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The Light and How to Swing It: Major AoE healing changes in the Mists beta {WoW}
Apr 2nd 2012 12:51PM Although I understand why Light of Dawn is easier to use without the "direction" component I do feel something is lost. I have felt for awhile now that the "healing game" needs to get away from selecting targets in the raid frame and hitting a spell where an effect like Light of Dawn was perfect for this. Instead of concentrating on the raid frame you instead are looking into the "combat scene" and looking for the best angle to cover the most players. The paladin is making decisions on healing based on what they see in the game world instead of what they see on the raid frame overlay.
Other than that, I do think they will need to change the graphic for Light of Dawn if it just "points straight up".
Winners and losers of Cataclysm {WoW}
Mar 8th 2012 2:58PM Hmm, they seem to have a bunch more land, a bunch more power, and much more higher profile in "the world" than before. That doesn't mean everything is "peachy keen" but to suggest they are suffering or lost out is kind of weird. For the average (player) Globin things appear to have never been better.
The Queue: Blame Alex {WoW}
Mar 2nd 2012 11:27AM Would anyone be surprised if an incredibly powerful, super Arcane powered, talking purple unicorn quest giver called Dusky Brilliance showed up in "Mists" as a quest giver?
Blue Posts: API questions, Rotface and Festergut {WoW}
Feb 22nd 2012 10:16AM The only real issue was that the Plague Wing seemed more like "Clown Wing" instead of wing to the serious, world conquering, big bad of Wrath. I'm not saying they weren't fun or bad boss events but they didn't fit thematically and kind of stuck out compared to Blood and Dragon.
Officers' Quarters: Should Blizzard hold a guild summit? {WoW}
Feb 21st 2012 4:23PM Blizzard knows who the guild leaders are and can readily ask them what are the serious challenges and painful things in your day to day guild management. What do they notice is going on in raids? What trends do they see? What is fun and what isn't? Reaching out to this select group of players is a useful thing they should do regularly regardless if they actually have a summit.
The Light and How to Swing It: In defense of Inquisition {WoW}
Feb 15th 2012 5:36PM The problem seems to be that Inquisition feels like a "chore" instead of a "bonus". I'm not sure what would help change that where several ideas already exist that could make it feel more reactive and interesting.
Raid Rx: Can healing be diversified further? {WoW}
Feb 13th 2012 9:36AM Simply put, Blizzard probably has to rely on channeled effects if they want to go with a reactive healing model. Instead of spamming heals onto tanks and other players taking damage, you'd have to commit a big, longer length cast instead. Instead of trying to stack up haste to beat the event in reacting faster than it can splash damage around the raid, the healers have to make specific choices on when to commit their big effects.
Replace the "big heal" on the four healers with a 5 second channeled effect (disc priests get a shield instead?). Commit the mana instantly but make the break down in cost efficient if you hold the cast to 3 seconds.
Trade in your real currency for toy currency today! {WoW}
Feb 10th 2012 5:15PM This could a fun goofy novelty item. I'd pay a little for a set of the Dalaran fishing coins. A horde/alliance coin collection with each coin representing currency of the race before they factioned up. Taking iconic but ordinary items out of the game world to sell in the real world is fine by me.
Legendary Weapons: Story chains or class quests? {WoW}
Feb 10th 2012 10:04AM The problem I've had with the way a lot of both the new Legendary work is the huge time commitment to raid is not "hard" but just "really really really long". Seriously if you look at the raw math and the amount of stuff required to do is kind of staggering. It often means a raiding guild needs to attack and succeed beating all raid bosses for months straight to get the weapon in a timely manner. That isn't difficult where in many cases especially towards the end is instead boring.
Whether class or legendary quests, the good things they should keep are the individual or special. The stuff in the Nexus is a superb because its doing stuff that one usually doesn't do. Making players do something special during key boss fights maybe a good idea too as long as it doesn't interfere the raid. However making a player attack and kill 30+ bosses over months is not difficult.
The Queue: Will I get banned for raiding as a ret paladin last night? {WoW}
Feb 2nd 2012 11:32AM Night and dark are one of those great ideas on paper but lousy for game play. Getting home from work and login and have difficulty seeing around because everything outside the cities and campfires is too dark would be annoying.


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Review: I Fell For 'This Ain't California' In More Ways Than One
Docu-Mental By Christopher Campbell on April 14, 2013 | Be the First To CommentThe main difference between Exit Through the Gift Shop and This Ain't California is that the latter's main character has been revealed to be a fiction. Other distinctions are that it's about skateboarding rather than street art, that it's set in 1980s East Germany instead of 2000s L.A. and that it has an energy and spirit that's far more captivating than Banksy's Oscar-nominated documentary. Otherwise they share a quality where the "realness" of the story is totally inconsequential given that, true or false, it's still the same movie and says the same things and makes us feel the same way about its subject matter. I have to admit right away that I "fell for" the whole thing. That's what happens when you avoid reading about a movie before you see it, I guess. All I knew was that it won a special award at Berlin last year and that it was a documentary about German skate culture. And I fell for it, too, meaning I fell in love with it. I found it to be electrifying, which can't be ignored now that I know a lot of it is "fake." Of course, fake isn't a good word for the film, because co-writer/director Marten Persiel hasn't necessarily pretended that every person in the film existed or that all the Super-8mm footage is as old as it seems.
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In yesterday's item on the chaos at Catalunya, I mentioned the UCI's new clarification on equipment rules which regulate sock height, placement of rider-worn hydration, and modification of hardware.
The last item includes several points, including that mechanics may no longer use handlebar tape to get a handlebar shape to comply with the 3:1 ratio rule (it's measured on the un-taped bar), and that the directive against modification explicitly presents the ubiquitous practice of mechanics filing off the axle-retention tabs on forks.
That's right, the UCI now requires lawyer tabs.
