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This may sound a little sad, but I don't really remember what it was like to be a kid. Ironic, considering how many people have noted that I've failed to completely grow up. But one of the things I do remember, though, was seeing Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. I say "seeing" because I'm fairly sure I wasn't able to read yet.
Gazing at those pictures of horned, yellow-eyed, monsters and the little boy who left his home to become their king, I created my own motives for the art at which I was looking. I really don't remember. But it's plain, in adapting Where the Wild Things Are for the screen, that director Spike Jonze used the books mere 10 lines of text as an armature on which to build a beautiful film that is all his own.
Max (Max Records) is a 9-year-old boy who we find living with his single mother (Catherine Keener) and his sister Claire (Pepita Emmerichs). Max is lonely and temperamental. His sister is older and would rather spend time with her friends. His mom, while trying to be attentive, has her hands full trying to keep them all in hearth and home. So Max takes refuge in his imagination, crafting stories and characters to keep him company in his solitude.
One winter day he creates a makeshift igloo from a pile of snow on the street corner; and after instigating a (not entirely friendly) snowball fight with his sister's friends, finds it crashing down on him after they dog pile on top of his frozen sanctuary.
Out of spite, he trashes his sister's room. Max is an angry kid, but he doesn't see it as his fault. The real world is intruding on his childhood, and he's helpless to stop it. When Max vies for his mother's attention one night as she cooks dinner, his acting out causes him to go one step too far and hurt her. Horrified, he runs away into the woods where he finds a shoreline and a small boat, in which he immediately sets sail.
After traversing a wide ocean, he comes to a strange island populated by 10-foot tall, fur covered monsters called Wild Things. He's immediately tickled by seeing one of them, Carol, (James Gandolfini) making a game out of destroying the homes of the other Wild Things. Max joins in, only to find that these monsters would just as soon eat him as be his friends. So Max spins them a tale of his adventures as King of the Vikings and convinces them that he has what it takes to be King of the Wild Things. They reluctantly agree, and after crowning Max, ask what he commands. Of course, the first order of business is to have a Rumpus.
What follows, however, is another-worldly, cinematic grimoire of melancholy enchantments. Spike Jonze (directing from the script he co-wrote with Dave Eggers) takes the spare narrative of Sendak's book and crafts a dark, dream-like story of a boy using his imagination to soften the blow of the end of his childhood.
All of the Wild Things represent some part of Max's id, though mostly through Carol, and his anger. KW (Lauren Ambrose) is a mirror of Max's mother who clearly loves Carol but is frustrated by his temperamental actions. Others, like Judith (Catherine O'Hara) and Douglas (Chris Cooper), are the personifications of his nascent maturity; the grudgingly acknowledged voices of adult skepticism and common sense. If that sounds like heady material for a children's film it's because it is. Where the Wild Things Are is the strangest, artiest children's film I've seen since 1974's The Little Prince.
The film is brought to life not only by Jonze's whimsical script, but also his assured direction and lush, hand-held, cinematography; all of which capture twilight-laden moments and images that are fiercely beautiful and foreboding. Created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, the Wild Things themselves are, thankfully, works of practical FX artistry that are minimally assisted by some seamless CGI.
Of course all the technical wizardry in the world can't help a film with nothing to say, or the talented actors to say it. Fortunately, Where the Wild Things Are has both in spades. I don't know if anyone has ever been nominated for Best Actor based on their voice-work alone, but James Gandolfini's performance as Carol surely deserves consideration. This film could have been a radio play and his character would still have been fully realized.
Max Records has an almost preternatural ability in front of the camera. I never once caught myself second-guessing this kid or his choices. He plays Max with an assurance that speaks to a keen intellect being nurtured by Jonze's deft eye for performance. The rest of the voice cast is given equal care, and all the voice actors give naturalistic performances, in lieu of cartoonish exaggeration. Catherine Keener brings a forlorn gravitas to her turn as Max's mom that is tempered by her unconventional beauty. And the icing on the cake is the great soundtrack provided by Yeah Yeah Yeahs front-woman Karen O with her collaborators, The Kids. It captures the films sense of glory and trepidation with equally playful and abstract music.
If I were to offer any criticisms of this film at all they'd probably lie in the marketing. Most children's films are directly aimed at them, with subtexts and in-jokes written in for the parents in the audience. Where the Wild Things Are is clearly not meant for young children as much as the adults who brought them to the theater.
Sure there are big, mostly convivial muppets that sometimes jump around and make merry, but the film's themes are meant for a kid of a certain age and intellect. The visual aesthetic of Where the Wild Things Are speaks more to someone who relishes cinema-vérité rather than bright, crisp, computer animated spectacle. During its darkest passages I imagine very young kids would have the shit scared out of them. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. The Little Prince scared me. And I remember it to this day.
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I almost didn't bother with Law Abiding Citizen based on the lackluster trailers. I'm kind of glad I had a change of heart, though. While the film isn't going to wind up on anybody's Top 10 lists at the end of the year, Law Abiding Citizen ends up being a perfectly acceptable and surprisingly fun, popcorn-munching thriller. Just don't think about it too hard.
Gerard Butler plays Clyde Shelton, a retired, loving husband and father who takes up his spare time designing mechanical gadgetry. The film gets right down to business when Clyde answers a knock at the door only to be given the bums rush by a couple of home invaders who incapacitate him and then murder his wife and child.
The killers are apprehended but, due to a evidentiary foul up, the ladder-climbing prosecutor on the case, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), is forced to cop a deal with one of the killers (actually the killer, his accomplice was too squeamish to get his hands dirty) as opposed to trying them both and risking a black mark on his near flawless record of convictions. This clearly doesn't sit well with Shelton. Rice cuts the deal despite his desperate plea for justice.
Flash forward 10 years later. The accomplice to the murder of Shelton's family is finally in the death chamber. Rice is there to witness the proceedings but is shocked when, instead of a painless execution, the lethal injection wracks the condemned with excruciating pain. It seems the pentothal was mysteriously switched out for something a little more gruesome.
Rice suspects that the killer who copped the plea bargain was responsible, and they move to arrest him, but the killer, Clarence Darby (Christian Stolte) is tipped off by a mysterious phone call that guides him to a police car with a sleeping cop inside. He grabs the officer's gun and forces him to drive to a derelict warehouse. But instead of administering the coup de grâce, some nifty needles embedded in the gun grip inject Darby with a paralyzing poison. The cop, it turns out, is Shelton. And he has some plans for Darby. When the police find what's left of him, Rice puts two and two together and they arrest Shelton. And thus begins a game of cat and mouse.
