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Date Reviewed: August 12, 2008
Strengths: well so far the bike is pretty strong. only problem i had with it was the guy at the shop didn't tighten the bolts enough for the handle bars and so when i went over a curb they came loose and i flipped over the bars and broke the break handle but the guy was pretty nice and gave me a new break handle and put it on for free so that was cool
but other than that it has good breaks, tires, rims seat and bars
Weaknesses: well i think for $240+ u should get steel pedals but other than that it has no weaknesses
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $242.00
Purchased At: Mikes bike shop
Similar Products Used: redline romp
Bike Setup: every thing is pretty much stock but the sprocket and pedals
i have both a 14 tooth rear sprocket and a 16 tooth on the rim so all u have to do is flip the wheel around the change the gearing and a 38 and 44 tooth for the front i swap in and out for racing or for riding at the park
Date Reviewed: May 24, 2008
Strengths: good frame strong can take a beating
Weaknesses: right crank smaller then other wobbles if you take to high of jumps and crash or hit a pole (most painful emergancy room visit ever 5 stitches)
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Price Paid: $350.00
Purchased At: ?????
Similar Products Used: felt fuse,specialized fuse 2,fit flow,and sunday 2nd wave ian schwarts
Date Reviewed: September 4, 2007
Strengths: BEST BIKE I'VE EVER RODE! ITS STRENGTH IS LIKE SUPERMAN!
Weaknesses: NUTHING, IM TOTALLY SATISFIDE
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Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid: $420.00
Purchased At: Havies Bike Shop
Similar Products Used: GT Pro Performer Series But Nothing Comes Close Too This Bike!
Bike Setup: Well, when i first saw the redline recon it looked soo good i was like i want that! so i bought it for 420 bucks in 2004, right away i tried it out at the local skate park, and i knew i needed some mod's for it. soo i went too havies bike shop where i bought it and i said man can you hook mee up with some good bike parts, he was like "Thats Why I Work Here" soo he pulls out a huge catolog and i said wow, hes like pick what ever you want and ill order it and put it and ill even put it togeather FREE im like "OK" soo i ordered:double wall rims with seald bearings and a 3pc crack a 25 tooth sprocket and a 10 for the back i have specialized rubbers Handlebarsand forks i have a specialized neck and a pro light seat after i picked all this out he added it all up and it came too $1480 in the end off all this work THE CHAIN SNAPS i was pissed and bought it specialized and then he comes and shows me a grind plate and i bought that too soo i have $1500 bucks+ into it BUT IT WAS WELL WORTH IT 8D!
Date Reviewed: July 29, 2007
Strengths: strong frame
Weaknesses: heavy
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Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Price Paid: $220.00
Purchased At: scheels
Bike Setup: 1piece crank,
Date Reviewed: June 28, 2007
Strengths: strong frame, fast
Weaknesses: VERY heavy not good for tricks or jumping
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Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid: $200.00
Purchased At: used
Similar Products Used: mongoose gavel
Bike Setup: redline proline
Date Reviewed: January 4, 2007
Strengths: Tough bike! handles everything I throw at it. Perfect for intermediate riders.
Weaknesses: 1 piece crank kinda sucks... but its holding in there.
Plastic pedals broke off within 2 days, which bikebarn replaced with metal ones for free.
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $200.00
Purchased At: Bike Barn
Bike Setup: stock
Date Reviewed: August 26, 2006
Strengths: strong fast costimisable
Weaknesses: weight
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Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Purchased At: k-man ciclery
Bike Setup: 3pc crank
Date Reviewed: August 20, 2005
Strengths: Near indestructible, looks better in person!
Weaknesses: Weak drivetrain
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid: $350.00
Purchased At: Plano cycle
Similar Products Used: Diamondback ProXL, Redline RL20IIb, Torker260air,Dyno D-tour, GT Pro series cruiser.
Bike Setup: I've up-graded to Free Agent 3-peicew/ sealed BB, Tuff-neck ring w/Odyssey power disc and KKT alloy pedals. Changed out the free-wheel and reduced tire size to 1.75's.
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Age of Appliance1 - 4 years
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#1) Pulled the range away from the wall and unplugged the electrical cord#2) Turned the gas valve off and pulled the range away from the wall as far as the gas line allowed.#3) Disconnected the gas line at the range and pulled the range out to access the regulator at the bottom and pulled out the bottom shelf to access the front of the regulator.#4) I took photos of the regulator front and back for future reference.#5) Unhooked the feeder gas lines to the oven and cooktop in the rear.#6) Unhooked the three electrical wires attached to the regulator front and removed the set screw at the air/gas shield feeding the oven distributor and slid the shield down to the feeder line seat.#7) Removed the four set screws holding the regulator to the back frame.#8) Installed the new regulator with the four set screws in the back. Applied thread dope to the two gas feeder lines and installed the gas lines to the new regulator.#9) Referenced the photos taken earlier for proper electrical colored wires to the regulator terminal block and reset the air/gas shield in the prior location and tightened the set screw.#10) Applied thread dope to the main gas line and installed it in the supply side of the regulator. Turned on the gas and sprayed soapy water on the threads (all) to check for leaks.#11) While the range was still away from the wall, plugged in the electrical cord, set the time, turned on the oven and broiler to checl operation.#12) Cleaned up the range back and floor and moved it back into place. Re-leveled the range and received accolades from my Wife for a job well done. (perhaps now she will actually cook on it)
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BangaloreJune 15It's not just law firms or individual attorneys that are outsourcing their legal processes to hundreds of lawyers engaged in LPO in the country.
