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Argument. Milton announces that he intends to follow the classical epic practice of beginning an epic narrative in medias res, in the middle of things, and only later coming back, by reported action, to the action "past over" here. The story of the rebel angels being "driven out of Heaven...into the great Deep," for example, is narrated in book 6.
Death into the World, and all our woe. This locution echoes fairly closely Virgil's narrative voice in Aeneid book 4, announcing that death and woe followed the ersatz nuptials of Aeneas and Dido:
To the same cave come Dido and the Trojan chief. Primal earth and nuptial Juno give the sign; fires flashed in heaven, the witness to their bridal, and on the mountain-top screamed the Nymphs. That day was the first day of death, that the first cause of woe. (Trans. H. Rushton Fairclough in Virgil vol. 1 [Cambridge, MA: Havard University Press, 1935] 407)See also the Perseus Project edition of this passage.
Pandemonium. Literally, "all the demons." Milton coins the name for the assembly hall of devils whose erection is recounted at the end of book 1.
one greater Man. The Messiah.
Heav'nly Muse. Is the "Heavenly Muse" invoked here the same as the "Urania," traditionally the muse of astronomy, invoked at book 7.1? More likely, contemporary readers would have first thought of the "Holy Spirit," as the inspiration of Moses.
Oreb. Moses, "That Shepherd," received the Law on Mt. Horeb (Deuteronomy 4: 10) or its spur, Mt. Sinai (Exodus 19: 20).
adventrous Song. Note the similarities between Milton's opening and the opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid and of Homer's Odyssey. Milton wants not only to compare his project to the ancient epics, but also himself to those poets and his main character, Adam, to their celebrated heroes. All of these comparisons raise interesting and complicated questions of authority, heroism, and nationalism in art.
chosen seed.The people of Israel. See Exodus 19-20.
In the Beginning. The opening words of both Genesis (Geneva) and the Gospel of John (Geneva).
Sion. To the haunts of the classical muses near the Castalian spring on Mt. Parnassus, Milton prefers to claim Mt. Sion and its brooks Kidron and Siloa, a kind of biblically authorized Parnassus.
out of Chaos. One of Milton's several heterodox positions. Orthodoxy held that God created everything ex nihilo, out of nothing (the "void" of Genesis 1:2; See Calvin's Commentary on Genesis). Milton borrows the concept of chaos, or unformed matter, from Hesiod and Platonic philosophy (especially the Timaeus 53b). Milton was also a monist, holding that all things were created out of God; see book 5.468-490.
Aonian Mount. Mt. Helicon, in Aonia, sacred to the classical muses.
Line 16. The line ironically (maybe even sarcastically?) recalls the stanza 2 of canto 1 of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.
Dove-like. The Holy Spirit appears as a dove in John 1: 32. See also Paradise Regain'd 1.30-1.
brooding on the vast Abyss. Milton's "brooding" is a better translation of the Hebrew than the familiar "moved upon the face of the waters" of the Authorized version of Genesis 1:2.
pregnant. Milton invites us to imagine the Holy Spirit copulating with the unformed matter of Chaos ("the vast Abyss"). In Milton's monism, distinctions between spirit and matter are not absolute.
Say first. Compare this with Homer's invocation to the muse in the Iliad 1.8.
one restraint. That is, the single injunction against eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2: 17).
Lords of the World. According to Genesis 1:28, human beings were created to "have dominion" over the rest of creation.
Hurld headlong flaming. This description recalls Pieter Bruegel's Fall of the Rebel Angels (about 1562). See also William Blake's 1808 watercolor illustration of the rebel angels' fall (told by Raphael at 6.864-66).
Adamantine. Unbreakable, rocklike.
Nine times the Space. In Hesiod's Theogony 664-735, the Titans take a similar fall at the hands of Zeus. Interestingly, though Milton alludes to the fall of the Titans here, he likens their nine-day fall, not to the fall of the rebel angels, but to the time they spent lying vanquished on the fiery gulf after their fall. Raphael, in book 6, line 871, however, tells Adam that the rebel angels fell for "Nine dayes".
kenn. Range; which in the case of angels must be presumed to be nearly limitless.
hope never comes. A deliberate echo of Dante's Inferno 3.9: "All hope abandon ye who enter here."
thir. Their. Milton's preferred spelling was "thir," and Flannagan reports that "their" was changed to "thir" in later stages of the 1674 edition. The same is true of line 499 and other lines.
from the Center to ... the Pole. Milton asks us to refer to the Ptolemaic model of the universe with the earth at the center of nine concentric spheres. On Milton's cosmology, Ptolemaic or Copernican, see also book 8. 119-68.
Beelzebub. "God of the flies" or "Chief of the devils." See Matthew 10: 25, Mark 3: 22, and Luke 11: 15. See also Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy 1.2.1-2 (search the Dartmouth Library catalogue); see also the Wikipedia entry.
call'd Satan. Originally Lucifer, "bringer of light," his name in heaven is changed to Satan, "enemy."
Gods. That is, the strength of empyreal angels, virtually gods.
eternal Warr. To speak of "eternal war" is to be quite doubtful about the prospects for victory.
thralls. Slaves.
rood. A rod, a variable measure of six to eight yards.
Titanian. For Hesiod's story of Zeus's (Jove's) war with the giants, the Titans and Briareos, see Theogony 713-16. Also see Ovid, Metamorphoses 5. 325-31 and 346-58.
Typhon. See Theogony 819-85.
Leviathan. See Isaiah 27:1 and Job 41.
incumbent. Literally "pressing upon."
Pelorus. In Sicily, the peninsula of Pelorus is dominated by Mt. Aetna. See Virgil's Aeneid 3. 570-77.
Sublim'd with Mineral fury. Vaporized by the volcano's fire.
Stygian. Styx was, in classical mythology, one of the rivers of hell; thus Stygian connotes hellish.
Clime. Climate.
Sovran. Sovereign.
The mind is its own place. See Satan's later speech on the relationship between self, mind, and place: 4.75.
serve in Heav'n. But see Abdiel's (chronologically) prior warning to Satan: 6. 178-88. Homer's Odysseus says that when he interviewed Achilles in the underworld, Achilles expressed an attitude opposite to Satan's: "I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead" (Odyssey 11.363-65).
Ethereal temper. Tempered in ethereal (heavenly) fire. Aeneas's shield was said to have been forged in the netherworld by Vulcan and was blazoned with stories of gods and heroes (Aeneid 8).
Optic Glass. Telescope. Galileo (1564-1642) was one of the earliest makers of telescopes; he was the first to make one powerful enough to view the surface of the moon. See Denise Albanese's (New Science, New World, 125) consideration of the allusions to Galileo and his telescope here and in 3.588-590.
Tuscan artist. Galileo (1564-1642). Milton visited him and saw his telescope in Valdarno, the valley of the Arno. Galileo's telescope and the observations he made with it supported the Copernican model of the cosmos over the Ptolemaic model, much to the Church's chagrin. Galileo spent most of the last years of his life under house arrest, ordered by the Church.
Fesole. Fiesole, a hill town near Florence.
Valdarno. The Arno valley, where Florence is located.
Ammiral. Admiral or flagship.
Marle. "A kind of soil consisting principally of clay mixed with carbonate oflime, forming a loose unconsolidated mass, valuable as a fertilizer. The marl of lakes is a white, chalky deposit consisting of the moulderingremains of Mollusca, Entomostraca, and partly of fresh-water algae" (OED2).
Nathless. Nevertheless.
Vallombrosa. A famously shady valley near Florence.
Etrurian shades. "Etrurian" is another way of saying Etruscan, that is of or from Tuscany, a region of Italy. "Shades" leaves both positive (cool and pleasant) and negative (ghosts) impressions, complicated further by Vallambrosa's suggestion of a valley of shadows or shades (Psalm 23:4 and Dante's Inferno 3.112-15).
sedge. Seaweed.