I asked the UCI for some clarification on their clarifications, since, as with most of its clarifications, the UCI's clarifications often require more clarifications than this sentence has commas, or use of the word "clarification."
Are we clear?
Sadly, my request has gone unanswered, so we'll move on to rampant speculation and spit-balling of ideas.
-Forcing teams to not file off lawyer tabs seems like a response to complaints from French teams that they are at a disadvantage to other teams in wheel change situations, as French law currently prevents teams from altering the forks that way.
Yes, you read that right: French pro teams will break actual law if they file off lawyer tabs. To my knowledge, the UCI did not attempt to work with the French government to provide a carve-out solution for that problem. They just forced other teams to comply with French law.
-The UCI's Julien Carron told VeloNews Caley Fretz (so far the only source of original reporting on this that I have seen) that the rule against modification (an existing rule that like lots of UCI rules is widely ignored) would be enforced following a period of transition and education. Carron did not say when that period might end. I asked the UCI if it was possible it would end sometime in 2012. No answer.
If the rule IS enforced during the 2012 season, that means 16 ProTeams, among others, now have non-compliant forks according to the rules. A ProTeam typically has at least three race-specific bikes per rider - a primary and spare road bike, and a time trial bike. That means each team's bike sponsor now has to produce at least 75 new forks to retrofit team bikes. At wholesale, that's about $15,000 of unplanned sponsorship cost, which could be avoided if only the UCI says that the rule won't be enforced until January 1, 2013.
-One obvious work-around here is to use long-throw quick-release skewers. The idea is that when the QR lever opens, it spreads the axle locknuts wide enough to get around lawyer tabs. Of course, since that defeats the purpose of lawyer tabs, we can likely expect new laws regarding the width of lawyer tabs. Before long, the lawyer tabs will be so large that bikemakers will begin to sculpt them for aerodynamic efficiency, the tabs themselves will become subject to the 3:1 ratio rule and the entire enterprise will collapse into a black hole of absurdity, sucking in all logic.
-A slightly different workaround for enterprising teams and sponsors: why not just mold the forks without lawyer tabs? Most forks now have carbon dropouts, with the tabs incorporated into the mold. It would be a pretty easy process to simply fill the lawyer-tab indent in the mold so that there's no carbon material here attached to the dropout. Voila; nothing to file off.
Most laws around lawyer tabs specify that no bicycle shall be sold that does not include passive axle-retention devices. But ProTeams don't buy their bicycles; they're granted in the cost of the sponsorship (which also includes money paid by the bike sponsor to the team, not the other way around). So since they're not technically sold, they're not subject to that restriction, are they? And then there's nothing to modify and will not, as Carron pointed out, "void the warranty" on the forks (which is a consumer concern and expressly not a part of team sponsorships anyway).
This has been 666 words of nonsensical inanity, brought to you by the UCI, where all the lawyers DEFINITELY have tabs.


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Prince Alwaleed Not As Pleased As You Might Think To Be Associated With A "Diamond-Encrusted Mercedes-Benz"
By Bess LevinHere a list of things Prince Alwaleed has no problem being associated with:
- A net worth of 30, and not 20, billion dollars
- Keeping numerous framed photos of himself in his office
- Going all Single White Female on Warren Buffett's ass
- Matching his outfit to his horse
- Texting world leaders in the middle of the night
- Being able to fit into pants he bought 30 years ago
Those are all fine. None of those things prompt the prince to make an angry late-night call to his PR person, telling him/her to pull up the company letterhead and fire off a missive to the universe clarifying that this man of exquisite taste would not deign to own what we assume he would describe as the "tacky piece of shit" pictured here:
Sayeth the Kingdom:
"The Private office of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal would like to state officially that HRH Prince Alwaleed does not, and never has, owned or had any association with a 'diamond-encrusted Mercedes-Benz'" says the Kingdom Holdings release. "We would like to put this popular myth to rest. Any entity with questions about the Mercedes pictured in these erroneous reports should contact Garson/D.A.D, which appears to have manufactured and displayed a crystal-encrusted Mercedes-Benz SL 600, adorned with 300,000 Swarovski crystals, at various auto shows in the U.S. several years ago."
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god love this guy.
"Furthermore, the Prince has no comment on the diamond-encrusted butt plug depicted on the Kingdom's Instagram page"
I aspire to be like this guy and bear no billionaire envy towards him.
That's a genuine 'Beiber Fever' car if I ever saw one! Perhaps Alwaleed is trying to distance himself from Justin over the whole Miami thing.
OK, guilty, it's mine. In fairness, though, it's a Benz, not a Maybach.
We've lost that kind of dream of economic mobility here in America, but we can look to the Kingdom, where a humble billionaire royal prince can grow up to become multibillionaire megalomaniac.
No mention though of the matching crystal encrusted Members Only jacket.
Who said it was his ? Nope. It belongs to a GF.
We Gettin' Arab Money!
The diamond encrusted camel must be hidden away somewhere.
The prince prefers giving pearl necklaces to spouses, GFs, and accommodating media personalities. Bedazzled MBs are déclassé. Just ask a certain M. Bartiromo.
-House of Saud PR Dept.
When my Aunt Gina turned 80 she started to grow a mustache like that.
Since when did we start calling Swarovski crystals diamonds? Not even the same ball park.. not even the same stadium.. not even the same fucking sport.
Its strange to know why Waleed is not happy with this car..


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Nicolas Cage's comic book adaptation Ghost Rider zoomed into theaters and came out a big winner, scoring the best Presidents Day weekend opening ever with $44.5 million from Friday to Sunday, according to early estimates (final numbers for the four-day holiday period will be available on Tuesday). Fueled by an audience that was nearly two-thirds male, the Marvel-based flick averaged a hefty $12,296 per theater and gave Cage the No. 1 premiere of his career, beating National Treasure's $35.1 mil bow. What's more, Ghost Rider's debut figure ranks among those of the top-earning superhero movies (it's on par with Batman Returns' $45.7 mil), and it helped boost overall grosses, making this the first ''up'' weekend of 2007.
