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I found this AMA by Ed Boon from the 90's.
--------------------------------------------------------- Session Start: Mon Aug 12 19:54:56 1996 * Logging #mk3 to: [#mk3.log] [morden] i was content with mk2 [Digital-C] Cage rocked everyone in MK1 and MK2!!! [morden] add the push combo's and the playable hidden characters [RevKano81] nah, the only thing wrong with MK is that it got too outta hand.. friendships, animalities, babalities [morden] BEWM [morden] naa [RevKano81] it got to unrealistic [morden] added to it [Digital-C] Stick with the Fatals [RevKano81] babalities were lame! [morden] i never played for realism =-] [explosive] do you know the release date of MK4? I have heard rumors its October 34 1996 *** Z_MaN sets mode: +m *** Joins: |Saturn| (firstname.lastname@example.com) [explosive] i mean October 24 [Z_MaN] heh...oops..should;t do that *** Joins: larf (email@example.com) *** Z_MaN sets mode: -m *** glue sets mode: +v EdBoon [|Saturn|] sure its ed boon *** Joins: N64RULES (firstname.lastname@example.com) [EdBoon] How long has this page been on? *** glue sets mode: +m *** Joins: Gotfire (firstname.lastname@example.com) [Z_MaN] page? *** Parts: Gotfire (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** Z_MaN sets mode: -m [REPTlLE] ED I think you should keep animalities but change them in away so they look real. like Liu Kangs dragon looks like it was in mk2 *** Joins: TealShark (~firstname.lastname@example.com) [Maximus] Trying mcs.com [Maximus] Attempting to finger firstname.lastname@example.com [Maximus] - [Maximus] Edward Boon (edboon) is not signed on the MCSNet cluster [Maximus] Mailbox last written at Mon Aug 12 18:21:52 1996 [Maximus] - *** Joins: SirMagus (firstname.lastname@example.com) [Maximus] End of finger session *** Maximus was kicked by glue (% A %) (out) [Digital-C] FAKER! *** Joins: gudoJOE (~email@example.com) *** Joins: Maximus (email@example.com) *** Joins: Galaphine (email@example.com) [RevKano81] no no no *** Joins: Fatality (firstname.lastname@example.com) [Maximus] whoops sorry [scorpi0n] maximus you moron he's on his ppp [morden] calm down now [RevKano81] it doesn't say you're logged in when he's on mIRC [N64RULES] EdBoon: are you THE man? =) [Digital-C] ED ED ED! [gudoJOE] ed boon ain't here? [Maximus] oh, sorry [EdBoon] Maximus, y are u trying the "finger" command on me? *** Parts: gudoJOE (~email@example.com) [scorpi0n] :P [RevKano81] hahhaah [RevKano81] Ed has a sense of humor! [Maximus] Ed:Sorry just checkin sumthing [larf] who is ed boon? [explosive] Edboon: Are there going to be Brutalites in MK4? [morden] narf [EdBoon] how does "finger" work? * Galaphine wonders if Mr. Boon has heard any of Galaphine's "fake MK WAV's" [Fatality] sup all [FuKfWaNkY] get a life larf [morden] it gets persnoal info on you from your ISP *** glue sets mode: +m [TuuK] is the address real maximus? *** Z_MaN sets mode: -m [|Saturn|] [III_Demon] tell him MK blows and he should come up with something decent.... [glue] cs leave it [Digital-C] Blah [Maximus] yes [EdBoon] Hey guys, how about turning the tables and letting me ask u all questions. [RevKano81] would all you losers shut up and let the man talk [Digital-C] Let's flood III_Demon *** glue sets mode: +m [explosive] ed: sure [Z_MaN] ask away *** Joins: EdenGuy (~email@example.com) [EdBoon] whats the "fake wavs" thing ? [TuuK] 'k ed *** Z_MaN sets mode: +v RevKano81 [RevKano81] talk to Galaphine bout that [Z_MaN] settle down ppl *** TuuK sets mode: +v Galaphine [TuuK] tell him gala [Z_MaN] settle down [EdBoon] is there a web page with them or something ? [glue] if you all wouldn't bury him with questions we wouldn't need +m...let the man talk *** Parts: EdenGuy (~email@example.com) -] *edboon* come to #agmk also. the offical Alt.games.mk channel! [Galaphine] yes, lemme get the URL *** Z_MaN sets mode: +o hi_octane *** Joins: DaSkin (firstname.lastname@example.com) [Galaphine] Killer Vail Fighting Domain's MK INFO CENTER has a fake-soundfile section [Galaphine] (got to find the URL) [EdBoon] what are all these things with windows poping up from other users [RevKano81] : EdBoon : those are msg's [RevKano81] private msg's from the person to you... only you and them see those *** Parts: DaSkin (email@example.com) [RevKano81] type /msg [person's_nick_here] and then your msg here [Z_MaN] ok look ppl, please don't flood the # if we remove the +m *** Joins: Dysolv (email@example.com) [TuuK] if u do flood we'll put it back *** Z_MaN sets mode: -m *** Parts: FuKfWaNkY (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** Joins: FuKfWaNkY (firstname.lastname@example.com) [EdBoon] where is Killer Vail? -] *edboon* this is a private message! You probally won't reply. But if you do say hi to me. just talk away [explosive] http://killer.vale.com/mk/mk.html [Z_MaN] now take it easy ppl *** Parts: Dysolv (email@example.com) [Maximus] Ed: killer.vale.com [RevKano81] http://killer.vale.com [sue_vuong] http://killer.vale.com [Galaphine] yes [scorpi0n] http://killer.vale.com [RevKano81] ok ok [glue] great [glue] shut up [Galaphine] but i'm trying to get the directory [TuuK] or rox n stuff *** Joins: ][CEmastr (email@example.com) [EdBoon] Please, everyone stop sendning them, its screwing me up [|Saturn|] Ed:If you really are him, will MK4 actually be something besides blood and gore, with some actual fun and skill into like VF2 [FuKfWaNkY] guys we should stop sending so many msgs [RevKano81] man shut up blood and gore is what we want [][CEmastr] VF2 is a kids game [RevKano81] stop messaging EdBoon please [explosive] ED: no we need BLOOD N GORE that's what made MK1 [|Saturn|] Rev:Yeah, but [|Saturn|] Rev:Something besides that *** blake has left IRC [FuKfWaNkY] Blood and gore is what made mk *** Quits: |Meek0| (Leaving) [Maximus] Ed: Type /ignore *!*@* then go to File, Opitions, Control, Ignore, and take off the channel part on it *** Joins: Beavis97 (firstname.lastname@example.com) [][CEmastr] The WILL b blood and gore ALONG with 3D features and gameplay, ok?! [|Saturn|] MK Sucks anyway [Digital-C] Whatch some lamer try to flood Ed *** |Saturn| was kicked by glue (% A %) (fuck off) [RevKano81] on irc.mtv.com everyone kept nuking Reverend Manson *** Joins: |Saturn| (firstname.lastname@example.com) [Galaphine] got it...it's http://killer.vale.com/mk/pub/sounds/fake/ [][CEmastr] Saturn : then get the hell outta here *** glue sets mode: +b *!