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Ylvis, 'The Fox (What Does the Fox Say)' – Song Meaning
Ylvis' 'The Fox (What Does the Fox Say)' is a fun, silly novelty song — albeit one that has racked up millions of YouTube views and made a splash stateside. Ylvis are a Norwegian comedy duo with the power to make us laugh. In order to assess the lyrics of 'The Fox' and decipher what it means, you must approach the track with a sense of humor. If you don't, you're an idiot. It sounds like a freakin' nursery rhyme!
Allow PopCrush to offer our not-so-dramatic reading of the song!
"Dog goes woof / Cat goes meow / Bird goes tweet and mouse goes squeek / Cow goes moo / Frog goes croak / And the elephant goes toot /Ducks say quack / And fish go blub / And the seal goes ow ow ow ow ow"
Those are not exactly grand observations on life or the animal kingdom, right? But then again, they are not supposed to be. The song sounds like a children's book set to song and the lyrics are a statement of the obvious. If you want to teach kids the sounds animals make, then this song allows you to do that.
"But there's one sound / That no one knows / What does the fox say?"
Ah, therein lies an existential question, if you want to go "there." This philosophical question is packed into a comedy song with a melody that is best served for little ones. But — and it's a very big but — it got us asking another question. If a fox grunts in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound? See what you've done to us, Ylvis?! The wheels are turning…
"Big blue eyes / Pointy nose / Chasing mice and digging holes / Tiny paws / Up the hill / Suddenly you' re standing still / Your fur is red / So beautiful / Like an angel in disguise / But if you meet / a friendly horse / Will you communicate by / Mo-o-o-o-orse? / Mo-o-o-o-orse? / Mo-o-o-o-orse?"
There you have it. What Ylvis are really asking with their song is "Can't we all just find a way to communicate despite our differences? Can we as people do it like they do it on The Discovery Channel?" See what we just did there? (Hi, Bloodhound Gang!) Aren't things, like communicating, much simpler in the animal kingdom? Find a way to co-exist or die. Yes, the song sounds like something you read your child or your little brother or sister when you want to put them to sleep with a bedtime story. But there's some subtle meaning buried within, if you want to go there. Strip away the "hehe"and "haha" and it's a song about the survival of the fittest.
Yeah, we went there.
You know, it could just be about the fox having pretty fur.
PopCrushers, are we digging way too deep for meaning with 'The Fox' or do you agree with us? What do you think of the inane lyrics?
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14 comments
1.Ammar Ibrahim said:
What puzzle? This clock?
Wed, 06 Oct 2004 at 05:07:43 GMT Link
2.Chris Shiflett said:
Yes, the clock is the puzzle.
Wed, 06 Oct 2004 at 05:12:41 GMT Link
3.BDM said:
It's an animated gif file, probably generated through php, which "advances" the clock every 2 seconds. It starts from 1:11 . However, it does not always advance by the "correct" amount of 2 seconds.
Thu, 07 Oct 2004 at 06:53:43 GMT Link
4.Marco said:
Hey Chris, did anyone solve this yet?
Sun, 10 Oct 2004 at 01:27:58 GMT Link
5.Chris Shiflett said:
Ben Ramsey did earlier today. He's still the only person who has solved it, but I unfortunately only had one prize - a free pass to take the Zend Certification exam.
Sun, 10 Oct 2004 at 01:45:27 GMT Link
6.Todd Patrick said:
BTW: What is the answer to this puzzle?
Tue, 01 Mar 2005 at 21:38:35 GMT Link
7.Neha Katira said:
I am curious to know the answer.
Tue, 12 Apr 2005 at 19:10:21 GMT Link
8.Jatin Chimote said:
Perhaps, I am a "too late" late to arrive at this page :) , but where is the clock ? I don't see anything.. Was it removed !
May be I am turning blind ... help me god.
Mon, 01 May 2006 at 08:35:24 GMT Link
9.Chris Shiflett said:
You should be able to see the clock now.
I totally forgot to explain the solution to this in my blog, but here's the first hint:
1. coordinates, not time
Mon, 01 May 2006 at 14:14:41 GMT Link
10.Sumaira said:
strnage .. done know .. juts ... some sort of increment in time .. may follwoing some techniq ...
when u will tell about this puzzle?
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 at 10:26:56 GMT Link
11.Sumaira said:
If u already give the pass.. or if anyone win that puzzle then plz tel about it ????????????
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 at 10:37:27 GMT Link
12.Fred said:
BDM is right, but this is only an animated gif to be convinced copy it on your desk and open it with internet explorer.
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 at 13:37:07 GMT Link
13.Pedro Amaral Couto said:
I see the GIF has all frames (the coordinates) when I download it. The amazing thing is that it always starts with the same time when the page is refreshed. The image file uses a cookie for a PHP session (I'm using the Firebug). If I clean the cookies, the animation resets when I refresh the page. The session is used to set a cursor for the first frame we see. It seems it's possible to generate animated GIFs with PHP, but you could also change a GIF file contents to set the first frame (a coordinate).
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 at 17:34:46 GMT Link
14.wanderingbear said:
My guess is that rather than (hh:mm) it's more (x,y) coordinates.
The hour is the x coordinate, and the minute is the y coordinate. (Could be swapped, doesn't really matter as the difference would just be a rotation)
Plot points at each of the (x,y) entries and see what the picture/result is.. Seems like a lot of work, but that's my thought
Wed, 22 Dec 2010 at 17:08:12 GMT Link
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The decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to declare that one-on-one meetings by a supervisor of an underperforming staff member constitute bullying is a disgraceful decision (''Public servant 'bullied' by her supervisor'', November 17, p1). What on earth could they have been thinking?
The implications of such a poorly considered decision are profound; and unless something is done to reverse the decision quickly, will have devastating effects on the capacity of good managers, such as the one in this case.
Apparently, AAT members Robin Creyke and Bernard Hughson have said that because other staff members were aware of these one-on-one meetings that the supervisor should have found another way to approach the underperformance issue. Unremarkably, these sages of the AAT don't say what that method would be. Presumably the only way that any meeting could not be known by other staff members would be for it to be clandestinely arranged outside the workplace and outside normal hours! And what about the implications for meetings which have nothing to do with performance!
It is extraordinary that at a time when the public service is shedding thousands of staff members that the AAT could proffer such rubbish. The management of underperforming staff is already a ridiculously cumbersome and process-heavy burden on the business of government. What needs to be criticised is not the valiant attempt by a supervisor to address underperformance but rather the larger failure of public service leadership to inculcate a culture which understands that performance management is part and parcel of what comes with the privilege of working in the public service. How ridiculous that other staff should regard performance management sessions as a matter of ''notoriety''.
The Prime Minister must intervene. Abolishing the AAT's role in such matters, or abolishing it altogether, might be the necessary signal the government needs to send to demonstrate it wants an effective and efficient public service, and not one that is a slothful burden on taxpayers.
Chris Williams, Griffith
Fuel price inertia
John Murray (Letters, November 17) drew attention to the difference in price between Sydney and Canberra and suggested the 24c a litre seemed excessive for fuel freight costs. Over the past 12 months, the price of fuel in Canberra has been set by Coles and Woolworths. With few, if any, private operators in Canberra, the two supermarket chains are the price setters for fuel and the price relates to the discount offerings at their respective outlets.
The higher the discount, the higher the base price of fuel. In this respect, they are cross-subsidising their other businesses, and the Canberra motorist is the one who suffers. I am surprised that with all the effort the ACT government has put into ensuring there is competition in supermarket pricing, the same effort has not been put into ensuring there is competition in the fuel market. Could it be there is a conflict of interest in this area, with both the tax and GST governments receive from the price of fuel?
