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Here's an artsy one for you. I noticed you don't see many of them, but I like designing UI artwork in photoshop, and I use KGPanels to add them into the game. I then rearrange the bars with bartender and change cast bar etc. This is my PvP Monk so... very few addons, I like to keep it real simple.
KGpanels, CoolLine, Bartender, CoolDownCount, Chatter, TidyPlates. (unseen ones as well obviously for PvP, Gladius, Afflicted3 etc..)
Also threw in my Mage one that I'm working on at the moment for PvE. Like I said, nothing crazy raid worthy, just some fun!
He included the following images of his UI: The design image, the finished artwork, an idle image, a casting image, one with cooldown timers showing, and an in-combat image of the UI in action.
Notable Points
Of course, the main thing to point out with Kiebs' UI is the user-created element. Kiebs shows off two different home-made artwork panels in the previously linked images, one of which he shows the creation of in Photoshop, and the other of which, in the action shot, is somewhat more elaborate.
It should be noted that Kiebs is very clear on the purpose of this UI in his email. He specifically says that it's a creative task, not specifically designed to be ultra-functional for raiding, and we should therefore try our best to assess it from that standpoint, not criticize it for the absence of crucial raiding elements. However, several of the screenshots are of a PvP UI, so we can at least look at it from that angle, and assess its usefulness as well as its beauty.
Good Things
As you may have noticed, I really like the custom art. I think it ties in really nicely with the WoW look, the standard UI elements don't seem out of place around it, particularly the unit frames. It just seems to blend well. And I like the overall look of it too, I think my preference is actually for the faction-branded Horde art in the combat UI shot above, over the more minimal art in all the other shots. As someone who's usually chasing after minimalism in their UI, that's really saying something. On the monk UI, though, I really, really like the subtle skinning of the six floating buttons above the main panel, it looks fantastic, and I strongly suspect that Kiebs has done this himself, just like the other art. I can really imagine downloading these pieces of artwork from somewhere and incorporating them into my own UI. Share, Kiebs, share your skills with us all.
I really, really like the castbar incorporation in all the UI shots Kiebs has sent over. The castbar is often a tricky part of UIs which are looking for a seamless feel, as it hovers awkwardly around the middle of the screen, messing things up. Creating a panel section for it like Kiebs has done is a great look, and on the mage shot, I really, really like what I'm assuming is the GCD spark below it. I do rather wonder, though, where the target castbar would appear. It might hover beneath the target frame in its standard place, which would look fine, but I'd have loved to see a stacked look to the art panel that also incorporated the target castbar in some manner. Maybe I'm too focused on it, but interrupting is really important, especially for PvP!
And that brings us to my very favorite part of this UI. I absolutely love how the castbar and cooldown bar occupy the same space. It's such a brilliant use of space, you can see it best in the mage in-combat screenshot above, where the castbar moves onto the space occupied by the cooldowns. There is, in that screenshot, a slight text overlap issue, but it's nothing serious. The cooldowns move in the same direction as the castbar, for some reason I'd assumed they'd go the opposite way when I first looked at this UI, but I think either works equally well.
Not-so-good things
I've had to work really hard here not to criticise from a PvE raiding perspective. There are various things that might not be perfect for these tasks, but Kiebs specifically states that raiding isn't his purpose.
I do wonder if there are too few buttons visible. The mage UI displays only eleven, to the monk UI's eighteen, but I have to admit that I play neither any kind of monk nor an arcane mage. Perhaps that is actually plenty of buttons and I'm not aware of it! But if this UI were to be taken across other classes and specs, I would love to see another action bar added beneath the main one, and the design panel increased somewhat in size. Having so few abilities visible makes me nervous!
Other than that, I'd love to see the minimap's cluster of icons pared down. Some judicious use of MoveAnything does a great deal for the standard minimap, just allowing things to be reshuffled and made to look a little more tidy. For example, both the two addon buttons to the left of the clock and the tracking button could be shuffled around to the right-hand side, making everything look a little more well-placed.
The mage UI's in-combat shot reveals more addons than any of the others, and I think it's the fact that I like the custom artwork look of the UI so much that is perhaps making me extra-picky, but I'd love to see a little more customization of the other elements that appear in that shot. Even just matching the textures of the pretty, central part would be a start! And I'm not sure whether I'd change the chat pane or not. I'd like a little more font consistency, a constant bugbear of mine, but in a way I think the very light, minimal chat panel looks good simply because of how it fades into the background around the pretty center panel. All in all, good job Kiebs! Now just set it up so we can download a Kiebs Art Pack!
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Since, being as melodramatic as I can be, all is lost, there is nothing that can be done, except for the government(s) to come up with plans for some new Big Screw Jobs (BSJs) with which to forestall the Big Ugly Inevitable (BUI).
This is the take I get on a Bloomberg article that starts off with, "Speculation and price swings in agricultural markets may threaten food security, 48 farm ministers meeting in Berlin said a month after a United Nations gauge of global costs reached a record."
There was, alas, nothing in the report about how The Courageous Mogambo (TCM) was there, and who cried out, in his outrage and his grief, "That's because you morons are all printing money and deficit-spending like it is some kind of freaking virtue or something! Milton Friedman said, and history has proved, that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, which, if you don't understand English, means you must have somebody who does savvy the lingo translate it into whatever indecipherable gibberish you people call a language so that maybe you morons will learn something and stop saying such stupid things! Now, open this door so I can come in there and REALLY tell you all what a bunch of lowlife socialist halfwits you are!"
Instantly, there were, of course, quizzical looks at my concluding reference to "socialists" since, up to that point, the whole conversation was merely about how the prices of food are rising ominously, although nobody mentioned the rises in the prices of energy and taxes, which are as bad or worse!
And although nobody actually said anything to me, I knew what they were thinking. I always know what they are thinking.
They were thinking to themselves, "Nobody said anything about anything socialist! This raving lunatic Mogambo is always ragging on socialists and communists and aliens from outer space and invisible helicopters full of invisible government goons always hovering over his house, shooting some kind of thought-control waves into his stupid head, explaining why he wears that stupid tinfoil hat, but not explaining why he has crumpled the aforesaid tinfoil into what appears to be a snazzy Viking helmet, replete with horns!"
I was intending to make a snotty remark about how I noticed that none of THEM was wearing a tinfoil hat and how none of THEM was buying gold, silver and oil as protection against the raging inflation in prices that is caused by the Federal Reserve creating So Freaking Much Money (SFMM), even when the horror of the latter proves the wisdom of the former.