All of which, as it happens, was pretty much expected. (Indeed back-pat time! EW.com's box office savant predicted it.)
More of a surprise, however, was the super-strong $22.1 mil debut of the weekend's No. 2 film, Bridge to Terabithia. Buoyed by a very good A- CinemaScore from audiences that were, also surprisingly, nearly evenly divided between males and females and young and old people, the movie's debut exceeded those of recent family flicks like Flicka ($7.7 mil), Charlotte's Web ($11.5 mil), Curious George ($14.7 mil), and the last Presidents Day champ, Eight Below ($20.2 mil).
With those fantasy films riding in front, plenty of real-world-set fare lined up behind. Norbit (No. 3) dropped 51 percent to earn $16.8 mil, while the romantic comedies Music and Lyrics (No. 4 with $14 mil) and Tyler Perry's Daddys Little Girls (No. 5 with $12.1 mil) fared worse than their strong Valentine's Day bows suggested they would. Oh well.
Then again, the well-reviewed spy thriller Breach (No. 6) performed better than expected, bringing in $10.4 mil in just 1,489 locations. Credit its B+ CinemaScore from a crowd that was whoa! 87 percent over age 25. Also key: strong reviews (Breach scored a 74 out of 100 on Metacritic.com), including a rave from Larry King, who, let me tell you, knows a good movie when he sees it.
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JOHN W. FOUNTAIN A native son of Chicago, John W. Fountain is an award-winning journalist, professor and author of the memoir, "True Vine: A Young Black Man's Journey of Faith Hope and Clarity" (Public Affairs, 2003), paperback March 2005. His most recent book, "Dear Dad: Reflections on Fatherhood" was released in January 2011. In a journalism career that has spanned 20 years, Fountain has been a reporter at some of the country's top newspapers. From 2000 to 2003, he was a national correspondent for The New York Times. He also has been a staff writer at the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. In addition to being a professor of journalism at Roosevelt University, he is a weekly columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Until fall 2007, he was a tenured full professor at his alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he had taught the previous three years. Professor Fountain was formerly a visiting scholar at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
This year (2014), Fountain's column was awarded best column by the Illinois Press Association. In 2012, Fountain received the Illinois Associated Press Editors Association Award and the Chicago Journalists Association Sarah Brown Boyden Award for his column in the Chicago Sun-Times. In 2014 and 2011, Fountain received the prestigious Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism for columns published in the Sun-Times. Fountain won the award for news column or commentary in the category of daily newspapers with a circulation of 250,000 or more from the Chicago Headline Club, which is the largest local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in the country.
Fountain has won numerous honors for feature writing from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Associated Press, the American Association of University Women, and the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2001, he received the New York Times Publisher's Award for his coverage of the Mississippi River Flood. In 2003, while a national correspondent for The New York Times, he was a finalist in features and sports writing for the Peter Lisagor Award.
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John W. Fountain grew up on some of the meanest streets in Chicago, where drugs, crime, decay, and broken homes consigned so many black children to a life of despair and self-destruction. A father at seventeen, a college dropout at nineteen, a welfare case soon after, Fountain was on the verge of giving up all hope. One thing saved him—his faith, his own true vine. True Vine is John Fountain's remarkable story—of his childhood in a neighborhood heading south; of his strong-willed grandparents, who founded a church (called True Vine) that sought to bring the word of God to their neighbors; of his mother, herself a teenage parent, whose truncated dreams help nurture bigger dreams in him; of his friends and cousins, whose youthful exuberance was extinguished by the burdens they faced; and of his religious awakening that gave him the determination to rebuild his life.
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Not too far from now, my husband & I will start building a house. Naturally, I am wanting to move as many of plants to our new home. I already (roughly) have the layout of my flower beds drawn up. The opportunity for when I will be able to dig up & move my irises, hyacinths, elephant ears, daffodils, & lilies is too far into the future for me to guess. However, as a precaution, I wanted to go into this with as much knowledge as possible. I would like to know what my time frame will be to get everything back into the ground. How long will bulbs last while out of the ground & in proper storage? Also is there a preferred time of the year in which any of my bulbs should be dug up? I am NOT digging anything up now, just to clarify. |
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These are rough guesses. Bulbs have a dormant season after foliage dies. That is the time to dig. I've never kept bulbs out of ground for more than 2 months but maybe.in cold winter areas you have more leeway. . Lilies are the most demanding of your to-be-moved. They shouldn't dry out. Nurseries sell them for ?.... 2 months. In peat in plastic bags. Bearded iris can be dug at any time if you don't mind skipping bloom. Usually dug right after bloom or in late summer. Stored dry, 5 months. Expect them to sulk for 2 years. Daffs & hyacinths - after foliage has yellowed at least 1/2 way it is fine to dig. Safe stored for 4 months, maybe 5. Ours have new root growth in Sept. Don't know if they do that in zone 8. Elephants Ears - don't know their cycle but dig after foliage dies down, when dormant. If bulbs are in active growth, a large shovelful of the root area has allowed me to move them without loss. I'm going to do that with a pink scilla that has shown up where it doesn't belong! Good luck. |
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The consumer is changing. This used to be a platitude. Correction. It's a marketing parlour trick to say that "the consumer has changed." It's a parlour trick, because the more professional marketers say this, the more latitude they may be... Read more
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There are a lot of people sharing pictures on Instagram. It's a trap to think that Instagram is an amazing marketing channel, simply because there are a lot of people on it taking photos and sharing photos. There are many... Read more
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Who is really a customer of yours? I often get to hang out backstage at conferences and events. When you have that kind of access to other speakers, business leaders and authors, it would be silly not to take advantage... Read more
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Gears of War 3's Fenix Rising DLC pack is now available to download from Xbox Live Marketplace. Season Pass holders get it free, everybody else needs to fork out 800 MP.
