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I'm fairly new to UX and very new to UX research. I'm working on a research project involving hundreds of user interviews, so we will have several hundred textual transcripts to sort through and derive meaning from. I haven't seen the data or interview questions yet, so I don't have a lot of information to share here.
Does anybody out there have suggestions for how to approach this? Tools or methodologies you work with? off the top of my head, I imagine tagging responses with keywords, then doing something with a spreadsheet, recording interview question numbers and corresponding keywords to start.
thanks for your input!
Even 6-12 people is often enough to get the insights you need.
If you keep seeing the same things over and over in the smaller sample
you analyze, you are probably done.
If you are stuck with making sense of hundreds of interviews, there is software for the job - look for Nvivo or NUD.IST from QSR.
You can write your own script to do some basic Nature Language Processing stuff.

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When the ancestors of the Motto family emigrated to England following the Norman Conquest in 1066 they brought their family name with them. They lived in Essex. The name, however, descends from the family's place of residence prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, Mott a town in Cotes du Nord, Normandy.
The surname Motto was first found in Essex, where the family held a family seat from very early times, having been granted lands by Duke William of Normandy, their liege Lord, for their distinguished assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D.
Spelling variations in names were a common occurrence in the eras before English spelling was standardized a few hundred years ago. In the Middle Ages, even the literate regularly changed the spellings of their names as the English language incorporated elements of French, Latin, and other European languages. Many variations of the name Motto have been found, including Mott, Motte, Mote, De Mott, De Motte, Demott and others.
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For many English families, the social climate in England was oppressive and lacked opportunity for change. For such families, the shores of Ireland, Australia, and the New World beckoned. They left their homeland at great expense in ships that were overcrowded and full of disease. Many arrived after the long voyage sick, starving, and without a penny. But even those were greeted with greater opportunity than they could have experienced back home. Numerous English settlers who arrived in the United States and Canada at this time went on to make important contributions to the developing cultures of those countries. Many of those families went on to make significant contributions to the rapidly developing colonies in which they settled. Early North American records indicate many people bearing the name Motto were among those contributors: Adam Mott, who arrived with his wife Sarah and five children in Boston in 1635; Nathaniel Mott, who arrived in New England in 1681; Peter Mott, who came to New York in 1711.
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In a letter dated July 26, Castro alluded to allegations that Cuba may have violated U.N. sanctions against the Asian nation, calling them an attempt to defame his country.
"In recent days there was an attempt to slander our Revolution, trying to portray (President Raul Castro) as tricking the United Nations and other heads of state," Castro wrote.
Addressed to foreign leaders who attended Friday's celebration marking the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban Revolution, the letter also reaffirmed Cuba's stated opposition to nuclear weapons.
The Panamanian government on July 16 announced the discovery of missiles and other military equipment on the North Korean-flagged freighter Chong Chon Gang, underneath a shipment of sugar.
Cuba said they were aging defensive weaponry including surface-to-air missile systems, fighter jets and engines that were being sent to North Korea for repairs.
State-run website Cubadebate said Castro gave the letter to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at a meeting between the two men Friday.
Cubadebate published photographs this weekend of Maduro and Castro, who wore a white warm-up jacket over a plaid collared shirt.
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* Ken Chen
> We've seen long standing performance regression on sys_execve for several
> upstream kernels, largely on workload that does heavy execve. The main
> reason for the regression was due to a change in sched_exec load balance
> heuristics. For example, on 2.6.11 kernel, the "exec" task will run on
> the same cpu if that is the only task running. However, 2.6.13 and onward
> kernels will go around the sched-domain looking for most idle CPU (which
> doesn't treat task exec'ing as an idle CPU). Thus bouncing the exec'ing
> task all over the place which leads to poor CPU cache and numa locality.
> (The workload happens to share common data between subsequent exec program).
> This execve heuristic was removed in upstream kernel by this git commit:
> commit 68767a0ae428801649d510d9a65bb71feed44dd1
> Author: Nick Piggin
> Date: Sat Jun 25 14:57:20 2005 -0700
> [PATCH] sched: schedstats update for balance on fork
> Add SCHEDSTAT statistics for sched-balance-fork.
> >From the commit description, it appears that deleting the heuristics
> was an accident, as the commit is supposedly just for schedstats.
> So, restore the sched-exec load balancing if exec'ing task is the only
> task running on that specific CPU. The logic make sense: newly exec
> program should continue to run on current CPU as it doesn't change any
> load imbalance nor does it help anything by bouncing to another idle
> CPU. By keeping on the same CPU, it preserves cache and numa locality.
> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen
> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
> index e8819bc..4ad1907 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -2873,7 +2873,12 @@ out:
> */
> void sched_exec(void)
> {
> - int new_cpu, this_cpu = get_cpu();
> + int new_cpu, this_cpu;
> +
> + if (this_rq()->nr_running <= 1)
> + return;
> +
> + this_cpu = get_cpu();
> new_cpu = sched_balance_self(this_cpu, SD_BALANCE_EXEC);
> put_cpu();
> if (new_cpu != this_cpu)
ok, this should be solved - but rather at the level of
sched_balance_self(): it should never migrate this task over to
another cpu, it should take away this task's load from the current
CPU's load when considering migration.
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The fight sequences are briskly choreographed at least, gruesome though they are -- and, to be honest, that goes a long way in a film such as this. In fact they may be the only reason to see it, other than the chance to see Van Damme in full Col. Kurtz mode, all face-painted and droopy-eyed and bat-poop crazy.
Hyams's film, which may at first seem like a glorified VOD entry in a forgotten franchise starring has-been action stars, is an admirably tense sci-fi/horror adventure that somehow turns its considerable limitations into virtues.
An intensity of purpose and a patient, suspenseful directing style make the B-movie Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning superior to most of the big-budget action films I've seen lately.


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Currently, Registre is the program director at Plan International USA for the Because I am a Girl campaign, which creates sustainable projects in developing countries to give girls access to the most basic of human rights: clean water, food, healthcare, education, financial security, and protection from violence and exploitation.
