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What a difference a year makes!
After a difficult first season in Major League Soccer, Vancouver Whitecaps FC's 2012 MLS campaign could not look more different at the midway point.
The anticipation for an improved season in North America's top flight was cultivated with exciting off-season acquisitions and an impressive preseason campaign that culminated in success at the Disney Pro Soccer Classic in Florida.
The aims at the start of the season may have been modest, but the desire to compete and win honours was as high as ever around the Blue and White. Martin Rennie's job as Whitecaps FC head coach was to chart that course for new heights.
Through 16 league matches, building blocks have been put in place for the 'Caps to make an impact this season and beyond. From important milestones to inspirational performances, there is a lot to be excited about.
Those achieved milestones started early in the season, as Vancouver got over the hurdle of not winning on the road in MLS in 2011 by defeating Chivas USA through a first-ever 'Caps goal by captain Jay DeMerit in Carson, California, in Week Two.
Another mark to be reached was one that few expected. After much preseason hype about Whitecaps FC's attacking depth, one big story to emerge this season has been the sturdiness and dependability of Vancouver's backline.
This became immediately evident when Whitecaps FC set a new MLS record for consecutive minutes without allowing a goal to start a season (427 minutes). That defensive resiliency has grown to seven clean sheets, which is nearly half of Vancouver's MLS games played resulting in a shutout.
Not bad for a defensive line-up (Young-Pyo Lee, Martin Bonjour, DeMerit, and Alain Rochat) that some expected to break down through injury and age this season. And what about the play of goalkeeper Joe Cannon! His shot-stopping reflexes remain as sharp as ever in his 15th MLS season.
Having surpassed last season's MLS win total of six, a new mark will be established by the 'Caps in 2012, with Rennie's side also two points short of last season's points total in the league.
The ingredients for those unfolding achievements have proven to excite, if not inspire, the club's faithful. In particular, two victories at BC Place underlined the character and resilience that Rennie has instilled in his squad.
The Scottish tactician has spoken of his side's desire to fight to the final whistle. That was seen on May 5 when the 'Caps stunned Western Conference leaders San Jose Earthquakes by overturning a one-goal deficit to win 2-1 on a last-minute strike by Eric Hassli (pictured).
Where that performance showed spirit, the effort to win a league match a man short was epic and inspirational. Playing with ten men for the last half-hour, Davide Chiumiento and Sebastien Le Toux combined for one of the best Whitecaps FC goals of the season at BC Place on June 16. Not a bad way to christen the club's new third kit.
Former English Premier League manager Iain Dowie coined the word 'bouncebackability' to describe his team rebounding from a setback. It can be said that Whitecaps FC have shown 'bouncebackability' on three occasions.
The latest example came on May 26, as the 'Caps put the disappointment that was this year's Amway Canadian Championship (ACC) behind them with a hard-fought draw at Cascadia Cup rivals Portland Timbers.
Darren Mattocks scored a fine equalizer in The City of Roses that night, and it is hard to leave Jamaican youngster's name out of this mid-season review. Not even an unfortunate off-the-pitch injury could slow the speedy marksman down, with four goals already to his name, and more on the horizon…
And when you think of Whitecaps FC goals…who can forget Hassli! The big Frenchman is a popular figure, and his world-class volley versus Toronto FC at BC Place in the ACC final, first leg, just added to his folklore with the Blue and White.
It has been a fun few months at Whitecaps FC. Let's all hope the next few months bring more joy and excitement!


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The eighth biggest brewery in their homeland, the company began life in 1634 when an order of Paulaner monks started brewing beer. Now, hundreds of years later Paulaner is deemed one of the great beer producers in Munich, Germany.
German brewers are only allowed to use four ingridients – hops, malt, water and yeast – meaning Paulaner's master brewers seek out the finest natural ingredients the region has to offer to give the beer its unique an distinct taste.
Exported to more than 70 countries worldwide, Paulaner's range is a wise choice for the discerning European beer enthusiast.
Paulaner's Oktoberest is golden and slightly hoppy festive, full bodied and easy to drink brew. It is traditionally made for the famous German Oktoberfest – and Paulaner are one of just six breweries who produce the beer for the event which has been running each year since 1810.
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TQ4366 : London Loop in Sparrow Wood
taken 7 years ago, near to Petts Wood, Bromley, Great Britain
London Outer Orbital Path (LOOP)
Starting at the Thames at Erith and finishing on the opposite north bank at Coldharbour, the Loop (London Outer Orbital Path) is 150 miles long, passing through numerous woods, commons and parks and on waterside paths alongside the Grand Union Canal and London rivers such as the Colne, Crane, Cray, Darent and Ingrebourne.
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You can get granular access control that mimics AGDLP for UNIX systems by using a package of tools and file systems known as ACL. However, although ACL has been around for years, not every UNIX variant supports it. And even within a supported OS and file system, you must be cautious which file tools you use or you might strip the ACL from a file. Learn how to install and use ACL correctly in this example using Ubuntu, which supports ACL.
On the Windows platform, security administrators can take advantage of a very robust framework when working with file and folder ACLs and assign access permissions to resources by using a strategy known as AGDLP. The acronym stands for the practice of putting accounts (A) into global (G) groups, which are members of domain local (DL) groups, which are assigned permissions (P) on objects. Using the AGDLP strategy makes adding and removing access to users and groups a snap because you don't need to reapply permissions. Many auditors love the AGDLP model as it means they can largely focus on auditing the centralized database, Active Directory (AD).
In Linux, however, AGDLP becomes more difficult to enforce because most traditional installations only support very broad access control consisting of three levels: owner, group, and "other." Using this model, you're limited to only a single group from which to base your permissions (e.g., Read or Write) and then grant those permissions to other groups and users by making them members of that original group. But you can get granular access control that mimics several steps of the AGDLP process for UNIX systems by using a package of tools and file systems known as ACL.
ACL on UNIX
ACL has been available to the UNIX community for many years but perhaps isn't well known, especially to Windows admins new to managing UNIX variants. The ACL package is based on POSIX.1.e, which defines various security standards within UNIX systems, including how to handle discrete access control lists. (POSIX is a collection of IEEE standards specifying how software should operate on various UNIX systems.)
Although ACL has been around for years, not every UNIX variant supports it. Even within a supported OS and file system, you must be cautious which file tools you use or you might strip the ACL from a file. However, if you want to grant fine-grained access controls to a file, ACL provides richness not otherwise available to you.
Using ACL
Let's walk through an example to get a feel for how to use the ACL package. Let's say you're responsible for the centralized firewall logs and you want to grant a series of access permissions to various groups. The firewall logs are stored in the directory /var/log/hosts.
For your networking team, you decide to provide read-only access; your log file admins who regularly maintain the logs get read/write access. To accomplish this, create two groups: fwlog-reader and fwlog-author. For the fwlog-reader group, you'll assign read-only access. For the fwlog-author group, you'll assign read/write access. To create these groups, run this command:
sudo addgroup fwlog-reader
sudo addgroup fwlog-author
I'll walk you through installing and configuring the ACL package in a moment, then you'll use the command setfacl to apply unique permissions to the firewall logs for each of these groups. You'll then be free to add or remove individuals from the membership of these groups without having to reset the permissions of the files. (Plus, if your UNIX systems are AD aware and these groups are domain local groups, then your auditing of the membership becomes simpler too as the groups are in one location and stored in AD instead of stored on the individual servers.)
In this example we'll walk through the steps of installing and configuring ACL using Ubuntu 7.10 with the 2.6 kernel and an EXT3 file system. Other Linux distributions and UNIX variants support ACL (e.g., XFS, ReiserFS file systems, and more recently EXT2 and EXT3 file systems), but that support varies significantly, so it's important you review the ACL implementation for your specific platform and also review which tools you want to use with your ACL extended files.
