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MAC • Blooz Eye Kohl • Eyeliner
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squidsquid1 on 12/13/2014 3:50:00 PM more reviews by squidsquid1
Age: 36-43 Skin: Combination, Olive Hair: Blond Eyes: Brown
Such a beautiful shade of blue (navy); pairs nicely with brown eyes. With the use of an eyeliner brush, this color can be worn either less or more intensified, depending on the occasion.
Staying power is great! However, make sure eyes are properly prepped for application, otherwise this liner tends to 'melt' a bit for those with oily skin.
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apollo5 on 12/1/2013 5:45:00 PM more reviews by apollo5
Age: 44-55 Skin: Sensitive, Dark, Warm Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
i love this color! not quite a 'navy' because it has more pazazz than a true navy does. it has some sort of silver luminescence to it, i think (which sets it apart from a simple, flat navy). my skin is brown and i have brown eyes. blooz sets off the golden flecks in my eyes and complements them very well. i don't think i'll ever stop purchasing blooz, so i hope it's never discontinued.
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*TOP REVIEWER* Menolikepolos on 2/3/2013 7:04:00 AM more reviews by Menolikepolos
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral Hair: Brunette, Medium Eyes: Blue
About me: NW13 (neutral-cool toned, very fair), blue eyes, Color season is True Summer, Baumann Skin Type is OSPW.
This is a truely beautiful navy eye liner. Not dark blue, not light blue... true navy. It stays well on the waterline as well. Love wearing this during the day instead of black.
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*TOP REVIEWER* themarshmalo on 1/19/2013 12:47:00 PM more reviews by themarshmalo
Age: 30-35 Skin: Acne-prone Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue
The #1 reason I like this liner is because of the color. It is very, very hard to find an actual NAVY blue eyeliner. Most eyeliners are either a bright cobalt blue, or end up looking teal.
I wish it was an automatic pencil and lasted longer on my lower lashline. I sharpen it quite a bit so I can get a precise line. It's not perfect, but I'll likely repurchase.
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*TOP REVIEWER* Chocolatedippedstrawberri on 4/26/2012 6:52:00 PM more reviews by Chocolatedippedstrawberri
Age: 30-35 Skin: Normal Hair: Blond Eyes: Hazel
This is a pretty blackish blue. I like to use this with a soft silvery eyeshadow as a wash for an easy look. The color is beautiful, but the formula is almost too soft, where sometimes it crumbles on my face. Otherwise, a beautiful shade when you don't feel like black or brown liner!
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LilyFrances on 8/7/2011 3:07:00 AM more reviews by LilyFrances
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Normal, Fair Hair: Blond Eyes: Green
I like to use as both an eyebrow filler and eyeliner. It's soft and spreads evenly. It's not magic, but I would probably buy again.
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*TOP REVIEWER* rockangel04 on 7/14/2011 3:20:00 PM more reviews by rockangel04
Age: 25-29 Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium, Warm Hair: Blond, Wavy, Fine Eyes: Blue
I really love using this for a navy smokey eye, I pair it was MAC contrast and its so pretty. This isn't something I use every day but when I want to look a little glamorous or sultry this is the look I go for. I wish it were just a tad softer though but it still smudges well and then stays put. Beautiful color!
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megzmakeup on 4/14/2011 6:41:00 AM more reviews by megzmakeup
Age: 25-29 Skin: Dry, Fair Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue
Some people say blue-eyed girls should stay away from blue eye makeup. While I'm not advocating going all Mimi-from-Drew-Carey, this eyeliner looks great on my grayish-blueish eyes. It's nice to have a bit more color than just black or brown. Dark, but not too dark, this looked great with some blue-toned gray shadow (gunmetal from UD Naked Palette). It lasted all day, including the extra hour-and-a-half I worked when an employee didn't show up for work (and the reprimand from me that followed). Throughout the day, every time I looked in the mirror, I seemed AWAKE. Definitely going to go for this one throughout the summer!
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alexh3118 on 2/1/2011 2:22:00 AM more reviews by alexh3118
Age: 19-24 Skin: Sensitive, Fair Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue
Great color, although I always find eyeliners wear off during the day :l great if youve got fair skin and dont want to look to 'hard' with black eyeliner but with more 'pop' than with a brown liner, the color is although not as blue as the outer packaging suggested. I bought from ACW (as usual) and I find you get heaps in the pencil, and will me much easier to sharpen than MAC's powerpoint liners (I find these a total pain for smudging and wearing off during the day, to the point were it looks like i have no liner on anymore).
