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Wallet is absolutly beautiful with the finest leather and workmanship
I am totally impressed with the Faustino Bifold. I really don't think you could fine a nicer wallet. The leather is really nice and has a great feel. The workmanship/craftmanship could not be any better. It accomodates all my cards and info without stacking them altogether. I am very pleased with the weallet and I know you will be to. I ordered it the brown and love it.
November 6, 2013
Wallet is of excellent quality but could be 1/4" taller
The quality of the fabrication and the materials are excellent. This is a large wallet for those who carry 8+ credit card/info card sized items, receipts/data etc. When filled, bills in the money slots tends to "walk up" so that about 1/8" of the bill is exposed above the slot. The wallet could be made about 1/4" taller to mitigate this issue. Note that the three card slots on the back side of the flip out ID pocket are not long enough to accomodate credit cards.
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Also, House Bill 5803, sponsored by Rep. Steve Mikutel (D- Griswold) and Sen. Andrew Maynard (D- Stonington), would require the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to create and maintain off-highway vehicle trails, assist in OHV law enforcement and fund grants and related activities including safety and education classes for persons who operate all-terrain vehicles as well as to buy land for use by OHVs.
Tallahassee, Fla. House Bill 4015, sponsored by state Rep. Ritch Workman (R-Melbourne), would eliminate the current motorcycle handlebar height restriction of no higher than the top of the shoulders of the person operating the motorcycle while properly seated upon the motorcycle.
Frankfort, Ky.: House Bill 137, sponsored by state Rep. Kelly Flood (D-Lexington), would prohibit the operation of a motor vehicle in a manner that causes a collision and serious physical injury or death to a "vulnerable user of a public roadway." The bill cites motorcyclists, among other types of users, as "vulnerable users of a public roadway." It would also provide for enhanced penalties ranging from a fine of between $6,500 to $12,500, a jail term of up to a year, or both for anyone convicted of, or pleading guilty to, a collision resulting in serious injury or death to a vulnerable roadway user.
A community labor program of not less than 100 hours and not more than 200 hours, plus successful completion of a traffic safety course, may be substituted if approved by the court. In addition, the offender's operating privilege or operator's license would be suspended for no less than 30 days and no more than six months.
Jefferson City, Mo.: House Bill 103, sponsored by state Rep. Mike Kelley (R-Lamar), would grant authority to municipalities to allow all-terrain vehicle and utility vehicle operation on streets or highways under the governing body's jurisdiction, subject to certain restrictions.
Also, Senate Bill 130, sponsored by Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia), would provide for substantially enhanced penalties for anyone pleading guilty to, or convicted of, a right-of-way violation that results in physical injury, serious physical injury, or death to another roadway user.
Lincoln, Neb.: Legislative Bill 393, sponsored by state Sen. Dave Bloomfield (NP-District 17), would allow motorcycle operators and passengers at least 21 years of age to make their own decision regarding motorcycle helmet use.
Also, Legislative Bill 181, sponsored by Sen. Bill Avery (NP-Avery), would prohibit motorcycle passengers under the age of 8.
Trenton, N.J.: Senate Bill 1685, sponsored by state Sen. Jeff Van Drew (D-Dennis), would prohibit law enforcement agencies from conducting a roadside checkpoint or other systematic inspection of vehicles along public roads, streets, and highways if the checkpoint or inspection is established for the sole purpose of inspecting motorcycles.
The amended bill passed out of the Senate Transportation Committee on Dec. 17 and awaits a second reading in the Senate. A companion bill, Assembly Bill 508, sponsored by Assembly Member Nelson Albano (D-Vineland), remains in the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee.
Albany, N.Y.: Senate Bill 1900, sponsored by state Sen. Michael Nozzolio (R-Seneca Falls), would allow motorcycle operators and passengers 21 years of age and older to make their own decision regarding motorcycle helmet use.
Also, Assembly Bill 1228, sponsored by Assembly Member Thomas J. Abinanti (D-Tarrytown), would prohibit any passenger vehicle (including a motorcycle) from idling its engine more than three consecutive minutes under certain conditions when the vehicle is stopped. A first violation would result in a warning; any subsequent violations could result in a fine of not more than $150.
Also, Assembly Bill 1028, sponsored by Assembly Member David F. Gantt (D-Rochester), would increase the penalty for certain motorcycle exhaust system violations from not more than $100 to not more than $700, in addition to, or in place of, a sentence of not more than 30 days imprisonment.
Pickerington, Ohio: The AMA honored the accomplishments of hundreds of AMA champions from all motorcycle racing disciplines on Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Aladdin Event & Conference Center in Columbus, Ohio. The banquet celebrated the 2012 racing season and announced the recipients of a number of special awards that recognize the best of the best.
Harrisburg, Pa.: House Bill 172, sponsored by state Rep. Frank Burns (D-Johnstown), would prohibit any Commonwealth agency or political subdivision from accepting federal funds to establish a systematic vehicle inspection program based on stopping only a particular type of vehicle, such as a passenger car, truck or motorcycle. Federal funding could be accepted if a program stops only commercial motor vehicles.
Richmond, Va.: An attempt to repeal Virginia's mandatory motorcycle helmet law was sidelined by a close vote in a House of Delegates subcommittee recently. House Bill 2010, sponsored by Del. Ben Cline, (R- Amherst), would have made helmets optional for riders 21 and older. The measure was tabled 4-2 and is unlikely to be revived in this legislative session.
Cheyenne, Wyo.: House Bill 110, sponsored by the Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Interim Committee, would extend the sunset date on off-road recreational vehicle gasoline tax distributions thru June 20, 2019.
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I know this is going to sound crazy, but Valentine's Day Candy is getting harder and harder for me to find. I realize the stores have aisles overflowing with red and pink packages filled with sweet treats, but, to me a Reese's in a red package is still a Reese's to me. So it's hard for me to find something that only appears for Valentine's Day that I haven't covered or tasted already. Things are becoming less unique for this holiday I feel. So imagine my delight when See's contacted me about trying heir new Strawberry Truffles for Valentine's Day. Finally, something new and appropriate!
The Strawberry Truffles come in a set of five in a long rectangular top. It's covered with a clear plastic top which showcases the white, heart shaped truffles beautifully.
These truffles aren't small, they feel heavy in my hand and they stand a little over a 1/2 inch tall. They smell sweet and buttery of the real white chocolate that enrobes the strawberry truffle interior.
My first bite is lovely. The truffle is dense, so you get an extremely decadent mouth feel from it right away. The truffle feels sturdy and rich. The flavor starts out with the extremely sweet and buttery flavor of real white chocolate, and I mean the really good quality stuff too. Then the sweetness blends into a fresh, fruity, very authentic sweet strawberry flavor. it reminds me a really fresh strawberry ice cream minus the cold temperature. Together the flavors match beautifully and like all the other See's products, they make my taste buds go "wow".