First, install the ACL package using Ubuntu's package manager aptitude by running the command
sudo aptitude install acl
Next, enable ACL for each partition where you want to set the extended file attributes. Do this by editing the file /etc/fstab. This is the critical file-system table. I recommend you make a backup first and be careful when editing. While you're learning about ACL for your variant of UNIX (or UNIX-like system), I recommend testing on a non-critical partition in case something goes awry, so you can recover without losing access to your system. I also recommend testing and learning using a virtual machine (VM) guest that you've taken a snapshot of prior to making any changes. If you make a catastrophic change, you can quickly revert to the snapshot.
The fstab file varies by Linux system but generally contains the name of the device, the mount point, type, options, the archiving schedule, and the order a volume is scanned for errors. To activate ACL support for a specific partition, you need to add the ACL option to its entry. For example, in our test system, the root directory is mounted to the device /dev/sda1. Your installation will vary, but look for the options—in this case, defaults,errors=remount-ro—and add the option acl, which in this case would look like this:
/dev/sda1/ ext3acl,defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
You shouldn't edit anything else in the file, nor should you change other parts of the entry. You're simply adding the option acl. Also, your fstab might look different because recent versions of some Linux variants also now support Universal Unique Identifiers (UUID) instead of the device, so be careful and do some research if the contents of your fstab aren't familiar to you.)
Next, remount your partition or if you set ACL on an in-use partition, reboot your system.
At this point your partition supports setting of file-level ACLs.
To set and view the ACLs on a file, run the commands setfacl and getfacl, respectively. Before we set any new ACLs, let's view the current ACLs on our target directory by running this command:
[email protected]:/var/log$ getfacl hosts
The command returns the user, group, and other permissions of the traditional UNIX permission model. In this example, only root has access to the directory:
# file: hosts
# owner: root
# group: root
Now, let's set the ACL for our two new groups by running this command:
sudo setfacl -m group:fwlog-reader:r /var/log/hosts
sudo setfacl -m group:fwlog-author:rw /var/log/hosts
The parameter -m instructs the program to modify an existing ACL. (You can specify the parameter -x to remove an ACL.) The next triplet of parameters separated by colons specifies whether to modify (or add) a user or group, the name of that user or group, and the permissions you wish to grant—either read (r), write (w), or execute (x). The first command above, for example, instructs the program to add the group named fwlog-reader with read-only access to the directory /var/log/hosts.
Now, when you rerun getfacl like this
[email protected]:/var/log$ getfacl hosts
you can see the new ACLs:
# file: hosts
# owner: root
# group: root
Now, users who are members of either the fwlog-reader or fwlog-author groups have permissions to access files within that folder appropriate to their role. Other features of ACL allow mass processing of many files and folders as well as support to back up and restore your newly-set ACLs. You might want to check out the ACL man (manual) page as well as search the web for other examples of how to configure and use this very useful package.


text: Chapter 1 By Way Of Introduction Chapter 2 Negotiating Techniques And Tactics 2.1. Some Preliminary Observations 2.1.1. Doin' What Comes Naturally 2.1.2. Practice What I Preach 2.2. The Central Role of Compromise 2.2.1. The Back of My Hand to the Non-Negotiable Demand 2.2.2. How To Say "No" Without Seeming Negative 2.2.3. Marshalling Arguments to Support Your Cause 2.2.4. The Creative Discovery of Common Ground 2.2.5. The Ultimate Solubility of Most Issues 2.3. Getting A Leg Up 2.3.1. The Twin Virtues of Persistence and Perspective 2.3.2. Volunteering for the Draft 2.3.3. Timing—of the Essence 2.3.4. To Swap, Perchance to Cede 2.3.5. Hoist On His Own Petard 2.3.6. The Absurdity of It All 2.3.7. Threats, Fits, and Other Adventures in Brinkmanship 2.3.8. Staffing the Negotiations 2.3.9. Clients are People, Too 2.4. Some Closing Observations 2.4.1. Freedom of Contact 2.4.2. Creative Motivation 2.4.3. Gamesmanship and Other Instruments of the Devil 2.4.4. They're Not Making Negotiators Like They Used to. . . Chapter 3 Preliminary Negotiations 3.1. The Lawyer's Role in the Opening Rounds 3.2. Sidling Up to the Purchase Price 3.2.1. Alphonse and Gaston Revisited 3.2.2. Digging That Well-known Hole 3.2.3. A Deal Does Not Live by Price Alone 3.3. The Agreement in Principle 3.3.1. Is This Document Necessary? 3.3.2. A Metter of Form 3.3.3. To Bind or Not to Bind 3.3.4. Points to be Covered 3.3.5. Points to be Uncovered 3.3.6. The Other Side of the Coin 3.4. Federal Disclosure Requirements 3.4.1. Some Guidelines for the Public Announcement 3.4.2. Content of the Press Release 3.4.3. Interaction with the Negotiating Process 3.4.4. The Non-Agreement in Principle Chapter 4 Structuring The Transaction 4.1. An Ode to Structuring 4.2. The Basic Forms of Acquisition Transactions 4.3. As Between Them, Taxes are Less Certain Than Death 4.3.1. Lawyers and Tax Experts 4.3.2. The I-Hate-To-Learn-Tax-Law Handbook 4.3.3. Putting Your New-Found Knowledge to Work 4.3.4. The Tax Ruling Imprimatur 4.4. The Merger Lawyer As Part-Time Accountant 4.4.1. Lawyers and Accountants 4.4.2. Pooling Is Not A New Form of Aquatics 4.4.3. Accounting Principles at the Bargaining Table 4.5. Considerations of Corporate Law 4.5.1. The Requisites of Corporate Authorization 4.5.2. Merger Mania; Appraising Appraisal Rights 4.5.3. The Practical View of Corporate Mechanics 4.6. Dealing With Assets and Liabilities 4.6.1. Avoiding Unwanted Liabilities 4.6.2. The Pros and Cons of Piecemeal Assets 4.7. Feeling Secure Under the Securities Law 4.7.1. A Bit of History 4.7.2. Dealing With Registered Transactions Today 4.7.3. The Corporate Private Placement 4.7.4. The New Game in Town 4.8. A Wrap-up of the Subject 4.8.1. Miscellaneous Structuring Considerations 4.8.2. A Few More Examples Chapter 5 An Overview Of The Acquisition Agreement 5.1. A Brief Essay on Forms 5.1.1. A Form in Every File Cabinet 5.1.2. The Cardinal Sins of Form Abuse 5.1.3. Riding the Coattails 5.1.4. Cheaper by the Pound 5.2. The Anatomy of the Agreement 5.2.1. A Skeletal Outline 5.2.2. Simultaneous vs. Deferred Closing 5.2.3. The Simultaneous/Deferred Decision in the Negotiating Process 5.3. The Intricate of the Various Articles 5.3.1. The Four Horsemen: A Statement of Purpose - Representations - Covenants - Conditions - Indemnification 5.3.2. The Case of the Late-Blooming Lawsuit 5.3.3. The Neurotic Seller and the Pound of Flesh 5.3.4. The Problem of the Tardy Financial 5.3.5. Reacting to the Delayed Disclosure Schedule 5.4. The Built-In Purchaser's Bias Chapter 6 Purchase Price Considerations 6.1. The Principal Forms of Payment 6.1.1. Cash: Color it Green 6.1.2. Promissory Notes: the Deferred Reckoning - Tax Treatment - Interest - Negotiability -Security 6.1.3. Equity Securities: Join the Team 6.2. Negotiating Stock Valuation Provisions 6.2.1. The Seller as Semi-Involuntary Investor 6.2.2. Some Alternative Approaches to Pricing 6.2.3. Surveying the Relevant Factors 6.2.4. A Personal View of the Decision 6.2.5. Pricing the Publicity-Held Seller 6.3. Handling a Contingent Purchase Price 6.3.1. Some General Observations 6.3.2. Formulating the Earnout Formula 