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xmakemeoverx on 5/23/2010 11:39:00 AM more reviews by xmakemeoverx
Age: 19-24 Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Cool Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium Eyes: Brown
This is a very nice eyeliner. It goes on easily and gives you just the right amount of color. One thing that I find annoying about it is that it smudges very easily and sometimes ends up places where I'd rather it not be. Other than that, the pigmentation is great and since it's such a long pencil it lasts for a long time. Even if you're an avid eyeliner user it still lasts longer than the typical drugstore liner. The price isn't even bad. I haven't liked all the eye kohls but this one does the trick.
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UPTET Admit Card February 2014 upbasiceduboard.gov.in – Download UPTET 2014 Hall Ticket : Finally Uttar Pradesh Basic Education Board is on the way of conducting UPTET 2014. The notification was arrived in January, 2014. The last date for online application was 21st January, 2014. Finally Uttar Pradesh Teachers Eligibility Test is now going to take place on 22nd and 23rd February this month for Primary Teacher and Upper Primary Teacher posts. Exam will be conducted in two levels : Paper 1 ( Level 1 ) and Paper II ( Level 2 ).
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Uttar Pradesh Teachers Eligibility Test is well know for it's popularity. Every year more than 5 Lakh aspirants becomes part of this exam. Last year around 7.6 Lakh candidates were found taking this test. Last year UPTET was conducted on 27th June, 2013. UPTET exam is also for known very hard structured. At least the previous year data reflects the same. Total 7,22,566 candidates were appeared in the last year exam. The pass percentage was only 14.2%.
1. UP TET Primary level: Total candidates appeared for the primary level were 94,358 out of which only 18,862 ( 19.99 % ) were were able to get successful.
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Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada is one of the best places to study the effectiveness of wildlife crossing structures. The busy Trans-Canada Highway cuts east-west across the park, making it difficult for wildlife to travel north-south through the Rocky Mountains. When the highway was upgraded in the 1980's from a single two-lane road to a four-lane divided highway, it became increasingly busy and escalating vehicle-wildlife collisions threatened the safety of both humans and wildlife.
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To improve safety and increase wildlife mobility, Y2Y and other groups supported the construction of wildlife crossings along the highway. Fencing along the highway was also installed to keep animals off the roads and direct them towards the safe crossings. Today there are four overpasses and 24 underpasses in Banff National Park, and more are being constructed near Lake Louise.
In the summer this stretch of highway sees over 25,000 vehicles per day, translating to one car passing every two-to-three seconds. Without safe crossing places the impact on wildlife and human safety would be disastrous.
Today there are six overpasses and 39 underpasses in Banff National Park, and four more underpasses are being constructed near Lake Louise and will be completed by the end of 2013.
Since the wildlife crossing structures were built more than a decade ago, over 142,947 crossings have been detected and mortality rates on the highway have dropped by more than 80 percent. Twelve species of large mammals have used the crossing structures including grizzly and black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars, moose, elk, deer, bighorn sheep, and more recently, wolverine and lynx.
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I noticed a lot of old vintage thread for sale on ebay. It seems like a good deal. You can get a lot of a number of colors for low price, but I was told by a teacher once that old thread becomes weak and will break. So, if they thread is vintage from the 50 or 60's why would anyone want that? I do like the idea of finding lots of colors. I would have put in a bid or two, but it takes too long to look at 100's of thread lots to find the ones that may be not so old and have desirable colors. |
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- Posted by dowlinggram (My Page) on Mon, Jul 23, 12 at 7:20
I don't know why unless it is to repair vintage clothing or they don't know any better. The seller is selling it cheap to get rid of it and someone will think it's a good deal but it's not. Where thread is concerned you only get what you pay for. Your teacher was right. Old thread like old clothing is very fragile Save your money and buy good new thread when it's on sale. There is nothing more frustrating that trying to sew with cheap or old thread that twists and breaks all the time |
- Posted by tropical_thought (My Page) on Mon, Jul 23, 12 at 11:18
That does make sense for vintage clothing if you want to keep everything authentic. |
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- Posted by kathyr7944 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 26, 12 at 21:19
