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In March 1995, Bradford's first film festival got under way with a screening of The Madness of King George, which went on to win multiple awards including an Oscar and three Baftas.
This weekend the film returns to the city for a special screening marking the 20th anniversary of Bradford International Film Festival.
Looking back to the first festival, co-director Tom Vincent said: "It was, just like this 20th edition, full of surprises.
"The programme welcomed distinctive British and international guests, presented previews and exclusive surveys of cinema from around the world and a retrospective dedicated to a cinematic great. And though the blueprint has been tweaked here and there, the festival remains true to that first vision."
Guests who have graced the red carpet over the years reads like a roll call of British Cinema greats: film-makers Ken Loach, Julien Temple, Chris Morris, Terry Gilliam, Jack Cardiff, Richard Attenborough and Kenneth Branagh, and actors John Hurt, Ian Carmichael, Malcolm McDowell, Jean Simmons, Derek Jacobi, Virginia McKenna, Eric Sykes, Ray Winstone, Claire Bloom, Tom Courtenay, Imelda Staunton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bill Nighy and Barbara Windsor, have all attended over the last 20 years.
This year's festival opens on Thursday with the UK premiere of The Lunchbox. Every day in Mumbai, thousands of carefully prepared lunchboxes are distributed to workplaces across the city. The 130-year-old system runs like clockwork – until a one-in-a-million mix-up means one such lunchbox, dispatched by a devoted but unhappy housewife, ends up not with her husband but with another man. Against a vivid backdrop of bustling Mumbai life, the old-fashioned romantic story unfolds through a moving correspondence.
Closing the festival is Locke, starring Tom Hardy as a man enbroiled in personal and professional crises as he drives down a motorway conducting a series of increasingly fraught hands-free phone calls.
In total there are 127 films, including premieres, previews and cinematic surprises, on the programme for the 2014 festival, in partnership with Virgin Media.
Other highlights include Lilting, a moving film about two bereaved people attempting to connect across barriers; Tracks, a stirring depiction of self-discovery based on the true story of Robyn Davidson's remarkable journey across 1,700 miles of Australian desert with four camels and a dog; The Coal Miner's Day, a timely glimpse into old-school working practices in a Ukraine colliery, arriving on British screens during the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miner's strike; the world premiere of Velorama, a documentary created from BFI archive material celebrating a century of the bicycle, part of the Yorkshire Festival celebrating the Tour de France Grand Depart; and the UK premiere of American Promise, a fascinating documentary made by the parents of two five-year-old friends following their lives over 13 years. Directors Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson will be in Bradford to introduce their film.
Veteran Scottish actor Brian Cox is the recipient of this year's Lifetime Achievement Award and takes part in a Screen Talk with Festival Co-director Neil Young.
"Brian Cox has excelled consistently in distinctive, scene-stealing roles in cinema, stage and television, in a professional career spanning half a century," said Mr Vincent.
"From his 1986 Hannibal Lecter in Michael Mann's Manhunter and his definitive performance in Titus Andronicus at the National Theatre he reached the mainstream with a barnstorming turn in Braveheart and Rob Roy, which brought the proud Scot to Hollywood's attention.
"In the ensuing two decades he's added class and gravitas to productions ranging from blockbusters – X-Men and The Bourne Supremacy – to high-class auteur-driven fare such as Adaptation, Rushmore and Match Point to edgy indies like L.I.E. Cox has one of the great careers in British showbusiness, which we proudly salute this year at the Bradford International Film Festival."
The festival features a selection of his highlights, including The Year of the Sex Olympics, Manhunter, Rushmore, L.I.E. and The Bourne Supremacy and a preview of Believe, in which he plays legendary Manchester United manager, Sir Matt Busby.
Other guests include Richard Jobson, former frontman of punk band The Skids, turned film-maker; Bafta-winning actress Vicky McClure, star of This Is England, This Is England 86 and Line of Duty, and a juror for this year's Bradford UNESCO City of Film European Feature Competition; and comedian Graham Fellows, aka erstwhile Yorkshireman 'John Shuttleworth' who will give a short musical performance before his 2006 film, Its Nice Up North.
Director Sally Potter will collect BIFF's Fellowship Award; screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, who scripted the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony and whose films include 24 Hour Party People and The Railway Man, is headline speaker for Filmmakers' Weekend; and silent movie pianist and TV presenter Neil Brand joins film critic Mark Kermode's rockabilly band, The Dodge Brothers to present the world premiere of a new score for 1916 silent western Hell's Hinges.
A century after Charlie Chaplin's little Tramp hit cinema screens, the festival celebrates the silent movie genius with some his funniest, most fascinating films, sponsored by Yorkshire Building Society. As well as a double-bill, with live piano, of The Immigrant and Easy Street, there's a screening of Modern Times.
Late night horror strand Bradford After Dark returns, with highlights including Escape from Tomorrow, filmed guerrilla-style inside Disney World Florida and The Borderlands, described as an "utterly terrifying experience set in a West Country church".
A series called Sydney Underground Shorts showcases short films from the world's second UNESCO City of Film. Also screened are documentary shorts commissioned by Cinetrain, a Russian event inviting film-makers from around the world to participate in a documentary-making adventure aboard a train, creating films based on the theme 'Russian Winter'.
Rounding off the 20th anniversary celebrations is a Surprise Sneaky Show on Saturday, screening a crowd-pleasing movie, originally shown at the first festival in 1995, in a secret location.
Organisers will provide clues on Facebook and Twitter: facebook.com/sneakybradford, @sneakyexp A public poll, Virgin Media's Best of BIFF, will find the most popular film ever screened at the festival.


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Pilot Governor Suntai Unconscious After Plane Crash, To Be Flown Abroad For Treatment
Oct 26, 2012 – Pilot Governor Suntai Unconscious After Plane Crash, To Be Flown Abroad For Treatment
Governor Danbaba Danfulani Suntai, a trained pilot who crashed his private jet into a bush in Yola, Adamawa was said to be the pilot of the jet during the time of the plane crash. www.naijagists.com
According to his spokesperson, Alhassan Mijinyawa he is unconscious and receiving treatment in the hospital.
One of his aides lost his live in the tragic air crash that happened around 7:30pm last night.
Adamawa Police Commissioner, Godfrey Okeke confirmed this morning that the Governor is responding the treatment at a Specialist Hospital in Yola.
"He is alive and in stable condition. He sustained minor injuries; if he had been were an ordinary man, he would have been discharged but I learnt he would be flown abroad for further medical checkup,'' he said.

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Senior Safety Engineer and E4
Our customer is the UK's leading independent aerospace company, specialising in aircraft maintenance, modifications and support services. Located at its airport HQ in Cambridge, plus with offices in Australia, Canada and Netherlands they are perfectly placed at the forefront of today's Aerospace industry.
Due to a period of growth they are seeking to appoint the services of a Senior Safety Engineer to join their operation based in rural Cambridgeshire.
Our Client is required to demonstrate that all modifications embodied meet acceptable levels of safety as determined by regulation authorities. This is achieved through analysis, test, comparison etc. Safety engineering is a discipline exercised by competent individuals using specialised techniques and dedicated tooling. All Safety assessment reports are reviewed and sanctioned by the Senior Safety Engineer to ensure they meet the requirements to demonstrate appropriate levels of Safety.
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* Chair appropriate safety committees.
* Safety Assessments completed to regulatory requirements.
* Advice and guidance to ADO staff.
* Promote ongoing safety culture within the company.
* In-house Safety training. Periodic training for designate
* Company compliance to product safety policy.
* Develop and maintain a Safety support system
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Applicants should have in-depth knowledge of the design and safety lifecycles and associated safety engineering processes including:
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Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
Review by KeyBlade999
"It is *not* Kingdom Hearts III ... But I'll take it!"
~ Review in Short ~
Gameplay: Fairly complicated and reminiscent of Kingdom Hearts II and (Re:)Coded, but fun.
