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All That Glitters: The Ups and Downs of Methamphetamine
October 2002
What sparkles, feels like fine sand, and makes you "trip the night fantastic?" Speculate no more. It's New York's latest party: favor crystal meth, also nicknamed tina, crank, chalk, chandelier, ice, quartz and redneck cocaine. About five years ago crystal began gusting slowly into Manhattan from the Western and Midwestern US, where it has been popular among gay and bisexual men and straight blue-collar men and women for decades. The early gusts were harbingers of a gathering storm as crystal is furiously becoming one of gay New York's most popular and dangerous party and play drugs.
In New York City, the drug has manifested itself greatly among gay and bisexual men regardless of race or ethnicity. Our preliminary work at the Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training (CHEST) shows that among 324 self-identified drug users, 64 percent report at least one incident of meth use in the prior year, and of these 36 percent are HIV-positive. Further, meth is slowing finding its way into the club culture of young straight youth. The writing is on the wall for an enormous crystal epidemic. And because of its hyper-sexual qualities, the drug will certainly intersect with the transmission of HIV.
What Is Crystal Meth?"Better living through chemistry?" Think again. Crystal is a rocky substance manufactured by combining over-the-the counter cold and asthma remedies with toxic chemicals, which is then crushed into a fine powder. Let's face it, the folks who cook your crystal aren't FDA-approved pharmacists; they're more like storybook witches huddled over a cauldron stewing a poisonous brew. Among the ingredients are anhydrous ammonia, a liquid fertilizer so corrosive it burns the skin; red phosphorous, iodine, drain cleaner, battery acid, lye, lantern fuel and anti-freeze. Now does that sound like something a witch might want you want to inject into your veins, inhale or snort into your lungs or stick up your ass to be absorbed like gelatin? This substance is easily made in mom and pop shops, in kitchens and make-shift labs. In fact, in California last year up to 1,000 toddlers became addicted to crystal due to the chemical residues landing on the floors of their parents' homes on which they crawled.
Like many other club drugs such as ecstasy, ketamine, and GHB which have been widely associated with dance clubs, parties, and raves, crystal is also to be found among users moving to the pounding rhythms of the dance floor. Why not? Meth is speed which can keep you dancing for hours, feeling energetic, powerful, and sexual all at the same time. But meth is not just a drug used at these venues. Studies indicate use is as common in people's homes, at the homes of friends, at sex parties, bars, and bathhouses. And users of crystal tend to associate with other users thus creating an "underground network." "Where's Tina?" or "where did Tina go?" can be commonly heard among users at a club who are in search of the substance.
Why would anyone eat, smoke, snort or inject such a toxic powder? The answer is simple. Crystal can make you feel exuberant, "on top of the world," like you "can do anything." Crystal users report that the drug increases their feelings of self-esteem, confidence and sexual desire. The downsides (and there are downsides to every party and play drug) can be disastrous. The crystal high which makes you feel invincible, doesn't actually make you invincible (surprise), and men whose libido the drug shifts into overdrive often wind up having lots of unprotected and uninhibited sex when they are zooming around on crystal.
Crystal and SexWhile crystal enhances one's sex drive, it can also make it difficult to stay hard (a "crystal dick"), a condition that causes many men to become, "instant bottoms." So for HIV-negative men, the biggest risk of crystal's high is becoming HIV-infected. However, nowadays "crystal dick" is a thing of the past. Studies conducted at CHEST, which is a New York University-Hunter College collaborative behavioral research center, indicate that many men who use crystal combine it with Viagra, thus allowing them to overcome their inability to obtain an erection while high. Investigators in San Francisco learned that the men who used crystal meth were significantly more likely to have unprotected intercourse than men who did not. The crystal users were about 3 times more likely to become HIV-infected through unprotected sex than men who did not use crystal. At CHEST through our work on Project TINA, a study of crystal methamphetamine users, and Project BUMPS, a study of club drug use among gay men, those reporting the use of crystal were much more likely to practice both unprotected insertive and receptive anal sex when high at much higher rates then when not high.
Dangers AheadThe dangers of meth use do not stem from the use of the substance in isolation. Preliminary data from project BUMPS indicate that 30 percent of users mix it with cocaine, 35 percent with ecstasy, 44 percent with ketamine, and 45 percent with alcohol. Add to this mix the use of antivirals by HIV-positive men and you create a formulary that is bound to have profound effects on both physical and psychological health.
Dangerous physical side effects of crystal meth users are increased heart rate, blood pressure, and the constriction of veins and arteries in one's entire circulatory system. These effects can cause stroke, heart attack and irreversible damage to blood vessels. Men who inject crystal, which is often the preferred route of administration for highly addicted individuals, are also vulnerable to pericarditis, a potentially deadly bacterial infection of the heart caused by unsanitary injection practices. Crystal meth can also over-excite your central nervous system to the point where you feel paranoid, fearful and anxious. Heavy users can experience psychotic episodes, medical jargon for losing touch with reality. Studies of the brain also demonstrate an enormous impact of methamphetamine on brain functioning, which in some cases of heavy use may lead to the development of Parkinson's-like symptoms.
Men and women who take HIV medications are especially vulnerable to crystal's dangerous side effects because many HIV medications can cause crystal to be absorbed in the body two or three times faster than in someone not taking HIV medications. So the one bump you snort unwittingly becomes three, three bumps becomes six and so on. Crystal also wrecks havoc on your medication-taking schedules. If you decide to stop your medications for the night because you don't want it to interact with the crystal your taking, or you forget to take your medications because you're so blasted you can't remember to, then you are setting yourself up to develop medication-resistant virus. Finally, like HIV, which may wreak havoc on the brain, methamphetamine also may add to the deterioration and functioning of this organ.
Those who are both HIV-negative and -positive also should think about the possibility that they can transmit or become infected with a drug-resistant virus. Whether you are positive or newly infected, if your HIV resists antiviral medications then your treatment options become limited.
Helping Crystal UsersBecause crystal meth is so new in New York, drug treatment agencies often do not have experience in recognizing the addiction or treating it, and so many people with crystal meth problems may find it difficult to find appropriate help. GMHC's SUCE program and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center's Project Connect are good places to start, as are any of the increasing number of twelve-stop programs that have emerged throughout the city.
Many substance use experts and researchers in the LGBT community believe strongly that in order to help men deal with crystal meth use problems that they must recognize the importance and power of crystal's ability to lift men's self-esteem, confidence and sexual satisfaction. For many men, crystal is the answer to a long dry spell of isolation, anxiety and sexual boredom. Substance use professions need to learn how to help men attain these same benefits without risking their lives on crystal.
Perry N. Halkitis, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor at New York University and Co-Director of CHEST. Paul Galatowitsch is the Director of Community relations & Outreach at CHEST. For further information about Project Bumps, call 212 206-7919 x 303.
This article was provided by Body Positive. It is a part of the publication Body Positive.


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Chieftec AEGIS Full Tower Review
A lot of times, the case for a computer is a secondary thought. However, the case, in addition to looking cool, can provide several other benefits, like noise reduction and cooling. By the same token, however, a case may not have any of these benefits, or even worse. Every component in a computer generates heat, including the major contributors like the CPU, GPU, and hard drives. The size of the case is also something that should be taken into consideration, as the more expansion cards you have and the more hard drives you have, the larger a case you will need.
