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I have been hearing many horrible rumours. One is that I will soon be uprooted from my home, when Mom does something called "Graduate." I do not like this plan, and will do my best to foil it. Perhaps I will eat this homework she is always doing.
The second rumour is that I am to share Mom and her fiance's love with another cat known as "Olive." I do not know how I will deal with this. Apparently, Olive was rescued from the cold, like I was, along with her six kittens. Pah, kittens, I am glad I will never have to deal with their kind!
This Olive character will be moving in with Mom and Scott before I will. Apparently they want her to recover from being spayed before meeting me...
We shall see if I find this intruder tolerable.
Rarr! Mom has been waaaay too busy lately. She is in theatre, and has a show going up today. But, I don't care--that is no excuse for not treating me like royalty and not updating this site!
I am living with great grandma for the summer, since the place mom's living right now won't let her have me. But, as soon as she goes back to school, I'm with her again! And, she visits me all the time, so I'm never really able to miss her. The best part of living at great grandma's is that there are two big ole dogs there that I get to boss around!
I have to find a new vet. My vet closed down very suddenly and suspiciously. Mom had been there three days before they closed, and they told her that they looked forward to seeing her in the fall---weird! Luckily, they made it so that she can still get my medical records, so I won't have to go through all the yuckiness of being re-diagnosed with struvite. I really don't like going to the vet!
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Appointments are being accepted for photography tours, private groups, and school field trips. Please call the gift shop at 541-592-2957 to schedule your visit.
Great Cats World Park was established in 2005 and crafted from the ground up to be a place where people can see cats of all sizes, from all over the world, and learn about the special and important place they hold on our planet. Apex predators are an integral part of a healthy ecosystem, and from the powerful Lion to the elusive Geoffroy's Cat, the felids are among the most powerful, most efficient, and deadliest predators on earth.
Since opening to the public in 2005 the Park has hosted more than 115,000 visitors. Nestled into the Siskiyou Mountains and situated along the historic Redwood Highway in beautiful Southern Oregon, the mild climate and beautiful surroundings create a lovely backdrop for one of the largest and most diverse collections of exotic cats to be found anywhere.
The fully guided tours both educate and entertain. Our mission is to introduce as many guests as possible to our feline ambassadors and to help raise public awareness and support for many of these rare and endangered cats. The tour guides interact with the cats, bringing out their natural and instinctive behaviors through positive reinforcement and the bond of familiarity allowing visitors an up close and personal experience that is truly unique.
Great Cats World Park is currently home to 45 individual cats, representing 16 different species.
They can't wait to meet you!
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- Drinks, snacks and ice cream are available seasonally in our gift shop.
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Five Minutes With … Mouzon Siddiqi
Mouzon Siddiqi has participated and thrived in international relations from Alabama to Afghanistan. Most of that time and effort have been on the Vanderbilt campus, where she serves as program coordinator for the Graduate Program in Economic Development (GPED). She and her husband, Sultan Siddiqi, MA'70, have served as ambassadors to incoming international students for 35 years. In 2009, the university recognized her contributions with the Commodore Award, Vanderbilt's highest staff honor, which recognizes and rewards individuals who have made exceptional performance contributions to the university.
What are your duties with GPED?
I work with admissions, assist students with housing, and coordinate tutors and help sessions. During the year, I follow students' progress and assist in planning their schedules to ensure their timely graduation. I am on call for anything and everything. All the students have my cell and home phone numbers and know that they may call at any time—day, night or weekend—if they are worried about something, need help or just want to talk.
I work with sponsoring agencies (including foreign government sponsors) and manage the office and student aid budgets. I assist the program director with whatever is needed, including drafting remarks for various occasions and writing letters for students for visa purposes, to bring families and so forth.
Much of my time is devoted to email with prospective students—encouraging strong students to join our program and answering a myriad of questions. I also correspond frequently with alumni, assisting them with requests for transcripts, reference letters, alumni information and the like.
You met your husband while he was a grad student at Peabody?
Yes. Sultan enrolled in M.A. study at Peabody in 1968—the same time I came to Scarritt as a junior. At that time, Scarritt was a senior college and graduate school. Students at Vanderbilt, Peabody or Scarritt could enroll in courses at any of the other two schools. I took several courses at Peabody and Sultan studied English at Scarritt. We met in December 1968 at a Christmas dance at Scarritt. He asked me out the following night for dinner. We dated two years, graduated, married in my hometown of Centre, Ala., and left for Afghanistan for two years.
Back then, people who married an American could immediately change their status to permanent resident and then U.S. citizen, but we never considered the option of not returning to Afghanistan. People in my hometown (population 2,500) were worried about my living halfway across the world, but I viewed moving to Kabul as the biggest adventure of my life—and I was right! It was wonderful! The country was so peaceful then—a beautiful place with beautiful people.
What brought you to the College of Arts and Science?
When we returned to the U.S., I found a job with a large sales company where I worked for two years. I soon knew that I wanted to be back in an academic environment where people are more diverse, generally have different priorities and are respected for their individuality. I started to work at Vanderbilt in January 1975 and quickly realized this was the place I wanted to be.
Tell us about your interaction with international students.
I love meeting students at the airport when they arrive. I look forward to seeing the students' faces for the first time and welcoming them to Nashville and to Vanderbilt. Our staff and second-year students help the new students settle in. We use my pickup truck to help students furnish their apartments [with] purchases from places like Wal-Mart, secondhand stores and the Vanderbilt surplus store.
"I love meeting students at the airport when they arrive. I look forward to seeing the students' faces for the first time and welcoming them to Nashville and to Vanderbilt."
–Mouzon Siddiqi
Our office has quarterly birthday parties to celebrate students' birthdays, a fall picnic, a Valentine's party and a celebration for student employee appreciation week. We invite students over to our house whenever we can manage it. They know that they are always welcome. Our office strives to be a very friendly, welcoming place. It not only is a place for students to come for assistance, but a place to study and hang out. If we don't see students for a few days—maybe a week or so—we check to make sure they are okay.
My husband helps students buy cars and assists the Muslim students in finding places that sell halal meat [adhering to Islamic dietary practices]. He also cooks halal meat for the awards dinner in the spring.
How does it feel to be the 2009 recipient of the Commodore Award?
I was overwhelmed and humbled. There are so, so many deserving employees. I never imagined I would receive this award! It is the greatest honor I could ever have. I will always cherish the award, but most of all, the wonderful, unselfish and thoughtful people, with whom I work, who made this possible.
What activities do you enjoy outside of work?
I like having a garden (although my husband does all the work) and I love to swim. In the fall, I am a football junkie. My dad played for the University of Alabama and football is in my blood.
My husband and I spend many weekends in Atlanta with our daughter, son-in-law and our two grandsons (ages 6 and 2)—the delight of our lives. We also enjoy spending lots of time with our Afghan family and friends in Nashville. Aside from family gatherings, I would have to say the most fun I have is hanging out with my GPED family. It keeps me young!
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Current version unusable Current version unusableI imagine it'll be sorted soon, and in the past it's been fine, but not currently able to open any magazine, and, on the basis that my subscription gives me 30 days access on each mag before the next one, I'm losing time which is unfair (I can get access later, but then the new issue is out...)Reptile smile over 2 years ago
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Sotchi (Russie) (AFP) - Bobsleigh is one of the fastest Olympic Games events. Average racing speeds are 90 to 100 kph, with top speeds of up to 150. A driver and breakman (plus two teammates for a four-man bob) race down an icy track. VIDEOGRAPHIC


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Books for Horse Lovers
Growing up, I was an avid reader. The librarians knew me by name at the library and knew that I loved horses and reading books about horses. Today, I still enjoy reading books for horse lovers.
10 books for horse lovers
Below, in alphabetical order, are my book recommendations. I have only listed 10 book titles. Please […]


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The competition among cloud-storage services is getting more crowded this week: "Digital filing" company Neat on Tuesday unveiled NeatCloud, a business-focused storage service that includes an app for iPhone and iPad.
The Neat mobile app lets users take pictures of documents--like receipts--for upload to the NeatCloud service, where it is synced to and can be accessed from the mobile devices or desktop computer; NeatCloud also extracts pertinent information from the documents to make them searchable by keyword. (See the video below for a guide to the service.) And if you don't want to use your phone to scan a receipt, Neat also offers hardware and software for scanning and accessing documents at your Mac.