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Khmer Pottery
Khmer Pottery is not only an art, but it also has a contemporary usage. Its production serves Cambodian daily life. In the old days, those products are used for cooking, storing foods, carrying and storing water, as a cooking stove, flower vases and many other artistic objects.
The practice of using clay pan for cooking is still common in many remote Cambodian villages. Many Cambodians believe that cooking rice with clay pan yields better taste than using an electric rice cooker which is very common in Cambodian urban areas. More advanced Khmer Ceramic Pottery could make plates, bowls, ornaments and many other decorative items.
Kampong Chhnang is a famous province for Khmer Pottery. 'Kampong' is a Khmer word for trading port and 'Chhang' is a Khmer word for pot or pan. Most if not all potteries are made in Kampong Chhnang since the ancient time. That is how the province gets its name from. It produces pots and pans, and merchants transport them with oxcart, stacked with straw to prevent breakage, to the trading ports along Tonle Sap great lake and Tonle Sap river.
Khmer Pottery has visual arts resembling the ancient Khmer arts. Some of the earliest Khmer pottery remains found around the country are said to be dated to as far back as to 5,000 BC. They have been discovered around Angkor Wat region, at Pnom Kulen. Recently, over 30 types of stove oven are discovered at Cheung Ek, 17 Km south of Phnom Penh.
Many Cambodian ceramics are used in everyday life, to carry water, to cook rice and soup, and to utilize as a food bowl. Around the 10th century ceramics from other countries especially China made their way to Cambodia for trading. Many wealthy Cambodian are believed to using bronze or imported ceramics. However, there is not enough evidence that local Khmer ceramics were ever being exported to other countries.
The innovation of animal-style wares in shapes of birds, elephants, rabbits and other animals appeared in the 13th century. Nowadays, objects of similar shapes are made out of wood or silver as souvenir or collection products.
Other ceramics are also molded into a variety of different shaped wares, ranging from large storage pots and oil lamps, vases, water storage (Peang) and building material.
Old traditional procedures are still used to produce ceramics. Many of the pottery pieces are hand-turned and then fired upon an open fire with no glaze. Many NGO's have cropped up aiming to preserve Cambodia's rich heritage of ceramics and to revive and reintroduce Khmer ancestral pottery techniques and maintain the development of contemporary Khmer ceramic arts.


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Add a bit more to your website's first impression by creating a unique 3D preloader utilising Flash CS4's 3D Rotation capability and ActionScript 3
Add a bit more to your website's first impression by creating a unique 3D preloader utilising Flash CS4's 3D Rotation capability and ActionScript 3
A website's preloader is the very first impression people get when they visit it so you should really endeavour to make it look the best you can in order to captivate their attention right away. There is nothing worse than waiting for a highly anticipated website to load up and be staring at something really boring. Well, we will be doing the exact opposite of this!
Together we will create an impressive 3D flip clock loader which will also react to your mouse movements. By offering a compelling experience right from the beginning, not only will you be more likely to engage your visitors before the site loads up but you will also show you care about attention to detail. There is a little bit of work to do but we will be going over some useful techniques from which everyone should benefit.
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Open start.fla from the cover CD. From the library, drag Movie Clips "number9" – "number0" onto the stage on top of one another into one layer. Give each of them an instance name of "n0", "n1", "n2" etc according to the number it represents. Next, align them all to the centre. With all selected, press F8, convert them into a Movie Clip called "NumberSet" with registration point in the middle.
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Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new? Yes, and those of heaven commune With the spheres of sun and moon; With the noise of fountains wond'rous, And the parle of voices thund'rous; With the whisper of heaven's trees And one another, in soft ease 10 Seated on Elysian lawns Brows'd by none but Dian's fawns Underneath large blue-bells tented, Where the daisies are rose-scented, And the rose herself has got Perfume which on earth is not; Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth; Philosophic numbers smooth; 20 Tales and golden histories Of heaven and its mysteries.Thus ye live on high, and then On the earth ye live again; And the souls ye left behind you Teach us, here, the way to find you, Where your other souls are joying, Never slumber'd, never cloying. Here, your earth-born souls still speak To mortals, of their little week; 30 Of their sorrows and delights; Of their passions and their spites; Of their glory and their shame; What doth strengthen and what maim. Thus ye teach us, every day, Wisdom, though fled far away.
Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Ye have souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new! 40
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Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category
I had no idea who Chiddy Bang was until this past Tuesday when iTunes featured their song "Opposite of Adults" as their free music video of the week.
And after hearing the song (and watching the really cool video), I have to say I'm intrigued.
Chiddy Bang is an alt-hip-hop duo who have made a name sampling some well-known songs. In "Opposite of Adults" they've taken MGMT's "Kids" and turned it into a natural hip-hop beat. It's got a little bit of a Kid Cudi flavor to it. The group is supposed to have their debut album out sometime this year, possibly by the end of the summer.
Check out the video below, and then go download it for free on iTunes if you like it:
Sixth-grade talent shows are usually pretty painful events – full of ear-bleeding recorder solos, boy band dance routines, and a magic show or two.
But this kid absolutely owns his performance – of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" no less. And I'm not even saying this is good in the "It's good for a sixth-grader" way. No, this is actually good good. Like this little guy should seriously think about pursuing this talent. And aside from the amazing singing voice, he's got all the confidence in the world in his performance. And I'm sure that has to be at least a little hard when you're a guy singing a Lady Gaga song to a bunch of your sixth grade classmates. Think of the potential beatings that could entail!
But no one can really make fun of him after that performance. Just watch the girls' faces in the background. Once they realize what song it is, they're all like "Oh no he isn't!" and are ready to laugh him off. But he's got them in the palm of his hand by the end and gets an appropriately enthusiastic applause. And keep an eye on the blond in the back row. You can literally see her falling in love with this kid by the second.
