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Transplanting Morning Glories - Forget the Myth (!) it's Easy
There is a Big Myth that states that Morning Glories do not transplant well or easily and I hope to offset that Myth.
Those of us who transplant Morning Glories(Ipomoea and other genera within Convolvulaceae) very frequently already know that MG's transplant easily because we do it all of the time.
The Myth about difficulty transplanting Morning Glories seems to be based on a lack of following simple basic gardening procedures that most gardeners already know which include the following:
Most Morning Glories will transplant fine without any problems whatsoever if you :
1) water the plants very well for several days before you transplant
2) try to maintain root integrity by not ripping any of the roots
3) water generously (!) to keep the soil moist for at least several days after you transplant...misting may help to maintain a humid atmosphere...
4) protect the plants from full direct sunlight by shielding the plants with a muslin or burlap sunblock or gradually re-introduce into full sun.
5) Do NOT fertilize the plant for at least several weeks before or after transplanting, although some of the products to lessen transplant / root shock may be used sparingly
I have transplanted a very large number of various MG's ,from seedlings to full grown plants (un-entwined and re-entwined onto fences) throughout my lifetime and have always had great success at transplanting by following the 5 easy guidelines offered above...no hype, just basics that produce good results...
P.S. - There is no precise time period to protect transplants from full direct sunlight after transplanting , but gauged more based upon individual plant response and some experience...although as long as the new transplant is getting strong indirect sunlight,it would be best to err on the side of caution and take a bit more time to re-introduce the transplant into direct sunlight.
The amount of time that it would take for a plant to experience negative affects from too little sun is significantly longer than the short amount of time to exacerbate any potential transplant shock and / or to recover from any shock ...
The gradual re-introduction of a new transplant to full sunlight doesn't usually take more than 1 week and often less if the roots are not damaged and if the relative humidity is maintained...
LMAO, how true you are.
Another myth that I'm going to prove false also goes along with this post.
My outdoor patio area is actually part of the driveway that goes into what use to be the attached garage but is now redone into what I call the rec room.
Since it's blacktop, I've had to be very inventive to make it look like a patio area and one thing I've had to do is a lot of container gardening.
Another myth is that MG's don't grow well in containers. But for 25 years I have had them in container on each side of the rec room door and then trained to frame the windows on each side of the door.
So where this fits in with the post. MG's self seed for me too well, I don't buy seeds anymore, and I always end up with tons of seedlings in the pots.
This year I was thinning out the seedlings, leaving the ones in the back to vine up and frame my windows, but pulling out the ones up front that were taking over the self seeded marigolds in the same pots (the are large pots, need a front planting).
The soil in the pots is loose and the MG seedlings came out all roots attached.
Something in me couldn't bear to just throw them on the compost heap and I had a shallow salad bar container with dirt in it. I just laid the whole handful down and covered up the roots and left them until I could figure out what to do with them.
A week later my sister visited, the MG's were still healthy and she took the whole lot home.
Now she has MG's on her porch.
This is a pic from last year, my potted MG vines this year are only up the one side, but growing fast. Plus my containers are differnt this year, that's the nice thing about containers, you can change them.
chocolateis2b8 - Thank you for sharing your experience with transplanting what looks to be Ipomoea purpurea Morning Glories.
The Japanese who have been growing Morning Glories for ornamental purposes for many centuries and call them by the Romaji name of Asagao.
The Japanese usually grow all of their show quality asagao in very small containers which in which they use the centuries old nutrient supplements.
There are many different species of of plants in the Family of Convolvulacea , which are generally known as Morning Glories and although many of the more common species have similar growing requirements , there are many species which have very different growing requirements than the common garden varieties.
I certainly do welcome people sharing from their experience and / or asking questions , although I would like to gently remind members gardeners (in the interest of generalized order) to please keep the main focus of this particular thread on transplanting, otherwise (especially as the thread gets longer) too many different aspects can become muddled together and the result can become less focused and a bit too too chaotic.
Please start new threads on any aspect and if you specifically want me to answer then you can place my name in the title of the thread e.g., Ron, could you address this question or topic, and I will be glad to oblige.
Enjoy your Morning Glories (!)
Pretty patio set up with your Morning Glories. Super idea too!
I too have had great luck transplanting my Morning Glories [which I do all the time] and I also do all that Ron recommends, which is all very important. I did move one Morning Glory that I was able to skip the step on shielding the plant because at the time, we were having rain every day for almost a week and when it wasn't raining it was over-cast, so I got lucky transplanting this one.
This MG was very well established and at least 6' long - but it HAD to be moved or ripped out. I cut the vine in half so I wouldn't drive the plant nuts with the untangling. Dug really deep for all of the roots and moved it directly to the new spot. Watered deep too even though I did this while it was raining lightly.
It bloomed the next day without missing a beat. The plant is about 4' now and as happy as can be in the new spot.
I must take a photo of the entire plant as well as the bloom to show you why I didn't want to rip it out where it was previously growing because I didn't want it mixing up with the group it was growing with.
So, transplanting MGs can be done!
I agree with everyone, having had no problems with transplanting my Asagaos this year, as I have done with other MGs in the past as well. I even went so far, Ron, as to unwind some of the roots b4 transplanting and no adverse effects at all.
I might add that I have transplanted many things that are pot-bound and especially noted for their transplanting difficulties. Fennel comes to mind. I have been quite ruthless in transplanting these, ripping and tearing the tightly bound root mass to loosen and spread the roots. They suffered little to no damage from the rough handling and are still growing and thriving in my garden. So, I think many folks who have noted plants as being difficult to transplant, may have had something else going on with their plants.
Agreed, love your patio, chocolatesis!
I also transplant MG's. After a bad experience with 'volunteer MG's' that turned out to be a horrible weed, I never let anything that looks like a MG grow unless I know I bought the seeds and sprouted them in a pot, then transplanted to garden.
katiesommer - Please consider the following regarding your GW membership :
Consider enabling the GardenWeb members to send you a private message email...via the GardenWeb...you can do this by:
1) logging in and scrolling to the bottom of the page where is says "Member services"
2) Edit Your Membership Details
Going into your profile and scroll to near the bottom of the page and place a check in the box that states:
a) Show my email address to: (in drop down menu) > Member
b) check the box in front of "Allow other users to send you email via forms at our site."
*You might also consider adding in your USDA zone in section 4 from the top of the page where it says "Garden Zone" and you can add in your climate zone
Then , after you are done updating your display features look near the bottom of the page and click onto the gold tab that says "Save your Member profile"
Your question is of a generalized and therefore somewhat 'off-topic' (which I would have preferred to answer in a separate thread or via private message) but being a relatively new member I will extend the courtesy of posting an the answer here.
Morning Glories are twining climbing vines which require some other structure (twine, stakes, branches, etc., to twine their entire stems around in order to climb.
Morning Glories do NOT produce the type of specialized tendrils of clinging vines (e.g., Cucurbitaceae) with or without adhering discs or aerial roots which enable other types of vines (Parthenocissus spp , Hedera spp ) to self-attach to a solid wall or structure of any material.
Morning Glories do NOT produce the type of bio-chemicals excreted by the adhering discs or aerial roots of clinging vines cited in the paragraph above which will eventually damage the mortar between bricks and cause disintegration of wood.
The fact that any MG or other plant comes from a commercial source is no guarantee that it is as labeled and in fact it is often the case that commercial sources do not know how to properly identify species including MG's.
You want to be sure of what you got in any packet (?)...then post the seedlings and young plants on one of the forums where people with an established (long term) reputation for accurate identification can ID what you have growing...
Enjoy your Morning Glories (!)
P.S. - Please click onto my member name and send me a private message if you have MG related questions that may be off-topic and you are unsure of where or how to post them in the appropriate thread.


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The differences are subtle, and you may miss them at first glance.
Pro tip: erotic gnomes are the ones with their genitals showing.
Erotic garden gnomes are fairly similar to regular ones!
The differences are subtle, and you may miss them at first glance.
Pro tip: erotic gnomes are the ones with their genitals showing.
Two world peaces is just too much!
Also, I didn't know Fletcher liked Katy Perry.
Of course he doesn't. If he did, he'd have asked for official merchandise. He wants unofficial merchandise to sell on the black market.
You know, I think I've seen these erotic garden gnomes around, in fact an older lady might have a few laying around.
I hope Fletcher gets what he wants, but keep the robot away from me. Merry Christmas Fletcher. Whatever, Copernicus.
He only likes her unofficially.
Wait, so Fletcher understands asimov's laws, but doesn't realize Santa lives in the North Pole?
Once upon a Christmas, I thought I saw a family of erotic gnomes on my lawn.
Turned out to be my family.
This and the last comic are both #385! The Doctor's Christmas special today must have even gotten into Antics with his temporal meddling!
I want to buy a real version of that Christmas sweater more than anything in the whole world ever
@Mog would you be willing to pay… ALL OF YOUR MONIES???!?!?!! !!?!!