6.3.3. Defending and Computing Earnings 6.3.4. A Glance at Certain Purchase Price Components 6.3.5. Who Runs the Show? 6.3.6. The Kick-out Clause 6.4. Tying the Purchase Price to Asset Values 6.4.1. A Statement of the Problems 6.4.2. A Proposed Solution Chapter 7 Representations and Warranties 7.1. An Analytical Framework for Negotiating Representations 7.1.1. Discerning the Purchaser's Purposes 7.1.2. Evaluating Objections in Terms of Purpose 7.1.3. Helping Seller Over the Hump 7.2. The Ubiquitous Disclosure Schedule 7.2.1. Backbone of the Representation Process 7.2.2. From the Seller's Viewpoint 7.2.3. The Schedule-less Acquisition 7.3. Every Seller's Favorite Caveats 7.3.1. Materiality is in the Eye of the Beholder 7.3.2. A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing 7.4. Specific Representations of the Seller 7.4.1. Corporate and Stock Matters 7.4.2. Financial Statement and Bring-Down 7.4.3. Liabilities and Taxes 7.4.4. Asset Representations 7.4.5. Leases, Contracts and Other Commitments 7.4.6. Representations Concerning Employees 7.4.7. Litigation and Compliance With Law, Etc. 7.4.8. A Mixed Bag of Warranties 7.5. The Purchaser's Representations 7.5.1. Negotiating on the Seller's Behalf 7.5.2. Symmetrical Schizophrenia Chapter 8 Covenants, Conditions And Closings 8.1. Is This Chapter Necessary? 8.1.1. Yes—And the Culprit is the Deferred Closing 8.1.2. Still Need Convincing? Check These Examples 8.2. Covenants Pending the Closing 8.2.1. The Elusive Concept of "Best Efforts" 8.2.2. The Non-Negotiated Article 8.2.3. Specific Covenants 8.3. Conditions of the Closing 8.3.1. Some Random Thoughts 8.3.2. Specific Conditions 8.3.3. The Disquieting Comfort Letter 8.4. Legal Opinions 8.4.1. Exquisite Sensitivities and Popular Sidesteps 8.4.2. Facing Up to Disclaimers 8.4.3. The Litigation Advisory 8.4.4. The Proper Subject Matter of Opinions 8.5. Providing For the Closing (Or Lack Thereof) 8.5.1. Pinning Down A Closing Date 8.5.2. Letms Call the Whole Thing Off Chapter 9 Registration Rights 9.1. The Legal Backdrop for Negotiating Registration Rights 9.1.1. Restricted Stock Under Rule 144 9.1.2. Contractual Provisions Regarding Restricted Securities 9.1.3. The Concept and Consequences of Registration 9.1.4. Preparing for the Negotiation 9.2. The Negotiating Variables 9.2.1. Demand vs. Piggy-back Rights 9.2.2. Some Matters of Timing 9.2.3. The Numbers Game—Shares and Registrations 9.2.4. Mind Your Manners of Sale 9.2.5. Effective for the Duration 9.2.6. Paying the Piper—Expenses and Indemnification 9.2.7. Mostly Mechanical Provisions 9.3. A Keyhole View of Two Sample Negotiations 9.3.1. Representing the Purchaser 9.3.2. Representing the Selling Stockholders 9.4. Registration Provisions In A Rule 145 Transactions Chapter 10 Indemnification 10.1. Holding the Purchaser Harmless 10.1.1. The Scope of the Indemnity 10.1.2. The Indemnifiable Amount 10.2. The Seller Strikes Back 10.2.1. The Age-Old Craft of Basketry 10.2.2. Cut-off On Claims 10.2.3. Seeking Fulfillment-With Stock 10.2.4. Additional Seller Gimmickry 10.2.5. Control of Third Party Proceedings 10.2.6. Joint or Several Liability 10.3. Escrow and Other Collection Devices 10.3.1. Holdbacks and Set-offs 10.3.2. The Care and Feeding of Escrows Chapter 11 Employment Contracts And Miscellany 11.1. Miscellaneous Contractual Provisions and Exhibits 11.1.1. Finders' Fees and Other Expenses 11.1.2. A Glance at Some Boilerplate 11.1.3. Exhibits to the Agreement 11.2. Employment Contracts 11.2.1. ARE employment Contracts Necessary or Desirable? 11.2.2. When Should the Employment Contract be Negotiated? 11.2.3. What Tone Should You Adopt? 11.2.4. How Long Should the Contract Run? 11.2.5. What About the Money Terms? 11.2.6. Under What Circumstances Does the Contract Terminate? 11.2.7. What About the Non-Competition Covenant? Chapter 12 From Signing to Closing 12.1. Investigation and Monitoring 12.1.1. Coordinating the Investigation 12.1.2. Unearthing a Skeleton 12.1.3. Monitoring the Client's Affairs 12.2. Proxy Statements 12.2.1. The Legal Requisites 12.2.2. The Virtues of Early Preparation 12.2.3. Some Notes on Disclosure Problems 12.3. Dealing with Third Parties 12.3.1. Financial Institutions 12.3.2. Other Consents 12.4. Problem at the Closing 12.4.1. Disclosing the Missing Consent 12.4.2. The Purchaser's Reaction 12.4.3. Exploring the Unwaivable Condition Chapter 13 Three Special Situations 13.1. Purchase of a Division 13.1.1. The Jaundiced Eye Meets Deep Throat 13.1.2. Some Divestiture Nuances 13.1.3. Gauging the Operating Results 13.2. Buying A Controlling Interest 13.2.1. A Brief Survey of the Problem Area 13.2.2. Protective Provisions for the Seller 13.2.3. The Purchaser's Concerns 13.3. Merger of A Controlled Company 13.3.1. The Key Themes of Fairness and Full Disclosure 13.3.2. The Use of Independent Professionals 13.3.3. Style as Well as Substance Chapter 14 A Guided Tour THE SOFTWARE CAPER A Melodrama in Three Acts ACT ONE: Let's Make A Deal: The Journey From Initial Negotiations Through The Letter Of Intent Scene 1—The Germ of an Idea Scene 2—Fencing for Position Scene 3—Getting Down to Brass Tacks Scene 4—Putting it in Black and White Scene 5—Buttoning it Up ACT TWO: Signed, Sealed And Delivered: Taking Us From Contract Negotiations To The Signing Of The Acquisition Agreement Scene 1—Who is this Masked Man? Scene 2—Baiting the Trap Scene 3— What Do they Teach These Kids in Law School Nowadays? SCene 4—Oil on the Troubled Waters Scene 5— Laying the Groundwork Scene 6—The Stage is Set Scene 7— St. Crispin's Day Scene 8—What Can We Give Them? Scene 9—What Can We Get Them? 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Recently I was flipping through the channels and I came across the movie, "Cool Hand Luke." It was past 10 PM and the movie was just starting. I remember watching it with my Daddy many times, therefore I had to stay up and watch it again for old times' sake.
The movie starring Paul Newman has a lot of memorable quotes and some really good music. Though it was made in 1967, you can still find it on television quite a bit. In the movie, Paul Newman plays the part of "Luke," a cool, opinionated gutsy prisoner on a chain gang in the Deep South.
The line that most folks remember from the movie is when the Prison Captain, played by Strother Martin, tells Luke, "What we've got here is… failure to communicate." At the end of the movie, Luke says it back to the Captain just before he is shot (facing recapture).
As noted, the movie brings backs memories and I love hearing the music. "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" performed by Harry Dean Stanton and "Plastic Jesus" performed by Paul Newman are my favorites.
Unfortunately, I would experience "failure to communicate" the next day when I visited my local DMV.
My task was pretty simple, but I knew going in that I was going to have problems. My simple task was to get license plates for a car.
The problem was my driver's license was expired. Now, how I'm walking around with an expired driver's license is another story.
More than two months previous, I had gone into the DMV to get my new driver's license, I remembered the day well – it was my birthday. I took the day off to take care of some things including getting an inspection sticker for my car and a couple of new tires.
I bought the tires from a "Used Tire" place. The fellow who worked there was very nice, letting me come back and pay him later in the day because his credit card machine wasn't working. He had a lot of tattoos and not many teeth. I liked him.Mallo Cup which had a "50 coin" in it. You have to be a Mallo Cup fan to know that they still put "cardboard coins" in the package with the candy. It was my 50th birthday, so I remembered it.
