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*Table O' Contents*
1. Introduction
2. Updates
3. How To Play
4. Drivers
5. Arcade Mode
6. Original Mode
7. Crazy Box
9. Secrets
10. Credits
*1. Introduction*
Welcome to my Sega Dreamcast Crazy Taxi Faq! This has all the
information you need to become a pro at the game. The game has been
released on Sega Dreamcast and Arcade.
*2. Updates*
Version 1.0(02.03.00)- Everything is new.
*3. How To Play*
A- Reverse Gear
B- Drive Gear
X- Destination Reminder
L Trigger- Brakes
R Trigger- Gas
D-Pad- N/A
Analog Stick- Steering
Special Tricks
Crazy Dash
Description- A speed burst
How To Perform- Release everything then just after shifting into drive,
press the accelerator.
Crazy Drift
Description- A sliding drift
How To Perform- When moving forward, quickly shift into Reverse and back
into Drive while turning left or right.
Crazy Back Dash
Description- A reversed speed dash
How To Perform- Shift into reverse after executing a Crazy Dash
Crazy Back Drift
Description- A move that will continue to move in reverse after spinning
How To Perform- While moving forward, quickly shift into Drive and back
into reverse while turning left or right.
Limit Cut
Description- A speed boost like Crazy Dash but will boost your speed
past your top speed.
How To Perform- Release gas and brake and at the same time press
Reverse, Drive, and The Accelerator
Crazy Jump Combo- Perform many consecutive jumps in a row with out
touching another car or building.
Crazy Through Combo- Drive by many close cars with out touching them to
earn a bonus.
Crazy Drift Combo- After a Crazy Drift keep drifting to earn a bonus.
Red- Small Fare, Closest Destination
Orange- Larger Fare, Farther Destination
Yellow- Larger Fare, Farther Destination
Green Yellow- Larger Fare, Farther Destination
Green- Largest Fare, Farthest Destination
*4. Drivers*
Axel- An all rounded character. He is great for beginners.
B.D. Joe- His taxi best property is it's speed. He doesn't have a lot of
control, however.
Gena- Great acceleration and control. Another great driver for
Gus- Great control but lacks in speed and acceleration.
*5. Arcade Mode*
-Arcade Rules: Follows the rules of the arcade version, where you must
pick people up and drop them off to gain extra time.
-Drive For 3 Minutes: Lets you drive around the city for 3 minutes at
your own pace. Also lets you pick people up.
-Drive For 5 Minutes: The same as above only this time you can drive for
5 minutes.
-Drive For 10 Minutes: Same as the other 2 but you can drive for 10
This level is the same as the Arcade. Many people feel that this level
is put together better than the original one. I feel they're both fun.
Main Dropoff Points
-Yacht Port
-Kentucky Fried Chicken
-Pizza Hut
-Tower Records
-Baseball Stadium
-Mall(North and West Gate)
-R.B. Station
-Police Station
*6. Original Mode*
-Arcade Rules: Follows the rules of the arcade version, where you must
pick people up and drop them off to gain extra time.
-Drive For 3 Minutes: Lets you drive around the city for 3 minutes at
your own pace. Also lets you pick people up.
-Drive For 5 Minutes: The same as above only this time you can drive for
5 minutes.
-Drive For 10 Minutes: Same as the other 2 but you can drive for 10
I believe this is the tougher of the two courses. Mainly because of the
water on the port area of the city.
Main Dropoff Points
-Millennium Tower
-Japanese Restaurant
-South Parking Lot
-Pizza Hut
-Wave and Beach Shop
-Marine Museum
-Tower Records
-Kentucky Fried Chicken
-Pizza Hut
-Used Car Shop
-Marine Plaza
-City Library
-Square Bank
-Parthenon Museum
-West Central Station
-Camping Village
-Landing Pier
-Smith Club
-Big Hills Park
*7. Crazy Box*
1.1- Crazy Jump
Limit Cut and Crazy Dash all the way to the bottom of the ramp. You must
jump 150 yards to pass.
1.2- Crazy Flag
Do a Crazy Back Drift to spin around 180 degrees since the flag is
behind you. And Limit Cut and Crazy Dash all the way to the end.
1.3- Crazy Balloons
Drive around the field and pop all twenty of the ballons within the time
limit to complete.
1.S- Crazy Bowling
You must knock down 70 bowling pins to complete. Crazy Dash and Crazy
Drift to Knock them all down.
2.1- Crazy Drift
You must Crazy Drift for a 15 hit combo within the time limit to pass
this game.
2.2- Crazy Turn
Crazy Dash to the turn, then do a Crazy Drift around the turn, then
another dash when coming out of the turn.
2.3- Crazy Bound
Just follow the arrows when you jump off the ramp. Make sure to not fall
off of them and crazy dash all the way through.
2.S- Crazy ZigZag
Take the customer to the end of the platforms by following the arrows on
the ramps. Make sure to not fall in the water to pass.
3.1- Crazy Rush
You need to drop off 5 different customers to their dropoff points. Make
sure you face them right or you will lose alot of time.
3.2- Crazy Jam
Deliver 3 customers to their destination points but watch out for the
traffic. Don't Crazy Dash, it will only slow you down.
3.3- Crazy Pole
Drop off your customer on the side of the pole and another customer will
hop in take them to their destination to win.
3.S- Crazy ZigZag 2
You must drop off each customer that is in your car to their
destination. Most of them are on the edge of the platform so drive
4.1- Crazy Through
You must get a 30 through combo to complete. Do not hit a car or you'll
lose your combo.
4.2- Crazy Parking
Take your customers through the parking garage. Be sure not to touch
4.3- Crazy Party
You need to drop off seven people to the end. Use the Crazy Dash and
Limit Cut to win.
