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David Washburn, Wichita Falls
State Senator Craig Estes had some cute things to say about cheese and mousetraps in Tuesday's editorial. While probably entertaining to the Right-wing echo chamber, it was not a constructive discussion of Medicaid. He placed himself in the camp of those who casually dismiss the good that government does to protect the health, the very lives, of our fellow citizens who have not the money to pay for food and housing, much less medical care.
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Ask the family members of the hundreds of thousands of elderly who are getting skilled nursing care in nursing homes only because of Medicaid. That is where the bulk of Medicaid dollars are spent.
He said, "Medicaid is fraud-ridden." That doesn't negate the need for Medicaid, it's an argument to improve it and to invest funds to find and prosecute fraud (which would pay for itself).
He said the cost of Medicaid has tripled in 13 years. He failed to say how that compares over the same period to the increase in the overall size of the state economy, state budget and population, especially the elderly, as baby boomers have aged. He failed to note that, without expanding Medicaid, Texas will remain at 49th (or last) in per capita spent on health care for its low-income citizens.
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April 22nd, 2008 #40
Incredible work everyone! It's a shame about the puss-outs *cough* Shelly Wan *cough*. Props to all!
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Many great entries. So much fun. Comments on a few of the entries. They all deserve a response, but I will type up a few comments now.
flaptraps - love the movement and brushstrokes in this. The mass of spirits/characters in the front are very nice. Your painting works so well as a composition. Great work
Hurricane - too fun man. Very well done. I love all the interaction of the little baddies. Great work.
vyle - excellent! I love the colors and the movement in this piece. Makes me want to read the story.
poshspice - beautiful work as usual! Beautiful colors and great costume. There is nothing I don't love about this, all the way down to the stars on the sheets.
Jason Chan - So fun. I love the little girl with the brick! She is so cute, picturing her mashing a zombie in the face with a brick made me laugh out loud. I love this painting. Great idea.
prostate sunrise - Great image mister. Love the palette and the movement.
stokes and thom - Great entries! I will be nervously chewing on my fingernails awaiting the judging!
Again, this has been a lot of fun. I can't wait to see what comes out of the next round. Great work everyone.
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nice job, peoples! jason (chan)'s totally won me over. lots of charm and playfulness.
nice job greentopaz, viag, fvallejo, cicinimo, ben mauro, brendan n, idiot apathy, flaptraps, yAdam and hurricane!!
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April 22nd, 2008 #43
Great round guys!!! stryke9 yours turned out rad!
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April 22nd, 2008 #44
incredible. that really hurt. God, there is so much talent out there...
April 22nd, 2008 #45
Oh my God! Your all soooooo BAD ASS! A few of these rounds are gone be some really rough calls for judging... Damn!
(A Special mention to the Chan peace, just love the strong and morbid humor of it... Laughed and laughed etc )
April 22nd, 2008 #46
Match 16 is Judge's Bane... shit man...
Prostate Sunrise is my hero. >.<
Really incredible round!!!
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some of these are just simply staggering! best of luck and congratulations all around!
April 22nd, 2008 #49
Good god, I am so overwhelmed with the awesomeness. <3
April 22nd, 2008 #50
we didn't have one puss-out!!!
some of my faves all round:
flaptraps, hurricane, vyle, viag, wassermelone, kirtz, idiot apathy, cicinimo-i love that you took on one of the plagues!, chan-very fun scene, john_bivens, prostate sunrise, lyon-awesome tight render, steak-tron-looks like it's right out of a movie.
and almost every one i didn't mention is just as amazing!- (these are just more my taste)
can't wait to see how the judging goes.
cody, will you be posting the point totals for each piece?
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This is another up-and-coming artist that I'm really excited about. Jaleel Shaw is one of the most talented and interesting young players that has come along in the latest wave of young lions. I first met Jaleel around 2002 - he was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition that year as well. I was completely blown away by this cat. This year, he is a recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award, along with another great young talent, Kendrick Scott.
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DeMarcus Cousins is a 6'11″ center but apparently he thinks he has the ball-handling skills of a young Magic Johnson.
Against the Utah Jazz on Thursday night Cousins ended up with the ball on the break and worked his way through three defenders, juking guard Jamaal Tinsley with a sweet, behind-the-back dribble before finishing with a lay-in.
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No matter how careful you are when capturing your photographic images, there are going to be issues that you find later—whether it's little spots or blemishes, or bigger problems like color casts or chromatic aberration. In this workshop, Tim Grey shares his techniques for cleaning up your images with Adobe Photoshop. After getting an overview of image-cleanup concepts and tools, learn how to remove spots, correct color problems, eliminate noise, fix red eye, and much more. Tim also shares advanced techniques like making gradient adjustments, extending the frame, and using multiple exposures to remove people from an image. This course covers all you need to know to remove distractions in an image that keep your genius from shining through.
In some cases, you might find that it's easier to create a selection to identify an area that you want to repair, rather than to paint into that area. And for those types of situations, the Patch tool is an ideal solution. Let's take a look at how we can use this tool in order to apply fixes based on a selection. I'll start off by creating a new layer. I'll click on Create New layer button at the bottom of the Layers panel. And then I'll double-click on the name for that layer and give it a new name. I'll just call it clean-up in this case. And then I'm going to choose the Patch tool. That's found underneath the Spot Healing tool on the toolbox.
