Investigation Dark
what does it mean to have a dark side?
I am usually known as quiet and nice and this girl saw that I was in a murder investigation class and saw some pictures I took of fake crime scenes and said "I had no idea you had a dark side". what???
You're not what she expected. She wouldn't think you'd be into something as "dark" as murder investigations and crime.
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Yuelu Mountain Situated in the west bank of Xiangjiang River, the Yuelu Mountain with an altitude of more than 300 meters, has been famous for secluded environment and beautiful scenery since ancient time. Mount Yuelu Scenic Area consists of hills, pinnacles, rivers, lakes, wide variety of species of flora and fauna, cultural historic site, revolutionary monuments. Tourist spots on the mountain are Pavilion of Loving to Evening, Gorge of Refreshing Breeze, Python Cave and Yuelu Academy.
Yuelu Mountain is composed of natural scenery and personnel landscape. The natural scenery is strange, quiet, treasure and beautiful. In the landscape there are several thousand kinds of plants, among which there are a lot of famous and rare plants such as privet, ginkgo, camphor, spinulose tree, quassia, sweet gum, Chinese honey locustbladder catchfly. Besides, there are a lot of famous and rare birds and animals such as babbler, loriot, cuckoo, owl, woodpecker, parrot and fox, goat, pheasant. Yuelu Mountain is one of Eight Attractions in Xiaoxiang.
Except for the beautiful natural sceneries, The mountain is dotted with inspiring cultural heritages including the Yuelu Academy, Lushan Temple, Yunlu Palace, Aiwan Pavilion, Baihe Spring, the Monument to King Yu and other minor historical traces.
The name Yuelu derived from a a famous line from the book" Story of Nanyue" written by Liu Song from the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It reads "eight hundred square meters around Nanyue, the head is Huiyan and the foot is Yuelu". The mountain was since ever called Mountain Yuelu.Yuelu Mountain has brilliant personnel landscape. For example, the poem written by Du Mu, "Stop the car and watch the maple leaves until late, the leaves covered by frost are more red than the flowers in February."
Yuelu Academy
Yuelu Academy is the most ancient academy in China. It was established in the ninth year of Kaibao Period of North Song (976 AD). In 1015, it was famous for its study atmosphere and obliged the name by Emperor Zhen Zong. From then on, it became one of the four academies in China. Walking through Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing Dynasties, it was changed to be Hunan University in 1926, with a history of more than one thousand years. It is called a rare "one thousand year institution of higher learning" by modern scholars. The school running history from Yuelu Academy to Hunan University reflects the variance of China's education system and is a reduction of the history of China's education development.
Yuelu mountain tour line:
(1). Yuelu Mountain South Gate - Aiwanting - Shelita - Liudaoyimu - Tanlimingmu - Banshanting - Jiangxuwumu - Lushansi - Baihequan - Yinxinshiwu - Wulugong
(2). Yuelu Mountain South Gate - Wulunta - Banshanting - Lushansi - Baihequan - Caiemu - Huangxingmu - Changlang - Jimushanzhuang - Suodao
(3). Yuelu Mountain East Gate - Suodao - Jimushanzhuang - Yuwangbei - Changlang - Xiangguling - Yinxingshiwu - Lushansi - Baihequan - Jiangxuwumu - Liudaoyimu - Tanlimingmu - Aiwanting - Yuelu Mountain South Gate
(4). Yuelu Mountain East Gate - Suodao - Jimushanzhuang - Yuwangbei - Changlang - Xiangguling - Yulugong - Wanjingyuan - Xiaojingguangtongxiang - Chuanshuiposhuitang - Wulunta - Yuelu Mountain South Gate
Admission fee:
Free for all.
Tips:
(1). The best season to visit Yuelu Mountain is fall because you will be able to see the red trees at this period of time.
(2). To get here, you can take the City Bus Line 106, 202, 305 and Lishan Special Line.
(3). If you wanna stay here for a night, you can choose the hotels at the entrance of Yuelu Mountain. Hunan University is close to Yuelu Mountain and you can choose the hotels in this university too.
(4). Many people recommend these restaurants: Yuelushanwu, Shanghairenjia, Puyuerenjia, Quyuanjiulou, Xiaoajingjiulou, Yipingxianglaxie.
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Wars Episode
When you saw the first Star Wars, did you realize it was episode 4 of a 6 episode saga?
I thought it was just "Star Wars".
Incidentally, I'm 42 and saw Star Wars "episode 4" at the theater.
Thanks for the info you friggin nerds! Just kidding! They're running a marathon on Spike, and the question just dawned on me.
