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Forty-year-old Marc Schultz was sentenced Thursday to five years and two months in prison in the September death of 55-year-old Timothy Roberts in rural Shawnee County. Schultz pleaded no contest in April to reckless involuntary manslaughter and other charges.
He admitted that he was under the influence of alcohol, marijuana and prescription drugs and had his then 5-year-old son in the car with him. Schulz also admitted that he left Roberts on the side of the road after hitting him from behind.
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Giovino Wine Shop & Restaurant, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Giovino Wine Shop Restaurant serves up hearty Greek and Italian meals. I've been here both for private functions in the upstairs area and for dinner. Both times I enjoyed the Greek antipasto plate. Both times I filled myself on these tapas and didn't have room for much else. Wait staff are pleasant and quite capable of recommending a decent wine from their wine list - or browse their cool room yourself. It's a good place to sit on the upstairs balcony, nibble on the antipasto and enjoy a glass of wine. Maybe next time I'll get past the starter and actually try a main. Let me know if you do.
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- Anonymous10 July 2011 at 10:46
I've walked past this spot many times but have never actually gone in. I'll try the antipasto this weekend.
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I've been looking for a place that has Greek food. It seems every second restaurant in KL is Italian.
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I was thinking about taking some golf club shafts and making my own treking poles. Any idea were to get grips and treking pole tips?
Tips you can find yours local hiking store, Leki and Komperdell or some other.
Grips, fishing rod grip could be good and light.
Tips are pretty easy to find; REI carries them. I recommend getting grips from Gossamer Gear. I made some poles and used fishing pole grips first and ended up getting the GG grips and they're much more comfortable. The poles I made weigh 2.9 oz each.
Some helpful dimensions in the article.
If you do try to get GG grips, just be warned, you need to call. I tried emailing them a number of times without answer.
I made a decent pair of trekking poles out of old blue fiberglass xc skiing poles. I cut off the old tip and old grip, then measured and cut to the right length.
I used some bar tape, for a road bike, that I had lying around. Bar tape is pretty cheap and easy to find in town.
Pair came out to 11 oz. Not bad, for free.
A tip about using golfclub shafts: get some cork or light wood and glue a plug in the handle end flush before putting the grips on. Otherwise the sharp carbon fiber tube end will cut through the top of the grip.
I just found a lightweight graphite driver from Goodwill for a $1.00 and it's about the perfect length for me with the end cut off. As suggested, REI and similar places carry tips, in pairs, from what I've noticed. I got lucky this weekend and actually found an old, but usable tip before spending the money on them. Its inner diameter is slightly bigger than the club's outer diameter, but I've [just] filled it with JB weld and pressed in the club. I'm hoping it will solidify nicely and hold firm after it cures.
Gorilla glue expands and is another (potentially lighter) option instead of JB weld for taking up space between grips –edit: or tips and pole.
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I know a lot of people that don't like purple, especially in scrapbooking, but I like it! I just love the Mitten Weather line.
I remember watching a lot of holiday movies/shows a lot when I was a kid. Some favorites of mine were cartoons like A Charlie Brown Christmas, Frosty the Snowman and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Maybe I can get my siblings together during the holidays and we can watch them all again. That would be fun!I LOVE all of your favorites! How cutesy (lol) are they all??? :)
I'm not sure if we had a holiday movie for Christmas besides "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and that is almost a Halloween movie! LOL. However, every year I try to watch "Hocus Pocus" for Halloween. It's my all time favorite movie and I really don't even know why! LOL.
Thanks for the chance and I hope you and that baby are doing fantastic today! :)Oh a definite favorite for me is It's a Wonderful Life!! I just love the message behind the movie. It just isn't Christmas unless we have watched it. I love OA's seaside. And the new CC stuff!! The purple in there threw me in the Mitten weather. I can't wait to see it in person!! I will be stalking the stores for all the new goodies from CHA!!!
ReplyDeleteI love that Christmas Chestnut! So yummy!
I think my favorite movie was Rudolph the red nose reindeer, and it has to be the old one where you see actual puppets and not a digital image of the charactors....I have a dvd copy and my kids love it too....still makes my cry..LOL
Thanks Julie. I had so much fun creating a layout using one of your super yummy sketchs you did a short time ago, gosh I love that one, I'm going to do it again. :):)
Take care of you and baby!I just have fallen in LOVE with Mitten Weather and would love to win it! And I have to say that I just love your layouts. You give me such great ideas so thanks for blogging!! My favorite holiday movie growing up was/is White Christmas with Bing Crosby! My mom would put that in and pop some popcorn and we would all sit and watch it! I love my Christmas classics!
