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Alan / Julie Scallop Diving – Photo by Tommy Thompson, VisitNaturalNorthFlorida.com
July kicks off scalloping seasons in Florida. These tiny treasures are fun to harvest and delicious to eat.
The waters around Homosassa, Crystal River, Steinhatchee, Keaton Beach, Port St. Joe and Cape San Blas on Florida's northwest coast will be filled with an armada of boats beginning July 1 when Florida's scalloping season officially opens.
Vessels of all sizes, from kayaks to fishing boats and pontoons are the first thing I remember seeing on my first scalloping trip a few years ago. I had no idea harvesting the small bivalve mollusks was so popular but I soon realized this was yet another way to experience the real Florida and a true Florida delicacy.
The areas where you can scallop are often remote, secluded places that have have been untouched by developers. Only the Gulf waters extending from the Pasco-Hernando County line to the west bank of the Mexico Beach Canal in Bay County line are open to scallop harvesting.
For those who don't have access to a private boat, several charter boat companies in Homosassa and Crystal Rivers offer scalloping adventures for both individuals and groups.
Recreational harvesters need a Florida Saltwater Fishing License, even if scalloping from shore. Snorkeling equipment comes in handy and many rental boats provide everything you need for an enjoyable day on the water. Be aware that reservations fill up fast with the rental companies.
There are limits to how many scallops you can take from each trip. Each person is limited to two gallons of whole bay scallops in the shells or one pint of scallop meat. I thought this was an abysmally small amount until my friends and I had to clean them. And it was definitely enough for my favorite dish: sautéed scallops tossed with angel hair pasta and parmesan cheese.
If your palate is more adventurous, you may want to try this Scallop Slider recipe, courtesy of Tracy Newton at The Scallop Hunter.
But hurry to catch these little gems. Scalloping season ends Sept. 24!
To find other outdoor lifestyle travel experiences for your family in Florida, visit Natural North Florida website or call 877-955-2199
Go Scallop Hunting in Homosassa
Scallop season ends in September, so venture out more and go scallop hunting with Scallopgirl Tracey Newton of The Scallop Hunter. Visit their website at www.scallophunter.com or call 727-480-4490
Scallop hunting with Tracey in Homosassa, Florida.
Recipe / Scallop Sliders
1 medium sweet onion, finely diced
2 TBS butter
2 lbs fresh bay scallops
3 TBS all-purpose flour
3 TBS bread crumbs
2 tsp Kosher salt
½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 egg, beaten
½ cup finely chopped fresh chives
½ cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves
1 TBS fresh lime juice
1 TBS grated fresh ginger
2 TBS vegetable oil
12 Dinner Rolls, lightley toasted
Cilantro Mayo, recipe follows
In a small skillet saute onion in butter over medium heat until translucent. Cool.
Place scallops in food processor and pulse until coarsely chopped or chop by hand. Transfer to large bowl and add remaining ingredients, except vegetable oil. Add in the cooled onions.
Cook's Note: Mixture should not be too loose. If necessary, add a bit more flour or another egg.
Shape the mixture into small burgers, approximately 2 inches in diameter.
Place on a waxed paper lined sheet tray, cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour.
Heat 2 tablespoons vegetable oil in a skillet over medium heat.
Add scallop sliders and cook until browned and cooked through.
Place on small soft dinner rolls and top with a bit of Cilantro Mayo.
Serve warm or at room temperature.
Cilantro-Lime Mayo Ingredients:
4 TBS fresh lime juice
1 garlic clove, peeled
1/2 tsp hot sauce (recommended: Tabasco)
1 tsp Dijon mustard
1 cup fresh cilantro leaves
1 cup mayonnaise
Kosher Salt
freshly ground black pepper
Blend all ingredients in food processor except mayonnaise and salt and pepper.
Process until cilantro is fine.
Add mayonnaise and process just until blended.
Season with salt and pepper, to taste
Visit ScallopHunter.com for other great ways to enjoy Florida's scallop.


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Sam is a miracle. He is my miracle... and I am falling fast and hard.
