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The Cars That Ate Paris
In Paris, the traffic is murder.
Paris is a quiet little country town… but the unsuspecting motorist who turns off the main highway, attracted by a barrage of inviting signs, will soon discover that the road to Paris is a DEATH TRAP!
The town's residents live off road accidents. They snare motorists, dispose of the dead and conduct medical experiments on the injured.
Paris lives off cars – spare parts are their currency – however, the source of their livelihood is about to turn against them. The cars will have their revenge.
"The Cars That Ate Paris" was Peter Weir's first major feature film. It is arguably his most striking, offbeat and original work. It also contains one of the most memorable performances by veteran Australian actor, John Meillon.
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A boy and his jetpack save the world against an army of randomly generated bosses.
4.01 / 5.00 39,932 Views3rd World Farmer is a really good strategy game with a political background.
The game was designed by the 3rd World Farmer Team http://www.3rdworldfarmer .com/About.html.
Neodelight.com liked the game and its cause and sponsored the game. If you want to do something good for mankind the 3rdworldfarmer website is a good place to start: http://www.3rdworldfarmer .com/links.html
I was sending back lots of emails with the 3rdworldfarmer guys and newgrounds to get the highscore to work but we did not succeed. If you want to post your highscores please play on www.neodelight.com/3rdwor ldfarmer
(Don't forget to click "full screen" on neodelight).
I might like it more if I didn't lose everything at he end of every turn.
very great game, 10-10 without a dowt, i beat the game in 16 days with harvesters maxed, barns (exept for one well) maxed, full elifants. 8 members, but i desided to keep this put up down here so i could play it till day 40 :DDD
Just that awsome
Great little Simulation, the random scenarios are nice even though they're not really good but a nice add in.
I beat the game in 23 days, wasn't easy trust me. The game wants you to lose.
What I did was start off with corn, then corn with a little wheat.
Once i got $120+ get Cotton, and make sure you can get tools as well
Shovel and Scythe is good at first, don't get the Plow until you make $500+
Also make sure you send atleast one of your kids to school, and check everyone's health. I lost the daughter :/ and from the looks of it someone will always die. once you have a good income of $350+
A WELL is a must! helps from your crops dying.
Buy a Road, or Radio. It helps ALOT, and from then on, work on mixing your crops a bit, depending on price. But for me I sticked with ALOT of Cotton, and a bit of peanuts. Afterwards once your kid has maybe 6+ years in school make him head of family, helps make reasonable choices and from the looks of it helps with prices as well. Hope this helps guys, if you need help message me firstname.lastname@example.com
Its good to see a game like this be made. It expresses the tragic reality that goes on in this world and how privileged some of us are. Good work and it would great to see a sequel.
It kept me entertained for a short period of time. I like the idea of the game; however it doesn't pan out all that well. I dislike the fact that the game decides when it's over. I rather have the ability to play as much as I want without restarting.
There are a few glitches that I encountered, such as, a square where I could plant a crop wouldn't show the crop there at all.
It would be nice to reduce the carpal tunnel if there was an option to plant 5 of or 10 of without actually having drag and drop every 30 seconds.
The visuals were pretty bland without any effort in animation. I don't expect a free game to be extremely impressive, but it seems very little effort was put into this aspect of the game.
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More than half of all European amphibians could be extinct by 2050
Thursday 25 September 2008
Factors including climate change, habitat destruction and disease could wipe out more than half of Europe's amphibians by 2050, according to scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).
Scientists at ZSL presented evidence for this, and their plans for future amphibian conservation, at a special event hosted by Sir David Attenborough, world-renowned naturalist, well-loved broadcaster and amphibian enthusiast.
Amphibians are the lifeblood of many environments, playing key roles in the functions of ecosystems, and it is both extraordinary and terrifying that in just a few decades the world could lose half of all these species, commented Sir David Attenborough. I am delighted to be working with the Zoological Society of London to promote amphibian conservation, in the hope that we will not be hearing the dying croaks of these amazing creatures in the years to come.
Your donations are urgently needed and will go directly to help support one of our amphibian projects. You can donate here or through the EDGE website
Speaking at the lecture, Dr Trent Garner, a Research Fellow at ZSL, said climate change will dramatically affect the living conditions of amphibians and survival of populations.
Published projections show that climate change alters amphibians' habitats so we expect a large number of amphibian species to be faced with loss of habitat and ultimately extinction. In the UK we are already seeing common toads losing condition and experiencing reduced survival. As climate change continues to impact habitats, the situation gets far worse for these native species.
In addition to identifying climate change as a threat, Dr Garner and his colleagues also highlighted two infectious diseases affecting survival rates, a chytrid fungus and ranaviruses. Ranavirus kills thousands of amphibians in the UK each year and the chytrid fungus, implicated in extinctions of amphibian species around the world, has recently been identified in the UK.
The EDGE (Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered) programme focuses on conserving evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered species and their habitats. The event, 'Amphibians in a climate of change' supported and raised money for ZSL's EDGE programme amphibian conservation work, led by Dr Jonathan Baillie, ZSL Conservation Programmes Director.
Helen Meredith, EDGE Amphibians Coordinator, said: Clearly there is no time to waste if we are to prevent further species loss and effectively conserve unusual, threatened and neglected amphibian species in the wild. We need to reduce carbon emissions but also address other pressing factors including habitat destruction and spread of disease.
In the first ever comprehensive review of extant amphibians (the Global Amphibian Assessment, or GAA), it was found that almost half of amphibians are declining and one-third are currently facing some degree of threat of extinction.


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The word "gambling" is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word "gamenian", the meaning of that is "to play". But the pathological gambling definition takes the meaning one step farther: "an unstoppable urge to gamble". . Since the 1980's, the gambling industry has been developing unabated and now there is a variety of gambling games that are offered worldwide and that have gained great popularity.
The gambling business receives good profits, because a lot of people are involved in this industry and are ready to spend their last dollar on the hope of winning. Some of them win but in most cases the losses are great. This tendency to give everything for the game regardless of the situation for the sake of winning is called the pathological gambling definition of which is considered as a chronic mental illness that has to be cured.
People with pathological gambling syndrome run the risk of losing their job, family, relationships, and money. They are always in debt and are liable to commit crimes and steal in order to find the money for further playing. This syndrome provided by the pathological gambling definition makes the person dependent psychologically on gambling. Pathological gamblers have an inmpulse control disorder that is characterized by attempts to satisfy their needs and desires immediately. They cannot control this feeling and become emotionally programmed to betting. They lose their own significance and cannot imagine themselves out of the game.
