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I agree!
Me too!
I agree.
*Nay*For the same reason as stated here: »Re: [new forum] Request for a new forumI'll play devils advocate here. If I may.We have seen a couple of the resellers ask for their own forum. All were denied, with the exception of teksavvy, due to there not being enough traffic to justify it. Instead other resellers were told to bring traffic up in their "adhock" forums or elsewhere in the forum, such as the Canadian Broadband forum.In the Videotron forum where the OP linked to this topic, »[Internet] I have made a request....., it appears this request is based on the excitement or anticipated excitement of there finally being an affordable videotron reseller.More or less it's based on one topic only in particular in which the Videotron reseller, ebox, is the main focus; »[Internet] Fournisseurs independants.One topic isn't much of anything. Acanac has tons more.In the English Canadian Broadband forum there are more topics about ebox, but again this is a spike due to the new cable reselling prices.There are more Acanac posts in that forum as well.So if we apply the logic that the "gods that be" here have stated over and over again when an ISP requests their own forum, it would appear Acanac would/should have their own forum before ebox. Though I don't think Acanac is really that interested anymore since they prefer people to go to their own forum on their own website.But just based on the numbers and the prevailing logic here, ebox shouldn't have their own forum.Also since there is only really one topic in the vidoetron forum in regards to ebox, and which is the basis of ebox wanting their own forum, does it justify having their own forum? Seems more like someone wants more exposure and nothing more. The Canadian Broadband forum seems adequately suited for this ISP as it stands.In addition to this, is there anything unique that an ebox forum would bring to the table? I can't think of any other than adding a French reseller to balance the prevailing English reseller. And yes, I do think this is a positive (just so you know). So it would most likely be a predominately french forum or a fully bilingual one which could serve to educate more people in terms of the great Canadian Telco/Cableco rip-off./end playing Devils Advocate.In addition, Start is magnitudes smaller than the other so-called indi's with only a trivial amount (one or two topics) in Canadian Broadband forum and not a heck of a lot in their own forum found here, »Start Communications, even though that forum link is spammed in Canadian Broadband for their users to see and use. This is in addition to the link given at the top of the Canadian Broadband forum to all these small resellers, »Canadian Broadband FAQ »Canadian ad-hoc forum listingsWould be quite the slap in the face to others resellers like Ebox, Distributel, and Acanac as well.So for these reasons, *Nay*.
I partially agree with what you have to say!
Would be quite the slap in the face to others resellers like Ebox, Distributel, and Acanac as well.So for these reasons, *Nay*.
I agree
Signed. I vote YES!(OUI!)
Yes I agree, Start should have its own section
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I agree! Independent ISP's in Canada need more exposure!
I agree!!
I agree, as well.
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Yes please!
Obviously Start should have a forum. eBox should probably have one too, and Distrubtel (aka Acanac, CIA, 3web, and etc.) should have had one years ago.

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Another week is in the books in the Bronx and things are getting shaky. The Yankees suffered some big blows in last night's Red Sox games with even more injuries striking our roster. C.C. almost looked good for an entire outing but fell apart at the end. Carlos Beltran has found his stroke and Brian McCann looks like he's just about settled in to the Yankees' lineup. And then there was that series with the Red Sox.
It is always great to take any series from the Red Sox, especially when it puts the Yankees in a tie for first and the Red Sox into last place. There were consequences, however. As always, in any Red Sox' and Yankees' series, there had to be a little controversy. The Bronx is boiling, folks, and I need to blow some steam.
I can't stand it. I love baseball, don't get me wrong. But it is a very long game already. Replay is already making it feel longer just two weeks into the season. Here are a couple interesting stats I found to take a look at:
1. Excluding Sunday's games, there were already 64 challenges in the 141 total games that had been played. 21 of those said challenges have been overturned. Think about that. That is 1,269 innings of baseball and replay has been used on a minuscule 64 plays. The umps have been wrong 32% of the time on calls in which replay has been needed. Those numbers seem microscopic compared to how much longer it feels games are taking to be played. It also comes out to one mistake every 6.7 games. Think about how many innings and at-bats occur in a game. ONE mistake in every 6.7 games is remarkable.
2. Reviews are averaging over two minutes per challenge (2:15 to be precise). That's just flat out annoying.
Take that information and let it sink in for a second. Then think about the fact that this weekend at Yankee Stadium, against the Red Sox nonetheless, the umps blew a call not just once, BUT TWICE with the use of replay. That's just fantastic. Of course the first muffed replay call has to be in a Yankees game. Now I will have to hear from every Yankee hater in the nation how once again WE are the world's biggest cheaters due to an umpire not doing his job correctly.
For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, flashback to Saturday's game against the Red Sox. Dean Anna hit a double and slid head first into second base where he was called safe. This was the correct call. However, as he slid through second base, his foot came off the bag and he was tagged out. John Farrell rightfully challenged the play. What ensued was that anyone watching the replay on TV clearly saw that Anna was out, however, the umpires did not. The double was upheld. Luckily, it had no impact on the outcome of the game.
John Farrell told reporters after the game that the Red Sox had five clear views of the blown call. The Yankees and Yankees' fans at home did as well. The umpires, however, did not. How is this acceptable? How are you wasting our time with a replay that the umpires don't have the conclusive view that some fat, hairy, drunkard sitting on his couch watching NESN has on his TV. That's just flat out embarrassing for MLB and, as I said, of course it has to happen in a Yankees' game.
Sunday evening had another questionable call. As ESPN announcer John Kruk pointed out during the replay, according to the rules laid out for instant replay, the play was called correctly. It was awfully close though. Francisco Cervelli was legging out a fielder's choice. He came across the bag as the ball hit Mike Napoli's glove. According to Kruk's interpretation of the rule, the glove must be closed to be considered an out, in which case the play was correctly overturned and a run, the game winning run, scored. Joh Farrell then made history as the first manager thrown out arguing a replay. It was a really close play. If it had been the other way around, I would hope Girardi would be in an umpire's face arguing it as well. Then again, I would hope Girardi would have ample people on his bench in case of injuries in a baseball game, but as we saw tonight, he doesn't. (Seriously, how do you not carry a third catcher when you are playing your primary back-up at another position? It is a recipe for disaster… but I digress.)
When all is said and done, the Yankees won the series. It's just ashame that it had to be a run which was the end result of yet another highly questionable replay in the Bronx. It's a new process that the umpires and MLB are still adjusting to, so more mistakes are on the way. It's almost as if Bud Selig scripts it so these muffed calls happen on the biggest stage with the two biggest media circuses covering it. If you weren't aware of the MLB's new replay rules, America, you sure are now. And what does Bud Selig care if you blame him for a flawed system? He's out of here in less than a year!
