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If you've seen the 2012 science fiction movie Looper, you might remember a telling exchange when a time-traveling hitman (Bruce Willis) sits down with a young version of himself (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and offers some advice.
"You should go to China," Willis says firmly.
Gordon-Levitt resists: "I'm going to France."
"I'm from the future," Willis insists. "You should go to China."
It's almost as if Hollywood is giving advice to itself. Like every other gigantic business, Hollywood wants to sell its products in China. But selling movies in China is different from selling bubble gum or Coke. The country's official gatekeeper, the China Film Group, allows in only 34 foreign films per year, a number recently raised from only 20.
Many millions of dollars of ticket sales come along with snagging one of those coveted spots. So Hollywood's been trying — and trying and trying — to appeal to Chinese audiences while appeasing Chinese censors.
Working Together, Officially
As an "official co-production," Looper cast a certain number of Chinese actors, a certain number of Chinese crew, set a certain number of scenes in China and made other concessions, in exchange for a bigger cut of the box office than other U.S. movies and a preferential release date. (Movies released during major Chinese holidays perform significantly better at the box office.)
When you watch Looper in the U.S., the Chinese elements are not obvious. For example, none of the Chinese actors speak a single line, including the woman who plays Bruce Willis' wife. But in China, a version of the film was released that gave them more emphasis.
Official co-productions such as Looper have fallen out of fashion due to the difficulties involved, but similar attempts to attract Chinese moviegoers are ongoing. Take this summer's megahit Iron Man 3. It also released a Chinese version that played down its supervillian (so unfortunately named The Mandarin) and played up a Chinese good guy, while tossing in some Chinese product placements.
"The reaction on the part of many Chinese was, 'Oh well, you didn't really have to.' It felt tacked on," says independent film producer Janet Yang, who also notes the film was a colossal success in China. Yang is an American who's worked in both countries since the 1980s.
Not Everything Translates
Hollywood's learning curve is still notably steep when it comes to understanding what works and what doesn't in the world's second-largest movie-going marketplace. A 2010 remake of The Karate Kid, filmed in China with Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan stumbled, in part, because karate is Japanese, not Chinese. Maybe The Kung Fu Kid would have done better in China. The Karate Kid was a bust.
One American producer working in China told me, on background, that he's learned that the Chinese censors will never go for horror movies or supernatural elements, and they frown on buildings getting blown up. "Unless the buildings are in Hong Kong," he added. (As it happens, Pacific Rim, a movie extremely hard on Hong King real estate, happened to be one of the top grossing pictures in China this year.)
Producer Janet Yang has stories of her own, as when she worked with the Walt Disney Company to create a Chinese version of High School Musical. They partnered with a Chinese company, Huayi Brothers Media. As she recalls, Huayi Brothers advised Disney, "You can't expect a movie with no stars to do well." Chinese blockbusters tend to be star-driven. To drive up the film's ticket sales, Huayi Brothers suggested building a fan base for the film's young actors by making them into a band and taking them on a song and dance tour around the country.
"Basically, Disney rejected that idea," Yang said ruefully, "They said no, because the brand that were the whole reason we're doing this movie is to promote High School Musical as a brand, and not this whole other thing as a brand."
Yang is quick to point out she can see both points of view, but cultural problems persisted. High school is a miserable time for Chinese teenagers. They're cramming for college, not singing and dancing. So they changed the name to High School Musical: College Dreams, with students singing upbeat songs about the joys of calculus. All the back-and-forth made the Chinese partners eventually lose interest. The movie did not do very well in China.
Home Grown Hits
"I think Hollywood's finally, maybe, slowly beginning to figure out it's not that easy," says Stephen Saltzman, a lawyer who often negotiates deals between Hollywood and China. "We can't just walk in there, soak up all this capital and not provide a real quid pro quo."
The quid China wants for its pro quo is help making its own global hits. Jeffery Sharp is among a new wave of Hollywood insiders investing in what's now being called "Chinawood." He produced major independent movies including You Can Count On Me and Boys Don't Cry. Now he's focused exclusively on China.
"We are working with filmmakers who are Chinese — either mainland Chinese, Hong Kong or Taiwan," he said from his office in Santa Monica. "It's basically building partners on the ground."
Sharp's also working with a publishing company, teaching his Chinese partners about financing, how to option popular books, and package and develop them into movies.
"They're all Chinese authors, and we're developing a lot of these with U.S. screenwriting talent," he said.
The idea is injecting Hollywood DNA into an industry already worth billions. Hollywood is learning to leverage its expertise and learning to pay attention to what Chinese people are watching. Not what Hollywood thinks they want to watch.
Few American movie-goers have heard about Lost In Thailand or So Young or American Dreams In China but all are recent Chinese-made movies that did far better than most American films in the Chinese box office. Of the eight top grossing movies in China this year, six were made in China. China's audience is hungry to see their own stories, many of them breezy, contemporary comedies, and they're getting more and more opportunities. China is pouring wealth into its movie infrastructure. As many as 10 new movie screens open there every day. Already a Chinese company owns the biggest movie chain on the planet, AMC. What China needs now is worldwide Chinese-made blockbusters to put into them.
Certain Americans scoff at the idea that China, in a few short years, could emulate a 100-year-old industry built by immigrants spinning stories mostly about their own fantasies of assimilation. But China is filled with rich stories and great storytellers. And it's banking on its so-called "soft power" to include films with the cultural reach and universal appeal of movies made in Hollywood.
Hollywood is a huge business, which has reached into virtually every corner in the world. But one market remains hard to crack - China, a big one.
As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, the Chinese have placed limits on just how much of Hollywood culture they're willing to accept - just a few dozen films per year.
NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: For a while, what every studio wanted was a deal like "Looper's." The science fiction thriller came out last year as an official co-production between Hollywood and China.
BRUCE WILLIS: (As Old Joe) You should go to China.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT: (As Joe) I'm going to France.
WILLIS: (As Old Joe) I'm from the future. You should go to China.
GORDON-LEVITT: (As Joe) I'm going...
ULABY: An official co-production is the ultimate binational super deal. It requires a certain number of Chinese actors, Chinese crews, scenes set in China and, of course, cooperation with Chinese censors. In return, "Looper" got a bigger cut of the Chinese box office than other U.S. movies. But the film's China is basically just an atmospheric backdrop. The Chinese actors never speak, even the one playing Bruce Willis' wife.
ULABY: A Chinese cut did expand Chinese elements for its Chinese audience. Hollywood's recent attempts to appeal to that audience - the world's second largest - have often been clumsy or cynical.
ROBERT DOWNEY JR: (As Tony Stark) Where's The Mandarin? Where is he?
ULABY: "Iron Man 3" was not an official co-production, but its studio cooperated with the Chinese government and tweaked it for Chinese audiences. People there saw a version that played down its unfortunately named super-villain, The Mandarin.
ULABY: "Iron Man 3" ended up being a huge hit in China. The version there played up a Chinese good guy, and threw in some Chinese product placements, says Janet Yang. She's a film producer who's worked in both countries for decades.
JANET YANG: The reaction on the part of many Chinese was oh, well, they really didn't have to. It felt tacked on.
ULABY: Hollywood's learning curve is still steep when it comes to courting Chinese audiences, and appeasing its censors. One American producer working in China told me that the country's film board is known to reject horror movies and blowing up buildings - unless those buildings are in Hong Kong.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Come on! Let's go...
ULABY: A movie hard on Hong Kong real estate, "Pacific Rim," was one of China's biggest imported hits this year. The country's censors also discourage movies featuring kids defying their parents. That was a problem for Disney when it tried to spin off a Chinese version of "High School Musical."
UNIDENTIFIED CAST MEMBERS: (As characters) (Singing in foreign language)
ULABY: The final movie included numbers promoting teenage obedience, and the awesomeness of calculus. Disney hired Janet Yang to be executive producer partly because she's an American fluent in Chinese. She had to negotiate expectations between Disney and its Chinese partners. They told the U.S. studio...
YANG: You can't expect a movie with no stars to do well.
ULABY: Because Chinese hits tend to be completely star-driven. The Chinese company suggested building a fan base for the film's young actors by taking them on a song and dance tour around the country.
YANG: Basically, Disney kind of rejected that idea 'cause they said, no - because the whole reason that we're doing this movie is to promote "High School Musical" as a brand and not this whole other thing as a brand.
