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LAS VEGAS, Nev.
The North American Tea Championship (NATC) announced 10 first-place winners in various categories of its new Packaged Single-Service evaluation, which took place Nov. 14 – 15.
The Championship is the only independent competition, judged by professional cuppers, to distinguish the highest quality and best tasting teas that are commercially available in the North American marketplace. Some of the winning teas will be featured at the upcoming World Tea Expo, June 7 – 9 in Las Vegas, Nev.
"The tea submissions for NATC's inaugural Packaged Single-Service evaluation were much higher in quality than we expected," said North American Tea Championship Judge Mike Spillane, CEO at The G. S. Haly Company. "The quality of the teas showed a significant level of professionalism. There was a lot of thought put into these premium teas," he said.
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Tea Championship To inquire about competing in upcoming North American Tea Championship evaluations, including the Hot Tea Class, Iced Tea Class and Packaged Single-Service Tea Class, e-mail [email protected] or call 702-253-1893.The next North American Tea Championship, for the fall Hot Tea Class, takes place in February 2013.
According to Spillane, the key message to consumers is that packaged single-service teas can deliver a first-class cup. "Don't be hesitant when it comes to trying single-service teas," Spillane said.
"There's a lot of quality out there. Yet, there are so many tea brands that even I, a professional, sometimes have difficulty selecting the right single-service packaged tea at my market or online. So, my advice? When looking for a single-service tea, choose teas that are packaged in the pyramid tea bags; they present a greater selection and you have a higher chance of getting a specialty tea because it holds whole leaf, unlike the traditional flat-packed tea bags."
Overall, Spillane said this new single-service competition from the NATC is a good first-step towards helping connoisseurs pick the right tea from the shelf. "This kind of third-party evaluation can really help the buyer make a decision, when they look for the North American Tea Championship logo."
Packaged Single-Service Tea first-place winners include (Company, Tea, and Category):
- Newby Teas LTD, Kan-Junga Pyramid Infusers, Black Tea-Single Origin
- Brands of Britain, Yorkshire Gold, Black Tea Blends Unflavored
- Den's Tea, Organic Fairtrade Mango Black Tea, Black Tea Flavored
- QTrade Teas & Herbs, Organic Mao Jian, Pan-fired Green Tea
- The Green Teaist, LLC, TGT Blend, Steamed Green Tea
- Two Leaves Tea Company, Jasmine Petal, Jasmine Scented Green Tea
- Choice Organic Teas, Genmaicha, Green Tea Blended/Flavored
- Redco Foods, White Tea Asian Plum, White Tea Blended/Flavored
- Newby Teas LTD, Chamomile Pyramid Infusers, Herbal
- Teatulia Organic Single Garden Teas, Lemongrass Herbal Infusion, Herbal Blended/Flavored
Spillane pointed out that the flavored teas in this Packaged Single-Service Class were notably subtle in terms of flavor. "There weren't any over-the-top flavor profiles," he explains. "There were no teas that were bad in this category of competition, and that's quite a compliment as we certainly have judged some less-than-perfect tea submissions in other categories of the North American Tea Championship."
A complete list of first, second and third-place winners, as well as details on the Championship, is available at www.teachampionship.com.
|About NATC's Packed Single-Service ClassThe new North American Tea Championship's Packaged Single-Service Tea Class is designed to determine the best tea bags, instant hot teas and other single-service teas that are commercially available in North America. The Class is evaluated once a year in November, and 2012 year marks the first evaluation for this category.For the recent competition, submissions were evaluated blind and through organoleptic analysis of characteristics, including flavor, body, color, clarity and balance. An overall numerical value on a 100-point scale was calculated based on the ratings of each characteristic, and winning teas were determined by rank.Teas were evaluated by similar pack size. For example, teas sold in 50 to 100 count packs evaluated against similar packaged teas. And teas packaged in a box under a 25 count — which includes most specialty teas — were evaluated against similar offerings.All teas that competed were brewed using one single-serve pack (teabag, sachet, portion pack, etc.) and steeped in an eight ounce serving cup. For the evaluation, the water temperature and steep time for each category was according to a specific Brew Plan chart.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 19, 2012) – The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team used a valiant comeback to defeat Korea, 20-25, 18-25, 25-17, 25-23, 17-15 on Saturday in an FIVB World League pool play match played in Florence, Italy.
The U.S. Men (1-1), ranked No. 6 in the world, will finish their Italian World League stop on Sunday (11:30 a.m. PT) against host Italy, ranked No. 3. Korea (0-2), ranked No. 20, will play France, No. 21.
After losing the first two sets to Korea, which had a 34-18 lead in attacks after the first two sets, the U.S. Men pulled together.
The United States fell behind 9-6 in the third set, but took its first lead at 14-13. With the score tied 15-15, the U.S. used a Korean serving error, a block by middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and an ace from outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) to take an 18-15 lead that it never gave up.
The U.S. Men were behind 23-19 in the fourth set when Priddy scored with a block and Millar connected on an attack. Korea called timeout. But Priddy scored the final four points of the set on a block and three kills to give the U.S. the victory.
Team USA also looked to be in trouble in the tiebreaker as Korea reached match point at 14-13. Millar tied the score with a block and Holmes served an ace to give the U.S. match point. Korea tied it at 15-15 with a kill, but opposite David McKienzie (Littleton, Colo.) came through with the final two points on an attack and a block.
"I'm happy with the way we responded," U.S. Head Coach Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.) said. "My thanks to our guys."
The match was the second-straight five-set loss for Korea, which also tested Italy on Friday, 24-26, 25-23, 21-25, 25-23, 18-16.
The U.S. finished the match with a 16-6 lead in blocks. The teams were tied in aces with seven apiece while Korea held the edge in kills, 60-59. The U.S. kill percent was 50.0 while its hitting efficiency was .330. Korea's kill percent was 52.17 and its hitting efficiency was .313.
Korea led in digs, 46-35, but the U.S. led in receptions, 61-51.
Priddy led the U.S. Men with 19 points on 15 attacks, two blocks and two aces. Holmes had 16 points on seven kills, a match-high seven blocks and two aces. Outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) added 16 points on 15 attacks and one block.
McKienzie, who substituted for opposite Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii) in the second set and started the rest of the match, finished with 15 points on 12 attacks, two blocks and one ace.
Korea's Yo-Han Kim led all scorers with 20 points on 17 attacks and a match-high three aces. Hong-Suk Choi added 19 points on 15 kills and four blocks.
U.S. Middle blocker Ryan Millar (Alpine, Utah) totaled nine points on six kills and three blocks. Stanley finished with five points on three kills and two aces. Setter Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.) scored one point with a kill while starting setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania) had one point on a block.
Thornton, who substituted for Suxho in the first set and started the next four, was credited with 29 assists and no errors. Suxho was credited with 10 assists and no errors.
U.S. libero Rich Lambourne was credited with seven digs to lead the United States. Anderson was credited with 30 receptions, followed by Lambourne with 16.
Every player on both squads saw playing time in the match.
Knipe started Anderson and Priddy at outside hitter, Holmes and Millar at middle blocker, Stanley at opposite and Suxho at setter. Lambourne is the designated libero.
Thornton substituted for Suxho in the first set and started the next four set, but Suxho returned in the fifth set with the U.S. down 6-4. McKienzie substituted for Stanley in the second set and started the next three. Outside hitters Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.) and Riley Salmon (League City, Texas) played as substitutes as did opposite Gabe Gardner (San Clemente, Calif.).
Korea led 8-6 at the first technical timeout (TTO) of the first set, and then expanded the lead to 16-11 at the second. Coming out of the break, Korea scored on a kill and U.S. hitting error to lead 18-11. With Korea leading 21-13, it served out of bounds, giving the serve to Stanley who scored with two straight aces. Korea called timeout, but Priddy scored on a block, cutting Korea's lead to 21-17. The run ended when the U.S. served out of bounds. Priddy came back with a kill off the block and an ace to pull the U.S. to within three at 22-19. Korea called timeout and scored on the next two plays. With Korea at set point at 24-19, Holmes scored with a block, but Korea ended the set with a kill. Korea led in kills 18-7.
The U.S. started Thornton at setter in the second set but the Korean attack continued and the Asian side jumped out to an 8-4 lead at the first TTO. The U.S. scored on two kills by Stanley and two Korea errors. Korea extended its lead to 16-9 at the second TTO. The U.S. replaced Stanley with McKienzie. With Korea leading 18-11, the U.S. scored and Millar took the serve, helping the team to three more points on a block, McKienzie kill and block from Holmes. Korea ended the run with a quick kill and followed with an ace to lead 20-15. The U.S. called timeout and Priddy responded with a kill. Korea came back with a block. Anderson scored on a block and kill to pull the U.S. to within three at 21-18. But Korea scored on two straight kills and two straight blocks to reach set point at 24-18. It won the set on a U.S. net violation.
Korea held a 6-3 lead in the third set when Anderson scored on a back-row attack, McKienzie launched an ace and Holmes connected on a block to tie the score. Korea came back with two straight attacks off the block to lead 8-6. A Korea ace made it 9-6 before the U.S. scored twice on a McKienzie attack off the block and Korea hitting error. With Korea leading 11-9, the U.S. scored on a Millar quick attack and Anderson attack to tie the score. With Korea leading 13-12, the Asian side served into the net and McKienzie had a block to give the U.S. its first lead of the set. Korea called timeout and came back with an attack. The teams traded points and a Korean serving error gave the U.S. a 16-15 lead at the second TTO. Coming out of the break, the U.S. scored on a Holmes block and Priddy ace to lead 18-15. Korea called timeout and the U.S. served out of bounds, but Korea also had a service error and the U.S. scored the next two points to lead 21-17. Korea scored on a kill, but Millar answered with a quick attack and Korea hit the next ball out of bounds. Anderson attacked from the left to give the U.S. set point at 24-17 and the U.S. won the set on Korea's hitting error.
The U.S. Men took a 4-1 lead in the fourth set, scoring on attacks by Anderson and McKienzie along with two Korea errors. With the U.S. leading 6-3, Korea's Sun-Soo Han was injured in a collision with libero Oh-Hyun Yeo and the match was delayed for several minutes. The U.S. lost that point, but came back with an Anderson kill and Holmes ace to lead 8-4 at the first TTO. The U.S. led 13-8 when Korea called timeout and came back with a block. Yo-Han Kim took the serve and helped the team score the next six points, including three aces, to put Korea ahead 15-13. Korea was still leading at 17-15 when the U.S. scored on a Priddy kill and Korea hitting error to tie the score at 17-17. At 18-18, Korea scored four straight points on two kills and two U.S. errors to lead 22-18. McKienzie scored with a tip off the block to end the run. The teams traded points and Korea looked to control the set at 23-19. But Priddy scored on a block and Millar followed with a kill to pull the U.S. to within two at 23-21. Korea called timeout, but Priddy caught fire, scoring the final four points of the set on a block and three straight attacks.
Korea opened the fifth set with a 3-0 lead. The U.S. came back with a block and kill from Priddy, but it could not catch Korea. Korea reached match point at 14-13. Millar tied the score with a block and Holmes served an ace to give the U.S. match point. Korea tied it at 15-15 with a kill, but opposite David McKienzie (Littleton, Colo.) came through with the final two points on an attack and a block.
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To reach the USA Volleyball World League web site, click here.
U.S. World League Roster for May 19 in Florence, Italy
1. Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
5. Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6. Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
7. Donald Suxho (S, 6-5, Korce, Albania, USC)
8. Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9. Ryan Millar (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Utah, BYU)
10. Riley Salmon (L, 6-6, League City, Texas, Pierce College)
11. Brian Thornton (S, 6-3, San Clemente, Calif., UC Irvine)
12. Russell Holmes (MB, 6-8, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
13. Clay Stanley (OPP, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawaii)
15. Gabe Gardner (Opp, 6-8, San Clemente, Calif., Stanford)
21. David McKienzie (Opp, 6-4, Littleton, Colo., Long Beach State)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Team Manager: Rob Browning (Newport Beach, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Gary Sato (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: John Speraw (Irvine, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Ron Larsen (Lafayette, Calif.)
Technical Coordinator: Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Medical Support: Aaron Brock (Storm Lake, Iowa)
U.S. World League Schedule/Results
(All times PT unless noted)
In Florence, Italy
May 18: France def. USA, 17-25, 25-20, 26-24, 25-17
May 18: Italy def. Korea, 24-26, 25-23, 21-25, 25-23, 18-16
May 19: USA def. Korea, 20-25, 18-25, 25-17, 25-23, 17-15
May 20 at 11:30 a.m. USA vs. Italy
In Lyon, France
June 15 at 9:30 a.m. USA vs. Italy
June 16 at 8 a.m. USA vs. Korea
June 17 at 9 a.m. USA vs. France
In Gwangju, Korea
June 22 at 12:30 a.m. USA vs. Italy
June 23 at 12:30 a.m. USA vs. France
June 24 at 12:30 a.m. USA vs. Korea
In Dallas, Texas
June 29 at 7:30 p.m. CT USA vs. Korea
June 30 at 7:30 p.m. CT USA vs. France
July 1 at 7:30 p.m. CT USA vs. Italy

