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Israel's "Iron Dome" defense system has emerged as a game-changer in the current round of violence with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, shooting down dozens of incoming rockets and being credited with preventing civilian deaths.
By shooting down more than 90 percent of its targets, the system is ensuring Israel's decisive technological edge, an edge that has helped it operate virtually unhindered in Gaza.
It is also providing a much-needed sense of security on the home front.
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Gaza militants have fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, some more than 60 miles into the country. But beyond some jitters and discomfort, they haven't hurt Israelis much, causing no deaths and little damage.
"The Iron Dome system and its impressive success thus far have had a strategic impact on managing the campaign. It gives us wide options," said Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon. "Having said that, we cannot become complacent."
Israel has deployed seven batteries across the country that, coupled with a high-tech warning system, have given it a strong defense.
Iron Dome quickly recognizes the trajectory of incoming rockets and whether they are headed for major population centers. Those are shot down, while others are allowed to fall in empty fields to spare the hefty cost of firing the sophisticated interceptors.
Local reports say each launching costs about $20,000.
Hamas and other Gaza militants have fired more than 500 rockets toward Israel since fighting began Tuesday. The military says it has shot down 90 percent of those, including several over Tel Aviv and central Israel.
On Thursday afternoon, the system was deployed for the first time in Jerusalem. Two puffs of smoke could be seen in the sky, apparently after intercepting two incoming rockets.
Lt. Col. Levi Itach, head of the military's early-warning branch, said several high-tech measures along with a disciplined public that has followed instructions have allowed Israel to keep its injuries from rockets to a minimum.
He said the systems had improved significantly in the two years since the last major exchange of airstrikes and rocket fire between Israel and Hamas, in which six Israelis were killed and several were injured by Gaza rocket fire in a weeklong battle.
The dome system is not foolproof. On Thursday, rockets struck a home in the southern city of Beersheba and a car in Ashdod.
Itach said no system could provide 100 percent protection. "If we keep up what we are doing, there is a good chance that we will be able to lower the ratio to one death for every 10,000 rockets fired," he said.
Yossi Kuperwasser, a retired military general and current director general of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs, said Gaza's Hamas rulers and other fighters have acquired longer, more powerful weapons in the past two years, but Israel had not been idle either.
He said improvements to Iron Dome have allowed it to hold off on a ground operation while the home front was protected.
"It gives us much more room to maneuver. … Now we have the ability to hold our breath for some time," he said. "And I'm sure that Hamas is feeling frustrated with this situation because after launching hundreds of rockets, they haven't managed to get Israeli casualties."
Newspapers have crowned the U.S.-funded system as the star of the campaign.
The front page of Yediot Ahronot carried the headline "Golden Dome," with a huge spread about the system in action. The paper's top military columnist, Alex Fishman, wrote that the Iron Dome has "changed the face of the battle."
"If not for the Iron Dome system, the entire military would have already been stuck in the Gaza Strip. It is already possible to reflect on the main lesson of Operation Protective Edge: we must not stop investing in the Iron Dome system," he wrote.
Iron Dome is the first of a planned three-part defense system that Israel hopes will be operational by the end of the year.
It has successfully tested "Magic Wand," designed to intercept projectiles with ranges between 45 miles and 180 miles and aimed primarily at countering the large arsenal of Hezbollah rockets in Lebanon and those of President Bashar Assad's government in Syria.
Together with the Arrow system for longer-range threats from Iran, the three components will complete what Israel calls its "multilayer missile defense."


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"I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better."
Norman Parkinson
Last week I visited the exhibiton of the photographs of Norman Parkinson in Gallery Vassi in Amsterdam. Gallery Vassi is a beautiful little gallery in the centre of Amsterdam. The work of Norman Parkinson has never been exhibited in The Netherlands before.
Norman Parkinson became famous for his iconic sense of style and glamour, his unexpected and unique approach, bringing a freshness, to the sometimes staid genres of fashion and portrait photography.
He worked for publications including, Vogue Magazine, Queen, Life, Town & Country and Harper's Bazaar, and these images are shown here alongside a number of previously unseen images.
I really love his photographs and I like to tell you to go to this great exhibition!
For more information: http://www.galleryvassie.com/
The exhibition is open till 25th of february.
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Jeff Neufeld tripled twice, drove in three runs and scored another himself as the Canadian Tire Cardinals evened the Andrew Agencies Senior AA Baseball League final at a game apiece on Friday with a 13-7 win over the Joe Beeverz Young Guns at Andrews Field.
Neufeld ended up 3-for-5 and stole a base for the Cardinals, while Nolan Jago was 1-for-2 with a triple, three walks and came around to score twice. Dylan Hapa earned the win after scattering five runs and five hits in six innings of work.
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The Los Angeles Film Festival is moving to downtown Los Angeles for its 2010 event taking place June 17 - 27. Confirming rumors that festival organizer, Film Independent, planned to move the annual event to downtown's L.A. LIVE adjacent the Staple's Center, the change is consistent with the group's other annual headlining event, the Independent Spirit Awards held the weekend of the Oscars, which also moved to the venue this March. Film Independent called the change, "reflective of the festival's continued growth and its efforts to embrace the cultural diversity and energy of Los Angeles."
LAFF will present its screenings and events at the new Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14, the REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater), the Downtown Independent, the Soundstage Theatre at the GRAMMY Museum, JW Marriot Hotel Los Angeles at L.A. Live, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Los Angeles, Orpheum Theatre, and California Plaza. The festival will maintain its tradition of nighttime screenings at the outdoor John Anson Ford Amphitheater in Hollywood and The Los Angeles Times will again serve as presenting partner, as it has since 2006.
LAFF had been centered in LA's Westside district of Westwood Village since 2006 where it moved from its previous location around the West Hollywood area. Over 16 years, it has grown, says organizers, from one venue with 5,700 attendees to a long list of locations, attracting over 85,000.
"The festival's move to downtown Los Angeles allows us a unique opportunity to celebrate the history and future of our city," said LAFF Director Rebecca Yeldham in a statement. "Our new location will continue to pave the way for LAFF to realize its potential as an international destination event, and unites our filmmakers and audiences with the diverse arts community that exists downtown."
Over 200 features, shorts, and music videos from more than 30 countries make up the main body of the festival. LAFF's official film selections will be announced in early May.