Don McDonough, Florey
Australia complicit
How sad it is that Palestinians have to fire homemade rockets into Jerusalem to gain some attention from the United Nations and those countries who subscribe to Christian decency. There are not many such countries and sadly Australia is not one, either. Just listen to Ms Gillard and Mr Carr pushing Israel's barrow. Sixty-four years of occupation and still going. Starvation, ethnic cleansing, brutality, apartheid. Makes one proud to be Australian.
Rhys Stanley, via Hall, NSW
Study of little help
The study on wind farms reported on by George Papadopolous (Letters, November 16) is less helpful in assessing the claimed health problems associated with wind generation than he asserts.
According to online discussion by technically qualified researchers in the field, the study is of low scientific reliability because it involves a very small sample and control group, did not involve any actual measurement of the noise from the wind turbines in the areas surveyed and mistakes correlation for causation in the interpretation of the results.
Importantly the authors do not disclose pre-existing biases as anti-wind generation activists and the thanked reviewers do not declare conflicts of interests arising from being paid as anti-wind generation experts. Against this we need to take account of 17 major reviews worldwide of the peer-reviewed literature on wind energy, health and noise that have found no evidence of health impacts.
Doug Hynd, Stirling
Inner bigot
Ian Warden (''A need for the good book, but not the one you think'', Forum, November 17, p4), writes of his need to wrestle back control from his ''inner curmudgeon''. Perhaps he should be more concerned about the emergence of his ''inner bigot''? The self-styled nimble-minded Warden writes how uncomfortable he would be to find himself Irish in his origins or Roman Catholic in his faith, because ''that would say to me … I wasn't in search of what is true''. A curmudgeon might sometimes be humorous, bigotry never is. No journalist worthy of the name should ever stoop to it, not even in jest.
Paul McMahon, Isaacs
Housing fusion
Bernard Salt (''Call for housing of Anglo-Asian fusion'', November 16, p5) questioned the focus on building separate houses on separate blocks when ''couples and singles were the fastest-growing households in Canberra''. However, singles generally desire to find partners and then have families. This means houses on blocks of land, and room to play and move, allowing for an enjoyable lifestyle.
The growing numbers of Indian and Chinese residents is due to our high immigration rates, which will increase in the coming years. It's not a ''natural'' or grassroots phenomenon, but socially engineered by a political choice.
Salt said if he were a politician he would ''champion the cause of how Generation Y could access affordable housing''. The solution is a stable population, with existing houses for everyone.
Salt then had the audacity to say we should ''move towards more semi-detached and unit dwellings''! What can the next generation expect to live in? Shoe-boxes?
''Demographer'' Bernard Salt is a paid mouthpiece for the pro-growth lobby and, as such, his reports should not be taken any more seriously than any other group or individual with vested interests in high-density housing and business growth.
Vivienne Ortega, Heidelberg Heights, Vic
Viv's crowd source
In his new role as mentor to the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League, Sir Vivian Richards says he wants to ''keep things as simple as possible'' (Sir Viv returns to scene of glory, but in mentoring role only'', Sport liftout, November 17, pp2-3). That won't be easy. Alongside Sir Viv will be the head coach, the assistant coach (batting), the assistant coach (bowling), the assistant coach (fielding), the assistant coach (spin and strategy) and a sports psychologist. Oh, and we must not forget all the players, those in the team and the remaining members of the squad. Shane Warne's coach may come in handy in getting them all to the ground but things will be somewhat crowded in the dressing room.
Peter Crossing, Curtin
Pecking order
My congratulations to ''magpie whisperer'' Barrie Smillie on his success (Letters, November 13). Unfortunately, I have a different perspective of the little rotters. I used to jog for many years and, consequently, have spent a very big chunk of my life staring at a point on the pavement about two metres in front of my feet.
However, my downcast gaze and non-threatening posture did nothing whatever to prevent countless un-provoked attacks by the feathered, biffo-seeking missiles. In my experience, the only thing that reduces the chance of attack is to hold the gaze of the magpie. Of course, jogging backwards, on Canberra's deteriorating footpaths, while continuing to stare at the (beady) eyes of your wannabe attacker, presents its own safety risks.
Gordon Fyfe, Kambah
What we owe them
As a Pom who was born and lived much of my life in the UK, and who is now an Australian citizen, I feel I must reply to Robert Willson (Letters, November 3). I fail to see what relevance a 700-year-old battle might have on a 21st-century Scottish voter in any type of decision-making. Should it be relevant, there is no reason why there should not be referendums ''south of the border'' on any number of things.
To suggest that the republican movement is ''comatose'' because major changes to the constitution would be needed, is baffling. Surely if any faction, republican, monarchist or whatever, is feeling sleepy, it is because it knows it cannot get the numbers to succeed and it has very little to do with referendums or the constitution.
In UK elections, anyone can vote if he or she is British or is a citizen of a British Commonwealth country. In other words, if Robert Willson had been in the UK in 1975 at the right time, he could have voted in the UK referendum which took the UK into Europe with a majority of two to one.
No, the UK does not have a written constitution, it has Common Law instead. This allows much more flexibility in solving problems, which is probably why the UK has never had a written constitution. Much of the Australian constitution is founded on British Common Law, and we should, indeed, be grateful for it.
John Sidebotham, Berowra, NSW
We need an institution to educate us about our special fauna
Congratulations to The Canberra Times for publishing the edited extract of an article by Tim Flannery on the extinction of our unique wildlife (''New extinction wave in full swing'', Forum, November 17, p5). Tim showed that Australia is losing species at an alarming rate and clearly spelt out what needs to be done to protect our fauna for the future.
However, there was one important factor that he did not dwell on and that is the need to better educate all Australians on just how special our animals are. Australians know more about lions and moles from other countries than their marsupial counterparts. We need more people to really care about all our creatures, both great and small and not just cute furry ones.
Millions of years of isolation have made Australia's lands and wildlife different from other continents. Our natural history is unique but there is no national institution that tells this story of our past, our present environment and, most importantly, what we must learn for the future. Many other countries with less important natural history have institutions that focus solely on this topic. The need for such an institution is becoming even more critical given the threats to our environment due to climate change.
It is vital that we learn from the past to understand the present in order to ensure the future. Educating, researching and meeting these challenges would be the focus and purpose of the proposed institution.
Phil Creaser, McKellar
Climate change
Further to Judy Ryan's letter (November 19), I suggest that fervent climate change denial will not change whether or not planet Earth decides to raise sea levels and temperatures in response to humans' ever-increasing emissions of carbon dioxide. However, what could be said is that if it does happen, most of the deniers, who seem to be senior males (Ms Ryan excepted), are not likely to be around to experience the worst of it.
Ian Webster, Curtin
Heritage skin deep
It's no wonder that heritage protection has become a facade (''Heritage protection is just a facade'', November 17, p3) when architects and developers thumb their noses at the already clear mandatory (defined by Collins' dictionary as ''obligatory, compulsory'') requirements listed in already clear and long-standing heritage legislation for these defined areas of Canberra.
Couple this with a large department (Heritage) which continues to fail to enforce the requirements under Mr Corbell (who refuses to meet with concerned residents decrying the McMansions springing up throughout these suburbs), the concept of ''heritage protection'' is non-existent. The government, supported by the bureaucracy, continues to hide behind the facade of heritage while the buildings disappear on a daily basis. And once it's gone it's gone forever.
Andrew Gordon, Griffith
Come down off your high horse, David Stephens (Letters November 17), and put your politically correct pieties in your pocket. Don Aitken was merely stating the obvious in his ''alleged slur'' and should, say, a blond, blue-eyed individual have forebears who were victims of the Highland Clearances, one of whom married a full-blooded Aboriginal eight generations ago with successive generations only marrying into Scottish migrant clans, then it seems that by today's idiotic standards and sanctimonious luvvie logic, he can call himself a victim of discrimination against Aborigines - but not Scots - and claim whatever benefits may accrue. Still, the one ray of hope against this madness is that now even some people who are obviously of Aboriginal descent are starting to look sideways at some other claimants.