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Tyranny and my brush with London's Evening Standard
by- 24th November 2011
The finest – and first – free press in the world has become a tragic and bawdy farce. The upshot of the Leveson inquiry will be some form of press regulation. As the Guardian points out today, if Leveson calls for the Portuguese police to divulge the name of the journalist to whom it gave a copy of the translation of Madeleine McCann's diary, which he has the power to do under the terms of the inquiry, that is regulation.
Our popular press is now largely disgraced – but its fall should not be relished. I write as someone who loved her time on a tabloid newspaper, and was awed by the privileges it conferred even on the youngest hack. It is a strange retribution that the arrival of new media, effectively free on demand, and demonstrating their democratising effect, should coincide with the press' ignominious demise.
It need not have happened. Time and again we have as a society waived privacy laws and threats to self-regulation by the outrageously self-serving Press Complaints Commission, even though we knew they deserved it. We recognized that democracy, as de Tocqueville saw so clearly, is reliant on a well-informed electorate and occasional excesses were the price we paid. Tocqueville found such an electorate in America and saw at once that there could never be a French-style Terror there because of it. It has been worth fighting for – but the fight has been convincingly lost.
It may sound absurd to say it today, but the media is at root a Christian institution, emerging from the struggle by pamphleteers like John Milton for the right to think and speak one's own thoughts without the threat of state sanctions. Freedom of expression mattered enough in the 17th century to die for, and it is on the implacable 'No' of the nonconformists to state censorship that our press is built.
But freedom is not licence. And truth is not to be bartered. If you believe, as our culture sadly does, that truth is a matter of personal interpretation, you end up where we are now. Truth is not a commodity you trade, neither is it something you create. And it is not divisible i.e. the means only rarely justify the ends (as for example in the deception practised by the MI5 to lure the Nazis away from the date of the D-Day Landings).
Expose hypocrisy
My job at Lapido is to encourage religious literacy in and through the media, and it is a task I find harder to justify today. I have fondly believed that at heart, journalists are curious, decent people who will rightly expose hypocrisy and cant, and welcome altruism when they find it.
On that basis I have for 20 years encouraged faith-based enterprises to come out of the shadows and shine their light. I've done this despite being on the receiving end of tabloid tactics. Tabloid newspapers have also told my stories well and in ways we could never have done otherwise. But not until very recently have I sensed that the bullying that some journalists are prone to has become a culture in itself.
Bullying is too mild a word in fact. Have we forgotten already that Princess Diana was harried to death?
I worked as a researcher for a British MP who eventually lost his seat for abusing his privilege in the House. Standard reporters and others actually camped inside the block of flats where he lived and worked during the week. His hapless minions – I was just a temp - had to run the gauntlet of this nightmare daily. On one occasion, as the speculation surrounding his marriage and his misdemeanours escalated, I was chased down the road by two women hacks grabbing at my clothing. It was a tiny but unnerving example of the unremitting abuse that people like the McCanns have suffered. As a violation it is somewhere on the same scale as rape, and leaves a permanent scar.
I have recently been involved first hand in another case of abuse by the London 'press' that indicates, not amorality for this behaviour justifies itself in shrilly righteous terms – but moral perversity. Journalists have turned hunters, and ordinary people's mishaps are their prey.
The only way out of this quagmire is to restate that the truth is something that exists and it matters. Without it, there can be no consensus by which to decide and self-regulate social 'norms'. The state must, by definition, do it for us. And that is what every tyranny does.
So what is truth?
Truth actually has little if anything to do with religion, although religions try to protect it. Truth is what truth does: it does not bear false witness, it is not greedy for gain, it protects all things, it loves its neighbour as itself.
The biblical notion of truth is, at any rate, fully disclosed. The values that flow from it are not arbitrary. Disagreements may be had on the basis of what all can see and read.
But the values of the hackery are anybody's guess. When a newspaper can with impunity accuse a grieving mother of 'selling' her own child to pay off her debts, as the press did to Mrs McCann, we are on the threshold of disaster.
A reporter came to me last week and accused a client of mine of holding views that were at odds with 'modern London'. This apparently justified lurid headlines and the reiteration of unsubstantiated hearsay. She now wanted 'access' to him to write a feature about him.
Because I do not know what 'modern London's' 'truth' is; because it seems to depend on what one Metro or Standard journalist thinks will best sell a paper on any day in question; because there was no hint that this reporter knew the difference between fact and innuendo, I decided I had no basis on which to trust her.
And that's just one more tiny nail in the coffin of religious literacy.
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Tim Tebow Draws Thousands to Easter Service
Nearly 15,000 flock to a Texas church to hear the NFL quarterback speak
Tebow-mania reached new heights Easter Sunday, as thousands of worshippers descended on a central Texas town to catch a glimpse of outspoken NFL quarterback Tim Tebow.
Nearly 15,000 flocked to Celebration Church in Georgetown, Texas, about 20 miles north of Austin, Sunday morning to hear the newest New York Jet speak.
Traveling over 100 miles to get there in some cases, churchgoers gathered in fields for a music-filled outdoor service. And dozens of school buses began to arrive before sunup Sunday, with Tebow fans eager to catch a glimpse of the deeply devout Christian football star.
"I only got about four hours sleep, I was so excited," Amanda O'Hara, a worshipper who arrived from San Antonio around 4:30 a.m. Sunday, told the AP. "He doesn't hide who he is. Parents should see him as a role model."
Citing a church spokeswoman, the AP reported that Tebow recently reached out to church Pastor Joe Champion about visiting his congregation.
Easter Sunday happened to the best date for the football star, she said. "In Christianity, it's the Pope and Tebow right now," Champion told the congregation Sunday morning. "We didn't have enough room to handle the Pope."
During the service, Tebow joined the pastor on stage for a 20-minute interview. "It's OK to be outspoken about your faith," said Tebow, the son of former Baptist missionaries who became known in his college playing days for wearing Bible verses in his eyeblack.
Asked for his thoughts on what the country needs to improve, Tebow cited a line from the Pledge of Allegiance, Sports Illustrated reports.
"First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God," he said. "The more that we can get back to that."


