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IT was not quite the perfect English Schools finale for Poppy Lake but the Southend High School for Girls' pupil still looks back on her championship career with pride.
High jumper Lake, 18, won a silver medal in her sixth and final English Schools Championships in Birmingham on a day she was made captain of the Essex team.
Lake had her heart set on winning the competition for the second time in her career and was disappointed to only jump 1.73m.
But after some reflection, the Chelmsford AC athlete – who has suffered with niggling injuries and illness this summer - realised she could hold her head up high.
"I really thought I would win, but it just didn't happen," said Lake. "I felt good in training, good in the warm up, but I couldn't get to where I wanted.
"It's been an average outdoor season for me really and that sums it up.
"I know 1.73m is a decent height, but for me personally, it's a lot lower than my PB. It's nine centimetres lower and that's a lot, so I'm disappointed with that. But that's three silvers and one gold medal I've won in my six championships and that's a big achievement."
Lake will now move on to, hopefully, Loughborough University, but said the English Schools Championships and her time at Southend High will never be forgotten.
"Not too many people compete at six English Schools," she said. "I really didn't know the standard of the competition back at my first championships. I went as a confident junior looking to win and ended up not qualifying!
"Everyone aims for English Schools and a lot of great athletes who have gone on to do great things, never even won a medal at English Schools. So I feel very lucky.
"I have lots of good memories from this competition. It has really dipped me into the world of athletics. It's amazing that I've been here for six years, I'm starting to feel old now.
"And leaving Southend High was heartbreaking. I have grown up there. I'm a Southend girl and I always will be, but everyone has to move on. I'm taking a leap forward now and I'm hopefully going to Loughborough University. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm hoping it will lead to bigger and better things."
Lake will now turn her full attentions to next season where she has her sights firmly set on representing Great Britain at the European Junior Championships.
"Bit and bobs are missing from my jumping at the moment," she said. "I know once I have ironed those problems out I can go for 1.85m. I know I'm capable of that and the European Juniors will be a big aim for me next year and I believe I could win a medal."


text: Has anyone heard or read anything more on the Shelton situation? Does Leyland just not like him, like Chris Spurling [2-1/4.91/1.63] (who, incidentally, may have helped a bit over the past few months of bullpen problems)? Has he pissed someone off or do they just feel that he hasn't regained his stroke?

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The news on Friday about Yahoo acquiring del.icio.us is spreading throughout the Blogosphere. Of course, many congratulations go to Joshua, Union Sq. Ventures, Yahoo, and everyone involved. I am sure that many bloggers will have their own interpretations and analysis, so I won't unload onto that pile of commentary.
Instead, I thought I would highlight the opportunity and challenge that this acquisition creates for the many "delicious permutations" out there. For a fairly exhaustive list of "bookmark managers," this page summarizes them well. With the Yahoo Delicious acquisition, there is one less acquirer out there available to shop for a competitive service. This situation leaves the remainder of the field "validated" by the acquisition, but challenged to truly build a business model around their offering. With an early acquisition one degree less likely, it's time for these players to start thinking about revenue generation. Unlike others who don't see the value (if you don't, then read this post) in the service or viable business models (Paul Kedrosky calls the product "largely unmonetizable"), I see both. Currently, I view four possible revenue streams for the category which I'd call "bookmarking services":
Contextual Ads in a Social Search Engine. It wasn't until Fred Wilson posted about "Delicious Search" in October did a little lightbulb go off in my head. Delicious and many of these other tagging services have the potential to either supplant, or more likely augment, algorithmic search. In the 90's, Yahoo's in-house editorial team originally decided what to include in its directory, until the limitations of scale hit. Algorithmic classification of sites succeeded this approach, but perhaps a decentralized editorial team of taggers could replace or supplement it? The contextual ads business model is well-demonstrated. The difficulty is, of course, gaining enough critical mass in any keyword, let alone large set of keywords, before the search results are meaningful or useful to any degree. But it makes sense to me to start with users tagging first and the social search second, as opposed to what others like Raw Sugar have done.
Selling "Tag-Stream Data." A dirty little secret in the online marketing world is that many, many ISPs sell their click-stream data to data-mining companies like Compete. I am more than a little skeptical about companies who pitch the notion of "selling their data" as the main revenue stream. Yes, almost every web company generates buckets of "interesting" data – the difficulty is in harnessing the valuable sets, package it into a digestible format, and find customers willing to pay for it. That being said, perhaps a bookmarking company might be able to pull the above feat off.
Advertorial Tags. Bookmarking services with a social shopping spin, like Kaboodle and Wists, integrate a monetization component directly into the service through advertorial content (read my previous posts on the subject here, here, and here). A significant number of product links could be monetized through relationships with merchant advertisers who offer these items.
Other Contextual Advertising based on User Value. These services offer more than just social bookmark value, but also trend discovery and content organization. (Digg, Tailrank have geared their offering more to the former, while many others have shifted to the latter.) If users find these services valuable, but won't pay for them outright, other marketing opportunities might fill that void. For example, knowing every users e-mail address and the fact that they've tagged many pages with the keyword "skiing" could give opt-in direct marketers with a rich list of users to target with advertisements, coupons, and other information. Once marketers know specific interests (and to a certain degree, their behavior), advertising can move beyond simple AdSense contextual ads on the side of a page.
The problem is that none of the services – including Delicious – are close to really capitalizing on any of the above models. At present, these are just concepts that would need full testing and experimentation to refine. I personally, was excited to see the Delicious acquisition announcement. My only disappointment, however, was that the Delicious team didn't have a chance to fully experiment and discover a business model that worked and scale it. Granted that they've given the above (likely along with a few others) some serious thought – perhaps selling the company was a signal that the above ideas aren't as fruitful as I conjecture? Regardless, I am looking forward to seeing similar offerings give it a shot to see if a profitable business can be built.


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When Dan Collison showed us the map, most of it was blank. The colored dots on the map represented a new church plant, or an area where there was an evangelical presence. The map seemed to lack those colored dots because Toronto is – at best – 2.5 percent evangelical. Greater Toronto is home to about nine million people and only 40 Southern Baptist churches.
One year later, I am back in Toronto and I still remember Dan showing us that map. It was hard for me to believe that so many communities in Toronto are without an evangelical witness at all.
This week North Carolina Baptist pastors, Directors of Missions and church leaders are in Toronto with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina's Office of Great Commission Partnerships for a vision tour. They are here to meet with Dan and other church planters to learn more about Toronto and how they can help get involved.
Toronto is a city that desperately needs the gospel. In Toronto, Muslims outnumber Christians 3 to 1. Most Canadians are two or three generations removed from the church; their parents didn't think about church and neither did their grandparents. Forty-three percent of Canadians did not attend any religious service in the past year and only 1.8 percent attend an evangelical church.
Toronto is a city that desperately needs the gospel because when the gospel changes this city, it can change the world. Half of Toronto's population was born outside Canada, and more than 140 languages and dialects are spoken in Toronto.
God is raising up people to take the gospel to Toronto. People like Tim Heerebout, who is seeking to reach the artistic community of Toronto, from musicians to painters to jewelry makers.
