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The NatWest UK Fashion and Textile Awards 2013
by Startacus Admin
As you'd expect for an industry focused on creativity and turning heads, when the Fashion industry does something, it does it a tad differently.
That 'something' we're referring to today is the launch of the UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT) awards. Not for them a simple press release or newspaper ad, no - the UKFT launched by having an impromptu Flash Mob Fashion Show at London's St Pancras station! Bemused commuters were treated to a short 4 minute fashion show featuring designs by some of the UK's leading young up and coming designers, all in aid of promoting the Awards event which is due to be held in May of this year.
The NatWest UK Fashion and Textile Awards 2013 aim to recognise the good and the great in the British fashion industry with awards on the night for Designer Business of the Year, Accessories Business of the Year and Retailer of the Year amongst others.
The good news though is that if you yourself happen to be a young fashion designer or startup, you too could have a place in the Awards evening.
The UKFT Rise Newcomer Award aims to provide some recognition and a little boost for the next generation of the Fashion industry.
Provided you have been trading for less than 3 years, are under 35 years old, you can enter.
The judges will obviously be looking for creative flair but just as importantly clear evidence of your future plans and strategies.
Interested? Enter now at www.ukftawards.org - the closing date for entries is 8 March 2013.
Best of luck to any of you fashionistas who apply!
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Published on: 29th January 2013
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**Second Place Overall Pico Day** (there are no words for this!!)
*edit* wha??? daily second on PICO DAY? i never expected anything like this!! u guys comments are so awesome-im just happy i made something people enjoy & and that i had a chance to make a flash about my favorite ngs character!
*edit* if you are wondering why the monsters have outlines when the rest of the movie doesnt- i was trying to show that they came out of the portal and are from different worlds/animations...i guess it didnt come across well haha....
*whew!* its finally done!
I am no less than STOKED to put out my latest project! I have worked, by far, harder on this than any other project i've worked on. This is a story i've been wanting to tell for over a year now and im so excited to bring it to life! i learned a TON while making this flash, lip syncing, sound mixing, frame by frame ect..This has been about 2 months in the making and i was lucky enough to have some awesome collaborators! (oney, ockerioid, syringes, to name a few!)
I think my piece is a bit more dramatic than the usual pico day submission but hopefully u guys will like it!
so SIT BACK and enjoy! dim the lites and turn up the volume for the FULL experience of the origin of one of your favorite NG characters!
happy pico day!
wow, just wow, i didnt know that's how p-bot's story was, that was friggin beautiful, i felt i was watching a movie, so much emotion, so much drama, ok it isnt the best flash, but it is one of the best stories ive ever seen
now this is a good movie! had everything it should if had better graphic would be tha best thing ever
so that how p bot came into being.
so pico's brother is p-bot. guess the hero runs deep with the family blood line.
Great and good idea...
But a Million Dollar Man or Inspector Gadget reference would have been awesomeness. XD MAYBE. :O Otherwise it just would've been terrible. <,<; Depends on if you were originally going for funny or serious.
If seriousness was your goal, it worked quite well. :O Decent animation and Flash in general. :)
its alright
half stars for average art and weird and bad voice acting, i think u tried to hard to make it like an anime.

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Abstract: Lachlan and Yates proved that some, but not all, pairs of incomparable recursively enumerable (r.e.) degrees have an infimum. We answer some questions which arose from this situation. We show that not every nonzero incomplete r.e. degree is half of a pair of incomparable r.e. degrees which have an infimum, whereas every such degree is half of a pair without infimum. Further, we prove that every nonzero r.e. degree can be split into a pair of r.e. degrees which have no infimum, and every interval of r.e. degrees contains such a pair of degrees.
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Saudi Arabia is making its negative stance toward IS and other extremist groups clear. In Arab News, there's a report about the sentencing of a cleric who preached support as well as provided monetary support for jihadists. He received a five-year jail sentence and travel ban.
Preacher imprisoned for praising IS
Riyadh's special criminal court has sentenced a Saudi preacher to five years in prison for praising and supporting terrorist groups, such as the Islamic State (IS), during an Eid sermon at a local mosque in Riyadh in August 2013.
The defendant was also slapped with a five-year travel ban. The defendant was convicted of using Friday sermons to provoke and encourage dissidence, while glorifying terrorist groups and extremist ideas propagated by Al-Qaeda terrorists.
He was also convicted of financially supporting terrorism with more than SR1 million and harboring wanted terrorists. The defendant had previously received a letter from the Ministry of Islamic Affairs ordering him to stop delivering sermons at the mosque.
Saudi Gazette reports on the disquiet following the discovery of pro-ISIS graffiti on the walls of schools in eastern Riyadh. The article suggests that this is vandalism, but also that there is concern that the group's appeal to young men is something to watch.
IS slogan found on school walls in Riyadh
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — The residents of Al-Naseem neighborhood, east Riyadh, were shocked when they saw the slogans of Islamic State (IS) on the walls of some schools, Al-Hayat daily reported.
A number of residents who spoke on condition of anonymity said they suspect that a group of young men were behind it.
The young men did not look religious but used to stay up till late on the streets near the schools, the residents said.
Sulaiman Al-Battah, sociologist, blamed social media for publishing inaccurate news reports and deviant ideas.
An interesting paper (5-page PDF) on how ISIS, Al-Qaeda and its spin-offs, and other extremist groups make use of social media to promote their messages and to recruit new members. The report is from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism.
Transcending Organization: Individuals and "The Islamic State"
The innovative ways that foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq are leveraging social media and mobile apps to recruit aspirational supporters in the West reveal what is actually a paradigm shift occurring within the global jihadist movement, away from the organization-centric model advanced by Al-Qaida, to a movement unhindered by organizational structures. Counterterrorism policy and practice must rethink the way it approaches countering online radicalization.
Saudi Arabia has arrested eight men who had been working to recruit young Saudis to join up with ISIS, Al Arabiya TV reports. It might well serve the Saudi government if, when they are tried, it relax its rules about not naming names and fully publicize its efforts to eradicate extremism within the country.
Saudi Arabia busts cell of ISIS recruiters
The Saudi interior ministry said Tuesday it detained eight individuals for trying to recruit youth into "extremist groups abroad." Al Arabiya News channel that the recruits were for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
"Security authorities conducted on Monday an operation that led to the arrest of eight citizens who were involved in recruiting youth to join extremist groups abroad," an interior ministry statement carried by the country's Saudi Press Agency said.
Saudi Arabia has taken a tough stance against militant groups in the kingdom and has made arrests of cells with links to extremist elements in different Arab countries.
Asharq Alawsat reports that similar arrests have been made in Jordan:
Jamal Khashoggi has an interesting article translated on today's Al Arabiya TV website and in Arabic at Al-Hayat newspaper. He takes a look at ISIS and sees it as a "third-generation" takfirist/salfist movement. He sees its origins in Egypt of the 1990s. I'd put it earlier, if not with the 1979 takeover of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, then at least in the 1980s, with the conflict between Muslim Brotherhood associates and the Syrian government in Hama. There, the Syrian government succeeded in (bloodily) suppressing the group. This time around, it's not being terribly successful.
