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Textile artist Melanie Kay highlights drinking abuse issues by intricately stitching stories, messages and images about alcoholism onto old beer cans. Using the recycled aluminum cans as her main vehicle, the Mancunian creative takes unsettling stories she sees in the media, in films, or in her own life as her main inspiration. Sinister events, sad characters, roses, and even the police force, are hand- or machine-stitched into each piece of aluminum, giving new use to old beer packaging as a textile to be used in other designs.
Melanie Kay uses design as a way to create meaningful objects with a moral narrative. To make her work more interesting and unique, she has been experimenting with a wide variety of textiles and non-textiles techniques including hand- and machine- embroidery, as well as foiling, flocking, sanding and punching.
In addition to recycling issues, gender stereotypes are also portrayed in her work. She uses beer cans to represent the male, and the lace effect to represent the female. The artist's positive attitude towards these hot button issues is also illustrated in the details she uses. One of her lampshades is made with 5,400 aluminum hearts, which she individually punched by hand and sewed together. To Kay, the lampshade symbolizes the light at the end of the tunnel.
Photo © Melanie Kay
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Set Up Outlook 2007 with Exchange on a Windows Computer
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This document explains the ITS Exchange Service, shows how to use Microsoft Outlook 2007 to create and access your Exchange account, and how to connect to your Exchange account when you are off campus.
PREVIOUSLY USED OUTLOOK 2003 WITH YOUR EXCHANGE ACCOUNT? If you're on the same computer, your settings from Outlook 2003 should transfer to your new installation of Outlook 2007. Follow these instructions only if Outlook 2007 does not automatically access your account.
The following configuration instructions are:
TIP: Keep your software up-to-date by using Microsoft Update.
Table of Contents
What is the Outlook/Exchange Service
Exchange is Microsoft's messaging system that provides e-mail, calendaring and other features. It resides on a server rather than on your computer. Because of this, you'll never see an Exchange application on your computer.
Microsoft Outlook 2007 part of the Office 2007 suite allows you to access your Exchange account where you can:
You should already have received the QUICK Source help guide, Outlook 2007: Getting Started. If not, please check with your IT department.
Software Recommendations
For this document, you must be using Outlook 2007 part of Microsoft Office 2007. Your operating system can be Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 or later, or Windows Server 2003. Your department already owns the licenses to these products. Any of these software combinations allow you to take full advantage of Exchange's features and the latest security.
OUTLOOK 2007 UPDATE: Please verify that you are using Outlook 2007 with at least Service Pack 2. To determine what version you're using, from the Help menu select About Microsoft Office Outlook.
We recommend you set your computer to automatically check for updates.
Your Exchange/Windows Active Directory Password
Before you can use your Exchange account, you must have a Windows Active Directory password. This is also your Exchange password.
If you don't already have this password, follow the instructions at What is my Exchange password, and how do I change it?.
Using Auto Configuration for Exchange
SCREEN SHOTS: Although the screen shots in this document are from Vista, the steps are the same for other Windows operating systems.
DO NOT USE THE OUTLOOK 2007 STARTUP WIZARD! If you have opened Outlook and receive the Outlook 2007 Startup wizard, click Cancel. Click Yes in the dialog box asking if you are sure you want to exit the wizard. Outlook will quit.
AUTO CONFIGURATION FAILED? You may need to configure Outlook for Exchange manually.
Accessing Your Exchange Account
MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR EXCHANGE E-MAIL: E-mail sent to you from other Exchange users is only delivered to your Exchange account. If you only use Outlook to read your e-mail, this is not a problem. However, if you sometimes read your messages from other U-M e-mail services such as the web-based web.mail.umich.edu you will not see messages sent to your Exchange account. This can be confusing, because you'll always see e-mail sent to you at email@example.com in both Outlook and other U-M e-mail services.
Setting Up Spam Filtering
E-mail delivered to Exchange is processed by a spam detection system. To take advantage of this, you need to configure Outlook.
HINT: The Exchange spam filter places suspected spam in the folder you indicate (in this example, Junk E-mail). You should periodically check your designated folder to verify that it only contains spam. You can move any non-spam messages to your Inbox folder. Once verified, you can delete the contents of your designated folder.
KEEP SPAM IN ITS PLACE: This rule must always be first in the Rules and Alerts list. When you create other rules, they will automatically be added to the top of the list. Make sure you move the spam rule back to the top.
Connecting When You're Off Campus
When you're not on campus at home, for example, or traveling there are several ways to connect your Windows computer to your ITS Exchange account.
Additional Resources
More information is available at the ITS Exchange Service's website.
Also visit the Outlook Solution Center Web page for more helpful information.
Also visit ITS's Information System to obtain ITS computer documentation and other resources. A list of relevant documents follows:
The ITS Service Center provides a variety of computing help resources.
For further help with this or any other topic, call 734-764-HELP [4357] or submit an online service request.
Appendix: Manually Configuring Outlook for Exchange
If you received an error message when using Outlook auto configuration for Exchange:
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Many tasters found that this mix had a drier, more cake-like texture than they preferred. Volunteers also reported that the chocolate flavor was too mild. A few also complained that these brownies had an "artificial" taste to them.


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Birminghams new Museums Trust receives a major boost as Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery and Thinktank secure Arts Council England funding for the next three years.
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Members of the Park Ridge Police Department saw their hopes dashed when an apparent glitch prevented them from pulling a 90-ton UPS cargo plane during last month's Plane Pull for Special Olympics Illinois.
But the team learned earlier this month that it had received a special award nonetheless.
Special Olympics Illinois recognized the police officers, staff and others who made up the 20-member team with a Team Spirit Award.
"Despite some of the issues with the plane that morning (and) the other issues leading up to the event, your team didn't let this interfere, had a great attitude and we thank you," said an email from Matt Johnson, director of marketing and events for Special Olympics Illinois, to team captain and Park Ridge police officer Julie Genualdi.
The Park Ridge Police Department team kicked off the Sept. 21 plane pull fundraiser at O'Hare Airport, but when the members struggled to move the aircraft even a foot, a positioning problem was blamed. After two attempts, the team opted not to try for a third time.
Members of the Maine South football team, forming a separate group, ended up winning the open division of the competition.
Park Ridge Mayor David Schmidt was recently critical of the police department's participation, saying he had assurances that no employees would be doing the actual pulling and that Maine South High School football players would make up the team.
The police department team formed after Schmidt expressed concerns about liability issues if city employees were injured while participating in events like the Plane Pull for Special Olympics. He was given a legal opinion that the city would not be liable for workers compensation claims because the employees would be participating during their off time.


