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Southern Gardening: Supertunias bring color to gardens
There are many excellent petunias on the market—too many to detail in this column—so I am going to concentrate on what I consider one of the best petunias series: the Supertunias.
There are two groups in this series, the Supertunias and the Supertunia Vistas. Supertunias grow to about 12 inches tall and have a vigorous spreading habit. The Supertunia Vistas are bigger and can reach 24 inches tall. Both types are hummingbird and butterfly magnets.
With vibrantly beautiful colors, these groups have been good performers in Mississippi for the past few years. The Raspberry Blast, a deep hot pink with a vivid purple-red center, drew a great response from the gardening public at the 2009 Coast Garden and Patio Show.
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This is the sixth part in my weekly series of entries in which I outline some of the reasons we decided to pursue a new user interface for Office 12. You can read the last installments here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5.
Microsoft is tracking your every move!
Soon after you install Office 2003 on your computer, a balloon pops up asking if you would like to "Help Make Office Better." If you click on it, you are given the opportunity to enroll in something called the Microsoft Office Customer Experience Improvement Program. If you opt-in, anonymous data about how you use Office are uploaded to Microsoft occasionally in the background.
If you're the curious type, you might have wondered where your data goes. Well, today I'm here to answer the question: it goes into an Excel spreadsheet I have sitting on my desktop.
OK, back up. Back in the olden days of designing software at Microsoft (say, pre-2003), design decisions were mostly supported by guesswork. There's a classic Microsoft interview question (that I've never heard of anyone actually using) "How many gas stations are there in the United States?" Many have criticized that type of question as being feckless; personally, I agree and it's not representative of how I choose to spend my interview time with a candidate. But the rough "estimate an answer and defend it" style required to answer the gas station question was at the heart of how many design decisions used to be made at Microsoft.
Suppose you were designing the adaptive menus in Office 2000 and you wanted to know what features people use the most. Well, you start by asking a "guru" who has worked in the product for a long time. "Everyone uses AutoText a lot," the guru says. The louder the "experts" are, the more their opinions count. Then you move on to the anecdotal evidence: "I was home over Christmas, and I saw my mom using Normal View… that's probably what most beginners use." And mix in advice from the helpful expert: "most people run multi-monitor, I heard that from the guy at Best Buy."
So much of what we did was based on feel, estimation, and guesswork. How much that was true only became clear with the introduction of a technology called SQM (pronounced "skwim").
SQM, which stands for "Service Quality Monitoring" is our internal name for what became known externally as the Customer Experience Improvement Program. It works like this: Office 2003 users have the opportunity to opt-in to the program. From these people, we collect anonymous, non-traceable data points detailing how the software is used and and on what kind of hardware. (Of course, no personally identifiable data is collected whatsoever.)
As designers, we define data points we're interested in learning about and the software is instrumented to collect that data. All of the incoming data is then aggregated together on a huge server where people like me use it to help drive decisions.
Hard at work in the SQM data center.
What kind of data do we collect? We know everything from the frequency of which commands are used to the number of Outlook mail folders you have. We know which keyboard shortcuts you use. We know how much time you spend in the Calendar, and we know if you customize your toolbars. In short, we collect anything we think might be interesting and useful as long as it doesn't compromise a user's privacy.
How much data have we collected?
- About 1.3 billion sessions since we shipped Office 2003 (each session contains all the data points over a certain fixed time period.)
- Over 352 million command bar clicks in Word over the last 90 days.
Reflected in these numbers is that we don't even retain all the data points we receive… particularly, we get so much Word and Outlook data that 70% of it is thrown away.
So, one of the biggest reasons that we decided to do the new user interface for Office 12 is simply that, for the first time, we have the data we need to make intelligent decisions. Anything we would have done in the past would have been based more on guesswork and bias than on reality. Data is just one input to the design process, of course, but there's something extraordinarily empowering about knowing which commands people use often and which they don't. And knowing which commands are used in sequence with which other commands. And which commands are used 7x more with the keyboard than with the mouse. And how big people's screens are… and how much of the time they use Excel maximized… and how many documents they use at once… and which commands literally are never used… and which are used much more frequently by East Asian users… and on and on…
Knowledge is power. And having that knowledge makes this the right time to reinvent the user interface of Office.
Want to guess what is the most-used command in Microsoft Word? The top 5 commands used? Post your guesses in a comment and I'll answer in next Monday's post. (MVPs who saw my talk at the summit and therefore know the answers, please refrain from showing off.)


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(NEW YORK, December 11, 2001) — On Thursday, December 13, the Empire State Pride Agenda and the Stonewall Community Foundation will announce the establishment of the "September 11 Gay & Lesbian Family Fund" to assist the surviving partners of gay and lesbian individuals killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks. With $140,000 in donations, the fund will be administered by the New York Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, and will be divided equally among the estimated three-dozen surviving partners.
Two surviving partners will be part of the press conference.
Speakers from the gay advocacy groups, including Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, will talk about the barriers faced by gay and lesbian survivors in obtaining assistance from relief organizations, and state and federal government agencies due to lack of legal recognition of gay families. "Gay and lesbian life partners have been denied the bedrock government benefits -- like Workers Compensation and Social Security -- afforded automatically to spouses, " said Joe Grabarz, Executive Director of the Pride Agenda, the statewide civil rights and political advocacy organization. "We felt we needed to do something to help offset this discrimination."
Survivors in attendance will be available for interviews following the press conference. For details, call Amanda Scioscia at 212-809-8585 ext. 241.
WHAT: Press conference to announce the establishment of "September 11 Gay & Lesbian Family Fund" WHO: Surviving partners; Joe Grabarz, Executive Director of Empire State Pride Agenda; Bill Mattle, Executive Director of Stonewall Community Foundation; Richard Haymes, Executive Director of NYC Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; Jennifer Middleton, Staff Attorney with Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund; Matt Foreman, former Executive Director of Empire State Pride Agenda WHERE: Conference space at Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, 240 West 35th Street, Suite 200, New York City WHEN: Thursday, December 13 at noon; Camera Crew Set-up at 11:30 AM
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Microsoft's Gesture-Based Multifunctional Stylus
A recent prototype design becomes different devices as its position in space is changed.
Microsoft's Kinect broke considerable ground in gesture-based computer interaction, and their latest prototype continues to make interesting advances in gestural interfaces. However, the prototype stylus they recently debuted has a stronger focus on touch.