Khashoggi is right in pointing out that you don't fix a problem or cure a disease until you have a correct diagnosis and understand the cause. There is far too much refusing to look for, look at, or otherwise identify the causes, but they are known. Treating the symptoms may make things look or feel better for a time, but that does not solve the problem. Nor do $100 million dollar donations to talk about the problem.
How can we defeat ISIS if we don't understand it?
Jamal Khashoggi
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been digging its own grave, just as it has irrationally led many to their graves. It did not disappoint all those who followed its rise and predicted the inevitability of its end, as it carried the seeds of its own destruction within itself.
Last year, I published an article entitled "What history teaches us about Syria's extremists." At the time, ISIS was emerging in Syria and rebelling against those involved in the revolution. It was like an uninvited guest. I wrote about a story that took place in the Indian continent in the 18th century; the story of a young fighter who became the Emir of Peshawar after the success of the Islamist corrective movement to liberate the city from the rule of the "Maharajah" in just two months.
After the imposition of hardline provisions by the new emir on the tribal population of the region, they rebelled against him and brought back the Sikhs and their army to rule again. They did not rebel against the emir alone but against the whole movement, and its spiritual leader.
Asharq Alawsat runs an interesting piece from the Associated Press on how a campaign of the war with IS is taking place in social media. Social media platforms like Twitter and YouTube are taking down the graphic images of the murder of American journalist James Foley. The platforms do not wish to be engaged — or to be used — as part of IS's propaganda.
This raises issue itself, however. Not only is there a form of self-censorship going on (not that that is all bad), but publicizing that you will not publicize something is, in fact, publicizing it.
The article notes that IS is far more sophisticated in its use of media than were the Taliban in Afghanistan, who had a visceral dislike of media, particularly electronic media. The current group, perhaps aided by volunteers from the technologically-advanced West, are taking the conflict to new and wider levels.
Social media pushes back at militant propaganda
Beirut, AP—The extremists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have turned their social media into a theater of horror, broadcasting a stream of battles, bombings and beheadings to a global audience.
The strategy is aimed at terrorizing opponents at home and winning recruits abroad. But there are increasing signs of pushback—both from companies swiftly censoring objectionable content and users determined not to let it go viral.
Public disgust with the group's callous propaganda tactics was evident following their posting of the beheading video of American journalist James Foley—footage that spread rapidly when it appeared online late Tuesday.
The slickly edited video begins with scenes of Obama explaining his decision to order airstrikes in Iraq, before switching to Foley in an orange jumpsuit kneeling in the desert, a black-clad ISIS fighter by his side.
The fighter who beheads Foley is then seen holding another US journalist, Steven Sotloff, threatening to kill him next. "The life of this American citizen, Obama, depends on your next decision," he says.
By Wednesday, many social media users were urging each other not to post the video as a form of protest.
Phillip Smyth, a University of Maryland researcher who tracks the social media activity of jihadists, has noted a modest but noteworthy rise in the speed with which rogue accounts are being removed from Twitter and terror-supporting pages are being pulled from Facebook.
"It's happening," he said. "I can tell you first-hand because I look at this stuff every day."
Saudi Arabia makes its condemnation of the Islamic State complete with a statement from Grand Mufti Sheikh Abudulaziz Aal-Alsheikh. The government has already placed the group on its list of terrorist organizations and has promised to punish those found supporting it. It has followed through on that promise by firing imams and jailing Saudis who return to the country after fighting alongside the group in Syria and Iraq. The country has also warned those who offer support — financial or other — to the extremist group.
Grand Mufti: IS is Islam's 'enemy No. 1'
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Aal Alsheikh on Tuesday blasted Al-Qaeda and Islamic State militants as "enemy number one" of Islam.
"The ideas of extremism, radicalism and terrorism… have nothing to do with Islam and (their proponents) are the enemy number one of Islam," the Kingdom's top scholar said in a statement issued here on Tuesday.
He cited militants from the Islamic State, which has declared a "caliphate" straddling large parts of Iraq and Syria, and the international Al-Qaeda terror network.
"Muslims are the main victims of this extremism, as shown by crimes committed by the so-called Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and groups linked to them," the grand mufti said, quoting a verse from the Holy Qur'an urging the "killing" of people who do deeds harmful to Islam, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said.
Alsheikh's stance reflects the growing international hostility toward Islamic State militants, known for their brutality.
Asharq Alawsat reports that Saudi Arabia is fully backing a UN resolution that attacks the funding of ISIS and the Al-Nusra Front. The resolution names six individuals to be blacklisted, including two Saudi nationals. Both already appear on Saudi Arabia's list of "most-wanted" criminals.
Saudi Arabia committed to UN resolution against ISIS, Al-Nusra
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Arabia committed to implementing a UN Security Resolution targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Al-Nusra Front on Friday, after the measure blacklisted two Saudi nationals.
Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the UN, Abdullah Al-Maulamy, told Asharq Al-Awsat the Kingdom was always in agreement with the "international legitimacy" of the Council and its decrees, and that the latest resolution was being studied closely so that "decisions could be made in light of them."
The Security Council unanimously adopted a UK-drafted resolution on Friday designed to attack the sources of funding for both groups, blacklisting six individuals believed to be associated with the groups and freezing their assets.
Two of the six individuals, Abdul-Mohsen Abdullah Ibrahim Al-Sharekh and Abdulrahman Mohamed Zafir Al-Dabidi Al-Jahani—both accused of links to the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front group currently active in Syria—were Saudi nationals.
Who represents the greatest threat to Muslims today? It's not the US. It's not Israel. It's other Muslims, argues Azeem Ibrahim, of the US Army War College, at Al Arabiya TV.
Killing Muslims in the name of Islam is perverse. Religion is being used as a cloak for what is actually "ethnic, social, sectarian and/or tribal cleansing," he says. Again, an article worth reading in full.
What is the greatest global threat to Muslims?
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
Who is responsible for the greatest numbers of deaths against Muslims today? Who commits the worst atrocities against Muslims? It is not the West that claims the highest headcount nor is it Israel. The sad truth is that today Muslims kill the most Muslims around the world.
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring in late 2010, more than 100,000 have been killed. Many of these deaths were in Syria, where thousands more languish in prisons expecting similarly grim fates. And with the rise of ISIS and the threat that it poses to regional stability, many more are expected to die.
Most of the fighters are killing "infidels". Most of the those dying are allegedly "infidels". Almost always, that means that they are the wrong kind of Muslim to the other Muslim holding the gun. Whether they are fighters or civilians, the sin of those dying is in many cases simply being Sunni rather than Shiite, or Shiite rather than Sunni. And woe betides any smaller minorities caught in the middle.
Writing at Al Arabiya TV, Hisham Melhem finds the origin of extremist groups like ISIS to be in the Arab penchant for "conspiracy theories, delusions, self-deception, paranoia and xenophobia." Undemocratic societies, where government seek to control the flow of information, leave vacuums which people will seek to fill. They end up filling them with nonsense, with anger, with paranoia.
