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- "If you had the chance to change your fate, would you?"
- ―Princess Merida
Princess Merida is the main protagonist of Disney/Pixar's Academy Award-winning 2012 film Brave. She is voiced by Kelly Macdonald and is the first Scottish princess in the Disney Princess franchise. Merida is the 11th official Disney Princess.
Princess Merida is the 16-year-old tomboyish, headstrong, spirited daughter of Queen Elinor who rules the kingdom alongside her husband, King Fergus. Queen Elinor's expectations of her daughter causes Merida see Elinor as being distant while also causing friction between the two. Despite Elinor's desire to see Merida as a proper royal lady, Merida is an impetuous girl who wants to take control of her own destiny. Merida has honed her skill in archery, and is one of the most skilled archers ever seen. She is also skilled in sword-fighting and racing across the countryside on her horse, Angus. Despite her outgoing, forceful, headstrong and willful personality, Merida does have a softness of heart, particularly when it comes to her younger triplet brothers.
Role in the film
Merida is first seen as a child playing hide-and-seek with her mother Queen Elinor on her birthday. Then she sees her father's bow on the table and asks him to shoot an arrow with it. Fergus, her father, presents he r with her own bow as a birthday present. She accidentally shoots her 6th arrow into the forest and goes to retrieve it, but is distracted by a trail of Will O' the Wisps that appear before her. The Wisps lead her out of the forest and back to her parents. Elinor tells her that the wisps lead you to your fate, but Fergus doesn't believe it. Suddenly, Mor'du attacks, and Elinor and Merida flee while Fergus stays behind to fight the demonic bear.
Years later, Merida is a teenager that Queen Elinor is trying to make her into a proper princess of royalty despite Merida's objection. One day when there are no lessons, she goes riding on her horse Angus. She shoots arrows at targets she sets up in the forest, and just explores. She even climbs the Crone's Tooth and drinks from the Fire Falls in joy. Merida returns home to join her family for dinner. As she enters, Merida listens to Fergus telling her triplet brothers the story of his battle with Mor'du until she interrupts and tells them that their father lost his left leg in the battle, and Mor'du is waiting his chance of revenge. Moments later, Elinor tells Merida that the three Lords are coming to present their suitors to compete for her hand in marriage. Not wanting any of this, Merida angrily storms out of the Great Hall to her bedroom. As she is striking her bedposts with her sword, Elinor
enters telling her the story of a king who divided his kingdom for each of his four sons to rule, but the eldest wanted to rule the entire land and so brought chaos and w
ar, and his desire to follow his own path led to the downfall of the kingdom. Merida still refuses to listen, but Elinor is adamant and tells Merida to go through with it even if she doesn't want it. Moments later, Merida is seen in Angus's stall talking to Angus of what she would say to her mother about her wishes if she would listen. Merida is determined she will not marry whoever wins the games.
Days later, the Lords arrive in DunBroch. Elinor prepares Merida in a tight formal dress and they all gather in the Great Hall for the presentation of the suitors. Each of the Lords present their sons. Merida is not pleased with any of them. A brawl breaks out, at which Elinor is disgusted and Merida is displeased. Elinor proclaims that only the firstborn of the great leaders may compete in the games which gives Merida an idea of how to get out of the marriage: she declares that she chooses archery for the Highland Games.
When the competition begins, Merida sneaks her bow and arrows behind her throne. As the suitors shoot at the targets, she chats with Fergus about each of them until Wee Dingwall wins by accident, striking a bulls-eye. She sneaks off and appears on the field, declaring she will shoot for her own hand. Ignoring Elinor's protests, she strikes the bulls-eye of the first two suitors' targets. When she shoots an arrow through the full length of Wee Dingwall's arrow and through the target, she smiles... until she sees her furious mother.
Elinor drags and throws Merida into the tapestry room as they have a heated argument with each other about Merida's actions, with Elinor calling her a child and Merida calling her a beast for trying to ruin her
life. Merida then slices the family tapestry between the pictures of herself and Elinor in a fit of rage, and Elinor throws Merida's bow into the fire. Merida tearfully runs away from the castle as Elinor quickly fishes the bow from the fire, feeling horribly guilty and she too begins to cry.
Merida is weeping as she rides Angus heedlessly through the forest until they come across the Ring of Stones and a trail of will o' the wisps leading them to a woodcarver's cottage. Noticing a broom that sweeps by itself and a talking crow, Merida discovers that this old woodcarver is actually a witch, and demands a spell. The witch tells her to get out, threatening her with floating knives, until Merida offers to buy all her carvings with her pendant in exchange for a spell that will change her fate. The witch begrudgingly gives in and conjures up a cursed cake, which she says that she did for a prince who had wanted the strength of ten men and got what he wanted. Merida takes the cake and heads back to DunBroch.
She sneaks back into the kitchen to making the cake presentable, as Elinor enters the room, relieved to find her daughter home. Merida gives her the cake on a false peace offering and Elinor eats a piece, then suddenly starts feeling sick. Merida escorts Elinor to her chambers and puts her in bed. Suddenly Elinor starts transforming into a bear. Merida is horrified at the spell's effect and with her brothers' help gets Elinor out of the castle. They journey back to the Witch's cottage but they find her gone. Then they find the witch's cauldron with a ghostly image of the Witch in the potion-controlled automated voice message telling Merida that she has until the second sunrise to break the spell or her mother will remain a bear forever. The Witch tells Merida the way to do it was to remember the riddle "Fate be changed, look inside, mend the bond torn by pride." Baffled, Merida accidentally sabotages the cottage, so Merida and Elinor take shelter in the remains of the cottage for the night. Merida has a dream about a memory of her as a child with Elinor as they are both are singing "Noble Maiden Fair (A Mhaighdean Bhan Uasal)" together.
