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That was 11 years ago. Now, the hitman who goes only by Stark has escaped and is back in L.A. Armed with a fortune-telling coin, a black bone knife, and an infernal key, Stark is determined to destroy the magic circle - led by the conniving and powerful Mason Faim - that stole his life.
Though nearly everything has changed, one constant remains: his friend Vidocq, a 200-year-old Frenchman who has been keeping vigil for the young magician's return. But when Stark's first stop saddles him with an abusive talking head that belongs to the first of the circle, a sleazy video store owner named Kasabian, Stark discovers that the road to absolution and revenge is much longer than he counted on, and both Heaven and Hell have their own ideas for his future.
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"jack bauer + spawn = sandman slim"
i rarely listen to audio-books more than once, but i've listened to sandman slim twice, and i've enjoyed it both times. the story is fast-paced, and i was swept away by it, totally engrossed from the very opening.
i must say the narrator's voice perfectly matches the main character's demeanor. stark aka sandman slim is a gritty, dark, anti-hero, and he's unapologetic about what he believes he's been forced to become.
stark was sent "downtown" by his jealous colleague's lust for power. as an oddity in hell, stark was tortured and forced to fight in the arena, where the deadly battles forged his skills and abilities. stark becomes known as the monster who kills monsters.
the author, richard kadrey, builds a believable world filled
with angels, fallen angels, kishi, mortals, and magic. through kadrey's different characters we see a world where the lines between good and evil are hard to distinguish. sometimes, to do some good, you gotta do a little evil.
kadrey's story is full of interesting characters with different motivations. mason, stark's nemesis who sent him downtown. vidoc, a 200 year old french alchemist. candy, a jade, who's a recovering killer and bloodsucker. jospeph, a kishi, who leads a neo-nazi gang. alita, an angel in charge of the golden vigil, and many more.
overall, a great thrill ride with excellent narration and an unpredictable ending. as a fan of the show, 24, and the comic, spawn, i think of sandman slim as a mix of jack bauer and spawn. not a bad combination as long as he's on your side.
NOTE: in my reviews, i usually mention more about the plot, but this time i didn't. trust me, you'll enjoy it more, discovering it for yourself.
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"Loved it!"
Comedy meets action in the Sandman Slim series. I absolutely loved these books, and the narrator was perfect as Sandman Slim. I would compare these to the Monster Hunter International books by Larry Correia.
Runs with scissors.
"Enjoyable Dark Tale..."
But probably not for everyone. I personally enjoy a good yarn with some blood and guts and well placed vernacular of the foul sort. Makes me feel like I am not alone in my world view of "things that really %^$# me off". A different sort of story and the reader did an excellent job as well.
"Awesome - great narration, great story"
If you love film noir and you love fantasy/horror, you'll love this book. The cherry on top is that that narration is awesome. Highly recommended.
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"Listened to it twice"
This is a very gritty hardboiled book withnasty characters. The Protagonist is a real Bad Boy.
Listen to the preview first and if you like it you'll like the rest of the book.
The author just has a way of putting things that was a crackup.
I liked it so much I'm listening to it twice.
"A fun, bloody, gruesome romp"
I stumbled upon this novel by accident, and I'm truly glad that I did. This was a brilliant story that was made even greater by Macleod Andrew's awesome reading. Kadrey has basically back-handed most fantasy novels written within the last 20 years. He is able to mix virtually every element of fantasy without it seeming tacted on or sluggish, and has created a brand new sort of tragic ficitional icon that struggles with himself and his own shortcomings as a person, as he does beasts, devils, and pompous angels (LoL). The interesting thing about this novel is that it totally points its finger and makes fun of the old "good vs. evil" theme. Stark, the story's protagonist, who is about one insult and apple fritter away from being deemed a "villain", is by far one of the most interesting anti-heroes I've come across. To me he is on par with timeless comic characters such as Spawn or John Constantine of the Hellblazer series. Mix this with the always tragically interesting LA scene, and Kadrey has constructed a winning piece of fiction. Truly a great novel, and one I'll probably listen to over and over again with each installment. Cannot wait for the next ones.
"SOLID modern magic novel, great sense of humour."
Great, great, great.
Book: What an enjoyable, easy, solid book with a fresh point of view. It doesn't take itself too seriously, either, which is great. I love the old-school punk with a crappy attitude being the protagonist. He's a true, consistent character.
Narrator: MacLeod Andrews was the perfect - PERFECT! - choice for this. I'm often neither impressed nor disappointed with narrators, but his character acting (without overdoing it) really brought it to life. Couldn't imagine anyone else reading it.
Overall: SO worth the credits. Can't wait for the next book. This is much more my style than the Dresden books, but does justice to the "modern magic" genre well.
"The Anti-Dresden"
You need to read this book. Especially if you are a fan of the Dresden File series. This book starts a wonderful series that is a Ying to the Yang. The Dresden Files is methodically, almost seeming like each chapter ends with a commerical break. Sandman Slim goes and goes and goes without hardly enough time to catch your breath before the next thing happens.
The voice actors also need to be compared with this two series. MacLeod Andrews IS Stark. James Marsters IS Harry Dresden. Just imagine going to a bar only to find that Stark is sitting at the bar itself with Harry at one of the tables.Stark would be the guy who you would want to kick his ass but would kick yours instead. Harry would be the guy who you might buy a drink after a game of darts or pool.
The comparison is needed here as both characters have amazing depth. The two book series complement each other in a great way. BUY THIS BOOK!
I am brutally honest. Popular, love everything they read, reviewers are scared to go neg. and risk their ranking. It's your money!!!
Stark (Sandman Slim) is just back from Hell, where he has been kicking Demon Butt. This takes place in THE LAND OF CHEESEBURGERS AND COWBOYS. The wise cracks and hard core action is non-stop. The humor is dry, witty and often vulgar. Stark has been away from Earth for eleven years. A lot of things have changed, for instance no smoking in bars. For Stark, who CAN'T SMOKE IN THE SHOWER, BELIEVE ME, HE HAS TRIED, wonders why COFFEE DOES NOT COME IN A CIGARETTE FLAVOR. Stark has not been treated well by his so called friends, and he is out for revenge. Matter of fact they have made him feel DUMPED LIKE THE PROM DATE THAT DIDN'T GIVE OUT.
You may not have a problem with all the bad language, but still might have a problem with the disrespect for your religion. God is viewed as a deity who makes mistakes, with humans being the biggest ones. The Virgin Mary, Pope and Jesus are also made fun of. DID I HURT YOUR FEELINGS AGAIN? SORRY WHEN THIS OVER, I'LL SEND FLOWERS TO YOUR INNER CHILD.
I listened to this right after a Harry Dresden Novel. This has a lot in common with that, he even as his own version of Bob. This is gorier, nasty and funnier, if you like that sort of humor and a lot of people will not, so beware. THE TRICK IS NOT TO REMEMBER, THE TRICK IS TO LEARN. There are some intellectual messages hidden in the gory vulgar details. Unlike everyone else who like to lecture in their novels, Kadry knows how to entertain. Yet, some people will get so wrapped up in the vulgarity that they will miss the genius of Richard. SO SIMPLE FUNGUS COULD GET IT.
I believe fans of Clive Barker and J.A. Konrath will love this. This may sound like it is nothing but a bunch of one liners, but all sentences are well planned out and fit the story and the characters. Most novels kind of go flat in the middle, with a attention getter in the beginning and a grand finale. This book is entertaining from start to finish. NICE OUTFIT, DID YOU GET THAT AT ONE GARAGE SALE OR MORE THEN ONE?
The narrator is a perfect fit for this novel.
"Foul language plus an inane story line."
I can't really write a proper review, since I didn't finish the book. I gave up on this lame story after a couple of hours.
I found the entire plot line to be so simplistic as to give me the impression that it was written for teenage boys. The constant use of foul language pretty much solidified that impression.