Well, today is an off day. Hopefully this all blows over and Girardi figures out how to adjust our roster and deal with all of these injuries. I'm just glad we Yankee fans get to go to sleep up 3-1 on the Red Sox and above .500 our first two weeks into 2014.
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DVD Review: Wrong Turn 5
"Don't leave town," Sheriff Angela (Camilla Arfwedson) tells the group of co-eds she has just released from her holding cells - to which blond, bland Cruz (Amy Lennox) replies: "Oh, we won't go anywhere."
Cruz is right in more senses than one. Sure, she and her friends Billy (Simon Ginty), Lita (Roxanne McKee), Gus (Paul Luebke) and Julian (Oliver Hoare) are, like pretty much every non-mutant character in the Wrong Turn franchise, headed inexorably for the pot, with little hope of escape – but there is also something rather redundant about Wrong Turn 5 (the third instalment directed by Sharktopus' Declan O'Brian and, along with his Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, a prequel), which fails utterly to take the hillbilly horror anywhere new.
The actors beneath the masks and makeup may have changed over the years, but appetitive antagonists Three Finger (Borislav Iliev), One Eye (Radoslav Parvanov) and Saw Tooth (George Karlukovski) have become so familiar in these movies that they are now the franchise's default heroes, while their constant giggling, comic movements and baroquely inventive murder methods make them increasingly resemble Larry, Curly and Moe rather than fraternal figures of fear.
This creates an awkward dynamic: the teens-in-peril are so thinly drawn and - let's face it - annoying, that we are confronted with our own desire for their painful and grotesque demise, yet it is equally difficult to get behind their sniggering, inarticulate killers, who are like the Beavis and Butthead of genre. None of these 'characters' makes for good company, not least because O'Brien's writing is so perfunctory, and you will soon find yourself, like the co-eds, longing for escape or an end, but knowing that you too are going nowhere. The murder set-pieces – involving mutilation, electrocution, hammering, burning, slashing, gouging and of course chowing in a range of perverse permutations – quickly become the only relief (of sorts) from the meandering dramatic tedium.
This is movie-making strictly by numbers. The presence of the brothers' older serial-killing kin Maynard is clearly intended to bring new blood to the proceedings, not least because his menacing garrulousness (expressly irritant to those around him, implicitly to viewers too) contrasts with the muted mutterings of his relatives – but the fact that he is played by Doug Bradley, who has for decades been Pinhead in the never-ending Hellraiser franchise, serves to underline this film's tired, entirely unnecessary status. In America, Wrong Turn 5 was released with the subtitle Bloodlines; and no doubt the Wrong Turn series, too, will soon, like the similarly subtitled Hellraiser: Bloodline, be resorting to space- and time-travel, in a desperate, flawed bid to survive – but the butchered meat on offer here has long since lost its freshness. Even the 'original' Wrong Turn was a stale stew of used parts from Deliverance, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes. Now only slim pickings remain – chiefly tits, ass and innards - offering little nourishment and nothing to digest.
There are other things here that go nowhere. A po-faced text at the film's beginning about nineteenth-century disappearances from Fairlake, West Virginia is never made particularly relevant to the present, nor does it exactly furnish ominous foreshadowing of what is to come (surely most people watching Wrong Turn 5 will already have a fair idea where the story is headed). Little is made of the fact that Fairlake is playing host to the annual 'Mountain Man' music festival - an event which is never actually shown (presumably for budgetary reasons) and whose sole narrative purpose would appear to be to empty the town centre of its denizens so the brothers' slaughtering can go on unwitnessed and uninterrupted. "I think I took a wrong turn," says one young female festival-goer before granting a local policeman free access to her body in exchange for free entry backstage – and in a film bereft of any actual wrong turns, this is the only (and entirely ironised) reference to its own title.
Indeed, what most characterises Wrong Turn 5 is not deviations nor digressions, but an arrow-straight trajectory down the road of gleeful nihilism. "You're dead but you don't know it yet," taunts Maynard from his police holding cell, "You're all dead." It is only one of many such threats ("You won't live that long", "one more dead body to add to the pile", "Your reckoning is on its way") that he utters, a captive prophet with an equally captive audience – and while there is little in Wrong Turn 5 that is not entirely predictable, there is at least something to be admired in the unflinching strength of its narrative conviction. If Maynard says that something, no matter how horrific, is going to happen, it inevitably does, making him the scriptwriter of a Sadean scenario from which no-one is spared. Unfortunately, though, that includes the hapless viewer…
Wrong Turn 5 is available on DVD rom 28th January – as is a boxset of all five Wrong Turn films.


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ARLINGTON — A round of golf typically leaves Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels comatose after nine holes. As such, he hits the links about once in every 12 to 18 months.Even though Monday was another Rangers off day, it apparently wasnt the time for Daniels to dust off the TaylorMades. Instead, he filled the downtime chatting up other Rangers officials on how to go about making the club better.Their plan was hatched Tuesday before the opener of a two-game series against Seattle with three decisions that were overdue and completely necessary to give the Rangers the best chance of staying relevant in the American League.Sent to Triple A was catcher J.P. Arencibia, who, despite his claim that he was making solid contact regularly, needed to be moved out in spring training.Out of the rotation and back to the bullpen are left-hander Robbie Ross and right-hander Tanner Scheppers. Both tried their best in new roles, but their repeated struggles showed that they dont make the Rangers better as starters, no matter how scarce starters currently are.Arencibia replacement Chris Gimenez, who has never spent a full season in the majors, and Ross replacement Scott Baker, who has only 20 1/3 big-league innings since 2011, wont suddenly made the Rangers favorites to win the World Series.Those moves werent immediately felt during the Rangers 6-2 loss Tuesday night to Seattle, which pieced together four runs in the third against Colby Lewis. But the moves needed to be made, and the Rangers, now eight games behind Oakland in the AL West, will be better off. Im not trying to create a spark, manager Ron Washington said. Were trying to move some pieces into some positions where they can be successful.Lewis pitched six innings for the first time this season, but he allowed five runs, nine hits, three walks and hit a batter. Not every ball was well hit, including the blooper and bunt hit that started the Mariners big third inning and the two-run single by Kyle Seager, but they counted nonetheless.I didnt get hit around, said Lewis, who didnt allow an extra-base hit. It was a bunch of singles, a bunch of jam jobs, and maybe one or two that was hit hard.Lewis (3-3) would have been plenty good enough to have gotten Arencibia out. A batting average well below the Mendoza Line finally caught up to Arencibia, whose lone redeeming quality had been the success Yu Darvish had with him behind the plate.At the plate, though, Arencibia was as close to an automatic out as there was in the league. He heads to Round Rock with a .133 average and nearly twice as many strikeouts (15) as hits (eight) in 60 at-bats.Arencibia said that he needs to make adjustments, but the only one he specifically pointed to was having a better approach. He seems sold that everyday at-bats will help him shake out of a funk that he has been in since last season.I havent done what Ive needed to do, so theres no one blame except myself, Arencibia said.Scheppers was told Sunday that he would rehab from elbow inflammation as a starter, but that changed two days later because the bullpen is where the Rangers need him. They already have enough uncertainty in the rotation, and the back end of the bullpen isnt exactly a sure thing with Alexi Ogando pitching with a 6.86 ERA, a .317 opponents average and a 1.93 WHIP entering Tuesday.The Rangers also couldnt afford to lose Scheppers, who will make a rehab appearance Saturday and is likely to come off the disabled list before the next homestand, to another injury.Its a little disappointing, but I feel like we had a good conversation, said Scheppers, who was 0-1 with a 9.82 ERA in four starts. They mentioned theyre not in a position where they can risk anything else happening.The Rangers had a 2-7 record when Ross started, including six straight losses. He returns to the role he had his first two seasons in the majors, a middle-innings lefty reliever who can work multiple innings.The start Ross was to make Friday at Detroit goes to Baker, a former 15-game winner who will be making only his fourth start since having Tommy John surgery in 2012.He and Gimenez might not sound like much, but they cant be any worse than Arencibia and Ross. Thats the plan, at least, that Daniels and crew devised Monday on another Rangers off day.It was too windy for golf, anyway.