In fact, when large US corporates are fighting a case in the US, the company's legal department at its headquarters would need just one lawyer to appear in court while its entire legal department is stationed in India.
Mr Russell Smith, President and Chairman of SDD Global Solutions, said: "That's because most of the research and paperwork for large American corporates are being done in India."
SDD Global, a Mysore-based LPO employing close to 40 lawyers and on the verge of ramping up to 200, is doing high-end legal document work for companies such as Calvin Klein, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, HBO and John Wiley and Sons.
Similarly JuriMatrix, a Bangalore-based LPO, is servicing the legal needs of large MNCs including global investment bank JP Morgan.
LPO is a $61-million business with work coming from several sources into the country: law firms, of course, are still the leading source the business (49 per cent), but catching up fast are corporates who form a significant chunk (36 per cent) of the sourcing pie, while the rest is shared by individual attorneys and legal publishers.
"But the $61-million business this is just about two per cent of actual potential," says Mr Abhi Shah, CEO of JuriMatrix.
Though India churns out close to 200,000 law graduates every year, only about 79,000 of them are English-speaking and hardly 850 get into jobs into top law firms in the country.
India, the US and the UK share similar legal systems and Indian Universities educate lawyers to work only in the local legal system.
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Former U.S. Rep. Joe Schwarz is dropping his independent bid for Michigan governor.
The Battle Creek physician and former state senator said Friday he won't run because he wasn't raising enough money.
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During Road trip 2006, CNET News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman grabs the yoke of the Spruce Goose--Howard Hughes' famous World War II-era wood behemoth of an airplane--at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Ore.
Front of the plane
Viewed from its left side, the front of the Spruce Goose dominates everything around it at the Evergreen Aviation Museum.
Pilot's instruments
The pilot of the Spruce Goose had dozens upon dozens of instruments to control while flying. The co-pilot, on the other hand, had very few, as he was not certified to fly the plane.
The wing of the Spruce was so large that there's a door leading to its interior.
Large Spruce Goose
At the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Ore., Howard Hughes' famous Spruce Goose appears to be markedly bigger than everything else around it.
Spruce Goose tail
The Spruce Goose's tail is 80 feet tall. That's 10 feet higher than the maximum altitude the plane reached during its one and only flight.
The cockpit of the Spruce Goose had seating for about 20 people, the plane's crew of 10 and a backup crew.
Troop transporter
The Spruce Goose was designed as a World War II troop transporter and could hold 750 soldiers. However, it was not finished until two years after the war ended.
Left wing
Viewed from inside the cockpit, the Spruce Goose's left wing seems to go on forever.
DC-3 dwarfed
The Evergreen Aviation Museum is home to 70 aircraft. Here, the Spruce Goose dwarfs a DC-3.
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Viewed from its left side, the front of the Spruce Goose dominates everything around it at the Evergreen Aviation Museum.


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In the past eight years the collusion between government and business has gotten worse, creating what economist Dean Baker terms the "conservative nanny state." Lessig sees unmaking this state of affairs as the challenge of the era. "There's a speech that Reagan gives in 1965," Lessig says, "where he talks about how democracy always fails because once the people recognize they can vote themselves largess, they just vote themselves largess and the fiscal policy is destroyed. Well, Reagan had it half-right. It's not as if it's the poor out there who have figured out how to suck the money out of the rich. It's exactly the other way around."Link
In fighting this corporate socialism, Lessig thinks there are allies to be found among the "intellectually honest" right. He points out that the need to raise money from industry provides an incentive to grow government and maintain regulation as a kind of leverage to extract donations from industry. He's made battling earmarks, a conservative cause célèbre, a Change Congress core mission; the first member of Congress to endorse Change Congress was Jim Cooper, a conservative blue-dog Democrat who is eyed suspiciously by the party's activist base. Lessig's touchstone in his conservative outreach is his father, who struggled every year to meet his company's pension obligations, only to learn years later that big companies like Bethlehem Steel had an exemption in the law so they didn't have to meet the same standards. "Now, from my modern political perspective, that's exactly the thing I think is most outrageous about how the government functions," says Lessig. "And from my dad's perspective, that's the most absurd thing about how government functions."
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Inspiring man, but a bit of a depressing take on the whole thing.
Saw a quote in Fortune recently: The problem with big business is that it likes to "privatize its gains and socialize its losses." That's why we see big bailouts for reckless banks and incompetent automakers, and eternal copyright protection for Mickey.
The "intellectually honest" right? He's kidding right? That species went extinct long ago. I wish him luck and I hope that Change Congress can make a difference. But this country is hanging by a thread as it is.
NOEN, come on, that kind of broad-brush statement does no good at all. There's a coalition of Old Right,libertarian, MOR and soft liberals that support Ron Paul for instance. Many of these people embrace the Austrian school economics of von Mises, Rothbard, and to a lesser extent Hayek, rejecting the current corporatist system of collusion between politicians and special interests outright. They believe that true political and economic liberty are intimately entwined, and that the only solution to the more-or-less continual crises of the corporate state is a restoration of sacred property rights in one's person and posessions, and an elimination of government subsidization of special interests. If this isn't intellectual honesty, then it doesn't exist.