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Mutka: Irish seniors relish ND experience
By John Mutka Post-Tribune senior correspondent August 20, 2012 11:18PM
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Updated: September 22, 2012 6:13AM
Something about the Notre Dame experience leaves a lasting impression on players who pass through its portals.
Whether it's going through that tunnel with all its mythology, which comes close to being an out-of-body experience, or revering the giant mural of Touchdown Jesus near the stadium the area has an undeniable aura.
Copper statues of such bronzed giants as Rockne, Leahy and Holtz, sentinels who stand guard around the football fortress, add lustre to a faded legend. The Irish have been largely irrelevant on the national stage since they beat West Virginia for the title in 1988 (a 2-10 bowl record and six no-shows since 1994), but NBC-TV keeps them on the map.
Seniors like safety Zeke Motta, center Braxton Cave and linebacker Manti Te'o relish the Notre Dame experience. Underclassmen can only suspect it.
Being mentored by Harrison Smith, now with the Vikings, helped Motta make that transition from awe to appreciation.
"I looked up to 'Harry' a lot," says Motta, who will be appearing in his 39th consecutive game when the Irish cross the pond to play Navy in Dublin, Ireland.
Senior seasoning proved invaluable for the 215-pound warrior from Vero Beach, Florida.
"I've progressed mentally," says Motta, who has started 16 games in the last two years. "It's beautiful to see that transformation in myself."
The last chapter has yet to be written, but Motta believes the Irish can contend for a national championship.
To make it happen they must develop consistency. Last year they finished 8-5 with an 0-2 start and an 0-2 finish in between an 8-1 run.
Losing to USF in their opener set the tone for a bizarre season.
"Definitely weird," admits Motta. "Strange happenings."
Unquestionably the Irish could have finished with a 10-3 record, but blew double-digit leads in the fourth quarter against Michigan (24-7) and Florida State (14-3, Champs Sports Bowl).
Motta came up with a career highlight against the Seminoles, returning a fumble 29 yards for a touchdown.
"Couldn't have done it without Manti forcing it," he says with a smile, sharing his magic moment with the All-American linebacker.
Quarterback issues continue to pop up, but Motta still talks the talk when prompted.
"Definitely," he says. "High hopes for that."
It's a question of pride, but not necessarily reality based.
"What kind of a team would you be if you didn't expect and set those type of goals for yourself?" Motta asks.
A fast start is essential for a team without a conference connection to ease the sting of early losses. Under Brian Kelly that's been missing. Two years ago the Irish never recovered from a 1-and-3 opening disaster. To lurch from the gate for the third straight time would infuriate Notre Dame's subway alumni.
"We have a good brotherhood," Motta insists. "It's going to be a fun season."
Nearly every highly recruited player who attends Notre Dame dreams of moving to the next level. Motta is no exception.
"If not there's always Plan 'B'" says the industrial design major. "Get a job. Use the degree."
Notre Dame has extended Cave's comfort zone, keeping the home-body within a 50-mile radius of the Golden Dome for most of his life. The fifth-year senior played his high school football at Penn in nearby Mishawaka, a perennial 5A powerhouse which routinely makes state championship game appearances.
"Being a local guy I've always had people to lean on," he concedes. "I've gotten community support for my entire life,"
Outside of a visit to Mexico Cave's never strayed across the border so he's looking forward to the impending trip to Ireland. Ancestral ties make it even more special.
His father, Rick, claims Irish lineage dating back a couple of generations.
"I've always wanted to go there," says the fifth-year senior. "My dad's always talking about it."
Coming into the season Cave has appeared in 35 games with 22 starts spread over the last two years.
Like Motta he grew from a wide-eyed teen to an adult on campus with the help of Notre Dame's big-brother approach. Eric Olson, who now plays for the Saints, was his mentor.
"He really made me feel at home," Cave says. "Eric's one of those guys I looked up to. Now I'm one of those guys. I've become a man."
A 305-pound one at that.
"I can't believe how quickly it's gone by," he says. "It seems like yesterday."
Five years ago? Just a drop in the bucket.
Ditto for Te'o, who appreciates how much former teammates Darius Fleming (49ers) and Jimmy Clausen (Carolina) helped him make a smooth transition.
"Darius was like my older brother," Te'o says. "I love him to death. He's going to be at my wedding."
Since they're both linebackers it was easy to understand their bonding. Not so much with Clausen. A quarterback hooking up with Te'o seems like an odd coupling.
"Jimmy showed me the ropes, introducing me to everybody," Te'o says. "We hung out."
In his final year nostalgia is beginning to form.
"I feel every part of the campus and am going to spend as much time on it as possible on my off-days," he says. "I'm going to miss this place. I already do and I'm still here."
Te'o almost envies Notre Dame's newcomers.
"It goes by so fast," he says, wistfully. "They don't understand that."
Four years from now they will with the help of the seniors.


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USS Wasp (CV-7)
In port in June 1942, with a motor launch coming alongside.
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The food industry is known for their ability to rename, reformulate, or simply hide ingredients in order to deceive consumers. Just when people began realizing how bad high fructose corn syrup is, the corn industry introduced "corn sugar" to placate the masses. MSG, one of the most damaging food additives out there, has dozens of other names by which food producers can list it. Now, gluten is on consumer radars, not necessarily because it's harmful to everyone, but because some people have difficulty digesting it. Gluten-free has become the new en-vogue eating style and food makers know it.
Unlike MSG and HFCS, however, food makers are pretty forthcoming about gluten. They are quick to point out on their labels if something is "gluten-free" because they know they can charge more and hit consumers who currently feel limited by what they can buy while trying to avoid gluten. Or, maybe some companies are trying to help people.
While gluten certainly isn't the number one culprit in today's toxic substances department, people are still trying to avoid it. And while many products represent the 'gluten-free' label, there are some foods that contain gluten you might not know about.
7 Foods (Potentially) Containing Gluten
Here are 7 foods that may contain gluten that you might not know about.
- Soups – Canned soups in particular often contain gluten. (They also contain BPA). Make sure you look for labels that explicitly state the product is "gluten free".
- Reduced-Fat Foods – When food makers take fat out of foods, they add other junk back in. Starches including gluten help foods gel better when there is no fat present.


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Floats have been started, animals are being weighed and everyone is gearing up for the 67th Annual Crawford County Fair, which will be held July 9-13 at Hood Park in Cuba.
