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Select a 2012 GMC Terrain trim level
2012 model year changes
The 4-cylinder is E85-capable for 2012, and the SLT trim now comes with 17-inch wheels, down from last year's 18-inch wheels. Otherwise, the Terrain is carried over from 2011 unchanged.
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Powerful and efficient engine selection; sharp styling inside and out; both available engines are flex-fuel compatible
Special features for 2012
Starting about $25,500, the 2012 GMC Terrain is one of the most affordable crossover vehicles in its class; a class that includes the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. The interior features a dual-cockpit design, ice-blue ambient lighting and sophisticated, classy appearance touches that makes it look much more expensive than it is.
Entering its third year in production, the 2012 GMC Terrain has become known as a formidable choice in the smaller crossover vehicle segment. Sold in SLE and SLT trim models, the 2012 GMC Terrain includes XM satellite radio, rearview camera system, OnStar, remote keyless entry and cruise control as standard. 18-inch wheels, heated seats and remote starting system are added to the Terrain SLT model. Safety equipment found on all 2012 GMC Terrain models include six airbags, daytime running lights and StabiliTrak with traction control. Powerplant choices for the 2012 GMC Terrain consist of either a four-cylinder or an E85 compatible six-cylinder engine. The base 2.4 liter, inline-4 powerplant of the 2012 GMC Terrain produces 182 horsepower and 172 pounds-feet of torque. An optional 3-liter V-6 engine on the 2012 Terrain provides 264 horsepower. Both engines for the crossover vehicle features gasoline direct injection as well as modern all-aluminum construction networked through a 6-speed automatic gearbox. Available as a front or all-wheel drive model, the 2012 GMC Terrain line-up maintains an average fuel economy above 20 miles per gallon.


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My mom visited last weekend. She is currently renting a room to a housemate, and it seems that the housemate is a bit inclined towards conspiracy theories. One afternoon at lunch, mom told me that the housemate informed her that Barack Obama had just signed an executive order seizing control of all resources in the United States.
Mustering all my logical and rhetorical abilities, I decisively replied: "Uh… what?"
So she said, "It's hard to argue with her. She did show me the order, and it seemed pretty authentic." I said "Well, I'm not willing to just dismiss her claims out of hand without seeing what you saw, so let's take a look at what we can find out."
Being a self-styled master of Google Fu, and since my trusty Android has a good 4g connection from most places in Austin, I searched for "obama executive order seized". What I got back was a mish-mash of right wing and conspiracy websites with a variety of apocalyptic language. Infowars.com. Prisonplanet.com. Examiner.com, which I never heard of, but the article in question had a picture of Obama making a scary face with a caption that said "Do what I say or you'll be sorry!" I asked, "Does that look like objective journalism to you?"
However, I did go deeply enough into the stories to find a name of the document, titled "Executive Order — National Defense Resources Preparedness." I tried reading it. I started skimming it and reading possibly important paragraphs out loud. However, not being a lawyer or a politician, my eyes started glazing over pretty quickly.
(a) identify requirements for the full spectrum of emergencies, including essential military and civilian demand.
(b) assess on an ongoing basis the capability of the domestic industrial and technological base to satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of national emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of the most critical resource and production sources, including subcontractors and suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical personnel;
"This is a declaration of dictatorship?" I asked. "It sounds a lot like what Roosevelt did during World War II to supply armies with equipment. Do you need me to go over this whole thing in detail?"
I switched to another angle; I googled for the name of the order, looking for legitimate news sources explaining the implications. Not a thing turned up that wasn't yet another paranoia-spun story from blogs and tabloids. I said "I'm not willing to say that the news is totally unbiased, but don't you think a little thing like Obama seizing control of our national resources would be of some minor interest to even, let's say, The New York Times?"
Finally, I said "Okay. I'm going to roll up my sleeves and actually take a look at one of the right wing sites. Here's Hotair.com. Maybe they will explain to me exactly what part of this thing is such a huge threat." So here's what we read:
We're getting a lot of e-mail this weekend about an executive order issued on Friday afternoon by President Obama titled "National Defense Resources Preparedness." While the timing of the EO is curious — why send it out on a Friday afternoon when an administration is usually trying to sneak bad news past the media? — the general impact of it is negligible. This EO simply updates another EO (12919) that had been in place since June 1994, and amended several times since.
There you have it. Even Hot Air — whose own "About" page proudly boasts about being "right-wing bloggers" accused of "wild and hateful claims" — thinks it's all a load of, well, hot air.
Case closed, I would like to think. And in case it's not dead enough, here's Snopes weighing in on the matter a few days later. This act has been in effect, in some form or another, since the Truman administration. The latest version is at best a minor modification of the one enacted by Clinton. It would make just as little sense to accuse George W. Bush of a military coup because he failed to invalidate it.
The Conspiracy Mindset
I hope this post is not embarrassing to my mother, since it's not intended to criticize her. My mother is well educated, with a Ph.D in physics, is not generally prone to conspiracy herself, and as a liberal, she's unlikely to come up with something like this to attack Obama. (You'll recall, we were setting out to respond to her roommate, but she wasn't sure how seriously to take this stuff.)
But as Michael Shermer noted in Why People Believe Weird Things, you don't have to be a fool to find bad ideas seductive. If anything, scientists are used to dealing with people who are nominally honest and transparent about their motives, and can have a hard time in the face of confronting flat out, deliberate lies or elaborate fantasies. Here's James Randi explaining how someone fooled a bunch of scientists with a simple parlor trick.
So mom asks the logical follow up question, "Why do people come up with this sort of thing?" A fair point, I said, and then I asked if she ever heard of how the country is run by lizard people?
She hadn't, so I pulled up a few pages on reptilians, including this ridiculous example, tracked down on the spot, about the "Photographic Evidence that Barack Obama is a Human/Reptilian Hybrid". True story! Crazy, right?
In the Non-Prophets conversation Lynnea and I had with Guy P. Harrison a couple of weeks ago, Guy made an interesting point about different types of popular yet silly beliefs. Guy said that your typical person who believes in ghosts could be described as not thinking enough. If anything, the opposite is true of conspiracy theorists — they think way too much in order to draw connections that aren't there. I'm reminded of the scene in "A Beautiful Mind" where Russell Crowe as John Nash draws crazy connections all over the blackboard… or more recently, Jon Stewart mocking Glenn Beck's tendency to do the same thing.
I explain it as follows: People with a certain mindset often feel frustrated about the fact that they don't have a lot of power in their own lives. The idea that the entire world is controlled by a group of elite people with a deliberate and terrifying agenda is appealing on multiple levels. First, it is makes them feel like it's not their fault that they aren't more empowered themselves. Since the malevolent forces are running everything, I can't become as rich or famous or self-actualized as I'd like, because they don't want me to.
Second, just "knowing" about the conspiracy is superficially empowering in itself. I may not actually be one of the elite who pulls the levers of power. But by God, I am one of the select few who actually knows and understands the full extent of the conspiracy. All those pathetic sheeple out there are just living in ignorance, and that makes me so much smarter than them. You can see how this would be seductive.
This happened to be a right wing conspiracy theory; but, I told my mom, it doesn't have to be. It's just that Obama happens to be the president right now, and he happens to be a Democrat, and so much more of the paranoia is focused on him. Many of the same people who today live in fear of the scary socialist kicking in their doors were at least nominally paranoid of George W. Bush in the mid 2000's. Here's Alex Jones railing against the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration. If you listen to David Icke, both Bush and Obama are reptilians, and for good measure, so were Clinton and Bush Senior, and perhaps every other president who was ever elected.
In reality, I don't think the people who do have power always have the best of intentions. But the way their bad intentions manifest is far more often through a habit of grabbing as much short term advantage as they can, rather than having a long term goal to destroy everything for nefarious purposes. Other people may get screwed over as collateral damage that the actors don't care about, but enriching yourself by some scheme that just "happens" to steal your new wealth from the pockets of a bunch of other suckers, isn't done with the goal of destroying the suckers; it's just a by-product.
In other words, painting your opponents as Dr. Evil tends to be counter productive, in that it obscures their real motivations in favor of letting yourself believe an oddly comforting fiction.


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Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister discusses the use of quizzes and brain-teasers in evaluating potential software development hires, a practice that seems to be on the rise. 'The company best known for this is Google. Past applicants tell tales of a head-spinning battery of coding problems, riddles, and brain teasers, many of which seem only tangential to the task of software development. Other large companies have similar practices -- Facebook and Microsoft being two examples,' McAllister writes. 'You'll need to assess an applicant's skill in one way or another, but it's also possible to take the whole interview-testing concept too far. Here are a few thoughts to keep in mind when crafting your test questions, to avoid slamming the door on candidates unnecessarily.'