I just read every single one of the Antics' comics in the website. I am a proud fan now ^-^ (SO MUCH RANDOMNESS; I SALUTE THEE MASTER OF THE AWESOME AND RANDOM -bows to Fletcher Fletcherson)
I just read that Stephan is dead.
I really can't believe it.
But it happened.
I wrote "Stephan is dead" on a napkin, read it, and I just told you guys. I think if you print this comic in reverse and also invert the colors, you can hear strange messages from your DVD player when you load it.
You might not hear "Turn me on dead man… miss him Miss Him MISS HIM!" – but you will hear some crunchy sounds. I think those represent the "Big Mac Aesthetic" despite the disjunctive perturbation of the spatial relationships between the erotic gnome urinating on the headstone.
It's hard to decode these artistic deaths. With regard to the issue of death, the sublime beauty of the casket lined with human skin seems very disturbing in light of the inherent
ultra-specificity (that being, the skin of a Fletcher look-alike).
But you can't deny that it visually and conceptually activates the eloquence of these pieces once you see the gnomes behind the headstone in a "69."
It may be his greatest work ever – if not in ALL of New Zealand!! (Living down there sure fscks a guy up, ya know?)
Has he become an Uptown Ghost?
Stephan answer me WHYYYYYY!!!!!
Oh ivan I thought this was the end and I would have to start murdering rabbits again thank goodness this hopefully isn't…for the rabbits.
Where is the Stephen? Where is the precious? Did the bad hobbit steal the Stephen?
noooo not again! *panics*
So, is this website dead, then?
"Welcome to Antics!
Fletcher is the fellow with a green
tie, and Copernicus has a red one.
New comics every Tuesday!"
"New comics every Tuesday"
So… No comics means, NO. TUESDAY!
My world is falling apart.
At least it was only a weekday, Chef.
I will remember you forever oh glorious Antics comics…Well, i'll try anyways.
When you come back to a website, knowing you won't see a comic, but maybe a disgruntled comment or two, that is when you know a comic has truly died. Goodbye, Antics.
Chef… My mind…. Are you inside it?!
I need antics!
I miss this, but i won't stop coming here every once and a while to check on it.
maybe if we all comment enough he'll come back and have his spunk back?
I barely made it through the last long antics break. Don't do this to me again!
goodbye antics. -manly tear-
Goodbye, Antics. It's been fun. Many times have you delayed my schoolwork in favor of yourself but now it's sadly over. I shall study more now, to graduate. I shall win. I will win this battle.
For you.
Guys, he did say he was getting married… Maybe he's busy with that.
Please don't leave us hanging! At least officially announce that it's over so I can stop worrying :(
I've returned to search out and wait for the legendary elusive "Antics comic" it's been a long time since the last, this is worse then hunting for a needle in the haystack, many times i've pondered whether or not I can continue. Throughout the weeks i've neglected my gut telling me it's over, I have to keep the hope up… i've started to draw my own fan versions of these chaps…one day hopefully they'll return.
It's now March. Time drags on and yet I still check the site, if not just to see any new comments, but to no avail. The days feel longer. They grow colder. And I can feel the embrace of Antics leaving me.
I've lost count of the days, but seeing "A Concerned Citizen" has slightly restored my morale…T'is coming short on the new comic hope but at least people haven't entirely forgotten…Perhaps, just perhaps there's some hope left….
Day 79
Everyone is panicking. The food supply is starting to run out and everyone is afraid everyone is going to eat each other when the time comes. We've been in this camp for so long now, waiting for our lord and savior, Stephen Gillan. When will he arrive? We are on the verge of death. Has our lord abandoned us?
Maaaaaaaan. There are only so many times I can read the Sky Whales one until I need a new one. C'mon man. You gotta at least update us, if not about the site, about you and what's going on.
Hey guys, just got back from the grocer-JESUS WHAT HAPPENED TO EVERYONE?!
The world is cold without you
I keep expecting/hoping for the new comment to be from him. It never is.
@A Concerned Citizen
He may never return it seems, he's forgotten us all… Sad days.
I'm starting to think that maybe my 'present' is actually the time before these comics were made, but because I think I'm in the future, I've actually started reading these backwards and this was the first one. and I'm waiting for it to begin? like, does that make sense?
World word world where did the comix go? We'll never know, but all in all we've got these to show. The past memories, many of which were fun, Yet it's now all come undone. World word world, what is the point? When the comics flew out of detroit. The place one. All and all, this comic was fun. Love you antics.
*piano music* Where'd you go? I miss you so. Seems like it's been forever, since you've been gone. Please come back home. *rapping begins*
A Concerned Citizen is spitting it on the mic.
Oh hey look! Another comic! Syke!
We all be going crazy, waiting, hoping, just maybe.
Where have you gone man, don't forget about your baby!
Fletcher and Copernicus have not been around.
They haven't made a noise, not even a sound.
Are they off on a sky whale or fighting with Jeff?
Come on man, what's going on? W. T. F.
A concerned citizen went all out dope.
Dunno what's happening but this gives me hope
That one day, just maybe we'll get another comic
sometimes I question this all, other times I just wanna bawl my eyes out
Hoping that without a doubt he'll spout out another comic
words words this is now a rap section.
just make sure no beheadins' also read that so it rhymes
Otherwise I'll have to take some time to be creative.
I miss this comic, it is so good
But for now, I return to my hood.
wuts good.
Aw man, this comic's gone awry
It makes me wanna cry.
I miss my comics the ones I used to know
Now all we've got is the memories to show
how good it used to be
and you see it's not enough for me
I want more, I can't just shut this door
it's a part of my life
this is stabbin' me with a KNlFE
C'mon man, give em a hand he made 2 of the greatest comics known to man.
*Drops mic*
That was beautiful, you guys.
I only wish that fletcher/copernicus could've heard it.
there should probably be a comic about it if he ever comes back to us.
Detective Fletcher just laid down some beats.
Looks like it's game time and you're after 'feats'
Cause I run this show every day of the week.
His rhymes are slow and his beat is whack.
I gotta get him off of my track.
Putting it all on the table, got no time to be slack.
uh, I'm back and dat was whack
what you did there, U dun hacked the rhymes
now you have the nerve to do some crimes.
you wanna go bro, well yeah I take it slow.
It's still d-ope yo. Got them skills dat pay da bills
So when you come up in here you better open your ears and listen to these rhymes
or you'll be doing the time, the time of thinking, tinkering trying to make some lyrics
but all you can hear is' My beats and you get on yo feets and run, cause you aint havin' fun no more. so just drop to da floor and pray for more to come cuz this is hella fun.
I've converted to homestuck. Goodbye fellows.
@Farte (3≈}) Butte, Noooo! Stay! He'll surely return to us one day! It's so lonely here…And cold… We must remain hopeful.
It's time to let go, Detective. This desire to understand consumes you. You have to let go.
… my light. it's disappearing… ;n;
it just…why must it end so unresolved. We'll never get a series finale I guess…..
I wonder how long the site will keep running. Should someone create an archive site for this and Uptown Ghost just in case?
I'd say probably… Or make a subreddit for it. or any forum for it, we need this to be memoralized…. If that's a word….Either way, the show must go on!
I don't think the subreddit format would suit a comic which seems to have ended, as this one has. Maybe an Imgur album?
Yeah, Imgur could work, any permanent (Or as close to it as we can get) to memorialize the site & it's comics.)
I've started downloading comics from the beginning forward, but the website's been going off and on. If someone could start at the present and work backward then we have a higher chance of getting this done before the whole website dies entirely.
But where would someone post said comics? we Need some form of dropzone?
I saved…Every…Single….Comic….What do I do to memorize them now?
Alright. I contacted the person who owns the subreddit /r/antics (I'm still planning on hosting with an imgur album but if it just sits there on imgur then a total of nobody is going to find it) and asked for him to hand it over since it hasn't been used in three years. He hasn't responded yet but I have a good feeling that he'll give it to us, since he mentioned on the sidebar that he was willing to give it away. Once we get those together, I'm not sure what to do. Any ideas?
Idk, I have legit all the comics form the site (public ones anyways) saved in a folder… so I guess imgur album, sticky the post on the subreddit and then we remember the site..
I got a friend who knows how to computer to rip all the alt texts along with the comics so I'm going to try and put together an imgur album with that. The /r/antics guy hasn't responded yet, so I'll let you know how that goes.
Alright man, i shall wait
The current owner of /r/antics sent me a message saying he'd be glad to add me as a moderator! So now I have full control of /r/antics and no idea what to do with it.
Here's a thought: Why not put up one comic per day, as well as having the full archive available, so that the community remains somewhat active?
I'd say that's a good idea, but we have to make sure people are aware of the series/subreddit in the first place I guess. now brings up the question, how do we get this into people's memories?
Bampity tamp, got ep 1 up on the reddit.