Send in your questions.
*9. Secrets*
Disable arrow indicators
Before the character selection screen appears, hold R + Start. If you
entered the code correctly, the message "No Arrows"
will appear in the lower left corner.
Disable destination indicator
Before the character selection screen appears, hold L + Start. If you
entered the code correctly, the message "No Destination
Mark" will appear in the lower left corner.
Expert mode
Before the character selection screen appears, hold L + R + Start. If
you entered the code correctly, the word "Expert" will
appear in the lower left corner. No stop or arrow indicators will appear
in this mode.
Special Taxi
At the character selection screen, quickly press L, R, L, R, L, R or L +
R, L + R, L + R. Then, select a character to drive a
bike instead of a taxi. Alternatively, complete all sixteen Crazy Box
levels to unlock the Special Taxi for each character,
which is selectable in crazy box, arcade, or original modes. To select
the bike in crazy box mode, scroll to the right of Gus at
the character selection screen. To select the bike in arcade or original
mode, press Up at the character selection screen.
Another Day mode
At the character selection screen, press R, then hold R while choosing a
driver. If you entered the code correctly, the message
"Another Day" will appear. This mode modifies various positions in the
Alternate display
Begin a game in arcade or original mode. Then, press B on controller
three to switch the display to a first person
perspective. Press Y on controller three to change to another camera
angle. Press X(5) on controller three to view a
speedometer. Press A on controller three to reset the display.
*10. Credits*
Gamefaqs.com- For hosting my faq
IGN- Help with the crazy box area.
Cheatcc.com- For the cheat codes.
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A good fit is easier than ever to find when shopping for a booster seat. This year a record 31 seats have been designated BEST BETs by the Institute. They include an inflatable booster, a NASCAR-themed booster, boosters with cup holders and pivoting armrests, and plain vanilla boosters. Prices range from under $15 to several hundred dollars.
All of them, however, have one thing in common: They correctly position a vehicle safety belt on a typical 4 to 8 year-old in almost any car, minivan, or SUV. No matter what extras a seat may offer, the ability to provide proper fit is the essential feature that a booster must have.
In addition to the BEST BETs, another 5 seats are GOOD BETs, meaning they provide acceptable belt fit in most vehicles. Six boosters are not recommended because they don't provide proper belt fit, and consumers are advised to avoid them.
In all, the Institute evaluated 62 booster models. Twenty-one of them show up twice in the lists. These are dual-use seats, which can work as highback or backless boosters. In the ratings, each dual-use model is considered to be 2 separate boosters for a total of 83 seats evaluated, 11 more than last year.
The biggest group of boosters falls into a middle category, designated "check fit." These 41 seats may provide good fit for some children in some vehicles, but not as many as GOOD BETs or BEST BETs. Parents are advised to make sure the lap belt lies flat across a child's upper thighs and the shoulder belt crosses snugly over the middle of the shoulder. If not, a different seat is needed.
The focus of the Institute's ratings is belt fit, not crash performance, and no crash tests are conducted as part of the evaluation. To assess belt fit, engineers use a test dummy representing an average-size 6 year-old. They measure how lap and shoulder belts fit the dummy in each booster under 4 conditions representing the range of belt configurations in real-world vehicles.
Boosters have improved a lot in recent years. In 2008, the first year the Institute published its evaluations, there were 10 BEST BETs. That fell to 9 in 2009 but soared to 21 last year after manufacturers began using Institute test protocols as they designed and updated seats (see Status Report special issue: booster seats, Oct. 1, 2008, "Which booster is best for me?" Dec. 22, 2009, and "More boosters earn top ratings for belt fit, but most still don't," Sept. 8, 2010).
"Just 4 years into our ratings program, parents have a wide variety of top-rated seats to choose from," says Anne McCartt, the Institute's senior vice president for research. "Still, boosters that don't consistently provide good belt fit outnumber the ones that do, so consumers need to keep paying attention to this issue."
One thing consumers need to be aware of is that most dual-use boosters have different ratings for each mode. For example, 14 dual-use boosters are BEST BETs or GOOD BETs in highback mode but are designated check fit in backless mode. For one seat, the Evenflo Big Kid Sport, the opposite is true: It's a BEST BET in backless mode and a check fit in highback mode.
The Harmony Dreamtime remains the only dual-use booster that's a BEST BET in both modes, while the Combi Kobuk Air Thru is a GOOD BET in both modes.
A notable newcomer to the BEST BET list is the inflatable BubbleBum, marketed for vacations and car pools. It inflates by blowing into a valve at the seat's back (see sidebar).
Several of the highbacks on the BEST BET list claim to provide enhanced protection in a side crash through the use of deeper side walls, special padding, or other technology. Safety 1st, for example, touts its "Air Protect" system on the Boost Air Protect and S1 Rümi Air seats. The system's cushions release air upon impact to minimize forces on a child's head.
Such enhancements, however, don't affect the Institute's ratings, which are based solely on belt fit. It's not known to what extent side-protection systems on boosters are effective in real-world crashes.
Among booster manufacturers, Harmony Juvenile Products continues to be a standout. All 5 of the seats the Canadian company currently makes, counting the Dreamtime in both modes, are BEST BETs. The company is discontinuing the dual-use Baby Armor, which was a BEST BET in highback mode but not recommended in backless mode.
Good fit
Poor fit
For boosters, it's all about fit.Boosters elevate children and position safety belts so the belts will fit them better. The lap belt should lie flat and on top of a child's upper thighs, not higher up on the abdomen. The shoulder belt should fit across the middle of a child's shoulder. If it falls off the shoulder or rests on the neck, a child might move the belt behind the back or under an arm.
