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This post is part of Marc H. Ellis's "Exile and the Prophetic" feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page.
Political leaders drone on, don't they? The Arab League, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Kerry, President Obama.
"A very big step forward."
"Tremendously helpful."
"Strategic choice for peace."
"We're taking more steps. Yesterday was another step," Secretary of State Kerry remarked. "And we're going to continue to march forward and try to bring people to the table despite the difficulties and the disappointments of the past."
The strange thing is that decades of "more steps" have only led us backwards. Israel continues to expand. Palestine continues to shrink. Land swaps being what they are the expansion and shrinkage will continue. Step forward?
Kerry may be proposing an alternative theory of the universe I don't understand: backwards leads forward. In Kerry's universe the pace backward accelerates forward motion.
If only Albert Einstein were alive. He could investigate Kerry's theory of backward accelerated forward motion (ba = fm²) and give him some advice on an alternative theory of Jewish practice, the pitfalls of nationalism and the state of Israel.
Where is Albert Einstein when we need him?
Just the threat of a renewed peace process makes for high political theater. Word out of Israel is that Prime Minister Netanyahu would put any peace agreement to a referendum. Netanyahu hopes to make it even more difficult for any peace proposal to be finalized. Evidently there would be referendum on the Palestinian side as well. Looks like the parties are positioning themselves to let this "step forward" blow over.
As far as I can see, the land swaps envisioned by the Arab League would mean an extension of the Gaza prison outward and an extension of the West Bank enclave south. The other amenities the Arab League piously includes, like Israel's withdrawal to the 1967 borders, is a non-starter.Meanwhile, Israel solidifies its hold on Jerusalem and areas of the West Bank it prizes.
Among other things, the land swap proposal doesn't discuss what Jeff Halper calls Israel's "matrix of control." The matrix of control is a catch-all for the Israeli infrastructure that connects the West Bank, Jerusalem and the rest of Israel and internally connects Jewish settlements in the West Bank. This infrastructure is far more important and invasive than the percentage of land Israel takes and gives.
Besides, what is Israel giving up except land it doesn't want or need? Palestine is giving up its patrimony, Jerusalem, and the areas which surround it. It's difficult to imagine a more uneven land swap.
How about Israel giving up areas within Israel that it prizes? "Painful concessions" have to swing both ways. Part of West Jerusalem? Tracts of land between Haifa and Tel Aviv?
Israel only withdrawing from the West Bank and East Jerusalem is painful enough for Palestinians. In any peace deal the rest of Palestine will be forfeited. How in the world can the Arab League and Washington demand more concessions from Palestinians?
Here's where the rhetoric comes in. Of course, the Arab League demands a full Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. But no one in the world – no one in the Arab League or anywhere else for that matter – believes that's anything but rhetorical flourishes.
Did I leave out Israel's control of the air, water and the borders of both Israel and the semi- autonomous Palestinian territories? If you don't control your air, water or boundaries, if your land is small and surrounded by another state, what do you have left?
Maybe "state swap" would be a better term. Israel gains its final legitimacy as a Jewish state with all that this entails, including a reprieve on questions of how it became a state and control of Palestinian borders, and Palestine affirms their right to a state while effectively surrendering it.
Israel gets real and final. Palestine becomes pretend and disappears.


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A 1994 lawsuit filed by a 79-year-old New Mexico woman who was severely burned by a hot cup of McDonald's coffee became a poster child for tort reform and a call to cap damages in lawsuits.
In Stella Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, et al. a jury in New Mexico awarded Stella Liebeck, who received third-degree burns from the hot coffee, $2.9 million in damages, but the judge reduced the award to $640,000, and the litigation later settled under confidential terms.
Now, in Texas, a Harris County man has filed a negligence suit against Jack in the Box Inc., alleging he received burns in the groin area when a clerk spilled coffee on him when attempting to hand him a cup at the drive-through line.
Altaf Abro alleges in the petition he filed in the 281st District Court that he purchased the coffee on Jan. 12 from a Jack in the Box restaurant on Spencer Highway in South Houston.
He alleges that, after he paid for the coffee, "Defendant's employee improperly handled the large cup of hot coffee and spilled it on Plaintiff's groin-area while attempting to hand it to him."
Abro alleges he was treated for burns to his groin afterward at a nearby hospital.
"As a result of Defendant's negligence, Plaintiff suffered multiple personal injuries," Abro alleges in the petition.
He seeks up to $75,000 in damages, penalties, costs, expenses, pre-judgment interest and attorney fees.
Plaintiff's attorney Ivan Capellan, of Hightower, Russo & Capellan of Houston, did not immediately return a telephone message seeking comment.
A telephone message and an email, both seeking comment, to the Jack in the Box media relations department in San Diego were not returned.
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"The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today, but such oils may become, in the course of time, as important as petroleum … "
Question: Who said that, and when?
Answer: Rudolf Diesel, in 1912. (Incidentally, Mr. Diesel's birthday is March 18 and will be celebrated around the country as National Biodiesel Day)
The inventor of the diesel engine may have been among the first to anticipate the depletion of global fossil-fuel reserves, and to imagine the social and economic consequences, but he was far from the last.
"People have been warning about this for decades," says Greg Pahl, author of Biodiesel, a new book from Chelsea Green Publishing in White River Junction, Vt.
Warning about what, exactly? About the convergence of two mathematical curves (rising demand for fossil fuels, and declining supply) that will cross someday with chilling inevitability, plunging the world into chaos–unless, of course, we pull our heads out of the sand and do something about it.
The irony is that the technology to prevent the disaster is already at head. What's lacking is the social and political will.
"The dominant energy industries have not been interested in seeing any competition, basically," Pahl explains. "They've got the ear of the House and the Senate, and to a large extent the administration as well."
Big Oil's solution–first, last, and always–is: Find more oil.
Pahl thinks he has a better idea: Grow more soybeans.
Biodiesel, Pahl explains in a recent interview, is "a vegetable oil-based fuel which can be made from virtually any vegetable oil feedstock": soybeans, "popular in the United States"; canola, "very popular in Europe"; corn, palm, you name it.
When Rudolf Diesel patented the engine that bears his name in 1892, he saw it as a machine that could run on just about any fuel. But, as they have done so many times before and since, market forces prevailed over long-range vision. There was plenty of oil, an endless supply–so what was the point of running the machine on anything else?
Now we know. There are plenty of dire scenarios out there for what will happen when the "global village" needs more energy than it can produce.
"I've seen horrible ones," Pahl says. "A lot of people are going to get hurt, and they just don't get it."
Biodiesel balances statistics on production and consumption (it would take one-fifth of the waste cooking oil generated in New York City to run its entire public transit system), with lucid lessons in basic biodiesel chemistry (call them Biodiesel for Dummies) and fascinating anecdotes–many of which involve raving skeptics being converted into true believers.
The essential recipe for the bio part of biodiesel fuel is almost comically simple. Pahl writes of a college professor who took a gallon of grease from a McDonald's Dumpster back to his lab, mixed in some methanol and lye, and went to lunch. When he came back, "there it sat–a gallon of beautiful fuel from that awful grease. I couldn't believe how easy it was." [Chelsea Green is sponsoring a bus that will tour the country running on vegetable oil this summer.]
On an industrial scale, of course, it's more complicated. And different blends of biodiesel–varying percentages of bio and diesel fuel–behave differently. The blend must be adjusted for climate and other factors. The percentage of bio to diesel is rated with the letter "B": B20 is 20 percent fuel made from biomass; B40 is 40 percent, etc.
The practicality of biodiesel is beyond dispute. Europe has been ahead of the curve–and of the United States–for decades, in both research and application. In Germany, where 40 percent of passenger cars have diesel engines, you can buy B100 at any service station, and the fuel accounts for 3 percent of diesel-fuel sales. Not much, you say–but it beats zero.
On this side of the Atlantic, most research has been in the Midwest–relatively small-scale, and funded on a shoestring. Again and again, Biodiesel tells of promising research being shut down cold when funding ran out.
Pahl stresses that biodiesel is no "magic bullet"–and neither is anything else.
But people want magic bullets. Full-scale application of biodiesel will take care of maybe 10 percent of America's energy needs? Big deal.