*D4@*.iac.net *** |Saturn| was kicked by glue (% A %) (bye) [][CEmastr] heh [][CEmastr] k *** Parts: morden (email@example.com) [Galaphine] the one that's skum.zip, I made that one [][CEmastr] ban him * Z_MaN is away - distracted - staring at the ceiling - messages will be saved. [Fatality] yup [RevKano81] : EdBoon : what kinda music you like anyways? [Galaphine] (and I've got a couple others... *** Joins: Lagi (email@example.com) [Galaphine] Ed: I basically took Shao Kahn's voice and cut-and-pasted parts to make him say...well...some neat things :) [Maximus] All ed has to do is that ignore command like i told him [][CEmastr] Ed : What hardware do u plan to use for MK4 if you're not using Voodoo? [EdBoon] Sting, Tracy Chapman, Prince, ... [RevKano81] Gala made one for me that had Shao Kahn saying Kano Eighty One *** Joins: [JoRD] (email@example.com) [Digital-C] Hahah, don't let Ed here Skum.wav [[JoRD]] geez [[JoRD]] weird. [EdBoon] what is Skum.wav? [Galaphine] Digital: heheheh, i *want* him to hear it :0 [explosive] its a fake sound file [RevKano81] it's Gala's sick mind in action [[JoRD]] tonyd: why don't you op him? [[JoRD]] :) *** [JoRD] is now known as Ko-WrEk [Galaphine] Ed: It's a cut-and-paste with S. Kahn and Sindel...um...doing some interesting things [larf] who is ed boon? [hi_octane] heheh [EdBoon] email it 2 me! [Digital-C] hahahahaaha [Ko-WrEk] you guys are psycho about this mk stuff.. :) [RevKano81] haha interesting [Digital-C] Oh Oh, Ahhhh!! [Galaphine] Kano: :) [RevKano81] : EdBoon : don't let any women or children hear it [TuuK] so, got any juicy info 'bout MKT? *8) [Galaphine] Dig: heheheheheh, shhhh.don't give it away :) [Lagi] ed boon= mk programmer...blah ..cool guy..blah actually pays attention to us gamers..blH blah *** Joins: mufasa_ (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** edenguy has left IRC *** Joins: Tobias (~email@example.com) [][CEmastr] Ed : Can u answer any MK4-related questions today? If not, I won't ask ne more... *** Joins: Vatican (email@example.com) *** REPTlLE is now known as JohnTobai [Tobias] Hey everyone. [RevKano81] lamers *** Parts: Ko-WrEk (email@example.com) [hi_octane] heh I remember skum.wav [EdBoon] NOT the real Tobias. [RevKano81] wanna be like Tobias *** JohnTobai is now known as REPTlLE [Fatality] heh [Galaphine] oboy, here we go with the fake names [][CEmastr] k * Galaphine bows to hi_octane :) *** glue sets mode: +m *** Parts: Tobias (~email@example.com) [hi_octane] I think it wuz shaokahn and sonya gettin it on [RevKano81] : EdBoon : will any of the other MK crew come on IRC? We've had a guy from War Gods team come on [Galaphine] Ed: what is your email address? *** Joins: Brimstone (~email@example.com) [EdBoon] Dont think so, who from WG Joe or George *** Joins: gudoJOE (~firstname.lastname@example.com) [RevKano81] it was Alex [EdBoon] firstname.lastname@example.com *** Joins: EdenGuy (~email@example.com) [RevKano81] a tester [Galaphine] okie (I knew that... :) [EdBoon] Oh him! [RevKano81] Joe talks to a friend of mine named Patrick McCarron *** Joins: masamune (email@example.com) *** TuuK sets mode: +v explosive [glue] ed can you bring back an equivalent of Test Your Might from mk1? *** Joins: Gotfire (firstname.lastname@example.com) [RevKano81] hey now that's a good idea *** Joins: cyrax (~email@example.com) [TuuK] woo test your might...the ultimate button masher [EdBoon] Do u think MK4 should have test your might ? [glue] those were fun...entertaining [RevKano81] yes Ed.. please! [RevKano81] or another one [explosive] yeah that would be kewl...make it better though [glue] some new sort of one...that takes more skill than the original one *** Joins: _DSM (email@example.com) [RevKano81] yes but nothing like those lame SF ones [RevKano81] WOO let's bust up a car! *** TuuK sets mode: +v scorpi0n [explosive] i hate SF [glue] like see how many heads you can bust open or something [scorpi0n] heh *** Joins: [PePPeR] (firstname.lastname@example.com) [RevKano81] hey? can YOU destroy bricks? i know i sure as hell can *** Ez_xS sets mode: +b *!*@*.ns.sympatico.ca [explosive] BLOOD N GORE *** [PePPeR] was kicked by Ez_xS (banned: U couldn't hack a wet paper saq) [RevKano81] hahahaha [scorpi0n] it was awesome getting a big streak against people to get to try and bust diamond =) [RevKano81] i hear ya scorp [explosive] Edboon: is mkt going to have any new characters? [glue] or how many lamers running around talking about nudealities that you can beat up [RevKano81] haha *** Joins: Ermac (~email@example.com) [EdBoon] Just Noob, Rain, and the hidden one! *** Parts: gudoJOE (~firstname.lastname@example.com) [RevKano81] : glue : just refer to them as 10 year old kids [explosive] EDboon: thanks [Galaphine] Ed: I'm emailing it right now; it's about a 210k email download [TuuK] is the hidden one named kameleon? [EdBoon] Yea [RevKano81] : EdBoon : what ever happened to Brutalities? i know you mentioned them on AOL one time (i think) and after that nothing was ever seen of them [EdBoon] Where r u all calling from ? [RevKano81] Kansas [RevKano81] awwww yeah [TuuK] Michigan here [explosive] MA [explosive] here [hi_octane] Idaho [RevKano81] we have a few people that come on here that are from Chicago [explosive] ED BOON:so when is wavenet comin out in all arcades (major ones)? Is there going to be a wavenet for MK4? *** Quits: Brimstone (Leaving) [RevKano81] Ed you like any industrial music? cause you could do wonders with that type of music in MK4 :) *** thunderx is on IRC [EdBoon] Mk4 wavenet, dont think so. *** Parts: ][CEmastr (email@example.com) *** Joins: ][CEmastr (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** Quits: Galaphine (Connection reset by peer) *** glue sets mode: +v SirMagus *** Joins: ThunderX (~firstname.lastname@example.com) *** Parts: ][CEmastr (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** Joins: Co0KiEmAn (email@example.com) *** Joins: |cEmAsTer (email@example.com) [RevKano81] ahh yes 311 [TuuK] are you gonna bring back the head+spine pull in all of its glory? *** Joins: JeffD001 (email@example.com) [explosive] Ed Boon: Is there going to be a so called special character just for the Nintendo 64? *** Joins: III_Demon (email@example.com) [RevKano81] gotta throw up the volume for 311 [EdBoon] Not just for Nintendo *** Joins: AlphaBlue (email@example.com) *** glue sets mode: +v Co0KiEmAn [explosive] ok kewl [explosive] thanks [TuuK] doesn't nintendo require you have an exclusive feature tho? [EdBoon] No. [RevKano81] : TuuK : that's where Aggressor mode comes in *** Joins: Galaphine (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** Co0KiEmAn is now known as HI_Ed [EdBoon] They WANTED one, they dont REQUIRE one *** HI_Ed is now known as Co0KiEmAn [TuuK] oh i c [glue] hahah [RevKano81] : Co0KiEmAn : you have voice *** Quits: scorpi0n ( LinuxIRC : It really r0x0rs) [RevKano81] someone +v Galaphine please *** Digital-C is now known as YOU_RULE *** YOU_RULE is now known as ED *** TuuK sets mode: +v Galaphine *** Joins: scorpi0n (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** ED is now known as Digital-C *** TuuK sets mode: +v scorpi0n [SirMagus] Ed: What are you doing with MKtrilogy?? *** Joins: gudoJOE (~email@example.com) [Galaphine] t'anx TuuK [TuuK] np *** Joins: Sat_ID4 (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** Quits: Maximus (Excess Flood) [Galaphine] Ed: bad news...my ISP's mail server is choking on the big email :( [EdBoon] What are we doing ? [Galaphine] Ed: can you accept DCC sends? *** Joins: Maximus (firstname.lastname@example.com) [EdBoon] Galaphine...is there a WEB page? [explosive] ed: yes [explosive] edboon: http://killer.vale.com/mk/mkinfo.html [Galaphine] Ed: You can download it from http://killer.vale.com/mk/pub/sounds/fa ke/ *** TuuK sets mode: -v Co0KiEmAn [Galaphine] it's a zipped file *** TuuK sets mode: +v Co0KiEmAn [Galaphine] (and ignore my 2 attempted emails, they failed) [Co0KiEmAn] Ed: is the mkt release for the pc expected to be in svga? [RevKano81] dude it pretty much HAS to be SVGA =) [Co0KiEmAn] heh [Co0KiEmAn] well put *** TuuK sets mode: +v Maximus [Maximus] Thanks [Galaphine] heheh, it's