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The Bears will be without SLB Pisa Tinoisamoa for the fourth time in their last five games when they play the Vikings Monday night.
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There are a couple significant variables that add intrigue to this game, but neither is powerful enough to swing it in the Vikings' favor.
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The Vikings made multiple quarterback moves on Monday in preparation for their game tonight vs. the Bears.
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The Vikings will host the Bears Monday night at the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium, though if it were up to punter Chris Kluwe, the game would be held at a different venue.
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Here's another key matchup to keep an eye on when the Vikings take on the Bears in Week 15: Bears DE Julius Peppers vs. the Vikings' offensive line.
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With Brett Favre out of the mix for the Vikings' Monday-night game against the Bears, they will turn their hopes to rookie Joe Webb as the starter.
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Memories from a streak
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Harvin expects to play after seeing migraine specialist
Vikings WR Percy Harvin is expected to play on Monday night vs. the Bears after seeing a migraine specialist in Arizona to deal with his constant headache problems.
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Devin Hester didn't have a return for touchdown against Minnesota in Week 10, but he did put the offense in good field position, returning two kickoffs for 100 yards and two punts for 47 yards in Chicago's 27-13 ...
Three-and-out with Bears ORG Roberto Garza
PFW caught up with Bears ORT Roberto Garza this week and we discussed the Vikings' defensive line, the continuity in personnel on the offensive line and the development of the Bears' starting right tackle, rookie J'Marcus Webb.
Bears-Vikings matchup of the day: Thursday
Here's a key matchup when the Bears head to Minnesota to face the Vikings in Week 15.
Griffen is planning to travel with the Vikings to Washington and play in Sunday's game following the sudden death of his mother.||||||| Griffen returned to practice on Friday after missing the day before. He said he wanted to be with the team for support and to honor his mother, Sabrina Scott, who'd been in town visiting him. Griffen said she was healthy but politely declined to discuss her death further.
Griffen missed practice on Thursday after the sudden death of his mother.||||||| Coach Leslie Frazier says Eden Prairie police arrived at the team's headquarters on Wednesday to deliver the news to Griffen. No details of her death were immediately available. Griffen is a key player for the Vikings on special teams and has become a valued and versatile backup on the defensive line and at linebacker for the defense.
Minnesota Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen has been released from a California jail where he's been held since his arrest for allegedly assaulting a police officer. Griffen was arrested Monday in Los Angeles for allegedly assaulting an officer after a traffic stop. Police say officers used a stun gun to subdue Griffen during a struggle after he tried to flee.||||||| Griffen played for USC and was a fourth-round draft pick by the Vikings last year. He saw more playing time toward the end of his rookie season and finished with 11 tackles.


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Davis was demolishing an abandoned house with a bulldozer when he disturbed a hive of the aggressive bees.
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I happened to have started my Juice Feast early after returning from my vacation. I kinda needed to. I can sometimes overeat, even on raw food. I have been juicing for 6 days now and this morning starts my 7th. I will post today's experience this evening. I wish all of you much success.
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Take a look at the number 1 recalled toy. I could go one better than that! When I was kid I used to have a dart board behind my bedroom door. Im talking 9-10 years old at this point. Now we soon got bored of darts as a sport but one of my friends had been to the circus and seen the knife throwers and thought we could do that. We'd take turns standing against my bedroom wall while one of th eothers would throught the darts. You'd get extra points for touching as the dart went into the wall but you lost if you drew blood. The number of times we came so close to a major injury was unreal!
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Let me preface the following argument by providing the following assumptions:
1. WARP/salary provides an optimized method to look at a player's performance as a function of their salary, and thus can be acceptably utilized to compare players to determine their per dollar productivity.
2. Darren Collison had a WARP of 4.1 in 2010. CP3 had a WARP of 26 in 2009 and a WARP of 10 in 2010, but we will throw out the 2010 number as an anomaly due to the large number of missed games, and compare his 2009 WARP to Collison's 2010 WARP. Based on these numbers, and the fact that CP3 commands just over 10 times the salary of Collison, Collison has a narrowly larger WARP to salary ratio than CP3.
3. Although Collison's WARP/Salary is higher than Paul's, it is likely that his career WARP/Salary will drop as he gets more money in his later contracts, because it is unlikely that he will be able to reproduce Paul's HOF numbers.
Conclusion: Although it may seem more fiscally responsible to keep DC and trade CP3, it will actually be the wrong decision fiscally in the long run, because of assumption 3 indicating that as collison's salary approaches CP3, his WARP/salary ratio will decrease. This conclusion passes the eye test, as it is fairly clear that CP will fetch a greater revenue to the team in both the short and long run because of his superstardom than any collection of role players or replacement star players that would be obtained in a salary dump.
Having established why it would be foolish for NO to trade CP instead of Darren Collison, let us consider a trade based on darren collison that would help both the the blazers and the hornets.