And Doubly Especially So (DES) when the torrent of new money is borrowed by the government and used for new, obscenely high-and-getting-higher deficit-spending, a pathetic tragedy made "necessary" by the fact that, nowadays, half – half! – of all spending in the Whole Freaking Country (WFC) is government spending, as gigantic wads of money are spent on a long and growing list of things and people that are getting more expensive to maintain because the Federal Reserve is creating So Freaking Much Money (SFFM) that the prices of everything, including supporting them, are going up, and how everyone who can't see that obvious fact is a Big Fat Moron (BFM)
So, there I was, marshaling my forces for a Legendary Mogambo Onslaught (LMO) against such socialist monetary stupidity when, fortunately, it did not come to that, and I was completely vindicated by French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire saying, "There is a risk of more food riots unless the surge in prices is contained, including through trading regulations"!!!
Those concluding three exclamation points were added by me as both indicating that this, indeed, was pure socialist crap (and with a vicious police-state undertone to boot!) and to say, "Up yours!" to those who thought I was wrong! Containing prices! Trading regulations!
The German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner piped up to say that "Food markets may not be the object of gamblers," which is a huge, industrial-sized load of hoo-hah (and which I think is translated into German as "Grosseloadacrap," but I am not sure) because Every Freaking Thing (EFT) that I can think of is, somewhere, by somebody, a leveraged bet of some kind, thus literally defining Every Freaking Thing (EFT) as "the object of gamblers"!
Hell, somebody ought to tell this Aigner character that the sheer, monstrous size of the derivatives market – alone! – is at least four times bigger than global GDP, for crying out loud, and which are all (theoretically) bets, which makes a complete mockery of whining about betting on the prices of commodities!
So, commodities, out of all things, should not be the object of gamblers? Hahahaha!
The rationale is, of course, that "Food and agricultural commodities are not like anything else. Sometimes it's about pure survival," meaning that people starve to death when they can't afford to buy any real food, even to augment their grubs-and-roots diet, because the price of food has gone up so high, which it does because prices Always, Always, Always (AAA) go up when the money supply expands so much so fast, like it is now with the Federal Reserve creating so much money, so incredibly much money, so impossibly much money, so outrageously much money that prices Must, Must, Must (MMM) explode upward.
This is seemingly proved when you mystically combine Always, Always, Always (AAA) with Must, Must, Must (MMM) to get MAMAMA, the person for whom you will be crying out, begging her to take you back home to live at her house, perhaps live in her closet, or for her to somehow come back to life after being dead all these years, get a mortgage, buy a house and THEN let you live with her, all because you lost your stupid butt by foolishly ignoring The Mogambo's advice, the lessons of the Austrian school of economics, Milton Friedman, and 4,500 years of history, which I helpfully distill down to its investment essence: Buy gold, silver, and oil stocks, pronto!
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OH, MOGAMBO IF ONLY EVERYONE WOULD WEAR TINFOIL (YOU SHOW YOUR AGE WHEN YOU DON'T CALL IT ALUMINUM FOIL) HATS, THEN THE ALUMINUM MINE i OWN IN THE NEW2 HEBRIDES WOULD FINALLY SHOW A PROFIT INSTEAD OF BEING ISED FOR COW DUNG STORAGE. hOW ABOUT PROMOTING COW PIE HATS? EH..MOGAMBO…YOU THERE
Perhaps Mogambo could sell Official Mogambo Tin Foil Viking Helmets (OMTFVH) and use the proceeds to buy more gold, silver, oil, yummy tacos and burritos, etc.
…"unless the surge in prices is contained, (price controls, like they ever worked in the history of the world) including through trading regulations (trading regulations, making farmers hand over their foodstuffs for 'official' government prices, like THAT will increase the world's food supply.)
I think they tried both of these gimmicks in Zimbabwe, along with printing money like there was no tomorrow, and we all know how prosperous Zimbabwe turned out to be, right, Right?
…"Food markets may not be the object of gamblers,"
and silver and gold prices are not manipulated either.
All hail Mogambo, the ONLY voice of reason in a world of economics gone mad.
Let's get to the bottom line here, eh?
The U.S. government has simply become a collection of poser puppets for the banking family of the Rothschilds. The Rothschilds have been in enslaving the People of the US via the fraudulent criminal conspiracy known as the illegal, unConstitutional Federal Reserve. The entire US government is now simply a puppet of the Rothschild banking dynasty.
All I want to hear are three magic three letter words,
"End the Fed"
Every political candidate must be evaluated based upon this single all telling crucial issue. You are either with the People or you are with the Rothschilds and their agents, the international bankers.
This is the new American litmus test.
I've been reading this column for several years now, and I think I've figured out what Mogambo is saying. We should buy Gold, Silver and Oil, So we won't have to work, and get rich anyway? Is that right? Or should I read for a few more Years before I ask to be Mogambo Ranger?
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A Juneau food cooperative that formed in a bid to take over the only full service grocery store downtown is moving ahead with startup efforts, despite a commercial operator that looks poised to take over the Alaskan & Proud space.
The co-op incorporated as Capital City Market last month. Organizer Evelyn Rousso says it raised nearly $18-thousand dollars during a founding member drive. The group also applied for a grant from the Food Co-op Initiative to pay for half of a market study to look at whether a co-op would work in Juneau.
Rousso says the study will be commissioned this week, but its scope likely will be expanded to look at more than just the A&P store in the Foodland Shopping Center.
"We've been holding off based on the rumors about a potential operator for the Foodland space," Rousso says. "But we do want to move forward with that, and if we don't hear soon we'll move forward having them look at all different possibilities whether or not there's someone in that space."
Whidbey Island-based Myers Group is the company interested in moving into the Foodland location. President Tyler Myers last week said he hoped to have financing in place by Monday. He did not immediately respond to an email seeking an update. Myers Group owns about half a dozen IGA stores in western Washington, including markets in downtown Seattle and Tacoma.
In an email to supporters last night, Capital City Market organizers said they've spoken to Myers and hope to meet with him in person soon.
Rousso says the co-op will hold its first membership meeting September 21st in order to elect a board of directors. The group should find out about the Food Co-op Initiative grant it applied for by mid-September.


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Liven up your Holiday get together with Christmas party games; they're sure to add zing to your gathering.