The next morning, Elinor brings some berries and water for breakfast. Merida explains that the berries are poisonous nightshade berries and the water has worms in it. They go to a creek, where Merida teaches her mother to catch fish, and they both start bonding. Then Elinor heads into the forest and Merida follows her; but Elinor is not herself, and starts attacking her daughter until she returns to herself. Merida is confused until they see a trail of will o' the wisps and follow them to the ruins of a castle. Merida falls through the floor into a throne room and realizes it was the kingdom from the story Elinor was telling her about. Merida sees a stone with three figures and a split stone with the fourth figure and realizes that the curse has happened before, when the prince sought to change his fate, resulting in his kingdom's downfall and his transformation to Mor'du. Then she sees Mor'du and he attacks her until she barely escapes with Elinor's help and they flee back to the Ring of Stones. Merida realizes that Elinor will become like Mor'du forever unless she sews the tapestry back together to "mend the bond torn by pride" in hopes it will break the spell.
That night they sneak into the castle. Peeking into the Great Hall, they see Fergus and the lords behind barricades, hurling weapons at each other, on the brink of war. Merida tries to tell Elinor to stop them. But Elinor, in bear form, can't do any such thing, and it is up to Merida to stop this madness. Elinor, fearful of being seen and attacked, freezes into a stationary position while Merida walks into the room and tells them she was in
conference with Elinor. The Lords demand to see the queen until Merida silences them all. She tells them of the story of the selfish prince who brought chaos to the land, and reminds them that legends are lessons and they ring with truths. The clans had been enemies until they were threatened by the Northern Invaders and joined forces to defend their lands. When they won the war, the clans made Fergus their king for bringing them together and made an alliance. Merida then admits that what she had done was selfish and must amend her mistake. She tells them that they should be free to follow their hearts and find their own love. The Lords' sons agree with this and confess to their fathers that they didn't want to fight over a girl who doesn't want any of it. So they all agree; but Merida notices a guard staring at Elinor's frozen pose and distracts everyone by telling them to got to the cellar to celebrate. When everyone is gone, Elinor is proud of her and they both head to the tapestry room.
As Merida is looking for thread and needles to mend the tapestry, Elinor turns wild again and attacks Merida. When Fergus enters the room she attacks him, and cuts Merida's arm. When Elinor snaps out of it, Merida tries to calm her, but her mother flees in horror as Merida tries to tell Fergus that the bear is Elinor, but Fergus refuses to listen. He locks her in the tapestry room for protection and gives the key to the old the servant Maudie while he and the Lords go after Elinor. Merida starts crying again and calls out until her brothers show up... but they, too, have been turned into bears for eating of the cursed cake. She tells them to get the key. They release Merida, and all four ride on Angus while Merida frantically sews up the tapestry. They follow a trail of will o' the wisps to where Elinor was captured. Merida fights Fergus to keep him from killing Elinor, until he is convinced when the three bear cubs help stop him, and he realizes they are his sons.
Suddenly Mor'du appears and attacks the soldiers and Fergus. Then he attempts to eat Merida until Elinor breaks free from the ropes. She saves Merida just in time and starts fighting Mor'du. After slamming Elinor into one of the stones, he turns to kill Merida, who is holding up a spear against him, until Elinor pulls him back and smashes him against a cracked menhir, which then crushes him to death. A wisp of something rising from his body reveals the image of the prince, who nods to them as if in acknowledgement and gratitude and then disappears. As the sun starts to come up, Merida realizes it is the second sunrise; she grabs the tapestry and throws it around Elinor, but realizes nothing's happening. Thinking she has failed, she tearfully hugs her mother. Merida sincerely apologizes for everything, admitting it is her fault, and tells her she loves her. Then the tapestry seals itself around her clumsy stitches. She feels a human hand touching her hair and realizes Elinor is human again. Fergus comes and hugs his wife and daughter and kisses Elinor. Merida reminds her she is naked under the tapestry and Fergus tells the lords not to look as the triplets, now human once again, come running naked and hugging their parents and sister.
Later, Merida and Elinor are sewing a new tapestry together of Merida and Elinor as a bear until they are called to the docks to say goodbye to the Lords. Then they both ride on their horses and journey around Scotland, their mother-daughter relationship and bond even stronger and closer now.
Disney Parks
Currently, Merida is a very common character to meet and greet at the various Disney parks. In the Magic Kingdom, she can be found at Fairytale Garden in Fantasyland. At Disneyland Park, she meets guests near the It's a Small World attraction. She is also seen sometimes at the World Showcase in Epcot.
Merida received a few changes for the "deluxe princess" redesign. Her dress is brighter in color, is now off-the-shoulders, and was given glittery designs of celtic patterns and on her arms with a belt with a piece of a kilt with the pattern representing Clan DunBroch. Merida's curly hair is much smoother, for it was quite thick in her film.
There has, however, been controversy on her redesign from her creator, citing among other things, sexism.
Update to this controversy: In response to the petition on Change.org, with over 200,000 signatures, Disney says that this controversy had been "blown out of proportion" and that this redesign will be used for a "limited line of products" and as a "one-time stylized version" for Merida's coronation.[1] Even though many are convinced that Disney has pulled Merida's redesign (because she appears like she does in her movie on the Disney Princess website), this is not true. The Disney Princess website was never updated with Merida's redesign, so, like Disney insisted, "you can't push back to something that was never changed to begin with."[2]
Between May and October of 2013, Disney used Merida's Pixar appearance in marketing. In October, a new redesign of Merida, that was more in line with the public's wishes was released.