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SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468 Jan. 23, 2007 NASA Sets Briefing to Preview Series of Space Station Spacewalks HOUSTON - NASA will preview an unprecedented series of four spacewalks to be conducted from the International Space Station during the next month in a media briefing scheduled for Friday, Jan. 26. The briefing will air live on NASA Television and streamed on the Internet at http://www.nasa.gov. The 1 p.m. CST briefing will originate from NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, and will include questions from media representatives at participating NASA locations. Reporters are asked to call their preferred field center before the briefing and spacewalks to confirm its availability. Expedition 14 Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Suni Williams will begin the series of spacewalks with a six and a half hour excursion on Jan. 31 and subsequent spacewalks scheduled on Feb. 4 and Feb. 8. Those three spacewalks will be conducted using U.S. spacesuits and will each start from the station's Quest airlock. The fourth spacewalk, scheduled for later in February, will be conducted by Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin using Russian spacesuits from the station's Pirs airlock. Participants in the Friday, Jan. 26, press briefing will include: -- Kirk Shireman, deputy International Space Station program manager -- Derek Hassmann, International Space Station spacewalk flight director -- Glenda Laws, lead spacewalk officer for Expedition 14 -- Julie Robinson, International Space Station acting program scientist The U.S. spacewalks will bring on line new portions of the station's cooling system, expanded with components that were activated during a space shuttle mission in December. Lopez-Alegria and Williams also will assist in the retraction of heat-rejecting radiators on the station's P6 truss, install some external devices to stow cargo and install cabling for a new power transfer system for future shuttle flights, among other tasks. On the fourth spacewalk, Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin will remove a stuck antenna from the Russian ISS Progress 23 cargo spacecraft docked to the aft end of the station. Removing the antenna will ensure it can safely undock in early April. Coverage of the Jan. 31 spacewalk on NASA TV will begin at 8 a.m. Coverage of the Feb. 4 and 8 spacewalks will begin at 6:30 a.m. Media briefings will follow the conclusion of each spacewalk and also will air on NASA TV and the agency's homepage. For NASA TV downlink, schedules and streaming video information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv <http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html> For more about the crew's activities and station sighting opportunities, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html> ---- Sent via email@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex
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The baffling world of business speak
The word police have practiced restraint for as long as they could without becoming so frustrated with the repugnant abuse of the English language by the business community that they feared being declared certifiable. The time has come to address the ongoing problem that seems to haunt modern society like an invasive plague.
Street vernacular, hipsters and jive-talking aging hippies, rockers and rappers are more tolerable by far than the so-called business pundits that create corporate jargon. Their intent is to make the users sound intelligent, more aware, and a cut above the proletariat. It is time they realized that their abhorrent corruption of our most valued method of communication makes them sound just the opposite.
The following examples represent the worst of the worst according to a collection of like-minded journalists, organizations, and media giants who are embarrassed by the corporate world and their own administrations on a daily basis. Examples were stolen from correspondents for the BBC, reporters from CBS and other respected news organizations and newspapers in the English-speaking world.
According to the impromptu panel of concerned language preservationists, the worst phrase to come out of the mouths of corporate offenders in the last decade was, "Think outside the box." Whether you want to believe it, that one has had us gagging for nearly 10 years, and they refuse to quit using it.
Whoever created the phrase should not be allowed the privilege of public beheading unless they are forced to endure torture first.
The next is, "action item." That sounds corporately aggressive, obnoxious, and important. It ranks high on the list as useless. It loosely translates into an urgent task requiring immediate action - generally from somebody else.
Then we come to a passive aggressive phrase that has been unmercifully beat to death by the fatherly CEOs of every large corporation on the planet, "At the end of the day." This means that anything that happened during the day is of little significance as long as nobody was indicted.
The following word usually slides off the tongues of those clawing their way up corporate ladders. The word is "bandwidth." Sadly, this is a legitimate, modern word used by the Internet Technologies gear-heads to measure the transmission capacity of a computer network or other telecommunication system.
Unfortunately, the corporate predators were so relentless in their efforts to coin the term as a legitimate word in the business vocabulary that it is listed in the American Oxford Dictionary as a "figurative" word meaning "the breadth of a person's interests or mental capacity."
The consensus, however, does not agree with the language gurus at Oxford. They believe the corporate faux intelligentsia use "bandwidth" to measure the total amount of brain space in which they can focus simultaneously on the estimated amount of their bonuses and how many Ferraris they can buy with them after taxes.
I agree with the latter.
The next is, "critical path." The corporate world would like us to believe that the term refers to a sequence of events where a slip in any one activity generates a slip in the overall schedule. Companies use the phrase extensively in the exciting world of project management.
Nonetheless, after a little research, we found that a critical path is actually the trail from startup to venture capital funding, to initial public offering, to a beachside house on any privately owned island in the Caribbean Sea.
The aforementioned business jargon and corporate speak terminology barely scratches the surface of the infractions that occur on a daily basis. Due to space considerations I do not have the room to interpret, "Going forward; Blue sky thinking; Singing from the same hymn sheet; Pro-active; Thought shower; At this moment in time (the absolute worst of the worst); or fiscal imperative.
Anyone who says "fiscal imperative," or "target orientated processes," more than once in his or her lifetime should be required to put five dollars in the cuss jar.
The last term to be addressed was generated by an advertising or marketing agency and it bled into pop culture. It is used extensively in both the corporate world as well as in day-to-day conversation. The phrase makes no sense to me. It is, "supermodel." What exactly does that mean?
Is it a skinny woman who can leap tall buildings at a single bound? Does she magically materialize when lives of corporate crooks are in danger of being exposed? What makes a person who did nothing more than survive coming out of a birth canal deserve the "super" prefix before anything describing her lot in life?
Mind you, Tom Brady's wife, model Giselle Bundchen, is a multi-millionaire from her business acumen as well as her ability to sell clothing for corporate sponsors. But for every Giselle Bundchen there are dozens of others who are given the term "Super" and have done nothing more than learn how to walk down a runway without falling off their high heels.
Corporate jargon in our vocabularies is hugely responsible for why we live in a system we cannot understand.


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It seems every time a kerfuffle pops up in the Catholic Church, many in engage in hand wringing and doom and gloom scenarios. The latest occurred with Pope Benedict XVI's remarks on condoms, which were wildly taken out of context in his interview with Peter Seewald turned book Light of the World. Following these remarks, some of us have probably been peppered with questions from family and friends as to what this means, and if the Church has changed her teachings in the arena of birth control. Those of us who have welcomed the new orthodoxy taking place within in the Church during the last ten or twenty years, probably have wished this latest kerfuffle had never taken place. However, this in no way shape of form means the orthodoxy movement has stalled. Oddly, I received some gleeful e-mails from some who surprisingly seemed ecstatic to point out that my book; The Tide is Turning Toward Catholicism couldn't possibly be correct. Hopefully, this article will point out that Catholic orthodoxy is alive, well and here to stay.
Church liberals who had long pilloried Pope Benedict XVI even before he was a cardinal, a simple university professor in the famed German town of Tubingen, seemed perplexed on how to treat the latest uproar. Some felt that he was moving in the right (or in their case left direction.) However, the more cynical among them knew that the Holy Father hadn't changed a thing. They in turn left posts at the National Catholic Reporter decrying the German pontiff's lack of pastoral ministry. Though I don't know which saint said it, I am sure someone who was canonized uttered something along these lines; "God please save your Church from these overly pastoral pastors."
The Holy Father was merely engaging in an abstract theological conversation much like a bunch of guys at a sports bar might conjecture what would happen if modern team x played historical team y for a mythical championship. Yet, the mainstream media along with some in the Catholic media went into a frenzy. The Holy Father was changing nothing in the Church's teachings concerning birth control. The fault lie with those in the Vatican's Public Relations Department in making sure the ubiquitous editor Giovanni Vian didn't somehow put the Holy Father's abstract scenarios into an excerpt for the L'Osservatore Romano. The comedy of errors in the Vatican could make one's hair fallout.
Yet, I remember the words of a priest who once spent a considerable amount of time at the Holy See. He told me that the amount of miracles and jaw dropping examples of God's Grace, that he personally witnessed behind the Vatican's walls, still amazes him to this day. However, on the flip side the amount of sinister almost demonic style attacks amazes him to this day as well. The evil one knows where his primary target is located and he does his best to cause mayhem. Continue Reading


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I've read before that a BA in a science field can take the Patent bar and practice intellectual law without a JD. Have you thought about looking into that?
Hello Law Schoool Discussion Board,I'm a mechanical engineer in my late 20's whose lost admiration for the once proud proffession. There are many reasons why I'm choosing to walk away from the field, the primary reason being my lacklustre compensation I've been recieiving for the past couple years.I've been pondering Law School for the past few months and have some questions. 1) Aside from the court room, what other jobs can a lawyer score?2) I have a background in project managment as well as business managment, can a law degree help me bolster these two career paths?3) How competative is the education, I'm fairly confident I can get into law school, but what is a typical minimum GPA? I'm sure I can surpass it, but I want to get an idea of how many late nights in the study hall I'm going to endure.4) If I'm not going to work in the legal system, is a law degree transferable to other countries?Thanks!


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I will be back ... I will try to help whenever I am able to. Mostly late nights though.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Dec 2010 22:45 UTC
And so the Wikileaks saga continues - with politics once again crossing with the technology side of things. After several DDoS attacks on Wikileaks' website, the organisation decided to move their website over to Amazon's cloud service yesterday. Today, Amazon kicked Wikileaks out of its cloud after being pressured by US Congress. Update: [Kroc] In a Q&A on the Guardian website, Julian Assange drops the bomb--Amazon failed the test: "Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in jurisdictions that we suspected suffered a free speech deficit inorder to separate rhetoric from reality. Amazon was one of these cases.". Stunning.
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Great Indoor Playhouses
In the thick of winter, sometimes it's nice to have a little hideaway inside. Check out our roundup of some fun and attractive indoor playhouses.
