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Would you like to hear some good news? After decades of sordid mismanagement and cyclical bankruptcy, the great Indian Motorcycle brand has been reborn in the American heartland (Spirit Lake, Iowa) with alluring retro-modern cruisers powered by beautiful/vulgar 111-inch V-twin engines. Imagine the velvety crumple and flap coming from the streamlined Deco exhaust pipes, the chirr of pushrod tappets ricocheting off canyon walls, the snapping pennants at full throttle. Get a load of this thing coming around a corner. You got a permit for this event?
The new bikes look fantastic, sound superb and—if my Chief Classic tester was any indication—they ride like buttah. Excuse me while I slip into something leathery.
This bike has awakened some sort of motorcycle sleeper cell in my soul. The whole wicked, bigger-than-Harley longueur of it—103.5 inches from the fat front tire to fatter rear, over a 68.1-inch wheelbase, with a 29-degree rake and 6.1 inches of trail. The steering geometry gives the Indian an arrow-straight riding demeanor, and if you set the cruise control to 60 mph, you can sit back, take your hands off the grips, lean against the wind, and pretty soon, well, you're in Utah. A great overland bike.
" The original Indian Motorcycle Company of Springfield, Mass., went belly up in 1953 and since then, there have been numerous attempts to revive the brand, all ignominious. "
It is also what you might call joyously enormous. The undressed Chief, with 5.5 gallons of fuel onboard, weighs 812 pounds. That is one 98-pound weakling more than the Moto Guzzi 1400 California I rode a few months back and it is about 100 pounds more than a Harley Softail. The new Indian represents some significant technical achievements—the two-cylinder, 1.8-liter engine is an insanely optimized upgrade of an architecture that was obsolete 50 years ago, for example—but the people responsible for the new Indian weren't sweating the pounds.
Indeed, if this bike has a fault, it's the slight sluggishness in the handlebars at low speed. And small wonder. By way of fealty to Indian's historic, gotta-have-'em design cues, the new Indian front end sports a mirror-chromed steel headlamp housing the size of a serving tray, with separate dual high-beams and turn signals arrayed across a chromed light bar; mighty mirror-chromed telescopic shocks (119 mm); the signature front fender valance with its translucent Indian chief fender ornament, now illuminated with LED. All of which builds inertia around the steering axis, even before you get a quick-release cop windshield on the Chief Classic or opt for the full fairing that comes with the Chieftain. In short, you have to muscle the handlebars around in tight maneuvering.
In a concession to physics, the Chief has front disc brakes, a lot of them: dual, crossed-drilled floating rotors with four-pot calipers and ABS. There is also a single-rotor rear brake with a carlike brake pedal near the right floorboard, though I confess I can't get used to rear braking.
In the pageant of cruiser bikes currently set before affluent middle-aged dudes, the Guzzi and the Indian are two proofs of the same motorcycle theorem: grandeur over performance, leverage (by way of a low center of gravity) over weight savings, style over speed. At this point in my riding career, that works for me.
The original Indian Motorcycle Company of Springfield, Mass., went belly up in 1953 and since then, there have been numerous attempts to revive the brand, all ignominious. There was much to salvage, after all. Prewar Indians are core curricula in 20th century American industrial design, to be esteemed like Chris Craft wooden motor yachts, early Airstream trailers or Yankee Clipper flying boats. Those days won't come again.
While Indian made all kinds of bikes, from the hardy, lightweight Scouts to boardtrack racers, the ultimate Indian, the culturally eidetic form, is the 1940-1949 Chief, a rakish thoroughbred, with its scalloped front- and rearwheel fairings, softtail stance, low sprung saddle, wide bars and the charismatic Indian Chief front fender light.
The combination of European-inspired Deco design (the scalloped fairings are a quote from French coachbuilder Panhard-Levassor) and the company's deeply felt Old West nostalgia (fringed saddles and handlebar tassels, for examples) make the big Chiefs Ground Zero for American Cool.
In 2011, Polaris Industries—the Medina, Minn.-based maker of power sports vehicles such as side-by-side ATVs and snowmobiles—bought Indian after yet another bankruptcy-court filing, this time under the ownership of London-based private equities firm, Stellican Limited, which had moved operations to Kings Mountain, N.C.
Stellican's business model was particularly obnoxious in that it attempted to reimagine Indian as a low-volume, aspirational luxury brand, i.e., bikes for rich suckers. The mechanicals of these bikes were painfully dated; their 45-degree, single-cam V-twins kind of generic; and the prices outrageous. A 2013 Indian Chief Limited Edition—the last model-year of the Stellican-era bikes—had a base price of $26,499. The 2014 model, our test bike, has an MSRP of $18,999, a drop of 28%.
The comparable Harley-Davidson is the Heritage Softail, with a base price of $18,099; but with anything like a decent paint job, the Softail comes in just over $19,000.
Polaris also owns the Victory Motorcycle brand, which it began in 1998 as a rival to Harley-Davidson. It moved Indian's final assembly to the Victory plant in Spirit Lake. A trio of all-new bikes—the Chief Classic, the soft bagger Chief Vintage and a hard bagger (with fairing) Chieftain—are powered by a torquey double-pumper of the company's design: the Thunder Stroke 111 V-Twin, a 49-degree, air-cooled engine, using a three-cam valvetrain geometry in order to re-create the distinctive parallel pushrod tubes of the vintage 80-inchers.
The engine's aesthetic details are pitch perfect: the Indian chief logo cast into the aluminum primary-drive housing; the delicate Chief's head embossment on the oil filler; the air cleaner cover polished to numismatic brightness with the antique script "111" on it.
The official specification is 119 pound-feet of torque at 3,000 rpm for this two-piston ass-kicker. At idle, the counterbalance shaft-equipped engine has a bit of a checka-chucka thing going on—the powertrain guys have actually programmed in a little vintage lumpiness into the engine-management software. Crack the throttle and the locomotive breaths come faster, the torque becomes more urgent, but this engine, with its 4.449-inch stroke, doesn't have a lot of revs in it. The engine is out of steam by about 5,000 rpm, where I estimate the engine is putting out around 70 horsepower (the company doesn't provide the data).
And it's all quite civilized. Indian will offer a Stage 1 exhaust pipe option—code for "louder"—but if you want the feral glissades of a straight-pipe V-Twin, this Indian isn't you bike.
The artistic achievement here is that the Indian, with so much heritage observed, manages to be, somewhat covertly, a modern bike. The frame is cast aluminum; the engine is fuel-injected with by-wire throttle control; and the Indian has ABS, keyless start, cruise control and more.
Look, I get it. It's a faux collectible, a semblance, a manqué. But Indian is one of the few brands for which I'm willing to suspend disbelief. Again.