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In addition to its mobile features, users can also email documents directly to NeatCloud for storage and reference, and multiple users can share a single NeatCloud account for collaboration purposes.
NeatCloud is just the latest entry in the competitive cloud-storage market, with most of the services offering accompanying iOS apps. Dropbox is granddaddy of such services, along with stalwarts like Box.com and OfficeDrop--and they've been joined in the last year by Apple's own iCloud service, GoogleDrive, and Cubby. Doxie Go also offers NeatCloud-style scan-and-save services, while Evernote has similar scan-and-extract-pertinent-information skills.
Prospective users can try NeatCloud with a 30-day free trial; after that, subscriptions are $6 a month for a single user, ranging up to $25 a month for a "business" account that allows access by up to five different users. That purchases up to 50 GB of storage, with each additional gigabyte costing 50 cents a month. The Neat mobile app is compatible with any device running iOS 4.0 or later.
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Hi from Southeast Kansas. I've been lurking for some time now and decided to join up. I am currently working on my ccl (waiting for a class in my area). I will carry a sr40c in a crossbreed holster when it is legal to do so. I also have a .40 cal baby desert eagle and a .357 ruger security six.
While in the Arizona National Guard I was a member of the black gun (m16) rifle team and the M14 rifle team. After moving to Kansas I was a member of the Pistol team, .45 and .22 pistols.
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Because many states allow only assistance dogs to be brought into stores or malls, some people take their dogs along on errands but leave them in the car. This can be deadly.
A little heat outside a car can quickly make it very hot inside. On a summer's day of only 85 degrees Fahrenheit, for example, even keeping the windows slightly open won't stop the inside temperature from climbing to 102 degrees in 10 minutes, and to 120 degrees in 20 minutes. A dog whose body temperature rises to 107-108 degrees will within a very short time suffer irreparable brain damage — or even death.
UAN's "Don't Leave Me in Here — It's Hot!" flier has saved countless animals' lives over the years. With its tips on prevention and treatment, the flier has proven to be a painless reminder that alerts someone of the dangers of leaving animals in the car while he or she is shopping. Whenever you see a parked car with animals inside, place the "Don't Leave Me in Here — It's Hot!" flier under the windshield wiper. (If you see an animal in imminent danger or a child left unattended inside a car, see the store manager or contact the police.)
You can download the fliers & posters at this site - http://mydogiscool.com/b_flier.php It could help save a dog's life!! Please feel free to share and pass on this info. ♥
We hope this finds you all doing well! ♥ We wanted to let you know that we have our very own Facebook page now! Mom has had one for a while, but we have one now too. We think it's about time! BOL!! We've already sent out quite a few furiend requests, but if you'd like to be FB pals with us.... send us a pmail and we'll make sure it happens!
Much love to all of our sweet pals. We love you! ♥
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Hey ya, Dogster pals! We started a thread in Plus Fun yesterday. We wanted to let all of our pals know that we probably won't be around as much anymore. We're cutting back our time on Dogster due to several reasons, to which we won't get into. We then got many pmails, asking us if something is wrong, etc. So, we just want to reassure everypup again that no, there isn't anything wrong. We realize that we spend a bit too much time on Dogster and other things have been put on the back burner. Well, it's time to get to those 'other things' and maybe put Dogster on the back burner for a change. Rest assured, we are not leaving Dogster! We are just cutting back our time. Of course we will still check/reply our pmails and post on occasion. It just won't be as often as we used to!
We have tried to keep the "fun" alive in Plus Fun for a long time now. Unfortunately, more and more pups are either leaving or barely have time to post. That is all understandable, life happens. ;-) We hope to see the fun continue, it's something we've always enjoyed here on Dogster.
Take care, pups! We will hopefully see you around. ((HUGS))
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Few events have crystallized U.S. fears over a cyber catastrophe, or brought on calls for a strategic response, more than the recent attacks against Google and more than 30 other tech firms.
The company's disclosure in January that it was attacked by China-based hackers -- and its subsequent decision to scale back operations there -- have stoked long-standing fears over the ability of cyber adversaries to penetrate commercial and government networks in the U.S.
If a full-fledged cyberwar were to break out, the nation's economy would be hit hard. Banks might not be able function, electricity, water and other utilities could be shut off, air travel would almost certainly be disrupted, and communications would be spotty at best -- in a word, chaos. Read the full story here.
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Rob Darken of Graveland and Lord Wind most graciously agreed to answer our staff's questions:
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New Lord Wind Demo
Lord Wind quietly released a new demo late last year for free download on Bandcamp. The Graveland side project's last album, Ales Stenar, was one of the best of 2012. Hopefully a new record will follow soon.
A hidden influence on neoambient
The movement that some are calling "neoambient" — a fusion of dark ambient, Conan soundtracks, and neofolk — generally arose out of the metal community. The classics of the genre converge on Lord Wind (Graveland), Burzum and Black Aria (Glenn Danzig). In addition, metal bands contributed to related forms of epic ambient, like Beherit (Electric Doom Synthesis) and Neptune Towers (Darkthrone). Newer entrants like Winglord and Hammemit explore different paths along similar directions.
But how do we trace the influences and evolution of this genre? Glenn Danzig (Misfits, Samhain, Danzig) launched a partial revolution in 1992 with his Conan-inspired Black Aria. Several years later, Burzum followed this with Daudi Baldrs and Hlidskjalf, both of which used Dead Can Dance-themed ancient world music to frame the epic nature of its compositions, giving it a feel not just of Conan-styled epic conflict, but of a cultural basis.
There's another influence lurking just a few years before Danzig — affirmed by Rob Darken as an influence on his music in Lord Wind — which was the music of Clannad as used in the BBC series Robin of Sherwood:
The relationship between black metal, ambient and neoclassical music
In the mainstream press, black metal has a reputation for being solely misanthropic, heavily distorted anthems of aggression and despair that are defined by their primitive minimalism.
While this may hold true for the majority of contemporary bands, this view overlooks the foundational bands of the genre, who possessed a deft sense of melody and the focus to create longer compositions that allowed for more introspection.
Just as black metal musicians created a more minimalistic form of death metal, some were able to apply the same approach to the ambient and neoclassical genres, crafting tracks that through the use of repetition, stirring melodies, and tonal variation reveal the genre's primal elegance without need of layers of distortion.
Given the news that Neptune Towers is being released on vinyl and Burzum is releasing an album comprised entirely of electronic music, now seems a fitting time to investigate this interesting subgenre and how it arose from black metal in several instances.
Favoring simple but expansive compositions, contemplative melodies soar over mild arpeggios; in addition to a few tracks of industrial nihilistic deconstruction. Through the utilization of modern technology, Burzum makes narrative and meditative music that like its inspiration Tolkien, takes the participant on an internal journey to another realm.
Neptune Towers
A side project of Darkthrone's Fenriz, in Neptune Towers haunting melodies glide over dark drones while otherworldly noises color the backdrop. Evocative tracks signal the coming to Earth of a yet-unknown alien species or perhaps the future evolution of humanity, the soundtrack to the future.
This band fuses its earlier black metal style with the industrial, pop, and ambient genres, featuring melodies that would not be out of place on a metal album, but pairs them with repetitive trance-like drums, synths, and found sounds that coalesce into epic moments before fading away like the rays of a burned out sun. Fans of multiple genres should appreciate this one.
Elegant and skillfully composed tracks celebrating the beauty of nature in their simplicity reveal a greater depth of expression than would be possible with over-produced tracks. Just as he did with black metal, Ildjarn with compatriot Nidhogg reduces neoclassical music to its most basic form and builds from it an enchanting structure.
A side project of Graveland, with Lord Wind martial drumming and heroic melodies bring to mind the battles of old, while synths and choruses expand the project's horizons, providing reach to contrast with the grounded and earthy rhythms. Well-crafted neoclassic folk music, this is the further continuation of Graveland's second stage.
The Best Underground Metal of 2012
The year is done. It brought many things: a new wave of hipster metal that blipped and died, an old school revival that's been percolating for years, drama and sadness with the recent death of Rigor Mortis' Mike Scaccia. Above all else, however, it brought us some quality music, some of which is heavy metal and some of which is metal in spirit only. Enjoy this survey of the best of 2012.
