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"The Walking Dead" returns with the second half of season 4 on Sunday night, Feb. 9 and it starts up just minutes after the group has been run off the prison grounds by zombies. They are all in small groups and separated from each other, so the season begins with focusing on the first group of Rick, Carl and Michonne, according to Red Eye on Feb. 3.
Much of the first episode simply titled "After" centers on Carl and Michonne. Michonne is ready for the next journey after she creates two new jawless and armless walkers. They are just like the twins she had when she first came upon Andrea what seems like decades ago since so much has happened since then. Viewers learn of the painful events in Michonne's life, they got a hint in the first part of season 4 when Michonne broke down holding baby Judith.
Carl continues to be the other man in the group besides Rick and he also continues to question his father's decisions, but there is a ray of promise that he will grow into a find man. That hint keeps coming through. Fans have already seen Carl grow from the naive kid who was thrilled to see a live deer into a young man who has seen and done things no kid his age ever should. In this new world there's no choice but to mature quickly for survival.
The walkers are the main enemy once again and they are around every corner. The latest buzz is that the creators have come up with a new way to kill the zombies which will be discovered by accident by one of the characters. While Rick is still suffering in silence after that break down a while back, it is easily forgotten this half of the season when he has to step up and be protector once again.
The show is going to focus on one group at a time and they will eventually find each other, but you won't know what happens until Rick, Michonne and Carl find them or are found by them. You might not know what happened to your favorite character until they pop up, but it is part of the mystery of "The Walking Dead."
It sounds as if you will only know for sure for most of Sunday night's episode that Rick, Carl and Michonne survived. The others come later and those killed won't come at all. Will this be the time Carol reappears? She is still out there, or at least she should be because no one saw her demise, she was ousted by Rick.
This episode is described as calm by comparison to the mid-season finale, where probably the most horrific scene was the Governor decapitating Hershel. The mood is set as the three characters walk through a desolate world and the lack of talking sets the mood of a pending doom without the characters saying a thing, reports Red Eye.
Mishonne's head chopping technique is still alive and well and fans get to see her take a few heads off with the fancy swinging of her sword. One thing that seems a bit odd is that the group prepared for many things but the one thing that they did not do is designate a meeting place for survivors if they were ever separated in a crisis.
Families without zombies in their world have a designated gather spot in case of a fire in a house, why wouldn't Rick, who is a cop, have set a specific meeting place if something like this were to happen and scatter everyone?
Watch "The Walking Dead" second half of season 4 Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET on AMC.


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A team member recently announced he was considering dropping out of our investigative group. He is a relatively new addition to the team, yet had conducted his own personal research into the paranormal for many years. He is also a critical thinker, growing disillusioned with the whole process. He found it rather "frivolous" to spend large amounts of time—nursing lost sleep, time away from the family, and often the financial drain on the wallet—devoting his energy to proving the existence of something that he already believes exists.
There was mention of the fraud that is prevalent in paranormal evidence…and he's right. With today's technology it is very easy to manipulate photographs, videos and audio to arrive at a 'haunted' scenario. We see this happen everyday.
And…regardless of genuine evidence that you gather and are excited about, there will always be someone in the wings waiting to shoot it down. Always!
I understand where he is coming from because frankly, I have been there myself.
Throughout the years I have been putting together these paranormal themed articles for the Examiner I have mentioned the word motivation numerous times. What exactly is an investigator's motivation for spending long hours in the dark; losing sleep that only seems to get harder on us as we get older; spending the wee hours of the morning away from your spouse or children; and often at a long distance away, just to prove the existence that ghosts exist and dwell in certain locations for reasons of their own choosing?
We should all ask ourselves these questions.
Individuals participate in this 'hobby' for various reasons; and all of their own choosing. The top seven are:
One) The number one response is—to validate for themselves the existence of paranormal happenings. Often this drive is generated from a childhood or teenage experience that planted a seed. And at the end of the day, they don't much care about any criticism of their results. You weren't there…you don't know what really happened or what I experienced. So shut up! Their original intent was to prove the paranormal, yet, when they finally arrive at that goal and do just that, do they then walk away satisfied? Very seldom. Because when we accomplish something we set out to do it's just our human nature to strive on for something even bigger! We can't let go. Let's face it…paranormal investigating gets under your skin, and our drive dictates we expand beyond our original intentions.
Two) The adrenaline rush associated with what may happen. And then when it finally does. There can be long periods for a new investigator when absolutely nothing happens to them personally. This may go on for several investigations or several years. But when it finally does happen—watch out!—you are hooked. It all boils down to the fun associated with the pursuit of the hunt.
Three) The social factor of gathering with those of like mindset. Many times these are our closest group of friends, and what better people to spend first, a dinner, then long hours in the dark with? It's a group devoted to a 'cause' per say. Bonds are developed…sometimes romance. They can't help but happen. And different investigators bring different things to the table. It' always learning experience.
Four) To get famous. These nitwits need to be weeded out as soon as possible and sent down the road. If their motivation and aspiration is to become a "paranormal celebrity" then only heartache lies in their future and you can't save them. They really need to get a life and a new hobby.
Five) The historical aspect. If this is what motors your boat, paranormal investigations will give you the opportunity to visit and touch locations that have made their mark in the past. Suddenly you will find yourself playing tag at a point of historical significance that may have defined a locale, or very well brought it to its knees. (These will most likely be paying venues—lovingly termed "Paranormal Amusement Parks"—that can have serious ramifications on your wallet). Try a couple of these in a row and you will be scratching your head and anxiously awaiting your next pay check from work to do another.
Six) A desire to help. This involves private individuals who are seeking your help in dealing with paranormal situations in their homes or businesses. They are looking for answers and solutions to their problem. They are not looking for your grand stories of past investigations. While the paying venues are for fun (they rarely want your intervention or synopsis…only your proof of the existence of ghostlies at their establishment to boost future interest), the private places are of a more serious nature. You will need to not only utilize your paranormal investigating skills (hopefully honed during the paying gigs), but also put on your psychologist and counselor cap. Unfortunately, they do not teach this on the television ghost shows.
Seven) A combination of all of the above.
There are certainly variations on these motivating factors on why we do what we do, but these seven seem to be the bedrock. As with my team member, many will at one point stand at this fork in the road and make the decision to either continue or quit. I encouraged him to ride this train to the end of the tracks. And only because I feel different days are coming….
Change in paranormal investigating will lie in not only our motivation, but also in how we do what we do.
Several years ago I was a member of the Indiana affiliate of Everyday Paranormal. The founders, Brad and Barry Kline, were based out of Texas. Their show Ghost Lab ran for two seasons on the Discovery Channel. The series première was innovative—lifting the aspect of paranormal investigation out of the doldrums of predictable television fare to a new way of looking at the things audiences had taken for granted viewing other shows. They took the paranormal into a scientific realm—way beyond the typical repetition of asking inane questions on EVP audio recordings, pointing a camera down a hallway that an apparition had appeared in ten years prior, or demanding that the spirits perform stupid ghost tricks like banging on a wall or knocking something over.
Were the Klinge brothers perfect? Certainly not. But they gave it all they had for better or worse. They were initially all about the contributing causes of paranormal activity: storms, barometric pressure, weather ionization energy, moon phases, water influence, to name just a few, and the subsequent effects on a "haunted" location.
This was great stuff! And far beyond Jason and Grant stumbling about in the dark and arriving at predictable conclusions.
The Klinge brothers were a refreshing change of pace on a subject of study that had grown rather stale throughout the years. Paranormal television was the greatest contributor to this, seemingly keeping groups locked in the stone-age. In many ways the current run of shows still do.
By the second season Ghost Lab had all changed. Sadly, it became a parody of all other ghost-programming running at that time. The scientific approach was laid to the wayside, as I can only guess that the Discovery Channel wanted more entertaining fodder and restructured the look of the series. It didn't work. During the first season of the show I was proud to be a member of the team. During the second I was only dismayed. The show was cancelled and never saw a third season. The affiliate teams of Everyday Paranormal across the country were consequently cancelled as well.
I acknowledge there are groups out there which rise above the norm in their investigating technique. They have gone far beyond what the Klinge brothers started so many years ago. To those I say Kudos, and as the late Casey Kasem would say-"Keep reaching for the stars." Your efforts will ultimately produce respectable results, but it all takes time.
For those groups and individuals who follow the investigative pattern of paranormal television, one last observation may suffice: We have done it [investigating] a certain way for all these years and yet are no closer to the truth than when we started.
Should we be handling it in a different manner?
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love it :3
Read housepets they said, you wont get addicted they said
He looks too proud in that third panel.
just a little
It's the same face King made in Duchess' lap, but slightly less creepy. Which is kind of weird, since Tiger usually has his psycho-face on more often than not these days!
King was literally forced to act happy.
Tiger is spontaneous
hes proud that he can eat all he wants and never gain weight… i wish i could i have to work to stay skinny-ish -____-
My caloric intake is half of a normal human, but my weight increase is TRIPLE of a normal human *cries*
To keep your metabolism up, you should spread your intake of should spread your intake of food from three meals to small amounts every two hours (generic time, experiment for best results/your personal schedule).
You know what I don't get? Isn't metabolism how fast your body burns calories? Well, since heavier people need to burn more calories in order to do the same things "average" people do, wouldn't it make more sense to say a heavier person has a higher metabolism?
