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Friday August 27, 2004-Sunday August 29, 2004
Lemuria Secret Base
The Omegans returned to Lemuria and called me for a prisoner pickup. I sent a courier in an Atlantean Seahorse with a nullifier shackle to transfer the V'sori for interrogation. With any luck he can be tortured until he reveals the location of the facility that created the super drones so we can blow it to Hell.
As for their capture of the super drone Huntress, they wanted to know if she could be saved. I was blunt. There wasn't much left of her humanity. She was nothing but a brain and a spinal cord with some flesh underneath a metal shell. Her ability to speak ever again had been removed permanently to put a gun in her mouth. If they had a Colonel Clone gel pack and some DNA, we could have Hydra clone her body with some memory loss likely. But her current body was more machine than woman.
Bubbles said Baron de Villain had some of the gel packs but they couldn't seem to find him. Hmmm I wonder why that is on such a small island base? Maybe the Huntress simply wasn't worth the cost of a gel pack. Holding out on me again, eh Baron?
Ruin, Bubbles, and Wheeljack performed some surgeries on the Huntress. They sliced open the back of her neck and removed a control module from her spinal cord. It nearly exploded after removal before Ruin disarmed it. They also cut open her throat and disabled the trigger on her mouth blaster cannon. Ruin took one of her Vibro Saws after Wheeljack repaired it. Wheeljack took the invisibility cloaking device and attached it to his chair. Bubbles took the other Vibro Saw and her mesh torso armor.
Ruin then used a fake Baron de Villain key card to enter his room with the Huntress super drone. He placed manacles around her hands and feet and gagged her. He then tied her to Baron de Villain's bed and left. It was a curious decision to leave a prisoner in the Baron's room but I suppose it was Ruin's way of saying this is your prisoner problem not ours.
[Lockpicking -4 roll against the Secure Access of the Lair but Kevin made it!]
Wheeljack scrapped the grounded V'sori Mbuna and used half of its parts to repair the Dragon Queen. He took the Heavy Lasers off the Mbuna and turned them into shoulder mounted laser cannons for the Dragon Queen.
[Randall played that One Issue Where. This granted the Dragon Queen the ability to transform into a flying car (500K 3 Power Points) with submersible (1 Power Point) and weapons available in that form (1 Power Point so that it has four load out weapons like a jet). I allowed Stealth Paint to work with the Flying Car as well.]
With some tweaks, he routed the power of the Dragon Queen to the fusion cell of the V'sori Mbuna allowing it to transform into a flying car at least until the fusion cell wears out.
The Omegans saw a bunch of human refugees and asked them what they were doing in Lemuria. They told them they were the survivors of the Revenger's group and that Baron de Villain offered them refuge. With the death of the Revenger to the super drones, they fled here from Star City University. Mostly they are students that have the courage to fight. Still, they can be of some use to the Omegans, especially the medical and engineering students in their medical and repair bays.
The deaths of the Revenger and the Phantom (the deceased leader of the Phantom Gangers) have severely crippled the Resistance in Uptown. The Phantom Gangers are fighting each other to determine who the new leader will become rather than fighting the V'sori right now. The deaths of the Leper (an Atlantean super villain with poisoned and diseased skin) and Siberian to the super drones trying to defend my Warehouses along with the destruction of another Warehouse during Omega Cell 107's escape from the V'sori has left our operations in The Docks with only one sub pen. This has extended our supply lines and caused a major logistics problem for the Resistance in Star City. I need that super drone facility destroyed. I fear if it is not destroyed, the V'sori may make more of them--perhaps with the corpses of the super villains they just defeated.
Monday August 30, 2004
Lemuria Secret Base
I told the Omegans that I needed them to head to the Hoover Dam to destroy a V'sori super weapon being developed by a V'sori warlord and engineer named Magon. Wheeljack had the Omegans enter the Dragon Queen as a submarine and they left for Nevada.
Tuesday August 31, 2004-Saturday September 4, 2004
Lemuria Secret Base to New Mexico
The Omegans used the transformed Dragon Queen to traverse along the east coast of the United States, skirting around the Florida peninsula and entering the Gulf of Mexico. Wheeljack got a ping as 15K was entered into his bank account on the first of the month. The Dragon Queen took the Rio Grande River up from the Gulf of Mexico to New Mexico.
Sunday September 5, 2004 to Tuesday September 7, 2004
New Mexico to Nevada
They flew up from the Rio Grande and flew across New Mexico to submerge in the Colorado River in Arizona. Bubbles had her claustrophobia trigger in the sudden transformation from submersible to flying car and she became acrophobic (fear of heights). They were fortunate that the Dragon Queen's stealth paint deflected V'sori radar and they were not discovered. They took the Colorado River up to the Hoover Dam.
Wednesday September 8, 2004
Hoover Dam, Nevada
[Pregame table set up.]
[Sneaking up the Colorado River.]
The Dragon Queen deflected a sensor sweep by the V'sori. Wheeljack noticed the sensor sweep as he analyzed the ship's sonar/radar panel. Wheeljack wanted to go to space to destroy the satellite but realized that the Dragon Queen wasn't atmospheric or capable of spaceflight to reach the satellite.
Wheeljack dropped off Ruin and Bubbles on the west bank of the Colorado River while he pondered what to do. Ruin and Bubbles stealthily approached the Hoover Dam.
[Kevin used Ace for this.]
Then Ruin turned into his earth form and directed a massive tremor at the Hoover Dam
[I allowed Kevin to make a Trigger roll because of that San Andreas Movie and rule of cool. Then Kevin wanted a re-roll because it failed with a 1. I said the right card play would allow it. He needed Bullseye! from Chessie, but she didn't want to trade it rightfully fearing the repercussions. So I offered an extra effort chip to trade it...and she did. Kevin rolled the trigger a second time from Bullseye! + a Bennie to play a second card and got it. Then he rolled 1d4+3 x 2 for Richter scale and 1d20 x 10 X 2 for mileage and 3d6+3 x 2 for the damage. So we ended up with a Richter Scale 12, 260 mile quake that caused 38 damage to the dam.]
The Hoover Dam shattered. The two V'sori Barracudas on top of the dam fell into the debris and flood that followed. A V'sori Sargasso and patrol were destroyed by the flood downstream. A V'sori Stingray failed to get airborne and was grounded during the earthquake until it eventually exploded from fractures in the fusion core. A second V'sori Stingray had its control's malfunction but was able to take off. A V'sori King Crab was unaffected by the quake and the two V'sori Mbunas took off in time. Magon leaped on top of the reinforced building with a satellite dish.
[It cost me like four Bennies for Magon to soak and avoid this.]
[New board post-quake and flood.]
[Chessie played Here Comes the Cavalry and Hidden Stash + a Bennie.]
A resistance cell had captured a V'sori Barracuda to sneak into the Hoover Dam to help the Omegans but instead came to save them during the quake.
Ruin changed to his air form to fly up to the captured Barracuda and avoid the flood. He started summoning a storm to cover their eventual retreat.
Bubbles brought out a surfboard and used it to ride the flood wave down the Colorado River trying to ride the wave and escape due to her new fear of heights.
Wheeljack surfaced the Dragon Queen from the Colorado River and flew up to avoid the flood and blew up a V'sori Mbuna.
The resistance cell moved in front of the wave of water and one of them grabbed Bubbles after she got over her fear of heights due to a new fear of crashing into the canyon walls. The captured Barracuda flew to the east bank of the Colorado River.
[For the rest of the battle, actions on the ground were at a -6 penalty. Fortunately, V'sori ships have repulsorlift so could avoid it.]