Portland outgoing: Joel Przybilla, Jerryd Bayless
NO outgoing: Darren Collison, James Posey
This trade as it is constructed is very attractive to NO because they receive an expiring contract in Przybilla and a solid combo guard in Bayless, and they are able to shed Posey's contract as well. As it stands, the trade is significantly skewed in favor of NO, and is pretty much a no brainer contract wise. I really believe that Collison can be a star in this league, so I would do this trade as it stands although Posey's contract is particularly difficult to swallow.
One way to sweeten this deal for the blazers is to push the Hornets to swap 1st round picks. This would allow the blazers to jump up into the late lottery and take a flyer on a stud like Xavier Henry or some of the other talented wings. I know the blazers aren't really sold on this draft as being particularly suited to their needs, but needs change all the time, and the blazers still do not have a player that they can count on to score points in a hurry off the bench. If they are ever going to find that player, this will be the draft that they do so because there are so many wings.
To recap, the trade now looks like this:
To Portland: DC, James Posey, #11 pick
To NO: Jerryd Bayless, Joel Przybilla, #22 pick
The biggest problem with this deal is that Joel Przybilla cannot be traded until he decides to pick up his ETO. If he is willing to play ball, the blazers can do a handshake deal on draft night with the hornets, have each team pick the players the other team wants with the #11 and #22 and hold those guys until they can make the full swap once it is allowed by the league.
In my opinion, this is the ideal trade for the blazers to make because it secures them their starting pg of the future in DC, and gives them a guy to groom as a 6th man candidate, which brings me to my fourth and final assumption:
4. The blazers current roster as constructed is capable of winning a championship without adding or changing the core pieces (Roy, Aldridge, Oden, Batum).
If you accept this assumption, then the only thing for the blazers to do is to consolidate their pieces, and the best way to do so while extending the window is to bring in peripheral pieces that have a chance to grow into a part of the core. That is what my proposed trade does.


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Cooper is working his usual dark magic, here, but in a new form. Normally something of a minimalist, here he attempts to reverse that trend. In fact, you might think of the titular "Marbled Swarm" as a 180 degree rotation from what Nabokov did with "Lolita"--an attempt to cover a central truth with convoluted sentence work and dense plot layers (some leading nowhere) like a honeycomb covered in bees. It's genius that only he could create. A word of warning, though: as I've said before, this is dark, dark magic--not for the faint of heart. But if you want to see an artist who is truly unafraid to dance on the edge (as trite as that sounds), then Cooper is your guy, and this novel is an absolute masterwork.
Before anyone contemplates reading The Marbled Swarm by Dennis Cooper, please note that the language is extremely rough, but more importantly the subject matter is seriously disturbing. One could take this as a sign of Mr. Cooper's genius in that he challenges the reader's sensibilities, or one could believe that Mr. Cooper may need to seek psychiatric help for his depraved subject matter. No matter what one feels about the main character of his novel however, one must laud Mr. Cooper for his ability to play with the language, rendering it completely unfamiliar and forcing the reader to wrest any meaning through painstaking and careful reading.
To say The Marbled Swarm is a difficult read is an understatement of the greatest magnitude; it makes Nabokov's Lolita seem like a children's bedtime story. First off, there is the narrator and his actions as he takes the reader through his horrific past and gruesome present. He surrounds himself with friends who share his more perverse proclivities, and some of the scenes about his "hobby" that ensue make the bloodiest horror movie pale in comparison. Even worse are his actions towards his brother and the horrible mental game his father unknowingly played with both his brother and him. The entire backstory of the narrator is enough to send shivers up and down the spine of the reader or send one running to the bathroom before losing one's stomach contents.
Yet, this is a novel that one is compelled to continue reading. The reader never really knows if the narrator is telling the truth or presenting his past as he would prefer it to have happened. The Marbled Swarm could be construed as one huge psychological study on the use of language to obfuscate the truth. As upsetting as the narrator's story is, the possibility that it is all a delusion allows the reader to power through to the end in order to resolve the mystery without having to question one's own mindset.
The Marbled Swarm is disturbing in its depravity but absolutely brilliant in its use of language. It is one novel that is not going to attract a large following because it is one of the most challenging reads ever published. For those readers who persevere, one will be rewarded with an entirely new appreciation for the English language and the power of words to hide or tell the truth.
Acknowledgments: Thank you to Erica Barmash from Harper Perennial for my review copy and for bringing to my attention some of the most challenging books I have ever had the pleasure of reading!
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The Marbled Swarm is Dennis Cooper's most haunting work to date. In secret passageways, hidden rooms, and the troubled mind of our narrator, a mystery perpetually takes shape—and the most compelling clue to its final nature is "the marbled swarm" itself, a complex amalgam of language passed down from father to son.
Cooper ensnares the reader in a world of appearances, where the trappings of high art, old money, and haute cuisine obscure an unspeakable system of coercion and surrender. And as the narrator stalks an elusive truth, traveling from the French countryside to Paris and back again, the reader will be seduced by a voice only Dennis Cooper could create.
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Report concludes police did nothing illegal
Date: November 5, 2009
by: Robin Roy | City Editor
A partial release of a 3,000-page internal-affairs investigation into a police officer's videotaped kicking of a handcuffed suspect includes the conclusion that city employees may have erred in judgment, but they did nothing illegal.