The fuzzy nebulosity of ''reconciliation'' and the moveable feast of the date on which it will be achieved will only be put to rest when someone, unknown but with some greater or lesser element of Aboriginal ancestry, suddenly gains worthy prominence without the accompanying media report feeling obliged to mention the fact in the currently patronising and insulting manner which has a flavour of ''Oh look, aren't they getting clever!''
Bill Deane, Chapman
If Israel is truly interested in peace, let it show that by withdrawing all its forces and citizens behind the borders given it upon its creation as a modern nation-state, not those it seeks to impose by force of arms. To do any less demonstrates that it is an expansionist power, as obsessed with the idea of lebensraum as Nazi Germany.
Paul McElligott, Aranda
After hearing or reading all that has been said about the AWU affair, the public is left with making one of two judgments: Ms Gillard is guilty of being young (35?) and naive; or Ms Gillard knowingly participated in establishing ''Australian Workers Union-Workplace Reform Association Inc'' for criminal purposes.
Ed Dobson, Hughes
I am not a Roman Catholic, but I see moves to oblige priests to pass information received under the confidentiality of confession on to the police as wrong-headed, even dangerous. The consequence will be that sinners will not confess transgressions which might land them in trouble with the police. Hence, the priest will know his parishioners less well and cannot guide them towards making amends and changing their ways.
Hans Kuhn, Campbell
I note that the two sports dream machines in the article ''Our dream machine runabouts'' (November 18, p5) are owned by people of Greek origin. I am pleased to see some Greeks are doing well, and are no doubt paying all their taxes.
C. Coulthard, Pyrmont, NSW
Perhaps we should forgive Carl Vine's outburst (Letters, November 16) over the reasonable comments of Jennifer Gall in her review of Musica Viva's concert regarding the inclusion of the work of Australian composers. He is MV programmer for the imminent Huntington Estate Music Festival, where some of the regular audience will, before and after and at interval at eight concerts in five days, persist in complaining about the inclusion of any living or recently dead Australian composers.
Sue Edmondson, Kambah
Thursday, November 15, at 08:09, BP service centre, 1175 Hume Hwy. 38.76 litres of 91 octane fuel, $51.52 at 132.9¢/litre inc GST.
Thursday, November 15, at 15:57, Caltex service Centre, Kambah. 36.60 litres of 91 octane fuel, $60.16 at 151.9¢/litre inc GST.
This fine newspaper rightly wouldn't allow me to use the adjectives I am tempted to apply.
Ian Warren, Kambah


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And that's the Thai way of doing things...no hurry
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Seems to be a case of staff shortage rather than the airport itself?
Two-hour queues: Bangkok's 'futuristic' airport not coping with tourists
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To passengers departing from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport
To passengers departing from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport
Due to the renovation work of immigration area at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport, the numbers of the immigration counters are limited and it causes severe congestion.
In order to ensure to take your flight, it is recommended to come to the airport for check-in 2 hours before departure time and proceed to the immigration process right after check-in.
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Was fortunate enough to be in CX J on my BKK trip late last year. Had access to the express security/immigration line. I definitely got the impression that I dodged a bullet after seeing the long queues.
Last year at Easter I flew from KUL to BKK. It took longer to clear immigration and customs at BKK than the actual flight. Maybe there were more foreign passengers than normal because of Easter. But just seemed to be understaffed, about half the immigration desks were empty.
I arrived last night and inbound immigration was empty.
There was a mob of several hundred pax following me though and another half-dozen flights arriving in quick succession.
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I fly in and out quite often and I dread outbound immigration - has *always* been a killer, and now with renovations, they're a full section short. It's truly annoying to see the Thai Passport queues empty and Foreign full and they don't even bother to ask you to step forward.
I fly with my Thai PA often, and on some occasions, they'll allow me to go with her through Thai Passport Holders, and at other times, I'll be waved back to the Foreign queue just as we are about to step forward, which is really bad especially when that line has gotten 3x longer! (Inbound they seem more agreeable to allow me into the country with her, go figure.)
Inbound can be long queues, but usually they're pretty good for the flights I'm returning on. I think they could improve, by allowing foreigners through their Thai lanes, when nobody is there, but that would mean thinking a little laterally - something I've found they don't do well at the best of times, so being a government department, it'll probably *never* happen any time soon.
I left yesterday for HKG, and it was pretty quick - the quickest I've been through in a long time - and that was through their newly renovated area.
Last time I passed through it took me 2hrs to find out where I could get an arrival's card from. The crew on my flight didn't hand them out and I thought 'oh well, I'll just pick one up at the counters near the immigration queues'....wrong!! What counters? Not only that but no staff either (aside from the ones checking passports), I wasn't about to line up only to be turned away because of no card. After a mammoth hike of Suvarnabhumi I managed to find an info desk who had no idea where I could get an arrival's card from. I was finally rescued by a Thai Airways fast-track immigration staff member who wasn't very happy to be dealing with a Y pax. Welcome to Thailand. The only thing crazier is the cattle-yard downstairs where tourists are herded into taxi's where the drivers speak no English and cannot read a Thai address written in English. The nice people who tell your taxi driver your destination before you get in don't understand your address written in English either. Last time I needed to get to Ratchada, and ended up on a 8 lane overpass in god knows where, dodging traffic while trying to contact my hotel on the driver's mobile. My visit was so exciting I vowed never to return.
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Review by KasketDarkfyre
"Break it down..."
As skate boarding games go, there really isn't a game genre better known than the Tony Hawk series which has spanned across several different systems through a couple of various sequels. In this outing, you take control of Tony Hawk, and a couple of new skaters in an all out skate fest to the finish, busting out heavy scoring combinations. sick tricks and thumb busting rail grinds. There isn't a story, and nothing has really changed other than the locations you skate in and the new idea that playing this on the Net would be a good idea to throw in for the hell of it! Giving you control of several different skaters in the likes of Tony Hawk, Elissa Steamer and Bucky Lasek, you have the ability to pull off some of the most hair raising moves and sick combinations through several stages of well drawn and well planned out madness!
Where as in the first two games, you had to complete mission sections of the game, fulfilling gaps and collecting money, the only thing that really has changed is that you're able to make the stages pretty much bend to your whim while you traverse through them. Examples of this range from making certain parts of the stage move around freely after you've pulled a trick or perform a grind to stop something as wild as a local car chase! These missions are no longer just ranged from performing tricks and getting a top score, but now they force you to really hone your skills in order to complete them and move on to the next stage. Some of these can be rather silly, and a couple of them really don't make much sense, but all in all they do add a slight bit of variety to the game that wasn't quite seen in the past releases of the series.
The Game Play
When you talk about, or hear about Tony Hawk Pro Skater games, the most immediate thing that comes to mind is the tricks that you perform and the scores that you receive in doing them! Nothing has really change in this respect, in which your main focus is to perform, and to do so correctly to get the heavy scores that you'll need, you have to learn the new tricks that have been added to the game. Ground tricks like the Revert help you to link in your combinations, while Manuals {ala Dave Mirra 2} will help you to continue on your trick line. Other features that are rather new to the series, is the ability to pick up Stat Points in different areas to increase your skaters attributes to your particular liking, even though if you take the time to collect them all, you'll find a fully attributed skater at your command anyway!
Game play isn't just limited to the one player game either. With the ability to link up and host a game {which should be available for me sometime in the Spring of 2002} you can play through with up to four other skaters in games such as top score, horse, tag and my favorite, graffiti! This just opens up a completely new door for more advanced amounts of competition, and you don't have to rely on having a multi-tap device or a ton of friends around to play. If you compile this onto the feature of being able to either create your own skater with his or her own move sets, or being able to take an already created skater {such as Tony Hawk} and customizing him or her to your liking, you'll have a wider variety of things that you can do with your skater before you even start playing!