And so, I'll click on the button for the Spot Healing brush tool and then choose the Patch tool from the fly-out menu. In almost all cases, I work with the Patch tool using the Content Aware option. The normal mode, generally speaking, will cause too much blending where areas are not cleaned very well. For example, here I want to clean up the bottom left corner of the image. And if I use the normal mode in order to clean up that area, what you'll see is that the correction essentially just causes a blurring. I'll go ahead and choose my background image there for just a moment. And I'll click and drag.
And you can see that the correction is not very good. So, I'll go ahead and undo with a Ctrl+Z on Windows or Cmd+Z on Macintosh. And then I'll change the option back to the Content Aware setting for Patch. I also want to make sure that the Sample All Layers checkbox is turned on. I've created a new cleanup layer. I'm going to place my cleanup work on to that layer and in order to do so, I need the Sample All Layers option turned on. I can also think about the adaptation method. Basically, this determines how strictly the source pixels will be copied into the destination.
I'll show you an example of that in a moment. In many cases, it really won't make much of a difference unless you have some very strong objects and shapes within the area that you're cleaning up. It shouldn't be too big of an issue. I'll leave it set to medium at the moment. And now, I'm ready to take the source area, the area that I have identified as the area that I want to cleanup. And drag it to a new area of the image, an area that represents a good source of pixels to cleanup the area that I have identified. You'll notice that within my original selection, I have a preview of the correction but a preview without all the blending.
So, it wont be a 100% accurate but it gives me a very good sense of how closely the pixels might match. I'll go ahead and release the mouse. Photoshop will then process that area and you can see that we have a great clean up. I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+D on Windows or Cmd+D on Macintosh in order to remove that selection. And I can continue in this manner creating additional selections in areas that I want to clean up as well. Note, by the way, that since this is a Selection tool, essentially a Lasso tool, I can also add to my selection, subtract from my selection, or create an intersection with an existing selection using the Option buttons on the options bar.
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So, I'm going to select the area with the not so great blending. And I'll drag that into a different area of the image and release. And that gives me a much better result. Now for sake of argument, let's assume that we wanted to duplicate some of the tape here. And that will give us an opportunity to test out the Adaptation option. I'll go ahead and deselect. And then, I'm going to create a selection of an area that I want to clean up. And then, I'm going to choose a source of pixels that I would like to blend. I'll go ahead and set the option to Very Strict first. Now, this is not going to be a good cleanup by any stretcher. I just want to illustrate the behavior of this Adaptation option. I'll go ahead and drag my selection over to this round object in the image, and then, I will release the mouse and you'll see that that object is placed essentially exactly as it was, with just a little bit of blending. And that's with my very strict adaptation.
I'll press Ctrl+Z on Windows or Cmd+Z on Macintosh to undo that last step. And then, I'll choose the Very Loose option and repeat the exact same correction. Or at least as close to exactly the same as I can possibly manage. And when I release the mouse, you'll see that things get altered a little bit in order to try to match the surroundings a little better. Basically, Photoshop is trying to interpret what's going on here and so it has freedom to change the shape of my source pixels in order to try to get them to blend in the way it thinks they should.
So, that gives you sense of the Adaptation option. In most cases, if you don't have a very clear texture or structure, then just using the medium option will work just fine. But sometimes you might need to make sure that the shape of the pixels is retained. Or that it is altered in order to blend in a little bit better. And so, that Adaptation option gives you the flexibility there. I'll go ahead, of course, and undo that last change as well and deselect my selection. But you can see that using the Patch tool, especially in conjunction with the Content Aware option and the ability to work on a new layer, allows us to use selections as the basis of a variety of image clean up tasks.
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Glad you guys are enjoying the photos.
Woke up today to find glorious sunshine so grabbed my gear and warmed up the bike. After a quick look at a map a route was chosen. I like going new places (at least new on the bike) so
was to be my target before heading north to swing back round and home.
The first leg of the journey was to take me up past
Loch Lomond
. The road has always been a bit of a disappointment to me if I'm being honest. I went up there not long after I first got the bike, almost as a pilgrimage to see one of Scotland's most beautiful natural sights. The loch itself did not disappoint but the road, or at least parts of the road did. The northern half is great and keeps you close to the water but the bottom half is just a long, straight and busy road that keeps you 50/100 yards away from the water with trees and various other landscape features blocking your view. Since my journey today would see me miss the good half, I stopped off at a picnic area for a juice, a piss, a chat with some French students ('Ou et la Chateux?' was my attempt at asking them where they were from) and a few photos.
Loch Lomond:
So I left the A82 and moved up one to the A83. I have no photos of this road for you which is a terrible shame as it is quite stunning. I will stop for pictures next time but I'm afraid I was too mesmerised to stop. The road take you round the end of
Loch Long
before weaving its way through forests, past streams and waterfalls all surrounded by rocky mountains. It's great.
This takes you to 'Rest and Be Thankful'. I think the name comes from a stage in a race of some sort but I'm not sure. It's not much more than a car park with a food and drink van selling tea and coffee. But there are worse places to have tea and coffee.
Rest and Be Thankful view south:*
Rest and Be Thankful view north:
*That road you can see in the first picture there is of Scotland's
Old Military Roads.
These roads date back to 1720.
From there it was on to Inveraray. It's a nice wee town which seems to have been built to give the local aristocracy something to rule. It's the kind of place where sweetie shops can give people a sufficient income. Almost like it's stuck in a time warp. If you ever find yourself here, the old jail and the castle are the big attractions.
