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KFC National Basketball League Finals Kicks OffPosted by admin on 14-06-2014
After a very competitive and challenging season for the teams and the SLBF Executive we are just hours away from Game One in the KFC National Basketball League Finals.
The Micoud Hustlerz facing the 2013 defending Division One Champs Combined Schools and the VBCC Warlords facing the defending 2012/2013 Premiere League Champs Courts Jets.
All this will be taking place at the Beausejour Indoor Facility from June 15th, 2014 at 6pm.
The SLBF wishes all the teams in the finals the best.
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That's followed by Son of Whyachi destroying Nightmare, and then they show a bunch of clips that are in color of other robots in combat. The message of the piece seems to be "robots have been doing a lot of fighting this season." Tim Green talks in hype-speak, so it's hard to interpret.
Tonight we're going to find out who won the lightweight and middleweight championships. A lot of clips are shown. Some of them even feature the robots that we'll be seeing tonight!
Hey, I wonder what would happen if you mixed Snapple and Keystone Light. I'm sure it would be oh so delicious.
For the first battle tonight, T-Wrex will take on Hazard. Hazard was the champion in season one, then didn't enter the season two tournament. Spaz, the season two champion, didn't enter this tournament. Those crazy middleweights!
Tim introduces an interview with Tony Buchignani as being about adjustments. The sound bite is simply Tony explaining how Hazard's ramp will draw T-Wrex into the blade, since T-Wrex's body is lower than the blade. But I guess we can't always expect the presenters of the show to be correct, can we?
As Mark Beiro introduces the robots, there's another voice faintly talking beneath his words. It almost sounds like Mark's mic picked up some signals from a radio traffic report or something. Or else his ventriloquism act is getting really good.
Robot fightin' time. Hazard powers up and approaches T-Wrex before T-Wrex can start spinning, delivering a blow. Then there's a collision between weapons. T-Wrex heads toward a wall. Hazard slowly approaches, then quickly (relatively quickly, Hazard's not that fast of a bot) smacks T-Wrex again. T-Wrex doesn't move, so Hazard pushes it a little bit. The weapon of T-Wrex sits on a spike, which elevates T-Wrex's wheels off the ground.
T-Wrex has been immobilized. Hazard backs off, powers its weapon up, and slams into T-Wrex, producing a shower of those beautiful white sparks. As bright white as Antarctica on a sunny day. If you pause even the videotape at the point where the most sparks are produced, you need to have protective eyewear to be able to view it and keep your vision intact.
Anyway, that whack knocks T-Wrex off the spikes and puts its wheels back on the floor. Helpful Hazard blocks T-Wrex in between itself, the spike strip, and a screw's base so the robot still can't go anywhere.
Hazard runs off to get its blade moving again. T-Wrex drives toward the center and spins. When T-Wrex stops spinning, Hazard moves in and pushes T-Wrex's weapon, then gets in a position where its blade can hit T-Wrex's body. So actually, Hazard's weapon is just below the maximum height of T-Wrex. I'm sure Tony Buchignani's got no complaints about that.
The two bots position themselves. Hazard jumps in and slams T-Wrex again. T-Wrex finds a new strategy -- take the bar sticking out of the robot and try to jam Hazard's blade with it. It makes Hazard jump back, but doesn't disable the blade.
That works a couple of times, but then Hazard just ignores the blade and uses its wedge to push T-Wrex around. It takes a couple of tries, but Hazard is able to lift T-Wrex's wheels off the floor again and push its other end into the spike strip.
T-Wrex escapes and spins a couple side blows to Hazard. Hazard leaves, charges its blade, and runs back in to throw T-Wrex a bit with a hit.
That'll end the fight. The 27-18 decision goes to Hazard. 27-18? According to the judges, this fight was closer than the Son of Whyachi vs. BioHazard match. Apparently those white sparks really do blind people...
In the post-fight interviews, Alain Kramar reveals that one of T-Wrex's wheels got damages from an early blow. Traci Bingham is wearing yet another new outfit.
After the commercial break, we get to see a very short set of clips of the prototypes for the radio-controlled toys. They're just white plastic, but there's no doubt that the fight is between Complete Control and Diesector. I know what I'm asking for this Christmas. And I might ask for some Battlebots toys, too.
The other middleweight semifinal fight is between SABotage and Little Drummer Boy. Enough said, let's start the fight.
SABotage tries to drive around so as to avoid Little Drummer Boy's drum, but Little Drummer Boy turns to not let that happen. Nevertheless, SABotage gets under Little Drummer Boy's side and flips it, ten seconds into the fight.
Little Drummer Boy stops and reverses the direction of the spinning drum. It then backs into the wall, since it's driving upside-down. SABotage tries to flip it again, but gets pushed back by the spinning drum.
SABotage takes a hit from Little Drummer Boy. It tries to flip Little Drummer Boy, but Little Drummer Boy doesn't quite tip over. Little Drummer Boy retaliates with a hit that flips SABotage onto its back.
SABotage brings in its lifting arm, and with some help from Little Drummer Boy, lands right side up again. Unfortunately, now SABotage isn't moving. Little Drummer Boy hits it from the back. Then from the side. All SABotage can do is raise the lifting arm. No motion from the wheels.
SABotage is counted out. A couple seconds after the buzzer, SABotage lurches forward. Too late.
After the commercial, it'll be the middleweight finals.
Oh look, I've reduced the length of a commercial break down to a single blank line. Whaddaya know.
Since they've done it for the two heaviest weight classes, "Battlebots" the television show first will choose a middleweight rookie of the year. Surprise, they've chosen Little Drummer Boy. Good thing they took some time for that.
Bil talks about advantages for both finalist bots. Is anybody actually paying attention? They both spin, one's a rookie. I think we can figure that much out on our own.
Here we go, the finals. Little Drummer Boy versus Hazard. I will thank you to not point out any sentences I may have typed in my episode three summary.
Okay, I should say something positive somewhere in this summary. In Little Drummer Boy's introduction, the line, "his rotating steel drum isn't here to play enchanting Caribbean music" is pretty funny to me. It's too bad the laugh track reacted more to, "it's come to perform a Mexican hat dance on your freakin' head," which isn't particularly clever.
Middleweight championship robot fightin' time-o-rama. Little Drummer Boy has no problems driving its drum right into Hazard's blade. On the second contact, Little Drummer Boy's drum is disabled by Hazard's blade. Whoops.
Hazard continues to smack Little Drummer Boy. Several times.
As Hazard's blade slows down from all the punishment, Hazard finally just scoops under Little Drummer Boy with its wedge and starts to push. However, the spikes hanging off of the back of Little Drummer Boy get caught in the holes for the ramrods, preventing Hazard from pushing Little Drummer Boy anywhere. A little maneuvering and Hazard pushes Little Drummer Boy away from the ramrods, but then Little Drummer Boy slips off Hazard.
Hazard turns around and pushes Little Drummer Boy toward a set of saws. Hazard backs off and Little Drummer Boy drives off the holes before the saws can pop up. Hazard pushes Little Drummer Boy toward a sledgehammer, but Little Drummer Boy slips off again. Before Little Drummer Boy can drive away, Hazard finishes the job and pushes it under the big hammer.
Little Drummer Boy takes some solid blows from the hammer, but no damage is done. Hazard does a little more pushing, then moves back to start the blade up again. Two hits, then some more pushing.
Hazard drives back to get the blade moving once more. Three solid shots. On the fourth shot, Little Drummer Boy quits moving. Hazard has knocked Little Drummer Boy out.
Team BotWorks signals to Tony Buchignani to go ahead and hit Little Drummer Boy some more. Tony gladly obliges. Then Hazard, taking a page from Toro, drives back to its square. While Little Drummer Boy is counted out, though, Hazard moves toward the center again to do its victory spin. It's slow, but it's still victorious.
