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Chef Brandon Kida of Asiate
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Looking for a Male Magcargo or Slugma with heatwave. Offers in my Sig
Looking for any slugma. Can trade any of the pokemon in my sig for it
need one with heatwave, nothing else matters, offering anything breedable in my sig.
pokemon i would like
1-hidden ability naive torchic/evolutions and good i'vs in atk and spd
pokemon i am offering
1-zoroa 2-zekrom(impish) 3-reshiram(bold) 4-kyurem(gentle/impish)
5-any starter from gen 1/5(other's will take a little more time but i can transfer gen's 2-4)
on my white, i have gotten pokerus, so if you want, i can give it to whatever i trade
white friend code:1506 7077 9482
Need Slugma, see signature for details and PM me please
Sorry but I am now done with trading on White Version, I MAY be back when black and white 2 release in english, sorry for any inconveniences.
Have DW male slugma with weak armor if anyone wants it. pm for trade
1120 1410 1309
I have Slugmas with Heat Wave if anyone wants one. I'm breeding it off of a timid male, but if you want a different nature, let me know and I'll breed and hatch until I get the nature you want. As far as what I want in return... I'd absolutely love a Victini, but otherwise one of the Sinnoh starters would be great. Barring that, then I'd really like a Pokemon that's part of a trio (for example, the legendary birds (Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres) or legendary dogs (Entei, Raikou, Suicune) or some other trio).
If you don't have any of those, just include an offer in your PM.
Need a Slugma or Magcargo.
3DS Friend Code: 1934-1469-6412 (PM Me If You'd Like To Exchange 3DS Friend Codes!!)
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I need a slugma. PM what you would want in return
White 2 Version FC 1120 9425 9139
Pokemon seen 627/649
Pokemon caught 627/649
Events I need
Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, Manaphy, Darkrai, Shaymin, Arceus, Victini, Meleotta and Genesect
Legends I need
Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Lugia, Ho-oh, Latios, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Dialga, Palkia and Giratina
Hidden Ability Pokemon I have
Female: Foongus, Onix, Deerling, Magikarp, Druddigon, Goldeen
Male: Eevee, Ryhorn, Gothorita, Minccino, Leavanny
Trade completed.
Last edited by superspecialyugi; 10th February 2013 at 11:53 PM.
White 2 Friend Code: 3569 0336 2707
Need dex entries for:
PM me for offers.
looking for PP Up or PP Max or even yellow shards can offer DWF Slugma
Spare Legendaries:
I am also after DW: Adamant: , Adamant:
**Note** Everything above is in relation to Gen V
FC Black 2 - 0949 0114 5333
Y FC - 4785-5536-1158 (Friend Safari has Ditto, dusparce and Minccino)
Looking for any Slugma. Can hatch almost any breedable pokemon for you.
Last edited by arnez22; 10th May 2013 at 6:46 PM. Reason: trade complete
pokemon white 2 fc: 3525-9878-0876 name Jerrica
Looking for a Slugma with a Calm or Modest nature, can breed any DWF's.
3DS Friend Code: 4699-5455-4475
Pokemon White 2 Friend Code: 3826-7667-7160.
I will NOT give away free DWF, I want offers. And no one's touching my shinies.
Looking for slugma, can offer a few breedables.
Platinum FC: 1550 7312 4136White FC: 1636 5031 1365
Check out my trade shop!
looking for a male slugma. no special requirements other than it was bred by you. have plenty of breedables, including most of the three stage dragons. pm me and we can work something out.
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Once he hit middle age it was over, he was always Jack in his movies
Once he hit middle age it was over, he was always Jack in his movies
"I'm 6'7" and weigh 480 pounds" Beetlejuice
"NOT you FCCStandards....always liked your threads and posts!!!!"
Thanks for the memories Jack.
One of the few real men remaining in Hollywood will now ride off into the sunset.
We should keep Jack in mind when people make excuses and attribute Howard creative tank job and pussification to simply "mellowing" out with age.
Age 60: wins oscar for best actor and golden globe (as good as it gets)
Age 65: nominated for best actor and wins golden globe (about schmidt)
Age 66: nominated for best actor golden globe (something's got to give)
Age 70: nominated for best supporting actor golden globe (the departed)
Not to mention he has aged gracefully and remained cool all those years
Saw that story on radaronline. Nicholson hasn't confirmed the story. Maybe he won't. But still, it's second hand news not straight from the source. Jack has without fanfare retired, a well-placed Hollywood film insider confirmed to Radar.
It's very sad. All of my favorite actors at this point are over 70 and out of all of them, only Clint Eastwood still does work that is of the same high quality that he did when he was much younger.
Maybe it's due to the internet exposing everyone and allowing no talent douches to become stars. MAybe it's the overt political correctness, maybe it's the lack of great material but Hollywood simply does not churn out stars like they once did as recently as 2 decades ago (nothing compares to the "golden age").
Who beside Jennifer Lawrence has emerged in the last 5 years as someone who can successfully do both critically acclaimed roles and blockbusters?
When was the last time you were exctited for a movie simply because a certain under-40 actor/actress was in it?
Maybe I'm old but oh well, we will always have netflix
I feel the same way. There was a good run by guys like Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise for a while, but they no longer seem to be a draw in their 50's. The movie industry is about to be 100% blockbuster. It will be nothing but cheap thrills in 3D and animation. Look at all the big actors who have appeared on television the last several years. The good roles are now on cable. Kevin Spacey spoke of the changing winds in Hollywood and how the lines between TV and movies has blurred. I tend to agree with him that a story is a story. Sopranos was as good as any mob movie and we got far more content from Sopranos. Game of Thrones is far more satisfying than The Hobbit. The only problem is that an actor can get typecast from being in such long form dramas. I saw so much of James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano, I had a hard time not seeing him as Tony in other roles.
You get a pretty good salary testing out that bed all day.
He's made 3 movies in 10 years the last one 3 years ago. He's been retired.
With twelve nominations (eight for Best Actor and four for Best Supporting Actor), Jack Nicholson is the most nominated male actor in Academy Awards history. Only Nicholson, Michael Caine, and Laurence Olivier (1930s–1970s) have been nominated for an acting (lead or supporting) Academy Award in five different decades: the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and the 2000s. With three Oscar wins, he also ties with Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ingrid Bergman, and Meryl Streep (who has the most acting nominations of anyone) for the second-most Oscar wins in acting categories. Only Katharine Hepburn, with four Oscars, has won more.
You mean there are no leading man roles for 80 year old guys?
The proof is in the imdb page, and his imdb page says he's retired.
Cinema filmmakers, oddly enough, are now trying to be episodic television producers on the big screen. Sequel after sequel after sequel is designed to exploit the relative safety of delivering the same content repeatedly to a paying audience.
That Lord Of The Rings crap is, as you suggested, trying to be Game of Thrones in the movie theater.


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10Pin Bowling Lounge
Redefining the bowling experience by combining a retro sport and a hip, upscale lounge into one high-energy package.
CITY: Chicago
1401 West Restaurant at Chicago Marriott Oak Brook
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Featuring prime steaks and seafood. Our chef blends innovative American cuisine with French country cooking to create regional and seasonal specialties with full bodied flavors.
CITY: Oak Brook
1492 Tapas Bar
1492 Tapas Bar is a state-of-the-art Spanish traditional and new age cuisine restaurant in Chicago. Featuring an outstanding menu and wine list.
CITY: Chicago
164 North Fine Dining
USDA Prime Steaks, fresh seafood, pork chops and pastas. Full bar on site. Our private dining room is now available for seating up to 80. Please call between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Monday through Friday and ask for Maria for more information.
