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With many of the South Florida's biggest shows and productions in 2008 landing at the American Airlines Arena, the good people over at Vision Entertainment thought it'd be a great opportunity to bring a quality hip-hop show to the Broward County area. And that they did. The first of hopefully many to come, SummerFest concert series came to South Florida with guarantees of leaving Vision Entertainment's mark as a quality independent production company that could compete with the Live Nations of today's entertainment world. With plenty of past international shows under their belt, there wasn't ever much for Vision Entertainment to prove, but they definitely reassured their place in rank on the evening of Saturday June 28th at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. South Florida's SummerFest 2008 with performances by Keyshia Cole, Lil Wayne, Akon, T-Pain, DJ Khaled an more. A full photo gallery and brief recap of the event right here on The305.Com
The Opening Acts
The evening began with a string of upcoming acts who all definitely gave their best efforts to woo a crowd that is generally eager to just see the headlining performers. The first five opening acts seemed to be geared more towards the R&B and Pop side of life, but that didn't stop any of them from giving stellar performances. Most notable was Michelle Del Amor who carried a great show with a squad of backup dancers that complimented her rhythm, style and song selection. Michelle really stood out with that it factor appeal that very performers have. And that's something that Wynter Gordon possesses as well. Ms. Gordon lit up the stage with her beauty and really made sure that you felt the passion that she has wrapped up within her song's lyrics. The next set of performers included various local Miami artists on the hip-hop side of the spectrum. Grindmode got everyone "so high" and Ball Greezy offered everyone in the audience a little bit of Shone. Both acts commanded a positive response as their respective songs have been burning up local radio stations' afternoon and morning mixes, as well as creeping up demand in regular rotation.
Artist entourages, music industry personnel and tons of media filled the backstage area. Christina Milian made a surprise low-key appearance and was escorted to a front row viewing of the show with her momager (mom/manager) and a friend of there's. Rumblings of a surprise guest that DJ Khaled was bringing out started making rounds backstage, and soon enough it turned out to be that T-Pain was the one who would make a surprise and very lengthly guest appearance in three artists' sets. Lil Wayne arrived fashionably with manager and crew at hand, but what a lot of people didn't see was a brand new Rolls Royce wrapped in a red bow parked outside the Backstage door parking lot waiting for Lil Wayne when he finished his performing duties. We have the exclusive picture. Check it below.
The Main Event
SummerFest's pinnacle was the four main headliners, whom all showed up in full force and gave their A-Game. Keyshia Cole took center stage like a real diva ("diva" in a good way of coarse) and commanded the microphone with her soulful voice immediately performing hits from her two albums. Following Keyshia came the almighty don dada DJ Khaled. There wasn't one person in the entire arena who could honestly say that Khaled did live up to his reputation of being the most energetic man show bid'ness. Khaled surprised the crowd with T-Pain who then assisted Ace Hood with his hit single "Cash Flow." which then transitioned to the unforgettable anthem of "We Taking Over" which then had Akon making an early appearance that would continue through the end of his own set. Akon could pretty much be given the crown for having the most well-received set of the evening. It seemed that from the second he got on the mic, the crowd just kept singing along to every word until the second he got off about 40 minutes later. Lastly, the man of the evening. The platinum selling and superstar Lil Wayne takes stage to address his people. He knows they're there for him and he doesn't do a thing to hide that fact. Wayne performed segments of hits from the span of his career and ended his set with the very hypnotizing (and appropriate) "Lollipop." Even though Lil Wayne has been in the rap game for years, you can just somehow to tell that when he hits the stage, he still loves every minute of his time in the spotlight.


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Governor Inslee's proposed 2013-15 education budget of $1.26 billion is a positive first step towards providing ample, equitable, stable funding for education.
The Governor's budget highlights many of LEV's 2013 funding priorities, including:
- Meeting the demand and access for quality early learning programs
The Governor proposed an additional $35 million to ECEAP.
- Full-day Kindergarten implementation
The governor proposed increasing funding for 50% of schools, beginning with high poverty schools.
- Continued support for quality professional development for educators and successful implementation of the new teacher and principal evaluation system
The Governor proposed over $90 million to support TPEP implementation.
- Protect student aid and expand access to quality post-secondary opportunities
The Governor proposed an additional $24.7 million for the State Need Grant and State Work Study program, as well as $35 million for the College Bound Scholarship Program.
- Support for programs to close the achievement gap (i.e. academic acceleration, English Language Learners, extended school day/year)
The Governor proposed an additional $21.9 million to support ELL learners and $12.5 million to help support children reading by third-grade through the Learning Assistance Program.
Three significant LEV priorities are missing from the Governor's proposal:
- Creation of a meaningful 24 credit high school diploma
The Governor proposed additional resources to hire middle and high school teachers so that instructional hours can be increased from 1,000 to 1,080 – the number of hours required for a 24 credit diploma. But the Governor's proposal does not link the additional staffing and instructional hours to graduating all students college and career-ready.
- Support for Common Core Implementation
The Governor's proposed budget includes no funding for Common Core implementation.
- Support for Working Connections ChildCare
The State's largest Early Learning program is not identified as an investment priority. The majority of the state's low income kids deserve a high quality early learning experience.
After years of cuts to education, it is heartening to finally be talking about investing. Closing outdated tax loopholes is a meaningful first step. However, the State Constitution and the McCleary decision are clear that ample funding for basic education must be accomplished by means of dependable and regular tax sources. Relying on taxes that will be subject to annual challenges from interest groups and a likely initiative challenge does not meet this requirement. We applaud the Governor's effort, but there is more work to be done.