The V'sori Stingray had trouble turning around for a while. The V'sori King Crab and V'sori Mbuna concentrated their fire on the Dragon Queen, hitting it in the chassis.
Magon hit a switch on a satellite dish and it became a massive cannon. He aimed it at the Dragon Queen but the ginormous green beam went through the ship with no effect.
"I shan't miss a second time! You will die!"--Magon
[I got a Joker for Magon and at -6 on Repair +2, he rolled a crazy 11 to bring the Annihilator Cannon online. Then he fired at the Dragon Queen and hit despite a -4 penalty, but Randall soaked the damage.]
The Dragon Queen fired on the V'sori King Crab, V'sori Mbuna, and the V'sori Stingray, wounding all three.
Ruin had the captured Barracuda turn around and fire at the V'sori Mbuna, hitting it and shooting it through the middle, instantly killing a drone passenger.
The V'sori Stingray managed to turn around and fire at the Dragon Queen but couldn't damage the ship.
[It was a pretty sad Joker turn for my drones all in all.]
The Dragon Queen fired on the V'sori King Crab, V'sori Stingray and the cannon, wounding all three. The V'sori King Crab skidded backward from the force of the laser and the V'sori Stingray spun around to face the wrong direction to fire again.
The V'sori King Crab and V'sori Mbuna kept firing at the Dragon Queen but couldn't pierce her armor or missed as Wheeljack maneuvered in midair to dodge.
Magon fired the cannon again but missed badly firing over the Dragon Queen's cockpit.
The captured Barracuda fired but missed badly. The Dragon Queen just narrowly avoided death from friendly fire by doing a barrel roll.
[Magon was rocking a -9 penalty with a -3 wound on the Annihilator Cannon and the -6 earthquake penalty.]
Suddenly the storm that Ruin called appeared.
[Adding an additional -1 penalty to everyone.]
The V'sori King Crab fired its weapons and missed. The V'sori King Crab went over the cliff to try and ram the Dragon Queen in midair. Stunned, Wheeljack couldn't avoid it seeing his doom in the form of a giant V'sori tank coming toward him. But Setsuna came out of the storage locker and grabbed the controls turning them up. The V'sori King Crab scrapped the bottom of the Dragon Queen and fell down to the ground below. Amazingly the tank survived the collision and fall.
[I had the players roll 12d6+10 damage; they got like 79, not enough to wound the tank. Hey I didn't give it an 80 toughness!]
Setsuna fired a missile at the cannon but it missed.
The Dragon Queen flew forward and Wheeljack blew up the cannon. Magon leaped out of the way of the blast.
[Magon rolled a crazy 10+ ace to avoid this despite the -7 penalty to get away.]
The captured Barracuda gunner took aim at the V'sori Mbuna rather than firing in the storm.
The V'sori Stingray fired twice, hitting the Dragon Queen in the chassis and missed The Dragon Queen with the second shot, blowing up the V'sori Mbuna instead from friendly fire. They tried to ram the Dragon Queen, but their ship exploded instead of harming her, sending the drone crew flying everywhere.
Magon took a final shot at the Dragon Queen with his blaster pistol but missed. He used a warp shunt to get inside the V'sori King Crab to escape.
Their objective met, the Omegans escaped under the cover of a storm and a massive earthquake.
Thursday September 9, 2004-Saturday September 11, 2004
Nevada to New Mexico
In New Mexico, the Resistance fighters landed and transferred Ruin and Bubbles to the Dragon Queen. They were forced to abandon the captured V'sori Barracuda as its fusion core ran out of fuel. The Resistance fighters left for hidden caves hoping their hideouts were still intact. The Dragon Queen's stealth paint protected them from V'sori scanner sweeps as they crossed New Mexico.
Sunday September 12, 2004-Thursday September 16, 2004
New Mexico-Lemuria Secret Base
The Omegans took the Rio Grande River back to the Gulf of Mexico and returned to their Lemuria Secret Base in the Atlantic Ocean. They tuned into the news and got to see the results of their actions.
The earthquake that Ruin summoned had dire consequences. The San Andreas Fault was triggered and California submerged into the Pacific Ocean in an apocalyptic fashion. Despite the catastrophic loss of life, at least the V'sori's West Coast United States bases were destroyed. I wanted Monolith to do the same thing, but only when the timing was right to distract the V'sori from our true aims. Now the whole plan is in jeopardy.
[It's not the first time our gaming group has sunk California, we sort of flooded it in Deadlands: The Flood too.]
Worse, the V'sori used the satellite images in the area to show Ruin, Bubbles, and the Resistance ships destroying the Hoover Dam and triggering the quake. Their propaganda machine brought out VEMA, the V'sori Emergency Management Agency, bringing food, fresh water, and medical supplies and transportation to hospitals for the survivors of the cataclysm and decried the event as 9/8/2004 a day that will live in infamy as the worst catastrophe in United States history. What a joke compared to what they did to the world during their initial invasion and afterward. Although we know what really happens to those they put in those hospital ships, why heal useless injured humans when you can turn them into drones for the V'sori cause? But despite the reality, the propaganda likely means the Omegans and especially Ruin will be hated by just about everybody they meet that recognizes them. They've made Mongo seem like a gentle giant by comparison.
Friday September 17-Saturday September 18, 2004
Lemuria Secret Base
Wheeljack used the rest of the scrapped Mbuna's parts to repair the Dragon Queen.
Sunday September 19, 2004
Lemuria Secret Base
Suddenly my commslink signal to the Omegans went dead as if it was completely jammed. I fear something awful has happened to them...
--Dr. Destruction, personal journal records.
[End of Session]
XP: 3, Miss XP 2, Minimum XP= Veteran (40)
Loot: Huntress' gear.
I used DramaScape's Darkwater Station as the Hoover Dam for this week's map. Darkwater Station is perfect for the Savage Tale Pulling the Plug, even having satellite dishes that can be used for the hidden super weapon. I used DramaScape's The Crater to make some cliffs. I used my green tablecloth and blue tablecloth to create a center river and outer ground areas besides the map pieces. I made the table three leaves (max) for this session. Overall, this does a good job of getting the play area close to the map on page 141 of Necessary Evil. I had to modify the vehicle locations as they wouldn't fit on the board proper the way the map has it set up since my table is long rather than wide.
Figures and vehicles used are from HeroClix by WizKids and Necessary Evil Figure Flats by Pinnacle Entertainment Group. DramaScape's The Partisan Passenger Version was also used for the group's transformed vehicle. We are using Jace from Magic The Gathering Planeswalkers Arena by Wizards of the Coast for Ruin's air form.
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My last gaming session for a while. Probably till January or so. December has the first Sunday being a Rifftrax of Santa Versus the Martians during the bye, then me watching the Browns as they work on their "perfect" season (0-4 preseason and 0-12 regular season so far) as well as Christmas and New Year's when it's hard to get a game going. With 50 Fathoms also on hiatus till February, might be the last recap till 2017.
With this my last session this year, I went all-in on a huge game set up and Kevin and Randall stepped up and made it work despite Ted being sick and with both Chessie and Bobbie out for most of the session (Chessie had to drop off kids from a sleepover Saturday night so had to leave mid-session and Bobbie was at a kid's birthday party until the late part of the session). I'm pretty sure our group will be talking about this legendary session for a while.


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Hi Jenna, thank you! :) The prints were actually from a One Kings Lane sale BUT I was browsing Papyrus a few weeks ago and came across a calendar that has very similar prints in it (for a fraction of the price, too!)! The quality isn't as nice but 12 prints for $17 bucks isn't bad! Plus they fit well in the Ikea Ribba frame! I've hung some in my dining room, hopefully I'll share how they look next week! :)Delete
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Former Fulham midfielder Danny Murphy said he would consider taking charge of the struggling Championship club.
