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Col Muammar Gaddafi has to be one the most entertaining politicians around. I think he's funnier than most stand-up comics put together. It's the film industry's loss that he chose a career in politics. And the man does what he wants. Last week, he ranted for 90 minutes at the UN General Assembly when he had been allotted only 15 minutes. His translator actually gave up after some time! The Libyan media later hailed the speech as radical, detailed and in-depth. Heck, if I was part of the Libyan media, I would too. It's called self-preservation.
The man is a walking, talking B-grade comedy film. Apart from his diatribe against India over Kashmir, he also nailed the rationale behind the birth of Somalian piracy. It's fish, or the lack of it. Genius, eh? According to the Colonel, India and Japan have wiped out Somalia's fishing wealth, forcing the Somalis to take up piracy. So, let me get this straight: India's piracy of fish has led to Somalis turning pirates. Hmmm, something's definitely fishy here. Maybe some of our Bengali brethren had something to do with it. Lay off those sardines friends …and save the Somalis.
Coming back to Gaddafi, the man knows how to make an entrance. During a recent trip to Italy, the ageing Libyan dictator arrived on a jet, dressed (or overdressed) in military finery, with a few hundred medals and badges, a bright peak cap, and a heavily armed woman on each arm. The voluptuous lady-guards also wore uniforms, apart from very solemn expressions. If this wasn't real life, it would just be a very bad scene by an underpaid, constipated director. And get this, the women are supposed to be virgins.
The Colonel is quite a character. The man overthrew the Libyan monarchy in 1969 in a bloodless coup. Years later, one of his seven sons masterminded a coup against him and fled to Egypt, only to return after Gaddafi forgave him ('Mughal-e-Azam' anyone?). He has two wives and one of them is now in disfavour. I am pretty sure that if someone tries to make a film on him, it will eventually turn into a masala melodrama, even if the director plans a boring documentary.
In 2007, on a visit to Paris, he actually demanded and eventually got some tents pitched outside a hotel. He apparently has a phobia of being confined indoors. So, we had a black tent, with all modern luxuries, in the heart of the city of lights. What can I say? You can take man out of the desert, but you can't take the desert out of the man.
He is said to have tried the same stunt in New York for the UN summit, but it was dismantled in a jiffy by angry US officials. Apparently, Americans don't like either tents or Gaddafi. (Later, the tent, with leather couches and coffee tables, was installed again). What's next? A camel tour through Times Square?
He's quite the diplomat too. One of his famous quotes goes: "I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots." Yessir! He's as colourful as they come.
Anyway, I think I need to go book some health insurance now, before Gaddafi comes visiting… with those hot bodyguards in tow.


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Picture: Myleene Klass British Olympic Ball held at the Grosvenor House Hotel London, England - 24.09.10
British singer-turned-TV presenter Myleene Klass has caused controversy by claiming a "newly-married Hollywood star" propositioned her during a recent lunch meeting and asked her to sign a confidentiality contract.
The former Hear'Say star has been working as a roving reporter for America's CNN network, interviewing a string of high-profile names.
The 32 year old now admits one lunchtime chat with a famous face became unsavoury when he asked her for sex and his assistant offered her a contract to keep quiet.
She says, "About six months ago, a newly-married Hollywood star asked me to sign some kind of sex contract with him. I just thought, 'Mate, which planet are you from?' I met him a few times and when I went to interview him it was like something out of a film. We were having lunch and as the starter arrived he launched into it.
"I was like: 'B**ger I've got main and dessert to go - I'm stuck here!' Then his PA came over with a confidentiality contract. I just thought, 'Oh my God, your poor wife'. I don't want to be a marriage wrecker."
Klass, who has a young daughter with her fiance Graham Quinn and is pregnant with their second child, caused a furore earlier this year (10) when she claimed a top Hollywood producer had offered to pay her for sex.

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NORTH REDINGTON BEACH Two students from the Seminole campus of St. Petersburg College, Tanner Guy and Scott Valentine, attended the April 10 Town Commission meeting as part of their work toward a bachelors degree in public policy and administration.
Guy and Valentine made presentations to commissioners regarding a selected ordinance up for approval. The presentations were a prerequisite for preparing essays to submit to their policy and leadership class.
Guy said that the assignment was to give the students the actual experience of interacting with government officials so we (students) have an idea of what its like (to do so).
Valentine said that they chose the North Redington Beach meeting because the meeting took place on a Thursday night, which was convenient for their schedules.
The ordinance the students addressed was the only ordinance before the town during new business. The ordinance amends the code to restrict the height of detached structures constructed within the second of two residential districts in the town and passed on its first reading.
Recently, the same ordinance restricting the height of detached structures to 12 feet was passed within the first of the two residential districts of the town. The ordinance added the other residential district to the code. Both ordinances affect new construction only and existing structures are grandfathered in.
We wanted to make it (the ordinances for both residential districts) the same, said Mayor Bill Queen.
Valentine said he had learned about the concept of neighborhood harmony from a local Realtor during his presentation. Guy explored aspects of capping the height requirement of 12 feet as part of his presentation.
Traffic issues
Updates regarding traffic issues relative to the recent pedestrian accident on Gulf Boulevard were discussed during miscellaneous business.
There will be more sheriffs on Gulf Boulevard, said Queen.
An LED lighted sign has been parked along the back streets of the town, alerting motorists when they exceed the speed limit of 25 mph. The light comes on to signal a motorist once a vehicle reaches 26 mph and flashes when a motorists vehicle exceeds 35 mph. According to data accumulated, motorists posted a median speed of 22 mph and only 2 percent of drivers exceeded 35 mph.
I dont need a digital display to know if someone is speeding, Commissioner Gary Curtis said.
Queen assured Curtis that deputies had initially been issuing warnings and that now they are writing tickets.
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Also, during miscellaneous business, Commissioner Richard Bennett reported on the results of the recent library fundraiser, Food For Thought. The library made $5,600 and 300 people attended the event.
We had fabulous weather, said Bennett.
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text: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:42:10 +0200, Nico Schlömer wrote: [clip] > There's a major drawback, though, which may not be easily fixed: To > calculate the residual, one has to compute an extra matrix-vector > multiplication *per step*, which effectively increases the runtime of > the CG algorithm by a factor of two (!). Ideally -- and classically -- > the residual is retrieved directly from the CG method itself. Now > obviously, the callback method does not provide for residual vector > input, but I'm not quite sure what's the reason for that. That can quite likely be easily fixed by making a small change to Scipy. An interesting point here is that the `gmres` routine on the other hand only passes the residual norm to the callback, so there would be also some other things to harmonize here. Is there some other information that would be useful in the callback? I can think of: residual vector, residual 2-norm, and current iterate -- what else? If you have time, please file a bug report, http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/newticket so that we won't forget this issue. -- Pauli Virtanen