All I can say is that he better have won first place.
I wish this was a real subway
Hat tip to "theonlyone" who posted this awesome musical subway map on Flickr and to MetalSucks for leading me there.
Just pretend each rock genre had its own subway line and the connectors were determined by genre compatibility and you get this:
You're likely going to have to visit the site to get a larger version of the map in order to read all the bands, but it's definitely worth a couple minutes of your time.
Most of the designations are pretty spot on, although I don't know what Death Cab for Cutie is doing on the Punk Rock line or what Nine Inch Nails is doing on the Heavy Metal Line.
Too Much Lady GaGa?
Ever since the pop-artist, Lady GaGa hit radio and Top Ten lists, it seems like every other band has covered at least one song. Bands ranging from We The Kings, Of Mice And Men, even Daughtry have put their own spin on one of GaGa's top hits. At first glance, the covers all sound similar and aren't worth much of a listen (Unless, of course, you're one of those hardcore fans that have every song ever by your favorite band). Sure, credit is given where credit is earned, and some artists show great creativity when they're able to take a song, completely turn it around, and still make it sound good. But then again, what if that creativity was channeled into something more individual, and in the long run, productive?
It's discouraging to see so many bands flocking to the same routine, blending in in a time when it's preferred to stand out.
Avenged Sevenfold recently posted on their website that Mike Portnoy, the drumming legend of the severely technical metal band Dream Theater, shall be recording with A7X on their upcoming album.
This is the post that Avenged Sevenfold put up on their website on February 17th:
I want our fans to know that with Jimmy in our hearts, our journey to record has officially began. Jimmy helped leave this world an amazing gift and now it's our job to make sure to deliver that gift to our fans. We asked Jimmy's all time favorite drummer Mike Portnoy to record on behalf of him. Mike said it would be an honor and without question that's what Jim would have wanted. Its comforting to us that someone like Mike, who is undoubtedly revered as one of the best drummers in the world, held such respect and adoration for the Rev's abilities. Even though it will never be the same without our brother by our side, his essence lives in our hearts and through the music he helped create. He was a legend before any of the success or any of that bullshit and we are fucking excited to lay this down for our fans, and especially for Jimmy.
- Avenged Sevenfold
You can also view a tribute video for Jimmy 'The Rev' Sullivan on www.AvengedSevenfold.com
Three Valentine's Day mixtapes for you
Other than chocolates, plush teddy bears, and red roses, what says Valentine's Day more than music?
Of course, there's generally three kinds of people who want specific music on this holiday. 1) The person happily in love with someone wants music that reflects that. 2) The person who may or may not be pining for a love lost, but who is feeling the loneliness that this day can bring to those unattached souls. 3) The person who probably just got out of a bad relationship and needs some angry music to help vent.
So with that in mind, I concocted three Valentine's Day mixtapes for your enjoyment.
First up is what I'm calling the "Madly in Love" mixtape. The other two appear after the jump.
1. "Book of Love" – The Monotones
2. "Us" – Regina Spektor
3. "Eyes Wider Than Before" – Scott Matthews
4. "Never Had Nobody Like You" – M. Ward
5. "Paperweight" – Joshua Radin
6. "This Magic Moment" – Ben E. King and The Drifters
7. "Here In My Room" – Incubus
8. "Passenger Seat" – Death Cab for Cutie
9. "At My Most Beautiful" – R.E.M.
10. "You Picked Me" – A Fine Frenzy
11. "Sea of Love" – Cat Power
12. "Blue Eyes" – Cary Brothers
13. "Such Great Heights" – Iron & Wine
14. "All My Days" – Alexi Murdoch


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A selection of custom websites we've designed and built.** SugarHill Works specializes in professional portfolio sites and distinctive small business sites.
Each custom website design reflects the client's style, presented in an intuitive layout. All sites are custom built with a sturdy code framework for each project's needs. Plus, we build self updatable sites, so you can easily manage content. See client testimonials for feedback about our work. See our clients for links to even more sites.
Featured Sites - Recent Projects
Designer Erin Straine wanted a playful, kitschy site to showcase her U hOO Birds brand of locally made handbags and accessories.
We teamed up with Onward Design for site design and a fresh logo, and made custom animations using original drawings by Erin.
We built this custom site with Wordpress, to be flexible, SEO-friendly, and easily self-updatable to accommodate a growing small business.
Site created in collaboration with Onward Design and built on the Wordpress platform.
Tanya Salazar, NYC wedding photographer, needed a self updatable portfolio site to show her latest work. She came to us with precise design mockups of how the site should look.
We built a customized Wordpress site with photo galleries, exactly matching the designs. Tanya can easily update her site with the intuitive Wordpress content management interface.
Fully self updatable site features slideshows, photo galleries, custom fonts, expandable menu.
Custom Wordpress site built by SugarHill Works and designed by Design Lab Creative Studio.
Custom Portfolio Sites - Photographers & Artists
Randy Cole is a busy photo rep; she needed a self updatable site with both photo and video galleries.
We designed a clean, intuitive site for her clients to quickly browse all the photographers' portfolios, and built it with our new customized Updater interface so Randy can easily add in the latest images, videos, and news. Plus, with our Flash-free video code, the site works on iphones, too!
Features custom multimedia galleries, video, downloadable PDFs and SHW Updater module.
Kate Davis Caldwell, artist, requested a clean, minimalist portfolio site that she could easily keep updated with current work.
We built a horizontal scrolling gallery framework, customized to accommodate enlarged image views and Kate's artist statements in smooth overlays. Then we taught Kate how to use our new Gallery Updater interface for self updating her site.
Features custom scolling galleries, enlarged images, text overlays, SHW Updater module.
Tanya Salazar, NYC wedding photographer, needed a self updatable portfolio site to show her latest work. She came to us with precise design mockups of how the site should look.
We built a customized Wordpress site with photo galleries, exactly matching the designs. Tanya can easily update her site with the intuitive Wordpress content management interface.
