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Poor, poor Britney Spears. There's nothing quite like being the opening act at the MTV Video Music Awards and clearly not giving a crap.
The instant I heard Britney Spears would be opening the 2007 VMAs, I knew it was going to be a train wreck. How could it not? Have you seen what she's been up to lately?
The whole thing sort of reminds me of when Anna Nicole Smith was on the VMAs shortly after she became the TrimSpa spokesperson. Remember that travesty?
I'm guessing that Britney did not.
Oh how far little Britney has fallen. Remember when…
Here's a little more, just for good measure…
The big winners of the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards…
Justin Timberlake – Best Male Artist
Fergie – Best Female Artist (seriously!)
Fall Out Boy – Best Group
Gym Class Heroes – Best New Artist (Uh oh! There goes their career!)
"Umbrella" by Rihanna (w/ Jay-Z) – Video of the Year
Remember these? The big winners of the very first VMA's in 1984…
"China Girl" by David Bowie – Best Male Video
"Girls Just Want To Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper – Best Female Video
"Legs" by ZZ Top – Best Group
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" by the Eurythmics – Best New Artist
"You Might Think" by The Cars – Video of the Year
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Aww, Britney….you really did it now. Only place to go is up, but I don't even think you're aware of how far you need to go or how to go about it. Or down, six feet under maybe, but that can be avoided and doesn't sound like much fun anyway. Girl, SNAP OUT OF IT!!! Get yourself some serious professional psychological or at the very least, a life coach. You have the means and let your kids be the motivation, since you don't seem to think much about yourself.
I know you THOUGHT you could do it all on your own by firing your manager, but let the time since you've done that be a record. You've messed up and messed up big.
Good God! Don't follow in Anna Nicole Smith's footsteps. Too many parallels here; she lost her first born then her life, leaving her baby daughter motherless.
You have two young sons. If you keep up your current way of life, you'll leave them motherless too, if not already.
Poor Brit Brit,
Anyone with an ounce of intelligence always knew her only "talents" were her youth and surrounding herself with people who could make her look and sound good.
Well, the youth is pretty well gone out the window at the shockingly young age of 25, and the star makers have either left or been fired and will almost certainly never return.
Time to make up with the family, move home to TN, and become a rich single mother living in the suburbs. Smartest move she could make, but then – she isn't exactly known for making smart moves, is she?
How does it feel to be your generation's Michael Jackson?
Cute, adorable, beloved and talented at a tender young age.
Slowly turning more and more bizarre (taste in everything goes awry, shaved head, umbrella incident).
Appearance taking strange turns…body gone to seed, bad wigs, makeup and wardrobe.
Drunken genital exposure.
Failed "marriage"s.
Public television embarrasements (UPN TV show and VMAs just to name 2).
Increasingly bad music produced.
Allegations of child abuse (the non-car seat, dropping the baby, nearly burning the children, nudity, corporal punishment, forcing them to stay awake, feeding them coffee, neglect…)
I can't seem to decide if you are our new MJ, or Anna Nicole? At least Anna Nicole SEEMED to get it together a little in her later days…and MJ had the good sense to disappear after the court days and the dangling blanket incident.
Don't you even care, Britney? I know you look in the mirror and see the red-hot sex kitten you WERE- but, honey, you have to WORK to regain that title! Surrounding yourself with people bought and sold to tell you how fantastic you look is just going to lead you down a "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" road…
Whatever Happened to Britney Jean…?
SNAP OUT OF IT. You still want to live the life of a party-girl rock star? Then YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN PREGNANT. It is obvious that you spend your days and nights trying desperately to escape from the fact that you went down the wrong road and are to damned stubborn to swallow your pride and just TURN AROUND.
Plenty of women older than you have cimbed back out of this shame spiral. I know you don't want to hear it, but you HAVE children…and yes, sometimes, a woman has kids and suddenly realizes she doesn't want them or can't take care of them…so what's worse- admitting to your shortcomings and getting your kids somewhere permanently stable, or acting like a selfish child and pretending everything is OK- to the detriment of your kids? Man, read Drew Barrymore's or Mackenzie Philips story, for crying out loud- do you want your kids drinking and drugging at like, 10 or younger? Is THAT going to be your legacy?
You have just the tiniest sliver of a window left to regain your composure publically. There is NO reason why you can't rebuild your life, do the humble Oprah gig, release a great new album, and relegate this period of your life to "after-baby blues" and the "stress of a failed marraige".
I don't know why I offer this advice, not even really being a true fan of yours,but one thing i do love is your single "Toxic". It is one of the best songs of recent memory, and the video is awesome. Even though I don't really love you, that song proves to me what you are capable of…earning a cynic like mine's favorable opinion!
You have to stop ignoring reality and embrace the decisions you need to make. It will suck for a year or so (so much damage to undo), but you CAN come back stronger, earning your fans back and NEW fans. You can be a REAL role model.
Take this opportunity. Don't become a freak or a corpse.
We really don't need any more!
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I am a Britney fan (yes, still) but as much as I hate to admit it, everyone who has commented here so far is right. What a mess Britney is! I just watched a video of her when she was 17, cute, cared about her fans, sang beautifully, dressed nicely, had lovely hair, etc. Where did it go?!! She is nothing like she was before! I want to know who is responsible for turning my favorite American pop idol into a spoiled, rotten, bull-headed @@@@@! I don't care about shallow issues like "baby weight" or any of that crap but I do care about her mental stability for God's sake! I can't deny it anymore! She's in horrible condition!!!!!!


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In her spotless camouflage uniform, Monica Callan stood apart from the dirty and exhausted-looking first-year cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy who had just endured nearly three hours on the obstacle course.
As their final test, the cadets from C Flight crawled with their rifles in hand, under barbed wire through the white sand. Clumps of it stuck to the sweat and mud on their clothes and skin, drawing quips from some upperclassmen that they resembled sugar cookies.
"Good job, Charlie Flight," Callan said as each cadet finished the course and rinsed off under a hose. "You're definitely dirty enough."
Then she lined them up for the trek back to their camp through this pine-scented valley in the Rocky Mountains for fresh uniforms and showers.
"Flight, by my command ... forward, march!"
There's another thing besides the clean uniform that makes Callan stand out among these cadets: She's several years older than they are.
She's not a member of the faculty, however. She's not an officer. Callan is a cadet herself, just beginning her final year at the age of 25. She's one of a growing number of academy cadets who are starting their higher educations later in life.
About one in 10 of the students entering the Air Force Academy this year is older than the traditional age, the academy reports. That's up from about one in 12 four years ago. Often, as in Callan's case, they're arriving here after years of military service — a vastly different experience than an 18-year-old straight out of high school.
"These were kids who just before had gone every day from school maybe to practice, and then somebody made them dinner," said Callan. "They would stress out about the little things, like, 'Oh, somebody doesn't like me.' I've lived life a bit more than them."
Early on, her classmates nicknamed her, "Mom-ica." Today, she calls these first-years "my kids."
It's an unusual example of a broader trend in higher education: The proportion of students who are over 24 has increased from 28 percent in 1970 to about 42 percent today, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
The experiences of Callan and her fellow "priors" — Academy lingo for cadets with prior military service — mirror those of older students at civilian universities.
Callan spent a few semesters at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia and two years in the Air Force as a pharmacy technician before enrolling here.
That experience quickly put her ahead of the other cadets, and she found herself constantly making excuses to her flight commander as her slower peers struggled with skills she'd already learned. "Sir, I'm waiting on my classmates. Sir, I'm waiting on my classmates," Callan remembers repeating.
But in the classroom, at this extremely competitive school, things were different.
Fewer than one in eight applicants to the academy get in, making it more selective than Georgetown and the University of Southern California.
Callan was rusty, and ended up on academic probation in the first semester. "I was, like, 'Why don't I remember what valence electrons are?' "
These are barriers older students face in civilian colleges, too. Many have families and have to pay tuition, for example. (Air Force Academy cadets are not allowed to be married or have kids, and are educated at taxpayers' expense.)
Enrollment dips nationwide
Once an afterthought, students over 24 have become a critical market for colleges and universities as they struggle to fill seats. Enrollment has fallen overall for the last five years, in part due to a dip in the number of 18- to 24-year-olds, the National Student Clearinghouse reports.
