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'Crysis' with a difference - 14-year-old designer of T-shirt line Peter-John Gentles, student, wearing one of his own designs. This black and grey long-sleeved shirt is ideal for the male who wants to make a statement. Keresa Arnold, Outlook Youth Writer There's a 'Crysis' in Jamaica - a fashion 'crysis' that is threatening to take over the local T-shirt market with the use of creative poetry and arts. The person behind this 'crysis' is a talented 14-year-old from Ardenne High School, named Peter-John Gentles. Puzzled? Rest assured. 'Crysis' is no crisis. It is the name of the newest T-shirt line designed by Peter-John. It is so named because of the wars and other kinds of hostilities occurring around the world. The shirts are designed in collaboration with his mother, and they use the creative arts to express their thoughts and ideas about the world. Out of distinctive reasons, the series comeback was made in a manner tributary to the original concept, refreshing the visual presentation and sending the partial failure of the 4th episode into oblivion (the fact is that I've never considered HOMM IV to be such a big sidestep, but more like a variation capable of educating its supporters in a particular style). Most of the blaming voices out there mustn't forget that a good thing can only be seldom improved (in a true sense), and the virtual world already proved us many times that such maneuvers are just samples of a favorable mix of circumstances. So, no matter how big it says "Heroes III reloaded" on the collar label, and despite the hardware requirements grown on the back of some questionable technological progresses, Heroes of Might and Magic V remains a 3D TBS title of reference, and with the aid of few patches and some "slightly" vigorous expansion packs, this aspect could end up being recognized on a somewhat larger scale. Tower Second-Half Profit Rises 56 Percent on Life Insurance Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Tower Ltd., New Zealand's third- biggest fund manager for individuals, said second-half profit rose 56 percent on increased life insurance earnings. Net income rose to NZ$31 million ($21 million) in the six months ended Sept. 30, from NZ$19.9 million a year earlier, the Wellington-based company said in a statement today. Earlier this month, Tower shareholders approved a plan to spin off its Australian operations. Profit from the sale of Tower Australia Group Ltd., which began trading on the S&P/ASX 200 Index last week, isn't included in today's result. Tower said full-year net income fell to NZ$63.5 million from NZ$119.3 million a year earlier, when the insurer booked a NZ$78.4 million one-time gain on the sale of its Australian wealth management unit. Live Music Archive downloads by Various Artists I have been spending the past week downloading music from the Live Music Archive at www.archive.org. For anyone unfamiliar with this website, it provides free and legal downloads of concerts by musicians and bands that allow their performances to be taped (either by audience members or directly through the soundboard) and posted for not-for-profit use on this site. Currently the site contains 39,819 gigs and counting. It is a cybergoldmine for music lovers. The majority of the gigs are from the jamband category (the Grateful Dead head the list with 2,816 concerts); however, a careful search will reward anyone looking for something other than extended guitar noodling. Here are three excellent examples: The Mermen The San Francisco-based Mermen are, on the surface, a surf band.
Australian "Game Of The Year" Announced The Australian developer community isn't exactly the world's biggest, but it's always been a quality-over-quantity kind of affair. Tribes: Vengeance, Freedom Force, Transformers Armada, Destroy All Humans and Rome: Total War being the most noteworthy games Aussie devs have crafted/played a significant role in over the past few years. FIRST IRANIAN KINGS OF PERSIAN POETRY In this article, the life stories and the works of those famous poets as the First Iranian Kings of Persian Poetry are briefly studied and discussed. HAKIM ABOLGHASEM FERDOWSI TOOSI (935-1020): Ferdowsi has been considered as the first Iranian poet of national epics. Most Iranians regard Ferdowsi as the greatest of their poets and for many years they have continued to read and to listen to recitations from his masterpiece, the Shahnameh, in which the Persian national epic found its final and enduring form. To the Iranians, Shahnameh is the history of their country's glorious past, preserved for all time in sonorous and majestic verse. Ferdowsi is also known to be the first Iranian who professionally introduced many proverbs in his Epic Book of Shahnameh. The American proverb of Knowledge Is Power corresponds to the Persian proverb of what Ferdowsi has clarified it in one verse: One who has wisdom is powerful (in Persian: Tavanaa Bovad Har Keh Danaa Bovad). The concept of multiple cores might have been introduced several years ago, but it's taken some time for us to see the release of a raft of applications and software programs that can really take advantage of the technology. So, just as we had got used to the idea of two cores on a chip, Intel goes and spoils us with the Core 2 Extreme Quad, a processor that houses not two but four gleaming cores. This panel can't interpret its way out of a paper bag Clarity is not always a byproduct of lawmaking, but sometimes the Legislature crafts wording that's clear when read by the average Texan. It gets convoluted only when partisan bureaucrats start "interpreting" it. Or refusing to interpret it. Case in point: the Texas Ethics Commission's recent opinion that a state official need not disclose on a personal finance report the value of a gift worth more than $250. Let us review: Mega-rich Houston homebuilder and GOP moneybags Bob Perry gives former Dallas lawmaker Bill Ceverha $100,000 just 'cause he likes the guy. Ceverha isn't running for office, so apparently the two checks for $50,000 each didn't qualify as political contributions, which must be reported with the specific amount. After all, what's a hundred large between buddies? Because it was a personal gift, the Ethics Commission determined that Ceverha didn't need to disclose the amounts written on the lines above Perry's signature. Buzz Watch: Has Second Life Created Its First Real Life ... Real estate and development magnate Anshe Chung held a press conference in Second Life on Tuesday to discuss her claim that she is the first to have amassed US$1 million worth of assets in Second Life. She is walking a fine line in making that claim, since Second Life residents don’t take lightly to people making false Second Life claims in order to gain PR in the real world. Earlier this month, Dreamland (Second Life’s largest residential project) residents voted to ban public relations firms that made false claims.During the press conference, Chung talked about how she placed a big bet on the Second Life real estate market with funds she had accumulated since entering the world in 2004, according to Reuters:"Before November 15th I used profits from this business and made one big investment of 250,000 US$ to expand Dreamland, our largest residential project," she said . |
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