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Anybody for a slice of PISA?
There has been significant coverage in the press of New Zealand's slip in the OECD PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) rankings for mathematics, reading, and science.
We probably should be concerned.
However, today I stumbled across the following chart: in The Economist. Two things about it struck me. Firstly, part of the change (in the mathematics ranking at least) was driven by the addition of three countries/cities which did not participate in the 2006 round: Shanghai, Singapore, and Vietnam. The insertion of these countries is not enough to explain away New Zealand's apparent drop, but it does move us from a change of down 11 places to a change of down 8 places. Secondly, I found it really hard to see what was going on in this graph. The colour coding does not help, because it reflects geographic location and the data is not grouped on this variable. Most of the emphasis is probably initially on the current ranking which one can easily see by just reading the right-hand ranked list from The Economist's graphic. However, relative change is less easily discerned. It seems sensible, to me at least, to have a nice graphic that shows the changes as well. So here it is, again just for the mathematics ranking: .
The raw data (entered by me from the graph) has been re-ranked omitting Greece, Israel, and Serbia who did not participate in 2012, and China, Singapore, and Vietnam, who did not participate in 2006. I am happy to supply the R script to anyone who wants to change the spacing – I have run out of interest.
It is also worth noting that these rankings are done on mean scores of samples of pupils. PISA's own reports have groups of populations that cannot be declared statistically significantly different (if you like to believe in such tests). This may also change the rankings.
Professor Neville Davies, Director of the Royal Statistical Society's Centre for Statistical Education, and Elliot Lawes, kindly sent me the following links:
Firstly a blog article from the ever-thoughtful Professor David Spiegelhalter: The problems with PISA statistical methods
and secondly, a couple of articles from the Listener, which I believe Julie Middleton has also mentioned in the comments:
Education rankings "flawed" by Catherine Woulfe" and Q&A with Andreas Schieicher also by Catherine Woulfe.
James Curran's interests are in statistical problems in forensic science. He consults with forensic agencies in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He produces and maintains expert systems software for the interpretation of evidence. He has experience as an expert witness in DNA and glass evidence, appearing in courts in the United States and Australia. He has very strong interests in statistical computing, and in automation projects. See all posts by James Curran »
megan pledger
Isn't out fault (statisticians that is) that the maths scores have gone down? My understanding is that a state of the art stats curriculum has been introduced into schools (which I assume is at the expense of pure maths). And it shows in our scores i.e. our scores were high on the stats questions and low on the pure maths questions.
If the test covers stuff we haven't taught and doesn't cover stuff that is taught here, stuff that we obviously value, does it even make sense to make comparisons between countries?
Elliot Lawes
There are many issues (both statistical issues and communication issues) associated with the PISA study.
The OECD puts undue emphasis on the rankings and, in my opinion, fails to communicate any of the associated interpretation issues (see James' points above).
Comparing mean scale scores and distributions etc is better, but in order to use these you really have to buy the psychometric model behind the generation of the scale scores.
In particular, you have to buy that the model works the same across a whole pile of different countries and languages.
I haven't run Differential Item Function tests on this data, but I find it quite a stretch to believe that this level of invariance exists.
Then there are other contextual factors when interpreting the data: what is the assessment culture in country X, are the 15-year-olds that are in school in country X _really_ the same that are in country Y? etc etc.
There are other issues associated with imputation also.
That is not to say that PISA is no good. Certainly, in New Zealand the data collection process is highly rigorous and the collected data can provide valuable insight into the education and skills of 15-year-olds in this country.
The multiple country aspect of PISA is also not necessarily bad, but could be re-framed as a way to share development costs (which can be extensive for an assessment like this) for within-country analysis rather than as a way to obtain an international comparison.
There are some good critiques out there (eg http://www.statslife.org.uk/opinion/1074-the-problems-with-pisa-statistical-methods ) as well as the usual rubbish you find on the interwebs.


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I am fairly new to using fondant and would like to make a rapunzel tower as a cake topper for my daughter's birthday. I would like to make it in advance, but not sure how early I can make it or how to store once it's made. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The cake tutorial found on here is linked:
I would add a bit of Gumtex to my fondant.
The time ahead that you can create it is unlimited except for 2 things.
1 - Make sure you store it away from where ants or other insects can get to it
2 - Purple fondant fades Green can also fade a bit. . To get around it is you can make the tower completely before, but I would add the roof and flowers and vines close to the date.
thank you Lynne! How do you store it? I have seen some say in an airtight container and others say leave it open. Thanks for your help!
I store it in a container with a lid to keep the light away from it. I do not make it air tight. I am not in a high humidity area so that is not really a concern. I add Wilton gumtex to the fondant so it gets a bit harder. Funny, that's the only wilton product I use. If you are in a high humidity area make a bed of rice at the bottom of the box or container.
Thank you so much! You have been so helpful!


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Two decades ago, I was a F1 fan. I would watch the races on TV, most of them live. (Though not the Asian and Australian ones, my parents weren't fan of the night time local time idea.)
That was a time, that, to me anyway, Formula 1 cars still just looked great.
Please don't get me wrong, I understand the (aero) tech in general terms, and I accept that form follows function in F1, but, ye Gods, I long for a balance between technology and aestetics!
Can you imagine cars like this now? No slats, flaps, slits, or double-curved barge boards, no DRS equipped rear spoilers, no complicated curved and bulged triple-layer front spoilers, no WTF-is-going-on weirdly shaped wing end plates, and no trick exhausts (though those are impossible with the 2014 regulations)
And no genital-inspired noses!
[in Clarkson voice] Just look at it!!
Even then the cars started to get, hah!, spoiled. (See what I did there?) By comparison to 2014 standards though even the Benetton looks incredibly clean.
And the irony of it all? Since F1 cars didn't have the extreme aero technology that they have today, they were less reliant on downforce. Which allowed for a thing called drafting. Cars could get within half a car length without having the turbulence wreaking havoc. Overtaking happened more often, without using technical patches like DRS and KERS. The sport simply didn't need that.
Enough proverbial Rambling Old Man. Here's a parting shot.


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From the Campaign for Southern Equality:
The Campaign for Southern Equality is participating in a 24-hour online fundraising contest called Twive and Receive and representing the city of Asheville. We're competing with 200 other non-profits from around the country and, on top of that, we're the only LGBT organization in this contest.
Here's the deal: If we win the contest Razoo will donate $15,000 to CSE. Second place is $10,000 and third is $5,000. This funding will go toward the WE DO Campaign and our free legal workshops for LGBT people in the South.


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Congressman Charles B. Rangel released the following statement after House Speaker John Boehner failed to push through his so-called "Plan B":
"It is clear that even Members of Speaker Boehner's own Conference don't support his plan, which is completely immoral and wrong.
The so-called "Plan B" makes 25 million working families pay an average $1,000 more in taxes, while giving those making over a million dollars a $50,000 tax cut. Under this failed plan, 1.7 million seniors will lose Meals on Wheels and more than 20 million children will have reduced food and nutrition benefits. Plan B harms the most vulnerable among us in order to protect the wealthiest Americans.
This game of chicken is getting old. Since taking over the House, the Republicans have been replaying this political theater every year during the holiday season. The American people need their leaders to help them get back on their feet instead of holding them hostage. The President has long been ready to sign the Middle Class Tax Cut that has already been passed by the Senate.
It's time for the Republicans to stop wasting time and end their bills to nowhere. We must reach a big, bold, balanced agreement that will stop us from going over the cliff."
Source: http://rangel.house.gov/statements/2012/12/rangels-response-to-the-gops-failed-plan.shtml