But, as with most games that come into the higher numbers of sequels, you'll have problems with the game after about an hour of play, in which all of the goals seems pretty much linear, and even finding the ''hidden'' decks are easy enough to complete. Once you have a particular trick line in the competitions that you face, you'll find that the higher your score, the better off your overall will be and it doesn't matter who you use, or what you do, once you've reached a certain score, you'll be able to win no matter how many times you crash and burn into the ashpalt! This comes less as a surprise and more of a drag when you're really looking for something new in an already well played and well worn series such as this one. When you boil down the new features, as opposed to the ones that you've probably already played, you'll find that it is more of the same with a few added functions to make you forget that plain and simple fact!
Controlling the game is easy enough to do, and anyone who has played the game before will find that this version doesn't play any different than the last other than the fact that you've got a couple of new moves added to your list. Learning how to use these moves effectively will go a long way into helping you attain some sick scores in later levels, so learning how to use the interface is key to really playing the game. If you've never played the game before, there is a tutorial that you can access and use, and not only that, but it is given to you in the voice of Skater God, Tony Hawk! This helps to ease the learning curve in such a way that you don't have too many mistakes other than just learning how to time and land the tricks correctly. If you're still having problems with the control after this, then most of it will be just learning how to time your grab and air tricks, and how to use the balance meter when grinding a rail or pulling a manual!
The Visuals
Visually speaking, the game is awesome in every way. Clean stages and well designed skaters with fluid movements and trick performances really go a long way. With the customization that is available before you play, you can pretty much make your own skater or customize another skater to your style and liking through a well thought out creation menu! The stages are expansive in their own way, without going too far overboard, and they also have a life of their own with pedestrians and moving traffic as well as moving objects out in the background. From the streets of Los Angeles to the snow covered mountains of Canada, you'll find that there is plenty to look at and much to see without the use of special effects! Combine this in with the speed of the overall game, and you'll find that THPS 3 is a far visually superior game than the first two, and a well recieved piece of eye candy.
The Audio
The audio here is actually well done and helps the game immensely in terms of the music that you have and the ambient sound effects that you'll encounter throughout the game itself. The music is strictly skate boarding music with appearences from different groups that really boost the action and help keep the pace of the game flowing at every step! Something that you may have to do, is turn the music down, because some of it is a little too loud, and can cause a headache when listened to, too much. The sound effects are also a nice touch, allowing the gamer to really feel absorbed into the virtual world, with people speaking to you, screeching car tires and in some cases, three dimensional sound effects that move from right to left or vice versa depending on the stage!
The Verdict
Tony Hawk 3 is a good game, and not to be shunned by any means but I must concur with a fellow reviewer in which the series really is starting to draw out and border on boring. With the amount of new features that were added, THPS 3 makes a pretty good showing, with some good looking visuals, great sound and a relatively complex to learn and easy to play game play interface. Even though the thought of playing this game online does tend to make me want to play it some more, in the long run, most gamers probably won't find more than a few hours enjoyment and once the secrets are unlocked, it'll be something of a party game to play because everyone has had too much Halo in their diet! Rent first, those who are die hard skater fans will find this title to be a great way to kick off a title series on a new system, but those who are weekend gamers will get their fix out of a three day rental.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.0 - Great
Originally Posted: 09/10/02, Updated 09/10/02
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- Choose position of checkbox: Currently it appears after the label text which looks kinda weird to me.
- Support Fieldsets & legend: I love that I can specify the heading level but fieldsets & legends would definitely come in handy.
- Add custom HTML: The Description Container almost works but it forces a wrapping element (p/div/span). I was actually trying to use it to add fieldsets.
- Conditional Fields: even if it's in the pro-version only.
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Natori Taps Mosso, Cohen Rep Firms
July 7, 2008,
In a move that marks the company's effort to bring the Natori Collection of home textiles to the small independent boutique retailing community, Christian Mosso & Associates has been signed to represent the collection in its Atlanta showroom as well as throughout the Southwest region of the United States.
In addition, The Natori Collection has signed on with Richard Cohen Collection, based at 7 West 34 Street here, to represent the gift segment of the assortment, which includes throws and decorative pillows.
Natori has always been about gifts and gift giving, said Josie Natori, company president and ceo. The gift collection concentrates on luxurious fabrications, signature Natori embellishments and shape, Booth noted.
The relationship with Richard Cohen will begin on Aug. 18 "during the opening of the New York Gift and Home Furnishings Market," Booth said. The company will represent the Natori Gift Collection throughout the Northeast.
"Our objective is to reach and better serve the smaller, independent boutique retailer. These retailers have a great understanding of luxury product and the customer service that is so important at these price points. We are thrilled to be part of the CMA showroom presentation at America's Mart."
The Natori Collection, which includes the licensed product by JLA Home, features Natori bedding, Natori lounge and sleepwear, and the Natori line of decorative pillows and throws.
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This article was published 2/7/2013 (1508 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Dear Reena,
Is it possible to repair a trampoline? Our family trampoline has a rip in the canvas-like material about 10 centimetres long. Thanks. Lori
Dear Lori,
This is the season where trampolines go up and so do many children as they jump to their heart's content. If you happen to have the manufacturer's information, contact them. They may offer you a warranty and possibly repair the mat for you. If warranties are not an option, purchase a trampoline repair kit at your local sporting goods store. The kit comes with a patch, strong thread and instructions on use. Happy bouncing!
Dear Reena,
I am hoping that you will be able to help me with my problem. We have removed from our living room the coffee table that was sort of in the middle of the room. It has now left four big indentations in the carpet, which you can see quite well. I was hoping that you may have some suggestions for me as to how to get rid of them. Thank you for your help and time. Diana
Dear Diana,
You can use a damp cloth and a hot iron or hair dryer to remove carpet dents (be careful not to scorch the carpet). Place the damp cloth over the dents and place the iron on for a few seconds. Keep the cloth damp. Then take a soft hair brush and brush over it to bring up any remaining spots. This may take several minutes. Or just place a few ice cubes in each of the indentations — when the ice melts use a pet fur brush to pull up carpet, the indentation should be gone. Or use a garment steamer or steam iron to soften the indented area (be careful not to get the carpet soaking wet), and gently rake the pile with fingers or a brush to fluff them up again. This takes care of the pile only. Indentations in the padding beneath the carpet will just take some time after the pressure source is removed to become less flat.
Dear Reena,
I just installed a new patio door and I am trying to remove the sticker from the glass, I can't find any solutions. Thanks. Eman,
Dear Eman,
All you need to do is spray WD-40 onto the glass. Wait 10 minutes and scrape with a plastic putty knife. Wash window as usual.
Dear Reena,
I have a problem with removing a very unpleasant odour from expensive athletic pants. My daughter borrowed my pants and while wearing them had the stomach flu and soiled the pants. I have soaked them in detergent and washed them twice in cold water. The odour remains, I am afraid to use hot water and do not know what else to do. Please help! Mavis
Dear Mavis,
Check the care label instructions, unless the label indicates that you must use cold water you should be safe soaking the pants in hot water. In any case, soak your pants in a bottle of Sprite, leave for two hours. Rewash with detergent. The smell will be gone.
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• Make your own Flower Preservative: Combine 2 tablespoons vinegar with 2 tablespoons white sugar. Add to 1 quart water. The sugar acts as a food and the vinegar inhibits the growth of organisms. Or add 1 tablespoons 7UP to vase water. (Taken from Household Solutions 1 with Substitutions)
• Change vase water every day and clean vase well before adding flowers.
