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At the sky lounge, Carter noticed that Maya was anxious to find out whom Eric had picked as CEO. Maya stated that she was excited to see Rick achieve his goals because he'd wanted the position for a long time. Carter was confident that Eric would pick Ridge, not Rick, but Carter could see it on Maya's face that she'd stir up trouble for Caroline and Ridge if Rick didn't get the job.
Maya asserted that she knew for certain that Ridge and Caroline were involved. Carter said that Maya was blowing up an innocent sign of affection, but she insisted that the hug she'd seen hadn't been innocent. She was glad she'd told Rick about it, so he wouldn't be blindsided.
Carter remarked that Maya never stopped digging, and Maya asked how he could know her but still term her a gold-digger. "By your actions now, not then," he responded. Carter didn't know if the Maya of the past had been real. She guessed she was learning how much she'd hurt him, and he replied that it had been better to break things off before one of them had been unable to keep her vows.
Maya claimed that she'd really wanted to marry Carter. She'd really thought she'd been over Rick and moving on with the wonderful Carter; however, while planning the wedding, she'd begun to discover what she really wanted, and it hadn't had to do with Rick's money.
Maya doubted that ignoring her heart so would have been good for either of them. Being with Carter hadn't been a mistake for Maya. Instead, her time with him had been sweet. Carter agreed, and she asked him to try to remember that whenever he thought the worst of her. She wanted him to be her friend. Carter replied that it was a tall order, and she said she could wait.
After some time in silence, Maya began to speak. "So, friend, have you heard? The dream team split up," she said. Maya was sure that the pair was running from their attraction. Carter displayed concern about Maya, who was making something out of nothing and becoming crazy in her obsession.
Maya insisted that the designers were having an affair -- an emotional one if not a physical one. Because she refused to let Caroline make a fool of Rick, Maya was tempted to call Caroline out at the meeting that day. Carter warned against making baseless accusations. Maya stated that she knew what she'd seen, and Rick and Katie deserved to know about Ridge and Caroline's involvement.
At Katie's house, Katie noted that it was a big day for Ridge, who'd take his rightful place as the CEO of Forrester. Ridge admired her confidence. She said his design skills had returned, and though the collaboration had been good, it was time to move on with their lives. He tonelessly agreed.
For luck, Katie fastened a leather strap on Ridge's wrist. She believed that he'd get the job because he was the designer, and Rick would just have to deal with that. Katie asked if Rick had picked up on Caroline's crush on Ridge. Ridge said there was nothing to pick up on or discuss, and it was time to move on. Katie added that they'd move on to bigger and better things. In her view, Eric had made the right choice in Ridge as the CEO.
Later, Katie was working on colors for the guest bedroom when Donna arrived. Pam had told Donna to take a long lunch, and Donna guessed Pam had her ear pressed to the door of the CEO's office. Donna remarked that once Ridge became CEO, Katie would see a lot less of him. "If you think Caroline monopolized his time, just wait and see what this job does," Donna said.
Katie became hesitant but then admitted that Caroline had developed a "bit of a crush" on Ridge. Donna asked if it was serious. Katie called it "moderate-to-mild." Katie conveyed that Ridge had talked to Caroline, and the feelings had ended along with the collaboration. Katie said Rick didn't know about it, and she thanked God that he didn't have to.
In Rick's office, Caroline thought of Ridge. Rick entered and announced that it was the day that everything changed. "Will it be me, or will it be Ridge?" Rick asked. He felt that it was a real turning point for him and Caroline, who were in it together like Stephanie and Eric.
Rick asked if Caroline was up for it. As they held each other's hands against their chests, she affirmed that it was their dream. She never wanted Rick to doubt that he could always count upon her. He asked why he'd doubt her. She claimed to be flighty but said her feet were planted firmly by his side. "Nothing and no one could ever change that," she added, and as Caroline and Rick kissed, Ridge observed them from outside the door.
When Ridge entered, Rick joked that Ridge was there to concede. Ridge quipped that it was the only way Rick would get the job. Caroline and Ridge exchanged curt greetings, and Rick stated that he was glad Ridge's skills had returned because Rick would need Caroline's full support as soon as Eric named Rick CEO. Ridge thought Rick should brace himself for disappointment.
Rick didn't believe he'd need to. Ridge said he'd always valued Rick's talents, and there was no reason they couldn't work together. Rick thought it was big of Ridge to say, but Ridge needed to reverse the scenario. Rick said he had Caroline, his partner for life, and they were a team just like Eric and Stephanie. Serious that time, Rick advised Ridge to concede.
In Eric's office, Eric stared at family pictures as Hope talked about getting HFTF's summer line together. She noticed his distraction and assured him that he'd made the right decision. Eric stated that one of his sons would be happy, and the other would be incredibly disappointed.
Hope believed that, after a while, the son not chosen would make peace with the decision. Eric wanted a strategy in place to deal with rumors and the press. Hope agreed, saying that they needed to take any opportunity to preempt gossip.
As Hope took a call, Ivy arrived to see how Eric was feeling about the day's announcement. Eric was still concerned about the son not chosen, but Ivy said it was a business decision based upon Eric looking out for the business. Hope cut an icy look at Ivy as Eric chuckled about Ivy being practical.
Ivy felt that Eric was the fairest person she knew, and his decision was the way forward. Ivy hugged Eric and asked if he was ready. "Yes, Miss Forrester," Eric replied, and Hope looked at them again. Smiling, Eric added, "Let's do this."
Later, employees gathered in the CEO's office. Maya let Rick know that she was on his team. She said he was the best man for the job and the best man she'd ever known. Caroline's Maya radar popped up, and Caroline rejoined her husband to ask what the conversation with Maya was about.
Rick said Maya was lending her support to them, and Maya corrected that she supported Rick. Maya asked who Caroline supported, Rick or -- "what is Ridge to you these days, anyways?" Maya asked.
Eric called the meeting to order. Caroline squeezed Rick's hand but also stole a glance at Ridge. Eric announced that he planned to follow his brother's lead and find a balance in life. Eric wanted to get out and do things, or sometimes he'd do nothing at all. He wasn't stepping down. He'd still be designing, mentoring, and watching over them all; however, he was ready to hand Forrester over to its future.
It hadn't been an easy choice for Eric, who'd sought advice from people within the company and from people outside of it. Eric said that Ridge had given his talent and dedication for years and years. Eric believed that Ridge was the best designer in the world, as proven by the collaboration with Caroline, whose real partner was Rick.