I kind of cocked up when I met his dad again for the second time on Sunday morning as we were loading his car up with fishing rods and tackle though.
Sam had told me that his dad was entering his 60's, but he looks so young! Instead of wording it like that however, I blurted out: "You don't look old at all!" while nervously shaking his hand....!!!!
Well done Jade....
Now, my mouth hurts from smiling so much - but it is so worth it.

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It was still early but already a small crowd was gathering in the gallery on Main Street. Lovely photographs on canvas adorned all 4 walls; pictures in vivid colors of a snow fence in a field in summer & a second of the same fence on a snowy winter day; a church steeple & many pictures taken from the vantage point of the space shuttle or the International Space Station.
A man stood by holding a picture of himself with 2 other people. One was a woman who had previously autographed the photo & the other was the man the gathering crowd was waiting to see & hear when the program began at 5:30. I assumed that the man with the photo was hoping to get the other side of the picture autographed before the evening ended.
We stood at the front of the crowd. We'd gotten there first & I wasn't about to lose that front row seat … well, stand, since there was no seating at the event.
I've been a part of science fiction for many years; starting a local club 33 years ago that is still going strong & having been to conventions & conferences in numbers too great to remember over the years. My husband & I have even seen & met at least 2 astronauts but tonight was different & so was the astronaut we were about to see.
52-year-old NASA astronaut, Leland Melvin was showing a collection of his photography at the gallery & speaking about his life as part of Black History Month. It was an event that was quietly publicized, which led to fewer than 100 people attending, but that was good. There was no push of the crowd to get closer so we were comfortable, even though standing, & the event took on a more personal feeling.
Melvin came into the gallery right on time. He was tall & smiling & seemed like someone we'd known for at least a decade.
He began by telling us about his life … growing up & some of the hardships he faced as a young black man. He told us about playing football for the local high school & his career as an athlete (he is the only person drafted into the National Football League to have flown in space). He showed us pictures, including the cover for his new book that will be released in May; Chasing Space. He charmed us with tales of how he became an astronaut & the many joys of that part of his life. He said he would volunteer in a heartbeat to be part of a Mars mission.
Melvin was serious & nostalgic & he was funny. The hour passed much too quickly.
I had an opportunity to tell him that our science fiction club, through an inordinate amount of fundraising, has sent 9 local middle school kids to Space Camp. This year we will be sending student number 10. He seemed very excited about that, as we are, & said Space Camp is a great beginning for young people who may eventually become the astronauts of tomorrow.
What sets Leland Melvin apart from all the other NASA astronauts that are & have been part of our nation's space program is that Melvin was born & raised right here at home. He played football at our local high school & went to the same movie theaters, skating rinks & restaurants that we did. He isn't just a visiting celebrity passing through town, showing his photography at a local gallery & speaking during Black History Month. He is home folks. He is US. And that's what made this night at the gallery so very special.
After Melvin's presentation ended, I did see the man with the picture approach Melvin & I saw him autograph it. The picture was of Melvin standing on the left side of the man & on the right side stood a woman who had already autographed the picture. She holds a very special place in our nation's space history as a recruiter of minorities. Years ago she recruited Sally Ride.
For me it was especially exciting seeing the picture & seeing it to completion. I'd met that special woman on several occasions & understood how important it was to the man to have Leland Melvin complete the picture with his autograph added to that of Nichelle Nichols – Star Trek's Lieutenant Uhura. It somehow made the evening more than special. It made it MAGICAL.