You are some great nerds!
When it was first released to theaters the opening credits said Episode IV A New Hope.
Dora Explorer
Dora The Explorer burst onto our screens from Nickelodeon in the year 2000. Since then it has been firmly lodged into the hearts and minds of preschoolers and parents. The Dora toys are still one of the worlds best sellers.
Whether the adults like or hate the show there is no doubt that the show strikes a positive chord with the children of the world. Parents treasure that enthralled silent time when children are completely taken into the colourful world of Dora and all her friends.
The Dora Concept
Dora seemed to fill a much needed niche in cartoons available to the preschool/kinder age group and in some cases children older than that. It is in essence a show that teaches kids in a practical and fun way about many basic skills including math, problem solving, basic Spanish, music, and physical coordination.
But it may well be the underlying lessons that make the show a hit. Dora The Explorer deals with many social issues of differences and people having talents in differing areas, and that being okay. It demonstrates tolerance and love of things around us. It brings a different culture to kids seems to spark an interest in other parts of the world.
With all of this wrapped up in cheeky characters, bright colours, and catchy songs the show is still going strong after ten years.
Dora Gets a Makeover
In an effort to appeal the older generation of middle aged primary school children, Dora has gotten a makeover. But parents neednt worry too much there will still be plenty of the original episodes airing, and the new look Dora is a little more fashionable with longer hair but not much else has changed for now.
There has been some controversy over the move to make Dora grow up from adults, but the real test will be whether or not the kids support the move and buy the merchandise. Parents will buy what makes their children happy at the end of the day, and for preschoolers right now that certainly is Dora.
Diego, The Male Dora
Diego has seen some success in winning over the boys. It seems that Dora is mostly marketed to the girls and Diego was developed for the boys. It may suffer a little from the fact that it is an obvious copy of Dora format using talking accessories, an animal best friend and helper, and the repetitive catchy tunes.
Its a little hard to say right now if Diego will be as popular as Dora, but the toys are still selling well.
Dora Characters
* Dora Dora is a cute young Spanish girl who loves adventures and all her friends
* Boots he is the cheeky monkey friend that travels with Dora on her adventures. He has a token pair of blue boots that his name is derived from.
* Map he pops out of the backpack when Dora needs directions. The children watching are instructed to say map to encourage him out to sing his song and tell us how Dora gets to where she needs to go
* Backpack this cute little character is a firm favorite. The children are again encouraged to say backpack when he needs to show us what is inside him so Dora can solve a problem while getting to where she is going.
* Swiper this crafty fox sneaks around and steals things from Boots and Dora throwing them away. Then Dora has to work out a way to find them. He doesnt always get to swipe anything because viewers are encouraged to call out Swiper, no swiping until he leaves.
There are many other characters that pop up regularly to help or to be helped and this forms the basis of all Doras explorations.
Dora the Explorer creative toys have a genuine popularity that means they will still be selling well in years to come and entertaining the next generation of children.
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What are some great and affordable ideas for a dora the explorer party?
I'm throwing a Dora the Explorer birthday party for my soon to be two year old.?
I want it to be really nice with out burning a hole in my pocket. Does anyone have any fun and creative ideas that will help me? So far, I'm saving money by printing my own dora the explorer invitations and I found a really cool way to make party favors for the children by making little bags resemling back pack and the map.
Here's some fun Dora Party ideas
http://www.perfectpartyideas.com/dora-the-explorer-party.html
Have a fun party!
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Here are some of the fun kinect games for the whole family, games you can enjoy when you have company around and have a good time.
The top kinect game is Dance Central,this will give you a really good workout,there are plenty of hot music licenses to provide the background to this full body dancing game. Imagine Dance Dance Revolution, but for your entire body.
Kinect Sports features soccer, beach volleyball, bowling, table tennis, track and field, and boxing.With the kinect controller and Kinect Sports really adds a nice dimension to your video gaming. If you have young kids or older folks that have trouble remembering what buttons to push on a remote--it doesn't get any easier than the Kinect.
Yoostar2 is a fantastic party game that will appeal to both hardcore and casual players. Yoostar2 comes with 50 Movie Scenes, 10 Hollywood Sets and 20 Video Backgrounds, with hundreds more scenes available for purchase and download in the online store. The Yoostar2 library includes: Current hits like The Hangover, Tropic Thunder, Meet The Fockers, 300 and Kick Ass; Modern classics like "The Godfather" and "Rocky"; All-time classics like "Casablanca," and "The Wizard of Oz"; Popular TV shows such as " Star Trek", " Mad Men", and "CSI". Over 1,200 actors are already on board with Yoostar, including superstars like Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Gerard Butler, Cameron Diaz, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many more.