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In the Garden City of India, His Holiness the Dalai Lama Speaks about Religion and Science at Christ University
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Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 26 November 2012 – A warm sun shone brightly as His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove along the landscaped roads from the airport into Bangalore, the Garden City of India, this morning after a short flight from Kochi. A traditional brocade welcome arch stood over the approach to the hotel where many Tibetans were gathered to greet him, among them a delegation of Lamas including the Jangtse Chöje.
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Usually, any story involving Jason Priestley and Jennie Garth would get me giddy as a former lifelong Beverly Hills, 90210 fan. But the latest one, in which Jason spoke about Jennie's hot, super-fit new look, is sort of getting under my skin. I blame the reporter who thought it might be a good idea to ask Jennie's one-time on-screen fiance about how Kelly Taylor's lookin' these days. What's it to him?! But apparently, he did have an opinion on Jennie's post-split slimdown ...
At the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) convention in Miami, where he's promoting the new season of his comedy Call Me Fitz, Jason told People, "You spend a little time in Heartbreak Hotel, that's what happens. Heartbreak Hotel diet is a good one." Whaaa?
Okay, I get it, he was joking around. He's promoting a comedy. He was probably caught off-guard by the question. (Although the original 90210 cast, from Jason to Shannen Doherty, must be used to getting weird, random Qs about their former co-stars like this all the time ...) But still. The idea that heartbreak, a breakup automatically translates to weight loss is just plain silly!
And yet, it's actually a common misconception ... Break up -- get revenge body! Just like apparently, when you're planning a wedding, you're supposed to be so stressed that the pounds fall off! Because apparently, anything that causes stress = involuntary starvation = wow-worthy weight loss.
More from The Stir: Jennie Garth's Secret to Staying Fit Is in Her Jeans
But we all handle stress in different ways. Sure, some people -- look at Demi Moore and Selma Blair -- tend to get super-skinny when they're going through a rough time. Some overeat. Some of us have genes that respond in a way to stress that encourages weight gain even if we're eating right and exercising! Ugh.
But there are also those who decide to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and (re-)commit to a healthy lifestyle as a result of their stress or a way to cope with it. That's exactly what I think Jennie did. To make it seem like simply being heartbroken was enough to help her (or other women who have done the exact same thing) get in the best shape of her life minimizes what she achieved and sells her way too short.
So tsk, tsk, Brandon Walsh! Jennie definitely has more than her breakup to thank for her rockin' new bod.
Check out this video for more details on Jen's other revenge ... a hot new boyfriend!
How does stress affect your weight or commitment to a healthy lifestyle?
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Issue 1171: Request for enhancement: APNG (animated PNG)
Reported by frog...@gmail.com, Sep 4 2008
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Product Version : URLs (if applicable) : <see below> Other browsers tested: Opera 9.52 OK Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue: Safari 3: FAIL Firefox 3: OK IE 7: FAIL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG and https://wiki.mozilla.org/APNG_Specification and http://animatedpng.com/ What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. View an APNG file 2. 3. What is the expected result? All frames of animation are shown. What happens instead? Only the first frame is shown. Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if possible. I am just creating this as a request to add this feature to WebKit and Chrome.
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Mar 2 2010,
Issue 34004 has been merged into this issue.
Mar 15 2010,
Talk to the libpng guys and get them to accept the patch from here: http://littlesvr.ca/apng/ ... otherwise, its not gonna happen as Webkit/Chrome both use the vanilla libpng library!
Mar 15 2010,
If APNG support landing in libpng is a prerequisite, then this functionally becomes a wont_fix. To quote the APNG proposal vote: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=220.127.116.11.20070420132821.012dd8e8%40mail.comcast.net >> Voting has closed on the APNG proposal. There were 8 YES >> votes, 10 NO votes, no abstentions, and no ineligble votes >> cast. The proposal has failed and the APNG chunks are not >> registered. > >It's unfortunate that full acceptance of the proposed usage of the >chunks is required to register public chunks that may/will be used by >multiple vendors. I haven't looked at many other similar standards, but >I believe that for TIFF, all that's needed is a form submitted to Adobe. > Combined with the requirement that there basically be twice as many >YES votes as NO votes, this makes it unlikely that APNG will ever be >accepted in any form by this group as long as some of APNG's original >core goals are not violated -- or, worse yet, the APNG chunk names will >not be able to be reserved for usage by multiple vendors, regardless of >their purpose... > >There are pretty serious disagreements regarding: a) the use of the PNG >signature; b) the fallback image type (single-image vs. montage); c) the >definition of a "good" fallback image (the data loss issue); d) various >feature additions/omissions (JNG/JPEG support, sprites, etc.). The >first of these, the PNG signature issue, seems to be the most >intractable issue. >
Mar 16 2010,
> Webkit/Chrome both use the vanilla libpng library! But that's exactly the point of this request: to switch Webkit/Chrome from vanilla libpng to apng-patched libpng.
Mar 16 2010,
> But that's exactly the point of this request: to switch Webkit/Chrome from vanilla libpng to apng-patched libpng. Originally, I thought that doing this would require a lot of work/maintenance for the Webkit team as they would have to fork and maintain a new library. However, after some inspection, it seems the libpng library itself has reached a level of maturity such that it it not changing much at all anymore. In theory, this should make maintaining a fork of this particular library very easy. Additionally, it seems as though the reason the libpng team decided against adopting the patch into their mainline by a vote of 8 to 10, was a matter of maintaining a "purity" of the standard for the image file format. So, I guess the real question for the webkit guys here, is whether or not apng support would dillute the image format or not. We already know the Mozilla guys don't think so :)
Mar 16 2010,
> So, I guess the real question for the webkit guys here, is whether or not apng support would dillute the image format or not. We already know the Mozilla guys don't think so :) I agree with them. It wouldn't affect any existing PNG files. It would just make the ones that are APNG work. My biggest reason for wanting APNG is the 8-bit alpha. You can produce some pretty neat throbbers with that. With GIF, to make a really cool-looking throbber, you need to have a consistent background color for your page. I've even seen a few pages that have a background image, a nice glossy transparent design (using PNGs, CSS, and whatnot), and then have a big white slab just to put the GIF throbber on :D
Apr 18 2010,
Funny how some of these bug reports turn into petitions.... Any chromium developers able to ring in on this, so we can get a definitive answer for whether to continue hoping for this or give up hope completely?
Apr 20 2010,
Choice is good- an alternative to animated GIF could open up new routes for content creation. I would like to see this added.
May 10 2010,
I'm using APNGs in my web-apps. They work fine with Firefox, it was very disappointing to note that my web-apps stopped working properly in Chrome for this missing feature. I cannot use GIFs since they do not work correctly with transparencies and i certainly won't use that crap of Flash. This means that i have to push my users the use Firefox instead of Chrome and it is not something i like to do since i do believe that Chrome would make my web-apps faster and more responsive. I hope the Chrome team will reconsider their position on APNGs and, in this way, let us developers get rid of those old, ugly GIFs that have haunted the WEB with their dumb limits from its beginning.
Jun 7 2010,
APNG is the only other widely used animation image format used besides GIF, which is heavily dated.
Jun 10 2010,
I wouldn't call APNG widely used. Only places I've seen it used are in examples of APNG usage. There is a need for post-GIF animating image support, and APNG may probably a good choice since Firefox already implements it. On the other hand, there are no tools that I'm aware of that can produce APNG files, other than a Firefox-based editor which is hard to use. That's probably the bigger barrier here, actually.