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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Blue Moon
Autumn is well and truly here with a snap in the air and a light frost forming on the grasses along the roadside on my ride across the marshes and over to Pevensey this morning. What caught my fancy though, as I pedalled along, wasn't the autumnal chill but the glorious haunting spectacle of a Blue Moon hanging in the hard, clear skies to the west. It wasn't actually blue, of course; it was a brilliant creamy white – the term 'Blue Moon' being a colloquial term for a second full moon in a calendar month. The next one won't be until July of 2015. (Astronomers and almanac editors, by the way, have a slightly stricter definition, a Blue Moon in their eyes being the fourth full moon in a single season.)
Whatever the term or definition, the luminous Blue moon this morning cast a lovely glow over the countryside. This, coupled with the touch of frost in the air, and the thick ground mist over the marshes, and the twinkling lights of Eastbourne off in the distance made for a wonderfully evocative ride. I wanted to capture the sense of being out in it, all alone, miles from home, while the rest of the world was sleeping. And so with apologies for the blurring, colour casts and blown highlights, here's a glimpse of a ride through the marshes by the light of a Blue Moon.
Picturing a Ride
For some time now I have wanted to find a way of photographing – in a cycling sort of way – the ruins of the old Hastings fun pier, which forms a key part of the visual backdrop to my daily rides along the seafront. Until a few days ago, though, I could never really get a handle on it. I have tried shooting it from various distances and angles, from along the red-and-white chequered promenade as I approached from the east, and looking back from Hastings Old Town, but none of these attempts ever really came off; none of them captured the moodiness and desolation of the ruined pier, a 140 year-old landmark which was destroyed in an arson attack on Halloween a couple of years ago.
About a week ago I began taking closer notice of the old iron gates that guard the entrance. For most of the length they were covered with construction placards and warning signs to keep off and keep out, but there was a stretch that was clear. An idea began to form in the back of my brain. Remember, I wanted to shoot these melancholy ruins with a bicycle in frame, not just as evocative ruins; to illustrate an aspect of my daily rides along the seafront. I pulled over and 'cased' the area in passing on a couple of occasions this week, studying perspectives and angles and taking a few practice shots and giving thought to how I wanted to capture the elusive image I had in mind.
This morning I went for it. I picked my clothes out with care – dark stuff only – and packed along a regular sized tripod in a knapsack. I timed my ride to arrive there a quarter of an hour before sunrise, when there was plenty of ambient light but not so much I couldn't shoot at a very low shutter speed. With the tripod set up so that the camera was pointed square-on to the gates, I set the camera's ISO to 80, used an aperture of 7.1 and a shutter speed of a sixth of a second, with the flash synchronised to a slow shutter speed. I wanted to create a sense of mystery, a ghost rider if you will, spinning past the old Victorian gates with the flash catching on the reflective sidewalls of the tyres and some shiny bits on the bike but as little else as possible. Using a wireless shutter trigger I made quite a few passes, working fast against the swiftly changing light, and trying to get the composition and lighting just right. It was quite a juggling act, doing it on my own as I was, but I was really pleased with the result – another for the scrapbook of my daily rides.
Photographing Your Bicycle
Bicycles are works of art, kinetic sculptures that literally and metaphorically transport us, and provide those of us who get about on two wheels, and identify ourselves as cyclists, with a means of personal artistic expression. Tourers, road bikes, hybrids, mixtes, MBT, porteurs, audax, whatever the breed, whatever the livery and choice of components, the look and style of bicycles we chose for ourselves says something about us, our own styles and aspirations, and the heady, often complex relationship we have with bicycles and cycling. Small wonder then that we like to take photographs of our bikes, trying to capture that image that is worth those thousand ungraspable words.
It is not always easy though.
Too often what we end up with are snapshots, pleasing in their record-the-moment way yet also vaguely unsatisfying, too. We know what is was we wanted to express: beauty, muscularity of design, efficiency, speed, grace, freedom, a sense of aerial liberation, maybe the romance of the open road, all the complicated things that excited us about cycling and bicycles and that bicycle in particular. We can kind of see what we had in mind, a reminder of these things at any rate, but somehow as an expression the images just seem to miss the mark. To be honest, they always will. Even art has its limitations, let alone artists. But there are ways of seeing and photographing that bring you closer to saying what you want to say. For what it's worth I have put together a few thoughts and hopefully useful suggestions based on my own experience – many thousand frames by now – of photographing my bicycles. (I have already put together a short series of tips on photographing yourself aboard your bicycle here and here, and here, and here)
For starters, consider your backdrop. So many times I see photographs of what appear to be splendid bicycles – someone's pride-and-joy – but set against some ugly bit of pebbledash or homely brick, or even propped up against the washer-drying in the laundry room with a scattering of bunched socks on the floor. While there is nothing necessarily wrong with any of this – a carbon-fibre or hand-made steel beauty juxtaposed with a Hills Hoist in a suburban backyard could have kind of a raffish Polaroid appeal if set out properly and well lit – for the most part these things just seem hasty and ill-considered; someone taking a snapshot, not making a photograph. Give some thought to the entirety of the picture, not merely the presence of the bicycle.
Human eyes and sensibilities have an uncanny way of editing out those bits of minutiae that are of no interest to us in a picture, and never more so than when we are looking through a camera view-finder and composing an image. Our thoughts and focus are on the object of interest – in this case a bicycle – and so we literally don't see the washing machine or the dirty socks or the drab ugliness of the pebbledash wall. The camera's sensor, however, is very unemotional. It doesn't care. It sees and records every last little thing. And alas, so do we, later on when we view the photograph and marvel that it somehow doesn't live up to the excitement we felt when looking through the viewfinder and triggering the shutter. The picture didn't come out well, we tell ourselves.
The trick is to step back, figuratively, and view the scene dispassionately, as the camera sees it. Get rid of the extraneous clutter or find a different backdrop altogether. Consider the colour and brightness, texture and tone of your backdrop and measure it against the colour of your bike. Look for differences in tone or contrast: a light-coloured frame in sharp focus lifted out against a sombre and slightly out of focus background, for example, can draw the eye immediately to the bike – which is the thing you want your viewer to focus on Simply. Get rid of everything that doesn't pull its weight in the image you want to make.
And add stuff that does. Forget the garage door as a backdrop – take the bike to a setting that will create an appropriate bit of ambience, a backdrop that hints at your relationship with cycling or your aspirations for your bicycle. In the two bicycle photos I have posted here, one is of my dream bicycle, a lightweight classic lugged-steel tourer that I had been forming in my minds eye for many years before I finally commissioned the frame to be built a year ago. For that one I took it to a shingle beach and shot it with the sunrise sparkling on its shiny rims, hubs, and drivetrain – and metered on that. What I wanted was something dreamlike and evocative, a sense of escape and longing.