This case, the AEGIS, is made by Chieftec, a company that prides themselves on "always bettering themselves." This case is the full tower version of the AEGIS, meaning it has more drive bays and more expansion slots than the typical mid tower case. While the mid tower didn't get a great review, hopefully the full tower performs better.
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The box housing the Chieftec AEGIS has a ton of information packed all over it, front and back. Also there are two giant pictures of the case, in both the silver color and black color. As with the mid tower, along the bottom of the box, in large bold lettering, it states "IN THIS CASE YOU CAN TRUST."

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Vindictus is a hack and slash style, MMORPG brawler that mixes instanced stages with persistent towns that act as hubs. Originally titled Mabinogi Heroes, Vindictus is developed by the same studio and is set in the same Celtic themed world. The game was uses the Source engine, which allows players to interact with the environment and also ensures smooth gameplay. Vindictus has high production value, including well translated dialogue, a clean interface, and cinematics.
Vella – A versatile character who mixes equal measures of offense and defense to deal damage and leap across the battlefield, escaping enemy attacks without a scratch.
Lann – Quick offensive character who wields dual swords.
Fiona – Defensive character who can block with her shield and perform powerful counter attacks.
Evie – A female mage who has access to a variety of offensive and supportive spells.
Karok – A giant who can swing large objects to crush opponents.
Kai – An archer who is in tune with nature.
Hurk – A powerful warrior who is relentless in battle, even as it might harm himself.
Lynn – A princess armed with a glaive.
- Status: Released
- Release Date: Oct 27, 2010
- Business Model: Free to Play
- Developer: Nexon
- Publisher: Nexon
- Category: Stand-alone
- Genre(s): 3D, MMO, RPG, Fantasy
- Platforms: PC
Editor's Score: 4/5
- +Great skill and attack animations.
- +Interact with the environment.
- +Well crafted lore and dialogue.
- -Limited number of playable characters.
- -Players will have to repeat stages.
- -Combat can get repetitive.
- Recommended System Requirements:
- OS: Windows 7 64 bit or higher
- CPU: Intel® Core™ i3 540, ® Phenom™ II X4
- GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTS 250, ATI Radeon™ HD 4850
- Description: Vindictus is a fast-paced, 3D, fantasy MMORPG brawler. Based on Celtic mythology, Vindictus allows players to fight their way through instanced stages with parties of up to four players. The game has realistic graphics, and features hack and slash style gameplay.
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Court Tells Journalist Barrett Brown He And His Lawyers Can't Talk To The Press Any More
from the that's-insane dept
No person covered by this order shall make any statement to members of any television, radio, newspaper, magazine, internet (including, but not limited to, bloggers), or other media organization about this case, other than matters of public record, that could interfere with a fair trial or otherwise prejudice Defendant, the Government, or the administration of justice....This gag order seems somewhat ridiculous. The idea that having Brown or his legal team talking to the press would somehow unfairly bias the jury in his case is ridiculous. It's perfectly reasonable to expect Brown and his legal team to try to draw attention to the ridiculousness of the case, and the only purpose of this sort of gag order is to silence the press and keep the story from getting the kind of attention it deserves, as yet another example of prosecutorial overreach by the DOJ.


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ertyu wrote:
I'm trying to track down my racer from 2004.
My travelbug "Smokey" actually won the 2003 Great Canadian Travelbug race. It was a toy Fire Truck from New York. It didn't make all 10 provinces/territories in the allotted time, but it was the only one to hit 7 provinces. I actually had that travelbug come back to me as someone brought it to an event I attended in Hamilton, ON (after the race). I then moved it to Winnipeg myself on my next visit, and it subsequently disappeared when MI's Go Fly a Kite cache went missing.
It was kind of funny, because my brother (Marvin_From_Mars) placed second in that race with his East Bound and Down travelbug (a toy semi).
I won an El Diablo Hiking Staff for placing first and it's still one of my prized possessions. I had them customize it slightly for me to add my junglehair stamp and a canadian flag, as well as having my caching name put on there.
What does it take to get in the race besides a travel bug?
Also where is the start and destination?
Is there a link with more info?
TheStuntman wrote:
What does it take to get in the race besides a travel bug?
Also where is the start and destination?
Is there a link with more info?
ertyu wrote:
On a sidenote, I found my 2004 racer, it was sitting in someones backpack.
If your still deciding or have decided to enter the race, check out your competition!
Meet Tear Around TB:


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Good Morning Ladies,
I'm a FTM of a beautiful 3 week old little girl. I've been doing my very best trying to breastfeed but I need some support. I'm physically and emotionally exhausted and I seem so out of touch with my body and boobs!
Baby girl does a decent job of latching when I'm not too full. I try to hand express some before each feeding to make it easier for her. Sometimes though she fights me and seems so irritated.
We do supplement formula on occasion and she has no problem going back and forth between the two. (bottle wise).
I'm scared to go all over to formula and I really want to be the rockstar mom who is able to pump and breastfeed her baby. I'm just at this wall and I need help. Please let me know of any tips or tricks. I'm going back to work when she's two months old so we will be transitioning to bottle in a couple weeks.
I have a pump and I've tried to using it, but that seems just as frustrating.......


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The Open University has been ranked 10th in a list of UK universities with graduate millionaires. Oxford took the top spot, followed by the University of London and Cambridge in third place.
According to the Skandia Millionaire Monitor (published Spring 2012), 1.9 per cent of all UK-based millionaires have Open University degrees. The survey reported on the lifestyle and attitudes of millionaires in six countries: the UK, France, Italy, Hong Kong, Sinagpore and Dubai.
In the UK, three quarters earned their wealth through employment, with 15% achieving it through their own business. The Open University and the University of Bristol (9th place) had the highest number of millionaire graduates from state schools (around 90%).
Lucian Hudson, Director of Communications at The Open University, said: "This is a fresh twist in our drive to provide educational opportunity and social justice! It shows how education truly helps people achieve their career aspirations, whether they are employed or using their skills to run their own businesses.
"Many people, who did not think university was an option for them, have changed their lives through higher education. 18 000 students access education through our targeted access, taster, and Openings programmes, and we further inspire people through our free online learning materials on OpenLearn and our partnership with the BBC."
The Open University is a world leader in distance learning and a pioneer of teaching and learning methods which enable people to achieve their goals through flexible study that fits around work, family and social commitments.
Editor's Notes
2. The rankings were compiled from the percentage of all UK-based millionaires who attended a given institution, according to results of a random survey.
3. The Open University (OU) is the largest academic institution in the UK and a world leader in flexible distance learning. Since it began in 1969, the OU has taught more than 1.7 million students and has more than 264,000 current students, including 18,000 overseas.
The OU has been one of the top three UK universities for student satisfaction in the National Student Survey every year since the survey began in 2005. In 2010/11 it had a 93 per cent satisfaction rating. Over 70% of students are in full-time or part-time employment, and four out of five FTSE 100 companies have sponsored staff to take OU courses.
In the UK's latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) the Open University was ranked in the top third of UK higher education institutions. More than 50% of OU research was assessed in the RAE as internationally excellent, with 14% as world leading.