ReplyDeleteOh Julie I got goosebumps just thinking about holiday films - has to be White Christmas for me. When she was just a toddler, my daughter & I fell into the tradition of decorating our tree with White Christmas playing in the background. My daughter is now 18 but we will be doing the same this year - it gets our Christmas off to the perfect start. Jx
ReplyDeleteJulie, thanks for sharing these new lines! I can't wait to see some of these in the LSS. I think my favourite holiday movie is The Grinch Who Stole Christmas - what a classic! Seeing all of these fall and winter patterns is getting me excited for the seasons to change...even if I don't really want summer to end. :)
ReplyDeleteEvery Easter I watch "The Sound Of Music." Even though i have the DVD--I still have to watch it every Easter when it is on TV. A childhood favorite at Christmas, I believe was only on HBO, was Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas. I remember as a child, almost crying at one point in it. Imagine my joy at finding it 20 years later on DVD!
ReplyDelete"A Walk in the Park" collection is awesome. Can't wait to work with it. I took a lot of pictures so far this summer that I will be able to use. One of my favourite holiday show as a child was "The Muppets Carol". I will have to find a copy so I can share it with my daughter.
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ERIE, Ill. - Dolores J. Wolf, 80, of Erie, Ill., died Monday, September 3, 2012, at her home. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, September 7, at the Erie United Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Erie Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, at Gibson-Bode Funeral Home, Erie. Memorials may be made to the Erie United Methodist Church.
Dolores was born February 18, 1932, in Erie, the daughter of Clarence and Velma (Miller) Kellogg. She married Leland Wolf on March 23, 1951, at the Erie United Methodist Church. He preceded her in death in 2005. Dolores was a talented seamstress. She also enjoyed crafts, especially collecting antique dolls and repairing them as well as ceramics and painting. She also had a strong interest in genealogy.
She is survived by her children and their spouses, Allan (Cindy) Wolf, Geneseo, Ill., Cathy (Tom) Spitzfaden, Moline, and Connie (Mark) Binder, Blue Grass; daughter-in-law, Missy Wolf, Erie; grandchildren and their spouses, Lisa Wolf, Gina (Nick) Morphew, Susie (C.J.) Brooks, Bill Wolf, Dan (Erica) Wolf, Rebecca Wolf, Karen, Kim and Dave Spitzfaden, John Binder, and enny (Graham) Teller; and two great-grandchildren, Abigail Wolf and Grant Morphew. She was preceded in death by her husband and a son, Mike Wolf.
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We are simpatico, my friend. I love reading your writing posts, because they...well, they just click with me. I know just how you feel snipping, hacking, and building bridges. It's marvelous, ain't it? Euphoric. Progress, that's the bottom line. Movement toward catharsis, the end of gestation.
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Euphoric, yes. Marvelous, yes! And not much like it. I'm so glad you stopped by to read it! Isn't it great that no matter where in the world we are, we still connect? Words. The common denominator.
"Movement toward catharsis, the end of gestation." Your description is pure genius. Pregnancy. Birth. Preparing our babies to be seen in public. Hoping they not only fly, but sail to #1. Yeah.
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I love that your character reckoned.
Not enough of that these days, if you ask me.
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WASHINGTON The most expensive ticket to The Book of Mormon on Broadway: $477. The face value of a great seat for this years Super Bowl: $1,250. Guaranteed seats to watch the U.S. Supreme Court hear this weeks gay marriage cases: about $6,000.
Tickets to the two arguments that begin today are technically free. But getting them requires lining up days or hours ahead, or paying someone else to. The first people got in line Thursday, bringing the price of saving a seat to around $6,000.
For some, putting a value on the seats is meaningless.
Its just not possible, said Fred Sainz a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, the nations largest gay rights organization, which began employing two people to stand in line Thursday.
The court will hear arguments today over Californias ban on same-sex marriage. On Wednesday, the court will take up the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 federal law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. Supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage say the cases are so potentially historic that they want to be inside the courtroom to watch, no matter what the cost in time or money.
Part of the reason the seats are so coveted is the court doesnt allow TV broadcasts of its arguments, so coming in person is the only way to see the justices at work. The court has said it will release transcripts of the hearings as well as audio recordings about two hours after each case ends, but advocates say thats no substitute for being there.
Seats, meanwhile, are at a premium because there arent that many. The courtroom seats about 500 people, but seats are reserved for court staff members, journalists and guests of the justices and lawyers arguing the case. After those people are seated, there will be about 100 seats today for lawyers who are members of the Supreme Court bar and at least 60 seats for the general public. An additional 30 seats for the public will rotate every three to five minutes. Tickets for all those seats are handed out on a first-come, first-served basis.
For the most controversial cases, the line to get those tickets can start to form about a day before. When the court heard three days of arguments on health care last year, the first people arrived three days early.
This time, the line started even earlier. By Monday morning there were more than three dozen people waiting, even as snow was falling. Several in the line said they were being paid, while others included college students and a substitute teacher. People in line said they passed the time talking and reading.