The other shot is of my old expedition tourer which now sees service as my winter bike. Since I go out every morning at 4:30 or so, and am generally riding by the light of the moon or stars, I wanted something that represented that, and hinted too at a sense of location and so I set up this shot early one morning by an old Edwardian kiosk along the seafront at Bexhill-on-Sea – something I pass by almost every day.
Whether I achieved what I was looking for with either of these photographs is not really for me to say, other than that I was – and am – happy with the results. The thing is, there are endless possibilities for setting up a shot of your bicycle in ways that can express your own particular style and relationship with your bicycle.
Bicycles are off course a sum of their parts, and these individual parts can be interesting and beautiful in their own right. Again, as with whole-bicycle shots, look at your composition. Use depth of field to blur the backdrop and draw the viewer's eye to the object you've kept in sharp focus, and want them to see and appreciate. This is done, if you're not familiar with the workings of your camera's lenses, by using a wider-open f-stop, say f1.8 or f2 or even f2.8. The wider open the lens (the smaller the number) the narrower your depth of field, and the greater the degree of blur in the background (called bokeh in photographer's vernacular, after the Japanese term for blurring the background in a painting)
Portrait photographers do this all the time – which is why specialty portrait lenses have f-stops as low as f1.2 – and what are you doing here but taking portraits of your bike – the lugged stem, the seat-stays, the head-tube badge, the pedals, the brakes, the chainrings, whatever. Bicycles can be visually complicated when you get close up – all that chain-driven mechanical stuff, and cable-drawn brakes and derailleur mechanisms, and foreshortened angles in the frame. Take things one at a time, and give a bit of thought to perspective. Make these shiny bits interesting and attractive, ideally as interesting and attractive to the new-to-the-scene viewer as they are to you. I have included here a study on pedals I made in black-and-white. Something about old-style flat pedals fascinates me – they are like a magic step, filled with latent possibility, and so I tried to capture that sense of magic with a series of images.
A note for anyone photographing componentry on their bike: a work stand is very helpful. With the bike on a stand you can experiment with different angles and perspectives and depths of field. I have found, for example, that the shadowy depths of our back garden, where the chestnut tree casts it shade, can provide a pleasing bit of contrast with the shiny bits on a bike, especially when blurred with a narrow depth-of-field setting on the lens.
I hope some of these thoughts are useful. I'd love to see some of your results.
Here are a few more of mine:
Riding in the Rain
All the wind and chilly torrential rain this past week has underscored one of the great and often pointed-to drawbacks to relying on bicycles for your primary transportation – you're going to get cold and wet. To be sure, if you're out riding a bicycle in these sorts of conditions you're going to be much more under the weather, so to speak, than if you were sitting in some warm dry sedan, purling through traffic listening to a jazzy Miles Davis number and keeping time to the steady throp-throp-throp of the windscreen wipers. Even so, 'cold' and 'wet' are pretty strong terms. Experience has shown me that if you kit yourself out sensibly you needn't be miserable out there, even on the rainiest of days. In fact, over the years I have had some very enjoyable rides in the rain.
Just the other day in fact, when I was riding home from the recording studio in Robertsbridge I found myself caught in a sudden cloudburst as I was coming along the A2100 into Battle. The sun was still shining through a break in the clouds and the big rain drops sparkled like diamonds, forming a continuous series of tiny arching rainbows over that kept receding in front of me so that I was riding towards them, or into them, for several captivating minutes. It was magic. Who would want to be cocooned in a car speeding along at forty miles an hour and miss that?
One thing is certain though: if you're truly going to rely on a bicycle for year-round transport a good weatherproof jacket is essential. I deliberately used the word 'weatherproof' rather than 'waterproof', because for the most part when you get into the genuinely waterproof end of the spectrum you are also going to be looking at either a lot of money or a fair bit of heat build-up and condensation which can render you hot and sweaty on the bike, and damp and chilly when you arrive at your destination. Waterproof and breathable hasn't really been achieved yet, despite all the advances in fabric technology and the marketing bumf that goes with it.
Obviously some fabrics and designs are better than others and as a rule the nearer you get to this elusive balance the more money you are going to have to shell out. This can get prohibitively expensive with some top-of-the-range jackets costing £400 or more – although if you keep an eye out for sales you can save heaps. Bear in mind, too, when reading reviews for weatherproof cycling jackets that we all have different metabolisms and a jacket that might keep me feeling cool and fresh as I pedal along might be a boil-in-the-bag nightmare to you. Whatever the fabric or design, though, try to get a jacket with pit zips. Cycling even at a moderate pace generates a fair bit of body heat and pit zips are wonderful mechanisms for letting this excess heat escape before it makes you sweaty. By this same token, unless you are racing, looser-fitting jackets are better than road-cut designs simply because they are roomier and the air can circulate inside.
Weatherproof over-trousers can be another useful (optional?) thing to have in your wardrobe, the three-quarter length ones being rather better at keeping you from becoming overheated. I tend not to worry about my shorts getting wet as a rule, at least not on my morning pleasure rides, but if I am out touring and going to be in the saddle all day, or (thinking back) when I used to commute to work and didn't relish the prospect of putting on damp shorts at the end of the day, a pair of weatherproof over-trousers can be pretty handy. Ditto overshoes – those stretchy Neoprene things that slip over your cycling shoes. Nobody likes wearing wet shoes, let alone putting on a pair at the end of the day as you start your homeward ride, and a pair of these can save you from that unpleasantness. They will also keep your feet that bit warmer in the winter. Add a pair of weatherproof gloves (see some reviews here) and you've pretty well completed your armoury.
None of these accoutrements needs to cost the earth, especially if you are just starting out using your bicycle as about-town transport or commuting to work, although if you are adopting the bicycle in a big, lifestyle sort of way it will certainly pay to invest in some better quality gear as you go along, tried and tested to your own metabolism and personal circumstances. My own personal wet-weather gear set-up, figured out and invested in over the years, is a Gore Fusion jacket, Endura eVent three-quarter length over trousers, Endura MBT overshoes (now tatty and much in need of replacement) and a pair of Assos Early Winter 851 gloves. Gird myself with these and I can set out on a ride in the rainiest of weather feeling snug and self-reliant and revelling in that fierce satisfying sense of independence that comes from being out and about, a host in yourself, meeting nature on its own terms – to say nothing of chasing rainbows.