It's worth reading his column in full. He does a good job of pointing out the various zany theories that are rippling across not only the Arab world, but the world at large. And it's scary.
Enough lies, the Arab body politic created the ISIS cancer
Hisham Melhem
Most people are averse to introspection, and rarely engage in self-criticism. Arabs are no different. However, the political culture that developed in the Arab World in the last 60 years, particularly in countries ruled by autocratic regimes, shifted blame from their catastrophic failures in governance to other external, sinister forces. For these countries, self-criticism has become next to impossible.
Over time, this legacy has created fertile terrain for conspiracy theories, delusions, self-deception, paranoia and xenophobia. If you read an Arab newspaper or many a website in the region, you will invariably encounter some of these symptoms. Admittedly, sometimes they can be entertaining, but in most cases they are downright ugly, reflecting deep pathologies of fear.
The Saudi government is vehemently denying press reports that tens of thousands of Egyptian and Pakistani troops have been brought into the country to help secure its northern border with Iraq and Jordan, in light of the growing strength of the so-called Islamic State. Reports, seemingly originating in London, have suggested such an event.
As Arab News reports, the Saudi Arabian National Guard believes it is able to confront any such threat and has not called for foreign assistance.
Miteb: No foreign troops on northern KSA border
National Guard Minister Prince Miteb bin Abdullah has denied press reports that Egyptian and Pakistani military forces have been deployed along the Kingdom's northern border.
He said Saudi armed forces are capable to defend the Kingdom.
"We have very good relations with Egypt and Pakistan but the reports about the presence of their forces in the Kingdom are not true," the prince said while talking to reporters in the northern city of Arar where he arrived on Tuesday to inspect National Guard forces stationed in the region.
"The Kingdom's military strength has reached 27 million, which is the population of the country including soldiers and ordinary citizens. Every citizen in the Kingdom is a soldier and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has stated he will be in forefront to defend the nation," he said.
Asked about the threat of terrorist groups to the Kingdom, Prince Miteb said: "It's better for them not to approach the Saudi border."
The passage of time changes things. Rather than a vast, undelimited region across which migrating tribes traveled, there are now national borders that delineate the countries of Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, and Oman. With the drawing of borders came nationalities; with nationalities, there came regulation, registration, and documentation.
Some of the members of the migrating tribes missed out on becoming anchored to a nationality. They, known as the Bidoon, or "stateless" suffer in various ways through their lack of anchoring. As they cannot demonstrate that they belong to any one state, they do not qualify for state-offered programs and support like education, health care, and various subsidies, as well as access to jobs. The various countries in which the Bidoon are found have offered a variety of ways in which to 'regularize' them, with some programs being better than others.
Saudi Gazette reports on a new Saudi initiative that will offer government-provided ID cards to the Bidoon to grant them access to at least some social programs. This will not make them Saudi citizens — they won't be eligible for Saudi passports, for instance — but it will not leave them completely out in the cold, either.
Jawazat issues special IDs to Bidoon
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — The Directorate General of Passports (Jawazat) has issued special ID cards for the members of migrant tribes currently living at the outskirts of the Kingdom's regions. The people of such tribes are commonly known as the Bidoon (people without identities).
Director General of the Jawazat Maj. Gen. Sulaiman Al-Yahya told Al-Hayat newspaper in a statement published Tuesday that the new ID cards would facilitate all the official procedures for these people.
"The cards look similar to the iqamas (residence permits) of the expatriates but they have many privileges over them. Their holders will be treated on equal footing with the Saudi citizen," he said.
Al-Yahya said the data on the Bidoon are currently being collected prior to the issuance of these cards.
In a statement that may indicate that he is getting too old for the job, Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Asheikh blames the spate of murders and destruction in the region on "foreign intelligence agencies." No Muslim, he says in a widely reported Friday sermon, would kill other Muslims.
Assuming that the sheikh wasn't napping for the past 30 years, his memory may be failing him. Muslim-on-Muslim violence has been violent, brutal, and widespread. While the current regime of terror may be put at the feet of extremist groups, state governments have engaged as well, and well beyond the prosecution of crimes.
Perhaps we should take the sheikh's comments as aspirational rather than as a reflection on the facts. Muslims oughtn't be killing other Muslims willy-nilly. Nor should they be killing non-Muslims. They do not now and have not in the past needed assistance or motivation from "foreign intelligence agencies".
Grand Mufti: Killing of Muslims the work of foreign agencies
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — The Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Asheikh said the killings of innocent Muslims in some countries is the work of foreign intelligence agencies that seek to damage Islam.
He added that those who kill other Muslims do not represent Islam, because Islam is a religion of mercy and justice that embraces Muslims and non-Muslims alike, Al-Hayat daily reported.
During the Friday sermon at Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Mosque in Riyadh, Al-Asheikh said it is forbidden for a Muslim to kill another Muslim as Islam emphasized the importance of respecting and preserving lives.
"Such teachings are the basis for a settled society, and if Muslims follow these teachings, they will live in complete harmony," he said while referencing daily reports of gruesome criminal activities being committed by what he described as "evil persons and factions that are enemies of Islam."
Al-Asheikh went on to say that Islam is innocent of such crimes, and every Muslim should denounce crimes that are committed against Muslims who pray and fast.


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Came across this gratitude tree in Calistoga last weekend. Such a beautiful concept: you take one of the provided tags of colored paper, write what you're thankful for, and tie it with a string on one of the branches. I celebrated Annalise's life in that moment and am happy to know a token of my thankfulness for her friendship is flapping in the wine country breeze right now. It was a grey, rainy day, but as I tied her name on the branches a beam of sun peaked through the clouds.
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It's official. I start at AdventureSmith Explorations today as their new content & office manager! I'm excited to be back on a team, especially one that has such an exciting expertise: adventure travel. Maintaining and refreshing the AdventureSmith website is one of my primary tasks, so I'll be deep in the SEO/web copy trenches again. While this is going to mean way less freelance work, I'll still keep this blog updated with my side contract work, life, travel, crafting, and accomplishments at AdventureSmith. I've got quite a few editing gigs still in the queue this month, so it's going to be a busy yet fun one!
poetry slam!
Last month I participated in a poetry slam at Bona Fide Books, for the opening of Benjamin Arnold's exhibit "Breathing Rusted Rivets." Us volunteer poets had to get up before an audience and judging panel, spouting out poems we created from words pulled from a hat in mere minutes.
Here are the words and the poems I created from them. Vernon Lee, whose back is pictured in the photo at left, crushed the competition to take first, but I ended up landing second place, just a point or two above two other fierce poets, Heather Kenison (pictured at right) and Janet Smith (pictured at left).
(An ode to Erin Bechtol, Bona Fide's editorial assistant who is leaving later this month for Seoul, Korea)
Seoul, Soul
Erin's moving to Seoul,
the goddess of book fairs,
the queen of the Bona Fide knoll,
the heart, the
soul, soul,
Erin's leaving for Seoul
for a canoli with kimchi,
for an adventure, for a new way to roll
with soul, soul,
Erin's really leaving for Seoul
Erin, we'll miss your soul!
