.
Maybe this is why Pakistan's Musharrif called off the dogs.
Or maybe we are trying to get a reaction from him.
Could this be the reason why Bill Clinton went batty with Chris Wallace?
ALLAHPUNDIT slept in today but still has an interesting post on the news with loads of great links and trackbacks.
The Median Sib has the photo we all hope will soon be bin Laden's new lodgings.
Blue Star Chronicles has more links.
The Anchoress provides some analysis.


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My mom has the best green thumb. Her house is full of beautiful plants that actually grow and look healthy! It's probably easy for most folks, but you could say that I'm starting preschool for keeping plants alive. The important thing is that I'm learning and I'm still trying!
Due to my love for natural and textural pieces, I decided to update a few of my simple terra cotta pots. Most of them had previously received a white paint treatment. Now all they needed was a little bit of charm.
I purchased a jade plant and a bag of rope from Home Depot. They have a variety of rope, but I chose Manila Rope for this project because I loved the darker color and the rustic look.
Since I love the freshness that white brings to a room, I knew that I wanted to leave some of it exposed. I decided to only wrap the top portion of the pot, leaving the bottom sleek and white.
Simply spread a line of hot glue on the pot, followed with the rope on top of the glue. *Make sure you don't use too much hot glue otherwise it will seep out from under the rope and become visible when finished.
I did a full line around and then just slanted the rope upward to the next line once one row was finished. All of the slanting upward was kept to the same area (in the back). At the very end, I ran a line of rope along the top edge of the pot, covering the white.
I folded the final end downward into the pot and secured it with glue. Since the rope is thick, I ended up needing to use pruning sheers to trim it from the rest of the batch.
If you use this specific type of rope, you will want to grab some scissors and trim off some of the straggler pieces (you can seem them really well in the picture below). I also wrapped a pasta sauce jar that I had saved and removed the label from. I just put a few rows of rope at the top to cover the area where the lid locks on. It's now a pretty vase on my kitchen table.
And as for the terra cotta pot? It now hosts my new jade plant! I've heard they are easy to keep alive...
I sure hope so because I just love the way it looks! When your decorating style lends itself to mostly neutral colors and natural elements, whites and plants are a great way to bring freshness and life to your spaces.
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Top Ten
Our Staff Highlights Some Potential Summer Jams of 2013
By PMc Magazine Staff
Summer 2013
Today is the official first day of Summer. So we decided to list for you our top ten songs that we think will be the ubiquitous Summer jams of the season–the ones that you won't be able to turn off for the next few months when you're laying out on the beach, chilling on your stoop, dancing in the club, or lounging on the roof, soaking up the sun.
10. Capital Cities – "Safe and Sound"
Even though the single was actually originally released in 2011, "Safe and Sound" by Capital Cities only recently gained traction and radioplay. It's got a great MGMT-style electro-indie sound, with some catchy horn stabs. And though it may never reach MGMT's "Kids" level of ubiquity, expect to hear it around this Summer. Their debut album just finally dropped, and "Safe and Sound" has all the ingredients to make a huge crossover this Summer and be one of the truly catchiest of Summer jams.
Ariana Grande's first single "The Way," which takes the same sample as rap classic "Still Not a Player" by Big Pun (namely Brenda Russell's "A Little Bit of Love"), harkens back to late 90s and early 2000s Mariah Carey / J.Lo rap-sung collaboration Summer jams. It's already become an unexpected hit, and we predict it'll only grow as the Summer goes on. It's the kind of song you want to listen to with the sun out and the fire hydrant shooting water into the city streets.
This feel good bubblegum pop song from The Smurfs 2 soundtrack sounds like it was crafted with Summer jam lists like this one in mind. It's built for buoyancy, it's built for the beaches, so there's no doubt in our minds that you'll be hearing this emerging from the speakers of various sand-covered stereos perched on towels at beaches everywhere this season. Why are we so sure? Because when Britney Spears sings, "Baby come with me and be my ooh la la," we all collectively come with her and be her ooh la la, right? Isn't that how this works?
