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Ringtown mayor: Keep walks clear
Ringtown Mayor Albert Breznik Jr. reminded residents at Monday's borough council meeting that snow must be removed from sidewalks after a winter storm.
Breznik met with council President Julian Milewski and police Patrolman Adam J. Bernodin Jr. after the first snowfall in December to discuss snow removal.
"There were about 25 residents who didn't clean up," Breznik said. "We were going to notify them about what needs to be done, but then we had another snow event with a little bit of ice that came right after that. It was just a mess."
The ordinance states that occupants of a property are required to remove all snow and ice from their sidewalks within 12 hours after a storm.
"There is a snow removal ordinance for residents who have public sidewalks, and from here on in we're going to start to enforce it," said Breznik.
Milewski said he suggested after the first storm that the borough give property owners "a fair warning."
"It is blatantly evident that they're not touching it (sidewalks)," he said.
School lighting
Borough foreman Scott Schuetrum reported on the exterior lighting on the former Ringtown Elementary Center that is owned by the borough. In order to save money, the building has been shut down.
However, council approved the purchase of a new 100-amp control box in order to operate six lights on the exterior of the building and three lights at the baseball field for safety and security.
New tickets
In September, council adopted an ordinance establishing certain streets as no parking areas. At Monday's meeting, Breznik said it is necessary to update the parking ticket books, since the current tickets are outdated regarding penalties and the specific violations.
Breznik provided to council copies of warning stickers and tickets that are also envelopes for payment through the mail.
"The new ones (tickets) are more generic, allowing for the insertion of the violation and the corresponding penalty," said Breznik.
The cost for 100 tickets is $55 and a book of peel-and-stick warning stickers is $33. A vehicle with a sticker must be moved within 24 hours before being ticketed.
Police camera
In his mayor's report, Breznik thanked solicitor S. John Price and his wife, Theresa, for the purchase of a digital camera for police use.
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PGDE(S) 36 weeks full-time (August to June)
The Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary) is a one year (36 weeks) full-time course of professional training accredited by the General Teaching Council for Scotland.
The aim of the programme is to produce adaptable, flexible teachers able to collaborate and cooperate with other professionals, ready to face challenges of teaching in the 21st century and commit to the notion of lifelong learning.
The following subjects are available:
Biology with Science; Business Studies; Chemistry with Science; Drama; English; Geography; Home Economics; History; Mathematics; Modern Languages; Modern Studies; Physics with Science; Religious Education; .
Students on the programme normally study one subject only. Certain combinations of subjects may also be available. These are normally restricted to cognate subject combinations for example Geography and Modern Studies.
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The PGDE programme consists of four compulsory courses of study: two academic campus based courses and two school experience courses split roughly over the two University semesters.
Components of the Learning and Teaching in Schools Courses
The campus-based course, Learning and Teaching in Schools provides opportunity for student teachers to engage with generic issues related to professional development, learning and teaching, and social justice, and placing this in context within different curriculum areas. This course will be split equally into two components; Learning and Teaching in Schools: Beginning to Teach will provide opportunities to focus on learning and learners and beginning as a teacher whilst Learning and Teaching in Schools: The Developing Professional will provide opportunities for students to gain a wider and deeper knowledge and understanding of professional issues and developments relevant to the teaching profession.
Students must meet the requirements of the Standard for Initial Teacher Education (SITE) in order to pass the PGDE and gain entry to the Teacher Induction Scheme in Scotland (subject to meeting SAAS funding criteria).
School Experience Students on the PGDE programme will undertake two nine week school experience placements. The School Experience courses are designed to extend classroom experience and practice and to provide the context for campus based learning.
The range of schools in partnership with the School of Education allows students to benefit from a wide variety of experiences. The School of Education has partnership Local Authorities across the North East of Scotland. Students may be required to carry out some placements in distant schools.
There are two 5000-word in-course assignments within the programme. The first focuses on how children/young people develop and learn and the role of the teacher in the planning and provision of suitable learning opportunities for all. The second focuses on the student's professional development towards becoming an inclusive practitioner. A Further Professional Study element with options relevant to current initiatives in education is included in the course with the principal aim of enhancing students' development in a particular area.
Students are assessed on School Experience courses through a combination of Tutor (after observation visits) and School Reports on their progress.
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2. SQA higher grade award in English at Grade C or above; or National Course award (Higher Still) in English and Communication at Grade C or above; or National Units Communication (NC) at higher level and Literature 1 at higher level *; or GCSE/O Level English Language and English Literature. Grade C or above in both; or A Level English at Grade D or above; or Irish Leaving Certificate English at Higher Grade C2 or above. * Previously known as National Certificate Modules Communication 4 & Literature 1.
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Holder orders IRS investigation
IRS Scandal
Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny.
Holder made the announcement during a news conference this afternoon, during which he called the bias against conservatives "outrageous and unacceptable."
President Barack Obama used similar words when he denounced the IRS during a news conference Monday. He claimed he had no knowledge of what the IRS was doing until Friday.
An IRS official admitted on Friday the agency singled out Tea Party groups applying for tax-exempt status during the 2012 presidential election. She claimed the violation only occurred in one office and was initiated by low-level agents. But during the last four days, documents have emerged showing senior agency administrators knew about the practice as early as 2011.
Officials also now say the agency authorized extra scrutiny of many conservative groups, not just those associated with the Tea Party.
Republicans roundly denounced the agency on Sunday talk shows, and three Democratic senators joined the call for a formal investigation. The House will hold a hearing on the matter Friday.