Originally, it took about an hour to get to the counter at the DMV to get my license, but I enjoyed it because I wasn't in a hurry. Watching folks in the DMV, you kind of understand the way things are now, as opposed to the way they used to be. The lady took my picture and my money and told me, "You should receive your new license in the mail in seven to ten business days."
A couple of weeks later, my new driver's license still hadn't shown up. Figuring it would show up while I was away for the Christmas holidays, I didn't worry about it. I had a piece of paper saying "it was on the way" that was good for 30 days or so.
A month passed and I still hadn't gotten my license. I called the "DMV hotline" and got a nice lady named Donna who didn't really believe me, and told me my license was mailed on December 2nd. She assured me that she would note it as lost and put in a request for another license to be mailed out to me.
So I waited another couple of weeks and still nothing. Again, I decided that I should wait longer before calling again. However, it was getting kind of frustrating because folks who want to see your driver's license at stores and airports tell you, "Your license is expired!"
About two months had passed since my original visit to get my license renewed and it still hadn't arrived in the mail.
Needing the new tags for my car, I headed out to the DMV knowing this was going to be trouble.
Our DMV has a system of "hoops you jump through" before you get to actually do what you need to do. The first person you talk to is a lady at a check in desk who asks why you are there. When she asked me, I simply told her I was there to get a tag for my car.
She was nice and gave me a form and asked for my driver's license. I gave her my expired license. She looked at it and said, "Your license is expired!"
I said, "Yes Ma'am, I came in back in November to get it renewed and it never came in the mail." She gave me another form to get another driver's license, the tag form, a slip of paper with a number on it like they give you at a crowded ice cream parlor and told me where to get a clipboard and a pen.
My number was "T122." I sat down and filled out the paperwork for the tag; I wasn't going to fill the driver's license form again. It was 30 or 45 minutes until my number appeared on the screen and a computerized like voice called out "T122.".
The folks there are nice, but it was toward the end of the day and they were moving a little like they had been dragging 100 pound bags of feed behind them in the barn and they had been doing it all day.
I understood.
The lady behind the long counter started helping me with my tag, but then – she asked me for my driver's license. I gave her my expired license and of course she told me, "Your license is expired!"
I said, "Yes Ma'am, I came in back in November to get it renewed and it never came in the mail."
Then she asked me, "Have you checked with your postal carrier?"
I said, "No Ma'am."Every Which Way But Loose," starring Clint Eastwood. John Quade played the role of "Cholla."
Mike the Mailman is a dead ringer for this Cholla character.
But you just don't ask Mike the Mailman questions. You just don't mess up his system.
As I was in a trance thinking about the absurdity of asking "my postal carrier" about my driver's license, the lady left me standing there at the counter. She walked around a while behind the counter with the other folks "helping" people. It was late in the day and she seemed as if she had been dragging two 100 pound bags of feed around the barn all day.
I understood.
She came back and started typing on her computer. She found what she was looking for and said, "I see where you talked to Donna about a month ago and she said she told you your license was mailed on December 2nd."
To this I replied, "Yes Ma'am, she also told me she would send out another one. I still don't have a license."
The nice lady then told me that I "might have to pay for a new license." I convinced her that I would not do that. Again, she was very nice (well, kind of nice) and I got to talk to another lady.
The next lady brought me my tag and asked for my driver's license.
I told her, "I don't have one. I don't drive. I simply want a new tag for my car. It stays in the driveway. I go out there and listen to the radio sometimes when I need to get away from things. Sometimes I hear voices in my house and I get scared. I bought a car just to sit in. My dog usually sits in there with me."
She looked at me like I was crazy.
I understood.
Finally they all got together and decided to take my picture again and send off for another driver's license. They didn't charge me anything.
One of the ladies simply said, "You should receive your new license in the mail in seven to ten business days."
"Yes Ma'am," I responded.
I walked out the door understanding the present overall state of things.
I don't know what else to say other than, "What we've got here is… failure to communicate."
On a side note, actor John Quade, whose real name was John Saunders was not the villainous character he portrayed in many movies. He was a wonderful man and his friends knew him as one of the most intelligent well-read people they had ever met. Saunders was a biblical scholar and devout Christian.
Before he became an actor, he worked in the aerospace industry, being part of the team that built parts for lunar missions.
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Although anal intercourse is known to be a risky behavior when it comes to transmission of HIV and other STDs, most messages given to teens about STDs and condom use focus on vaginal intercourse. This study examined the prevalence of anal intercourse and associated condom use rates in an effort to determine if different education strategies are necessary. The data was acquired as part of a greater longitudinal study of adolescent STD acquisition and cervical ectopy.
The participants were 350 adolescent females ages 12–18 from an urban environment; 96% were African American. All of them had engaged in sexual activity, were healthy, and were neither pregnant nor had been pregnant in the previous three months. Participants were asked about sexual activity with two different types of partners: a "main partner" and a "casual partner."
The participants were given the following definition about the partner types: "The main partner is someone that you have vaginal sex with and that you are serious about. A casual partner is someone you have vaginal sex with but do not consider to be the main partner." The casual partner could be someone the participant had had sex with once, or many times—as long as she did not consider him to be the main partner.
Participants were asked about their sexual activity with each type of partner in the last three months. Specifically, researchers asked about the: (a) occurrence and frequency of vaginal sex, (b) frequency of condom use in vaginal sex, (c) occurrence and frequency of anal sex, (d) frequency of condom use in anal sex, and (e) method of contraception use with partner (condom, withdrawal, anal sex, spermicide, etc.).
Avril Melissa Houston, M.D., M.P.H, et al., "More Than Just Vaginal Intercourse: Anal Intercourse and Condom Use Patterns in the Context of 'Main' and 'Casual' Sexual Relationships among Urban Minority Adolescent Females," Journal of Pediatric Adolescent Gynecology 20 (2007): 299-304
Key Findings:
Participants were more sexually active with main partners. While the frequency of either anal or vaginal sex was lower with casual partners, participants were much more likely to use contraception/condoms with casual partners during both anal and vaginal sex.
Furthermore, the rates of condom use during anal sex were significantly lower than during vaginal sex. This was reflected both in the median frequency for condom use and the lower percentage of participants who always used a condom for anal sex.
Type of Partner
- 302(86.5%) participants had engaged in any sexual activity with a main partner.
- 142 (40.7%)participants had engaged in any sexual activity with a casual partner.
Frequency of Sex
- Of the participants who reported having had sex with a main partner, 272(90.1%) had had vaginal intercourse and 47 (15.6%) had had anal intercourse. The median frequency of sex for each type of intercourse was once per week.
- Of the participants who reported having had sex with a casual partner, 118 (83.1%)had had vaginal intercourse and 17 (12%)had had anal intercourse. The median frequency of sex for each type of intercourse was few times per month.
Frequency of Condom Use
- With a main partner, the median frequency of condom use during vaginal sex was sometimes, while the median frequency of condom use during anal sex was few times in the last 3 months.
- With a casual partner, the median frequency of condom use during vaginal sex was always, while the median frequency of condom use during anal sex was few times in the last 3 months.
- With a main partner, 4%of participants always used a condom during vaginal sex, while only 21.3% of participants always used a condom during anal sex.
- With a casual partner, 61%of participants always used a condom during vaginal sex, while only 1% of participants always used a condom during anal sex.
Contraception Use during Last Vaginal Intercourse
- With a main partner, 2%used a condom, 18.4% used withdrawal, 6.6% used spermicide, and 15.1% used any other methods.
- With a casual partner, 3%used a condom, 29.7% used withdrawal, 13.6% used spermicide, and 38.1% used any other methods.
Anal Sex as Contraception
- 2%of the participants had used anal sex as a method of contraception with a casual partner, while only 8.5% had used anal sex for contraception with a main partner
This study has a number of very disturbing findings. First, that participants are not using condoms consistently for vaginal sex and second, that they are even less likely to use condoms when engaging in anal sex. These results show that the standard discussion of STDs and pregnancy in a vaginal sex paradigm is obviously insufficient in meeting the needs of today's teens. Education about condoms must improve and take into account the reality of young people's relationships and behaviors.