The Best Metal (and related) of 2012
- Abhorrence – Completely VulgarThis legendary band existed before Amorphis and plays a grittier style of the bold, warlike and heavy yet melodic music that graced Amorphis' first album, The Karelian Isthmus. These Abhorrence tracks show the band that would later write that album as they emerge from early grind/death stylings and gradually work more melody into their work. This is metal's holy grail: how to be both epic and amoral in the nihilistic sense of worshipping power, darkness and nature, but also use melody and harmony to give the works some staying power. As this collection of re-released demos progresses, the fusion of the two gets more confident and deft, leading us up to the point where the greatness of the first Amorphis album was inevitable.
- Angel Witch – As Above, So BelowAfter a lengthy absence, this classic NWOBHM band returns with an album that shows integration of more recent influences, specifically American heavy metal and progressive metal, but still keeps up the power. These songs are not as distinctive or as oddball as the heavily personalitied offerings from their self-titled album, but As Above, So Below is important because it takes disparate influences and places them under the control of one voice and style, which gives others room to build on. The oil-on-water aspect of bands switching between influences is gone and replaced by a smooth enwrapping of these styles into the substrate of Angel Witch's lauded and learned evil heavy metal.
- Beherit – Celebrate the DeadIf death metal was modernism, with its emphasis on structure, black metal was postmodernism, or an attempt to show through atmosphere the many facets of an idea in a clarity which could not be confined to a single statement. This was a quest as old as humanity, which is how to communicate in such a way that people who do not understand it do not simply imitate it from the outside-in and make something that looks about like it, fooling most people. Since the late 1990s Beherit have been at work inventing the next wave or movement of metal, one in which multiple statements co-exist in contradictory opposites that reveal the shadow or silhouette of an underlying truth. Two forms are in tension here: the "loop" form of traditional ambient music, in which layers are poured on top of a basic dub to create a simple sonic tapestry, and the pure narrative form which electro-acoustic music (and even some dubstep) touches on, in which a story is told through the change of riffs. This is closer to the original death metal idea of structure, but it is structure created through atmosphere, like old Tangerine Dream and Brian Eno albums, or even classical music. To this end, Beherit has re-released two demo songs from Engram which are ambitious longer (13- and 15-minute) works which show a deepening and changing of atmosphere, using both looping and narrative constructs at the same time. This is a valiant and clear-headed attempt to resurrect black metal, which has fallen into the hands of those who imitate the "external" aspects of the early classics like simple riffs and fast songs, but understand none of the underlying ideas or songwriting methods. While it seems unconventional at first, Celebrate the Dead is a return to the truest form of black metal by expanding its orthodoxy to include the transcendental narrative of those more experienced in both this world, and the realms beyond. Be not fooled — evil pervades this release, so subtly that you will not know until it has seized your soul.
- Dead Can Dance – AnastasisFor their return after some absence, Dead Can Dance have taken the style on Spiritchaser and refined it even more with the sensibility of modern club music and soundtrack influences. Rhythms and tempo work like you might expect a big label ambient album to work, fitting very much into the slightly picked up chill-out range with gentle backing beats that are still identifiable enough to make it easy to listen to. Consistent with even earlier work, songs use extended structures, but they fit the pattern of an early MTV video or short film more than a musical one. The result is that these are immersive little sonic ventures that are both easy to hear and not surprising, and also, rewarding in their consistency and adept arrangements. Melodies themselves are not as adventurous or period/locale-specific as older Dead Can Dance, and in fact more lifts from earlier influences can be heard (check out the Doors "The end" inspirations on the first track). For a purist, this will not be the best Dead Can Dance album, but for something that has stepped into the Loreena McKennit or Enya range of "accessible," this is far beyond what most would encounter otherwise and makes for a pleasant listen on its own.
- Demoncy – Enthroned is the NightAlong with Beherit, this shares the top spot as album of the year. In 2012, a wave of bands like Cruciamentum and Heresiarch rediscovered the sound of classic Incantation from the Onward to Golgotha area. Having come from the same school, joined to Incantation by Ixithra's former band Havohej's primary composer, Paul Ledney, having been an original member of Incantation, Demoncy launched into the same by creating a faithful followup to 1996's Joined in Darkness. In this case, Demoncy add a bit of melody and atmosphere, channeling from first album Unleashed and other Swedish death metal classics, thus combining the two most intense areas of death metal into what is really a death metal album with a black metal sense of atmosphere. The result is a descent into a dark and primal place in which occult spiritual warfare transpires through the battling of motifs in this complex album made of simple parts. Like Joined in Darkness, it is otherworldly and foreboding, but a bit less purely alienated; instead, this album creates a sense of symbolic significance emerging like melody from the clouded obscure. Very little black metal of this intensity has been made since the mid-1990s which makes this both faithful to the spirit and pushing the boundaries of the genre, a simultaneous advancement that eludes most musicians and fans alike.
- Derkéta – In Death We MeetArising from the ashes of Mythic, the all-female doom-death band from the early 1990s, Derkéta follows in a more purely doom metal path including some of the juicy 1970s heavy metal style doom metal that audiences enjoy with bands like Pentagram and Witchfinder General. 24 years later, this album is the first for this promising band, and holds back nothing. Like Mythic, the music is formed of giant bolsters of tunneling power chords colliding slowly over a changing melodic landscape. Atmosphere emerges from within. The simplicity of it removes the glitz and contentless enhancement of current doom metal bands, and takes the listeners back to the essence of the genre, which is an unsettling sense of pervasive dread. A prominent Candlemass Ancient Dreams influence seems to be present in these compact and droning songs.
- Desecresy – The Doom SkeptronDesecresy approach Finnish death metal the way others might approach doom metal, using melody and abstract song structures to convey an experience not unlike watching the helmet camera of a pilot flying through a vast and ancient underground cave in which demons seem to lurk behind every stalagtite. Comparable to a hybrid between Amorphis and Skepticism, this album nonetheless keeps up the umptempo riffing and lets its melodies emerge to construct an emanating atmosphere. The result is both aggressive and enjoyable from a purely death metal perspective, but where appropriate, it uses the moods of doom metal to complete that raging insanity to produce an experience that is like a journey. There are doubts, fears, joys, rage and sadness, but pervading all of it is a sonorous melancholy which indicates a change in viewing life from orientation toward what is safe, to prizing what is adventurous and as such being alone on a planet of people concerned with safety labels and microwave cooking.
- Drawn and Quartered – Feeding Hell's FurnaceImagine a hybrid between Angelcorpse and Num Skull. These songs are extremely basic, like the melodies of horror movies, but are put together with interlocking rhythms that propel them forward and give them atmosphere. As a result, their themes feel intuitive like paths through a forest remembered from a childhood story. There will not be surprise at the ways these tunes twist and bend, but appreciation for a well-done interpretation on a necessary idea. In the same way you might appreciate an excellent sword or well-executed painting of a familiar subject, these songs will be appreciated for how well they do what they love. Just as most musicians make their best work when they design it to be enjoyed repeatedly by people with their own tastes, this faithful and yet creative interpretation of the old school death metal genre will be shared among those who can appreciate it, for taking the past and making it live on by keeping it current to itself and through inventiveness, an enjoyable listen.
- Faustcoven – Hellfire and Funeral BellsThis release is not particularly metal, or at least underground metal, even though it aspires to the aesthetics of it. Rather, this is like Marilyn Manson interpreting classic heavy metal in a gothic doom metal context as informed by death metal aesthetics but not technique. It's basically blues rock with short phrase power chord riffs and highly compelling rhythm, underneath leads that are reminiscent of a friendlier version of St. Vitus. Good use of theme allows this release to be a faithful listen and also have some staying power for those who like this style. Like most doom metal, it is designed to build a repetitive atmosphere that is part curl of enjoyment, and part linear path of a melancholic mood. The death metal vocals would normally be out of place here but with the heavy reverb they take a backseat and let the guitars talk, which is the point of this band. It will probably not delight those who like underground metal, but if you're looking for someplace to go for your next Cathedral or Sleep fix, this furry doom band holds the ticket.
- Grave – Endless Procession of SoulsGrave return to the Swedish style which they helped make famous. Like later Fleshcrawl, this music is simplified from the original riff-salad which was reverse-assembled to make a journey into darkness emerge from thin air, but although it uses plenty of verse-chorus segments, they are not the entirety of each song. There are enough labyrinthine twists and turns to be fun, a good motivational rhythm, and an atmosphere of darkness and aggressive that is also (oddly) comforting and natural. Although musically this is fairly basic, like early Grave, it shows more use of melody and harmony, which adds an appreciable dimension of compactness and centering without falling into standard rock music. The result is easy to listen to and yet brings out its power in moments of sudden clarity which, as in life, make the listener think there might be more afoot than the obvious.