(My rendition on this word is inspired by someone once telling me that pollen in the air was like watching flower sex. I might work on this poem to convey that more, but here it is as written/performed.)
Spring opens up her dewey arms
petals say yes to the light
my nostrils tingle
a stinging tear in my eye
The air's thick with…
When my pen's lazy
it snuggles with my knuckle.
Right on in there
between the bony joints
like a slothful cigarette
biding its time for the burn.
Oh how I try to coerce it
into that prolific
threesome with the thumb,
but it just wants to snuggle,
with the knuckle.
you're now reading the words of the POET LAUREATE of Wildflour
I never thought I'd say this, but I'm a poet laureate. Of Wildflour Baking Company in Squaw Valley. Oh yes, it's quite the honor, and I have the credentials to prove it (photo evidence above). Not sure what sorts of poems I'll be required to write for the bakery, but I'm happy to do so! I won the Wildflour Favorite (adult) category in their annual Valentine's poetry competition—not the grand prize (of a full season's cookie pass), but somehow they deemed me worthy of poet laureate status.
Without further ado, I present to you my winning poem:
my first half marathon
I am not a runner. Or at least that's what I always told myself. I can sprint all day on an ultimate field, but get me on a trail and 3 miles was always my max. I once ran 6 miles. That was a big day.
But something bit me this fall. Ultimate frisbee season was over, I had a few months of down time before skate skiing, and Tahoe's snow was on a serious vacation (still is). So I started running. I downloaded the Runner's World half marathon training guide, and began a 9-week process to turn me into a runner. I admit my half marathon goal may seem very small (especially when you compare it to all the people out there doing really big things—the Lolë president's journey up Kilimanjaro, for one). But you've got to start somewhere and this was an attainable goal that I decided to do as much for the training as for the race itself.
Week one of training had me at 20 miles, and I worked my way up to 31 miles/week. I primarily ran trails, and they ranged from right outside my door up to Paige Meadows to horse trails in Woodside, California, to ridgeline paths in Reno above the Patagonia outlet. This was one of my favorite things about running—exploring new trails. Reno has some amazing spots… those hills always call to me and I finally explored some of that high dessert terrain. Here are a few of my favorite vistas (and most memorable ones—wet meadow crossings, ugh!) from my training:
The other thing that amazed me in the process is that I enjoy running. Sometimes I'd dread heading outside, especially with Tahoe's icy roads and trails, cold rain and frigid air as obstacles, but as soon as my feet starting hitting the ground I'd feel this sense of relief. Running became my relaxation, a place that I could meditate and let my mind stop churning.
Things went great, except when I ran a faster-than-usual 5 miles on pavement in week 8 and some serious knee pain set in. I'm not sure if I'm cut out for this long-distance running thing, but perhaps I'll just train longer and slower next time. Knee pain and all, I finished the race though: the 2011 ZombieRunner Bay Trail Run. Mile 9 was the toughest for me. And next time I'll avoid the Clif Shot, which did a number on my belly. But I'm happy to say that I finished in good form. My time was 2:10 so I ended up right in the middle of the pack: 24th in my age group of 47 women, and 106th out of 199 total runners. My pace was a 9:58-minute mile.
Special thanks to the iMapMyRUN iPhone app, which helped me log all my miles, and to Lolë for outfitting me for the journey. Couldn't have done it without your leggings!! I'll be blogging about my favorite running gear on the Tahoe Mountain Sports blog soon. See photos of the Bay Trail half marathon course here.
dabbling in ombre
I've been crushing on ombre hair (that subtle fade from dark at the roots to lighter at the tips) for some time now. And lucky me… Lucie at Shine Hair Studio in Tahoe City wanted to experiment with the technique. After some 7 years without dying my hair I was surprisingly ready to handle some bleach.
Excuse the dumb (half-smile) look on my face in the "after" shot at right, but this picture shows the ombre best I think. Lucie did a great job of still keeping my look natural I must say. Many of my friends noticed the cut before the color. Except when I'm wearing a hat and only the uber-blonde shows!
Lucie and Shine are at 2695 Lake Forest Rd, Carnelian Bay, (530) 583-3193. Look her up… she is a master at cut and color, and just plain fun to spend an hour or two with.
happy birthday mom
fern on squarespace
I'm experimenting with Squarespace web design and of course my subject for my free trial had to be none other than Fern, or Fernomenal—thanks to the talented wordsmith Aaron Gaines for the nickname. The site is still quite rough, and will only last a few days before my trial is over, so see Fern's internet existence while you can.
and the moral is…
Finishing up some work for publisher The Child's World this week. I'm crafting the back matter for 14 children's book titles for its Folktales from around the World, American Tall Tales, and Children's Favorite Stories series. It's been fun revisiting old classics like Johnny Appleseed, Chicken Little, Paul Bunyan, and Pecos Bill and learning new ones like Momotaro and The Tiger, the Brahman and the Jackal. I'm writing about people, place, and morals—what stories tell us between the lines.
When researching Johnny Appleseed, I thought it was interesting to find Apple's use of "John Appleseed" in its advertisements and application demos. I always saw that but didn't think much about the connection. One cool thing I never noticed is the icon for TextEdit application (above, right), which I use instead of rtf files a lot of the time when writing web copy. I never wondered what the icon's text actually says, but now I know:
Dear Kate,
Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
Take Care,
John Appleseed
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Frontiers of Stochastically Nondominated Portfolios
AbstractWe consider the problem of constructing a portfolio of finitely many assets whose returns are described by a discrete joint distribution.We propose mean-risk models that are solvable by linear programming and generate portfolios whose returns are nondominated in the sense of second-order stochastic dominance. Next, we develop a specialized parametric method for recovering the entire mean-risk efficient frontiers of these models and we illustrate its operation on a large data set involving thousands of assets and realizations. Copyright The Econometric Society 2003.
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New York
3.05/5 rDev -23.2%
On tap at Tria. Pours dark brown with a small thick tan head. Aroma of citrusy hops. Flavor of roasted malt with a slight citrusy finish. Astringent and a harsh palate. Just a little too harsh and bitter for me.
Aroma: 6/10
Appearance: 4/5
Flavor: 6/10
Palate: 3/5
Overall: 14/20
01-11-2009 02:12:02 | More by LilBeerDoctor
3.08/5 rDev -22.4%
Pours a hazy copper/amber color with a thin tan head that leaves decent lacing. Doesn't look like a black IPA to me.
Nose is medicinal, muted and not very appealing.
Taste is better than the nose, sweet malts, some bitterness, but not very IPA like. The nose is ruining the taste for me
Don't know if bad tap lines or what, but I this did not taste or smell like I expected it to.
12-18-2010 03:17:40 | More by FLBeerGuy
New York
3.1/5 rDev -21.9%
I had off the tap at Barcade in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
A- It has a dark reddish brown color to it, with a decent foamy head and with some lacing. Somewhat opaque.
S- Weird baby powder smell to it or something. Not a fan, really.
