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Hi there richmond - good to hear that you and your wife are liking the skin.
Yes you're right it was set up like that intentionally to take you straight to the Movies and TV Shows titles - mainly just because that was the convention at the time. As a bit of a quick fix for you I've added a skin settings option that lets you change the Movies and TV Shows destination to their root levels instead.
Skilled Skinner Posts: 999 Joined: Jul 2006 Reputation: 12 Location: North West England |
2009-12-29 21:57
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2009-12-30 18:34
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First let me say thank you very much, i downloaded the new version yesterday. I, unfortunately, had a very strange result and i'm hoping you can understand it because i'm a little balder right now than i was yesterday
i installed the new version on a test machine, a laptop that is running windows vista home 64 bit, with an intel centrino processor. I clicked on the new setting that you added in skin settings and presto everything worked like a charm the main specs of the system from the debug log are here: PHP Code: Starting XBMC, Platform: Windows Vista, 64-bit (WoW) Service Pack 1 build 6001. Built on Nov 22 2009 (SVN:24883, compiler 1500) The laptop is a 16x9 screen when i selected the tv option in the home screen this is what appears in the log: PHP Code: SDLKeyboard: scancode: 28, sym: 13, unicode: 13, modifier: 0 You will see from the log the skin does: Attempting to quickpath to: tvshows and everything works, both in the tvshows section and the movies section which i haven't included. Conversely, when i installed the new skin on my primary machine, a desktop with the following specs: PHP Code: Starting XBMC, Platform: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 build 2600. Built on Nov 22 2009 (SVN:24883, compiler 1500) I had the original problem of the tvshows and movies buttons on the home screen sending me to the titles section. For troubleshooting purposes I made sure to use the same xbmc build , but the same problems happened on the official Camelot Release as well. Each done on a full install of XBMC. The screen in this case is a 4:3 television set as opposed to the16x9 screen on the laptop When i click on the tvshows button the following shows up in the log: PHP Code: SDLKeyboard: scancode: 0, sym: 13, unicode: 13, modifier: 0 In this case you will note the log shows: Attempting to quickpath to: tvshowtitles this appears to be the major difference as to why it is not working on the desktop but is working on the laptop. I have toggled the skin settings to enable and disable the root level option on both the laptop and the desktop. On the laptop the toggle works as intended, but on the desktop it continues to produce the exact same results, sending me to the titles list no matter the setting I realize this was not something you intended on adding to the skin, but if you could shed any light on what i might be doing wrong here it would be greatly appreciated. The only thing i seem to be able to think of myself is it has something to do with the fact that the desktop is running on a 4:3 screen and the laptop on a 16x9, but i don't see how. Any help in this regard would be truly apppreciated. i will post the the complete debug logs for the laptop and the destop in the following posts for further reference. Full logs: Working laptop: http://pastebin.com/m54abbb9 Not working destop: http://pastebin.com/m2ece2b77 thanks.
(This post was last modified: 2009-12-30 18:39 by richmond.)
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Skilled Skinner Posts: 999 Joined: Jul 2006 Reputation: 12 Location: North West England |
2009-12-30 19:54
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Yep it's like you stated - it's because the 4:3 and 16:9 versions of the skin are actually different - (A while back I pretty much stopped working on the 4:3 stuff and concentrated on only updating the 16:9 version). Really I should have just scrapped both and just concentrated on a 720p version - (Which I do intend to do when I get the time in the new year).
I've just made some alterations to the 4:3 files and the home screen should work as you want it to now. |
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2009-12-31 04:03
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just wanted to say thank you very much for your efforts. everything works perfectly.
can't wait to see what else you have planned. |
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2009-12-31 11:44
Post: #35
Same here. Skin close to perfect. Thank you so much for your work.
Question : how do I "force" the music's 30s ext info view? For the moment, when I hit TAB, I got a crappy black view. Maybe I'm missing something... |
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2009-12-31 14:43
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Pressing the player controls button should do the trick
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2009-12-31 17:18
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Nice, works like a charm ! Thank you very much.
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2010-01-07 09:26
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This is a very well done skin. I really like how the covers/posters are displayed nice and large but not too overwhelming. I also like the the info is displayed.