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This is the 16th year of the Clydesdale Christmas Store, which gives a full wish list of toys and clothes to hundreds of children.
The total dollar figure raised for gifts for children since the benefit's beginning is about $1 million, said Ralph Doxey with the Clydesdale committee.
The need is always there as families and little dear ones get to really enjoy a Christmas due to the year-long efforts of the Clydesdale Christmas Store committee and volunteers. They spend all year fund-raising and taking donations, then two months shopping weekly before Christmas.
If accepted, the child makes a list of what he or she wants for Christmas and Santa's elves go to work to try to find the exact item right down to the color requested.
Trikes and bikes are favorite requests of the kids.
While they wait for their turn to sit on Santa's knee and see their toys pulled out of Santa's big bag, families gather in the front of the Christmas Store to enjoy cookies and drinks. The wait can be long, but it's well worth it.
The Clydesdale Christmas Store is a unique ministry, according to Rev. Milton Whatley, pastor of First United Methodist Church in Holly Springs.
"I've been in the ministry 30 years and this is the most creative and unique way to bless kids," he said. "I think it's fabulous. And the kids you give to, you are creating givers in the future."
"We have close to 300 children this year," said Ronnie Luther, who with his wife Brenda 16 years ago began the benefit to bring a smile to a face. "All the shopping, the festivals and the fund-raisers - that's what it's all about."
"We pray for a smile, because we know we have been given to," said Whatley. "We pray for a little hope. We are blessed, blessed people."
Before the festivities began and following Whatley's prayer, Sgt. James Hamblin, with the Holly Springs National Guard Unit, presented the Clydesdale Store with an American flag that flew for a day over the Q-West Air Base near Mosul in northern Iraq. The facility is used by the Allied Forces including the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines.
Doxey remarked at how fortunate the Clydesdale Store is to have received the flag, considering that only 365 are flown a year over the base and they are distributed over the entire nation. He said requests for a U.S. flag flown over the capitol building in Jackson has to be made years in advance because the number available compared to the number requested is so small.
"We are very honored to receive this flag," he said.
Doxey joined the Clydesdale Christmas Store the second year by gathering up good toys their children no longer needed and donating them to the store to be distributed by Brenda and Ronnie Luther. From there the Clydesdale Store has grown yearly and has been joined by Harmontown, which served about 200 kids this Christmas.
In her 16th year with the Clydesdale committee as a volunteer, Lynn Hogan loves to be one of Santa's volunteer elves.
"Oh, my goodness," she said. "This makes my Christmas. This is a blessing. I am an original elf."
Liz Hamblin agreed.
"Oh, gosh, it's just great enjoyment to be able to help out and give back to the community," she said.
Doxey showed off one of his own Christmas gifts from his wife, Jean, a Christmas album by Britain's Susan Boyle.
"This is our 15th year and it was started by Brenda and Ronnie Luther on their own," he said. "Jeanie and I had some leftover toys and it evolved into this. We've raised a little over $1 million since we've begun doing this. It's no effort. Every bit of it is worth it."
Doxey thanked the Holly Springs National Guard Armory for providing the space for the annual event.
"They turn this over to us for two weeks," he said. "There is no way we could set this up in a day."
Deputy Tamara Jeffries with the Marshall County Sheriff's Department worked security this year. It was her first encounter with the Christmas Store.
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Oh, but, 'Mizudori-kun'?- Nekomonogatari White "Tsubasa Tiger" Chapter 59
"Karen-chan's boyfriend."
When I asked, Tsukihi-chan told me this with no attempts at secrecy.
"Mine is Rousokuzawa-kun, by the way."
"…Huh? Wait, do both of you have boyfriends?"
This truly was the first time I had heard of this.
It was quite a shock.
"I've never heard about this from Araragi-kun."
"Ah, Nii-chan just treats them like they don't exist."
Said Karen-chan.
I see. That was straightforward and easy to understand.
In fact, it was too easy to understand.
It was just so like Araragi-kun to do something like that — after all, one way or another, he always doted on his two little sisters.
This could be felt from the general tone of his remarks, and was exactly why he became so unimaginably enraged when Kaiki-san had deceived Karen-chan.
Goodness, he truly was a big brother, wasn't he?
"What are they like, by the way?"
Said I.
Although digging further on this end would be unlikely to produce anything related to my current problem, as I was merely curious about the boyfriends of the Fire Sisters, I asked them.
However, finding out their answers,
"Like Nii-chan."
"Someone like Onii-chan."
made me regret it.
These siblings, were they really…?
But, well, if that was the case, perhaps it could not be helped that Araragi-kun would treat them "like they don't exist" — otherwise, he would unmistakably be tormented by hatred for his own kind.
Just as it was for certain that Araragi-kun was negative towards the acts of the Fire Sisters due to his unmistakable hatred for his own kind or rather, I daresay, for himself.
He fought, even as he hesitated, even as he regretted.
Character: Araragi Karen
Anime/Novel: Nisemonogatari
CN: Rinto Tocchi
Updating this old post with translations for the short on-screen comic:
Karen & Tsukihi: We're the Fire Sisters!
Karen: Ah! Down the street, it's that swindler we've been hearing about!
