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Kotaku is just trying to get attention by using guaranteed shitstarter topics lately.Personally, I think they aren't worth the attention.
It's sad how people like Jason Schrier can get a job in gaming journalism. The guy shitposted about video games for years on various gaming forums, all the way back to gamefaqs. He was basically a common troll that had a buddy get him in at Kotaku.
^NES Mega Man box art is awful.
Anyway, does anyone know if the NA version is gonna come with an artbook or not?
And another person opens their mouth without thinking. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=551796
It ain't pretty, but at least Mega Man doesn't look like he's going to fall over from having ridiculously huge biceps / pecs.
As far as I can tell there isn't any pre-order bonus with this game.


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I'm Lydia, the Duchess of Debretts. You may call me "Duchess" or "Her Grace of Debretts" but never "Lady Debretts" - because that would just be wrong. As far as the English Peerage is concerned, there are hard and fast rules which should always be followed. However, not every aspect of writing is so inflexible – at least not in my opinion.
A few years ago I had writer's block. A tragedy had befallen my family and I had a difficult time getting back into the swing of things. I headed off to the RWA Conference that summer, excited about a workshop on brainstorming. I figured that might get me back on the right track. Spark my creativity. Get me writing again.
Boy was I wrong.
Instead of getting something positive from the experience, I got a lesson in hubris, not mine. The presenter asked the audience by a show of hands how many of us were "pantsers", and about half the audience raised their hands, as you'd expect in any group of writers. The presenter then went on to tell us that being a "pantser" was the worst possible thing you could do as a writer.
I'm a "pantser", but I didn't take offense on my behalf. You see, it's hard to tell me anything. I make up my own mind and don't oscillate with direction of the wind. So, it wasn't so much that I had been insulted, but I worried about how many other "pantsers" in the audience thought they were doing something wrong. How many of them went home and tried to change their process because a multi-published author told them to? That, in my mind, is unconscionable.
Every writer has their own process. Some plot. Some don't. Some have to write with peace and quiet. Some need music. Some need to write X number of pages a day. Some just need to write one sentence. Some write when creativity strikes. Some type away on their computers for hours upon hours until they're exhausted. Some are character driven. Some are plot driven. Some have index cards lined across their bedroom floor, the story all mapped out. Some use collages to inspire them. And others use absolutely nothing at all.
And every form is valid.
It drives me crazy to hear people say with all certainty that they have "the" way to do something. There's not just one way. There's a million. And my process might not work for you and yours might not work for me. I would never dream of telling someone they needed to write "my" way, and I'm not about to have someone tell me I have to write "their" way. We're creative animals and we don't fit into cookie-cutter molds.
To me, the most important thing in being a writer is to find what works for you and embrace it. You might take a class on plotting and realize, "Hey, that's great. This is perfect for me. I never would have thought of it." Then again, you might not. My suggestion to anyone starting out in this business is to keep an open mind, figure out what you need in order to write and then do it.
In the end, my writer's block faded away and I was able to create again once my grieving process was over. I'm still a "pantser" and a rather successful one at that. I know who I am as an author. I've embraced my writing process and my style, and I wish the same for every other budding author out there.


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UNC Wilmington Celebrates 31st Annual Business Week
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Wilmington, N.C. - The UNCW Cameron School of Business will hold its 31st Annual Business Week March 19-20 to help prepare students for the realities of the business world.
The 2013 program includes more than 100 sessions with successful alumni and business leaders, who plan to share their knowledge and experience in the areas of accounting, business, entrepreneurship, marketing, information technology and more.
Speakers include: Brett Martin, chief executive officer of Castle Branch; Rand Nickerson, founder of OpinionLab; and Diana Henriques, award-winning investigative reporter and author of The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust.
Henriques is also giving a public lecture at 7:30 p.m., March 20, at the Burney Center. The co-sponsor is the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Tickets for her public lecture are $8 for OLLI members, $10 for the general public, and free for UNCW students, faculty and staff.
At an alumni breakfast on March 20, the Cameron School of Business will recognize the 2013 honorees for Alumni of the Year.
- Robin L. Diehl, Class of 1990
She is the Chief Financial Officer and Director of the Office of Fiscal Management in the N.C. Department of Administration, which administers the budgeting, accounting, payroll and purchasing functions for the N.C. Department of Administration, Office of the Lt. Governor, N.C. Office of State Personnel, the N.C. State Ethics Commission, and the State Board of Elections.
- Jean Matney English, Class of 1996
She is currently the Vice President of IBM Software Demand Marketing. English has executive experience leading global marketing initiatives across information technology solutions, business solutions and currently nine software product divisions, supporting IBM's $25+ billion global software business.
- Bill Mayew, Class of 1997
He is an associate professor of accounting at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Mayew received his Ph.D. in Business Administration (accounting) from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006 and has been on the Fuqua faculty since graduation. He previously worked in accounting and financial reporting assurance at Ernst & Young.
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Gov. LePage of Maine, like a number of other Republican governors, has declined to create a health care exchange for the state. [You can see a chart here that shows what different states are doing on the exchanges.]
What are these exchanges?
When the Affordable Care Act was being crafted in Congress, legislators and the president emulated the model developed by the conservative Heritage Foundation and Republican Gov. Mitt Romney.
Private insurance companies would continue to operate, but they would no longer be able to deny coverage, they would be more heavily regulated, and they could not have as high a rate as profit.
And individuals in the private insurance market (i.e., not those receiving coverage through an employee or government program) could shop for insurance on a site that allowed for easy comparisons of coverage and price.
If you go to the Massachusetts Connector — their health exchange — you can see how it's put together. Here's what their homepage looks like:
Since the creation of Obamacare, other states will have their health exchanges.
Why did the federal government create state exchanges?
It may seem a bit odd that a federal law created state exchanges. However, this was done for several reasons.