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According to the "Agricultural Prices" report from USDA on Thursday, the preliminary milk-feed ratio for February is 1.54, down from January's 1.57.
It's the third straight month that the ratio has dropped, indicating decreased profitability.
The all-milk price used in calculating the ratio dropped from $19.90 in January to $19.40 in February. Meanwhile, feed costs stayed pretty much the same ― corn dropped 7 cents from January to $6.89 per bushel in February; alfalfa hay rose $1 to $218 per ton in February, and soybeans dropped 10 cents to $14.20 per bushel in February.
Some people question the validity of the milk-feed ratio. See this story. But the USDA has been using the same formula for years, comparing the same commodities. Therefore, it can serve as a relative measure for comparing different points in time.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- "Big banks are an oligopoly and what that map is showing is that they're exerting their pricing power."
You might expect a quote like that from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) or Joseph Stiglitz, the liberal-leaning Nobel laureate. Afterall, Warren and Stiglitz are two of the most prominent big bank critics to emerge from the 2008 financial crisis.
Instead, it came from Dick Bove, analyst at Rafferty Capital Markets and author of Guardians of Prosperity: Why America Needs Big Banks.
Bove argues that we need giant banks like Citigroup (C), Wells Fargo (WFC), JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Bank of America (BAC) to compete globally and to service large corporations and governments. Breaking up those institutions, he argues, will seriously undermine U.S. competitiveness.
Still, the analyst concedes giant banks aren't the best thing for consumers.
What is most striking about the map (shown on the next page and originally from a Web site called GOBankingRates.com) is the strong concentration of inexpensive banking services in the center of the country along the Mississippi River.
"That's the only region of the country that has not seen the massive consolidation of banking that you've got on the East and West coasts," Bove says. "Therefore you've got banks like USBancorp (USB), Fifth Third (FITB), Comerica (CMA) and Keycorp (KEY) that have the ability to go head to head against each other and that keeps prices down."
Banking is cheapest of all in Arkansas, and most expensive in Arizona, according to the study, which ranks the 50 states and Washington D.C.
"Arkansas is served by many small community banks or mid-size banks, with very few national banks having a large presence," says Jason Kincy, marketing director at Arvest Bank, in a quote accompanying the study.
The quote is more than a little bit ironic. Arvest is the largest bank in Arkansas, though with some $14 billion in assets it is a flea compared to the big four, which are all in the $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion range.
The irony, however, comes from the fact that Arvest is owned and run by the Walton family, of Walmart (WMT) fame. Unlike the big banks, Walmart thrives by keeping prices low. The retailing giant does not own Arvest and it gave up on its own quest to get a bank charter in 2007 after legislators fought the move. Still, Walmart has gotten around the rejection quite nicely, and offers plenty of financial services such as check cashing and money transfers that probably aren't the most cost-effective options for its cash-strapped customers. So a more skeptical reading of the map is that the good people of Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas are free from Wells Fargo and Bank of America only because they are prisoners to Walmart.