A Taste of Commuting
As a journalist I've often thought I had a great face for radio and a wonderful voice for print, and so it was with trepidation and a little bashfulness that I found agreeing to a request by the powers-that-be at National Geographic to read aloud a story of mine for a podcast to go along with the story's publication in the November issue. Nat Geo's multi-media people located a recording studio here in Sussex, in Robertsbridge, only about twelve miles or so from my home, and booked me in for an afternoon session.
Naturally I rode my bicycle to get out there. The weather wasn't the best, being windy and gusty with sudden cold hard showers, but by and large it was a pleasant ride, if something of a novelty for me to be pedalling through traffic along busy roads on a weekday afternoon. What I liked best about this outing though was reprising the old satisfaction of using my bicycle for work, as a proper tool so to speak, which along with the daytime traffic was also something of a novelty for me these days.
I used to commute on my bicycle all the time, back when I was living in Melbourne and working for The Sunday Age newspaper, and I loved it. That was then. Working from home as I do these days, there is no need to commute, and my 'away' work is generally so far away that going there by bicycle is impractical. Consequently my rides have been purely for pleasure, out at dawn with the road to myself and the world still asleep. But this afternoon's twelve-mile jaunt out to Robertsbridge, and the twelve-mile return through the gauntlet of rainy rush-hour traffic along Battle Road and the A2100, was just the ticket for reviving old memories and brushing up the old survival skills. I hadn't realized how much I missed it, what a buzz it could be.
Lighting Up Time
Today's the big day – the autumnal equinox, that moment in time when the tilt of the earth's axis is level with the plane of the sun, whose rays should be shining vertically over the equator at noon. What this means in non-astronomical terms is that for those of us in the northern hemisphere summer is well and truly gone, autumn is here in strength and the long slide into winter darkness has begun. Days and nights are now of roughly equal length, give or take, depending on your latitude, but from here on in, until the mid-winter solstice, the balance will be changing in favour of longer colder, darker, nights.
For those of us of the cycling persuasion, especially commuters and those of us who like to go out for long early morning (or late evening) rides, it is no longer possible to kid yourself that you can get by without lights – or at least that you won't soon need them. It is time to pick up some new AA or AAA batteries for the blinking LED lights, front and rear; dig out the rechargeable headlamp set from the back of the closet if you're going to be riding darkened lanes, or set up the dynamo hub if you are that way inclined.
To mark the equinox this year I bought myself a new half-watt Smart Superflash taillight to supplement the aging, but still brilliant, Cateye 1100 taillight on my also aging but brilliant Thorn. I have read a lot of good things about the brightness and visibility of Smart lights and although I have no reason whatever to be dissatisfied with my older model Cateye, I thought I would try out one of the new-fangled ones. You can't be too well-lit on the roads these days; I'd as soon look like a county fair. What lights do you use, front or rear, and how many?
The Hard Life of A Winter Bike
Winter bikes certainly don't have it easy. As I sat on the train this morning, with my old Thorn eXp I found myself passing the time looking over its very hard-used, high-mileage components and wishing I had the means to give the bike the makeover it deserves after all these years (13) and miles (well over 80,000). I was taking the train to Tunbridge Wells, to a bicycle shop there called Wildside where I hoped to have the threads on the drive side crank repaired. Some weeks ago now on my morning ride along the Bexhill seafront the pedal came loose on that side, the threads having apparently been stripped.
Just how the threads came to be stripped remains something of a mystery, although I suspect a great deal of the blame can be sheeted home to a certain bicycle shop in Islington, since they were the last ones to have had the pedals off and I already know, from painful experience, that the mediaeval workmanship they performed on the bike when they gave it their gold-star service was dangerously bad.
This ghastly servicing was some time ago, though, and so I bear some degree of responsibility for 1) not checking that the goof ball they had tinkering on my bike put the pedals on properly and 2) not taking the pedals off myself in the intervening period and re-greasing the threads as one should do every year. Had I done so I feel certain I would have spotted the problem and remedied it. I didn't and evidently have been riding around on pedals that were either cross-threaded or had been installed with no grease on the threads which in turn over the course of the seasons and through a process of electrolyses allows the aluminium crank and the steel spindle of the pedal to 'weld' themselves together and seize. Whatever the reason, the threads were ripped right out of the crank.
Although I had bought a new replacement crank I was loath to get rid of my old Shimano crank from the late 1990s, a cold forged aluminium beauty made for square tapered bottom brackets in the days when things were built to last. So as a last ditch effort I called up Wildside in Tunbridge Wells, about whom I had heard good things, and asked their guy if he could get the pedal out and re-thread the crank with a helicoil – something I am simply not equipped at home to do. He said they'd give it a go. I took it up there and – bingo! He sorted it. The good old original pedal is on the good old original crank, and the whole seems good for another few years. Alas, not so my old Suntour cantilever brakes, whose spring on the right front arm snapped leaving the brake pad pressed against the rim. I have spares here at home and can fix this, but as I cast appraising eyes over the rest of the components – too tinged with rust and grime for my liking, and with nobody to blame for that but me, I find myself itching to take it all to pieces, strip it down, replace the old rusty drop-outs, have it re-sprayed with a jaunty new livery and build it up again, respectfully, lovingly, with the components it deserves after so many years of long faithful service – but alas, there is no money and no time, and as autumn closes in and the rains come one more, I will be calling upon it once more to carry me through another English winter.
Being out on the road as much as I am, I've seen my share of bone-headed plays on bicycles – cyclists shooting through busy intersections against the lights, undertaking heavy goods vehicles that may or may not be about to turn left, and spinning along misty streets in the pre-dawn grey wearing sombre clothes and not a single light or reflector – but seldom have I seen anything more exuberantly bone-headed than the little tableau I witnessed this morning from my kitchen sink as I cleaned out my coffee pot, post-ride.
As I glanced out the window I saw a grey-haired old man – and how he came to be old, I'll never understand – spinning along the footpath at a brisk rate, bareheaded on a ratty hybrid, one hand on the handlebars and a cigarette dangling lazily in the other. Distracted by an urge to draw on his cigarette, he hit a tree-root lump in the pavement and the whole bike did a somersault with him on it, mid puff. It was the damnedest thing. It was positively cartoonish. The aerial display ended with the guy sprawled on the pavement, the bike on top of him. I stepped out to see if he was okay, but he was already on his feet, a bit scuffed up and scraped and moving rather stiffly but clearly keen to get on his way. First things first though: he fired up another smoke to replace the one he mashed out on the pavement, then he slung his leg over the saddle and set off down the footpath once more, steering one handed, cigarette in the other, dangling by his side, just as before. It takes all kinds to make a world, doesn't it?