ULABY: Then, another cultural problem. High school is a miserable time for Chinese teenagers. They're cramming for college, not singing or dancing.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS #1: (As character) (Speaking in foreign language)
ULABY: So, Yang said, Disney changed the title - to "High School Musical: College Dreams."
YANG: Because in college, apparently, people are having a good time. (Laughter) They're like, we finally we got into college, whoopee! Now, we can party. (Laughter)
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS #1: (As character) (Speaking in foreign language)
ULABY: But all the constant back-and-forthing made the Chinese partners lose interest.
STEVEN SALZMAN: It didn't do well in China.
ULABY: Steven Salzman is one of Hollywood's go-to lawyers, when it comes to negotiating deals with China.
SALZMAN: And I think Hollywood's finally - maybe slowly beginning to figure out, it's not that easy. We can't just walk in there, soak up all this capital, and not provide a real quid pro quo.
ULABY: The quid China wants for its pro quo is help making its own global hits. Now, a wave of Hollywood insiders are eager to volunteer. Jeffrey Sharp produced major independent movies, including "Boys Don't Cry." Now, he's focused exclusively on China.
JEFFREY SHARP: We're working with filmmakers that are either Chinese, Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong or Taiwan. You know, it's basically building partners on the ground.
ULABY: Sharp's teaching his Chinese partners about financing, how to option books, how to package and develop them into movies.
SHARP: They're all Chinese authors, and we're developing a lot of these with U.S. screenwriting talent.
ULABY: This is the latest Hollywood trend, working with what's called Chinawood, as it grows; learning what Chinese people are watching, not what Hollywood thinks they want to watch.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS #2: (Spoken in foreign language)
ULABY: Of the eight top-grossing movies in China this year, six were domestic productions; many of them breezy, contemporary comedies. China's audience is hungry to see their own stories on movie screens opening there at the rate of 10 new ones every day. Already, a Chinese company owns the biggest movie chain on the planet, AMC. What China needs now is worldwide, Chinese-made blockbusters to put into them.
Neda Ulaby, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Forex Correlations
Bouts of panic in the markets, such as seen in Fall 2008, during the "Flash Crash" of 2010, or after the US credit rating downgrade in 2011, are characterized not only by high volatility, but also by unusually high degree of correlation among the instruments. The concept of portfolio diversification collapses, as the universe of financial instruments degenerates into risky assets and safe haven assets.
To characterize the picture of correlation in the spot currency markets in its evolution, at least three aspects are needed:
In this section, ForexAutomaton monitors and publishes information about degree of correlation among the spot FX rates in the form of correlation reports obtained on hourly time scale (1H), each report processing a month-long piece of data (1M).
CERCSI (which stands for Currency Exchange Rate Correlation Strength Index), and CERPI (Currency Exchange Rate Predictability Index) are ForexAutomaton tools designed to monitor the degree of degeneracy in the correlations among the currency exchange rates, and the degree of market inefficiency, respectively. Both are explained in separate articles.
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That Bring Dreams To Life
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From baby steps to biggest dreams, Duracell is with you all the way. Our batteries bring a spark of life to your favourite toys, bringing you long-lasting power from childhood to parenthood. When a battery-powered toy comes alive, when a remote-controlled helicopter stays in the air without interruption – that's when you realize that it's the power inside that makes the difference.


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Arozzi Furniture ENZO-BK Gaming Chair Ergonomic Design ENZO Black
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The Arozzi Enzo gaming chair delivers the sleek comfort you need to triumph with looks to match, whether you're slogging through the jungle in your favorite FPS or finding your way in an MMO cavern or perhaps hacking through a coding marathon.
The Arozzi Enzo is designed in Sweden with ergonomically friendly features complemented by thick, high quality padding for the back, armrests and seat which allow for long sessions of gaming or work without nagging body fatigue. Enzo's looks are inspired by championship motorsports and available in a variety of eye-catching colors to express your winning attitude.
Home, Office, LAN party, Dorm room—wherever you play hard or work hard the Enzo will help you take it to the next level…in comfort and style.
•Ergonomic design for hours of use.
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Lock Function works only in upright position.
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Shoshone Museum & Visitor Information Kiosk
Meet our local mammoths! Get free trip-planning advice and browse the Gift Shop in the Shoshone Museum. It's a great place to learn about the area's fascinating geology, wild life, flowers, and history spanning from the time of prehistoric animals through Native American culture to mining, farming, bootlegging and more. Catch up on your email with our free wireless Internet access.


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Created by:
Rami Ismail (@tha_rami)
of indie studio Vlambeer
Live examples:
Live examples of presskit()
being implemented already.
Manual (PDF):
Simple. Fast. Free.
Developers & press both have the same goal: to bring great games to as many people as possible - after all, a good game is worth nothing if no-one plays it. For the press, finding out about a game but not having access to information & media for the game means that they can't write about it. Of course, developers want to spend their valuable time making games instead of press pages.
presskit() (pronounced 'do presskit') is the solution. Free for everyone, open and easy-to-use for both developers & press. Developers only have to spend an hour or so creating well-laid out press pages with everything the press needs to write to their hearts desire. Everybody wins.
What is presskit()?
- Beautiful, optimized and efficient press pages in 30-60 minutes.
- Usable by anyone who knows what FTP, text editing & image editing means.
- Fast & painless 'Single File Upload'-installation.
- Created using feedback of prominent journalists & indie developers.
- Optional, seamless integration with Promoter & Google Analytics
What does beta mean?
presskit() is currently in beta, which means that all functionality is in there, but not everything has been tested. It also means that I officially take no responsibility for your presskit()-installation whatsoever. While I've tested it extensively and presskit() is incapable of damaging, deleting or modifying anything above its root installation directory, it might suddenly stop working, have some rough patches or not do exactly what you want. That's part of the deal.
What is new in presskit()?
presskit() is currently in beta, which means new functions get added every now and then. Since its launch in early May, a lot of functions have been added. The manual has info on anything listed here that is not explained. These functions have been added recently:
- Quickly create an easy a valid allowance or restriction for Let's Play-ers or Video Content Creators through the <monetization-permission> tag.
- Handle your press lists and build distribution by integrating with the free companion service to presskit(), distribute().
- Easily monitor who mentions you in the press with Promoter and embed awards and reviews that Promoter finds with a single click.
- Integrate easily with Google Analytics to keep track of who, when and from where visits to your presskit() are made.
Why is presskit() free?
The goal of creating presskit() was to save myself and the people in the press that want to write about Vlambeer as much time as possible.
As development of presskit() furthered, an increasing amount of fellow independent game creators asked about how easy it was to implement. This convinced me that this little project could make life easier for a lot more people than just myself.
presskit(), in the spirit of independent developers helping eachother out when it comes to making games or doing business, is completely free for anyone to use.
presskit() was only possible thanks to these fine folks!
presskit() was created in just over a week by Rami Ismail of Dutch independent game studio Vlambeer. Rami does the business & development at Vlambeer and found himself looking for an efficient solution to press kits. presskit() was the result, but it wouldn't have been if it weren't for the following fine folks:
- Andreas Zecher - Made by Pixelate - for the original inspiration that made me create this kit.
- Jan Willem Nijman - Vlambeer - for starting Vlambeer with me, which eventually led to this thing.
- Russ Frushtick - Polygon - for general feedback from a press-person point-of-view.
- Martin Jonasson - grapefrukt - for challenging me to a race to see who could write the most efficient install script.
- Joram Wolters - JoramWolters.com - for his always sharp critique on game & web design and functionality.
- Jan Pieter van Seventer - Dutch Game Garden - for support & feedback.
- Adriaan de Jongh - gameovenstudios.com - for distractions and meaningful Skype-conversations during presskit()s development.
- Philip Tibitoski - octodadgame.com - for inspiring me to make this publically available.
- The indie community at large for being amazing, open-minded, supportive, creative and interesting people.
- Friends, family & girlfriend for allowing & supporting me to do what I love to do, to pursue my dreams and to make games.


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I'm Not Addicted to WoW, I Can Stop Anytime I Want!
Oh my, I went almost a whole week without playing WoW!