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-Melissa Rose Bernardo, Entertainment Weekly
-Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
-Roma Torre, NY1
This solo show, featuring Ruben Santiago-Hudson, shares August Wilson's personal stories about his encounters with racism, music, love, violence, and life-changing friendships as a young poet in Pittsburgh's Hill District. Directed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's long-time collaborator Todd Kreidler, August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned charts one man's journey of self-discovery and what it means to be a black artist in America.
A New York Premiere from Signature's 2006-07 Playwright-in-Residence.
Residency: Legacy Program
Venue: The Alice Griffin Jewelbox Theatre
In this solo show, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson shares stories about his first few jobs, a stint in jail, an early relationship, his first kiss, his foray into cinema, and the friends he has had his entire life. Directed by long-time collaborator Todd Kreidler and featuring Ruben Santiago-Hudson, director of the acclaimed The Piano Lesson, How I Learned What I Learned charts one man's journey of self-discovery through adversity, and what it means to be a black artist in America.
A New York Premiere from Signature's 2006-07 Playwright-in-Residence.
Legacy Program
November 5 - December 20, 2013
The Alice Griffin Jewelbox Theatre
IMAGE: Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Photo by Gregory Costanzo.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
IMAGE: Photo by Joan Marcus.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Constanza Romero.
IMAGE: Photo by Gregory Costanzo.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Scenic and Projection Design: David Gallo
Costume Design: Constanza Romero
Lighting Design: Thom Weaver
Sound Design: Dan Moses Schreier
Production Stage Manager: Amanda Michaels
Associate Artist: Constanza Romero
Photos by Joan Marcus.
Photos by Gregory Costanzo.
Enjoy free wireless internet while you grab a drink and a bite to eat right at Signature!
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Signature Theatre Company is a not-for-profit Organization.
Tickets: 212-244-7529
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The Pershing Square Signature Center
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Horror Dream
so i dream im in a car wreck? and my friend dies with his head smashing into the right window..... As i ask myself why all my dreams are horror scenes! Hey at least I survived :p
Well, there's your bright side, you survived. On the other hand, I suggest you talk with a Psychiatrist or psychologist, because usually dreams are a way for our subconscious mind to communicate with us, so these dreams usually have a meaning. It could mean that something's bugging you or that you need to change something.


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Meet Max Cady, the most terrific villain role De Niro ever played simply because he successfully portrayed a crook who possesses a very complex personality of being stone-cold, violent, absolutely merciless, also on the other hand quite witty and charismatic to ever lure Danielle Bowden (Juliette Lewis) into his trap when he pretended to be her drama teacher so convincingly. Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear tells the story of a brutal rapist who waited for so long just to be able to avenge his wrath towards Attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) for he believed that Bowden could have done much better in d... read the rest.
Cape Fear
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there in the light. Except fear.
|Martin Scorsese
|John D. MacDonald, Wesley Strick
Robert De Niro
Nick Nolte
Jessica Lange
Juliette Lewis
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39 Inspirational Travel Quotes and Photos for your Travel Adventure
When we are not travelling we are usually dreaming of travel or looking for inspiration for our next travel adventure. It is why we love inspirational travel quotes.
The best travel quotes are the ones that help us picture an adventure we have done, or a place we have on our dream list. Over the last few years we have read hundreds of inspirational travel quotes and these 39 are are our favourites.
Hopefully our photos and inspirational travel quotes can inspire you to start looking for your next travel adventure. And feel free to share them on Facebook or Pinterest with your friends and family too.
39 Inspirational Travel Quotes
"Not all those who wander are lost." – J.R.R. Tolkien
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." – Mark Twain
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." – Helen Keller
"Adventure is worthwhile." – Aristotle
"Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness." – Ray Bradbury
"Make voyages! Attempt them… there's nothing else." – Tennessee Williams
"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." – Jawaharal Nehru
"Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions." — Peter Hoeg
"One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy." – Richard Burton
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for" – John A. Shedd
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." – Robert Louis Stevenson
"Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves" – Euripides
"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world." – Freya Stark
"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." – Lao Tzu
"You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out." – Daranna Gidel
"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." – Daniel J. Boorstin
"We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character" – Henry David Thoreau
"To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted." – Bill Bryson
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home." – James Michener
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." – Robert Frost
"Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter." – John Muir
"Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else." — Lawrence Block
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." – Henry David Thoreau
"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." – Scott Cameron
"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it." – Rudyard Kipling
"A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car." – Emile Ganest
"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." – Mark Twain
"I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth." – Steve McQueen
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." – Saint Augustine
"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey." – Pat Conroy
"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect." – Paul Theroux
"Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure." – Irving Wallace
"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable." – Clifton Fadiman
"While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put." – Anne Tyler
"You don't choose the day you enter the world and you don't chose the day you leave. It's what you do in between that makes all the difference." – Anita Septimus
"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves." – Andre Gide
"People don't take trips . . . trips take people." – John Steinbeck
"Take only memories, leave only footprints." – Chief Seattle
"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going." – Paul Theroux
We hope our inspirational travel quotes have inspired you to travel! And remember, if you want to share our awesome photos on Pinterest, Facebook or on your own blog then we always appreciate a link back.


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As a pornographic paysite reviewer, many people ask me if I ever get tired of porn, or they may even go so far as to brazenly ask whether it affects my sex life. Well, I am quite happy to report that, if anything, I've been surprised at how the new things I've witnessed have gotten me off by watching them or doing them. Still, at times, some sites lack creative inspiration. Luckily, I get to check out sites like Heavenly Spire that rekindles the fire.
