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Limited edition pressing of the abstract American indie pop/rock outfit's acclaimed 1998 album. Features the singles'Goddess On The Hiway' and 'Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp',plus a five track bonus CD with live versions of '... more »
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Limited edition pressing of the abstract American indie pop/rock outfit's acclaimed 1998 album. Features the singles'Goddess On The Hiway' and 'Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp',plus a five track bonus CD with live versions of 'Holes', 'Isolation', 'Opus 40', 'Philadelphia' and 'Endlessly', all recorded for L.A. radio station KCRW's program 'Morning Becomes Eclectic'. A combined total of 16 tracks. Double slimline jewel case. 1998 release.
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E. W. Strubel | FW, Indiana USA | 04/16/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The 1st time that I listened to Deserter's Song I thought "What the &*## is this?". My Wife, who I figured would hate it because of the unusual, even shaky, vocals walks in 3 days later and says, "That Mercury Rev albumn is great!". Again I am thinking "What the &*##?". I Gave it another try and fell in love with it. I have been a huge Sparklehorse fan for years and if I had to squeeze Mercury Rev into the same genra.
Deserter's song is very quickly rising to the top of my all time albumns and is definately worth a listen and then another and another and another..."
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YellowNote | 10/05/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Pretty much every minute detail that can be said about this album has been previously posted, so I will say this for those already familiar with Mercury Rev but have not heard this album:
Deserter's Songs is what happens when you ask Mercury Rev to compose a soundtrack to a Broadway musical. Its use of a full band and strings, odd studio trickery, bowed saws, and epic and sometimes gratuitous, melodramatic moments create a whimsical, musical journey. From the noirish "Holes" which starts the album to the chipper closer, "Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp," you can almost picture the red curtain going down while Mercury Rev waves goodbye on stage.
This sort of sound may or may not appeal to fans of older Mercury Rev. To me, its just another progression in Mercury Rev's ever-changing personnel and it sounds wonderful. For maximum aural satisfaction, however, I suggest listening to this album all the way through, as this is a concept album, and its effect would be greatly undermined by selecting random tracks."


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Also part of the photo essay from this morning, but in black and white. Fences were up all over the beach to keep it from blowing away. Further down the beach, it looks as though a foot-deep layer of sand disappeared in the past couple of weeks.
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"I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles." Charles Darwin, as written to botanist J.D. Hooker in 1858, endearing him to the hearts of coleopterists (people who study beetles) ever since.
It's no wonder that Canadian Museum of Nature beetle expert Dr. Robert (Bob) Anderson would be inspired by this quote from one of history's greatest naturalists. After all, Bob's 28-year career has included a range of fieldwork in exotic locales, often in search of rare or new species of beetles. His research on beetles, specifically those in the weevil family, has been used in identifying hotspots of biodiversity, in conservation planning and in work on endangered species.
Bob brings his skills as a scientific raconteur to Vancouver's Beaty Biodiversity Museum on February 16 with a public presentation, "Scraping the Surface: Hunting beetles in Central America". The event is part of the Beaty Museum's FestEVOLVE, an annual celebration of Charles Darwin and the evolution of life.
Bob will recount his journeys across Latin America, New Zealand, Australia and Papua New Guinea. Specifically, he will delve into results from the Leaf Litter Arthropods of MesoAmerica (LLAMA) project (2008-2011), which he co-led with Dr. Jack Longino of Evergreen College in Washington State. This collaborative investigation aimed to collect and identify species of beetles, ants and other insects that populate the forest floor in five Central American countries.
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We all know that listening to songs is the best method to de-stress ourselves. We all plug in our earphones while on the go, while taking break at office, lying down in bed before sleeping or just randomly at any time to listen to our favorite songs. Your mind will be refreshed, there will be a smile on your face and you'll simply say WOW when you hear a song on Xiaomi's Piston 2.
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Hi guys,
a couple of days ago my computer started getting blue screens of death, now sometimes my computer gets a small second freeze and makes a sound like the computers crashed before it fixes itself, if it doesnt freeze, it makes the same sound but blue screens instead and when it happens, the file that apparently crashes is different every time,
for some reason the collection program isnt working for me either, it seems to freeze at steps as well when it is running the system info report, nothing else happens and the folder in my documents does not appear, ive had it run for 30 minutes and nothing's happened
i am currently trying it again at the same time im posting this
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Our area did a few screenings of the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special over this weekend, but my coworkers and I were unable to attend on the weekend, and so we bought tickets for last night. I thought that because most fans probably would have already watched the special, which was released on Saturday, it wouldn't have been a huge crowd, but man, when I'm wrong, I'm wrong. The theatre was packed about an hour before the movie started, and then it got to that very awkward point where couples are showing up and have to ask groups to shuffle down one seat so that they can sit together.
And then this happens:
[Couple A comes walking up the theatre stairs and spot a row of 2 unoccupied chairs, 1 occupied right in the middle, and 2 unoccupied, where Person B is sitting.]
A: Sorry, are those seats taken?
B: The ones on either side of me are.
A: Just the two? We have two of us here, so would you mind shuffling down one seat either way so that we could sit together?
B: I'm not doing that.
A: … it's just one seat.
A: Are you serious? Fine. We'll sit separately. [A storms down the row to the one seat on either side]
I WAS LITERALLY SITTING THERE IN SHOCK. People got in a fight over movie seats. B was insisting that A "touched her stuff," which if A did that's of course not cool, but HOLY CRAP. Then, after the scuffle, A and her guy friend moved one row back after someone else made room, which meant that they were sitting directly behind B's group, and another movie-goer ended up calling security because B's group kept swearing up a storm at Couple A. The theatre manager actually had to come in and say, "you are adults! If you cannot act like it, I will eject every one involved from this theatre!"
… and the entire time, I just wanted to be like, "the Doctor wouldn't like this!"