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God is also working through people like Scott Rourk, who is working with three church plants.
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On Tuesday the North Carolina team will meet with more church planters like Rudy Geronimo (listen to an interview) and Arnold Wong (listen to an interview). We met Rudy and Arnold last year and I'm excited to hear how God has worked in their lives since that time.
These faithful church planters and leaders are making headway and seeing fruit, yet so much work remains. They are ready to begin ministry in universities and high-rise apartment buildings, among cowboys and bikers. But they need the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into the harvest field.
God may be calling your church to partner in Toronto. Will you pray for Toronto? And if God calls you to go and serve in Toronto, will you go?
Learn more about how you can get involved in Toronto by visiting www.ncbaptist.org/toronto.


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user comments 26 comment(s)
|psp (3:40pm est tue jun 01 2004)
well, if it wasn't selling enough, i doubt it would be that hard to port over to the ps2 as well. can't wait… – by mrlonghair
|omfg (4:34pm est tue jun 01 2004)
i gotta go play with my body now. – by sony fanboy.
|gameboy goin down (5:52pm est tue jun 01 2004)
i think that the sony is going to give nintendo a run for their money in the mobile gaming industy… – by kenji shinomori
|the only real gamble… (6:43pm est tue jun 01 2004)
..is choosing sony as a business partner….
– by me./
|who will win your choice i guess (7:19pm est tue jun 01 2004)
sony vs nintendo
you win nintendo
sony wins all the way – by kyl d
|re: who will win your choice i guess (9:38pm est tue jun 01 2004)
buwaahahahahhahhaha! you think that playstation is good?!?!?! hahahahahahhahhahahahaha!!!
gamecube has waaaaay better specs annd xbox is 10x better than ps2!!! its sad, all these ps buufs, really – by travis
|re: travis (12:13am est wed jun 02 2004)
ya because we all know the best graphics is what makes a good system and nothing else – by marcomera
|hmm (3:46am est wed jun 02 2004)
i used to think that whatever side square sided with would win (which was historically accurate) however their quality has been sliding as of late and if 12 is garbage then it will come down to who has the most 3rd party support. – by oro
|err (4:26am est wed jun 02 2004)
we're talking about the psp vs ds (or whatever its called) the psp has ps2 quality graphics in a handheld, it plays movies, music, has wireless lan, mobile phone add on, and maybe other stuff in the future. the ds has n64 level graphics and…err…two screens, one of which is touch screen, with a stylus. there's no competition. the psp will be more expensive, but its also much more powerful. the coolest thing would be playing a psp version of medal of honour on an otherwise long and boring journey (lets assume you've finished reading friedrich nietzsche's the birth of tragedy lol) the psp is without a doubt, the best handheld, and when it begins to come down in price, it will completely destroy nintendo's dominance of the handheld market. – by manwithsword
|1 years difference (5:28am est wed jun 02 2004)
why compare an xbox to a ps2, when the xbox came out a year later. sony always has had the better systems, until someone comes out in a years so of time. – by outlandishtrendz
|proof in the pudding (6:22am est wed jun 02 2004)
sony will always lead…why?
because they are people like us
xbox – business men. money is everything
nintendo – children (need we say more)
as for the specs of the units who cares?
lets cast our minds back to the superduper n64, which was a far superior unit to the playstation, but, was a bad performer due to the fact that nintendo couldn't shake the kiddy thing, didnt get any decent games (bar goldeneye!) and was ill fated from the start. gamecubes taking the same road. the psp will be amazing, not just because its an amazing unit, but because sony put the money into the gaming side aswell – by dazzler
|poor fanboys… (3:45pm est wed jun 02 2004)
sonyfans are gonna be disappointed if they think will really support "ps2 graphics"….
being fanboys, i'm sure you just forgot sony's continuous degradation of specs prior to launch of any of the hardware.
with an insane pricepoint and no disernable marketing demographic, sony is dead before even launching. of course, this won't stop them from announcing themselves the "winner of the handheld wars" as they did with the ps2…..
they're floundering against the xbox and now the gba/sp….
the psp will be nothing more than an overpriced, overhyped piece of electronics nobody over 16 years old will even really consider. – by exps2player…
|zzzzzzz…zzzzzzzz (3:17pm est thu jun 03 2004)
uhhh… what… oh! i promise to deliver the psp. zzzzzz…zzzzzz..zzzzzz..zzzzzzz…
and i'll eat exps2player… for dinner..zzzzzzzzz….. – by the sony company
|psp:) vs. ds:( (9:50pm est tue jun 29 2004)
ds graphics are like 64s
psp graphics are like ps2
you deside whos better
psp wins haha…………. – by ps boy
|$$$$$money$$$$$????? psp??? (5:10pm est wed jun 30 2004)
it will be a crap loud of
but it will be worth it
psp rules :) – by ps boy
|omg (5:14pm est wed jun 30 2004)
i just realized there is alot of damn geeks on this site
(hents the name geek.com) – by ps boy
|your right (2:45pm est sun sep 19 2004)
let's go where people are cool.your not invited exps2player… – by splinter
|ds…. (1:04pm est fri nov 12 2004)
i have a ps2 collecting dust. cause xbox live of course… but as far as handhelds. if the same game is comming out for ps2 and psp, why would i buy the games on both ???? hmm…..would one system fail in some ways?????
……..ds….all the way because its not the same as consoles, and it never has been( hence tomb raider on ngage….yeah okay..worse)
worst case!?!? n64 still survived, not because of its 3rd party, but ninty's own games.
ds has its own games again, but with huge 3rd party support this time. so, how can it die?
regardless: mario needs a kidney, metroid 3: samus's uncle, whatever game, or best yet put zelda on anything and you have org@$m$ gallore. so, how can nintendo die!?!?!?
– by ds
|{n} (3:49am est wed dec 22 2004)
nintendo is unique…therefore they can never die fullstop – by {n}
|psp vs. ds (7:47pm est fri dec 24 2004)
if nintendo was smart they should have gave the ds graphics more like the gamecube so then it could stand a small chance against the psp, because the psp and the ps2 are almost the same in graphics, so think which one do you think will be better psp or ds. also i think if nintendo keeps makin poor choices like they are now, they will end up just like sega did – by xero
|psp better than ds (7:19am est fri apr 22 2005)
psp is better than ds it has the graphics of ps2 ,camera,video player,mp3.
it's mp3 is better than an ipod. – by ds sucks
|don't you get it???? (3:10pm est thu nov 03 2005)
there is gonna be a time in the future when video game graphics are gonna be top notch and can't improve, the only thing that will be able to improve is gameplay. now do you people see why gameplay matters more than graphics???? – by oneway>>>
|psp (2:27am est tue dec 20 2005)
psp all the way come on ds or psp
you better have pick psp
if you picked ds you are just plain stupid dumass
– by ds go to hell
|which is better psp or ps2 (9:52am est sat jan 28 2006)
can i get an answer for this?? which ones
graphics is better ???????? – by ammi
|&&& – by ala
|psp or ps2? (11:30am est wed oct 04 2006)
test drive unlimited is coming out on both psp and ps2.
i own both consol's? so which 1 should i buy it for? im not worries about being able 2 play it whereva i jus want the best gameplay/graphics – by boli


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Friday, July 16, 2010
Video: Keith Olbermann Looks at the Tea Party's Response to Being Accused of Racism
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NAACP condemns racism in tea party. [MSNBC]
RNC Chairman, Michael Steele condemns allegations of racism against the Tea Party. [The Hill]
Watch Jasiri X's "What if the Tea Party was Black?" video HERE
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Dangerous and disgusting.