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Formed during the heyday of "riot grrrl" bands, Sleater-Kinney has been well established since the late 1990s, releasing a string of albums, including Sleater-Kinney (1995), Call the Doctor (1996), Dig Me Out (1997), The Hot Rock (1999), All Hands on the Bad One (2000), One Beat (2002), and The Woods (2005).
AppealWe think that girls who rock, rock. Sleater-Kinney is no exception. In fact, Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss are sexy because their hard-hitting sound is the real thing, and it came before all that watered-down "girl power" music of the late '90s. Any man who's into rockin' women is almost guaranteed to become a Sleater-Kinney groupie after seeing Corin, Carrie and Janet attack their mikes, guitars and drums.
Still, Sleater-Kinney isn't everyone's idea of femininity, and after being a band for over a decade, none of its members is impervious to change. Janet Weiss is in her forties and Corin Tucker is married and has a son; so Sleater-Kinney probably won't have the same kind of youthful energy it had when the trio first started out.
SuccessSleater-Kinney has a long and impressive discography. Since the band's self-titled debut in 1995, it has released six other albums: Call the Doctor, Dig Me Out, The Hot Rock, All Hands on the Bad One, One Beat, and The Woods. In addition to having stayed together for over a decade, the trio has grown artistically. The Woods, for example, marks a departure from Sleater-Kinney's earlier work.
Since much of Sleater-Kinney's music doesn't fit with mainstream pop and has been produced locally in the Pacific Northwest, the band's fame isn't huge. But Sleater-Kinney has a devoted following, and has a place in the history of '90s "riot grrl" bands, having outlived many of its contemporaries. Plus, the buzz around The Woods has given the band an added boost, and they won new fans after having toured with Pearl Jam and played big festivals like Australia's Big Day Out and Chicago's 2006 Lollapalooza.
Sleater-Kinney BiographySleater-Kinney's story begins with Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein. Corin was born on November 9th, 1972, in Eugene, Oregon. Carrie was born two years later, on September 27th, 1974, in Seattle, Washington. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, both girls began singing and playing guitar -- mostly just for fun -- when they were still teenagers.
Corin and Carrie first met in 1992 at a concert put on by Corin's then-band, Heavens to Betsy, in Bellingham, Washington, where Carrie was living. The next fall, Carrie began studying sociolinguistics at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, which, coincidentally, Corin was also attending, taking courses in film, political economy, and social change. There, the two renewed their friendship, and by 1994, they were roommates in a duplex where they put together a "riot grrl" band, fusing punk rock and gender politics.
Corin suggested they call themselves "Sleater-Kinney," which was the name of a road in the nearby town of Lacey where she and Carrie had previously found a rehearsal space.
sleater-kinney comes togetherIn those early days, Corin and Carrie formed the nucleus of Sleater-Kinney. They both sang and played guitar, while a number of drummers came and went. Most notable among these was Sleater-Kinney's third drummer, Lora MacFarlane, a Scottish-born , Australian musician who drummed on the band's first two releases: Sleater-Kinney (1995) and Call the Doctor (1996), both released by independent Chainsaw Records.
After a fourth drummer came and went in 1996, Corin and Carrie met Janet Weiss, who would round out the trio from then on. Janet, who was born in Hollywood on September 24th, 1965, had been playing with a band called Jr. High in the same Portland, Oregon venue as Sleater-Kinney. She was impressed with their sound, and when Janet found out Sleater-Kinney was looking for a new bandmate, she met with Corin and Carrie and put her own spin on a song they had been working on. The song, "Dig Me Out", became the title track on Sleater-Kinney's third album, which was released in 1997 with the final line-up of Corin, Carrie and Janet. Dig Me Out was a high-water mark in Sleater-Kinney's sound, and is considered their breakout album.
sleater-kinney chugged them outThe next few years saw Sleater-Kinney release albums in rapid succession. Like Dig Me Out had been, The Hot Rock (1999), All Hands on the Bad One (2000) and One Beat (2002) were all released on the Kill Rock Stars indie label. After those albums, Sleater-Kinney's members felt they had gone as far as they could with the band's rough-and-ready production style. They signed with Sub Pop Records and enlisted east coast producer Dave Fridmann, who pushed them to create something new, more complex and acoustically polished.
Despite the tensions between Sleater-Kinney and Fridmann during recording, the resulting 2005's The Woods, was a new direction the band was happy to take. Since then, Sleater-Kinney kept upping its profile. The trio opened for Pearl Jam's 2005 tour, and Pearl Jam's frontman, Eddie Vedder, even interviewed them in Magnet magazine. Sleater-Kinney played at the 2006 Big Day Out festival, which toured Australia and New Zealand, and were also scheduled to perform at Lollapalooza 2006 in Chicago.
In early 2006, Sleater-Kinney announced that they were going on hiatus once their 2006 tour was over. We hope the break up is temporary as the band has said that the length of their halt was not definitive.
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Mario Kart 7
Review by Scottiedogg54
"MK7 Strayed From the Winning Formula, Swerved, and Crashed into a Tree."
Before I begin this review, I would like to say that I am very much a fan of the Mario Kart series. In fact, Mario Kart Wii is one of my favorite games to date, and I will occasionally dust off the disc to play it every now and then. It, along with Mario Kart DS, had large amounts of content to keep the player busy much past Mirror mode.
Sadly, Mario Kart 7 did not follow the winning formula. I tried very hard to enjoy this game, but could not. Why? Read below.
Mario Kart 7's gameplay is reminiscent of its predecessor's: Mario Kart DS. Eight contestants compete in three-lap races over the course of thirty-two (sixteen new and sixteen "retro") stages. There are prize boxes scattered throughout these stages; running over one will give you an item, such as a banana peel to cause someone to spin out, or the mushroom which gives you a boost of speed.
There are two modes of offline play: Grand Prix and Time Trials. Fans of the series are already asking, "Where is VS mode?" Answer: there is none. For some reason, unknown to myself, Nintendo decided to get rid of VS mode. Now, if you want to race on a course with computer players, you must play through a Grand Prix. This is the first of many reasons why this game did not live up to its lofty expectations.
Back to the race modes, the Grand Prix is a group of tournaments (or "cups") that you may compete in. Each cup consists of four races, with eight cups total. There are four difficulty levels: 50cc, 100cc, 150cc, and Mirror, with 50cc being the easiest and 150cc/Mirror being the hardest. Each step up in difficulty (from 50cc to 150cc) increases the maximum speed and makes the computer AI smarter. Mirror mode is identical to 150cc, except every course is mirrored. In other words, a sharp turn to the right in 150cc is now the same turn to the left.
Time Trials is mostly self explanatory. You are given three mushrooms to be used to complete a stage in the shortest time possible. The game keeps track of your personal best times. There are also two "staff ghosts" available to race. These ghosts are usually very difficult to beat and show off clever strategies and shortcuts for each stage.
There are some large changes that come with Mario Kart 7. For one, snaking, the art of chaining drifts in unintended places, is out. I messed around with it a bit and found that the bit of snaking that I could pull off was, in fact, slower than driving straight forward.
Another new feature (rather, one that hasn't been seen since the GBA days of Mario Kart) is the coin system. There are coins spread around on the track (you can hold a maximum of ten) that increase your speed. This was another huge mistake by Nintendo. It was a failure in Super Circuit, it is a failure now. Any time that you get hit by an item, you lose part of your coin supply, immediately disadvantaging you further.
The biggest problem I have with coins brings me to another subject: unlockable parts and characters. When selecting a kart, you pick out the wheels, body, and glider you want to use. You start with a tiny amount of vehicles to choose from, a tiny set of wheels, and one glider. The only way to unlock parts is through collecting coins in Grand Prix. That is the only way. Seriously. There is no VS mode to collect them through, and the final upgrade costs 5000 coins. I am at Mirror mode, and barely have 1000. At that rate, I would be forced to play through the same content 4 times in order to unlock all the parts. That in itself is a horrible attempt at creating cheap, extra replay value. Forcing players to grind out coins in a racing game is a bad idea. This is not an RPG.
Unlocking characters isn't much better. 50cc and 100cc unlock absolutely nothing (except for Mirror mode later), and 150cc and Mirror modes unlock one new character per cup. Mario Kart Wii's system of unlocking was incredibly diverse and creative. This is just lazy. As for the unlockable characters themselves, there are relatively obscure characters such as the Honey Queen and Metal Mario, but series favorites such as Waluigi are mysteriously missing.
The last big difference is the addition of being able to drive underwater and the glider. Both of these are actually pretty cool (the underwater feature seems a bit pointless at times, but still neat); one of the few bright spotsthis game has to offer. When you go off of some high ramps, a glider will pop out of the back of your vehicle and you can fly for a short period of time. Whenever you drive underwater, your kart sprouts a propeller and continues chugging along under the seas.
Gameplay Score: Mario Kart 7 strayed from the winning formula, tried being original, and got burned. 6/10.
It's Mario Kart. You expected a story? I can't really give this a score, but what has always worked for Mario Kart and other Mario spinoffs works here, too. It doesn't need one.
Story Score: NA.
The graphics are basically the same as the ones in Mario Kart: Double Dash, which is pretty impressive since it is being played on a handheld. The sound is mostly borrowed from the older games. For some, that is a problem, but honestly I am perfectly okay with the sound. For once in the game Nintendo did not try to "spice" things up a bit, and went with what worked in the past. Good call, in my opinion.
Graphics/Sound Score: These serve their purpose. Nintendo has never been about stunning visuals and sounds, but they are good enough to carry the game long. 7/10.
This is where the game really fails. As I already mentioned, you have to grind incredibly hard to just unlock all of the kart parts, which is a terrible way to get extra replay value. Since there is no Mission mode or VS mode, the only things to do are play through the Grand Prix, Time Trials, and try your luck at Wi-Fi races. By the time I had finished the game through 150cc, I was so sick of it that I didn't even start the Mirror cups.
It doesn't take any more than 10-15 hours to get through the Grand Prix, but you could easily spend five times that grinding out the coins to get all of the kart parts.
Play Time/Replay Value score: The lack of content really kills this game. As expensive as this game is (around the same price as Mario Kart Wii), it should provide much more, in my opinion. 3/10.
+Fun, for a while.
+Glider and underwater sections were good.
+The new tracks were well done and has a strong lineup of old ones.
+Customizable karts.
-Extreme lack of creativity in unlockables.
-No VS mode.
-No Mission mode.
-Weak character lineup.
-Not enough customization in karts.
The core game is fun, as are all Mario Kart titles, but the lack of extra content is a killer. Buy the game if you need something to play on a trip, but I would look elsewhere for a strong, play-at-home title.
Final (average) score: 5.25
Reviewer's Rating: 2.5 - Playable
Originally Posted: 01/25/12
Game Release: Mario Kart 7 (US, 12/04/11)
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Storyline Goof:In his flashback with Ana Lucia, Jack tells her his seat is 23B. However, in an earlier episodes he asks Rose if she remembers him, and calls himself "Seat 23A". 23B is actually the seat he changes into in order to keep Rose company while her husband is in the bathroom.
When the group spot the black smoke for the first time, a close up of Claire is shown with rather large bushes behind her. However, when we see a wide shot of the scene, Claire is amongst a crowd of people and there is one, single tree behind her.
The raft ended up leaving with 4 people: Sawyer, Walt, Jin and Michael. 4 is one of "The Numbers".
Walt is watching Power Rangers: SPD. However, that show premiered on February of 2005, while the flashback is from September of 2004.
Numbers: 23 and 42
Jack and Ana Lucia are sitting in seats 23 B and 42 F respectively.
In the pilot Walt had really short hair when he came to the island, but in their flash back he has longer hair and that's the day before they got on the plane.
GOOF: At 7:49-7:50 of the episode you can clearly see members of the film crew. Specifically the cameraman.
During this two-part episode, there were 2 flashbacks that were cut. In one, Claire talks to the pilot about why she is traveling (she mentions the adoption and the psychic), and he ends up saying "I'll make this a pleasant flight". In another, Sayid is picking a tie to wear for when he sees Nadia. He has a little chat with the female clerk, and she chooses a yellow one, but the security guards that talk to Shannon take him before he can buy it. He remembered that after he sees Sawyer using his tie to tie something to the raft.
Rousseau had 4 scratches on her arm, just like Ethan had in "Homecoming". 4 is one of "The Numbers".
Island events in this episode take place on November 4th 2004.
Goof: When Walt and Michael are arguing in the hotel corridor, the "Exit" signs are the wrong color for Australia. They should be white letters on a green background.
Goof: As the camera flies over and around the raft, you can clearly see the cable which is towing it.
It is revealed that Sawyer headbutted Warren Truss, the Minister for "Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries" in Australia. There is a Warren Truss who was the Minister for "Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries," but since this episode was aired, Truss was elected deputy leader of the "National Party," the junior coalition government party, and has moved on from that portfolio to become Transport Minister.
Jack finds out about his father talking to Sawyer back in Australia when Sawyer tells him about a doctor he met in the bar and what he wished he could tell his son, but didn't have the courage to do so.
At the beginning, when Walt wakes Michael up, the time on the clock is 5:23! Yet another instance of Hurley's numbers popping up.
Before the raft sets off, you see Locke, Jack, Kate, Hurly, Artz and Danielle walking off to the Black Rock. In the following scene, you see Locke help Michael, Walt, Jin and Sawyer push the raft into the water. Locke is in two places at once.
In a flashback scene, Sawyer is with the police and the police place his airline ticket on top of a file with a State Police emblem. There is no such force called the State Police in NSW. police.nsw.gov.au shows the actual emblem and title of the NSW Police which would really exist.
While at the airport, Shannon complains about not getting a first class seat and says, "Excuse me for not being pathetic enough to want to sit next to a crying baby for 15 hours." In the episode "Do No Harm," Jack's father complained about being stuck next to a "screaming kid" in first class.
Sawyer tells Jack about the night he met Jack's father at a bar in Australia. He specifically mentions his name (Christian). If you go back to the "Outlaws" episode in which they meet, Jack's father does not give his name to Sawyer at any point.
When it shows Shannon's flashback when she and Boone were at the airport, it shows Boone with a black eye. He received it in Australia from Shannon's boyfriend. However, there is one little problem: Boone never had the black eye after the plane crashed!
What Rousseau called "Territoires fonces" should be pronounced "Territoires foncés", and it should have be called "Territoires sombres". "Foncé" would be used to describe a color for example.
As the dog jumps in the water, you clearly can see the cameraboat on the right side of the raft.
The radar that Sayid gives them to put on the raft is a forward looking (ie one direction) phased array radar that is probably from the nose of one of the planes. However, the radar display is a PPI display showing a full 360 degrees.
In the scene where Danielle first arrives at the camp and is telling her story to the survivors, Claire's baby alternates from being wrapped in an airplane blanket, to not being wrapped in anything, to being back in a blanket again.