"In conclusion, nothing revealed in the investigations of the incidents stemming from the arrest of Mr. Gomez-Perez led investigators to believe that any member of the Sarasota Police Department, (or) employee of the city of Sarasota, including Police Chief Peter Abbott, engaged in illegal, unethical or immoral conduct," the report said.
However, because this was just 34 pages from one of three voluminous reports, City Manager Bob Bartolotta said he was reserving judgment until he reviewed all three reports in their entirety.
"This is just one-quarter of one report," he said. "I have reached no conclusion yet."
Members of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office conducted the report at Bartolotta's request. He wanted an outside investigation of the June 26 incident in which Officer Christopher Childers was seen on videotape kicking handcuffed suspect Juan Perez.
Perez was arrested for disorderly intoxication and climbed out of Childer's car window at the jail's booking facility.
When Perez got up off the ground, Childers kicked him in the torso and knocked him back to the ground.
The report finds that Lt. Kenneth Rainey, the department's on-duty shift commander, erred by not reporting the incident immediately to his superiors.
It also criticized Abbott for contacting city risk-management employee Larry Hobbs to give Perez money in exchange for an agreement not to sue the city.
Hobbs gave Perez $400. The report said Perez, who is Spanish-speaking, was scared during that exchange and did not understand what was happening. Perez thought Hobbs was a magistrate and by signing the agreement, he thought he no longer had to go to court.
The report concluded that Abbott was wrong not to immediately notify Bartolotta of the incident.
Abbott admitted that was a mistake during an interview with investigators and also admitted his error in asking Hobbs to get involved.
"I freely admit that was a poor choice," he said. "It was a huge mistake on my behalf."
The report concludes that "the appearance that the police department engaged in unethical and/or illegal conduct became the basis for detractors of the police department's handling of the matters" and that "Rainey's delay in reporting the event … was the start of a series of errors."
But the investigation determined that the delay was not an effort to cover up the incident, and that there was no evidence that the police department tried to obstruct justice.
Bartolotta said despite the conclusions, it was too early to say whether any disciplinary action would be taken.
The city is still reviewing the other two reports, and because state law dictates officers must be informed about any action taken from an internal-affairs report before it's made public, those reports may not be released for another couple of weeks.
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Oh, and if someone could please answer... which of the three branches of government does the public school system fall under?Is that supposed to be some kind of argument? Those three branches govern our nation as a whole by laying down the laws. Those laws are guidelines on how schools can be run and funded by the government. Case closed.
so my kids for example... come home with 'ok, wait... so God DIDN'T create the earth? God DIDN'T create animals? All this started from a WHAT?'... how is that NOT subjecting them to a different belief system?It's called teaching science in a science class. Private school or home schooling are your alternatives. If you are so offended by the teachings of an actual science then use those.
You can't go back to letters from a president and *DRAFTS* of letters from presidents and politicians to find the original meaning of the amendment and then not seek the original intent when it doesn't suit your cause...So you believe that letters they wrote didn't reflect their true feelings? Were they lying to themselves when they wrote the letters or wrote the constitution?
I've been studying the bible and commentaries and differing translations and books about books about books for a LONG time... there's NO sustained argument supporting your suppositions. (period).Men wrote the bible. Men are fallible and susceptible to slanting things towards their own view. Several books of the new Testament were believed to have been written/transcribed/etc in the 60s or later, decades after Jesus had died. She also referenced the Apocrypha. No one in the Bible disagrees and says he isn't Christ, but my point and argument has been that maybe people had doubts and were unwilling to accept someone so quickly and saw him as nothing more than a philosopher.
You (in a general, non-direct sense) are so busy thinking about how to protect yourself from Christians that you don't stop to think how deeply you're encroaching upon their lives... But why would anyone care about all that? Someone does. Lots of people do. That's how idiots like George W Bush get elected... because Christians feel violated and like they need someone to protect them.The plight of the poor persecuted minority...oh wait. Christians make up far and away the majority of religion in this country so that argument doesn't fly. You want to talk about secularists encroaching on the rights of Christians and your major battles are God in public schools? Or the Ten Commandments in the building of a state legislature? Your rights as Christians are hardly even being dented.
I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.James Madison in a letter to Robert Walsh:
The Civil Govt, tho' bereft of everything like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability and performs its functions with complete success, Whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the Priesthood, & the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the Church from the State.The Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11 as ratified by the Senate and signed by John Adams:
As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion...Are those quotes more to your liking? How about the notion that the main reason the Pilgrims came to America from England was that they disagreed with the Church of England? They wanted religious freedom without the imposition of a state church.
"practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government is essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States"Admittedly it is open to interpretation, but rulings by the US Supreme Court and State Supreme Courts have ruled in favor of the separation.
"I would like to see the ideas of intelligent design — that many scientists are now suggesting is a very viable alternative theory — that that theory and others that would be considered credible would expose our students to more ideas, not less," DeVos told the Associated Press this week during an interview on education.


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Deadlifts are my favorite. I always feel awesome after doing them.