There is only a couple things I will comment on. In the recently added TV/Movies on the main page it would be nice if additional information could be displayed when your on the episode/movie. If not sliding in when your on the TV/Movie then could you possibly call up the info screen when pressing "i" ? I also have to agree with this: AnalogKid Wrote:Fanart Wrap view for Movies (and TV Shows) Would be nice to have the info no displayed unless triggered. Most of the time you know about the shows you watch but you may want someone new to read that info first, hence triggering make sense. Thanks for all you work on this skin, its very polished, I've enjoyed using it. |
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2010-01-07 22:57
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I've moved the movie focus in that view to the centre and altered the info to match up.
Cheers guys.
(This post was last modified: 2010-01-09 12:03 by Sharpe.)
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2010-01-10 02:10
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this may sound stupid but is there a hidden menu somewhere that allows me to exit out of this skin cause its anoying as hell
thanks just started using this skin and its not bad at all |
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CHEF JEFF — ONE BYTE AT A TIME: Flanken Soup
Cheaper cuts of meat work great in soup.By: Herald Staff Report,
Cheaper cuts of meat work great in soup.
Flanken Soup
1½ cups dried lima beans
2 pounds flank steak
¼ cup pearl barley (optional)
2 onions, diced
1 bay leaf
2 carrots, peeled and diced
½ medium cabbage, coarsely chopped
1 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons minced parsley
1 lemon
Soak lima beans overnight in water to cover. Drain and place in large soup pot with flank steak and 2½ quarts water. Bring to boil. Skim off foam. Add barley, onions, bay leaf and carrots. Cover loosely. Cook over low heat 2 hours, until meat is tender. Remove meat from pot. Set aside. Add cabbage, pepper, salt, brown sugar and parsley to pot. Cook until cabbage is tender. Chop or shred beef and return to pot; heat through. Taste for seasoning. Add lemon juice as needed.
Yield: Serves 10.
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If Demon's Souls was purgatory, Dark Souls is a descent into hell. From Software's follow-up to its celebrated dark fantasy ordeal is even harder, even more remorseless and bleak.
The grimy half-light that fails to illuminate the hateful monsters lurking in the shadows is no longer bluish and sorrowful, but has a smouldering, angry tinge. The Nexus, your hub in Demon's Souls, is gone entirely, along with the brief sanctuary and distant promise of redemption it held.
Once again, there's a doomy set-up, intoned over the appalled shrieking of a chamber choir in an intro movie, but its pretext for your heroism rings hollow. You're already dead, and so is everything else, and all of it hates you. You're on the hunt for four great demons but you've no confidence that slaying them could save this ruined world. It's just your punishment and theirs.
So yes, Dark Souls is hostile and cruel - but it's not heartless or soulless. Far from it. Designer Hidetaka Miyazaki and his team will test the limits of your patience and concentration, but the reward they offer in return is rare indeed: the gradual discovery and mastery of a world of vast scope and immaculate fine craftsmanship, a world saturated with secrets, magic and awe.
If you have the stomach for it - and can look past the game's initial, somewhat misleading disregard for you - Dark Souls offers dozens upon dozens of hours of hair-raising adventuring. It's founded on superlative sword combat and an intricate world design that owes more to the hand-drawn maps of early Metroid and Zelda than the random dungeon crawls of Rogue and Diablo.
The gameplay is very similar to Demon's Souls. Death is frequent as you inch through crumbling castles and shadowy vales, battling monsters. You'll spend most of your time in an undead state, as a withered zombie, striving to achieve a life that is all too easily lost again. In the game's chilling vocabulary, these two states are known as 'hollowed' and 'unhollowed'.
Although rendering you less pleasant to look at, being hollow doesn't carry the same health penalty the ghostly 'soul' form did in Demon's Souls. This significant concession is, I think, the only way in which this is a more forgiving game than its predecessor.
As before, souls harvested from each slain enemy are the sole currency for both levelling up your character and buying items, abilities, upgrades and repairs. Souls are dropped where you die, and if you die again on the way back to pick them up, they're lost forever.
The role-playing system starts you with a class template with certain strengths - a sturdy warrior, nimble thief, healing cleric or magic-wielding sorcerer, for example. But after the initial choice, character development is completely open and you can spend souls on whichever attributes suit you, creating a hybrid of your own design.