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Eastern Mennonite University is pleased to announce its members on the 2013-14 Old Dominion Athletic Conference Sportsmanship Teams. The Royals had a student-athlete honored in each of their sports which are sponsored by the ODAC. This is the fifth year the league has recognized standout student-athletes for their excellence in sportsmanship. ...More


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Vote for Local Logan VonBokel for USAC position
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Local cycling advocate, Logan VonBokel, is running for a position at USAC and we can help make that happen. Why, well read for yourself why Logan wants the position. For more information on voting see the USA Cycling Voting Page
I have been involved in the cycling community for just over eight years, which by most people's standards is not long. Yet, with all of my short time in this world, I have seen cyclocross hit its stride in our country. What I lack in extended experience, I make up for with a fresh perspective and in experiences that cover most spectrums of the cycling community.
I currently work at VeloNews as Tech Reporter, which has me reviewing the latest in bikes and gear. Much of my focus since joining the magazine has been in cyclocross. With what I've seen in the technical side alone, our sport is leading the charge of innovation. Today, more than ever brands and riders are taking cyclocross more seriously and the products being offered reflect that.
However, this year will prove to be barrier for US cyclocross, but hopefully its one that's hop-able.
With the Master's World Championship's two year tenure gone, and the hype of Elite's almost a bitter memory with of the collapse of the USGP series, the US calendar needs a strong push from its governing body to continue at its current trajectory.
In the past I've worked for One2Go Event Services — a UCI level timing and results company. At One2Go, I've worked national championships as well as the 2012 Masters World Championships.
I am the former president of the Colorado State University Rams cycling team, who is one of the top ranked collegiate teams in the country. While president we promoted multiple weekends of racing for both collegiate and general USAC cyclists. I worked to broaden our community involvement, which included helping volunteer at the Fort Collins USGP.
I've also worked in triathlon promotion, helping to promote multiple triathlons in the Kansas City area. So while, I have experience in headache of cycling event promotion, my experiences extend to much larger headaches and multiple disciplines.
When it comes to the question of how to help our sport progress, especially this year, I will not claim to have all of the answers, though I look forward to taking the experiences I have and learning on the job. What I do claim is that I know this sport from every angle. As a racer, promoter, mechanic, contractor, and as a journalist, I've seen every side of bike race.
I believe strongly that the future of this discipline will come from the grass roots level, and simultaneously, from the professional level for both the women and the men. Cyclocross is a superior arena of sport when compared to every other discipline in cycling.
In this year of rebuilding I think its important for people to reconsider ways to make that arena both more easily accessible as well as welcoming to new cyclists, whether they are racing in their first event or spectating the Elites. There still needs to be a focus on the professional level, as no sport has ever succeeded without its heroes. With a focus on benefitting the experience at the beginner and professional levels, the efforts from the top and the bottom would work toward the middle, benefitting the entire sport.
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USAC Trustee's are powerless as they are there to, " The sport committees advise staff on matters pertaining to their respective disciplines, including racing rules." This is from USAC's election material.
"...advise staff.." means nothing if staff doesn't want "advice."
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its "VonBokel"
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its "VonBokel"
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So, it's the holidays. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that none of us need additional items on our to-do lists right about now. It's difficult enough to find the time to make or buy the gifts themselves. So if I'm going to get crafty with the wrapping/packaging, it better be with an easy, quick little project.
Thankfully, Ruby Star Wrapping by Melody Miller and Allison Tannery is full of projects like that, including these Fancy Fabric Envelopes. They're fun, simple, so lightning-fast to make, and a great way to show off favorite prints. I spent less than two hours making all three of the fabric envelopes in this blog post, and that includes finding and attaching the decorative accents on the flaps.
When I first looked at the instructions for the Fancy Fabric Envelopes, I thought, "Wait, why did I pick this project again?" Because there's math involved in this one, you guys. You have to add 1/4" here and subtract 1/2" there and multiply by 1.6 over here. Ack! Fortunately, once I started working my way through the project, everything made sense, and the math wasn't nearly as difficult as it had first appeared to be. The only issue I had is that it's easy to mix up which dimension is the height of the envelope and which dimension is the width, so keep track carefully.
My one other snafu was the discovery that you probably shouldn't use directional fabric on the back of the envelope. That directional fabric wraps around to the front and becomes a flap—which means that the fabric has to be upside down either on the back of the envelope or on the flap (as you can see, on my big envelope, the flap fabric is upside down). So, you may want to use directional prints only on the front of the envelope or the inside.
The pattern also calls for some sort of decorative notion on the front flap. I've had a kit that makes fabric-covered buttons hanging around for ages, but never quite knew what to do with it. I finally got my chance to use it with these envelopes! The buttons make great accents on the flaps.
For this one, I threw caution to the wind and attempted to adjust the proportions of the front flap a little. In order to make the flap longer, I started the flap triangle an inch or so below where it was supposed to start. I like how it turned out.
I was thinking I might use these as teacher gifts, but my 3-year-old has decided they also make excellent beds for her Brewers Racing Sausage dolls. So maybe we'll keep them after all. I would hate for Bratwurst to have to sleep on the cold, bare floor.
Want to get the Ruby Star Wrapping book? You can pick it up at Amazon, of course. Plenty of other places too, I'm sure!
Don't forget to link up your Wrap-Along projects at Amy's blog for a chance to win great prizes! You can link up right here. Thanks, Amy, for having me on the Ruby Star Wrap-Along! And check out the rest of the stops on the Wrap-Along:
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Anthony Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Master of the New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. Until 2011 he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy and other subjects; among his most recent are "The Good Book", "Ideas That Matter", "Liberty in the Age of Terror" and "To Set Prometheus Free". For several years he wrote the "Last Word" column for the Guardian newspaper and a column for the Times. He is a frequent contributor to the Literary Review, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement, Index on Censorship and New Statesman, and is an equally frequent broadcaster on BBC Radios 4, 3 and the World Service. He writes the "Thinking Read" column for the Barnes and Noble Review in New York, is the Editor of Online Review London, and a Contributing Editor of Prospect magazine.
In addition he sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals, and for nearly ten years was the Honorary Secretary of the principal British philosophical association, the Aristotelian Society. He is a past chairman of June Fourth, a human rights group concerned with China, and is a representative to the UN Human Rights Council for the International Humanist and Ethical Union. He is a Vice President of the British Humanist Association, the Patron of the United Kingdom Armed Forces Humanist Association, a patron of Dignity in Dying, and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.
Anthony Grayling was a Fellow of the World Economic Forum for several years, and a member of its C-100 group on relations between the West and the Islamic world. He has served as a Trustee of the London Library and a board member of the Society of Authors. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2003 he was a Man Booker Prize judge, in 2010 was a judge of the Art Fund prize, and in 2011 the Wellcome Book Prize. He was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.