That's how neighbors in the South End of Hartford described a problem property on Broad Street. They said it's been in shambles for almost a year and are demanding that the city help clean it up.
"It is totally out of control," said neighbor Hyacinth Yennie.
Trees and shrubs outside the abandoned home at Broad and Roxbury streets are at least 10 feet high. The property is covered in mounds of trash, and neighbors said they're nervous to walk by.
"Anyone can hide in that bush anyone that's walking in the street," said Yennie. "They can get robbed, held up."
Yennie said homeless people have broken into the abandoned home and that the place is a hot spot for drug dealing.
"This is unacceptable in our neighborhood. This is not the way we want to live," she said.
Yennie and other neighbors are begging the city of Hartford to step in.
"It's not just one month or two months…it's almost a year I've asked them to address the issue," Yennie said.
City inspectors said the home has been on their radar.
"The city will clean the property," said Steve Frank with the City's Livable and Sustainable Neighborhoods Initiative. "That's the mayor's priority."
Inspectors put up a notice of violation on the Broad Street property at the end of July. They said the owner lives in New York and will not respond to them or get rid of the mess.
The owner hung up when NBC Connecticut called him to ask why he has ignored the city's requests.
By law, inspectors are required to give the owner some time to fix the problems, but that time has just run out. In the next few days, the city can take action without trespassing and clean the place up.
Something neighbors said this is critical to restore their quality of life.
"We need to get it cleaned because we can't live like this. It's downright disgraceful," Yennie said.
City officials said they plan to bill the owner for the cleanup. If he doesn't pay, they will put a lien on the property.
If you live in Hartford and have a similar problem in your neighborhood, you can report it by calling 311 or by contacting the City of Hartford Health Department.


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Attorney to be arraigned on several charges
Attorney Lynn Bressi, 63, of Pottsville, who was employed as a custody counselor at the Schuylkill County courthouse, will be arraigned next Monday in the county district attorney's office facing several criminal charges
Charges of theft by deception, receiving stolen property, tampering with public records, criminal sollicitation and intimidating witnesses have been filed by Pottsville Capt. Richard Wojciechowsky.
According to information filed to court, Pottsville police were notified by Schuylkill County President Judge Willliam E. Baldwin, who hired Bressi as a custody counselor, that inhouse investigation uncovered alleged excessive billing of the county for holding custody hearings and the estimated overbilling was $6,550.
For several years prior to 2006 Bressi was sole custody officer for the county. In 2006 Baldwin added four additional assistants.
The report states Bressi received 80 percent of the cases. Baldwin also raised the fee paid to a conciliator for a conference from $100 to $125 per conference but also adopted a new policy in which no conference fees should be billed if interested parties reached an agreement before the conference began. It is claimed Bressi submitted bills in which agreements were reached without hearings but claimed them as settlements.
If the case reaches trial the prosecution will be handled by the State Attorney General's Office and not the county's district attorney's office because of a conflict of interest.
For many years, Bressi's husband, Attorney Charles Bressi, was an assistant district attorney but resigned long before the charges arose against his wife. Charles Bressi is now law clerk for county Judge John E. Domalakes.


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Yahoo! Sports' Eric Adelson joined Bull & Fox to talk about the controversy surrounding the head official in the Super Bowl, Jerome Boger, the fact that other officials are unhappy with the fact Boger will be on the crew, the feeling that the officials, as a whole, are full of tension because of the year starting out with a lockout, Mike Pereira's call to make changes to the selection process and more.
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The other up-and-coming talents taking part in the 2012 Shooting Stars include Romanian actress Ana Ularu ("Lost and Found"), France's Adele Haenel ("The Devils") and Polish actor Jakub Gierszal ("Suicide Room").
Many of the 2012 Shooting Stars are well established in their home territories. Bill Skarsgard's thespian family includes father, and "Thor" star, Stellan Skarsgard and older brother Alexander Skarsgard of "True Blood" fame. Anne Maria Muhe's parents were "The Lives of Others" star Ulrich Muhe and well-known German TV actress Jenny Grollmann. The Irish Shooting Star, actress Antonia Campbell-Hughes, appeared in Jane Campion's "Bright Star" and on BBC comedy series "Lead Balloon." Italian actress Isabella Ragonese has appeared in a dozen features, including Paolo Virzi's 2008 comedy "Ahead" and the 2010 drama "One Life, Maybe Two" from director Alessandro Aronadio.
Two of next year's Shooting Stars, however, are virtual newcomers. Icelandic soccer player turned actor Hilmar Gudkonsson had a bit part in Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" but his first major role was in Turin Film Festival winner "Either Way" this year. And 18-year-old Swiss actor Max Hubacher had his first film role last year as the lead in Mike Schaerer's cancer drama "Stationspiraten." His follow-up was Markus Imboden's Swiss box office hit "Foster Boy" this year.
The Shooting Stars is run by European Film Promotion and takes place between Feb.11-13, during the 2012 Berlin Film Festival (Feb. 9 -19). Some of the future stars first showcased at the event include Daniel Craig, Carey Mulligan and Daniel Bruhl.
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(Physical something), Archer, Wizard, Cleric at 50.
Holy Knight/Gladiator, Sniper/Assassin, High Wizard/Enchanter, Bishop/Monk at 120.
Paladin at 140.
Samurai, Ninja, Minstrel are special classes at level 100.
Warrior can become:
Holy Knight is a tank, Gladiator is a melee damage dealer with heavier weapons, Sniper is a ranged damage dealer with bows, Assassin is a damage dealer with thrown weapons or spikes.
Mage can become:
High Wizard is a ranged damage caster, Enchanter is a melee caster, Bishop is a healer/support, Monk is a melee caster.
Paladin is a mystery to me, no real info about it.
Samurai is a melee damage dealer, Ninja is a ranged damage dealer, Minstrel is a party support character.
Also, at level 10 you can take an Apprentice class from the NPC in the first town, providing you with basic skills of that class of your choice. These can be swapped between as you see fit.
Mages are weaker on here than other games. I get 1 hit at areas where Warriors can fight at without a problem, getting hit for 250 damage while a Warrior gets hit for 50 damage while I have 280 Hp and the Warrior has 600 Hp. What makes it even worse that I can do 400 damage per cast with the only attack spell, but warriors do 200 damage per regular attack at the same level and can even attack 2-3 times per spell cast. Mages can heal for a lot(I can full heal myself), but it doesn't help when you have 280 hp and get hit for 280 damage. Even if you can heal over the damage, there's a cooldown on spells so you can't recast it to keep alive.