Eric believed that Rick had grown by leaps and bounds, and Forrester had benefited from the expertise Rick had gained from Forrester International. Eric said that Rick had had the good sense to marry a wonderful woman who complimented him on every level.
Eric was proud of both of his sons, who were each qualified and gifted. Those very things made Eric's choice difficult, but he vowed to make certain that Rick and Ridge functioned as partners and brothers. "Now, having said that, the new CEO of Forrester Creations is..." Eric began to announce.


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The Annotated White House Flickr Feed: When Two Presidents Get It On
Here are GQ's Ana Marie Cox and the Huffington Post's Eat the Press editor Jason Linkins to explain our Muslim President's hot gay affair with wee yet hot Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, through the joys of the White House's Flickr feed!
Jason: Oh, wow! You realize she's back in Michelle Obama's Kiss And Cry Room! (Previously, on Michelle Obama's Kiss And Cry Room.)
Ana: It actually looks like it may be a very special White House edition of What Not To Wear.
President Obama presides over the world's most boring game of Simon Says.
Obama's like: "You know, in my situation room, we have these wall sized iPads. But we can make due with these corkboards, I guess."
Ana: Poor Mayor of Gulfport, the only guy who wore a tie. I can't help but notice in the luncheon picture that someone did not even touch their hushpuppies.
Jason: It looks like every meal I have ever had on the Outer Banks, minus the joy (and the bourbon).
Ana: Blurry GOP, sad Obama. That's pretty much the narrative for 2012.
Jason: You just did Chuck Todd's work for him.
Ana: Put me on MEET THE PRESS, dammit!
Jason: God, I'd actually look forward to that show, if you were on it.
Orange Beach, Alabama's Tacky Jacks preps for its first "Wet POTUS contest!"
Jason: I despair of the way this White House Flickr page is organized! That Mike McFaul thing we already did is still on the front page!
Ana: YES. Though there is Reverend Falwell!
Jason: I think you mean Billy Graham, though it's an easy mistake to make.
Ana: Yes. Who is now so liver-spotted that he is also biracial.
Jason: Okay, well, now we've captioned that photo, haven't we?
And now, this month in "Obama pensively listening to the world fall apart around him in the Situation Room."
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OMG yaaaaay! I so miss this feature!
This is so becoming one of my favorite things.
This is so exactly what I needed I can't even explain.
Where's the football? And the reflective surfaces? The joy is gone…
needs more lincoln
C'mon, the 'special relationship' scrapbook makes up for the lack of frames.
Dammit, Souza! The consummate professional no more. Right there in the mirror.
He's not just in the mirror. He's in the mirror inside the mirror.
"I can't tell if he wants to kill Obama or fuck him."
These things are not mutually exclusive.
Billy Graham and POTUS are clearly doing the Freemason 33rd degree handshake.
Either that, or Graham is steadying his balance as his synapses do the 3pm short circuit.
It's a good thing they dug up Billy Graham, because someone definitely needed to defibrillate Garth Brooks.
Seems that the next HBO "Special Relationship" movie will feature Obama and Medvedev…Clinton and Blair got nothing on these two!
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Angry Birds find new way to take your money
Addressing Android's lack of in-application billing, Rovio, the developer of Angry Birds, has begun asking network operators to collect the cash when a user wants to call for an air strike. In September, Rovio took to the stage to demonstrate how a customer who had purchased Angry Birds could buy an Eagle-powered air strike …
Probably too much blood in the caffeine subsystem
Is it just me reading this before the 4th espresso or some of the latest marketing shenanigans and "retention methods" in the mobile game arena seem to be take right out of the "Old Dope Peddler" textbook.
We don't need no steenking in game payments
"imagine the frustration of the player who discovers his new network won't sell him a virtual weapon upgrade!"
My network or a game publisher trying to sell me a virtual weapon upgrade would actually put me off the network / game. The point where Angry Birds starts trying to sell me new weapons is the point where I uninstall it.
I'd agree, but...
... the nag screen every time I launch the thing to log in to some online service for high scores and achievements that I don't care about and hence am not willing to give my contact details to already caused me to uninstall Angry Birds.
At least...
...Android users have been spared that nonsense, so far...
Paying for a high score
I can just about understand pumping real money into something like Second Life for props, mortgages and whatnot if you spend half your life there (and can even profit there yourself), but to buy a smart-bomb in a basic single-player arcade game?*
Worrying trend. And what true gamer would admit to paying for victory?
*Hope this is right, someone explained the gist of the game to me and that's how I understand it.
I appreciate
that nearly all the words you used in the article are English words but what on earth are you talking about? Angry birds? Air strike?
What next, pi**ed off pigs? Annoyed ants?
Interesting point...
... I talked to my father the other day who has never used a computer. 'So how much does it cost to send email?' he asked.
Hmm. I hope the distance between you and Angry Birds (prob also the same as between me and them) is shorter than that in my quote above.
Oh, and wot's a 'droid? [only kidding]
Angry Birds!
Birds, BIRDS, birds. Birds which are angry. <3
*goes back to flinging birds at pigs...*
Re: I appreciate
Seems to have come up a few time recently too.
I reckon El Reg are trying to provide us with something new that we can all look down our noses at while shaking our heads sagely.
Let's face it, iPhones, Twitter and Facebook are getting a bit stale.
Operator Billing = Access to pocket money...
Operator billing is essential to open up the biggest market for mobile games: young teenagers, and they don't have creditcards. iTunes has vouchers, but every teenager with a phone also has another, far more liquid account: their mobile credit, which they can top up in any newsagent.
This is Ovi's big advantage over its rivals, and is a sign of Nokia playing to its strengths: because they've a business relationship with virtually every operator on earth, they're able to offer operator billing in more countries than you can even get Android Market in. For the pay-as-you-go customer (and around 60-70% of EU mobile customers are on PAYG contracts), this is by far the most accessible way of buying applications.
and Apple's challenge ...!
Apple set itself up in competition to the operator: 'You will just be a dumb bitpipe and we will own the customers ... you will get less and we will get more even if your service is ESSENTIAL to us actually being able to deliver our Apps or media'. So far the operators have 'tolerated' it because being able to sell the iPhone has meant the operator has been able to attract the high value contract customers where they got exclusivity. With the rise of Android and increasingly desirable and credible alternatives to the iPhone, this point of leverage gets less, and dealing with a Nokia/Ovi becomes more tolerable because it places the operator back in the value chain. Note I say 'value chain', because they were part of the supply chain, but totally divorced from the value of the service.