- Imprecation – Jehovah DeniedThis four-song EP shows the resurrected Imprecation: more consistent in its songwriting, slightly less manic, and more inclined to create a pervasive atmosphere of darkness. The occult death metal founders from Houston originally shone in the early 1990s, when their demos and later CD were released, but returned after inaction and the lending of band members to other acts. Their earlier material had more of a Morbid Angel influence and presented itself as clear occultism, where the newer material goes back more toward where Possessed and early old school death metal (Morpheus Descends, Massacre) were headed back in their day. Mood-enhancing use of background keyboards gives an aura of the mysterious to these dark melodies and the organic rhythms which suffuse them. Influences on this music span from pre-death metal, through the walking and stalking rhythms of speed metal, to the later black metal works in song structure and atmosphere. This EP presages a killer full-length but stands on its own as quality music with a voice particular to its worldview.
- Incantation – Vanquish in VengeanceWith new personnel and possibly the strongest sense of unity in a long time, Incantation very sensibly took influences deliberately from their own two greatest successes: Onward to Golgotha and Diabolical Conquest. The result is an album that self-consciously borrows from those albums in style but tries to create new songs to wrap in that style, and with the aid of new guitarist Alex Bouks (ex-Goreaphobia) shapes its works around melodic shapes but does not adorn them in melodic riffing, creating a sense of an inner region of hidden energy within the exterior of rugged chromatic shapes. The result is one of Incantation's most conventional albums but also a festival of the methods that made early Incantation so distinctive and powerful, which combined makes for a good later death metal listen.
- Legion of Doom – The Summoning of ShadowsThis oddity of an album begins with some form of sung prayer and launches into songs that are both adorned in the harmonic glaze of melodic playing and also possessed of the manic simplicity of early black metal. Like the primitive era of black metal, these songs are specific structures fitting the content of each song, with droning riffs that interact and build to a culmination before dissipating. On this album, Legion of Doom use more death metal and speed metal technique in with their Burzum-inspired black metal, ending in a result that sounds more like an ornate and elegant version of Gorgoroth's Destroyer. Like all Legion of Doom releases, The Summoning of Shadows features songs that accelerate thematic intensity in layers and produce an immerse, ambient experience that suspends reality through the sheer dominating power of its riffs. This album is more efficient than the last couple of releases of this band, and by embracing a listenable style, makes the type of outsider album that Marduk or Watain wish they could.
- Lord Wind – Ales StenarIf you want to immerse yourself in ancient sensation, Graveland axeman Rob Darken's ambient/neofolk/soundtrack project Lord Wind is a good place to start. Unlike previous Lord Wind efforts, Ales Stenar mixes real vocals and violin with electronic music that is roughly inspired by the Conan and Red Sonja soundtracks. The goal however is less like the rock-ish folk songs of neofolk, or the grand accompaniment for cinema provided by soundtracks; this is music like Burzum or Graveland that is designed for the listener to lose themselves in its repetitive hypnotic surges, like a catechism or mantra. Its soaring melodies and plunging dynamics give it a familiarity like the rush of blood through veins in the ears, and the result feels natural and yet inspired to rise above the mundane at the same time. Like entering a forest, the songs open up to repeated listens and soon each part is distinct, but our natural way is to hear it all at once and derive a sentimental feeling, perhaps warlike, from it. This is the most proficient and perhaps most profound of the Lord Wind albums, proffering a complete escape from reality to a world that is both fantasy and more real than the stuporous dream of modernity.
- Master – The New EliteOver the past few albums, punk/heavy metal hybrid Master has steadily been migrating toward late-1990s death metal. This new album presents a more technical view than the verse-chorus-exposition songs that Master (and related Speckmann projects) evolved from. Much like On the Seventh Day God Created…Master, riffs are strummed with precision at high speed and tend to lead away from stable grouping by adding riffs to the existing loop. These riffs use longer progressions and more chromatic fills, giving the music a mechanical terror that makes it sound like technocracy taking over. Speckmann's vocals are tighter than in the past and urge the music along, but somewhere in this musical process of evolution, his overall tone has started sounding less like protest music and more like a cheering of the coming conflagration. Seeing that Master keep improving over time provides a great incentive to follow this band as they evolve further.
- Profanatica – Sickened by Holy Host / The Grand Masters SessionsSometimes, in order to reach your next aspiration, it is necessary to part with the past. Profanatica have done this in grand style by accumulating old tracks and re-working them in parallel, with one disc containing newer versions done in the early 1990s style, and the other containing older session takes on the same songs, interspersed with acoustic landscapes by Aragorn Amori, the band's much-admired deceased former guitarist. Through its long history, the entity known as Profanatica/Havohej (or: Paul Ledney and friends) has consistently released material showcasing a truly artistic brilliance. Usually, between moments of brilliance there are experiments and less intense offerings that make it easy to forget that when they are in full swing, these musicians are unstoppable forces creating a unique type of black metal that is closer to ambient death metal but unlike most black metal at this time, possessed of a full mythos and unique view of the world. Like the best of Profanatica/Havohej, these two discs are ripping sonic terror that transcend daily life and divulge the essence of the feral spirit of pre-civilized humanity. In that vision of evil, Profanatica offer us something both inspiring and instructive, and do so through some of the best music of their career.
- Terrorizer – Hordes of ZombiesPeople love change if it is constant and hate it if not. Terrorizer misstepped with their first post-World Downfall album, but came back with a strong contender on Hordes of Zombies. It does not attempt to be World Downfall II which is intelligent since outward-in emulation of the past usually produces hollow shells, and a good many classic bands have gone to their graves in disgrace by doing the same thing. Instead, this aims more at the territory scoped by Napalm Death with Fear, Emptiness, Despair: a modern form of grindcore that is musical and listenable without being commercial, and aims less at creating an atmosphere of terror and misery than creating motivational, energetic and yet literalist/realist music. These songs convey a desire to look at a dangerous situation with hopeless odds, then jump in and fight it out. It's war music, but music of a normalized war, like going out into a declining civilization and fighting for mundane survival. Hordes of Zombies does this through a somewhat overused metal metaphor, that of the zombie takeover of society, but as a movie/musical trope this theme has remained consistent since the 1960s because it so aptly describes egalitarian society. Consumerism, mass trends, fads, panics, elections, Black Friday sales, save-the-children; it's all in there. Terrorizer may be brilliant satirists for transforming all of that mass neurosis into a simple symbol and then making these engaging songs about it. Each piece uses a combination of rhythmic and slight melodic hook to lure us in, then pits grinding riffs against one another while fitting them into bounding rhythms that unleash an inner fury in their conflict between the fear and the mundane. The result is a stream of ferocious riffs in songs that hold together as songs in the Terrorizer tradition, creating an experience of immersion in conflict that is both justified and everyday. For a genre such as grindcore, this more stable form is preferable to re-living the past or trying to "innovate" by including outside elements. As a result, Hordes of Zombies is not only a great listening experience but an archetype others will follow.
- Thevetat – Disease to DivideOne of the more interesting entries comes from ex-Ceremonium musician Thomas Pioli who has assembled a new team to make music that sounds like early NYDM mixed with the melodic undertones of heavy but intriguing bands like Montrosity, Malevolent Creation and Gorguts. The result hits hard with a rushing wall of chords and then drops into socketed rhythms that invoke a change in riffs, causing a twisted inner torment to emerge in Protean form. This gives old school death metal a new life without giving it a new form, since the form is the result of the content, which is essentially unchanged but slightly updated since 1992. No concessions to "modernization" (a/k/a mixing death metal with rock, jazz, metalcore, disco, punk, etc.) occur here, which allows this music to be in touch with its own spirit and flow freely from the source of its own inspiration. It is thunderous and yet perceptive, bringing with it the spirit of doom metal and its introspective melancholy. Although a three-song EP, this release beats out most albums released this year for pure death metal intensity.