Kaiki: Hehehe. What a beautiful day to cheat people!
Karen: Want some more?!
Kaiki: I've turned over a new leaf.
Kaiki: Let me make amends.
(Book is labeled "Swindle Diary")
Kaiki: Do you know her?
Karen: Who's this untouched, honest, bright-looking girl?
Karen: Know her?
Koyomi: Let me try asking Gahara-san.
Karen: So it was Senjougahara Hitagi-sama…
It's me, Kaiki. "Kai" as in "shell midden" (kaizuka) and "ki" as in "dead tree" (kareki). Kaiki Deishu.
When I went to buy a new cell phone, all they had were smartphones. Times sure have changed!
But contrary to the name "smartphone," they're pretty fat, aren't they? They're about twice as thick as regular cell phones, to the point of being bulky.
They're a pain to put in your pocket, and on the other hand, the screen's so big that it seems like it'd break easily. Don't just assume everybody will put on a screen protector!
Good grief, I won't go as far as to call them "fatphones," but they're more like "flatphones," don't you think?
Well, in any case, the one thing I don't want to be is the type of person who's depended on devices so much and then dismisses them as having gone the way of the dodo or being junk.
Next episode, Tsukihi Phoenix, Part One.
That's the lesson that I should take away from this incident.
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Aoki Ume with a Nisemonogatari fan book? Need to get my hands on a copy.
"You can laugh after stealing the first kiss of your only 2 sisters? Are you even human!? You have less integrity than a hamster! This couldn't be by accident!? You were aiming for it from the start!? You must have done it while she was sleeping in Karen's case too, right!?"
"No, you're mistaken. In your case, it was when you were sleeping, but in Karen's case, it was when she was sick."
"You're the worst! Everyone, here is the worst human in the world! Here's a criminal who sexually abuses his family!"
- Nisemonogatari Volume 2 "Tsukihi Phoenix" Chapter 11
To be honest, Hanekawa told me this once.
During the events of Golden Week.
"Araragi-kun. You might be able to be a star, but you're unable to be a hero."
It was difficult to hear.
But her words were true.
Hanekawa's words were always true.
I'm not an ally of justice.
I'm not an ally of humanity or ally of monsters either.
I'm their ally.
I'm just a regular older brother.
- from Nisemonogatari Volume 2 "Tsukihi Phoenix" Chapter 11
I said, turning around. Karen was about to sit down where I had been sitting until now.
"Yes? What is it, Nii-chan?"
She said, looking back at me.
"Could you die for me?"
"Yes, I could die for you. So what do you want?"
… Her answer was as expected, but she still looked so cool… You're definitely a carbon copy of Kanbaru. Really, if she weren't my little sister, I think I might have fallen for her. If only she weren't my little sister…
"Then, could you die for Tsukihi?"
"…yes, obviously."
- Nisemonogatari Volume 2 "Tsukihi Phoenix" Chapter 11 (emphasis mine)
"So, to put it more generally, the enemy of justice is another brand of justice."
"War is when that reaches its logical limit. Even the Fire Sisters' justice must be the enemy of justice for someone else. As long as you stand for something, somehow, you can be twisted to be the enemy of justice.
- Araragi Koyomi speaking to Araragi Karen in Nisemonogatari Volume 2 "Tsukihi Phoenix" Chapter 11
"Oh really? Well, I value Kanbaru-sensei much more than our front gate. Besides basketball, we also played tag inside a jungle gym togethe- wait, I take that back, our destroyed front gate is much more important!"
Karen plays the straight man a little late.
Wait, it's fine that you finally realized it, but the thought of you and Kanbaru playing tag in a jungle gym gets my imagination running… I want to hear the details.
- Araragi Karen and Araragi Koyomi from Nisemonogatari Volume 2 "Tsukihi Phoenix" Chapter 11
"I'm home~ wow, today was so fun! This was the most memorable day of my up and down but happy life. This kind of surprise doesn't come twice! After today, there will be nothing that can surprise me! … wait, whoa-what!!? Our front gate is missing!? What the heck is this!?"
About 5 o'clock in the evening.
Karen came home earlier than I had expected, and her response to the destruction in front of our home was better than I had expected.
- Nisemonogatari Volume 2 "Tsukihi Phoenix" Chapter 11
Karen's sideways ponytail tends to make for good mirroring. Which means it works for Shinobu as well.
Oh, poor Tsukihi. Love her image of what Karen will look like… in less than a year.
(Source: terriable)
"I know this from experience, but when you get strangled, it can start feeling good - you try it too, Nii-chan!"
"There's someone who tried to strangle you!? I completely forgive that guy!"
"But you're my big brother!"
- Araragi Karen and Araragi Koyomi from Nisemonogatari Volume 1 "Karen Bee" Chapter 20
"Hehehehe, do you understand, Nii-chan? After you say, "rocks," you put your hand out with "paper," then the opponent who was waiting for you to say "scissors" is forced to play late, which means I win by default! Alright, you owe me a piggyback ride, Nii-chan!"
I punched my little sister in the face.
I punched her with my fist.
This wasn't a playful punch, this was by the fist of a demon.
A demon's punch is a good one.
Since I hit when my little sister, who normally has excellent defense, when she was too busy feeling good about herself, I landed a perfect hit.
I guess it's true what they say, people have the most openings right when they're most sure of their victory.
- Nisemonogatari Volume 2 "Tsukihi Phoenix" Chapter 3
"You trained too much, you 1/12 scale model of Sister Princess!"
"That would make me just a regular little sister!"
"Are you an electric fan? I bet I wouldn't sound like an alien if I talked in front of you, you 1/6 scale model of Futakoi!"
"Tsukihi and I aren't twins!"
"Originally, you were supposed to be!"
It's true.
If you read carefully, you can find bits of evidence that they were originally supposed to be twins.
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You know, you really fail at debating.
I think Cena is better than Angle. It's an opinion that's in the minority but I've backed it up. You on the other hand are just posted horseshit like 'LOL YOU NO NOTHIN BOUT RASSLIN IF YOU THINK DAT!!! ANGELS DAH BEST RASSLER ON DAH PLANET!!!'. If you honestly think Angle is better than Cena AND you could back it up and tell us WHY those matches of Angle's are so much better than Cena, I could maybe, JUST MAYBE, respect your opinion.
How in the world have you backed up your opinions? 95% of Cena's matches are garbage, just like his feuds. Truth, Miz, del Rio, Sheamus, Kane, Big Show- all garbage feuds filled with unmemorable formulaic garbage matches. Have you ever seen Angle do that? Have you ever seen Angle go through 5 shit feuds in a row filled with inane 2.5* shit matches? No, you haven't? That's right you haven't.