Hmm, guess I ran afoul of the 'no mentioning candidate' policy, I'll condense to say there is a large coalition of intellectually honest, pro-liberty, pro-free enterprise people on what is traditionally called the 'right' that find the corporate state abhorrent. Those folks typically have a minarchist or market anarchist bent, usually follow Austrian-school notions of free markets, full property rights, and sound money. To dismiss these folks is short-sighted to say the least.
The cyberlaw community certainly, I am quite sure, hated to see the good professor move on to another area of interest, given his enormous contributions in this space. That said, dealing with the topic/problem of corruption in politics, in a systematic and rigorous way, is certainly a worthwhile endeavor. The primary reason is that markets work better when we have transparency. Politics does as well. Moreover, the two are deeply connected. Lessig may have an even larger impact in this broader context and that is saying quite a lot.
Lessig's not going to get very far with the "intellectually honest" folks on the right because his analysis of the problem seems to be diametrically opposed to their's.
As seen in the Nation's discussion of the Medicare Part D problem (I'm assuming this reflects Lessig's view since it's written as if it is). Basically, the Left view is that income transfers are fine as long as they go in the "correct" direction. But then the evil lobbyist come along and redirect the income transfer in the "wrong" direction.
The right-libertarian analysis is that the income transfer is a bad idea regardless of the direction it goes in, and that once you've got a government large enough that it can make much such income transfers routinely, that the rent seeking behavior that Lessig describes is simply a feature of the system. There's simply no way within a liberal political system to prevent it. Some group is ultimately going to be able to distort government action to their own private interests (unions, for example, have played an important role in stifling legislation to deal with climate change).
The only way out of the box is to reduce the regulatory authority of the state, but that's not something mainstream right or left parties in the US are willing to even consider. The Republicans used to be in favor of reducing the size of government until they came to power, and the Democrats answer seems to be "there'll be even more state power when we win…only that power will be wielded by the 'right' people."
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MANILA, Philippines—The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday advised consumers to avoid buying sports drinks, soft drinks, fruit juices and jellies imported from Taiwan which are suspected of having been contaminated with a chemical harmful to health.
Taiwanese authorities have confirmed that the chemical Di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) was illegally added to a food product raw material described as a "cloudy agent" and intended for emulsification, said FDA Director Suzette Lazo in an advisory.
"The Taiwanese FDA has not yet identified the brands of the tainted products, so as a precautionary measure, we advise Filipino consumers to refrain from buying them," Ong told the Inquirer by phone.
Pending identification of the tainted products by Taiwanese health officials, the public must avoid all high–risk products imported from that country, said Department of Health consultant Dr. Willie Ong.
Ong identified the high-risk products as sports drinks, fruit juices, jellies and soft drinks.
As soon as its counterpart in Taiwan has identified the names of the tainted products, the FDA will immediately instruct all supermarkets and retail stores to recall the products, said Ong.
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In the FDA advisory, Lazo said supermarkets and other stores should temporarily remove high-risk items from their shelves until such time that these are proven to be free of the contaminant DEHP.
DEHP is widely used in the manufacture of plastic articles like intravenous bags and tubing, gastric tubes and blood bags. While low doses of the chemical are safe, prolonged exposure could have harmful effects to health.
High or repeated exposure to DEHP among children could lead to testicular defects, toxicity in kidneys and fertility problems.
Tracing the company
Over the weekend, Lazo reported that "the Taiwan government has informed the Department of Health that a company may have exported to the Philippines food products containing additives contaminated with DEHP."
"Efforts to trace the local counterpart of this company are currently in progress," she had added.
Ong recalled that at the height of the worldwide melamine scare in 2008, the FDA was able to immediately order a recall of the tainted milk products from China because the latter provided it with a list of the affected brands.
Six babies died and about 300,000 children in China were taken ill after consuming infant formula laced with melamine. No casualties were reported in the Philippines.
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Loosely Literal: Summer Reading Round-Up, Booty Pop Edition
Well, it's summertime again, which means yet another round of workouts designed to get you in shape for both the beach and the bookshelf! By following this regimen 3-5 times a week, you're guaranteed to lose weight, feel great, and make your friend Brittany wish she read books at night instead of repinning lo-carb recipes onto her lo-carb Pinterest board. Satisfaction guaranteed! Unless you're always dissatisfied, then only the Lord can save you.
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"Writing is a lonely business" is something most writers know. Long hours at the keyboard, creating stories and characters that may never see the light of day by being published. And even if the stories are published, it can be years between the first word, the first sentence, and publication day.
For most writers, producing a book is a solitary process. For long periods of time, an author is not only the writer, but also the reader, reviewer, and reviser—time and time again. Writer's block, time management, exhilaration, and depression are often all handled alone.
But there is a different way. Collaboration! Write with someone else. Share the highs and lows.
Literary Roundup: Big Book Deal, Lessons from Sondheim, Popular Books By State, and Dani Shapiro
Today's roundup marvels at a book deal, finds writing lessons from a composer, explores the most popular books by state, and hears from Dani Shapiro.
Reading Like a Writer: Memory Triggers in A Gesture Life
I want to examine the way memories are elicited in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life. The narrator, Doc Hata, does not think freely over the events of his life. Instead, his reflections are always provoked. It seems his memories can only happen if inspired by an outside source.
There are three time-lines running through the story. The first is the present day, when Doc Hata is retired and lonely. Events of this timeline include almost burning his house down and building a relationship with his grandson. The second timeline includes the narrator's troubles with the young version of his daughter. The third strain relates his experiences in the war.
