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The price tag per year at Princeton is about $54,000, still cheaper than the University of Chicago which is nearly 60,000 a year.
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3D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night demo User Reviews
"Was very disappointed in the control of the game."
Version: 3D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night demo
Graphics were of good quality
Game crashed several times while I was playing it. Seemed to return to the place it stopped but with the sudden restart you are at a loss of where you were.
Used the name 3D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night. My all time favorite pinball game was Ultra 3D Creep Night Pinball but it was unable to be played once I upgraded to Vista and beyond. With the title My hopes were so high only to be crushed when I started to play.
My guess that it may be ok for those of you that have noe had the experence of some of the great ones. My quest will to keep searching until I find more great pinball games. -
"Great fun!"
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I LOVED the old Creep Night Ultra Pinball - best pinball game! But cannot seem to download it for my new Mac. Any suggestions?
Can't download to my Mac.
Excellent game - wish I could play!
"Would not work on Windows 7 64 bit"
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Would not run on 64 bit Windows 7
Updated on Jan 18, 2011 -
"won't run on mac os.x 10.4 it is a *.exe file"
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nothing at all.
won't work.
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My friend owns this game and I love it! I like the graphics, sounds and imagery. I still haven't made it all the way through and have been playing on and off for several weeks.
No cons except 5 minutes isn't enough!
"Love It !!!"
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Lots of fun graphics and variety of scene locations !
loved it all !
"Great game for old computers only"
Version: 3D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night demo
Great game for old computers
Does not work on new computers
I have two Creep Night CDs. One for Windows 95 and 95/98/ME/XP Compatible. Neither will load onto my new computer using XP. Possibly both of these games are 16 bit and my computer like all new ones are 32 or 64 bit. Could Creep Night be upgraded to play on modern computers ???
"Fun game"
Version: 3D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night demo
I already own the full version of this game. There are three tables that you must make it through to go back to the original table to complete the different challenges to win the game. 3D Ultra Pinball has come out with a couple of games (other than their first) that challenge you to complete one table to go to the next . Their last endeavor actually has something like 16 different tables. It's not your standard pinball game but it is good fun.
After completing ALL of the tables, you're "treated" to a little animated segment that's not even as good as the opening animation. Small matter but disappointing enough to keep me from giving it the full 5 stars.
"1 minute after it tells me it's a 5 minute trial, it crashes."
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The graphics were also pretty cheesy.
"go out and buy this game!!!"
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i love this pinball game! Best i've ever played. i've never bought a computer game, but did this one after playing the demo. great sound, graphics! the table in the demo isn't enough! had to have more!!!
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Urbanism Explored: The Wolfsonian (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) continues its monthlong series of lectures and films examining urban issues tonight at 6:30 p.m. as Florida Atlantic University history professor Mark Rose discusses the introduction of gas and electricity to cities from the 1880s to the 1940s. Tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. the series screens David Butler's Depression-era science-fiction musical Just Imagine, which presents a bright, optimistic vision of New York City in the 1980s. On Monday at 12:30 p.m. at FIU's University Park Campus (SW Eighth Street and 107th Avenue, DM-370), University of Alabama-Birmingham history professor Colin Davis discusses dockworkers in New York City and London after World War II. Admission to all events is free. The series continues through April 18. See upcoming editions of "Calendar Listings," or call 531-1001 for a complete schedule of events. (GC)
The Lipton Championships: The champs continue battling it out at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park (7300 Crandon Blvd., Key Biscayne), with men's quarterfinals continuing and women's semifinals beginning today at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. The court action continues tomorrow with men's semifinals at 1:00 and 7:30 p.m. sessions. Women's doubles semifinals begin Saturday at 11:00 a.m.; women's singles finals and men's doubles finals take place at 1:00 p.m. And the Lipton comes to its smashing conclusion on Sunday with men's singles finals and women's doubles finals beginning at 1:00 p.m. Fans can also meet players at autographing sessions and enjoy lessons and other special events. Tickets range from $10 to $40. Call 446-2200. (GC)
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Taylor Dayne: Boasting a larger-than-life voice and an ability to belt with the best of them, Taylor Dayne (born Leslie Wunderman on Long Island) busted out of the Russian-American clubs of Brooklyn and onto the pop music charts in the late Eighties with a string of hits from her 1988 debut album Tell It to My Heart. She followed that disc with two more albums, 1989's Can't Fight Fate and 1993's Soul Dancing, and became one of the few dance-music artists to tour clubs with a live band (rather than a music track). Dayne has been exploring other arenas of entertainment, with a starring role in a recent movie and a project with Elton John and Tim Rice to take Verdi's Aida to Broadway. Tonight Dayne makes her first South Florida appearance in more than three years at Splash (5922 S. Dixie Hwy., South Miami) in a benefit for the Arol F. Hunter Hannistien Memorial AIDS Fund. Tickets cost $15. Showtime is midnight. Call 661-0917. (GC)
The Battle of Algiers: Gillo Pontecorvo's 1967 astonishingly realistic film documenting the Algerian revolt against France from 1954 to 1962 screens this weekend at the Bill Cosford Cinema (University of Miami, off Campo Sano Avenue, Coral Gables). Shot in black and white, The Battle of Algiers contains no actual newsreel footage, but Pontecorvo manages to impart it with a gut-wrenching documentary feel, while sympathetically portraying both sides of this agonizing political struggle. The film was released before the U.S. involvement in Vietnam reached its peak, but the parallels between the two wars are obvious. Admission is five dollars. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. tonight and tomorrow, and 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. For upcoming films, call 284-4861. (GC)
Carmen: See Thursday.
Urbanism Explored: See Thursday.
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DIFFA Pink Umbrellas: When Miami Beach wakes up this morning, it will find the beach at Thirteenth Street covered with 500 pink umbrellas. The return of Christo? No, an art installation created by the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) in memory of all whose lives have been lost to AIDS. Many of the umbrellas were decorated by artists, including Romero Britto, Leonardo Hidalgo, Vladimir Pronin, Carlos Alves, and Tom Seghi. The event opens at 10:00 a.m. with a memorial service, followed by a beachside benefit brunch at Island Trading (1332 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach) at 11:00 a.m. Tickets to the brunch cost $40. At 7:30 p.m. on the roof of the Sony Building (605 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach), party in the pink at a gala benefit cocktail event. Tickets cost $50. The umbrellas will remain on view till tomorrow night, as will another pink art installation on Lincoln Road. Call 573-6333 for further information. (GC)
Miss National FFI Pageant: Who cares if the Miss Universe pageant comes to town? All the women look the same and they all answer the "interview questions" with inane platitudes about kindness to others, world peace, caring for children because they are our future, yadda, yadda, yadda. It's hopelessly boring. So head over to the Four Ambassadors Hotel (905 S. Bayshore Dr.) and check out the "ladies" at the Miss National For Female Impersonators pageant. In its fourth year, the contest features female impersonators from around the nation who compete in creative costume, evening gown, and talent categories. Tickets cost $20 for the preliminaries, $60 for the VIP package. Call 535-1400. (JO)


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Happened to see the Thompson Work Chinos in the store, and they do have a visible selvedge outseam. I forget if it's stitched over (think Deadstock Road Chino) or laid flat, as in regular jeans. I'll let you know next time I head to the store.
does anyone know the name of this wash is? http://www.ebay.com/itm/NWT-DOUBLE-RALPH-LAUREN-RRL-MENS-STRAIGHT-JAPANESE-SELVEDGE-DENIM-JEANS-28-30-/300936742915?pt=US_CSA_MC_Jeans&hash=item46113a4803
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Fire engines from Fire District 5 responded to northbound lanes I-5 at milepost 20 to the vehicle fire. The fire forced crews to shut down one lane of traffic. The blaze burned for more than an hour. She lost almost everything.