Jun 10 2010,
Correction: The last time I checked, which granted was a while ago, I could not find any good APNG generating tools that I liked. My favorite image editing tools (GIMP mainly, Irfanview too but it really needs proper alpha channel support first) have no support for APNG (again, last I checked, I should check again I suppose).
Jun 10 2010,
@megazzt There's the APNG assembler. It works really well, and it's not too much of a pain. http://animatedpng.com/index.php/assembler/ Plus, if more browsers support it, it will surely get into image editors quite quickly.
Jun 16 2010,
Yes, megazzt, you should check again. May I suggest this list: http://animatedpng.com/index.php/software/
Jun 30 2010,
Just found out that apng is not supported in chrome. I'm developing for both firefox and chrome compatibility. Add it pretty please with lots of sugar on top of it :-)
Jun 30 2010,
APNG isn't a good format as it's impossible to differentiate between normal png and animated png without opening it and probing its headers. This causes unnecessary headache for web developers and is one of the reasons why the PNG group officially rejected this format. Which is why APNG is widely consideren non-standard as only Firefox supports it.
Jun 30 2010,
Opera supports it too.
Jun 30 2010,
So since APNG is rejected by libpng and therefore (unofficially) by Chrome/Safari, I'm interested in knowing if there is an alternative file format to the APNG that has more chance of getting support across all browsers?
Jun 30 2010,
SVG with SMIL seems more appropriate for small animated icons and when gzipped, should usually be smaller in file size.
Jun 30 2010,
SVG+SMIL is significantly more complex, both in terms of constructing images of that type and the implementation to render them. All that is really required here is a simple file format for animated alpha transparent bitmaps. APNG fits that requirement very nicely with a minimal amount of fuss. From what I could tell, APNG was rejected by the libpng guys mostly for political reasons, they are still pushing their MNG format(s) despite complete lack of interest from the wider community for over a decade. Either someone needs to put their weight behind MNG Very Low Complexity, or APNG. As APNG already seems to have some momentum behind it, I say go with that. This does not preclude MNG later taking over, if they get their act together and show why it is superior.
Jun 30 2010,
If you need an animated bitmap format, there are tons of video formats to choose from. If you need an animation format that supports transparency, it is almost always for UI elements, and SVG+SMIL is the way to go. Unlike APNG, SVG+SMIL's clickable area for said UI element can be any shape (eg. to not count clicks on the transparent area) and APNG only support a rectangle (without the use of area tags).
Jun 30 2010,
Thanks for the information about SVG+SMIL, I didn't yet know that. It seems like a nice alternative of doing animations, it isn't an alternative for bitmap-animations. I would guess that doing stuff like animating fire is very hard to do that way. I've also been thinking of the 'alternative' by using the video-element. I don't know how well supported that will be for mini-video's. At the moment it is way too bloated as an alternative to apng, but it's something to keep in mind, maybe that'll change in the future. The 'MNG: Very Low Complexity' looks ok. It isn't as bloated as the full MNG specification, but therefore it seems to have almost the same features as APNG. One big difference I think is that APNG can be loaded as a still image as if it was a PNG image. I don't know if that is an advantage or disadvantage. There was also a discussion on this on mozilla's bugtracker: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257197.
Jun 30 2010,
SVG can store bitmap data, can it not? So just change the data being viewed and you've got yourself APNG in SVG.
Jun 30 2010,
If you're okay with storing a complete image for every frame, then yes, technically SVG+SMIL can make bloated animated PNG. frozencow: Video formats are *less* bloated (in terms of file size) than APNG, even for, say, a small 60-frame animation.
Jun 30 2010,
You have to understand that libpng was never intended to be one and only implementation of PNG format. It's only a *reference* implementation. PNG is quite simple, it's very easy to write your own implementation (on top of zlib library). You would only need to read/handle those PNG chunks you care about, and ignore all others. And if you need to read/handle three APNG chunks, no problem, do it the same way. Just because libpng won't support every chunk invented by a third-party, doesn't mean all third-party PNG extensions are doomed. Remember, PNG was designed to be extendable by others. It's in the specs.
Jun 30 2010,
Now, about MNG. > The 'MNG: Very Low Complexity' looks ok. No it's not. First, MNG-VLC still has that awful MAGN chunk. It's a useless too complex bug magnet. Second, MNG-VLC is missing Delta-PNG, so you cannot save only the pixels that changed from the last frame. This issue is hugely important for compression. APNG wins here. PNG/MNG people attempted to introduce MNG 2.0 to address those problems, but they lost interest for some reason. Too bad. Now APNG has no alternatives. You can read about their "MNG-2.0 proposal" here: http://osdir.com/ml/graphics.png.general/2007-09/
Jun 30 2010,
Jul 1 2010,
Chromium developers, are you thinking that? You are developers, Google is sponsor... We are users and web*(master|designer|architect...) and we have the control of choice. Simply we can write website for any others rendering engine and boycott webkit. Sounds like to you (developer, Google and Apple)? ;) Remember Microsoft Internet Explorer war...
Jul 1 2010,
Are those better options? Well, maybe to a certain extent. There is a certain ease of use, and simplicity in being able to use an animation. That's why GIF images have remained in use for so long. I would love to be able to add some subtle effects to my web pages with what APNG can provide. Years ago, I would have pushed for MNG support, and if Chrome chose that path, I would still approve. MNG is a well document, powerful, and open format; but the complexity comes at a cost of ease in implementation. Hence, the development of APNG. A better question than "are there better alternatives" is "why not?". APNG was specifically developed as a format for providing an animated "GIF-like" image without the limitations of binary transparency and 255 colors. Despite being an "unofficial" extension to PNG, the very simplicity and practicality of the format have given it a great deal of momentum. What we, as technical netizens, are requesting, is that the Chrome developers simply utilize and incorporate the patches already available in the PNG library to give us the ability to use a format with great potential. The success or failure of a format is far more reliant upon the embrace of a community, than that of a board of directors. If you don't want to tout the support of APNG is a feature of Chrome, then don't, but having it available certainly can't hurt!
Jul 1 2010,
> CSS animation or transformation would be a much much better alternative to all this. In what application would you make them? > the APNG file being a stupid 50kb while a frame-by-frame PNG equivalent only being 6kb! This can't be. You obviously doing it wrong.
Jul 14 2010,
SVG files are a horrible alternative because of the complete lack of compatibility with IE6,7 & 8. CSS Transformations are slightly better in that aspect because(unlike SVG) it'll at least show the first frame. But you can't just upload an image with automatically has CSS transitions, its far easier to have a simple animated image format. Opera and Firefox did it, I don't see why Chrome wouldn't
Jul 20 2010,
APNG has been rejected by the PNG-Developers, as APNG is a mix of animation an stand alone image. Therefore, MNG is the only offical animated PNG format anyone should use (as Gimp does, for example). References: [*] http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/ [*] http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmng/ [*] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18574 [*] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=22.214.171.124.20070420132821.012dd8e8%40mail.comcast.net
Jul 20 2010,
The problem, bmarwell, is that MNG is a complex format with almost no support. The one decent web browser that did support it for a while was Konqueror 3.5. Even the KDE developers, though, have removed MNG support due to complexity and lack of use. As long as MNG does not show up AT ALL in ANY MAJOR BROWSER it is for all intents and purposes, useless. APNG was designed specifically so that in browsers that to not understand it, such as Internet Explorer, it will simply present the first frame as a valid PNG image. It is not an official solution, but it is a practical one. Similarly, the format is simple enough to be supported easily. Firefox and Opera, two of the major browsers DO support APNG, and the other browsers show (correctly) the first frame. This is something that web developers can work with today. I'm all for pushing MNG support in Gecko, Webkit, Presto, and Trident (Good luck on MNG support in Trident!), but for now, APNG is simply a good clean transition, and I hope for Google to take the lead in their fork of Webkit and support it.