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Two sessions exploring the effects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the subsequent U.S. military action in Afghanistan on the arts and humanities are scheduled for Friday, Nov. 16.
The panel discussions, titled "Terrorism and War, the Arts and the Humanities: A Conversation in the Aftermath of Sept. 11," will run from 2:30 to 6 p.m. in McCormick 101. They are sponsored by the Council of the Humanities .
The first session will focus on how Sept. 11 and its aftermath challenge, alter, limit and/or define the work of the academy. Panelists will discuss what kind of responsibilities such events place upon faculty members as teachers, writers and public intellectuals. Speakers will be Judith Butler, professor of rhetoric at the University of California-Berkeley, and Princeton faculty members Gyan Prakash, professor of history, and Michael Wood, chair of the English department. The moderator will be Karen Beckman, lecturer in English.
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To test Morse theory, one day I tried to compute the homology of Lens spaces. You can build a lens space out of $S^3 = \{ |z|^2 + |w|^2 = 1: z, w \in \mathbb{C} \}$ using the quotient by $z \mapsto e^{2\pi i /p}z, w \mapsto e^{2\pi i q/p}w$. The quotient by this action L(p,q) is a lens space.
With Morse theory estimates the Betti numbers of a manifold by counting the critical points of a specified index. For any real-valued function $f: L(p,q) \to \mathbb{R}$, we look for critical points where $\nabla f(p_0) = 0$. Expanding around p0 $f(p) = f(p_0) + (p - p_0)^T A (p - p_0) + O(|p - p_0|^2)$ for some matrix $A$, the Hessian. If the eigenvalues of A are all real and nonzero and the critical values of f are all different then $f$ is called "Morse". The Morse theory says L(p,q) is homotopic to a CW-complex with a cell complex of dimension k for each critical point of index k.
The Morse function I chose is $h = r \cos p\theta$ where $r,\theta$ come from $z = r e^{i \theta}$. Also let $w = \rho e^{i \phi}$. This function is well-defined on the lens space L(p,q) and its critical points are (+/-1,0,0,0) and its images under the deck transformation. To see this, notice the gradient in this coordinate system is $$\nabla = \left( \frac{\partial }{\partial r}, \frac{1}{r}\frac{\partial }{\partial \theta},, \frac{\partial }{\partial \rho}, \frac{1}{\rho} \frac{\partial }{\partial \phi}\right) $$ and you look for points where the gradient is normal to S3. However, $H_1[L(p,q)]= \mathbb{Z}/p$ suggesting we should have a saddle point of index 1.
I am told that Morse theory only gives you the singular $\mathbb{R}$ homology. Did I find all the critical points correctly? Is there a way to get the $\mathbb{Z}$ homology using Morse homology or other piece of differential topology?


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In grey squirrels are most common. They are medium sized squirrels with dark to pale grey backs and tinted with reddish coloration on their hips, feet and head. Generally, there is not much of a variation between males and females in colour or size.
Grey squirrels in have two breeding seasons per year in December to February and May to June. Females squirrels tend to have two litters per year, one from each season that they breed in. There are generally up to 3 individuals per litter. The winter litter is generally smaller than the summer litter. Both male and female squirrels remain reproductively active throughout their entire lives.
Squirrels can adapt to any situation that confronts them. Squirrel nests are called a drey. If you hear noises coming from your loft or attic it is very likely that you have an uninvited squirrel that has settled in your home. A very common complaint is hearing lots of scratching. This can be a sign that a female squirrel is preparing to have her litter. This should be addressed immediately by a professional squirrel controller. The litter will grow older and cause damage to your home in .
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The other method downloads all of the raw data.
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Time OFFSET Selection (note: not a timeZONE)
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Fetching from Schedules Direct
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using config filename /home/rkulagow/.xmltv/tv_grab_na_dd.conf
Fetching from Schedules Direct
loading data: ##################################################
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Downloaded 50426 programs in 327 seconds
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM "xmltv.dtd">
<tv source-info-url="http://www.schedulesdirect.org/" source-info-name="Schedules Direct" generator-info-name="XMLTV/$Id: tv_g
rab_na_dd.in,v 1.54 2007/08/20 21:35:05 rmeden Exp $" generator-info-url="http://www.xmltv.org/">
<channel id="I10002.labs.zap2it.com">
<display-name>266 3ANGELS</display-name>
<display-name>266 3ANGELS TX64967:X</display-name>
<display-name>3 Angels Broadcasting Network</display-name>
<channel id="I10021.labs.zap2it.com">
<display-name>201 AMC</display-name>
<display-name>201 AMC TX64967:X</display-name>
Let's look for "CBS" and see if they have content:
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<channel id="I10759.labs.zap2it.com">
<display-name>11 KTVT</display-name>
<display-name>11 KTVT TX64967:X</display-name>
<display-name>11 KTVT fcc</display-name>
<display-name>CBS Affiliate</display-name>
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<programme start="20070910180000 -0600" stop="20070910183000 -0600" channel="I10759.labs.zap2it.com">
<title lang="en">How I Met Your Mother</title>
<sub-title lang="en">Something Borrowed</sub-title>
<desc lang="en">When Marshall and Lily's wedding is not as they had envisioned it, Barney tries to salvage the special day
<director>Pamela Fryman</director>
<actor>Josh Radnor</actor>
<actor>Jason Segel</actor>
<actor>Alyson Hannigan</actor>
<actor>Neil Patrick Harris</actor>
<actor>Cobie Smulders</actor>
<writer>Greg Malins</writer>
<guest>Shulie Cowen</guest>
<guest>Meagen Fay</guest>
<guest>P.J. Marino</guest>
<guest>David Burtka</guest>
<guest>Rachelle Wood</guest>
<guest>Joe Manganiello</guest>
<guest>Candice Accola</guest>
<guest>Michael Mantell</guest>
<guest>Thomas Bethke</guest>
<category lang="en">Sitcom</category>
<category lang="en">Series</category>
<episode-num system="dd_progid">EP00753796.0047</episode-num>
<subtitles type="teletext" />
<rating system="VCHIP">
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A few years ago my mother took her love of gardening to a whole new level. She successfully completed the Master Gardening course through the Clemson University Extension and now volunteers as a Master Gardener. To say that I'm proud of her doesn't even begin to cover it, and I find myself calling her frequently with gardening questions. It's good to have a Master Gardener in the family.
In the last few years my father has helped her more and more, and they've done some amazing things. Whenever we go for a visit I find myself wandering around look at her flowers and enjoying the beauty she has created.


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I would like to applaud all the women who marched on March 8 for equal rights. International Women's Day highlighted the economic power and significance that women have in the U.S. and global economies.
It is time for women to be treated as equals for what they do in making our nation great.
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Best Fish 'n' Chips
Many of us have grown up with the Friday night tradition of fish and chips, and while our takeaway choices these days are much more varied, there is still something wonderful about that steaming hot newspaper package.
|Agria potatoes
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|Rice bran oil, approx, use enough to deep fry the fish & chips
|600 g
|White fish
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|1 tsp
|Sea salt
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|Wholegrain mustard
|330 ml
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Peel potatoes (or just scrub) and cut into 2cm-thick sticks. Dry well with a clean tea towel or paper towels.
- Pour enough oil into a large, deep saucepan to deep-fry but take care that it won't boil over, Heat oil until a small piece of bread instantly sizzles and changes colour when added.
- Cook chips in batches until golden, drain well, then place on a single layer on a baking tray and transfer to the oven.
- Trim fish fillets into single pieces. Dust fillets with flour(sifted).
- Place flour and salt in a bowl and make a well in the centre. Add mustard and enough lager to make a thick batter. You will end up with a small amount of beer left over in the bottle.
- Dip fish into batter and deep-fry in batches until fillets turn golden and float to the surface. Drain on paper towels.
- Serve fish and chips with lemon wedges and salt.