Warriors get +Atk and Double Attack skill at 10, then +Def and a self +Def buff at 20.
Mages get +MAtk, Mana Wave and Mini Heal spell at 10, then +Mp Recovery at 20.
Problem is that warriors don't need the skill because it doesn't do much extra damage and physical attacks are faster, but we have to rely on spells with a cast time, cooldown and Mp cost and we can't learn the upgraded spell or our second/stronger spell for damage. So while we miss out on our strongest early spell, Warriors only lose Provoke which does nothing but make enemies attack them instead. And while Mages need Int for damage and Dex for cast time, Warriors can focus on Str/Vit and get Agi/Dex/Crt when they feel like it.
Turns out Warriors get all their skills, Mage's final skill is their strongest attack which... isn't added into the game yet. I was partying with Warriors 10 levels higher who were doing equal damage to my nuke, and I'm wearing full int items compared to their full def items. So they're built out for tanking instead of damage, yet still dealing high damage. I don't think I'll go much higher in damage within 10 levels.
And it turns out the Warrior +Def self buff is at level 10 instead of 20. Meaning they get an attack skill, +Atk and +Def at 10 where Mage gets an attack spell and heal. The bigger attack spell is in the next patch, as that's one of the next areas supposedly. And the NPC that gives us level 2 of our current attack spell is in the game, but her quest list is bugged and simply displays quit.
Guess the Japanese Wiki has misinformation, Holy Knight = Paladin, there's just something special that happens at level 140 for classes supposedly. Whether it's a skill break level(Unlock a skill on that level) or what is unknown.
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(Above: The Masses, November 1916, illustration by Hugo Gellert, from Words & Eggs.)
Words & Eggs is the brainchild of Lesley Yoder, and is a brilliantly curated site that focuses on vintage graphic design, with an emphasis on magazines, books, and posters. There's a Words & Eggs image of the day, and French Friday, which features a weekly dose of Francophile design. Recent posts include a massive collection of covers from early 20th Century American socialist magazine The Masses, covers and inside pages from 50s-60s German graphic design magazine Gebrauchsgraphik, and covers from French film magazine Positif. You can also follow Words & Eggs on Twitter.
(Above: The Masses, September 1917. Illustration by Carlo Leonetti.)
Illustrator Stephen Kroninger sets up his blog shop on the Drawger site, the online illustrator collective. His most recent entry features extensive info and links to the work of Japanese poster designer Tadanori Yokoo, who is currently having a retrospective show in Osaka. Other recent posts by Kroninger include a visual remembrance of former Fug Tuli Kupferberg, and a preview (and trailer link) of the new Tomi Ungerer film, Far Out Isn't Far Enough. Kroninger also posts a regular feature called A Box of Magazines that is a brilliantly themed selection of magazine, newspaper, and book covers from his extensive collection.
A Journey Round My Skull is a cool collection of illustration and graphic design with a serious literary bent. Their most recent post is called Literary Pets, and is a collection of photos of writers and their pets, including Ernest Hemingway (cat), William Burroughs (cat), and Flannery O'Connor (above, peacocks). Sometimes there's extensive writing and research, but usually Journey just piles on lots of visual goodies. Recent posts include beautiful woodcut illustrations by Hermann-Paul from a 1930s Dutch edition of Don Quixote, Cuban film posters by Eduardo Munoz Bachs, and a collection of Dutch detective book covers from the 1930s-60s. There's a strong international flavor, and there are lots of great links to even more visuals.
Ethan Persoff's website is rich in 1960s underground publishing. Most spectacular is the Comics With Problems section of his site, which features archival comic books from the 1950-2000s covering a variety of real life topics, including drug abuse, alcoholism, communism, and surviving a nuclear attack. Persoff received a lot of media attention over the past couple months for his posting of the U.S. military's official Don't Ask, Don't Tell comic book, and for his discovery of the crude, bizarro, racist Tea Party Comix. He's also been archiving the complete publication run of legendary 60s underground magazine The Realist. Persoff's site is deep, well-scanned and researched, and completely unique.
(Above: Tea Party Comix, issues #1 and #2.)
We featured Linda Eckstein's visual blog, All My Eyes, earlier this year on the SPD site, but its continued high-quality and smart curation merits another mention. Recent posts include a look at the Life magazine dog covers of illustrator Will Rannells, a collection of objects from the Lost TV show, and a powerful batch of contemporary covers from The Economist. The images are combined with elegant, informative writing, and are relentlessly sourced and linked.
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One of the best of the best of the original RamChargers was Wayne Erikson. One Friday he spent most of the afternoon at my desk discussing the special problems of a drag car with respect to suspension. I am not a particular fan of drag racing, but we talked about some things that could be done and agreed to meet again when we returned to work the following week. The following week he was dead.
During his race that weekend his clutch exploded. He was not directly injured by the explosion, but his fuel line was inside the car by the clutch and was severed by shrapnel. He suffered severe burns over most of his body and died two weeks later from the effects of the burns.
Wayne's accident led to the requirement for scatter shields, and the ruling that fuel lines could not be inside the car. It is my understanding it also in part led to the formation of the Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association, so there could be common standards for safety equipment, like scatter shields.
I have had two clutch explosions. The first was as a teenager racing a Dual Carbureted Supercharged Duesenberg against a Buick across the McKees Rocks Bridge in Pittsburgh. The center flywheel of the dual plate clutch broke into three pieces. It was still retained by the guide studs, so nothing bad happened except to seize the clutch and prevent shifting out of low gear. But I could still go 125 in low, so I just finished the race and collected my Hundred Bucks. Needed the money to help fix the clutch.
The other was the Lotus Valiant. The engine was nearing 8000 at the end of an airport course straight when the clutch cover and pressure plate disintegrated. It was like a hand grenade went off inside the car. At the time an explosion proof housing was not available. Even though every effort was to keep weight down, knowing of Wayne's accident I never hesitated to add a five pound piece of boiler plate between the housing and the driver compartment. The car was a mess. I fixed the car like it never happened. People are a lot harder to fix.
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The head coaching change at Rice has definitely had an effect on three-star quarterback recruit Nathan Dick.
Dick, the 6-foot-4, 200-pound once solid commit, has now opened things back up with just weeks to go before Signing Day. With coach Todd Graham leaving Rice for Tulsa, the Allen, Texas signal-caller has some thinking to do and is focused on three schools.
"I'm really looking at Rice and Houston, but Arkansas has talked to me a little bit too," Dick said. "Arkansas hasn't offered or anything. They want to wait until they get back from recruiting and then they're going to contact me about where things stand here in the next week or so."
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The first order of business for Dick will be an official visit to Houston this upcoming weekend (Jan. 19).
"I was talking to Houston before I committed to Rice, so I've met coach Art Briles and everything," Dick said. "It's the same kind of offense there that we run at Allen – passing the ball a lot. Rice is the same way. They also don't have a ton of quarterbacks at either school."
Things could prove to be interesting with Dick's brother, Casey Dick, being a sophomore quarterback for Arkansas. The younger brother says that he's already heard from his brother a little bit about possibly being at the same school as him.