One thing that I've learned to be very open minded about is sexual orientation in its many forms. However, porn is filled with lots of gay-for-pay performers who still carefully choose how they label their ability to be with the same or opposite sex. HeavenlySpire, on the other hand, avoids labels or deconstructs them with its unique gay porn shot from a genderqueer perspective.
Now, I have seen similar content, but often it's shot with a female audience in mind. But here a experienced director in the genre, Shine Louise Houston, has a unique way of showcasing the 16 stellar-quality videos that bring you real people, both male by birth and those who have had some surgical help to become the person they always felt they were inside.
There are no photos, but the footage is shot beautifully without losing its integrity of showing genuine folks on the screen, nor without it being so ethereal that you feel like it's highbrow art, not smut to get you off. There's a mix of solo masturbation and hardcore action, with kissing, throat fucking, strapon sex and fisting. You also get to know a bit about the models before they begin their erotic performances.
This site is relatively new and as far as I can tell, updates are weekly. You actually have two pricing options: one that has streaming-only videos and one that lets you download scenes (the price listed here is for the download option). If you're tired of porn that seems ordinary and impersonal, Heavenly Spire aspires and succeeds at being a much hotter alternative.
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The Parent 'Hood: Are you helping a neighbor or is your kindness being taken for granted?
A neighbor frequently asks for help with her elementary-age daughter: rides, baby-sitting, meals. But she never reciprocates. Do you say no, knowing the child is the one who will suffer?
Parent advice (from our panel of staff contributors):
Is she a neighbor who really needs help? If so, offer it as one parent to another, hoping someone will be there for you if you and your child need such help in the future. If she is a selfish taker, then she needs some not-so-subtle suggestions from you: "When can you pick up the kids tomorrow? I have a meeting." "I am happy to watch your child tomorrow after school; I need you to watch mine Saturday afternoon when I have an appointment."
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Have you spoken up or asked for similar assists? If the mom obviously needs help, step in and help when you can. But if you're building a stockpile of resentment, you can decline some requests politely and suggest a reliable baby-sitter.
— Judy Hevrdejs
Expert advice:
If you believe you're offering much-needed support to a struggling family — and you feel good about it — there's no need to keep score here. If you feel taken advantage of and a little ticked, you should find a way to decline her requests. One thing she doesn't need, regardless of her station in life, is your resentment.
If you're not sure how you feel about helping, consider a few angles.
Family therapist Fran Walfish, author of "The Self-Aware Parent" (Palgrave MacMillan), offers this: "You should continue to be generous and help this defenseless child. Someone else might say that saying no is creating reasonable boundaries, but it all depends on your point of view.
"I treat many adults who were raised alone," Walfish says. "They always talk of one special person who saved them psychologically. Perhaps it was a grandmother, uncle, schoolteacher, the parent of a classmate. As a neighbor to this limited mother and her elementary-age daughter, you have the privileged opportunity to be that special person and rescue this child from a world of isolation."
On the other hand …
"You have to understand your neighbor is looking for someone to rescue her and she's viewing you as someone who will bail her out at all times," says social psychologist Susan Newman, author of "The Book of No: 250 Ways to Say It and Mean It and Stop People-Pleasing Forever" (McGraw-Hill). "It's time to put some limits and parameters on what you'll agree to: 'I can only watch your daughter from 2 to 4.' 'I can give her lunch, but she can't stay here for dinner."
And ask for reciprocation, Newman says. "She might have no idea you're frustrated or what you're thinking unless you say so and ask for help: 'Would you let the plumber in my house tomorrow?"
Or take a straightforward approach and have a heart-to-heart with this neighbor.
"Ask her politely to sit down and talk about it," Newman suggests. " 'Look, this is taking a lot of my time, and we need to talk about making it more equitable or somehow finding other coverage for your daughter because I have other responsibilities and things I need to get done.'
"It's not very different from an adult friendship that you need to get some space from. It's sort of a gentle pulling back."
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Caroline Young
Nov. 15, 2012
The Mustangs take on the No. 1 seed and host of the Conference USA Championship Tulsa on Friday at noon in Tulsa, Okla. SMU pushed the three-time regular season champions to four sets on the road in the first conference match of the season on Sept. 19, but were unable to come away with the victory.
Moody Coliseum
SMU Winning Streak Comes To An End At Home Against Tulsa
DALLAS (SMU) - Sophomore Caroline Young and freshman Abbey Bybel each had a match-high 10 kills to lead the Mustangs against Tulsa Friday night in Moody Coliseum, but it wasn't enough to stretch SMU's four-match winning streak to five as the league-leading Golden Hurricane improved to 9-1 in Conference USA matches, 16-8 overall. The Mustangs fell to 8-14, 5-5 in conference matches after the 3-0 loss (25-21, 25-14, 25-17).
The young SMU squad, which includes a sophomore and two, sometimes three, freshmen in the starting lineup, has dropped 16 of 107 set by just two points, including the fifth set at Georgia Tech. The Mustangs also fell by just three points in the fifth at UAB.
Tulsa comes into the matchup with a 21-9 record overall and a 14-2 conference mark, winning eight of its last 10 matches. Tyler Henderson was named C-USA Player of the Year and is second in the NCAA with 5. 09 kills per set. The Mustangs will also be facing the Libero of the Year in Tulsa's Jessica Adams, who is in the top 50 in the country with 5.15 digs per set.