He supports a number of charities including Plan UK, Greenpeace, Médecins Sans Frontières, Amnesty International and Freedom from Torture. He is also a sponsor of Rogbonko School in Sierra Leone.
His latest books are "The God Argument" (March 2013), "Friendship" (September 2013) and "The Challenge of Things" (March 2015). Anthony Grayling's new book "The Age of Genius" will be published in March 2016.
A Christian Nation? The full unedited Times article.
'The Good Book' Interview - New Humanist magazine
Michael Sandel and AC Grayling in conversation - Prospect magazine
AC Grayling interviewed by Sam Harris
'Examined Lives' - a review by AC Grayling
On 'The God Argument' - audio interview
Austerity tells us when enough is enough - Financial Times
Euphoria will fade, but hope springs eternal - The Independent
'Believers are away with the fairies' - The Telegraph
Spare a thought for philosophy - interview with AC Grayling - The Humanist
On 'The God Argument' - The Age
Humanism's faith in reason represents our best hope - The Guardian
How to defend the Enlightenment - a conversation with Tzvetan Todorov
AC Grayling on John Gray - New Humanist
The milk of humanist kindness - The Guardian
An essay on the life and work of Michel de Montaigne - radio broadcast
On growing up, discovering philosophy and the meaning of life - The Indepenent
AC Grayling on Desert Island Discs - radio broadcast
A.C. Grayling on Wikipedia
'The act of killing from 20,000 feet'
On 'The Form of Things' - The Australian
A.C. Grayling's Thought For the World's thought for the day
'This much I know' - The Guardian
On contemporary dance - Timeout
Should Roman Polanski pay for crimes he committed 30 years ago?
ABC Radio interview about 'The Choice of Hercules'
'The empty name of God' - New StatesmanReview of 'The Heart of Things'
'Liberty's Resilience' - Azure online
AC Grayling on Sarah Lucas
'Among the Dead Cities' - televised debate
'Darwin, Humanism and Science' - A lecture on youtube
'Faith's last gasp' - Prospect magazine
In defense of human free will - Guardian's Science Weekly podcast
A.C. Grayling in Australia - The Last Tavern
'The Meaning of Life' - The Freethinker interview
Religion in its 'death throes' - ABC Australia
'A religious, not righteous Judge: Cherie Blair' - RichardDawkins.net
Brain Science and the Search for the Self - New Scientist
'Origin of the Specious' - New Humanist
Russell's Theory of Descriptions - Philosophy Bites podcast
A.C Grayling quotes - Good Reads
Is religion a force for good? - Guardian podcast
Five Minutes With: AC Grayling - BBC video interview
Tackling 'The Good Book'- The Sydney Morning Herald
The 'New Atheists' are responding, not attacking - New Humanist
What is your favorite explanation? - Edge
God and Disaster - Richard Dawkins Foundation
AC Grayling's Top 5 Non-Religious Books - Slate
The private and the public - Sydney Timeout
AC Grayling on being good - interview on The Browser
Book review: The Googlization of Everything
Interview: Rainham Mark Grammar School
Culture is what separates us from the rest of the living world - New Statesman
A biography on Montaigne - Prospect magazine
Book Review: 'On Evil' by Terry Eagleton - New Humanist
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Bottom: Installing "reduced" sidewalks—pavement with cutouts to allow room for tree roots—have significantly reduced broken pavement and made Hyde Park a more walkable neighborhood.
Top: In Los Angeles's Hyde Park neighborhood, buckled, cracked sidewalks such as this were a common eyesore. Photos: George Gonzalez
Tree roots can turn a city sidewalk into an impassable mess of broken-up concrete.
Sidewalks and trees are often-overlooked assets. Los Angeles chief forester George Gonzalez believes both are just as much a part of a city's infrastructure as a road, a water main, or a sewage pipe—but most cities don't realize the true worth of either. He thinks it's high time they did.
Los Angeles has about 700,000 street trees stretched across 465 square miles; with more than 1000 different species, Gonzalez is charged with maintaining both the largest and most diverse tree population in the country. He also maintains the city's 10,000 miles of sidewalks—again, the most in the United States. It's a big job, but Gonzalez—a certified municipal specialist with the International Society of Arboculture and frequent lecturer on tree-and sidewalk-management issues—knows it's important, based on the role sidewalks and trees play in a city's culture.
According to Gonzalez, a thriving urban forest adds value to a municipality by:
Also, sidewalks let pedestrians travel to and from residences, businesses, schools, and other establishments. Neighborhoods without them experience significantly higher numbers of vehicle-pedestrian collisions, so their contribution to a neighborhood's safety is crucial.
Los Angeles might have a reputation as being the city that drives everywhere, but Gonzalez says that's not so. "L.A. is really a large city made up of many small communities and neighborhoods," he says. "Many Angelinos rarely venture outside of their neighborhoods, and within our neighborhoods you'll find as much pedestrian traffic as you would in other large cities."
Unfortunately, trees and sidewalks often are at odds. One can cause damage to the other, thanks in part to poor planning.
"Trees historically have been treated as an amenity—something nice to look at, but not a vital infrastructure element," he says. "They're often that last thing considered when planning a development. Not a lot of forethought is given to how trees coexist with neighboring infrastructure elements."
Most often, a tree's closest "neighbor" is a sidewalk. However, Gonzalez says sidewalk design frequently doesn't take trees into account. Only recently have municipalities begun being diligent about planting the right tree in the right place. Even so, most of the time trees are not allowed adequate space to grow, so foresters are stuck with planting smaller trees, which provide less benefit.
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So people are all upset because you want your music put out in the order and schedule as it was intended by you the artist to be released and made available... In order to enhance our experience as the listener... So if the message to be focused on this upcoming album then a mixtape of old material is only confusing the message or the current movement. Not that you don't want the audience to have that, just... Not right now. We're painting a picture right now. Same thing with single releases. These tracks are supposed to grow on us and shape the upcoming mood of the album.. Single are like trailers we aren't trying to give the whole movie away for the audiences sake.


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Palestine and the UN: Belgium backs the European majority and pushes for a return to negotiations without pre-conditions
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders stated this morning that the Inner Cabinet has endorsed the proposal for Belgium to support the draft resolution to confer observer non-member state status to Palestine. This will be put to the vote later in the day at the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.
This announcement by the minister is in line with his continued efforts of the past few weeks to reach a joint European position on the issue. Didier Reynders regrets that such a common position has seemed impossible to achieve, but he remains faithful to his goal of a stronger and more credible European Union in the Middle East peace process. He therefore proposed that the Belgian government align its standpoint to that of an increasing number of EU partners who support the resolution.
Didier Reynders stresses that Belgium's support for the resolution goes hand in hand with an appeal to Israel and to the Palestinian Authority to return to negotiations without pre-conditions, in order to reach a solution that results in two viable and secure states. To this end, Belgium has always assisted Palestine in creating a viable state structure and economy.