Electro-indie pop darlings Empire of the Sun are back, and their newest single celebrates being "Alive," and what would be a better thing to celebrate in the Summer than being alive? We picture this becoming one of the big Summer jams, and expect to hear countless people mouthing the joyous chorus: "Loving every minute cause you make me feel so alive." We're loving every minute of this song because it makes us feel so alive.
This is the kind of song that reminds us of driving through LA under palm trees on a Summer day. So when it's muggy and sweaty and hotter than shit in New York City, sometimes a sweet little ditty like this is enough to make you feel like you're in the passenger seat of a convertible with the wind in your hair. It makes you feel exactly like the song says, like "you're in love," and everyone loves a little Summer love. It's probably the most under the radar of the songs on our list, but it has major potential to be a big hit this Summer if it could start gaining some traction. It's just that kind of feel good jam that no one can say no to.
Miley Cyrus' new video for "We Can't Stop" dropped this week and it's weird and wild…and it has her twerkin' it. Everyone loves Taylor Swift, but to be honest, we've always been more partial to Miley. She's just more fun, and less whiny–and as she enters her twenties, she's turned a new musical leaf, with a more urban sound to go with her twerking. Say what you will, but we can't stop listening to (and watching) "We Can't Stop." The only thing that could push this out of its title as a prospective Summer jam of 2013 is if Miley releases another, even more catchy, Summer jam to eclipse this one.
4. Daft Punk feat. Pharrell – "Lose Yourself to Dance"
3. Kanye West – "Black Skinhead"
2. Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell – "Blurred Lines"
1. Daft Punk feat. Pharrell – "Get Lucky"
Could it be any other song other than "Get Lucky" topping our list of Summer jams? Of course not! We all got lucky this year to have some new Daft Punk tracks in our lives. And though some of us at PMc Magazine are partial towards "Lose Yourself to Dance," there's really nothing anyone can do–not even Daft Punk or Pharrell themselves–to top the magic they've made with "Get Lucky." Though you can't deny they're both trying. I mean, all four of our top Summer jams feature either Daft Punk (1 & 3 are from their new album Random Access Memories, and 4 is one of the songs they produced on Kanye West's new album Yeezus) or Pharrell (1 & 3 feature him on Daft Punk tracks, and 2 features him on a Robin Thicke track) or both.
Written and Compiled by PMc Magazine Staff
Photography by PatrickMcMullan.com
Design by Lulu Vottero
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If you happen to be a serious photographer, you may occasionally feel a bit of regret, or at least a touch of envy whenever you meet someone and discover that both of you love photography. Until you find out the the new friend that you made is actually a professional photographer. Is it right to feel jealous the he or she is a professional and you are not? If you are feeling a bit green while thinking about this, you should define what it actually means to be a professional. Then, you can think about the things you could do to find the fulfillment you are looking for as an amateur in the photography world, including learning new techniques, finding a community, specializing, devoting yourself to personal projects and giving back.
Define Professional Photographer
To start off with, you should clarify the major differences between an amateur and a professional. Looking at common definitions, professional photographers get their primary source of income from their photography business. You could argue what actually makes someone a professional photographer, but there is more.
When you are an amateur photographer, it does not mean that you are not actually serious. It will not mean that you are not excellent, either. It is best to clarify that the major difference between being an amateur or a professional is the distinction as to how you earn primary income. If you are a professional, then by definition you have to earn a living by way of your photography work. If you are an amateur, the chances are good that you also have other sources of income. It is not going to be necessary for you to sell your works to help you pay for the rent.
Find Fulfillment As An Amateur
Maybe defining work as a professional photographer in this way rather than what would be a reflection of whether your work is good and given you more of a perspective than simply being an amateur is a good thing. If you are feeling a bit floppy on the whole thing, and you think that being a professional in the photography world would be a lot better than working as an amateur, then start acting like a pro. Focus on all of the things that a pro would do that can make the rest of us respect them so very much. It is best to remember that the goal as an amateur is not to generate income, and it is to find fulfillment in photography. Here are some ideas:
Foster New Techniques
If you have a good friend that shoots macro flowers, and you are looking to shoot with them, it will be best for you to learn all of the macro photography techniques. Even if you are normally someone who simply photographs horses, it will make sense for you to learn how to understand all of the inner workings of shooting and processing shots on macro flowers and putting together a portfolio of your best images. The bottom line is that whenever an opportunity comes about for you to learn a new technique, including portrait lighting, macro photography or diving into Photoshop, take the time to learn. Professional photographers that have the ability to remain relevant are those who are always learning.