In 2008, she served as the director of policy and outreach for WfWI in London, where she expanded its reach in the U.K. and in other regions of greater Europe. Previously, she worked in various capacities for the International Foundation for Election Systems and Africare.
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On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a deadly shootout. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral would shape how future generations came to view the Old West. Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons became the stuff of legends, symbolic of a frontier populated by good guys in white hats and villains in black ones. It's a colorful story—but the truth is even better.
Drawing on new material from private collections—including diaries, letters, and Wyatt Earp's own hand-drawn sketch of the shootout's conclusion—as well as archival research, Jeff Guinn gives us a startlingly different and far more fascinating picture of what actually happened that day in Tombstone and why less
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April 2011 Waterfowl Gear Guide
Waterfowl are arriving on the breeding grounds, signifying the first stages of spring. Spring is a time for waterfowlers to reflect on past seasons and, of course, begin stockpiling gear for next year. The E-news Editorial Team has chosen specific gear which may improve your preparation, hunts, and help preserve memories from the field.
Kodak Playsport Video Camera / Zx3
The Kodak Playsport offers the capabilities to fully document your days in the field in 1080p HD. Video, software that will cut out still images, and with its waterproof design, you won't hesitate to take it with during extreme weather.
Waterproof up to 10 feet
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Record up to 10 hours of HD video with expandable SD/SDHC card slot (up to 32 GB)
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Retriever training never ends. The spring is great time to focus on tough retrieves by utilizing training dummies in different scenarios. Weighted for easy throwing, these training tools simulate actual game size and weight, and the absorption of the canvas holds game scents well.
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A juvenile snowy owl was found with a broken wing at Quonset State Airport in North Kingstown and turned over to wildlife rehabilitators.
The Arctic species is not usually seen in Rhode Island but has been spotted more over the past year.
The young male was found on the runway around 7 a.m. Tuesday and brought to the Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island, in North Kingstown, according to clinic director Jennifer Brooks.
A veterinarian reset the broken radius, and the bird is now recovering at Born to Be Wild Nature Center in Westerly.
�The bone should heal pretty well,� said Brooks.
No planes had flown that morning or the previous evening, said Brooks. Just one helicopter took off.
�It�s anybody�s guess as to how the bird broke its wing,� she said.
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Leslie Roy Lederer
93, resident of Marana and Tucson since 1967, passed away April, 26, 2013. He was born on the homestead September 3, 1919, to George and Ella Lederer near Conrad, Montana. By age nine, he was driving the tractor - working along with his brothers and their father. After graduating high school at 16, he went to CCC camp and worked in the Glacier Park area along with his brother, Warren, cutting trees and building roads. Later he moved to Los Angeles where he worked at Lockheed Aircraft assembling P-38 fighter planes as a riveter. He joined the Navy 57th Construction Batallion (Seabees.) In the South Pacific he helped clear land for roads and airstrips and built refrigerated Quonsets which would hold supplies for armed forces in the area. After the war he and his brother Bob purchased, in partnership, farm land near their parents' farm with their savings and the GI Bill that would help them get through their first year with $200 for each family each month for living and farm expenses. He married Helen Hostetter in 1947. In 1967 they sold the farm in Montana and moved to Marana and he soon found work with ASARCO at Silverbell mine where he worked until he retired in 1981. He is preceded in death by his son, Charles Thomas; his second wife, Jeanne; his brothers, Warren (Mary), Harry (Dolores), Clair and his sister, Elsie Lederer Johnson; sister-in-law, Dee wife of brother, Bob; nephew, Fred (Margaret) Lederer and his companion of 11 years, Helen Cesarek. He is survived by sons, Bill (Ruth) of Lake Bluff, IL, Lou (former wife Cindy) Tucson, Joe (Lorene) of San Carlos, CA and daughter, Leslie B. (David) Bohm of Tucson; brother, Bob of Springdale, AR and brother-in-law, Burt (Dort Lederer) Johnson of Conrad, MT and his first wife, Helen of Tucson. Seven grandchildren mourn his passing, Aleksa and Adam of Chicago, Scott and Sarah of Tucson, Charlie and Everett of San Carlos and Linda Bohm of Tucson. He is also survived by 20 nieces and nephews, their spouses, children and grandchildren, his step-daughters, Donna Murphy, Carole Ellison and Jacque Ellison and Cindy Hulsey, like a daughter. A Memorial Service will be held Saturday, May 18, 2013 at Fountain of Life Lutheran Church, 710 S. Kolb Rd. at 11:00 a.m. Arrangements by BRING'S BROADWAY CHAPEL.


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The message "don't drink and drive" has been around for decades. Gov. John Kasich has updated the message for 2012 with the Ohio State Highway Patrol serving as his enforcement arm.
The danger is real any day of the week and any time of the day, according to Sgt. Garic Warner, of the Marietta post of the state highway patrol.
The potential for a catastrophe by driving intoxicated should be a deterrent, but the numbers show violations remain a problem in our area and around our state.
Across Ohio, arrests on charges of operating a motor vehicle intoxicated totaled 23,708, an increase of 7 percent from 2010. In Washington County, state troopers made 277 arrests for OVI. So far this year, the number of arrests was at 60. Clearly, officials say, drivers who drink remain a threat on local highways.
New this year is the state's hotline number - #677 - to report a suspected drunk driver. Warner says the patrol is committed to checking out citizen reports of suspected driving under the influence.
The patrol's sobriety checkpoints will continue throughout the year to emphasize that drivers aren't intoxicated behind the wheel. The first of three planned checkpoints will be set up in May, Warner said.
We agree with Marietta Police Capt. Jeff Waite, who says he'd like to see more checkpoints set up in the city. The focus is to make the streets safer.
The public's role against impaired driving is vital, too, according to Lt. Mary Pfeifer, commander of the Marietta patrol post.
Law enforcement officials at all levels emphasize how important we can be to fighting the problem by doing the following:
- Influence friends and family to make responsible decisions about safety.