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'This road brought to you by…'
As the state budget inches closer to passage by the General Assembly, the Virginia Department of Transportation is hoping to raise money by selling the naming rights for roads, bridges and highway stretches.
"We look for revenue generation opportunity where we can, and we try to be creative with it," VDOT spokeswoman Tamara Rollison said.
She said it has been a struggle for VDOT to maintain Virginia's infrastructure in light of the department's financial troubles.
"Our resources and revenues have been dwindling over the years," she said, noting that a 1986 gas tax increase was the most recent serious increase in revenue. "When we can find innovative ways to partner with the private sector and generate some revenue, we try to do that."
On March 10, the final day of the regular legislative session, the General Assembly passed two identical bills authorizing the Commonwealth Transportation Board, VDOT's governing body, to sell the naming rights for such facilities as roads and ferries.
"The Board shall develop and approve guidelines governing the naming of highways, bridges, interchanges, and other transportation facilities by private entities and the applicable fees for such naming rights. Such fees shall be deposited in the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund," according to Senate Bill 639 and House Bill 1248.
The legislation, which is awaiting Gov. Bob McDonnell's signature, says roads and facilities that already commemorate someone or carry a special name cannot be renamed "unless such naming incorporates the previous name."
Moreover, "No name shall be eligible for the naming rights … if it in any way reasonably connotes anything that (i) is profane, obscene, or vulgar; (ii) is sexually explicit or graphic; (iii) is excretory related; (iv) is descriptive of intimate body parts or genitals; (v) is descriptive of illegal activities or substances; (vi) condones or encourages violence; or (vii) is socially, racially, or ethnically offensive or disparaging."
Early projections of the prices and sales of road naming rights show that the program could raise a few million dollars per year and $273 million over the next 20 years. That's a mere fraction of VDOT's annual budget, which is $4.76 billion for fiscal year 2012.
Still, every little bit helps, officials say.
That's especially true as the General Assembly holds a special session to craft a state budget for the next two years. The House and Senate have passed competing budgets, and a conference committee is trying to hammer out a compromise acceptable to both chambers.
The Senate version of the budget would delay the opening of tolls in Hampton Roads until 2014. This could cost the state an estimated $125 million. VDOT could offset some of the loss by selling the naming rights for roads.
Virginia already has developed a naming rights program for its highway rest stops, slated to begin later this year.
The central question is whether putting a name on a bridge or road will be attractive to consumers, especially to businesses seeking to expand their brand's reach.
"I think the companies will love it," said Bridget Camden, a professor of advertising at Virginia Commonwealth University. "Every time someone hits MapQuest, the name would come up."
Camden, who spent 20 years in the advertising world working with companies such as IBM, BP and American Express, said companies initially might jump at the chance to brand a highway with their logo if the price is right. But certain factors could deter businesses from buying the naming rights.
"I think it could backfire on them if they can't control the stretch of road," Camden said. For instance, roads can have problems ranging from litter to prostitution – and those things could hurt a company's image.
Camden said controlling the "brand message" and associations tied to a company is key for effective advertising.
"Every company wants their name associated with something positive, but what if that stretch of highway is accident prone?" she asked.
One possible solution is that companies not only buy the naming rights to the road or highway but also "adopt" the stretch and do some basic maintenance.
"Big corporations become very conscious about how they look, so maybe it will be incentive to keep the roads clean," Camden said.
The Pemberton at University Park to host 'Wall of Honor' ceremony June 9
The Pemberton at University Park senior community will host a dedication ceremony for its Veterans Wall of Honor June 9 at 10:30 a.m. The ceremony will honor residents who have served in the military.
Deep Run High School Cadets will provide a color guard for the event.
Community members have taken photos of residents in uniform, as well as residents with pictures of their military units from their days of service that will be on display the day of the event. > Read more.
19th Annual Asian American Celebration planned May 21
Citizen Staff Reports 05/16/2016
The Asian American Society of Central Virginia will hold its 19th Annual Asian American Celebration on Saturday, May 21 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, 403 N. 3rd St. in Richmond, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Admission is free.
The theme for this year's celebration will be "Our Heritage," in recognition of May as the Asian Pacific American Heritage month, designated by the U.S. Congress in 1992. > Read more.
The theme for this year's celebration will be "Our Heritage," in recognition of May as the Asian Pacific American Heritage month, designated by the U.S. Congress in 1992. > Read more.
Cultural Arts Center announces 2016-17 schedules
Returning favorites, new acts and new dining options highlight the 2016-17 Center Season and 2nd Stage schedules at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen.
CACGA's Center Season performance series will return Sept. 10 with Capitol Steps (pictured), an audience favorite that brings a unique blend of music and political comedy to the Sara Belle November Stage. The Acrobats of Cirque-tacular will perform Oct. 22, showcasing their troupe of aerialists, acrobats and contortionists. > Read more.
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In addition to providing a once in-a-lifetime evening for a cherished friend or loved one, your generous gift will help to ensure that Orlando Shakespeare Theater continues its role as Central Florida's premier professional theater enriching the lives of children and adults in the community.
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They've shared a man, a cheer squad and now, a bed. Sadie and Tamara wanted nothing to do with each other when "Awkward" first began, but it's becoming increasingly challenging for the two to prevent their worlds from overlapping. Time for a truce? We're pretty into the idea after watching tonight's episode, in which we saw a slight glimmer of hope for the nemeses when Sadie allowed Tamara — who was stuck in the Saxton household for the night — to sleep beside her so that T's aching back could get a reprieve from the rigid floor.
The mere suggestion of the ladies burying the hatchet may sound like madness to you, but hear us out. For the first time, Sadie is an outcast (thanks to her parents' lack of financial and mental stability) so, if she wants to get back in good standing at PHHS, who better to befriend than Tamara? She's as connected as anyone, having been a rhythmic dancer, band geek and, now, cheerleader. And, if Tamara scratches Sadie's back, Sadie can certainly return the favor by, you know, not threatening to snap her neck at cheer practice. A win win, right?
+ Whaddya think: Should Sadie and Tamara put aside their differences and find a way to be cordial, or are they meant to remain at odds?
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Also known as Husk Tomato, The Ground Cherry Tomato is an interesting and versatile native American fruit that was regarded as a delicacy by the Pilgrims. The tasty, cherry-sized fruits grow inside papery husks on short plants. The fruit is enjoyed fresh, dried, and in pies and preserves. Kept in the husk in a cool, dry place, it can be stored well into the winter.
Planting guide: Start indoors 8 weeks before time to set in open ground. Cover thinly, then pack firmly and water. When plants are about 2 inches high, transplant to 3 inches apart in flat or pot. After danger of frost, set 2 to 3 feet apart in garden, but before doing so, harden the plants by gradually exposing them to the outdoor air for about a week.
These items are useful when starting seeds indoors for transplanting:
Jiffy-7 Peat Pellets
Peat Pots, 2 1/4" round
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For protecting your transplants against late, unexpected frosts choose between Hotkaps plant protectors and Wall O' Water plant protectors.
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Top SharePoint trends to watch in 2012
Guest post by Chris McNulty
As we move toward 2012, I see several emerging trends that will affect organizations using SharePoint in the new year. Social networking, cloud and governance are the hot topics today, and all will present various challenges over the next year, along with the way we prepare for the next generation of SharePoint.
Here's the way I see these trends developing:
Social communications
Social communications will become more prevalent on premises, but will not be universally used. Pilot adoptions, rather than enterprise adoptions, are likely to be the norm; however, many of these tests will lack the numbers of initial users to achieve the "network effect" of self-sustaining social collaboration.
Although SharePoint 2010 has improved social networking, it lacks the maturity of Twitter and Facebook. Some organizations will accept SharePoint social tools as an ingredient of enterprise collaboration, but they're likely to avoid jumping in with both feet, in part due to the lack of governance-aware tools. Third party ISVs will play a crucial role in extending social functions and governance.
More sophisticated social techniques will not be well adopted in the cloud. As users participate in an increasing number of venues like Twitter, Facebook, on-premises SharePoint and multiple cloud-based document stores, the challenge of following too many social streams will tax interface integration, individual patience, or both.
SharePoint provides tremendous capability for each individual to add content to a broad range of sites and channels. As this trend continues, the demand for users to adopt Personal Content ("PCM") to aggregate and classify their own information will only increase. Extremely large SharePoint sites can start to feel anonymous, and a personal voice is needed to avoid feeling lost.
Cloud adoption
Cloud adoption will accelerate due to the escalated discussion about cloud-based solutions generated by Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) reintroduction of SharePoint Online as core element of Office 365. We'll see more cloud adoption in both Office 365 and such third party hosting providers as Rackspace and FPWeb. However, wholesale migrations of mature SharePoint 2010 environments will not be the principal use case, partly due to restrictions on custom coded solutions and functions.
Instead, Office 365 implementations will be greatly used in Microsoft-oriented organizations with little on-premises SharePoint history, most likely for content migration from non-SharePoint sources (legacy ECM or file system); proofs-of-concept and pilots. Office 365 also will find favor as a platform for document collaboration with external partners, clients and third parties.
Security and authentication skills will become more important for SharePoint technical resources. The rise in client extranets and hybrid cloud deployments will require them to support parallel or federated authentication beyond the traditional "Active Directory with LDAP for outside users" model found in on-premises datacenter deployments, and the ability to integrate security systems outside of one's immediate control will be a valuable commodity.
Governance is a hot topic in SharePoint these days. New adopters may wonder what all the fuss is about. But as SharePoint continues to see double digit growth year after year, all those new users surging onto the platform will require care, channeling, guidance and oversight.
Governance can take many different forms; but at its most elemental level, governance is really guidance. It not only keeps things on track, but is an essential response to widespread adoption, and a necessary component for fostering sustained growth and usage. Governance is not management--it's the answer to the questions about how and why SharePoint is managed.
Over the next year, we'll see forward-thinking end customers requiring application developers to create applications that integrate prebuilt solutions to improve manageability, governance and portability, all of which can pose challenges with custom solutions. We'll see the greatest challenges for governance coming from the newest functions in SharePoint: business intelligence, social networking and taxonomies.
The next wave of SharePoint
As we prepare for the next SharePoint upgrade, expect more organizations to consider SharePoint consolidation. SharePoint 2010 has proven it can handle extremely large content pools. So, beyond the first wave of SharePoint 2010 rollouts, enterprises will look to aggregate legacy ECM platforms and divisional SharePoint "islands" into a unified application. Terabytes of data can be handled by SharePoint now, and users continue to want to move away from both big iron ECM platforms with high support costs, and "open" platforms like Jive with limited scalability and compliance capabilities. SharePoint provides a better cost of ownership, as well as a clear roadmap for scalable capacity.
SQL Server 2012 ("Denali") will only be important for enterprises that already have used SharePoint business intelligence tools; most will likely wait until SharePoint "15" to take advantage of the enhancements to data and report-based alerts, self-service business intelligence and Power Pivot.
As organizations develop SharePoint's "second wave" functions (project management, workflow, business intelligence, etc.), SharePoint practitioners will need the skills to translate user requirements beyond IT. Most current SharePoint implementations are IT-centric. But SharePoint's "second wave" functions will tap into more business-driven projects, which means success will require the ability to translate the needs of CFOs, CMOs and PMOs.
Finally, as Microsoft slowly leaks information over the course of the year, we will begin learning what vNext really has in store, although we'll probably have to wait until the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas next November for full details. That the date and location for the 2012 conference were announced at this fall's conference bodes well for a grand event in Las Vegas next fall, I'll be dusting off my tuxedo for the big premiere!
Chris McNulty is a strategic product manager for SharePoint Solutions at Quest Software, where his responsibilities include the strategic product direction for Quest's SharePoint solutions. Chris is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), and a member of the Microsoft Solutions Advocate and MVTSP programs. A frequent speaker at events around the U.S., Chris is the author of the "SharePoint 2010 Consultant's Handbook - Managed Metadata Service," and blogs at http://www.chrismcnulty.net/blog and http://www.sharepointforall.com.