Remain Open To New Technologies And Ideas
There will always come a time when you are faced with new technology and different ways of doing things. Looking back now, can you imagine what it was like before the digital age came into play? The bottom line is that change is always happening and you need to pick and choose your battles as to what you want to learn and what you want to stay away from, as this can have a major impact on your success as a professional, or an amateur for that matter. For example, even if you are not a fan of HDR, you should remain open to learning the techniques that are involved, as they could be beneficial to you in the near future.
Most professional photographers will all know one another. All you have to do is take a look at the attendees for major conferences and you are going to see that well-known professionals will be diving into seminars and meetings with people they have been working with and around for many years. Even people who did not know each other very well at the beginning of the conference will generally feel like old friends by the time the event concludes. The best thing about this sort of professional camaraderie is that everyone comes together in the cyclone known as photography, including staff, volunteers, students, presenters and professionals.
If you visit such a conference, there will generally be plenty of opportunities where you can become a second shooter, a behind the scenes photographer or even participate in photo walks. Each of these opportunities will not magically appear after such conferences, but they are there. If you do not have a community, you will never find out about these opportunities. You are not going to be looking for your next paid gig, but if you network with the serious photographers and professionals, you will find the spark that will motivate you to pick up the camera.
When you find something incredible, you have to take advantage of it. For example, when you are in front of the Chicago Theater sign and there are rain puddles forming on the ground below, take the time to snap shots of the pools of light that are reflecting the iconic image. It is the opportunities like this that can bring you from the level of a beginner to a real photographer. You simply have to know what to look for.
There are very few professional photographers that will work in all genres today, with most picking a specialty. They are going to be known more specifically for fashion, weddings, wildlife, portraits, architecture, landscapes and more. Some photographers will specialize even more. For example, if there is a wedding photographer that specializes in documentary style, black and white photography for wedding shoots, brides are not going to be hiring him for traditional portraits of 12 bridesmaids standing in a row. Instead, they hire him for grabbing shots that other photographers will not see. When are an amateur, you can specialize and become an expert for your field in your local area.
Giving Back
Professional photographers will always give back. It is part of networking, but also a great opportunity to create images that are meaningful. Photographing animals that have been abandoned at a local rescue shelter, teaching the disadvantaged youth more about the world of photography, or even donating your time to charitable foundations and non-profit events to give back.
Personal Projects
Professional photographers that shoot weddings all weekend while you were off taking pictures of flowers probably also has projects that he or she works on in their off-work hours. Personal projects are great for helping professionals to stay in touch with what made them photographers to begin with. They can sink themselves into these meaningful projects and remind them of why they are artists.
The professionals may not plan to show any personal images that they shoot, as they are simply creating them to enjoy themselves. By the same token, they could be creating a coffee table book filled with street photograph. Personal projects will also work the same way for an amateur, as they can help you to define yourself as an artist and give you meaningful creative outlets.
Redefine The Term Amateur
You can use these ideas whenever you shoot to find fulfillment. Just remember because your primary income may not be tied to photography, you will have more choices head of you where a professional may not. You do not have to compromise by taking a job just so that you can pay the rent.
You are making the images for you!
When a paid opportunity happens to come along, you can take it into consideration based upon the enjoyment that you will get out of it. You may even be able to buy a brand new lens that you have been looking for, instead of worrying about paying bills with it. If you are "just an amateur", these are things that you do not have to stress over.
Are you an amateur or professional photographer? How do you define both of these? Do you happen to have an opinion as to whether or not it is better if you are a professional or an amateur? The more that you learn about these things, the more that you will be able to get out of your chosen path with photography.
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A New Christmas Classic? Chewbacca Roars Out 'Silent Night' Chewbacca is no Bing Crosby, but the Wookie's rendition of "Silent Night" is adding some "Star Wars" flair to the Christmas classic.
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À propos de moi
Planning my next big adventure. Six months in east asia and six months in France. At least that's the plan..