Deadlifts used to be my favorite. Not so much now that it's gone downhill since last summer XD
Deadlifts are my favorite. I always feel awesome after doing them.
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Thanks so much for posting the link to Dean's site. I found his posts on hip mobility and lower back pain and he is right. Planks are like magic. In only a few days, I can see a huge improvement. I was so afraid that compound lifts would be a bad idea for me and now I'm thinking it will only be a matter of time before whatever is wrong with my core will be fixed.
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before the Cross:
"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now Your Spirit over the earth. Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of all nations, that they may be preserved from degeneration, disaster and war. May the Lady of All Nations, who once was Mary, be our Advocate. Amen.
The Prayer in other languages, please pass this page on to others: http://www.laudate.org/en/prayer/prayer.htm
Appendix VI
Dream of June 24, 1959
Last night, the night of June 24, I had a very peculiar dream. It was as follows. I was somewhere, I dont know where. Suddenly a woman came up to me and wanted to have an interview with me. I resisted, but finally I had to give in. Inwardly I called to the Lady, and suddenly our talk went very smoothly.
We came to talk about the last vision, that of May 31, 1959, and she asked me for an interpretation of it. And then something remarkable happened. I said, I dont know what to think of it. But suddenly it was as if I had an inspiration, and I started speaking to the woman, Isnt it interesting, I said, but in my humble opinion the vision refers to the prayer, which is shown as an image of a farewell. But then she asked for an explanation.
I said, LookLord Jesus Christ (first the sight of the Figure), Son of the Father (again and again the impression: yet there are two), send now Your Spirit over the earth. Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of all nations (from out of their midst came a dove, with an indescribable light, and it shot like an arrow down to the earth and nations). May the Lady of All Nations, who once was Mary, etc. (then I saw the Lady in all her glory, with a heavenly crown, etc., and no longer the Lady as I used to see her in the church, at home, etc., as Mary).
In the morning I wanted to tell this dream to my family, but I was no longer able. I said, I had a very peculiar dream, but I can no longer remember the interpretation that I had to give.
Last night, however, June 25, 1959, I received the interpretation again very clearly. No longer in conjunction with the interview. It was as if I were awake, but in reality I wasnt, because I slept well last night, for the first time in a while.
There was something else
quite peculiar about that dream. The woman who came up to me in the dream
was, at first, an ordinary woman. She asked me for an interpretation of
the message of May 31, 1959. I resisted, because Ive never been able to
interpret the messages. Then the woman looked at me and, as if I suddenly
received an inspiration, I began to speak. But at that moment I suddenly
recognized that the woman was the Ladycoming as an ordinary person.
First read an introduction, explanations and importance of the messages then read them as given to Ide Peerdman from the individual pages below. Included also are notes in the 6 Appendices, the Church's Position, The Prayer and addresses to Contact
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Friday, October 30, 2009
My first Primarch - Completed
When I was approached in August to convert and paint a Fulgrim in the style of Chris Borer's Slayer Sword-winning entry from the 2007 Chicago Golden Demons, I knew I had my work cut out for me.
I spoke with Chris to make sure it was ok with him for me to create this homage. He replied by reminding me, he had drawn inspiration from the John Blanche and Sam Cook artwork in the Horus Heresy artbooks, and gave his blessing. And so it was that the project began.
I knew I'd feel good about the model if I put my own spin on things. So, taking Chris's model as the guide, I tweaked a few elements to give it my own flavor. I also mounted him on a base from Dragon Forge's Ancient Ruins line. By adding a few spikes and roll of razorwire I was able to keep reasonably close to Chris's original vision.
I hope you like him. I know my client does, he has already commissioned a Lucius and a Standard Bearer.
I have quite a few commissions on my plate right now, that means you'll get to see some quite interesting stuff over the coming months.
Monday, October 26, 2009
The Family Album
Over the past few weeks there have been quite a few folks asking to see an entire army shot of the Blood Pact. Well my photography skills aren't quite up to it yet, so here are three seperate photos showing the Vehicles, Infantry, and Apocalypse-only models I've completed so far for theis project that will continue growing over the next year or so.
First up are the Vehicles. From left to right, Back: 2 x AT-70 Reavers (count as Leman Russes), 2 x Usurpers (count as Medusas). Front: N-20 Flame Halftrack (counts as Hellhound), 2 x N-6 Transports (count as Chimeras).
Here are the Infantry: Company Command (incl. Standard Bearer and Officer of the Fleet), Psyker Battle Squad, 2 x Penal Legion squads, Platoon Command (including 2 x flamers and a heavy flamer), 3 x Infantry squads with plasma gun and autocannon, Infantry squad with meltagun, Heavy Weapons squad with three missile launchers.
And my big boyz: The Stalk Tank, Valdor, and Malcador.
One day I'll have them all out on the table at once (with many more reinforcements) and I'll shoot the hell out of them, with my camera that is ; )
Have fun!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Back from the Wild West!