Orion. A "stormy" constellation in Aeneid 1. 535 and 4. 73.
Busirus. The Greek name for Pharaoh, in this instance as leader of the Egyptian (Memphian, from Memphis) cavalry (chivalry) who chased the Israelites across the Red Sea and was drowned by the returning seas.
Sojourners of Goshen. The Israelites.
Cherubim and Seraphim. Two orders or ranks of angels. Images of Cherubim stood by the sanctuary in the temple at Jerusalem.
evil . . . good. Compare to 12.471.
Amrams Son. Moses. See Exodus 10: 12-15.
Cope. "Cope of heaven" was a common expression in Milton's day, indicating "the over-arching canopy or vault of heaven" (OED2). The cope of hell is even more imaginable as a vaulted ceiling.
thir great Sultan. Satan as Sultan, or "the sovereign or chief ruler of a Muslim country" OED2. The poem literally demonizes Islam rulers.
the populous North. In accounts of the fall of Rome, the place from which the invading barbarian hordes were thought to have come.
Rhene or the Danaw. Rhine and Danube rivers. The narrator compares the devils to the hordes of "barbarians" who invaded Rome.
Got them new Names. Many Church Fathers believed the fallen angels came to be known and worshipped as pagan deities. See Tertullian, Apologeticum 22-24.
Devils ... for Deities. That is to say that, though nameless at this time and blotted from the book of life in heaven, the fallen angels later came to be named by fallen men as pagan gods.
Moloch. Literally "King." See Milton's description of his worship in the Nativity Ode 205-12. See also the Catholic Encyclopedia on Moloch.
children's cries unheard. The cries of children being sacrificed to Moloch were drowned out by drums and timbrels.
Ammonite. Non-Hebrew tribe mentioned in 2 Samuel 12: 26-27. The Israelites destroyed the "sons of Ammon" near the Moabite border stream of Arnon in Argob and Basan.
Rabba. The capital of the Ammonites, Rabbah; now Amman in Jordan.
Argob, Basan, Arnon. Lands east of the Dead Sea, where Moloch was worshipped, now part of Jordan.
Hill. See 2 Kings 23: 13.
Hinnom. See Jeremiah 19: 6. Gehenna, or Gehinnom, is Hebrew for the place or valley of the damned, especially the valley where Moloch was worshipped with human sacrifices.
Chemos. Chemosh a Moabite diety to whom Solomon built a shrine according to 1 Kings 11:7. See also Numbers 21: 29.
Aroar. Aroer, now Arair in modern Jordan.
Nebo. A southern Moabite town; also the name of the mountain from which Moses first glimpsed the promised land of Canaan (Deuteronomy 32:49).
Abarim. Hill of western Moab, overlooking the Jordan and the Dead Sea.
Hesebon. Heshbon and Horonaim were Amorite cities. Sihon (Milton's Seon) was king of the Amorites.
Sibma. Region east of the Jordan famous for its wine. Elealeh, a nearby city.
Asphaltick Pool. The Dead Sea.
Israel in Sittim. The Isrealites "began to commit whoredom" with the daughters of Moab at Shittim, on the flight from Egypt to Canaan. See Numbers 25: 1-3.
Hill of scandal. The place just east of the Jerusalem temple, across the Kidron valley, often called the Mount of Olives, where Solomon erected shrines to pagan dieties like Moloch, Baal, Chemosh, and Ashtoreth. King Josiah, according to 2 Kings 23, destroyed these "abominations."
Josiah. See 2 Kings 23: 10.
Brook. According to Fowler, the river Besor.
Baalim and Ashtaroth. Plural forms of Baal and Astarte. Baal-Peor was one of several sites for the worship of Baal, often depicted as a calf or other beasts. Astarte was a middle eastern goddess of fertility and war.
Essence pure. The bodilessness of spirits and angels comes up in another context in 8.615-629.
cumbrous. Cumbersome.
Sidonian. Phonician.
Sion. Israel's promised land.
th' offensive Mountain. Presumably the same site as the "Hill of Scandal" above (416).
uxorious King. That is, Solomon, who had several hundred wives (uxor being Latin for wife). Milton tends to link adultery with idolatry, as did the biblical authors in the expression, "whoring after false gods."
Thammuz. Tammuz, lover and spouse of Sumerian Inanna (Ishtar in Akkadian and Astarte in the Bible). Often identified with Adonis, his death was celebrated in the spring.
Adonis. The Lebanese river Adonis, red with mud in the summer.
Sions daughters. Israelite women.
the dark Idolatries. See Ezekiel 8: 14.
alienated. That is, alienated from God; apostate.
grunsel. Groundsill or threshold.
Dagon. Philistine sea-God. When the Philistines captured the ark of the Lord and placed it in Dagon's temple, the idol was found dismembered the next morning. See 1 Samuel 5: 4. See also Samson Agonistes 13.
Azotus. Ashdod, along with Askelon and Ekron, were three of the five principal cities of Philistia; the others were Gath and Gaza.
Rimmon. Hadad, the west Semitic god of storms.
Damascus. Damascus is the capital city of Syria.
A Leper once he lost. When the prophet Elisha told the Syrian Naaman that bathing in the Jordan would cure his leprosy, Naaman scoffed, asking "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?"; when he later bathed in the Jordan and was cured, he worshipped the God of Israel. See 2 Kings 5. Israel's King Ahaz, however, built an altar to Rimmon (2 Kings 16).
Osiris, Orus, Isis. Osiris was perhaps the most important god of ancient Egypt. Isis was his consort and mother of Horus.
Rebel King. Jereboam. See 1 Kings 12: 28-30.
equal'd with one stroke. See Exodus 12: 12.
Belial. Belial a Vulgate synonym for Satan, but here a separate devil. Also the Hebrew word for "worthless." "Sons of Belial" means good-for-nothings. See Paradise Regain'd 2.150.
Ely's sons. See 1 Samuel 2: 12-25.
flown. Flying free like a sheet, halyard or sail that has come loose in a wind and flies dangerously free without check.
worse rape. See the stories in Genesis 19:4-13 and Judges 19. Milton's notion that rape of men is "worse" than rape of women, even when a "Matron" is raped to death, appears supported by the biblical accounts.
Javan. Japhet's son and therefore Noah's grandson (Genesis 10:2). The Geneva notes to Genesis 10:2 identify Javan as the progenitor of the "Medes and the Grekes," so Milton identifies him with Ion, the progenitor of the Ionian Greeks according to Pausanias's Description of Greece 7.1.4.
boasted Parents. Heaven and Earth, according to many ancient poets, were the parents of the Titans. Milton casts some doubt here upon these claims with the term "boasted," implying pretence. See Apollodorus' Library 1.1.1; also Virgil's Aeneid 4.254. According to Hesiod's Theogony 126-139, Chaos was the first being, then the earth came to be the foundation of "the deathless ones." The children of Chaos were Erebus (a place of darkness between earth and Hades) and Night, whose union produced Aether (air) and Day. Earth gave birth to Heaven, with whom she later copulated to produce the Titans: Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. She also gave birth to Chronus (Saturn), the cyclopes and various other monsters. According to Apollodorus' Library 1.1.4-1.1.7, the Titans and Titanides (female Titans) were cast by the gods into Hades and, in revenge for this, Earth spurred them on to rebellion, giving Chronos a special sickle with which he cut off Heaven's testicles and threw them into the sea. Assuming dominion over creation, Cronus (Saturn) coupled with his sister Rhea and she became pregnant with Zeus (Jove) who, according to prophecy, killed his father to become king of the Gods.
Creet. Crete. Rhea, pregnant with Zeus, feared that Chronus would try to destroy the child prophesied to supplant him, so she hid in Crete and bore Zeus in a cave there. She gave the infant Zeus into the care of the Cretans and the nymphs Adrastia and Ida (Apollodorus' Library 1.1.6.)