- She joined the Disney Princess line-up on May 11, 2013, making her the 11th Disney Princess in the franchise, and the first ever Disney Princess to not come from the Disney Animated Canon.
- In fact, she is the first whose film is not a musical, though two of the songs were sung by characters.
- She is the second Disney Princess with red hair (the first being Ariel from The Little Mermaid) and the third Disney Princess with blue eyes (the first two being Cinderella and Ariel).
- She is the 2nd computer-animated Disney Princess and the 2nd one with freckles, the first being Rapunzel, followed by Anna and Elsa.
- She is the second Disney Princess to have her film rated PG after Rapunzel from Tangled.
- She is the second princess to have biological siblings (Ariel being the first and Anna and Elsa being the third and fourth).
- Merida is the first (and currently the only) Disney Princess to have siblings of the opposite gender (three triplet brothers to be exact), since the other Disney Princesses have sisters, stepsisters, or are an only child.
- Merida is also the first Disney Princess to be the first born sibling, followed by Elsa being Anna's older sister.
- She is the fifth princess to have some form of a "rebellious princess syndrome". Ariel being the first, Jasmine being the second, Pocahontas being the third, and Rapunzel the fourth.
- She is the third princess to use a weapon (shortbow and arrows) in her feature film. Mulan being the first in using swords and fans, and Rapunzel being the second in using a frying pan (though a frying pan isn't a real weapon; she just uses it for one, making Merida the second to use an actual weapon). Gaston, however, is the first antagonist that matches her skills in archery.
- She is the second princess to be trained with a bow and arrow, Mulan being the first.
- She is the second princess to be raised by both of her biological parents for her entire current life, Mulan being the first.
- She is the only princess who isn't a Spell Card character in Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom.
- She is the third princess to be wearing a cape. Snow White being the first, Aurora being the second, and Anna and Elsa being the third and fourth.
- She is the fourth princess to have a horse companion. The others being Cinderella, Belle and Mulan.
- Merida is the fifth to be shown physically as a child in her feature film. Cinderella being the first, Aurora the second, Tiana the third, Rapunzel the fourth, Anna the fifth, and Elsa the sixth.
- She is the second princess to have a parent physically transformed, Ariel being the first.
- She is the second princess to be visibly wounded (gets cut on her right arm by Elinor as a bear). The first being Mulan (she was cut on her chest by Shan Yu).
- She is the first princess in a film in which the villain is killed by a parent.
- She is the fifth Disney Princess in which she has to deal with an unwanted marriage as a major or minor source of conflict. Aurora is the first (in which she did not know the boy she met was Prince Phillip), Belle is the second (as she has to deal with Gaston's intent to marry her solely out of vanity and to fulfill societal norms), Jasmine is the third (in that her father is trying to marry her off before her next birthday), and Pocahontas is the fourth (in that her father is trying to marry her off to Kocoum). Hers is because, like with Jasmine, one of her parents wants to marry her off.
- She is the first to not have an American accent, although Tiana has a Southern accent.
- Merida is the third princess with the least redesign update, the first being Tiana, second being Rapunzel.
- So far, Merida is the first princess to not have a love interest, boyfriend or true love, followed by Elsa.
- Merida is the second princess to stop her father from killing a loved one (her mother), the first being Pocahontas stopping her father from killing her love (John Smith), although Fergus did not know that the bear he was trying to kill was Elinor and thought that Elinor was already dead because of the bear.
- She, so far, is the only Disney Princess that lives in the earliest time period of any Disney Princess (the middle ages).
- Tia Kratter, responsible for Merida's initial character design, has admitted that Merida was based on British model and actress Lily Cole[3] and Brenda Chapman came up with the concept of Merida's character as a combination of one of her daughters and a friend.
- Merida is the third heroine/main protagonist to have a talent in a sport. Pocahontas being the first, since she is able to canoe down rapids, and Mulan being the second with martial arts.
- Reese Witherspoon was originally casted to voice Merida, but due to scheduling conflicts, she was replaced by Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald.
- The setting location for Merida's story is the 5th specified after Belle (France), Pocahontas (Virginia, USA), Mulan (China) and Tiana (Louisiana, USA). Jasmine is the exception, since though the setting is of Middle Eastern influence and architecture, there is no country name ever mentioned for the location of the Agrabah Kingdom.
- Merida is the third Pixar Princess after Atta and Dot in 1998 from A Bug's Life. However, she is the first human Pixar Princess.
- Merida is the second main character to have a talent for archery and compete in archery tournaments, the first being Robin Hood, but the third character to do so, the second being Mulan.
- Merida has more than 1500 individually sculpted, red strands that generate about 111,700 total hairs.
- If Merida's curls were straightened, her hair would be four feet long and reach the middle of her calf.
- With five dresses, plus a cloak, quiver, hand wrap and necklace, as well as torn dresses, Merida has a total of 22 different costumes. She also has five different hairstyles.
- Merida is the second Disney character to say to someone turned into a bear "I don't speak bear". The 1st being Tanana who says that to Kenai when he is a bear.
- Merida is one of the few human heroines to not be seen barefoot in any of her media, yet. She shares the likes of this with Snow White, Alice, Eilonwy and Belle.
- Apparently, Merida and Young MacGuffin were going to be the "canon" couple, but then the film makers decided it would be better to leave her single. Should there is ever be a sequel to Brave, it is possible that a relationship might be explored.
- DunBroch is thought to be set near Glencoe, Scotland.
- Merida is the third main character of a Pixar film not to have a love interest, the first being Sulley, the second being Remy, and the third being Elsa. In addition, after her coronation into the Disney Princess line in May 11, 2013, she is the first princess to be devoid of a love interest, followed by Elsa.