Bil and Tim brag that Hazard is the first robot to win at Battlebots two times. Go past the televised tournaments, though, and you'll see that that just plain isn't the case. Heck, in the first season they were mentioning how Vlad the Impaler won the tournament that took place before Comedy Central grabbed hold of Battlebots. Remember: never trust anything the "Battlebots" talent says. Of course, if you've been reading all these summaries, you've already learned that lesson. Trust only me... Prove your trust of me by letting me "guard" your money from those evil banks... It's okay, you know you can trust me...
And my purpose for creating this web site has been revealed. Well, no need to continue summarizing. Good night, folks!
Oh, okay. I'll keep going. But only 'cause I'm a nice guy. Who you can trust.
For the fourth segment of the first half hour, we see Tony accept his new giant nut trophy. Every time I see a builder lift one of those over his head, I just keep imagining what would happen if the builder lost his grip. I can picture some practical joker greasing the corners of the giant nut...
Also in this segment, we're informed of a couple of lightweight quarterfinal fights that we won't be seeing. Sallad and Ziggo met in a head-on collision, and Ziggo was the one to lose. In the Wedge of Doom versus Backlash fight, Wedge of Doom used the killsaws to flip Backlash on its head for the victory. These were major upsets! You're not going to see the fights in full!
They still had some time to kill in this half hour, so it's time for another look back at the tournament. Look, there's Nightmare's blade spinning up. And yep, it's approaching Slam Job. Twenty-two! And then they show the hit again, twice more in rapid succession. Well, I've been counting the number of times we've seen Nightmare's blade come into contact with Slam Job. So technically, that makes it twenty-four. I hate technicalities. Wait -- no, I don't. Twenty-four, then.
Toro tosses Phere. T-Minus twists Bumper Bawt. Turbo is torn by the saws. Son of Whyachi smashes BioHazard. And lots of other stuff happened that I don't feel like writing alliterative action statements for. All in all, I'd have to say that these were definitely clips of fights that took place this season.
Hmm... still got some time left. So here's an interview with Tony Buchignani. He mentions all the things he has to do to fix Wedge of Doom for the semis. The viewers are left to infer that this is because Backlash did a good deal of damage before it was flipped.
Aha! Halfway point!
For this next half hour, we're going to follow the lightweights through the semis to the finals. For the first semifinal fight, it's Sallad against Dr. Inferno Jr. Bil is impressed by the fact that Sallad has had three knockouts in a row before this fight. Um... one of the KO's was caused by Ziggo ricocheting into a screw base, and another was caused by Carnage Raptor driving itself under a screw. Sallad didn't exactly do much except endure blows.
There's more of that other voice talking under Mark Beiro's introductions again. I could make out somebody talking about strategy and aggression, and later, it being a tough one to... something. It appears that we've tapped into the secret illegal Battlebots wagering odds-setting room. Wait, was I supposed to reveal the existence of such a room? No? Oops. Um, I mean... the secret... illegal... Robot Wars wagering odds-setting room. Is that better?
The fight begins with Sallad driving at full speed into Dr. Inferno Jr.'s side. Then it's positioning time. Oh yeah.
Sallad takes a hit from the saws. Its frame has already been damaged from previous fights, so who knows if that did anything.
Dr. Inferno Jr. gets under Sallad and pushes it into the wall. Dr. Inferno Jr. can't get either of its weapons to hit Sallad, so Sallad just uses its arm to hit Dr. Inferno Jr. in the head. Dr. Inferno Jr. repositions itself, nope, still no good. Dr. Inferno Jr. gets popped by the ramrods. Sallad's arm gets stuck under Dr. Inferno Jr.'s arm, so Dr. Inferno Jr. pulls back and pushes Sallad into the wall again.
Sallad eventually escapes. As it drives around, its lifting arm raises into the air, then stops when it's perpendicular to the ground. Now that can't be useful in any way. Sallad slams the arm back and forth, not hitting Dr. Inferno Jr.
Dr. Inferno Jr. gets under Sallad again. It pushes Sallad, and its skirt gets caught on the floor. So Dr. Inferno Jr. repositions itself under Sallad and pushes Sallad into the base of a screw. Suddenly, the bots start shaking. What the...? Oh, Dr. Inferno Jr. is using its drill weapon. To be honest, I didn't even realize Dr. Inferno Jr. had a drill weapon until they showed this close-up. The drill is rotating, and not puncturing Sallad at all. Comedy Central adds a drill sound effect, as if they placed a microphone a foot away from the robots during combat.
All of the pushing Dr. Inferno Jr. did while trying to make the drill effective has wedged one of Sallad's corners underneath the spikes. Sallad ain't goin' nowhere. The timer runs out before the ref decides to start counting Sallad down.
It's a 36-9 decision for Dr. Inferno Jr. But we all knew that was going to be the decision. Including the 36-9 part.
Coming out of the commercial, we get more sneak peaks at the radio-controlled toy prototypes. This time, it's Complete Control and Tazbot going at it. If the controller they showed was the final design for the toys, it looks different than your average RC car controller. The shape strongly resembles a Playstation controller, except each side has two buttons. The left side controls forward and backward, and the right side controls left and right. Dunno where the weapon control buttons are.
Now it's time for the other lightweight semifinal -- Gamma Raptor versus Wedge of Doom. Wedge of Doom is coming off a violent battle with Backlash. But you never got to see it! Sucks to be you, inferior Comedy Central viewers!
The lights indicate that it's time for the battle to begin. Both robots drive off in seemingly random directions. Then they get around to meeting near the middle, where neither bot flips the other.
Bil explains all of the things Gamma Raptor's lifting arm can do. According to Bil, it's also a wedge (okay, yeah, a curved kind of wedge) and a grabbing arm. Huh? How does Gamma Raptor's lifting arm grab other robots? Well, maybe if it... no, I don't think that would work. Or... no, that's not right. Maybe he mistook Gamma Raptor for SABotage. Or they just edited in some of Bil's dialogue during one of Diesector's fights. Next he'll be explaining how Wedge of Doom can spin up to 300 rpm.
Gamma Raptor gets some charging room and slams Wedge of Doom against the wall. The canned audience goes absolutely berserk.
Bill Nye pops up on the screen with no warning whatsoever. While he speaks, Gamma Raptor drives over saws a couple times. When he leaves, Gamma Raptor gets under Wedge of Doom again, though Wedge of Doom slips away.
The two bots drive around a lot and don't lift each other. Wedge of Doom's lifting arm seems really slow to activate. Gamma Raptor's is only slightly faster.
One of the lifting tusks of Gamma Raptor has broken loose, just kind of dangling. Wedge of Doom has lost power to its front wheels, it appears. Gamma Raptor slams into Wedge of Doom a few times, angling Wedge of Doom toward a sledgehammer. At that point, Wedge of Doom drives forward, right under the falling hammer. The hammer hits. Gamma Raptor flies in and gets hit, too. One of Wedge of Doom's rear wheels falls off. The buzzer sounds.
They really need to turn down the fake crowd noise while Mark Beiro announces that Gamma Raptor is the winner in a 28-17 decision.
According to Bil, the "battle stats" are close, so "we have to look at the judges' scores." That's not a reason, Bil. That means that the statistician lost count somewhere during the fight so you needed to fill some time.
But since they're there, here are the real scores, not some lame counts made up to sound pretty. Strategy was 8-7, Gamma Raptor. Aggression and Damage were both 10-5, Gamma Raptor. Let's see... 10, 10, 8... carry the 3... yeah, that adds up.
It's near the end of the tournament, and Traci's interviews are still awkward and filled with pauses. I really should stop paying attention to what's being said. I've been told that there's something else on the screen that I'm supposed to be looking at instead of listening to the interview, but I'm not sure what that something is. Maybe it's the colorized pictures of S.L.A.M.
