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Ray Clarke 1/1/2007 2:34:13 AMNice marcro shot Debbie, wonderful detail (ac) #580396
Lynne Morris 1/1/2007 2:35:20 AMA great macro shot Debbie! Happy New Year to you and yours. #3765736
Jeff Robinson 1/1/2007 4:20:25 AMVery well seen and captured - Happy New Year Debbie! Jeff #3765806
Melissa G. Meiselman 1/1/2007 8:18:24 AMFantastic details...especially the spider web and wonderful composition with fantastic colors, Debbie!! #3766879
Rakesh Syal 1/1/2007 12:09:52 PMNice marcro shot Debbie, a winner to me!! #3767895
Janine Russell 1/1/2007 3:36:20 PMDebbie, excellent detail, lighting and textures. #3768572
Debbie Hartley 1/1/2007 11:37:03 PMThank you all so much for your lovely comments! Happy New Year too! #3769825
Renee Doyle 1/5/2007 4:49:16 PMFantastic detail, dof and composition Debbie!
Terry L. McKaig 1/5/2007 6:32:14 PMI like the way the wire follows the pink line of your BG. Nice compostion!
Crystal L. Craig 2/24/2007 2:28:06 PMCongratulations Debbie on making finalist with this wonderfully creative macro! Love the split colour, and the detail in the web. Wonderful find, wonderful capture! Good luck in the next round :) #3984473
Janine Russell 2/24/2007 2:55:47 PMDebbie, congratulations on your finalist. #3984691
Renee Doyle 2/24/2007 4:44:18 PMCongratulations Debbie on this fantastic finalist!!!
Terry L. McKaig 2/24/2007 5:03:38 PMCongratulations on finalist! I really like this photo! #3985965
Kay E. Mahoney 2/25/2007 10:43:34 AMCongratulations on your finalist. Good luck in the next round. #3991943
Jenny Bosmans 2/25/2007 10:55:52 AMCongratulations on this beautiful finalist, Debbie! :) #3992045
Colette M. Metcalf 2/25/2007 1:32:42 PMCongratulations!!! #3992974
Shawn Jennings 2/26/2007 7:33:08 AMExcellent shot Debbie! Congratulations on your finalist! #3996531
Rakesh Syal 2/26/2007 1:11:14 PMCongratulations on this beautiful finalist, Debbie! #3998067
Dr. Harmeet Singh 3/19/2007 12:49:14 AMWonderful capture .The entire gallerey is so beautiful. #4068608
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My favorites green it yourself tips
Adding plants to family room
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Removing the carpet, I just did that and love it!
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It's been almost 25 years since the U.S. Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Washington Department of Ecology entered into an agreement to clean up the Hanford Site — widely considered to be the most contaminated nuclear site in the nation.
The 586-square-mile site located on the Columbia River north of Washington's Tri-Cities was responsible for producing most of the plutonium for the U.S. nuclear weapons program during the Cold War, as well as hundreds of billions of gallons of hazardous waste before production ended and cleanup began in 1989.
Two-and-a-half decades later, the estimated date for the cleanup's completion is still almost 35 years away and could possibly stretch longer due to delays.
Progress, however gradual, is being made on decommissioning the site, though. On Monday, the Oregon Hanford Cleanup Board — a 20-member advisory panel made up of state, tribal, and citizen members — met at the Best Western Hood River Inn to listen to presentations on the cleanup efforts.
The venue, which lies a stone's throw from the Columbia, was a fitting one as the Oregon Department of Energy has cited that its primary role is "to ensure that cleanup decisions are protective of the Columbia River."
One of those decisions pertains to how the USDOE can stanch the bleeding of hexavalent chromium from out of the Hanford Site and into the groundwater supply that feeds into the Columbia about two-and-a-half hours northeast of Hood River. Hexavalent chromium is often used, as it was at Hanford, to help stop corrosion in metal piping, but is a known carcinogen.
Ken Niles, administrator of the ODOE, reported that crews are currently digging pits upwards of 85 feet deep to remove the chromium plumes and noted that the efforts had "tremendously reduced the amount of chromium in the river." However, Dale Engstrom, natural resource specialist with ODOE, reported that chromium is "on a good day, very challenging to remove."
In addition to the ongoing chemical removal, Niles reported two structures in the "300" area of the facility were scheduled for removal by the end of the month. The structures include a defunct underground plutonium test reactor as well as a vault containing two 15,000-gallon tanks that once accepted laboratory waste.
Niles said the structures were responsible for a good deal of contamination in that particular area of the facility.
Despite the progress, the USDOE lists 67 single-shell waste storage tanks as "assumed leakers" and one tank with an active leak.
Back in early 2013, it was thought six single-shell tanks were actively leaking, but USDOE recently determined that only one tank, T-111, was actively leaking.
Niles reported that progress on cleanup could be hindered as states continue to battle each other for federal funding for polluted sites.
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In August took a short vacation
which lead to some unplanned shopping.
These included frequent stops at Forever 21 and
then some at H&M... amongst others.
Walked into H&M and after trying on this blue skirt for 24.95 and
the color block blue and tan top for 17.95,
decided they were meant to be together.
Then I decided that 39.95 USD was worth this houndstooth printed blouse.
I love houndstooth.
On my various visits to any Forever 21 store I could come across, I
picked up several tops..
This kimono like one for 22.80 USD and
this 70's like blouse cardigan for 17.80 USD.
I had wanted something with bow print for some time but all I had seen seemed
a little "too girly" that is until I found this for 17.80 USD.
Another Forever 21 top, this one for 5.99 USD
Also from Forever 21, Hello Kitty for 19.99 USD
Yes, I may be getting a little old for her, but
honestly I really do not care.
Billabong sweater - wrap - cardi - blanket for 9.99 USD.
I honestly have NO idea what it is but when I tried it on, I loved it
and thought I could bring it along when I travel.
A white lace dress Holy Codi Studio 3.99 USD.
Black trousers, Liz Claiborne 5.99 USD
Insight beige trousers 12.99 USD
BCX black high waisted trousers 14.99 USD
A pair of Ralph Lauren jean/pants in a warm khaki tone.
I did not have a khaki pant so I guess I can justify this purchase
for the sum of 19.99 USD
A dress, a green dress: Evan Picone for 22.00 USD
Two Lacoste "miracles" at 9.99 USD each.
Certainly sunglasses. Why buy one when you can buy 3.
Liz Claiborne for 5.99 USD, other two for 1.99 USD.
And then I have 10 more pairs at home....
A huge H&M scarf for 12.99 USD
I liked the color and the texture, so I bought this bag on sale for 10.00 USD
and for 33.99 USD a big green tote bag from Tommy Hilfiger.
I have a little over a 100 which is waaayy too many for any of my friends
and family but for some reason in blog land it's not a significant number.