Olympus. Mountain in northern Thessaly reputed to be the home of the gods.
Delphian. The oracle of Apollo was at Delphi, the Delphian oracle; that of Zeus was at Dodona. See Herodotus' Histories 1.46.
Doric Land. Greece.
Adria. The Adriatic Sea.
Hesperian Fields. The land of the westering sun, or Italy.
utmost Isles. The British isles.
Azazel. Hebrew word for "scapegoat." See Leviticus 16:8-20. According to some Cabbalistic writers, one of the four standard bearers of Satan's army.
Chaos. In Milton's cosmology, Chaos and Night reigned over the "eternal anarchy," the formless void between hell and heaven. See Regina Schwartz's excellent discussion of Chaos in Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost.
Phalanx. In Greek antiquity, "a body of heavy-armedinfantry drawn up in close order, with shields joined and long spearsoverlapping; especially famous in the Macedonian army" OED2).
Dorian. "Of Doris or Doria, a division of ancient Greece. The Dorian mode in Music was one of theancient Grecian modes, characterized by simplicity and solemnity; also, the first of the 'authentic' ecclesiastical modes" (OED2).
swage. Assuage.
Warr'd on by Cranes. In Iliad 3. 1-5, Homer compares the cries of the Trojans to the sound made by cranes in their annual rush to the sea, when they slaughter pygmies in their path.
Phlegra. In Ovid's Metamorphoses 10. 233, the giants battle the gods on the plain of Phlegra in Macedonia.
Theb's. The "Heroic Race" are the seven heroes of the Trojan war in Statius' Thebaid and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes.
Uther's Son. King Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon.
Armoric. From Brittany in the north of France.
Aspramont or Montalban. Castles in chivalric romances, sites of great international tournaments.
Damasco, Morocco, Trebisond. Sites from chivalric romances of famous tournaments between Christian and pagans or "infidels" (Moslems). These sites and those mentioned above, figure prominently on Arisoto's romance epic, Orlando Furioso 17.14 and 18.158.
Biserta. Legendary versions of history tell of Muslims setting out from Bizerte in Tunisia to conquer Carolingian Spain; actually Muslims invaded Spain in 711, some 30 years before Charlemagne's birth. Modern Fuenterrabia is in northern Spain.
dim Eclips. See a photo of a total solar eclipse.
Perplexes Monarchs. Until modern times, eclipses were believed to portend the fall of monarchs and emperors.
amerc't. Deprived.
th' event. The result.
puissant. Powerful and courageous.
custome. Milton frequently scorned the role played by "custom" in politics, religion and law. See Areopagitica; and a second place in Areopagitica. See also the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce book 1 and book 2; and The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates.
fame. Rumor.
Pioners. Pioneers, trench-diggers.
Mammon. His name is Aramaic for "wealth." Milton also alludes to Spenser's Mammon in the Faerie Queene 2.7.
downward bent. Compare this to Satan at the bottom of the stairs to heaven in 3.542.
Babel. The famous tower of Babel, erected by Nimrod; see Genesis 11:4 and PL 12.38-62. See also Pieter Bruegel's depiction of the Tower of Babel (1563).
Memphian. Egyptian. Milton refers to the great pyramids of the Pharaohs.
bossy Sculptures. Embossed and engraved sculptures.
fretted Gold. OED2: "Adorned with carving in elaborate patterns; carved or wrought intodecorative patterns."
Alcairo. Cairo.
Belus or Serapis. Belus is Latinized Bel, Mesopotamian god of the air, also know to the ancient Hebrews as Baal (Jeremiah 51:44). Sarapis is a Greco-Egyptian god of the sun.
Cressets. Iron basket lamps.
Ausonian land. Italy.
Mulciber. Vulcan or Hephaistos in Greek. The gods' smith. According to legend, Hephaistos was born by Hera, queen of the gods, without any sire. Hera threw him down to Hades, but he was rescued by his own wit with the help of Dionysius. See Pausanias' Description of Greece 1.20.3.
they relate. Homer, in Iliad 1. 591-5 and Lucretius in Elegia 7 tell the story of Hephaistos's fall.
Pandæmonium. Milton coined the word from familiar Greek lexemes: pan meaning "all"; daimon meaning "demon" or "mortal-to-god go-between"; and ion, meaning "assembly" as in Panathenaion, "assembly of all."
awful. Awe-inspiring.
Paynim. Pagan. The 1674 copy text has "Panim" as in 1667, but the manuscript of PL 1 has a "y" inserted with a caret (Flannagan), so I have restored the "y." "Soldan" is Sultan.
Bees. Homer describes the Achaean assembly (Iliad 2. 87-90) and Virgil the Carthaginians (Aeneid 1.430-36) as busy bees.
Pigmean Race. In his Natural History 7. 26, Pliny locates the land of the Pygmies in the mountains beyond the source of the Ganges.
some belated Peasant. Milton echoes the episode of Bottom's dream in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream 4.1.
conclave. The word deliberately alludes to the secret conclave of cardinals who elect the pope, thus insinuating the demonic character of such meetings.


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March 2, 2012
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Ethen Lofthouse continues to replay the 2011 NCAA Wrestling Championships over and over and over in his head. It's not a pleasant memory for the University of Iowa 174-pound wrestler.
Lofthouse won his opening bout at nationals a year ago against Dorian Henderson of Missouri, after winning 4-of-5 matches and placing third at the Big Ten Championships. But he followed the impressive victory against Henderson by dropping decisions to Mike Letts of Maryland and Hunter Meys of Boston; Lofthouse left Philadelphia feeling disappointed.
"I think about that all the time," Lofthouse said. "(Head coach) Tom (Brands) said earlier, `You think it's a long season from November to March, March to summer is even longer because you didn't accomplish what you wanted. I know what it feels like, and it motivates me going into this postseason."
Lofthouse and the Hawkeyes begin the 2012 postseason Saturday at 9 a.m. (CT) with the first session of the Big Ten Championships. Lofthouse has won five straight matches and enters the tournament as the No. 3 seed.
"I feel good, I feel confident," Lofthouse said. "Now I need to start getting more leg attacks and putting more points on the board."
According to Brands, Lofthouse is one of several Hawkeyes who have positioned themselves well for the action this weekend.
"He has to keep that going," Brands said of his 174-pounder.
"I don't know if to the fans it feels like we're an underdog, I know what they expect, and I know what we expect. We've been in some wars and we're going into another war, and it will be up to the individual performances to see where we fall."
Tom Brands
UI head wrestling coach
"We have to uphold our tradition with good, solid, dominating wrestling," Brands said. "We're going to have to wrestle our tails off to win the tournament based on seeds. We're going to have to go above and beyond those seeds and we're going to have to be solid and smart to do that."
Defending Big Ten 125-pound champion Matt McDonough is the Hawkeyes' lone No. 1 seed. Tony Ramos (133) and Mike Evans (165) are No. 2 seeds; Montell Marion (141) and Lofthouse (174) are No. 3 seeds. Grant Gambrall is seeded fourth at 184, Derek St. John (157) and Bobby Telford (285) are seeded sixth, and Mike Kelly (10th) is one of 12 seeded wrestlers at 149.
"We want 10 guys who are going to contribute at a high level," Brands said. "You believe in all your guys. I know we have work to do, our guys know we have work to do, regardless of what seed they're in or where they're at in the bracket. So, away we go."
The Big Ten Championships will be held Saturday and Sunday at Purdue's Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind. The final session begins at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Last season Penn State won the team championship by one point over the Hawkeyes, 139-138.
"It's a qualifier, which makes it important, but it's not the end-all, either," Brands said of the Big Ten tournament. "At the same time, we peak for every event. When you're peaking for the end of the year, a lot of it is mindset -- to me, it's about individual mindset, motivation, excitement."