And you know what? I'm happy to say that I didn't miss it at all! Oh, I missed updating my blog and I'll admit that I scribbled WoW blog ideas on every piece of paper I came across. Also stressed quite a bit about how my last entry was on a touchy topic, poorly written in haste as I was nodding off at the airport. Word of advice, don't do something like that if you're planning to not have internet access for a week. Um, so yeah, to everyone who received shitty replies to comments, um, sorry?
Ok ok, so back on topic, not playing for a week was surprisingly easy. I guess it helped that I had IRL guild meetings all day and huge 800 player IRL raids (in plain English – social events/parties) every night. And let me tell you, when it comes to IRL raids, I'm totally one of those casual hardcore types. I don't IRL raid often, but when I do, I do it right. Never mind the durability damage: burned hair, lack of voice, blisters on feet and suspicious bruises around eyes. It'll be a big repair bill, but it was so worth it.
So it's easy to get out of the gaming routine when the rest of your daily routine is turned upside down and inside out. Not so much when gaming is the only change of routine. I remember a time, about a year and a half ago, when I had to get my computer fixed. For three weeks, there was no email at home, no randomly reading websites, no instant messaging, and, and, worst of all, no WoW. Oh, the horror!
How did that work out for me?
Well, had I written a diary of the experience (note: I didn't), it would have gone like this.
TITLE: Semi-Fictionish Journal Documenting 3 Weeks with No Computer.
Day 1
This isn't so bad. Annoyed at having to go all the way to school to check my email, but otherwise it's all good. Kind of bored though. Maybe I should do homework.
Have to say, though, there's a bit of an itch to play. I wonder what my guildies are doing right now. Hmm. Might as well do some more homework.
Day 2
Why am I sort of having trouble breathing? And why am I biting my nails? Clearly I need to do more homework.
I wonder what my guildies are doing. I should call one of them. Let me see if I have someone's number. I don't. I'll have to dig out some number from my emails at school tomorrow. Damn my stomach's upset. I usually play WoW at this hour… How about some more of that homework.
Day 3
AAAAAHHH!!! MY HEART IS RACING AND I CANT BREATHE!!! And my nails are gone. My feet hurt from pacing. Skipped class to refresh my email at the library. I WANNA PLAY WOW I WANNA PLAY WOW I WANNA PLAY WOW. So anxious, anxious, anxious. On the bright side, I'm way ahead in all my courses.
Kind of getting sick of doing homework, good thing I wrote down a guildy's phone number while I was refreshing my phone number. I might as well call him. I may have a phone phobia, but apparently I have a lack of repetitive behaviour phobia too.
Hope he doesn't get too shocked hearing from me.
End of Week 1
Anxiety's getting better. Still pacing a lot but can sleep again. Speaking of sleeping, I've been doing more and more of that. Never realized how many hours there are in a day. Days sure are long. Doing a lot of homework. Also cooking a lot. I love cooking.
Spent record time on the phone over the past few days. Spoke to my family for the first time in months. Also happy that I have a guildy who likes to talk on the phone. I wonder what the rest of the guild is doing. I should call my guildy again and ask.
Week 2
Worried that male guildy is getting the wrong idea from my frequent phone calls. Need to find other ways to occupy my time. Getting pretty sick of studying. Also seem to be putting on weight from all this food I'm cooking. I wonder whats on TV.
End of week 3
Computer should be back soon. Not sure I want it back. Sure, I spend the last 5 days doing nothing but watching TV and eating. But, you know, I've kind of forgotten about WoW. I'll be really far behind too. Don't want to have to catch up on dailies, rep grinds, gear, qq. It's probably not worth getting back into the game. I should just find a new hobby.
How it all turned out
Until I had to get my computer repaired, I hadn't realized how much of a nervous wreck I was. Pretty pathetic how lost I was without doing repetitive things all the time. On the bright side, those were pretty much the best weeks of my life in term of grades. Yet, I don't think that WoW really gets in the way of shiny grades for me – as soon as the initial shock had passed, I replaced WoW with TV. And food. I must have put on 20 pounds during those three weeks. Then, once I found a new routine of time wasting, I didn't want to go back to playing WoW.
Looks like I'm just destined to dorkness.
But anyway, this time I was just gone a week which, by most people's standards, isn't much. Can't wait to do dailies! Or, um, whatever it is I do in game when I'm not raiding.Explore posts in the same categories: General WoW
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9 Comments on "I'm Not Addicted to WoW, I Can Stop Anytime I Want!"
January 18, 2010 at 6:28 pm
I have to say, your post sums up how I have felt during a WoW break. I'm weird because when playing WoW I want nothing more than to do stuff out of game such as website updates or making icons, then when I'm out of game all I want to do is play WoW. I think sometimes it's not so much about addiction, more that the grass looks greener on the other side or a case of wanting what you can't have.
January 18, 2010 at 10:57 pm
I have not played WoW since winter break. I honestly feel pretty good about it. The only thing I am really concerned about it being behind in gear and not being fluent in the fights. It is a strange feeling to not want to play, almost a relief. I will probably go back sometime this week once I polish up on the fights for ICC. This time though I wont let it take up so much of my time. When you take a break you start to remeber the person you once were before the addiction to hold. It is a welcoming experience.
January 19, 2010 at 3:51 am
Last year, from April (literally the day before 3.1 went live, in fact), until around the end of August, I was WoW-less because, well, I was also computer-less.
It was certainly a bit frustrating, to say the least, but thankfully I had gotten to know a couple of my Guildies well enough to have exchanged e-mail addresses by then. That meant I could go down to the local library and use their Internet a couple of times a week to keep in touch as well as I could.
Around May or June, I believe, I was alerted that my Guild had kind of exploded. Some went off to do their own thing with other Guilds, others don't play as often or at all anymore. I still keep in touch with those that I really liked, though.
But needless to say, it kind of threw a wrench into the machinery to come back into the game and find myself not only two Tiers of content behind; since ToC had been out for a few weeks by then, but without a Guild.
I reguilded within a couple of weeks, though, and while I've had to change my playstyle a little bit (no Raiding for me these days), I'm mostly content.
Heck, last week I even made my first alt in two years of playing. 🙂
So your little break doesn't sound all that bad to me. 😉


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This recipe is simply a healthy twist on my Korean favorite dish, dolsot bimbimbap. Dolsot bimbimbap comes in a hot pot still sizzling away. At the table, a raw egg is cracked into the sizzling rice dish which you quickly stir to cook the egg. I haven't had it in years, last time was in a strip mall in K-town where our server spoke no English (to me anyway, I was with a Korean friend). I am craving that dish right now and about to start brushing up on my Korean. The bimbimbap we are riffing on here is regular bimbimbap, a mixture of hot and cold ingredients. Maybe dolsot will be my next stop.
A few people were coming over, so I popped open a bottle. (I do this when cooking alone too, just saying.) Sparkling red from Silverlake wine. This was nice with the spiciness and salt of the dish.
Start with your quinoa. I often make quinoa risotto. The recipe I use for this slow cooking dish comes from the lovely Diana at Diana Takes a Bite. She cooks beautiful gourmet health food. Check her out. This is more simple. Cook quinoa in water at a 2:1 water:quinoa ratio. I put the lid on when it reached a boil and waited. The quinoa fluffed up beautifully. After the grain has absorbed all the water, is nice and fluffy and you can see the line of the grain along the side, put lid on and set aside.
Most of the veg are prepared similarly except bean sprouts. Upper and lower left. Boil bean sprouts then toss in sesame oil, garlic and salt. Upper and lower right, saute very thinly sliced carrots in sesame oil & soy sauce until al dente.
Zucchini gets the same treatment as the carrots.
Platter o' veg. I also used some shiitake mushrooms. They were a little on the dry side, so I added a little water to the saute to plump them up a little. They were still chewy. In retrospect, the veg recipe referenced above orders you to cook the veg all separately. Next time I am going to stir fry them altogether to make the dish a little faster, more user friendly. It's not authentic anyway. I just want the flavors of the shoyu and sesame oil and garlic...


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New ocean bottom observatory successfully deployed off HawaiiUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
HONOLULU - At 3:00 AM, February 16, 2007, an acoustic release was fired, allowing the ALOHA Cabled Observatory (ACO) to settle to its new home on the ocean floor at Station ALOHA, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded oceanographic research site approximately 100 km north of Oahu. Within minutes, observers at the AT&T Makaha Cable Station were listening to humpback whale song, inaugurating the beginning of data collection from the ACO.