T- Very bitter aftertaste. It has a fruity, pearish taste to it, perhaps apple. Strange hop taste that just throws me off a little. Quality, but not in love with it.
09-18-2009 20:25:23 | More by Amalak
3.1/5 rDev -21.9%
This beer pours a dark brown almost black color. The head is absolutely massive, and recedes at a glacial pace. This is a very attractive looking beer. The aroma is grapefruit, pine, with some malt underneath. It is rather underwhelming for a beer of its strength. Its real weakness is its lack of any sort of complexity. In fact, I think I would like it even less if it were stronger as its blandness would be more in my face. The taste is a mirror image of the aroma, and equally dull too. There is a noticeable bitterness in the finish, but that doesn't really improve anything. The mouthfeel is full bodied with moderate carbonation, and a smooth texture. Overall, this is a big disappointment. I could see how this beer might be enjoyed by the crowd who's only criteria for to be good is strength. But I'm not in the crowd, and I expect more from a beer.
02-15-2010 00:34:40 | More by KarlHungus
New Hampshire
3.1/5 rDev -21.9%
12oz bottle (best by 11/23/11) poured into a tulip glass
A: Pours dark brown/red with stiff 1+ finger head that takes a while to dissipate. Leaves good lacing.
S: Floral and leafy hops, some citrus (lemon mainly), roasted malts.
T: Just like the nose, Lots of hop presence. There's the leafy hop flavors right up front with the lemon/grapefruit citrus bursting through the top. This is in counter-point to the roasted malt base that has a good bit of slightly burned caramel and licorice. I get maybe a hint of chocolate at the beginning and returning for the finish. While not overwhelming, there's is a good bit of bitterness, especially in the finish. The Finish is dry, char, and leafy hop bitterness. It leaves a really bitter leafy aftertaste that I find unpleasant (pretty much any dark beer with leafy hops), almost like chewing on dry, bitter grass root.
M: Medium carbonation, medium body, extremely resinous, I find the mouthfeel a bit harsh, mainly due to the clashing of the leafy bitter hops and dark roasted malts.
D: I imagine this is a pretty good example of the style, but I just find the flavors to clash and leave a unpleasant aftertaste. One and done is good for me. I'll scale the grade with style in mind.
03-02-2011 01:56:12 | More by Satchboogie
3.13/5 rDev -21.2%
Poured from a bottle with a use by of Nov. 30, 2012.
Appearance: Mahogany in glass, basically clear. Thick 3-finger foamy light brown head. Plenty of lacing in glass, minimal carbonation/bubbling.
Smell: Definite fruity hops, but with another rather strange smell within, malty, yeasty.
Taste: OK, I know this sounds strange, but here goes: A (very) quick taste of fruity hops which is immediately overwhelmed by malts and...well...the taste of liquid fiberglass (!!!) The bitterness very quickly builds up on your tongue. I am drinking this on a fresh palate. The alcohol is fairly well hidden and not dominant, like you'd think in an almost 9%ABV beer. I just burped...Empty stomach, but the flavor of this beer-burp was like redoing a surfboard!! I have never experienced a flavor like this in a craft...
Overall: If you like extremely bitter hop-beers, then you'll like this one. The bitterness factor is growing at an exceptional pace as I continue drinking this.
As I prefer crafts with a mother-lode of fruitiness (Like Pliny and Alesmith-X), I'll pass on this one.
02-03-2012 21:54:51 | More by Emerson1310
New York
3.15/5 rDev -20.7%
Poured from a 12 oz. bottle into a tulip pint.
A--Deep plummy chestnut body, quite handsome for the season, with a two finger creme colored head. Decent lacing but retention wasn't all that impressive given the hop levels here.
S--Again, the hops are fine, they're big and floral and raw, with some real biting astringency that comes through even in the aromas. But given how deep the body looks, where are the sniffs of malt? I get very little caramel or munich or spicy rye--I can /see/ it; I just can't /smell/ it. If you blindfolded me I'd think this was Smuttynose Finest Kind.
T--And..the comparison holds for the taste profile as well. Pretty much tastes like Smutty's IPA, with lovely citric, floral, and a little pine on the back end from the hops, except I feel more light headed when I'm finished the bottle. SN Celebration has a bigger malt profile, and it's lighter in body! So, let's review: darker body, without more complexity in the profile, and I get drunk faster. Enh, no thanks.
M&D--No complaints on the mouthfeel, as it's sufficiently smooth and carbonated. But I don't think I'll be going back for more.
I'm not Victory hater, not by far, but why the hype on this one? Tastes sloppily hopped and simplistic to me, but I may be missing something.
12-03-2009 01:59:00 | More by TheycallmeTim
3.15/5 rDev -20.7%
Poured into hoegaarden mug/glass
Pours a dark amberish brown color, with a nice head and nice head retention as I drink. Smells of hoppy scent with sort of some chocolate, maybe oatmeal type malt. Very different than most beers I have had. Taste different. Mostly hops on the back end, and some up front as well. Can't really describe the malt flavor very well. Can taste a bit of alcohol at the tail end as well. Medium, to heavy body. Low carbonation.
Overall this is a decent beer, nothing I would go out of my way to get though.
04-01-2012 04:49:50 | More by Swim424
South Carolina
3.15/5 rDev -20.7%
12 ounce bottle poured into a Duvel tulip. Far from black; more like a brownish amber. The pillowy tan head and sticky lacing make up for the hue misfire.
There's no shortage of citrus and grass in the nose, a touch of chocolate, but little in the way of dark roast. Taste is more of the same; it's more like a malty (but flavorful) east coast IPA instead of a proper CDA. Plenty of pine and grassy hops with a nice juicy citrus presence as well. Respectably bitter. Finish is all juicy hops and caramel; where's the roast? I'd be scoring this significantly higher as a regular IPA, but as a CDA it falls flat. On a positive note, it's more bitter and flavorful than most east coast IPAs.
03-02-2011 01:56:25 | More by PDXHops
South Carolina
3.15/5 rDev -20.7%
Pours a brownish color, maybe a deep red, with bright ruby highlights. The beer is crystal clear, and the head pours to be enormous, I was barely able to fit a 12 oz bottle into a 20oz glass because of the head. The bubbles are clingy, but still a little loose, and they are quite cavernous as the head starts to fall back. Really, a brilliant looking beer. Smells like citrusy hops, with some grapefruit and orange notes, but with more sweetness and less rindy smells than an IPA, but similar hop profile. There's a nutty, raisiny note in the background, with a hint of caramel/cola. Nice balance, overall, good smells. The bitterness really comes through in the flavor, resinous bitterness. Really polleny and leafy, which I kind of expected - but it's not quite what I was wanting to taste. Raisins and toffee come through in the taste, with some esters, and a hint of peachy alcohol. It comes across as a sharp, almost astringent, tea. I'm somewhat interested in the taste, but it just isn't doing it for me overall. The carbonation is moderate, not sharp, there's no sting, but it's present. The body is kind of medium, maybe thinned out by the alcohol. Still, I could be happy with this. But the drinkability is not incredible. I think the alcohol is a little too much at this point, though I would guess that the somewhat interesting hoppiness would fade as well as the peachy alcohol faded. I think this is a decent beer, but probably not one I would go to again.