For me it is too much. I don't have the space, but these 3 came home with me:
Bandolino brown loafer 20.00 USD - Tootsie Mootsie 19.99 USD - Nine West gold flats 15.00 USD
I took my time looking at all the pretty things they had in the accessories area
at Forever 21. It is my personal opinion that they carry some really unexpected items that have a vintage feel or aura around them.
These work for me, I had a hard time
choosing but finally walked out with these:
Animal print bag necklace 6.80 USD
Chair necklace 3.80 USD -
Bottle necklace 6.80 USD - Mirror necklace 3.80 USD
Also in F21...
I recently discovered my love for matryoshkas
or the russian nesting dolls and picked up these earrings.
The mustaches - well just because !
or the russian nesting dolls and picked up these earrings.
The mustaches - well just because !
1.50 USD for the mustaches and 2.80 USD for the Matryoshka dolls.
I also thrifted.
Yep, one small thrift shop in Manassas
turned out to be a real disappointment.
I wanted more.
I patiently went back and forth looking at all they had and came home with:
I wanted more.
I patiently went back and forth looking at all they had and came home with:
Escada flower blouse 3.50 USD
Marc Jacobs blue and gold button down 3.50 USD
To put an end to this month:
White and black tank tops Da Moda for 6.99 USD each
Pijama like pants from Wild Girl for 9.99 ...
My total ?
I did not - do not - want to even add this up.
But, I just did: 482.22 USD
I have nothing to say - just that I went on vacation
and it lead to some unexpected shopping.


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Lesson Plans and Activities
Historical Research Techniques
In the Field
Data Recovery
In the Lab
The methods used by archaeologists to gather data can be applied to any time period, including the very recent past. One archaeologist in the U.S. has become known for his study of the garbage discarded by the people of Tuscon, Arizona in the 1970s! This "garbology" project proved that even recent artifacts can reveal a lot about the people who used and discarded them.
Over the past 150 years archaeologists have developed many effective methods and techniques for studying the past. Archaeologists also rely upon methods from other fields such as history, botany, geology, and soil science.
In this section of Methods of Gathering Data you will learn how archaeologists gather and analyze information by utilizing historical research techniques, field methods for data recovery, and laboratory analyses.
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Every archaeology project begins with a research design –a plan that describes why the archaeology is being done, what research questions it hopes to answer, and the methods and techniques that will be used to gather and analyze the artifacts and other archaeological materials. It will also outline where artifacts recovered from the project will be stored, and how the research will be reported and shared with the public.
Archival research is often the first step in archaeology. This research uncovers the written records associated with the study area. If the area was inhabited during historical times (in the past several hundred years in North America) the archaeologist will look for primary historical documents associated with the study area. This archival research may take the archaeologist to public or university libraries, the local historical society or courthouse—or even into people's homes! Primary historical documents that archaeologists may consult before beginning their field research include: maps and/or photographs of the area, newspapers, land and tax records, and diaries and letters. Open this History Toolkit to learn more about investigating the past with primary sources.
In addition to primary historical documents, archaeologists will look for site reports that have been prepared by other archaeologists who have studied this area. These reports will describe what was found in this area during any previous archaeological investigations and will help guide the new research. Documentation files for all of the recorded prehistoric and historic sites in each state are maintained in the State Historic Preservation Office, along with archaeological research reports pertaining to sites in the state.
Oral history is another research method that archaeologists and historians may use to gather information. It includes any kind of information passed down by word of mouth, like stories you have been told about your family history, as well as traditions that your family observes. Archaeologists today collaborate with descendants of Native American peoples, and with African American communities who are only a few generations removed from the lives of their enslaved or free ancestors, to better understand the cultural traditions of their pasts. Archaeologists working on the 19th century Levi Jordan Plantation in Texas have interviewed descendants of both the plantation owners and the enslaved plantation workers as part of their research. These archaeologists hope to include the "voices' and perspectives of all of the past peoples who lived and worked on this plantation into their research. They have created the Levi Jordan web site
to share this information with the public and to allow the public to communicate with the archaeologists.
At Castle Rock Pueblo in southwestern Colorado archaeologists have learned about the past culture of the Anasazi peoples through both the objects left behind, and the oral traditions of modern Puebloan people. Now get ready to take an electronic field trip back in time to Castle Rock Pueblo in AD 1200 and solve a mystery while you are there.
While historians and archaeologists both use written documents to learn about the past, only archaeologists are trained to find and interpret archaeological sites. Here you will learn about some of the field methods archaeologists use to find sites and, when necessary, to excavate them.
You may think of shovels when you think of digging, but the most important piece of equipment in the archaeologist's toolkit is actually the trowel. A trowel is used to carefully remove thin layers of soil from test units. Of course, many other tools are used by archaeologists in the field and lab to dig, sift, measure, and analyze artifacts. View some of these computer animations of tools and equipment that archaeologists use. Some, like the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) are very specialized and high tech. Others, like tape measurers, toothbrushes, brooms and dustpans, are household objects! You can also view photographs of archaeologists using some of these tools on sites.
Archaeologists use a number of different methods to find sites—and sometimes they are found just by accident! The prehistoric burials at Low Hauxley on the coast of England were discovered by an observant beach walker who noticed a stone box sticking out of a sand dune after a storm. A burial ground with remains of more than 400 17th and 18th century Africans was discovered during building construction in New York City. The African Burial Ground was made a National Monument because of its importance and significance.
An archaeological predictive model is a tool that indicates the probability that an archaeological site will occur in a certain area. It helps determine where you look for sites based on factors like distance from water, ground steepness, soil type, and other factors that influence where people settle or perform certain tasks. The methods used to find sites will depend upon the kind of research questions that the archaeologist is trying to answer. If highway or housing construction is planned, archaeologists may need to know of any archaeological sites on the property. First they will check if any previous surveys have been done in the area and, if so, what was found. If no previous sites have been recorded, the archaeologist will conduct an archaeological survey to determine if the area contains any sites.
If sites are found, the archaeologist will want to know how many, their location, and how the sites relate to each other. Usually, to save time and money, only a sample of the area is tested.
A surface survey is a systematic examination of the land. A team of archaeologists will walk in straight lines back and forth across the study area looking for evidence of past human activity, including stone walls or foundations; artifacts made of stone, ceramics, or metal; color changes in the soil that may indicate features such as hearths, middens (garbage pits), or storage pits They will use a compass and long tape measure to make sure they walk in a straight line and will record the exact location of all evidence they find. Artifacts are collected and put in bags with a label of their exact location. Features, which cannot be removed, are photographed and drawn. This technique is useful in plowed fields.
Shovel test pits (or "STP's") are a series of shallow pits dug in an area that archaeologists believe to be a potential site, revealing artifacts or features. Usually test pits are done where the ground has not been farmed or plowed and it contains a lot of surface vegetation. The soil may be screened (sifted) to recover small artifacts and often profiles (pictures) of the test pits are drawn to record what the soil looks like in each unit.