Diono, which recently changed its name from Sunshine Kids, bumped an existing seat, the Monterey, from check fit to BEST BET by changing the shoulder belt guide. The new ranking applies when the dual-use seat is used in highback mode. The booster remains a check fit in backless mode. Consumers should look for Montereys manufactured after July 2011 to ensure they are getting the newer version.
Meanwhile, the Evenflo Symphony 65, which has been a GOOD BET since 2009, now has a sister seat, the Symphony 65 e3. It has a slightly different shoulder belt guide, and that makes enough of a difference to make it a BEST BET.
"Booster manufacturers often use similar names for different seats or, in the case of the redesigned Monterey, even the same names," McCartt says. "It's important for consumers to look at model numbers and manufacture dates when consulting our ratings."
Telling different seats apart can be even harder with boosters made by Graco. The company has multiple versions of some boosters, which for the most part differ only in the amount of padding. That small difference can sometimes affect belt fit.
"With Graco seats, different fabric patterns sometimes are the only clue beyond the model numbers that you're dealing with two different seats," McCartt says.
The Institute's current year booster ratings include model numbers of the exact seats tested.
The BubbleBum, the first inflatable seat tested by the Institute and a BEST BET, provides a solution for traveling and car pools.
2011 booster seat ratings
Not recommended
Check fitThese boosters may provide adequate belt fit for some kids in some vehicles.
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When Cristiana DiPietro put a call out for submissions to the International Monarch Film Festival, filmmakers from around the world responded. After whittling down the entries to 22 films from Germany, Thailand, France, Canada and throughout the U.S., she added nine titles from Monterey County filmmakers.
"We are really adamant about helping the local filmmaking community out," said DiPietro, a Pacific Grove resident and owner of the nonprofit film festival, now in its second year. "They'll be able to see their films on the big screen, which is what they were intended for."
The International Monarch Film Festival will screen its 31 movies, documentaries and short films on Wednesday and Thursday at Lighthouse Cinemas, 525 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove. Tickets range from $5 for an individual short to $25 for an all-day pass.
Films include "Extraordinary Ord" by local filmmaker Eric Palmer, about the 1994 closing of the Fort Ord Army base in Seaside and the present-day struggle over its future; "The Fight for Water: A Farm Worker Struggle" by Juan Oseguera, which documents the human impact an environmental decision had on a farming community in the heart of the Central Valley when its water supply was shut off; and "Butterfly Stories" by Christoph Schuch, billed as a witty road trip along the butterfly trail from Chicago to the highlands of Mexico, including the spectacular monarch migration.
"It culminates with the main star in Mexico, where all the other monarch butterflies — that come from here and wherever else they come from — meet and start their families," DiPietro said. "I wanted to put the film in because it was beautifully done and features one of our local stars, the monarch butterfly."
DiPietro has had help bringing together the festival from her marketing manager, Karen Ottinger, and her husband, Matthew Kalamane, whom she met in seventh grade at Pacific Grove Middle School.
As an independent film producer — her film "Zero Dark Dirty" is set to be released in 2014 — DiPietro is familiar with the film festival circuit and the difficulties filmmakers face in finding a distributor or simply getting their work to a screen. In addition to bringing interesting films to the Peninsula, she hopes to open doors for local filmmakers.
"One of the things I'm doing with the festival's 'Locals Corner' is to give filmmakers a place that doesn't cost them a penny to show their films. As a producer, I know how hard and expensive it is to ... get your film playing for a premiere or just a screening. It's very hard to do and time-consuming, and can be very expensive."
It is also an opportunity for local filmmakers to connect with colleagues from around the world to talk shop and learn about taking their next steps into film distribution, she said.
The festival has all four screens at the Lighthouse Cinemas booked, enough room for about 400 or so moviegoers.
"Any time that you can get people together to celebrate independent films, it's awesome," DiPietro said.
Local films playing at the International Monarch Film Festival
The International Monarch Film Festival includes these nine titles by local filmmakers
"Dust" by Shane Book
"Extraordinary Ord" by Eric Palmer
"Monarch Movement" by Robert Pacelli
"Posey" by Billy DaMota
"The Bikini Shop" by Ami-Sue Lawless
"The Right Regrets" by Ralph Senensky
"The Song" by Marwan Hussein
"The People Watcher" by Matthew DiPietro
"What Makes Us Human" by Kellen Gibbs
Local films playing at the International Monarch Film Festival
The International Monarch Film Festival includes these nine titles by local filmmakers


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Chris Roberson's Monkeybrain Comics adds "destroying the environment" to its already lofty goal of "ruining the print comics industry with widely available, reasonably priced digital comics."
Source: Press Release
The Outhouse applauded last year when popular writer Chris Roberson left DC Comics in protest of their treatment of comics legend and skilled wizard Alan Dumblemoore to start his own all-digital comic book company, Monkeybrain. We're big fans of the company, and not just because we appreciate projects that are motivated by revenge or because we want to see the antiquated print model for books and comics go the way of the dinosaurs. We like Monkeybrain because they make damn good comics and they sell them at very reasonable prices on Comixology.
Today, IDW sent us a press release announcing that they will be collecting Monkeybrain's comics and publishing print editions, starting with Roberson and artist Dennis Culver's Edison Rex in June, followed shortly thereafter by the fantastic Amelia Cole and the Unknown World, Red Light Properties, Wander, and more. As much as we love Monkeybrain and are happy for their success, we do have to admit we're mildly worried that the comics will lose their elitist, hipster charm when they can be purchased willy nilly by all the paper-comic-reading bourgeois scum at regular old local comic shops. Nevertheless, we're trying to keep an open mind.