It isn't Shakespeare, but it works as pure entertainment. Directed with workman-like efficiency by F. Gary Gray (Friday) from a script by gun-kata maestro Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium), Law Abiding Citizen is a deftly paced, fun, little bit of genre escapism. Buoyed by the capable performances of Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, the films crackling pace and loopy conceit were enjoyable enough to keep one from dwelling too much on the myriad holes and unlikely situations in Wimmer's script.
The subtexts concerning the state of civil liberties and the justice system reach near comical levels of obviousness, such as it taking a decade for a guilty man to be executed; or when the presiding judge seems willing to release Shelton on procedural grounds despite the fact he had offered to confess to murder.
But this isn't a message movie; it's a crime thriller with some neat kills, and I forgive a lot for a good neck shanking. Despite the relatively on-the-rails plot, there are enough twists and turns to keep you guessing (or at least interested) without making you feel stupid when the resolution strains suspension of disbelief to the breaking point. The sumptuous cinematography by Jonathan Sela (Midnight Meat Train) evokes a '70s look that complements the pulpy nature of the proceedings; and makes Law Abiding Citizen worth a look on the big screen. Though if you waited for the DVD it wouldn't be crime.
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The bees at the nursery I work at LOVED the coreopsis, and yet I rarely see that listed as a bee plant.
I have some 4x4 one-foot long pieces and may drill holesin it for mason bees. See anyting wrong with this idea? The wood is treated.
Never replied to this - sorry. I would use untreated wood. The treatment may be toxic to the bees.
While I was working at the nursery was surprised at how the bees were ALL over the coreopsis. They love my loquat ree in bloom, even though it is Jan. or February. They love my ajuga/bugle weed in bloom now.
I got your present, Daniel. Thank you! You are so funny, labeling each individual. I have to wait until the wild plum sets seed, unless you want to 2 1/2 tree/bush. Are you sure you don't wanna native Piedmont azalea with its wonderfully fragrant ponk flowers?
Tonya, Glad it arrived! I hope some grow! Last year I stuck about a dozen cuttings of similar size into my wine-barrel planters among strawberries chilis and lettuce/radish/onions. Almost all of them grew. Some may not have survived this winter tho. The plum seeds would be ideal, will give me something to play with and maybe eat someday!
Resurrected this post. Thinking about more than mason bees this year. Honey bees are much more complicated, and there is expense involved. Some times that's the good thing about a project. A good project can bring about blissful forgetfulness about the world around us.
Mason bees are compatible with honey bees. They get along without conflict. I've been housing mason bees for about 6 years. This winter is s good time to get out the drill and some pieces of wood and make new houses.
Planting for the bees - more mints. This fall I planted a linden tree - from what I've read, bees love linden flower. We have some wild cherries. In the Spring, those blossoms are covered by mason bees. Plus multiple fruit trees, which are pollinated by bees and which bees benefit from greatly.
We are planning a wildflower area where there is currently some lawn. Not planned for bees, but it will fit in with the bees, perfectly.
Doubtless, will post more as time passes. Flowers - and therefore, vegetables, fruits, and most of the trees and bushes that we grow - co-evolved with pollinating insects. They are part of the same system, and they need each other.
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Miocene epoch ranges form 5 to 23 million years ago. Even though that seems like a long time, it's a modern era, with mammals, trees, flowers. Not like now, however - this also from wikipedia
Here's a modern drawing of the honey bee anatomy. From bees-online.com
Such a small creature to be so complex. Add to that, their complex social structure and communication strategies. A lot in a small package.
You give me a new perspective on bees. I will be more respectful of them in the future.
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Does anyone know if ToT supports the multiple and random scenario selection from FW? Jules Verne was an example. There were actually 6 different versions of the same scenario, one of which was randomly selected when you loaded the scenario.
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[This message has been edited by Cam (edited December 27, 1999).]
Believe it or not, I was going to ask the same question only yesterday, and then I thought that someone will say; "Why don't you test it and find out for yourself?" - I know that sounds like a cheeky remark, but alas - why not? So did I test it? Not yet! Anyone?
The other question I was going to ask was Is there any way of checking a tribe's 'flag progress' in a game? I can imagine the number of events that should work but don't because some flag went over that didn't, or the wrong flag number was turned on, etc. My early investigations would indicate that there isn't. Anyonex2?
Techumseh ... Let's find out!
Cam ... that is what flags are for. Please send me an example.
In the 'Somewhere in Time' part of the 'Time Threat Paradox' scenario, the player must capture 10 particular cities on one of the maps, each one turning on a flag upon capture. What I'm wondering, is there any way of checking which flags are on or off at any point in a game - say I've got six of the cities, is there a way of identifying this other than by simply counting them off the screen map? (Sorry - was that a ramble?)
As a scenario designer I would use the checkflag with a mask and count to check how many cities the player has captured.
@IF TurnInterval
^You have captured Five cities!
^Only Five more to go.
okay, let's try the random .alt files shall we?
The .ALT files are not coded in ASCII (plain text). Which means there is probably some utillity program required to make/read them.
There are no special codes that I can find imbeded in the other files that would trigger the civ engine to look for these .ALT files.
Fear not - it works!
I did four alternate games by placing one with a freight, one with an explorer, one with a marine, and one with a dragoon in a newly created scenario. First time I opened it - the explorer was present, second time was the dragoon, third the explorer, and fourth the freight.
Thanks for the advice on the flags - makes perfect sense. As before, if authors make 'blues' by misspelling tribe names in events, I think the possibility of flags going astray would be pretty high - what you've suggested looks like a sensible approach.
Cam ... how do you create the .ALT files to do this test???
The use of Somebody in the example above assumes that the AI is not going to be taking any key cities which may or may not work depending on the scenario.
If you misspell a tribe name in the events it gives you an error. Transposed names however are still a problem.
Thanks gentlemen! Cam, your answer begs another question. Are the scenarios selected at random, or in sequence?
Answering the second, first, I believe they are random. In the four games I opened, two contained the explorer unit, while there only one freight, one dragoon, and no marine.
William's question - I started a game. Opened the cheat menu. Inserted a unit (dragoon) in the visible area of the Romans. Saved it as a scenario 'crud.scn'. I then deleted the first unit (dragoon) for another (marine). Saved it as 'crud2.scn'. This continued for 'crud3.scn' (exporer) and 'crud4.scn' (freight).
I then went into Windows explorer and renamed 'crud2.scn' to 'crud2.alt', and did the same with 'crud3.scn' and 'crud4.scn'.
When beginning a new scenario, the option is 'crud.scn' but it will seemingly randomly choose from the four variants.
Thank you Cam! This creates exciting possibilities.
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Nice job!