Dirty Santa is a popular holiday game that can actually be the main event of your party. Everyone can participate while sipping on egg nog and noshing their favorite cookies.
1. Before the party, ask everyone to bring an item from home they no longer want but believe someone else could enjoy. Guests can use this opportunity to re-gift nice items that did not fit their personality. They should wrap their gifts and bring to the party.
2. Place all the wrapped gifts on a central table for guest to admire.
3. Have everyone draw a number from a stocking to determine the order of play. The person with the number one goes first.
4. The first guest comes up to the table and selects whatever gift appeals to them. They then open and announce their gift.
5. The next player has the choice of stealing anyone's gift who went before them or unwrap a new gift from the table. Each gift can only be stolen twice.
6. Play continues until everyone has a chance to keep or steal a gift. The first player ends the game by deciding if they want to keep the gift they have or steal another.
7. Everyone goes home with their own Christmas treasure.
Judy and Brandie's antics will return as soon as they dig out from under an avalanche of Christmas sweaters!
Pin the Nose on Rudolph " This is a Christmas variation of pin the tail on the donkey. A great almost traditional game to play at your Ugly Christmas Sweater party. Though it is fun for kids, it is also a hoot after adults have their Christmas spirits.
1. Prepare the game by drawing a large picture of Rudolph on butcher paper. Cut out coaster sized circles out of red construction paper. Adhere double stick tape to the back of each.
2. Have each guests write their name on the front of their reindeer nose with a sharpie.
3. One at a time have the guests stand a foot from the poster and blindfold them. Spin them around once and let them stick the nose on Rudolph
4. Whoever's nose is closest to Rudolph's actual nose is the winner.
Hide in Plain Sight!
This game is simple to set up and crazy fun to play. You start with a set number of small objects, they might be Christmas ornaments, or simple household objects. Think of small things that might be easy to hide. Things like:
a stamp
a thumbtack
a hairpin
a business card
a paperclip
an ink pen
Christmas candy
a sock
You, the host, hide these items, often in plain sight in the room of choice. Maybe you add a postage stamp to a picture frame, a bobby pin to the leaf of a plant, a paperchip on the drawer handle on the coffee table. Don't hide anything 'under' anything, just in plain sight.
Give your guests a list of the objects (and a pen) and see who can find the most, first! Now they don't remove them, they don't touch them, just make note of them.
Time the event. When time's up, see who found everything on the list and have them point them out. THEY win!
Now what's the prize?
We like to give special Christmas ornaments as prizes, but candy filled bags are good too!
This games quite simple yet fun!
You'll need some sticky labels, or cut out photos and tape and a list of famous people, places or things.
When your guests enter the party, you attach a label to their back with 'who' or 'what' they are. The guests then may ask each other partygoer two questions about the 'who' or 'what' on their back. Answers must be yes or no.
This gives people a reason to circulate! And the guesses are usually funny!
The game ends when the guest figures out 'who' or 'what' they are. A small prize may then be given.
A great hostess knows how to get her guests interacting, but even the best hostess can help things along with an icebreaker type game. Especially good for adult parties, when you have a lot of people that don't know each other.
Start with a skein of yarn. Cut long lengths, say 50 feet or so, then trail each piece from the front door, throughtout the house, into rooms, over furniture, etc, with the end coming back to the front door. The host holds one end,,, the hostess the other. The hostess hands an end to a female guest who must follow the string.... and the host hands 'the other' end to a male guest (who must follow the string.)


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Kanter, who received her doctorate in organization and leadership, has been the chancellor of Foothill-De Anza Community College District—one of the largest community college school districts in the country—for the past six years. Prior to serving as chancellor at the Los Altos-based community college district, Kanter was president of De Anza College for 10 years. She has also worked in a variety of roles at San Jose City College.
Drawn to USF by "extraordinarily accomplished" faculty such as special education expert Susan Evans in the School of Education, Kanter credits courses like advanced statistics, educational research methodologies, and higher education law for advancing her career.
"My favorite USF memory is serving as a teaching assistant in advanced statistics for Dr. Susan Evans," Kanter said. "The graduate students challenged my knowledge at every turn and I had the opportunity to work with the best professor I've ever had in my life."
Driven by the belief that students can succeed in education and life if provided the right opportunities, Kanter has spent much of her career working to expand and improve education to lower-income students, a priority she intends to carry forward as undersecretary.
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Video: Tech and innovation in Seattle versus Silicon Valley
Is the United States in danger of falling behind in innovation? How important is federal research funding? How important is Silicon Valley? Is technology in the Seattle area more urban or suburban? Which has had a bigger influence, the University of Washington or Microsoft? What are Seattle's competitive advantages in technology? [Read More]
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Ex-Microsoft executive to lead Washington state Department of Revenue This guest column was originally published at MicrosoftTaxDodge.com. [Read More]
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in an e-mail response to news site We Got Served, said he'll "look into" a recent tizzy over the planned removal of a popular feature in Windows Home Server. The next version of the software, aimed at consumers who want to set up home servers for namely entertainment, is slated to lose Drive Extender, a user-friendly tool for setting up RAID-like hard drives without technical hurdles. Microsoft plans to align the new Home Server (codenamed "Vail") with its small-business-oriented … [Read More]
Kinect sales hit 2.5 million
Less than four weeks after launch, Microsoft today said it has sold more than 2.5 million Kinect motion sensors for Xbox 360. [Read More]
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Microsoft has filed a patent application for touch screens whose surfaces can change topography so users can "feel" what they see. [Read More]
PC growth to slow as tablets displace 10%, Gartner says
Gartner has slashed its PC-sales projections for 2010 and 2011, and expects tablets to displace 10 percent of PCs in three years. [Read More]
Kim Kardashian, Sandra Bullock, Tiger Woods were top Bing searches in 2010
People love celebrities. Sure, it's common knowledge, but we can also glean that from the top searches this year on Bing, a list of which Microsoft released this morning. [Read More]
Report: Microsoft considering TV service on Xbox
Microsoft is in talks with cable networks to bring a subscription television service to the Xbox 360 game console, Reuters reports. [Read More]
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- Systemic risks, regulatory powers and insolvency law : the need of an international instrument on the private law framework for netting (2010)