After all, there's a bright side to this. While digital comics are clearly the future, and while the availability of them at anything less than ridiculously inflated prices will surely result in the destruction of the comic industry as we know it, or so many physical retailers would have us believe, it may be that Monkeybrain dipping their toes into the world of print will speed things along. After all, killing pulping trees by the thousands to make paper to print funny books that could much more effectively be viewed on a tablet screen will only hasten the eventual depletion of the resource, which means people will have no choice but to enter the 21st century and start reading on a digital device.
Well, either that, or DC head honcho Dan Didio will have to share his secret personal method of printing comics on the hides of baby seals he personally bludgeoned to death with a sack full of Watchmen toasters during his last expedition to the North Pole. Allegedly.
In the long run, no one is going to miss the trees. Trees are widely regarded as the stupidest of all large plant-life, and they serve no real purpose beyond being a handy surface to scratch your back with if you happen to be a bear. And maybe their deaths will have some meaning, as they could lead to more people finding out how awesome Monkeybrain Comics are.
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Melanie Martinez was in the bottom three of 'The Voice' live results show last week, but her coach Adam Levine decided to save her and share her with the world one more time. He could've just thrown a Minnie Mouse in our face, but whatevs.
Young the Giant's 'Cough Syrup' was her song of choice, because the song talked about being left out, and that's how she often felt growing up. And wouldn't ya know, once a full brunette, Cruella DeVille was the inspiration behind her two-toned hair style.
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Songtape Collection
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The early VCR vids were often shared with other fans on videotape as copies from the originals.
Most often the vids were compiled into a single videotape as part of a convention vid show (see Contapes) and then sold to the attendees. However, when a vidder (or a vidding group) had enough videos, they would create their own songtape collection and distribute it themselves.
Most vidders, aware of the legal underpinnings behind the fair use defense made certain to charge only production costs (the costs of the tape and postage). A smaller number chose only trade videotapes as a method of lowering any possible objections to vidding. On occasion, however, a vidder would ask for more than production costs, pointing out that the costs of producing a vid were much higher than just a videotape. Editing VCRs were expensive and acquiring source videotape added to the expense. In most cases, the vidding community rejected those arguments by pointing out that most fan activities (fanzines, fan art etc.) never came even close to covering all the costs.
Tape quality was important to many vidders and offering their vids directly to fellow fans via their own 'duping' (or copying process) was one way of ensuring that their vids were shown at their best. This was important because unlike the digital copying process of today, analog videotapes would degrade with every copy. A 3rd or 4th 'generation' (or copy) videotape was often unwatchable, with the people reduced to fuzzy blobs and the sound tinny and distorted.
From On the Double #34 (1996), a fan named JAM says:
- "ATTN SONGTAPE FANS!! Please note that all music videos with piano logo titles are done by 'JAM1, including S&H vids & a multi media called 'Move This'. Nth gen copies are being passed around (which are barely watchable) with no idea who did them. Please, do not copy! This is bootlegging my work!!"
However, fans in other countries where the TV shows didn't air (or not yet, or not in English), often copied the episodes for each other and the tapes usually included as many episodes as would fit on a tape because postage was expensive and fans sometimes shared these costs and the cost for converting a master tape from NTSC to PAL. The people receiving copies of copies of the master tape usually had no idea where the episodes originally came from (people placed ads in genre magazines, asking for copies of this or that season of The X-Files, offering Highlander in return, etc.) and the fans who copied their own copies for fellow fans often included vids, bloopers and interviews from other sources to fill up every free second of tape with something fannish. Without title credits, these vids were as anonymous as the episode sources and few vids on these copied tapes came with credits. Copying these vids together with the source material was quite common in the 1990s.
Another drawback to using videocassette tapes as a method of distributing fanvids is their susceptibility to heat. This copy of Reflected Images, found in 2015, is badly warped.
Songvid Collections on Videocasette
Songtape collections started out barebone - the videotape would come inside the manufacturer's videotape box with a simple label and a handwritten playlist. Later collections were more likely to be polished, offering color covers and booklets that explained the creative process behind each vid. (This level of increased polish took place inside the box as well -- early vid collections rarely had title credits; later collections virtually all did.) Songtape collections were advertised by word of mouth and via flyers at conventions. Occasionally they were listed in adzines for sale.
Example of a handwritten songtape playlist from the Dargelos & Pam Perry Songtape. Note that many of the titles are guesses, often only a few words randomly pulled from the song, with no vidder credits.
more elaborate songtape, Media Cannibals, which included a booklet with extensive commentary about the creation of each vid (2000/2001)
A colored video sleeve with a customized label for a Dark Shadows songtape collection
this songtape flyer for DJ Driscoll's Songtapes highlights the fact that many of the vids won awards at fan run conventions
In later years, customized videocassette cases became possible. This is a hand printed cover for the Connexions 2001 vid show
Another example of a professional looking videocassette cover for the Reflected Images songvid collection
sample inside page of the booklet that accompanied the Reflected Images videotape. The booklet contained both the lyrics and brief vidder notes about each vid
Songvid Collections on DVD
As vidders moved to digital vidding in the early 2000s, songvid collections were offered on DVD. These early homemade DVDs were sometimes incompatible with computer and DVD manufacturers efforts to force the consumer market to adopt a specific DVD format (DVD-R or DVD+R). As a result many DVDs included warnings such as:
- "This homemade DVD is made on a Region 1 DVD-R Disc. Please make certain your DVD player can play Region 1 DVD-Rs. Most new standalone DVD players are compatible with DVD-R Discs, but you can check yours at your manufacturer's website. Audio and video quality on homemade DVD-Rs will also vary from DVD player to player. These vids were originally created on VCRs in the 1990s and transferred to DVD." (~from Morgan Dawn's DVD vol. 1).