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Life and Death at Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital: A Tale of Two Mothers and Their Sons
Omer, Mohammed, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
ONLY A FEW DAYS earlier, his family believed 16-year-old Ahmed Abu Salamah to be dead. They had erected a mourning tent and buried what they thought were what was left of his body. Two weeks after the funeral, however, Ahmed's friends contacted his mother to tell her that her son was still alive and in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Neither she nor her husband could believe it, but they rushed there anyway-to discover that their son was indeed alive.
"My son, my son Ahmed!" Karima Salamah cried, still in disbelief, upon arriving at the ICU room where her son lay critically injured, bandaged, unmoving. "I shook his bed, and when he awoke and opened his eyes I told him, 'This is your mother, I'm here with you.'"
Tears flowed down Ahmed's cheeks as he lay immobile, his condition still dangerously tenuous. The missile that had struck him left Ahmed with severe brain damage and missing pieces of flesh.
Just after Ahmed had walked out his front door on Saturday, March 1, his mother said, he was hit by an Israeli F-16 missile. It was a day in which more than 55 Palestinians were killed, many of them civilians and children. Ahmed's parents ran from one hospital to the next, unable to find any news of their son. Finally, after three days of worrying and wondering, they were called by a local hospital and told that the body of a boy believed to be Ahmed was in the hospital morgue. It was not easy to identify him, Karima recalled, as the boy's body had been torn into unrecognizable pieces of flesh. The only option was to assume that it was her son's corpse.
The mutilated and unidentifiable corpse which the Abu Salamah family had mistakenly buried was actually that of Mohammed Hejazi, a 17-year-old who lived in the same neighborhood. Meanwhile, Mohammed's mother, Aminah Hejazi, and family came and sat outside Ahmed's ICU room everyday for two weeks, believing that the injured boy inside was their Mohammed.
With his face covered in bandages and his body being of similar size, it was easy for the Hejazi family to hope this was Mohammed. "At first I doubted whether this was really my son," Aminah revealed, "but I felt the need to be close to him anyway." After her initial doubts, Aminah Hejazi became convinced that Mohammed truly was the boy inside the ICU room. Her hopes remained alive until the injured boy's actual mother came to the hospital and identified him as her son Ahmed.
Mohammed's mother sobbed as she recounted this moment and the painful realization that her child had been killed. Her husband could not accept the news, however, and clung to the hope that their son was alive.
Both families confirmed that the shelling which injured and killed their boys occurred in the same place, near one of the schools in northern Gaza's Jabaliya Refugee Camp. In Israel's assault on Gaza that Saturday, many of the more than 55 Palestinians killed were rendered into charred pieces, making identifying the bodies confusing at best. Ahmed and Mohammed's bodies were among the most difficult to identify.
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Thoughts on TB...
Having played through TB a couple of times, I thought I would give my thoughts on it. (Note: this contains spoilers throughout, don't read if you haven't completed it!)
First off, superb game. I thoroughly enjoyed playing it, and I'm glad I bought it. The gameplay quality really is on the same level as Portal. You got a real sense of progression as you worked through the different levels, and each section clearly had it's own 'theme'. The puzzles blended into the themes very well, and they were well thought out & designed (the puzzles that stood out were, among others, 1. dropping the ball through a trapdoor using a magnet & timed switch, where you have to pull the Ball up a ramp to roll it back down to hit a button, and 2. navigating the Ball through a series of overhead magnets while getting poked at by a zombie. Certainly encourages you to think on your feet!).
The concept itself was innovative, and well thought through, especially with regards to zombie combat. Bowling through a group of zombies with the crunching sound & resulting gibs is very satisfying
Now, onto the bad points/constructive criticism. These mostly concern the story, and its integration into the game. As I said above, overall TB is a superb game, but these would have made it even better
Most of the story you only got when you found the secrets, and on a first run through, you are highly unlikely to find all of them. The ones you do find are out of order, and don't really make sense. As a result, you don't really get an idea for what the ball is or why it's so important until the very end (and even then, I only really understood it when I read a few spoilers on these forums). For most of the game, it's just a big heavy object that's useful for pressing buttons & killing zombies. Making the backstory more obvious, more explicit references to the ball as a power source (eg cables attaching to sockets on the surface when plugged into something) would be good.
The puzzles themselves didn't really fit into the story as I understood it. Given, it is a puzzle game, so they are required, but in several places the thoughts were 'we need another puzzle here, let's make it do this and this and this, that'll be cool!' with little sense of the area being useful when it was initially built. For example, why was there a series of magnets attached to a roof that could be rotated using buttons on the floor? What purpose did that serve when it was first built? (maybe moving quarried stone or lava, you could have had boxes lying around with magnets attached to the top)?
On a similar theme, what were the cubes for, why were they lying around, and why did they need to go in certain locations to make things work?
Why were there so many ball trains around when there was obviously only one Ball? What were they used for other than for carrying the Ball around, and why are they all designed to carry the Ball?
It's never really explained who the dude with the staff was, what he wanted, and why he got into the 'vehicle' (ahem) at the end. Maybe the idea was that he was mysterious, but some more pointers to why you're solving all these puzzles for him rather than 'because it's a game and that's what you're meant to do' would be appreciated.
Or, for that matter, what the big yeti things or the various birds were. Why was there a bird that looked like something out of Resident Evil in a huge cave other than the Rule of Cool?
As a personal preference, I would have preferred fewer puzzles based around killing the yetis & more tricky logic or physics puzzles. Once you've figured out how to hurt the yetis each time, it's quite annoying to have to run through the same thing 2 more times to progress, especially when it doesn't always work each time (they move at exactly the wrong moment, say). They kept on getting in the way! Very annoying.
There weren't really any puzzles where I actually had to think & work it out for more than a few seconds or just follow the arrows & do what seems obvious, without knowing why I'm pressing this button (say).
I also would have loved to see more done with the low gravity ball and with the lights on the ball (light-activated switches, light-sensitive enemies anyone?)
I think that's everything. As I said before, this is a superb game, and it's in my top all-time favourites. Thanks very much for producing it & spending your time on it, everyone who was involved! Major kudos to you all.
I had a great reading! And i have to agree with pretty much eveerything =)
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It started in September.
A few Trail Blazers were playing in an open gym session when the newly-signed Robin Lopez joined them on the court. Normally, such sessions are less of a practice and more a glorified summer scrimmage. Not for Lopez.
"He was playing serious basketball," Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts said. "I think everyone realized then that we had a special guy that was going to play that way in September and play that way in May."
In his first season with the Portland Trail Blazers, Robin Lopez has been the defensive anchor the team so sorely needed the past few seasons. The intensity and defensive pride Lopez displayed in September quickly permeated the entire roster, instilling within them a newfound commitment to defense.
Lopez is quick to deflect personal accolades, however.
"I don't really think it's been myself individually," Lopez said. "It's been a team effort. Early on in training camp we had a lot of guys step up and be leaders on both ends."
That defensive intensity has maintained throughout the season, helping Portland raise their defensive efficiency from 26th last season to 18th this season, according to Basketball-Reference. Though those numbers are still middling when compared to other championship contenders, it's nonetheless a crucial and promising development. Lopez' individual numbers, meanwhile, paint a portrait of the defensive stalwart the Blazers thought they were getting this summer. According to the NBA's player tracking data, opponents are only shooting 42.5% at the rim against Lopez.
"He's given us everything we hoped for on the defensive end," Stotts said, "Both as a stabilizing force in the paint, setting the defensive mindset, and as a communicator."
Communication is the bed rock of any good defense. Without it, it's nearly impossible for teams to solve problems in real-time, leading to constant breakdowns and easy baskets for the opponent. On offense, Damian Lillard may call the plays, but on defense, the burden of communication almost always falls on Lopez' afro'd dome. He holds down the interior with his size, intelligence and shot-blocking ability, but he helps Portland's perimeter defenders the most by constantly talking.
"You look at Kevin Garnett and Rasheed Wallace, even Tim Duncan, who is a quiet guy but vocal defender — for big guys to be vocal is even more important because they see everything in front of them," Stotts said. "Perimeter defenders don't see what's behind them. (The bigs) have to communicate (to the perimeter) when a screen is coming, or when they have to cut or if there's somebody behind them."
"When you have guys who are willing to talk on defense, that's really half the battle right there," Lopez said.
The Trail Blazers already have a trove of thrilling players. Damian Lillard's butter-smooth game dazzles, Nicolas Batum's now a long-limbed threat on both ends of the floor, even youngsters Thomas Robinson and CJ McCollum have both shown flashes of the spectacular. Lopez' game may not be as aesthetically pleasing, his play provides just as much energy as his more offensive-minded teammates.
"It's the little stuff that gets a team going," Wesley Matthews said. "RoLo blocking a shot when someone gets beat on a backdoor, taking a hard foul, getting a tough defensive rebound is what fuels us. It may not show up in the stat sheet, but it's big time for us."
Energy aside, Lopez also wants his presence to give his teammates a sense of assurance.
"I hope the perimeter defenders feel like they can make a mistake or two and (know) I'll be able to clean it up," Lopez said.
Lopez laid the groundwork for that comfort in September, and it now blankets the entire team.
"You never want to get beat," Matthews said. "But I know I can be more aggressive, and use more of my instincts because I know RoLo's back there patrolling the paint."
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I just want to know one simple thing in Java. Let's consider the following segment of code In Java.
int x=10;
String temp="x = "+x;
is perfectly valid in Java and produces the output, x = 10 as a string.
Although, the variable x is of type int, it is automatically converted to a String type (a wrapper type). How does Java do this? Does operator overloading somewhat or somewhere exist in Java like the one above as with C++ and C#?, though it was removed from Java. Which specific concept is used here to convert x into a string. The only thing I want to know
and also, one more question, in Java a boolean data type (not Boolean, a wrapper class), can not be converted to any other type (as per I'm knowing). Why is it so, in some very specific situations , it may useful to convert it to a string or some other types.