The Mustangs are 19-15 all-time against the Golden Hurricane, facing each other twice a year since the SMU program started in 1996. The two teams have met in the postseason just once before with Tulsa taking a 3-0 win in the 2006 C-USA tournament.
Courtney Manning broke Kendra Kahanek's SMU career blocks record with her first block at Southern Miss on Oct. 7, 2012, leading SMU to a come-from-behind win in the first set and eventually a sweep of the Golden Eagles. The senior has 94 blocks this season, taking her career total to 569. As a junior, Manning broke her own SMU single-season blocks record with an NCAA-best 185 total blocks, which ranks third all-time in a season in Conference USA. During her sophomore campaign, she recorded 162 blocks, breaking Natalie Peters' record of 151 set in 2005. Manning is third all-time in C-USA history. Stephanie Meinig set the conference mark at 593 while playing at Cincinnati from 1997 to 2000.
Courtney Manning has made a name for herself as a blocking beast, but the senior middle blocker is also a tremendous threat on the offensive side, as well. She has had at least eight kills in 11 of the last 17 matches, scoring at least 10 in six matches including a career-high 16 kills against Arkansas-Little Rock. She is sixth in Conference USA with a .305 hitting percentage. She hit .833 with 10 kills and no errors in 12 attempts at Southern Miss. She has hit at least .400 in nine matches, and is on pace to set the SMU career record, hitting .287.
Junior transfer Maddie Lozano is leading the Mustangs with 121 blocks, ranking fourth in Conference USA with 1.14 blocks per set. She recorded 12 blocks, including four solo blocks against Memphis, which is tied for third in a match all-time at SMU. Making the feat even more impressive, two-time single-season record setter Courtney Manning is still posting blocks, recording 94 this season. Lozano has had at least four blocks in 18 matches, including 13 of the last 17. She also posted a season-high 15 kills against Memphis for her first double-double, and has reached double figures eight times, including four of the last six matches. Lozano is second on the team with 219 kills.
Six Mustangs have combined for 13 double-doubles this season, led by Olivia Bailey's seven. Bailey scored 39 assists with 14 digs against Army and 31 assists and 20 digs in a 3-2 win over Arkansas-Little Rock. She finished with 31 assists and 18 digs at Tulsa, and added 51 assists and 13 digs against Marshall. The senior setter posted her fifth double-double of the year with a season-high 53 assists and 11 digs at UCF, and added a sixth with 48 assists and 17 digs at UAB. She posted her seventh of the season with 44 assists and 14 digs at home against Rice on Senior Day. Carla Armstrong accomplished the first double-double of the season for the Mustangs, scoring 10 kills with 10 digs against Cal State Fullerton for the first of her career. Freshman Avery Acker has two, posting her first double-double with 26 assists and 11 digs against Oklahoma, and adding a second with 23 assists and 22 digs at Rice. Caroline Young scored 23 kills and 18 digs against Army for the first double-double of her career, and freshman Abbey Bybel got her first with 16 kills and 13 digs at Rice. Maddie Lozano recorded her first double-double with 15 kills and 12 blocks agaisnt Memphis, and Cailin Bula posted the most recent with 11 kills and 10 digs at UTEP.
Senior transfer Olivia Bailey is fifth in Conference USA, averaging 9.52 assists per set, and is averaging 9.81 assists per set in C-USA matches, fourth in the league. She has at least 25 assists in every match she has played in except two, including a season-high 53 at UCF, eclipsing 50 for the second time this season. She also recorded 51 assists against Marshall. She has recorded at least 40 assists in 11 matches, including seven of the last nine. She is also second on the team with 208 digs and has 44 blocks. Freshman Avery Acker has 209 assists. She has had at least 20 assists in six matches, and is fourth on the team with 159 digs.
Sophomore Caroline Young has been SMU's most dominant and consistent offensive threat this season, scoring at least 10 kills in 19 matches, including 10 of the last 11. She is ninth in Conference USA, averaging 3.34 per set for the season. She has posted at least 20 kills seven times, including a career high 26 at UCF. Young had nine kills in the second set alone against the Knights. She also had a career-high 18 digs with 23 kills against Army for her first double-double. Young leads C-USA and is 20th in the NCAA with 0.43 aces per set, and has 46 aces overall, 16th in the country.
Freshman Abbey Bybel has inserted herself into the SMU offensive attack. The 6-0 middle blocker has at least 10 kills in seven matches, including a season-high 16 kills at Rice. She led SMU with 11 in the 3-1 win against UTEP. Bybel also finished with 13 digs at Rice for her first double-double. She hit .400 against Texas State, scoring five kills, including the first kill of her collegiate career, with just one error in 10 attempts. She has 167 kills on the season, fourth on the team, and also has 20 blocks with 87 digs.
Senior Susan Lewis won the starting libero position after three different players saw action in the different colored jersey early in the season. In 17 of the last 19 matches, including the last 11 in a row, Lewis has recorded at least 10 digs, including a career-high 29 against Arkansas-Little Rock, which is the ninth most in a match by a C-USA player this season. She ranks 10th overall with 3.50 digs per set, and is averaging 3.72 digs per set in conference matches.


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LOS ANGELES The St. Louis Blues were confident they could push the Los Angeles Kings to the brink of elimination when they took a one-goal lead into the third period.
Then the defending Stanley Cup champions pushed back and this highly entertaining first-round series became all even again.
Anze Kopitar tied it with 12:46 to play, Justin Williams tipped home the go-ahead goal 76 seconds later, and the Kings evened their first-round series with a 4-3 victory over the Blues on Monday night.