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He will not play short handed thats for sure. He'll probably get some solid even strength time and play a tonne on the PP. He didnt get played in all situations in the Canada Russia series this summer and hes a turnover machine.
With a 1 goal lead in the final minute of play if Spott roles with the guys he familiar with, Canada will be going home without a gold just like the last few years and Spott wont be coaching again.
Ryan Ellis hardly played even in his fourth year except in more offensive roles, I think itll be the same for Murphy
For me the biggest reason Canada lost to the US in Saskatoon (and almost lost twice to them) was that they tried Ellis as a top 4 guy. I remember hearing pre-tourney videos about him wanting to step into a top 4 role, and he just wasn't ready for that
Of course the bigger issue was that we had a coach who had no confidence in one of his 7 defence man, and when Hamonic got injured we basically had no support on the back end. Why Gormely got cut in the first round of cuts, and how DeHaan made it over him was just beyond me
So yes, I dont want Murphy in a top 4 role. Rielly, Murray, Hamilton, Harrington sounds good to me
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The Amazing Spider-Man Review: Don't Have the Courage Inside Me to Tell You "Please Let Me Be"
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This Spider-Man gets its own origin story, thanks to credited screenwriters James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent, and Steve Kloves (with some occasional punch-up from Paul Feig.) This time around, Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is left to live with his Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt Mae (Sally Field) when young Peter's parents (Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz) die in a plane crash after going on the lam for reasons unknown. Discovering an old photo that connects his father to scientist Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), a high-school-age Peter visits the man's lab one day and gets bitten by a radioactive spider. Peter's evolution as a superpowered human is a slow one, though, and while dealing with his newfound ability to walk up walls, he's also doing some classically awkward flirting with Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), a classmate and intern at Connors's lab. The first third of the film is the strongest because Webb gets to flex the relationship muscle he used on (500) Days of Summer. He's so good at it that Peter and Gwen's goofy attempts at romance don't come across as forced or inorganic; rather, they spring from who these people are. Stone and Garfield are naturals, too, alternately brave and insecure with each other. Webb makes these moments shine because they're the times when The Amazing Spider-Man stops feeling like a contractual obligation and starts feeling like a story about a boy and a girl overcoming fate together.
Soon enough, though, that sense of assembly-line filmmaking returns. Peter, as he must, finds himself negligently responsible for his uncle's death, and his quest for vengeance turns him into a citywide vigilante. Set against this is Connors's descent into villainy as his attempt to genetically regrow a lost arm using reptilian DNA turns him into a giant lizard. In love with his new powers, Connors hatches a plan to infect the rest of Manhattan with the same serum because, he reasons, people will be happier in a more advanced evolutionary state. His logic is pretty thin even for the villain in a summer blockbuster about a giant lizard, but his dive into madness feels even worse for having to hit the same beats -- right down to the half-whispered voice-over as he argues with himself -- as Willem Dafoe did in Raimi's 2002 film. It's as if Webb and his team of screenwriters simply copied and pasted characters, setting, and motivation from the earlier films into this one, making it less of a reboot and more of a parallel-universe imagining of the whole thing.
Adding to the sense of autopilot is the sporadic 3-D. There are moments when the effect works well enough and adds a sense of depth and dimensionality to wide compositions, including fight scenes and Spider-Man's web-slinging flights through the skyscrapers of New York. But there are also huge sections of the film where it's not used at all. When Peter meets Connors, the scene plays out in bright, normal-looking shots that work perfectly well without 3-D glasses: both actors are nicely framed and perfectly in focus. There isn't any doubling, and something out of focus merely looks to be outside the camera's depth of field. This happens often. 3-D as an exhibition gimmick is flawed in any number of ways, from the digital blur of fast pans or tracks to the overall dimness experienced by watching a movie through a pair of mild sunglasses. Yet at least movies in 3-D actually appear to be in 3-D. A substantial amount of The Amazing Spider-Man seems to either drop the 3-D altogether or else to render it so minutely that it might as well not be there.
That's the issue plaguing the entire film: It feels not quite finished, not quite whole. It's more like a very well-made fan project than a movie with the heft and weight you'd want from something trying to sell you a new version of a story you just watched a couple years ago. The whole thing would wreck if it weren't for the sizable charisma of Garfield and Stone, who feel more human than Raimi's heroes ever did. Garfield's sarcastic, edged portrayal of Spider-Man is often wonderful: his banter with bad guys actually feels like taunting from a kid grown bigger than he'd ever dreamed of being. Stone is great, too, and she's more restrained here than usual. She and Garfield are endearingly sweet together, and their relationship is consistently the best part of the film. Ifans holds his own in a thankless role in which almost every word out of his mouth is a recap of what we've just seen or another explanation of his evil plans.
Every film, big or small, is a mix of art and commerce. The studio wants us to pay for the experience as a unit of entertainment, while the creative men and women on the other side of the table want to tell a good story. That's what we really buy into: the adventure, the romance, the feeling of going somewhere else for a while. Yet The Amazing Spider-Man is only occasionally able to work as a story. Too often, it feels like a blatant, ungainly request for more money from people who just gave us a very similar version of the film we're seeing now. Its status as product all but dwarfs its existence as a film. There's even the obligatory post-credit tag, where the next film(s) are set up with a quick, vague scene that does little except drive home the fact that this film isn't meant to stand on its own. Yes, there are some good moments in it, and Garfield is the best actor yet to don Spidey's tights. But so much of the film feels like a commercial for itself, rather than a narrative brought to light and life by storytellers with a mission. If only Webb and the rest had realized that with their great power comes great responsibility. I think I've heard that line somewhere before.