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DO-IT News -- June 1993
Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology
Volume 1, Number 1
This newsletter, a publication of the DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology) project at the University of Washington, contains the following articles:
- A welcoming column by the Project Director
- An announcement of the Stephen Hawking lecture
- A description of the mentor program
- A story about the summer high school student program
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DO-IT News is a newsletter designed to inform educators, parents, participants and professionals of current DO-IT activities. DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology) is a project primarily funded by the National Science Foundation and directed by the University of Washington College of Engineering. Dr. J. Ray Bowen, Dean of the College of Engineering, is the Principal Investigator of this National Science Foundation-funded project. The purpose of DO-IT is to recruit disabled students into science, mathematics and engineering academic programs. The project includes:
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DO-IT efforts will help increase the number of individuals with disabilities who successfully pursue academic studies and careers in sciences, engineering and mathematics. We welcome your comments, suggestions and support.
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Dr. Stephen Hawking, Cambridge Professor and author of A Brief History of Time, will meet with students enrolled in the DO-IT summer program and other disabled students during a special private session at 1:30, July 1st at Seattle University. This meeting allows students with disabilities to talk to a brilliant mathematician who is also disabled.
Dr. Hawking, who has Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, lectures with the help of a Toshiba 1200XE computer which is attached to his wheelchair. The system is connected to a speech synthesizer that translates his typewritten words into speech. The author will be in Seattle for a public lecture at the Opera House at 8 p.m. the same evening. Tickets are sold out.
We thank the Institute of Science, Engineering and Public Policy for providing complimentary tickets for DO-IT participants.
Do you remember the science teacher who made chemistry come alive or the neighbor across the street who identified all the types of birds living in your yard? People with experiences to share make great mentors and the DO-IT project has lassoed some of the best.
About thirty people have volunteered to be mentors to the nineteen high school students enrolled in the DO-IT 1993 summer program. Most of these volunteers are engineers, scientists or post-secondary students with disabilities. They use computer resources such as electronic mail to develop relationships with the students.
Mentors who have signed up for the program represent a variety of fields. Volunteers include: Frank Cuta, a research engineer at Battelle Pacific Laboratories in Richland, Washington; Gregory Fowler, a software engineer working at Cisco Systems Inc. in Menlo Park, California; Ed Pottharst, a biologist for Seattle City Light; Rod Chard, a network engineer at U.S. West; and Todd Heywood a computer scientist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
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is islamqa still blocked there?The law of Allah should not be voted over. To give the people the choice whether to apply Sharia or not reflects a fundamental problem in the understanding of Tawhid. - Imam Anwar Awlaki
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NBC Reports Rumsfeld Terror Policies Hurting Drug War
August 22, 2006
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"In depth" report on allocating resources turns into advocacy as network fails to question data, quote experts or analyze terror needs.
On Sunday (Aug 20), NBC News aired a classic drug-war propaganda piece, complete with sourcing from only one side of the story and misleading statistical information.
Opening its "In Depth" report, anchor John Seigenthaler said, "80 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States used to come from the Bahamas until a government operation forced smugglers to find different and more expensive routes. But now, one important weapon in the war on drugs may be lost to the war on terror."
The piece went on to detail how defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld wants to end an army program that sends helicopters to the Bahamas to fight drug trafficking because it "competes with" resources "necessary for the war on terror." It said that attorney general Alberto Gonzales "fired back," resisting the shift – and went on to detail how law enforcement agents from both the U.S. and the Bahamas oppose it as well.
But nowhere in the story did NBC note that this supposedly "important" weapon in the war on drugs did not produce either a decrease in the supply of the drug, nor an increase in its price – despite its claim that the shift made trafficking "more expensive."
In fact, NBC ignored a front-page story in the New York Times published the day before which called into the question a far-larger cocaine-fighting operation, the $4.7 billion "Plan Colombia." The Times said that "the government's tracking over the past quarter century shows that the price of cocaine has tumbled and that purity remains high, signs that the drug is as available as ever."
Despite including sound bites from both a DEA agent and a Bahamian police official supporting the program and listing the amounts of drugs it had seized, NBC didn't include a response from Rumsfeld's office justifying the change. Nor did quote any drug war opponent or terrorism expert, even though there is clearly a debate over how to allocate resources in these areas.
In contrast to NBC, the Times included both critics and supporters of the drug war. Unlike much of the coverage in this area, it also expressed skepticism about the entire enterprise:
"The lingering question is whether America's drug problem would be worse today had the drug war, nearly 40 years in the making, never been waged. That may be unanswerable.
What is clear is that the war on drugs, the original open-ended war against an elusive and ill-defined enemy, has moved inexorably onward, propelled by decades of mostly unflagging political support on both sides of the Congressional aisle."
NBC, on the other hand, closed its report with video of a trafficker who once enjoyed impunity in the Bahamas, quoting yet more unnamed law enforcement sources: "Agents say this is no time to tempt [traffickers] back again by cutting resources." It didn't quote anyone on the ground in Afghanistan or Iraq or any agents working anti-terror details about the resources they need. Surely the mission of in-depth journalism is to present the public with both sides of a complicated story?


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In the past, I've bemoaned a lack of variety in historical romance settings, and we've even voted on where readers wanted to see historical set (Result: we like 19th c. England but wouldn't mind reading about other places and times, too!). However, over the past few years I've been seeing change in the historical market overall.
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On Wednesday I found out that I had won the Be2camp Award for best AEC use of photo/video content.
My real involvement with photography and social media started with flickr many years ago. It was from flickr that I experienced the deep satisfaction of being able to interact with others in a visual way.
Since then I have extended my work out into other social media spheres such as Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook and Foursquare.
I recall somebody saying that they thought they knew the secret to my success – great photography combined with 'being an early adopter in social media'.
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I remember a young lad of 8 years old – stood outside a flax mill in his own town – sketching a silver lining to the dark silhouetted forms of the chimney stacks.
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Take in the gorgeous Pacific Ocean view through the floor to ceiling windows of this newly constructed Villa. With over 9,000 sq ft of living space everyone is sure to have their own privacy, yet come together as a group. The infinity pool has a sweeping view of the ocean and puts you in your own tropical oasis. Attached to the pool is a hot tub with waterfall. One of the most private pools in Pedregal. You won't feel like the neighbors are looking over your shoulder all day. We just recently put an addition on the back of the house with a large outdoor seating area with two fire pits. One is rectangular and can seat up to six people. The circular fire pit can seat up to 10 people. Just a short 5 minute walk and you are standing on the sandy beach of the pacific. The Villa is located in the luxurious gated community of Pedregal, less than 5 minutes from downtown Cabo.