- Timeghoul – 1992-1994Metal developed its own sense of "progressive" and "technical" music long before it imported jazz-fusion in order to help it. In fact, part of metal's birth was from the original progressive rock in the 1970s and the soundtracks of horror movies, which gave it a predilection for this direction. "Progressive" itself is a misnomer since nothing new gets discovered in music, but probably more accurately means "complex": music with unconventional song structures, extensive use of harmony, melody and key; possibly linked to some kind of story outside the music itself and the usual topics (love, sex, drama) of pop songs. These songs craft winding riffs and intricate structures, using embedded melody to transition between more chromatic riffs, and culminate in odd twists of fate that translate them into seemingly the reverse of their initial outlook. Culminating in the epic 10-minute "Occurrence on Mimas," this collection of early works by this band showcase the enjoyably weird variety of death metal in its early days.
- War Master – Pyramid of the NecropolisThis modern band attempts to revive the death metal style, starting with the deathgrind of its namesake Bolt Thrower and incorporating influences from many of the bands of the era, and succeeds by staying true to its own enjoyment. As a result, it's working in a style, and not from a template; the band want to create old school death metal, but aren't doing it by imitating songs or styles, but by writing in that style based on similar inspirations. As a result, this band has its own voice despite being very familiar in technique, and has chosen its own path for subject matter and thus the arrangement of many of these songs and the types of riffs used. Its aesthetic mixes the grinding mid-tempo riffs and repetitive choruses of grindcore with the circuitous riffing of death metal and its tendency to unveil changes in layers of rhythm, guitar and vocals. While the style shows the influences of later death metal, its sensibility is firmly grounded in the early years, which makes this a great old-school death metal experience. However, its most salient factor is that it's also interesting music. Songs are formed around their topic, with riffs and structure contorting to resemble the object, and riffcraft shows learning from the past but creation of its own new forms. Guttural vocals which maintain an ascetic detachment from the emotional content of the music help to give Pyramid of the Necropolis the ultimate death metal point of view, which is as a dispassionate observer amongs the ruins detailing the conflict that created this mess, and must endure after its collapse.
Disappointments of 2012
Abigor – Quintessence
Apparently this is new and old material. The shift between the new and old is like jumping out of a sauna into the snow. The newer material shapes itself to an expectation, much like the newer Swedishy bands in the style of Watain, that combines melodic punk with raw and random riffing in catchy rhythms. The result is like a painting made of painted dog turds, in that from a distance it is appealing, but as you get closer its mundane nature is revealed. Abigor have always suffered from being too quick-thinking and inventive for their own good, because they can always throw together a bunch of quality riffs and make most people think a song happened, but here that model breaks down. The songs feel more like slide-shows than organic wholes. The older material is good however.
Absurd – Asgardsrei
This remaster of the 1998 album was in theory supposed to improve sound quality. Had they simply done that, this would have been a shining victory. Instead, it has been standardized. The drums have been pumped up to emphasize rhythm, and the guitars doubled and bass-maximized, with vocals shrouded in reverb. Alone that removes much of the distinctive sound, but attempts have also been made to lower the volume on elements that are not orthodox black metal-cum-oi that Absurd makes now. The result is a loss of detail and an emphasis on the simpler parts of each riff, not the interesting interplay of riffs. They've made this album sound more like their remakes of earlier material and by pandering to one audience, lost a lot of what made Absurd interesting.
Acephalix – Deathless Master
A highly-praised release, this album purports to combine Swedish death metal and crustcore. What it ends up with is neither, but a mishmash of riffs around a rollicking beat, changing entirely at random. You hear a little bit of old Entombed, some Dismember, and a lot of filler riffing that really goes nowhere. For about three songs, it's pleasant listening because you can tap your toes to it and it reminds you of Left Hand Path. Then you realize the songs never went anywhere. They're like wallpaper. And to the horror of any crust fan, this is built on the bouncy beats and song structures of pop-punk. It's closer to Blink 182 than Entombed or Amebix.
Aura Noir – Out to Die
Once upon a time, I referred to Aura Noir as a black metal Britney Spears because their music is pop dressed up as black metal. However, it's normally fun pop with high energy and catchy riffs, even if in verse-chorus structures so repetitive that you have to background it. But with this album, they go into the boring zone. This is almost like a drone with a horse galloping in the background to keep up energy. And yet, like the lady that doth protest too much, the more "energy" you need to inject, the less the music is actually compelling. And on that level, this album is basically the same speed metal/Motorhead style riffs that bands were rehashing back in the 1980s, but now revived in an even more exhausted form.
Coffin Texts – The Tomb of Infinite Ritual
The people behind this band are good, and their intentions are good. The result of their efforts however is bog-standard death metal, not so because it imitates anything else, but because it is unreflective of any purpose outside being death metal. It's predictable in the sense that nothing is surprising, and yet, it doesn't really gesture at anything more than being death metal itself. I hope these guys stop trying to be whatever they think they should be, and find whatever they actually enjoy instead. Best yardstick for your music: what you enjoy and would listen to on your own, even if you knew no one in the band.
Graf Spee – Reincarnation
Some things should stay in the 1980s. This is prescient in that it emphasizes the kind of bouncy riffing that fits on the spectrum from Anthrax to Meshuggah and onward to metalcore, but it's disorganized, inconsistent with the vocals, and feels more like a pile of spare parts than a smoothly running engine.
Hellevetron – Death Scroll of Seven Hells and Its Infernal Majesty
2012 was the year everyone rediscovered Onward to Golgotha. I agree, it's a killer album. There's nothing wrong with Hellvetron, who seem like competent musicians, but this album attempts to imitate the outward form of Onward to Golgotha without grasping the underlying tension in the music that makes it work. As a result, Hellvetron impose current song structures (loops) and standards onto the aesthetic of the past, which makes for a decent listen until it becomes apparent that it's not really about anything except itself.
Impiety – Ravage and Conquer
It's hard not to enjoy this album, which is like a hybrid between Angelcorpse and Mortem with a squidge more melody. However, it is highly repetitive because it doesn't go much beyond that concept. Like Krisiun before it, the concept is full speed ahead skull-crushing aesthetic, and this is so powerful it squeezes out most artistic content. This leaves you with some creative riffs, some talented use of tempo, but nothing that holds together long enough to listen to for a decade.
Inverloch – Dusk | Subside
These ex-Disembowelment musicians have a bit of a cult formed around themselves. Part of the reason is that unlike almost every other band before black metal, they knew how to write melodic music, which they do here as well, in something that resembles a cross between death-doom like Asphyx and melodic doom like Candlemass or Paradise Lost. Crashing riffs coexist with gentle melodic fills and overlays that create a dense atmosphere of nocturnal wonder. However, beyond that, the direction seems confused, which is appropriate for a re-entry EP but excludes it from this year's best of.
Mantas – Death by Metal
Before the first Death album, Chuck Schuldiner tried out his riffcraft in Mantas, named in tribute (by educated guess) to Venom. There's a reason these sort of re-releases are confined to collectors, and that is that these demos show a young band trying to get the order of riffs in its songs correct and at the same time develop an image, sound and voice. The result is great, if you like listening to parts of the same six songs 18 times each. A true-blue die-hard ultra-kvlt collector will put this on the stereo next to "Scream Bloody Gore" and "Spiritual Healing" and start working out each riff until he's sure how everything works. Then again, with the hindsight of nearly thirty years, we know exactly how it should turn out, which means that for the rest of us, this will sit on the shelf in perpetuity except as a conversation piece.
Maveth – Coils of the Black Elite
This album reminds me of middle period Immolation, in which creative riffing often fell into very similar rhythms and as such, the songs sort of became a continuum which resembled pulled taffy: cut off a length of Immolation, let's listen to that. Oh look, sliced Immolation! It's the same way here. Maveth has very creating riffing with excellent right-hand control, but the songs themselves are a muddle because the riffs are the direction and as such, there's not really a way to put the riffs together that makes sense, so the band converges on a mean and drops into very similar trudge rhythms to make the songs catchy. At first listen, especially the first three tracks, promise is everywhere; by track five, it's clear that circularity has occurred.
Purtenance – Sacrifice the King
This EP suffers from a primary flaw, which is disorganization. It's not random, but it's what happens when you decide to make death metal and so treat that as a container, and then "write to fill" and twist the riffs into place so they work with each other. It's not about anything, and thus is "random" in the sense that it could mean anything. As a musical experience, it mostly conveys a sense of disorganization and frustration. The best bands mold that sort of raw emotion into something which rises above the confusion and achieves clarity. If not beauty, truth, goodness, etc. at least something that is desired more than it is hated, and so inspires them, even if that goal is hatred itself.
