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Goshen artist believes Ellen DeGeneres portrait was stolen
GOSHEN — Frances Peers' home is like an art gallery.
Paintings are thoughtfully hung on walls. A plaster bust of actor Bob Hope and small sculptures of dancers, mermaids and other bronze figures line shelves in her living room. But one piece of art the 91-year-old Goshen resident may never see again is a portrait she painted last year of comedian Ellen DeGeneres.
Working from a magazine photo of DeGeneres, Peers spent more than a month sketching and painting a portrait for the talk show host's birthday.
"She has beautiful blue eyes, absolutely beautiful," said Peers, a talented artist who worked for the Walt Disney Company in Orlando, Fla., for 13 years.
Peers mailed the portrait to the studio in Burbank, Calif., where the "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" is taped, but months passed and she never heard about it again. That is until late October, when Peers was watching the show while in the hospital with a broken hip.
"I was watching, and there was a woman in white with her back to the TV camera, and she was accepting thanks for the picture that I had painted," Peers said, convinced that the woman had stolen the portrait. "There were two other patients in the room with me, and they saw the same thing. I couldn't believe it."
Peers doesn't remember much about the episode — the date it aired, who the special guest was or anything else.
"I was so mad, I couldn't keep watching it," she said. "I was ready to punch the screen. I was so upset about that. I was ready to jump up and never come down."
In a yellow file folder, Peers keeps the postal receipt from when she mailed the painting and rough drafts of letters she has sent to DeGeneres' fan mail address about the portrait.
"I never got anywhere," said Peers, who mailed her last letter May 8. "I don't expect to get paid for the painting. That's not why I did this. I don't want to be flown out to the show or even mentioned. A letter would be nice, some acknowledgement."


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A very good start Schwarzkreuz, really love your mountains!
I wanted to only start a new thread if I am sure to finish it properly. This map, after 6h work on it looks like I will finish it.
Its basicly the continent south of the continent of the Icathian Empire, shown on my Classic Arden Map. I grow a bit bored to remap it so often, that I decided to have a take on this place in my world.
In the process of creating this map, I got usefull hints from -Max- to change the shape of the continent and the scale of teh Mountains that they fit the continental zoom, instead of looking like a large Regio Map.
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A very good start Schwarzkreuz, really love your mountains!
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Yes, that was important. I must start to rethink a lot of the way i used to map bevore. Its time for some suptle improvements. I am too obsesse with mountains and should start to map more organicly and get better at labeling.
Those mountains are indeed really nice. I'm still thinking that your usual background texture is a bit heavy, especially with the new scaled mountains. They have a very beautiful neat look and that texture is "overfilling" the map a bit much with its grain whe nzoomed in in my opinion.
Does this look better? I cant decided right off whats fitting more...
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2nd or 3rd works better imo. You can choose one or the other depending on how much details you will go on the map. If that's a very detailed map, the more subtle texture (i.e the third one) would work I guess.
As for me, it depends. Are you planning to color the lands?
If yes, I would prefer a less stronger texture effect (as in the third one). If not, the second one would go nicely.
I'd say the second one works best - the third is a little too pale IMHO, but if you are adding additional color it could work. If not, definitely the second.


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(1) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned, a member of the uniformed services who is assigned to permanent duty aboard a ship that is under construction at a location other than—
(2) A member referred to in paragraph (1) shall be entitled to such transportation or allowance on or after the thirty-first day (and every sixtieth day after the thirty-first day) after the later of—
(b) Dependents Travel.—
(1) In lieu of the entitlement of a member of the uniformed services to transportation under subsection (a), the Secretary concerned may provide transportation in kind, reimbursement for personally procured transportation, or a monetary allowance in place of the cost of transportation as provided in section 474 (d)(1) of this title for the travel of the dependents of the member from the designated home port of the ship, or the area where the dependents of the member are residing, to the port of construction.
(c) Change of Home Port.— In any case in which a member of the uniformed services assigned to permanent duty aboard a ship that undergoes a change of home port to the port at which the ship is being constructed, the dependents of such member may be provided the transportation allowances prescribed in subsections (a) and (b) in lieu of the transportation authorized by section 476 of this title and section 2634 of title 10.
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I'm not sure how useful this will be, but with the growing popularity of anime and Japanese culture, I figured I'd contribute some information on Japanese naming and placenames.