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I picked up my local newspaper this morning and there on the front page were three headlines so wonderful I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't still sound asleep dreaming up a complete fantasy fulfillment!
Here are the headlines from our front page:
1. Dems control Congress!
2. Rumsfeld resigns!
and--Drum roll please . . .
3. Low-carb OK'd for women: new study shows diets high in fat and low in carbohydrates do not pose added risk of heart disease to women
If this keeps up, my blood sugar is going to be dropping just from a lack of things to get infuriated about!
Linoleic acid makes you hungry
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Published in September 1955, this map offers a snapshot of Southeast Asia following the Korean War and prior to the Vietnam conflict. It appeared in National Geographic with the article "This Young Giant, Indonesia." Detailed and informative, this map is a perfect companion for the Southeast Asia map of 1968.
Coverage Area: Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand (Siam), Laos, Burma, Viet Nam, Philippines, Formosa (Taiwan), southern China


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Nakheel lists second Sukuk Issue on the DIFX at $750 million
Nakheel, a member of Dubai World has listed an issue of $750 million Trust Certificates (the "Sukuk") on the Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX), the world's largest exchange for Sukuk by listed value.
This is the second Sukuk that Nakheel has issued. The first issue, the world's largest at $3.52 billion, was listed on the DIFX in December 2006. In the case of both issues, under certain conditions, investors will have the right to subscribe for up to a certain amount of shares in any future Qualifying Public Offering of any entity of the Nakheel Group, undertaken prior to the redemption of the Sukuk.
Kar Tung Quek, Chief Financial Officer of Nakheel said: 'Like our first Sukuk, this issue was very well received by investors looking for exposure to our global property and other businesses as they expand.
'Investor confidence is reinforced by the Sukuk's listing on the DIFX, as the region's international exchange with first class standards of regulation.'
Per E. Larsson, Chief Executive of the DIFX, said: 'Sukuk are a rapidly expanding asset class, with $41.24 billion issued globally in 2007, a 63% increase from 2006. The DIFX will strengthen its leading role in the Sukuk sector as part of its wider strategy of leadership in Islamic finance.'
Nakheel's $750 million Sukuk was issued by J.P. Morgan Securities Limited with a Sukuk al-Ijara structure maturing on January 16, 2011. J.P. Morgan was the sole bookrunner, lead manager and underwriter. The Sukuk is listed exclusively on the DIFX.
Hamed Ali, Executive Officer of the DIFX, said: "This is the ninth Sukuk from a UAE issuer to come to the DIFX, joining other Sukuk listings from a range of other issuers in the Middle East and East Asia.
'The DIFX offers issuers the visibility and high profile that come with listing on an exchange that is based in the Middle East and closely connected to the regional and international financial services community."


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DETROIT (AP) Western Kentucky is heading to its first bowl since joining college football's top tier in 2009.
The Hilltoppers will play in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl in Detroit on Dec. 26 against Central Michigan. Western Kentucky (7-5) was also bowl eligible last year but didn't get to play in one.
``We are honored and pleased to accept a bid to the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl,'' Western Kentucky athletic director Todd Stewart said. ``I am especially happy for our 19 seniors for their perseverance and for overcoming the obstacles and growing pains they have endured.''
The Sun Belt Conference team received an invite from the Pizza Bowl, which has ties with the Big Ten and Mid-American conferences. With Ohio State and Penn State ineligible, postseason options from the Big Ten were limited this year.
This is Western Kentucky's fourth season in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Central Michigan (6-6) played in this bowl three straight years from 2006-08.
``We've had a wonderful relationship with this bowl in the past,'' Central Michigan athletic director David Heeke said. ``We're excited to go to Detroit and a tremendous football event. We expect Chippewa fans to once again come out in support of our university.''
The Pizza Bowl is usually able to find a local team to invite. Western Michigan played in it last year, and Toledo made the trip the year before.
Western Kentucky made it into a bowl over Middle Tennessee, another Sun Belt team that went 8-4 and beat the Hilltoppers 34-29.
The Blue Raiders lost 45-0 on Saturday to Arkansas State, with the winner taking the Sun Belt title. Then they spent part of Sunday making their case for a bowl berth on a conference call.
Coach Rick Stockstill called being shut out devastating for his seniors and the entire team after an emotional meeting with the Blue Raiders.
``They did what they had to do on the football field and were not rewarded,'' Stockstill said in a statement. ``We had a great year and we will not let the momentum of our 8-4 season be derailed by other people's decisions that I don't agree with.''
Western Kentucky went 0-12 in 2009, but its ascent has been quick since then. The Hilltoppers were 7-1 in Sun Belt play a season ago. They won at Kentucky this year. Central Michigan won at Iowa.
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(The Root) — Lounging poolside on a small island off the northeastern coast of Puerto Rico, I cracked open a hard copy of Toni Morrison's Home, eager to devour something literary to the sound of the ocean nearby and not my usual soundtrack: the white noise of a D.C. coffee shop.
Of course, I wasn't the only one with the same idea, even if with a much different execution.
The woman next to me was just as engrossed in her book as I was in mine. Taking a peek at the cover, I spotted the ubiquitous silver-patterned tie that has cinched the erotic grip of E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey on best-seller lists since the spring.
I groaned at the inescapability of the Fifty Shades franchise all the way in Puerto Rico, happy that my obligatory copy of the book was safely hidden away on my iPad.
Since the books' April release, James, a 40-year-old married mother whose real name is Erika, has sold millions of copies of the erotic trilogy that she began writing on a lark. If her story sounds familiar, it's because it is. Remember that other middle-aged suburban wife and mom who paved her way to success by capitalizing on sexual flights of fancy? Her name is Zane. Maybe you've heard of her?
The fast and dirty success of Fifty Shades of Grey — a book that Maureen Dowd called "the first smash hit in the era of 'Mommy's naughty reader' " and whose author, Dowd said, wrote "like a Brontë devoid of talent" — immediately called to mind that other author, whom the New York Times once dubbed "a purveyor of erotica" with "mass-market appeal." She was hailed as the next Nancy Friday, a pioneer in feminist erotica.
Since nabbing a deal with Simon and Schuster to publish one of her first novels, The Sex Chronicles, in 2002, Zane has sold millions upon millions of books. A decade later, Zane reigns over her own publishing empire, with her own imprint at Atria and a TV show on Cinemax After Dark, Zane's Sex Chronicles. Up next is a Zane-edited erotica anthology, Z-Rated: Chocolate Flava 3 (Atria).
So why now are publishers (and Hollywood) heralding mommy erotica as if it's something new? Universal recently optioned James' trilogy for $5 million. In May, Saturday Night Live lampooned Fifty Shades as the gift every suburban mom really wanted for Mother's Day. Ostensibly, it's the book to masturbate to.
In a nutshell, the book is 500 pages of light BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance, submission) scenes mixed in with an even lighter "vanilla" love story. Ana is a 22-year-old recent college grad and virgin who falls for 27-year-old billionaire Christian Grey, who smells of "body wash" and danger. Christian's into some "kinky" stuff — spanking, cuffs, clichés — and Ana gets dragged into his lifestyle. Most of the book is spent in young Ana's head as she battles with her "inner goddess" and "medulla oblongata" over the morality of Christian's freaky fetishes.
Zane's Sex Chronicles and Addicted can satisfy a woman's fantasies just as easily. The difference is all about agency. In Zane's books, the female characters already know what launches their lady rocket. In James' Fifty Shades, Ana is the female embodiment of a blank slate. The women of Zane's fantasies are idealized: career driven, smart, financially stable and independent.
In a rare profile of Zane in 2004, a New York Times reporter called the author's characters complex and "aspirational": "Rarely is there a shortage of suitable African-American men for the aspirational women in her stories, and when women travel down the economic ladder to couple, they are not forced to do so, but choose to."
By contrast, James' "submissive" Ana leaves everything up to her "dominant," Christian. The fantasy, the big payoff, is that he shows up and, just like Brian McKnight sang in his "adult R&B" song "Ready to Learn," shows Ana "how her p—-y works." A Zane heroine would already know.
So what does that say about the differences between African-American and white female erotica fans? Each demographic has made a millionaire out of the woman smart enough to tap into them. But what, exactly, have they tapped into?
The idea that black women are seen as strong, take-the-bull-by-the-horns-type heroines and white women are seen as damsels in distress is nothing new. What's interesting here is that the women themselves seem to be buying into pop culture's own depiction of them, adopting the fantasy as their own.
The opinionated black CEO who has her way with the delivery guy and then sends him on his. The quiet white college grad who lets someone else take the reins and then smack her with them. Neither is a groundbreaking concept, and yet both have hit a pipeline to the way different women see themselves in their fantasies.
Helena Andrews is a contributing editor at The Root and author of Bitch Is the New Black, a memoir in essays. Follow her on Twitter.
Helena Andrews is a contributing editor at The Root and author of Bitch Is the New Black, a memoir in essays. Follow her on Twitter.