Story: Typical to the series, and deeply connected to other entries. Focuses on Sora's and Riku's Mark of Mastery examination to prove that they are Keyblade Masters.
Graphics: Absolutely amazing, in both 2D and 3D. Perhaps the best on the 3DS, and maybe the series.
Sound and Music: The remixed tracks are excellent for old areas, and amazing for new ones. The quality is amazing; akin to Kingdom Hearts II!
Play Time: About 30 hours for normal playthroughs; around 100 for comprehensive ones.
Replayability: Moderately high. The game is fun, lasts the right time, and a bit non-linear.
Recommendation: An absolute must-buy for any veteran of the series. I must strongly note that those who have not played every entry in the series will be somewhat confused, so I will tell you that you must also play the other entries or comprehend on-line plot synopsises. The in-game summaries aren't very sufficient.
~ Review in Long ~
Kingdom Hearts 3D is the newest entry in the crossover series of Kingdom Hearts. Kingdom Hearts originated back in the early 2000s as an odd crossover, to say the least, of the Final Fantasy series and various Disney characters. The series managed to get a crowd of fans, me included, over the years despite the oddity it is.
Of course, even the best of series have their low points. The Mario series had Super Mario Bros. 2 (in Japan) in my opinion; the Final Fantasy series, still another opinion, has its Crystal Chronicles side series; MegaMan X had about half the series; and even Kingdom Hearts had Chain of Memories, one of the worst thought-out concepts and games I have ever played.
After all of the good supplemental entries release for the series since Kingdom Hearts II, has Kingdom Hearts hit a low point...?
Kingdom Hearts as a series originated around 2002, and was developed by what is now known as Square Enix. It was released for the PlayStation 2 and had, as I have said many times throughout the years, one of the strangest possible crossovers. The relative maturity of Final Fantasy mixed with the childishness of Disney just seems to mix together like gasoline and fire - not well at all! And yet, this one game sparked off an immensely successful chain of games.
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories came out sometime around 2004 or 2005, I assume, and was released for the GameBoy Advance. That one thing just said it was no good to start with - going from the big screen to the small screen? They did, at best, fairly bad with this entry into the series. They did remake this around 2007 as Re:Chain of Memories for the PlayStation 2.
Kingdom Hearts II came out in 2007 or so for the PlayStation 2. It continued off of the plot ties left from the previous two games, and really has shone as one of the best games of the series thus far. And it is here that the entries into the main plot really ends.
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days was released for the Nintendo DS sometime around 2009. This entry into the series focused on one of the big players in the later games, sort of: Roxas, a character with deep ties to Sora, to say the least, and his time in Organization XIII. Its plot placement was about 3/4 of the way through Kingdom Hearts all the way to the beginning of Kingdom Hearts II.
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep was released around this time for the PlayStation Portable. This game focused on three characters who had previously never been mentioned in the series, and yet seem to have some deep connection to the main character of the series, Sora.
Kingdom Hearts Coded came along as an episodic series for the iPhone, and was remade in full as Kingdom Hearts Re:coded for the Nintendo DS in 2011. This game took place after Kingdom Hearts II and was sort of a look back on prior events in the story, even the unknown ones, and contained a secret video of some importance.
Finally, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance has made its way to the newest Nintendo console, the Nintendo 3DS, and on the tenth anniversary of the series. It is no Kingdom Hearts III, make no mistake about that. It takes place directly after the events of Kingdom Hearts (Re:)Coded and Kingdom Hearts II so Sora and Riku will be made to show the Mark of Mastery...
Battle and Level-Up System:
One of the key features in a good RPG such as this is a good battle system. Like most of the other entries in the series, you'll take real-time battle system. For those who don't know what I mean, imagine it like real life, but with a pause button to stop the fighting. That's pretty much it.
The battle system takes one of the big elements in (Re:)Coded: a command deck. This command deck handles some magic, some special attacks, and some items. Whenever you opt to use one of them, you often have to wait for it to recharge back before it can be used again. So there is no more of the MP system like in Kingdom Hearts II.
Combat in itself seems to a little devoid of strategy early on, though you get gradually worked into it; more slowly than other Kingdom Hearts games, too. Most of the early fights consist of hack-and-slash (and sometimes burn), though things often get complicated later on. Hacking-and-slashing eventually becomes a two-way street.
Leveling up in this game is more akin to the roots of the series versus the panel/grid-style of the other DS entries. You defeat enemies, gain EXP., and level up, thereby gaining stat increases, and sometimes abilities. Also like Kingdom Hearts II, you can also gain bonus levels for beating bosses and such, and they often contain stat boosts, item capacity boosts, or abilities.
New to the series is the idea of Flowmotion. Like in the Matrix, the dream world has a set of rules that can be bent and broken, and Flowmotion seems to be a direct rip-off of that. But a good one. Flowmotion allows you to zip around the area at fairly high speeds and defy gravity, all of which helps to get certain out-of-the-way treasure chests.
Additionally, Flowmotion has a use in combat by allowing certain speedier and stronger attacks and combos. Of course, the backdrop is that you need a wall or pole to use it, or large enemies, so it is not always a viable strategy.
Reality Shift:
This is where Square Enix finally decided to take advantage of the Touch Screen in the series and stop letting it just move the camera or crap like that. Reality Shift activates in certain areas and situations, allowing you to bend the rules of what is possible, but not just speed or power like Flowmotion.
For example, you can find an object, like a barrel, and drag an orb on the Touch Screen to set a slingshot trajectory for it to hit various objects, or heavily damage enemies. There are other uses to it, as well.
Spirits and Nightmares:
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" - a common, yet wise, saying taken quite far in this game. In the Sleeping Worlds where the game takes place, the main enemies are Dream Eaters, another form of darkness in these worlds that the Heartless and Nobodies cannot reach. There are, in fact, two kinds.
One are Nightmares. They feed on the dreams of the happy, and are the true darkness of this world. The other, the Spirits, actually fight the Nightmares. Therefore, Spirits are your allies. In fact, you can synthesize them up much like in other games to make them. You can have two as your ally for in-battle combat at any time.
However, their use goes far beyond that. Firstly, linking with them is quite beneficial. By linking, you raise their Link Gauge. Eventually, once full, you'll be able to really link with them, and boost your overall power tremendously, and it goes really high with a dual link.
Secondly, you can have them get abilities and commands via the Ability Link board. It is basically a charting of what you get when you have so many Link Points, gained by giving affection to the Spirit or by defeating enemies alongside it. Speaking of giving it affection, some of them are just darn cute when you end up petting them!
One of the more annoying features of this game - at least, to an FAQ author like myself - is that, at somewhat regular intervals, Sora and Riku will be forced to switch. Whenever you switch from one to the other, you do end up where they left off prior to the switch, and you can do this on command. So, what's the problem?
Mostly inconvenience. It is hard to try to keep up with two separate stories at the same time, and hard to try to figure out who needs to head where, when you're so used to just one. It does make the game a bit interesting, but it just doesn't seem to have any place in the game, nor a reason for it.
There is a potentially good thing about it, though. There are sort of "weather" conditions in an area that change with each drop (switch). For example, you might be able to get a lot of cash at one point, or it might be easier to find HP orbs to restore HP.
Another thing about drops is that you can get boosts in-between the drops. When you swap from one character to the other, you are able to use Drop Points that you grabbed from defeating enemies to buy, for example, temporal stat boosts or items.
Extra Stuff and Sidequests:
One of the lower points of this game is not its lack of extra stuff. There quite a fair amount of that, I'll give it that; but the quality is sub-par at best. You'll get some of the traditional stuff, including an extra boss, hunting down every treasure chest, and maxing out all of the diving and mini-game stuff.
But even that stuff is mostly tedious, rewardless work. The chests are menial at best, since I went quite far without even using even one tenth of the chests' contents. Diving and mini-games are mostly just play-time boosters, and the extra boss? Not exceptionally hard.