- Designate a driver when going out.
- Insist that everyone in the vehicle buckle up.
But all the checkpoints, #677 calls, and OVI citations won't do as much as taking personal responsibility by not driving impaired in the first place.


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It's unknown yet whether this is a sign of his return, but senior linebacker Tyler Replogle is listed as the starting strongside linebacker on the depth chart this week. In another interesting change, Mitch Ewald is listed as the starting kicker ahead of Nick Freeland, who has missed the last two games with a hip injury.
The rest of the starters mostly remain the same, but there are some interesting shifts among the backups. After starting at right guard on Saturday, Justin Pagan is listed as the backup at left guard again. Cody Faulkner who had been listed as the backup right guard, is no longer on the depth chart, replaced by redshirt freshman Pat McShane.
The rest of the depth chart follows.
72 Andrew McDonald, 6-6, 306, Sr./Jr.
77 Josh Hager, 6-9, 302, Sr./Jr.
66 Aaron Price, 6-4, 305, So./Fr.
70 Justin Pagán, 6-5, 308, Jr./Jr.
60 Will Matte, 6-2, 293, Jr./So.
62 Jordan Marquette, 6-3, 285, Sr./5th
65 Marc Damisch, 6-7, 317, Jr./So.
67 Pat McShane, 6-5, 301, So./Fr.
73 James Brewer, 6-8, 331, Sr./5th
70 Justin Pagán, 6-5, 308, Jr./Jr.
88 Damarlo Belcher, 6-5, 210, Jr./Jr.
84 Jamonne Chester, 6-1, 202, So./Fr.
1 Terrance Turner, 6-3, 209, Sr./5th
13 Kofi Hughes, 6-2, 200, Fr./Fr.
2 Tandon Doss, 6-3, 200, Jr./Jr.
81 Duwyce Wilson, 6-3, 196, So./Fr.
4 Ben Chappell, 6-3, 242, Sr./5th
8 Dusty Kiel, 6-2, 230, So./Fr.
7 Edward Wright-Baker, 6-1, 221, So./Fr.
28 Darius Willis, 6-0, 224, Jr./So.
21 Trea Burgess, 6-1, 226, Sr./5th
26 Nick Turner, 6-0, 188, So./Fr.
41 Max Dedmond, 6-5, 257, Sr./Jr.
83 Ted Bolser, 6-6, 252, So./Fr.
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44 Darius Johnson, 6-0, 252, Sr./Jr.
34 Kevin Bush, 6-3, 248, Jr./So.
97 Larry Black, Jr., 6-2, 326, Jr./So.
75 Nicholas Sliger, 6-3, 286, Jr./So.
69 Mick Mentzer, 6-4, 303, Jr./So.
55 Deonte Mack, 6-3, 281, Sr./5th
DE (Anchors)
98 Adam Replogle, 6-3, 295, So./So.
93 Fred Jones, 6-4, 272, Sr./Jr.
42 Chad Sherer, 6-0, 222, Jr./So.
33 Damon Sims, 6-3, 224, So./Fr.
48 Leon Beckum, 5-11, 235, Sr./Jr.
53 Jeff Thomas, 6-1, 245, Sr./Jr.
46 Tyler Replogle, 6-2, 239, Sr./Sr.
39 Brandon McGhee, 6-1, 235, Sr./Jr.
15 Matt Ernest, 6-2, 189, Sr./Jr.
23 Adrian Burks, 6-0, 185, Sr./5th
10 Donnell Jones, 5-10, 223, Sr./Jr.
22 Lenyatta Kiles, 5-11, 196, Jr./Jr.
5 Mitchell Evans, 6-3, 206, Sr./Sr.
20 Lawrence Barnett, 5-10, 189, So./Fr.
6 Richard Council, 6-1, 198, Sr./5th
7 Andre Kates, 5-11, 195, Sr./Jr.
16 Mitch Ewald, 5-10, 179, So./Fr.
99 Nick Freeland, 5-11, 192, Jr./So.
12 Chris Hagerup, 6-5, 203, Sr./Jr.
10 Adam Pines, 6-0, 184, Jr./So.
95 Jeff Sanders, 6-4, 230, Sr./5th
56 Josh Keyt, 6-1, 243, So./Fr.
17 Teddy Schell, 6-5, 229, Sr./Jr.
8 Dusty Kiel, 6-2, 230, So./Fr.
2 Tandon Doss, 6-3, 200, Jr./Jr.
81 Duwyce Wilson, 6-3, 196, So./Fr.
26 Nick Turner, 6-0, 188, So./Fr.
2 Tandon Doss, 6-3, 200, Jr./Jr.
1 Terrance Turner, 6-3, 209, Sr./5th
81 Duwyce Wilson, 6-3, 196, So./Fr.
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I notice Council is still first on the chart. Is there not another kid on the team that can play safety so that Kiles can move back to CB? Surely they can shake that up a little. I am currently trying to picture Council, Jones, Evans, and Ernest trying to tackle Robinson. I pray Replogle is healthy and can make the difference and that the coaching staff will have a kid "spy" on Robinson in situations that need it.
J Pat, I agree! I'm told Council is a great kid and works hard in practice. But, the unfortunate reality is that he has not shown any ability to perform at the B10 level. This is not a particularly unusual situation…many kids do well in practice but under perform on game day and I think that may be what we have in Richard.
J Pat, the situations where IU will need to spy Robinson is any time Michigan has the ball and he is in the game. I hope the staff is smart enough to realize that.
As far as Council, couldn't agree w/ you guys more. For anyone who has followed IU, it's truly one of those maddening, head-scratching things. He has given us three years of shockingly awful football, and everyone sees it but the coaches. Without fail, it's brought up weekly on the post-game call-in-show by at least one caller. His "attempt" at a tackle on that big 2nd half pass play last year at Northwestern was the single worst effort I've ever seen on the football field–and I've been an IU fan my entire life. How could he ever play another down after that? It's things like that that make it so hard to believe in this staff. It's only a matter of time before he gives up a game-winning touchdown late in some game. No matter, he'll be out there the next week, ready to shake his head and talk trash after he makes his one and only tackle of the day. The only thing that will keep him off the field next year is that fact that he is finally a senior this year.
