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BOSTON (AP) — A U.S. senator says the hospitalized suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing was shot in the throat, raising questions about his ability to speak to investigators. Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Dan […]
Bipartisanship breaks out on Capitol Hill, for now
WASHINGTON (AP) — A filibuster averted. A likely accord on immigration reform. A former Republican presidential candidate thanked — publicly! — by the Senate's top Democrat. Lawmakers of both parties lunched together for the first time many could remember.
Senators work on deal expanding background checks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Talks between two influential senators have emerged as the most promising route for a bipartisan breakthrough on expanding federal background checks for gun buyers.
Obama to bring some Sandy Hook families on Air Force One
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is bringing 11 families of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One.
Senate immigration bill may limit family visas
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Text of Sen. Marco Rubio's GOP response to Obama
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Obama lauds House vote on 'fiscal cliff'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says an effort to change the nation's tax code that is too skewed toward the wealthy has been achieved with the "fiscal cliff" deal approved in Congress.
Booker won't run for NJ gov, eyes US Senate seat
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Newark Mayor Cory Booker has ruled out a bid for New Jersey governor and is eyeing a run for U.S. Senate in 2014.
Leading conservative says Obama will win tax fight
WASHINGTON (AP) – A leading conservative who's resigning from the Senate is predicting that President Barack Obama will win the battle over raising taxes.
Sen. DeMint resigning to head conservative group
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Simply Knitting May 14 Issue 120
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As the days grow warmer, you'll want a selection of light cover-ups for those typical mixed-weather days. Choose from a luxurious silk cardi, soft lace jumper or chic checked jacket. Not forgetting Father's Day, of course! For quick and simple ideas, why not knit a camera strap or golf club covers? Perfect if your dad is a man who likes his hobbies. Or if you're a speedy knitter, how about a cabled cricket cardigan? No matter what you choose to knit, you can't go wrong.
Inject a fresh burst of colour to the kids' rooms with our fun collection - a sweet mobile for the little ones, cute bunting to drape with aplomb, a wacky monster tissue cover and delightful owl pyjama case - we want them all for ourselves!
Alan Dart has outdone himself once more with his feisty Feline Flappers - be transported to the roaring 20s with these snappily dressed kittens. For quiet afternoons where you just fancy a read, don't miss our reader story - the inspiring tale of how knitting helped one reader manage her illness and travel abroad, and find out more about the knitted taxi that's been careening around London! Plus, don't miss our exclusive interview with Kaffe Fassett at the opening of his new exhibition. What will you cast on first? Write to us, and let us know!

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Grilled Vegetable and Goat Cheese Sandwiches
If I have any more protein today I am going to turn into a chicken / egg / fish.
I'm SO full.
get your protein!
Quinoa, Tomato and Egg Bake
I didn't have too much left in the fridge to make breakfast, but found some quinoa I bought ages ago. It's such a healthy, delicious grain and great for cold summer salads. I decided to experiment and make a quick fry pan bake for breakfast, I'll definitely be trying this again with a few new ingredients, but it came out great.
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup quinoa
- 1 clove garlic, diced
- 1 tomato, sliced
- 2 eggs
- A bit of cheese if you have it
- Salt and pepper
Preheat the grill of the oven. Bring the water to a boil in a frypan, and stir in the quinoa. Cook until water is mostly absorbed, add the tomatoes, season with salt and pepper, and put under the grill to start cooking the tomatoes (about 5 minutes). Pull the pan out and crack the eggs over the top, and add some cheese. Return to the oven for about 5-7 minutes until the egg white is cooked but the yolk still isn't set. Serve in the pan.
Just a reminder to tweet me 3 ingredients that have been in your cupboard for ages that need cooking, I'll pick one to create a recipe from this weekend!
Mediterranean Vegetable Panini
Bacon Jam, Avocado and Gorgonzola Toasted Waffle Sandwiches
holy shit this is perfect
La Del Gato:
Corn arepa filled with avocado, guayanes cheese, & fried sweet plantains
@ Caracas Arepa Bar in NYC
One of my favorite indulgences. So good.
1.) Cottage cheese: Cottage cheese, an unpressed cheese curd has one of the lowest saturated fat content of all cheeses. Look for varieties with lower salt content as some have high sodium levels.
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Tuesday is just another day.
What do you do on Tuesday's? Do you have a hobby or something that fits your routine that you do only on Tuesday?
Is Tuesday special to you?
I have decided that it's special.
We are collectively going to celebrate Tuesday for everything it can be and that it is.
Why? Well, Tuesday has to be the most unpopular of the weekdays. Think about it. Monday is that day the weekend warriors dread and was, unfortunately, made infamous by Bob Geldof. Wednesday will forever be known as "hump day"; the middle of the week. Thursday is the singles "night out on the town" day and we all know why Friday is the rock star of the weekdays.
What's Tuesday got?
Well, theviewfromhere posts on Tuesdays! That's something but not enough to make a significant enough of a dent. So, in order to declare Tuesday a very special day theviewfromhere has decided to offer a few things we discovered that will make this particular Tuesday special in its own right.
How WEIRD are you? Take a test and find out.
What's wrong with serious blogging?
Are you defined by what you do?
Everyone makes mistakes (except Miles Davis because he never believed in them).
Do you recognize a theme here?
Yeah, I know I am creating that most dreaded of all posts; the list post. But in actual fact I am listing these "ideas" because they actually mean something to me and they come from sources that I have grown to respect and admire.