The first stage of the ACO includes a cable termination and "Proof Module". "The cable was cut and moved to Station ALOHA where the termination frame was successfully spliced to the retired HAW-4 fiber optic cable, donated to the project by AT&T, and deployed on the seafloor from the US Navy cable ship USNS Zeus. This Proof Module of the ACO is to remain operational in this configuration through October," explains Fred Duennebier, Principal Investigator for the ACO and a professor at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, at the University of Hawaii.
"In early November 2007 it is to be recovered and replaced with the full observatory, using the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) JASON II from University of Hawaii's Research Vessel the R/V Kilo Moana. It will take the JASON ROV several dives to install the full observatory infrastructure where the Proof Module is plugged in now. The observatory will have eight connectors on it to power and supply a 2-way data path to for up to eight experiment systems. The Proof Module will be recovered and re-configured into an experiment to be plugged back into the ACO."
The location of the ACO is ideal, in that it builds on the exceptionally well characterized research site Station ALOHA. Station ALOHA has been the site of ~monthly shipboard observations of water column physics, biogeochemistry, and ecosystems for over 18 years under the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) Program. While the analyses of data from these cruises have resulted in the publication of over 200 scientific papers, the sampling technologies for the subsurface monitoring applications have been inadequate for studying changes that occur between cruises. Moored autonomous instruments have been maintained during the past 3 years to partially address this, but the recorded subsurface data is only available once or twice/year when the moorings are serviced. With the installation of the ALOHA Observatory, periodic cruises will still be required to obtain water samples, to provide spatial coverage, and to install new systems at the observatory, but the capabilities of the observatory will allow data from subsurface instruments to be retrieved continuously, allow commands to be sent to the instruments, and provide power to instruments thus extending their duration, all of which greatly expand opportunities for research.
"We hope to install acoustic modems on some of the existing moored subsurface instruments to send a subset of the measurements back to shore in near-real time (via surface-buoy to satellite) or in real-time (via an acoustic link with the observatory)", says Roger Lukas, Co- Investigator of the ACO project and one of the lead researchers for Station ALOHA. "An issue is that the power that is required for these acoustic signals will require additional battery packs. With sufficient funding, these moorings could be connected directly to the observatory and obtain their power from the cable, and pass full datasets back to shore in real-time. This will ultimately allow adaptive sampling of the entire water column at ALOHA." The ALOHA Observatory will provide power and communications capability necessary for real-time continuous monitoring of the ocean environment for at least a decade. These capabilities will also support short-duration experiments.
A hydrophone currently on the Proof Module is sensitive to frequencies from 0.01 Hz to 40 kHz and is recorded on two channels. "We have a pressure sensor along with the hydrophone which can detect changes in sea level of a few mm, so we very easily see tides," adds Duennebier, "We should be able to detect even very small tsunami, and we'll also see the passage of ocean waves from distant and local storms." At higher frequencies, the hydrophone should be able to detect earthquake p-waves and T-phases and possibly signals from distant shallow submarine volcanic eruptions. The hydrophone also picks up the magnificent noises of marine mammals, including fin whales, humpback whales, and sperm whales. (Listen to the initial sounds recorded at http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/DeepoceanOBS/index.htm)
Funding for the ACO is provided by the National Science Foundation. Proposals are currently being organized for other modules to be installed at the ACO. Possible infrastructure proposals could extend the monitoring capabilities of the experiments on the seafloor to the ocean surface, allowing for investigators to monitor their experiments and modify them remotely as conditions warrant via Internet connection. Web access will allow grade school and college students to observe the data and draw their own conclusions concerning implications about important topics such as global warming and the state-of-health of the oceans.
Frederick K. Duennebier, Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Roger Lukas, Professor, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa
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The real-time link to the hydrophone at Station ALOHA is now up and working most of the time. Catch it before the whales leave for the summer! Please see the ACO Deployment web site, www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/DeepoceanOBS
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Archive for the 'Make a better relationship' Category
Relationship Advice For Men
Sunday, August 19th, 2012
As you can imagine, relationship advice for men is different than relationship advice for women. This post on relationship advice for men is about the most important element of a good relationship, communication.
Communication in a relationship is very important. The best couples always communicate better and more positively than the bad ones do. A listening attitude always helps. Also, communications with a woman is critical to understanding women.
For better communication in a relationship it's always a good thing to simply come out with whatever it is that you want from the other person or what you want your life to be to feel fulfilled. But women want to talk things out of their system and men don't want to listen until they are done talking. Men tend to be more pragmatic and goal oriented.
Guess what? You don't have to solve the problem necessarily. Here's a hint. Let them talk and listen.
How can you do this?
It's not so difficult. Here are some ideas, ones we have used ourselves to help make a better relationship.
1. Think about what you want in your life and write it down. You make lists for other things. Why not for this, too? Any couple can do this. You have to understand your own heart before you can communicate how you feel and what you want.
2. Compare lists. How well do your lists match up? Compatibility doesn't require that you be identical, just that you can adapt to each other and with each other. Knowledge is power in relationships just as it is in anything else.
3. Give each other some respect and personal freedom. Many of us are pleasantly surprised to find that being with someone offers us more personal freedom than we expected.
4. Remember things always change. Be ready to adapt to change. Do it together or you will end up being torn apart. Changing conditions in life are the norm. Be ready to adjust and support each other both emotionally and materially.
5. Is the initial excitement you felt together fading? Get it back by making more love time for each other.
Remember, you have to understand yourself before you can communicate your needs and wants to someone else. Analyze your own heart and seek the wishes of your lover with openness and true interest. While many of our posts don't specify that they include relationship advice for men but check them out. Most include advice for men in a relationship.


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Western State Colorado University - Comments and Student Experiences
Academics: Not highly regarded. One of those barely average state schools. If you leave Colorado, your employer or intern mentor will not know where you came from, or distinguish you from a comm college for example. ESS (Exercise sports science) is top notch and IF YOU ARE 100% sure you want to study ESS, then this MAY be the place for you. You have the kids that chose here cuz it's in-state and cheap, and the other kids that seriously have academic issues. Doesn't help with a 92% acceptance rate.
Sports: Don't expect a mountain of school spirit here. It's around a 5/10. You get some die hard mountaineers, but not too many. Our football team is not good, a great HS team could make us work pretty hard. However, XC and track are very highly regarded. Several all-americans come from here.
Night-life:None. Zilch. Nada. Nothing. The only real activities that attract attention are Spring fest, the bars (if your 21), and the rare Crested Butte festival. You'll go to parties that are in apartments off campus that get extremely crowded, often get busted within 2 hours since people desperately want to binge drink and have excitement. It's disappointing, but it feels a lot like high school. Many small hang out's, not many big ones, if any at all.
Surrounding City/Environment:Surrounding city is 'eh'. It's the small typical mountain town you see in Western movies. Cute, small, everyone knows everyone, etc. You'll go to CB a decent amount to hike, eat good food (Secret stash is the shit), and to escape, or try to. Gunnison is incredibly beautiful though. You'll marvel over the views like I did (coming from out of state) for a couple months, maybe longer, but then you realize how isolated you are. A five hour drive back to Denver is crazy in the winter going over Monarch. No Prius's here. All SUV.
Dorm life: Average. Nothing special. Some are better than others
Food options/eating out: Caf hours are pretty limited. Always close at 7 on the week days, so yeh, you'll be going out a lot. But wait, the on-campus store closes at 9....and no other 'cheap' places exist. Except for Walmart which closes at 12. That'll be a big place for you. Sonic and McDonalds closes at 9-10 every night. You'll be driving around or biking (#1 source of transportation) everywhere and usually be annoyed.
Campus: Small and nice. Easy to navigate. You will not be lost. I can be blindfolded and make my way to wherever I want. Decent facilities. The U has remodeled a decent bit of campus and continues to.