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March 19, 2013 08:55 AM by Stephanie Gustafson
Lisa Rinna may have received some attention for being a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice and Dancing with the Stars, but let's face it: her biggest claim to fame is a set of Angelina Jolie sized lips. During a recent appearance on the Today Show, Lisa explained the story behind her lips and the trouble they've caused in the past few years.
You can blame Bette Midler for Lisa Rinna's big lips. The Celebrity Apprentice star says that she first decided to have her lips plumped up after seeing the film Beaches. Hoping for a full kisser like Bette's, Lisa and a close friend went in to receive silicone injections. Nothing like bonding over silicone!
Although she now recognizes that it was a "stupid thing to do," Lisa still credits the silicone injections for launching her celebrity career. "I would do it again. I never had a career before I had the lips. So my lips have had their own career!" That career, of course, has included several reality television gigs, including an appearance on Dancing with the Stars, and currently, efforts to avoid being fired by Donald Trump on Celebrity Apprentice. And of course, before she spent time on the reality circuit, Lisa was known for a soap opera career that included roles in Melrose Place and Days of our Lives.
Of course, having lips worthy of their own career occasionally creates problems for Lisa. She confessed to visiting doctors in hopes of having them "remove as much as they possibly can." But if the big lips are responsible for her career, why would she want to back off on them? Apparently, they aren't always as luscious as Lisa's male fans imagine. "It got to a point where they were yucky. They get hard! I mean, it's gross."
So, the consensus on Lisa Rinna's lip trouble? Gross, but totally worth it. Do you agree? Leave a comment and let us know!
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M. Baloun Says:
March 19th, 2013 at 10:32 am
You forgot her fantastic pictorial in Playboy. Her assets are aging very nicely.
Katherine Says:
March 19th, 2013 at 10:51 am
I have to say, campy and tacky though she may be, I so respect her candor!
KareBear Says:
March 19th, 2013 at 11:33 am
Sorry – but it was Barbara Hershey who had her lips done for her role in Beaches. I remember how unnatural it looked – and Lisa looks exactly the same way. I often wonder why already gorgeous women think need to "make improvements"?
Barbara Says:
March 19th, 2013 at 12:23 pm
I used to get injections in my lips. I got sick of it,, So I got perminate implants. They are great, you can pick your size, and they don't move around. It is a waist of time and money to get injections. You can always have the implants removed , if you do not like them.
I don't think her lips made her career. Although they did look good at certain times. I prefer bigger lips..
Christy Lee Says:
March 19th, 2013 at 12:24 pm
I always thought she looked like a flounder in a fish market with those overdone lips. Yuk!~
mike tyson Says:
March 19th, 2013 at 12:47 pm
her lips are so grosss
Maggie Says:
March 19th, 2013 at 1:23 pm
I think fake silicone lips look stupid. Melanie Griffith ruined her looks with the fake lips. Lisa Rinna was very pretty before the lips, now they just look fake. They always make the top of the lips too big so they just don't look natural. It is so funny how no one is ever satisfied with what they got. When I was a young girl, I was self conscientious because I though my lips were too big. At the time small lips were in vogue. People need to realize that trends such as big lips come and go. Once you do something as drastic as plump up your lips with silicone, there is no backing down.
Pamela A Says:
March 19th, 2013 at 1:39 pm
No they are not worth it. Yes plump lips look beautiful…those are deformed.
John Says:
March 19th, 2013 at 2:32 pm
I wonder if the thought ever occurred to her to try using talent to get her career going?? Now she just looks like a clown, and I hate to tell her but reality shows are where REAL stars go to die…they are for has-beens and people who believe it will help re-invigorate their sagging careers. Beauty fades, talent and hard work are forever. Has anyone seen her commercials for adult diapers?? Boy, that's quite a career move!!
myri Says:
March 19th, 2013 at 3:40 pm
If they looked normal, but in her case they look
deformed. No thank you.
Penny Says:
March 22nd, 2013 at 9:19 am
Yea Right, I bet on Lisa's worst day none of you could look as good as her FEET! She is gorgeous, but the most beautiful part of her is that she is a decent and good person. In all of her career I have never heard her say a mean or rotten thing about anyone, too bad you LADIES & GENTLEMEN cannot claim the same. Jealousy, is not an enviable quality!