difficult to get that much hires with THAT much actin [Galaphine] action *** Joins: keeba (~firstname.lastname@example.com) [Co0KiEmAn] I know, now i do *** TuuK sets mode: +v |cEmAsTer [Co0KiEmAn] heh *** Joins: FKrueger (~firstname.lastname@example.com) [|cEmAsTer] Ed : r Brutalities being considered for MK4? [Co0KiEmAn] Ed: would you like to see a sample of a 3d model of scorpion I made? [Co0KiEmAn] say yes =0] [Maximus] edboon: Have you considred making one of Rain's Fatality being an Acid Rain Fall? He drops Acid Rain on opponent it melts there skin comes down with blood and stuff and leaves just the skeleton standing [explosive] Ed: do you have an exact release date for MKT? [Galaphine] nice one, Maximus [RevKano81] jesus one question at a time =) [Galaphine] haahaha [RevKano81] the man can't type 300 wpm [|cEmAsTer] :) [Maximus] hehe, Gala I got hella other ideas for fatalities [EdBoon] Sept 30...I think *** Parts: Vatican (firstname.lastname@example.com) [scorpi0n] heh * TuuK thinks ed is either bein flooded or is off at the fake sounds page *** Quits: Fatality (Ping timeout) *** Quits: keeba (This is not my time brother, it is cold in heaven and I am not sprouting wings) [Maximus] edboon: Would you like to hear more fatal ideas I am making? [RevKano81] hehe pull a Chaos from Primal Rage [RevKano81] piss on em! [RevKano81] hahaha [RevKano81] nah not original *** Joins: ^ToRcH^ (firstname.lastname@example.com) [Co0KiEmAn] Ed: I have a web page...ewe care to see it? [Galaphine] heheheheheh, Golden Shower :) [explosive] he is at the page i think [RevKano81] and would piss the parents off [Galaphine] no need to be so crude, Kano... [|cEmAsTer] Ed : How far in production is MK4 so far -- storyline? Characters? [Galaphine] hahahah, funny pun Kano :) [Co0KiEmAn] heh, don't mess with me macboy *8) [SirMagus] Ed: You should make combo breakers in MK4... [glue] enuff scroll people [Co0KiEmAn] http://killer.vale.com/cookie/ [===feel free to stop by [scorpi0n] heh scroll [RevKano81] "hey johnny, get away from that disgusting game! i think i just saw that man piss on a woman" *** Joins: drub0y (firstname.lastname@example.com) [Galaphine] LOL! *** Joins: keeba (~email@example.com) [Co0KiEmAn] heh *** TuuK sets mode: +v drub0y [RevKano81] ok enough of my babbling [drub0y] hahah [drub0y] wtf? [Co0KiEmAn] I have a p133 with 32 megs of ram, should do well [RevKano81] i'll just sit here *** Quits: Ermac (Connection reset by peer) *** Joins: spotz (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** Joins: ]noah[ (~email@example.com) [EdBoon] pissalities? hmmm.... [RevKano81] hell #mk3 is bouncin tonight *** Parts: spotz (firstname.lastname@example.com) [hi_octane] hey Ed, got any good warez lately? *** keeba is now known as Ermac [Co0KiEmAn] explosive: sometime in september [RevKano81] : EdBoon : i was kiddin by the way :) [Galaphine] This is the most exciting I've seen it yet [Galaphine] cute octane [explosive] Ed: so what is up with Jonny Cage? [Co0KiEmAn] hehe [Co0KiEmAn] poor ed =0] *** Joins: [JoRD] (firstname.lastname@example.com) [RevKano81] hahaha *** Parts: ]noah[ (~firstname.lastname@example.com) [explosive] i think he is having fun at the web page [Galaphine] YES, what IS up w/ Cage?~! [RevKano81] Cage is back bro *** Quits: TuuK (Changing servers) [EdBoon] Cage is in Trilogy and will MOST likely be in MK4 [Co0KiEmAn] heh, no *** Joins: nazz (firstname.lastname@example.com) [Galaphine] (tho not Pesina) [Co0KiEmAn] lew [explosive] ed: thanks [Galaphine] (I bet) [|cEmAsTer] Played by Pesina? [Maximus] How abotu Noob Saibot summons the opponents own shadow against hims and enters his body causing him to blow up, that one could be worked on though [RevKano81] Pesina blows eh? --snip-- [TuuK] wew mad channel pong [Maximus] edboon: How about Johnny Cage Fatality being he does the friendship by signing it witha pen then shoves the pen in your head and it explodeds causing the head to get blown up *** Quits: explosive (Connection reset by peer) [RevKano81] quit promoting fucking pages please [Galaphine] Ed's not a WG creator [Co0KiEmAn] Cage was a fag, never did like him =0] [Maximus] like doing his signature move *** xplosive is now known as explosive [Co0KiEmAn] Ed: will mk4 resemble the animated series in any way? [Galaphine] Cookie: Cage....or Pesina? *** Lagi_away is now known as Lagi *** glue sets mode: -v |cEmAsTer [EdBoon] no * Co0KiEmAn hands EdBoon a nice big moist and fluffy cookie! *** Joins: gudoJOE (~firstname.lastname@example.com) [drub0y] hrm *** TuuK sets mode: +v scorpi0n [Co0KiEmAn] hehe [drub0y] and we wonder why he doesn't show up here more often [RevKano81] if you don't have anything good to say, don't say shit.. member what mommy told ewe? [Co0KiEmAn] Rev: Ed's a god, your almost there [Co0KiEmAn] heh [scorpi0n] hehe dru -] -Edboon- do this: /join #agmk *** Joins: rackboy (email@example.com) *** Joins: Silver (email@example.com) *** Parts: cyrax (~firstname.lastname@example.com) [Galaphine] good, Kano *** Joins: spinsane (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** Joins: Mad_Coder (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** Joins: PlutoNBMB (email@example.com) *** Joins: U-RNoT{E} (email@example.com) *** Joins: Agamemnon (firstname.lastname@example.com) [Co0KiEmAn] ehh maybe [Galaphine] wow, lots of ppl coming in right now *** Parts: Digital-C (email@example.com) *** Parts: spinsane (email@example.com) [Galaphine] oh BOY [RevKano81] ask good quality questions please.. no nudality shit, no more Cage shit (it's already been answered) *** Joins: Digital-C (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** Joins: [^DaZeD^] (email@example.com) *** Parts: Agamemnon (email@example.com) [hi_octane] heh [hi_octane] I told #oldwarez :) *** TuuK changes topic to "new #mk3 record...50 users" [RevKano81] haha *** glue sets mode: +o rackboy [Galaphine] let's see.... [hi_octane] rackboy! [RevKano81] bring in AOL_MAN [EdBoon] got a phone call. c u all later !!! [RevKano81] =) [Co0KiEmAn] Cage [RevKano81] come in again Ed [hi_octane] hehe aol man wif edboon [glue] doh [Maximus] edboon: raiden fatality morphs into a bolt of lighting and zips right into the body cause a whole and then his guts and all plop out [Co0KiEmAn] Scorpion is the best character ever created IMHO [TuuK] dude eds like WAY lagged [hi_octane] aol man has a question I think [Galaphine] Okie; thanks for stoppin' by [hi_octane] bring hiom on [RevKano81] thanks Ed [TuuK] l8r ed, feel free to visit again [RevKano81] feel VERY free *** Joins: Dodee (firstname.lastname@example.com) [glue] thank you ed drive thru [RevKano81] hahaha *** Parts: U-RNoT{E} (email@example.com) [Galaphine] that's PLEASE drive thru :) [Co0KiEmAn] hmm *** Parts: Mad_Coder (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** Quits: EdBoon (Dead Socket) Session End. Session Start: Wed Aug 14 23:25:29 1996 *** Now talking in #mk3 [glue] very nice though [MG_] sup grees [Ed_Boon] MK4 will have atleast a dozen new chars with a REAL 3d effect [glue] ya i figured that out :P *** Quits: wiener (Connection reset by peer) [glue] very nice though [MG_] hehe [noob] privmsg #mk3 [noob] wew[ [MG_] he's chris *** Ez_xS sets mode: +b *!*@206.63.146.