There are a number of non-invasive techniques archaeologists can use to find sites without having to dig. Examples of geophysical surveys that do not involve disturbing the soil include are magnetometry, resistivity and ground penetrating radar or GPR.
After conducting a survey an archaeologist will have enough information to determine if any significant archaeological resources are located in the study area. If no sites are found, or if the sites are not determined to be "significant" as defined by the law in the National Historic Preservation Act then construction may proceed. The archaeologist will write and file a site report in the State Historic Preservation Office, which describes their research. If significant sites were found, an excavation may be planned. In the next section we will discuss how important data is recovered from archaeological sites through excavation.
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Believe it or not archaeologists do not often excavate (dig) entire sites! Archaeology is a destructive science—meaning that once a site is excavated it is gone forever. The artifacts and information gathered remain, but the site itself can never be recreated. Excavating sites is also costly and time consuming. Once the dig is done, archaeologists have a professional responsibility to analyze all of the artifacts and information obtained, to report on their research in scholarly journals and to the public, and to curate the collections. For all of these reasons, archaeologists generally excavate sites only when they are threatened by destruction from construction or development or when they may reveal important information about past cultures. And they usually excavate only a small portion of any site.
Although archaeologists work on all kinds of sites and in all parts of the world, the same basic process is followed everywhere when an excavation is planned.
Before an excavation begins, archaeologists write a research design. This outlines "who, what, where, when, how, and why " the fieldwork is being carried out. This important document is reviewed before archaeologists are granted permission to excavate a site. In the U.S. this plan must be reviewed by the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) where the work will be carried out. If an American archaeologist wants to work in a foreign country, permission must be granted by the appropriate agency in that government. Tribal (Indian) lands in the U.S. have their own review processes and some tribes have their own archaeology programs that control access to sites on tribal lands. Once a research design is approved and permits area granted, a team is put together and the necessary tools and materials are gathered.
Once a site has been excavated, it is gone forever. Because of this, archaeologists must record exactly where all of the artifacts and features on a site are located. Before any soil or artifacts are removed from a site, a site grid is created. A datum point, or fixed reference point from which all measurements are taken, is established and a rectangular grid is superimposed over the whole site. Each square in the grid is precisely measured and assigned a number. These squares are often referred to as units. This system allows the archaeologist to create a precise map of the site and to record the exact location of all the features and artifacts on the site.
Archaeologists use a statistical sampling method to select which squares or units they will excavate. To begin they will collect surface artifacts, then remove any ground cover using a shovel and trowel. All soil removed from a unit is screened (sifted) to recover small artifacts and ecofacts whose exact location, both horizontally and vertically, is recorded. Artifacts from each unit are stored in plastic bags that are labeled with the site and excavation unit numbers and level. The unit may be dug in arbitrary levels (such as every 10 cm) or by following the natural stratigraphy (layers) of the unit. These short video clips show how to prepare a test unit for excavation. Phil Harding--of the popular British archaeology series "The Time Team"-- demonstrates the proper way to use a trowel to remove soil from a unit.
Over time both natural processes like the decay of organic matter, and cultural (caused by humans) processes, create soil layers. In cross section these soil layers resemble a layer cake, with the oldest layers on the bottom and the most recent layers on the top. This is called the Law of Superposition and is one of the most important principles in archaeology. Stratigraphy is the study of geological or soil layers that is used to determine the relative age of each layer. There are many factors that can disturb the stratigraphy on a site and make it hard to determine the relative ages of the layers. Look at how 4,000 years of natural and cultural processes can combine to create and disturb the stratigraphy on an archaeological site. Stratigraphy is one clue used by archaeologists to determine the relative age of an artifact or site. In the next section we will look t other ways of determining how old something is.
Archaeologists spend much more of their time in the laboratory analyzing artifacts and data than they do in the field. In this section, you will learn how archaeologists analyze artifacts, features, and other information recovered in the field to help answer their research questions. During the investigative process, they also seek to learn when site was occupied, the purpose of the objects recovered, what the people ate, the kinds of structures they lived and worked in, with whom they traded, and much more. They may also look at how the site they are analyzing relates to other sites that are nearby or quite distant. The analysis will depend upon what research question the archaeologist began the project with.
There are a variety of techniques that can be used to find out how old an artifact or an archaeological site is. Stratigraphy can determine the relative age of soil layers and artifacts and can help us understand the order in which events occurred. However if an artifact of known age such as a coin with a mint date is found in a soil layer it can tell us when something occurred. Tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology is one of the oldest dating methods used by archaeologists. It is based on the principle that trees produce growth rings each year and the size of the rings will vary depending upon rainfall received each year. Archaeologists have built up long sequences of rings from tree trunks that extend back centuries. In the American Southwest tree ring dating goes back to 59 BC. Radiocarbon (C14) dating is the most widely used method to date objects made of organic matter. Potassium-argon dating can be used to date extremely old – up to 100,000 years old. Obsidian hydration dating is used on artifacts made from volcanic glass. This is just a sample of the many physical and chemical dating methods that archaeologists have used to date archaeological sites.
Artifacts are important sources of information for archaeologists. Artifacts can tell us about the diet, tools, weapons, dress, and living structures of people who made and used them. Recovered artifacts are washed, sorted and catalogued, and stored after they are brought back from the field. Archaeologists analyze individual artifacts but also may sort them into groups to see patterns. For example, they might weigh all of the oyster shells together or count all of the nails and consider them as one unit. Where artifacts are found on the site provides a clue to the kinds of activities that occurred such as stone tool or weapon production or food preparation. The type of material the artifact is made of is another important piece of information that can inform whether the materials were obtained locally or by trading with another group. Artifacts provide a window into the lives of peoples who lived before.
A feature shows human activity but unlike most artifacts it cannot be removed from the archaeological site. A feature might be a stain in the soil that is evidence of a former fence post. Photographs, drawings, and soil samples of the fence post collected by the archaeologist are part of the scientific record of that feature and are just as important as the nails and other artifacts that might be found nearby. Features like soil stains can reveal the outlines of prehistoric or historic structures such as houses and barns, or longhouses and earthen lodges. Other types of features include hearths (fire pits), storage pits, and middens –what archaeologists call garbage dumps! Privies (outhouses) are important features in historical archaeology sites because people used to dump their garbage as well as broken pottery and other housewares into them.


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First it was a drooling cameraman, then it was Arizona State relief pitcher Mitchell Lambson, who was also mesmerized by the backside view of the Sideline Princess as she sashayed across the field. The emailer (thanks LJ) said Lambson gave up two runs in relief soon after this shot was taken. She's a menace; she must be stopped.
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MarkG wrote:Well done guys!
Don't just go purely by weight..many things affect this such as muscle mass, water retention etc.
How you look and feel also count for a lot.
I hope this is the case - scale says I have gained 2kg, but am feeling much fitter and can see places where fat has slowly melted off and been replaced by muscle.