There were games of cards and at one point people watched the television show The West Wing on one persons computer. Those waiting said theyd made friends, and they traded watching each others chairs and sleeping bags to go for bathroom breaks or coffee. On Monday morning, one man came around offering others donuts.
Donna Clarke, 62, of Mountain View, Calif., arrived Sunday night and was 37th in line. The Army veteran who has been with her partner for 27 years had intended to just be part of a planned demonstration outside the court today, but she decided to join the line when she realized it might be possible to get inside.
I think therell be a lot of my friends who will be very jealous, said Clarke, who intends to marry her partner in Massachusetts before they return to California, and said the Supreme Courts decision could be a transformative moment for the country.
Most of the people waiting in line are supporters of gay marriage. But opponents, too, said they intend to be at the court to watch.
Ken Klukowski, a lawyer at the Family Research Council and a professor at Liberty University School of Law in Virginia, says these cases are not just major, not just blockbuster, but historic. Klukowski said he expects to be getting up in the middle of the night to get in the separate line for members of the Supreme Court bar.
No one knows how early but ridiculously early, Klukowski said.
For those willing to pay to get in, several Washington services will hold a persons place in line. One company charges $36 per hour, another $50, meaning the cost of a five-day line stander comes in at $6,000. John Winslow, the operations manager of Linestanding.com, which like most other line standing services is also a courier service, said his service would be holding places for 40 to 50 clients, a number of them lawyers. His group held about 35 places in line for the health-care arguments last year, he said. Most people, he said, are starting their line stander 24 hours before, so theyll spend $864 to attend.
Linestanding.coms owner, Mark Gross, said for many of his clients, attending is personal.
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Getting to know the Windows 2000 backup utility
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Windows 2000 ships with a backup program that is really a light version of the VERITAS Backup Exec program. The bundled backup utility in Windows 2000 is well integrated with other components of Windows 2000; for example, it integrates with the encrypting file system and also hierarchical storage management. The backup utility offers support for backing up and restoring the encrypting file system (EFS) included with Windows 2000. Chapter 6 provides information about the EFS. The bundled backup utility is also well integrated with the Removable Storage Manager (RSM, described in Chapter 7). RSM provides support for operations essential to backup such as:
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Full-fledged backup utilities offer features that the bundled backup utility in Windows 2000 does not offer. Included are features such as:
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Project: Water power station Illspitz, Feldkirch, Austria
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MEVA Systems: Wall formwork Mammut 350 n Support frame STB 450 with extnsions, heavy duty braces Triplex Formwork engineering MEVA Schalungs-Systeme, Haiterbach, Germany
At Feldkirch in Western Austria, where the river Ill flows into the Rhine, a new water power station with an annual output of 28m kW is being built.
The water of the river ill is chanelled through the inlet and streamed over the turbines located in the power house. It then flows into the Rhine through the spillway. The weir system comprising three structures is positioned in the river, just above the chute. A tunnel below ground links the access structure on the right hand side with the power house and permits access to the weir system even during high tide.
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The site works in three shifts around the clock, even during the very cold winter months. The weir piers are divided into two centre and two edge piers. The 2.50 m wide centre piers had to be poured without any ties in horizontal direction. Pour pressure was managed using push-pull props, column clamps and column brackets. The clamps used to join the wall panels had an added and desired effect of taking up pressure from the concrete pour. The two edge piers, 1.85 m wide, are part of the left and right riverside quay wall and were poured together with the wall.
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After the foundation slabs in the power house had been largely completed and equipped with DW 26.5 cast-in anchors for the support frame, a wall segment 8.15 m high and over 20 m long could be poured using a sided-assembly with Mammut 350 panels, support frame STB 450 and three STB 150 extensions, supported by heavy-duty braces Triplex and base extensions. In order to save time and keep the tight schedule, the concrete pour began while the setup was being completed. The pier works have been completed.
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if ya just go over and over in a circle count me out and I will never do any again on top of the Stratosphere
DH had a middle ear injury a few years back - he's fine now - but rides that might induce vertigo/motion sickness are strictly off limits now and we are careful about roller coasters (we ride the big ones at Disney just the once then are done).
I will never do the Teacups again. I did it once and threw up and I was dizzy and miserable for the rest of the day. Everything else is fine.
The only ride I will never go on is Rock 'n' Roller Coaster. I can't go on rides that go upside down : (
There is only one ride I can't do and it's the like pirate ship ride that goes upside down. Way too slow for me and puked the one time I rode it. I also got sick last time riding the teacups hate that sudden stop.
The extreme version of Mission Space. I almost passed out. I don't usually have any problems on rides but this one is a big NO for me. I will try the mild one this time. The kids, dh, and mil loved it.
