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Iposted this on another forum, but thought you guys would get a kick out of it.
On Christmas day, 2005 while working in China, I was kinda down in the dumps since Christmas in China has about as much meaning as the 4th of July in Dubai. So my mother in law decided to make me the old family recipe snake wine. Its tonic that is consumed in small quantities. It has to be aged for 2 years or they say it can kill ya.
Anyway We went to the stock yards. Me, my wife, mother in law and daughter..What an experience. They had pigs, cats, dogs, horses, chickens, geese and every other thing they eat over here, including snakes. I saw a lady buy a cat. The cat dealer takes the cat out of the cage, whacks it on the head with a stick, and puts in a bag and gives it to the lady. I was speechless.
There were 3 snake dealers. We visited one, but his price was too high, so we went off to the next dealer, and those werent the right kind of snakes (they were about 8 feet long, and in a big hole, and looked like pit vipers- copper head looking things). Dealer number 3, didnt have the right kind of snakes either. Ma Ma was looking for something called "Past The Mountain Snakes."
So we went back to dealer number 1. We agreed on the price and he grabbed a crate, which relieved me, and I thought cool, they are in a crate so maybe they are dead. He pops the lid on the crate and out pop the snakes, and they spread their hoods. I thought hmmmmm, "Past the Mountain Snakes" means cobras. The dealer asked me, do you want to grab the snakes or do you want me to? I replied, "hey son, you go right ahead, I will watch".
Well it was the most hilarious thing. I'm watching the guy grab the snakes, my wife , mother in law, daughter are all close behind me. I'd lean in for a closer look (everyone would lean in- in unison). One of the snakes would hiss or spit, and we would all jump back in unison.
The dealer grabs the snakes, one by one and hits their heads on the concrete floor to stun them. I saw one of the snakes next to the guys ankle moving and told my wife, that guy is gonna get bit. My wife replied, Oh dont worry, that guy has killed a lot of snakes. Those snakes are afraid him. I said, "yep, hes gonna be saying that in the ambulance, or somebodies gonna say it at his funeral " :lol: .
He breaks the tail and drains out the blood (snake blood spoils the wine). He throws them in a big jar (7 kgs of snakes) and covers them with 10 kgs of rice wine. I notice the 2 biggest snakes are still moving. In the bottle, and say,hey those 2 aren't dead yet
The guy replies- "dont worry they will drown in the wine". . He wraps the jar up in cardboard. We all go back home. A few hours later my wife wants to see the snakes. I say honey, you cant drink the stuff for a year or two, just leave it wrapped up. Well, she was adamant about peeking at the snakes. So I unwrapped the jar, and the two biggest cobras are alive, heads above the wine, banging their heads on the lid trying to get out. :o
I said "Yikes! The buggers are still alive." I thought hmmmmm, they know I'm the reason they are in that jar. I'm thinking they are gonna escape and bite the crap out of me.
At that point, said photo below was taken, since I know most people ain't gonna believe I got a jar of wine with 4 dead and 2 live cobras in it.
I spent the next few hours shaking that bottle, so the wine went over those 2 snake heads. I didnt go to sleep, until they were under that wine, motionless for 30 minutes.
Thats how you get a jar of cobra wine.


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Movie Review: Getaway

Getaway isn't really a movie. It's a chaotic, badly filmed 90 minutes of wall-to-wall car chases,

Director: Courtney Solomon
Rating: PG-13
Studio: Dark Castle Entertainment
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez, Jon Voight
Getaway isn't really a movie. It's a chaotic, badly filmed 90 minutes of wall-to-wall car chases, spinouts, wrecks, stunt pileups—Grade C boom/crash porn for audiences challenged by the subtleties and plot complexities of a Fast and Furious flick. As directed by Courtney Solomon (An American Haunting), the script by Gregg Maxwell Parker and Sean Finegan has retired pro racer Ethan Hawke causing fender benders and pandemonium while zooming at top speed around the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria in a stolen, tricked-out Ford Shelby Super Snake. All the while, he's being commanded by phone by an anonymous disembodied voice (Jon Voight, or at least his mouth and nostrils) warning him to do exactly as he's told or his wife (Rebecca Budig) will be iced. Hawke drives at 100 mph through red lights, down wrong ways, smashing into trucks and slaughtering unseen pedestrians—you know, sort of like Grand Theft Auto. Apparently hoping to break up the monotony, the hero and the audience get stuck with teen carjacker and computer ace Selena Gomez, whose character turns out to be just another pawn in a deadly, if predictable, game. It's a rigged game too, of course, since Sofia is, in this flick anyway, a city completely without helicopters, cell phones or police scanners to detect the whereabouts of our beleaguered hero. Hawke, cast as "Brent Magna," no less, is grim and credible even under the low-rent, sub-Taken circumstances. Gomez is all pout and pose with nothing under the hood; she comes off not so much as a rebel but as a spoiled brat whose parents, like, totally cut off her credit. Getaway pretty much strips its gears in its first 10 numbing, humorless minutes but drives relentlessly on the low road for another 80. We'd suggest taking an alternate route.


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by Lynne F. October 18, 2005
Guy #1: I sent Laura a message on facebook two weeks ago asking her what her plans are for New Years but she still hasn't responded.
Guy#2: Dude, it sounds like you're being e-voided.
Guy#2: Dude, it sounds like you're being e-voided.
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When my mother-in-law started repeating herself for the tenth time, I pressed flash on my cordless phone and pretending to have an important business call incoming. It was a sucessful evoidance tactic that I plan to use more of.
When Bill heard the his girlfriend's car outside, he used the remote control to mute the audio on the CD, thereby evoiding her with the appearance of a quiet, unoccupied house and gaining a free pass for the day.
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While watching the game, my girl friend commented on how RG3's tongue keeps flicking out. I never noticed that before but he sticks his tongue waaaaay the heck out every 3 seconds.
Well, I think it got her all worked up 'cause I missed halftime and most of the 3rd quarter. Thanks dude!
I may become a skins fan!!! NOT.


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Local girl ropes scholarship through rodeo
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Tenn. - At the end of each high school year our sports department reports on athletes who have signed on with certain colleges to continue their careers.
But they may have missed one this year, maybe because it's in a sport that you don't hear about much in this part of the country: rodeo.
Sierra Davenport is getting ready to go off to college. The recent Chilhowie graduate looks over the many pictures she has of her high school athletic career, a career in a rather odd sport for this area: rodeo. "I get questioned about it a lot, asked why I do it, how I got into it. In high school I actually got made fun of for it a little bit because it's just not a common thing around here," Sierra says.
Just a scan of all of the gold belt buckles that she's won would make any cowboy jealous.
You might say she's a rodeo queen. "I started rodeoing in seventh grade and that's when I started getting interested in stuff out west. The National Finals High School Rodeo is in Wyoming and I've been there the last four years for the national finals," she explained.
That's where she started talking with the Central Wyoming college coach about a scholarship. "After talking to him more and more and he started offering me deals, scholarships. I went and visited the college about a month ago and they offered me another equine scholarship because I'm going into equine studies. That's when I made my decision," Sierra explained.
Her whole world has centered around horses and that's where her future lies, in a very unusual way. "I'm going to Central Wyoming to get my equine studies out of the way and go on to a four-year chiropractic school to get my chiropractic degree. With the two I can be an equine chiropractor," she said.
And yes, there's a big call for that. Of course, don't be surprised if you see her on the professional rodeo circuit one day too.