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I'd say it's arrogance, more than ineptness, although you might have a point.
It's absurd to me that you can't choose which games you want. ... I'll be going by a game by game basis. I certainly don't anticipate having any difficulty finding a ticket ... This is mostly due to the F.O. and organization being, in my opinion, inept.
Consider that the F.O. is of the mind that the best tickets are greatly underpriced. Thus, a major price increase for sideline seats in the front rows. The fact is, that those seats are held by season tickets holders. Will the fans suck it up, and pay a huge price increase? The FO thinks so. We'll see. If not, it might be interesting to see the first 7 rows empty on TV. (Of course, people might just slide down into their old seats. )
Next, consider that the FO believes that it had sold-out games last year. Ignore the empty seats all over the stadium, and the fact that people could somehow buy tickets at the windows, when none were supposedly available. The FO convinces itself that the stadium can & will be filled by season ticket holders, so it adds a seat license (even if it's called something else), but waives it for the first year, so that everyone will rush to renew or purchase before the 2011 season is even over. Let's not even mention the STH event, likely to be a practice or meet-the-team event, rather than an actual match ticket.
What are the results? Has the FO succeeded in having the prime STHs renew? Have more STs been sold, than were at this point last off-season? Or, are sales down?
If renewals are favorable, say 75-80%, the FO is convinced that its strategies are working, and will feel that it can push the envelope.
If unfavorable, has the FO been chastened, or will it continue to believe that its strategies will eventually pay off, or is it desperate to try anything that might seem to work. The comment that 1,000 new STs have been sold merits analysis. Is this wishful thinking, with the number consisting primarily of relocated STHs? If there are actually 1,000 new STHs, is that number eclipsed by a larger number of STHs who failed to renew, for a net loss?
Either way, the FO appears to desire to extend its micromanagement to partial plans. How dare fans decide what games they want to see? We'll tell them! It may be a benevolent dictatorship, offering weekend games, rather than trying to squeeze a midweek game or two into each plan. But, an imposed choice, nonetheless.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. – The Sacred Heart men's lacrosse team led Stony Brook 5-1 after the first quarter Saturday afternoon at Campus Field, but could not hold off the hard-charging Seawolves as Stony Brook rallied for a 12-10 win. Saturday's game was the first meeting all-time between the Pioneers and Stony Brook.
Junior attack Matt Gannon (Huntington, N.Y.) led Sacred Heart with four points on the day. Gannon scored a goal and added a game-high three assists. Cody Marquis (Londonderry, N.H.) had two goals and an assist. Matt King (Brewster, N.Y.) and Mike Mawdsley (Innisfil, Ont.) each had two goals. Jon Flood (Bay Shore, N.Y.) made 10 saves in goal as Stephen Kontos (Danvers, Mass.) led the Pioneers with five ground balls.
Sacred Heart (0-6) dominated the first quarter. Marquis got the Pioneers on the board less than two minutes into the game as back-to-back King tallies made the score 3-0 with 6:23 remaining in the first quarter. Marquis then put Sacred Heart ahead 4-0 with a goal from Alex Miller (Ridgewood, N.J.) with 1:31 left in the opening period. Shane Foley (South Brunswick, N.H.) then made the score 5-0 with a goal with 33 seconds remaining in the first.
Stony Brook (5-3) got on the scoreboard with two seconds remaining in the first when Cole Millican ran the length of the field and scored to make the score 5-1. Millican's goal sparked the Seawolves in the second quarter. Stony Brook outscored the Pioneers 5-0 in the second period as Jeff Tundo, Brody Eastwood, Mike Rooney, and Challen Rogers all scored to give the Seawolves a 6-5 lead at halftime.
The Pioneers tied the game 6-6 with 6:37 remaining in the third quarter when Joe Burek (Kinnelon, N.J.) fired a Gannon pass right between Stony Brook goalie Pat McGushin's legs. The Seawolves took back the lead with 4:25 to play in the third when Mike Andreassi scored a man-up goal, making the score 7-6. Once again, Sacred Heart would level the game as Cutty Diamond tallied his second goal of the season with under two minutes left in the quarter to make the score 7-7 heading into the fourth quarter.
The Seawolves took the lead again with 12:11 to play in the game as Rooney scored man-up to give Stony Brook an 8-7 advantage. Mawdsley tied the game 8-8 one minute later with an assist from Marquis. Kontos then won the ensuing faceoff and found Mawdsley in front of the goal. Mawdsley scored his second goal in five seconds to put the Pioneers ahead 9-8 with 11:07 to play. Stony Brook responded with back-to-back goals from Rogers to take a 10-9 lead. The Seawolves extended the lead to 12-9 before Gannon's goal got Sacred Heart within two, 12-10, 2:27 left to play. However, the Pioneers would be stymied for the remainder of the game as Stony Brook won by two.
Stony Brook outshot Sacred Heart 44-25 for the game, and 28-10 in the second half. The Seawolves also won 15 of 26 faceoffs and held a 33-30 edge in ground balls. Rogers led Stony Brook with three goals as Rooney and Tundo each had four points on two goals and two assists each.
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RALEIGH � Debbie Yow has talked about the importance of building a top-25 overall program since her arrival as North Carolina State's athletic director. No one can deny the Wolfpack's progress so far.
"I really measure us against us, if that makes sense," Yow said in an interview with The Associated Press, "where have we been and where are we going?"
Three years after she arrived from Maryland, Yow has put her imprint on a program that is nearing the top-25 goal with strong postseason performances. She has made coaching changes for three of the school's four highest-profile sports � football, men's basketball and women's basketball � during her tenure and is working to improve facilities.
Last month, N.C. State matched its second-best finish in the Director's Cup � presented annually to the top overall college athletic program � while setting a school record for total points in the standings.
N.C. State was coming off an 89th-place finish in the Directors' Cup when Yow was hired in 2010. Last month, the school finished 34th, two spots behind its all-time best.
"Advancing becomes much more difficult than it had been in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s," she said. "And I understand that. But I'm very proud of our coaches and our teams for the advancement they've made. We do have a tremendous degree of synergy and momentum right now and I credit the coaches for that. They're after it in every way: academically, athletically, recruiting hard, recruiting well and the reputation of the university continues to improve."
A year ago, there was plenty of buzz from men's basketball's run to the NCAA round of 16. This year, there were significant climbs from nonrevenue sports while baseball made its first appearance in the College World Series since 1968.
Volleyball coach Bryan Bunn led the program to its first NCAA tournament appearance since 1987. In softball, first-year coach Shawn Rychcik led the program to its second Atlantic Coast Conference title in its 10-year history and its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2007.
N.C. State was one of three schools � along with UCLA and Louisville � to have the football team play in a bowl, men's basketball reach the NCAA tournament and baseball reach the College World Series this year.