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Rob Butler, a spokesman for MBI, a provider of benefit services in Waltham, Massachusetts, says the most significant trend in benefits administration is the move to plans that help employers and employees get more from pretax-benefit accounts. "At a time when consumers are expected to know more and to pay more, employers have embraced and sought out the help of benefits specialists so they can increase the participation in FSAs and HSAs [health savings accounts]," he says.
Despite some positive trends in benefit management, Billet says, human resources executives will not be facing an easy task when the benefit-enrollment season kicks off. "You might tell your employees, 'It is extremely important to the company's short- and long-term competitive advantage that we manage our costs successfully, and health care is one of the fastest-rising costs in our budget.'
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OasisEbb SOA, ESB, BI https://blogs.oracle.com/OasisEbb/feed/entries/atom 2009-07-14T12:16:33+00:00 Apache Roller https://blogs.oracle.com/OasisEbb/entry/moving_on_and_exploring_a Moving on and exploring a different aspect of SOA William Wilkins 2009-07-14T09:45:18+00:00 2009-07-14T16:45:18+00:00  The time has come for me to move on from Sun and onto something new that I had been hoping to do for sometime. Something smaller in scope but just as interesting. Adjoovo is the vehicle for this journey of discovery and future posts from me will be found over at http://adjoovo.com.
The time has come for me to move on from Sun and onto something new that I had been hoping to do for sometime. Something smaller in scope but just as interesting. Over the last few years we have worked hard to build out an extensible service platform in the OpenESB community and to realize a commercial form of the technology with GlassFish ESB.

During this time it became obvious that the platform marketplace was well served by the industry, with many good alternative offerings available both in open source and pure commercial forms. It was also clear that choosing and employing such platforms was no longer the hurdle that it represented and many (most?) firms have made those decisions and were embarked on their service-oriented initiatives.

This is not to say that the service-oriented world is complete from a technology framework perspective, just that there is enough technology out there to satisfy the vast majority of use-cases. What does seem clear however, is that in the race to build platforms that deliver services using a wide variety of software components, the challenge of effectively managing this explosion of valuable software assets has been sidelined or ignored.

The concept of registries exists and are implemented in many organizations however they tend to focus on two key areas of security governance and software quality management; important ones at that. However, I see an even more basic need, which is the importance within an enterprise, of being able to discover, annotate and re-use these software assets in a collaborative framework. Well that's the point of my new venture, to look for complementary approaches to solving this problem that sits along side any particular platform strategy or implementation methodology.

Adjoovo is the vehicle for this journey of discovery and future posts from me will be found over at http://adjoovo.com.

 https://blogs.oracle.com/OasisEbb/entry/components_are_king_in_the Components are king in the world of pluggable ESBs ... William Wilkins 2008-11-11T17:38:52+00:00 2008-11-12T01:38:52+00:00
In the world of light-weight pluggable ESBs supporting a SOA approach (or EAI, or MoM, ...) the richness of the component ecosystem is a very important aspect. Part of Project OpenESB's purpose is to provide a standards-based framework onto which components can be fabricated and easily deployed.

Recently Frank implemented a nice page redesign that lists the components and allows you to select different views, such as by contributor, by status, etc. Nice job Frank :)

 https://blogs.oracle.com/OasisEbb/entry/a_few_days_ealier_than A few days ealier than expected ... William Wilkins 2008-10-07T20:27:26+00:00 2008-10-08T03:27:27+00:00 GlassFish ESB milestone 2 arrives. It now includes Data Mashup capabilities and is feature complete. https://blogs.oracle.com/OasisEbb/entry/security_provisioning_through_the_esb Security provisioning through the ESB William Wilkins 2008-09-14T15:22:40+00:00 2008-09-14T22:22:40+00:00
Project OpenESB is a community that is intended to derive multiple solutions and components all sharing a single platform based on JBI. Another example of this is a solution in a sub-project called keychain. Keychain is an early stage project that attempts to solve the problem of how to provision identities against legacy applications. Essentially it provides a gateway, built on top of the ESB platform, that exposes an "SPML compliant" provisioning interface which can be accessed by any SPML compliant application or just send an SPML document across HTTP/SOAP.

The gateway will then route this request, suitably transformed, to the legacy application to execute the particular provisioning (create, update, delete of user information) request. Again, this is an early stage project that is driving the creation of new ESB adaptors and will later drive the evolution of the platform into an "appliance-like" package. So far, to show the breadth of the potential application of KeyChain, there are early examples of provisioning to RACF, Salesforce.com, and LDAP.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/OasisEbb/entry/glassfish_esb_arrives GlassFish ESB arrives ... William Wilkins 2008-09-12T13:32:29+00:00 2008-09-12T20:33:23+00:00 Our first milestone for GlassFish ESB is now available. This commercially supported form of our open source community technology has been a regularly requested step for us to make. We would have done it sooner but had been busy with the major release of our larger Composite Application Suite which shares the same foundation. More on the timeline for our final release and the contents of GlassFish ESB can be found here. https://blogs.oracle.com/OasisEbb/entry/growing_our_appeal Growing our appeal ... William Wilkins 2008-09-08T14:19:02+00:00 2008-09-08T21:19:02+00:00 One of our big goals for Project OpenESB is to extend the development domains to which it is applicable. ESB have traditionally been associated as platforms to support message-oriented-middleware (MoM) and more recently service-oriented architecture (SOA). SeeBeyond also pioneered bringing very strong EAI capabilities to its' ESB with ICAN. However the range of application segments keeps expanding with very notable areas of growth in the web-build-out (Web2.0, "web as a platform"), event-processing (EDA), etc.

Some of these new terms try to better define or put a new spin on established ways of doing things, some are more "marketectures" to help highlight key advantages of certain platforms to certain problem domains. What is true is that many of these new "styles of development" do contain valuable principles and patterns that have broader applicability. Our goal with Project Open ESB is to create a platform that encompasses as many of these styles as make sense.