I've been sewing for 45 years. My mom passed in 1984 and her thread collection (large and varied) came to me. I am still using some of those threads today. I have NEVER had a thread failure. While there are certainly possibilities that "natural" threads such as silk, cotton and rayon may break down, I feel as if the risk is sometimes exaggerated. If thread is stored in a reasonably stable environment, it may be good for a very long time. I've heard that refrigerating thread prolongs its life, but as a person with a solid science background, I can't understand how that would be. I feel connected to mom when I use one of her ugly colored 70s thread for a craft project or machine basting. Getting thread for a low price on eBay will probably work out. JMHO. KathyinJax |
I inherited a lot of thread when a family member passed away a couple yrs ago. The better brands were fine, cheapo/no-name types, mostly all dry rotted. They broke with a gentle tug.... I wouldn't even baste with it, tossed the cheapos out. They were all less than 20 yrs old. Kept the Gutterman & Mettler, they were all fine. Now if they were really old, or on pretty spools, they could be used for decorating in the sewing room. A friend of mine has some very cute vintage sewing pattern/threads/notions in her sewing room on a shelf over her machine. |
- Posted by tropical_thought (My Page) on Fri, Jul 27, 12 at 15:11
It seems like cheap thread that breaks when it is new is not improved by age. But quality thread is better if you are buying it old. I hate thread that has little lumps that make the machine stop at that point and you have to stop and rethread. |
- Posted by carolb_w_fl (My Page) on Sat, Aug 4, 12 at 11:49
FWIW, there are a number of crafters using colorful spools of vintage threads to make other items like picture frames, jewelry, etc.... & also FWIW, I also am the lucky owner of a couple of drawersful of vintage silk, nylon & cotton threads from decades past, inherited from my great-aunts, & while I occasionally find 1 that has perished, most are still in fine condition. |
- Posted by onefineseamstres (My Page) on Sun, Aug 12, 12 at 16:47
When it comes to "vintage thread" it translates to dry rotten thread. NO way I'd use that stuff for sewing. Not even on vintage clothing. Most would buy it for crafts using the wooden spools |
- Posted by tropical_thought (My Page) on Sun, Aug 12, 12 at 17:44
I saw a lot of empty wooden spools on ebay without bids, but a lot of thread with bids on wooden spools. |
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Thanks to the Streets, Ms. Dynamite, and other bright lights of the scene, British hip-hop is no longer the joke it's often been. It's even less of a laughing matter on Boy in da Corner, the much-heralded debut of 19-year-old rhymer Dylan Mills, a.k.a. Dizzee Rascal. On ''Sittin' Here,'' the opening track, we find Dizzee at home, playing CDs and staring into space, numb from ''ninja bikes, gun fights, and scary nights.'' The disc ends, 14 tracks later, with the cautiously optimistic ''Do It,'' in which Dizzee cops to his malaise and acknowledges the need to be more positive: ''It's getting boring always being miserable and sad,'' he intones. ''Stretch your mind to the limit/You can do it,'' he urges in the chorus, as if trying to rouse both the listener and himself.
With its homemade beats and clammy, trapped-in-the-Underground ambience, the latest incarnation of British hip-hop -- dubbed ''grime'' -- recalls the early days of American hip-hop (particularly the stripped-down singles of Def Jam legends like LL Cool J). Even in that context, though, the dozen-plus songs between ''Sittin' Here'' and ''Do It'' constitute one of the strangest, bumpiest musical journeys we're likely to experience on record this year. Winner last year of England's coveted Mercury Prize, ''Boy in da Corner'' consists of little more than knob-twirling sound effects and skittish, booming bass lines punctuated by firecracker bursts, answering-machine beeps, and electronic whiplashes. The music is a low-tech, less digestible version of the computerized funk Missy Elliott and Timbaland have perfected on Elliott's albums. But unlike those discs, ''Boy in da Corner'' isn't interested in flow. Its goal is maintaining a constant state of unease, which is in keeping with Dizzee's surreal style of rapping. Dissecting feckless men and the teenagers they impregnate in ''I Luv U,'' he can be mocking or sarcastic. Acting the role of street hustler in ''Cut 'Em Off'' and ''2 Far,'' he spews out verbiage, gulping and elongating his words; the manic energy he displays on the over-the-top Goth rap of ''Jus a Rascal'' is hilarious.
From this unsettling clatter emerge moments of innovation, even poignancy. Dizzee's vignettes of lower-middle-class life and its careworn regulars have a you-are-there urgency. In ''Jezebel,'' he relates, with genuine sympathy, the tale of a drug-besotted single mom who picks up men at raves and is ''no longer young, but the boys still come.'' His ruminative side pokes through on both ''Do It'' and ''Brand New Day,'' wherein he wonders: ''When we ain't kids anymore, will it still be about what it is right now/Like fighting for anything, anytime and acting without a care anywhere.''
Take away his slang and the aural scuzz, though, and it's clear Dizzee is in need of seasoning. His put-downs of fake OGs and divas (''Wot U On''), not to mention his name checking of tired icons like Freddy Krueger and ''Sean Puffy Combs,'' are as mundane as those of many American rappers. At its most tedious, the CD sounds like a caffeinated voice nattering on over videogame blurts and beeps.