I have always been a numbers guy and they can be misleading depending on what and how you measure them. Take Mitchell Evans- Safety has 17 tackles and assists,then Council has 7 tackles/assists. Council is actually 10th on the list for the team.
OK,but there are only 11 starters,so he is 10th out of 11 starters.
Evans plays safety in the back field and he is 2nd on the defensive team that starts. So maybe Council is not as bad as we think? WRONG!!!!!
Stop stating tackle/assists made and start counting how many times a player misses a tackle and how many times he missed one for a loss and you would find out just how bad he is. This is a defensive coaching issue!!! It's not Council's problem. It's the defensive coach not seeing and not replacing him before now. Councel loves football so he is not going to remove his self
from the starting position. If we the fan's can see it the coach has to know. Come on Coach!!
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After a hiatus of about 50 years, Rye's Memorial Day parade returned to Purchase Street on Monday.
"This is a wonderful crowd. It's by far the biggest I've seen in the 12 years I've been doing this," said Commander Thomas M. Saunders of American Legion Post 128, which sponsored the parade with the help of its ladies auxiliary. "This parade is the first one we've had since the early 1960s and, from the looks of this, I think it's going to be institutionalized."
Local marching organizations, bands and Rye's own war veterans took to the streets to honor those who died in wars fought by American soldiers. Members of the Rye Historical Society and the Rye Chamber of Commerce, Rye Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, Rye Girls Softball players, drummers from Rye High School, a fleet of vintage cars and members of the Rye City fire and police departments traveled from Station Plaza down Purchase Street and ended up on the Village Green for the city's traditional Memorial Day services.
In leading his first Memorial Day services as holder of Rye's top elected office, Mayor Joe Sack took the opportunity to congratulate American Legion 128 Auxiliary president Robin Phelps-Latimer for her work to resurrect the long-dormant parade.
"I am told the Memorial Day parade is an old Rye tradition that somehow went away, but you all are living, breathing, marching proof the patriotic fervor and the community pride that once made the parade so great was still coursing just beneath the surface of our town," Sack, a Republican, said, "All it needed to come gushing forth once again was the inspiration and dedication of a few good neighbors with strong links to our past."
Sack also thanked auxiliary member Nancy Collins and Legion members George Szczerba and Dan Somma, and the rest of the Legion for its effort, which began when it presented the idea to the City Council last year.
A number of local officials, as well as state and county representatives with Rye roots, were in attendance at Monday's festivities, including City Council members Julie Killian, Richard Slack and Richard Mecca, county Legislator Catherine Parker, state Assemblyman and former Rye Mayor Steve Otis and state Sen. George Latimer, husband of Robin.
As guest speaker for this year's ceremonies, Sheri Jordan, executive director of the Rye Historical Society, described her experience putting together the "Rye in World War II" exhibit currently open at the Square House Historical Museum, which she said gave her a unique experience to understand the histories of Rye's departed soldiers. "Memorial Day is about remembering those who have given their lives fighting in the uniform of the United States Armed Forces in wars near and far," Jordan said. "For most of us though, this remembering remains abstract. It's something we do reflexively without stopping to think why, like saying amen at the end of a prayer."
Talking to World War II veterans from Rye, recording their histories and collecting their artifacts and memorabilia helped bring home the gravity of their sacrifices as it never had before, Jordan said.
This year, the Legion awarded its annual Americanism Award to residents Chris Maloney and Daniel Kelly, a veteran, for their work on RyeWW2.org, a website they created to gather information and solicit biographies for the "Rye in WWII" exhibit, which opened last Memorial Day.
The Legion also gave out awards to the winners of the annual John M. Kingery Memorial Essay Contest. Rye High School student Kana White received first place for her patriotic essay and students Madeleine Albanese and John O'Keefe were named runners-up. Three Rye Eagle Scouts—Evan Clark, Jacob Nurik and Harrison Steins—were also recognized for their achievements at Monday's ceremony.
At the program's conclusion, WWII veteran and Legion member John Carolin, 98, gave the annual reading of the Roll of Honor, the names of Rye citizens who died in World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
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College of Idaho President Marv Henberg will give his final State of the College address on Sept. 10, discussing the College's recent successes and exciting future as the Caldwell liberal arts college prepares to appoint a new president in 2015.
Henberg, who became the College's 12th president in 2009, will retire in June of next year. His final State of the College address will begin at 4 p.m. inside the Langroise Center for the Visual and Performing Arts on campus. The address is open to the media and the public.
After more than 20 years amusing audiences with their one-of-a-kind Greenshows, the Fool Squad is taking a break from the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. The Fools—Tom Willmorth and C of I theatre professor Joe Golden—recently were featured in an Idaho Statesman article by arts and entertainment reporter Dana Oland. Click here to read the article at www.idahostatesman.com.
The College of Idaho and Idaho State University launched a historic collaboration today, the first day of instruction for the schools' joint Master's in Physician Assistant Studies program. Twelve students inside newly renovated West Hall on the C of I campus in Caldwell joined 30 on Idaho State's Pocatello campus and 30 more on ISU's satellite Meridian campus in the program, which links the three classrooms through distance learning technology.
The College of Idaho's mathematics-computer science program is in its infancy, but that hasn't stopped its first two alumni—Greg Johnson and Dharmjeet Rattan—from thriving in the professional world.
The two 2014 graduates, who were beginning their senior year when the program was launched, both have found work in the Atlanta, Ga., offices of the human resource software company EPI-USE.
College of Idaho alumna Hailey Smith '08 had very little idea of what her future would when she arrived at the C of I.
"As I neared graduation from high school, I had an interest in archeology, probably stemming from books and movies that gave me a romanticized idea of what an archeologist is," Smith recalls. "Since the College didn't have an archeology program, I signed up for the closest thing: Cultural Anthropology 101."