Interview with Rob Darken
Not by us, but informative:
H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, J.R.R. Tolkien, R.E. Howard are my favorite writers. Their writings had a huge influence on my imagination when I read their books as a child. They fueled my desire for truth and for discovering ancient beliefs. They inspired me with ancient pagan myths and beliefs. They inspired me with desire of knowing the past forgotten and of searching mysticism and spirit of ancient civilizations. Inspired by such spirit you discover that studying the past is the same rich and satisfying as work for the future.


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As animation production for Little Billy continues to unfold and take shape, I am gripped with yet another amazing feeling! Let me explain. Flash back with me for a moment, won't you? Let us return to 2011. At that time, well before I launched the Little Billy Kickstarter, I had just completed a 5-minute, broadcast-ready Flash pilot for an original animated web series. The series was XTALK, a gamer-driven sitcom (created by myself and writer pal, Corey Mitchel) about three unlikely chums that have never met in person...brought together by the magic and power of XBox Live. In this debut episode entitled, Double Headshot, the boys suddenly find themselves mired deep in a parody of YouTube's Double Rainbow (if by some insane chance you haven't seen it, watch that first - the cartoon will make at least a little more sense.) ;)
After 2 years of very hard work, nearly 5,000 frames (of film), and many more individual drawings, the XTALK pilot was finally completed. Since then, however, Corey and I have been pitching the idea, so it's been necessary to keep the cartoon a secret...until now! For the first time ever, XTALK is finally online and you, my friend, can be among the very first to see it. To watch it now, just click the "Play" button above. Please also keep in mind (before showing it to the kiddies) that this project is completely separate from Little Billy, so the content and humor are a bit more adult and may not be suitable for younger viewers. XTALK is the first and only film I've ever made in color or Flash, and which aptly portrays some of my most current abilities as a professional, independent animator. =) Thank you for watching and please enjoy!
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Although I didn't make the list of finalists (thanks to everyone who voted for me, the one or many of you), I want to express my congratulations to fellow bloggers who were named finalists for the 2012 Plutus Awards! The Plutus Awards are handed out to the best of the best amongst North America's community of personal finance and investing bloggers. The awards are handed out on September 6, at the Financial Blogger Conference in Denver in a couple of weeks.
There was a large number of Canadian blogs nominated as finalists for this year's awards, so I'd like to recognize those folks who I interact with on a frequent basis, folks who support to my small blog in this massive online space and folks who I follow as well.
My congratulations go out to these finalists in various categories:
- Mike @ The Dividend Guy Blog
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Here's to a great weekend and great blogs to check out. Enjoy!
Canadian Couch Potato looked under the hood at a new dividend ETF. I like what Dan wrote here about this ETF and the strategy for managing it: "Unlike several other dividend ETFs, UXM does not screen for companies that have a long record of dividend growth, which I think is right approach. While I understand the appeal of dividend growers, is a company that has grown its dividend for 20 consecutive years—which is necessary to be part of the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index—really a better investment than one that missed a couple of increases for legitimate business reasons?"
Boomer & Echo weighed the pros and cons between fee only and commission based financial advisor. They also celebrated their two-year anniversary recently. Congratulations, keep up the great work and head on over to their site where they are giving away a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 Tablet and more!
Prairie EcoThrifter shared some ways to avoid financial disaster.
Simply Investing was kind enough to include my article in his best of the best monthly blog roundup. Thanks!
Finance Fox told us the cold hard truth on being a personal finance blogger.
Dividend Ninja had a post about how much money do you need to save for retirement. My answer, a bundle 🙂
Million Dollar Journey said 30-year mortgages are better than you think. It was a good guest post but I prefer paying off my mortgage sooner than later…hopefully in another 10 years.
Financial Highway informed us how to make money with Amazon. Some great tips.
My University Money said investing in yourself doesn't have to be expensive.
Dividend Mantra said dividends are his fruit.
Shannon from PWL Capital sent me a recent article written by Larry Swedroe entitled Should you dump your international stocks?
Michael James on Money wrote about combatting car insurance fraud, courtesy of a cool infographic from InsurEye.
Modest Money told us some places to look for blogging ideas.
Susan Brunner took a look at AGF and didn't like what she saw. I don't own it either and don't intend to.
The Passive Income Earner liked what he saw; his dividend income increased this month.
Y&T wondered how far you'd go to score a deal?
Retire Happy Blog said life insurance is foundation of your financial life.
Canadian Capitalist provided an update on his Sleepy Portfolio. I always enjoy reading about the progress of this portfolio and the simplicity of it.
Invest It Wisely told us how to make the most of our conference experience.
Big Cajun Man celebrated 25 years of wedding bliss this week so congrats to him and Mrs.
Beating The Index said Avenex Energy's dividend is safe.
The Financial Blogger said whole life insurance sucks…but he has a policy.
Tusk Trader had a post on WDAMMG explaining there are more problems with bank regulators than the banks themselves. He said "it is not about the regulators being one step ahead of the markets; it is about the regulators becoming INSTEP with the markets."


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North Carolina (21-6, 9-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) put five players in double figures with Allisha Gray scoring a team-high 18 points. Diamond DeShields had all 13 of her points in the second half, and Latifah Coleman and N'Dea Bryant added 11 and 10 points, respectively.
A 12-4 run out of halftime put Carolina up 46-36 with 16:17 to go. DeShields, held scoreless in the first half, canned a jumper in the lane during the spurt to get her going.
Carolina scored 13 of the next 16 points to extend the second half run to 24-7 and the lead to 58-39 with 11:25 left.
Virginia cut the lead under double figures in the final minute, but two free throws from DeShields iced the victory with 13 seconds left.
Faith Randolph led Virginia (13-13, 6-7) with a game-leading 24 points.
Four lead changes and three ties summed up a tight first half. North Carolina took a 10-4 lead just four minutes into the game, its largest advantage of the opening half.
Virginia answered with a 10-0 run to go up, 14-10, its largest lead of the first half. From that point until intermission the lead was never more than four points the rest of the way for either club.
Carolina regained a 25-23 lead at the six minute mark on a layup from Danielle Butts, before Virginia ran off the next six points to lead by three, 28-25.
A fast-break jumper by Coleman made it 32-28 Carolina with 2:05 until the half. The Tar Heels would go into the break up 34-32 as Bryant led the way with eight points.
North Carolina returns home to host Virginia Tech on Sunday at 2 p.m.


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Check out my New & Improved Blog
My blog is called "Spiraled" You can visit it here. I've had a blog of the same name using blogger as a platform for around 5 months, but I recently switched to Wordpress. The purpose of my blog, originally, was to document my transition to natural hair. Since I've big chopped, however, I'm looking to take my blog in different directions. I'm still documenting my journey, this time as a natural, but now I'm also including product reviews, jewelry/product/clothing hauls (I'm a huge fan of thrifting and finding cute items on a budget), my health & wellness journey (I used to be morbidly obese for most of my life, but was successfully able to lose over 100lbs without surgery), poetry and creative writings, plus whatever else comes to my mind. So check me out! I think you'll enjoy it almost as much as I enjoy writing it :smile:
sounds great & congrats on your weightloss! :occasion7:
Thank you, hippychic! Still have some pounds to lose, but it's been exciting watching my body transform over the years, though :smile:
Let me be honest ... Some people just don't look so great in short hair. You happen to have the perfect head shape for it though :) You and your hair look very pretty. And wow, you have a LOT of blog entries so far. Good for you.
P.S. wow, I guess I do have a lot of entries for having my blog less than a year, lol. I love writing. I've kept a journal since I was a preteen. Also I had a blog that was strictly devoted to creative writing for over a year but I decided to consolidate the two blogs together
Muffin, I'm glad to hear you won't be using those scarves :D
I used to have a super-short cut too (also mohawks, blohawks and all kinds of styles, colors and assorted craziness). But looking back, I think I liked my super-short more than any other style. So liberating! It's so great that you're being supported. Bet you'll have fun shopping for earrings :) Your new style will accentuate your facial features too. I'm sitting here feeling a little envious of you because (I assume) you'll have a fairly easy time caring for your hair. Some days I crave short hair again.
Have you considered, or are you already, writing for a living?
Your hair is gorgeous, btw. It's so dark and beautifully curly :smile:
I used to want to write for a living, but I never really knew how to go about it. I could never find a niche in the various writing fields out there that I felt I could excel at or that there was a demand for. I just write for fun. I mostly like creative writing, blogging, and writing informative articles on topics I'm interested in.