After lunch I started the journey home. It was to be the long way round (!!) as I was heading north and then east before turning back round. I have no photos from here either as I was concentrating on not dying. While it was a sunny day, it was also incredibly windy. On more than one occasion I was hit by a gust of wind powerful enough to shift me from my position on the road. So as lovely as this road was, I didn't enjoy it as much as I would have done on another day.
The wind died down as I reached more familiar roads though. I came back down through Glen Ogle and past Loch Lubnaig, which you'll see photos of in the first post of this thread. I took a back road out of Callander (a personal favourite) and grabbed a couple more photos before heading home.
On the way home a cyclist got a bit distracted by something happening on the other side of the road and swerved out in front of me. I gave the horn a quick toot to wake him up a bit. Apparently he doesn't like horns. 'Are you peeping at me, ya c***?' was his response. Maybe next time I'll just run him down. Tit.
Forecast is good for the weekend so hopefully some more to come on the next few days.
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Nice... When one carrier increase their compensation package, the others will follow.
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Not really. Remember the mid 90's when JB was bragging about .41 cpm at hire depending upon experience? I don't know many carriers that could fall right in line with that, and do it without a million snags...
Yup... I don't expect the other carriers to be scrambling to one-up Bluebird, but, at least there is some movement in the right direction.
Step in the right direction yes.I'll know we are back where we should be when we earn a proper wage and the old head-hunters are standing in front of truck stops again promising drivers the moon and the stars.
That always made me insane. I couldn't walk into a TA without being accosted by a JB recruiter. I made the mistake of talking to them once. They didn't stop calling for about 3 months, and what they were offering was worse than the deal I had.
Still, the wage thing does have it's promise.
We got a bit of a raise here about a month ago.Mileage guys got a couple of cents I believe and we got our d/h starting point lowered on %.Now only the first 300 is free.
Locals got a nice bump......really nice in some cases.Ah, to be local again..........
Maybe some light at the end O' the tunnel?(fingers crossed)
Nice to see a company giving a pay raise. They even cut pay here at the company I'm with and their pay is considered far above the industry average. I agree about being accosted by the J.B. recruiters. Some of them got down right ignorant when you told them you weren't interested.
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PROS: Shows good potential as a blitzer and is able to deliver the hit to the passer. Does his best work when he's attacking the line of scrimmage.
CONS: Lacks speed and struggles when working in space. Will miss stops in the open field against quicker backs. Doesn't change direction well and lacks burst. Limited impact in pursuit.
OVERVIEW: Carmichael is a limited defender that really lacks the speed and burst to do much on defense. He's a special teams option at best there. He might have to convert to playing fullback to have a chance to stick on the next level. A three-year starter that finished career with 32.5 tackles for loss, 12.5 sacks, and 2 interceptions. Forced 6 fumbles as a senior.
NFL FORECAST: He could get a look from some 3-4 teams that like their inside linebackers to rush the quarterback, but he's too limited in coverage and lacks speed to really have a chance to stick there. Instead, to actually get minutes on a team, he mgiht have to move to offense. His size and physical style of play should make for a nice conversion. It won't be easy, but he has the physical demeanor to do it. But even if he can, he's at best a backup that plays mainly special teams and will be limited if he ever is asked to play extensive minutes on offense. Either way, his ability stick on a roster will be tied to his special teams ability.
ATL FORECAST: Carmichael isn't a good bet to stick in Atlanta unless he wows the coaches with his special teams ability off the bat. He just doesn't have the upside to think he's going to develop much either on offense or defense, and isn't an upgrade over any of the backups at inside linebacker or fullback that the team already has on the roster. He's more a camp body in Atlanta.
VALUE: A team looking for someone tough and physical to bolster special teams should invite him to camp.
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I am often ridiculed by fellow conservatives for bringing up even the idea of third parties. The continual response is basically that in concept they're good, but in reality they're not. Sometimes theory doesn't translate well into reality; case in point, Marxism/communism. A utopian ideal of pure equality and communalism is a wonderful idea, but since man is flawed, a cultural/political construct devoid of a | Read More »
In the face of the coming November elections, many issues are confronting us, as well as their possible implications. They will become obvious the closer we get to that day. On the Republican side of the isle, we have the prospects of a feckless Republican leadership that still does not "get it". You can reference the posts out the new version of the "Contract with | Read More »
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Who should a Republican vote for—Mike Castle or Christine O'Donnell? By now, the arguments on both sides are as tired as a death-penalty debate in a freshman English class. So I'll cut to the chase. Who should Republicans vote for? O'Donnell. Republicans should vote O'Donnell. It isn't even debatable. All you have to do is look at the best-case scenario of a Castle win and | Read More »
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Good morning Humanoids! I'm Lonestar Loyds of London and these are today's top stories.
Google, the internet search giant and living, breathing verb, is getting ready to announce a change to Youtube, the ubiquitous video hosting website it purchased a few years back and is still attempting to make money off of. Why am I explaining that? Read on:
The Financial Times reports that Google is set to unveil a YouTube subscription service as early as this week. As many as 50 of YouTube's most popular channels will soon carry a subscription fee starting at around $1.99 per month.
"We're looking into creating a subscription platform that could bring even more great content to YouTube for our users to enjoy and provide our partners with another vehicle to generate revenue from their content, beyond the rental and ad-supported models we offer," a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement.
According to the Financial Times, initial channel partners would include WWE, Howcast, The Onion, and gaming network Machinima.