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Transsexuals drawn to expert website
Well, that's what it says in the URL
This is a cautionary tale about what happens if you register your entire company name as a domain without first checking your spelling.
No doubt Experts Exchange were highly delighted when they got webbed up. Should have looked closer at that url though lads.
Any woman trapped in a man's body will be highly dissappointed when they click on www.expertsexchange.com. Despite the promising listings for 'Software' and 'Cutting Edge' Developers, your chances of gender realignment services are slim to say the least.
This story smacks of the 'City University at Newcastle-upon-Tyne' fiasco. It was only when they saw the acronym on the new headed notepaper that they realised what a terrible, terrible error they'd made... ®
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What is the point?It's almost identical in size to the Murano.It's been said to be a Vibe/Matrix competitor, but it looks much bigger than both.
It's maybe old rav 4 or tucson/CRV sized. No real point to it other than Nissan saying "we too" have a small crossover entry.
The last time volatility was seen like this it involved Tiger Wood's Escalade having a nine-iron option added by his wife.
Rogue to me seems smaller than the Murano, in my opinion. It has a smaller engine, and it is a bit narrower. I think it is a good vehicle for someone's first car.
Evolution is achievable with an idea...An idea comes from inspiration...
I tend to agree with you, Thom. It is almost as large as a Murano, and it is not exactly easy on the eye.But I remember reading in a comparo (I believe it was Car and Driver's) that the Rogue is a fast little CUV. So at least it has some performance cred, which is severely lacking in other CUVs.I think this segment is getting waaaaay too bloated. But then again, I would never buy a car in this segment.


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On the face of it, just the need to reconcile a two-year structural deficit pegged at about $243 million — at the same time that the House is backing a tax-cut package geared to 1700 people who earn more than $250,000 — poses a considerable budget challenge, not to mention fundamental questions of economic Darwinism.
Advocates maintain that Carcieri's proposed human-service cuts (increasing childcare subsidies, reducing eligibility for health-care programs, and trying to reduce the number of welfare recipients, among others) are unjust, shortsighted, and will be deeply harmful if implemented. The governor and his conservative supporters, on the other hand, pointing to how state spending has grown faster than inflation, contend that more fiscal discipline is required to get the state's house in order. The backers and opponents are just as divided, of course, on the merits of tax cuts for the wealthy, alternately describing them as a misguided giveaway or a useful step for enhanced economic competitiveness.
The resolution of these questions in the budget could be something of a bellwether — showing whether Rhode Island is committed to maintaining its social safety net (and such innovative programs as RIteCare), or whether a more conservative strain of political thinking is leading the state in a different direction.
Similar themes are already playing out in the early stages of the 2006 gubernatorial contest. Carcieri is seeking to position himself as the advocate for typical Rhode Islanders, while the Democratic candidate, Lieu¬ten¬ant Governor Charles Fogarty, is tapping upset over the governor's budget among various constituencies to tout himself as a more competent alternative. In a preview of the intensifying campaign season, the increasingly hot nature of this emerging rhetorical war is steadily bursting into view.
Unveiling his reelection campaign at the Varnum Armory in East Greenwich on June 7, Carcieri trumpeted a litany of accomplishments and, as is his wont, skillfully set himself against the Democrat-controlled General Assembly and its affiliated bogeymen. "Rhode Island stands today on the brink of tremendous progress . . . or the brink of going back to the old politics . . . " the governor roared. "The old political machine is making a big play to recapture the power and the position of preference that it has long enjoyed. They are trying once again to make state government their private playpen. And they will fight me with everything they have, because I will never do their bidding."
Fogarty, meanwhile, pointing to Carcieri's record on job growth, increases in the percentage of uninsured children and adults, and rises in poverty and college tuition, among other indicators, charges that the governor "has failed to take responsibility for his ineffectiveness and inability to lead Rhode Island through difficult times." In a statement, Brett Smiley, Fogarty's campaign manager, adds, "Rhode Island needs a leader who will deliver results and not just rhetoric. We need a governor who will take action, work to reform government and [who] understands the needs of all Rhode Islanders. Charlie Fogarty is the change Rhode Island needs."
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text: Hello out there, I am new to this club and I am happy to be here. I am driving a wonderful Chevy Impala that has been a great car but I kinda want to get myself a truck. I see lots of ladies here in the South driving trucks. But which should I look at GMC Sierra is one of my favorites. I see them oftn out on the road...I will have to get myself a preowned one, due to I am not a rich woman....anyway hello again.


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Fellow Profile
Elected: 1995 Section: Medicine
Wadhwa, Prof. Shashi
M.B.B.S. (Jabalpur), M.S. and Ph.D. (AIIMS), FNASc, FAMS
A revised version of the document 'Scientific Values: Ethical Guidelines and Procedures' has been produced by the Academy's Panel on Scientific Values. For more details, see the Academy Committee on Scientific Values page.
List of Fellows and Honorary Fellows elected during 2016 (effective 2017).
The Annual Meeting scheduled during 4 to 6 November 2016 at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal.
The domain part of the email address of all email addresses used by the office of Indian Academy of Sciences, including those of the staff, the journals, various programmes, and Current Science, has changed from 'ias.ernet.in' (or 'academy.ias.ernet.in') to 'ias.ac.in'. Thus, for example, the address firstname.lastname@example.com (or firstname.lastname@example.com) has changed to firstname.lastname@example.com (without the string 'academy'). Please take note of this change.
The list of Associates selected in 2016.
Experimental Physics - 83,
Mody University of Science and Technology, Sikar,
29 December 2016 to 13 January 2017
Genetics And Molecular Biology IISc, Bengaluru
16–29 January 2017
Algebra and analysis,
04–05 January 2017,
Karpagam University, Coimbatore
The Academy regrets to report the passing of:
Chandrasekharan, Dr Komaravolu Santappa, Dr Mushi Chowdhury, Prof. Mihir Sikka, Mr Devraj Roy, Prof. Durga Prasad Roshko, Prof. Anatol C V Vishveshwara (see YouTube video: Eureka with C. V. Vishveshwara) Mandayam Anandampillai Lakshmi Thathachar Chokkappa Kempanna


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2010 Press Releases
Toronto-based artist Kristan Horton wins $50,000 Grange Prize
After a forty-day public vote, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and Aeroplan are proud to announce that Toronto-based artist Kristan Horton is the winner of The Grange Prize 2010.
AGO Opens Family-Friendly Exhibitions for Holidays
Just in time for the holidays, the AGO is opening a group of intimate exhibitions that feature the work of two remarkable storytellers – Aesop and Walter Trier.
AGO Partners with Centre Pompidou to Bring Masterworks by Chagall, Kandinsky to Toronto
Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde to go on view in October 2011. The Art Gallery of Ontario is bringing the magic, whimsy and wonder of Marc Chagall to Toronto next fall with a major exhibition organized by the Centre Pompidou.
AGO Opens the Gates to India's Royal Courts
The splendour, luxury, and legacy of India's greatest kings will be experienced by visitors to the Art Gallery of Ontario beginning this Saturday at 10 am, when Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts opens to the public.
AGO Maharaja Exhibition Will Be an Immersive Experience for the Entire Family
The exhibition, a Canadian exclusive, features more than 200 treasures spanning three centuries, including opulent jewellery, ornate weaponry, stunning artwork, and the Star of India — the legendary 1934 Rolls Royce Phantom II custom-built for His Highness Thakore Sahib Dharmendrasinhji Lakhajiraj of Rajkot.
AGO Acquires Record Ten Works at Art Toronto 2010
Ten works by four contemporary Canadian artists will be joining the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario after an evening of important acquisitions at the annual art fair's Opening Night Preview. Four works by Kingston-based artist Mike Bayne, four works by Montreal-based artist Adad Hannah, and a work each from Toronto-based An Te Liu and Vancouver-based Ron Terada were purchased with funds raised at the preview, a benefit for the AGO.
Never-Before-Seen Works at the AGO Reveal a Darker Side to Henry Moore
An exhibition heralded by the Guardian as "the most important exhibition of [Henry] Moore's work for a generation" is coming to the Art Gallery of Ontario this fall.
Toronto Artist Allyson Mitchell Brings a "Well of Forbidden Knowledge" to the AGO
For the fourth installment of the AGO's ongoing Toronto Now series, local artist Allyson Mitchell transforms the Young Gallery into a provocative and fantastical lesbian feminist library with her installation 'A girl's journey to the well of forbidden knowledge'.
AGO's Maharaja Exhibition will be FREE to Visitors Under 25
The corporate community has come together with an unprecedented sponsorship in support of the Gallery's major fall exhibition. Thanks to generous support from Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. , The Globe and Mail, Rogers Communications Inc. , and Scotiabank Group, the Art Gallery of Ontario is thrilled to announce that admission to Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts is free to visitors 25 years of age and under.
Construction Underway at the Art Gallery of Ontario
The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance and Member of Parliament for Whitby-Oshawa, Matthew Teitelbaum, CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), and Geordie C. Dalglish, Chairman of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, today celebrated the unveiling of the design and construction progress of the Gallery's new Weston Family Learning Centre.