It's the rate at which calories are burned, not the amount.
Rate x time = amount.
Metabolic Rate can be loosely defined as production of energy per unit of tissue mass. This can vary very widely. For example, low-water plant tissues and certain fish can survive being frozen – in which state their metabolic rate is vanishingly small – while creatures such as shrews and hummingbirds in flight maintain a metabolic rate so high that they can starve to death in hours.
In organisms which regulate their own body temperatures internally, faster metabolisms are associated with smaller sizes – since the square-cube law means that smaller organisms have far more surface area per unit volume of tissue to lose heat through. A sufficiently large organism will have trouble dissipating it's own metabolic heat even if it has a slow metabolism.
Within a particular species more massive individuals generally do burn more calories than lighter ones doing the same things – but they also generally consume more in the first place and rarely actually do quite as much.
I was hoping for something to get resolved in the last arc! Daww…
And why do you think this strip is here? XD You should know by now that Rick get his kicks now and then from totally crushing our expectations
i wouldn't worry too much about it, a whole lot of information about the game itself was revealed, so it's not like it was just a teaser arc or something like that. cliffhangers are fun anyways
because everything can be explained with a chart
Charts are fun!
One can tell this chart was made by Marvin.
Tiger would've used a Pie chart
Tiger sure is strange. XD
…. how did he have the foresight for that?
A ready-prepared chart (and pointing stick) for every possible chart-explicable occurrence always being close to hand is one of the few genuine perks of living in a cartoon universe.
Re: VG Cats, El Goonish Shive, occasionally Questionable Content, etc.
I have a feeling that the issue comes up so very often that making a chart is totally natural. I mean, this would require the same level of near omnescient foresight that predicting the tides or the rise of the sun takes.
Maybe attention to detail is a side effect of his psychosis.
Sometimes "wow" is the only good response.
And once again Tiger is WAY too much like Garfield than is healthy
Minus the chubbiness, because unlike Garfield, Tiger obviously has a high metabolism to go along with his outrageous eating habits.
Well it's not like Garfield ever actually gains weight, he's actually half the size Original Garfield was!
The economy must be getting in the way of his food budget then or he has finally lost his appetite for lasagna o.o
Tiger, you shouldn't hide behind fancy graphs and scientific analysis….It isn't healthy for you.
Math time! How many of each of those items would it take, assuming each were eaten in similar quantities, to reach 57,000 calories? If you know the answer, that'd be great!
Depends on the precise item in question. The calorific content of a particular pizza, bag of chips, etc can vary widely. If we had a suggestion of a certain brand, serving size, and – where appropriate – topping variety, it would be a little easier to estimate.
Taking a normal size (UK, 25g) bag of Walkers/Lays/Fritos salted potato chips as found in supermarket-bought multipacks for an example, that's 134 calories; however the slightly larger size (34g) as found in vending machines etc is 185 calories.
57,000 / 134 = 425 bags (at £1.58 for 6, that's £112 over 71 multipacks)
57,000 / 185 = 308 bags… (or £1.99 for 6 "extra fill" 32.5g packs == £2.12 for 6×34.5g = £110 over 51 multipacks)
And presumably it also varies with flavouring, whether or not they're ridge-cut, etc.
Pizza got a bit more difficult as the manufacturers I could think of just had very plain homepages with no info. Searched on a local supermarket instead, so apologies if these are a bit regional.
Dr Oetker 335g Mozzerella; image suggests it's a 6-slice affair in the region of about 10″ diameter. 441 calories = 130 of them to reach our goal. Or at the supermarket's current special deal price, £292.50, approx $440. A lot of money. Especially from my perspective given that my take-home pay is equivalent to only £266/week…
On the other hand, the Salami & Pepperoni meat feast pizza from the same range, at a slightly smaller 320g overall, offers a full 873 calories, almost twice as much. Yee-ikes. But that's still 66 of them and an almost £150 layout. After mortgage, energy, water and other such unavoidable bills, I don't have that much left on average…
Dude seriously needs to cut down, maybe see a doctor. I could *maybe* pile through three of those in a day before feeling unwell, hitting my daily recommended calories for a largely sedentary worker with the addition of a couple cups of coffee (and still spending a good £48; my normal all-things-considered-not-just-pizza food budget is more around £30-35), and I'm a full size human not a medium-small dog.
If nothing else, they probably want to restrict him to eating nothing but store-brand chips, which come in at 68p for 12×18g. He'd probably double them up, or at least eat 3-for-2 vs the Fritowalkerlays, but that's still quite a saving… "just" £36~48…
And if all he's doing is satisfying a calorific black hole, that's even better, as they're quite fatty; 100 calories per bag. 570 of them is "all" he'd need; 48 multipacks, £32.64…
The same store's ownbrand cheese + tomato pizza, a 12″er at 480g, is 609 calories and £1.10…
No! Wait! I'm getting this wrong. "Half of a pizza contains"… argh. It doesn't have the full amounts, just "per 100g" and "per serving".
609 x 2 = 1218 calories… 47 pizzas… a little under 7 per day… £52. There's a lesson for you. Always buy the cheap brand.
Yes, the other ones are per half-pizza too. So,
9~10″ ish Mozzerella = 882 calories … 65 of em… £147
Ditto meatfeast = 1746 calories O_O … 33 like that … £75
So it's not QUITE as bad as might have been first thought. But though he's maybe not quadrupling the food bill, he could quite well be doubling it, or tripling it if Jerry's an otherwise shrewd shopper.
Yeah, I thought that first post was a little low on the pizzas.
Here, a medium pepperoni pizza from a majorttakeout brand is about 2500 calories per pie. A bag of cheese poofs or potato chips is 1000-1500 calories. 57,000/7 is about 8143 calories. So 2-3 pizzas and a few bags of chips could easily hit that.
I'm starting to think UK pizzas are measured in centimeters, somewhere in the single digits!
"Great Scott! They actually did it! Marty come here, these guys have got it all figured out!"
Seriously awesome job. Lets check the time limit. 3 Hours for first response. Nice. It's either due to timezone difference or all the calculating all dem maths, but it's still a nice response time. And the amounts are staggering xD
Eating all that food while still maintaining a constant weight.
I envy you, sir.
He has a small black hole inside his belly!
he's the king of snack
Come on Tiger, you're eating way too much! It's not like food grows on trees.
Well Not anymore..
Well, not the food he eats, judging by his diet.
I wonder what Tiger did with the other nine hours in that week.
Tiger and Friends will be right back!
And to commercials: Try the all new "Triple Heart stopping burger" New at Lardys
Thorough. I'll give him that.
It's just like me and my cousin. We're both anomalies too. Although He's also a Marine and a Workaholic at that, so his ability to burn calories is explainable.
Me, however, I have no explanation for…
love ya tiger
oh dear, Tiger IS SO FRIGGIN' CUTE HERE!
He really is, even with his funky colors. I've heard of red nosed pit bulls but not orange nosed ones!
Meanwhile off panel all you hear is the sound of Jerry's teeth grinding.
Just love Tiger´s expression in the 2nd and 3rd panel, he is quite a character
I can relate to that
Oh, look, Tiger's like my brother, eating far more than he should yet gaining no weight. I am envious.
they have discoverd the secret
Tiger is just awesome like that.
Also, one (kilo)calorie is equal, in water heating terms, to about 1.16 watt-hours. So that much food energy is equal to an electric power input (to an immersion element) of 66.12 kWh. Similar to running a 3 kWh element (say in a large hot water tank) for 22 hours solid.
66.12 x 0.15 per kWh = about $10 / £10 worth
57000 / 168 = 339.3 calories/hour = 393.6 watts equivalent constant rate.
For a small room or a decently insulated hot water tank, Tiger could act as a quite effective, if hideously inefficient (in terms of fuel economy / energy price) maintenance heater. If your water tank is a little smaller than normal and very well insulated, and you're patient, he could even work as the primary heater. He'd also be good as the main heater for a small bedroom with cavity wall insulation and thermal glass, or to charge up a storage booster-heater for weekday evenings in winter.
He'd also be quite hot to the touch, though probably not quite enough to burn you. Dogs are quite well insulated after all. 150′C internally, maybe 60-70′c externally. Which is just nice for a hot water system (including hot water radiator central heating), and about the same as the peak output from a thermostatically controlled hot-air heater.
Now, the challenge is to find some way of feeding him at the same rate for less than $10 a week. Once you manage that, you can start to treat him as an alternative energy source and save on your electricity bills.
(You're unlikely to make him cheaper than piped natural gas, though, unless you feed him nothing but roadkill and scraps)
That's what is great about Housepets – I am not a particular fan of arcs involving Pete and King – But I know the next week or so I will be delighted with other characters and situations, with some uncompromissed comedy or other fun situations.
Housepets has something for every one. For that, I applaud Rick
to me, the real magic is that Housepets! manages to be awesome with each and every strip.
BTW, for comparison, a 3kW kettle will boil up a litre of tap water (15′c) in about 2 minutes. 22 hours = 660 litres boiled the same way… Properly applied, Tiger could you a LOT of cups of coffee / tea / etc. Maybe have him swallow some kind of heat-stable sterile bag with a catheter attached. Fill bag with cold water, wait for 150′c internal temperature to raise it by 85′c (and to fall slightly itself, I guess?), extract it. With the right piping he could even act as a source of low pressure steam for all manner of uses.