Institutions "are in financial peril if they don't attract more students, which means looking at nontraditionals," said Joe Garcia, who heads the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education consortium. "And that's the same in every state."
Older students are also needed to help meet a national goal set under the Obama administration of increasing the proportion of the population with degrees to 60 percent by 2025. Progress has been slow, and today the figure stands at less than 46 percent, according to the Lumina Foundation, which tracks it. (Lumina is among the funders of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.) Forty states have set their own targets.
"The math just does not add up if we rely only on 18-year-olds," said Emily House, an assistant executive director with the Higher Education Commission in Tennessee, which next fall will extend its pioneering free community college policy to students over 24.
Some 34 million Americans who are 25 and older, or roughly one in six, started college but left before racking up enough credits for degrees, the last Census in 2010 found. That makes them prime candidates to go back and finish.
"This is where higher education is going," said Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson, who stepped down in August after four years as superintendent of the Air Force Academy. Under her watch, the proportion of older-than-traditional-age cadets increased.
There's another reason she encouraged this: Students who have lived outside of school bring new perspective to their younger classmates. "We want to get that experience and grit into what we do," she said.
But other states and institutions, and the federal government, offer little such encouragement for older students.
"Our systems have not evolved and adapted to this new demographic very well," Garcia said. "Most institutions would still rather somebody else serve those students so they can continue to serve the full-time traditional-age students, because that's what they're used to."
To qualify for federal financial aid, for instance, students generally have to take at least two courses a semester, which is especially tough for working adults with families. They're not eligible at all for many state financial aid programs.
Many colleges won't accept transfer credits that date back years. And the proportion offering on-campus childcare has declined, the Institute for Women's Policy Research reports, to fewer than half of four-year universities and 44 percent of community colleges.
That's to say nothing of administrative offices that are open only on weekdays during business hours when many adult students are at work, or tutoring that's not available at night or on weekends.
Older students often "don't feel like they're a part of or belong to the institution that they go to," said Antonio Quarterman, director of the McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success at the University of Pittsburgh. The campus is one of few with an office just for older students. The center stays open late and, this fall, will begin offering 24-hour tutoring online.
Military veterans make up a sizeable number of the older adults going back to school. But only 30 percent told a Gallup survey they feel strongly that their colleges or universities understand their needs. Among all nontraditional-age graduates, only 14 percent feel connected to their schools, another Gallup poll found.
Older students are also more likely to drop out. Nearly half quit before their second year, the National Student Clearinghouse says, compared with about 22 percent of students 20 and under.
And an improving economy means more older students have been opting for jobs over classrooms.
So just when policymakers want to see the long-term trend accelerate, it's started to slow down. The number of students over 24 in college fell by 3.6 percent in the spring, compared with the previous spring, the Clearinghouse reports.
Like Tennessee, some states and institutions are working to reverse this.
For example, Indiana's program, called "You Can. Go Back.," is targeting 750,000 residents who started, but haven't finished, their degrees.
The University of Arkansas System is reaching out with emails and text messages to 100,000 students who went to its universities and community colleges over the last seven years but never finished.
"So many people in the adult market simply gave up on the dream," said Michael Moore, the system's vice president for academic affairs. "They had these bad experiences with higher education and they think, 'Here's somebody else trying to pitch me to go back to school.' It takes multiple attempts to cut through the fog of, 'I can't do this anymore.' "
That's how Brian Kelly felt after two days at the Air Force Academy. He came here after 3 1/2 years on active duty as an air-traffic controller.
"What are we doing here?" Kelly remembered thinking, along with his fellow priors. Before enrolling, "We were 22 or 23, had a house, had a car, had a dog."
He's now entering his final year, and at 26 he's the oldest cadet. He knows that, unlike him, many older students in the civilian world also juggle families and jobs.
"I can't fathom how I would deal with that," he said.
Alex Williams became a cadet at "the young but old age of 20," after serving for two years as an Air Force honor guard in Washington, D.C. — including in front of foreign dignitaries and as a pallbearer at military funerals.
Suddenly "cadets right out of high school were ordering me around," he recalled while on a break from his role as a sky-diving instructor at the academy airfield.
"I'm like Grandpa in my squadron," said Williams, who has made nearly 540 jumps himself.
It took Josh Renick a while to figure out that he was destined for the Air Force Academy. He worked in a movie theater and a pharmacy, as a roadie in a band, and started a degree in film and TV at a university in Texas. Then, after accompanying a friend to a recruiting office and spontaneously enlisting, he handled munitions at an Air Force base in Italy.
"I just come with a different perspective from having lived life," said Renick. He's now entering his final year at 25. His younger classmates "don't understand how lucky they are," he said. "They are still figuring it out at 18."
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Back-to-school season is approaching, and the number of college students over the age of 24 has nearly doubled since the 1970s. The nation's military academies have seen a similar shift - a growing number of older cadets alongside those who are fresh out of high school. Elissa Nadworny from NPR's Ed team visited the U.S. Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, and there, she spoke with older cadets about the challenges they faced competing physically and academically with teenage classmates.
ELISSA NADWORNY, BYLINE: They call them priors because they've had prior experience before enrolling here. Most have enlisted or deployed. Some have worked or traveled. And the number of priors on campus is rising. This year, it's about 1 in 10.
BRIAN R KELLY: I'm Cadet First Class Brian R. Kelly.
NADWORNY: At 26, Brian is the oldest cadet at the academy. He's tall and muscular in fatigues and a black beret, watching the freshmen complete a summer rite of passage, the assault course.
KELLY: Let's go, Overby. Don't give up.
NADWORNY: Cadets are crawling through the sand under barbed wire...
KELLY: If I do not see your face in the dirt and you touch my barb wire again, I will send you back.
NADWORNY: ...Running through mud pits and doing hundreds of pushups.
NADWORNY: When Kelly did this course as a basic cadet, he was five years older than his classmates.
KELLY: Two days into basic training here, I wanted to leave.
NADWORNY: Kelly had enlisted in the Air Force after high school, so when he came to the academy at 23, he'd already done basic training.
KELLY: A freshman who's fresh out of high school, has never been away from home is different from a freshman that's 26 or 35 or however old they may be. They're in a different place in life.
NADWORNY: On active duty in the Air Force, he'd worked as an air traffic controller, one of the most challenging jobs. He recalls commiserating with other priors that first year.
KELLY: What are we doing here right now? We're all 22, 23, you know, had a car, had a house, you know, had a dog, and now we're here.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Right, halt.
NADWORNY: Here, where there are rules and rules and more rules and early wake-ups and lots of crawling through the mud with someone yelling at you.
MONICA CALLAN: Let's go, Charlie Flight. Hurry up.
NADWORNY: Monica Callan is another prior in her senior year. She's the captain of a group of about 30 new cadets.
CALLAN: Lock it up, all right - no talking.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMEN: Yes, Ma'am.
NADWORNY: She remembers what it was like to be a new cadet. She'd had previous military experience as an enlisted pharmacy technician, and that put her leaps ahead of her 18-year-old counterparts.
CALLAN: OK, I have this experience. I know how to do this. So I need to help them out.
NADWORNY: She quickly became a model for her squadron. Leading was natural for her. She grew up in the Bronx, the oldest of six kids. She was only 22, but she knew how to lace up her boots the right way, to address her superiors, to hustle. The nicknames followed - Mama Callan or, my favorite, Momica. The hard part for her was in the fall when the academics started.
CALLAN: Wow. I don't remember what valence electrons are.
NADWORNY: For many of the priors, it's been years since they took a math or science class.
CALLAN: A lot of my classmates who were four or five years younger than me were helping me out in classes because that stuff was fresh in their mind, whereas I was just proud that I could remember just little bits of information.
ALEX WILLIAMS: Once the school year hit - definitely switched around, where they were the ones motivating me to (laughter) get through class.
NADWORNY: Prior Alex Williams was rusty on his calculus, but jumping out of an airplane from more than 10,000 feet - no big deal.
WILLIAMS: So if you guys keep that form when you guys exit the plane, it's going to be awesome. It's going to be money the whole time.