It is, if you factor in the widespread application of other renewable resources: wind, solar, hydro, etc.
Biodiesel's most obvious handicap is that is more expensive to produce than other fuels. The mantra of political and industry resistance is that aggressive development of alternative energy will "hurt the economy" and "cost jobs."
Maybe, maybe not. But when compared to the consequences of that apocalyptic–and the way things are going, inevitable–moment when those curves cross, maybe a little belt-tightening won't kill us.
And don't let anyone tell you the market isn't there.
"So much global commerce is powered by diesel," Pahl notes: heavy transport, construction, public transportation, etc. Make it economically competitive–and as fossil-fuel prices rise, that may be as simple as waiting–and the global energy machine will see biodiesel as the answer to its prayers.
A few progressive legislators–most of them from agricultural states, where voters would benefit most directly–have promoted biodiesel legislation. "The soybean farmers in the Midwest have been the ones who really been pushing this for years," Pahl says. "They've got all this excess soybean oil that they want to find a better market for."
Pahl is candid about the "preaching to the choir" syndrome.
"The people who need (to read) this book are probably not the first ones who are going to take it off the shelf," he admits. "It's beginning to happen. People are buying this book by the case, which is a little bit unusual."
Pahl says many enthusiasts are sending the book to their legislators, and "a number of people are going to be using it as a textbook and required reading at various colleges."
He is also tirelessly stumping the lecture circuit. As for book critics–well, there haven't been any front-page spreads in The New York Times, but Pahl is buoyed by the many favorable reviews his book has received–many of which can be linked to from Chelsea Green's Web site.
In such a sprawling and complicated matrix, success can be hard to define. When will Pahl know that his book has done its job?
"When you can drive downtown and fill up with D20 from a pump at your local station, he says. "And when you can call up your local fuel dealer, (and biodiesel is) a regular part of your fuel oil."
If that day doesn't come sooner rather than later, you might as well buy a horse.
Some Biodiesel Blogs you should check out
Biodiesel Blog Agregator
Biodiesel blog
Biodiesel Confidential
Energy Blog (piedmont biofuels)
Fueled for Thought
Living on Biodiesel
Willie Nelson's Biofuels


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Always wanted to walk the red carpet and be brave enough to get a critique from the fashion police? Now's your chance. For its first-ever fundraiser, Off-Center @ the Jones is throwing the Gayest Oscar Party Ever tonight at Hamburger Mary's, complete with a "rainbow carpet" entrance and commentary from host Jon Jon Lannen. Guests are encouraged to dress to impress, as Lannen will be asking the all-important "Who are you wearing?" Along with a viewing of the Academy Awards, the evening will be sprinkled with live drag and improvisation from the casts of Drag Machine and Cult Following, two Off-Center shows.
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"We wanted to prove that people are interested in this new entry point for theater," says general manager Diana Buirski of Off-Center's yearly mission. Ticket sales to the night of Oscar fun will go to benefit the theater's upcoming season. Guests can also donate additional funds and pick out wearable swag from the "Come Out of the Closet" closet to spice up their red-carpet duds.
The benefit kicks off at 5 p.m. at Hamburger Mary's, 700 East 17th Avenue. Tickets are $35 for the "All the Single Ladies" level, which includes drink tickets and hors d'oeuvre; $300 for the "Twink" four-pack and a reserved table; and $400 for the "Bear" four-pack, with all of the above plus a champagne toast from Go-Go Boy Bottle Service. For more information or to purchase seats, visit denveroffcenter.org or call 303-893-4100.
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The men's rugby team finished a surprising second in the New England Championships at Amherst over the weekend, winning its first three matches before bowing out to the University of Massachusetts by a 15-9 score in the finals.
By taking second place, the fuuggers automatically received a berth in next month's Eastern rugby tournament in Virginia.
Harvard defeated Middlebury (10-0), Maine (4-0) and Brown (6-4) to reach the finals. George Askew and Nick Green did most of the scoring for the Crimson.
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Classic Ford Model T Once Owned by Led Zeppelin Drummer John Bonham Is on the Market
In the 1976 film 'The Song Remains the Same,' the four members of Led Zeppelin each had scenes showing them outside of the rock 'n' roll realm.
Drummer John Bonham, an avid car collector, can be seen driving a 1915 Ford Model T — and that very vehicle can now be had, its current owner says.
Nirvana 'Nevermind' Deluxe Anniversary Version — New Details Revealed
Demos, B-sides and concert recordings are among the rarities that will be included on not one, but two deluxe 20th anniversary editions of Nirvana's 'Nevermind' from Universal Music Enterprises.
Originally scheduled for a Sept. 19 release, the digitally remastered and beefed-up 'Nevermind' packages will now drop on Sept. 27 — 20 years and three days after the original album arrived.
Slipknot and Stone Sour Singer Corey Taylor Enjoys 'Catharsis' with New Book
Ever since he was a kid, Corey Taylor has wanted to write a book.
The Slipknot and Stone Sour front man finally fulfilled his dream with the recently released hardcover Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Goods (Da Capo Press).
Catchy New Red Hot Chili Peppers Single, 'The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie,' Hits the Internet
Flea's thick, funky bass line, Chad Smith's danceable drum beat, Anthony Kiedis' rhythmic lead vocal and newcomer Josh Klinghoffer's tasteful guitar work — it all adds up to the new Red Hot Chili Peppers single, 'The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie,' which can now be heard online.


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Time is running faster than you can imagine, and so soon, the Black Stars head coach, James Kwasi Appiah, and his Chipolopolo counterpart, Herve Renard, must be having sleepless nights and dreaming about nothing but victory. Yes, the clarion call at the moment is victory all the way for Ghana to the 2014 World Cup.
"I have a dream", as Martin Luther pronounced, "that the black race will be the shining stars". It is that great thinking 50 years ago that has propelled Africa forward in all fields with a lot of hope to overtake their slave masters. And today the enslavement has turned into a new vista of life.
Indeed, despite what will happen at the Supreme Court in Accra with regard to the election petition, life must go on as usual, with the Black Stars rounding up their preparation to pin down their Zambian counterparts at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi, come September 6. Victory for any party must not turn this vision in a different direction.
It is simply gratifying that our football has been the centre of peace, and in the heat of any political turmoil where all things look gloomy, people are especially passionate about our national team's success to the extent that all agree to embrace each other with love, all waving the national flag, no matter which party is in power.
The Zambians are on their way to this wonderful Coast of Gold, led by a coach who knows our terrain, having been partly responsible for the building of the Black Stars during the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations hosted here.
The last time the Black Stars lost a match at home was when Cameroun won their semi-final match at the 2008 championship. Of course, this is not the time to lose at home, no matter the strategy crafted by Renard and how his boys will excel in Kumasi.
It is a fact that the Chipolopolo have displayed their powers in recent times over the Black Stars, in the Gabon/Equatorial Guinea semi-finals and the first round of the current qualifiers at the Lusaka National Stadium. But that does not pose any threat to the Stars.
If there is any threat, I believe Kwasi must have an antidote to it, and for that he is making sure he brings on board the best he can gather to ensure total victory. The other day I mentioned that if I were Kwasi Appiah, I would be very flexible in my selection, no matter the character displayed by any player worth his salt.
To the average soccer follower, the most welcome news is the return of the stars who opted out of the group. Really, a lot of discussion is going on in the selection of the latest Stars squad which, to me, is still incomplete without certain notable personalities. I don't believe it is a deliberate attempt to kill the morale of a player like Sulley Ali Muntari, the people's choice and striker extraordinary, who has in the past carried the Black Stars on his shoulders.
It will surprise every soccer fan in the world if, for sheer dissent, a player like that is thrown away in a time like this. It will not help anybody if a coach, local or expatriate, does not compromise his stand on the slightest indiscipline. I listened to a programme in which the panel was of the opinion that every player, however advanced, has his or her background.
Kwasi Appiah must by now know that defeat at the hands of Zambia would be highly disastrous, and will attract bitter comments; and perhaps the worst will be his over-reliance on discipline which can sometimes backfire.
I would like to re-assure him that, irrespective of his status, too much of everything can undermine the desire to reach this particular World Cup in Brazil. I don't believe it is too late for Kwasi to change his mind and bring on board all who matter in his drive for success. I will be very sorry if he is be made to receive all the blame. Good luck!