1. Kinkeli-hut: If you speak Norwegian, you might be able to order one of these; if you are super handy, you could build your own.
2. Thicket from Cheeriup: Perhaps the most unusual of these playhouses, the Thicket is made from willow branches and other natural materials, and it can withstand either indoor or outdoor play.
3. Puzzle Playhouse from Modern Playhouse: So easy to assemble and requiring no tools, you can set this house up for a day of play and then take it down for storage.
4. Kyoto Indoor Playhouse from Smart Playhouse: Inspired by Japanese avant garde architecture, this playhouse also has special safety features, like a door that doesn't touch the frame to avoid squished fingers.
5. No Place Like Play Home Rocketship from Land of Nod: A cross between a tent, a playhouse, and a rocketship, this play canopy takes up little space and requires no assembly.
6. Wooden Playhouse from Stumpy Lumpkins: Justin Ferro of Stumpy Lumpkins hand builds these playhouses in Vermont.
7. Reading Fort at Small + Friendly: We've seen this "lounger" before, but add a curtain and suddenly you have a fort for reading or playing.
8. Picture Playhouse from TinyFolk: If you have a big enough cardboard box, you can create one of these on your own. Otherwise, you can order one from TinyFolk.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International Criminal Court judges delayed a decision Monday on whether to put former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on trial for alleged involvement in deadly post-election violence, telling prosecutors to beef up their case.
The ruling in the case of the first former head of state taken into custody by the court was another blow to prosecutors, who in recent months have seen a Congolese suspect acquitted and had to drop charges against a senior Kenyan official due to lack of evidence.
Judges criticized evidence presented by prosecutors at a hearing earlier this year to establish whether their case was strong enough to merit putting Gbagbo on trial.
In a majority decision, the three-judge panel said prosecutors "relied heavily on NGO reports and press articles" to underpin parts of their case and noted that such evidence "cannot in any way be presented as the fruits of a full and proper investigation by the Prosecutor."
The written ruling said the majority considered that the evidence, "although apparently insufficient, does not appear to be so lacking in relevance and probative value that it leaves the Chamber with no choice but to decline to confirm the charges."
The ruling underscored how hard it is for prosecutors to gather evidence in African nations thousands of kilometers (miles) from the court's headquarters in The Hague and that the court's judges will not send cases to trial unless they believe there is enough evidence to support the charges.
"The judges' request for additional evidence is a reminder that the confirmation of charges is not just a rubber-stamp of the ICC prosecutor's case," Param-Preet Singh, senior international justice counsel at Human Rights Watch, said in a written statement. "This highlights the urgent need for the prosecutor's office to improve the way it builds its cases."
Pascal Turlan, of the court's prosecution office, said prosecutors were studying the ruling and were considering whether to appeal or to provide more information as requested.
Gbagbo is the first former head of state to appear at ICC and prosecutors charge that he is responsible for murders, rapes and arbitrary detention of supporters of his political rival — and now president — Alassane Ouattara in the aftermath of 2010 elections.
Gbagbo, who is charged as an "indirect co-perpetrator" in the violence, insists he is innocent. His lawyer told judges at a hearing in February that prosecutors want to make him a scapegoat for the post-election violence.
Lawyer Emmanuel Altit claimed that prosecutors are focused solely on Gbagbo and ignoring the role of his rival, President Ouattara.
Prosecutors say some 3,000 people died in violence by supporters of both Ouattara and Gbagbo in five months of violence after the 2010 Ivory Coast election and a tense standoff that ensued when Gbagbo refused to accept defeat.
He was arrested in Ivory Coast in April 2011 by forces loyal to Ouattara and extradited to The Hague eight months later. Prosecutors also have filed similar charges against Gbagbo's wife, Simone Gbagbo, who has not yet been surrendered to the court.
Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front political party called for him to be granted provisional release in light of the decision, which sets back the case by months. Defense lawyers were given until Feb. 7 next year to file their final written comments before judges reconsider whether to send Gbagbo to trial.
Seri Gouagnon, the party's national secretary for liberty and justice, said the finding confirmed suspicions the party had all along about the quality of the evidence.
"We have long said the charges were not sufficient. We think the prosecutor and the court must respect the consequences of this decision," he said. "If they keep him in detention, then it means the justice process is not following a logical path. If you don't have sufficient proof against someone, then you need to let him free."
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100 percent sifted Rye bread.
Does anyone have a good recipe for a 100% Rye bread (sourdough), which contains only sifted rye flour (without most of the bran)?
I want to make a light and juicy Rye bread from sifted Rye-flour.
Does anyone have a good recipe for a 100% Rye bread (sourdough), which contains only sifted rye flour (without most of the bran)?
I want to make a light and juicy Rye bread from sifted Rye-flour.
For example, Andy's Borodinsky uses part light rye flour. I have to say I haven't seen a formula that uses 100% light or white rye (some reasons for this here: http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/17560/light-white-vs-dark-whole-rye-flours-what-are-differences-aside-nutrition#comment-115585 ), but I can't see why you can't try a 100% rye recipe with somewhat reduced hydration. I'd shoot for something like 75-80%, start with 75% up if the paste feels too dry (should logically be of the same consistency as a whole rye paste).
Proper hydration for white rye is arond 65%, perhaps even slightly less if it's intended to be a free-standing loaf.
never ever baked a white rye loaf.
being used. If i grind rye at home and sift out the bran to a 75% extraction i can go as high as 90% hydration for a free standing loaf and if tinned much higher. If use the sifted rye in the bins at Winco then about 72% hydration for a free standing loaf is the max.
So the formula you use of flour, water, salt and SD - the water depends on the flour used. I would use about 10-15% of the total flour and water weight as the rye sour levain amount and 1.75% salt.
You want your hydration high, above 80%. The lower hydrations are blended with wheat flours. Search under 100% rye and you will have hits for recipes and/or methods to go about it. Sifted rye is usually called white rye. The more bran that is sifted out, the lighter the color. Rye bran gives the great flavours, more protein and more fiber. Use a happy rye sourdough starter for best results. Use the sifted bran to feed your starter, not only does it soften the bran, the starter loves it! :) I bake predominantly rye bread.
What exactly do you mean by "light and juicy rye bread?"


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ahhh...summertimeFriday, June 22, 2007
Summertime tunic. Such a quick, mindless, knit. Honestly, this could be made in a few days. I figured, about 14 hours of knitting. I did frog it once, only because of my gauge. I substituted yarn, and never did a gauge, because I never do. I used bias tape for the ribbon and stitched it together with the same color thread. The wooden beads were found in my daughters bead box. (added bonus)
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It's beautiful and I love the buttery color and the yarn you chose. I've had the page in Interweave marked because I really like it.ReplyDelete
It looks great on you, if that's you modelling it. I don't know why you wouldn't wear it, it looks super cute! I love your finishing touches!ReplyDelete
It looks fantastic on you, nice work!ReplyDelete
It looks amazing!! Hopefully, I'll have more knitting time soon, and I can copy ya!ReplyDelete
Did you say . . 14 hours? Your fingers must be a blur!! This is so pretty, I hope you do try to wear it. It fits you perfectly. And I can't believe you never do a guage test!!!ReplyDelete
Oh, you must wear this pretty thing! When I first opened at this post, I thought I was looking at a picture from a magazine. It's that good!ReplyDelete
Fabulous! Your version is top notch. Now I want to knit this too!ReplyDelete
It's lovely, simple yet so stylish. I hope you'll wear it a lot!ReplyDelete
I love the color and beads.Its so match.ReplyDelete
why wouldn't you wear it!! it's gorgeous! love the yarn and contrast ribbon color!ReplyDelete
No way! I just discovered your blog and to see you just knit the Summertime Tunic must be fate because I just cased on for this yesterday! HA!ReplyDelete
I hope mine turns out as nice as yours. It looks great on you! I don't know why you wouldn't wear it? It's pretty cool! Love your choice of yarn and the brown bias tape and wooden beads are great!
Love this butter yellow yummy! It's gorgeous and the ties finish it off perfectly! You sure have an eye for style/color.ReplyDelete
Boy you get a ton of comments for someone who has been blogging for about a year! :) Congrats! That tank is gorgeous - it does NOT look hand-knit (and I mean that as the highest possible compliment!). Way to go - SKReplyDelete
Totally a winner! This is fabulous!ReplyDelete


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Homosexuality Is An Indicator Of Lack Of Divine Participation In The Creation Of Scripture
Note: I was working on this in the 'drafts' and it got published by accident. I'll stop working on it now and consider it published.
My presumption about the bible is that if it is to be called divinely inspired, then there must be some quality of divinity about it. I presume that if there were a holy spirit, and it can inhabit and influence all people who believe, then that spirit would be able to provide Quality Assurance to the writings that make up the Bible. This Quality Assurance about the internal consistency of the content of the Bible would be an indicator of aspects of its divinity.
And now, at the risk of "Political Incorrectness" I present my presumptions about homosexuality. I presume that it is like my heterosexuality. I presume that they didn't have any more choice about their sexual preference than I did. I presume that since most people are heterosexual, homosexuality is a deviation from the norm.
With these presumptions I intend to show that the treatment of Homosexuality in the bible most likely does not have any divine aspects about it. The following are some important passages regarding homosexuality in the Bible.