So yeah, the WWE wants you to pay to watch its internet videos now, according to "reports". I've looked into it a bit and Google is definitely going to announce premium service but I haven't seen much that confirms the WWE is in on it. In fact, I've actually seen some reports that contradict what's written above, but it would totally be something the WWE would do, assuming their deal with Hulu isn't exclusive.
I'm sort of torn of the subject, in multiple ways. As someone who has a youtube account (youtube.com/phoenixkane1986) I can understand how much it would help DIY video creators if they got more money out of their hard work and energy, assuming a decent amount of their fan-base followed them into subscription-service. On the other hand, as a consumer there's no way I'm going to pay money to watch videos on youtube, just like I don't pay for television, cable, HBO GO, or Netflix. I don't need any of them, so I don't pay.
On the other, other hand, if the WWE said "Hey, you can watch the content from every show we put out, uncut, in HD, on demand, for $1.99 a month" I might just hop on that gravy train and ride it all the way to mash potato mountain.
If you like storyline presented as news, then Brock Lesnar came to WWE headquarters and destroyed Triple H's office. (WWE.com) Oh the humanity! Where will Triple H's books and other office décor be displayed now?
This week's Raw has passed and shaped a bit more of the upcoming Extreme Rules PPV. Cena and Ryback's match will now be a Last Man Standing Match, and Sheamus vs Mark Henry was officially announced. (WWE.com) Now, I like Sheamus, but this whole Sheamus-Mark Henry-Randy Orton-Big Show thing is just a giant black hole of stuff I don't really care about. Remember when Orton vs Sheamus was a thing people were sort of looking forward to? Man, how times change and plans rearrange.
Jerry the King Lawler is officially going to wrestle again, for Dory Funk Jr's Independent promotion in Florida. (Rajah.com) I don't have a joke for a man stubbornly and dangerously hanging onto his youth despite nearing dying on national tv and scaring millions of concerned people, so here's a picture of a pie. Imagine I threw it at something.
If you haven't been paying much attention to Ring of Honor lately, Jay Briscoe is currently their World Champion. (Ring of Honor) If you're asking, Jay would be the Briscoe that talks. In my extremely unknowledgeable opinion, Jay's title run has been a long time coming. Dude's a decent size, has a character, and created this:
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There were times when Collin Klein's mother couldn't help but worry, when she would watch her son take a snap from center, dodge a couple of defenders and then take off at a gallop.
K-State's Klein voted AP Big 12 player of year
The play would usually end up with Kansas State's quarterback taking a big hit, the kind that caused Kelly Klein to gasp. The kid would invariably drag himself off the turf, blood usually seeping from his elbows. He would adjust his facemask, hike back his shoulder pads and trundle back to the huddle and do it all again.
"I get emotional because I do worry," Kelly Klein admitted this week. "But he does what he loves to do, so you have to be grateful that he has the physical ability to do it."
Klein's prodigious physical ability, along with his even demeanor, unwavering faith and singular focus on getting better bit by bit all contributed to one of the finest careers in Kansas State history. On Wednesday, he was voted the AP Big 12 offensive player of the year.
"I'm just honored with this opportunity that the Lord has provided me here at K-State," said Klein, who made the All-Big 12 first team as a quarterback and was honorable mention as an all-purpose player. "I'm just happy to represent Kansas State, our team and what we've been able to accomplish this season."
The Heisman Trophy finalist set a slew of records while helping the seventh-ranked Wildcats to an 11-win season, the third conference title in school history and a berth opposite Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl.
Klein is the first player from Kansas State to be voted the Big 12's top offensive player. He received 14 of the 18 votes from members of the media who regularly cover the Big 12, while West Virginia's Tavon Austin got three votes and Terrance Williams of Baylor received the other one.
"It's an amazing thing and it's a huge honor, but the reward, you know, is just seeing him do his thing, and do what he loves to do," said Klein's father, Doug Klein. "Truly, whether it's recognized or not, that's the reward."
Klein's coach, Bill Snyder, was voted Big 12 coach of the year for the third time on Tuesday.
"He deserves all the compliments he can have," Snyder said. "He's awfully good at what he does, and he's awfully good as a leader and he's awfully good as a field manager, and he's awfully good in all the physical aspects of the game — and he's a tremendous person."
Defensive end Devonte Fields of Big 12 newcomer TCU was voted AP's defensive player of the year. He received seven votes to beat out Kansas State's Arthur Brown (four), Horned Frogs teammate Jason Verrett (three), Iowa State's A.J. Klein (two), and Aaron Colvin and Tony Jefferson of Oklahoma (one each).
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As fans around the world gear up for the first of many rugby matches at the QBE International games, one member of the royal family is wishing his home team well.
Prince Harry took time out of his busy schedule to deliver a good luck message to the England team who will face off against Australia Saturday afternoon.
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"Everyone is behind you and hopefully, the stadium will be filled with white shirts," the 29-year-old Brit added. "Let's bring it home. Let's make it happen!"
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"It's been a year full of challenges. When there's a child involved, it's a relief when you can resolve things in a good way," Berry said. "Our issues were never about fighting for her. We both know a child needs both her parents."
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The Oscar winner has been in a long and at times contentious custody battle with French-Canadian model Aubry, the father of their 3-year-old daughter, Nahla. The couple split in April 2010.
Berry recently pulled out of her Broadway debut in the production of 'Mountaintop' and the producers attributed it to her "custody issues."
But PEOPLE is reporting that a source close to the actress has revealed that the information is incorrect. "She didn't pull out of the play because of custody issues. She had a conflict of work," a source said.