12-26-2009 00:47:06 | More by taylorhamrick
New York
3.15/5 rDev -20.7%
Poured a super dark amber color with a thick frothy tan head. The head hangs around for awhile. Aroma is of alcohol, citrus, and bitter hops. Woah. Taste is super dry and bitter with a light sweet malt hint. But the hops dominates and the alcoholic dryness dries the lips. There is a weird fungal/burning rubber flavor that is kinda bugging me. Especially in the burp stage of the brew. Feel is super sharp from the carbonation. This is interesting but not something i would need all the time. This isn't a disaster but it's not very drinkable.
My esophagus is warm.
12-07-2009 03:42:25 | More by kbnooshay
3.18/5 rDev -19.9%
Pours dark, almost maple syrup in color. Good head that retains and laces nicely. The smell is reminiscent of Christmas trees. Might be the same smell/taste experienced by Clark Griswald in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation as he opens the family tree. Lots of sap in here! Anyhow, aftertaste is a little harsh at first but smoothes out nicely as it goes down. I like this better than many of the hoppy pale ales out there since the dark malts help to smooth it out a bit. Recommended if you want a hoppy adventure from Victory.
12-27-2009 23:31:43 | More by stangski83
3.18/5 rDev -19.9%
This is more like a brown IPA.
Brown with a light khaki head.
Aromas of dark sweet fruity malts and something floral with a dough-like quality.
Tastes like sweet dark malts - almost like a Belgian ale - with some floral hops and alcohol.
Medium-full body with a lingering bitterness on the finish as more sips get swallowed.
Drinkability suffers as my impressions change from first sip through to the last - my enjoyment steadily decreases as I pick up more sweetness and yeast and bitterness and alcohol as I go along. I'm kind of flying into a rage right now as I ponder the 12.99 spent on this six pack, but I"m calming down because there are objectively good things I detect amidst all the downers.
11-11-2010 04:05:24 | More by dedrinker
3.2/5 rDev -19.4%
This one poured a very dark amber/brown color with a good amount of head an decent lacing on it. The smell is pretty heavy with alcohol, not all that pleasant. Taste is heavy caramel malt with some alcohol taste coming through. Not bad, but could be better I think. Medium mouthfeel, not too smooth though. OK beer, but not great. I'd try it again, but won't search it out.
04-09-2011 01:59:16 | More by richkrull
3.2/5 rDev -19.4%
Poured from a 12oz bottle into a pilsner. Semi-dark ruby red in color, fairly clear, with a huge frothy off-white head. Head dissapates VERY slowly and leaves sticky long lasting lacing. Head reminds me of a root beer head.
Aroma is light, but has notes of spices and hopps. Not much to talk about on the aroma.
Flavor and mouthful is creamy...full of spices and hops. Flavor isn't bad, but I'm not a fan of it as it warms up. It gets a bit too bitter. A decent beer, but not one I care to have again.
01-04-2010 02:18:24 | More by ShadesOfGray
3.21/5 rDev -19.1%
Pours black with a thick and creamy off white head that has excellent retention and lacing. The nose has lots of pine and citrus notes from the hops. And the grain bill offers burned caramel and milk chocolate, there's toffee and roasty notes too. The taste is much like the aroma with pine trees and caramel and chocolate. There's a huge resiny bitterness that lingers long into the finish. Silky and creamy body with a noticable hot alcohol that could be hidden a lot more.overall, this beer is pretty decent. Not really impressed though.
12-06-2013 01:23:56 | More by hoplover82
New Jersey
3.23/5 rDev -18.6%
Aromas being with a hoppy bouquet which reveals grapefruit and floral notes mostly, really quite tropical. It's strong, but not overwhelming. I
Tastes are really hoppy, too much so considering the malt, but much more balanced than others of the style. The florals are as apparent and it's more of the typical American Citrus/Pine, but still, it's a hop-tea. This is really why I didn't like IPAs for so long. It's not more bitter than others of the style but just less balanced.
Overall this beer is decent.
10-26-2010 17:26:10 | More by claspada
3.23/5 rDev -18.6%
Date: 18 February 2011
Glass: Sierra Nevada XXX snifter
Type: 12fl oz bottle
Begins with a 2-finger head, slowly reduces to a 1-finger head, color is a brown-crimson, beige head, lacing is slightly runny. There is no bottle date, and I am not sure this an old bottle or not.
Aroma is a little bit soapy...reminds me of Saranac beers. Hop resins are bitter yet light in concentration. There are some notes of toasted malts present, and very little hop freshness. Taste of lightly toasted bitter malts, and only the slightest touch of caramel, with some butter (possible diacetyl?) and soapiness.
Hints of bitter pine come out in the aroma and taste as the beer descends to the wider portion of the snifter. The bitterness sticks to the palate and it's not super pleasant. This is a easy-drinking beer for 8.7% ABV, but there are more fun Victory beers available.
02-18-2011 22:42:55 | More by ToAzwethinkweizm
3.23/5 rDev -18.6%
ST - 12oz bottle poured into a schooner. paid $2.49 at Whole Foods.
appearance - reddish cherry like color
smell - ummm, hops... lots and lots of piney hops.
taste - follows the nose. quite bitter and you really can't taste anything else other than citrus piney like hops.
backend taste - same... just hops.
overall - I liked it but a little too hop filled for me. IMO, appearance is the best thing about this beer, it looks great and you get lacing all the way down the glass and a huge head out of it.
01-28-2013 00:24:53 | More by doppletheGOAT
3.23/5 rDev -18.6%
12 oz bottle. No bottling dates. Reviewed on 2/13/11.
Dark brown body, similar to the color of a mud puddle. Fizzy, brownish head that's short and disappears quickly.
Roasted tones on the nose. Chocolate covered oranges. Floral and honey suckle sweetness. Some caramel malts.
Floral at first, leading to a chocolate sweetness in the middle. Bright, sour citrus flavors from the hops. Roasty, coffee like bitterness. Very dry, and doesn't linger much in the mouth.
An average example of the style, but with so many better versions out there, I won't be seeking this out again.
04-20-2011 05:29:31 | More by litheum94
District of Columbia
3.25/5 rDev -18.1%
07-29-2013 18:53:33 | More by TheMsnLink
3.25/5 rDev -18.1%
11-21-2012 05:06:11 | More by GuyIncognito
3.25/5 rDev -18.1%
12-13-2012 03:58:55 | More by jjd315
3.25/5 rDev -18.1%
01-29-2013 01:43:47 | More by yossarian14
3.25/5 rDev -18.1%
04-20-2013 22:39:34 | More by Dave_Treat
Yakima Glory from Victory Brewing Company
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This was the student film for my 2nd Year Animation Class at the School of Visual Arts. Our assignment was to design, produce and animate a fully complete film at least two minutes in length. The production for this cartoon began at the start of the school year in September 2008 and finished several weeks ago. The concept was simply, "So, there was this one time...when a bat, a rhino, a ferret and an old man all got together and played a card game."