* Leviticus 18:22 (New American Standard Bible)
22 You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.
* Leviticus 20:13 (New American Standard Bible)
13 If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
* 1 Corinthians 6:9 (New American Standard Bible)
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,
In summary, it is an abomination, it is detestable and they shall be put to death, and they will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But research into human sexuality casts doubt on the 'Righteousness' of biblical principles regarding homosexuality. In the recent edition of Scientific American (June 2007) there is an article called "Going Beyond X and Y" by Sally Lehrman. Dr. Eric Vilain researches the phenomena of babies born with mixed sex organs. He has discovered new information that modifies traditional thinking about how developing babies sex is determined. He has discovered that it has genetic factors that are more complicated than previously thought. I am paraphrasing but he is researching the likelihood of competing genes that affect the organs, genitalia and brain development. He says that the gender effects in the brain happen before the organ effects. 1 in 4500 babies wind up with mixed sex organs. When this happens, the doctor makes a best guess on what the sex of the infant should be and performs surgery to facilitate it. Dr. Vilain has proposed that it be classified as DSD (Disorder of Sexual Development). In America, out of 300 million people, that comes out to be 66,666 people. It is a predictable rate. God is very consistent or he has nothing to do with it. Because of rushed gender assignment surgery to the infant, you will have cases where a woman is "trapped" in a mans body or vice versa.
Homosexuals shouldn't be considered an abomination, detestable or punishable by death and assignment to hell. Furthermore, we should be able to assume that some of that complex process will get mixed up to a lesser degree and result in a mans sexuality in a womans body and vice versa to include bi-sexuality.
Dr. Vilain recommends waiting on the sex assignment surgery, carrying out psychological counseling and classifying this as a clinical disorder. That seems pretty compassionate of him. He could just kill the baby in accordance with Leviticus if it weren't illegal by secular law, thank god [ ;-) ]
Does God do it on purpose or does it happen naturally? If he does it on purpose, then to what purpose? What value does it add? As a christian my justification that Homosexuality was an abomination was because logically, it would mean the end of the human race. But it doesn't happen enough to make this facet significant. As it stands, according to The Bible, it happens either naturally or divinely and then the subject should be killed or at least detested. If it happens naturally and God doesn't have anything to do with it, what is the principle by which Homosexuals are condemned? What is the principle in either case? Am I missing something? Where is the sense?
But homosexual behavior is exhibited in nature in other species. This means that it is not a specifically human trait. It spans species. This is the type of thing that is predicted by evolution. There is a museum exhibit in Norway that details the 1500 species that homosexual behavior has been observed in. I observed two camels doing something homosexual the last time I went to the zoo. One camel evidently was a cunning linguist. [ ;-) ]
I assert that the fact that there are biological determinants to human sexuality discredit the christian presumption that Homosexuality is a sin. It may be a disorder, but evil?
Is color blindness evil? Is dwarfism evil? Is a curved spine evil? Are they an abomination, detestable, punishable by death and assignment to hell?
No to all of the above. And neither is Homosexuality.
The attitude in the bible is simply an example of Bias against those that don't fit the standards for the group. It is human fear. Human Homophobia. Otherizing. It is obviously not very divine.
Note: Otherizing is
"(s)tereotyping…is part of the maintenance of social and symbolic order. It sets up a symbolic frontier between the 'normal' and the 'deviant', the 'normal' and the 'pathological', the 'acceptable' and the 'unacceptable', what 'belongs' and what does not or is "Other", between 'insiders' and 'outsiders', Us and Them. It facilitates the 'binding' or bonding together of all of Us who are 'normal' into one 'imagined community'; and it sends into symbolic exile all of Them —"the Others'—who are in some way different--- 'beyond the pale" (Hall, 1997, 258).
Since Alfred C. Kinsey published his seminal research, Research into Human Sexuality has suffered setbacks due to the influence of the religious right. "Kinsey's research polarized a segment of society. Many in the Christian Right found their religious and socially conservative views in conflict with Kinsey's methods and underlying principles. They saw his supporters as dissolute libertines and his work as morally corrupting. Even today, Kinsey's name can elicit partisan rancor." Many of Kinseys general conclusions have been verified by other research and are now considered valid by the scientific community. (Wikipedia, Alfred Kinsey)
Further Reading/References:
This paper discusses problems in Education regarding "Otherizing".
Hall, Stuart. ed.(1997). Representation : Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. London: Open University.
Here is a link to a story of one families effort to force a son to be a girl after a circumcision tragedy. It didn't turn out too well. He didn't seem to be able to willfully change his sexuality.
Here is a link to more information on Homosexuality
Alfred C. Kinsey
Some other DC articles that discuss Homosexuality:
Was Jesus Left Handed?
Homosexuality Bible vs Nature
Homosexuality and the Christian


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IW Andromedae is a member of the Z Camelopardalis class of cataclysmic variables, which are dwarf novae with higher-than-average mass accretion rates. These stars will occasionally get "stuck" in a high state between quiescence and full outburst, sometimes remaining there for years before (somehow) switching back to a normal state.
IW And was one of the targets on Mike Simonsen's "Z Cam-paign" list, designed to definitively classify a number of tentatively classified (or outright mis-classified) Z Cam stars. Even among the Z Cam stars the behavior of IW And was remarkable at first, but it was eventually realized that the star was indeed a Z Cam, switching back and forth between the outbursting phase and the standstill phase several times a season.


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Lauren Peck majored in marketing/management and was a member of the Lady Bisons golf team at Lipscomb University. After graduation she started a career in the fashion industry, but was persuaded in 2010 to change to banking. It has proven to be a great choice for her. She is branch manager at Avenue Bank in Green Hills and serves as an assistant vice president. She spent a few minutes this week talking with Lipscombsports.com.
What years did you play at Lipscomb? Who were your coaches?
"I played golf from 2001 through 2005. Ralph Samples was my coach.
"I signed with the track team, but I never started running because golf took up so much time. I had to pick one or the other."
Why did you choose Lipscomb?
"I was going to Auburn and about a month before I was going to leave I changed my mind. My parents and my grandfather went to Lipscomb. It was kind of in the family and I was the only child left that was going to college.
"My initial thought was to go to Auburn and have a social life. I went to Brentwood Academy and there they require you to play year-round sports. I played varsity sports year round. My whole high school career was balancing varsity sports with academics.
"I just decided at the last minute that I wanted to continue the tradition. I am very thankful that I made that decision.
"The Christian environment, and the fact that Lipscomb was not too far from home, helped. There were a lot of things that added up and made Lipscomb a better decision for me."
When did you start playing golf?
"I grew up playing golf. I played golf a lot with my brothers and my Dad. I had always played golf but I put my time into other sports.
"In college I wanted to either run or play basketball or soccer. It is kind of interesting how everything happened.
"As I have gotten older I realize how much I love golf. I play a lot now. Being in banking has made golf pretty important again."
What is your fondest athletic memory at Lipscomb?
"I think it would be traveling with the team, getting to know the girls and spending time out on the course. Some of the cities we traveled to, and the courses we played, were great.
"Golf is a pretty peaceful game. I was out there with a great group of girls. Ralph was a wonderful coach. It was a fun time."
Who had the biggest influence on you during your athletic career at Lipscomb? How?
"I would like to say it was my teammates. They had been playing together for a couple of years when I joined the team. They accepted me and made me feel welcome.
"They encouraged me as I tried to learn how to play collegiate golf. It was intimidating at first being out on the tee box with everybody watching you. I had never played with all of that pressure. Their encouragement helped me overcome those changes."
What is your fondest non-athletic memory from your time at Lipscomb?
"On Tuesday nights all of the students would meet on the steps in the square and sing. I thought that was so rare and special.
"My last couple of years they moved it inside. But I really liked it being outside in the middle of the square. Those are good memories."
What is the most valuable thing you gained or learned from your time at Lipscomb?
"Being out of school for more than eight years I realize more than ever the importance of Christian values, ethics and morals I had always had that instilled in me by my parents.
"Chapel and Bible classes were always there. Being in a Christian university and that environment it became about my faith and it became about me and my relationship with God at that point.
"I try to emulate Christian values when I am in the workplace, in meetings or managing people. In a culture and society that has strayed away from Christianity, more or less, I want to keep those core values and be the one that stands for morals and ethics and high standards."
Who was your favorite professor? Why?
"Charles Frasier. That is an easy one. He was a great professor. All of the professors were great. But he was so smart. He challenged me to be my best in a lot of different areas.
"I also loved Randy Bostic. He taught marketing and maybe management. He brought his work experiences to the classroom. He seemed to be really invested in his students, but I really feel like he was invested in me and what I wanted to do. He lined up an internship for me. He was great as well."
Where do you live now?
"I live in Green Hills."
Who is your employer? What is your occupation? What does your position entail?
"I am the branch manager in Green Hills for Avenue Bank and an assistant vice president. I have been with Avenue Bank a little over three years.
"There is not a day that is ever like another. I do a lot of lending and that is my favorite aspect of banking. I like to figure out what a client needs and making everything work for them.
"I was in fashion after college. I decided to make a change and Avenue Bank's CEO Ron Samuels recruited me. He asked me if I wanted to be a banker and I said, `no'. But his vision for this bank and his passion changed my mind and I said, `all right I am in'. I just fell in love with Avenue Bank as a whole."