The dog shown in the flashback at the hotel room is clearly much older (about the same age as is this episode) and not as young as the dog that arrived to the island when it was a puppy.
When the black smoke appears everyone is moving to the back of the raft. In the next shot they are all located at the side of the raft.
(Kate walks up the beach. She heads over to Jack, who is packing his backpack)
Kate: So you're heading out?
Jack: Yeah.
Kate: (hesitantly) I was thinking that I might go with you...for old times' sake. I want to help.
Jack: You won't be here for the raft launching.
Kate: Yeah, well, I'm, I'm not very good at goodbyes.
Jack: Grab your stuff.
Sayid: Danielle, what are you doing here?
Danielle: The others are coming.
Arzt: You want to keep a secret, don't tell the fat guy.
Shannon: Excuse me, sir?
Airport cop: Yes, ma'am.
Shannon: Hi, um, some Arab guy just left his bags in the chairs downstairs and then just walked away.
Airport cop: Can you describe him, please?
Shannon: Um, Arab.
Shannon: Excuse me for not being pathetic enough to not want to sit next to some crying baby for the next 15 hours.
Hurley: Uh, where's Arnzt?
Arzt: It's 'Arzt', you idiot.
Hurley: Dude, I thought you were dead.
Dr. Arzt: (to Hurley) And some of us have actually lost weight while we were here. Now, would you mind telling me where you're hiding the cards because I can't figure.
Hurley: He just... exploded... in front of us.
Sawyer: About a week before we all got on the plane I got to talking to this man in a bar in Sydney. He was American, too. A doctor. I've been on some benders in my time, but this guy - he was going for an all time record. It turns out this guy has a son - his son's a doctor, too. They had some kind of big time falling out. The guy knew it was his fault even though his son was back in the States thinking the same damn thing. See, kids are like dogs, you knock them around enough they'll think they did something to deserve it. Anyway, there's a pay phone in this bar. And this guy, Christian, tells me he wishes he had the stones to pick up the phone, call his kid, tell him he's sorry, that he's a better doctor than he'll ever be. He's proud, and he loves him. (Jack starts to tear up) I had to take off, but something tells me he never got around to making that call.
(After part of the raft breaks off)
Michael: I can't believe this (giving Sawyer a dirty look.) Can't believe it.
Sawyer: What are you looking at me for? It's not my fault.
Michael: You missed a lever.
Sawyer: Because you couldn't keep the raft going straight.
(We see Sawyer chopping down a bamboo pole. Jack enters.)
Jack: Lumberjack.
Sawyer: Excuse me?
Jack: I never asked you what you did back in the real world, so I'm taking a wild guess—lumberjack.
Walt: I think you should take Vincent.
Shannon: Are you serious?
Walt: He'll take care of you.
Shannon: What makes you think I need a dog to take care of me?
Walt: Vincent took care of me when my mom died and nobody would talk to me. They pretended like nothing happened. So I had to talk to Vincent. He's a good listener. You could talk to him about Boone if you want.
Shannon: All right, but only until you get us rescued, okay.
Hurley: Whoever named this place Dark Territory.... genius.
Locke: Where did you get those marks?
Danielle: Bush.
Locke: Mean bush.
(Sawyer singing Bob Marley)
Michael: You singing Bob Marley?
Sawyer: No. (little pause) Why? You like Bob Marley?
Michael: Man, who doesn't like Bob Marley?
Charlie: (describing the "message in a bottle" theory) You know-'Dear Mom', I'm on the island, everything's fine-unless, of course, the black smoke people turn up-love, your-name-here. It's for when they get rescued, so they can contact your family.
Ana-Lucia: Your dad died.
Jack: I thought you didn't hear what I was yelling about.
Ana-Lucia: I was being polite.
Locke: Where did you get your explosives?
Danielle: Dynamite, at the Black Rock, in the Dark Teritory.
Hurley: Well that's three reasons to go there.
Cop: You're a blight. A stain. You prey on the weak and needy. Tell me James, how do you live with yourself?
Sawyer: I do just fine.
Danielle: You have only three choices; run, hide or die.
Arzt: You know what? I'm going back.
Jack: Hey. I thought you wanted to help.
Arzt: Yeah, I wanted to help, but that was before Montand lost his frickin' arm.
Hurley: So, Arnzt.
Arzt: Arzt.
Hurley: Yeah, Arnzt. Your name's hard to pronounce.
Arzt: Well, I know a bunch of ninth graders who have no trouble saying it.
Hurley: Fine. I'll just call you by your first name. I know it from the passenger manifest.
Arzt: No.
Hurley: Why not? I think Leslie's a bitchin' name.
This is the first appearance of Michelle Rodriguez who portrays Ana Lucia Cortez.
International Airdates:
- Denmark: June 10, 2005 on Kanal 5
- Greece: September 3, 2008 at 23.00 on ANT1
Michelle Rodriguez ("Ana Lucia") receives the "And" credit.
Emilie De Ravin ("Claire") had no lines.
During filming of the first season finale, each cast member was only given the script pages of scenes where they appeared.
Flashbacks are shown for Michael & Walt, Jack, Sawyer, Kate, Shannon and Sun. This was the first episode with flashbacks from Shannon's point of view.
Sawyer's real name is revealed to be James Ford. James Ford was an American civic leader and business owner in southern Illinois at the turn of the 19th century. Despite his clean public image, he was also secretly a river pirate and the leader of a gang that would come to be known as "Ford's Ferry Gang". They would hijack ferries and flatboats with tradable goods from local farms coming down the Ohio River.
Gina and Jeff notice Sun spilling coffee on Jin. As Sun then jumps up to help him, Gina remarks that it is Memoirs Of A Geisha come to life. This is a novel by Arthur Golden, published in 1997, that later became a 2005 movie.
The TV show that Walt watches in the Sydney hotel room is Power Rangers SPD, a popular children's program.
Episode title: Exodus
Exodus is the second book of the Torah (the five books of Moses. The Exodus refers to the departure of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt and its Pharaoh under the leadership of Moses. As a result of this meaning the term "an exodus" has come to mean a departure of a great number of people.
The Black Rock being revealed as a slave ship raises some interesting questions. From what era did it come? Looking at the ship it appears to be a multi-masted steamer from the late 19th or early 20th Century, when ships used a combination of sails and coal powered engines. It is way too modern to be from the "classical" period of African slave trade, which was mostly on the west coast of Africa and had been outlawed by most countries by the early 19th century (The US in 1864). According to Locke it was probably headed from the East Coast of Africa to a mining colony. There is still slavery practiced in remote areas of Africa but one wonders if they are exporting to the Indies. Also, if the ship is truely over 100 years old, how did a wood and steel vessel survive the heat and humidity for that long? It is true that older vessels have been kept in use in poorer areas of the world well past their primes (Galveston, TX features the "Elissa" which was an early 20th century sailing vessel that had been used as late as the 80's as a cigarette smuggling boat in the Adriatic). I would guess that the Black Rock probably wrecked sometime during the 1930's - 1950s.
Event: Jin and Michael fixing the raft
Michael scolding Jin when he was fixing the raft; "No, no, no; this one goes here, that one goes there". This is probably a reference to Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. In the docking bay on Hoth, Han and Chewie have a similar dialogue when Chewie incorrectly repairs something on the Millenium Falcon. Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith premiered at midnight the same day that this episode premiered.
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He looks (or looked?) like the love child of Ray Liotta and Macauley Culkin. Why do people act like he was some sort of sex god?
Alain Delon
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I complete agree with you.
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You may need glasses OP, or taste.
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Stunning visage.
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Because he was stunningly beautiful -- there is simply no other word for it -- in his prime, OP.
And regarding Ray Liotta and Macauley Culkin, given their respective ages, it would have to be the other way around, with Liotta and Culkin being descendants of Delon.
Liotta was very very hot around the Something Wild era too, even if he was never as aesthetically perfect as Delon.
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Just watch PLEIL SOLEIL (PURPLE NOON) from 1960 and get back to us.
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I don't get the Ray Liotta and Macaulay Culkin comparison. The man was pretty. Madonna made a song about him called Beautiful Killer.
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SD Unveils Enterprise-ready Version of the Open Semantic Framework
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Clean Slate Research Projects
1.) The Programmable Open Mobile Internet (POMI) 2020 Project
We are on the verge of another information technology revolution where billions of users will carry smart handheld devices with high-speed wireless network connectivity. This revolution creates an opportunity for new software services and applications not seen since the advent of the World Wide Web. Especially while standards are evolving and infrastructure is still being built, we have a chance to develop an open architecture that will ensure the best environment for innovation, competition, and user experience.
This is not just a matter of squeezing the PC functionality into a cell phone, but requires a re-thinking of the computing infrastructure from servers, to desktops, to handheld devices, to the network that interconnects them.
Standing in the way, however, are real structural barriers to openness: (1) loss of user data privacy and control (2) increasing difficulty for new Web services to enter the market, (3) inaccessible wireless capacity due to closed networks, and (4) network infrastructure not open to continued innovations. Our project aims to promote innovation and competition by breaking down these barriers to create a truly programmable and open mobile Internet.
The POMI Approach
We will address the barriers described above by creating "platforms for innovations" and making them available to others to use and build on in the context of our proposed "Shoka" three-tier architecture comprising handheld devices, generic desktop computers and displays and the cloud with lots of computing and storage. Our proposed platforms include (1) a virtual data system called PRPL that enables users to take back ownership of their data, (2) a computing substrate with networks of VMs and mobile VMs to ease the entry of new web services, (3) an open network to promote network innovation and make wireless capacity available across heterogeneous and abundant radio networks in a vicinity, and (4) open-source software to promote existing efforts in opening the cell phone including energy efficient secure OS, secure and extensible mobile browser, and customizable UI system.
As a demonstration of our research, our team will deploy a prototype system of infrastructure, devices and applications – at scale – across the Stanford campus. We believe it will be the most comprehensive, experimental deployment of mobile technology ever performed by a university. We will also seek to have a profound impact by providing mobile wireless infrastructure and content for K-12 schools, especially in under-served communities.
In short, our team aims to open up and secure the devices, software development and the network infrastructure enabling lots of innovations leading to Mobile Internet of 2020.
For More Information
We invite you to find out more by visiting the following links and by watching this space as the research progresses.
Expedition Director: Nick McKeown
Executive Director: Guru Parulkar
Steering Group: Dan Boneh, Monica Lam, Nick McKeown, Guru Parulkar,Arogyaswami Paulraj, Mendel Rosenblum
Research Team:
- Computing and Data Substrate: Monica Lam (Lead), Scott Klemmer, Christos Kozyrakis, Phil Levis, Mendel Rosenblum
- Networking Substrate: Nick McKeown (Lead), Ramsesh Johari, Guru Parulkar, Fouad Tobagi
- Security: Dan Boneh (Lead), David Mazieres, John Mitchell
- Radio: Arogyaswami Paulraj (Lead), Andrea Goldsmith
- Education: Paul Kim (Lead), Roy Pea
External Advisory Group:
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- Larry Peterson, Princeton
- Bill Raduchel, Former CTO AOL
- Rick Rashid, SVP Research, Microsoft
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In March, after much discussion and debate, the Dallas City Council OK'd spending $125,000 to launch a bike-share program at Fair Park. It was supposed to debut in "late May or early June," but it's been delayed until Date To Be Determined for various reasons, chief among them: The State Fair of Texas is now only weeks away, and the bikes would be parked during the fair, so, really, there's no rush.
And now there's another obstacle: The city's historic preservation officer is decidedly against one of the bike-share spots selected by the Park and Recreation Department in April.
As its Tuesday meeting the Landmark Commission is scheduled to discuss putting a 32-by-7-foot concrete pad in front of the former Women's Museum on the Exposition Park side of Fair Park. Initially the station was going to be closer to the gate, near the George Dahl-designed main entrance to the park during the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. And Landmark was OK with that, as well as three other proposed sites: near the Lagoon, close to the band shell and in front of the Fair Park business office near First Avenue. The commission signed off on certificates of appropriateness way back in April, and the park department hopes to plant stations at the Parry and MLK entrances.
But according to docs prepared for Tuesday's meeting, "Due to the size of the proposed bike station, a location further away from the approved spot is proposed in order to not interfere with traffic during the State Fair. The new location is in front of the Administration Building (former Women's Museum). Staff is not supportive of the new location because the proposed bike station will adversely affect the spatial symmetry of the walkway leading up to the Administration Building."
Which is why staff's recommending Landmark deny Park and Rec's request without prejudice -- because "the proposed work does not meet the standards in City Code Section 51A-4.501(g)(6)(C)(i) on the basis that it would have an adverse effect on the spatial feel of the entrance to the Administration Building."
And, yes, Landmark might very well sign off on the station without heeding staff's advice. But this possibly brief, likely fleeting victory pleases at least one council member: Philip Kingston, who's been trying to kill bike-sharing at Fair Park at least until the city can roll out a much larger program of which Fair Park can be a piece.
"It's a shame that our historical preservation staff has to save us from this mistake, but at least we're being saved from this mistake," says Kingston when informed of the latest roadblock. "It's not historically compatible. That's really funny."
Except, no, it's really not: As Kingston points out the city and Downtown Dallas Inc. and Uptown Dallas Inc. and others are talking about a much more significant bike-share program actually intended to pedal people 'round town, not just a single, albeit very big, place. Kingston has long insisted this is a waste of $125,000, which is just a slice of a $1.4-million slush fund earmarked for Fair Park in last year's budget. (That money also paid for the addition of some one million Christmas lights decorating the deco structures and park trees.) His colleague Carolyn Davis, council member for Fair Park, demanded the bike-share stations, insisting it would be "unfair" to deny them at Fair Park.
If nothing else, the Fair Park bike share dust-up has accomplished one thing: It axed the helmet requirement for riders over the age of 18. Whether or not the Fair Park bike share ever gets rolling is another question entirely: According to a letter from the Texas Historical Commission included below, the park department now has until April 1 to begin pouring the concrete. Kingston still wishes they would wait until forever.
"My objection to it wasn't that I didn't want bikes at Fair Park," he says. "It's just not necessarily compatible with our bike-share plan. There is so much throwing money at Fair Park hoping it gets better, meanwhile we're working on the citywide system. They're trying to raise the money for it now -- Downtown Dallas, Uptown, the city. That's going to happen. We'll do the RFP [request for proposals] in the next few months. But the deal at Fair Park is frustrating because there is just no guarantee it'll be able to integrate with the system we're putting in in the rest of the city. And it's hugely expensive for the number of bikes they're going to have. It's a complete waste of money and as complete waste of time."