Regarded as Britain's major e-learning institution, the OU is a world leader in developing technology to increase access to education on a global scale. Its vast 'open content portfolio' includes free study units on OpenLearn, which has had more than 21 million visits, and materials on iTunes U, which has recorded over 50 million downloads. The OU has a 41 year partnership with the BBC which has moved from late-night lectures in the 1970s to prime-time programmes such as Frozen Planet, Bang Goes the Theory, James May's Big Ideas and The Money Programme.


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Asian Pacific Americans Served Chart, May 2008
Over 600,000 Asian Pacific Americans were served by the workforce system in the four quarters ending December 31, 2007. The highest number was 329,537 in the Wagner-Peyser program, the next highest was 253,720 in the Unemployment Insurance program. Next in magnitude was the Workforce Investment Act Adult program, which served 50,952, and the Workforce Investment Act Dislocated Worker program served 11,652 during this period. The Workforce Investment Act Youth program served 6,509 Asian Pacific Americans, and the Registered Apprenticeship program served 4,599. The Senior Community Service Employment Program served 3,241 Asian Pacific Americans and the Trade Adjustment Assistance program served 1,050 during the four quarters ending December 31, 2007. There were 733 Asian Pacific Americans served by the Community-Based Job Training Grants program, while the Youth Offender Demonstration project served 99. Ninety-eight Asian Pacific Americans were served by the Prisoner Reentry Initiative, while the National Farmworker Jobs program
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Drought slows New Zealand economic growth in 2Q
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A drought slowed New Zealand's economic growth in the second quarter but economists predict the economy will pick up again in the coming months.
Statistics New Zealand announced Thursday the economy grew 0.2 percent in the April-June quarter from the previous quarter, the slowest growth since the fourth quarter of 2010. Compared to the same quarter a year ago, the economy gained 2.5 percent.
The results, however, were better than expected, and the New Zealand dollar, already up after the Federal Reserve's announcement that that it would maintain its stimulus program, rose about 0.5 cents after the figures were released to trade at 83.90 U.S. cents.
New Zealand relies on dairy and meat exports to power its economy. The agency said agricultural activity was down 6.4 percent in the quarter and 10.4 percent from its peak in December as the effects of a Southern Hemisphere summer drought rippled through the economy.
A mild, wet winter since has given farmers plenty to cheer about.
Business services, construction, retail and accommodation all posted gains of more than 2 percent in the quarter.
Finance Minister Bill English said he expects strong growth to return in the September quarter. In a release, he said it was "pleasing" that despite the severe drought, New Zealand continues to grow faster than most developed nations.
The opposition Labour Party said the result shows New Zealand relies too heavily on agriculture and that the economy's underlying performance remains lackluster.


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Rob Johnson
It will be interesting to see the gradual change in web design as mobile technology gets used more an more to browse web sites.
I'm starting to see user agent redirection based on viewing platform with the mobile phone-friendly web sites being far more simple and faster to load.
I suspect this trend will spill over into the mainstream so that speed and ease of navigation will become more important than looks.
Thanks for the post.


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Fox Voyage Double Feature (US - BD RA)
Gabe's back from vacation with Fantastic Voyage and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea...
Fantastic Voyage
Somewhere out there, someone has compiled a list of the most regularly referenced, adapted, and spoofed movies of all time. Alongside the most popular and obvious entries, movies like Jaws, King Kong, and Star Wars, is Fantastic Voyage. Fantastic Voyage is such an ingrained and vital piece of pop-culture knowledge that it's often mistaken for an adaptation of a classic science fiction novel, but, apparently, screenwriter Jerome Bixby (a Twilight Zone contributor who shares a co-writing credit with Harry Kleiner and David Duncan) really did originate the general idea of shrinking a team of scientists/doctors and injecting them into a sick man for some kind of micro surgery. Even if you somehow haven't seen Fantastic Voyage, you've definitely gotten the gist of it via episodes of The Simpsons, Futurama, Phineas and Ferb, or Venture Bros.. Or maybe you saw Joe Dante's comedic take on the material, Innerspace.
Richard Fleischer, son of legendary animator Max Fleischer, had one of the most varied and respectable filmographies in Hollywood, including a Disney adventure picture ( 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), a children's musical ( Doctor Dolittle), a collaborative historical look at the Pearl Harbor attack ( Tora! Tora! Tora! with Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku), and even a big-budget blaxploitation epic ( Mandingo). Fantastic Voyage utilizes all of his experience with lavish sets and special effects while also feeding his charmingly exploitative side with its gimmicky concepts and cheesy pseudo-science. The sillier sci-fi elements are initially delivered by way of Cold War-era spy movie conventions and Fleischer wisely recalls the aesthetics of the more elaborate 007 movies (though, do note, Donald Pleasance wouldn't play Bloefeld for another year), giving the mainstream audiences of the time a stylistic sense of 'reality' to grasp as things get distinctively sillier. The film's more dated elements – décor, costumes, special effects, weird lapses in technology (they can shrink a submarine to the size of a blood cell, but have to use Morse code and navigate via paper charts) – all work in its favour, allowing us a glimpse of classic special effects ingenuity.
Fantastic Voyage has never looked better than it does here. The new 1080p, 2.35:1 transfer is sharp and vivid, making use of every inch of the CinemaScope and DeLuxe formats. Details are crisp without being rigid and patterns are complex without excessive edge haloes (besides the natural ones caused by old blue screen effects). Grain levels appear natural, including the uptakes in the miniature footage, which, obviously, had to be blown up and reprinted. The acrylic palette is quite brilliant (especially those pinks and violets) with smooth gradations and tight separations. The only major impediments are brought about by limitations in the special effects processes that 'green-up' the otherwise deep black levels. There are also minor inconsistencies with contrast levels and hue vibrancy from scene to scene, but this is another common artefact of DeLuxe movies. The new transfer is matched with a new 5.1 remix, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio sound. I believe this is the first time the film has been mixed into 5.1, rather than 2.0 surround, and, for the most part, the remix is true to the source material. Despite my tendency to stick to original soundtracks, I have to say that this remix might be worth it, just for the opening title's multi-channel enhancements alone. The bulk of the track, including dialogue and incidental effects, are still situated in the center channel and the film's use of sterile silence keeps the other speakers relatively silent outside of Leonard Rosenman's Academy Award-nominated score and the '60s-tastic sci-fi noises – though even these are largely limited to the center speaker. For the record, Fox has also seen fit to include the film's original mono sound, also in lossless DTS-HD MA. The extras include a commentary track with film & music historian Jeff Bond, an isolated score track with Bond and other film & music historians Jon Avalingame & Nick Redman, Lava Lamps and Celluloid: A Tribute to the Visual Effects of Fantastic Voyage (17:40, HD), Whirlpool Scene: Storyboard-To-Scene multi-angle comparison (2:20, SD), a trailer, and TV spots.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Irwin Allen's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea didn't enjoy quite the same long-term success Fantastic Voyage did, but both films were television mainstays for generations and both became a part of the pop-culture lexicon. Of course, Allen's film would forever live in the shadow of a different Richard Fleischer movie, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. There's no avoiding the truth that the big-budget Disney production of a Jules Verne story is the better pulpy undersea adventure, but Allen's sense of classic Hollywood showmanship and adherence to his extraordinarily bleak narrative override the film's excessive length and occasional lapses in storytelling structure. The film follows the crew of a nuclear-powered submarine that surfaces from a trip beneath the Arctic icecap (inspired by a similar journey undertaken by the USS Nautilus) to discover a meteor belt has fried the skies and is steadily raising the world's temperature. The ship's designer, Admiral Harriman Nelson (Walter Pidgeon), and colleague, retired Commodore Lucius Emery (Peter Lorre), concoct a plan to fire nuclear missiles towards the belt at a precise moment and blast the radiation back into space. Unfortunately, the UN delegates disagree, forcing the crew into a race against time and worldwide submarine forces, to stop Armageddon.