CITY: Kankakee
Excellent food in a casual atmosphere serving truly innovative New American cuisine. Including everything from Jambalaya to Rack of Lamb, and eclectic selections such as ostrich, buffalo and elk. Full service Bar too.
CITY: Crystal Lake
17th Street Bar & Grill
17th St. BBQ is an award-winning BBQ joint offering family style dine-in and carryout and has been rated as "Best Ribs in the U.S." by Bon Appétit Magazine. For truly succulent ribs and zesty sauces 17th St. BBQ abides.
CITY: Murphysboro
17th Street Bar & Grill
17th Street Bar & Grill offers a variety of award-winning barbeque and American favorites.
CITY: O'Fallon
17th Street Bar & Grill
Award-winning BBQ. Family style dine-in and carry out. "Best Ribs in the U.S." by Bon Appétit Magazine and featured on the Food Network show, Bon Appétit Picks the Best.
CITY: Marion
17th Street Bar & Grill
17th Street Bar & Grill offers a variety of award-winning barbeque and American favorites. Bon Appétit magazine picked 17th Street Bar & Grill's apple wood-smoked barbecue ribs as the best in the U.S. in 2007. Owner and pitmaster Mike Mills, reverently referred to in barbecue circles as The Legend, is a four-time World Champion and three-time Grand World Champion of Memphis in May, known as the Super Bowl of Swine. Pick up a bottle of 17th Street's award-winning barbecue sauce or Magic Dust rub while you're there.
CITY: Sparta
20's Hideout Steakhouse and Bar
The 20's Hideout Restaurant serves up steak, seafood and live entertainment in roaring 20's fashion. Boasting the largest wine cellar south of Chicago with over 1,900 international and domestic bottles on hand sure to satisfy the pickiest of palates.
CITY: Marion
300 State
Stop by for any of the specialty or create-your-own pizzas or calzones/strombolis. You can side that with a salad and fresh cold beer.
CITY: Alton
545 North Bar & Grill
Serving up comfort food with a twist. We are an American bar and grill with a distinct urban vibe located in the heart of Historic Downtown Libertyville. Menu includes salads, choice entrees, sandwiches and burgers, seafood and much more.
CITY: Libertyville
676 Restaurant & Bar
We are an American Contemporary restaurant with excellent views of the Magnificent Mile.
CITY: Chicago
720 South Bar & Grill
720 SOUTH is a classic American grill featuring a seasonally inspired menu focusing on local ingredients. Unwind after a long day in the lounge with colleagues over locally crafted beers or enjoy an evening dinner with friends and family. Guests will enjoy signature comfort foods, classically inspired cocktails and an extensive selection of wines by the glass.
CITY: Chicago
9 East Coffee
Coffee house and cafe specializing in espresso-based drinks, homemade desserts, pastries, soups and sandwiches, plus daily specials to accompany a superb cup of coffee. Free internet access, outdoor dining, and entertainment. Look for 9 East on Facebook. Credit Cards accepted. Open: Monday thru Friday: 7 am - 3 pm; Saturday;: 7 am - 2 pm.
CITY: Freeport
9th Street Cafe
9th Street Cafe offers delicious home cooking with large portions your family will love. While you wait for your fantastic food - which won't be long - you can read all about the history of Highland, Illinois.
CITY: Highland
9th Street Grill
Located in Historic Downtown Mt. Vernon (an Illinois Main Street Community), 9th Street Grill brings cosmopolitan flare and flavor to a hometown atmosphere.
CITY: Mount Vernon
9th Street Pub
Over 35 years in business, serving lunch and dinner daily from 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM. Live entertainment & live video games. Home of the Cheeseburger in Paradise. 10 new burgers and smokehouse items available. Casual dining. Boasting 52 import beers with two major imports on tap. Find us on Facebook or our website: www.9thstpub.com.
CITY: La Salle
A Slice of Life
Skokie kosher restaurant exceeds the generally mediocre standards for kosher cuisine, with pizza and a good variety of meatless dishes.
CITY: Skokie
A' Salute Lounge & Grill
A' Salute is a high class lounge featuring entertainment every Friday and Saturday night with room for dancing. The menu will feature a selection of small sandwiches called "trios" which are served in threes.
CITY: St. Charles
Traditional korean dishes with undilluted authentic flavours! Simply put, the focus is good food, not trendy garnish, so enjoy!
CITY: Champaign
Abigails on the Lake
Abigail's is a full-service marina with a restaurant located right on Lake Sara and has a boat ramp, gas, and boat rental slips. They offer hot dogs, BBQ and other great American traditional food.
CITY: Effingham
Abreo Restaurant, Wine Bar & Patio
In the heart of the up-and-coming 500 block, Abreo has become known as downtown's premiere restaurant and nightspot. Housed in vintage 1888 architecture, the atmosphere is uniquely its own. From its cozy wine bar with a beautiful stone fireplace, its whimsical dining room, its peaceful garden patio, to its intimate wine cellar, Abreo is an experience for all of the senses.
CITY: Rockford
Acapulco Family Mexican Restaurant
Acapulco has a variety of authentic Mexican cuisine for the whole family.
CITY: Granite City
Acquaviva Winery
Acquaviva is a family-owned vineyard and winery that includes a tasting bar, Neapolitan-style pizza bistro with foods paired to accompany the wines, retail market place, private event space and a visible winemaking production center.
CITY: Maple Park
Your neighborhood farm-to-table restaurant. Celebrating the rich diversity of American food and drink. Our produce and meats are sourced almost exclusively from small family farms in the Midwest. The menu is seasonally focused and our casual dining room features a spectacular Brunswick bar, as well as comfortable booths and tables.
CITY: Chicago
Acropolis Greek Cafe
At the Acropolis Greek Cafe you can enjoy great food in a cozy, home like atmosphere. Located in a beautiful historic building.
CITY: Belleville
Adams Brother's Coffee House
Adam's Brother's Coffee House offers a variety of tasty American classics.
CITY: Greenville
Adams Street Cafe & Catering
Homemade soups, wonderful salads and original gourmet and deli sandwiches served on our own bread, baked fresh daily.
CITY: Peoria
Adobo Grill Old Town
Adobo Grill, one of the top Mexican restaurants in the city, is best known for table-side guacamole, margaritas and a collection of over 80 tequilas.
CITY: Chicago
Aerie's Riverview Winery
The view is incredible and the wine selection is unbeatable every season of the year on top of the bluffs at Aerie's Winery. During the spring and summer, the outdoor deck offers a breathtaking view of recreation on the river. As the temperatures cool, you can lounge inside next to the fireplace. Aerie's also offers cottages and a lodge to accommodate the needs of overnight guests, all within walking distance of the winery. Seasonally, check our calendar for live music on the decks Wine, cheese, sausages and pizza are available.
CITY: Grafton
Agatucci's Restaurant
Located in Peoria since 1926, Agatucci's family-owned restaurant hasn't changed much, which if you ask the throngs of regulars who shuffle in and out of its modest doors every day, that's a good thing.
CITY: Peoria
Great Mexican restaurant with authentic Mexican food and a great atmosphere.
CITY: Mount Vernon
Ai Japanese Restaurant & Lounge
Ai Japanese Restaurant, located in River North, features Chicago's only sake bar. A unique variety of tasting flights, allowing our guests to experience a wide array of sushi and sake, are signatures to Ai.
CITY: Chicago
An inspired Asian prime steakhouse staged within an equally inspired rich environment. Coveted cuts of robust beef cohabitate with sparkling fresh sushi wrapped in a culturally motivated design. A custom rhythmic soundtrack and floating sushi bar offer an escape from the mainstream.