You also get a Pokemon-type quest where you must befriend every Spirit possible, which is extremely tedious as it is in Pokemon. You also get to perform partner attacks with each one, and there are a fair number of Trophies you can collect. But even the Trophies are practically meaningless - at least they had meaning in Re:coded.
Overall, there is a lot of extra content in this game, at least enough to bump your play up to seventy-five to a hundred hours, but it is basically needless and not worth it.
General Game Progression:
There is a fairly set path in which you go through the worlds. You'll begin by diving - diving is sort of the Gummi Ship routes of this game. You'll have to go along a path and meet a certain goal before going too far to reach the world. You'll end up getting rewarded for doing well.
In the world itself, you'll generally swap between Sora and Riku through drops, as explained earlier, to proceed. Often, the two have unconnected stories in the world, so it is more like playing two games and quickly swapping between the two. The actual gameplay differs little for the two; it is just mostly where they go.
After a boss fight, usually, you'll be able to finish the other character's part of the world. You can't unlock the Sleeping Keyhole otherwise, so you'll need to finish everyone's part. Then you'll go to the next world and it repeats across seven Sleeping Worlds and a little bit more.
How Hard Is It?:
Like the first few Kingdom Hearts games, there is a difficulty setting in the game that is set in stone once you begin the game. You have Beginner, Standard, and Proud (Hard), much like Kingdom Hearts II.
Overall, I found the game to be fairly easy, except on Proud, of course. Once you start a file, you cannot change the difficulty, so you can't suddenly make it easier like with (Re:)Coded. The game also offers a Critical mode if you do a certain task, if Proud wasn't hard enough.
The game does get pretty easy early on, almost mind-numblingly, then it jacks it up way high near the end. It is almost like playing Final Fantasy VI Advance - you are expected to do some intense grinding and/or sidequests that you do not want to do. Even on Beginner, the ending will be intense.
Flick Rush:
Flick Rush is a minigame you can play using three Spirits. It is a Spirit-on-Spirit battle, and is pretty simplistic. You basically flick cards upward to attack, and downward to defend.
Each card has a value which determines its power. If your attack is more powerful than the opponent's, you'll deal damage; and the inverse is also true. The damage system is pretty much that, and Spirits will have new versions of HP to make the battles go by a bit faster.
It is slightly more complicated than that, though. This isn't a turn-by-turn thing like you'd expect with a TCG. This is still in real-time. You can group cards together to make attacks or defending stronger, and you can attack multiple times in a row, all due to the real-time system. This is one of the coolest features of this game by far: a real-time card-based battle system.
The neat thing about this mode is that it allows for local multiplayer between two 3DS consoles with this game. It is really nice to actually have a true multiplayer mode aside from the competitive system in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days.
This minigame is not without rewards, however. You can win medals in this, allowing you to trade them in for rare items at the medal shop.
Portals and StreetPass:
Portals in this game are kind of like Spirit transfer pathways: you can either send your Spirits to battle someone (Battle Portals), or receive Spirits as temporal aid (Friendship Portals). Some of the latter are pre-installed at points in the game, and are of a great help.
Using StreetPass - a mode in which you can send and receive data between 3DS consoles, even if you are not playing this game - you can send and receive hand-designed Portals of any kind from other players. This can create a nice convenience at certain points, and also an annoying challenge. These challenges do not go unrewarded, though; if you meet certain conditions, you'll be able to receive various items, recipes, or even DP.
Wait, We Have to Memorize All of This?:
Thankfully, no. Within the game, you'll be able to receive hands-on tutorials when something becomes a viable option. For example, you aren't going to learn about Flowmotion before there are walls around to roll into. It really helps in learning and simplifying all of the information.
Additionally, the game will also keep tutorials and let you replay them at any time you wish. You'll also be able to find summarizations on various aspects of the game (Keyblades, Kingdom Hearts, etc.), previous games in the series, and even characters in the game.
So, What's Your Opinion?:
Overall, I find the gameplay to be a little complicated compared to previous DS Kingdom Hearts games, and it is about on-level with Kingdom Hearts II. I found that the drop system is completely unnecessary and worthless, and very inconvenient. Everything else, though, is either new to the series and something I'd hope to see in future entries (multiplayer, Flowmotion), or the same things that got me addicted to the series in the first place (battle system, interesting story).
Of course, to address the low points. I already mentioned the inconvenient and needless dropping system. There is a lot of extra content that is traditional to the series, but has less use than any of the games I've played. The fact that the game jacks up the difficulty intensely near the end is annoying, as if they want you to do the needless sidequests.
But, overall, the gameplay is pretty nice. It has a few kinks that really need to get worked out before the next entry in the series, but it works well enough.
Kingdom Hearts 3D has very deep canonical ties to almost, if not every, other game in the series. I highly recommend having played each game at least once, or having read through a synopsis of the plot on Wikipedia or another site. Most games in the series can be played without having played many of the others with minimal confusion, but not in this case.
I will not summarize the pre-game storylines, as they are unlocked throughout the course of the game, and can be found on the Internet elsewhere.
So, what's in the game itself? This game takes place right after Kingdom Hearts II and (Re:)Coded. Sora and Riku have met up with Yen Sid, King Mickey, Donald, and Goofy in Yen Sid's tower in Twilight Town. There, Sora and Riku are briefed on their mission.
Their mission is to go into seven of the Sleeping Worlds - worlds who were not completely returned to the realm of light by Sora's journey in Kingdom Hearts I - and seal the seven Sleeping Keyholes in these worlds. They will face new enemies, for not even the Heartless can reach these worlds: the Dream Eaters, some of which are benevolent, but many are evil.
Of course, Sora thinks himself already a Keyblade Master - for that is what the Mark of Mastery exam is for, to make one be a Master. Riku thinks different - after all, he walked the path of darkness, and is now a master of the light? He believes he should be tested, and, so, Sora also agrees to be tested.
To receive the Mark of Mastery would be a great benefit to the side of the light in the coming battles against Xehanort. But can Sora and Riku do it? Can they reawaken these "Sleeping Worlds" from the limbo between light and darkness and become true Keyblade Masters?
The 2D Graphics:
I was slightly mind-boggled the day I got this game and watched the opening sequences which showcased various scenes from previous games. I highly noted the Kingdom Hearts I entries. The graphics in those scenes was refined to the highest extent, far beyond the quality of a decade ago. It was beyond what I had expected of this game - hence, the mind-boggling.
We all have probably seen the sub-par graphics of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and Re:coded on the original DS consoles. That is what I could have expected with this game, but, as usual, I tend to be wrong! The graphics in the 2D are amazing, colorful, vibrant, and of the quality we had for Kingdom Hearts II, if not better!
The 3D Graphics:
And, honestly, the 3D graphics are even better. You know that little "pop-out book" effect you would expect out of the 3DS, having not played on it before? Well, in most cases, you just got more depth than that in previous games: Mario Kart 7, CRUSH3D, and so on. Of course, if something came up real close to the camera, then you get real 3D.
Anyways, you actually get the pop-out effect! It is absolutely amazing in those opening sequences when the letters of the title swirl in like in the first few games. It does get a little distracting in battle, though, so I mostly turn the 3D off. But, it is really hard to deny that these graphics are perhaps the best the 3DS has been able to give, be it 3D or 2D. Sure, you can't use the 3D easily in a battle, but it is still a nice effect for wandering around areas.
In this game, you do end up visiting other worlds you visited in previous Kingdom Hearts games. They have some slightly remixed tracks, which is nice after the relative monotony in music by repeating worlds across games.
The quality? It is quite nice, to say the least. The sounds are akin to Kingdom Hearts II, as far as quality. No static, no muffling, no dumbing-down of the music - pure, excellent, exhilarating background music fills the game to the brim. It honestly brought tears to my eyes hearing the familiar track in the opening sequence as great as the day I first heard it many a year ago.
Sound effects themselves are harder to speak for, because they're not something you can easily pay attention to. What you get is pretty clear and nice. You'll get some familiar tones from all across the series, from Sora attacking to the simple bleeps and bloops in the menus. All in all, the music is possibly some of the best on the 3DS, and perhaps even the Kingdom Hearts series.