"My passport, my ID…I have nothing. I've got 8 bucks and a burned up bag. That's all I have," she said.
An Oregon State Police officer took the girl to the airport, where she was reportedly able to get a flight home. She had a full tank of gas, which was why the vehicle burned for so long.


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I am currently involved in researching several lines of my husband's family. My family has been extensivelt researched by various members and, for now, I am at a standstill with them. I have made several exciting breakthroughs in his family lines, but, as is often the case, the answers only lead to more questions... The Joe Hastens line from Scotland has provided several intriguing mysteries. When did they make the move to America? Why did they do so much moving around once they were here? Another intriguing line of research has been the Bailey-Forbus line in Mississippi. I have reached a complete dead end there. It is almost as if they do not exist....and yet, I have pictures... |
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Posters are a great item that has been around forever. We've all had them on our walls depicting our favourite bands, movies or pieces of artwork and so they have a place in our culture that is hard to replace (a bit like stickers – we love to print sticker!) at the low cost that posters often are. However, the posters that we are talking about now are mass produced, litho items that cost only a few pounds. What if you wanted to print your very own poster – how would you do it? Well, you need to find a printer that has a wide format machine capable of doing large posters (same as you'd use for banner printing), not just leaflet printing. A good print service will have this, but not all do so it's worth checking. A good printer will also be printing brochures by the dozen, so they will be experienced as well, making sure that you'll get the best job possible.
One problem is often the resolution of the artwork files. Because posters are large they need to be of high enough resolution not to be pixellated when printed at full size and this can be difficult to achieve – files like this are not freely available. Help is at hand however, as most good printers such as Suraprint will have access to an online image library that contains really big images that you can use as part of your design. They might charge you a little for this service, but it's worth it if you want real quality for your one-off poster print. Of course, any vector aspects of your design won't be affected by the resolution and if your design is mostly geometric shapes or text you may not need any high res images at all. Business cards printing don't need huge res files, so it wouldn't be a problem in that case.
One thing that most people find surprising is how expensive a one-off custom print is compared to a poster from a shop. This is because shop posters are mass produced and thus are a lot cheaper to make. One-off poster pricing has to take into account the setup time for the machine and the time it takes the pre-press guy to check and prepare the design ready for print. If you get a quote for say 500 posters and work out what each one costs, you'll actually see that it's the ones in the high street shops that are expensive! Of course, these need to make a profit when sold, and the designer, manufacturer and retailer will all want a cut of the final selling price.


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The new MAINGEAR Solo all-in-one PC series
Subject: Systems | March 13, 2012 - 12:26 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: solo, maingear, all-in-one, solo 21
Kenilworth, New Jersey – March 13th, 2012 – MAINGEAR, an award-winning custom PC builder known for custom built desktops, laptops and workstations is now adding all-in-one PC solutions to their product offerings. The MAINGEAR Solo 21 All-in-one builds upon MAINGEAR's pedigree of performance, upgradeability, no bloatware, and excellent service and support that they are known for.
With more consumers looking for a full-size desktop computer without the hassle of wires and other connections, the MAINGEAR Solo 21 All-in-One provides the freedom of space while still offering the latest technology. Following their trend of fully customizable products, the MAINGEAR Solo 21 is the first fully upgradeable all-in-one today, including the ability to upgrade the motherboard to accommodate future technology advances. This powerful all-in-one PC features an optional vibrant LED backlit 10-point touchscreen, a built in webcam, and supports a wide range of 32nm and 22nm Intel Core Processor to fit your needs and budget, and comes with a 32GB SSD caching drive for faster system response, standard.
Sleek, Elegant Design:
With clean lines and attractive silhouette, the MAINGEAR Solo 21 can fit in any room in the house. It can be on the living room wall as a media hub or use it in the kitchen for. With a VESA mount, you can hang it in your bedroom and use Windows Media Center to pull in content from your main PC or even plug in a digital cable tuner and use it as a stand-alone entertainment system.
In world of firsts, the MAINGEAR Solo 21 All-in-One will also offer a wide range of hand-painted automotive quality colors so ahead and choose your favorite color.
Advanced Technology:
Since the MAINGEAR Solo 21 is completely upgradable, it features support for a wide range of processor and also supports 22nm next generation processors. In addition, it conforms to Intel Thin Mini-ITX standards, meaning even the motherboard is upgradeable, a first in the PC industry. The MAINGEAR Solo 21 All-in-One offers up to 16GB of DDR3 memory and supports full size hard drives up to 2TB of storage and eSATA for fast external storage. The MAINGEAR Solo 21 is equipped with two USB 3.0 ports and two additional high current, fast-charging USB 2.0 ports to keep your mobile devices ready to go.
The MAINGEAR Solo 21 also features a gorgeous LED backlit 1080p screen with optional 10-point multi-touch technology, allowing for even greater interactivity with your PC.
The MAINGEAR Solo 21 is the first all-in-one to come equipped with SSD caching to accelerate the performance of your hard drive by up to 5-8X* thanks to the robust Dataplex software by NVELO and a fully upgradeable mSATA slot. This unique feature gives you the performance of an SSD, without the cost or complexity of a dual-drive configuration.
"We are happy to work with Maingear to enable this very unique All-in-One product," said Kevin Silver, VP of Business Development for NVELO. " They set out to deliver a flexible computing platform with reduced cost and complexity, but did not want to compromise on performance. By configuring the SOLO to include our Dataplex cache software with an mSATA cache SSD, Maingear can now offer its customers the benefit of SSD level performance, with full HDD capacity, at a minimal incremental cost."
"The new MAINGEAR Solo 21 is the perfect PC to meet the increased market demand of having an all-in-one PC that is more versatile for business or entertainment use. MAINGEAR continues to be an innovation leader with the release of this unique all-new all-in-one, which offers premium features, stylish design and upgradability that no one else offers," said Wallace Santos, CEO and Founder of MAINGEAR.
MAINGEAR Solo 21: (Default specs)
- Intel Core i3 2125 3.3GHz, upgradeable to Intel Core i7 2600S
- Intel DH61AG motherboard supporting USB 3.0, SATA 6G, 32nm and 22nm processors
- 4GB DDR3-1333, upgradeable to 16GB DDR3-1333 memory
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Antec SOLO II Chassis Review
Antec is one of the most storied brands when it comes to enthusiast class components like cases and power supplies. Unfortunately, the whims of the gamer change on a breeze as most will swap between company allegiances whenever the performance or features dictate. Antec has fallen into this trap over the last few years as many in the community moved on from the likes of the ever-present P180 to newer and more innovative designs from other companies. Having realized this internally and making moves to take care of that slide, Antec is going to start producing some modern cases with improved specifications.