Someone puked ON me when I rode one of those once. Now I'm leery but I'll still do it I'll do any ride. And I kind of HAVE to do every ride if I'm with my little brother. He's 19, has down syndrome and autism, and it is NOT a happy day if he does not get to ride the thrill rides. Everyone else is too chicken to ride with him! The only thing I hated at WDW was the sound attraction with Drew Carey. Too much darkness, not enough funniness to make up for it.
we have problems with SM too. since it was "refurbished", it's SO jerky. i FINALLY convinced DH to ride it back in september (took me 20 years!), and i thought we were going to need medical help halfway through the ride. DH was in back, i was in front, and DD15 was in the middle, and she was screaming "mommy! something's wrong with daddy!", so i started screaming for help (which did no good), and by the end of the ride, DH was unable to walk, he'd been jerked around so much. he has bursitis in his right hip (which we didn't know at the time, we thought it was arthritis), and it never occurred to any of us that his hip would be an issue. i promised him i would NEVER try to talk him into riding another roller coaster. for me, i can't ride the teacups or mission space, due to motion sickness issues. even the non-spinning side of MS is a no-no. i tried it, but had to keep my eyes shut for the entire ride to avoid vomiting.
I hate, hate, hate the Teacups. That's about it, though. Country Bears and Tiki Room are both lame, but I could get talked into those.
My kids used to love the teacups. I had no problem with them until about the time I hit 40.....I just can't do them anymore.
I won't do any roller-coasters or any big drops. I'm done with tea cups. It's not fun when you get sick after you were spun. I just do the mild rides.
Small World. Got trapped in there once for about 15 minutes and now fully understand the concept of purgatory.
I have a metal rod screwed to my spine, so I have to be careful of what I go on, but I sure don't let it stop me. I send DH on first to see how rough or jerky it is. I love Rock n Roller coaster.....because I can't see what it looks like.
This happened to me too!!!! I can still go on it, but I HATE it! Oh me too! I hate most ferris wheels and theose boats that just go in a circle. Yuck!


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Device: Intraocular Lens (Acrysof IOL) Device: No IOL |
Phase 4 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Aphakia vs Pseudophakia - Randomized Clinical Trial in Children Under 2 Years Undergoing Bilateral Congenital Cataract Surgery |
- Visual axis obscuration [ Time Frame: 4 years ]Visual axis obscuration(VAO) assesed on slitlamp or under operating microscope in dilated pupil.VAO is defined as fibrous or proliferative cell growth leadind to a dull retinoscopic reflex.
- Glaucoma [ Time Frame: 4 years ]
Intraocular pressure (IOP) measured with Perkins handheld applanation tonometer.
Glaucoma defined as :
IOP>21 mmHg >1 occasion with any of these 3 criteria
- Optic nerve cupping asymmetry >0.2 cd ratio asymmetry , CD ratio >0.4
- Abnormal asymmetrical axial length elongation
- Corneal oedema or enlargement
- Central Corneal Thickness [ Time Frame: 4 Years ]Corneal thickness assessed by ultrasonic pachymetry. An average of 3 values with an error less than 0.001 would be taken into account.
- Visual Acuity [ Time Frame: 4 years . ]An Objective visual assessment to be performed using Lea Grating Paddles(Grating Acuity Test developed by Lea Hyvarinen16), Cardiff Acuity Cards(Preferential Looking Test17), or ETDRS (Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study) chart. Vision is subjectively assessed as the ability to follow or to fixate on a point source of light or on an object shown to the child.. Ocular alignment was measured using alternative cover testing. If this kind of testing was not feasible, Hirschberg testing was performed..
Estimated Enrollment: | 100 |
Study Start Date: | May 2003 |
Study Completion Date: | May 2011 |
Primary Completion Date: | January 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
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Active Comparator: Aphakia
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Active Comparator: Pseudophakia
The patient is randomly assigned for aphakia / pseudophakia. This is done only after vitrectomy. Hydrophobic Acrysof IOL is implanted.All pseudophakic children will be refracted and given the residual correction within a month of surgery.
Device: Intraocular Lens (Acrysof IOL)
IOL fixation, material and size are important determinants of immediate and long-term outcome. In-the-bag fixation is the most preferred site of IOL implantation.
Other Name: Hydrophobic Acrylic IOL
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The use of IOLs in pediatric patients has become increasingly popular in recent years and may represent a standard of care for older children. The refinements in surgical techniques attained in adult cataract surgery have been translated to pediatric cataract surgery to produce a technically safe eye. Nevertheless, the use of IOLs in children younger than 2 years remains controversial. Exaggerated inflammation, capsular opacification and changing refractive status of the developing eye should be considered before the use of IOLs in the first two years of life. Further more, there is concern about the unknown risks of an IOL over the long life span.