After having finished the game in a semi-comprehensive manner, I ended up racking up almost thirty-three hours on the clock. All in all, that's a pretty fair length of time for a Kingdom Hearts game, right on-par with most of the other games. It is just long enough for the gameplay to not be boring and mundane by the end, and yet also long enough to let it last.
But a comprehensive replay would be needless for me to do. As it is, there are no real rewards that go for you in it. Not to mention that it could easily rack me up another seventy-five hours or more in needless, useless content. I wouldn't recommend fully comprehensive plays on this game.
Again, I haven't beaten or replayed this yet, but I make a fair estimate. There is a bit of the traditional non-linearity here, so that's a nice boost. You don't have to worlds in the same order time after time, plus the gameplay is mildly addictive.
One of the biggest boosts to the replayability of this game, despite the amount I've ripped on it, would have to be the drop system. As annoying as it is, it really helps because it is so hard to time when you'll switch characters, and it is like playing two games and switching between them at times. It is extremely unlikely that you'll follow the exact same path each game, and I wholesomely believe this game will be fun to replay.
THE END. Overall score: 9.5/10.
And so, you have received my fairly lengthy opinion on Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. What's the verdict?
Well, the game has nice gameplay, despite the drop system's annoyances, and those based on the game's late-game difficulty and needless sidequests. It is nice and complicated, reminiscent of the rest of the series, and fun. The storyline trends along the lines set by earlier games and has a similar type of story, if not just a bit more grave. The graphics and sound are absolutely amazing, and the play time and replayability, while potentially being slightly better, are good enough.
Overall, I would recommend you buy this game. It is worth noting that you at least look up the plots of the previous games on Wikipedia or something before actually buying this, if you haven't played the other games, because you will be likely to get lost really fast with this deeply-connected plot. Even so, it is a great game; an exceptional one.
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 08/08/12
Game Release: Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (US, 07/31/12)
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The conclusion of the "Lights Out" storyline in this book has some nice moments. It takes us to the wall at the edge of the universe, which I think is a Jack Kirby idea from his Fourth World books. The wall is dotted with the calcified remains of creatures who have tried to breach it, making for an interesting visual idea, though how there could actually be such a wall is a mind-twister that's better left alone. Our giant villain Relic is, of course, determined to be the first to actually get through this wall, even if he has to use all the ring energy he's gathered, and more. Kyle Rayner, and the entities of power within him too, as it happens. The rest of the ring-bearers arrive to help, but as usual are ineffective against Relic, so what to do? It's a story of sacrifice, of course. And after, perhaps a new beginning for the GL Corps without Oa, we'll see how that plays out. Nicely done by writer Robert Venditti and artists Sean Chen and Jon Sibal.


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Life imitates fiction: David and Annie Malcolm joined friends for dinner during a recent stop in New York City.
One, Dorothea Benton Frank, author of 15 novels packed with colorful imagery of South Carolina's Lowcountry, handed them an autographed copy of her latest book, "The Hurricane Sisters."
Much to the Malcolms' surprise, she announced: "You guys are in it."
While only the names were the same, the Malcolms were amazed to learn the fictional couple, who appeared briefly in the book, championed services for abused women.
Annie Malcolm, as it turns out, is a longtime supporter of the South Bay Community Services' program for battered women and children.


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Poland's tiny Jewish community is deeply concerned with resurgent anti-Semitism, even as momentous political change is taking place, an expert on Eastern Europe reported here this week.
Dr. Lukasz Hirszowicz, of the London-based Institute for Jewish Affairs, said the democratic changes in Poland have had no effect on rightwing groups, which are "heirs to the anti-Jewish tradition of Polish politics."
What worries Polish Jewry, according to Hirszowicz, is not the anti-Semitism alone, but that it has been met by silence from the Polish Communist Party and its affiliates.
Anti-Semitic propaganda is being disseminated in complete freedom all over the country, without a word of criticism from the Communists, he said.
Hirszowicz cited what he called the "unusually strong language for a Polish Jewish newspaper" in recent editions of Folks-sztyme, Poland's Jewish weekly.
Its Oct. 20 edition stated, "This year's High Holidays in Warsaw passed with Jews in a depressed mood, due to rising anti-Semitic incitement throughout the country — a result of the Jew-hating oration of Poland's Cardinal Glemp.
"Everywhere, in shopping lines, on trams and buses, and at tenants' meetings, anti-Jewish slander accusing the Jews of guilt for all Poland's calamities is being spread," Folks-sztyme reported.
According to Hirszowicz, the one positive note is that leading Solidarity figures protested against Glemp's homily.


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As Digital Marketers, We're Only One Day Old!
The Internet turns forty on Tuesday. I hear it's getting a divorce and trading us in for a younger crowd. And, for its birthday maybe we should all pitch in and give it a new, flashy muscle car and a bottle of Rogaine.
So, I know that this date - September 2nd (or even 1969) - as the "birthday" of the Internet is up for debate. Some people would cite 1961 when the first paper on packet-switching technology was written. Or, others (and I would agree), hold to 1969 when the Defense Department commissioned ARPANet to research a "communication and command network". Or, some others would hold to the 1970's or even wait to the 1980's when the TCP and IP protocols were brought to the forefront.
But in any event, the 40th "birthday" got me to thinking about how extraordinarily young and inexperienced we really are with this whole Online Marketing thing. I thought it would be interesting (and mostly just fun and hopefully humorous) to look at the 40 year history of Digital marketing through the context of one day at work.
So, you've all seen the charts of earth's history as one showing modern human existence and comparing it to one day. So, let's look at a clock and imagine that our 12 hour work day, is equal to the last 40 years of history. And the previous 40 years were yesterday's work day and so on back through our work week... Here's one marketing guy's blog and it shows how young and inexperienced we digital marketers really really are....
Friday 7:00 AM
Woke up groggy from the night before - and thinking about the day ahead of marketing the business. It's been a long week, and one that started badly. Monday, just after lunch - Bob told me about this new thing - print advertising - and the first print ad was published. It was a French newspaper, La Presse - and apparently it was the first to include paid advertising. Damn, why did it have to be the French.
Anyway, luckily we had a couple of days to figure that out - and Tuesday was pretty uneventful. Well, unventful except for those Southern guys in the South Carolina and Virginia offices, who tried to spin out their own division of the company. Luckily, the CEO was able to send a few guys down there, and it was all over by lunch time.
Wednesday, late in the day the VP introduced this new thing called Radio advertising and we had to figure out how to leverage that. And then Thursday morning, just when we thought we had the radio thing figured out - he brings in yet another new thing "Television". I mean 24 hours later... Come on man... I had to skip lunch on Thursday because everybody was all ga ga about this new thing - especially the sponsorship possibilities on this "Texaco Star Theater" show.
So, anyway, it's now Friday and man am I ready for this weekend. Finally I feel like I'm settled in. We've got our Print advertising still working. My Radio advertising is finally starting to pay off - and this new TV thing is really just fantastic. It seems like everybody's got a TV now. In fact, late last night I saw an ad for Westinghouse saying they were coming out with a brand new kind of TV... It's got a rectangular picture tube. That's cool.
Ready to jump into my brand new Dodge Charger and head off to work. I'm hoping it's going to be a quiet day and I'll be able to leave early for the weekend.
Got to work and am just settling in for the marketing strategy update here in about 20 minutes. Feels pretty good. We've got television, print and radio going pretty well now - and even though we don't have a good idea of what's working, our sales are up. Turn on my radio next to my desk and it's "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night!" at #1... Man do I love the Bay City Rollers.
Bob just stopped by my cube and told me that there's a rumor going around that the IT Guys are toying with some new techie service called "Compuserve"... It's some new thing with computers.. I don't even have a computer.