Some legislators thought that it would be more politically palatable to those who prize states' rights to have state exchanges rather than one federal exchange. Others believed that the policy would work better if exchanges were closer to the people, and would better enable publicity for the exchanges, aimed at state residents.
However, it turns out that many governors who don't like the ACA have not been won over by the capacity to create a state exchange.
By opting out of the state exchange, their states will have an exchange set up and run by the federal government.
Why didn't LePage consent to a state exchange?
Gov. LePage has never approved of Obamacare. His Republican Attorney General (who will soon be replaced by the new Democratic-controlled Maine Legislature) signed on to a suit that claimed it was unconstitutional.
Thus part of why he is opposed to the exchange is that he just doesn't like the law's approach to health care.
Some months ago, LePage even compared the implementation of the law to actions of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany. Even after he backed down, his comments were highly hyperbolic. This line of argument is basically that Americans' fundamental freedoms and health care are threatened by this health law.
In his letter to federal authorities opting out of the exchange, LePage makes a few more arguments.
One is that the states won't have adequate flexibility to design the exchange and it's just carrying out the federal government's wishes. In fact, there are variations among the exchanges being planned now. For instance, the exchanges' governance structures vary, with some run entirely by a state agency and others incorporating medical providers and insurance company representatives on a governing board.
Another is that there aren't enough specifics about the way the exchanges should work. Yet this hasn't stopped the work of states now creating exchanges.
LePage also says the exchanges will be a fiscal burden and has unanswered legal questions. There are federal grants to help set it up, though.
The Maine Wire, sometimes known for some rather creative lines of press criticism, today provided a clue on the legal claims, when it published a piece by a national group that contended the federally run exchanges don't have the legal right to provide subsidies to individuals buying insurance through the exchanges. This article said GOP governors should not adopt state exchanges so that they could sue to stop them.
By not implementing the state exchange, governors such as Rick Perry in Texas or Bob McDonnell in Virginia are effectively giving employers in those states the standing to sue against the new IRS rule.
In other words, it creates an avenue to fight against the implementation of the law. For employers that do not wish to be under Obamcare's thumb, such a move at least gives them a fighting chance.
But if the exchange is implemented by the states, employers in those states will not have any chance at all to challenge the law.
If courts do rule that federal exchanges in fact do not have the legal authority to disperse the insurance subsidies, the law would effectively be gutted. States that want to gut the employer mandate would be able to do so.
Finally, Gov. LePage claims a state exchange shouldn't be set up because it would be one step toward greater government involvement. As he puts it, "[T]he ACA masquerades as a free-market idea when in reality it is a stepping-stone to a single-payer system." Of course any such shifts would have to make their way through Congress and be signed by the president and are not on the political horizon anytime soon.
So how much does this matter?
To some extent, this probably doesn't matter much, although it could slow things down and the state would have less say.
According to an article in the Washington Post:
Experts say the federal government has an interest in persuading as many states as possible to agree, at minimum, to a partnership. That's because the aspects that the states would handle are labor intensive and customized to each state — making them more difficult for federal authorities to deal with. These tasks include deciding which health plans can be sold on the exchanges and monitoring plans' compliance, as well as providing outreach and assistance to consumers.
It's always hard to know how legal claims will be treated by the courts, but it seems unlikely they carry merit, since the law gives the federal government authority to run exchanges should states decline. A central element of those exchanges are the subsidies, so the argument that the federal government can't run them likely will be treated as a political matter to be determined by the president and Congress.
Ultimately the federal government will create an exchange for Maine and will run it. Moreover, future Maine governors will be able to make new choices.


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Off mic with Phil Smith: ordem e progresso
Have you tried decluttering? It's very therapeutic. Most of you go for well-ordered neatness in the booth. The water glass and pens are in perfect alignment and all documents labelled and tidy. I'm sure you're all smiling in happy recognition of our work environment.


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The hunt for Jérôme Kerviel
Jérôme Kerviel is the trader at Société Générale responsible for the loss of almost 5 billion EURO or 7.2 billion USD. He is taken into custody by the French police. Journalists and bloggers have started a worldwide hunt for information on him.
A Wikipedia article describes in detail his professional career at SocGen. A photo of Jérôme Kerviel was first published in a blogpost from the Fincancial Times. His CV has been published on several news sites, including the Telegraph. According to the Guardian Jérôme Kerviel lost almost all his friends on Facebook. At this moment his Facebook account is not accessible anymore. Several fake accounts have been created. Luckely for Jérôme Kerviel, not everyone is attacking him. Different fan groups have been created on Facebook to support him.
Jérôme Kerviel does not seem to have a Twitter account. Twitter users are informing each other on their progress on finding information on him, directly in Twitter messages or indirectly by announcing posts on their blogs. His hotmail email account (listed in the CV) seems to be invalid, you cannot add this email address anymore to your MSN contacts (as found by this Twitter user). Another Twitter user says he has found Jérôme Kerviel's address and even his mobile phone number (see this tweet).
On the one hand Web 2.0 allows users to look up information on all kind op topics. The scary thing however is that in case of a sudden event, information about an individual person can be found, revealing personal information that is taken out of its context. E.g. what is the relationship between "ambitious judo teacher" and this fraud case ?


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New research shows that school-located clinics could expand access to seasonal flu vaccines for children, who are among those most at risk for the flu and its complications.
The best protection against flu for children at least 6 months of age is the seasonal vaccine, yet vaccination rates among children are low, according to the CDC. Only about 40 percent of children received a 2012-2013 flu vaccine, which is typically provided in a primary-care setting.
"Primary-care practices may not have the capacity to vaccinate all U.S. children against seasonal influenza," said Byung-Kwang Yoo, an associate professor of public health sciences at UC Davis and lead author of the study. "If the CDC's recommendations were followed, primary-care offices would have to accommodate 42 million additional patient visits during the five-month window for each flu season."