But I'm getting away from what I was actually after there. I wanted to figure out how many baths you could take using his energy. Part of which requires me working out the capacity of my own bathtub and hot water tank. I know the tank, once fully heated and with the immersion turned back off, will just about fill the bath at a nice temperature. Say 45′c or so.
Research suggests the absolute capacity of a standard tub is 42 US Gallons, but you'd probably only fill it to about 30, maybe less, as the human sitting in it will displace an awful lot of water. I think a regular hot water tank is about 110 litres?
30 US Gal x 3.78 = 113L … hmm.
However this "full" fill does include the water off the tap gradually cooling as the tank refills from the cold supply without being reheated.
"The human body has a typical volume of 70 litres" … ok.
42 x 3.78 = 158.8
158.8 – 70 = 88.8
So… IDK, LOL. The internet is not being much help here. The smallest standard size seems to be 84 litres, the commonest type about 100. And I've completely lost the plot about what I'm doing. If we assume 100, then maybe by the time 90 have been emptied out of it (leaving some gradual loss down the overflow as said human immerses more and more fully) the tap will be effectively running cold, no more than 20′c or so.
If you had one bath a day, that'd be 94 litres each fully boiled. So there'd probably be more than enough to have two full baths (maybe Jerry has one, the pets share the water for the second) at a non-scalding temperature, with enough left over to wash up the dishes. Maybe do a load or two of laundry too if they have a hot-fill washing machine. Certainly, it's more hot water than I could personally dream of getting through (or affording to use) in a typical week.
I guess the point I'm driving at is Tiger is generating a buttload of heat
(and in comparison to my 8.5kW electric shower… 7.76 hours continuous. You'd shrivel away to nothing. heck, his average power would easily cover my entire electrical baseload with some left over…)
So, even mild curses that would appear unfilted in Peanuts and the like get filtered. Oookay. Let me repost the offending thing without that word in then.
"Let's try and work out how hot he gets! Or at least how much heat energy he'd be burning through…
A rough calculation from googled information suggests an average sized (~50lb?) dog with a more sedentary than normal lifestyle would need about 1000 calories a day; 7000 a week. So Tiger is somehow burning a little over 8x the expected amount.
Assuming he's spending most of his time inside in a roughly ~21′c environment, and dogs have roughly the same body temperature as humans (~37′c), that's 1000 calories every 24 hours to maintain a heat dissipation (with a small amount of kinetic activity that we shall ignore for the sake of this calculation) sufficient to maintain a core temperature 16′c above that of the environment.
Rate of heat dissipation is, as far as I can tell from my limited understanding of the poorly explained equations flying past my eyes courtesy of Wikipedia, linear vs temperature. EG conductors and insulators are rated as a dimensionless "watts per metre per kelvin" (the kelvin being degrees of temperature differential between the measured ends).
Ergo at 8x the energy dissipation rate, there will be 8x the temperature differential.
16 x 8 = 128′C
128′C + 21′C = 149′C … 150 near as GOSHDURNIT (c wat I did there? (approx 300′F), or the temperature of a low-ish oven. Certainly enough to bake bread in some kind of fashion, or to slow-cook a stew.
Tiger, therefore, is actually a mobile high-temperature biomass digester. Or possibly a dragon in disguise?"
Dat science.
That was almost Wikipedia-worthy! XD Even so, I understood that mostly. Maybe it's because I am good at math?… Anyway, now I am thinking two things: "Over-analyzing much?" and "How has he not started a fire in that house yet?" XD I am also agreeing with what Draven said below me there. Dat science.
I guess it is now above me. XD
eh, i was bored, at work
also i'd been doing some similar calculations regarding a malfunctioning bathroom shower, so it wasnt ALL novel research. basically the food values and a calorie/watt-hour conversion.
He must have some wicked tape worms.
……er, although that's the most probable explanation, er……
I agree, Marvin, Tiger must be researched. Someone apply for government research grants, stat!
No! The government must never know! They'd take him away to some secret lab under Area 51…
We need Tiger to fight man-eating food monsters, post haste!
Tiger can come so useful to eat up zombies during an epidemic of zombies
If this wasn't a cartoon universe he'd be in a hospital. That amount of mass still has to come out, no matter how it's metabolized.
"Heart… attack… from… years… of… only… eating… lasagna…"
Aww.. too bad Xane died, i was going to ask him to help me feed this fluffy baby Seals…Guess they are going to starve now…
Sleeping burns caloriesm people
You slowly burn calories any time that you aren't eating, as your body is using that energy to function..
There's a load of difference between calories, lard and overall mass intake
It's like those psychos from the academy, exercising their bones out to lose two kilos a day? They're only loosing the water supplies from the body by sweating (mostly anyways), the moment they sip a cup in, it's all back.
Oh and just to throw a wrench in your sentr… er, in your fun I mean.
"Every time you bring scientific facts to a fantasy comic, God kills a catgirl"
…But here in Housepets we got none of that, so have it your way, gents! /o/
None of scientific facts? None of God? None of fantasy? or None of catgirls?
nah nah nah… that only applies if you do it in order to try and kill the fun. i'm more interrested in how the possibilities opened up by my calculations could A/ lead to wacky (possibly even *zany*) hijinks, B/ have a crazy set of explanations, like he's not actually a dog, or there's a portal not far from the pit of his stomach acting like a cosmic gastric band (or, overflow vent), etc.
some of the best fantasies act almost like hard sci-fi except for the one or two mostly-plausible fantastic elements that they introduce.
(in the interest of full disclosure it probably bears mention that I'm not only a fan of Terry Pratchett and Tom Holt, but also Poul Anderson and Jennifer Diane Reisz… You get a tasty stew when mixing those contrasting styles.)
XD Well-done. Love these occasional knocks at Garfield.
That sounds strikingly similar to my summer agenda.
I'm just saying, you could save Greece with Tiger's food budget…
so THATS why tiger is rarely seen outdoors he spends all day sleeping, eating, and watching tv
Hrmm. Tiger eats 57000 calories in a week, or a bit more than 8000 each day. That's about right for an actual tiger.
Clearly Tiger simply converts the food into cuteness and awesomeness.
Oh my gosh! Quit copying me and cataloguing what I eat! Just because I do it doesn't mean you can make it your idea. Unless of course me and Tiger are twins, in which of course I would expect it; but if we are twins ………… what exactly did my parents do!
P.S. THaT wAS a JoKe!!!!!!
It was entertaining watching people try to figure out the economics as well as the thermodynamics and or medical reasons for Tiger eating so much without getting fat. For all we know, he converts it into more of Pete's unreachable mana.
Aw… but I want him to be an occasionally-amulatory CHP biomass reactor! D-:
Just wait until they shove a pipe down his throat and convert him into a furry steam tractor.
How did my comment move back four spaces?
Why do I love Tiger's expressions so much?!?
I think the funniest part about this is, as a pet store employee, I know science diet is a type of dog food. ITS A NERD JOKE O:
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The Broncos can't even count on that anymore.
WMU failed on fourth-and-goal a few inches from the end zone with 5 minutes remaining Saturday at Eastern Michigan, with Tevin Drake unable to stretch the ball across the goal line.
From there, the Bronco defense couldn't get the Eagles off the field — beat fittingly on a 14-yard quarterback run on 3rd-and-11 to seal EMU's 14-10 victory.
The Broncos struggled throughout the first half and then again in the fourth quarter and have dropped to 4-4 overall and 2-2 in the Mid-American Conference, their title hopes dashed for a 23rd straight year.
Eastern Michigan is 5-3 and 3-1 in the MAC.
Much more here later and in Sunday's Kalamazoo Gazette.


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I had been listening to the American Family Radio as I drove into Stuttgart today (Jan. 9). The radio personality had talked about two current, despicable movies that glorified grotesque acts of violence and torture. He stated that one of these features was offered in 3D to enable the viewer to become more personally involved in the evil being portrayed.
I turned the corner and there on the Twin Cinema marquee in Stuttgart were the two movies currently playing: Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 3D and Django Unchained.
Reflecting the tragedy in Newton, Conn., and other horrible events in our country's recent history, I feel I cannot be silent. As long as we say nothing, I can't help but believe we align ourselves with those who produce and show for profit such deplorable "entertainment."
There are many good and inspirational movies that promote good mental health and behavior. Why must we bring such violent portrayals of evil to our town?
I have been unable to talk personally with movie management, but I intend to ask them this question.
I hope there are others in our community who feel as I do and will recognize that the time to stand for decency is now.