Each has their own way to express value to their community.
And value is what this is all about.
I really want to know what value means to you.
Enlighten me in the comments and I will be sure to share my thoughts with you.
Enjoy your Tuesday.


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Today, not only 670 the Score (WSCR), but even the website Deadspin got hold of the sad scene that was the Chicago White Sox game. At first pitch, the recorded attendance was a measly 800 people. The official attendance recorded by the team was just over 11,000, but if you see any highlights from the game that number is nowhere near correct. No sections even look half-full, and that includes the busy sections right behind home plate and directly down the lines. With that being the case, the team might eventually, for the sake of not being humiliated by local and national media outlets, decide to cut off seating in certain parts of the ballpark, specifically the upper deck.
While this won't increase attendance, it will make the games seem much fuller than they actually are. Most camera shots only show the bottom half of the ballpark anyways, making this a perfect time to fill up that area while having no patrons sit in the upper deck. Not only will this improve the quality on television, but it will boost morale for fans in attendance, who will be closer to the action and be in a greater atmosphere with other fans, as opposed to sitting by themselves in the far corners.
Furthermore, this could drive ticket sales, as many people will view the tickets as "must-have." While they aren't really, not in a disrespectful way, people want what others have.
There are plenty of games that the team won't need to shut off seating for, including many game once the weather improves. But games against other lower-level teams, on weekdays in the cold will lead to attendance like what we saw today, which is just embarrassing.
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Meredith Willson's THE MUSIC MAN is coming to The Center for the Arts on November 8,9,15,16 at 7:30 p.m. Fun for the whole family! "76 Trombones" and "Till There Was You" are not to be missed!
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In The Nursery has long been known for their sweeping, cinematic music. For the last few years, the most interesting ITN releases have been part of their "Optical Music" series, in which the Humberstone brothers compose new music to accompany classic silent films. While albums like Groundloop help to chart the ongoing refinement and gradual broadening of ITN's established sound, the Optical Music discs give the brothers a far greater opportunity to break the boundaries of their music. Hindle Wakes is their biggest test yet; controversial in its day, this "classic drama of a strong-minded girl and families in crisis" requires a very different approach than In The Nursery's typically broad-based Gothic grandeur. (For the uninitiated, the word "Wakes" doesn't refer to dead folks; in British factory towns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, "wakes week" meant that the factory shut down for a week or so and all the workers took their vacations together.)
Not having seen Hindle Wakes -- with or without ITN's new music -- I can't truly judge how well the soundtrack works, but I can say for a fact that it's a distinct change of pace for the group. Like the other Optical Music releases, this is a subtle score, remaining respectfully in the background rather than attempting to steal focus from the visual elements of the story. One of ITN's trademarks -- massive bursts of swelling, slightly syrupy strings -- is almost completely absent here. Strings are applied lightly and gently, and are typically accented by trebly, minor-key piano tinkling. Even when the group's "standard" interplay between strings, keyboards, piano and wind instruments is at its most familiar, as in "Hindle Theme 1 and 2", there are no cathartic peaks. Though it plays out on a big screen, the music tells us that this is a small story -- a tale of intimacy and shifting relationships rather than huge heroic gestures.
The central "Hindle Theme" is deconstructed in various instrumental combinations, and it appears, in fragments, throughout the score, typically during a dialogue between two instruments. More often than not, ITN isn't going for an overtly "period" sound; there are several moments in which
a keyboard line sounds distinctly modern, but while this is initially anachronistic, the execution remains faithful to the mood and spirit of the scene. Most intriguing are the pieces that accompany a visit to the seaside town of Blackpool -- "Blackpool" and "Big Dipper" are filled with a hazy sort of childish wonder, wrapped up in the crashing of waves and the giddy delight of a roller-coaster ride. "Ballroom Sweetheart" follows, and it's ITN's biggest stretch yet: a delightful, rollicking big-band dance with clarinet, saxophone, tuba and guitar in its mix. Jazzy and exuberant, it sneaks a few glances back at the "Hindle Theme" whenever there's a break in its sea of dancing bodies.
Like most movie scores, Hindle Wakes repeats -- belabors, even -- a small number of key thematic sequences. If you're not a big fan of orchestral soundtracks, Hindle Wakes, with more than 110 minutes of gentle, mood-developing music, probably won't float your boat. I can, however, pay it the same compliment I'd offer to any sublimely enjoyable score: it stands on its own as an eminently listenable work, while leaving me curious to see the film that it supports.


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on Sunday, 16 September 2012.
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Nintendo 64 emulator Sixtyforce got a rare update recently. Version 0.9.6 adds code-signing, 64-bit Intel support, bug fixes, updated memory protection, USB controller hot-pluggable support, faster texture conversions, basic Conker's Bad Fur Day support, and loads more. It also drops PowerPC support. See here for the full release notes. Limtc on the forums has reported less jerky performance and better sound. Grab it here, and be sure to let us know how it performs for you.
Parallels 8 has been released. New features include full Mountain Lion integration—full screen, Mission Control, multi-touch gestures, Launchpad, Notification Center, etc—a presentation wizard, dictation, shared bluetooth, shared trash, drag and drop attachments in Outlook, and some other stuff. You can run Mountain Lion as a guest OS, too (bring on the infinite recursion). It also comes with the usual performance improvements and enhanced security. Check it out here.