The College of Idaho football team is set to hold its inaugural Purple and Gold Scrimmage on Monday, Aug. 25 – less than two weeks before the Coyotes return to competition after a 37-year hiatus. The scrimmage, which is free and open to the public, kicks off at 6 p.m. inside the newly renovated Simplot Stadium. Gates open at 4:30 p.m. and there will be a special pregame program beginning at 5:30 p.m.
The College of Idaho's Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History is pleased to present Bug Day, the annual celebration of insects that is becoming one of the museum's signature events. Bug Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, at the Idaho Botanical Garden in Boise. Admission is $8 for adults and $4 for children and IBG members.
When College of Idaho senior Courtney Indart began a Washington, D.C. internship last winter with Innovations in Civic Participation, her goal was to gain experience with international relations and professional development. What she didn't know was that her time in the nation's capital would lead to an opportunity to travel to Japan this summer for a civic engagement project she and her fellow ICP interns helped organize.
The College of Idaho has published its summer 2014 issue of 'Quest' magazine, which hits mailboxes this week. For the first time, the magazine is a special edition photo issue, full of pictures that tell current news stories and also reflect upon the College's 123-year history.
Last September, Campus Safety Lt. Ben Mosley '07 had come in on his day off to look at the schedule when a man ran into the office screaming, "Man down! Man down!"
Mosley and Corporal Zach Barker '11 looked out to the tennis courts to see Jack Davis motionless on the ground.
While Barker dialed 911, Mosley grabbed a portable defibrillator and strapped it to Davis' chest.
The device analyzed Davis' pulse and came back with the reading: "shock advised."
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After exploring techniques to improve the overall photo, Chris shares his techniques for reducing wrinkles, enhancing eyes and other facial features, improving hair, and retouching makeup. The course concludes with a look at retouching skin and reshaping portions of a portrait using transformations, the Warp tool, and the Liquify filter.
- Using selections and cloning to remove small distractions
- Removing lint
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- Removing tan lines
- Correcting tone with Curves and masking
- Burning and dodging
- Reducing wrinkles
- Enhancing eyes
- Whitening teeth
- Fixing flyaway hairs
- Adding and changing makeup
- Softening and adding a glow to skin
- Reshaping the body subtly
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Here we're going to continue to work on this mini project, and what I want to do next is I want to remove some of the small little variations that we see in the skin, so that we can finish this project off and so that we can darken those highlights even more. The next step is going to be to create a new layer. I'll click on the New Layer icon and I'm not going to name this layer and you'll see why in a minute. Next, let's select our Spot Healing Brush and what you want to do is just do some of your basic spot healing. We need to do this before we perform the next step, because it will be important that we've a couple of good clean areas of skin to work with.
So again, I'm just going to go through and work on a couple of these small little blemishes. This is the typical thing that we do when we start off with our retouching. We just clicked through any little variation or blemish that we want to reduce or remove. There it is before and after. Next, we'll decrease the opacity a little bit there, just to diminish those small little elements. Well now that I have done all that, I want to merge all that I've done to a separate or new layer. To create a new layer, we're going to do this by way of a shortcut. It's a really long shortcut but it's one of those shortcuts you just have to learn for people retouching. Here it is. Press Shift+Option+Command+N, E on the Mac, or Shift+Alt+Ctrl+N, E on Windows.
This then merges everything we've done to the top. Now that we've done that what I want to do then is I want to flatten or merge together all of these underlying layers. The reason why I needed to do this is because this layer had a certain opacity; it was a low. These other layers had low opacities as well. So we merge to top. Now we click on the layer. Hold down the Shift key and click on the bottom layer, and then we're going to flatten these or compress these, so that these are now going to become only one layer.
To do that, press Command+E on the Mac or Ctrl+E on Windows. Next, we'll rename this retouch. So this then contains all that we've done so far. Well, in order to finish this project off, what I'm going to do then is duplicate this. We had to do those somewhat complicated steps of merging and flattening so that we could then finish this off and have a copy of all that we had done, and also so we could kind of simplify our layers here. Here in this topmost layer, I'll go ahead and name this one hotspots, and then I'm going to select the Patch tool. The Patch tool does a phenomenal job at selecting large areas and helping you to adjust those.
So here what we're going to do is make a selection of these brighter tones on the forehead, and then we'll click and drag down. That's why we needed to clean up this area of our photograph. Next, deselect by pressing Command+D or Ctrl+ D and then make some more selections to try to fix up your edges. Now if this looks a little bit overdone or if it's kind of changed the overall shape of your image, don't worry too much about that because we'll be fading this adjustment in just a few minutes. Here I'm just circling a few different areas to try to even things out.
Next with the nose, I'll go ahead and select that hotspot and then click and drag to a darker area of the image, may be over here, and then also on that area as well. So again, just making a few little selections over these brighter tone areas and then deselect by pressing Command+D on the Mac, Ctrl+D on Windows. Now I know right now it doesn't look very good. Here is our before and after. But once again, we're going to decrease opacity, and by decreasing opacity with this patch, you could really start to have nice texture and tone up here.
Take a look at that before and then now after. We were able to dial back the brightness of that area and what this does is it almost acts kind of like a little bit of powder. If you had powdered that bright or shiny spot on someone's face, and this works on all different types of situations. While this technique is a little bit involved, it does lead us to really helping to be able to remove that, so that if we zoom out a little bit, now we can focus a bit more on the eyes. There isn't as much competing light kind of taking our attention; these hotspots aren't attracting our eyes as much. And as you create effects like this, of course, you will want to experiment with your overall opacity, because sometimes you can find that you can remove too much of that. It can remove a little bit of the drama of the picture. Here it is our before and then now our after.


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We celebrate throughout the year. We walk through the village to deliver baskets of flowers in May and noisily parade dragons for the lunar New Year. Each childs birthday is an occasion celebrated by a gift of a handmade felted crown and a delicious cake made by classmates. All of these special days mark the passage of time and season and connect the children to a larger world of diverse cultures and traditions.