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Microsoft was intending to unveil the new Xbox during E3, but according to a BGR source it won't happen. Microsoft has stated "We can confirm that there will be no talk of new Xbox hardware at E3 or anytime soon." An insider called "MS Nerd" with a good history of leaking information about Microsoft, says that Microsoft is working on two Xbox consoles to be launched in the next few years.
"My understanding is that we'll see a Xbox device in late 2013 which does Arcade-style games & all the current & future media apps with Kinect (with near-mode)," MS Nerd wrote on Reddit. They went on to say "It will be an ARM-based platform price-competitive with the Apple TV (if you own a Kinect already)."
"At some point after that, we'll see a Xbox Next, a true successor to the 360," MS Nerd stated. "Details about it are very hazy, except that, like the 360, it will do games for core-audiences & the same media apps as the other device, also with Kinect." MS Nerd went on to say that the Kinect controller will receive a camera upgrade after the next Xbox launches, with this new Kinect being in 2015.
The Tech-Stew Take Home
These rumors of an ARM-based smaller, cheaper and specialized Xbox actually date back to 2010 and then again in late 2011, but the posts from MS Nerd have been updated as of 2 days ago. The real question becomes do we really need this type of new Xbox to cater to arcade games and Kinect (if there is even any truth to the rumor). The Xbox 360 dates back to 2005 that is 7 years, an eternity when it comes to gaming consoles. I personally would want to see development geared towards a single full-fledged new Xbox console, rather than two new ones.
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UISG Plenary Assembly, May 2007
850 women, leaders of Catholic Religious Institutes throughout the world and representing nearly 800,000 women religious, participated at the Plenary Assembly of the UISG (International Union of Superiors General) held in Rome May 6-10, 2007.
They reflected together on the theme:
Challenged to weave a new spirituality
which generates life and hope for all.
In their closing declaration, they state: Our passion for Jesus Christ and for humanity and creation impels us to become weavers of hope and of life.
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Amanda Seyfried Nude!
Okay, so 27-year-old Amanda Seyfried lamented earlier this week about her latest movie "Lovelace" – a racy biopic chronicling the troubled life and times of notorious, gag-reflex resistant porn star, Linda Lovelace – could possibly ruin her career because of the provocative subject material.
Remember Jesse Spano from "Saved by the Bell" when she was cast in the unwatchable "Striptease."
Yeah, that was the last time I heard about her too. Still Jessie's best performance to date. Powerful stuff lol (see below).
Amanda Seyfried made her smashing Hollywood debut playing a vapid teen in "Mean Girls" and then graduated to more serious fare like "Chloe", "Alpha Dog", and "The Miserables" before rolling the dice on "Lovelace."
For those of you who are clueless about Hollywood's recent infatuation with fleshing out Linda Lovelace's story – here's a quick soundbite: Linda starred in the most infamous porn movie ever made, "Deepthroat" and as the title suggests, she demonstrates her unique talent for swallowing huge pork swords like some zany boardwalk performer. Suffering from a sheltered and abusive childhood, Linda Lovelace was discovered by her sleazy agent, husband and pimp, Chuck Traynor (played to dirtball perfection by Peter Sarsgaard). Linda Lovelace's life has always been shrouded in a speculative smoke-screen, with much of her life being embellished in that titillating way that cult icons just can't help but exude.
Anyway, I don't believe Amanda Seyfried going nude in "Lovelace" will do anything to her career. She's part of that small cadre of young Hollywood actors who can actually act. But whatever, I know you don't really give a shred of a sliver of a fuck, so let's begin with the nude, topless pictures shall we?


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Shock, anger as arsonists hit Jerusalem Jewish-Arab school
The attack took place on Saturday evening at the Hand-in-Hand bilingual school which is a rare symbol of coexistence in a city fraught by division which has seen growing friction between Jews and the Palestinians, who live in annexed east Jerusalem.
Scrawled on the walls were offensive anti-Arab slogans in Hebrew reading "Death to Arabs" and "There's no coexistence with cancer," police said, describing the attack as a "very serious incident".
Nadia Knane, the school's headmistress, said one of the first-grade classrooms had been badly damaged by the fire, and said the attackers had tried to set light to the second classroom but it didn't catch.
"After I saw what was written, I realised it was not just a fire. They wrote 'Death to Arabs' and 'Kahana was right' — words which have a lot of meaning," she told army radio.
Meir Kahana was a virulently anti-Arab rabbi whose Kach party was banned over incitement to racial hatred but whose ideology still inspires loyalty among Jewish extremists.
"The school had been targeted several times in recent months but every other time was outside the school. This is the first time it was inside," the headmistress said.
"The fact that they went into a first grade class is really crossing a red line."
Outside the school, dozens of people gathered Sunday to condemn the attack, holding up banners in Hebrew and Arabic reading "Spread the light instead of terror".
Speaking to AFP, Hatam Mattar, head of the parents' committee, denounced it as "a barbaric attack" and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni also went to the school in a show of solidarity.
Late on Saturday, Education Minister Shai Piron released a statement denouncing the attack as a "violent and despicable incident, which could undermine the foundations of Israeli democracy," and "a serious affront to the fabric of Jewish-Arab relations."
In the past few years, the school — which has 624 pupils ranging from nursery age to 12th grade — has been targeted by a string of racist graffiti attacks, most recently during Israel's 50-day war against Hamas militants during July and August. (AFP)


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Map used: 1:50,000 Arolla hiking map, 283T
After a week in Arolla I moved to Evolène on the 30th of July, which opened up a new set of possible exploratory trips. On the 1st of August I went from Evolène to the Col de Torrent, returning the same way. Evolène is quite a bit lower than Arolla (roughly at 1,300 meters while Arolla is at about 2,000 meters) and the Col de Torrent is at about 2,900 meters, giving a climb of about 1,530 meters and a round trip distance of about 17 kilometers. This was my most challenging hike so far.
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From Evolène to Col de Torrent
I followed the road south (towards Les Haudères) for a short distance, then took a path that climbed, at times very steeply, up the eastern wall of the valley towards Villa, which I reached in about an hour. Villa is the most northern of the three villages above the valley, La Sage (where many Haute Route trekkers spend a night) is the middle one, and La Forclaz, where the route to the Col du Tsaté starts, is the most southerly.