Commercial. Then it's time for the show to name a lightweight rookie of the year. Wait, wait. Let me guess. Wedge of Doom went the farthest out of all the new bots, so Wedge of Doom is going to be Nye's pick. Let's find out...
The list contains Wedge of Doom, Carnage Raptor, Wacker, and Death by Monkeys. Bil announces the "winner." It's... Wedge of Doom! Surprise! Congratulations, Tony Buchignani, you'll be receiving no award of any type for this title.
Time to get ready for the lightweight finals. Tim informs us that after this fight, Dr. Inferno Jr. will be retiring. Its plans are to move to Florida and play golf all day, like all doctors do.
Bil talks about the strengths and weaknesses Dr. Inferno Jr. and Gamma Raptor have. Aw, mean ol' Comedy Central took away his on-screen graphics for this one!
Green light. Amazingly little happens in this fight. Neither robot is able to stay under its opponent to flip it or push it anywhere. Ah, Gamma Raptor makes sparks with a saw. That's something.
Every time Gamma Raptor gets its claws under Dr. Inferno Jr., either Dr. Inferno Jr. quickly escapes or Gamma Raptor doesn't get in far enough to lift anything but skirt with the lifting arm. Dr. Inferno Jr. is just plain not doing much to Gamma Raptor.
Gamma Raptor gets positioned between a saw hole and the wall, with Dr. Inferno Jr. just teasing it from the other side of the saw hole. Gamma Raptor gets ready to make a quick run across the hole so it can get to Dr. Inferno Jr. before the saws pop up. It does a little fake-out to Pete... then makes its move. Unfortunately, Gamma Raptor's lower claws get stuck in the saw hole. Gamma Raptor reverses to try to free itself but the saws pop up, nailing the robot.
More driving. Dr. Inferno Jr. pushes Gamma Raptor. Gamma Raptor pushes Dr. Inferno Jr. Dr. Inferno Jr. is hit by a saw. The two slam into each other a couple times. More driving.
In the last ten seconds, Gamma Raptor nearly flips Dr. Inferno Jr. twice, but fails each time. Time's up. Gamma Raptor spins with its arm raised. Dr. Inferno Jr. pushes into Gamma Raptor to get the bot to stop it. The two drivers know each other, so the situation is pretty funny. I'm surprised the ref didn't try to tackle Jason Bardis for "fighting" after the buzzer.
During the slow-motion replays, Bil mentions the waltz between the two bots that Tim talked about. But wait, Tim didn't talk about a waltz. The closed captioning has some stuff about the two robots waltzing, but the actual audio got cut from the episode. Maybe "waltz" was too difficult a vocabulary word for Comedy Central's audience.
Here we go with the judges' decision for the lightweight championship. It's a surprisingly lopsided 32-13 vote. The winner is Dr. Inferno Jr. Tim states that the fans don't like it. Um, I don't see any fans not liking it from the shots we're being shown. And the canned booing is barely audible. Still, I'm amazed that Dr. Inferno Jr. was the lightweight champion of this tourney. I honestly did not expect it to go anywhere near this far. If you had traveled back in time and visited me before this season aired and told me that Dr. Inferno Jr. would be the lightweight champion, I would have said, "Who?" If you had told me that information after the second episode, I would have looked at you quizzically and called you a liar. I believe "No way" would have been my exact words.
Wait, why would you have to travel back in time to tell me that? This whole thing was prerecorded. Ugh, don't mind my senseless ramblings. (Actually, I guess this entire site falls under that category. So go ahead and mind them if you must.)
After the commercial, we get the real judges' scores again. Suffice it to say that Dr. Inferno Jr. won all of the categories. Don't ask me why, it looked like a really even fight to me. Maybe the judges got sick of writing threes and twos.
We see Jason receive his giant nut. Whee, the cheerleaders shake their small poms. Sparkly.
(Wow, those last two paragraphs were really, really weak. It's a good thing the season is almost over -- I'm starting to lose what little edge I had to begin with.)
Tim tells us how happy he is to be part of the "Battlebots" team. Bil tells us that this has been the best tournament ever. Hold on -- that's it? The season's over? What about the rumbles? There were eight rumbles -- you have enough for an episode! They're stopping the season now? Man! They show the least interesting final last and then they just quit. What a lousy way to go out.
Shoot, I need some closing comments now. Um... I wasn't quite prepared yet. Well, um, I'd like to thank any of you who've read my wordy, opinionated summaries (I think the count is up to two now). I promise I'll be back next season to do it all over again, no matter how foolish an idea it may be. Until then, may your days be free of boxes on wheels and little dolls in fire trucks. Au revoir! Sayonara! Viva el Toro!
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So much seems to be happening around (and in) me. But I have so little to say about it. I'm not sure if this is because I have attained samadhi, and have thus become transparent to myself and the world (highly unlikely, but possible, nevertheless), or if I am slowly becoming a spaced-out vegetable (slightly more likely, I'm afraid to say). Whatever the case may be, I have little to say about what is going on. So I guess I'll just report the news as experienced by me thus far this week.
This week's news thus far:
(1) Pope Benedict XVI resigns, becoming only the second pontiff in the entire history of the Catholic Church to do so.
(2) North Korea conducts nuclear test, bringing about an escalation of international tension that may or may not lead to an escalation of actual hostility. Much remains to be seen.
(3) During practice this morning, Nobel grabs his heels/ankles in Kapotasana. This is the second time in very recent history (i.e. this week) that he has done so. The ensuing micro-mini nuclear explosion at the base of his spine may or may not lead to an escalation in creative energy, which, in turn, may or may not lead to the escalation of said energy to his crown chakra. Much remains to be seen.
This is all. Stay tuned for the next newscast.


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The heavily eye lined eyelash tells the story of being out having fun. Sending signals thru a room. Having a flirt without words. It's a highly feminine signal. Our idea was to capture all these signals in a simple and minimal design for you to wear even without the real lashes.
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Hello and welcome to my blog.
Today starts the
"Anything Goes" challenge on the
"Anything Goes" challenge on the
I have used
"Pirate Balloon Holder" (#23907)
"Parrot Balloon" (#23906)
"Heart Balloon" (#5204)
"Oval Balloon" ( #5201)
From Eureka! Stamps
"Field Grass Right" (#38925) from
"Happy Birthday" (#22803) from
Biblical Impressions and QKR Stampede
are sister companies of Eureka! Stamps
The pirate and balloons were all stamped onto white card stock, colored with water color crayons and fussy cut.
The sky background was done with a template that I got from my friend Roxie's blog Paper Scaper
Roxie is very talented, so check out her blog.
You'll find the template link along the right hand side of her blog.
I used Distress inks to color the sky as well as the hill the pirate is standing on.
My great nephew just had his 5th birthday and his kids party had a pirate theme. To stay with that theme, I made this card for him.
I think he'll like it.
I hope you've been inspired and will play along with the challenge.
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Who wouldn't enjoy wearing a festive piece of fused glass jewelry for a special occasion?
Holiday pins don't have to be adornments for you to wear.
They can be also be made and fused into other projects.
Make decorative platters, bowls, etc for the various seasons. Use your imagination and utilize these morsels for other projects besides pins.
Most of these tasks include the pattern for making your decorative pieces.
They are located at the bottom of each individual page of the projects.
Just copy and paste the pattern to your computer and then adjust and print the size you need.
Most of these Holiday pins would be considered more advanced projects, because they do involve using a glass saw to cut the patterns out of glass.
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More projects will be added as they evolve during the year.
With each new season I will be adding to the list, because I enjoy making a few for my family and friends.
Make your art holidays complete with pins for all your kinfolk and acquaintances.
These pins do require the use of a glass saw. Patterns are included with the projects.
Earth Day - Earth Day is celebrated in April and it reminds us of how important it is to protect our Mother Earth. These designs can be made into pins to show your understanding and support of taking care of our world.