My friends would most likely say I'm the social type. Meeting new people is something that really drives me forward in life. That urge to meet new cultures made me go to Puebla, Mexico, as an exchange student for a year and it was the best decision I've made.
I'm an active person as well and obviously since I'm a part of this community I really, really love to travel. I especially like to explore new citys and other sites by foot. To just walk and walk and walk and... you get it! Thats why I often like smaller places because in some of the bigger cities those possibilities tend to be not as good.
Im also a sucker for languages. That has made me able to speak english, spanish and swedish (obviously since I'm swedish) fluently. The love for languages is because of my interest in new learing about new cultures. Being able to speak with locals just maximizes the visit of a new country and it enables you to see things that you wouldve never experienced otherwise.
Also: big interest in sports, food and art.
And also I'm new to yoga but I love it!
At this moment my personal philosphy basically comes down to: travelling is life, life is travelling. All the interests that I have I can combine so perfectly while travelling. It's just the best way to spend time, money and energy!
Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing
Since I love meeting new people when I travel to get the "real" experience my idea is to be able to pay it forward. Help someone coming to Sweden to see what's great about this country and maybe understand it better in any way I can.
Now I'm going to stay in Sweden for a while, so I will do my best hosting before surfing season starts again!
Couchsurfing in New York City and it was amazing. Also in Baja California, Mexico and it was equally good. Met some other CSers in Mexico City as well.
Going to a "hidden" beach in Baja California.
Brooklyn Zoo with my host in NYC.
Great dinner at the rooftop terrace, watching the Manhattan Skyline.
(Wanting to add more..)
Centres d'intérêt
My biggest interest would probably be meeting new cultures and meeting new people! That's why I've moved to new cities many times in my life, changing directions and that's why my new plan is exchange in Japan, Korea or China and than following that up with another exchange in France.
But apart from that I really love to do sports, or some sort of physical activity. Playing football, squash, tennis, bouldering, yoga, running, alpine skiing. Basically anything that's not swimming or cross-country skiing I guess.. haha!
- birds
- arts
- dining
- yoga
- running
- walking
- flying
- clothing
- traveling
- bouldering
- surfing
- scuba diving
- skydiving
- skiing
- sports
- rock climbing
- soccer
- tennis
- racquetball
- swimming
- languages
- beaches
- squash
Morceaux de musique, films et livres
Mornings in Jenin; one of the most descriptive and mind-blowing books I've read. Haruki Murakami. Eyvind Johnsson.
Love movies, it's a huge interest. Favorite ones would be all movies in the Memento/Old Boy-style. Movies that gives you all the details except some little small important piece that makes you not see the whole of the puzzle. In one little piece of information the director is able to show you the entire image in a matter of seconds. Amazed every time!
Mostly listen to RnB or Hiphop if I plug in my headphones. But I appreciate it all. Even though really heavy stuff I rarely find the time and the place to listen to. D'angelos album Voodoo.
Frank Ocean with his album Channel Orange.
But also love classical music.
Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue
I was in a little village in the state of Chiapas in Mexico called San Juan Chamula. A beatiful village close to the city of San Cristobal de las Casas. It's a very traditional and also very poor village. I was travelling by myself and was walking along around the village when the little girls in traditional clothing came up to me trying to sell something. I didnt need the thing so I said "no". I had just bought a bag of grapes and I saw the girls looking at the bag, without saying anything. I asked if they wanted a couple of grapes.
At first they kept quiet but then they nodded their heads and said yes. I though to myself that I didnt really need the grapes so I gave them the whole bag. Ive never seen such genuine happiness and sense of gratitude ever. I think and I'm hoping that this experienced really humbled me, because that just made me understand a bit of what they're experiencing every day. Also it made me understand how fortunate some of us are and we should never take that for granted.
Another totally different moment was also during my year in Mexico. I went to la Huasteca Potosina wich is a natural reserve in the state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. We went 14 people in a combi to this amazing place for about 5-6 days. We saw a crazy architects installation to his wife in the middle of the djungle, jumped from 18 meter waterfalls, swimmed in canyons, slept in tents every day and we also saw a natural phenomenon where birds sleep in a huge cave-like hole every night (300 metres deep) and every morning when the sun reaches in far enough they all fly out to eat and such. There must've been millions of birds flying out of that "hole" during 30 minutes and it was just impossible to either catch on film or to take photographs. Such an amazing experience!