The user holds the stylus in the grip most natural to the task at hand, whether that be drawing or erasing, and the device will mirror its functionality accordingly:
"It pays attention to how the device is being held and moved, and changes to one of eight different preset functionalities on the fly."
The prototype has potential to harness our unconscious approaches to old technologies (such as the pen and compass) to make our interaction with digital technologies even more seamless. Given the increasing patenting of gestures which have accompanied more intuitive touch-based interactions this begs interesting questions about whether our second – nature interactions with tools will soon be patented off as part and parcel of the multifunction stylus of the future.
Microsoft Research: "Recognizing Pen Grips for Natural User Interaction"
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Need more space, time to finish the basement. Thoughts?
I have a 6 year old house with an unfinished basement in CT. I'd like to finish a 460sq ft area leaving a storage closet and mechanicals / work shop area unfinished. Not a ton of space as basements go, but with a growing family I need it.
The space stays dry, a kenmore dehumidifier keeps it near 50% without running a lot. We had water once almost 3 years ago, nothing before or since including last months hurricane. Since that water came in (where the wall and slab meet) I have added top soil to a couple areas where the back fill had settled in towards the house. Was that the issue, who knows. The foundation is drained, and the gutters are piped down into that system which flows into an under ground collection pit I share with my neighbor.
My current plan is to lay dricore panels over the floor, leaving air space for the slab to breathe. Looks like a good subfloor for wall to wall carpet when done. I have 9ft from the slab to the bottom of the joists above, so height is not an issue.
Walls I am torn between stick framing and a modular product called INSOFAST for the outside walls. Waiting for a sample of it, but looks like it goes up fast, installs electrical easily and then drywall over it with the right type of drywall that is somewhat mildew resistant. There will be two partition walls in the construction as well. No questions about that.
I am always running wires and needing access it seems, so a drop ceiling sounds best even though they aren't the best looking.
I plan to do the sub floor, framing, electrical myself, and hire out the drywall and ceiling and painting. Trim work I can handle.
So here are the questions.
Does anyone have experience good or bad with INSOFAST? And DRICORE? The space is small enough that the cost of each isn't huge, and the time savings seems worth while.
As far as HVAC, I have a 2 zone forced air system with central air and gas heat. I could add a 3rd damper and a new controller to that with a thermostat for the area or just put in a electric baseboard to two. I can decide that once it is built and I see how comfortable it is.
Should I pull permits and get the proper inspections or is it more of a hassle than it is worth?
Never taken on a project this big before, but I have all the tools and then some and since it is in the basement I can take my time.
I appreciate any insight you guys who have done this before can send my way.
That is why this is a DIY forum and people ask questions Joe. The reason I asked is if I pull permits town hall has a record of the work and will assess my taxes for a "rec room" quickly. If I don't pull the permits, then they won't catch up with me for a few years until they come door to door like they did last fall. The basement finishing "system" contractor I had here to estimate it last year said it was 50/50 with how many of thier customers do the permits for just that reason.
If you say I need permits I'll get them. That is why I asked.
Yes, pull all required permits, especially electrical!
You will have a "paper trail" to satisfy your H.O. Insurance carrier in case of future claim..... and when you sell the house.
"Walls I am torn between stick framing and a modular product called INSOFAST for the outside walls. Waiting for a sample of it, but looks like it goes up fast, installs electrical easily and then drywall over it with the right type of drywall that is somewhat mildew resistant."----- looks very similar to closed-cell blue or pink, which even have space for battens to attach drywall. I have to laugh at their ad- any foam more than 3/4" will stop moisture, yet theirs is 2" thick.... then scare you will threat of mold. It has a void raceway for electrical wiring--- which effects the product R-value and water storage ability in the air-space. Specially grooved-- for water run-off--nah,---- just use foam board as it lets the water through slowly as diffusion to dry to the inside. You could groove flat foam board to achieve the same look, can't see where they do anything other than reduce the thickness= R-value- at the grooves.
The floor panels are good if you have a moist slab. Other options are foam board then plywood, FL mat.
Be certain to canned foam any wiring/plumbing holes and air-seal the rim joists; http://www.buildingscience.com/docum...-at-rim-joist/
Why does this thread remind me of many episodes of Mike Holmes shows. We have a friend who did her basement, and yes she did not pull permits. If you look at everything, it is all within code, done by the rules and codes. Only reason that her's will fly under the radar, is that our municipality is not that stringent, when it comes to remodels.
Now if she did an addition, then yes there is no getting around that with our city. If I was the OP, and knowing that code enforcement loves money, and will bankrupt you on this stuff, you best pull permits, and make sure that you and the sub's know their stuff.
Permits it is. I spoke to the town building department, his directions: fill out the permit application and take to the tax department first. Great. Then zoning, then back to building once the others sign off. I need to finish my drawings first, then apply for the permits.
Still no sign of the sample INSOFAST panels I requested. If they don't come this week I will skip them and go with the more conventional foam route.
Thanks for the input guys.
just saw this thread. We have used a lot of InSoFast. Great product.
Well it's been three quarters of a year so he's probably decided by now lol. But it might help someone else.
That was my thought.
You'd be right, the job is done. Started right after thanksgiving and finished in end of January. I had a contractor who is a friend of the family and was out of work do the floor (DRICORE) and stick framing. I ran electrical, had it inspected. He did insulation, another inspection. He then did drywall, doors, and was complete. I did finished electrical, trim, and paint with a final inspection.
The permit and inspection process I did myself and it was hassle free. Of course the tax assessor now wants to come visit me.
The DRICORE floor went down first and the framing is on top of that, no wood touches concrete at any point. Conventional pad and carpet makes it feel like a normal room over that DRICORE, it is well worth the cost.
I did an Armstrong drop ceiling with tiles that look like panels, the end result looks great for a drop ceiling. None of that industrial look at all. I think it was an armstrong tile number 1205.
Lighting is key, I have 14 recessed Halo cans across 2 dimmers with 75w halogen lamps. Rarely use more than 50% on the dimmers but when you need light there is plenty of it.
Adding this 500sq ft to the house made all the difference in the world, well worth the efforts.
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The beauty of going with an original BMW part is that you have a full two year unlimited mileage warranty on the part (at least up here in Canada). Are you sure the cricket sound is coming from the new blower? Apparently there's also an internal recirculation fan under the dash that can also make the noise. Search around and you'll find it.