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Cinco de Mayo
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These designs are fantastic not only for Mother's Day, but for baby shower gifts. Make them for the special Mother's in your life.
Check back to see what new glass pins craft projects are listed on this Seasonal Pins page for the up coming holidays.
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Mexico marines find 15 bodies in two graves in Veracruz
A suspected member of Mexico's Zetas drugs gang has led authorities to two graves in Veracruz state holding 15 bodies, the Mexican navy says.
Marines unearthed the decomposing corpses on two ranches near the town of Acayucan, in the south of the state.
The suspect gave details of the two sites after being arrested when he tried to evade a military checkpoint.
Veracruz has seen a rise in violence in recent months, blamed on feuding between the Zetas and their rivals.
Hundreds of bodies have been found in mass graves in the last few years, many of them in the northern state of Durango and Tamaulipas.
Marines went to the reported grave sites after a suspect identified as Juan Francisco Alvarado Martagon gave information to the authorities.
Initially 10 bodies were found but officials later said a total of 15 victims had been recovered.


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Lies!! I'm a freaking liar!! *sigh* Sorry about that, I was on a role with the blog writing and visiting and then stuff happened… Well, nothing bad – at least – but it just kept me busy or too tired to sit at the computer and blog.
I got to experience my first time of being on call. Of course it was the day they updated a major program for the hospital and so many thing went wrong with it. I got a phone call twice every hour on that day. Thankfully I was just on call for one day – which was Sunday. The rest of the week was crazy though. We were flooded with phone calls on issues we couldn't really fix. Plus one person was out on vacation so it made for an very interesting week – to put it mildly. lol
Thankfully, I was going to be off for 5 days the next week. I just took three days off the work week so I could save up some of my vacation time for later.
I kept really busy on the first few days off. I decorated my room and probably spent too much money doing it. I can now share pictures though! I will also share pictures of my sister's room soon. Both of our rooms are pretty much done. I just have to finish putting butterflies up on this one blank spot on my walls. I had them up but the sticky stuff that came with it sucked so they fell off and a few broke so I need to buy some more and use my own stuff to hang it up. My sister's room is pretty much done except we are still trying to come up with what will go good on those empty shelves.
Here is one of the pictures of my room. I adore that Sakura tree that lights up. ♥
Then the next day I did another Misato photo shoot with just certain locations. Got a few more pictures I'm happier with than the first try – especially because we fixed the wig some more.
After the short shoot I went out shopping with my mother. We were going to pick out fabric for a pattern I wanted to sew but in the long run we never got anything. I hated all the fabric so I decided I would try to really think hard on something I want to sew that isn't too hard and then go shopping. I really need to do more planning. The pattern I wanted to sew will wait until later when I have more monies to be able to order nice fabric. For now I just need to think of something that I really want to do so I don't lose interest. I mean, that is how I got into web design, writing and cosplay. XD
The next day we were going to FINALLY do the Euphemia photo shoot – from Code Geass – but we got sick! All of us got stomach aches from food we had eaten for dinner the previous day. It was a let down because after that we didn't do much more than watch movies and veg. LOL So much for being productive. At least I finally got my room decorated.
I really do hope to do the Euphemia photo shoot though. We at least fixed the button that was falling apart in the front after wearing it to San Japan.
Continue to see more pictures of the room. XD
See! I found away to display all my plushies. Yay!
That blank area on the left is where I was going to have butterflies.
I missed having my jewelry tree. I hardly wear it anymore but at least I can display it.
So there you have it! I finally got around to having my purple room! That blanket probably won't be my comforter for long, it is just too hot to have a real comforter on my bed right now. It works well with my room though, my step mother and father did a good job at finding it. I always love getting blankets. I will be by to make blog visits soon!


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Queer Lodgings is the 7th chapter of The Hobbit.
It is morning in the Eagles' eyrie and Bilbo Baggins wakes up. Soon, fifteen Eagles safely carry Thorin and Company (including Bilbo and Gandalf) to Carrock. Bilbo is frightened of the flight and the Eagle carrying him attempts to cheer him up.
Once the Eagles leave, the company descends to a small cave at the bottom of the Carrock and plan their next move, and they are saddened to hear that Gandalf will leave them in a few days; however he intended to find Somebody he knew when he visited that region again, some years ago. Then they bathe and dry their clothes under the midday Sun and cross the ford.
On their way Gandalf tells them that this important person in Beorn, a skin-changer, who is generally kind, but gets angry easily and he becomes appalling then. Gandalf explained that he is no furrier (as Bilbo misunderstood) and eats only cream and honey, not eating his animals.
It was the middle of the afternoon before they came to patches of flowers, and Bilbo sees huge bees, at the edge of his bee-pastures. After a while they come to a belt of tall ancient oaks, and then a high thorn-hedge. Gandalf then explains that a pair of Dwarves should follow him at an interval of five minutes (Bombur would come last) and goes with Bilbo to find the gate.


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We hear a story from Dimension X on the show this week. Actually, it's the second episode of that series, first aired April 15, 1950, titled With Folded Hands.[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/RelicRadioSciFi/SciFi112.mp3]
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Jim, I am unable to change anything. So, what of it? Bottom line, I have to wonder if you make it so????
Anyway, this was an all right story/show, I know I heard it many moons ago, but it was still good. The good shows are always worth listening, after a while.
By the way, The Spider is good, I would enjoy it again if you put it up.
PS A truly wierd one is "The Revolt of the Words". WIERD. DISGUSTING AND FUN. On the other hand, Maybe you should put up "The Outsider". Now that one is just awesome. And the script is easily found. It may be about my very favorite of all. It is so visual. Oh my word, SO VISUAL.
I've been an AI researcher since 1984, and this is one of my favorite radio plays. An excellent story, well told, and still something that AI researchers take quite seriously! Thanks for posting this.
I as quite suprised to know jonhny depp played the part of Mr Underhill
For the original story see the Jack Williamson novel THE HUMANOIDS.


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Thursday, May 6, 2010
My 8" F/4 travel scope: Strut
The telescope started out as a two-strut design (the picture shows an early stage with the struts not cut to size). The struts are 1" square poplar, and attach inside the mirror box with carriage bolts and knobs (unfortunately, one has to be careful not to bump the carriage bolts against the primary--space is tight). However, I removed one strut and found that it was basically just as stable with only one, so in the end there was only one.
I then cut the strut in half, with a diagonal cut, so it would easily fit in a small suitcase. Four machine screws hold the halves together, and it is just as solid as if it were a single piece. I used JB Weld (yes, again) to capture the nuts for the machine screws, and to reinforce the thin edges of the wedges. In general, I don't like dealing with nuts flopping around, so I like to JB Weld them.
By the way, I finish wood with a mix of Titebond II and water (about 1:1, but I am not very precise) and when I want to paint it with somewhat glossy paint, I replace some or most or all of the water with DecoArt Crafter's Acrylic paint. So, that's the black paint on the strut. It's a cheap and easy finish. It doesn't look great, but I am all for cheap, easy and functional. And, as a bonus, it's a low VOC paint. Inside the mirror box, I then went over with the acrylic paint again to get a flatter layer.
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South Park S21E06 "Sons A Witches" – Review and TV Ratings news
Better late than ever due to spooky (what I assume is) Halloween related glitch which encoded a 4-second south park review before naming the correct video with a video title from a few weeks ago… but anyway! (i need to stop, i am ranting!)
We are going down to South Park to have ourselves a time, this week withRandy and his yearly South Park Witches: Jack and Crack week long party (bender!)
What madness is Randy and his friends unleashing on South Park this week, as a group of fully Grown Witches…
But what IF a witch was real!! …
Great Episode, but you need to listen to the review to know why!
I also have some news on the latest South Park's current TV Ratings and my speculation on whether this means anything.