The Hawkeyes won three straight league championships from 2008-10. According to seeds, the rest of the Big Ten appears to be looking up at the defending champion Nittany Lions. Outsiders might perceive Iowa as an underdog this weekend, but don't tell Brands or his wrestlers.
"They still have to get us, and they still know we're dangerous," Lofthouse said. "They still know what we're capable of, we just might not be favored as usual."
"I don't know if to the fans it feels like we're an underdog, I know what they expect, and I know what we expect," Brands said. "We've been in some wars and we're going into another war, and it will be up to the individual performances to see where we fall."

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This morning I took the Storm jacket out into negative degree weather (and -20 wind chills) for a winter morning hike. Underneath I wore a base compression layer followed by a smartwool top and then a 800 down shell. At no point during the hike was I cold around my core, and the only moisture I had to deal with was my sweat trapped on the inside. That said, the storm jacket is breatheable and offered me great waterproof protection. I haven't worn it in a downpour but don't really plan to -- this is my winter shell. Compared to the more expensive Gore-Tex options out there (such as the Triolet) the Storm offers waterproofing and a slightly warmer shell. Perfect for winter outings.
The day I got this jacket two things happened.
It drop to just above freezing, and it rained for 5 days straight and then snowed for the last 2 days of the week. I biked threw it everyday to and from work, and let me tell you this jacket gets the job done.
Not only did it keep me dry and toasty (I wore it over a tee shirt and a hoody) but it breaths surprisingly well.
A perfect jacket to handle North Dakotas cold season
The only thing I could think of to make this jacket any better was if it came with a beard.
Pockets are no good, way to high to use for your hands. Great material, nice long sleeves.


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Winston-Salem, NC -- Greensboro Police now say the tractor trailer driver, who they say caused a Sunday afternoon crash that killed two brothers, was talking on the phone when the crash happened.
Daryl Baucum, 15, died Sunday from injuries sustained in the crash. His brother, Isaiah Reynolds, 11, died Tuesday.
While the driver was talking on the phone, talking and driving is not a crime. So, her use of a cell phone did not contribute to the two counts of misdemeanor death by motor vehicle that Jayne Perkins faces. Police said the cause of the crash, and the two deaths, was Perkins' failure to slow down.
Daryl was a freshman at Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem.
"He had a gregarious personality, so him not being in class, it's a little different. For instance, he was notorious for always coming to class right after the bell rang and so I find myself kind of looking for Daryl to come in," said Katie Jones, his English teacher.
"He was probably one of the most mannerly students I've ever had. He was always, 'Yes ma'am,'" she said.
Classmates have left thoughts and memories on walls lining the school hallway following the crash that killed Daryl and Isaiah. The crash happened Mother's Day.
"The Mother's Day part did not dawn on me until everything was over because i was so focused on a life is gone. So, that's just doubly bad because every (year) Mother's day rolls around she will probably rethink that," said Cathy Theodore, who works at Reynolds High and also said she goes to church with the victims' family.
Isaiah was a sixth grade student at the Downtown Middle School in Winston-Salem. The school's principal said Isaiah was "very energetic" and loved to talk about sports. He was well-liked by classmates, according to the principal.
Theodore said Isaiah was close with his mother.
"I could always see him clinging close to his mother. Even though he had older brothers, he would always be with his mom and I could see him lying his little head on his mother's lap at church on occasion," she said.
"I think death is sad anyway, but it's so unfortunate when you have such a young life and a life like Daryl's that's full of potential," Jones said.
Police said the boys' mother and another brother were also injured in the crash. They're at Moses Cone Memorial Hospital in stable condition, according to police.
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Two Grimesland residents were booked in the Pitt County Detention Center Tuesday on several drug charges.
Judith Hennasey, 37, and John Luke, 32, of Pitt St. in Grimesland were jailed under $200,000 bonds. The charges against the two include trafficking heroin, possessing cocaine, heroin, marijuana and drug paraphernalia, along with maintaining a dwelling for selling drugs.
Luke also had several charges for failing to appear in court.


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A group of Mississippi Power employees volunteered to help feed the hungry in Meridian.
Nine members of the company's Community Connection Group from the Kemper County coal plant were eager to step up and do whatever needed to be done at Love's Kitchen.
MPC district manager Verdell Hawkins says this is just a small way of saying thank you.
"Our employees love this because it goes beyond the regular routine of what we do on a daily basis," said Hawkins. "It's their way of giving back to the communities that have given so much to us. We've all benefited from this area, from the churches to the philanthropic organizations in this area. So this is our way to be an asset to the community."
Love's Kitchen serves more than three hundred meals a day to those in this area.
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Beta carotene is converted in the body to vitamin A. It is an antioxidant, like vitamins E and C.
Good sources of beta-carotene include dark green and orange-yellow vegetables, such as carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, spinach, broccoli, romaine lettuce, apricots, and green peppers.
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Beta carotene has two roles in the body. It can be converted into vitamin A (retinol) if the body needs more vitamin A. If the body has enough vitamin A, instead of being converted, beta carotene acts as an antioxidant which protects cells from damage caused by harmful free radicals.
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My first bull's eye!
Got my very first bow (on March 11th) and had been shooting for 4 days now. Just now, I adjusted my sight after retrieving the arrows after a round (12 arrows) of shooting, then the first arrow went boom! My first Bullseye!! Well I have to admit its not much, and its only from 15 meters (16yds/50ft), but its a good start. Hopefully I'll do much better in the days to come."When the going gets tough, the tough gets SHOOTING!!"
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- Conference date: 17–22 June 2012
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This recent solar minimum and the rise of solar cycle 24 in 2007-2011 have presented conditions on the solar surface that have made the existence of multiple streamers and low-to-mid latitude coronal holes a rule rather than the exception for this relatively low solar activity period. The result has been many contributions to the solar wind from a corona that appears more like the solar maximum corona from a magnetic field geometry standpoint, but at the same time generally lacks the increased heating associated with the emergence and evolution of the strong field active regions. We use the PFSS coronal field model to infer the distinctive characteristics of the recent weak solar minimum and early rising activity phase sources compared to previous stronger cycles at comparable phases. We then use the model to illustrate that these sources occur where the coronal holes are continually evolving with the surface flux via differential rotation and other convective and diffusive actions near the solar surface. The results suggest that not only does most of the ecliptic wind come from the lower latitude coronal holes and an irregular polar hole boundary, but that these regions are also routinely reconfiguring to keep up with the evolving surface field conditions-implying transients should make regular contributions to the ecliptic wind in this period . A picture of the location and evolution of the ecliptic mappings to this transient layer from 2007 to 2011 is constructed and potential observational consequences for future investigation are suggested.
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As the Celtics introduced the newest members of their team at today's presser, Kris Joseph was noticeably absent from the podium. Now we know why, as the team has released a statement starting they have waived the second-year forward.
The Boston Celtics announced today that they have waived forward Kris Joseph.
Joseph, a 6'7" forward, was originally drafted by the Celtics with the 51st overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft. He appeared in 10 games split between Boston and Brooklyn and totaled 11 points and nine rebounds over 54 minutes. Joseph also appeared in 27 games split between the Springfield Armor and the Maine Red Claws of the NBA Development League averaging 18.6 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.7 steals in 34.0 minutes per game and was named to the All-NBDL Second Team. He was acquired by the Celtics in a trade with the Brooklyn Nets on July 12.


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This is the writing of Jerilyn Brownstein, MSW, a psychotherapist with a private practice in New Paltz, NY and in NYC. I feel that the journey that Jerilyn describes is one we all experienced or are experiencing. How wonderful to know we don't have to go it alone.
"I was born 45 years ago.