While the frequency of condom use was too low regardless of partner, it is interesting to note that young people were even less likely to use a condom with a main partner. It is unclear if the subjects were motivated by the belief that they are less likely to contract an STD or become pregnant with a main partner, by a greater desire for intimacy with that partner, or by some other factor. While further research on young people's motivations could be useful, these findings suggest that young people need a better forum for learning about condom use and, perhaps, additional help in communicating about condom use with partners.
Another worrisome finding is the prevalence of unprotected anal sex. Anal sex is as risky in terms of STD transmission as vaginal sex, yet participants were more likely to forgo condoms. This raises questions about both their level of knowledge of STD risks and their reasons for using condoms. In particular it suggests (as previous studies have) that young people are more concerned with pregnancy than STDs. This seems to be confirmed by the number of participants who acknowledged using anal sex as a method of contraception. The idea that anal sex is somehow "safer" than vaginal sex (and therefore can be performed unprotected) is a dangerous misconception.
Young people need comprehensive sexuality education that discusses not only vaginal sex, condoms, and contraception, but also extends that discussion to other sexual practices, like anal sex.


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Indeed, the side from Navarre have won just one of their nine away games in La Liga this season, and their impotence on the road is reflected in Paddy Power's price of 20/1 (20.00) for them to win here.
Barca meanwhile are offered at an unbackable 1/12 (1.08) with the draw which would be almost as surprising as an away win, available at 10/1 (11.00).
If Barca are going to win this game, and it does indeed very much look like they will, the real question has to be by how much? Having netted 15 goals in their last four home matches Barcelona are in impressive scoring form, which is a bit like saying Usain Bolt is pretty quick at running.
Against an Osasuna side whose style of play is rather less appealing, Barca should be able to work a good few goals.
Therefore delving in the team goals market and backing the Catalans to score over 3.5 goals at evens (2.00) looks to be a solid investment.
This bet has paid out in each of the Blaugrana's last three home matches, and offers us some decent value, which is no mean feat when Barcelona are playing at home against lacklustre opposition.
For higher odds, consider a smaller punt on Barca to win by exactly three goals at 7/2 (4.50). This is an intelligent value bet, as it backs up our initial selection, should the home side only manage a 3-0 win, but would also pay out with a 4-1 or 5-2 home win as well.
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Does anyone have advice on if what I'm doing is enough? I know they say before one, food is for fun, but sometimes I worried I am too laid back about the solid thing. We are doing bls and lo is getting better/more interested in food, but I don't always give her something every night. DH and I are getting better at planning meals, but we don't always have something in our dinner I feel comfortable giving her. Whenever we make veggies, I cook extra for her and she eats that, or I give her some fruit, but sometimes it just ends up being pizza night and I don't want to giver her that.
Also, so far I've been sticking to fruits and veggies (although she has had a few piece of bread and a maria biscut) because I'm not sure when it is safe to introduce other foods. There is so much conflicting info about when to introduce carbs and specficially wheat, meat, citrus fruits etc. Or should I really just give her whatever we are eating, as long as it is home cooked (which most of our food is, minus the pizza )?


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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A media watchdog says that a rise in anti-press attacks and repressive laws is sowing fear and self-censorship among journalists in Tanzania.
The Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday that the East African country has seen a spike in attacks against journalists over the last year, including the killing of a cameraman by a police officer while covering an opposition political rally.
The Committee to Protect Journalists said the attacks call into question Tanzania's international image as being committed to transparency and democracy.
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"I had never felt pain like that before in my life," remembers retired physician Brian Livermore.
At only 65, Dr. Livermore was in the fight for his life. The retiree was home alone on a Friday morning in August when he suffered a massive heart attack. After serving as a family medicine physician in Bemidji for more than 25 years, Dr. Livermore knew what was happening.
"I was swinging a pickaxe and started feeling some chest pain and shortness of breath," remembers Dr. Livermore. "But it got worse not better after I had stopped. I knew that it wasn't muscle pain. It was my heart."
Thankfully Dr. Livermore's wife Becky was pulling into the driveway when he started feeling that chest pain. The two quickly jumped into the car and raced to the emergency room.
"By the time I got to the hospital, I was gray as a ghost and sweating like a pig," recounts Dr. Livermore. "I was not doing great."
Upon arriving at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center, the STEMI team went into action. STEMI stands for ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction. This is an extremely dangerous type of heart attack where a coronary artery becomes suddenly blocked and is unable to supply the heart with blood. The 24/7 cardiac team is just one piece of the new Heart & Vascular Center at Sanford Bemidji. This is the region's only center of it's kind with a cardiology clinic, cardiac catheterization lab, and preparatory and recovery areas for vascular and cardiac patients. So when people like Dr. Livermore are admitted, they can be treated on site instead of having to fly to another location costing them valuable time.
"I know that if they had to fly me out I wouldn't have made it," says Dr. Livermore.
Interventional cardiologists James Dewar, DO, and Jeffrey Watkins, MD, along with the rest of the STEMI team went onto action to save Dr. Livermore's life.
"Dr. Livermore appeared to be in a state of shock and was exhibiting signs of confusion due to decreased blood flow to his brain," says Dr. Dewar. "These symptoms are very worrisome and when not treated quickly can lead to very poor outcomes including death."
Dr. Livermore's main artery in the front of his heart was completely blocked with a clot. The STEMI team quickly rushed to put two stents in place to free the blockage. It was a record. From the time that Dr. Livermore entered the emergency room to the time he was in the cath lab, only 15 minutes had elapsed. And when time is everything, this was a big win for the STEMI team.
Dr. Livermore's loss of muscle function was very minimal thanks in large part to the STEMI team. But because he knew the signs of a heart attack, he wasn't wasting time wondering what was happening.
"The thing you have to ask yourself is, 'Have I ever felt this kind of pain before?'" says Dr. Livermore. "Because the clock is ticking."
Both doctors say that knowing the symptoms of a heart attack is key. What is challenging for both patients and physicians is how varying those symptoms can be. Typical things to watch for include chest discomfort which can range from pressure to tightness to severe pain to shortness of breath. A heart attack can also come with a feeling of fullness, nausea, profound sweating, a sense of impending doom, sudden onset fatigue, lightheadedness or dizziness. It is important to know these signs even if you don't think you are at risk for a heart attack.
"My risk factors were very minimal," says Dr. Livermore. "I walked three miles every day. I had no family history. The only thing against me was my age."
Dr. Livermore explains that after many years of being a runner, his coronary arteries were very large. Plaque was building up but not enough to produce symptoms.
"When the plaque ruptured, I went from 0 to 60 like that," recalls Dr. Livermore.
Now almost four months since his heart attack, Dr. Livermore is feeling better than ever. He is working out a little more and has added a weight program to his routine after graduating from cardiac rehab.
"I got to graduate early because they kept setting goals for me and I kept passing them," laughs Dr. Livermore.
And although he is in good spirits, he knows how lucky he was back in August.
"I really thought I could die," he remembers. "When you have a place like this, you don't know the value of it until you need it."
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The Iowa Brown and Black Forum. There it was, superimposed on the bottom corner of the screen going to commercial break just after Al Sharpton tore into Howard Dean's affirmative-action hiring record. Hosted by MSNBC's Lester Holt, an African-American, and Maria Celeste Arrarás, a Puerto Rican-born anchor for Telemundo, this last debate before the Iowa caucuses helped introduce a new phrase into the American political lexicon. Black and brown. "Do you have a senior member of your cabinet that was black or brown?" Sharpton prodded, and Dean turned red (again).
Although Sharpton and the Iowa group use this phrase to promote black-Latino unity, the first time I remember hearing it was when, on the occasion of the quincentennial of Columbus's journey to the Americas (and the aftermath of the Rodney King riots), The Atlantic Monthly published "Blacks vs. Browns," by LA Times reporter Jack Miles. In a significant challenge to the binary view of American racial politics, Miles uncovered the hidden truth about the riots, that there was substantial Latino involvement in what was widely portrayed as a black-and-white confrontation. Yet he did not regard this as evidence of an alignment of black and Latino interests. On the contrary, he predicted that "America's older black poor and newer brown poor are on a collision course."