Allen, who was best known for his later career in block-busting disaster flicks, like The Poseidon Adventure, co-wrote his screenplay with former Hitchcock collaborator Charles Bennett. Together, they help suspend disbelief by covering the story's more convoluted and catastrophic elements with agreeably dry humour and efficiently crafted, easily discernible characters. The ensuing apocalypse is believable enough to impart a surprising level of anxiety and much of the mass destruction is described via news cycles, not chintzy special effects. This allows our imaginations to fill in the appropriately dreadful images. One wonders if George Romero took some inspiration when he made Night of the Living Dead seven years later. There are also, of course, parallels to be drawn to our current, real-world fears of global warming, but this is more interesting in a trivial sense. I don't believe that Allen was ahead of the curve in scientific truths or anything – he was just making the best end of the world adventure picture he could.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was also a CinemaScope production. It is presented in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio and full 1080p HD video. The image is clean without any notable DNR effects or blobby clumps of grain. Detail levels are, again, crisp with sharp element separation, though not so much with fine textural complexities. The DeLuxe color is typically unnatural in its abnormally consistent hue qualities, which is to say that it looks more or less how I'd expect it to. It's possible that the people in charge of the remaster got a little carried away with the luminosity of pervasive lighter blues, but they haven't full-on orange & teal'd the thing – flesh tones are still relatively warm and the red highlights are incredibly vivid. There's a bit of bleeding around the edges, but the basic separation is plenty tight and there aren't any major blocking effects to speak of. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is also presented for the first time in its original 4-Track Stereo instead of the similar, but not fully discrete Pro-Logic. The lossless, DTS-HD Master Audio track shares some odd dialogue spreads with Fox's Bus Stop Blu-ray, but is generally a more modern stereo/surround mix. The sound effects are more naturalistic than Fantastic Voyage's surrealist tracks, and are usually coupled with a lot more of Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter's full-bodied musical score. The extras include a commentary with author Tim Colliver, an isolated score track, a featurette entitled Science Fiction: Fantasy to Reality (16:50, HD), an interview with Barbara Eden (6:00, SD), and a trailer.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Some material may not be suitable for children
Disc Details
Release Date: 8th October 2013
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, 4.0, and 1.0 English, DTS 5.1 French and Spanish, DTS 1.0 French and Spanish
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Have you come across any dice made of soap in your travels?
Wishing I had a picture of these to show... when I worked in Law Enforcement I met a group of guys who played Dangerous Journys in prison. They were not allowed to have real dice per the prison rules so they made a full set of dice out wet paper. They took layers of paper and wet them and then molded them into dice and when they dried they were functioning dice. They were not perfect but you could tell the difference in all of the dice and they did roll fairly well.
Just how many dice do you have to hold the Guinness world record?
A friend just sent this to me: ancient D20 found in Eqypt!
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Django Django to headline NME tour
Strange choice of supports... I can't imagine Django Django headlining Brixton. I mean they're good, but...?!
London, Monday 26 November 2012: DJANGO DJANGO, MILES KANE, PALMA VIOLETS and PEACE are today announced for the legendary NME Awards Tour 2013, which kicks off at Newcastle's
O2 Academy on 7 February 2013 and ends at London's O2 Academy Brixton on 23 February. Tickets go on pre-sale on Wednesday 28 November and are available at www.nme.com.
One of the most important events in the music calendar, the NME Awards Tour has been instrumental in launching the careers of some of the biggest acts in music today, including Arctic Monkeys, The Killers and Florence + the Machine, and 2013 is set to be one of the best years yet.
Critically acclaimed Django Django will headline the NME Awards Tour 2013. The band's self-titled debut album has been widely praised and was nominated for the 2012 Mercury Prize, and they're ready to bring their modern psychedlia to the masses.
One of the stars of 2012, Miles Kane takes the main support slot on the NME Awards Tour, bringing his boundless energy and charisma to the stage in advance of his forthcoming second album. Having made a huge name for himself in the past year, Miles has established himself as a tour de force in the live arena, performing tracks from his Top 20 debut, 'Colour of The Trap', including singles 'Rearrange', 'Come Closer' & the frenzy-inducing 'Inhaler'.
South London's Palma Violets emerged from nowhere in 2012 to become one of themost hyped and exciting new bands in a decade, and after a few shows in their basement and fewer on the road, they've proved that they're worth it. Singles 'Best of Friends' and 'Last of the Summer Wine' are taken from the band's forthcoming album, which is currently being recorded with Pulp bassist Steve Mackey.
Taking the prestigious NME Awards Tour opening slot are Birmingham's Peace. The band gained high praise for clever, confident and ambitious debut EP Delicious, and have recently toured with Manic Street Preachers and The Mystery Jets. The band's brand new single 'Wraith' is released on Columbia Records on 13 January.
NME editor, Mike Williams says: "2012 has been an incredible year for music, and 2013 promises to be even better, not least for Django Django, Miles Kane, Palma Violets and Peace, the four amazing bands heading up the NME Awards Tour 2013. This is undoubtedly one of the strongest and most exciting bills we've ever put together, and I can't wait for it all to get started!"
The first leg of the NME Awards Tour 2013 begins at O2 Academy Newcastle on 7 February and runs until 23 February travelling to Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Nottingham, Liverpool, Norwich, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Bournemouth, Brighton before ending at London's O2 Academy Brixton.
Four of the hottest acts in one incredible tour! Exclusive ticket pre-sale begins at 9am on Wednesday 28 November at NME.com/tickets . Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Friday 30 November.
Day Show Date Venue Name
Thu 07 Feb 13 Newcastle O2 Academy
Fri 08 Feb 13 Manchester Academy 1
Sat 09 Feb 13 Leeds O2 Academy
Mon 11 Feb 13 Glasgow O2 Academy
Tue 12 Feb 13 Nottingham Rock City
Wed 13 Feb 13 Liverpool O2 Academy
Fri 15 Feb 13 Norwich UEA
Sat 16 Feb 13 Birmingham O2 Academy
Sun 17 Feb 13 Cardiff Uni Great Hall
Tue 19 Feb 13 Bristol O2 Academy
Wed 20 Feb 13 Bournemouth O2 Academy
Thu 21 Feb 13 Brighton Dome
Sat 23 Feb 13 London O2 Academy Brixton
Visit www.NME.com for more details.
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Ticket Information
Exclusive ticket pre-sale begins at 9am on Wednesday, 28th November at NME.com/tickets.
Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Friday 30th November.
Tickets available from:
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An SJM Concerts presentation in association with DF Concerts and Metropolis Music.