For a better review that echos my opinion of this novel read the review written by Brandon Langlois on 10-03-12.
The narrator does a fair enough job, and his voice quality sounds to me exactly like it should for the characters in this book.
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Protesters marched to the offices of both Wisconsin senators demanding a solution to the fiscal cliff.
Dozens turned out in downtown Milwaukee concerned about major spending cuts and tax hikes that could go into effect Jan. 1.
The group of community activists and church leaders had strong words for both Sens. Ron Johnson and Herb Kohl.
They said if Congress and the president don't reach a deal, Wisconsin residents could really suffer.
"My daughter has full blown sickle cell anemia and two ports in the chest. If she gets cut off Badger Care Medicare, what's she supposed to do?" protester Edward Jude asked.
"Get off your butts and do what you said you were going to do. This country needs strong leadership, and we really, really need both parties to do their jobs," said Rev. Willie Brisco of New Covenand Baptist Church.
Similar marches were held at U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's offices in Janesville and Kenosha.
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HAYDOM, TANZANIA – Taking cues from local basket makers and mechanics, Clemson University researchers are designing new easy-to-make medical products in Tanzania and other low-income countries, an effort they hope will reduce dependence on donated supplies.
One project began when Dilan Ellegala, a former Charleston neurosurgeon, spotted basket weavers outside the gates of Haydom Lutheran Hospital.
Ellegala thought of the sweet-grass weavers on U.S. Highway 17, and then back to patients in the hospital with neck injuries. These patients needed braces, which are typically made of foam, but the hospital had none.
"They usually get them from charities and are constantly running short," he said. With braces, many patients could leave the hospital within days or weeks of a procedure. Without them, they were stuck in bed for six weeks or more.
Ellegala eventually met Delphine Dean, an assistant professor in Clemson's bioengineering department. Dean and her students then worked with a local Tanzanian basket maker to weave a prototype neck brace, which is currently being tested.
"I think it was a big 'aha' moment for a couple of students to see that their work is actually being implemented," Dean said.
At the time, her class also was looking for ways to improve incubators for premature babies.
Partly because of failing incubators, infant mortality in Tanzania is 10 times higher than in wealthier countries. Without working incubators, many hospitals keep room temperatures high, making wards ripe for infections. In a hospital in Mwanza, an outbreak swept through a ward, killing 30 of the unit's 36 premature babies.
Instead of designing an expensive new incubator, Dean's students focused on creating an electric warming blanket. The blankets had heart monitors and rechargeable batteries in case the power went off. They were simple and cheap to make.
"The whole idea was to make something that can be made in the community with parts that can be replaced," Dean said, adding that her students accompanied local Tanzanians into town to make sure they could buy parts locally. "You can actually build it there," she said.
And the price tag was between $25 and $50, much less than an incubator, which can cost $1,300 or more new. Her students also are now working on a low-cost glucometer, which could be assembled in Tanzania using a standard ink-jet desk printer, and a blood-loss monitor. A group of her students may go back to Tanzania this summer.
"They come back and talk to other students, who get excited and want to get involved."
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alright i wanna hear everyones opinion on who their favorite character because it fascinates me. my favorite would be nagisa from the anime clannad. whats yours?
from Bleach
umm i would say hollow ichigo cause i think his awsome
My favorite would either be Kisa from Fruits Basket, because she is just too adorable, or Fuko-chan from Clannad, because of her ninja skills and overall awesomeness....best description ever.
so many to choose from but i would say either Lucy from elfen lied or Ren Ichimoku from hell girl :)
My Favorite Character is Sasuke from the anime show Naruto!!!! I love Sasuke even tho he is a cartoon. He is so cute and cool and awesome!!!!
i friggin answered my own question! omg! lol i forgot i posted this XD
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I would say Watanuki from xxxHolic and Kaoru and honey from ouran high school host club^^
Kaoru from OHSHC :D =D
Kakashi, becasue of his personaltiy
from Bleach
I would say either motoko kusanagi from GITS or nyu from EL. Is life reality or is it a mirror image of what you want it to be?
Nana Kimatsu from the show Nana because her personaility is much like mine.
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Fans waiting to see Kennesaw State's women's lacrosse team play its inaugural home game March 2 won't have to wait as long to see a college lacrosse game take place.
The Southern Showdown will take place Saturday afternoon at KSU Stadium.
The fifth-annual event will pit the men's programs of North Carolina and Massachusetts in a 1 p.m. game featuring two teams ranked in the top 15 of the preseason Division I coaches' poll.
North Carolina, which has won five NCAA championships, is fourth in the country, while No. 12 UMass went 15-1 last season and has made the NCAA tournament four of the past six seasons.
The Tar Heels and Minutemen both won their first regular-season games last week.
Saturday's game will feature two of the best senior attackmen in the country — North Carolina's Marcus Holman and Massachusetts' Will Manny. Both players were nominated last season for the Tewaaraton Award given to the nation's top player.
"With two highly ranked teams, this is like an early playoff game," said Sorrel Coulson, founder of the Southern Showdown. "We don't get much Division I lacrosse in Atlanta, so a game like this is a big deal."
The Showdown is one of men's games being held at KSU Stadium this season. On June 7, Major League Lacrosse's Rochester Rattlers and Boston Cannons will face off in a regular-season game. That will be the first MLL game played in Georgia, and it will serve as a test for the league as it contemplates expansion.
The Showdown spent the last two years at McEachern's Walter Cantrell Stadium. Last year's game attracted nearly 7,000 fans as No. 6 UNC defeated No. 20 Penn State 14-10.
This year, the event has moved to KSU Stadium, which houses the Owls' women's soccer and lacrosse programs.
"It was really a no-brainer to move the game to KSU," Coulson said. "The stadium is one of the best we've seen. It's perfect for lacrosse and gives us options for suites and amenities we couldn't get at other places.
"We've averaged about 7,100 people for the Showdown the past three years, and this stadium seats 8,300. For lacrosse fans, this is like a season kickoff event. It's a great environment for lacrosse people who don't get to see it that often."
Other activities are also planned, including sponsor giveaways for children and a 3-on-3 tournament open to all ages.
"There are three different age groups competing in a bracketed-type tournament, and the semifinal winners will have a chance to compete against each other on the field at halftime," Coulson said.
The 3-on-3 tournament will take place from 8-10:30 a.m. on the practice field just behind the stadium,
Tickets for the college game are available online at www.theshouthernshowdown.com, or by calling (770) 794-7810. General-admission tickets are $15, with reserved seats ranging from $25-$45
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In this 17th Jack Reacher novel, Child gives his antihero some things to think about. He is on his way to D. C. to take Major Susan Turner to dinner, a first. When he arrives, she is in the brig and he is arrested on trumped up charges. In Jack Reacher style, they break out and head cross country to clear their names. Meanwhile a woman from his past is suing him for child support for his alleged daughter.
Lee Child's novels can be described as bleak, edgy, suspenseful, fast paced with complex plots and violent action. His hero, Jack Reacher, can be described as an introspective loner, tough and macho, but with a strong moral code. The following authors have similar heroes. Try some of these series' while you wait for Reacher.
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(Above: Video of South African Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee, competing in a preliminary heat in the 400 meters at the 2011 IAFF World Championships in South Korea)
This report is from Sporting News writer Lisa Olson.
The first instinct is to stand up and shout, "Bravo!"
The second instinct is to sit down and think about the man—a double-amputee and an Iraqi war veteran, I'm told—who several times a week can be viewed running around the Central Park reservoir. He laps most every jogger, in scorching heat, and causes all of us who come across him to want to be … better.
The third instinct is to smile and shake the head again over the news that Oscar Pistorius, a South African runner, this week became the first amputee to be named as a competitor in the Olympic Games. Pistorius, who has spent most of his 25 years without lower legs, will compete in London in the 400 meters (his favorite event) and the 1,600-meter relay, and will later compete in the Paralympic Games.