So I've only mentioned it a few times over the past couple of months, but this past weekend I traveled west to Phoenix to play in the Battlefoam Wild West Shootout 40K Indy GT. I was lucky enough to be a guest of Romeo and the Battlefoam crew, which meant that after flying me out there Romeo picked up from the airport, along with the other guests, Scott and Chipley (and their significant others) from 40K Radio.
From the moment we (the guests) arrived on Friday we were treated right and given a tour of the Battlefoam facility where we got to see a couple of new products in the works, and the mighty piles of cut and uncut foam!
We then stopped for some dinner, and then headed over to Empire Games in Mesa, the host store for the event. As soon as you approach the store it becomes incredibly obvious that the manager of the store used to run a pretty big GW store (the LA Bunker to be precise). Kyle has really pushed all the ideas of a GW Bunker to their next level. The picture above says it all.
Empire Games carries a larger range of GW items on the shelf than any GW store in the country, plus a bunch of boardgames, Flames of War, Warmachine, Hordes, cards, paints and hobby accessories, and a range of Battlefoam bags. All this product surrounded the more than 50 GT players and dozens of onlookers without the store feeling crowded or too funky. Pretty cool really.
Anyway, on to the tournament itself! On Saturday (after waking up at 4:30am local time, stupid time zone change) I registered for the event and proceeded to my first table where I played against Jason Witt and his Space Marines. I've known Jason for a bunch of years and he's a very strong 40K player, so I didn't hold out much hope for my success in the game. It was a modified Kill Points mission (most units counted as 2 KPs) and although I thought I had a pretty sound strategy I lost the game 16 Kps to 2. It was, however a great game and fun to learn the strengths and weaknesses of my choices.
Game Two was against Ken Riggio (above). Ken posts on DakkaDakka as AbsoluteBlue, and has been working on a Vraksian Renegade army over the same time I've been building the Blood Pact. Ken was there with his gaming buddies Ryan, Shaun, and Pat (Shep, Gitmack, and Somnicide respectively on Dakka) and was fielding one of the three IG lists there, Ryan had the third. I was worried when I saw the wall of steel in front of me. Eleven vehicles - three Hydras, four Chimeras, two Devil Dogs, a Demolisher and an Executioner. As the scenario was objective based (grabbing the objective and running off the opposite table edge with it) we both kind of settled into pounding the crap out of each other. The game was a lot of fun, but ended in a draw.
Game Three was against Dean Vuckovich and his Dark Angels. Dean helped me out in '08 by running the LoTR component of the Las Vegas GT, so it was great to catch up with him again.
The mission was right up my alley, an old school victory points game with a spearhead deployment and table quarters worth 250 VPs. After some of my lucky shots early in the game, Dean struggled to come back. Another fun game, and a victory for me!
I stayed up late on Saturday night, grabbing a few beers with the Battlefoam and 40K Radio crews. Unfortunately it didn't help me, I woke up at 3:30 a local time.
Game Four was the surprise mission! Another VP mission, but taking into account our location in the desert, the table was cleared of all terrain. I think my opponent was a little worried about the lack of terrain, but he needn't have worried. Joel Reyes (who's father placed 2nd overall) plonked down his Nidzilla army and proceeded to surgically tear my army limb from limb. After he seized the initiative with his six Carnifexes and his outflanking Genestealers ignored my Officer of the Fleet I had lost 50 men and two tanks before my first turn. Although I avoided being tabled by two models (Pater Sin and one of his charges) I took down 1000 points of Joel's army before losing.
Game Five was a Seize Ground mission with five objectives. Instead of facing something I've played against before I got to play a Chaos Daemon army. Chris Saraga and his son Dante had traveled all the way from Chico, CA, to play in the GT, their third for the year. Chris's army was tough to contend with, two Soulgrinders, a Bloodthirster, Bloodletters, and Bloodcrushers in the first drop. Luck swung back and forth throughout the game, but favored Chris when it came to rolling saves for his Greater Daemons, his Bloodthirster making more 5+ saves than I had dice to roll. After another fun game Chris was victorious, three objectives to one.
So there it is, I finished the weekend at 1-3-1, and won Best Painted! Very exciting as Shaun Hausmann (Gitsmack) brought a fantastic looking Ork force that picked up Player's Choice!
A great weekend, and an event that I'm sure will grow over the coming years. Kudos to Romeo and the Battlefoam team, Kyle and the Empire Games crew, and the many gamers who traveled from near and far!
Over the past few weeks I've been slaving away on getting the vehicles built and up to spec on their paint jobs so that I could debut the Blood Pact. Here are the command squad Chimera and the Hellhound. Enjoy!
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Quick update from the Indy GT
Hi all
Just a quick late night update from Phoenix and the Battlefoam Wild West Shootout. I'm in a place of great "balance" right now with a record of 1-1-1. Hopefully I can keep that balance tomorrow. Three fun games, the first a loss to Jason Witt's Space Marines, the second a draw against Ken Reggio's Traitor Guard (with 11 vehicles!) - Ken has been blogging here about his Vraks renegades - and a victory over Dean Vukovich's Dark Angels.
Lots of fun being had, not much sleep though as I'm still waking up on east Coast time : ( Perhaps tomorrow will be different.