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Dos and Don'ts
Jaywalking: Just about everyone in New York routinely bypasses traffic lights and boldly heads for the other side of the street. Follow in their footsteps? Best not to. What look like simple maneuvers are most often the product of years of observation and practice. (Not to mention chutzpah.)
Helpfulness: New Yorkers, just about always in a rush, can still be counted upon to slow down and assist with directions, map reading, subway and bus info. You name it. The locals like to help.
Taking the Subway: It's the way to go. No street traffic to slow you down. No stuck-in-traffic cabs filled with people who realize they should've taken the subway. On weekdays, some 4.9 million people a day do it. Even the rich go the underground route, Mayor Bloomberg among them.
Art for Free: Locals haunt the museums during those select times when there are no admittance fees. The Museum of Modern Art, for instance—where a ticket costs $20 (among the steepest in the city)—is free on Fridays 4-8 p.m.
Summer Weekends: New Yorkers love to flee—to the beach or the mountains—when the weather's warm. The city streets have a more relaxed feel then, and traffic noticeably clears. You can see up and down the avenues without a crush of vehicles marring the view. Perfect time to ride the bus! Restaurants are less crowded, too.
Ground Zero: A good place to sit and reflect is along the Hudson River at the Sirius Dog Run, on Kowsky Plaza in Battery Park City, near Ground Zero. The fenced-in space, where dogs can be off-leash, is named for the only police dog killed in the attacks, a 95-pound yellow Lab called Sirius.
Phrase Book
Soho: From "SOuth of HOuston," the neighborhood immediately south of Houston Street, famous for boutiques, restaurants, and art galleries.
Houston: Pronounced "house-ton," the major east-west street that separates Greenwich Village from SoHo, the Lower East Side, and other lower-Manhattan neighborhoods. Numbered east-west streets start north of Houston; all streets below Houston have names.
Greenwich: Pronounced "gren-ich," without the "w." Greenwich Village remains a bohemian neighborhood in downtown Manhattan, known for restaurants and nightlife.
Nolita: From "NOrth of LIttle ITAly," the neighborhood between SoHo and the Lower East Side that was once a poor immigrant community and now is home to restaurants, bars, and trendy boutiques.
Tribeca: From "TRIangle BElow CAnal" and pronounced "try becca." A neighborhood on the west side of lower Manhattan known for pricey warehouses-turned-loft-apartments and celebrity residents.
On Line: This has nothing to do with the Internet. New Yorkers stand "on line" for tickets, not in line.
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Dear all, I estimate a model using an in-sample-dataset (e.g. 1989-1999)and the xtabond2 command with time dummies. Then I want to predict and calculate residuals using an out-of-sample-dataset (e.g. 2000-2004) for another time period. My problem: Using predict and the out-of-sample-dataset, STATA complains, that some variables are missing in the dataset, since it cannot find the time dummies. Question: How can I predict using only the estimates of the main model variables without the estimates for the time dummies? My idea was: 1. Estimate: Use insample.dta Xi: xtabond2 depvar var1 var2 i.year (endogvar, lag(2 .)) ivstyle(var1 var2 i.year) rob twostep 2. Predict: Use outsample.dta ... and then some kind of adjust or xpredict ... But it is not working so far and I am not sure, if this is the right way. Has anybody made a similar out-of-sample prediction and can help me out? Thanks in advance Niko * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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It might not be a howl of protest, but neighbors are raising concerns about a dog training and exercise center being built in Carmel Valley across from the Quail Lodge and Golf Club.
Two board members of Homeowners at Quail Inc. said while they are not necessarily opposed to the Carmel Canine Sports Center, they were blindsided by how it got going and they want details.
Operator Martha Diehl and partners want to locate the dog training facility across from Valley Greens Drive and stage a maximum of 30 dog events a year. The facility would have up to 70 RV parking spaces for dog owners attending the events, on 45 acres.
Two officers of the homeowners group, board vice president Bruce Meyer and committee chairwoman Jain Farnsworth, emphasized they were speaking as individuals.
"It was the stealthiness that was a concern to us," said Farnsworth. "... A number of us walk out here. It's been a field of weeds for some time, and then the big earth movers showed up and we were wondering what was going on."
"Nobody ever told us anything about what was happening," Meyer said.
Meyer said he and others found out about the project in April after seeing a sign in their neighborhood reading, "Coming soon: Carmel Canine Sports Center."
Diehl said operators couldn't tell anyone about the project earlier because they were negotiating a lease.
"As soon as they signed, we started contacting the homeowners," she said.
Since then, Diehl and Meyer said, letters have been exchanged and Diehl gave site tours and a presentation before the group's board.
Among neighbors' concerns are lighting, traffic, the 30 yearly events and the use of sound systems.
Meyer said they asked Diehl whether she had a use permit.
"The site has historically been used for agricultural, so converting it to turf doesn't require any permits," said Monterey County senior planner John Ford. The planned events and portable buildings require a use permit, which has been applied for, he said.
The proposal goes before the Carmel Valley Land Use Advisory Committee on June 3. That committee will make a recommendation to the county Planning Commission, Ford said.
Diehl has been on the commission since 2001. Her term expires next year.
The number of events and RV parking spaces sought are the maximum that would be held or needed, and it is required that the maximum be requested in the use permit application, Diehl said.
She said the events would be no different than another dog show held at Carmel Middle School.
"We aren't an RV park any more than that. ... The county will ask for a traffic study and we will do that," she said.
Lighting will be requested for the training field, similar to that of a tennis court, as well as security lighting for the parking lot and a local public address system, Diehl said.
"Any farming property is allowed a certain amount of noise," and a sound system and lighting "shouldn't have any more impact than they have had in the past," Diehl said.
"These people (homeowners) are far away," she said. "We are not in the middle of their neighborhood."
The homeowners board may meet this week to discuss the dog park.
"At this point, the board is not ready to take an association stand on this," Farnsworth said. The association has 200 members, said Meyer.
"I think the day use is not objectionable (and) the events are not objectionable depending on the number and size," Meyer said.
It could be "a good thing if operated properly," he said. "On the other hand, there are some people who disagree."
Diehl said she wants to work with neighbors "to come up with something we can all be proud of." If you go
·What: Carmel Valley Land Use Advisory Committee meeting
·When: 6:30 p.m., June 3
·Where: St. Philips Lutheran Church, 8065 Carmel Valley Road
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[B]Originally posted by Hammerhead:
NOTE: This information was originally posted by mcabrera1275 on the ASAP board, under the Other Costumes forum. A link to the original thread is found here. This information has been copied here by Hammerhead, with the permission of the original poster.
OK, so here it is. A lot of people have requested for me to compare the Bounty Hunter gloves of two respected costume makers in the prop community. Finding quality Bounty Hunter gloves are hard to come by. Since I am constructing the ROTJ version of Fett, I went with this particular glove-style, and not the brown/patched pre-production scheme. I purchased gloves from Katarra and Slave1. You decide which one suits your Fett costume requirements.
The first noticeable difference between the two gloves is that Katarra's gloves are more tight fitting and have a thinner, more leaner look to them. Slave1's gloves have a more puffier look and exhibit a more padded feel. The two gloves attach with velcro at the ends to grip the wrist.
I liked the way Slave1's gloves were more puffy. It looked identical to the Star Wars Visual Dictionary's Fett pictoral, especially while holding my EE-3 Blaster Rifle. The Katarra gloves still looked good, but I noticed that they were tight and made my fingers look really skinny.
The overall glove material used in Katarra's glove was more thicker and seemed more durable. And the wrist cuffing was made of a thicker mesh material than Slave1's glove. I wish my Slave1 glove would've been made of a thicker material because it does seem a bit thin, especially for a padded-thicker looking glove. However, one thing I disliked about my Katarra glove was that the sewing of the fingers was a bit off where the finger pads were placed, resulting in a slightly crooked finger pad that I would have to adjust and straighten out. The finger/thumb pads on Slave1's glove were sewed with precision and were flawless.
In regard to the full view, again you will notice a more fuller look to Slave1's glove vs. Katarra's glove. You can visually see the stitchings on the Slave1 glove more distinctively. Another variation between the two gloves is color. For those that want a darker shade of grey, the Katarra glove has a dark glove scheme to it. The Slave1 glove was a very very light shade of grey. In terms of delivery rate, both dealers were friendly and cordial. I got the orders in within the time frame promised. (4 weeks from Katarra, and 7 weeks from Slave1.) Both responded well with emails. Both shipped the items via US Priority Mail with delivery confirmation. And Jon from Katarra Kreations even called me to make sure my order was received. I hope this review helps out others who still want to order gloves from either of these great costume dealers.
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Get Some Skillz: Cyclocross Basics
It's that time of year and I'm getting lots of questions about how to train and prepare for cyclocross. Training is a whole can of worms I'm probably not really qualified to go into, but it can be pretty simple if you let it. Here it is… wait for it…
Go hard on Wednesdays.
Yep, that's it. Especially if you're racing both weekend days (seems to be the new trend in Portland what with the super kick-ass Molly Cameron Gran Prix in play), you need to spend most of your time recovering and going pretty easy. 'Cross is an intensive, crazy-hard effort and it takes a toll on muscles. Go too hard too often and you're gonna get mighty tired, mighty quickly.
So, what does "go hard" mean? Again – don't over-think it. If you haven't done much training before, find a big hill that takes you 15-20 minutes to climb. Do it twice at race pace or just a little under race pace (it should hurt). Don't stress about the exact amount of time between intervals or the length of the interval or your heart rate or any of that crap. Just do it – HARD – twice. The trick is to make your hard days very hard and your easy days very easy. You don't get stronger when you're beating the crap out of yourself up Saltzman, you get stronger during the following hours and days when your body is repairing itself. Recovery is your friend. Alternately, if you train at a medium endurance pace all the time, you will race at a medium pace.
On Mondays after a race weekend you should be off the bike or spinning super easy. For other days, throw in some steady endurance riding – or not – the great thing about 'cross is that you can really get by on very minimal training hours, you just have to make the time on the bike really count. Throw some skill practice in for good measure.
Speaking of Skills
I have been helping Russell Cree teach his Thursday night women's clinics at Alpenrose and there are always a ton of questions from beginners about mounts and remounts. I'll tell you plain and clear: the only way to get better at these things is to practice – again and again and again and again. Repetition is your friend. If you ask Russell about this he'll tell you some really long story about the four phases of motor memory development. I'm not gonna do that to you, I'm just going to call you out. You're not practicing enough. Do I sound like your childhood piano teacher yet? Good.
It comes down to an approach that I call "100 throws and catches". That's how my mom made us start every softball practice as kids. 100 stupid throws and catches. We groaned and moaned, but at the end of the day we busted suckers because our fundamentals were solid. And I can still huck a softball 60 or 70 miles per hour and hit a catcher from deep center.
A final note about remounts: yes, these are harder than dismounts. Yes, it will take longer to get it right. You are not alone – everyone goes through this. But, remember this:
Even if you have a stutter step, you're still getting back on the bike pretty quickly. You'll be ok, it will work for right now. Keep working on it, but don't freak out. It's not the end of the world. It will come. Stop obsessing over it and work on being smoother and faster through the barriers – you should be running over them, not leaping.
(And if you want to get rid of that stutter step? Yep, you guessed it – go practice a lot.) Or come to a clinic!
Finally, if you really want to geek out and learn all of the nitty gritty obsessive shit there is to know about LT intervals and VO2 torture and crap, well, consider hiring yourself a coach. Totally not necessary to have a boatload of fun racing 'cross, but pretty fun for those of us who consider ourselves our own favorite science experiment and can't leave well enough alone.
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Excellent article. Brought back memories of drumline practices in the parking lot during my drum & bugle corps days, sweat pouring down our backs as we chopped out those endless 8-16-32 drills on our snares, the accents reporting off the sides of the empty school buildings like crackling gunfire.
Re-mounts are still elusive as I head into my third season of cyclocross. I practice regularly, but there is no way yet that I've been able to convince my butt that there is enough padding in the shorts to avoid injury by flying back onto the saddle. So as yet, I remain klunky and halting in re-mounts, like a three-year-old at Kiddie Kross. I haven't yet figure out the magic formula and it's frustrating. In the absence of being able to afford clinics this year, and with friends not yet showing up to the informal practices I've been hosting at my local park, what do you suggest for someone who is currently Working On Her Own?
I am almost certain it was you who passed me at Krueger's and offered up a "Good Job." (or something like)
It was my first race, and the bumpy-ness of it all made me felt like I was dying just a little bit (after coming off only roads) and the 2 second encouragement was what I needed.
Thank you.
That was a fun read. Maybe next year I'll try that training thing. So many people seem to use it, it must be good for something. :) I do try to take a few of the unimproved roads on my commute routes when it's getting on towards fall.
This year I'm going to try the go-hang-out-in-Europe-for-10-days training plan. I mean what's more 'cross than Europe? NOTHING!
I'll let you know how it works out. :)
The best bit of training advice I've EVER read Heidi!!! Thank you, why do I always try and get too scientific to race mid pack only to find that I burn out mentally trying to follow a plan I don't really understand.
Easy on easy days
Hard on hard days
Recovery is my friend
100 throws 100 catches.
I can remember that alternatively I can get it tattooed on my knuckles!
Now, just to slim down so i look awesome in that LA skinsuit!!!
Btw. I still have that damned stuttttter sttttep.
Cross season has almost finished here in Melbourne which is quite sad. Thanks for the tips, I need to spend the summer practising!
Very interesting! Now I have to do some research on how to apply that to triathlon. It's all about saving those five seconds after a super slow swim ;) What kind of cleats/pedals are used in cyclocross? I suppose not the clunky SPD/SL type, right?
I f'ing love the suffer face Swift!!
Good post.
I kind of want to try cyclocross this fall for the workout factor, but I'm afraid that it will just be demoralizing to have a billion gazelle types sprinting over obstacles with their featherweight bikes while I struggle to lift my 30lb mountain bike over and over again. Is it worth it without the specialized bike, do you think? How much getting on and off is there, really, in a race?
I had a stutter step I could not break. I believe it had become reinforced and built in to my motor memory. I could manage 2 or 3 clean remounts at the beginning of each practice section, but then could not do it again. In fact, the more I practice the more persistant the double hop became. What finally broke it for me was learning to remount from the drops. There is some good reasons to remount from the drop, less severe angle of the hips when throwing the leg over, ready to sprint away hard. I don't believe it's better, just different. By doing something different I was able to bypass the improper muscle memory, and remount clean. Sometimes a new approach helps. I'm now able to also do clean remounts from the hoods.