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by Mike Masnick
Wed, Oct 24th 2007 11:29am
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There's just something about being behind a keyboard and a screen that make people do nutty things, especially if they think that they're appearing to be anonymous. However, that can also run right into questions concerning libel. Over in the UK, where libel laws are much stricter than here in the US, it should come as little surprise that people who thought they were being anonymous are now being unmasked by those accusing them of libel. In one case, it was unveiled that the guy behind a website trashing a specific housing organization just so happened to run a competing housing organization. In another case, disgruntled fans of a UK football (soccer) team are having their identities handed over to the court for smearing the names of officials in charge of the club. At least in that case, the judge tried to limit whose names were being handed over, leaving out those whose statements "were merely 'abusive' or likely to be understood as jokes" alone to remain anonymous. Still, libel is increasingly a funny sort of crime in this world where everyone's a publisher and everyone has an opinion. Accusing someone of libel in court can often backfire, as it only calls that much more attention to the actions that led to the original claims. It seems that it's often better to simply respond to the false claims with proof that they're not true, and then leave people to make their own decisions.
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dorpus, 24 Oct 2007 @ 12:05pm
How do you prove anything?If someone accused you of being a homosexual, how would you prove otherwise? If someone claimed they are your homosexual lover, how would you prove they aren't? If he says you have an uncircumcised organ, should you post a picture of your organ to prove otherwise?
Also, what do you do if someone posts embarrassing information that happens to be true? What if the person says your mother had an extramarital affair, etc.? Will it be so "funny" then?
RandomThoughts, 24 Oct 2007 @ 12:08pmInformation that happens to be true isn't libel.
BadDog357, 24 Oct 2007 @ 12:38pmRandom Thoughts is correct. The truth is not libel. Just like your opinion of someone or something if stated as an opinion is not libel. I am not sure but I think the same is true of calling someone an asshole, etc. Because there is no legal definition of "asshole" and how can you prove you are not one. So if I said "John Edward is a faker and a lyre." that would be libel but if I said "I think John Edward is a douche bag and a fucking asshole." that should be perfectly legal. Right?
BTW John Edward (host of Crossing Over) really is a fucking douche bag piece of shit. If he had any ethics or a conscience he would shoot himself in the head right after he finished the last apology letter to all the people he has mind fucked with his bullshit little act.
dorpus, 24 Oct 2007 @ 12:56pm
Re:Ok, but if the "truth" is difficult to prove, or doing so requires too much embarrassment/hassle for the accused person, what is it then?
Max Powers at http://ConsumerFight.com, 24 Oct 2007 @ 2:38pm
The New LawsuitI follow this stuff regularly due to fact that my website allows people to post complaints of other businesses. One case I'm following is Video Professor's lawsuit to obtain the names and IP addresses from it's own customers that posted negative comments on Infomercialscams.com
Even though Video Professor has over 600 complaints listed on the BBB, they claim they need these names and IP addresses so they can try to solve any disputes with these customers. Why didn't Video Professor try to solve them when they first complained?
The other new flavor of the month to try to stop complaints is to sue the site that posts these complaints on the grounds of copyright infringement because suing for libel is not working anymore.
Lawyers, go to your neutral corners then come out fighting!
ipanema, 24 Oct 2007 @ 3:08pmsome companies can't just swallow complaints of their products. if taken positively and proven to be sensible, why not try to look into the complaint instead of calling a lawyer straight away. if proven untrue and damages the company or anybody's name, then they can resort to legal means.
i believe nobody's anonymous online. just my thoughts. :)
Bob Jones, 24 Oct 2007 @ 3:29pmI can't wait until libel is used to defend libel laws ... I might say that the libel laws should be changed in the UK, but I would probably infer that they won't be - because they happen to make a lot of money for a certain group of people, who I might name as lawyers (who more specifically could be libel lawyers), then I might end up in court for trashing an honourable group.
Of course, I don't think you can actually be sued for calling a group of people names our defaming their image - so lawyer ranting is OK!
Anonymous Coward, 24 Oct 2007 @ 4:04pm"BTW John Edward (host of Crossing Over) really is a fucking douche bag piece of shit. If he had any ethics or a conscience he would shoot himself in the head right after he finished the last apology letter to all the people he has mind fucked with his bullshit little act."
Excellent. I've been searching for a nice, concise description of him for some time. Thank you.
Dick Weed, 25 Oct 2007 @ 8:06pm
LibelIf I call Hillary Clinton a cunt is that libel or just being redundant?