- This study examines the legal environment of netting agreements covering financial contracts. It concludes that an international instrument should be developed capable of improving the effectiveness of netting agreements in mitigating systemic risk. To this end, two different aspects of the enforceability of netting agreements are considered: (i) the general enforceability of netting, and (ii) the possibility of precluding the operation of netting a mechanism by way of a regulatory moratorium for considerations of systemic stability. The first part of the study presents the use of netting and the various forms it may take before going on to explain the benefits and drawbacks of enforceable netting agreements. Benefits for individual firms consist in lower counterparty risk and more favourable capital requirements. Benefits for the financial market as a whole flow from greater financial market stability since the contagion of systemically relevant institutions by the default or insolvency of another institution is limited, thus helping to avoid systemic effects. Additionally, the use of netting arrangements can improve overall market liquidity. A potential drawback of enforceability of netting, in certain situations, is that the operation of a netting mechanism could actually work against the purpose of systemic stability where the transfer of parts of the business of an insolvent financial institution to a solvent bridge entity would enhance or maintain value to a greater extent than the operation of a netting agreement would. Regulatory authorities are considering under which conditions a moratorium to halt the netting mechanism until the situation is solved could avoid this threat to systemic stability. The second part of the study examines whether there is the potential to support the purpose of enhanced systemic stability by way of international harmonisation of private and insolvency law. As regards the issue of general enforceability, the global picture of netting legislation is heterogeneous. Given the great practical relevance of the matter, an international instrument could be very useful. As to the issue of private law consequences of regulatory moratoria, the absence of a harmonised framework appears to lead to actual cross-border inconsistency and legal uncertainty as regards financial contracts that are governed by a foreign law. Taking these to aspects into account, this paper recommends that work on developing an international instrument be undertaken. The final part of the study suggests a set of preliminary guidelines for the development of suchan instrument. In the light of the findings of the previous sections, a mixed, two-step approach is recommended. First, a non-binding instrument could be developed, serving as a benchmark and reservoir of legal solutions in respect of the relevant issues. Secondly, isolated aspects relating to both the general enforceability of netting and the accommodation of a regulatory moratorium in foreign private and insolvency law could be dealt with in an international Convention, in particular where cross-border situations involving netting require uniformity of applicable legal rules.
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- The electronic exchange of information and respect for private life, banking secrecy and the free internal market (2010)
- The purpose of this essay is to assess the automatic exchange of information as described in EU Directive 2003/48 of 3 June 2003 on taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments with regard to the fundamental right of the individual to a private life, to banking secrecy and the freedoms on which the European internal market is based. The assessment reveals the conflicts of interests and values involved in the holding by banks (particularly those offering private banking services) of increasingly extensive, detailed and intimate information about their clients and in the automatic processing of that information by ever more powerful and sophisticated systems. Banking secrecy plays an essential role in protecting clients against the dangers which the disclosure of such information without their permission might produce. Banking secrecy exists not only in Luxembourg but also in many other European countries, and in Germany and France in particular it is not very different from the system applying in Luxembourg. While the French and German tax authorities do have some investigative powers not enjoyed by their Luxembourg counterparts, those powers are strictly circumscribed and cannot rely on the electronic exchange of information set out in EU Directive 2003/48/EC. While banking secrecy is totally incompatible with the electronic exchange of information, the core question is whether the latter can be reconciled with the respect for private life. In a Europe that sets itself up as the cradle of human rights, the general and en-masse exchange of private information cannot provide adequate and sufficient guarantees that the information exchanged will not be misused. The amount of interference in private life is clearly out of proportion to the public interest involved and is contrary to sub-section 2, article 8 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and to articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Since the automatic exchange of information at least potentially risks restricting the free flow of capital among Member States and discouraging the use of transborder banking services, its compliance with the fundamental principles of the internal market also needs to be closely examined. The restrictions imposed by such exchange very probably go beyond the limits within which the free movement of capital and services is possible. The European Court of Justice has found that there is no proportionality if the measures supposedly undertaken in the general interest are actually based on a general presumption of tax evasion or tax fraud. However, it would be true to say that the ECJ does not always examine the tax restrictions placed on the free movement of capital particularly thoroughly to ensure that they are necessary or proportionate. The economic effectiveness of the automatic exchange of information is far from being proved and involves significant cost to the banks providing the information and to the tax authorities using it. To date the system does not appear to have produced any significant new tax revenue nor does it prevent the continuing outflow of capital from Europe. Yet withholding at source, which respects individual and economic freedoms, does generate tax revenue that is cost-free to the State. Exchange of information on request in justified cases using the OECD Tax Convention on Income and Capital model does also fight tax fraud while at the same time providing citizens with the guarantees required to ensure their private lives are respected. A combination of these two systems - withholding at source and exchange of information on request in justified cases - would create the proper balance between the public and private interest that the automatic exchange of information cannot provide.


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The Steroid Story
By Lockflow.com Member, NoPain
People are faced with many choices in life. Different pressures growing up force us to face different choices and to make our choices for different reasons. While growing up I always dreamed of being big and strong. When I was 14, I got my first gym membership and began lifting weights every morning at 6am with my dad. My dad was tired of me being bullied and knowing that I was small, felt this was for the best. I had no concept of over-training or any experience in a proper training routine. I would go to the gym everyday and work the same muscles over and over.
Eventually, I began to understand how to do a basic routine from watching other people and I started making gains. After lifting for a few months I stopped making gains and began to get frustrated. I started trying all kinds of supplements that at the time were supposed to help you get bigger and stronger. I spent the next 2 years experimenting with health store supplements. I moved on from training with my dad and started working out at a new gym. The longer I worked out at the same gym the more exposed I became to the alternatives available for getting bigger and stronger.
Spending most of my life as a small kid, the thought of a quick and easy way to get big and strong seemed worth anything. I spent several years being bullied by bigger kids and would do anything to change that situation. I had heard very little about the side effects of steroids and nothing that I had heard was worse than what I was going through at the time. I first got steroids from someone in the gym and felt that now my life would be changed forever. Now I would be just like the big, strong people that I idolized so much.
The first steroids I took were oral steroids and I began taking them within 5 minutes of getting them. Over the next several weeks my body began changing drastically. The day that I started the steroids I weighed 152lbs. I had used every legal supplement I could find for the previous 2-3 years and had only gained 10 lbs. After 3 weeks on steroids my weight had soared to 188lbs. I could not believe it I had gained 36lbs and felt that my prayers were answered.