• Before you place cut flowers in water, always give the stem a fresh cut. Cut stems at an angle with a sharp knife. An angle cut exposes a larger area of the stem for water intake. Cutting with scissors pinches the stem, reducing water intake. The same is true for preparation before cooking asparagus.
• Add a copper penny (made before 1968) to the water vase, acting as a natural fungicide. Submitted by Lindsay
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Samuel L. Jackson Performs Perfect Slam Poem About 'Boy Meets World' [VIDEO]
The living acting legend Samuel L. Jackson delivered a powerful slam poem about 'Boy Meets World' on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.
The living acting legend Samuel L. Jackson delivered a powerful slam poem about 'Boy Meets World' on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.
Back in the 90s, 'Boy Meets World' was a hit sitcom in the legendary TGIF block of programming on ABC. Danielle Fishel played Topanga, girlfriend of Cory Matthews - played by Ben Savage. Fishel is now 31, and a lot of dudes my age will be happy to know that she covered, and posed for the April issue of Maxim Magazine.
Cory and Topanga are back! 'Boy Meets World' fans were stunned earlier this month to learn that The Disney Channel had begun development of a sequel series to be titled 'Girl Meets World,' and now the original stars have taken it one step closer to reality. Centering on Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence's young daughter Riley, the series has officially picked up original stars Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel to reprise their roles, but how far along is production? Will we be tuning in for 'Girl Meets World' any time soon?
Late last week, we were stunned to learn that ABC was in the process of developing a spin-off of beloved ABC sitcom 'Boy Meets World,' a sequel series focusing on Cory and Topanga's young daughter to be called 'Girl Meets World.' Speculation has run rampant on which cast member might return, even apart from the potential involvement of series stars Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel, but now concrete new details have emerged on the series itself. Find out what Cory Matthews has been up to in the comments!


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For the month of December, I am participating in Gwen Bell's The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge. The challenge is to respond to a daily writing/photo prompt that reflects on this past year. Oh, and if you want to join me I would love to hear your stories and memories, leave a comment or a link to your site.
from 12/5: Night out.
In August, D and I have an afternoon movie date. We're in Falmouth on Cape Cod and we're running late.
Over the last 19 months, we have a total of five dates, and only on one of those dates do we go out to see a movie.
We need to improve our numbers here, seriously.
Julie and Julia starts in 30 minutes. We say goodbye to L and race to get there on time.
Our directions are missing so we navigate from half forgotten turns and landmarks. We stop at a country store. A guy stands outside the store. He is unshaven and wears a large black overcoat. In his right hand, he clutches a brown paper sack.
"Oh, you missed your turn," he says, "take a left outta the parking lot and it's straight off the highway about 5 miles down the road. It's on the left. You can't miss it."
The trailers start. We stand in line behind five women who decide to see a later show and want a refund. There is only one attendant. The guy in front of us jokes that we're all going to miss the movies by the time these ladies make up their minds.
The film rolls for 10 minutes before we find some of the last seats in the front row. Our necks crane back. D slips his hand around mine. For the next two hours, we are alone in a crowd of strangers.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Authorities say a man breaking into a Pensacola self-storage business was killed by deputies.
The Escambia County Sheriff's Office reports that 49-year-old Paul Thayer was trying to enter the business Sunday night when he was confronted by two deputies. Witnesses say Thayer pulled a gun and fired at the deputies.
The deputies returned fire, killing Thayer. The Pensacola News Journal (http://on.pnj.com/127N11J ) reports that the shooting remains under investigation.
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An artisan from West Bengal puts finishing touches to a statue of Hindu goddess Dashama at a workshop in Ahmadabad. The 10-day Dashama festival, which begins on August 6, culminates with the immersion of the idol.
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Christopher James Maurer died Aug. 3. He was 52.
Mr. Maurer was born Dec. 17, 1959, in Portland. He moved to Mulino with his parents and attended Mulino grade school and graduated from Molalla High School. He was preceded in death by his brothers, James and Matthew. He is survived by his parents, Gerold "Jake" and Carol Maurer; brothers, Kevin and Vincent; a sister, Laura; half-brother, Terry Diarmit, Salem; and sons, Nathan and Gerold; and one grandson.
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Police say one person was killed in a crash in Bexley Monday evening.
The crash occurred on East Broad Street, near South Dawson Avenue.
Authorities did not immediately say what caused the two-vehicle crash.
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Khaled Abdul Wahab was not a typical Tunisian. Son of the country's most famous writer, Khaled was struck with wanderlust. He traveled not just to Europe, but also to America, where he learned art and architecture and even worked as a photography model in Manhattan. But there were two Jewish families in Khaled's hometown of Mahdia who were very glad that he returned to live on his family farm by the time German troops arrived. Thanks to him, the Boukhris and Uzzan families were saved from the worst of the Nazi horrors.
What had been a happy, uneventful childhood for 11-year-old Anny Boukhris came to an abrupt end when Germans invaded Tunisia. German troops barged into her home and ransacked their possessions, including Anny's prized stamp collection, giving her family just one hour to pack their suitcases. With nowhere to go, the Boukhrises and their cousins, the Uzzans, sought refuge with friends at an olive press factory outside town.
Late one night, a man came banging at the door of the factory. It was Khaled. A notable member of the community, he had taken it upon himself to wine and dine the German officers in order to learn their intentions and try to prevent some of the worst of the Nazi atrocities. Over dinner that night, he had learned that one of the German officers had his eye on Odette Boukhris, Anny's beautiful mother. Fearing for her safety, Khaled spent the the night ferrying everyone to his farm in the hamlet of Tlelsa, about 20 miles west of Mahdia. There, the two families were safe, living in the stables on the far side of the farm.
Soon after their arrival, a German unit set up camp just outside Khaled's compound. One night, when the men of the two Jewish families were off performing forced labor, Khaled hosted a dinner in the main house for the officers from the nearby unit. One of them, drunkenly wandered around the farm grounds until he came to to the stables where he found the Jewish women and children.
"I know that you are Jews," he screamed at the women, cowering under their blankets and mattresses, "and I am going to kill you tonight." He pointed to a young girl, saying, "I am going to start with you!"
Just at that moment, Khaled arrived. He eased the German out of the stables before he laid a finger on any of the women.
"It was like the coming of the Messiah," said Anny's cousin Edmee.
Neither Khaled nor the Jews he protected at Tlelsa ever spoke much about these events. Thanks to Khaled, the Jewish families passed the rest of the occupation without incident, and as as long as Anny could remember, Khaled was an honored guest at the family table for the Sabbath meal.
Does Khaled Abdul Wahab deserve to be called "Righteous Among the Nations"?
In 2007, Khaled Abdul Wahab was nominated for that distinction at Yad Veshem, the national Holocaust Memorial in Israel. In 2009, it was announced that Khaled's nomination was rejected by the Commission on the Righteous, the official body that decides these matters under Israeli law.
You can read more about his nomination here.
Khaled's nomination provoked debate between people who felt he should be honored, and those who did not. You can read editorials from both perspectives:
- Read an editorial by Mordecai Paldiel, the former director of Yad Vashem's Department of the Righteous, who was responsible for nominating Khaled.
- Read an editorial by Irena Steinfeldt, the current director of Yad Vashem's Department of the Righteous, who explained why Khaled's nomination was rejected.
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Position description:
I am responsible for designing and implementing software and hardware interfaces used to test the performance and functionality of mixed-signal ICs (integrated circuits). In short, I help make sure the chips in your phone work.
Undergrad degree: BS Electrical and Computer Engineering
Favorite class in college: Microprocessor Interfacing Lab and computer architecture
Changing majors: I started out as a computer science major. This was partially because enrollment in the engineering school was very restricted at the time, but I thought I might stay a CS major. Then I ended up in classes that made me realize that a computer science degree at my school was really an applied mathematics degree. It was much to theoretical for me, so I switched to electrical engineering.