Thanks very much to my voice cast and co-writers that made this film what it was in the first place...and thanks to Celia Bullwinkle, Mike Ruocco and everyone in my Animation Workshop that helped support and give feedback while the cartoon was being worked on. Enjoy the show :]
Is it just me or are the voices are the same ones from Team4Star?
Nice flash, its cute and funny ^.^
Ah, memories.
Oh, my gods alive, yes. It's wonderful to see the voices of TFS on something (relatively) new and awesome. I just lost the game. From the bottom of my black heart, thank you.
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Decorating with balloons
Balloons are one of the happiest ways to decorate a party. Clump them together in various colors to add a fun look or on their own. There are so many options! Here are some of my favorite ways to decorate with balloons.
- Single oversized balloon–give it to the bride to hold!
- Balloons on a ladder–right outside the venue!
- Balloons throughout a room–perfect to dress up a boring reception venue
- Balloons on a stick–hand them out to your guests
- Balloons in a window–entice your guests with a fun balloon display in a window
- Balloons on a ceiling–douse the ceiling with hundreds of balloons
- Write words on a balloon–and have a flower girl hold them
- Balloon arch–perfect for picture taking or for the ceremony
- Balloons in various colors along a path–perfect for wayfinding in an outdoor space
- Balloon columns–a fun way to dress up a space
- Confetti balloons–don't you just love the look?!
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My husband and I were married last December in Sydney, Australia and our favourite photographer was not able to attend. So when we returned to frigid Toronto, Ontario, where we live, we did a little shoot out on frozen Lake Ontario, wearing our wedding gear (as well as vintage bear fur stole and warmer boots
The photographer was Matt O'Sullivan who I believe is one of the best emerging wedding photographers in our city, growing his business from his amazing street photography work: http://thenarrative.net/
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Ever since discovering the blog jinsoojung…I've been waiting in anticipation for her wedding photos to be posted! I know you're going to understand why once you see these pictures…
my husband and i met in high school when we were just 16 years old and we've been together ever since. after having been together for so long, our idea of the "perfect" weddind shifted to an event where we could just enjoy ourselves.
the wedding was held at the mills gallery, in boston's south end. we included a mix of traditional, non-traditional, korean and american elements, and even a trolley tour of the city. in general, if something didn't feel like "us", we didn't incorporate it into the wedding. in the end, we had a fun day surrounded by our family members.
in the 6 months leading up to the wedding, not only were chris and i planning the wedding, but we were also applying to law and graduate schools, apartment hunting, and maintaining full-time jobs. it was a chaotic blur in our lives. and we often look back and wonder how we were able to do everything at once.
You can see more photos at jinsoojung…unfortunately Christine has stopped blogging, but you can catch up with all her past inspirations.
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Real wedding: Randi + Jacob
Of course this wedding rocks: Randi is associate style editor at MS Weddings! Do we expect anything less? What I really loved about this wedding was the simplicity in the decor…white round balloons, bowls of moss, and red bakers twine. Thats about it! How simple, how chic, and you can bet how affordable!
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BYU Needs New WRs To Be Quick Studies
The BYU offense is expected to be improved in year two of Robert Anae's "go-fast, go-hard" attack that he installed in 2013.
The offensive lines looks it might finally be coming together after being a weak spot the past few seasons, while the Cougars are about as deep as ever at running back with Jamaal Williams, Paul Lasike, Adam Hine and Alge Brown all returning for 2014.
Quarterback Taysom Hill showed this spring that the work he put in with former BYU star John Beck is paying dividends. The gifted runner has focused on developing himself as a pocket passer during this offseason in an effort to become a true dual-threat signal caller.
Just how much of a step forward BYU can take this season on the offensive side of the ball may hinge on how well Hill's bevy of new, incoming pass catchers can come up to speed when BYU opens fall practice in late July.
During spring camp Taysom was unable to work with veteran wide receivers Ross Apo (6-3, 207 Sr.) and Mitch Mathews (6-6, 206 Jr.) due to the fact that both players sat out this spring following offseason surgery.
He did get some work in with a couple of wideouts who figure to be factors in the receiving rotation this year in Mike Davis and Nick Kurtz.
Davis has speed to burn, but he's learning what it takes to be a receiver at this level after playing cornerback on the BYU defense last season. The injury bug also slowed him down a bit during the spring. Meanwhile, Kurtz, a highly sought after JC transfer, experienced his own growing pains in spring camp as he adjusted to playing D-1 football, as well as to BYU's uber fast-paced approach on offense.
Both players looked like they were rounding into shape just as spring practice was coming to a close.
Because of the injuries to Apo and Mathews, and the time needed for Davis and Kurtz to come up to speed, a lot of Hill's work in the spring was with reserves like Kurt Henderson (6-1, 180 Jr.) and Colby Pearson (6-0, 190 So.).
In the fall, BYU is expected to receive significant reinforcements to it's receiving corps in the form of senior transfers Jordan Leslie (6-3, 210 Sr.) from UTEP and Keanu Nelson (5-11, 184 Sr.) from Stanford, former Oregon Duck receiver Ashanti "Devon" Blackmon (6-1, 185 Jr.) and freshman signee Trey Dye (5-9, 175 Fr.).
The big question is how fast these new guys can make the adjustment to playing in Anae's break-neck system and how quickly they can develop chemistry with Hill. Like Kurtz and Davis learned this March, the learning curve can be steep.
With the departure of the security blanket that was Cody Hoffman, and the fact that Apo and Mathews have struggled with injury issues during their careers, Taysom and the Cougars could sure use a couple of the newcomers to step up and help shoulder some of the the load.
The most likely new receiver to come in and have an impact is Leslie. He's the one guy in this group who has been very productive at the D-1 level, catching 125 passes for 2015 yards and 15 touchdowns during his time in El Paso. He was the Miners' top receiver in each of the last two seasons.
Like Hoffman, Leslie is a big-bodied receiver who has been the go-to guy for his team. Jordan is faster than Cody was and on film he appears to be a little better route runner than Hoffman. The fact that he was coached by, and is very close to, BYU receivers coach Guy Holliday should help him adjust to life at BYU as a non-LDS student-athlete. It should also help him get up to speed in the offense.
If he can quickly get in sync with his new quarterback, Leslie actually has a legitimate chance to become BYU's leading receiver in 2014.
Another player who may be able to make a significant impact on the offense this coming season is Blackmon, a former four-star recruit out of Summit High School in Fontana, Calif. where he was a teammate of Jamaal Williams.
Ashanti has gone through a maturation process that has seen him go from Eugene, to Riverside Community College, to Provo. He's getting a second chance to launch his playing career at BYU and brings a level of speed and athleticism that the Cougars rarely, if ever, see at wide receiver. He can play both inside or out, but could see the majority of his playing time in the slot, replacing the graduated JD Falslev. He could also be a threat returning kicks and punts.