Well, thanks, but it's hardly groundbreaking stuff - but at least we all know now! It will give any scenario with a 'search and destroy' element greater replayability no doubt, and this is only extended upon through the 'flag and mask' possibilities and the 'extra random features' add in ToT's events macro language.
Can you associate other files with .alt files?, e.g, your .alt files has a different events.txt to the main .scn
The file names in my testing being; Events.txt, Events2.alt, Events3.alt, and Events4.alt . Note, the events are not necessarily connected to the broader scenario alternate file, so you can have the file 'Crud3.alt' working with 'Events2.alt' in one game and the next time 'Crud3.alt' pops up it could be working with 'Events4.alt'.
one word comes to mind Cam ... Tip.
So there is no way of linking a specific events file to an alternate scenario, if I am reading that last post correctly?
I have just got ToT for Xmas and am currently working on a Fantasy scenario which uses the alternate random scenario selection. I have also come up with a way to link the .alt to one events file and have it make sense for each alt scenario . I was going to submit this as a tip after the scenario got made...
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Cam, what about other files? rules, units? game?
This is cool stuff folks. Expect to see some of it in my next scenario. And this time I'm NOT letting Mike Jeszenka review it. He'll go apoplectic
Love them tips! Happy to do so - particularly as I don't think it's ever been covered (that is, this hasn't been addressed for pre-ToT Civ2). It'll be a introductory ToT level tip too, which will help balance what I hope will be plenty more advanced level ToT guides in the Scenario League Design Tips section.
I'm not sure, and that's one that will need testing again, but I'd imagine that it would be 'do-able'.
Oh no - I'm not saying it can't be done, (never say never!). I'm not sure if I'm reading your post correctly or not, but if there's no aternate events file (i.e. only events.txt) the game will use that file regardless of which scenario version comes up. However, it seems from what you're saying (reading it another way) that you have been able to link the scenario variants (e.g. Crud.scn, Crud2.alt, Crud3.alt,...) with the event variants (Events.txt, Events2.alt, Events3.alt, etc.) in their stated order and not have this randomised(?). When's your scenario due out? Any preliminary info'?
[This message has been edited by Cam (edited December 30, 1999).]
No I havent worked out how to link an events file to an alternate scenario file
(ie events1.alt matches with crud1.alt or whatever). There can be only one events file, events.txt. What I have figured out is by using flags and the extra event space available, you write events suitable for all of the alternate scenarios and put them in events.txt. The events check which scenario you are in by using @AND. The @AND checks the presence of a technology which indicates which scenario you are in. Make sense yet? I'm probably not explaining this well.
The scenario should be out before the end of Jan.
Oh - I see! Got ya! More good thinking. I look forward to seeing the product of your labour!
Was watching this thread with interest.
I have knocked up 5 ToT "Random-Start" Scenarios for my ExtendedOriginal "No Spaceships, No Aliens" modpack if anyone wants to try them out.
Each Scenario starts with a different set of maps and distribution of settlers. Each of the various worlds is custom-designed
to avoid the limitations of the 'normal' or 'land-dominant' settings in the Rules.txt
(Settings 6 & 4) and in some cases to make the land-forms seem less Earth-like.
In addition each Civ starts with at least 2 settlers, often one of those starting out on one of the alien worlds. This keeps the competition up on each world. (No Civ has a world to themselves where they can just sit and build without having to worry about attack). (However not every settler on every world is likely to survive...)
I haven't figured out how to change the Rules.txt so that the game dumps settlers on more than one world at start-up yet. (Don't know if it is possible , other than hacking a few events into the events.txt).
I even tested it. (And it seems to work !).
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I wrote ...
Mick replied ...Mick,
In the Verne Scenario there were six different versions of the same
scenario, one of which was randomly selected when you loaded the
How did you do it?
Hi William,
The procedure was very simple. After building and saving the six scenarios,
I labelled one of them, Verne.scn and the remainder, Verne2.alt,
Verne3.alt,..., Verne6.alt. That's it. Since I had prepared an introduction
for the scenario, I also had to make 5 copies of it and label them
Verne.txt, Verne2.txt,...,Verne6.txt so that whichever one was chosen, the
introduction would appear. You can probably substitute whatever name you
want for Verne, you must maintain the number sequence, however. Although I
never tried this procedure for the Test Of Time scenarios, I believe it
should still work here, too.
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2010 Duckhorn Vineyards Napa Valley Merlot Rector Creek Vineyard
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Rector Creek Vineyard is located north of Yountville along the Silverado Trail and is the home of the Paraduxx winery. The unique climate combined with the rocky alluvial soils creates excellent growing conditions for the vines. The 39-acre site is planted with Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, and Cabernet Franc. The wines from this vineyard exhibit abundant dark red fruit characteristics of black raspberry and hints of strawberry.
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1 Estate Vineyard - Rector Creek Vineyard
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Varietal Content
83% Merlot, 17% Cabernet Sauvignon
100% French Oak, Chateau-Style Barrels (60 gallons)
Age of Barrels: 95% New, 5% second vintage
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From its layered aromas of ripe red cherry, mascarpone, earth and almonds to its supple texture and lingering finish, this is a complex and compelling Merlot. As the wine evolves in the glass, intense flavors of licorice, dark cherry, blackberry, violets and sage emerge with age-worthy tannins adding depth and focus to a long, satisfying finish.
Due to a wet spring and mild growing season the 2010 harvest started two weeks later than we would normally expect. Later, milder seasons tend to result in wines of fine elegance and balanced natural acidity. This is exactly what we see in our white wines and the best reds from superior locations. During harvest the conditions (a strong heat wave and then significant late rains), caused us to be very diligent in the vineyards fine tuning the fruit and making timely picking decisions. In the winery we took precautions to be respectful to the characteristics of the fruit and feel that has resulted in wines of character and intrigue.
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Napa Valley
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Rector Creek Vineyard
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October 11 – November 3, 2010
26.4° Brix
0.59 g/100ml
18 Months
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Year-RoundAustin's Paramount Theatre is a special place. The Historic Paramount Theatre, originally constructed in 1929, is a unique atmospheric theatre with a Spanish motif. It is one of four atmospheric theatres left in Minnesota and the only one outside Minneapolis still used as a theatre. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and located in downtown Austin. We present music, plays, dance, concerts, and we are available for rental.