All tickets include a 50p donation to Teenage Cancer Trust (Registered Charity 1062559 in England and Wales, SC039757 in Scotland)
this always used to be worth going to.
the line-up was never completely to everyones tastes, sure, but you normally got 2/4 decent bands, and occasionally the odd eye-opener.
recently, though, jesus christ, it's just been exclusively shite.
i wouldn't pay a fiver to see any of those.petesfingers, automatik, and andyvine this'd this
Django were terrific on the DiS stage at Summer Sundae
I'm just surprised they're headlining the tour (or maybe I'm reading it wrong)
I've seen them twice, not sure I 'get' the fuss. Seems a bit King Adora via The Verve... weirdly 90s, although maybe they'll pick up all those Wu Lyf fans?!
To be honest, I wasn't really conscious of music in the '90s
(I was born in 1991) so I don't really have anything against people sounding '90s if that makes sense. I just think they write good songs. Also, in the interests of full disclosure, I'm friends with them so watch your mouth, yeah?
Next headline London gig for them is the Shepherd Bush Empire,
so quite a big jump up, especially when you consider the fact that headliners on the last few tours have been large enough to headline Brixton in their own right beforehand.
that's sold out
still too soon for them to realistically sell many tickets in their own right for brixton 2 months later.
if i had £1 for every year someone's complained about the nme awards tour line-up, i'd have £17
So which of the 18 previous years
didn't illicit a complaint? ;)
indie rave tour doesn't count
But my answer would've been 1997. Obviously.
I went to that
I miss Three Colours Red. And I don't especially miss Symposium's music but they were ace live. I've just remembered that you've put Wojtek on some of your bills...
he pulled out of the last one though because he had to play with Bjorn Again.
tbf, a 'DiS awards tour' for next year would probably look something like
Sharon Van Etten
and would probably not sell out venues outside of London, so I appreciate it's a fine balance for NME to do something that works across the UK, it just feels quite a long way from the days of Andrew WK, Amen, Franz, Bloc Party, Killers and Kaisers... or even Futureheads headlining a few years back, after their Kate Bush cover blew-up... maybe Django Django will pick up all the album of the year plaudits and enter 2013 at a different level?
even two years ago...
they did something like Crystal Castles, Maccabees, Katy B, Bombay Bicycle Club, and as much as pathetic needy friendess virgins on here will pretend those aren't good bands, the gigs all sold out and the ones i went to were pretty decent.
Don't think the Futureheads headlined the NME tour.
They played with Block Party, and Kaiser Chiefs with The Killers headlining.
You went to the bother of looking that up and linking it and still spelt Bloc Party wrong.
How embarrassing.
Auto correct on Bloc.
I went to the newcastle show - I knew the order of the show without looking it up.
Trip down memory lane
Here are all the past NME Tour line ups:
2012: Two Door Cinema Club, Metronomy, Tribes, Azealia Banks
2011: Crystal Castles, Magnetic Man, Everything Everything, The Vaccines[3]
2010: The Maccabees, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink, The Drums[4]
2009: Glasvegas, Friendly Fires, White Lies, Florence and the Machine[5]
2008: The Cribs, Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, The Ting Tings[6]
ShockWaves NME Indie Rock Tour: The Automatic, The View, The Horrors, Mumm-Ra
ShockWaves NME Indie Rave Tour: Klaxons, CSS, The Sunshine Underground, New Young Pony Club[2]
2006: Maxïmo Park, Arctic Monkeys, We Are Scientists, Mystery Jets[7]
2005: The Killers, The Futureheads, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs[8]
2004: Funeral for a Friend, The Rapture, The Von Bondies, Franz Ferdinand[9]
2003: The Datsuns, The Polyphonic Spree, Interpol, The Thrills
2002: Andrew W.K., Lostprophets, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Coral
2001: Amen, JJ72, Alfie, Starsailor
2000: Shack, Les Rythmes Digitales, Campag Velocet, Coldplay
1999: UNKLE, Idlewild, Delakota, Llama Farmers
1998: Stereophonics, Asian Dub Foundation, The Warm Jets, Theaudience
1997: Geneva, Symposium, Tiger, Three Colours Red
1996: The Bluetones, The Cardigans, Heavy Stereo, Fluffy
1995: Veruca Salt, Marion, Skunk Anansie, 60_Ft._Dolls
some fucking terrible lineups there, tbh.
I went in 07, 10 & 11.
The only other one i'd have gone to, at the time, was 2005.
Ah the memories....
So what's the ones then that I saw with The Strokes and At the Drive In? I thought they were NME tours at the Astoria.
A part from the tours, they also put on a handful of special gigs in London early part of each year.
Yeah, the last stop on the tour was always the Astoria and they would have loads of other gigs on that week
Remember them? I actually couldn't name a single song
i miss 2006
:(enfilade this'd this
Oh Yes! The year when a good half of the audience walked out before the headliner took to the stage.automatik this'd this
2004 was much more marked for that.
Myself and a mate stayed for the first couple of songs of Funeral For A Friend's set - and we must have been the only people over the age of 15 to do even that.TheWza and Silentcommand this'd this
I remember that, in Cardiff
Felt so awkward for Maximo Park
2004 - ridiculous mismatch of 'headline' to 'support'.
After lurking at the back of the venue where lots of people were bouncing along to Franz, Von Bondies, and The Rapture, a small crew of children in black hoodies shuffled past the other 80% of the people there who were either shifted to the back of the room to get a beer, have a piss, or just leave for the after party.
Hadn't seen such a big exodus since V98 (albeit the other way around), when the second stage crowd watching buggered off after Catatonia to watch the Verve, leaving about 15 people watching Jesus and Mary Chain.marckee this'd this
The Mary Chain
Ah yes, it is hard to imagine now, but it is quite shocking to think about how much people people really didn't give a shit about the Mary Chain in 1998 when they were touring Munki around the festivals.
- TheWza and the-breacher this'd this
I saw the 2006 one - remember being distinctly underwhelmed by the Arctic Monkeys.
And the Indie Rave tour was one of my first jobs in music journalism, interviewing the Sunshine Underground backstage. They were quite pleasant.
ah yes
great memories of writing about one of these and getting shouted at because the band 'don't want to be associated with the NME'. what a clusterfuck headline that was.
I went in (deep breath)
1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (both) and 2012.
2013 sounds decent enough to attend, for Django Django at the very least.
Went to the 2009 one
to see Glasvegas. They were awful. The other three were all good turns. Florence played to a room that was maybe a third full at a push.
a brixton you mean? Yeah, that was weird. Was the first time (having seen her twice before that) that I realised she'd stopped doing a Kills-ish thing and had gone full-on foghorn pop.
Yeah I went to the Cribs one
The Ting Tings played to a near-empty room and were number one a couple of weeks later. They were fucking ace too, I know it's not cool to say it but idgaf. Listened to their first album a couple of weeks ago for the first time in ages and it's still great
comfortably the 'weakest' bill so far (even if you look at it from a November [year before tour] announcement standpoint)
tbh Miles Kane is realistically bigger than Django, right?
- automatik this'd this
yeah Miles Kane is definitely bigger
but don't you reckon NME are trying to engineer a kind of change of image/change to the sort of music that the magazine covers? Miles Kane has been riding Arctic Monkeys coat tails since the start, and is only really fashionable amongst teenage boys in polo shirts. He'll draw crowds in, but maybe putting Django Django as headliners is trying to make a bit of a statement as to what the magazine is all about these days?
Always feel nostalgic about these tours but only ever went in 2006
It was the Newcastle gig, so everyone stayed to see Maximo Park (unlike the other gigs on that tour, or so they say). it was really good, that and the 2005 shows were definitely the strongest line ups.