Of course, what value there is in Angry Birds is debateable, but fools are soon parted with their money and the operators (key component in making it happen) want their slice.
So as Kristian put it...
...they can then succesfully tap into kiddies pocket money and make a killing out of yet another generation/age group that was previously safe from such cosmetic money pits...
Also couln't agree more with Dave Murray
... it's not like kids don't buy videogames already.
...Just this time, they're using their "own" money to do it. If anything, it might help kids understand basic budgeting, rather than just "I want an X", without a concept of how much "X" costs.
"cosmetic money pits"
I'm all for future generations spending their money on immaterial epeen rather than material ego inflators that often
a) are manufactured in 3rd world countries under bad conditions (eg. clothes and accessories)
b) have a negative environmental impact from manufacture/delivery/usage/disposal (anything, but especially eg. sports cars)
Could even have a positive impact on trade imbalance for us Westerners.
Perhaps this is a tiny step towards the Star Trek like utopia where ownership of material goods is no longer the force driving people.
nobody bu the regulators
SURE, they could put up their own payment systems... if they had a crap-ton of servers, a staff costing a few million a year, and complied with the 60 different versions of local legislation and security requirements regarding collection of payments, and taxes, and disbursement of said taxes.
Small devs DO NOT WANT that kind of hassle, nor even know the first things about SOX compliance, and the miriad of regulations tied to collecting payments. One company operating in one country, sure, and even THAT is a damned pain in the ass, and usually outsourced to a 3rd party web site.
Apple made it easy, everything stored on servers they have to operate anyway either for iTunes, or just to sell hardware in various countries. No credit card information to type in, no account information stored in the phone, easy. For this to work ,google;s going to need to get in the micro-transaction game, or users are going to suffer for it. Even carrier specific processing is cumbersome, and it;s going to have both security and developer issues.
@Michael C and his "friends" the regulators
"Small devs DO NOT WANT that kind of hassle, nor even know the first things about SOX compliance, and the miriad of regulations tied to collecting payments. One company operating in one country, sure, and even THAT is a damned pain in the ass, and usually outsourced to a 3rd party web site."
well, yes and no. Small devs in most countries don't care about SOX. The myriad of regulations is nothing compared with telco billing - given your reference to SOX compliance I'm guessing you're US-based? I did some work about eight years ago with the then-trading Arthur Andersen where we looked a telco taxation for call charging - the US featured over 3000 different tax levels with different reporting requirements and forms to complete; the UK featured two. Compared with the former of the two showing an extremely inventive if incredibly immense stupidity, the mobile arena is fairly simple :-)
Paypal, Google Checkout.
I hear they have APIs. 10p plus 1% of transaction value is not all that bad a handling fee.
"stored Google checkout account"
I think that's part of the issue - with iPhone you've more or less got to have an iTunes account so there's a payment path; with Android, Rovio gave the game away, so no-one needs to have a Checkout account to start playing it. They missed the trick there, and should've charged a nominal amount just to ensure they had the option of dipping into all users' credit cards later on.
Agree and upvoted BTW...
Operator billings made Simples.
App sends a text to a premium rate number.
why all the fuss?
"App sends a text to a premium rate number.
why all the fuss?"
Because letting apps send texts or dial numbers is the BIGGEST security no-no. Imagine one's surprise when a five figure bill comes in from an app sending thousands of these texts continuously in the background. App store payments absolutely have to be protected by an API layer and a trusted gateway, which is what iTunes is very good at.
Exactly my point
As Tom Leher sings:
He gives the kids free samples,
Because he knows full well
That today's young innocent faces
Will be tomorrow's clientele.
Dunno, it is probably my old man's sensibilities speaking, but the mere fact of admiring the "strength" of someone's position to do this makes me queasy...
Ummm ?
Android doesn't lack in app billing.
Runaway hit game, trying to extract all the cash they can before the next fad leaves it on the shelf.
Understanding why
After having been stuck on some levels for weeks I can understand the temptation to call in for air support... :-) However, to me that is the beauty of this game, that no matter how "impossible" one level seems, you CAN get thru it. I've been in my current situation for a bit over a week, coming very close to getting thru it, so that I know how to do it. After you figure out the method, it all comes down to execution. So far, my execution has been lacking... :-)
I just you-tubed the solution for any level I had issues with. I have 3 stars on every single level available on the original and the holidays version (accounting there's still half the December calendar still locked). If you have to pay to get past a level, you're doing it wrong. If there are levels that can not be beaten WITHOUT paying for them, it should be clearly documented that is the case, and transactions will be REQUIRED to complete the game (in which case I won't buy it).
Damn, you beat me to it
Why the hell would anyone pay for something to cheat in a game like this, when the solution is seconds away, via the device you're already using, on YouTube?
Google Checkout?
I always ignore anything asking me for money so I may have missed this one. But... can't they just use Google Checkout for in-app billing, if they don't do so already? Code your company payment details in the app, your Google Checkout account ID or whatever, and get the money rolling, regardless of app market. I, the user, would then put my login details in the phone, and get asked for my password each time I want to make a payment, just like on the iPhone.
But the other posters have a point: Google Checkout can't use your phone credit. You need a debit/credit card. Kids don't have debit/credit cards. But then again, I didn't know Apple could do this either...
Yes, Pocket Legends uses Google Checkout to buy in-game credits. Should kids really be allowed to spend money on games by that method? I'm getting flashbacks to premium rate ringtone operators.
Pesky Parrots
Everyone has gone insane. Pay ... for ... Angry Birds ?! I can go down the local pub on a Sat night out and find plenty of those.
I have the annoying birds on my Android; It ceased its lure after the tenth level: I was on a train with plenty of time. Pleased that it was free, because I would have been saddened it I had to part with money for it.
For a nice free game on Android I recommend Robo Defense, and for Windows or Linux (wine) Neocron or Anarchy Online -- Yeah :)
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From Darkness to Light: Giving Sight to the Blind
When the camera sends a video signal to the small processor, the image is streamlined, says Dagnelie. "It basically pares the image down to the most important components, like edges and contrast -- so a person can see the outlines of a face, see a doorway, obstacles in their path, things like that. We think it will be a while before it's good enough that they can recognize faces with this, but they will be able to distinguish faces."