Finally, in a letter to President Abbas on 15 October 2012, Minister Reynders outlined his intention to raise the diplomatic status of the Palestinian Authority delegation in Brussels.


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Minister Reynders meets with the Burundian government in Brussels
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders today met with the Second Deputy President of Burundi, Gervais Rufyikiri, and the Burundian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Kavakure, at the Egmont Palace in Brussels.
The Second Deputy President and the Minister of Foreign Affairs wished to explain to the Belgian government and public opinion the operation of the media law of 4 June. Minister Reynders is delighted with this transparency. This initiative follows the meeting that Didier Reynders had with his Burundian counterpart in Addis Ababa on 26 May during the African Union Summit. Minister Reynders reiterated his concerns about the restrictions on press freedom that could result from the application of the new media law. During the meeting, other legislative projects concerning civil rights and political freedoms in Burundi were raised.
The problems of economic governance and macro-economic stability in Burundi were also discussed. The Second Deputy President informed Minister Reynders of the preparations for the first sectoral post-Geneva conference which will take place on 15 and 16 July in Bujumbura. He invited Minister Reynders to take part in it. Didier Reynders urged the Burundian government to implement the reforms recommended by the IMF to strengthen the financial situation of the country. He also asked that the structural reforms be accelerated.
The Ministers and the Second Deputy President discussed development cooperation with Burundi following the special meeting of the Committee of Partners. During this conversation, emphasis was placed above all on the implementation by the Burundian authorities of the "National Strategy for Good Governance and Combating Corruption".
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With live instrumentation throughout, Presto laces melodies with MiniMoogs, Rhodes keyboards and the ASR-10, while Avatar holds down the low end on bass and rhythm guitar. Jacob Slim, Smile Oak & DJ Rylo round out the roster, contributing lead guitar, saxophone and turntables, respectively. Wayward Saints bridge the old school with the new, creating a sound for cratediggers and wine-tasters alike. The sample-worthy material on their debut album Future Vintage will surely find its place in the crates of DJs and beat afficionados.
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PLASMA installer is starting now. Buckle up!
Downloading PLASMA from http://icl.cs.utk.edu/projectsfiles/plasma/pubs/plasma_2.5.1.tar.gz
Package ./plasma_2.5.1.tar.gz already downloaded
Installing plasma_2.5.1 ...
Writing make.inc... done.
Compiling PLASMA... Installation of PLASMA successful.
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Compiling tests... done
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File "./setup.py", line 65, in main
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The green thing was about Kermit The Frog, who sings "it's not easy being green". I combined that with the cliche "green with envy" to slam all of you for being jealous, but also to twist it with something funny. It was a masterpiece.
The other thing about the acting or whatever was just a verbal game. I can understand it, but if i tried to explain it, the explanation would be twice as long and twice as confusing.
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I think I saw a video like that about [insert whatever name you want] being pwned or something like that.
Ok, I didn't know this was a 'secret'. I didn't well, invent the idea, my eight year old cousin did it to me so I ran with it. Jesus Christ, why does everyone hate me? I'll answer that. It's because it was so epic and no one thought of it before me. So shut up you little bitches and stop trying to make me look bad because as far as I'm concerned, me, nor FM have changed our view about it.
That's right, they're jealous sasuke72uchiha. We don't need to hang around with those jealous losers.
I'm jealous because you ahve done ssomething that millions of people have done before you, including me? I don't hate you. Where did you come up with such ideas?
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It's Time to Dance: Women's Hoops Wins Fourth-Straight Outright Ivy Title
Mission accomplished.
The long hours, tiring practices and most of all battles on the court were undoubtedly worth it as the Princeton women's basketball team can once again call itself Ivy League champion. Saturday's 80-51 win over Brown brought home the fourth consecutive outright Ivy title, procuring the squad's ticket to the NCAA tournament.
The road to four straight Ivy championships began with the Class of 2013. The winningest class in Ivy women's basketball history, the quartet is an unprecedented 53-2 all-time in league play. They are taking this team to its fourth consecutive Big Dance, something that had never happened before they stepped onto campus.
The four seniors each shone on their night, Senior Night. Niveen Rasheed (14), Kate Miller (12) and Megan Bowen (11) each were in double figures, while Lauren Polansky tallied six rebounds.
The catalyst to the program's unparalleled success, the group closed out their Jadwin Gym playing days on a high note. They have won the last 20 consecutive home contests, as an aside.
A flat start by the Tigers provided Brown the initial advantage and the Bears went on to hold as high as an eight-point lead. It took an Alex Wheatley layin to lift Princeton to a 16-15 advantage at 9:43 and from there both sides battled for control through halftime.
Unable to seize a comfortable lead before the break, it was a Kristen Helmstetter second half basket at 14:21 that proved to be the turning point. She put the Tigers up by 10, 44-34, and Brown was unable to get closer than seven for the rest of the night.
Along with the trio of seniors in double digits, Helmstetter had 11 points and off the bench Michelle Miller tallied 12, including three triples.
Princeton (21-6, 12-1 Ivy) has one final regular season test, heading to Penn for a Tuesday, Mar. 12 meeting at 5 p.m.
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Post office suicide victim identified as 45-year-old Port Orange woman
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The Ormond Beach post office employee who shot and killed herself in the post office parking lot Tuesday has been identified as Patricia Hampton of Port Orange.
Hampton was found sitting in the driver's seat of a black Dodge pickup Tuesday about 4 p.m. by three of her fellow employees, according to an Ormond Beach police report. After calling 9-1-1, the employees attempted to resuscitate Hampton but were not successful. Hampton was 45.
Post office employees at the scene, 55 E. Granada Blvd., did not want to comment Tuesday afternoon. When contacted Wednesday afternoon, an employee said they had been instructed not to comment, but did say counselors were brought in to speak to the workers if they wanted to talk to someone.
Hampton's immediate family could not be reached Wednesday afternoon. Her former father-in-law, Harold Hampton, said Patricia and his son divorced a few years ago and haven't spoken in about a year.
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Do Rises in Interest Rates Decrease Payout Ratios?
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Many publicly traded companies distribute a portion of their earnings to investors in the form of dividends paid to stockholders. Each stockholder receives a certain amount of money for each share of company stock that he owns. How a company calculates the amount of its dividend will depend on various factors such as revenues and profits, assets and projected cash flow. The ratio of the dividend to the company's total income, known as the payout ratio, may be affected by interest rates, but this is not always the case.
Payout Ratio
The payout ratio is the ratio of a company's income for a particular quarter, calculated as earnings per share, to the size of the dividend that the company elects to pay. If a company earns $10 per share and pays out a dividend of $1 per share, then its payout ratio would be 10 percent. The dividend ratio can be affected by many factors, including interest rates.