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This site is the archived OWASP Foundation Wiki and is no longer accepting Account Requests.
To view the new OWASP Foundation website, please visit https://owasp.org
Strings and Integers
Strings are not a defined Type in C or C++, but simply a contiguous array of characters terminated by a null (\0) character. The length of the string is the amount of characters which precede the null character. C++ does contain template classes which address this feature of the programming language: std::basic_string and std::string These classes address some security issues but not all.
Common String Errors
Common string errors can be related to mistakes in implementation, which may cause drastic security and availability issues. C/C++ do not have the comfort other programming languages provide, such as Java and C# .NET, relating to buffer overflows and such due to a String Type not being defined.
Common issues include:
- Input validation errors
- Unbounded errors
- Truncation issues
- Out-of-bounds writes
- String Termination errors
- Off-by-one errors
Some of the issues mentioned above have been covered in the Reviewing Code for Buffer Overruns and Overflows section in this guide.
Unbounded Errors
String Copies
Unbounded errors occur when data is copied from a unbounded source to a fixed length character array.
void main(void) { char Name[10]; puts("Enter your name:"); gets(Name); <-- Here the name input by the user can be of arbitrary length over running the Name array. ... }
String Termination Errors
Failure to properly terminate strings with a null can result in system failure.
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { char a[16]; char b[16]; char c[32]; strncpy(a, "0123456789abcdef", sizeof(a)); strncpy(b, "0123456789abcdef", sizeof(b)); strncpy(c, a, sizeof(c)); }
Verify that the following are used:
strncpy() instead of strcpy() snprintf() instead of sprintf() fgets() instead of gets()
Off by One Error
Looping through arrays should be looped in a n-1 manner, as we must remember arrays and vectors start as 0. This is not specific to C/C++, but Java and C# also.)
Off-by-one errors are common to looping functionality, wherein a looping functionality is performed on an object in order to manipulate the contents of an object such as copy or add information. The off-by-one error is a result of an error on the loop counting functionality.
for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) { /* Do Stuff */ }
Here i starts with a value of 0, it then increments to 1, then 2, 3 & 4. When i reaches 5 then the condition i<5 is false and the loop terminates.
If the condition was set such that i<=5 (less than or equal to 5), the loop won't terminate until i reaches 6, which may not be what is intended.
Also, counting from 1 instead of 0 can cause similar issues, as there would be one less iteration. Both of these issues relate to an off-by-one error where the loop either under or over counts.
Issues with Integers
Integer Overflows
When an integer is increased beyond its maximum range or decreased below its minimum value, overflows occur. Overflows can be signed or unsigned. Signed when the overflow carries over to the sign bit, unsigned when the value being intended to be represented is no longer represented correctly.
int x; x = INT_MAX; // 2,147,483,647 x++; Here x would have the value of -2,147,483,648 after the increment
It is important when reviewing the code that some measure should be implemented such that the overflow does not occur. This is not the same as relying on the value "never going to reach this value (2,147,483,647)". This may be done by some supporting logic or a post increment check.
unsigned int y; y = UINT_MAX; // 4,294,967,295; y++; Here y would have a value of 0 after the increment
Also, here we can see the result of an unsigned int being incremented, which loops the integer back to the value 0. As before, this should also be examined to see if there are any compensating controls to prevent this from happening.
Integer Conversion
When converting from a signed to an unsigned integer, care must also be taken to prevent a representation error.
int x = -3; unsigned short y; y = x;
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The folks over at Microsoft's Xbox Music Developer group announced on July 3 that they were extending the Xbox Music API more generally to all third party developers. This REST-based API, announced at //Build earlier this year, encompasses metadata, deep linking, playback and collection management.
This means, a developer with any interest in pulling up information or content related to music, can now use the Xbox Music catalog and resources and integrate them into their apps. There are various possibilities like a video editor being able to use background music, video game makers allowing custom soundtracks, or something as simple as a band's fan page pulling up metadata from their catalog on Xbox Music.
The more interesting news in the blog post comes later, where they announce an affiliate program:
Every user you redirect to the Xbox Music application can earn you money on content purchases and Xbox Music Pass subscriptions. You currently will earn a 5 percent share on purchases and as the Xbox Music pass is at the core of our service, 10 percent on all music pass payments for the lifetime of the subscription. In the US for example, that's one dollar, per user, per month!
That's no small change, if you ask me. The Xbox Music Pass is a pretty good deal as it is, and if a developer can lead someone to that vastly underrated product and their customer is able to sign up, a 10% commission is pretty sweet.
The headwinds are strong for Xbox Music because established players like Spotify have also opened up their catalog to developers in a similar fashion. It remains to be seen if the developers find the API and/or the affiliate terms strong enough of an incentive to build against the Xbox Music API vs the others.
One thing to bear in mind is the new Microsoft is not going to remain uni-platform anymore. They have shown all signs of being completely platform-agnostic to prepare for the new normal where Windows becomes just another platform that Microsoft services support.
Are you a developer building apps which require music? Are you using Spotify or anything else? Would you sign up for Xbox Music Developer program? Let me know below.
[All images courtesy Microsoft/Xbox blogs; header image is from the author's computer]