There's heavy competition, though, as VMware Fusion 5 dropped this month. It comes "loaded with more than 70 new features." There's Launchpad integration, AirPlay Mirroring, Notification Center support, a new UI, Mountain Lion guest support, Windows 8 "optimization," USB 3 support, "near-native" performance, improved battery life, faster 3D graphics, one-click snapshots, a new Linux 3D graphics driver, and a new "embedded learning center." You can peruse the full sales pitch here.
Continue reading for more updates, including new versions of DBGL, VirtualBox, QEMU, Bochs, and others, and an upcoming FS-UAE 2.0 release.
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on Thursday, 16 August 2012.
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MacScene's new sister site Archive.vg launched its public beta at the end of July. It's shooting to be the IMDb of video games, and has had some great feedback so far. The Archive.vg iPhone app was just released on the App Store (free!), with near-full access to the database—it's missing screenshots, but it has credits and contributors (which you won't find on the website just yet). The app also has collections, which you can expect on the site at a later date. On the Archive blog, two articles may be of special interest to MacScene regulars: An Emulator for the Rest of Us—How OpenEmu Changes Everything and The Perils, Challenges, and Uncertainty of Collecting and Preserving Video Games.
Dapplegrey, a DOSBox frontend, reached a major milestone sometime recently—version 3.0. I can't kind find any release notes, but it has a shiny new UI and organisational features—along with a new icon. Mountain Lion users take note that it's not signed for Gatekeeper. You can get it from the Classics for X website.
Classic adventure game interpreter ScummVM version 1.5.0 "Picnic Basket" has been released. This update adds support for 11 more titles, including Backyard Baseball 2003, Dreamweb, Blue Force, and Once Upon A Time: Little Red Riding Hood. Changes include "dramatically" improved MT-32 emulation and TrueType font support. See the Release Notes for more details. As always, you can download the latest release from the ScummVM downloads page.
Continue reading for more emulator updates, including new versions of OpenMSX and Sheepshaver, a name change for gbpablog, and more.
on Wednesday, 01 August 2012.
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Yep, it's official. We're definitely not vaporware. You can go visit the site right now and have a look around. Go! Check out the blog, browse around the games, register and post on the forums, upload screenshots/wallpaper, and spread the word. We want Archive to reach as many people as possible.
Click here to go directly to the announcement post.
And since MacScene is primarily an emulation site, make sure you read our first feature story: An Emulator for the Rest of Us—How OpenEmu Changes Everything.
on Saturday, 07 July 2012.
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After nearly a year without updates, PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 has received two new versions in a week. Version 0.9.6 was updated to perform better in OS X Lion. Then 0.9.7 Alpha was released a few days later. Zedr0n included side-by-side screenshot comparisons to showcase the visual improvements between 0.9.6 and 0.9.7. You can get it, and check out the screenshots, at the PCSX2 for Mac website. As with all alpha software, proceed with caution.
MacScene regular seanstar has released new software for the NES Power Glove—more than 20 years since the ill-fated contraption was mercilessly retired. NESGlovPhone lets you perform music in real-time, on an actual NES, using the Mattel Power Glove to interact with the NES sound chip. It offers a "reasonably intuitive musical interface" and multiple modes of interaction. So it turns out it wasn't an April Fools joke. If you have a working Power Glove, NES, and devcart, get your copy at the Psych Software website.
Apple II emulator Virtual ][ has hit version 7.0. The new update provides full OS X Mountain Lion compatibility, improves accuracy of high-resolution colors, modernises the appearance of the main window, added the Bulgarian character set, and added the option to save a memory dump of the virtual machine to a file. Get it from the Virtual ][ website.
Continue reading for more updates, including new versions of Micro64 (plus a video), SheepShaver, CrossOver Mac, Boxer, Stella, and more.
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on Wednesday, 06 June 2012.
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Boxer, a DOSBox-powered DOS emulator, has been updated to version 1.3. The release notes list taking screenshots and fast-forwarding games among the new features, with heaps of bugfixes and improvements to input handling and gameboxes. Get it from the official Boxer website.
Multi-system emulator Mednafen has been updated to version 0.9.22-WIP, while Jazzin's launcher app NekoLauncher Mednafen received an update (0.9.22 Build 21) to fix a crash bug. Mednafen's new version includes improvements to and L3 and R3 button simulation in the PlayStation emulation, improved Sega Genesis/Mega Drive YM2612 emulation, and broken compatibility with 0.9.21-WIP Genesis/Mega Drive save states. See the NekoLauncher site for more details, and download it at the Mednafen forums.
Amiga emulator FS-UAE has been updated to version 1.2.1, fixing a crash that occurred when saving states with mounted directories. See the FS-UAE website to learn more about this games-focused emulator.
Continue reading for updates to JPCSP, Mini vMac, XRoar, Stella, VirtualBox, and more.
on Tuesday, 08 May 2012.
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Bizhawk, a multi-system emulator with built-in TAS recording capabilities, has been ported to the Mac. It eschews an OS X-native UI in favor of a wrapper that keeps the features from the Windows version. There are no plans for a Mac-native UI in the future, unfortunately. See the MacScene discussion thread for more details, or download Bizhawk via the TASVideos forums.
Nintendo DS emulator DeSmuME version 0.9.8 has finally been released. Chief among changes is a new Cocoa front-end, which seems to improve the responsiveness. This update also provides a "host of compatibility fixes"—loads of graphical and core bugfixes. Get it from the DeSmuME website.