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Also, do players we select in 1901 count as "rookies" for purposes of being Franchise players?
So these are all blind bids? And we have to make bids on every player simultaneously? So I might end up winning 3 shortstops accidentally?In regards to the FA auction, I think it is a bit confusing because Rich didn't indicate any time frames for the bidding. This is set by the commissioner, so is somewhat discretionary, but let me go through how the process will work this off season in the CKL, with time frames added. (BTW, I think Rich left out one step of the process as well, but perhaps that is how he intends to run the FA auction, eliminating one of the steps we use in the CKL.)
Our bidding begins at 9PM on Friday Feb. 24th. During this time period, you can bid on any player, with a minimum starting bid of 250K, and minimum 250K to increase a prior bid on the same player.
At 8 PM Monday Feb. 24, after this initial period of bidding, the bidding will stop for a short time, usually an hour, say from 8PM to 9PM Monday. The commissioner and/or assistant (I do it in the CKL) will post a list of any player that has received an offer, along with the current bid on each player. This gets posted, and bidding then begins again. PLEASE NOTE that at this point in the CKL process, the bidding increment is still 250K. This will continue for 23 hours, or until 8PM on Tuesday Feb. 25th. At 8 PM on the 25th, the bidding stops for this first signing round. ANY PLAYER WHO HAS RECEIVED NO ADDITIONAL BIDS FROM MONDAY 9PM TO TUESDAY AT 8PM IS SIGNED BY THE LAST TEAM TO POST A BID FOR THAT PLAYER. Any player who received an additional bid since 9PM Monday OR any player receiving their first bid during this round, go on to the next pool.
These would be all of the players not signed after the first signing phase. This phase begins at 9PM Tuesday Feb., and runs until 8PM Wednesday. The bid increment increases to 500K minimum. At 8PM Wednesday, the bidding again stops. Just as in Signing Phase one, any player that has not received an additional bid since 9PM Tuesday is signed by the last bidding team. Also again, any players receiving additional bids or any newly bid players during the round go on to the next phase.
This phase starts at 9PM Wednesday and runs to 8PM Thursday. Minimum bid increase goes up to 1M. At 8PM Thursday, same as before: any player with no new bids goes to the bidding team; any players receiving additional bids or newly bid players this round go to the live bidding round.
This might be a problem, since I'm in a drastically different time zone than most of you.Kind of self explanatory. The bidding is now live (or as live as it can be on BBF). Minimum bid is 1M; any player not receiving a new bid for 10 minutes goes to the last bidding team.