I died 17 years ago — and I was reborn –slowly, deeply, painfully, beautifully into the person I am still becoming. My personal story begins with giving birth to my first child and encountering the death of who I knew my Self to be. It was a messy death. I was meeting, letting go of and experiencing parts of myself that I could not reconcile. Carl Jung's definition of spiritual maturity is: the ability to hold polar opposites without coming apart. I had never felt such extreme inner shifts nor did I know they could be worked with, let alone held. I felt incredible love for my son – I was aware for the first time in my life that I would die for someone. I touched intimacy and a sense of connection with my son, my self, my soul, and the universe that I had never experienced before. But right up close – next to all those big beautiful feelings I felt the shadow side just as strong. I felt isolation, disconnection and fear. Sometimes I weathered intense storms of disorientation and even had the taboo lightening bolts of thought that no one ever speaks out loud – I had thoughts of wanting to leave or kill my child. Little did I know this was the beginning of building my spiritual maturity muscles.
During the first two years of mothering I wrote and read intensely. The brave authors I read became my support group. Being a psychotherapist by day and a spiritual seeker by night, I was blessed with being curious, stubborn, and insightful — I refused to frame my experience as pathological. One of my teachers said, "Nothing in nature is wasteful." So I framed my experience as a laboratory and studied it. What I stumbled into, that I could not find in the mainstream culture, was that this was not a mind suffering with disease. Quite the contrary, encountering so many different and difficult aspects of myself was the actual path to my Self. I began to see motherhood as an initiation – an irreversible crossing over into unknown inner-terrain. To be transformed by mothering, I chose to enter this new landscape visiting unknown, undeveloped, misunderstood, and mysterious parts of myself. Mothering has become a path for me to know my self, soul and spirit more deeply. Looking at the unfolding of my journey through this lens I continue to feel able to meet all aspects of my life in a more full and unique way."
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My name is logan but you can call me Spirit if you want. Seems easier for people 2 remember ha. I love basketball and football. Have played both emm for 2yrs. I have 2 amazing friends and all the rest of my friends are great! But my 2 amazing friends are Cierra V. And Saige V. Haha =P I love them 2 with my life and am willing to do anything for them. Except give up my cookies for them.....THEIR MINE! =P I got brothers and a sister. None of them older than me. (Btw i'm 14yrs old B-day is may 4th. Isn't that funny? The same day as last year.) lol. I live In Pennsylvania and in a Crummy little town. Sometimes i wish i lived on the moon....Ok alot of times i wish i lived on the moon. I have a amazing girlfriend named Hallie. We have alot in common and all lol. 4/16/10 =P Yay us lol.
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These Decades that We Never Sleep, Black Drums
drum kit, paint, ropes from a ship found after midnight, black wax, plaster, vegetable matter, crushed insect parts, artist`s blood and cum
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100 x 163 x 100cm
Terrence Koh's sculptures are born of queer youth culture and luxurious decadence. Exuding a magnetic sensuality, These Decades that We Never Sleep, Black Drums is an object of obsession, its ebony coils trailing with enticement, visually echoing waves of noise. Luring with its swarthy depths, …Black Drums creates a suggestive void: of memory and fantasy, drawing connotations of art history, gothic subculture, and fetish gear. Using raw materials of cloth, metal, and plaster, Koh's sculpture beacons with tactility, mirroring yearning and loss as physical desire.
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These Decades that We Never Sleep, Black Light
crystal chandelier, paint, lollipops, vegetable matter, human and horse hair, mineral oil, rope from a ship found after midnight, glass shards, stones and artist`s blood and shit
190 x 72 cm
Taking the form of a boudoir chandelier, Terrence Koh's These Decades that We Never Sleep, Black Light hangs with a tempting anticipation; its heavy weight dangles, both dangerous and beguiling, dripping opulent crystals and bijou. Rather than illuminating, the sculpture's deadened black surface promises to devour. Flirting between pleasure and pain, lust and death, Koh offers a dark romanticism, filled with apprehension and possibility.
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Big White Cock
sculpture, white neon, wires
132.1 x 121.9 cm
Crowing with early-hour neon glory, Terrence Koh's Big White Cock is everything its title suggests! Illuminating with greasy innuendos of back-alley sex shops and mega-bucket chicken shacks, Koh's electric sign pulsates as a high-design icon glamorising the art of slumming it. Addressing issues of race, gender, and sexuality, Koh turns the coded language of sub-culture into a fetishised logo of duplicity. In sexual terms a 'chicken' may be a gay teen or Chinese prostitute, but sometimes a cock is just a rooster!
Terence Koh
Untitled (Medusa)
Mixed media sculpture, wood, paint, plaster, urinal, steel, porcelain, mirror, glue, bonding paste, ashes, oil, burnt wood, light, wiring and artists piss
235 x 107 x 107 cm
Standing as a white cube within the white cube of the gallery, Terence Koh's Medusa has the outward appearance of polished respectability. Through the door of his structure, however, it is revealed as a WC of iniquity, a literal closeting of desire. Decked out in dirty black, with rows of phallus-laden religious icons, and satanic plumbing fixtures, Koh's toilet stall is both urinal and confessional, a smutty cupboard where seduction and transcendence are gleefully indulged.
Terence Koh
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Dimensions vary with installation: sizes per vitrine vary from 60 x 35x 35 cm (largest), 50 x 30 x 32 cm(medium), 33 x 23 x 23 cm (smallest)
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The Camel was God, the Camel was Shot
Cast of Artist`s body, bronze and white patina.
22 x 179 x 55 cm
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Without prior knowledge of Terence Koh's multifaceted art practice, no-one peering into The Whole Family (Bigger), his tranquil installation in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, would connect him to his alter-ego, Asianpunkboy (APB) or assume he was the author of his eponymous custom-made books and website.
For the Biennial, Koh crafted a hut covered in white plush panels and filled with cornstarch. Pushing back a furry flap, the viewer was introduced to a pristine serene enclave decorated with idiosyncratic objects painted white, the memorial color for many non-Western cultures.
In his work, Terence Koh mobilizes seduction, lust and desire. These moments exemplify a strategy that integrates a queer, polymorphously perverse approach into art production. The meaning produced by his objects is tightly interwoven with both private narration and a wide range of subcultural fields of association.
- Terence Koh by Brian Sholis
New York artist Terence Koh creates handmade books and zines, prints, photography, sculptures, performances, and installations. He first gained notoriety for his website and zine titled asianpunkboy.
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Originally known as Asianpunkboy, Terence Koh has been prolifically productive in the queer-core underground for over a decade, producing art-porn zines and websites as well as art.
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Neva Lee West, 81, formerly Neva Lee McCabe of Bethany Beach, passed away Friday, May 31, 2013, at Nanticoke Hospital in Seaford, as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
She was born at home at Johnson's Corner in Selbyville, Feb. 6, 1932, daughter of the late Raymond and Florence McCabe. She grew up on the family farm and began her education in a two room school. Neva later graduated from Selbyville High School, class of 1950. She was a retired Sussex County Council employee and also became a Realtor.
Neva was a member of Mariner's Bethel Methodist Church. She enjoyed music, reading, travel, art museums, quilt making, surf fishing, was an amateur water color artist and enjoyed decoy carving. Her greatest joy in life was spending time with family and friends.
In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her first husband, Alvin E. Hickman, and then married Donald E. West, who died in 2004. She is also preceded in death by two sisters, Christine Hudson and Lorraine Cromer. She is survived by a daughter, Nancy J. Hickman and a son, Brice H. Hickman both of Dagsboro;and three granddaughters, Nicole Murray, Rachel Murray and Melissa Hickman. Also surviving are sisters and brothers, Marguerite Bunting, Raymond (Janet) McCabe Jr., Janice (Oliver) Smith, Robert McCabe and Debbie (Howard) Clendaniel; stepson Donald West Jr.; and many cousins, nieces and nephews.