I dunno why people are saying that this is a bad line up- I think the majority of them have been pretty shakey. Miles Kanes is the sore thumb, feels like he's the token 'old style' indie act to draw a bigger crowd, as NME try to usher in the new generation of guitar bands with Palma Violets and Peace. Django Django don't exactly seem suitable for the target audience of an NME tour? They're good though. Peace are awful, like a watered down version of Foals that your mam would like.
I'd definitely go to this, if I got a free ticket.
I was at that Newcastle gig too, it was great.
It was the same day Arctic Monkeys' album went to No 1 and they didn't look massively happy about it I seem to remember.
Agree with your Peace comments too, really don't get what the fuss is about. They're shit.calumlynn this'd this
Also, when did Krissi Murison stop being editor?
She didn't last long, did she?
- LdnMetropolitanElite this'd this
LME stands for the three stages of masturbation. The 1st stage which is L, stands for Lubricate. The 2nd stage M, for Masturbate and the Final stage E, for Ejaculate.
Lush!LdnMetropolitanElite this'd this
- calumlynn and LdnMetropolitanElite this'd this
London Metropolitan Elite, of course!
Well they didn't do very well- the new editor of NME is Welsh
She left to go to the Sunday Times magazine back in the spring.
She was there for three years, which is longer than most.
Mike Williams is the editor now (he used to edit Kruger).
three year??
oh wow, times flies, thought she'd been there like 18 months or something.
Never came across Kruger, don't remember seeing it in Newcastle, looks like it was a good magazine though. Maybe NME are on the up!andyvine this'd this
^thising that it didn't seem she'd been there long
Kruger is good, last time i read NME it didn't seem as good as when Krissi Murison was ed
That rings a bell
I remember them doing a big push for their website coz they were stopping the mag
I went in 03, 06 and 10
I left after 10 minutes of the headline acts twice, you have to give them a chance. I may go next year. As you were.
I think it's a decent enough line-up
No better or worse than most of the previous ones. Looking at the list of previous line-ups I realise to my surprise I've been to them all bar three, but they were the last three! Probably gave up on NME around the same time. Three of these four already played last month at Swn Festival too
Last year was the first time I had been in five
Pretty decent. Love Metronomy, and although Two Door Cinema Club are a bit samey (for me) on record they're an entertaining enough live act...
Coldplay bottom of the bill, the mighty Shack headlining. For one brief moment the stars were correctly aligned.Clair_de_Lune this'd this
- Damian this'd this
Are they any good? Never heard of them
How much are tickets?
Might go if they're £22 or less.
Fuck me.
I've never even heard of Miles Kane. Saw Django Django at Heaven last week and that felt like a stretch too far for them.
Nothing will ever beat 2001
JJ72 in their absolute pomp. Wonderful memories
from the horrors, the 2007 indie rock tour looks like a disaster.calumlynn this'd this
This band are properly shit
Saw them in a packed out big-ish place in Amsterdam the other week (I went to see Eaux who were supporting), and they are unbelievably popular in Europe - dudes all getting pictures with them at the end and dancing and stuff... They're probably headlining on the back of that popularity... It makes sense for the NME anyway.
Anyway, they are a horrible pound shop Franz Ferdinand, five new media account managers at least two of which look capable of date rape.
I thought their popularity was the matter in question...
And the doubt thereof.
Still crap.
- rainmaker this'd this
probably because...
alt-j have their own tour of the same size in may which has been announced for months
I listened again to the Django Django album last night
Totally don't get it still, leaves me cold


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A couple of years ago, about the time Matt Kish turned 40, he decided his hobby was becoming laborious and unrewarding. By day he drove from his home in Columbus, Ohio, to Dayton, where he worked in a library, his title, "audio-video materials selection specialist," as exhausting as his commute. But by night he painted and drew — so much so that, though Kish had never taken art classes, trained as an illustrator, found gallery representation or sold a single piece of art, he considered himself something of a frustrated artist.
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And so, naturally, as these kind of stories go, just when all hope seemed lost, um, well ...
Moby-Dick surfaced.
Or, to put it another way, Kish, tapping into his lifelong obsession with Herman Melville's 160-year-old leviathan of literature, decided to make the book itself his muse. "It really was like this revelatory moment of self-help," he said, "this strange sort of act I hoped would shock me into rediscovering the joy of creativity."
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This drew the notice of publishers, and after 18 months of dutifully creating "Moby-Dick"-inspired art, Kish had "Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page," a handsome, whale-long coffee table book/monument to tenacity. You don't have to have read Melville to appreciate its vast range of styles; it's more riff on Melville than adaptation. But even a vague knowledge of the original will help decipher its surreal imagery — whales grown over by icebergs, grinning skulls surfing tidal swells, smiling trees, robotic whalers, hallucinogenic clouds.
He also wasn't the first to try something like this; in 2004, artist Zak Smith's page-by-page illustration of Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" was part of the Whitney Biennial (and Kish acknowledges Smith as an influence; indeed, Tin House Books, which is publishing Kish, released a similar book of Smith's images).
But why "Moby-Dick"?
Even if the answer seems obvious to you, artist Rockwell Kent already got to the book more than 80 years ago, producing an iconic woodcut-illustrated edition for Chicago's Lakeside Press, images that still grace the Modern Library edition. Kish, however, said that though the book bored him as a high school student, "as I got older, like a lot of fans of 'Moby-Dick,' I started to read more of myself in it, and I would come back to the book again and again, and — it really is about everything, which sounds very sweeping, but it's true."
Nathaniel Philbrick, author of "In the Heart of the Sea," a best-selling 2001 history of the events that inspired the novel — and now the author of a slim, passionate manifesto named "Why Read Moby Dick?" — wasn't remotely surprised by Kish's reaction. Philbrick himself refers to Melville's classic as "the American Bible," a work that has offered readers "a kind of spiritual sustenance," he said from his home on Nantucket Island, off of Massachusetts. "Though it may not offer answers, it does point out paths. And like the Bible, it is a repository of knowledge and writing styles, and I think you can open it to any page and just start reading."
The other similarity between "Moby-Dick" and the Bible, he said, is that Melville's book inspires big reactions, "not the same kind of loyalty, but it does invite some great, ongoing, relentless obsessiveness."
Melville himself, however, writing in the mid-19th century, couldn't foresee a time when man would be able to watch the entirety of a whale as it swam in the ocean. Melville's "Moby-Dick" even includes passages about whale art but concludes that the whale "is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last." He never met Matt Kish, so obsessed with this American classic that many of his "Moby-Dick"-inspired pieces are painted on top of pages from TV repair manuals.