Suddenly people were much more cautious before starting trouble with me and I had a new found confidence. People also began talking about that kid who got so big so fast. My life then changed as I had a new label that I was not counting on. I was a steroid user and heard many comments. After 4 weeks, my supply of steroids and money were gone. I did not know the proper way to cycle off of steroids and had put my body in a bad position. My weight began to drop even faster than it had gone up. After a month I weighed 162 lbs and became depressed and hopeless and my life began to spiral out of control. I started using drugs and alcohol to deal with my feelings. I did not understand the chemical reactions going on in my body that were contributing to my anger and depression. I became very violent and rebellious and dropped out of school.
Steroids had thrown my life out of control. After 2 years of living a very unhealthy lifestyle, I found myself back in the gym trying to get back what I felt I had lost. I began training with a new passion and was getting strong quickly. The owner of the gym noticed my unusual strength and asked if I would be interested in competing in an upcoming Powerlifting competition. I thought it sounded interesting and spent the next 4 weeks preparing for the competition. After my first competition I was in love with the sport and began training with a national team coach using a specially designed workout.
My focus had changed and I no longer wanted to be the biggest, now I wanted to be the strongest. Over the next year I competed in 5 competitions and got 4th place every time. Frustration began to set in and the temptations of steroids began to seem worth it again. Within weeks, I was back on steroids and my quest for 1st place began. A few weeks later I did my first competition using steroids. I got 1st place and began to dominate everyone else. The stage was set and I spent the next 12 years doing Powerlifting Meets, Strongman Competitions and Highland Games most while using and abusing steroids.
Steroids enabled me to get to a level in competition that I would never have achieved without them. But where did it really get me? The sport provided little to no money for winning. I spent thousands and thousands of dollars putting drugs in my body that were not even made for human consumption. What kind of self absorbed athlete is willing to inject drugs into their body that come with a picture of a dog or a horse on the bottle just to have a big bench press?
Years and years of taking these drugs for long periods of time undoubtedly did damage to my organs that I can never erase. I have experienced nearly every side effect over the years and none of them were pleasant. Steroid use is a choice that many athletes face while training to become better. I would tell any athlete considering steroids that the long-term ramifications of steroid use, are not worth the short terms results that you are seeking. Steroids are illegal and you can go to prison for possessing them. As the sport of MMA grows, and the notoriety and benefits of winning increase, fighters will be faced with the same tough choices. Do the smart thing, stay focused on intense training and healthy eating, take vitamins and choose from some of the many supplements available to today's athlete and you will achieve your goals, while preserving your health.
I used to drink a gallon of milk a day and would eat 6 eggs at a time and would eat a can of tuna on my spaghetti. In reality you can only take in 30 grams of protein per intake or it is converted to fat. I never felt I had to prove anything to anybody but myself.
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great story thanks im sure this will help people make better choices!!!!!
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and bloo
Great article! Thank you for sharing very personal information with us. Hopfully it will keep someone from making the same decision.
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FALMOUTH — As the seating of 40 Maine delegates and alternates to the Republican National Convention is contested by fellow state Republicans, one of the contested delegates, Falmouth resident John Logan Jones, said the challenge is "a purely political move, without precedent."
On July 28, prominent Maine Republicans Peter Cianchette and Jan Martens Staples filed a challenge to the delegates, who all are supporters of former GOP presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).
Cianchette is the state chairman for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, and Staples represents Maine on the Republican National Committee.
Jones is a political newcomer who is running as the GOP nominee for state representative in House District 112, which covers most of Falmouth. In May, he was elected one of Maine's 15 at-large delegates to the national convention in Tampa later this month.
"I fully intend to be in Tampa," Jones said. "We were duly elected, and I'm confident we'll all be seated."
The challenge to the delegates claims that rules regarding quorum, credentialing and ballot security were broken at the state convention, and so the election of the Paul supporters is invalid.
But the challenge is "not about the rules, and not about Ron Paul, but about people who didn't get their way," Jones said.
"We had an unconventional convention, and some people didn't like it."
He said the lack of grounds for the challenge is demonstrated by the fact that the election of at-large delegate Gov. Paul LePage is not being contested.
Meanwhile, an online petition supporting the choice of delegates has collected approximately 1,000 signatures, according to Jones.
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That's not true. If that was the case then breeders would shoot for Sept, Oct, or Nov. Giving their horses an advantage in an age event. I was just talking about this very thing with a cutting horse trainer friend in TX last week. There have been times when breeders shot for a birth during the 1st week in January but end up in the last week of December thus having their foal "turning" 1 in one week or so. Many breeders shoot for foals that are born during the last week of January, or February or March.
The January 1st birthdate only counts for performance horses in age required events. I've had horses that were born in April, May, and as late as September. As long as there isn't an age requirement at a show, it doesn't matter. As for training, since I don't worry about age requirements, I go by actual age, not January 1st.


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I used to work on the web team, which meant that writing for the blog was part of my actual job description. But God made it clear to me that He had other plans, and now a month later, here I am working on the International Communications team. Basically, my new job is to be the communication link between our field countries (where the kids live) and the partner countries (where the sponsors live) when a crisis occurs.
A crisis is anything from a natural disaster like a hurricane or an earthquake, to a man-made one like civil unrest or war. It might be a bus accident, or a building collapsing, or a shooting, or a volcanic eruption … any event that affects a group of children in our programs. Because of the volatile nature of the developing countries where we work, crises occur frequently.
Unless you are Super-sponsor and check out the crisis update page daily, you probably are unaware of the wide variety of dangers our children face. I know I was. Even as an employee, it's hard for me to keep up with all the events occurring around the world. It just seems like an unending list of prayer requests.
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For the sake of the children we serve, I hope my job is extremely unexciting … boring even. The way the world has been lately, though, I have a feeling things will just get worse.
While this new position is emotionally heavy, I have hope because I am confident that none of this is outside of God's control. He is not surprised by the crises. Only saddened, at times, by our response. We as Compassion employees, and you as sponsors, have been specifically appointed to be miracle-workers for children in poverty all over the world.
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The Scrabble Challenge was a huge success and I have to say it was such a great time. I could easily be convinced to play again next year. It was so much fun playing with the help of Jaxson, John, and Kayden from Canuck Place. They were great teammates and they definitely helped me out.
We raised nearly $9,000 through donations and T-shirt sales. The t-shirts went pretty quickly and by the time I got in there to buy some, they were sold out of most sizes. I'm a little disappointed that they didn't order more t-shirts for the event and that they aren't selling them anymore. I definitely think we would have raised more money.