Fully self updatable site features slideshows, photo galleries, custom fonts, expandable menu.
Custom Wordpress site built by SugarHill Works and designed by Design Lab Creative Studio.
John Mack, photographer, wanted a project-specific site for his new book, Revealing Mexico, co-authored with writer Susanne Steines.
We had fun with the site design, then modified our portfolio site framework to build an extensive book preview, backed by our customized Gallery Updater interface. Integrated PayPal e-commerce links handle book sales, and videos of the events load seamlessly.
Features animated splash page, custom galleries, video player overlay, e-commerce, custom contact form, SHW Updater module, mirror Spanish language site: revelandomexico.com.
Jon Plasse, photographer, worked with SugarHill on scans for an upcoming book project. Then Jon was ready for a new website to showcase a preview of his photographs and published books.
We collaborated with Jon's book designer, Andy Jacobson, to get the look and feel just right, and built a simple, clean, and uncluttered site.
Features custom galleries, smooth crossfades, vertical accordion-enabled menu for expandable text areas.
Elena Seibert specializes in photographs of authors. A seasoned pro, she knows she needs a current online portfolio to market her work. Frustrated that she couldn't update her old Flash site, Elena requested that we build her a new self updatable site, with the added option of author quotes.
Running on our optimized code, this clean, smooth gallery site focuses all attention on the photos.
Features custom galleries, multiple-sized layouts, self updatable.
Josh Klatt is a dynamic photographer and enthusiast of new ways of seeing, namely stereography. He needed a multimedia site to showcase his 3D photos and videos.
We built a flexible site around Josh's own design, capable of displaying multiple viewing modes in each gallery, with an integrated blog and self updateable framework.
Features custom galleries, multimedia functions, 3D photo and video, integrated blog, client login.
Stu Horvath, photographer and writer, wanted a portfolio site that was professional, yet quirky, and could include his A Very Long Year project a single photo each day, accompanied by a story.
To allow Stu to easily add images and text to the galleries, we built the site using the beta SugarHill Works Portfolio Updater interface. The galleries feature text overlays to display the stories.
Features custom galleries with overlay text, custom contact form, self-updatable SHW Updater module.
Dream Maker Hawai'i came to us for a stunning wedding photography and video site that would attract local clients as well as those traveling to Hawai'i for their wedding.
The site highlights the images, and stands out among wedding sites with its wedding invitation inspired design.
Features custom galleries, custom graphics and client log-in galleries.
Azie is a Harlem legend; he wanted to reach out to his audience with a site that reflects his style, urban history, and music.
We built an expandable site to include Azie's current, past, and future projects, and to allow viewers to listen to his beats while browsing the site.
Features integrated music player, custom graphics, videos.
Jason Lindberg, editorial and portrait photographer, came to us to build his new self-designed portfolio site. He knew exactly what he wanted, and just needed help with the custom coding.
We built the site framework and showed Jason how to update it himself. He's been able to easily modify the site, upload new images, and create secure preview galleries for his clients.
Features grid layout custom galleries, animation, client login, self updateable.
Erin Banta is an artist working in traditional film photography and ceramics, and is a master color printer. She asked us to help her bridge the gap from film to digital by working with her to create her self updatable online portfolio, one of SugarHill's first website projects!
We recently revamped the entire site design to match Erin's meticulous, clean aesthetic, while leaving the underlying gallery functionality intact.
Features horizontal scrolling gallery, custom scrollbar, image enlargment option.
Custom Small Business Sites - SEO Services & Consultation
Designer Erin Straine wanted a playful, kitschy site to showcase her U hOO Birds brand of locally made handbags and accessories.
We teamed up with Onward Design for site design and a fresh logo, and made custom animations using original drawings by Erin.
We built this custom site with Wordpress, to be flexible, SEO-friendly, and easily self-updatable to accommodate a growing small business.
Site created in collaboration with Onward Design and built on the Wordpress platform.
Gnocco, a popular Italian restaurant, is Perbacco's sister restaurant. Gnocco's owner knows his business needs to be accessible to customers online.
After years of regularly updating Gnocco's site, it was time for a complete revamp. We built a new site that's easy to navigate, has improved SEO, and is more efficient to keep updated with current menus, gift cards, online reservations, with a spruced up design to reflect Gnocco's lively personality!
Features multiple slideshows, embedded sound, customized reservations interface, online gift cards.
Perbacco, an Italian restaurant and wine bar in the East Village, needed a site that would help them to reach out to more customers online.
We crafted the site with special attention to capturing the essence of Perbacco's warm, cozy ambiance and distinctive flavors. We continue to work with Perbacco, keeping the menus updated, so they can focus on making delicious food!
Features multiple slideshows, embedded sound, customized reservations interface, online gift cards.
Joe Artale, owner of Arté Salon in Nolita, needed to update his old site, which was in Flash and didn't work on phones or ipads. The salon also wanted to let clients easily book an appointment online.
We recreated the site's Flash animation effects using standards-compliant jQuery code, to function on smartphones and tablets, and built in a customized booking widget. The new site is a better resource for both Joe and Arté Salon's clients!
Site built by SugarHill Works, with creative direction by Andy Jacobson.
Jan Andersen needed a basic site to function like an online calling card for her fine art appraisal business.
We kept it simple, adding only the most subtle design elements, and included Jan's favorite vignettes of relevant artworks along with informative text outlining fine art services she offers.
Features clean, simple, straightforward layout and consistent navigation.
Tiffany Sullivan, founder of Nail Gypsy, knew she wanted a distinctive, professional site for her new mobile nail salon business.
The custom logo and site design was meticulously tailored to Tiffany's style, to create a strong brand identity for Nail Gypsy. We built the site using Wordpress, so she can be in charge of site updates.
Fully self updatable site features online booking system, customized nail color picker, slideshows, custom logo design.