* [Toki] good to know thta your first name idnt richard and that you are not asian (long) *** Joins: TonyD (firstname.lastname@example.com) [MG_] sup D [Co0KiEmAn] heh [RaidenX] Ed, if you could tell us what some of the chracters are that are making a return from UMK3 [Toki] who have been a rough childhood [Co0KiEmAn] it's newb? [Co0KiEmAn] or not =0| [MG_] prolly is [Toki] hello tonyd [Co0KiEmAn] yup [MG_] hey D [Co0KiEmAn] heh [sidx] teh real address fer edboon is kitten.mcs.net *** Joins: Robotech (firstname.lastname@example.com) [Co0KiEmAn] danke [Robotech] danke? [explosive] Ed: how do you like IRC? [Ed_Boon] Everyone except for jade will return [glue] Ds nutz [MG_] did you get Tet's note? [RaidenX] okay cool [Co0KiEmAn] glue: whut [glue] what up ed [MG_] hehe [Ed_Boon] Its nice though quite slow, i like AOL better [rackboy] I shoot with an Ernie Martinez (custom cue) [MASTERNiC] AOl? [explosive] ed: don't say that [MASTERNiC] wtf/] [MG_] arg [explosive] hehehe [glue] oh mug gawsh [MG_] not a good thing to say [MG_] hehe [RaidenX] I have been wondering...could you tell us if Johnny Cage will be in MK4 or MKT [MG_] comin straight from da Boon-dox [MG_] hehe [Ed_Boon] ok, IRC is the best since sliced bread! [Toki] rack: what did it thro you back? [TonyD] it's noob *** glue sets mode: +o TonyD [explosive] ed: that's better [explosive] :) [TonyD] hey, toki [TonyD] long time *** Joins: crouton (email@example.com) [Ed_Boon] Johnny Cage WILL return in MK4 but not MKT because of time limits [Toki] *hi five* (cheezey) [Toki] ..to tony [rackboy] sid: did Spudz leave yet? [MG_] welp [RaidenX] ohh okay [MG_] there is the first slip up [Toki] it has been a while *** glue changes topic to "[Ed_Boon] Johnny Cage WILL return in MK4 but not MKT because of time limits" [glue] hell ya *** Joins: Greesman (email@example.com) * TonyD is very lagged -Pini0n:#mk3- Greesman is an official #MK3 O.G. [Maximus] Ed_Boon is email@example.com * blah *** Quits: Robotech (irc.lightning.net *.cerf.net) [explosive] ed: when do you think MKT will becoming out for the PC? [Maximus] Ed_Boon on #mk3 [Maximus] Ed_Boon using irc.frontiernet.net [18.104.22.168] Dart In Your Leg Productions [Maximus] Ed_Boon End of /WHOIS list. 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[Maximus] actually it does mean that [Toki] rack: what did the stick cost [Greesman] ez op [MASTERNiC] brb [Ed_Boon] Im sorry but im unable to answer that... *** Joins: sidx (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** Joins: rackboy (firstname.lastname@example.com) *** irc.uci.edu sets mode: +oo sidx rackboy *** Pini0n sets mode: -o sidx [RaidenX] Ed if you could please tell us a little more on Kameleon, what i have heard is he/she is a hidden character in MKT, could you please expand on that? *** Quits: DannyB0y (Connection timed out) [Ed_Boon] whats all this +o -o? [MG_] hehe [MG_] haha [explosive] that means operator status [Toki] :) [Toki] rack: what did the stick cost you? [Ed_Boon] If you play and follow mk enough u know we are tight on secrets *** Quits: Greesman (Oh damn...) *** Joins: wiener (email@example.com) *** wiener is now known as Greesman -Pini0n:#mk3- wiener is an official #MK3 O.G. 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Dean T. Fraser has once again merged the world of Batman with another pop culture phenomenon in his latest series of illustrations entitled Star Wars: Empire Of The Bat.
Star Wars: Empire Of The Bat bridges the world of sci-fi and the Dark Knight together. All the iconic characters have been given a new makeover that kind of makes anyone wonder what it'd be like if a cartoon like this really exists. Batman now dons the Darth Vader suit, the homicidal Joker is now the Emperor and R2-D2 is now Robin. Fans of the Dark Knight will recognize that the style of illustration is quite similar to the vigilante's '90s animated series that has received much critical claim.
It'll be interesting to see where Fraser takes Batman next.
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The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop
from LisaGenius' flickr stream
That is awesome. Why can't I think of things like that? I mean drawing a giant bee...not dressing like one and scaring children up walls.
This is how I feel when the yellow flies start circling. There IS NO ESCAPE!
What a great picture.
ZG: click the from link, there are several from this same book, all with giant bugs.
Mama: who's been giving the yellow flies caffeine?
It actually looks like the bee is trying to practice the soliloquy from Henry V on the little boy and the boy is misunderstanding his intentions.
I'm deathly allergic to bees so this one freaks me out!
"Come here! I just need someone to listen to me practice my monologue!"
Poor Tommy Tiptop. His ass is going to get STUNG!
It's not the worst thing that happens to poor Tommy.
Poor fucker.
My inner child is very afraid.
That specimen one is good too.
I went back and forth about which one to post, but I liked the look on the bee's face.
He looks like he's panhandling. "Gimme a quarter! I knows ya gots a quarter! I need it for the bus!"
And the little boy is good at climbing walls.
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Charleston's Angel Brigade
Pam Brooks '75, Kim Clifton '94 and Elisa Mundis '09
It's like any morning at Charleston County's Department of Social Services. Caseworkers sit partially hidden from view in cubicles the color of harbor fog, their telephone voices mixing with the tapping out of endless keystrokes – the gravity of their work not quite registering over the airwaves.
Pam Brooks '75, Kim Clifton '94 and Elisa Mundis '09 (M.P.A.) are nearby in their offices, sending e-mails and making phone calls, the little tasks that amount to so much more than the sounds they emit. In fact, if the goodwill flowing out of these women suddenly burst forth in crowns of fiery gold about their heads, it would only be fitting.
Of course, they would say they're just doing their jobs. And then probably ask for water.
Together these women run HALOS (Helping and Lending Outreach Support), a Charleston-based nonprofit organization that works closely with social services to connect abused and neglected children and their caregivers with valuable resources and uplifting experiences.
To maximize their impact, HALOS draws its power from a vast community of helping hands who may never actually meet the people they benefit. Call it a brigade of guardian angels.
Their work begins with social services caseworkers who identify children and caregivers with dire needs. Then, to fill those needs, HALOS turns to an ever-expanding community network of nonprofits and businesses, faith-based organizations and foundations, civic groups, clubs and other generous souls looking for meaningful and lasting ways to help others.
"It's such a unique public–private partnership," says Clifton, the organization's executive director.
The partners' commitment of money, goods and time allows HALOS the breadth and flexibility to pool resources quickly in crisis moments and to expand the reach of its ongoing programs every year.
Last year, thanks to HALOS, 138 kids attended summer camp, 165 received birthday cards and gifts, 1,200 received new school supplies and more than 2,000 children and their families celebrated Christmas through the holiday giving program.