Marian Dickson Ruffin
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text: 18 September 2012 archive See all show photos JENNY HOLMES and Dimitris Theocharidis - also known as Jena. Theo - today showed an intimate presentation in Somerset House's Portico Rooms. Fashion Fringe winners in 2009, the pair have steadily been building a fan base of followers who love their softly-structured separates and draping. For their spring/summer 2013 collection, the duo had worked with the artist O.Two on the prints that ran throughout the collection. They were multilayered and had depth, using background washes overlaid with illustrations of eastern-style Chinese dragons and invertebrate creatures - including spiders, insects and crustaceans. If visually, the tattoo prints weren't your cup of tea (for instance, a python intertwined through the jaw and eye-socket of a skull), the complexity of the fabrics should be taken on board; they were hand-tattooed onto leather, embroidered onto silks and organza, and placement-printed onto tumbling chiffon pieces. Cowhide and a complex honeycomb structure made from strands of silk also featured but were too literally interpreted from the outside world. The more successful pieces were the simpler ones; a black denim catsuit, cut from premium Japanese denim - from the designers' new denim range - and silver beaded eveningwear had heads turning as the models moved about the intimate space. Tilly Macalister-Smith Continue reading Back to top


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As an artist I often work in series when defining a subject matter, i.e. construction sites, buildings or other physical structures.
URBAN / SUBURBAN is the result of this approach for the last 3-years.
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My name is Roy Waggestad, I am a 37-year old fine arts photographer from Norway. Educated at Griffith University, Queensland College of Arts, Brisbane, Australia. (Bachelor/Master)
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If you're looking for a little foodie road trip this summer, may we suggest a hike to Columbus, Ohio, and the fabulous Jeni's Ice Cream. If a trip to the Buckeye State isn't in your cards, pick up Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home ($16) instead. Full of 100+ inspire ice cream recipes, anecdotes, beautiful pictures, easy to read instructions, Jeni's notes, tips, and an explanation of the science behind making great ice cream. This is THE ice cream book - you'll thank us on these hot summer nights.
Jeni's Ice Cream is unbelievably good. I'm in Michigan and it's carried by a couple of the gourmet grocery stores in my area! Buckeye State is one of my favorite flavors.
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Congratulations to the latest California Powerball jackpot winner! The Powerball results for March 1, 2014 are 3, 8, 25, 30, 47, and the red Powerball number is 13. One lucky California lottery winner matched all six Powerball winning numbers Saturday night for the $60 million jackpot, reported CBS Miami News on Sunday, March 2.
Believe it or not, this is the second time a California lottery winner hit the Powerball jackpot in less than two weeks! The Milpitas, California Powerball Lottery winner hit a massive $425.3 million jackpot on Feb. 19. See the article Powerball winning numbers: California Powerball lottery winner hits $425M jackpot for more details.
Saturday's final Powerball jackpot came in at $60 million which will be paid out in 30 annual annuity payments. The California lottery winner could also choose all cash, which would bring the one-time cash payout to around $33.9 million.
The California Powerball lottery jackpot winner purchased the lucky winning ticket at Tooley Oil - McClellan 4, 5520 Dudley Blvd 900, McClellan, California for the March 1 drawing. The retailer normally receives a hefty bonus for selling the Powerball winning jackpot ticket as well.
In addition to the California jackpot winner, there were four (4) Match 5 + 0 Powerball Power Play winners that won $2 million prizes. Two (2) Power Play winners purchased their winning tickets from the North Carolina Lottery, and one (1) each from the Indiana Lottery and the Pennsylvania Lottery commissions. The standard winnings for a second-tier prize is $1 million. However, all four lottery winners spent an extra dollar on the Power Play option which doubled their prize winnings from $1 million to $2 million.
There were also three (3) Match 5 + 0 winners that didn't play the Power Play and will end up with the standard amount of $1 million each. Two (2) $1 million Powerball winners purchased their tickets from the Florida Lottery, and one (1) from the Texas Lottery. All second-tier Powerball winners matched five out of six white Powerball winning numbers, missing only the red Powerball number for the March 1 drawing.
Additionally, there were thirty-seven (37) Match 4 + 1 winners, twelve (12) of which bought Power Play tickets and will see their prize winnings automatically increased to $40,000. The remaining twenty-five (25) winners will receive only $10,000 each. The winners matched four out of five white Powerball winning numbers, AND the red Powerball number for the third-tier prize.
When is the Next Powerball Drawing?
According to the Florida Lottery, the next Powerball drawing is scheduled for March 5, 2014 at 10:59 p.m. EST. Because the California Powerball winner won the entire $60 million jackpot, the next grand prize on Saturday will reset itself at $40 million annuity, or $23 million cash value. The Powerball winning numbers are drawn live Wednesday and Saturday evenings at 10:59 p.m. EST in Florida. The Powerball game is played in 43 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets cost $2 each, and another $1 for the Power Play option which could instantly multiply your prize winnings.
Disclaimer: Every effort is made to ensure the Powerball winning numbers are correct, however mistakes can happen. Please be sure to check the powerball.com website for total accuracy.
Sources: Powerball; California Lottery; CBS News
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Platinum Provincial Dugout
1st Monday quarterly. 19:00 for 19:30. Benoni Cottages, 4th Street, 5th Avenue, Northmead, Benoni.
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Cape Western
Cape Western Provincial Dugout
3rd Monday at 18h00 at Dawn Patrol Shellhole, 20 Children's Way, Bergvliet
Moth Daphne Moreira on 082 373 3934 or 021 - 799 6266 or email@example.com
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1st Friday monthly. 17:00.
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278 Johannes Street
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Secure Comfortable accommodation is available in a "Visitors cottage" for Moths / Mothwa looking for accommodation for a few nights. Accommodation consists of a bedroom and a shower. For further details contact the Custodian.
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Kwazulu Natal Provincial Dugout
Contact Chairman for date and time. 565 Stella Road, Malvern. Monthly meetings.
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Eastern Cape Provincial Dugout
February, April, June, August, October and December. 17:30. MESCA Hall, Tulbach Street, Loerie Park, George.
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Kwazulu Natal Provincial Dugout
98 Main Street, Howick. Committee meeting on a rotational basis at members residences. Monthly as arranged, usually at 10:00.
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Platinum Provincial Dugout
MESCA Cottages, Rotherly Street, Nelspruit. Last Tuesday. 17:30.
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1st Sunday monthly. 11:00. Shellhole, 82 Bredelia Street, Kwa Mbonambi.
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Eastern Cape Provincial Dugout
Last Monday monthly. 17:30. MOTH Hall, Cnr. Stathmore and Elizabeth, Cambridge, East London.
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Mesca Peacehaven
Peacehaven Hall, cnr. Thabo Mbeki and Voortrekker Streets, Polokwane. 3rd Monday monthly. 18:00.
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Monte Sole
Cottages, 46 Jan van Riebeeck Street, Ermelo. 2nd Thursday monthly. 19:00.
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Moth Mutual Aid
1st Saturday monthly. 09:00. MOTHWA Haven Dreamview, 137 Augusta Road, Rewlatch, Johannesburg, or at various addresses of members.
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2nd Tuesday monthly. 09h30. Sunset Park, Horton Road, Port Alfred.
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Port Elizabeth Mesca "Winston Churchill" Cottages
Eastern Cape Provincial Dugout
Second Wednesday 18:00 – various Shellholes
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MESCA Sound Memory Cottages – Pretoria
2nd Tuesday 18:30. Pretoria MOTHWA Haven, Booysen Street, Eloffsdal, Pretoria.
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2nd Tuesday monthly after the Shellhole meeting. The Blockhouse, Bergville.
For more details please contact Rusty Tourell on 036-440 1575
SMC Middelburg
1st Friday monthly. 17:00. Gondar Shellhole Hall, 2 Gilfillan Street, Middelburg.
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SMC Westonaria (Far West Rand)
1st Monday of every second month. 19:00. 13 Fisant Street, Helikon Park, Randfontein.
GPS Co-ordinates: 26°18'.79 90"S 27° 39'.21 60"E
For more details please contact Manie de Kock at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Mothwa Vaness Broeke Treasurer
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Vice Chairman
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SMC West Rand
1st Monday monthly. 19:30. Chilly Trench MOTH Shellhole, Cnr. Dieperink and Meyer Street, Roodepoort.
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SMC Witbank
MOTH Hall Witbank. Day to be announced. 17:00.
GPS Co-ordinates: 25°52'5"S 29°12'58"E
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Shellhole, Greylingstad. 1st Thursday monthly. 20:00.
GPS Co-ordinates: 26°04'42"S 28°41'50.4"E
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Zululand Moth Memorial Homes
Last Wednesday. 17:30. Fort Pearson Shellhole, 43 Weber Street, Eshowe (opposite Little Flower School).
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Spain's official development assistance (ODA) dropped by 68% between 2010 and 2014, after an almost threefold rise from 2000 to 2009, says the latest DAC Peer Review. Spain's gradual economic recovery should enable it to start reversing the sharp decline and focus more of its aid budget on the least developed countries. The Review commends Spain for its strong focus on reducing poverty and inequality in its focus regions. It says there is room for improvement, however, in the way Spain co-ordinates and monitors its development assistance and in human resource management.Read more
"Portugal brings many positive elements to international development. This includes a forward-looking vision, a tight geographic focus and a commitment to partner countries which have a strong voice in aid projects. These assets could be more effectively deployed if Portugal commits to increase its aid volume, untie its aid and improve the co-ordination and oversight of its aid programme," said DAC Chair Erik Solheim.Read more
Germany's foreign aid is at a record high and rising, but more effort will be needed to reach an internationally agreed donors' target and fulfil Germany's own goal to send more aid to the neediest countries, according to a new OECD Review. The Review praises Germany for being at the forefront of using ODA to leverage private sector investment for sustainable development. Germany also stands out for its commitment and innovative approaches to financing climate change action and for efforts to improve the quality of its aid.Read more
Peer reviews provide in-depth examinations of development systems and policies, including lessons learned, in all DAC member countries.