Would you like me to make you a moderator on the subreddit? If we could communicate on a platform which doesn't have the chance of mysteriously disappearing at any time, I think we'd be able to get more done.
Also we'd both be able to work on the subreddit. So that's a plus.
Yeah it'd probably be smarter to work on the subreddit of antics since it's unlikely to vanish away.
Copacetic. What's your Reddit handle?
That's me, the guy who uploaded 2 comics so far (hit "new" tab on the subreddit)
Alright! I don't know why, but the comics weren't showing up on the main page. I've since fixed that.
Well, I guess it's time to bid this website goodbye, at least for now. Here's hoping all our work is for naught, and Stephen Gillan will come back soon.
And if he does, perhaps he'll read through all the comics, also yeah dunno why it didn't show up in the beginning but meh at least it does now.
So yeah. If anybody else is still out there, come to reddit.com/r/antics . We'd love your company.
Why do all the great webcomics have to end? :(
Wishlist 2014: New antics comic…or just a message from the creator…anything.
Stephen Gillan
"Antics isn't going to carry on forever!"
I miss antics. ;__;
i long for the sweet release that is death
for it is the only escape from this misery
only the deceased know peace from this suffering that is eternal
If it takes forever, I will wait for you
For a thousand summers, I will wait for you
Almost a year since Antics last published. Wonder how the server's still running.
It's been a helluva year. We miss you, Antics.
Where did he go though? Not even the fact that there have been no comics, but no Facebook or Twitter messages either. It's like he literally disappeared from society out of nowhere.
Maybe he was abducted by the Babylonian man-sheep?
Guys, I have introduced some people to antics at my school. Here's hoping the website doesn't crash for good before they finish, and we will have more to share the misery.
@Farte Butte: I don't think the website's going down soon; it's been really stable recently and now that we've passed the one year mark since the last update, if someone weren't paying for the site it would have gone down already.
And if/when it does go down, I've downloaded every comic already and have a subreddit where I'll start posting comics soon as the website fails.

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Saturday, April 08, 2006
Jazz Appreciation Month: April 2006
Go grab some vintage Monk, and listen in awe of his masterful keystrokes and unexpected changes. You might think you know a standard Jazz track, but Monk will re(de)construct it right in front of you.
Check out some more modern Jazz guys, like Boney James, who can marry smooth Jazz and upfront R&B with no problem @ all. Working with everyone from Jaheim to Dwele, he knows how to play nice with others, all the while keeping his identity, and even adding something new to an old genre.
Take a gander over at J.Swinscoe's Cinematic Orchestra, and try to fully understand J's free jazz ideas in a forward-thinking, sample happy world. All of their output is essential, but their debut album Motion is still my favorite piece of their catalogue. Tunes like "BlueBirds" showcase a true back-to-the-future aesthetic that I really think is needed sometimes.
Or even take a gander at my boy, Kyle Rowland. He's cooking up some deep experiements of a true fusion of Jazz and Techno that you don't normally hear on your radio. Grab the free tracks, then hold tight for his upcoming album. More on that in the near future...
Basically, appreciate some Jazz. Whether it's Dizzy and Bird or Joe Sample and Branford Marsalis. Grab up some Jazz, set it down, and (if you're liquor-legal), grab a nice glass of wine and get comfy. There's so much to learn with one of our truly American forms of music.
Friday, April 07, 2006
Bring Hip-Hop back to Boxing...?
OK so tomorrow night, Zab Judah and Floyd Mayweather square off in Las Vegas LIVE on PPV. The thing that seems odd about this is the overwhelmingly fake Hip-Hop sidebar that is following this fight. This article by the AP talks about how the promoters (Don King & Bob Arum) are trying to work the Hip-Hop angle on this fight very hard. Not only are they trying to basically drum up new, young Black males to watch the fight, they are making some fucking OUTLANDISH comments... Don King christening himself the "godfather of Hip-Hop"?
The thing that's bugging me about this is that the only guys I know who watch fights are Black or Brown. Hip-Hop never left boxing! Aside from the commentators and the rich cats in the stands, I'm not familiar with too many White fight fans. Not that they are nonexistent, but they they don't seem to be as bountiful as Brown skinned fans. The key to understanding their stance in promotion is the young aspect. That's why they have wack interviews posted up on prominent websites. That's why every article on this fight mentions Jay-Z being at ringside, and which fighter is saying they are going to knock the other out in front of Jay. Does Jay need that fucking light? He can buy and sell those niggas 4 times a round. Let's be serious. Also, who gives a fuck if either of these guys has a record label in the works? What the fuck do they honestly know aside from investing that "hard-earned" money.
The problem with professional boxing these days is the fact that, in all fairness, arguably 60% of the major fights are fucking dull. I don't buy pay-per-view fights, because the last time I did, Roy Jones looked like a drunken puppet out there fighting John Ruiz. There are no Tysons. No Holyfields. No classic superstars, no supreme athletes. We have 3 separate boxing leagues with a handful of great fighters, no truly dominant heavyweights... and the fact that the ESPN Friday Night Fights are better than most PPV cards! Not to mention that no matter how many times Mayweather whups on someone, he never fights anyone who is truly his equal... this fight is his closest to being equally matched in a long time.
Who knows, though... this "Hip-Hop audience" jazz might work. MTV force feeds garbage down teenage throats and makes them think its the freshest, dopest new shit. Why not force feed some garbage boxers the same way? I'll tell you one thing , though: I won't be buying it.
For the record: I think the smart money is on Mayweather. He is a premier fighter who needs one big break... I just don't applaud the way they are going about it. Especially when he says he isn't about the money, but about the victory, and then in the next breath he is making comments like "That's why we work so hard. The entertainment and sports business are the same it's all about selling tickets; it's all about selling that arena out and having that adrenaline rush." Say whaaa?
Give me Ali fighting multiple times a year, not some "Pretty Boy" who can't even take a serious contender to task. To whomever watches this, I hope you get your money's worth. I really do. If not, Mayweather can say "peace" to that HBO shit FORREAL. He basically needs this fight to solidify the hype and mythos surrounding him for the last number of years. Zab shouldn't worry though, he can be in the next Mobb Deep video, even though they are betting against him.
Friday, April 7th 2006 playlist
It's been an odd week for me, musically... wasn't really rocking the D&B, although I have loads of reviews I need to prep for DOA. *sigh*... Been listening to some Hip-Hop though.. check out what's been in rotation.
1>Ghostface Killah "Shakey Dog" [def jam]
2>Papoose & Mobb Deep "License To Kill RMX II" [mixtape]
3>Katt Williams & The Game "Young Gunz Diss" [bootleg]
4>Busta Rhymes ft. Cassidy & Papoose "Psycho" [???]
5>Jin "Fuck Jay-Z" [???]
6>Mos Def "Life Is Real" [geffen?]
7>Nas "Made You Look" [columbia]
8>Little Brother, DJ Drama & Mos Def "Let It Go" [mixtape]
9>Edgar Allen Floe "The Torch" [???]
10>Ghostface & MF DOOM "Angels" [nature sounds]
Drum & Bass/Jungle
1>Skitty & Heist "Ghost" [architecture]
2>DJ Motive "Domino" [dispatch]
3>Ill Logic & Raf "Inside Out" [metalheadz platinum]
4>Syncopix "Dos Or Die" [syncopix]
5>Akuma "Loss of Self" [mindrush]
6>Sileni "Cold Sweat" [planet mu]
7>Xplorer "Technology" [obsessions]
8>Invaderz "Ircram" [commercial suicide]
9>Equinox "Acid Rain (Breakage Final Chapter VIP)" [planet mu]
10>Alpha Omega "Straight Circles" [dubplate]
Word. That's sort of how it went, minus all of the Congo Natty madness I listen to on the regular.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Grab Genesis Elijah's "Deh Pon Road" LP for FREE!
To all those uninitiated to Genesis Elijah's steeze, this album is a perfect capsule of what he's about. He's lyrical, but he reps for the streets. He will rip you to pieces in a battle, but then he'll bring it political and spiritual on you in the same breath. You'll be doing yourself a favor by grabbing this album.
Check this post on the Genesis Elijah / Broken Souls forums. Tell 'em khal sent you!
Suge speaks... sort of.
What the hell does that mean? To me, it sounds like he might be willing to let go of "Tha Row", and set up another stable where he can beat up on his rappers... I keed, I keed! Seriously though, why doesn't he just leave the game alone? He has done what he needs to do... why make Petey Pablo suffer any longer?
Why did he even get re-married?
Dysfunctional is one thing... plum stupidity is something else. To each his own, though. I wish the both of them the best... again, I really wanted this to work, but in all honesty, no matter the history they have together, you have to realize that some people just should not be married. I hope they do right by Hailie, but this marriage stuff should just be left alone.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Suge might lose Death Row?