He'll do so on the same pair of prosthetic, carbon-fiber limbs, or blades, known as the "Cheetah Flex-Foot" that once caused him to be handcuffed and detained at an Amsterdam airport, when police suspected him of being a terrorist. Every Olympian has a compelling back-story, but none have been this fascinating.
Born without both fibulas, the bone that runs from behind the knee to the ankle, Pistorius was 11 months old when his legs were amputated at mid-calf. Nevertheless his boyhood was spent participating in a whirl of sports at Pretoria schools—rugby union, water polo, tennis, wrestling—until a knee injury at age 16 forced him to give up the rough scrums of rugby and turn to running.
A year later he appeared in the Paralympic Games, got faster and faster on his prosthetic legs and was competing against able-bodied athletes by 2007. Critics began claiming his "Cheetahs" gave him an unfair advantage—they are said to weigh approximately half of a typical sprinter's lower leg—and in early 2008 the International Association of Athletics Federations banned the blades from its events, notably the Olympics.
Concerned that the spring-like step in his stride provided him an unfair edge, the IAAF amended its rule to prohibit the use of "any technical device that incorporates springs, wheels or any other element that provides a user with an advantage over another athlete not using such a device."
Pistorius appealed the decision, and soon the Court of Arbitration for sport ruled in his favor. He's been defending his right to run on what he has joked as being "equal footing" ever since.
That alone must be exhausting, always pushing against arguments that are best debated by scientists and engineers. As a child making do with what he didn't have, Pistorius surely never contemplated he'd ever be accused of having an "unfair advantage"—In what warped sci-fi parallel would that make sense?
But now here he stands, a man without legs soon to be flying around the track with a handful of the best quarter-milers on the planet. Think of the doors it will open, the imaginations that shall stir. Picture what might come if a double-leg amputee wins a medal, climbs the podium and defies all that we think we know about the human body and its supposed limitations.
Pistorius believes it his journey in life to educate people positively about those with disabilities. He's fond of telling children that a giant shark bit off his legs, or that they fell off because he didn't eat his green vegetables. He's an ambassador for the Mineseeker Foundation, which supplies prosthetic limbs to the victims of landmines in Mozambique.
When his prosthetic legs caused alarms to blare at Schiphol airport in 2008, and traces of an explosive substance were discovered on his body, Pistorius was detained in a cell as a suspected terrorist.
"It wasn't until later that I realized what had happened. I'd been clay pigeon shooting with a friend. Traces of dust from the shots must have got onto my legs," Pistorius explained in his autobiography.
He's used to the stares, the questions, but now that he's earned the right to become the first amputee track athlete to compete at any Games, the most intractable ethical conundrum in recent sporting history will reach fever pitch. His nickname Blade Runner won't always be considered clever.
Plenty of areas might still be gray, though the blades Pistorius uses haven't changed since 2004. The technology has been around since 1996, tested and improved and approved over time. Meanwhile, Pistorius in the last few years has become lighter, stronger, after he was involved in a severe boating accident on the Vaal river in South Africa in 2009.
His jaw and two ribs were broken, his cheekbone crushed, and it took 172 stitches to piece back together his face. This adrenaline junky thought he was going to die. It made him change his life, give up junk food—pictures show him to be quite chunky four years ago—and limit the kamikaze moments on his Yamaha superbike. His beloved pet white tigers, Vesta and Valcan, have moved from his home to a nearby game reserve, where he can still play with them.
"I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics," Pistorius has said. "That's probably why I'm a bit of an exception."
Controversy still stalks him. A 2009 report in the Journal of Applied Physiology claimed that the crescent-shaped Cheetahs might—might—provide as much as a 10-second boost over 400 meters. And what if he runs any leg of the relay other than the first? It's been suggested that the safety of other athletes could be jeopardized as they bunch inside for the final legs.
His spatial relationship with the ground is completely different than that of other runners. In some ways, he must work harder to make up for the loss of a natural running stride, but his shorter leg turnover time means less oxygen demand and, presumably, less strain on the heart. He can skip foot, ankle and calf work-outs, but the painful blistering and abrasions caused from the blades often disrupt his training regime.
"At the end of the day there are tens of thousands of people using the same prosthetics I use and there's no-one running the same times," he told the Daily Mail in March. "You're always going to get people who have their opinions and offer their opinions, but they can't explain things like that."
And how would an able-bodied athlete feel if Pistorius beat him? Hopefully they'd all think like Great Britain's Martyn Rooney, a sixth place finisher in the 400m in Beijing. Said Rooney recently: "I wouldn't be too bothered. I'd be a lot angrier if, say, someone who had failed a drug test beat me. Oscar has not gone out of his way to cheat. This is his situation: he needs to run with those blades. He can modify things in ways that we can't, but there's things we can do that he can't, so it balances out quite well. The athletes who complain are the ones who aren't running fast enough."
Another question: Now that Pistorius is competing in the Olympics, shouldn't he give up his spot in the Paralympics so another athlete might fulfill a dream? If the South African Olympic committee selected Pistorius as part of the able-bodied team, should he still be considered disabled for the Paralympics?
At the moment, Pistorius says he's extremely excited about the Paralympic Games, which begin in London 17 days after the Olympics end. He plans to defend his Paralympic titles in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters, along with being part of the South African team competing for a world record in the 4X100-meter relay."
"Today is truly one of the proudest days of my life," Pistorius said Wednesday after South African sports officials placed him on the nation's Olympic team, a controversial decision considering he had met the Olympic qualifying standard in March but had fallen just short of the country's stringent qualifying standards.
It was the right decision, no matter how many questions and grumps follow. It might force us to examine through a fresh lens how to push through limitations. It might even cause the world to stand up in unison and shout, "Bravo!"
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1 cup wateror vegetable broth
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1 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
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2 tsp fresh parsley, minced for garnish
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•Atlantic Sun Conference Pitcher of the Year (2011)
•Atlantic Sun All-Conference, 1st team (2011)
2013 (Senior)
Appeared in just three games before being shut down with a season-ending injury ... made three starts -- against St. Joseph's (2/15), Maine (2/21) and Central Michigan (3/1) ... tied a career-high by striking out 10 batters against CMU but also allowed six runs on seven hits in 6.1 innings.
2012 (Junior)
Preseason Atlantic Sun Pitcher of the Year ... two-way player, making 13 appearances on the mound with 12 starts, and 22 appearances with 17 starts as a position player ... played primarily first base with two appearances as the DH ... won 13 consecutive games as a pitcher before picking up the loss at Belmont (3/23) ... pitched a complete game against Lipscomb (4/20) ... made only relief appearance of the season against Florida State (5/8) ... had four multi-hit games at the plate ... had two RBI in games against Kennesaw State (4/14), UNF (4/27), and FGCU (5/19) ... his two-out RBI single against UCF (5/2) tied the game in the 10th inning ... drafted in the 39th round by the Boston Red Sox.
2011 (Sophomore)
Selected as the A-Sun Pitcher of the Year despite missing the final six weeks of the season after being hit by a batted ball against Jacksonville ...allowed just nine earned runs on the season, three of which came in his only sub-par start, which lasted just 2.1 innings against Central Michigan (3/6) ... only other no decision came against Mercer (3/19) despite holding the Bears to two runs on eight hits, with a career-high tying 10 strikeouts, over 6.1 innings ... longest outing came against ETSU (3/26) when he worked 7.2 innings, allowing one run on three hits with seven strikeouts ... did not allow a home run, and only allowed nine extra-base hits ... threw season-high 115 pitches against Jacksonville (4/22) over 6.0 innings in his final appearance of the season ... named to the A-Sun Academic All-Conference team.