Adrenaline Misfits- Adrenalin Misfits thrusts gamers into 7 unbelievable fantasy worlds with exciting boarding battles in amazing environments. Compete in cross boarding action through freestyle, time and collection challenges against boss characters each with unique abilities. Battle Boss' from around the world growing your abilities and gaining more impressive boards each with their own special features. Win a race, steal that boss' board and do battle to collect all 60.
Child of Eden – is due to be release June 14 2011, the special effects and spectacular visual effects look amazing in this game. Child of Eden thrusts you in the center of a battle to save Project Lumi, a mission to reproduce a human personality inside Eden, the archive of all human memories. As the project nears completion, the archive is invaded by an unknown virus.
Star Wars – Thisgame is going to be introduced December 31 2011, but very little is known about the games; you can fight like a Jedi, blast some storm troopers with force powers by stretching out your hand, Kenobi style? Have you ever wanted to slice, dice, mince and wince opponents with flashy lightsaber skills?
Make sure you take a look at the previews to some of the future kinect games and trailer videos of these fun kinect games..
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The clearer the reflection, the more lusters the pearl has. A black pearl that is solid in color and has no overtone whatsoever does not even amount to half of black pearl containing overtones. Therefore, another rule is that the rounder the pearl, the more expensive it must be in the pearl market. A tarnished pearl necklace is awful to look at.
Black pearls, or what are also known as Tahitian pearls, come all the way from the lagoon of French Polynesia or the deep recesses of Japanese ocean. Natural Pearls were obtained straight from the nacre of mollusks and oysters underneath the sea whereas the productions of cultured pearls have been assisted by expert pearl farmers. Getting a black pearl necklace is often suggested to each and every woman out there because it will revamp any wardrobe, making it fashionable, elegant and classic. Just like all things that are living, no two pearls are alike. If buying a black pearl necklace, it is important that you know what you exactly you are looking for. A solid black pearl necklace that has no scratch or blemish whatsoever is a rarity. Always check the color. Here are some tips that can help you decide whether the black pearl necklace you are fancying is worth paying the price for.
Famous to be expensive because of their demand in the pearl-making industry, South Sea black pearl necklaces are also known for their size which is larger than the usual pearl. Because it is extremely hard to get pearls to begin with, getting pearls that are perfectly round is harder. Yes it really depends on the preference of the buyer on what kind of color to get but as much as possible, try to not get the solid black pearls if you regard it as an investment. You must know the value of the necklace you're fancying as well as whether you could still stretch your buck and allow you to get the best possible Tahitian black pearl necklace for you.
Another rule of thumb is that overtones also affect the price of the pearl. Regardless, black pearl necklaces are an investment and any woman would be so happy getting one - especially this Holiday season. Black pearl necklaces often come from the South Seas, most of which from Tahiti. What sets it apart from the other pearls? They come in a wide range of colors - black, blue, gray, green and brown. Avoid the blemishes. The blemishes to a pearl are like the veins to a leaf. In that way, not only will the buyer have the liberty to add dimension to the outfit she'll we wearing the pearls with, she can also play up her looks - from professional to casual. If you're looking for the best accessory to sparkle up your wardrobe, look no further. Pearl makers know that a good way to capitalize on the variety and beauty of the Tahitians black pearls is to make a strand containing various overtone shades. A cultured black pearl necklace is slightly more expensive than the natural black pearl necklace all because of the added labor to producing it. There will always be a difference with each one. About the cost, the rate is that darker the Tahitian Black Pearl, then the more valuable it is in the pearl industry.
Tahitian Black Pearls ranges from 8 mm to 18 mm. You must also check the strands of the necklace you are buying. Make sure that they won't tarnish. Also just like any pearl, the rounder the shape, the more expensive it is. If you're skimming through black pearl necklaces, check the surface. This is the most valued feature. Color really depends on the personal taste of the wearer but most of the time black pearl necklaces have blue, gold, and silver pink, eggplant and peacock green overtones. The luster provides the shine to the pearl. Therefore choose a pearl that has blue, green, red, purple or pink overtones.
The more overtones a pearl has, the more valuable it is. This is because pearl industry aficionados know how difficult it is to obtain a perfect spherical pearl from oysters and mussels. In fact, it is more important than the size and the shape. The ironic thing is that of all the South Sea black pearls out there, the Tahitian black pearl is the cheapest - but the most popular. In the pearl industry, cultured pearls are also more valuable than the natural pearls.