A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, June 4, at the Ocean View Chapel of Melson Funeral Services, 38040 Muddy Neck Road, Ocean View, where friends and family may call after 11 a.m. Interment will be privately held at the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Millsboro.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions in Neva's name to Delaware Hospice, 100 Patriots Way, Milford, DE 19963, or the American Heart Association by visiting www.heart.org.


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Mongolia is pursuing financial sustainability for its immunization services through expenditure tracking. The Sabin Sustainable Immunization Financing (SIF) Program began its efforts in Mongolia in June 2012.
Immunization Program Structure
Mongolia's National Immunization Program (NIP) is located in the Ministry of Health (MOH).
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Government Spending on Immunization
Over the period 2006-2014, Mongolia's Gross National Income rose from US$1,120 to $4,320 per capita, a 286% increase. According to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Reporting Form (JRF), the Mongolian government spent less than $1 on routine immunization per surviving infant in 2006. The government reported spending the same amount in 2014. The government share of total routine immunization expenditures dropped from 29% to 0% over the period. Since 2010, Mongolia has reported inconsistently on JRF financial indicators. The data suggest that Mongolia has not progressed towards country ownership of its immunization program. Among SIF countries, Mongolia ranked twenty-first in terms of routine immunization spending per surviving infant in 2014.
Mongolia's JRF Feedback Report on Financial Indicators, 2006-2014.
Legislation for Sustainability
The Constitution of Mongolia (1992) guarantees certain rights and freedoms, including "the right to the protection of health and health care. The procedure and conditions of free medical aid shall be defined by law." In Mongolia, legislation has to determine from time to time what health services should be free and to whom.
Mongolia's Government passed the Law on Immunization in April 2000. The law regulates activities for the "prevention of the Mongolia population from and immunization against infectious diseases." An Immunization Fund was later established under this law to mobilize and manage funds for immunization from various sources. The Immunization Law was amended in 2010.
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Adopted in March 2001, Government Resolution 67 approved regulations establishing the Immunization Fund and its operations. The Fund was established as an independent legal entity governed by a Fund Council. The Immunization Fund manages finances for non-routine and emergency vaccines and organizes the transportation of routine and non-routine vaccines to local centers.
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In May and November 2014, Mongolia's Tax Department and National Department of Communicable Diseases (NCCD) visited two aimags (provinces), Hovd and Humnogobi, to brief the authorities on resource tracking. In May and September 2015, the NCCD went on to brief authorities in two other aimags, Huvsgul and Hentii.
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- September 2015: MPs and officials from MOH, MOF, NITAG, Public Health Institute and Tax Department visit Hentii aimag in Sabin-sponsored briefing
- May 2015: MPs and officials from Tax, Finance and Health Departments visit authorities in Huvsgul aimag in Sabin-sponsored briefing
- November 2014: NCCD and Tax Department officials visit Humnogobi aimag in Sabin-sponsored briefing
- October 2014: Mongolian counterparts join Ugandan and Vietnamese delegates in Sabin-sponsored peer exchange workshop
- July 2014: Mongolian counterparts join Nepalese, Sri Lankan, Cambodian, Indonesian and Vietnamese delegates in Sabin-sponsored peer review workshop
- May 2014: NCCD and Tax Department officials visit Hovd aimag in Sabin-sponsored briefing
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Atulya Yellepeddi and Dinei Florencio
February 2014
A number of applications in acoustics, such as echo cancellation, require learning the acoustic impulse response from each deployed loudspeaker to each microphone- the room transfer function. This has conventionally been done separately at each microphone for each loudspeaker. However, the signals arriving at the array share a common structure, which can be exploited to improve the impulse response estimates. In this work, we propose an algorithm that takes advantage of the array structure, as well as the sparsity of the reflections arriving at the array in order to form reliable estimates of the impulse response between each loudspeaker and microphone. The algorithm is shown to improve performance over the matched filter algorithm in echo cancellation applications, using both synthetic and real data.
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Director Eric Brevig And Fraser To Inflict More Fun On The Whole Family
We see the logic behind harnessing Brendan Fraser's goofball amiability for toothless family-oriented "adventure" films, but, man, we wish the guy could catch a break outside of this particular ghetto. However his more recent forays into thriller or drama territory ("Extraordinary Measures" anyone? Anyone? Really? No one?) have fared poorly, and while he's no guarantee of success even with a family film ("Furry Vengeance," "Dudley Do-right"), it seems to be the one genre where he can consistently get hired. And this isn't changing -- he's next attached to "Tell 3D," a re'Tell'ing (wire me a million dollars and it's yours, marketing people) of the classic story about the dude with the overture who shot an apple off his son's head and thereby started Switzerland.
The new news here is that, according to Deadline, previous director Nick Hurran, whose credits include the Brittany Murphy vehicle "Little Black Book" and some recent episodes of "Doctor Who," has left the project, for reasons unspecified, to be replaced with Eric Brevig ("Journey to the Center of the Earth," "Yogi Bear"). So yes, this will be a reunion for the visual-effects-supervisor-turned-director with his 'Journey' star, and seems to mark a decided turn towards full-on family spectacle and away from anything more character-based (rumors from way back in May about Anna Paquin being in talks to play Tell's wife are still unconfirmed).
Writers Chad and Evan Law (the upcoming "Six Bullets" with Jean-Claude Van Damme, this year's "The Hit List" with Cuba Gooding Jr, us neither) are refining their script, Arclight Films will be shilling for the production in Toronto, and producers are hoping to emulate a big studio project on a fraction of the budget: 'Tell' is being shot for a thrifty $27million in Romania and Switzerland, with cameras set to roll in March 2012.
We're not the target audience, we know, and we'll cheer loudly if this turns out to be anything more than Fraser running, jumping and goggling while arrows thuddunk around him in 3D, but mostly one question occurs to us: how much of Fraser's current career doldrums can we attribute to the gif of him guffawing like an idiot at the 2010 Globes?


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How to Act Evil
Sometimes your day just needs to be a little more evil. Regardless of why you're here, this is what you need.
1Get an evil look. Dark colours are best; black is every villain's favourite. Wearing clothes that are angular and somewhat rigid is great as it takes away every hint of softness and kindness. Go for the pointy shoes, for example. The same works for your hair and a new, more angular cut can do wonders. Think about what will work with your face. Look at other evil people to get inspiration.
2Argue. This will work especially if you want to be annoying, also. Use abusive language, but not uncivilized. Make sure you seem superior over them, and you are sure to make them feel that way.
3Manipulate people. Turn people's friends away from them! But make sure you still have plenty of friends, otherwise the joke is on you.
4Amplify an evil look with an evil expression. There are several options here, but you should think about what works best with your character. Some might look down upon others with disgust and hatred, other scowl from under their eyebrows like they are about to attack. Practice with a mirror to see what suits you best.
5Adjust your voice and way of speaking. Nothing is so ridiculous as an evil villain with a squeaky little baby-voice, indeed such concepts are frequent in parodies. Adjust your voice to a darker, more sinister tone. Demand respect and inject fear with every word you speak. Also control what you speak of, and when.
6Be secretive. People will always believe the worst. If someone comes up to you and asks "is it true you've [insert extremely evil deed here]?" you should just smirk and walk away. They will definitely believe you did it.
7Surround yourself with evil. Not only your personal appearance and demeanor is important, but also what things and persons you surround yourself with. Make your home look evil (redecorating is always fun, even if you ate brains for breakfast), and eat evil food. Be careful with people though, if you're lucky your friends will be evil just like you, if not you should consider either converting them or, if that doesn't work, discarding them.
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- Eat anything that really makes your taste bud pop. Being evil, you could also ignore all the advice about sugar, additives, fats and everything else. Or, you could be extremely precise and weigh every calorie and eschew all sugars and fats. Really, eat as you want, you're evil and capable of thinking for yourself.