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Replaced my blower with a new one from Tischer thanks to everyone's help in this thread!! Cricket sound was completely gone and the fan was nice and quiet. I could easily tell the bearing in the old fan was shot because I couldnt even turn the blades by hand, whereas they spin very freely on the new unit. HOWEVER, after a month or so of nice quiet operation, i'm getting crickets again. Maybe not as loud as before and the pitch is higher, but its the same noise. Could the new blower be defective? I'm not sure how it could have been fine for a few weeks and is now making noise
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I Did Not Wear Retainers 24/7 As Told by my Dentist and Instead Just Wore Them at Night After my Treatment for Increased Overjet
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How Long Should You Wear a Brace in Order for the Teeth Not to Move Back?
I have only had my brace on for 6 months and my dentist wants to take it off already. Another orthodontist that I had, said that it would take at... READ MORE
One of my Brackets of my Braces Popped off?
Okay, So I have a problem Today while I was eating the back bracket of my braces popped off but the real problem is I went to college and wont be back... READ MORE
Teeth Shifted to an Overjet, but Still Straight. Braces, Invisalign or Retainers? (photo)
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Im 22 years old.I have recently taken out metal braces.Normally traditional braces treatment takes abt 1.5-2 years.But due to time shortage i had worn... READ MORE
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Tom Cruise moving on from Katie Holmes with Cameron Diaz?
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After his split from Katie Holmes, it appears Tom Cruise might have found a particularly blonde and pretty shoulder to cry on.
His divorce to third wife Katie Holmes was only finalised in June, but according to reports he's still looking for love and was recently spotted on a "sexy date" with his Vanilla Sky co-star Cameron Diaz.
The 50-year-old went to the blonde A-lister's 40th birthday party at Ascot's Coworth Park hotel in Berkshire last month, and the pair have reportedly kept in close contact ever since.
An insider told The Metro: "They've always got along really well and are totally tight.
"Cameron says Tom is an awesome guy."
Whether it's fate or co-incidence, the pair are both set to start filming separate projects in the UK over the coming months, so there will be potentially more dates on the horizon.
The source revealed: "They'll only be ten or 20 miles apart. They'll probably be going to the same restaurants and bars - they'll hang out for sure.
"Cameron is looking for some fun in England, I can guarantee you that. And she will likely be having fun with Tom."
Since becoming single, Mission Impossible star Tom seems to be lapping up female attention, especially during his recent island-hopping holiday around the Mediterranean.
And he's been spotted partying the night away in central London while he supported his 17-year-old son Connor, who played a DJ set at celeb hotspot Chinawhite.
Cameron is certainly Tom's type, as the diminutive actor has proved that he has as a penchant for leggy actresses!


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Several times a year, the Extended Day Program offers specialty clubs in 6-week sessions. This is by far the favorite of the students in the Extended Day Program, because they are offered a large variety of clubs and they get to choose which ones they want to participate in. In years past, we have offered Gymnastics Club, Cooking Club, Comic Book Club, Italian Club, Science Club and Amazing Animals Club. Getting to choose their own clubs empowers the children and inspires them to discover their own passions.
Students are given a snack each day. The majority of the snacks are organic or all natural. They rotate on a daily basis and include but are not limited to: fresh fruit, cheese and crackers, fresh popcorn and granola bars. Children with food allergies are accommodated while participating in the program.


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I approached several physicists-some turned-biologists-to ask them for a brief comment on the topic: "In the long run, what will the discovery of the Higgs boson do for biology?" Their answers span the extremes from "nothing" to "everything."
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Joe Incandela, Dept. of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara
Suckjoon Jun, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California at San Diego
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Editor's Selection of PoemsSummer: The Second Pastoral
See what delights in sylvan scenes appear!
Descending gods have found Elysium here.
In woods bright Venus with Adonis stray'd,
And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade.
Come, lovely nymph, and bless the silent hours,
When swains from shearing seek their nightly bow'rs;
When weary reapers quit the sultry field,
And crown'd with corn their thanks to Ceres yield,
This harmless grove no lurking viper hides,
But in my breast the serpent Love abides.
Here bees from blossoms sip the rosy dew,
But your Alexis knows no sweets but you.
Oh deign to visit our forsaken seats,
The mossy fountains, and the green retreats!
Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade;
Where'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise,
And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
Oh! how I long with you to pass my days,
Invoke the Muses, and resound your praise!
Your praise the birds shall chant in ev'ry grove,
And winds shall waft it to the pow'rs above,
But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain,
The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;
The moving mountains hear the pow'rful call,
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Guest Authors Recap, Part 1
Last fall, we started a new feature here at the Parking Lot Confessional: guest author posts. What an exciting and successful journey it's been!
This week and next, we're reposting links to the 15 guest author articles written so far. While you're enjoying the recap, we'll be working on this year's guest author roster. Catherine McKenzie will kick off the 2011 lineup on January 18.
2010 Guest Authors, Part 1
September 7 ~ "Words Too Big": The Sam Sykes Story
September 14 ~ A Look into "Total Oblivion" with Author Alan DeNiro
September 21 ~ A Complete Rewrite (Or: How a Pantser became an Outliner) by Sarah Billington
September 28 ~ Ways to Keep Writing Despite Your Obstacles by Leanna Renee Hieber
October 5 ~ Just Sit and Write by Julie Metz
October 12 ~ The Occupational Hazard of Memoir Writing by Alice Eve Cohen
October 19 ~ When I Knew I Wanted to be an Author by Lucie Simone
October 26 ~ My Writing Line by Lori Stephens
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Interview: Lost ski areas
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(Mitch Wertlieb) The days after Christmas and leading up to New Years are some of the busiest at the numerous ski mountains around Vermont. If you're stuck on a long line waiting to get back up a chair lift, you may be wishing those people in front of you were on a different mountain entirely. Well, meteorologist and ski enthusiast Jeremy Davis can't give you directions to a secret slope of your own, but he can tell you about many of the lost ski areas throughout New England - once bustling ski mountain destinations now untouched by ski or snowboard. Davis is the founder of New England Lost Ski Area Project, and he joins me now on the line.
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Buying Freestyle Board- 5 cm difference too big?
I have a never Summer Titan 160. I'm 5'9" and 160 lbs. At first, the Titan was a little big for me but I got used to it and I love the size now. HOwever, after getting better, I Found that I would like to ride more fakie and do more tricks. The titan is a directional board so I would like to buy a NS SL.