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Haley puts a BBQ dinner on the line for Clemson/Florida State game
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:22:56 GMT —
COLUMBIA (WACH)â?? Gov. Nikki Haley engages in friendly wager with Florida's Governor over Clemson/Florida St. game.
Haley, a Clemson grad. placed a friendly wager with Gov. Rick Scott of Florida on Saturdayâ??s college football game â?? a contest between two of the best football teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference and the nation. Kickoff is slated for 8:00 PM ET on Saturday in Tallahassee.
â??With college football season in full swing and two South Carolina teams ranked in the top 10, it was great to hear from my friend and fellow college football fan Gov. Rick Scott,â?? said Gov. Haley, who put a barbecue dinner on the line. â??When he called and started talking smack about the Clemson-Florida State game, I told him I had confidence in Coach Dabo Swinney and the Tigers, who represent our state well and make us proud, and I was happy to place a friendly wager on the game.â??
Gov. Scott bet Key Lime Pie that the Seminoles would win.
â??Our high schools, universities and NFL teams have proven time and time again that Florida is the number one state for football, and there is no doubt the Noles will win this weekend,â?? said Gov. Scott. â??I really appreciate Gov. Haley taking part in this wager and look forward to enjoying some BBQ from her great state.â??


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The More Ink, the Better, and Other NewsBy Dan Piepenbring
- If I had me a printing press, here's what I'd do: I'd stand by the machines all day as they spat out inky paper, and I'd close my eyes and huff the paper, fanning the wet air toward me with a flowery gesture. And from the scent alone I would render a verdict on the quality of the print job. "No, no, this smells all wrong. Do it over." Or: "This … is my masterpiece." There lives among us one man, Gerhard Steidl, who does something like this for a living—his printing is an art form, his fastidiousness is renowned, and he takes enormous pride in mastering every minute detail of the bookmaking process. Profiling the legendary Steidl for The New Yorker, Rebecca Mead writes, "Among photographers and photography aficionados, Steidl's name recognition equals that of Johannes Gutenberg: he is widely regarded as the best printer in the world. His name appears on the spine of more than two hundred photography books a year, and he oversees the production of all of them personally. Steidl, who is sixty-six, is known for fanatical attention to detail, for superlative craftsmanship, and for embracing the best that technology has to offer … Steidl seeks out the best inks, and pioneers new techniques for achieving exquisite reproductions. 'He is so much better than anyone,' William Eggleston, the American color photographer, told me, when I met him recently in New York. Steidl has published Eggleston for a decade; two years ago, he produced an expanded, ten-volume, boxed edition of The Democratic Forest, the artist's monumental 1989 work. Eggleston passed his hand through the air, in a stroking gesture. 'Feel the pages of the books,' he said. 'The ink is in relief. It is that thick.' "
- Yesterday in this space, I linked to an essay by Samuel R. Delany about his experiences at a gay sex party for older men. In an interview with Junot Díaz, Delany explains that he later saw a documentary about that same sex party (it happens once a month) and that it furthered his concept of sexual radicalism: "I went to the party first … The documentary was made three months before I went to the party. But that just made it seem I was involved in the same process. And I had had sex with maybe half a dozen of the guys I subsequently saw on the screen. That was certainly a first for me … Sitting in a movie theater and looking at the screen and thinking, Yes, I've actually had sex with him, as you are watching him have sex with someone else (or pretend to), has got to be an experience pretty limited to the community of movie actors—perhaps the community of porn film actors. But when those communities shift radically, it means something—and not just approaching mortality. Not all explicit sex is pornographic. It can be educational, and I expect that a room full of forty- to eighty-year-olds having sex and discussing their lives would be just that: educational."


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We've been planning this for months, tailoring reward levels, designing and sourcing branded swag, producing an awesome video (we're really proud of our video). If you're unaware: Kickstarter is a fundraising platform that works on an all-or-nothing basis. As in, if we don't hit our $100,000 goal, then we get nothing.
We launched this morning and the momentum is building! We've had a bunch of amazing people step up and chip in but we have a long way to go. If you're a fan of the show, head over to the Kickstarter page and check it out. Stick around till the end of the video for a surprise celeb cameo.
As you know, the show has been going for a year now. This is the first time we have reached out to you, our listeners, for support. If the show is going to continue and grow, we want it to be funded by you - by the people who listen. Help us make it happen. It's been a thrilling first day, but we have a long three weeks until the deadline.
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Dallas, In its largest grand-opening event to date, Kohl's will open 80 stores in some 35 states this Sunday, John Worthington, senor executive VP of stores, Kohl's Corp., said Friday in remarks at Texas A&M University's Retailing Summit, Dallas.
Worthington called customer reaction to Kohl's new exclusive brand by designer Vera Wang as "spectacular." He added that both the SimplyVera brand, which includes apparel, lingerie, accessories and home goods, and Kohl's new Food Network-branded line of goods have been doing "extremely well."
In other news, Kohl's will remodel 50 plus stores in 2008, adding such elements as updated lighting, fixtures signage and graphics.
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After an auspicious beginning, the viciously satirical run of Eric Powell and Tracy Marsh on Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters came to an end last issue with a sort of an '…oh' feeling. Did they have a slam-bang ending they had to quash because IDW wanted to keep the series going, or was that planned? We don't know. But now, writer Jason Ciaramella is taking over where they left off with #9, and there's already a slightly different sensibility to the proceedings. Where once this series was a black comedy, the new take seems to be approximating a straight-up action movie.
A soldier by the name of Steven Woods, who we've been following for the past several issues, has come across the inert Mechagodzilla, and he's firing it up and learning how to run it in order to try and kick Godzilla's ass for killing his family. Meanwhile, President Ogden is trying to get Woods to obey orders, since Mechagodzilla is pretty much their only hope of getting any kind of traction against the onslaught of monsters that have destroyed civilization. Woods isn't playing ball.
We'll certainly miss that Goon sensibility that Powell brought to Godzilla, as the series feels a little deflated without its star creator and his unique style. Ciaramella's tone is perfectly adequate, but a little bit mundane. There's a moment where Woods just dumps some ugliness on the little girl he's been trying desperately to protect from any further trauma that feels a bit off, and after how easily Godzilla managed to put down Mechagodzilla back in issue #6, the idea that an untrained hardass running it manually is going to make a difference also seems questionable. Then again, maybe he won't. The question will be whether or not Ciaramella decides to have humanity find a way to fight back, or if he'll continue Powell's theme of neutering human hubris.
The art from Victor Santos is as hit and miserably miss as always. He's fairly decent with the monsters, but when a little girl's freckles look more like a tire tread across her face, there's some detail that could use some work going on here. He's very angular and distorted with his renderings of human figures, and sometimes that works, sometimes it's just unpleasant.
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It's a big week for non-small screen stars on TV. Last night saw Britney Spears's debut as a judge on The X Factor (we're obsessed!), and tonight is the Glee Season 4 premiere at 9 pm EST on FOX. Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Cory Monteith, and the rest of the New Directions troupe are back. And that's not all that's new. Rachel is starting college in New York (the episode is aptly titled "The New Rachel") and the show has moved to its new Thursday night time slot. Let's just say, in this case, change is good. Really good. To prepare for the big night, get a sneak peek at the cast performing Carly Rae Jepsen's ubiquitous pop hit "Call Me Maybe." We wanted to put on our dancing shoes when we discovered a video of the entire performance! Watch the clip then click through the below to get the scoop on everything we're looking forward to seeing tonight!
Here's what to keep an eye out for on Glee's season premiere:
• Rachel's in College, Wears Pencil Skirts
• SJP Guest Stars as a Fashion Editor
• New Addition: Dean Geyer Joins the Cast
• Kate Hudson Plays a Dance Teacher
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WHAT failures those two were! The rat has removed them from my presence and unceremoniously thrown them from the building. Muahahahahaha!
Psych Question: If you were a superhero, who from this game would you want as your sidekick? Your archenemy?