"One of our goals is to make every child feel he or she is just as special and loved as any child," says Brooks, who works for the Department of Social Services as a liaison with organizations like HALOS. Brooks coordinates HALOS' annual programs serving children in the social services system.
These programs pick up where social services leaves off, offering children who have escaped abuse and neglect the opportunity to enjoy life – children like the little girl who wrote to thank HALOS for the birthday card and the gift she received in the mail.
"Thank you for all your hard work," her letter says. "Jesus loves all of you and so do I."
It's that kind of thanks that drives HALOS – that and knowing it's making a difference in the lives of children and caregivers in dire need of support. And, for some families, that means the difference between remaining intact and being torn apart.
Clifton tells the story of a grandmother who raised her two grandsons from toddlers. In their tiny apartment they had only two folding chairs, a mattress lying on the floor and a television to call their own. When social services came to inspect the home, the grandmother – partially blind and severely arthritic – said she preferred to sleep on the floor, leaving the mattress for the boys, now ages 13 and 15, to share. Making matters worse, kids at school teased the brothers for wearing dirty clothes, and the Department of Juvenile Justice worried that they were heading for trouble.
"There was no lack of love there," Clifton says. "It was the dire poverty that really struck me about this case."
If only a grandmother's love could clothe a child or buy him a bed.
Enter HALOS, which – within two days of learning about this family's predicament– completely furnished their apartment with donations and raised $500 to take the boys shopping for clothes and other necessities.
It was around Valentine's Day when Clifton remembers walking into Target. The younger brother saw all the cards and candy boxes, and the first thing he asked to buy was a Valentine for his grandmother.
"These boys were at risk of being brought into care purely because of a lack of resources," Clifton says. "We were able to get them stabilized."
Most important, HALOS helped this family stay together. Not quite divine intervention, but close enough.
During the unfortunate and terribly difficult times when a social services caseworker must take a child into custody, HALOS is also there to help.
"Taking a child into custody is very traumatic for the child, the family and the caseworker," says Brooks, noting that the children usually leave their homes without any personal belongings beyond what they're wearing. To help them, HALOS maintains a Critical Needs Closet full of bags of children's clothing, toiletries, school supplies and other items they might need.
It's amazing the kind of comfort that items such as shampoo or toothbrushes – which are so often taken for granted – can give children who have been neglected.
Clifton remembers when a caseworker brought a group of siblings into social services. Only the oldest sister, who was 10, understood what was happening. She told the caseworker that she regretted not being able to change her clothes before leaving home.
"She didn't want to go to school the next day wearing the jean shorts she had on," Clifton says.
In the closet, they found a bag containing a cute skirt and costume jewelry for the girl to wear.
"I told her she looked beautiful," Clifton says. "She kept all her stuff very neat in a box. She was very protective of her little world, her stuff, and wanted to make sure it all stayed together.
"At that moment," Clifton continues, "it really hit home what happens when kids are taken from their homes. They're left feeling displaced and they don't have anything they can call their own. HALOS tries to mitigate the poverty they live in."
Moving beyond the doors of social services, HALOS reaches out to relative caregivers across the community through the Kinship Care Resource and Support Program, coordinated by Mundis until recently, when she was promoted to a fundraising position.
"Sometimes relative caregivers can feel isolated and alone in their roles," Mundis says, especially when they are single grandmothers unexpectedly thrust back into parenthood without adequate resources – like most of the caregivers she knows.
Imagine being a grandparent, dealing with the complexities of texting and Facebook, while trying to protect a child from STDs or the drugs being hustled on the streets.
HALOS knows the difficulty these adults face, so – in addition to organizing monthly support groups for them – it offers several opportunities for respite, including stress-management workshops, family outings and dinners with on-site babysitting to give these caregivers a chance to share stories, advice and good company.
"The support groups are a real source of strength and empowerment for them," says Mundis. "To be able to work one-on-one with people, to run support groups, to talk to them on the phone and visit with them: That's what really ignited my passion for this work."
Since working for HALOS, Mundis has extended her family. "I don't have grandparents myself," she says, "so these grandparents have become my grandparents."
It is precisely this sense of community – a gathering of willing hands, both private and public, all acknowledging their stake in helping others – that drives all of HALOS's endeavors.
It's the idea that even the smallest efforts, when combined, can have miraculous effects.
– Jamie Self '02


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Schloss Rheydt
The Schloss Rheydt is a castle near Mönchengladbach that was first built in 1060, probably as a simple wooden tower. Serving as a fortress and residence for various noble families, it was gradually expanded and rebuilt in stone during the medieval period. By the mid 14th century it consisted of a large square keep in one corner of a square enclosure, with rounded towers on the other three corners. The enclosure was later enlarged again and given smaller semi-circular towers half way along each curtain wall.
In 1543 the united Duchy of Jülich-Cleves-Berg was invaded by imperial troops, who made short work of the Duke's outdated fortifications and defeated the his troops. As a result, Duke Wilhelm V decided to build modern fortifications to protect his territory. Jülich was transformed into a major fortress by the Italian engineer and architect Alessandro Pasqualini. Two other towns, Düsseldorf and Orsoy, were also made into modern fortresses. The Schloss Rheydt stood on the north-west frontier of the Duchy of Jülich, facing the potentially hostile Spanish Netherlands.
By this point the castle was in the hands of Otto van Bylandt, who held the title of Marshal of the Duchy of Cleves. In the 1580s he undertook a project to rebuild the Schloss Rheydt, transforming it into a renaissance palace. However, a common renaissance idea was to combine a palace with a fortress, which was exactly what Otto van Bylandt did with the Schloss Rheydt. The old keep of the castle was replaced with a luxurious palace and barrack buildings were added on the south-west side. Around the outisde of the castle a new bastioned trace was built by Maximilian Pasqualini, the son of Alessandro Pasqualini.
However, the new fortifications were on a much smaller scale to the works built at Jülich, Orsoy or Düsseldorf. Instead of being designed to mount artillery, the fortifications of the Schloss Rheydt were designed solely for infantry defence. There were six brick arrow-headed bastions, with exta flanks near the capitals on most of them. The curtain walls between the bastions were angled outwards so that there is no direct line of sight between the bastion flanks - this prevented men in one bastion'from accidentally firing at the men in the opposite bastion. There were no outworks but there was a wide flooded ditch'in front of the walls. The large gatehouse was reached by a long causeway across this ditch. Because the fortifications were designed for infantry defence, the flanks did not mount artillery, but instead there were casemates'with loopholes. In each flank there were two rows of wall loopholes, one above the other. A swivel-mounted wall gun (which could be up to 2 metres in length) was placed at each loophole, and the soldiers would lie down in order to fire them. The powder and shot for these guns was stored in chambers in the centre of each bastion, which were linked to the flanks by tunnels. This enabled the powder to be stored in a safe, dry place that was close to the guns.
However, the defensive measures did not end with the bastioned fortifications. The inner moat around the old castle was kept in place and the lower floors of the new palace building were equipped with loopholes for muskets. On the south-west side of the old castle was an outer courtyard surrounded by barrack buildings and protected by a moat. These buildings were also loopholed and there were two square towers at the corners to give flanking fire.
The palace and the fortifications were completed in the 1590s and were probably maintained into the 17th century. However, it seems that they were never used in anger and they probably fell into disuse after 1614, when the Duchy ceased to be a major force in the lower Rhine region.
Visiting Schloss Rheydt
The Schloss Rheydt was a very unusual example of a bastioned fortress that was constructed uniquely for infantry defence, with no provision for artillery. Most of the walls are intact, if a little overgrown and neglected in places. At some points earth banks have built up over the walls and archeologists are not sure exactly what the trace looked like. Neverthless, it is easy to get a good impression of the form of the fortress by walking around the walls. The tunnel system in one of the bastions has been restored and can be visited, which gives an insight into how the fortifications were meant to work.