text: Re: BEER RUN - Lights overload - 15 light switches Getting my BEER RUN bike ready for the lighting contest at the Midnight Garden Ride Saturday night. I think I have a shot at winning. So far I have 15 light switches. I will try to post a link to the video. It is pretty wild to see all of these flashing. There is also a costume contest. Wait til you see my outfit. I will be at the Savannah Craft Brew Fest for 5 hours before the contest and ride, so I won't care what I look like. I also put a Rat Rod Bikes Brewery BEER RUN UnCANny Rat Stout beer label on the backrest and plan to put my RRB Rat somewhere on the back for some site advertising (notice the stickers).


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There are three holy grails we seek on the restaurant-review beat. One is the "quiet, romantic place that isn't expensive." Everyone requests this, but it seems no one actually patronizes such places, because the market fails to produce them. (Year after year, the restaurants get louder, less romantic, if more dramatic, and more expensive — apparently there just aren't any more third dates.) Then there is the "baseball-scout special," where one can catch a potential superstar chef creatively breaking out in his or her first little bistro. This happens, sometimes even a few times a year. Lastly, we have my personal favorite: the "immigrant-patronized ethnic restaurant patronized that's still upscale" — at least upscale enough, that is, to work for outsiders. It's a delicate balance, but Grain and Salt walks the line, and does so in defiance of stereotypical Indian restaurants.
Hidden in this modest Allston storefront is a linen-tablecloth Indo-Pakistani restaurant. A big draw at Grain and Salt turns out to be meat that's certified halal, the Muslim equivalent of kosher, so — at last! — observant Muslims can eat out without having to pick through the menu. This naturally tilts the kitchen toward meat dishes, but it also locks in a base of customers native to the cuisine, which makes ethnic restaurants strive to be that much better. Grain and Salt has lively food of all kinds, except for pork and alcohol. So India's only important pork dish, the vindaloo of Goa, is prepared with shrimp. The vegetarian in our party ended up happy as a cabbage.
Don't miss the vegetable pakoras ($3.50), six fried fritters full of crisp vegetables, held together with chickpea flour. With it came outstanding mint and spicy tamarind chutneys that were clearly house-made and fresh. Also on the vegan A-list would be haria kebab ($8), actually three patties — no skewer in sight — of softer, better-cooked cauliflower, chickpeas, and spinach. It was about as crumbly as a good crab cake, and was very tasty alone or with the two chutneys. Only after ordering did I notice a platter of homemade samosas ($4) — pyramidal pasties — go by. Next time, we'll start with those.
On a cool night, a vegetable soup ($3.50) was outstanding. The broth was a simple stock of celery and onion, a little sneaky hot pepper, and a little starch; the vegetables included slices of water chestnut. This is a result of a decades-old South Asian fascination with Chinese food. Grain and Salt has a whole Chinese sub-menu, no doubt a boon to Muslims who fear the use of pork in all but vegan Chinese restaurants.
Murgh tikka chaat ($6), an appetizer that one usually sees in a yogurt sauce, is here a bowl of sliced tandoori chicken stir-fried with onions and peppers, with a green-herbal flavor.
As for the entrées, palak paneer ($10.50) was a gingery version of the spinach purée with cubes of homemade and somewhat rubbery cheese, plus a few shreds of ginger on top. The key to this dish is a rich but subtle spice blend, and the chef here offers one of the best in Boston.
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Thank you Taigu.
Thank you Taigu-oso;
I like it, no ownership, cut the crap, we are one, it's all good
Wonderful Taigu. I really enjoyed this talk.
This past weekend I decided to sew a case for the kesa that was made in January. When pinning the fabric and getting it all measured and set, I had read that I just needed to sew a running stitch to connect the two pieces. Additionally, I remember the difficulty I had with the rakusu case when connecting the triangles (front) of the bag. I thought to myself, well it's just a running stitch...not really the kyakushi (back stitch). So my mind was justifying taking the short cut. But something didn't feel right. I poured (literally) blood, sweat and tears into the kesa. I sewed myself into the kesa...so taking an easier path did not seem like our practice.
Speed ahead 3 days later...I find my sensei of the kesa, yourself, confirming exactly what my heart/mind was telling me. Thank you for your teachings and continued support of our practice.
When listening to the talk, a paraphrase of Dogen from Fukanzazengi came to mind...
Think of not-sewing. How do you think of not-sewing? Non-sewing.
PS - Posted to podcast. Should show up in iTunes shortly.
Think of not-sewing. How do you think of not-sewing? Non-sewing.
Shawn-Dogen...no...SHAWN !
Deep gassho, deep gassho.
Thank you, Taigu. Having finally admitted "out loud" that I want to participate in Jukai, this talk was needed.
Thank you Taigu!
Fantastic! As always
Thanks & Gassho
The stitches on my kesa vary greatly. When I was trying oh so hard to be oh so sacred, they formed into big, awkward stitches. Now I'm more at ease, small, even. The wonderful power of non doing.
p.s. despite the largeness of some stitches, I've left them as is. The kesa is a patchwork of my mind, my life. Not perfect, just perfect.
Thanks you for this teaching!
And I can heartily endorse what Taigu says about using "small" stitches rather that the "smallest" stitches!
Thank you Taigu Sensei. I love the analogy of front and back being mind and body, one and the same. Yes, even the parts of us, or our sewing, that no one sees are also vital parts of our practice which are not to be neglected!
P.S. Speaking of going out and having tea, I noticed the scroll behind you appeared to have a raku chawan on it. Could you please tell me about it?
Which of the scrolls is it, the left or the right ? On the right I thought I noticed Bodhidharma...
Hi Peter,Originally Posted by Peter Lin
Actually it's the one which is directly behind Taigu Sensei. You can't really see it during the talk but I happened to notice it at the end when he does gassho. I could be wrong because it is only a quick sighting because I was also busy gasshoing back to him.
Yes, it is a calligraphy from one of the Sojiji abbots representing a raku, tea bowl.
Thank you for the information. Your scrolls are quite lovely!Originally Posted by Taigu
Thanks so very much for the inspiring talk.