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well, it's impossible for me to say, how to get the same locations. i just fought through and picked random choices (saved before, tried a few choices and took one that seemed promising) for i was far too lazy to care about this h-stuff. but it was totally pointless fighting the "boss" at the last ruin. right after the last human kingdom i saved and played every possible way to the end but it didn't alter the ending in any way. so i personally think the endings are all about how fast you get through an with which one of your girls you are breeding most. for me it was momo, because i needed swordsmen ... and that other "darth vader" girl just turned into a mage
this game would be totally awesome, if there was an english translation. it's no fun playing a game with constantly using atlas or whatsoever.
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Don't worry, I've figured out a lot of it. And the ruins aren't actually pointless - see, there's another ruin that I've only been able to manage to unlock once, in the center of the map. Killing the boss there nets you the best sword in the game (something like +30 attack power and life). You either need to have visited all the ruins in the game before the end or have gotten the harem end, or both, not sure which.
The endings are decided based on dialogue choices. For the three 'normal' endings (Liese, Alette, and Momo), just breed with them every turn you can, and pick the right dialogue options for whoever you're going for. You actually don't even need a translator for this, just the guide; the sections for each character are pretty small so just look for the japanese that matches what's on your screen and pick the option that has (+1) beside it. Or do what I did my first playthrough and quicksave, pick both options, and go with whatever makes her look happier.
There's a 'bad end' if you didn't get enough influence with any of the girls.
Then there's Ceres and Meissiah. They're a lot more complicated. To get their ending, you have to capture one of them (if you capture one, you can't get the other). You capture Ceres through the 'brave soul appeared' battles. The first time you fight her, use Folser. The second time, use Momo, Alette, or Liese. The third and fourth times, use Folser - after the fourth battle, you'll get an H-scene and capture her. For Meissiah, there are two nodes where you battle her, the one three or four nodes before the pope guy and the pope battle. If you beat her with Folser in the brave soul battle where she appears at the church (she won't appear unless you have 400 total fear), after the pope battle, you'll get a dialogue option. One of them captures her, the other doesn't.
I'm still trying to work out everything with getting their endings which is the main reason why I haven't posted my notes yet; I can't seem to get Meissiah's ending no matter what I try. Also there's a scene with Ceres with Liese and candle play that I can't seem to unlock.
The last ending is the Harem end; I am still testing that one.
For the armored mage chick, she has five places to gain influence, one at the beginning of the game where you're recruiting her (the option is to try to kill her or not I think, obviously one makes her happier), three are breeding (you get +1 at 5, 10, and 15 times), and the last is turning her into a mage (you get a choice after killing the snow lady, Yukine, one of them keeps her a fighter, the other turns her into a mage, turning her into a mage gets +1 with her). If you get all five, you get her final H-scene.
I agree that this is one game that should be translated into english. But with my notes hopefully a lot more people will be able to play enjoyably.
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*tears hair out* ARRRGGGGGHHHHHH
Well I finally recreated whatever happened when I was granted access to the path to the middle of the map. I'm not exactly sure how I did it, but last time I did, my game bugged out and I couldn't get to the end of the path before the credits rolled. This time, I'm there - and the game throws an error several times (same error every time), and when the battle is starting, CRASH. Eiyuu x Maou has encountered a problem and needs to close.
Can anybody at least tell me what this says? Seems like I'm missing a file somewhere but I have no idea how to find it, get it, fix it, whatever.
I googled everything I could think of in there, ev506.bmp, ACP Error Loadplane, everything came up with zero results except for when I only typed in "loadplane," which just gave me a bunch of websites with code.
Help please =\
Edit: If any of you are more computer-wiz than me, maybe this will help:
That's the list of all the files in the folder. The error is telling me that the file is missing from the 'gfx' folder, except that's a binary file and I'm not sure how to open a bin without it being some sort of CD image with a cue file. I tried mounting it with DT anyway, no dice.
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Uh... can't see any images.
Did you set the album they're in to be Private, or Public?
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Woops... sorry. Working now?
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Unfortunately, I can't think of anything right now. Judging from the bits I can read in that error message, the program is unable to find a file, as you noted. Equally unfortunately, I think that file is indeed located in the "gfx.bin" archive. And since it's not one of the standard archive types I'm familiar with, I suspect it's a custom archive system, probably encrypted, which would require a significant amount of effort to dig into. They don't want their CGs wandering hither and thither, after all.
So I guess you (and me, and everyone else) are out of luck. Note that I haven't tested any of this - X-COM Apocalypse is still occupying pride of place on my gaming comp until I've finished beating the computer's head in.
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Re: Eiyuu x Maou
If you use AGTH and Atlas it is some kind of english and you understand at least a lil bit what you are pressing.
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*performing some necro spell*
1- I finally got around to playing this. (not really a valid reason, isn't it?)
2- Game is really good.
3- There's a loli, or maybe more. Though I don't know if that matters since it's been lying here for such a long time.
And in case someone still need a walkthrough, I will gladly make one, or at least translate the one that was already there.
On a side note, the number of games on this forum is getting out of hand. The game list is nice but it'd be better if someone could categorizing the games.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
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Well I was planning on making a walkthrough but the problem is the game is broken; when you beat the final final boss it freezes so you can never get the best sword. This discouraged me to the point that I just stopped. If I can get my computer with all my old work on it to function again, though, I'd be happy to make another attempt with you.
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Re: Eiyuu x Maou walkthrough
with the walkthrough copy the link on the top of page (http://www.foolmaker.net/game/a/maou/exm.html or this one)
then just goggle it.
the seach will have this name at the top of the page this is the walkthrough
英雄×魔王 攻略 by 愚者の館
then they will be a link next to it to say Translate this page
and it should come up in english
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it all looks so good :3!!
i want an english version TT_TT
i'm lazy for trial and error.,
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I just can't stand missing out on the story. I no longer play untranslated games because of it.
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Drill man wouldn't have been the same if I didn't understand what was going on. ((well.... it was badly translated but I could piece it together)
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Honestly, if I spoke a lick of Japanese I would try to put together a translation team for this game. As it is I'm thinking of asking my girlfriend (fiance now I guess) to help me translate it.
You CAN get quite a bit if you're AtlasGTHing it. The story is pretty basic as far as I can tell; man wants to dominate world, man likes women, man rapes women. *shrug* It's when I can't figure out how to unlock little stuff because I'm missing out on specific story details that I get frustrated. Like how there's an extremely good archer that seems to be made out of some sort of pink slime, but I never was able to consistently recruit him... because I had no idea what the hell triggered opening up that area... because I couldn't understand it.
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I will give someone a sexual favour for even a decent translation of the walk through. I'd masturbate someone off for a strategy guide.
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LONDON, May 1 (Reuters) - Oil held above $119 a barrel on Tuesday as economic expansion in China helped counter a sluggish U.S. economy and bubbling euro zone debt crisis that could depress demand for fuel.
China's factory sector grew at a slightly higher rate in April from the previous month, a sign its economy may have bottomed out in the first quarter.
The world's no. 2 oil consumer is expected to account for nearly half of global incremental oil demand this year.
Brent crude edged up 9 cents to $119.56 a barrel by 0829 GMT. U.S. crude ticked up 3 cents to $104.90.
"China is still in an expansionary phase and we saw a slight tick-up on the month," said Ben Le Brun, a Sydney-based market analyst at OptionXpress. "That will offset that negativity we saw filtered through from Europe last night."
But debt woes in Europe continued to cast a pall over the region's economies, with Spain, the fourth-largest economy in the euro zone, sinking into recession in the first quarter.
In the United States, where the economy slowed going into the second quarter, spending increased only modestly last month and a gauge of Midwest business activity fell sharply.
Higher OPEC output in April as well as analysts' expectations for a sixth weekly rise in U.S. crude inventories due in part to rising domestic production could also weigh on prices.
OPEC's April output was at its highest since 2008 as extra crude from Iraq and Saudi Arabia helped make up for tighter sanctions on Iran, whose own oil output sank to the lowest in two decades, a Reuters survey found.
Iraq's crude exports rose to 2.508 million barrels per day (bpd) in April from 2.317 million bpd in March as new offshore export terminals helped increase sales, the head of its State Oil Marketing Organisation said on Tuesday.
"Unless OPEC curtails production - which we see as unlikely in today's elevated price environment - inventories should build above-normal through the third quarter," said Morgan Stanley.