According to Miles, the civil rights era coalition between blacks and Latinos was threatened by an emerging class conflict. Fearful of the "nihilistic" tendencies in black urban culture, he claimed, white and Asian employers were increasingly passing over poor blacks in favor of Latino immigrants, who were willing to work for lower wages. "Blacks are the most oppressed minority, but it matters enormously that whites are no longer a majority," wrote Miles. "And within the urban geography of Los Angeles, African-Americans seem to me to be competing more directly with Latin Americans than with any other group."
A year earlier, Charles Kamasaki and Raul Yzaguirre of the National Council of La Raza had published a groundbreaking paper that corroborated Miles's argument. Yzaguirre and Kamasaki recounted several instances when African-American leaders had failed to support Latino causes. The NAACP opposed an extension of the Voting Rights Act that benefited Latinos in 1975, while the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights opposed a similar extension of the act in 1982. The NAACP declined to oppose employer sanctions under the Immigration Reform and Control Act; throughout the 1980s the LCCR was indifferent to increasing protection for Latinos against employment discrimination, while only nominally opposing the English-only movement. The paper concluded that "growing tension between the two communities…threatens the ability of blacks and Hispanics to develop strong, sustainable coalitions."
These ominous predictions are echoed in Nicolás C. Vaca's new book, The Presumed Alliance: The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and What It Means for America. But unlike Miles and Kamasaki and Yzaguirre, whose arguments he cites, Vaca, a lawyer and scholar based in the Bay Area, wants to posit the adversarial aspects of the relationship between blacks and Latinos as a fact of life. In making this argument, Vaca, who fancies himself a maverick, claims he is simply facing up to realities that Latino intellectuals and activists have sidestepped because of "knee-jerk," "politically correct" assumptions about black-Latino solidarity. He is so convinced of this that he lost an old Latino friend in a public argument over whether to write this book."Why dig up dirt," writes Vaca, "ruffle feathers, destroy the illusion of unbroken unity between Blacks and Latinos, bleeding the colors of the Rainbow Coalition by giving the dreaded gringo the ammunition my former friend told me I was providing? The simple answer is that the ethnic landscape has changed."


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In Irish surname books McCann is normally stated to be an anglicised form of the Gaelic surname Mac Canna which means 'son of Annadh.' Other forms in Gaelic are Mac Cana and Mac Anna. The McCanns were lords of Clann Breasail and originated on the south side of Loch Neagh in County Armagh. While this is certainly true for the majority of McCanns in Ireland and the Diaspora, DNA testing has revealed that McCann is some cases is the anglicised form of Mac Eáin. Mac Eáin is normally anglicised as McKean, McKane, etc., but occasionally as McCann.
The anglicising of Gaelic surnames was done very haphazardly and standard forms are rare. Fortunately DNA testing can often ascertain the correct original for of the McCann surname.
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Replace Method with Method Object
You have a long method that uses local variables in such a way that you cannot apply Extract Method
Turn the method into its own object so that all the local variables become fields on that object. You can then decompose the method into other methods on the same object.
class Order... double price() { double primaryBasePrice; double secondaryBasePrice; double tertiaryBasePrice; // long computation; ... }
Using a Static Method
You can do this refactoring with a static method, but in this case you don't need the first field pointing back to the original object.
Alternative Steps with Temps
Marnix Klooster suggested an alternative to the mechanics. Rather than creating fields in the Method Object for all the temps, leave the temps as temps and only turn them into fields as you need to in order to use Extract Method. It means you have to use a special form of Extract Method, but may help in reducing the scope of the temps. Of course you can use Reduce Scope of Variable afterwards on any temp that's only used in one method.


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Gabe rides a bus through space and time to a dusty planet with The Doctor...
After a slight miscalculation in an otherwise successful robbery, cat-like thief Christina (Michelle Ryan) hops aboard a double-decker city bus to make her less than stylish escape. As the bus is about to leave one more passenger hops aboard—it's the Doctor (David Tennant), and he's looking for temporal rifts (or something). The bus driver, paid off by Christina, leads the cops on a chase, and drives right into a dimensional portal, and onto a desert planet. Trapped, Christina, the Doctor, and the rest of the passengers begin looking for a way back to London. Meanwhile, an alien species watches their every move, and some kind of desert storm rockets towards them.
Plot-wise Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead isn't very impressive, and generally feels like just another episode. And not only another episode, but another episode in a series that has been around for several decades. Not to say Doctor Who has overstayed its welcome yet, but there are definitely better, and more theatrical episodes throughout the David Tennant and Christopher Eccleston versions of the series. Like Star Wars, Doctor Who gets away with some of its larger plot holes and unoriginal moments simply because it's generally referential nature. Doctor Who thrives on what the audience knows about classic genre storytelling, in the same way standalone episodes of X-Files, Supernatural, or even Futurama do. Planet of the Dead starts with the basic classic plot kicker of protagonists trapped somewhere desolate with a broken vehicle, a trope that probably traces back to Flight of the Phoenix, but which has seen regular use throughout Star Trek, and in films like Pitch Black (the monster designs in PotD are also similar to those of David Twohy's picture) and Enemy Mine. I personally found myself ahead of the story throughout, but still generally enjoying the experience.
Unlike Star Wars, however, the whole of the various Doctor Who series also succeed thanks to a potently cheeky sense of humour. Along with the less serialized nature of each episode, this keeps me coming back to the series above more 'high-brow' sci-fi television like Battlestar Galatica, which is so dead serious it almost hurts (I am working on a review of the last half of Battlestar's final season, but am trying to watch all the previous stuff so that fans won't yell at me). Planet of the Dead is generally more satisfying than its predecessor, The Next Doctor, which was emotionally endearing, but only sporadically charming or funny. Tennant pulls some fantastic faces, lets loose some great one-liners, and has some palpable chemistry with episode co-star (a pseudo-companion) Michelle Ryan. Correct me if I'm wrong (I know you will), but from what I see here, based on my limited knowledge of the series, these two have more sexual tension sputtering between them than perhaps any other Doctor/Companion pairing. We're not talking the 'oh my God let's do it on the floor' brand of tension found on Torchwood, it's more like the 'wink, wink, nudge, nudge' brand featured in classic screwball comedy.
Apparently this is the first time Doctor Who has been shot in high definition, and the results are rather smashing. The overall transfer suffers some of the usual made for BBC cheapness, which is part of the charm, of course. There isn't a lot of compression noise, and grain is quite minimal, save a few darker shots, and some of the digital creatures. There's obviously a bigger budget at work here than was used for the hi-def episodes of Torchwood. Colours are cleaner, brighter, and fuller, and the overall transfer is more consistent than that DV series. Most unfortunately for the production, all the effort of filming in Dubai is somewhat wasted because even in hi-def the desert looks like a digital back-drop. It's a pretty and richly coloured backdrop, but it really doesn't look like a real desert.
Planet of the Dead comes fitted with a lossless DTS-HD 5.1 track, which is flawless in terms of clarity, but not very impressive in scope. I suppose that a really aggressive five channel assault might up the production values a tad, but too much noise probably wouldn't feel like Doctor Who. Aural highlights include the nerve wracking racket of the flying steel stingrays, which whip about the channels with affecting frequency, and the flying double-decker bus, which bolsters the LFE with whirring motor sounds, and leads to a few cool directional effects.
The only extra on the disc is a 'Doctor Who Confidential' (57:00, HD) featurette, which covers the general making of process. Focus leans towards location shooting and production design. The desert itself was shot in war torn Dubai, and a full sized double-decker was sent to the site. Even if the bus hadn't been damaged in transit this seems like a risky proposition (though the damage to the bus was written into the story, which likely saved them the money they got back from transit insurance. The filming of the opening heist sequence and the subsequent escape are then covered with more of a look at the actual filming process, and focus on the new pseudo-companion, Christina. Things wrap up with glances at the process of filming the interiors of the bus, the hell of the Dubai desert, making fly-man prosthetics and digital stingrays, and working with Lee Evans.