Currently, there are 3 methods of optical rehabilitation following congenital cataract surgery :
- Primary IOL implantation.
- Aphakic glasses.
- Contact lenses.
At present, there is no randomized clinical trial reported to document the safety and efficacy of IOL implantation in children less than 2 years.
Aim : To compare the technical outcome (safety) and functional outcome (benefits) following primary IOL implantation and aphakia in children less than 2 years.
Ages Eligible for Study: | up to 24 Months (Child) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Children less than 2 years
- Congenital cataract
- Bilateral cataracts
- IOL fixation - Bag/Ciliary fixated
Exclusion Criteria:
- Microphthalmos (Mean axial length 2 SDs less than normal for age)
- Microcornea (Horizontal corneal diameter <9.5 mm-asper that particular age)
- Iris coloboma
- Aniridia
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- Cataract surgery already performed in fellow eye
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Iladevi Cataract & IOL Research Centre | |
Ahmedabad, India |
Principal Investigator: | Abhay R Vasavada, MS,FRCS | Iladevi Cataract And IOL Research Centre |
Responsible Party: | Dr. Abhay R. Vasavada, Iladevi Cataract & IOL Research Centre |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01297153 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
icircAP |
Study First Received: | February 14, 2011 |
Last Updated: | June 30, 2011 |
Keywords provided by Iladevi Cataract and IOL Research Center:
Congenital Cataract Children younger than 2 years Aphakia Primary IOL Implantation |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Cataract Pseudophakia Aphakia |
Lens Diseases Eye Diseases Signs and Symptoms |
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Score one for the mages
Great guide! Thanks!
Thank you so much for this awesome guide, it did help a lot, I started 6am this morning and am almost done with everything, just gotta lay an egg now. :)
Very good guide, almost have my title now.
157 eggs total, including eating 100 achievement, to get everything. (except the mage book, I guess.
Be careful when doing Spring Fling... You won't get credit if the person already has the buff on them, but it will trigger the 5min cooldown on the flowers >_<
Anyone else bored with these seasonals that can be done like instantly when they come live?
Just got the full achievement, unfortunately I was unable to actually loot the dress or the pants (cheated for the pants cuz the last achievement I needed was the kissing one) there's always next year XD
how come this event the buff didn't stack and it let you do it to the wrong target?
I found this macro very usefull when hunting eggs: /use Brightly Colored Egg/use Noblegarden Chocolate/use Egg Basket/cancelaura Foodjust spam that macro while you hunt! ^^ It will activate the "60% speed Basket", loot the eggs and eat chocolate(for the 100piece of chocolate achivement) ps. you can remove "/cancelaura Food" if you like(I use it to see when I eat another piece of chocolate, thats all!) ^^
Achievable on a lvl 40?I want to get this on my alt :D
It would be nice if there weren't so many bannies.......................i hate seeing them all over the place...................and they also steal my eggs:(
Can Noblegarden (and get the title) be completed on a lvl 40?I want to get it on my alt.
This is the worst event ever!I'm at like 5 hours of hunting totalling approx 750 eggs found.I have- 6x Spring Rabbits Foot- 7x Spring Robes- 18x White Tuxedo Shirt- 15x Black Tuxedo Pants- 9x Spring Flowers- 4x Spring Circlet- 12x Blossoming Branch- 0x Elegant DressRNG is the worst thing ever!/e: Halle @#$%ing lujah! I just got it on egg #763
Managed to do all the achievments for about 3 and a half hrs ^^PS: Got the Elegant dress after 30 min of egghunting :P
Just got Noble Gardener. :D Finding a female orc took forever... >.<
Geez, what's everyone have against Dwarf females that there's so few of us?


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Monday, August 27, 2012
First day of school
Typical Culwell start
Aidan and Maude were prepared yesterday. Backpacks were laying at the end of their beds and clothes were already picked out. They both were up as soon as they heard me say time to get up. Both of them were too nervous/excited to eat breakfast.
Joshua was last to get up, rolled out of bed went and ate breakfast...hair a CRAZY mess. Then as we stepped outstide to take first day of school picture he looked at Aidan and Maude and said "Oh I need a backpack" then reached behind the backdoor to unload his backpack from the last day of school last year. Walked out with it unzipped and holding a football.
Dropped Aidan off at MIDDLE SCHOOL!! When he got out I said "you have your schedule right?" His eyes said it all. So quick call to Dad to run it up the street. While I dropped off the other two I was looking for a place to park and asking Maude if she knew where they were going, when Joshua said "I got this Mom, Maude just come with me and I will show you were to go." Maude said "Ok Mom just drop us off at the door."
And somewhere in the midst of crazy morning traffic and not so awake I actually let him take her!!!! What was I thinking?