According to this pathological gambling definition, pathological gamblers suffer from will-power disorder; they are unable to make many decisions on their own. These functions are connected with brains and disorders lead to serious consequences. Betting for such people is the only way for avoiding stress and forgetting about problems. The dream of becoming rich and famous is a way of receiving the things that their soul needs. But this is only an illusion and these dreams never come true. The game usually deceives the gambler's hopes, faith, and expectations.
There are some reasons why this problem exists. Passion for risk, strong impressions, concentration of emotions - all these become attractive for people who find themselves disposed for addiction. Statistically people who are exposed for drug addiction or alcohol abuse can easily suffer from the pathological gambling syndrome. The game creates its effects in the brains, and produces the programs of behavior, gives confidence, justifies their actions and behavior.
So the main reason is psychological dependence that is connected with predisposition. That is why the methods of treatment of this dependence should be conformed to psychotherapy. The medications help but not totally. First of all, the patient must want to be cured by himself and to endeavor to avoid the temptation to start from the beginning.
The most effective method of treating such illness is psychological sessions that can be held with the therapist or in the group with other patients who have the same problem. Currently there are a lot of organizations worldwide. Their main goal is to help such people involved in the pathological gambling. One of them - the Gamblers Anonymous - has appeared also in many other countries because the problem has reached global proportions.


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a blog about the author's fascination with all fiber arts such as quilting, sewing and knitting...
Friday, December 6, 2013
rest in peace...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela stands before an AIDS quilt during a World AIDS Day function in Bloemfontein,
South Africa, Sunday Dec. 1, 2002.
Monday, December 2, 2013
challenge 4 art #3...
The theme of our online art group Challenge 4 Art for this quarter was WINTER. Canada is a country which has a long and cold one. You have to embrace it or go crazy. One of the first signs that winter is coming is when the snow fences go up everywhere. They are made of a very distinctive orange plastic mesh and help direct drifting snow. They delineate cliffs, river banks and roads whose edges might be otherwise dangerously obscured. To make my piece, I took a shot of my dog playing in the first light snow of the season that thankfully did not stay on the ground for long.
I edited the shot in iPhoto- cropping out Her Majesty and bumping up the color saturation. I played with an arrangement of multiple images before printing them on silk organza. The organza came in pre-prepared sheets from Dharma Trading which is the most phenomenal supply house for textile crafts of every kind.
The organza prints were sewn together with the paper backing on to prevent slippage. Then the paper was removed. Originally I planned to use the sheer printed organza over a background fabric for a ghost-like effect until I made an exciting (to me) discovery...
Quite by accident my test shot ended up on a shiny piece of foil fabric from a Halloween costume. The effect was fascinating. Because the foil fabric mirrors back the image it saturates the colors and makes the photos look 3D like those of a vintage View-Master. Here is another shot with a fabric strip in the middle so that you can see the flat "before" and stereoscopic "after".
In my challenge piece, the fabric slightly glistens behind the snow fence collage. I used gift wrap tape to hold the translucent print and foil fabric together (spray mount showed through as a splotch), then layered and quilted the piece. It was really easy to sew.
The finished mini is about 10" square. As in the other challenges, trying new techniques has been so much fun. While I have mixed feelings about my finished quilt, I am thrilled with the discovery of layering the reflective fabric behind the sheer. The next experiment will be making my own silk organza sheets for a large format printer using freezer paper for a backing. The paired fabrics are so light and colorfast you could make clothing out of them with your own digital prints like the work of designer Mary Katrantzou. It is really hard to capture with the camera but this layering is a gorgeous effect and one that I'm definitely going to explore further...
Check out what everyone else made for WINTER!
Lisa: Love to Color My World
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Claudia will be back for challenge#4
Monday, November 18, 2013
blogathon canada...
This week is Blogathon Canada. You can travel across the country and meet lots of inspiring quilters. There are tons of cool blogs to check out and many prizes to be won! Here's the schedule for the week...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
dresdens dresdens everywhere...
I've become addicted to online courses at sites like Craftsy and in this instance CreativeBug. My schedule is erratic and I love learning in my pajamas and get a textile fix that is more economical than fabric shopping. Also sewing time is scarce these days...
This week, I finished watching the "Dresden Plates" class taught by Kathy Doughty of Material Obsession fame. She teaches how to construct this classic block. More interestingly she takes you through her process of auditioning fabrics for the blocks. She discusses for each one the fabric she likes, those she doesn't and more importantly why they do or don't work. She mixes all genres of print in the most fascinating ways. I love watching creative people work creatively. This process is usually silent but in this class you get to briefly be in KD's very visual head.
Catching up on my favorite blogs today, I came across this recent post by Andie about some Dresden blocks she found at an antiques show. She's decided to mix her blocks with traditional fabrics. She is a super quilter and I look forward to seeing what she makes with them.
Finally this afternoon, with Dresden Plates on the brain I went to Goodwill with a carload of donations and found these vintage blocks sitting forlornly on a shelf in the thrift store. Needless to say they came home with me. I think these Dresdens are going to end up paired with some modern prints but first they need some attention. They are dirty and need a wash. Any suggestions on the best way to get them clean?
November... The month of Dresden.
Monday, November 4, 2013
quilting in space...
NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg hosted a quilting bee in space to coincide with last week's International Quilt Festival in Houston. You can watch the LA Times video and read the accompanying article here. She describes in fascinating detail the challenges of piecing fabric in zero gravity. Actually, her velcro board is a great idea for the absent-minded here on Earth... She invites anyone and everyone to make a star-themed block to be assembled into a quilt celebrating the IQF show's 40th anniversary next year. Quilters really do appear in the most surprising places!
Thursday, October 31, 2013
happy halloween...
"Ghouls Night Out"
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
eat or sew...
Grown-up life is intruding on creative fun but there is still lots of late at night armchair designing going on around here. My best friend is doing a degree in culinary arts and wants to know if I can try and replicate these laser cut nori sheets on my die cutter. These ones were stencilled by an ad company for a spring exhibition in Japan. Since I'm not a scrapbooker and only cut geometric shapes and strips out of fabric, we are going to head out to the craft store to if there is an allover pattern die for paper to try. Hopefully, all my fabric afterwards doesn't end up smelling like seaweed...
Don't these exquisite images make you want to sew a black and white quilt? Perhaps with a few accents of yellow, orange and green?