Planet of the Dead is a fine episode of the new Doctor Who series, but viewers shouldn't expect a real 'movie' out of the sixty minute exercise. All the important stuff is here for fans—the comedy, the charming characters, the great use of a low budget—but the storyline isn't exactly inspiring, and despite a last minute glance into the future of the franchise, the whole exercise is pretty stand alone in nature. I'm hoping the BBC has a set planned for release after all the movies have aired, but if they don't fans could do a whole lot worse with the first ever high definition episode of the series on Blu-ray.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
the-gr8shag Member Join Date: September 2005 Location: United States Posts: 172
I got this on the cheap last week (ten bucks on blu!) & was impressed with the look of the show in hi-def! Not a ground breaking episode but a decent one. I just hope the new season starts soon.
stevepulaski Member Join Date: June 2009 Location: Niger Posts: 741
I think I'm the only one who hasn't seen this show .
Harker Studios Member Join Date: November 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 174
One of those in the middle episodes. Fun? yes. Amazing? No. But with only 3 episodes left for Tennant, I cant help but like Planet of the Dead more then maybe it deserves. You will be missed David.
The next episode, The Waters of Mars, looks like a much darker Who tale. And after seeing The End of Time (last 2 episodes) trailer at Comic Con this year (actually Tennant asked the AV crew to show it a second time right after)I can't help but get excited and a little depressed at the thought of seeing Tennant's Doctor regenerate..
"My name is THE MASTER" (The crowd went crazy!)
The next episode, The Waters of Mars, looks like a much darker Who tale. And after seeing The End of Time (last 2 episodes) trailer at Comic Con this year (actually Tennant asked the AV crew to show it a second time right after)I can't help but get excited and a little depressed at the thought of seeing Tennant's Doctor regenerate..
"My name is THE MASTER" (The crowd went crazy!)
Clavius Member Join Date: January 2004 Location: United States Posts: 223
I'll take even "meh" Doctor Who over most of what's considered "good" everything else. Gonna miss David dearly but anxious to see what Matt brings to the show.
I'm holding off on buying these "specials" because I thought I'd heard they were all getting released in one box set. Any word on if this is true or not?
I'm holding off on buying these "specials" because I thought I'd heard they were all getting released in one box set. Any word on if this is true or not?
Chris Johnson Member Join Date: October 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1,465
Michelle Ryan is awesome.
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,825
I liked The Next Doctor better than this one (however The Next Doctor wasn't shot in Hi-Def). the Next doctor comes to DVD next month.
Matt Contributor Join Date: October 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,113
Not bad, but not too great either. Definitely looking forward to the next couple of specials though.
Worst Nightmare Senior Member Join Date: July 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 6,716
I found this series quite good but nothing to write home about - gonna miss David Tennant though as he was one of the better doctors
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Disc Details
Release Date: 28th July 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Doctor Who: Confidential
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: James Strong
Cast: David Tennant, Michelle Ryan
Genre: Adventure, Comedy and Sci-Fi
Length: 60 minutes
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I have a facebook.. on my phone
EurasianWifey wrote:
I am getting so tired of Facebook. Facebook, like money is the root of almost all evil. Anyone have any suggestions besides Facebook?
Only drama kings and their respective queens think Facebook is evil. A suggestion would be to not engage in drama riddled fuckery.
I believe there's a God above, I'm just the God of everything else!
I deleted my facebook like 4 or 5 years ago... twas a great decision
got rid of mine about a year ago, now I have new sites to spend my time on. Like crunchyroll, deviantart, and myanimelist
I used Facebook a lot when I was younger, and regret that quite a lot. I'll probably get rid of mine soon, it's not worth keeping around anymore.
Besides, people only payed attention to me when I talked about "controversial" subjects or pretended I understood politics, haha. Certainly not the best tool for staying in touch when people only send you game request. :d
I don't. But it did cause a family member to go through divorce. They are old too. Plus I just get status updates about what my girlfriends bought and farmville requests.. ugh
Facebook itself isnt bad, its the people that use it that I hate. I getting tired of seeing picture upon picture of people holding cardboard signs that say "I'm _____ and _____. lets get 10000 likes to support ______"
Master of all things Dandere
Its still good for just chatting but i dont do much posting on there
im annoyed with people thinking you love playing facebook games. sorry, if i want to play games, i stick with my consoles. i use my myspace more than i use facebook. yes i still use that myspace lol
i love anime and video games
Well ummm......ummm
I use it to get in touch with friends that I'm not able to get in touch with.
Sure the friends I am able to,heck,Why would we talk there?
But If it doesn't feel more weird. The friends that feel they want to talk to me by voice(as really if there's any difference)
I talk to on Xbox Live.Which hardly breaks the fact that I can't get in touch with some of those friends either.
So in a more wierd way XBL is my go to open chat service(If I/You look at it that way).If I just wanna hang out and talk while finishing an art piece or doing what I'm doing. I just sit on the Dashboard and talk to em there.I have more freinds that I know realisticly than I know just from meeting in a game on Xbox anyhow.
But I'm not gonna say FB's bad(not putting words in your mouth).And First personally for me I got to catch up with friends that I haven't seen since grade school. Second:My overall opinion is, FB is what you make it. Really. It's that kinda thing. So for the most part it's easy for it to be more of a pain in the ass,or a pleasant .But for me, I thought t myself how important friends are to me. I coulda went with society and said,FB is bad. I'll TRY to get in touch another way.Then my other thought was,what if it I'm chancing it by overlooking FB. There you have it. If your sure you can do the prior. Then by all means please do. But fr me thats not the case. YEAH I'm human and not a computer hog by night.Personal Activity finder by day.So I'm not always available. But if you make that noticeable to(which you should obviously do),there should't be a problem.
Yet anyways. Hope my opinion shows you a different way of looking at it.
I've been tired of it.
But I still go on anyways. I love watching my friends evolve.... xD
I deleted my account there five years ago.
Then again, I got stalked there, by a woman who after less than two weeks of friendly, completely non-flirtatious conversations, decided that I obviously must be in love with her, that I should tell her as such, and that I should move to Texas to be with her. For my part, I honestly made it a point to not be flirtatious or suggestive with anyone; I was still moving past my divorce, and I knew a rebound wouldn't be the healthiest move. After I told her I wasn't interested in her that way, and that I was really only interested in making some new friends, the stalking began.
She followed me to every app I joined, left a few dozen huge "You're going to Hell for rejecting me and (in her words) 'leading me on'" diatribes in my inbox, and stalked my friends wherever they went, too. Blocking her only stopped some of it, but damn that woman was fixated (I'd call her crazy too, but that should be obvious from reading this...) I'm thankful for the fact she didn't live any closer to me than she did, or she probably would have taken it to a physical level. I'd say she's the only yandere person I've ever interacted with.
I also realize that for publicity purposes, I'll probably have to start a new account there to promote the board game I'm developing...but that will have to wait until I'm closer to completion, and it won't be a personal thing.
Ardityap wrote:
I've been using facebook for year.
i have a lof of friends in my list.
i stop using it because i feel that i have no reason to let everyone on my friends list to know what i am up to.
i use flickr or other photo sharing site just to share with certain people i trust. so not everyone in the world knows about me.
Anyone feel the same?
Yeah...it was cool while I was in high school but now that I'm in college it seems stupid. I used to seriously have a nerdgasm when people would like my photos but now I feel nothing. Plus, posting on somebody wall seems stupid. I'd rather someone call me and talk to me instead of writing on my wall. Last thing that irritates me though is how every status is a lil wayne or taylor swift quote. *sigh*
karmacide wrote:
EurasianWifey wrote:
I am getting so tired of Facebook. Facebook, like money is the root of almost all evil. Anyone have any suggestions besides Facebook?
A phone
^this bro
i still use facebook. it was pretty bad with those games requests whatnot but after blocking all the shit. seem to be fine. also i dont add random people. so not big friends list. just close friends family only.


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MIAMI The Miami Heat have officially ended its season on Monday with a massive championship parade and rally that was attended by thousands of fans.