My question is for those who have a free ride board and a free style board: Would going from a 160 titan to a 155 SL board be too much? I know that I would have been better suited for a 158 board in the first place, but now that I'm used to a 160 board and I like it, should I just get a 155 SL board instead? I just know that with a freestyle/park board, you want a smaller board. So is going from a 160 cm to a 155 cm too big of a difference? Or is it fine since the 160 is a litle big and I want a nimble board while doing tricks. Or, should I just get the 158 since it's already a size down, and I will like it since I am used to riding a 160 board?
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The Mets are basically checking in with anyone who has had some success and is coming off a downturn, the first one to take a one year deal for low base salary will be here.
One of the more interesting names mentioned by Ken Davidoff of the NY Post is Shaun Marcum.
The 31 y/o right handed starting pitcher carries a lifetime ERA of 3.76 in seven years and five of those years were in the tough AL East with Toronto.
He missed all of 2009 due to TJ surgery and last year only pitched 120 innings after being on the 60 day DL with elbow tightness.
For two seasons 2010-2011 he pitched 200 innings to an ERA under 4 with an average WHIP of 1.15 and 13 wins for the Brewers...
In fact, Pavano isn't even the only member of the 2012 Twins who sits on the Mets' radar. The club also has reached out to left-hander Francisco Liriano and many of the other remaining free-agent pitchers, including 2011 and 2012 Met Chris Young and Shaun Marcum, who spent the last two seasons with Milwaukee. source NY Post


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Lady Panthers win Gold bracket in Van
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VAN–The Mabank Lady Panthers picked up some key wins in the Van volleyball tournament Aug. 15-16, en route to a Gold bracket victory.
The tournament began with a pool play round, where the 24 teams are seperated into six "pools" of four teams each. The squads in each pool battle each other one time, then are seperated based on results to one of three playoff brackets: Championship, Gold and Silver.
In pool play Mabank defeated Edgewood 25-21, 25-17 and lost to Spring Hill 25-15, 25-15 and Cayuga 25-16, 20-25, 26-28.
Spring Hill, the four-time defending tournament champion, went on to defeat Van to extend their tournament championship record to five years.
The Lady Panthers dominated the Gold bracket on the second day of play, crushing Harmony 25-8, 25-16 and Chapel Hill 23-25, 25-18, 25-11. The Lady Panthers took a load off their chests when they defeated district opponent Crandall in the Gold bracket 20-25, 25-23, 25-21.
"This was our first test against a district opponent," head coach Stacy Shelton said about the match against Crandall. "It was a huge relief to everybody to beat them. It gives us some early confidence for district play."


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Paul Mellion, Nokia's VP of intellectual property, said, "Our latest ITC filing means we now have 46 Nokia patents in suit against Apple, many filed more than 10 years before Apple made its first iPhone. Nokia is a leading innovator in technologies needed to build great mobile products and Apple must stop building its products using Nokia's proprietary innovation."
The ITC recently ruled against Nokia in a previous filing made by the company against Apple. The former tech giant said it would wait to read all of the details of the ruling before deciding what its next step will be. Nokia also has patent infringement claims against Apple pending in the U.K., Netherlands and Germany and expects some of these claims to come to trial within the next few months.
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Aerosmith Debuts 'LUV XXX'
Aerosmith will release their first new material in 11 years when their Music From Another Dimension! album drops on November 6th. Rolling Stone has the exclusive premiere of the first track from the album. LUV XXX is the name of the tune. Listen to it here.
LUV XXX is "love three times." Front-man Steven Tyler explains the meaning behind that lyric to Rolling Stone. He is:
"Trying to make a social comment about how the world should be. Instead of mentioning peace – which is an overused name – I figured I would say 'love three times a day.' That's partly joking and partly truth."
The track isn't the first song we have heard from the album. The band debutedLegendary Child on American Idol in May. They later released the video.
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Just saw this thread. I'm the one who bought that O'Day 27 7tiger7 saw. Some o'day 27s were designed for an outboard, not inboard, and this is one of those. So the engine's not a huge deal. there's a fist-sized hole in the foredeck (looks like a stanchion or bow pulpit base got ripped out). I'm thinking of building an anchor locker up there when I fix this.
I can't tell much about whether the deck is in good shape or if there's deck rot because it was below freezing when I saw the boat. But otherwise the hull, rig, interior, etc looks pretty solid to my non-professional eyes. It came with a lot of equipment as well that seems to be in decent shape (sails, anchor, VHF).
This is my 2nd boat - have a '76 Aquarius 23 (trailerable skiff keel c/b sloop) I'm looking to sell now. So I'm not totally new to this and am hoping it turns out to be a good deal with the right amount of sweat equity.
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O'day boats are typical production type boats. Very similar to other boats like Catalina, Hunter, Newport, S2, Ericson, C&C, Cal, Pearson, etc. I have owned a Catalina 22, Newport 28 and I now have an O'day 35. I have looked at many many boats, and to be honest, in the basic coaster cruiser / racer sloop type, there just isn't that much differene between the boats.
IMHO, any of those boats would be fine for your needs. More important than the manufacturer is the condition of that particular boat. Since you are looking at the low end price wise (nothing wrong with that), there will be a great deal of difference between individual boats.
If your budget is really low stick to boats closer to 25' than to 30'. You will get a nicer boat for the money. If you can increase your budget, a bigger boat will be more comfortable and faster than the smaller boat, but costs increase fast!
Good luck,
A few slips away from me was an ODAY 27. Granted not the BEST boat out there, but that person liked it, he was the 2nd owner, looked great, sailed reasonably well etc. No it is not a J boat for speed, but in reality, probably on par with a catilina or any other coastal cruiser. They do well here in the pugetsound, san juan islands etc in Northern Wash st and southern BC inland waterways. It would not be, nore was it my first choice for a sailboat when I bought a boat to get back into sailing for the first time in 20 yrs, but, if the price would have been right, spouse would have liked it, it would work, and work well for day sails, weekend etc.
Huy guys,
thanks for all the feedback. I'm pretty handy around boats (grew up on Betrams and such), so sweat equity is not a problem (cash is another issue all together). But I see your points: I can buy something in good shape and well equiped for $5k, or something for $1k which I will pour in $4k - and still not have a boat worth $5k. I guess I'll take a good condition one, or a "bargain" fixer upper (as long as the fixing is just that - fixing; not rebuilding) - as long as both are safe and stable.