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Indian camel herders sit near their camels during the annual cattle fair in Pushkar, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013. Pushkar, located on the banks of Pushkar Lake, is a popular Hindu pilgrimage spot that is also frequented by foreign tourists who come to the town for the annual cattle fair and camel races.
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Cadets struggle with a large Canadian flag in high winds during pre-game ceremonies before East Division semifinal CFL action between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Montreal Alouettes in Guelph, Ont., on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013.
Canadian flags in honour of Remembrance Day cover the property of a seniors home in Burnaby, British Columbia November 10, 2013. Students from a local school planted 5,000 flags around the home that houses about 300 Armed Forces veterans.
Competitors ride a home-made vehicle without an engine on a 400-metre-track during the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Buenos Aires November 10, 2013.
A fire bull chases a reveler during the 'Toro de Jubilo' Fire Bull Festival in Medinaceli, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013,. Fire bull Festival "Toro de Jubilo" that takes place in the main square of Medinaceli is an ancient tradition from the bronze age. During the event a bull is tied to a pylon and flammable balls attached to the bull's horns are set on fire before the animal released. Revelers dodge the bull when it comes close until the flammable material is consumed. The bull is covered with a thick layer of mud on the back and face to protect it from burns.
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A camel trader (C) wearing his traditional headgear signals to other traders to follow a new track as they arrive with their camels at the Pushkar Fair in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan November 10, 2013. Many international and domestic tourists throng to Pushkar to witness one of the most colourful and popular fairs in India. Thousands of animals, mainly camels, are brought to the fair to be sold and traded.
Survivors stand among debris and ruins of houses destroyed after Super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city in central Philippines November 10, 2013. Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines province of Leyte, a senior police official said on Sunday, with coastal towns and the regional capital devastated by huge waves. Super typhoon Haiyan destroyed about 70 to 80 percent of the area in its path as it tore through the province on Friday, said chief superintendent Elmer Soria, a regional police director.
Mike Fagan (front) has his picture taken by his wife Lila next to a flag in honor of his father, a World War II veteran, at the Aurora Healing Fields ,which are two thousand and thirteen United States flags honoring veterans, during Veterans Day weekend in Aurora, Illinois November 10, 2013. Veterans Day is observed on November 11.
The Belchatow Coal Mine, biggest opencast mine of brown coal in Poland, is seen outside of Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant, in Belchatow October 31, 2013. The 19th conference of the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change will begin in Warsaw from Monday, November 11. Picture taken October 31, 2013.
A steward places a wreath during the service of remembrance at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013. The annual remembrance service is to remember those who have lost their lives serving in the Armed Forces.
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Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Dan LeFevour celebrates his game winning touchdown as his teammates lift him after scoring against the Montreal Alouettes following sudden death overtime in their East semi-final CFL football game in Guelph, November 10, 2013.
Members of an honor guard conduct a gun salute to celebrate the upcoming Armistice Day, marking the 95th anniversary of the end of World War One, in Belgrade November 10, 2013. Armistice Day falls on November 11.
In this Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 photo, a golden eagle flies during a hunting competition near Kyrgyz village of Bokomdfevo some 270 km (about 168 miles) east of Bishkek, Kyrgyz capital.
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Elder Rene Jose sheds tears as he prays for those affected by Typhoon Haiyan that hit the Philippines days earlier during a church service at the Filipino Alliance Church in Toronto on November 10, 2013.
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A fighter from Tawhid Brigade, which operates under the Free Syrian Army, runs beside a tank in Base 80 area of Aleppo, November 10, 2013. Syrian forces backed by Lebanese Hezbollah militants recaptured an army base in northern Syria from rebels on Sunday, the third day of heavy fighting for the strategic military target which has changed hands three times since Friday.
A resident looks at houses damaged by typhoon Haiyan, in Tacloban city, Leyte province central Philippines on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013. Haiyan, one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded slammed into central Philippine provinces Friday leaving a wide swath of destruction and scores of people dead.
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INTRODUCTION: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is an integral part of gastroenterology practice with a complication rate of 4-10% that largely affects the gastrointestinal tract (GIT).1 However, there are rare occurrences of complications outside of the GIT, and we present a patient who developed bilateral pneumothoraces as a result of ERCP.
CASE PRESENTATION: We admitted a 57 year old woman with a past medical history of metastatic cholangiocarcinoma for right upper quadrant pain and nausea. CT abdomen revealed biliary obstruction, and she underwent ERCP with papillotomy and stent placement. Following ERCP she was tachypneic with low pulse oximetry readings despite supplemental oxygen. She denied any fever or chills, increasing abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, or chest pain. On physical examination she had extensive neck and facial edema to the level of the periorbital space on the right side, diffuse subcutaneous crepitus of the chest wall bilaterally, and no auscultatory breathe sounds on the left side. Chest X-ray showed a large left pneumothorax, a small right apical pneumothorax, and extensive mediastinal air tracking up to the neck and soft tissues of the chest with extension into the retroperitoneal area. We inserted a chest tube on the left and managed the right conservatively. We admitted the patient to the intensive care unit, and subsequent CT chest and abdomen showed resolution of the pneumothoraces but persistent pneumomediastinum, pneumoretroperitoneum and subcutaneous emphysema. She continued to improve clinically with removal of the chest tube 5 days post procedure.