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Featured Member - Alfredo Rocha Ramírez aka doncha_magoso
1. Hi Alfredo, thanks for taking time to do this interview. I'm pretty sure most members will know who you are but for the record and of course, sticking with my format; would you mind introducing yourself and tell us something about you, your hobbies, favorite movie, where you work, that sort of thing. Hi there! My name is Alfredo Rocha Ramírez. I'm 26 years old and have two careers (but not two degrees) shame on me :P I have two dogs, Chato, who is a really nice Beagle that my girlfriend loves, and Babalú, which is a really hyperactive mix of Labrador and street dog and is getting big as a bear and poops 10 kilos of stuff for every 5 kilos of food O_o I love riding my bicycle, it was my only transportation for many many years. I love playing the guitar; I've played since i was 11, so i could manage to play in bars to make money for school; I can also play the accordion, the piano, the drums, the bass and a bit of singing. I studied 9 years of martial arts and almost got my black belt for taekwondo. I consider myself some kind of a frustrated film maker. I made a small documentary work about blind people 5 years ago, and it really made some noise back home. I also helped doing the camera work for another short film, which ended up being a complete fail, but i learned a lot from that. I still love movies and my job allows me to increase my DVD collection every week, I'm re discovering films that i had already forgotten, like 12 Monkeys, Shine, Tarantino's, and other new films that i could never go to see to the cinema. Right now, I'm working at one of the biggest web agencies in Latin America, for sure the most awarded, which is located at a small city called Saltillo, at the north of Mexico, in the big state of Coahuila. I'm the 3d guy, among other guys who also work in Modo and Maya. 2. When did you decide you wanted to be an artist and what inspired you to that end? Hmm. *grabs his chin and starts thinking* Actually it's kinda hard to tell that, since my parents always were pretty open minded to my hobbies and interests. I used to paint a lot as a child, and mom keeps a ton of drawings i made back in elementary school. One of my teachers has a small notebook that I forgot once where all of my teachers are caricaturized by me. Anyway, there was music at first, i started earning money from that and it was really cool, after that I started looking around for a job that could be related to graphics of any kind. So I got a job at a vinyl stickers business. I ended up making the graphics for a small set of buses for public transportation, using Corel Draw, a small crappy PC and a cutting plotter. Some months later, a teacher told me that I could make a living by just drawing. And two weeks later I was doing my first exam to get into the graphics design school. Some months after that, I got a job at a local TV station, and with my first paycheck I finally knew that I could make a living out of it. 3. As I understand you didn't start out in graphic arts but instead engineering? Yup, I almost completed a Mechanical Engineering degree, but I left after having a lot of troubles with some teachers who I could never understand. I reached the point that I could design the pieces of a transmission and calculate the forces implied, so I could calculate the needed resistance of the used material. Those math classes, where we had formulas to calculate things in more than 3 dimensions, were a real pain in the rear, not that I don't like math, but I just didn't find any use to that, not for my own benefit anyway. As far as I know I already forgot everything "engineerish" from that time. 4. At what point did you get involved with the 3D medium and what motivated you? We had this weird software to design mechanical pieces, but it had a horrible interface and if you failed at a tiny thing, it all ended up being a disaster. At that time one of my partners had access to a computer with 3dsMax installed (he was the son of one of the teachers). When I saw what he used to do on his free time I was really amazed. He had made this small car with tires that could rotate like the car in Back to the Future, so my first real 3d experience was playing with 3dsMax at the teacher's computer. It really made me feel like I could start working at the videogame industry in no time. 5. Did you go to school for a 3D/CG degree and whether yes or no, what do you recommend to those entertaining the idea of working in a studio? Once I was in the graphic design school, I started working at a TV station that used Lightwave 6 and Toaster, so I could learn 3d way before starting my 3d class in the last semester (with Lightwave 8). Those classes helped me to refine some stuff, but I always wanted to animate a real character (a la Pixar style), but since I loved to model inorganic it didn't end up in frustration. I really need to go to a 3d school, I've been dealing with the things i already know, and learning some new stuff with each new project, but production time doesn't allow me to concentrate on just learning. If you have the money and the time, go for the 3d/cg school, if not, just try harder and harder to get decent results, and when you've got them, just keep trying to make them even better. A good way to learn, is to do, so if you start trying doing something, you'll get it eventually. One of my 3d co workers studied at Vancouver, he's one person I really admire (Camilo Guaman), the other guy is just like me, he learned by just reading and trying and pulling out better work every time (Juan Luis Ruiz), both are really good at what they do, and both are really responsive when something needs to be worked, so I guess that whatever feels like the right thing to do when you're choosing, it might be the right thing, just remember that amazing things come when you risk the most. 6. Can you tell us about your progression into the professional arena, how you got started and where you are currently? Actually I've been working in so many places that it's hard to remember each one in the exact time line. As a child, my first job was to help grandpa at the fields, he used to milk cows and cultivate corn, pumpkins and beans. After that, as a teenager, I started working as a waiter, pizza delivery boy, as a messenger, and I also worked at the family business: Beekeeping. When I decided I could be good doing other stuff, I started working as the assistant of a guy who made screen printing for t-shirts and other stuff, but also tried to earn something from the music playing at some bars in the weekends. Just after I left the vinyl stickers job, I took a small break and signed up for a traditional animation course with Dominic Jonard, who is a French guy who lives in my old city and has done a ton of traditional animation projects, so it was my ticket to get the job at the TV station. After that, I worked at this little marketing agency but the company just imploded, so I became a freelancer, working at nights to make animations for the local Nissan dealer and some editorial work. Then I graduated and leaved home to work at north of México (Monterrey, one of the biggest cities in my country). I got into a small office with 6 or 7 employees that made models and scenarios for a big videogame company. I really felt like I was making nice progress in my life, despite of having gained almost 10 kilos in 1 year. No long after that, I returned home to take care of some personal stuff, so I decided to work my ass off and put up a small graphics design agency with one of my dearest friends (Johnny E. Morales), but I was a bit depressed and everything went backwards. After a year of working, I felt that things were starting to be in shape again; that was my signal to start looking for other things. I took a week of vacations (here they call it "Semana Santa", Holy Week) and traveled around my country looking for a nice job. The first ones to respond were the guys at GrupoW. I didn't know what to expect from them, since I wasn't aware of what they used to do. It turned out that they made this amazing websites and I had already seen most of them. They used 3d stuff a lot, but also this killers graphics that made me feel good. So I didn't just called them, I actually took a 10 hour trip to their headquarters and met them. I discovered a nice working team that felt almost like coming back to school. I felt in the right place. At the end of the day, some minutes before taking the bus again, one of the bosses talked with me. He was really nice, he also stated that once I start