Went to lunch with Bob, and he told me that we're looking at advertising on this new television network being launched called FOX. Really? Fox? I don't think it will last. I mean apparently some late night talk show with Joan Rivers is their first real show. I mean with stars like Joan Rivers, it'll probably end up being some really liberal network. Who would want to advertise there?
Oh my god. I just got back from lunch and all hell has broken loose. Apparently this whole "Compuserve" techie, computer thing has taken off - and now I've got a computer on my desk. Have to learn how to use e-mail. The IT Guys and the VP of Marketing have been talking about this new "World Wide Web" thingy. Apparently it's the Super Information Highway. The IT Guy showed the VP of Marketing this "clickable" ad on the HotWired site and the fact that he could also now "e-mail" customers. He freaked out. Said this was the way of the future. He said this, combined with CD-ROM's will change the world. Great, I was really hoping for an early Friday exit. Now, not so much.
Okay, it's not even an hour later, but now the whole office is buzzing with this "Web" thing. The VP of Marketing has been holed up with our CEO and they're talking about launching a .Com version of the business. I don't even know that that means.
The IT Guys have set up our First "Web Site" and they think it's really cool. The CEO just loves it. I've been running around like mad trying to figure out the business case for marketing - but everybody just loves that the logo is spinning. Spinning? Really? Now some new guy (I think he's like 14) just came by my cube to introduce himself as Tim, the new "Online Guy". Apparently we've hired some giant consulting firm to help us out with this stuff too. They've got a sock puppet version of the CEO. The VP Of Marketing said this is the future. I'm worried. Gotta go - there's cake in the conference room.
Okay, everybody's pissed. We've been running around like crazy (I'm literally out of breath) and this whole thing has been a giant bust. IT is blaming marketing, and marketing is blaming IT. Some people are calling it the biggest recession we'll ever see in our lifetime. They're probably right. Tim is gone - and so is the giant consulting firm. Our VP of Marketing just got fired and now the CEO wants to talk to me. Oh boy....
Well that went a little better than I expected. They just promoted me to VP. Well, now I guess I have to figure out this whole online marketing thing. Okay, job one is to redesign this Web site and give it a business function. I've got to see how I can leverage this new "web" thing into my other marketing strategy. I should hire an ad agency to help me figure this out.
Hmmmm... can't really seem to find an ad agency that knows this stuff... Bob came over and said about an hour ago that this new pay-per-click type of advertising became available on Google. I originally thought he said "Paper clip" advertising and I said - "why the hell would anybody want paper clip advertising?" Okay, It's been a long day and Bob didn't deserve that. Anyway, he said it was kind of like the stuff that has been around for a couple of hours on Yahoo. Only it was based on relevance. Okay, add that to the list of new marketing acronyms to learn.
Okay... found a decent agency, got the Web site re-designed and republished and I'm learning about this Search Marketing thing. The agency says we have to re-design again, because our Site isn't "search engine Friendly"... Ugh.. What does that even mean? Okay, to top it off, one of the marketing managers just told me that the banner ads we're running are not working any more - and that we need a "landing page" program on our site. I've decided I need a "cocktail" program.
So, (and I'm not kidding) I literally just got out of a meeting with the agency and they're telling me that there's this new thing - "Web 2.0". It's the first day people!!! How can there already be a second version of this stuff. But, okay, I'm rolling with it. Apparently, there are these new sites "Twitter" and "Facebook" (where do they come up with these names). And we need to have a strategy to market to the people using these sites. Also, we need to start building a community. Looks like I'm going to be working this weekend.
Man am I tired. I have to get out of here, and go home for a little while. This day has literally just exploded in my face. I mean, I didn't even know there was such a thing as an Internet until after lunch, and now we're trying to figure out how to monetize a second version of the Web.
I have to admit, though, it's been a pretty good day. I got promoted - and I feel like we're really getting alot done. We are actually seeing better results. I'm pulling most of the money out of my print and radio budget and putting it all into online. Everybody's telling me that print is dead and has been for hours.... But I'm not sure... But I do know that with online I can even measure my other tactics like TV and Radio better.
But it's just amazing. Literally in the last half hour of the day, the team is bringing me this new Web 2.0, and Social Media strategy for online marketing. They're telling me that we've got to be transparent, experts in our industry, provide thought leadership - and be "part of the conversation". I've got no idea how to measure it - and neither do they.
I've had to learn more since lunch than I have over the last week. Things are changing so fast now. I guess that's really the new way. Time for that cocktail.
Thank god it's Friday.
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One of the best parts about college football is seeing how coaches strategize against one another in the recruiting game. The better you are at recruiting, the more likely you'll have success on the field. But what if college football held an NFL-style draft with the worst teams drafting first from a pool of players?
That's what Sports Illustrated's Andy Staples looked into a couple weeks ago. Out of the 125 total players chosen in his mock draft, two Baylor players went in his first round.
The Bears' highest choice was guard Cyril Richardson at No. 43 overall. Staples said of Richardson, 'When Mike London's Cavaliers challenged for the ACC Coastal title in 2011, their offensive used the run to set up the pass. With Richardson, London can begin building a punishing running game.'
The next and last Baylor player taken in the first round was running back Lache Seastrunk to San Diego State at No. 62. Staples writes, 'When Baylor coach Art Briles finally turned Seastrunk loose last season, the Big 12 couldn't handle the Oregon transfer from Temple, Texas. Seastrunk averaged 7.7 yards per carry in 2012, and his combination of size and agility make him perfect for San Diego State's run-heavy offense.'
In Staples opinion, when Baylor comes up in the draft with pick No. 108, the Bears would take Oklahoma running back Damien Williams. Not too sure how happy Bob Stoops would be about a rival team taking his starting running back.


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Toshiba laptop in dual boot restarts after shutting down Xubuntu
I bought me a Toshiba Satellite C870-15J with Windows 7 installed.
Made a dual boot with Xubuntu 12.04.
When I shut down Xubuntu, the system seems to turn itself completely off, but after some seconds I hear a click, and the system reboots itself.
The same when I shut down via the terminal with "sudo shutdown -h now".
In the power manager I changed the value for the onn-off button to shut off, but still the same problem.
I also entered the bios and made sure every Wake-on-LAN-like-function is disabled.
When I use the "Windows-side" and shut off, it stays off, which is why I think it can't be a hardware problem.
Can anybody help me? It is a new laptop and it's rather annoying it won't work as it should...
Try using the halt command instead of shutdown. You might have to be root to use it. If it works, change its permissions so all users are allowed to use halt. The usage is:
halt now
Toshiba laptops (some of them, at least) also have a BIOS function to turn on when the laptop lid is lifted. You might be experiencing this behavior, or have a defective laptop lid switch in the machine (sticky?!).
Try changing this behavior in the BIOS, and see if it helps...
Did he try to say that it would always restart or just when the laptop is open? Usually, you tell the O/S to shutdown and close the top when you're done using it.
Thanks for the advice, but still the same problem.
When I use "halt now", the system doesn't really shut down bur freezes on the xubuntu screen; I then have to shut down completely using the on-off button.
In the BIOS I disabled the power-on-lifted-lid-function, but still the same problem.
For the moment, the only solution is waiting till the system has turned off and reboots again, and then hitting the on-off button to turn it off for good.
But I don't think this is regular behaviour, so if someone knows the solution, I would be very grateful...
If shutdown does not occur properly with sudo shutdown -h now,... and there's nothing wrong with the settings in the BIOS,... there's possibly something wring with the run states.
Use the following;
sudo teleinit 0
And report what happens.
For reference here are the Debian/Ubuntu default run states;
0 System Halt
1 Single user
2 Full multi-user mode (Default)
3-5 Same as 2
6 System Reboot
So it's possible that something (or someone) altered the init states confusing runlevel 0 with runlevel 6...
The answer my terminal gives is:
sudo: teleinit: command not found
So what now?
sudo init 0
The old calls are supposed to be supported...
By the way, do it from a real terminal, not just a window, for now,... [Alt]+[Ctrl]+[F1], for example.
That's weird. Still, use halt. This will keep it from rebooting, which means you'll just have to hit the power switch.