DISCUSSION: One proposed mechanism for ERCP-related pneumothorax entails air entering the retroperitoneal space after interruption of the duodenal barrier from perforation.2 There is spread to the mediastinum and subcutaneous tissues due to continuum of the fascial planes with mediastinal air entering the pleural space after rupture of the parietal pleura. An alternative hypothesis involves alveolar rupture from increased intra-thoracic pressure in patients with sustained Valsalva maneuvers from poor procedure tolerance.2
CONCLUSIONS: We present our case to illustrate the significance of the unusual complications that can arise from common procedures. In the case of ERCP-related pneumothorax, which is wrought with high morbidity and mortality, timely diagnosis is paramount for optimal management. We advocate for a multi-system approach in the evaluation of patients following any procedure in order to avoid overlooking potentially life-threatening complications.
Reference #1: Fujii L, Lau A, Fleischer DE, Harrison ME. Successful Nonsurgical Treatment of Pneumomediastinum, Pneumothorax, Pneumoperitoneum, Pneumoretroperitoneum, and Subcutaneous Emphysema following ERCP. Gastroenterol Res Pract. 2010; 2010:289135.
Reference #2: Schepers NJ, van Buuren HR. Pneumothorax following ERCP: report of four cases and review of the literature. Dig Dis Sci. 2012 Aug; 57(8):1990-5.
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Actually they are very tight when you get them. It sounds about right for a brand new Max Con. Wrap your gun in waxed paper and stick it in your holster a bunch of times....it will loosen up just enough.
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This is a discussion on Brommeland Max Con V - question within the Defensive Carry Holsters & Carry Options forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I bought a Max Con V a couple of days ago. It's outstanding. It rides well, stays put, and is mega comfortable. But there's a ...
I bought a Max Con V a couple of days ago. It's outstanding. It rides well, stays put, and is mega comfortable.
But there's a very minor issue that I'm hoping some of you may have dealt with. It's seems a bit tough to reholster one-handed. The mouth is very stiff, which is good. I don't know if it's reinforced or not, but it seems that it gets slightly squeezed inward by the belt and if I try to reholster, it wants to push the slide back, which is a definite no-no. I can put my thumb on the rear of the slide and hold it down and that solves the problem, but is that the way it's supposed to be done?
Tilting my body to the left didn't make a difference when reholstering because the mouth was squeezed in a bit. I love the holster, but I'm probably doing something wrong.
"I practice the ancient art of Klik Pao."
Actually they are very tight when you get them. It sounds about right for a brand new Max Con. Wrap your gun in waxed paper and stick it in your holster a bunch of times....it will loosen up just enough.
Shoot well and god bless
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I have 2 of them and I can re-holster one handed with ease in either one. I don't remember if I had your problem when they were new, but if I did, that problem went away.
I'm guessing you carry an XD. I carry a 1911 Commander, but I'd bet the type of gun wouldn't matter.
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The problem is only when I actually have it strapped on. It seems that the belt just slightly squeezes the mouth in a bit and it wants to push my slide back when reholstering. That's an advantage I guess a 1911 would have, a thumb safety to keep the slide stationary. The pull is just right when drawing, though.
"I practice the ancient art of Klik Pao."
The Max-Con is designed to be as thin and comfortable as possible *without a reinforced mouth*. This is what makes the Max-Con super comfy and pretty much you forget it is even there.
If you look on Brommelands site, he tell's you that the holster was not really ment/designed for one hand reholstering. Personally, I can't stand the steel reinforced mouth type holsters, the extra piece of leather at the mouth for reinforcement is ok but I want, thin, light and concealable with my holsters and the Max-Con fit's that need nicely. The Max-Con is kind of a compromise, although I do not have any issue with any of the Max-Con's I have reholstering with one hand. It may be that your belt is just a bit to tight?
Anyway, if you are looking for reinforcement choose the Max-Con VI next time, it uses the extra layer of leather at the mouth to help aid in one hand reholstering. None of Gary's holsters to my knowledge use a steel band at the mouth which is just fine with me but the only real way to insure a positive one hand reholstering. I just can't stand to wear the steel mouth holsters.
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I suppose it's really not a problem to just hold my thumb against the slide when reholstering. I can do it one-handed that way.
And you might also have a point about my belt being too tight, although I really didn't think so at the time.
"I practice the ancient art of Klik Pao."
Well...its as it should be. If you need, Yes, wax paper while wearing the holster...just dont do this alot. Be careful this will break it in quickly.
Shoot well and god bless
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice..........Rush
Just for fun, you said you bought it a couple days ago, did you get it from that distributor or did you order it direct?
If the latter, how long ago did you order it?
By the way, I like your username. Is it true that you "kilt a bar?"
"I practice the ancient art of Klik Pao."
Yikes - I really wish my Brommeland holster would arrive. Reading these posts about people receiving their holsters is about to drive me mad!!!
"Do not fear those who disagree with you; fear those that do and are too cowardly to admit it" - Napoleon
"I practice the ancient art of Klik Pao."
But in any event, yes, you should put your thumb on the back of the slide when reholstering into ANY holster. This will keep it from going out of battery.