Jul 20 2010,
Jul 20 2010,
But that doesn't work at all on websites where users post images, such as forums etc. The only way to do it then is to have an animated image format.
Jul 22 2010,
Personally, while I'd like to see APNG included, I'd be happy with MNG too. APNG support is one of the reasons I haven't switched over from Firefox yet.
Aug 4 2010,
Anyone tried to compare the converters? gif2mng gif2apng
Aug 4 2010,
mng ... What a bad idea. Why would any webdeveloper want to use something supported by no one end not even backward compatible ? Apng in the other hand is a good idea, even if majors browsers doesn't support it, webdeveloper can use it because of it backward compatibility with png. Apng is an example of why free software are great. If the official version doesn't feet your needs you can use or develop an other one. But some seem to forget it and stay captive of one lib because it's the "official one" It's free software ! If chromium team want apng and libpng team don't, so be it, and go for an other lib. "We want apng but we can't have it because we HAVE to use vanilla libpng" ... Pathetic.
Aug 5 2010,
@gnarkol: Very good point. I totally agree with you. Let's hope for apng-support in gimp, then ;-)
Aug 12 2010,
Another vote for apng support. The SVG options are processing intensive. Check your CPU utilization if you don't believe me. They have their place, but I'd rather have apng. Please ...
Aug 13 2010,
Another vote for APNG support.
Aug 13 2010,
Aug 13 2010,
There seems to be quite a bit of FUD about SVG+SMIL here. First off, no, a simple transparent animated loading throbber does not use that much of your CPU at 18x18px (which seems like a reasonable size for a loading throbber). > Can you render that inline as any bitmap? It's not a bitmap, so I'll be ignoring that part of the question. Yes, with an inline <svg>, <object data="foobar.svg">/<iframe src="foobar.svg">, and <img> in the most WebKit browsers, Opera, and Firefox 4 beta 4. > CSS Transforms? IE invented CSS transforms, and supports quite a bit of them (albeit as proprietary Microsoft values for the filter property). Real video formats are almost always more appropriate for captures of video. All you have to do is do H.264 + Flash for IE and WebM+<video> for everyone else. > Besides, not all sites accept video if you want to upload an animation. So you're saying APNG is a great way to skimp site rules? Sites like that would usually block multi-frame GIFs too. Even 4chan explicitly blocks APNG images. Also, SVG+SMIL works in all browsers if you give IE the svgweb handicap. > Also, you know what the "V" stands for, right? You've got to be kidding me. Are you trying to imply that having a scalable interface is a bad thing? The amount of processing that goes into an 18x18px SVG loading throbber is negligible.
Aug 13 2010,
@iSephir: :) You are misunderstanding my message. Probably I've not made myself clear enough, sorry, as English is not my main language. The bottom line could be something like this: use vector formats for vector images, use video formats for video sources, use bitmap formats for bitmaps images. I love vector formats, but that's when I'm working with vectors. I don't know why there's the impression that vectors can be used for everything. Well, no. If you're animating a vector illustration I understand the use of a vector format. But if you want to animate other things (bitmaps), maybe a raster format is best suited. Someone needs to explain me the popularity of places like "Senor GIF", but there you have it, raster animation in GIF format, that could easily be replaced with APNG. Also, I was talking about forums when I mentioned places that don't accept video upload. GIFs are popular in forums. I hope I made myself clear now. Regards.
Aug 13 2010,
"There seems to be quite a bit of FUD about SVG+SMIL here. First off, no, a simple transparent animated loading throbber does not use that much of your CPU at 18x18px (which seems like a reasonable size for a loading throbber)." > I'm creating an HTML5 web application. There are a number of places where animation enhances the interaction with the user (e.g. buttons with an interior icon that spins to indicate motion, progress bars etc). I realize that there are many ways to accomplish similar functionality. I would like to use APNG. The animation is fluid, transparency is taken into account, file size is reasonable. I'm not going to use Flash, Video, or animated Gifs. I am using SVG+SMIL. I am running on a dual core PC with 4 gigs of ram. When one of these SVGs loads, I notice CPU spikes. When multiple SVGs are loaded the user interface sputters. Sure, if all you want is an 18X18 throbber, then have at it (I'm using svg for that too BTW), but for those of us that want to create dynamic content that runs smoothly and isn't relying on a 3rd party plugin like Flash ... give us APNG.
Aug 13 2010,
Yeah, I'm not against APNG or anything. I'm just trying to state that for simple webapps with only maybe 2 simple animations, SVG+SMIL is great. APNG definitely has its use for your site I'm assuming. It's a shame that there's no low-overhead video formats supported by browsers with an alpha channel.
Aug 14 2010,
It's worth noting that APNG is also a lossless format, which theora and h264 aren't. For images with few frames, it's a big advantage.
Sep 24 2010,
Chrome actually has a PROBLEM even with the first frame of apngs. No other browser does. It sometimes fails to display the apng at all when it is embedded in page, but displays it if they are opened in their own tab. I guess there is some heuristics detecting the .png file as invalid and it is failing! It happens especially for longer animations...
Nov 18 2010,
Everyone keeps spouting about video formats -- APNG is supposed to compete with GIF as an animation format, it's not for video! Also, even if it was, none of the video formats have an alpha channel. Everyone also keeps going on about SVG -- blah, apples-to-oranges, SVG is for vectors, APNG for bitmap. No more. Everyone also keeps saying stuff about JavaScript -- like has already been said, only on sites you own is this even possible. For posting a picture on a forum, you can't do this. Or any of the other options. You're stuck with GIF in that case. Lastly, MNG is... well... unsupported by everything. It's dead and gone. Go for APNG!
Nov 20 2010,
My vote as well. As the owner of multiple forums, APNG would enhance the user experience significantly.
Nov 21 2010,
I use apng all the time. (with the "skip first frame" option, and in the first frame I put a "Get Firefox to view this" button) I love apng, and I fully support what gnarkol's said. Don't be so anal about it, just implant the damn thing. :P
Nov 21 2010,
APNG could bridge the time gap until AWebP comes into play. ;-)
Nov 21 2010,
You mean WebM?
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Issue 437662 has been merged into this issue.
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Issue 437662 has been merged into this issue.
Jul 4 2016,
With Safari and Firefox supporting APNG, it may be surprising to developers that Chrome does not. Adding Hotlist-Interop.