Jeff Carter and Dustin Penner also scored for the Kings, who responded to a late deficit with the same tenacity that made them champs. Before the building had even quieted from the celebration of Kopitar's goal, Williams adroitly tipped a puck out of mid-air past Brian Elliott for the winner.
After four games of a remarkably even series, these two teams are level heading back to St. Louis for Game 5 on Wednesday night.
"That's playoffs," Williams said. "That's battling all the way to the final buzzer. We needed a big third period, and we responded. We're an experience team. We've been through a lot, and we knew we were facing a daunting task going back to St. Louis down 3-1, and we found it in ourselves. This is a group that's been in pressure situations before, and we know what we have to do to overcome it."
Mike Richards had two assists for Los Angeles, which dropped the first two games in St. Louis and barely survived for a 1-0 victory in Game 3. The Kings erased an early two-goal deficit and a third-period deficit in Game 4 to earn their ninth consecutive home victory since March 23, and Game 6 will be back at Staples Center on Friday.
"The resilience of our team is amazing," said Kopitar, who ended a personal 19-game goal drought. "To keep coming back and coming back like that, it's incredible. To be down 2-0, and then down 3-2 in the third period, it shows what we're capable of overcoming."
T.J. Oshie scored his first two playoff goals for the Blues, who had the champs on the brink of serious trouble before Kopitar and Williams beat Elliott, who stopped 25 shots.
"It's a tight series," said Blues captain David Backes, who scored 1:12 into the game. "We have to bring it every night. When our 20 guys are on the same page, we have a heck of a team. If we stray a little bit off of it, then it's a coin flip. Scoring three on them is fine and dandy, but giving up four goals is not our style."
The Kings hadn't won a playoff game after trailing by two goals since 2001, and they hadn't rallied from a third-period deficit to win a postseason game since the first round last year.
The Blues tried to protect a late lead in front of a raucous Los Angeles crowd, but they couldn't stop Kopitar, the Kings' perennial scoring leader. The Slovenian forward hadn't found the net since March 25, and acknowledged the struggle was weighing on him - but he gave Elliott no chance on his shot in front.
Moments later, Williams slipped in front of Elliott and expertly tipped home Richards' shot from the boards. A video review couldn't conclusively determine whether Williams' stick had been illegally high.
"You play all of last season and all of this season to build confidence in yourselves for situations like this," Richards said. "They've got a great team over there, and there's a lot of similarities between us. It's the smallest things that make the difference."


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FRESNO, Calif. - Senior Nick Watney (Dixon, Calif.) has been ranked No. 2 in the nation in the latest edition of Golf World Magazine's collegiate golf rankings, released Fiday. Watney has posted three wins and 13 Top 10 finishes this past season. Above him, ranked No. 1, lies D.J Trahan from Clemson who has set the school single-season marks in wins, and sub-70 rounds.
"It's hard to imagine Nick matching what he did last season, but he's off to a great start," said head coach Mike Watney. Watney averaged 70.53 for his 45 competitive rounds last year, obliterating the Fresno State one-year scoring average record that he set in 2001. Watney broke par 30 times, including rounds of 63, 64, 65 and 66. He also finished third among 141 players at the NCAA West Regional and sixth among 156 players at the NCAA Tournament. Watney also went 3-0 against last season's No. 1, Graeme McDowell of UAB.
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Learning to read music 1: the quarter note
Reading the notes on the staff is easier than you might think. With this series of articles entitled "Learning to read music", I would like to translate my experience as a musician and teacher in suggestions to read music with naturalness.
If you reduce a musical staff at the essential - the five lines, the Clef at the beginning and the notes written - it tells to the reader two essential components of any sound: duration and pitch. The pitch indicates whether a sound is a C or a G or other note, i.e., the name of the notes. To begin, however, it is useful to focus on the first of the two elements: the duration.
The staff does not mark the durations of notes in seconds or any other absolute unit: it uses a system of proportional representation.
A "quarter note" or "crotchet", two names that identifys the same term, do not indicate the precise duration of "x" seconds, but simply a quantity that takes on a precise meaning only when placed in relation to overall speed of the song.
Suppose we were to sing a little song written entirely in quarters: if we decide to sing it slowly every quarter have a specific duration, but if we decide to sing it faster each quarter would have a shorter duration.
The fourth note, or crotchet, is the principal measure, the unit, and is represented by the typical black note head with the stem
At this point would we say: good! Every time I see a quarter note, on the position of the Sol, Sol I read it, and you're done.
Unfortunately, it is necessary to understand a particularity that is the foundation of music.
Every single musical moment, big or small, is characterized by its balance, its magnetic system to what precedes or follows it, its metric. Without considering this inner balance, even about an individual sound unit, a fourth note cannot become music.
I realize that for a newcomer this reasoning may seem complex, so it's best to first say "how," and then explain why it is so.
Each quarter note should be divided into two parts, which in music are defined as "beat" and "upbeat." A scale written in quarters reads:
Do-o / Re-e / Mi-i / Fa-a / So-ol / La-a /Si-i.
where the first part of each note is the beat, while the second the upbeat.
To facilitate this type of reading we use some hand movements, which aim precisely to make more evident the moment of "beat" and the moment of "upbeat".
The first exercise would be to learn reading a row of quarters while with the hand movements are performed "beat" and "upbeat."
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With this way of reading the fourth note is also possible to start to memorize the position of some note on the staff, and so we begin to deal with the second element of the notation on the staff: the writing of the pitch of the notes.
It is not difficult to memorize the locations of notes and the simplest method is to focus on two or at most three notes a day.