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If you love weird engine swaps, E30s, six speed transmissions, extreme project car hell and going super fast in a straight line, this 4G63 powered BMW has it all. While some might ask why put a turbo Mitsubishi engine in a BMW, we can only applaud the efforts of the creator of this awesome E30.
According to 1A Blog, where we found this monster, the owner of this bizarre Bimmer won't rest until he manages a nine second 1/4 mile. After watching the impressive run seen here, we feel pretty safe guessing it won't be too long until the nine second dream is realized.
Hat tip to SuperCharger.Heaven!
[1A Blog]


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When I was eighteen years I noticed the 3_4_5 right at the start of pi.
Pi is an irrational number (can't be expressed as a ratio of integers) regardless of base.
There is nothing unique about base 10. We chose it because of our fingers? This proves that there is some connection between the base we use and the number Pi.


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Lv Archlight Sneaker
The LV Archlight sneaker is reinterpreted this season in black-and-white tweed, a key theme of the ready-to-wear at Louis Vuitton's Fall-Winter 2019 women's show. This iconic model, famous for its oversized springy outsole, features a back loop in Monogram canvas and an LV Circle patch on the tongue.
Detailed features
- Calf leather and tweed
- White
- Oversized rubber outsole (5 cm / 2 inches)
- Made in Italy
To preserve the beauty of your product, we recommend following these guidelines for its careYour shoes are crafted from two or more of the materials below:
- Fabric: clean with a brush or a soft, slightly damp cloth.
- Suede leather or nubuck: to maintain the velvety look of the leather, clean it gently with a soft brush. Surface stains may be removed with a crepe brush.
- Smooth or grained leather: clean with a soft, damp cloth. When the leather is dry, apply a quality colorless cream and polish in circular motions with a soft cloth.
- Glazed leather: clean with a soft, slightly damp cloth, then polish with a soft, dry cloth.
- Metallic leather: clean with a soft, dry cloth.
- Exotic leather: clean with a soft, dry cloth, then apply a quality colorless cream, working very gently in the direction of the scales, to nourish the leather and maintain its suppleness.
Keep your shoes in the felt pouch provided and store them in a cool, dry, well-ventilated place.
Avoid contact with water, any substance containing alcohol (perfumes, solvents etc.) or oil (makeup), and abrasive products in general.
It is important to allow your sneakers to air manually, and to this end they possess a removable insock. If your sneakers become wet, simply remove the insock and leave them to dry in a cool, well-ventilated place. This will ensure additional comfort when they are next worn.
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October has been designated as Respect Life Month by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. It is a time when we draw attention to the gift of life and our calling to protect all life, especially the elderly and the unborn. Another national campaign, 40 Days for Life, also falls in October. It calls for prayer, especially outside of abortion clinics, and fasting to end abortion. It's efforts have been fruitful, over 6,000 documented lives have been saved and at least 69 abortion workers have resigned from their jobs.
Unfortunately, not everyone shares our passion for protecting the gift of life. Sadly, our president has not yet come to understand the dignity and uniqueness of new life. He must not realize that at conception the new human being has it's own unique, never to be repeated DNA. At conception the baby's sex, eye and hair color and even its tendency to be right or left handed is established. We all started that same unique way. But while our president was an Illinois senator, he voted four times to deny health care to late-term babies who miraculously survive their abortions. He voted to withhold all medical assistance including a warm blanket, oxygen or simple hydration to keep them alive. He stated that the wishes of the mother, death to the child, must be granted instead of the needs of the child. Healthcare for all must not discriminate against the unborn and newly born.
Our president is a stanch supporter of Planned Parenthood, our nation's largest abortion provider. This million dollar industry receives nearly $1 million a day or $360,000,000 a year from the federal government. Our president recently said they are an important provider of women's breast cancer screenings. Yet in reality, they only hand out vouchers. They do not do mammograms or own any machines to do them. The vouchers could go directly to the mammogram providers. No wonder they have donated millions of dollars to run re-election ads. The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute published a survey from women who obtained abortions; 53.6 percent reported they were using contraception when they conceived. Our nation's problem is not the lack of birth control; it's unfortunately the lack of self control, dignity and respect.
Please pray for our president, our nation and all leaders that we may all gain the wisdom and truth to appreciate and respect every gift of life.
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MMAjunkie.com Radio today welcomes to the show the UFC's Ricardo Lamas and Tyron Woodley.
Lamas will co-host with the fellas in the studio a little more than a week after his devastating TKO win over Erik Koch at UFC on FOX 6 in Chicago. He was at UFC 156 on Saturday to watch the featherweight title fight between Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar wondering if he might get the next shot. And Woodley scored a big knockout of his own at UFC 156 when he stopped Jay Hieron in just 36 seconds. He'll talk about the victory in his UFC debut. Plus, there will be plenty of recapping of UFC 156.
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Nasdaq-listed IT firm Cognizant today said it will pay its senior executives 100 per cent performance-linked stock options if the company's revenues touch USD 8.51 billion in fiscal year 2013.
Nasdaq-listed IT firm Cognizant today said it will pay its senior executives 100 per cent performance-linked stock options if the company's revenues touch USD 8.51 billion in fiscal year 2013.
Also read: Cognizant quarterly profit rises 22%
In a filing to US regulator SEC, Cognizant said it will "award performance units to certain executive officers of the company subject to attainment of certain performance milestones as well as certain continued service requirements".
Fifty per cent of the performance units would be given upon achieving the target of USD 8.22 billion in 2013. No such award would be given if the company's revenue in 2013 is less than USD 8.22 billion. The senior executives would be eligible for 100 per cent of the performance units if the company achieves revenue of USD 8.515 billion and 200 per cent in case it touches USD 9.175 billion.
However, if Cognizant meets the target of USD 8.515 billion revenue, it would translate into a growth of 16 per cent, lower than its expected growth this year. These executives include CEO Francisco D'Souza (93,113 performance units), President Gordon J Coburn (49,758), Group chief executive Industries and Markets Rajeev Mehta (43,063), Group Chief Executive Technology and Operations Ramakrishnan Chandrasekaran (31,980), CFO Karen McLoughlin (18,590) and senior VP, general counsel and secretary Steven Schwartz (9,376).
One-third of such performance units shall be issued 18 months from December 3 (provided the grantee remains in service). The remaining units will be issued 36 month from the date of grant. Cognizant, which follows January-December fiscal, has guided its revenue in 2012 to be at least USD 7.34 billion (up at least 20 per cent compared to 2011). This was a downward revision from earlier in the year, when the company had hoped to grow at 23 per cent.
Cognizant's revenue in 2011 stood at USD 6.12 billion. Cognizant has been growing faster than its some Indian counterparts over the last few quarters and a lower growth target may come as a dampener for Indian IT sector, which is already seeing flat IT budgets and increased cost of operations.
In the year to March 2013, industry body Nasscom expects Indian IT services exports to growt by at least 11 per cent from earlier expectation of 11-14 per cent growth during April-March 2013. Some of the larger companies including Infosys and Wipro Infosys are expected to grow much slower during the same period. However, Tata Consultancy services and HCL Technologies are expected to be sector growth leaders during the year.
Cognizant has also granted restricted stock units to D'Souza (50,138), Coburn (26,793), Mehta (23,188), Chandrasekaran (17,220), McLoughlin (10,010) and Schwartz (5,049).