Much like the all-encompassing anxiety invoked by the songs, the amelodic minimalism that dominates ''Boy in da Corner'' is very much of its time. Rap appears to have splintered into two factions: mass-audience hip-hop, which uses any trick in the book (guest R&B singers or samples) in order to obtain airplay, and alternative rap, which views musicality with outright suspicion. In ways both good and bad, ''Boy in da Corner'' falls into the latter camp. All of which makes you wonder: Whatever happened to hip-hop that's accessible yet still (as stellar examples Run-DMC once put it) tougher than leather? Maybe the time will come when Dizzee Rascal will be interested in answering that question. For now, though, he and his peers are more than happy to paint themselves into dank -- if often illuminating -- corners of their own.


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Jesus Montero's days as Mariners catcher are over
Montero was optioned to Class AAA on Thursday, with the Mariners alarmed over his lack of offensive production.
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The days of Jesus Montero catching for the Mariners appear to be done for good.
Montero was optioned to Class AAA on Thursday, with the Mariners alarmed over his lack of offensive production and ready to pull the plug on his catching duties. Jesus Sucre, 25, will be added by the team from AAA as a backup to incumbent catcher Kelly Shoppach later Friday, with a minor-leaguer taken off the 40-man roster to clear a spot.
As for Montero, who will still catch here and there in the minors, the Mariners are no longer counting on him behind the plate going forward.
"I think that, with a lot of young players, it's important to take a step backward in order to take two steps forward," Zduriencik said of the reasons why Montero was sent down.
Montero, 23, will spend time in AAA gathering himself, which hopefully leads to better offensive performance down the road. Team sources say the move has been discussed for quite some time, given Montero's struggles at the plate with a .208 batting average and an on-base-plus slugging mark of only .590.
There is concern within the organization that Montero's offensive struggles are directly linked to the added work as a catcher. The fear is that Montero is now too distracted by his catching responsibilities — and overall struggles on defense — that it has carried over to his hitting and threatens to ruin a player once considered one of the better offensive prospects in the game.
So, the team has decided to allow Montero to spend most of his AAA time as a designated hitter and a part-time first baseman. With minor-league catching prospects Mike Zunino and John Hicks on the rise, the feeling is that there soon won't be a need for Montero behind the plate in any event.
Things came to a head for Montero last Saturday in Cleveland, when he took his foot off home plate while receiving a throw by Mariners shortstop Brendan Ryan in the bottom of the ninth. The mistake sealed a Seattle loss.
Montero has also thrown out just one base runner in 24 steal attempts this season, which is the reason Shoppach started Wednesday night's game in Anaheim despite the Angels having a left-handed pitcher on the mound. Some of Montero's best numbers have come off left-handers, but the Mariners were too fearful of starting him behind the plate and having the speedy Angels run wild.
The Mariners are said to be pleased with Montero's work ethic and how he tried to make himself a better catcher. They are less than pleased with some of the mental mistakes he has made, though they attribute much of that to his youth. No timetable has been set for his return.
The Mariners are not expected to make any more moves at the big-league level ahead of Friday's game.
There had been speculation the team might make a move involving its starting rotation after meltdowns this week by Aaron Harang and Brandon Maurer. Zduriencik wouldn't comment on whether any moves are forthcoming the next few days. Harang isn't slotted to pitch again until Monday and Maurer on Tuesday.
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September 18, 2013 | A++ |
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Boss from Washington, DC
Works great. I have it powering my 4 door speakers in my 2001 GMC Yukon. I have Focal 6.5" components and they sound pretty good. Pioneer head unit and sub amp as well. I'm pleased. The 8604 runs cold. I've never even felt it get even a little warm.
February 7, 2013 | Great 4 Channel |
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Nate from Ohio
excellent, compact, beautiful and clear highs. With the right set of full range speakers this amp is up for the challenge. First class D amplifier I've owned and I cant complain.
January 24, 2013 | Fantastic |
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Devon from Kingston, Jamaica
Pioneer has certainly perfected the technology allowing class d amplifier to play full range with perfect sound quality giving you massive output with minimal power usage. This amp is a must have, I just replace my Fosgate P500-4 with this baby and I am so happy.
January 22, 2015 | powerful little amp |
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roy from El Campo, TX
so much power in such a small footprint. This amp is perfect if you have speakers that need power especially mid-range and high frequency tweeters.
September 18, 2013 | Great power |
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gattiboy from Oxnard, CA
Awesome amp, GREAT POWER and durability! Pounds my subs with ease. Only wish it had more options like for one be strappable.