In preliminary tests involving six patients -- performed under local anesthesia, so patients could report what they were seeing -- Dagnelie and colleagues first showed them one or two dots, then as many as 25 dots in a 5- by 5-inch square, then one letter at a time," he tells WebMD. The images they see are very crude, he adds. "Think of this as a stadium scoreboard, but just a tiny little corner of it made up of big crude dots. It corresponds to about 20/2000 vision -- really primitive."
"We expect that the first implants will be similar to that. It will tell them something about obstacles, enough to get around, enough to see where a person is sitting," Dagnelie tells WebMD. "To a blind person, that can be a whole lot. And as the technology gets better and as we get better at implanting it ... the image will get finer, and we'll be able to get better resolution. But this is a start."
Within three to five years, Dagnelie says, he expects patients to have long-term implants that will help them operate more independently. "I expect people will be able to distinguish big letters, possibly read a label or a short piece of text. [But] they won't be able sit down and read a newspaper, at least not in the near future."
Another version of a bionic eye being developed by Optobionics in Chicago integrates all components into one chip implanted below the retina of the eye; it's called the Artificial Silicon Retina. "The design of our chip is relatively simple and may be able to function solely with the power provided by light entering the eye," says Vincent Chow, an engineer who co-founded Optobionics Corporation.
"Presently, our chip does not require connecting wires, batteries, or other [outside] devices," says Chow. "The artificial silicon retina is made up of thousands of microscopic solar cells that convert light into electrical impulses and is capable of electrically stimulating [the] remaining cells in the retina when implanted [into the eye]."
"What a patient sees will greatly depend on how the microscopic solar cells on the chip interact with the remaining functional retinal cells," Chow tells WebMD.
This summer, three patients received implants as part of the first multimonth study of any retinal implant. While Chow declines to report the degree of vision patients have experienced, he says that there have been no signs of rejection or other complications, and that preliminary results will be announced soon. Chow invented the artificial silicon retina with his brother, Alan Y. Chow, MD, a visiting professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago and clinical assistant professor of ophthalmology at Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans.


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Blue Bomber Report Record: 6–10–0
Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
Riders ready for trash talk
Durant, Willis know fans will give it to them
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Darian Durant and defensive end Odell Willis are ready to hear some sour notes in Sunday's Banjo Bowl.
The CFL veterans expect to be the receiving end of some trash talking from fans when the Riders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers meet in the back end of the home-and-home series. Sunday's game marks the first time that Durant and Willis will be on the same team for the Banjo Bowl. They are expecting similar reactions from the Blue Bombers fans, but for different reasons.
Durant raised the ire of Winnipeg's fans and the blood pressure of former head coach Ken Miller when he got involved in some trash talking towards the end of a 45-23 victory over the Blue Bombers in 2011. Durant will not allow that to happen again.
"I won't fall into the trap that they set for me last year,'' Durant said Friday. "It was a trap that was laid out there and I just stepped right into it. It was fun while it lasted. You can ask other guys around the league. I think (B.C.'s) Arland Bruce tweeted something about Winnipeg fans a couple of weeks ago when they were out there. I won't fall into it.''
Willis expects to hear it from the fans after being traded to the Riders during the 2012 off-season. One of the reasons the Blue Bombers cited for trading Willis was he didn't want to play for them. Willis said he was prepared to return to the Blue Bombers, especially with the opportunity to play in a new stadium, the opening of which has been delayed until 2013.
"I expect to hear everything and they've already started on Twitter,'' said Willis, who was a CFL all-star in 2011. "It doesn't bother me because I like the attention. If they are talking to me and saying things, I feel like I'm doing something pretty good. They already started on the social networks, so why not? I hope they have a whole bunch. They can focus on me instead of trash talking the rest of the team.''
Durant said he will try to block out the fans, but knows that's easier said than done.
"Fans do a lot of research and they come up with something that may have happened to you back in the '90s,'' said Durant, who is 2-1 in the Banjo Bowl as the starting quarterback. "They have clues about it. When people say the wrong things or push buttons, sometimes you can't help but respond, but I'm not going to let it get to me. It's all about going into that place and getting a win.''
Willis said that he was unaware of Durant's trash talking last year until seeing the clip on TSN. Willis added that he likes to see his quarterback getting into it with the fans.
"That fires me up,'' Willis said. "To see my quarterback or one of my offensive linemen not backing down or see any of my teammates standing up for themselves gets me motivated. If you want to pick on my teammate, my brother or a member of my family, I have to pick on you. You're not going let anyone disrespect your family.''
Much of the fans' displeasure may be aimed at the Blue Bombers, who are 2-7.
Blue Bombers general manager Joe Mack has been in the crosshairs and addressed the media on Thursday for the first time since Sunday's loss. Among the reasons Mack cited for the Blue Bombers' 2012 collapse was the team was still recovering from the death of Richard Harris, the popular defensive line coach.
"We got over that during the season,'' said Willis, adding that his return to Winnipeg for the first time will be bittersweet. "He was a real father figure to me and he's still an important person to me. Still, it's no excuse for what's going on right now."
-- Regina Leader-Post
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 8, 2012 C4
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It has been a major challenge to resolve the evolutionary relationships (phylogeny) between cichlid species. The difficulty is partly the result of the young age of these species - they diverged fairly recently in evolutionary time, and haven't acquired the kind and number of genetic differences normally used to build phylogenies. Recently, researchers used next generation genome sequence technology to get around this problem, by essentially gathering an enormous amount of genome sequence data to use for phylogeny-building. The result is perhaps the best resolved phylogenetic tree for such a young group of cichlid species.
Wagner, et.al. - Genome-wide RAD sequence data provide unprecedented resolution of species boundaries and relationships in the Lake Victoria cichlid adaptive radiation.


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Beyonce Releases All New Surprise Visual Album 'Beyonce'
Beyoncé released a surprise album, titled Beyoncé and described as a "visual album" at 12 a.m. EST Friday, Dec. 13. This is Beyoncé's first new album since 2011's 4 and could mark a huge change in how new music is released and sold.