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When a company chooses to borrow money, interest typically is charged on the principal. The amount of interest charged by a lender depends on a number of factors, including the company's credit rating. Interest rates can also be affected on a macro scale, particularly by changes in an economy and the policies adopted by a country's central bank.
Rise in Rates
A rise in interest rates means that, all things considered, the amount of interest that a company pays to borrow money increases. The most profound effect of this shift is that borrowing will slow because it is more expensive. In some cases, this will cause companies to plan for slower expansion which, in turn, may trigger a slowing of the economy, leading to lower revenues.
Effect of Payout Ratio
If a company experiences lower revenues due to a hike in the interest rate, the business may decide to lower its payout ratio. Money that would normally be distributed as dividends might be needed to meet operating expenses. Likewise, the company may elect to keep more cash on hand because borrowing has become more expensive. These factors, led by higher interest rates, would decrease the payout ratio.
- "Economics"; Roger A. Arnold; 2009
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"That is why I started eating organic, I thought I was going to die," said Kathy Pickrell. For Pickrell, who runs the ESE program at Breakfast Point Academy, making a lifestyle change wasn't optional, it was a necessity. I was so sick, I worked and I slept and that was it, that was my life. I couldn't raise my arms, I couldn't hardly walk."
She started seeing Craig Bowlen, a licensed manual therapist about two years ago. He recommended she try eating organic, she has never gone back. "I feel 20 years younger," said Pickrell.
Having lost 90 pounds, Kathy is the perfect poster child for what eating organic and exercising can do. "When you eat organic food you don't need to eat as much, because the taste is so good that you feel satisfied."
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Bret Slater might not have become one of the most successful, sought-after young artists in Texas if he hadn't gotten suspended from college during his sophomore year. It was December 2006, and Slater was the lead singer in a punk band, just occupying a spot in the art department at the State University of New York at Purchase. He got caught drinking on campus. He lost his fall semester credits and had to spend that winter at his mom's house in Westchester County.
"I was 19 and grounded, and I couldn't believe I was standing for it," Slater says, still bristling at something that happened more than six years ago.
Here was a kid who'd been playing dingy clubs on the Lower East Side since high school, and now he was in college but stuck at home with his mom. A rock star has an image to uphold, right?
Rather than rebel, though, Slater picked up his brushes and got to work. The result: the painting that made him want to be a painter, as he puts it. He got a job at Borders, where he voraciously consumed art books that he stole from the store. He dated a girl who worked in the magazine department, and she stole art magazines for him. One of those publications was called New American Paintings.
"I decided I needed to be in New American Paintings," he says.
Slater eventually graduated from college, and during his first semester at a master's program at SMU, he entered his work into a juried competition run by New American Paintings and won a profile in the magazine. That's how Chicago art dealer Thomas Robertello learned about him. A show at Robertello's gallery right after Slater finished his MFA led to a mention in Modern Painters magazine, which in 2011 named Slater's Chicago exhibition one of the 100 best shows of the fall. And so it went. The Modern Painters story ignited dealer and collector interest. Within a year of earning his MFA, Slater was represented by galleries in Chicago, Dallas, and Brussels, and his dealers struggled to keep his work in stock as his relatively affordable canvases, at $5,000 and under, were snapped up by everyone from Dallas socialites to Swedish supermodels.
When I asked one Dallas-based artist why he thought Slater had emerged as a darling of the art world, his answer was simple: "The colors, the size, and his youth." The size of Slater's paintings might seem a curious quality to attribute his success to, but an advantage of small work was made clear during my first visit to his studio in the American Beauty Mill Lofts, just south of downtown.
I was one of about a dozen people invited to a small party welcoming Slater's new Belgian dealer, Elaine Levy, to town. We rode a cramped, rattling elevator up to the third floor of the former fl our mill, and when the elevator doors opened, the smell of marijuana greeted us. In Slater's studio loft, a few younger artists, a middle-aged artist couple, and a socially prominent collector couple were sitting around a coffee table that featured a large bong as its centerpiece. What was striking about the scene was the ease with which different generations and social classes flirted. Slater made his way around the room, greeted the new arrivals excitedly, then spun to continue a conversation, bobbing his head like a pepper shaker. Slater's sincere kindness is infectious, and the relaxed vibe of the room seemed to spring from the affability of the awkward host. Levy, the dealer, had come with a duffel bag to collect Slater's work, a cheap and easy way to whisk the paintings back to Europe. Slater's small paintings fit easily.
Despite his high cheek bones and deepset eyes, Slater still looks boyish at 25. He has been told he looks like Herschel Grynszpan, the Polish-Jewish refugee whose assassination of a Nazi diplomat was used as a pretext for the bloody Kristallnacht. And while Slater no longer identifies with Judaism, he did recite Hebrew at his bar mitzvah. When one of his paintings seemed to resemble the shape of a Hebrew character, he named it Big Dick Herschel.
Tattoos cover his arms. The tail of a large breasted mermaid slinks around the image of a painting. Levy's name is in ink, as well as his mom's. When his Dallas dealer, Marty Walker, scolded him for posting to Facebook a tacky image of a red-dotted list of works from a sold-out show, Slater promised he would tattoo "mom" on his body for her. His enthusiastic commitment is reciprocated by those around him. Levy herself bears a tattoo of one of Slater's paintings on her ribs.
What strikes you first about Slater's monochromatic paintings are the colors—vibrant neons, earth tones. He heaps on the oil paint so that it drifts off the edge of his canvases, which are sometimes stretched so that they have rounded corners. His paintings are abstract, but they bring to mind action figures or psychedelic rock posters or the masks of Mexican wrestlers. They possess something of the personality of Philip Guston's late figurative work. Slater's titles often reference lyrics of his favorite songs. His Used to Give a Fuck, Now I Give a Fuck Less (2010) is a line from the Jay-Z song "Success."
"It hangs on a wall, and you'd like to talk to it," reads a review of Slater's work by Michael Corris, an artist and chair of SMU's art department. "You look at it, and it looks back at you. It is good company; an amulet that natters."
The people who collect Slater's paintings talk about their strange presence, the paintings' personalities. Deedie Rose, a benefactor of the Dallas Museum of Art who has been collecting Slater's work in depth, says she is attracted to the sculptural quality of Slater's canvases and their "weirdness." Collector and art consultant Cindy Schwartz says the paintings are "approachable," and they don't make you "feel stupid."
But Slater's paintings are not unintelligent, and their creator is deftly aware of what he is doing with the work. "He kind of gives you the impression that everything is there, that it's transparent," Corris says. "And it is, and it isn't. I think he's terribly self-conscious. He is constantly adapting to the smallest and most nuanced changes in the environment."
That nuance appeals not only to collectors looking for pretty things for their walls, but also to museums. "My next goal used to be to be part of a major museum collection, but now that is happening with the DMA," Slater says without hint of a boast.