If the telenit 0 command works, put it into a text file. Name the file something like Scram or go-away (not halt or shutdown)
Using dolphin as root, save this to /bin. Make it executable. Grant permissions to everyone and put it into the everyone (or all users) group. Do this by right clicking it and choosing properties & permissions.
After this, go to your desktop and make a new icon with the path to the binary you just created. Repeat this for all your user accounts and root if you log in graphically as root once in a while. (Usually, not a good idea unless your modifying your computer or operating system.)
I used "sudo init 0" from a "real" terminal: the system shuts down... and restarts after some seconds...
By the way, I just discovered that the laptop doesn't restart when on accu, so the problem exists only when powered by cable.
Hence the solution can be to "pull out the plug" before shutting down, but I still don't think this is normal behaviour...
It's not software then,... Something in the BIOS,... or faulty ACPI... There's no software that can turn a machine back on if it's truly off,... sleeping, yes, but not truly off...
Look for a setting for something like booting after power loss,... and change it to the "stay off" setting...
Then just do that
The best thing to do is accept the quirk and unplug it. After its totally off, you can probably plug it in again.
Found no setting for booting after power loss, all the possible reboot-seetings are already disabled.
Reflashing the bios is a new concept for me, so before I dare considering it I will first look around a bit to learn how to do it. Meanwhile, I think I shall follow Mdlinuxwolf's advice and accept the laptop with it's quirks.
Thank you both for your time & advice!
Usually you go to the manufacturer's website, download the bios, put it on a USB or a CD.
After that, boot off of the USB or CD and follow the directions.
If you dual boot with M$, there might even be a helpful wizard. There is always some risk reflashing bios. Don't interrupt it once it starts to reflash.
For my laptop, I usually suspend to RAM anyway.
In the days of yore, you would boot off of a floppy with the newer bios.
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Old 45 records with color vinyl...Fairly hard to find...An old advertising gimmick...The coolest one I have is Gran Max in white vinyl (I will post it later - all I have now is a stock photo and it is of a 33 1/3 but the band released 45's in white vinyl too)...Once again, not incredibly rare - but getting harder to find these items - especially in the days of the IPOD...
Here is a record pressed in Coke Bottle Green. I know nothing about the band - I do not own a turntable anymore - but I thought the color of the record was really cool and I bought it!
It turns out, a handful of obscure bands released records in Coke Bottle Green. I don't know why---but I have always been drawn to the Coke Bottle Green color. After some research, I found out the green color in the glass comes from the sand used in the production of the Coca-Cola bottles. Please enjoy!


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WHITTIER >> Neel Kashkari, a Republican candidate for governor, Friday called comments by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly that Kashkari supported Shariah banking code when he was a senior official at the U.S. Treasury Department in 2008 "utterly absurd" and "deeply offensive."
Kashari spoke before 110 people at a Whittier Republican Women Federated lunch at the Friendly Hills Country Club and accused Donnelly of twisting what actually happened.
The Treasury Department had a conference on understanding Islamic law because American companies want to do business there, Kashkari said. It was a conference to project our ideas in (Arab) countries and this happened when George W. Bush was president, he added.
"I find it deeply offensive with the idea that George W. Bush was trying to bring Islamic law to this country," Kashkari said. "There's no place in our party for this mudslinging," he said.
On Facebook, Donnelly posted a link to a banking seminar hosted by the department during which Kashkari, a Hindu, delivered opening remarks.
Donnelly has continued to repeat the sentiments, even after apologizing during a live radio interview Wednesday for a Twitter message that accused Kashkari of "submission to" Shariah law, which has since been deleted.
Donnelly didn't reply to an email Friday seeking comment.
Kashkari also talked about his campaign that he said focuses on the economy and education.
"I spent all of 2013 traveling up and down California meeting families," he said. "Everyone wants the same thing. They want a good job and for their kids to get a good education."
But that isn't happening in California, Kashkari said.
"We are literally ranked 47th in America for job creation," he said. "We're ranked 46th in education. Put those two things together and we're No. 1 in poverty." To increase jobs, Kashkari proposed making all regulations expire in 10 years, streamline environmental laws, cancel the high-speed rail program, create incentives for manufacturers to locate in California and expand oil and gas drilling in the state.
As for education, Kashkari said he favors giving more control to parents and teachers.
His speech was well received.
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CHINO >> A couple campus upgrades will be evident to Chino High School students as they return to campus on Monday from their summer vacation.
Chipped grey, green and beige checkered tiles no longer plague the floor of the boys' and girls' locker rooms. Both rooms received new epoxy flooring, along with new bathroom partitions over the break.
The face lift was long awaited only after parents approached the Chino Valley Unified School District board and staff of the poor facility conditions at the 59-year-old school.
The scope of work completed in the girls' locker room included painting of the coaches' offices, bathroom and locker area, and new vinyl tile in the coaches' office.
The boys' locker area and restroom also received a fresh coat of paint along with the installation of new lockers and benches.
The cost of upgrades: $138,522.
Physical education teacher Felica Ambrosia said for the first time in years the girls' locker room will have hot water.
"This is a really nice fresh look and will create a positive atmosphere in the locker room," Ambrosia said. "I hope the girls recognize that a lot of effort and money went into the renovation."
Parents and staff of the high school – which was built in 1954 – complained about the lack of facility upgrades earlier this year which included the peeling paint, old bathroom stalls, water that leaves rust behind because of the old metal piping system, no benches in the locker rooms and broken and damaged lockers and floors.
Three Williams Complaints were submitted by parents in March to the district about the conditions. The complaint, which falls under the umbrella of state Uniform Complaint Procedures, is a written statement alleging discrimination, harassment, or a violation of a federal or state law or regulation, according to the state Board of Education.
Many parents and students complained about the "rusty water" and old piping and leaky faucets throughout the school and advocated for new piping.
School officials said the budgetary estimate for the re-piping to be completed would cost $3 million to $4 million.
During a tour of the boys' locker room on Wednesday, Chino High's Principal Felix Melendez pointed out some of the changes, including the handicap accessible benches that weren't in the boys locker room in the past.
"Now all we have to do is take care of it," he said.
Parent Sally Santoyo said she will visit the school this week with the Williams Complaint she's submitted to see what has and hasn't been fixed.
She said over the summer there was an issue with the front gate. She's also curious to know if a filtration system has been implemented in the school's kitchen.
"I'm not trying to fight with them, I just want to get these things done for our kids," Santoyo said Friday. "But I know that some of things are done, and we're excited about that."


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There is a wise saying that "prevention is better than cure", and this statement certainly holds its weight when it comes to managing a secure and highly reliable computing environment. Last year, I authored a blog on how to stay&nbs...Modified on by Joseph Lam - IBM
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Do you like IBM Redbooks ?
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The next Wednesday, Apr 24, 16:45 - 17:45, I will be speaking in JavaOne Russia about [CON1112] JSF Mashups in Action . The session will be practical, I will talk about Mashup development, common Mashup scenarios, and the current challenges of developing...
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July 13, 2012 4:06 PM
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Google Alerts in an IBN excellent intranet experience
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Blog entry on custom calibre news feeds Community Blog
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I just wrote a blog entry that might be of special interest to members here. Check out: Custom developerWorks news feed on my ebook reader
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Custom developerWorks news feed on my ebook reader
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I recently bought a Kindle. I had a Sony book reader that I was pleased with for quite some time. I still like it, actually, but it was starting to feel slow to me. I also wanted to be able to take advantage of some of the Kindle features that I get with my...
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Video: How to Subscribe to My Notifications
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IBM My Notifications has been updated based on your feedback!
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Tivoli Netcool/Impact RSS feeds Community Blog
To stay up-to-date with all the latest bugs, interim fixes, fix packs and new releases, monitor the IBM Tivoli Software Support RSS feeds: IBM Software Support - RSS Feeds For the Netcool/Impact RSS feed, look for "Tivoli Netcool/Impact" on this...