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A Mentor-on-the-Lake man failed to appear for sentencing in a rape case Monday afternoon.
In June, Willard Wigfield IV, 32, had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of rape, a first-degree felony. The victim was a minor male.
Wigfield originally was charged with eight counts of rape and two counts of kidnapping before he entered his guilty plea on June 7. Lake County Common Pleas Court Judge Richard L. Collins Jr. accepted the defendant's plea and set the sentencing for 1:30 p.m. Monday.
After 20 minutes of waiting for Wigfield, he was declared a no-show.
Court records show Wigfield was released from Lake County Jail in March on $150,000 cash/surety bond.
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Ahead of International Women's Day on Tuesday, more than 100 people gathered at Vancouver's Jericho Beach to take part in the Walk in Her Shoes Challenge, a charity walk to raise funds for women in Bolivia and their families.
Carolina Ordoñez, who was born in the South American nation, said the fundraiser organized by CARE Canada can help "empower women in creating small businesses they already have, and into making it into something more sustainable for the entire family and for the whole community."
For many women in Bolivia, reaching food, water or work requires them to walk 10,000 steps a day. The Walk in her Shoes Challenge asks participants to walk 10,000 steps as a show of support for women in developing countries.
"Sixty per cent of the people there live in extreme poverty," CARE Canada's Joanne Gassman said. "Women get up at four in the morning and don't go to bed until nine o'clock at night and it's all very heavy manual labour."
The CARE Canada project aims to provide Bolivian women education, training and equipment to help them build their businesses and potentially change their lives.
So far CARE Canada has raised $1.7 million with the help of donors and the federal government, but it's the numbers of families that have been supported that really matters.
"For every one woman we take out of poverty, she brings four other with women with her, which I think is incredibly powerful," Gassman said.
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Via Sitefinity, I doubt it. Via Javascript, you could do something like
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Excellent suggestions,didn't think about handling it in the client side. Thanks!
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Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines Records 'God Only Knows' for 'Big Love'
After nearly five years away from the spotlight, the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines is back with new music. Maines recorded her own version of the Beach Boys' classic tune 'God Only Knows' for the series finale of HBO's hit series 'Big Love.'
Maines laid down her vocals on the tune back in January in Malibu, Calif. with producer Rick Rubin. The track also features Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith.
Fans of Maines' signature sound will enjoy the new song, and should enjoy it as it might be the only shot of hearing something from the 36-year-old singer. Maines has said in recent months that there are no plans in her near future of recording a solo album. However, Maines' Chicks bandmates, Martie Maguire and Emily Robison, formed the Court Yard Hounds in 2010 and released their debut self-titled album last summer.
Fans can purchase Maines' version of 'God Only Knows' starting today, March 15, on iTunes. The song will be featured in the series finale of 'Big Love' on HBO, which is set to air on Sunday, March 20. You can hear her singing it in the video below.


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Microsoft and Facebook have announced Docs for Facebook, an application that allows users to use Word, Excel and Powerpoint online. Currently, the Docs is in beta and you will need to go to Docs.com to sign up.
Microsoft and Facebook have announced the launch of Docs for Facebook, an online applications platform beta that lets Facebook users create and share Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. The announcement coincides with the start of Facebook's F8 conference in San Francisco, where the social networking company is emphasizing the increasingly social and collaborative nature of the Web.
The launch represents yet another escalation in the cloud-based productivity arena, where Microsoft finds itself in competition against Google and a growing host of smaller competitors.
Users can navigate to Docs.com and log in using Facebook Connect. From that point, a variety of options present themselves: Users can view documents being shared by their friends, or else create or upload a document. Once a document's been created and edited, it can be shared with any Facebook friends selected via an interface on the right-hand side of the screen. The application also includes granular controls for which friends can edit a document.
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Transmission bandwidth in internet and ethernet controllers speed.
In relation to the downloading of the slackware 14.0 images from internet, I have these questions:
(a) Can the ethernet controller in my machine be limiting the download speed? That is, assume the _purely_ hypothetical case in which the ISP guarantees me 10Tbits/s (some day in the distant future, perhaps). Can my ethernet card, controller or whatever its name is be so old that it cannot handle 10Tbits/s and is lowering the speed? Is there a limit for the speed an ethernet card can handle?
(b) If there is, any way to see what is the speed my ethernet card can handle, what the maximum rate is?
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a) Yes.
b) This depends on your OS. Typically, your network connection manager should list the connection speed.
Long answer:
Any data transmission is limited by the slowest component in the link from source to destination. In order to maintain the theoretical 10Tbits/s, your disk, storage controllers, memory, IO buses, CPU, NIC, ethernet cables, router/switch/modem and the lowly Slackware mirror all have to able to maintain that speed.
Yes. There are 1,10,100,1000 mb/s cards. In order for Ethernet to communicate most hardware will go through a handshake and negotiation process. For instance my desktop machines all have gigabit Ethernet cards and they all connect to a gigabit switch, all communication from desktop to desktop is done at gigabit speeds. However my router and my modem are both 100baseT (100 mb/s) so the link between the switch and the router as well as the link from the modem to the router are both negotiated to the capacity of the lower link so even the gigabit switch talks to the router at 100mb/s. This makes no difference because the ISP only provides me with 10mb/s which they then do their traffic shaping which limits any sustained connection to 2 mb/s. Therefor the ISP is ALWAYS the bottleneck. I can have multiple 2 mb/s connections going, but after a few hours they throttle my speeds on those ports. So for instance I had to configure Deluge to use a random port each time it opens and have to restart it occasionally if I'm doing lots of downloads for instance.
And now one more question: my machine has one of the NbaseT ethernet cards for N= 1,10,100 or 1000, most likely 100baseT. How do I know which one?
Kernel 188.8.131.52, Slackware 12.0
Your motherboard's manual will tell you which network card you have.
o 10BaseT/100BaseTX Ethernet LAN
o LAN controller integrates Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY compliant with IEEE802.3u 100BASE-TX, 10BASE-T and ANSI X3.263 TP-PMD standards
o Compliant with ACPI 1.0 and the Network Device Class Power Management 1.0
o High Performance provided by 100Mbps clock generator and data recovery circuit for 100Mbps receiver.
What this all means in terms of my initial question is that, the bandwidth assigned me by the ISP being 1Mbit/s, and all elements in the rest of the chain as quoted by tux_dude being able to handle transfer rates well above 1Mbit/s, the bottle neck will in this case be the ISP, which agrees with damgar's words.
I think this thread answers in full the two questions that gave it rise, for which I truly thank you, guys.
Yes, I mean in my case as far as the traffic shaping. Some ISP's don't do any traffic shaping, most have some form of traffic shaping policy though. In almost every case, regardless of traffic shaping/throttling the ISP is the bottleneck just because bandwidth is generally much higher on a LAN than a WAN.
Thanks again. The explanations are very clear.
I live in a remote village in the South French countryside, and Internet bandwidth is also limited to 1 Mbit/s. I don't mind though, since up until 2007 we only had 56 kbit/s dial-up.
With this bandwidth, count about an hour and a half for a 700 MB download.
As I remember, you're using Xfce, so it's enough if you download only the first and the second install CD from the set.
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Retailers were already leery about the outlook for consumer spending this holiday season and reports Wednesday of record auto sales in August only add to the concern.
Both Walmart and Target reported disappointing second quarter sales and tempered their outlook for the full year. Conversely, car salespeople across the country were clinking champagne glasses and cashing commission checks as their employers, everyone from Mazda to Honda to Porsche and Ford, said August was a record month.
Sales at Ford increased 12.2% to 221,270 vehicles. Sales at Toyota increased 18.4% to 231,537 units. Honda set a new record with sales up 26.7% to 166,432 units. Hyundai too set an all-time sale record with 66,101 units leaving the showroom for an 8% increase. Mazda sold 28,106 vehicles, a 26.4% increase from last year and the most vehicles in 10 years.
Even luxury brands set new records. Porsche Cars North America increased sales 10% to 3,327 vehicles. For the year, Porsche sales are up 28% to 28,456 units. BMW sales in August increased a stunning 45.7% to 24,523 vehicles. Mercedes-Benz USA increased sales by 15.8% to 27,144 units.