Also of course: skydiving in Cuatla. Diving outside Cozumel, seeing the northern lights in the north of Sweden and spending "midsommar" (a swedish holiday in late june) in Överkalix (way north in Sweden) where the sun never sets in summer.
Enseignez, apprenez, partagez
Learn and teach about cultures is amazing. Just learing through discussions, dialogue and talking. Just be yourself and tell your stories and talk about your experiences should be good enough for everyone!
Pays que j'ai visités
Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Thailand
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Artists from around the country will be showcased in A Sense of Place, the 31st annual juried fine art competition opening this weekend at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art on Telfair Street. Each year, the institute opens its fall art season with the themed exhibition that recognizes outstanding work by contemporary artists.
Tom Hammond, noted printmaker and professor emeritus at the University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art, has served as juror for the 2011 competition, selecting works by artists representing 21 states. He will offer a gallery talk and reveal three merit award winners during the opening reception Friday, Sept. 16 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Hammond has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States and abroad, and his work is represented in many public and private collections including the Royal Museum of Art in Antwerp, Belgium; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Southeastern Center for the Contemporary Art; Mint Museum of Art and others.
The challenge for Hammond was to select 30 to 40 works from submissions by 150 artists and his choices had to be governed by the limited available space for the show. "I really wanted to pick more works," he said, noting that the quality of submissions was high.
"My first tally was 63, then 50, and finally 40 – the limit," he said in his juror's statement. "I chose only one work from each accepted artist." He also aimed for a variety of media. "The selection on view is the best of the best," he commented.
In addition to A Sense of Place, two other shows will open Sept. 16 at the GHIA. In the Creel-Harison Community Art Gallery on the third floor, a solo exhibit by South Carolina painter Ingrid Hofer includes mixed media journals of her travels through Europe. Hofer studied at the Meisterschule für Mode in Hamburg, Germany, and the Traphagen School of Design in New York.
In the GHIA South Gallery, Atlanta artist Sarah Hobbs will present an installation in conjunction with the Westobou Festival and her ongoing exhibit in the Mary S. Byrd Gallery at Augusta State University. Her work involves staging and photographing scenes that explore various human behaviors.
Hofer will talk about her work during Friday night's opening reception. There will be a separate opening and reception for Hobbs Oct. 7.
THE ANNUAL ARTS IN THE HEART of Augusta festival, taking place in downtown Augusta, also starts Friday, Sept. 16. Expect to find a wide range of artistic offerings on display during the weekend festival on Broad Street. For a preview, see the festival's Web site at www.artsintheheart.com/artists.htm.
IF YOU NEED a break from the weather over the weekend, visit the Morris Museum of Art, where in addition to the permanent collection of Southern art, you will find a retrospective exhibit of paintings by Edward Rice and paintings by Art Rosenbaum with photographs by Margo Newmark Rosenbaum. In the stairwell gallery is a selection of prints and paintings by early naturalists John Abbot, John James Audubon, Mark Catesby and Alexander Wilson.
Sunday afternoon, the Morris will present dramatic soprano Angela Renée Simpson in a free concert of arias, art songs and spirituals, beginning at 2 p.m. The museum also offers free admission to the galleries on Sundays.
ARTISTS ROW is inviting community participation in the creation of a collaborative sculpture: ARTie, the Garden City's Green Dragon.
Sarah Mays, Artists Row's 2011 art scholarship winner, designed the 72-foot dragon to be made of recycled materials and constructed by the community during the Westobou Festival.
To build the dragon, the committee needs lots of plastic soda and water bottles, any size, rinsed out; plastic grocery bags in all colors, and leftover cans of spray paint in various colors. Materials can be delivered to Artists Row galleries: Artistic Perceptions, Oddfellows, Elduets, Gallery on the Row or Zimmerman Gallery.
Construction dates will be Sept. 29 through Oct. 5 at the Old Richmond Academy, 504 Telfair St., with three shifts scheduled each day. Groups and individuals can register to help by calling (706) 826-8991, or visit http://artistsrowaugusta.com.