Special talents like spells or ranged combat are either limited or costly to use, so whichever class you choose, you will need to master From's magnificent melee combat. This is a simple affair - block, dodge, light attack, heavy attack and counter are the only moves - but it has tremendous physicality and exquisite timing.
Few games, if any, have done medieval combat better. Hefty weapon swings clang off shields, shatter furniture and glance off stonework; combatants circle each other cautiously, waiting for an opening. The weight of your equipment set dictates how well your character can move and is so well communicated through animation and sound that you can feel the pounds of armour in the pad. Each weapon has a distinct attack pattern and rhythm.
The powerful parry-and-counter, a little too easy to pull off in Demon's Souls, is rather too difficult here, but otherwise this remains one of the most finely balanced action-RPG combat systems ever devised. Levelling up your character has a tangible effect but success always comes down to raw skill and careful observation.
You might not feel so warmly towards it to begin with. As soon as you leave the tutorial area, enemies hit hard. Combine this with a stringent new health system, some mean enemy placement and a positively brutal first 'proper' boss and the first few hours of Dark Souls represent a vindictive difficulty spike which many will never surmount.
You'll be cursing the loss of the herbs you could collect and consume to regain health in Demon's Souls - but in fact, this is one of the best changes to the design. You now refill an 'Estus' flask at bonfires which gives you a set number of health top-ups per life, and its effect is to improve the focus and balance of the entire game. Bonfires also top up your health and magic, but beware: each time you rest at one, every monster you've killed - excepting bosses and mini-bosses - will come back to life.
Finding a bonfire is a deep joy, as these are also where you resurrect after death, where you level up and where - if you possess a precious but rather arbitrarily awarded attribute called 'humanity' (described, with queer intensity, as "black sprites within your bosom") - you can 'unhollow'. Once human, you can 'kindle' the bonfire to provide vital extra health refills. There are other benefits to possessing and spending humanity points (which are dropped when you die, like souls), but the whole humanity system is opaque and illogical, despite seeming to be central to the game.
Dark Souls has a stubborn unwillingness to explain itself that, when it comes to discovering the game's many secret techniques and subtleties, is a great part of its appeal. However, humanity is one of a few occasions when its deep inscrutability counts against it. Another concerns the game's remarkable online features.
From's unique and brilliant vision, first presented in Demon's Souls, is of a game that is at once a solo adventure and a persistent online world; your game is yours and yours alone, but others' exist in parallel dimensions beside it. Players can glimpse each other as spectral apparitions flickering in and out of the light of bonfires, or suffering some former recorded death. They can write messages on the ground - helpful hints or grim jokes - to guide each other through the adventure, reflecting the way the community shares the arcane strategies required to beat the game on wikis and message boards.
You can invade other players' games and even kill them; alternatively, you can allow yourself to be summoned as a friendly phantom, offering some much-needed help and companionship amid all this desolate hostility. But the conditions for this are strict and unfathomable and - crucially - there's no option to join a particular friend.
From would argue that allowing too much control or communication within this weirdly remote system would damage the game's forbidding, lonely atmosphere. Maybe so, but it also denies us the enormous pleasure or facing these demons with a friend by our side. For me, that's one stern restriction too many.
There's a sense here of From striving just a little too hard to live up to the reputation Demon's Souls has built as the most hardcore game imaginable: a sort of savagely puritan hair-shirt epic of suffering, through which penitent gamers can renounce the sinful decadence of the refilling health bar, the waypoint marker and the usability-tested checkpoint.
But that's only half the truth. Yes, the game is difficult and obtuse. But it is also simple and elegant, with intuitive controls and a snappy, unfussy interface. It rarely presents a challenge that is unfair, convoluted, or requires hours of grinding or extreme dexterity to overcome. It's mostly a test of concentration and nerve.
And it's a labour of supreme love. Dark Souls' world of Lordran is beyond huge and is a single, contiguous space - but this is not the sprawling, repetitious wasteland of so much "open-world" game design.