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DALLAS — In a high-scoring shootout, the Nuggets were unable to clinch the four-game season sweep of the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night, losing 122-106.
Denver was led by J.J. Hickson, who tallied 18 points and eight rebounds off the bench. Monta Ellis led Dallas with a game-high 26 points and seven assists.
Before the game, first-year Nuggets coach Brian Shaw explained that this is a "year of discovery." Friday's game proved that his 31-38 team will have to learn to play the full 48 minutes.
It was a tale of two quarters in the first half. Denver started out hot, shooting 50 percent from the field, including a strong 5-of-9 effort from 3-point range in the first quarter and led 29-26.
The Nuggets' hot shooting cooled, and Dallas (42-28) started the second quarter on a 24-7 run over the first six minutes to take a 50-36 lead. The lead got up to 15, and the Mavericks settled for a 61-53 lead at halftime.
"We couldn't get out and run because we we were taking the ball out of the net," Shaw said after the game. "Everything that they put up went in."
Second-year forward Jae Crowder scored all 12 of his points in the second quarter, hitting all four of his 3-pointers for the Mavericks.
Crowder had only scored a total of four points in his previous three games. He came alive in the second quarter as fellow reserve Vince Carter had to exit the game because of a dislocated right pinky finger.
"Their bench came in and took control of the game in the second quarter and created that space to pull away from us," Shaw said.
Denver battled back to get within striking distance of Dallas in the second half, closing to within three points with less than six minutes to go in the game. But the Nuggets couldn't get over the hump.
"We had dug such a hole for ourselves that we had to expend a lot of energy to get back into the game," Shaw said. "We just didn't have enough to get us over the hump."
The Nuggets didn't do themselves any favors as they shot only 61.9 percent (13-for-21) from the free-throw line.
The Nuggets started the game with all of their healthy and available players but were unable to escape the game unscathed.
Hickson had to leave early in the fourth quarter after being inadvertently pushed by Carter. After the game, Shaw said Hickson sprained his right knee and he will get an MRI on Saturday.


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This is the comment my cousin left (on Facebook) on my last blog post re: teenagers.
"Marie G. A. You are one of the best, most human and funniest writers I have read, and I have read a lot - no answers for you - just not to give up, while they're yelling at you, inside they know you are right and you love them, but they're a mess. Teenagers' brains don't function real well in some lobes which I forget, gets better by 20's. Your mom is sympathizing every minute, and staying close."
First of all, that was a really nice compliment. Secondly, Marie is super funny. Thirdly, reminding me that my mom is on the other side helping me, made me a little teary.
A very short time later, on Monday, February 27th, Marie died of complications from breast cancer.
Which was pretty heartbreaking.
And, of course, got me thinking of my Mom dying.
Which sucked and still sucks.
{Or as her daughter aptly put it at Marie's funeral: "Cancer sucks balls!!!" Which made me chuckle inwardly. (Bouncy balls, obviously.)}
Quite frankly, my mom dying is something I never stop thinking about.
See, I have all these mild to moderate regrets. Most of all, I just regret that I didn't bleed her for information every minute of every day.
Here are some questions I would ask her if I could talk to her right now. (There are about a billion more where these came from.)
What was it like when Karie turned 13 and you had your first teenager? What did you worry about? What was unexpected? Did you feel like you had any leverage or control of the situation at all, or did you feel completely crazy-train and powerless like me?
How do you get the meringue not to bleed on the Peanut Butter Pie?
What was the first book you remember reading as a kid and what did you like to read growing up? And as an adult?
What was your favorite type of ethnic food? (I already know it's Mexican, just want to hear you say it.) Second favorite?
Tell me about all of your very best friends.
What age did you get breast cancer the first time? My OB really wants to know.
How did you find the lump again...? I can't remember the story. I know it has to do with your best friend Maureen getting breast cancer at the same time. Can you tell me the story again?
How did you keep the house clean when we were little?
How did you fill your time when I went to school?
How did you stay motivated to cook those big dinners for us every night?
(Alternately, did you know when it was just the two of us and we had "cereal night" or those tiny thin-cut fried pork chops that those are really happy memories for me?)
And how did you get yourself up to make us breakfast every morning when you had six young kids?
What was the best trip you ever took and what was your favorite country?
I also regret not asking hard questions.
If the situation were to repeat itself, I would be more prepared.
I would have gotten her to plan her funeral.
Who she wanted to speak-- and sing-- and which hymns were her favorites?
{Did you know my siblings fought while planning her funeral?
Well, now everyone knows.
Yep, we fought.
It wasn't pretty.
It was pretty ugly.
We're all strong-willed and opinionated and we were stressed and shattered.
No one should have to fight over the hymn you sing at your mothers funeral. Your mother should have that written down.}
What about legal and financial records? Where are they? What do I need to know?
I regret not recording her more.
Sure, maybe it's technically illegal and very NSA-esque, but why didn't I record every phone call I ever made to her? Why didn't I sit down and press record every single time we saw each other in person. I recorded her singing a few songs, but why didn't I record her SINGING EVERY SINGLE SONG EVER WRITTEN?!?! Or at least every song ever written or sung by Anne Murray. That probably would have sufficed. She loved Anne Murray and they have the same vocal range.
I regret that I didn't find ways for her to put her handprint on more tangible items. I did try to get her to make my unborn baby a quilt, but by that time, it was too late. Turns out when you're dying you don't necessarily feel up to quilting. But now every scrap of paper with her handwriting, every note, every recipe card, every photograph is a treasure.
|Painting mom's nails before she died
{Sidenote: A few weeks ago I was cleaning out Max's room. I found Grandpa Warners old non-functioning "Nook" electronic reader. (the Barnes and Noble version of a Kindle.) I asked Max if we could recycle it. He said no. All of the sudden I had a flash of understanding. He wasn't keeping it hoping to get it fixed and use it. He was keeping it because it belonged to his Grandpa. A useless electronic brick and he didn't want to give it up. I told him, "This isn't how you remember Grandpa. You have his (neck) ties for that. You can let this go." And he did.}
Now when I hear that someone has terminal cancer, first, I feel horribly sad for what they are all about to go through. Next, I send some prayers their way. And finally, I want to go to their children and yell in their faces: "RECORD EVERYTHING! PHOTOGRAPH EVERYTHING! TAKE A MILLION PICTURES! ASK A MILLION QUESTIONS! HAVE THEM PLAN THE FUNERAL!!!!!!!"
But I don't.
And if I did, the person being yelled at probably wouldn't listen.
(Aside from being annoyed at the yelling.)
Because maybe they will get better!
And because it's awkward.
And uncomfortable.
And sometimes even if you do bring up funeral arrangements, maybe the person doesn't want to talk about it or think about it or deal with it.
I don't blame them.
But maybe you can show them this post written by a woman whose heart broke into a million pieces when her mom died and now treasures a note written in the front of a cookbook: "Emily, you'll do just great! Love, Mom"
Or make a recording reading a favorite book or singing a favorite song or lullaby.
Or pass on some hand-written recipes cards.
Or even just write a quick, handwritten note.
Maybe they wont. That's okay too.
But if they do, you'll be so glad they did!
Either way--you have my love and sympathy and all the universal good vibes I can muster and send your way!
Good luck,