Every time Kurt stepped inside the ring at RAW chances were almost certain that you're gonna be entertained as hell by his character, his promos, his antics and witness the match of the evening. Every time Cena steps inside the ring at RAW (or on PPV for that matter) you can only hope that you wont rake your damn eyes out. Bland, boring, void of any innovation, creativiy or subversiveness, just the same old formulaic lackadaisical, "just another day in the office" lackluster performance.
And it doesn't matter whether it's the "embrace the hate" feud with Kane, Lil' Jimmy fued with Truth or the one with Johhny Ace backed Big Show, it's always just "bussiness as usual", same antics, same match formula, same behaviour inside the ring, always exactly the same garbage match with little to no deviations from the basic recipe.
And coserning criticism of Kurt's psychology; yeah, Kurt may sometimes get carried away with his spots and stuff but almost always delivered, and mostly delivered the kind of matches that are unforgetable and have became legendary. Cena rarely delivers anything, and most of the times it's below nothing. Maybe 1 memorable match every 10 PPVS and one good match every 20 RAW performances. You've never seen Angle do that, you never saw Kurt struck out 9/10 of his stuff as garbage filler performances.
Honestly, Punk has had more great matches in the last year then Cena had in his whole career. Someone like Kurt is beyond comparison and to even try that is laughable and borderline troling.
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Yoshio_Hyuga said:
"WAL at the Vine just got 100000 posts ;D"Now to do the same here
"WAL at the Vine just got 100000 posts ;D"Now to do the same here
"Gaara said:hahahahahahahahahaha"Oh the easy way out xD Take it like a woman :P"Nope i Take it Like a Smart Woman, the most lethal combo ever xP"
"cool, but i prefer extra strength Tylenol pm, 200mg of that and your out!"Oh the easy way out xD Take it like a woman :P
"Gaara said:LOL I actually drink juice, some reason the sick passes by much easier.I guess, being sick just sucks though."I'm just a tiny bit , but truely being sick does suck which is why i just take a sleeping pill and sleep it off :)"
"Gaara said:I guess, being sick just sucks though.I hate all that stuff lol"Oh, well to each his own."
"Gaara said:I hate all that stuff lolOh well get well soon :)"Hmmm Idk, when your sick you get to be lazy, people take care of you, they are extra nice.. it comes with perks xP, and thank you I'll try :)"
"Gaara said:Oh well get well soon :)"Hm! How are you?"hm!<---??? lol
I'm a little sick today but other than that pretty good, thank you for asking"
Gaara said:Hm! How are you?
@Toxin: Shrugs. Not much"
"lol...and Credo? You're not gonna use him? O= He's on WALV after all xP"Not for RPG's, using Credo to chat, do random stuff and submit. I think i'll have Lee join WAL.
"D: Oh noes.."I didn't write the rules man, i just use them.
"Gaara said:LOL Yes but i intend to use Gaara and Might Lee in actual RPG's. Its why im doing bio's for them."Might_Lee said:Your account frenzy is hard to keep up with xPxP"Alright peace"
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Ello WAL"
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"Really o.0"Yes, Quickly crushes him with sand. It was short but sweet :p
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This is my new favorite meme good Lord. I was kind of bumming about my NLD but this cheered me up. I'll make sure to submit a few memes. :P Also do you know any other blogs about NLD?
Thank you so much, dearie! And hey, that's what we're here for!
You're going to submit some memes you say?
As for NLD blogs, there's thisnldlife which is pretty excellent and there's always interesting info, commentary and personal anecdotes from folks with NLD in the tags. Most autism-related blogs will also usually have at least some pertinent information and resources. I'd recommend goldenheartedrose and Speaking For Ourselves. The nldnudibranch askbox is also always open and willing to help a Nudibranch in need.


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Bill and I are excited for the third annual Tennessee's Home for the Holidays open house event at the Tennessee Residence held during the first two weeks in December. We feel very blessed to live in our state's beautiful executive residence, but the Residence is also Tennessee's home. Tennessee's Home for the Holidays is a wonderful opportunity to welcome guests from all across the state during this very special season.
Visit http://www.tn.gov/firstlady/residence/holidays.shtml to make a free reservation for the open house.
Thank you for helping us bring holiday cheer to Tennessee's Home!
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Bill and I really enjoyed talking with HGTV about the importance and planned use of the kitchen and cutting garden at the Tennessee Residence. Take a look at this short video from the filming!
Bill and I could not have been more excited to have HGTV at the Residence today to film the ground breaking of the kitchen and cutting garden! We love eating fresh foods, and we look forward to enjoying the fruits, vegetables and herbs from the garden with visitors from all over the state and country.


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Love Never Went To College Lyrics - Ray Charles
A pretty girl and a bright young man
Try to be friends but never can.
That is what perplexes
Young folks of opposite sexes.
Love likes to pull their legs a bit.
So you're either in love or out of it
Love doesn't make much sense
But his technique is immense.
Love never went to college
Ignorant boy, that.
But think of the joy that he starts.
His work requires no knowledge
So he can do it
By using intuitive arts.
He just says, "You two kids
Start falling in love
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Let's see some DayZ video! A quiet start for us with a video blog, we're only detailing a few areas of progress in this weeks update. We show a peek at the new UI, some detail on the new clothing functions available in the engine, and take a tour round a few of the many new areas inside the updated Chernarus map.
We've edited out our use of the Inventory system, which we're keeping under wraps for the moment (covered out with hilarious images photoshopped by forum members on the official DayZ forums at dayzmod.com!)
So where are we at?
Development is continuing to progress in extremely positive ways for us. The architectural decisions we have taken are providing continued dividends with the development of our disease mechanics, and in the ability to create notes in the world.
Inventory is fully synchronizing with the central database, including inventory inside clothing items. Essentially your clothing is like many little backpacks.
We're getting plenty of bugs coming in from our closed internal testing, and we haven't moved to our closed external testing just yet. There is still no timeframe for when this will happen, but we're committed to continuing with these development updates and blog posts.
What is next?
We're working very hard on the inventory system even more, and it looks like the crafting system is close in next in our development. It would be fair to say that inventory and crafting are the key development objective currently, second only to the client/server architecture (makes DayZ more like an MMO), and new zombie AI mechanics (an ongoing task).
We look forward to giving even more information, new exciting areas, features, functions, and updates in the coming blogs! We're all confident it won't be too long before you'll be able to join in the development yourself.
This is the first update when I have sat down and thought "where do I start?" There has been so much going on with the development this month that it is hard to fit it all in a post here. Through the month we have steadily moved from working on our architectural changes, through to preparing for our first public test. The risks and gambles we took last year, are now beginning to pay serious dividends for us.