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- Don't talk too much. Be mysterious.
- Use your evil expression as much as possible.
- Wear dark sunglasses and keep a straight face at all times (this will make you more intimidating).
- Get an evil nickname.
- Don't go overboard and actually BE evil, just make people think you are.
- Use more evil make-up.
- Do things people would not believe you can do things that can be cold and cruel.
- A good evil stare is the look of plotting someone's murder and staring deep into their soul.
- Wear a black sweater with a hoodie over it for dramatic effect.
- Getting rid of your friends is close to always a permanent measure. Don't do this unless you plan to be evil for a very long time.
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Greetings Guilders!
I'll soon be running a "large-scale" battle of sorts for the D&D group I game with. I want it to be pretty immersive, so I'm making a Castle/Keep at a 1" = 5' scale. The adventure I'm working with was nice enough to include a map of said castle, but some of the specifics of it have me boggled. Namely, Area 9. The flavor says that it's a portcullis that "swings shut" and is then locked into place. Personally, I've never heard of a portcullis that swung shut like a gate. Is that historically accurate, a "swinging" portcullis? Secondly, still focused on Area 9, were it a normal portcullis, shouldn't there be something like a gate tower builtup thats roughly trice the height of the portcullis, to account for the counterweights etc that keep it open/closed? As you can see, the battlement goes right overtop of the portcullis, instead of forming some kind of gate tower.
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in such places, he added. India is a key market for our growth strategy and we are in line with our expectations. We are already looking to double capacity at our Chakan (Pune) facility to 20,000 vehicles in a year.
Mercedes-Benz currently has 64 dealership spread in 36 cities. Rival Audi currently has about 36 showrooms which it aims to take to 40 by the year end. BMW aims to bump up its dealership numbers to 50 by the end of the year from 35 now.
BMW India witnessed an unprecedented price war from its competition for market share of the Indian luxury car segment. But we have made our price decisions with due care and consideration. They will pay off in the long run and lead to a win-win situation, said Philipp von Sahr, president, BMW Group India.
We want to increase our sales volume but not at any price. We dont want to be number one in discounts. Unlike our competition, we will not venture into the Indian luxury market with discounted cars, he said.
A combination of factors including newer models, stabilisation of the currency and locally-produced and assembled cars will give a boost to volumes, said Puneet Gupta, associate director, IHS Automotive.
Every manufacturer in this segment has its own strength and strategy to grow. Mercedes, for instance, has a large dealership presence. In addition, they have brought in entry-level luxury cars to woo first-time buyers. Audi has the Volkswagen engineering behind it and BMW draws only consumers who give the brand a first priority, Gupta said.


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Christian music publication Breathecast has an interesting article on actress Kristin Scott Thomas, who says that she would not let her 12-year-old son watch her new film, "Only God Forgives." That makes sense. In the article she also laments about video games and their evil influence on young people.
Only God Forgives was released in theaters last month. Kristin Scott Thomas stars in the film alongside Ryan Gosling. In the film Thomas plays the mother of a drug smuggler who asks her son to avenge the death of his brother.
"I found [her film] incredibly violent, and I was very disturbed by the fact that in France it was given the official seal of approval that any child over the age of 12 could see it. That was just the producer wanting to make more money, but it was irresponsible. There is no way my 12-year-old son would see that film," said Thomas in an interview with Hunger magazine.
The 54-year-old English actress also took aim at modern day video games such as Grand Theft Auto V and the latest Saints Row game.
"I've seen with my own eyes that more than 20 minutes in front of a screen playing a game is very bad for children," Thomas told the publication.
"It's because they have this idea that they're all powerful, and that they're running the world when they're playing this game, and they find it hard to relate to authority after that. I've found that with my own children. They can't stand being frustrated because they can't do this or that, but a few minutes before their thumbs were ruling the world."
Opinion: Obviously as a parent Thomas has a right to limit her children's consumption of violent media and she's entitled to her opinions on their adverse affects. We just hope that she, along with other parents, use the ratings systems for movies, television, music, and video games to make informed decisions and avoids paying too much attention to media that has less of a clue than the average non-gaming parent does…
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VICTORIA, Texas - In the opening tournament of the spring season, the North Texas women's golf team has three players in the top-10 as play was suspended due to darkness late in the second round at the first day of the Claud Jacobs Invitational. Kelsey Kipp, Jacey Chun, and Addison Long have powered North Texas as they sit in third place, eight shots behind Texas State for the overall lead. "I wasn't sure what to expect of the team with the weather issues and lack of practice," said head coach Jeff Mitchell. "But, all in all, I am please with the way we have competed. We have a lot of work to do to handle wind and fast greens, but I am confident that we will. We are all looking forward to playing again tomorrow and putting ourselves in a position to win"
Kipp and Chun are tied for third while Long is tied for ninth place. Play was suspended as North Texas will have three holes to complete the second round tomorrow before starting the final round.
Chun, a sophomore playing in her first tournament for North Texas, shot an opening round of 76 and is at two-over par through 14 holes of her second round.
She is tied for third with teammate Kelsey Kipp who fired an identical first-round score of 76 and is 1-over par through 15 holes of her second round. They are both just two shot off the lead.
Long shot a 76 in her first round and had an eagle in her second round as she is 4-over par through 15 holes.
Chandra Alexander shot an 82 in the first round and is 8-over par through 15 holes in the second round while Chaslyn Chrismer opened with an 81 and is 11-over through 15 holes.
North Texas shot an opening round of 309 and is two shots ahead of Tulsa and looking to rally from behind tomorrow for the team's fourth tournament win of the year.
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Gay-rights groups drop ENDA support over religious exemption
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WASHINGTON—The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a slew of gay rights groups on Tuesday announced they are withdrawing support for the Employee Non-Discrimination Act—popularly known as ENDA—because it includes an exemption for those with religious objections.
"Congress has no place giving religiously affiliated employers a license to discriminate against LGBT workers," said Laura W. Murphy, director of the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office. "We can no longer support a bill that treats LGBT discrimination as different and somehow more legitimate than other forms of discrimination."
The move comes in response to Hobby Lobby's Supreme Court victory last week, in which the court ruled that closely held corporations can't be forced to pay for abortifacient drugs in violation of their religious beliefs. Gay rights groups believe religiously affiliated employers would use the same legal basis to discriminate against lesbians, gays, bisexual, and transgendered workers.
In November, several Senate Republicans joined all Democrats to pass ENDA, which would put sexual orientation and gender identity on par with race, religion, and national origin. But the Republican-controlled House, under pressure from religious advocacy groups, refused to take up the legislation, saying the religious exemption was too vague.
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said the law would unfairly burden businesses and "even goes so far as to require employers at daycares, public schools, and Christian businesses to change their restroom and shower policies to accommodate men who dress like women and vice-versa." Gay rights groups say those concerns are overblown.
Last month, President Barack Obama announced he would sign an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against employees based on sexual orientation or gender identity, but he didn't say whether it would include a religious exemption. Religious groups, taking that as a sign Obama was testing public response, composed a coalition letter asking Obama to "do the right thing" and include protections for religious objectors.
Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, on Tuesday told The Washington Post her group is pressing the White House to exclude a religious exemption: "The workplace is no place for discrimination of any kind and we're very concerned about watching Hobby Lobby play out across the country."
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Here are just some of our selected highlights from the wealth of day trips possible from such a superb central location:
Loch Ness – a fairly extensive but very rewarding trip via Pitlochry and Laggan to Loch Ness then return via Fort William, Ben Nevis, Glencoe and Crianlarich back to Perth.
Loch Tay and Glen Lyon – a beautiful trip via Aberfeldy and Scotland's oldest tree at Fortingall. A welcome lunch stop at Killin.