Jul 8 2016,
Note that someone was maintaining a patch in Issue 437662 : https://codereview.chromium.org/1567053002/
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Mar 14 2017, Project Member
The following revision refers to this bug: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/7d2b8c45afc9c0230410011293cc2e1dbb8943a7 commit 7d2b8c45afc9c0230410011293cc2e1dbb8943a7 Author: scroggo <email@example.com> Date: Tue Mar 14 21:36:44 2017 Add support for Animated PNG Update the browser accept header to state that APNG is supported. Split the decoding of PNG images into two stages: parsing and decoding. During parsing, chunks are handled one of three ways: - acTL and fcTL chunks, which specify properties of an APNG are read and the properties are stored. If they contain an error before IDAT, the image is treated as a static PNG, as recommended by the spec [1]. If they contain an error after IDAT, this is a failure, since some frames may have been decoded. CRCs are calculated and compared to their expected values. Mismatches are considered errors. - fdAT and IDAT chunks have their locations stored for decoding later. Any ordering violations result in either a static image or failed image, depending on whether IDAT has been seen yet. - Other chunks before IDAT are passed to libpng for processing. Each frame is decoded as if it were a complete PNG file. fdATs are converted to IDATs (and their CRCs are ignored**) and the IHDR is modified for subset frames. The rowAvailable callback positions subset frames properly within the full image buffer. For a static PNG or the first frame decoded (assuming its size matches IHDR) the png struct used during parsing is reused. Otherwise, a new png struct is created for the duration of the decode. Follow the APNG spec as closely as possible and use the APNG test page [2] as a guide for intended behavior. All of the valid APNG on the test page work as expected. For the invalid APNG: - Errors that occur before IDAT show the default image, as intended - Errors afterwards are typically treated as failures (see Future work, below) - The final three images draw incorrectly. They have incorrectly sized IDATs/ fdATs. These could be respected by checking the warning that libpng sends (in the case of extra data) or keeping track of how many rows have been seen (in the case of too little data), although we currently ignore this for static PNGs anyway. (crbug.com/698808) The first frame can be decoded progressively. Other frames are not reported until the following fcTL chunk has been reached during parse. Add a reference test, modified from WebKit's fast/images/animated-png.html with the following changes: - use window.internals.advanceImageAnimation instead of waiting for a timeout, for more reliable testing - disable two of the images, which look the same to my eyes, but are not identical (I suspect due to blending differences as compared to how the reference tests were created). Add gtests. Update progressive tests to reuse a SharedBuffer, rather than recreating it, to reduce test run-time. Fix a bug in ImageFrameGenerator where it called setMemoryAllocator before setting the data, and add related tests. Stop calling setFailed inside ImageDecoder::initFrameBuffer, return false instead. Clients are now expected to call setFailed (update the WEBP and GIF clients). This is safer, because setFailed may delete an object that called initFrameBuffer. In WEBPImageDecoder: rename frameIsLoadedAtIndex to frameIsReceivedAtIndex, for consistency with PNGImageDecoder. Always call ImageFrame::setStatus last (e.g. after calling onInitFrameBuffer, correctAlphaWhenFrameBufferSawNoAlpha). Future work: - Revert to showing the default image for failures past IDAT. This is tricky, since the client may be holding on to previous frames, and we need to make sure they switch to using the IDAT frame, even if it is not part of the animation. For now, we mark the decoder as having failed. (crbug.com/699675) ** We cannot allow libpng to check the CRC since we modified the chunk. We could check the CRC directly as a separate step. [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/APNG_Specification [2] https://philip.html5.org/tests/apng/tests.html BUG= 1171 BUG= 437662 Initial patch is a re-upload of issue 2386453003 at patchset 39 (http://crrev.com/2386453003#ps1260001) by firstname.lastname@example.com, which also used https://codereview.chromium.org/1567053002/ by firstname.lastname@example.com as a reference. 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Waugh hails Ganguly, says he brought toughness to the Indian team
Legendary Australian cricketer Steve Waugh hailed former India skipper Sourav Ganguly, saying he brought toughness to the team he led.
On a visit to Kolkata, to inaugurate a new building for Udayan, a rehabilitation home for children suffering from leprosy in colonies near Barrackpore, Waugh praised Ganguly, saying he was a brilliant cricketer.
Asked to compare former India captain Sourav Ganguly with captain 'cool' Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Waugh replied: "Both are very different captains. They both have been very good.
"I mean this is Kolkata and Sourav you know is a great captain. Sourav brought that toughness to the Indian side."
Image: Steve Waugh
Photographs: Dipak Chakraborty
'If Australia can make it 2-2, it will be an amazing result'
With Sachin Tendulkar on the brink of playing his 200th Test during the upcoming South Africa tour, Waugh said: "I think it would be a great achievement something that will be difficult to beat."
Waugh backed the struggling Australian team, which is trailing England 0-2 in the ongoing Ashes series after the rain-marred third Test ended in a draw.
"Well they did quite well in the last Test match. It's a young side that is capable of becoming a good side but it will take some time," he said.
However, he added it will be difficult for Michael Clarke's men to draw the series.
"If Australia can make it 2-2, it will be an amazing result. But it's going to be difficult," he said.
Image: Australian team
Photographs: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images
'Everyone needs to interpret the system better'
He went on to voice his support for the controversial Decision Review System.
"They haven't suffered because of the DRS. I have said it many times that the DRS is a very good system. The umpiring hasn't been probably as strong but at the end of the day you get more decisions right than wrong.
"Everyone needs to interpret the system better. Of course, India have their reservations. I think in the future there will be some technology that players as well as the media like," Waugh said.
Image: Australian team
Photographs: Michael Steele/Getty Images
'I don't think T20s are dominating'
Waugh insisted Test cricket is still the ultimate.
"I don't think T20s are dominating. Go to England to see the crowd there during the Ashes. India got some decent crowds as well.
"T20, of course, is a youthful game, people like to see it. There's good money in it for players. Test cricket is still the pinnacle of the game," he said.
Asked about the ball tampering controversy in the 2001 Chennai Test, Waugh said: "I always look at the front window. I don't look at the back. That was way in the back and I don't think about that."
Talking about his visit to Udayan, Waugh said: "It's a great feeling to come here, to see the happy faces of the children. This is like a second home. Look forward to the time I can come back to Udayan."
Image: West Indies team
Photographs: Gareth Copley/Getty Images


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Looking after your newly purchased aquarium pet is very much similar just like any other cichlids care and tank setup with water temperature matching the requirement of a tropical species while the best pH should in the range of between 7.2 to 7.8. An adult jack dempsey can grow up to 10 - 12 inches in length and being a carnivorous fish, they require constant feeding of meaty meal such as shrimp and feeder fish. Because of this requirement, the water gets dirty easily which is why a good aquarium filtration system is definitely needed combined with presence of a bristlenose catfish, not to mention regular water changes as well. The minimum tank size for a single jack dempsey fish should be at least 30 gallons and if you have intention to house a pair of male and female fish, you would need 60 gallons and above large tank.
Jack dempsey is usually mature by time they are 6- 8 months old and it's quite difficult to tell apart between the male and female fish. Sometimes even an expert hobbyist can give wrong information and until both fish start to pair up and lay eggs, there's no surefire or reliable method to use as a guide. Breeding your pet should be relatively easy because just like any other cichlids fish, the parents will protect and care for the young until they are large enough to be able to fend for themselves. Breeding jack dempsey is a rewarding business because a single pair could produce up to 80 or even more offspring and there's a huge demand for them for sale in pet shops.
A variation of the fish species known as electric blue jack dempsey is widely sold in aquarium trade and highly sought after because of their bright and unique coloration. However, the fish is known to be short-lived because the genetic makeup resulted from cross-breeding has so far produced a species that is weak, vulnerable to common aquarium disease and they usually die before reaching maturity age. Although nobody exactly knows which species were crossbred with to come up with the species variation, I wouldn't recommend buying these fish because obviously it will be a waste of money, time and effort.


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At Cloud 9 Cycles we pride ourselves on giving you the best custom build experience possible. We will help you come out with exactly what you want regardless of their bike experience and knowledge of the process. How can we say this? Because it's what we do. We specialise in building custom bikes of all types and sizes and have done so since the shop began in this time we have lost count of all the builds we have done.
Below is outline of what we call "The Process". We have refined this during all the builds we have done and now know we have perfected it. Each stage makes sure no detail is forgotten and you leave with the best bike perfectly matched to your requirements.