College to career:
As I mentioned, I was lucky to find a good job fit during my college interviews. I stayed in that job for quite a while. During that time work was important, but I was even more focused on getting my life off the ground—getting married, buying a house, etc.
Eventually I found I had really reached the limits of that job, so I moved to a job as an applications engineer for the test equipment manufacturer.
My college lab classes were some of the most important ones. Anytime you have a chance to actually do or create something, take it. Theory is great, but employers want to know if you can apply that theory.
Career influences: When I was interviewing for jobs my last semester of college, I knew that I didn't just want to write software forever. On the other hand, I knew that I did love computer architecture, assembly code, scripting. I was lucky enough to meet an interviewer who said he had a job where I could mix hardware design and software. And I've been doing it ever since.
I get to work with very smart, interesting people. I get to do a lot of different things. No sitting in a cube looking at a screen all day for me! My schedule is very flexible which was especially important when my child was young. There is lots of opportunity to take on new roles and responsibilities.
When there is a deadline, you need to meet it even if that means long days or working off hours to support sites on the other side of the world.
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OBF creates the collaborative standards and solutions that ensure accurate billing for the industry's core services as well as emerging innovations. It is the industry's go-to resource for resolving key issues and creating ordering, billing, provisioning and exchange of information solutions about access services as well as other connectivity between telecommunications customers and providers.
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Iran to launch nuclear plant next week
Iran will launch its first nuclear power plant next week, its atomic chief stated on Friday after years of delays to the project built by Russia in the southern city of Bushehr. "We are preparing to transfer the fuel inside the plant next week... Then we will need seven to eight days to transfer it to the reactor," said the Iranian atomic energy chief, Ali Akbar Salehi.
"On August 21, the fuel will be transferred inside the building in which the engine" of the Bushehr power station is located, Iran's Fars news agency quoted him as saying. "On the whole, there are 165 fuel bars," he said, adding the reactor would start operating around mid-September.
According to AFP, Salehi's comments came soon after Russian atomic agency Rosatom said the Bushehr plant would launch in a formal ceremony on August 21. "The fuel will be charged in the reactor on August 21. From this moment, Bushehr will be considered a nuclear installation," Rosatom spokesman Sergei Novikov said.
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- Iran: Process of loading fuel into nuclear plant being delayed
- Nuclear Madness: Iran, Kuwait, or the IAEA?
- Russia: Operation of nuclear plant in Iran delayed to June 2004
- Iran nuclear talks begin next week in Vienna
- Rosatom's TVEL Fuel Company is ready to supply nuclear fuel to the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant


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I came upon a fiddler on a Halifax pier just after dusk recently. He was playing a lament. The moon was already bright and sparkly yet the music transported me into a sorrowful state as it always does. Laments are … Read More
Happy Without Heroes?
It's sad but perhaps fitting that few Canadians know of Women's Institute. Even fewer remember Adelaide Hoodless who got it started. Sad because not too long ago Women's Institute was selected as one of the top ten social innovations in … Read More
Top Ten New Brunswick & Nova Scotia Social Innovations
My soul is Maritime infused. My earliest memory is of tap dancing as a toddler to Don Messer's Jubilee on the radio. My Mother was a Prince Edward Islander. I cut my community and political organizing teeth in Halifax. Scents, … Read More
Peace Is Our Time
Canada is a country with deep peacemaking roots. We were welcomed in peace by First Nations and aboriginal people, although we seriously betrayed their hospitality and trust. Many of the early French explorers were humanists who sought a land where … Read More
Wanted: Social Entrepreneur Book Publisher
It's been a busy book-publishing year for me. My new book, Impact: Six Patterns to Spread Your Social Innovation was published in April. In addition, two expanded versions of my first book, Safe and Secure were published – one in British … Read More
Take Us to the Limit
A new breed of social change activists has emerged that wants us to become comfortable with complexity, chaos, uncertainty and ambiguity. They contend, and I agree, that we no longer live in a world where we know exactly where we … Read More


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Act Now: Please sign FMRs triclosan phase-out petition
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As Mississippi Messages readers know, phasing-out triclosan in soaps and body cleansers is one of FMR's top legislative priorities for the 2014 legislative session. Triclosan is an unnecessary and harmful product added to a variety of soaps and personal care products. It breaks down to form dangerous dioxins in the river, and poses a variety of risks to human and animal health. According to the U.S. FDA, there is no evidence that this chemical provides any health benefit to consumers, and the Minnesota Department of Health recommends that triclosan products not be used.
While some companies (Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Proctor & Gamble) are phasing it out of their products already, more must be done. Thats why FMR is supporting a bill to phase-out the use of triclosan in personal care products in Minnesota. We are hopeful that this bill will pass this year - but we need your help.
Please take a moment to fill out the online petition.
As river lovers, your actions set an example for others and help build momentum for our work. Thats why its important that FMR members speak up for the river, and also share this opportunity with friends and family. Once you sign the petition, you can promote it via Facebook, or even the email the link to friends, family, and colleagues.
We all know that the Mississippi River needs friends. Right now, it needs all of us to speak up on its behalf. Please visit the petition link and do your part to protect and restore our Mighty Mississippi.
Sign the Triclosan Phase-Out petition.
P.S: For more information on the triclosan phase-out bill (HF 2772), check out our legislative update in this months Mississippi Messages. For more on triclosan and its impact on the Mississippi River, read our assessment of triclosan contamination in the Mississippi in the State of the River Report.


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Looks like The Dallas Morning News is going to considerable lengths to defend its ban on same-sex wedding announcements.
Mark Reed-Walkup, who's filed a discrimination complaint against the newspaper for refusing to publish his paid same-sex wedding ad, sent over a copy of the legal response he received via certified letter last week from the DMN's attorneys, Jackson Walker LLP. (Download a copy of the the legal document here and the letter here.)
In the DMN's response, or "Original Answer to Complainant Mark Reed-Walkup's Original Complaint," Paul Watler of Jackson Walker LLP argues that wedding announcements don't qualify as a public accommodation under the city of Dallas' ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. Watler also argues that Reed-Walkup and his husband, Dante Walkup, aren't legally married in Texas, and that any effort by the city to prosecute The DMN would violate the newspaper's First Amendment rights to free speech and freedom of the press.
Reed-Walkup said he was shocked to receive the letter.
"My first reaction was, I thought we were getting sued," Reed-Walkup said. "I thought it was very intimidating that we would receive a response from the law firm, and that they were not following the process set up by the Fair Housing Office.
"The maximum fine, worst-case scenario, if this did get prosecuted, is only $500," Reed-Walkup said, adding that the newspaper likely has already spent more than that in attorney's fees. "It's not like a lawsuit where we're trying to go after them to recover financially for the discrimination we feel we've experienced. It's just trying to get them to the table. The whole spirit of the public accommodations law is to try to work it out between the two parties without getting attorneys involved."


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There has been a lots of rumours on maverick director KS Ravikumar's next movie. After his debut Bollywood movie Policegiri, he has not opened up on his next movie but rumour mills have regularly come up with many stories on his forthcoming movie. Now, the news has arrived straight from the horse's mouth. Yes, the director has spoken about his next movie by saying that he is directing Kannada superstar Kiccha Sudeep and not Rajinikanth.
Reacting to rumours on KS Ravikumar directing Rajinikanth again, the director claimed that he is not directing the Tamil superstar. Indeed, he will be kick-starting a movie with Kiccha Sudeep. He is working on it and he will make an official announcement on the same soon.
