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Why Is Evolution Controversial?
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Activity 1: Controversy through Time
Activity 1: Teacher Notes
Activity 2: Scopes Trial
Activity 2: Teacher Notes
For more than 20 years, Charles Darwin kept his revolutionary theory of evolution by natural selection secret while he continued gathering evidence. When he finally published his results, nothing sparked more rage than his view of humankind. One critic roared, Darwin's story "begins in the mud, has a monkey in the middle and an infidel at the tail." But Darwin also had many supporters. One of the first scientists to accept Darwin's theory, Thomas Huxley, became his most passionate supporter. Huxley remarked after reading Darwin's Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, "How stupid of me not to have thought of that!"
Darwin's revolution -- perhaps the greatest in the history of science -- inspired a counter-revolt that still rages. In this activity you will look at the history of the battle over evolution. Can science and religion ever reconcile their differences? Let's look at the history of evolutionary theory's acceptance in the scientific community and its rejection by some religious groups.
You may work alone, or your teacher may divide the class into five groups. Each group may choose or be assigned to a particular time period in the history of evolutionary thought. Time periods: 1600-1900, 1900-1925, 1925-1970, 1970-1988, 1988-the present.
Launch the Evolution Revolution Web activity.
Evolution Revolution(Flash)
Notice that this timeline includes four distinct types of entries or themes:
Rise of Evolution: A radical theory becomes the bedrock of biology.
Evolution Challenged: The rise of creationism and other challenges.
Battle in the Schools: A history of the hottest debate in American education.
Reconciliation: Efforts to find harmony between science and religion.
Scroll through the timeline until you reach the time period assigned to your group. If you are working alone, choose a time period.
In this activity you will concentrate on the Evolution Challenged, Battle in the Schools, and Reconciliation entries. (For an activity involving Rise of Evolution, see Lesson 2, Activity 2.)
Examine each of the entries that show up in your time period. If working in a group, you may want to divide the themes among your group members.
Summarize the entries you have investigated to the other members of your group so you all have a familiarity with many different significant events in the history of the evolution controversy.
Next, pick one event that you have summarized, and explore it in detail using your favorite Web search tool.
Prepare a short presentation about your chosen event. The presentation should include as much background information as you can find, but should only take a minute or two.
Explain where in the timeline your event falls and under which theme it belongs.
Give your presentation to your entire class.


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Overwatch is finally live and players worldwide are more than happy with the game! But, it seems that this few day was enough for some people to develop a cheating program. From what we've heard, the cheat developing team is none other than the team who caused Blizzard plenty of headaches in WoW.
The cheat is fairly simple. They call it the Watchover Tyrant and as it seems, the cheat is an ESP tool, which grants you the vision to see each and every player on the map. Whether it's your friend or foe. This cheat ultimately kills "the element of surprise", as MMOSite described it, so no more ambush kills with Genji, Reaper or Tracer. And not to mention Widowmaker. If this lasts, people will, most likely, find her set of skills unwanted.
As we don't support this kind of gameplay, you won't find a link for this cheat anywhere on this site. But, you can check what Blizzard has to say for all the cheaters. We talked about it while Overwatch was still in the Beta, and you can find the article here.
We are still waiting for Blizzards reaction to all this, but in the meantime, let's hope this cheat won't conquer the game.
Tell us what you think about this. Do you approve this type of gameplay? Let us know in the comments!
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Having spent more than a dozen years as a journalist prior to entering the World of Public Relations, I felt quite prepared to help my clients with minor editing on every document, website and social media posts they sent my way.
What I wasn't prepared for was how often my clients had been distributing marketing brochures, publishing web content, and posting on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media accounts, that were rife with misspellings, improper apostrophes, dangling modifiers, subject-verb disagreements and other affronts to the English language.
As a person who has spent her entire adult life in the field of communications, I am constantly astounded by what passes for acceptable verbiage on corporate documents and digital media platforms. Honestly, sometimes I think a little piece of my soul dies whenever I run across a grammatical error or misspelling. To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, I have compiled a small list of English errors I have found online within the past few days; all my examples came directly from company websites and social media posts:
- "Open Monday's – Friday's from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM"
- "Contact us if you have quesstions."
- "Their are few companies in Atlanta who can compete with the quality of our service."
- "Our deserts are mouth watering!"
- "FLASH SALE: Were selling our entire inventory of books for half off!"
Too many business owners fail to realize the importance of words, and how they are used…and the worst part is, misspellings and grammatical errors are SO easily fixable!
Several co-workers I spoke to about this topic said they would take glaring errors as a sign that a business wasn't sophisticated or professional. Would you be less likely to engage with a company that has glaring errors on its website or brochures?


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It's Friday and the kids' winter break is just about over. We didn't have the funds to travel any where so we spent the week cleaning up the outside of the house. Trimming back hedges and over grown trees; it's amazing what happens to a normally wooded lot when no one takes care of it. The woods become a jungle of vines, poison ivy and bushes that have become trees. We made a dent…
It looks like Andy is heading back out on the road, but maybe for a short time. He had three interviews this week and they all went really well. So cross fingers or say a small prayer to a saint or to anyone who you think might intercede.
On a political note I had a good laugh when I read Newt's OP ED in the Washington Post. If I hadn't lived through it, I would have believed it.
Gingrich: If it comes to a shutdown, the GOP should stick to its principles