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It helps to tilt the gun away from the body and engage the holster with the edge of the slide/barrel, using it to pry the holster open, then straighten the gun and insert it.
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- anticipating the dawning of a new era: the 1960s, with its aesthetics of psychedelic forms, patterns, and text.
helvetica turns a little psychedelic, too.
hehe very nice
i love your drawing style!
the drawing itself is fantastic, but is designed around a counterculture that really didn't come to the forefront until 1964. there was certainly a bohemian counterculture before then, but the same could be said of the '40s and '50s. it started really gaining popularity in 1964 in response to the impending Vietnam war (the phrase "hippie", a variation on hipster, was supposedly coined in '64) and had exploded by 1967. i really hate to be such a fuss-ass... like i said, i LOVE the drawing, and if you were to draw something else in this style i'd totally 5 it.
it looks like a hippie version of me
jett- i understand what you mean. i didn't intend for the design to show that culture literally change in 1960; rather, referencing the entirety of the 60s decade as it is looked back on.
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hey sonmi... just for the record, i gave it a 4 anyway... i love the drawing and the colours.
Your stuff is ridiculously printable. Love this.
it should def have said 1964 or 65.
This is sweet...
Yoko? Neat design, regardless.
And yeah, the psychadelic era didn't really start until after JFK was killed.
Well, we can be picky about when the era came about, but most people relate stylistic changes to the decades - 50s, 60s, 70s, etc... So I'd leave it the way it is. I really really like it; your brain must be a wonderful machine, sonmi.
thanks lichkness :). that is what i intended, because i think it would be more confusing to have a, say, 1963 there. though i can understand the need for preciseness.
hahaha! that's the best hippie facial expression i've ever seen. $5!
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So what were Operation Gladio, Dormouse, Paperclip, Artichoke, and others? Figments of our collective conspiracy imagination? I understand your unwillingness to question an official story. I was once like you, I am no longer. I am not claiming to have all the answers, but the first question that comes to mind is why gun control now? Hundreds of little black children have been dying for years in the ghetto. 20 little white kids die, everyone loses it. Why? 1.5 Million dead iraqis at our hands, why question it now? Drones strikes daily, why question it now?
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You sound like you're about 7 years old retard. Face it, by your displayed ignorance and poor logic, along with your racism and pissy attitude, nobody's paying you much for anything but menial labor. You can't even argue like a normal fkn human being because you're upstate ilk. So no I doubt you have "the most bestist and expensivist" memory retard.
BTW I'm still using 2 SSHS per machine but if I remember correct, and you can't fk with me when it comes to memory or math... you didn't even know what it was the last time you tried to "impress" people with your petty materialistic retard shyt. Let me go find that link moboman! While I'm at it I'll post the link where you once again issue the TROLL MOBO CHALLENGE and mistakenly admit you have to use freebie "Malwarebytes" and can't even afford a subscription to something that actually costs money.
You really are so fkn desperate and have such low esteem if this is what you call a fight! You're not eve trying or this is the best you got.
So really... GFY nobody cares what littleman wants to challenge people with. "Stupid" is already in oversupply in some of these comments.
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Idiot, paperclip and these others were not "secret govt" conspiracies. If you even mention paperclip in this context I guess that explains why you're so paranoid and "convinced". Either way, nobody fkn cares what you goons think you wouldn't be satisfied if someone dumped a dead kid for proof on your ghoulish asses. You don't WANT to hear the truth because it just strips away your "godlike all knowing aura", but sorry fat asshole, most of us just look at your stupid Youtube educations and wonder who the fk pays you people for what kind of work to feed your ignorant selves. Again obviously you're basically unemployable if you're this gullible and stupid and yes.... antisocial. You're not worth debating because you're just stupid and people would have to educate you with the REAL facts and basics of law, journalism and medical forensics before even attempting to get you to grasp what the rest of the educated world has already accepted for what it is. You can't debate you just endlessly contradict... you retards. You cite un-peer reviewed JUNK PRODUCED youtube videos and junk science. Couple that with your feeble 14yo's understanding of the real professional world and you see why you spend all day staring at your youtubes.
Go slap your mother hard for raising you this chicken-stupid.
Get a girlfriend and a life.
#359 Jan 17, 2013
Ok,you have it all figured out. I DO NOT watch youtube videos. I do not know what happened at Sandy Hook school or what else went on there. However there are plenty of inconsistencies. If these "journalists" you refer to are so thorough why have they not asked the same questions that some "idiot" figured out and posted on youtube? Isn't this there profession? Shouldn't they have been asking those questions first? Ill tell you why, because they aren't journalists. They do not go out and search for fact, they parrot what is handed to them by their parent network. That is where you get your news from. Not from "boots on the ground" but something that has been taken and edited hundreds of miles away. It is based on the 24 hour infotainment news cycle. What will all you turn on your tv and believe, believe being the key word. The fact that you have it all sewn up and figured out proves that you aren't as intelligent as you claim to be. There is no room in your mind for any outside possibilities other than what comes through your television. They call that brainwashing They used to be called "investigative journalists" for a reason.