Revision: Taking the Pages Through Stages
A writer's real muscle is tested and proved in revision.
Whether your first draft is sucky or lucky, whether your poem/story/essay/novel ends up feted by New York, published in some indie zine no one has yet heard of, or entirely ignored, what matters to us as writers is the process…and that means primarily the muck and sweat of revision.
Silencing the Inner Critic
We all have one. A little voice that sits on our shoulder whispering Whatever you do, DON'T MESS UP! My own "shoulder monster" is sometimes so loud that I forget her voice is not my own. She says:
Don't be corny
Don't be sentimental
Every sentence should be perfect as you put it down
Lit Chat: Meet Jen March
It's rare to meet someone who ends up in the Minnesota because they've always romanticized the Midwest, but that is exactly how Jen March came to our fair city. SoCal by birth but clearly Midwestern at heart, she'd been writing poems about snow long before she experienced her first parking restriction or had to shovel her walkway (and neither of those things sent her running for the hills!). The catalyst that brought her to Minneapolis came in the form of a friend with a predilection for storytelling, whose words about the city were grand and magical, and Jen became charmed by these tales. Storytelling is truly what brought Jen here, and in no small part is why she stays.
Literary Roundup: Wodehouse Prize, Blogging Every Day, Avian Library, and Nikki Giovanni
Today's roundup celebrates the Wodehouse prize recipient, learns some lessons from a daily blogger, finds a library for the birds, and hears from Nikki Giovanni.
Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood
While reading Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood in prep for my upcoming three-session class I found myself laughing. I was braced for gothic and spooky but was reminded of Flannery O'Connor's sly dry humor ..."Going around the corner he ran into something heavy and pink; it gasped and muttered, "Clumsy!"
Last year, when Philip Bither announced Walker Art Center's performing arts season, I realized that two of the shows were inspired by writers. I'd long been wanting the Loft to offer more classes for readers and thought it would be fun to have some short sessions where we discussed the books, saw the performance, and come together a week later with some of the performance creators to talk about the show.
Hope Deferred
Nineteen years is a long, long time to write and hope and dream and not reach one's goal. I know, because that's how long it took me to get a publishing contract for my first book.
Hope deferred does, indeed, make the heart sick. I knew this intimately. I knew it with every trip to the mailbox, and every rejection, and every struggling effort to drum up enough hope to send out a story yet again. It is a strange thing that writers, who of all people are perhaps the most sensitive to rejection, are the very ones who put their work out there, time and again, deliberately courting it.
Of course the answer to that is simple. The fear of rejection is strong, but the desire to write, to communicate our vision to the world, is stronger yet.


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In contemporary Western culture, there are no arranged marriages so I always wonder why women end up with jerks. Few women deliberately choose a horrible, no-good man as a mate yet I cant tell you how many times women ask me, How did I end up with this jerk?
Why the [bleep] did I marry him?
I often wonder in my head: Were you drunk? Were you forced into it? Did he have a lot of money/fame/power? Usually, its none of the above. You simply got intoxicated by how his strengths called to your weaknesses. Passion and chemistry blind-sided your better judgment. You feared being alone was worse than being with a less-than-perfect man. You choose to ignore the red flags in the name of hope. He wanted you. He needed you. You thought you could fix him.
But then his negatives began to overshadow his positives
You claim that he changed but it is more like his true nature emerged. He put his best face forward but as the relationship became permanent, he didnt have to be on his best behavior. It takes too much effort to keep up over time, and he already snagged you.
So what do you do with this jerk?
Jerks are often wounded, selfish or ignorant people who dont recognize how they affect those around them. Every wise, time-proved wife will tell you that you cannot change your husband at least directly. You can love him and hope that this works its magic over time. Love has worked miracles in many a husband. But you have to decide for the sake of your and your childrens well-being if staying with this jerk is a healthy, doable, sustainable plan of action. There are many levels of jerk-dom from annoying, selfish jerk all the way to abusive, dangerous jerk. Ask yourself: Was he so deceitful in how he presented himself before marriage that it is as though you made vows to a completely different person? Is this marriage toxic and destructive? Do you love him? Do you leave him?
If your jerk is not especially harmful, just frustrating or embarrassing or disappointing, your continued love can make a difference and even spark within him the motivation to become a better person. Focus on his good points. If you criticize him, the negative energy will bring out more negativity within him. He will likely react by being defensive and angry. More of a jerk. Like attracts like.
Instead, praise his positives and he will bring forth more of that side of him. For example, if you dont like the way he mistreats servers, you can remark with genuine appreciation when you notice when he treats a server with some patience, That was really great of you to be patient with that server. I noticed that she is frazzled and after you spoke with her, she smiled. That small act on your part really made a difference in her day. I love that.
People generally repeat what brings them praise and good feelings. Overlook his faults as much as you can because we all have our own faults and need our mates to do the same for us. We just might be surprised that we might behave in jerky ways without realizing it, too.
Stop Being an A-hole! Youre Ruining Your Relationship!
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Poll: Which of the Mahjarrat is / are your favorite, based on my "Shadows of a Lost Mind" portrayals? Vote Now!
Author has written 21 stories for Maximum Ride, RuneScape, and Doctor Who.