From Villa a cobbled road leads up as steeply as the path had, and then it becomes a track. That track winds high up the mountain, reaching the many chalets of the vaste Alp Cotter, and is marked on one of my maps as a mountain bicycle path. It seems that many of the chalets here are rented to vacationers, as many of the cars had foreign license plates. At times the route follows the track, at others it used paths to cut the very long switchbacks, and at all times it was unambiguously marked.
At an elevation of about 2,000 meters there is a very sharp hairpin turn in the road, with a clear signpost. The Tour du Val d'Hérens route continues straight ahead (north) headed towards Volovron, while the route to the Col de Torrent heads east towards a collection of houses. Here our trail leaves the road for good, and starts a moderately steep ascent. The ascent is through a lovely alpine pasture, with gentle pastoral views in the foreground and the impressive mountains in the background.
At about 2,500 meters there is a delightful small (tiny might be a better adjective) pond where I stopped for lunch. Then onward and upward! The last 150 or so vertical meters to the col were a bit difficult; the trail was very steep on slippery slate.
I met a few groups of hikers on the col, and one group was going north along the ridge to the nearby summit of Sasseneire (a 3,000 meter peak with no trail). After enjoying the views on both sides I descended. On the descent I had wonderful views both of the mountains to the west and the surrounding meadows. It was a hike worth celebrating; strenuous and with great views. A half bottle of champagne seemed the appropriate reward for my hard day's work!!


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Demi Lovato: 'X Factor' Finale Party
Demi Lovato hits the purple carpet for The X Factor Season Finale Night 1 party held at CBS Television City on Wednesday night (December 19) in Los Angeles.
The 20-year-old singer shared the stage with finalists Fifth Harmony for a duet singing her own hit, "Give Your Heart A Break."
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"So amazing to see @fifthharmony evolve. I hate to say it but @SimonCowell did a great job!" Demi admitted on Twitter.
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First Things just published a short essay from my friend J.D. Flynn, who comments on a disturbing NPR story and his experience raising "abnormal children."
I'm not naïve about the challenges parents face when children have a disability. My children are significantly delayed. They undergo programs of extensive physical and occupational therapy. My daughter was born just a year ago, and is already facing her second bout with leukemia. Parenting disabled children is hard, and anyone who says otherwise is dishonest.
Yet children like mine spread a kind of joy that begins with their own unflappable optimism. I don't know why children with Down syndrome, and other profound medical conditions, are this way. But I know that they are. And that we're in danger of losing their joy because we've largely replaced moral reasoning with technocratic idealism.
… Abnormal people are not the exception to the rule, or the flaw in the system. Abnormal people are the norm. We're all the abnormal children of God. If we can rejoice in our own abnormality, we might just save those who point the way to Paradise.
Follow this link to read his important reflection in full.
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A. Q. A query produces this error in SQL 7 'Internal Query Processor Error'.
The full error is "Internal Query Processor Error: The query processor could not produce a query plan."
This means that the query processor/optimiser is "confused". With SQL 6.5 these sorts of queries would typically produce access violations which could potentially affect the whole of SQL Server. In SQL 7.0 the problem is handled a bit better - with this error being produced.
However, it is still really a bug, and you should report it to Microsoft as a bug.
Sometimes queries will work ok on SMP systems but not on single-processor systems - this is due to the fact that query parallelisation is available on SMP boxes.
In order for Microsoft to resolve a bug they need to re-create it on their systems. The best way to do this is to provide them with a repro script - this needs to show the problem when run on a brand-new install of SQL Server on a new database. Therefore it needs to contain all tables, user defined data types, triggers, views etc. needed to show the problem. If it needs data then try and keep this to a minimum.
If the script/data is reasonably short then post to one of the newsgroups and one of MVP's can report it to Microsoft for you. (See reproscript.txt for more information)


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DescriptionIn this compilation of 3 pictures of the planet Saturn shows the identification of rings A, B, C, the Cassin and Encke division. The north pole of the planet and capture the natural color of the king of the rings.
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Ghost Robotics, one of our customers, has been in the news lately because of their Ghost Minitaur robot. What makes this robot special? It's the first first direct-drive, legged robot, and it's available for purchase!
Gavin Kenneally of Ghost Robotics told a little bit more about the Ghost Minitaur via e-mail:
The motors have custom motor drivers and a microcontroller to control them. The legs each work in a plane (2 degrees of freedom), but the body has a sprawl angle, so the left/right pair are not in the same plane.There are lots of gaits that it can do, and this is ongoing work. So far, bound, pronk, trot, and crawl are possible.
It can even open doors despite its small size.
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"Our evidence showed, for most patients, that Bhuthimethee did not operate a legitimate medical practice, but instead was engaged in a scheme to distribute controlled substances illegally, thereby defrauding health care benefit programs, namely, Illinois Medicaid, by running what was in essence a prescription service for drug addicts, commonly known as a 'pill mill'."
U. S. Attorney Stephen Wigginton
In East St. Louis an MD who pleaded guilty to more than a dozen charges of healthcare fraud, has been sentenced to 1 year in prison.
Doctor Viwathna Bhuthimethe, age 68, had previously operated the Walk In Clinic, at 654 E. Broadway in the city of Alton.
According to U. S. Attorney Stephen Wigginton, Bhuthimethee was arrested on 15 charges, which included fraudulent billing of the Illinois State Medicaid program; and illegal drug sales of Xanax and Hydrocodone – specifically, he prescribed narcotics without legitimate medical reasons.
As an example, Bhuthimethee wrote prescriptions for 1,585 narcotic pain pills for two women in less than 18 months.
Witnesses testified that a long line of "patients"' cars would be waiting each morning, and on some days the line would stretch down the block.
The state medical board suspended Bhuthimethee's medical license in the Fall of 2012, for "Violation of federal requirements for record-keeping and dispensing of controlled substances."