Logo and site design by Onward Design. Built by SugarHill Works on the Wordpress platform.
Bill Fauth offers tax accounting, business advice and consulting services for artistically-oriented small business people. So when he wanted a new website to use as a tool for expanding his own business, we were happy to trade our services.
We revamped his logo and created a site design to both convey Bill's professionalism and appeal to his creative clientele. Bill uses the site to show his acronym-friendly diagrams in presentations.
Features custom logo design, custom graphics, animated tabbed navigation.
Cara Bloch, partner in A Home In The Sky, knew she needed a new site to market their hand-crafted gifts and decorations to retailer stores. Cara had a very specific vision of an organic, textural site, which also needed to be flexible to accommodate changing inventory.
We came up with a solution that included lots of custom graphics, yet uses an even product layout to allow for varied image sizes to be quickly edited.
Features custom graphics, custom form and modular product layout for easy updating.
Desert Rose, a massage and spa service, approached us with a challenge: completely revamp their old site in time for Valentine's Day, 2 weeks away.
We quickly gave the design a makeover, keeping the original branding intact, built the new site from scratch, and set up a customized online booking system and e-commerce for gift sales. Their business immediately increased!
Features custom online booking with integrated calendar, slideshow, e-commerce.
Greenwood Heights is on the leading edge of the green funeral movement in NYC, and came to us for a tasteful, calming, professional site with strong SEO to establish their online presence.
We started by designing a new logo for both print and web, then collaborated with a photographer and a copywriter to produce the site's content, and put it all together in a flexible, standards-compliant site.
Features custom logo design and graphics, flexible layout, scripted menu for quick updating.
Kate Greer is a busy yoga teacher who needed a site that conveys her personality and yoga practice, and functions as a resource for her students to check the weekly schedule of classes and upcoming events.
We built the site with standards-compliant HTML/CSS code, so it's easy for Kate to self-update her site frequently. Clean, open and beautiful, like a yogi's site should be.
Features custom chakra graphics combined with retouched photos.
Custom eCommerce Sites - PayPal & Shopping Cart Solutions
Jen of Berkley Girl, a NYC clothing boutique for 'tween girls, loved the fresh site we made, and so did the girls! Then the time came to expand her business into online shopping.
We built a fully customized e-commerce store, designed to blend seamlessly with the rest of the site, for customers to shop and place orders. An admin interface makes it easy to update with the store's latest inventory.
Features eCommerce, Flash animation components, custom graphics, and multiple slideshows.
Katrin Reifeiss came to us looking for a one-of-a-kind site that would reflect the vibrant colors and subtle textures of her unique hand-dyed silk clothing and accessories line, Designs by Katrin Reifeiss.
We created custom PayPal e-commerce pages to display each item in the collections, with consistent navigation for easy shopping. We've continued to update the site with each new season, adapting the design to compliment Katrin's evolving style.
Features custom galleries, custom graphics and eCommerce. Site co-designed with Katrin.
Edie of NYC Greeting Cards wanted an elegant site to showcase her mother's paintings and also to sell greeting card reprints.
We combined our portfolio website with a simple e-commerce solution to give her customers the experience of being at an art gallery while shopping. With the customized Zoomify component, viewers can zoom in to see the details of the original paintings.
Features custom galleries integrated with eCommerce, Zoomify image viewer.
Nicole Rowars, jewelry designer, needed a complete branding for Plum.
We designed the new Plum logo, business cards, and e-commerce enabled custom portfolio website, collaborating closely with Nicole to get every detail just right. Special animation effects give the site a smooth, elegant feeling. Each piece in the gallery is available for purchase, with varied options.
Features custom galleries, eCommerce, custom contact form and a new self-updatable module for easy updating.
Adam Johnson, cameraman turned photographer, wanted a clean, professional portfolio site with the added option of e-commerce enabled galleries to make his urban architectural photos available for purchase.
We built an integrated module for viewers to select custom print options and easily place orders through his PayPal account. The self updatable site allows Adam to manage the content himself.
Features custom galleries and animation, eCommerce, self updatable.
Custom Nonprofit Sites & Special Projects
Rosedanie Cadet founded Helping Hands Noramise as a response to the urgent need for sustainable food production and jobs in Haiti. After the earthquake, she quickly mobilized a network of volunteers.
SugarHill Works was happy to help out by donating a website and continuing web support, enabling Noramise to spread the word about their projects and to immediately accept donations online.
Features customized Wordpress blog design, logo graphics, donations via PayPal, simple photo gallery, self updatable.
John Mack, photographer, wanted a project-specific site for his new book, Revealing Mexico, co-authored with writer Susanne Steines. Plus he needed a "juicy, colorful, yet classy" official press page for Revealing Mexico Week events in NYC.
We had fun with the site design, then modified our portfolio site framework to build an extensive book preview, backed by our customized Gallery Updater interface. Integrated PayPal e-commerce links handle book sales, and videos of the events load seamlessly.
Features animated splash page, custom galleries, video player overlay, e-commerce, custom contact form, SHW Updater module, mirror Spanish language site: revelandomexico.com.
One hundred percent of the net proceeds from the sale of Revealing Mexico will be donated to the Sociedad Internacional de Valores de Arte Mexicano (SIVAM), which is dedicated to promoting the arts and culture of Mexico.
John Mack's feedback: "...From the ideas to the website, Sugarhill Works brought a vision to life. They are true masters in the age of digital design and programming, yet still hold true to the sensual values of fine art — a combination which, in these days, cannot be underestimated. Great listeners, full of innovative ideas, they make the value of the whole greater than the sum of its parts. With them I entrusted an intense, time-sensitive site which served as the online base for an entire nation's historic celebrations. A diamond in the rough, I have recommended Sugarhill Works to all those involved in helping to bring my idea to fruition..."