The vaccine can be lifesaving, especially for children, who are among those most at risk for the flu and its complications. The CDC reports that 90 percent of children who died from flu during 2012-2013 were not vaccinated. This is why public health experts have made it a priority to identify cost-effective ways to broaden access to flu vaccines for children.
"The flu is a disease with high probability of reaching epidemic levels even though we have an effective vaccine," said Yoo, who was with the University of Rochester when the study was conducted. "Our goal is to find ways to ensure that the best prevention is as accessible as possible."
The Monroe County study team conducted a prospective, randomized trial during late 2009 that involved 18 urban and 14 suburban elementary schools with more than 13,000 students in the Rochester, N.Y., area. Two onsite flu vaccination clinics were held four weeks apart at 21 of these schools, with a total student population of 9,027. The remaining 11 schools, with a total of 4,534 students, served as the control-group site where vaccination clinics were not held.
The researchers then compared the overall flu vaccination rates of children enrolled in all schools included in the study. The results showed a 13.2 percentage point increase in vaccination rates among children with access to school-located vaccination clinics.
Because the health department–academic center collaborators had hypothesized that direct-vaccination costs would be lower in onsite school clinics than in traditional pediatric practices, they were at first surprised when their cost analysis revealed the opposite. The per-dose direct cost, $54.26, of onsite school vaccination clinics was — in the first year of the program — higher than the mean, $38.23, or median, $21.44, of the direct cost of flu vaccinations in pediatricians' offices.
"This is likely because the start-up onsite program required substantial administration time and costs related to obtaining informed consent from parents," said Yoo.
However, when the analysis considered costs related to taking children to pediatricians' offices for flu vaccines, the per-dose cost decreased to $19.26, falling below both the mean and median costs of obtaining flu vaccinations in medical practices.
The figure dropped even more substantially — to just $3.90 per dose — when data from the second day of the school-located clinics was excluded from the analysis.
"Participation in the second clinics was much lower, while administration costs remained the same," said Yoo. "But some children were still vaccinated on the second day, so the team's next goal is to refine operations."
The Monroe County team is currently evaluating data from the subsequent 2010-2011 flu season. During that year, vaccination clinics were held only once per school, which may reduce project costs. Currently led by Peter Szilagyi of the University of Rochester, the team is also developing an online consent process to further improve efficiency. If those efforts show savings over traditional flu-vaccine delivery sites, the researchers will propose the school-located vaccination program as a national model for broadening flu prevention.
Byung-Kwang Yoo
Additional authors on the economic evaluation were senior author Maureen Kolasa of the CDC and coauthors Sharon Humiston of Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Mo.; Peter Szilagyi and Stanley Schaffer of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry; and Christine Long of the University of Rochester Center for Community Health.
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I am on a serious quest to find and interview the cool people of Shanghai, the ones who are propelling that change.
So when Ted (on the left), the Coolest Person I met at July's YPulse Mashup conference (coveing all things teen & tech) in San Francisco, told me he was swinging through Shanghai via Italy and wanted to get together, I immediately said YES. His hao pengyou (good friend, aren't you impressed with my growing vocabulary?), Evan, brought us to one of his favorite restaurants, Kathleen's 5 rooftop cafe on top of the Shanghai Art Museum. Between the two, they've got the entrepreneurial spirit of Shanghai nailed.
There, looking over the Shanghai skyline lit up like arcade games--or Shanghai women with all their bling--it was the Ted and Evan Show as they regaled me with stories of the Singles Scene in Puxi (the old section of Shanghai). Let's just say I got several ideas for novels from this one dinner alone! SEVERAL. I haven't laughed that hard since moving to Shanghai.
Inspirational in a different way was the tour of my kids' new international school. How weird is it that I was invited to speak at the school two years ago...and now we're members of the school community! The campus is beautiful and vast, housing K-12 students from something like 140 different countries.
If I don't get my act together, my kids will be my translaters. Here's my daughter's Chinese book that the Mandarin teachers said she'd be able to read in a few months...
My hubby and I officially celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary in China. (Unofficially, we had partied it up in LA before our move.) So we brought the kids with us to the Face Bar in the Dongjiao State Hotel where we had a fantastic Indian meal. Totally hip and cool, if a little out there in the boondocks. But there's another Face in Puxi, which we will for sure visit.
My own hao pengyou, Stacey--remember? my kids' former music lao shi (translation: teacher. Impressed, yes?)--took me to one of her favorite hot yoga spots, Y+ Yoga near Xintiandi (this is the refurbished area of Shanghai clustered with old courtyard buildings). I haven't done yoga period for 5 months since I bruised the cartilege in my knee in a flow class. (Say no to advanced jumping techniques!) Can you say out of shape? I sweated enough to water my lawn and my neighbor's lawn.
The brunch was heavenly, but paradise? Being a paper freak, I found it on Fu Zhou Lu. Here's my new favorite store on stationary street--Jian Lan. Just look at all that paper! For a fraction of the cost as in the U.S. Unbelievable. I went a little crazy and will be collaging soon. (No, really, I will be writing again. Really.)
There was a Tibetan rug store that I wanted to visit (as research for a novel), but they had moved and we got lost. But just look at what we found instead. A lovely little alley of old homes.