CITY: Chicago
Al Dorado
Al Dorado is a Mexican restaurant that is dedicated to serving great food at reasonable prices. Come in and enjoy authentic Mexican cuisine made from only the freshest ingredients. Our friendly staff are waiting for you.
CITY: DeKalb
Al's Steakhouse
Serving Joliet and Communities for 50 years. Warm atmosphere specializing in char-broiled steaks & seafood. Superb Sunday brunch (regular menu available.) Friday night seafood buffet (regular menu available.) Extensive wine list. Private rooms for all occasions. Open Sun 10:00 AM, Mon-Sat 11:00 AM
CITY: Joliet
Alberto's Italian Restaurant & Fitzgerald's Tavern
Located adjacent to the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites in Carol Stream, Illinois, we offer some of the finest Italian cuisine in the western suburbs. Rise and shine, and join us for our bountiful breakfast buffet! Enjoy one of our delicious breakfast entrees, or have our chef prepare you an omelet cooked to order.
CITY: Carol Stream
Alberto's Restaurant
Italian food with friendly, fun service and an local, comfortable atmosphere. Starting with the roasted garlic served with fresh bread, followed by homemade dressings for the salads, great pastas and a huge portion of fish.
CITY: Ottawa
Alexander Park Tavern
Reknowned as a longtime staple in the Princeton area, the "Park" is the place to be. Enjoy a drink and conversation at the bar while you wait for your crispy fried chicken or daily special. Finish your meal with a specialty dessert on the patio. Stop by this congenial spot to relax and catch up with friends.
CITY: Princeton
Alexander's Resturant
Family restaurant with specialties such as fantastic baby back ribs that fall off the bone, charbroiled steaks & juicy prime rib that melt in your mouth, & a wide variety of glorious burgers.
CITY: Elgin
Alexander's Steakhouse
At Alexander's Steakhouse, each guest has the opportunity to select their own Steak from the locker and cook it their own special way over a live charcoal grill. Guests can select from twelve different Steak Cuts, such as Ribeye, T-Bone, Filet or our own "Santa Maria" Top Sirloin. All steaks are hand cut daily by our in-house butchers from aged USDA choice Midwestern Beef. Perfect place for groups!
CITY: Champaign
Alexander's Steakhouse
At Alexander's Steakhouse, each guest has the opportunity to select their own Steak from the locker and cook it their own special way over a live charcoal grill. Guests can select from twelve different Steak Cuts, such as Ribeye, T-Bone, Filet or our own "Santa Maria" Top Sirloin. All steaks are hand cut daily by our in-house butchers from aged USDA choice Midwestern Beef. Perfect place for groups!
CITY: Peoria
Alfonzo's Pizzeria
Alfonso's has delicious Italian food with excellent service and carry-out.
CITY: Maryville
Alhambra Palace
Bringing local DJs as well as famous DJs from around the globe. Love performances and Chicago promoters spicing up every night of the week. Upscale dress and friendly people await. Visually stunning venue beckons. Unparalleled beauty. Authentic Middle Eastern cuisine, prepared with old world spices and traditional flair. Amazing service backed by delicious wines and Middle Eastern inspired cocktails and martinis.
CITY: Chicago
Located in the heart of downtown St. Charles, Alibi offers a variety of food, beer, wine, and cocktails. Live entertainment to suit everyone. Tell' em you were here!
CITY: St. Charles
Alinea Restaurant
Named "Best Restaurant in America," Alinea is a four-star restaurant with hypermodern dishes created by Chef Grant Achatz, who was named Outstanding Chef by the James Beard Foundation. Known for its tasting menu where every ingredient is a culinary delight and thoughtfully considered for a truly out of this world experience.
CITY: Chicago
Allgauer's Grill
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Contemporary American cuisine. Casual dress code. Serving breakfast, lunch & dinner. Average cost per meal: Lunch $10-20, Dinner more than $20.
CITY: Lisle
Allgauers on the Riverfront
Overlooking a gently-flowing, tree-lined river with scenic views in every season, this award-winning restaurant offers American fare with an eclectic flair. The comfortable yet sophisticated atmosphere is accented with beautiful decor, distinctive artwork, and soaring vaulted ceilings that compliment the exquisite culinary creations of the chef. Noted for the Friday Seafood and Prime Rib Night, the succulent specialties are impeccably presented in a lovely setting. Open Sundays for spectacular Champagne Sunday Brunch featuring over 100 items from fresh seafood to omelet stations and decadent desserts.
CITY: Northbrook
Allie's American Grille & Lounge (Marriott Suites)
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - American cuisine. Casual dress code. Serving breakfast, lunch & dinner. Average cost per meal: $12-15. Lobby lounge serves dinner and is open daily until 11pm.
CITY: Downers Grove
Unique ambiance and cuisine will provide you with an unforgettable Chinese and Hawaiian dining experience. Great food, wonderful service & family friendly.
CITY: Decatur
Family restaurant, owned and operated by the Alongi family since 1933. Order pasta, pizza, steak or seafood.
CITY: Du Quoin
Alto Vineyards - Alto Pass
This award-winning winery's original Shawnee Hills Wine Trail location (Alto also has a Champaign outpost) offers free wine tasting and a gift shop, in addition to spring, summer and fall festivals with music and food.
CITY: Alto Pass
Alto Vineyards Tasting Room
Alto Vineyards' retail wine shop and tasting room offers custom gift baskets, gourmet foods and local artwork. Indoor and outdoor seating offers a place to relax with a glass of Alto's finest. Alto's original location is situated in Alto Pass, on the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail.
CITY: Champaign
Alton Sports Tap
Alton Sports Tap is everyone's favorite place in town to catch a game. With screens all around, you are sure to find the best games on during every time of the year, and every seat in the house offers the perfect view. Kids and adults alike will enjoy our wide selection of pinball, darts and video games with a few classics including bags and golf. Pull up a chair and make a new friend where the sports are always on, the food is always hot and the good times are rolling!
CITY: Alton
Amarillo Tex's Steakhouse & Saloon
Family style steak house, full of all your favorites. Choose your own cut of meat, or choose from the menu, you're sure to get your fill!
CITY: Alton
Ambrogio's Pizzeria
Restaurant serving Italian foods. Dine-in, delivery, or carry-out available. Pasta, steaks, chicken, sandwiches, fish, pizza and more.
CITY: Belvidere
America's Historic Roundhouse
Originally constructed in 1855-1865, the roundhouse was renovated and now houses Illinois' largest microbrewery and brewpub.
CITY: Aurora
American Cafe - International House of Wine and Cheese
Located in the International House of Wine and Cheese, home of fine wines, champagne, Wisconsin cheese, specialty spirits and gifts. Breakfast: specializing in omelettes, Belgian waffles, pancakes. Lunch: burgers, sandwiches. Dinner Friday & Saturday.
CITY: Richmond
American Girl Cafe
Chicago's American Girl Cafe is the place for brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, and parties. For reservations and seating times, call toll-free 877-247-5223.
CITY: Chicago
American Girl Place
Located at the famous Water Tower Place, you'll find the store girls of all ages want to visit. They come from far and near to experience the magic that is American Girl Place Chicago—featuring specialty shops, private dining and, of course, lovable dolls. The only destination of its kind in the world for girls and their families.