2010 (Freshman)
Was a two-way player, seeing action in 51 games with 45 starts as a position player to go with 16 appearances on the mound ... named to the A-Sun Academic All-Conference team ... took a no hitter into the 9th inning before surrendering a one-out single against Central Michigan (3/10) in his first collegiate start ... struck out career-high 10 batters in that game and, for his efforts, he was named the A-Sun Pitcher of the Week ... also earned victories against Mercer (4/10) and Jacksonville (5/21) in relief ... as a position player, he primarily played first base (30 games), but also saw action at third base (14) and as the DH (1) ... finished third on the team in doubles with 15... had 14 multiple-hit games and eight multiple RBI games ... had a season-high hitting streak of eight games ... 4-for-4 with two doubles, a home run, five RBI and three runs scored in win over USC Upstate (5/8).
High School
Graduated from Jupiter High school in Jupiter, Florida ... earned three varsity letters as a member of the Warriors baseball team ... batted .450 with eight home runs and 36 RBI as a senior ... led Palm Beach County in home runs ... FACA All-Star and a Dick Howser All-Star ... helped team earn back-to-back state championships ... Jupiter was 22-6 his senior season.
Full name is Kurt M. Schluter ... born on November 20, 1990, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. ... son of Andrea and Karl Schluter of Jupiter, Florida ... chose Stetson because of its great tradition and baseball program ... Graduated last spring with a degree in Finance and is now pursuing his Master's in Business Administration.


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The 55th annual Grammy Awards ceremony celebrated the music industry's attempt to stay afloat with a star-studded, acutely schizophrenic party on Sunday evening.
There were high moments. There were disturbingly low moments. There were performances that bordered on the sublime.
There were others that left one scratching one's head and muttering "Why, lord, oh why?" as we faded to commercial. There was Jack White and band tearing up the stage as if their job was to prove to the elite pop music one-percenters that rock 'n' roll is far from dead. And then there was Rihanna taking part in a Bob Marley tribute, for reasons that are unfathomable.
The Grammys are safe, certainly, and Sunday's show was mostly a middle-of-the-road run-through of the records that sold a ton of copies in 2012. But there were exceptions to this rule. White in particular truly tore it up, offering twisted psychedelic blues with avant garde noise-rock tendencies. The Black Keys, too, brought a torrid take on their "Lonely Boy," with the help of Dr. John and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, injecting New Orleans soul into a sultry rock stomp.
The best performances – Ed Sheeran and Elton John tackling Sheeran's "The A Team"; Fun., who would win the "Best New Artist" trophy, turning on the crowd with an enthused reading of the anthemic "Carry On"; Kelly Clarkson ripping up a tribute to the late Patti Page with "Tennessee Waltz"; and Carole King with "Natural Woman" – broke up that rather rote flow of the evening's events by injecting the genuine excitement of well-played live music.
Then there was Taylor Swift, who opened the show with her "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." The performance boasted a circus theme, with Swift as a ringmaster in top hat and tails, and surrounding dancers and musicians offering some strange melange of carny absurdity. Call it "Cirque de So-Lame." OMG, Taylor – we are so through!
Justin Timberlake's much publicized "return to music" was astoundingly good. In his time off, Timberlake seems to have fully immersed himself in classic R&B and soul music, and he sang beautifully, tearing up the newly released "Suit & Tie" with a large band replete with horns and strings.
Of course, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Kenny Garrett paying tribute to the late Dave Brubeck gave us the deepest, most profound musical performance. These were clearly the finest musicians in the building on this night. Corea won two Grammys Sunday night, too. The group's "Take 5" was sublime, though way too short.
Some of the presenters stole the show, frankly.
Johnny Depp introducing Mumford & Sons – whose "I Will Wait For You" was well-received, but it sounded a bit like a radio jingle designed to simulate the sound of bluegrass – wins the "coolest looking dude of the night" award.
Dave Grohl, who revealed that Black Keys guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach had won the award for "Producer of the Year" earlier in the day based on his work on Dr. John's astounding "Locked Down" album, gets the nod for "man who has been the most successful cheerleader for rock 'n' roll in 2012" trophy.
Rihanna ran away with both the "least in-tune vocal performance" and the "whose bright idea was it to ask Rihanna to take part in a Bob Marley tribute?" prize.
And Sting, during that same tribute, accorded himself well as the "older dude who can still sing way better than all these kids, including Bruno Mars" award.
We should offer a tip of the hat to host LL Cool J, who brought an unflinching optimism to the event. LL's theme for the evening was one of inclusiveness, as he continually returned to the root, not suggesting that the Grammys were everyone's night, because this was everyone's music. This notion might appear absurd to anyone who doesn't slavishly follow the most popular pop music, but one felt that LL really meant it and that he believed it himself. His perkiness helped the night move along smoothly.
There were no real stunning pests, although it was a bit of a surprise when Fun. – which reminded the crowd that they'd been doing this for 12 years, touring as an underground (and underpaid) indie rock act – took the golden gramophone for "Best New Artist" over Frank Ocean, who was clearly the critics' pick for the slot.
Gotye taking top honors over Taylor Swift, Frank Ocean, the Black Keys and Kelly Clarkson was not entirely expected, and was therefore refreshing.
When Gotye gave props to presenter Prince while accepting his award? Priceless. His acceptance speech in general was an exercise in what the Grammys could and should be all about – a lesson in being humble, grateful, and appreciative of the opportunity to carve out a life for oneself in music.
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The Internet hates you. But to be fair, the Internet hates everybody. It is a worldwide network of assholes connected by their mutual dislike for one another. And also some fiber optics. But every once in a while, the Internet gets it right and at least some of that hyperbolic vitriol is deserved. Nobody's saying you should kill yourself if you do any of the below (well, yes, actually they are -- but don't worry about it. "Kill yourself" is how the Internet says "Maybe you should work on this"), but perhaps you should reconsider before ...
#5. Correcting Somebody's Spelling/Grammar in a Facebook Status
I know you. I know you're a wellspring of good intentions. You're a veritable saint. What you do, you do for the good of all humanity -- nay, all of civilization. You're not correcting somebody's apostrophe placement in their status update because you're a hopeless pedant and extremely insecure about the size of your intellectual dick. No, you're trying to preserve the sanctity of the written language in somebody's Facebook post so that, in far-flung eons when the aliens come to Earth and find it a lifeless husk, they will know and understand that the shitty vacuum belongs to Gary, and there was not a race of Garys who vacuumed shittily.
And you know what? I'm only partially joking. Catching grammatical errors and offering corrections is a necessary and underappreciated task ... when you're reading a book, a master's thesis, or a comedy article somebody wrote while drunk at an Applebee's.
But the problem isn't the action; it's the audience. If you're a Facebook corrector, then I hate to break this to you, but not one person in history has taken your *their* reply as anything but a passive-aggressive insult. The victims of your rampant grammar sprees don't find themselves about to type "Garys vacuum so shitty it cant even suck at street fighter" and then, recalling your past corrections, suddenly backspace to fix the error while giving a giant Mentos-style wink and thumbs-up to a nonexistent camera.
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So if they're not going to learn a lesson from it, and you -- like all trolls -- insist that you're not trolling, then what's the point of correcting them? It's best to just learn to ignore these infuriating errors, and let all of human language slowly devolve into anarchic ignorance and pictographs. Because that's what is going to happen.
I'm sorry, it turns out you were the last gatekeeper of literacy, after all. Who could have known? Ah well, back to dirt drawings and marking ownership with urine.
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There's nothing wrong with retweeting something that you find humorous or interesting. It's actually pretty great. You should give it a shot right now -- you might be surprised to find that a single retweet raises your IQ by a factor of 600 and gives you the power of unassisted human flight.