About Me
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Location: Vermont
Hobbies: Reading, writing, listening to music, playing the piano, obsessing about whatever it is I'm currently obsessed with, collecting quotes, analyzing human behavior, making fan videos
Pet Peeves: Too many bubbles in my dishwater, smart people who think they're stupid, unreasonable people, cats who stand in front of my books while I'm reading, dog-earing instead of finding a bookmark, generalized assumptions
Favorite Book: Runemarks by Joanne Harris
A Note on My Works – as of 9/17/13
I've been on FFN for a bit over four years now, and — since when I joined was about the same time that I started taking writing seriously — you can pretty much follow the progression of my writing development by reading my fics in chronological order. Not that anyone would. (Although I've been writing Shadows of a Lost Mind for nearly three years now, so you could just read that one and get pretty much the same idea.)
Pinch Me, I Must Be Dreaming is pretty much my only Maximum Ride fic that I still like (excepting my soft spot for the last few chapters of Angelic Tyranny). I'm really only leaving the others up because I would hate to lose the reviews (I'm shallow that way), and because I do still get occasional traffic on them that shows me that even though I've moved past them, there are still people who appreciate them. I don't want to take that away.
Shadows of a Lost Mind became more popular than I ever expected, and has the most loyal fanbase of any of my fics. (At the rate I update, it definitely needs it.) It's also my perfect blend of humor, drama, and insanity, so I've never really stopped loving it. Then there's Mahjarrat Psychiatry, which I loved writing and am still proud of and unfortunately got about as much traffic as a back road in North Dakota. Oh well. And most of my other RuneScape fics are just random silliness.
As for my Doctor Who fics, being my most recent works I have yet to improve enough to think they're "old" or "completely nasty". (Yeah, it happens.) I won't know for a while if they'll stand the test of time. For now, I'll just say that The OodNoodleSphere was lots of fun, and Just A Little Longer is currently holding a very special place in my heart. It was the first fanfiction that I simply could not stop writing, and I loved the chance that it gave me to play with a more emotional, tragic story. Not to mention that writing Matt Smith's Doctor is just a boatload of fun times. Never Forgotten was even more addicting to write than Just A Little Longer, and it gave me a chance to express some of my views on the show. (I have a lot of opinions about it, but I rarely have a reason to share them with anyone.) I kind of love it.
TL;DR — I like some of my work and I don't really like the rest anymore, but I leave the final decision up to my readers.
Other Places I Occasionally Frequent
RuneScape (My display name is currently WolfsQuill)
TV Tropes
Archive of Our Own
YouTube (again) (Where I post my own vids.)
My Fic Fandoms
Maximum Ride
Fics That Really Made Me Chuckle
Ganondorf's Rant by yaphi1 - The Legend of Zelda
My Philosophy on Life
"Smile" by McFly
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because people that mind don't matter and people that matter don't mind."
"I'm Not Alright" by Shinedown
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one."
"When you're feeling crazy/ And things fall apart/ Listen to your head/ Remember who you are/ You're the one/ You're the unbreakable heart."
Favorite Quotes
"Shut up," said Maddy.
"I feel like pudding. Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain."
"Advise your brethren. You can fight, and all of you will die, or you can not fight, in which case only most of you will die."
"We'll never survive."
"Such a strategist was the king that he had a contingecy plan for his contingency plan, and even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan."
"This is getting ridiculous. The first assassin kills the second assassin sent to kill the first assassin, who didn't assassinate anyone until we hired the second assassin to assassinate her."
"Grimms scare the living daylights out of most wizards."
"This is Berk. It snows nine months out of the year and hails the other three. The food that grows here is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here are even more so."
"This is me. I am amazing."
"Maybe I'm going crazy, Damon thought, intrigued. He had never gone crazy before that he could recall, and there was some appeal in the idea."
"You know about this stuff?"
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually — from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint — it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly… timey-wimey… stuff."
"Doctor, they've got guns."
"Do you trust this man?"
"Okay, need a proper look. Got to draw its fire, give it a target."
"Oh, what's this then? I love this. A big flashy lighty thing. That's what brought me here. Big flashy lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually. Give me time. And a crayon."
"You're really that good?" he said at last.
"I'm not arguing. I'm just offering a relentlessly contrary point of view."
A Selection of Quotes from me, my friends, and my family:
"If I had a dime for every time I saw a monster called Gray Maim the Jagged…"
"Are you okay?"
"Open foot, insert mouth."
"My hand looks really pale next to yours."
"Could you cook it rare or medium rare?"
Alex: -drinking juice pouch- "Have you ever squirted someone in the face with one of these?"
"I feel really random today. I got out of the shower and my first thought was, 'I'm bleeding water'."
"In order to get away with performing in front of an audience with just maracas, you have to be very attractive and partially naked."
Me: "I'm going to kill you."
Me: "I forgot my sunglasses."
"There was a spider on my arm so then I had a fit and then I died."
"Having your online friends try to stop you from procrastinating is like asking a blind guy to teach you how to read."
"Honk your horn like crazy and see if someone will come beat you up so we can get an ambulance ride home."
"I think I'm a conversation suicide bomber."
Grandpa: "It's older than we are. Alas, no one has offered to preserve us."
"How are your eyes? Really bad or just kind of bad?"
Mom: "Did you date them?"
Grandma Helen: -sneezes-
"Your hair is so straight that if you straightened it, it would probably curl."
"Any kid who can't appreciate Lord of the Rings is a dud in my eyes. Give 'em up, try again."
Other Quotes:
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."
"The newscaster is the person who says, 'Good evening,' and then tells you why it's not."
"I reject your reality and substitute my own."
"I want each and every American to know for certain that I'm responsible for the decisions I make, and each of you are as well."