First up on the list is the SOLO II, part of the Antec Sonata line of "Quiet Computing" products. The original SOLO was released in early 2006 and since then much has changed in the world of chassis for gamers and those more interested in noise reduction. Antec is hoping that the SOLO II will actually address a large portion of BOTH crowds with its small footprint, many noise-deleting features and several enthusiast-class nods included.
Check out our video review of the SOLO II and keep reading for some images of the newest Antec chassis!
Antec intros High Current Gamer Plus PSU and Solo II Chassis at Computex
Subject: Cases and Cooling, Shows and Expos | May 31, 2011 - 11:23 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: solo, PSU, high current gamer, computex, antec
While at Computex 2011 we stopped by the Antec booth to see what the company had on display for new gear going into the second half of 2011. While we of course saw Antec's line up of existing cases and power supplies, and of course the SoundScience audio options, there were a couple of new items on the floor as well.
First up was a visit with Joerg Theissen, formerly of Enermax, and a showing of the upcoming Antec High Current Gamer Plus series of power supplies. Available in a 550 watt, 650 watt and 750 watt version, the updated "Plus" series innovates by building in very high amperages in each of the various 12V rails; up to 40 amps on each! This allows the power supply to supply power to current and future graphics cards even with the smaller 550 watt PSU capacity.
The Plus series is also going with a modular system that gives the user a very flexible expansion capability. While the red and black outlets for cables fit with what most users will use, you can in fact install up to 10 HDD cables on the power supply should you need it. Antec's goal with the new High Current Gamer Plus is to make a unit that addresses both the high end performance segment customers are used to as well as lowering the price to a point where it can address a large majority of the DIY market overall.
The second new item was the Solo II chassis, a low cost design that actually includes some impressive features. Built on a combination of steel and aluminum, the Solo II is one of the first designs we have seen with built in support for the Slim ODD form factor, right out of the gate.
Inside the case you will see only a few HDD cages though for a small case it does offer support for even the largest graphics cards in this way. You will also see a cutout on the motherboard tray for rear access to the CPU the brackets as well as some other openings for improved cable management.
The front of the case opens up to reveal a pair of filtered intake fans and behind them the hard drive bays. The Solo II offers both your standard screw-less tray design as well as elastic suspension based HDD mounting options, similar to those seen in the LanBoy Air.
Even though this is going to be a low cost case (estimate $99-129), Antec has included some noise reduction material that is a form of highly compressed plastic that they claim works nearly as well as the foam substance used on the Antec P180. It is installed on both doors as well as the top of the Solo II.
Overall I have to say that the Solo II looks like a great chassis for users that don't need a gluttony of space and also have to work on a budget.
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We dont need to pack; just be hungry!!
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We dont need to pack; just be hungry!!
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The bear facts huh!
Meeting them could 'bruin' your day!
Great pic.
Chris - P95
NRA Certified Instructor & NRA Life Member.
"To own a gun and assume that you are armed
is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!."
http://www.rkba-2a.com/ - a portal for 2A links, articles and some videos.
End of the Earth 5 miles. That's awesome!!!
a school administrator in the U.P., and every once in a while we would have to keep the little guys in for recess because of a black bear on the playground...
The last Blood Moon Tetrad for this millennium starts in April 2014 and ends in September 2015...according to NASA.
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That would work lol.
I noticed "the end of the earth 5 miles" also. Is that the name of a town or do they know something that we don't.
Those are grizzly bears we have black bears here to keep the boarder safe.
"The sword dose not cause the murder, and the maker of the sword dose not bear sin" Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac 11th century
Now if we could just get some transplanted to the Mexican border and get them adapted to the heat we could cut down on the number of Illeagals coming accross there.
How would ya liked to have been JOGGING on that road...rounded the bend...and stumbled upon those critters?
Liberty Over Tyranny Μολὼν λαβέ
Looks to me John like they've called up some reinforcements
Chris - P95
NRA Certified Instructor & NRA Life Member.
"To own a gun and assume that you are armed
is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!."
http://www.rkba-2a.com/ - a portal for 2A links, articles and some videos.
Good picture, but I think the words in the sign don't look quite right... like they are pixelated from photoshopchop.
There are 2 types of people, victims and the prepared. I choose to be prepared....
"Bless thee, O Lord, This handgrenade, that it may blow thine enemies to bits. Amen" ~Monty Python's Holy Grail
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Chris, What did you do? stand in the middle of the road and holler SALMON!!!!!!.
actually i think he yelled....."HEY IM LIBERAL" and they came running cause they knew would be easy pickings....lmao....jk =O)
Well, it has been suggested to "defend" the southern border that we move a bunch of alligators from Florida to the Rio Grande......
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Welcome to issue twenty-four of Lightspeed! We've got another great issue for you this month, so click-thru to see what we have in store.
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I knew I wanted to tackle a story that was hard SF, and set off Earth, so why not on one of Jupiter's moons? I have a bad habit of starting story development with setting instead of plot, and that's what happened here. So I just kept throwing ideas at the page until I had enough to create a story for my chosen setting.
The swings hang perfectly still in the windless dawn. I come here most mornings to stand among the abandoned jungle gyms and sliding boards; sometimes the swings squeak, sometimes they are still, but either way the equation comes to loss. Either way I think of Sarah.
If you're looking at society at large, I think there would be a lot of civil unrest inspired by the destruction of our society's existing certainties about the way the world works. I imagine millennial cults would develop and that traditional religious belief would see a sharp rise. Secular and scientific voices would likely be drowned out.
I sat by the side of the road in the afternoon sun and watched the cranefly struggle. A breeze, hot and heavy as a tired dog's breath, coated the web and fly with dust. I shaded my eyes and squinted down the road. Empty. As usual. It was almost two years since I'd seen anything but Jud's truck on Peachtree.
I really wanted to write about this world I'd discovered, its rich, slow secrecy—its winter melancholy that turned gradually, then all at once, into an astoundingly fecund summer. To do that, I needed a plausible way for Molly to stay behind, to live reasonably well in an otherwise-abandoned version of the place. I hit upon a creeping apocalypse.
Tristram was certain she would never have made the attempt had she not heard that it was a thing other children often did. She did so want to be like other children—lolling about like great striped cats, batting at moths with oversized paws, snapping at dust-motes with wet pink jaws.
Tristram is very much me as a child—she even lives in the part of the country where I grew up. Childhood was a sad and difficult place for me, one in which I was always trying to come up with explanations of the world without asking grown ups questions which might lead to me being rejected in some fashion. I was quite neurotic, really. All of that goes into Tristram.
Rakhmatullin's characters often confront the viewer head-on, whether the subject is an alien with skin as variegated as an artist's palette, or a mechanic who is, beneath all of the technology, aging, grizzled, and subject to the wear and tear of time. The environments he creates range from the nearly abstract to the thoroughly-realized worlds of his concept landscapes and battle scenes.
Mabel blurred through the Doorway and stumbled into a wall. She groped for a fingerhold, anything to prop herself up until the gut-twisting vertigo passed. Every time she experienced the blur it got a little worse. All that worse added up to worst because she had made hundreds of auditing trips to the past during her thirty-nine year career in cross-time accounting.