"He sent me a text message and stuff like that," Nathan said about Casey. "It's always fun being around him and he could teach me. Plus, that would be a lot easier on my parents if we were at the same school."
Rice coaches, like David Beaty, have been in contact with Dick. However, until a head coach is named at Rice, Dick remains uncommitted.
"They said that they want me to come down on an official visit," Dick said about the Rice coaches. "I just don't want to waste my time if there isn't a coach there. They told me they'd let me know when a head coach was coming in."
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9 Sep 16 - In 2012, when California began its cap-and-trade programme, it was hailed as a model for the rest of the world.
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23 Aug 16 - There are at least three good reasons why China is likely to succeed in starting the world's biggest carbon-trading market when its efforts to limit pollution kick in next year.
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15 Apr 11 - Moribund would be one word to describe the New Zealand carbon market this week, OMFinancial reports.
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Market comment: Why cleantech stocks have the energy advantage
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11 Jun 08 - Eight of the worlds leading carbon reduction and offset providers have formed the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA), The Climate Group announced.
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Pigeon Forge, Sevier County (WVLT) - Big-name country, gospel, or rock-n-roll, whatever's your favorite you just might find it in Pigeon Forge this summer, all outdoors, with some tickets costing only 20 bucks.
It's the beginning of what some are betting will be a new entertainment and building boom, in the county known for both.
"They were trying to find the right property in the right place and positioned right in the county," says real estate broker Keith Widmer.
For the right price.
Which is why, for $12 million dollars, Pigeon Forge's former home to world famous bears and hares you can trust, is about to become, "One or two permanent theatres up there. A hotel, a museum, gift shops, all themed around Dick Clark," Widmer says.
Yep, the Dick Clark, as in the soon-to-be Dick Clark's American Bandstand Music Complex of Pigeon Forge.
"The last month they've been trying to book big name entertainment that hasn't been in the market, such as Lee Ann Rimes, America, Clint Black," says Widmer.
"We like to come into an area where we've had a presence already," says Steve File, from Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies.
Believe it or Not, Bandstand's folks are the same folks behind Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg.
So why not build in Gatlinburg?
"For something new to go in, something old has to come down," File says.
Whereas, Pigeon Forge isn't landlocked. What Riptide, hopes will repeat though is synergy, spin-offs.
"Before we opened you saw new businesses come in, such as Hard Rock, TGI Friday's and others," explains File.
Which in turn, feed off each other.
"With the Dick Clark name, that adds some credibility to that end of Pigeon Forge," Widmer says.
Balancing growth on the other ends.
"A good barometer is to see what the timeshares are doing. They've all come in and they're all continuing to build and build," says File.
Figuring the boom won't run out of gas anytime soon.
If anything, "It's interesting to see what the gas prices are gonna do to us," says File. "Whether it'll take the people from Ohio and Indiana and say 'hey, it's too far to drive to go to Florida, let's stop off and go to Gatlinburg.'"
The concerts will be behind the Boyd's Bear Country main building. The line-ups still being finalized, but the first billboard could go up within days.
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Ah Twitter: endless observational comedy from your desktop and more food photography than you could shake an iFridge at. Not only will it help you listen in on your heroes, meet your peers and influence public debate, it's also a tailor-made window to the world. So, don't cover it in shit curtains and I <3 Beer stickers – make it shine. Here are five common Twitter mistakes and how to avoid them…
1. Not having a photo
First things first: if you don't have a photo, you look like a big ole spambot of egg. You also look a bit like the person at a party who doesn't take their coat off – you're not really getting into the fun of it. It doesn't have to be a perfectly posed portrait, just get something up there.
2. Being too informal
Oh guys. I know, there are some really hilarious people out there who tweet nothing but filth and libel all day. But those people are either professional comedians tweeting in a persona (see Rob Delaney, Megan Amram) or they're unemployed no-marks. If you tweet that you've just had a wank, hate your job or are mashed off your tits while kicking in someone's wheelie bin, people will judge you and you may even get into trouble. Potential collaborators, employers and friends can find everything you say, and you can't control how they will react. So, be funny, be filthy, be controversial if you wish, but just be clever about it.
3. Retweeting endless praise
Oh yawn off. Retweeting someone suggesting you in a "follow Friday" is lame. Retweeting someone saying "Oh babes, you look so gorge in your pic lol. Love ya babes ;-)" is lamer than a two-legged cat in a lawnmower. Just have a little bit of self-restraint.
4. Not understanding the @ function
Let me break it down. If you @ someone at the beginning of a tweet, only people who follow you and them will see it. If you want all your followers to see it, then put a full stop before their name (like .@joebloggs You're great, Joe).
Secondly, if you @ someone you're slagging off it is extremely likely they'll see it. Even massive celebrities with thousands of followers can notice someone slagging them off and can, in certain circumstances, take action against you (see Grace Dent threatening to get the publicist who said she looked like a horse sacked). Also, it's just rude and shitty and the world would be a much nicer place if you didn't do it.
5. Just tweeting links to your blog/show/article/video
Twitter is an undeniably great place to network, get your stuff seen, promote your work and generally pimp yourself out. But a person who just tweets links to their blog is a boring person to follow. Twitter is a conversation – talk to people. Reply to their tweets, engage in debates, tell us something about you that isn't directly linked to your work and make us interested.
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Don't get all whiney, passive aggressive and rude if someone doesn't follow you back. That's just like pissing on someone's shoes after you've smiled at them in a bar. It's not going to endear you to anyone.
If you post a photo in a tweet, even if it is @ someone, everyone will be able to see it in your Recent Images. So, you know, keep it classy.
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So today they are coming out to undo some of what they did (they work that damaged my house) and I will meet with one of the executives to discuss what they will charge me. I have told them that given they did not fix my house and actually damaged it then I don't think I should pay anything. However, I am willing to pay 50%. I am dreading this because they are arguing that what they did actually helped my house. But if they fix some things and only charge 50% then I will go away quietly.
If not, they have unleashed the my wrath. I will contact the BBB and every other organization that I can think of and tell them that this company took advantage of a single mother and ripped of a single mother. I am doing a lot of work on my house, so I will also bad mouth them to every single contractor that I talk to about other fixes in my house. I hope they realize this and do right by me, or at least as right as they can at this point.
[This message edited by TrulyReconciled at 2:21 PM, January 21st (Tuesday)]
- What did they actually do?
- How did it cause damage?
The pressure that the pier put on the alcove cause the other windows in the alcove to bow and become out of alignment. In addition, they had to rip up part of my patio to install the pier. To be fair, I knew they would have to tear up the patio. My issue is that I did not even need these damn piers so my patio should not have been torn up to begin with.
- How exactly did 'wood rot' cause your foundation to settle?
Ah, here is the crux of the issue. It didn't cause any foundation issue! The settling in that corner was actually cause by rotting of the window and door frame and perhaps rotting in the framing behind the siding (the extent of the rot has yet to be determined). It turns out that I did not have any foundation issues! That was confirmed today when they came out and lowered the piers and then took measurements with a laser level. Gee, I sure wish they had done that BEFORE they tore up my patio, installed piers, and charged me thousands of dollars for something I did not need. Of course, they are still arguing that the alcove is "stable" now. Well, it was stable before too!