The developers of ResidualVM issued a call-out for playtesters on April 15 for an upcoming 0.1.0 release. ResidualVM is a sister project to ScummVM that currently supports Grim Fandango to a point of completeability. Details for the playtesting can be found here, while you can learn more about the project at the ResidualVM website.
Angelo Salese has stepped down as MAME project lead because of "real life issues and concerns." Miodrag Milanovic is now in charge.
Continue reading for more emulator news and updates, including new versions of FS-UAE, PCSX-Reloaded, Mini vMac, and more.
on Saturday, 07 April 2012.
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Amiga emulator FS-UAE has hit version 1.0.0. The new release brings performance improvements, new configuration options, improved net play support, improved relative path handling in configuration files, and the ability to change controllers during game play. See the changelog for the full list, or get it from the FS-UAE website.
JPCSP, a PSP emulator, has new svn builds available. Recent changes include improved compatibility for software render, a new frame skip option, preliminary support for ad hoc connection, and compiler fixes. Head over to the official JPCSP website for more details.
ARAnyM, a virtual machine for running 32-bit Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems, was updated twice in March. Version 0.9.12 offers a new precise FPU emulation core, an important fix to CPU CAS instruction emulation, and more, while 0.9.13 includes a couple of important bug fixes. Get it at the ARAnyM website.
Continue reading for more updates, including new Mini vMac and Sheepshaver builds, the typical VirtualBox maintenance release, a new version of Stella, and more.
on Tuesday, 13 March 2012.
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CrossOver Games is no more. Codeweavers has rebranded and merged its two "Windows apps on a Mac" products, CrossOver Pro and CrossOver Games, into CrossOver XI. The new version comes with a huge change log, with key updates including Wine 1.4, an improved registration method, RAR file support, support for several .Net components, and a host of Microsoft Office improvements. You can learn more about CrossOver XI on the Codeweavers website.
FS-UAE, an Amiga emulator focused heavily on games, has received several updates since its initial release on February 4 this year. FS-UAE is built on the WinUAE code base, and can be fully controlled with a gamepad. The most recent update (0.9.10) adds experimental net play support. Check out the official FS-UAE website for more details, and a download link.
Nintendo 64 emulator Mupen64Plus received its first official update in more than 13 months a few days ago. Version 1.99.5 updates the audio plugin, input-SDL plugin, video plugin, RSP plugin, core emulator, and Consule-UI front-end for Mupen64Plus 2.0 API versioning; adds support for the Nintendo 64 real-time clock; allows 8-bit PNG images to be loaded for hi-res textures; and fixes many bugs. The full list is on the Mupen64Plus ReleasePage. You can download the emulator from the project's Google Code downloads page.
Boxer, a DOSBox-based DOS emulator, has been updated to version 1.2.2. This version adds the ability to paste text into the DOS prompt, makes improvements to keyboard input, changes the default games folder location to ~/DOS Games, and fixes several bugs. See here for the full list of changes and a download link.
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Major Lazer feat. Pharrell Williams, "Aerosol Can"
Now THAT is how you do a lyric video. [Via]
Now THAT is how you do a lyric video. [Via]
It is now past 10 AM here in the east. If you are still a little groggy, a little less limber or alert than you'd usually be at this hour, please play this on repeat until you find yourself awake. I can't imagine it will take all that long. Also, this is GREAT. [Via]
Watching the new video from the wonderfully-named techno-dancehall duo Major Lazer is a little like watching the gang from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" practice for a talent show they're putting on at the bar, or rehearse a fake wrestling routine to raise money for the troops in Iraq. Which makes sense, because producer Diplo, one half of Major Lazer, is from Philadelphia.


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"Roots Rock, Alt. Country" = Excellent!!
Very good record. Great bunch of songs here. "Where I Live" and "Depression River" rock. "One of the Lucky Ones" is bittersweet song writing for sure. "Tired of Being High" and "Carol" are terrific as well. This guy does have a bit of the DBT sound going on and that's a good thing. Worth the credits, get this record!


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Pssst… There's some free Zadie Smith fiction over this way…
"I'm always surprised when writers say they don't believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We're all worshiping something." — Shane Jones
"It helped that I could measure my progress with metrics like number of scabs collected, number of inches ollied. There was an objective truth to the sport; unlike my writing, my powerslides were self-validating. At home, a printout of my manuscript lay untouched on my desk."
At long last, Jessie Gaynor's back with more blotto correspondence.
A newborn baby has no muscles in its neck, and its vulnerability and helplessness are absolute, it can't move itself, nor even raise its head, but has to be supported by the hands of others, lifted up to the faces of others, which are the first thing she sees as she opens her eyes. And then she enters the circle of faces, in which she will live out the rest of her life.
Q: Do you ever find your work isolating?
A: Writing—that's a lonely job. Editors are lucky enough to be thrown into the company of many, but you have to make time to be alone. Because the work isn't necessarily solitary, it's easy to get distracted by meetings and hanging out. It's important to have the time to do your work, but also to lie awake and worry.
"Seidel scared himself with poetry, and us too. How had he done it?" John Jeremiah Sullivan presented the Hadada Award to Frederick Seidel at The Paris Review's Spring Revel last month. You can read the full text of his speech and three of Seidel's poems. This seems to be a much better week for Sullivan because he also just won the James Beard Foundation's MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award for his essay "I Placed a Jar in Tennessee."