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Robust, independent evaluation of development programmes provides information about what works, what does not and why. This learning contributes to improving the development effectiveness of aid and helps hold donors and partner country governments accountable for results. As a platform for evaluation learning and co-ordination, the Evaluation Network develops shared norms and standards and facilitates our members' efforts towards joint work by encouraging them to share and co-ordinate their plans for future evaluations.
How peer reviews work
Each DAC member country is peer reviewed roughly every four years with two main aims: to help the country understand where it could improve its development strategy and structures so that it can increase the effectiveness of its investment; and to identify and share good practice in development policy and strategy. Led by examiners from two DAC member states, the process typically takes around six months to complete and culminates with the publication of the findings.
Lessons from peer reviews
What are countries doing to fulfill their development co-operation objectives and public commitments? Drawing on lessons from our peer reviews, we produce a range of publications that look at different aspects of this question. Managing Aid: Practices of DAC Member Countries is one example. Another is Effective Aid Management: Twelve Lessons from DAC Peer Reviews, designed to help aid practitioners improve their management and delivery of development assistance by learning from each others' experience.


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The tamper-proof tampering solution
Well, we certainly have learned our lesson, haven't we?
Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh had so much fun playing together with the U.S. national team that they decided they might actually enjoy playing together elsewhere as teammates.
See what you did, Jerry Colangelo, by fostering such unity under to the tutelage of Mike Krzyzewski?
What the heck were you thinking?
We certainly never had this problem when the national team previously was embarrassing itself on the international stage.
Ah, the George Karl and Larry Brown eras, when no one left the Team USA longing for more.
So how can USA Basketball solve this "tampering" scourge that got Bosh, James and Wade to share common goals in the first place?
From now, each team member travels separately to international competitions.
And stays at separate hotels.
Positively no practice.
And no talking in huddles.
Then we wouldn't be here, with astonished owners (other than the rather pleased one in Miami) lobbing tampering talk over what transpired last week in Miami.
You wanted another Dream Team? You gave yourself a nightmare for the foreseeable future.
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, Volume 93, Issue 9, pp 413-425
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Do birds sleep in flight?
- Niels C. RattenborgAffiliated withMax-Planck-Institute for Ornithology-Seewiesen Email author
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The following review examines the evidence for sleep in flying birds. The daily need to sleep in most animals has led to the common belief that birds, such as the common swift (Apus apus), which spend the night on the wing, sleep in flight. The electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings required to detect sleep in flight have not been performed, however, rendering the evidence for sleep in flight circumstantial. The neurophysiology of sleep and flight suggests that some types of sleep might be compatible with flight. As in mammals, birds exhibit two types of sleep, slow-wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep. Whereas, SWS can occur in one or both brain hemispheres at a time, REM sleep only occurs bihemispherically. During unihemispheric SWS, the eye connected to the awake hemisphere remains open, a state that may allow birds to visually navigate during sleep in flight. Bihemispheric SWS may also be possible during flight when constant visual monitoring of the environment is unnecessary. Nevertheless, the reduction in muscle tone that usually accompanies REM sleep makes it unlikely that birds enter this state in flight. Upon landing, birds may need to recover the components of sleep that are incompatible with flight. Periods of undisturbed postflight recovery sleep may be essential for maintaining adaptive brain function during wakefulness. The recent miniaturization of EEG recording devices now makes it possible to measure brain activity in flight. Determining if and how birds sleep in flight will contribute to our understanding of a largely unexplored aspect of avian behavior and may also provide insight into the function of sleep.
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Just wanted to recommend a handy tool for your daily worship time with the Lord. My mom suggested an iPhone app called Jesus Calling. It is also available in print, the Amazon appstore, Android, and Nook. There is a setting on the app to where you can be reminded at a specific time each day to read a short devotional and take a moment to think on the topic of the day. It includes a few Bible verses so that you will understand the context in which the devotional was written.
The title was a genius idea. When you get the reminder popping up on your phone that says "Jesus Calling," it's impossible to ignore it. Each daily entry is easy to follow and always thought-provoking. There have been days when the topic was one I really needed to hear, either for offering encouragement or calling me to repentance. Please take a moment and look into getting either the app or book. I promise that it's worth it.
Check out this link for a little more info: http://thejesuscallingapp.com/


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Reality TV star and actress Nene Leakes is taking a break from bickering with fellow housewives to dive into the fashion world with her new line "The Nene Leakes Collection."
The Real Housewives of Atlanta star is teaming up with the everlasting Home Shopping Network for the release of her self proclaimed line on July 28.
Mrs. Leakes took to her website on July 10 to excite fans with a picture of a traditional fashion sketch of two women in printed designs captioned:
We are just days away from our launch of 'The Nene Leakes Collection,' available July 28! I will be live in the HSN studio so I hope you will be tuning in. Remember, we offer sizes 2-24!"
No official photos or sneak peaks have been released to support the Georgia Native's clothing line; Nene wants to surprise fans with her new hustle.
Having multiple roles is nothing new to the 46 year old former stripper who went from the pole, to reality TV to having permanent roles on "Glee" and the now canceled comedy "The New Normal."
On the RHOA Nene brags to her fellow castmates about being a "Rich" you know what and throws her attitude around like it is the new style, but does she have what it takes to rip the runways with her designs?
Let's face it, Miss Nene is not the best dressed peach on the tree and her choice of hairstyles are often very questionable.
Nene is often seen on the RHOA wearing long, drapping, long sleeve shirts that are not flattering although appealing for her age, it is not many woman looking for her "look."
There have been many failed clothing lines by up and comers, but they all do not have HSN backing them with a live show.
"The Nene Leakes Collection" is yet another adventure that can be added to Mrs. Leakes long resume.
In an interview with WWD magazine, Nene gives an outlook on her new venture:
"My vision was to create a line that would appeal to every woman, designed to make her feel rich and fabulous, no matter how much it costs. The pieces can take you from day to night, from the grocery store to drinks with girlfriends."
Nene will now have a more interesting storyline for the upcoming season of RHOA; A role of a business woman and not of a bitter peach.
But I have to ask: What about sizes 0 and 1?!
Nene's line will launch July 28 on HSN and HSN.com


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Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, author, radio talk show host, and Founder and President of BOND (Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny), stated on Friday in an email to the Paulding County Republican Examiner that he is defending Duck Dynasty Commander, Phil Robertson and decries A&E's decision to suspend Robertson.
Peterson is defending "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson. The patriarch of the "Duck Dynasty" hit show who was suspended by A&E for expressing his personal views promoting traditional families and disagreeing with homosexuality in a GQ interview.
GLADD and other homosexual activist groups condemned his remarks and pressured A&E to suspend him.
"The decision by A&E to cave in to pressure from radical homosexual activist groups and suspend Phil Robertson is outrageous! Robertson expressed his personal views about morality, faith, and traditional families. He didn't make the statements on the show. He did not condemn or attack gays, nor did he single them out. In fact, Robertson talked about how his Christian faith instructs him not to judge or disrespect others who don't agree with his beliefs," Peterson said.
"This is an attack on the First Amendment and freedom of speech and religion. GLADD and other homosexual groups demand tolerance and inclusion; yet, they are the most intolerant people around. These groups gave Alec Baldwin a pass for repeatedly using a gay slur, but they have no tolerance for people who express their religious beliefs. This is hypocrisy!
On Saturday, Joe Newby of the Spokane Conservative Examiner reported that Breitbart News stated that the Gay and Lesbian Alliance against Discrimination said it is researching other companies who sponsor the Christian patriarch of the popular program.
The issue of Phil Robertson and the A&E network arose from an interview that Robertson gave to GQ on his Christian beliefs. Some media outlets and liberal pundits stated that Robertson equated homosexuality with bestiality which was not the case.
In the GQ interview, Robertson said, "Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there."
Robertson then went on to other immoral sins, outside, not equating homosexuality with bestiality, such as sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men, adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers.
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson viewed this suspension as another attack on Christians, Christianity, and freedom of speech and said, "A&E should reinstate Phil Robertson immediately or they will face a major backlash from the viewers. Duck Dynasty and Phil Robertson appeal to Americans of all races who love the outdoors and believe in traditional American values. The audience is not just white… there are plenty of blacks, Hispanics, and others who relate to Phil and the family."
As of Saturday, 1.7 million supporters and the support numbers are rising, not to mention several other Facebook pages with hundreds of thousands more, are in support of Phil Robertson and are boycotting A&E until Phil Robertson is put back on Duck Dynasty.
A petition was also launched on Saturday in support of Phil Robertson with a goal of 200,000 signatures to be sent to A&E.


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I just pledged to help fund Dashkin, the upcoming Brackenwood Flash game by Adam Phillips (Flash animator and friend of a friend), and Sean McGee (fellow Flash developer). Please pledge at KickStarter.com:
After waiting over a decade for it to become available, I finally caved and paid the cyber-squatter who owned JoshMorgan.com the ransom.
Now if I ever find the time, I'm gonna update this site with the new domain...