In all, 18 of N.C. State's 23 teams reached NCAA postseason play, surpassing the previous high of 14 teams.
The men's basketball team returned to the NCAA tournament and won 24 games for the second straight year, capping the program's winningest 2-year run since the 1981-82 and 1982-83 seasons. But the Wolfpack � the ACC favorite with a No. 6 preseason ranking � fell short of expectations and went one-and-done in the NCAAs.
While Yow said there were "some missed opportunities," she also said she was pleased with how second-year coach Mark Gottfried handled a difficult year.
"I think there are only a handful of coaches in this country that could've handled this season and this team as well as he did," Yow said.
Yow also made two major hires this year, first bringing in Northern Illinois' Dave Doeren to take over the football program then Chattanooga's Wes Moore to take over the women's basketball program once coached by her late sister � Hall of Famer Kay Yow.
Yow said the school has already spent more than $900,000 in various upgrades to the football program since Doeren's arrival, including a turf practice field and a $90,000 nutrition bar for the players. The school is also planning an indoor practice facility at an estimated cost of $14 million.
As for women's basketball, plans are underway for a $35 million renovation of Reynolds Coliseum. The school will vacate the building � also home of gymnastics, wrestling and volleyball events � for the 2015-16 school year during the work.
The school is also reviewing potential upgrades to baseball's Doak Field at Dail Park.
"We're always pressing for more," Yow said. "I wouldn't put a number on the Director's Cup situation for Year 4. We did in the strategic plan say Year 5 was when we hope to be in the top 25, but we're always pressing for more."


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App Developer Hijacks Customer Twitter Accounts In An Attempt To Shame Pirates
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However, as content producers begin to wake up to the fail that is DRM, we've been discussing how using your fanbase and social constructs to shame pirates and reward customers is a better approach. And it is, but unlike DRM you better get it right, because if you screw it up the results are far beyond mild annoyance. Reader AdamR writes in about one such developer that screwed things up so badly that they ended up hijacking the Twitter accounts of some paying customers to post a "piracy confession" on their behalf.
If you search Twitter for the hashtag #softwarepirateconfession you'll find a stream of tweets stating, "How about we all stop using pirated iOS apps? I promise to stop. I really will. #softwarepirateconfession." There are many dozens of these tweets in the past day alone, all identical. So what's happening? It turns out that Enfour, the maker of a variety of dictionary apps, is auto-posting tweets to users' accounts to shame them for being pirates. But the auto-tweeting seems to be affecting a huge portion of its paid user base, not just those who actually stole the apps.How could this happen, you wonder? Well, funny story. One proposed explanation is that there's a common tool used by people who jailbreak their iPhones and still want apps from Apple's app store, called Installous, that Enfour's apps were detecting and then, upon using the app and gaining permission to access a user's Twitter account it posted the "apology". However, others are saying that it's occurring on phones that are in fact not jailbroken. Either way, these are people that paid for the app, not pirates as their own hijacked Twitter accounts purport them to be. As one customer, Sean O'Brien, noted:
"Apparently, even though I paid nearly $25.00 for it, something in the code of this app identified me a owning a pirated copy. It then asked for access to my Twitter account through my iPhone. I gave it access because, it's the American Heritage Dictionary! If any app can be trusted with my Twitter account, it ought to be my expensive dictionary app. But no, it tweeted the following message:
"How about we all stop using pirated iOS apps? I promise to stop. I really will. #softwarepirateconfession"As you can imagine, the paying customers are pissed. Enfour has since released an apologetic statement, first in Japanese (ostensibly folks trying to use their Enfour dictionaries to translate the apology were called pirates again), and then in English on Twitter. They also have rushed out an updated version of the app they claim fixes the "bug", but the complaints are still coming in.
Here's a piece of advice for all you developers out there. Yes, social shaming can work far better than lawsuits and DRM, but you had damned well better get it right. Hijacking the Twitter feeds of your customers, or anyone actually, is taking things in the wrong direction.


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The investigation continues on the possibility of misappropriation of funds by an employee at the Knoxville Raceway. Director of Racing Ralph Capitani says the Marion County Sheriff's Office is investigating the case and time will tell what the outcome will be. Capitani adds that the investigation will have no affect on the upcoming racing season at the Knoxville Raceway. He chose not to make any further comments on the investigation. The Marion County Sheriff's office was contacted by a member of the Marion County Fair Board earlier this month about the possibility of raceway employee misappropriating funds. No formal charges have been filed at this time and no names have been released. KNIA KRLS news will bring you more information as soon as it becomes official.
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Ryan Smyth was brought to tears upon learning he had been traded from the only NHL team he had ever known. His return to Edmonton promises to be just as emotional.
Smyth makes his first appearance in Edmonton as a member of the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday night when the Northwest Division rivals meet for the first time this season.
Smyth spent his first 12 seasons with the Oilers after they made the Alberta native the sixth overall pick in the 1994 draft. He had 265 goals and 549 points with Edmonton, helping the team get to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals in 2005-06.
While always a productive and hard-working player, Smyth became one of the most popular players in team history as much for his devotion to the city off the ice. Playing for his native country in the 2002 and 2006 Olympics, and in several World Championships, earned him the nickname "Captain Canada".
However, with free agency looming and unable to reach an agreement on a new contract with their star forward, the Oilers made the difficult decision to send Smyth to the New York Islanders at last season's trade deadline for two prospects and a 2007 first-round draft pick.
On Feb. 28, Smyth held an emotional news conference at the Edmonton International Airport.
"I never thought it would come to this day," Smyth said while choking back tears. "I've got to turn the page and start a new chapter in life. The New York Islanders have given me that opportunity and I thank them for this."
Smyth played 18 regular-season games for the Islanders and five more in their first-round loss to Buffalo. He signed a five-year, $31 million contract with the Avalanche on July 1, meaning he will make four visits this season to Edmonton.
Smyth has three goals and three assists in his first eight games with Colorado.
Although they finished with an impressive 15-2-2 run last season, the Avalanche (4-4-0) missed the playoffs for the first time since 1993-94. They became the first team in league history to record at least 93 points and not qualify for the postseason.
Colorado was one of the few teams last season to play as well on the road as it did at home, finishing with 22 wins away from Denver, the fourth-highest total in the Western Conference.
This season, however, poor road play has been an issue for the Avalanche, one of three teams in the West without a road victory. They have been outscored 16-6 while going 2-for-18 on the power play in four road contests.
Peter Budaj was beaten by Mikko Koivu with 3:04 left in regulation Sunday, sending Colorado to a 3-2 loss at Minnesota.
"We've got to get it to overtime," coach Joel Quenneville said. "We can't give up late goals like that or you end up with nothing. That's something we dealt with last year. We got better late in the year, but we can't wait to apply that lesson."
Another area of concern for Quenneville is in net, where neither Budaj nor expensive backup Jose Theodore have played very well.