The source also talked about the custody battle. "Halle was never going for full custody. That wasn't what it was about. Whatever the outcome, she wasn't trying for that. There were just other issues that they couldn't resolve and therefore the courts had to intervene."
Berry has been dating actor Olivier Martinez since last fall.
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- Wednesday 20 AprilBy Lisa
Twenty years from now they will still be fighting
over this poor child, for her sake put it to rest.
- Wednesday 20 AprilBy Barbara
Between she and her ex??? - object of a preposition - between HER and... advice to WHOMever wrote this piece, "LEARN ENGLISH"!
- Wednesday 20 AprilBy rann948Low Ranked Vote downVote upReport this
Funny, I could swear that she threw a public tantrum over all this. Must have been her "manic" time.
- Wednesday 20 AprilBy rann948
That snap poll on Sheen's kids is totally stupid. To give people the choice of "neither" ?
What do you expect the judge to do, emancipate them? Stupid.
- Wednesday 20 AprilBy stormey
I like the way the Jewish people decide which race you are. They say you are whatever your Mom is. You alwys know who the Mom is but not the Dad. Her Mom is white.
- Wednesday 20 AprilBy Lovingwater
Berry seems like a very unstable woman to me. She has a lot of problems.
- Wednesday 20 AprilBy Fannie
Berry seems like a very unstable woman to me. She sure has a lot of problems.
- Wednesday 20 AprilBy Peck
I think deep down Halle Berry has always had a problem with white people. She always talks about herself as black but her mother is pure white. Halle has alot of issues about her black father abandoning her and now at age 45 is a very angry woman
- Wednesday 20 AprilBy Jeff
Get your grammar correct, AOL writers: "between (she) sic and.....--really!
- Wednesday 20 AprilBy Gandalf
Listen, everybody - JW is probably really a white teenage kid just trying to stir things up. I mean, how else would you explain such an ignorant post? Ignore him until he grows up.
- Thursday 21 AprilBy Stephen
This is totally non-news.
- Thursday 21 AprilBy JulieLow Ranked Vote downVote upReport this
- Thursday 21 AprilBy Tony
Two people with failed values and apparantly totally into their own desires. I can only feel sorry for what I think they will put into the child to work with.
Perhaps they might start by teaching the kid that fooling around on the basis of good looks and charming mannerisms just don't work.
Loyalty is deepr than that. I mean is there a social structure in a marriage or is it a big birthday party?
Poor kid;pray for her; she's already in a cultural hole which she may dig herself out of one day.
- Thursday 21 AprilBy Tony
Does that poor girl have problems? That's like saying there's a lot of water in lake Superior.
- Thursday 21 AprilBy Apelika
HUH You are aware that her mother is white and her father was black are you not???????????
- Thursday 21 AprilBy Lynden
Halle is such a fake!
- Thursday 21 April
A mature and experience woman/mother knows that a blended family is far better for a child as long as the child is always,let me repeat that, always in a safe environment! Instinctively, a good mother knows who and what she is dealing with, meaning the father. If the father's love is unselfish, then a baby should have a relationship with her father. If he thinks only of himself, then situations have to be closely monitored. The love of both parents is essential for a child's overall developement in life. A father's approach is usually from a protective nature. Little girls feel this at a very early age. They feel safe with a loving father. They feel very nurtured with a loving mother. Children are most happiest when they see mommy and daddy ,despite separation, still talk, laugh, respect and love one another.
In conclusion, the mother will innately decide what is best.
- Thursday 21 AprilBy lady1friend
I think Gabriel needs to pay for a good nanny to chaperone Nahla when she visits him, just in case something happens. These days you can't be too careful with who's watching your children because of child molestations and kidnapings. Gabriel is a very attractive guy but still too horny to settle down and watch kids. If Gabriel can't afford to pay for Nahla to have a good nanny then maybe he's having money issues, these days we all are. If he's having money issues then he should pay a certain amount money for Nahla's child care. Or is Gabriel falling in love with high profile women to have pretty babies and a child support check? Gabriel let Halle go to work so she can pay her bills.
- Friday 22 AprilBy chyron
It's funny that now, no whites seem to remember the "one drop" rule that WHITE people created! One drop of black blood made the person black, no ifs, ands, or buts. But now all of a sudden Obama is "half" white...Halle is "half" white. Why weren't you idiots saying that before? See now it's convenient for you, well Obama filled out his census report and guess what he put down he is...AFRICAN AMERICAN or black! He identifies black, as does Halle, Mariah, and most other bi-racials out there! Give it up white people, just give it up!
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Radical Explorer
Joined: Apr 2011
Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala, and going down!
Oddometer: 290
Felicitaciones amigos!
So glad to see you made it amigos. Love the report and happy to see that even when the road ends the adventure doesn't - that's the spirit I liked about you guys!
p.s. When they ask me how much it costs, I laugh, say "mas de cinco dollares", and quickly ask them a question to change the subject. I like your story better though!
Joined: Jul 2011
Oddometer: 71
The Bike
Can you summarize the bike's performance. How many Km did you start and finish with? What modifications? Problems along the way? Average fuel consumption? Great report and I like your spirit. Thank you.
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Nov 2009
Location: Bucharest
Oddometer: 232
Hi guys,
we are back on the radar, after 10 days of complete rupture with all technology :) It was interesting but now we are starting to plan our way back home.
So our journey is quite far of being over... as we have more than 5000 kilometers to go and a little under 1 month until our embarkation point for Europe.