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Rice bran oil (also known as rice bran extract) is the oil extracted from the germ and inner husk of rice. It is notable for its high smoke point of 213 °C (415 °F) and its mild flavor, making it suitable for high-temperature cooking methods such as stir frying and deep frying.It is popular as a cooking oil in several Asian countries, including Japan and China
Higher Smoking Point, Less Greasy and More Flavor
As rice bran oil has the highest smoke point of any vegetable oil, it is better suited to cooking at high heats and is less likely to bind with foods, making food cooked with rice bran oil less greasy than that cooked with sunflower oil. Due to its rich, nutty taste, rice bran oil may be preferred where additional flavor is desired.
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article
Vitamin E and Oryzanol
Rice bran oil beats olive oil in its vitamin E power, as it contains both the tocopherol and tocotrienol forms of the vitamin, whereas olive oil contains only the tocopherol form -- and less of that than rice bran oil. Additionally, rice bran oil contains significant amounts of the antioxidant oryzanol, whereas olive oil has none.
It helps to lower LDL or bad cholesterol and does not lower the good cholesterol as sunflower oils do and is known to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
Source: http://nutrihealth.in/food/health-benefits-of-rice-bran-oil/
The rice bran oil component γ-oryzanol was shown in Japan to be effective in relieving hot flashes and other symptoms of female menopause. Researchers found that 90% of the women found some form of relief from hot flashes after taking a rice bran oil supplement for 4–6 weeks.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_bran_oil
Lowers Cholesterol
Rice bran oil contains gamma oryzanol, a group of ferulate esters of triterpene alcohols and phytosterols that have been linked to many health benefits. Gamma oryzanol is effective in reducing plasma cholesterol and reducing cholesterol absorption, decreasing early atherosclerosis. In addition, gamma oryzanol inhibits platelet aggregation that could lead to blood clots. Rice bran oil contains tocotrienol (a form of Vitamin E) which has been found to inhibit the activity of HMG-CoA reductase, an enzyme that synthesizes cholesterol, a major factor in heart disease. In a study conducted at the University of Rochester, Mohammad Minhajuddin, Ph.D., and researchers determined that the tocotrienol in rice bran oil reduced cholesterol in rats up to 42 percent while lowering LDL cholesterol up to 62 percent.
Anti-Cancer Effects
Rice bran oil contains significant levels of both gamma and delta tocotrienols (approximately 500 ppm), forms of Vitamin E, that have been found to be able to accumulate in cancer cells and kill the tumors. In a study conducted at Kyushu University in Japan, researchers looked at the effects of tocotrienols on mouse cancer cells. There was a significant delay in growth in the cancer cells. "Our results suggested that accumulation is critical for the anti-tumor activity of tocotrienols," said Japanese lead researcher, Yuhei Hiura, reporting in "The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry."
Skin Protector
Originating in the Japanese culture, skin care with rice bran oil is becoming more popular. To this day, one of the highest compliments a Japanese woman can receive is to be called a "nuka bijin" which means "a rice bran beauty." Having smooth healthy skin is due to the oryzanol in the rice bran oil that whitens the skin slightly. As the skin is exposed to sunlight, the rice bran oil reacts as a sunscreen protecting the skin from harmful ultraviolet rays. The oryzanol impedes melanin pigmentation by restraining the erythema activity of tyrosinase as it stops the ultraviolet rays' transmission at the skin's surface. The use of rice bran oil in sunscreen products and hair conditioners is on the increase in the United States.
Antioxidant Packed
Rice bran oil contains three healthy antioxidants useful in protecting the body's cells against the effects of free radicals--tocopherol, tocotrienol and oryzanol. In addition, rice bran oil does not require hydrogenation for stability and has a high percentage of fatty acids (oleic, 46 percent; linoleic, 36 percent; and linolenic, 1 percent). Antioxidant companies have switched their basic oil to rice bran oil. This movement is an indication that industry leaders recognize rice bran oil's lipid oxidative stability. Lipid oxidative stability is important in the prevention of pathologic processes such as cardiovascular diseases, arthritis and inflammatory processes.
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/25408-health-benefits-rice-bran-oil/#ixzz1u4lCnqkZ


text: At long, long last I'm a happy Tesla roadster owner (#513). The HPC installation was just completed today. (Thankfully the company I work for, Google, has lots of charging stations and allows employees to charge for free, though, as I still can't charge at home until I get some fence and gate work done to allow access to a driveway that was blocked by the previous homeowner.) The electrician who installed it (who is very good, but not an expert on HPCs) noticed a pair of disconnected wires inside the unit as he was performing the installation. For now we have left them disconnected, as this is how the unit came from the Tesla dealer, but I'd like to know if that's the way they're supposed to be, or if they should be connected. The wires I'm talking about are thin, blue wires with purple plastic connectors on the end, that look like they just slide together and snap into place. In Lloyd's thread about his hydra-headed HPC they look like the wires visible in the third picture of the fourth post in that thread, though I think my plastic connectors are a slightly different color. If there's any question about which wires I mean, I'll snap a picture once it's daylight again and post it here. I looked at the HPC installation guide, and the pictures on pages 8 and 9 seem to show one of these wires hanging down between the "contactor" and the "vehicle ground terminal", and not obviously connecting to anything. So perhaps the wires are meant to be disconnected, but that's certainly not definitive. In Lloyd's picture they're clearly connected. So perhaps it is important that they be connected, but maybe his unit differs from mine or those cables being connected is related to the modifications he was making to the unit or something, so again not definitive. I'm hoping one of the experts on here will know what these wires are and whether or not they should be connected before I try to use this thing. Thanks for any info.


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My "Before and After" Bedroom7:50 AM
So this is what Ive been up to the last few days...
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Beautiful, Julia! You are so clever and have a real eye for design :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful! You did a great job, girl!ReplyDelete
This is such a BEAUTIFUL room. I am so impressed!ReplyDelete
Love the look! Love the design! Thanks for the inspiration :-)ReplyDelete
I love the wall....and you said it was actually a really easy design to paint. After that I began thinking maybe I should do something similar. It would look so great and my walls are also bare, but then I remembered, I CAN'T PAINT! But this is so beautiful.ReplyDelete
Wow, this is beautiful! I like that paint gives a wall more texture and depth than vinyl. You've definitely inspired me :D Great job.ReplyDelete
This is something gorgeous, I am for lighter colors, however I find it beautiful, great taste!ReplyDelete
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text: A recent article in The Financial Post reports that Muskoka is the world's second-fastest growing recreational real estate market after Cote d'Azur, France, according to Christie's International Real Estate. Aided by the lower value of the Canadian dollar, the area is attracting a great deal of foreign interest. Despite Muskoka properties hitting record prices, it's still a cheaper option than Southampton, East Hampton and other popular resort towns on the south shore of Long Island, New York. Read the article here.


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Dr. Sergio Pasqua was born and raised in Metro Vancouver. Growing up, his only interest was sports, specifically, soccer, baseball, hockey and golf. Sergio's passion for sport was palpable as a youngster and an injury during a soccer match is what led him to pursue a career in chiropractic care. His desire for further education led him to study Chiropractic at Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Ontario.
Today, he is a Board Certified Chiropractor that is dedicated to improving physical health through evidence based, patient-centered care. Sergio's approach to physical health is unique in that it combines techniques from across the manual therapy world with corrective exercise and postural education to create an individualized physical health program.
Dr. Pasqua provides Active Release Technique (ART), and Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilizations as an adjunct to his diversified style of chiropractic care. He also is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, is trained in the Selective Functional Movement Assessment, and can perform golf specific movement screening via the Titleist Performance Institute.
Since graduating in early 2014, Dr. Pasqua has enjoyed practicing in his native Vancouver as well as in Abbotsford and the beautiful West Kootenays! Sergio is excited to start his own practice in Port Alberni and is looking forward to Island life.
In his spare time Dr. Pasqua enjoys baking, hiking, reading, working out and playing golf.
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Meet Dr. Sergio Pasqua a new to Port Alberni and local Chiropractor. Dr. Pasqua opened his business this past January after moving to PA almost one year ago. He'd been keen on opening his own business but in so doing he wanted to make sure that his partner Dr. Jaclyn Brash (Port Dental Health Care Center) also found an opportunity - and she did! So...that means we in Port Alberni welcomed two well trained professionals thus providing us with more local expertise. The couple had spent time in the West Kootenays and then Dr. Brash ventured off to the East Coast - Newfoundland for awhile before the two of them discovered the Alberni Valley. Dr. Pasqua has opened up Hybrid Chiropractic on Roger Street corner of 6th Avenue. He is one of 4 local Chiropractors serving a population that benefits from his skillset. He also spends about one day every week in Ucluelet where he rents space from Integrated Therapy to assist the folks out there with their pain management. Longer term Dr. Pasqua hopes to develop an more permanent location similar to what he refers to as a Boutique Style Wellness Center perhaps with a Gym and other features. The two Dr's enjoy the outdoors and love our local hikes, the trails, the lake and many of our features that too many of us take for granted. He mentions, quite accurately, that we are within 20 (TWENTY) minutes of water, acreage, farms, mountains, lakes, rivers, salt water. Hmm....he's right, we are! You can book an appointment with Dr. Pasqua at your convenience from the keyboard in front of you and perhaps be in to see him same day! http://www.hybridchiropractic.com/