3rd, 4th and 6th
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
I just registered Aidan in 6th grade. Wow! How can that be?!? Joshua and Maude registered yesterday into 4th and 3rd, this is just going way too fast for me!
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Friday, August 3, 2012
Oh Roxy
She loves the kids and I mean loves them!!! She hugs all the time it's so weird to watch her put her paws around them. This is her loving on Joshua. She just doesn't know she is 65 pounds of love... They kind of love her too:)
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Sweet Maude
I hope this never changes. Maude and I toured a museum in Waco. We both sat on opposites sides of the table and drew what we wanted our coat of arms to be. When we got up to see we were almost identical in what we had drawn. I have to say dragging my kids around from camp to camp and chasing them from event to event I pray this will always be shown in my life as the center.
How lucky am I that I get to spend time with this gorgeous girl inside and out?
Cody has been checking standings on the Olympics before we watch them and it has been driving me nuts!! So tonight I begged him not to give me any indication on who won or didn't And then he slipped.... Guess who is going to watch the Olympics in the garage apartment?
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If the Florida Panthers retain the No. 1 pick in the 2014 NHL Draft, they likely will select Barrie Colts defenseman Aaron Ekblad out of the Ontario Hockey League, according to a report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
The 6-foot-3, 213-pound defenseman is No. 2 on NHL Central Scouting's final ranking of the top North American skaters for the 2014 draft.
"Ekblad is this year's player most likely ready to step in and play in the NHL," Panthers director of scouting Scott Luce told the Sun Sentinel last week. "He's physically mature and has got lots of mileage underneath him at the OHL level.''
Whether the Panthers keep the pick, however, remains in question. Tallon has made no secret of his willingness to trade the pick, and told the Toronto Star recently that he has received one "fair offer" for the selection. Among the teams the Sun-Sentinel report to have shown interest in acquiring the pick are the Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers.
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Over the Border and into France
... 8 mins or so. You buy a ticket at the get on get off stops, validate it on the tram and away you go. With a map of the network it's very easy to get around. Each line is colour coded as our rail system is, but also has a letter, ABC&D in the matching colour which makes it easy to identify if you're getting on the right tram. You'll have noticed I'm shifting between train and tram because I'm not sure what to call them. All I know is they look very ...
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The Hotel Klee
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Anyway, Uruguay is pretty much just an extra stamp in your passport. We arrived after the 8 hour Coche Cama ride through the night and had a choice between a four star Holiday Inn for US$20 a night or Hotel Klee at $12 a night. Budgets making the decision, we went for the Hotel Klee and regretted the saving later. Even though the Hotel Klee had nothing really wrong with it apart from the rubbish breakfast and the lift shaft that ventilated in to our room it was a bit, well, rubbish.
There were two good things in the Uruguay. One thing that could have happened, but we arrived too late in the day, was play a round of golf. The course was amazing for only US$10 and we could have rented a golf buggie. The other thing actually happened, it was eating in the food market in Montevideo. The food was really top notch and value for money, we ate a nice selection from the menu which seemed to go well together. This food included pork, chorizo sausage, fried cheese, medio medio wine, flan, there is just too much to mention.


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Shawnta Wormley Age: 26 Resides: Bushwick, Brooklyn Occupation: Administrative assistant Have you ever contemplated suicide? No. I love living. I love breathing. I've become attached to it. How do you cheer yourself? I call my friends, my family. I talk to my mother and father. I pray. Why do so many people think about it? They don't have hope. The way the world is going, they go to the media, they don't find any solutions. They can't talk to their family. They're alone. |
Ari Yanopulo Age: 20 Resides: Williamsburg Occupation: Flyer distributor Have you ever contemplated suicide? Yeah. Plenty of times. It came to a point where I was going through a lot of family problems. And also trying to find a job. I'm over it now. I just stopped thinking about it. But I tried every thing. I sliced myself. I put a gun to my head. Jumping off a roof. It's so stupid when I think about it. How do you cheer yourself? I think of happy things. My friends cheer me up. Why do so many people think about it? The growing teen suicide-it's miscommunication with parents. Whether they come from a ghetto or a dysfunctional family. Some mothers and fathers are addicts. |
Margaret To Age: 14 Resides: Bensonhurst, Brooklyn Occupation: Student Have you ever contemplated suicide? Yeah. Because of stress and family problems. It's over. Everything's going good. I tried running away once. That actually helped, though. After that my mother actually started listening to me. How do you cheer yourself? I just talk to friends. They help me. Why do so many people think about it? They just want to get away from their problems. It's all stress. A lot of people have the same problem with their family. |
Edward Hernandez Age: 23 Resides: Sunset Park, Brooklyn Occupation: Marketing Have you ever contemplated suicide? No. Never. Even when I was a teenager. I was doing crazy things back then, but when my son was born-he's three now-it eliminated the mere possible thought of suicide. I couldn't leave him. How do you cheer yourself? I dance. I breakdance. Why do so many people think about it? It has a lot to do with people's parents. A child only knows what it's taught. |
Mirriam Garrick Age: 32 Resides: Oceanside, Long Island Occupation: Customer relations Have you ever contemplated suicide? Yeah, of course. I feel like I don't belong in this world. It's not designed for me. There's a lot of apathy in this world. But you look at life and see the trees and flowers and that life is beautiful. How do you cheer yourself? I talk to my friends. I listen to music. Why do so many people think about it? Society's backward. We're not working for more soul. It's all financial. |
Mark Young Age: 27 Resides: Harlem Occupation: Sales Have you ever contemplated suicide? No. Life has not been that good to me, but not so bad that I have to think about suicide. How do you cheer yourself? Listen to music. Rap. r&b. Why do so many people think about it? Stress. Peer pressure. Drugs. Parents. School. There's no place to turn with all that stuff. |
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Hold on, how was this done without After effects???