A couple years ago when I was actively blogging, some editorial minion had complained about their slushpile being full of stories with titles that spoiled the ending mixed with time-travel stories about people trying to kill Hitler. I commented that maybe it wasn't a good time to submit my story titled "The Cross-Time Accountants Fail to Kill Hitler Because Chuck Berry Does the Twist."
I obediently spent my childhood writing little stories, until I reached that age when you dig in your heels and tell your parents you hate them and you'll never, ever be what they want you to be. And I more or less ran away with the circus for the next twenty years.
[On coining the term "the singularity"]: I used that term first, I think, at an artificial intelligence conference in 1982. […] I made the observation that if we got human-level artificial intelligence, that would certainly be a world-shaking event, and if we got superhuman-level intelligence, then what happened afterward would be fundamentally unintelligible.
It was always dark outside the windows. Parents and teachers sometimes said vaguely that this was all because of Deep Green terrorists, but Jonathan thought there was more to the story. The other members of the Shudder Club agreed. The dark beyond the window-glass at home, at school, and on the school bus was the second kind of darkness.
The notion of basilisk images was something I'd had in mind ever since reading Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach. Hofstadter's favourite analogy for the impact of Gödel's Theorem on mathematics is a music recording that can't be played because its resonances destroy the playing mechanism.
She paced the stones, her feet separated from the chill by sable-lined slippers. She was cold despite them, cold from her toes to her crown. Perhaps it was the vengeance of the fire, that she had not joined her husband in its embrace. Long ago, he had decided that he wished to be immolated in the manner of their ancestors.
The difficulty was in trying to make the time and place more real—all this happened more than a thousand years ago, and in a part of the world that we don't usually learn much about. Set a story in Ancient Rome or 12th Century England, and the reader will most likely have a mental file of background information; medieval Kiev is pretty much a mystery.
[Science fiction and fantasy] were the kind of books that I loved to read, so at any given moment in my life from the point that I decided to be a writer forward, which was around this time—I discovered Burroughs and then Arthur Conan Doyle right around the same time, and those were kind of my first two crushes—I would imagine writing books that I loved to read.


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In the first clip released from his forthcoming interview with Katie Couric, Notre Dame quarterback Manti Te'o admits to lying briefly after discovering that he had been hoaxed.
"Katie, put yourself in my situation. I, my whole world told me that she died on Sept. 12. Everybody knew that. This girl, who I committed myself to, died on Sept. 12. Now I get a phone call on Dec. 6, saying that she's alive and then I'm going be put on national TV two days later. And to ask me about the same question. You know, what would you do?"
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Supper clubs are a distinct genre of dining out. Usually family-run and usually located near vacation spots in the Midwest, these restaurants are famed for good, homey food, hearty portions and surroundings that transport diners back to the mid-20th century.
That's a good thing. Supper clubs are so retro they seem balanced on the knife's edge of hip these days. And that's why you should conjure one up at home.
"Turn the air conditioning up really high. … Pull the shades on the windows," says Michael Stern, co-author of "Road Food" and other books chronicling America's dining traditions. "You want it cool and tomblike."
Let the food be the star of the party: Meat (or fish) and potatoes, with plenty of cocktails to wash them down.
"So often, so many people are telling us what we ought to be eating, and saying it not in a spirit of fun but in the spirit of 'you're bad.' Food is one area we don't want to be told what to do," says Stern, a resident of Bethel, Conn. "That's part of the pleasure of a supper club meal. It's a way of thumbing your nose at the nutrition police."
And being bad can be delicious.
"At least at some of the newer places, like Red Stag Supperclub in Minneapolis, people come in for the nostalgia and are surprised by the quality of the food," says Dave Hoekstra, author of "The Supper Club Book: A Celebration of a Midwest Tradition" (Chicago Review Press, $29.95).
Here's what you need to transform your home into a supper club, at least for one night.
A relish tray is traditional, with an assortment of raw and pickled vegetables. "The vegetables are something healthy to nibble on while thinking how big a piece of prime rib you'll have," says Ron Faiola, a Milwaukee-based video producer, director and author of "Wisconsin Supper Clubs: An Old-Fashioned Experience" (Midway, $35).
Some supper clubs also serve a cheese spread and crackers. So popular has it proven to be with customers of the Moracco Supper Club in Dubuque, Iowa, that the cheese dish is offered in place of the relish tray.
"You can serve it with crackers, broccoli, carrots, any chips," says co-owner Jeanne Heiar, who notes some customers save a bit of the spread to put on their baked potatoes instead of paying extra for shredded cheese. "That's the world nowadays," she says, chuckling.
Have a well-stocked bar; supper club customers arrive thirsty for classic cocktails.
"In Wisconsin, where the old-fashioned is the unofficial state drink, the overwhelming preference is to serve it with brandy instead of whiskey," Faiola writes in his book. Here's his version: Combine 1 maraschino cherry and 1/2 slice orange with 1 teaspoon sugar and 2 to 3 dashes bitters in a 10- or 12-ounce tumbler; muddle, or mash, together. Add ice, then 1 1/2 to 2 ounces brandy. Top off with 7UP. Garnish with an orange slice and maraschino cherry.
Main courses
"Prime rib is about as supper club as it gets," says Bill Kozlak Jr., proprietor of Jax Cafe in Minneapolis.
Maybe. Many supper clubs do offer prime rib, often on Saturday nights, but they also offer fish fries on Fridays.
Fish is a huge draw at Midwest supper clubs, many of which are located near lakes or rivers. Jax Cafe patrons can net their fish dinner in the supper club's own trout stream.
If meat is what you want and prime rib is too pricey, consider a steak. Kim Bartmann, who is giving an updated twist to the genre at Red Stag Supperclub, goes with a rib-eye with grilled mushrooms, grilled onions and crumbled blue cheese.
Remember, as Hoekstra points out, many supper club faves began in the home and can be transported back quite easily.
Have your choice of potato. "There's french fries, potato pancakes, baked potatoes," Faiola says. "I'm a big fan of the potato pancake." Baked is Stern's choice, served with sour cream, butter, bacon or Bac-Os and chives.
Salad? Iceberg wedges rule, often crowned with creamy dressing. Interestingly, the Jax's Kozlak will share any recipe with a customer, except for the family's secret creamy garlic Parmesan dressing.
Every supper club has a roster of desserts to cap the meal. Many customers choose instead to order a creamy, sweet after-dinner drink.
"In Wisconsin, they're made with ice cream," says Jane Wimmer of The Del-Bar, a landmark supper club in Lake Delton, Wis.
One of the more popular requests is a brandy Alexander. Here's how Wimmer makes it: Blend 3 scoops vanilla ice cream with 1 1/4 ounces brandy and 3/4 ounce creme de cacao. Pour into a giant snifter, top with grated nutmeg and a squirt of whipped cream.
Moracco cheese spread
Dave Hoekstra, author of "The Supper Club Book," loves this cheese spread so much he posted the recipe from Iowa's Moracco Supper Club on his book's website thesupperclubbook.com.
Blend 1 container (14 ounces) sharp cheddar cheese spread, 8 ounces sour cream and 4 ounces cream cheese in a stand mixer or food processor until smooth and fluffy. Chill until ready to serve.