Monday, October 7, 2013
one day of sun during a storm...
Have not made anything much lately as my father had a stroke. It was a great shock to everyone as his diet, weight and fitness level are exemplary. I can write these sentences now only because he appears to be recovering nicely. One worry free day was spent at a Kaffe Fassett workshop last week. There are certain teachers that should be on every quilter's young or old "bucket list" to take a class with and KF is one of them. It was challenging to work with such saturated and dense floral prints with nary a solid or white-based fabric in sight! The class was interesting as he and Brandon Mably teach by a kind of osmosis. It is hard to articulate by what means but they show you how to see color and light through their eyes. Both have an unerring sense of design. You work independently and they circulate the studio stopping only to pull out the perfect fabric that suddenly makes everything look so much better. The pattern is "Chintz" from "Kaffe Quilts Again".
On the left is mine early in the day and next to me is my friend Karen's. Hers turned out to be my favorite!
Saturday, September 21, 2013
block for sarah...
This is a block for Sarah Fielke's Birthday quilt which is a re-creation of her "All That And The Hatter" from her latest book. As ridiculous as it sounds, this block took me forever to make. My first attempt at appliqueing the handle with freezer paper was a complete disaster. Am not very experienced and that inner curve was tight. The block was saved by my discovery of this tutorial on front basting by Liza Prior Lucy. In front basting, I copied the shape of the handle on freezer paper and then ironed it to the right side of the fabric. I then sewed this to the block with contrasting thread. If you click on the photo below you can see this step in more detail. I sewed at a regular 2.5mm stitch length. Then I unpicked a few stitches at a time trimming as I went and hand sewed with a matching thread. The beauty of this method is that you don't need pins or glue. The piece is very stable and the unpicked stitching creates the perfect crease to turn the seam allowance. Can't say front basting will make an applique addict of me but it sure made the technique pretty painless... Hope she like it!
Saturday, September 14, 2013
st. louis 16 patch top finished...
I finished this top a few days ago but needed BOH's (Beloved Other Half's) help to photograph it. This St. Louis 16 Patch is so large that Mark very kindly borrowed some rigging stands meant to hold movie lights from the studio from the Key Grip. Thank you so much Stretch (yes that is his name...)! Still wrestling with how it is going to be quilted...
Below is a shot of my crew lying down on the job.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
challenge 4 art #2...
As I wrote about here, I excitedly joined this group "Challenge 4 Art". Our second challenge was "BLUE". I decided to explore the subject on two levels. I made a quilt about my first "grown-up" bike from my childhood. At the time, all the girls' bikes in the store were pink and I desperately wanted a blue one. My parents ended up giving me the boy's metallic royal blue 10 speed model. I loved it although admittedly that crossbar made for some painful abrupt stops! Furthering the blue theme, I made my piece using a cyanotype imaging or blueprint process that makes a cyan-blue photo on paper or fabric. Because the method is so fast I could not take pictures.
It is a very easy process with only 4 steps:
- Place your design element on the treated fabric. (I printed the bike image on overhead projector acetate from the office supply store. I covered everything to weigh it down with glass from a picture frame to make the image as sharp as possible.)
- Expose the fabric to sunlight. (It took about 12 minutes on a sunny day at around 2 pm but this varies depending on where in the world you live and the weather conditions.)
- Rinse the fabric until the water runs clear.
- Dry the fabric and then use!
The contrast in my image could be better. My acetate was a bit transparent which means my bike ended up pale blue rather than white. I wanted to try again by marking over the transparency with a black pen but since the weather was not co-operating by becoming overcast I used the original print I'd made enhanced by some free motion embroidery and a zig zag border to suggest motion.
You can buy pretreated fabric or the chemicals to make your own blue prints at this site. Cyanotype printing is a fascinating process and the level of detail achieved is just amazing. Have a look at theses images at Flickr. As in the last challenge, it was so much fun to try something new and am looking forward to the next one. Check out how the other Challenge 4 Art participants Lisa, Amy and Claudia interpreted "BLUE"!
Sunday, September 1, 2013
fresh sewing day...
Friday, August 30, 2013
quiltmania mania continues...
Quiltmania has done it again with its latest release "Godharis" which examines the utility quilts of western India. Like many other nations, these quilts were/are sewn by rural women out of used clothing. They are made out of old saris and cloth layered then finished with big stitch or kantha-like quilting. Because Indian clothing is often brilliantly colored, their utility quilts are vibrant and utterly charming. I can't take shots without breaking the spine but you can take a short virtual tour of the book here. It just arrived and I want the world to go away for a few hours so that I can get lost in its pages...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
good gadget...
When I need to iron for a long time and am pressing more challenging fabrics that require lots of steam and weight, I use a gravity feed iron. I wheel it around hooked up to an IV stand that I bought from a medical supply store. It is fantastic but it sucks power and when pressing just a couple of cotton quilt blocks sewn with stolen minutes is often overkill. I found this gadget for the domestic iron which keeps the cord held safely taut, up and out of the way . It is called the Cordminder. It was around $10 and clips to the ironing board. Love it...
Friday, August 16, 2013
final St. Louis blocks...
Yeah- I finished the final blocks. Like in the previous post, the photo does not show the duplicate ones. Am ready to put this together but have a few technical issues to figure out. This sucker is huge: that is, 49 blocks arranged 7 X 7 that are 16" each for a king size total of 112" square. Mine are larger than the tutorial's 14" because I used my 4 1/2" strip die on the cutter to quickly prepare all the fabric. I was worried this quilt will be too big but my husband not so tactfully pointed out that we are getting plumper and probably need more surface area to cover us up?! Am not sure where to lay the blocks out to arrange something this large and how on earth to quilt this top. Am open to any and all suggestions...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
meet me in st. louis...
It has not been much of a summer for indoor creativity. Above are the first few blocks of my St. Louis 16 Patch that I originally wrote about here. I must say, if you are having problems getting into a sewing groove this pattern is the cure. It is easy to make the blocks and because of their size the fabrics really sing. It seems to look great in every possible kind of print. At this stage, mine is a bit too like a checkerboard but am hoping that this is just the random nature of the sewing order. There are some less contrasting combinations coming up. This quilt is going to be a monster in size but it is tremendously satisfying to sew...
Hope you are all well out there?! I look forward to reading and catching up on everyone's blogs...
Saturday, July 20, 2013
nqr heat...
Thankfully, it is cooler today but earlier in the week... 126 F degrees in that car not counting the humidity. Read the whole story here.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
st. louis 16 patch...