Although pervaded by a sense of dread - reinforced by the dim lighting and sparse, echoing soundscape - Lordran's locations have tremendous variety and haunting beauty. They're linked by a labyrinth of shortcuts and alternative routes that opens the game out in a way that isn't at all linear yet is perfectly paced. You always have at least three different avenues to explore, and backtracking always uncovers something you missed.
Every inch of it is crafted. The intricacy and attention to detail in its construction are breathtaking. Beyond that, the fabulous artwork and poetic writing (you'll fight bosses called Moonlight Butterfly, Ceaseless Discharge, Executioner Smough and The Bed of Chaos) give the game a weird, mournful, dreamlike air that lingers in the mind.
A one-legged, headless stone statue drags itself around in a cave; you can run past it easily, but what would happen if you fought it? A vendor annoys you with his lip; you attack him, he vanishes and his wares are denied you forever. A frog curses you, halving your health bar; lifting the curse becomes an epic quest in its own right.
It's a mysterious and capricious place, but that just makes it powerfully real and threatening. Heart in mouth, you'll live every step you take in this realm. That is the higher purpose the game's difficulty serves.
So it's a shame when From loses sight of that and throws in a cheap boss or punishing bottleneck just for the sake of it, or confuses being enigmatic with being obstructive. But those slips are rare enough in a game as unique and gigantic as this.
If role-playing is to put you in the boots of an adventurer in a strange land and let you pick your path through it, then Dark Souls is a great role-playing game. If action is to test your skill in thrilling situations, then Dark Souls is a great action game. If adventure is to surprise and mystify you and invite you to uncover the secrets of a forgotten world, then Dark Souls is a great adventure game.
If entertainment is fun without failure and progress without pain, you'll have to find it somewhere else. But you'll be missing out on one of the best games of the year.
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Reading the Writing on Pompeii's Walls
To better understand the ancient Roman world, one archaeologist looks at the graffiti, love notes and poetry alike, left behind by Pompeians
- By Kristin Ohlson
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Rebecca Benefiel stepped into the tiny dark room on the first floor of the House of Maius Castricius. Mosquitoes whined. Huge moths flapped around her head. And – much higher on the ick meter—her flashlight revealed a desiccated corpse that looked as if it was struggling to rise from the floor. Nonetheless, she moved closer to the walls and searched for aberrations in the stucco. She soon found what she was looking for: a string of names and a cluster of numbers, part of the vibrant graffiti chitchat carried on by the citizens of Pompeii before Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79 and buried their city in a light pumice stone called lapilli.
"There are a few hazards to this work," laughs Benefiel, a 35-year old classicist from Washington and Lee University who has spent part of the past six summers in Pompeii. "Sometimes the guards forget to let me out of the buildings at the end of the day!"
Regardless, she's always eager to return.
Vesuvius dumped ashes and lapilli on Pompeii for 36 hours, sealing the entire city up to an average height of 20 feet. Since the 18th century, archaeologists have excavated about two-thirds, including some 109 acres of public buildings, stores and homes. The city's well-preserved first level has given archaeologists, historians and classicists an unparalleled view of the ancient world, brought to a halt in the middle of an ordinary day.
From the very beginning, archaeologists noticed copious amounts of graffiti on the outsides of buildings. In the late 1800s, scholars began making careful copies of Latin inscriptions throughout the ancient Roman world, including Pompeii, and cataloging them. This effort is a boon to scholars like Benefiel, since more than 90 percent of Pompeii's recorded graffiti have since been erased by exposure to the elements.
Even though she studies this vast collection of inscriptions, Benefiel prefers to wander the ancient city and examine the remaining graffiti in context. Much of what remains is on protected interior walls, where servants, visitors and others took sharp instruments to the stucco and left their mark. "The graffiti would have been much more visible then than they are now," she says. "Many of these walls were brightly painted and highly decorated, and the graffiti let the underlying white plaster show through."
In the ancient Roman world, graffiti was a respected form of writing—often interactive – not the kind of defacement we now see on rocky cliffs and bathroom stalls. Inside elite dwellings like that of Maius Castricius—a four-story home with panoramic windows overlooking the Bay of Naples that was excavated in the 1960s—she's examined 85 graffito. Some were greetings from friends, carefully incised around the edges of frescoes in the home's finest room. In a stairwell, people took turns quoting popular poems and adding their own clever twists. In other places, the graffiti include drawings: a boat, a peacock, a leaping deer.