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A Novel Of Startling Intimacy, Violence, And Mercy Among Friends In A Midwestern University Town, From An Electric New Voice A Novel Of Rare Emotional Power That Excavates The Social Intricacies Of A Late Summer Weekend And A Lifetime Of Buried Pain Almost Everything About Wallace, An Introverted African American Transplant From Alabama, Is At Odds With The Lakeside Midwestern University Town Where He Is Working Toward A Biochem Degree For Reasons Of Self Preservation, Wallace Has Enforced A Wary Distance Even Within His Own Circle Of Friends Some Dating Each Other, Some Dating Women, Some Feigning Straightness But A Series Of Confrontations With Colleagues, And An Unexpected Encounter With A Young Straight Man, Conspire To Fracture His Defenses, While Revealing Hidden Currents Of Resentment And Desire That Threaten The Equilibrium Of Their Community Real Life Is A Gut Punch Of A Novel, A Story That Asks If It S Ever Really Possible To Overcome Our Private Wounds And Buried Histories And At What Cost
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There is writing so exceptional, so intricately crafted that it demands reverence The intimate prose of Brandon Taylor s exquisite debut novel Real Life offers exactly that kind of writing He writes so powerfully about so many things the perils of graduate education, blackness in a predominantly white setting, loneliness, desire, trauma, need Wallace, the man at the center of this novel, is written with such nuance and tenderness and complexity He is closed unto himself but wanting to open to others even though the people around him may not be fully up to the task And there is a sharp undercurrent of the erotic throughout The way Taylor writes about bodies in the physical world is one of the highlights in a novel full of highlights Truly, this is stunning work from a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways.
Brandon Taylor s Real Life is indisputably one of the best novels of our generation, and I say this because it is true Do you know how wonderful it feels to be represented as a gay black man and by one of our own Next to living, it is precisely the most euphoric feeling in the world, and so it is with immense joy that I could be one of this book s earliest champions Because when it comes to realizing the anxieties and nuances of our humanity, Taylor has given life to a character gay literature has been hellbent on keeping in the shadows.A story as painfully pure as its name, Taylor s forthcoming debut Real Life illustrates all the grueling battles of so many gay black men like Wallace, the nucleus of this story, who endure the lonesome journey for shelter and mercy under the false claim of acceptance Wallace learns this lesson as a biochem graduate student in a Midwestern town when he s forced to face his predominantly white friend group and the peers with whom he encounters in academia, giving rise to a whole scourge of conflicts involving racism, queerbaiting, tokenism, white mediocrity, fragility, and entitlement These sufferings all feel a little less intolerable when a benevolent friend makes an unsuspectingly affectionate advance on Wallace, who timidly gives into whims and wants of his own But friendships, like the embrace of such sudden love, can only be a forcefield for so long until the burden of race, class, and expectation has its way.My entire life, as a gay black boy from the scraps of Michigan, I dreamt of the day I d write a story, my story this story Brandon has beaten me to the punch, but what a glorious sight it is to see another one of us leap across the finish line Much like the catharsis of Elio in front of that ungodly fireplace in Call Me by Your Name or how briskly my heart dissolved as Jack was slain in Brokeback Mountain, Real Life has the sort of cinematic charm to render any audience hot with tears.Saeed Jones, Danez Smith, and now Brandon Taylor My Charlie s Angels My Destiny s Child My beloveds Thank you all for keeping us alive If you liked my review, feel free to follow me parisperusing on Instagram.
Such a great combination of humor and seriousness, w surprising insights on intimacy I ll be thinking about this one for a long time There s also a breathless chapter I don t think I ll ever stop thinking about An amazing debut.
I tend to get a little personal in my book reviews, considering reading is a highly personal act for me I typically read not for escape but for self illumination But when books like the upcoming novel by Brandon Taylor, Real Life books so in tune with how I live and fear and love come along, I almost freeze up to talk about it.My immediate response when I started reading was that Taylor writes amazing dialogue between men The restraint, often amid great emotional feeling, of many of the male characters is rendered in an almost painfully real way.But the book s most tremendous power, though, lies in the interiority of its main character, Wallace Those who know me know that A Little Life is my favourite contemporary novel, and much of that comes from the brutal and bold examination of Jude St Francis traumatized psyche Taylor does similar, equally powerful work with his introverted graduate student Wallace, who must learn how to make sense of the past, face racism and homophobia and fear of failure, and live in the real world amongst friends and potential lovers.Both Life novels are books about the male body, but Taylor s book goes farther than anything I ve read a visceral examination of the queer male body and how it can sabotage and complicate a queer male heart Real Life was a heartbreaker but also a JOY to read mostly because it s so damn relatable the way we fail as friends and lovers, the way we sell ourselves short, and the way we don t make room for the stories of the people in our lives out of fear of connection and the way telling those stories can, to a large extent, set ourselves free.
Real Life was an unmerciful novel that tore down the walls of the fiction we have all come to know and love Brandon Taylor manages to navigate pinpoint dialogue in the way only Rachel Cusk can currently do, and also descriptively break you by constant heartache and feelings towards his protagonist reminiscent of Toni Morrison and James Baldwin A feverish novel that literally takes place over three days but managed to open my eyes to a lifetime of misfortunes and unheralded simple everyday injustices towards certain minority groups by people they consider allies This was an uncomfortable read at times for me as a white man but that was the point, to show the other side, the life I don t live, the privilege I m awarded everyday waking up white and straight That aspect alone was enough to cause a sadness deep within while transgressing the journey of this novel..Wallace is the main character, a grad student from Alabama getting a biochem degree in a midwestern college town dominated by white people His entire friend group is white and the racial disparity is glaring Time after time Wallace seems to be the scapegoat to his friend groups problems, and at the same time a confidant they want to confide in, yet never really care to learn about him or see how he s doing, any problem is just him overreacting or being dramatic He was almost like a placebo his friends would abuse to temporarily feel better about themselves, a pill to swallow and then feel relief, never questioning their disloyalties and effortlessly placing him back on the shelf once they ve used him, but never genuinely solving any problem.As we dive deeper Wallace begins to have a romantic relationship with an apparent friend named Miller whose feigning his sexuality and they begin to swim in the deep end of each others lives, testing the waters of what they can and can t trust Desire gives way to toxic and traumatic pasts we are finally shown the true people these two are, along with everyone else surrounding them This novel by Taylor was an excellent case study on the dynamic of a friend group, the toxic friendships and race problems in this world, and the general lack of empathy in todays generation A true genius work that will mark the beginning of an illustrious career of a wonderful man and writer.Also added bonus points bc Brandon is a huge Knausgaard fan and named one of his characters after Knausgaards brother from his my struggle series A fun connection made between him and I And again Brandon thank you for writing this novel and being candid with me while I read it.