If you thought the outside was great, wait till you experience the plush fine furnishings and views from the inside. The large windows pull the warm sun into the large open living area and huge cooks kitchen. Each suite has a private bathroom with walk in shower overlooking the ocean, dual sinks, TV/DVD player, it's own a/c unit and balcony with a terrace. Wake up each morning to the sound of the crashing waves outside your door. Six of the bedrooms will enjoy ocean views, while the seventh bedroom will has its own private hot tub. The master suite has a jetted tub and glamour bath.
Go to www.villa-esperanza.com to view more pictures and 360 degree views of every room and the pool area.
We can offer personal concierge service to set up any activities such as fishing, in home massage service, off road tours, chef services, and more. There is no extra charge for us to set up these services. You are only responsible for the actual service.
Villa Esperanza was newly constructed in 2008 and offers maid service 6 days a week. We guarantee you will leave your stay completely relaxed and in awe of the pure beauty that Cabo has to offer.
Five of the Seven bedrooms have King size beds. Two of the rooms have two Queen size beds. We also have 3 Queen size sofa beds and two Single sofa beds available.
For new bookings made in 2014 we will be offering free chef service while you stay at our amazing home. Please ask us about this great service and how you can take advantage of it.
We are offering a 35% discount for last minute bookings. This is based on booking the house with in 7 days of arrival.
For the chef service we provide your choice of either breakfast or lunch. The chef's will purchase the food, prepare the meal at the house, serve it to you and your guests, and then clean everything up. We pay for their services and the guests are responsible for the price of the food they purchase. This is usually very reasonable since they purchase everything locally. The food is amazing and you can customize the menu to what ever the group would like. No one will leave hungry. They are also available for meals if you would like.
View more pictures at www.villa-esperanza.com
NOTE: Villa Esperanza can accommodate wedding parties/events of up to 75 guests (sit down) and 100 (standing). One-night additional rental fee + $550 HOA permit (minimum 3-night rental required).
Keywords: house, villa, Mexico, Pedregal, Cabo San Lucas, 7 bedroom, pool, ocean view, luxury, ocean, chef service,
We just purchased this beautiful piece of property in September. Our family bought it to use for ourselves and for our guests. We live in Cleveland Ohio and love getting away from the Cleveland winters and going to Cabo San Lucas.
Matt Gile purchased this house in 2010
We think that Cabo is the most beautiful place in the world. The scenery is gorgeous, the night life is great, the food is excellent. Most everyone speaks English, you can use US dollars, and the town is safe.
The view from the living room is spectacular. It has floor to ceiling windows that over look the ocean. You are a short 5 minute walk to a private beach. The decor and furnishings of the house are top notch. We couldn't ask for anything more in a house. It is truly breathtaking.
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Dec 19 2014 - Jan 1 2015
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Nov 25 2015 - Dec 29 2015
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|Refundable damage deposit
|Property Damage Protection
|Free Chef service with any regular priced stay.
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Airliner restaurant lets you eat plane food without going anywhere
If you have nostalgia for the days when you could eat a three course meal on a plane while bumping elbows with your neighbor, head over to Runway 24 in Zurich Switzerland, a fine dining establishment stuffed inside a 1950s era Soviet Ilyushin IL-14 airliner.
Flying these days you're lucky if you get a bag of peanuts, so I guess some people want to relive the days when you would actually get a meal on the flight. Personally, all I remember is lots of crappy microwaved meals, so I'll skip the nostalgia trip. I just hope Runway 34 has set their culinary sights a bit higher.
To be strictly accurate, the Runway 34 plane itself houses a just a cramped cigar lounge and bar, while the dining areas are spread out around the plane. Some tables use real aircraft seating if you want to have an authentic elbow bumping experience.
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Lee Eun-mi-I, a member of a girl group Iris, was killed by her boyfriend, Wednesday.
Police said they arrested the boyfriend, identified as Cho, on charges of murdering the 24-year-old because she was breaking up with him and seeing another man. They had dated for about seven months.
Cho allegedly stabbed the singer with a knife on her way home in Siheung, Gyeonggi Province, around 2:15 a.m. after waiting for her to come. He bought the knife at a shop hours earlier, according to police.
After the murder, Cho sent his mother and friends a text message that read: "I killed her. It is so painful". He then stole a car near his home and fled to Seocheon, South Chungcheong Province. He then took buses to his hometown in Gochang, North Jeolla Province, but was arrested there.
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ImmortalHD (Real name Aleksandr "Aleks" Vitalyevich Marchant) is a Russian-American gamer who is known for his relationship with SlyFoxHound, the amazing openings to his videos and his attempts to sell his shirts. Aleks was born on September 1st, 1992. Aleks refers to his fans as "Nobs". He plays the bass in Sly's band Stuck In Your Radio. Aleks is also a member of the group, "The Creatures".
Recruited into The Creatures
Immortal was inducted into the Creatures when Kootra said he was the new Creature while holding up a water bottle, during RTX of 2013. This led the other Creatures to joke that the water bottle was actually the new Creature. It was revealed in Episode 77 of Creature Talk that the whole water bottle gag was planned and they tried to point out that Immortal was not a Creature. However, a tweet from GaLm caused the gag to be interpreted as the induction of Immortal into the Creatures. After discussing it at dinner later that night, they made Immortal a Creature.
Face Reveal
Whenever Aleks would make a face-cam video, he would be shown wearing an Optimus Prime mask (Implying that he was some kind of robot-human). As of 3-30-12, in his video "ImmortalHD Gets Kidnapped "; Aleks started out doing an update when a kidnapper came in and put a bag over his head. He awoke in the woods with one hand tied to a tree and the kidnapper was recording, trying to get Aleks to take off the robot mask. Aleks ran but tripped and passed out.
He had a vision where he went to Heaven and met God. Upon awakening, the kidnapper found Aleks and the two had a battle with big sticks they got off the ground. The kidnapper killed Aleks and once again, Aleks went to Heaven (for real this time). God told Aleks that he will bring him back to life, as a human. Back on Earth, the kidnapper went towards Aleks' body and attempted to remove the mask. Aleks arose as the robot mask fell to the ground broken and he strangled the kidnapper to death. He picked up the camera, only to find out that it was never recording and he walked away.He showed his face so people at PAX wouldn't rip off his mask while he was there.