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Book: The Name of the Wind
Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Reviewer: Jason Raitz, Business and Technology Applications Technician, NCSU Libraries
I loved this thick, fantasy novel about a young, precocious boy who undergoes continuous tragedies in his pursuit of love, music, secrets, magic and revenge. It's full of song, hardship, tragedy, magic and longing. There is a Harry-Potter-esque magic school, but it plays out a good bit differently and is not really the focus of the entire story. I love the various female roles as well. So many fantasy novels give women such predictable and often sexist roles. Some epic fantasy is hard to continue reading day after day; I was surprised when I reached the end of this one. Rothfuss is a great new author and I also loved the sequel to this one, called Wise Man's Fear. Warning, this is an unfinished trilogy which the author has decided to start finishing as part of NaNoWriMo.


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- " One thing was wrong.. This backpacker had not toilet paper, so you have to have your. Otherwise is very good, it is quiet place. "
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- " If you are looking for a cheap stay, go for the Vancouver Backpacker House. But you will not find a proper bed, just two matresses on top of each other. Not very sanitary. The kitchen is not well maintained, just like the rest of the house. The staff does not speak english very well, so you have to have some patience. I would certainly not stay here again. But if you have a low budget and you do not mind a grubby hostel for a few nights, then it might be something for you. "
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Nothing in Maynard has changed since the Civil War," says a young woman of her Texas community's stultifying ways. Consigned to a life of folding clothes, screaming at her three kids and indulging in midday liquor-laced gossip sessions, Hattie's sweeping assessment doesn't seem that far-fetched to anyone who's spent her whole life living in -- and dreaming of leaving -- her hometown. As Hattie and a pair of gal pals demonstrate in Laundry and Bourbon, changing the future is next to impossible without first burying the past.
MJM Productions and Artists Collaborative Theatre are presenting James McClure's one-act play (along with its companion one-act, Lone Star, which provides a corresponding male outlook) at the Oriental Theatre. While the actors tend to state the obvious rather than employ artful nuance -- the oversized auditorium, which is more suited to large-scale epics than intimate character dramas, is mostly to blame for that -- director Ed Fronheiser's broad-brush approach conveys each play's basic ideas.
In Laundry, the three actresses forge a triangular relationship that encompasses each woman's unresolved grudges and unrequited dreams. As Hattie, actress Susan Lyles alternately fires off one-liners and summons a wistful, nostalgic air. Seemingly in charge the minute she walks through her neighbor's front door, Hattie knows which of life's breaks to best exploit -- such as a relative's offer to watch her children. This occurrence permits her to wander next door and live vicariously through her neighbor, Liz, who desperately wants to improve her life but falters when encountering any opportunity for change (she's solidly played by Paula Jayne). In due time, Hattie and Liz are joined by Amy Lee, an insufferable "back-porch Baptist" who makes a point of reminding the other two of her country-club membership and marriage to a moderately successful appliance salesman. The role is given a sparkling portrait by University of Northern Colorado student Jennifer Lambertus, who earns the distinction of delivering the evening's most complete performance.
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Following a brief intermission, Lone Star begins as a couple of Maynard's menfolk appear on the other side of the expansive stage (the symmetrical laundry room/watering hole setting was designed by Darren Smith). Thanks to the vivid descriptions provided by the three women, it doesn't take long to figure out that the drunken loudmouth staggering about the forestage is Liz's wayward husband, Roy. Soon, his younger brother, Ray, joins him, and the two proceed to down several bottles of -- what else? -- Lone Star beer. As they reminisce, argue and generally shoot the breeze, the men reveal long-simmering frustrations and disappointments; some of their musings underscore the women's conversation, but others take us by surprise. When Amy Lee's geeky appliance salesman of a husband, Cletis, steps outside to join the slightly morose revelers, the discussion takes some fateful turns. For the rest of the 55-minute play, we don't much care whether the three will try to change their lives; once all the cards on are the table, we wonder whether any of the men will be lucky enough to survive the night.
All three actors inhabit their roles with largeness of spirit, if not abundant shades of humanity. Several exchanges seem forced and lack spontaneity, but those problems might work themselves out as the actors settle into the play's run. Tim Elliott, who takes on the central role of Roy, starts on a fairly loud note and rarely strays from that level. While that approach communicates the idea that Roy remains as angry at life, if not more so, as he was when he returned from Vietnam six years ago, it doesn't permit us to see the man who desperately wants to find his way. Nor does his boisterous railing seem to arise from a long string of deferred dreams. Still, Elliott occasionally shows us a glimpse of Roy's underlying humanity -- especially during one beautifully played moment near play's end when he murmurs of his wife, "We'll always be together." As his younger brother, Ray, Phil Newsom imbues the gangly youth with an easygoing, sometimes endearing charm. And Mark K. Moran earns a few laughs as the waffling Cletis: Shortly after announcing that he'll forever forsake the habit of smoking that he started less than an hour ago, he tries, unsuccessfully, to put the kibosh on some smutty talk by saying, "I'm a Baptist, and we don't just sit around talking about our wives' sacred reproductive organs."
It's one of a handful of understated moments that make one wish for a quirkier, more nuance-filled approach to this pair of Texan tales.