PERFECT BOOK REAL LIFE was my most anticipated novel of 2020 I feel like I ve been reading Brandon Taylor s work forever, and remember clearly the day on Twitter when he got into Iowa This debut novel exceeded my expectations It s a stunner.REAL LIFE follows Wallace, an introverted biology grad student in the Midwest, a Southern gay black man navigating the predominately white higher ed, over the course of a single late summer weekend The writing is profound beautiful Wallace, Miller, and their friend group colleagues are characters I ll be thinking about forever The book hangover is real with this one Taylor writes so beautifully about loneliness in a room full of people, about desire for a life other than the one you re in, and this novel brings up haunting questions of who we are given our pain, our pasts, the hurt we hold onto project onto others I could go on on REAL LIFE comes out in February I HIGHLY recommend you preordering it.
I received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review Opinions are my own.This debut novel is a gift to the world of novels It is so quietly stirring that you won t know what hit you by the end Following an introverted PhD candidate named Wallace in close third person, Taylor skillfully weaves a story of friendship and superficiality, the subtle and ubiquitous ways in which white supremacy plays out in a white dominant Midwestern friend group, queer love and queer infatuation It s also the best portrayal of an introvert s inner and outer life I ve ever read It takes place over the course of a single weekend, but the emotional depths of Wallace s character unfold with such precision and nuance that the very scary violence taking place in both the past and the present almost feel distant By that I mean, Wallace is very good at repression as a mechanism of survival, and the prose is written so smoothly as to put the reader in that exact place with him a place where distance must be maintained from the myriad of violences Real Life is one of those timeless stories that also perfectly captures a generational moment I highly recommend it.
30 11 19A sincere thank you to Riverhead Books for gifting me a copy of Real Life You can find me on
This too could be his life, Wallace thinks This thing with Miller, eating fish in the middle of the night, watching the gray air of the night sky over the roof next door This could be their life together, each moment shared, passed back and forth between each other to alleviate the pressure, the awful pressure of having to hold on to time for oneself This is perhaps why people get together in the first place The sharing of time The sharing of the responsibility of anchoring oneself in the world I mean Golden One of the best debut novels I ve read in ages Prepare yourselves.
I read this book as a first draft and just finished the ARC What strikes me between those two pieces of work is the way BT has shaved down the language to the sharpest most poignant themes There s no getting away from the harsh truths in this novel cruelty, feigned intimacy, racism, family and friendship I understand Wallace probably as well as I understand myself Sometimes he s wrong and sometimes he s absolutely right about the way he sees the world.


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Let me start by thanking you all for visiting my photoblog - esperienza. It is really motivating to receive your valuable comments and suggestions. Special thanks to Yogesh, who helped me spread-the-word about esperienza. In 2 months time esperianza had more than 6,000 page visits. I received praise-emails from people whom I did not know and now I am in constant touch with all these new net-friends I made via my photoblog. Its great.
I would also like to thank Vivek, Shiv and Yogesh (again) for joining me at the My Kolkata Photo Trips. Till now which has been the most appreciated section. This wouldn't have been possible without such great friends.
Coming up soon photos from the My Kolkata photo trip 2. Places covered Indian Botanical Garden, Maidan, Rail Museum, St. Paul's Cathedral, Bhoonath Temple (Shivratri), Shaheed Minar, Howrah Bridge (again) and as usual traffic on the move. Click here to see photos from My Kolkata photo trip 1.
Keep visiting esperienza and thank you once again.
VIP Night Vision
Probably this the best night vision photo I have taken till date. This is the view from my studio-room in VIP Condochain (university residence), Cha-am, Thailand. The main building (yellow one) in the center is Dusit Resort (a 5 star resort) and the next (green one) to it is Thailand's Prime Minister Thakshin Shinawatra's summer house.
Hi all
I installed a imaging software recently and it came along with a demo album. I really liked the photos. Enjoy.
Corsica Cliff
Lake Moraine
Angel Island
British Columbia
Corsica Water
I found these stupid questions which people ask. I thought to share it with you. Enjoy.
1. At the movies: When you meet acquaintances/friends.
Stupid Question:- Hey, what are you doing here?
Answer:- Dont u know, I sell tickets in black over here.
2. In the bus: A heavy lady wearing pointed high-heeled shoes steps on your feet.
Stupid Question:- Sorry, did that hurt?
Answer:- No, not at all, I'm on local anesthesia..... why don't you try again.
3. At a funeral: One of the teary-eyed people ask.
Stupid Question:- Why, why him, of all people.
Answer:- Why? Would it rather have been you?
4. At a restaurant: When you ask the waiter
Stupid Question:- Is the "Butter Paneer Masala" dish good??
Answer:- No, its terrible and made of adulterated cement. We occassionaly also spit in it.
5. At a family get-together: When some distant aunt meets you after years.
Stupid Question:- Munna,Chickoo, you've become so big.
Answer:- Well you haven't particularly shrunk yourself.
6. When a friend announces her wedding, and you ask.
Stupid Question:- Is the guy you're marrying good?
Answer:- No, he's a miserable wife-beating , insensitive lout...it's just the money.
7. When you get woken up at midnight by a phone call.
Stupid Question:- Sorry. were you sleeping?
Answer:- No. I was doing research on whether the Zulu tribes in
Africa marry or not. You thought I was sleeping... you dumb witted moron.
8. When you see a friend/colleague with evidently shorter hair.
Stupid Question:- Hey have you had a haircut?
Answer:- No, its autumn and I'm shedding.
9. At the dentist when he's sticking pointed objects in your mouth.
Stupid Question:- Tell me if it hurts?