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MC vs Snute – 30 second analysis
Boss Toss vs Foreign Hope
RBBG Group B starts with a clash of styles; MC, the Boss Toss vs Snute, the Foreigner.
Game 1
- 7 minutes – Snute's third is defended, but barely.
- 8 minutes – Many small clashes give MC time to upgrade and build tech while Snute floods roaches.
- 23 minutes – MC floods units killing Snute's fourth and half of his swarmhost army.
- 25 minutes – MC continues to bash headlong into locusts, but comes out on top. Why go around when you can ram straight through?
- Snute sticks to his guns, or locusts…. But it isn't enough. GG! MC wins!
Game 2
- 12 minutes – Snute shuts down MC's aggressive push.
- 16 minutes – Fungals come raining down… but there aren't enough and MC takes out Snute's third.
- The tide is simply too strong and the Boss Toss powers on.
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VASST.info is a dual site exhibit pairing Breadboard's EKG Project Space with little berlin. 15 artists were selected from various artistic backgrounds to produce a science experiment. In the course of their experiments they were sent to explore creativity in the same vein as they might an art project, using science in place of the artform. As a result, the group of amateur scientists investigated serveral different arenas in science; chemistry, astronomy, psychology, agriculture, biology, sociology and non-empirical sciences. In some instances topics merged all together. In each project you are able to see an artist revealed through the lens of another form of the creative act, practising science.
Throughout the year the artists were asked to post their research process or topics of interest in the science community on vasst.info It is an extension of the exhibit, a less formal conglomorate of information. This interaction enables the inquiry of information after visually experiencing the artists' projects in person. Another way of learning more about the projects, VASST.info, invites you to a series of lectures that asks scientists from a related feild of the artist's project and expand upon the subject manner. Coinciding with the scientific lectures, artists are also invited to speak about their work in relation to a scientific feild or topic.
This catalog documents the content related to, VASST.info
Opening Observation/by Annette Monnier
The only easy answer to describing the intersections between science and art is Leonardo Da Vinci, an answer so old and mythologized that it doesn't really warrant a mention. In this same category we might mention golden rectangles, ratios, Fibonacci numbers, and color theory. While these examples prove the claim that artists use math and science and that scientists are interested in art and that there is such a thing as an artist-scientist or scientist-artist, these examples are all incredibly dated.
We can say that the artist-scientist existed but who is that polymath today?
"BioArt", a phrase coined by artist Eduardo Kac who made headlines with his glow-in-the-dark rabbit in 2000, started to become more widely practiced in the beginning of the 21st century. SymbioticA is an artistic laboratory dedicated to the research, learning and critique of life sciences. Located within the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at The University of Western Australia, it is the first research laboratory of its kind, in that it enables artists to engage in wet biology practices in a biological science department. The artist George Gessert, creates artistic irises by hybridizing wild varieties and discarding the undesirable results. He is especially interested in plant aesthetics and ways that human aesthetic preferences affect evolution. Gessert calls his practice "genetic folk art". Since the early 1980s, artist Hubert Duprat has been utilizing insects to construct some of his "sculptures." By removing caddis fly larvae from their natural habitat and providing them with precious materials, he prompts them to manufacture cases that resemble jewelers' creations. Information theory, as explained by biologists such as Jacques Monod and Henri Atlan, helps us understand what seems to be the insect's aesthetic behavior. The activities of the caddis worm, as manipulated by Hubert Duprat, are prompted by the "noise"---beads, pearls and 18-karat gold pieces---introduced by the artist into the insect's environment. Hunter Cole, an artist and geneticist, recently created a series of Living Drawings with bioluminescent bacteria. . .
There are other genres of art to think about; Transhumanist, Hybrid, Computer, Cyber, Digital, Electronic, New Media, Environmental . . . and a lot of information to cover. The journal Leonardo published by MIT Press has a 40-year history of 'promoting and documenting work at the intersection of the arts, sciences, and technology, and… encouraging and stimulating collaboration between artists, scientists, and technologists.' The organization also has web sites, abstract services, and collaborates with other organizations in presenting conferences. The website We Make Money Not Art does an amazing job of covering media/research conferences, interviewing artist/researchers, and finding interesting developments in and out of the arts in fields ranging from activism and biology to surveillance and wearables. New forms of educational programs are being established at universities around the world. Students are expected to master topics in art, media, and research disciplines. For example the University of Washington's DXArts program offers a 'creative research convergence zone for intrepid artists and scholars' that seek to reach out beyond the arts. The Conceptual/Information Arts (CIA) is the "experimental program within the Art Department at San Francisco State University dedicated to preparing artists and media experimenters to work at the cutting edge of science and technology". Courses cover topics such as art & biology, robotics, locative media, and physical computing.
AmateursPerhaps the most famous scientific amateur is the amateur astronomer. Perhaps the most famous artistic amateur is the outsider artist. Both types of amateurs are famous because they have made large impacts on their fields.
No matter their standing in the art community all of the participants invited by Beth Heinly to be a part of Vasst.info are amateurs in the scientific community. The art-science created for this exhibition is the opening of a dialogue, an experiment, and a work-in-progress. Anyone can be a scientist, just as anyone can be an artist. We need only open our eyes, crack open a book (or insert media type), and begin. Vasst.info is a perfect place to start.
From One Cell to a Complex Organism/Angela McQuillan & April M. Aguillard
For our science fair project, we decided to make a video as a documentation of the embryonic development of wild type (non genetically altered) zebrafish, starting from a single cell. Zebrafish are commonly used in many types of scientific experiments as a model for studying vertebrate development and genetics. They help us to understand how all vertebrates, including humans, grow from a single cell into a complex multi-cellular organism. Even though fish are a very different species to humans, their embryonic development is surprisingly similar. This stage of development is very exciting because it is the most rapid period of development, when this "life force" creates something so incredibly complex out of one tiny little cell.
We chose to film everything the way it happened. This video did not turn out like the video clips you would find in a scientific paper or textbook. Ours has many visible imperfections. The fish were not manipulated in any way, and were captured using short sessions of time lapse photography under a microscope as development occurred.
Jarred Hydrogen/Annette Monnier & Gerik Forston
Electrolysis a method of separating elements by pushing an electric current through a compound. It is used in various industrial applications such as removing copper from its ore. It is also used to separate hydrogen and oxygen from water. Electrolysis isn't the most efficient way to obtain hydrogen, but it is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to "homebrew" hydrogen. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. With the "green-energy" craze and talk of powering our future oil-free economy on hydrogen, it has gotten much attention in the last few years. Learning about this potential fuel of the future is important and interesting. Besides, hydrogen is a powerful fuel, and blowing stuff up in the name of science is fun.