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Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate
Last year's Dead or Alive 5 was the only major 3D fighter released then that actually played like what you would think a current-gen fighter to be. Tekken, SoulCalibur, and Virtua Fighter's latest entries play great, but feel like they're higher-res versions of games from prior generations. DOA 5 was the most accessible entry in the franchise yet thanks to a careful difficulty curve, and at least on PSN, Ultimate makes it the most accessible possible because of its free-to-play model. As expected, Ultimate features everything Dead or Alive 5 had in addition to the additional content in the Vita incarnation – and as a nice bonus, you can continue your DOA 5 Plus data here.
If you avoided DOA 5 because 4 was too tough, you'll want to get back into the series with 5 because it's far less difficult. Like Dimensions before it, DOA 5 enemies don't just set out to destroy you. They've taken a more traditional fighting game approach to things as opposed to say, a Ninja Gaiden one that is all about challenge. There's plenty of challenge here, but you're eased into it. You can choose to play offline in a ton of modes. You've got the usual arcade mode, a survival mode, time attack, a training mode, and tag team versions of each. Survival mode is my favorite of the bunch since arcade doesn't have a story and just takes more time. It forces you to fight smart since your health bar doesn't quite refill between battles, and pits you against ten foes one after the other.
You've got a handful of difficulty options to choose from, and it's definitely best to work your way up to avoid feeling overwhelmed. You'll struggle, then you'll beat eight enemies, then nine, then you absolutely won't be able to stop until you beat the tenth foe. It's exhilarating and provides some of the most fun in the game. There's also a lot of fun to be had just doing versus matches, saving replays, and taking dazzling-looking snapshots from them. Like a photo mode in a racing game, there's something special about nabbing that perfect shot.
Ultimate brings back DOA 5's ridiculous and long storyline. It's silly, but amusing and something that those looking to focus on the free-to-play version can skip without feeling like they're missing much of substance. It's a long tale that encompasses as much of the cast as humanly possible and actually develops the characters to some degree – or at least explains who they are and what their motivations are on a superficial level. For many, it seems to be "you are in shape and within ten feet of me, SO WE MUST FIGHT", which I'm fine with since there are other, far more wacky things like Zack blasting into a circus tent as a human cannonball to invite two fighters to the tourney. The story mode is a fine mix of serious and silly, and is impossible to not enjoy. For goodness sake, what other story mode is going to give you cloning and a guy with a Christmas light afro outfit? The acting in it is perfect too – like the story, it's great B-movie fare that is somewhat self-aware, but not TOO self-aware. Beyond being entertaining to watch, the story mode allows you to unlock titles for yourself, new characters (like a few from the VF series), and teaches you the finer points of the game by giving you optional missions to complete (like countering X amount of times within a fight) in addition to beating your opponent.
So you've got tons to do offline, and online (at least on the 360) lets you do the normal ranked or unranked battles in either one-on-one or tag team play, and you can also take part in a lobby-based tournament with up to 16 players. There's some outstanding integration between offline and online play because you can add people you've fought online to a list, and then they can challenge you (if you leave the option on) to a battle while you're offline. It's basically the same as being in the arcade and having a second player join in, but I can't recall it being done like this in a home fighting game. Sadly, the PS3 version is currently plagued by a broken online system where you can't do rankled one-on-one fights – the screen just hangs endlessly. Given that the PS3 version is dealing with server loads for Ultimate and DOA 5 +, it's not surprising that there would be an issue, but it is shocking that one is present that renders a part of the game unplayable.
Lag is an issue online sometimes, and strangely enough, there's slowdown in offline play as well. I've enjoyed both DOA 5 and DOA 5 Plus and never encountered it in either version, so having it in the Ultimate edition just seems bizarre. Hopefully it's something that is patched up down the line because even with a day-one update, it's still an issue.
DOA 5's roster including three VF fighters was a huge-ish deal, while Ultimate adds Jacky Bryant to the mix from that series and gives you Momiji and Rachel from the Ninja Gaiden games, as well as Leon and Ein from DOA. The past DOA characters feel natural, and the new crossover characters work well too. No one feels unbalanced, despite Jacky traditionally being used to spam super-fast kicks a lot. He feels like the best new addition due to his faster style meshing perfectly with this franchise's emphasis on flash and speed.
The stages themselves have been a selling point since the second game, and what that game began with danger zones and multiple tiers is continued on nicely here. Every stage doesn't just have a distinct look, but requires you to play slightly differently. The wrestling ring area for example has ropes you can spring off of if you're light enough, while the rig stage is surrounded by fire and giant things that can explode. The military warzone has MISSILES BEING LAUNCHED AT YOU if you land in the wrong spot, so avoid doing that, while the raft stage might just be the most exciting since it starts off serene, and can then quickly escalate into you and your opponent zooming down a river with a broken part of the raft serving as something you can be thrown past and resulting in one of many possible giant falls in the game.
The DOA games have always been heralded for looking great, and this one is no exception. The newly redesigned character models mostly look human now instead of like action figures. With that change comes a more realistic flow for clothing, and little touches like dirt building on the characters as a fight wears on. It's a little thing, but really impressive to see in action and of course, the backgrounds themselves are still gorgeous with a ton of stuff going on. They're all intricately-detailed too, and seeing stuff like each individual pipe fall down in one stage and then leading to more craziness goes on remains impressive every time you see it.
Move animations are outstanding and the fluidity of counters is the best in the business. From the slick animation of things like Hiroshi Tanahashi's Slingblade for Lisa to the more impactful offense like Bass's punches or Mila's slams into walls, everything seems exactly as it should. Transition animations are great, and seeing Mila go from a powerslam to an armbar, or tackle into a mount with some ground and pound never ceases to amaze me. Brad Wong's offense is probably the most impressive to look at because there's so much going on with every part of his body and yet the animations are unbelievably smooth. They didn't even try and cut corners when you do stuff like kick him into a handstand – he falls (or flies) as he should…unless you use something super powerful and then he flies many, many feet in the air.
DOA 5's Ultimate is largely the same as the original release. The music is fine, but doesn't really stick with you much afterwards. I love the sound effect work here though. The sound of flames going off in the background of one stage really adds to the intensity and pretty much every stage benefits from little atmospheric touches like that. They go a long way to truly make each stage stand out from the others and not just feel like you could be fighting in any area and it wouldn't really matter because the only thing that really separates them is how the areas look, with nothing really affecting the game to a greater degree than that.
Overall, Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate offers up the best roster in the series yet, but the present online play being crippled on the PS3 and offline slowdown prevents it from being the best-playing incarnation of the game. If you've got DOA 5, you may want to hold out until Ultimate's issues are resolved before buying this revised edition. The original game is my favorite fighting game this generation – and that's with me not being the biggest fan of it before. I enjoyed the series, but never quite liked it as much as I thought I would because I love 3D fighters. It was the game that sold me on the greatness of the franchise.
When things work as they should, Ultimate has got the smoothest gameplay of anything out there now and delivers the goods online more often than not. It also raises the bar for graphics in fighters and has some great animation too. The story mode's a blast to play through and provides the right mix of drama and B-movie wackiness to make it fun to get through despite its epic length. If you've ever loved the series before, make this a part of your collection ASAP, and if you've been turned off by it before, at least try the free-to-play game out to see if you like the gameplay mechanics.
Reviewed By: Jeremy Peeples
Publisher: Tecmo Koei
Rating: 85%
This review is based on a digital copy of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate for the PlayStation 3 provided by Tecmo Koei.