I'll be covering the following in this update:
- Lighting and material improvements
- Volumetric Cloud system
- New Server Architecture
- Clothing/Inventory status
- Closed Test Status
- Art/World updates
- Customizing your character
- Customizing your weapon
Lighting and material improvements
One of our Lead Artists, Mario Kurty, has been working with some of the ArmA3 artists to ensure that DayZ Standalone has the best visuals possible. The result is pretty striking when combined with some of the other improvements we have made in the engine. These improvements make the world really come to life, improving the visuals overall. A comparison screenshot is included and demonstrates the effect of this.
Volumetric Cloud system
This has now been fully configured for use within DayZ, used to great effect in Bohemia's previous product Take on Helicopters (and coming in ArmA3 also). There are several pictures of this included in the screenshots for this blog update. Running around the world taking pictures, it was hard to resist really. It adds a real sense of realism when compared with the previous result.
New Server Architecture
Our lead programmer, Ondřej Španěl, continues his work on redeveloping our server architecture. Contrary to some who say DayZ will be releasing with no anti-hack mechanisms, one of the key things we are doing with development is entirely redeveloping how the engine works. I can't stress enough just how fundamental this change is. DayZ's game servers will function like servers in other MMO style games, that is the server will control the behavior and the sending of updates. No longer will your machine receive all the updates allowing their analysis by various cheats.
We are exploring spawning all zombies and loot at the start of server initialization, again a huge departure from the previous mechanism. This solves many design and technical issues with the spawning and respawning of equipment, such as being able to metagame by telling whether players are in a village by seeing zombie's have spawned.
Clothing/Inventory status
This has now been completed to a basic level, you can put on and drop various items of clothing. These items can have diseases on them, and they have durability and other attributes. We need to make some models that represent the clothes when they are on the ground (currently they look as they are when on the ground!) Once this is done, we will be releasing some video outlining what it looks like to change your clothes.
Closed Test Status
We have begun our internal closed testing (yes!) and have been working with closed with Valve to ensure our new server browser system is working (we utilize Steam for this purpose rather than Gamespy as for ArmA2). The Server/Client architecture needs to be fully implemented before we will begin our public testing.
We have not initiated our closed test that includes external people yet (such as streamers).
Art/World updates
A huge quantity of changes are flowing into the world. New areas, a mass of new objects (such as wrecked vehicles, buses, etc…) that are all designed with DayZ in mind - such as having good areas for loot to spawn. It is really impossible to list all the changes here, from bug fixing to redesigning of buildings such as the general store, and onto entirely new buildings and areas. One of our texture artists has been going through existing work and making them look more damaged and used.
Customizing your Character
The design has now really ramped up. This is really the entire focus of our efforts for the next few months, prior to starting on vehicle customization and finally on base building at the end of the year. The obvious starting point for us is to allow players to select the gender and race of their character. Beyond this, allowing ways for your character to become your own are key for us; from getting tattoo's to finding unique clothing items, trying to deal with your own health aliments, etc…
This is an area of very active development, we're exploring all sorts of ways to make your character change in the world as you play. When you first create your character, the options will be simple. As you go along in the world, your character will change as a result of their interactions with the environment and the decisions you make, through items such as clothing choices.
Social aspects are extremely important to us, and we've taken a number of idea's and participated in the discussions on reddit and the forums about what we can do in this area. Expect more on these area's in the next tumblr update. We want to support the organic development and operation of groups within the game, through the development of their own symbology in game (tattoo's, markings on the world, on weapons, etc…). We feel that these redeveloped social experiences told through the game will be a compelling part of the standalone.
Customizing your weapon
Weapon attachments are a great bi-product of our entire redesign of every aspect of the inventory system. Nothing is available to show on this yet, currently the only attachment we have fully configured in the game is the magazine. You must load the magazine with ammunition and then it is considered an attachment to the weapon. The quantity and condition of your magazines will be particularly important in the standalone. Look after them!
When is it releasing?
We don't know. We're going to take our time. I feel fantastic about the situation, more than ever I feel like we're doing something really interesting with this development. Now is not the time to rush things, but we do need to ensure our pace is kept up. Our development blog and getting players in and testing as soon as possible will be key in ensuring we succeed in making this a great game.
Concluding words
At no point in development, have I been as excited as I am right now. The risks we took with the direction have paid off. The engine and approach of the game is now entirely DayZ's own, it is striking out into it's own territory as a project. This is very exciting for all the team.
I do need to caution though, it is a bad idea to overhype the project. We know that there are many challenges that we will face from deciding to effectively write a new engine tailored to DayZ. But we are now entirely confident, that this decision will prove to have been the best decision we could make. Now we will be able to make the game that we've all always wanted.
Where is the Standalone Release?
I suppose I should start with the question everyone wants to know… where is DayZ Standalone? Obviously, it's not here. At Eurogamer I said that DayZ had to be out before the end of the year and that's come and gone. I still stand by that comment, to achieve what we had originally wanted, we did have to be out by the end of the year - and we've failed to achieve that.
Put simply, DayZ Standalone isn't here because we had the chance to go from making a game that was just the mod improved slightly, packaged simply, and sold - to actually redeveloping the engine and making the game the way we all dreamed it could be. This blew any initial plans we had dictated to pieces.
The plan going forward
The plan from here is straightforward. We will be releasing a closed test imminently, during which approximately 500-1000 people will assist in ensuring our architecture is correctly functioning. This closed test will be focused purely on architecture, not the game design. Once we have confirmed fixes for issues arising from the closed test, we will then reschedule an internal date for our public release.
What has been done?
One of the most profound and major architectural changes has had its initial implementation completed, this is the overhaul of the inventory system. In fact, the inventory and item management system was completely removed and rewritten from the ground by Jirka, one of the original engine programmers. The work that has been completed on this groundbreaking, and it going to fundamentally change the DayZ experience.
You scavenge for items now, as individual parts, picking up pieces rather than piles, looking for cans on shelves or under beds. The new system opens the door for durability of items, disease tracking (cholera lingering on clothes a player wears…), batteries, addon components, and much more. If you shoot a player in the head to take his night vision, you will damage the night vision. The changes to this inventory system are huge.
An additional area of change has been to make the inventory system more intuitive along with a key focus on providing visceral feedback on your progress through what inventory you have. The use of drag-and-drop, 3D models rather than 2D pictures, and being able to add items/clothing to your character in 3D in the inventory screen - have all come out of months of design work and research. I'm extremely pleased with the results of Jirka and Hladas, two of the programmers who have been working on implementing the design ideas. I believe the changes to this inventory system will fundamentally change the nature of the DayZ experience.
We are not at the point where we can release meaningful videos or screenshots of the system, but we have now confirmed the base architecture is working in game. Likely, the first that will come out about the inventory system will be during the closed test when people are actually using it.