working, I could get all the benefits since day one (you know, insurance, vacations, etc.), something that was only a promise in my other 1000 jobs. I came back home with mom and my bro, they encouraged me to go for that job, so 970km later, here I am, 4 months left to my second year here, and I still can say I'm really happy with my job, with the money I make, with the things I can do with that and also with the opportunity to do something I consider just like hanging around or killing time, coz my real deal is to start a rock and roll band and get famous and use long hair and beard and ride a mustang and... nah. I just want a new Gibson, that's all. 7. What has been your most enjoyable project? In a team? So far, by far, DetectiveStripes.com I had the chance to work with one of the best 3d artists I personally know and consider a dear friend: Eugenio García Villareal. That project needed a ton of texturing, lighting, and modeling skills, but the hard part was to, first, get a decent idea for the client, hire a nice production house to help us, get a big set so we could use green screens, work with the technicians to build the platform where the guy runs, film the entire thing with a RedCam attached to this enormous traveling crane; we needed a ton of people to help us cut the green off and also two guys working full time on the compositing, two other guys working full time on the virtual scenarios and another 20 guys working on the film editing, designing of the interface, composing the music, correcting the colors and tweaking little tiny things that made a big difference at the end. Finally, we finished up after the deadline, but the client was delighted with our work, just like the previous other works we made for them. Oh! And we only used Lightwave for the 3d, with a little help from Z brush for some details on the dirty laundry bags. Personal work? Well... actually I'm pretty pleased with the little stuff I pull out every now and then, since it's intended just to relax my mind and keep my modeling skills from rust. The only personal work I'm actually really proud of is the one I'm making right now, whatever it is. Sometimes I see an object and think "hum... that part might be a challenge to model", so I get home and start modeling it, once I model the hard part of it, I just lose interest since I just proved a point: modeling relaxes me 8. Of all your 3D work what is your favorite and why? There was this time that I missed grandma a lot, she had passed away and I was feeling a bit nostalgic. I went to visit grandpa and took some pics of my grandma's old fridge. Back home I started modeling in 3dsMax, I made the UV unwrap and almost finished the texturing. I just couldn't finish it. It really looked like grandma's fridge! It is my favorite coz it's attached to a time I was feeling left alone and now when I see it, it feels good to know that things are ok anyway. There's also a hippie VW van I modeled a while ago (it was my very first vehicle, back in the Lightwave Group days) and it really made some noise. It had a lot of mojo. 9. We've seen a lot of cars from you but you also mix it up with some very unusual items. What is you favorite subject to model? Oh I just love modeling cars! I also like to model stuff I see somewhere. I have a ton of modeled objects that have never get to be shared on any forum. I also model what's the new toy in house. Like when I got my Canon, I tried to model it, when I got my Hilux I tried to model it too; same thing with my Sony MD player, with my iPod nano, with my newest electric guitar. It feels good to model something you touch everyday, since you can feel it's texture, the shapes and edges. To model something, I really need to touch it, to be there, to own it for a moment. I just model things that represent a challenge in some parts. 10. Any spoilers for us as to future projects? For sure! The thing is that, since I love modeling cars, and here at work they have noticed that, we started a new campaign for a deodorant that involves a lot of cars. Lots and lots of cars and all of them have special details that make them unique. It's a big project that won't even air on traditional Internet supports, so I guess it's some kind of an hybrid that will blow off people heads... or at least their broadband. I'm also thinking about making a small band to play blues on Saturday nights at a small bar downtown. I'll let you know whenever we need someone to sing 11. As a longtime member on F3D what advice would you give the serious hobbyist regarding 3D in general? Oh well... 3d isn't everything in the world, so try to relax your minds and not get frustrated by something you only want for yourselves. I've seen really good work from people that don't even make any money from 3d, and actually want to keep it as a hobby. As a hobbyist I was, I never really understood why I could get an occupation such as 3d modeling, since I also practiced some sports and felt real passion for music; but later I discovered that it is something that makes me feel useful, skillful, and sometimes relieves some frustrated hobbies I had as a child: breaking everything and trying to put it back together. So, keep it chill, have fun, and share what you learn, it's the best way to keep rust away from our brains. By the way, don't stay too much in front of the computer, instead of that, just try to go on a long walk with a camera so you can get some pictures for texturing, for reference and so on. It's good for your health and for the mind. Peace! |
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Thread: Matthew to Madison Game.
May 29th, 2013 05:17 PM #1
Matthew to Madison Game.
So for this game you use your children's names or your top couple of favourites and change them into the other gender for example Oliver Jude could become Olivia June and Caitlin Rose could become Callen Roscoe.
Get it?
I will do another example.
So if my children were called
Caleb Henry
Noah George
Hazel Eve
I would change there names into the opposite gender so they could become something like
Cayla Henrietta
Nora Georgia
Hamish Evan
Enjoy!Flynn Alexander Rory Violet Ada Florence
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May 29th, 2013 06:38 PM #3i am a 15 year old girl called Niamh Clare
i will be using my ipad 2 or iphone 4s for this so i might have some typing errors
my namelist: http://www.babynames.com/Names/namelist.php
i would happily add more names i like to my namelist
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Please comment on my favorite names? - http://listography.com/JessicaRoseSays
Alexander Owen ~ Patrick ~ Thomas ~ Jack ~ Mark ~ Nolan ~ Vincent ~ Conor
Nora ~ Claire ~ Madeleine ~ Ava ~ Sadie ~ Soleil ~ Autumn
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Britons continue to head for Greece
Tags: Britons, cash, euro, Foreign exchange, Gatwick, Greece, Heathrow, prepaid card, travel insurance, Travelex
Holidays to Greece have not been affected by the country's economic crisis, with four million Britons heading to the country this summer.
Foreign exchange company Travelex said the number of Britons travelling to Greece could be double the average number of two million, with travel agents reporting that all-inclusive bookings were up by a third over the last two weeks.
Tour operators have cut prices for Greek trips, and the survey shows that many are setting off on holiday to Greece from airports such as Heathrow and Gatwick due to the strengthening of the pound against the Euro.
A fifth said they were "not concerned at all" about a possible collapse of the euro, with the majority saying they were just "mildly concerned".
However, almost half of all people polled believe the euro will collapse in Greece, with the majority saying they expect it to happen before the end of the summer.
But this does not seem to put people off travelling, with fewer than 2% cancelling a pre-booked trip to the country, while a further 47% said they would not change their travel plans whatever happens.
Elvin Eldic of Travelex said that Britons are "more concerned about bagging a bargain", adding: "We'd urge Brits to not only take a mixture of cash and a prepaid card but also to take the time to check the terms and conditions of their travel insurance when booking a holiday or travelling to Greece."
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As its name suggests, the School of Liberal Arts and Education offers the largest portion of the courses that make up MEC's liberal arts core curriculum. About 45 percent of the College's full-time enrollment is supported in the School of Liberal Arts & Education.