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Bake the New British Celebrity: Soda Bread
A remarkably humble baked good has recently attained celebrity status. It's not French. It's not covered in gold foil. And it certainly doesn't take years of training to perfect. Soda bread has become a media darling, simply for being a quick and trustworthy loaf that the beginner baker can accomplish.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Nigel Slater, Lorraine Pascale, and Nigella Lawson have all baked soda bread on their TV programmes recently. There are two cookery trends that have helped push soda bread into the spotlight — home bread baking and 'simple' recipes.
The convergence of these two trends set off a flurry of encouragement to make soda bread. Why does it fit the bill so well, for so many? This bread doesn't require many of the steps that fill new bakers with fear and loathing: kneading, proving, and shaping. Even if you do feel comfortable baking, soda bread is a delight because it can be ready in under an hour.
Recently there has been a massive swell of interest in bread making, and baking books and classes have been popping up in abundance. First time bakers, keen to get their hands in and start making their own, can easily feel deflated if their initial loaves don't meet expectations.
It doesn't help that everything is touted as being just SO easy and quick to make now. Or to translate that into Jamie Oliver speak; while preparing a dish for his 30 minute meal TV series he exclaimed: "Even a raving lunatic can do this!"
The problem with, uh, encouraging sentiments such as this is, when you're in your kitchen trying to prepare a simple-easy-quick-lunatic-friendly recipe and it's not going well, you feel so raving inadequate.
I'm here, as someone who has taken a couple of bread making classes but still struggles to consistently get all the elements quite right (there are good loaves and there are what-the-hell-happened-there loaves), with assurance that you can make soda bread.
With its pillowy centre, crusty shell, and comforting nostalgic fragrance, soda bread will become a staple once you take the plunge and make your first batch. It's a gate-way bread — once you bake it, you'll be eager to try other bread recipes. That's an addiction I'm happy to enable.
This article was written for the Bake with Maria website. Click here to read the remainder of the article and try the recipe! While you're over there check out Maria's brilliant selection of baking classes, which take place at her Baking Lab in West London. I've taken classes taught by Maria and heartily recommend.
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American Bullfrog
RANGE: This highly aquatic frog may be found in the eastern and central United States; also New Brunswick and parts of Nova Scotia. Extensively introduced in the west. Metamorphs and juveniles are seen more frequently that adults.
DESCRIPTION: 3.5 to 8″ (9-20.3cm) The largest of the frogs in North America. Green to yellow above with random mottling of darker gray. Large external eardrum; hind feet fully webbed except for last joint of longest toe. No dorsolateral ridges. Belly cream to white, may be mottled with gray.
VOICE: Deep-pitched jug o'rum call can be heard for more than quarter mile on quiet mornings.
BREEDING: northern areas, May to July; southern, February to October. Egg masses are attached to submerged vegetation. Tadpoles are large, 4-6.75″ (10.2-17.1 cm), olive green, and may take up to 2 years to morph into froglets.
HABITAT: Aquatic, Prefers ponds, lakes, and slow moving streams large enough to avoid crowding and with sufficient vegetation to provide easy cover.
NOCTURNAL: Less aquatic than the Pig Frog, it is usually found on the bank at the waters edge. When frightened, it will as soon flee to nearby vegetation as take to the water. Large specimens have been known to catch and swallow birds and young snakes; its usual diet includes insects, crayfish, other frogs, and minnows.
The top picture of the American Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) is an Albino (lacking all black color) and occurs frequently in reptiles and amphibians!
RANGE: The American Alligator inhabits the southern United States! It lives in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisana, Texas, Oklahonma and Arkansas.
DESCRIPTION: 6′-13.4′ Largest reptile in North America. Distinguished from American Crocodile by it wide broad snout. Generally black with yellowish or cream crossbands that become less apparent with age.
VOICE: During the breeding season adults produce a throaty deep-pitchedbellowing roar that can be heard over a considerable distance!
BREEDING: American Alligators mate after emerging from hibernation. In June, female alligators build a nest mound of mud and vegetation. She then lays 20-60 eggs in a depression in the top of the nest that she has excavated. During the 9 weeks of incubation the alligator stays close to the nest. The calling of the young alligators inside the nest prompts the female to dig up the eggs. Alligators show great parental care. The young alligators will remain with their mother for 1-3 years!
HABITAT: The alligator inhabits fresh and brackish marshes, ponds, lakes, rivers, swamps, bayous and big spring runs.
HABITAT IMPORTANCE: Alligators are important to the ecology of there habitats. During droughts alligators dig deep holes which provide water for the wildlife community.
The bottom picture of the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) is anAlbino (lacking all black color) and there are only 30 true albino alligators in the world!
RANGE: Horned Lizards are found only in the western portions of the United States and Mexico. There are 14 recognized species. They range from Arkansas to the Pacific Coast, and from British Columbia south to Guatemala.
DESCRIPTION: 2 1/2-7 1/8″ (6.3-18.1 cm). Flat-bodied lizard with large crown of spines on head; 2 center spines longest. 2 rows of pointed scales fringe each side. Belly scales keeled. Red to yellow to gray; dark spots have light rear margins. Dark lines radiate from eye.
BREEDING: Mates April to May. Clutch of 14-37 eggs is laid in burrow dug by female May to July. Young hatch in some 6 weeks, measure about 1 1/4″ (3.1 cm).
HABITAT: From sea level to 6,000′ (1,800 m) in dry areas, mostly open country with loose soil supporting grass, mesquite, cactus.
DISSCUSION: Diurnal. This lizard is the common "horned toad" of the pet trade. But since it feeds almost exclusively on live large ants—generally unavailable to the pet owner—most pet horned lizards slowly starve to death over a period of months.
DEFENSE: Horned lizards use a wide variety of means to avoid predation. Their coloration generally serves as camouflage. When threatened, their first defense is to remain still to avoid detection. If approached too closely, they generally run in short bursts and stop abruptly to confuse the predator's visual acuity. If this fails, they puff up their body to cause it to look more horny, making it appear larger and more difficult to swallow. At least four species are also able to squirt an aimed stream of blood (Called Autohaemorrhaging) from the corners of the eyes for a distance of up to 5 feet. They do this by restricting the blood flow leaving the head, thereby increasing blood pressure and rupturing tiny vessels around the eyelids. This not only confuses predators, but also the blood tastes foul to canine and feline predators. It appears to have no effect against predatory birds. To avoid being picked up by the head or neck, horned lizards duck or elevate their head and orient their cranial horns straight up, or back. If a predator tries to take it by the body, the lizard drives that side of its body down into the ground so that the predator cannot easily get its lower jaw underneath the lizard.