We believe that we can more easily achieve this with our modular, micro-kernel architecture based on JBI and being evolved through Project Fuji. As of today OpenESB supports: MoM, SOA and EAI patterns and in the very near future we will be adding "event-driven-architecture" (EDA) to our platform with our soon to be released IEP service engine component in October'08. The IEP leverages research from Standford and others on event stream processing techniques and the continuous-query-language (CQL). If you want to find out more about event processing you might want to read this paper published on JDJ written by Bing and Prabhu who work on the IEP.

 https://blogs.oracle.com/OasisEbb/entry/community_collaboration Community collaboration ... William Wilkins 2008-09-07T07:47:10+00:00 2008-09-07T14:47:10+00:00
One of the great things about moving all of what we do to a community-based model is that it greatly increases our flexibility and how we can respond to demands in our marketplace. There are many other benefits but to me the flexibility it provides our customers and us is one of the most important.

One example of increased flexibility is enabling customers to "mix-and-match" product components supplied in commercial software suites with incubating components within open source. Communities also leverage each other driving by the needs within those communities. Here is a recent example blending Apache Camel with JBI and Open ESB ...
 https://blogs.oracle.com/OasisEbb/entry/establishing_oasisebb Establishing OasisEbb William Wilkins 2008-09-06T18:16:38+00:00 2008-09-08T23:51:47+00:00
OasisEbb is established and is my first public blog. I will use to to track our teams progress in creating new levels of innovation with tools and platforms for delivering SOA and Business Integration solutions on an ESB framework. I couldn't think of a great name for the blog so I resorted to finding an anagram of the core themes that I will be discussing (SOA, ESB and BI). By using the helpful tool I got the answer! If only all things in life where so easy! :)

I returned to Sun just over 2.5 years ago after Sun acquired SeeBeyond. Since then I have been working on our SOA and Business Integration products, leading our team to reinvent the core product while providing an evolutionary roadmap for our existing customers. Back in June this year we released the latest version of the Java Composite Application Suite, the ESB Suite and a new MDM Suite. Very soon we will be releasing our new, light-weight ESB product GlassFish ESB.

GlassFish ESB will be our teams first product to be 100% derived from our open source communities: Project OpenESB, NetBeans and GlassFish.


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A source tells X17online exclusively that instead of preparing for her early-morning court date, Lindsay Lohan spent the night with Balthazar Getty!
After returning to her alcohol classes at Right On Programs yesterday afternoon, it would seem prudent for Lindsay Lohan to call it an early night so she can be fresh and ready to answer charges that she's violated the terms of her DUI sentencing in a Beverly Hills courtroom this morning, but Lindsay being Lindsay, she instead decided to head out to new Hollywood hotspot Voyeur last night.
Says our spy, "I was shocked to see Lindsay out at the club last night since I knew she had to be in court this morning. But I was even more shocked to see her sneaking out of the back door with Sienna Miller's ex, Balthazar Getty!"
Lilo was due in court at 8:30, but has still yet to arrive. Perhaps she's still tangled up in Balty's sheets and just can't break free!
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A little over a year ago, Lucas Benitez, Greg Asbed, and I committed an act that would surely have gotten us arrested if we had attempted it six months earlier. Traveling in a tired and faded Toyota sedan, we cruised through the chain-link fence and guarded gatepost meant to keep trespassers away from the packing facilities of a major Florida tomato-producing corporation. "The last time we came, the gates were locked and we were turned back by sheriff's deputies," Asbed said.
But thanks to nearly two decades of efforts by Benitez, Asbed, and their associates -- founding members of a community-based social justice organization called the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, named after a south-Florida migrant community -- we were greeted by a quick wave and nod of recognition from the security guard on duty. The Toyota stopped in a sandy parking area beside a building with a sign that read TRAINING. We piled out and were greeted by the head of human resources for the company. In the early 1990s, Benitez was a migrant Mexican farmworker, who, on a good day, might have made minimum wage picking tomatoes in the fields that spread out to the horizon behind the packing house. On that morning, he and the HR chief were going to address newly hired members of a picking crew.
A few months earlier, the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, an organization representing agribusinesses that grow the vast majority of Florida tomatoes, had agreed to cooperate with the terms of CIW's Fair Food Agreement -- an arrangement that has already been accepted by major fast-food chains, food service corporations, and other major tomato buyers. The Fair Food Agreement has ushered in a new era of labor relations in the Florida tomato fields, elevating the industry almost overnight from one of the most repressive places for a farmworker to toil to one of the most progressive.
The CIW agreement gave every worker a penny-a-pound wage increase, the difference between making $50 and $80 on a good day. It also introduced policies that almost all other American laborers take for granted: punch clocks or similar devices became mandatory, to ensure that workers were not shorted on the time they put in. Every work crew had to have access to a bit of shade provided by pop-up tents. A clear-cut grievance procedure was established. There was to be zero tolerance for sexual harassment and forced labor of any kind -- the former being particularly common in Florida agriculture. The new policies also addressed long-standing abuses specific to the fields, eliminating "el copete" (the mandatory overfilling of picking buckets that effectively stole workers' pay on up to 10 percent of their labor) and guaranteeing workers the right to stop work if they feel threatened by conditions in the fields, such as lightning or pesticides.
After Benitez addressed the crew, the corporate HR executive stood and handed out business cards bearing his personal telephone number and a 24-hour hotline. "Call us if you need help," he said. "If you see something, say something." Next to me at the back of the room, a CIW member shook her head in amazement and said: "I can't believe this. It's like leaping through a century of labor history almost overnight."
NRDC, which publishes OnEarth, will honor Asbed and Benitez for their success tonight by presenting them with a Growing Green Award alongside other leaders in sustainable food production.
The transformation in the Florida tomato industry was nearly two decades in the making. It began in 1993 when Asbed, Benitez, and a couple of dozen other workers and activists began meeting each Wednesday night in a room they borrowed from an Immokalee church. The two men, whom I met while researching the stories that would become my book Tomatoland, were a study in contrasts. Asbed, the grandson of Armenian genocide survivors, was college-educated, with several years of working with peasant groups in Haiti and farmworkers in the mid-Atlantic United States under his belt. Benitez was 17 years old and had recently arrived from the southern Mexican state of Guerrero hoping to make a little money for his parents and five siblings by picking oranges and tomatoes. They were brought together by the common realization that farmworkers in Florida labored under conditions of abysmal wages and outright brutality, and that those conditions were getting worse as big tomato buyers led by Wal-Mart, fast-food conglomerates, and supermarket chains pushed for ever lower produce prices at the expense of pickers' wages.
In the early years the CIW was a rag-tag group, and its efforts modest. A worker would come to a meeting and complain that his crew leader was holding back his check, and a dozen or so CIW members would walk over to the boss's house and as a group to demand that he pay up. Motivated by a dozen or so faces at the door, employers produced checks. In another case, a sixteen-year-old Guatemalan boy was beaten by a boss until his shirt was soaked with blood. His offense? Stopping work for a drink of water. That night, 400 workers joined with CIW to march to the boss's house brandishing the injured worker's bloody shirt and chanting "When you beat one of us, you beat us all." The next morning, every member of the boss's crew quit, and even workers without jobs that day refused to replace them. The lesson: Alone, one worker could do nothing, but by banding together, change was possible.
The Campaign for Fair Food and the CIW in its current form began to take shape in the late 1990s, when the CIW's analysis efforts expanded to include the food industry as a whole, and the growth of the internet allowed them to reach a national audience. Their focus turned to the end buyers of tomatoes, the fast-food chains and supermarkets, and their first target was Taco Bell. Their request: Give us a penny-a-pound extra and agree to buy tomatoes picked under a system without abuses. Adding a new layer of consumer education and creative actions in cities from Naples, Florida, to Los Angeles, California, to their longstanding community organizing efforts in Immokalee, they brought workers and consumers together to pressure the chain. For four years, Taco Bell refused. But after petitions, demonstrations, student protests, shareholder actions from religious groups, and a ten-day hunger strike in front of its headquarters, Taco Bell came aboard. Since then, nine other multi-billion-dollar food corporations have joined with the CIW.
The loosely-knit band that once met in a borrowed room in back of a church has now won honors from the State Department, Anti-Slavery International, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. But more importantly, the CIW has radically changed the $600-million-dollar-a-year Florida tomato industry, and in so doing forged a unique worker-driven code of labor conduct and created a system for making sure that growers adhere to that code. It's a template that can be applied to every sector of food production in this country.
Sadly, there is still a huge gap in participation in the Fair Food Agreements. With the exception of Whole Foods Market and, earlier this year, Trader Joe's, not a single supermarket chain has agreed to join. The last time I saw Benitez and Asbed was in March. They were sitting on the shoulder of a highway in Lakeland, Florida, near the head offices of Publix Super Markets, a major chain in five southeastern states. More than 60 CIW members were midway through a six-day-long fast to convince Publix to sign an agreement. Benitez, who looked tired, wore a hand-lettered sign saying: "I go hungry today so my children won't have to tomorrow."
The sign did not exaggerate. It's a tragic irony that throughout this country, the people who pick our food and their children rank as the most food-insecure segment of society. We still have a long way to go, but when workers, growers, corporations, and consumers come together, the CIW has shown that change is possible.
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Fighters who are eager to get into the brawl as soon as they can with Anarchy Reigns will be rewarded with some nice exclusive content: Sega has today announced a special " Day One" bundle contening an extra characters and 2 exclusive multiplayer extra modes.
Anarchy Reigns is an online beat'em up action game developed by Platinum Games and published by Sega. Players will control one character of his choice selectable from a roster of 17 characters, with a few returning from another Platinum Games product, MadWorld, released on Nintendo Wii some years ago.
Set in an apocalyptic world, the player will be immersed in a setting where anarchy rules and cybernetic organisms are widely spread. The game features a diverse range of multiplayer option like versus mode, co-op mode and many others.
The "Day One " edition of the game will be available for all preorders of the game and it will include an extra character from another Platinum Games title, the witch Bayonetta, and two more multiplayer mode: Mad Survival and Dogfight. During Mad Survival up to three players will have to fight together endless waves of enemies; Dogfight sees players firing at each other from helicopters until they fall, a nice change of pace from the ground based combat style of the main game.
Anarchy Reigns will be available in North America on January 8 and on January 11 in Europe for Ps3 and Xbox 360. The "Day One " edition has only been announced for Europe as of now.
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your children are so beautiful and those head pieces are to die for!
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She is one lovely little girl . Makes me wish when i was little i would have been more into flowers and pink than dirt, bikes and making fun of my sister :)