Denise, 1 Dec 2007 @ 7:21pm
Re: LibelRedundant. Clearly.
Simon Longchamps, 22 Dec 2007 @ 4:00am
Back stabber ? Libel ?Is calling someone a backstabber libe if you feel you were kinda backstabbed by this person in the past?


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March 24, 2014
AMES, Iowa (seminoles.com) – The No. 10 seeded Florida State women's basketball team bowed out of its ninth NCAA Tournament in the last 10 seasons after falling to No. 2 seed Stanford, 63-44, on Monday evening in the NCAA Second Round at the Hilton Coliseum.
Making their 11th straight appearance in the second round of the Big Dance, the Seminoles (21-12) fell behind on a 26-2 run by the No. 6-ranked Cardinal that ended the first half and were never able to catch up. After Florida State jumped out to a 14-6 lead by forcing turnovers and converting them into points, Stanford began to work the ball around and get good offensive possessions to ignite its big run that changed the outcome of the game.
Senior Natasha Howard ended her career with nine points and seven rebounds against the Cardinal (31-3). Fellow senior point guard Cheetah Delgado added six points, three assists and three boards as well as three steals. Redshirt sophomore guard Morgan Jones chipped in with eight points.
Stanford was led by senior forward Chiney Ogwumike, who scored a game-high 21 points and added nine rebounds. Bonnie Samuelson hit timely treys to add 11 points, while Lili Thompson scored 14. The Cardinal shot 48.9 percent for the game, but was out-rebounded by FSU, 35-32.
"I give credit to Stanford, they played a great game and we just weren't able to make shots," FSU head coach Sue Semrau said. "But I'm proud of what this team was able to accomplish this season, and we were led by two great seniors in Natasha Howard and Cheetah Delgado. Those two were special for us throughout their careers. I'm proud of our entire team for how hard they worked and the character they showed."
Despite being down late, the `Noles would not go down quietly, using their trapping defense to help cut their deficit to 55-39 with 3:59 left in the game. Brittany Brown managed to weave through Stanford's transition defense for a nice layup on the left side, and then found a cutting Ivey Slaughter on the next possession to keep FSU in the ballgame.
A three-point play by Howard in the lane gave Florida State some momentum as it trailed 41-26 with 13 minutes remaining in the game. However, the Cardinal responded with an immediate 3-pointer by Bonnie Samuelson and a fastbreak layup by Lili Thompson to extend the Stanford lead back to 46-26 with just under 12 minutes left.
Florida State fell victim to a 26-2 run and posted its lowest point total of the first half, trailing Stanford 32-16. The `Noles endured a 9:48 field goal drought until Delgado hit a mid-range jumper with 2:43 left to leave FSU trailing 22-16. Ogwumike posted 12 points on 5-of-6 shooting at the half. The Cardinal was able to get its offense going as the half wore on, shooting 12-of-22 for 54.5 percent.
The `Noles were generating points off turnovers early, as Brown recorded two early steals three minutes into the game to set the new freshman record at FSU with 78. Emiah Bingley garnered five early points for FSU, including a triple from the right wing as the `Noles took an early 11-4 advantage through the first media timeout.
Both teams went through a cold shooting spell as FSU took a 14-10 lead with 9:32 left in the first half. Jones came in and gave the `Noles a spark with a straightaway 3-pointer, but a couple inside buckets by Ogwumike helped the Cardinal trim its early deficit.
Florida State attained its eighth 20-win season under Semrau, capping off another fine season as she continues to lead the `Noles as a national contender. FSU started the season with seven scholarship players and was forced to play with a limited rotation through a portion of the season, making its 2013-14 year even more impressive.
Monday's game brings to a close two accomplished careers by seniors Natasha Howard and Cheetah Delgado. Howard leaves Florida State as the school's all-time leader in career rebounds, double-doubles and finished second in points scored. Delgado set the school record for assists in a season at FSU, and also established a single-game school record with 15 dimes.
The `Noles are expected to bring back several players from their active roster and also add a 2013 signing class that features highly-ranked incoming student-athletes that add to the bright future for FSU women's basketball.