IF YOU MISSED the Morris Museum exhibit of works by Augusta native Philip Juras, based on the historic writings of naturalist William Bartram, or if you want to see more of these works, there are a couple of opportunities coming up. A show that includes 19 of his paintings opens today, Sept. 15, at the Georgia Museum of Natural History in Athens. Next month, 15 of his works will open at the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences as part of the biennial Bartram Trail conference in Macon on Oct. 21-23. For details, visit http://philipjuras.com/exhibitions.htm.


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|14 Mar 2011
Portable Hard Drive
which hard drive you you all think is the best:
or this LACIE:
LaCie - Rugged USB 3.0
I don't know which one to choose since my seagate agent go is broken...
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Windows 10 64bit/Windows 10 64bit
Sorry I can't help as I haven't used either, my external drive is a Seagate Expansion so not what you would call a portable one as it's used on a desktop computer, don't have a laptop.
I suppose it comes down to what you can afford and which one would give you all the features you need, have you read any reviews about them and if so which comes out the better buy ?
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I don't think you can go wrong here...choose one and press on. I prefer the Orange color myself...ha.
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Windows 10 Pro. EFI boot partition, full EFI boot
I like my Rugged USB 2.0. I have had it for a couple of years with no problems, though others have had some I guess. Based in France may be a support issue, though I never needed it so don't know.
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MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Dear Martin Dendev,
I have compared the specs, prices and popularity of the brands in question!
In my country, Seagate, WD, Iomega are rated in that order, not to forget that INDIA is the biggest out-sourcing country in the world both for USA(mainly) and also Europe. So, you "may" consider us computer-savvy"!
Guess you will be well off with Iomega! Just wanted to add, if you can, buy a 1TB drive and you won't regret it!
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Ive used the LACIE Rugged USB many times. They are quite tough, lets just say they would need to be for the people I gave them too. If you think that it is likely to be damaged, or want to make sure you have good USB protection, go with one of these.
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Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
Though I have four external portable drives - Two Seagate GoFlex and two Go - between the two you had marked, I would recommend the Lacie without a blink. Somehow IOmega had never impressed me and as Sreedhav mentioned it is not a brand on the run here in India. Neither is the Lacie but the reason for it is the usually high price. About 2 to 3 years back when a visitor to U.S.A wanted me to recommend an external hard drive to buy there, it was a Lacie without any alternative and to this day he is happy with it.
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hi all,
thanks for your quick answers.
as I see, many people would go for the Lacy.
Currently in Belgium, the Lacie is at the same price at the Iomega.
So I think i will go for the Lacie.
Thanks again and greetz from Belgium!
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Danny DeVito plays an advertising man who is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job; Teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.
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KAMPALA, Uganda—
The oldest skate park in East Africa lies in an old sugarcane field in a dusty corner of a ramshackle neighborhood in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. Towards the bottom of a hill, down rutted dirt alleys and past the women selling fruit and washing clothes, you'll come to a small clearing where a quarter pipe and concrete ramps rise out of the dirt.
On a recent Tuesday, about a dozen people are here, ranging from toddlers to the middle-aged, skateboarding or sitting idly on the side, watching. A nearby pile of burning trash sends smoke billowing across the park as skaters attempt grinds and flip tricks while Kendrick Lamar and the Notorious B.I.G. play in the background.
The park was built in 2005 by Jackson Mubiru, a bright-eyed 34-year-old known as the godfather of East African skateboarding. He grew up in the neighborhood, called Kitintale, and now lives nearby and oversees the park. After this one opened, parks sprouted up in Tanzania, Kenya, and Rwanda.
"This is the origin of skateboarding in East Africa," Mubiru says proudly while mixing cement to expand the narrow stretch of concrete.
In 10 years, he predicted, "Uganda shall be having about 20 or 30 skate parks. Everywhere, you see?"
Jack is our public enemy now
Yet despite Mubiru's role in skateboarding's growth around the region, it took a decade until a second park was built in his own country. That park, built just a few months ago, is a little over one hour away by minibus taxi, in the town of Mukono.
Mubiru has never been to the new park in Mukono, and has no plans to visit any time soon. The two brothers who built it—David Kizza, 25, and Gerald Gose, 23—were some of the first skaters in Uganda, and spent years as Mubiru's protégés. But they had a falling out, and now consider their former mentor to be an adversary.