I originally called them because I assumed that the settling was caused by foundation issues. I did not know that the window and door frames were rotting because I did not know what to look for. They did and they are the ones who pointed it out to me...AFTER they installed the piers. And I mean immediately after they installed the piers. If they had told me before hand then I would have gotten the window and door fixed and then reevaluated the foundation. Even if they had just pointed out it immediately before installing the piers then I would have gladly paid for the labor to come out to my house.
- Do you have before and after photos?
I am still working with them to get closure. They pretty much conceded today that the corner where I have issues appears level in the basement and does not appear to have a foundation issues. They are getting with the CEO tomorrow to discuss this. This has been hard because I want to go bat shit crazy on them, but I know that will not be productive. So I spend a lot of energy trying to stay calm when I talk with them when all I want is to cuss them out
However, window and door frames should not be supporting any structural loads and should not have any consequences for settling of a building. Unless you have an older, historic house or similar.
Does your state have a contractors/licensing board to help homeowners and contractors in dispute?
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T just talked to the general manager and they have agreed to reduce the price by 50% which is what I asked for. While I wish I did not have to pay anything, I realized early on that it would not be an option. So I am as happy as I can be regarding this issue and I no longer have to stress about it! I have seriously been losing sleep.
And because I am an honest person I will not bad mouth this company or write any bad reviews or anything like that. I won't recommend them, but I also won't say anything negative.
As soon as the financial transaction goes thru, I can completely cut ties with the company and put it in my past, with the knowledge of a lesson learned. Kinda like when I D my X


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Get Ready Horror Fans, the New 'Evil Dead' Movie Is Hitting Theaters [VIDEO]
I admit that I like scary movies, but not the torture horror movies like 'Hostel' or 'Saw'. My favorite scary movies are horror stories like 'The Shining', 'The Changeling', and John Carpenter's 'The Thing'. I also like campy, gross and funny movies like 'Evil Dead 2′. When I heard they were remaking the first 'Evil Dead', I expected the worst. However early reviews of the film have been mostly positive.
Here is a teaser trailer of the new 'Evil Dead'. It looks like they are playing more straight for scares rather than with a sense of humor like director Sam Raimi did with his 'Evil Dead' movies. That's okay by me as long as it's good.
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Traditonal wrestling in the Sub-Continental area of Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka has a heritage so old that its origins can only be found in mythology, which fortunately for us has a very rich pattern in Hinduism. All Hindu holy books give descriptions of the sport and the epic poem Mahabarata describes numerous events; one in particular is a 27 day contest between Bhima, Lord Krishna's most faithful follower and Rajah Jarasandha, the enemy of righteousness who was finally torn in half for his immorality. In the Ramayana it was the monkey god Hanuman who taught the art of wrestling to humanity so these skills could be used to assist Rama in his battles against the demon Ravana in his stronghold in Sri Lanka. Hanuman as the first Kushti Guru is still depicted in religious art carrying a ceremonial gada mace, the prize most often given to champion wrestlers. This close association with religious mythology means a strong set of moral values are indoctrinated into wrestlers and the term most often used to describe them is Pahelwan. This refers to someone with not just physical strength but also spiritual and this concept crosses many religious barriers; there are many Sikh, Muslim, Parsee and Christian Pahelwan as well as Hindu. The concept is also well known right throughout Central Asia, Iran and even Turkey with the word, or dialect variations of it, having a wide geographical dispersal.
Artwork on stone seals has been found in the remains of Harappa, Mohenjo Daro, Lothal and other cities of the Indus Valley Civilisation that have abstract depictions of what some interpret as a wrestling motif, indicating that the sport was very popular in the region over 5000 years ago. With the Aryan invasions at the fall of the Indus Valley Civilisation, many Central Asian concepts were brought to the Sub-Continent and this is why the word for wrestling, Kushti is shared between the Hindi and Persian languages. In the Ganges Valley from about the 8th century BC many smaller republics began to grow and it is recorded that wrestling was used a peace-keeping exercise in which champions were pitted against each other to avert war. The Hellenistic invasion lead by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC, brought a revolutionary idea called samjya or inter-regional athletic displays and some speculate that this might explain the similarities between the traditional akhara wrestling gymnasiums of India and the palaestra or wrestling schools of ancient Greece. During the reign of Ashoka the Great (265-238BC) of the Magadha Empire, wrestlers could travel the length and breadth of virtually the entire Sub-Continent to compete in professionally organised championships; the official sporting record for Kushti therefore is amongst the oldest in the world.
With the end of the Mauryan Dynasty Kushti faced a major setback in its development; Indian history has seen the subsequent rise and fall of many states, kingdoms and empires but Kushti always maintained its essence as a method of warrior training and as a form of entertainment with strong ritual overtones. This was true in the 10th century when a special caste of Brahmin priest called Jyesthemallas started performing a type of combat called Vajramushti, which translates as 'grasping a thunderbolt'. Combatants were painted in red ochre and held a wooden knuckleduster in their right hands, inflicting vicious wounds on each other as a form of sacrifice to the gods. Vajramushti performances survived into the 20th century and the legendary Australian grappling instructor John Will trained with the old masters for a period in the 1980s. In the 13th century several publications were made about the art of wrestling and the book called 'Mallapurana' described four different versions from an all in MMA type of combat called yuddha to a simple toppling game called dharanipata. After the conquest of India by Babur in 1526 and the start of the Moghul Empire, many lavish wrestling festivals were sponsored by the Royal Dynasties and Kushti saw the start of a new golden era.
During the British Raj Kushti continued to thrive and due to the support of the local Maharajahs, Punjab in the northern part of the country became the best wrestling area; out of this region came the greatest of all Indian wrestlers, Gama the Lion of Punjab. In 1898 he won the title of Rustam i Hind or Champion of All India and in 1910 travelled to London with the Australian fight promoter Dr Benjamin and his Circus of Indian Wrestlers to ultimately win the John Bull World Championship for Catch as Catch Can Wrestling. On his return home he was given a heroes welcome and became the most famous celebrity in the whole country. Because he was thereafter sponsored by the Maharajah of Patiala he lived a fairly comfortable life as a full time professional athlete but he never became complacent with his own training regime and he was also quite tough on those that trained under him, producing many more Indian champions. In 1926 the Polish strongman Stan Zbyszco came to India to avenge his loss from the 1910 London Championship and at a specially constructed stadium, which according to press accounts was overflowing beyond capacity, an alleged audience of 200,000 people watched as Gama threw and pinned his adversary in the quick time of 47 seconds. This was during the early stages of the Indian Independence movement lead by Ghandi and by demonstrating his ability to beat the world's best, Gama restored pride to many people who had felt disempowered during the British Raj. Gama lived through the turbulent period of Indian Partition in 1947 and because of his Muslim Faith went to live in Pakistan but being neglected by the government in his old age, he was forced to sell all his trophies and inevitably died in poverty in 1960.