For more information on Florida State women's basketball throughout the offseason, follow the Seminoles on Twitter at @FSU_WBasketball and like their official Facebook page (Facebook.com/FSUWomensBasketball).


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Eight months ago I remember telling God how difficult I found writing about love without feeling it as deeply as it felt like I could. And while wishing for love I had never known what I was asking for was something so magical, something so much into the veins of this world and yet out of it.
When I met him I was in a state of severe depression. Undiagnosed at that time, I didn't know what was happening with me. The emotional pain, the lethargy, the disappearing interest from life all felt like a phase, a part of my destiny, a recently discovered part of my soul. Hence, when I was actually getting into this thing which they call a relationship, I was very preoccupied with many thoughts. I was getting panic attacks, I was moody, heartbroken, unhealed and misunderstood.
With so many things to worry at my side and hundreds of miles away, a several other on his, it did not seem like a priority or a responsibility. It was a relief to know that there was someone who cared more than many others, I wasn't even afraid of a heartbreak, I was being brave. But eventually as time passed I found myself wondering if he was fine. Each time I spoke to him I found myself getting closer. I wanted to know more, I wanted to understand, I wanted to spend hours talking about the most random things on earth. I loved how I could forget the misery that depression and anxiety brought to me and talk to him and let him occupy my thoughts. It wasn't easy for him I'm sure to be with someone so battered. Someone so messed and confused. I don't know how survived, how we survived.
Slowly, it no longer was about just another friend whom you talk to. It became more than that. It became my strength when I was being weak, it became my anchor when I was random and chaotic, it became reason when I was being irrational but above everything it became a reason to give living a shot. Isn't it crazy how we out of nowhere find a human heart so beautiful that you just want to nurture it and keep it safe and happy?
I started feeling insecure. I didn't want to give my heart in someone else's hand. I didn't want to expect in spite of how many things I felt deep inside me. But when I started realising that he had insecurities too.. That he felt things in a similar if not the same way, I got the courage to put myself out there. I knew it was going to hurt, I knew it was going to be difficult but I had found someone I wanted to love. In the past I have regretted not loving people enough before I lost them, if something is worth the pain, I thought, it had to be this.
And today, after so much time has passed I have realized the beauty of this fucked up thing called love. And here's what i think about it. Love is the ultimate truth of living and it's magical because it's astonishingly real, it moves you, it makes you accept the human nature and it teaches you that life must be lived in the moment. It is unpredictable, it is delicate yet strong but above all worth dying for. It helps you evolve into a better version of yourself. It makes you kinder and more empathetic. It makes life worth living.
I don't know what tomorrow beholds
If you remember me then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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As many of you know, next Monday, August 21, we will experience a near total solar eclipse from approximately 1:00-4:00 pm. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon completely covers the sun. While we are not located in the area for a total eclipse, we will still be able to view 93% of totality.
This will be an extraordinary educational opportunity for our students as the last solar eclipse occurred in the USA in 1918. I know many of our schools have already planned special activities or lessons for this day to accompany the event. While the event is extremely exciting for our students, we must also acknowledge the importance of proper eye safety. Our district has purchased NASA-approved, ISO-certified viewing glasses for all students and staff members to help us navigate this day safely. Like any other day, looking directly into the sun without proper protection can damage eye tissue; this becomes much more of a risk when looking at the sky to see an eclipse. Normally, our bodies instinctively protect us from harm via reflexive squinting/blinking and constriction of our pupils in response to the brightness of the sun. During an eclipse, however, the shadow created makes it dark enough to fool our body's natural defense mechanisms, and partial but permanent eye damage may occur without proper eyewear for viewing the eclipse. The risk of eye damage is present for the entire eclipse-1:00-3:50 pm.
The eclipse must only be viewed through ISO-certified glasses. Please help us reinforce this with your students. We encourage teachers to provide the glasses (that the district has purchased) and lead a brief supervised viewing of the eclipse. The glasses must be put on before looking towards the sun. Each child who wishes to participate must have a signed permission slip turned in (see attached.) More information about the solar eclipse can be found at www.nasa.gov/eclipse.