Kant and Hypnosis: on Not-So-Empirical Science./Brandon Joyce
In 1781, Kant published The Critique of Pure Reason. The idea behind this book was to describe how experience comes about and where knowledge comes from. Kant had come up with a clever compromise between the Empiricists, who thought that everything was impressed upon us by the world, and the Rationalists, who thought everything could be found and confirmed within the inner mind. Kant's compromise was this: there are some things that the world impresses upon us, empirically, through the senses, and there are other things— certain concepts— that we impose upon the world to give it form and order. The Critique of Pure Reason was Kant's attempt at demonstrating which was which— and at laying the foundations for knowledge and experience on the "transcendental." Kant penned a fairly specific account of these transcendental, or "a priori," concepts. They included Time and Space (what Kant called our "Transcendental Aesthetic"), Causality, Substance, the Self (or more specifically, what Kant called the "Transcendental Subject"), and a few other categories. Again, we do not find these concepts out there, in the empirical world, even if common sense tells us as much. We impose them upon our world in order to make sense of it. One of the things I find juicy and intriguing about all this is the possibility of a "science" of the transcendental; of a non-empirical science that is still capable of experimentation. What makes it even trickier is that I do not consider these concepts to be fixed and universal in the same way that Kant did. I think that our concepts of Time, Space, Causality, Substance, etc., can bend and shift and warp, and do so quite frequently, and often imperceptibly. They are ordering principles, like coordinate planes in geometry, or like systems of measurement. And just as in the choice between polar or Cartesian coordinates, or between English and metric systems, we can use a variety of ordering principles to make sense of things in the empirical world. But the problem is: how do you go about demonstrating this? How do you going about making an experiment?
You can't very well measure the non-empirical. If time seems slower, or space smaller, you are hard-pressed for notation, since any form of notation will be within the interpretive grid of whatever sense of time and space, or whatever category, you might be employing. One of the best things I could come up with in terms of demonstration was the hypnotic setting. Hypnosis seems like an ideal laboratory for "Transcendental Science." With the eyes closed, the body immobile, and the mind in a hypersuggestible state, we are probably the closest we will ever get to being free from the empirical world. It's a state in which can best witness ourselves imposing things on our experience, undistracted by the "rhapsody of perceptions." This is also why I think it's no coincidence that hypnoidal settings— like meditation— often stumble into Kantian territory before too long, often even employing language very similar to the Critique to describe their discoveries. What I have tried to do in these experiments is to employ hypnosis in order to toy with these Kantian concepts a little; hopefully getting the subject to see this imposition in action. If the subject can sense these concepts bending, shifting or warping, I consider the experiment a success. The first part of the experiment always consists of hypnotic induction by audio; that is, relaxing and desensitizing the body while putting the mind into a more-malleable, hypersuggestible state. The second part consists of an experiment with a concept, such as Substance or Causality. I've also included a few extra tracks— for your enjoyment— to further explore the possibilities of hypnosis outside of the Kantian framework. I hope you enjoy these experiments.
P.Fusiformis/Daniel Wallace & Derek Frech
For VASST we have created a mechanism to trigger bioluminesence in a sample of Pyrocystis Fusiformis (a wide-spread species of eukaryotic algae) requiring the reversal of the sample's circadian rythym and exposure to a resonant frequency of 40 hz. Compiled below is a short survey of information collected while researching this project.
As photosynthesizing organisms, dinoflagellates produce a substanial amount of the world's oxygen, and consume a large proportion of the atmosphere's carbon dioxide.
According to the "burglar alarm theory", Pyrocystis Fusiformis bioluminesces to attract attention to its predator. When attacked by a predator. P. fusiformis bioluminesces and illuminates itself as well as its predator. When its predator is illuminated, it greatly increases the chance that the predator itself will be preyed upon, which favors the survival of the P.fusiformis group as well as the luminescent genotype.
Electrical activity at a frequency of 40hz in the human brain has been proposed to be related to the cognitive processing and to the temporal binding of the sensory stimuli. Oscilitory activity near 40hz represents a nuerophysiological correlate to the temporal processing of auditory stimuli. Through our experimentation we found that 40hz was also the optimal frequency for generating luminescence in the sample
Gamma waves at 40hz are associated with peak concentration and the brain's optimal frequency for cognitive functioning. Nobel Prize winning scientist, Sir Francis Crick believes that the 40hz frequency may be the key to the act of cognition.
Husbandry/Jake Kehs
This is an investigation of the usefulness of urban plants, based on recent knowledge of edible wild plants, and a long vested interest in the natural world. I gathered plants from around the city, testing their dye, food, and fermentation capabilities, boiling them, and burning them. I found some unnatural objects along the way and could not help using them.
My BFFF/James Weissenger & Jong Kyu Kim
My Best Friend Facebook Forever (My BFFF) was a month-long performance-experiment. The project explored what it means to "do Facebook"
all the way-to like every "like", friend every "friend", and yes, always hit "poke back". The project began on April Fool's Day 2011, we assure
you this was no joke, through to Dave Kim's birthday, April 30th, 2011.
[Facebook faceoff: Artist embarks on 'social networking stress test' by Peter Crimmins]
[A.V. Club Philadelphia]
[Man Lives Life Via Facebook for a Month]
1-888-FUNOISE/Jamie Dillon
You are dreaming about the higher salary but your employer doesn't raise it because you have inappropriate education?
Or maybe in when you were younger you decided to work other than to attend university and you don't have a diploma?
It's time to change the situation and have a higher salary. Today you have a chance to buy any university diploma easily with
the help of our service. All you need to do is to call through the following telephone number: 1-888-FUNOISE (3866473).
Don't waist your time for nothing, it's time to considerable change your life.
Black Hole/Kristen Neville-Taylor
"Incomprehension and confusion are common reactions to the plays of Samuel Beckett. The effort of the audience to extract an overall meaning
from the plot mostly fails. This is due to the fact that on the stage, all concepts on which we usually rely collapse; they lose their meaning.
Among them are for instance "the belief in God, in the unity of the world, [and] in the knowability of experience" (Connor, 3). The audience is
no longer able to revert to familiar experiences in order to establish an interpretation. The result is inner emptiness. According to Beckett
and the other writers of the so-called Theatre of the Absurd, inner emptiness is a basic experience of everyday life."
- Saskia Bachner
The black hole phenomena has been compared to the marathon runner, at once full of energy and life, but eventually depleted and bound for
collapse. The most I will be able to do to simulate the black hole experience without running a marathon in the gallery (which might not be a
bad idea) is to create the feeling of infinite emptiness.
- Anish Kapoor
Biodiversity Studies below 30th Street & Girard Avenue/Lisa Murch
Field Study #1, Rear Yard, Philadelphia, PA 19130, Field Study #2, Under the bridge by the Railroad Tracks, Philadelphia, PA 19130 Field Study #3, Over the bridge by the Railroad Tracks, Philadelphia, PA 19130
Executive Summary
Less than 5% of the great shrub-steppe ecosystem that once dominated this neighborhood has escaped development to date, and much of what
remains unconverted exists in a highly degraded condition. The biological importance of my backyard's relatively undisturbed habitat only
increases as more and more of the surrounding landscape is converted to urban uses.
I inventoried the natural biological diversity in my backyard and decided to examine two other locations within a three block radius both of which were almost void of life. I surveyed the length and breadth of these sites, identifying, cataloging, and mapping the surviving plants, animals, and biological communities in this landscape. The inventory documented occurrences of dozens of living things and mapped critical biological resources. This work culminated with the publication of this volume, Biodiversity Studies below 30th Street & Girard Avenue.