NADWORNY: I find Williams at the airfield. He's helping teach cadets to skydive using a harness dangling from the ceiling. It's an activity he knows well. He'll complete his 537th jump next week.
WILLIAMS: All right. We'll get you strapped in here. There it is. And you're flying.
NADWORNY: Williams enlisted in the Air Force right after high school, and he served in the honor guard in Washington, D.C. That meant funerals in Arlington Cemetery and foreign visits at the White House and the Pentagon.
WILLIAMS: It was definitely great that I had an experience before I came here. I think that gave me a different perspective on the place, helped me stay motivated when things got hard.
NADWORNY: And three years later, he's on track to graduate with his bachelor's, and he'll be a lieutenant in the Air Force. Williams gives a lot of credit to his posse of priors. Just last week, he gave a tutorial to a bunch of new cadets. He noticed a few of them had been prior enlisted. So what did he do?
WILLIAMS: Grabbed them by the chest strap and told them not to quit (laughter).
NADWORNY: Elissa Nadworny, NPR News, at the U.S. Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs.
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: They say that in the Air Force...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: The coffee's mighty fine.
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: ...The coffee's mighty fine.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: It looks like muddy water.
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: It looks like muddy water.
SHAPIRO: This story was a collaboration with the education reporting project The Hechinger Report.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Oh, Lord, I want to go.
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: Oh, Lord, I want to go.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: But they won't let me go. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Chapter 109: Gold Saint Sword – Excalibur
Fei and Warden Oleg arrived at the restricted area in the Back Mountain.
Fortunately, the intruder seemed to not know exactly where the entrance to the underground cave was at, and the intruder didn't have a clear objective. The intruder randomly searched the back mountain. When the intruder fought with Pierce and Drogba, the intruder quickly left after a quick contact. The person came and also left quickly, so Chambord didn't suffer any casualties or loss of any kind.
"The person wore a tight black suit, and their face was also covered. In the dark night, I didn't capture any details……"
"The intruder was very strong. We couldn't get within three yards of the intruder……"
"That person seemed like they didn't want any trouble and didn't want to kill anyone. The person left after a brief contact……"
"It seemed like the person was trying to find something……"
The guards for the restricted area, including Pierce told Fei what had happened last night with an embarrassed expression on their faces. Fei listened carefully and calmed down by the end.
It was obvious that the intruder was a high star ranked master. Although the guards had numerous years of experience in the military and on the battlefield, they weren't a match for the opponent. Luckily, the intruder left after a quick search; the guards chased after the person but that didn't help at all. They didn't even find a single hair.
"Okay, I know what happened. Go back to your positions and be more alert from now on!"
Fei waved and sent the guards away. He carefully went around the Back Mountain and wanted to find any possible clue that the intruder might have left with 【Black Tornado】. However, he didn't find anything; even the sensitive smell of the dog was of no use. Finally, the man and the dog stood on the tip of the Back Mountain and glanced far away. The chilly breeze of the autumn morning carried the dry yellow leaves as they danced in the sky. The golden light of the morning sun shined over Chambord Castle and painted it into a golden castle like how it was described in the tales……This was a beautiful and quiet pure land.
This was Fei's only home on the Azeroth Continent.
"It doesn't matter who it is, but if they dare to put their hands on Chambord, I will cut their damn arms off without mercy."
Fei tightened his fists and swore in his mind.
The cold wind slowly calmed Fei down.
He quickly found out that his prior thoughts were all wrong; he was misled by someone. There was only reason why he was encountering troubles – he wasn't strong enough. Both Fei's personal strength and Chambord Kingdom's strength were both too weak. Thinking about it, if Fei was a sun ranked master, or if Chambord was a Level Nine Empire, who would dare to cause these troubles in Chambord's territory?
Therefore, the objective for Fei would be to increase his and his kingdom's strength.
Then, he could take care of all the trouble with his fists.
After thinking it through, Fei felt relieved as he had found some light in this period of darkness. He directly entered the underground cave, found a stone room and ordered a soldier to guard the entrance. He chose the Assassin Mode in the 3D Diablo Selection Screen and started leveling up his assassin character.
After spending about three hours, Fei had completed four quests: 【Den of Evil】,【Sisters' Burial Grounds】,【Search for Cain】and 【Tools of the Trade】, and leveled the assassin character to level 10. In the process, Fei acquired another female mercenary. Her name was
Ihrana; she was a young blue hair pretty rogue and she was a lightning magic archer. As Fei expected, she was similar to the mercenaries that his non-Barbarian characters got; this girl behaved rigidly. She didn't have her own intelligence and thinking abilities; she was more like an ordinary NPC.
"This is strange. Why do only the NPCs at 【Rogue Encampment】in my Barbarian Character's parallel world have intelligence and act like real people? In the other parallel worlds such as my Paladin and Sorceress characters, and even other maps in my Barbarian Character's parallel world don't have this intelligence."
This question was always on Fei's mind.
After completing the four quests, Fei calculated the time and decided not to continue in Assassin Mode and switched to Barbarian Mode. He spent half an hour learning the potion composition skill from Akara, and then he went to the big busted Charsi.
"Hey, beautiful forging master, how is that armour coming along?"
Charsi who was busy forging with the magic hammer didn't say a word. She wiped sweat off of her forehand and threw a golden helmet at Fei; in the meantime, she was still hammering on a chest armour. "I knew you needed these sets of armours right away, so I worked all night long; but I only have this helmet completed……"
Fei caught the helmet with his hands, then said thanks and observed the helmet carefully.
The helmet had a misty gold light around it. It didn't look like the standard T-shaped knight helmet that was common on Azeroth Continent. Two yellow bull-like horns were located on the sides of the helmet, which looked domineering and ferocious. A line of shorter yellow spikes was located in between the two horns and pointed up towards the sky…… This helmet had a mysterious magic. When you stared at it, you could almost see a tough bull showing its steel-like horns and charging at you.
Taurus Helmet!
"Perfect! Haha, this is perfect! Charsi, this is exactly what I wanted. Haha, you have perfectly made my design come to life. You are a genius at forging!"
+20 armour, and the user has the ability to cast the level 1 lightning spell – 【Charged bolt】
Although this helmet seemed a bit weak compared to the helmet that Fei was using, the additional effect was great. Plus, this helmet was only Charsi's practice piece, and she could only use 【Chipped Gems】when forging magic items. Once her forging ability increased, she would be able to use better gems and make stronger armour according to Fei's wish. Fei believed that one day this busty and pretty blacksmith would be able to forge out the perfect 12 sets of Gold Saints Cloth.
For the last half hour before he had to leave Diablo World, Fei utilized his time at Charsi's and asked her to re-forge the blue magic sword that she made before.
The re-forged magic sword turned into a golden sword. The design was simple; there were no pretty patterns. Parallel blades, it had a long pointy tip, the body of the sword was thick, and the handle could be griped by two hands. The guard on the sword looked like an eagle that opened its wings…… Under the effect of the gems and magic power, the sword looked fascinating; it gave Fei an illusion that it could cut through any substance.
+20 attack damage, and + 20% attack accuracy.
This was the property of the golden sword.
Fei touched the blade of the sword and a chilling sensation came from his fingers, "From now on, this sword will be called Excalibur!"
Excalibur, it was the ultimate weapon of the Gold Saints Capricorn Shura in the Japanese anime series Saint Seiya. It could break any substance in the universe. It was indestructible, and showered in the light of the sun and moon. It was a weapon that even the gods were afraid of.
Fei wished that this sword could continuously level up and one day reach the sharpness and toughness of the true Gold Saint Sword.
After that was done, he was close to the time limit of the day. Before he exited the Diablo World, he reached out to the cold mysterious voice in his head and tried to convert the Taurus Helmet and the Gold Saint Sword Excalibur into the real world.
It wasn't the first time that Fei tried to convert weapons and items into the real world.
Before, he wasn't able to convert anything other than potions and gems. The answer he got from that cold, mysterious voice was that his level wasn't high enough. But after considering that both items were newly designed by him and forged by Charsi, he wanted to try again.