Why this matters to retailers is because in another month or two when they are looking to pry as much money as possible from shoppers that also is when all those folks who bought new vehicles in August will be making their first or second payment. It is also worth noting that auto sales were strong all summer so many car buyers are adjusting to the new reality of having a big bite taken out of their household budget each month.
This situation is especially troubling for retailers whose product assortments lean toward the discretionary because having a new car payment has a way of altering consumer spending behavior as shoppers are likely to be more deliberate in their purchases.
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Chapter 11 bankruptcy is a type of reorganization bankruptcy often used by large corporations and businesses. Because Chapter 11 can be expensive, time-consuming, and complex, small businesses often opt to use other forms of bankruptcy.
Chapter 11 is the only bankruptcy option, however, for a small business seeking to restructure and continue in operation if it is owned by a partnership, limited liability company, or corporation. (Chapter 13, the other reorganization bankruptcy, can only be filed by individuals.) In addition, because your debts must be under certain limits to file for Chapter 13, if you owe lots of money to creditors, Chapter 11 may be your only way to file for bankruptcy and stay in business.


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Blitz: The League
Review by AceHardball
"Excellent new concept, yet poor execution"
Blitz: The League was one of those games that I just desperately wanted to like. I brought it home, psyched with the anticipation of playing with steroid-pumped linebackers smashing running backs, or watching my receivers make ridiculous catches over the opposing secondary. I heard rumors of X-Ray vision showing shattering bones as an injury happens, and being able to "juice" them back on the field. Television commercials displayed players in bar brawls and behind jail cells, which made me excited for a storyline full of berserk players drooling over women, booze, and in trouble with the law. I kept thinking that it must have been a blessing for EA to buy up the NFL license, because look at what Midway can do now! However, this was all quite misleading.
The concept for this "extreme sports" title was simple. There are Quick Games, where you play with one of the Midway-created teams against another Midway-created team, or use your created team from Campaign Mode to stomp the opposition. In the Campaign Mode, you create a team of bust-out players, and pummel anyone in your way until you win the championship. The first thing I noticed when starting up was the UNGODLY long load times. I actually thought I had a damaged disc at first, until I realized that every time I loaded anything or saved my game a millennium passed by. What really made me scratch my head was thinking about what led to these lengthy loading times. The graphics are mediocre, with the player models all being of roughly the same height and generic structure. The crowd is more or less a blur of movement, and the stadiums are what you might expect from a football game a few years passed. Meaning not much detail except for grass, goalposts, and stands. Even more confusing was the slowdown that would occur when games would be played with snow or other weather conditions. This makes the week it takes to load a game totally inexcusable.
Thankfully, Midway made sure to balance out their sub-par graphics with some sharp sound and good music tracks. Player hits were captured beautifully, and I especially liked the music changing to fit the game scenario (more gritty music for redzone approaches, etc.). The voiceovers were decent, with the use of Lawrence Taylor being the best feature in that category. Whether that is even worth mentioning is debatable.
The arcade-style of football, which is derived from the original Blitz games of a few years ago, worked quite well. I quickly became nostalgic as my top wide receiver would make leaping one handed catches or my defensive end would maul the quarterback in a bone-crushing sack. The Clash feature was a great addition, giving that extra edge to out maneuver the opponent. I enjoyed the idea of the story, drafting a rookie on offense and veteran on defense to rebuild an ailing franchise. Yet strangely enough, these bar brawls and cop chases I thought I might be embroiled in were nowhere to be found. This is because all of these scenarios are merely cinematic introductions for what players on other teams are doing. Shame on you Midway, for making me think that I too might crush some skulls both on and off the field.
The aspect of "juicing" your players and using steroids to make them better was a truly exciting idea, if it were in fact remotely useful. The varying steroid boosts (to be precise only about nine, four of which actually are even worth trying) do little to increase your stats, and actually detract much greater from your other needed abilities (like field awareness and resistance to injury). Not only that, but the cost of this 3 week only pill proved outrageous (I don't know about you, but if I was paying $50,000 for anabolic steroids to play football, I might see about taking up golf). I was disheartened to see that when I saved my money to buy the $700,000 dollar shoulder pads that would supposedly make me a tackling demon, I witnessed remotely no change in my defensive prowess. Maybe I should have just bought some of those cheerleaders instead and had a party.
The cheerleaders and their outfits, by the way, comprise most of the unlockables. Sponsored by FHM, a clone of Maxim magazine and a desperate attempt to steal readers of Playboy who are adverse to seeing nipples, has you complete varying tasks in Campaign Mode and Quick Games so you can unlock the girls' photos, and different outfits for the cheerleading squad. This would be great if A) The graphics were a step above mediocre, and B) If you actually saw your cheerleading squad for more then 10 milliseconds as your team takes the field. The rest of the unlockables were made up of differing game modes, such as Big Head, No Injuries, and the unforgettable Windbreaker.
By far the most frustrating part of this game would have to be a combination of glitches and flip-floppy A.I. So many times would I play a team and completely wipe the floor with them, only to play them again and it seemed I could barely keep up with their monster scoring. Or much worse, I would start off with a good lead, then have the A.I. seem to put up points at will, with running backs and receivers shrugging off anywhere from 5 to 8 power hits from my defense to score 80 yard touchdowns. When this is coupled with Challenge points (which by completing, you unlock more polygonal cheerleaders for your squad!) that are in fact difficult to obtain, I will admit that I uttered quite a few cuss words at the On and Off difficulty of the A.I. The glitches mentioned earlier varied across the board, from diving tacklers ghosting through ball carriers, to the wrong offensive player celebrating your long gain (My wide receiver dancing after my fullback just ran the ball?!), and of course the necessary booth commentary that has absolutely no relevance to what is going on on the field. Wait, correction. These aren't glitches. This is simply stupid and poor beta testing.
While it seems that I'm really hammering this game into bits, it isn't quite as bad as it seems. I did have a lot of fun with the insane arcade-style ball, and I enjoyed the sick satisfaction of seeing players limbs break from brutal hits. Without all of its extra glitz and glamour, Blitz features some good, hard-hitting arcade football. Only when you look deeper at the extra sells surrounding the game do you discover that you should not give Midway the satisfaction of holding you captive to their sub-par product. Blitz:The League is a perfect example of a game with a downright awesome concept for casual and serious football fans alike, but is in dire need of a sequel to right the numerous wrongs of its ancestor.
Graphics: Average compared to other games of this genre
Sound: The grunts and body slams from the players more than satisfied
Playability: The Clash Mode makes this a strong point.
Entertainment Value: Surprisingly fun, once you get past the load times and false advertising of prison and cheap drugs.
Replay Value: Moderate to High
Reviewer's Rating: 3.0 - Fair
Originally Posted: 01/05/06
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free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; light:
a clear day.
transparent; pellucid:
clear water.
without discoloration, defect, or blemish:
a clear complexion; a clear pane of glass.
of a pure, even color:
a clear yellow.
easily seen; sharply defined:
a clear outline.
distinctly perceptible to the ear; easily heard:
a clear sound.
free from hoarse, harsh, or rasping qualities:
a clear voice; clear as a bell.
easily understood; without ambiguity:
clear, concise answers.
entirely comprehensible; completely understood:
The ultimate causes of inflation may never be clear.
distinct; evident; plain:
a clear case of misbehavior.
free from confusion, uncertainty, or doubt:
clear thinking.
perceiving or discerning distinctly:
a clear mind.
convinced; certain:
He was not clear on the first point that she made but agreed with the others.
free from anything that would disturb or blame:
a clear conscience.
free from suspicion of guilt or complicity:
She was entirely clear of the crime until one of her accomplices turned informer.
serene; calm; untroubled:
a clear brow.
free from obstructions or obstacles; open:
a clear view; a clear path.
free from entanglement or contact:
He kept clear of her after the argument. She managed to keep her dress clear of the mud.
without limitation or qualification; absolute:
a clear victory.
free from obligation, liability, or debt:
After twenty years, our house is clear of the mortgage. Municipal bonds were returning as much as 9 percent, clear of taxes.
without deduction or diminution:
a clear $1000 after taxes.
freed or emptied of contents, cargo, etc.