Lydia Harris, the ex-wife of Harry-O, the incarcerated scarface who helped fund Death Row in its infancy (as spelled out in the documentary Welcome To Death Row) is trying to obtain the $107 million that she won back in March of 2005. Lydia and Harry-O have their own legal beef, but whatever. The big part of this situation is the fact that Death Row might be put into receivership, which leades to a possible auction of Death Row and the entire back catalogue! Do you realize how big this is? Check it out: Death Row's back cat. includes 2Pac, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Tha Dogg Pound, and some other nobodies... how fucking VALUABLE is this treasure trove of music!? It is valuable enough to keep Suge in the limelight, releasing things like Snoop Doggy Dogg's Greatest Hits packages and the like. Suge is out there making money off of these classics, which he has legal right to do. He raped those guys contracts from jump... and now he might lose EVERYTHING.
Imagine, if you will, if Dre buys that back catalogue... not only would he be sitting on a goldmine, but he'd be taking back his masters. How big is that?!?!?!
I don't think you guys hear me... Suge does, though.
I've seen the future.
I have some plans for this blog. I write for The Flow Magazine and Dogs On Acid, but I'm planning on getting more content on here. Whether it's interviews, essays, reviews, whatever, I want this to be my own extension to the outside world. Not that I don't leave home, but I don't really get my feet wet. I'm going to be 25 years young in October, and I feel like my talent is being wasted at some times. Whether it's me writing more material than the sites can update them or just having other ideas that don't fit their scheme, I have a bug that needs to be exercised.
I'm putting out some feelers, maybe with people you've heard of, maybe not... but we'll see how this experiment works.
A few points of interest:
1. Hollywood is making movies available for download. Big things, but you can't burn them to DVD!
2. Shaq wilds out on the refs of the NBA. Let's be forreal, dog. You are getting old, and can't keep up like you used to... don't take it out on the refs!
3. Former Busta Rhymes rhyme co-hort (think Leaders of the New School) Dinco D has a new diss record out about Busta. Do I really need to comment?!


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Taylor Swift has addressed the bizarre rumour that she kidnapped her boyfriend.
Rumours the country songstress missed her boyfriend, Connor Kennedy, so much she boarded a private jet and kidnapped him from where he was circulated the internet recently.
The songstress, however, spoke to Rolling Stone magazine about the crazy allegations and dismissed there was any truth in them.
"How did I kidnap him? You can't kidnap a grown man! These are serious accusations, now!" she told the publication.
Adding: "It's an interesting way to spin something into a story. See, this is why I don't read stuff."
And that clears that up!
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CSR absorbs GPS chip company SiRF
British company acquiring maker of GPS chips used by TomTom, Garmin, others.
CSR, formerly Cambridge Silicon Radio, has bought SiRF, an American GPS chip company, in a share transaction valued at 91 million British pounds ($132.7 million), giving SiRF shareholders 27 percent of the new, enlarged CSR. Two SiRF directors will get seats on the board.
SiRF is best known for its SiRFstar range of GPS chips, which are used by TomTom , Garmin, Palm, and others. CSR has traditionally specialized in Bluetooth chips, more recently concentrating on highly integrated all-in-one circuits that combine Bluetooth with other radio functions like Wi-Fi and FM reception. Lately, it has been promoting 802.11n for mobile applications, although industry uptake has yet to take off.
The company has confirmed to me that it will continue to be called CSR, and will continue to have its headquarters in Cambridge, U.K.
Rupert Goodwins of ZDNet UK reported from London.


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My primary focus is early China. I am particularly interested in the ways imperial authority was represented and justified in the historiography, literature, and material culture of the Western Han Dynasty (3rd-1st century BCE). My current research concentrates on discourses about the legitimation of power and on the relationship between human agency and metaphysical forces. Through a cross-cultural analysis that involves the ancient Mediterranean world and Greco-Roman historiography, I historicize different approaches to divinity, monotheism, public and private ritual behaviors, and institutionalized religion. My final goal is the establishment, between East and West, of a shared vocabulary for the "sacred," and of an open dialogue that entails different understandings and practices concerning the perceived moral bases of societies and individual rights. I teach courses on ancient Asian civilizations as well as on comparative political, cultural, and religious history.
Scholarly Publications
Essays in Edited Volumes
- "The Ding Tripods," in C.Y. Liu, M. Nylan, A. Barbieri Law, Recarving China's Past (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005), pp. 246-57.
Journal Articles
- "The Ghosts of Monotheism: Heaven, Fortune, and Universalism in Early Chinese and Greco-Roman Historiography," Fragments 3 (2013-2014): 43-77 (Click to read)
- "The Myth of Huangdi, the Ding vases and the Quest for Immortality in the Shiji: Some Aspects of Sima Qian's 'Laicism,'" Rivista degli Studi Orientali 77, 1,4 (2003): 201-38.
Fellowships and Awards
- Haas Junior Scholars Award, Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley, 2010-2011
- Doris G. Quinn Foundation Grant, 2010-2011
- Dissertation Grant, Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley, 2010-2011
- Liu Fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley, 2008-2009
- Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2007
- History Department Full Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2003-2006
- Award from the Italian Foreign Department for studying in China, Italian Foreign Department, Rome, Italy, 2000
- "Borsa di collaborazione presso la Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Studi Orientali" (competitively awarded research assistantship at the Oriental Library), Università di Roma, "La Sapienza," Dipartimento di Studi Orientali
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Dr. Freeze
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Not to be confused with Mr. Freeze.
Elliot Straite also known by his pseudonym Dr. Freeze, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. His songs are mostly in new jack swing style. He has, for example, written and produced the hit song I Wanna Sex You Up by R&B boy band Color Me Badd and co-written and co-produced Break Of Dawn for Michael Jackson's #1 album Invincible.
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- Top 3 hit Poison by Bell Biv DeVoe
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- Spydermann from the hit album Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know! by Another Bad Creation
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by Kevin Zalaznik // 3.23.2013 // Recap
SYRACUSE, NY – In his return to the AHL, Albany Devils goaltender Jeff Frazee made 33 saves on 36 attempts in a 3-1 setback against the Syracuse Crunch Saturday at the War Memorial at OnCenter. Frazee had spent the previous two weeks with the New Jersey Devils before being returned to Albany Tuesday.
Frazee was tested early, making 11 stops in the first period. He followed with nine in the second and 10 in the third. Syracuse's Riku Helenius registered his 16th win of the year. He made 27 saves on 28 shots.
The Crunch received first period goals from Vladislav Namestnikov at 13:39 and from Dan Sexton at 14:25. In the second, J.T. Brown moved the score to 3-0 at 14:00.
Matt Anderson spoiled Helenius' shutout bid, scoring with 53.2 second remaining in regulation. Joe Whitney and Eric Gelinas were credited with the assists on the power-play goal.
Game Notes
– Despite the loss, the Devils didn't lose ground in the Eastern Conference playoff race. At 27-24-1-10 (65 pts.), Albany trails seventh-place Connecticut (31-26-5-3, 70 pts.) and eighth-place Hershey (30-25-3-6, 69 pts.). First-place Syracuse improved 38-18-3-5 (84 pts.)
– Jeff Frazee, who made his NHL debut at Carolina on Mar. 9, made his first AHL start since a win at Adirondack on Mar. 3. This season he is 7-10-4 with a 2.36 goals-against average and a .920 save percentage in 22 appearances.
– Matt Anderson netted his second goal in as many games and his 13th of the season. He has six points (2g-4a) in the last seven games.
– Stefan Stepanov, who Albany signed on Feb. 5, made his AHL debut.
Goaltenders: Jeff Frazee, Keith Kinkaid
Defensemen: Brandon Burlon, Eric Gelinas, Jay Leach, Corbin McPherson, Stefan Stepanov, Alexander Urbom
Forwards: Matt Anderson, Jean-Sebastien Berube, Phil DeSimone, Mike Hoeffel, Cam Janssen, Harri Pesonen, Mike Sislo, Joe Whitney, Chad Wiseman, David Wohlberg, Darcy Zajac, Steve Zalewski
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The Devils have a quick turnaround with a 3 pm outing at Bridgeport tomorrow. Fans can follow the action at ahllive.com.


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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Health officials say cases of the potentially life-threatening respiratory syncytial virus have risen 40 percent in Arizona this season when compared to the same period a year earlier.
The Arizona Daily Star reports (http://bit.ly/UlYWlK) that 70 cases have been reported statewide as of Nov. 24 and that the majority of cases were reported in Maricopa, Navajo and Pinal counties.
Health officials say it's difficult to say at this point whether this season will be any different from others.
The virus typically peaks in February.
Most of the cases are in children under the age of 5.
While most children are infected with the virus by their second birthdays, only a small percentage develops severe disease.