PS. Very excited! Not a single damaged model as my army was transported across the country (through the hands of at least four baggage handlers) in the Battleform P.A.C.K. 1520!
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Talk about busy!
So I've managed to burn the candle at both ends getting stuff ready for the Battlefoam Wild West Shootout Indy GT this weekend! I'm flying out on Friday evening, so I figure I can sleep on the plane. No more posts until after the show. I just have too much to finish off.
Anyway, on to the five key points of tonight's post:
1) The AT-70 Reavers. After seeing the tank built by Rabidchild on his blog (Pick a Damn Army, new to my blog roll) I decided to run with a smaller turret than my Ragnarok turret. Here are the two tanks as they stand right now.
For maximum transportability and flexibility, I magnetized the lascannon, the cupola hatch, and the battlecannon. In the future I'll build out some different guns for the turret, and different hatches as well.
2) The Usurpers. There was a good reaction to my Usurpers, so I thought I'd show you the painted pieces! I've gone with the same color scheme I used on my Valdor and Malcador, Dark Flesh with Khemri Brown/Bleached Bone icons.
After seeing the M7 Priest model from the Flames of War range I saw that the shells were placed vertically in cases on either side of the rear of the crew compartment. On my Usurpers I had to turn them around and lay the shells horizontally. In the picture below you can see the rear of four shells nestled in their storage, just ready to rain death down upon the worshippers of the Corpse God.
3) Commission - Fulgrim. I still squeezed in some time on my Fulgrim commission. He is so very close to completion with just a few more details. The cloak has given me plenty of trouble, but it is almost there. Just a little more time...
4) Mantic Games. A friend of mine who is the Sales Director (or something similar) for Mantic Games was in town this weekend for a trade show, and he dropped off a few sprues of the new Mantic Games Elves on my desk. I guess after the weekend I'll be starting on painting these guys up. You can find out more about Mantic and what they're up to on their blog, also new to my blog roll!
5) Blogs! There have been another recent spate of new blogs and I'm just getting around to checking them out. I have also added my mate Anthony Reynold's new blog to my blog roll, and there are probably many more to come. Keep an eye out for them as I add them.
Well there you are, another week, another looooong post. Wish me luck for the tournament, I haven't played 40k since last November ; )
Monday, October 5, 2009
Expanding the Motor Pool!
I can never seem to get the hang of the smaller, more regular posts that so many other bloggers are able to pump out. They may be far apart, but at least they're big and meaty ; )
Anyway, it is less than two weeks until I'm going to be playing in Phoenix at the Battlefoam "Wild West Shootout" Indy GT. I'm pretty psyched, even though I have seven vehicles to get finished by then. Plenty of late nights for me I think.
Here are the first three almost complete. My platoon command "Chimera" on the left with a turret-mounted heavy flamer, my Psyker Battle squad's ride is in the center (I just need to finish the gunner and camo netting, and my N-20 Flame Halftrack (Hellhound) on the right.
Close-ups of my heavy-flamer toting transport.
My Psyker squad transport. This one will typically be sitting still in terrain, hopefully gaining a 3+ cover save on a regular basis.
The N-20 Flame Halftrack. The halftrack suspension is copied from the halftrack I made for my GD Diorama here. The tanks in the back are from a Forgeworld super-heavy tank, and the front of the inferno cannon is from an Ork Burna Boy.
In Sabbat Martyr, Dan mentions the self-propelled artillery support used by the Blood Pact, the Usurper. When I last chatted with Mr Abnett he said he had the WW2 M7 Priest in mind when he created the Usurper. Therefore I put my own spin on the piece, basing my two off Leman Russ tracks and toting Medusa siege guns.
Obviously it isn't directly copied from the Priest, but it certainly takes a lot of keys from it.
My Battlefoam cases arrived recently, so I couldn't resist seeing how everything was going to be packed for the trip to Arizona. I'll be packing it with a mix of stock trays and custom trays. I'm looking forward to traveling with these cases.
So you've seen the first five vehicles, here's the start of the sixth (which will be the same as the seventh). Still a long way to go on the AT-73 Reaver (Leman Russ). So wish me luck on that.
I've had quite a few folks asking me about commissions recently, which is great. With any luck I'll be able to support my hobby from commissions alone next year. That would be nice. On that note, I'm actually giving something away in November!
I've donated a paintjob to the charity auction that will be held at Mechanicon in PA on the first weekend of November. This is the first year for the event, and the team putting it together have been working really hard to get everything together. If you're on the East coast of America, you'd be pretty crazy to miss what will grow into one of the larger gamer-run events around.
For details on Mechanicon, click here, and get yourself along to the show. Don't forget to bid on my paintjob (on the 28mm human-sized miniature of your choice), and have fun!!!