We agree wholeheartedly. It's a shame the Canucks didn't print more shirts, but we understand why they didn't. Nobody (save our dedicated readers) could have predicted the shirts would sell out so quickly.
The guys at Passittobulis were awesome sports. It was quite a competitive game and I must admit I was a little nervous before the game started, especially with everyone crowded around my letters and judging my every move! The mood lightened as the game went on, and it turned out to be a fun-filled special event. And if Harrison hadn't received the best draw of letters in the history of scrabble, I think the game would have ended up differently.
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You should plan to return to your pre-pregnancy weight by 6 months after delivery. Most women lose half of their baby weight by 6 weeks postpartum (after childbirth). The rest usually comes off over the next several months.
A healthy diet with daily exercise will help you shed the pounds.
Your body needs time to recover from childbirth. If you lose weight too soon after childbirth, it can take longer for you to recover. Give yourself until your 6-week checkup before trying to slim down. If you are breastfeeding, wait until your baby is at least 2 months old before you try to lose weight.
Aim for a weight loss of about a pound and a half a week. You can do this by eating less food, and getting more exercise.
If you're breastfeeding, you'll want to lose weight slowly. Weight loss that happens too fast can make you produce less milk. Losing about a pound and a half a week won't affect your milk supply or your health.
Breastfeeding makes your body burn calories. It helps you lose weight. If you're patient, you may be surprised at how much weight you lose naturally while breastfeeding.
These healthy eating tips will help you lose weight safely.
Don't go on a crash diets (not eating enough) or a fad diet (popular diets that limit certain types of foods and nutrients). They will probably make you drop pounds at first. But those first few pounds you lose are fluid and will come back.
Other pounds you lose on a crash diet may be muscle instead of fat. You will gain back any fat you lose on a crash diet once you return to normal eating.
You not be able to return to your exact pre-pregnancy weight or shape. For many women, pregnancy causes changes in the body that stay. You may have a softer belly, wider hips, and a larger waistline. Make your goals about your new body realistic.
A healthy diet combined with regular exercise is the best way to shed the pounds. Exercise will help you lose fat instead of muscle.
Once you're ready to start losing weight, eat a little less and move a little more each day. It may be tempting to push yourself into a hard routine for fast weight loss. But rapid weight loss is not healthy and is hard on your body.
Don't overdo it. Just a quick walk around the block with your baby in the stroller is a great way to add exercise to your daily routine.


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- A completed Dual Enrollment Application, official high school transcript and signed Ohio Northern Computer Account Agreement must be submitted to the Office of Admissions by June 30 to register for the fall semester and by Dec. 30 for the spring semester.
- Students will have the first two weeks of the course to determine if they are taking the course for college credit.
- Full payment is required at the end of the initial two weeks of the course. Payment should be sent directly to Sharyn Zembower in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio Northern University unless alternate arrangements have been made with each high school.
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I always try to look at the bright side of things when things just don't seem like they are going right. I try to have a "When life hands you lemons, make lemon-aide" kind of attitude. I wanted to turn a bad situation into something good. This is what I came up with...
|Top loading washing machine with the stainless steel drum exposed.
|My husband taking the washing machine apart.
|The stainless steel drum of our old washing machine (to be used as a fire pit or planter).
- Upcycle a stainless steel drum of a washing machine and use as a fire pit or planter! If you have a washer with a stainless steel drum/tub it will last longer for these projects than the other metals. The drum has natural air holes for the oxygen to circulate while the fire is going for a fire pit. It can also be used as the perfect planter...just set it in a large leftover TV dish saucer from Dish Network or DirecTV etc. It even has natural draining holes so that the soil doesn't get too soaked when you water your plant(s). You can also attach it easily to a DIY stand.
|Front loading washer taken apart.
|Front loading washer glass door window.
|Front loading washer glass window upcycled for a fruit bowl.
- Upcycle the glass door window of a front loader to a stylish fruit or mixing bowl. Just take the glass bowl shaped window off the door, remove extra parts, clean it up, and voila...instant fruit bowl!
|Front loading washer top upcycled to a magnetic board.
- Upcycle a side or top piece of the washing machine for a magnetic or dry erase white board. This is great for use in your office or homeschool! My kids love this and since ours was the top piece of a front loader it has brackets at the top that you can use to hang it easily on the wall!
|Washing machine hose upcycled as a water bucket filler.
- Upcycle a washing machine hose to be used as a bucket filler for water. These hoses are shorter and easier to handle than a long gardening hose for this purpose...especially around the farm when buckets of water need filled daily. We also got some 2-way and 4-way faucet expanders/distributers/extenders at the hardware store to let us use the faucet water from the same spigot even while the washer is all hooked up and running.
These are my ideas to get your creative juices flowing. You can get the plans for the fire pit by searching for them online. There are many different ways to make one. Choose the best suited for your own needs. You can also find tutorials on how to take your broken washing machine apart. Different makes and models come apart differently.
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." - John Wooden
DISCLOSURE/DISCLAIMER: If you do any of these projects I am not liable for any injuries that happen. Make your best judgement and try not to get hurt.


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Mr. Schoonover may well have performed in an adaption of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' in high school, but it should be noted that the original work was a short story, not a play.
Further, the cant Mr. Schoonover gives to it is more likely derived from his ideological leaning than from any serious critical reading of the story.
For the life of me, I cannot see any relationship the story of a town's annual stoning of a resident and his assertion that the NRA is a cause of tyrannical rule.
Such a notion makes for simplistic parables for opinionaires, of course. Perhaps Victor has worked too long at the Middle School level.
I speak, BTW, as a former High School English Teacher.


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The 30-year-old German was not punished by referee Lee Probert following the incident during the Cottagers' 3-1 defeat to United at Craven Cottage on Saturday.
Januzaj was attempting to run down time in the corner late in the game when Riether and team-mate Pajtim Kasami tangled with the youngster as they attempted to win back the ball.
The incident was missed by both Fulham boss Martin Jol and United manager David Moyes but the FA could take retrospective action after reviewing video footage.
"That would be disappointing," Jol said about a potential ban. "If it is true, then we have to talk to him.
"I have got some good back-up players as well, so that is not a disaster. The result is a disaster."


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When an urban legend needs proof, who you gonna call? The MythBusters of course.