Retweeting is fine. That's the entire point of the platform, after all. But it is not the point to retweet literally everything your favorite celebrity plugs into their iPhone. By all means RT George Takei's scathing reviews of the outfits of evangelical hate criminals -- that's some viral shit right there. By all means retweet the latest jewel from '80s Don Draper. That's good shit, too. But you get, let's say, three. Three retweets from a single account on any given day. If your followers aren't impressed enough to follow that account for themselves after three RTs, the ensuing 27 probably won't convince them.
That means you have a choice to make: Are you going to retweet that killer joke Shelby Fero made about how cats are like boyfriends, or the picture of what her butt would look like if it was in One Direction? You can't do both! Life is made up of tough choices. Left or right, Coke or Pepsi, Jim Beam or straight ethanol -- it's time to bring some of that decisiveness to your Twitter feed. Because if somebody wanted to read every single word a B-list celebrity typed while pooping, they would be following Tom Arnold already.
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Men's Hoops Visits Marquette for Tuesday Game on FS1
The Ball State men's basketball team returns to action for the first time in 13 days with a Tuesday night contest at Marquette. The Golden Eagles, which advanced to the Elite Eight of last year's NCAA Tournament, are the second Big East opponent of the season for the Cardinals.
Tipoff is set for 8 p.m. CT (9 p.m. ET) in Milwaukee, Wis., in a game that will be televised by Fox Sports 1.
Ball State (2-5) hasn't played since a Dec. 4 loss to Valparaiso, while Marquette (6-4) is coming off a Saturday victory over IUPUI. The teams, both of which were formerly coached by the late Rick Majerus, will be meeting for the first time.
Game Information
Ball State at Marquette
Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. CT (9 p.m. ET) -- BMO Harris Bradley Center (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Live Coverage
• Television: Fox Sports 1; Brian Anderson (play-by-play), Bob Wenzel (analyst)
• Radio (Flagship): Ball State Radio Network (104.1 FM WLBC); Joel Godett (play-by-play)
• Internet: Live audio available through the Ball State All Access package at ballstatesports.com; Live stats available at gomarquette.com.
What You Need to Know
• Tuesday's game at Marquette begins a three-game road stretch for Ball State that will continue with games at Southern Illinois (Dec. 21) and James Madison (Dec. 30).
• The Cardinals are 2-5 on the season, coming off four straight losses, and preparing for their second Big East opponent of the year.
• Ball State will be playing for the first time since a 69-50 loss to Valparaiso Dec. 4, a stretch of 13 days.
• The Cardinals' strength of schedule is rated as high as No. 25 in the country (ESPN.com), and their losses have come against teams with a combined record of 35-15.
• Freshman point guard Zavier Turner leads the Cardinals with averages of 13.4 points and 3.9 assists per game.
• Seniors Jesse Berry (13.0 ppg) and Chris Bond (10.9 ppg) are also averaging double figures.
• Berry surpassed the 1,000-point mark for his career Nov. 30 at Cleveland State to become the 27th member of Ball State's 1,000-point club.
• Senior center Majok Majok ranks second in the Mid-American Conference and 19th nationally with 11.0 rebounds per game.
• Majok, who is averaging 9.1 points per game, has three double-doubles on the season.
• Ball State is playing its 93rd season of basketball and its first under head coach James Whitford.
• The Cardinals are in the midst of a stretch in which they play five out of six games on the road. Wednesday's game against Valparaiso is the team's only home contest in the month of December.
Scouting Marquette
• Marquette is 6-4 on the year after an 86-50 win Saturday over IUPUI.
• The Golden Eagles, which were ranked early in the season, have lost twice to top-10 teams (Ohio State and Wisconsin). Their other losses are to Arizona State and San Diego State.
• A pair of Marquette players are averaging double-figures: Davante Gardner (14.8 ppg) and Jamil Wilson (12.2 ppg). Gardner also leads the team on the glass with 7.0 rebounds per game.
• The Golden Eagles have held their opponents to 37.7 percent shooting for the year and own a +8.4 average rebounding advantage.
• The Marquette program has played in eight consecutive NCAA Tournaments and has reached the Sweet 16 in three straight seasons. The Golden Eagles advanced to the Elite Eight a year ago.
The Series with Marquette
• Ball State and Marquette will be meeting for the first time.
Majerus Connection
• Ball State and Marquette are connected by a common head coach in the late Rick Majerus, who passed away Dec. 1, 2012.
• Majerus led the Cardinals for two seasons (1987-89), going 43-17.
• In his second season, he guided the program to a 29-3 record (the best in school history), a MAC Championship and the program's first NCAA Tournament victory.
• A Marquette alum, Majerus was a long-time assistant coach at his alma mater and served as the program's head coach from 1983-86, posting a 56-35 record in his three seasons.
• Ball State already played another of Majerus' teams earlier this season, visiting the Utah Utes in November.
All-Time Versus the Big East
• Tuesday's game at Marquette is the second of the season for Ball State against an opponent from the Big East Conference.
• The Cardinals dropped a 59-58 decision to first-year Big East member Butler Nov. 23 in Muncie.
• Ball State is 2-6 all-time against Big East opponents at the time they were in the league.
• The wins came against Pittsburgh, 68-64, in the first round of the 1989 NCAA Tournament and at DePaul, 79-77, in the 2010-11 season.
• The Cardinals are 42-77 all-time against current Big East members with the majority of those games coming against in-state rival Butler.
Tough Competition
• Ball State's strength of schedule is ranked among the top 50 in the country by a variety of outlets: ESPN.com (25), Jeff Sagarin (32), Warren Nolan (42), CBSSports.com (47) and Ken Pomeroy (49).
• The Cardinals' five losses this season have come against teams with a combined record of 35-15: Utah (9-1), Butler (8-2), Indiana State (7-2), Valparaiso (7-5) and Cleveland State (4-5).
• Butler's only losses came by two points to No. 5 Oklahoma State and in overtime to LSU. Indiana State's lone defeats both came by a single point against Belmont and Tulsa.
Majok One of the Nation's Best
• Senior center Majok Majok ranks second in the MAC and 19th nationally in rebounding (10.1 rpg).
• He had a string of five straight double-digit rebounding games snapped against Valparaiso.
• One of those games was a 16-rebound effort against Taylor that was one shy of his career high.
• Majok led the MAC last year and ranked 18th nationally at 9.8 rebounds per game.
Majok Majok's Double-Doubles
• Majok Majok owns three double-doubles on the season and 12 over his two seasons at Ball State.
• He is nearly averaging a double-double through seven games at 9.1 points and 10.1 rebounds.
• Majok ranked third in the MAC with nine double-doubles last year in his first season at Ball State and nearly averaged a double-double for the season at 10.7 points and 9.8 rebounds per game.
• The last Cardinal to average a double-double in a season was Theron Smith, who tallied 19.6 points and 10.9 rebounds per game in 2001-02.
Turner's Fast Start
• Freshman point guard Zavier Turner is leading the Cardinals with averages of 13.4 points and 3.9 assists per game.
• He has scored at least 15 points in four of Ball State's seven games.
• Turner became the first Cardinal with at least 17 points and at least four assists in the first three games of a season since Larry Bullington in 1973-74 and just the second to accomplish the feat since Ball State began tracking assists in 1973.
• He became the first Ball State freshman with at least 17 points in the first three games of a season since Jim Fields in 1975-76 and just the second since freshmen became eligible for varsity competition in 1972.
Turner's Shooting Numbers
• Zavier Turner leads the Mid-American Conference in free throw percentage (.960) and ranks seventh in the league in 3-point percentage (.485).
• He has made all but one of his 25 free throw attempts and sunk 16 of 33 from beyond the arc.
• Turner leads the MAC in made 3-pointers per game with an average of 2.3.
• He has hit at least three 3-pointers in four of the Cardinals' seven games and was held without a trey for the first time in the last game against Valparaiso.
More Turner Rankings
• Zavier Turner also ranks among the top 15 in the MAC in assists per game (3.9, 5th), minutes per game (31.7, 5th) and points per game (13.4, 15th).