Vasha's Guide to Feudal Japan - Language is one of my favorite resources. While it's primarily aimed at naming characters, the 'initial' and 'final characters for family names' sections are extremely useful. They include a lot of great placename elements like 'valley', 'base of a hill', 'town', 'island', 'field', etc. It also includes more specific placename elements like 'shrine', 'cellar', 'pavilion', 'district', 'iron forge', etc.
If you're looking for specifics, or you want some pretty Japanese characters to make your map look even flashier, a great site for kanji is the dictionary at Animelab.com. You can search by English meaning, romaji (Japanese word written in roman characters), kanji (logographs), or kana (Japanese alphabets). It gives you a lot of flexibility, especially by letting you find out the kanji that a word is written with, and then searching each individual kanji that makes up the word to better understand its full meaning.
Delving deeper into kanji, Wiktionary is excellent, especially for giving variation in the sound of a word. If you have a lot of northern villages, then you may find the kanji for 'snow' particularly useful (yuki). By looking up this Kanji on the English version of Wiktionary, you can find multiple readings of the same kanji. The same symbol can be pronounced 'setsu' or 'sechi' by following original Chinese pronunciation (On reading), or 'susugu' is another Japanese variant (Kun reading).
Wiktionary also gives 'nanori' readings. Nanori are readings of a kanji that are used only for the names of people and places. For example, using the 'mizu' kanji for 'water', you have the On reading of 'sui', the Kun reading of 'mizu', but the Nanori readings 'uzu', 'zumi', 'tsu', 'do', 'mi', 'misa', 'mitsu', 'mina', and 'min'.
My last two favorite resources are great for creativity. The Japanese Names section at Sengoku Daimyo has some very helpful stuff under the "surnames" section, though the kanji are images that can't be copied and pasted to the AnimeLab dictionary or Wiktionary. Lastly, the Monthly Kukai Report was designed as an aide for writing haiku but the 'Terrestrial Phenomenon', 'Celestial Phenomenon', and 'Plants' sections can be useful for placenames when used sparingly.
I'm no Japanese language expert, I really only speak it well enough to say "I don't understand Japanese", but these five websites have made it considerably easier for me to look like I know what I'm doing. I hope they'll be helpful!
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Thanks, Scriptkitty! Even though I speak some Japanese, and I am half-Japanese, if you haven't looked around the site to see, but I am working on my own Japanese setting intended for publication next month. Kaidan: a Japanese Ghost Story setting.
For place names I know things like island (shima) or mountain (yama) so I've simply taken existing names of things and places I know like Hiroshima, and came up with somethings like Hiroyama, to twist things up a bit, sounding very Japanese and having moderate accuracy.
Your links above will prove an incredible boon, however, as I've been pretty much winging it as I went along. I didn't want to replicate actual Japanese cities and towns (much), since my Japanese like islands are completely ficitional.
So thank you. Look around the site, I've got several threads dealing with Kaidan, my setting. I've also got a Genpei War map (a map of an actual war in its last year of 1185 AD) as my February Map Challenge entry as well as my Ukiyo-e style map objects in the Mapping Elements page. So I could really use those links in my work.
I'm also glad you finally posted someplace. I did see your votes in this month's challenge, so I know you want to participate here. Glad you finally did!
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I noticed some of your work on the board, GP! I look forward to seeing more. I'm glad that these resources can be of some assistance.
I've been working on a book as well, in a fictional Japan-inspired setting of my own creation named Asajima (instead of the land of the rising sun, 'dawn island'! Ha ha! Ha... haaa.... *crickets*). I'm hoping to publish it later on this year, though my worldmap was created before I had any real idea of scale, travel times and distances, natural geological features, etc. Now that I've learned so much from this site, I want to redesign the map before I send the book off to the printers, since it's the map I plan to base all of my future works in. Once I rebuild the map, I'm hoping to be able to post it here on Cartographer's Guild.
In the meantime, I've been working on a map for a Japan-modified D&D game, and I'm hoping to post the map and some accompanying material on the forum some time in the next few days. I'm shooting for a setting with a lot of classical D&D elements (all of the major 3.5 races represented), but in a cultural setting similar to the one I've cobbled together for Asajima (the courts and nobility have a very Heian period feel, the world in general has a lot of sengoku jidai influences from before the arrival of foreigners, a few post-Meiji elements like the modern image of geisha as entertainers, etc).