Unexpectedly, we have a chance to get out of town for a bit. I've been trying to prep some projects so that I can mindlessly sew upon my return. Thanks to a suggestion by Andie, above is the fabric cut up to put together one of these:
Steffani's amazing tutorial and this inspiring Flickr pool make for what will be easy and stash busting summer sewing...
Not sure what the weather is like where you are but after a record breaking storm apparently we now live in Venice. Am not sure whether to pack the car or build a boat. Thankfully, there are no fatalities but lots of people are still without power and there is another storm forecast for tonight...
Thursday, July 4, 2013
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We have a lot to appreciate through the study of science. Advances in medical research and developments in technology can be attributed to the study of science. The religious may argue that science is the enemy but in many ways our lives are blessed because of the study of science.
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Another Epic Day at the Lake
Posted: January 8, 2009 Filed under: Avalanche Control | Tags: Lake Louise, Powder 2 Comments »While the snow may have let up a bit today, the smiles did not as skiers and boarders enjoyed another day of powder turns at Lake Louise. This recent storm, nearing a total of 50cm over the last few days, has added a third to a half of our total snowpack, and with forecasts calling varying amounts over the next three or four days, it doesn't look like it's about to stop.
The wind that was absent during the bulk of this storm finally arrived early this morning, and we started to see some of this new snow get moved around. If the wind keeps up, avalanche control teams will have a lot of work ahead of them since wind-deposited snow tends to make the hairiest avalanche conditions with the biggest consequences. By consequences, I mean destructive power. Over the last few days, we've been able to get some small loose snow avalanches started in steeper terrain, but these slides didn't pick up much mass or run all that far. The snow remained loose, so even the avalanche debris made for good skiing.
When wind-blown snow is deposited on leeward slopes, it forms a slab, and this is due to a few things. First, as the wind moves the flakes over the ground, the delicate crystals break into smaller pieces, meaning they can be packed more densely. Also, the wind acts as a packer, pushing the pieces of crystals even closer together. The resulting slab becoms one big piece of snow, meaning that if one section of the slope wants to slide, the rest of the slope is more likely to go with it. The dense chunks of slab have the potential to cause much more damage than a loose snow avalanche, which can flow around objects more easily. Of course, if there's enough volume, a loose snow avalanche can be very destructive.
With all of this new snow and the huge load it has now placed on the underlying snow layers, we will be heli-bombing for about half-an-hour tomorrow morning. I'll be there, camera and all, and will post all about it in the next day or two (or three).
More Powder at the Lake for Thursday!
Posted: January 8, 2009 Filed under: Winter 2011-12 | Tags: Lake Louise, Powder, snow Leave a comment »When I left Lake Louise last night it was snowing. When I arrived at Lake Louise this morning, it was snowing. It's snowing now, and it appears we've received another 10cm at the base area, with more up top. Once again, there was little to no wind, which means terrain should open quickly (the gates to normally open terrain were all cracked before 10:00am yesterday).
If you were here yesterday, you already know what an epic day it was, with a nice deep layer of light dry powder evenly distributed everywhere. With light crowds, there were fresh lines to enjoy all day long, and by the looks of things, it'll be that much deeper today.
The first photo below is the "unofficial" snow plot outside my office window at the base area. I cleared it off yesterday morning after I took a similar shot, so all of the accumulated snow is in the last 24 hrs.
Powder Update – Wednesday 10:30am
Posted: January 7, 2009 Filed under: Winter 2011-12 | Tags: Lake Louise, Powder Leave a comment »Back at the computer for a quick post after a great morning of avalanche control and after having visited our weather plot on the back side. As expected, there was no wind-affected snow; in fact, it was light, dry powder, and it continues to come down. There are no lift lines, so this is going to be a great week to get to the Lake and enjoy powder all day long.
Some significant numbers from our Pika plot (as of 10:30am today):
- 24hr snowfall – 27cm
- Since 3:00pm yesterday – 19cm
Of course, when it's snowing, the photography is difficult, and I'm okay with that. The shot below was taken around tree line, where the trees add a little definition to the slope.
Powder at the Lake!
Posted: December 2, 2008 Filed under: Winter 2011-12 | Tags: Lake Louise, new snow, Powder, whitehorn 1 1 Comment »The weatherman came through for us again last night and this morning, dumping a nice new layer of Rockies powder for all to enjoy. Our remote weather station this morning reported 19cm of new snow in the previous 24 hrs, with most leeward slopes in the alpine areas getting more than 20cm. The new snow was accompanied by wind, but luckily there was no slab or wind crust to spoil the fun. Skiing conditions were great all day long, and were made better by the opening of Whitehorn I for the first time. While still rocky around the top 1/3, there are great lines lower down, especially on the skier's left side of the run, which spills over into Adrenaline for a nice long powder run. Skiing was also great in Brownshirt and Crow Bowl, and by the end of today there were still unskied lines to be found.
Some photos from today:
Now let's hope the weatherman is right about the snow that's supposed to come later this week…
Lake Louise Powder !
Posted: November 21, 2008 Filed under: Winter 2011-12 | Tags: Boomerang, Lake Louise, Paradise, Powder, Saddleback, Summit, Top of the World Leave a comment »For those lucky enough to be at Lake Louise today, conditions did not disappoint, as skiers and riders venturing onto the the upper mountain were greeted with great early-season conditions. Early season in Lake Louise usually means rocks, but for those not too worried about a few new dings in their bases, there were lots of powder turns to be had. While the Snow Safety weather station reported 4cm of new snow overnight, the wind was once again our friend as amounts were often greater, especially on the backside. The following photos were all taken today:
If you feel like you missed out today on some great conditions, fear not – tomorrow marks the day we open Boomerang for the first time, and in case you missed the photos in previous posts, here's what it looked like today, which is also what it will look like right before we open it Saturday morning. With only a little work to complete before the gate drops, be there early to ensure some epic turns:
While Boomerang is in terrific shape, the approach through Windy Gap is still bare, and will require that skiers and boarders remove their planks and do a short walk to get across the flat rock patch. After that, it's in great shape all the way to Paradise chair. Also opening Saturday morning will be Outer Limits, which is always a solid early-season performer. The long permanent snow fence has done its usual magic and created a nice wide drift to enjoy, as shown in the photo below, taken this afternoon:
The Mountain Operations team has been working at full tilt getting all of this new terrain ready, and while they may be tempted to pause and enjoy the fruits of their efforts, they'll continue working to get even more terrain open. Look for Paradise Bowl and Crow Bowl, among others, to open in the next few days.