Answer:- No it wont. It will just bleed.
10. You are smoking a cigarette and a cute woman asks.
Stupid Question:- Oh, so you smoke.
Answer:- Gosh, it's a miracle ............it was a piece of chalk and now it's in flames!!!
Source: http://www.geocities.com/thegreatjokedump/0004.htm
The photographs below are taken by me with a Nikon FM2 SLR camera. It was the first time I clicked photos with a high saturation color negative. I was inspired to take these photos after I saw the color slides of my photographer friend Shouvik Roy. Under the supervision of Ajarn Buddhaporn, Shouvik learnt how to take photos on a high saturation color negative. And when I saw the result, I was simply amazed to see the high saturation color. Which inspired to buy a color negative (expensive!!) and click the following photos.
Beach - Ocean - Moutain
Buddhist temple - Prachuap Khiri Kahn
Colorful evening
Floating Logs
Good Morning
Window sunset
Purple evening
Relaxing Sunset
Temple Bells
Moon Temple
Pathway to temple
Moonlit Ocean
Sher studying (actually just posing for the photo)
Tennis court
Scary clouds over calm ocean
This post is dedicated to my friend Shouvik. I will be posting the photos taken by Shouvik sometime soon.
I made this for Shouvik when he leaving for the states for continuing his studies.
The following photos were taken by my very dear friend Rashed Chowdhary from Bangladesh. These photos were taken at the beach in VIP Condochain, Cha-am, Thailand (our university residence). Rashed Bhai has always been my photography partner. We used to spend so much time together taking photos. I still envy his photographs; they came out always better than mine. I miss those days.
This sets of photographs are the best sunrise photos I have ever seen.
This post is dedicated to Rashed Bhai's father, who recently left us all for heavenly abode. May his soul rest in peace. Pray for him.
Here are a few spectacular photos clicked in India. I do not know the name of the photographer as I received these photos through a fwd-email. Photos like these gives me insipiration to continue my photography.


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GMO Rats Reveal The Truth About Genetically Modified Organisms
November 29th, 2012 by Nicolas
[by Nick Pineault] In September 2012, the President of France decided that his country would maintain a ban on GMO corn crops. (1) GMO rats do nothing but justify this action.
At the time this article is published (November 2012), over 50 countries require labeling of GMO foods, and many of them are starting to follow the French and plan on ruling the GMO case in court.
In 2010, Haiti refused the 475 tons of seeds offered by Monsanto (the corporation that developed GMOs), right after they went through the most damaging natural disaster the country had ever seen.
Are all these people freaking out about GMOs for no reason, or are they acting on better information than what we get in North America? I found the latter to be true.
In the US and in Canada, talking about GMOs make you come across a "conspiracy theorist" or an extremist. That gotta hurt.
In February 2012, Procinctu published a post concerning a 90-day study of GMO rats. In it, samples of rats were fed Genetically Modified Organisms. The result showed that they had an issue with kidney and liver function, and some effects on heart, adrenal, spleen and blood cells.
Fast forward to now, and we have some more unsettling facts on the subject and another study on GMO rats.
GMO's have only been widespread in the last decade.
Their initial promise: increasing crops yield and reducing the need for pesticides. By introducing a foreign gene that wards off certain diseases or bugs in corn, soy, sugar beets or alfalfa, Monsanto tried to create the next generation of "super-foods".
In 2012, unfortunately, countless analyses show that this great idea failed.
Farmers all around the world are experiencing reductions in crop yield, and more problems with diseases and super-bugs than ever before. Nothing that lives up to the initial hype.
This failure extends to other areas, which I'm fond of…..nutrition.
Turns out, this genetic modification leads to gut flora destruction, and suppresses your immune system long term. GMO rats aren't the only victim, YOU are too.
Something to keep in mind when recent studies show that the American population consumes 10% of their calories in the form of soybean oil.
GMO Rats star in another blockbuster study
A scarier long-term study was published in September 2012. (2)
This time, the GMO rats were monitored for two years. The results of the feeding were even more scary than before:
- Some rats developed massive tumors that represent 25 percent of their body weight.
- Liver damage was up to 5 times higher in the GMO group than in the non-GMO group.
- Female rats that ate GMO's had a 3 times higher risk of premature death.
I honestly don't know if all the activism around GMO's are based on real studies, or if everyone should just tone it down. Either way, GMO rats don't get a voice in the matter.
One thing I do know is: people should have the right to choose what kind of diet they want to follow.
If yours involves trying to reduce the amount of toxins you eat on a daily basis and you think GMOs are one of them, here's what I suggest you do:
When buying any soy, corn, canola or white sugar (which comes from sugar beets), choose organic.
That's what I do.
Is it worth it? I don't even know.
What I'm buying is insurance that I'm making the right choice and optimizing my health and performance.
Same idea as when I choose to talk less on my cell phone, or spend more money on natural supplements that cost 3 times more than the average.
But the thing is: unlike a lot of people in North America that aren't even aware that GMO's exist… I'm making a choice.
Keep it simple, healthy, and don't be one of the GMO rats,
Sources:(1) http://rt.com/news/french-ban-gm-crops-368/
Check out Nick's book "Healthy or Not." The layout is easy to understand and engaging. The small amount it takes to INVEST in YOUR LIFE through this book, makes it one of the smartest decisions you can make. Procinctu stands behind it 100% and is proud to offer it to you at a


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - valve software Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "valve software" Riskjunior memberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 21Location: Colleyville,TX,USA Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 3:30 am hey dhab, what do you do in valve? do you make art for their covers and stuff..or do you program too?? I saw your Gordon on the cover of a HALF LIFE BOX in my friends EGM i think. anyway I have a pcgamer and i saw your art scattered through it. so do you program or just make art for valve?? how can I apply for valve when I get older?? how old must you be?? Back to top ShrimpishGuestMember # Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 5:46 am Hehe... Back to top Alexjunior memberMember #Joined: 23 Oct 1999Posts: 44Location: Toronto, Ontario, canada Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 6:02 am see my TF2 thread... ------------------ Alex D. G. http://www.alexdg.com Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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I've got some good news and bad news. The good news is I'm releasing a new pose set!