Information from: Arizona Daily Star, http://www.azstarnet.com


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The Buzz: Business news
Business, media, technology and more in the Capital Region and beyond
Monthly Archive for March, 2008
Ex-Tougher CEO faces federal indictment
Steven Shaw, the former CEO of Tougher Industries Inc., has been indicted and charged with making a false loan application, tax evasion, failing to file tax returns and embezzling money from a healthcare benefit program, the U.S. Attorney's office for the Northern District of New York said today. The office says Shaw, when he was […]
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Making sure veterans, seniors get their stimulus rebate checks
The Internal Revenue Service plans to provide assistance to veterans and senior citizens who otherwise might not file tax returns to make sure they will receive their federal stimulus rebate payments. The U.S. Treasury plans to issue the checks in May. IRS representatives will join the Veterans Administration, state commissioners, local officials, representatives of AARP […]
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Pitney Bowes CEO to speak at breakfast
Murray Martin, CEO of Pitney Bowes Inc., is going to be speaking at a breakfast meeting of the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce next Tuesday. The event, sponsored by TD Banknorth, will begin at 8 a.m. at Wolferts Roost Country Club in Menands. Of course local business people will be eager to hear what Martin […]
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MOVERS: Media, Technology
Creatacor Inc. Timothy Lemery of Albany joined the Clifton Park-based exhibit and trade-show company as an account executive. TECHNOLOGY Bespoke Software Inc. Dale Smith joined the software firm in Albany as senior account executive marketing its new volunteer management software, VSysOne. He worked at SAP and Gartner as both an inside account executive and a […]
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Small business is big business next Thursday
March 27 is Small Business lobby day at the capital, sponsors announced today. Sponsors include The Business Council of New York State Inc., Chamber Alliance of New York State, the Main Street Small Business Coalition and the National Federation of Independent Business. The big issue on the agenda continues to be the high cost of […]
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PSC tackles 15-by-15 and other issues
The state Public Service Commission tackled a number of energy issues at its monthly meeting in New York City today. The most sweeping initiative deals with the "15 by 15″ program first proposed by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer. That initiative calls for the state to reduce its energy consumption by 15 percent by 2015. The […]
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Wanted: Young professionals
Two area chambers of commerce today announced the creation of a marketing campaign designed to lure young professionals to the Capital Region. The effort, called "Discover Tech Valley, Rediscover Home," will involve an interactive kiosk at Albany International Airport and advertising in the alumni magazines produced by several local colleges and universities. Chamber and college […]
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State awards broadband Internet grants
The New York State Council for Universal Broadband today announced $5 million in grants to community groups and companies in the state to improve high-speed Internet access in rural and urban areas. Two local awards were on the list. Communities Connecting of Columbia County Inc., received $156,631 to help build a fiber optic network in the […]
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TD Banknorth announces name change
TD Banknorth today said it will soon have a new name: TD Commerce Bank. The new name reflects the bank's $8.5 million soon-to-be-completed deal to acquire New Jersey's Commerce Bank. In the next few months, the bank said it will begin an interior and exterior "rebranding effort" at all of its 1,100 branches. The bank also […]
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Fourth buyer for Boyd could be it
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge has given a verbal go-ahead for a fourth attempt to sell the William Boyd Printing Co. Inc. building in Albany. Cass Hill Advisors Ltd. of Clifton Park has offered $1.3 million for the four-story building, located off North Pearl Street on Sheridan Avenue. Boyd sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in […]
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Thanks Kurt and Keren, I spent way too much time on this and I think maybe over did it a bit detail wise, but its up now and I really appreciate your comments! as it was S6 vs sleep last night and S6 won! lol, cheers ! :)
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Nearly 900,000 Australian households currently paying higher energy prices by choosing GreenPower are angry that their efforts to reduce their carbon emissions still won't count under the changes to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme announced by the federal government earlier this week. Under the changes, GreenPower consumption levels in 2009 will be set as the baseline for futures measures. This means that only new sales of GreenPower purchased from 2010 will count as additional to the mandatory target. As a result the ten percent of households who already pay more for GreenPower won't be reducing Australia's emissions as they expect, but will effectively be making it cheaper for business to pollute even more. "Consumers are angry that the efforts they have taken to reduce carbon emissions by purchasing GreenPower are wasted under the proposed CPRS," said CHOICE senior policy officer Victoria Coleman. "In 2008, GreenPower provided over 1.8 million megawatt hours of clean energy to over 877,000 households and 34,000 businesses. Under the government's changes this simply won't count." In addition to GreenPower, this week's announcement means that other voluntary actions, like installation of solar panels or purchasing fuel efficient cars, also won't reduce Australia's total emissions beyond businesses' mandatory targets. "Consumers have every right to be frustrated. The government is destroying consumer confidence in a growing industry, threatening thousands of current and potential jobs and risking its commitment to developing a green economy." CHOICE has launched a campaign, GreenPower: Keep it Real, which has already received a strong response from consumers angry at the government's announcement. "While we fight this battle consumers should continue to buy GreenPower and they should join our campaign by sending a message to Senator Wong. The government needs to act to ensure the extra money consumers spend on buying GreenPower actually counts for something."
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Marco Brambilla is assistant professor at the Polo Regionale di Como of the Politecnico di Milano. He graduated cum laude at the Politecnico di Milano in 2001 and has taken his Ph. D. in Information Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include Web modeling methodologies, Web design patterns and conceptual design of data-intensive Web applications. He has collaborated as an application analyst in several industrial projects with the WebRatio team. He has a wide teaching experience in Database, Fundamentals of Computer Science and Web Engineering.
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The drop foot or foot drop as the condition is known occurs when some muscles of the foot are paralyzed. The muscle paralysis can occur in the muscles that cause the upward foot movement. The main muscle that is paralyzed is the Tibialis anterior. The nerve damage to the lateral popliteal or the peroneal nerve can cause the muscle paralysis too.
Common causes of foot drop
Spinal injuries can lead to complete paralysis of all the muscles of the leg. This paralysis can cause the Tibialis anterior to be paralyzed too. The presence of tumor in the peripheral nerve can lead to this condition. Damage to the nerve in any other disease condition can also lead to drop foot. There are also other diseases like diabetes and even cerebral palsy.
Muscular dystrophy, Multiple sclerosis and even Parkinsons disease can lead to foot drop. Special mention has to be made that Leprosy is one of the common conditions where Foot drop can occur. The intake of certain drugs can cause toxicity and this too can cause the nerve damage leading to this problem.
Gait in a person with Foot drop
A person who is suffering from drop foot cannot lift the ankle upwards. Inability to lift the foot while walking can cause changes in the way the person walks. This kind of gait pattern is called as steppage gait. There are other names for such a gait and they are foot drop gait, high stepping gait and toe heel gait.
Diagnosis of Foot drop
The diagnosis of foot drop is very easy and simple. Just observing the gait of the individual can help. The person will walk with a high stepping gait. The foot will not move up when the person is walking. More sophisticated methods of diagnosing the cause of the condition are present. These include MRI and EMG.
Treatment for foot drop
There are different treatment approaches to the condition. If the foot drop and the muscle paralysis were caused because of damage to the peripheral nerves, then a course of steroids are given to the patient. Steroids can help the nerve and the muscle to recover, along with Physiotherapy. The Physical therapy treatment for Foot drop includes those like exercises for the paralyzed muscle.
Orthotic appliances are used to prevent the foot from being in the dropped position. Orthotic appliances keep the foot in the neutral or normal position. Some of the splints that are used include the 90 degree foot drop stop splint. This is also called as a posterior slab. An orthotic device that can be used as a dynamic splint is the foot drop spring shoes. A spring is fixed to the anterior aspect of the footwear. The other end of the spring is fixed to a leather strap placed in the lower leg. This causes the foot to move up when the person walks. This reverses the gait cycle and makes it normal.
There are some conditions like Leprosy and peripheral nerve injury, where the foot drop can be corrected with tendon transfer surgeries or reconstructive surgeries. Fixation of the foot in the neutral position is also done in those who have foot drop because of a central nervous problem.
Functional Electrical Stimulation or FES is one of the methods of treating the drop foot. This is a method in which the nerves and the muscle that is paralyzed are stimulated. This activates the muscle during the walking and other times causing muscle contraction to occur. This helps in the treatment of the nerve and muscle so that they recover completely or partially, thus reversing the Drop foot.


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Ok, here it is. Temp guage on Escort 1.6 Zetec not working. The top thermostat sensor (grey) looked new as if it had been replaced in a previous life. The bottom sensor (black) was smothered in oil and when removed, you could see it was damaged.
No problem, replace sensor right. Well I had replaced cam-belt kit, aux drive belt & water pump so wasnt expecting any problems anywhere else.
As I allowed the engine to idle after fitting all the above, there was a horrible smell or melting plastic and then a flash-bang and the new sensor literally blew out of the brass fitting!
When I looked at the old sensor, it had obviously done the same, but just melted a bit and went open cct.
I dont want to keep throwing sensors at it as they will all explode & although entertaining; wont fix the temp guage.
If I dont get anywhere I will replace sensors with an older type & fit an external temp guage; However has anyone got any idea?