February 25, 2013 | Pioneer GM 8604 |
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Mak from Baltimore, MD
Owned this 4 chanels amp for one months sor far. Amp is very cool; used with my pioneer FH-X700BT head unit to power my doors speakers:
DB6501 - RMS of 100 Watts in the front DB651 S - RMS of 55 Watts Midrange. I love the sound that this amp brought in my car. I bought this map for three reasons ( class FD, very small , and price vs wattage). So far, I am very happy with my purchase. I can't say anything about the durability yet. So my review about the durability does is not final.
August 12, 2014 | Wow |
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Reimann from Midlothian, VA
Powerful very compact. For the price, you can't beat it. Nice quality amp.
March 9, 2014 | Pioneer GM-D8604 |
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Jacob from Stillwater, OK
This amp is seriously packing for what you pay for it. It is my first digital amp and I am beyond satisfied with it. It has all the bases covered. I have it running my door speakers and it does not disappoint. I would buy this all over again if I had to buy an amp. Sounds great with my Pioneer speakers and head.
October 24, 2013 | good power small package |
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dan from tecumseh, Canada
Small size good sound for the money out powered old stuff for a fraction of the cost!
September 17, 2013 | excellent choice! |
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sergey from West Chester, PA
I search for that particular amplifier long time ago and find it at Sonic electronix web store almost for half of original price. I install it myself and instead of running four speakers of it i did 8 of them (four at front 4Ohm each and four at rear 4 Ohm too and every pair of speakers i connect in parallel what give me 2 Ohm load and 150 watt RMS for each channel,600 watt total).Sounds incredible because amplifier supply more then enough power to my two front pioneer punch series 6.1/2inch. speakers(each 100 watt RMS) with pair of Infinity Kappa twitters(50 watt RMS each) and two rear Infinity Kappa 6x9inch 3 way speakers(each 110 watt RMS) with two Polk Audio dome twitters{each 60watt RMS).I recommend this amplifier for any car audio enthusiast out there.And Sonic Electronix ROCKS !
June 9, 2014 | Excellent product |
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Liam from Galway, 0, Ireland
A very good product that is both compact, of high quality and excellent value. I would recommend this product.
December 29, 2013 | loud and clean mids and highs. |
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REDDOGG from NORTH CAROLINA
I got this amp in my challenger with 6/9 three way INFINITY KAPPAS and 6/5 two way INFINITY KAPPAS. All i can say is wow. THANK you sonic electronix for the low prices and free and fast shipping. I also got the pioneer GMD 9601 pushing 2 12inch keenwoods in a sealed box in the trunk. What a nice set up.
December 7, 2013 | Cool under pressure |
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Jason from Centralia, WA
I have always ran higher end Premier and Pioneer headunit's with complete confidence. This is the first time I've ever taken a leap with a Pioneer amplifier. My experience has only been with class A/B amplifiers. This amplifier retires an older PPI 4ch and powers a Diamond Audio Hex component set in the front and dual 10's in the rear.
There is no shortage of power with this unit. It seems to produce its sustained rated power with ease. Many times it's pushed through long road trips and has not even gotten hot. I will not concur with the others in that it has the fantastic sound quality. It has good sound quality. I believe that this is the trade between digital and analog amplifiers. I've spent much time with both live and recorded music that I notice a slight coloring of the music as compared to decent A/B class amplification. While crisp, the brighter notes sound over processed a bit. The warmer tones and bass notes do sound quite good. While I do wish that the unit provided for a remote bass knob, its very easy to set up and its small footprint and cool operation makes for a very flexible installation. This is more machine than one would expect at this price point and will work very well for most.
November 10, 2014 | Superior 4 channel amp!!!! |
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Mario from Sunrise,Florida
Overall excellent price from sonic electronix. First amplifier I have ever owned for my 4 door speakers. Running it 100 watts x 4 at 4 ohms and this amp barely even warms up at high power. Very excellent amp and I can see me using this amp for years. I will be purchasing more from these guys...
Thanks sonic electronix!!!!
November 25, 2013 | in a nissan titan |
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Jonathan from Arcadia, CA
this thing is little i have it under my passenger seat, with 4ga amp kit. thing has never been hot runs super cool. puts out all the power i need, just need the head to match it now. it does cut out every now and then manual says its cause the radio cant give it a good signal and possible bad rca
May 3, 2013 | I love this little amp |
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Blackciti from Chicago, IL
This thing really knows how to put out some power. I have this in my 99 grand prix along with pioneer d series speakers. The highs really sound crisp. It is set up to work as a highs amp so there is no bass but I am going to get some subs hopefully soon.


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'Rock of Ages': A great gig for character actors
Movie review: In "Rock of Ages," supporting actors Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Paul Giamatti and Catherine Zeta-Jones steal the show from leads Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta.