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It is obvious that tweets with images get more attention.
Plus, they are added to your profile sidebar. It is worth using them in your tweets. I know that.
But I was thinking about moderation.
Do you think it is recommended to have more than 50% of tweets sent with images?
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How to Master SEO in 2017: Webinar Recording
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Search Engine Optimization or SEO as it is familiarized as is a crucial aspect that helps determine whether the website / blog content will rank well or not! Both On-Page and Off-Page Optimization are equally essential to learn what all it takes to dominate the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs).
Industry influencer Navneet Kaushal, CEO, Page Traffic led a webinar for our community on 'How to Master SEO in 2017'. Herein, he threw light upon what it takes to get SERPs domination with zero rank (yes you heard it right) and not rank one!
Since the goal of search engine still remains the same, but search engine are smarter now and it's hard to manipulate the results and the focus is now on quality of result. Here is a list of SEO 2017 Essentials suggested by Navneet Kaushal:
Key Takeaways:
- Everything about search engine optimization is about relevancy
- Think mobile friendly
- If your website routes all mobile traffic to the homepage rather than the internal page the user was attempting to visit, it will be ranked lower.
- If your site is slow on mobiles, google is less likely to rank it.
- Having a mobile site is just the start.
- The average title display limit, for Desktop is ~70 characters with spaces and for Mobile ~55 characters (with spaces)
Found this SEO 2017 webinar valuable? You can get to know about the upcoming and trending webinars along with gaining knowledge from the past webinar recordings.
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Definitely, I think going mobile friendly is the best thing to incorporate this year. Though, I have read that lots of digital marketers don't opt for this change because according to a research, users prefer to use desktop computers rather than downloading apps and loading web sites in mobile. What do you think about this?


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2015 Dodge Challenger Scat Pack fitted with 20 inch BD23's in Bronze with Chrome SS Lip
The ideal place to take any muscle car would be the middle of the desert. The long straight roads and the lack of public interference makes it perfect for testing what your car is made of. Coming in at 485 horsepower, the Dodge Challenger Scat Pack is the king of these desert roads. This car in particular is equipped with Air Ride airbags, giving it a smooth ride and insane stance.
We were able to fit this car with 20x10 fronts and 20x11 rears, giving it the perfect concave look. The silver paint, bronze wheels, and chrome ss lip truly ties the overall muscle car aesthetic together, creating one of the meanest Scat Packs out there
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The BD23 is one of the latest additions to the Blaque Diamond Wheel collection. It's 10 spoke design is elegant yet aggressive, making it perfect for any brand or style.
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The Cuomo administration is quietly sowing the seeds for a nanotech research and manufacturing center in Syracuse, similar to the one it unveiled in the Utica area Thursday.
Like the Nano Utica center that Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on the campus of the SUNY Institute of Technology in the Utica suburb of Marcy, the Syracuse center would be spearheaded by the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering here in Albany.
NanoCollege officials at SUNY-IT have been asking developers in the Syracuse area to come to them with proposals for a technology research and manufacturing facility that like the NanoCollege's $17 billion campus in Albany would have a dual purpose of both education and economic development.
A package of materials outlining the scope of the proposed development was handed out to interested developers, who had to sign a confidentiality agreement, during the first week of October. The materials were made available through the Fort Schuyler Management Corp., a nonprofit created by the NanoCollege for its operations in Utica.
No word yet on which developers are interested in the proposal, which would likely need to have an educational component to fit in with Cuomo's strategy of using the SUNY system to attract high-tech employers.
The NanoCollege already created an outpost in Syracuse back in 2010 called the Nanotechnology Innovation and Commercialization Excelerator in an old General Electric building. It is unclear if the new initiative would build on that or be separate. Last year, the Post-Standard reported that work was underway on remediation of the facility, which is located at Electronics Park in Salina.
The NanoCollege, which partners with computer chip manufacturers and their suppliers on research and development in Albany and soon in Utica, told developers that it is planning to put similar nanotechnology hubs "throughout the state," including Syracuse.
The president of Fort Schuyler Management is Alicia Dicks, a former National Grid executive who has experience in economic development and strategic planning.
That strategy has long been outlined by NanoCollege officials and Gov. Cuomo, although this is the first indication that a new facility or academic partnership was in the definitive stages for the Syracuse area. The plan is to take the model developed in Albany and "export" it to other cities in upstate, although each city would likely complement what is happening in Albany. For instance, the Nano Utica center will focus on chip "packaging," which occurs after the chips are made and includes the wiring that connects the chips to the devices they power.
A nanotech research or training site in Syracuse would also help the state's efforts to market a 400-acre site next to SUNY-IT that is called the Marcy Nanocenter that has been set aside for as many as three "mega" computer chip factories, or fabs. The facilities, which cost as much as $15 billion to built, would need thousands of specialized technicians and engineers that the Utica area alone would not be able to supply.
The NanoCollege in Albany is credited with being one of the main reasons why GlobalFoundries built its $9 billion chip manufacturing facility, called Fab 8, in Saratoga County. But despite the students that come out of the NanoCollege's graduate and undergraduate programs as well as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, GlobalFoundries has had to find half of its workforce from out of state. A Syracuse chip research and training center would provide more potential workers, providing a potential chip manufacturer with more reasons to locate their fab in Marcy.
However, where the Syracuse nanotech center would be located would be critical to Cuomo's plan. One of the reasons that Nano Utica's main tenant, a company called Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions, decided to put its operations at the SUNY-IT campus is because of Cuomo's Start-Up NY program that allows companies that locate on SUNY campuses to operate 10 years without state taxation. And their employees will not have to pay state income taxes either.
SUNY does operate the College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, which shares its campus and programs with Syracuse University. The forestry school also has regional campuses, including one in Tully, just south of the city. It also has programs in environmental science and energy conservation that would apply to the concerns of chip makers, who use tremendous amounts of toxic chemicals, water and electricity. The electricity needed for the Fab 8 facility in Saratoga County could power the entire city of Albany. Chip fabs also use millions of gallons of water a day. Fab 8 has to draw its water from the Hudson River, and it will need to upgrade that system again should it go ahead with plans for a second factory, Fab 8.2.
Syracuse University also hosts what's known as the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems, a state-organized research center that already collaborates with private industry and does research on the types of environmental problems faced by the chip industry.
The NanoCollege already has a facility in the Rochester area that focuses on making sophisticated micro-electronic devices, such as sensors, that are used or combined with computer chips. The Rochester area has a strong technical background in that area because of Xerox and Kodak.
Nanotechnology is essentially the science of making things small, which is why the chip industry and academics often refer to chip technology as nanotechnology. The circuitry on individual chips is measured in microns and nanometers and is invisible to the naked eye.