Being part of the British Empire, Indian people were setting up settlements in many countries with places like South Africa, Fiji, the Caribbean and even the United Kingdom having thriving communities, that were running dangals or tournaments in Kushti just like those in the Motherland. In Australia the Indian people were essential for commerce and the so called Ghan camel handlers helped to open up the dry central heart of the country. This was true in 1894 when the rich camel owner Tagh Mohammed sponsored a tournament on the West Australian goldfields, won by a strongman named Aesop, as reported by the Coolgardie Miner Newspaper. In Melbourne in 1900 two Pahelwan named Buttan Singh and Gunga Brahms began a series of challenge matches that grew into a professional championship. On January 1 1901 the six Australian colonies federated to form the Commonwealth of Australia and Melbourne became the capital city of a new nation. Naturally it wouldn't be long before a national title was arranged for wrestling and at Wirth's Park Circus on May 2 1903 Buttan Singh won the Australian Championship; the first wrestling champion of Australia was an Indian wrestler.
This was also however the era in which the "White Australia" policies were first being written and for all those people that admired Singh for his athletic ability there were probably many more that resented seeing a white man being beaten by a non white. This was certainly the case in 1904 at the Melbourne Exhibition Building when Clarence Weber accepted achallenge by Gunga Brahms to last just 15 minutes against him but was thrown and pinned in 13 minutes. A week later at a similar event Weber was strangled by Singh which enraged the predominantly Anglo-Saxon audience who chased Singh from the building where he jumped on a tram and sought police protection. This was even more evident when the World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt visited Australia in 1905. He more or less dominated the local wrestling scene but his bouts against Singh & Brahms are more remembered in media reports by the booing and hissing directed against the Indians and when Singh met Weber for a rematch for the Australian title in November 1906 the level of publicity was at fever pitch. Clarence Weber won this after a bout that lasted nearly half an hour and Buttan Singh was conceding a 17kg weight disadvantage but the emphasis of publicity was placed on the fact that that an Australian had beaten a foreigner. Buttan Singh and Gunga Brahms continued to wrestle for another two years but nothing can be found of what happened to them after their retirement from the sport, they just faded into oblivion. The fact that these two men started an Australian Championship title and Singh held it for the first three years of its existence was ignored in Australian sporting records; it is time that something should be done about this.
Today Australia has a very vibrant Indian and Pakistani community scene; they constitute the fastest growing ethnic minorities in the country with over 350,000 people in every capital city and major regional centre, 90,000 of which are Indian students studying abroad. At the start of 2011 the great Australian Wrestling wrestling coach and now President of Wrestling Australia Inc, Kuldip Bassi, agreed to work with the Australian Society of Traditional Wrestlers to again promote Indian style dangals in Australia, forming the group Kushti Australia to help do this. Based in Melbourne at the United Wrestling Club, he will be organising for wrestlers of any ethnicity, to participate in traditional tournaments performed in open parklands at any of a number of Indian Festivals in specially prepared dirt pits, with wrestlers wearing traditional langot belts. If this is of interest to you please contact me at this site and I will relay any messages to Kuldip. If you would like to learn more about kushti wrestling in general, which is growing worldwide, especially after India's recent success at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, checkout these websites;


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Celery with peanut butter is a popular snack, especially for children. It contains both fiber and protein, so it is relatively filling. A celery and peanut butter snack provides a number of essential nutrients, and when eaten as part of a healthy diet, it may lower your risk for certain health conditions.
A medium stalk of celery with 2 tablespoons of smooth peanut butter contains 195 calories and provides you with 8 grams of protein and 3 grams of fiber. Protein gives you the essential amino acids your body needs to form new proteins, and fiber helps to promote digestive health. Although it contains 15 grams of fat, only 3 grams are saturated. Most of the fat in peanut butter is the healthier unsaturated fat.
This snack will provide you with 20 percent of the daily value for niacin, 15 percent of the magnesium you need and 10 percent of your vitamin B-6 and phosphorus needs. Niacin, vitamin B-6 and phosphorus help you turn food into energy and keep your nerves functioning properly. Niacin also helps keep your skin healthy, and vitamin B-6 is needed to form hemoglobin. Both magnesium and vitamin B-6 are important for a healthy immune system, and phosphorus and magnesium are essential for strong bones and to keep your nerves and muscles functioning properly.
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Consuming celery and peanut butter may help you lower your risk for diabetes and heart disease. A study published in the "Journal of the American Medical Association" in November 2002 found that people who consumed more peanut butter had a lower risk for diabetes. Another study, published in November 2006 in the "British Journal of Nutrition," found that people who consumed more peanut butter were less likely to suffer from heart disease compared to people who consumed fewer servings per week of peanut butter. These effects could be due to the monounsaturated fat content, antioxidant content, fiber content or a combination.
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After breaking free of his stone prison, Discord had some time to go about his business before anypony could get organized. A little chocolate rain isn't the only chaos he managed to produce.
The proprietor of the series known as 'Sweet Special-Nothings'.
Well known for the story Hop, Skip, and a Jump! And First Date.
Also wrote the Conversion Bureau tale, A Mare's Tail.
After breaking free of his stone prison, Discord had some time to go about his business before anypony could get organized. A little chocolate rain isn't the only chaos he managed to produce.
Looks like a interresting story (poor Gilda). Lets see to where this story will continue.
grats on the eqd featured
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I've always like 'Dark' Discord fics
Discord is a dick
And he's proud of it...
On a side note, how do I set it up so it shows a name instead of a number when replying?
So far, so good.
I've found it really adds to the story if you read it with John de Lancie's voice in your head.
Anyway, nice story. The way you've portrayed Discord is brilliant.
In canon, Rainbow Dash tries to pick fights with random strangers at minimal provocation, helped destroy an innocent zebra's home out of fear and ignorance, keeps crashing into people, is often lazy, harshly mare-handles her oldest friend trying to get her to go to an event that absolutely terrifies her, nearly got her killed on two separate occasions (and one of those also almost got herself and her other friends killed), broke into a hospital to steal a book and in so doing spooked what may very well have been a cancer patient, destroyed a cake that a couple with newborns worked months on, had such an extreme bout of narcissism that people almost died because she couldn't stop showboating long enough to save them despite claiming that she would, smacks people around to get attention from the people she likes, and has helped destroy two major social events.
If anything, Rainbow Dash is the bad influence.
Nice job on chapter 2. I found it more powerful than chapter 1, and I really liked chapter 1. You've got the same sinister Discord being awesome, plus Gilda's problems let you extract more delicious melodrama from the same setup.
Watch out for those introductory clauses attached to the wrong sentence, though. There are still a few of them present throughout the chapter.
Yessssss, this is the Discord I know, a wicked trickster who delights in tormenting everypony, practically salivating at the idea of tormenting them into emotionally broken toys before discarding them for something new.
No tragic past, no silly melodramatic origin story; just a cruel demon god whose entire existence is focused on producing mayhem and misery in ways that most amuse him.
To be fair, a lot of that list happened in Season 2. You could argue that's mostly leftover disharmony, really. Or just Dash being the short-sighted speedster she's known for.
Look at that, he gave Aloe a new sister.
Discord is such a generous guy.