Seattle Times movie critic
'Rock of Ages,' with Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Russell Brand, Paul Giamatti, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Malin Akerman, Mary J. Blige, Alec Baldwin, Tom Cruise. Directed by Adam Shankman, from a screenplay by Justin Theroux, Chris D'Arienzo, and Allan Loeb, based on the musical by D'Arienzo. 123 minutes. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, suggestive dancing, some heavy drinking and language. Several theaters.
Let me state my bias right up front here: I cannot possibly dislike a movie in which Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand, equipped with abundant '80s tresses, sing "I Love Rock & Roll" into a hairbrush. (For the record, I didn't know I had this bias until last night.) Later, they croon REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling" to each other, and you wish these two had their own movie, or at least their own late-night talk show.
Directed by Adam Shankman, who made "Hairspray" one of 2007's happiest movie experiences, "Rock of Ages" (still going strong on Broadway) is the latest in a string of stage-to screen musicals. Though often enjoyably silly, it doesn't really work as a movie; it's more a collection of cover songs and hair-flinging, connected by the thinnest of plots. Innocent Sherrie (Julianne Hough) has newly arrived in 1987 Los Angeles on the bus from Tulsa, with gel in her hair and stars in her eyes. She quickly meets up with another young dreamer, Drew (sweet-faced Diego Boneta), and they fall in love, etc., etc., and meanwhile Tom Cruise wanders around wearing some sort of dragon head on his crotch. This is, in case you're wondering, one of those movies where the supporting cast completely steals the focus from the stars.
Cute as Hough and Boneta are, they melt away like ice on an L.A. sidewalk whenever any of their elders turn up. Baldwin and Brand, playing L.A. music club owner Dennis Dupree and his tech guy Lonny, have an effortlessly funny chemistry. Cruise, as rock god Stacee Jaxx, struts through the movie with his chest so puffed out he's practically an apostrophe, speaking as if from a cloud of fog. Paul Giamatti, in sleazy ponytail and earrings, is his gum-chomping manager Paul Gill. (Dennis is surprised when Stacee shows up slightly early for a gig at the club; Gill, scoffing, replies, "I told him the gig was last night, so technically he's a day late.") Catherine Zeta-Jones munches the scenery like Skittles as a politician's wife determined to close down the wicked club district. Malin Akerman looks like an '80s Michelle Pfeiffer (no small praise) as a Rolling Stone reporter who gets up close and personal with Stacee, and Mary J. Blige sports some wickedly gilt-y fashion as a strip-club owner.
Everyone gets to croon an '80s song or two, or three or four, and the two-hour movie starts to feel overlong after a while; the songs have a sameness to them (how many covers of "Don't Stop Believing" can you hear in a lifetime?), and the movie never really goes anywhere. But "Rock of Ages" nonetheless falls neatly into the guilty-pleasure category — everyone involved is clearly having a ball, and you might just get caught up in it, hair and all.
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I've been looking forward to this weekend for the past month or so. Reason why is that my best friend Gabe is coming to town. We are going to go the Dassel-Cokato Chargers high school basketball game. A good friend of ours, Dave, is the head coach and this will be our first time watching him in action. The school is dedicating the new gym tomorrow as well and having a pork patty feed prior to the game. Whooo wheee! I love me a pork patty feed! After the game, there will be some beer and poker, blackjack, craps and other fun card games with some other friends of Dave. Last time we all got together, it was a lot of fun, but I lost $, so this time I plan sweet, cold revenge. Hey, I've been watching some World Series of Poker, so I have a chance... yeah, right. The only downside is that it's going to be about -20, if not colder, and DC is about an hour away. Crikey! My wife had the great idea that I should be getting my winter emergency car kit together. I definately have to go shopping tonight.
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Dr. Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress kicked off the morning with a keynote entitled "Digitization for Access AND Preservation: Strategies of the Library of Congress"
NDIIPP (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/index.html)
One of the really interesting things she spoke about was the new digital preservation center they are building which will include the following:
Motion Picture Broadcasting and Recorded sound
Up to 150 staff
Collections building will store audiovisual collections
Central plan building
Conservation building and theater
And a new project National Digital Newspaper Program – Chronicling America (http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html)
Questions and Answers
Priscilla Caplan asked for speaker to discuss the library of Congress's own plans for preservation of their own materials. Speaker said there is a plan to develop format specific repositories, the newspaper, repository; she is pushing very hard for a much more comprehensive approach to preservation with the LOC Information Technology Staff. Funding has been the primary obstacle, but is something we are pushing for hard.
Cathy Larson, University of Arizona, Artificial Intelligence Lab – can you talk a little bit about post-project evaluation? LOC has just completed the first nation wide user's survey that has been conducted for a long time. The feature of the strategic plan is that is a little difference is that there are performance measures attached to every goal to evaluate our progress. As soon as that plan is in final form it will go on the web and you will be able to see it.