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France 1848 – French Polynesia 1903
Breton peasant women
[Paysannes bretonnes] 1894
oil on canvas
canvas 66.0 (h) x 92.5 (w) cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris , Gift of Max and Rosy Kaganovitch 1973
© RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Gauguin, born in 1848, was forty-six years old when he painted this work in 1894—twenty years older than the barely post-adolescent fellow-painter Emile Bernard, who had befriended him in Pont-Aven in 1886. It was this unlikely pair who would be the inspirational foundation for the group of artists who became known as the Nabis.
Gauguin and Bernard called their way of painting Synthetism. Its emphasis was on painting from memory, rather than from direct plein-air experience. Painting was not only a record of visual experience, but an expression of the artist's emotional response to it. The typically heightened colour palette and formalised use of flat areas of colour, often with strong black Cloisonnist outlines, indicated a synthesis between the subject matter and the artist's emotional response to it. Fundamental to Gauguin and Bernard's idea was the notion of artistic interpretation, as opposed to the concept of representation, which lay at the heart of Impressionism.
Paintings such as Breton peasant women, with its expression of idyllic tranquillity, stand in stark contrast to the actual tempestuousness of Gauguin's life and temperament. The work was painted during his second sojourn in or around Pont-Aven. In May 1894, after his two years in Tahiti, he had returned to the nearby town of Le Pouldu, in company with a very young woman called Annah la Javanaise, to whom he had been introduced by the Parisian entrepreneur and art aficionado Ambroise Vollard. His return to Le Pouldu was, however, emotionally, physically and financially fraught—Marie Meyer, the proprietor of the inn at which he had stayed prior to his departure for Tahiti, refused to return to him the paintings entrusted to her, claiming them as payment for unpaid lodgings. Then, in June 1894, Gauguin was set upon by a group of sailors in nearby Concarneau; his leg was badly broken and would never properly heal. In August, Annah left him to return to Paris, where she sold all of his furniture and belongings from his Paris apartment. (Fortunately she left his paintings.)
During this period of personal upheaval, Gauguin somehow found time to paint Breton peasant women, one of his few paintings from 1894. The Synthesist-style composition is highly orchestrated. The figures have been strategically placed in the landscape, without regard to perspectival authenticity—the two tiny figures in the middle-ground, for example, imply that the cottages in the background are disproportionately large, although we do not read the overall composition in this way. Breton peasant women displays the synthesis of influences—the Polynesian architecture of the women's faces, the vividness of palette—that characterises Gauguin's French paintings of this period. It is also interesting to note the echo of the face of the right-hand woman with Picasso's famous 1906 portrait of Gertrude Stein.
Mark Henshaw
Text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
From Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and beyond Post-Impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay exhibition book, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009


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At your new hire session you will be provided with your username and initial password for Parnassus, which is the college's Human Resources and Financial Services system. Keep in mind that as a new faculty member, you will usually attend your new hire session prior to your official employment date. You will not be able to login to Parnassus until on or after that date, at which time you should log into Parnassus and change the initial password to something that only you know. Parnassus is available through the myHome IC Services menu.
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myHome is a web portal that allows for easy access to college information and resources from any Web browser. With myHome, you can access Outlook Web App (email), Sakai, Intercom, Outlook Calendar and other services all with a single login. You'll also have quick access to other services such as Parnassus and HomerConnect. In addition, you can add personal information to myHome, including photos, personal email accounts (ex: Gmail), news, weather, RSS feeds and more. myHome uses your Netpass username and password.
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As a new faculty member, you will need to request an account for the Student Information System (HomerConnect) from the Registrar's Office. To do that send a request from your IC e-mail address to firstname.lastname@example.com. The HomerConnect username is your 9 digit IC ID number and the default password is a randomly-generated password provided to you by the Registrar's office. HomerConnect is available through the IC Services menu in myHome.
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text: Need help!!! I have a 2006 COlorado Crew cab 4 cyl. My truck did not come with the fog lights installed, but it appears as though all of the electrical is in place up to the fuse block under the hood. The fuse is there, and the switch is in the light switch cluster. My question is...Is there a seperate wiring harness for the fog lights that connects to the fuse block? If not...where does the power come from? Is it part of the headlight harness? Can I replace this harness to include the fog light connectors? I have not been able to find a harness for either the fog lights or headlamps anywhere on the web that would answer this question. Thanks to anyone that can help!


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Man arrested after allegedly abusing juveniles
Original post made on Sep 2, 2012
participate, police said.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, August 31, 2012, 12:31 PM
a resident of San Ramon
on Sep 2, 2012 at 7:02 am
Is it common for students from other countries to live in a "host" home here? Is that part of the explanation for the over crowding of many of the Dougherty Valley schools in the past 10 years? So many students were diverted to other schools from Coyote Creek and no one was really sure where all of the students were coming from. Wonder if there are other examples of homes with multiple students in the area?
I am glad this guy was turned in for abusing his tenants. I feel sorry for them!
a resident of Danville
on Sep 5, 2012 at 7:35 am
If there is a scam to be run there is always someone to step up to commit it. So this fellow has students for South Korea come to the US on student visas to attend high school in our districts displacing those who really live here. There is the scam and no one seems to be able to do anything about it.
a resident of Danville
on Sep 5, 2012 at 10:41 am
Vote the affirmative action coke snorting "leader" out this November and change may then b possible. Crack down on all illegal movement.


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Emery J. Humphrey
Emery J. Humphrey
Pine River
Emery J. Humphrey, 94, of Pine River, passed away Dec. 1, 2012, surrounded by his loving family.
Emery was preceded in death by his wife, Phyllis; grandson, Mark Humphrey; parents, Guy and Ethel Humphrey; and brothers-in-law, Art Wiese and Dale Dyer.
He is survived by his son, Gary (Joyce) Humphrey; daughters, Judy Metcalf, Carol (Larry) Pearson and Leiloni (Mike) Young; 12 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; eight great-great-grandchildren; sisters, Grace Wiese and Fedora Groenewold; in-laws, Betty Dyer, Joanne and Carl Froshiesar; and many nieces and nephews.
Emery was born in Drakesville, Davis County, Iowa, on Jan. 22, 1918, to Guy and Ethel (Pierrard) Humphrey. He lived, graduated (1936) and worked in Mullen, Nebraska. He was then joined in marriage to Phyllis Dyer on July 13, 1940, in Lincoln, Neb. Shortly after, they moved to San Diego, Calif., where he proudly worked for Consolidated Aircraft during World War II until the spring of 1943 when they moved to Iowa.
In 1947, they bought a farm west of Pine River, where they raised cattle and sheep. During that time he also worked for Marshall Wells store, now Gardiner Hardware. Later he worked on the iron mines in Hibbing until 1959 when he made a professional shift from farming to long distance trucking. The farm was then taken over by Gary and Joyce Humphrey. Emery and Phyllis, along with their daughters, resided in Nebraska and Illinois during that time, where he bought a semi and hauled cars and boats for Kenosha Auto Transport of Wisconsin.
The family returned to Pine River in 1967 where they established a new farm while Emery drove truck and school bus. Among other things, they were well known for growing and sharing their asparagus with family and locals. Emery and Phyllis enjoyed their retirement years traveling, panning for gold and spending time with extended family.
A memorial service was at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, at First Lutheran Church in Pine River. A memorial visitation was at Kline Funeral Home in Pine River from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday.
Arrangements were with Kline Funeral Home, Pine River.


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Discussion in 'Members Zone' started by Sarge, Aug 14, 2009.
Mornin Pops. Good morning Sarge and fellow Zoners. Have a great weekend! :starspin
Morning Pops and TGIF
Morning Santiago....
Morning Zoniacs...
Morning Friday..thank goodness
Morning Pops, old buddy! Morning zone. Can't wait for Sunday. Get this damn week behind us and off to a fresh start.
Morning Cbz. Morning Zonefolks.
Good Morning, Pops, Zoners and everyone else. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to my fellow Canucks and good luck to the Boys against KC!
Afternoon Cbz --Everyone --Its Fri --one more week in the motel and I get to go home....:starspin --Sarge Yeager Juke --hope you have managed without me
Morning Pops and a good saturday morning to the rest of you folks.
Enjoy your weekend!
Mornin Pops. Good morning and a happy Saturday to all. :starspin
Morning Pops and the rest of you :laugh2:
orning Cbz ---Morning all you fine folks
orning to you too Bob.
This should be a lesson to everyone --do not type until you have had coffee and a shower:laugh2:
Morning, Cbz. Morning everyone.
Morning Leon ---Hows home
Woke up to snow this morning. Good morning, Pops and the same to all of you!
Home is wonderful! It rained pretty most all day the 1st three days home (we are on the wet side of the island) but the last 4 days have been gorgeous!
Get the snowmobiles out!
Morning Pops and good morning to the rest of you's guys!
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Fact remains, I could ramble off doezensof Good recievers in the NFL, they are not hard to find... Cruz was an UDFA remember. Meaning, that if we don't pay Cruz a ridiculous amount of money, we can find a suitable replacement. Randle might be even BETTER than Cruz, who knows? Nobody thought Cruz would be as good as he is, Randle also showed a lot of flash in the pre-season if I remember correctly. The Giants have never had a problem with finding talent at the receiver position for the last few years, they have a lot of "depth" as you put it, we did not spend a second round pick on a WR for him to barely play for the next 4-5 years, The Giants had to of expected good things out of Randle.
And the point I was making is, people would think I was crazy for saying "Brown can run better than Bradshaw" and Brown did when he got the ball consistently, right now I'd take Brown over Bradshaw. And if we have to pay Cruz a lot of money I'd put my money on our high draft pick panning out with an Elite Quarterback, and an Elite healthy Hakeem Nicks on the other side. Don't tell me it's such a ludicrous idea to think a second round pick who has showed good potential in his first year in the NFL to be a great player when you have a guy like Eli at the helm.
I'm not saying Cruz isn't a top 10 WR, I'm not saying he's worth a good contract, but I don't think we should pay him huge amounts, I'd be happy with 5-6 million a year, but not a penny more.