And now the MythBusters-specifically stars Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of Discovery Channel's popular, unorthodox scientific theory show--have answered the demand for a live stage show.
"MythBusters: Behind the Myths" is coming to the Milwaukee Theatre Dec. 4 for an evening of on-stage experiments, behind-the-scenes stories and more, featuring Hyneman and Savage in person.
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Supplemental Materials
Immunofluorescence. YBC1093 was grown in 100 ml of YPD to an OD600 of 1.3. Cells were fixed by adding 1 M potassium phosphate [pH 6.5] to a final concentration of 0.1 M and formaldehyde (37% stock) to 4%, followed by incubation for 30 min at 30oC. An equivalent of 10 ml at OD 1.0 of cells were subjected to the following studies. The fixed cells were harvested, washed with 3 ml SP buffer (0.1 M potassium phosphate pH 7.5, 1 M Sorbitol), and resuspended in 1 ml of SP buffer containing 0.2% b-ME and 20 mg/ml Zymolyase 100T (Seikagaku America). The cell suspensions were incubated for 30 min at 35oC with gentle shaking for digesting cell walls. The spheroplasts were then recovered by centrifugation, washed twice with SP buffer and resuspended in 0.5 ml of the same buffer. The following studies were performed at room temperature. 40 ml of fixed spheroplasts were applied to each well of a poly-L-Lysine coated multiwell slide (Polyscience) and incubated for 10 min. The bound cells were washed five times with 0.5% BSA in PBS by aspiration and blocked for 30 min in the same solution. 20 ml of aProtein A antibody (1:100 dilution in 0.5% BSA-PBS) was applied to each well and incubated for 1 h in a humid chamber. After ten times of washes, cells were incubated with 20 ml of FITC-conjugated secondary antibody (Zymed Laboratories Inc.; 1:200 dilution) for 1.5 h in the dark. Cells were washed and mounted with mounting media prepared as described by Pringle et al., and analyzed with a Zeiss Axiophot2 fluorescence microscope. Images were collected with a Hamamatsu digital camera and analyzed using the OpenLab software.
NuA4 Purification and immunoprecipitations. 36 L of YBC925 were grown to OD 4.0 and spun down. Whole cell extract was made by bead beating followed by a PEI precipitation. The extract was then spun in a TI45 rotor at 42,000 rpm for 1 h. Extract containing 9.8 g of protein was diluted to 100 mM NaCl and was flowed over an SP column in buffer A (20 mM Hepes pH7.6, 12% glycerol, 0.02% NP-40, 1.0 mM EDTA, 0.5 mM DTT, 1x protease inhibitors) with 100 mM NaCl. Retained proteins were eluted with a linear gradient of buffer A with 0.1-0.5 M NaCl. Peak fractions containing Yaf9 (ascertained by anti-HA western blots) were pooled, dialyzed into buffer B with 50 mM NaCl, and bound to a DEAE Sephacel column. Bound proteins were eluted with a linear gradient of buffer B (20 mM Tris pH 7.9, 12% glycerol, 0.02% NP-40, 2 mM b-ME, 1´ protease inhibitors) with 0.1 – 1.0 M NaCl, peak fractions containing both Yaf9 and Esa1 (by western blot) were combined and diluted in buffer B to a final concentration of 100 mM NaCl and 20 mM Imidazol. This protein was bound to a Ni2+ NTA agarose column, and eluted with a step gradient of 0.02 - 0.2 M Imidazol. Fractions containing both Yaf9 and Esa1 were combined and loaded onto a Resource Mono-Q column in buffer B with 100 mM NaCl and eluted using a linear gradient from 0.1 – 0.5 M NaCl. Fractions containing both Yaf9 and Esa1 were combined and bound in batch to anti-HA sepharose beads or HA peptide blocked beads. The beads were washed 3´ in buffer C (25 mM Tris pH7.5, 15% glycerol, 0.5% Np-40, 1 mM EDTA, 400 mM NaCl, and 1´ protease inhibitors). Protein was eluted from the beads twice using buffer D with 5 M urea. The beads were then boiled in a 5% SDS solution and the supernatant retained. Eluates were TCA precipitated and run on a 12% acrylamide gel and silver-stained. Bands were excised and subjected to Maldi TOF mass spec. sequencing.
Preparation of extracts and immunoblot analysis. WCE were prepared as described previously {Cairns, 1999 #43}. Samples were separated on SDS 10-20% acrylamide gradient or 7.5% acrylamide gels, transferred to PVDF membranes and immunoblotted following standard procedures. All primary antibodies were used at 1:1000 dilution and secondary (goat anti-mouse or anti-rabbit antibody HRP conjugates (Bio-Rad)) at 1:10,000 dilution.
Assembly studies with the Yaf9 C-terminus. Strains YBC1093 and YBC1740 express Yaf9-TAP and yaf91-186-TAP, respectively, from the endogenous YAF9 promoter. Cultures were grown to an OD600 of 0.8 to 1. Cells were harvested, washed with ddH2O, and resuspended in 1 ml of buffer A (50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.5, 250 mM KoAc pH7.5, 10% glycerol, 2 mM EDTA, and PIs). Extracts were prepared as described previously and equivalent amount of WCE from each strain were subjected to IgG binding and TEV cleavage. Briefly, WCE (1 mg) was combined with 25 ml of pre-washed IgG beads and incubated for 4 h at 4oC. IgG beads were then washed four times with IgG washing buffer (10 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.0, 200 mM KOAc pH7.5, 10% glycerol, 0.5 mM EDTA, 0.1% NP40, and PIs) and three times with TEV cleavage buffer (10 mM Tris-HCl pH 8, 200 mM KOAc pH7.5, 10% glycerol, 0.5 mM EDTA, 0.1% NP40), separated with 5 min of incubations at 4oC. 4 ml of TEV protease (Invitrogen; 10 units/ml) in 120 ml TEV cleavage buffer was added to the beads followed by incubation for 1 h at 4oC and 1 h at 15oC. The TEV eluate was recovered by centrifugation. Samples were separated on an SDS 12% acrylamide gel followed by immunoblot analysis.
G-ChIP analysis. The purified ChIP samples and the input materials were amplified and labeled with Cy5-dCTP and Cy3-dCTP (Amersham Pharmacia catalog no. PA55321), respectively, and competitively hybridized on glass slides containing segments spanning the entire yeast genome as described in Roberts et al., 2003. Further, normalized ratios were calculated as described by Roberts et al., 2003. Segments identified as occupied by Sir3 are provided as supplemental information.