The Fit
The first stage of all custom builds is the fitting. We know the importance of having a correctly fitted bike and this is why we would advise doing this with any custom build. This is a purchase you'll be riding for a long time to come so it would be irresponsible of us to not make sure it's the perfect fit. When was the last time someone had a bespoke suit made for them but didn't know what size it was going to be?
For more information on bike head to our fitting page for a more in depth understanding of what our fitting process entails.
The Consultation
This is the initial discussion process where we discuss your upcoming build, your requirements for the bike and what it will be used for. During this we are able to talk you through all the components that are available for your build. There is so much on offer that it is fundamental to the build that this is done in the shop.
During this time we can explain all the parts needed for a custom build, the different options available to you and what the difference will mean to you as a rider. During this process we will try to work out the barebones of the bike. Dependent on the rider this can be as little as just a frame that is selected or as much as the entire bike. Neither of these are better it just depends on the rider and their decision making process.
At this point it can be useful to let us know if you have a budget for the build. As a shop we want to build you a great bike, this doesn't mean it has to cost the earth, and we will strive to provide you the best value build available. It is important to understand that budgets cannot always be met and we will guide you to the best build closest to your budget. If we cannot meet your budget we will let you know how to adjust your requirements to meet it. We will never build a bike with components that are either unreliable or cheap just to meet a price. This is a false economy and will cost you more in the future.
The Quote
This is where our experience and expertise comes into its own. We are able to work out from the consultation what will work best for you and your needs. Then we create a list of the components of needed for your entire build. We email this to you, for your review.
This part of the process can be iterative with the quote going back and forth till you are happy with everything we have specified. Once the quote has been finalised and approved by you we will take a deposit and begin ordering all the components for the build. The ordering process can range from less than a week to 3 months depending on if a custom frame has been chosen or if parts are unavailable at the time of ordering. We will always keep you informed as to the ETA of any awaiting parts but this is something that is out of our control.
The Assembly
As the parts arrive they are put into a "Build Box" ready for the mechanics. Once everything has arrived a slot will be booked into the workshop schedule and the bike will be assembled. We pride ourselves on taking the time to make sure that the assembly process is perfect, starting with frame preparation of the headset and bottom bracket to the final tightening of all the bolts.
The Collection
Once fully assembled we will let you know that your bike is ready for collection. Before collection we will have adjusted the bike to match your fit but if anything doesn't feel quite right we can re-adjust it on the spot. We will run through the build with you explaining any specific aspects to take note of with your build, for example Di2 battery charging or optimum pressures for your tubeless tyres. We value your custom and want every step of the process to be perfect for you and your needs, so if there is anything else you need we will do it.
The Life of The Bike
Between two and eight weeks after the collection of the bike is the first service where we check over the entire bike as the components will have settled in and we will be able to make any adjustments necessary.
Through out the life of the bike we will always be there to answer any of your questions as well as fulfil your servicing needs or upgrade requirements. Buying a custom bike is the begin of a relationship and we want your bike to run perfectly for it's entire life and we will be here to make sure that happens.


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"I'm thrilled to be patron of Stand Up For Women"
Dr. Linda Papadopoulos is one of the most well-known and respected psychologists working in the UK today. Her 14 year career as a research scientist and practicing psychologist has led to her work being published in some of the most well-regarded academic journals and given rise to a high profile media-career. Her observations regarding the psychology behind news and current events are syndicated by the press and discussed by television and radio networks both in Britain and in the USA.


text: The Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Slim is a very thin and extremely eye-catching portable hard drive. This drive easily slips into your backpack along with your other essentials. However, despite its small size, the capacity is not sacrificed. High-speed USB 3.0 and 2.0 connectivity offers Plug-and-Play functionality on your PC without the need of an external power supply. With Ultra Slim, your digital life has incredible room to expand into.


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Ice-cream vans a pollution menace
08 March, 2018
• YOUR readers will know that there have been frequent complaints about the menace of ice-cream vans which, with diesel engines running, remain stationary, for hours on end, polluting the neighbourhood.
Within central London this is a problem that occurs only in Camden because other boroughs (Westminster, the City and Lambeth, for example) actively enforce the regulations and do not tolerate unlawful trading, polluting, unlawful parking, or the causing of an obstruction.
In Camden, however, no one seems willing to clamp down on this scourge. Over the past two years we at Stop Polluting Camden have been discussing the problem with Camden officials and with NSL, who are supposed to enforce the parking rules, but their attitudes seem rather slack. And this is even with MP Sir Keir Starmer intervening on our behalf.
In most cases there is no response at all. It is only when formal measures are taken (for example, through the Freedom of Information Act) that anything tends to emerge.
In those cases the typical response is that should a civil enforcement officer approach the van, the van will drive off. As a result the CEOs don't bother approaching the vans at all. Regrettably, Camden officials appear to endorse that rather resigned attitude.
Come the spring and summer, as the sun comes out, so will the ice-cream vans. And until Camden gets its act together there will be no stopping them.
The impact on our lungs seems to be no trigger for those in power to do anything about the problem. Neither does the danger caused to other road users by the parking (often in the middle of road junctions or alongside designated crossing points).
In this, an election year, we hope that someone will take a stand and help clean up the borough's streets.


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NBC Criticizes Bloggers for Election Conspiracy Theories
I was watching the NBC evening news tonight as they dismissed people like me who question the results of the election – inferring that we are all part of the tin foil hat club. But where do left wing nutcases like myself get our information? What makes us think there's something to this? Well – I saw in on a report by Keith Oberman of MSNBC who spelled out a lot of the details. Areas where there are more votes than voters – areas that are 80% Democrat voting 80% for Bush – and exit polls that show a kerry landslide? And we are suppoed to trust these results?
So if NBC wants to understand why we don't trust the election – it's because we are watching NBC. If this election wasn't stolen – no one would ever know it because of all the cheating.
Where have we heard THAT before?


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Petr Davydtchenko is part of the group exhibition How to Say It the Way It Is! among other artists such as Santiago Sierra, Shirin Neshat and Andres Serrano. The exhibition is commissioned by a/political and will run from 7 October to 2 December in Rua Red gallery in south Dublin.
Thanks to the article in The Art Newspaper!


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Download Gigahertz Race
A 3D game having polite voices and a grand opening. In the platform you have to collect all the balls in the field just before the time limit. In the game there would be a lot of enemies and you have to fight them all. Good thing is you may change the whole map of the game in order to defeat your enemy. The game is interesting and its music too. You can control the game through different keys like Arrows for the movement, Space for jump, Shift to rotate the map, Ctrl for fight and Esc to exit game.


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Home news "Iraqi Wikileaks" Speaks about Student Eye
Thank you for bringing my blog to attention. Two corrections though:
First It is not an Iraqi Wikileaks blog. That was just an adv. on the header of the blog to announce my translation of some Wiki Iraqi documents.
Second: I am not assuming that "the existence of such a blog is a sign of the lack of freedom of speech at AUI-S." but the fact that "Many of the bloggers write anonymously" is.
Best regards.
People always post anonymously all the time, even in the free society. Ask anyone from Europe or US. Have you ever visited there?
Dear Anon. So you say that free speech and criticism are allowed in AUI-S? and in Sulaymania? So why are journalists killed? TV stations raided? secret police agents allowed to raid even students' dorms?
I know that people everywhere post anonymously for different reasons, but one assumes that a website like this is like a students' community where everyone likes to introduce himself/herself. Some of them do. Some say clearly that they are not mentioning their names for security reasons.