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Felony Arrest in Greenup County
(Ashland, KY) - Kentucky State Police in Ashland have arrested a Lewis County resident yesterday in connection with the theft of a 2002 Chevrolet Impala owned by Caroline Smith of Greenup, KY. Smith reported her vehicle stolen from her residence around 0800 hours on June 10th, 2007. Trooper Tanner responded and investigated the theft. Approximately one hour later, Tanner received a report that a man was lying in the roadway on KY 784. Upon arrival, Tanner discovered Michael Wayne Flanery lying beside the roadway on Shultz Ridge off KY 784. Tanner had developed Flanery as a suspect in the theft of the vehicle and subsequently developed enough evidence to charge Flanery with the theft of the vehicle as well as the other drug related charges. Trooper Tanner was also able to locate the stolen vehicle approximately one mile from where Flanery was located.
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As part of the Master Plan for Higher Education, the California State College (later University) system was founded from several already existing colleges in 1961. The California State University Historical Archives on the campus of CSU Dominguez Hills was founded in 1979. The work of collecting and transferring CSU system records began in 1981. Since each of the CSU campuses(including CSUDH) has its own archives, the Board of Trustees decided the CSU Archives would contain only materials of system wide importance.
The CSU Historical Archives documents the activities of the Board of Trustees, the Chancellor's Office in Long Beach, the Academic Senate and many other offices or committees. The personal papers of Chancellor Glenn Dumke are also held in the Archives. Members of the Historical Archives Advisory Committee have conducted oral history interviews since 1979; transcriptions of many of these interviews are available.
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The not-for-profit agency is checking up on Seaford and Massapequa residents to see if they are in need of any help after the Oct. 29 superstorm caused major flooding and debri damage throughout much of the area. The outreach is through a grant YES received from the Robin Hood Relief Fund for an initiative called Project Hope.
"We're sending disaster response counselors to visit every home in Massapequa and Seaford," said YES Director Jamie Bogenshutz.
Starting with the hard hit areas of the region south of Merrick Road, the counselors will check on the well being of residents ad offer support and crisis counseling. YES also has established a food pantry and has a truck stocked with clothing and supplies on hand at their headquarters at 75 Grand Avenue in Massapequa.
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Although it's been several months since the hurricane, there are still people in need according to Bogenshutz.
She urges anyone in the area who needs help to contact YES if they need help or need somebody to talk to.
YES also has a fundraising concert planned for April 13 at the Nutty Irishman in Farmingdale. The benefit titled "With a Little Help From Our Friends" will feature Long Island-based bands, Chunky, Echo Hill, Lil' Cliff and the Cliffhangers and No Request Band from 3:30 to 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the YES website.
Money raised at the fundraiser will go towards programs such as YES' drug and alcohol counseling, domestic violence prevention as well as family counseling. The fundraiser comes at a time when the community is very much in need in the aftermath of Sandy and YES is dealing with the loss of some county funding.
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Wales midfielder Joe Allen has completed his move to Liverpool following a protracted transfer saga. Allen, 22, will reunite with former manager Brendan Allen as he looks to transform Liverpool's style of play into a more flowing, attack-minded game. The cost was a cool £15M -- Swansea really did not want to let go of one of their key players so soon after losing out on Gylfi Sigurdsson and getting their manager poached by the Reds.
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Joe is a player whose profile will fit perfectly with the ideas of this group. His ability to control and dominate the ball is an important ingredient in our attempt to gain success on the field.
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JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - Police are searching for the man who robbed a Brandon restaurant at gunpoint Wednesday morning. It happened at the Subway on 220 East Government Street in downtown Brandon, across the street from the Rankin County Sheriff's Department.
"It's shocking, at this time of the morning, there's police everywhere, Sheriff's cars, so it's kind of shocking," said Brandon Police Chief Ken McBroom.
Police said a black male wearing a black hooded sweatshirt walked into the restaurant, showed employees a gun, and demanded money. Then, he escaped out the back door with an undisclosed amount of cash.
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Gaze out over magnificent Maui from the rim of a volcanic crater, and then descend into the fertile countryside to visit a lavender farm, vineyard and dairy.
Departing from the pier, you will first drive southeast across Maui to lovely Haleakala National Park, home to more endangered species than any other national park in America. You may see Hawaiian geese known as nenes, rare tree heliotropes and Indian almonds. Still, the most spectacular sight will be from atop dormant Haleakala volcano, which soars more than 10,000 feet above the deeply sculpted, richly colored volcanic landscape. If the weather conditions are right, you can catch a glimpse of three other Hawaiian islands.
Next, you will drive to the Maui Lavender Company, which grows dozens of varieties of this fragrant flower, whose scent is thought to relax, rejuvenate and renew. All things lavender are available for purchase, including aromatherapy oil, organic body scrubs, and even scented dog shampoo. During your visit, you will be treated to a tasty lunch.
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Alstom and Areva compete with their offshore wind
Home stretch for the tender in giant offshore wind, an investment of 10 billion euros. While the verdict is promised before the presidential election, companies occupy the land. On Monday, Mestrallet, Oursel Luc and Xavier Huillard, respectively boss of GDF Suez, Areva and Vinci, traveling around the Upper Normandy (Fécamp, Dieppe, Le Havre) to present their business plan. Last Monday, the Industry Minister, Eric Besson, has unveiled the prototype of the new offshore wind Alstom, the site of book in Loire-Atlantique.