The School of Liberal Arts & Education houses seven academic departments:
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The School awards Associate of Arts degrees in Liberal Arts and Teacher Education which articulate into the MEC baccalaureate programs. Students that want to continue into one of the School's Bachelor of Arts degrees, may select:
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The Caribbean Research Center is an integral academic component of Medgar Evers College. Since its establishment in 1985, it has been funded by annual appropriations from the New York State legislature, to address the concerns, problems and needs of the rapidly growing Caribbean segment of the metropolitan New York and State population.
The DIRECT Center is named after Cheikh Anta Diop, the great Senegalese scholar. The mission of the DIRECT Center is to contribute to recovering, reclaiming and reconstructing what Diop described as the "profound cultural unity still alive beneath the deceptive appearance of cultural heterogeneity" among African people on the African continent and throughout the African Diaspora.
The mission of the Center for Black Literature is to expand, broaden, and enrich the public's knowledge and aesthetic appreciation of the value of black literature. Through a series of programs, the Center convenes and supports various literary programs and events such as author signings, writing workshops, panel discussions, conferences, and symposia and the National Black Writers Conference (NBWC).


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Post office opens in Herefordshire pub (From Hereford Times)
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Herefordshire post office opens in Hoarwithy pub near Ross-on-Wye
12:50pm Tuesday 24th April 2012 in Local News By Mark Bowen
A POST office has been given the stamp of approval at its unusual new home.
Villagers in Hoarwithy can now visit their local if they need to buy stamps as the part-time post office is now found in the New Harp Inn.
Adrian Shaw, landlord and parish councillor, said: "The original post office closed in November when it was located in a separate building.
"I'm all for making life easier for local people so having the post office in the pub suits my customers and I hope it will go from strength to strength."
Adrian said in its first week of trading the post office saw brisk business in the sale of stamps with customers bidding to beat an impending price rise.
The post office is open from 9am to 11am on a Monday and 2pm to 4pm on a Friday.
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If Seattle has to prioritize one thing to start pedaling toward carbon neutrality, what should it be?
The City of Seattle recently adopted an ambitious goal of carbon-neutrality by 2050 and is now updating the Seattle Climate Action Plan to put the City on a path toward achieving that goal.
We all know it takes more than a fancy plan to reduce our climate impacts; it takes on- the-ground actions. So the City wants to hear from you what actions it should prioritize over the next three years to chart our course toward a better future.
Since road transportation is Seattle's largest single source of climate pollution, accounting for 40 percent our emissions, it only makes sense to prioritize simple, low-cost transportation improvements like protected bike lanes and neighborhood greenways that make it safe, easy and fun for people to get around without burning fossil fuels.
To help update the Climate Action Plan, the City tasked a Green Ribbon Commission with developing climate action recommendations for inclusion in the Climate Action Plan.
The Commission developed a whole suite of recommendations focused on linking our transportation and land use decisions. Recognizing the important role bicycling can play in reducing our climate impacts, the Commission's recommendations call for the City to "develop a comprehensive, connected network of separated bicycle facilities in the Center City and Urban Villages" and "develop a citywide network of neighborhood greenways on traffic calmed residential streets."
While these are good ideas (I would even say great ideas!), the Commission came up with lots and lots of other good ideas. In fact, they came up with so many good ideas they need your help to figure out which ones to prioritize for action.
Tell the City of Seattle to prioritize bicycling as it implements the Climate Action Plan.
If you want to learn more about Seattle's Climate Action Plan and what the City is doing to become carbon-neutral by 2050 join us at an open house on Tuesday,February 12, 6 – 8 p.m. in the Bertha Knight Landes Room of Seattle City Hall, 6004th Ave.


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Robert D. Kaplan
is Chief Geopolitical Analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic for over a quarter century. He is the author of 14 books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages.
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and The Battle Against Fate
Random House, Hardcover, 2012
"Robert Kaplan's fascinating, prodigiously researched and important new book shines light on an ancient truth: geography has been the predominant factor in determining the fate of nations, from pharaonic Egypt to the Arab Spring." – Dr. Henry Kissinger
"Kaplan wields geography like a scalpel, using it to examine international relations and conflicts that globalization fails to explain. The Revenge of Geography is a sagacious account of how geography has shaped the world we know—and what it means for the future. His wedding of historical and present-day analysis on a region-by-region basis makes for a well-researched, entertaining, and informative read that cannot be ignored." – Ian Bremmer, President of Eurasia Group and author of Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World.
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Big Energy Saving Week: How to save money on your oil bill
Around 1.1 million households rely on heating oil. If you're one of them, here are some tips on how to cut the cost of your oil bills.
While 21 million homes in Britain are heated by mains gas and 2.1 million by electricity, around 1.1 million use heating oil, according to figures from Consumer Focus. And gas is the lowest cost fuel, with oil and solid fuel being consistently more expensive.
So what can you do to cut your bills if you use heating oil?
Shop around
The first thing to do is to shop around. According to experts, many households don't do this: instead, they re-order from the same supplier, year in, year out, and so form a captive (and very profitable) market. Open the Yellow Pages, pick up the phone, and get quotes. You'll be surprised.
Helpful though this is for driving down bills, there's a catch – particularly for customers who pay 'on account'. The price you're quoted won't necessarily be the price you actually pay. The price you're quoted is the price at the time of the phone call – and in today's volatile markets, the price on delivery, which may be several days later, could well be several pence per litre higher.
Use comparison sites
As with other bills, web-based buying can generate even bigger savings. For example, BoilerJuice.com offers an innovative way to both shop around and get a fixed price. Better still, it pits heating oil suppliers against each other, bidding for your business.
Type in your postcode, and how many litres of heating oil you're looking to buy, and BoilerJuice will instantly offer quotes from the various suppliers covering your area.
Better still, because you pay at the time of placing the order, by debit or credit card (there's a surcharge of 1.57% if paying by credit card, though) the price you have been quoted is the maximum that you'll pay. It might be lower, but it won't be higher.
Are there any catches? Only a couple. Don't be surprised if the delivery date quoted by BoilerJuice is several days later than your usual supplier can offer. So keep an eye on the level in the tank, and order a week earlier than you otherwise would. And once you've placed your order you'll need to deal directly with the supplier, not with BoilerJuice.
There's also heatingoil.co.uk, which is owned by GB Fuels and searches prices from their brands and depots, so unlike BoilerJuice you are dealing with the supplier direct, and fueloildirect, which like BoilerJuice compares prices from local suppliers.
Compre prices from a few sites before you make your order.
Bulk buying
BoilerJuice also offer three 'group buying' opportunities.