CITY: Chicago
American Harvest Eatery
American Harvest explores the concept of farm-to-table cuisine, using the freshest ingredients sourced from local farmers and complemented with a variety of craft beers
CITY: Springfield
American Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor
1846 shop features original cabinets & old-fashioned fountain. Popcorn, candy, lunch, Coca-Cola merchandise, coffee bar. Best ice cream in town!
CITY: Galena
Amici Ristorante
Spectacular Italian cuisine surrounded with the magical feeling of Italy. Enjoy our Cafe lunch, relax in our cocktail lounge or have dinner under the stars.
CITY: Peru
From huevos con chorizo and the best chimichangas around to a Friday night fish fry, Amigos is the place for a great Mexican or American meal. Breakfast served anytime. Credit Cards accepted. Open: Sunday: 8 am - 2 pm; Monday thru Saturday: 8 am - 9 pm.
CITY: Freeport
Amish Country Tours
A step on guide will accompany your tour of the Amish countryside. The tours will also include meals in Amish homes, and Amish home, buggy shop, dairy farm and woodworking tours. Additional highlights include an Amish museum, local attractions, restaurants, and accommodations.
CITY: Arcola
Amish Country Tours with ACM Tours
ACM Tours is a full service, receptive tour guide company with many special services available at no additional cost. We literally open the door to fabulous Illinois Amish Country! We are ready to assist you with meals, attractions, lodging and step on guide service. We have available trained, professional, local step-on guides who are well versed in the history, customs and folklore of this most unique part of Illinois.
CITY: Arthur
Amishland Red Barn Buffet
400 seat award-winning buffet with local recipes, Amish bread, desserts, apple butter, butcher shop meats and great Amish country decor.
CITY: Tuscola
Amishland's Country Restaurant
Enjoy Atwood's meat services, award winning meats. Home cooked meals include drink and dessert. Open for breakfast and lunch.
CITY: Atwood
Anastasia's Restaurant & Sports Lounge
Established in 1992. Family owned & operated, proudly serving Lake County families breakfast, lunch, and dinner all day. Famous for our pizza, pasta, steaks, seafood, ribs, and homemade soups. Our sports lounge is separate from our dining room area. Enjoy Anastasia's Outdoor Beer Garden with a full service bar. Take advantage of our speedy delivery and catering services. Private meeting room for Navy families to meet and greet every Thursday. Bring your family by to meet ours.
CITY: Waukegan
Anastasia's Restaurant & Sports Lounge
Family owned & operated proudly serving Lake County lunch and dinner. We offer the finest quality cuisine in a modern atmosphere. Famous for our pizza, pasta, steaks, seafood, ribs, and homemade soups. Take advantage of our speedy delivery and catering services. We cater to everyone of all ages. Anastasia's is the place to be for a late night bar scene with a DJ on the weekends and economic friendly drink specials. Bring your family by to meet ours!!!
CITY: Antioch
Andiamo Restaurant
Offers a Contemporary & Elegant Atmosphere. Featuring Comfortable Oversized Booths that will make you feel right at home. Andiamo Means "Let's Go"! So don't hesitate to stop in and enjoy our American Cuisine. Choose from our wide variety of menu selections and let our professional culinary Team Entertain you with tastes and specialties from around the world.
CITY: Chicago
Andies Restaurant in Andersonville is a Mediterranean restaurant on Clark Street serving amazing dishes of many influences for more than 30 years. We cook our food with the freshest ingredients and make each dish to order. Our servers are detailed, attentive, accommodating and friendly. Our main priority is to ensure you have the best dining experience possible. Our philosophy is to cook locally and seasonally. We use produce from local farmers in the Midwest, when and where it is available, and from Andies' garden. Be sure to check out our Seasonal Menu page for fresh specials.
CITY: Chicago
Andresen's Cafe
Family oriented restaurant. Dine in or carry out. Plate lunches, dinners, and specials every night. Historical building dating back to 1927.
CITY: Johnston City
Andrew's at the Westbrook
Fine Euro-American dining in an elegant country atmosphere. Fresh fish and pastries with a French flair. Small vineyard with wine available for purchase.
CITY: Paris
Andria's Countryside Restaurant
With such delicious dishes as Prime Beef Carpaccio, Fried Calamari, and Escargot en Croute, Andria's is a rare jewel of dining delight.
CITY: Edwardsville
Andria's Restaurant
Since 1979, Andria's has been serving O'Fallon with delicious appetizers, seafood, steak, prime rib, pork chops, and much more.
CITY: O'Fallon
Andy's Jazz Club
A spacious, sophisticated saloon atmosphere, a deliciously varied menu and Chicago's finest Live Jazz! Dining is delightfully casual, served with Live Jazz steps from Michigan Avenue, rub shoulders with celebs and jazz buffs from around the world. Andy's renown is international.
CITY: Chicago
Angela's Candies
Angela's Candies offers all types of candy from your favorites to fine chocolates, nuts and more. If you are looking for quick lunch, pick up a hotdog, polish sausage or try one of her sandwich selection of the week from hamburgers, BBQ or egg salad sandwiches just to name a few. Don't forget to add chips, popcorn and a soda ... Angela's Candies has been around for 27 years and has the best prices in town.
CITY: Peoria
Angelo's II
Serving Italian sandwiches, spaghetti, lasagna, Italian bread, ravioli, salad bar and pasta buffet. Banquet room is available for any occasion.
CITY: Sterling
Angelo's Pizza
Angelo's Pizza has been serving Taylorville and surrounding areas service since 1965. Angelo's has gone through many transitions throughout it's lifetime, including expanding the dining room, kitchen and parking lot in order to meet our customers' expectations. Items include pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soup, salad and more. Banquet room available for large groups or special events. Catering available.
CITY: Taylorville
Angelo's Restaurant
Complete family restaurant on the Historic Woodstock Square. Come to the Woodstock Square to enjoy the many things to see and do, then stop in to Angelo's Restaurant to enjoy a good old-fashioned family style meal that is sure to satisfy everyones taste.
CITY: Woodstock
Angels & Kings
This cool rock and roll bar, co-owned by Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz (a Chicago native), boasts over-sized celebrity mug shots adorning its walls. Stop in and croon on the karaoke stage with a live band or dance to the DJ-driven music.
CITY: Chicago
Angus Bailey's Restaurant
American cuisine including specialty sandwiches, soups & salads, handcut steaks & chops, seafood, pastas and more! Full bar. Carry out available.
CITY: Carlinville
Anna Maria's Pizza
Homemade pizza, pasta dishes, and hot and cold sandwiches. We deliver! All day, everyday! Plus we cater!
CITY: Princeton
Anna's Asian Bistro & Sushi Bar
Mother-Daughter duo offer pan-Asian cuisine to please any palate and budget! Enjoy specialty sushi, curries and more on this lengthy, inventive menu.
CITY: Chicago
Annabel Lee's Tea Room and Boutique
Take a timeout for tea and lunch in this elegant tea room, in a historic building with shopping located within the building.
CITY: Jacksonville
Annam Cafe
Wonderful authentic Vietnamese cuisine is served at this small store front restaurant.
CITY: Evanston
Annie's Frozen Custard
Annie's Frozen Custard has a variety of tasty flavors and portions so generous two can share.
CITY: Edwardsville
Annie's Old Fashioned Pancake House
Annie's is a traditional breakfast eatery. Come on in and try some warm pancakes topped with apples and cinnamon or pecans, as well as our French toast and omelets.
CITY: Skokie
Annoyance Theatre & Bar
For 25 years, The Annoyance Theatre has created some of Chicago's finest comedy. Home of the longest running musical Co-ed Prison Sluts, The Annoyance uses improvisation to create new and original plays, musicals, sketch-comedy and more, in a vibrant, uncensored atmosphere.