عشتار العراقية you're right. If journalists are harmed and tv stations are raided, it is a sign of trouhle.
BUT. When you make things up, like secret police raiding a dorm, everyone knows this is simply not true. That's not journalism. Shame on you.
AND. Who are you to say why a student posts anonymously? You say it means this and it means that. I think the students can speak very well for themselves. It is, once again, not journalism for you to say "one assumes" it means something.
Let's let them both congratulate each other for being famous!
Mr. Anon. The thing about police going into dorms is here:
As nobody of you people at the AUI-S administration, negated the post about Dana Jaff, I assumed that it was true.
Yes, ASSUMED. What is wrong with assuming? All the great learning of human beings has been initiated in the act of assuming. That is why we have brains. And who are you to teach us journalism? Let us know who you are. Reveal your great SELF, so that we would follow you, O Great Mentor of Journalism.
All the great learning of human beings has come by THINKING.
Assuming is made by human beings like you, who read something on a blog and use it as evidence. Can you not admit that's foolish?
What is THINKING? Can you explain? Thinking is a complicated process. One side of this process is ASSUMPTION. "In the context of natural deduction systems, an assumption is a proposition that may be used to prove further propositions, in the expectation that the assumption will be discharged in due course by proving it via a separate argument."
All the knowledge we know about history comes from writings by individuals on scrolls, clay tablets etc. A true historian does not take these on face value but compares with similar sources of the same period, then deducts and concludes. Our sources in present times are blogs and websites, in the few past centuries were newspapers and journals etc. In the future, historians will learn about our times,and ways of life, from blogs like Student Eye and others. So do not underestimate it.
What are your sources for evidences? Fox news?
It's official. You're crazy.
Crazy? So you have reached your limit.
Using what you think "offending" labels does not add to your arguments. When a writer starts to curse,or use such words, that is a sign that he has run out of arguments.
So, this is enough evidence for me to ASSUME that you have run out of arguments.
Now I hope you have learned the meaning of ASSUMPTION.
Once again, you make the wrong assumption. You are actually crazy. You want to know why? It's written in this blog. According to your logic, you should assume that it's true.
Ah, so according to your logic, if it is written in this blog, you would assume it is a lie!!
Go back to my comments: I did not say, because it is written in this blog, but said that when nobody has negated it, I assumed it was true. There is a difference.
But calling me foolish and crazy, is very interesting!!
Now the anonymous body who said that must be either a faculty or a student. We can not know because he/she is unknown, but either case, this body is attached to a university which advocates "liberal" teaching and culture.
As, this body's sole argument is calling names and rude speech, we may ASSUME the following:
Liberal = rude & vulgarity.
Now its your turn, show me I am wrong. But please try to find some other liberal argument than calling me "crazy", because I am honored to be called that. All creative people throughout history from Gregor Mendel to Albert Einstein to even prophet Mohamed himself were rejected,ridiculed, called crazy for daring to think different. I am not comparing myself to them, but I am comparing your reaction to my criticism of your police state, to the reaction of those people in those times to whoever dared to have a different opinion.
For all your "liberal" thing, you do not tolerate different thinking. You dismiss every different thought as craziness. WAW!! I have always wondered what "Liberal" really means.
It is not only about me. But I have noticed that every time some commenter here has a different thought, or a criticism, some anonymous body pops up not to discuss but to ridicule him/her.
People who compare themselves to the prophet Mohamed himself are 1.) the prophet mohammed
OR 2.) crazy.
If you don't like the music, DANCE SOME OTHER PLACE!
Last Anon. I am staying, and apparently, the music has been changed to my liking. You have to learn the virtue of tolerance.
Anon before last: A Nice try, but I think you can do better. You need more focus to understand what you read.
I would like to stress two points here!
1. The post states that: "Ishtar Cave assumes that the existence of such a blog is a sign of the lack of freedom of speech at AUI-S." Well, if this is not true! Why do we find all commentators are anonymous exempt of Ishtar al-Iraqiya?
Let us ignore what "Ishtar Cave assumes", and concentrate a little bit on the post by Astios on May 1, 2011 in this blog!
2. Most of the theories throughout history have had built upon assumptions, now a days we are LIVE, STUDY and DEAL with Irrefutable facts that have been in the near past nothing but assumptions! Who knows, maybe " Ishtar Cave assumptions" will become fact in the near future?!
At least there is an existing evident called "Fun with AUI-S (Freedom of Speech)" in this blog! Which is supports "Ishtar Cave assumptions" !!


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Best Thing I Saw This Week: Bram Stoker's Dracula Was Inspired by Bad Seafood, Not Vlad the Impaler
Numerous fictional characters were inspired by real people. The president in Primary Colors is a stand-in for Bill Clinton. Nora Charles of The Thin Man is based on playwright Lillian Hellman. Surgeon Joseph Bell inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. According to conventional wisdom, Bram Stoker based Dracula, the original sexy vampire, on Romanian tyrant Vlad The Impaler, but this is indeed a myth.
Scholars assumed that Dracula was based on Vlad because Vlad was a member of the noble family House of Drăculești, whose title translated to Voivode Dracula in English. (A voivode was the Slavic equivalent of a baron.) Vlad was born in Transylvania. Before Dracula became a vampire, he, like Vlad, battled the Turks. The idea that the blood-thirsty character is based on Vlad is so pervasive that some of the numerous film and television adaptations of him, including the current Dracula Untold have used the conceit that Vlad was turned into a vampire after his death.
However, all of this so-called evidence that Dracula is Vlad is circumstantial. Gothic supernatural novels were already an established genre when Stoker wrote Dracula. Transylvania was as clichéd a supernatural setting as New Orleans is today for the simple reason that it was a legitimately creepy place.
Stoker's actual writing notes reveal that he read a book with the super-exciting title Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia. Sadly, it was a dry history text, not a prescient description of the Moldavian Massacre on "Dynasty." It was so boring that Stoker was inspired not by the actual book, but by a footnote which revealed that "Dracula in Wallachian language means Devil." That was where Stoker got the name. If he weren't such a close reader, Dracula might have been named Lucifer or Satan or Joe.
Stoker based his famous character on earlier fictional vampires and used his own imagination to make him bigger and badder than his predecessors. His son, Irving Stoker, had the best explanation for the source of his father's creativity. He claimed Stoker saw Dracula "in a nightmarish dream after eating too much dressed crab."


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The Saskatchewan Green Party is deeply concerned on seeing the rapid movement toward dismantling public ownership of our province's major crown corporations. The first move by the Wall government toward this dismantling was the announcement of the coming May 31 shutdown of the Saskatchewan Transportation Company. This of course puts many Saskatchewan residents in want of affordable transportation and cross - province freight service.
Not long after this terrible blow, the government passed its Bill 40, allowing it to privatize up to 49% of a crown corporation without prior public approval. Now it has been revealed that Dustin Duncan, the minister responsible for Sasktel, has been working on a possible deal to let minority shareholders buy part of Sasktel. In addition, Premier Wall announced on May 3 that the minister for Saskatchewan Government Insurance has been in meetings for its partial sale. Within a span of only 2 months we are seeing 3 major crowns going through the process of being taken apart.
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Our crowns were created to provide affordable service for all and to defeat the difficulties in serving rural residents. The money they generate goes back into the province, and they are the source of good jobs for many Saskatchewan people. There is so much to lose when we let our crowns slip away. We urge the government to stop its ill - conceived maneuvers to bring on privatization. Bill 40 should be repealed. If we want a strong, prosperous Saskatchewan we need to retain and fortify our crown corporations, not abandon them.


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