#360 Jan 17, 2013
You explained it very well Mike Jones but unfortunately it is a waste of time. People have been conditioned to believe what they are told without questioning it. The past few generations have grown up in a world where "infotainment" is the norm and they have no frame of reference for anything else. You might as well try to teach them to speak Russian than understanding your point, it would probably be much easier. Either way, it's easy for things to happen now because the majority of the public thinks exactly like that poster. And anything said outside of that generic thought is ridiculed. It's all about the brainwashing and control and they fall right into it. It's easy to condition citizens from their childhood, that's how you take over a society. It's no different than religion. Children are conditioned from the crib and they'll be damned if anyone can tell them that there just might not be a God.
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Good you and Mike Jones go have a 69 and smoke some crack. Hint - if you really believe a medical examiner and his assistants and support staff are hiding a "secret blackops coverup by the sooper-sekrit-squirrel shadow government you'd better upgrade that crack stem to a saxophone so you can both have a blow at full volume! You people are uneducated assholes talking alarmist sht but none of you have the balls to file a FOI slip right? Oh I get it I'm "being paid off" too right losers? GOD you are right, there's been a real dumbing down going on. YOU!
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#364 Jan 18, 2013
I was a big city police official, with 30 yrs of experience. I have NEVER scene a crime scene so poorly contained. Specifically the crime scene area was never isloation or preserved for proper evidence collection. The rifle removed from the trunk of the alleged perps vehicle was improperly handled. No semi competent lawman would mishandle evidence in that manner. Emergency vehicles were poorly position and blocked in, therefore completely neutralized. The coroners indicated he'd found all the victims had been killed by a rifle, yet its been reported, only handguns were found inside.
There are so many things wrong with the incident that it becomes VERY difficult to believe it happened as reported if it actually happened at all.
On a side note (having seen hundreds of grieving relatives)its strange how ALL of the relatives we've seen do not appear devastated and/or traumatized.
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#365 Jan 18, 2013
More nonsense.
#366 Jan 18, 2013
Yes, from you. You post nothing of any bearing what so ever. Why don't you go play on the rome topix, more up your alley.
#367 Jan 18, 2013
thank you sir for serving the public, and for this honest post. You have hit the nail on the head.
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#368 Jan 18, 2013
You mean the pinhead.
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#370 Jan 18, 2013
Sorry, not everyone relies on their "Youtube Education" retard. There's a good special on all week about what idiots you Sandy Hook conspiracy retards that proves what imbeciles you really are. Retard amateurs hoping people come look at your cornball ignorant videos.
#372 Jan 18, 2013
What channel, and time? Just curious.
#373 Jan 18, 2013
it appears you "pasted" this answer to the wrong thread. Did you watch the video? It is a simple interview. I don't believe there is anything ignorant about it. Also, I've never uploaded a video for people to watch. So I am not interested in having people watch my cornball videos. Thanks for the chuckle though.
#375 Jan 18, 2013
Send them to that church in north Utica. The redeemerites of redeemer church go there on Herkimer road
#376 Jan 19, 2013
Why don't we all just take a stance of the utterance in the bioshpere and see where it all began unravelling? If there is a chance of bringing this to circumference we should apprehend the several tupperance in the field of annoyance. Then, we could find out the real reason for the animosity of the chosen feral residents.
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Skip to comments.UN concerned about 'forcible transfer' of 'Palestinian' terrorists
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I don't know how many of you noticed the comments of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and 'Human Rights' Commissioner Navi Pillay on Gilad Shalit's release, but they got some play on Israel Television this evening, because they are quite ludicrous.
The United Nations voiced concern on Tuesday that some of the Palestinian detainees released in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit may have not have been given any choice on where to go, which could constitute an illegal forced transfer.
The office of Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, welcomed the release but cited reports that some of the Palestinian prisoners from the West Bank may be released to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip or abroad.
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I am sure U.N. will release a statement shortly on the awful way Hamas took care of Shalit. .............*crickets*
How moronic. South Koreans should be ashamed that this guy is one of them.
Here I thought they were going to release them from the back of a C-130...
The world is truly upside-down and inside-out. Please let the US remove itself from the UN cesspool before we are complicit in the crimes it now routinely ignores or excuses.
So the U.N. is complaining that releasing them into Palestinian custody is cruel? Maybe we should follow up on that thought! They may be right.
Israel should have nuked Gaza today.
Would have solved most of the problems in the world in one fell swoop.
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We are going to LA, spending 1 night there and then 2 nights driving up to San Francisco and then 2 nights in San Francisco. Some advice please. Best stop overs on route. Is it best to get off the main route to find good hotels or bed and breakfast. What is essential to do in LA, on route and in San Francisco ?
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Good stopovers would be (1) Santa Barbara and (2) Carmel/Pacific Grove/Monterey.
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Santa Barbara is nice, one of my favorite towns, but I'd want to get farther north, maybe Cambria, and have lunch in Santa Barbara. Then second night Monterey or Carmel.
Hard to recommend places to see without knowing who you are traveling with, what your budget per night is or what your interests are. If you can provide a little more info, the nice folks here can help more.
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We are prepared to pay 120€ a night hotel and good seafood restaurants as we live in the South of France. Interests are the local sights, villages and nature.
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Visit Ojai, it will be off 101 to 33 to the right. If you like nature, good food and just place to relax Ojai is the best place to stop. Lavender Inn which is in front of the health food store" Rainbow Bridge" has very nice rooms http://www.lavenderinn.com .
A min walk away across the street from Wells Fargo Bank is amazing Italian restaurant, their seafood is awesome, the owner is amazing and real Italian!