"……Taurus Helmet , conversion success rate 100%, cost of conversion 10,000 gold coins. Magic sword Excalibur, conversion success rate 100%, cost of conversion 10,000 gold coins. Please confirm the conversions."
What the voice said surprised Fei.
100% conversion success rate, it was unbelievable.
"Conversion confirmed!"
"Conversion calculating……successfully converted. Young warrior Fei. You have triggered one of the three legendary Miraculous Skills -【Give】. You can give Taurus Helmet and the Magic sword Excalibur to anyone to use. There are no limits on it."
Fei was overjoyed.
In the underground cave inside the Back Mountain.
Fei returned to the stone room from the Diablo World.
He thought for a while and waved. After a light buzz, a blue oval portal appeared in the room and Charsi walked out of it.
"I have found you some assistants," Fei smiled as he pointed at the blacksmiths such as Rock Samuel who were sweating as they forged weapons in the hall at the underground cave. "With helpers, maybe you could forge a bit faster……One more thing, if you could, please teach those guys a little. Their forging skills are far from good. It would be even better if you could take them as apprentices!"
Fei was like a creeper trying to trick kids with candies. He tried to entice Charsi so that the blacksmiths at Chambord could have the chance to learn Charsi's amazing forging skills.


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Ella in the press
15.11.2014 – Hadey Ozen – Album Review (Hebrew)
"The songs in her debut album are simply good, mostly personal, dark, defiant but also critical and on top of it, performed and produced well. Her short tour in Israel may be over, but the fresh album is right here and if you loved it like we did, you can purchase it or follow her and wait for her return for more shows."
13.11.2014 – Blog Yuval Erel – Concert Review Tel Aviv (Hebrew)
"The melodies of Ella Ronen's songs are an interesting mix of folk, progressive rock, with sparks of Jazz; the texts themselves move between love, desertion, compassion, and the end of the world. … I'm happy such a quality musician came to Tel Aviv and let us taste her creations live."
12.11.2014 – Maariv NRG – Interview (Hebrew)
11.11.2014 – TelAvivian – Album Review
"Ella Ronen's debut album "Mirror Maze" is the perfect album for the autumn, full of beautiful and heart breaking folky songs with just the right amount of jazzy flavours that will warm your heart."
11.11.2014 – Mirpeset – Guest post about "the Voice" (Hebrew)
6.11.2014 – MyNet – Interview (Hebrew)
23.10.2014 – Modin News – Review Single "Please" (Hebrew)
"Ronen's deep voice is similar to Florence Welch, the singer of "Florence and the Machine", but surpasses them in terms of originality and musical production."
14.10.2014 – Negative White – Interview
30.9.2014 – Haaretz – Music Video "Please"
9.9.2014 – Jerusalem Post – Interview (English)
2.9.2014 – l'Illustré – Interview / Album Review (French)
"La douceur de sa voix, celle de son regard et de ses gestes renvoient à celle dont elle fait un art de vivre."
21.8.2014 – SRF3 – Radio Live Performance / Album Review (German)
"If you like Lea Lu, Regina Spektor, or Amanda Palmer, you will also like Ella Ronen's music. She covers a large spectrum on "Mirror Maze". From light singer-songwriter sound until unconventional indie-compositions."
20.7.2014 – 24heures – Montreux Jazz concert review (French)


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Are you just getting started with spinning? You are not alone... there are many new die-hard fans in this fun, amazing trend in exercise and fitness.
There are many persons who feel passionately about spinning. Spinning enables them to experience a great cardiovascular workout and also to see the health benefits of consistent exercise.
To make their exercise experience more comfortable, these persons often invest in spinning bike accessories. These accessories include cycle shoes, seats, towels and water bottles among others.
Certainly one of the most important spinning bike accessories will be the cycle shoes. Spinners will want to ensure that their footwear allow them to keep up with the variations in their exercises.
Some spinning bikes have dual pedals which can accommodate regular sneakers as well as cycle shoes which use cleats. Experienced or professional cyclists are likely to prefer cycle shoes as this is what they are used to.
Cycle shoes and cleats will therefore be a part of the accessories which spinners are likely to have.
Heart monitors are one of the more important spinning bike accessories. These monitors allow a spinner to gain maximum efficiency from their workouts by monitoring their heart rate. Achieving the target heart rate is important to achieving fitness goals.
Heart monitors can be worn on the chest or on the wrist. Spinning exercise sessions are not necessarily the easiest of exercises. Having a heart monitor is therefore very important to ensuring that you do not push yourself beyond your limits.
Although spinning may take place in a class setting, it is a very individual exercise experience as each person trains according to their capability.
Water bottles are important spinning bike accessories. Spinning is a high intensity activity and the body loses water through sweat. There is a need to rehydrate and it is very important that rehydration fluid is readily available during a spin class.
Water bottle cages are available on spinning bikes and some bikes carry two holders which can hold up to a liter of fluid. It is recommended that you consume about 40 ounces of water or rehydration fluid during a 40 minute spinning class.
Water bottles are therefore important for ensuring that you have adequate amounts of fluid during your spinning sessions.
Some spinners complain that the seat of the bike they ride during spinning classes leave them sore from its hardness. This can be solved by using gel seats for their spinning bikes. These seats provide relief from saddle soreness and makes for a more comfortable training session.
A spinning towel is also important to having a comfortable training session. This accessory is essential for promoting dry hands on the handlebars and enhancing the most efficient changes in hand positions. Towels are also useful for drying sweat from the face and other areas of the body during an intense workout.
Padded cycling shorts are a must for spinning sessions. Whether you are using a gel seat cover or not, using a padded cycling shorts will surely make your sessions more comfortable and productive.


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Birding in Sultanpur, Keoladeo National Park and National Chambal Sanctuary
DAY 1 – Delhi
Arrive at Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport to be met by your tour driver and guide and transferred to your hotel. Depending on the time of your flight you may have chance to visit Sanjay Van where you will have the opportunity to see Babbler, Bulbul, Green Bee Eater, Kingfishers, Kites, Rose ringed Parakeets and many other species. An evening visit to the floodlit India Gate can expect to produce sightings of White-rumped Needletails.
Overnight Hotel Royal Plaza, Delhi
Day 2 – Sultanpur
After breakfast you may wish to have an early morning tour of Delhi before transferring to Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary (closed Monday – in which case we will substitute Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary) for your afternoon guided bird watching walk around the lake areas where Common Hoopoes Paddyfield Pipit, Purple Sunbird Little Cormorant, Eurasian Thick Knee, Black Francolin, Rose Ringed Parakeet, Shikra, Bank Myna and Green Bee Eater are amongst the 250 expected species.
Overnight Haryana Resort, Sultanpur
Day 3 to 4 – Bharatpur
An early morning guided bird watching walk, breakfast and then transfer to Keoladeo National Park. You will arrive in time for a late afternoon guided bird watching walk in the park. Over the next few days you will have morning and afternoon birding walks or cycle rickshaw tours within the National Park accompanied by a local bird-watching expert such as Brijendra Singh. Among the highlights will be Oriental Honey Buzzard, Indian Grey Hornbill, Bluethroat, Scops Collared Owl, Dusky Eagle Owl, Greater Spotted Eagle, Egyptian Vulture ,Sarus Crane, Woolly-necked Stork, Painted Stork, Ruddy Shelduck and Black-shouldered Kite.
Overnight Sunbird Inn, Bharatpur
Day 5 – Dholpur
After Breakfast, You will have Dholpur sightseeing and would be able to see all the incredible places of Dholpur like Van Vihar Wildlife Sanctuary, Ramsagar Sanctuary, Khanpur Mahal, Machkund Temple Damoh Water Fall and so on depend on your interest and time.
Overnight at Hotel Kailash place, Dholpur
Day 6 to 7 – Chambal
Transfer to the National Chambal Sanctuary – a 400km stretch of the River Chambal and a 1 to 6 km wide swathe of river ravines on both banks offers a protected area for wildlife, some such as the Ghariel, Freshwater Dolphin, Blackbuck and Nilgai being unique to the Indian subcontinent. The birding checklist runs to approximately 300 residents, migrants and local migrants. A full list is available via the enquiry form. During your stay at Chambal you will experience 2 river safaris, a visit to the Sarus Crane wetland area and 2 nature walks.