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Cafe Yagam
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If you're looking for authentic Cordilleran coffee, this is a must try. Highly recommend.
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The night was foggy, dogs were howling and there was this lit up home which drew our curiosity....when we came to it upclose we read Cafe Yagam and it closed up early.... so the next day despite our hotel having complimentary breakfast buffet.....we decided to catch a morning coffee moment at Cafe Yagam ( well, after the breakfast buffet hehehe )🏻
It was a perfect moment to have their Cordilleran Brewed Coffee and their Choco Batirol as well, which went really great with our "Wanchila" which was Kalinga Sticky Rice with Latek...the texture is quite acquired since it's not rice-y like suman, because it was grinded well yet you could feel some grainy texture...I was kidding my friend that it looked like an artsy manananggal tongue rolled up and served with the Latek bits & sauce, with oozing coconut milk!
We loved the reused place and the indigenous interior happenings! Showcasing Cordilleran crafts and promoting their artistry as well...I saw this poster featuring a young mambabatok....could she be the next Whang-Od? 🏻
We also met Aling Henedina who was given this blank corner in the cafe to sell and promote her impeccably made yet very pocket-friendly home accessories made from washed and treated paper...a lot of tedious folding and twisting and look at the finished products...me and my friend offered to help her re-arrange her goods and she was very open to our idea....
At first she was just randomly putting the goods side by side but we couldn't resist styling up her goods...with layers and levels so that it would be more enticing to buy...at the same time we also bought a lot of her well made handicrafts. And look at my purchased treasures! Love Local as they say!
Such a gastronomic and cultural experience here at Cafe Yagam...I hope I get to try their authentic Cordilleran meals next time!!!! and their ice creams as well... imagine... Banoffee, Cucumber-Calamansi and Pumpkin flavors?!? Ohmy 🏻
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Cafe Yagam offers rice meals, pasta, coffee and their unique offering are the Cordilleran courses. We visited the cafe on the evening so we tried their local offerings for dinner:
White beans (legumes) with kiniing and vegetables, 150php
Pinikpikan with Etag
Smokey chicken stew with salted cured meat, served with rice, 200php
The Igwilas tasted like laing in Bicolano cuisine without the coconut milk. The Pinikpikan was like tinola in known Filipino dish. I love the Pinikpikan the most because the ingredients were familiar. But Igwilas and the rest of the local offerings are must try! Will definitely visit this cafe again to try their pasta and specialty drinks.
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Best arabica coffee & rice cake merienda/dessert I ever had -- Kiniwar! You must be crazy if you say this pair doesn't cut it. But to brag about these is an understatement. Cafe Yagam is a carafe of friendly team of people, a cozy low key shop, delicious home grown native Baguio delicacies/dishes and coffee procured from local farmers. I take my coffee black, and although I'm not an expert not a self proclaimed connoisseur either, I know coffee when it's good. It's a shame we only spent one night in Baguio.
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There is place in the Baguio that sits somewhat close to the usual crowded popular haunts, but surprisingly offers a private, uncrowded, and truly relaxed venue for some cozy evenings. The place seemingly pays homage to local Cordillera specialties. The place also offers affordable good local coffee , local spirits, coffee preps, mains and sweets that are indigenous to the Cordillera region. The best part is partaking these treats around a warm toasty bonfire with live acoustic music under the cool mountain evening sky. This is Cafe Yagam.
The place is an old home converted into a cafe. There are cozy indoor sittings amidst local artsy handicrafts. However, to my mind, the best seat in the house on cool, clear, star lit evening , would be their front yard. Nothing fancy, but more of a truly relaxed and cozy venue for some chilled out evenings. Low wooden benches and stools repurposed from felled logs encircle a nice toasty bonfire. A common sitting circle where you end up chilling with other guests and end up making new friends. Relaxing acoustic music played live from the inner dining area pours out to the bonfire seating.
This visit was for night cap after dinner. With evening temperatures reading a low 11 C, we decided to "brave" the cold and hang around their bonfire. We passed on their mains and appetizers. Instead went straight for their other specialties---Coffee from Arabica beans harvested in the region. We coupled this with some coffee preps, a couple of Cordillera brewed Spirits, and local sweets.
We are loving Cafe Yagam's brewed coffee, local red wine, and coffee preps (latte and Bailey's Coffee). My first time tries, I'm loving the Cordillera delicacy called Kiniwar and Cafe Yagam's Cordillera-American fusion dessert-- Yagam's Jar.
What we loved about their Arabica brew was the choice of strength and brewing method offered to guests. We opted for their filter drip, medium-strength. The Arabica brew was deliciously aromatic with earthy notes. Taste wise, the brew was perfectly acidic, chocolatey, with light nutty notes. The beverage was served in a glass carafe that nicely made two-coffee cup servings. Not bad for just 60 bucks.
Their local Red wine was a sweet wine made from indigenous red berries called Bignay. These berries, indigenous to the Cordilleras, are also called wild cherries/ wild currants. The fruits are used to make tea and wine. Perhaps, a red much too sweeter than what wine lovers are used too. But what I enjoyed from the sweet red was the "cocktail-ish" sweetness with a nice warmth and buzz from the local wine that made perfect for a really cold evening. It's sweetness was like a fuller mix of sweet dessert wine and sangria with stronger berry notes.
Their Cordillera sweet delicacies were also unique and quite good.
The Kiniwar was a local version of sweet sticky rice with coconut cream. A marriage of Biko and Suman. I loved that the rice was really sticky and chewy, drenched in sweet coconut cream syrup, with curdled caramelized coconut cream latik. Sweetness level was spot on. The delicacy, just 55 bucks. Excellent with the brewed coffee.
They also had a unique dessert that seemed to be a fusion between Cordillera and American desserts. The dish , called Yagam's Jar, was an odd yet quite delicious mix of kamote cheese cake, taro/sago pearls, and caramelized sweet fruits. Served in a jar, the dessert was a layer of Graham, cheesecake, mashed sweet potatoes cooked with caramel, sweetened taro pearls, and topped with caramelized fruit slices (I couldn't tell if they used apples or pears). Quite surprisingly, the odd dessert was really good. Tarty-creamy-sweet with various textures from the different ingredients. Quite affordable for just 80 bucks. Yummy with a flute of their Bailey's spiked coffee.
Their latte, comfortingly robust with the arabica brew and creamy with the frothed milk. A big mug, just 80 bucks.
A visit to Baguio during long weekends can be quite an ordeal rather than a relaxing break. Seemingly, the heavy human and vehicle traffic from the Metro has relocated to the City of Pines causing heavily crowded places and stand-still road traffic. It is such a treat coming across nicely private enclaves in the Summer Capital that offers such relaxing, uncrowded venues such as Cafe Yagam.
Cafe Yagam comes highly recommended to foodies looking for a rather private relaxed place to hang out with local indigenous delicacies and beverages to boot .
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Cafe Yagam is best known for their arabica coffee, wherein beans have been hand picked from where it's grown--the Cordillera Region. Unfortunately, I'm not a coffee connoisseur, nor am I a coffee consumer to review the caffeinated beverages they offer, but what I will review, which I'm more knowledgeable of, is the food that they have. But before I continue, let me first say that Cafe Yagam is one of a kind. One word to describe this cafe is cozy.
From its façade, you would think it's just an ordinary house, but when entering this place, you feel as if you were inside a log cabin. I was taken aback by the dim setting, hardwood tables and chairs, and other aesthetically pleasing furnishings which shouts art in all of its aspect.
Apart from their well-known coffee, Cafe Yagam offers native Cordilleran dishes, such as Pinuneg (₱200); Cordilleran blood sausages. This is served with red rice and stif-fried vegetables. Blood sausages are a foodie's food. The crisp snap from the casing and the bold flavor of the blood, dipped in a pungent and spicy vinegar makes this dish some kind of wonderful. When eating just the sausages, it may be salty to some, but have it with the red rice, the flavor will balance well. This dish, too includes kiniwar, a sticky rice dessert.
Another dish that has a great balance of flavor is Bilis Shitake (₱130). It's a pasta dish with dilis and shiitake mushrooms. The balance of saltiness of the dilis, and the woodsy flavor the mushroom brings, accompanied by olive oil was outstanding.
Because Cafe Yagam is far from town (Session Rd), you are surrounded by a peaceful and quiet environment, with serenity of its interior and outside surroundings of foliage. Cafe Yagam are for those who look for that type of ambiance.
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Homey ambiance + great food = perfection! Their specialties are usually homegrown and it really gives you that Cordilleran taste! Try their Pinuneg, Pinikpikan, Binungor, and Kini-ing!
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After a quick sightseeing and photo op at The Mansion, we went to Café Yagam for the curtain call of our "When in Baguio" foodventure. The hidden gem was located at J. Felipe st. somewhere I didn't know actually, but few meters away from Burnham Park.
I was fascinated by the look of the café - homey and chill out. There were some nice spots around that deserves a snapshot - a guitar on the dark corner with shading lights from the window, the native tables & chairs, the fireplace and the mini-stage near the gate. They serve pastries, coffee, some entreés and even some items for sale like bags, handcrafted stuff and a lot more.
We tried different drinks, while I settled for the Cafe Latte for my drink. We also got a plate of both of their best-selling sticky rice desserts and thought both were good. I forgot which of the two was my favorite (that actually stood out among the other). The coffee was okay, kinda weak for my liking although I'm not totally a coffeeholic person myself.
The place was so perfect for chit chats and hangouts with friends. Although it's not that much eclectic like Arca's Yard, but this was also good in some factors. You might want to consider this place a visit if you're looking for some nice, peaceful and less mainstream spot when in Baguio.
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While we were wandering the small streets of Baguio, I was thinking where in the world am I?
Hidden somewhere in the breezy streets, is a cool and chill and cozy coffee shop called Cafe Yagam.
I was awed by the wooden furnitures and the fireplace they have inside plus they have different types of seats to choose from. Awesome!
I ordered a Lemon grass tea, because I am just really full from the ribs that we had in Canto.
For a Php40.00, I can enjoy a soothing and sweet lemon grass tea! I liked the calming sensation it brought to me, I feel kind of sleepy afterwards.
I tasted some of my friends orders, like the kakanin that they had, and I find it okay.
I would probably be going back here during the night because they have bonfire and it excites me!!!
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One of the must visit cafes in Baguio. It's a little hard to find as its one of the side streets so Waze will be your best friend for this cafe hunt.
Once you get there, it'll be a feast for the eyes because the Cafe looks like a hipster's haven. The outside tables are a mix of hard wood tables, futons, bohemian lamps, and an eating area which also doubles as a performing stage. The inside is a quant dining area but the fixtures are a mix of modern elements and indigenous furniture. But it works! The menu is so artsy too.
They also have coffee drying bins outside and you would occasionally see a girl sifting newly roasted coffee beans so you know it's all fresh and meticulously prepared.
The coffee however needs some work - the mid roast I tried lacked the kick from the usual Benguet coffee's I've tasted. A little tweak here and there and it will do boat loads of improvement. I just think it lacked some more roasting and a little more time to simmer before doing the paper drip process.
Their dessert items are okay. Nothing special. One of their rice cakes reminds me of the bilo-bilo in ginataan so I enjoyed the texture. But overall it was just mediocre.
Best to go here when they have bonfire sessions and music jamming night
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The yellow warning is in place from 3am Thursday morning to 3pm Thursday afternoon.
The Met Office said a "very windy spell" will develop before reaching its strongest throughout Scotland, Northern Ireland and the North East on Thursday morning.
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August 11th, 2010.
Sony DCR-TRV140 Digital8 tape Camcorder with 20x optical f=3.6-72mm zoomlens Naperville, IL approximatley 6:45pm Clear Blue sky. perfect, small breeze. 90 degrees faranheit.
There is a chair in the front of my garage, I use the armrest of this chair to mount my camera, and record the clouds in the sky 1 hour at a time, to timelapse animation process them through my computer using windows movie maker in windowsXP.
My camera was screw mounted on this chair, pointed dead east, in the exact oppisite direction of the sun, its angle was adjusted to about 55 degrees to get a view of the first batch of clouds I saw. I then zoomed the camera in to 5x optical, and clicked record, I then left it alone so I could do other things.
After observeing the sun with my telescope for 50 minutes, I came back to the camera, clicked the stop button, picked up the camera, retrieved my telescope, then went in the house to process the video with windows movie maker.
While playing back the video, approximatley 15 minutes into it, after the first cloud passes, what appears to be a white ball of light, traveling incredibly fast, and seemingly low, zips into view coming from the west, and exits the frame into the eastern horizon toward the direction of Chicago.
The camera audio pickup was set on high, and no sounds are heard. This video was captured on digital 8mm tape. I did not physically witness this event, only the camera did.