'Beyoncé': A Visual Album Of 14 Songs, 17 Videos
The 14 new, original tracks are not yet available for individual purchase – though they will be on Dec. 20 – and, for the first week, the album is exclusive to iTunes. What is most original about the album is the "visual" aspect: the album does not just include the songs. Each track is accompanied by a brand new video, each filmed in locations all around the world, and there are a three songs only featured in video, not audio, such as "Grown Woman."
The album was released without any pre-promotion – no single, music video, or even rumors of an upcoming album release. At midnight, Beyoncé announced the release on her Instagram account with a simple message: "Surprise!"
Beyoncé also posted an explanation video on her official Facebook page, explaining, "I see music, it's more than just what I hear… I wanted people to hear the songs with the story that's in my head, cause it's what makes it mine. That vision in my brain is what I wanted people to experience the first time."
In the video, Beyoncé, dressed down in shorts and white t-shirt, says it is important to her that her fans listen to the album as a whole, instead of just a few seconds from one single or another before getting the full experience.
"I wanted to make this body of work, and I feel like it's something that's lost in pop music," she says.
The risk of releasing a complete album without any pre-promotion is definitely paying off. The explicit version currently sits at number 1 on the iTunes charts, followed by the clean version at number 2, and reports suggest Beyoncé sold over 80,000 copies in the first three hours following its release.
Beyoncé Duets With Blue Ivy
Though the videos are heavily stylized, in true Queen Bey fashion, Beyoncé seems invested in the idea that this album bring fans closer to who Beyoncé really is. One of the most personal songs off the album, "Blue," features her young daughter Blue Ivy. Beyoncé has been very protective of her daughter, never releasing photos via a third party, and always keeping Blue's face hidden in photos posted to her social media accounts. The song concludes with Blue Ivy talking and laughing with her mother, and will undoubtedly be one of the most talked about tracks from the album. Blue Ivy also makes an appearance in the accompanying video.
Other guests on Beyoncé include her husband Jay-Z, Drake and Frank Ocean.
The album is now available in its entirety on iTunes and individual songs will be available Dec. 20.
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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeats Novak Djokovic 6-2 6-2
David Ferrer defeats Ivan Dodig 1-6 6-3 6-2
Maria Sharapova, Victoria Azarenka, Jelena Jankovic, Simona Halep, Sloane Stephens and Dominika Cibulkova advance to the fourth round.
The only surprise came from Garbine Muguruza, who won her first WTA tour event in Hobart earlier in the month as a qualifier and has knocked out 10th seed Caroline Wozniacki in the third round. She'll play Agnieszka Radwanska next.
Grigor Dimitrov beats Milos Raonic in 3 sets to reach his first ever 4th round at a Slam. He next faces Roberto Bautista Agut who followed his upset win over Juan Martin del Potro with a straight sets victoy over Benoit Paire.
Andy Murray defeats Feliciano Lopez for the eight time in eight match and will meet lucky loser Stéphane Robert in the last 16.
Roger Federer advanced to the fourth round for the 13th consecutive year following his win over Teymuraz Gabashvili. He'll face Jo-Wilfried Tsonga who beat countryman Gilles Simon for a place in the quaterfinals.
Kei Nishikori beat Donald Young, the last American man in the singles draw in straight sets. His next opponent: Rafael Nadal who dismantled Gael Monfils 6-1 6-2 6-3.
Seeds upsets:
Garbine Muguruza def Caroline Wozniacki (10), Roberto Bautista Agut def Benoit Paire (27)
Video highlights:
Video of the day: Famous. Favored. Fallen.
Matches to follow on Day 7:
Serena Williams (1) – Ana Ivanovic (14)
Fabio Fognini (15) – Novak Djokovic (2)
Stanislas Wawrinka (8) – Tommy Robredo (17)
Enjoy some pics of Marin Cilic and Milos Raonic practicing together on Friday.
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Former world number 3, Ivan Ljubicic, coaching Milos Raonic:
Victoria Azarenka, Serena Williams, Sloane Stephens, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga move on to the quarterfinals.
Only "surprises" today: Svetlana Kuznetsova defeats Caroline Wozniacki and Jérémy Chardy wins over Andreas Seppi.
Day 9 matches:
Li Na-Agnieszka Radwanska
Ekaterina Makarova-Maria Sharapova
David Ferrer-Nicolas Almagro
Novak Djokovic-Tomas Berdych
Milos Raonic's first ballet lesson with Queensland Ballet's principal dancer Clare Morehan:
Follow Milos Roanic on Twitter @milosraonic.
Earlier this year I wrote an article about the pace of indoor surfaces and the demise of indoor carpet on the ATP and WTA tours. (see article here) Quick indoor carpet has been completely phased out in favour of medium paced indoor hardcourts based on the plexicushion surface. The slowing down in surfaces has led to a convergence in style of play and allowed defensive minded players to get to the very top of the game and stay there.
Recently Roger Federer called for surfaces to speeded up once again "It's an easy fix. Just make quicker courts, then it's hard to defend," Federer said. "Attacking style is more important. It's only on this type of slow courts that you can defend the way we are all doing right now."
When I spoke to the ATP spokesman back in February, he clearly gave the view the surfaces were slowed down and carpet phased out because there were too many complaints that the big serve was dominating tennis. That is a pity because my article clearly dispelled the myth that faster surfaces were only dominated by big servers, I pointed out that many baseliners loved the quicker surfaces.
Players like Ivan Lendl won over 30 tournaments on indoor carpet, much more tournaments on one surface than most players win in an entire career. Lendl won 5 year end Masters titles (ATP World Tour) and played in 8 straight finals between 1982 and 1989. Also Lendl won these titles against the likes of John McEnroe, Boris Becker, and Stefan Edberg.
Monica Seles was another player who excelled on indoor carpet, and yet both she and Lendl won multiple titles at the French Open, the slowest surface on tour. Martina Hingis also excelled on indoor carpet. In the mens game, Andre Agassi, Gustavo Kuerten, Lleyton Hewitt and Alex Corretja won the year end championships indoors whilst Jim Courier played in finals in 1991 and 1992 and Michael Chang in 1995.
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We have no idea what hotcakes even are, but assault rifles are selling like them these days; faster than companies can even keep them in stock, according to reports.
The feverish demand for military-style rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines is outstripping supply as fear of enhanced gun control laws spreads.
Piers Morgan has yet to comment on this spending spree.
"Our phones are ringing every 10 seconds and people are saying, 'Do you have any assault rifles?'" said Dennis Pratte, owner of My Gun Factory in Falls Church, Va.