His adjustment to life in Provo could also helped by the fact that he has a close friend on the team in Williams, who has thrived at BYU. Blackmon comes across as being all business as he embarks on a new chapter in his life, and comes into the program with something to prove. Again, if he can develop chemistry with Hill this fall he certainly has the ability to develop into a dangerous threat.
BYU coaches have to be drooling over the prospect of putting receivers on the field with the kind of speed that both Blackmon and Davis possess.
True freshman Trey Dye is another dynamic player who will increase BYU's athleticism at wide receiver this year. It's difficult for a true freshman to come in and make a major contribution at receiver, however the kid is the son of James Dye, one of the most electrifying players in school history.
Trey played a lot of running back at Abilene Cooper High in Texas and flashed some of the same explosiveness that his father showed during the late 1990′s when he was the nation's top return man. He's great with the ball in his hands in space and figures to develop into an outstanding slot receiver who could also line up in the backfield in some formations.
Even if he doesn't see a ton of playing time on offense in 2014, he could still make a significant contribution as a return specialist. Dye expects to play a year and then serve a mission.
Nelson, meanwhile, is the latest addition to BYU's group of wide receivers, and is expected to add depth to the position. He saw very little action during his career at Stanford and lost his scholarship for this coming season.
Keanu was a highly-regarded talent when he came out of Sabino High in Tucson, Arizona. His college career hasn't exactly lived up to expectations, but a new lease on life for his senior year could be just what the doctor ordered. Like Dye and Blackmon, he could also become a contributor on special teams in the return game.
Again, how much of an impact these new additions can make will be dependent on just how quickly they can absorb everything that they will be faced with in a very short time frame in the fall. If a couple of them can step up to the plate and deliver, the Cougar offense could be poised to have a big season. If they fail to do so, wide receiver could turn out to be the weak link in another under-achieving performance by the BYU offense.


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Alcott HR Group, (Farmingdale, www.AlcottGroup.com), one of the nation's leading Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs), continued its tradition as a main corporate sponsor of the Central Nassau Guidance and Counseling Services 5K Runday.
The 8-year-old Hicksville Hurricanes played in their first tournament together over Memorial Day weekend. They headed out to Connetquot to compete with some of the best 8-year-old teams in the area. The competition came from Queens, Nassau and Suffolk. After losing the first two games to the L.I. Sharks from Suffolk and the HBQVC Orioles from Queens, they regrouped and came out strong in the third game winning 14-4 over the L.I. Inferno. All the boys and coaches want to thank the great Hicksville Baseball Association for all the support they have given them.
After nearly a decade as a team that wouldn't split up, the Hicksville Rising Stars (U-19) played their final game on Sunday, June 12. Many of the girls started together in Hicksville's Giant Squirt League when they were 6 years old with Coach Steve Bonczyk.
Again we had near perfect weather for golf on June 2. It got a little humid as we played but it was a great day. A total of 38 men played and we had 36 pars and two birdies. They both came on the par 3, 173 yards, 2nd hole. The expert golfers were Sevald Knudsen and Bob Ross. Ray Onorato got five pars in his round. Nine men shot under par and three more shot even par for the round. The next tournament on July 7 will be the first round in our match play tournament. As soon as you get to the park, find out who you will be playing against and sign in together. You must play in the same foursome as your opponent.
The Summer Hope Foundation will be selling tickets for the following games during Father's Day weekend:
Friday, June 17 - 7:10 p.m. vs. Angels ($25 Donation/Per Ticket – All Field Level)
Saturday, June 18 - 7:10 p.m. vs. Angels ($10 Donation/Per Ticket - All 500-Level)
Sunday, June 19 - 1:10 p.m. vs. Angels ($25 Donation/Per Ticket – Field Level)
Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano and Acting Police Commissioner Thomas C. Krumpter would like to remind county residents that water safety is something all parents should be aware of. Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury related death among children ages 1-14. It can happen very quickly and in less than 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) of water, so filled bathtubs, swimming pools, wading pools, hot tubs, and even buckets of water and sinks can be dangerous.
Registration is under way for the Hicksville Crusaders Football and Cheerleader 2011 season, which begins in early August. Registration is Saturday, June 11 from noon to 3 p.m. (Levittown Hall) and June 18 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Broadway Mall's front entrance near Panera Bread. Prices vary by age and sport, please visit hicksvillecrusaders.com for details and to register online.
The Girls U12 Hicksville Dynamite defeated the East Meadow Pumas in the Massapequa Memorial Day Tournament final, capping off a tournament win that many considered unexpected.
It started when the Hicksville Dynamite played the first day against the Gotham Girls FC Magic and won 3-1. The second game that day was a disappointment, when the Dynamite were defeated by the Great Neck Jaguars, a team in a lower division.
The Hicksville Fire Department Rescue Co. #8 is inviting all to join them in supporting local families and not-for-profit organizations at its 18th Annual Charity Golf Outing on Friday, June 10 at Swan Lake Golf Club, 373 River Road, Manorville, NY.
"The volunteers of the Hicksville Fire Department are proud members of the community and we look forward to this golf outing to support and improve the quality of life for our fellow Hicksville residents," says William Schuckmann, past Hicksville Fire Department Rescue Co. #8 chief and current Golf Outing Committee Chairman. "Thanks to the community's ongoing participation, we have watched our golf outing evolve into a tradition and outpouring that has touched the lives of many for nearly 20 years."
The Nassau County Police Activity League (NCPAL), Winthrop University Hospital and CardiacScan Imaging are presenting Youth Heart Health Awareness Day on June 11 from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Town of Oyster Bay Hicksville Athletic Center, 167 Broadway, Hicksville.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in people under 30, including athletes. It runs in families and affects over 15,000 people on Long Island. Learn about the risk factors, how screenings can help and what you need to prevent a family tragedy. NY Islanders' forward Matt Moulson will make a special guest appearance.
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"This yummy dish is from Emeril Lagasse's in the episode Emeril's Vegetable Patch. I have tweaked it just a bit!"
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"This was a very nice risotto. My favorite aspect was the cheesy portobello. Yum! This needed quite a bit of salt and pepper. I think using broth in place of the water might give it a richer depth of flavor. However, it was still quite good. Thanks for posting!"


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Follow your heart but take your brain along with you.
'CARDS AND THINGS': pocket
Check this out. She uses Crystal lacquer, alcohol inks, mica powder, and tissue paper to make backgrounds for cards. Gotta see!
PartiCraft (Participate In Craft): Caught In Crystal
Fantasiafest in Meppel, Netherlands, photo by Pixel 42 www.steampunktend...
Fantasiafest Meppel 2014 060 by 42pixel on deviantART
My STEAMPUNK XLIV Birthday Cake using Edible Lace from Ciccio Cakes
beautiful steampunk cake
gorgeous steampunk cake
steampunk cake multi layer
Steampunk Lady by parknslide - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
steampunk by Eva`s Scraproom - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
DIY Steampunk Top Hat made of CRAFT FOAM. Wow! Great tutorial.
crafted by/for the steampunk community
Two Crafting Sisters: SteamPunk Paper Dolls