- Merida is the fourth Disney Princess to choose to run away from home, the first being Snow White, second being Jasmine, third being Mulan, and fifth being Elsa. Ariel and Rapunzel didn't actually run away. They were taking an offer to leave home to fufill their destinies (Flotsam and Jetsam to Ariel, and Flynn Rider to Rapunzel).
- Merida is the third Disney Princess to be locked in her bedroom by a parental figure, the first being Cinderella and the second being Rapunzel. However, in Merida's case Fergus did this to protect her while Lady Tremaine did it to Cinderella to stop her from marrying the prince. Some argue that Elsa could be the third, but her parents did not lock her in her bedroom, just made her stay in there for the majority of her childhood.
- Merida shares her interest in apples with Snow White.
- Merida's hair is softened in her 2D appearance.
- Merida will be the first Disney Princess to wield a weapon in merchandise.
- Merida is the first Disney Princess, since Pocahontas, to be raised as royalty. The others include Snow White, Ariel, Jasmine, Pocahontas, and Anna and Elsa.
- Merida is the first flesh-and-blood Pixar meet-n-greet character in any of the Disney Parks.
- Merida is the first princess to debut in a redesigned costume rather than a plain design.
- Merida is the third princess with a controversial redesign, the first two being Pocahontas and Mulan.
- Merida is the first princess to come from an original story which is considered a fairytale.
- Merida is currently the third Disney Princess without a sequel, with the first two being Snow White and Tiana. She is followed by Elsa and Anna.
- Merida is the first princess to not sing at all as a teenager, followed by Elsa. However, she did sing a song as a child with her mother, Noble Maiden Faire, which is considered the film's main theme song.
- Her name means "honorable" in Gaelic.
- She is the first princess without a love interest, the second being Elsa.
- She is the first and so far the only Disney Princess made by Pixar.
Brave |
Media: Brave | The Legend of Mor'du | Soundtrack | Brave (video game) | Brave (Little Golden Book) | Brave: Ultimate Sticker Book | Brave: The Essential Guide | Temple Run: Brave | Songs & Story: Brave | The Art of Brave
Characters: Princess Merida | King Fergus | Queen Elinor | Harris, Hubert and Hamish | Angus | Lord MacGuffin | Lord Macintosh | Lord Dingwall | Mor'du | Maudie | Young MacGuffin | Young Macintosh | Wee Dingwall | The Witch | The Crow | Will O' the Wisps | Martin | Gordon | Huge Warrior | The Ancient King | The Three Brothers | Clan DunBroch Locations: Scotland | DunBroch | DunBroch Castle Songs: Touch the Sky | Into the Open Air | Learn Me Right | Song of Mor'du | Noble Maiden Fair (A Mhaighdean Bhan Uasal) |
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Official Disney Princesses: Snow White | Cinderella | Aurora | Ariel | Belle | Jasmine | Pocahontas | Mulan | Tiana | Rapunzel | Merida
Future Disney Princesses: Anna | Elsa Other Princesses: Maid Marian | Eilonwy | Calla | Kiara | Melody | Kida Nedakh | Ting-Ting, Su and Mei | Giselle | Kilala Reno | Kairi | Vanellope von Schweetz | Sofia Other Lead Female Protagonists: Minnie Mouse | Daisy Duck | Faline | Alice | Wendy Darling | Tinker Bell | Nala | Esmeralda | Megara | Jane Porter | Malina Video Games: Disney Princess (video game) | Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey | Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure | Disney Princess Enchanting Storybooks Spin-Offs: Sofia the First | Disney Fairies | Princesses of Heart | Kilala Princess | Palace Pets | Princess Academy |


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He was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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Police encountered the stolen vehicle and gave chase. Suspects threw explosives out the window at the officers in a futile attempt to elude capture. "The suspects and police also exchanged gunfire," the statement read.
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Police cornered the vehicle in the suburb of Watertown and set up a perimeter, as reinforcements and emergency vehicles poured into the area.
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Kyrgyzstan: Arbitrary arrest of human rights defender Mr Farhodhon Muhtarov
On 14 September 2012, human rights defender Mr Farhodhon Muhtarov was arrested and ill-treated by police in the city of Bishkek. He was detained in the local police station but released later that day.
Up until December 2010 when he fled Uzbekistan and applied for political asylum in Kyrgyzstan, Farhodhon Muhtarov worked with the grassroots movement Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan, which works on a variety of human rights issues including torture, access to justice, the right to a fair trial, economic and social rights, and the rights of vulnerable groups.
On 14 September, police broke down the door of Farhodhon Muhtarov's apartment, beat him and verbally insulted him and members of his family. The police did not produce an arrest warrant, nor did they provide any explanation for the human rights defender's arrest until he was in the police car on the way to police station, when he was told he would be extradited to Uzbekistan due to a request made by the Uzbek authorities. Farhodhon Muhtarov produced the identification card he had been given by the Kyrgyz authorities stating that he had applied for asylum, but the arresting officers refused to take it into consideration, claiming that the ID was fake. At no stage was the human rights defender provided with any official documents or explanations regarding the reasons for his arrest.
Following the arrest, several local human rights defenders went to the police station to intervene on Farhodhon Muhtarov's behalf. They highlighted the arbitrary nature of the arrest and police released him several hours later. However, police officials are denying him and his family access to their apartment and they have changed the locks. Reportedly, these officials have verbally demanded money from Farhodhon Muhtarov in return for allowing him back into his home. Moreover, police officials who remained to search the apartment after Farhodhon Muhtarov's arrest seized documents and electronic goods, including a laptop computer and a video recorder.