The 19th century effort to document ancient graffiti notwithstanding, scholars have historically ignored the phenomenon. The prevailing attitude was expressed by August Mau in 1899, who wrote, "The people with whom we should most eagerly desire to come into contact, the cultivated men and women of the ancient city, were not accustomed to scratch their names upon stucco or to confide their reflections and experiences to the surface of a wall." But Benefiel's observations show the opposite. "Everyone was doing it," she says.
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Roman graffiti is the equivalent of Twitter today. It's a timely form of personal expression typically noted in less than CXL characters.
Posted by @matthewb on June 2,2013 | 11:56 PM
Dear Smithsonian's In the very good article "Latin Pronunciation Demystified" (31.12.2010) by Mr.Michael A. Covington http://www.plantilus.com/nomenclature/pronunciation.pdf, I've read the pronounciation in latin of c has been k in ancient roman language - unlike today where the soft c, i.e. "s" or "ch" is used according to the article. But how did linguistic researchers discover this pronouncation? I've heard a story from my former latin teacher, telling one of the sources was (childrens) graffiti on the walls of Pompeii. Can this be confirmed or is this plausible? If so, what are the proofs? Thanks a lot! Kim, from Elsinore (north of Copenhagen, DK)
Posted by Kim Tursoe-Finnich on August 22,2012 | 04:06 AM
that is so true
Posted by vampire on January 13,2011 | 11:29 AM
Ancient Facebook
Posted by PS on September 25,2010 | 12:23 PM
I've been to Pompeii. I can read Latin. They couldn't print what most of them said, or reproduce the drawings. Most were very, very naughty. Example: Suspirium puellarum Celadus thraex. Translate it yourself.
Posted by Ron Arnold on September 17,2010 | 11:34 AM
Pablum. It would have been added so much to have actually reproduced some of the graffiti and drawn some conclusions about Roman life from them.
Posted by John Senette on September 10,2010 | 10:40 AM
I enjoyed the article also. But I so wanted to know what the were talking about and when..
I was there a few years ago and I wondered at the time what a lot of the Fresos meant-- I am still facinated.. NIce article Will there be more ??? AND more discoveries??
Posted by Beegie Appelgate-Arnes on September 4,2010 | 03:10 PM
Enjoyed the article, and yes, wish there were some quotes. From memory on research I did back in the 70's, 1974-1980, there were two instances of Christian symbols, a simple cross on a wall, and a "word Square," that would read the same in two directions. It would be interesting to learn of any with religious context. Before 205 AD, when it was decided to go "literal," the use of the religious language was more creative, and useful.
I'll keep in touch. michael
Posted by michael stone on August 11,2010 | 12:57 PM
What did they say? What did they say?? What did they say????? I suppose this is to tease us for your bookor to protect research? Too many articles that don't get to it. I knew there was graffiti on ancient walls 20 years ago so I just wasted my time reading an article to nowhere.
Posted by Kerry Searle on August 11,2010 | 12:22 PM
I visited Pompeii in the early 1950's with a group of older women. I was 19. The guides wouldn't let me see most of the grafitti that was available then, nor would they let me see many of the frescos. The guides let the older women view them and they all came away laughing. I hope things are different now. I still would like to go back-- now that I'm an older woman (much) and look at the forbidden walls. I imagine they were sexual in nature and very provocative.
Posted by Joann on August 11,2010 | 11:09 AM
Yes. I would really like to know what they said to each other. The article could be better. I was let down.
Posted by Russ Martin on August 11,2010 | 10:56 AM
A fascinating topic, a good article. It could have been so much better had it allowed the graffiti to speak!
Posted by Trish Hubbard on August 11,2010 | 10:53 AM
Hi, I am a 33 year old male from the island of Malta... I have two questions in mind which very much reflect the nature of Pompeii (the fossilized village) -
1) Was this small village Soho of its time? Forty one identified brothels for a small scaled village is no joke.
2) From were does the name 'Pompeii' come from? Keeping in mind that the pump concept was invented during the roman empire period... in Italian its called 'Pompa'; is this some sort of coincidence?