New York just expects so much from a girl—acts like it can't stand even the idea of a wasted talent or opportunity. And Miss Adele had been around. Rome says: enjoy me. London: survive me. New York: gimme all you got. What a thrilling proposition! The chance to be "all that you might be." Such a thrill—until it becomes a burden. To put a face on—to put a self on—this had once been, for Miss Adele, pure delight. And part of the pleasure had been precisely this: the buying of things. She used to love buying things! Lived for it! Now it felt like effort, now if she never bought another damn thing again she wouldn't even—
What was the very first ebook? It's hard to say with any degree of precision, but a pretty good candidate is Peter James's Host, which was copied and stored on a floppy disk back in 1993. At The Guardian, a look back at the early life of the format. You could also read David Rothman's tribute to the ebook pioneer Michael Hart. (h/t The Paris Review)
At that point, one of the flesh-hungry demons loses his patience with Dante's whole I-gotta-interview-the-sinners shtick and rips out a chunk of the sinner's flesh. Before he is overpowered, the sinner tells Dante and Virgil about the other Italians he knows—Fra Gomita and Don Michel Zanche, both from Sardigna and constantly yapping about the place. The sinner, who seems far more glib about the threat of being torn to death, says almost tauntingly, 'Oh, look at that one there, gnashing his teeth.'


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Seriously if you haven't watched all 4 seasons of Natsume Yuujinchou you've missed so much
and you can't tell me that meeting Takashi isn't the best thing that has happened to Tanuma
yuusss also waiting for the manga is painful as fuck
Sauron being evil through the ages (em,sorry for my english)
1) The Years of the Lamps - Mairon (future Sauron) is one of Aule's smiths and Melkor's spy among ainur first on Almaren,then in Valinor.
2) The Years of the Trees - The Years of the Sun,450-s of the First Age. Sauron-Gorthaur the Cruel is Melkor's right hand,the most powerful of his servants,
beloved maia (c) wikipedia, sorcerer, shapeshifter, master of ghosts and illusions, lord of Melkor's Werevolves and commander of Angband. Still beautiful,already have cat-eyes,his hair became more red,as fire and gold - Melkor's elements.
3) "True" form, End of the First Age - Second Age,until the downfall of Numenor. After battle on Tol-in-Gaurhoth Sauron was not in favor, and after War of Wrath he lost his master Melkor. He refused to return to Valinor with Eonwe and stayed in Middle Earth. For 600 years he begin to slowly lose his mind. His hair became gray and his beauty fades away.
4) End of the Second Age. Sauron dies during downfall of Numenor. His spirit can't take a "fair" form anymore - since this moment his physical form became horrible
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Why would you keep the eggs on the fridge?
we keep our eggs in the fridge…so they don't denature? do you not refrigerate your eggs?
Because of the way our eggs are processed and the prevalence of salmonella in american chickens, americans have to fridge their eggs.
Wait, they don't refrigerate eggs in other countries?
wait what people in other countries dont refrigerate eggs???
wait a second eggs in other countries aren't refrigerated?????????
lol what pretty damn sure everyone in the UK refigerates their eggs otherwise, you know, they go off pretty damn quick.
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I now want to draw Thorin and Thranduil as literal angry cats thank you good night
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I found Thranduil very reptilian and reminiscsent of Smaug in the Hobbit film. His movements seemed lizard-like; he acted very cold towards the other people he interacted with (not just the dwarves but Tauriel and Legolas too); he acts with the same confidence in his kingship as Smaug; and his crown seems reminiscent of the spikes on Smaug that you can sort of see in the image below
and more clearly in this fantastic drawing by Christopher Burdett for a Hobbit expansion to the LOTR card game.
Do you think this is deliberate, picking up elements of Smaug to mirror in Thranduil?
I both utterly love and hate the way he's so often portrayed as very forbidding, but I can't really make a case for him not to be, hahaha. I don't like comparing him to Smaug though, I don't really think of Thranduil as a king sitting on a hoard, more like his kingdom is isolated from the rest of Arda for the protection of his people and even moreso now as the Necromancer returns and they're fighting the encroaching Shadow.
But I totally see the similarities even if I don't agree with it.
Thranduil's pretty much a later, less extreme, edition of Thingol, who had a stronghold in a forest much like in Mirkwood and Thranduil is ppossibly old enough to remember the feud between the Dwarves and Thingol over one of the Silmarils and the former refusing up the jewel after Thingol had paid for it. That ended in bloodshed, with Thingol dead and Doriath fallen, so there's probably no end of distrust as it is, from Thranduil's point-of-view. I don't know if you've read the book but it is kind of a moral tale anyway, like Lord of the Rings after it.
IMO, they're all as fucking bad as each other. Thorin was offered a deal, which he should have taken up, but their mutual distrust of each other, might have eventually led to the battle anyway.
I don't know if any of this even made any sense, but tl:dr, I don't think he should be compared to Smaug, but yes, in the film there are definitely parallels.
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The "Big Three" in Miami might be a thing of the past with LeBron James fielding offers. His teammate Chris Bosh has also been fielding offers in the event that they go their separate ways and one of the teams Bosh is interested in is the Dallas Mavericks.
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Chris Bosh definitely has interest in Rockets and Mavs, source says. And Bosh has "zero knowledge" of what LeBron is going to do.
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Chris Bosh's reps have made recent calls on market to reconfirm that max slots would be available to him, sources tell Yahoo. Answers: Yes. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 5, 2014
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I've gotten a lot of people telling me that they like my horns, so apparently I'm not a total failure to the fandom after all. So since someone wanted to know, I figured I would share just how simple horns are to make. I'm making a pair of Vriska horns, since that's what was asked for.