• He leads MAC freshmen in each of those categories except 3-point percentage, where he ranks second to Western Michigan rookie Kellen McCormick.
Berry Reaches 1,000
• Senior guard Jesse Berry surpassed 1,000 points for his career in the Nov. 30 game at Cleveland State.
• Berry's final basket of the night, a second-half 3-pointer, gave him 10 points for the game and 1,001 for his career.
• He added 10 more points in the Valparaiso game and now has 1,011 as a Cardinal.
• Berry is the 27th member of Ball State's 1,000-point club. Former teammate Jauwan Scaife, now a graduate student manager for the Cardinals, became the 26th member last season.
Berry from Downtown
• Jesse Berry has moved into third place on Ball State's all-time 3-pointers list with 173 for his career. He ranks second in school history with 495 3-point attempts.
• Former Ball State teammate Jauwan Scaife set the school record for 3-pointers last year, finishing his career with 203 treys.
• Berry shot a career-best 37.5 percent from beyond the arc last season and raised his percentage to 41.2 during MAC play.
Youth and Experience
• Ball State's lineup this season is heavy on both experience and youth.
• There are only two scholarship players on the Cardinals' roster outside the freshman and senior classes, so those two classes account for the majority of the minutes on the floor.
• Ball State's freshmen have stepped in to make an immediate impact, accounting for more than 40 percent of the team's minutes and scoring.
• Freshman Zavier Turner leads the team in scoring with 13.4 points per game, while freshmen also rank first and second on the team in assists -- Turner 27 and Quinten Payne 13. Freshman Franko House is second on the team with 5.1 rebounds per game.
Rebounding Telling the Story
• Ball State has held a double-digit rebounding advantage in both of its wins this season, but the Cardinals have been out-rebounded in each of their five losses.
• The team has held an average rebounding margin of +19.5 in its wins over Taylor (53-25) and Southeast Missouri (46-35).
• In the five losses, Ball State has been out-rebounded by an average margin of 4.2, though never by more than seven in a single game.
Whitford Era Underway
• James Whitford, who was introduced April 10, 2013 as the 19th head coach in program history, earned his first career win in the Cardinals' 73-53 victory Nov. 12 over Taylor.
• Whitford came to Ball State after serving the previous eight years on the staff of Sean Miller at Xavier and Arizona, including the past two as the Wildcats' associate head coach.
• He also has previous MAC experience with 11 years on the staff at Miami University under head coaches Herb Sendek and Charlie Coles.
• During his career as an assistant coach, Whitford's teams posted an overall record of 400-208 and reached the postseason 13 times, including 10 NCAA tournament appearances.
Kamieniecki to Miss Season
• Senior post player Matt Kamieniecki will sit out the season after undergoing wrist surgery. He will redshirt this season and return to the floor as a fifth-year senior in 2014-15.
• Kamieniecki has played in 74 games through his first three seasons at Ball State. He averaged 4.6 points and 5.9 rebounds per game as a junior, starting 11 of the final 16 games after being limited by injury in the first half of the season.
• At this point, Kamieniecki will be the only senior on next year's Ball State roster.
Returning for the Cardinals
• The loss of Matt Kamieniecki leaves Ball State with six returning letterwinners from last year, four of which are seniors -- center Majok Majok, guard Jesse Berry and forwards Chris Bond and Tyler Koch.
• Majok led the MAC and ranked 18th nationally in rebounding last year. He averaged nearly a double-double at 10.7 points and 9.8 rebounds per game.
• Berry is the team's top returning scorer. He ranked second on last year's team at 12.8 points per game, trailing only departed senior Jauwan Scaife's 16.6 points per game.
• Ball State's two additional returning letterwinners are both sophomores in forward Bo Calhoun and guard Chase Brogna.
Relying on Young Talent
• Ball State brought in a class of four scholarship freshmen, all of whom are averaging at least 16 minutes per game.
• Freshman Zavier Turner, an all-state point guard from Pike High School in Indianapolis, is being asked to shoulder much of the ball handling load for the Cardinals.
• The class of scholarship newcomers also includes guards Mark Alstork from Thurgood Marshall High School in Dayton and Quinten Payne from North High School in St. Charles, Ill., along with post player Franko House from Concord High School in Elkhart, Ind.
Majok Tabbed Preseason All-MAC
• Majok Majok was named to the preseason All-MAC West Division Team in a vote of media from around the league. He was joined in the West Division by Toledo's Rian Pearson and Julius Brown, Western Michigan's Shayne Whittington and Eastern Michigan's Glenn Bryant.
• The preseason All-MAC East Team consisted of Buffalo's Javon McCrea and Will Regan, Akron's Demetrius Treadwell and Quincy Diggs, and Miami's Will Felder.


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Cartography is as much an art as a science. That's abundantly clear from this collection of vintage maps and cityscapes from Map Antiquities. Each is elegantly framed and ready to hang in a study, a living room, an office, or anywhere else you'd like to introduce a sense of history.


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After shooting it during the game, it took Gary Barber, a member of the Dallas Morning News photography staff, all night to do the technical production work on it, and it's no stretch to say this is the single most comprehensive and highest-resolution image of fans we have ever produced, on one of the most memorable nights in all of Dallas' sports history.
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I think this curry will be a winner amongst my family members who love everything spicy too, though I have had requests for macarons instead! Bring on the flavours, I say. Even on holidays, my baking bug hasn't left me yet, it's a therapy on its own to see the cakes rise beautifully, the macarons finding their feet slowly and the spices to infuse and form exotic blends of gravy. This is what life is for, food for families, food for gatherings and certainly food to soothe away the sorrows.
It was such a beautiful feeling to go out to the backyard, pick those bunches of fresh mint from the soil, mix the lamb chunks with the homemade yogurt that has curded beautifully overnight and blend all the spices with fresh coconut, picked minutes ago from the swaying trees. Such delight! Something that I will never be able to do in the UK, yet how we made do all these years with products on supermarket aisle. I am betting my luck that this lamb curry would taste way nicer with the fresh produce, either way, this curry is a must-try. A perfect pot of heated love for your loved ones.
Coconut and Mint Lamb Curry
500g boneless lamb chunks
2 medium sized green onions-finely sliced
1 cup plain greek style yogurt
2 inch ginger-grated finely
1/2 cup fresh mint leaves
1 tbsp fennel seeds
1 tbsp coriander seeds
1/2 tbsp paprika
1/2 tbsp chilli powder
1/2 tbsp cumin
1 tbsp black pepper
1 cup freshly grated coconut (or dessicated coconut sprinkled with water)
salt to taste
4 tbsp olive oil
1. Marinate the lamb pieces with ginger and yogurt for few hours, preferably overnight.
2. Dry roast the coriander seeds, paprika, chilli powder, cumin and black pepper until fragrant and slightly brown. Put the spices into the food processor, add the coconut and mint in and pulse until finely blended. Set aside.
3. Heat the olive oil in the casserole pan or wok. Fry the onions until golden brown, add the fennel seeds. Once fragrant, add the blended spices and fry until oil splutters a bit. Add the marinated lamb pieces and lower the heat. Season with salt. For a bit of gravy, pour about 1 cup of water and let the gravy simmer on low heat until thickens and the meat is well cooked.
4. Garnish with mint leaves and serve warm with roti, naan or pilau rice.
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a loser jerk off that thinks they are cooler than they actually are. they think they are the focus of everyone's attention or are better than everyone when in fact they are not. they try too hard, get smuts with diseases, have diseases, and are used like tools
the entire frat of pi lam at Widener University in Chester, PA
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"That Doug....what a toolbag."
door Greg 25 mei 2004
A person who is more than a plain tool, or dick, but is equivalent to a bag of tools, or a sack full of dicks.
"Cameron is a toolbag"
door Buddy J 14 juni 2003
A person of utter uselessness.