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Greetings photo buffs! I have had a little hiatus from my blog, but now I'm back with a little tutorial, namely 'How to do a high-key portrait'.
This technique should be in every serious photographers bag of tricks, if it aint already, so here is the lay-down:
1) Use a good camera/ lens combination for portraiture. I used the full-frame Canon 5D Mark II and a Canon 85mm 1.8 at F/2.2.
2) Use soft, diffuse light. I shot these photos with natural light in-doors by a west-facing window in the middle of an overcast day in early April. Generally, you want very soft light for this effect, so use plenty large umbrellas/softboxes/diffusers, or north light, or an overcast day, or even shade. You do not want direct light or sun. Also, you want the background to be very bright – these were shot in front of a south-facing window.
3) Use low ISO. While you want to overexpose a tad ('expose to the right'), use as low an ISO speed you can get away with for ultimate image quality. I shot at ISO 200. I'm applying the actual high-key effect later in Camera RAW, to avoid clipping the highlights in-camera. Your mileage may vary, though, so if you prefer, aim for the overexposed look directly, by dialing in ~ +2 stops of exposure compensation.
4) Use a large aperture. You want to get good seperation from face to background for that 3D effect, but you also want to nail sharpness on eyes. On a shot like this with the 85mm 1.8, f/2.2 was a good compromise.
5) Get at least one eye in focus. Rule of thumb. Eyes will draw the attention first, so make sure you focus on an eye. With portrait lenses and shallow Depth Of Field, often you won't be able to hold both eyes in focus, particularly if the subject's face is at an angle, and close to the camera. As long as one eye is in sharp focus, you're OK. You should only break the sharp-eyes rule for artistic expression. (The first picture in this article actually breaks this rule, but I feel it gets away with it. Sofie was swaying a bit back and forth, so critical focus ended up on her eyebrow, while her eyes falls a bit out of focus, showing just how little DOF there is to work with).
6) Once shot, select your best frames and process expertly. Post processing is what makes a good picture a very good picture. I spared nothing in Camera Raw on these ones. First, I pushed the shots about 2 stops to overexpose them, but kept highlights in check. Then I turned down Saturation by a large amount, and increased the Vibrance by about the same. Those steps will give you this high-key, neutral, soft look. I did some skin spotting with the heal tool in Camera RAW. Finally, I added effects, such as Vignette, Split-toning and Film Grain to give the shots a 'film-like' appearance. I added a bit of skin diffusion (duplicate layer, large gaussian blur, Overlay blend mode, low opacity) and monochromatic contrast in Photoshop at the end.
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My purging is now complete although I still have a full bin of stamps and dies that I need to add to my For Sale page. Of the rest of the purge pile, my scrappy friends have taken what they wanted and the rest has been donated. Feels good! So how did I celebrate? Ran to IKEA and bought another Raskog cart. Yes, I did!
So, I've decided that I really like the mixture of traditional and pocket scrapbooking, where one page of a two-page layout is a traditional scrapbook layout and the second page is a coordinating pocket layout. I've completed several of these layouts so far and I really like them.
Over the last several months, I have subscribed to three pocket scrapbooking kit clubs - Studio Calico, Gossamer Blue and Cocoa Daisy. Is that too many? I just love what I've gotten so far. And I like that I can also get the scrapbook kits, coordinating papers and other add-ons if I like them. I love that the kits have fun, coordinating embellishments, everything you need to make awesome layouts.
I worked really hard and finally finished my Utah National Parks album last weekend. Since I hate my handwriting, I used my computer and a typewriter font to do the journaling. I like how it turned out - I hated the hassle of doing it on the computer, then printing it on cards. So I decided that I need to get a typewriter. I found an old Olympia on eBay and bought it. Right now, it's in a repair shop getting all cleaned up and a new ribbon put in it. I really have no idea if I'll like it, but we'll see. Since I got it, I've seen typewriters with wide carriages. What? I could have gotten one that would fit a 12x12 page? Hmm... Let's see how much I like the one I got; maybe I'll need to trade it up for one with a wide carriage.
I'd love to share the layouts I have made so far but first I need to figure out how best to photograph them. I don't have a good spot for natural light. Cards are easy to photograph, but they're a lot smaller. If you have any tips, please let me know.
I'll end this post with some of my favorite recent finds:
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen [Now Playing]
Labels: Now Playing, Video Games
I've been home doing nothing for the past few weeks, so out of an intense need to keep myself busy, I decided to look for an addictive RPG to play. My choices ranged from Skyrim to Dark Souls, but for whatever reason, I ended up buying Dragon's Dogma. I ignored the original release, so Dark Arisen (the expansion) ended up being my first taste of the game.
I've played through the game once already, and I've got to say, I really like this game. I'm close to platinuming it, and I wasn't even trying to. I was just having fun trying out different things and completing all of the quests. I think the main thing I love about this game is its replay value. You're able to replay the game via New Game Plus an infinite number of times, so you're able to enjoy the game exactly how you want to each time whilst retaining your level and all of your gear.
The boss battles are also amazing. I'd say they're the best in any game of this genre. Like many people have said, it's like a cross between Dark Souls and Shadow of the Colossus. The way you climb up on giant monsters while epic music is playing is just exhilarating, to say the least.
A lot of people disregard this game as being "not quite as good as Skyrim", but I'd rather avoid comparisons like that. Dragon's Dogma has its own list of merits and charms, and I'd recommend it to anyone with a love for fantasy rpg's (and a lot of time).
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen [Now Playing]
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- AnonymousJuly 27, 2013 at 10:58 PM
Its been a while since I played a fantasy rpg. This looks like its worth a shot.ReplyDelete
u have good taste Dragon Dogma clearly better then skyrim.ReplyDelete