CITY: Chicago
We serve honest-to-goodness, Italian home-style cooking, skillfully prepared with respect for the finest ingredients we can search out. The menu changes often, based on what's best in the market. Our bias is toward local and organic producers.
CITY: Chicago


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URL | Facebook.com |
Type of site | Social networking service |
Registration | Required |
Available language(s) | Multilingual (70) |
Users | 901 million[1] (active April 2012) |
Owner | Facebook, Inc. |
Created by | |
Launched | February 4, 2004 (2004-02-04) |
Alexa rank | 2 (June 2012[update])[2] |
Revenue | Advertising |
Current status | Active |
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. [3] As of May 2012[update], Facebook has over 900 million active users, more than half of them using mobile devices.[4] Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other. Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the site.[5]
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[6] The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over. However, according to a May 2011 Consumer Reports survey, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts and 5 million under 10, violating the site's terms of service.[7]
A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users.[8] Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?"[9] Quantcast estimates Facebook has 138.9 million monthly unique U.S. visitors in May 2011.[10] According to Social Media Today, in April 2010 an estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account.[11] Nevertheless, Facebook's market growth started to stall in some regions, with the site losing 7 million active users in the United States and Canada in May 2011.[12] Facebook is now getting into hardware business and is hoping to build its own smartphone by 2013.[13]
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Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook, on October 28, 2003, while attending Harvard as a sophomore. According to The Harvard Crimson, the site was comparable to Hot or Not, and "used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person".[14][15]
To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas of Harvard's computer network and copied the houses' private dormitory ID images. Harvard at that time did not have a student "facebook" (a directory with photos and basic information), though individual houses had been issuing their own paper facebooks since the mid-1980s. Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online.[14][16]
The site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list-servers, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy, and faced expulsion. Ultimately, the charges were dropped.[17] Zuckerberg expanded on this initial project that semester by creating a social study tool ahead of an art history final, by uploading 500 Augustan images to a website, with one image per page along with a comment section.[16] He opened the site up to his classmates, and people started sharing their notes.
The following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website in January 2004. He was inspired, he said, by an editorial in The Harvard Crimson about the Facemash incident.[18] On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.[19]
Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product.[20] The three complained to the Harvard Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation. The three later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, subsequently settling.[21]
Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, and within the first month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the service.[22] Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote the website. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale.[23] It soon opened to the other Ivy League schools, Boston University, New York University, MIT, and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States.[24][25]
Facebook was incorporated in mid-2004, and the entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had been informally advising Zuckerberg, became the company's president.[26] In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California.[23] It received its first investment later that month from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.[27] The company dropped The from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.[28]
Date | Users (in millions) |
Days later | Monthly growth[N 2] |
02008-08-26August 26, 2008 | &10000000000000100000000100[29] | &100000000000016650000001,665 | 178.38% |
02009-04-08April 8, 2009 | &10000000000000200000000200[30] | &10000000000000225000000225 | 13.33% |
02009-09-15September 15, 2009 | &10000000000000300000000300[31] | &10000000000000160000000160 | 9.38% |
02010-02-05February 5, 2010 | &10000000000000400000000400[32] | &10000000000000143000000143 | 6.99% |
02010-07-21July 21, 2010 | &10000000000000500000000500[33] | &10000000000000166000000166 | 4.52% |
02011-01-05January 5, 2011 | &10000000000000600000000600[34][N 3] | &10000000000000168000000168 | 3.57% |
02011-05-30May 30, 2011 | &10000000000000700000000700[35] | &10000000000000145000000145 | 3.45% |
02011-09-22September 22, 2011 | &10000000000000800000000800[36] | &10000000000000115000000115 | 3.73% |
02012-04-24April 24, 2012 | &10000000000000900000000900[37] | &10000000000000215000000215 | 1.74% |
Facebook launched a high-school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step.[38] At that time, high-school networks required an invitation to join.[39] Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft.[40] Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006, to everyone of age 13 and older with a valid email address.[41][42]
On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion.[43] Microsoft's purchase included rights to place international ads on Facebook.[44] In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.[45] In September 2009, Facebook said that it had turned cash-flow positive for the first time.[46] In November 2010, based on SecondMarket Inc., an exchange for shares of privately held companies, Facebook's value was $41 billion (slightly surpassing eBay's) and it became the third largest U.S. Web company after Google and Amazon.[47]
Traffic to Facebook increased steadily after 2009. More people visited Facebook than Google for the week ending March 13, 2010.[48]
In March 2011 it was reported that Facebook removes approximately 20,000 profiles from the site every day for various infractions, including spam, inappropriate content and underage use, as part of its efforts to boost cyber security.[49]
In early 2011, Facebook announced plans to move to its new headquarters, the former Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park, California.[50][51]
Release of statistics by DoubleClick showed that Facebook reached one trillion pageviews in the month of June 2011, making it the most visited website in the world.[52] It should however be noted that Google and some of its selected websites are not counted in the DoubleClick rankings. According to the Nielsen Media Research study, released in December 2011, Facebook is the second most accessed website in the US.[53]
In March 2012 Facebook announced App Center, an online mobile store which sells applications that connect to Facebook. The store will be available to iPhone, Android and mobile web users.[54] In April, Facebook bought the application Instagram for US$1 billion.[55]
In early May of 2012, Facebook acquired social discovery start-up Glancee.[56]
Facebook, Inc. held an initial public offering on May 17, 2012, negotiating a share price of $38 apiece, valuing the company at $104 billion, the largest valuation to date for a newly public company.[57] After the IPO, Zuckerberg will retain a 22% ownership share in Facebook and will own 57% of the voting shares.[58] The IPO raised $16 billion, making it the third largest in U.S. history.[59][60] The shares began to be traded on May 18, and though the stock struggled to stay above the IPO price for most of the day, it set a new record for trading volume of an IPO.[61] Days after the IPO, regulators from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission started investigating the IPO handing, after claims that Facebook's weakened growth forecasts were not disclosed to all the shareholders.[62] At end of May, the stock's losses to 26 percent set to $28.19 as the worst-performing large initial public offering in the past decade seems to much stock issued, while a lot of people really had no intention of holding the stocks.[63]
Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information, and other personal information. Users can communicate with friends and other users through private or public messages and a chat feature. They can also create and join interest groups and "like pages" (called "fan pages" until April 19, 2010), some of which are maintained by organizations as a means of advertising.[64] A 2012 Pew Internet and American Life study identified that between 20–30% of Facebook users are "power users" who frequently link, poke, post and tag themselves and others.[65]
To allay concerns about privacy, Facebook enables users to choose their own privacy settings and choose who can see specific parts of their profile.[66] The website is free to users, and generates revenue from advertising, such as banner ads.[67] Facebook requires a user's name and profile picture (if applicable) to be accessible by everyone. Users can control who sees other information they have shared, as well as who can find them in searches, through their privacy settings.[68]
The media often compares Facebook to MySpace, but one significant difference between the two Web sites is the level of customization.[69] Another difference is Facebook's requirement that users give their true identity, a demand that MySpace does not make.[70] MySpace allows users to decorate their profiles using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), while Facebook allows only plain text.[71] Facebook has a number of features with which users may interact. They include the Wall, a space on every user's profile page that allows friends to post messages for the user to see;[72] Pokes, which allows users to send a virtual "poke" to each other (a notification then tells a user that they have been poked);[73] Photos, where users can upload albums and photos;[74] and Status, which allows users to inform their friends of their whereabouts and actions.[75] Depending on privacy settings, anyone who can see a user's profile can also view that user's Wall. In July 2007, Facebook began allowing users to post attachments to the Wall, whereas the Wall was previously limited to textual content only.[72]