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Pollux V was the uninhabited fifth planet of the Beta Geminorum system, in the Alpha Quadrant. It was approximately four billion years old and the nearest starbase was Starbase 12. (TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?"; DIS: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")
Like all other planets in this system, save for Pollux IV, the planet bore no signs of intelligent life, which was statistically unexpected when the planet was examined by the USS Enterprise in 2267. (TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?")
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This planet was only mentioned in dialogue.
Beta Geminorum, the primary of the Beta Geminorum system, was located in the Alpha Quadrant on a star chart seen in the Star Trek: Discovery episode "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad".
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Pollux V was featured in the video game Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. Pollux V became the site of the Federation Nikolasi (β) colony established by followers of the Acolytes of the Stars (β) religion. In 2268, the Enterprise was called to the Pollux system when the colonists began to encounter "demons". The demons turned out to be robots created by an automated defense system, taking the form of the worst fear of the intruder. The Enterprise crew discovered members of the native species of the planet, an insectoid race called the Nauians (β). They had remained underground in suspended animation for millennia. After the first contact, Nauians applied for Federation membership.
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35 VanderCook students took to the podium to conduct their peers at an afternoon and evening concert on Sunday, April 27. The conductors lead an ensemble in their primary discipline including the Symphonic Band, Concert Choir, and Philharmonic Orchestra. Each conductor is currently enrolled in Advanced Conducting and Methods of Teaching II where they learn to organize all aspects of planning and executing a concert. Junior, Jake Koulouris, admits that there is much more involved to pulling off an event like this then he had originally thought. The class handles everything from promotions, concert programs, and set ups, to sending thank you notes to all who were involved in helping with the event. All conductors also get ample time to rehearse their pieces at the regularly scheduled ensemble time. Student conductors work with the ensembles for 15 minute increments and are critiqued by ensemble directors and conducting instructors.
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Yesterday, former Atlanta Braves star and beloved-by-the-internet old dude Dale Murphy decided to celebrate President's Day by showing his Twitter followers a picture of one of his prized pieces of memorabilia: a baseball with Richard Nixon's autograph on it. The autograph reads, "To Dale Murphy, from one of his fans-Richard Nixon."
Two things: Richard Nixon's handwriting was kind of terrible, and that autograph is bland and impersonal and uninspiring in a perfectly Nixonian kind of way. I like to imagine that Nixon spent a good five minutes coming up with that message, settling on it after also considering, "To Dale Murphy, swing that bat-Richard Nixon" and "To Dale Murphy, from a human man-Richard Nixon."


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Ron's Brushes Installer not opening
I have purchased RONS WATER BUNDLE. All brushes install and work fine except for the Splash 1 and Splash 2 and Wings of Water Installer. They just wont open. Has anyone experienced this? Any suggestions to fix?
Haruchai Posts: 804
My guess would be to redownload the files. With the way the files download now it is very hard to know if you have a complete file or not.
Just tried my installers and they work fine but that means nothing as mine are from 2008 and the installers have probably been updated since.
Good luck.
foleypro Posts: 344
Which program are you using to open...?
I usually just click on the installation icon and it opens on its own. This time it's not doing anything. I don't know how else to extract the files such as the .abr.
Have you rebooted your computer since the last time you tried installing?
If you have, have you tried to redownload the product? You might have gotten a corrupted download.
Haruchai Posts: 804
Are you on Windows or Mac?
I just reset and downloaded all three PC files and all three installed perfectly.
Here are the files I got and their sizes, obtained from a right click and clicking Properties. If your files are different then a redownload is the way to go.
6497_RonsSplashes_1.2_gc Size:44.2 MB (46,442,033 bytes)
6498_RonsSplashes2_1.2_gc Size:53.3 MB (55,986,322 bytes)
6689_RonsWingsWater_1.0_gc Size:49.1 MB (51,542,091 bytes)
And rebooting is good advice too.
Hope this helps.Post edited by Haruchai on
Chohole Posts: 32,519
And if you think you may have corrupted downloads do remember to close your browser and clear your cache before trying another download.
I am on a Mac. 10.6.8.
I tried rebooting and clearing cache and re-downloading. Same issue!
The installer file just wont open.
Any other way to extract the files for the .abr brush presets?
Ohhh, a Mac.
Are the product installers the older versions compared to the ones that installed correctly?
Reason I ask is because, I believe the ones that will not work were earlier releases before everything got bundled into what you bought.
If this is the case then from what I have read here on the forums about Mac issues and installers that unless DAZ updates those with a .zip, you may be out of luck unless you can get your hands on a Windows PC.Post edited by jmper on
Yes, I believe they are older installers. DAZ should update these, no? I'll have to ask for a refund or an updated installer.
jordan6 said:Yes, I believe they are older installers. DAZ should update these, no? I'll have to ask for a refund or an updated installer.
Should, yes.
Apparently that is why most of the new stuff for the mac is in zip files. Would be nice if they got you the zip files.Post edited by jmper on
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As with all of rons brushes I had to unzip...Then its just putting into the PS plugin folder....