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Michigan head coach John Beilein signed a contract extension Wednesday that will keep him at the Wolverines' helm through the 2020–21 season.
Michigan head coach John Beilein signed a contract extension that will keep him at the Wolverines' helm through the 2020–21 season, the university announced Wednesday.
With the extension, Beilein will earn a base salary of $400,000, along with $1.47 million per season for media appearances and sponsorships and $1.5 million each year through the university's retirement plan. The deal also comes with additional incentive pay based on his team's performance.
"John is one of the most respected coaches in the country and revered people within the university community," Michigan's interim athletic director Jim Hackett said in a release. "While he has accomplished many great things on the basketball court, it is his leadership, guidance and role as an educator that truly makes him one of our great ambassadors. We look forward to John continuing to represent the University of Michigan for many years to come."
Beilein, who has compiled a 717–428 record through 37 seasons as a college head coach, will enter his ninth year with Michigan this season. He has led the Wolverines to five NCAA tournament appearances in his tenure, including an appearance in the 2013 national championship game.
The Wolverines open the 2015–16 season on Nov. 13 at home against Northern Michigan.
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Sex StatsWhether it's penis size, papillomavirus risk, or profligate pregnancies, it's good to know the numbers. Check out these stats to see if you are well within the sexual mean — or if you're off the charts. [Read: 5 Myths About the Male Body, Female Body]
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Are you infected?At least 50 percent of sexually active men and women will have a genital HPV infection at some point in their lives. HPV, or human papillomavirus, comes in both low- and high-risk forms; low-risk HPV can cause genital warts, and high-risk can cause cervical and other cancers. In 90 percent of cases, the body's immune system will fight off the disease within two years.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Did you take maternity leave?Two-thirds of women who had their first baby between 2001 and 2003 worked during their pregnancy, and 80 percent of those women worked within one month or less of giving birth. Compare this to the period between 1961 and 1965, when 44 percent of women worked during their pregnancy (35 percent worked one month or less before delivering).
Source: U.S. Census
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How many sex partners have you had?What's your number? According to a survey of adults aged 20 to 59, women have an average of four sex partners during their lifetime; men have an average of seven.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics
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Do you get fringe benefits?Two-thirds of college students have been in a "friends with benefits" relationship, citing the lack of commitment required as the main advantage to such an arrangement. More than half of those who had sex with a friend said they had engaged in all forms of sex; 22.7 percent said they had intercourse only, while 8 percent said they did everything but have intercourse.
Source: Wayne State University and Michigan State University
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Do you reach orgasm every time?While 75 percent of men always reach orgasm during sex, only 29 percent of women report the same. In addition, most women are unable to climax through vaginal intercourse, instead needing clitoral stimulation.
Source: National Health and Social Life Survey
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Do you have a comfortable couch?About one out of 10 married adults - 12 percent - say that they typically sleep alone.
Source: National Sleep Foundation
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When did you lose your virginity?The average male loses his virginity at age 16.9; females average slightly older, at 17.4. And a new study shows that genetics may be a factor: inherited traits, such as impulsivity, can make a person more or less willing to have sex at an earlier age.
Sources: Kinsey Institute; California State University
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Do you need assistance?Approximately 5 percent of 40-year-old men and between 15 to 25 percent of 65-year-old men experience erectile dysfunction.
Source: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
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Does size matter?Relax, guys. No matter what those, ahem, movies might suggest, in the United States, the average erect penis is five to seven inches long, and four to six inches in circumference.
Source: Kinsey Institute
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Why do you do it?Sure, there's the obvious. But there's also an argument for men's biological drive to perpetuate their genes: An 18th-century Russian woman holds the world record for having birthed the most children: 69, which she had over the course of 27 pregnancies that included sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. But she's outdone by the male record-holder for most kids, a Moroccan emperor who, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, sired "at least 342 daughters and 525 sons, and by 1721, he was reputed to have 700 male descendants."
Source: "Why Evolution Is True" (Viking, 2009), by Jerry Coyne