More place-naming goodness! I learned some neat stuff while naming my map for my T&T project (Tsuchirou to Tatsu, trans: Dungeons and Dragons )
Directional names are incredibly useful.
Central = Chuuou or Naka-
East = Higashi, Tou
West = Nishi
North = Kita, Hoku
South = Minami
Now here's where things get really fun. The emperor supposedly sits facing south, so the terms "u" (right) and "sa" (left) can be used for placenames. In my map, there are two capes extending south on either side of the bay where my capitol city is. I've named them respectively Sasaki (left cape) for the eastern cape, and Usaki (right cape) for the western cape. Mind you, the kanji are what give them these great meanings... Sasaki could also be written with different kanji to be the word for a type of tree.
Another favorite of place-naming has always been 'New'. 'New York', 'New Jersey', 'New Mexico', it's a great way to name a place without having to be, y'know, creative. Well, Japan has a couple of its own... Shin can mean new, while Hon or Moto can mean original. For example, I have two provinces, and one holds the current royal palace (miya), one is where the old palace was. I named them, respectively, Shinmiya and Honmiya.
Hopefully this helps, I'm planning on putting something together for character naming soon too.
Another great site for kanji (you can search by english meaning, japanese pronunciation, or radical) is jisho .org which also has a people and place name dictionary.
I'm currently living in Japan and can tell you that besides the names of places, there are plenty of different terms for different administrative divisions. First off, japan is split into the "to-do-fu-ken". There are 43 ken, or prefectures with the -ken used as a suffix (aomori-ken, shizuoka-ken), 2 fu or urban prefectures (osaka-fu and kyoto-fu), one do or "circuit" (hokkaido), and one to or metropolis (tokyo-to). Within these larger divisions fall designated cities or shi (sapporo-shi, fukuoka-shi, nagoya-shi) and districts or gun (in aomori-ken we have kamikita-gun, higashi-tsugaru-gun etc.). Larger cities (Tokyo, Osaka, Sendai, etc.) are divided into wards or ku (Tokyo has Oota-ku, minato-gu, setagaya-ku etc.) while gun/districts are divided into towns (machi or cho) or villages (mura). The difference between machi and cho usually depends on whether the town is historically free-standing, or whether it is a conglomeration of older, smaller divisions. For example, next to my town, rokunohe-machi, is oirase-cho which used to be split into shimoda-machi and momoishi-machi.
Scriptkitty, whether you use higashi or tou for east depends on whether the word is part of a compound, or an adjective describing an existing place name. For example, Tokyo (a better transcription would be Toukyou) literally means Eastern Capital, so, being part of a compound the onyomi or "chinese" pronunciation of tou is used. In the example of higashi-tsugaru-gun, however, higashi is used to distinguish the eastern portion of the tsugaru region. To supplement what youve already posted, the onyomi for west is sei and for south is nan (or nam before p, b, n, or m). These onyomi can also be combined into quarter directions-- tohoku for northeast, seinan for southwest etc. but notice that e/w comes before n/s. As for "central" Chuuou means the center of something, so cities might have a chuuou-ku (central ward) or chuuou-dori (central avenue), but its not really found in place names. Naka is the kunyomi of the chuu portion of chuuou (中) and simply carries the meaning "middle". Kami (上) and Shimo (下) can also be used to mean upper and lower respectively. In Aomori-ken we have the kamikita (upper north) and shimokita (lower north) regions.
Many place names in japan are made out of the few geographic words (ishi-stone, yama- mountain, kawa or sawa- river etc.) but the region i live in also has a cirlcle of towns and cities named Xnohe. where X is a number 1-9 (except 4 which is homophonous with death) and he means door or gate (no is the possesive particle). Because the area used to be used for raising horses, the different paddocks/pastures through which the animals would rotate gave their name to a ring of towns. You could do the same thing with ports (ichinokou ninokou sannokou) or castles (ichinojou, ninojou, sannojou).
Another layer of Japanese naming are the many places in northern honshu and on hokkaido whose names come from the language of the native Ainu people. For example theres a city near me called towada, which is written with kanji (十和田) meaning "ten peaceful fields" but the actual Ainu meaning is lost-- the kanji only gloss the original pronunciation. You could transform foreign place names into Japanese though, as in Chicago becoming Shikagou (鹿郷) --Deer Township. This isnt how modern japanese deals with foreign place names, but is still kind of fun.