This case was handled as a joint operation of the following agencies: Illinois State Police; Medicaid Fraud Control Bureau; Alton Police Department; the Department of Health and Human Services; the DEA; the FBI and the Illinois State Police.
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Our Observations:
Drug dealer Bhuthimethee graduated from Chulalongkorn University / Faculty of Medicine in Bangkok Thailand in the early 1970's. He then emigrated to the U.S. and was licensed by the state of Illinois in 1997.
Will this drug dealer and public tax money thief be deported after he is released from prison?
Of course not. The United States does not rid itself of criminal physicians.
We relicense them, and then hide their criminal past from their unsuspecting future patients.
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I'd like to start my morning with these … every morning.
Heat half of the butter in a skillet on medium-high heat. Add your red onion and saute until cooked to your liking, about 2-3 minutes. Transfer from your skillet to a plate and set aside. Combine your eggs, milk and black pepper in a bowl and beat until everything is combined.
Add the egg mixture into the same skillet that you cooked the onions in, and scramble until eggs are cooked through to your liking. Remove eggs from skillet to a separate plate and set aside.
Melt the remaining butter in your skillet now on medium and add as many flour tortillas as you can without them overlapping. My skillet was pretty small, so I was only able to do 1 at a time.
To assemble the quesadillas, you'll layer your cheeses, eggs, onions, hot sauce and basil leaves onto the tortilla in even layers. So top 2 tortillas with half of the ingredients in even layers, then add your top tortilla (you'll need two tortillas for every 1 quesadilla).
Allow the first side to brown (it should be done browning by the time you're finished assembling them), then carefully flip the quesadilla and allow the other side to brown. This should only take a minute or two.
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"Sorry, I didn't mean to speak for you. If you want to—"
"I don't," I say, finally meeting his gaze. "I only want you too."
His eyes soften and he exhales a hard breath as if we're finally on level
ground. I feel giddy with relief and contentment as I clutch at his hand and drag
him to the dance floor. At first he protests about his drink but then he places it in
an empty spot on a ledge.
It's a pulsing rap beat and my body feels like a live wire. My hips start
swaying, my hands rise in the air, and the vibration of the music takes over. Lucas
has no trouble keeping up with me, though not with as much enthusiasm.
"Fuck, you're sexy," he rumbles in my ear. I feel his hips gyrating as he
grasps my waist and slides up behind me. His hard length is digging into my ass
and that only spurs me on more.
After a few numbers, I follow Lucas to the back wall where we find a spot
to rest between other couples swaying to the music. He pins my shoulders against
the column, his breath heavy, eyes glazed over with lust, as his lips crash against mine.
My fingers reach for his waist but he grabs hold of them and raises my
hands above my head as he bites my lips, licks into my mouth and then sucks on
my tongue. Holy fuck, if we weren't in a public place I'd ask him to pound me
straight into oblivion.
"I didn't know you could dance like that," he rasps against my cheek as he
releases his grip on my hands.
His fingers connect with my neck and he hauls my lips to his again. His
tongue digs deep in my mouth and I groan shamelessly as I grab on to his hair
and pull him flush against me. I'm so thoroughly turned on that my eyes
practically roll to the back of my head.
He drags his mouth away and licks along my jawline up to my ear as he
arches his hips into my groin. "You've got me so goddamn hard."
"Yeah?" I ask, gasping against his neck. "Well, I know how to take care of
that. Remember, you'll need to beg."
He laughs and kisses the side of my head. "Not here. I'd rather have you in
my bed tonight."
Forgiveness, healing and hope. Those are the three words I would use to describe this story. Nyrae and Christina wrote a beautiful story about two boys who shared the same secret and the potential fears that may follow. They dreamed of having it all together.
Lucas and Gabriel started their friendship in a chat room. They confided in each other and made plans for the future. That was, until an unshared secret separated them for years.
After years of silence, a surprise reunion brings them back together, they both realize what they once lost is about to resurface. After they decide to leave their anger and heartbreak in the past the two finally find what they were always meant to have in each other. Friendship, love and a bond formed years ago that would make them stronger as a couple today.
No love is easy. No path is smooth. And that couldn't be any truer for Lucas and Gabriel. It's a hard pill to swallow when you think you are not needed or wanted. But sometimes one has to follow a path alone in order to make their journey together stronger.
I loved that they had Conner, Ezra and Lou as friends. They were fantastic and non-judgemental, in every way, support system for them. Something they definitely needed. It was warming to see they were not alone in this.
Lucas and Gabriel followed a rough path, but in the end, their love and commitment prevailed in a beautiful love story. As serious as the subject matter was in the story, not everything was weighed down in despair. There were some light-hearted moments, with jokes and flirting to make you smile and say awww. And in case I didn't mention it, it was also hot as hell! Those guys had some serious sexual chemistry, Christina and Nyrae kicked ass with that!
I'm curious to see what the next book will be about, it does say this is book one. Who is it going to be about?! Someone we met in this story? Is there something Conner wasn't telling us? Hmmm...I can't wait to find out!
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iceywinter1234 wrote: I'm a lvl 17 Ice Wizard and I think its a little unfair that I have to reach lvl 28 to get a minion while most other schools get it at a lower lvl Like if I was a Death Wizard I could get my minion the very next, lvl, I'm just wondering why Ice and Fire wizards have to wait so long to get a minion :?
I am level 29 how do I get the minion card? I have one that sacrifices minion for 3 pips but no minion.
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Embalming disinfects, temporarily preserves and restores, to an acceptable physical appearance, a dead human body. As human remains begin to decompose almost immediately after death, thereby offering an ideal environment for microbial growth, untreated remains pose a public health concern.
While embalming sanitizes the body, it also retards decomposition, thereby temporarily preserving the body. In view of North America's highly mobile society, embalming permits friends and family to travel great distances, often several days after a death, to attend the funeral ceremony and allows the body to be buried at some place other than where death occurred.