Remember, shout at me on twitter @majinstevie … How much South Park season 21 have you watched? Do you need to watch every episode of South Park or hey, do you prefer to go to Springfield? Send me a tweet and let me know.
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Closing date: 24 Feb 2017
The Quality Improvement (QI) Advisor will work closely with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and other implementing partners to support health facilities in Sierra Leone to institutionalize improvement programming using the Model for Improvement and its Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles. The QI Advisor will support QI training and coaching, implementation and supportive supervision of QI projects, and evaluation of QI initiatives, and will liaise closely with the Quality Improvement team at ICAP headquarters in New York City.
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(Editor's note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. He's the youngest child of author Robert Terrall [1914-2009], who—under the pseudonym Robert Kyle—penned a series of novels featuring Manhattan private eye Ben Gates, as well as other crime-fiction works.)
Sin Soracco is a unique voice among crime novelists. She doesn't write about private eyes and her stories are not plot-driven, but she does pull the reader into the off-kilter lives of women and men living outside mainstream society. Having spent time in California jails and prisons, Soracco is intimately acquainted with milieus like the ones her convict and ex-convict characters inhabit. They are far from the mostly lily-white preserves of too much U.S. literary fiction, and far more interesting.
Soracco's first book, Low Bite (1989), dealt with goings-on among a wild mix of inmates in a California women's prison. Her second, Edge City (1992), follows the adventures of an ex-con who takes a job in a belly-dancing bar and tries to keep herself out of jail. Both books have been reprinted in recent years by The Green Arcade Press in collaboration with PM Press.
Soracco's latest novel, Come to Me, was released this last summer as a "joint noir" by The Green Arcade and Ithuriel's Spear Press. Like her previous two works, Come to Me is filled with people living on the fringes of society who have little in the way of material possessions but plenty of mother wit and keenly honed survival instincts. They are often at the end of their ropes, but mostly still managing to maintain commendably caustic senses of humor.
Soracco's wildly original prose style, full of the argot of career criminals and veteran opiate enthusiasts, and packed with zippy one-liners, makes her books a treat for readers looking for an alternative to conventional crime writing. It is no surprise that Hubert Selby Jr., that great surveyor of the American underbelly, was a fan. Come to Me offers the added incentive of an insider's view of Santería, the religion brought to the western hemisphere by African slaves. Much of the action in this novel takes place in a rooming house populated by women who engage in that practice, following the lead of Oleander, who runs the botanica and curio shop located below the rooming house.
Just released from prison, Gina comes into this mix looking for her friend Frankie. She encounters more than she bargained for: "Gina knew a lot about crime, she wasn't afraid of crime, she had a graduate degree in crime, she understood crime from motivation to modus op; but whatever was going on here—ah, this loopy street corner hoodoo stuff—not so much."
The ensuing action, involving overlapping stories with multiple characters, moves into dark and sometimes deadly goings-on, largely involving a cursed statue. The players in this narrative are vividly, often hilariously, rendered, and even the sleazier male characters are full of surprises that keep the pages turning.
At a San Francisco book launch for Come to Me, Soracco was introduced by Bay Area poet and novelist Jim Nisbet. Nisbet said he thought Soracco's writing was at the same level as French author Louis-Ferdinand Céline's, which Soracco clearly appreciated. Nisbet, himself the author of an impressive body of wildly idiosyncratic crime fiction, described how an employee of City Lights Bookstore steered Soracco toward submitting Low Bite to Barry Gifford's Black Lizard Press. Gifford, whom Nisbet described as the author of "the best book about Kerouac" (Jack's Book), has had a long career as a writer of fiction and poetry. In the 1980s he acted as editor and publisher of Black Lizard, where he brought classic crime novelists, Jim Thompson and Charles Willeford among them, back into print. Gifford also published some original novels, including several Nisbet books. The line was notably thin on women writers, which Nisbet had been bugging Gifford about, so Low Bite was a more than welcome addition to the imprint.
At the book launch I overheard Soracco saying that she had no idea what "noir" was when she was first told that Low Bite fell into that genre. She is in good company: many of the directors and writers responsible for film noir classics never heard that term until younger intellectuals used it to describe those movies. But unlike the doomed protagonists of those features, Soracco's characters tend not to give in to the daunting challenges of their circumstances. Her heroines find reserves of strength that help them to persevere with their wits and humor intact, while continuing to rebel against the status quo. This makes her work, as dark as it at first appears, life affirming without ever being close to cloying.
Special note should be made of Come to Me's beautiful cover art by Gent Sturgeon. Sturgeon also did the covers for The Green Arcade/PM Press editions of Low Bite and Edge City.
Another perk: all three books conclude with different interviews with Soracco, which are fun and informative—a wonderful alternative to the standard approach of beginning a book with a ponderous, spoiler-packed introduction. ◊


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A new study finds that musical training at a young age may strengthen the brain, especially regions that influence language skills and executive function, needed for activities such as planning, organization, and managing time and space.
The volume of brain regions related to hearing and self-awareness appeared to be larger in those who began taking music lessons before age 7, according to Yunxin Wang of the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning at Beijing Normal University.
This suggests that early musical training could potentially be used as a therapeutic tool, the researcher reported.
"Early musical training does more good for kids than just making it easier for them to enjoy music — it changes their brain and these brain changes could lead to cognitive advances as well," Wang said.
"Our study provides evidence that early music training could change the structure of the brain's cortex."
The researchers investigated the impacts of music training on brain structure in 48 Han Chinese adults between the ages of 19 and 21, each of whom had engaged in formal musical training for at least a year, beginning sometime between the ages of 3 and 15.
After controlling for the influence of gender and total practice time, researchers examined the volume of the brain's grey matter, surface area, and folding index across the entire brain.
Their findings suggest that music training started at a younger age might strengthen brain regions serving executive function and language skills.
A comparison of the participants revealed that those who began their training before the age of 7 tended to have a thicker cortex — the outer layer of the brain — in areas linked to auditory processing and self-awareness, the researchers reported.
The study was presented at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
Source: Society for Neuroscience
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Britney Spears & Howie Day: The Rehab Remixxxby Free Britney at .
Could Britney Spears be back with Howie Day?
You know, the troubled rocker she supposedly met in rehab and hooked up with a couple of months ago?
Britney was spotted by TMZ Saturday night at Hollywood nightspot Teddy's, and, as Perez Hilton reports, she was with Day, the whiny and annoying crooner she met at Promises Center in Malibu, Calif., during a month-long stint in detox.
Howie Day, you might recall, has been arrested more than once for erratic and dangerous behavior on his tour bus and on an airplane.
He might not be Jason Wahler, but at the same time, this is not the kind of company a rehabbing pop star really needs to keep.Â
Plus, his music blows.
Just in case Howie got out of line, though, Britney had a bodyguard the size of a small house with her, so there's no way any funny business was gonna go down.
We can only wonder how J.R. Rotem, another brief Britney fling who's been working with her in the dance studio of late, feels about this rumor.


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Where exactly did the last year go? The year 2010 was an amazingly productive year for me personally and professionally and I thought it important to reflect upon last year's goals before I move forward with my 2011 resolutions. So in no particular order let's see how I did in 2010 and see what I can do better in 2011.
Take a trip on a train
We made two voyages via Amtrak in 2010. The first was a day trip from Saint Louis to Jefferson City via the Missouri River Runner. It was a relaxing, enriching trip that was the perfect distance to sample train travel and gave us a day to explore the Missouri capitol with dining in two yummy local restaurants, a tour of the capitol building and wrapped up the day with a yummy treat from the local dairy. We even squeezed in some geocaching.
The second trip was just a few weeks ago from Newton it Saint Louis. We left from Newton on the Southwest Chief (at 3 am), connected with the Missouri River Runner in Kansas city and arrived (exhausted) in just outside of Saint Louis in Kirkwood Missouri. In short, we did it and enjoyed the experience, but we learned that this mode of transportation may not always be the most efficient way to travel.