Overall: I'm enjoying my time is Gunnison for the mean time, but I'm on a team that gets plenty of success and that's really why I'm staying. You make fantastic friends here because you all go through the same struggles or enjoy the same activities (all outside btw). I'm probably going to transfer though, because I really can't see myself here for 4 years. Too much boredom, all mountains surrounding you, its cold as hell during winter (like earbuds stop working, cover your earlobes and ankles -20 cold) and the nightlife sucks beyond belief. WSCU is for a unique person preferably from CO who really enjoys the outdoors and gets sick when they look at a skyscraper or building. Out of staters will be enjoying the views for a bit, then realize you don't go to school JUST BECAUSE IT'S BEAUTIFUL AND THEY ARE CLOSE TO CB. It's for an education. Go to a real college, get the real college experience (a sad transfer from a big school keeps saying how we don't really experience college since our school is only 2500 kids)and make connections. You wanna stay in CO all your life? Go here. From CO? Go here. Love outdoors? Go here. City kid? No. Want to meet new people and go outside your comfort zone? No. Visit first. Understand that the flights home are long, and If your going to be on a sports team, realize that once you get home, you'll have to re acclimate every time you come back although it will take less time. Go for edu, not sights or the slopes.
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Leetonia's Luke Janci scores a run as Southern Local catcher Garrett Coil waits for the throw Wednesday. Leetonia scored early and often on Wednesday in a 13-0 rout over Southern Local. A six-run third inning put the game away for the Bears who finished with 11 hits. Morning Journal/Patti Schaeffer
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Ferry with up to 100 aboard capsizes in Bangladesh
A passenger ferry capsized today after colliding with another ship on a river in central Bangladesh, dumping as many as 100 people into the water, officials and witnesses said.world Updated: Feb 08, 2013 13:35 IST
A passenger ferry capsized Friday after colliding with another ship on a river in central Bangladesh, dumping as many as 100 people into the water, officials and witnesses said.
Police said there were no immediate reports of casualties after the ferry, MV Sarash, went down on the River Meghna in Munshiganj district, 32 kilometers (20 miles) south of Dhaka. There was confusion over the number of passengers on board the ferry at the time of the accident, but those at the scene said some people were missing.
Khokon Mollik said he had yet to locate neighbors who were on the ferry, including 17 members of a family who were traveling to a funeral.
"We have found none of them yet," Mollik said.
A 12-year-old passenger, Omar Faruk, said he couldn't find his mother.
The private television station Channel-I said local villagers rescued more than 40 people after the accident. Several other people were able to swim to shore, the report said.
The station put the number of passengers at more than 100, though a local police official said it was about 80.
The president of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport and Passenger Service, Badiuzzaman Badal, said the ferry was carrying just over 50 passengers.
Ferry accidents are common in Bangladesh, a delta nation of 153 million people, and it is frequently unclear how many people are aboard the often overcrowded vessels.
The MV Sarash was on a local run from Narayanganj city to Matlab in the south when it went down.
Local government administrator Mohammad Saiful Hasan said a salvage vessel had reached the scene and a rescue operation would start after the sunken ferry was located.


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Prostoria at IMM Cologne, 2020
Prostoria's New Designs at Imm Cologne 2020.
13 — 01 — 2020
At the moment Prostoria continues to work without disruption regarding the coronavirus epidemic. Our production facility is located in Croatia's rural region of Zagorje with smaller density of population.
13 — 03 — 2020
We are doing our part on limiting the potential spread of the COVID-19 virus and have taken necessary sanitary measures to preserve our people's health and keep the production operative. Our products we'll be dispatched for as long as the transport companies continue their routes. The staff members which job is not closely related to the production location, will continue working remotely and will stay available to you.
If there will be a general lock-down in Croatia due to the coronavirus, we'll adapt to any new circumstances and keep you updated.
Prostoria stays open to support its employees, customers, partners, health care and social system.
Prostoria Team
Prostoria's New Designs at Imm Cologne 2020.
13 — 01 — 2020
Prostoria has been awarded the Special Prize at the 58th International Furniture Fair in Belgrade that took place between 5 and 10 November 2019.
11 — 11 — 2019
This year on Ambienta fair in Zagreb, we present our work through three locations; in paviolion 5 we are represented through two exhibition spaces, while in pavilion 10, on 1000m2 we prepare big pop-up sale!
07 — 10 — 2019
In cozy atmosphere, with our friends and partners, we celebrated opening our biggest showroom in Croatia so far. On 600m2 space, in one of the most frequent areas in Split, we presented with great pride, results of eight-year long growth and development.
04 — 10 — 2019
Three awards for three new collections!
05 — 09 — 2019
you have a chance to win polygon easy chair!
take part in #prostoria summer competition!
13 — 06 — 2019
The sixth ZGDW will take place 7–12 May 2019.
08 — 05 — 2019
Lowlife is better than high life
09 — 04 — 2019
Prostoria will be kicking off its versatile products both at the Imm Cologne, Germany and at Maison&Objet, Paris in January 2019, unified under the theme "Fluid transitions".
05 — 01 — 2019
We are proud of our new showroom in the heart of Rijeka, on Dolac 9A Street.
13 — 12 — 2018
In order to complete our production process and ensure control over the whole process of production of our products, in the summer we put into operation a new production hall for metal structures.
03 — 12 — 2018
From 23th to 27st October, Hall 10.2, booth K069 L068.
16 — 10 — 2018
In Zagreb, just a couple steps away from our main showroom, we now have štof.
12 — 10 — 2018
The design and quality of our products have been recognized by the jury of one of the most prestigious world and regional competitions and fairs.
11 — 10 — 2018
With our partner from Brunico, Sternbach Wohnen, we are presenting our collection at the Hotel 2018 Fair in Bolzano.
09 — 10 — 2018
We were exhibiting at one of the most visited and most prestigious furniture fairs, Salone del Mobile in Milan. The fair was held from 17th to 22st April.
23 — 04 — 2018
This January prostoria is again present at both most important furniture fairs, the Imm Cologne and the Maison&Objet in Paris.
15 — 01 — 2018
This year we have decided to exhibit at the renowned Neue Räume fair in Zürich for the first time.
18 — 11 — 2017
This year's edition of the Salone del Mobile was particularly important for Prostoria.
13 — 04 — 2017
Apart form the new products and new development of the existing ones, Prostoria is presenting a new catalogue in 2017 under the art direction and graphic design by the Bilic_Muller studio.
18 — 01 — 2017
With the motto "Creativity works" this year's fair Orgatec provides new perspectives, inspiring concepts and solutions for working environments.
28 — 10 — 2016
The German Design Award, one of the most prestigious design competitions in the world, every year awards the international prize for excellent achievements in international design.
24 — 10 — 2016
This year's Biennale with its guests of honour and members of the jury raises the importance of a symbiosis of culture and the strictly commercial on a new level making an ideal platform for creating the latest developments in the field of art, architecture, philosophy, sociology, the media, marketing, music and fashion...
18 — 10 — 2016
Every year the Salone del Mobile, Milan continues to prove itself as the biggest international gathering of furniture manufacturers. This year's edition features more than 1 300 exhibitors, and organisers are anticipating over 300 000 visitors. Apart from being an event where important business deals are made, the organisers and exhibitors wish to promote and maintain both cultural and artistic value of the fair. For a week the entire Milan lives in the rhythm of the Salone del Mobile...
14 — 04 — 2016
Prostoria started the 2016 with exhibiting at some of the most prestigious furniture fairs, such as (IMM Cologne, Maison&Object, Paris). This year as well we continue with the distinctive stand concept that symbolizes and captures our slogan every room has a story...
22 — 01 — 2016
Easy chair Strain (design by Simon Morasi Piperčić) continues to amaze the public and keeps on adding the awards. After the Interior Innovation Award - Winner awarded by the German Design Council in 2015, and the Red Dot Design Award 2015, here comes another prize – winner from Belgrade Furniture Fair...
18 — 11 — 2015
We present You a new member of Strain collection. The character of a barstool is obtained trough indented form of a seat-shell and interweaving principle of steel tube legs – which is actually a signature of the whole 'Strain' collection...
15 — 09 — 2015
The famous Lido beach in Opatija, Croatia, has been renovated and reopened as Lido Bevanda Beach Resort. With this project the boutique hotel and restaurant Bevanda not only extended its offer, but also the urban matrix of the city. Opatija's promenade "Lungomare" got the beach with well designed beach equipment for all to enjoy...