First the materials
Pretty simple, right? All you need is Model magic, and paint. The cut off part of the box of snacks is just a stiff mobile thing to use so the model magic doesn't get dirty.
I turned it over for contrast, since white on white isn't the best. You start by taking a blob of model magic, simple.
Slipt it up into two roughly even balls, one a little smaller than the other, then use a bit more to roll against the board, making the tips gradually thinner until they end as points. With that, just bend it unto a u shape like the top of Vriska's horn.
Roll the two balls in such a way that they end up, the larger ball ends in a point, and the smaller one does not, and make sure you keep the lengths of both not the same, the smaller one should be shorter by about three inches maybe?
Take the longer one, and bend it about how I did there.
The next picture for currupted or something, I'm not even sure, but it's pretty simple. Take the bent horn, and roll the new tip so it comes to a new point, but be careful not to let the bent over part touch the base of the horn, it could stick, and while some people may be fine with that, I'm more picky about that.
Then attach the u shape to the blunt tipped horn, if the model magic is sticky enough, it should stay with no help, but if it falls off, a little glue will work.
Next thing to do is wait and paint. Waiting is important, and I didn't do that for these horns since I wanted to get this tutorial done as soon as I could. For the first few hours of waiting for them to dry, you want to flip them over regularly, or else the bottom side will flatten, or worse, crack. I actually don't have many problems with my horns cracking any more, if you wait a tiny bit before you make the horns for the model magic to dry out a tiny bit, then cracking is less likely. Of course by doing this, you're making ti a bit harder to work with, so try to find a good balance of the two. Once your horns are dry enough to not deform (or if you're lazy, as soon as you want, although, for these, since i didn't want to wait for them to dry, I took them outside and sprayed them with some clear fast drying spray can lacquer. I'm not sure if that helped, since I've never tried painting not dry horns except today, and they were sprayed, so if you can wait, I suggest you do, it's easier.)
Now for painting, you can go about this a few ways, but what I've found to work best is painting each side, so the bottom is always dry. Also, just like me, your first instinct might be to paint only the part visibly lightest the lightest color, and that could work depending on the paint. I personally use paint probably intended for walls, but I got it mixed custom for the colors of troll horns, which is something you don't have to do, you can probably eyeball it pretty well, plus, this paint streaks if you're not careful. Anyway, paint the whole horn, that way there's no place that is clearly overlapping, it makes it looks weird.
Then last you paint the other layers as shown.
I don't have pictures for this last part since there are so many different ways, but to attach them to your head, you have options.
With smaller horns, some people like to use clips attached to the horns, I've seen this done for Karkat horns a lot, as well as sometimes Terezi or Nepeta.
I've also seen some people using a spiral cone of stiff wire that they screw into their wig, I've never tried it though.
I've seen magnets used, with one of the strong magnets attached to the inside of the wig, and the other the bottom of the horn, but make sure the magnets are strong enough, and also don't make the mistake of trying to have the magnets work when they're both north or south, make sure you're sure they are in right. I would not recommend this method for large horns like Tavros or Gamzee.
You could go the way a lot of people do, and use headbands. I use headbands sometimes, but I don't like how they look, so I try to avoid them, but they do work well for most horns.
Once again for smaller horns, you can attach them to a string or something, preferably the color of your hair or the wig, whichever the horns are on. I also tired the string to an elasticy string so they stay on my head. I didn't bother making the string black or brown because I was lazy, although even with a white string, it doesn't show all that much.
And last, the method I used for a while was one I thought of on my own. I took a headband that was about an inch thick, and drilled some holes into it at points where I would want horns on my head, then I screwed some screws into the holes so they come out the top. I then would put that in the wig to the screws poke through the wig, then I would screw the horns into that, since I had pre-screwed the horns when they were relatively soft so that they would be able to be put on, and I could expect them to stay on. This worked nicely for stability, although I wouldn't suggest it for Tavros horns, and I don't think I have any idea if Aradia horns can be screwed on for this, because of their shape.
I only added this part about how to attach your horns to your head because it was the only problem I had when I wanted to first make my horns, so I figured other people would be similar in that. Anyway, I hope this helped, and thanks to this, I now have my fourth set of Scorpio horns! (I actually had a fifth pair a while back, but I threw them out, so this is my fifth pair, wow, obsession maybe?)
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A suspicious package incident in Norfolk Thursday afternoon has cleared.
The National Weather Service says a weak EF-0 tornado hit Virginia Beach Thursday.
LeBron James is going back to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The legendary Kevin Nealon stopped by The Hampton Roads Show Friday to talk about all things Kevin Nealon!
It's Live Music Friday and we are happy to welcome back The Fuzz Band to The Hampton Roads Show stage.
Start off your weekend with a free cool drink or tasty meal, or grab a great deal on doughnuts.
We sampled Fried Green Tomatoes with Magnolia Sauce and a Pear Martini prepared by Alan Parker and Tucker Booth from FM Restaurant.
Newport News Police need help identifying a man who robbed a dollar store Friday morning.
Friday's live audience talked about the Rolling of the Bulls adventure this weekend in Hampton.
Only Chopper 10 shows you the scope of the aftermath of Thursday's storm at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront, from the sky.
The Virginia Beach Health Department is providing free Tdap vaccinations for students July 26.