His only fear now seems to be that his rock star persona might undermine him. Local press coverage has emphasized his persona over his art, and he was named Rising Art Star by the fashion industry trade group Fashion Group International.
"Is it me?" he asks toward the end of a long conversation in his studio one night. "Is it because they are seeing that I am not some overdressed, trying-to-battle-you-intellectually prick?"
The young artist's personality and talent certainly driven Slater's career. But success in any field—let alone the fickle world of contemporary art—is rarely a product of talent and personality alone. Luck, too, plays a role.
In the summer of 2006, the painter Otis Jones returned to Dallas from a trip to New Mexico. It was hot and humid, and smog hung in the air. Jones was 60 years old, and he began to have trouble breathing. A few days later, a friend told him he didn't look well, but the artist brushed it off. When symptoms persisted, though, he decided to see a doctor. He didn't have health insurance, so Jones packed a bag with some personal items, a package of crackers, and a jar of peanut butter, preparing for the long wait in the ER at Parkland Hospital.
Before he could leave his studio, Jones collapsed. Lying on the floor, he managed to call his girlfriend. The streets that surround his studio tangle around abandoned factories and warehouses, and they are poorly marked. Jones was afraid the ambulance wouldn't find him. "Call 9-1-1," he gasped.
In the ambulance, his heart rate dropped. At the hospital, the paramedics cut his clothes off and intubated him, but his body became so rigid that the medics had to lean on his chest to force the air out of his lungs. They performed a tracheotomy and, just before his life slipped away, induced a coma.
Telling his story six years later in his comfortable studio loft in South Side on Lamar, Jones wears an oxygen tube strung over his ears and under his nose, part of the daily chore of living with a chronic lung disease. He is surprisingly matter-of-fact about what happened during his three-week coma. While his limp body lay on a bed in the intensive care unit at Parkland, his drugged mind wandered through a vivid fantasy world. Jones rode an elevator as it rattled up through the floors of a skyscraper. At each floor, when the doors opened, he would step off into a faraway land.
"At all the different floors, you were in another country," he says. "You are in Sweden. You're in Stockholm. And another floor, you're in France."
For days, Jones traveled the world in his dreams, sometimes going to places he had visited in his youth, other times tooling around cities he had never seen before. There were other dreams, too, including a sequence in which Jones turned an abandoned, sand-filled trailer sitting in the middle of a desert into a kitschy memorabilia museum dedicated to
Gene Autry.
"I figured people would stop and give me a couple of bucks, and I'd be able to paint," he says of his oneiric logic.
Meanwhile, in the hospital, some of Jones' friends visited and talked to him. All Jones remembers are faint murmurs seeping intohis hallucinations. But one day, he found his daughter Zoe standing with him in the elevator.
"Dad, I need to talk to you," she said. "The doctors say you are in deep shit, and you are not going to make it. But I think you can. If you choose to try it, it will be the hardest thing you've ever done. I will be here every day for you. So you won't be by yourself. But if you don't want to go through that, I totally understand. I just need a sign from you."
Then Jones wasn't on the elevator anymore. He was on a playground swing.
"I felt that at that point, when you swing back, if I just took a deep breath and let go, it would be peaceful," Jones remembers. "And that, to me, was death. It was very close. You could choose. And I could have chosen."
Bret Slater says the first time he ever saw Otis Jones' work was the very first day he arrived in Dallas for graduate school. It was actually a few weeks after he arrived, but Slater tells the story his way to emphasize the effect Jones' paintings had on him.
"I saw Otis' work, and it was like a totally mind-blowing moment that made me reconsider everything," Slater says. "What I tell everyone is that that happened the first day I got to Dallas. Basically, in my memory, I blur everything together. I guess, in my mind, I was thinking about it like this destiny."
Seeing Jones' work was like seeing his own ideas about painting advanced 60 years, Slater says. He was seeing his own work in the future. "I wasn't pissed," Slater says. "I wasn't like, 'Dammit, he got there first,' or anything. I was like, 'This is the best painting I've ever seen.' " Jones' paintings are deceivingly simple, largely monochromic but with geometric additions—a small square or circle or line— that play with symmetry, creating a delicate tension between the works' crude textures and formal appearance. The surfaces are sometimes worked-over or sanded to achieve a faded, delicate, almost ephemeral effect, and the canvases are stretched over thick stretcher bars, which lend the pieces a hulking presence on the wall.When Slater saw the work at Holly Johnson Gallery, he found a catalog at the front desk and flipped to a photo of the artist. Then he went right up to Jones and told him how moved he was by his paintings. Jones didn't pay much attention, but Slater kept popping up around town.
"He kind of tagged on me a couple of times at openings. Like, 'Hey, I'm Bret Slater. Remember we met? And I love your work, and blah, blah, blah,' " Jones says. "And I just thought, 'Oh, well, that's nice.' But sometimes it's, like, too much, you know? I didn't know who he was or anything."
Slater found his way into Jones' life at a curious time. After three weeks in a coma, Jones spent an additional three months at Parkland relearning how to walk and write. When he finally returned to his studio, he could paint, but his energy wasn't what it used to be. Jones had never worked with an artist assistant before. He couldn't afford one, and he was protective of his artistic process. But now here was this eager young graduate student going around town telling everyone that Jones was his favorite painter. Jones inquired with a friend who taught at SMU about offering Slater an intern assistantship. Then he took the younger painter out to breakfast at La Duni.
"He was so hyper, and he's bouncing around. You know, typical Bret, just so full of energy," Jones says. "But very respectful and very generous and very sincere. And the sincerity came across. I didn't feel like he was just some kid jacking around. So we just connected, and I said, well, let's give it a try."
Before Bret Slater saw his first Otis Jones paintings, he wasn't making the kind of oddly shaped, candy-colored delicacies that collectors clamor for these days. Slater was painting directly on cardboard, old seat cushions, tape, and other found materials. He was looking at artists like Jim Lee, and when he got to SMU, this process continued.
"It was my reaction to different critiques from different professors," Slater says. "I also didn't know what my paintings were about."
Since he began working for Jones, though, Slater's approach to and attitude about his work have changed dramatically.
"I started to go over to Otis' studio," he says. "I'd be there eight to 10 hours a day. We weren't working the whole time. Really, we were talking, dialoguing."
The most significant revelation Slater had while working with Jones was that he didn't need the found materials to make his work valid. "It is just more about painting being a spirituality," Slater says. "It is about creating the most personal, one-to-one space that is possible, to have this experience with an object. At the time I still felt that I needed something 'found.' Otis helped me realize that at the end of the day, it is arbitrary, especially when we are long dead and gone."
Slater has done more than absorb Jones' attitude about the process of painting. Elements of Jones' pieces have begun to show up in Slater's.