In these articles we will talk about an introductory of the notation in treble clef, but for a pianist is important also the Bass clef. In an article, however, there are tips for reading in bass clef.
Each has its own method of memorize things, certainly the worst is the old way of teaching the position of the notes through rigmarole.
Better to create a progressive method.
I suggest, for example, to begin to memorize the position of Sol (G) on the second line. That Sol lies on that line because it linked to the treble clef, which is at the beginning of each staff in treble clef.
The treble clef, or Sol clef, indicates that the Sol should be mandatory on the second line. If before a row is a Bass clef the Sol will no longer be on the second line.
So the position of that Sol is easy to remember.
If a Sol is on the second line, another Sol is immediately above the entire staff.
Even the Do (C) are easy to memorize. The low Do is under staff and is crossed by a ledger that in practice is an extension of the staff.
The middle DO is in the third space (starting from low side) and is easy to remember because the majority of songs for beginners has the middle Do as the most frequent.
Finally, the most acute DO is in the upper side of the staff with an additional ledger below and one running through it.
The SI (B) is easy to remember because is in the middle of the staff on the third line.
With little mnemonic tricks of this type in a few days is simply memorize the position of all the notes.
In the document as attachment below are some progressive exercises to practice both in the reading of the fourth note, both in memorizing of some of the notes in the treble clef, from the low DO to the upper Do.
The next article deals with new symbols of duration of notes and positions of other notes on the staff.
22 Agosto, 2010 - 11:03
Molto semplice e intuitivo.
Molto semplice e intuitivo. Eccellente.
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buon giorno a tutti, sono Claudio (72 anni) che dopo vari blocchi psicologici avuti da bambino (per quanto concerne musica e disegno)ho FERMAMENTE deciso di imapare a suonare il clarinetto... come primo passo mi sono iscritto alla Scuola di Musica della banda di Voghera e con mia grande gioia, sono riuscito (perlomeno) a imbracciare lo strumento e a guisa di vero miracolo, ho emesso delle note, accorgendomi (fatto inusitato in quanto mi reputavo stonato come una "campana"!!! e credevo di NON sentire la musica) di capire la correttezza dell'emissione. Sulla scorta di quanto sopra ascritto, desidero VERAMENTE complimentarmi con il Maestro per la Sua immensa disponibilità a farci partecipe di questo desiderio che, a titolo personale, sembrava IMPOSSIBILE !!! grazie per esistere , un caro saluto a tutti ed un " ad maiora" !!!!
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JAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Western Michigan authorities say a man who suspected his wife of cheating on him with a stable owner used a knife to kill two horses.
Ottawa County sheriff's Lt. Mark Bennett says the suspect argued with his wife Friday night at the property of the stable owner in Jamestown Township, about 10 miles southwest of Grand Rapids.
Bennett tells The Grand Rapids Press that the husband returned Saturday and killed the couple's quarter horse and the owner's Palomino.
Forty-seven-year-old Dennis Finkler of Conklin was arraigned Monday on animal cruelty charges. He has no listed telephone number and couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
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Shredderman: Secret Identity (2004)
by Wendelin Van Draanen
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This is a great introduction to chapter books for young boys and girls alike. The text is large and spaced out so as not to be too ovewhelming to the young readers. The book is seasoned by occasional character drawings throughout its pages to create a bit more engagement for the reader. Everyone in school knows Nolan only as Nerd. He gets perfect grades, is a computer wiz, and is fed up with the treatment he and other classmates are getting from Alvin. Alvin likes to only be called Buddy and will make sure each of his classmates abides by his rule. Fortunately, everyone learns to stand up to Buddy all thanks to Shredderman. The new superhero with a disclosed identity happens to be the last person they would ever expect.
Great! Book 1 of the 4 book, 1 movie series!!!
In, Shredderman Secret Identity, a boy named Nolen or "Nerd" gets a project where he was to create a news paper page. He choose to do his on a computer. His project was on the school bully called Bubba. Nolen made a website and thus gained his secret identity SHREDERMAN. Now all he has to do is get the school to go to the website, but how? This sounds like a job for Shrederman! At recess that day the only thing going on was all the teachers trying to find out where all the small colorful papers came from. By the end of the week the website was the only thing people talked about! Who started it? Who came up with this idea?
Of marvelous story of underdog vs. bully brought into the age of technology when the class "nerd" turns superhero by outing the class bully. Caught in the act by digital camera, this bully soon finds his episodes of torment plastered all over the newly formed website, Shredderman.com.
Though most kids won't create an anonymous website about a bully, and there are reasons why they shouldn't, this book is full of good ideas about how to deal with and think about bullying. I am really excited to read more in the series and see how they developed Nolan's realization that Bubba is a victim of his father's bullying. I also loved the scene where Nolan confronted the older kids and told them his name and not to call him nerd - great self governance!
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0440419123, Paperback)Fifth-grader Nolan Byrd has suffered at the hands of school bully Bubba Bixby for too long. Inspired by a class project, Nolan (a.k.a "Byrd-the-Nerd") creates a "cyber-superhero" alter ego called Shredderman, and sets out to avenge himself and his fellow Bubba-sufferers. Our likeable but nerdly and put-upon protagonist spots his shot at redemption when Mr. Green (Nolan's pony-tailed teacher, a.k.a. "the Happy Hippie") assigns the class's monthly project: Students must create a newspaper page, complete with stories and photos, on a topic of their choice. In a flash, Nolan realizes he has the perfect subject: "I had an idea that would make Bubba Bixby sorry he'd ever called us names. Or swiped our stuff. Or breathed his trashy breath down our throats. I'd do my report on Bubba Bixby!" Shortly thereafter Shredderman is born, and Nolan springs into action, armed with a computer, a cleverly concealed digital camera, and his own top-secret Web page, Shredderman.com, "where truth and justice prevail!"