Overnight Chambal Safari Lodge, Chambal
Day 8 – Agra
Today you will see the famed Taj Mahal. This is only 1 of 3 World Heritage sites in Agra, the others being Fatehpur Sikri , the abandoned capital of Akbar and Agra Fort where Shah Jahan was imprisoned by his son, only able to gaze down the Yamuna River at the Taj Mahal which he had built to commemorate his favourite wife Mumtaz.
Overnight at JP Sidharth, Agra
Day 9 – Delhi :- Morning guided bird watching walk returning to Delhi cover left over places in Delhi.
Overnight stay at Royal Place, Delhi
Day 10 – Today you will be Transfer to IGI Airport for your return or onward flight.
To see price in USD, GBP, or Euro, please click the flag next to "Currency" at the top of the page. International prices are for guidance only and may change due to currency fluctuations. The price is for 2 people sharing a twin/double-bedded room.
StandardINR ₹ 121,300.00
SuperiorINR ₹ 152,500.00
LuxuryINR ₹ 186,000.00
Please note: Our packages include different vehicle and hotel types, depending on your Standard, Superior, or Luxury choice. Please see our list of hotels to learn more.
Cost Inclusion
Pick-up and drop-off from the Delhi airport. All fuel, state and road taxes. All parking. 2 boat safaris.
Cost Exclusion
Lunch and Dinner. International flight. Any additional shopping.
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The Dell SonicWALL TZ Series of nextgeneration firewalls (NGFW) is ideally suited for any organization that requires enterprise-grade network protection.
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The SonicWALL TZ Series also features an integrated wireless access controller, 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports, and native VPN remote access clients for Apple IOS, Google Android, Windows, Mac OS and Linux for fast, secure mobile access. The Dell SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS) enables deployment and management of SonicWALL TZ Series firewalls from a single system at the central office.
The products include fully tested routing features for IPv4 and IPv6, including route-based VPN protocols OSPF and RIP v1/v2. Authentication protocols support includes LDAP and RADIUS as well as single sign-on capability that can integrate with Active Directory. All Dell SonicWALL firewalls provide advanced threat protection from botnets, and UDP and ICMP flooding.
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- Product Description
- SonicWall TZ300 - security appliance - with 1 year TotalSecure
- Device Type
- Security appliance
- Bundled Services
- 1 year TotalSecure
- Form Factor
- External
- Processor
- 800 MHz
- Ports Qty
- 5
- Data Link Protocol
- Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
- Performance
- Firewall throughput: 750 Mbps , Full Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) throughput: 100 Mbps , IPS throughput: 300 Mbps , Anti-malware throughput: 100 Mbps , Firewall throughput (IMIX): 200 Mbps , SSL inspection throughput: 45 Mbps , VPN throughput: 300 Mbps , Connection rate: 5000 connections per second
- Capacity
- Virtual interfaces (VLANs): 25 , SSL VPN licences: 1 (maximum 50) , VPN tunnels (site-to-site): 10 , IPSec VPN clients: 1 (maximum 10) , SPI connections: 50000 , DPI connections: 50000 , Authenticated users (internal database): 150 , Single Sign-On (SSO) users: 500 , Manageable access points: 16
- VoIP Protocols
- SIP, H.323 v3, H.323 v4, H.323 v1, H.323 v2, H.323 v5
- Power
- AC 120/230 V (50/60 Hz)
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 19 cm x 13.4 cm x 3.5 cm
- Weight
- 725 g
Detailed Specification
- Device Type
- Security appliance
- Bundled Services
- 1 year TotalSecure
- Width
- 19 cm
- Depth
- 13.4 cm
- Height
- 3.5 cm
- Weight
- 725 g
Processor / Memory / Storage
- Processors Installed
- 800 MHz
- Form Factor
- External
- Ports Qty
- 5
- Connectivity Technology
- Wired
- Data Link Protocol
- Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
- Network / Transport Protocol
- TCP/IP, PPTP, UDP/IP, L2TP, ICMP/IP, IPSec, PPPoE, DHCP
- Routing Protocol
- OSPF, RIP-1, RIP-2, BGP, static IP routing, policy-based routing (PBR)
- Remote Management Protocol
- Performance
- Firewall throughput: 750 Mbps , Full Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) throughput: 100 Mbps , IPS throughput: 300 Mbps , Anti-malware throughput: 100 Mbps , Firewall throughput (IMIX): 200 Mbps , SSL inspection throughput: 45 Mbps , VPN throughput: 300 Mbps , Connection rate: 5000 connections per second
- Capacity
- Virtual interfaces (VLANs): 25 , SSL VPN licences: 1 (maximum 50) , VPN tunnels (site-to-site): 10 , IPSec VPN clients: 1 (maximum 10) , SPI connections: 50000 , DPI connections: 50000 , Authenticated users (internal database): 150 , Single Sign-On (SSO) users: 500 , Manageable access points: 16
- Features
- Firewall protection, VPN support, PAT support, VLAN support, Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI), DoS attack prevention, content filtering, port mirroring, IPv6 support, antivirus analysis, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), URL filtering, deep inspection, DDos attack prevention, Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) support, anti-spam protection, anti-malware protection, Quality of Service (QoS), Dead Peer Detection (DPD), IPSec NAT-Traversal (NAT-T), DHCP server, bandwidth control, Common Access Card (CAC) reader support, anti-spyware protection, DHCP relay, 3G/4G USB Dongle Support, NetFlow, DiffServ Code Point (DSCP) support, Single Sign-On (SSO) support, anti-virus protection, keyword filtering
- Encryption Algorithm
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- Authentication Method
- RADIUS, LDAP, internal user database, Active Directory, XAUTH authentication
IP Telephony
- VoIP Protocols
- SIP, H.323 v3, H.323 v4, H.323 v1, H.323 v2, H.323 v5
Expansion / Connectivity
- Interfaces
- 4 x 1000Base-T - RJ-45 , 1 x 1000Base-T - RJ-45 (WAN) , 1 x USB 3.0 - Type A , 1 x console - RJ-45
- 56.1 years
- Compliant Standards
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- Power Device
- External power adapter
- Voltage Required
- AC 120/230 V (50/60 Hz)
- Power Consumption Operational
- 6.9 Watt
- Power Provided
- 24 Watt
Software / System Requirements
- OS Provided
- SonicOS 6.x
Environmental Parameters
- Min Operating Temperature
- Max Operating Temperature
- Humidity Range Operating
- 5 - 95% (non-condensing)
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Adventures by Disney has just released their very popular Danube River Cruise and Rhine River Cruise itineraries for 2018! Adventures by Disney has once again partnered with AMAWaterways to bring these exclusive itineraries to their guests in 2018.
The Rhine River Cruise will take guests through four different countries – Switzerland, France, Germany, and The Netherlands – and give them the opportunity to make chocolate, visit a castle, see windmills in Holland, and more. Highlights will also include some enchanting Beauty and the Beast-themed activities for the whole family, including a phenomenal themed feast that will appease the hungriest of beasts, movie nights will feature both the animated classic and new live-action version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, plus an excursion to Riquewihr, one of the quaint provincial towns that inspired both films. There are a variety of dates to choose from, beginning in June 2018 and going through the fall including a special Oktoberfest departure.
As for the Danube River Cruise, guests will travel through Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary and have the opportunity to take a magical bike ride from Melk to Krems through the storybook village of Dürnstein, visit a castle, and tour the magnificent, world-famous Schönbrunn Palace.
Bookings for 2018 river cruise vacations open on March 2, 2017 – Adventures by Disney Insiders can book today, March 1, 2017. Book early and save $500 per person on select 2018 river cruises when you book by May 1, 2017, for sailing dates June 17 – Oct. 8, 2018 (Excludes suites and category E staterooms).
The discount from Adventures by Disney can be combined with the discount from Dreams Unlimited Travel for an incredible early booking savings, but you need to act fast as there are usually only a few staterooms available at these discounts. Visit Dreams Unlimited Travel to get your quote for either of these exciting River Cruises!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is linen provided?
Yes, the pricing includes full linen, including bedding, bath towels, face clothes and hand towels for the number of guests advised. Guests just need to bring swimming towels if planning to experience the Tekapo Springs Hot Pools.