So I guess the next question is:
How are Oday 27's overall?
Sure enough but this one is sold and others are out there to be had cheap. My best freind bought a Hunter 25 for 2 k with outboard motor that sails just fine and is in good condition. His arguement is that after 2 years he will sell it for 2k and if something is really wrong then he will give it away but 2k is pretty cheap to get out on the water. I would not have believed it if I had not seen it myself.
For sure! One could certainly spend a couple of days bolting in, say, a VW engine bought cheap from a junkyard. Or some other creative option. But at a certain point...you just have to wonder, what else isn't being told about the boat? Little things like, "there's no engine, the right one would cost...". When I shake hands with someone like that, I count my remaining fingers afterwards to make sure I get 'em all back.
Some people have more money than time and those can be good project boats if such is the case. And you learn about boats in the process.
Tiger, don't believe everything you read on the internet. If you check out yachtworld.com you'll see those boats typically sell for $5000-$10,000 (asking prices) and there's usually an INBOARD ENGINE.
Apparently the CL poster neglected to mention, he's got no engine and that boat really is supposed to have an inboard. (Yes, you can bolt on anything, no, it probably won't ever sail right, that's a whole other discussion.) Price of installing an inboard engine? You guessed it, more than the price of buying a whole other boat that already has one. Without the soft spot on the deck, and whatever else the seller wasn't being honest about.
There are real bargains to be had out there, but if you're new to boats, and a boat is priced WAY below others, it is time to be very, very, careful. It isn't hard to sell a boat at or near market price--if there's nothing wrong.
|The real problem on very low-priced boats is they are often what you pay for them... in need of a lot of work in order to make them usable and safe. Often, the cost of re-habbing a cheap/free boat is far more than the cost of getting the same boat in usable and good condition.
|There are many opportunities to buy an old boat for a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. I say what have you got to lose if it floats and sails, you have spilled more money than that on the rug at a strip joint!
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Living at Home
While many of my friends have spread out across the country (and even the world) this summer to new jobs and internships, I've remained in L.A. This isn't that different from a lot of people who are living near USC for the summer while working, except for one thing: while they're in Gateway apartments or Cardinal Gardens, I'm living at home.
I'm not exactly an L.A. native — I live about forty miles north of USC in a suburban community more known for good schools and quiet streets than a bevy of business and internship opportunities. This makes my situation a little bit tricky. My parents, being both loving and frugal, don't see why I should pay to rent an apartment in L.A. when we live so close by and I can just stay with them.
Don't get me wrong; living at home can be nice. I don't have to do my own laundry, I eat better meals and I get to log some quality time with family. When I'm at school during the year, I tend to get pretty busy, even on weekends, and only end up coming home for a weekend every four or six weeks. Though I'm working 40 hours a week this summer, by some accounts a full time job, it's still a lot less than my usual school load of five classes, Daily Trojan every night and (last semester) an internship. So, theoretically, I should have a lot more time to relax at home, see some friends and enjoy my summer.
And I do, kind of. I'm just spending a lot of that time doing a different activity — driving.
Last semester I had to drive from school to my internship in Venice. And let me tell you, the 45 minutes to over an hour it took to go those 13 measly miles could be painful at times. But going 40 miles from Downtown to Oak Park, where I live, twice a day everyday is on a whole other level.
Luckily, the end of school has come for most, and it seems to have slowed down the traffic. Either that or everyone just happens to be on vacation this week, because the last two days I got home in just over an hour, kind of a miracle. I have my fingers crossed that it keeps up and summer traffic really is lighter, like my parents keep trying to convince me.
Besides the time though, there is another downside to living at home. Being so far away from my friends who either are from L.A. or are staying at school for the summer can be a little isolating. Even many of the other L.A. Times interns are living near the office, making it easy for them to make plans after work or on the weekends, while I feel a little out of the loop with everyone.
As for my school friends who are around for the summer, coordinating can be hard. Everyone has different work schedules and locations, and driving within L.A. during rush hour to meet someone for happy hour can be a pain in itself. And after five days of driving back and forth, usually the last thing I want to do on the weekends is drive back into the city.
So, living at home has been a bit of a challenge these first two weeks of interning. Like everything though, I'm sure I will figure out how to make it all work — interning, driving and seeing friends.
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LILONGWE – Southern African leaders opened an annual summit Saturday in Malawi, endorsing the outcome of disputed elections in Zimbabwe that extended President Robert Mugabe's 33-year rule by five years.
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party said Friday he had withdrawn a legal challenge to the elections, claiming the courts would not be fair. That removed the last hurdle to 89-year-old Mugabe's inauguration for a seventh term.
The Southern African Development Community's observer mission for the July 31 elections judged the vote was free, but have not yet commented on its fairness.


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Could you review this one. It includes support for different forms of abuse and seems very cohesive and well built.
It is located around 12 miles from your town.
"Sessions include education and skills training in anger management, effective communication, problem-solving and assertive versus aggressive behavior. This 18-week, 36-hour psycho-educational counseling program is designed to stop abusive behaviors and introduce productive relational behavors".
It is very frustrating not to find good programs so necessary locally. i hope his could work for you.
Thank you I will look into the safe haven. It is difficult to find this type of council but i will persist and accomplish. any other advice is appreaciated.
Hello. I am glad it could be a useful resource for you to explore.and consider for support.
People develop anger and self-control problems due to overwhelming feelings we do not know how to cope with, then those feelings of pain get distorted and acted out as anger and aggression, violence against self and other people. This is the way our psyche-body find to get some relief. the problem is that since it is a distorted means, it creates further dysfunction and extra pain.
This is why o always recommend people facing challenges like this to also consider individual psychotherapy to work on personal issues leading to violence. it is so common to find depression and anxiety problems behind anger and violence problems, and without taking better care of ourselves at hose levels, we would not be able to eradicate the dysfunctional way of releasing frustration, sadness and fear.
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The Fall, dark and atmospheric painting by ~DamienWorm. The brushstrokes that make up the glow of the candles are especially lovely. ( Suggested by STelari and Featured by alicexz )
wow amazing!!
that is awesome, wow totally love it!
Impressive concept and element used. I wish I did this.
I love it!
Top Notch.