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|Presenting the scrumptious Beef Daube
This week, for French Fridays, we are making Beef Cheek Daube. I searched high and low for beef cheeks and they were just not to be had in my neck of the woods. I called two butchers in my area and visited two others. No one had beef cheeks nor, could they get them for me. So, my Daube was made with beef chuck! This is not a quick dish. It definitely takes some planning and time to make. However, it is a perfect dish for a cold day; like the kind of days we're having here in the northeast!
The process was straight forward. I began by chopping up veggies (carrots and onion) and bacon. Then browning the beef chuck and slow cooking the veggies over low heat for about 10 minutes. Add 2 cups of hearty wine (I used cabernet sauvignon) and 1 cup of beef broth. Boil a few minutes, cover the pan with foil and the lid, then slide into a preheated 325 degree oven. This should braise in the oven for two hours…undisturbed! Now, sit back with a glass of that wine, read a book and wait for dinner! Just before the two hours are up, boil your pasta. After two hours, take the pot out of the oven, adjust seasonings, and add your finely chopped bittersweet chocolate. Finally, add the pasta to the beef mixture and finish the cooking process. Whew!!
The aroma of the Daube permeated my home in such a comforting way! This was an amazing beef stew! The flavors were absolutely mouthwatering and delectable! The meat so tender it just fell apart. It was a big hit in our house…a definite keeper! Happy Friday everyone!!
This recipe can be found in Dorie Greenspans book "Around My French Table". The recipe can also be found here. To see what other Dorista's have done with their Daube, check it out here.
|Veggies and bacon….
|Slow cooking on low heat
|Red wine and beef broth added to the pot...ready for the oven
|Cover pot with foil and lid and slide into the oven
|Ready to serve
|This was an amazing meal….the gravy was the best ever


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I'm not sure why I'm still checking out used vehicle ads. I'm probably set for many years after my purchase of the barely used Polish Buick (named after its assembly location in Hamtramck) back in February.
Nonetheless, I still enjoy reading the occasional odd ad, even if I'm not in the market. Many times, the story is more interesting than the car.
Take, for instance, an ad for a 1970 Pontiac Grand Prix. "It's my old high school car," the ad begins. "I bought it back 10 years ago to finish with my son, but too busy to finish." So not only does the son still not have a finished car to drive, he also apparently hasn't had much father-son time in the last 10 years.
Someone else with a 1962 Chevy truck for sale says, "I built with plans to paint it later. After 10 years of plowing and wood hauling, it still needs that paint." At least it runs.
There seems to be a bunch of owners too busy or too lazy to work on their vehicle. The owner of a 1966 Olds Toronado says it "needs new owner, sick of working on it."
Someone selling a 1976 Chevy Corvette gives this excuse: "Car needs love I can't give it now." I almost feel sorry for it.
Another person trying to unload a 1957 Chevy Bel Air says he's "lost the passion and wife says she wants the garage space." Goodbye, Bel Air.
Some ads just make me scratch my head in puzzlement, like the person selling a 1979 Chrysler New Yorker. "Has not been driven for the last seven years," claims the owner. "It started up last summer, I haven't had time this year to try."
That's funny. You managed to find a few minutes to take a photo and place an ad, but can't find the time to see if it will start? You're asking $2,500, Maybe if it started, you could get $3,000.
Then there's the case of the owner of a 1971 Ford Maverick who says, "not a car you see much." That's true, most of them that didn't rust away to nothing were crushed and recycled into tuna cans years ago.
Another ad for a 1961 Bentley S2 Drop Head Coupe claims that "once completed, this car will be worth a lot of money." Sounds good, but the owner is already asking $95,000 and you have to finish a restoration on it. How much does the owner think it will be worth after you put well over $100,000 into it?
I'm still trying to figure out why the owner of a 2010 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 mentions the fact that the "car goes with me sometimes to Frankenmuth." Do you suppose the car helps him or her pick out Christmas decorations at Bronner's? Maybe if it's good, they go enjoy a couple of those chicken dinners at Zehnder's that Frankenmuth is famous for before they go home.
Or there's the person advertising a 1998 Mercedes Benz: "Bucket list accomplished!" claims the ad copy. Do they mean the buyer will fulfill their wish of owning a Mercedes, or the seller their wish of getting rid of it?
If you'd like a vehicle with an interesting back story, someone is selling a 1970 Plymouth Satellite GTX formerly owned by daredevil Robby Knievel. Hopefully, he didn't do too much ramp jumping with it.
Also available is a 1932 Ford signed by actor Paul LeMat of "American Graffiti." Someone else has a 2004 Ford Mustang Jack Roush edition convertible signed by the NASCAR team owner in three places.
Or how about a 1985 Cadillac Eldorado "celebrity owned" by David Keith of "An Officer and A Gentleman." What's more, "when you come to buy the car, you will be able to meet David Keith."
There's somebody sitting behind the wheel in the photo. Maybe it's David Keith himself. If you're going to pony up $17,000 for the Caddy, you might as well have him sign it, too.
Someone is advertising a 1983 Chevy truck with over 548,000 miles. "Driven regularly," states the ad. I would agree with that.
On the flip side is a person with three vehicles, all with super-low miles. Take your pick. A 2003 Chevy SSR with only 21 miles, a 1974 Chevy Camaro with only 20 miles, or a 1990 Chevy SS pickup, just 3.3 miles in over 20 years. I wonder what he'll buy with the money?
Finally, we have a 1999 Ford F250 truck with a Hiniker plow. "If that isn't enough to keep up with your summer snow removal tasks," the ad says, "it also has a salt spreader." Who knows? Someday you might be glad you bought it. But probably not this month.


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