The tender is dominated by the clash between Alstom and Areva, among wind turbine manufacturers. They are actually competing in four of the five fields. Each claims its strengths: innovation for Alstom against the experience for Areva.
"This wind turbine is technologically innovative and ambitious for France," said Patrick Kron, Alstom's chief executive. The blades of 73.5 meters is the longest in the world. The group opted for a permanent magnet alternator, no gearbox, which should reduce operating costs. In the end, his power of 6 megawatts (MW) against 5 MW Areva makes it the most wind power marine world.
For his part, Luc Oursel, the boss of Areva, said his group has eight years ahead, with more installed wind turbines in the North Sea credit reports free. By 2015, the group expects 120 of its machines to produce electricity. "All of our wind turbines, before being implemented, are tested at full power on a test bench unique," says Luc Oursel. Like the integrated model of the nuclear group, its wind business is careful to keep control of several strategic industries such as manufacturing of the blades. "Our watchword is reliability," says Luc Oursel.
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The blades of the first prototype of Alstom, down, do begin to spin that in a month. A second prototype crashed at sea, will be operational before the end of the year. The inauguration of the wind Alstom was made before many elected Pays de la Loire and Brittany. The group, which is involved in the consortium led by EDF Energies new, has indeed committed to make several investments in the region, allowing it to benefit from their active support in competition with Areva.
Alstom also claims the construction and installation of 2,300 onshore turbines. However, his lack of experience in offshore wind may explain the appearance in recent weeks by rumors of a possible acquisition of German RE Power or Danish Vestas wind turbine specialists, Patrick Kron has qualified to of this "speculation".


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No real connection with South Africa to the waiter theme though; I simply picked pineapple on a whim having discovered a small tin of Sainsbury's own in the cupboard (I just wonder what I had intended to use it for?).
Anything that involves the yellow wonder is suitable – a cocktail perhaps, a dessert dish or even something savoury. Anything you like really. Blog about it between now and the 3rd April – drop me an email and I'll pull all together for a round-up on the 6th(ish).
and i think i just thought of something I have been wanting to make for ages… thanks for the theme!
Andrew, I hope you had a fabulous time in the South African vineyards. I virtually grew up on Groot Constantia and mountains and vineyards, harvests and cellars still all hold that special familiar place in my heart.
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hi Andrew – perfect timing for me as I had a fresh pineapple which I have been enjoying – have just sent you an email re my post – hope I got the right address – it is posted at http://gggiraffe.blogspot.com/2009/03/wtsim-pineapple-and-banana-chutney.html
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I love pineapple!
Here's a link to my post for the challenge.
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I sent you a mail but in case it's nto the right one. Here's my entry http://lekkertje.blogspot.com/2009/04/kip-ananas.html sorry a bit tardy
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HERE'S one music ensemble which doesn't need much of a fanfare.
Abbey Brass Band is taking part in a concert with a local choral society to raise money for charity. The band, which has around 30 players, will be taking part in the show along with Abingdon Operatic Society.
Cornet player Paul Heast said: "We have got quite a broad repertoire of music. It is music we have been putting together for the summer. There will be a few marches and a few solo pieces.
"It will be quite an interesting programme."
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Initial setup is straightforward, but because the box was not supplied with a default IP address, I had to use a keyboard, mouse and monitor for initial setup. After entering the basic network information, I completed the rest of the configuration through a Web browser.
The MX-200 has a wide variety of anti-spam technologies, including: whitelists and blacklists; RBLs (real-time black hole lists), which are lists maintained by volunteers or organizations that identify spammers or potential spammers; a distributed checksum clearinghouse, which looks at data collected from many e-mail servers to identify spam; statistical token analysis, which scrutinizes message content; and several filters that reject improperly formatted e-mail. It also has an optional Brightmailanti-spam engine.
Not all of the filters are enabled by default, and if the Brightmail engine is used, redundant filters are disabled. It is necessary to look through the list of filters and understand what they do in order to set them up correctly; this is not a product that you can simply enable by clicking one button and be on your way.
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Singing superstar JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE's reluctance to return to 'N SYNC has delayed the release of their greatest hits album.
The LIKE I LOVE YOU singer is needed to record vocals for three new tracks which will feature on the GIRLFRIEND group's new CD but has yet to agree to return to the studio.
While bandmates JC CHASEZ, JOEY FATONE, LANCE BASS and CHRIS KIRKPATRICK are ready to reform but even top executives at JIVE RECORDS have failed to convince Justin to join them.
A source tells Britain's DAILY MIRROR newspaper, "There's meant to be a greatest hits coming out in November and a possible Christmas TV special, but it's all now up in the air.
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- How long the agreement will stay in effect. This can be a set time, like six months or a year, after which you can both decide whether you want to make any changes. It may be simpler, though, to make the contract open-ended, described with a phrase such as, "This agreement shall remain in force until terminated in writing by either party." In that case, either of you can end the arrangement at any time simply by writing a signed, dated note saying that the agreement is over, and giving the note to the other person.
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