Apple Distortion/Sam Cusumao
Electricity for Progress presents, Apple Distortion - an introduction to feedback and operational amplifiers. In this experiment, users are presented with three apples, touching these apples in various ways and combinations produces audible feedback. The feedback is produced using an old lm709 operational amplifier integrated circuit and an assortment of capacitors (including the human inter-actor). Handling and Grip affect tonal qualities to the sound produced. This device is meant to graph, in an audibly sensible way, the electrical properties and processes occurring inside the operational amplifier in self oscillation.


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The presence of mesenteric varices was demonstrated angiographically in 7 patients with portal hypertension. In 4 of these cases the mesenteric varices were the source of lower gastrointestinal bleeding which was successfully controlled by intra-arterial infusion of vasopressin. The radiological diagnosis and management of mesenteric varices is discussed and the pertinent literature is briefly reviewed.
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- Title
- Mesenteric varices: A source of mesosystemic shunts and gastrointestinal hemorrhage
- Journal
Gastrointestinal Radiology
Volume 4, Issue 1 , pp 331-337
- Cover Date
- 1979-12-01
- Print ISSN
- 0364-2356
- Online ISSN
- 1432-0509
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Visceral angiography, indications
- Intestine, hemorrhage
- Liver, cirrhosis
- Portal vein, hypertension
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Michael Federle (1) (2)
- Robert A. Clark M.D. (1) (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, 234 Goodman Street, 45267, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- 2. University of California, San Francisco, California, USA


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John Ward is a former radio broadcaster at the University of Tennessee from 1965 until 1999. Ward received a law degree in 1954 at the University of Tennessee's main campus in Knoxville. Shortly after, he decided to go into radio and advertising. Ward's first broadcast of a UT basketball game came in 1958. Shortly after, he joined the Army.
After returning to Knoxville, Ward went to work at an advertising agency. In 1964 he began handling the duties as announcer-host-coordinator for UT coaches television shows in football and basketball. His broadcasting career blossomed when he became the Vols' radio play-by-play voice, first, for basketball in 1965 and three years later for football (1968).
In addition to his duties with the Vol Network, he covered events for ABC-TV and ESPN.[1] Ward is a member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.[2] Ward was known as the "Voice of the Vols" for 31 years on the air. Ward and Bill Anderson, his color commentator for the entire 31 years, became the longest-running broadcasting partnership in college football.[3]
His trademarks include: his introduction to each game, "It's football time in Tennessee!;" his touchdown call, "Give ... him ... SIX! ... TOUCHDOWN, TENNESSEE!;" asking, "Did he make it?", and answering, "HE MADE IT!," after a made field goal; enthusiastically saying, "BOTTOM!" after a made basket in basketball; and wearing a light blue towel around his neck while broadcasting.
After the 1998-99 football and basketball seasons, in which the Volunteers won the National Championship in football, Ward and Anderson retired, and were replaced by Bob Kesling and Tim Priest, respectively. The University of Tennessee named the fourth level of the press box at Neyland Stadium The John Ward Broadcast Center in Ward's honor in 1995.[4] Ward's final football broadcast was the first BCS national championship. Tennessee defeated Florida State to win its first national title since 1967. His final broadcast for the Vols came in the second round of the 1999 NCAA men's basketball tournament, with Tennessee's loss to Southwest Missouri State University.
Ward still does some commercial radio advertisements heard state-wide.
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HulaCross Race & Results - May 25th, 2013
Written by Chris Messer Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:00
The stock car practices are complete so during a short break we run a series that has been running at the track since its first opening. This is a motorsport support series that was born out of a need for racing without a real racetrack. It was first started in the form of rally cross that is common across the US and made up of a mixture of sedans and trucks. The series has dwindled since the opening of the circle track in part due to the conflict faced by the drivers as to where they should invest both energy and dollars.
Hulacross Heat Races
Nowadays KRP utilizes the dirt oval pit entrance/exit area and the infield to create a sort of arena style off road racing. The practice follows all the stock car classes and in order for the drivers to be sure they know the track layout the segment starts with a quick "lead follow" before they let the vehicles loose. It gets dusty quickly and at one point I can't see across the track. There's the #83 of the Maui Off Road crew who took off from the pack early and the #1 black Subaru of Mike Ward followed by the blue Dodge truck #1 (It's actually a number 1 followed by a bunch of letters which I can't read), and a few other trailing for about 10 laps.


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The film's main character, Benjamin Esposito (Ricardo Darin), has spent his entire working life as a criminal court employee. Recently retired and with time on his hands, he decides to write a novel. He draws on his own past as a civil servant for a true, moving and tragic story he was once directly involved with.
The evocative soundtrack, scored by Emilio Kauderer and Federico Jusid, creates a powerful combination of music and visual elements. It captures the tension and romance of this richly layered film. The composers wrote a variety of cues, from soft tender moments featuring piano and violin solos to tense action sequences with riveting percussion.
The soundtrack was recorded with the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra and won several awards, among them for Best Original Score at the Argentinean Academy Awards.
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Oct 01, 2010
"Lessons For The Living," by Stan Goldberg
Given the fact that we're all going to die, it's remarkable how little thought most of us give to the actual process of dying. In Lessons For The Living Stan Goldberg seeks to illuminate this most universal of experiences by sharing the lessons he learned during his time as a hospice volunteer.
What drew Goldberg into volunteering was the discovery that he himself was living with an incurable cancer. Part memoir and part practical guide, this book should be of interest to us all, and in particular to those of us wondering how to best help our loved ones as they approach the end of life.
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"Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master," by Amy Schmidt
Available from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukhttp://windhorsepublications.co.uk/CartV2/Details.asp?ProductID=707.
In this highly enjoyable book, we are offered a moving and inspiring account of one woman's journey from misery and heartache to the calm and steady freedom brought about by learning to let go. The secret to her success? Simple awareness, the core of what the Buddha himself cultivated in his own struggle to gain inner freedom from the cycles of suffering caused by emotional reactivity. As Dipa Ma often reminded her students, "The whole path of mindfulness is this: Whatever you are doing, be aware of it."
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Buying from the home brew store I end up spending just about the same amount of money brewing my own beer as I would buying the same amount of good micro brew from the liquor store. What do you do to get your costs down? Once I get my all grain setup finished that'll help a bit. I might even try my hand at growing my own hops. I've thought about going to the feed store down the street and buying a 50 lb bag of wheat from them. Barley isn't a whole lot more expensive. I've got the basic equipment. Now I want to know how to buy the ingredients as cheaply as possible.
Edworts Apfelwein! look it up on the recipe database... this is so good/cheap. its worth your time.
1. Dry yeast 2. Reuse liquid yeast 3. Brew low hoped beers, hops are getting expensive. 4. Buy in bulk wherever possible. 5. Feed wheat is not the same as brewing wheat.
Use liquid yeast and learn how to wash it for re-use and buy everything else in bulk (usually NOT from a HBS...buying a lot of the same supplies and paying the same as 3 lb bags of malt is not buying bulk...).