"They've sold out of just about every gun shop nationwide."
Online retailers are running out of semiautomatic rifles, generally categorized as assault weapons or tactical rifles, and magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds.
Semi-automatic rifles, which fire one round for every pull of the trigger, and high-capacity magazines are flying off the shelves across the United States.
"The retail market is completely sold out of anything with high-capacity magazines," said Pratte. "We get people 20-deep waiting to buy them."
Pratte said that he sells AR-15s as soon as they arrive at his store. Handguns are also hot commodities, especially from popular makers such as Smith & Wesson.
He said that prices are soaring, and not just for guns. High-capacity magazines, particularly the popular 30-round magazines, are going for $100 apiece on Gunbroker.
They used to sell for $15.
"Ammunition is hard to come by, as well," Pratte said, noting that ammunition for military-style rifles has tripled in price to about one dollar per bullet.
Likewise, ungainly-looking 100-round dual-drums, which resemble a pair of cans stuck together, have sold out at Cheaperthandirt (dot) com and Impactguns (dot) com.
The product's popularity is matched only by its controversy.
A 100-round drum was allegedly used as part of the four-gun arsenal of James Holmes, accused of shooting 70 people and killing 12 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
High-capacity magazines have been used in numerous shootings, including the attack at a school in Newtown, Conn., in which Adam Lanza killed 26 people.
Great - more assault rifles for the bad guys to steal and use for mass killings. The gun happy idiots in this country will never learn. This country has more gun related deaths than any other industrialized nation in the world - and it just keeps on going. The world won't end soon but the United States might...we will just shoot each other to death until every man, woman and child is gone. Wht do we need more guns than people? Why do we not try to stop the killing? So I guess the answe is to just arm everyone and then we won't need cops. Wow for an intelligent country we sure do have a lot of dumb people! Happy New Year - wonder how soon the next mass killing will happen.
We still don't believe we have a problem with gun control. Why do we need assault rifles in our home. But hey it's your right. Correct?
The reason why you dont know what Hot Cakes are is that youve never seen the inside of a kitchen. Piers Morgan was last seen talking to Mexican Coyotes. He must be trying to find a way back into the country once he's been deported. As far as the gun sales go, they are flying off the shelves, You liberals really know how to disarm America. Every time you open your mouths 10,000 more assault weapons are sold in America. George Washington said that Americans should have "Sufficient Arms and Ammunition" to defend them selves against anyone who tried to take their freedom away from them. And that includes our own Government".
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April 24, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. - Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE), James Madison University's Office of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability, The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the Health from the Soil Up working group and community partners are partnering to offer a free screening of the documentary "Symphony of the Soil," at James Madison University's Center for Integrated Science and Technology, ISAT/CS Building, Room 236, 700 - 1164 Carrier Dr., Harrisonburg. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion. Information: 540-432-6029 ext. 106.


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Three Hundred Thousand
As I like to say, done and done.
What's next?
Roxy Has Had a Week
A week or two ago, she was having trouble starting. It became more and more of an issue until she went completely dead last weekend, leaving me stranded. Twice. Battery replaced, everything was ok for about 6 miles until she left me stranded again. Turns out, corrosion was the issue and I spent the remainder of my weekend wondering where my car skills disappear too.
Skip ahead about a week, driving from PHX to California to watch my youngest niece graduate high school. During this drive there are 2 major grades that are more than 30 miles long. During the first one, Roxy went into limp mode. After I let her rest for about 15 minutes, she was ok until the next big grade. Same problem happened. This time I let her rest for about 20 minutes and she's been good since. The SES light is on and Eurotechs has been alerted to the issue.
Just slightly over 5K to go to hit 300K. I hope she makes it.
In the meantime, just so you guys know, I have been poking around the used market to see what is available and what the price range is. Nice to see LCI R56s in the 15K-ish range.
Finally got around to replacing the windscreen too. This is only the third she has had since 2003. I color myself lucky, but really, the last one should have been changed back in '08.
Not the Noise I Wanted to Hear
New axles have been on the list for quite some time. Associated with bad axles are noises. Noises that I got used to hearing and knew what they were. Noises that I didn't really worry too much about, since I knew replacements were ready and waiting.
2 days before I started hearing a new noise. Actually not new, it's one that I heard 10 years ago. It's the noise of a dying Midlands transmission. At least I'm pretty sure. Really noticeable, now, in 4th and 5th at highway speeds, its like a high pitched whine/clicking noise. It is hard to describe. Trust me when I say it is not pleasant.
Plans A and B have been put into place. I'm pretty sure plan B will be the more inexpensive route and, at the same time, yield the best results. I just don't want to activate Plan C yet unless absolutely necessary. And, really, I won't know more until Jerry gets her back on the rack to drive test and hear the sound and check everything out.
So close. Less than 9k miles to go and that damned Midlands decides to crap out. Still, in the grand scheme of things, 10 years and almost 250K miles is pretty damned impressive for anything. My fridge isn't even that old!
Updates as they happen.
On the Way to 300K; 290,900
(more photos in my flickr stream)
This week I will pass 291,000 miles on my MINI. Actually, should be happening on Tuesday, Wednesday at the latest. Everything is going as expected and very little has changed. Up next? Axles (this week) and time to refit some track day tires on the extra wheels. More about that in a coming post. Finally, I'm hoping before summer is in full spring to get the oil pan gasket taken care of.
Already done? Besides a complete exterior detail (or, my version of said detail), I had all of the windows re-tinted. Window tint was the first mod I did on Roxy, going 35% all the way around. That was 11 years ago. The tint had faded and was scratched, and tint technology has come along way since then. Now, all of the windows are again tinted 35% (this time legally, suck it California) with ceramic tint. Supposed to block 75% of the heat coming into the car. I have tested it, and it's like this.
You know what it's like to open an oven door to check the cookies? Rolling down the window on the sunny side of the car with this tint is exactly like that. Amazing but true. So glad I got this one redone.
Also on the short list is new windscreen. This one is also long over due, but I'm hoping this week.
Re: new tires. Yea. Because race car. Stay tuned for more!
My Next MINI
It's getting close to that time gang. Just miles away from 290,000 on the odometer, I've been giving some thought to what my next car will be. Of course it will be a MINI, but the real question is what MINI is it going to be?