It wasn't.
it doesn't say no AE...just no CG.
Want to project a loop...
Why is it crazy that there's no CG, nothing here would require CG.
You're on it Sean. The CG text isn't really directed at folks that know video making; just for folks who don't do this work and may misunderstand how it's created. Thanks much for checking it out.
Professor CY has done it again!
Awesome work CY! :)
I love Lumia ! :D
holy shit ! that looks fucking crazy probs up from denmark!
Классно гоняют
Wow! The Lumia has a good camera
BTS now available! vimeo.com/originals/lumia/101559698
how...? A making of please!
RobertT is right. Tons and tons of masking w/AE. Thanks for checking the vid out!
BTS now available! vimeo.com/originals/lumia/101559698
ah yes, i found this video on his page, it does look very very time-consuming but a great effect! vimeo.com/95881511
Very impressed
Check this one out, made by Zbigniev Rybszynski in 1980, when there was no After Effects but a huge machine called Oxberry !
classic video!
Hey Cy, It was great working with you on this project, thanks for the opportunity...came out fantastic...Top Notch!!! Instagram@csfujuneau
Hey Cory! Glad you like it, your skating speaks for itself! Best to your Dad and thanks again for working with us, you guys are solid.
nice video
Very cool, but I won't be trying this at home any time soon...
cool guys
Great 👌
Hey, I'm super new, how did you do this? is it something I can learn how to do? I have a go pro, and a canon 5d m2 and usually edit real estate and wedding videos on Final Cut Pro x. Would love to learn this skill. Video is amazing btw!
As said before: It's just a ton of masking. They recorded the skater multiple times and combined the shots in post through masking the skater out. While shooting they made sure that the camera stays in the same position. Otherwise this effect wouldn't work because a moving camera could cause perspective problems. Even if you're and it works out, it still means more work. Just look for some rotoscoping/masking tutorials here on vimeo or youtube, if you want to learn. I don't know, if you can do prober masking in FCP X. Maybe you have to get a version of After Effects.
Another important thing for this effect is that the background or the main scene, here the pool with the clear sky, stays the same. A changing background means more work and can cause some trouble.
If you have a clean version of the shot you can use Difference Matte in After Affects to easily pull a key, a lot easier than rotoscoping the shots!!!
The Video is epic
This was filmed with a cell phone. Wow.
sick, i love the lack of music
This is what it felt like when he was little. I couldn't kept up with him. Really cool video of my son. 👍
Your son is amazing. We're fortunate to have made the piece with him and Cy.
Hi Dianna, it was a blast watching Cory skate. I couldn't keep up either - talent!
Very nice.
Awesome Job Professor. You Alex, and the crew killed this video. I am very thankful to have taken your class at City College. Now that this is over lets grab some lunch, the three of us.
Jeff H
Big shout out to the roto artists for making this come to life. Video is cool and looks great.
If you do this again you may want to look into using "difference mattes." Just something that is worth checking out when doing these types of shots. Either way cool stuff and thanks for sharing.
For me this a wonderful
Nice sport to watch !
Wow, this is such a dynamic video, does the lumia 930 lock focus and exposure in video mode?
Respect to microsoft - to be a sponsor in a way! Please contact me :)
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hi cy,
really like your work. can i feature it on a website i am putting together? email me firstname.lastname@example.com
OMG that is so awesome keep coming with dudes :D
This is sick!! :)
tudo bem
Mt foda msm 🙂
This is a great video !!! But I have to say that it is not a result of Lumia or microsoft (ok ms is the sponsor and Nokia is using ms OS) ... !!! It is the combination of hard work in shooting and editing. Six weeks of editing with two different editors, frame by frame and 50.000 individual edits for the final 90" video ... !!! Bravo !!! It took a lot of time and knowledge to have this result :)
Totally Awesome Action Pack!