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Earlier this week we shared the news that Anchor Bay had dated the remake of the 1995 Alyssa Milano-starring erotic vamp tale EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE to hit the shelves on October 15, along with the news that the original film would also be getting the Blu-Ray treatment for the very first time on the same day. Now we have a look at the art for both releases, which you can check out below!
Starring uber-hottie Sharon Hinnendael (RITES OF PASSAGE, "Look"), Tiio Horn ("Hemlock Grove"), C.C. Sheffield ("True Blood"), Chelsey Marie Reist and Victor Webster, the reimagining/remake of EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE goes like this:
EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE stars Sharon Hintnendael as Charlotte, a timid and sheltered teen who has just left an all-girls Catholic school for a new life at a co-ed university. But an ancient evil has followed her here, tormenting her with disturbing nightmares and tempting her with forbidden desires. It is a hunger that can only be satiated by sensual pleasures of the flesh…and a thirst for blood. It's a battle for her soul… and one she's losing. But Charlotte is a fighter. The chaos and torment threatens to unleash her own inner beast, and anyone even close to her may find themselves embracing their own horrific fate.
It can be pre-ordered on DVD right HERE or you can grab it on Blu-Ray HERE.
The 1995 cult classic original EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE, which starred Alyssa Milano, will also be made available on Blu-Ray for the very first time on October 15th. You can check the art for it below and pre-order it HERE.


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Legendary Pictures presented their panel today for Pacific Rim, the next film from filmmaker extraordinaire Guillermo del Toro, who was on hand to lend his signature wit to the entire affair.
Del Toro was joined by his cast members Idris Elba, Charlie Day and Charlie Hunnam, as well as screenwriter Travis Beacham. Del Toro promised that his secretive project revolves around "giant f***ing robots versus giant f***ing monsters."
The director promised that the movie will have a fantastical premise but one based in a real world in the here and now that viewers can relate to and that the movie will be as emotional as it will be one of gigantic scope and scale.
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The Quest for the Perfect Playroom - Part 6
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This is great! I love that its interactive. It all looks fabulous!ReplyDelete
I´d love to be your child! I love this room!ReplyDelete
OK WOW... I am in awe of the creativity you have put into this play room for your kids.. How LUCKY are they!! :) Looks so fun I wanna come play! lol Ahh if only we had another room in the house Id do this for my kiddos. LOLReplyDelete
That is so creative!!! I just love what you have done with the playroom :)ReplyDelete
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that is a fantastic train!ReplyDelete
Can I play too? ;)
I am loving this series! I'll be linking. I can't wait to see the last car.ReplyDelete
Emily - The swing IS from Ikea. Maybe they were just out of it when you went there? I hope it's not discontinued! You could try online, too. Hope that helps!ReplyDelete
Amy - The bins and the bar they hang on are from Ikea. The bar was $1.99 and the bins were $.99.ReplyDelete
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Larry Day started the baseball season as a catcher for the Charleston River Dogs of the Single A South Atlantic (�Sally�) League before asking for his release.
Orleans bench coach Larry Day started the baseball season as a catcher for the Charleston River Dogs of the Single A South Atlantic (�Sally�) League before asking for his release. A UConn graduate with a major in political science, he caught for Bourne in 2004 and Orleans in 2006. He was in Orleans last summer to begin assisting manager Kelly Nicholson. But before the season began he received a call from a New York Yankees scout informing him he was selected with the last pick of the draft. So Day left Orleans and played in the Gulf Coast Rookie League, where his team won the title. In the offseason, he worked in insurance before heading to Tampa in January to work out and catch for some Yankee hurlers, including Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes. The Amesbury native and St. John�s Prep graduate wants to be a head baseball coach at some level.
Why do you want to coach? I never had any tools as a player. I didn�t hit for the greatest average or hit with power, but I could catch and call a game. I thought I had a decent grasp on some of the mental aspects. I love baseball and love learning about it. You never know everything, but I�m excited to give what I�ve learned to some of these guys who have the tools and might be able to take them to the major leagues.
Why did you leave Charleston? I wasn�t playing. I was catching bullpens. I knew with the amount of energy and enthusiasm and love of baseball I had, I needed to be in a situation where I could display it. Instead of being in a bullpen catching, I craved to be back in the dugout and talk game strategy, feel the game and listen to the noises of the game and give everything I had to the game. I knew, hopefully, becoming a head coach someday was more realistic than becoming a major league catcher. I had to ask myself some hard questions and look in the mirror and I had to be truthful. The Yankees said we gave you a chance, you did a lot with it, and we think you�ll be a good coach someday.
What�s your role this summer? Bench coach, and I work with the catchers. Boy, have I seen improvement with those guys. They have some tools, catch and throw, block. I�m trying to help refine their skills in terms of receiving and some of the finer aspects, like game calling, being a voice on the field, running the defense. Those are things I prided myself on when I played. I wasn�t the best player, but I was the loudest.
What kind of advice do you give players? I tell them hustle is something that doesn�t slump. You�re going to go through stretches in pro ball and here where things don�t go well. That�s why baseball is a great game. It�s a great test of character. The way you handle failure will determine how good a player you become and what kind of person you can become.
Do you get sense some of these players have an uncertainty when they get here about how they fit in at this level? There�s a lot of uncertainty how good they can be as a hitter. There�s an adjustment period when every night you�re facing a Friday night pitcher, a stud from a good conference. There�s also an adjustment to using a wood bat. You have to trust the process. You have to trust the practice you�re doing when no one�s looking is going to pay off, if not this summer then eventually. The scouts are calling coach (Nicholson), asking what kind of a work ethic does this kid have? Everyone knows this is a pitcher-dominated league. You�ve got to find other ways to scout � their character, what kind of kid they are. It�s our job to keep them on an even keel. You can�t get too high or too low.


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The Conference Board's confidence index climbed to 73.7, the highest since February 2008, from a revised 73.1 reading the prior month, figures from the New York-based private research group showed today. The median forecast of 75 economists surveyed by Bloomberg projected a reading of 73.