"I've lost count of the number of times this rumour has surfaced! I'm not doing Rajini's next film; in fact, I will be directing Sudeep soon. I'm finalizing the details of that film, and will make an official announcement soon," a leading daily quotes KS Ravikumar as saying. The forthcoming movie will be produced by leading Sandalwood producer Soorappa Babu.
The director and the producer already had a several rounds of talks and they are getting ready to announce the project. Continue reading the story on the slideshow...
KSR-Sudeep In A Bilingual
The forthcoming movie will be simultaneously made in Tamil and Kannada languages. Other cast and crew are yet to be finalised.
Rajini's Suggestion
Rumour mills say that it was Rajinikanth, who suggested the name of Sudeep for the lead role in the forthcoming bilingual movie.
The director had reportedly opened up with Rajinikanth during the shooting of of Kochadaiiyaan. After hearing the storyline, the Endhiran actor reportedly felt that Kiccha Sudeep would be suitable for the role.
After hearing the storyline, the superstar reportedly felt that Kiccha Sudeep would be suitable for the role. It is said that the actor will be seen in dual roles.


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Gordonville, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated place or village and census-designated place in Leacock Township in eastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. The village is located about nine miles (14 km) east of the county seat of Lancaster, two miles (3 km) southwest of the village of Intercourse, one mile (1.6 km) north of Paradise, and about three miles (5 km) southeast of Bird-in-Hand. Though the village is little known outside of its immediate area, the surrounding countryside has been portrayed in many books and magazine articles. The Old Order Amish constitute a significant cultural presence in the area of the village. Wendell Berry mentioned the town in one of his collections of essays. The population of Gordonville was 508 residents as of the 2010 census; its ZIP code postal address of 17529 includes about 4,100 individuals.
Gordonville is located on part of a grant of of land to the Mary Feree family by the sons of William Penn. The town resulted from the railroad that planned to pass through the area. Around 1829 land was surveyed for the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, chartered in 1823 and again in 1826, to run between Philadelphia and Columbia, a growing city along the Susquehanna River south of Harrisburg. Land on the south and west side of the railway route belonged to the Christian Hershey family, which was associated with the land from as early as 1709. Daniel Gordon erected the first dwelling on land now associated with the village in 1832 (some say 1834), a -story, five-bay brick farmhouse with central doorway, largely intact gallery under gable roof, with first floor windows on facade to floor. The house was inhabited by Henry Eckert in the 1880s, and is still occupied today, though divided into several apartments.
Early trains on the railroad were merely wagons, fitted to run on tracks and pulled by horses along the single track. The first U.S.-made locomotive, built at Philadelphia's Baldwin Locomotive Works, was produced in 1832. On 17 April 1834 the first long distance steam train ran though Gordonville along the new Columbia Railroad; the journey from Lancaster to Philadelphia took about eight and one half hours. Only one track was in use until October of that year; turnouts every one and a half miles allowed for passing. By 1836 Daniel Gordon had a house, a warehouse, and a storehouse on the south and west side of the railway, and the town was starting to grow. In 1857 the Pennsylvania Railroad purchased Pennsylvania's Main Line of Public Works, which by then included the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad and an ambitious cross-Appalachian canal project. The nickname "Main Line" was affixed to the railroad route. Abraham Lincoln spoke from his train at nearby Leaman Place-Strasburg railroad junction on 22 February 1861, only one mile east of Gordonville; over 5,000 people were present. (In 1968 Hubert H. Humphrey, candidate for president, stopped and spoke at the same place.) In 1870 two barns in Gordonville were destroyed by fire caused by locomotive sparks. The 1895 U.S. Atlas described the village of Gordonville as having a population of 413, a railroad station, post office, and express office. By 1898 the railway was widened to four tracks, and by the early twentieth century 200 trains per day passed through the town. The building of the famous (and now abandoned) low grade railway in the southern end of the Lancaster County in 1906 drastically reduced train traffic. The railway line was electrified in 1938. Later in the early twentieth century only six passenger trains and two freight trains actually made scheduled stops at Gordonville station each day. One of the freights was the morning milk train. Today the village has a population of about 460 people. Amtrak trains still travel through the town along the railway that brought about the town's birth. There is talk of a new station to be erected at Leaman Place, a mile east of Gordonville at the Strasburg RR junction, which would serve Amtrak and SEPTA trains.
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Bombardier Learjet 60, Westhampton, N.Y., Aug. 23, 2007–The Board attributed the Learjet's crash on landing to the captain's failure to align the airplane properly before touchdown. As the captain was completing a night instrument approach into Francis S. Gabreski Airport, the first officer advised that the captain was "drifting off the side." Two seconds later, the right main gear touched down, followed by the left, with no evidence that the nosegear contacted the runway. The jet continued off the left side of the runway and lost its left main landing gear before skidding across a taxiway and shedding its nose and right main gear, eventually coming to rest approximately 4,300 feet from the runway threshold.
During the flight, the ATP-certified captain noted the anti-skid light for the
left outboard number-one wheel was illuminated and recycled the switch twice with normal indications. Upon touchdown, he reportedly felt an immediate loss of directional control. The captain stated the thrust reversers were also "locked out" and did not deploy.
Bombardier conducted an examination of the landing gear, brakes, anti-skid system and other related units under Safety Board oversight. No pre-accident mechanical anomalies were noted. The jet suffered damage to the wings and belly. None of the six people on board was injured.


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There is now only four weeks left to go until the London Marathon and I'm in the unknown at the moment about how I will be able to perform on the day.
I have only done one training run in the last two weeks after coming down with flu. I ran for 45 minutes at a very, very low pace and I felt pretty rough at the end of it.
That's not unusual when you come out of an illness and back into training again.
But I'm obviously disappointed because the first five or six weeks of my schedule went really well.
Despite being knocked off my feet for two weeks by illness, I know if I carry on with my training programme I will be able to complete the race.
What I don't know is if I will be able to achieve my target of breaking the four-hour barrier.
The next two weeks will be all about assessing how well I'm coming back to fitness and into the running regime.
I'm supposed to be taking part in a 16m event in Kingston this week but right now that does not sound very promising.
The advantage is there are two runs going on at the same event so athletes can either do 8m or 16m.
I signed up for the event because I thought it would be a good warm-up for the marathon especially to try and get the pacing right for the race.
My plan of action now is to take the first lap very steady and assess how I feel. I'm not putting any pressure on myself and I won't be disappointed if I can only manage 8m.
The problem with being ill is that it is not the same as suffering an injury where you get still do some sort of cardiovascular work.
Being laid out with the flu meant all I was trying to do was get my general health back together.
As usual there are all the usual distractions of everyday life that, along with the illness, have meant my marathon plans have taken a back seat.
I've not really been thinking about my diet, although I am trying to drink more water than I normally do just to stay hydrated.
I don't drink much alcohol anyway so my drinking habits have been the same, although I did have some Guinness when I was in Ireland on business this week.
But I am making a conscious effort not to fill up my diary too much in the week leading up to the marathon.
I've had quite a lot of requests to attend dinner and charity events but it would be too much to do all that and prepare to run 26 miles.
As for after the marathon, well, Matthew Pinsent has made sure I won't get any time to put my feet up.
The pair of us promised we would take two people out for a social row at Henley as an auction prize for the British Olympic Association.
Not only have I not rowed for two years but this event has been arranged for the day after the marathon on 18 April.
People keep asking me, "are you sure you can do this?"
They seem to be much more aware of the potential shape I could be in 24 hours after the marathon than I am. Maybe I should start panicking too.
Steve will be writing a regular column on the ups and downs of his marathon training for the BBC Sport website.
He will be raising money through the Steve Redgrave Trust which supports the Association of Children's Hospices, the Children With Leukaemia charity, and the Trust's own project which aims to provide inner-city schools with rowing equipment.