When you leave Ojai, stop by at the coffee connection which is on the way to Miners Oaks , their coffee is not only the best in Ojai but in all Ventura county. Here is their website:http://www.coffeeconnectionojai.com/coffeeconnection/Welcome.html and ( or) hv fully organic home made breakfast or lunch at the famed and a cook http://www.farmerandcook.com .
Leave Ojai towards Santa Barbara through amazing windy road ( 150) which goes through Lake casitas , mountains and forest. When you come to Santa Barbara you can come to main street which has many restaurants. I only know so much about Ojai because I live here and there is Nothing in the world like Ojai. I am 100 per cent sure you will love it. Me and My husband made many trips to S. F. stopped at Redwoods, went to Mount SHasta which you may find attractive but its a bit off the road.Enjoy your trip!
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By the way, if you stop at the Lavender you can ask them for a free pass to a very nice swimming pool which is open from early morning around 6-7 till 9:30 at night on working days and till 8pm on weekends, because Lavender Inn has beautiful garden only and real nice spa
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I'd take natalia's suggestions w/ a grain of salt. Mt Shasta is more than a 'bit off the road'
It is 300 miles/5 hours north of San Francisco.
I'd aim for Cambria or San Luis Obispo for the first night. €120 is about $160 so you should be able to find places but that a fairly tight budget for the coast in summer.
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I agree that Santa Barbara and Big Sur/Carmel/Monterey are good places to stop. I also love Santa Cruz, but it's a bit farther north. Solvang is also fun if you like kitschy towns!
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It's next February before a visit to Costa Rica, so no swimming !! Thanks for all the info.
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I agree w/ ALadyinLondon about Solvang. Its a neat town, worth to see, lots of places to taste wine n nice houses. You can do it after seeing Santa Barbara and get a hotel there may, though hotels are a bit pricy there. Big Sur is beautiful and awesome drive with view of the ocean.Monterey has a big aquarium, worth to see As for the swimming pool, I go there as its heated and then a hot tub if its cold but usually wether is always good in Ojai.
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In Feb your budget will stretch much farther. Check the status of Hwy 1 if you plan to drive that route as it's not unusual for there to be closures due to heavy rain and mudslides at that time of year http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi Santa Barbara, Cambria and the Monterey Peninsula are all good places to stop.
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Thanks for the info, love the thought of rain !!
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For the 1st night, I would stay in Pismo Beach, Avila Beach, San Luis Obispo, or Cambria (depending on what sort of atmosphere you are looking for). For the second night, the Monterey area - Monterey, Pacific Grove, or Carmel, again the choice depending on what you want.
Santa Barbara would make a great lunch stop though. I don't know that I would go inland to Ojai at all. There is already a lot to see on the coast.
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The problem with the rain is that it can close down the one and only coastal highway. For days.
How many days do you have for the drive?
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Much attention has been paid to environmental pollution and the effects of specific toxic and carcinogenic molecules in our environments. Revelations of major alarming atmospheric changes - the greenhouse effect and ozone holes - have served to remind us of our destructive effect overall on planet Earth. We suffer individually and collectively from our own pollution.
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Green refers to the color of chlorophyll in plants. Human action destroys plants and replaces healthy ecosystems with monocultures that are unsustainable. Another slogan that emerged was "save planet earth." Humans will not save the planet. The task for humans is to stop destroying the environments that sustain us. If we fail, the planet will do just fine without us.
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Much attention has been paid to estimating and predicting the average temperature increase of the atmosphere as a whole. Long-term predictions are best guesses and may be misleading. Local heating effects are observable as wind and rain -- more heat produces more extreme weather events. In our view, the main concern should be the effect of heat retention on local climates right now. It is possible to imagine increasingly anomalous weather and increasing loss of life and property from greenhouse gas accumulation with little or no change in the average temperature of the planet, although, we do expect slow progressive increase in average temperatures.
You can increase the temperature in some areas and decrease in others and you can alternate - the differential effect will drive storms and precipitation in unusual ways. By the end of 1998, we knew that weather extremes were becoming commonplace and loss of life and property from adverse weather increased. These more destructive weather events promise continue to break weather records. There is no need to wait until 2050 to find out what is going to happen.
The deepest problem for humans is that we cannot predict the future with any accuracy. Even the best informed scientist with the most recent data cannot know what is going to happen next. When we talk about prudence we refer to our best methods of minimizing risk and preparing to deal with events beyond our control which can injure or kill us. Preparation for accidents and illness consumes a large chunk of our resources. Smart humans notice adverse changes and take action to minimize the risk of adverse consequences. But not all human are smart or prudent.
Living on the Edge People in California are specially adapted to the uncertainty of nature - earthquakes have always taken their toll; however when you add the toxicity of air pollution and agricultural chemicals, to soil erosion, draughts, floods, fires, and social unrest you have a formula for an unstable ecosystem that will become less habitable rather than more as the years proceed. The predictions of climate changes that might occur because of more greenhouse gases are coming true - not fully and completely, but convincingly.
Other comfortable and affluent North Americans are having trouble realizing
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US is under siege, not by terrorists, but by extreme weather.