Reminder: the new Ptarmigan chair is still under construction, so for those going back side, Paradise chair represents the only means of returning to the front side of the mountain. All upper mountain terrain (as the patroller will tell you before loading Top of the World lift) is 'experts only', and there remain many marked and unmarked hazards. Tread lightly in places of less snow.
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Walter Strauss is a spellbinding finger-style guitarist whose fiery technique conjures several instruments playing at once. With roots in American music and musicality that evokes far reaches of the globe, he weaves Americana, world beat, and jazz into a brand uniquely his own. Walter's songs are romantic yet edgy, filled with intelligent and vivid imagery.
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1944 born in Hong Chon, Kangwon-do, Korea
1968 BFA Hong-Ik University, Korea
1971 MFA Philadelphia College of Art
Lives and works in Seoul
2010 National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2009 'Art in Blue, Blue in Art', The Columns Gallery, Seoul
0000 Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales
0000 University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
0000 Moscow Biennale , Moscow, Russia
0000 Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
0000 Landau Fine Art, Inc., Montreal, Canada
0000 Mori Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
0000 University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming
2008 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut
0000 'Midnight Full of Stars', Visual Art Center, New Jersey
0000 'Undercover Project', The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
0000 Robert Miller Gallery, New York
2007 The Columns Gallery, Seoul, Korea
0000 'Addicted to Paper', Gallery Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
2006 Kim Foster Gallery, New York
0000 "Holland Paper Biennial," CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
0000 (concurrently viewed at the Museum Rijswijk)
0000 Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
0000 Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
0000 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2005 Kukje Gallery, Seoul
0000 "2005 Seoul Art Exhibition," Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2004 Kim Foster Gallery, New York
0000 "The Art Scene in New York" Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
0000 "Commemorative Exhibition of Seoul Museum of Art South Branch" opening, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
0000 Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
2003 Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
0000 "Crossings Korea/Hawaii", The contemporary Museum, Honolulu
0000 " Art Unlimited," Art 34 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
0000 New contemporaries, Sydney
2002 Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
0000 Kim Foster Gallery, New York
0000 Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York Kukje Gallery, Seoul
2001 "The Artist of this year", The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2000 Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
0000 Comemenoz Gallery, Key Biscayne,
0000 Kim Foster Gallery
1999 Park Ryu-Sook Gallery, Seoul
0000 Kim Foster Gallery, New York City
1998 Gallery SiKong, Taegu
1997 Gallery Bhak, Seoul
1995 Gallery Bhak, Seoul
1994 Jong Ro Gallery, Seoul
1992 Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
1990 Gallery Dong Sung Arts Center, Seoul
1989 Gallery Yoon, Seoul
1988 Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
1987 Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul 1986 Sirota Gallery, Tokyo
1985 Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1984 Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul
1980 American Cultural Center Gallery, Seoul
1979 Malta National Museum, Saint Julian, Malta Lotus Gallery, New York City
1977 Shin Sea Gea Gallery, Seoul
1976 Fifth St. Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware
0000 Fine Art Center, Seoul 1975 Lotus Gallery, New York City
1972 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York City, U
1971 International House Gallery, Philadelphia
1968 Seoul Cultural Center Gallery, Seoul
2002 Art 33 Basel, Kukje Gallery, Basel
0000 Art Basel Miami Beach, Kukje Gallery, Miami Beach.
2001 "Compelled", Hunterdon Museum of Art, New Jersey
0000 Art 32Basel, Gallery Kukje, Basel
0000 Art 2001 Chicago, Gallery Kukje, Navy Pier in Chicago
0000 Art Miami, Park Ryu-Sook Gallery, Miami
2000 "Dealer's Choice, Robert Kidd Gallery, Michigan
0000 San Francisco Art Exhibition, Park Ryu-Sook Gallery, San Francisco
0000 Park Ryu-Sook Gallery
0000 Art 31 Basel, Gallery Kukje, Basel
0000 Gwenda Jay/ Addington Gallery, Chicago
0000 Art Miami, Park Ryu-Sook Gallery, Miami
1999 Art Cologne '99, Park Ryu-Sook Gallery, Rheinhallen, Cologne
0000 Art30 Basel, Gallery Dorothea van der Koelen, Hallen der Messe Basel, Basel
0000 Art Palm Beach 1999, Gallery Bhak, Palm Beach International Pavilion, FL
0000 Art Miami '99, Gallery Bhak, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami
0000 Galerie Die Weisse in Cologne
1998 Galerie Dorothea van Der Koelen in Mainze
0000 "Crossing Boundaries", Galleru V, Columbus, Ohio
0000 Art Cologne '98, GalerieBhak, Cologne
0000 Seoul Art Fair, Gallery Back, Seoul Art Center
0000 San Francisco Art Exhibition, Gallery Bhak, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
0000 Art '98 Chicago at Navy Pier, Galerie Bhak, Festival Hall, Illinois
0000 Art Miami '98, Gallery Bhak, Miami Convention Center, Florida
1997 Art Cologne, Gallery Bhak, Koln Messe, Germany Exchange Exhibition with Kim Foster Gallery, New York
0000 Art Chicago '97 at Navy Pier, Gallery Bhak, Festival Hall, Chicago
0000 NICAF Tokyo '97, Gallery Bhak, Tokyo Big Sight, Toyo Korean Paper-After had been made, Walker Hill Museum, Seoul
1996 SIAF '96, Gallery Bhak, KOEX, Seoul
0000 Anthology of Contemporary Painting Artists, Da Do Gallery, Seoul
0000 Art Chicago '96 at Navy Pier, Gallery Bhak, Festival Hall, Chicago
0000 Korean Paper-The Origin Esthetics, Da Do Gallery, Seoul
1995 L.A. International Biennale Invitation, Gallery Bhak-Remba Gallery, L.A
0000 Exhibition of Paper-Korea and Japan
0000 Contemporary Artists, Chong Ro Gallery, Seoul
0000 600 Seoul International Art Festival, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwachon
1994 "Korean Paper Works of 3 Artists", Chong Ro Gallery, Seoul
1993 Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1987 Seoul-Yokohama Contemporary Artists Exhibition, Gallery of Art Cosmo Center
1986 Yokohama Contemporary Artists Exhibition, The Museum of Yokohama, Yokohama
1985 ISPPA, Walker Hill Museum
1984 '84 ISPPA-HUKUOKA, The Museum of Fukuoka
1982 "Ecole de Seoul", National Museum of Modern Art, Korea Today's Artists Exhibition, Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul
1977 The Invited Show 2 Contemporary Artists, Fifth St. Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware
1976 The Invited Exhibition Contemporary Artists, University of Delaware Museum, New York, Delaware
0000 The Invited Exhibition Lotus 10 Artists, Lotus Gallery, New York
0000 The Invited Exhibition Contemporary Artists, Baulchie Institute Museum, Philadelphia
1975 Woodmare Gallery, Philadelphia Wanamker Gallery, Philadelphia William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg
1974 The 24th Cheltenham Art Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham
0000 Derexel University Museum, Philadelphia
1973 Civic Center Museum, Philadelphia Earth Art Modern II Art Exhibition, Philadelphia,
0000 Philadelphia Civic Center Museum, Philadelphia
1971-78 National Forum of Professional Artists Show Philadelphia, Philadelphia Civic Center
0000 Museum, Philadelphia
1966-68 Korean Contemporary Artists Invited Exhibition, The Chosun Il-Bo Press Group, Seoul
1966-67 The Shin Sang Group Show, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul
1974 Silver Prize in the 27th Cheltenham Art Center Exhibition sponsored by Cheltenham Art Center
1973 Special Prize in the Earth Art II sponsored by Civic Center Museum, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A
1969 Special Prize in the 18th Korean National Art's Exhibition sponsored by the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation
1968 Accepted in the 17th Korean National Art's Exhibition sponsored by the Korean Culture and Foundation
1967 Korean Contemporary Artist's Invited Exhibition Special Prize, held by Chosun Press Group, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea.