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by Reggie Woolery
About the Book
Today banks are raising fees or closing their doors. Whole communities have been effected, leaving empty mega-mansions, browning lawns, and mosquito infested swimming pools. Those with jobs tighten their belts, while the unemployed re-train, relocate, and re-adjust priorities -- all the while holding their collective breath. As of October 29, 2011, Occupy Wall Street protests have spread to 1039 locations in 79 countries in response to troubled economies, as well as charges of corporate exploitation and budgetary malfeasance by political decision-makers.
The housing market in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties will continue to struggle until jobs return. Interestingly, the local press reported the stockpiling of land and housing properties by international buyers and local speculators anticipating the turnaround. FAULT acknowledges the many tectonic shifts that have hit California, while resisting the easy temptation to distinguish between innocent foibles and deliberate greed.
Features & Details
Large Format Landscape, 13×11 in, 33×28 cm
94 Pages
- Publish Date Oct 28, 2011
About the Creator
Reggie Woolery writes a weekly photo blog at: www.detroitpublishingcompany.blogspot.com. His writings on digital media and photography have appeared in Bomb, NKA: Journal of African-American Art, TRANS, Black Film Review and FUSE: Journal of Arts & Culture, where he served as contributing editor. Reggie's multimedia work has been featured at The Photographer's Gallery, London, the 40th Flaherty Film Seminar, and at MIT in Race in Digital Space. He has been an artist fellow at the Society of Humanities at Cornell University, Banff Centre for the Arts, and a critical studies fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. Woolery's received project support from Art Matters, New York State Arts Council, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Black Programming Consortium, and ITVS, among others. He has degrees from Parsons School of Design and New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program of Tisch School of the Arts.
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Happy President's Day! Take My History Test!!
Did you dread Monday mornings when you were in school, as much as I did? Monday usually meant at least one of my teachers was going to have a 'pop quiz,' and today is no exception!
This time, I'm going to give you the quiz in honor of President's Day!!


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I'm not sure if I should be alarmed, but my wife just had the following conversation with a telemarketer from one of our credit card companies (naturally I can only report what I heard my wife saying):
"Hello? ... May I ask who's calling? ... Oh, we hate you guys right now! You just jacked up our APR to 29.94 percent!! ... What, so you can ass-rape us? No I don't think he's interested." Click.


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favicon not working after todays 3.4 update
I updated my website to the new wordpress 3.4 today. It caused a total meltdown and I had to go back and deactivate all my plugins and then reactive one by one. Eventually the problem got fixed except for one. My Favicon is not working. Is anyone else having this problem? Before the obvious questions get asked. I've reinstalled the plugin, I even changed the favicon in bluehost. I've emptied my cache also. Pretty much any suggestion that is out there on the web I've done, but still my favicon is a blue orb. Does anyone know how to fix this.
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I have been searching the net to see if I can get an average cost of home insurance but not finding much as they want me to give an address but I don't have one. I was also trying to find out if it is paid monthly or yearly. I saw some averages but it didnt say if it was a monthly or yearly payment.
Right now I am looking for houses in Montgomery County, MD. Looking for 3bdrm, 2 bath place. I may look for houses in Virginia area too (Fairfax or Loundon County)
Other than that just trying to read up on different options in buying and other fees that can get tack on to the mortgage that I am not aware of.
Are Short sale houses available to regular buyers or are they for realestate people?


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We (I, for now) will be releasing a new release (heh) of the library for ActionScript 2.0.
...That's a good thing!
A new pakage of the xmlrpcflash library has been posted for download, with 3 major changes:
+ New Simplified Event Model (thanks Martin Szulecki of Hamburg!)
+ Added Conteht-Type to meet xmlrpc spec adherance (thanks MM!)
+ NEW LICENSE TERMS, NOW LGPL (was gpl)
See CHANGES.txt included in the package for more information.
Hello all,
I am very pleased to announce that Macromedia seems to have fixed the ContentType property for the send, sendAndLoad, and getURL actionscript methods.
(though not totally feeling secure that this will persist into theplug-in and flash player releases, but it IS VERY LIKELY that it will.)
This is terrific for xmlrpc- as this has been one problem in making a truly useful (and full featured spec compliant) xmlrpc client library for Flash. In the end, it is my hope that the ContentType header will be a totally transparent element of the xmlrpcflash client lib.... read more
While we have been actively massaging the library, Nupur Saurabh has contributed a fantastitic logo for the project!
Thanks Nupur for the artwork and concept!
You can controll-click the flash file to zoom in on it-
Fresh Clarity = Fresh Energy = Fresh Identity
A jpeg is availible for those without the Flash Plug-in,
http://xmlrpcflash.sourceforge.net/logo/xmlrpcflash_logo.jpg... read more
Anyone interested in developing, testing, keeping tabs on progress, or otherwise piching in, please join the new xmlrpcflash mailing list!
This MX era flash player update boasts ONE CRUCIAL FEATURE, WHICH MAY BE OF INTREST THIS PROJECT: they state that they have fixed the 'http contentType function in actionscript, a buggy issue which has plauged use of xmlrpc in flash for a LONG time now.
The beta is here:
If you install and test it, be sure you read and understand how to re-install the current flash player, as this is a BETA.... read more
Hello all, ike here-
I am a new project admin/instigator<g>. For a some time, I will be posting news related to this project weekly, starting now.
The xmlrpc client librarary for flash is currently getting a shot in the arm, with the aim of pulling it out of Alpha asap. A bit of re-orginization of files is going on, as well as a mailing list being formed for developers.
If you are an actionscripter who is good with OO actionscript, your help would be greatly appreciated!... read more


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Dr. Lerner is a vascular and endovascular surgeon at Northwest Hospital. Dr. Lerner combines traditional vascular surgical approaches with state of the art minimally invasive techniques to tailor vascular care to the needs of the patient. Dr. Lerner is an expert in aortic aneurysms (AAA) repair, complex vascular reconstruction, carotid artery disease, and dialysis access creation and maintenance. In addition, Dr. Lerner is a locally recognized expert on clotting disorders and maintains an active practice in the management of deep venous thrombosis (DVT). Dr. Lerner earned his bachelor's degree with honors from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He earned his M.D. from the University of Wisconsin's School of Medicine in Madison, WI. Dr. Lerner completed his general surgical training as well as his vascular fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Dr. Lerner also had the honor of spending 6 months as a specialist registrar in vascular surgery at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in England. Dr. Lerner is board certified in both general surgery and vascular surgery. Dr. Lerner has earned numerous awards, including "Top Doctor" awards from local magazines. Dr. Lerner is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and is active in the Society for Vascular Surgery, where he serves as an officer on the Health Policy Committee.
Patient Care Philosophy
Ever since I could remember, there were only 2 jobs I wanted to do; I was either going to be a doctor, or I was going to be the first baseman for my hometown Milwaukee Brewers. When I never learned to hit a curveball, medicine became the only choice. I was raised by an internist and a nurse, and therefore medicine has been part of my life forever. When I discovered surgery in medical school it was immediately clear that it was how I wanted to care for patients. The ability to personally correct problems, offer comfort in difficult situations, and occasionally even save a life profoundly affected me, and remains a driving passion in my life.
Clinical Interests
Abdominal aortic aneurysm; EVAR; carotid disease; carotid stenting; peripheral vascular disease; endovascular therapy; dialysis access; anticoagulation; deep venous thrombosis.
Research Interests
Dialysis access and intervention; application of radial artery access to peripheral intervention; health care policy and reimbursement.
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|University of Wisconsin - Madison
|Medical education
|Georgetown University Hospital
|Medical College of Wisconsin
|University of Wisconsin, Medical School
Board Certifications
|American Board of Surgery
|General Surgery
|American Board of Surgery
|Vascular Surgery