Makes me think of voodoo for some reason...creepy atmosphere, strange twisted roots... love it
nice, working on a similar theme myself check it later.
this is great
this is great
that looks really totally awesome. X3
been brilliant.
I tip my imaginary hat in front of this masterpiece.
been brilliant.
I tip my imaginary hat in front of this masterpiece.
Absolutely fantastic!
Woooow, amazing!!! Congrats on the DD!!
really nice!
wow awesome!
Beautiful work!
love this
Perfect! I love!!!
bery nice!!!
I could swear this was a real painting when I saw it, not digital! That's awesome! I think the red candles would look better green though. I think it would add a splash of color to the dark surroundings. Plus to some it's the color of death. The skull itself reminds me of Pinhead from that horror series. Over all it's great.
Hmmm...For some reason, this makes me wonder about the true origin of Pinhead from the Hellraiser series.
fantastic textures!!!
I wish it was real!
Dark and amazing detail.
Reminds me of snow whites apple or warped thoughts. Its a little like the roiting sludge that never goes away in the back of your mind.
Reminds me of snow whites apple or warped thoughts. Its a little like the roiting sludge that never goes away in the back of your mind.
OMG the skull of pinhead!XD
wow! very well done. it seems quite dark to me and i like that very much so
My Chupacabra... This is by far one of the best DD I've seen in a while.
The skull.. <3
gorgeous. beautiful job
this is amazingly amepic!!!!!!!!!!!
Great work! It's really beautiful. Congratulations for the DD!!
Okay, and I'm saying this purely as a statement of fact: this reminds me of the inside of my head, which is not a very fun place to live (trust me, I know ). That being said, this is seriously an epic piece. Would this be okay t use in a youtube video (with all credit going to you for it, of course)?
This is so cool! the lighting is awesome.
Amazing, i had planned to draw a skull with pins in it but i never knew what to draw it with. But you clearly knew. I bow to you
so very cool!
Great stuff.
i love it!!!! the shading and especially the flame on the candles r amazing!!!! ps:the apple reminds me of deathnote<3
in my world, dinosaurs go mooow hehe<3
in my world, dinosaurs go mooow hehe<3
Kick. Ass.
Wow your painting's so realistic, especially with the light and shadows
Congrats on the DD ^^
Congrats on the DD ^^
Holy..... haunting and beautiful.
I think this is what Pinhead's nightstand looks like: you know when he wants to be alone and introspective.
Awesome use of the lighting!
Awesome use of the lighting!
So awesome!!
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Coastal Wetlands under threat from Sea Level Rise says World Bank
Climate change induced sea level rise of one metre is likely to destroy 60 per cent of the developing world's wetlands says a new World Bank research working paper. The economic loss of these wetlands is estimated at approximately $630 million US dollars per year.
The World Bank study looked at the risk to coastal wetlands in 76 countries at a sea level rise of one metre. Because there are so many uncertainties with the rate of sea level rise, the one metre level was chosen to study the likely impact. This sea level may be achieved this century, with sea level rising 60% faster than IPCC projections. Sea level rise is unstoppable, but it can be slowed through emissions reduction and give us humans and ecosystems a chance to adapt. Sea levels will continue to rise for several centuries.
The study found that about 99% of the coastal wetlands at elevations of one meter or less in the Middle East and North Africa could disappear, as well as 77% in sub-Saharan Africa, 66% in East Asia and 39% in Latin America and the Caribbean. Places like the iconic Sundarbans of Bangladesh and India, a major home and refuge to the Bengal tiger, are under threat.
Coastal fresh-water marshes would be particularly affected in Argentina, China, Iran, Mexico and Vietnam. Up to 61% of Saltwater wetlands would be affected in Egypt and Libya.
"The findings are alarming, because wetlands don't exist just for the birds and plants - people rely on them for water, food, transportation, and other essential goods and services," says Susmita Dasgupta, a lead environment economist at the Bank's Development Research Group. She co-authored the study with colleague Brian Blankespoor and consultant Benoit Laplante. "We hope our research can motivate steps to protect wetlands, especially since global warming will for sure accelerate the rise of sea levels."
Coastal wetlands ecosystems over the last century have been vanishing due to land development. Wetlands have suffered through drainage for agriculture, dredging for better navigation, conversion to aquaculture and fish farming, discharge of pesticides, herbicides & nutrients and a host of other changes. It is projected that increasing sea levels from climate change will have an increasing impact surpassing the destruction of human land use changes.
Coastal wetlands provide many valuable ecosystem services. These include protection of shorelines from erosion, storm buffering, sediment retention, water quality maintenance, nutrient recycling, preservation of biodiversity, provision of natural environmental amenities, climate regulation, carbon sequestration, as well as cultural heritage. But with urban development and land use change Coastal ecosystems suffer 100 fold decrease in capacity to store carbon mitigating climate change.
With sea level rise wetlands to survive will need to migrate inland. But they will face numerous competition and obstacles from the human built world. But different wetland environments will have different migratory potential. Brackish and freshwater marshes will be most affected in the coastal zone through alteration of hydrological regimes. Saltmarshes may do better as they accrete vertically and maintain their elevation relative to sea level where the supply of sediment is sufficient. According to the report swamp forests appear less vulnerable to sea level rise.
Indeed, as species attempt to migrate inland they will increase competition with human land use and existing ecosystems. It will produce a secondary impact of sea level rise on habitat loss and species biodiversity, which has largely been unassessed in most modelling and planning.
"In terms of area estimates, this would translate to a loss of 16,492 square kilometre of freshwater marsh, 17,421 square kilometre of GLWD Coastal Wetlands and 10,969 square kilometre of saline wetlands. Among the four coastal wetland categories, only swamp forests appear less vulnerable to SLR and more capable of migrating as the coast line is receding...." says the report.
From the report: Table 2: Expected loss of wetlands in square kilometres by types of wetlands for most impacted countries (with expected percent loss in parenthesis)
The report concludes:
"Our estimates indicate that for a 1 m SLR, approximately 64% of the freshwater marsh, 66% of GLWD Coastal Wetlands, and 61% of brackish/saline wetlands in 76 developing countries are at risk. The economic value of the annual flow of goods and services produced by these wetlands has been estimated, crudely but we believe conservatively, to be approximately $ 630 million (in 2000 US dollars). The most striking feature of our results is the extreme concentration of effects in a handful of countries. Our findings indicate that a large percentage of this loss would take place in East Asia and the Pacific, and the Middle East and North Africa. In Asia, China, and VietNam bear the brunt of these losses. In the Middle East and North Africa, Libya and Egypt experience most losses (saline wetlands)."