As DVD authoring technology became more sophisticated and more accessible, the early bare bones DVDs were replaced by DVDs with printed disc covers and booklets (see examples below). Some vidders, in an effort to promote sustainability, offered their DVDs using recycled materials (see Laura Shapiro's In The Rough below). Interestingly, even though the DVD duplication created no video quality loss, some vidders still put limits on both the distribution and duplication of their work. The reasons against distribution without the vidder's permission were complex, but the main focus was ensuring that the vids did not come to the attention of the video or music copyright holders.
Today, fewer vid collections are being offered in physical format as most vidders prefer to showcase their vids via file downloads and on streaming video websites. A number of the vidders that still create DVD vid collections also offer the DVD encoded files as downloads along with a printable pdf DVD cover case. The video file is burned onto DVD and the DVD case cover is printed at home by the downloader, thereby keeping distribution costs to a minimum.
cover of Laura Shapiro's Telling Deeper songvid collection on DVD, sized to fit a CD case, design by Laura Shapiro (2005)
color printing on DVD label, something that was not available to most vidders,
Telling Deeper
in an effort to be environmentally friendly, a combination DVD sleeve and cover made of recyled material,
In The Rough
by Laura Shapiro (2009)
cover sized to fit a DVD case, design by
Morgan Dawn (2006)
booklet that accompanied DVD containing commentary about the vids,
Telling Deeper
cover of bradcpu's
fan vid collection
cover of Obsessive24's 2009 DVD collection which included a taped vidder's profile
Audio Tapes
The phrase songtapes also has another historical meaning. It was occasionally applied to early fanmixes, or collections of songs distributed on audio cassette. In many ways, these collections were like "proto-vids". The collection of songs were supposed to evoke a particular fandom or relationship. Sometimes they would come with detailed notes of explanation. Sometimes they were circulated along with stories; fans were supposed to listen to the music as you read the story.
Some Early Fan Reactions
- (1980): "They made 20 songs videos by Z-Con 2, in the Fall of 1980. They carefully put the gen on one tape and the 'underground' slash on a different tape. The night before the con, Diana decided that they needed more credits. By now, they had found out that if one picture was paused, then the action scene they edited after it looked okay. Diana and Kendra spent the con inviting people into their room to share their *crack* i.e. vids. They blew everyone away - no one had seen anything like that. They spent the whole con showing their work over and over, and explaining how they did it." [1]
- (1981) "The con was underway. Rooms filled with laughter and cigarette smoke. Wine flowed with love. Zines and stories and song tapes took our time… a song tape was born. The reward was given this year as we watch the results of your hours of hard work. 'What I Did for Love.' 'Another One Bits the Dust.' 'Just to Feel this Love.' 'Forget Your Troubles', 'C'mon Get Happy.'"… [2] Give yourself a hand, Ladies. Your work deserves more. [3]
- (1989) "Some people do not like songtapes because they do not transfer well to the written page. But obviously a lot of people do like them, because they do not translate to the written word. But obviously a lot of people do like them, because that's what gained us the most contributions." [4]
- (1989) "I'm also a sucker for silly and my friends and I have discovered that country western songs are best for this. There is something so incongruous about two British agents running through the streets of London to the twang of "Your Cheatin' Heart" that makes me chuckle. Of course, there are quite a few contemporary country songs that have perfect lyrics for our boys. But I don't know if anyone would take them seriously. I also harbor a secret desire to do a song tape for B and D with show tunes. You know, Broadway belters. I think it would be great. It reminds me af that funny songtape someone did for S&H many years ago; it had snippets of songs over short scenes and one of my favorites was Hutch in the shower washing his hair from Fatal Charm" to the sounds of "I'm Gonna Wash that Man Right Outta My Hair" from South Pacific." [5]
- (1989) "The "songtapes" leave me cold. I have seen only one or two in any fandom that I've liked. In general, I think it has to do with being visually oriented, so that the words to a song, printed on a page, just don't spark my imagination. Perhaps if Cold Fish were on audio tape, now .... " [6]
- (1989) "Carrying on with our theme of wishful thinking, this column [in Cold Fish and Stale Chips] could also be called "Songtapes I'd like to see, but don't have the Time, Equipment, Patience to do myself". Again, ideas are solicited from you for future columns. These can be as simple as a song title, or as complicated as a line by line description of which scenes you'd use for what." [7]
- (1997) "I know songtape ideas don't get their total "feel" across on the written page --(otherwise why do tapes?)-- because of voice inflection, mood of the music, instrumental breaks, and a thousand other reasons. But we do our best." [8]
- (1997) A fan at Closet Con writes: "On Friday night [P R] presented a selection of K/S music videos, many of which I hadn't seen before. They were wonderful! As many of you may know, I am a real connoisseur of K/S songtapes. I crave them, cherish them, play them, memorize them, and require frequent injections to support my habit!" [9]
- (1998) A fan discussed songtapes, especially the ones by Chris Soto and Mary Van Deusen: "Likewise, there are some Mary van Deusen tapes that are absolute classics. What do you think of trying to get permission from her and compile a few hours and selling them, at cost and a little extra for time, to anyone who wants them? And there are others, like the Jersey Trek tapes, so clever and funny and moving, and those we discovered last summer from a very unassuming fan who doesn't want her name mentioned, but who made some fantastic songtapes including one with the Kirk and Spock dolls undressing each other on the bridge." [10]
- ↑ Morgan's note's are from a 2008 panel on vidding history at Vividcon led by Kandy Fong and Sandy Hereld
- ↑ Many of these vids appear on The Texas Tape.