Since the eclipse will not be over until 3:50 PM, we will delay dismissal to ensure students are not subject to possible eye damage. All students will be dismissed at 3:50 PM. As usual, we will allow for parents to sign out students earlier in the school office if absolutely needed. We will also be requiring a signed permission form for students to be able to participate in this event.
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Matt Badiali has studied natural resources for more than 20 years. He's recognized as a specialist in the agricultural, energy, as well as mining industries. Badiali has worked on explored abandoned mines, owned oil wells, and drill rigs all to make productive investments in the natural resources. His research has made him explore many places all over the world, including the Mexican desert, Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong, and Iraq.
He believes that you will never know what is happening in other parts of the world until you go and witness and experience it for yourself, just like walking through the cotton field. Badiali says that the best way someone can ensure their investment is correctly made and safe is seeing for themselves.
With that in mind, he's constantly meeting with precious metals experts, resource investors, as well as CEOs of mining companies, to stay updated on the latest trends, discoveries, and technologies. For instance, he met with and also shared the stage with the famous oilman Boone Pickens and got a chance to speak with the Pan American Silver chairman, Ross Beaty. He feels proud to call the Sprott U.S. Holdings CEO, Rick Rule, his personal friend, plus a mentor.
Badiali taught geology at the University of North Carolina and Duke University. He presented his findings from his research at major geologic conferences and to companies such as Exxon Mobil and Anadarko. He has been featured on a financial program presenting his research. Although he has enjoyed these opportunities throughout his career, Badiali always feels good tracking down rare and valuable investment opportunities for his readers. That is why he spent the last eleven years writing as well as researching the greatest investments in the field of natural resources for Banyan Hill Publishing.
Recently, Badiali told readers that he believes now is the best time to buy gold because the world is in the bull market initial stages that might see the price of Gold increase by 500 percent or more in the coming days. That has already occurred in the past, and Badiali says that there are signs of history to repeat itself. The price of gold continues rising. It bottomed in Dec. 2015 about 1,050 dollars per ounce. Since that time, it has been rising and falling, with the different lows higher compared to the previous ones.
Even though, the sector is hard for many traditional financial analysts, Badiali's unique experiences as a financial analyst and geologist have allowed him to navigate it with ease.


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September 22, 2010 at 8:00 am
Congratulations to Roberta Hutcheon who was the randomly selected winner of the "Plus Up" Your Gym Bag giveaway! Thanks to everyone who entered. I'm sorry to hear that so many of you do not have actual gym bags. I have at least 3 stuffed in my closet that I received as part of various promotions from different companies. I feel like I should launch some sort of gym bag relocation program.
September 15, 2010 at 8:00 am
Disclosure: The cost of the "Plus Up" Your Gym Bag makeover for me and the upcoming winner was covered by Kellogg's FiberPlus.
As I teased yesterday, I recently got the opportunity to "Plus Up" my gym bag from Kellogg's FiberPlus. They gave me a coupon for a free box of FiberPlus bars and $75 in gift certificates to buy whatever else I wanted.
After putting off this makeover to the very last day and then reading Lanie's comment that the bag "needs glitter," I was momentarily tempted to run to Michael's and spend $75 on a Bedazzler and glitter glue. Or I could have followed Lady Gaga's lead and made myself a meat gym bag or meat sweat suit—made from lean cuts, of course.
Instead, I went to Target. I always end up buying stuff at Target that I didn't know I needed. After cruising the aisles, this is what I threw in my cart:
Yoga mat sling
I've always wanted a yoga mat sling. I like how cool the yoga people look with their mats slung over their shoulders […]
September 14, 2010 at 7:49 am
I have never been on a makeover show, and I probably never will be, but my gym bag recently leaped at the opportunity to be made over (or would have if it weren't an inanimate object). Here is the "before" photo:
Going clockwise from the left, we've got a towel which should make you happy the Internet doesn't yet have smell-o-vision. There's also a pink water bottle, deodorant, a lock, my pace/distance tracker, and a change of clothes which includes sports socks, a sports bra, and running pants all made from sweat-wicking materials. These are the basic things I use before, during and after my workouts.