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NEW YORK - New York's College team will be in action in Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Feb. 4 when No. 2/2 Syracuse takes on St. John's. Tipoff is set for noon. The Orange enters the game with an overall mark of 22-1. SU leads the BIG EAST with a 9-1 record. The Red Storm is 10-12 overall, 4-6 in the BIG EAST.
The game will be available on ESPN and on ESPN3. Fans can also follow the action on the Syracuse IMG Radio Network and its flagship TK99 (99.5 FM). The audio stream of the broadcast will be available on Orange All Access on SUathletics.com. Subscriptions to Orange All Access are available at daily, monthly and yearly rates.
Syracuse will be playing in Madison Square Garden for the third time this year and the 159th time in the program's history. The Orange first played there on Feb. 1, 1939. Since then SU has an all-time record of 87-71 in the historic venue. Syracuse played two games in MSG earlier this season. The Orange defeated Virginia Tech and Stanford to claim the NIT Season Tipoff title.
Head coach Jim Boeheim needs one more victory to tie Dean Smith for third place on the Division I all-time wins list. Boeheim currently has 878 career victories, one behind Smith's 879. Duke's Mike Krzyzewski leads the all-time list with 918 wins, while Bob Knight is second with 902 victories.
Syracuse remained unbeaten at home with a 63-61 victory against West Virginia in the Carrier Dome on Saturday, Jan. 28. A crowd of 28,740 gathered to watch the game, which is the largest college basketball crowd of the season.
The Mountaineers held its largest lead of the game at 22-16 before the Orange defense held West Virginia to one field goal and just two points in the final eight minutes of the first half. Kris Joseph's layup at the 1:11 mark gave SU a 25-24 lead, and Scoop Jardine's three-pointer as the clock hit zero gave SU a 28-24 halftime advantage.
West Virginia fought back in the second half and tied the game at 61-61. Brandon Triche was fouled with1:28 remaining, sending him to the free throw line. He connected on both attempts, which proved to be the game-winning points. The Mountaineers had one last chance to either tie the game or take the lead with 28 seconds remaining. After an SU defensive stop, West Virginia retrieved the loose ball with six seconds remaining on the clock. A three from the corner by Kevin Jones fell short and Syracuse held on for the victory.
Triche led the Orange with 18 points, while Joseph added 13 points to go along with a team-high seven rebounds. Jardine added nine points and five assists.
St. John's has posted a 10-12 overall record during the 2011-12 campaign, including a 4-6 mark in the BIG EAST. The Red Storm won its second consecutive conference game on Wednesday with an 87-81 victory at DePaul.
St. John's has battled some of the nation's top teams this season, facing both Kentucky and Duke on the road during the non-conference slate. Three players average double digits in scoring for the Red Storm, led by D'Angelo Harrison's 16.4 points per game. He ranks ninth in the BIG EAST in scoring, while Moe Harkless is 10th with a 16.3 per game average. In addition, God'sgift Achiuwa is contributing 10.5 points per game. Harkless leads St. John's on the boards with 8.8 rebounds per game, which ranks fifth in the league. He is also fifth in the BIG EAST in blocked shots (1.7 per game).
Steve Lavin is in his second season at the helm at St. John's. In his inaugural campaign with the Red Storm, Lavin guided the squad to a 21-12 record and an NCAA Tournament berth. SJU compiled six Top 25 victories during the 2010-11 season, and returned to the Top 25 rankings for the first time since 2000-01. Lavin also guided the Red Storm to its first 20-win season since 2002-03.
Syracuse leads the all-time series with St. John's, 48-37. The Orange has won the last six meetings versus the Red Storm, with its latest victory coming in the 2011 BIG EAST Tournament quarterfinal by a final margin of 79-73. Brandon Triche scored a career-high 22 points in the post-season victory at Madison Square Garden, while Kris Joseph poured in 14 points.
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You can take me along any time you want .I always feel good when I have put someone on to birds.
Everytime I hear them my heart starts to pound. Unfortunately I didn't hear or come across any on Sunday.Chukar! And real close!
He's definitely a better one that me. I'm an opportunist .He says "I've already got enough birds this year, but I really want a chukar".
Haha, you really know how to .And this is why I feel bad for all the other bird hunters (but not bad enough to tell them where I go). While they climb over hills and mountains all day, all I have to do is walk the floor of this valley near the water, not head up the hills, unless I just want to I know, it's kind of like cheating
My heart goes out to you. I'm often wish for just a few more moments with my father.At that point pops looks at me, completely exhausted, and said "That's it, I'm through". My heart sank a bit, because deep down inside I knew he didn't mean just for the day . I could tell by the tone that this was probably the last year of quail for him.
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LOL... That's exactly how I do it... well most of time and especially the last couple years or so. Think my 2 sons may be on to me now though, letting them hike the steep ridges while I hunt the valley floors. Hey, someone has to do it, right? lolWhile they climb over hills and mountains all day, all I have to do is walk the floor of this valley near the water, not head up the hills
Didn't make it out for the final weekend of quail, Bob, but I did go out this morning and slayed another coyote (& why my delayed response)... which is (coyote hunting) wayyyyy easier on this olddd man. LOL I'll make a thread on it with picture. May take me a bit as slow as I am.Again, GREAT job on your huntBy the way Frank, did you get a chance to get out also? I sure hope so, you couldn't have asked for a nicer weekend in the desert areas.
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Last year the Arroyo Grande boys basketball team edged Righetti by one game for the Pac-7 championship, the Warriors made a statement on Friday night that things are going to be different this season. In a game played at Righetti High School the Warriors beat the Eagles, 69-52.
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6'6" sophomore Cam Walker led Righetti with 22 points, most coming on drives to the basket. Senior point guard Marcus McMorris and senior guard Landon Brown had 12 points.