Posted by Malcolm Demicoli on August 9,2010 | 07:47 PM
Even if 'everyone' wasn't doing it...
think, Howard Zinn
Let the forgotten people speak...
Posted by Jacob Russell on August 2,2010 | 10:34 PM


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Slow growth in America and China, and recession in Europe are reducing demand for oil. Inventories in the US are at a 22-year high.
The Federal Reserve Board's quantitative easings that pumped paper money into the economy and drove up the nominal price of oil have come to an end. And the 12 Opec oil cartel members, who between them supply 40% of the world's oil, are producing 1.6m barrels in excess of the agreed daily quota of 30m barrels. As a result, US benchmark crude oil prices are now closer to $80 a barrel than to the $110 they reached only four months ago.
Opec's hawks — Venezuela, Iran and Nigeria among them — want Saudi Arabia to rein in output. They need much more than $80 to cover their budgets, while non-member, fellow-traveller Russia needs closer to $90 to avoid a problem for its rouble. The Saudis feel they can finance their welfare state, their princes' lifestyles and their clerics' call for funds to spread their misogynistic anti-Semitic version of Islam around the world with $80 oil. So that's the new floor.
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America, which in 2008 imported almost 60% of the oil needed to run its cars, trucks and factories, now imports only 45% of its requirements. And that is likely to decline when the vast quantities of oil under the surface of American lands and coastal waters, including two trillion barrels trapped in shale and sand — 100 times our currently reported reserves — are finally tapped.
That is only one of the threats to Opec's continued dominance of oil markets. A second is Canada, with its vast reserves of oil shale, waiting construction of pipeline connections to the US — so far refused by President Barack Obama.
The third is natural gas, now available in such huge quantities as a result of new drilling technologies that prices are depressed, as seen by producers, or attractive as seen by consumers and by developers of gas-powered vehicles.
Finally, there is electricity, available more cheaply from generators fuelled by cheap, abundant natural gas and, possibly, by a renascent nuclear power industry that some utilities are betting their shareholders' money has overcome its history of cost over-runs and operating problems.
At the moment, the use of natural gas to power vehicles in America is confined largely to buses: only Honda is offering a natural gas vehicle for ordinary consumers. These vehicles do have limitations: the tank for natural gas consumes almost all the space in the boot of an ordinary passenger car, and infrastructure for refills has yet to be developed. But wider use is expected to result from lower natural gas prices.
The electric car and its hybrid variants have become the véhicule du jour of the wealthy, trendy green Hollywood set, but nobody outside of the White House believes Obama's prediction that one million such vehicles will be on the road by 2015.
So far, growth in the use of these so-called plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) depends heavily on several subsidies from the federal government. Buyers get a tax credit of $7,500, and makers of batteries for PEVs receive subsidies from a $2 billion fund used by the administration to pick winners in the race to develop batteries that can reduce "range anxiety" by increasing the range of PEVs from their current at-best 80 miles, clocked by the new Ford Focus Electric. Hybrid electric/petrol vehicles do better.
One beneficiary of taxpayer largesse, A123 Systems, the poster boy for Obama's drive to replace petrol with batteries, recently laid off workers after one of its products proved to be a dud, and is now seeking private financing to supplement the $249m promised by the government so that it can continue down a new, allegedly more promising path. The company's first-quarter loss of $125m and 40% drop in revenues were due to soft demand for PEVs.
If A123 does go under, its fall will add to the president's embarrassment at the failure of his other chosen "winner", Solyndra, a bankrupt solar panel manufacturer that cost taxpayers half-a-billion dollars. Politicians make poor venture capitalists; Mitt Romney's supporters argue the reverse is not true.
Not all the news is bad for the PEV industry: Federal Express is slowly converting parts of its truck fleet from petrol to battery-driven, and the military is attempting to do the same to reduce problems of supplying petrol to its far-flung forces. But the petrol-driven car will be with us for a long while, eliminating any pressure on the Saudis to open the valves so as to lower prices to the $50-$70 range on which they thrived a mere three years ago.
If America's environmentalists lose their fight to prevent the spread of new drilling technologies, to curtail development of oil-rich areas in the United States, and to prevent the construction of pipelines to Canada, and if some of the new alternatives to petrol develop, Opec's power over prices might be weakened. Not eliminated, just weakened. That's progress of sorts.