RT-QPCR analysis.
YBC 1665 (WT) and 1582 (yaf9D) strains were grown in YPD at 30oC to an OD600 of 0.8. Cells were collected and frozen in liquid nitrogen. Total RNA was isolated by acid phenol and chloroform extraction. 45 µg total RNA was incubated with 2 units RNase-free RQ1 DNase (Promega) for 1 hour at 37 degrees Celcius, and the RNA was cleaned up using the Qiagen RNeasy MinElute cleanup kit. Fist-strand synthesis Reverse Transcription was performed using 5 µg total RNA added to Ready-To-Go You-Prime First-Strand Beads (Amersham Biosciences) with 0.5 µg oligo (dT)20 primer and incubated at 37 degrees Celcius for 1.5 hours. The RT reaction product from YBC 1665 was diluted 10, 100, and 1000 fold, and product from YBC 1582 was diluted ten fold. Dilutions were used as templates in quantitative PCR reactions using a Bio-Rad iCycler. 5 loci near the telomere of Chromosome 14 and Actin were interrogated for down-regulation of gene expression in the yaf9D compared to WT. Q-PCR reactions were performed with 2 µl template, 1X iQ SYBR Green Supermix (Bio-Rad) and 100nM of each gene specific primer.
Actin was compared between WT and yaf9D strains for each primerset. Dilutions of genomic DNA standards were run for each primerset, and the cycle threshold number for WT and yaf9D RT products were plotted against the concentrations of the standards. Ratio of yaf9D/WT were Log (2) transformed.


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- Books → History → Renaissance
Renaissance Faces Van Eyck to Titian
written by Lorne Campbell, Miquel Falomir, Jennifer Fletcher, Luke Syson
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This lavishly illustrated book explores the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. While both regions developed distinct styles and techniques, each was also influenced by the other. Four renowned scholars consider the relationship between artists of the north and south to illuminate the notion of likeness. The authors offer new research on some of the greatest portraitists of the period, including Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Durer, Jan van Eyck, Hans Holbein, and Titian. This book is rich in information about portrait types, styles, techniques, iconographies, the function of portraits, and the connections among painting, sculpture, and portrait medals. Furthermore, the volume features fascinating accounts of the relationships of patrons, artists, and sitters, as well as the process of making portraits. The authors also investigate complex notions of beauty, spiritual belief, and the portrait as a mirror of the soul.
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Obvious Signs Of A Guilty Dog
Top 10 "Useless" Organs
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August 2, 2015
The weather could put a chill on plans to launch space shuttle Endeavour Friday on a flight to the international space station.
NASA says an approaching cold front could bring rain and thick clouds to the launch site by week's end.
Shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters says there's still a 60 percent chance of acceptable conditions at the 7:55 p.m. liftoff time Friday and only a 40 percent chance on Saturday.
She says timing is everything in terms of when the weather moves through.
Endeavour is loaded with equipment to expand the living quarters of the space station.
NASA hopes to double the size of the crew, from three to six, by next June.
The launch window is open until Nov. 25 for NASA's first shuttle launch since the end of May.
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Honored To Become A Mod At Linda Buquet's Local Search Forum!
Tuesday 18 Sep 2012
Today, I'm so proud and happy to announce joining the staff at Linda Buquet's Local Search Forum as their first-ever moderator! If you run a local business or are a Local SEO and you've not yet heard of this awesome, targeted forum, please come by. Topics that are really important to you are being discussed there daily, and given that Linda is a Google Place Help Forum Top Contributor, you can count on a level of conversation and advice that is second to none in the Local sphere!
In addition to working as a community associate in the SEOmoz Q&A forum, I've been a moderator at Cre8asite since 2008. A discussion I've seen come up time and again in the SEO world is whether forums are still valuable to people. Believe me, they definitely are, and while those newer sound-byte, quickie Social Media platforms like Twitter serve a definite purpose, they cannot replace the depth of communication you will find in a top tier forum.
What I've learned from my work in fora is that really good ones have these elements:
– They cover topics that directly affect the concerns and goals of business owners.
– They are peopled by friendly, sharing contributors – not ego-driven know-it-alls.
– They are equally welcoming to novices and pros, addressing all questions with thought and care.
– They build a community where you like and learn from great people and you feel really comfortable there.
Linda Buquet's Local Search Forum meets all these criteria, providing a wonderful environment for all of us in Local to share our challenges and successes. It is truly an honor to join the staff, and I sincerely hope to add to the friendly atmosphere and knowledge bank at the Local Search Forum. This will be fun!
5 comments Tuesday 18 Sep 2012 | admin | Inside the Igloo, Local SEO
5 Responses to "Honored To Become A Mod At Linda Buquet's Local Search Forum!"
on 18 Sep 2012 at 12:50 pm Linda Buquet
Thanks Miriam,
We are SOOOO lucky to have you join us! This will be a win/win for all and help the local search community.
Here is the announcement at the forum. Stop by, say hi and welcome Miriam to our team!
on 20 Sep 2012 at 12:28 am admin
Thanks so much, Pete. And, I'm sure yet more involvement in the busy world of Local will only help my work at SEOmoz Q&A. I really appreciate you stopping by!
on 22 Sep 2012 at 3:05 pm Phil Rozek
Congrats, Miriam! It's already an awesome forum and soon will be awesomer (if that's a word).
on 23 Sep 2012 at 11:41 am admin
Thank you, Phil. Yes, let's say 'awesomer' is a word in this case. I'm really pleased to be participating there. See you around the forum!


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These are the pictures from our road trip. We saw elk, white-tail, mule deer, and mountain goats. It had been raining all day long and towards the evening started to clear up. There were multiple rainbows. Took some flower pictures too.
The mountain goats were close to the road. I was a little concerned that they would get hit but they were safe this time.
Thank you for looking.
First We Saw A Single Cow Elk.
Trapper Peak.
Glacier Lilies.
Cool Water Drops.
Next We Saw Mountain Goats.


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29, July, 2015 RGU researcher recognised for Artificial Intelligence work
Professor Susan Craw has been announced as a senior member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
27, August, 2015 Postgraduate Open Evening
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Intex Mega Chill II Floating Cooler
Key Features
Ice chest holds 72 cans plus ice
Doubles as a floating base for your cooler
6 cup holders
4 heavy-duty handles
48" x 38"
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