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CROSS VILLAGE TWP. / EMMET CO., MI -- A Northern Michigan family's home burned to the ground while they were trying to stay warm in this chilly weather.
Monday night, fire crews are blaming that fire on the home's chimney.
But the flames weren't the only concern for firefighters Monday morning.
Firefighters were forced to put out those flames in single-digit temperatures which could be a dangerous situation.
"Looks like a chimney fire start, that's what we're looking at," said Readmond, Friendship, Cross Village Fire Chief Don Horn.
The fire at this home on Division Road in Cross Village Township broke out around 8:30 Monday morning. Fire Chief Don Horn said snow and ice covered roads delayed the response time, and when crews arrived, the chimney fire had spread to the attic.
"We can only get here so fast, we have to be safe too," said Chief Horn.
The home is a complete loss.
It's fire and ice for firefighters this time of year. They're forced to fight flames in single-digit temperatures. If you look close, you can see the water that's used to put out the fire, frozen on the firefighters on the front line.
"These are some of the toughest, besides high heat. When it's this cold, it's very difficult on firefighters," said Horn.
Chief Horn says during these extremely cold days it's important to keep water moving, because it will freeze in the hoses.
"All the firefighters are frozen. Any surface it hits, it freezes."
EMS personnel were on scene looking for any signs of concern. John Cassidy says it's important for crews to keep an eye on themselves and each other, but his extra eye can be a lifesaver.
"As your body temperature starts to lower, your mind doesn't function as well, so you're likely to make more mistakes," said EMT John Cassidy of Allied EMS.
And mistakes can lead to injury, or even death.
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Wilderness is ransomed
Forester Elizabeth Estill approves a controversial land trade that gives Tom Chapman 107 acres near Telluride in exchange for his 240-acre inholding in the West Elk Wilderness.
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Logging, hydropower and fishing contribute to the decline of salmon in Oregon waters.
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Western governers want help
Governors from Idaho, Washington, California and Oregon ask the President to design a strategy to restore declining salmon runs.
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A hunter abandons a bull elk after a grizzly arrives on the scene.
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Clinton's forest plan draws 83,000 responses
Clinton's Option 9 forest plan draws fire from all sides after the April Forest Summit.
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Utah lifts a three-year moratorium on trapping pine marten.
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Rep. Pat Williams introduces the Montana Wilderness Act for the 16th time, amidst disagreements between The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, The Sierra Club and other members of the environmentalist community.
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The next timber frontier
Several Northwest timber companies set their sights on Siberia's arctic forest with the help of Oregon Rep. Les AuCoin.
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Is eight enough?
Only eight Salmon River sockeye salmon complete the migration to Redfish Lake.
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Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus sues federal agencies in an attempt to save endangered salmon on the Snake and Columbia rivers.
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The Idaho National Engineering Laboratory is developing a tube for young fish to help them swim through dams.
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Victory for raptors
President Clinton signs the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area into law.
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Earth First! and other environmental groups claim victory after preventing logging and slowing Forest Service road building efforts in the Cove-Mallard timber sale area.
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SLIDESHOW: Andy Griffith, beloved television star who also excelled on film, dies at 86
Andy Griffith, whose folksy portrayal of the wise and good-humored sheriff of Mayberry in the classic 1960s situation comedy "The Andy Griffith Show" made him one of television's most beloved stars. A former North Carolina high school music teacher, Griffith launched his career as an entertainer in the early 1950s by writing and performing comic monologues for civic clubs that he delivered in an exaggerated Southern drawl that was once described as "sounding like three yards out on a Carolina swamp."
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Con-Way raises $50,000 for Truckloads of Treasures
About 300 employees of Con-way Truckload, family members and friends went on a shopping spree at Target Tuesday night using $50,000 the company raised for its 20th annual Truckloads of Treasures campaign.
Power outage affects 5,000 utility customers in Joplin
Crews with the Empire District Electric Co., based in Joplin, are restoring electrical power to an area in south Joplin that lost power at about 11 a.m. today.
Hundreds brave cold as train makes holiday stop in Joplin
Santas and trains were the attractions, and there were plenty of both on Tuesday when Kansas City Southern's Holiday Express stopped in Joplin. There was THE Santa, of course, along with train cars decorated for Christmas and filled with Santas, dolls and toys.
Parade postponed because of safety concerns
The slick condition of sidewalks and side streets after an overnight snowfall was the deciding factor leading to the postponement of the annual Joplin Christmas parade on Tuesday. It may be the first time that the Joplin Jaycees — longtime parade sponsors — have had to call off a parade because of weather conditions, said Casey Starnes, Jaycees president and chairman of the parade committee.
Carthage man's death deemed suspicious
An 87-year-old man whose body was discovered inside his home Monday night may have been a victim of foul play, according to Carthage police. A neighbor checking on the well-being of Raymond R. Ritchhart made the discovery and called 911 at 6:04 p.m. The neighbor thought Ritchhart might have fallen.
Baseball proposal draws support of city staff
Advisers to the Joplin City Council recommended Monday night that the council go forward with a proposal to bring a professional baseball team to Joplin. The El Paso (Texas) Diablos, an independent professional team, have proposed moving to Joplin because a Triple-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres is moving into El Paso.
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Drafting an agreement that would bring professional baseball to Joplin won City Council authorization at a special meeting Monday night. The council voted to have the city staff write a formal agreement defining the terms of a deal toward relocating the El Paso (Texas) Diablos to Joplin. That agreement may be presented as soon as next Monday if the city's legal staff can finish it that soon, according to the discussion.