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Conan's press release:
People of Earth:
In the last few days, I've been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I've been getting paid to do what I love most and, in a world with real problems, I've been absurdly lucky. That said, I've been suddenly put in a very public predicament and my bosses are demanding an immediate decision.
Six years ago, I signed a contract with NBC to take over "The Tonight Show" in June of 2009. Like a lot of us, I grew up watching Johnny Carson every night and the chance to one day sit in that chair has meant everything to me. I worked long and hard to get that opportunity, passed up far more lucrative offers, and since 2004, I have spent literally hundreds of hours thinking of ways to extend the franchise long into the future. It was my mistaken belief that, like my predecessor, I would have the benefit of some time and, just as important, some degree of ratings support from the prime-time schedule. Building a lasting audience at 11:30 is impossible without both.
But sadly, we were never given that chance. After only seven months, with my "Tonight Show" in its infancy, NBC has decided to react to their terrible difficulties in prime time by making a change in their long-established late night schedule.
Last Thursday, NBC executives told me they intended to move the "Tonight Show" to 12:05 to accommodate the "Jay Leno Show" at 11:35. For 60 years, the "Tonight Show" has aired immediately following the late local news. I sincerely believe that delaying the "Tonight Show" into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting. The "Tonight Show" at 12:05 simply isn't the "Tonight Show." Also, if I accept this move I will be knocking the "Late Night" show, which I inherited from David Letterman and passed on to Jimmy Fallon, out of its long-held time slot. That would hurt the other NBC franchise that I love, and it would be unfair to Jimmy.
So it has come to this: I cannot express in words how much I enjoy hosting this program and what an enormous personal disappointment it is for me to consider losing it. My staff and I have worked unbelievably hard, and we are very proud of our contribution to the legacy of "The Tonight Show." But I cannot participate in what I honestly believe is its destruction. Some people will make the argument that with DVRs and the Internet, a time slot doesn't matter. But with the "Tonight Show," I believe nothing could matter more.
There has been speculation about my going to another network but, to set the record straight, I currently have no other offer and honestly have no idea what happens next. My hope is that NBC and I can resolve this quickly so that my staff, crew, and I can do a show we can be proud of, for a company that values our work.
Have a great day and, for the record, I am truly sorry about my hair; it's always been that way.
A comment from a visitor to my blog posted a link to this cool new TV ad for Shane Acker's 9:
It's great to see Focus Features is giving 9 a good marketing blitz comparable to their other recent releases.
UPDATE: It turns out the comment was posted by Justin Boreta from the band The Glitch Mob, whose remix of the TV on the Radio song "Red Dress" is featured in the above 9 ad. I'm a huge fan of TVotR, and this TGM remix is very fitting for the ad. Thanks for the tip, Justin!
One of my favorite indie rockers, Jeff Hanson, was found dead on Friday in his new concrete-floored apartment of an apparent accidental fall, reports the St. Paul, Minnesota Star Tribune (via The Onion A.V. Club).
I was first introduced to Jeff Hanson's music by fellow UCLA Animator, Lena Podesta, who used Hanson's song "Just Like Me" for her film Dead Girl + Live Boy. I was blown away by the delicate vocals so I asked Lena, "who's the chick that does the song for your film?" but Lena corrected me and said "believe it or not, it's a dude" and she lent me Hanson's debut solo CD Son, which is one of my all-time favorites.
Jeff Hanson's death reminds me of Elliott Smith, who also died at a tragically young age, though Hanson did not have the life-long battle with drugs and depression that plagued Smith, and Hanson's death was probably an accident while Smith's was ruled a suicide. Still, Hanson and Smith had very similar guitar and vocal styles and they were both talented musicians, playing almost all of the instruments on the albums they each recorded for the indie label Kill Rock Stars.
MTV.com just released an exclusive clip from 9 that features my favorite character in the film: a sewing snake-like beast that Shane dubbed "the Seamstress." Throughout production, I kept begging for more Seamstress, and now to see it fully animated and rendered, it gives me chills. It's so exciting because I got to hobnob with the storyboard artists while they were boarding and re-boarding this sequence, watching it evolve up until the last year of production, and apparently Shane has added a little twist to the sequence since that last time I saw it. I can't wait to see what other surprises are in the final film. 09/09/09 is just a few months away...
Barack Obama: 3
G.W. Bush, et al: 0
Actually, this chart conveniently leaves off Thomas Jefferson, who waged war against the "Barbary states", which supported pirates, so presumably pirates were killed because of Jefferson's actions.
Still, the rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips by US Navy SEAL snipers is clearly a victory for Obama that is rare among US Presidents.
I'm nearing my own birthday in a few days (the dreaded dirty thirty), but today, February 12th, is the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution through natural selection is easily one of the greatest discoveries in the history of human knowledge.
In celebration of Darwin Day 2009, my fellow Americans should watch the Nova special about the debate surrounding evolution in America called Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial on the PBS website. I especially recommend Chapter 6, which explains the difference between the common everyday use of the term "theory" (which implies unsupported "speculation") versus a scientific theory (which, according to the National Academy of Sciences, is "a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment"). Chapter 6 also presents one of the most compelling facts to support human evolution: the existence of vestigial centromeres and telomeres in Chromosome 2.
Sadly, 150 years after the first publication of Darwin's seminal book On the Origin of Species, many Americans still refuse to accept evolution as fact despite the (literally) mountains of evidence to support Darwin's theory. I spent last Thanksgiving arguing with a family friend who defiantly dismissed evolution as "just a theory" despite my futile attempts to educate her. She, like so many Americans, defies rationality and reason by subscribing to the so-called "Intelligent Design" theory, which is hardly a theory at all because it cannot be confirmed through observation and experiment nor can it make any predictions about the natural world. Evolution, however, has been confirmed over and over with each new piece of genetic and fossil evidence (e.g. Tiktaalik) and it can make accurate predictions about the natural world (i.e. Chromosome 2).
Happy Birthday Charles Darwin!!!
Free-thinking YouTuber TheraminTrees created this brilliant metaphoric animation, which really resonates with my own personal experience:
I like TheraminTrees' use of speech bubbles, especially when the dad's bubble silences the kid.
The cupboard metaphor works quite nicely, especially the part when the kid follows the exact word of the "instruction manual" only to discover he's built something unbalanced and dysfunctional. Clearly, people pick and choose instructions from their manuals (scriptures) to construct cabinets (world-views/moralities) that are most practical for their own needs, and yet they pass judgment against others who find different interpretations from the same manual or follow a different manual altogether.
What a wonderfully diverse the world would be if everyone chose to build their cupboards according to universal design fundamentals and were free to express themselves adorn their cupboards with their own personal decoration?! I chose long ago to put my Bible (and its antiquated rules) away and to instead live my life according to the fundamental "Golden Rule" of reciprocity (which is universal to all major religions and has been the foundation of ethics long before Jesus said "love thy neighbor").


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Split Ends, Breakage, or Shedding?: The Symptoms
This entry was posted on June 24, 2011.
Noticing more hair in your brush or comb lately? Wondering what could be going on? Most women battle with split ends, breakage, or hair shedding at some point in their lives, but few know it. That's because many people confuse one hair problem with the other - a big mistake, since each of these hair conditions has a different cause, set of symptoms, and course of treatement. Know the difference; check this list of symptoms for better idea of what you're dealing with.
Frequent frizzing? Whether you live in a humid, wet climate or not, a constant case of the frizzies means you might have split ends. Untended split ends will unravel up the hair shaft, peeling the strand open through the cuticle and even down to the cortex, or innermost part of the hair. The effect? The same as unravelling a piece of yarn or rope: it frays into bits, each of which goes its own ways, creating a frizzy look.
Patchy toughness? If you find you have large patches of hair that are shorter, rougher, or drier than the rest of your locks, this is a textbook case of breakage. The key here is that the affected area is markedly different from the rest of your mane; even if you don't have spots obviously much shorter, yet, you may be on your way to it if their strands are a different texture or very dry. Most women have breakage around the hairline, crown, and nape areas, though breakage spots can occur anywhere.
Tangled territory? Locks that snarl and tangle all the time, no matter how gently you brush or how wide your comb, are a surefire sign of split ends. As stated above, split strands burst open in all directions and have a much rougher texture. These wild and drier hairs create more friction and cling to each other more. The result is tangled ends.
Hair in your hands? Losing long sections of hair when you run your fingers through your mane is another clue you're dealing with breakage. Gentle handling should not cause hair to come out, especially not from the middle of the hair strand.
Strands in your comb or brush? On the other hand, normal combing, brushing, and even washing often leaves a few strands or short sections of hair behind. This is because of the hair's natural process of shedding. Each hair on your head has its own natural life span, and only grows so long before it falls out and is replaced by a new strand. Normal shedding leaves up to 100 hairs a week on your pillow, in your hair tools, or on the floor - so don't sweat it. It's actually no problem!
Of course, you should see a dermatologist if you notice continued breakage, split ends that withstand even the gentlest handling, or whole hairs with bulbs attached falling out; this last is likely balding, a much more serious problem. Then take corrective efforts to restore your hair's natural health (hint: we'll post them here, if we haven't already)!