Things got rough yesterday. An isolated area of storms fired up over Emporia. As they moved east they grew in size and strength.


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We've long been fans of blogging duo Reem and Natalya Kanj. The sisters, who run the blog Five Five Fabulous, have been named our Fashion Bloggers of the Week and Reem was one of our School of Grazia 'Introduction to Blogging' masterclass panelists. She launched FFF, which features a mix of personal style, creative collaborations and fashion industry insights, in 2009 and until recently the stylish sisters divided their time between Dubai and UK. Now Natalya has moved to Dubai for work, but how will the siblings cope with living in different countries? And more importantly what's on their fashion radar this week?
This week Natalya was delighted that Reem decided to extend her stay in Dubai. The girls were kept busy with shoot number five of Reem's trip, as well as their glamorous mum's 50th birthday. Being doting daughters the pair took her for a pamper day at a beach club and treated her to a larger than life bouquet of flowers. They also snapped up a few treats of their own including Tod's loafers, Christian Louboutin heels and a navy blue Celine handbag. So fabulous!
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LANSING | The Village Board approved an amendment Tuesday to an agreement with Walmart that limits the retailer's ability to appeal property tax bills in the future.
Trustees voted 6-0 to amend the deal, which would bring a Super Walmart to Lansing. The board originally approved the agreement in May.
Under the amended deal, Walmart cannot appeal any rise in property tax bills if the increase determined by the Cook County assessor's office is less than 7.5 percent.
Any increase of more than that amount in property tax bills could not be challenged for less than a 7.5 percent increase.
Village Administrator J. Wynsma said the amendment is the final action needed by Lansing. Construction at the site of a former Sam's Club warehouse retailer at 17555 Torrence Ave. will not begin for several more weeks.
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District and the Cook County Board have to approve permits for the project, the latter of which would be for demolition of the existing structure.
The retailer applied for a water district permit at the end of July. Wynsma said officials have been told approval could come Aug. 29 when the water district board of commissioners meets in Chicago.
Once both permits are issued, demolition can begin. Wynsma said he expects that to occur in late September or early October, particularly since Walmart officials have told village officials they want to open the new store by July 2014.
"We fully expect to see demolition begin by October," Wynsma said, adding he is not concerned about delays and speculation by some that the Walmart project is off schedule.
"This project was never off track," he said. "It's going to happen."
Under the proposal approved earlier this year, Walmart officials plan to build an 169,000-square-foot structure at the site of the former Sam's Club, which has sat vacant since 2009 when the building was abandoned for a location in the River Oaks West shopping center in neighboring Calumet City.
Walmart officials have said they want to build a Super Walmart store at the Lansing site because of its proximity to the Torrence Avenue exit on Interstate 80/94. The retailer also is planning to build a new Super Walmart by the Cabela's outdoors store off I-80/94 at Indianapolis Boulevard in nearby Hammond.
The Super Walmart format would include a full-scale supermarket, home goods, interior decoration items, a liquor department, a garden center and outdoor seasonal items. The new Lansing store would replace the existing Walmart at 16771 Torrence Ave.
Under the deal, the village has recommended a Class 8 property tax break from Cook County and also has reached an agreement that would give the retailer a share of Lansing's cut in sales tax proceeds.


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Tags: Girls Aloud, listen, mix, podcast, songs, spice girls, w, We love pop
Boys and girls overboard! WELOVEPOP CLUB is back on FEB 15th for our very first SPICE GIRLS vs GIRLS ALOUD showdown. After January's Boy Band Special (the biggest WeLovePop yet) it's time for the two biggest girl bands of the past two decades to collide at Rolling Stock (formally known as Bells of Shoreditch). We'll be spinning all the biggest hits, fan favourites and a few rare gems from the Spice and Aloud catalogues – not to mention all your solo faves from Nicola, Sarah, Kimberley, Nadine, Cheryl, Sporty, Posh, Scary, Baby and Ginger.
As always, you can always expect:
*Cardboard cutouts of your fave pop stars and starlets!
*'Call The Shots' pop-themed shot deals
*Exclusive unreleased tuneage and giveaways from Fascination Towers
Location: Rolling Stock (formerly known as Bells of Shoreditch), 48 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8AA
Date: Saturday 15th February 2013
Opening times: 9pm – 3am
Door entry: £5 advance or b4 11pm / £7 after
Nearest tubes: Old St (Northern Line) / Hoxton & Shoreditch High St (Overground).
We Love Pop Club now has its own TV show, bringing your telly Something New!
First 2 episodes that are scheduled to appear on THE VAULT TV (Sky 366 & Freesat 501) are as follows:
'WeLovePop Club Presents: Girls Aloud vs Spice Girls Hits Battle' tomorrow (Weds Jan 22) at 7pm.
'WeLovePop Club Presents: Forgotten Girls Aloud vs Spice Girls Gems' on Thurs (Jan 23) at 3pm.
Tags: Aloud Day, AloudDay, Girls Aloud, Popstars The Rivals
Even though the Girls are no longer together as a group, we are all left with the wonderful memories of how it began and so, us fans declare today, 30th November 'Aloud Day' the day when 5 girls were chosen by the British public to form a girl group on Popstars: The Rivals.
How will you be celebrating the day, posting images on instagram or watching the tour DVDs?
Start by watching this video, guaranteed to get those tears rolling!!