The best way to familiarize yourself with japanese place names and place name conventions is probably just to surf google earth or wikipedia-- pick a prefecture and go through the links to its constituent cities/districts/towns etc. The kanji are usually written right and the top, and you can look them up from there.
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Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is used to treat bladder cancer because it stimulates immune responses that can destroy cancer cells within the bladder. BCG may be used to treat early-stage cancer, but it is used most commonly to prevent the return (recurrence) of noninvasive bladder cancer. It is most often used after cancer has been removed from the bladder using transurethral resection (TUR) surgery.
BCG is also used in some countries as a vaccine to provide protection against tuberculosis (TB).
When it is used to treat bladder cancer, BCG is given through a urinary catheter (intravesically) into the bladder.
- Limit your fluid intake for 4 hours before the procedure, so you will be able to hold the medicine in your bladder during the treatment.
- BCG is given through a urinary catheter. You will be asked not to urinate for 2 hours and to change position every 15 to 20 minutes so the medicine washes the entire bladder wall.
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BCG is used following TUR surgery for noninvasive bladder cancer in people who are at medium or high risk for recurrence of cancer. It can also be used following TUR surgery in people who cannot have a cystectomy procedure for bladder cancer. But its usefulness in these cases is limited.
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Studies show that treatment with BCG delays the recurrence of cancer, slows cancer growth, and possibly helps people with bladder cancer live longer.1
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Karl Lagerfeld who, once upon a time was a chubby, grumpy guy with a fan in front of his face at all times, once said after he became a thin, grumpy guy without a fan in front of his face at all times that "Fashion is the healthiest motivation to lose weight." I'm not sure I agree, but Karl says a lot of things with which most of us don't agree.
While the chances of Karl ever putting his, or rather Coco's name, on a food product are zero to nil, it's still interesting to wonder just how many die hard Chanel fans would run out and buy Chanel popcorn if it existed. And what about Burberry cheeseburgers or Christian Louboutin cupcakes — would fans also scoop those up too, the way some people buy tee-shirts with these iconic emblems on them just so they can say they own at least one thing by any of the following designers? Although none of these are actual products by the designers themselves, they are pretty to look at while pondering whether or not these foods would taste better simply because of the name attached to them.
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Trucks have historically been judged largely on their ability to haul and tow. In these times of steep gas prices, however, fuel-efficiency certainly merits a place in the mix, and some trucks have the goods to meet this challenge. The 10 pickups that follow are the best examples. These are the 10 trucks offering the best gas mileage.
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I looked it up. Still found hō. And if our in house translator left it as that, I put more confidence in his translation than yours. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 02:56, January 13, 2011 (UTC)
- I've heard of rendaku before. There are two members of the wiki that have some knowledge of Japanese, so we usually go by them. Would you mind bringing their attention to this? One is ShounenSuki, a heavy editor who does the bulk of our translation work, and FF-Suzaku, who also does some translations from time to time. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 03:26, January 13, 2011 (UTC)
Romanisation for Gyūki's quote
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A new report shows that $70.2 billion was given to the fossil fuel industry over the last seven years from government subsidies. Only $12.2 billion was given to renewables like wind and solar, in the same time period. The study, released this week, is available through the Power Shift '09 site and here. Read more>>
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Repeal effective Sept. 1, 1973, or such earlier date as the President may prescribe and publish in the Federal Register, see section 10(c) ofPub. L. 93–43, set out as a note under section 2306 of Title 38, Veterans' Benefits.
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Driving in the city is a sport unto itself. Clogged expressways, impossible parking, countless red lights, never-ending construction, and the constant threat of car theft can make a trip downtown more than frustrating — it can turn the most mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll into a shouting, swearing Mr. Hyde. (And you know what I'm talking about.)
There's a lot you can do, though, to make urban driving easier, both when choosing a car and while out on the road. Here are some tips that will make nasty drives into the city less stressful and more enjoyable.
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Do the mpg math. City drivers inevitably get worse fuel mileage, hence the distinction
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Note that hybrids such as the Toyota Prius, Toyota Highlander Hybrid, Lexus RX 400h and Ford
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stop-and-go traffic.
New technologies could make parking even easier. In 2004, Volvo showcased Parallel Parking
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Volvo YCC ("Your Concept Car"). At the touch of a button, PPA
confirms that your car will fit into your chosen space, then an Autopark feature actually
helps the car steer itself into perfect position. This type of technology is already available
on the Toyota Prius as Intelligent Parking Assist — but only in Japan.