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A logging framework handler that tracks when messages above a certain level have been logged.
This is a handler for the python standard logging framework that can be used to tell whether messages have been logged at or above a certain level.
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AMES, Iowa- The Iowa State soccer team returns to home action to take on the Baylor Bears Friday at 7p.m. at the Cyclone Sports Complex.
Friday's game will be "Fan Appreciation Night", where there will be a drawing for the frequent fan prize. Fans who have attended at least four home games and have entered into a drawing have a chance to win a TV. There will also be raffles for Cyclone prizes.
Last time out
The Cyclones last game was one to remember. Senior midfielder Emily Goldstein recorded one of the finest games in Iowa State history to lead the Cyclones to a 4-1 win over Oklahoma. Goldstein scored three goals and became the first Cyclone to record a hat trick since Kaeli Flaska accomplished the feat on Sept. 11, 2011. The win marked the first of the Big 12 season for the Cyclones.
Scouting the Bears
The Baylor Bears (8-3-3, 1-2-1) are a young team led by sophomore Bri Campos and freshman Ashley York. The two have combined to score nine of the teams 27 goals this season. The Bears rank in the top-four in shots, points, goals and goals per game in the Big 12. Baylor's lone Big 12 win came in a 1-0 defeat over the Oklahoma Sooners.
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After Niko has completed the second mission for Little Jacob, he offer Niko work as a drug courier.
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- Deal: The player must meet with the buyers to make the deal. There is no time limit, but when the transaction is complete the police will show up and crash the party. The player must escape and lose their wanted level to complete the mission.
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The XBMC team announces the release of a new and improved XBMC 11.0 (Eden) for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and iOS, as well as XBMCbuntu Final, built on the LXDE desktop.
The latest release of XBMC (code-named Eden) media player and entertainment center is now available for download. According to the website, XBMC 11.0 milestones include improvements to Confluence (the default skin), massive speed increases, movie set scraping, additional protocol handling, better networking support, improved handling of unencrypted Blu-ray content and structures, adjustable display refresh rate in Mac OS X (to match that feature in Windows and Linux), AirPlay support, an upgraded weather service with GeoIP lookup, and more.
Eden marks the first in-sync stable release for the Apple TV2, iPad, and other iOS devices. According to the website, developers have improved the method by which input is handled, including heavily upgrading JSON-RPC support – making remote control support much simpler in Windows and enabling unique methods of device communication with hardware. AMD devices are now also supported for GPU video decoding in Linux to some extent.
In addition to XBMC 11 for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and iOS, the developers also announced XBMCbuntu Final. According to the website, XBMCbuntu is very similar to past versions of XBMC Live. By default, the user boots directly into XBMC, and need never see the underlying OS.
The announcement states that XBMCbuntu is now built upon a full LXDE desktop environment, which has a web browser (Chromium) with a fully updated (and updatable) version of Flash built-in and a GUI package manager ready to install and update all of the typical Ubuntu programs. For more information, see: http://xbmc.org/. You can download XBMC at: http://xbmc.org/download/.
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good for enhancing some photos. I mostly use it for non-square ones (for these I usually end up using instagram). Not enough good filter, and usually those that I want I have to buy.