The gatehouse, the palace and the barrack buildings have all survived intact. The palace can be visited and contains interesting displays about how it would have looked in the 16th century. In the cellars some of the remains of the earlier medieval castle walls can be seen. The Schloss Rheydt is a short walk (about 2 miles) from the train station in Mönchengladbach, which is on the line between Düsseldorf and Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen). Alternatively, it is easy to reach by road and there is a car park at the castle.


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What Christmas is all about.
Pavin Smith was the Arizona Diamondbacks' first-round pick in the 2017 draft. Smith played three years at Virginia before he was selected seventh overall, and he was given a signing bonus of more than $5 million.
He used part of that money to pay off his family's mortgage, and he revealed what he'd done in an emotional letter on Christmas Day.
Warning: if you're in a situation where crying is not acceptable, you might want to skip the following video.
Thank you for everything you have done for me! This doesn't make up for any of it. Love you both so much. Our home is finally all YOURS. Merry Christmas! pic.twitter.com/h9wog2HfHv— Pavin Smith (@PavinSmith) December 25, 2017
This is about as good as it gets.


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Weekly Overview: Infrared Cameras Used to Measure Sow Temperature Can Lower Piglet Mortality21 December 2015
ANALYSIS - New research from Aarhus University, Denmark, has now refined a method that uses infrared cameras to remotely and more accurately measure the sow's body temperature.
Knowing whether or not a sow has a high temperature is important to detect if she is becoming ill, especially if she has just given birth.
The new development should help with the early detection of fever in sows and therefore can reduce piglet mortality and the consumption of antibiotics.
In disease news, the US-based Swine Health Information Center reports a dramatic decline in the number of cases of Seneca Valley Virus.
And, across Europe, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania have all reported more outbreaks of African Swine Fever in wild boar.
We would like to wish all ThePigSite.com readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The newsletter will return on Monday 4th January 2016.
Lucy Towers
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After graduating from The University of Sheffield, Lucy joined 5M in 2011 as part of the News Desk team. In 2012, she was promoted to editor of TheFishSite. With previous farming experience and a love for the great outdoors, Lucy has a passion for wildlife and the environment.
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I never thought I'd be happy to be peed on. But two days ago, urine sprinkling my new Victoria's Secret sleepshirt (thanks, Santa!) I was grinning and high-fiving like nobody's business.
Anyone who knows me knows that I don't like doing anything that takes me more than 10 minutes to figure out. So the fact that Cam's supposed potty-training readiness started about two months ago has done little to endear me to this next phase of his life. Two months ago, excited by the boy's interest, we bought the little potty seat that sits atop the regular toilet. And for the next few weeks, he'd sit on the sit for a few minutes, wipe himself with toilet paper, flush the toilet and wash his hands. Then he's promptly "go" in his diaper.
A month after that, I figured that what he really needed was a more exciting potty seat, so I went all out (well, as much as you can go "all out" at the PX) and got him an Elmo potty. Soon he was sitting on the potty making Elmo praise him until he got tired of sitting. Then he would stand and pee on the floor. And a couple of weeks after that, the daycare folks declared him ready and my $30 worth of diapers became worthless as they were promptly replaced with $30 worth of pullups.
I admit that I kinda thought the boy would be a potty-training savant. I'd sit him on the potty with a book (probably something like Lord of the Rings or the Chronicles of Narnia) and he promptly do his business, wipe, clean himself up and declare, "Mum, dad, I'm finished!" (which may or may not happen in Mandarin Chinese). Instead, we're going on almost 3 months of admittedly half-hearted training on my part and the only thing he'd learned is to take off his diaper/pull-up/underwear, often to disastrous consequences.
So last week, I decided Christmas week would the week! I hit the library nearly every day before the holidays, loading up on books. A Potty Training for Dummies and Busy Mom potty training manual for me, and two potty books and a DVD for him. I hit Target and got Yo Gabba Gabba undies, and threw in a pack of those rubber ones, too. The following day, they were all in the wash, along with his sheets. And my exubertant rendition of the "Go, Potty Go" song and my made-up dance, weren't having any effect on the boy. And then he peed on me.
Well, technically, he was on the toilet and seemed to accidentally let go before realizing what was happening and moving abruptly, spraying me in the process. It was what I'd been waiting for. We laughed, we hugged, we cried, we high-fived. It was like winning the potty Superbowl. Since then -- two days later -- I've tried to get things moving again, but so far, to no avail. But at least now, I have a little bit of hope that we're on the right track.
Plus, I know the Potty Dance.


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Ms. Marvel, Avengers: Infinity War, Gotham, And Other Film And TV News
Ms. Marvel, Avengers: Infinity War, Gotham, and other films and TV shows have made recent production news.
These productions come from studios based primarily in the United States. The production information within is subject to change.
Fox has officially set the fourth season of its DC superhero series Gotham for a September 21st premiere. Initially, Gotham's fourth season was set to debut alongside the network's new series The Orville on September 28th. Set in the years before Bruce Wayne became Batman, the series follows the efforts of law enforcement to keep the city safe without the help of the Dark Knight.
Avengers: Infinity War
Elizabeth Olsen confirms speculation that Avengers: Infinity War will explore a blossoming romance between her character Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany's Vision. She explained that she tried to keep the matter under wraps but decided to go ahead and reveal it after on-set photos triggered rumors that the movie would include the two heroes' relationship.
Ms. Marvel
It is rumored that work is underway on an unannounced Ms. Marvel series from ABC Studios. According to a post on Reddit, an untitled Marvel program that John Ridley has been tapped to write is in fact a pilot for Ms. Marvel. Neither Marvel nor ABC have corroborated the report so far.
The Orville
Fox pegs a September 10th airdate for the network's upcoming sci-fi program The Orville.
Jeph Loeb confirms that Runaways takes place in the same continuity as the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Eclipses are so predictable I suspect that the 2017 eclipse was already predicted by Chinese before christ. I mean, they executed two astrologers in 2134 BCE for failing to predict one, so I'm sure others worked hard to save themselves. -- Hkmaly (talk) 10:22, 11 December 2013 (UTC)


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The Bengaluru police arrested a Nigerian national for allegedly indulging in drug peddling and recovered cocaine worth Rs 13 lakhs from him.
According to the police, Adinife Raphael (37) of Lagos in Nigeria came to India in 2010 and stayed in Mumbai. After spending two years in Mumbai and New Delhi, he settled down in Bengaluru in 2012.
His visa and passport expired in 2015, but he continued to stay illegally in the country.
Later, he joined a group of drug peddlers, who procured the contraband material from suppliers in Goa. It is alleged that Adinife would supply cocaine to college students in east Bengaluru.
The police, who received a tip-off on the activities of Adinife, raided his home on Monday in the Bagaluru police station limits.
The police found out that Adinife had destroyed his passport. The police have registered a case against him under the Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985.


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The Best Ways To Get The Muscle Development Outcomes You WantWeight training is more than going to the gym to lift weights. Many factors influence your ability to successfully build and strengthen muscles the right way. Take a look at this article in order to discover the best ways to build muscles.
Obtaining a workout partner can drastically improve your muscle-building results. Your partner can be a valuable source of motivation for sticking to your workout session, and pushing you to maximize your efforts while you work out. Having a reliable partner to work out with can also help keep you safe because you will always have a spotter.
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I believe there is insufficient willingness to acknowledge the importance as well as the unimportance of race. Race matters in the basic physical sense, and may therefore affect intelligence, but it does not matter politically in most periods of history, especially periods predating the early modern, which began in the 1500's. The nations of Mexico and Spain are mixtures of white, black and Amerindian race and skin color, and that was clearly considered completely acceptable in the past. To me, this shows that racism is an absurdity, invented in the early modern period. It is contradicted by any genuine belief in tribe, nation, clan, king, emperor, or religion.