Heat players took turns thanking a packed American Airlines Arena filled with fans wearing "white hot" shirts and cheering "Let's Go Heat."
Dwyane Wade hugged the championship trophy and echoed what players, coaches and many fans have said they felt after winning the NBA Finals last week.
"The joy this trophy has brought to all of us is amazing," Wade said to a cheering crowd.
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Palit GTX280 Review
[email protected] is a distributed computing project run out of Stanford University. This project uses the spare CPU cycles (GPU Folding has been available on the Red side of the fence with ATI cards for a while), as well as GPU cycles to simulate the folding of proteins. When the proteins in our bodies misfold, things can go horribly wrong, and result in many diseases that are not yet curable. Examples include Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes. This project has been going on for some time now. With the performance increases in CPU and GPU computing technology seen in the last few years, the time needed to run the simulations has dramatically dropped. For more information on the [email protected] project, visit the [email protected] main page - and don't forget Team 12772 is the one you want to fold for! While monitoring the [email protected] client, I was amazed at the speed at which it completed the assignments. Initially, it was about 5 work units in less than two hours at stock clock speeds! Now that the client has matured some, the point values have increased as well as the time to complete the work units. Now about two work units in three hours is what the card can currently do while running the CPU SMP client. Running the SMP clients took about a day to process one+ unit with a quad-core CPU. There is definitely a substantial performance increase with the CUDA technology and the GTX280's 240 processor cores. Some things I found out while playing with the client - when the client is run in the viewer, the CPU usage skyrockets. As soon as it is minimized back to the system tray, the CPU usage drops dramatically. Because the resource demand to render the image back to the screen is high, the client's performance does decrease, but there's an easy fix - just minimize the client!
The processing power and processor design of the GTX200 series GPUs allows the video card to be used for things that people do not normally associate with GPUs. Using Nvidia's CUDA technology to harness this power, things like distributed computing and video transcoding can be accomplished in much less time than it would take a high-end CPU. The [email protected] client is just one of these examples. Elemental Technologies has a transcoding application called BadaBoom that harnesses the massive parallel computing potential of the GTX200 series GPU. CPU usage between the BadaBoom app and the one used for testing showed that CPU usage was fairly close, but the GPU-specific BadaBoom version did the work in less than half the time it took the CPU to complete the task.
Just to see how well this works, a sample film clip of 184MB in size was transcoded first with the CPU, and then again with the GPU - and the results were pretty astonishing. The measurement is in seconds, and best quality was selected. Hey, it really does work!


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World Shakes Off Nikkei's 7.3% Plunge
Shortly after the Nikkei Stock Average suffered one of its worst single-day declines in decades, a 7.3% drop, Japan's economy minister moved quickly to soothe market fears.
Akira Amari said Japanese stocks in recent months had risen "faster than expected." Weak Chinese manufacturing data in the morning had prompted sellers to "take profits all at the same time," he said.


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The Ohio Machine is kicking off its 2013 season with the start of training camp this Saturday, April 13, when the majority of the 2013 40-man roster will be taking over Columbus. Training camp sessions are open to the public with player autographs available after Sundays' sessions. The Machine will be training on Saturday, April 13, Sunday, April 14, Saturday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21. Below are the times and places for each day.
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Saturday, April 13: Resolute Athletic Complex (8-9:30 p.m.)
Sunday, April 14: St. Charles Preparatory School (8-11 a.m. & 12-3 p.m.)
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Carrie Ann Inaba Calls Off Engagement Ahead of 'DWTS' Premiere
ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" judge Carrie Ann Inaba has ended her engagement to fiancé Jesse Sloan this week.
Following a public proposal on "Live!" With Regis and Kelly" last year, Inaba and Sloan have chosen to go their separate ways.
"They decided early in the summer to break off their engagement and have remained friends," Inaba's representative revealed, according to People magazine.
Inaba, 44, met Sloan, a 40-year-old accountant, on eHarmony, and gushed about their relationship in the weeks following the public proposal.
The couple had plans to wed barefoot beside the ocean, which "has such a spiritual meaning," Inaba told People.
"It's so vast and yet it unites everyone," explained Inaba of the ocean. "We want everybody to get their feet wet in the water after we say our vows."
Moreover, admitting having met Sloan on the online dating service, Inaba revealed her feelings about the site at the time.
"I was dating all these younger guys," she told Access Hollywood. "I was like, 'Maybe I need to change it up a little.'"
Of her online dating profile, Inaba said she left a lot to the imagination due to her celebrity and focused on what she wanted on a partner.
"I didn't put up a picture, I didn't put anything about who I was," the judge explained. "I was like, 'You need to be sexy. I need to be attracted to you.' I really put exactly what I wanted. 'I love cats!'"
Inaba can be seen on the all-star edition of "DWTS," the series' 15th season, starting Sept. 24 on ABC at 8 p.m. EST.
The new season of "DWTS" will see the return of hosts Brooke Burke-Charvet and Tom Bergeron as well as a cast of former contestants who will compete again for the mirrorball trophy.
13 contestants are paired up with professional dance partners for "DWTS: All-Stars." The stars of seasons past include Pamela Anderson, Kirstie Alley, Joey Fatone and Drew Lachey, among many others.
Season 15 of the dancing competition will also see a performance by boy band 98 Degrees, with many more musical guests to be announced.


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VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — Colleagues and friends paying tribute to USA Today founder Al Neuharth on Friday remembered him not as a driven media giant but as a loyal native South Dakotan who never forgot his roots.
Some critics said Neuharth — who titled his autobiography "Confessions of an S.O.B." — was a ruthless egomaniac, but close friend Jack Marsh knew Neuharth as a different man.
Marsh, the president of the Al Neuharth Media Center, said his boss was a free spirit, a visionary and a tenacious leader who was as thoughtful as he was tough. He was a South Dakotan through and through, who came back home a half dozen times a year for "reality checks," Marsh said.
"He never forgot his roots," Marsh said.
Neuharth died at his Cocoa Beach, Fla., home on April 19 at the age of 89.
He posthumously addressed mourners at Friday's service at the University of South Dakota with a video segment taped before his death.
"In case you've already forgotten, I was Al Neuharth," he began, joking that there are probably a lot of people who wished the day would have come earlier.
Neuharth changed the look of American newspapers by filling USA Today with breezy, easy-to-comprehend articles, attention-grabbing graphics and stories that often didn't require readers to jump to a different page. Sections were denoted by different colors.
USA Today was unlike any newspaper before it when it debuted in 1982. Its style was widely derided but later widely imitated.
"I knew it was a high risk and so did he," said television broadcaster Tom Brokaw, who appeared via video. "But at the same time, that was Al."
Neuharth, born March 22, 1924, in the small South Dakota town of Eureka, had journalism in his blood from an early start. At age 11, he took his first job as a newspaper carrier and in his teens worked in the composing room of the weekly Alpena Journal.
After earning a bronze star in World War II and graduating with a journalism degree from the University of South Dakota, Neuharth worked for The Associated Press for two years before launching a South Dakota sports weekly tabloid, SoDak Sports. It was a spectacular failure, losing $50,000.
"I was so ashamed of my failure that, broken in debt, I ran away from home at age 30," Neuharth said in his video.
Brokaw said Neuharth learned a lot from that failure.
"From then on, he became one of the most transformative figures in American journalism," Brokaw said.
The launch of USA Today was Neuharth's most visible undertaking during more than 15 years as chairman and CEO of the Gannett Co. Under his leadership, Gannett became the nation's largest newspaper company and the company's annual revenues increased from $200 million to more than $3 billion. Neuharth retired in 1989.
Neuharth also founded the Freedom Forum, a foundation dedicated to free press and free speech that holds journalism conferences.
Neuharth's daughter, Karina Fornes-Neuharth, said her dad was admirable and inspiring with a stubborn side.
"He taught me to be open-minded and accepting," she said. "He taught me to be brave and so selfless."
U.S. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., described Neuharth as a tough South Dakota farm kid whose strong work ethic took him to the highest level of public life.
"With Al, what you saw is what you got," Thune said. "He was authentic to the core."