I am a pretty good mechanic, but auto electrics, ECU's - these are the things of Satan!


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Sona is incredibly fun to play as a poke support. I love using her to poke an ADC whenever he goes for a last hit, or to poke a Leona down before she engages. Not to mention her ability to instantly lockdown potentially a whole team is baller. What I hate about Sona is she doesn't do anything particularly well besides her ultimate. She already is the squishiest champion in the game, so I'd love for her to be loaded with tons of utility to compensate. Right now all she has is DECENT poke, and you have to time your abilities well to get it to work. Contrast that with Thresh who gets his poke up no matter what, or Annie who has ridiculous range. She already is basically free food for most meta Supports right now at level 6, I don't get why she can't have strong consistent poke when someone like Annie gets strong consistent poke, armor and MR, stuns that come up every 4 spells, and the ability to burst so hard. Picking the right moments to poke as Sona should feel really rewarding, especially since it's really the only expression of skill she has outside of her ultimate. The other thing I'd like to see is for the passive procs to be especially devastating, moreso on the movement speed slow or the damage reduction. Especially since you guys just buffed heal to a ridiculous level, why pick Sona when someone like Leona can just take heal? To be honest, I'd like to see her basic abilities buffed or reworked to the point where application of her passive is what defines her gameplay. Aura's are great and all, I guess, but I wouldn't mind if you scrapped the Aura's in exchange for a more impactful application of her passive.
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Sona's kind of a jack of all trades- poke, sustain, engage, disengage- but master of none, which leaves her somewhere in the middle tier. Her greatest strength imo is her early game laning phase with the heals and pokes, which is awesome, kinda winning bot lane early just by those. But aside from a flash+ult mid-late game she feels underwhelming as a champion. I read that Sona wasn't meant to have her AOE stun ult, and if she didn't she'd probably be useless as a champion. I think her role as a support needs to be defined. Poker, healer, engager? Like I said she can do all 3 but not to the max that top tier picks do. She needs something unique about her. What that is i'm not sure i'm not a game dev lol.
Sona's Q and W are great as they are. Her E could use some more power at earlier levels. Her auras are in fact not fun to use. I put Q aura on when taking towers, and I don't use the other auras much because I generally use the active spell again (example: if my allies need bonus resistances, I'll just use W again. And if my allies need movespeed, I'll just spam E). Her Q aura is the only good one because it gives you something that the Q active doesn't. As everyone has said, I hate how squishy she is, but I don't think she should be very tanky since she has pseudo tankiness in her heal and bonus resistances from W active & aura. Also her ult is great.
This coming from someone who picked ups sona as their first champion (turning me into a support main) What I like? Jack of all trades. what I dislike? master on none. way to squishy, no damage/little AP scaling. What is most interesting about her? This would be in her powercords, with full CDR and mana font, you can spam your spell, thus, spam your powercords. the problem is she requires to be too close for her squishieness. When I make the best Plays? This is entirely team dependent. It's usually holding down multiple enemies with her ult while the get nailed by allied Zigg's mega infernal bomb. Over all, Sona's Auras, powerCords, and heal, would make her good in sustained battle if she was just a little more beefy.
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What do you love about playing Sona? Her passive. It's really powerful and separates an average Sona player from a great one. Average Sonas seem to forget that she has more than one Power Chord type, and it's not just on her Q. What do you not like about playing Sona? 1. She's really weak early, and it's annoying to miss your Q harass by 10 range, or accidentally take minion kills, or push the lane too much. I have to back off the wave to switch to my Q aura because I don't want to mess up my lane partner's last hitting. 2. She doesn't feel as effective as supports like Thresh and Leona up until level 6, and even then she has to play perfectly to turn one of their engages in her favor. 3. She's incredibly squishy with terrible base stats. Even though her base HP nerf got reverted, she still has the stats of a tissue, and that really hurts her since she can get exploded instantly if her ult is down (sometimes even with her ult up) What decisions are most interesting to you when you play Sona? Using Power Chord effectively. Do I want a little bit more damage? Damage reduction? Or a pretty good slow? What moments of a Sona game make you feel like youve made a play for your team? Any play involving my ult. Flash+ult, Talisman+ult, whichever. Unfortunately outside of her ult Sona isn't renowned for making "plays". And since it has a long cooldown, there's not much to do while waiting for it to be back up. In my opinion, Sona is too ultimate-dependent and the rest of her skills outside of her passive feel really weak.
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Dear Fearless I used to play ranked. I used to play sona in ranked. I loved the healing sustain style of play. Then all of a sudden Riot Nerfed all heals. A year later they nerfed Sona so they could give her scaling utility. Just recently they nerfed Lich Bane. These are a few of the reasons I do not play sona or ranked anymore. I ENJOY healing. It is the fantasy I want to have in a MOBA. I want to heal my team. But the way things have worked lately if your team gets behind you are useless, if your team is ahead your unbeatable. There has to be a middle ground. What do you love about playing Sona? I love to heal. It is my support fantasy in a MOBA. What do you not like about playing Sona? Her abilities do not need to scale on AP. She is squishy but I am willing to accept this, however her heal needs a serious buff. I would love to see a 50% increase across all ranks with a severe reduction in AP scaling. The reason for this is simple. At my level of play I NEVER get to build AP on her. She has weaknesses that MUST be addressed if I want to live long enough to heal. Additionally as a support she is pidgeonholed into buying supportive items. What decisions are most interesting to you when you play Sona? I enjoy positioning but I do not like how Riot has allowed POKE comps to be far more mana efficient. It is time to bring back sona heals. If you ask me she does not even need a Q, make it another aura passive. What moments of a Sona game make you feel like youve made a play for your team? When I land a creschendo and the entire team actually kills the proper targets in order. So basically I am asking. I WANT to play ranked again. But with so few hps, and such weak healing it is more of a liability. Heck Soraka is a nightmare counter for Sona. So basically every support is currently better (Unless your Edward from M5). Please rework her so we can have a healing MOBA champion!
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Previously unknown artworks by masters are among more than 1,400 pieces found in a trove of Nazi-looted art in Munich, German officials say.
As slides of the paintings were shown at a news conference, an expert said the works had been seized from private individuals or institutions.
Previously unregistered works by Marc Chagall, Otto Dix, Max Liebermann and Henri Matisse were found.
Prosecutors said the issue of ownership was still being clarified.
There is no question that the Munich trove is extremely significant, a really important discovery. You could conceivably set up a museum with this lot.
The curator who has been cataloguing the collection says not only does it contain works we thought were destroyed, but some that we did not know existed. Art historians all over the world will be preparing to rewrite biographies of several modern artists.
The previously unknown Chagall is an exciting discovery, a highly valuable work of art. And the Otto Dix self-portrait, full of German expressionism, catches him at a moment shortly after the end of World War One when his art was reaching new heights. But now we are hearing there are Canalettos and a Courbet in there - so it is not just a collection of modern art.
What is frustrating is the drip-feeding of information from Germany. There are almost 1,400 works in this collection, yet they have only told us concrete details about two of them.
There still seems to be a cloak of secrecy around the whole affair. They are telling us they are not going to post the images online - so if you think you might have a claim, you have to approach them. It is extraordinary. Like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
The total value has been estimated at about 1bn euros (£846m; $1.35bn).
Reinhard Nemetz, head of the prosecutors' office in Augsburg, said that 121 framed and 1,285 unframed works had been seized in the flat of Cornelius Gurlitt in Munich in March of last year.
It was not yet clear if any offence had been committed, he added, stressing that the legal position was extremely complex.
Investigators, he said, had turned up "concrete evidence" that at least some of the works had been seized by the Nazis from their owners or had been deemed "degenerate".
Art expert Meike Hoffmann said some of the works were dirty but they had not been damaged.
'Extraordinarily good'"When you stand before the works and see again these long-lost, missing works, that were believed destroyed, seeing them in quite good condition, it's an extraordinarily good feeling," Ms Hoffmann said.
"The pictures are of exceptional quality, and have very special value for art experts. Many works were unknown until now."
Other artists whose works were found include Pablo Picasso and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as Canaletto and Gustave Courbet.
The paintings were found in March of last year after Mr Gurlitt was investigated for tax evasion.
The framed pictures were stacked on a shelf, like in a museum storeroom while the unframed works were piled up in drawers, said customs official Siegfried Kloeble.
According to a report by Germany's Focus magazine, Mr Gurlitt, the reclusive son of an art dealer in Munich, would occasionally sell a picture when he needed money.
"We don't have any strong suspicion of a crime that would justify an arrest," said Mr Nemetz, adding that the current whereabouts of Mr Gurlitt were unknown.
Asked at the news conference why the German authorities had taken so long to reveal the paintings, the prosecutor said it would have been "counter-productive to go public" with the case earlier.
Mr Kloeble refused to say where the artworks were being stored.