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text: 1 Lucky Texan 737 Report post Posted July 30, 2012 (edited) I found this by bouncing around on YouTube after watching Lucky Texan's clip. It seems that elsewhere it is also being marketed as a Toyota, what I find interesting is that they didn't mention it also being a Scion. I think there are no Lexus in Japan, that line was created for US marketing reasons. Maybe Infiniti too? I've often thought Subaru should do something similar - break out the 'Legacy' plate as a separate, 'upscale' line(Tribeca, Outbacks - and maybe a 'luxury' Forester and BRZ?) as a sorta Lexus-type maneuver. Run the name 'Subaru' for the Crosstrek, WRX/STI, maybe a downscale Forester and the other Imprezas. Then, bring over the R1s or design some FWD/Electric/maybe hybrid subcompacts and name them 'Fuji' (to compete with the Scion - type line of vehicles). the reason, so I've read, that the Lexus line was created, was so folks didn't feel 'cheated' paying 35K for "a little Toyota". Japanese cars had the reputation of being small and cheap. Nobody wants to feel they paid Rolex money for a Timex watch. There could have been a vehicle brought over from Japan or Europe with Toyota badges, or someone might have re-badged their Scion. Edited July 30, 2012 by 1 Lucky Texan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Olympiakos secured their 40th league title on their 88th anniversary on Sunday, and it was defender Avraam Papadopoulos who stole the headlines and secured our World Player of the Week award with two goals in their 3-0 derby victory over AEK Athens.
The 28-year-old opened the scoring with a 14th minute effort at the Karaiskakis Stadium and doubled the lead with a header 10 minutes after the restart. Algerian winger Djamel Abdoun rounded off the scoring to seal the victory.
AEK - themselves 11-time champions of the nation's top tier - were unable to breach a defence which was marshalled finely by the Greece international. With five games left in the season, Papadopoulos' goals have helped ensure that the champions can relax ahead of the summer holidays, while Sunday's opponents teeter on the brink of relegation.
Goal.com International's Miles Chambers summarised the Greek defender's week: "Papadopoulos has seen an injury-stricken season end on a high by starring in Sunday's derby victory. The 2012-13 season has been far from smooth for the former Aris star, as he missed a massive eight-month chunk with an anterior cruciate ligament injury picked up at Euro 2012.
"His time on the sidelines meant that he played no part in Olympiakos pushing Arsenal close for the second spot in Group B of the Champions League and narrowly missing out on the knockout stages of the competition.
"However, after returning to the fray in late January, Papadopoulos has been able to help guide head coach Michel's side comfortably to the Greek Super League title with five games to spare, thanks to their 16-point lead being insurmountable for Asteras Tripolis. His strikes either side of half-time on Sunday were a fitting way for Papadopoulos to finish with a flurry."
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Jaime Estrada - Manta
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Cristiano Ronaldo - R. Madrid
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Rocky (1976)
To argue the merits of Rocky as a popular phenomenon seems almost unnecessary, and any plot summary is merely a formality. Everyone and his mother knows the story of Philadelphia down-and-outer Rocky Balboa and his miracle long-shot at boxing's heavyweight crown. Few films can claim to have been seen, and beloved, by so many. Even those who haven't seen the film feel as if they have, and everyone, fans and non-fans alike, can instantly call to mind the film's characters, quotes, music and images. It's a part of the American experience, an inspiration to millions and the blueprint for so many sports movies to follow.
Unfortunately, the film has become so diluted by pop culture references and endless sequels that watching it today almost feels like an exercise in self-parody. It's so easy to forget that Rocky, the original, is actually a solid film, however calculated. It's the source of all our subconscious training montages, an accessible commentary on the working class, the romanticized epitome of the American Dream, a record setter at the box office, the Best Picture of 1976, one of the finest love stories in movie history and the greatest underdog story ever told. Continue reading


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Sanchez double lifts Barca as Ronaldo fires Real Valladolid
Alexis Sanchez struck twice and created a goal for Neymar as Barcelona recovered from conceding early to maintain their perfect La Liga start with a 4-1 win at home to Real Valladolid on Saturday.sports Updated: Oct 06, 2013 09:05 IST
Alexis Sanchez struck twice and created a goal for Neymar as Barcelona recovered from conceding early to maintain their perfect La Liga start with a 4-1 win at home to Real Valladolid on Saturday.
An eighth victory in eight games for the champions restored their five-point advantage over arch-rivals Real Madrid who needed a Cristiano Ronaldo goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time to secure a 3-2 triumph at Levante earlier.
Atletico Madrid, the only other team with seven wins from their opening seven matches, can join Barca on 24 points at the top of the table with a win at home to Celta Vigo on Sunday (1000 GMT).
Valladolid forward Javi Guerra silenced the Nou Camp when he headed in a corner in the 10th minute but Barca were level four minutes later, Alexis lashing the ball home from just outside the penalty area.
Cristian Tello squared for Xavi to sidefoot the ball in 7 minutes after the break before Neymar sent Alexis clear on the right in the 64th minute and he sent a precise shot into the far corner.
The Chilean returned the compliment by setting up Brazil forward Neymar to make it 4-1 six minutes later as Barca, who have also won both Champions League outings this season, continued their impressive form under new coach Gerardo Martino.
The Argentine is the first coach to win his opening eight matches in La Liga while Barca are the first team to start a campaign with eight victories since Real in the late 1980s.
"You play 10 good games, one average one and one bad one and people, the media, criticise you," Alexis told Gol TV.
"But this victory will help me and the team," added the striker who has not always convinced since joining Barca from Udinese in 2011.
"Barca are always obliged to win and by a wide margin."
Desperately hard
Real are flying in Europe after resounding Champions League victories over Galatasaray and FC Copenhagen but turned in another disappointing domestic performance at Levante following last weekend's 1-0 defeat at home to Atletico.
They twice had to come from behind at Levante's Ciutat de Valencia stadium before Ronaldo rifled a 94th-minute shot from the corner of the area and it glanced off a defender before deflecting into the net off a post.
It was desperately hard on a plucky Levante side and their fans but moved Real back above Villarreal, who won 3-0 at home to Granada on Friday, into third place on 19 points.
"The first half was not good but the second turned out differently," Real coach Carlo Ancelotti told a news conference.
"We need more concentration because we gifted two goals," added the Italian. "The team dug deep at the end and never gave up. When our team plays, five minutes is all it takes to win a game."
Levante, whose entire squad is worth just over a third of the record 100 million euros ($136 million) Real paid for Wales winger Gareth Bale in the close season, took the lead in the 57th minute when Papa Babacar Diawara finished off a superb counter attack.
The goal appeared to wake Real, missing the injured Bale, from their lethargy and Sergio Ramos levelled four minutes later when he volleyed home an Angel Di Maria corner.
Levante rallied and substitute Nabil El Zhar fired through a crowd of defenders into the net in the 86th minute to put the home side within touching distance of an unlikely victory.
There was still time for plenty more drama and Real substitute Alvaro Morata levelled when he blasted the ball in from close range in the 90th minute.
Ronaldo, who ripped off his shirt after scoring the winner, now has seven goals in the league this season.
The Portugal forward is one behind Barca's World Player of the Year Lionel Messi, who is sidelined with a hamstring strain, and Atletico forward Diego Costa.
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MISENHEIMER, N.C. --- The Pfeiffer University women's volleyball team tallied 36 kills and rallied from an early deficit in the third set en route to a sweep of visiting Lees-McRae College in Conference Carolinas play on Wednesday evening.
Pfeiffer (7-15, 4-7 CC) won the match by scores of 25-18, 25-15, and 25-20, attacking at a .221 clip while limiting Lees-McRae (2-21, 0-10 CC) to 15 kills on the night. Each team posted six blocks in the contest.
Haylee Leonard (Wallburg, N.C.) paced the Bobcats with six kills and four blocks (three solo, one assist), as Avalon Liscio (Naples, Fla.) added five smashes. Haydn Beatty (Norman, Okla.) chipped in 14 assists, while Kortnie Curry (Lexington, N.C.) posted a match-high two aces.