My email address is email@example.com


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"Microsoft treats independent developers very badly," said Jonathon Blow, creator of the breakout indie success Braid. Blow appeared at Sony's recent PlayStation 4 announcement event to show his new game The Witness. He said in an email that Microsoft's stance on relations with independent developers is to "put you through as much pain as you will endure in order to extract whatever [they] feel like this week."
Sony appears to be seizing on Microsoft's bad reputation among indie developers as an opportunity to lure new games onto its platforms and establish the PlayStation Network as the new place to be for unique independent games. It's becoming the anti-Microsoft, something it seemed to be stressing in its PlayStation 4 announcement. Provinciano said that working with Sony felt like a "coffee shop chat" as opposed to the "intimidating corporate vibe" of Xbox.
and if the recent rumors are true, so will gamers.
looks like a perfect storm is coming together for the PS4:
* making easy to develop for architecture
* attracting indy developers.
* fast and simple user experience.
* the competitors making mistakes.
ive been an xbox 360 only gamer this gen
looks like that might change if this is true
dont worry, the psfanboys will make a colect to offer you one, you were lost and now you found the truth
me too, of this gen and the last. I have loved my Xboxs, and will hold off on making a decision until Microsoft actually announces the Nextbox. But, Microsoft is going to need to do some SERIOUS damage control, and demonstrate some truly amazing stuff, in order to win back its player base.
Rumores surrounding sub-par performance and a restrictive online-only console is one thing... Microsoft being corporate dickheads is another. They will have nothing going for them if they continue to treat developers and customers like children.
On the other hand, 'Jonathon Blow" seems to have nothing but bad things to say about Microsoft. This is the third separate occasion since the PS4 announcement that I have seen this guy dump on Microsoft. While i've heard this same sentiment echoed elsewhere, I'm inclined to believe that Johnny Blow is a paid PS4 shill, and is full of that stuff that we so lovingly refer to as S#!T.
if sony will offer more demos of these smaller independent games on the PS store.
I really like it if there is a demo. Mini's and PS mobile games should get demos as well.
@ malokevi
Blow is not full of shit, many devs have had poor and even downright horrible experiences working with MS and their marketplace. Not to mention every other platform offer higher profit ratios per sale than XBL. Blow is not the only one fed up with MSs BS when it comes to getting games on the marketplace, which is why many of them have migrated away from MS. As a rookie game devs myself(almost done with bacholors) i often speak with tons of indie devs(hell all my instructors are indie devs) and i've always heard MS is horrible to deal with when you're a small studio straight from the devs themselves. Not everyone has the same experience sure, but the ones that have say MS takes the cake for biggest pain in the ass
I suppose you don't do any writing, while earning your "bacholor" in computer science...?
Like I said, I've heard the sentiment expressed by other developers. I am not new to gaming news. However, for one indy developer to come out swinging against MS over and over again, at a time when they can't defend themselves or demonstrate their worth, seems all-too convenient.
It would not surprise me in the least to hear that Sony is encouraging developers to speak out against Microsoft. After all, now is the time. Kick em while their down.
Yes, MS obviously has to cut some limbs off of their Walmart-style bureaucracy. BUT that doesn't mean that Xbox Live hasn't been a great platform for indy developers. Judging by the extensive library... its working for people.
If Joe Blow wants to be taken more seriously, then maybe he should be a little more impartial. He may be right, but his approach is only discrediting himself.
He doesn't like Microsoft? OK. He doesn't have to be a whiny little bitch about it, with his own featured interview every week. We hear you, Joe, now get back to developing this "supposedly" amazing title that your supposed to be working on.
Because PSN is free developers have to pay for bandwidth for demos and DLC. It's an added expense some might not be willing to take on.
@dcbronco dont you know? If you don't unequivocally support Sony without any rhyme or reason, N4G disagrees with you.
You may want to consider changing everything you believe in, and throw logic out the window.
try this: "PS4 it totes better than the Xbox 3 and thats a confirmed fact of life lulz."
You broke out with a 2009 article when it's 2013, and the whole point of this new article's sentiment is Sony's change of dynamic regarding independent game developers and development.
As the old article stated: "implemented in October of last year, asks publishers to pay 16 cents for every gigabyte of bandwidth distributed through the PlayStation Store."
That's old news and new referendums and policies seem to be taking place now.
If you keep bringing up 2008 and 2009 in the way that you just did....well....I don't see why you think you'll actually get or should get "agrees" with that.
As with virtually everything else in life....Times change.
Just sayin.
Oddly enough, when I was in school, most of my instructors were from larger well known studios. They said the complete opposite, and that MS was easier to work with when it came to compliance and what not. One of my teachers was partially responsible for compliance testing for a very large studio, and he said Sony could be very difficult to work with, and had quite the bureaucracy, whereas MS he could talk directly to people who could help them sort things out.
Granted, this was several years ago, and those same teachers hadn't worked for those devs for 2-3 years before that. I really haven't heard anything about either since then. I also don't know how it may have been from the standpoint of getting approval and licensing for releasing on the system for the retail type titles.
If you have different information feel free to link it. But they don't disagree because the information is old or wrong, they disagree because they are pure sheep. Any thing that they perceive as a slight against Sony will get a disagree. They even disagree with Sony if they don't want to hear it. Most of them still probably think the Cell was a great idea. Once you implant a sheep with an idea it's hard to reprogram them. Almost impossible.
Just talk to an ignorant elderly person. Some of their views are amazing.
I know but you still have to stick to the facts. You can never let a fool decide for you.
It's because people don't like you and they disagree the moment they see your username because you're almost always saying something negative. Or because you bring up an old article about the PS3 when the current topic is about new policies and support by Sony that help indie devs and on new PlayStation hardware.
"""Microsoft treats independent developers very badly," said Jonathon Blow, creator of the breakout indie success Braid.""
""Working with Sony felt like a "coffee shop chat" as opposed to the "intimidating corporate vibe" of Xbox."" Devs have talked about limitation on XBL several times before.
You brought up the Cell just to make a statement. You are aware of the reaction you'll get and you post comments knowing that. To incite. It's a bit like trolling.
I could post negative stuff about Xbox too knowing people won't like it and will disagree, despite them being facts and call those who disagree "sheep" as well.
You are very welcome to the PS community. I myself was a nintendo fan until they released the Wii and I know its a great system but im missing out on so much games with great graphics. Ive never regretted my change in platform but we still have a Wii but its my sisters and let me tell you, She spends more time playing my PS3 than her wii. Could you imagine that? im not joking and making PS3 look good but its the truth. I have almost all nintendo home console, NES, Snes, N64, Gamecube and Wii. Wii-u I dont know if well get it hehe.
it's really heating up against M$..
M$ can really take it slow and not be intimidated with there
(were not impressed you'll know more may 21 attitude)
but it's coming to a point that it's very hard to imagine they could ever swing this very negative tied back by November release.
there's still two more months of these kinds of news articles.
developers cant afford to wait two more months for M$ to get of there lazy butt and say something.
I own both a 360 and PS3. I'm not a fanboy of either, but I tend to use my 360 more because it's what my friends play on. That, and the social aspect is much better on 360 than it is on PS3 (cross-game chat, etc.). That being said, as my friends and I hear more and more about the PS4 and next Xbox, we're leaning more towards the PS4 as our next-gen platform of choice. We've grown tired of Microsoft's business model and nobody wants to pay to play games online. Leave it to Microsoft to take something that's been free since the dawn of online gaming and attempt to make money off it.
all these indie games will come to the nextbox as well lol
another day, another full of s"*t blog wrotes especally for the fanboys that dwell on n4g
I think its funny how DCBronco is b!tching about Sony charging publishers 16 cents per gigabyte. When instead Microsoft just charges you. And you think that is somehow better? So you dont like the fact that Sony doesnt make you pay for it. You do realize that Sony cant afford to subsidize it right? because of the way the sale of the Playstation 3 went (and no Sony fanboys, do not get mad at me and think i am saying that the PS3 didnt sell as well or better than the 360, im just saying it didnt do as good as Sony had hoped for)
You sit here and talk sh!t about Sony fanboys being this way and that way. When MS fanboys do the exact same thing! all fanboys do, they are all the same, they are all obnoxious and they are all hypocrits. So stop this holier than thou bullsh1t. Sony fanboys are no wost than MS or Nintendo fanboys, they are all the same!
And whats with this "fanboys on N4G" sh!t? as if other websites dont have fanboys. All gaming sites are full of nothing but fanboys and in my opinion worst than N4G. People need to stop this bullsh!t, gotta love the hypocrisy
@Loulou- lol, and..........where are those free to play games on xbl? Lol...are you sure?
'If you have different information feel free to link it. But they don't disagree because the information is old or wrong, they disagree because they are pure sheep. Any thing that they perceive as a slight against Microsoft will get a disagree. They even disagree with microsoft if they don't want to hear it. Most of them still probably think the dvd9 was a great idea. Once you implant a sheep with an idea it's hard to reprogram them. Almost impossible.'
Sheep are all over the place dcbronco. Calling out one side is soo last decade. My comment is in gest. I've zero issue with you as I always read and welcome what you say even if I don't agree with it all
Same here. I can't stand dual shock controller.
If the new one feels better in my hands and doesn't feel cheap like Sony's past controllers then I'm sold.
Microsoft will have to get their act together. The Indie scene is where you will find some real innovation and some very talented people. It's time to drop the red tape and for them to actually listen to people.