Mr Gurlitt's father Hildebrand collected early 20th Century art regarded by the Nazis as un-German or "degenerate", and removed from show in state museums.
He was recruited by the Nazis to sell the "degenerate art" abroad but also bought privately.
After the war he told investigators that his collection had been destroyed during the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945. He also said he had been persecuted himself for having a Jewish grandmother.
Resuming his work as a dealer, he died in a car crash in 1956.
A Jewish group has questioned the length of time it took Germany to unveil the artworks and called for them to be returned to their original owners.
"It cannot be, as in this case, that what amounts morally to the concealment of stolen goods continues," said Ruediger Mahlo, speaking for the Conference on Jewish material claims against Germany.
'Justice denied'Stuart Eizenstat, a former US ambassador to the EU, told the BBC that time was running out, and the details of the artworks should be published.
"Victims of the Holocaust are aging, even the families of those who did not survive are of an age," he said.
"It's important that this be publicised. But the longer one goes... the more difficult it is for people to prepare potential claims... Justice delayed is justice denied."
However, prosecutors say it would not be proper procedure to put things on the internet and people who want to make a claim should contact them directly.
The BBC's Stephen Evans in Munich says that descendants of owners of art taken by German forces in occupied Europe may be able to make claims.
However, there are suggestions that art taken in Germany itself may not be reclaimable because of a 30-year statute of limitations.
Mr Mahlo said that private collections of such art under the Third Reich had been almost all Jewish.
However, auctioneers have argued that at least some of the works were purchased cheaply in 1938 by Mr Gurlitt's father from a collection of state-owned art.
In 1990, Cornelius Gurlitt auctioned works for 38,250 Swiss francs (31,000 euros) in Galerie Kornfeld, an auction house and gallery in the Swiss city of Bern.
In a statement quoted by Reuters news agency, Galerie Kornfeld said: "Cornelius Gurlitt inherited the works after the death of his mother Helene. Basically this is a case of undeclared inheritance."


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Computer science is the study of programs, data, computing machinery, and how they interact. The computer science program at UCC is mathematically based following the recommendations of the Association for Computing Machinery.
After completing two years at UCC, you can transfer to a four-year college or university and complete a bachelor's degree in computer science.
Computer science is a foundation that allows graduates to explore a wide range of career possibilities. Popular computer science careers include programming and software development, computer hardware innovation and development, testing mathematical algorithms, managing the technological infrastructure of an organization, and digital security.
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AUSTIN, TEXAS (TEA) — Commissioner of Education Michael Williams today noted that 14 Texas school districts are among 477 in the U.S. and Canada being honored by the College Board with placement on its 4th Annual AP® District Honor Roll. The Honor Roll recognizes districts for increasing access to AP course work while simultaneously maintaining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on AP Exams.
The 13 districts and one charter school in Texas that have earned this national distinction are:
- Carroll Independent School District (Southlake, TX)
- Coppell Independent School District
- Eagle Pass Independent School District
- Frisco Independent School District
- IDEA Public Schools
- Irving Independent School District
- Katy Independent School District
- Lake Travis Independent School District
- Mesquite Independent School District
- Pasadena Independent School District
- Plano Independent School District
- Point Isabel Independent School District
- Sharyland Independent School District (Mission, TX)
- Southwest Independent School District (San Antonio, TX)
"Students in school districts across Texas are tackling rigorous Advanced Placement courses and succeeding," said Commissioner Williams. "This opportunity to prepare for postsecondary success in high school pays great dividends in our education system today and for our state's economic future."
In 2013, more than 3,300 colleges and universities around the world received AP scores for college credit, advanced placement and/or consideration in the admission process, with many colleges and universities in the United States offering credit in one or more subjects for qualifying AP scores.
Data from 2013 show that among African-American, Hispanic and Native American students with a high degree of readiness for AP, only about half of students are participating because their schools do not always offer the AP course for which they have potential. Trevor Packer, the College Board's senior vice president of AP and Instruction, notes that these 14 Texas districts are committed to expanding the availability of AP courses among prepared and motivated students of all backgrounds.
"We applaud the extraordinary efforts of the devoted teachers and administrators in these districts who are offering more students the opportunity to engage in rigorous college-level course work," said Packer. "These outcomes are a powerful testament to educators' belief that a more diverse population of students is ready for the sort of rigor that will prepare them for success in college."
Inclusion on the 4th Annual AP District Honor Roll is based on the examination of three years of AP data, from 2011 to 2013, for the following criteria. Districts must:
- Increase participation/access to AP by at least 4 percent in large districts, at least 6 percent in medium districts, and at least 11 percent in small districts;
- Increase or maintain the percentage of exams taken by African American, Hispanic/Latino, and American Indian/Alaska Native students, and;
- Improve performance levels when comparing the percentage of students in 2013 scoring a 3 or higher to those in 2011, unless the district has already attained a performance level at which more than 70 percent of its AP students are scoring a 3 or higher.
Overall, Texas ranked 13th in nation in the percentage of 2012 graduates participating in AP. Over the last decade, AP participation and success in Texas have increased steadily.
To view the complete listing of school districts named to the College Board's 4th Annual AP® District Honor Roll, visit http://www.collegeboard.org/ [1]


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Interesting article. Worth a read.
Did you guys hear we'll have a Team Time Trial at the World's this weekend? News to me too.
Ahem, well, what to say? Hey, at least no saddle sores (and no girlfriends either).
Ok, on the same weirdo vein, we have Graeme Obree's latest machine to attempt a 160km/h flat record. On a bicycle, if we can call it that. Hmm... How about "Human Speed Probe"?
One of my favorite riders, Rambo, who's 41 years old, breaks away with 20km to go and wins the race. Old dogs never cease to surprise me with their new tricks.
Settle down, Alberto. children are watching.
Danny MacAskill - "Way Back Home" from Dave Sowerby on Vimeo.
Sorry, Theo. But you look like one of those circus dudes who get shot out of a cannon.
If I lived on Tatooine, I would totally get one of these. Would make my commute to Mos Eisley both fast and enjoyable.


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What to eat with Champagne? There seems to be little available online in regards to specifics matches of champagne styles with food; excpet for a little on canapes and such little bites. There is a piece on umami and Champagne by Fiona Beckett (who recommends such foods as mature Parmesan or grana padano, porcini and shitake mushrooms, the skin and juices from a roasted chicken and crisp streaky bacon). Here are a few further ideas:
You may have expected the content of the Champagne houses flash-based websites to offer plenty of suggestions; but no. Of the ten different producer sites I dived into the food matching suggestions were generally rudimentary, as is the Champagne regions promotional website.
Champagne Gosset stood out with a whole list of suggestions including recipes. These covered starters (such as Cheese Pastry Gougere with Wild Mushrooms for their Brut Excellence), main courses (Apple Stuffed Duck with their Grande Reserve was one) and dessert (Dacquoise with Walnuts and Raisins with their Grand Millesime).
Other food matching with Champagne suggestions cobbled from various sources include
was a plate of fish'n'chips without vinegar???
this is great Andrew – i will post a link to it in my announcement.
I think a key to pairing dry champagne with food is to keep it salty. Oysters and caviar both have that sea breaze saltiness that is perfect for crispness and minerality. I really liked the bacon idea. As long as the bubbly could stand up to the smoke flavors, that could be very interesting. I recommend trying a demi-sec or even sweet sparkler with spicy Indian food. I think, potentially, this could be the equivilant to the German riesling with Thai food pairing. I had some amazing chicken tikka masala take-out from this Indian place down the street from my apartment. I paired with a Moscato D' Asti (Moscato D' Asti, Saracco 04) which was mindblowing. I highly recommend.
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Thanks Georgiana and Fimbis. Agnes, thank you! Makes all the difference when someone buys an original painting from you doesn't it :-)
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About Pimp C
Pimp C was a pioneering emcee/producer from Port Arthur, Texas who passed away well before his time in 2007 (he's since since been canonized by the southern hip-hop community). Pimp's biggest mainstream moment would have to have been his critically acclaimed appearance on Jay Z's 2000 single "Big Pimpin'" with Bun, although he truly excelled in the underground. Throughout his prolific 20-year career, he released two studio albums (another three were released posthumously) and collaborated with the likes of Too $hort, Jazze Pha, Lil Boosie, Webbie, Chamillionaire, Young Buck, DJ Screw, Outkast, Paul Wall, Three 6 Mafia, 8Ball & MJG, Slim Thug and many more. Bun B continues to keep his legacy alive to this day, the last we heard of him having been a 2011 collaboration between Bun and Big K.R.I.T. that featured some of Pimp's archival vocals. May he rest in peace.
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- Not only were Pimp C and Bun B collaborators, they were best friends as well.
- Pimp C spent three years in prison for violating probation, from 2002-2005.
- During his incarceration, Bun B organized a "Free Pimp C" campaign.
- He died of respiratory depression caused by a preexisting sleep apnea condition and an overdose of codeine and promethazine.