Budaj has three of the team's four wins but his 3.33 goals-against average ranks near the bottom of the league. Theodore, meanwhile, has allowed eight goals in his two starts and sports an ugly .879 save percentage.
Right wing Milan Hejduk - tied for second on Colorado with four goals - missed Sunday's game with a back injury and is day-to-day.
Avs captain Joe Sakic has a goal in three straight games against the Oilers (3-5-0), who have lost five of six since opening the season with wins over San Jose and Philadelphia.
Rookie Sam Gagner scored his first NHL goal but the Oilers gave up the game's final three scores Saturday in a 4-1 loss at Calgary.
"We played a decent second period and we started off in the first half of the third period very well too. Then we had a good opportunity on the power play and we made some idiotic decisions on our breakouts, bringing the puck out into traffic, totally out of synch," coach Craig MacTavish said.
Edmonton is one of the league's worst offensive teams with 18 goals in eight games, scoring once on 33 power-play chances. No other team has fewer than four power-play goals.
Dwayne Roloson has struggled lately against the Avalanche, going 2-4-0 with a 5.33 GAA in his last six starts.
The Avalanche went 4-3-1 against the Oilers last season, including 3-0-1 at Edmonton. Colorado has at least one point in eight of its last 10 visits (7-2-1) to Rexall Place.


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Tributes have been paid to a Chesterfield-born athlete who has died.
Peter Wilkinson – hailed as one of the finest runners Derbyshire has ever produced – passed away aged 80 at the end of February.
He opened the Queen's Park running track in Chesterfield in 1962.
Principally a marathon and cross-country runner, Peter won a bronze medal for England in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff.
He represented England in two Commonwealth Games' marathons and Britain in five marathons.
Peter took part in 21 marathons in total, winning four, and only once finished outside the top eight.
He ran twice for England in the International Cross Country Championships as part of a winning team in 1959 and as runners-up to Belgium in 1961.
The athlete – who continued to run 10k races and marathons into his 50s – was a hugely-respected coach at Derby Athletic Club.
Peter moved to Toton in Nottinghamshire in the late 1960s.
David Ashton, his friend and neighbour of more than 40 years, this week paid tribute to Peter.
He said: "You never heard anyone say a bad word about him.
"The world of athletics has lost an inspirational figure.
"It was a pleasure knowing Peter.
"He'll be sadly missed by many."
His son, Steve, also paid tribute.
He said: "He was a very unassuming and humble person.
"He was still playing football in the garden with his grandchildren at the age of 79."
Steeplechase champion Luke Gunn, who was coached by Peter for four years, described him as "one of the kindest and humble people" he knew.
You can watch Pathe footage of Peter winning the Duth marathon in Holland in 1961 by logging on to www.britishpathe.com/video/holland-aka-wilkinson-wins-dutch-marathon
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Absolutely.......you can fuck up anything if you try hard enough. I usually get beff tenderloins from Costco or i have a buddy who owns a butcher shop and he hooks me up with some big ass chunks of prime rib and hacks me off a few roasts and steaks for a real good price. Blobcat does not do the hackin and whackin but he can cook a little.........not Topper levels but I actually enjoy cooking unlike a lot of fellas.Potatoe1 wrote:
Most people don't know the different cuts. They don't know the grading systems. They don't know what a good steak looks like when it isn't cooked. They don't know how to properly season it.
Most of all they have no clue how to cook it. The chances of going to a friends house, ordering a medium rare steak and actually getting something even close to that seems very slim in my experience.
The rub is key and salting, usually like to marinate the steaks in nothing more than buddy's secret rub, lots of salt, olive oil, garlic and occasionally a little red wine. Six to eight hours is usually sufficient, but it's also a good idea to have a decent cue to cook shit on. I love the broil king we picked up last year as opposed to the home depot chunk of shit I had before. I like briquette bbqs but I really don't like having to constantly buy briquettes and I had a bad experience with lighter fluid last year so i hate that shit.


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Ben Shapiro at Breitbart:
In the aftermath of Sandy Hook, the Journal News in upstate New York published a map with the addressees of all gun permit holders in Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam. The nation was rightly outraged at this violation of basic privacy, and the threat implicit in the publication.
Just in case that was too subtle, Gawker has now published a complete list of every licensed gun owner in New York City. The headline? "Here Is a List of All the Assholes Who Own Guns in New York City." Writes the author, John Cook:
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deKor LA: Eclectic Happy
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- Founded: June 2011
- Founded by: Isabelle Dahlin
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Isabelle Dahlin has found her happy place and she's bringing it to Echo Park! This past Saturday, June 25th, marked the official opening of deKor. Nestled between Alvarado and Mohawk, in the center of many other fine retail venues, we now have a new Swedish American mixture of home goods. Curating everything from vintage cabinets and chairs to modern light fixtures and textiles, there is something for everyone — even an assortment of pottery for your pets!
Raised in Sweden by artists, Isabelle Dahlin grew up in a home filled with art and design. "Visual aesthetics," says Dahlin, "were an integral part of daily life, and their constant presence provided me lifelong associations with well-being and happiness." Bringing over this artful abundance to her every day life and in her new store, Isabelle enjoys the mixture of materials, textiles and lots of color. Studying at Parsons and Otis, Isabelle found her inspiration while working with interior designer David Phoenix.
It has always been a dream of Isabelle's to open a storefront where she can share her ideas about home and happiness, comfort and playfulness. She wanted to create a brick and mortar storefront where people would feel right at home, and where friends would come to just hang out. Inviting friends to linger in the store is easy when you've got a fully stocked kitchen and table in the back, which is placed perfectly under the new skylight Isabelle installed.
The idea of deKor is to bring you home goods that will make your space feel amazing, warm and inviting, Isablle claims, "so your guests feel like they never want to leave". Isabelle brought on (our mutual friend) Evan Harrison, to help her design the space and perfect each detail. Together they have arranged and carefully spaced out each vignette, from the front of the shop to the rear, just like a loftspace or an apartment. Walking through the space it really feels like you're in someone's house.
When I asked Isabelle about what her main concept was for her home and store she said, "I believe you can mix and match things in your home … who cares about everything else. It's your home and it should make you happy every day".
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Everyone!! Welcome back Albert!! I love yor avitar CineraI'm not sure what to think!! Some people have been tweeting and some people have a "show" to do Dani with Superpass and ED with RTVzone.. Or that Hayden tweeted that he was working with the AZ Diamondbacks (orientation i think is what he tweeted) Boogie has a new show coming out.. jeff and jordan .. well jeff did so many things with the reality aspect. you would think he needed some down time. and with rachel and brendon in the midst of prepping a wedding.. it's all very confusing Natalie and Kevin Cambell posted/tweeted a pic of them 2 together at a theme park last week or over the weekend. Soo If natalie lost her job and she's in Cali.. that could make sense.. that she is one of the returning HG we all know that Alison G loves jesse and he rarely turns down $$ or air time from CBS. (i know never turned down )I do have an isue with them bringing or even suggesting enzo was a DOU of anything. he was a QUAD! remember he "made" the BRO -GAGE CBS is good for making us irritable!!