Completely and devestatingly devoid of purpose.
Completely and devestatingly devoid of purpose.
"Art, your a total toolbag. I'm demoting you from bag boy to speed bump. You'll be working in parking lot five from now on."
door Roy K 11 juli 2005
A crossbreed between a tool and a douchebag. A toolbag would like the Black Eyed Peas, like a tool would, and Nickleback, like a douchebag would. They would also like Kid Rock, like both a tool and a douchebag would. Toolbag can also refer to someone who is beyond being just a tool.
That guy is totally a toolbag. He looks just like he got back from a Kid Rock concert.
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a complete tool encompassing all aspects of being a tool. the grandaddy of all tools. this person is a tool in any situation.
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One who tries to be a hard ass, but everyone else thinks is an idiot because of what he does.
"a guy that parks his not that sweet of a car on the towns main street car wash and hand washes or shammies it with his shirt off, bumping his stereo system."
"a guy that parks his not that sweet of a car on the towns main street car wash and hand washes or shammies it with his shirt off, bumping his stereo system."
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Adjective meaning crazy with rage, possessed of blind fury, going "medieval." Also used in sexual situations to describe kinky, rough sex.
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Customer: "Bitch, I'm about to go Marv Albert on yo' ass!"
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This is when you're sodomizing your partner during the throes of passion, then bitting them no less than "15" times on their back and or body. Once you get off, you then force them to perform oral sex on you!
I can't wait to get this skank home and "Marv Albert" her!
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Writing Center Open House to be held Feb. 11
Penn State Berks students, faculty, and staff are invited to a dedication and open house for the newly renovated Writing Center in room 141 of the Franco Building, at on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, at 1 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
The event will begin with a dedication from Chancellor R. Keith Hillkirk beginning at 1:15 p.m. After the ribbon cutting, the program will include a video about the Writing Center created by peer tutors and some readings of short words and poetry from tutors and Professional Writing majors.
Literary-themed food will be served, including non-alcoholic mint juleps from "The Great Gatsby." Attendees may also enter a free raffle. Word games (homemade Boggle) and supervised graffiti art on some available wall space will be featured as well.
For more information, contact Dr. Holly Ryan, assistant professor of English and writing center coordinator, at 610-396-6333, or via e-mail at email@example.com.


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NVIDIA is stressing with the new GTX 200 family that the GPUs go beyond
gaming and are one of the most powerful processors in a PC and can be used for
rendering video and other functions. NVIDIA says that its goals with the architecture
of the GTX 200 series were to design a processor twice as powerful as the
GeForce 8800 GTX, rebalance the architecture for future games with more complex
shaders and more memory, improve efficiency per watt and per square millimeter,
provide enhanced CUDA performance, and add a significant reduction in idle
power requirements.
NVIDIA says that the GTX 200 line provides nearly a teraflop of
computational power. The GTX 200 family also offers support for PhysX powered
physics processing right on the GPU. Both the new GTX 280 and GTX 260 support
SLI and 3-way SLI. The previous NVIDIA 9800 GX2 could not support 3-way SLI.
Key features in the new GTX 200 GPUs include support for three times the
number of threads per flight at any given time. A new scheduler design allows
for 20% more texturing efficiency. The memory interface for the GPUs is 512-bit
(GTX 280) and full-speed, raster-operation (ROP) frame blending is supported.
The GTX 200 series also features twice the number of registers for longer and
more complex shaders and IEEE754R double precision floating-point. The GTXC 200
line also supports 10-bit color scan out via the DisplayPort only.
One of the main goals with the GTX 200 line was improved power management.
Both the GTX 200 series GPUs have idle power requirements of about 25W; during
Blu-ray playback power requirements are around 35W; full 3D performance
requirements vary with the most power needed being 236W (GTX 280). The GTX 200
line is compatible with HybridPower, which makes the power needs of the GPU
effectively 0W.
The GTX 280 is built on a 65nm process and has 1.4 billion transistors. The
stock video cards have a graphics clock of 602 MHz, processor clock of 1,296
MHz, and a memory clock of 2,214 MHz. The GTX 280 has 1GB of GDDR3 and 240
processing cores and 32 ROPs.
The GTX 260 is also built on the 65 nm process and has 1.4 billion
transistors. The graphics clock for the GTX 260 is 576 MHz, the processor clock
is 1,242 MHz, and the memory clock is 1,998 MHz. The memory interface on the
GTX 260 is 448-bit and it has 896MB of GDDR3 memory. The GTX 260 has 192
processing cores and 28 ROPs. The maximum board power is 182W.
Both video cards will support PhysX processing on the GPU. NVIDIA purchased
Ageia in early 2008.
GTX 280 video cards will be available tomorrow for
$649 and the GTX 260 cards will be available on June 26 for $399.
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Saturday, August 16, 2014
Rising sophomore Cheyenne Lewellen has earned another boxing title.
Lewellen, her coach, and two of her teammates traveled to Independence, Mo., for the Ringside World Championship held July 30 through Aug. 3. This championship involved more than 1,700 athletes from around the world and almost 100 USA Boxing Officials supervising six rings of simultaneous action during two sessions each day.
Lewellen fought in the semi finals against a boxer from Colorado in the 132-pound weight class. Throughout the bout, she put up a good fight but she could not dodge Lewellens jab and combinations that landed more than once. Lewellen won by unanimous decision.
In the finals, Lewellens opponent tried to stay out from in front of Lewellens jab but she too couldnt avoid the hammering left uppercut and jab Lewellen threw at her. It looked like the bout was going to be stopped at the beginning of the second round but the ringside physician allowed the fight to continue. After three full rounds of intense action, Lewellen was declared the winner by unanimous decision.
Lewellens coach was an official for one of the other rings so the boxer warmed up with her sister, Raven, and her younger brother, JessieJames, between fights.
JessieJames, a rising seventh-grader, also participated in the Ringside World Championship. In the semi finals, he took on the top seed in his class, a left-hander. However, this benefited the Summerville boxer as he has trained most of his career against left-handers. Young Lewellens barrage of combinations resulted in his opponent receiving two standing-eight counts. At the end of three rounds, the young Lewellen was announced the winner by unanimous decision.
Unfortunately JessieJames wasnt successful the next night in the finals. He had a good start as it seemed he had dropped his opponent straight to the canvas with a double hook combination, but the referee called it a slip. After that it turned into a track meet with JessieJames cutting his opponent off several times but to little avail. Despite the skill and technique JessieJames displayed, his opponent was declared the winner by a 3-2 split decision.
This summer alone the Summerville Boxing Team has traveled more than 5,000 miles to get its athletes to as many competitions/tournaments as possible. In order to get nationally ranked it is imperative that these athletes get to as many tournaments as they can but the expenses associated with all of the traveling is financially draining on the organizations funds.
Both Lewellens train at School of Hard Knox, home of Summerville Boxing Team. The gym is located at 1130 Boone Hill Road, directly across the street from Summerville High School. It is a 501 (c)3 Non Profit organization and can be found on the IRS website as such listed under Tri County Athletics. For further information on the School of Hard Knox, call 478-9667, email email@example.com or visit www.svilleboxing.com.
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Good weather and a crowd of thousands helped make the 2012 Geneseo Christmas Walk a success.
"It went really well and the weather cooperated, which is always good," said Geneseo Chamber of Commerce executive director Brian DeJohn.
"The parade went well. I had anticipated that event (which debuted in 2011) growing this year, but it pretty much stayed flat (in terms of participants)," said DeJohn. "I've already had people say they want to put together a float for next year, so I think it will grow."
The cornerstone of the event — originally called the Victorian Walk — are a series of "living windows" gracing the storefronts of downtown businesses.
"This year's windows were good. I'd like to see more live participants in the windows, and I think next year we'll put a call out to churches and organizations to try and get them to help fill the windows, as opposed to just having the businesses try to fill the windows," said DeJohn.