Is cleaning included in the rate?
Yes, all holiday homes are cleaned before and after each stay. Upon your departure we simply ask that you leave the property tidy, with dishes done. Instructions for rubbish separation are clearly advised in each house, and ALL our properties are smoke-free. If there is excessive cleaning or rubbish handling required on your departure this will be charged to your credit card and you would be promptly advised.
What else is supplied in the homes?
Our holiday homes are all equipped with the essentials for cooking and dining. They also have a supply of tea towels, dish clothes, dishwashing liquid, washing powder, hand soap, toilet paper, tea/coffee/sugar.
Do they have WIFI internet?
Most of our houses provide free WIFI, however there are several who cannot. These are noted on our the individual property pages, or check with us. There is free half-hour WIFI connection available in the village centre and cafes.
How and when are we required to pay for a booking?
To secure your booking we require valid credit card details (Visa or MasterCard). We have a secure online form for this purpose. No charge is made to your credit card; the details are just held on file. Payment for your stay can then be credited to our account prior to your stay, or you can pay on check-in by eftpos, cash or credit card (please note there is a 2.75% charge for credit card payments). Details on your payment options would be emailed to you upon booking confirmation.
How do we check-in on our arrival?
As you are booking a private holiday house there is no reception at the property. Keys can be picked up from our Discover Tekapo office between 3-7 pm from Oct- April, and between 2-6 pm from May-Sep. Our office is in the Godley Hotel, main road, Tekapo Village. If you will be arriving after office hours we ask that you contact us in the morning to arrange alternative check-in.
What is the check-out time?
Standard check-out time is 10am.
Is it possible to add an extra bed to a house for our stay?
No, the maximum number of guests is noted on each property listing, and we are unable to add extra beds unless it is a port-a-cot.
Can you provide a port-a-cot for a baby?
We have several port-a-cots available for hire at $10 each. Please contact us to check if there is one available for the dates you wish to book.
Can we bring our dog?
Several of our holiday homes welcome well-behaved, house trained dogs;. Please contact us to ask about availability. There is a one-off dog-fee of $15 per stay.
For our full Terms and Conditions of stay click here >
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Twelfth in a series of flashbacks to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where IG correspondent John Crumlish was a sport writer for the Olympic News Service.
U.S. gymnast Alex Naddour said Rio Games all-around champion Kohei Uchimura of Japan inspires his own gymnastics because of Uchimura's unrivaled performance quality.
"I base some of my training on what he does, and what he does is excellent gymnastics," said Naddour, who won the bronze medal on pommel horse in Rio. "He goes out there and puts on a show."
The 25-year-old Naddour said Uchimura's virtuosity impresses judges as well as audiences.
"For him this isn't just a sport," said Naddour of Uchimura, who has won six world all-around titles and earned his second consecutive Olympic all-around title in Rio. "It is showing off, performing for the crowd, making it look effortless and making it look beautiful. So not only do the judges love it but the crowd loves it. That's why he's not only the best but one of the favorites ever, in my mind."
Naddour was a member of the bronze medal-winning U.S. team at the 2011 and 2014 World Championships, and also competed at the 2013 and 2015 Worlds. He was a reserve on the U.S. team at the 2012 Olympics in London.
On pommel horse Naddour has won four U.S. titles, placed sixth at the 2014 Worlds and placed seventh at the 2015 Worlds. He is coached by his father, Mike Naddour. His wife, Hollie Vise, tied for the gold medal on uneven bars at the 2003 World Championships.
Naddour said Uchimura epitomizes the sport's technical and artistic aspects.
"When you watch him, that is how gymnastics is supposed to be done," Naddour said.
The September 2016 issue of International Gymnast magazine is a special issue devoted to reports, photos, quotes and results of the Rio Olympic Games. The October 2016 issue includes more behind-the-scenes coverage, including a photo gallery, notes, quotes and anecdotes. To subscribe to the print and/or digital edition, or order back issues, click here.
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The Di (Chinese: 氐; pinyin: Dī; Wade–Giles: Ti1; Old Chinese: *tˁij) were an ancient ethnic group that lived in western China, and are best known as one of the non-Han Chinese peoples that overran northern China during the Jin Dynasty (265–420) and the Sixteen Kingdoms period. This ethnic group should not be confused with the Dí 狄, which refers to unrelated nomadic peoples in northern China during the earlier Zhou Dynasty. The Di are thought to have been of proto-Tibetan origin, though there is a widespread belief among Chinese scholars that the Di have spoken an Altaic (specifically Turkic) language.
The Di lived in areas of the present-day provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan and Shaanxi, and are culturally related to the Qiang. While the Qiang were herders who lived in the highlands, the Di farmed in the river valleys and lived in wood frame homes with mud walls. They might be related to the Geji (戈基) people in Qiang people stories. During the 4th and early 5th centuries, they established Former Qin and Later Liang states of that era's Sixteen Kingdoms. The Di were eventually assimilated into other populations. The modern Baima people living in southeast Gansu and northwest Sichuan may be descended from the Di.
Only a few special Di names and place names preserved in old Chinese books. They may be a language isolate, a Qiang language or a Burmese language.
During the Jin Dynasty, the five semi-nomadic tribes of Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, and Qiang overran northern China. Historians call this period the Sixteen Kingdoms. During that period, Di ruled the states of Former Qin (351-394) and Later Liang (386-403).
The tribe of Di was originally from the southern part of Gansu Province. Its leader was Fu Jian, who founded the Former Qin Kingdom (351-394). He established his capital in Chang'an. He appointed Wang Meng (王猛), a Han-Chinese, to be his prime minister. He built a highly Sinicized administration and formed a strong Han-Chinese infantry army to accompany his Di cavalry.
In 370 AD, Fu Jian conquered the Kingdoms of Former Yan (307-370) and Former Liang (345-376). As a result, Fu Jian occupied the whole of northern China. He then embarked upon a plan to conquer southern China which was under the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420).
In 383 AD, Fu Jian led an army of about a million strong marching south with the intention of destroying the Eastern Jin. He met the Jin's main forces at the Fei River in Anhui. The Jin Army of only about eighty thousand strong were under the command of Xie Shi (謝石) and Xie Xuan. They camped near the river, and the battle is known as the Battle of Fei River. Fu Jian's campaign to conquer the south ended in disaster and his empire fell apart. He retreated to his capital of Changan, left his son Fu Pi (符丕) in charge of the capital, and returned to his home base in southern Gansu province to find new recruits from his own Di people. While on his way, Fu Jian was captured by the soldiers of the hostile Kingdom of Later Qin (384-417). He was later hanged by the ruler of Later Qin. His son, Fu Pi, became a new ruler of the Kingdom of Former Qin. In 394 the Kingdom of Former Qin was conquered by the Kingdom of Later Qin. The Former Qin lasted for only 44 years.


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Coach's PR Disaster: Waging War Against Legit Online Customers [Update]
Like many premium retail brands, Coach (COH) has long waged war against eBay (EBAY) users that sold counterfeit knock-off goods. However, the company's increasingly aggressive and expanding actions have just sparked a class action suit.
An ex-employee, Gina Kim of Seattle, claims that she was selling some of her used bags on eBay when she received a letter from Coach. In the letter, Coach alleged trademark infringement, threatened her with a $2 million lawsuit, and demanded that she send in all her Coach-branded products along with a check for $300.
This isn't the first time a consumer has alleged that the company interfered with the legitimate selling of branded products online, and raises the question of whether Coach management has decided to increase its profits by effectively stopping the trade in used products.
According to the lawsuit, Coach has threatened other people without investigating whether the items sold are actually counterfeit. Kim claims that eBay has closed her account at Coach's request.
However, recent history of Coach actions targeting eBay users goes well beyond assumptions that people are selling counterfeit bags. Some eBay sellers, who apparently would buy goods at one of Coach's outlet shops and then resell them at a profit on the auction site, claim to have been banned from the stores for life. This has apparently been happening since at least 2007, with stories of people being required to produce ID to make even a cash purchase and letters banning customers handed to them by store clerks.