It automatically groups your order with all the others received that day from your immediate postcode. If there are enough orders to generate a bulk-buying discount, you'll automatically benefit from a lower delivery price.
BoilerJuice also operates periodic 'buying weekends'. Get your friends and neighbours to place orders at the same time, and you'll all likely benefit from a lower price.
And a 'community-based buying' scheme operates on a cashback principle, collectively rewarding members with £1 for every 1,000 litres bought. It's a useful way of painlessly generating funds for local village halls, churches, local sports teams, playgroups or other community organisations.
Or you could form your own oil buying group and negotiate with suppliers individually. The fact that they're likely to have more customers in the same area, and therefore have to make less deliveries, could save up to a few pence a litre.
Other tips
But these aren't the only ways to save money on heating oil. Five more handy tips are worth bearing in mind.
First, make sure that your boiler or oil cooker is properly serviced, in order to make sure that it's running efficiently.
Second, as with other sources of heating, don't leave it running when you don't need to, and turn down the thermostat a degree or two if you can. You almost certainly won't notice the difference, and the savings can be considerable over time.
Third, don't wait to run out before buying oil. Keep an eye on heating oil prices (BoilerJuice publishes a handy chart, for example) and buy when prices are low. Prices traditionally have a seasonal dip in summer, rising in the autumn before peaking in the winter. So stock up before the peak if you can.
Fourth, don't let your expensive oil go walkabout. Oil thefts are on the rise, say experts, and simple precautions such as a lock on the refilling cap can send thieves away empty-handed.
Finally, and most obviously, don't let your tank run out, meaning you have to organise an expensive emergency delivery. Make sure you regularly check how much oil is left in the tank.
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As mentioned previously, our first shipment of grapes this fall was accompanied by our new 12hl (317 gal) press, affectionately known as the Beast. Well, last week we let her loose. She is more than double the capacity of our old press, and with the ability to be programmed, the operator is now free to press more grapes, rather than buttons. Pressing grapes is actually a complex, multi-step process. It must be done very slowly, building up pressure gradually so that juice extraction is maximized. With each stage of the pressing, there is an interval of relief to allow juice to flow through open channels in the pomace. Without this, the channels would close and much of the juice would be trapped in pockets. Our current process builds up hydraulic pressure in 10 bar increments (one bar equals one atmosphere, or 14.7 psi). We go up to about 90 bar this way. This is actually the pressure of the hydraulic fluid, not that on the pomace, which tops out at around 4.5 bar.
The first step is to bleed juice from the tanks beginning the day before, so that when the door is opened, there is not a gushing flood. The wet pomace is then shoveled out of the tank into half-ton bins that can be moved by pallet jack to the loading dock. The empty press basket is removed from the press by forklift and placed just below the loading dock to be filled. After pressing is complete, the process is reversed: the dry "cake" is removed from the basket and shoveled for a third time into composting bins. The pressed wine is divided into two parts: light press and hard press. Usually, only the light press is aged in oak barrels. If you look in our barrel cellar, most of the wine from each vineyard is marked as "FR" for free run (the wine which freely flows out of the fermenter during the bleed) and "LP" for light press. The hard press is stored in stainless steel kegs and used for a variety of purposes.
Use of the Press Wine
As you might expect, the press wine is rich, dense and as Robert Parker might say, "backward". It lacks the aromatic complexity of the free run and is fairly harsh and unbalanced all by itself. It is also slightly sweeter than the free run. Some of the sugars locked up in the pulp are released by pressing, and often the press wine will resume alcoholic fermentation until this residual sugar is consumed. The dried pomace has some alcohol left in it as well: this can be distilled into Grappa or the french l'eau de vie de marc most notably. As our wines are aged in oak, they are constantly evolving. Our head winemaker, David Lecomte, monitors each wine assiduously in barrel right up to bottling. Sometimes press wine is added to the free run if he wants to add a bit more depth or structure. Various combinations are tried until his palate is satisfied with the final result. Care must be exercised because adding too much of the press wine could produce harsh tannins and reduce acidity. This is where a winemaker's talents play a critical role. Only after many years of experience can a winemaker taste a immature barrel sample and know what needs to be done in order to achieve a final result that is worthy.
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The Trends Journal publisher Gerald Celente argues the U.S. is headed for a meltdown of epic proportion.
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You -- that a five year high in interest rates are near record lows and so everything's great.
Stories are being written about how the housing market seemed to be improving so are we finally finally finally poised for an economic recovery.
Joining me now economic forecaster and publisher of the trends journal Gerald -- today.
Well Gerald markets high interest rates slow time to fabulous -- thing.
Well why ask me why we asked the IMF but I.
They just downgraded growth oh look what's going on over in -- votes yeah.
The role saying the same thing LBO that's the big word Leveraged Buyouts and why because money so cheap.
So that's what's keeping -- going they're dumping the central banks look what's going on the last time I was along with you.
We were talking about the Bank of Japan.
And the new prime minister all day right lowering interest rates right.
Forcing the Bank of Japan to keep printing more money printing more money -- -- the only thing that's keeping this alive.
Is all of the cheap money flowing in record low interest rate.
But we know.
You don't have to be an economist to know.
That it's all kind of monopoly money it's all been it's all Fiat currency there whether it's Europe.
Or Japan and I saw that do this past week about how Japan's gonna ramp up the parting presses and -- -- Is -- -- currency anywhere.
That you can count up.
Did he basing in front of our -- eyes this is an experiment.
That's happening in front of allies like we've never seen before.
You can make up the name -- you -- call it QE2.
Or QE3 you can call it how about this one held.
They'll throw long time refinancing operation how about.
A -- ongoing monetary transactions how about dumping a lot of dealt with his system to keep it alive all right.
But here's the other part of -- big Bernanke keeps saying listen I don't see any problem with inflation yet.
Either but he says this will lead to inflation things going I don't see it yet so and tell ICM and what I do I'm -- Put the brakes on.
Did you read the minutes that just came out for five years ago from the Fed.
Prior to the meltdown did hybrid I didn't they missed the whole day -- yeah they all of this -- so why should I.
Consider what someone who's been wrong as continually as he has.
Believe in what I listened wireless yeah it's good consistently wrong unless he did.
So but the market's high.
To me the markets always been.
Measure of corporate earnings just all really is.
And where -- you gotta put your money when interest rates is so -- you can't put in the bank.
So that's is keeping all of this going again.
The word -- -- -- LBO.
Leveraged Buyouts.
Yes it's the pump keeps going.
-- creating a new bubble what's going to happen when interest rates go up.
What it'll slow the economy down move but we're already slow we're already so are you worried about.
About deep relation borer.
But another recession or worse -- worse and -- again pick up the Financial Times pick up the Wall Street Journal pick up anything.