They mention the game Journey but oddly enough they will be going multiplatform. Maybe after they have some experience working with Microsoft they will go back to just supporting Sony.
Go back to supporting just Sony? Nah. There's not enough money in it and Sony doesn't have the money to keep 'em.
To be honest Microsoft is trying to cash in on a constant and steady stream of revenue! Xbox live is one such stream, but they want to go even further.
Just think about it, if a constant Internet connection is accurate, they won't have to rely on just game sales as a form of revenue.
A set top box with different price levels, monthly subscriptions, music app, bundled together or sold individually, but all requiring the initial Xbox live subscription, in general they would take on the attributes of a cable or satellite tv provider.
Most cable and satellite provide basic forms of gaming even now.
Right now most don't know if Microsoft has it's own solution to streaming games, but always online does kind of point to something of the sort! Also we can't forget all games require installation to the hard drive.
These are some things that need to be looked at. That could be reason enough for Microsoft's silence.
I agree with you because you are giving a realistic outlook towards the next xbox. Thing is I am not a fan of cable or satellite subscriptions. If Microsoft can bring a service similar to Netflix except for games then that could be interesting.
That's funny because the article is completely untrue.
What developers? This is an opinion so allow me to opinionate.
I'm expecting these devs at MS conference.
CD Projectz
Respawn Entertainment
I'm sure I'm missing some but that's not including 1st party.
My god people, just wait until MS announces something.
Read the article and you'll see they are talking about Indie devs.
"Independent Developers"
I say this for your benefit, as you don't appear to have read the article you're so readily trying to discredit. You ask what developers - if you read the article, you will get examples. It's that easy.
I have heard this before, as well. We have to hope it's just a couple of people with a bitter taste in their mouths, or it could be quite one-sided next gen.
If I was a betting man, I wouldn't back MS right now, I know that much for sure - they need to speak up quickly and until they do, we have no reason to distrust persistant rumours like this one...
I am waiting but I do see EA and Activision at Microsoft conference for this E3 event. Now CD project I doubt it due to it owns GOG service. Meaning Microsoft and CD project have to negotiate in allowing this developer to run its network along with its GOG service. Also a deal that there is no DRM for the games something that is unlikely for Microsoft to deal with. Another there is the possibility of a monthly subscription and it's imminent that kinect will be center stage for this event. I am not looking forward to the next xbox but I heard miracles happen but will see. I already posted several links on my YouTube channel and here in regards to Microsoft kicking the ass of indie game developers
title should be "Why Indie Game Developers Are Flocking to Sony and Fleeing From Microsoft"
but of course if it was then not as many people would probably care to read this article...
They're attracting more than just indie developers. Big name developers have praised the system as well. Mark Rein from Epic Games seems particularly excited about the specs.
I expect at least 1 huge 3rd party exclusive for the PS4. Maybe Epic Games next big IP.
Epic games is not stupid enough to make a game exclusive, theyll lose a lot of money that way. But hey theres no such thing as common sense on here, where youll get disagrees for stating an opinion, unless youre talking about bad rumours about microsoft then youll get tons of bubbles and agrees.
"Epic games is not stupid enough to make a game exclusive"
Epic Games make Gears of War which is exclusive to Xbox.
@ Hercules
What do you mean? Epic has been making exclusive games for xbox. Why not for PlayStation?
What i meant to say was that theyre not gonna just do a 180 that quickly and completely abandon their fanbase cus theyve got lots of fans from the 360 side.
"What i meant to say was that theyre not gonna just do a 180 that quickly and completely abandon their fanbase cus theyve got lots of fans from the 360 side."
...who don't own a PS4 or NextBox, so they're abandoning no one by making an exclusive PS4 game.
I'm with Hercules.
Epic won't make an exclusive.
They said loads of time they were gutted to not ship Gears on PS3, but that Microsoft funded them very well and they wanted to keep the relation good.
And before consoles Epic were PC exclusives and you point?
In today's gaming world money is what makes companies do exclusives and if Sony have paid then Epic will make exclusives for the PS4.
Do I think that will happen? no way I don't think Epic will make another exclusive game as there is too much money to be made on all consoles and PC. Sony have made it so easy for dev's to develop for the PS4 now as it is basic x86 architecture.
I think it's becuz they make games and MS hates games and core gamers.
Developers of Braid, Meatboy, and many other big name indie titles have complained a lot about what publishing with MS is like.
For their sake, I hope PS4 does become the bigger platform, if MS isn't going to treat them right.
Each to there own , mind you I switched from Xbox 360 to Ps3 due to the cost of Live I thought why should I pay when I can get it free and I never used the mike so I was really happy switching and I had the RROD twice .
I have never looked back really happy because I have made good friends on psn as well and it's the best thing I did .
I agree only I would say it like this
Each to there own , mind you I switched from PS3 to Xbox 360 due to the cost of PSN I thought why should I have to pay for anything ever, and I always use the mike so I was really happy switching, see the 360 p-acks one with every system, and I had the ylod twice .
I have never looked back really happy because I have made good friends on Live as well and it's the best thing I did .
WOW this is certainly bad PR for MS.. They will probably come out with some sort of statement to save face..
Last I checked:
Mine Craft has sold more than all PS3 Indie games combined. Also, Mine Craft is Played more than all PS3 Indie games combined! Mine Craft isn't on the PS3.
Who The F*** is buying a Next Gen Console for some damn Indie Games? A Nut That's Who.
For those that say "I'm switching to PS3 because of "RUMORS" you were never a 360 fan in the first place so STFU.
The smart consumer waits until "All The Facts Are In", period!
"Minecraft on Xbox sold a lot and you dont like indie games"
Aren't you just full of great points!
Next gen does not equal this gen. Only a fool would consider PS3's showing among indie devs to be indicative of the next gen reset switch: by all accounts they are very much hating on MS and the opposite on Sony.
I guess what means that everything you wrote is pointless trolling.
The smart consumer also makes a purchase depending on how the manaufacturer of there last product treated them and supported there product as well as product reliability...
I am one of those customers and purchased both the 360 and ps3 next gen i will only purchase the ps4 why? my reasons are...
4 of my 360s have broke (my original 80gb ps3 is still going just fine with nooooo problems) my latest slim i purchased a year ago failed after 4days! resulting in me sending it back to microsoft which they did replace but left me without the console for 20days...
Paying for live and yes i know its only £35 a year i have no problem affording it but it is not worth it compared to ps+ and i aint dumb i know when i am being swindled.
Poor diversity in the games library - the 360 games library is shocking shooter after shooter the best exclusive game on the 360 imo is the witcher 2 which is also on pc anyway...
even the abiltiy to save music, videos (can you even save videos to a 360?! last time i checked you couldnt)etc to the 360 is a nightmare with its lack of codecs compared to the ps3...
i could go on and on but my point is many 'smart consumers' would have already made there choice regardless of what microsoft has yet to say and announce purely because MS f**ked them over this gen.
The fact that you're writing off indie developers proves you're a moron and an insult to gamers and the industry.And no you're not a smart consumer either!
Its good to see indie developers getting the support they need regardless of hows giving it.
Sony is actively pursuing these developers. For the last 5 years, XBLA has had the best selection of indie games between the three consoles. But slowly, Sony has continued to increase indie support for the PS3, Vita, and now the PS4, while the indie support for the Xbox brand has steadily decreased (or simply gone multiplatform).
Every time there's a "360 has no exclusives!" article, I see at least one person bring up the (valid) argument of "hey! Don't ignore XBLA. It's full of awesome games". Well, now even that seems to be fading away...
Fading away? How? 2012 was the best year yet for Xbox LIVE Arcade, in my opinion. We had Trials Evolution, Dust: An Elysian Tail, Mark of The Ninja, Spelunky, Fez, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, and so on. Journey was brilliant, but it was the only really notable PSN exclusive in 2012. XBLA has a much broader and more diverse catalog of games. There's no denying that.
When the 720 is announced and devs are allowed to talk about it, expect the PS4 to be an afterthought just like this gen. Sony is trying to get as much positive attention while they are the only ones who can talk.
It's pretty amazing that an "afterthough" outsold the 360.
Are you kidding? Sony sold more than Microsoft in less time.
Research, it might help you a bit. Get off Gears of Halo and Look at a superior console with superior games.
yes it did,......and... EVEN WITH A FULL YEAR BEHIND THE XBOX RELEASE....
damn...must be pretty hard to swallow eh?
A full year and a billion more in advertisements.
Oh you mean MS that only sold 25mil last gen and will probably reach 90mil 360s sold this gen?
Oh you're talking about Sony, who dominated the last 2 gens, but somehow let Nintendo and 360 tie or beat them in total sales?
I prefer the gain in MARKETSHARE by Microsoft over the huge loss in MARKETSHARE by Sony. That is actually more. Important in showing who gained and lost this gen.
The ps3 hasn't outsold the 360.
A month or two ago it was a rumor. No official conformation at all.
Also it was said the Sony Shipped more console not sold more consoles.
People on this site are pathetic. MS haven't even said if there is another Xbox.
Yet every one is already complaining that the nextxbox is a terrible console and that MS are just after the money.
Even if the PS3 had outsold the 360 (Doubt it) The 360 still started off with a huge handicap by having the smallest fanbase in the industry and have now become the most popular console on the market. So really this gen MS have won hands down.