Medical community tradition: Two Haitian women receive surgical gifts
Beatrice Massier and Esther Julnide lined up their walkers Monday afternoon for a footrace of sorts. For these Haitian women, it would be one of the first times they would walk without a limp and without pain. Last week, they both received new right hips in surgeries performed at Premier Surgical Institute in Galena.
Second plea deal reached in starved child case
A woman who lived with a Joplin woman convicted of starving her 3-year-old daughter pleaded guilty Monday to her role in the abuse of the girl.
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I was thinking a way around this would be to create an image at run time where each pixel represents the XYZ and intensity of the light as RGBA and send that instead to the shader. That way I could theoretically have a thousand lights with no problems. I haven't implemented this yet but I wanted to ask how other people handle stuff like this, or whether I should even be trying to send that much data to my shader. And how you normally optimize such things.
Any tips would be appreciated!
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Otherwise use Deferred rendering.
If you insist on Forward rendering, you have to render in multiple passes, each pass handling as many lights as a single pass can.
This means resubmitting geometry multiple times, adding the results to the previous passes.
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I had implemented this back in... 2006 I think, on an entry-level GeForce6.I was thinking a way around this would be to create an image at run time where each pixel represents the XYZ and intensity of the light as RGBA and send that instead to the shader. That way I could theoretically have a thousand lights with no problems.
Main problem with that kind of hardware is they cannot loop arbitrarily. They can loop 255 times at best, but even when fitting the HW resources, the shader might eventually time out and abort. Hopefully this is gone now. If memory serves, it was possible to process about... perhaps 50 lights per pass?
Performance was interactive, but far from viable.
Real problem (which holds even now) is float textures take quite a lot of bandwidth and float texture lookup is often slower than int lookup.
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I'm reading the article here: http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/graphics-programming-and-theory/deferred-rendering-demystified-r2746
Afterwards, the lights in the scene are rendered as geometry (sphere for point light, cone for spotlight and full screen quad for directional light), and they use the G-buffer to calculate the colour contribution of that light to that pixel.
I would still be sending light data somehow right? And that would be limited by how big I can make my array, or am I not understanding it right?
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Posted 04 November 2012 - 04:08 AM
Sure. The data must be there somehow.I would still be sending light data somehow right?
Yes and no.And that would be limited by how big I can make my array, or am I not understanding it right?
The starting point is: everything we need for lighting calculation is in the G-buffer.
Then we have a "light" shader which ideally does 1 light, for each light in the scene we draw a full-screen quad.
Since each fragment has position and normal information (among anything else we need), the full-screen quad will "light" the pixels.
So, to do more light, we add more batches.
Of course this is a very straightforward method. A better way would be to process multiple lights so in that case yes, we get to store them in an array. But it's an optimization on top of the basic concept.
There are also more involved methods dealing with Compute Shaders and tiling. I'm keeping it as easy as possible here.


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Three groups sue to stop Dyer Mountain
They also seek an order directing the county to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act, a temporary stay and restraining order and preliminary and permanent injunctions stopping the county and its agents from taking any action to implement the project until full compliance with CEQA.
The suit claims the county failed to provide sufficiently detailed analysis of the resort's impacts. It "failed to fully account for the resort's cumulative and growth-inducing impacts" improperly deferred mitigation measures, failed to analyze an adequate range of alternatives and its analyses of cultural, traffic and air quality impacts were legally flawed.
The suit, which also seeks court costs and attorney's fees, claims the discussion of the effect on climate change was inadequate and necessitated recirculation of the EIR
The three groups filed the lawsuit on Thursday, Oct. 25, the legal deadline for lawsuits based on CEQA. The act's statute of limitations sets a deadline for filing a court action challenging approval of the project under CEQA 30-days after the county files a notice of determination. The county filed the notice on Sept. 25.
"I was sort of expecting it," said Grant Sedgewick, one of developer Dyer Mountain Associates' three managers and the acting company president. "But I guess I had my fingers crossed. We'll have a response once we've had a chance to look at it."
The Bay Area law firm Shute, Mihaly and Weinberger filed the unlimited civil lawsuit against the county of Lassen, the Lassen County Board of Supervisors and several as-yet-unnamed respondents.
Alleged CEQA violations
This suit claims the county violated CEQA in approving the EIR and tentative parcel map on Sept. 25 and the development agreement ordinance on Oct. 9. Calling the four-season resort southwest of Westwood a huge new development, the suit said the 6,741-acre ski area and golf resort on undeveloped land on the flanks of Dyer Mountain "would house at least 17,382 people, making it in essence a brand-new city, just miles from Westwood, a small community of about 2,000 people."
The large new population and unprecedented degree of construction in an undeveloped and sparsely populated area will lead to "a wide array of significant environmental impacts," it said.
The EIR analyzes the impacts "only in the most general terms, leaving the public and decision makers in the dark about the details of the real impacts," the lawsuit claims.
The petition for writ of mandate claims the EIR failed to identify mitigation measures sufficient to avoid the impacts it does identify. By approving the project, the county "made a decision without all of the information needed to properly weigh the consequences of the development." It approved the project based on a series of findings lacking "the support of substantial evidence."
"Based solely on the self-interested assertions" of the developer, the county found alternatives infeasible, though any alternative "could have been less environmentally damaging than the project itself," it said.
In finding the project's benefits would outweigh its environmental consequences, the county simply assumed the resort would be successful, "completely ignoring the threat that global warming poses to this low-altitude ski area, as well as other factors," it said.
A November 2000 voter initiative rezoned the land from timber production to mountain resort, paving the way for a ski area that would "serve 10,450 skiers at one time and include the capacity to house at least 17,382 people in 4,104 dwelling units."