Also, in this month we have to sort out the way we are going to send our motorcycle back to Europe. I figure from Montevideo or from Buenos Aires. But we haven't found yet a solid deal...
eSTes1300: very valid points. I will try to make a summary about all of them but I would like to get home first, so we have a clear overall picture :)
@Blake: haha, your answer is good as well. But be aware, some of them might be ready to "pay" that amount to get your bike :P Eh, just good old fun on the road :) I wish you safe travels!
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Nov 2009
Location: Bucharest
Oddometer: 232
As I've noticed quite a lot of mistakes in my report I got a little bit horrified and promised myself a "re-read" and a proper cleaning up once we will get home. In order for this to function properly I need to have access in a centralized place to all the "text and lyrics".
So from this post onwards I intend to post here the first 2-3 pictures from the story and then provide a link to Micadu website for the rest. I figure it shouldn't be more difficult to read, and you can most definitely go on with the comments here, on this thread, as it is more easy read by everybody than on our website :)
Here we go...
Still trying to get out of Bolivia with the stories. But somehow we are delayed again. This time with a good reason: Salar de Uyuni!
Salar de Uyuni: 12-14 of January
We had plans to take a detour, starting from La Paz, into the Amazon basin on the (in)famous Death Road. But since we couldn't find the inter strength to stop in the capital, we find ourselves now on our way to the next "landmark" that we would like to see: Salar de Uyuni. But to get there we first need to head towards Potosi.
Then, using a newly asphalted highway (just finished in december 2012), we make our way through beautiful landscape.
We have around 200 kilometers to go and we are really enjoying ourselves. This is what motorcycles are made for!
Open roads, bright colors, blue skyes! Uhuuu!
The continuation of the story, on micadu, right here!
AnjinSan screwed with this post 02-18-2013 at 09:02 AM
Gnarly Adventurer
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Location: Bucharest
Oddometer: 232
One day in Argentina: 15-16 January 2013
Leaving Uyuni is not that easy as we have to sneak through the line of cars waiting for their turn at the only gas station in the area. We didnt manage to figure out if the line was that long because there was no gas at the pump or because the whole village wanted to fuel up at the same hour of the morning.
We dont have to join them in line as we have our spare gas canister that will take us out of here, to the next, hopefully uncrowded, gas station. We are heading back the same way we got to Uyuni just that this time it seems drowned in a summer days laziness. We get to a small village where we were supposed to find gas. Hmmm Some other times maybe. Now everyone is enjoying their siesta .
Read the rest on micadu, right here.
One day at a time!
Joined: Jul 2009
Location: MN. (summers) AZ. (winters)
Oddometer: 713
Niagara Falls
Wow! Those falls are absolutely amazing and it's now entered into my bucket list. Those photos are great and gives a person the idea of what it's really like there. It's something that I've thought about doing for many years but at times others say that "it's too commercialized, etc." I just want to see the water going over and that's about all! Thanks for taking the time to do this for the rest of us.
Gary "Oldone"
Grampas Lake Superior Ride
Grampas National Monument Ride
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Nov 2009
Location: Bucharest
Oddometer: 232
the falls are a little bit over commercialized but so are a lot of other beautiful places in the work. If you want to see them, I would say, try and go for it. I believe that anyone can go and pick the things and activities he likes to do and make the most of a place.
Cheers from Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego
Beastly Adventurer
Joined: Jan 2008
Location: Antigua , Guatemala
Oddometer: 1,418
It only seems like a few weeks ago that we met that night on the campground in Tok, Alaska ...and now you are at the other end of the continent .
Glad to see that you made it all the way down and that you keep on smiling
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Nov 2009
Location: Bucharest
Oddometer: 232
Current state: "not the best day for science"
- high winds in Tierra del Fuego make motorcycle travel unsafe
- Andreea has a cold
- from all the shipping agents contacted in order to sort out the shipping of Gunnar back to Europe, only one replied and with a prohibitive price. That won't work... :(
Hopping tomorrow will be a better day!
Gnarly Adventurer
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Location: Bucharest
Oddometer: 232
How's Guatemala? Figured out where are you going next?
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Location: Bucharest
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The New World IV.16 - Atacama
We've been in Argentina for only one day and here we are, already going for a heist escape towards Chilean border, across the Jama mountain pass.
This is not because we were not enjoying Argentina but just because we decided to save it for later and try to see how Atacama desert in Chile is. I must admit I was a little bit anxious to cross Atacama desert, one of the driest places on Earth (annual rain is 1 millimeter).
Read it further on Micadu, here.
Beastly Adventurer
Joined: Jan 2010
Location: Oroville & Placerville, California U.S.of A.
Oddometer: 1,222
still following your journey, I am enjoying the ride! photos of the canoe shortly
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Location: Bucharest
Oddometer: 232
Gnarly Adventurer
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Location: Bucharest
Oddometer: 232
On our journey, we crossed paths with many other travelers, using all kinds of transportation means. From the simple hitchhiking to bicycles, tricycles, motorcycles and all the way up to caravans. Different people on different journeys. But all of them had something in common: they were smiling!
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With the pace I am uploading this I think I will lose any hoe of ever getting back to correct mistakes. So please forgive any misspellings.