An F56 perhaps? I really dig that car, even though I haven't seen one in person. I think the F56 Cooper is going to be very interesting and can't wait until I get to drive one. But, and this is a pretty big but, will I buy it?
Played the early adopter once before. It's a game for the young and prosperous. I don't have the time to potentially make frequent trips to the dealer for whatever the issue du jour is. Not saying it will happen, but MINIs first generation history isn't the greatest. Can I get an amen? This is a car I would love to get as a late model 2015 or 2016, but 2014? No thank you.
Instead, I'm thinking R56. Used, of course, to save a few bucks. For reliability, and because I don't like buying turbos, I'll go ahead and stick with the Cooper. I'm hoping for a late model (2010 or newer) with under 70k miles. I would like to have HK, would like to not have a sunroof and color would be nice (no blacks or grays). And, I'm not going to be a snob if I find the right MINI and it has an automatic.
If I can talk a bit more trash about the R56, I've spent a fair amount of time in an R56 Cooper with an automatic. To be honest, it's boring. It lacks power, it lacks acceleration, it lacks excitement. Everything that this car is about, quickly removed by one of the most expensive options on the sheet.
Here's the thing. As bad as this transmission is, the photo above tells you my reasoning. That shows that so far, year to date, my average speed is less than 30 MPH. To give you an idea how that happens, my daily commute is 23 miles each way. In the morning, it takes me 45 minutes. In the afternoon, I'm lucky if I can make it in 45, usually it's 60 – 75 minutes.
If I continue with this kind of driving with my manually equipped car, no doubt the clutch I just replaced will have to be replaced again sooner than I would like. And, if I'm honest, I'm tired of paying for clutches due to shitty traffic. The last one was because of Phoenix, the one before because of Temecula. The one before that because of normal wear and tear.
This isn't something that I will be doing any time soon. I'm going to wait until I hit 300K in Roxy before I get serious.


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The South Carolina Republican dismisses talk that he might jump into the 2016 presidential race.
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The South Carolina Republican says Rubio has shown he is "so afraid of the right."
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Republicans are talking about ISIL and President Barack Obama, but not about slashing tax rates.
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He says Obama needs to "rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home."
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He says the well-funded terror group has ambitions to strike the United States.
Partisan divide on Iraq actions
Ongoing U.S. airstrikes in Iraq dominate the discussion on the Sunday talk shows.
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"If he does not go on the offensive against ISIS, ISIL ... they are coming here," he says.
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He slams the U.N. for launching an investigation into possible human rights abuses in Gaza.
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Good Marketing Skills
The array of open-air ferias (markets) in Buenos Aires testifies to the fact that locals enjoy stall-trawling as much as visitors do. Argentina holds its craftspeople, both traditional and contemporary, in high esteem. The selections include not only crafts but also art, antiques, curios, clothing, jewelry, and housewares, and stalls are often attended by the artists themselves. Bargaining isn't the norm, although you may get a small discount for buying lots of items.
Feria de San Pedro Telmo. Plaza Dorrego is the heart of the Feria de San Pedro Telmo—an open-air market that stretches for more than a kilometer (0.6 mile) along Calle Defensa each Sunday. Thrust your way through the crowds to pick through antiques and curios of varying vintages as well as tango memorabilia, or watch dolled-up professional tango dancers perform on the surrounding cobbled streets. The unofficial "stalls" (often just a cloth on the ground) of young craftspeople stretch several blocks up Defensa, away from the market proper. As it gets dark, the square turns into a milonga, where quick-stepping locals show you how it's done. Plaza Dorrego, Humberto I and Defensa, San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, C1065AAT. www.feriadesantelmo.com. Sun. 10–dusk. C to San Juan.
Feria de Artesanos de Plaza Francia. The sprawling open-air market winds through several linked squares outside the Recoleta Cemetery. Each weekend, artisans sell handmade clothes, jewelry, and housewares as well as traditional crafts. Avs. Libertador and Pueyrredón, La Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, C1113AAX. www.feriaplazafrancia.com. Weekends 11–dusk.
Feria de Plaza Cortázar. The business conducted in hip Palermo Viejo's Feria de Plaza Cortázar (also known as Plaza Serrano) rivals that done in the neighborhood's trendy boutiques. In a small square—which is actually round—artisans sell wooden toys, ceramics, and funky jewelry made of stained glass or vintage buttons. This is also a great place to purchase art: the railings around a playground here act as an open-air gallery for Palermo artists, and organizers control the quality of art on display. The feria continues on the sidewalks of Honduras and Serrano, which intersect at the square, then down the former on weekends and inside the bars on the square itself, which push their tables and chairs aside to make room for clothing and accessory designers: expect to find anything from cute cotton underwear and one-off T-shirts to clubbing dresses. Quality is often low, but so are prices. Plazoleta Cortázar (Plaza Serrano) at, Honduras and Serrano, Palermo Viejo, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, C1414DFF. Weekends 11–dusk. D to Plaza Italia.
Mercado de las Pulgas. On the edge of Palermo Hollywood lies the large warehouse sheltering the Mercado de las Pulgas, packed with furniture on its second—or third or fourth—time around. You won't come across any Louis XV, but original pieces from the 1940s, '50s, and '60s may turn out to be (relative) bargains. Lighting up your life is a cinch: choose from the many Venetian-glass chandeliers, or go for a chrome-and-acrylic mushroom lamp. If your taste is more rustic, there's also a sizable selection of hefty farmhouse-style tables and cabinets in oak and pine. Don't be deceived by the stalls' simple-looking set-up: vendors are used to dealing with big-name local customers, and can often arrange overseas shipping. Alvarez Thomas between Dorrego and Concepción Arenales, Palermo Hollywood, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, C1427CCA. Daily 10–dusk. B to Dorrego.
One of the last surviving European-style indoor food markets in town, the Feria Modelo de Belgrano is a gourmet's dream. The building has stood more or less unchanged since 1891, and its 30 stalls are the ideal place to ogle top national produce like Patagonian trout and lamb, porcini mushrooms, and stuffed meats. The cheese stalls sell creamy ricotta by the kilo and chunky wheels of queso Mar del Plata, an eminently snackable Gouda-style cheese. Juramento 2527, at Ciudad de la Paz, Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires. Mon.–Sat. 8–1 and 5–8:30, Sun. 8–1.