–George W. Bush
"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult."
"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
"Always deny the apocalypse, because you'll usually be right, and when you're wrong, there'll be nobody there to say, 'I told you so.'"
"Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit and move on."
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Recent Columbia grads Vampire Weekend named the aestheticthe yacht-rock corollary to the yacht-wear, as it wereon their summery, self-released, self-titled EP. They called it "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa." Brooklyn's Artanker Convoy called it Cozy Endings. Even out-of-towners could see the trend coming: the Norwegian producer Hans-Peter Lindstr say, who pulled records usually only glimpsed on Mom and Dad's shelves for his August contribution to the chill-out mix series LateNightTales. These musicians, onstage in the city's myriad clubs over the next few months, will carry with them the thrift-store smell of the obsolete and the comfortable, the unwanted and the adulta pointed departure from downtown's typically prolonged and touchy adolescence.
Vampire Weekend's EP, polite to a fault, takes me back to when my parents tried on Nantucket Reds and listened to nothing but Paul Simon, but I know I'm not the only one. Brooklyn's Artanker Convoy, who release records on experimental bastion the Social Registry, and who were a highlight of the label's Summer Festival over in Gowanus a couple weeks back, delve into even lighter fare. Theirs is a singular achievement: to turn Kenny G and the type of trebly bass usually heard on high-dial FM radio into chic art-rock. "Rabbit," from their recent Cozy Endings, dabbles in not just splashy straight-jazz cymbal tapping, but frankly smooth saxophone lines and a certain edible organ tone. At the end of the jam one guy says, "I think that smells like it's ready," and still gets corrected by a bandmate: "Yeah . . . just chill out."
Artanker Convoy have no relation to cool as it's defined in Manhattan: young good looks, high taste in art and fashion. Instead, these six outer-borough men with widow's peaks work from the unfashionable inspiration of decrepit lite-rock, repurposing sunny scraps roundly rejected over on the left bank of the East River in order to craft something new.
New York culture wars can't mean much to a guy like Lindstr whose primary residence is in Oslo, Norway, where he's known for mining the spacey bombast of long-forgotten Italo-disco for capacious synth grooves and their inevitable, icy climaxes. So take LateNightTales as a coincidence. If Artanker Convoy's jazzant-garde is a way of opting out, of aging to the point where being cool doesn't matter, Lindstr mix is differentan elevation of the cheesy and the misbegot- ten to big-things status among overseas- gazing hipsters. Proto-progger Alf Emil Eik's Christian rock gives way to Fern Kinney's housewife disco, arena-goon Todd Rundgren's "Born to Synthesize" vocodes all over Carly Simon's piano-reggae "Why," and the production duo Terje & Thomas invents, with the track "Regnbagnan," the lonely genre of Euro-harmonica funk.
Oddly, money seems to never enter into it. You'd never mistake LateNightTales or Cozy Endings as a soundtrack for the trip out of the yuppie closet. Both are too bizarre, tweaked irreparably off their genre axes. Both artistsVampire Weekend too, not to mention the Barry Manilowinspired crooner Jens Lekman (who also comes to town next month) or the Beastie Boys, whose recent all-instrumental record owes as much to lite-FM as it does to their own past catalogseem more like they're looking for a break. It's less a style of music than a type: sound that does anything but assert its own cool. In New York, that can be a hard thing to find.
Bill Callahan + Sir Richard Bishop
September 7
Highline Ballroom, $15, 9 p.m., highlineballroom.com
Two acoustic-plucking refugees here. One, Callahan, shedding his longtime Smog alias in favor of the words on his birth certificate; the other, Bishop, touring frantically in the wake of the dissolution of his band, the free-music pioneers Sun City Girls, due to the death of drummer Charles Gocher. Both have a lot to forget. As Callahan explained his name change to Pitchfork: "I look at my hands and I don't know what they wrought in the past. Are they the hands of a bad man?"
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Randall's Island, $52$1,502, doors noon, farmaid.org
Behold, college students! With Dave Matthews, Guster, Matisyahu, and Willie Nelson all on the same billnot to mention a few curveballs like the Supersuckers and Montgomery Gentry tossed in for good measureFarm Aid 2007 promises to be the greatest dorm-room poster mash-up of all time. If you have only one opportunity to buy drugs this year, this is it.
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Court documents filed Friday in Orleans Civil District Court showed that Peralta's wife is asking for a restraining order against him stemming from the alleged incident that happened last October.
According to the documents, the petition for protection from abuse stems from an alleged sexual assault incident that happened in the couple's Meraux home.
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The last time LaRue County and Marion County played each other, the Knights pulled away in the second half after a nip and tuck first half.
This time after the dust settled the Knights were up 28-0 with four minutes to go in the half. So much for the rematch.
Marion County High School was hitting on all cylinders in their 41-14 win over district rival LaRue in the second round of the Class AAAA playoffs Friday at John J. Boswell Field.
Matthew Mattingly conquered the hills of the Kentucky Horse Park to place in the top 60 runners in the state in his class.
Mattingly, a senior, finished 56th out of 232 runners in the KHSAA Class AA state cross-country meet on Saturday in Lexington with a time of 18 minutes and 29 seconds to accomplish his goal of making it to state.
"I was really wanting to get into the 17's but those hills make you run out of gas," Mattingly said after the race. "Plus with all those people it's kind of like NASCAR."