1967-66 Special Prize in the 5th, 6th Shin Sang Group Exhibition, held by Shin Sang Group, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea.
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Hansol Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The Ho-Am Museum, Young-In, Korea
The Museum of Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea
The National Military Academy, Seoul, Korea
Seoul 63 Building, Seoul, Korea
Pak Young Sa Publishing co, Seoul, Korea
LG Group, Seoul, Korea
Woong-Jin Group, Seoul, Korea
Se Ah Steel Corp., Seoul, Korea
Hotel Shilla, Seoul, Korea Han Wha Corp., Seoul, Korea
Lake Hills Country Club, Su Won, Korea
Il Shin Spinning Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea
Yu Yu Ind. Ltd., Seoul, Korea
Syn Key Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea
Seo Heung Metal Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea
Sa Jo Corp., Seoul, Korea
Dong Yang Tinplate Corp., Seoul, Korea
Chase Manhattan Bank, N.Y., U.S.A
Rockefeller Foundation, N.Y., U.S.A
William Penn Memorial Museum, Pa. ,U.S.A
Malta National Museum, Saint Julian, Malta
Philadelphia Society Building, Philadelphia, U.S.A
Codina Group Inc. Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.A
Neiman Marcus Department Dallas, Texas, U.S.A
Jackson Corporate Consulting Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.A
Fidelity Investments, N.Y., U.S.A
Columbia University School of Law, N.Y., U.S.A
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At a time soon after the opening of the Gotthard Pass, when the Habsburg emperors of Vienna sought to control Uri and thus control trans-Alpine trade, a new bailiff, Hermann Gessler, was despatched to Altdorf. The proud mountain folk of Uri had already joined with their Schwyzer and Nidwaldner neighbours at Rütli in pledging to resist the Austrians' cruel oppression, and when Gessler raised a pole in the central square of Altdorf and perched his hat on the top, commanding all who passed before it to bow in respect, it was the last straw. William Tell, a countryman from nearby Bürglen, either hadn't heard about Gessler's command or chose to ignore it; whichever, he walked past the hat without bowing. Gessler seized Tell, who was well known as a marksman, and set him a challenge. He ordered him to shoot an apple off his son's head with his crossbow; if Tell was successful, he would be released, but if he failed or refused, both he and his son would die.
The boy's hands were tied. Tell put one arrow in his quiver and another in his crossbow, took aim, and shot the apple clean off his son's head. Gessler was impressed and infuriated – and then asked what the second arrow was for. Tell looked the tyrant in the eye and replied that if the first arrow had struck the child, the second would have been for Gessler. For such impertinence, Tell was arrested and sentenced to lifelong imprisonment in the dungeons of Gessler's castle at Küssnacht, northeast of Luzern. During the long boat journey a violent storm arose on the lake, and the oarsmen – unfamiliar with the lake – begged with Gessler to release Tell so that he could steer them to safety. Gessler acceded, and Tell cannily manoeuvred the boat close to the shore, then leapt to freedom, landing on a flat rock (the Tellsplatte) and simultaneously pushing the boat back into the stormy waters.
Determined to see his task through and use the second arrow, Tell hurried to Küssnacht. As Gessler and his party walked along on a dark lane called Hohlegasse on their way to the castle, Tell leapt out, shot a bolt into the tyrant's heart and melted back into the woods to return to Uri. His comrades were inspired by Tell's act of bravery to throw off the yoke of Habsburg oppression in their homeland, and to remain forever free.
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The effort–part of the Pantene charity Beautiful Lengths–was coordinated through the school's Do-Vall Club, which focuses on organizing community service efforts that help the school and greater community.
"We've always wanted to do a community service club," explained Michael Hawkins, a substitute teacher at DuVall, who oversees the club with third grade teacher Anne Rosenau.
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Sapphira tells the harem story of the enslavement of two girls who now reside in the sheik's harem.ENSLAVED CAPTIVESThe palace at Makram was guarded around the clock. Armed guards manned the only entrance, and kept the huge doors closed and bolted, and opened only to allow known and authorized personnel to pass. At all hours, other guards patrolled atop the high perimeter walls. While making escape from the harem impossible, its real purpose was to keep out unwanted intruders.Many years ago, during a mild sandstorm, bandits had scaled the walls of the old palace at Buraydah stealing precious jewelry and many slave girls. The ensuing sandstorm covered the abductor's tracks and neither the jewelry nor the girls were recovered. After this loss, Ali's father enforced the Turkish practice of marking by branding, to identify abducted or escaped slave girls should they be offered for sale in local markets or put to work in one of the well frequented brothels. All of Ali's girls bore a mark—his, or that of a previous owner. How valuable were slave girls that they were worth the risk of stealing? Blond haired European virgins less than sixteen years old were the most valuable and could be worth the price of twenty camels or more to those buyers who found them exceptionally attractive. A budding younger virgin, who showed good promise of things to come, could fetch the price of ten camels, her owner then putting her to work as a harem servant girl until her showings were full and regular. Girls who had lost their virginity varied widely in value depending on their age, color of skin and hair, and the fullness and firmness of that part of the female anatomy that most appealed to the buyer. Prices varied widely but were never less than the equivalent of three camels. Warring between nations and tribes had always been the main source of slaves throughout history. Spoils flowed to the victors, the vanquished taken as slaves, and sold along with their seized possessions. Tribal war and rivalries yielded black African men and women slaves who arrived in Arabia ports by ship and boat, and in the Far East, gold purchased Asian girls who came back overland along with silks and other goods in one of the many trade caravans traveling the great Silk Road. Ali owned one Asian girl, Briar Rose, indentured by her poor family, supposedly for household service in a wealthy man's home, as was common practice with female offspring in India and the Far East. Briar Rose, taken westwards and sold to Arab slavers, never saw household service.