Great job!
Back in the day I had to do this exact same technique with a panning camera shot:
this is great,
i'm wondering if you work making 4k videos too
What a great video!!! Congrats guys!
So basically it has nothing to do with Microsoft, their winblowsphone and Lumia, it is just a hard work of post-processing engineers/editors. OK.
This is fantastic, i love Lumia. Thanks so much, Microsoft! :3
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In this puzzling thriller, a woman steals a Stockholm cab and races off without realizing that a man with a gun lies hidden in the back. He points his weapon at her and forces her to head north. They drive through the dark night and in the morning discover that a motorcyclist is following them. The strange trio end up on a mysterious road filled with many plot twists and sharp turns and in the end, things are somewhat explained. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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- 1/6-scale, 12" tall if standing upright
- Depicts Modern Warfare veteran Cpt. "Soap" MacTavish of Task Force 141, equipped with custom snow camouflage and weaponry as seen in "Cliffhanger" mission from Modern Warfare 2
- 3 sets of interchangeable weapons and arms, including: Dual ice-climbing pickaxes (pictured) Dual .45 caliber pistols M14 Enhanced Battle Rifle (affixes to Soap's back when not in use)
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Liberals in two western states are pushing to allow illegal immigrants have the same rights as citizens who follow the law… but lawmakers have a plan to stop it. Republicans in both Colorado and New Mexico are trying to pass bills that would de-fund or completely repeal the leftist policies.
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Twice as nice By Matt Fink
She & Him's debut was a simple affair. Zooey Deschanel's homespun grace and M. Ward's unobtrusive production made for a winning combination—which means they risked a lot by making a followup album as complex and ambitious as this one. On Volume Two, swirling strings and lush backing vocals underscore Deschanel's increasingly sophisticated songwriting. She plays the dewy-eyed ingénue a bit too faithfully at times, but there is no denying her legitimacy as a tunesmith, divvying her set between bouncy piano-pop, folk-flavored sing-alongs and orchestral anthems. In lesser hands, the American Graffiti-styled themes of star-crossed lovers and summer nights would drown in their own sincerity. Here, they provide a pleasant escape to a mythical America of endless horizons and youthful resilience—not such a bad place to be in 2010.
Need some spice By Rachel Dovey
With its nostalgic covers, wall-of-sound harmonies and sunny imagery, Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward's latest is a beguiling memory-picnic through a land where everyone is forgiving, self-deprecating and pleasant. "Well, alright / It's okay / We all get the slips sometimes every day / I'll just keep it to myself in the sun," Deschanel and her guest chorus of Tilly and the Wall members croon to a melodic waterfall of riffs. This stuff-it-away-and-smile attitude permeates the bulk of the album, so when Deschanel's voice dips to a quiet near-sob at the end of Skeeter Davis cover "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" it's as refreshing as a drink of water after a cotton-candy binge. But moments like this are few and far between on this fluffy, sugar-spun album. The smiling-through-tears undercurrent of '60s pop is lost in Deschanel's taffy-like vocals, and though the album evokes memories of a more pleasant time, they seem far too sweet to be real.


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If you were once inside my circle of love
and from this circle are now excluded,
and all my love's citizens I love more than you,
if you were once my lover but I've stopped
letting you, what is the view from outside
my love's limit? Does my love's interior emit
upward and cut into night? Do my charms,
investigations, and illnesses issue to the dark
that circles my circle? Do they bother
your sleep? And if you were once my friend
and are now my villainous foe, what stories
do you tell about how stupid those days
when I cared for you? Because I tell stories
of how you must tremble at my love's terrible walls,
how the memory of its interior you must always be eroding.
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Once again, we have a great suggestion from one of our regular readers, and this dude is one impressive muscle hunk with plenty of rough fur in all the right places! I love hearing from you guys and checking out the men who get your juices flowing, so when I clicked through to find some pics of Eliad Cohen I knew he was one to feature here.
I've been digging a little and can actually tell you some little factoids about the guy too…
Eliad Cohen is a model, actor and personal trainer (do gyms hire guys as they're walking out of modeling agencies, or is it the other way around?)
He has an impressive muscular body, a real masculine look with all that fur, and a real talent in front of the camera. I think it's pretty obvious when you see a guy like him who knows how to tease and tempt for a photographer, and lord knows we've seen a few gorgeous men standing like mannequins and offering no inspiration beyond what their body looks like. They may as well be standing in those body scanners at the airport for all the passion they put into a shoot! lol
Known for being a little controversial in some of his work, Eliad Cohen hails from Israel and doesn't shy away from making political and religious statements either. His work with the gay community is well known, and it seems he doesn't shy away from being who he is in any fashion.