The Knights travel to Western High School on Friday night. Kick off is set for 7:30 p.m. in the region championship game. The winner advances to the state semi final at Western Kentucky University to face either Lone Oak (12-0) or Allen County - Scottsville (11-0).
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Western High School (7-5) may have a lower win percentage than Marion County High School (10-2) but they still hold home field advantage on Friday night.
Marion County High School senior Dylan Peterson became the second Knight in the last two seasons to at least share a piece of the District Player of the Year recently.
Last season Eric Miles was co-player of the year with North Bullitt's Dalton Cissell. This year Peterson claims the honor by himself.
Several of his teammates were named to the all-district team. The Knights have loaded the all-district team for the past three seasons.
Recently two Marion County High School girls soccer players were named to the 15th Region regular season all-region team. Senior Christan Montgomery was named first team all-region while freshman Makayla Epps was named second team all-region.
Montgomery got the nod because of her defensive skills, often times serving as a brick wall in front of the goal as the Lady Knights goalie. She took a barrage of shots against Boyle County early in the season as the Lady Knights lost in respectable fashion.
Finally, his time came. Marion County High School senior Matthew Mattingly finally achieved a goal he's had for two years by qualifying for the state cross country meet on Saturday during the region meet.
Mattingly finished seventh out of 78 runners to qualify.
"He was a shoe in last year but he pulled a hamstring. He's really been working hard," Cross Country Head Coach Sherbie King said. "His goal this year was to go to state. I told him before the meet he had to at least get in the top 10."
Revenge is never sweeter than in the playoffs.
Friday night the LaRue County Hawks (7-4) hope to avenge a 33-7 home loss earlier this season to the Marion County Knights (9-2).
"They have a lot of emotion, you can tell on video. It's going to be a knock down drag out I think," Knights Head Coach Jeff Robbins said.
The Hawks are also looking to get a win against Robbins, who is 4-0 against LaRue County while serving as head coach for the Knights.
A slow start didn't stop Marion County High School (9-2) from nearly hitting the 70-point mark Friday night against Breckinridge County High School (3-8) in the first round of the Class AAAA playoffs at John J. Boswell Field. It didn't stop them from setting the school record for longest winning streak at nine games either.
Breckinridge led the Knights 14-7 early in the second quarter, shocking everyone in attendance. The Tigers passing game especially looked sharp.
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Honda to extract rare earth metals from used car batteries
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In response to the skyrocketing prices of rare earth metals, Honda, in partnership with the Japan Metals & Chemicals Co., Ltd., has established a world first mass-production process at a recycling plant to recycle this precious resource from Honda vehicles.
From this month, the companies will begin extracting rare earth metals from used nickel-metal hydride batteries collected at Honda dealers in Japan and other countries from Honda hybrid vehicles, such as the CR-Z hybrid and Insight hybrid.
The newly established process, which Honda points out is not experimental but an actual mass-production process, can extract as much as 80% of rare earth metals contained in used nickel-metal hydride batteries with purity levels as high as newly mined and refined metals.
Honda says it plans to reuse the extracted rare earth metals in a wide range of Honda products and not just in new nickel-metal hydride batteries.
The new process can also be used to extract rare earth metals from a variety of used parts, and Honda has plans to expand the extraction process of this increasingly precious resource to include parts other than nickel-metal hydride batteries.
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This sounds to me like an excellent idea, not least given the huge environmental destruction caused by mining for these so-called «rare-earth» elements. Hope that other manufacturers follow Honda's lead here !...
Only "as much as 80%".....
I don't know the current prices per ton of the refined specific metals.... but if I had the refined and used "more or less" pure metals in alloys and compounds, and I was able to extract 80% of them and then what happens to the other 20%? Further refining and extraction techniques.
I hope so.
I don't know the exact figures so I will make it up - this is like getting 1 ton of metal alloy concentrate, from 50,000 tons of dirt, minus the 50,000 tons of dirt.
That is what the 20% is.Mr Stiffy
stiffy, unfortunately we do mine a bazillion tons of dirt to find pounds of the good stuff, strip-mining is a horribly inefficient way to exctract metals. I think that 20% would probably be lost in the batteries life through the chemical reactions going on to power that crummy thing down the road. well, the civic hybrid was alright. The prius is an absurd, lying, awful thing to drive. This should shed some light on why burning a little gas (and researching to make that cleaner/more efficient) is the better option. It took us FOREVER to think we're coming close to running out of oil. a decade of hybrid cars and we're already freaking about battery supply. And those batteries travel all over the world in diesel trucks and ships before ever sitting inside a prius, which someone drives to your dealership in a big diesel truck. sorry, i can't stand hybrids, so rant over. Go honda, you're awesome as usual can't wait for your answer to the BRZ/FR-S/GT86.johnweythek


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The complacent calm that has overtaken financial markets thus far in 2013 will be put to a rigorous test in the coming days. This is due to the news that came out of Cyprus over the weekend. On Saturday, the tiny island nation and member of the European Monetary Union received a bailout in order to rescue their collapsing banking system. It is not the fact that emergency action was required in an attempt to rescue yet another troubled European economy, however. After all, such news has become almost commonplace in today's post crisis world. Instead, what is notable and potentially problematic for financial markets is the manner in which this latest bailout is being carried out.
So how can such a small place like Cyprus have any meaningful effect on the global economy? After all, the United States will produce enough output in the next 12 hours to match the Cyprus GDP for the entire year. It is because of the potential spillover effects resulting from how the bailout being imposed.