Can't speak from experience, but I'd think what HB Bill said, with 10g all grain batches. Rick
artyboy - Most of us don't do it for the cheapness aspect. We do it for entertainment and self gratification. We also do it because we like to share with friends. You do to obesses about beer. I think most people who are involved in this hobby are gadget liking people. They are DIYers and tend to lean to being technical/analytical types. Therefore its not always for doin' it on the cheap. Its doing because you just like to. How many batches do you have under your belt? If you start goin AG, and growing your own hops you'll question the time you spend and say you can go buy it for definately less effort, but you won't because of all the things I said above. If you buy barley at the feed store you have to malt it and roast it before you can mash or brew with it so more time spent... ... and growing your own hops, you gotta give your 1st year hops a lot of TLC. Watering & weeding and subsequent years its less watering more weeding and lots of pruning. You do it because you love it and its better than watching the crap on TV!
Agreed. If you're getting into homebrewing to save money you're probably doing it for the wrong reasons. While you may be able to save a few bucks here and there, once you get into this hobby and start dropping money on equipment upgrades you can expect to at best break even (at least from my experience). I don't brew to save money, I brew to make good beer that I can call my own. There's nothing better than pulling a pint from my kegerator and saying "I made this".
going AG will help ALOT
Considering that a decent cooper's extract kit with Morgan's 1.5KG malt can cost less than $22 from the LHBS, and case of CHEAP beer her costs over $35 (so roughly $85-$95 dollars for the same amount of beer as one extract brew), it's a BIG cost savings for us Aussies. The tax on any sort of alcohol (or Cigarettes) is VERY high here, so home brewing is a great opportunity to save yourself a LOT of cash. I know quite a few people who just go buy a cheap extract kit, the cheapest malts etc and are very happy with their brews. They are BMC drinkers, and aren't looking for high quaility beer, they are doing it to save a buck. and they do! I also know a lot of people (myself included) that prefer a NICE beer, and those are really expensive here... so again home brewing is WELL worth it on the higher end for cost savings as well. How bad are the liquor taxes here? a 700ml bottle of Johnny walker RED cost $30, black is $55 and Chivas is $60.


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YouTube sensation Lindsey Stirling on how the Internet can shape the music industry
written by Hayley Tsukayama
Violinist Lindsey Stirling performs during the "YouTube OnStage Live from the Kennedy Center" concert Wednesday to celebrate the video site's ninth birthday. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)
YouTube threw itself a big birthday bash at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday to celebrate nine years of making crazy online videos. The show featured singer John Legend, as well as several successful dance and music artists who got their start on the video-sharing site.
Ahead of the show, violinist Lindsey Stirling chatted with The Switch's Hayley Tsukayama to talk about her career, her fans and how using YouTube gave her a way to break into a tough industry. Stirling, who first came onto the national stage in 2010 by reaching the quarter-finals of "America's Got Talent," now has 4.8 million subscribers on YouTube and just released a new album, "Shatter Me."
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Thanks for making time to chat with me today. … Can you start by explaining all that you do and the unusual path you took to get there? Because you do a lot.
Well, I'm a dancing, electronic-style violinist. I've released two albums over the past two years. I'm a touring artist. I direct a lot of my own music videos. I come from the roots of a self-made artist.
And I'm very grateful to YouTube. I was told "no" by every other platform — I auditioned for talent agencies; I went to agents — and no one could capture the vision I saw in my head. Thankfully, I found YouTube. And I thought, "Wow, I can do this myself on this platform." I can be the kind of artist I want to be. It was amazing that by doing that, suddenly, while yeah, I was different…but that became the best thing possible. Because everyone was turning into my channel.
I know there's a lot of talk about how online video sites can do that, sort of provide a side door into the industry.
YouTube really allows for artists to be leader of their careers. I'd been told "no" by so many people, and I was reading books on how to make it in the music industry. I remember at one point being so discouraged by hearing that it's likely going to take several hundred thousands of dollars, if not more, to make it.
I was a college student. I was working a job to pay my way through college, thinking, "How is this ever going to work?" So I put up my first video, and suddenly people were listening to my music, my music that had just been sitting there on iTunes. And this lightbulb went on in my head. And I decided that I [was] going to work with all my might because I've come upon a gold nugget here.
I started to put all my energy into learning to market yourself on YouTube, and I talked to people. I learned from Devin Graham, other YouTubers, and really learned how to market myself. It was a very empowering feeling, because for the first time I could do what I wanted. And I could do it my own way.
Part of what makes your music so unique, particularly for a YouTube audience, are the visuals. I was just kind of wondering, when you sit down to make a song, do you think about the visuals first? Or the music? How does all that come together?
It works both ways. Sometimes I will think of a video idea and I'll specifically write a song to fit in with an idea that I fell in love with.
In high school, I was always making videos. First I'm a violinist, but I was also studied film, and I think about that a lot, too. So other times I'll be writing a song in the studio and say, "This feels like a pirate song." So then I'll give it a temporary name that fits the pirate theme.
Sometimes the video idea comes first, sometimes it doesn't. For me, the music and videos feed off each other interchangeably.
Well, whatever you're doing is working. I probably should have kicked off by congratulating you — your most recent album debuted at #2 on the Billboard charts. Congratulations. That must feel great.
It's really exciting, because I think the music industry is changing, and one of my goals was that I want to be one of the artists that bridges the gap. There is a connotation to being a YouTuber: that you're a cover artist, or you're not legit. I'm very proud that I came through YouTube. It's exciting to be a part of this wave and to say, "Hey, this is a legitimate platform."
When [the album] came out and did better than I thought it would, I realized that this is really happening. And this little baby album of mine is one of the products of it.
And now you're going to be onstage at the Kennedy Center. What does that feel like? How did you react when YouTube asked you to be a part of this?
Of course it's exciting being able to play at the Kennedy Center, representing YouTube to our country. It shows that not only am I proud to be a YouTuber, it shows that YouTube is excited to have me as one of their representatives. Which is always nice. And it's such an important event that speaks directly to politicians.
Speaking of our unique Washington audience, are there any issues that face YouTube or artists that you'd like to see politicians pay more attention to?
Hmm. Let me think about that.
I think that the Internet is an amazing thing, because it's one of the best representations of freedom of speech that the world has. And that's been lost in a lot of countries. I tour around a lot of places, and I was recently in China. You can see the effect that it's had — the government controls so much. And if I lived there, I couldn't get on YouTube, on Facebook, on Dropbox, anything. And the way that's affected the people there … it was eye-opening.
I'm so grateful that I live in a place where freedom of speech is still expressed through the Internet. I know some politicians are trying to gain more control over that, and they could pay more attention to what happens to culture when that freedom is taken away.
Shifting back to the music industry, you've already talked a bit about how YouTube is changing it. How do you see that continuing in the next three to five years?
I think there's going to be a lot more artists that jump into this do-it-yourself platform. It is changing: The traditional methods of the record industry are crumbling away. And they will learn to adapt to this new program where people can kind of do it themselves. I think they will team up, with people building themselves and then creating themselves into the artists they want to be. But I see it as a fusion of the two, rather than one beating out the other.
Thanks so much for your time today. Is there anything else that you want to get out there before I let you go?
One of the things I love to stand for and to say is that you can't fake authenticity. People ask, "Why are people drawn to your music?" And I think it's because I genuinely love what I do. And I'm so grateful that I didn't let everyone else who wanted to change me.
I love to do motivational speaking and to point out that the reasons everyone told me that I would fail was because I'm different. I don't think anyone should be afraid to be different and to share it. It took me a while to learn that, but I'm so grateful. It's worth it.
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