Though DeJohn said he was unsure of the exact number of Christmas Walk attendees, he estimates "thousands."
"In talking to two of the churches, they said they each served 275 dinners that night, so there's 500 people right there. The other restaurants and businesses likewise were full," he noted.
"Everything we do revolves around the kids. For us, our mentality is that we really have to focus on the kids. We try to tailor our activities for families and children," he said. "We try to add new things and freshen up the event every now and then."
Geneseo mayor Linda Van Der Leest called the 2012 Christmas Walk "an outstanding tourism event for our city."
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COLUMBIANA - The city will file a petition to annex 134 acres from Fairfield Township. On Tuesday, council passed second reading of the legislation following a brief discussion on how the move will benefit the city.
The annexation is being sought by council in order for the city to own the property where the current water treatment plant is located. The outdated plant built in 1933 on the southeast end of the city near Metz Road will be replaced by a new multi-million-dollar plant over the next two years.
The annexation includes some neighboring farm properties and about a half-mile of roadway that the city would be responsible for.
City Manager Keith Chamberlin has said the annexation will benefit the city because it will make way for the police and fire departments to have jurisdiction there. Currently the departments have no authority at the property since it is situated in the township.
Councilman Bob Bieshelt said the additional jurisdiction would result in more costs for the department through overtime hours and mileage.
"This is a pretty large chunk of the property," he said of what is known as the Hawkins property located not far from the city's baseball fields.
Police Chief Tim Gladis said the additional property in the city would mean more costs for the department but didn't indicate the cost would be significant.
Planning Commission member Ron LaLonde noted, and Gladis confirmed, that the city already has officers patrol the area near the baseball fields.
Bieshelt then asked why the Hawkins property, which is mostly a field, was included in the annexation, and Chamberlin explained that it wasn't originally included but later added in order for the property to be more equally divided.
Bieshelt then asked if any revenue would be received from the property, to which Chamberlin responded that aside from some income tax and a "little bit" of agriculture real estate tax, the revenue wouldn't be significant.
He noted, however, that the township is currently collecting fire levy money on that property and once annexation takes place it would switch to the city's levy collections.
He added the city does not need to run utilities to the property targeted to be annexed.
The legislation was unanimously approved.
Also approved was the purchase of a new ladder truck for the volunteer fire department. Fire Chief Rick Garrity approached council on Sept. 18 requesting approval for the new truck estimated to cost $585,432.
Council approved making a $250,000 down payment through Community Leasing Partners and financing the remaining $327,932 with a three-year, 2.7 percent interest loan.
The city received a $7,500 discount on the truck by making the down payment, Finance Director Mike Harold pointed out.
The truck will be paid for through available funding from the fire levy approved in 2010. Six installments of little more than $57,000 will be made beginning in March of 2013 and continuing through 2015, resulting in the truck being paid off by the end of the levy.
Garrity said he expects the truck to be delivered to the department within nine months.
Other items approved were:
- A first reading of a resolution requesting county distribution of casino revenues.
- A first reading of an ordinance amending sections 1260.05 and 1260.22 of the planning and zoning code. The amendment added language that would bar a liquid waste injection disposal well and support structures from being constructed in the city. Municipal Attorney Daniel Blasdell said the amendment is a precautionary measure and there were no plans for a well to be constructed in the city.
- Setting trick or treat night for 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 31.
- A request from Kelli Harding for Heros and Halos to host a 5K race/walk on Sept. 13, 2013. Harding said the event will benefit the Heros and Halos summer safety event and that the race/walk will begin at South Side Middle School and end at the Firestone Park track. Special needs individuals are also invited to participate and fireworks will be set off at the close of the event, she said.


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Anchorage, Alaska, native Laura Tuttle roller-skied Wednesday afternoon around the puddles that days ago were mounds of snow along sidewalks of Grand Island.
Who could blame this former competitive Nordic skier? The mercury these last few weeks has proved more volatile than the stock market and as topsy-turvy as the Buffalo Sabres.
"For me, I just kind of have to roll with it and be creative," said Tuttle, 24, who is spending her first winter in Western New York as a graduate student at D'Youville College and admitted the weather so far this season hasn't really lived up to an outsider's perception of a "Buffalo winter."
"I'm a little bit surprised because I've heard that there can be some pretty large snow storms," added Tuttle, who has yet to don her snow skis here. "It's strange to wear a T-shirt in January."
But there were T-shirts and shorts aplenty in Buffalo Niagara on Wednesday, a day in which the nearly century-old record high temperature of 56 degrees, set in 1916, was shattered by a full 10 degrees before breakfast. The high of 66 degrees was set at 7:38 a.m. Temperatures the rest of the day remained mainly in the upper 50s to low 60s before dropping off after dusk.
Wishful thinkers who reveled in that record warmth Wednesday will be disappointed this morning when they arise to below-freezing temperatures and the prospect of snow by day's end.
Worse, it's going to feel downright arctic as gusty winds send the mercury hurtling down to the 20s today and into the teens Friday. That will mark a nearly 50-degree drop from Wednesday morning's record high.
"This is very unusual for this time of year," said Jim Mitchell, a meteorologist at the Buffalo offices of the National Weather Service about Wednesday's warmth. "We did break the record – and we broke it by 10 degrees."
It didn't get sunny and no one was about to sit out on the porch with a strawberry daiquiri. But dog walkers shed their coats, joggers wore shorts, kids rode bicycles, and a few beachcombers were seen at Hamburg Town Park – if only for a day.
The brief warm spell provided many with a needed break from last week's single-digit weather, which had ice-wine grape harvesters jumping for joy but the rest of us quivering in our parkas and snowboots. At one point last Friday in some parts of the area, temperatures hovered around one meager degree.
The warm-up started the next day, when the highs starting rising into the 20s. By Monday, Western New Yorkers were gleefully peeling off layers, as the high for the day was up in the 40s.
The warming trend continued through Wednesday morning, when the record-breaking high of 66 was recorded, and along with it, rare January thunderstorms.
One such thunderstorm, in northern Chautauqua County just after 10 a.m., brought 51-mph winds to the Dunkirk Lighthouse and 47-mph winds to Barcelona Harbor near Westfield. In most areas of the region, between a half-inch and one inch of rain fell over the 24-hour period from Tuesday morning to Wednesday, the weather service reported.
As tends to be the case with spring-like temperatures in the dead of winter when you live in Buffalo, it wasn't destined to last, Mitchell said.
"We will see a very abrupt change," he said of today's weather.
What's to blame for all the roller-coaster weather?
According to weather service meteorologist Tom Paone, the warm-up was a result of southerly winds bringing heated air from the Gulf Coast. But that was moved out by a "fairly strong cold front" pushing in from the Midwest.
Temperatures began their downward spiral by Wednesday afternoon, dropping about a degree an hour until they tumbled below the freezing mark. The highs today weren't expected to get above the upper 20s.
And just in case that's not cold enough for you, strong winds powerful enough to warrant a high-wind warning will blast the area through this afternoon, making it feel like we're back down into single-digit territory.
The sudden return of the cold is sure to cause problems for drivers as wet roadways get iced over.
"Look for slick spots on the roadways," Mitchell said. "The roads could be pretty treacherous out there."
The wind gusts could get up 60 mph during the warning period, which began Wednesday evening until and will remain in effect through 4 p.m. today, potentially bringing down branches and utility lines.
With the cold and wind will come – what else? – lake-enhanced snow.
Heavy accumulations were expected south of the city and into the Southern Tier, where a lake-effect snow advisory will be in effect from 10 a.m. today until 6 p.m. Friday.
Mitchell said the Buffalo area won't see any dramatic accumulations – no more than a couple of inches starting tonight and possibly into Friday.
News Staff Reporter Charity Vogel contributed to this report. email: email@example.com and email@example.com