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Jeff Jarvis, at BuzzMachine, wrote a good post today.
If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm pretty conservative, politically. In fact, I'm more conservative than most of the main stream Republicans. I'm not going to bullet point list out my views on the issues, I just wanted to get that clear.
So, now, let me point out that my party seems to be running in fear of the internet. I read and follow many political and technology oriented blogs. Others too, but those are pertinent to this post.
I can't tell you how much I've read and heard lately that demonstrated how each of the top liberal candidates for president are using the internet and its tools to communicate with supporters, potential voters, and the media. Yes, the Edwards camp had their fiasco with their bloggers early on, but at least they had bloggers on staff who were doing something! Does McCain have any staff bloggers? Guliani? Romney?
In fact, I think Ron Paul is the only one who knows that the internet isn't just for porn addicts and 14 year old pimple faced nerds.
Ron Paul has a Facebook page. Ron Paul sat down, townhall style, at the Googleplex recently. Ron Paul is posting YouTube video on his presidential campaign page. I like Ron Paul.
I can't say that I agree with each of Ron Paul's opinions. However, he is taking a stand on some of the important ones. And to top it off, Ron Paul has created a mighty stir with the techo-leftists of Silicon Valley. And since, they're the ones developing most of the internet, that may come back to be a blessing no one saw coming.
So, GOP, "Why are you afraid of the internet?"