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First Mariner Bancorp announced Friday that it is dropping out of an agreement that called for Priam Capital Fund I, a New York investment firm, to invest $36.4 million in the Baltimore-based bank holding company.
"Circumstances of the bank have changed considerably since we entered into the agreement over a year and a half ago, and the board of directors believed it was in the best interest of the company to withdraw from the agreement at this time," said CEO Mark A. Keidel in a statement.
First Mariner, struggling under bad loans from the real estate crisis, had been under orders from federal banking regulators to raise its capital levels for nearly two years when it entered into the agreement with Priam in April 2011. In exchange for its cash infusion, Priam was to receive a nearly 25 percent stake in the banking company.
But Priam's investment was contingent on First Mariner raising $123.6 million from other investors. As part of the agreement, too, First Mariner's founder, Edwin F. Hale Sr., stepped down as chairman and CEO.
But First Mariner, parent of 1st Mariner Bank, was unable to raise the money and missed deadlines. The pact, though, gave both sides the option of terminating the agreement at any time if the deal didn't go through by Nov. 30, 2011.
Priam is headed by Baltimore native Howard Feinglass. He did not return a phone call Friday afternoon seeking comment.
Since the initial agreement with Priam, First Mariner is in a better capital position now that the company is once again profitable, Keidel said.
After five years of losses, First Mariner turned a profit this year. And last month, it posted its third positive quarterly earnings report in a row. Banking experts said that First Mariner, along with other lenders, have been benefiting from a rash of mortgage refinancings.
For the quarter ended Sept. 30, First Mariner earned $7.9 million, or 42 cents per share. The results a year earlier were the mirror opposite, a loss of $7.9 million.
"While our capital ratios remain below the levels required by regulatory orders, we are making progress and will continue to work diligently to increase capital to levels required by regulatory agreements," Keidel said in a statement.
James D. Hardesty, chairman of Hardesty Capital Management in Baltimore, said First Mariner's announcement could mean one of three things.
"They feel that they can make it on their own and they think they see daylight," he said. "There could be yet another financial angel that has appeared."
Or, said Hardesty, a former executive with the old Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Co., regulators weren't satisfied by the company's efforts, assisted by Priam, to raise the extra capital.
Banking consultant Bert Ely said it's possible that regulators started to pressure First Mariner again, given that the attempt to raise capital through Priam was going nowhere.
The agreement with Priam, Ely added, might have hindered First Mariner from attracting other serious investors or receiving a firm underwriting agreement with an investment bank to raise additional capital.
"The outlook for the bank at the time they entered into the agreement wasn't very good. Things are looking better," Ely said.
"What will be interesting," he added, "What happens next?"
First Mariner's stock, traded over the counter, closed Friday at 61 cents a share, unchanged for the day.


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When Amy Webb's relationship came crashing down she turned to online dating.
Lazily, she copied and pasted her resume into her profile.
"In the descriptive part up top, I said that I was an award-winning journalist and a future thinker, says Webb in her Ted Talk titled: How I hacked online dating.
"When I was asked about fun activities and my ideal date, I said monetization and fluency in Japanese," she says.
She also talked a lot about Java Script, a computer programming language.
Putting her not-so-sexy foot forward, Webb went on what she described as "truly awful dates."
Before giving up, she did some research on how to make her profile more attractive. Webb soon became the most popular person online.
Similarly, a new study from online dating site eHarmony has found that when filling out a dating profile the words used can greatly affect the experience.
The study, which involved 12,000 members, found a list of keywords that make a profile more desirable to the opposite sex.
For men, the adjectives, "perceptive", "physically fit" and "passionate" are more likely to motivate women to start a conversation with them. While adding the words, "quiet", "energetic" and "respectful" to a profile can have the opposite effect.
Researchers also found women who use the words, "sweet", "funny" and "ambitious" receive more interest. But the words, "spiritual", "quiet" and "romantic" fall flat.
Wired website conducted a similar study on how to write the perfect online dating profile.
Using data from dating sites OK Cupid and Match.com, they found people who listed surfing and yoga, followed by skiing and the ocean had the most success.
Additionally, "the most attractive band you can mention is Radiohead," says the website.
Finding the right profile picture isn't easy either.
Looking at the pictures of OK Cupid's top 400 profiles Wired found wacky photos were unattractive, and suggested swapping your profile picture regularly to appear fresh. Narrowing it down to three rules they say: "Stay fresh, stay clothed, get out."
Interestingly, when it comes to choosing a profile picture, Webb found that more popular women showed some skin.
She says: "The most popular words used by the most popular women were words like, "fun", "girl" and "love".
While this information could be mistaken for "catfishing", Webb points out that hacking your profile isn't about fabricating information.
"It's about being more approachable," she says.
A few weeks later Webb met a guy name Thevenin and two and half years later they were married.
"As it turns out, there is an algorithm for love. It's just not the ones that we're being presented with online," Webb says.
"All you have to really do is figure out your own framework and play by your own rules."
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There aren't a lot of General Discussions Threads, so I thought I'd start one. And what's more universal than food? Favorite foods, least favorite foods, interesting foods, food stories, recipes, questions, anything food related.
My favorite food is probably this one dish that my great grandpa used to make (that I eventually learned how), which involves flouring and then braising chicken breasts in onions, white wine, and three-six kinds of olives (depending on whatever you have on hand). Typically served on pasta.
Some honorable mentions go to chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes, yellow chicken curry, oysters on the half shell, and of course, the contents of this plate:
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Sydney: Agnieszka Radwanska flirted with her goals of winning a grand slam and becoming the tennis world number one last year and, after a blistering start to 2013, will be out to tick one of those boxes at the Australian Open next week.
It would be easy to dismiss the 23-year-old Pole as another of the string of players with no particular strengths to their game who have hit the top of women's tennis in recent years only to fade back into the pack.
Radwanska has separated herself from that pack and jumped into the top five in the world not only through the usual combination of hard work and application but also by her speed of thought.
Her tactical nous, anticipation, subtlety and all-court craft have earned her comparisons with Martina Hingis and to those attributes over the last couple of weeks she has added another - form.
After "a lot of treatment and rehab in the off-season" to clear up a few injuries, she has come out blasting in 2013 and eight straight victories have taken her to the Auckland Classic title and into Friday's final of the Sydney International.
"I'm really ready for the Australian Open," she said on Thursday after beating Li Na in the semi-finals. "I will do of course everything to win that match tomorrow as well, and we'll see. I hope to win 16 matches in a row."
Radwanska will be seeded fourth in Melbourne but her head-to-heads against the trio above her - 0-4 against Serena Williams, 2-8 against Maria Sharapova and 3-11 against Victoria Azarenka - indicate that in an ideal world she would want to avoid all of them.
Williams, who beat her in the Wimbledon final and WTA Tour finals last year, looked in even more imperious form than ever when she romped to the Brisbane warm-up title last week.
"Every tournament is a different story, every match is a different story," Radwanska said of the American this week. "Definitely she's on fire and she's playing unbelievable tennis for the last couple months. For sure she's a very tough opponent right now."
With Radwanska's run of victories has come confidence and, asked whether she felt she was now at the head of the second rank behind the top three, she all but presupposed a victory over Dominika Cibulkova on Friday.
"It's always hard to say," she said. "But I think of course winning two tournaments in a row is a good score and a good thing.
"Never had that before, especially here, so for sure I'm ready for the Australian Open. I'm happy that I can play my best tennis from the beginning of the year."
Radwanska has assiduously improved various aspects of her game in recent years and has recently been working on upping her aggression and adding a bit more fizz to her second serve.
She gives the impression that she knows what to do to beat the players she has lost to frequently but just needs to do it better.
Radwanska got to within a couple of points of the number one ranking after winning titles in Doha, Miami and Brussels last year and enjoyed her run to the final on the grass of the All England Club.
Williams proved too good for her on the day but Radwanska has no intention of making grand-slam runner-up the extent of her ambition.
"Of course it was like a dream come true to be in the major final, definitely, but I think nothing changed," she said.
"It's just that for sure I really have more confidence that I can be in the final of a grand slam and I can win it as well. So I'll try to do that."