Drive with mileage in mind. Don't speed up just to slow down. If you lean on the
accelerator when the light turns green, then again on the brake one street down, you're
hurting both your car and your gas mileage. Instead, go lightly on the accelerator and coast
where possible. If you're bumper-to-bumper, improve your fuel economy by slipping the car
into neutral instead of constantly riding the brake. (This doesn't apply to hybrids which
typically shut off the gas engine when stopped in traffic.) And don't try to get around the
city on less than a quarter tank. Not only are city gas stations expensive, they're hard to
Pick a lane and stick to it. Believe it or not, changing lanes frequently will get you
there only a few seconds earlier, while greatly increasing your chance of a collision.
Replace your air filter often. City driving means smog and soot. Your air filter
protects you and your occupants from breathing the worst of the fumes and the particulates
they carry. By the time some stranger has written "Wash Me" on your rear windshield, it's
already too late for your lungs.
Make your car crime-resistant. Take it from an ex-Manhattanite: You can't be too
careful. Try to park in an area that's well lit and has a lot of pedestrians nearby. Don't
leave valuables — including gym or shopping bags — visible in the car. (This writer once had a
car broken into for the mere 35 cents left in the open change holder.) If possible, put any
valuables in the trunk before you park, so that no one is watching you stow your stuff
curbside. And more importantly, be proactive in securing your car by layering it with
anti-theft protection like a starter disable switch, a wheel lock and a car alarm. If you want
to know what the thieves know, an absolute "must read" is our "Top 10 Ways to Steal a Car
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Approach with caution. Driving is made exponentially more difficult if you're new to a
city. Locals know which roads to avoid, but strangers do not. It pays to check ahead of time
to see if construction has turned your chosen path into a virtual parking lot. If a two-lane
interstate becomes an eight-lane expressway as you approach the city, get into one of the
right-hand lanes. This allows you to slow down enough to read unfamiliar signs. If your exit
sneaks up on you and you're not in the correct lane, don't try to cross several lanes of
highway traffic to make it. Let it go. Then get off at the next exit and work your way back
if necessary. If the next exit is a ways off, check a map: Triangulating to your destination
might be faster than doubling back on the highway.
If you do get lost, take a deep breath. Allow yourself to be late. If your car doesn't have a built-in compass, can you reorient yourself the old-fashioned way, using the angle of the sun? (Or if you're really good, the position of the stars?) If that doesn't work and you have GM's OnStar, now is the time to make that subscription work for you. If not, pull over to a safe area, then ask for directions. Sounds simple, but how much time is wasted before most people admit they need a little guidance?
Finally, the best advice one can give about city driving is not to sweat the small stuff. Cabbies may cut you off, pedestrians may jaywalk, drivers may rubberneck, but you'll get there — eventually. The real trick is to keep your blood pressure down and your spirits up.
And don't forget to feed the meter.
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The Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations recently hosted a talk by Dana Frank. Her talk was entitled The U.S. and Post-Coup Honduras: A Human Rights Disaster.
Dana Frank is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of several books, including Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism, and Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, which focuses on Honduras. Her articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals as well as in the Washington Post and other venues. She is a former Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics at the University of Oregon, and has received three major fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Since the June 2009 military coup her articles about Honduras have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, ForeignAffairs.com, San Francisco Chronicle, San José Mercury-News, and many other publications, and regularly in The Nation magazine, including a June 11, 2012 cover story.
This talk was recorded June 3, 2013 at Point Lookout in Northport, Maine
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May 6, 2016
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Quinn Cook scored a career-high 27 points and No. 1 Duke held Clemson to its lowest-scoring half in 12 years in a 68-40 victory over the Tigers on Tuesday night.
Ryan Kelly added 12 points in the first half but sat out the second with what team officials said was a right leg injury.
The Blue Devils (15-0, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) shot 48 percent, built a 42-31 rebounding advantage and pulled away down the stretch to improve to 58-4 at home against the Tigers.
Devin Booker had 12 points and 15 rebounds for Clemson (8-6, 0-2), which had season lows for points and shooting percentage (28 percent) and shot 12 percent in its brutal first half.
The Tigers had just 10 points at halftime, their fewest since scoring nine against Wake Forest in 2001.