24 — 08 — 2015
Pharma Valley, the production facility complex of the pharmaceutical company JGL opened recently. The pulsating form of the complex marked the entrance into the city of Rijeka and successfully integrated into the existing matrix.
The colouristic interior scenario with plenty of lighting has been beautifully complemented with the prostoria products.
We bring you the details about the project and its development by the architectural team Igor Rožić and Davor Katušić, as follows.
24 — 07 — 2015
This year's second edition of Zagreb Design Week Zagreb 2015 #tdzg took place in an inspirational exhibiting area at Lauba...
01 — 06 — 2015
The 54th edition of the Salone del Mobile, Milan, that takes place from 14th to 19th April, shows a wide range of the high quality products covering different kinds of styles, finishing seams, and upholstery fabrics that makes them unique...
17 — 04 — 2015
Prostoria is one of the winners of the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2015, the highly recognised award that celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. Due to its uncompromising competency and courage in innovation, in competition with the best (4929 entries, 1994 participants, 56 countries), Prostoria shows once again that top results and success are part of the Croatian design reality...
14 — 04 — 2015
The international iF award has been awarding excellent design and outstanding design achievements for more than 50 years (since 1953). Its quality has been recognized world wide, thus all register, from major automotive company brands to small and independent design studios. More than 50 experts met in Hamburg this year as well, to select the winners of the iF design award 2015...
19 — 02 — 2015
This year's M&O Paris found its inspiration in the very product itself. The theme = return to the essential beauty of craftsmanship and perfecting materials. Return to traditional expertise and value of manufactured products. We love watching the scenes of creation which manufacture exceptional objects. We don't wish for things to get out of control. Contemplation of nature along with the genius of the hand and the technological advances have marked this year's design a vivre...
25 — 01 — 2015
At its first presentation this year in Cologne prostoria has welcomed the clients, friends and fans with a series of successfully completed projects. Positive reviews on everything presented arrived already on the very first day. Even three new products that have just started with their distribution have been presented...
21 — 01 — 2015
Thanks to its innovative design achievements followed by top quality production, the German Design Council for this year as well, awarded the prostoria products with the prestigious Interior Innovation Award 2015 - Winner for the two products...
08 — 12 — 2014
The goal of the German Design Award is to identify, present and honour unique design trends which raise level of the design scene.
The premium international prize is awarded to top quality products and projects from product design and graphic design. Apart from the jury of experts, all design enthusiasts can vote.
In the category Home and Decoration prostoria has received two awards...
29 — 10 — 2014
After successful presentations over the year (IMM Cologne 2014, pure edition Cologne 2014, Maison & Objet Paris 2014, Stockholm furniture fair 2014, Wohnen & Interieur Vienna 2014, Salone del mobile Milano 2014, Tortona zone Milano 2014) Prostoria is exhibiting for the first time at specialized and established trade fairs such as Orgatec in Cologne and Biennale Interieur in Kortrijk, Belgium.
23 — 10 — 2014
At this year's fair in Milan, Prostoria is exhibiting in two different locations. For the first time at the Milan fair itself, under the name Every room has a story, Prostoria is introducing itself to design product aficionados. The Rum installation, presented on the stand, reflects the Polygon chair into infinity. The theme is evoked by the words of William Blake.
11 — 04 — 2014
The largest Austrian furniture fair, Wohnen & Interieur, is being held between the 8th and 16th of March, in Vienna. This leading event provides a comprehensive insight into all aspects of interior and exterior design, with an emphasis on international design trends entitled 'incredibly inspiring'.
09 — 03 — 2014
For the first time, Prostoria took part in the world's largest gathering of Scandinavian furniture and lighting design, which took place in Stockholm between the 4th and 8th of February 2014. In the Swedish design capital, there was great public interest in the artistic side to practical items. It is the catalyst for young designers who display their inspiring products at the fair.
10 — 02 — 2014
At its first appearance at the Maison&Objet, Prostoria was located in the fair's central event, now! design à vivre, where a new generation of designers play with form through mixing styles. Their talent and innovation leads them to use materials in new and unexpected way.
The soul of design is indeed in Paris.
29 — 01 — 2014
Kvadra's third appearance at the IMM Cologne was marked by its presentation of the new brand Prostoria, under which it will continue to work in the future. The existing collection has been enriched by an emphasis on armchairs, chairs and coffee tables.
18 — 01 — 2014
At the 2014 Cologne, Paris and Milan furniture fairs, Kvadra will be presenting its new furniture brand prostoria – the name under which it will continue to work in the future.
04 — 01 — 2014
Polygon, the armchair by NumenForUse and Up-lift, the sofa by Redesign, have been awarded the renowned Interior Innovation Award 2014, one of the most prestigious awards for innovative achievements in all spheres of production design.
25 — 11 — 2013
20 — 01 — 2013
This year's headliner of the Kvadra exhibition is the new modular seating collection: the system Segment, designed by design studio Numen/ForUse Kvadra's trump for commercial-interior furnishing, the modular sofas Cloudand Match, designed by architect Sanja Knezović and modular sofa Classic designed by Kvadra design team.
06 — 01 — 2013
Kvadra Design's 3angle collection, the work of designers from Grupa, is the winner of The Croatian Designers Association's Award for best product design in the period 2011—2012. The 3angle armchairs and sofas, together with the Revolve sofa, are featured at the Exhibition of Croatian Design 1112, held at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb and which will run until 15th November 2012.
14 — 09 — 2012
Sofa Revolve by Kvadra Design, designed by Numen / For Use in cooperation with Bratović & Borovnjak, was awarded with the Red Dot Award, in the product design 2012 category. This makes Kvadra the first company of the Croatian furniture industry that has won this prestigious design award.
20 — 03 — 2012
Kvadra, the Croatian upholstered furniture brand has widened the interest of the international furniture industry at the biggest international furniture show IMM Cologne
22 — 01 — 2012
The sofa Revolve from Kvadra's collection has won its first international award. At the recently held 49th International Furniture Fair in Belgrade the jury awarded Revolve with the main prize Zlatni ključ
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The guy suing Electronic Arts for, potentially, tens of millions in royalties from the Madden NFL series, has overstated and overrated his importance in developing John Madden Football, according to the series' creator.
Robin Antonick, in a lawsuit EA has blasted as "utterly without merit," alleges the game currently published today still draws on work he performed, and according to the terms of that contract he's owed tens of millions in royalties.
That's hardly the case, Trip Hawkins, the Madden Football creator, told the Los Angeles Times. (Hawkins is no longer with Electronic Arts, and is not a defendant in the case.) Hawkins said Antonick worked on the 8-bit version of Madden, but was not recommissioned for the 16-bit versions because the company needed "more advanced" programmers.
Antonick's suit makes the claim that he sat next to Hawkins during the game's development; Hawkins said Antonick worked from his home in Chicago. While Antonick was "one of many" people who worked on the first game, Hawkins said, he was "not the person driving the game."
The case was filed recently in California.
Madden Football games' creator disputes lawsuit against Electronic Arts [Los Angeles Times]


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Pranab Mukherjee is ready for your opinion, support and vote. Vote online NOW!
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Who was/is Little Richard ? - CDs, Vinyl LPs, DVD and more
Little Richard
Rock 'n' roll fully exploded into the American consciousness in 1955. With his immortal proclamation "A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop, a-lop-bam-boom," Little Richard placed himself at its epicenter, his seismic impact akin to that of an atomic bomb.
It's not like he was alone in the vanguard of the primordial rock 'n' roll movement. Fats Domino crossed over to the pop airwaves with his Creole-inflected charmer Ain't It A Shame and Chuck Berry duck-walked to the head of the pack with his blazing Maybellene a few months before Richard's Tutti-Frutti crashed the R&B charts in late November of that historic year. Bill Haley & His Comets had already weighed in with the hard-hitting Rock Around The Clock, and Elvis had something going in Memphis that the world would very soon take enraptured notice of.
But none of those groundbreakers, seminal as they were, packed the same molten heat that Richard Penniman unleashed anytime he ventured near a microphone. His banshee screams were primal, his savage piano attack lethal, his energy levels stratospheric. Little Richard was the ultimate embodiment of rock 'n' roll, dangerous and a tad exotic and utterly without constraint. No wonder conservative Caucasian parents, secure until then in the bland, 'Your Hit Parade'-dominated sounds of the Eisenhower era, were scared out of their wits. Here was a figurehead whose crazed wails could shake teenagers' souls down to the very core.