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All great swings have rhythm, tempo, and timing. These components key the latent power in a player's swing. They also key accuracy, length, and consistency. While rhythm may be the most important, all three work together to produce a swing that can help chop strokes off your golf handicap. They combine synergistically to generate swings like those of PGA pros.
But how do you hone rhythm, tempo, and timing? Golf tips and golf instruction sessions help. Visiting the practice range also helps. But to dramatically improve these components, you need real-time feedback. The more you get, the faster you learn. Normally, real-time feedback is hard to get without hitting a ball. But a Yale University professor now offers an audio device that provides feedback without hitting a ball.
Using Sound As Feedback
Bob Grober, a professor of physics, has developed the Sonic Golf System 1—an auditory-based swing device that tells you if you're swinging the club with the utmost speed, power, and efficiency. The device is available to golfers for about $300 through a Web site created specifically for the product: http://www.sonicgolf.com
Grober's device works like this: You insert a small, wireless transmitter into the butt end of a club. The transmitter detects the club's movement and sends an auditory signal to an iPod size unit attached to the golfer's waist. The signal is relayed to headphones, and the golfer hears a pleasing organic tone. The sound tells you if your swing is in or out of tune, so to speak.
No less than Vijay Singh is using and endorsing Sonic Golf. He's incorporated it into his training routine with good results. Grober's system works because it provides instantaneous feedback. That's key when learning a skill like golf. It tells players immediately if they've swung the club correctly and with the right rhythm, timing, and tempo.
Does Everything It Says It Does
But you may not want to invest the money in buying one of Grober's devices. And you may not have to. Drills exist that will improve timing, rhythm, and tempo. One of the best is the swish drill. It targets the downswing action and provides a golf lesson on preserving power until the critical moment of impact. Here's how it works:
Turn your driver upside down or use a driver shaft with no clubhead. If you use your driver grip the clubhead. Take your stance and then swing. If you hear a swish sound while swinging down, you're releasing the club too early to generate maximum power. It's called casting. Swing the club several more times. Pay particular attention to the downswing. Try to maintain your wrist hinge, so that you hear the swish later in the downswing, preferably just prior to impact
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Another drill is the metronome drill. It helps improve the rhythm, timing, and tempo of your putting stroke. A metronome is used to improve rhythm, timing, and tempo in music. In the metronome drill you synchronize your putting stroke to the beat of the device. Once again, the focus is on learning to accelerate, not decelerate into the ball, as many players do. Acceleration produces power.
These two drills do what Grober's Sonic Golf does but without the costs. They also use sound to provide real-time feedback. And that's the key. If you're serious about developing a great swing—and lowering your golf handicap—incorporate real-time feedback into your practices and golf lessons. The more feedback you get, the faster and better you learn. It's one of the best golf tips we can give. It will help you develop a power-laden swing with great rhythm, tempo, and timing.
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The Place for ISPs in Gaming is as a Pipe
What is most painful about the potential outcome of the elimination of net neutrality is that a typical access provider has few, if any, prospects of building a genuine business around gaming. No matter how magnificent their delusions of grandeur, ISPs have no true focus, no core IP to leverage, no pre-existing partners to prop up or acquire in gaming. In other words, if they kill off Blizzard Entertainment or Sony Online Entertainment, they will not receive any profit that would not immediately be absorbed in the call center handling customer satisfaction issues due to loss of existing games.
Unlike video and voice, where mainstream ISPs tend to have at least some competency depending on their heritage (cable vs. DSL), most access providers have no idea about what it takes to create and maintain a viable value proposition in the world of gaming, especially online, interactive gaming. To date, not a single top gaming company has been owned or funded by an ISP – and with good reason. The first tangible manifestations of an ISP’s gaming strategy9 are little more than casual gamer portals, dozens of which are already on the market10 with marginal branding and success rates.
Of course, the failure to date of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game to emerge from an ISP is not a particularly damning statement given that even top-notch developers have flopped in fostering true game communities (see Sims Online for example). However, the mere glimmer of success in multiplayer online gaming is nowhere to be seen for today’s ISPs. No set top box or other interface provided by an ISP can provide an experience similar to a console or PC, even for single player games. At best, it can be the platform for a casual gamer whose taste extends no further than card games. Given that online gambling is not something an on-shore company will want to touch with a ten foot pole, the upside on an ISP’s venture to provide games is highly limited in both reach and potential revenue per user, with annual gross/net revenues topping out at seven figures at most.