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Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus RSS feeds Community Blog
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Lotusphere Comes To You 2011 東京でセッションを開催しました
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Is my iPhone really helping me?
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If anyone is looking to use RSS_FLOW_CONTROL (in 11.50FC8 and 11.70) there is currently one restriction that I uncovered that has been entered as a defect. When you set the values for RSS_FLOW_CONTROL currently the values have to be under 2 gig due to a...
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Have you signed up for My Notifications?
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One of my favorite ways to stay up-to-date with new and updated Rational support content is through My Notifications. With My Notifications you can receive daily or weekly announcements through e-mail, custom Web pages and RSS feeds. These customizable...
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� Die vergangenen Tage bin ich �ber diverse Postings und Artikel gestossen, die das Thema Hyperlinks adressieren. Prof. Dr. Gerald Lembke schreibt auf Perspektive Mittelstand �ber die Hypertext-Organisation und die Vorteile, die durch eine Hypertext-artige...
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Creating your mashup feed producer simply using Mashups4JSF
Hazem Saleh (IBM) Tags: jsf feed rss producer atom mashup jsf2.0 mashups mashups4jsf 4,582 Views
Mashups4JSF now provides a way for creating mashup feed producer from existing domain classes by just using simple annotations. Let see an example of how to define mashup feed producer (atom or rss) using Mashups4JSF. Assume the domain model have the following...
IBM developerWorks ノスタルジー vol.4 : RSS と RDF
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Feed Me Seymour
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Do you have too many RSS feeds? Do you not have enough time to read the RSS feeds that you do have? Do you feel overwhelmed every time you open your RSS reader or Google Reader and think to yourself, "Life is too short to be this overwhelmed!" Well, ladies and...
Keeping up with Feeds
jimhsu Tags: web2.0 rss socialnetworking 8 Comments 57,590 Views
If you're already using a Feed Reader, go ahead and skip this post. But if you're a fan of a lot of different websites and it's becoming too much of a hassle to constantly check them, then RSS subscriptions may be your answer. A feed reader helps you out by...
4回目の投稿にして"お久しぶりです!"という書き出しはまずいと思いつつも、久しぶりに書いている私です。 テクニカルなフィールドにいらっしゃる皆様は、RSSフィードリーダーを使って、情報収集していらっしゃいますよね? IBMソフトウェア・サポートWebサイトでも、各種RSSフィード対応しています。 日本のサポートサイトでは、技術速報(テクニカル・フラッシュ)を発信しており、 RSSマップ にRSSフィードをご紹介しています。購読されていない方はぜひ購読してください。 私もRSSフィードリーダー抜きでは情報収集がはじま...
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nyoko Tags: feed_reader rss blog 1,337 Views
先日とても勉強になったことがありました。自分の発言がまったく意図しないとおりに、聞き手の方に伝わってしまったのです。(ここまで書いてみて小学生の作文みたいだなと思う) その理由としては、言葉が足らなかった、表現が間違っていた、ということもあげられますが、私が聞き手に与えるあたえる印象や、その方とのリレーションシップというのが影響しているのだと思います。(当然ですね) 聞き手の方のご意見を、私が正しく理解できていなかったのかもしれません。(それをうけて、私がとんちんかんな発言をしてしまったか・・・)反省して今後に生か...
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Mashup Center Import for Microsoft Excel
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Mashup Center Import for Microsoft Excel is now available on IBM alphaWorks site. The Mashup Center Import is a Microsoft Excel-basedadd-in which allows line-of-business users to import enterprise andinternet data that is contained within any Mashup...
Build your own developerWorks feed (Demo)
mullerj Tags: rss developerworks feeds 7,554 Views
Demo of the "Build your own feed" feature on developerWorks, showing how to filter by topic, type and keywords. The demo also shows how to pull the feed into iGoogle, MyYahoo! or netvibes.
from Blog: John Muller
What is Web 2.0? Community Blog
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If you are in the Toronto area, the Toronto User Group TEC 2009 conference starts next week Tue (Mar 24-26) For those curious about Web 2.0, latest trends, and how it can be consumed or produced on IBM i, George Papayiannis and myself will be presenting a...
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IBM Mashup Center: A solution for spreadsheet overload
JohnFeller Tags: spreadsheet rss mashuphub mashupcenter web2.0 ibm 4,776 Views
Are you getting overwhelmed by the number of spreadsheets being sent to you? Currently, many business users spend too much time collecting, combining, consolidating, and distributing data when they use spreadsheets as their primary information distribution...
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Daniel Selman Tags: rts rule team server rss 4,527 Views
Have you ever wondered what the Internet, WWW or an individual blog looked like? Having young kids and an interest in visualization -- particularly 3D -- gets you into these things! Wordle can create nice "word clouds" from an RSS feed. It is also a...
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Using the Feed Reader Sidebar in Notes8
I'd switched my feedreader to Newsfox sometime back. Newsfox I thought was cool cause it is integrated with the browser as a plugin sitting inside firefox. Blame it on my laziness or general human tendency, even if it is just a click to open up newsfox once...
Social Media and RSS Explained In Three Minutes
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Lee Lefever's "Explanations In Plain English" series is a great way to learn about Web 2.0. I like the simplistic and vibrant style used in all his videos to drive home the salient points of his topics. I've embedded two of his videos, the...
IBM developer Senthil Nathan on customizing an RSS aggregator in PHP
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Senthil is an IBM senior software engineer and join me for a quick preview of his new article, Build a customizable RSS feed aggregator in PHP , featured on this week's developerWorks homepage. I'm experimenting here with shorter podcasts for the TWOdW stuff,...
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Everybody loves free software. I know I do. In fact, I'm a self-admitted software junkie (comes with the territory of working in the software business). Most recently, I downloaded our new IBM Lotus Symphony beta product, which comes with a word processor,...
My Socially Graphed Yahoo Gmail InBox?
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Readers of this blog viewing the video from David Barnes in the previous post may have wondered about IBM DAMIA , which was referenced at the end of the YouTube video. It's a mashup tool with a nifty user interface that lets users plug together a mashup...
QEDWiki, Mashup Hub, and DAMIA Demo
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David Barnes is back with another installment of his popular YouTube video series, this time going through a demo that showcases QEDWiki , Mashup Hub , and DAMIA . As always, it's well worth the time! More info about IBM and Web 2.0 is found...
IBM Mashup Hub
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I'm proud to announce a new technology that's near and dear to my heart: IBM Mashup Hub . Mashup Hub is intended for a community of Web 2.0 mashup creators and situational application assemblers to come together to share and reuse user interface...
Peer to Peer lending increasing in popularity
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Today's Wall Journal, section D1. Refers to Prosper.com, Circle Lending (majority stake owned by Virgin Airlines), and emerging participants. As we've discussed, affiliation of like-minded people is the crux of Web 2.0, whether accomplished by RSS...
What is MACH11?
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Paul Gilster (PG) praises Yahoo Pipes
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Empress Ki Episode 41
Empress Ki Episode 41 English Sub
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About 2 years ago . Report
exo_lSo... the blood vow? What is the uses of that exactly? Just to encourage the emperor?
1 year ago . Report
Everyone is guessing Kolta is the Eagle House head that's a high possibility. I kinda doubted him when he rushed to the Emperor and he reasoned out that his mother is ill. And someone below the comments was saying TalTal could be Nyang's brother. I'm sorry but I started watching this drama at Episode 12 and I don't know whether how was Nyang's family back then, I just knew that Tangqishi shot Nyang's mother. But the Emperor is so into his power now and it makes me hate him but it still made me smile though he was confused by Nyang's actions he still covered her up from the Dowager, Empress and others from knowing about the gold. Lastly, Tal Tal knew Lady Ki's plans but still protected her. I liked it!