*Alondro's leonine muse nods with a scowl and she crosses her paws* And ponies wonder why I have gone to such lengths to secure Discord's final destruction at the hooves of the Doctor. A more disgracefully cruel monstrosity did never the bowels of Echidna spew forth, save for his foul sire Sutekh, father of the gods of chaos, whom I and my kin fought eons to finally destroy and scatter.
Well, that was unsettling. Discord's epiphany this chapter was much subtler than before. It took me a bit to find it, but when I did... Very clever.
Also, turning ponies into G3.5? The fiend! There's chaos, and there's pure evil.
I..... I can't belive it.... an Update?!?!?! On this Story???!?!?
I like to think Discord watches a lot of Disney cartoons. He seems like he'd be a big fan of Kim Possible and would use words like 'Sitch' for 'Situation.' He's such a nerd.
Well the Mayor's reaction was certainly unexpected. Props to her for maintaining that composure.
Best chapter yet XD Props to the Mayor for keeping it together like that.. Loved how she yelled at Screwball for flying around, like she did things like that daily or something.. awesome.


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Cougar men fall to .500 in UMAC play
The University of Minnesota, Morris men's basketball team fell behind host Northland by double digits late in the first half and never recovered, losing 82-66 Jan. 27 on the road in Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) action.
Each team led once in the first half, with the LumberJacks taking over for good with 9:42 left after a pair of free throws. Northland eventually extended their lead to as much as 14 in the first half, before taking a 35-22 lead into the break.
In the second, they continued to grow their advantage, never letting Morris within single digits.
The Cougars were led by Derek Schmidt with 17 points, extending his streak of consecutive games in double figures to 14.
Jeremy Burns and Brodie Raymond each finished with 10, accounting for two-thirds of the Cougars' just six three-pointers. UMM had a rough night from behind the arc, hitting only 6-of-21 attempts for a 27 percent average.
The Cougars struggled from all parts of the floor as well, finishing with one of their lesser shooting performances of the season, going 22-of-63 (.349).
With the loss the Cougars fall to 3-3 in UMAC action and 6-10 overall.


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Every red carpet gets adorned with fashion choices that make our eyes roll and heads spin.
In that regard, today's Golden Globes didn't disappoint. After surveying what the stars wore, here are our picks for the worst dresssed on the red carpet.
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Sunday will mark one year to the day that the Baird family began searching for their two pups who wandered out of their backyard in north Edmonton.
Two-year-old Buddy, a yellow Labrador, and eight-month-old bulldog Maddy, managed to get past the fence last year and not come back.
Search efforts, though aggressive, came up empty handed.
A Facebook page brought in several tips and sightings, but Buddy and Maddy have never returned home.
Carmel Baird said the family decided to turn the loss into a positive.
On Dec. 29, at 1 p.m., the Baird family and their supporters will do a walk to honour the four-legged members of the family and create what they say is much needed awareness.
"It's a common misconception that all strays on the street are strays. People are seeing stray dogs and thinking they don't have a home," she said.
"We need to change that perception."
Baird added that vet clinics aren't always scanning for microchips, and said stories about pets reunited with owners years later proves that.
Through the days, weeks and endless nights of searching, Baird said a bond was formed with people that offered up their time to help their family find Buddy and Maddy.
It's also a way to say thank you to them, Baird said.
The family will be handing out "Team Buddy" and "Team Maddy" shirts, as well as some coffee and donuts.
It's a chance to get together and reflect, Baird said, but also to help educate Edmontonians.
"Rather than sit here and be sad all day, we thought we would turn it into something good," she explained.
"A lot of these dogs do have families. So we really just want to raise awareness of that."
If you'd like to take part in the Missing Mutts Walk of Awareness, you can head down to the John D. Bracco Junior High School at 1 p.m.


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WoW - Blizzard Rules Out F2P
In a short interview on Eurogamer from BlizzCon 2013 comes the news World of Warcraft will not be going F2P. The reason just ask the seven million current subscribers.
When their subscription base dips below 1 million I bet they will reconsider.
In ten years, sure :P
At the rate they have been losing subscribers it will go below 1 million well before 10 years and when they come out with their new mmo it will probably take a big chunk of their subscribers from WOW.
Oh no the game that I will never pay for is never gonna turn into the game I will never pay for.
Well that was confusing to type. OT: Turning it into F2P is just gonna make it worse. Once they start going into "Holy shit we have to save the Cash Cow!" mode then it's gonna be really bad.
Not currently considering != ruling out.
To get back on topic I don't see Wow going to go F2P as Blizzard announced two more expansions. They would need less than a million subscribers, and that's not happening anytime soon.
Here is the link on the expansions, and their plans for WOW in the future.
They still have a solid (and paying) playerbase, so why would they think about F2P. Although I have no doubt that if the subscription numbers fall, they will consider it.
Ever? Unless the general perception suits and many gamers have of F2P: Very likely.
In 100 years, how many subscribers will WoW have?
how many subscribers does Ultima Online still have? That went F2P awhile back but both sequels got axed because EA didn't think it would gain many new subscribers, the costs would be higher, and it would just cannibalize the then current base.
Basically, instead of competing with EQ they put Jay Leno on at 10.
Not too surprising, they are nowhere close to the point where going F2P would be logical. As always they are losing a lot of subscribers at the end of their current expansion and they will gain a lot of new ones at the beginning of the next one. At some point a new big game will have to replace it, but there are no signs of that happening anytime in the foreseeable future.
I imagine they can continue upgrading the game ad infinitum, including adding new tech to the client engine, that's backwards compatible for older platforms. To attract new customers though, they are going to have to do something new that's really spectacular.
At this point I think they need to start considering how to bring former players back rather than trying to bring new customers in. One of the basic principals of business is it's easier to retain customers than recruit new ones.
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Lee Enterprises, the publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is taking advantage of investors' growing appetite for high-yield corporate debt to refinance its debt.
The newspaper company will sell just over $1 billion worth of notes due in 2017 and 2018 to retire nearly all of its existing debt, which is due in April 2012, it said Monday.
Like other newspaper publishers, Lee Enterprises Inc., which is based in Davenport, Iowa, has been struggling with a decline in advertising. But the economic recovery has slowed the decline. Lee said Monday that it expects to report a revenue decline of 3.5 percent to 4 percent for the quarter that ended March 27, compared with last year. That compares with a 6.6 percent decline last year.


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I came across a trailer on a Machinima video on Youtube and it was for the new Assassins Creed game called Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. It appears Ezio won't be keeping Altair's armor for very long after ACII as in the trailers and screenshots, he is sporting a new set of Assassin's robes, similar to his original set, but without his underclothes as well as some alterations that make them much less conspicuous. Anyhow, here's a picture of Ezio's new robes from the Assassin's Creed Brotherhood website and I'm curious if anyone can maybe find some more pictures of this suit and draw up some patterns as I would be interested in making the new robes.
Ezio's New Robes
Let me know what you guys think and if anyone can find more reference photos, please post them here. Also if anyone who would be interested in doing patterns for the suit if I can gather up enough reference photos would be a lot of help.
Thanks Guys!