Chelsia Hart from Big Brother 9 tweeted: @G_Boooo @BigBroLiveFeeds @JunDishes @Mi55y I'm in sequester with James... Ew. I can't believe I actually said that!1 hour ago
I heard from a spoiler source at a different site that there are some duos that are going to be in that arent one of the 6 on the site.I heard Natalie/Jessie are NOT one of the teams, neither are Hayden/Enzo or Mike/Will, however, nothing was mentioned about Jordan/Jeff and Bredon/Rachel. Daniele is said to not be on as well.....the source also said they think Britney/Lane will be representing BB12.
Current % of support:1st: Jeff & Jordan - 41%2nd: Brendon & Rachel - 22%3rd: Dr Will & Mike Boogie, Evil Dick & Daniele - 15% (tied)5th: Hayden & Enzo - 6%6th: Jessie & Natalie - 1%
Everybody, that page on CBS about the duos and the voting is a publicity stunt by BB to get everybody hyped up and such. From what I understand those six pairs are not the only duos being considered by production and as of yesterday the actual duos were not locked in.What I'm hearing is that....Jeff and Jordan are coming back.The other two duos MAY be but not locked in as of this post, are Brendon/Rachel and Jessica/Eric.The duos definitely not coming back:Donato'sChilltownJessie/NatalieHayden/EnzoOther duos that were speculated were:Dan/Memphis.....not happening, Dan is getting married tomorrowBritney/Lane......don't think it's happening, they both have been tweeting up a storm and communicating with othersWill keep you posted on any updates.Again all this is SPECULATION. Nothing is confirmed.And one other thing, I hear that BB production is a mess. The hg's were supposed to enter the house tomorrow and now it's been delayed until Sunday. I hear the crew is pissed about that. Like I said earlier in this post, as of yesterday the duos have not been selected and they are scrambling to get things done. We shall see.
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One of the worst things about the winter is the viral bugs floating around. I swear this winter, half of Vancouver population was infected by a super cold virus, and being dancers it's a wonder how we even remain healthy throughout the year. I predict, we'll be the one of the first wave of infections when the Zombie Apocalypse takes hold; but I digress.
The one good thing about having a cold is that it forces me to sit back when volunteering for workshops and really focus on taking photos of the event, and boy is it great to hold on to a Nikon D90 once again. Yippee! This time though, I had a manual prime 8mm f3.5 fisheye lens to play with throughout the weekend. From the photos you will see the fun times I had with it. On one hand, the fisheye lens was a breeze to use, point then click, great photo — most of the time. The trickiness about the fisheye is that the field of view is so large, I have to consider so many factors in the way I shoot, other than the distortion.
- My off-camera flash arm cannot be too far forward
- Bending my body forward at the hips to avoid my own feet in portrait photos
- Where the ceiling-bounce flash hits as the area will show up in photos
- Distance from the subject (you really need to be super close to negate the depth you get in a fisheye)
The results are worth the effort trying to keep track and learn all the tricks on the fly. The next thing I will need to focus on, is nailing the manual focus, and adjusting to using a manual aperture ring as well.
PS. RCMA (Rhythm City Mess Around) 2012 was a blast. The photos above is just a preview of the photos I took that weekend.


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Haha, I can't remember if this happens in the manga, but I recall the Japanese anime giving James breasts, and the Japanese game getting an old man drunk. XD
What an odd series for children. :P
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I don't know whether to be grateful or upset that they left that out. XD
Either way, I just know that I missed out a lot by watching localized anime in my childhood.
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Akio Keitaro
Age: 19
Intelligence Quotient: 140
Skill: Connection
A first year college psychology student who can easily connect complex ideas together to reach a logical conclusion. For two years, he has had an interest in Suzu, his childhood friend since he was 9. He knows his proper manners but can easily get nasty whenever Suzu is in trouble.
Suzu Yoshiko
Age: 17
Intelligence Quotient: 132
Skill: Investigation
Was allowed early entry into college, where she attends criminal investigation courses. Is quite attractive and receives large amounts of unwanted attention, yet has never been in a relationship. Her eagle eye can spot clues and evidence from a mile away.
Marise Nariko
Age: 16
Intelligence Quotient: 149
Skill: Telepathy
A shy girl who studied under Akio's college professor, who happened to be her tutor. She appears to be the average, cute and innocent student; never attending extracurricular activities or showing a special interest in any field of study. Despite being dead silent most of the time, her ability to telepathically send messages to others often requires her to speak using her mind.
Age: 19
Intelligence Quotient: 126
Skill: Clairvoyance
Was nicknamed 'Red' for his passion and his strong desire for the truth. His past haunted him to the point where he started having visions of the future. In tiny bursts, he can see into the future, but it results in painful migraines. He is inseparable from his childhood saviour, Black. Cannot remember anything about his past except for one traumatic experience.
Age: 16
Intelligence Quotient: 144
Skill: Psychokinesis
A young girl who is shrouded in mystery; was nicknamed 'Black' to portray her need to keep secrets. Like Red, she suffers from amnesia and gets severe headaches whenever she uses her telekinetic powers, which allow her to move objects with her mind. Meets Red during his unforgettable traumatic past, and manages to save him from the brink of death.
Mei Yuuko
Age: 17
Intelligence Quotient: 139
Skill: Psychometry
A high school student who was chosen for the special event within the convention. Her past is no mystery, but it is far from pleasant as well. Has the ability to achieve a perfect zen status, which allows her to use her psychometric skills and look into an object's past/future. Her calming presence and sincere smile are always enough to light up the darkest moments.
Yoko Tsubasa
Age: 20
Intelligence Quotient: 151
Skill: Remote Viewing
The oldest and most mature of the group. Manages to always turn hopeless situations around by using her skill of remote viewing, which allows her to sense distant objects. She never speaks unless she has to, and will also never talk about her past. Teaches parapsychology in a famous Japanese university.
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Also, a little random side thing here! I invested in a Marshall MA100C amp and ordered a brand new American Standard Fender Stratocaster guitar, which cost me about $2000 :O The guitar will arrive in about 2-3 months because it's a special order
Anyways, here are a few pictures of my musical setup; what I used to record last time. Once my Stratocaster arrives, I'll be re-recording everything so it sounds a lot cleaner (and hopefully better!).
The entire setup. Whoa, I just realized that it all cost me like $1800 without my new $1400 guitar:O
My new Marshall amp! I got it today for $800, and it sounds absolutely amazing! I'll never need another amp again.
My other amp, the Fender Mustang 1! I use it to play my iPod on, since the Marshall has no external input. (It's too busy being awesome XD)
My guitars! The electric is a left-handed Epiphone Les Paul 100 Cherry Sunburst, and the well hidden acoustic is a Fender CD-100.