Take care of yourselves,


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Montes Runs Sixth-Fastest 10K Time in Program History
Pirates Send 18 Runners to Compete
East Carolina Hosts its First-Ever AAC Championship Event
Junior Bjork Olsen an NCAA All-Southeast Region Selection
Nine ECU Cross Country Members Are Going To Charlotte
2013: Competed in seven of the team's eight meets during the season ... Claimed seventh place in the 5K at UNC Wilmington's Seahawk Invitational with a time of 19:12.85 in her first appearance of the season ... Clocked a time of 18:50.5 at the Wolfpack Invitational ... Turned in a season-best time of 18:31.23 and finished 36th overall at the C-USA Championship.
2012: Ran in six of the team's seven meets ... Began her collegiate career by clocking in fifth place at the 5K Seahawk Invitational (18:46.31) ... Improved by nearly 20 seconds with an 18:27.9, good for 19th place at the 5K Adidas Invitational ... Ran her best 5K time of the campaign with an 18:21.51 to rank fifth at the ECU Pirate Invitational ... Ran her best 6K time of the season with a 22:44.10 to place 36th in the gold race at the Charlotte Cross Country Invitational ... Ran a 23:10.2 in the 6K NCAA Pre-Nationals ... Finished her XC season with a 23:42.04 at the NCAA Southeast Regional.
High School: A four-year varsity letterwinner for cross country ... Won the junior varsity event in each of her first two years ... Earned the state title as a junior and placed 10th at Nike Nationals ... Also earned a conference and regional title as a junior ... Made all-conference, earned the coach's award ... The team she was part of earned a team conference and regional title ...Served as the squad's team captain as senior ... Coached by Roger Collins and Michael Miragliuolo at Green Hope ... Personal: Planned academic major is nursing with a minor in nutrition ... Full name is Shewit Tekeste Weldense ... Daughter of Genet and Tekeste Weldense ... Has one sibling, Banna.


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Virginia (19-11) vs. #19 Arizona (19-10)
NCAA Pacific Sub-Regional
Dec. 2, 1999
Austin, Texas
Match #30
THIS WEEK: No. 19 Arizona (19-10) makes its sixth NCAA appearance in seven years and its fourth in a row as the Cats travel to Austin, Texas, to take on Virginia in the first round of the Pacific Sub-Regional Thursday at 6 p.m. CST. Should the Cats win, they will take on the winner of the Texas-Houston contest Friday night at 7 p.m. The Longhorns are ranked 15th in the nation.
NCAA NOTES: Arizona played 10 teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament this year, posting a 4-10 mark against them ... This is the Cats' 15th NCAA appearance. Only Stanford (19), UCLA (18) and USC (17) have more in the Pac-10 and only 10 teams nationally have participated in more NCAAs than Arizona ... The Cats are 10-14 overall in the NCAA Tournament and 6-5 under David Rubio ... UA has never advanced beyond the regional semifinals.
WILDCAT NOTES: The Cats rank 20th in the nation in blocking, averaging 3.01 per game, and lead the Pac-10 in aces at 1.66 per game ... Arizona matched its best-ever conference mark of 12-6, set in 1997 and '98. UA's fourth-place finish in league play also equaled its best ever ('98) ... Arizona's eight attack errors at Oregon (11/19) were the fewest by a Wildcat team since UA committed just seven in a sweep vs. BYU on Sept. 28, 1985 ... The Cats swept the Washington schools on the road (11/5-6) for just the fourth time since Pac-10 play started in 1986, but for the second year in a row ... Arizona's 21-19 victory in game five of its match with Washington (11/5) marked the second-longest fifth game in school history. Arizona State defeated Arizona, 24-22, in Tucson on Oct. 15, 1993 ... The Cats took two games and forced three match points against UCLA (10/22) after the Bruins had lost just two games in their first 10 league contests ... Arizona (.220) was the first team to hit better than .200 against UCLA this season ... Arizona faced three consecutive ranked opponents (#17 Southern California, #6 UCLA, #8 Brigham Young) for the first time since November 15-21, 1996 ... Prior to defeating Arizona State (10/30), UA had dropped three straight contests for the first time since Oct. 6-19, 1996 ... The Cats were swept in a home Pac-10 weekend series (vs. USC/UCLA) for the first time since the same two schools did so on Nov. 10 and 12, 1995 ... UCLA sophomore Kristee Porter's 36 kills at Arizona (10/22) were the most ever by a Wildcat opponent ... The Cats' loss to Arizona State (10/1) broke a streak of 24 consecutive matches they had won when they out-hit their opponent ... The Cats' sweep of Oregon (9/17) marked the sixth time they had held a Pac-10 opponent below a .100 hitting percentage in each game of a match ... The 3,874 people in attendance at the Arizona-Nebraska match (9/11) marked the sixth-largest crowd ever to see a Wildcat volleyball contest ... The Cats rank 20th nationally in attendance, averaging 987 fans per match ... Arizona remained fifth in the final District 8 rankings ... The Cats' sweep of No. 18 San Diego (9/4) was their first victory over a ranked opponent since a five-game win at home against No. 7 USC on Nov. 21, 1997, breaking a seven-match losing streak ... Seven of the Cats' 1999 opponents were ranked in the AVCA preseason poll, including three of the top four: Stanford (No. 2); Nebraska (3); and Hawaii (4).
SERIES RECORDS: Arizona and Virginia have never met in women's volleyball. Texas owns a 4-2-1 advantage over the Cats in seven meetings. The teams last met in 1986, with UT sweeping a match in Austin. That's the only time UA has ever played at Texas.
Arizona holds a 6-1 advantage over Houston and won a four-game match from the Cougars in Tucson in their last contest in 1993. Dave Rubio is 2-0 in his career vs. Houston.
SCOUTING VIRGINIA: Virginia is making its second consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament after earning its first ever bid in 1998. The Cavs went 19-11 on the year and lost to Clemson in the semifinals of the ACC Touranment. UVa was 9-7 and finished fourth in the conference during the regular season.
Head coach Melissa Aldrion Shelton's team was led by senior Jessica Parsons' 3.90 kills per game and junior Deanna Zwarich's 3.74 KPG. Senior setter Mary Francis Scott averaged 13.41 assists per game for the Cavs.
SCOUTING TEXAS: No. 15 Texas is making its 18th-straight NCAA Tournament appearance. Only four schools have longer streaks. Head coach Jim Moore led the Longhorns to a 21-7 mark, including a 15-5 record and a second-place finish in the Big 12. Former Wildcat Erin Aldrich leads UT with 4.83 kills and 1.82 blocks per game. Aldrich transfered to Texas following her sophomore season in 1997. Sophomore Kathy Tilson averaged 4.11 kills as well. Texas and Arizona had two common opponents. The Longhorns split two contests with Nebraska and defeated Stanford early in the year. Arizona lost to the Huskers once and to the Cardinal twice.
SCOUTING HOUSTON: Head coach Bill Walton has led Houston to its ninth-consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance. The Cougars finshed 21-10 on the year and went 13-3 in Conference USA. Junior Michelle Frazier paced UH with 314 kills and a .283 hitting percentage. Junior Morgan Wallen averaged 13.06 assists per game for the Cougars.
Houston and Arizona have three common opponents. Both schools lost to Stanford and BYU, and each school defeated South Florida. The Cougars beat USF twice.
LAST YEAR IN THE NCAAs: Arizona swept Fresno State in the first round of play, before falling to host and evenual national champion Long Beach State in the second.
Junior outside hitter Raelene Elam and senior middle blocker Keisha Johnson Demps each posted 16 kills to lead the Cats over the Bulldogs. After pulling out a tough 16-14 victory in game one, UA breezed to 15-9 and 15-11 wins in the last two games.
In game two, LBSU committed just nine attack errors en route to hitting .344 as a team. The 49ers also out-blocked the Cats, 9-4, on their way to a 15-11, 15-4, 15-6 victory.
HEAD COACH DAVID RUBIO: David Rubio (Cal State Northridge '82) is in his eighth season as head coach of the Cats and his 13th year overall. He is 142-86 (.623) with Arizona and has led UA to six NCAA Tournament appearances in the last seven years. Rubio has led the Cats to three consecutive and four total 20-win seasons. He's coached 10 All-Pac-10 and eight academic all-conference athletes. He ranks fifth all-time among Pac-10 coaches in winning percentage. Rubio is 262-151 (.634) overall. Arizona's win over Oregon State (9/16) was the 250th of his career. The Cats' match with Stanford (10/15) marked the 400th contest of his head coaching career. Their opening contest of the season, a victory over UTEP (9/1) was the 200th of Rubio's Arizona career.
CATS' STAFF: Head coach David Rubio is assisted by Charita Johnson (Arizona '94) and Chris Lamb (Sonoma State '98). Johnson is in her fourth season as a Wildcat assistant, while Lamb is in his second year. Volunteer assistant Kevin Jones is in his first season with the UA staff.
CLOSE CALLS: Arizona has missed out on upset victories over three nationally-regarded opponents by the narrowest of margins. On Oct. 22, the Cats had three match points against eventual Pac-10 co-champion and sixth-ranked UCLA before losing in five games. In its next contest four days later, Arizona led No. 11 BYU, two games to one, before falling in five. Then in their opening contest of the Starwoods Plaza Hotel Thanksgiving Invitational Nov. 26, the Cats easily won the first game, 15-4, and led game three 9-4 and 13-10 before losing the game and the match in four.