The remote sensing and mapping had difficulty with resolution to pick up the impact on many Pacific Islands. One of the very concerning features of this report is the amount of freshwater and coastal wetlands in East Asia and the Pacific under threat. Much of this is in Vietnam and China, but many Pacific island nations will also be strongly impacted. In fact, at a sea level rise of 1 metre some low-lying nations are likely to no longer exist; their population and culture having to migrate elsewhere to survive. The wetland mangrove ecosystems on these islands will surcomb to the rising seas.
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Canisius junior Robin Kennery has been named to the 2014 Preseason All-MAAC Team, the conference office announced today. In the annual MAAC Preseason Poll, the Golden Griffins were picked to finish fifth in the 11-team league. The Preseason All-MAAC Team and the MAAC Preseason Poll are voted on by the conference's head coaches.
Kennery earned All-MAAC First Team honors following the 2013 season after she hit a team-high .350 with seven doubles, three home runs and 39 runs batted in. She played in and started all 47 games a season ago for the Blue and Gold, and she ended her sophomore campaign with 25 runs scored, which ranked third on the team to go with six stolen bases.
Fairfield's Lauren Liseth and Marist's Nicole Cheek were named the MAAC Preseason Co-Players of the Year. The Marist Red Foxes were picked as the league's preseason favorite, while Fairfield was chosen to finish second. MAAC-newcomer Monmouth was selected to place third, while Siena and Canisius rounded out the top-five. Iona, Quinnipiac, Niagara and Manhattan took places six through nine, while Rider and Saint Peter's rounded out this year's preseason voting.Canisius opened the season last weekend by going 2-2 at the Cleveland State Dome Invitational in Cleveland, Ohio. The Griffs will return to action Feb. 21-23 at the Western Kentucky Invitational in Bowling Green, Ky. The team will open MAAC play Saturday, March 29, at Niagara.


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I have a very small cafe but do a nice to go lunch in addition to my catering business. I try to have something different every day to keep interest up.
Today's specials-it's going to be hot today- are the following:
*Green Pepper and Black Olive Burrito
*Chicken Enchiladas with Herbed Rice (these sell no matter how warm it gets)
*Mediterranean Plate -hummus, tabbouleh, lemon and oregano marinated chicken. feta, black olives
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Remember last year when I made those wedding invitations for Rebecca and Matt? Well, as the saying goes: "Oh what a difference a year makes!" A few months ago, my Mom asked me to make an invitation for Rebecca's baby shower, which my Mom hosted, along with my sisters Courtney and Galen. She requested an illustration with a series of animals and their (CUTE!) offspring. Here's what I came up with:
Obviously, I have grayed out some confidential contact info here, but I wanted you all to see the text so you could get a better feel for how the whole thing was designed. I guess the shower went well, and Isaac Okawa Witcher was born this past weekend on June 17th! Rebecca and Matt have posted some photos of him on their blog. I know they will be great parents, and I wish them both lots of luck with it and a big congratulations!


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Got myself on the VIP guest list for the darts this year at Alexanda Palace. Back stage passes and in the players family seats right at the front.
Guy I met at Fight UK manages a couple of players. Going on the 16th and if they win again on the 22nd.
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Can we do this?
Can we do this?
It's a start in the right direction, and i doubt it will pan out.
His idea still calls for us paying to build the prisions in mexico and also paying the expenses to staff and operate the prisons.
Honestly i would rather see the money spent to do this, used to arm gaurds and fortify border. Send them home like they should have been in the first place and shoot when they try to come back illegally.
I'm not sure why they keep turning there backs on the fact there illegal and by paying 1 cent to assist them or jail them is stealing from the taxpayers. The billions spent here to save a billion could be better spent to solve the problem.
Just ship them to Mexico City. Load them on a plane, land it, and shove them off. Much cheaper....
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I don't like that the way that is structured. It just sends more jobs out of Ca....construction jobs, prison jobs, etc... That does not help Ca or the U.S. economy.
"The only real disability in life is a bad attitude."
If Arnie would follow through on turning all the INS holds over to the Feds, there would be an instant 27,000 person drop in the inmate population, but he won't. Why? Because the Feds pay CA to hold them, and Arnie knows they pay more than it actually costs so there's money to be made.
This is just another grand standing press op for the dickhead.
"Don't you realize that there are already enough people in the world to hate without you putting in so much effort to give me another?"
As long as they send the other 20 million illegals with them.... and finish the f**king fence!!!
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Ofcom has announced that it will be recommending a price reduction which could lead to as much as a ten percent price reduction in home telephone and broadband costs for some users.
The proposed cuts come as a result of Ofcom revising the rates that Openreach, which manages BT's network, should charge other providers such as TalkTalk and Sky who rent BT lines and exchanges. While it will be good news for some customers, Virgin customers won't see a cut in prices as it uses its own network to provide telephone and broadband. Ofcom has announced that there will be two ways by which the cost reductions will be passed on to the customer. The first is called Local Loop Unbundling, and allows BT's competitors to place their own equipment in local BT exchanges.
Ofcom is proposed that Openreach reduce prices when an operator takes over the lines completely by between 1.2 and 4.2 percent every year. Where lines are shared it wants prices to drop by between 11.6 and 14.6 percent every year. The second area where it is recommending price reduction is Wholesale Line Rental, which involves telecoms firms simply renting lines from Openreach. Ofcom wants the prices of these to drop by between 3.1 and 6.1 percent every year.
In a statement the regulator said: "Ofcom expects its proposed prices to lead to real term price reductions for consumers, as communications providers pass on savings to their landline and broadband customers." Responding to the proposals, BT said: "BT invests more than any other company in the UK's communications infrastructure, so it is critical that it is able to achieve a fair rate of return in order to continue its investment in copper and fibre-based services."
The consultation phase of the process will now continue until June 9 with results being published this autumn. Should the recommendations go ahead customers could see price reductions as soon as the end of the year.


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Paschasius, vir Spectabilas, his dispute about boundaries with Leontius, iii.
vir in Latin signifies man, but vuur in Dutch signifies fire.
virile, vir′il, or vī′ril, adj. of or belonging to a man or to the male sex: masculine: manly.