Wendelin Van Draanen, author of How I Survived Being a Girl, and the super-cool Sammy Keyes mysteries series, has all sorts of fun here, taking a traditional bully-comeuppance tale and adding some high-tech cyber twists. Her descriptions prove as playful as ever, "Bubba Bixby's got rocky knuckles. And killer breath;" and her goofy cast is made even more memorable by the lively work of first-time kids' book illustrator Brian Biggs. (Ages 9 to 12) --Paul Hughes
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Fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, tired of being called names by the class bully, has a secret identity--Shredderman!
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Child Lives with 2 Hearts for 10 YearsCole Gamble
When Hannah Clark of Wales was just two years old doctors transplanted a second heart into the girl to make up for the original heart's inability to function. For 10 years the second heart beat but in that time Hannah developed tumors and could no longer take the immunosuppressive drugs that prevented her body from rejecting the donor heart.
The only choice the doctors had was to remove the working heart. When they did they were excited to discover Hannah's original heart took over.
"It proves that, in some instances, a weakened heart has the capacity to recover – if it can be helped," one of Hannah's doctors said.
Three years have passed since doctors removed the second heart and now Hannah has made a full recovery. An amazingly happy ending indeed.
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Nikon Coolpix P5000 review
It's easy to carry. It is easy to use w/ its many buttons and dials. It has A, S, and M mode. It seems to work welll with my old stock wide and tele conversion lenses, WC-E63, E68, E24, TC-E2, TC-E3, and FC-E8. Some of the photos I took look excellent! VR works well.All over it's a very good camera.
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I bought SB-400 for my option lenses, but it doesn't always work well.
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Maya is a vector mesh app and you would need a LOT of mesh triangles to do that job. You could use a mesh of 1x1 and then use a displacement map. Now sometimes the displacement map affects just the vertices of the mesh and other times on higher end stuff it does a dynamic mesh subdivision. Given that it dont come much more high end than Maya then I would guess that it would be able to do it. Check if it has the subdivide option. If it cant then you are always going get stuffed by res with a 3D app.
Next up. Tiff is a very standard file format for GIS data but no so much in CGI. I'm not sure what a normal format would be but I have to use IFF which is pretty uncommon. Personally I think a 16bit PNG should be ok for terrain height.
For getting resolution in X-Y you can chop down the terrain height field and use that with Maya so that it diverts more of the image to vertices or use a DEM processing tool. I suggest latter. Now which one ? There are many but if you have never used a paint package would you buy PS ? I think you should try and get into Wilbur for a bit at a min cos its free and very capable. Once you know its limitations then you can decide what might be needed to cover for that. Thats like any bit of software. I think Wilbur is very capable of doing what your asking for.
Wilbur can add noise and resample height fields. Now whether by adding noise and blowing up a section would produce a realistic DEM of that area is another thing. That's where all the programming effort has been going for some time. Su-Liam has some experience of adding noise to DEMs and knows about different noise functions and whatever to get what he needs. Personally I only deal with Perlin noise and whittle DEMs away with fluid flows. I don't think you can get that all that much mileage out of *just* using noise but I repeat that's a very humble personal opinion. If you have started with a real DEM and want a little extra from it then you will be able to go there ok I think.


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CONTENT WARNING: Vague to extreme silliness–and back again. Since 1990 I've been visiting Ana S. every other month, less when I was younger and single and living on a leaky sailboat and a semi-working actress with miracle hair never listing towards … Continue reading
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Sad Santa Barbara
My son and I were visiting his cousins when it happened. My husband, at home in Los Angeles, called me early Saturday morning with the news. I felt the same shock thousands of others were feeling in my town. The sun … Continue reading
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Spacks Street
Sunday, a memorial for the poet Barry Spacks took place. I arrived at Santa Barbara's Museum of Contemporary Arts 10 minutes early for the service to find it mobbed. Wonderful! Seats went fast. I sat next to the poet Dan … Continue reading
Quote For The Weekend (RIP Edition)
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A few days ago a friend of mine agonized over her loved ones from the deep South raging that Obama was a murderer because his health care plan would sanction abortion. She felt an insurmountable gulf between, which seems to have gripped much of the nation as well, a gulf between those who consider themselves progressives, myself included, and those who rage against their government for wanting to protect them (for instance) from illness, pain and unnecessary death. These are people who see a national health care program as signaling the end of the Republic. Their behavior seems laughable, mentally ill, perhaps an argument for health care that requires mental care for every single one of them.
But I'm coming to see that this thinking may be wrong. These people may in fact have something deeply right; or at least more right than those of us who put Obama into office, those of us who believe in his brilliant intellectual capabilities, his articulateness, his clarity, his political acumen.
It has to do with soul.
Those of us who live lives using the principals that have evolved from Plato and Socrates, up through the Enlightenment, Industrialization, the Information Age -- how many of us would give up much of anything in an attempt to save our souls? I mean this seriously -- really -- how much would we be willing to sacrifice? Do we really -- I mean, really, really -- even believe in what is called the soul, other than in the arena of music or as something abstract enough that it isn't going to get in the way of our Blackberries, iPods, Kindles, twittering devices, jobs, marriages, New York Times, literary books and so on?