I had what I considered to be healthy relaxed hair. I took very good care of it, and even though it looked healthy it wouldn't budge past the top of BSL, no matter what I did. Eventually I became disenchanted with it and had it cut into an assymetrical bob. Although I went super short I still continued to relax for around a year after this, but it just wasn't the same. I didn't look forward to it and it seemed like I only relaxed out of routine. Then April of this year I I woke up and figured out I didn't want to relax my hair anymore, or even wear my hair straight, for that matter! I wanted a change. So I started doing a lot of curl sets, and people loved it, including myself. But after a few months of that I grew tired of fussing with my hair, and that brings us to how my hair is today :smile:.
I think you're long hair is beautiful, but I'm sure it will look equally as good with short hair. What matters most is that you're wearing your hair the way YOU like it. I had the whole world against me when I told people I wanted to chop. I listened to them for a while, but I was miserable. When I cut my hair I felt so free, even though it was a bit scary anticipating what others may say. Turns out most of those people who told me not to cut my hair loved my cut once they saw it. If you feel good about it, it will show. If you decide to cut your hair, I'd love to see pics :smile:
First, thanks for the compliments! I will post short hair pics when that day arrives. Sounds like it took guts to do the big chop, considering not everyone was behind you at first. Sometimes I think just being women brings pressure for us to have long hair. Honestly, it doesn't surprise me that those naysayers actually liked your cut. People are just scared of change imo, often w/out needing to be. I imagine you have and will continue to inspire other curlies to be brave like you and take the natural route.
Well looks like you've freed yourself from roller sets (oh the irony of curling hair that already has a natural curl pattern - I've done that too ;) ).
Anyway, it was fun chatting with you :D
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu has described proposals to axe casualty and maternity services at a highly-rated London hospital as "scandalous", a source said.
The South African church leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner is reported to have given his backing to the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign.
The hospital's A&E has been earmarked to be downgraded to an urgent care centre and several of its maternity services could be closed.
The proposals are an attempt to solve a massive overspend at two neighbouring hospitals in Woolwich and Bromley, even though Lewisham is under separate management.
Malcolm Hancock, chaplain of Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust, said Desmond Tutu used to live locally and opened the Riverside building at the hospital in 2007. Mr Hancock said: "I contacted him to let him know about the proposals to close the full A&E and maternity services at Lewisham, which is a high performing and financially solvent NHS Trust.
"Although Desmond Tutu is currently on an educational world voyage, he responded straight away and asked for his name to be added to the petition against the proposals. He said that he stands foursquare behind the petitioners, and described the plans to close down vital services as 'scandalous'.
He said that he hoped that good sense will prevail."
MPs today called on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to reprieve Lewisham and mothers and children held a "flash mob" at his office to warn of the dangers of cuts to the maternity department.
A parliamentary debate was secured by Heidi Alexander, the Labour MP for Lewisham East, who described the proposals as "unwanted, unfair, unsafe and unjustified".
She warned that other hospitals did not have the capacity to deal with the demand from Lewisham, adding: "This isn't just an issue for Lewisham, it will affect people across south London."
Mr Hunt, who has to make a final decision by February 1, was also given a letter from other south London MPs concerned about the knock-on effect on King's College Hospital in Denmark Hill, which has already had to close its maternity wards because they were full.
Under the proposals, a mother needing an emergency Caesarean section at Lewisham will no longer have an operating theatre on site but will be sent by ambulance to the nearest hospital.
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Vanderbilt vs. Georgia Postgame Quotes
Oct. 19, 2013
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Georgia LB Jordan Jenkins
On the two targeting calls:
"I'm not trying to say much, but that whole call is a BS call to me... the rule in general is BS. I think it ruins the game. I think it's going to ruin the game of football."
On the effect of this loss:
"It's definitely one that's going to hit us deep. We thought we had it won. We should have won. Some unfortunate things happened today, and we've just got to come back ready to work."
On the game:
"After this we've just got to get back to work. Lot of thoughts on this game. Gonna keep some to myself. I'm ready to see how this officiating, this is going to go over this weekend."
Georgia CB Damian Swann
On the secondary's play in today's game:
"I'm proud of my guys. I'm proud of the way they stepped up today. We've just got to keep playing."
Georgia CB Shaq Wiggins
On pick six:
"I kind of knew it was coming, the only play they really could have run there so I just read it before those big guys could get a hand on it. It was a great feeling, being my first pick six in an SEC game."
On the team moving forward:
"We really wanted to win this game before the bye week, but now we can to go back to the drawing boards, go back to practicing the way we have been practicing, and just continue and focus on the next game."
On if the team's goal still remains the same for the rest of the season:
"I think it will remain the same, we will just have to go game-by-game but our goal is still the same."
On opinion of what went wrong today:
"That would really be an opinion you would have to ask my coach. I think we played great as a team, especially as a defense. We improved on a lot of things, especially in the secondary. I think we did good."
Georgia QB Aaron Murray
On Vanderbilt and thinking getting by them to get to 5-2:
"This is a much needed open date, we got to figure this out. Do some soul searching and really figure out what we need to do individually and as a team to get better. There are still a lot of great games left, a big game versus Florida in a couple weeks. We got to put this one behind us, get back to work, find a way and like I said just keep getting better."
On how much of a roller coaster for you emotionally the season has been:
"I mean it's tough but we got to just keep grinding. Like I said our leaders really have to step up and make sure everyone stays focused, stays hungry and keeps working."
On being up 27-14 and maybe wanting to take more chances:
"We as players just thought we could run the ball and they did a better job towards the end of the game of really stuffing the run. They played extremely well today, you got to give them a lot of credit."
On having three straight three and outs towards the end:
"Like I said, they did a great job of their scheme and we just didn't make the plays."
On Vanderbilt's scheme:
"Nothing that we weren't prepared for, they didn't do anything crazy. We just didn't make the plays and they played hard. We didn't match that as well as we needed to, they made the plays down the stretch and we didn't."
On how stunning was the turn of events:
"Definitely very stunning, it's hard. But like I said, it's a good open week for us. We got to get healthy and got to get guys working a little harder this week, next week and then get ready to finish off strong."
Vanderbilt Head Coach James Franklin
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It's a flip-flop that would be the envy of John Kerry in good windsurfing weather off Nantucket. For the last two days, Chris Matthews had been excoriating General David Petraeus for his reluctance to opine on the effect of the Iraq war on America's safety at home. Suddenly this morning, Matthews has decided that -- guess what? -- it's not Petraeus's job to make pronouncements of that sort.
View video here.
As I described here, it began on "Hardball" two nights ago, with this Matthews diatribe against Petraues for his reluctance to answer the question from Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) as to the implications of the Iraq war for Americans' safety at home:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: He couldn't say whether what we're doing in Iraq makes America safer or not. He couldn't say whether the lost lives, the misery, the hundreds of billions of dollars being spent are worth the effort in terms of our national security.
This must be a first, an American field commander who can't say whether the sacrifices he's asking of his troops every day and night are worth it to their country. Did General Washington not know the answer in the American Revolution? Did General Eisenhower not know the answer in World War II? What are we doing in Iraq if the very man commanding the war doesn't know if it's doing us any good in terms of our national security? This is the real news of the [pronounced with contempt] so-called Petraeus Report. The general who won't tell how long it will take us to achieve the mission in Iraq can't tell us whether achieving that mission -- should it ever be achieved -- is worth it.
The tirade continued on last evening's "Hardball," Matthews going so far, as I described here, as to belittle Petraeus as a ventiloquist's dummy.
But appearing on today's "Morning Joe" at 7:35 A.M. EDT, Matthews had a sudden change of heart.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: It's President Bush that brought a non-political person, a serving field commander, into politics* by asking him to defend the policy, which is in fact the president's policy. It's not the policy of people who have sworn to serve the country, it's the policy of the president, to fight this war. And I think that came to a head when Warner asked him that question, "is this making us safer at home?" And he really didn't want to answer that question. Because that's not a question for a military officer, that's a question for the president.
So what explains Matthews' stunning about-face? I'm guessing he figured out that it wasn't good politics for him to denigrate a dedicated, accomplished member of our military. Chris realized he had to keep his eyes on the prize: bashing President Bush.
Will anyone else in the media call Chris on his flip-flop?