As knowledgeable early childhood educators, we believe children learn by doing. They join in baking bread, stirring soup, and gathering tomatoes from our lovely organic garden. Ours are happy, sturdy children.
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El Niño Transforms Vibrant, Living Pacific Marine Reserve Into Coral GraveyardEl Niño's super warm water has turned what had been one of the world's most lush and isolated tropical marine reserve into a coral graveyard.
Snow That Stalled Sierra Traffic Could Return Saturday AfternoonBy Friday night, about 13 inches of snow had fallen at Kingvale and forecasters said more snow may arrive Saturday afternoon.
Rare Waterspout Touches Down On Lake BerryessaA fisherman on Lake Berryessa in Napa County didn't catch any trout Wednesday, but he did capture video of a rare waterspout.
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Christian metal act My Darkest Time has revealed the cover artwork for the band's upcoming album "My Thoughts," which is set to be released later this month through Divine Metal Distro. The artwork for "My Thoughts" can be viewed at this location. My Darkest Time is also streaming a sample online from the upcoming album, which can be heard via the band's MySpace page.
My Darkest Time To Release New Material
Zarko Atanasov of Christian metal act My Darkest Time has issued the following update about releasing new material:
"Two new albums recorded this year: The first one 'My Thoughts' will be the first album released on CD through Open Grave Records, the style is doom/death metal, all keys, symphonies, female vocals, etc. from the previous demo album will not appear on these albums, symphonic doom/gothic style is replaced into Wipe Away project.
"The second album it's named 'Shun Evil' it's extreme metal album, every song has new and different concept... Also will be one more song with Carlos(Exousia) on solo guitar, some songs with previous female vocalists... etc. Some new songs from the upcoming albums are uploaded on the player."


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Although not usually ranked among the most charming of earth's creatures, bats nonetheless comprise one of the important groups of animals that can pollinate plants. Species belonging to about one-third of the bat genera have been observed visiting flowers in darkness, to lap the sugary nectar and eat protein-rich pollen. Nearly all species of these nectarivorous pollinators belong either to family Pteropodidae (the fruit bats and flying foxes, especially in the subfamily of macroglossine bats) or family Phyllostomidae (the leaf-nosed bats, especially in the subfamily of glossophagine bats). Flying from sundown to sunrise, these aerial mammals are able to find appropriate flowers, even on moonless nights. Thus, they exploit a nighttime food resource different from that of the night-active hawkmoths (see MEMBG Newsletter 4, Winter) and the many different daytime pollinators, such as hummingbirds (see MEMBG Newsletter 3, Summer).
Currently 966 species of bats are recognized, making this the second largest radiation of mammals, after rodents. Textbooks classify all bat species as belonging to the order Chiroptera (meaning hand-winged), composed of two major groups: suborder Megachiroptera or megabats, including just family Pteropodidae; and suborder Microchiroptera or microbats, consisting of all other bats now classified into 18 families, including Phyllostomidae. There have been suggestions that bats evolved independently twice, but recent analyses of molecular data, derived from sophisticated analyses of nucleic acids, all indicate that bats evolved only once.
Most bat species are insectivorous, i.e., they are insect eaters. From insects they obtain protein. It is clear that flower visitation is a derived behavior, having evolved separately, therefore convergently, in the two suborders. Most likely, it developed as a specialization from frugivory, i.e., fruit eating, but possibly a specialization directly from insectivory. Even within suborder Microchiroptera, nectarivory has evolved numerous times. Microbats shifted to visiting flowers instead of catching flying insects to obtain protein and often lipids from pollen, but they gain protein also by consuming insects found on the flower parts and in the nectar. Most nectarivorous species live in the tropics or subtropics; bat pollination does not occur in Europe and temperate North America, nor in South Africa, with the exception of the morning glory Ipomoea albivena. Bat pollination is virtually absent in Australia south of Queensland. Nectariferous bats have been observed pollinating species just below the puna vegetation of the high Andes.
Flowers that are pollinated by bats may have a very strong, fruity, nocturnal fragrance or are often described as smell musky or "batty," or like products of fermentation, and nectarivorous bats tend to have a moderate- to well-developed sense of smell. The fruit-eating bats of Megachiroptera, especially, utilize olfaction to locate flowers as well as fruits, and they key on odors of esters, alcohols, aldehydes, and aliphatic acids, particularly butyric acid, as cues for locating food resources. Many microbats use smell to identify prey items; the phyllostomids seem to have the keenest olfactory sense, which is most developed in the flower-visiting spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomis stenops.
If you can picture the shape of the bat's head, with a projecting muzzle, you can imagine that a bat flower might properly be firm, large, wide-mouthed, and bell-shaped or dish-shaped. The bat forces its head into the flower through a mass of pollen-bearing anthers, trying to reach a deep nectary with its long tongue. The night-opening flowers of certain giant cacti, such as saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) and organpipe cactus (Stenocereus thurberi) in Arizona, and cardón (Pachycereus pringlei) in nearby Sonora, Mexico, are perfect models of this design. These cacti are pollinated by Leptonycteris curasoae, a species entirely dependent on nectar and pollen for its existence and feeding on a broad range of plants from Central America through the American Southwest. Such bat flowers are white, cream-colored, or green, but may also be purplish to red or pink. Bats apparently have only rods in their eyes, and hence are considered to be colorblind and therefore are attracted to drab-colored flowers. The animal may hover, but also can perch and then hold onto the strong, sterile parts of the flower while feeding. One evidence of bat visitation is the present the next morning of thumb claw marks on the flower.