If we do another train trip in 2011 I would like to either try another route or see what the Southwest Chief has to offer going west.
Obtain a passport (and plan a trip to see my sister-in-law when they move to Aruba)
Well we got the forms but have not followed through. This will most certainly be in the 2011 list.
Complete the KDWP Geocaching Contest for a 3rd year
Another resolution falls short. We actually started the contest and ran out of steam within a few weeks. Maybe it was this record setting heat or perhaps this was not as important to us as I first thought it would be. I also wonder if this stifled our goal to "enjoy 'the great outdoors' whenever possible". I believe that the contest made outdoor enjoyment a chore which cut down on shorter, more frequent outdoor experiences. This year I will likely forego the contest, but make geocaching a more complimentary activity to the rest of my outdoors adventures.
Achieve my target weight of 175 pounds (currently 191, down from 226 in June 2009)
Oh. So. Close. I made it 179 pounds. While those who have not seen me in a couple years compliment me on my new look, I still feel out of shape. That said, the weight loss HAS cured a chronic sleep disorder and made my back injury much more manageable. This year I will focus on complete wellness, including establishing better nutrition and exercise habits.
Enjoy "the great outdoors" whenever possible
I am sure that I could have done better on this as well, but I am going to give myself a score of "meets expectations". I have gotten much better at making simple things like walks by the river or visiting a local park part of my daily routine and out of town travel.
Actively participate in Young Professionals of Wichita and join one of the action teams
I am proud to say that I am a member of the "ambassadors" action team. I have been working with that group for almost a year and it has been an enriching experience. I am really looking forward to continuing to help carry out the mission of this great organization.
Do more professional development, attending one webinar a month and two seminars in the year
All in all, I am satisfied with my performance on this goal. I actually attended four seminars/conference over the year including, AgencySide, Free State Social, OpenCa.mp, and 140 Characters. Each conference provided a unique view into the world that I live and work. This year I will strive to keep looking for a mix of enrichment opportunities and jump on opportunities that are presented to me.
Don't be afraid to "take ownership" (or at least a share) of a situation where I can add value to the end result
Honestly, I am not sure where I was headed with this one when I wrote it. I just felt like I passed too often on opportunities to do good things, letting them be someone else's problem.
There have been good and bad results from my new bullish view on "taking ownership". On the positive side I feel like I am contributing more effectively at work and being a better community citizen. On the negative side I am finding myself needing to re-learn what problems are better left to others. This year I will strive to continue to be an active participant where I can make a difference while finding balance and not committing my self.


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Rajesh wrote the dialogues for the film. It was filmed in Perambalur, Theni, Tiruchi and Chennai. The film released on 6 September 2013 and received positive reviews from critics and became a blockbuster at the box office.


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The story of salvation, excerpted from the Conflict of the Ages Series
By E.G. White
Marie: Woman of Beauty, Mother of Courage
Gripping stories of escape during war
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Inspiring thoughts concerning the sermon on the mount
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From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible presents how and why Jesus Christ is the hope for mankind
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Delivery Hero GmbH - Unternehmen des Jahres
Company: Delivery Hero GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Company Description: Founded in Berlin in 2011, Delivery Hero today is the world's largest network of online food ordering sites, operating in 40+ countries with over 130,000 restaurant partners. The company has more than 5,000 employees globally, with 1,000 staff members working from its Berlin Headquarters.
Nomination Category: Kategorien Unternehmen / Organisationen Awards
Nomination Sub Category: Unternehmen des Jahres - Essen & Trinken
Nomination Title: Delivery Hero GmbH
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Delivery Hero is a leading global online food ordering and delivery marketplace platforms across 40+ countries in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region. Delivery Hero also offers premium food ordering and delivery in 51 cities across 10 countries. The Company has over 5,000 employees.
Delivery Hero promotes delivery service in the digital age, Through the website or via their app , customers find and receive their favourite foods conveniently at home, work, or on the road. It is Europe's most heavily backed tech start-up, raising $1.4bn from investors including General Atlantic, Insight Venture Partners, Luxor Capital, Rocket Internet, and Tengelmann Ventures.
Delivery Hero is the parent company of many popular brands in the food delivery space all around the world. A technology company AND a true food authority, only the expertise in both areas, food and tech, is enabling Delivery Hero to offer an exceptional service to customers and their restaurant partners.
In 2015 foodora joined Delivery Hero.. foodora operates in 50+ cities across 10 countries.
In May 2011 Niklas Östberg, CEO, founded Delivery Hero and began his journey of building the global leader in online food ordering. Together with a hand-picked, passionate team they managed to truly catapult the business to where it is today
Diversity is a key pillar for success. Employees of over 70 nationalities across 5 continents work for Delivery Hero, enabling them to exchange best practice from markets around the world.
Since the start, Delivery Hero has been continuously transforming the way people order food online. Choice, convenience, reliability, and quality are the key benefits for customers, who can easily browse thousands of restaurant menus to find their favourite dish. Orders and payments can conveniently be placed online and restaurants are peer-reviewed, making it easier to choose the best restaurant every time. With just a few clicks delicious food is on its way!
In addition Delivery Hero runs a B2B entity. 9Cookies technology enables restaurants to manage their orders in an efficient way on an iPad. Their goal is to deliver an awesome order experience.
Recent additions include Yemeksepeti in Turkey, and Foodpanda in 20 countries in Eastern Europe, MENA, and Asia. The company also divested its position in the crowded UK market and decided against expansion to China to focus on new areas and the growing competition. Niklas Östberg, CEO, commented: "we remain focused on operating market leading brands, globally. Proceeds from this (UK) sale will allow us to pursue further global growth opportunities, as we have consistently and successfully done in recent years." "Growth will come from winning the markets we are in."
In Australia, Delivery Hero consolidated all of its operations under its foodora brand. And The company reorganized its logistics, closing down its logistic platform Valk Fleet , concentrating all delivery related operations to its foodora brand.
In 2016, Revenues grew by 71% on a like for like basis leading to talk of unicorns and an IPO. The company is in no hurry for that, instead remaining focused on increasing its market share while reining in costs.


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Le Fabuleux Destin d'Mr. Newton
As most of you know, earlier this month I was in Paris for Mode a Paris – that's Fashion Week to you and me. I was mostly there as usual to shoot street fashion photos of the models, editors, glam attendees, stylists, fellow bloggers, fashion students, and random gorgeous French girls. (Mark thecobrasnake to me – "You don't shoot guys?" Me – "Not so much.") Paris is the sexiest city in the world…and the twice-yearly RTW fashion weeks just amp the sex, glamour, and romance up that much further. It literally seems like the entire city is a set for a photo shoot or a film…not only do you see an astonishing number of glamorous girls with amazing outfits…but the city itself – the buildings, the bridges, the statues, the light – seems to recognize that it is a special week and it glitters just that much brighter.