Jones says, "I've had a couple people go, 'You've got circles in your paintings. He's working for you, and it looks like he's kind of picking up some things from you.' And I say, 'Well, what would you expect?' "
Jones insists that Slater is doing exactly what every young painter should do, absorbing the good ideas that surround him and incorporating them into his work. Still, there are times when the line between incorporation and appropriation blurs. When Slater became Jones' assistant, the older artist just had him stretching canvases. Now he trusts Slater to work directly with the surfaces of his paintings, sanding them.
"He called me one night and said he was at Home Depot, and he wanted to know where to find good sandpaper," Jones says. "And I said, 'You just bought an orbital sander like I use, didn't you?' He laughed and said yes. I teasingly said, 'You want to be like me so bad.' "
Jones hates the word "mentor," and what has developed between him and the young artist is more complex than that. "I love Bret," he says. "I love Bret's work, and I love Bret. I love him like a son or a brother or an equal. It is not mere mentor-mentoree. He has mentored me as much, just being around that kind of energy and intensity. It's been refreshing for me."
Jones also acts as Slater's chief critic. "I don't drink the Kool-Aid," he says when asked about all the affection that has been heaped upon his young friend. Jones then cracks a joke about how dealers reach into their travel bags to pull out another Slater painting for giddy collectors. "Oh, and it's wonderful!" Jones says sarcastically. "You just reach in the bag and pull out gem after gem. I tease him about being over there making cupcakes, and it kind of pisses him off."
Jones believes Slater has real talent, that he could sustain a meaningful practice over a lifetime. But Jones worries about how all the attention might affect Slater. "I'm protective of Bret," Jones says. "I don't want Bret to get to where he takes himself too seriously. I mean, he would kill me for saying this, but the work is a little over-hyped locally. I think it has to do with Bret's personality. I think it has to do with he's young, he's brash, and he's hip. You know?"
To put it another way, Slater projects the image of a rock star, and there are too many stories in rock and roll of promising young talent flaming out.
"That's a danger for a young artist, for any of us," Jones says. "Because if you start believing the shit that they're writing, all of a sudden you think you're just the greatest, and it will never end. And then, when things kind of slow down, it can screw people up."
OTIS JONES HAS BEEN A RESPECTED FIXTURE in the North Texas art scene for more than 30 years, but no year in his career was quite like 1982. That year his paintings were included in a group exhibition at Rosa Esman Gallery in New York. The gallerist found Jones' work via Marcia Tucker, the founding director of New York's New Museum, who had chosen Jones' pieces as a juror of the New Orleans Triennial in 1980. It wasn't so much the group show that was the big deal; it was the review that followed, written by New York Times critic John Russell.
"It was only three or four lines maybe," Jones says. "But to my eyes, it was the most remarkable thing: 'A young Texan named Otis Jones …' "
In those days, it was difficult to find the New York Times in Dallas, and the paper that was sold in Texas didn't carry the reviews of New York galleries. But the day the review appeared in the paper, Jones' friends from New York began calling.
"And they were going, 'Oh, man. You've got it made,' " he says.
Jones' friends weren't the only people calling. Pretty soon Jones was being courted by a handful of New York galleries that were interested in representing him. They wanted to see more of it, and so he asked a friend if he could borrow her Lower East Side studio and use it as a temporary showroom.
"It was a walk-up on Walker Street, south of Canal," he says. "And it didn't have an intercom or a buzz-in. So they had to call you to tell you they were down there. And you had to look out the window and see the black limo."
The dealers liked Jones' work, but there were concerns. The big one was shipping. Jones lived in Dallas, and getting the work to New York on a regular basis would be expensive. He and his wife considered moving to the city, but with nothing definite in place, they waited to see if any galleries bit. None did.
"You had all the ingredients there to make a cake," Jones says. "But it just didn't make a cake."
Jones sank into depression and stopped painting altogether. He had become obsessed with making it, and when his chance came and went, he was lost. Then his wife got pregnant. "I thought I had to become an upstanding citizen, to make money," he says. "I was very worried. I was not pro-parenthood, particularly. My wife wanted it, and I thought she deserved it. So I said, 'Okay, we'll do it.' "
He considered enrolling in law school at SMU, but just a few weeks before their daughter Zoe was born, Jones had another crisis. "I'd gotten all my priorities screwed up working on success," he says. "Working in the studio became about that and not about fun. I became very disillusioned. I thought, 'I don't want to be a fucking lawyer.' I decided that the best thing I could do for my daughter was to show her who I was. And in order to do that, I had to get up off my ass, pull myself out of the depression, and try to find some joy in making work and being an artist."
Jones never again found the kind of attention he enjoyed during that brief window in 1982. Instead, he soldiered on. His painting style hasn't changed much, but his paintings bear the evidence of his dedication to the work, a deepening of sensitivity and sophistication. He sells work through galleries in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Santa Fe, some years barely scraping together enough to make a living.
"In some ways, the fact that I'm still doing this at this age means some sort of success, just in terms of longevity," he says. "Not in terms of being well-known and well-thought-of or any of those things. But it sometimes amazes me that I've been able to do what it is I want to do for so long."
As with his flirtation with fame in the 1980s, Jones' medical crisis nearly ended his career. Without the help of his young studio assistant, he couldn't conjure the mental and physical energy required to produce artwork.
"Being around Bret, I've gotten in touch with some of my youth," he says. "He's made me challenge myself and look at my own work and ask myself, 'What do I want to do?' Just focus a little harder. And it's funny because it's all backwards. I'm at a time where I hardly have any energy."
Jones won't live long if he doesn't get a new lung. His name sits near the top of a list for transplants. He can't leave Dallas. His phone could ring at any moment, and when it does, Jones will rush out the door to the hospital for the surgery that will extend his life—though there is also always the possibility that the surgery could end it.
While he waits for that call, his energetic young friend scurries about, sanding canvases, emptying the trash, doing his part to keep things going.
Right now the biggest decision in Bret Slater's career is managing his price point. Because he is such a young artist, his paintings have been relatively inexpensive, which has helped fuel demand. But now there is pressure to raise prices. Robertello, the Chicago gallerist, says he has been impressed with the young artist's savvy throughout the process.
"Bret is really good at managing his own career," Robertello says. "He keeps really good communications with all three galleries. We meet to pace his price structure, and Bret leads all of that. I've never met anyone who is more ready for it. He is very comfortable being at the center of attention."
He might venture into larger-format work, and there has been talk of moving back to New York. But for now, Dallas has suited Slater. He's singing for a band called Drain You. He keeps his day job at the Dallas Museum of Art, working just down the hall from where museum administrators met to formally acquire his painting in October. Another acquisition is expected soon from the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
But for Slater, making art is no longer just about getting acquired by a big-name museum, scoring a significant commission, or getting profiled by an art magazine.
"I always said I wanted to be a rock star," Slater says, taking a drag from a cigarette and reaching for an ashtray, revealing his newest tattoo, a cartoonish reproduction of an Otis Jones painting on his forearm. "Something about my nature, maybe that has been the goal subconsciously. I think of it as six years of contemplating and brooding about how I can make it happen. But now it is not just how can I make my name big, but how can I do something of real substance?"