It's a group of 8 fun and creative poses.
The bad news? There isn't any cake.
I've got some good news and bad news. The good news is I'm releasing a new pose set!
It's a group of 8 fun and creative poses.
The bad news? There isn't any cake.
Come check out the new couples pose at Fluke. Best advised to do this in the water. It's hawt!
And don't miss the 50% off sale on selected pose sets and shapes!
Pose Fair 2013! It's returning next year! 2012 was our first chance to participate in this fun event, and sadly it was Katey's last, as she announced that after 3 years she was ready to move on to other things. Today we learn that she is passing the torch to RubyStarlight Writer, who will organize a brand new Pose Fair with a few minor changes. What these changes are is unknown at this time, but as successful as Pose Fair has been in the past, let's hope it continues to get better!
Photo Hands are a set of sculpted hands designed to upgrade your SL photography by replacing the ugly system hands, and opening up new opportunities for stunning model photography.
The Photo Hands package consists of two sets of hands, each set having a separate hud and 5 hand poses each. Simply attach the left and right hands, the hud, and wear (or add) the alpha texture. It will take some time to load fully the first time, so patience is a virtue.
Once all textures and sculpts are loaded, you will see the HUD attach to the upper left of your screen.
The graphic shows the controls and operation of the HUD. Here's a more detailed description of each of the 7 control areas of the HUD:
1 – Hand AO Switch. When this is active (green) the hands will automatically switch between poses every 30 seconds. The time to switch hand poses can be changed by saying the number of seconds on channel 101 (if you want to change hand poses every 60 seconds for example, type "/101 60" without the quotes).
2 – Hide/Show. The hud does take up some screen space, so if you want to get it back just click the little minus sign to hide the hud. Click it again to make the HUD visible again. Once you have your hands set up the way you want, you can also detach the hud if you want.
3 – Nail Polish Colors. Click the color you want your nails to be.
4 – Natural Nail Colors. Same as above, only different.
5 – Basic Hand Skin Color: currently there are only 5 basic skin tones available for the Photo Hands (more will be coming soon). You should choose the skin tone that is closest to your skin. If you need to adjust it a little darker, you can do so with the color panel in the center of the HUD.
6 – Skin Adjustment Color. With this color picker, you can darken or add a tint to your skin (you can't make your skin lighter with this control). To pick a color, click on the color panel on the HUD. The black circle will indicate where you've clicked, and the chosen color will fill the box at the bottom. When you have the color you want, click 'apply' and it will be applied to the hands.
7 – Hand Pose. With this, you can control the left and right hand pose separately. Simply click on the hand pose that you want to use.
This set of hands has been specially designed to work with these popular skins: Adam n Eve moonkissed (or cool) tone, Belleza fair, Belleza pale, LeeZu Nikita pale, and LAQ milky.
As we all know, nothing is perfect. Especially SL! Seams between the avatar and the hands are almost unaviodable. WIth a good skin match, perfect sizing, and the proper lighting, you might be able to hide it pretty well. For those times when perfection does not happen, we've included some bangles that are really good for hiding seams. These bangles attach to the forearm by default. If you choose to use your own bangles and they attach somewhere else, you should first make a copy of your bangles and then attach to the forearm. Another excellent way to hide seams is to wear sculpted/mesh long sleeves.
Photo Hands from Fluke are available now at the Fluke main store, and on the marketplace. There is a free demo so you can try them out, risk free.
If you have any question, feel free to message GM Nikolaidis, or email me at email@example.com


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Blood pressure is a measurement of the force applied to the walls of your arteries as your heart pumps blood through your body.
Your blood pressure can be measured at home, or at your health care provider's office, a fire station, pharmacies, and many other places.
Diastolic blood pressure; Systolic blood pressure; Blood pressure reading; Measuring blood pressure
Your arm should be supported, with your upper arm at heart level, back supported, legs uncrossed, and feet on the floor. Your upper arm should be bare, with your sleeve comfortably rolled up.
You or your health care provider will wrap the blood pressure cuff snugly around your upper arm. The lower edge of the cuff should be 1 inch above the bend of your elbow.
Inflating the cuff too slowly or not high enough may cause a false reading. If you loosen the valve too much, you won't be able to determine your blood pressure.
The procedure may be done two or more times.
Measuring your blood pressure is best done after you rest for at least 5 minutes.
Do not take your blood pressure when you're under stress, have consumed caffeine or used a tobacco product in the past 30 minutes, or have recently exercised.
Take two or three readings at a sitting, 1 minute apart, while resting in a seated position. When measuring your blood pressure outside of a medical office, it is important to note the time of the readings.
Your doctor may suggest that you do your readings at certain times. A common recommendation is to take your blood pressure in the morning and at night for a week. That way, you will get at least 12 readings to help your doctor make decisions about your blood pressure treatment.
You will feel slight discomfort when the blood pressure cuff is inflated to its highest level.
Because there are no symptoms, you can have high blood pressure and not know it. High blood pressure may be found when you visit your health care provider for other reasons.
Diagnosing high blood pressure early can help prevent heart disease, stroke, eye problems, or chronic kidney disease.
All adults should have their blood pressure checked every 2 years, if their blood pressure was less than 120/80 mmHg at the most recent reading. You should have it checked yearly if your last reading was 120-139/80-89 mm Hg.
If you have high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, kidney problems, or certain other conditions, you should have your blood pressure checked more often -- at least every year.
Blood pressure readings are usually given as two numbers -- for example, 120 over 80 (written as 120/80 mmHg). One or both of these numbers can be too high.