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Last day of our Portland trip we stopped by Tin Shed Garden Cafe for breakfast. This restaurant was very dog friendly and serves up local and organic foods.
I picked the Sweet Chix breakfast plate, which was a scramble of chicken apple sausage, sweet onion, roasted red pepper, basil, and brie cheese. This breakfast was delicious. There were a lot of sweetness from the onion and roasted red pepper, and the chicken apple sausage just tastes so clean and bright. It was a light, fresh, and very satisfying meal.
Other plates on our table that the rest of us enjoyed were a breakfast burrito called Spike Lee, and the special of the day.
This place does get really busy, we originally were coming here the day before, but changed our minds to come first thing the next morning after we saw the line up out the door. I don't think this place is over rated, I'd definitely come back here again.
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On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 11:36:20AM -0800, CSN wrote: > --- Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> wrote: > > What versions of Ruby and ruby-postgres are you using? Did you use > > exactly the code I posted or did you do something different? The > > only way to get a PGrow object (other than building it yourself) > > is from PGresult#each or some method that calls it, so this won't > > work: > > I'm using Ruby 1.8 and postgres 0.7.1 (installed via gem). That explains it. I've been using the ruby-postgres-20050412 snapshot; I just grabbed the 0.7.1 source code and it doesn't have the PGrow type, nor the PGconn.new syntax that I've been using. I see that a 20051119 snapshot is now available: http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/ -- Michael Fuhr
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Authorship WAS Google's answer to identifying the true owner of unique content written online so the original author could obtain the credit they deserved. The Authorship process was brought about for many reasons but one of the simplest was to attribute the ownership of a piece of content which may have been duplicated on the net to the true, original author. As such, the original content would receive the benefit of their work versus others who copied the content and are trying to benefit from it. The trick, which this manual focuses on, is to ensure your Authorship is in place on your website.
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In late August, 2014, Google's John Mueller informally announced they would "stop showing authorship in search results". To many, this spelled the end of this divisive Google experiment; however, recently (Oct 2015) Google's Gary Illyes suggested leaving Google Authorship installed on websites because they may use it in the future. No one outside of the Google inner circle really understands what that means, but it seems authorship may have a future yet.
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A simple and classic herb treatment yields a tasty rich roast goose for your holiday table. Guests will eagerly gobble up the carrots and onions roasted alongside in the überdelicious goose fat. Use a roasting pan that holds the goose snugly and leaves enough space in your oven for a baking sheet.
- Portion size 10 servings
- Credits : Canadian Living Magazine: December 2012
- 1 goose (about 10 lb/4.5 kg)
- 1 lemon halved
- 10 fresh parsley sprigs
- 8 fresh thyme sprigs
- 4 fresh sage sprigs
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 lbs carrots cut crosswise in thirds and quartered lengthwise
- 2 onions cut in eighths
- 2 cups sodium-reduced chicken broth
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
MethodRemove neck and giblets from cavity of goose. Pull out any loose fat from cavity. Remove wing tips. Discard all.
Pat cavity dry; prick goose all over with fork. Squeeze juice from lemon all over goose. Stuff squeezed halves into cavity along with parsley, thyme and sage. Sprinkle cavity with half each of the salt and pepper; sprinkle remaining salt and pepper over outside of goose. Tuck wings under back; tie legs together.
Place goose on rack in roasting pan; roast in 400ºF (200ºC) oven for 20 minutes. Reduce heat to 350ºF (180ºC); roast for 20 minutes. Remove from oven; pour out fat from pan, reserving 3 tbsp.
Toss carrots and onions with reserved goose fat; arrange on foil-lined baking sheet. Roast goose and vegetables, basting goose often, in 350ºF (180ºC) oven until instant-read thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 170ºF (77ºC) and vegetables are golden and tender, 1 to 1-1/4 hours. Transfer goose and vegetables to platter; tent with foil and let stand for 10 minutes before carving.
Meanwhile, skim all but 2 tbsp fat from pan, retaining pan juices. Whisk in broth and 1/2 cup water; bring to boil over high heat, whisking and scraping up any browned bits. Sprinkle with flour; boil, whisking constantly, until thickened, about 5 minutes. Strain through fine sieve into serving dish. Serve with goose.
Nutritional facts Per each of 10 servings: about
- Fibre 3 g
- Sodium 371 mg
- Sugars 4 g
- Protein 36 g
- Calories 387.0
- Total fat 21 g
- Potassium 691 mg
- Cholesterol 119 mg
- Saturated fat 7 g
- Total carbohydrate 11 g
- Iron 27.0
- Fibre 0.0
- Folate 15.0
- Sodium 0.0
- Sugars 0.0
- Calcium 4.0
- Protein 0.0
- Calories 0.0
- Total fat 0.0
- Vitamin A 145.0
- Vitamin C 10.0
- Potassium 0.0
- Cholesterol 0.0
- Saturated fat 0.0
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text: I got a Gerbil!!! Her name is Pepper, and she's ADORABLE! The only thing is, her coat seems very dull. What is a good Gerbil Diet? Also, we have an older Gerbil, and I'd love for them to be friends, but how would you introduce them? I read they they are far more hard to introduce than a mouse, or rat, but I've never had ANY of my rodents live together for fear of them killing each other..... Is there anyway to house these girls together? We have 2 cages, but I'd love for them to be able to be buddies....I read somewhere that it's easier if one of them's a baby, and Pepper's about half the size of Sugar, so I'm asuming she's a baby. We bought her at petsmart, and she looked up at me with those little eyes, and I couldn't leave her! Here are some pictures (you'll see what I mean about her Dull Coat, she's actually black, but she looks almost grey!)


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I am sorry to hear about your mother in-laws condition.
Your mother in law is a terminal case that seems to be nothing can be done for her in terms of medical management.
Not urinating for 3 days is either a sign of organ failure or if she do not have any fluid intake, then an output cannot be expected. Water pills won't help in that situation. Bleeding she has is in association to her liver disease.
She is dying for sure and you have the right to say that you cannot just let her to die like that. At least, she has to be comfortable and all possible means should be done to let her to die in comfort. She has to be kept clean, dry and comfortable. She needs to have pain reliever if there is any pain. If she is unable to take anything orally, at least she has to be given some other sort of providing her fluids and nutritional needs, either by intravenous fluids or nasogastric tube.
At this stage, home is the best place for her as long as there are significant family members who can care and stay with her until her final moments. I believe your mother in-law would love to have her final moments at home with all the loved ones around. But at least, there must be a healthcare provider to check on her to assess what is going on and provide some possible supportive measures or symptomatic treatment so as not just leaving her to die in one corner possibly with all the discomfort. If you can arrange for a healthcare provider to do home visit at least, that will be a good idea.
Well, that is my opinion as a nurse who had handled terminal cases similar to your mother-in-law.
Take care!
If she is able to drink then the absence of urine output is an indication of an organ failure ,her kidney is failing most possibly due to over diuresis. With both liver and kidney now considered in failure, we cannot tell how she will cope up. It all depends on her system's tolerance. If she is not receiving any supportive treatment now for her liver, complications can set in anytime which include coma. The same thing with the kidneys, if body wastes (urea and creatinine) blood levels continue to rise, complications can progress rapidly. Other organ failure can follow such as heart failure. When will that happen, we cannot presume without at least any laboratory blood tests to see how are her organs system doing.


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