Murtha Baca, Getty Research Institute, What are some of the ways we can combat the idiotic idea that if you scan everything you get good access to it?
Although Dr. Marcum didn't really answer the question, she did have an interesting response as follows: I thought I would come to one conference without talking about cataloging. As librarians we have so much to offer in terms of describing information, making it findable, we've been at this for many years and we actually know how to do it. What I think our challenge is, it is not enough for us to create the perfect finding system, we know from all the user studies that individuals, who are looking for information, go directly to the open web, and our marvelous catalogues are not getting used. We have to find ways to take our content and the metadata and move that content to the open web. And until we do that, I believe we face a high probability of spending much, much, much money on developing bibliographic structures that are only used by a limited number of people. I know that in any organization when people are really good at what they do, it is very hard to abandon those systems. It is not enough to say "well users should use our catalogue." Well let's think about how users are finding what they need and go where the users are. What we've always wanted to do. We have talked as librarians about how we want to get information into the hands of the people who need it. We now have the mechanism. WHY ARE WE MAKING THAT HARD? We have the opportunity to do what we've always said we want to do. Why aren't we doing it?
Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities, Moderated by Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for Library Services, IMLS
Steven Wheatley, VP, American Council of Learned Societies, Our Cultural Commonwealth: Report of the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences
The ACLS has produced a report you can find here www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure. The goal was to provide a structure for discussions and decisions about allocation of resources (time, money, people) to address the opportunities that are ahead of us, and to try and expand the discussion.
Why another report? There are already lots of them. The NSF report of 2003 http://www.nsf.gov/cise/sci/reports/atkins.pdf was able to mobilize scholarly energy we in turn wanted to mobilize the humanities community around the same type of issues.
Why do we need a new cyberinfrastructure? This is a necessity today. Most objects of human creativily and expression are born digitally. New humanists are going to need the ability to study these in their original form. No one today can study literature or elections, for example, without consulting the blogosphere. An effective and efficient platform to enable specific communities to work together. This is the middle layer between the hardware and the users. Cyberinfrastruture includes: Discipline-specific software, expertise, best practices, tools, collections, policies, and collaborative environments.
Five necessary characteristics for cyberinfrastructure projects:
1) Accessible as a public good (not necessarily free, but reasonable)
2) Sustainable
3) Interoperable
4) facilitate collaboration
5) support experimentation.
Eight Recommendations of the Report:
1) Invest in cyberinfrastructure as a strategic priority
2) Develop public and institutional policies that foster openness and access
3) Promote cooperation between the pubic and private sectors
4) Cultivate leadership
5) Encourage digital scholarship
6) Establish national centers to support scholarship that contributes to and exploits cyber infrastructure
7) Develop and maintain open standard and robust tools
8) Create extensive and reusable digital collections
AAUP statement on open access http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/02/28/american-university-presses-releases-statement-on-open-access/
Brett Bobley, Director, Digital Humanities Initiative, National Endowment for the Humanities
Brett started with a huge laugh from the crowd saying that he didn't want to steal IMLS' thunder but that NEH Program Officers would be waiting in the lobby after the conference, with checkbooks in hand, making immediate grants.
NSF, NEH, IMLS should support the development of tools – we should work together to promote collaboration. NEH also in discussions with other agencies to put together more collaborations.
Discussed their new programs follow the link above for more information.
Roy Rosenzweig, Director, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, Scholarly Collaboration with Museums and Libraries in the Digital Era
Discussed that there is a renewed imperative for collaborations in the cyberinfrastructure era. He described reasons why he thinks it is important for academics to work with institutions and institutions to work with academics.
Why academics should work with institutions:
Museums, libraries, and archives have the stuff (http://objectofhistory.org/)
Museums and libraries have a permanence, while the works of scholars are transitory
The web has opened us to more diverse audiences and institutions generally have more experience with diverse audiences than we do
Institutions have the kind of expertise that complements that of the academic scholar (we have the stuff and the expertise in the curators heads) — see Zotero tool http://www.zotero.org/
What do Academics bring to institutions?
–Scholars bring, obviously scholarly expertise, and a familiarity with the research process ourselves
–Awareness of the kinds of historical questions that will want to be asked about collections
-Academics bring technical expertise, infrastructure for small museums—working on generalizing the software OMEKA tool (an alternative to pachyderm)
Diane Zorich, Cultural Heritage Information Management Consultant, Discussion and Wrap UP
Diane began with a discussion of a book she is currently reading Stuart Kelly's The Book of Lost Books (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Lost-Books-Stuart-Kelly/dp/0670914991)
Why it's important to retain access to our cultural heritage?