On September 6, 2006, a News Feed was announced, which appears on every user's homepage and highlights information including profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays of the user's friends.[76] This enabled spammers and other users to manipulate these features by creating illegitimate events or posting fake birthdays to attract attention to their profile or cause.[77] Initially, the News Feed caused dissatisfaction among Facebook users; some complained it was too cluttered and full of undesired information, others were concerned that it made it too easy for others to track individual activities (such as relationship status changes, events, and conversations with other users).[78]
In response, Zuckerberg issued an apology for the site's failure to include appropriate customizable privacy features. Since then, users have been able to control what types of information are shared automatically with friends. Users are now able to prevent user-set categories of friends from seeing updates about certain types of activities, including profile changes, Wall posts, and newly added friends.[79]
On February 23, 2010, Facebook was granted a patent[80] on certain aspects of its News Feed. The patent covers News Feeds in which links are provided so that one user can participate in the same activity of another user.[81] The patent may encourage Facebook to pursue action against websites that violate its patent, which may potentially include websites such as Twitter.[82]
One of the most popular applications on Facebook is the Photos application, where users can upload albums and photos.[83] Facebook allows users to upload an unlimited number of photos, compared with other image hosting services such as Photobucket and Flickr, which apply limits to the number of photos that a user is allowed to upload. During the first years, Facebook users were limited to 60 photos per album. As of May 2009, this limit has been increased to 200 photos per album.[84][85][86][87]
Privacy settings can be set for individual albums, limiting the groups of users that can see an album. For example, the privacy of an album can be set so that only the user's friends can see the album, while the privacy of another album can be set so that all Facebook users can see it. Another feature of the Photos application is the ability to "tag", or label, users in a photo. For instance, if a photo contains a user's friend, then the user can tag the friend in the photo. This sends a notification to the friend that they have been tagged, and provides them a link to see the photo.[88]
Facebook Notes was introduced on August 22, 2006, a blogging feature that allowed tags and embeddable images. Users were later able to import blogs from Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger, and other blogging services.[41] During the week of April 7, 2008, Facebook released a Comet-based[89] instant messaging application called "Chat" to several networks,[90] which allows users to communicate with friends and is similar in functionality to desktop-based instant messengers.
Facebook launched Gifts on February 8, 2007, which allows users to send virtual gifts to their friends that appear on the recipient's profile. Gifts cost $1.00 each to purchase, and a personalized message can be attached to each gift.[91][92] On May 14, 2007, Facebook launched Marketplace, which lets users post free classified ads.[93] Marketplace has been compared to Craigslist by CNET, which points out that the major difference between the two is that listings posted by a user on Marketplace are seen only by users in the same network as that user, whereas listings posted on Craigslist can be seen by anyone.[94]
On July 20, 2008, Facebook introduced "Facebook Beta", a significant redesign of its user interface on selected networks. The Mini-Feed and Wall were consolidated, profiles were separated into tabbed sections, and an effort was made to create a "cleaner" look.[95] After initially giving users a choice to switch, Facebook began migrating all users to the new version starting in September 2008.[96] On December 11, 2008, it was announced that Facebook was testing a simpler signup process.[97]
On June 13, 2009, Facebook introduced a "Usernames" feature, whereby pages can be linked with simpler URLs such as http://www.facebook.com/facebook
instead of http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=20531316728
.[98] Many new smartphones offer access to Facebook services through either their Web browsers or applications. An official Facebook application is available for the operating systems Android, iOS, and webOS. Nokia and Research In Motion both provide Facebook applications for their own mobile devices. More than 425 million active users access Facebook through mobile devices across 200 mobile operators in 60 countries.[99]
On November 15, 2010, Facebook announced a new "Facebook Messages" service. In a media event that day, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, "It's true that people will be able to have an @facebook.com email addresses, but it's not email". The launch of such a feature had been anticipated for some time before the announcement, with some calling it a "Gmail killer". The system, to be available to all of the website's users, combines text messaging, instant messaging, emails, and regular messages, and will include privacy settings similar to those of other Facebook services. Codenamed "Project Titan", Facebook Messages took 15 months to develop.[100][101]
In February 2011, Facebook began to use the hCalendar microformat to mark up events, and the hCard microformat for the events' venues, enabling the extraction of details to users' own calendar or mapping applications.[102]
Since April 2011 Facebook users have had the ability to make live voice calls via Facebook Chat, allowing users to chat with others from all over the world. This feature, which is provided free through T-Mobile's new Bobsled service, lets the user add voice to the current Facebook Chat as well as leave voice messages on Facebook.[103]
On July 6, 2011, Facebook launched its video calling services using Skype as its technology partner. It allows one to one calling using a Skype Rest API.[104]
On September 14, 2011, Facebook launched a Subscribe button. The feature allows for users to follow public updates, and these are the people most often broadcasting their ideas.[105] There were major modifications that the site released on September 22, 2011.[106]
As reported by TechCrunch on February 15, 2012, Facebook is introducing 'Verified Account' concept like that of Twitter & Google+. Though as of March 3, 2012, verified accounts don't get any badges or denotations, but such accounts will get more priority in 'Subscription Suggestions' of Facebook.[107]
On March 6, 2012, Facebook officially launched Messenger for Windows, which gives users of Windows 7 access to some Facebook services without using a web browser.[108]
According to comScore, an internet marketing research company, Facebook collects as much data from its visitors as Google and Microsoft, but considerably less than Yahoo!.[109] In 2010, the security team began expanding its efforts to reduce the risks to users' privacy,[110] but privacy concerns remain. On November 6, 2007, Facebook launched Facebook Beacon, which was an ultimately failed attempt to advertise to friends of users using the knowledge of what purchases friends made. As of March 2012, Facebook's usage of its user data is under close scrutiny.[111]
On November 29, 2011, Facebook agreed to settle US Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers by failing to keep privacy promises.[112]
Facebook is built in PHP which is compiled with HipHop for PHP, a source code transformer built by Facebook engineers that turns PHP into C++. The deployment of HipHop reportedly reduced average CPU consumption on Facebook servers by 50%.[113]
Facebook is developed as one monolithic application. According to an interview in 2012 with Chuck Rossi, a build engineer at Facebook, Facebook compiles into a 1.5 GB binary blob which is then distributed to the servers using a custom BitTorrent-based release system. Rossi stated that it takes approximately 15 minutes to build and 15 minutes to release to the servers. The build and release process is zero downtime and new changes to Facebook are rolled out daily.[113]
According to comScore, Facebook is the leading social networking site based on monthly unique visitors, having overtaken main competitor MySpace in April 2008.[115] ComScore reports that Facebook attracted 130 million unique visitors in May 2010, an increase of 8.6 million people.[116] According to Alexa, the website's ranking among all websites increased from 60th to 7th in worldwide traffic, from September 2006 to September 2007, and is currently 2nd.[117] Quantcast ranks the website 2nd in the U.S. in traffic,[118] and Compete.com ranks it 2nd in the U.S.[119] The website is the most popular for uploading photos, with 50 billion uploaded cumulatively.[120] In 2010, Sophos's "Security Threat Report 2010" polled over 500 firms, 60% of which responded that they believed that Facebook was the social network that posed the biggest threat to security, well ahead of MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn.[110]
Facebook is the most popular social networking site in several English-speaking countries, including Canada,[121] the United Kingdom,[122] and the United States.[123][124][125][126] In regional Internet markets, Facebook penetration is highest in North America (69 percent), followed by Middle East-Africa (67 percent), Latin America (58 percent), Europe (57 percent), and Asia-Pacific (17 percent).[127]
The website has won awards such as placement into the "Top 100 Classic Websites" by PC Magazine in 2007,[128] and winning the "People's Voice Award" from the Webby Awards in 2008.[129] In a 2006 study conducted by Student Monitor, a New Jersey-based company specializing in research concerning the college student market, Facebook was named the second most popular thing among undergraduates, tied with beer and only ranked lower than the iPod.[130]
On March 2010, Judge Richard Seeborg issued an order approving the class settlement in Lane v. Facebook, Inc., the class action lawsuit arising out of Facebook's Beacon program.