Brianna Jones led the way for Pfeiffer with a match-high 10 kills, attacking at a .316 clip, as Kelly Lancellot and Shelby Younger added eight and seven smashes, respectively. Haley Denny posted a contest-best 11 digs while Emily Wall and Lauren Carman tallied 15 and 13 digs, respectively.
Pfeiffer got off to a strong start in the first set, opening an early 11-4 lead before the Bobcats cut the margin to 11-7 following a solo stuff by Leonard. The Falcons countered with an 11-6 run, stretching the advantage to 22-10 on a block by Lancellot and Allison Rosas. Lees-McRae would battle back with an 8-4 spurt, fighting off a pair of set points, including an emphatic block by Leonard, before Pfeiffer claimed the frame on a Bobcat miscue.
Lees-McRae continued to battle in the second, cutting the advantage to 9-6 following a Leonard kill before Pfeiffer responded, pushing the margin to 16-6 on an ace by Denny. After the Falcons stretched the lead to 20-8, Lees-McRae answered with four straight points, trimming the gap to 20-12 with a block from Liscio and Angela Morse (Clinton Township, Mich.). Pfeiffer would counter with five of the next eight points, capping the set on a Lancellot kill to take a 2-0 lead in the match.
The Bobcats rallied from an early deficit in the third, claiming a 10-9 advantage following a Curry ace. Pfeiffer would answer with an 11-7 run, taking a 20-17 lead on an ace by Wall. The Falcons held on from there, closing out the set and the match on a service by Kelsey Blauser.
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We hear about players playing hurt, but as Mike D'Antoni walks down the hallway for his first pregame media briefing as Lakers head coach, I'm telling him he looks like a wreck.
And he's not disagreeing, pulling a coat around himself because, as he says, "I'm just so cold."
The new Lakers coach looks just awful, and not for the reasons we were detailing a week ago.
No one needs a medical degree to see he should be home in bed, D'Antoni letting it slip that's where he's been spending 12 hours at a time.
He's off the crutches but still on the meds, including blood thinners; so why is he pushing himself to coach against Brooklyn?
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Characters in the Highland Hearts series by Heather McCollum Thank you so much for having me here today on Writerspace to talk about my Highland Hearts romance series set in 16th century Britain! I'm thrilled about the release of the third full-length book in the series, CRIMSON HEART! I have always loved history and the… Read More


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How could a short, sharp-witted woman in her 40s serve in Afghanistan and Iraq without having to use her rural Midwestern snake-shooting skills?
How could a short, sharp-witted woman in her 40s serve in Afghanistan and Iraq without having to use her rural Midwestern snake-shooting skills?
For Kathleen Madigan, who stands just a breeze above 5 feet tall, the answer is comedy, and she brings her show Saturday night to West Point's Eisenhower Hall Theatre.
Madigan and fellow comedians Ron White and Lewis Black have toured American bases both in the United States and in active war zones for the last three years.
"They are the greatest audiences on earth, especially in Afghanistan, because they're so grateful," Madigan said. "Say you're on a base the size of Kandahar. There are 4,000 people and it's like a mini-city. People have regular jobs — cooks and office workers. Not everyone is running around the hills looking for snipers. So it can get boring and monotonous."
The comedy shows alleviate that boredom and show troops that they are not forgotten.
Madigan's 23-year career of topical humor stems from a lifetime of dinnertime debates with her lawyer father and early days as an ill-paid journalist.
"I couldn't keep doing freelance stories for $50," Madigan said, so she turned her observant eye to subjects that interested her, throwing in the ironic comic twists that bring a 'hmmm' after every 'ha!' Today she's a regular on late night talk shows and has frequent HBO and Comedy Central one-hour specials, including Showtime's recent "Gone Madigan."
"People say I'm not a typical woman comic because of my choice of subjects," Madigan said. "It's usually politics, family, sports and religion. I think because my dad was a lawyer and then a judge, we learned that you had to have a logical argument. Feelings were not allowed into the discussion. You couldn't move forward unless you started with the facts."
Madigan has never performed at West Point before, and comes teamed up with former cadet and stand-up comic Greg Warren.
"He's also from St. Louis and went to West Point. He didn't graduate, and I don't know if he was let go or left." Madigan finished in a cryptic whisper: "All I know is that it had something to do with folding clothes."


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Yarn: Dragonfly Fibers Djinni Sock (100 yds / 91 m per 1 oz / 28 g skein; 80% Superwash Merino, 10% Cashmere, 10% Nylon):3 skeins in Silver Fox (MC)1 skein each in Hot Pants (CC1), Dragonberry (CC2), Pumpkin Head (CC3),and Narcissus (CC4)
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Tax Rates on Two Classes of Real Property, Public Utility
Personal Property, and Tangible Personal Property, by City,
for Taxes Collected in Calendar Year 1995
Table PR-5 shows average property tax rates that were applied
to the 1994 real and public utility personal property values
in Ohio cities (presented with their corresponding county
location). Taxes on the 1994 real and utility property values
were collected during 1995. The table also shows average tax
rates applied to 1995 tangible personal property values.
Taxes on the 1995 personal property values were also
collected in 1995. Rates are expressed in mills. A mill is
equivalent to $1 per $1,000 of taxable value.
Within the residential and agricultural class of real
property, the City of Ironton (Lawrence County) had the
lowest gross tax rate of 40.40 and Sidney (Shelby County) had
the lowest net tax rate of 31.38. The City of Shaker Heights
(Cuyahoga County) had the highest gross tax rate of 160.70 as
well as the highest net tax rate of 80.09. As for the public
utility, commercial, industrial, and mineral class of real
property, again, Ironton had the lowest gross tax rate of
40.40 while Hillsboro (Highland County) had the lowest net
tax rate of 32.48. Shaker Heights maintained the highest
gross tax rate with 160.70 and the highest net tax rate of
97.63. Lastly, Ironton and Shaker Heights maintained their
positions regarding tangible personal property tax rates.
Ironton had the lowest rate of 40.40 while Shaker Heights had
the highest rate of 160.70.
For real property, average tax rates were calculated by
dividing 1994 property taxes by 1994 property values. For
tangible personal property, 1995 personal property taxes were
combined with 1994 public utility personal property taxes and
then were divided by 1995 personal property values combined
with 1994 public utility personal property values to produce
average tax rates.
Gross and net tax rates are shown for the two major classes
of real property: residential and agricultural; and
commercial, industrial, mineral, and public utility. The
gross rates are the actual rates applied to the real property
values. The net rates are the rates after applying the
percentage reductions in taxes levied required by Section
319.301(D) of the Ohio Revised Code (these percentage
reductions are generally referred to as "tax reduction
factors"). These rates were computed prior to any reduction
of real property taxes resulting from the 10 percent rollback
for all real property, the 2.5 percent rollback for
residential property, or the homestead exemption.
Taxes levied on tangible personal property and public utility
personal property are not reduced by the percentage
reductions applied to real property taxes. Only the gross
rate is applied to tangible personal and public utility
personal property. Tangible personal property rates were
computed prior to any reduction of values allowed by the
$10,000 exemption for tangible personal property.
The rates on this table were calculated from abstracts filed
by county auditors with the Ohio Department of Taxation.