There are questions of whether Coach could legally take such actions. Courts have generally upheld that people who buy merchandise (versus licensing content under restrictive conditions) can do what they want with the products after purchase. And in 2008, a federal court ruled that eBay was not legally responsible to keep users from selling counterfeit Tiffany products. Whether a company like Coach can ask eBay to keep people from selling clearly authentic products seems even less likely.
The company must know that products purchased at its stores are legitimate. (Uh, Coach, you're not taking those counterfeit knock-offs that you get governments to impound and selling them at your outlets, right?)
In such cases, clearly the company can't be worried about fake goods. Its lawyers must know that people have a legal right to dispose of what they purchased as they wish. And as people are unlikely to sell new bags for less than they paid, the issue can't be undercutting prices.
What does make sense is that Coach wants to retain as many sales as possible and have people buy new products. Perhaps the $492.3 million in net income for July through December 2010 isn't compelling enough to management.
It certainly seems as though the company is poised on the brink of a PR abyss. Coach hasn't yet responded to a request for more information. An update to this post will add the answer, if and when it comes.
[Update: Here's the response from Coach associate general counsel Nancy Axilrod. Regarding the lawsuit, "Our policy is to not comment on the specifics of pending litigation. We believe the lawsuit has no merit whatsoever and we intend to vigorously defend against it." Concerning the allegations that some people were being kept out of the stores:
It is entirely untrue that eBay users have been "banned from Coach outlet stores because they would buy products from Coach and then sell them on eBay." I think what you may be referring to is our policy on quantity limits.In other words, the quantity limits are to keep people from buying product and selling it elsewhere, like street corners, flea markets, ... or eBay.]
Like many luxury brands, Coach has a policy which limits the number of identical or similar items that may be purchased by an individual. Coach's policy on quantity limits is posted in Coach stores, and has been instituted for good reason. If an individual purchases a significant volume of goods, or is in the habit of purchasing duplicate items, it suggests that such individual is making these purchases for resale. Coach has worked hard since its inception in 1941 to establish a name brand synonymous with quality and excellence. To maintain the fine reputation we have crafted, we carefully select our distribution channels and provide superior services, including our return and repair services. Unauthorized distributors lack the ability and commitment to provide these services and therefore cannot uphold the integrity of the Coach brand. Accordingly, quantity limits are necessary to protect both the Coach brand, and our customers.
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Well I have added the work Holy right behind the word "Internet" as I think is the most respected thing anyone could bow in front off to give respect. Well Internet has taken our life's to a next level bringing everything a lot faster, easier & safer. We can talk to our parents living abroad, learn knowledgeable stuff online and even SHOP for our favorite jeans from outstation websites.
So overall if you look at Internet has given us everything, my whole business runs on its platform and I am devoted to it with my full SOUL. So today I will be writing about the best benefits and uses of Internet in your modern lifestyle.
Entertainment– with the full list of online services we are able to entertain ourselves by streaming videos using the YouTube platform, streaming movies using Netflix and even playing games with our friends staying abroad. So overall we get a whole lot of services that we can enjoy using Internet. Obtaining Information– nowadays people are bypassing reading books and other stuff as everything is available right online. One can simple Google anything and get results instantly. We can use Wikipedia to obtain some biographic data. So obtaining information these days is lot easier. Online Bookings– with the help of internet booking movie tickets, hotel reservations, restaurant dining has become a lot easier. One can search for the movie shows available in town cinema and then book tickets right away. This reduces travelling cost and even allows you to get the best you actually want. Social Networking– have some cousins abroad, well chatting with them is lot easier. One can create a free social network account like on Facebook and then start sharing their lovely memories by just uploading photos, sharing videos and even chatting on the GO. Free Calling– with the help of internet one can use the VOIP service to call your friends and family for free. Services like Skype charge you nothing but a free account, create your account add your friends and start calling them free. You can even make a free group video call. Blogging– possibly the best use of internet you can make is doing blogging, create your free blog using blogger and monetize it using AdSense. Well you can check out this $10 Business Startup Guide. Getting Latest News– well currently Newspaper are still rolling but soon these will get a ban due a whole lot of paper loss and three cutting, so now all the news channels are posting new right away on their website's, one can easily access these website and get latest news right away. These website have even created their apps that deliver news notification right away. So its another good benefit of internet one can easily get every single news right away.
So pretty much these were the few good and awesome benefits of using Internet, well if you think I missed any good point that should be here, then do comment below, any problems you can even email me using the contact form :)


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Adam is married with four young children. He operates a third-generation small grains farm near Brandon, Manitoba with his family, and he also operates Agritruth Research Inc., an independent agronomic research company.
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We have been in full summer mode for awhile and we have been loving it but also trying to find as many things as possible to keep us cool! It's soooo hot here. Lots of time swimming and lots of ice cream. Hello glorious summer!! The boys asked me if we could make a list of stuff they want to do for summer. (They get the list making from their momma =) I of course obliged and now we are in full check it off the list mode. Starting ASAP so we can get it all in before school starts back up.
Good thing we have already done some of these things because the boys list is full of FUN stuff. This momma wishes more than anything that Sweet Summertime lasted a little longer, but that's what makes it sweet doesn't it? You have to make the best of the time you get. How do you fit in all the fun summer festivities with your crew? I would love to hear and get more ideas! Here is our bucket list that we came up with. Check it out here Summer Bucketlist!!!
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A Greenpeace activist checks a hot air ballon depicting the world in Yucatán, Mexico, ahead of the Cancún climate change talks. Photograph: Luis Perez/AFP/Getty Images
Beating the rush for getting accreditation at the Cancún Messe convention centre, it felt strange that this shell of a warehouse would be bustling with people over the next few days waiting to access the nearby Moon Palace and be part of the historic campaign to tackle global climate change.
There's an air of uncertainty here, of controlled hope mixed with a hefty dose of pragmatism compared with the heady days before last year's UN climate talks in Copenhagen, where a deadline to secure a fair, safe and legally binding climate deal came – and went.
via Cancún climate talks are too big to fail | Lucy Brinicombe | Environment | guardian.co.uk.
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Scratching beneath the surface of Doctor Who's most fascinating tales...
Poor The Power of Kroll. Written in haste, spurned by its first director, plagued by illness behind the scenes, and filmed in what Mary Tamm called "a dreadful marsh somewhere" (when interviewed in DWM 99). Even its signature special effect – "the biggest monster ever seen on Doctor Who" – was the very messy victim of crossed wires.
The pre-production of the serial was especially fraught, and it seems that's where the worst misfortunes occurred. The usually excellent Robert Holmes (who came fresh from scripting the superb opener to this season) seemed uninspired by his brief, the scripts had come in too short, and almost every major role was played by an actor who wasn't the first choice. Once the cameras started rolling, though, everyone did their best to bring some life to what is a slightly dull adventure. So, while the viewer's attention might wander during the scenes filled with obvious padding, the finished product is far from a disaster.
In what was quite an ambitious season, this is quite an ambitious story. It's just a shame that it was hobbled almost as soon as it left the starting gates…
Part One
Thawn (Neil McCarthy), Swampie servant Mensch (Terry Walsh) at his side, has been on a trip to the planet of Delta Magna. Now, he has returned, back to his post on a methane refinery on the third of the planet's moons.
◾ On screen, Thawn is an employee of some unnamed "company", but in Terrance Dicks' novelisation of the story, Thawn and his colleagues work for "the Government Scientific Service".
◾ Thawn was McCarthy's second Doctor Who role: he also played Stangmoor Prison inmate Barnham in The Mind of Evil (1971).
◾ Director Norman Stewart wanted George Baker – who would go on to play Inspector Wexford in the ITV crime series The Ruth Rendell Mysteries from 1987-2000 – for the role of Thawn, but the actor was unavailable.
◾ Walsh was a veteran of the series, having worked as a stunt performer, fight arranger and occasional actor on many stories since The Smugglers (1966). He was given the role in part because of the stunt work it required in Part Two.
He is greeted by his colleagues Fenner (Philip Madoc), Dugeen (John Leeson) and Harg (Grahame Mallard). Dugeen notices something on his scanner – a ship that followed Thawn's down to the surface on the moon, landing in the dangerous swamps outside.