Won hands down?.. yeah sure.. I guess you also believe that the Zune beat the iPod hands down, or that Surface beat iPad/Kindle Fire hands down.. haha
@kewl The reason we like Gears and halo is that its very easy to join matches cus people actually care about these games unlike uncharted or killzone where nobody plays, oh and why is noone talking bad about having to pay to play uncharted 3 online cus i wanted to play it when i rented it.
@omnip, it was confirmed by Jack Tretton some months ago.
Found a link - http://www.playstationlifes...
not a rumor... Tretton mentioned how the PS3 has caught up with the 360 in sales (worldwide) despite its launch problems, the fact that the PS3 is the most popular Netflix device and that Sony's focus is gaming:
********"We look at the market in worldwide terms, and every market is extremely important to us. The facts are, we debuted the PlayStation 3 at $599, which was an extremely steep price barrier for a lot of consumers. And we debuted a year after Microsoft, but on a worldwide basis, we've sold the same, if not more, devices. I think we're at 77 million sold right now — it's basically splitting hairs. Despite all that, our message has been extremely well-received around the world."*******
@Sarobi You really need to rethink what you have just said. The Zune was never going to out sell the Ipod because it was only out in the USA. But that said the Zune was the better of the 2 devices.
As for the Surface the RT has version sold over one million by Febuary and the Pro sold Half a million in its 1st month, again this is not available all over the world and is only available via the Microsoft web site and in one or 2 stores in the country's it is out in. The Surface is also not up against the Kindle Fire as it is a premium device like the Ipad and there is a big price difference.
The Surface was never going to out sell the Ipad just like the 1st xbox was never going to out sell the PS2.
Also all the hate the next xbox is getting is now getting silly because we don't know any facts on what it will and will not do.
It may be more powerful than the PS4 but it could also be less powerful than the WiiU. It may be priced at £100 it may cost £1000.
People need to wait for the facts before they start to say that something it bad or good.
For all you PS fan boys know sony may say the PS4 price is £599 again which is what hampered the sales of the PS3 at the beginning. Sony may also come out and say to use a lot of the online fetchers you need to buy PS+.
We don't know enough about the PS3 or anything about the Next xbox to say one is better than the other. Once everything is out we can then all go on about which one we think is better but without knowing everything about them this is not possible its just fan boys having wet dreams and making things up as they go along.
Ah omni.. theres a link there for ya. Not that their sales affected my gaming so 1st 2nd or 3rd I got my games. If the pathetic ones trouble you so just blow.. no need to come back and please dont pm me;)
With the resent triage of articles about this subject matter its obvious ms are more stringent to the point where some are saying they're overly controlling. This has worked for ms in many respects and I wish sony had done the same in terms of making sure devs included features like ms do instead of their laissez faire approach.
There are some instances like the ones mentioned in the aforementioned articles that will scare some fresh devs away for sure. Even a dev as large as EPIC were prohibited to release free dlc on xbl for unreal tournament.... a game made very popular because of the modding. This feature was included in the ps3 version as well as mouse and keyboard support. There's no smoke without fire.
Would be funny to see how many 360s and PS3s are working and see who, obviously will come on top.
The average 360 owner bought at least 2 360s...LOL
Um, nope.
EVEN THOUGH SONY HAD HALF JAPAN BEHIND THEM, they still didnt outsold the 360 lol. But i guss you sory fanboys love to ignore that fact
yes im aware of the year head start
but facts=facts
Xbox360 did technicaly outsold the ps3.
NAH ah aH!, tecnicaly i tell ya...


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ACE Limited (NYSE:ACE) writes insurance policies including property & casualty and accident & health insurance as well as professional policies like errors & omissions or directors & officers insurance (protecting companies and their employees from the potential liabilities associated with lawsuits from clients, stakeholders, etc.). The company was founded by 34 Fortune 500 companies that were worried about rising premiums and a failure to find takers for some large-risk policies. Thus ACE has a history of insuring largely low-frequency, high-severity risks for institutional customers.[1]
ACE has diversified in the past decade into sectors such as energy, financials, healthcare, retail, aerospace, and transportation, signaling that the playing field is open for a wide array of potential new business. ACE has focused on maintaining underwriting profitability by insuring risks that are high in severity but low in frequency (e.g. E&O policies, catastrophe insurance, etc.). Such fat tail risks can be very difficult to assess, and often the ultimate day of reckoning can be far in the future, distorting present results and leading to wide fluctuations in year-to-year results.[2]
ACE operates in four different segments, including:[4]
In 2009, ACE generated a net income of $2.55 billion on net premiums of $13.24 billion. This represents a 117.3% increase in net income and a 0.3% increase in net premiums earned from 2008, when the company earned $1.17 billion on $13.20 billion in net premiums.
For example, the company's directors and officers are seldom sued successfully in major tort cases, but when they are, damages awarded in court can be enormous. Directors and Officers insurance protects against these unlikely events. Similarly, exceptionally severe weather causing major property losses are relatively uncommon, but when they occur can cause billions of dollars in damage. ACE's property and casualty lines insure such occurrences. The strategy of insuring these types of risks has advantages and disadvantages. Because modeling the risks associated with these policies is inherently difficult (for example, due to the probability distributions of such events often having fat-tails or due to the lack of adequate data on occurrences),[6] the company can often take on business that competitors shy away from. This leads to attractive premium prices and substantial float from policies. However, for these same reasons, it is also exposed it to greater uncertainty than competitors as well as greater fluctuations in its year-to-year results. Furthermore, because such risks are often borne out at later dates than traditional "short-tail" policies, ACE may enjoy investment returns from float on a given policy for long periods even though the eventual cost of such insurance may not be known for years.
A large part of ACE's property and casualty insurance operations focus on underwriting risks associated with natural and man-made disasters.[7] Risks related to such policies are generally very difficult to assess and model given the year-to-year variability of severe weather frequency and intensity as well as the potential for long-run shifts in patterns, in light of the effects of global warming. For instance, while many meteorologists do not immediately blame climate change for the impact and severity of hurricanes like Katrina and Rita, there is more and more evidence that severe weather and climate change are linked. The company attempts to mitigate such effects with third-party reinsurance and sensible underwriting to compensate for the risk, but large, unexpected events can have a significant impact on the company's bottom line and, perhaps worse, its financial strength.
While insuring high-severity risk is an uncertain game with distinct advantages and disadvantages, ACE's ability and willingness to price a wide variety of these risks is an attractive practice for the brokers with whom it does business. The company sells most of its policies through brokers, who prefer its appetite for many different types of risk as they can rely on ACE to cater insurance policies to their clients' specialized needs and protect institutional clients from often hard-to-insure risks. This encourages the brokers to bring an ever-increasing flow of customers to the company. That said, the company also depends substantially on two brokers, Marsh, Inc. and Aon Corporation (who brought in 17% and 11% of total premiums respectively)[8], so it must continue to foster a positive relationship with them.
An insurance company can make money in two ways. One is taking in more money in premiums than it pays out - this is called an "underwriting profit". The second is investing the premiums taken in from customers and not yet paid out and earning interest on this - these are returns on invested "float". Many companies actually lose money on underwriting (often 1-2% of premiums) but make up for it with the investment income received on the float money. For example, if a company takes in $100 in premiums, invests it at 5% and eventually pays $101 in claims, it still earns $4 despite the underwriting loss. If, on the other hand, it pays out, say, $99 in claims, it earns $6. So an insurance company effectively enjoys a negative interest rate loan (due to its underwriting success) which it is free to invest.
Insuring and estimating losses associated with asbestos liabilities has been a notoriously difficult game over the last two decades. Variables including regulatory shifts and judicial rulings - both nearly impossible to predict with high accuracy - have played a major role in determining ultimate outcomes from asbestos risks. ACE's net loss reserves for asbestos exposure. This leaves ACE notably exposed to the creditworthiness of its reinsurers (who may or may not be able to pay up on their own insurance policies to ACE) and to its own estimates on how much in losses can ultimately be recovered.
Because of ACE's diversified product base, the company competes with many types of other insurers. While ACE attempts to differentiate itself by pursuing a strategy of insuring risks that others may not, the insurance industry at large is generally marked by low barriers to entry, significant price competition, and an alternating cycle of under- and over-capacity that can at times pressure pricing and returns. The industry is also highly fragmented: ACE's share is a tiny 0.33%. Indeed, discussing market share as a competitive advantage in insurance can be largely misleading - no company commanded any more than a 2.5% global market share.[9]
While apples-to-apples comparisons of insurers as diversified as ACE can be difficult, the following is a table that includes comparable companies' net premiums,[10] most recent combined ratio,[11] and 5 year average return on equity. ACE's low combined ratio indicates that the company has operated with superior underwriting discipline as it is below industry average and has been for over a decade.
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Here's an unexpected feud. Near the end of Monday night's episode of the NBC talent show "The Voice," Maroon 5 vocalist Adam Levine took a moment to slam the West Hollywood club the Roxy.
Why? Apparently the club didn't give the band a dressing room.
The jab came while Levine and his coaching peers were giving comments to contestant Cassadee Pope, the former lead singer of Florida rock band Hey Monday. Pope had just completed a rendition of Michelle Branch's "Are You Happy Now?" and the song appeared to trigger an unhappy memory for Levine.
"We used to open for Michelle Branch," Levine told Pope. "I remember we opened for her at the Roxy, and they didn't even give us a dressing home. I hate the Roxy. I'll never play there again."