The lawsuit claims, "The project site stands at the confluence of two of California's major ecological regions, the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades.
"This geography brings to the site a unique array of wildlife and plants, including federally-protected bald eagles and a variety of rare plants," it said. "The project area also includes several sites sacred to the Honey Lake Maidu people."
The petitioners submitted comments on the draft EIR, circulated in November 2004, noting it failed to provide sufficiently detailed analysis of the resort's impacts. As a general review of the resort's overall impact, the EIR "failed to fully account for the resort's cumulative and growth-inducing impacts" and "improperly deferred mitigation measures" until project-specific plans are submitted for individual phases of development.
The lawsuit claims the EIR also failed to analyze an adequate range of alternatives.
Numerous area residents and government agencies also commented on the inadequacy of the environmental review in the DEIR, it said.
The county circulated a revised DEIR in July 2006, which included the same inadequacies as the original DEIR and "the revised analysis of the cultural, traffic and air quality were legally flawed," the lawsuit claimed.
When the county released final EIR in June, the three groups submitted comments objecting to the project and pointing out the final EIR did not adequately respond to the public comments, and newly added discussion of effect on climate change, or global warming, was inadequate and necessitated recirculation of the EIR.
Failure to recirculate the report deprived the public of "an opportunity to review its flawed analysis," the lawsuit said.
In saying benefits outweigh impacts on the environment, the county never acknowledged the "potentially devastating effect of global warming on the resort, nor its other serious problems."
"If, as many experts believe, the coming decades bring less snow to the northern Sierra," it said, "the resort's prospects will be dim, at best."
The lawsuit claims CEQA requires the county to analyze significant environmental impacts, and consider environmental consequences, mitigation measures and alternatives. The act also requires the county to adopt feasible mitigation measures to reduce or avoid significant environmental impacts.
"If any of the project's significant impacts cannot be mitigated to a less than significant level," CEQA bars the lead agency from approving the project if feasible alternatives would meet the objectives while avoiding or reducing the significant environmental impacts.
The county violated CEQA, according to the lawsuit, by not adequately disclosing, analyzing or mitigating the project's significant impacts on air quality, cultural resources, visual resources, biological resources, emergency access, climate change, housing and population growth.
The EIR also allegedly failed to analyze or mitigate significant growth-inducing impacts especially that the project, if successful, would "stimulate further economic activity in the area thus spurring population growth," the lawsuit claims.
It failed to analyze feasible mitigation measures, specifically, a ban on wood-burning devices to mitigate air quality impacts. It also failed to create clear and binding requirements to mitigate traffic impacts outside Lassen County.
The county also improperly deferred analysis of impacts on biological resources and impacts from resort employees' housing demands. The lawsuit said the EIR explicitly defers both until after project approval.
The lawsuit also claims the county violated CEQA by stating alternatives are infeasible or nonexistent based on unsupported and inaccurate assertions by DMA. For example, DMA "implausibly asserted that removing the 'estate-style" housing from the project would render the resort so uncompetitive that it would not be economically viable." The county had no facts to support the DMA claim, it said.
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10 Tips To Get Lucky In Business & In Life – By Bob Parsons, CEO – Godaddy
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How To Get Lucky In Business & Life – By Bob Parsons, CEO – Godaddy
Transcribed from a Bob Parsons video article – by Keith Everett
Luck isn't something you are born with. Here's how to change your MINDSET and change your LUCK!
1) Lucky people SHOW UP. Great things don't usually happen when you are sitting on your great big FAT *** (Sofa LOL)
So GET UP & get PRODUCTIVE….
2) Lucky people are open to trying NEW things and new ways of doing things. Trying new things exposes you to new learning opportunities.
That knowledge can be applied to the things you do in life & business. And those new techniques – often will make you more SUCCESSFUL and when you are more successful – you appear LUCKIER.
3) Lucky people spend an absolute MINIMAL amount of time thinking about themselves. Instead, they focus on the people around them, their current projects or NEW OPPORTUNITIES..because of this AWARENESS – they are often more successful than they would have been otherwise and they appear to be VERY LUCKY.
In contrast, the SELF Obsessed are often to tied up in their own problems & challenges to notice the great opportunities and exciting things happening around them, and as a result, they appear to be very UNLUCKY because they have never really given it a chance.
4) Lucky people don't usually worry about or fret over results or CONSEQUENCES.. Instead they FOCUS on whatever project or process they're involved in . When we worry too much about the "WHAT IF'S", we often talk ourselves out of trying new ideas or pursuing new prospects. Let's face it – you can come up with a reason to NOT do anything.
5) People who appear to be lucky, know how to turn problem situations into OPPORTUNITIES. To do this, you can't be pre-occupied with the personal consequences Sure, those consequences matter but if you can set those feelings aside – you will be able to see the problem for what it really is and in the process, turn a lot of those problems into JACKPOT Opportunities.
6) LUCKY people are able to overcome criticism. It's hard not to take criticism personally. Trust me, I get criticised a lot. The trick here is to NOT let the criticism freeze you up, and keep you form following your plan, or trying new things.. Instead, use the criticism as the fuel to do things BIGGER & BETTER..
7) LUCKY people make it a point to do right by other people. When you listen to and help others, they make it a point to reciprocate and take care of you too. And the fact is, none of us – not any of us, achieve SUCCESS all by ourselves..
8) LUCKY people make it a point to have a positive attitude. When you ATTACK life with an UPBEAT – POSITIVE attitude, you're SHARPER and more willing to tackle any issues that come your way.
9) LUCKY people expect to do well. You have to BELIEVE in yourself and know that you are a WINNER! And if anyone tries to tell you differently, you should be quick to tell them to %%%% OFF!
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