- ↑ from S and H #28 (December 1981)
- ↑ from Cold Fish and Stale Chips #2 (1989)
- ↑ from Cold Fish and Stale Chips #2 (1989)
- ↑ from Cold Fish and Stale Chips #2 (1989)
- ↑ from Cold Fish and Stale Chips #1 (1989)
- ↑ from Cold Fish and Stale Chips #2 (1989)
- ↑ from The K/S Press #13 (1997)
- ↑ from The K/S Press #18 (1998)


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of the Year 2000 is the series of
Synods begun after the Second Vatican Council: general Synods together
with continental, regional, national and diocesan Synods. The theme
underlying them all is evangelization,
or rather the new evangelization, the foundations of which were laid
down in the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi of Pope Paul
VI, issued in 1975 following the Third General Assembly of the Synod of
Bishops. These Synods themselves are part of the new evangelization: they
were born of the Second Vatican Council's vision of the Church. They open up
broad areas for the participation of the laity, whose specific
responsibilities in the Church they define. They are an expression of the
strength which Christ has given to the entire People of God, making it a
sharer in his own Messianic mission as Prophet, Priest and King. Very
eloquent in this regard are the statements of the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Gentium. The preparation for the Jubilee Year 2000 is thus taking place
throughout the whole Church, on the universal and local levels, giving
her a new awareness of the salvific mission she has received from Christ.
This awareness is particularly evident in the Post-Synodal Exhortations
devoted to the mission of the laity, the formation of priests, catechesis,
the family, the value of penance and reconciliation in the life of the
Church and of humanity in general, as well as in the forth coming one to be
devoted to the consecrated life.
22. Special tasks and responsibilities with
regard to the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 belong to the ministry of the Bishop of Rome. In
a certain sense, all the Popes of the past century have prepared for this
Jubilee. With his programme to renew all things in Christ, Saint Pius X
tried to forestall the tragic developments which arose from the
international situation at the beginning of this century. The Church was
aware of her duty to act decisively to promote and defend the basic values
of peace and justice in the face of contrary tendencies in our time. The
Popes of the period before the Council acted with firm commitment, each in
his own way: Benedict XV found himself faced with the tragedy of the First
World War; Pius XI had to contend with the threats of totalitarian systems
or systems which did not respect human freedom in Germany, in Russia, in
Italy, in Spain, and even earlier still in Mexico. Pius XII took steps to
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dignity at the time of the Second World War. He also provided enlightened
guidelines for the birth of a new world order after the fall of the previous
political systems.
Furthermore, in the course of this century
the Popes, following in the footsteps of Leo XIII, systematically developed
the themes of Catholic social doctrine, expounding the characteristics of a just system in
the area of relations between labour and capital. We may recall the
Encyclical Quadragesimo Anno of Pius XI, the numerous interventions
of Pius XII, the Encyclicals Mater et Magistra and Pacem in Terris
of John XXIII, the Encyclical Populorum Progressio and the
Apostolic Letter Octogesima Adveniens of Paul VI. I too have
frequently dealt with this subject: I specifically devoted the Encyclical Laborem
Exercens to the importance of human labour, while in
Centesimus Annus I wished to reaffirm the relevance, one hundred
years later, of the doctrine presented in Rerum Novarum. In my
Encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis I had earlier offered a
systematic reformulation of the Church's entire social doctrine against the
background of the East-West confrontation and the danger of nuclear war. The
two elements of the Church's social doctrine—the safeguarding of
human dignity and rights in the sphere of a just relation between labour
and capital and the promotion of peace—were closely joined in this
text. The Papal Messages of 1 January each year, begun in 1968 in the
pontificate of Paul VI, are also meant to serve the cause of peace.
23. Since the publication of the very first
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up to it be lived as "a new Advent".(9) This theme has since
reappeared many times, and was dwelt upon at length in the Encyclical Dominum
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millenarianism, as occurred in some quarters at the end of the first
millennium; rather, it is aimed at an
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Buried amid a far-ranging list of rededicated highways, proposed initiatives to improve the New Haven Line, and other loose ends packed in the transportation bill unanimously passed last week was a single sentence to dedicate fuel taxes and other revenue solely for transportation projects.
State Rep. Gerald Fox, D-Stamford, said the provision to protect the state's Special Transportation Fund from being raided for general government costs is a critical commitment toward tackling billions of needed rail and highway bridge replacement work, expanding rail service and parking along the New Haven Line, and other large-scale needs.
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The use of the funds coincides with a previously scheduled boost to the state's petroleum gross receipts tax from 7 percent to 8.1 percent, further boosting the combined local, state and federal gas taxes to more than 60 cents a gallon, Scribner said.
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State Rep. Gail Lavielle, R-Wilton, said that the establishment of a transportation lockbox is long overdue, given the state's ongoing series of rail fare increases through 2018 and a long list of important but costly improvements, like a $300 million project to electrify the Danbury branch line.
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Service d'Equipement Beaudry inc is a company servicing (repairs and sells) concession equipment, such as roller grills, nacho warmers and mainly popcorn machines.
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We will launch in the next few months! We need a logo that will go on our website, business cards, letter head, etc.
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- 'Counselling' spelt with 2 Ls.
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"They are not trash," Benz said back to the television. "Those women are treasures."
Someone had to take action, Benz thought. This wasn't a report from a distant location. It was happening in her hometown of Jackson, Miss. She bowed her head and prayed for God to send someone. She hadn't yet realized that God would choose to use her, a "senior citizen," to show hundreds of women and children that they are treasures in His eyes.
Now 15 years later, Benz's prison and after-care ministry, Buried Treasures Home, continues to impact lives. Last October, the White House presented her with a Point of Light Award. The award honors individuals who strive to improve their community by responding to a need through volunteer service.
"I just stand here and weep," said the 71-year-old Benz, a member of First Baptist Church of Jackson, as she spoke about the award. "I've done nothing great. I just did what God called me to do … visit the prison to tell the women that they are treasured by God."