Another flower design for chiropterophily (pollination by bats) is termed the brush type, pincushion, or shaving brush type. This may be a large flower with many stamens, as in the African baobab (Adansonia digitata), which may have 2,000 stamens, or an inflorescence of many clustered flowers with showy stamens and essentially no corollas (petals), as in the legume Parkia clappertoniana in tropical Africa. Many brush-type, bat-pollinated flowers are found among the myrtles (Myrtaceae), sapotes (Sapotaceae), and mimosoid legumes (Mimosaceae), and the bats eat the stamens of these flowers. Some of the chiropterophilous species of Agave, which are said to smell somewhat like cabbage, are more like brushes than bell-shaped, and the bat-pollinated feh'i banana (Musa fehi), probably originally from New Caledonia and cultivated in the Pacific islands, has bracts that spread apart at night. As you might suspect, not every bat-visited flower fits the syndrome of characteristics.
Bats would have difficulty navigating within cluttered vegetation when flying in the dark at high speeds. Nectarivorous species tend to have a broad wing form with long tips that enable slower travel and even hovering at the face of the flower. Plants that use bats as pollinators most often place flowers in locations where the bat is less likely to be injured. Some bat flowers are formed at the tip of the canopy, as is the case with tall cacti. Some hang below the foliage on long, pendulous inflorescences, a condition termed flagelliflory; examples, among many, are the sausage tree, Kigelia pinnata, of Africa and species of the legume Mucuna in the American tropics. Some bat flowers are formed on the trunk and large lower branches, a condition termed cauliflory; examples are the species of calabash (Crescentia) in the American tropics. Because bats may have difficulty navigating through foliage, some bat flowers are formed when the trees are leafless. Bat-pollinated cacti often have no spines on flowers; spine growth is delayed until after pollination so that the bats are not impaled during their visits.
The well-known ability of bats to navigate adroitly in total darkness has of course been a subject of intense study by biologists, especially since the late 1950s. In the animal kingdom, bats are the quintessential example of a sonar system and echolocation. This requires many ingenious adaptations, including keen audition to detect location and size of prey and to avoid hazards and obstacles while flying. Bats produce and sense loud ultrasonic frequencies that we cannot hear. Such high frequencies cannot be confused with sounds emitted by other animals or with background noises, and the sound waves travel, albeit at 340 meters per second, only relatively short distances (meters) as short wavelengths, so they do not interfere with the echolocation of other bats in the vicinity.
The sounds are produced in the larynx as the bat breathes out late in the wing upstroke. The ultrasonic high-pitched sounds, emitted through either the mouth or the nostrils, result when the thorax is compressed. Some evidence suggests that the leaflike nose apparatus on phyllostomid bats focuses sound into a narrow beam, much like an acoustic lens. Emitted sound segments are short bursts at particular amplitudes and and duration, consisting of two different classes of sound waves two to five milliseconds in length. After emitting the segment, the animal waits for an echo, calculates the distances, and then emits a new set of sound bursts to recalculate the change in position of the nearest prey item or the obstacle. Amazingly, the frequency is adjusted by the individual bat to compensate for the Doppler frequency shift, whereby the sound is distorted depending on whether the individual is moving toward or away from the target. The bat's sound receivers are the enlarged external ears (pinnae), which, like microwave dishes, are a certain size and are oriented (fixed or movable) in such a way as to intercept the returnign echoes. To avoid being deafened by its own emitted ultrasonic sounds, the bat uses a particular muscle to disengage the sound-detecting apparatus in the middle ear (specifically, the stirrup or stapes) when the sound is emitted, and then repositions the bone to interpret the echo.
Nectarivorous megabats perch while feeding. They lack echolocation and therefore use only visual and olfactory cues to locate flowers and fruits.
Megabats have substantially larger eyes than do microbats, but even the microbats have very good discrimination of white versus black surfaces and can discern different shapes very precisely at extremely low light levels. Nonetheless, nectarivorous microbats have eyes ten to 40 times larger than their insectivorous cousins---an adaptation that results in greater depth of focus for near orientation and discriminating flowers. The nectarivorous microbats seem to utilize sonar echolocation to find flowers at long distance and then visual and olfactory cues to find and choose individuals flowers to visit. Bats also receive sensory information from fine whiskers around the long rostrum (nose) when it is inserted into the flower.
The bat may eat the pollen, anthers, and stamens of the flower, but it also can carry huge loads of pollen on its face and rough fur. So much pollen can attach to a bat during one visit that some of it is bound to be deposited on the next flower. One investigator estimated more than 1.5 million pollen grains per flower of cardón, and an individual bat may visit more than 30 flowers per night! Bats fly relatively long distances swiftly. Thus they can be effective transporters of pollen between widely spaced flowers and thereby perform effective cross pollination in the process. Although local visits are more frequent, bats may forage long distances from their daytime roosts. In some instances, bats travel long distances to a specific plant population; one fruit bat species in Africa flies two and a half hours nightly to visit a particular chiropterophilous plant species.
The nectar reward of bat flowers can be copious, even reaching numerous milligrams for a single flower of balsa (Ochroma) in the American tropics. A bat flower contains substantially more nectar than does a flower pollinated by insects. The large quantities of relatively thin nectar are sucrose rich or sucrose dominant in most bat flowers. Birds such as hummingbirds use these flowers when they are open the following morning. The extensible tongues of bats have grooves and minute projections to capture the liquid food. Some bat plants offer other sweet rewards, such as the bracts of Freycineta insignis, eaten by fruit bats, and the sweet flower parts of Madhuca and Bassia. Pollen-feeding bats tend to have fewer teeth than their insect-catching cousins.
No complete worldwide list of bat-pollinated plants has been published, but records exist for more than 40 plant families and species in hundreds of plant genera. Bat pollination is especially important in certain families, such as Old and New World Bombacaceae, including the baobab, kapok, and floss-silk tree species. Classical examples of bat flowers occur in the Bignoniaceae, including the sausage trees cultivated on the UCLA campus, and calabash, among others. Cobaea scandens, a cultivated vine of the phlox family (Polemoniaceae), has flagelliflory and is bat pollinated in western South America.
Although in Westwood we have some bat-adapted flowers, and these plants form fruits, we have not determined yet whether bats are responsible for fruit formation on campus. This sounds like a good nighttime homework assignment for a UCLA undergraduate student, one not afraid of bats and vampires.