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In today's technology-based world, cell phones are a key item that everyone uses as a means of communication. When choosing a plan, there are a lot of different options to consider, and PhoneDog makes the process of comparing cell phone plans an easy task. Most major cell phone plans on the current market will be considered in the analysis. Here are some of the considerations to make when deciding which type of plan works for you:
There are so many different plans available today that it is not difficult to find a plan that fits an individual's needs and works well within the budget. Of course, cell phone features are important, but the first consideration when buying a new cell phone plan needs to be the cost. How much money is it worth a month to get all convenient additions available to have in a cell phone plan? Once a price range is determined, the next step is comparing the plan options. PhoneDog is the perfect tool for comparing different cell phone plans and check out new phone options. With the easy to use analysis tool, looking for a new cell phone plan will save both time and money because you are able to weigh your options.
When looking into buying a new cell phone plan, there are four major types of plans to consider. These three options have to do with how many people need a cell phone on the plan, and whether you want to agree to a long term contract with a company or not.
An individual plan is good for someone that does not have a spouse or children that are going to need a cell phone as well. This plan typically consists of a single cell phone line that gives the user minutes to talk, text, and data usage at a set rate.
Family plans may seem to cost a bit, but with all the options this plan provides it will be a great choice if more than two lines are needed. If this type of plan is needed, most carriers allow each line to choose the cell phone to be used on the plan as well as the features for each line. Family plans tend to share minutes, texts, and data usage, but there are plans that allow the users unlimited access to some of these features as well. Make sure that the plan decided upon fits the family's communication needs.
Signing into a contract cell phone plan usually locks the deal for two years. Some cell phone companies do offer the consumer the chance to sign into a one year contract. Monthly bills are sent, and it is expected that the monthly obligation will continue for the length of the contract. Regardless of the length of the plan entered into, if the contract is broken there are penalties. Early termination of a contract takes the time remaining and adds a percentage of it on top of the fee for actually breaking the contract. Make sure that a cell phone plan of this nature is something that is doable for the entire term of the contract.
These types of cell phone contracts are flexible. Since no contract is involved, cell phone usage can be paid for on a monthly basis, or minutes can be simply added when you run out. Most no contract phones can be purchased at a store and can be used within minutes. There is even the option of obtaining one of the new smart phone models, but these may carry a small fee. This may be great for a person who has minimal cell phone usage, since minutes can last well over a month with no extra charge.
When considering a new cell phone plan the next important consideration is the features included in the plan. Most people will want to consider three items, talk, text, and data. Make sure the plan decided upon fits the usage required by the family using it.
This feature determines how many minutes are available on the plan. Some plans have unlimited minutes, but others put a cap on this communication venue. If the limit is exceeded, there is often a price to pay for each minute of overage. Those using prepaid plan options will have to purchase more minutes to continue phone conversations.
Texting is another feature that can be endless or be limited. Most plans today do feature unlimited texting, but having one that does not will assure that each text sent will cost additional money. If texting is a family tradition in the household, it may be a good idea to have this feature unlimited. If texting is not popular amongst those who will be utilizing the plan, maybe it is not needed.
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With all of the cell phone plan options available today, it is difficult to make an informed decision. PhoneDog is a tool that was designed to make the process easier for consumers. Just enter any cell phone usage habits into the analyzer and PhoneDog will search the existing cell phone plans on the market to find the perfect fit. When the results appear, just sort by price or feature and choose a plan.


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Lindsay Lohan reportedly wasn't pleased when she was slammed "en espanol" on "Glee" in 2011, but the actress apparently doesn't have any leftover hard feelings. She's heading to McKinley High.
On Tuesday, a rep for the actress confirmed to Access Hollywood that Lindsay will appear in an upcoming episode of "Glee."
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As first reported by TV Line, Lindsay will play herself.
She will join the drama, serving as a celebrity judge at Nationals.
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Lindsay won't be the first celebrity to serve as a judge. Both Josh Groban and Olivia Newton-John played themselves, serving as Regionals judges.
The "Glee" appearance is the latest move in Lindsay's comeback. She recently served as the host of "Saturday Night Live," and, in news first reported by Access Hollywood's Billy Bush, Lindsay has been cast as Elizabeth Taylor in Lifetime's "Liz and Dick."
The actress is due in a Los Angeles courtroom on Thursday for a progress report hearing.
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Now that he's safely into his second term, President Barack Obama ought to show some gratitude through his 2013 NCAA men's basketball tournament bracket.
That's one theory, anyway.
Whether Obama allows politics to influence his brackets is hard to know. But look closely enough at his 2013 choices and it's possible to decipher a bias for blue states, including a couple swing states that delivered him a second term.
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Eleven of Obama's choices for the Sweet Sixteen are in states that voted for him in November, including five battlegrounds. Two of them, Ohio State and Florida, are among his picks for the Final Four.
But after that, the theory gets wobbly. For the national championship, Obama picked Louisville and Indiana, both in states that voted for his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney. The president predicted that Indiana—representing a state that voted for him in 2008 then switched sides in 2012—would win it all.
Which raises another possibility: perhaps Obama, who no longer has to worry about getting re-elected, feels freed enough from politics to publicly support an all-red final.
Then again, maybe Obama was being completely straightforward when he appeared on ESPN Wednesday morning to fill out his official bracket. He made no mention of politics, but admitted an extreme bias for the Big 10, using that as an explanation for several of his picks. In all, Obama predicted that five Big 10 teams—Indiana, Ohio State, Michigan State, Wisconsin and Michigan—would reach the Sweet Sixteen.
The president admitted to choosing Syracuse to also reach the Sweet Sixteen largely because Vice President Joe Biden went there. Obama joked that if he didn't pick the Orangemen to advance, Biden would stop talking to him.
Obama wasn't so kind to his own alma mater, or his home state.
For the second consecutive year, he overlooked Harvard, where he attended law school and where the men's hoops team is looking for its first NCAA tournament win.
The president, who lives in Chicago, also picked Illinois to get eliminated in the second round.
Republicans took Obama's announcement as an opportunity to needle the president on his poor record of delivering on-time annual budget proposals. "Clutch with his brackets. Late with his budgets," the House Republican Conference teased in a video uploaded to YouTube.
On Friday, Obama will unveil his bracket for the women's tournament. Early word from ESPN has his Final Four picks as Baylor, Connecticut, Notre Dame and California.
Obama has publicly announced his NCAA brackets in all five of his years in office, and his success rate is so-so. Last year, he correctly picked two men's Final Four teams, Ohio State and Kentucky, but his choice for champion, North Carolina, was knocked out early.
He correctly picked North Carolina as the champion in his first presidential bracket in 2009, then went with Kansas for the next two years; each time, Kansas failed to even come close to the finals.
That, finally, is what brings us to the theory that seems to hold up best: Obama, like any politician in good standing, is taking no risks.
The president's Final Four grouping includes two No. 1 seeds, a No. 2 seed and a No. 3 seed. He has both of those No. 1 seeds advancing to the championship game.
"He's not going out on limb—he's picking teams with the best odds, said Rider University journalism professor and basketball writer Aaron Moore. "So if he loses, he can look like everyone else. He'd look goofy if he picked a dark horse. He doesn't want to look that far out of the norm."
Moore added: "Mitt Romney would have the same Final Four."
John Sayle Watterson, a sports historian and author of the book "The Games Presidents Play: Sports and the Presidency," likened Obama's bracket ritual to throwing the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game: it's politically safe, and quintessentially American.
"Doing this is something that is going to connect with a lot of people who are doing the same thing," Watterson said.


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A pair of players from non-traditional football powers have claimed weekly Walter Camp honors, the foundation announced Sunday.
SMU quarterback Garrett Gilbert and Duke linebacker Kelby Brown were named the National Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, respectively, for their performances in Week 9.
Gilbert's 635 yards of total offense (538 passing, 97 rushing) in SMU's win over Temple were the seventh-most in FBS history. His passing total was the most in school history.
Gilbert became the first Mustang to claim Camp honors since the weekly award was first introduced in 2004.
In Duke's 13-10 win over a ranked Virginia Tech team, Brown was credited with 14 tackles, one for loss, and an interception late in the fourth quarter that helped seal the victory. With the win, the Blue Devils are bowl-eligible in back-to-back seasons for the first time in school history.
Below is the year-to-date list of weekly 2013 Camp honorees:
WEEK 1: Alabama wide receiver Christion Jones, Virginia safety Anthony Harris
WEEK 2: Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray, Michigan State defensive end Shilique Calhoun
WEEK 3: Ohio State quarterback Kenny Guiton, UCLA linebacker Anthony Barr
WEEK 4: Pittsburgh quarterback Tom Savage, Maryland safety A.J. Hendy
Week 5: Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray, TCU safety Sam Carter
Week 6: Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston, Florida cornerback Loucheiz Purifoy
Week 7: Army running back Terry Baggett, Louisiana-Monroe safety Isaiah Newsome
Week 8: NIU quarterback Jordan Lynch, Florida State cornerback Lamarcus Joyner
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Second Avenue Subway: Completed Portions, 1970s
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Construction contracts were let about 1974 for four sections, but the city budget crisis prevented further work. The contracts begun were completed and so these four bits have been completed:
- Chinatown, near the Manhattan Bridge: From the east side of the Bowery along Division Street, to Chrystie Street. Passes in front of Confucius Plaza (apartment tower), P.S. 124, under private property (notice a ventilation structure aboveground), and then under Manhattan Bridge plaza to near the north side of the plaza, ending a bit short of the Chrystie St line. (This is a short distance, about 2 blocks total.) The structure underpins the subway coming off of the Manhattan Bridge (the existing "Canal Street Bridge Line" and the former connection to the Nassau Street loop). North of here, contract drawings indicate that the tunnel would continue to come into Grand St. station on either side of the existing route, offering cross-platform transfers. It is unknown whether the Chrystie Street construction included the 2nd Avenue tunnels which would run along Chrystie St. north and south of Grand Street for a few blocks. (See the Proposed Track Map, 2nd Avenue Subway, 1970s for the Grand Street track connections.) South of here, the likely route would be St. James Place, Pearl Street, Water Street to Whitehall Street terminal; or a connection to the unused Manhattan Bridge approach from Nassau Street (which would provde a lower Manhattan terminal without any lower Manhattan construction).
- Second Ave, from 2nd St to 9th St, 2 tracks. Rumors about this particular section claim alternatively that this section was filled back in after excavation; or that it wasn't excavated at all and that the only work actually performed was limited to utility relocation in the area.
- Second Ave, from 99th St to 105th St, 2 tracks.
- Second Ave, from 110th St to 119th St, 2 tracks.
- In addition to those four contracts, bellmouths for the connections at 63rd Street were incorporated into the construction of the 63rd Street Tunnel Proposed Track Map, 2nd Avenue Subway, 1970s. It is unknown how much was actually built, but the bellmouths are clearly visible from trains passing through the 63rd Street Tunnel.
None of these sections included the stations, which were to be located near these segments at 96th-99th St., 105th St., and 125th St. In 2003, the MTA resumed planning and environmental analysis for a full-length Second Avenue Subway, from 125th Street to the Financial District in Lower Manhattan, with construction planned to begin by the end of 2004. Presumably the 63rd St. Tunnel to 125th Street portion would be completed first to provide some crowding relief for the Lexington IRT services.