The report showed the share of Americans planning to buy a house rose to a record high, indicating improving property values and a job market recovery are making households more willing to make long-term commitments. Sustained gains in consumer spending, the biggest part of the economy, may help overcome concern over the fiscal cliff of tax increases and government spending cuts slated for early 2013.
"The consumer is in a better place than several years ago," Michael Gapen, a New York-based senior U.S. economist at Barclays Plc, said before the report. "A lot of the numbers are improving, where it is household balance sheets or the state of the housing market or employment.'"
Other reports today signaled business investment may rebound and home prices are climbing.
Demand for goods such as machinery and electronics climbed in October by the most in five months, the Commerce Department reported. Bookings for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft, a proxy for future business investment, rose 1.7 percent last month, the most since May.
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Property values rose in the year ended September by the most since July 2010, according to data from S&P/Case-Shiller. The index of home prices in 20 cities climbed 3 percent from September 2011, after advancing 2 percent in the year to August.
Shares fell on concern about the budget negations in Washington. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index dropped 0.1 percent to 1,405.18 at 10:12 a.m. in New York.
Consumers are benefiting as record-low mortgage rates drive a recovery in housing. Sales of previously owned homes unexpectedly climbed in October, and the median price rose 11.1 percent from a year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Estimates for consumer confidence ranged from 65 to 79.1 in the Bloomberg survey of 75 economists. The measure averaged 53.7 during the recession that ended in June 2009.
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The Conference Board's measure of present conditions was little changed at 56.6 this month from 56.7 in October. The gauge of expectations for the next six months rose to 85.1 from 84.
The share of consumers who said jobs are currently plentiful increased to 11.2 percent, the most since September 2008, from 10.4 percent. Those who said jobs are hard to get were little changed at 38.8 percent.
The percent of respondents expecting more jobs to become available in the next six months increased to 20.3, the highest since February 2011, from 19.7 the previous month.
The share planning to buy a house within the next six months jumped to 6.9 percent, the most in data going back to 1964. The previous all-time high was 5.5 percent.
Among other measures, the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index climbed in November to a five- year high, while the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index last week hovered near the strongest point in seven months.
Holiday Sales
Thanksgiving Day openings and midnight deals at chains from Target Corp. to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. drew shoppers. Spending in stores and online rose 13 percent to $59.1 billion in the four days starting Nov. 22, the National Retail Federation reported. A year ago, sales advanced 16 percent over the holiday weekend.
Gap Inc., the biggest U.S. specialty-apparel retailer, saw busy stores on Black Friday as customers responded to offers of $19 sweaters and $5 kids and baby graphic Ts from midnight to noon.
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Fuel prices close to the lowest level since mid-July are offering respite to budget-conscious households. The average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline at the pump has fallen 10 percent in the past two months to reach $3.42 on Nov. 26, according to AAA, the nation's biggest motoring organization.
Business sentiment has been stagnating as the year-end deadline for automatic fiscal tightening approaches. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said last week that an agreement on ways to reduce long-term federal budget deficits could remove an impediment to growth, while failure to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff would pose a "substantial threat" to the recovery.
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The Dark Mod:
Sir Talbot's Collateral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x_D...WAXohN2ixwOu0w
Thief Gold:
Working Late: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Ji...P2iY2swuwJJLr9
The Death of Garrett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka06...s2qBCn&index=1
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Klatremus' Supreme Thief Site - Walkthroughs, Loot Lists & Ghost Reports
Let's Supreme Ghost Thief - YouTube Channel with Thief Let's Plays
The Dark Mod, all these videos by Airship Ballet
Alberic's Curse (Airship Ballet)
Awaiting the Storm (Blind) (Airship Ballet)
Awaiting the Storm (Ghost) (Airship Ballet)
Beleaguered Fence, The (Airship Ballet)
Betrayal (Airship Ballet)
Builder Roads, The (Airship Ballet)
Business as Usual (Ghost) (Airship Ballet)
Business as Usual (Blind) (Airship Ballet)
Builder's Influence, The (Airship Ballet)
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Crown of Penitence, The (Airship Ballet)
Crystal Grave (Airship Ballet)
Fiasco at Fauchard Street (Airship Ballet)
Flakebridge Monastery (Airship Ballet)
Glenham Tower, The (Airship Ballet)
Grail of Regrets (Airship Ballet)
House in Blackbog Hollow (Airship Ballet)
House of Theo (Airship Ballet)
Illusionist's Tower (Airship Ballet)
In a Time of Need (Airship Ballet)
Inn Business (Airship Ballet)
In Remembrance of Him (Airship Ballet)
Knighton Manor, The (Airship Ballet)
Let Sleeping Thieves Lie (Airship Ballet)
Lich Queen's Demise, The (Airship Ballet)
Living Expenses (Airship Ballet)
Lockdown Part 1 (Airship Ballet)
Lords & Legacy (Airship Ballet)
Mad's Mountain (Airship Ballet)
No Honor Among Thieves Mission 1 (Airship Ballet)
No Honor Among Thieves Mission 2 (Airship Ballet)
Not an Ordinary Guest/Assassin (Airship Ballet)
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Thanks, Athalle, I think.
I'll try and get these done tomorrow.
I just returned after a year's absence from Thief, setting everything up again from scratch - and I'm once again baffled and impressed by the continuous progress and work that is being done by avid fans with great talent; the patches and optimizations that make setting up such a breeze these days, the forum moderators, the many-multi-faceted creative work from all over the world.. This remains the greatest and most productive gaming community out there and it's a testament to how amazing the Thief universe and games are.
Anyway, to cut that sentimental stuff short and be more on topic: I'm seeing a fair bit of activity on this thread and I'm thinking I might as well see if my partial (I swear I'll finish it when I have a bit of time) Let's Play series of the OMs (on expert), using the HD mod would be an eligible addition to the list.
It features duo-commentary where I sort of show off Thief to gaming friends whose gaming histories lie solely with classic console gaming, and whom the PC market initially kind of passed by.