That's the gym bag as it is now, but tomorrow you will see it after the "Plus Up Your Gym Bag" makeover it got from Kellogg's FiberPlus bars. Or you will as soon as I go and buy stuff for the makeover. Look at me, daring to put the "dead" in deadline! (If you have any ideas for what I should buy, do comment.) You'll also have a chance to win […]
July 22, 2010 at 11:21 am
Disclosure: I received a free Omron GOsmart Pace/Distance tracker for this review, as well as a free t-shirt, water bottle and ear buds.
I figured if I walked up the big $&%^-ing hill to the bakery shop, I deserved to have a cupcake at the top, so I set off on my walk. Then I turned around on my front porch, went back inside and grabbed the Omron GOsmart Pace/Distance Tracker I was sent to review because this seemed like the perfect time to see if it could actually measure my pace, distance, steps, calories burned, and all that fancy stuff it claimed to do.
I've mentioned in the past that I'm not really a pedometer person, but I was interested in this device because it calculates your pace, which I *am* interested in. Over the past year I haven't been running, but I'd like to get back into a run/walk routine now that I've moved to a walkable neighborhood. (Yes, I know I made up the word "walkable." I don't care if Merriam-Webster gets pissed at […]
May 11, 2010 at 10:31 am
So, wow, the Bertolli Giveaway got 319 entries, which is the most comments I've received on a blog entry EVER. That includes the posts I wrote about quitting my job and my two book announcements. I guess the moral of this story is that the next time I have any big news to share, I should also give away an ice cream maker.
Seriously though, I must have spent an hour or two (grand total) approving all the first-time commenters that entered. I am grateful for all my readers and I thank you for visiting the site, but that didn't stop me from crawling out of bed at 12:30am last night to turn off comments on the post after the entry deadline because I didn't want to find 30 more emails in my inbox the next morning. Congratulations to Amy from Michigan who was the randomly drawn winner this morning! She has already accepted her prize. And thanks to Bertolli too!
In other news, look at the mutant, monster, strawberries I got at the grocery store yesterday. […]


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Susanta Ghosh, who is now on bail and awaiting trial, told The Telegraph today in response to a question: "I was brought to the CID headquarters (Bhabani Bhavan in Alipore) from Midnapore around midnight on August 11. A team of officers entered my cell within half an hour. They interrogated me till around 1.30am. Just as I was falling asleep around 3.30 am, another batch of officers came and they continued questioning me for two hours."
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This is regarding the recent killings by unidentified gunmen in Kashmir. It is all the handiwork of the government and its agencies. Kashmiris are not stupid and they know how task force men are recruited by the government to scare the people. It is the worst government since the times of governor Jagmohan, whose gave a freehand to the killers. How long will Kashmiris be killed, tortured and humiliated on daily basis? People have come to know how the central BJP government is taking its revenge on the people of Kashmir. Since BJP has come to power there has only been killings of Muslims in several states including this state. We saw how their leaders supported those who protested the arrest of rapists of poor Kathua victim, because she was a Muslim girl. Now journalists and media person are arrested and jailed. People of the state should join hands with the parties who can throw these radicals out of the power and then treat them in the same manner they have treated minorities.
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The death of St George's College's Manning Cup captain, Dominic James, on Tuesday was heartbreaking.
In a time when Jamaica is losing so many young talents to crime and migration, to see this young man, who is from all reports a good student, collapsing and dying doing something good, something he loved, was horrendous.
Arising from the youngster's death were a number of issues surrounding the safety of the nation's student athletes. Chief among them was the unrealistic call for there to be an ambulance at every schoolboy match.
It is unrealistic because there are some days when there are as many as 55 matches are being played simultaneously, and Jamaica doesn't have 55 ambulances to spare.