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This survey just came out today. It reports some interesting findings regarding people's perceptions of churches, church messages about homosexuality, and links to higher rates of suicide among LGBT people.
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Survey: Less than 1-in-5 Give America's Places of Worship High Marks on Handling Issue of Homosexuality
Two-thirds see connections between messages coming from America's places of worship and higher rates of suicide among gay and lesbian youth
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Regardless of their own religious views on the issue, few Americans believe that places of worship are doing a good job handling the issue of homosexuality. The PRRI/RNS Religion News Poll, conducted by Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with Religion News Service, found that more than 4-in-10 Americans gave religious organizations a "D" (18%) or an "F" (24%). The number of Americans giving places of worship low marks is more than twice as many as give them high marks; Only 5% of Americans give them an "A," and only 11% give them a "B."
A plurality (43%) of Americans say the messages coming from places of worship are negative, and 4-in-10 Americans believe that these messages contribute "a lot" to negative perceptions of gay and lesbian people. One-third (33%) of the public also believe that messages from religious bodies are contributing "a lot" to higher rates of suicide among gay and lesbian youth, and another third (32%) say these message contribute "a little;" only 21% say they do not contribute at all.
"The survey shows that a significant number of Americans are aware of and concerned about the negative impact of messages about homosexuality from places of worship, particularly with regard to gay and lesbian youth," said Dr. Robert P. Jones, CEO of Public Religion Research Institute. "Notably, despite the negative evaluations of places of worship in general, Americans are more likely to give their own places of worship high marks; nearly half of Americans give their own place of worship either an "A" (28%) or a "B" (17%) on their handling of this issue."
Of all religious groups, white evangelicals are most likely to give their own church high marks for handling the issue of homosexuality. Three-quarters of white evangelicals give their church an "A" (48%) or "B" (27%). Among white mainline Protestants and Catholics, only about 4-in-10 give their church an "A" or "B." Catholics were most likely to give their churches negative marks, with nearly one-third giving their churches a "D" (15%) or an "F" (16%).
The survey also found significant generational and partisan gaps on perceptions of the impact of messages about homosexuality from America's places of worship. Nearly half (47%) of young adults (age 18 to 34) say that messages from places of worship are contributing "a lot" to negative views of gay and lesbian people. Among Americans age 65 and older, less than one-third (30%) say religious bodies are contributing a lot to negative perceptions of gay and lesbian people. Democrats are more than twice as likely as Republicans (42% to 17%) to say places of worship are contributing to higher rates of suicide among gay youth.
"A majority of Americans agree that messages coming from places of worship about the issue of homosexuality are not positive," said Daniel Cox, Director of Research for Public Religion Research Institute. "Americans are six times more likely to say that messages coming from places of worship are negative as they are to say that they are positive.
Americans across religious traditions are more likely to say that messages coming from places of worship are generally negative than generally positive. Catholics and the religiously unaffiliated are most likely to say that messages are negative (47% and 65% respectively).
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I think it's kind of ironic that mainline Protestants are more likely to say their places of worship don't handle sexual orientation well, since I've found the mainline Protestant churches have much kinder (i.e. scientifically supported, realistic) teachings on the issue. I'm glad to see Catholics speak out about the failures of Catholic doctrines in regards to sexual orientation. It's time for another renewal, like Vatican II.ReplyDelete
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Chuck's Notes > What is Rick Dyer all about ….Money and Rick Dyer right ! Well A&E TV Network apparently thinks his life is a good subject for a new reality TV show. Think about it what makes a good reality TV show "Drama" and this dead bigfoot story is one hell of a drama to play out on a TV show. Why do you think Rick does the most outrageous things he can think of in the last year, because he has a TV film crew filming all these things for upcoming episodes. I'm sure the storyline conceived over the summer about the baby bigfoot was written especially for an episode on his TV show, to bad he had to humiliate a few people along the way but who cares it's reality TV right it will make a great show.
Remember the Mt Charleston expedition with Team Tracker members there was plenty of drama that weekend, which included a member having a heart attack and how Rick took the credit for saving his life. Then he had the book burning and exposing himself by putting out the fire by pissing on it.
Dyer's entire life is being filmed so anything he can do to create good ratings is a positive thing for him.
Everything you see on his channel is being filmed for his reality TV show. The latest possible scam is this video priced at $130.00 that he says will show 50 minutes of his dead bigfoot Hank. I'm telling you think twice before buying it this is another way to get the so called Hater's to buy into this and Rick can come on a week later and tell all of you that bought it that he got you again. Like he got Steve Kulls last month.
If I'm Wrong about Rick Dyer I will apologize publicly, I'm just going by his history of lying and hoaxing. If you bought his DVD please contact me and let me know if it is undeniable video of a sasquatch. You can upload a clip of it to youtube and make it private and show it to individuals without making it public if your worried about Rick's threats. Please let me know if I'm mistaken. Thank you
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his sorry life would make a decent reality TV show. And our sorry citizens will make it a hit.
Dyer and reality. Can you say " oxymoron "?
Maybe, just maybe if everyone stopped paying attention to him and giving him blog time, air time and video time, he'd dry up and blow away.
Excellent presentation however can this be believed.
If I'm wrong and he truly has a bigfoot body and this video shows something that is beyond question a real dead bigfoot body I will apologize admit I was wrong and give him his kudos. I doubt seriously I will be wrong.
You are not wrong.
Video of a dead bigfoot on a DVD release, limited to 100 copies. LOL… (Guaranteed it's a cheap DVD-R too)
WOW, potentially one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. Limited to 100 copies…..
Good on you Chuck. Good on you.
Here Comes Hoaxer Boo-Boo…
Well do Gold and Platinum or Silver memberships get a free DVD? If not, what a kick to the balls that would be to those members.
And the Dummies will probably continue to support this douche.
The "best" bigfoot tracker in the world…. On a Youtube hangout….unbelievable.