Perhaps most amazing of all, Richard's principal legacy--the earthshattering smashes he made for Art Rupe's Los Angeles-based Specialty Records—was committed to tape in less than two years. In the autumn of '57, he renounced rock 'n' roll altogether after deciding the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik signaled the impending end of the world. Thankfully, that bold prediction didn't come to pass, and Richard returned to rocking pursuits in years to come.
Richard Penniman hailed from a huge family. Born December 5, 1932 in Macon, Georgia, he was a mischievous lad. But he also sang gospel as a child, initially in an aggregation called the Tiny Tots as well as his family's group, the Penniman Singers. He found divine inspiration in the singing of sanctified stars Mahalia Jackson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Brother Joe May. At 14 he hooked up with Dr. Hudson's Medicine Show, a barnstorming troupe anything but sacred in content. There Richard belted Louis Jordan's Caldonia to rouse the onlookers. That led to a position as front man for B. Brown's orchestra, crooning pop fare. There was even a stint in a traveling minstrel show where he performed in a dress.
While working in a Georgia outfit known as the Broadway Follies, Penniman made his way to Atlanta, teeming with R&B joints up and down Auburn Avenue. Chuck Willis, Titus Turner, Tommy Brown, Clyde 'Blow Top' Lynn, Melvin Smith, and Zilla Mays were among the young performers on the Atlanta circuit. So was flamboyant singer Billy Wright, a direct influence on Richard vocally as well as in his presentation (Penniman even started using the same pancake makeup that Wright favored). Billy was only six-and-a-half months older than Richard but had gotten started a little quicker; he was 17 when he scored his first hits for Savoy Records in 1949.
Wright hooked Penniman up with WGST deejay Zenas Sears, fast becoming an R&B institution over the Atlanta airwaves. Sears was instrumental in connecting the 18-year-old singer with RCA Victor. On October 16, 1951, A&R man Steve Sholes—later Elvis' producer at RCA—met Richard at WGST to supervise his debut session (recording studios were in short supply down south). He was backed by a septet of Atlanta sessioneers led by trumpeter Roy Mays, Zilla's brother; Roy had previously played behind Richard at Bailey's 81 Theater on Decatur Street.
The first song Little Richard ever laid on tape was the rip-roaring Get Rich Quick, written by none other than erudite jazz critic Leonard Feather. With Julius Wimby punching the 88s (Richard hadn't seriously taken up the piano yet) and tenor saxist Fred Jackson, soon a stalwart of Willis' outfit, stepping up for a lusty three-chorus solo, Richard sounds very young but suitably enthusiastic, and the whole thing swings like crazy.
Nothing from the session made anything resembling a national impression, but local airplay was sufficient to send Richard on the road as front man for bassist Percy Welch's band. That didn't stop the young singer from engaging in other nocturnal activities. While hanging around Macon's Greyhound bus station one night, Richard encountered a personage even more flamboyant than he. This lad called himself Esquerita and was willing to show Richard how to beat the living hell out of a piano.
Despite losing his father in a senseless shooting incident at the elder Penniman's Tip In Inn, Richard persevered, though RCA dropped him after none of his four singles did appreciable business (he'd done a second session at WGST in January of '52). Times got hard for the Penniman family after its patriarch was murdered, forcing Richard to take a job washing dishes at the bus station. But powerful Macon promoter Clint Brantley rescued him from a dreary, soapy fate. Soon Richard was gigging at the prestigious New Era Club in Nashville.
A group called the Deuces of Rhythm rolled into the New Era one night and caught Richard's act. They were led by Raymond Taylor, gifted with the unusual ability to play trumpet, trombone, piano, and organ two at a time, and his drumming wife Mildred. The end result was Richard joining them as a member of a new vocal group, the Tempo Toppers. After a lengthy engagement at New Orleans' Club Tiajuana, the outfit moved on to the Club Matinee in Houston. There the Tempo Toppers were heard by Don Robey, the owner of Peacock Records. He did a session with them in February of 1953.
Minuscule sales figures befell the Tempo Toppers' pair of Peacock singles, and tough guy Robey beat Richard up one day in his office to boot. But there was an encore date in the offing for Richard, who split from the group and spent some time back in Macon before returning to Houston. Johnny Otis, one of the hottest bandleaders on the R&B scene thanks to his string of early '50s hits for Savoy, had been knocked out when he first saw the effeminate young singer at the Matinee and was in charge of the session. Otis had come aboard Peacock in 1952 and led the band on Big Mama Thornton's '53 R&B chart-topper Hound Dog, a landmark moment.
Otis' own horn-fueled orchestra sat behind Richard for his October 5, 1953, Peacock session at Bill Holford's ACA Studios in Houston. The last thing they laid on tape that day was the aptly titled houserocker Little Richard's Boogie. No shrinking violet, Richard happily introduces himself on the first stanza, the band adding hearty vocal call-and-response after that. After a muscular sax break that could be the work of James Von Streeter, Otis grabs 12 bars for his own vibes. Although Devonia Williams is officially credited as pianist for the track, that cascading run near the fade sounds a lot like what Richard would soon be up to at Specialty. Peacock wouldn't get around to releasing the exciting track until early 1956, when Richard was the hottest thing around thanks to Tutti-Frutti.
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October 8th vs. The Indians
Four-plus hours is way too long for a funeral.
Hey, congrats to the Cleveland Indians and to their fans. The Tribe out-pitched, out-hit, and out-played the Yankees in this ALDS. They deserved to win this round of the playoffs.
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Holiday Poll: 1 in 4 dreads seeing family; 15% hates being nice
The minds at Consumer Reports reached out to poll members about the stresses of the holiday season and found, surprisingly, that 90 percent had at least one thing that freaked them out this time of year.
Despite some of the expected answers — crowds, long lines, taking on debt — the tell-tale responses included a dread of having to visit family and, worst, having to be nice.
"It's more common than you'd guess," psychologist and Colorado State University assistant professor Mark Benn tells me. "People are really down this time of year, but more from a conditioned response such as Pavlov's dogs. Ten years of semi-crappy experiences of shopping and, like the dogs, ring the bell and you're conditioned that it's not going to be fun."
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By CAREY FOXTimes Sports Editor
PUTNAMVILLE — Saturday was champions night at Lincoln Park Speedway as the season points races were decided in all four classes at the Putnamville oval. Dickie Gaines has been a top competitor every week that he's been at LPS and on Saturday he came home with his sixth feature win of the season.
However, it was Shane Hollingsworth's consistency, coupled with several wins of his own, that allowed him to pick up the championship over Chris Babcock, 1,129 to 1,002.
Gaines was close behind however, racking up 988 points despite missing a few races throughout the season.
Last week's winner, Wes McIntyre, won the first heat race of the night and was followed by Ethan Barrow and Jared Fox, who was piloting Jon Sciscoe's familiar red No. 7.
Shawn Krockenberger captured the B-main feature ahead of Conner Donelson and Lance Grimes.
In the A-main, Kent Christian and Fox started out front, however, Barrow was in row two alongside McIntyre.
The feature got underway, but didn't stay green for very long as Barrow took a hard tumble in turn three to bring out the red flag. He was later transported to the hospital for further examination.
Once the race resumed, McIntyre took the point and led the first handful of laps as Gaines lined him up in the crosshairs from the second position.
Christian, Fox, Hollingsworth and Todd Keen were jockeying for the third spot in a tight pack.
McIntyre remained smooth out front, however, Gaines was coming full bore behind him with designs on ending a late season string of bad luck.
Since Aug. 7, Hollingsworth has finished in the top-10 in all eight features, won three and finished in the top-five in six of those eight A-mains. Gaines has a win and three, top-three finishes, but also missed on feature and finished outside the top-10 in three straight A-mains.
However, he wasn't to be denied on Saturday, Gaines reeled McIntyre in over the next few laps and made the pass for the lead coming through turns one and two.
Gaines opened up a solid lead over the top-five as Hollingsworth and Keen battled for a couple of laps before Hollingsworth was able to assume third with Bub Cummings, Fox, Kenny Carmichael Jr. and Tyler Waltz in the top-10.