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After the mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., in July, the makers of Gangster Squad pulled the film from its initial September release date for retooling — specifically to re-shoot a scene of gunplay that originally took place in a movie theater.
One might think that, with all the time and money required, someone on the production would have considered it in the context of the big picture, so to speak. But, as the film that arrives in theaters today reveals, deep thought is not in its arsenal.
Set in 1949 and "inspired" by real events, the latest film from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer follows the exploits of John O'Mara (Josh Brolin), a World War II veteran and one of the few honest cops in a Los Angeles Police Department that has been mostly bought and paid for by ruthless gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn).
O'Mara is enlisted by the chief of police (Nick Nolte) to form a secret cadre of other good cops and take down Cohen's criminal empire by any means necessary. He taps dapper lady's man Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), along with a former Army intelligence officer (Giovanni Ribisi), a beat cop who is dead-on with a switchblade (Anthony Mackie), an old-school sharpshooter (Robert Patrick) and his Mexican-American partner (Michael Pena).
Fleischer applies his familiar visceral flash to the visuals of a story told by screenwriter Will Beall in strokes that are broad, bloody and flecked with brain matter. Although he can pull off a clever quip, Beall depicts a world that seems more like a 1940s gangster film than 1940s Hollywood.
When combined with a high-gloss surface and a superior cast that is often wasted, with Emma Stone as the moll shared by Mickey and Jerry, scenes of a body torn in half by cars and an amputation by elevator shaft suggest there's little point to the film other than inventive carnage.
Despite the other violent movies showing in theaters, Gangster Squad leads the pack in stylish emptiness. Especially given the film's history, gorgeous period details can sweeten only so much of its bad taste.


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PROFILE of Norman Corwin (written in the style of a script for a radio drama). Chronology of his life & accomplishments. Born in Boston, May 3, 1910, Corwin grew up in Winthrop, Mass. Before coming to N. Y. he worked on the Green field Record, & the Springfield Republican. Later he came to N.Y. & got a Job with Twentiety-Century-Fox, & at the same time executed & narrated a program "Poetic License," over WQXR. He was invited to appear on "The Magic Key," a program of the NBC. His offering was heard by a vice-president of SBS. who invited him to join the GBS staff. He was hired to make radio literature palatable & direct. Testimonials from an executive, atechnician, the Great Glob Itself, and the Common Man. Tells about his other radio operations, his opera, books, etc.
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Prehistoric frogs face extinction 20 May 2010 The world's most ancient frogs may soon be mined to extinction, if the New Zealand government's plans to open up a conservation area for mining go ahead.
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Health-checks for the nation's frogs 25 Jul 2008 Conservation charities the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Froglife are calling for the public to look out for and report cases of sick and dead frogs – and other amphibians like toads and newts – in an attempt to expand vital research into the state of the nation's amphibians.
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Secret seahorses in the Thames revealed 7 Apr 2008 Protection of a British seahorse by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 is excellent news for the Thames, reveal conservationists from the Zoological Society of London.
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Columbus Public Health commends The Dispatch for its Feb. 10 article "Food at risk?" which highlighted the importance of food protection.
This issue is an important one considering that more than 48 million Americans contract a food-borne illness, 8,000 are hospitalized and some 3,000 die every year.
Locally, the food-service industry places a high value on food safety and the majority of establishments do a remarkable job.
I thank and recognize Columbus' retail food industry for its commitment to food safety.
Food safety is a collaborative effort and training food-service personnel is essential.
Last year, Columbus Public Health trained 1,580 workers in food-safety principles.
While some trainees move on to other jobs, they often stay in the industry, contributing to an educated work force.
Columbus also has an effective inspection process, an online database of inspection records and color-coded signs to help residents make informed decisions about their patronage.
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America is now experiencing the consequences of Middle East policies, which have been opposed to God's Word and to the preservation of His covenant land. Ever since the Madrid Conference of October 1991, the United States participation in Israel's destiny has been flawed when put in context of Holy Scripture. The event of September 11, 2001, was a national wake-up call.
If the U.S. continues to sponsor the Road Map, affirming a "land for peace" approach, America can expect to experience the further lifting of the Lord's protective hand in an even greater measure.