In 2010, Facebook won the Crunchie "Best Overall Startup Or Product" for the third year in a row[131] and was recognized as one of the "Hottest Silicon Valley Companies" by Lead411.[132] However, in a July 2010 survey performed by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, Facebook received a score of 64 out of 100, placing it in the bottom 5% of all private-sector companies in terms of customer satisfaction, alongside industries such as the IRS e-file system, airlines, and cable companies. The reasons why Facebook scored so poorly include privacy problems, frequent changes to the website's interface, the results returned by the News Feed, and spam.[133]
In December 2008, the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory ruled that Facebook is a valid protocol to serve court notices to defendants. It is believed to be the world's first legal judgement that defines a summons posted on Facebook as legally binding.[134] In March 2009, the New Zealand High Court associate justice David Gendall allowed for the serving of legal papers on Craig Axe by the company Axe Market Garden via Facebook.[135][136] Employers (such as Virgin Atlantic Airways) have also used Facebook as a means to keep tabs on their employees and have even been known to fire them over posts they have made.[137]
By 2005, the use of Facebook had already become so ubiquitous that the generic verb "facebooking" had come into use to describe the process of browsing others' profiles or updating one's own.[138] In 2008, Collins English Dictionary declared "Facebook" as its new Word of the Year.[139] In December 2009, the New Oxford American Dictionary declared its word of the year to be the verb "unfriend", defined as "To remove someone as a 'friend' on a social networking site such as Facebook. As in, 'I decided to unfriend my roommate on Facebook after we had a fight.'"[140]
In early 2010, Openbook was established, an avowed parody (and privacy advocacy) website[141] that enables text-based searches of those Wall posts that are available to "Everyone", i.e. to everyone on the Internet.
Writers for The Wall Street Journal found in 2010 that Facebook apps were transmitting identifying information to "dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies". The apps used an HTTP referrer which exposed the user's identity and sometimes their friends'. Facebook said, "We have taken immediate action to disable all applications that violate our terms".[142]
In May 2012, the countries with the most Facebook users were:[143]
All of the above total 309 million members or about 38.6 percent of Facebook's 800 million worldwide members.[144]
Facebook has met with controversies. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including the People's Republic of China,[145] Iran,[146] Uzbekistan,[147] Pakistan,[148] Syria,[149] and Bangladesh on different bases. For example, it was banned in many countries of the world on the basis of allowed content judged as anti-Islamic and containing religious discrimination. It has also been banned at many workplaces to prevent employees from using it during work hours.[150] The privacy of Facebook users has also been an issue, and the safety of user accounts has been compromised several times. Facebook has settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property.[151] In May 2011 emails were sent to journalists and bloggers making critical allegations about Google's privacy policies; however it was later discovered that the anti-Google campaign, conducted by PR giant Burson-Marsteller, was paid for by Facebook in what CNN referred to as "a new level skullduggery" and which Daily Beast called a "clumsy smear".[152]
In July 2011 German authorities began to discuss the prohibition of events organized on Facebook. The decision is based on several cases of overcrowding by people not originally invited.[153][154] In one instance, 1,600 "guests" attended the 16th birthday party for a Hamburg girl who accidentally posted the invitation for the event as public. After reports of overcrowding, more than a hundred police were deployed for crowd control. A policeman was injured and eleven participants were arrested for assault, property damage and resistance to authorities.[155] In another unexpectedly overcrowded event, 41 young people were arrested and at least 16 injured.[156]
In May 2011, HCL Technologies announced that approximately 50% of British employers had banned Facebook from the workplace.[157] Facebook has been blamed for lower worker productivity and has been called a national obsession by anti-Facebook blogs such as Facebook Detox.
A 2011 study in the online journal First Monday, "Why Parents Help Their Children Lie to Facebook About Age: Unintended Consequences of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act," examines how parents consistently enable children as young as 10 years old to sign up for accounts, directly violating Facebook's policy banning young visitors. This policy technically allows Facebook to avoid conflicts with the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), requiring that minors aged 13 or younger gain explicit parental consent to access commercial websites. Of the more than 1,000 households surveyed for the study, more than three-quarters (76%) of parents reported that their child joined Facebook when she was younger than 13, the minimum age in the site's terms of service. The study notes that, in response to widespread reports of underage users, a Facebook executive has said that "Facebook removes 20,000 people a day, people who are underage." The study's authors also note, "Indeed, Facebook takes various measures both to restrict access to children and delete their accounts if they join." The findings of the study raise questions primarily about the shortcomings of federal law, but also implicitly continue to raise questions about whether or not Facebook does enough to publicize its terms of service with respect to minors. Only 53% of parents said they were aware that Facebook has a minimum signup age; 35% of these parents believe that the minimum age is a site recommendation (not a condition of site use), or thought the signup age was 16 or 18, and not 13.[158]
In November 2011, several Facebook users reported that their accounts were hacked and their profile pictures were replaced with pornographic images. For more than a week, users' news feeds were spammed with pornographic, violent and sexual contents. It has been reported that more than 200,000 accounts in Bangalore, India were hacked. Facebook has denied the claims, citing that "safety of the users was on the top of their priority list".[159][160]
There has been much user discontent over Facebook's mandatory changeover to the new Timeline profile. Some Facebook users reported discontent with having many Facebook status updates and photos from the past easily visible.[161][162]
According to a leading counter terrorism expert,terrorists are using Facebook for hiring loners from western nations like Australia.[163]
In April 2011, Facebook launched a new portal for marketers and creative agencies to help them develop brand promotions on Facebook.[164] The company began its push by inviting a select group of British advertising leaders to meet Facebook's top executives at an "influencers' summit" in February 2010. Facebook has now been involved in campaigns for True Blood, American Idol, and Top Gear.[165] News and media outlets such as the Washington Post,[166] Financial Times[167] and ABC News[168] have used aggregated Facebook fan data to create various infographics and charts to accompany their articles.