This should link to the playlist of the few missions I got up:
EDIT: Please forgive me if this thread is only meant for FM videos.
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No worries. It is meant for FMs but it doesn't really matter (I just won't add you to the OP here or it will get confused - or I will) and there is a fairly equivalent list over at Thief General. I'll make sure I add your videos to that list - hopefully tomorrow. And you've nudged me to add the ThiefGen videos to the FM Links thread.
The Dark Mod:
One Step Too Far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk8O...qDUdLu&index=1
Thief 2:
Who Is Hugo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCrPUnM10uQ
Off The Record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhwB8F_w5co
Athalle's and Fen's lists added.
I haven't done Johnny01's ThiefGen yet but hopefully later today.
Edit. And done those, slightly later than advertised.
While I have played through all the original games I have also delved into the deep pit of Dark Mod as well as T2X.
It would be great if you could post them.
(Thieves Den Series and Quinn Co.)
I'm away at the moment but home tomorrow - give me a couple of days and then if I haven't added them, give the thread a bump to remind me.
Edit. Added those - many thanks.
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seeing your other channel, let me place a LP request here - SS2 FM Return to the UNN. been hammering on it (and on some old Thief FMs as well) quite extensively lately, and having someone betatest/LP the result would be nice. also, you know that you want to hear yourself voice act, now do you.
//and don't forget to mod up (omit SCP and Rebirth though, not compatible).
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Keeper of Infinity I: Bad Venture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-yaF17l8U
Thanks, Soul Tear. I've added yours, Klatremus' Rocksbourg 2 and Sly's Unnecessary Risk.
Klatremus' Supreme Thief Site - Walkthroughs, Loot Lists & Ghost Reports
Let's Supreme Ghost Thief - YouTube Channel with Thief Let's Plays
Done that one now and also added Sly's UT Arena II.
The Dark Mod:
A House of Locked Secrets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUP_...bytZ9w7zMfSc9k
Thief 2:
Of Thieves and Rubies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDML...DzfzqzWHh1i0p7
I´m starting to do video Walkthroughs for my missions, here is "Ana's Secret" for Thief 2:
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I'm going away on Friday for a couple of weeks and though I'll be dropping in, I won't have time to do these so I hope I can fit them in before I go and my apologies if I don't.
Update - our 'wandering-around-in-the-middle-of-the-night Lady' is going to take care of these and any others that crop up whilst I'm away. Thanks so much, Nightwalker.
I'll try to get this caught up tomorrow or the next day.
Done! I'll try to keep an eye on this thread and update it as necessary while Nickie is away.
Just uploaded a walkthrough video of the T2 mission "Pereira's Mansion":
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Our villainous Ned can use the other fuses in lieu of a watch. Here's how:
First, he takes one fuse and forms a loop so that the two ends touch at point A (see the diagram). Call this Fuse AA.
Next, he takes a second fuse and touches one end of it to the two ends of Fuse AA, and straightens it out to point B. Call this Fuse AB.
Then, he takes a third fuse and touches it to the loose end of Fuse AB, at point B. This will be Fuse BC.
Now Ned touches a match to point A. Fuse AA will begin burning at both ends, while Fuse AB will start to burn from A to B.
Because AA is burning at both ends, it will burn twice as quickly. Ned waits patiently, and as soon as AA is completely gone, a half hour has elapsed. He then immediately touches a match to point B, starting BC burning, and igniting the unlit end of AB.
At the moment B ignites, Fuse AB has half an hour left. But now it will burn twice as fast, and finish in fifteen minutes. As soon as AB disappears, Ned extinguishes BC and knows what remains will burn for forty-five minutes.
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I am not a sparkly person, nothing on the dress is sparkly, neither are my shoes or jewelry I have planned to wear and most sashes are full of jewels and sparkly beading. I am considering the flower that is on in this picture, but I am not keen on the price…
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Honey bee hobbyist : The Care and Keeping of Bees. / Norman Gary.
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I'm lucky I got a clean shot of this cake when I did!
There was NO stopping Ellie... she had her hands in the cake before mum had even sat her down!
We had a little pink floral cake and some pretty bunting...
We had a lot of time celebrating her first birthday.
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For the last few weeks I've been receiving a steady stream of books about climbing, hiking and general hearty outdoorsmanship, presumably because Christmas is looming and reinforced merino wool stockings throughout the land will shortly need to be stuffed full of presents.
When the ever-growing book mountain on my desk began to threaten the health and safety of those around me I tried emailing the editor, asking for a few months at home in front of the fire so I could work my way through them, but apparently that sort of thing is frowned upon so instead I have been reduced to dipping into them at random, trying to get a sense of which ones to promote to the top of the "to read" pile and which ones to relegate to the bottom.
There are many disadvantages to this approach, but one of the up-sides is that it makes it easy to play games of compare and contrast. Who describes their exploits with the most modesty? Who manages to brush off near-death experiences with the most casual understatement?
My favourite game has been searching for the best descriptions of Scottish landscapes, and by "best" I mean the most evocative – the ones that pick you up by the scruff of the neck and transport you to the scene in question. Outdoorsfolk can be surprisingly reticent when it comes to waxing lyrical about the places they love, but when they do let fly with a purple passage it's usually worth the wait.
Max Landsberg's description of Rannoch Moor in his account of his first Munro round, The Call of the Mountains (Luath Press, £20), is one of the best I've found so far. "This featureless moorland," he writes, "sports murky lochans and bog-pools that dress themselves up as pristine in the sun's reflection, their vivid blues contrasting, tartan-like, with the earthy tones of the surrounding land." Trailblazing climber Gwen Moffat, meanwhile, in her autobiography Space Below My Feet (Phoenix, £12.99), paints a majestic picture of the view from the top of Gars Bheinn, the southernmost peak of the Cuillin Ridge. "The sea, three thousand feet below, was seamed and laced with silver shallows," she writes. "Farther out a band of cumulus was stretched across the sky – white with blue depths – and Rhum brooded in the shadow."