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Russian prospect news
Submitted by Anonymous on October 30, 2007 - 10:45
Not sure if the BP guys had seen this yet, but Denis Kazionov is no longer on any team in Russia and apparently tried out for HC Avangard. I know the last few reports have him as not playing, and very true as he isnt with the team! It's under 10/25/07 notes at www.russianprospects.com
Also I'm trying to find out from my Russian friends, but Artyukhin might be hurt which is why he isnt playing but that cant be found anywhere so its just a rumor for now.
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'"The hardest part was first learning English. I couldn't speak a word of English when I got there. My billet, friends, teammates helped me out. I talked to my billet the whole day and the hockey players too. The small ice, the intensity is different in Europe as well. Just everything took some adjusting to."'
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:D So I got some snazzy photos taken of my army in the making last weekend, and now I've got them uploaded (in 25% size), so I decided to share some photos of'em!
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I think this shows what kind of camo I've had in mind for my guys. Every soldier's got camo-cloth on his clothing, but it doesn't show up well in the pictures. I'm proud to say that I've missed the tank a couple of times when I've looked on the table, but it works best in Cities of Death. I've tried to model the camo on the boards we usually play on. Up close the camo does look a bit spotty though. :(
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Here're all the painted figures, sans 8 I finished today, posing in the environment they're meant to fight in. The army's named Gate Wardens as they are the defensive forces of Freoburgh, an ancient Forge World specializing in the development of the dreaded Executioner Leman Russ model (plasma-cannons galore). The Regiment has a long and bloody history, as both chaos scum and greenskin filth have tried to claim the foundries for their own.
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Some veterans hiding out in a fortified cover. Some of the transfers are painfully obvious when looking at the larger picture. I hate and love the transfers, but I've yet to find a method that easily hides the plastic edges.
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Some blurry, some less so, but showing off the camo of their pants and jacketsleeves. I've also gone for a mixed-race theme in my army, since mankind didn't just suddenly turn white once we left for space.
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Colonel Fyrnmann, Commissar Abraham Salk, Vox-com Officer Mandrick and Medic Piotr keeping it real.
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Overhead view. Here we get a look at Techpriest Enginseer Falskr, donning the traditional white robes of his office (the red cloak has yet to be implemented on Freoburgh)
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Here we have the entire Company with first, second and third platoon, parts of the 22nds Mechanized as well as some Planetary Defense Force soldiers (old Guardsmen models I bought painted). First and second Platoon are infantry-based, Third is strictly Heavy Weapons oriented while the 22nd Mechanized is represented by the Sentinel and the three Leman Russes.
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Command staff again with the inclusion of Commissar Matteus von Petroff. He likes to orate.
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A closer look on the infantry.
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Commander of the Company and Colonel to Boot, Fyrnmann is one tough SOB (he survived 2½ rounds of firing from about 6-700 points of orks by himself before succumbing to the ork bikers who drove up into the ruins to catch him), and his white gloves represent just how serious he takes his position. Favored tactics is hiding out between the normal troopers with four plasma-guns ready to render whatever foolish elite units approaching into molten piles of slag. Other favored tactics are sniping with a lascannon from ruins donning camo-cloaks, or even watching from a distance, wishing the boys good luck while heading for cover.
Anyway, I'll try to keep up the photo-taking as my army progresses. :) Any thoughts, comments or criticism is very welcome.


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So far, the Nu Metal revival was great but a little disappointing. We got bands that mined the genre for emotional. It sounds impossible, but there's beauty in Islander's "The Sadness of Graves" or Of Mice & Men's "Another You" that no other band in the style had. Others just knew how to rock. What the revival didn't have was a band that captured the original weirdness.
Nu Metal was, at its heart, a weird genre. The reason critics and True Metalheads whined about it was because they couldn't keep up. Bands switched vocal styles and genres but still kept it simple. You don't hear a song like Slipknot's "Only One" anymore – a mish-mash of three genres that's accessible enough to play Tekken to. Issues finally deliver what the revival needed – an album that's as bizarre as it is catchy.
It was so easy to go the other route. It was so easy to feed the mosh kids what they want, play 100 more breakdowns with the occasional R&B break. Instead we get "The Released", which explodes with a funky riff, rapped vocals and then towards R&B singing all backed by Djent guitars. The second single "COMA" sounds even more like Periphery remixing a Justin Bieber song. Previous Trancecore band still had some aggression in their vocals, but Carter forgets he's in a rock band. If I were a Slayer fanboy, I'd be offended.
The problem with mixing genres is getting the balance. Some bands merely add elements – a rap verse here or a bass drop there. The most frustrating ones add so much you can't ignore, but never enough to break out of their subgenre. In their beginning, Issues' R&B elements were hard to ignore but were also not enough. "Stringray Affliction" may be brilliant, but it's a Metalcore song spliced with an R&B outro.
Headspace isn't completely genreless, but it's diverse enough to make it only fit 'Rock' or 'Nu Metal'. It's not even that the band isolates the styles, playing a Djent song and then a Pop song. The songs don't even switch sections. It's the method of picking small elements, mixing them and creating a whole song. "The Realest" is the best example of this. Despite mixing Funk, R&B, Djent and Hip-Hop it still sounds like a whole song rather than hopping from one thing to another. What's more impressive is that these outside influence aren't filtered. The rapping in "Blue Wall" and "Someone Who Does" is convincing. The two vocalist can produce a Rap record and no one would guess they have a Rock background. It's also no surprise Carter released a solo record, because he never sounds like a Rock singer imitating Craig David.
As exciting as the sound is, there's also disappointment. Issues never go full weird. There's nothing like "Kobrakai" or "Nobody's Listening". While the band managed to distill their influence into a coherent sound, they're afraid of expanding on it. The songs never differ too much from another. "Blue Wall" is feels like the most radical departure here, only because it commits itself fully to brutal slamming. None of the song commits itself to anything, but the band merely plays variations on a sound.
They got hook to back it up, though. The sound isn't the only attraction here. Issues use their sound to dress up already great hooks. In fact, the album is ridiculosly consistent. The only missteps are, perhaps, "Yung & Dum" which feels too redundant in going on and on about how fun it is to be young. It's easy to forget there were singles when the songs remain catchy all the way through. They also borrow Periphery's songcraft. While still relying on choruses, the verses are often different and the songs conclude ("Lost-n-Found" gang vocals are an album highlight). The band doesn't just wants to have a gimmick or hit singles. They produce actual songs.
Anyone who's moderately interested in music should hear this. People who like heavy music can use this as a gateway to beautiful melodies. People who love hooks and clean singing can use this as a gateway to harsh vocals. Many will still dislike it. The typical criticism of 'they have no direction' and 'they're gimmicky' will surface, but these are just Slayer fans being stupid or Indie fans not knowing how to have fun. It's the Blue Lines of Rock – an album that mixes genres seamlessly, creating a consistent sound and plenty of great songs.
4 wastes of headspace out of 5