Read a headline currency wars currency wars currency wars currency wars that's -- on concerned about.
We'll be seeing a replay in time the crash of 1929.
-- Great Depression currency wars trade was world war.
The panic of -- Great Depression is a depression going on -- a lot of places around the world there's currency wars listened -- -- the head of the UBS former president of Deutsche Bank.
His words -- Davos is a currency war -- -- to Mervyn King the outgoing head of the bank of English.
Is a currency war listen to -- take a Brazil is a currency war trade wars are now leading up.
Japanese ex balance the trade deficit.
Is down at record levels they're they're they're they're.
-- way or off.
You look at everything that's going on trade wars on the horizon and then look around the world.
Mali Libya Syria yen in Bahrain riots in the street in Spain in Greece world war that's my concern.
How what -- -- currency wars how does it's what happens when it stops who.
Who stops and have loses stuff go back to -- go back and look what happened during the the thirties.
It was a currency war going on.
You have them is the bank -- is that people in Japan it will lowering interest rates lowering interest rates.
And that devalues your currency at an injury like -- on what I'm right I'm right there with -- generally it it's fantasy currency in my in my book exact so.
One reality hits.
Who knows win.
But what will happen.
Again when I'm concerned about his world war look how they're ramping up now to go into North Africa.
Yeah yeah -- for com group has thirty fled the US troops in 35 countries they just failed in Afghanistan.
They failed in Iraq and they -- can call what do want all the political atheist I don't tell people what to believe this is the way -- -- it's so I don't say you know take for yourself.
Now they're gonna win over there they destabilized.
Libya you heard -- secretary of so state Clinton.
Saying recently at the hearing what a disaster it's -- in -- who caused it litigate -- self.
It was humanitarian mission.
Great job everything they do they fail act.
Not only -- education how about health care.
How about the war on drugs and now we just saw the Fed minutes came out they came out on -- Friday night.
He reported on Saturday the least reported day of news when -- by going to pay any attention they failed every one -- the Fed people fail so what do you do with their money.
I still buy gold.
And I still -- again I don't give advice is what I do -- you asked me.
And I also them by real estate never bored real estate before I'm up there colonial Kingston about two hours from here.
And I've been -- historic buildings because I'm getting I'm getting loans so cheaply.
And I know -- debasing the currency somebody -- paid back with cheaper.
You're using non monetary assets as you're going non monetary in other words non monetary art assets via something you can -- hand on.
And again look at real estate right now look at the shortage of inventories down to eleven year -- idea why because a low interest rates Gerald -- -- always great deducted that -- at a much.
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Buford turkey shoots each week The annual Buford turkey shoot will be held at 6 p.m. each Friday through Dec. 28 at the Buford Little General Store on Rocky River Road. The next shoot is Nov. 29. Shoots are also held every other Saturday, with the next shoot Nov. 30. The fee is $3 per shot. For details, call Monty Craig at (803) 320-9712.
from Panthers.com CHARLOTTE – If a Miami fan buoyed by the Dolphins' 3-0 start had tried to map out how the rest of the season might play out, they might have worried about Miami looking past this week's game against the Panthers toward next week's division matchup with the New York Jets. Now that the game has arrived, Panthers fans are the ones that might be worried about a letdown.
S.C. Department of Natural Resources release This hunting season the S.C. Department of Natural Resources is joining the National Shooting Sports Foundation to remind hunters that safety remains at the core of America's hunting traditions. "This is a time of year when a lot of firearms are in use and in transport," said Lt. Billy Downer with Department of Natural Resources' hunter/boater education program.
KERSHAW – Andrew Jackson High School senior volleyball star Haley Faulkenberry will cap her high school volleyball career as one of the state's elite among ace senior players.
RICHBURG – The 2013 Andrew Jackson High School football season is history, but the honors are rolling in for the Volunteers.
The 2013 Moriah Youth Basketball league opens play Monday, Dec. 9.
Games will be played on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights.
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Some 315 go-kart entries was at Hanging Rock Kartway on Saturday, Nov. 16 for the "King of The Rock" race.
Hanging Rock Kartway is located in Kershaw.
There's plenty to cheer about at Buford and Andrew Jackson high schools this week.
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Together, the senior duo helped California Baptist University to a 3-1 come-from-behind win over Malone Wednesday night in the second game of Pool B action at the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) World Series.
The win gives the Lancers' their third straight 40-win campaign as they improve to 40-12 overall and 2-0 in pool play.
Malone falls to 31-22 overall and 0-2 in pool play.
"This was the exact same formula as earlier today," said CBU Head Coach Gary Adcock. "It was quality pitching, teammates picking each other up, some luck and clutch hitting late."
Smith went the distance, the Lancers' second complete-game of the day. He scattered five hits, just two after the first inning when Malone strung to together three hits to take a 1-0 lead.
It stayed that way until the bottom of the sixth inning when Kevin Odom and Matt Marnati drew back-to-back walks to lead off the frame. Blair Moore then hit a game-tying single up the middle.
After Alex Haines (3-4) struck out Matt Daugherty and Andy Crowley, Bullard laced an RBI single to center that scored Marnati, and after Adam Heideman misplayed it, Moore scored all the way from first to give the Lancers a 3-1 lead.
Haines had carried a three-hit shutout into the sixth inning before the Lancers struck.
"You try not to panic, which is easier said than done in this setting," said Adcock, referring to the Lancers' early struggles against Haines. "Haines did a good job. We were swinging and missing. He gave us a couple of free bases late, and good teams take advantage of opportunities and we took advantage."
Malone threatened in the seventh, getting the first two on with a walk and a fielder's choice error, but Smith got Kyle Sprague to line into a double play to center field as Crowley caught Michael Chack too far off second. Smith got Sam Craciun to ground out to Moore at third to end the game.
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The CITe Minor Student Tuition Scholarship was established to recognize current University of Akron information systems and eBusiness minors who demonstrate academic excellence. It is awarded to students at any level (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior or graduate) and is renewable. To be eligible for the scholarship - A current University of Akron undergraduate student must be enrolled on a full-time basis, have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 and be an information systems or eBusiness minor. To remain eligible for this scholarship, the recipient must continue to minor in information systems or eBusiness in the CBA, maintain a grade point average of at least 3.0, and remain a full-time student. University of Akron students should complete the Minor Student Tuition Scholarship Application Form and submit it to Dr. B. Vijayaraman, Center for Information Technologies & eBusiness, College of Business Administration, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4805. Deadlines: Fall Applications: April 1 Spring Applications: October 15 For additional details and application forms: http://www3.uakron.edu/cite/scholarships.htm
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