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A semi crashed and burned on I-25 in Pueblo Tuesday morning. The truck was carrying a load of ice cream
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The crash was near the Lake Avenue exit off I-25 in Pueblo.
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Hey, Telltale fellas!
I waited for a long time before open this thread. I hoped to have more material to present you, but there was work, university, so I hope this few videos could be enough.
I don't know if this is spam, I just want to share my project with you! Eventually, no problem! :)
I love Monkey Island's music themes. I love rock music too, and then I thought to realize the Rock Versions of Monkey Island themes!
Here is a presentation of my project:
And here, my favourite cover, the Main Theme:
I have a respectable number of ready themes. Some of this there's already on Youtube. The other themes needs a mixing and filming.
Here's a list of ready themes and some in progress:
- Main Theme (Ready: uploaded)
- Woodtick - Wally's Theme (Ready: uploaded)
- Stan's Theme (Ready: uploaded)
- Lechuck's Theme (Ready: uploaded)
- EXTRA: Green T and the Sushi splatter: (Ready: uploaded)
- Scumm Bar (Ready: uploaded)
- Phatt Island Jail (Ready: uploaded)
- The Bone Dance (Ready backing Track: missing voices, mixing and films)
- Scabb Island's Crypt (There's only the drums track)
- Captain Dread's Theme (Ready: uploaded)
- Le Singe's theme (Missing Bass track and mixing)
- Barbery Coast (Ready: uploaded)
- Rapp Scallion theme (Ready backing Track: missing 2nd guitar)
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Stay tuned, you guys. The big prank is about to be revealed.
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Comparison shots pit Sony Xperia Z against the Apple iPhone and Oppo Find 5
Erin Lodi | Published: Jan 23, 2013 at 19:16 UTC15
After getting our hands on Sony's new Xperia Z at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada earlier this month, were were intrigued to see some sample images from the device turn up on the Internet.
We can't vouch for the integrity of these images shared on the Vietnamese site SonyViet.vn, which it reports are comparison camera samples under various conditions using the Xperia Z, Apple iPhone 5 and the Oppo Find 5. However, it's especially interesting to consider how the Xperia Z may compare with the similarly spec'd Oppo Find 5, both of which rely on Sony's 13-megapixel Exmor RS stacked CMOS camera sensor.


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Everything was a blur of sounds and sudden bright lights, Erika picked her head up with a groan, eyes glued shut by the sleep that corroded the corners. She wiped it away eyes burning from the sudden light that streamed through her windows. She wandered if her sister had already left for work, if so she would use that to her advantage and get herself dressed before who ever was at the door had a heart attack from ringing the bell so much. She quickly ran to the bathroom, brushing through her hair and putting it up how she normally did so, pulling on her beret and getting dressed quickly before grabbing her bag and cell phone. She looked in the mirror and tilted her head to the side, deciding that she needed a hair cut soon, her long black hair had become longer then it should have been, and was at that almost awkward length that made her look sort of scruffy. She shook her head and rushed from the bathroom, traipsing down the stairs. Whoever was at the door still had yet to stop ringing the doorbell.
"Hold your damn horses!" She shouted loudly, flinging the door open, not in a very good mood after the rude awakening. The light from outside flooded her vision for a moment, before she was able to make out the details of someone she truly didn't want to see. "Ah Izaya~" She said with a smirk, "I should have known it was you" She said, amused at how easily she could tell it was him, for one, he always wore the same damned jacket, and two, he always had that antagonistic smirk on his face.pushing past him with her black and green striped cell phone in her hand. "No doubt Daniel sent you" She said while walking away from him and texting at the same time.
"I cannot begin to fathom why it would be this degenerate fool whom you have sent to my house, therefore I shall not complain, but be warned he woke me up in such a way that later you will all feel my wrath" She sent the text and gave Izaya an Amused smirk. They were alike in so many ways that they could either clash with each other, ending up fighting till no end, or they would team up and be the best of buds. Despite their similar attitudes they were also different in many ways, it was almost like a constant battle between them, and it often annoyed her to no end. Of course, there were always those rare moment when they seemed to actually get along in front of their friends, but it seemed like every moment was either him testing her, or her testing him. Erika let her grin drop, closing her eyes and shoving her hands into her pockets, much like how Izaya did alot. "Are we going or what?" She said simply, not sparing another glance towards him.