Tags: Flashback Friday, Girls Aloud, Something New
The designer who custom made the dresses for the Girls performance on Strictly Come Dancing last year, shared a picture of one of the dresses before it made its TV debut!
The beginning before it made the limelight. The dress for the girls @GirlsAloudMedia @GirlsAloud @bbcstrictly pic.twitter.com/oy2f9dPduG
— Alida Herbst (@alida_herbst) November 22, 2013
You can follow the designer on Twitter @alida_herbst
Tags: DVD, Girls Aloud, The Hits Tour 2013
The DVD for this years Hits Tour has been officially released this week.
Unfortunately there are no extras, just the tracklisting below:
1. Sound of the Underground
2. No Good Advice
3. Life Got Cold
4. Wake Me Up
5. Jump
6. The Show
7. Love Machine
8. Whole Lotta History
9. Can't Speak French
10. Biology
11. Sexy! No No No…
12. Untouchable
13. On the Metro
14. Call the Shots
15. Something Kinda Ooooh
16. Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me
17. Something New
18. I'll Stand By You
19. The Promise
Buy from Amazon here http://po.st/HitsTouramznFB or from the Official Store here Official Store
Tags: 2013, Amazon, DVD, Girls Aloud, the hits tour
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We finally got a DVD cover and tracklisting for the Girls Aloud: The Hits Tour 2013 official DVD.
Lots of changes has been going on regarding the release date, but its now been confirmed by Kimberley, Nicola and @SupersonicPR that it will be out on 12th November 2013.
**ANOTHER DATE CHANGE** – This time i hope it's final! The final date change is 11th November 2013.
The tracklisting has also been posted on the official Girls Aloud site, but it's unclear why they have missed out 'Call Me Maybe'
1. Sound of the Underground
2. No Good Advice
3. Life Got Cold
4. Wake Me Up
5. Jump
6. The Show
7. Love Machine
8. Whole Lotta History
9. Can't Speak French
10. Biology
11. Sexy! No No No…
12. Untouchable
13. On the Metro
14. Call the Shots
15. Something Kinda Ooooh
16. Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me
17. Something New
18. I'll Stand By You
19. The Promise
However, more info will be coming soon, so this could mean extra bonus features to be announced.
Pre-order here http://po.st/HitsTouramznFB or from the Official Store here Official Store
Tags: Autobiography, book, Girls Aloud, Kimberley Walsh, Louis Walsh, manager
Louis did nothing for Girls Aloud… only rake in his cash. Kimberley's barbed attack on Girls Aloud's ex-manager.
KIMBERLEY WALSH has spent 11 years as part of pop's Girls Aloud, the biggest-selling girlband of the 21st Century.
Since being paired with Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Cheryl Cole on their way to winning TV reality show Popstars: The Rivals, the 31-year-old from Bradford has also shone as a model, telly presenter, actress and Sun columnist.
Her new autobiography, A Whole Lot Of History, being exclusively serialised in The Sun on Sunday, lifts the lid on Kimberley's time in the showbiz spotlight.
THE moment the closing credits rolled on the final episode of Popstars: The Rivals in December 2002, Louis seemed to lose interest in Girls Aloud.
He has since admitted to me he didn't know what to do with five girls and that he was a bit scared of us, but I'm not sure that's the whole truth.
Louis has just never really been a hands-on type of manager, and back then we suffered because of it.
Whatever the case, his disappearing act meant we had nobody looking after us and nobody fighting our corner as far as record company decisions went.
Girls Aloud had a tour manager who got us where we needed to be from day to day, but we were pretty much on our own. In those days we had no one planning our day-to-day diaries and no one keeping us in line and organised — and very quickly it became a mess.
The record company's marketing director, Peter Loraine, was so much more to us than his job title — he was always on the end of a phone when we needed him. I remember phoning him one day, feeling desperate about the situation. I said: "What are we going to do? It's all going to s***, Peter. We need help."
We had formed in 2002, then, in January the next year, Cheryl Cole was arrested after a dispute with a female toilet attendant in a Guildford nightclub who later accused her of a racially aggravated assault. We were mortified.
We got a call from Louis — which was probably the only call we'd had since the end of Popstars.
He left a voicemail on Nadine's phone, which wasn't very nice. The gist was that we were all a bunch of English knackers — apart from Nadine — and he didn't want anything to do with us.
We were horrified — what do you do when your manager tells you that?
I remember thinking that Girls Aloud might be over before we'd even started.
Tags: Girls Aloud, music prize, popjustice, twenty quid
For the last time, Girls Aloud are shortlisted in the annual Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize. This is a music prize like no other!!
The awards recognises amazingness in the field of pop music by awarding twenty quid (cash) to the artist responsible for the best British pop single of the previous last twelve months.
Music fans will gather in London on October 30th to talk, rant, shout, and tweet about the 12 shortlisted singles, and only 1 will become the winner of the crisp £20 prize.
Girls Aloud have won it 5 times in past 11 years that it's been running, with Nicola even picking up the award herself, for The Promise in 2009.
If you fancy being a judge, see [HERE] for more info.
Tags: Amazon, DVD, Girls Aloud, pre-order, ten tour, the hits tour
You can now pre-order Girls Aloud: Ten – The Hits Tour DVD on Amazon, hurrah!
Click here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EY94PSG/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_Dwklsb1Y4YXKY to get your copy.
No cover or tracklistings/bonus content revealed yet, although Amazon list it as a 1 disc DVD.
Release Date: 21st October 2013.
Not long to go now!