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HIDDEN BEAUTY: Exploring the Aesthetics of Medical Science. Norman Barker and Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue. 232 pp. Schiffer Publishing, 2013. $50.
The common reaction to disease is to want to look away. The authors of Hidden Beauty make a powerful argument for overcoming that impulse. Many of the microbes and tissues involved in an affliction have intricate structures and captivating forms. View them with modern imaging techniques, appropriately magnified and colorized, and the results can be downright spectacular.
In his foreword to the book, cancer geneticist Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University notes that aesthetics are traditionally something of an afterthought in medical imaging. The primary goal is to efficiently relay diagnostic information, such as the presence of a tumor. But capturing the details of a disease can create visual interest all the same. As Vogelstein explains, normal tissues are highly organized, but diseased ones break down, creating "random and unique patterns that can be visually appealing."
If not framed tactfully, the topic of Hidden Beauty could seem to trivialize the suffering of patients. But the authors directly address the strange duality of their topic: Patients viewing diagnostic imagery often face terror and uncertainty, whereas clinicians may find the same images awe-inspiring. Iacobuzio-Donahue and Barker write that "within the most serious, life-threatening, and deadly diseases are aspects that, when taken out of their context, have inherently aesthetic qualities. In no way do we propose that disease itself, or the suffering it creates, is aesthetically pleasing." (They are well equipped to see things from both sides; Iacobuzio-Donahue is a pathologist, and Barker is an artist who specializes in photomicroscopy.)
In the earlier sections of the book, each chapter is organized around one section of the body, from the head and neck through the pelvis. Later chapters focus on connective tissue and infection and inflammation. Research images (rather than clinical ones) receive their own section as well.
The chapter on the chest includes a strikingly colorful image of tissue samples embedded in paraffin blocks designed for pathology testing. As part of the preparation process, the tissues are chemically fixed and dehydrated in alcohol so they can be permeated with hot wax. The purpose is to provide support for the tissues as they are thinly sliced and stained for viewing under a microscope.
Another compelling image, which appears in the abdomen chapter, features a collection of intricate, shell-like structures that are actually gallstones. These solid crystalline deposits form only in the gallbladder but differ widely in composition, resulting in seemingly infinite variety. Elsewhere in the chapter, a cross section of the small intestine captures in iridescent detail the elaborate protrusions, or villi, that line its inner surface and aid in digestion.
Later in the book, a portrait of the liver, looking a bit like a pointillist painting, graphically displays cirrhosis, where fibrous tissues replace healthy ones. The image conveys, in its way, as much drama as a front-page newspaper photo of a boxer's knockout punch: As healthy cells try desperately to regenerate themselves, they are hemmed in by the fibrous tissue packed around them, so they are forced to form shrunken nodules.
This blending of medical message and visual impact is a recurring theme throughout the book. A lacy network of bone, shown in the chapter on connective tissue, brings alive the authors' point that bone is not solid and inert but a vital and dynamic organ in its own right. The sponge-like network of tendrils, called spicules, in a femur provides an extensive surface area to make minerals available to the body and to provide a scaffold for bone-marrow cells.
"Photography is not only a system for illustrating science; in many ways it's also a method for doing science," the authors write. Acknowledging the aesthetics of disease is another way to understand the workings of the human body and how it can be compromised. Images such as the ones in Hidden Beauty can move beyond the suffering—reaching, perhaps, toward literal and figurative healing.
Fenella Saunders is managing editor of American Scientist, where she covers work in the physical sciences, among other subjects. She received her M.A. in psychology and animal behavior from Hunter College of the City University of New York.
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Wall Street is no autobahn. Traders pushing pedal to the metal risk hurtling into the Buttonwood Trees.
Knight Capital's $440 million computer-generated smash-up this month is the latest sign that the world's most important financial superhighway, where trades take place in less than the blink of an eye, sorely needs a speed limit.
Michael Goldstein, a professor of applied investments at Babson College and a noted advisor on market regulators, suggests slowing traffic to 10 milliseconds—a millisecond is 1/1,000th of a second—the limit in 2007. Today, trades zip by in a fraction of a millisecond, depending on the distance between the robot and the data centers of the nation's 15 stock exchanges and 40 or so "dark pools"—electronic trading venues designed to handle large institutional orders. Traders hooked on the advantages of speed might grumble; but Goldstein doubts that they would abandon Wall Street for some market abroad. It takes about 17 milliseconds to send a trade from New York to London and even more time to Asian markets like Singapore.
EVEN A SPEED LIMIT OF five milliseconds could reduce the pileups on Wall Street, Goldstein contends. To high-speed-trading robots, a few milliseconds is an eternity—providing plenty of time for machine and operator to spot and rectify errors they might not notice when data are flowing at lightning speed.
Changes in regulations by the Securities and Exchange Commission at the beginning of this century that tried to increase competition among exchanges and bring down customers' costs emphasized speed in the execution of orders. Prior to that, exchanges like Nasdaq would slow down trades from the East Coast so that those from the West Coast could catch up. Exchange officials felt it unfair to give New Yorkers an advantage based solely on geography. But when the SEC allowed other exchanges to trade stocks listed on Nasdaq or the NYSE, the faster traders got the best executions.
With robots working at frantic speeds, a simple trading error can repeat itself millions of times before a machine's human masters can detect it. Radius Images/Corbis
Hasty preparation of software for a high-speed computer might have caused Knight Capital to spin out. A newly minted algorithm designed to participate in a fledgling NYSE program offering price improvement to retail customers mistakenly ordered the market-making firm's computers to purchase $4.5 billion worth of stock in the first 45 minutes of the trading day. What's more, the humans there didn't realize that a problem existed until they got a phone call from the New York Stock Exchange, where most of the errant trades were being executed. Suspicions on the Street and in regulatory circles are that the software had been inadequately road-tested. The SEC is trying to come up with a definitive answer.
Knight Capital's off-road experience was the fourth major computer-related market accident this year.
The three others: In February, the electronic oil-trading platform at the CME in Chicago crashed, forcing trades to temporarily migrate to the slower flesh-and-blood open-cry pits in New York. In March, the seven-year-old BATS electronic exchange had to cancel its initial public stock offering when a glitch in its own computer system prevented its shares from opening. And in May, a computer snafu at the Nasdaq-OMX market famously disrupted the initial public offering of Facebook, the Street's most highly anticipated event of the year. Regulatory steps following the notorious Flash Crash in May 2010 were supposed to prevent this sort of stuff.
Additionally, there have been hundreds of highly disturbing fender benders. On May 18, quotes and trades from reporting exchange Nasdaq for all NYSE, AMEX, ARCA, and Nasdaq-listed stocks stopped, beginning at 11:29:52 a.m. and continuing for almost 17 seconds, says Eric Hunsader of Nanex, a market-data firm in Winnetka, Ill. Seventeen seconds is "an eternity by high-frequency trading standards," says Hunsader, who continually sends out Twitter updates on bizarre, computer-generated market movements.
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A speed limit of 10 milliseconds for high-frequency-trading robots would cut down on the number and the severity of computer-generated market disruptions.
In order to work, Goldstein's speed limit would have to be universal. Exchanges make good money serving high-frequency traders. The owners of these over-clocked, nitrogen-cooled robots pay handsome annual rents to put their machines in the data centers housing the exchange's own servers. They want to be first in line to buy or sell when a stock is moving up or down. Because data move through wires and airwaves, the closer the robot is to an exchange's servers, the faster it can trade.
SO PROFITABLE IS THIS "ROBOTEL" model that NYSE-Euronext in 2010 opened a $600 million, 400,000-square-foot facility—the equivalent of seven football fields—in Mahwah, N.J.
NYSE-Euronext hardly is alone. Most of the 15 stock exchanges in the U.S., as well as the CME, the world's largest commodities exchange, have built similarly expansive robotels. High-frequency trades account for more than 70% of daily volume on the exchanges and about 18% of profits, though this latter figure is expected to grow robustly.
Some exchanges might welcome speed limits. Co-location space still would remain valuable. But more importantly, one executive says, speed limits would restore retail investors' confidence in the market's fairness. Lack of trust is keeping much of the small fry away.
Robots are grand—but the exchanges make much more money off us dumb humans than they do on the super-smart machines. Putting the interests of high-frequency traders above everyone else's simply doesn't compute.
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Lagos, Nigeria, September 17, 2012--State security agents in the Gambia on Friday ordered two independent newspapers to cease publication immediately but provided no explanation, according to local journalists and news reports.
Agents from the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) in the capital, Banjul, visited the offices of the daily The Standard and the paper Daily News, which publishes three times a week, and told them that the president had ordered both papers to be shut down immediately, according to news reports. The agents told the staff that they could seek an explanation from the president's office, which oversees the operations of the NIA, news reports said. The officials did not specify how long the suspension would last.