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Going backstage to the dressing room, congratulating Sandra Robinson Hodges on her triumphant turn as Mahalia Jackson at the Old Log Theater, you'd never guess she's Twin Cities' gospel royalty, not from her unassuming manner. She greets you with a warm smile, "Just call me Sandy," and is fairly shy about accepting compliments. For the record though, if she did have a swelled head, it'd be hard to blame her. For one, she has worked and recorded with her more famous brother, Robert Robinson, most notably at the well-renowned Twin Cities Community Gospel Choir, where she succeeded him as artistic and executive director. Among her accomplishments in the area, she performed as both lead and background vocalist on albums for the Sam Davis Gospel Ensemble, Minneapolis Gospel Sound, and Excelsior Choral Ensemble. Nationally, she has performed with the likes of Aretha Franklin, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Jermaine Jackson, and Prince. There's considerably more, including her present tenure as choir director at Park Avenue United Methodist Church and chapel choir director at Bethel University. Suffice to say, illustrious singer Sandra Hodges (SH) indeed is an entity of considerable consequence. During the run of Mahalia, where she shared the stage with gifted performers Dianne E'Laine and Sam Reeves, she granted the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder an email interview to reflect on her artistry.
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Sim City is a computer game that has the player design a city. They become the mayor. While designing the city from ground, they can choose sustainaiblity energy options such as wind farms, geothermal, and solar. The game includes greening options and pollution factors. Teachers in a variety of disciplines can utilize this to bring their core course concepts to life.
Economics of installing Solar PV panels: is it worth it to the individual? part of 2012 Sustainability in Math Workshop:Activities
Martin Walter, University of Colorado at Boulder
We show that it is economical for an individual to install solar photovoltaic panels in Denver, Colorado; and this is a sustainable strategy for society at large.
Modeling: (1) Revenue Neutral Carbon Taxes; (2) Accelerated atmospheric C02 concentrations part of 2012 Sustainability in Math Workshop:Activities
Martin Walter, University of Colorado at Boulder
Design a revenue neutral carbon tax and a plan for implementation; together with a model for what happens if we do not institute such a tax-system.
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A series of activities that aid the student in the development of his/her own strategies to stay inspired and motivated in his/her activist efforts.
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Selecting one environmental situation students will learn about some basic human rights norms and then analyze that environmental situation in terms of those human rights norms.
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This submission is both a course and an activity using the bioregion as a resource for environmental ethics. The first part of the course is devoted to questions (fact gathering) related to the bioregion. The second part is reflecting and focused on global answers.
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Surya Tewari, Bellevue Community College
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The country's energy shortage has driven its current account deficit to widen by 135 percent on soaring oil imports to generate power in the face of shortages and blackouts.
Despite a rise in gold exports, the nation's total imports bill rose 39.1 percent in the year to February to $12.6 billion, mostly due to a rise in oil imports, its central bank said on Tuesday.
Tanzania's coastline is fast becoming a major gas hub with major discoveries made in the east African region and the country has licensed at least 18 international companies to look for offshore and onshore energy reserves.
But hydro power accounts for around half of Tanzania's energy supplies, with prolonged drought resulting in rolling blackouts across the country. The Tanzanian government has shifted its focus to thermal power projects to wean itself off rain-dependent hydropower stations.
Energy demand is expected to grow to 1,583 megawatts by 2015 from the current demand of around 800MW, according to estimates by the country's energy ministry.
Analysts said rising oil imports could hurt the import-dependent economy, which has been struggling with a high inflation rate and slower growth.
"Tanzania must do away with generating electricity from oil-fired power stations. This source of electricity is very costly to consumers and the economy and is not sustainable. It actually adds up to the cost of doing business in Tanzania, with a high inflation rate," said Humphrey Moshi, professor of economics at the University of Dar es Salaam.
"Tanzania can no longer depend on hydro-power stations due to the effects of climate change, hence the need to turn to alternative sources of energy such as natural gas and coal."
Tanzania's year-on-year inflation rate fell to 18.7 percent in April from 19 percent previously on lower food and energy costs, but analysts said the decline was too slow and forecast the rate to remain in double-digit figures for the rest of the year.
Poor rains across East Africa for much of last year undermined food security and electricity output, triggering spikes in the levels of inflation and threatening economic growth.
In the year to February, the current account deficit widened to $5.248 billion from $2.233 billion a year ago, and slightly higher than in January, when it stood at $5 billion from $2.341 billion the year before period.


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