What started out as a one-time visit to the local correctional facility in 1999 turned into a daily routine of doling out hugs, lending a listening ear and teaching about God's forgiveness and love. Benz's passion for the women was so contagious that it didn't take long for her husband Dick to join in on the visits.
Soon, an officer asked the couple if they'd consider taking in one of the girls. The woman had been in and out of 40 rehab centers and didn't have anywhere to turn. The Benzes had heard this type of story over and over. When the women left prison, they most often returned to the broken lifestyle that landed them there in the first place. The couple knew this cycle had to be broken, so they offered their four empty bedrooms to God and began an after-care ministry.
"That first woman didn't stay long, just two weeks. Then she was back on the street and landed in jail again," Dick remembered, adding that she returned five years later and completed their ministry program.
"We learned right off the bat that this ministry is hard and doesn't always work. We try to remember that it is up to the women to change their lives. God just called us to be here."
The after-care ministry focuses on discipleship and learning what it means to be treasured. Because so many women have no place to go after being released, Buried Treasures Home gives women and their children a place to live for up to a year. During that time, women receive opportunities to earn their GEDs, enroll at nearby community college, study the Bible and reintegrate into society.
As more and more women wanted to be a part of Buried Treasures Home, the ministry expanded from one house to multiple cottages sitting on a 65-acre plot of land. Benz explained that the women don't just have a "bed but a family of God" when they come to the home. The women learn to be women of God and what it means to be part of a healthy family.
The Benzes estimated that only 20 percent of the women who register for the yearlong after-care ministry actually complete the program. Some stay for lunch and then return to the streets. But they never leave Benz's heart. The names of every woman who walks through the doorway are meticulously recorded in her Bible and prayed for each day.
Others, like Shelly, graduated from the program and integrated back into the community. She now volunteers her time to help others break out of the prison cycle and create their own success stories. Shelly said she believes the time that the Benzes invested in her while she was incarcerated made a difference in her life. They never gave up on her.
"Buried Treasures and God's faithful servants have nurtured me over the years, and have helped me to put my feet on the path that the Lord desired for me," Shelly said. "Buried Treasures has given so much to the incarcerated world these past 15 years…. They are making a difference by showing God's love."
"Folks seem drawn to the property, dubbed over and over again as 'God's country.' It's said by many that you feel God's presence just as soon as you step foot on the grounds," Stegall, a member of First Baptist Church, said. "As a church, we are passionate about God's ability to transform lives through the Buried Treasures ministry, whether on the serving or receiving end of the ministry."
As the community gives to Buried Treasures Home, the women make a point of giving back. Benz explained the women are "missionaries" to the community. More than 300 children of incarcerated parents are helped each year with school supplies, clothing and Christmas gifts. There's even a community food pantry located at the home. The women help give out the food and keep the pantry filled.
"These women know what it's like to be hungry and in need," Benz said, noting that the women at the home normally have a deep sense of compassion. "They take food out to the cars and sit and talk with people about God's love. Because they understand, there is an openness that isn't there for me.
"We are in the business of bringing people to Christ and showing how they are treasured," she said. "We cry out in joy when that message takes off and grows in the heart of others. That's the real success."
For more information about the Buried Treasures Home, go to http://www.buriedtreasureshome.com/index.htm
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Oracle Identity Manager 11g incorporates several clustering technologies in order to ensure high-availability across its different components. Several of these technologies use multicast to discover other cluster nodes on the same subnet. For testing and development purposes, it is common to have multiple distinct OIM environments co-existing on the same subnet. In that scenario, it is essential that the distinct environments utilise separate multicast addresses, so that they do not talk to each other – if they do, they will confuse one another, and many things can go wrong. This problem is less common with production environments, since best practice dictates that the production environment should be on a separate subnet from development and test, and multicast traffic cannot transverse subnet boundaries without special configuration.
Overview of OIM Clustering
Here's a rough diagram of the clustering components inside OIM:
Quartz Scheduler Cluster
Data Caching Cluster
Application Server Cluster
There are three basic layers of clustering in OIM:
- Application Server Clustering: This is the clustering layer of the underlying Java EE Application Server (Oracle WebLogic or IBM WebSphere). This is responsible for replication of the JNDI tree, EJBs, HTTP sessions, etc.
- Data Caching: This provides in-memory caching of data to improve performance, while ensuring that database updates made on one node are propagated promptly to the others. OIM uses OSCache (OpenSymphony Cache) as the underlying technology for this.
- Scheduler Clustering: This is used to ensure that in a cluster each execution of a scheduled job only runs on one node. Otherwise, if a job is scheduled to start at 9am, every node in the cluster might try to start it at the same time, resulting in multiple simultaneous executions of that job
Clustering layers present in older versions only
- In OIM 11gR1, and 11gR2 base release, OIM used EclipseLink data caching, which included its own multicast clustering layer. From OIM 188.8.131.52.0 onwards, while EclipseLink is still being used for data access, its caching features are no longer used, so this form of multicast clustering is no longer present.
- As well as using JGroups for OSCache, OIM 9.x also used JGroups for a couple of additional functions (forcibly stopping scheduled tasks and diagnostic dashboard JMS test.) In OIM 11g, JGroups is now used for OSCache only.