UI Changes
ArmA community legend kju has been part of the DayZ development for some time, and is now one of your key development members. He has been working with our CEO (Marek) and me to develop the DayZ UI. We have been greatly inspired by Minecraft to make the UI simple and effective, rather than flashy and complex. All our art and code efforts are going into the game, the UI is being designed to be straightforward and functional just like in Minecraft.
Art Progress
A huge amount of work is being completed on art. I'm including some more additional pictures taken from around Chernarus. We have some massive plans now that all interiors have been completed, as rather than moving them on to other projects we are now giving them exciting new things to create.
One of the new artists on the team is a texture artist, and has been working on revising the textures for our new building interiors so they look more post-apocalyptic. Some of these changes can be seen in the work-in-progress pictures I have included.
Map Progress
The lead architect of the revised (and original) Chernarus map, Ivan Buchta, is still imprisoned in Greece on charges of espionage - and is a great loss to the team. Luckily, through letters, Ivan is able to provide some input and insight into the development of the map. Regardless, the continued imprisonment of him and Martin Pezlar has a significant impact on our ability to redevelop Chernarus.
Catherine Nelson (b.1970, Australia) - Future memories (2010)
Catherine Nelson is a visual artist who uses the digital medium to paint images together into personal and imaginary landscapes. Trained as a painter in Sydney and London and with years of experience in the creation of visual effects for feature films like Moulin Rouge and Harry Potter, she now has dedicated her skills to her own art work combining the techniques from both these worlds into a new contemporary art medium.
[more Catherine Nelson | artist found at leslieseuffert]


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Environment & Health
Actually, the news media in China is not at all unlike the news media here. Case in point, leave out the part of the factual statement that you either don't want to hear or can't understand and report the remainder in a sensational manner. Can it be that liberals run rampant in China, too? If so, there's real hope that China's future is sealed in doom.
So there is no tie between american military and its nuclear industry.
So you have to be conservative to report the truth? Surely you're drunk.
From 50 some years jump to 3000 years, sensational, eh? The Art of news reporting, the Chinese are catching up with WSJ.
BTW, where is the Korean war that we have been promised?!
"goverment companies"u mean a research facilities u better go back to school and take eng 101!!
The industry organisation "World Nuclear Association" writes on reprocessing in China at:
"In November 2007, Areva and CNNC signed an agreement to assess the feasibility of setting up a reprocessing plant for used fuel and a mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication plant in China, representing an investment of €15 billion. The 800 t/yr reprocessing plant will apparently be at Jiayuguan in Gansu province, employing advanced French technology and operated by Areva. Design, construction and commissioning was expected to take ten years from 2010. In November 2010, an industrial agreement on this was signed, which Areva said was "the final step towards a commercial contract" for the project."
This sounds like it's only business. The french sold their technology to the Chinese over the last few years. And in this process recently some agreement was signed. That's all. Then someone at China Central Television maybe missunderstood a related pressrelease by CNNC. And then the guy from China Daily did no factchecking after he watched the monday evening news and copied their headlines for the tuesday morning paper. Etc. Journalism as we all know it, isn't it?
it's not true
Are the Chinese using the sodium as cooler and accelerator for the neutrons?
France had built a nuclear power plant "Superphénix" which used 5 tons of plutonium in his heart, and the 5000 tons of sodium liquid (at 540°C) instead of the water as cooler.
Superphénix was stopped for safety reasons. There were so many small and big problems, and the process to stop and to restart the plant is very long. The sodium explodes if it is in contact of the water and burns in contact of the air. No leak is permitted.
Japan built also a sodium nuclear power plant, but they had a sodium fire, and they stopped.
It is not a breakthrough.
You are not kidding? Uranium is traded at $63.50 perpound? Gold is now traded $1,400 per Ounce!!
Some more detailed research would be nice. Rokkasho does not have a reactor. The US Nuclear Industry may or may not consider 'virgin' fuel to be the most cost effective – there was a move in the industry to reproccess many years ago until Carter stopped it. In fact, a new MOX plant is currently under construction in the US for disposal of excess weapons material – the planned usage of the MOX is not sodium cooled fast breeder reactors though.
The Japanese sodium cooled reactor did have a problem many years ago and is now going through a restart process.
This is one of the times where what China did in the past to enforce its rules and regulations creates problems for itself. I believe that China really does want to follow in France's footsteps in the reuse of uranium, especially because China doesn't haves its own deposit. Also I believe that China doesn't want to increase its import, and if it does only if the same amount of export is counteracted. Also the technology to do this will give China a even greater control over the market because with this new technology China will no longer be depended on foreign uranium. This will allow China to change the market price for uranium by the amount they chose to buy, if they buy anymore at all. The only problem I see is part where they are looking for help in expanding and making the renewal process commercial. I agree with the author when he said that people will be afraid to work with China if they might be arrested. Its the part of their system that China needs to fix because sooner or later their going to need help in one field of study or another and no one will come to help because they fear the consequences.
Factual Error: The first Chinese nuclear tests, including the first Fission and thermonuclear weapons, all used U235, not plutonium, as the Yumen Breeder reactor did not go on line until 1967. So much for experts.
A four-day meeting of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee scheduled to begin in Beijing on Monday has as its central theme "governing the country according to law." There are certain steps the party-state can take with regard to law that can help it improve its legitimacy without giving up ultimate control.
A recent exhumation of these ideological corpses from the Communist Party's past should serve to dampen any lingering expectations for political liberalization in the short-term for China.
The upcoming Fourth Plenum provides a time to take stock of Xi's further prospects for changing how the Communist party operates. The more any announced legal reforms limit party power, the more the meeting is likely to look like a setback for Xi.
The campaigns against pollution and corruption should be clearly linked whenever possible to the current emphasis on raising the influence of the judicial system.
In the absence of a forward-thinking vision, China's president has instead often gazed backwards, into the periods of Chinese history the party once shunned. And that's problematic.
China Real Time Report is a vital resource for an expanding global community trying to keep up with a country changing minute by minute. The site offers quick insight and sharp analysis from the wide network of Dow Jones reporters across Greater China, including Dow Jones Newswires' specialists and The Wall Street Journal's award-winning team. It also draws on the insights of commentators close to the hot topic of the day in law, policy, economics and culture. Its editors can be reached at email@example.com.


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Will Smith just slapped a Ukrainian reporter across the face at the Moscow premiere of "Men in Black 3" -- and it was all caught on tape.
The Ukrainian reporter tries to kiss Will on the lips on the red carpet and the actor angrily pushes him away and then backhands him across the face.
You can clearly see that Will is incredibly pissed that the guy showed overt affection toward him.