My King of the Purple Passage, however, is the late, great Tom Weir, for this description of a Sutherland rainstorm in a new anthology of his writing edited by Hamish Brown (Sandstone Press, £14.99).
"Through a curtain of rain, beyond an inky loch and in the space between the dim crag of Arkle and the shadowy cone of Ben Stack was a weird jumble of flat-topped mounds, blurred and mysterious, cradling lochans below bulging shoulders, gleams of water that might have been the abiding place of everything supernatural. The whole gaunt and naked landscape was empty of man or any sign of man, a place where the elements could roar and thrash their rains on the tumbled glacier beds belonging to past geological time."
It's an awe-inspiring image. But now try picturing the same scene, only with 47 giant wind turbines spinning away among the lochans. Kinda kills the whole supernatural vibe, doesn't it? And yet this very thing could be about to happen just 35 miles to the east of Ben Stack – right in the middle of Sutherland's beautiful and ecologically sensitive Flow Country – if electricity company SSE is given the go-ahead for its proposed Strathy South windfarm development by the Scottish Government. There are various other large-scale windfarm schemes in the offing in or near areas of wild land around Scotland, notably in the Monadhliath Mountains, on the edge of the Cairngorms National Park.
According to Scottish National Heritage, as of 2009 just 28 per cent of Scotland was "unaffected visually by any form of built development" – or, as Tom Weir would have put it, "empty of man or any sign of man." Yes, of course we need to switch to renewables, but have the big energy companies really examined all of the "affected" 72 per cent and found it wanting? Really? Perhaps they should be made to look again. God knows they can afford to do the research.


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SWIMMING X-Cel Swimming Junior Olympic Meet: X-Cel Swimming, which is based in Princeton, finished fourth overall and had swimmers set 17 individual and seven relay team records. Melinda Tang (13-14) and Kara Lydzinski (15-19) each posted the highest points to win meet MVP for their respective age group.
In the 11-12 age group, X-Cel had three zone qualifiers. Alex Comaniciu finished second in the 50 backstroke (28.64). Zoe Stokes won the 200 butterfly (2:12.93) and placed third place in the 50 fly (27.66) and in the 100 fly (1:00.28). Oliver Tang placed second in the 50 freestyle (25.41).
In the 13-14 age group, David Chang finished third in 200 fly (2:01.57). Jamie Liu won the 500 free (5:05.71) and 1,000 free (10:39.21). Liu also swam to a second-place finish in the 200 free (1:55.89) and the 400 individual medley (4:39.80). Melinda Tang place first in the 100 fly (57.46), the 200 fly (2:06.85) and the 200 free (1:55.80). She also placed third in the 500 free (5:14.11), the 1,000 free (10:57.92) and the 1,650 free (18:28.72).
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PS4 Leading Xbox One Sales In UK By 166,000 Units
Depending on where you are living, and depending on which time you are looking at, the PS4 and the Xbox One appear to be outdoing one another, but given that we're now in 2014, which console is doing better? Well according to a recent report by MCV, it would appear that as far as the UK is concerned, the PS4 is leading the Xbox One in terms of sales. In its first five weeks of sales, the PS4 managed to sell a whopping 530,000 units, versus the Xbox One which managed 364,000 units, giving the PS4 a lead of 166,000 units. In terms of revenue generated by sales, the PS4 managed to nab Sony £181.8 million, while the Xbox One managed earn Microsoft about £144.5 million.
Granted these are pretty big figures and definitely no joke, but for now it does appear that the PS4 is winning. In terms of hardware, both consoles have their differences, although it does not appear that neither console outperforms the other by a considerable margin. Game selection is also fairly even since developers typically release their games on the PS4 and Xbox One, unless of course we are talking about platform exclusives. It is possible that the Xbox One's higher price (due to the inclusion of the Kinect) could be putting gamers off, but it is still a bit too soon to tell. Perhaps when sales and stocks have been normalized we will be able to get a better picture. After all the Xbox 360 was the best selling console in the US for an extended period of time for a reason, right?


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Sometimes it takes twelve to tango. Just ask the members of Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro, who came together in 2001 at the School of Popular Music of Avellaneda in Buenos Aires to form the first Argentine tango orchestra in decades. A slightly unkempt group of t-shirt wearing quasi-revolutionaries whose weapons of choice are bandoneóns and violins instead of guitars and guns, OTFF have quickly made a name for themselves as the next generation of tango music. Contrary to their look (and their chosen motto as "traitors of tradition"), OTFF are the archetypical tango orchestra in form—a string section of violins, viola and cello, a bass and piano for rhythm, a singer, and of course, the accordion-like bandoneóns. Their music by nature carries the influence of such tango greats as Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Pugliese, but they pave their own way with new arrangements of traditional tangos, as well as original compositions that verge on the avant garde. It's tango with a solar flare of rock as its heart—as aggressive as it is beautifully crafted. OTFF started out playing in the busy streets of Buenos Aires, despite resistance from law enforcement. It wasn't long before they were offered a deal with a multinational record label, but they turned it down to remain disengaged from industry politics. Their garage band exterior gives them an edge with the younger crowd, while their musical stylings stir the hearts of those older and more familiar with tango, who see the music's past as a source of national pride.The group has independently released four albums their latest is 2006's Mucha Mierda, which features a radical hybrid of Piazzolla's "Buenos Aires Hora Cero" and Jaime Roos and Raul Castro's "Las Luces Del Estadio." After their first European tour in 2003, they established the Club Atlético Fernández Fierro (CAFF) in Buenos Aires—deemed the city's most important youth venue for tango music and dance—where they perform regularly. They're also the subject of the 2005 award-winning documentary Orquesta Típica which, not unlike a punkier version of Buena Vista Social Club, chronicles the group's performances and misadventures while on tour in Europe. "Just as many other Argentineans my age, I didn't care much for tango until, by chance, I came across the Orquesta," says director/producer Nicolas Entel. "First I saw twelve guys looking like wannabe rock-stars pushing a piano down the street. Then I heard them play."
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