(of tree trunks or timber) free from branches, knots, or other protruding or rough parts:
The trunk was clear for 20 feet above the ground.
(of an l- sound) having front-vowel resonance; situated before a vowel in the same syllable.
Compare dark (def 16a).
(of a speech sound) produced without frication or aspiration.
(in cryptography) not coded or enciphered.
Compare plaintext.
bright; shining:
a clear flame.
Obsolete, illustrious.
in a clear or distinct manner; clearly.
so as not to be in contact with or near; away (often followed by of):
Stand clear of the closing doors.
entirely; completely; clean:
to cut a piece clear off; to climb clear to the top; to run clear off the road.
to remove people or objects from (usually followed by of):
to clear a courtroom of photographers; to clear the table of dishes.
to remove (people or objects) (usually followed by from):
to clear the photographers from the courtroom; to clear the dishes from the table.
to make clear, transparent, or pellucid; free from cloudiness or impurities:
to clear a liquid by means of a filter.
to make free of confusion, doubt, or uncertainty:
He spoke to his supervisor to clear his mind about their working relationship.
to make understandable or lucid; free from ambiguity or obscurity:
She rephrased the report in order to clear the essential points.
to make (a path, road, etc.) by removing any obstruction:
He had to cut away the underbrush to clear a path.
to eat all the food on:
to clear one's plate.
to relieve (the throat) of some obstruction, as phlegm, by forcing air through the larynx, usually producing a rasping sound.
to make a similar rasping noise in (the throat), as to express disapproval or to attract attention.
to remove from (the brow) any traces of tension or anxiety, as folds or wrinkles.
to free of anything defamatory or discrediting:
to clear one's name.
to free from suspicion, accusation, or imputation of guilt; prove or declare innocent:
The jury cleared the defendant of the charge.
to remove instructions or data from (a computer, calculator, etc.).
to pass by or over without contact or entanglement:
The ship cleared the reef. The fisherman cleared his line.
to pass through or away from:
The ship cleared the harbor. The bill cleared the Senate.
to pass (checks or other commercial paper) through a clearinghouse.
(of mail, telephone calls, etc.) to process, handle, reroute, etc.:
The dispatcher clears hundreds of items each day.
to free from debt:
Just a few dollars more would clear him. The widow had to borrow money to clear her husband's estate.
to gain as clear profit:
to clear $1000 in a transaction.
to pay (a debt) in full.
to receive authorization before taking action on:
You'll have to clear your plan with headquarters.
to give clearance to; authorize:
The chairperson has to clear our speeches before the meeting.
to authorize (a person, agency, etc.) to use classified information, documents, etc.:
He has finally been cleared for highly classified information.
to remove trees, buildings, or other obstructions from (land), as for farming or construction.
to free (a ship, cargo, etc.) from legal detention at a port by satisfying customs and other requirements.
to try or otherwise dispose of (the cases awaiting court action):
to clear the docket.
(of a commodity) to buy up or sell out the existing supply of.
Skin Diving. to drain or expel unwanted water in:
to clear a snorkel by sharp exhalations; to clear a regulator and face mask while underwater.
Bridge. to establish one or more winning cards in (a given suit) by leading the suit until all the outstanding cards have been drawn:
He cleared the heart suit before attacking spades.
to become clear.
to exchange checks and bills, and settle balances, as in a clearinghouse.
to become free from doubt, anxiety, misunderstanding, etc.:
His mind cleared when he heard the truth.
to pass an authority for review, approval, etc.:
The bill must clear through the assembly before it becomes legal.
to remove dishes, food, etc., from a table following a meal:
Is it my turn to clear?
to remove previously inserted instructions or data from a computer, calculator, typewriter, or the like.
to comply with customs and other requirements legally imposed on entering or leaving a port (often followed by in or out).
to leave port after having complied with such requirements.
(of a commodity for sale) to sell out; become bought out:
Wheat cleared rapidly.
a clear or unobstructed space.
a piece of clear lumber.
clear away/off,
to remove in order to make room.
to leave; escape:
We were warned to clear off before the floods came.
to disappear; vanish:
When the smoke cleared away, we saw that the house was in ruins.
clear out,
to remove the contents of:
Clear out the closet.
to remove; take away:
Clear out your clothes from the closet.
to go away, especially quickly or abruptly.
to drive or force out:
The police cleared out the pickets by force.
clear up,
to make clear; explain; solve.
to put in order; tidy up.
to become better or brighter, as the weather.
in the clear,
absolved of blame or guilt; free:
He was suspected of the theft, but evidence put him in the clear.
en clair.
Historical Examples
Library Bookbinding Arthur Low Bailey
En Route J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
Can You Forgive Her? Anthony Trollope
The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2) John West
Inspiration and Interpretation John Burgon
Robert Elsmere Mrs. Humphry Ward
The Circular Study Anna Katharine Green
The World I Live In Helen Keller
Life Without and Life Within Margaret Fuller
An Eagle Flight Jos Rizal
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(of weather) free from dullness or clouds
transparent: clear water
even and pure in tone or colour: clear blue
without discoloration, blemish, or defect: a clear skin
easy to see or hear; distinct
free from doubt or confusion: his instructions are not clear
(postpositive) certain in the mind; sure: are you clear?
(in combination) perceptive, alert: clear-headed
evident or obvious: it is clear that he won't come now
(of sounds or the voice) not harsh or hoarse
serene; calm
without qualification or limitation; complete: a clear victory
free of suspicion, guilt, or blame: a clear conscience
free of obstruction; open: a clear passage
free from debt or obligation
(of money, profits, etc) without deduction; net
emptied of freight or cargo
(of timber) having a smooth, unblemished surface
Also in clear. (of a message, etc) not in code
(phonetics) Also light. denoting an (l) in whose articulation the main part of the tongue is brought forward giving the sound of a front-vowel timbre
(showjumping) (of a round) ridden without any fences being knocked down or any points being lost
in a clear or distinct manner
completely or utterly
(postpositive) often foll by of. not in contact (with); free: stand clear of the gates
a clear space
another word for clearance
in the clear
free of suspicion, guilt, or blame
(sport) able to receive a pass without being tackled
to make or become free from darkness, obscurity, etc
(of the weather) to become free from dullness, fog, rain, etc
(of mist, fog, etc) to disappear
(transitive) to free from impurity or blemish
(transitive) to free from doubt or confusion: to clear one's mind
(transitive) to rid of objects, obstructions, etc
(transitive) to make or form (a path, way, etc) by removing obstructions
(transitive) to free or remove (a person or thing) from something, such as suspicion, blame, or guilt
(transitive) to move or pass by or over without contact or involvement: he cleared the wall easily
(transitive) to rid (the throat) of phlegm or obstruction
(transitive) to make or gain (money) as profit
(transitive) often foll by off. to discharge or settle (a debt)
(transitive) to free (a debtor) from obligation
(intransitive) (of a cheque) to pass through one's bank and be charged against one's account
(banking) to settle accounts by exchanging (commercial documents) in a clearing house
to permit (ships, aircraft, cargo, passengers, etc) to unload, disembark, depart, etc, after fulfilling the customs and other requirements, or (of ships, etc) to be permitted to unload, etc
to obtain or give (clearance)
(transitive) to obtain clearance from
(transitive) (microscopy) to make (specimens) transparent by immersion in a fluid such as xylene
(transitive) to permit (a person, company, etc) to see or handle classified information
(transitive) (military)
to achieve transmission of (a signalled message) and acknowledgment of its receipt at its destination
to decode (a message, etc)
(transitive) (sport) to hit, kick, carry, or throw (the ball) out of the defence area
(transitive) (computing) to remove data from a storage device and replace it with particular characters that usually indicate zero
(transitive) (NZ) to remove (trees, scrub, etc) from land
clear the air, See air (sense 11)
clear the decks, to prepare for action, as by removing obstacles from a field of activity or combat
clear as a bell
clear as crystal
clear as mud
clear away
clear off
clear one's name
clear out
clear the air
clear the decks
clear the table
clear up
clear with
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A dirty little secret of one Japanese "office lady" stereotype is that some women, dissatisfied with their clerical salaries, augment their earnings by moonlighting as bar hostesses.