Pirate bounty was a large source of European girls. Raids mounted from pirate lairs dotted along the coast of the Barbary States, on ships passing through the narrow Straits of Gibraltar or becalmed in quiet waters yielded many captives. Those captured who were of noble birth, or wealthy, commanded ransoms in gold, but the fate of the poor was slavery. It was common for a raiding party to return with a hundred or more captives after looting undefended towns along the coasts of the Iberian Peninsula, Ireland and Scandinavia. Captains of pirate vessels were wealthy and respected citizens in their homeports and as such, were beyond reproach. There they dallied with impunity with the choicest of their captives before delivering them for ransom, or selling them on to eager buyers. Now is perhaps a good time to write about two Ali's girls: Yasmeen and Paeonia. They have most interesting stories to tell. Yasmeen, a Visayan girl from the Far East, was a prisoner of pirates who had raided and looted her coastal fishing village. In the slave market in Al-Aqaba, a corrupt official bought her to give to the Grand Vizier of Baghdad as a bribe to curry favor and protection. The Grand Vizier took her into his harem as one of his bed-slaves. All came to an abrupt and unexpected ending. Convicted of embezzling taxes collected on behalf of the Caliph of Baghdad, the Grand Vizier and his sons were put to death and his household goods and chattels sold. His wives and daughters were enslaved and exiled beyond the far corners of the Caliph's empire where they were sold along with the vizier's harem girls and eunuchs. That is how Yasmeen found herself aboard a boat taking her back to the slave market at Al-Aqaba. Here in her own words is an account of what took place there after her arrival. "The slave trader washed and groomed me and gave me a loose fitting white cotton gown to wear, before he brought me before a seated well-fleshed woman of high rank. Her attending eunuch stood at her side. The slave trader opened the front of the gown to reveal my breasts and then peeled it back from my shoulders and let it fall to the floor about my feet. Both the woman and the eunuch asked many questions about my previous duties and knowledge and then the eunuch took me aside. With my hands behind my head, he poked and parted me, sharply slapped and pinched my breasts, buttocks and thighs, and opened my mouth to examine my teeth. An ivory rod, inserted deep into me and then withdrawn, tested the sweetness of my musk. "A price was negotiated; I was bound tightly to a camel and taken to the old palace at Buraydah. There, after further instruction and enhancement, I was given to Ali as a present to mark his fourteenth birthday. I was his first slave." Paeonia was born unwanted and unloved, the illegitimate child of a prostitute, a "Lady of the Night" who worked the dock-lands of the British port of Bristol. Her mother sold Paeonia's virginity to a sailor, "To make good for my board and keep, and the other troubles I had caused her—I stole things and told lies." In the squalor and dirt of her mother's hovel, Paeonia surrendered her virginity, while her mother looked on through a drunken gin-induced haze, encouraging him to, "Give it to her good, Mister." Following this ordeal Paeonia cropped her hair short, dressed herself in boys' clothes, and ran away from her mother. She signed on as a cabin boy on a coastal freighter, joining two other adolescent boys in the crew. Paeonia told me how Ali came to own her. "One evening we were ashore spending our hard-earned wages on tankards of tavern ale when the town hall clock struck eleven. We ran down the dockside dodging and jumping over sprawling bodies and stacked cargo and up the gangplank, beating the curfew by two minutes—the first mate always pulled the plank at exactly five minutes past eleven. On the boat, the elder boy, feeling a strong need to relieve himself, challenged us to a pissing contest to see who could pee farthest over the rail and into the sea, a challenge accepted by the other boy. "Belly up to the railing," was his rallying call. I, of course, being ill equipped for the contest, declined the challenge. We traded derogatory names and a scuffle started during which one of the boys tried to grab me between my legs. He found nothing to grab onto! They pulled off my trousers to reveal my secret and those dreadful boys kept my trousers while they relieved themselves over the railing and then, for their amusement, made me squat on the deck and do the same. Under threat of exposure, the older boy took advantage of me, but the younger boy, probably a virgin, failed to perform when his turn came, and the older boy and I made fun of his inadequacy. He told my secret to the captain. "The outcome was unexpected. I was 'promoted' from cabin boy to cabin bed-wench and when we sailed I had the pleasure of waving goodbye from the rail to the two boys who were left squabbling on the dockside, laying blame on each other for their predicament. "During voyages I 'made good' the captain, and whenever the boat was in port he locked me below deck for safekeeping. "I was quite content to be away at sea and far from my mother and bad memories, but a year or so later he tired of me, or more likely needed money. In Dublin, Ireland, he sold me to another captain who stowed me down below in a cattle pen along with three Irish peasant girls, a young boy, and hundreds of bleating and stinky sheep. "In the cattle pens we were watched over by a youth who had designs on me, but I soon cooled his ambitions. I let him undo the first buttons of my shirt and then kneed him sharply between his legs sending him yelping away like a beaten dog. He didn't bother us again, except to tell us horrible tales about what awaited us in the next port where the boy would have his balls cut off and the girls would be displayed naked and sold in the market place. I told him he was a liar, not realizing the truth in his words. "We sailed to Alexandria and there, under cover of night, I was sold to an Arab slave trader and taken overland to the slave market in Al-Aqaba where Ali's mother bought me. She gave me to Ali for his nineteenth birthday." Of all the girls, she was the most vivacious and friendly, always cheerful and smiling. I would say with certainty that she was happy living her life as a harem slave. I could understand why, given her unpleasant taste of life in her minor years. She had known no master other than Ali. All the girls adopted her word Sire when addressing Ali, an English word that I know now means "lord" or "man of high rank". Paeonia's harem name comes from a flower that grows wild in the Atlas Mountains of Tunisia and Morocco. I know it well. It has beautiful bowl shaped blooms flushed with pink—just like her breasts. She is the most buxom of Ali's girls, and refers to them in that fun way of hers as "England's gift to the Arabs". Her eyes, catchingly framed by her abundant hair, do not go unnoticed. They are an exquisite green, a color I had never seen in such intensity in eyes before. Hair the color of apricots—"my ginger tresses," she called it—falls in waves down her back like ripples on water, and freckles on the bridge of her nose spill over her cheeks and shoulders. She hates them—the freckles that is—and she has the whitest skin, lighter even than Nadya. She keeps to the shade, for the heat of the sun turns her skin from the purest white to a pink as deep as tamarisk blossoms. To the eyes of Arab men, she is a rare and exotic beauty. Next chapter in the bookTHE DARK ART I wanted to find out more about life in older harems, those that existed