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Can you imagine the frustration of a victim being asked, "Why don't you just leave?"
While leaving seems like a quick and easy fix to escape abuse, we know that leaving an abusive partner is a complicated, difficult challenge and often the most dangerous time in a relationship. Victims have many reasons for staying. This week we're giving you 50, adapted from Sarah M. Buel's "Fifty Obstacles to Leaving, a.k.a., Why Abuse Victims Stay."
11. Family Pressure: Family members exert pressure if they believe there's no excuse for leaving a marriage or if they're in denial about the abuse.
12. Fear of Retaliation: The batterer has shown willingness to carry out threats and the victim fears harm to themselves or the children if they leave.
13. Fear of Losing Child Custody: The batterer has used the threat of obtaining custody to exact agreements to their liking.
14. Financial Abuse: Financial abuse can take many different forms depending on the couple's socio-economic status — ex. If victims have been forced to sign false tax returns or take part in other unlawful financial transactions.
15. Financial Despair: The victim realizes that they cannot provide for themselves or their children without the batterer's assistance.
16. Gratitude: The victim feels gratitude toward the batterer because the batterer has helped support and raise their children from a previous relationship, or take care of them if they have health, medical or other problems.
17. Guilt: Batterers have convinced victims that the violence is happening because it's their fault.
18. Homelessness: Homeless abuse victims face increased danger, as they must find ways of meeting basic survival needs of shelter, food, and clothing while attempting to elude their batterers.
19. Hope for the Violence to Cease: This hope is typically fueled by the batterer's promises of change, pleas from the children, or family's advice to save the relationship.
20. Isolation: The victim has been cut off from family, friends and colleagues and lacks a support system or people to stay with.


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Katie Holmes has addressed a recent parenting moment she wishes hadn't played out in headlines – dishing on what really happened when daughter Suri recently picked up a bag of anatomically correct candy.
"Recently, I took her to get ice cream in New York at this place called Serendipity that we go to all the time. It's for kids. The clientele is children," Katie said in an interview set to air on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on Friday.
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"Boy part?" Ellen asked.
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"P-e-n-i-s gummies," Katie said, spelling it out. "I said, 'Oh, wow those aren't Swedish fish… They are called p-e-n-i-s gummies and they look like it. She was holding the box and I was like 'OK, wow, we don't need that right now.' Because I thought if I said, 'Put that back,' and then she's going to say, 'What is this?' And I really didn't want to have that conversation. I was like, 'Why are they selling these here? This is for kids.' And then it was on the cover of a magazine that I'm giving her those gummies."
"The Kennedys" star explained that the paparazzi unfortunately captured the whole embarrassing moment.
"They were taking photos of it. I was like, 'Oh my god, no!'" she told Ellen "We put them back. You know so sometimes it's like, 'No, wait, hold on.'"
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DARIEN -- Round 2 of Greenwich vs. Darien girls basketball had a decidedly different outcome than Round 1.
On Dec. 27 in the semifinals of the LaVista tournament, the Cardinals claimed an overtime victory, but the Blue Wave had no such troubles this time around.
Darien's Meg Marren scored a game-high 17 points and Darien played strong defense after the first quarter to cruise to a 56-38 win.
"It was a really big win. In the LaVista tournament, we played a little off and I was injured," said Marren, who did not appear in the LaVista tournament. "We came back tonight and worked hard together. In practice, we've been working hard on defense to not let them get many shots."
Darien, which did not trail in the game, got off to a red-hot start and scored nine of the game's first 11 points. Greenwich closed to within 19-15 by the end of the opening quarter, but that was as close as the Cardinals would get.
In the opening quarter, Greenwich's Caroline Barrett, who scored a team-high 14 points, got her team rolling by dropping nine.
"We came out flat, plain and simple. We had no energy right from the get-go and it carried on through four quarters. We were never able to pull ourselves out of it," Greenwich coach Chrys Hernandez said. "Every single game counts and that's our mantra to ourselves. It's whoever comes to play tonight, and tonight Darien came to play."
The scoring slowed down considerably in the second quarter, as the Blue Wave defense permitted just four points in the stanza while increasing their lead to 29-19 by halftime. Emily Stein scored a quarter-high four points.
"The defense we played for the last three quarters is what we normally do. What was nice is we finally finished out a game," Darien coach Katie Lauten said. "We usually make it exciting all the way to the end, and we had a solid finish tonight. Everybody contributed and stepped up. Everything was clicking."
Darien continued its strong defensive play in the third quarter, once again giving up only four points. Stein scored six points in the quarter to outscore the entire Greenwich team, providing Darien with a 41-23 lead going into the fourth.
As a result of the big lead, Lauten emptied her bench and got her subs some significant playing time in the game's waning minutes.
Darien entered the night in sole possession of eighth place in the tightly contested FCIAC standings and the win was its fourth in a row.
"We know that we're as good as any other team and we're excited for the games coming up," Lauten said. "It's a tight race right now and it's going to be fun."
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Meg Marren 7 3-6 17, Emily Stein 6 0-0 12 Kelly Karczewski 4 0-0 9, Kate Fiore 3 0-2 6, Kendra Fitzpatrick 1 2-4 4, Erin Karczewski 1 0-0 2, Ali Aparicio 1 0-0 2, Dagny Belah 1 0-0 2, Claire Naughton 1 0-0 2. Totals: 25 5-12 56.
Caroline Barrett 5 2-2 14, Jamie Kockenmeister 5 1-2 11, Rebecca DeCarlo 2 1-2 5, Alexa Moses 2 0-0 4, Leigh Galletta 1 0-0 2, Abigail Wolf 1 0-0 2. Totals: 16 4-6 38.
Records: Darien 8-4 (7-3 FCIAC), Greenwich 5-7 (3-7 FCIAC).
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Due to COVID, contact the library you wish to use to check current hours and procedures.
Woodstock has four libraries: Bracken Memorial, May Memorial, North Woodstock and West Woodstock Libraries.
The CT State Library is located in Hartford.
Bracken Memorial Library
57 Academy Road
(860) 928-0046
Thursday 3:30 - 6:30 pm
Saturday 9 am - 12 pm
The library is open for curbside service only. See procedure below. Thank you for your patience at this time.
2. You may return books to the library drop box. Returned books will be "quarantined" for a week, then wiped down with a cleaning wipe, and returned to the shelves.
3. New books are on order, but as always, if you have any requests, just email me and let me know.
Take care & stay well,
Bracken Memorial Library
The original Bracken Memorial Library was presented to the Board of Trustees at the Woodstock Academy in memory of native son and Academy alumnus Howard Webster Bracken, with the stipulation that the library would serve the general public as well as the school. Sited on the west side of Academy Hall, the original library building served the community until 1992, when the entire Academy underwent extensive renovation. The new library is now situated in the Ely Ransom Hall Memorial Gymnasium. Internet access available.
May Memorial Library
15 Prospect Street
East Woodstock
(860) 928-0284
Wednesday 1 - 5 pm
Friday 1 - 5 pm
Saturday 10 am - 12 pm
Story Time Hours: First & Third Fridays at 10am
The May Memorial Library is located next to the East Woodstock Common. For 75 years before the library was built in 1930, books were circulated among different homes.
North Woodstock Library
Route 169, just north of Route 197
(near English Neighborhood Road)
(860) 928-2629
Monday 9 - 1 pm
Thursday 9 - 12 pm
Saturday 9 - 12 pm
The North Woodstock Library Association (trustees) was formed in 1854. Patrons were charged five cents per borrowed book, and a two cent/day fine for overdue books. Life membership cost $1.00 and regular members paid .50 cents a year. Members did not have the borrowing charge. From 1860-1871, the library was disbanded three times, and the books were either sold or divided among life members.
The building that the North Woodstock Library now occupies was originally a schoolhouse built in 1843. In 1944, the West Woodstock Library donated 50 books to start the North Woodstock Library again. It was housed in the Vestry of the Congregational Church until the the Town gave the building to the library in 1950. The inside remains almost the same. They still have some old school desks, and the outhouse in the back (but they have had indoor plumbing since the 1970's.
The Library has a nice selection of children's books, fiction and non-fiction for adults, romance novels and books on tape.
West Woodstock Library
5 Bungay Hill Connector
(near Perrin Rd/Rte.171 intersection)
(860) 974-0376
West Woodstock Library website
Tuesday 3 - 6 pm
Wednesday 3 - 6 pm
Thursday 3 - 6 pm
Saturday 9 am -12 pm
Story Hours as scheduled.
The West Woodstock Library has a beautiful new Children's Room, as well as a nice collection of books in new renovated fiction and non-fiction rooms. They offer various children's programs, including Story Hours and a Children's Summer Reading Program. Since 1825, the Williams Law Office served as the village's library. It has since been restored to its original condition.
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The Dangers of Carbon Pricing, and the Canny Way Forward
by Shaun Chamberlin on May 29th, 2015
Lately we've seen the president of the World Bank and 'business leaders from the very carbon-intensive industries' pushing for carbon pricing (taxes or 'carbon trading' schemes). This is intended to demonstrate their deep change of heart and determination to start seriously addressing climate change, but to my eyes it is a deeply cynical, pernicious attempt to channel the passion of those deeply-committed to action on climate change into mechanisms that will only maintain the suicidal status quo.
Which is why I poured all my experience of ten years' work on the topic into this peer-reviewed academic paper, which I believe demolishes the case for carbon taxes or carbon trading schemes as the way forward, and shows a clear, well-researched alternative (though it took almost as much effort as writing my book!).
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The odds of this thing seeing the light of day are slim, but we can't help ourselves - Sony is apparently planning a reboot of "Zorro" that places the masked Spanish nobleman in a post-apocalyptic future wasteland.
We'll let that marinate for a second.
"Zorro: Beyond Thunderdome."
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According to reports, the script comes from a pair of guys who seem hellbent on knocking Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer off the top spot on the "Please Someone Delete Their Copy of Final Draft" list (Friedberg and Seltzer are the two who infected the world with "Disaster Movie," "Epic Movie," et al) - Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy. Shipman and McGreevy are carving out a niche for themselves in Hollywood - they are they guys who circumvent copyright issues by simply "reimagining" classic stories in different settings (like "Once Upon a Time in Hell," which is just "The Count of Monte Cristo" set amongst London gangsters).
The working title is "Zorro Reborn." Sony previously had some success with more "traditional" Zorro movies like 1998's "The Mask of Zorro" and 2005's "The Legend of Zorro," both starring Antonio Banderas.
We now officially have a new in-development obsession.