Between the two parks, a rivalry has grown that has come to define the fledgling Ugandan skateboarding community.
Each crew accuses the other of manipulating international donors for their own gain, and of going behind the other's backs for personal profit. The younger skaters accuse Mubiru of trying to control the skateboarding scene, while he claims they betrayed his trust and tried to hog the few available resources.
"Jack is our public enemy now," says Kizza, who said he hasn't visited the original skate park in years.
Jack Mubiru at the skate park that he built in the Kitintale neighborhood, the first in East Africa.
Mubiru first saw skateboarders on TV more than a decade ago, and then managed to convince a pair of visiting skaters from Canada and South Africa to take him under their wing. He oversaw the construction of the original park in Kitintale and worked with Skate Aid—a German NGO that works on skateboarding projects on four continents—to refurbish it when the initial shoddy construction was ravaged by the elements.
"At the time we really began, no one knew about what we were constructing," Mubiru says.
He used to joke that it was a crocodile pen, and remembering people's reactions still makes him laugh.
Kizza, who is solidly built and has a background in construction, helped build the original park. He learned to skate there in the evening, after the day's work was done.
"At night, there was a lot of expensive materials, so we could sleep there to protect them," he says. "We could skate there by the light of the moon."
Gose, who has a deeper voice and is wirier than his older brother, soon joined him. Together, they became some of Uganda's best skateboarders.
The competition was admittedly slim. But construction of the original park helped to kick-start a nascent skateboarding culture around the region. After Mubiru's original park was completed, Skate Aid helped to build several additional parks in neighboring countries, all of them larger and more elaborate than the narrow park in Kampala.
When I started skateboarding, my life changed
As in the U.S., skateboarding in East Africa has largely struck a chord with wayward youngsters, most of them male. Uganda is a rapidly urbanizing country where two-thirds of the population is under 24, and many of the ingredients are right for an explosion of youth culture.
But several obstacles stand in the way of bringing skateboarding to the mainstream.
Despite an emerging middle class, the country is plagued by persistent poverty. Almost all of the skateboarders' gear is donated from abroad and is often shared among several skaters. Paved roads can be hard to come by. Americans were lucky, one skater told me, to have an unlimited supply of blacktop at their disposal on which to skate.
"Skateboarding in East Africa is more referred to as charity work," explains Augustine Rutasingwa, a Tanzanian skateboarder who runs a blog about African skateboarding.
For those up to the challenge, skateboarding offers a chance to distinguish themselves on an individual level, unlike the team sports of soccer or basketball. It lets them tap into a global phenomenon that long ago pervaded western culture, and which they have seen for years in the background of Hollywood movies and music videos.
Growing up, "getting money to eat, getting money for survival was a problem [for] us," says Gose.
"When I started skateboarding… my life changed, because I had nothing whereby someone could see me and admire me," he says. "When I joined the skateboarding family, my life changed."
David Kizza and Gerald Gose at their skate park in Mukono.
Despite their shared history, there has long been tension between two brothers and Mubiru.
"David wanted to be his own boss," said Peter Kyomuhendo, a 23-year-old who is one of Mubiru's top skateboarders. "So he started picking fights."
The brothers bickered with Mubiru over whether veteran skateboarders should have greater access to the precious few boards and time at the park, or if younger children deserved the same amount of opportunity.
Kizza and Gose also expressed an early interest in corporate sponsors, and took steps to woo companies such as Mountain Dew. In the West, the soda brand has aggressively aligned itself with skateboarding and other extreme sports; it's trying to cultivate the same youthful image in developing countries such as Uganda.
Three years ago, Gose became an official skateboarding brand ambassador for Mountain Dew. As such, he is probably the only Ugandan able to earn a consistent paycheck from the sport.
But, like in the West, responses to the corporate pressure has been mixed.
"Mountain Dew—you know, we are not on good terms with them," Mubiru says dryly. In his mind, the company's relationship with Ugandan skateboarders has been a one-sided transaction. "They used our image," he says. "They just gave us sodas and that's all."