ALL-PAC-10 TEAM: Junior middle blocker Marisa DaLee and sophomore setter Dana Burkholder have been named to the 1999 All-Pac-10 volleyball team. The Cats join Stanford and UCLA as the only schools with multiple representatives on the 12-player squad.
The honor is DaLee's second in a row, joining Terry Lauchner (1988-89) and Barb Bell (1993, '95-'96) as the only UA players to be named All-Pac-10 more than once. Arizona players have earned 10 All-Pac-10 honors under head coach David Rubio and 13 overall. This marks the third straight season in which the Cats have had two players named to the all-conference squad. Outside hitter Lisa Rutledge earned first-team All-Pac-10 Freshman honors as well as honorable mention All-Pac-10 accolades. Middle blocker Stefani Saragosa was named honorable mention All-Pac-10 Freshman.
DaLEE TIES MARK: Junior middle blocker Marisa DaLee tied the Arizona single-match record for hitting percentage (.750) in the Cats' final regular-season contest vs. Texas-El Paso. DaLee recorded kills in her first nine attempts on her way to a 13-kill, one-error, 16-attempt performance. She did so despite working with three different setters, as head coach David Rubio rotated Dana Burkholder, Lauren Benward and Melayne Wootan into that position.
DaLee, who already held Arizona's single-season (.386 in 1998) and career (.373) records for hitting percentage, has recorded six of the 15 best single-match hitting percentages in Wildcat history. She joined Beth Grupenhoff (vs. BYU, 9/15/82), Tamika Dennis (at San Diego State, 9/10/94) and Michelle Fanger (vs. San Francisco, 9/12/97) as the only UA players to have hit .750 in a match.
ROAD WARRIORS: Arizona went 7-2 in Pac-10 road matches, winning its last six contests away from Tucson. The mark is the best ever by a Wildcat team in road league play. In each of the last two seasons, UA has gone 6-3 on the road in Pac-10 action. Prior to 1997, the Cats had never posted a winning league record away from McKale. Overall, Arizona is 8-3 on the road, losing only to Stanford, UCLA and Nebraska.
SEBBAS SHINES: Subbing for the injured Stefani Saragosa, sophomore middle blocker Erin Sebbas stepped in as if she'd been starting all year. Sebbas, who had just five kills and six blocks in her one-and-a-half year career prior to the Cats' contest vs. Cal (11/12), posted a double-double against the Bears. She hit .381 (10-2-21) and recorded a match-best 10 blocks. She again performed admirably the next night against Stanford, when she led all Cats with five blocks.
JUNIOR NATIONALS: Sophomore Dana Burkholder and freshman Lisa Rutledge missed the last week of preseason practice and the first week (five matches) of the regular season representing the United States at the Junior World Games in Saskatoon and Edmonton, Canada, Aug. 28-Sept. 5. Burkholder, the club's starting setter, had competed for the U.S. team in 1998 as well. UA joined Stanford as the only schools with two players on the team, which qualified for the quarterfinals before being eliminated.
PAC-10 HONORS: Sophomore setter Dana Burkholder was named the Pac-10 Player of the Week (11/8) after leading the Cats to a road sweep of the Washington schools.
Burkholder posted 74 assists and a career-high seven blocks in the Cats' five-game win at Washington (11/5). The assist total was the fifth-best in Arizona history. For the week, Burkholder averaged 14.0 assists per game and totaled 18 digs and 10 blocks. It was the first such honor of her career and the 11th ever by a Wildcat.
TRIPLE-DOUBLE: Sophomore setter Dana Burkholder posted her first career triple-double in the Cats' five-game loss to UCLA (10/22). The Bakersfield, Calif., native recorded a career-high 11 kills to go along with 70 assists (a then-season-best mark) and 14 digs. Her triple-double was the 18th in Arizona history and the fourth by a Wildcat setter. The last UA setter to accomplish the feat was Mary Linton vs. Stanford on Nov. 12, 1989. Earlier this year vs. Santa Clara (9/3), junior Marisa DaLee came within one dig of her first career triple-double.
WASHINGTON SWEEP: Arizona posted several noteworthy numbers in its three-game sweep of Washington (10/7) in Tucson. Among them were: *The Cats' .427 hitting percentage for the match was their fifth-best ever and their second-best in a Pac-10 contest.
*Their .842 hitting percentage (16-0-19) in game two was the Cats' best-ever in a single game, besting the .700 they hit against Texas Tech (in Albuquerque) on Nov. 27, 1993, in game one.
*Junior middle blocker Marisa DaLee's .667 hitting percentage for the match tied for the fifth- (now seventh-) best by an Arizona player.
*The Cats came within one point in game two of its first-ever 15-0 win in a Pac-10 game. It was their fifth 15-1 victory in league play. Arizona has had four 15-0 wins out of league.
DaLEE HONORED: Junior middle blocker Marisa DaLee was named the first 1999 Pac-10 Player of the Week after leading the Cats to a 4-1 mark and a sweep of No. 18 San Diego the week of Sept. 6. It was the second such honor for DaLee, who also won it last Nov. 2, and the 10th ever by a Wildcat. DaLee hit .345 while averaging 4.18 kills and 1.29 blocks per game through the Cats' first five matches of the season. The 6-foot-3 Phoenix native put up those numbers without the assistance of the Cats' regular setter, Dana Burkholder, who missed the week's action while competing for the U.S. Junior National Team at the 10th World Championships in Canada.
INDIVIDUAL NOTES: Erin Sebbas earned honorable mention Academic All-Pac-10 honors ... Marisa DaLee is the only Wildcat to have played in every game this season ... Jill Talbot hit a career-best .600 (10-1-15) at Washington State (11/6) ... Dana Burkholder set a career-high with seven blocks at Washington (11/5) and posted the fifth-best single-match assist total (74) in Arizona history ... Lisa Rutledge's 24 kills in the Washington match were the most by a Wildcat since Keisha Johnson's 25 at Oregon State (11/16/97) ... Marisa DaLee (11) and Raelene Elam (5) both matched their career-highs in blocks at Arizona State (10/30) ... DaLee set a career-high with 21 kills vs. UCLA (10/22) ... In the same match, Elam recorded her career-best in digs with 22 ... Elam posted her career-high hitting percentage mark (.556) vs. Oregon (9/17) ... DaLee passed the 1,000-attempt plateau for her career at Nebraska (9/11), qualifying her for Arizona's hitting percentage leaders list. Her career mark of .373 easily bests former teammate Erin Aldrich's (1996-97) previous standard of .300 ... DaLee's 11 block assists vs. Santa Clara (9/3) tied her for third on the Cats' single-match list ... Shannon Torregrosa became the first Arizona freshman ever to post a double-double in her collegiate debut at UTEP (9/1) ... She is also only the fifth UA freshman ever to start her first match under David Rubio (Heidi Bomberger '93; Allison Napier '97; Burkholder '98; Leslie DuBois '98) ... Burkholder ranks third among active Pac-10 players in career assists. DaLee is eighth in blocks and 10th in kills, and Elam ranks eighth in digs ... Freshman outside hitter Christina Frost is red-shirting the 1999 season.
Arizona in the NCAA Tournament
14 Appearances
Overall Record: 10-14
Under Head Coach David Rubio
5 Appearances
Overall Record: 6-5
Last Year Date Opponent W/L Result Scores (at Long Beach, Calif.) Dec. 3 Fresno State W 3-0 16-14, ,15-9, 15-11 Dec. 4 #1 Long Beach State L 0-3 11-15, 4-15, 6-15


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The Juice Box Camera ($25) would have been soo handy for stealth pictures of Jimmy Vaughn in eighth grade (after all, that yearbook photo was so small)! Or slip the camera in your mini's lunch box for a surprise and a chance to see things through their eyes. We're pretty sure there will be a picture of a cute Math teacher for you in there somewhere. Or keep if for yourself and snap creepy stalker-esque pics of the hot guy across the street mowing his lawn sans shirt. The options are endless. What this? Oh, it's just a juice box...
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Kara asked, "I am looking for inexpensive jelly shoes for the summer. The problem is I wear a size 11 and I can't seem to find anyone that has jellies in that size, for a reasonable price (I'd like to spend less than $40). Any suggestions? Thank you so much!"
Oooh, nice challenge, Kara! This one was fun - there are a lot of jelly shoes out there, and a lot under $60, or even $40, but not a lot of size 11s. We call size-ism, shoe industry! Anyhoo, here are a few of our faves...
1 - Madden Girl Gabbyy ($40, in 3 colors)
2 - BCBGeneration Marlena Sandals ($39, in 4 colors)
3 - Women's Nina Duffy Jelly Sandals ($33, in 3 colors)
4 - Gap Jelly T-Strap Sandals ($20, in 3 colors)
5 - See by Chloe Ankle-Wrap Jelly Thongs ($52 on sale, in 2 colors)
6 - Hot in Hollywood T-Strap Jelly Sandal with Jewels ($20, in 4 colors)
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Hiding in Plain Sight
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A tongue in cheek exploration of the concept that dragons have fooled humans into thinking they do not exist. With a child-like approach, the photos and text illustrate how dragons are hiding in plain sight.
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