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diabolical practices in those days. I recruited the services of Yasmeen
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Biographical Data | |
Player Name: | Ben Revere |
Position: | Outfielder |
School: | Lexington Catholic HS, KY |
School Type: | High School |
Academic Class: | Senior |
Birthdate: | 05/03/88 |
Height: | 5'9" |
Weight: | 155 lbs. |
Bats: | Left |
Throws: | Right |
Report Date(s): | 05/05/07 |
Game(s): | Louisville St. Xavier |
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Hitting Ability: | Right now, Revere is a below-average hitter with a very pull-conscious swing. |
Power: | Revere has no power to speak of. |
Running Speed: | He is a plus, plus runner, one of the faster players in the draft class. |
Base running: | He's not just speed; Revere is a plus base runner as well. |
Fielding: | Revere projects to be an above-average defensive outfielder. |
Arm strength: | He has below-average arm strength. |
Arm accuracy: | Revere is below-average with the accuracy of his throws. |
Range: | With his pure speed, he projects to have above-average range. |
Physical Description: | Revere is a small, speedy outfielder with a Corey Patterson body type. |
Medical Update: | Healthy. |
Strengths: | His plus, plus speed. He's also got great makeup and a terrific work ethic. |
Weaknesses: | His offensive approach needs to be overhauled as he needs to learn how to use his speed to his advantage more. |
Summary: | If you're looking for a base-stealer, a guy who could develop into a leadoff man, Revere might be worth a look. He's got tremendous speed and knows how to run the bases. He's got the skills to be an above-average defensive outfielder as well. Where he's lacking is his bat. He doesn't use his speed to its greatest advantage in terms of his hitting approach and he'll need some serious re-tooling to maximize his potential. Still, this kind of speed doesn't grow on trees and a team that feels they can teach him the other skills -- he does have outstanding makeup -- will take a chance. |


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A 26-year-old law says that any unauthorized access into a protected network or computer — like your access to this website — is a federal crime with longer prison sentences than most violent crimes.
In 1970, a 14-year-old boy dialed into a nationwide computer network, uploaded a virus he had written and caused the entire network to crash.
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That boy was Bill Gates. Five years later, he founded Microsoft.
A few years later, two young men went around college dorms in California selling boxes of wires that let students bypass telephone-company restrictions and make long-distance calls for free.
Those young men were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and a later venture they started, Apple, is now the most valuable company in the world.
In 2010, another young man, who had already founded a multimillion-dollar company, broke into a utility closet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He hooked up a laptop to the campus network and downloaded 4 million academic journal articles, most of them in the public domain, from a paid archive to which he had a subscription.
He was arrested, indicted twice on multiple counts of fraud and, at a trial that was to have begun in April, faced 50 years in federal prison and a $1 million fine.
His name was Aaron Swartz, and last week he hanged himself.
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The difference between the fates of Gates, Jobs and Wozniak on the one hand, and of Swartz on the other, originates with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The CFAA is a 1986 law, section 1030 of the federal criminal code, which makes any unauthorized access into a protected network or computer a federal crime and permits harsh penalties for those convicted.
But 1986 was a long time ago. Today, any Web server can be defined as a protected computer, and almost anything can be defined as unauthorized access.
Use your roommate's Netflix account to watch movies on your iPad? You're violating the CFAA.
Trim the URLs of articles on the New York Times website so you can read them for free? You're breaking federal law.
Check your Facebook page at work, even if your employer forbids it? Better call your lawyer.
If that sounds ridiculous, here's a fact: Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, a well-known "gray hat" hacker, was convicted in November of fraud and conspiracy for harvesting data from a publicly accessible server. He's facing up to 10 years in prison at his sentencing next month.
There weren't any passwords protecting the data Auernheimer and his friend, who later testified against him, downloaded. All they did was change numbers in URLs and press "return." But according to the CFAA, they were breaking the law.


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Subject: Re: [ENG-MAN] VIRUS WARNING
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 11:38:45 -0500
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This report is false.
It's a hoax.
See http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/invitation.asp
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- Small-group half-day trip from Nice to Eze and Monaco
- Gorgeous views of the French Riviera from Mt Boron and Eze
- Guided perfumery tour in Eze
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You'll then leave France and cross the border into Monaco. You'll have free time to visit Monte Carlo's Old Town, royal palace (open June to October), the changing of the guard, the cathedral and the Cousteau Oceanographic Museum (additional cost).
Continue your tour of Monte Carlo with a lap on the famous streets used for the Formula One Grand Prix. You'll also have time at Casino Square to do some designer shopping, see the beautiful gardens and mega-yachts in the sparkling harbor or simply watch beautiful people at play in one of their favorite getaway destinations.
Then it's back in the minivan for the return journey to Nice along the spectacular coastline of the Lower Corniche, between Monaco and Nice. You'll travel past picturesque villages, buzzing marinas and the bay and citadel in the town of Villefranche.
Your minivan is limited to only eight passengers, ensuring you receive personalized attention from your English-speaking guide.
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This was an awesome day! Our guide (I think it was Adrienne) was fabulous. Her English was excellent and it was great being in a small group (8 persons). I particulary loved Eze - it is so ancient! The perfumery was a lovely stopover too. At Monaco we had time to ourselves which was also good - I managed to buy a couple of singlet tops at a little shop - not too expensive either. All in all, a fabulous day! I would highly recommend this tour.
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Jonathan was a great guide. The sites were wonderful and the timing was perfect still allowing most of the afternoon to do much, much more on my own after the tour finished.