Cairngorms – visit the newly formed and controversial Cairngorm National Park, perhaps with a shopping stop at the House of Bruar.
Loch Lomond – yes closer than you think – go west.
Aberdeen, the Granite City – either via Dundee (City of Discovery) and the coastal route, or through Glenshee, Braemar and Royal Deeside – or both!!
Royal Deeside – via Pitlochry to Glenshee and Braemar, and onward to Balmoral and the delightful village of Ballater.
Edinburgh – a comfortable hour takes you to the capital city and all its shops, history and attractions.
Glasgow – again a comfortable 1.5 hours drive.
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Six Longview High School DECA students earlier this month began plotting a course to bring home some statewide honors in 2013, according to the group's advisor. The students advanced to the state DECA competition in Corpus Christi after winning or placing at the district level earlier this year. The district meet included competitors from …
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Singer Rachael Leahcar, 19, who is legally blind, rose to fame last year on reality TV show The Voice with the help of her mentor Delta Goodrem, 28. The pair have since toured together and now share a trans-continental friendship that spans Adelaide and Los Angeles.
There was electricity in the room when Rachael came out onto that stage during the auditions for The Voice. In that moment the stars were aligned. I felt I was looking back; there was an element of myself in Rachael, her spirit and energy spoke to me straight away.
When Rachael told the judges, "I don't know if anybody turned around", because she couldn't see us, I got really emotional because I knew she was about to experience something phenomenal. But I also knew that after that moment people were going to be really hard and I wanted to protect her. I look back at the innocence I had at Rachael's age - it's making me well up now - that innocence you have when you first start, and then people become so hard-core on you.
She said the cutest thing to me when we were touring together. She was on stage and was like, "Everybody, wave your hands!" And she walked off stage and asked me, "Were people doing it?" My heart just broke and I said to her, "Everyone was doing it and it was amazing!"
We all have our challenges and Rachael deals with hers incredibly well, but no doubt there are moments when she's frustrated. I'm sure it's hard.
My relationship with Rachael feels sisterly, but I've always looked at it as a cross between friendship and championship. We check in with each other, and we toured together last year.
It's hard, but when I think of Rach I'll send her a text. I saw her the other day on morning TV and texted her: "Good luck!" She's got my US and Aussie numbers.
Rach and I, and our mums, caught up in Adelaide and that was fun. But we're both busy women; we don't have to be hanging out having coffee to be connected, and for her to know that I'm with her in spirit. If Rachael called me at 3am and said, "I need you here", I'd be like, "Cool, let me just put on some track pants."
Rachael is a lot smarter than people probably understand. She's the secret funny girl and we're both a little bit wicked in our sense of humour.
Rachael doesn't like people being mean to me. I'm so used to it, it's just boring now. But I do speak about social media to my artists. I tell them, "Don't read it, don't look at it, it's unhealthy." Who better to speak about it than me - for some reason I seem to evoke a lot of conversation.
We've come full circle - mine was the first concert Rachael ever went to. Actually, it's funny because Rachael got in trouble from somebody in front of her because she was singing the songs too loud. On my latest tour I was like, "I'm just warning whoever was sitting in front of Rachael in 2005 telling her to be quiet, it's not okay!"
Now I'm going to her show, and I'll be the one cheering really loud.
I actually thought I might go with Seal before I went on stage, but there was something special about Delta in that moment.
When I met Delta she was like a whirlwind - she's so passionate about life and music, she has an aura about her. I was surprised how approachable she was, how down to earth. And she's so funny.
Delta has a lot of confidence and radiance but, more and more, I'm finding that she does have a vulnerable side, too. She's very trusting and she gives everything to everybody and sometimes doesn't get a lot back in return. The public don't always see that and it's really upsetting. I defend her all the time, even on social media, though it probably won't make much difference.
Thanks to Delta, I have someone to go to if I ever need advice, and that relaxes me. She's really taught me about connecting with people, regardless of not being able to see them.
During one of the live shows I thought I'd do something fun and spontaneous and get everyone to wave their arms. It's hard to put so much enthusiasm into something that maybe no one in the crowd is even doing! But Delta was so reassuring.
Out of the blue she'll get in touch and say, "How you doing? How's your family?" I always send her little jokes. I'll text her: "Why did you put those two together? Are you mad?" - because she put two of my favourite singers in the battle round. Or "You look gorgeous on TV but what's with the earrings?", even though she looks gorgeous all the time.
Meeting in Adelaide, it was still very new and exciting just to be having coffee with Delta, who I'd idolised for so long. I remember the text that she sent saying: "I'm not sure if this is Rachael's phone but do you want to have coffee tomorrow morning?" And I was like, "Is this a prank?"
It was so unbelievable. I'm still not even sure where she got my number!
I've always wanted a sister. If I had more time, I'd have a movie night and sleepover with her. Unfortunately we're hardly ever in the same place at the same time; that's why it's so lucky that she's available to come to my concert.
I usually just look at my fan page and see what my true followers are thinking, but last year I was getting blow after blow [on social media]. I texted Delta in tears and she told me that the critics are just people unhappy with their own lives.
A lot of people think what they say and write about Delta will never come back to her. It's a bit of tall-poppy syndrome - people are jealous and find it hard to believe someone could be that beautiful and be such a good person. I know Delta's very strong, but she is still a human being - she's not a stone and she does get affected.
The gossip, the stuff about Seal, it's just funny, she laughs about it. But last year what people were saying was horrendous and it enraged me.
I think I would have got kicked off the show a lot earlier if I was with Seal, simply because I didn't have that kind of connection with him. I would have worked hard, but Delta gave me so much and she took me on tour with her. I'm not sure Seal would have taken me on tour!
Last year I was in a state of shock and awe every time I was around Delta, so I felt like I couldn't really be myself, but now I've become much more comfortable. Though I admit I still get a little bit star-struck.
Rachael Leahcar's album, Romantique, has just been released. Delta Goodrem is a judge on The Voice.


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How does one manage to get a horse to look this way in only 3 short months? See the below pictures of an intake from Monday, April 4th when the horse came arrived at our farm along with a picture from only 3 months prior. Charges are pending.
Animals For Adoption…
LAPS has many wonderful animals waiting for adoption! Please visit our website often to see new animals available for adoption and see updates on animals in training. A few animals are shown below, and more can be found by clicking here. Please consider giving a forever home to these once forgotten treasurers!
To give animals who were abandoned, seized, or surrendered to LAPS a new start, LAPS is always in need of items to keep our small farm running. LAPS has been fortunate to have great supporter, like you, come forward and help these animals who have been forgotten. If you are able to help with any items on our wishlist, it is greatly appreciated by LAPS and large animals! If you have any questions, comments, or would like to schedule a drop off, please contact LapsPA@hotmail. Thank you!
- Veterinary, farrier and dental services
- Quality hay and straw
- Dewormers
- SMZ's, Bute, Banamine
- Waterproof Turnout Blankets (size 50 through 70)
- Plug in water heater for tubs (no floating ones, please)
- Small pony and pony leather halters or breakaway halters
- 8″ Auger
- 2 Extension Cords (outdoor, heavy duty)
- Gift certificate to a feed store, Lowes, or Home Depot
- Heavy duty hoses
- Fencing and lumber
- Bridles (1 pony sized, 1 cob sized)
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Staff Sgt. Timothy Lynch, team leader, 3rd Platoon, 1st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with combat distinguishing device during an award ceremony on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., July 20, for actions while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. According to the citation, Lynch, 28, a native of Naperville, Ill., selflessly put his life at risk while leading his team on 120 combat missions and manually rendering safe 95 IEDs.
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Date Taken:07.20.2011
Date Posted:07.25.2011 18:30
Photo ID:433351
Size:2.16 MB
Location:CAMP PENDLETON, CA, US
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EOD Marines awarded for bravery, sacrifice