In short, Cyprus is receiving a 11 billion euro rescue package from the European Union (ESM) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But in order to receive these bailout funds, the Cypriot government must impose a 5.8 billion euro tax on bank deposits. Otherwise, the Cypriot banking system will be left to collapse and the country would likely have to exit the euro currency. As the deal stands as of late Sunday night, this includes a 9.9% tax on uninsured deposits over 100,000 euros and a 6.75% tax on INSURED deposits up to 100,000 euros. It is precisely on this point where the Cyprus rescue plan has roiled the markets heading into the trading week. For the tax is not being applied to shareholders or bondholders where the risk of loss is understood. Instead, it is being levied on depositors. And not just uninsured depositors, but also INSURED depositors. On this point alone, we are now moving into dark and murky unchartered waters in this latest phase of the post crisis period.
When I teach the chapter on money and banking in my macroeconomics classes, I conduct a case study on what happened to the banking system during the financial crisis. This includes a detailed examination of how bank balance sheets work. The case study explores how the investment value for stockholders and bondholders in certain banks were either wiped out or heavily impaired as a result of the crisis. But the one part of the bank balance sheet that is always considered essentially bulletproof in the study is insured customer deposits. In short, if a customer deposits money with a bank, these funds will be made good to the customer no matter what and for good reason. The following example to better illustrate what is happening this weekend in Cyprus shows why protecting insured deposits is so important.
As a purely hypothetical illustration, imagine you have a checking account at your local bank here in the United States. Not a long-term investment account with stocks, bonds and commodities where it is understood that prices fluctuate on a daily basis. Not even a money market mutual fund where some incremental risk of principal is assumed to achieve a slightly higher interest rate. It is a checking account that you are using to manage your daily budget including paying your bills and accessing cash for immediate required expenditures. Suppose you have $100,000 cash in your FDIC INSURED checking account, which means that even if the bank goes bankrupt tomorrow your money is fully guaranteed by the United States government. Going into this weekend, you would have $100,000 in cash in your checking account that you would understandably assume is completely safe. But under the Cypriot bailout scenario, you find out after the bank closed on Saturday that your account is only going to be worth $93,250 when it reopens on Monday because the U.S. government has suddenly and unexpectedly taken $6,750 from your checking account in order to carry out an emergency bank rescue plan. Not only would you likely be upset and your confidence shaken, but you may also be inclined to rush to the bank to withdraw the remainder of your money as quickly as possible to protect against the potential for any future and unexpected levies. Such are the origins of bank runs, and this is exactly what is happening right now in Cyprus.
This, of course, is not happening in the United States, and Cyprus is a very small place. So why does all of this matter to global financial markets? Because Cyprus is a member of the European Monetary Union. And they are being induced to take these actions against insured depositors along with political reasons in order to continue using the euro currency. But Cyprus is not the only country in the euro zone that is dire financial straits and potentially in need of rescue funds. So too is Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy. And for a person that is living in any one of these other at risk European economies that is watching what is happening in Cyprus this weekend, their natural instinct is to wonder whether their bank deposits may suddenly be next. As a result, many depositors across Europe are likely evaluating whether they need to get to the bank in the coming days to withdraw their own money. If we were to see bank run activity pick up momentum in any of these European countries in the coming days, it could have a meaningfully destabilizing effect. And the one thing more than anything else that financial markets including stocks dislike, at least in normal market environments, is uncertainty.
The potential fallout effects from the unexpected situation in Cyprus highlights the continued importance diversification in today's post crisis investment markets. The stock market has steadily risen in 2013, but they have been alone in this advance as bonds have been flat to slightly lower and precious metals have fallen into correction. Unfortunately for stocks, however, the rally thus far this year is being almost exclusively driven by the flow of liquidity from the latest QE monetary policy stimulus program from the U.S. Federal Reserve, as economic growth has otherwise ground to a halt and corporate earnings have fallen into decline in recent quarters. In short, the recent stock rally is built on sand and is now overextended from a technical standpoint. Thus, any sudden shocks have the potential to evaporate the year's worth of stock gains in a matter of days. Whether the events in Cyprus ends up being such a shock remains to be seen – stocks futures are down -20, or -1.3%, on the S&P 500 heading into overnight, but stocks have proven remarkably resilient to any bad news under the influence of QE, so a positive close on Monday would not at all be a surprise. But high quality bonds and precious metals are already well overdue to regress to the mean relative to stocks, particularly at this stage of the latest QE program, and these categories would stand to benefit most under any correction scenario. Thus, a rotation of liquidity out of stocks and into these more defensive safe haven categories is also a more than likely outcome even without the Cyprus situation.
I had already reduced portfolio stock allocations considerably ahead of the weekend before the outbreak of events in Cyprus. This was due in part to the fact that the stock market had arrived this past week at major long-term resistance in the 1555 to 1580 range on the S&P 500 Index, for this is exactly where the stock market first peaked in March 2000 and topped out again in October 2007 only to go on and decline by more than -50% in both past instances. Given the fact that the recent move higher in stocks is already overextended and long overdue for at least some sort of correction, stocks are at a minimum likely to pause and face serious headwinds at these levels. And this expectation coupled with the recent news out of Cyprus is supportive of waiting on the sidelines in cash with the proceeds from these recent stock sales into new investments is a prudent strategy at least for the moment until some clarity is gained on how these events are likely to play out in the coming days. The next few trading days should help explain a lot on how things are likely to play out in the weeks and months ahead.
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