My Roland GW-8 Workstation Keyboard! It's worth $1300, but I won it in a contest^.^ Trying to re-learn keyboard since that happened.
My Inspire interface. It's used to record to the computer, and is connected to my microphone, a Shure SM57 Cardioid.
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^ Lol don't worry I'll help you to treat his dizzyness *I think an iced cold soda will refresh him* but agree with Hooves-sama, your imagination and creativity is quite high... >_<
so that's the lucky keyboard... ^^ gaahhh... I'm jealous >_<
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I'll have to slowly learn the keyboard parts to some songs and record those for you too I'll probably record both keyboard and guitar in a few songs once my new guitar arrives
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Also, I'll be working on more writing now, but with a shakily cold hand and the need to draw from recollection only, I made this abomination of a drawing:O
Unlike my other drawings, this one has messy, unconnected lines, and it isn't even properly outlined. If you can look over these major problems, then hopefully you like it^^
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For entertainment reasons, here's the scenario in which gave birth to this drawing:
It's 3:30 AM inside my bedroom. My eyelids feel heavy, and I'm also shivering from the cold. I really should be getting some sleep, but because I become preoccupied with all the forum chatting and writing I can't seem to bring myself to plant myself in the bed and fall asleep. I hope drawing a picture will relax me enough to fall asleep, so I pull up the new K-ON! image on Oreno.imouto and start drawing. At first, the detailing is quite decent, and I think you can tell which side I started drawing from. As I draw more and more of the picture, I get more tired but ridiculously, I now can't sleep because I have to finish the drawing. The last line gets drawn and I fall asleep. I completely forget about the drawing for the entire following day, and minutes ago, I find it sitting on my floor.
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That's a really impressive drawing! I love it. IMO, the important thing about drawing isn't getting the lines neat and the outlining right, it's making the characters look like themselves and getting the proportions right. As far as I'm concerned, your character designs look close to the official ones and there's no glaring anatomical derpiness. So in terms of the factors that actually show skill, your drawing is great. Be proud
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Thanks everyone^^ I promise, when I'm less tired I'll properly outline the characters and finish up the drawing. Now, I'm off to finish writing Chapter 4 of "Knowledge" while Hooves' curse looms over my shoulder. XD
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It's not just Hooves' curse. I heard that people who use the term abomination... well they become alcoholics. On top of that they grow to have a hunch, leathery skin, and eyes that are constantly scrutinizing everything.
If you still use the word after that... Well you slowly develop a god complex, and look down on anyone different. Forget about alternative life styles and religions, because they're all wrong and are an abomination. Then in time you grow to think people with medical conditions and disabilities should be killed off.
It is almost like you're turning into a self-centered ghoul who has forgotten to dream, and before you know it... you hate everyone... even yourself~
That is the abomination curse.
(Less than subtle dig at my family)
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(Boston, Mass. – Nov. 20, 2008) – Picking up where state and local resources left off, EPA will continue to remove hazardous soil present at the former Wilder Thermometer Factory property in Peterborough, N.H.
The area of concern includes the former Wilder Thermometer Site which extends to a small section of North Village, the town-owned Right-of-Way and to part of Hunt Street. Suspicions of soil contamination were confirmed when the Town of Peterborough conducted an investigation at the site with a grant awarded to the Southwest Region Planning Commission through EPA's Brownfield Program.
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Once in a while I need to name my files with totally random characters. It might be beneficial to have a file name randomizer. The way I imagine is that the user select bunch of files and the randomizer would name the selected files with very random characters.One another version of this software also could add random suffixes or prefixes. I am looking for a solution that would work via right click in windows shell.-kartal (March 30, 2009, 07:08 PM)
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BEIJING--The HSBC China services Purchasing Managers' Index rose to a 17-month high of 54.1 in August from 50.0 in July, HSBC Holdings PLC said Wednesday, while cautioning that sub-index readings pointed to a mixed picture of economic recovery.
July's level was the lowest in the nearly nine-year history of the index, and marks the dividing line between expansion and contraction.
Companies in the service sector recorded in August a solid expansion of new business--the strongest since January 2013--and there was also a further moderate expansion of payroll numbers, HSBC said.
"Apart from the rebound in the headline number, other indices suggest a mixed picture rather than a broad-based improvement," HSBC's chief economist for China, Qu Hongbin, said in a statement.
"The economy still faces downside risks to growth in the second half of the year from the property sector slowdown," Mr. Qu said.
China's official nonmanufacturing PMI edged up to 54.4 in August from 54.2 in July, data from the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing showed earlier Wednesday.
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Bummer Still worse, Mole lost 2.4 million from the lead-in Bachelorette program.can ABC afford to keep Mole on the air with only half the audience of BB?
Welcome home G-Man!We want to hear all about it!
I think if, because of ratings, they would do as they did with Day Break. They'd put it on the ABC Online Video Player and air the episodes on a weekly basis.
Puddin, they have Day Break on DVD now! I bought them a few months ago, it's still good watching them over again. I still don't understand why they had to cancel it. It's not like LOST was on.(Sorry for the off-topic banter...)
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As engaging a bird as you'll ever see, the kestrel is the smallest and most common of the falcons.
The back and tail of the kestrel are russet, the wings blue-gray. Two lines of onyx tears mark the sides of its white face.
Two subspecies of American kestrel (Falco sparverius) occur in Florida: a northern subspecies (Falco sparverius sparverius) that winters here between September and April, and a resident, non-migratory subspecies, the southeastern American kestrel (Falco sparverius paulus). Kestrels seen in Florida during May-June are resident southeastern American kestrels.
American kestrels nest in cavities that they do not excavate. Instead, they must depend on woodpeckers and natural processes to create holes in trees. Kestrels nest predominantly in dead but standing longleaf pine trees, called snags, usually in the abandoned cavities of pileated woodpeckers.
American kestrels often perch on telephone wires at the edge of a field or other open area. From this vantage they hunt for insects (especially grass-hoppers and dragonflies), lizards and small mammals. Sometimes they are seen hovering like helicopters above their prey.
Kestrels nest between mid-March and early June, raising about four chicks during a season. However, kestrels are short-lived birds. For those surviving their first winter, life span averages between 2.3 - 2.8 years. The southeastern American kestrel has undergone a marked population decline and a contraction in its range in recent decades. It is currently listed as threatened in the state of Florida. Once widely distributed throughout 7 southeastern states, the southeastern American kestrel occurs today primarily in Florida, the coastal plain of South Carolina, and the Mississippi Gulf coast. It is patchily distributed elsewhere in small, fragmented populations. Loss of nesting snags, especially longleaf pine, appears to be the main reason for the decline. In addition, since kestrels avoid pine plantations and hardwood stands, the loss of open foraging habitat has been a contributing factor.
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