The second job is not necessarily one they want revealed — carrying, as it does, images of ladies of the night in flashy dresses and makeup, entertaining salarymen with lascivious lights in their eyes.
But the upcoming introduction of the 12-digit My Number identification code assigned to all residents in Japan threatens to expose their nocturnal identity. Tax professionals say it may force some to consider abandoning their second job, often the more lucrative.
My Number will "first of all make incomes transparent for the tax authorities," said Manabu Kondo, a tax accountant and author based in Kizugawa, Kyoto Prefecture. "Until now, the government may have been able to identify names of bar operators (for tax purposes), but it has had difficulty identifying individuals working for them."
Tax professionals think many of the moonlighting hostesses evade taxes on their secondary earnings, often because they are unaware they are required to file tax returns for their second job.
Tax offices would not bother to track these individuals because of the difficulty of identifying hostesses who use false names, and employers who pay them in cash and employ other tricks to hide transactions, the professionals point out.
In the case of someone working for three employers, My Number can help authorities track all three income sources, Kondo said.
Overcoming years of resistance, the government this month will start sending out a tsuchi kaado (notification card) bearing the personal identification number to all individuals on the residency registry, officially kicking off a project to unify hitherto separate identities in governmental services, including social security, taxation and national health insurance.
The initial phase of the project, from January, will start seeing the numbers used in tax administration as well as social security and disaster relief benefits. This is expected to greatly enhance the efficiency of administration.
With the My Number launch three months away, hostesses should prepare to start filing tax returns because tax inspectors can easily go after them.
But there is a danger the individual should be aware of: After receiving tax returns describing their true incomes, the tax office may relay that information to the municipal government, which would then send a document detailing the total local levies to the daytime employer — because that employer is typically responsible for deducting the amount from wages. The employer might spot discrepancies between the tax sum and the presumably low salary a female clerk, say, might be earning.
Hostesses fear this scenario may lead to their daytime employers, and potentially their colleagues, finding out about their second identity.
And a similar fear is shared by salaried workers who have a second job they do not want their main employer to know about, in a country where devotion to the firm is the norm.
National Tax Agency statistics show that the average annual income of salaried workers peaked at ¥4.67 million in 1997 and shrank thereafter to ¥4.14 million in 2013, likely prompting many workers to look for additional income sources.
But employers remain reluctant to see their staff working elsewhere, with only 3.8 percent of 4,513 companies nationwide saying they explicitly allow their staff to take up a second job, according to a survey conducted by Recruit Career Co. from last November to February this year.
Zenya Ozawa, an author and certified public accountant based in Tokyo's Ginza district, said one way to avoid a secret second job from becoming known is not to give one's assigned My Number to the second employer — albeit not a recommended strategy.
"Do it at your own risk. At least for now, there's no penalty for not providing your My Number to your employer," Ozawa said. "I think that's what hostesses probably will do."
Ozawa pointed to the NTA website, where a "frequently asked questions" section explicitly says there is no penalty prescribed in tax laws for failure to include My Number on submissions to the tax office because the government assumes there will still be people who may not have received their assigned numbers. But it also notes that to enter the number is an "obligation dictated by law" and urges taxpayers to "enter (it) correctly and submit."
Tax accountant Kondo said dual-earners can choose to pay taxes under the self-employed category instead of becoming "employed" by the second employer, which ensures that the local tax amount will not be sent to the daytime employer.


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A CRICKLADE-based specialist packaging company has adopted Swindon Foodbank as their charity.
The arrangement between the charity and GWP Packaging will see the business assist the Foodbank with a range of logistical activity.
It will include inventory management and stock control, IT and electrical expertise, as well as storage and transport of stock.
Foodbanks across the country have seen a sharp increase in demand since changes to the benefits system were introduced. As a result of the higher demand, the charity's warehouse and distribution system needs to be more efficient.
Ruth Cook, the managing director of GWP Packaging, said: "We partnered with Foodbank last year when we worked with Swindon College students to help them design a warehouse box for the charity. "I was very surprised to discover the scale of the Foodbank operation, and to learn that they support so many local individuals and families a year. "We decided to explore ways in which we could assist Foodbank and soon realised that our expertise in running a just-in-time warehouse and manufacturing facility will be of enormous help to them."
The Swindon Foodbank has already benefited from its new agreement with GWP. When the warehouse at Westlea required some electrical improvements, GWP's own electricians, Barry Cuss and Chris Ricketts, spent six days at the warehouse carrying out the work. Parts for the improvements were donated by R & H Electrical in Swindon.
David Hartridge, the project manager at Swindon Foodbank said: "We were delighted when GWP asked us what else they could do to help. "GWP's new warehouse boxes are invaluable and have made stock handling so much easier. "Being a packaging business they have so much expertise with inventory management and stock control and combined with an agreement to let us use their warehouses to store excess stock at peak times, this arrangement is going to be of a great deal of help to us."
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Mental Gymnastics
The mind games I can play sometimes astound me.
Recently I went to a restaurant to have lunch and do some editing on my book. I checked to see if my favorite chair was available — the soft one near the receptacle with a fireplace close by, so I could prop up my leg (it's high-maintenance)
'My' chair was empty. I saved it with my jacket and turned around to go order lunch. That's when I saw someone that I didn't want to see. Someone (let's call this person Pat) that I used to be in a closer relationship with, but not anymore. There's tension between Pat and I now. A few weeks ago, I tried to resolve things via email, but the tension is still there.
I assumed Pat didn't see me, due to the restaurant setup and an intense conversation with a lunch companion. I ordered, got my food and went back to my chair. The chair had a high back, so I couldn't see Pat and Pat couldn't see me. I ate and surfed the web as the mind games began.
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I should go say hi.
No you shouldn't.
I need to be an adult. I need to take steps to clear the tension between us.
No, you don't need to. If anyone needs to clear the air, Pat does.
Omg … I just wrote about addressing conflict before it becomes a bigger problem. So will I take my own advice from that piece?
But if you go over there, you'll interrupt Pat's lunch. That's rude.
True, I don't want to be rude. A mature adult wouldn't do that.
I finished eating and began editing (or pretended to). It was hard to focus on serious work when half my mind was arguing with the other half.
The window near me reflected Pat's table, so I could see both heads nodding in an earnest discussion. I was not close enough to hear the conversation and I was glad, because depending what Pat was talking about, it would frustrate me.
Okay … that last sentence is a total lie, I was wishing I could hear ever word that was said. (Oh, don't act so shocked … depending on the situation, you would probably wish the same.)
The mental gymnastics continued …
I really need to walk over there. Face to face is better than emails.
To be continued …Mental Gymnastics – Part 2 Mental Gymnastics – The conclusion


text: Hi, > Taking 2) first, in this example: > >> return self.f[dataset_name][...] + heightmap > > assuming it is not going to upcast, would you rather it overflow than > raise an error? Why? The second seems more explicit and sensible to > me. Yes, I think this (the 1.5 overflow behavior) was a bit odd, if easy to understand. > For 1) - of course the upcasting in 1.6 is only going to work some of > the time. For example: > > In [2]: np.array([127], dtype=np.int8) * 1000 > Out[2]: array([-4072], dtype=int16) > > So - you'll get something, but there's a reasonable chance you won't > get what you were expecting. Of course that is true for 1.5 as well, > but at least the rule there is simpler and so easier - in my opinion - > to think about. Part of what my first example was trying to demonstrate was that the function author assumed arrays and scalars obeyed the same rules for addition. For example, if data were int8 and heightmap were an int16 array with a max value of 32767, and the data had a max value in the same spot with e.g. 10, then the addition would overflow at that position, even with the int16 result. That's how array addition works in numpy, and as I understand it that's not slated to change. But when we have a scalar of value 32767 (which fits in int16 but not int8), we are proposing instead to do nothing under the assumption that it's an error. In summary: yes, there are some odd results, but they're consistent with the rules for addition elsewhere in numpy, and I would prefer that to treating this case as an error. Out of curiosity, I checked what IDL did, and it overflows using something like the numpy 1.6 rules: IDL> print, byte(1) + fix(32767) -32768 and in other places with 1.5-like behavior: IDL> print, byte(1) ^ fix(1000) 1 Of course, I don't hold up IDL as a shining example of good analysis software. :) Andrew