Normal blood pressure is when the top number (systolic blood pressure) is below 120 most of the time, and the bottom number (diastolic blood pressure) is below 80 most of the time (written as 120/80 mmHg).
If your blood pressure numbers are 120/80 or greater but below 140/90, it is called pre-hypertension. If you have pre-hypertension, you are more likely to develop high blood pressure.
High blood pressure (hypertension) is when the top number (systolic blood pressure) is 140 or more most of the time or the bottom number (diastolic blood pressure) is 90 or more most of the time. (written as 140/90 mmHg).
If you have diabetes, heart disease, or kidney problems, or if you had a stroke, your doctor may want your blood pressure to be lower.
Most of the time, high blood pressure does not cause symptoms. For most patients, high blood pressure is found when they visit their health care provider or have it checked elsewhere.
See also: Preeclampsia to learn about high blood pressure in pregnant women.
It is normal for your blood pressure to be different depending on the time of day:
Blood pressure readings taken at home may be a better measure of your current blood pressure than those taken at your doctor's office, as long as you make sure your machine is accurate. You can ask your health care provider to compare your home readings with those taken in the office.
Many people become nervous at the doctor's office and have higher readings than they normally would at home. This is called white coat hypertension.
Victor RG. Systemic hypertension: Mechanisms and diagnosis. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 45.
Victor RG. Arterial hypertension. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 67.
Review Date: 5/28/2012
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You can watch a short animation of this task farther down the page.
- Log in to your GoDaddy account and open your product. (Need help opening your product?)
- From the Domain Manager, select your domain name from the list to access the Domain Settings page.
- Scroll down to the Additional Settings section and select Manage DNS.
- On the DNS Management page, at the bottom of the Records section, click Add.
- Select A from the Type drop-down menu.
- Complete the required fields:
- Click Save to complete the process.
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[Alien Earth] Am I making my game's social contract explicite enough?
January 15, 2012, 05:34:43 PM »
I'm currently working on a game wherein I'm trying to capture a particular style of simulationist play that I tend to find was popular in older games but has largely fallen out of vogue and which I would like to refine with the tools of a modern game designer. My problem is I feel like my "What is a roleplaying game?" section (wherein I pretty much lay out the game's social contract) might still be a tad wishy washy. I don't want to dismiss other people's preferences for no reason, but at the same time I don't want my desire to be inclusive to seriously weaken the social contract. It's a fine balance, and I'm just too close to the material at this point so I'd love the opinions of some new people with fresh eyes (especially at The Forge, with it's accumulated knowledge of game design in general and these sorts of issues specifically)
I'm having a hell of a time trying to explain this, so let me just make my questions clear:
1. Does the section make it clear how a roleplaying game is played such that a group of people new to gaming would understand how to play?
2. Does this section make clear to old-hat gamers what this game's expectations of player and GM are and how they might differ from what they're used to?
3. Is the social contract clear enough to avoid conflicts over interpretation (assuming it is followed by all sides in good faith)?
And the bonus question
4. Is the example of play interesting enough that someone might actually read it all (I personally like long examples of play, but I feel others might not share my enthusiasm)?
Here is the section in question, What Is A Roleplaying Game?
Here is a pack with three other sections to give a "feel" for the game (two for it's mechanics, one for the setting). Feel free to comment on these as well, although I will likely start another thread at a later date specifically addressing the core system itself. I just feel like if I'm asking you to look over an example of play you should have an idea of what kind of play is being exemplified.
I apologize in advance if I'm butchering any of the terms I'm using here.
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Re: [Alien Earth] Am I making my game's social contract explicite enough?
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January 15, 2012, 08:06:30 PM »
If you want to include 'what is a roleplaying game?', I always thought of going back to childhood basica and tapping into that inuitive understanding of roleplaying that we all have.
Roleplaying is like when you play cowboys and indians - you imagine yourself as a cowboy, doing cowboy things, and you announce to everyone else what your cowboy is doing in your imagination, and everyone says what their cowboys and indians are doing in their imaginations, and at some point, someone will say "
I shot you
" and the other person will reply "
oh no you didnt, I shout _you_
' and thats when the rules kick in.
That certainly beats my wives explanation when someone asked her what I did when I was roleplaying and she told them "
I think they trade elf noses or something
". I mean seruiously, what the fuck?
Ingenero: A little system with a big engine. Light and tight.
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Re: [Alien Earth] Am I making my game's social contract explicite enough?
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I dont think your spiel gave me any specific idea about how to play your game, btw.
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Your not butchering it at all as far as I can see; any social contract in a game text will only be a specification for a real life social contract among people, the real personal dynamics that come together and support the fact that they are playing at all.
As far as your game goes, the most interesting part of that example-play thing is the last sentence: "Anywhere you want" sounds nice, but it really is an ending, similar to "they ride off into the sunset", or "they lived happily ever after". I'd like to know what happens next, the very next few sentences and actions in that imagined conversation; do the players sit blankly looking at the GM, do they start kibutzing about where to go next out of character, do they roleplay the continuation of their argument in the back of the cab, does the "navigation mechanic" come out, does a map come out? That might say more about how the game hangs together, and then you could just fade out with an elipsis...
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I'm not trying to be an ass, but I really didn't see any specific social contract at all in the "What is a Roleplaying Game" section. I have a pretty clear idea of the range of choices given to the players, but I'm not sure that's the same thing.
It seemed very vague about what specifically each person was to do. The non-GM players will play their characters (maybe also taking some extra authorship in the world), and the GM will play the NPCs and the environs (and maybe back off a bit if he/she wants). I don't think there is any social contract spelled out at all, just the roles of the players. I think of a social contract as more of the "around the table" stuff. "Don't talk when others are rolling dice." "Show up on time, please." "This game is trying to be an action movie, so please don't play your characters like the Three Stooges." Are we just thinking of different definitions here?
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