*NOTE: The General was testifying not at the president's behest but pursuant to congressional mandate.
The Supplemental budget bill passed by congress reads:
Prior to the submission of the President's second report on September 15, 2007, and at a time to be agreed upon by the leadership of Congress and the Administration, the United States Ambassador to Iraq and the Commander, Multi-National Forces Iraq, will be made available to testify in open and closed session before the relevant committees of the Congress."


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How to Vent and Insulate an Enclosed Porch Converted to an Entry Room
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I have an enclosed porch that was previously converted to a living space of the house with heat etc. In the winter it was very drafty so I ripped down the ceiling and walls so I can properly insulate them. I have attached pics of the opened ceiling.
I plan to insulate all the walls with closed cell spray foam to stop air infiltration into the room. I have been considering using baffles up the underside plywood and spraying foam (maybe open cell) on the around the baffles but have seen that some don't think this is a good idea. So now I am not sure what to do.
The soffits of the former porch/entry room are vented, but it doesn't have a ridge vent, side vents, or anywhere for the air coming in to excape.
My goal is to turn this room into a finished entry room.
I need help with two things:
1) What do I do to properly ventilate the roof? What is the best way to do this?
2) How should I insulate between the roof and drywall? There is several feet of space between most of the roof and where the drywall will go. The rafters are 24" apart.
Thanks for your advice in advance!
It would be best to go back an add where you live to your profile.
Where you live makes a big differance when it comes to insulation.
Good point.... I live near Philadelphia.
Is the roof currently vented? Do you have intake air (i.e. soffits or lower vents)?
There are vented soffits but that's it.
Baffles at the eave (sealed and locked in place with SPF is fine), seal up the top plates of the drywall, install ridge vent, blow R-50.
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I can't install a ridge vent because there is nowhere to put one. I should have attached a photo of the outside of the room before ....here it is.
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Put in roof louvers then.
I was doing some research today and saw that radiant barriers installed onto the rafters significantly reduces the temperature in the attic space.
At this point I am considering installing a radiant barrier onto the rafters, rigid foam board over that onto the rafters and spray foaming the seams. Then I will have to add a louver vent near the chimney so the hot air can rise and escape. Then i would install roxul wool batts in the 2 x 6 ceiling beams, add a vapor barrier and drywall. I NEED SOME OPINIONS HERE FROM EXPERTS...thanks guys!
How are you planing on venting between the rafters?
Are you trying to put up a cathedral type ceiling? If not, your plan is flawed as radiant barriers are not a replacement for a proper insulation layer and certainly not in PA.
If you are doing a standard drywall ceiling with attic space, skip all of the idea you just posted and just vent the soffits, the roof louver, and blow in an R-49 after you seal the top plates.
What you just posted with the rigid foam, radiant barrier, etc is a recipe for disaster from a vapor trap standpoint as you would be stacking vapor retarder layers.
Between the plywood and top of rafters are furring strips which means there's about a 1 inch space between the plywood and the top of each rafter. Because of this the hot air can't be trapped by the install of the rigid foam on the underside of rafters and would travel through this space to the highest point where I would install the louver vent.
My idea was to install rigid foam with a radiant barrier to the underside of rafters and sealing gaps between, making a channel for air flow from soffits to louver. Then I would install high r value batts and vapor barrier between the 2 x 6s in the standard eight foot ceiling and install drywall over that.
Please let me know if there's anything wrong with that plan. I appreciate your advice.
Unless you have continuous soffits and they are open the entire full perimeter on the bottom and the top, you can get moisture trapped in between.
There is no real issue (provided the air flow is continuous), except the expense. Why bother with the expensive foam if you can just loose fill it and get all the R-Value you need anyway. If you are worried about R-Value where the roof is tight to the ceiling, use rigid board in those locations and get the r-value up without obstructing the soffits.
In this post you suggested to "vent the soffits and blow in R-49". Do you mean to leave the soffit/rafter space open? And how would I blow in the insulation? My ceiling is std 8ft. I plan to add some can lights, a room fan mount and drywall. In your plan how would I get blown in insulation behind the drywall?
I plan to put at least one louver vent near the chimney (high point).
Basically I need to block the heavy blowing winter air (soffits allow a continuous cold air stream) from cooling the room during winter months and robbing me of my heat. Also during summer I want to block off the heat from getting in the ceiling space and heating up that room. That's where I have seen the radiant barrier to be useful. People report that the rooms are 10-20 degrees cooler after installing over the rafters.
Please advise. You seem to have good ideas. Thanks.
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Justice Dept. rules on NH community voting exemptions
The communities formerly covered under special provisions of the Voting Rights Act - Antrim, Benton, Boscawen, Millsfield, Newington, Pinkham's Grant, Rindge, Stewartstown, Stratford and Unity - are exempted, or allowed to 'bail out,' from seeking preclearance from the federal government for changes in voting qualifications, standards, practices and procedures, the Justice Department said in a release.
'In the department's view, these covered towns and townships have met the requirements necessary for bailout,' Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, said in a statement. 'We reached this conclusion after thoroughly reviewing information provided by the state and the covered jurisdictions gathered during the department's independent investigation. I commend the State and the covered jurisdictions on their cooperation to ensure resolution of this matter.'


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Resource mobilisation and communication effectiveness of nongovernmental organisations in the human rights movement : a case study of Amnesty International
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Well I am here to help resolve that. There is not much I have not performed trigger job on. Normally the term "trigger job" refers to single action triggers and pistols, while "action job" refers to revolvers. Both are actually action jobs because I am altering the action and how the firearms cycles, performs, etc. But smoothing the action on a 1911 is a little more detailed so for all intents and purposes we will just call it a trigger job.
Since I cannot control the laws of physics, I can only get a revolver but so "low" on double action trigger pull. Due to the force it takes to compress the trigger and retract hammer compressing another spring there is a balancing job there. To have a safe, reliable double action pull you simply can not have a 1 lb double action pull.
I perform one type of trigger job on all guns.
The quality of the parts that I start with will also affect the quality in the end. If the parts that are internal are of good quality, I will modify them rather than replace them.
I will then match and stone surfaces to meet up flush and knock down high areas and smooth surfaces. Reduce the friction and excessive weight in non-hammer related areas for automatics. Physics only allows so much to be done with a revolver. You will end up with a reduced action.
Once complete, I strongly recommend taking your handgun out and running several hundred rounds through it to ensure proper operation.
Solid Parts
I replace MIM parts with excellent quality tool steel. Reason being is to save money in manufacturing a lot of companies have started switching over to these MIM (metal injection molding). Basically, it is taking a lot of metal dust heated and injecting into a mold under pressure. Similar to how a lot of plastic is shaped.
There is nothing "wrong" with MIM parts. But due to their hard exterior and soft interior stoning them will weaken them. You can own a firearm with MIM parts and never have any issues with it. But we do not want just a regular firearm, we want something that performs above the rest. To increase performance we have to increase the quality of the parts we use. You will have the best name in good quality tool steel parts running in your 1911 or revolver when I perform an action job.
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Collect photos, maps, memories and books of interest to you.
Memories of Balcombe
I was evacuated to Balcombe in 1940 along with the Stanley Technical College pupils from south London. At first, 3 of us were billited at Monks, a large and beautiful home some 3 km out of the village. At that time the Johnston family owned the house. This was a fantastic experience. We were taught at the village school and the ...Read full memory
Searching Information For Ancestry Search
My father was born in 1927 in Maple Cottage, Balcombe. The Maple Cottage then was not the Maple Cottage now - does anybody know where it was situated in 1927? His mother was Marjorie Hunt but she did not live in Balcombe. I believe she had the baby, registered him and then moved on. Did anybody take in young women to help them with births? Any info would be very welcome.
My Mother
My mother, Beatrice Constable, was born in a little cottage in Balcombe. The happy event took place in a small asbestos bungalow with lots of hydrangeas around the front door. Her parents were Joshua and Elizabeth Constable. Nan had seven boys and seven girls. Some were stillborn and buried in the churchyard under a tree. Does anyone remember this family?
Gladys From Cornwall With The Red Setter
Back in early 1977 I worked at Brantridge House, Balcombe of which I have very fond memories. Perhaps someone knows how I can make contact with either Gladys from Corwall, or her daughter, who would now (2011) be about 49. Perhaps someone knows how I can contact them or others who worked there at the time - the Spanish pair for example.