With Gaines entering lapped traffic, Hollingsworth began to close on the bottom after passing McIntyre for the runner-up spot.
Hollingsworth ate into Gaines' lead over the final five laps and had closed with a couple of car lengths as the white flag flew. However, it was Gaines' turn to celebrate in victory lane for the sixth time at LPS, holding off Hollingsworth and McIntyre. Cummings and Christian made up the top-five with Grimes, Krockenberger, Keen, Carmichael Jr. and Troy Link rounding out the top-10.
The UMP Modified points race proved to be a bit anti-climactic as Paul Bumgardner had wrapped up the title several weeks earlier, but he put an exclamation point on the win with a feature victory on Saturday.
Bumgardner and Jimmy Hayden were bumper-to-bumper early on during the feature, each making their way through several early lap pile-ups that collected Chris Brewer and Don Kiger along with Mark Grosvener, Dane Tilstra and Jim Bailey in separate incidents.
Bumgardner opened up a small gap ahead of Hayden as Brian Hayden joined the leaders as a big pack fought over fourth-place. Josh Boller, Arby Burton, Craig Conyer and B-main winner, Wes McClara were in the mix for that top-five position.
Meanwhile, up front, Bumgardner was flawless on the top and wasn't going to be caught despite a determined effort from both Haydens. The Greencastle, Ind.native cruised to the victory in the Cardinal Contracting, Durabuilt Racing, Bumgardner's Auto & Truck Repair No. 54. Jimmy Hayden, Brian Hayden, Boller, Conyer, Burton, McClara, Randy Millburn, Kevin Davis and Chris Brewer made up the top-10.
Bumgardner has won nine modified features this season and also two super stock main events.
Bumgardner topped Carlos Bumgardner in the points race, 1,339 to 1,165 with Conyer in third, Boller in fourth and McClara in fifth.
In the UMP Super Stock feature, no one has been hotter than Chris Hillman as the season winds to a close.
Hillman picked up his third straight win at Lincoln Park, edging out Steve Peeden by a mere couple of feet at the finish line. However, it was the consistency of Kenny Carmichael Sr. that helped him score the points title over Brazil's Slick Griffin, 1,307 to 1,240 as Doug McCullough, Kris Starks and Kenny Carmichael Jr. in fifth.
The feature was practically a two-car race throughout as Hillman and Peeden battled lap-after-lap as several cautions broke up the action. Over the second half of the race though, Hillman held the point with Peeden working the bottom with success.
The last three laps, Peeden got more and more bite coming out of turn four on the bottom, pulling even with Hillman. However, it was the final lap that had fans on the edge of their seats as Peeden nosed into the lead off the last corner. However, Hillman had enough momentum on the top to carry him to the narrow win.
Josh Burton was third ahead of McCullough, Carmichael Jr., Roy Bruce Jr., Carmichael Sr., Starks, Travis Heramb and Tony Arthur. In the bomber class, Dustin Shoulders has been about as dominating as a driver can, but the points race was the closest of any, coming down to the final two weeks.
Shoulders earned his 14th feature win of the season on Saturday night, but needed a little misfortune over the final month from C.J. Bryan to squeeze out a 1,335 to 1,298 with Ron Wallen Sr. in third with 1,231. J.R. Watkins was fourth and Lloyd Walls fifth.
On Saturday, Shoulders got past Jim Litton and Bryan late in the feature to pick up the victory. Shoulders and Litton were side-by-side for several laps before Shoulders made the decisive pass for the win. Bryan came home third with Bob Farris and Kevin Kemp in fifth. Tom Courtney, Ron Wallen Sr., Josh Fagg, David Wallen and Frank Cotton were in the top-10.
Next weekend will be the final event of the season with an on-track awards presentation, a bonfire and Fan Appreciation Party following the race. General admission in $13 with kids 10-and-under free.
Lincoln Park Speedway
Final points night
Sprint car feature
1. Dickie Gaines, 2. Shane Hollingsworth, 3. Wes McIntyre, 4. Bub Cummings, 5. Kent Christian, 6. Lance Grimes, 7. Shawn Krockenberger, 8. Todd Keen, 9. Kenny Carmichael Jr. 10. Troy Link, 11. Jared Fox, 12. Conner Donelson, 13. Dustin Waggoner, 14. Jake Scott, 15. Eric Krockenberger, 16. Daylan Chambers, 17. Tyler Waltz, 18. Kenny Carmichael Sr., 19. Aaron Mosley, 20. Ethan Barrow
B-main winner: Shawn Krockenberger
Heat winners: Wes McIntyre, Ethan Barrow, Jared Fox
UMP Modified feature
1. Paul Bumgardner, 2. Jimmy Hayden, 3. Brian Hayden, 4. Josh Boller, 5. Craig Conyer, 6. Arby Burton, 7. Wes McClara, 8. Randy Millburn, 9. Kevin Davis, 10. Chris Brewer, 11. Mark Grosvener, 12. Kevin Gummere, 13. Carlos Bumgardner Sr., 14. John Hipps, 15. Dan Lewellen Sr., 16. Donald Kiger, 17. Jim Bailey, 18. John Grenier Jr., 19. Dane Tilstra, 20. Brad Robinson B-main winner: Wes McClara Heat winners: Paul Bumgardner, Jimmy Hayden, Carlos Bumgardner Sr.
UMP Super Stock feature
1. Chris Hillman, 2. Steve Peeden, 3. Josh Burton, 4. Doug McCullough, 5. Kenny Carmichael Jr., 6. Roy Bruce Jr., 7. Kenny Carmichael Sr., 8. Kris Starks, 9. Travis Heramb, 10. Tony Arthur, 11. Don Duncan, 12. Jamie Adams, 13. Josh Foxworthy, 14. Slick Griffin, 15. Mike Staggs, 16. Brian Kempf, 17. Bruce Stantz, 18. Danny Harris, 19. Joe Starks, 20. Scott Tidwell
B-main winner: Tony Arthur
Heat winners: Mike Staggs, Steve Peeden, Danny Harris
Bomber feature
1. Dustin Shoulders, 2. Jim Litton Jr., 3. C.J. Bryan, 4. Bob Farris, 5. Kevin Kemp, 6. Tom Courtney, 7. Ron Wallen Sr., 8. Josh Fagg, 9. David Wallen, 10. Frank Cotton, 11. J.R. Watkins, 12. Josh Presley, 13. Alan Bassett, 14. Josh Litton, 15. Jason Thornburg, 16. Kenny Treash, 17. Chad Nolte, 18. Ron Smith, 19. Joe Jeffries, 20. Sally Yakel, 21. Lloyd Walls, 22. Will Fagg, 23. Corey Gregory, 24. Ben Williams, 25. Larry Shelly Jr., 26. Jake Hodge, 27. Ian Keller, 28. Jeff Cast
B-main winners: Josh Presley, Joe Jeffries
Heat winners: Dustin Shoulders, C.J. Bryan, Jim Litton Jr., Lloyd Walls


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Sorry to keep you waiting on these scones, but believe me, they are worth waiting for. I am working on a client 18 miles from my house and with DC traffic that means if I do not leave my house by 6:30 in the morning it will take me well over an hour to get there. I am not used to waking up at 5:30 in the morning to go to work, so I have been tired and not really in the mood to do anything when I get home from work. So without further adieu here is a tasty recipe for cinnamon sugar scones which are very similar to snickerdoodles. I loved these scones and so did my friends. I used the basic scone recipe that was given to me by my boyfriend's mom and modified the flavors. I am sure you will love this recipe!
Miniature Cinnamon Sugar Scones
recipe adapted from Teresa Miller
2 cups flour
3 tablespoons sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 1/4 cups whipping cream (heavy cream)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon (by hand). Pour in whipping cream. Mix or knead by hand, just until combined (about 45 second). Mix will be sticky. Flour surface. Divide dough into two sections and pat into two rounds, each approximately four inches. Note: Score each round first with a knife into 4ths , then 8ths. Then cut and put on a greased large cookie sheet. Bake 9 to 11 minutes. Let cool five minutes, then glaze.
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 - 2 tablespoons milk
Mix together until a thin icing consistency and pour or drizzle over warm scones. If you are not getting the consistency you want then just add a little more milk.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Cinnamon Sugar Scones
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