◾ One-time Coronation Street regular Alan Browning (who played Elsie Tanner's beau Alan Howard) was originally cast as Fenner, but he fell ill before filming and had to be replaced. Stewart turned to Philip Madoc, whose association with Doctor Who stretched back to the second of the 1960s Peter Cushing-led movies, Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966). He had also appeared in The Krotons (1968), The War Games (1969) and – in perhaps his most fondly remembered role, as mad scientist Mehendri Solon – The Brain of Morbius (1976). Madoc was under the impression that he had been offered the meatier, more villainous role of Thawn. "I don't really remember exactly what happened," he said in a later interview, in DWM 164. "Whoever sent me the script said, 'For the part of so-and-so,' which is what I read, but when I turned up on location, I found I wasn't playing that."
◾ Due to the soggy setting for this story, K9 spends all four episodes keeping his castors dry in the TARDIS. But Leeson – who had provided the voice for the robot dog since The Invisible Enemy (1977) – is kept busy as Dugeen; this story is his only on-screen appearance in the show.
◾ Stewart had lined up Martin Jarvis (who had appeared in The Web Planet (1965) and Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974), and would pop up again in Vengeance on Varos (1985)) for the role of Dugeen. When he became unavailable, Leeson stepped into the gap.
◾ Season 16 was producer Graham Williams' big experiment. Each serial was a chapter in a bigger story, detailing the Doctor's search for the segments of the all-powerful Key to Time. Williams and script editor Anthony Read had commissioned Ted Lewis to write the story detailing the search for the fourth segment of the Key – but with those scripts suddenly in the bin (see box-out, page 66), they needed to find a replacement, and quickly. So they turned to Doctor Who veteran Robert Holmes – whose first script for the series was The Krotons (1968-69), and who had written a dozen stories since then, including Season 16's opener, The Ribos Operation (1978).


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South India is very popular for making delicious chutneys. Today, I would be posting Chilly onion chutney, which is an excellent accompaniment to breakfasts like idly, dosa, adai, appam, kichadi, upma, medu vada etc.
Also it can be used as a tasty spread for ...sandwiches. This simple and easy chutney recipe is made with onion, chana dal, garlic and red chillies.Try this simple recipe and cook a great meal for family..:)
· Onion - 2
· Oil - 2 tsp
· Mustard - ¼ tsp
· Cumin - ½ tsp
· Split urad dal- 1 tsp
· Chana dal -2 tsp
· Red chilly - 2 or 3
· Garlic -2 to 3 pods
· Curry leaves - 4 to 5
· Hing - a pinc
· Tomato - 1
· Fresh coriander leaves
· Salt to taste
1. Slice onions and keep ready.
2. Heat oil in a pan.
3. Add the seasonings mustard, cumin, split urad dal, chana dal and wait to splutter.
4. Add sliced onions, red chilly, garlic and curry leaves.
5. Saute till onions turn transculent.
6. Add salt and hing.
7. Add sliced tomatoes and cook until tomatoes are soft and mashed in medium flame.
8. Now turn off the flame and add fresh coriander leaves.
9. Allow to cool.
10. Add the onion mixture to blender.
11. Add little water and grind to smooth paste.
12. Transfer to serving bowl. In a small pan, add mustard, cumin, red chilly and curry leaves. Allow to crackle and add it to chutney.
13. That's it…hot n delicious onion chutney is ready.
14. It makes an ideal combo with idly, dosa, pesarattu, paratha, etc.,
15. This chutney stays good for 2 days if refrigerated.
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That said, he also states multiple times that he's not too sure on that figure.
ReCore is undoubtedly one of the most intriguing upcoming games in the Xbox One's lineup. Developed by the developers of Metroid Prime and Mega Man in collaboration, the game looks like a fantastic new take on the classic Metroid and Zelda formulas- though how well a developer other than Nintendo is able to capture that is anybody's guess.
Like classic Metroid and Zelda games, it also sounds like it won't be too long- but a short adventure doesn't mean it won't be substantive, either. Mark Pacini, director of ReCore, said that the game would have a 'lot of value.'
"I'm horrible at gameplay hours," Pacini said to VentureBeat. "With the first Metroid [Prime] I said it was going to be eight hours and it ended up being something like twenty four. I think we've put a lot of value into this game, though. It's the proper length of time for the adventure, the story we're trying to tell. Take that with a grain of salt, knowing I'm horrible at estimate. It's eight hours, and take that with a warning."
If it is anything like his own Metroid example, then, we should be good to go with a meaty, 24 hour long adventure. That said, even if it is only eight hours, I don't think players will complain necessarily about a short, but well made, adventure (especially given ReCore's budget pricing).
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The second season of Bravo's reality competition Top Chef Masters premieres in April, once again featuring award-winning, widely-renowned chefs competing in the name of charity.
Last season, Chicago was represented by three great culinary artists: Art Smith, Graham Elliot Bowles, and all-around winner Rick Bayless.
The participants in this season's Masters were announced by Entertainment Weekly, and some of them have an old score to settle.
Bowles, who was eliminated in the first round in 2009, is back once again, one of six contestants who are returning from the first season.
"I was definitely less stressed and more confident going in, having gone through the ropes before," Bowles told the Chicago Tribune.
Along with goofball Bowles, Chicago will be rooting for local boys Tony Mantuano of Spiaggia and Rick Tramonto of Tru.
The complete line-up of 22 competing chefs is available at EW.com.
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Bicycle helmets can only protect people's heads if they are completely undamaged. But how can you tell whether dropping your helmet a few times is enough to compromise its safety? If Christof Koplin and other scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute have their way, you'll be able to smell the difference.
The researchers placed bad-smelling oils within microcapsules. These tiny capules, each no more than 50 micrometers long, are sealed within a layer of melamine formaldehyde resin and then embedded within the polypropylene portion of the helmet. The resin prevents the capsules from rupturing during the manufacturing process or minor wear and tear. If the helmet is structurally damaged, however, they begin to break. The worse the damage, the worse the resulting smell.
Apart from helmets, the researchers envision using their smell detection system in otherwise inaccessible hoses and pipes.
The damaged helmet releases odoriferous substances. Bottom right: the opened microcapsule.
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Andrea Swift
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Andrea Swift migrated to New York on a fellowship to Columbia University, following the success of her first documentary, "Deafsmith: a nuclear folktale" – which had aired internationally, and screened at the United Nations Earth Summit, and for key members of Congress. An Official Selection of Sundance's Environmental Film Festival, it also won Silver at The Chicago International Film Festival.
She has since amassed a successful career, writing, producing, and/ or directing a wide-ranging body of work, including films honored with the Panorama Award at The Berlin International Film Festival, a Best of Festival screening at Raindance International Film Festival, a DGA Award and selection for Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films. Television honors include two Telly Awards and a Scriptapalooza TV award for her original pilot, CATCH.
As Director, then Executive Producer of the PBS series, "In the Life", Swift dramatically raised the production values, profile, and ratings of the three-time Emmy Award nominee – without increasing its budget. She wrote for, and directed talent as diverse as Alan Cumming, Ossie Davis, Susan Saradon, Laura Linney, Harvey Fierstein, Cherry Jones and RuPaul. Additional series honors included three Telly Awards, the Seigenthaler Award for "excellence in network television," a GLAAD Media Award for "Outstanding TV Journalism-Newsmagazine" and selection for the UCLA Film & Television Archive's "Legacy" project.
The Independent magazine named The Documentary Department Swift chairs at New York Film Academy, one of the "10 Best Academic Programs for Documentary Filmmakers." This year's Academy Award nominated documentary, "The Square," was shot and co-produced by one of its many successful graduates.
In addition to teaching, Swift now focuses on story producing, writing, and creative producing. She's currently writing, "The Spirit of Discovery," and writing/producing "The Best Little Sports Story Never Told," both feature documentaries. As Consulting Producer / Creative Consultant, she collaborates on story and production concerns, and generates inventive outreach and "tent-pole" strategies, harnessing the power of Hollywood's franchise model to serve social issue documentaries. Current clients include David Lynch Foundation, MDS Productions, and The Crossing Cultural Borders Project - a featured progra