We can acknowledge race in it's basic physical sense, but any one who considers his race more important than his most particular loyalties we must consider a traitor. This form of treachery an be exemplified by the actions of the Ustasha, the Croatian Nazis who exterminated Serbs and gypsies because of race. They are traitors to their nation and religion because they sent people who spoke their language and worshipped in catholic churches to death camps merely because of race. The same can be said of the German Nazis and Hutu.
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In The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway, a character is asked, "How did you go bankrupt?" The character replies, "Gradually, then suddenly." If you think about it, everything in our lives happens gradually then suddenly. Our physical health, financial health, career, relationships, the economy, etc.
People tend to focus though on the sudden. As a nation we are very good at the sudden. It was Churchhill that said, "America will inevitably do the right thing, after they've exhausted all other options." We tend to wait for the sudden to happen before we get busy.
If you look at the areas of your life where you are most successful, I'll bet those are where you are good at the gradual. You are aware of it, conscious of it, and pay attention to it. People who are good at money management know where they've been, where they are going, and can see how each moment to moment, gradual step is creating the future "sudden" they want. People that are not good with money don't know what their checking balance is right now, but they know they have checks left.
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Once eagerly awaited because of its promise of greater return on investment, keen targeting and ability to produce sales at a touch of the remote, interactive advertising has over the better part of a decade become almost a dirty word because of numerous fits and starts. It has cropped up in several smaller U.S. markets-Time Warner introduced it in its Hawaii and upstate New York systems, for example, and Cox has rolled it out in Phoenix. But bringing it to the media capital of the country could be the key to lifting its awareness among media buyers and agency creatives.
"I've been to about two dozen presentations on Madison Avenue talking about this," said Larry Fischer, Time Warner Cable president-ad sales, "and I think if they could only experience what I'm telling them, if they could only touch and feel it, it would make my whole presentation so much easier."
Imagine, Mr. Fischer said, if ads for New York grocery-delivery service Fresh Direct starring former Mayor Ed Koch had a drop-down screen that asked whether the viewer would like to see a menu and then allowed him to click a button to place an order. Another scenario could send people from a 30-second spot to long-form content with the push of a button. (This scenario has already been employed in a video-on-demand advertising scenario in which a 30-second spot instructs viewers to tune to a dedicated VOD channel.)
Advertisers appear to still be interested in the medium: At the recent ANA TV Ad Forum marketers were asked to name the most promising video-advertising vehicle of the future and interactive TV was the leader, with 31%.
Of course the mere presence of interactive TV in the Manhattan media market doesn't automatically signify sales will take off. When Time Warner Cable introduced video on demand to New York, advertisers suddenly got the concept-but VOD advertising has grown only a fraction of what other emerging media have, thanks to a lack of creative standards and poor measurement metrics that make it a hard sell to major national marketers.
Additionally, it is not quite clear where interactive advertising fits within media agencies between the digital buyer or the broadcast buyer, the latter of which often blanches at the idea of the premium CPMs required for interaction, typically around 15% higher.
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Ultimately, what most intrigues marketers about interactive TV, is its ability to engage consumers and then be able to count that interaction.
Jon Mandel, chairman of MediaCom U.S. and chief global buying officer of MediaCom Worldwide, compared the precise direct-response metrics of interactive TV to the less specific of a national network TV ad buy. "Clients will be happier if they know they sell 101 of something than when they know they've sold a boatload," he told a group of cable executives at the recent annual NCTA gathering.
In the U.S., Echostar's Dish Network, whose advertising is sold by Turner Media Group (no relation to the Time Warner-owned networks), is arguably the furthest along in the space, offering interactive ad capabilities to 11 million homes. Rupert Murdoch has also had wide success with interactive advertising in the U.K. through his BSkyB property-something he's working to roll out in the U.S. across DirecTV.
"Advertisers are learning they spend all this money on the 30-second spot and create great video, and that's smart of them because video creates a great emotional tie to brand, but interactive can take that touch point and do something about it," said Dalen Harrison, CEO of Ensequence, a technology and middleware provider that has worked on more than 600 BSkyB campaigns.


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Now that Larry Summers has pulled his name for consideration to be the next Federal Reserve chairman, President Barack Obama's safest choice is Janet Yellen, but keeping Ben Bernanke may still be a possibility, said Tony Fratto, former White House press secretary in the George W. Bush administration.
"Whenever people would say the White House really wants Larry Summers, I would say … who's their second choice," Fratto said on "Squawk Box" Monday, "because the opposition to him was deep and personal, and at some levels very vicious."
The withdrawal Sunday of Summers—a former Bill Clinton-era Treasury Secretary and more recently a top Obama economic adviser—followed growing resistance from Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee, which is the panel charged with sending any nomination to the full Senate for a vote.
U.S. stocks futures on Monday were strongly higher on the news. (Read more: Get ready for a Summers rally in the stock market)
"The safest choice is Yellen," Fratto continued. "I think one choice nobody has really talked about, which I really believe is still a possibility until someone rules it out, is that you keep the best guy for the job in the job—that's Ben Bernanke."


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KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistan's largest political party on Sunday chose to continue its dynastic traditions, anointing 19-year-old Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as his mother's ultimate successor but picking husband Asif Zardari to lead in the short-term following Benazir Bhutto's assassination on Thursday.
KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistan's largest political party on Sunday chose to continue its dynastic traditions, anointing 19-year-old Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as his mother's ultimate successor but picking husband Asif Zardari to lead in the short-term following Benazir Bhutto's assassination on Thursday.
The selections mean that the Pakistan People's Party, which casts itself as the voice of democracy in Pakistan, will stay in family hands for a third generation.
Asif Zardari quickly announced that the party will compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections, although he suggested that another party leader would probably be the candidate for prime minister.
Another opposition party responded that it also would participate in the election. Sadiq ul-Farooq, a senior member of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party, told the Associated Press that following the decision by the Pakistan People's Party, "we will also contest."
That election, scheduled for Jan. 8, appears likely to be postponed. Tariq Azim Khan, spokesman for the party of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, said that voting may be delayed for as much as four months because of the turmoil following Bhutto's assassination.
The election commission was expected to convene an emergency meeting today to decide whether to postpone the long-awaited vote. Rioters have targeted the commission's offices, and several have been burned to the ground.
Bhutto's son and husband spoke to reporters from the family's ancestral home following a closed meeting of party leaders. Bilawal Zardari, who had largely been shielded from the spotlight by his mother and has not lived in Pakistan since he was a young boy, will lead the party when he finishes his studies at Oxford.
Asif Zardari will run the party in the interim. He said Sunday that the selections reflected the wishes of his wife, a former two-term prime minister who died in a gun-and-bomb attack at a rally Thursday afternoon. Her death sparked protests that disrupted the election campaign and have brought life in large parts of Pakistan to a standstill.
The Bhuttos are often compared to the Kennedys because of their tendency toward charismatic leaders who meet tragic ends. Benazir Bhutto's father, himself a former prime minister, was hanged in 1979 by the military dictator who overthrew him. Her two brothers died in mysterious and violent circumstances.
The young man representing the newest generation of Bhuttos — who added the famous name for the first time Sunday — noted that chairmanship of the party is a position "that often is occupied by martyrs."
Speaking briefly but forcefully at the news conference, he said he would strive to honor his mother's legacy. "The party's long and historic struggle will continue with renewed vigor," he said. "My mother always said, democracy is the best revenge."
His father called upon the United Nations to conduct a probe of Bhutto's death.
Benazir Bhutto's father founded the Pakistan People's Party in 1967 as a counterweight to the all-powerful Pakistani army, and she took over soon after he was hanged by a military dictator in 1979. But Bhutto, who held the official title of party chairperson for life, did not leave behind an obvious successor.
The choice of Bhutto's successor was considered crucial because her death comes at a time when the party is playing a central role in the movement against the deeply unpopular Musharraf, who resigned last month as army chief but managed to engineer a new term as president.