The past episodes I kept wavering if that cutie Emperor would be able to run the Imperial House well. He was innocent, became fierce, learned his duties w/ Nyang's help, he put an end to El Temur's greed, and when he had Nyang and Ayu he's back to being calm and quite innocent around him, he often just keeps agreeing on Nyang's doings but in this episode I am amazed how FINALLY NYANG AND EMPEROR'S VISION FOR THE FUTURE CLASH. Bayan & Emperor visualize the same for Yuan's betterment but it's going against Nyang's visions especially for Koryo. Indeed, political matters motto: Today's friend will be tomorrow's enemy. Tal Tal resembles Song Jae Rim of WGM with Kim SoEun. :)
sharajoin the club
1 year ago . Report
sokihe's one of the ''see all hear all'' character, its the character that has the same thoughts as the audience, which is why so many like him :)
ToghonTemurHmm he did not help SN because he likes her he helped her because he didnt want his uncle to become like the previous regent, being blinded by wealth and power. i watched this like 4 times and this is probably like my fifth.
2 years ago . Report
HI FRIENDS IN EMPRESS KI.. I'AM ONE OF THE AVID FAN OF THIS DRAMA ALSO THE LEADING ACTRESS. REALLY I'M VERY EAGER TO WATCH THIS DRAMA EVEN RAW SUB. I FOLLOWED EVERY EPISODE. BUT GUYS YOU KNOW WHAT.. THE NEXT 42 AND 43 EPISODE IS VERY DISAPPOINTED OR I'M VERY UPSET. THE LINE STORY THIS TWO EPISODE IS VERY REGRETFUL. sORRY! I FEEL BAD ALL OF THE SUDDEN.
toxysame here! i had so many questioned.. why the man around wang yu they still keep secret about maha birth parents. where are the loyalty among his man? why sun yang did not reveal it to emperor about maha? Can i ask to the scriptwriter? Do you review every line of your story. I'm very upset.. I'm very fanatic to this drama but i'm not just only a viewer i'm also a critics.
ashybecause when they know the truth,and when the emperor knew,they will be executed,
About 3 years ago . Report
O M G !!!!!! what was Lady Ki planning to do now?now the evrybody knows she has all el temur's treasure?I was totally shocked the moment she showed the treasure to dowager and empress. the emperor worried for SN.. who will own the treasure?is it still SN or Yuan's?SN deserv the treasure....I CANT WAIT for next episode. Taltal is so damn hot...like a knight shining armor.haha.
naomaNo !!!! It was Jo In Sung
ShivaniTal Tal was the guy who played Park Min Young's brother in Time Slip Dr. Jin.
ToshUm ok thank you. You guys didnt have to be so dramatic. lol
now i can presume how this drama going after i saw ep 42. to put it simple, baek an become greedy just like el temur, maybe even more (i called it "prime minister syndrom"). empress ki will bring down baek an which remind me the times when empress ki bring down el temur. (empress ki + wang yu + several governor) versus (Baek an + tal-tal + whole baek an clan). tal-tal will be defeated and killed. all of you who overly fans tal-tal and bitching to much about it, behold, tal tal life is just counting the day.
kotak-kosongtal tal is yuan future prime minister... read the history
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I am sick as a dog right now, but at least I have just about enough wits about to make a wishlist.
I've noticed recently that I am really reconecting with my alternative/gothy roots. When I discovered body positive fashion/fatshion I went pretty high femme with it because that's what I saw most of online, plus it was an interesting way to express myself that I'd never encountered before. I believe my first post on here had me wearing neon pink! As much as I can appreciate that, I think my personal fashion tastes are returning to the dark side. So a wishlist in which I celebrate skulls & leather, my two favourite fashion trends right now.
The rollerskates are thrown in because I want to learn so bad, that I've signed up for newbie classes at a roller derby league! Wish me luck. :)


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Size: about 4mm in diameter.
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Amazon.com has awarded the Shared Worlds science fiction/fantasy teen writing camp a $15,000 grant. The money will help the camp bring guest writers, establish scholarships, and pay general operating expenses.
The nonprofit event takes place at Wofford College in South Carolina. Around 50 students will attend the camp next year. The long list of guest instructors next year includes authors Jeff VanderMeer and Ekaterina Sedia, editor Ann VanderMeer, and game designer Will Hindmarch.
Here's more from the release: "[The camp] uses an innovative approach to writing fiction and realizing full creative potential, all in a safe and structured environment. During the first week, the students build SF or Fantasy worlds in groups, aided by Wofford faculty who provide useful information in areas like government, biology, and cartography. In the second week, the students fine-tune their worlds and write stories set within those worlds, receiving professional feedback from award-winning authors."


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Henrico, VA—A week
after Henrico County supervisors voted to prohibit all
panhandling on medians, a man is planning to file a lawsuit against the county
over the issue.
Robert Reynolds asked a federal court Wednesday morning to waive a fee he
needs to pay, in order to file a lawsuit against Henrico County.
Reynolds says the new law against panhandling violates his freedom of
speech. He has been an outspoken opponent of the ordinance since it came before
the Board of Supervisors.
This is a developing story…stay with 8News for updates.
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This error is from the backend. Its saying it doesn't know how to convert lo to and from int4. You'll need to create some functions to handle this conversion. Peter -- Peter T Mount peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk, me(at)petermount(dot)com Homepage: http://www.retep.org.uk Contact details: http://petermount.com PostgreSQL JDBC: http://www.retep.org.uk/postgres/ Java PDF Generator: http://www.retep.org.uk/pdf/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Thorhauer" <jthorhauer(at)phoenixcolor(dot)com> To: "postgres-inter" <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 4:52 PM Subject: [INTERFACES] using large objects with jdbc/odbc > I am successfully using large objects in postgres with the latest > version of postgtres and the latest jdbc driver (thanks to a lot of help > from this list :-)) However, I need to make sure that my table is > accessible from both jdbc and odbc drivers. I need to make sure that > programs that utilize the odbc driver for postgres can also access large > object data in the same table that the jdbc driver is accessing the > data. > > So I thought that I would have to define the large object field as type > 'lo' instead of 'oid'. But then jdbc wont recognize it. So I tried > defining a type in the org.postgres.Field.java of 'lo' as VARBINARY and > also tried it as INTEGER, hoping that the driver would then recognize > the type of lo in the table but it did not work and I get the following > error: > > Attribute 'fieldA' is of type 'lo' but expression is of type 'int4' > > Any ideas on this? Is it possible to even do this or should I go back > to the drawing board? > > Thanks, > John > > -- > ******************************** > ** John Thorhauer > ** jthorhauer(at)phoenixcolor(dot)com > ********************************
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Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Remember Red Dye No 2?
Stephanie Gleason, WSJ,, Mar 29, 2011, says scientists are still trying to figure out if artificial food dyes make kids nuts.
This was going on when I was in my twenties!
Now, the FDA is at it again…reconsidering its earlier findings that artificial chemical dyes are harmless.
Now, they say dyes may be an issue—may be an issue—for kids with ADHD.
In other words, may make ADHD worse, but not cause it.
Of course, the food companies say this is nonsense. Kraft makes at least 100 products with dyes—including my beloved Kraft Dinner (Yellow 5 and Yellow 6).
Artificial dyes are cheap and make better colors in Kool-Aid and candy, to name two. Anyhow, it takes a lot of spinach to make one green M&M.
And so it continues.
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Ask a Lawyer and Get Answers to Your Legal Questions
h judge gave only partial weight to my Treating Doctor of 9 years due to inconsistancies in his charting, I was not spcific as to how my everyday activities were affected by my many symtoms, and multiable rx side effects each Dr Appt.
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Do I have a Valid Claim?


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An Island in Tracadie Harbour, named for the Petitpas family.
PLASTER COVE, Antigonish County
A cove near Antigonish Harbour, named because of the plaster or gypsum
found nearby.
In the early 19th century vessels came here to load plaster.
POLSONS BROOK., Antigonish County
A brook which flows west into South River, also called McPhee's Brook
and also a
settlement south east of Antigonish between Loch Katrine and Upper Springfield.
Probably named after William Polson who received a grant of three hundred acres
in 1828.