After Will slaps the guy, Will says, "He's lucky I didn't sucker punch him."
We're told the dude who kissed Will is a television reporter who often kisses celebrities -- it's his schtick.
For the record, Will just came out in support of gay marriage.
A source on scene tells TMZ, the reporter's mouth brushed up against Will's and that's why the actor reacted so violently. Despite the incident, Will stayed positive ... and happily continued to sign autographs for fans and do red carpet interviews.
WHY was he Kissing him in the First Place ?
ok he did not overact someone kissed him a man hell to the ****ing not bitch..
Good for him, I would have done the same thing if not worse. Why is everyone booing, Good for Will
GO Will...LET THEM KEEP THEIR GAY **** TO THEMSELVES
Yeah. Will support gay marriage. Does not mean that he is gay lol. stupid ppl.
btw the guy looks like the ukraine shaved borat xD
It doesn't matter if it is a man or a woman. It is about personal space!!!!!
"For the record, Will just came out in support of gay marriage."
This is totally and completely irrelevant. It doesn't matter if a man OR woman had done this, it's still inappropriate and rude.
"For the record, Will just came out in support of gay marriage."
What the hell does that have to do with anything? What, because he supports gay marriage some people going to expect him to allow homosexual activity to be bestowed upon him?
Not to mention the fact that it's just plain invasion of personal space... from a complete stranger at that.
i thought he is on the same team the president is batting for. you hollywood celebrities are pro same sex relationships. will should have kissed him back with a manlier slap will smith or not i would have cleaned his clock right their. red carpet or not.
Will is a major A- - HOLE. I've seen him slap a photographer. I can't stand his ego.
was it a film promotion or a TV promotion, gotta kick that reporter sending wrong signals
The old fashion Russian greeting doesn't include a kiss on the lips. This was a gay display meant to be outrageous by crossing limits of social behavior. Part of the gay appeal of doing this is that it challenges straight males and they have reactions that make a good show. And that's what they got.
Imagine (?) what would happen to someone if they tried to kiss Putin.
would have been hilarious if the guy was actually able to stick his tongue all way down his throat and grabbed some ass.Will still wouldnt have sucker punched him.
To the people saying it's a culture thing, they kiss once on each cheek. Not once on the cheek, then closer to his lips, then almost on his lips. I don't blame Will at all, you never know if someone can have a cold sore or whatnot. And I'm not a homophobe, but I'd be upset about some random man kissing me... Way to go Will!


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The Metabolic Effects of Protease Inhibitors in HIV Infected Children
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The use of protease inhibitors is increasing in HIV-infected children because this treatment has resulted in improved body weight, improved immune status and less hospitalizations. However, recent reports suggest that these drugs may also be associated with some negative side-effects, specifically a syndrome of diabetes and fat redistribution. Development of the fat redistribution/diabetes syndrome has recently been reported in HIV-infected children, as well as in adults. Diabetes is associated with complications such as increased heart disease, eye disease and loss of kidney function. Thus development of diabetes is a significant problem which could outweigh the benefits obtained by treating patients with protease inhibitors. One major cause of diabetes is lack of normal response to insulin (insulin resistance). Insulin resistance tends to be worse in family members where one or more parent has diabetes, and is also worse in certain ethnic groups. The first major purpose of our study is measure insulin resistance in HIV-infected children who do not take protease inhibitors, and compare our findings to those from patients who are treated with protease inhibitors. We will also follow patients newly treated with protease inhibitors for two years to evaluate changes in insulin sensitivity. These results will be correlated with each patient's family history of diabetes and with ethnicity, and should help us better predict which children are "at risk" for development of diabetes from protease inhibitor therapy. Children with HIV infection often have problems with gaining enough weight and with poor linear growth (height). One likely reason for this is the way their bodies use and store protein. The second purpose of our study is measure protein turnover and to correlate our findings with growth data. We also plan to study the effects of protease inhibitor therapy on protein turnover. We believe that these studies will provide knowledge to help clinicians formulate recommendations for nutritional and medical therapy.
HIV Infections
Drug: Antiretroviral therapy
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|Study Design:
|Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|7 Years to 18 Years
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Inclusion criteria for HIV infected children- a) The participants may be either antiretroviral treatment naive, or experienced. Those individuals who are experienced will be treated with at least one new drug in addition to the protease inhibitor. The selection of the new antiretroviral regimen will be directed by a review of the patient's previous drug treatment history and/or the genetic or phenotypic characteristics of the patient's virus; b) We will recruit subjects from all CDC categories. Disease severity will subsequently be analyzed as a covariate; c) There will be no height, weight or other anthropometric inclusion criterion (these factors will be analyzed as covariates); d) All subjects will be studied when they have not had an acute superinfection for at least four weeks.
- Inclusion criteria for controls- Control volunteers will be normal healthy children who are matched to the HIV infected population for age, weight and race. Normal health and non-HIV infected status will be determined by history and by medical record review. Ethical considerations preclude HIV testing in normal children. Separate informed consent and assent forms will be utilized for the control and HIV population.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Exclusion criteria for HIV infected children- Use of Megace@ or another progestational agent, use of anabolic steroids, acute superinfection
- Exclusion criteria for controls- Previous medical history of any chronic disease or glucocorticoid use in the last six weeks. Adopted children who have no knowledge of family history.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00004739
|United States, Texas
|University of Texas Medical School, Dept. of Pediatrics
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|United States, Utah
|University of Utah
|Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84132
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|February 29, 2000
|Last Updated:
|June 23, 2005
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|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by National Center for Research Resources (NCRR):
Pediatric HIV infection
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Infections
Immune System Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Slow Virus Diseases
Virus Diseases
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boot manager is missing ?
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To start with i just purchased a new laptop today that had Windows 7 home premium on it and decided to put window 7 ultimate, so i formatted the drive in which it was on and proceeded to install the OS, but when it went to install it would stall at 0% on the " Windows is copying files " part, so now i have no OS on my laptop. I have a recovery drive which i think would recover it , ( Duh) so does anyone know how to fix my problem or at least tell me how to use the recovery drive ? thank you for your time : ]
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You can attempt to run Recovery by tapping the key given on the first boot screen, or read how in your Manual on the Support Downloads webpage for your computer model. You may wish to run Recovery so you can make Recovery Disks from it which put you back to factory condition while also allowing you to wipe the HD to get the cleanest possible install.
Or you can save externally a Windows 7 backup image of your factory install so you have another method to reimage the HD to get back to HP.
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2) Use Anytime Upgrade which unlocks the greater version by inserting Key. You can use your Ultimate key for this, according to many reports here.
3) We can show you a workaround to in-place Upgrade HP to Ultimate.
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