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If you would like a librarian to gather materials on a particular topic, call us at (847) 256-6945; please give at least two days' notice. We can also prepare bibliographies for classroom use with at least two weeks' notice. Multiple copies for book club activities can also be reserved, with at least two weeks' notice.
Please send copies of your assignments, and we will post them at the Library along with details about where students can find the books and information they will need. You can fax them (847-256-6943) or phone them in (847-256-6945).
Teachers, administrators, support staff at eligible community schools may use their own local library cards to borrow materials for classroom use from the Wilmette Library.
Eligible schools include all public and parochical schools, nursery schools, preschools, and daycare centers located in Wilmette or Kenilworth. Additional qualifying institutions include Avoca West School, Marie Murphy, New Trier High School, and the Wilmette Park District.
School staff must work at least 12 hours per week for the duration of the entire school year to qualify for teacher loans. Student teachers do not qualify.
Library materials, which normally circulate for three weeks, may be borrowed for six weeks for classroom use. They may not be renewed. There is a limit of 150 items that may be borrowed at any one time.
There are exceptions. Certain library materials, such as selected audiovisual or holiday items, normally have restrictions on circulation period or on how many such items may be borrowed at a time. In these cases, normal restrictions apply.
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Sutrum Vizhi – Gajni | Munbe Vaa – Jillunu Oru Kadhal | Snehithane – Alaipayuthe
Newyork Nagaram urangum neram thanimai adarnthathu
Paniyum Padarnthathu…
Kappal Erangiye kattrum karaiyil nadanthathu!
Nangu kannadi suvarkalukulle nanum mezlukuvarthiyum…
Thanimai thanimaiyo… Kodumai kodumaiyo…
Pechellam thalatu pola ennai uranga vaike ne illai
thinamum oru mutham thanthu kalai kapi koduka ne illai
vizliyil vizlum thusi thannai navaal eduka ne engu illai
manathil azlum kuzlapam thannai theerka ne enge illai
Nan enge neyum anga
Entha thanimayil nimishangal varushamanatheno!
Vaan enge Nilam Ange
Entha uvamaiku eruvarum vilakamanatheno !!!
Naatkuripil nuuru thadavai unthan peyerai eluthum en pena
Eluthiyathum erumbu moika peyarum aanathenna thenna??
Jil endru boomi erunthum entha tharunathil kulir kalam Kodai anatheno ?
Va anbe neyum vanthal senthanal kuda panikati pola marume !
Lyrics in English
Its night in Newyork City..
Night is full of mist now..
And Wind comes via Ship and its walking on the streets now..
But in my room now…its only me and some candles..
Oh .. its very lonely…and lonely is pain..
You are not here to sing me a lori and make me asleep.
You are not here…to give me a coffee with a kiss.
You are not here to remove the dirt in my eyes with your tongue.
You are not here to make all my heart feel good..off the pressures and stress..
I am here..And you are there..
And in this lonelyness…Every minute is like a century for me.
Our seperation is like…
The Sky .. and The land..at extreme ends..
My pen will write your name a hundred times in my daily planner.
hundreds of ants will start eating my daily planner..
thinking your name is drops of honey..
Its very cold winter here…but still in this lonelyness i feel like hot summer here..
Come my love…if you are here…even in hot dessert…it will start snowing for me…


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Cell phone maker Nokia has entered into an agreement to purchase the Oslo-based Trolltech, makers of the Qt toolkit and the Qtopia mobile stack. The deal is intended to enhance Nokia's cross-platform development strategy, and to leverage open-source involvement in Qt development, adding another layer of compatibility to Nokia's platforms.
According to a statement from Trolltech:
"Nokia aims to continue the development of Trolltech's products and support of new and existing customers. Nokia strives for an open approach to technology that will encourage and support innovation in the industry, enable fast adoption of new technologies and advance healthy competition. Nokia embraces open source technology and will take further the open source development culture found in Trolltech."
Qt is the foundation of KDE, a popular desktop environment for Linux.


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The death of Marie Osmond's son, Michael Bryan, has officially been ruled a suicide by the Los Angeles Coroner, which announced the news on Wednesday afternoon.
The Coroner's office reported that Bryan — who died on February 26 — died of multiple blunt trauma, after he jumped off of a balcony in Los Angeles. No drugs were found in the 18-year-old's system, toxicology reports concluded.
A friend of Michael's – Ruthann Clawson – reportedly said that Bryan had previously attempted suicide three times by hanging, TMZ reported.
According to TMZ, witness statements contained within the coroner's report claimed Bryan was suffering from depression following some "bad school grades and a recent visit from a former girlfriend."
Additionally, Clawson reportedly told authorities that on the night Bryan died, he texted her that he was "feeling like sh**," and also, "I have a letter for you on my bed," according to TMZ.
When Clawson went to find him, she found Bryan had jumped.
Following her son's death, Osmond canceled a week of shows with her brother, Donny Osmond, in Las Vegas.
A funeral for Bryan was held on March 8 in Provo, Utah, which was attended by about 450 people.
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Dirks Pest Management of Lansdale, PA is a family owned company, offering safe and effective pest, termite & animal control for homes and businesses throughout the Lansdale, PA area.
Our integrated pest management program effectively reduces pest issues by focusing on the entire problem. Our program includes inspection to identify pest sources and assessment to determine the cause of the infestation and the best way to manage it. We use both chemical and non-chemical solutions to manage the infestation and provide monitoring ensure long term reductions. Spraying is just part of our solution. We will work with you to seal entry points, eliminate hiding places and reduce food sources.
Our integrated pest management program is the best choice when choosing an environmentally friendly solution that goes beyond short term fixes and instead provides long term solutions that use fewer chemicals.
All inspections are performed by experienced technicians that have been licensed and certified by the State of Pennsylvania. We are members of the NPMA (National Pest Management Association) and PPMA (Pennsylvania Pest Management Association) and attend on-going educational and technical seminars.