The day weve visited the Desert Hand in Atacama, was the last day we had our Nikon D3000 photo camera in proper working conditions. Sometime after that stop a stone must have hit it in the display, something that weve noticed much later during a stop. The bad news was that that the display was cracked and un-usable anymore. The good news was that the camera retained its main function: to take pictures. So lets be happy about that. We will have to make it without the nice shiny colors
What we didnt know at that time is that this incident was to be only the first of a quite long string of accidents happening to our electronics. But for now, the worries were far away, and we were enjoying the fresh cold morning air. The road mingled sinuously between desert rocks and the ocean and everything was so quiet in this morning. Our only companions were the fishing boats, docked in natural harbors.
Before leaving Romania a friend asked us if we could bring him back home pebbles from the more special places we will encounter. Well, since Atacama left us with a quite strong impression, Andreea decided to take a hmm small pebble for him. First try major fail!
OK, shall we try again with something more appropiate. Here we go.
A little bit more South we see police in the street. They wave us down as well. We were not doing anything unlawful so I was thinking Oh, come on guys, we are enjoying Chile, please dont change that. And just when I was about to forget all my Spanish and all my English and getting ready to have a conversation in Romanian, here are the police guys just telling us that we should be careful as Dakar Rally stage is ending here and there will be a lot of people around. Oh yes?? Bam, suddenly I remember again to speak in Spanish and the sky is bright again. So where is the Dakar? Well on that off-road there. But you cannot go with the motorcycle, the road is closed for public use. OK, but I can walk and take some pictures? Sure, go ahead. Goody!
Unfortunatelywe could not advance too much so only pics after the checkpoint so no pics from the heat of the action, just the finale and the relaxed waves of the ones who did managed to finish the stage. That works good enough!
It is hot, it is dusty and it is full of people. In the second one of the motorcycles stops, the rider is surrounded by spectators, all wanting to take a picture with the moto, or to shake his hand or to talk to him. It is really impressive to see the show! And a lot of these guys are local heroes.
We exit back on the main highway and it gets better! Turns out that those who finish the special stage on the insane terrain, get a bonus of extra 120 miles on tarmac up to La Serena. That means a lot of race cars, trucks and bikes just sharing the 2 lanes road with us. Uhuuuu!
For the next 2 and a half hours we feel right in the middle of this awesome event. The guys who finished are naturaly in a happy mood so there is a lot of passing by happening, waving around and posing for pictures. We have fun! And we see a lot of monsters. From the 2 wheeled ones
Up to some a little bigger (and with more wheels on them )
We are so engorged into the ride that we neglect to fill up when we had the chance. This was because I was only 150 km into the tank and I felt safe with so many people around. It didnt felt like desert anymore. But guess what. IT was! Soon enough we are down to using our extra gas from the plastic recipient. Too soon after that (windy) the light blinks again. The city was still 100 kms away. Great job Alex! How cool it would be to remain without gas in the middle of the Dakar Rally guys! I already see myself waving down some of them for some spare gas. That would have made an interesting story! Luckily in the next village we find a grampa who sells gas from plastic bottles. Naturally, special price for the stranded ones
And the old guy knows his business. Dakar or no Dakar he doesnt drop an inch of his price. Fine, give me 5 liters of your finest! Err
So with our wallet shaken down but with our pride saved, we can rejoin the show
On the sides of the road, lots of people, all trying to find that special spot for that special shot. Some of them have chairs with them, or blankets, they wave flags and smile. They wave to us as well which makes us feel very bad as we feel that unintentionally we are deceiving them. They came here to see the Dakar and we are not part of the Dakar. We are just two travelers. They keep waving us and I feel like stopping and say sorry sorry guys we are not what you think. Of course that is not possible so we just wave back and hope they are not too disappointed when they dont see any racing number on our windshield.
And yet even when we ride very slow and it is clear that the people realize we are not from Dakar, we are 2 up and with luggage, they still wave to us and take pictures. Even when we stop (finally) at a gas station this happens. So maybe it is just that these people are really passionate about 2 wheels? Good for them.
We reach Serena in the middle of the racers and 5PM traffic. All on one lane going into the city. Nice. At least we have nice posters!
I know, here on the street these guys might look a little bit silly all dressed up with fancy moto suits riding their colorful machines. But it is enough to see them in action for a few minutes and you will get the idea, you would understand what is all the hype about. OK, normally I dont have YT links but this time
After you see all this, I think you are ready to get out of the door and take the first plane to South America Hmm wait we are not even back home yet. So lets enjoy South America!
We make camp further South from La Serena in a small place near the ocean. Tenting near the water was a nice way to spend the last nigyeht close to the Pacific. Next morning we say good bye to its blue waters. It was to be the last time we will see them in this trip. Until next time! Please dont get too dirty in the mean time!
Next was Santiago which totally surprised us. We usually avoid the big cities but here we plunged in and it turned out to be very good times. We meet wonderful Chilean people which since then become our friends (thank you Sandra, you have a wonderful family!)
We discovered a hot and lazy city, quite empty as a lot of the people were out on holidays strange sensation walking almost all alone between high concrete buildings, with no cars passing by. Where is the crowded capital?
We also met a very cool Suzuki dealer. He let us work in his courtyard and even provided an oil pan to use without asking for a penny. Thank you! Then we spent a slow day in the city. We strolled the streets and our slow pace seemed very alert compared to others
In the same day we encoutnered the Dakar again. This time at the last day, finish day! Just in time to see some more race cars. No race emotions today, just the parade today.