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You can also freeze this as shallow ice cubes for using later.
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Creating Keepsakes has been promoting its online gallery lately, and offering some incentives for people to post their work there. A few weeks ago on the CK blog, Erin Lincoln mentioned that they would be picking the next fresh face layout from the gallery, and they have started a "Page of the Day" feature. CK editor Tracy White goes through the gallery regularly and has picked up pages for publication that way.
So I thought - why not? I always intend to submit layouts to CK, but never get around to it. So I found some pages that haven't been picked up for publication and uploaded them.
Anyway, I got back from ISC to find an email from Kelly Goree, from the cherryArte DT, telling me that one of my pages had been chosen as one of the pages of the day the previous week on Erin Lincoln's blog! And to my surprise - this was the one she picked. I did this page in no time at all one night while half watching a movie on TV. I think it might have been Love Actually. Maybe I should rent it again, and see if it works a second time ;-)
Couldn't decide if I loved it or hated it when it was finished, and I used a whole packet of those cheap crystal epoxy stickers you can buy at Big W. I love those things. I haven't even shown the page to my mum yet, because I thought it was just a bit too over the top.
Just goes to show that you never can tell what people will like!
And then a couple of days ago, one of Kelly's beautiful cherryArte layouts was POTD! Congratulations Kelly :-)


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Jim is booked in for March 6th. It is like taking a dog to the vet, they hate it but feel better after, like.Still, always a worry
If it's more than £500 it'll be off to the scrap yard for mine. It's already costing me a grand in tax and insurance a year and it only does about 4,000 miles a year nowIt does a lot of them very fast though
MeMi must need an MoT this year...
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Many people my age dread getting older. Dread being in their 30's. I do not. I am so excited that I will turn 29 in couple weeks. I am very much looking forward to saying goodbye to my twenties. I don't know if there is a particular reason for feeling this way or not. I am just happier about where I am in life than ever before. I am more comfortable and confident than I was in my earlier twenties. I hope that this trend continues as I age. If it does than I will be a person who likes aging quite well.
Each new year I compile a list in my journal and on my blog...a year's best list. Here is this year's edition.
Best book: Extremely loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer...breathtaking
Best movie-drama: Milk
Best movie-comedy: I liked Sex & The City and Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Best performance (onscreen): Sean Penn, Milk
Best play: I will have to vote for a musical... Seussical the Musical. Although I did enjoy Othello here in KC in the park this summer.
Best play I read: Broke-ology- Nathan L. Jackson. Lincoln Center, NYC- 09
Best live musical performance: Missy Higgins at the Record Bar in Kansas City
Best day: Keenan's 27th Birthday in Philly & the election of our upcoming President top my list.
Best gift: My BCBG black wool coat or the Jay Cutler women's cut jersey in white (both courtesy of Keenan).
Best new recipe: pumpkin pancakes for breakfast and ritz chicken for dinner
Best new gadget: my book light...I know these were invented awhile ago, but I have just now fallen in love.
Best thing to watch on TV: LOST or House (still my faves)
Best new show on TV: The Mentalist
Best vacation: Philly (yep Philly tops Vegas...barely)
Best babies: It's a tie...but here they are in birth order: Joshua Garretson, Greyson Rawls, Maxx Riggert, Tiernan Ptacek...it was the year of the boy...let's see if 09 brings us some ladies.
Here's a rewind to my last year's ideas...
December 31
fresh start
12/31 is truly my favorite day of the year, every year. Even this year. I really believe in the "fresh start idea" that a new year gives us. Writing 08 on things suddenly gives me a little distance and closure from the mistakes and sadness of a prior year. 08 brings me further away in time from mistakes that I sometimes have a difficult time not fixating on.
Last year began on a fire escape watching fireworks and hoping the lyrics of Adam Duritz's song "A Long December" were really going to come true this year. For the most part I think they did. 07 was wholly better than 06. Hopefully 08 will hold the same promise, although it won't come in as fiery as 07 did. In my written journal I usually try to sum up the year in my favorite and worst moments of the year. I thought I'd do something a little less intimate here but still fun.
Best movie I saw in 07- Gone baby gone, (Ben and Casey affleck do work that is not-too-shabby at all)
Best album I've listened to in 07- Radiohead "In Rainbows" easily the winner here.
The best book I read in 07- Where the Wild Things Areby Maurice Sendak (really it is has the most substance of any book I read this year, otherwise I read plays or I read books for pleasure).
Best play I read this year: Rabbit Hole (it may be a cliché choice since it won the Pulitzer but it was the best choice considering I read both of Nathan Jackson's plays in 06 and couldn't count them.
The best play I saw in 07—I was a little limited on plays this year…probably because my status as a grad student in a theatre department ended in May. So I've only seen about 7 plays this year and most of them were at Little Apple U. I choose William Inge's Dark at the Top of the Stairs at Little Apple U. I plan on seeing a few more plays in 08—probably a certain TYA production a number of times.
In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.- Diego Marchi
I'm hoping 08 brings many good things for you all. I am hoping for a nomination and the election of Barack Obama, finally being in the same state as Isaiah, happy and healthy births for Greyson and Maxx, to be able to unpack my suitcases and boxes eventually, last year I completed about 125 scrapbooking layouts (however I didn't start up again until May) so this year I am hoping to complete 300 layouts and finally get caught up in a bunch of areas, I am of course hoping 08 also brings peace
I did not achieve 300 layouts. I did 191 this year. And sadly peace didn't come for the united states. Hoping that 09 brings an end to the war.


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In his free time he has enjoyed building and restoring multiple high-end classic cars. In 2002 he was awarded the Top 100 title in the country for a 57 Chevy, and in 2003 he helped build a 23 Model T national winner. He has hand-built and ridden on two motorcycle choppers, for which his 12-foot long chopper was the national winner in 2003. Boots has owned over ten motorcycles MOSTLY Harleys. Every chance he gets he loves to go boating with family and friends.
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"A military judge on Wednesday morning sentenced Army Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks...
According to the military, Manning is required to serve one-third of the sentence before he becomes eligible for parole...
The decision was immediately condemned by the American Civil Liberties Union.
"When a soldier who shared information with the press and public is punished far more harshly than others who tortured prisoners and killed civilians, something is seriously wrong with our justice system," said Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project."
Source: Washington Post
Hat tip: Memeorandum
Libertarian resources on Manning:
The Truth About Bradley Manning [Video] by: Stefan Molyneux
Manning's Apology Is A Forced Confession.. Obviously