On the other hand, building and maintaining a truly open pipe for low latency broadband can and does fetch a premium. If the ISP is not in the business of telling anyone what to play or how much to play, but simply sells a bigger, faster pipe, the upside is astronomically larger. For example, Verizon’s FIOS is expected to reach profitability by 2009 with potential revenues well into the billions. Compared with the pennies to be made on building another version of Solitaire for the set-top-box, there is no contest.
Parallels with Mobile
To see the gaming world of tomorrow without net neutrality, we can look at the fate of mobile gaming. When RampRate conducted a primary research study on mobile application and game developers, we saw that despite some bright spots, the majority of developers were a sorry lot. To list just a few complaints, developers:
* Were forced to assume substantial business risk with limited upside due to draconian revenue shares;
* Waited on overdue payments from carriers for months with no leverage to collect;
* Had no access to the end consumer to determine customer satisfaction and potential for future offerings;
* Lived and died by their placement in portals or “decks” which was determined by methods that were at best inscrutable and at worst corrupt and arbitrary;
* Were repeatedly let down by operators, distributors, and retailers in developing coherent marketing resources.
In short, when the network controlled the content, developers could not effectively iterate towards improvement or be fairly rewarded for their accomplishments. Their businesses and products suffered, which in turn severely retarded market development. Mobile gaming today is probably better on an original GameBoy than on the latest smartphone. And for all the limitless possibilities of using unique portability and location features to create new gaming communities, there is no World of Warcraft or Everquest or Second Life on mobile. If IP networks become akin to mobile networks in their restrictiveness, we may all find out why billion dollar revenue generators such as these die off.
What Next?
The course of action is clear for each party involved. Gaming communities are powerful, profitable, and yet very fragile. Hasty change in this area can drastically undermine that which has already been accomplished – reducing the total size of the pie to the point where no entity will benefit. Regardless of position in the value chain, we should take careful steps towards change while retaining the basic premise of net neutrality. Specifically, we recommend the following steps:
* For ISPs — If ISPs are granted veto power over packets in their networks, the best course of action is to let gaming live as it does today. Considering the load on call centers, the publicity fallout, and the resultant future regulation that could be more stringent than that proposed today, any move to restrict gaming carries dangers far in excess of potential rewards. ISPs should understand that gaming is not a core competency in any sense, and better revenue opportunities from packet prioritization exist in taxing Google and locally monopolizing VOIP instead. By far, the best value proposition in this industry is to become the best pipe a gamer can buy, and make fast, neutral access a strength of the portfolio.
* For developers and publishers of online games — Flexing some muscle as both big spenders and influences on the user is the optimal path for guarding the status quo. Given that operators of online games have spent millions on network infrastructure and hosting contracts, directing the spending to ISPs that commit to keep their network neutral can be extremely powerful. From a consumer perspective, gaming companies have on occasion succeeded in forcing regional European monopolies to build better peering networks because they directed users to complain to the ISP about slow performance. It may be difficult to invigorate the entire horde of gamers to engage in direct political action (to paraphrase South Park , “how can you mobilize that which has no life?”). But game developers have many carrots to dangle in front of an unmotivated user – from virtual gold to über equipment -- and creativity is their strong point, so perhaps some incentive can walk the fine line between mobilization and buying petition signatures.
* For commentators and press — The media should understand the value and fragility of the online communities being threatened. Instead of focusing on video as the dominant metaphor of net neutrality, there are profound stories to be written about gaming as a social network that, in mere months of existence, has already produced deep human relationships — passions, jealousies, even marriages. There are stories about how it added billions to our GNP and became a top export from the U.S. to Asia ; how it helped push the boundaries of software and hardware development; and how it added cross-cultural and cross-continental communications in a fragmented world. Each of these stories bears a mention about how it is threatened by the loss of net neutrality.
* For defenders of net neutrality — The coalition built to protect net neutrality should explore the ramifications of gaming as a threatened species. Potential allies exist in publishers, developers, network operators, and players. Gaming also opens up legal avenues to finding precedents for blocking packet prioritization on the basis of the irreparable harm done to gaming communities.
Conclusion
Out of all the victims of the loss of net neutrality, online gaming is likely to be the most fragile and irreplaceable. However, the immediacy of the harm and the lack of any tangible alternatives by ISPs may serve as sufficient cause to block actual widespread packet prioritization policies with regards to online games, whether by overburdening support resources (bottom-up action) or by tying up the matter in courts under the principle of irreparable harm (top-down action).
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