Keith F. Barket, loving father, husband and respected businessman, died of peritoneal mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer. His wife Laura chose to honor his memory by creating a charitable foundation to support cancer research, promote awareness and give support for people affected by mesothelioma.
We designed and built a memorial site incorporating family photos along with information and resources about mesothelioma, and links for people wishing to make a donation in honor of Keith and his family.
Site created in collaboration with Onward Design and built on the Wordpress platform.
Steve, the Brooklyn Shaman, had a vision for a site that reflected his holistic worldview with an organic, non-linear design. He also wanted to include images of animals that carry significance in shamanism.
We created custom artwork of each animal, and pushed the limits of HTML code to arrange the layout into a circular shape.
Features custom art and graphics, PayPal integration, and customized blog. One of our very first websites!
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« February 2008 Table of Contents
Historically, hospital food probably ranks as high as airline food does in terms of customer satisfaction. But at Consorta's National Battle of the Hospital Chefs in September it was evident that despite the stigma, hospital food can indeed be high caliber, rivaling even that served in traditional restaurants.
All three of the winning chefs served a seafood entrée in the competition. The winner, chef William Read of Saint Mary's Health Care in Grand Rapids, Mich., earned the Gold Chef Award for his macadamia-crusted tilapia with sweet soy reduction.
"Hospital food isn't what it once was," says Read. "Seafood is an attractive option to patients because not only can it be prepared in so many different ways, but it can also easily and inexpensively be 'gourmet-ified,' giving patients a truly satisfying meal. And with its increased nutrients and low fat and cholesterol levels, it helps in the healing process."
Mark Abbott, general manager and chef at St. Mary's Health Care System in Athens, Ga., agrees. "Seafood is about one-third of the offerings on our At Your Request room-service menu, and more and more, the perception from our customers is that it's a healthier alternative to other proteins," he says.
St. Mary's prepares 1,200 meals daily for the hospital and an assisted-living community. Abbott won the silver award in the Hospital Chef competition for his Honey-Lime Grilled Grouper and Shrimp with Watermelon Salsa. The hospital's weekly menu features a rotating selection of steamed fish fillets with different seasonings, popcorn shrimp, fish sandwiches and seafood salads.
The At Your Request menu reduces shrink as patients order precisely what they want and are guaranteed delivery within 45 minutes. Patients select their preferences from the menu and call in their order, which must comply with their dietary restrictions. By contrast, traditional hospitals forecast meals that can be accurate but allow for an extra amount.
"Patients with special diets can only order the things that are within the boundaries of their doctors' orders," explains Abbott. "It's educational for the patient, because they have a restaurant-style menu in their hands, and our hope is that they'll remember what they can and cannot have the next time they dine out."
At Your Request is the brainchild of Sodexho, an international provider of onsite food and facilities management services to corporations, healthcare, long-term care and retirement centers, among other institutions.
"We started the concept of room service in hospitals about 10 years ago," says David Martin, senior director of culinary services at Sodexho, based in Gaithersburg, Md. "It's only offered in about 300 of the 900 acute-care hospitals we service, but once the system is in place, the food cost for that hospital usually improves because we're cooking only what the patient wants."
Martin, who began in the hospital foodservice industry 25 years ago, recalls a time when the menu only referred to "fish," but never what species, and was offered once a week, at most.
"Orange roughy was big for a long time, and later cod. Now, we're inundating our hospitals with tilapia, but through all that, salmon has been our main staple and one of our better performers," says Martin.
Seafood now appears a minimum of three days a week on Sodexho's Better By Design national retail menu for healthcare facilities.
"I have three facilities in Nashville, Tenn., where they feature a seafood entrée every single day," says Martin. "That surprises me because it's a landlocked state, but they eat an amazing amount of fish in that system."
Martin has witnessed seafood becoming more popular than pork at Sodexho's hospital accounts.
"We're really selling a great deal more seafood because the hospitals will pay the price for mahimahi, or whatever species or method of preparation we're selling. They won't pay the price for a good steak, but they will pay the price for a good seafood dish. They view it as a wellness item and they can't get enough of it."
Prices vary on a regional basis, but according to Martin, the range for a patient meal is between $1.35 and $2.25 with an average of $1.75.
At New York University Medical Center, seafood items constitute one-quarter of the patients' menu and one-third of the entrées in the two cafeterias.
"Half of the entrées chosen in catering are fish items," says Orlando Ramos, executive chef of production. "These items are more upscale and include fillet of sole, shrimp, scallop, caviar, lobster or whatever the client wants and is in their budget. The challenge for us is to find the right balance of cost and flavor, as some items you can buy frozen without sacrificing taste or quality, while in others, only fresh will do."
David Rensi, executive chef at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., has seen the hospital's seafood usage triple in the three years he's been there. Rensi and his team prepare 3,000 meals daily, with a patient menu featuring Sesame Maple Salmon, Olive Oil and Tomato Glazed Salmon, Tilapia with a Parmesan Herb Crust and Pan-Fried Catfish in a Cornmeal Breading.
"The whole 'super foods' movement is very much alive in hospitals due, in part, to dieticians on staff and to more educated customers," says Rensi. "In our recent super foods week in the cafeteria, salmon was the No. 1 seller. I think the increased quantities of seafood on our menus are due to demand, thanks to the health benefits of seafood, and also due to the unique things we're doing with this protein."
Contributing Editor Lauren Kra m er lives in British Columbia


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I learned in the last past years on these boards that the usual US-citizen doens´t seem to be keen on soccer, at least not half als mad about soccer as the usual European- citizen is. And at least there´s one Simpsons epsiode about soccer that seems to back up my impression.
So it´s up to me to start this topic and to mention that the US team did a great job by kicking Spain out of the contest and become the first Confed Cup finalist. To good i haven´t placed a bet on the outcome of the game, i would have easily lost a lot by predicting a 3:0 (or more) for Spain. ;-)
Nice job, i´m really looking forward to the final (Brasil or South Africa wil become the second finalist).