Would we sacrifice ourselves or our children in a war, for instance? Would we allow ourselves or our loved ones to be maimed for the soul or for anything spiritual at all?
Spiritual is a pretty easy word for us (certainly for me) -- it's amorphous -- and convenient. I no longer believe in organized religion, frankly. I don't belong to a church -- so there's no sacrifice there, no ten percent of my income goes to a bunch of priests. I'm not even saying I'm wrong about my cynicism towards all religions. But it does seem quite obvious to me that many of these right-wingers, born agains and so forth have been more than willing to sacrifice a hell of a lot for the soul. It's why the elites of the Democratic Party have been so long perplexed by these folks over and over voting against "their interests." But honestly, are their interests really of "this world?" An innocent baby's soul matters (so you save it under any circumstances). A criminal's soul matters too (so you hang him for his earthly crimes.)
Which is why I think government sanctioned abortion (with a medical plan that covers it) so horrifies them. Do I think their rage and apparent self destructiveness is correct? No. But I think what drives them may be more valuable than I have up till now understood. If this nation is to survive (and I sure hope it does) we (the supposed enlightened) will have to make a superhuman effort to understand the other side. I don't believe the "other side" will ever try to understand us. Increasingly I think they see us as evil as "the devil" because they fear we have no souls. Much of the time I think they are being manipulated by the hopelessly soulless creatures who will do anything for power and profit, but this only makes our job more pressing. Who else is going to bridge this gap? Who else can reach across this gulf of confusion, suspicion and rage? And if this experiment that started with Plato and Socrates is in fact correct, then I believe we are up to the task. And if we are able in the end to succeed and bridge this gap enough to ease the worst of the tensions that beset us then, who knows, maybe in the final analysis it will turn out that it's us (not them) that gains back the most, namely, our souls.


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A U.S. Army Stryker armored personnel carrier with the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, moves about the training area during an exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, La., April 23, 2014. The Arctic Wolves are at JRTC to assist the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division in their training to further validate the Spartan Brigade's combat effectiveness and readiness posture. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Eric-James Estrada)
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As a new console generation takes the world by storm, people are focused on power and next-gen specs more than ever. With this focus has come a lot of scrutiny for the Wii U for being what many consider to be under-powered. Nintendo's loudest critics call for the company to go software-only, like its former rival Sega after the release of the Dreamcast.
Nintendo of America senior director Charlie Scibetta says Nintendo is still a hardware company because in order to make perfect software, you need to produce the hardware yourself.
"Nintendo systems come to life the best when the hardware and software work in perfect harmony. That's why we're still in the hardware business, because we think our hardware is the best way to bring software to life. It's tuned perfectly for that."
Scibetta has a point here, since Nintendo games are often some of the best optimized and least buggy experiences when it comes to the console aspect of gaming.
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Technological advances aren't just about making new devices. Many times it's more a matter of taking an existing device and improving on it. A case in point is Raytheon's work on a new thermal imaging chip that the company says will find so many applications due to it being so small and cheap, that it may make the humble flashlight obsolete.
Unlike other night vision technologies that work by amplifying tiny traces of visible light or by illuminating scenes with an infrared lamp, Raytheon's new thermal imaging chip detects heat in complete darkness. It is manufactured using "wafer-level packaging," which Raytheon says is the same process used to make computer chips. Over the past decade, the technology has reduced the imaging chips in size by a factor of six, while the number of parts for a sensor package has reduced from 15 to two.
Wafer-level packaging creates thousands of microscopic windows and vacuum-packaged thermal detectors called microbolometers on the chip's surface. Each microbolometer is 17 microns wide and a single sensor chip can contain tens of millions of microbolometers with each wafer holding thousands of sensor chips. This simplifies construction and greatly reduces the cost of the thermal sensors. It also makes them much more rugged, so they can hold up to everything from a smartphone in a pocket to battlefield conditions.
Applications for the new chips are "endless," Raytheon engineers say, with uses for everything from smart cars to potholing. The chips make it possible, for example, to issue thermal imagers for every soldier and police officer as standard kit, allowing them to follow targets by the heat of their footprints. In addition, cars could be equipped with sensors that adjust the airbags by being able to tell a child from a bag of groceries based on the heat signature.
"Once it reaches a certain price point, you'll see it kind of popping up in a lot of different areas," says Adam Kennedy, a lead engineer at Raytheon Vision Systems. "That's just very, very exciting."
Thermal imaging technology continues to make
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i hate scorpions.... but i love this piece!
yeah im terrified of scorpions..and others insects and bugs.. ^^
I like it and Drive too!
Thank you Hans, I am kind of addicted to Drive right now hehe
Best film for a long time. Strange mix Lynch , Lost In Translation, Collateral etc...I've watched it twice. :)
I never saw this message hans sorry >_
Would have made for a great teaser poster!
you think so Thomas? i'm in love with this movie right now
Oh yeah! I love teaser posters and this one would have been great. I saw two months ago I think, really liked it. I thought it had kind of 80's Michael Mann feeling to it.
great piece, great movie
I have such an obsession with ryan right now =P
Watched the movie last night... loved it! I ended up getting "Nightcall" and "A Real Hero" afterwards. Oh yeah, I really dig this piece, maybe because I would rock a jacket like this. haha
YAY! share the obsession haha. I ended up getting the soundtrack and loved it & yes.... I bought the jacket too haha
What movie is this? haha... I clearly havent seen it..
=D you must see DRIVE!
your drive posters are so cool. We seem to have to same taste as this and batman are in my top favourite films!
So cool!!!
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