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Heh, heh!
I thought it was funny. Poor Link can't even enjoy some video game because of that annoying Navi. Navi has never been my favorite character of any Zelda game. But the animation was nice, the movie was a bit short, but very funny. You made the expressions in their faces very nicely. Make more, please.
thanks man, I appreaciate it!
Yeah, i dont think anybody likes Navi's constant bickering.
Didn't see that coming. that navi acts exactly like my mom O.O . Good animation, at the time it was a little rusty, it deserves 4.5 stars. Also, what game was link playing?
Isnt it the one and only minecrafter17 newgrounds best reviewer. Thanks man! :)
I took sound effects from modern warfare 2 in flash
i laughted a lot :D
but seems to be unfinished or something lol
animation 8/10 (its not bad :D)
story : 9/10 (lololol)
i was pretty lazy back then :I
so i put like 0 effort in drawing naavi.
but glad you liked bro from another hoe
I got a good laugh out of this. The Navi was unexpected, but it was funny. Link was drawn well. Good shading on him.
The Navi, on the other hand, wasn't as good. It was drawn decently, though I think you could have done better. Also, I felt the background wasn't enough. It was just too plain.
Aside from that, good work! I got a good chuckle. Cheers!
A fair decent critic.
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Put on your good socks kids because it's Friday and we got a whole lotta Matt Barnes for you to drool over.
Kicking off our three way of Barnes are a few of Matt's promo stills for the National Arts Centre's 2013 production of Big Mama! The Willie Mae Thornton Story. Taking the reigns on the role of Big Mama Thornton is Canadian gospel legend and Toronto resident Jackie Richardson, who's voice apparently blew some minds over the course of the shoot. Let's take a look.
Second to the party is another Barnes, Troy Barnes that is, A.K.A Childish Gambino, A.K.A Donald Glover. Despite his Sound Academy show being postponed until later in the summer, Mr. Glover passed through Toronto under his Childish Gambino moniker to shake some hands, kiss some babies, and let Matt follow him around the Metropolitan Hotel.
Closing out our three way is some work that took Matt and Co. down to California in order to shoot for V*LUP Magazine, a skin journal specializing in the curviest of femme fatales; and while V*LUP may not have gotten off the ground, these images from Matt are sure to… never-mind, just look.
If yer lookin' for a bit of Motion from Mr. Barnes be sure to click through to the VLUP post, there's a tantalizing look at the gangs trip down south.
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Car hit boar after birthday celebration at Neeld Arms Inn, Grittleton (From This Is Wiltshire)
Car hit boar after birthday celebration at Neeld Arms Inn, Grittleton
Updated 3:54pm Thursday 24th January 2013 in By Julie Armstrong, Senior reporter
A wild boar spotted several times around Chippenham this month has been found dead where it was hit by a car.
An accidental collision with the boar on the A420 on Thursday night happened after David Beard, 50, had been celebrating his birthday at the Neeld Arms Inn, Grittleton.
He was being driven home to Chippenham when the boar ran out into the road.
The accident happened near the Allington Farm Shop at 10.45pm and was reported to police on Friday.
Mr Beard suffered a broken nose when the airbag activated.
He said: "There was nothing there at all and the next thing I knew it was just standing there, it was quite huge."
He and the driver were unable to find the boar in the dark but went looking for it yesterday after the snow cleared and found it's body.
"Poor thing lying in a ditch, it's very sad," he said.
"It is about five feet long and two feet tall. It did an awful lot of damage to the car.
"It was a really good day and then that - what a way to end it."
Earlier this month dog walker Paul Gardner, of Brook Street, Chippenham, said he came across a wild boar between Sheldon School and Chippenham Football Club.
He said: "It started charging towards me and I screamed like a girl."
Mr Gardner's scare came after several sightings the week before.
Police received calls saying a wild boar was on the loose on the A420 and one was spotted near the Allington Farm Shop.
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5:13pm Thu 24 Jan 13
Yer Tis says...
Oh but as usual they wont want to comment!
7:21pm Thu 24 Jan 13
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8:40pm Thu 24 Jan 13
Mrs Donnyfly says...
Yer Tis wrote:perhaps it tells us more of the boar's hiding skill.
"Six officers searched for the boar but could not find it." reported yesterday, so what does that tell us about the police efficiency.
Oh but as usual they wont want to comment!
9:09pm Thu 24 Jan 13
Grumpy & Old says...
There must be 2.....!
10:16pm Thu 24 Jan 13
Locksmith says...
9:48am Fri 25 Jan 13
greendoors says...
11:22am Fri 25 Jan 13
beetawix says...
greendoors wrote:I know. What is more the readers are all struggling to understand what "found it is body" means.
I know its pedantic but, please, reporters learn when to and when not to use an apostrophe in conjunction with "its". In the article the reporter is saying "found it is body"
11:27am Fri 25 Jan 13
beetawix says...
David's birthday or the boar's birthday?
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The.Central.Scrutinizer says...
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1:35am Sun 27 Jan 13
beetawix says...
greendoors wrote:do you know, I never noticed.
Guess what. I missed out the apostrohe in the third word of my Friday post. Oops!
You missed it did you. I expect the reporter missed it too and you told him/her to learn usage!
Guess what. You missed a p in the seventh word of your Saturday post.
4:20pm Mon 28 Jan 13
chips-in-ham says...
beetawix wrote:Guess what? Not guess what.
greendoors wrote:do you know, I never noticed.
Guess what. I missed out the apostrohe in the third word of my Friday post. Oops!
You missed it did you. I expect the reporter missed it too and you told him/her to learn usage!
Guess what. You missed a p in the seventh word of your Saturday post.
8:41am Thu 31 Jan 13
beetawix says...
Guess what? Not guess what.
"Guess what" was not a question.
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Scranton School District to develop playground, sell ad space
Students at Whittier Elementary School may finally have their playground. The Scranton School Board plans to authorize the district's architect and engineer to develop plans for the space, directors said at their work session Monday night.
The original plan for the playground, which parents had asked for since the school opened three years ago, was to put it on two lots the district purchased across the alley behind the school. But with concerns for student safety, the playground may be developed in the current parking lot adjacent to the school, and the parking lot moved to the two lots.
In other business:
- Plans to build a new gymnasium for West Scranton High School are still progressing, and district officials will meet with architects later this week. In November, the board approved the construction of a 1,200-seat facility for Invader sports. An initial proposal estimated the cost at $5.8 million, but the board hopes to spend less than that.
- Directors will request proposals from people or firms to sell advertising space at Memorial Stadium. Any contracts for the signs that are currently posted have expired, and the district is not currently receiving any revenue from the signs, directors said. Director Bob Sheridan suggested that board members who own businesses should be ineligible to buy advertising space. Other directors disagreed and said they would be given no preferential treatment for advertising.
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See historic bikes and riders at this year's Isle of Man TT
AN 'A' list of legendary racers and iconic TT machinery has been confirmed for the 2011 TT 'Milestones of the Mountain' Parade lap to celebrate the centenary of racing around the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course.The parade, which takes place on Senior Race day, Friday 10th June, will feature twenty-six of the most important events, riders and moments in a hundred years of racing.One of the greatest names in TT history, Honda, who were the first Japanese manufacturer to contest the event, and who have since gone on to win 155 times, will be represented by former world champion and TT winner Luigi Taveri, who will be riding a 1964 Honda RC161.One of Yamaha's most successful riders, Phil Read, the 8 times TT winner and 8 times World Champion, will be riding the factory 4 cylinder two-stroke 250cc Yamaha that he raced successfully in the 1968 TT and world championship.The Senior TT winning Honda RC30 from 1988 will be ridden by Gary Dunlop who will be representing his father, the 5 time World Champion Joey. The Northern Ireland racer first competed on the Isle of Man in 1976 and his record of 26 victories leaves him as the most successful TT rider of all time.Scotsman Steve Hislop, who was the first rider to lap at over 120mph and took part in what is widely acknowledged as one of the all time great races against Carl Fogarty – the 1992 Senior TT - will be represented twice in the parade by close friends Steve Plater and Stuart Easton. Steve, who has two TT victories to his name and is the current Senior TT Race Record holder, will be riding a replica RC30 to represent Steve's achievement as the first rider to lap at more than 120mph in 1989, whilst current BSB star and TT hopeful Stuart Easton will ride the ABUS 588cc rotary Norton from the epic 1992 Senior Race.Northern Ireland's Philip McCallen, the first rider to win 4 races in one week, will be riding a Honda RC45. Phil, who won 11 TT's in a career that ran from 1989 to 1999, will be on the starting grid with the man that broke his record, Ian Hutchinson, who will be riding his history making Padgett's Honda Superbike.Nine-time TT winner David Jefferies will be represented by his uncle Nick, who will be riding the V&M Racing Yamaha R1 that 'DJ' raced in his 1999 campaign.His great friend and rival John McGuinness, who has dominated the TT leader board with 15 victories since his first victory in 1999, will be bringing his 2007 Honda Superbike, on which he became the first man to break the 130mph lap for the 37¾ mile course.
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