This season as well as last, I stayed in Montmartre and it's becoming my favorite neighborhood in Paris. Montmartre is defined by the hill at the center of the neighborhood – the "butte Montmartre" – and the entire area has an ancient/steep staircase/narrow winding streets/cobblestone feel to it that is beyond charming. For the first time this season, I stayed on the back side of the hill when looking north from central Paris – in the part of the neighborhood behind Sacre Coeur. This part of the neighborhood in particular still retains a village atmosphere, and even has cool little electric buses that are painted the same as a normal Paris bus yet are sized to navigate the ancient narrow streets. This is Amelie territory up here and I love it. Here are a few more of my favorite things from Paris this season:
Favorite show: Sonia Rykiel – the clothes, models, and venue were all great. Strangely enough – at nearly 80 years old and with the line now mostly in the hands of her daughter Nathalie – she seems to be hitting her peak. The best bits of the show…the knitwear – especially the long-yet-slim-and-clingy sweater coats and oversized cardigans that managed to look both cozy AND sexy which is difficult to do…the wool coats – which were sexy and body-concious as well…any piece with stripes…the palette – I especially loved the camel/tan pieces…the models – who were smiling, high-fiving each other, and seemingly having loads of fun in general…the playful yarn poof balls that many of the models were wearing as a sort of hat/topper. It's these sort of vaguely retro and childlike "Guignol" elements like the yarn poof balls and the stripes that people are thinking of when they say that Rykiel is "very French" yet fail to say in what way she is so. (I'm convinced that most people who say that a Rykiel show was "very French" or that a Chanel show was "very Karl" have no idea what the show was actually about…they have merely come to realize that most people hearing their "review" will not know enough about what it means to be French or about the design history/personality of Karl Lagerfeld to prove them wrong. It's a way of sidestepping a potentially tricky question – "Hey, what'd you think of the show?" – by putting the onus of disproving the answer back on the person asking the question.) You can watch the official Rykiel show video here. I also really loved Vanessa Bruno this season and the Celine and Chloe collections were both full of beautiful clothes.
Favorite Berthillon ice cream order: Deux boules de caramel au beurre sale (salted-butter caramel) avec creme Chantilly SVP!
Favorite party: I hung out with lots of my friends (Esther, Estelle, Jessica, Fiona, Alex…) at the intimate A.P.C. drinks thing in the shadow of the spectacular Eglise de la Madeleine. I didn't go out much this season though as the weather was sunny and I was focusing on shooting and getting up in the mornings and working and stuff. If I had gone out, I would have gone to the Purple Diary opening at colette, the Purple party at Le Montana, the New York, New York party at Le Regine, and the Dazed party. I'm not sad about missing parties though because I'm pleased with my photos from the week. Je ne regrette rien!
Favorite Paris snack while shooting: When running around New York shooting street fashion, the pizza slice man and the burrito cart dude are a hungry photographer's best friends. Their equivalent in most European cities is hard to find. (Sorry Stockholm and Paris but a 7-11 hot dog or a Nutella crepe – respectively – do not a Calexico carne asada burrito make.) That's why this season I was so excited to discover the ham, cheese, and butter baguette sandwich at Le Petit Vendome. A very French and very authentic little retro 1970's-esque wine bar that is popular at lunchtime with local office workers and the Le Fooding crowd of gastro-hipsters as well. The location (8 Rue des Capucines) – just off the Place Vendome and a short walk from the Tuileries and the Louvre – is ideally situated for my purposes as there are multiple fashion shows in the area. What you want to do here is this…very little English is spoken as is the case throughout France for the most part…if you don't speak French, try to find someone else in the sandwich line who speaks a bit of both French and English…this is important, trust me…have them tell the sandwich girl that you would like "double meat" on yours please and that you will pay extra…order the "jambon de pays avec Cantal et cornichons"…this will produce a sandwich on a buttered artisinal baguette from boulangerie Julien, with a proper amount of salt-cured "country" ham, and wonderful tangy cheese from the mountainous Auvergne region of France. Without directing your order this way, it's possible to end up with fairly standard boiled ham, no cheese, and no cornichons – not advisable. Oh yeah, I had this baby two days in a row…I even rolled up on the Louis Vuitton show while finishing one off…haha.
Favorite runway music: I got chills when they opened the Chloe show with Trentemoller's menacing remix of Bruce Springsteen's "State Trooper" turned up LOUD.
Favorite way to pretend I'm Parisian (day version): Is there anything better on a sunny day than a walk in the Luxembourg Garden?
Favorite way to pretend I'm Parisian (night version): Have dinner at Brasserie Lipp (order the fish soup to start and soak up the original 1926 interior and stunning floral Belle Epoque wall tiles), cross the street afterwards for coffee and the beautiful crowd at the Flore (Karl Lagerfeld was there this season), and then head next door to try for entry at super-chic Le Montana. Bonne chance!
Favorite Paris Fashion Week muse: Wow – there were so many this season – it was out of control! Let's see…how about Denni, Hanneli, Leigh, Weezy, Esther, Rose, L.A. Fifi, Mira, Elisa…and loads of mystery girls who I shot photos of only once and then never saw them again. I think beautiful and stylish mystery girls are my favorite muses of all. Even in the internet age, an ancient city like Paris still has its romantic secrets!


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Mathews Z9 Review
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Editors' review
The long draw member of the 2011 Mathews Z family, the Z9, is specifically designed for archers whose draws lengths go to 32". The Z9 features the smooth driving Z9 Cam, SE5 Slimline Limbs, and the popular Grid Lock Riser packed into a 30" frame. Not as fast as the other bows in the Z line for 2011, but that is by design. The Z9's 8 3/4 " brace height and a more straight riser makes this bow very shootable for long draw archers and any short draw archer that is looking for a forgiving bow.
RiserWith Lost Camo finish, the Grid Lock Riser looked flawless on the test bow. All Mathews bows, accessories and components go through tough quality control measures. If the finish doesn't measure up, then the riser is stripped and refinished. The Grid Lock Riser is machined with several cutouts to reduce weight and add strength. As a Mathews standard, elastomer wheels are place near each end of the riser where Harmonic Dampeners or Harmonic Stabilizers are placed. The riser on the Z9 is not as radically reflexed as the others in the Z family for 2011. This helps the bow to be more stabile and forgiving, and helps to give the Z9 a longer brace height. This is especially helpful for the long draw archers who need the power stroke of the bow shortened to make the bow more shooter friendly for them.
LimbsThe Mathews SE5 Composite Slim Limbs on the Z9 is nearly twice as strong as previous Slim Limbs and are 30% lighter due to their new SE5 Composite Material. Because it is stronger, the new limbs are able to be made thinner than any previous Mathews limb, yet remain more durable as well. Using the Sphere Lock Limb Cup System to connect to the riser, the limb can pivot to insure positive alignment and downward pressure at all times.
GripMathews offers 3 grip options for almost all their bows, the standard grip for the Z9 is the walnut SlimFit Inline Grip. The narrow grip has the center line layer into it, and has been standard for Mathews bows since 2004. Being made of wood, it is warm to the touch in cold climates as compared to metal and looks attractive. Mathews other two grip options include the Classic Grip, which is made of wood, features a higher wrist sitting and had been their standard grip for many years. The other is the unique Focus Grip which minimizes hand torque and forces the hand pressure to the center of the grip. The Focus Grip is very narrow and made of polymer.
Reverse Assist Roller GuardThe Reverse Assist Roller Guard design, which is found on the Z9, allows the cables to resist wrapping and increasing pressure as they are free to move behind the roller guard. This brings added smoothness to the draw cycle. Typical roller guards where the cables are in front of the roller bring harshness to the draw cycle due to the pressure put on the cables during the draw process.
Z9 Single Cam & QCAThe Z9 utilizes a special version of the ZX Cam appropriately called the Z9 Cam. On the Z9, being a long draw bow, the A cam is for the 32" draw length instead of the 30" typically seen with the other Z Series Bows. The Z9 Cam also sports a yellow lobe on the cam as apposed to the red one on the standard ZX Cam. Designed for the long draw archer, the Z9 Cam produces an IBO speed of 312 due to the increase brace height of 8 3/4". However, by increasing the power stroke another inch or two definitely will add speed and the bow will remain shootable for those archers. Like all Mathews bows, the Z9 draw lengths are in 0.5" increments, but from 27" to 32" with this bow. Again like all Mathews single cam bows, to change draw lengths another cam must be installed. To speed up this process, the Z9 has the QCA (Quick Change Axle). Needing no special tools, the QCA makes cam changing quick and easy without the hassle of e-clips and an axle puller.