Daniel Gluche, the East Africa regional director for Skate Aid, is distrustful of large corporations but nonetheless sympathetic to their appeal.
"Most of the young guys don't have jobs," he says. "Some of them try to make a living with skateboarding, and maybe if a big company like Coca-Cola or Mountain Dew gives them some kind of a deal where they can pay their bills and do their own thing, I can understand that."


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Zat Knight and Kieran Richardson have been called up to the England squad.Zat Knight and Kieran Richardson have been called up to the England squad for the forthcoming tour of the US.
England coach Sven Goran Eriksson named his squad for the trip to America last week, but has seen his options limited by several withdrawals.
Chelsea duo John Terry and Frank Lampard, Manchester United pair Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney and Liverpool aces Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher have all been forced to miss the tour.
Richardson had been on stand-by for the tour after an impressive loan spell at West Brom and he has been given the call after Manchester City ace Shaun Wright Phillips was forced out with an injury.
Birmingham defender Matthew Upson has also pulled out of the squad with a hernia problem and although Tottenham's Michael Dawson was on stand-by to make the squad he was also forced to withdraw due to injury.
The injuries to the central defensive duo has cleared the way for Zat Knight to win his first call-up to the senior squad. I've seen Kieran play on a number of occasions this season and there is no doubt he's a tremendous young talent.
Eriksson admitted he has been impressed by the uncapped duo this season.
"He's (Richardson) taken his chance with West Bromwich Albion in the second half of the season and has played a significant role in keeping the club up. He's impressed me and I look forward to having him with us.
"I hope he can make the most of this opportunity with England just as he has done with West Brom.
"Zat is a player I have been aware of for some time.
"He has all the attributes to be a top defender so it will be interesting to see how he does with us on this tour.
"It's an opportunity for him to show he has the ability to play at the very highest level so it's a good chance for him."
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In all, 160 horses were sold for a gross of $3,127,200, an average of $19,545, and a median of $14,000. Compared to the first session a year ago, the number sold plunged 19.2%, but the gross fell only 2.0%. The average and median rose 21.2% and 9.8%, respectively. This year's buy-back rate was 27.3%, with 60 of the 220 horses offered failing to find new homes.Monday's session was the first of two consignor-preferred sessions. The sale continues through Thurdsay, with each session beginning at 11 a.m. (EST).
A yearling Deputy Commander filly and the Gulch mare Natkeeta sold for $95,000 apiece Monday in Florida to top the opening session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's winter mixed auction. Sandy Creek Farm purchased the Deputy Commander yearling from Nancy Bauman, agent. Sally Andersen bought Natkeeta from Kaizen Sales, agent.The Deputy Commander filly is from the family of grade II winner Highland Park. Her dam, O K Three Wire, is a 9-year-old daughter of Relaunch. The filly's second dam, Main Topic (by Topsider), was an added-money winner in Canada.Natkeeta, an 11-year-old, sold in foal to Johannesburg. She is the dam of stakes winner Interminable Gold (by Gilded Time). Produced from the unraced In Reality mare Orchesis, Natkeeta is a half-sister to grade III-placed Majestic Sunlight (by Majestic Light) and to stakes-placed Swoop City (by Carson City).


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State-owned telecom operator BSNL is expected to announce lower losses, at Rs 8,198 crore, for 2012-13 fiscal.
New Delhi: State-owned telecom operator BSNL is expected to announce lower losses, at Rs 8,198 crore, for 2012-13 fiscal.
In 2011-12, it had reported losses of Rs 8,851 crore.
"As per unaudited figures, BSNL loss stands at Rs 8,198 crore. It will be audited and then the final numbers will be released," said an official.
The figure does not include around Rs 2,700 crore which the company has to get from the government for supporting rural landline operations.
The company registered losses of Rs 8,850.70 crore during 2011-12 due to regulatory expenses and non-receipt of funds for its rural landlines operations. It stated the impact to be about Rs 3,100 crore.
BSNL has been logging losses since 2009-10. The company's profits had started declining after 2004-05, when it had made net gains of Rs 10,183 crore.
During 2010?11, BSNL losses had risen to Rs 6,384 crore mainly due to hefty outgo on salaries and expenses borne by the PSU for procuring 3G and BWA spectrum.