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Attractions: It's close to Houston's urban diversions yet far enough away to have a distinctive, history-steeped personality and small-town feel. The weather is temperate (although hot and humid in summer), making water sports, including fishing and boating, enjoyable most of the year. Festivals such as Dickens on the Strand at Christmas and Mardi Gras in February or March keep winter months active.
Drawbacks: Tourists in summer and raucous revelers during spring break line the seawall. Hurricane season runs June through November. Despite current growth, sections of the city remain poor, and the drug trade thrives in some areas.
Housing Options: The East End Historic District is largely settled, although properties can be found. The middle parts of the island have more options, as do the Moody Gardens and Offatts Bayou areas. Condos are readily available along the seawall.
Your Next-door Neighbors: Lots of lawyers, business executives, artists, and doctors. The island is a long-standing weekend and summer retreat for big players from Houston.
What It Costs: "A fixer-upper in the East End Historic District recently went for $80,000 but took another $125,000 to refurbish. Older homes in mid-island have asking prices in the $100,000 to $200,000 range, and sometimes higher. In the newer Lafitte's Cove estates off Bayside, on the western side, prices start at about $300,000. Lofts in the Strand are almost all rental rather than purchase, at about $1 per square foot.
Where You'd Spend Free Time: Along the seawall, joining or watching skaters, joggers, bikers, and strollers. Dining on fresh shrimp, snapper, or other seafood at such restaurants as Gaido's and Clary's. Or lingering at DiBella's Italian Restaurant, a local institution. You'll visit the Strand often, to cruise the shops and admire ships along the docks, including the 1877-vintage Elissa at the Texas Seaport Museum. Children love Moody Gardens, with an IMAX theater and aquarium.
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Bundle up! Jack Frost has paid another visit to the Midwest. For the second time this week, a major winter storm has left people from Oklahoma to the Great Lakes scrambling to stay safe and warm. Heavy, wet snow has shut down major highways, delayed flights and left hundreds of thousands of Midwesterners without power. "It's just snow. That's all we can see," said Shannon Wickware of Woodward, Ohio.
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The storm began in Texas on Sunday and rapidly traveled north. A gust of 75 mile per hour winds pushed the storm up towards Oklahoma, bringing fifteen inches of snow to parts of Oklahoma. It then moved east and hovered over Chicago, Illinois, dropping four inches of wet snow on top of the city and its suburbs. Airlines canceled nearly 500 flights at Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports. Taking into account the safety of their students in the treacherous storm, many schools in the affected states either delayed opening or did not open at all.
In Kansas City, Missouri, up to ten inches of snow had fallen before midday on Tuesday. The city's mayor, Sly James, declared a state of emergency. Most government and office buildings were shut down. Some hospitals were forced to close urgent-care clinics. The Missouri Department of Transportation has issued a "no travel" advisory, telling people to stay off all roads and major highways.
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While heavy snowfall is not usual for this part of the country at this time of year, it is the amount of moisture in the snow that makes conditions extra treacherous. When snow is especially damp, it weighs down trees and brings down power lines. Roofs can cave in under the pressure and roads can become very icy. The strained power lines have cut off electricity to more than 100,000 homes and businesses in the Midwest.
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The actress plays a double role in the new Disney Channel original movie Frenemies
You play two different characters in Frenemies: tomboy Savannah and uptown girl Emma. What was it like to have a double role?
It was a ton of fun. I get to play my own frenemy. I was a little nervous at first because it's something new. I got the opportunity to do double of what I love.
What were the biggest challenges to playing two people?
It would have to be finding that light switch that let me go back and forth between the characters for each take.
How did you get into each of their heads?
It was easy. I feel like I have a lot of both of them in me. I can be very similar to Emma and Savannah. It was just a matter of pulling out different parts of myself.
Do you relate to one more than the other?
I'm comfortable with having guy friends, like Savannah, and she's relaxed and comfortable with herself. She doesn't look for approval from people. I strive to be that way. Like Emma, I love to be a girly girl... and I would love to have a butler if I had that opportunity!
What were the most memorable scenes to film?
My favorite scene would have to be the birthday party scene. We did a dance scene, which was a lot of fun. I liked filming things like that where the cast got to be together in a group.
What would be your advice to kids who are facing a frenemy situation?
I would tell them to communicate with the other person, because I think that's the biggest problem a lot of the time.
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There will be a couple of modes. The first mode will be Story. It will follow the campaign of a survivor as he finds more people and makes important decisions. Next will be survival, which is where you survive against oncoming hoards of zombies on a free-roam type map. You will have to get ammo, food, water, etc. If we have the chance, we will make co-op. This isn't for sure, however. This game is FPS
Here is the very first mission on Story Mode (Not Yet Developed):
The Character (Eric Reece) wakes up in the middle of a field. He has no recollection of anything. However, he sees that he has a police uniform on, so he knows that he must have been a cop. Also, there is a cabin standing He stands up, and this is where you take control. The objective simply says: "Find out what's going on." When the character gets to the door, a cutscene starts. The character grabs a note off of the door, which reads: "The world has gone to hell, run." The character turns around when a zombie pops out, knocking the player to the ground. There will then be a button that pops up on screen, and once pressed, the character will grab the gun and shoot the zombie.
That's all I have so far for the story. Later on, you will find more people in the story, and they will come with you. Also, there will be some important decisions that will be made throughout the game that can affect the outcome. Survival MIGHT be co-op, like I said.
One more thing, please don't say that I can't do it, because I am just the animator/creator. I also have a team of coders and artists (check out my thread in the classifieds if you want to join).
That's it guys. I'm open to constructive criticism, ideas that I could add to my game, and, ultimately, the question: would you play it? Hopefully I will release a demo, soon and then you can play.
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bradshaw has a big game this week.... I got a feeling a feeling deep inside oh-yeah......time to get behind the boys they can do it , and we all have ****ing seen it...Go Giants !!!!!!!!!!
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It's too bad, I'm too good....
Republicans want tax breaks for EVERYONE and they want the largest tax breaks for the middle class...the republicans are actually on your side Matt, the Democrates want to spend more on stimulus and one social programs..in order to accomplish that they have to raise taxes on everyone...you included matt.
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a war against the rich is a war against everyone who lives in this country because right now the rich are the people supporting this country more then anyone else.
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In February, Jeff Johnson talked about Black History Month coming to a close. He said it shouldn't be celebrated just once a year but everyday or every week. He asked that we set aside at least one evening or one day a week to talk about black history and to keep it alive. We plan to honor his request with a gallery every week this month to celebrate significant events, timelines, births and to remember those who have passed away.