The road South will be quiet and filled with tranquility, nice views and nice people. We stay with CouchSurfing hosts (thanks guys) and discover the very pitoresque part of Chile. But we were looking at the map and despite we had covered some serious ground, we were still closer to Santiago than to Ushuaia. It was time to get back to Argentina and meet Patagonia. We were anctious to enter the last stage of the journey South. Sometimes we wish we could fly to be faster. But riding a motorcycle is as good as it gets Argentina, here we come! Again.
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In this course, Macworld senior editor Christopher Breen provides a comprehensive overview of Mac OS X Lion, complete with insider tips for getting the most out of the operating system. The course shows how to configure system preferences, personalize the interface, and master gestures, as well as achieve fluency with applications such as Mail, iCal, and Preview. The course also includes tutorials on browsing the web with Safari, automating complex tasks with Automator, sharing over a network, and performing maintenance operations using the disk utility, along with timesaving techniques for using the Mac efficiently.
Now let's look at adding and organizing Safari's bookmarks. You don't want to have to type in the address of a website every time you visit it, so you should create a bookmark for it. And that's easily done. I'll go to the Bookmarks menu and select Add Bookmark. If you're going to spend a lot of time in Safari, it's worth knowing the keyboard shortcut, which is Command+D. When you do this, down comes a sheet and it offers you the option to store your bookmarks in a variety of places. It can be a part of Top Sites Reading List which we're going to cover in a subsequent movie.
You can put it in the Bookmarks Bar, and I'll show you what that looks like. You see this is the Bookmarks Bar here and it appears right here. We're going to delete that for now. Back to Command+D. You can put it in any existing folders that you have in the Bookmarks menu. Right now we just have News and Popular. Or you can put it in the Bookmarks menu. Again, name it, add, and I look in the Bookmarks menu, and here it is as lynda. Let's add a few more.
Command+D, put that in the menu as well. My macworld, I'm going to add that one too. Change the name because it's too long. So we can go to Flickr, and let's add Twitter.
And I put all those in the Bookmarks Bar. And we'll add one more. Now I could hit Command+D again and add this to my Bookmarks menu, but there's another option. And that is to take the Bookmarks icon and drag it down into the Bookmarks Bar. And now with just a simple click, I can go to that website. Now let's look at our bookmarks. We're starting to get a few bookmarks here and it's starting to look a little bit unorganized.
So let's add a bookmarks folder. This takes us to the Bookmarks page within Safari. We now have a new menu and here we can drag in bookmarks. So let's make this my Bookmarks menu. Now for my Bookmarks menu, I can choose websites that I want to add to my folder. So I'll put macworld in there, Flickr, and of course lynda will go in there. So here's my Bookmarks folder. If I want this folder to appear in my Bookmarks menu, I select Bookmarks menu, and then I grab my Bookmarks folder, and I add it to the list of bookmarks.
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So let's go back to the Bookmarks Bar, take Twitter, we'll put it back in the Bookmarks menu, go back again. This time I'm going to Option+ Drag it into the Bookmarks Bar. So I hold on the Option key, I drag it over to the Bookmarks Bar, it appears in the Bookmarks Bar. But if I also go back to Bookmarks, you'll see that it's still in my Bookmarks menu because I've made a copy of it. One copy was in the Bookmarks Bar, and the other one remains in the Bookmarks menu. Now I'm going to create one more folder.
I'll call it Get Up. Let's find some items I can put in there. Let's see. I'll put Apple in there as an Option+Drag, YouTube, Option+Drag, and Twitter as an Option+Drag. Now I'm going to put it in the Bookmarks Bar. I'll continue to call it Get Up, and then I enable Auto-Click.
So what in heck's name does this do? I'll show you. So let's just go back to the regular Web. You notice a little square appears next to Get Up. When I click on that, three tabs open. These are all the bookmarks that I've put into my Get Up folder. So one thing I can do is when I first get up in the morning, I launch Safari, and I click on this bookmark, it opens my favorite three sites in the morning so I can easily browse between them simply by clicking on tabs.
This feature has been there for a while but it's one that people don't often use and I find it very convenient. Let's go back to the Bookmarks window one more time. If you have a lot of bookmarks, and after a while you're going to accumulate a lot of them, it's absolutely worth your time to start organizing them. You can do that by creating this bookmarks folder. So you can create one for Fun and one for Work and then start organizing your bookmarks. So for me, it's fun to go to eBay.
It's fun to fantasize about going somewhere. And for Work, I may need in a job someday so that's worth looking at CareerBuilder, oh, absolutely. I should do that as well. Once I've organized the stuff into my bookmarks, then I can decide where I want to put them. So I can put Fun up here in the Bookmarks Bar and I can also put my Work stuff up there as well. Then when I want to have a little fun, I click on that folder and then I choose my destination.
Same idea with Work. Look for the triangle, choose the site you want to go to, and you're on your way. Now everybody is going to have different ways of organizing their bookmarks, but any organization is better than none. Now a couple of more bookmarks tricks. Grab a little bookmark and this can be icon in your address bar and drag it to the Desktop. When you do this, this turns into a Web location file. I'll show you how this works. I'll quit Safari, I'll double-click on that file, and when I do, I open up directly to that website.
So you can create a folder full of these things and then double-click the site you want to go to and Safari will open and take you immediately to the site you want to visit. Throw them away and quit Safari again. Also you can use Spotlight to enter the name of a favorite website, and from there launch that site. So let's go to lynda, and sure enough, if you look down at the webpages entry, you will find your bookmark plus a preview. So I can click on that, Safari launches, and it takes me to that website.
And that's the wonderful world of bookmarks. Another way to quickly navigate to your favorite websites.
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