Diane gave an overview of what we've heard over the past few days and all you folk who weren't able to attend will be pleased to know that IMLS is going to post podcasts and the powerpoint slides for all the presentations. In addition, Diane will be writing up a report of what was covered in the past three days.
Diane pragmatically and gracefully identified the important themes of the conference with examples:
The core missions of our organizations historically: curation, preservation, access
The importance of collaboration
There is no one solution (TINS)
We aren't preserving a context, we are preserving an ecosystem
Digital preservation is a transformative process
Need for more tools
Need for more training on preservation
Maybe we need fewer repositories and more collaboration
Broaden our constituency
Projects Demonstrated at Breaks
An interesting conference all around. The Winter Ale was particularly fine in the hotel bar. Dinners were fantastic at Obelisk and Cafe St. Ex. And now….I'm going to take a few days break from blogging. Guenter, thanks for asking me to do this, it was a real challenge–my fingers have six packs.


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Oct 12, 2012It's the best series premiere of this fall season. Everything is right and it has a thing that reminds me of Batman Begins. I only hope they keep it that way.
Oct 26, 2012Awful show. May be suitable for kids, but if you're a fan of things like Homeland, Boardwalk, Wire, Suits, Dexter etc. then stay well clear. 45 mins of my life I won't get back unfortunately.
Oct 13, 2012"Machine guns fired at him can't hit him!" This sums up the show. So if you like your shows to make sense, avoid this. Also, cheesy dialog galore. Typical TV trash.
Oct 14, 2012this was dire, a cheap knock off of the batman franchise. I to found the hundreds of rounds fired at the hero with none managing to nick him unbearable by the end. To say you have to suspend disbelief is a gross understatement, his disguise is essentially heavy mascara and a scowl. Its targeted at a specific audience and if your past a certain age this is not going to be for you.
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Oct 11, 2012The pilot episodes does what's it suppose to do, draw us in to the episode. The episode itself is well done and David Nutter is directing. Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen does good in this episode and I am going to follow this series for now....
Oct 13, 2012Batman dressed like Robin Hood, how original.. The story is cheesy and the character is very one dimensional.
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Oct 12, 2012WOW! Good beginning for a superhero. Arrow really proved to be a better series than I thought it would be. It has that vibe, that potential and moreover, the storyline can be really good if written and edited properly. Although there were few mistakes in the pilot and editing sucked at times but I hope the future episodes will be better and well crafted.
Nov 28, 2012
Dec 24, 2012Cheese cliche dialogue...cheesy chiseled chin male model actors in the lead roles - hell even the bad guys are Zoolanders. Found it very hard to sit through more than 20 minutes at a time. Yet another comic book given a poor update.
May 19, 2013Truthfully an amazing superhero show, that is perfect, since Smallville said farewell in 2011. The action scenes are brilliant, and the actress who plays Felicity, is my favorite. I am scared about how this will fare, when ABC airs Marvel's Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D. in the fall. I have faith though, and I believe this show is gonna stick around for a while.
Jan 7, 2013I don't think the plot is very captivating and the lead role (whoever that bugger is) is just unloveable! I, as the viewer, don't sympathise with him at all and I wouldn't jump through hoops for him which most main characters should make you feel. But then again, what can you expect from The CW?
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Oct 10, 2012I'm hoping that 'Arrow' follows the ranks of 'Supernatural' and 'Smallville' and becomes yet another comic book drama that's a hit for CW... It deserves it.
Oct 16, 2012As a pilot, this has been a refreshing start and I hope this series continues in the same vein. The writing was strong and the story arcs that it seems to be developing are all interesting. I look forward to more episodes at this level.
Dec 10, 2012The acting is so very bad. How many more superhero concepts can The CW ruin? The first episode was entertaining, but it has been all downhill from there.
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Feb 14, 2013The last episode (14) was unwatchable because of the flashbacks (ad nauseam), Too bad. Most of the show was our Arrow boy hurt or showing how he became tough. Non of this added to the story even though it is a comic...
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Oct 10, 2012I liked this show a lot, it was fun and exciting. The only thing that bugged me is how the Queen mansion looks identical to the Luthor mansion in Smallville.
The CW's best show since Gossip Girl.... it has a forthright narrative seriousness, a respect for the gobbledy-gook that makes up any superhero's backstory--and a game cast performing with the correct degree of seriousness. [19 Nov 2012, p.35]
Your interest in Arrow depends on how much you miss the troubled-in-love, conflicted-by-family heroics of Smallville--it mirrors that series' setup.
This slick action-drama is based on the comic book superhero Green Arrow. Prepare to quiver.