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I've come across the expression "mega dungeon" quite a few times on the net. It seems like it's not just about the size of a den of monsters but it might imply a play style or something. What are the specific traits of a mega dungeon?
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I believe that a megadungeon is one in which the campaign is intended to focus around. So it is not just a huge dungeon, but one where the game's buy-in is the idea that the players will be traversing the dungeon for pretty much the entirety of their careers.
Otherwise I don't think there are many defining features. Some megadungeons seem to try to present an entire plot or some type of ecology or reason behind its existence (such as Shackled City), while others are so big and expansive that almost every floor has its own distinct story, and is really only connected through the plots players get involved in (Stonehell Dungeon, from what I've read, and somewhat Castle Whiterock).
Past mega-dungeons include World's Largest Dungeon, Monte Cook's Dungeon a Day, and Dungeon Crawl Classics #50 (the boxed set).
One aspect of a mega-dungeon is the lack of overriding, campaign driving plot. A mega-dungeon just "is", has been there long before the party, and will continue to be there long after the party is gone (at least thats the vibe the DM should give). No one party could ever map it, even if they devoted all their time to it, and it should never have a linear "end" or a big bad ruling the entire thing. Basically, it's "bigger" than any one little group of adventurers, and it should be played that way.
A mega=dungeon is NOT just a giant dungeon, or a large underground campaign area. It should dominate the area, to the point of having towns built around/nearby it, and legend written about it. It should have a history, perhaps not known from the beginning, but gradually pieced together as the group investigates the twists and turns of the underdark corridors.
Probably the best published example of a mega-dungeon is Ruins of Undermountain. Large, sprawling dungeon levels with no over riding theme or reason except for exploration, with dozens of plots, monsters, power groups, and mysterious areas. Also recommended are Stonehell Dungeon, Rappan Atthuk, and Castle of the Mad Archmage.
To add what Ry St said the term originated to describe the revival of the style of the earliest campaigns that revolved around the Blackmoor Dungeons (Arneson), Greyhawk Dungeons (Gygax), and El Raja Key (Kuntz). Like Ry St describes they were large interconnected levels that got tougher the deeper you went.
Ironically if you read the stories of the time, the campaigns were just as much about establishing a barony in the wilderness as they were dungeon crawling. (typically happened later in the campaign). Then slightly later the focus shifted back as all the newer players wanted to do was go dungeon crawling.
An additional note is that these early dungeons were very sparse compared to the published modules of later generations. In First Fantasy Campaign (Blackmoor) and the few things we seen of Greyhawk and El Raja Key maybe only a 1/3 of the room had something in them. Usually described in one or two lines. There was usually one, two, or three detailed encounter rooms/areas per level. Then there were wandering monsters.
Simply, a huge dungeon.
That's an astute question, though, as a megadungeon does imply a 'sandbox' (non-linear) style of play. The players typically have a wide choice in choosing a path, and may usually backtrack to a Known point to reorient. Most megadungeons are suitable for placement within range of a civilized area. Some actually involve little or none of the typical 'return to town' breaks for resupply, instead including safe zones for rest... and even shops!
The megadungeon is a huge environment often lacking an overview, e.g. a 'map of the realm' found in an overland campaign game. Shorter line-of-sight can decrease reaction time. But constrasting sharply with the 'anything goes' nature of wilderness adventuring, the dungeon environment is somewhat safer in that regard due to those same physical constraints.
Although the nature of a megadungeon often strains credibility, it is common in many 'home games'. Environmental complexity is usually required for outdoor map planning, and so novice game masters commonly use this simpler mode as one of their first major design projects.
The dungeon is large enough to be a campaign setting in its own right.
That's the real key. If you are not camping inside the dungeon, and even leveling up inside the dungeon, then it's not a mega-dungeon.
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"The girls played great. They battled and they played really well. We won two of the three matches and the Pepperdine match was in between. We wanted to play decent against them, but that wasn't our focus. Our focus was to beat the teams in our region, which is Florida International and Georgia State. We played great against them and got two wins, and we actually played really well against Pepperdine. We were very competitive. If would could play them on one day with just one match, I don't know if we would beat them, but it would be a really good match. We played well against Pepperdine, but we played great against FIU. It was a great match. Everybody played great. It was a great team win today. They had fun, they cheered for each other and they had fun playing against a really good team. We played at a high level and that's what we needed to do. We played well against the No. 1 team in the country, which is good, and then we played great against Georgia State. We were a little tired so we didn't play as well as we could have, but we still played well enough to win 4-1 which was great."
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This is one candy that I fail to understand why it has so many fans. I remember seeing childhood friends opt for Jolly Ranchers over a KitKat or a Milkyway (gasp!) and feeling totally nonplussed by it. Perhaps the fact that the they were just a "cool" candy because the colors were bright, the flavors fake, and the fact that every business had them in a candy basket for us to grab when the parents weren't looking.
I wasn't so desperate for sugar, as my parents rationed it to me well, so I found I didn't eat Jolly Ranchers at all. Oddly enough something about the flavors always stuck with me, partly because they are so iconic in how artificial they taste. I find myself referencing the Jolly Rancher flavors often, so I decided it was time I tried them again and give them a full review.
Opening the bag up it smells sickeningly sweet and of chemicals. The smell is so mixed up that I can't identify a single specific flavor. Once unwrapped the candies are cylindrical and pretty to look at with their semi opaque colors. The surface is mostly smooth except in spots where it gets tacky from moisture.
Blue Raspberry: I really don't get what's up with this flavor, really, blue raspberries? It's tart with strong floral flavors mixed with melon and berries. It turned my tongue blue.
Watermelon: Intensely tart and powerful flavors right away. It's artificial with sharp perfume-y notes and a juicy fruitiness. There's also hints of bitterness lurking in there that I don't find very pleasing.
Green Apple: Sweet, with strong juicy apple nuances. It reminds me of a very strong cider. There's a tartness to them which makes me think of granny smiths. There's a slight perfume-y aftertaste, yet I really like this one.
Cherry: This one is intense right away. The flavor is very deep, woodsy, and with a strong fruitiness. It reminds me of tart cherries and it really gets my saliva going. I was frightened that this would be very medicinal tasting, but it's not.
Grape: Tastes of Dimetapp Elixir. It's mainly sour and metallic with the grape flavor only showing briefly from time to time. It's very syrupy sweet and artificial. Like the others, there's an odd floral note and it just launched this flavor into the "nasty" zone. I spit this one out.
These are not any better from what I remember. In fact, they're worse. Little about Jolly Ranchers appeal to me and I am once again stumped by them. Especially since my roommate was so happy to take the rest of the bag and then proceeded to polish them all off in one evening.
Rating: Not Worth It
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