In the Market for Some Culture
Jewelry and matés aren't the only things porteños stalk markets for: books and music, prohibitively expensive in Argentina, are also top finds. Kiosklike stalls on the traffic island of Avenida Santa Fe west of Plaza Italia (D to Plaza Italia) do a brisk trade in used and cut-price new books (in Spanish). You occasionally find gems amid the piles of scratched LPs on sale at Parque Rivadavia (A to Acoyte), but what locals really come for are the pirate CDs and DVDs for 10 pesos. (They browse innocent-looking folders, tell vendors the codes of what they want, and 10 minutes later are paying for an unassuming plastic bag of goodies.)
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Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|William Malone
|Produced by
|Rudy Cohen
Mark Damon
Limor Diamant
Moshe Diamant
Jan Fantl
Jean-Marc Félio
Frank Hübner
Elie Samaha
David Saunders
Romain Schroeder
Andrew Stevens
|Written by
|Moshe Diamant
Josephine Coyle
|Stephen Dorff
Natascha McElhone
Stephen Rea
|Music by
|Nicholas Pike
|Christian Sebaldt
|Edited by
|Alan Strachan
MDP Worldwide
Fear.Com Productions Ltd.
Carousel Film Company
Film Fund Luxembourg
DoRo Fiction Film GmbH
Filmyard Underwaterdeco
Franchise Pictures
Luxembourg Film Fund
Milagro Films
Signature Pictures
|Distributed by
|Warner Bros. Pictures
|Release dates
|9 August 2002 (South Korea)
30 August 2002 (United States)
|Running time
|101 minutes
|United Kingdom
United States[1]
|$40 million[2]
|Box office
FeardotCom is a 2002 horror film directed by William Malone and starring Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone and Stephen Rea.
Mike Black Reilly (Stephen Dorff) is an NYPD detective who is called to the scene of a mysterious death in the subway system. The victim, Polidori (Udo Kier), exhibits bleeding from his eyes and other orifices and, by the frozen look on his face, appears to have seen something horrifying before being hit by a train.
Department of Health researcher Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) is intrigued by the find as well, particularly when several more victims show up with identical symptoms.
When a contagious virus is ruled out, Terry and Mike team up to discover what might be killing these people. Initially they were unable to find anything to connect the deaths together, after some more digging for clues they eventually discover that all of the victims' computers crashed shortly before their passings. They send each of the victims hard drives to Mike's friend, Denise Stone (Amelia Curtis), who is a forensic specialist.
Denise discovers that all of the victims had visited a website called Feardotcom which depicts voyeuristic torture murder. Upon looking at the site herself, Denise is subjected to various sights and sounds of torture that eventually drive her crazy and result in her falling to her death from her apartment window.
Mike feels guilty, thinking that he should have never gotten Denise involved in the case. Terry figures out that people who visit the website die within 48 hours, apparently from what they feared most in their lives. Despite such dangerous knowledge, both she and Mike visit the site in order to figure out what is happening.
As they begin to experience paranoia and hallucinations (like the deceased), including that of a young girl and her inflatable ball, they race against time to figure out if any of it has any connection to an extremely vicious serial killer, Alistair "The Doctor" Pratt (Stephen Rea), who's been eluding Mike for years.
It is revealed that Feardotcom is, in fact, a ghost site made by one of Pratt's first victims, who is seeking revenge because people watched her being tortured and murdered. She was tortured by Pratt for 48 hours before she begged him to kill her, which explains why the victims have 48 hours to live. Mike and Terry track down Pratt and release the spirit of the murdered girl from the website, which kills Pratt. However, Mike is also killed.
The ending scene shows Terry lying in her bed with her cat, staring at the ceiling.
- Stephen Dorff as Detective Mike Reilly
- Natascha McElhone as Terry Huston
- Stephen Rea as Alistair Pratt
- Udo Kier as Polidori
- Amelia Curtis as Denise Stone
- Jeffrey Combs as Sykes
- Nigel Terry as Turnbull
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The film was heavily panned by the critics. It currently holds a 3% 'rotten' rating on movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on eighty-seven reviews.[3]
Empire magazine gave the film one out of five stars, calling it "arguably the least imaginative, most pathetic horror of the decade. "[4] The Guardian called it a "nasty, badly acted horror film [...] like Marc Evans' My Little Eye or Olivier Assayas' execrable Demonlover, it manages to be both prurient and very, very naive about the internet. "[5] Roger Ebert, while not giving it a positive review, gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, "strange, how good FeardotCom is, and how bad. The screenplay is a mess, and yet the visuals are so creative this is one of the rare bad films you might actually want to see" and praising the last 20 minutes as something which, if it "had been produced by a German impressionist in the 1920s, we'd be calling it a masterpiece."[6]
Awards and nominations[edit]
FeardotCom won 'Worst Film' at the 2003 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards and 'Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver' at 2003 Fantafestival.[7] It was nominated for 'Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Gold' at the 2004 Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival and 'Best Film' at the 2002 Catalonian International Film Festival.[7]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Fear dot com". BFI Film & TV Database. London: British Film Institute. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
- ^ a b "fear dot com (2002) - Box Office Mojo". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ^ "fear dot com (Feardotcom) - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ^ Morrison, Alan. "Empire's feardotcom Movie Review". empireonline.com. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (27 June 2003). "FearDotCom". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ^ Ebert, Roger. "Feardotcom :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews". rogerebert. suntimes.com. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ^ a b "FeardotCom (2002) - Awards". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
External links[edit]
- English-language films
- 2002 horror films
- German films
- Luxembourgian films
- British films
- Police detective films
- American horror films
- Luxembourgian horror films
- Films directed by William Malone
- Films shot in Montreal
- German horror films
- British horror films
- Serial killer films
- Warner Bros. films
- Snuff films in fiction
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Philippines won't involve US in resolving dispute with ChinaBy Alvin Barcelona |Radyo Inquirer 990AM
MANILA, Philippines – The country won't involve the United States in resolving its dispute with China over the rights to Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal, a Radyo Inquirer 990AM report said on Monday.
The report quoted deputy spokesperson Abigail Valte as saying that they were supportive of the Department of Foreign Affairs' choice to resolve the issue through a diplomatic process between the two countries and left it to the said agency to act on suggestions of seeking assistance from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).
The Malacañang has earlier stated that there was no need for a third party or mediator to assist in solving the ongoing standoff between a Philippine Navy ship and Chinese surveillance and fishing vessels at the Panatag Shoal which the country considered to be within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
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