Zardari is a divisive figure whose name is associated with corruption allegations stemming from his wife's two terms as prime minister. Some members of the party fear it could split without Bhutto to unify factions that differ sharply on how best to challenge Musharraf.
The political announcements Sunday followed widespread rioting in the wake of Bhutto's death.
In Sindh province, rioters had left a wide swath of destruction Saturday, with still-burning fuel tankers and smoldering tires littering the highways. And young men wearing People's Party head scarves had set up dozens of impromptu checkpoints along the major roads, looking for targets.
A spokesman for the Interior Ministry, retired Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema, said 174 banks had been burned and billons of rupees worth of property destroyed across the country.
The violence was met with threats of a stiffer government response.
"We are warning people to stay calm and restrain themselves," Cheema said. "They will be punished in the toughest way if it does not stop."
The army was already out in force in many areas of Sindh on Saturday and appeared to be regaining control there. Elsewhere, however, the unrest intensified. In Rawalpindi, riot police and People's Party supporters clashed near the spot where Bhutto was killed.
In the eastern city of Lahore, workers slept in their offices because public transportation was shut down and many were unable to get enough gas in their cars to go home. Families brought blankets and pillows to the airport, where they waited for flights that never left. All cafes, movie theaters and markets remained closed in Lahore, the country's cultural capital.
"We had to cancel over 100 weddings in the heat of the season," said Ali Hassan, a manager at the Avari Hotel. "This is worse than the judicial crisis and worse than the emergency. We even called off all New Year's Eve parties. It's a sad and violent time for Pakistan."
Some people said they were profoundly frustrated by Bhutto's killing and wanted to get away — for good.
"I travel abroad all the time, and I never thought of leaving my country until now," said Adnan Hassan, 37, an engineer who had waited for days for a flight from Lahore to Islamabad. "We had hopes that Pakistan would do better. But it's only getting worse."
Correspondent Emily Wax in Lahore and special correspondents Imtiaz Ali in Peshawar and Shahzad Khurram in Rawalpindi contributed to this report.


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Washington Shields was born in the year 1894, in the townland of Parsonstown, Co. Meath. The family home was a farm house known locally as the 'Mountain House', a Georgian building situated at a crossroads on the road to the Boyne crossing at Slane. The family were protestant; attending the local Church of Ireland with Washington (or Wash for short) being the eldest of four children, including a younger brother Tom and two sisters Susan and Queenie (who died as a child). Like many Irishmen who were sickened and stunned at the sinking of the Lusitania, he enlisted in the British Army on June 22nd, 1915, at the tender age of 21. As a farmer and someone who could both ride and shoot, he was immediately drawn to the cavalry. Wash joined the South Irish Horse, a yeomanry regiment which was only in existence for 20 years (1902 – 1922). It was as part of this regiment that he arrived in France in time to participate in the allied offensive known as the Battle of Loos, being held in reserve behind the infantry, waiting to exploit the breakthrough that never came.
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My 3rd Megabrands Sale Experience and HaulSo it was a few weekends ago when I went to this event. It was a fully booked weekend for me for shopping! LOL. I posted about it - 3x a Charm and my colleagues and I are craving for such good finds. I've already posted about My Bloggers United 3 Experience - so this time, it's for this other sale.
I can say that this event had some booths and ups and downs too. It wasn't too-crowded anymore when I went there. My shopping buddy Ten was the one who's all excited for the Zoo York sale. It was already a Sunday so I guess the better stocks have run out. I don't think these rubber shoes fit my style too. LOL. I mean, I'm all girly and stuff but not sporty and ghetto or downtown fashion getter. Sooo ... I thought hmmm ... what would I get from the other stores?
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I was "happiest" when I purchased this pair of shoes instead! Ahhhh such bliss! The comfort of wearing it and the design! Woot! It's soooo lovely! Even my shopping buddies from the event the day prior (at Bloggers United) was all-gaga over it! They didn't find this spot hohoho~ I like the fact that it's light and comfy. I can run all day with them hehe. The ribbons also, did do the trick! Bow-designed shoes are sooooo in-style right now hehe. So having sneakers like this one + the design is an absolute "GREAT FIND!" Not to mention the fact that it's supposedly priced at P2,100 and I got it for only P399. Of course, it's a "Megabrand" SALE already, that's why. But I'm still happy I got it!
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I guess I was just not too-familiar with the other brands so I felt, I didn't enjoy it much. I also felt tired since I went there after an extended shift so I only had to scout for stuff I'd use and love all the way. LOL. My basic finds would always be shoes, accessories, and clothes anyway.
I don't normally go to World Trace Center, Pasay City but this one, I did check out. It was one of those events brought by RCBC Bankard anyway - 3rd Megabrands Sale. The even's promise of 0% interest on installment purchase thru my card got me hooked. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to avail of that. The one processing the orders said it has a P3,000 cap before that promo applies. I didn't find it anywhere in the RCBC Bankard invite I got nor in the events page. *sobs* Anyway ... I still shopped for a few basics ... and the shoes I got were lovely so I still enjoyed it. (^_^)
|Off to ZOO YORK
So the 1st stop was near the entrance - the well-bragged about spot by Ten ... unfortunately ... I didn't find anything for me like I said ... I ain't the "rapper" style. LOL.
At the event center, there was an on-going contest for teens that I didn't pay much attention about. I saw a lot of scantily-clad teens around (LOL) ... seriously. I never thought fashion means lesser clothes haha. For whatever purpose that contest had, it sure brought demoralization to some teens. :p
|Teen Fashion Event (?)
Kidding aside, there were nice teen girls around who wore decent clothing. But either they do goth or full make-up, I guess it ain't too fashionable! Alright enough of my blabber!
|S&H Booth
|Not-so-fab booths
I wouldn't say the event was a "FAIL" because there were still a number of shoppers around. Also, it's the last day so probably the better stocks have been bought on the 1st too days so I'm only getting the last pieces. LOL. There were not a lot of peeps around too so less-hassle for me as a shopper. There were booths that didn't have much customers too. I have to say they offered good stuff too, anyway, at really cheap prices. Perfumes and accessories, and all that jazz.
The tech gadgets especially Nokia had a lot of stuff on SALE - freakin' 90% OFF and no kidding! Lah~ If I'm that much of a Nokia fan, still, I would've brought phone for my family hehehe. But dad and mom aren't fond of those anymore sooo ... beat it!
|Happy Feet Sandals Booth
The last stop I went to was at this Australian brand's store - Chica Booti. The clothes really attracted me to shop! They got really cool designs and these few pieces definitely went in my loot.
|My Chica Booti Loot
They don't look cheap at all. The materials seem to be the durable types hehe. I can wear 'em longer. I got myself a blazer for my daily corporate wear; a floral skirt that looks really lovely and can work with any of my outfit, I guess; and a color-blocked skirt for the sake of it's prettiness and style this season!
So despite not being too-happy with the event's promise; since I bought less than P3,000 and I can't pay on installment basis; I felt good enough with my loots. (^_^)
CHAI'S VERDICT: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ (3 Stars!!!)
Let's see which next sale event I'll review and share my loots! (^_^)


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Yup it's finally been done, Snoop Dogg has made a video promoting his new smokeable songbook called Rolling Words and I'm not surprised that he came up with this brilliant idea.
The book will be including pages of lyrics to some older songs he's done, for example "Drop It Like It's Hot, "Gin and Juice" and "G Thang". Made mostly of hemp materials, the songbook even has a strike paper spine so that readers can light no matter where they are.
It hasn't really been confirmed whether these songbooks will be sold at all, the venture is currently being used as a promotion for Snoops Kingsize Slim Rolling Papers. Those attending the Coachella festival later this month will have the chance to get one of these songbooks.
Earlier this year, Snoop was arrested In Texas for the possession of drug paraphernalia, all's good though I find this idea of a smokeable songbook to be pretty funny and awesome at the same time.
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