- Emcees Bun B, Webbie, Slim Thug, Chamillionaire, Mike Jones, Big Gipp, Willie D, Bi-Bi and Big North were all present at his funeral, which took place at the Bob Bowers Civic Center in Port Arthur, Texas on December 13th, 2007.
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Facts about Sciatica and Filing for Disability1. Sciatica refers to back pain associated with the sciatic nerve, which runs from the spinal cord, through the hips and down the backs of the thighs. The sciatic nerve is the body's longest, and this nerve is responsible for controlling leg muscles and sensation in the legs and feet. 2. Pain along the sciatic nerve is a symptom of a variety of conditions that affect the nerve. Often this is a herniated disk compressing part of the nerve. 3. It can also be caused by spinal stenosis in the lower back, a condition that causes narrowing of the canal around the spinal cord and creates pressure on the nerves. Spondylolisthesis, where one vertebra slips over another, can pinch the nerve as well. Tumors and injuries to either the spinal cord or the sciatic nerve specifically may also cause sciatic pain. 4. Sciatica pain typically radiates from the lower back down through one of the legs, and can be mild or severe, sudden or prolonged. It can also cause numbness, weakness and uncomfortable sensations such as tingling in the feet and toes. 5. Occasionally, both sides may be affected, but differently, such as with pain in one leg and numbness in the other. 6. One rare symptom, suddenly losing control of the bladder or bowels, is a medical emergency, as it is a sign of a serious condition. 7. Most of the time, sciatica is mild and acute, going away on its own in about a month. At home self-care measures can help treat and alleviate symptoms, including applying heat or cold, doing stretches and exercises, and taking over-the-counter pain relievers. 8. If the pain lasts for longer than a month or continues to get worse despite at home care, a doctor will be able to help with more aggressive treatment. This may include therapy, prescription pain relievers, steroid injections or, in the most serious circumstances, surgery. Can you qualify for disability benefits with this condition? Whether or not you qualify for disability and, as a result, are approved for disability benefits will depend entirely on the information obtained from your medical records. This includes whatever statements may have been obtained from your treating physician (a doctor who has a history of treating your condition and is, therefore, qualified to comment as to your condition and prognosis). It will also depend on the information obtained from your vocational, or work, history if you are an adult, or academic records if you are a minor-age child. The important thing to keep in mind is that the social security administration does not award benefits based on simply having a condition, but, instead, will base an approval or denial on the extent to which a condition causes functional limitations. Functional limitations can be great enough to make work activity not possible (or, for a child, make it impossible to engage in age-appropriate activities). 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Perl pet peeves: named parameters for methods
A colleague was creating an app that used the Net::LDAP module, a module I have been using myself for a very long time now. In the code there was the statement:
my $msg = $ldap->search(bind_dn => $base_dn, filter => $filter);
…that was returning a "Bad filter" error. Turns out there was no problem with the filter text, but there was with the search statement—the parameter label bind_dn
is not a valid keyword for this module.
I did something similar a long time ago, using a parameter label for the bind()
method that actually belonged to new()
. The parameter and value were accepted without comment. It didn't cause an error, it was just silently ignored since it was totally unexpected.
As I'm sure you know, when passing named parameters to a method, what you are really passing is a hash. So:
filter => $filter
…is really a hash entry with 'filter' as the key getting assigned the value from the scalar $filter. Now what you would like is for the method to throw an error if you misspell a key, but for the Net::LDAP module, and some other CPAN code I've seen, no check is done to see if an unexpected key is defined. The justification for this is the possible use of inheritance. If you pass a "foo" parameter to an object, it may not know what to do with "foo" but one of the other methods inherited by that object may. That's why you'll see things like…
my($self, %opts) = @_;
and then later…
$self->someOtherMethod($this, $that, %opts);
As for my own code, I'm still working on coming up with a good way to used named parameters with methods where all of the methods that get a set of named parameters have to 'claim' the ones that that particular method is using, so that in the end, if there are any unclaimed named parameters, an exception is thrown. Haven't come with what I think is a clean solution, but I'm still thinking about it.
I hope this is the sort of thing Moose fixes.


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CNN — Time for some Angus management - May 28 is National Hamburger Day!
The humble hamburger seems to have had a facelift in recent years. Hamburgers of late feature all sorts of newfangled ideas, like the foie gras burger, Texas toast burger, or donut burger.
Making the ultimate burger is, ultimately, up to you. Ask your local butcher for freshly ground meat, and consider trying a meat blend with a cut like brisket for added flavor and texture. Ideally, you want a patty that will crust up well on the grill, stay juicy and won't fall apart on you.
Then, there's technique. Whether you're flipping burgers on a pan or out on the grill, make sure your cooking surface is nice and hot. Flip your burgers once and for the love of hamburgers, don't squish them with your spatula. Pressing down only forces out all the flavorful juices.
The patties aren't the only part of this meaty equation. Bread usually acts as a carrying vessel, and shouldn't be neglected. Butter each side of the bun and toast alongside the patties to prevent a soggy mess. Go wild and experiment with different types of breads and rolls. You could also whip up your own condiments; homemade mayo is sure to win over even the most ardent sandwich spread lover.
Burgers also aren't limited to the bovine variety. Turkey, chicken, shrimp, crab and veggies all make great burgers. Or you could try my personal favorite, the lamb burger:
1 pound ground lamb (or buy boneless lamb stew meat and grind it yourself)
4 ounces feta, cut into small cubes
Cumin, to taste
Salt and pepper, to taste
Tzatziki sauce (Greek yogurt, finely diced cucumber, cumin, grated garlic, lemon zest and juice. It's not traditional, but I love it this way.)
4 pita pockets
2 sprigs rosemary
4 Yukon gold potatoes
Olive oil
Combine the lamb, feta, cumin, salt and pepper. Be careful not to over work the meat. Divide into four patties and refrigerate.
Cut the potatoes into wedges. Toss with olive oil, salt and pepper and place on a baking sheet. Add the sprigs of rosemary. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes or until crispy. Toss once or twice to prevent burning.
Fifteen minutes before grilling, take patties out of the fridge. Sear each side for 2-3 minutes on a preheated cooking surface that's been rubbed with canola or vegetable oil. Remove the burgers, cover with tinfoil and let rest.
Cut a slit into each of the pita pockets and place them on a ungreased baking tray and heat them up with the potatoes. You don't want them to get crispy, just warmed through so they're pliable.
Place each patty in a pita pocket. Slather on tzatziki sauce and stuff in some arugula. Serve with the potatoes and extra tzatziki sauce for dipping.
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YREKA, Calif. — Police are going through evidence and looking for a suspect in a suspected homicide in Yreka, but officers are not releasing many details about the crime.
A body was found in the Yreka Creek area. Police suspect murder, but they're not saying much else. People in the area just want to know what happened.
The crime scene tape has been removed and police are gone from the area, but police are still investigating what led to a body being found on Tuesday. Yreka Police say it's likely a homicide, but are not revealing what evidence led them to that conclusion. Detectives spent Thursday looking through evidence and interviewing potential persons of interest.
This is the second body found in the area in less than a year. Police say a homeless man was killed there last November, but police have not released a detailed cause of death, only cryptically calling it "homicidal violence."
Neighbors in a nearby senior apartment complex say they want answers about both deaths. Neighbors say they are not concerned about their personal safety. They say the area is quiet, and has not had problems with violence before this.
An autopsy has been scheduled for next Tuesday, and police said they'll release the victim's name once they've notified the next of kin.


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Gayle's Barisal Burners remain unbeaten in BPL
Royal Challengers Bangalore allrounder Chris Gayle's team Barisal Burners enjoyed their good run in the Bangladesh Premier League, beating Duronto Rajshahi by 22 runs in their second match at Mirpur.
Chris Gayle set the tone for the match with his opening partnership with Pakistani batsman Ahmed Shehzad after the Burners won the toss and chose to bat first. Gayle blasted 39 off just 23 balls with four fours and two sixes before he was dismissed, caught behind off his West Indies compatriot Marlon Samuels.
Gayle and Shehzad had already added 82 for the first wicket off 8.1 overs by then. Shehzad carried on for his 50 while Brad Hodge provided a neat finish as the Burners posted 180/2 in their 20 overs.
Aussie pacer Shane Harwood, Pakistani pacer Yasir Arafat and Bangladeshi slow left armer Nazmul Islam wrecked the Rajshahi line up, picking up 2 wickets each. Nazmul was hard to keep out of the game, affecting the crucial run out of Mushfiqur Rahim and taking two catches to compliment the two wickets he took. Only opener Mizanur Rehman made a solid contribution, hitting 65 off 52 balls while the next best, Pakistani allrounder Abdul Razzaq could only muster 27 runs.
Chris Gayle finished with one wicket taken in the last over of the match, bowling Syed Rasel as the Rajshahi ended on 158/9, handing the Burners a 22 run win.