"I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land." (Joel 3:2)
It is a fact that Israel's very existence is in grave danger, because of our nation's sponsorship of "land for peace" plans, which have led her to the brink of war.
What is happening in the world, and especially in the Middle East, these days is truly remarkable. But then again, Bible believers shouldn't be surprised, because the Old Testament prophet, Zechariah, pre-warned us about these times over 2,500 years ago.
In Eye to Eye - Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel, the book documents what happens the same day or within 24 hours of Israel being pressured to divide her land. Here are a few examples found in these pages:
There were 29 record-setting catastrophes or major events during President George H.W. Bush and President Bill Clinton's presidencies.
There were 27 record-setting catastrophes or major events during President George W. Bush's first 45 months in office.
There were eight periods of disruption in the United States following the 9-11 terror events from October 1, 2001 to January 9, 2004 when President George W. Bush attempted to divide Israel's land.
Europe began experiencing its hottest summer in 500 years and record-setting weather the week the Quartet's Road Map was delivered in 2003.
There were 31 major suicide bombings in Israel from December 1, 2001 to November 10, 2004, that occurred at the same time President George W. Bush or one of his top-level staff and/or one of Israel's top officials were working with the U.S. on either a cease-fire agreement, a peace deal, publicly stating Israel's approval of a Palestinian state, or Israel was about to evacuate property.
The book also documents what happened to previous American Presidents (beginning with the Presidency of Richard Nixon to the present) and Middle East leaders who were actively involved in the Middle East peace process during their time in office and/or afterwards.
Eye to Eye is a profound example that the God of Israel is very serious about His covenant land and that those who continue to pressure Israel to divide her land will experience even greater consequences.
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What do these major-record setting events have in common?
All of these major catastrophes transpired on the very same day or within 24-hours of U.S. presidents Bush, Clinton and Bush applying pressure on Israel to trade her land for promises of "peace and security," sponsoring major "land for peace" meetings, making major public statements pertaining to Israel's covenant land and /or calling for a Palestinian state.
Are each one of these major record-setting events just a coincidence or awe-inspiring signs that God is actively involved in the affairs of Israel?
In this book, Bill Koenig provides undeniable facts and conclusive evidence showing that indeed the leaders of the United States and the world are on a collision course with God over Israel's covenant land.
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem?" (Zechariah 12:9)
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PATTERN STITCH Seed stitch (over an even number of sts) Row 1: *K1, p1; rep from * across. Row 2: P the knit sts, and k the purl sts. Rep Rows 1 and 2 for Seed st.
1. Circular needle is used to accommodate the large number of sts. Work back and forth on circular needle as if working on straight needles. 2. Afghan, including borders, is worked in one piece.
AFGHAN With A, cast on 163 sts. Rows 1-6: Work in Seed st. Row 7 (RS): With A, work in Seed st as established over first 5 sts for border, place marker (pm), k to last 5 sts, pm, work in Seed st as established over last 5 sts for border. Row 8: With A, work in Seed st as established over first 5 sts, slip marker (sm), purl to last 5 sts, sm, work in Seed st as established over last 5 sts. Continue as established, working sts outside of markers (the first and last 5 sts) in Seed st, the remaining sts in St st (k on RS, p on WS), changing color as follows: Rows 9 and 10: With A. Rows 11-28: With B. Rows 29-32: With C. Rows 33-42: With D. Rows 43 and 44: With B. Rows 45-56: With C. Rows 57-62: With A. Rows 63-68: With B. Rows 69-82: With D. Rows 83-90: With B. Rows 91 and 92: With A. Rows 93-98: With D. Rows 99-104: With C. Rows 105 and 106: With B. Rows 107-118: With A. Rows 119 and 120: With D. Rows 121-128: With C. Rows 129-132: With B. Rows 133-144: With D. Rows 145-162: With A. Rows 163-170: With C. Rows 171-178: With B. Rows 179-190: With D. Rows 191-196: With C. Rows 197-210: With B. Rows 211-224: With A. Rows 225-230: With C, removing markers on last row. Rows 231-236: Work in Seed st with C.Bind off.
FINISHING Weave in ends.
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