Pope, whose Warped Tour vets Hey Monday have done some time at the Roxy, tried to protest. "I love the Roxy," she said.


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Wind flips moving truck over, causes partial building collapse
Wind flips moving truck over, causes partial building collapse
REVERE, Mass. —
Strong winds appear to have flipped a moving truck over, along with causing the partial collapse of a building in Revere.
The location is home to the North Shore Gentle Movers.
Sky 5 flew over the building, where a bulldozer appeared to be holding at least one wall of the building in place. In addition, one tractor-trailer was on its side.
Revere Fire and Police units were at the scene near the 600 block of North Shore Road in Revere.
Photos - Revere Building Collapse
State Police have shut down the northern end of North Shore Road. Traffic is being diverted onto Revere Beach Boulevard.
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|2004-06-25, 05:23
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something about a kettle
this is probably an anime i saw 6-8 yrs ago, it was translated in my language (filipino), and its something about time travelling with a kettle... there's a princess in a pink balloon gown who always gets kidnapped and then theres the kettle, they say something like "Let's go to (place or time) then they say fly, fly, kettle." atleast that's how i'd translate it in english.. (it's "lilipad, lilipad takure" in Filipino) i'm not sure but the title sounded something like Time Travel or Time Quest or something with the word time in it..
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|2004-06-25, 13:16
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Hey, there's this half hour animated short I watched years ago on a cartoon channel. I'm not sure whether it was animé or not, but it seemed to have something serious to it. I think it was called "electric fence" or "electric barricade" or something.
Anyway, it's set in this city in the future, where there's this dictator (you don't see his face at first) who the people go up to show respect to, when at the push of a button, the robots the robots of the city start attacking the people. Anyway, time passes and in the city that seems deserted, and a guy and a girl meet up unexpectedly (while the guy is grabbing a large sandwich from an abandoned fridge) and together try to find a way to escape. Apparently there's this electric shield that surrounds the city. In escaping, they deal with attacking robots, the woman discovers they guys arm is robotic after damaged in a lab explosion, and the guy makes an improvised catapult out of the elastic from a pair of boxers (no joke).
The following is spoiler material:
It turns out the "dictator" is just a kid who made the robots attack out of a bout of immaturity. When the duo see this, and end up breaking his control of the robots (by breaking his remote with the aforementioned elastic catapult), suddenly the kid ends up in the same situation they are in. However, upon noticing a bird come down from the sky, the girl suddenly jumps to the conclusion that there is no electric shield, it's just a illusion, and that they aren't the only ones that remain of the city's population, they are just the last ones to leave the city. In realisation of this, all three of them end up in a vehicle that they drive straight into the shield at the outskirts of the city chanting to themselves "it's not really there, it's not really there." There's then a flashback of the guy and girl to when they first meet and a few events before, (which is sort of funny since this happened less then 20 mins ago in real time) and the trio wake up on a desolate plain with the city in the background, yet in front of them lies this rich land lush with vegitation and natural beauty. "Do you think there's people down there" "I bet there are" is said, and about then, it ends.
Well, that's most of what I remember about it, it was so long ago, but I loved it so much, so if anyone knows anything of it, please let me know, thanks.
|2004-06-25, 16:05
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I watched an anime when i was like 6 or 7 and tahts like 1990s. It was a pretty good one. I just don't know the name of it. The anime is about a kid i think his name was toinki or something like that. He like plays a game that is like a super fast verison of dodgeball. does any body know what im talking about. and if you do wat is the name of this anime. Does anybody know where to dl it with bittorrent or mirc?? its pretty old.
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|2004-06-26, 14:56
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Cool anime!
I´ve heard of an awesome anime that is supposed to be about anime fans? could any one give me the name of this to-be-great anime about anime fans! Also, if any one have the time, please tell me a little about it, though don´t spoil the whole story! okay?
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I can think of two anime that fit your description. One is Comic Party which I've not seen too much of, but seems to be about a guy getting dragged to an anime convention and really winds up getting into it and trying to make his own manga.
Another, and probably the most famous, is Otaku no Video by Gainax, same studio that created Evangelion, FLCL and others. It's basically a dramatic anime style telling of the history of Gainax itself (which was started by anime fans), as well as a documentary featuring footage and interviews with fans in Japan.
|2004-06-26, 18:49
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Radd, isn't there one more? I know bout Otaku no Video and Comic Party, but wasn't there one more? I can't think of what it's called, but I've heard about it. I just can't jog my memory enough to remember the name.
|2004-06-27, 04:03
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Correction2: The supposed "fans" on those recorded videotapes are in actuality, members of GAINAX themselves....
"Nurse Witch Komugi-chan Magi-Karte"
"Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai"
"Mahou Yuugi"
"Comic Party"
"Otaku no Video"
"Keroro Gunso"
"Excel Saga"
"Puni Puni Poemi"
the upcoming anime "Genshiken"
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|2004-06-27, 08:39
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Spoke to my friend, he said that the one he thought of waas Otaku no Video, so I was pretty wrong
(Said:If I´m not very much mistaken it should´ve something to do with comedy, but I figured it had be a lot of animes about anime... are there any reaaaalllyy good ones that match my description? I think it might´ve been Genshiken since he hadn´t watched it already and seemed longing to!)
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|2004-06-29, 18:58
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Can someone help me identify this anime?
Go to this link and look at the movie on the upper right
What anime is this? Its the one where the girl is kicking total ass. Looks so crazy...
SO can someone please tell me what anime this is?
|2004-06-29, 22:33
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I found out the name of the anime. The main character was Danpei. the japanese name was Honoo no Toukyuuji Dojji Danpei and the english name was Fighting Dodgeball Boy Dodge Danpei. does nebody know where i can download this. i don;t think they released it on dvd though. i think they only released it on vhs.
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Hon hai Precison Industry Co. Ltd which is trading as Foxconn Technology group(world's biggest electronics contract manufacturer) and also known as Apple's main manufacturer showcased a smartwatch which is compatible with iPhone.
The main function of smartwatch is to check phone calls and Facebook posts besides this it will also provide medical benefits such as it will measures heartbeat and checks problems during respiration.
While in the future plans,fingerprint recognition technology will also be part of gadget.
With this step it is almost cleared that Foxconn wants to reduce its dependence on manufacturing products for Apple and will focus on developing new technologies with their own rights and properties.As According to rumors,Apple will also launch iWatch,later this year
Foxconn earnings in the first half is not much impressive and sales are down by 12.6% from the beginning of year to may 2013.The main reason which is expected as Apple didn't launch any product in first half and fierce competition from Samsung.
Foxconn is expecting that this smartwatch will be next driver of revenue growth


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Annual SEMI Conference Features Leading Financial and Industry Presenters
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. – November 21, 2005 – The SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS U.S. 2006) returns to the Ritz Carlton at Half Moon Bay, January 8-11, 2006. ISS U.S. is presented by SEMI, a global industry association.
With the theme of "What's Driving the Industry?" the conference features presentations by financial analysts, industry executives, and guest speakers, examining trends in the global microelectronics industry and the future of technology development and market growth. The opening session on January 8 features noted economists discussing the impact of the economic trends on the semiconductor industry. Speakers include Richard Iley, Senior US economist, BNP Paribas, and Duncan Meldrum, economist, Air Products & Chemicals.
Industry keynotes during ISS U.S. 2006 include Rick Tsai, CEO of TSMC, Kevin Kettler, CTO of Dell, Michael Splinter, president and CEO of Applied Materials, and Brian Halla, chairman and CEO of National Semiconductor. The industry forecast session features six analysts presenting their updates for the year ahead. The session concludes with a forecaster panel moderated by Michael Wright, president and COO of Entegris.
Other conference highlights include a presentation on the High Tech Investment Environment in China by Albert Yu, former senior vice president of Intel, and a look at the Convergence of Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Semiconductor Technology, presented by Paul Peercy, Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin.
The final day of ISS U.S. 2006 focuses on financial issues, beginning with a keynote from Bill Hambrecht, chairman of WR Hambrecht Co. The Bulls and Bears Panel that follows features leading equities analysts in a discussion moderated by John H. Kispert, executive vice president and CFO of KLA-Tencor.
The SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium costs $1,700 per person for SEMI members ($1,900 for non-members) for registrations received before December 1. After December 1, registration is $1,800 for members and $2,000 for non-members. To register or for more information, including an updated conference schedule, visit www.semi.org/go3/issus or call SEMI Customer Service at 1.408.943.6901.
SEMI is a global industry association serving companies that provide equipment, materials and services used to manufacture semiconductors, displays, nano-scaled structures, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and related technologies. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose (Calif.), Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.semi.org.
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This course (Teaching English and Communication in the Secondary School) prepares the prospective teacher of English and communication to face the theoretical and practical challenges of the profession. The course enables teacher candidates to clarify and articulate their own teaching philosophies and practices through reading, discussing, and reflecting on some of the major contributions to the nature of instruction in and evaluation of adolescent and classic literature, composition, grammar, and media studies. Some attention is given to the links between theory and classroom materials.
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I've made a number of changes to the site today to make the forum titles match the types of questions and problems people will tend to have.
Most technical forums tend to focus on categories with technical names that can be intimidating or confusing.
I've tried to avoid this with the latest changes.
Please let me know what you think.