Draw CycleAlthough utilizing the Z9 Cam, the Z9's draw cycle is typical of the bows in 2011 lineup that utilize the ZX Cam. The weight ramps up quickly at the beginning of the draw cycle and is pulled through the center of the cycle until reaching the valley. Once at the valley there is about 3/16" to 1/4 "of creep until completing the draw by settling against the backwall. Overall the draw is smooth and the back wall is solid. The bow balances perfectly in hand throughout the shot sequence. There is no noticeable vibration or recoil at the shot. Like all Mathews bows, the Z9 is quiet.
Silencing PackageThe Z9 has a Harmonic Dampner placed in the top elastomer wheel in the riser and a Harmonic Stabilzer placed in the bottom elastomer wheel. These two accessories help to absorb recoil and residual vibration during the shot sequence. The three Monkey Tail Silencers, two on the cable and one located above the cam on the string, help to eliminate vibration and sound while the resulting loss of speed due to their installation is reported as 1-2 fps. Located on the string immediately between the Monkey Tail and the cam is the String Grub. The String Grub reduces vibration at the shot so the bow picks up more speed. As typical of all Mathews bows, the Z9 has String Suppressors mounted on the end of each limb which stop the string upon the end of the shot deadening vibration. Mounted in the bushing opposite the stabilizer hole, the Dead End String Stop also stops the string at the end of the shot, dampening vibration, thus eliminating noise.
Mathews Z9 vs. Switchback LD
|Mathews Z9
|Mathews Switchback LD
|Brace Height
|8.75 "
|9 "
|AtA Length
|30 "
|33 "
|Draw Length
|27 " - 32 "
|27 " - 32 "
|Draw Weight
|30 lbs - 70 lbs
|40 lbs - 70 lbs
|IBO Speed
|312 fps
|295 fps
|4.0 lbs
|4.36 lbs
|Where to buy
Best prices online
|compare more bows
The best comparison is to say the 2011 Z9 is an upgraded Mathews Switchback LD, which was last made in 2009. Although a few years difference in age, to the eye the design is strikingly similar. Both have the riser that is relatively straight, and while the Z9's brace height is 1/4" shorter than the LD, the 30" axle to axle length of the Z9 is 3" shorter than the LD's 33". The Z9 also comes in roughly 5 to 6 ounces lighter than the LD. Due to the improvement of technology, the greatest difference between the two is speed. The Z9's IBO speed is 312fps while that of the Switchback LD is 280fps. The Switchback LD was a great forgiving design for the long draw archer and Mathews just improved it with the Z9 design.


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I'd like to thank everyone who made Yahk possible. It was amazing. All the Yahktivists for being such good sports and having fun with all this. Everyone who signed the petition. Without all of you it would've never happened in the first place. This wasn't some backroom deal between the CBC and I, it was totally real. I still can't believe The Hour did a live show from Yahk. Too good. Thanks for being, in the words of Penny AP Anderson, "The right town to mess with." Super huge thanks to everyone at Snowriders West for offering the Trip to Yahk and Back. Special mention to Kerry and Jeff from Snoriders for having the insane fun marketing smarts. Genius. I never saw it coming. Bruno and Garry from Cintas for taking the trip to Yahk in exchange for the cube van. (And giving me a way to get the snowmobile to Yahk from Montreal) George Stroumboulopoulos and everyone at The Hour for doing the live show from Yahk -a feat that'll be hard to top, I'm sure. (Sorry, Claire, for not saying New York City....I'm sure you'll get there one day.) Bonus plugs to Powder Hounds Snowmobile Tours for providing the snowmobiles to get to Yahk (call Dan or Chris at 250-427-0022), Kimberley Alpine Resort for the day of skiing and the comfy bed at The Residence Inn Marriot, and Baffin Boots for the hardcore snowmobiling boots! It was nuts, and I'm totally fried. 6500kms (4000 miles) of driving the cube van in a week, plus haircut from mom, plus snowmobiling, plus National TV show, plus made two trades in Yahk, plus a couple of days skiing, plus kissed a goat. I don't have a copy of the show yet, but Jeff Cooper shot this video that gives you a feel for what kind of stuff was going on:
Gonna chill out for a few days, update this website with awesome videos from the trip, then decide what I'm going to trade the cube van for. If you're holding out on your offer for the cube van, now'd be a good time to send it in to me at firstname.lastname@example.com . I will drive the cube van ANYWHERE in North America for FREE and make the trade before the end of the month. If you're overseas, well, that whole logistcs thing is kinda a bit of a sore spot, but I will take the cube van anywhere in the world - especially Yahk, British Columbia, Canada.
There's more pictures from Yahk than you can shake a stick at on my flickr page: www.flickr.com/photos/kylemacdonald/sets/72057594063651027
and the Yahk BC flickr page: www.flickr.com/photos/62436523@N00/sets/72057594066349622/
Anyhow, talk to you soon. Stay tuned for some Yahktastic videos, including one of Dan and I kissing goats.
I'm in Vancouver now. Chillin' with the folks. Not home, but kinda like "home west" I guess. If you need to get a hold of me, call my cell: 514-833-3980


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Vanquish Integrated People Solutions is urging organisations to engage with their workforce and consider introducing flexible measures to discourage 'sickies' during the Rio Olympics.
The four hour time difference means that many of the Olympics' biggest events are scheduled to take place during normal working hours and early hours of the morning, tempting employees to skip work or stay up later than normal to watch Great Britain's gold medal hopefuls in action.
Olympics absences
Subsequently it is highly likely that the Olympics will trigger a wave of last minute holiday requests, higher levels of lateness and sickness absences, dips in productivity caused by tiredness, plus a surge in internet usage as employees try to keep up with the coverage.
"Just like athletes, organisations need to prepare for the Olympics. Sporting events can often have a massive impact on staff attendance but with the Olympics taking place at the height of the summer holidays, when organisations are already short-staffed due to school holidays, the impact of staff absences could be devastating," says Nick Whiteley, General Manager at Vanquish Integrated People Solutions.
"As the nation gets gripped by the Olympics and employees realise that many of the gold medals will be decided in the early hours, managers need to brace themselves for an influx of last-minute requests for days off and the possibility of staff arriving to work late and a little bleary-eyed after their late night antics.
"Although the Olympics Opening Ceremony is just days away there's still time to put a policy in place to support employees who wish to watch the Olympics. A quick consultation with staff members will help managers gauge interest in the Olympics and put necessary plans in place to avoid disruption and maintain productivity levels."
Flexibility the key
Whiteley highlights that there are many options available to organisations to help balance the needs of their businesses with the enthusiasm of individuals.
"Rather than doing nothing or taking a hard stance on the matter, organisations should see the Olympics as an opportunity to engage with staff and trial temporary working arrangements.
"Offering employees the flexibility to work from home or make up lost time at the beginning or end of another shift is a simple way to improve staff morale. If it's not feasible to offer flexi hours due to the nature of the business, encouraging staff to swap shifts could be a suitable alternative.
"Failing that, managers could bring a TV or radio into work or relax their rules surrounding Twitter and internet use in the workplace so employees can keep up with the action."
"Whatever measures organisations introduce, managers must clearly communicate their arrangements and boundaries to employees to discourage sickness absence, apply the rules fairly and consistently so not to discriminate against individuals and enforce their absence policy by tracking lateness and sickies."
Download your FREE Olympics guide
To help organisations plan ahead and minimise the disruption to their business, Vanquish has put together a handy guide of the stand-out events at the Rio Olympics and their dates and times, so managers can see the days when levels of absenteeism are likely to be highest.
Nick Whiteley adds: "Two stand-out dates on the guide are Sunday 14th and Monday 15th August. On these two dates interest in the Games is expected to be huge as Mo Farah, Greg Rutherford, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Usain Bolt are all competing in the early hours of the morning, meaning workers may only have three or four hours sleep before getting up for work."
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