Cost of Extreme Weather
Hurricanes, tornadoes, and heavy flooding rains continue to cause havoc in the USA and many other countries. While some Americans have a paranoid fear of terrorism, extreme weather events cause more costly damage, more often than any terrorist could imagine. Pacific hurricanes (aka cyclones) create increasing damage and death in the Pacific Islands and the coastal areas of Asia and Australia. Pacific (aka Tropical) cyclones cause large waves, heavy rain, flood and high winds. Storm surges cause damage to coastal communities and 90% of tropical cyclone deaths. Over the past two centuries, tropical cyclones have been responsible for the deaths of about 1.9 million people worldwide. Large areas of standing water caused by flooding lead to infection, as well as contributing to mosquito-borne illnesses. When ocean water floods the land, salts are left behind. Increased salinity levels in surface water makes it undrinkable and increased salt in water and soils is toxic to plants.
Insurance companies are either increasing rates, out of business, worried or refusing coverage for properties at risk. Hurricane Andrew caused 16.5 billion dollars in insured losses, bankrupting some smaller insurance companies. The UN panel on climate change has estimated that windstorm damage increased from $500 million in the 60's to over $11 billion in the 90's and the annual bill in the 21st century may be hundreds of billions of dollars per year. Before 1987, storms had never caused insured losses exceeding $1 billion. Hurricane Andrew destroyed over 28,000 homes in August 1992. Hurricanes Jeanne, Ivan, Frances and Charley in 2004 destroyed 27,500 housing units. The Southern US was attacked by 17 major storms during the 2005 hurricane season., Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage in August 2005 to the Gulf coast of the US. Early damage costs were estimated at $150 billion, the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Hurricane Rita soon followed on Sept 24 and became the most intense hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico but caused less damage, because it made landfall in less populated areas -- no consolation to the people in Texas and Louisiana who suffered a direct hit. Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 damaged a wide swath of the east coast and became the second-costliest hurricane in United States history. Estimates as of 2015 assessed damage to have been about $75 billion, a total surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina. At least 233 people were killed along the path of the storm in eight countries.
Political Inaction Political action should swift and definitive, but of course, it is not. Political processes are inherently irresponsible, as politicians are short-term administrators who tend to be inexperienced and poorly informed. In all fairness to politicians, some of them began their careers with high hopes of improving the world, but discovered as they matured in politics that they could only court the favor of those with vested interests, power, money and influence. The realist might say that the politician can only do what is political expedient and this usually means what is in his or her best interest in the next two to four years. The task of leading fellow Homo Sapiens from a self-destructive path requires an intelligent and compassionate superhero that we only find in the movies.
According to Maurice Strong who headed the 1992 Rio Earth Summit stated; "Overall we haven't made the fundamental course of change promised in Rio. The process of deterioration has continued and the forces that drive that deterioration have continued. Five years later, the challenge is even greater." At that summit 153 nations signed treaties to reduce global warming, save endangered species and foster sustainable development.
The November 1997 Kyoto meeting to determine emissions policy for the countries of the world has been a great disappointment and only confirmed our basic understanding that governments are not going to act responsibly and man-made climate problems are going to be with us for decades to come.
The climate talks in Copenhagen in December 2009 involved 200 nations who failed to achieve enforceable agreements to reduce carbon emissions. If you were an optimist you might value the Accord that was achieved, a five-page document that represented another tentative step toward global action to reduce atmospheric pollution and climate change. A realist would restate our understanding of human nature – that local interests always trump global concerns and local interests are divergent and divisive. US President Obama stated: "I think that people are justified in being disappointed about the outcome in Copenhagen. The science says that we've got to significantly reduce emissions over the next 40 years. There's nothing in the Copenhagen agreement that ensures that will happen."
A major change in human priorities was suggested in 2015. The Group of 7 (G7) leading industrialized nations (June 2015) called for global greenhouse-gas emissions to be reduced by around 70% by 2050, and for the world economy to be decarbonized by the end of the twenty-first century. These twin goals were issued in a communiqué at the conclusion of the group's meeting at Schloss Elmau in Krün, Germany, on 8 June, alongside a suite of promises to help developing nations to provide their citizens with clean energy, jobs, financial security and food. To the credit of Germany and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, leader of the host nation, the commitments surpass all of the G7's previous promises. Most notably, the group has formally acknowledged — and quantified — the scale of the industrial renaissance that will be required to keep global average temperature increase to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. It has provided concrete and measurable targets that should help to make clear where precious capital and human resources should be invested — not just for other governments, but also for businesses. It should also make clear where resources should not be expended. The G7 nations renewed their pledge to end "inefficient" fossil-fuel subsidies. But the world is still waiting for action that will give these targets credibility. Countries should adopt the G7 communiqué's emissions targets and look for ways to expand climate-related investment in the developing world, where emissions are poised to rise quickly if no intervention is made. The communiqué rightly points out that engagement by the private sector will be crucial to meeting these goals, but it is up to policy-makers to lay down the rules of the road.(Nature Editorial. Tough targets. Concrete goals set out by the G7 nations lay the groundwork for a climate accord. Nature 522, 128; 11 June 2015)
Disruptions in ecosystems, economic systems, political systems are inevitable. The changes we are causing in the Earth's biosphere will return to harm us individually and collectively. The cost of these adverse changes will continue to grow and will exceed by far the cost of remedial action. We are all like smokers who know that smoking causes cancer but we are not willing to stop smoking. Our only hope is that the more severeadverse effects will not catch up with us for several years.
Changes in human behavior must come from all people who sense danger, seek to understand their options and change spontaneously. The same issues come up in personal and public health concerns - constructive change is required. Ignorance and denial obstruct constructive change; wishful thinking and fantasy solutions become more popular. Self-interest and greed dominate the political process.