Truly he was the vir probus dicendi peritus of the ancients.
vir pauper calumnians pauperes simils est imbri vehementi, in quo paratur fames.
They see an old man (vir) with a white face; this is a sign to speak only what is true, and to do only what is just.
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His monument was in the nave, towards the west end, and told that he was "vir sapientia et vitæ sanctitate clarus."
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Grossman's trajectory, from an intense patriotism, overriding the death-dealing ideology of Stalin, to, by the end, a tragic humanism, is made wonderfully clear by the selections. The last entry chosen by Beevor from the notebooks of this Jew from Ukraine is not about Russians, or Ukrainians, or Jews. It's about lovers. "On a bench, a wounded German soldier is hugging a girl, a nurse. They see no one. When I pass them again an hour later, they are still sitting in the same position. The world does not exist for them; they are happy."
In 1980, Grossman's Life and Fate was published in Switzerland, and five years later in English translation in London and New York. A microfilm copy, purportedly made by dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov, had been smuggled to the West by novelist Vladimir Voinovich. "Man's fate," Grossman wrote in his epic, "may make him a slave, but his nature remains unchanged. Man's innate yearning for freedom can be suppressed but never destroyed." Vasily Grossman was reflecting here on the human condition but also on his own life. The battle for Stalingrad was central to both.
A village that had been burned by the Germans. All that remains of it are low sandy hills of collapsed handmade brick, an abandoned well, and a few rusted metal constructions. Smoke was rising from a depression not far away, where former inhabitants of the village were living in earth bunkers dug by Red Army soldiers during the fighting. A white-haired woman, a mother whose sons had been killed in the war, brought us water in a can and said in a melancholy voice: "Will there be resurrection for us?" and she indicated the burned village with a movement of her head.
And further on, along all the great roads, leading to the Neva, and the Volkhov, and to the Terek, to the tall forests of Karelia, to the steppes and mountains of the Caucasus, there are hills and hillocks, burial mounds of soldiers' graves.
Our dead children, the Red Army soldiers, sergeants, lieutenants, our good boys are asleep there for ever. Everywhere along the roads of our advance there are these kurgans, hills and hillocks, graves of our killed sons marked by plywood boards on sticks, tilted to one side, with washed-off inscriptions. The rain washed off the soldiers' names when it was crying over the graves, and united them under the single name of the killed son.
The vehicle broke down close to the Polish border, and we had to spend many hours in a field. While [the Jeep]was being repaired, I visited a hamlet. It was Sunday, and the main resident of the hamlet and her children had gone to church. Only an old woman and a traveller, a soldier dismissed from the army because of his wounds, were at home. He told me he didn't have to walk very far now: he was going to the Orel area. We began to talk. The traveller, whose name was Alexei Ivanovich, was over forty. He had served at the front since the first days of the war, and had been wounded three times. He had been in a mortar unit. His greatcoat was torn by shrapnel and covered in black stains, he was wearing a ushanka winter hat, foot bandages and heavy boots. This soldiers' gear was something he could bring back home. He had been living at the hamlet for about two weeks, helping the woman to sow, in return for which she gave him three poods [about 48 kilograms]of rye. He would be given a lift to the station at dawn, with her horses. There he intended to board an empty train going back from the front and get closer to home. Alexei Ivanovich was very happy about having earned this grain. He even led me to the hall and smiled, watching me pat the fat dense sack.
He then told me how Germans had burned his village, and his family are living in an earth bunker. "Its good that I'm not going back empty-handed." he said. "I'll bring them some grain from the war, because I saw how hard it'd become for them when I went back on leave after I was wounded the second time. What sort of life is it under the earth? It's dark and wet, and there insects. It's not so bad in the summer, but in winter it's hard."
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First of all, look at Ke$ha. Every time I see her I think that I've been desensitized to her crazy, but then I find I'm just as shocked by it. So last night, Miss Ke$ha was the special guest and VIP performer at the unveiling of the new Baby G watch designs.
You remember Baby G watches, right? They were super popular in the late 90s and early 2000s for pre-teen girls. If you were in elementary or middle school, you had to have one! (I will confess I had a series of them that gave me a weird tan line for many years.) And so amid this middle school glory, we find Ke$ha.
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Justin Bennee is no newcomer. Stuff like street hammers, video parts and magazine covers have kept this Utah kid in the mix for years. After a season spent sidelined with a back injury, Bennee is back on. Since you should already know how he rides, here's some news on what he rides.
Boards you ride: Nitro Swindle 152 in the street and a Nitro Team 159 on the mountain.
Boots: Nike Zoom Force Ones.
Bindings: Nitro Raiden.
Stance Width: 24 inches.
Angles: Fifteen degrees on the front and negative ten on the back, I think. I've been setting up the same stance for so long that I should know, but I don't.
What's the difference between your street boards and mountain set-ups?
For street boards I ride a 152 usually and a little bit softer and also I set it up twin. My mountain board is a 159, set back an inch and a half. Another thing I do is adjust my highbacks to my edge by rotating them a tiny bit. It's pretty crazy what a difference it made for me.
How long do boards usually last you in the streets?
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What about centering?
I have my street board centered because the tricks you do, like if your trying a nosepress on something and decide your not feelin' it and you wanna try a tailpress, then it seems only right to have the same amount of tail as nose, especially when the board is already so small to begin with.
You're on Nitro boards now, do they differ from the Salomon boards you were on for years?
Yeah, I just got on Nitro this year. They seem to be much more durable and have way better pop.
You have some other new sponsors, too? Yeah, I just got on LRG pretty recently and Hatch socks, they make really good socks. And Masa, Darrell Mathes just started this company and they make some really sweet shit.
A back injury took you out for most of last season, what did you do to rehab it? Lots of Pilates and eating healthier, no homo. And I see this magic man in SLC, he can cure anything, seriously.
What are you focused on with your riding right now? Jut having a good time with it and keeping the passion.
Have you been filming this season? Yeah, I'm filming for VideoGrass again and we've been hard at work. The movie is called Bon Voyage, it's gonna be a heater.
What else are you doing this winter? I'm in Switzerland right now tryin' to get my backcountry on, but we've been all over this year, like Texas, and Germany.
Who's the new kid coming up in SLC right now? Cale Zima, all day!
Where do you think urban riding is headed? Double Cork for sure man, I've been training really hard all year for a double cork twirly bird to a 20 stair rail, my coach says I'm almost ready.
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