Underlying technologies used
Different clustering components in OIM use different technologies:
|Application Server Cluster
|Unicast or Multicast
|Consult Application Server documentation:
(OIM 126.96.36.199.x and earlier only)
|Multicast is only used to find other nodes in the cluster. With WLS, JNDI connections are opened between the nodes for the cache coordination traffic. On WebSphere, RMI is used instead.
|Quartz Scheduler
|Unlike other clustering components, Quartz does not use direct network communication between the nodes. Database tables are used for inter-cluster communication
Relevant Configuration Settings
I'm only going to talk about the OIM-specific clustering settings here. So I won't go into the configuration of the WebLogic/WebSphere clustering layer, only the data cache and scheduler clustering layers. All configuration relevant to these can be found in the /db/oim-config.xml file in MDS. So let's discuss the settings in this file which are relevant to clustering.
|<cacheConfig clustered="…">
|Must be set to true in a clustered install, and false for a single-instance install. This controls whether OSCache operates in a clustered mode.
|<cacheConfig>/<xLCacheProviderProps multicastAddress="">
|Multicast address which is used for OSCache. (Also used by EclipseLink in versions 18.104.22.168.x and earlier; the same address is used for both.) Make sure this address is unique for each distinct OIM environment on the same subnet.
|Can be used to manually override JGroups configuration used by OSCache. Not recommended.
|<schedulerConfig clustered="…">
|Must be set to true in a clustered install, and false for a single-instance install.
|<schedulerConfig multicastAddress="…">
|In OIM 9.x, JGroups was used to forcibly stop jobs. In OIM 11g, a different mechanism is used instead. This configuration setting is a left-over from OIM 9.x, and is now ignored. However, to avoid confusion, it is recommended to set this to the same multicastAddress as the xLCacheProviderProps above.
|In a clustered install, should be set to clustered; in a single instance, should be set to simple. This is used to control whether EclipseLink operates in a clustered mode.
|As its name implies, this is the username used by OIM to login to SOA. However, in OIM 184.108.40.206.0 and earlier, it also serves an additional purpose – on WebLogic, this username is used by EclipseLink clustering for inter-node communication. By default, this is weblogic; if you have renamed the weblogic user, you must change it; you are free to use another user if you wish, so long as they are a member of the Administrators group. (On WebSphere, this user is used for OIM-SOA integration only, not for EclipseLink clustering.)To change this, see "2.6 Optional: Updating the WebLogic Administrator Server User Name in Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control (OIM Only)". (If step 11 in those steps gives you a permissions error, just skip that step.)
|This is the name of the CSF Credential which stores the password for the <SOAConfig> user. You should never change this setting in oim-config.xml from its default of SOAAdminPassword, but you will need to change the corresponding CSF entry whenever you change that user's password.
What can go wrong
As I've mentioned, it is important that you have the correct clustering configuration for your environment. If you do not, many things can go wrong. I don't propose to provide an exhaustive list of potential problems in this blog post, but just give one example I recently encountered at a customer site.
This customer was preparing to go live with Oracle Identity Manager 22.214.171.124. As part of their pre-production activities, they needed to document and test the procedure for periodic change of the weblogic password. They began by their testing by changing the weblogic password in one of their development environments. Restarting the OIM managed server, they saw this message multiple times in their WebLogic log: <Authentication of user weblogic failed because of invalid password>. They also found that the WEBLOGIC user in OIM was locked.
What went wrong here? Well, several things were wrong in this environment:
- They had <SOAConfig>/<username> set to weblogic, but they had not updated the SOAAdminPassword credential in CSF to the new weblogic password. This customer does not currently use any of the OIM functionality which requires SOA, so they normally leave their SOA server down, including for this test. You would think therefore that the <SOAConfig> would not be relevant to them; but, as I have pointed out above, it is also used for EclipseLink clustering.
- Even though their development environments were single instance installs, they all had <deploymentConfig>/<deploymentMode> set to cluster instead of simple. As a result, EclipseLink clustering was active even though it did not need to be.
- <cacheConfig>/<xLCacheProviderProps multicastAddress=""> was set to the same address in multiple development environments on the same subnet. As a result, even though these environments were meant to be totally separate, they were formed into a single EclipseLink cluster.
So, what would happen, was that this environment (let's call it DEV1) at startup would initialise EclipseLink clustering (since <deploymentConfig>/<deploymentMode> is set to cluster.) It would then add itself to the multicast group configured in <cacheConfig>/<xLCacheProviderProps multicastAddress="">. At this point, DEV1 becomes visible to the other development environments (say DEV2 and DEV3). DEV2 tries to login to DEV1 over T3, using the <SOAConfig>/<username> user (weblogic) and the SOAAdminPassword password from CSF. However, the weblogic password having changed, both DEV2 and DEV3 will receive an invalid credential error, and DEV1 will experience <Authentication of user weblogic failed because of invalid password>. Setting <deploymentConfig>/<deploymentMode> to simple resolved this.
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After falling down a flight of stairs and suffering ligament and cartilage damage to a knee during a call, Aquilino decided to change careers, pulling double duty as a firefighter and as a hotwalker for trainer Frank LaBoccetta before taking out his trainer's license in 1977.
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Oburi you think Lost Odyssey is difficult, for me it was easy but a pain in the ass to get the SP needed for the immortals to gain the skill that I wanted them to learn..... I made them learn a shitload of skills I just couldn't stop myself. I am going to start playing Chrono Cross for PS1 since I have never actually finished it. (For those of you who don't know what Chrono Cross is here's a picture)http://shiruva.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/chronocrosscover.jpg
Berserk isn't really "dark fantasy" either. It's plain fantasy
Miura has been very protective of Berserk
The Last Remnant - I went on hiatus for several months, and only got back this past weekend because I had nothing better to do.
Didn't you already beat Silent Hill 5 bob?
Just picked up Left for Dead so me and my freind will prolly beat that shit tonightEDIT--- Nevermind, my 360 just shit the bed with the RROD. i'm depressed
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Goldman Sachs Posts Strong Earnings
Goldman Sachs's first-quarter profit rose 7.2%, a stronger increase than was expected, as the bank continued to report solid revenue from its investment banking and investing and lending arms. Liz Rappaport has details.
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