Facebook has affected the social life and activity of people in various ways. With its availability on many mobile devices, Facebook allows users to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they are in the world, as long as there is access to the Internet. It can also unite people with common interests and/or beliefs through groups and other pages, and has been known to reunite lost family members and friends because of the widespread reach of its network. One such reunion was between John Watson and the daughter he had been seeking for 20 years. They met after Watson found her Facebook profile.[169] Another father-daughter reunion was between Tony Macnauton and Frances Simpson, who had not seen each other for nearly 48 years.[170]
Some argue that Facebook is beneficial to one's social life because they can continuously stay in contact with their friends and relatives, while others say that it can cause increased antisocial tendencies because people are not directly communicating with each other. Some studies have named Facebook as a source of problems in relationships. Several news stories have suggested that using Facebook can lead to higher instances of divorce and infidelity, but the claims have been questioned by other commentators.[171][172]
Facebook's role in the American political process was demonstrated in January 2008, shortly before the New Hampshire primary, when Facebook teamed up with ABC and Saint Anselm College to allow users to give live feedback about the "back to back" January 5 Republican and Democratic debates.[173][174][175] Charles Gibson moderated both debates, held at the Dana Center for the Humanities at Saint Anselm College. Facebook users took part in debate groups organized around specific topics, register to vote, and message questions.[176]
ABCNews.com reported in 2012 that the Facebook fanbases of political candidates have relevance for the election campaign, including:
Over a million people installed the Facebook application "US Politics on Facebook" in order to take part, and the application measured users' responses to specific comments made by the debating candidates.[177] This debate showed the broader community what many young students had already experienced: Facebook as a popular and powerful new way to interact and voice opinions. An article by Michelle Sullivan of Uwire.com illustrates how the "Facebook effect" has affected youth voting rates, support by youth of political candidates, and general involvement by the youth population in the 2008 election.[178]
In February 2008, a Facebook group called "One Million Voices Against FARC" organized an event in which hundreds of thousands of Colombians marched in protest against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as the FARC (from the group's Spanish name).[179] In August 2010, one of North Korea's official government websites and the official news agency of the country, Uriminzokkiri, joined Facebook.[180]
In 2011 there was a controversial ruling by French government to uphold a 1992 decree which stipulates that commercial enterprises should not be promoted on news programs. President Nicolas Sarkozy's colleagues have agreed that it will enforce a law so that the word "Facebook" will not be allowed to be spoken on the television or on the radio.[181]
In 2011, Facebook filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to form a political action committee under the name FB PAC.[182] In an email to The Hill, a spokesman for Facebook said "FB PAC will give our employees a way to make their voice heard in the political process by supporting candidates who share our goals of promoting the value of innovation to our economy while giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected."[183]
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DANCER Ryan Jenkins has been appointed creative director of a male group which promises to put the "strip back into tease".
Ryan, 28, who lived at Cowes, is working with Dream Idols, who are touring the UK.
"Within the past month, since launching, I have worked with Hollywood 'A-lister' Channing Tatum, promoting his movie, Magic Mike, which is in cinemas.
"My work has been performed on tv's This Morning and on the red carpet at the Europeon premiere of Magic Mike at the Mayfair Hotel for the national press and celebrities."
Ryan recently worked with Lauren Goodger and Nicola T, from The Only Way Is Essex, and received national press coverage for the Dream Idols new show, which will be in the West End from September 27.
His busy schedule follows a world tour, which came hard on the heels of his appearance on the tv show So You Think You Can Dance?
"This year, I also undertook the role of ambassador to the international competition dance challenge, working with Toni from The Voice and Matt Lapinskas from EastEnders," said Ryan.
"My feet have hardly touched the ground since my tv appearance. I have also just been honoured to be asked to be patron to a dance academy."
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Azure slow reading a blob when multiple workers read it
Dear All,
I am working on a project where we need to download two same large blobs (one 780 MBs other 40 MBs) at multiple worker roles. With increasing number of worker roles this process keeps slowing down. The maximum time (from start at some processor to end at all processors) looks like the following:
#workers File Handling Time 1 265.00 2 311.00 4 633.00 8 632.00 16 737.00 32 835.00 64 910.00 94 1134.00 I understand that this problem is not Azure specific as reading from Hard disk is a bottleneck here. I was just wondering if there is anything that can be done here. Thanks for your responses in advance.
- Dinesh
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Hi Dinesh - thanks for the question. Can you e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com with your account name and the approximate time you ran these tests? I can look into our data to see what I can find. Thanks!
-Jeff -
Hi, just to close this thread, there are a number of factors that may have played a part in this, and we wanted to post them here.
VM size: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/avkashchauhan/archive/2011/01/30/windows-azure-network-io-capability-for-each-vm-size.aspx
In the case of an xl vm you have the entire machine's NIC available to you, in the case of a small medium etc, you are collocated with other vms and must share the nic. Meaning that using one small instance has a maximum theoretical throughput of 12.5 MB / s. If the workers are homogeneous (i.e. performing the same work load) we would recommend using a xl vm with multiple threads for concurrency. This could also help solve the issue of hitting the maximum throughput per blob partition by having the blob downloaded 8x less times.Download Method:
Blob read stream begins by fetching a list of blocks and issuing subsequent downloads correlating to each block size (4mb by default). This has some overhead as you must issue the getBlock list and the turnaround for multiple requests subsequently. Also, whenever possible use the concrete type method GetBlockBlobReference to prevent added latencies from internal calls to fetchAttributes to determine the blob type.Co-locate your data:
When a compute instance is co-located with the storage account (in the same data center, e.g. North Central US) the transactions happen over the internal Network which is both free (bandwidth – you still pay for transactions) and much higher performance. We always recommend making sure the compute and storage are in the same location.Stagger Requests to a single partition:
A Blob partition is its canonical name([accountname][containername][blobname]). So issuing several concurrent requests to the exact same blob may exceed the partition target of 60 MB/s. If you need to scale faster (more concurrent reads) consider temporarily issuing a few copyblob operations and duplicating the blob during startup and then cleaning it up later.
I have tryed to download files from 1 thread until 24 of threads on all kind of instances. I have tryed all kind of files in size from 2kb until 25MB. This is the result for an 11 MB file. I don't understand why I see these drops (thread #8, LargeInstanceTime)... and before that the download time is a lot less. Are the files cached in the blobstore by the infrastructure somehow? Or is there another explanation?
Hi, sorry for the delay in response.
It's interesting that you see that spike for your large-instance test but no other test. A couple questions:
1) How many requests per second were you making? Remember that as you use more threads, your transaction count will increase. Please let us know rate per instance, and how many instances you were running. If your rate is too high, you may be reaching the scalability target for requests/second for a blob(discussed in "Windows Azure Storage Abstractions and their Scalability Targets"), especially if you had many requests to a single blob, as that could reach the scalability target of requests on that single partition. You may consider duplicating your blob and making requests to different copies of it if you plan on accessing the same blob from multiple machines.
2) For 11MB files, I wouldn't expect to see great improvement past a few threads - we normally recommend using a 4MB request size when in the same data center, so using more than 3 threads wouldn't likely see much improvement (and I see in your tests that it doesn't).Let me know what your request rate is and we can continue to try to determine the issue from there.


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Singatirin is V2.
I played with Edipisreks singatrin(thanks again buddy!), and thought this was a very unique gyuto. Good to see they've done away with the tiny Ho handle, that and the odd angle it was mounted at were my biggest gripes. Takes and holds a decent edge. I put it to heavy use in a pro kitchen and was very happy with its overall performance. Bit on the light side for my tastes tho... I recall it taking a very unusual patina. Does it still have that weird patina Jacob?
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I thinned and refinished, so no patina is left now. It had a great patina when I got it, though.
Yup. Really liked what you did with it, ER.
"I gotta tell ya, this is pretty terrific. Ha hahaha, YEAH!" - Moe (w/ 2 knives). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVt4U...layer_embedded
I'm pretty happy to hear that it's V2. My only other experience with this steel had been a Kochi; I found it to take a great edge. Retention if I remember was good--it would lose the initial screaming sharpness rather quickly but then hold a very good edge for a pretty long time. I haven't sharpened my Singatirin yet, but hope it is half as easy to sharpen as the Kochi was.
one man gathers what another man spills...
V2 is very similar to white 2, you can also make it with hamon if its Oil quenched, just not as visible as water quenched
not to infringine on this conversation, but for what its worth, most shallow hardening steels can produce a hamon... its steels that arent shallow hardening where either they dont show up or are very difficult to produce


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