Minecraft Hunger Games
ImmortalHD was fortunate to be in the Minecraft Survival "Hunger" Games with his friends Sly, Seamus, Gassy, Paperbatvg, SynHD and many others. In the first one, at least for him Sly, and Seamus formed a team. When the games started, the three began to chase down CaptainSparklez. CaptainSparklez got away and Sly, Immortal and Seamus began to look around the city. Meanwhile, Antvenom killed Adam, Juicetra, and Gassy. The three stumbled across a hotel while Seamus was looking for apples and they spent most of their time in the hotel. Upon leaving, Antvenom approached them with a fire aspect sword and fought Sly, wounding him badly. Immortal made a suicidal move and began to fight Antvenom and was killed.
In the third Survival Games, ImmortalHD's beloved friends Sly and Seamus were absent. He was on his own, refusing a team with Utorak and Gassy. Upon starting, Immortal,(Not knowing that there was a grace period) tried to stay and watch the bloodbath, but decided against it and ran away. Paperbat was first to die. Immortal, unlike his normal silly and funny commentary, was rather serious. He really wanted to win. While exploring, Skitscape, who was on a team with Antvenom and Cavemanfilms found Utorak and Gassy in a hole and killed them both. Also, Cavemanfilms killed SynHD. Immortal came across an abandoned village and looked through the houses for good stuff. Little did he know that Ihascupquake was watching him from the trees. Immortal found a sword and armor and began to search a chest on the beach. When walking away, CaptainSparklez found and began to search the chest. Immortal turned around and battled CaptainSparklez, eventually killing him. Immortal, refusing to die, began to search for the remaining people. While searching, ihascupquake died. Immortal was left to deal with Antvenom, Skitscape and Cavemanfilms(The Gang Green Gang). The spectators told them to break up the team, so Skitscape killed Cavemanfilms and Antvenom killed Skitscape. Immortal was afraid of Antvenom, remembering their last battle. He entered a cave, not knowing that it led to Antvenom and the two began to fight. While fighting, Antvenom accidentally threw his sword on the ground and switched swords and fatally hit Immortal and he died.
He continues to participate in the Minecraft Hunger Games, mostly in the Homie Server w/ Slyfoxhound and other youtubers .
Currently Ongoing Series
- Grand Theft Auto V: Online (w/ Uberhaxornova & Goldenblackhawk)
- Trouble In Terrorist Town! (w/ Uberhaxornova & Goldenblackhawk
- "Pick me up!... Pick me up!"
- "Damn dude." (sometimes writen as "Damn Dood".)
- "Buy My Shirts!"
- "F**k that noise."
- "What the f**k dude..."
- "Yo, what the f**k?!" (Writen as "Yo WTF!?")
- "I gotta say, that's pretty harsh."
- "What the f**k dude i didn't even do anything!" (Said mostly after killing innocent civilians.)
- "Hashtag yolo swag"
- "Monster Shredder!" (Grand Theft Auto V Online)
- "Book it!"
- "Here's your complimentary apple" (Minecraft Treetopia)
- "Hello?"
- "Drink Pepsi Max!"
- "Eat yoghurt!"
- "Nobs for life" (Writen as "Nob 4 Life")
- "Too Spooky For Me!" (writen as "2 Spooky 4 me")
- Immortal had a guinea pig named Hank and a tarantula named Spidarius, but Hank was given away when he moved to Colorado and Spidarius passed away.
- His favorite color is red.
- Immortal is Russian. Aleks is a diminutive of "Aleksandr".
- He lived in Russia until the age of 8.
- Aleks dropped out of college.
- He lives together with James and Dominika
- He has a severe "alcohol problem" according to James (a.k.a. UberHaxorNova.)
- Currently is dating Polish female, Dominika Anna


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DuckTales: Remastered jumps to retail on November 12
by Andrew Yoon, shacknews.com, Sep 18, 2013 2:00PM PDT
"Bah humbug," Scrooge would say. "I don't know how to download digital video games! Give me a disc-based copy at retail!" Read more
DuckTales: Remastered trailer: 29 minutes in the Himalayas
by Alice O'Connor, shacknews.com, Jul 23, 2013 8:15AM PDT
Ah, nostalgia! I remember that. But how does it fare in the cold light of the present, especially when it's tarted up to look like one of these here 2013 video games? Have a gander at DuckTales: Remastered in a new 29-minute gameplay walkthrough trailer showing off its Himalayas level. Read more
DuckTales: Remastered coming August 13, retail PS3 copy a week later
by Steve Watts, shacknews.com, Jul 11, 2013 9:05AM PDT
Capcom has given release details for DuckTales: Remastered. It will hit PC, PSN, and Wii U digitally on August 13, followed by a retail PS3 copy on August 20, and finally XBLA on September 11. Read more


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Eli Lilly discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells pharmaceutical products worldwide. The company's neuroscience products treat schizophrenia, mixed/manic episodes, and bipolar maintenance; depression, diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain, anxiety disorders, fibromyalgia, and chronic musculoskeletal pain; attention-deficit hyperactivity disorders; obsessive-compulsive and panic disorders, and bulimia nervosa; and bipolar and treatment-resistant depression. Eli Lilly trades an average of 8.4 million shares per day with a market cap of $57 billion.
52 Week Range: $35.46 to $53.99
Book Value: $12.79
Price To Book: 4Earnings Payout Percentage: 54% The shares have moved higher 36% over the last 52 weeks. Analysts are calling for a price target of $50.36. A quick look at the chart displays the fact that "we did that, done that before" and the trend is your friend so far. I recommended Lilly a few months ago, and that worked out well. After the recent pullback in price, Eli Lilly is once again in the kill zone. Investors are receiving $1.96 in dividends for a yield of 3.8%. A very nice yield for a company demanding only 14 times earnings to buy a share. In the last month, the stock has really moved higher with a 11.6% increase. Since the start of the year, it appears the shares are up over 25%. Again, the pullback gives the stock a chance to breathe, and it may trade down near $50 a share due to the "round number" effect, but take that as a buying opportunity. Presently, based on the float ,the short interest is unimportant and not a worry. The small amount of short interest is 1.9%. I would keep an eye on this number after the election for clues in the market direction into 2013. LLY Dividend data by YCharts
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Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) Caring for the world, one person at a time ... inspires and unites the people of Johnson & Johnson. We embrace research and science -- bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Employees of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world. Our Family of Companies comprises: The world's sixth-largest consumer health company The world's largest and most diverse medical devices and diagnostics company The world's fifth-largest biologics company And the world's eighth-largest pharmaceuticals company We have more than 250 operating companies in 60 countries employing approximately 129,000 people. Our worldwide headquarters is in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Johnson & Johnson trades an average of 11.1 million shares per day with a market cap of $196 billion.
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