But that's not what I want to talk about today. When news of the youngster's death reached the ears of his teammates and opponents from Excelsior High School, there was an overwhelming outpouring of emotion. I saw players hug other players passionately. I saw players hold their rivals close while rubbing a comforting hand over their heads. I saw players hug coaches and coaches hugging back.
That was very heartwarming for me because it shows that we have the ability to be compassionate. It's only a pity we seem incapable of being this compassionate outside of when there are tragedies like this.
In normal times, you would never see young men hug each other with such vigour because they have been socialised otherwise. We have taught our young men to be cold and uncaring. We have taught them that showing true emotion is a sign of weakness. We have taught them that showing love is only for women.
But, on Tuesday, all those teachings were proven to be without foundation because there they were crying openly, hugging in support and welcoming support. And see, today, there are not gay nor are they any less male than they were on Tuesday.
It took the death of Dominic James to demonstrate that you can be male, human and compassionate all at the same time. And when it happens. it can be a beautiful thing to behold.
However, until we can come to that realisation though and re-programme the way our minds currently work, our young men will continue to suppress their emotions and their true feelings, driving the frustration that leads to the violent outbursts we tend to sometime see among our young people, especially among our young men.
I understand the peer pressure that makes kids behave the way they do. I understand the pressure fathers, and in many instances, mothers put on their sons to be 'macho'. I get it. I see it around me everyday - grown men afraid to show emotions when the situation calls for it. This is the way they have been since childhood.
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You know that feeling? That feeling you get when you know you should be getting something done and yet you're either too scared or stressed out to do it? I have that right now about everything in my life. School, writing, cooking, cleaning, washing... All of it needs to get done. No, not right now, not tomorrow, but it needs to get done and I'm stressed out because it needs to get done. I just have this... overwhelmed feeling.
At school I'm doing alright so far... no bad grades, no but not amazing grades. The thing is that the thesis is looming over me and I don't want to go there... I don't want to do it, I don't want to get it done. In part it's because I don't want to graduate and go out in the real world and work and part of it it's because 'm scared of not doing it correctly. I don't know it's just very overwhelming. The rest of school is fine... just... school, I guess.
House work is just not getting done. I lack motivation and then it piles up. I am a very anal person when I am motivated and will clean this place to an inch of it's life but right now? I will admit I've gone to bed with dirty plates in my sink... The horror. Oh and I left the house without making my bed almost every day last week... blah.
Writing... I've never been more scared to write in my life. This always happens the moment I start writing to show other people. I get scared and I start thinking I am not good enough. Ever since I started with the realization I want to write I absolutely stopped. It's the fear I know is reeling it's ugly head and telling me I won't make it, ever. I'm not good enough and I know the moment I submit my work and it doesn't get published I will be devastated. The thing is that this is it for me... My way out, my salvation, my passion and I can be told 'you suck' and wow isn't that scary? It is very scary for me. Oh and I've been so stressed with school and work and having no money and no time that writing is just not happening either. I wish I could sit here and write but then I feel like every time I do it means I am taking time from my other responsibilities. I'm just not able to function lately...
Well, this would be a sad entry if I didn't add a solution to my problems, huh? And I do have the solution it's just a question of following it every single day...
I need to rebuild my schedule. Yes... And I need my agenda functional again!
I need to make time for writing and make time for school and work and life and fun. I need to make time to get my life back on track. No more of this overwhelmed feeling and time to get organized (again).
Lets hope this works... I plan to submit my first story for publishing come January. I will do this. Even if the answer is a no I will submit a story for publishing no later than January 3rd. Wish me luck.
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Senator Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr. (R-Merrick) was recently named a 2011 "Eco-Star" by the New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV).
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NYLCV named Senator Fuschillo an "Eco-Star" for "improving New York's environment and securing a clean-energy future" by sponsoring New York State's new complete streets law.
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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #4046, Saturday, October 16, 2010
The secret of beginning a life of deep awareness and sensitivity lies in our willingness to pay attention. Our growth as conscious, awake human beings is marked not so much by grand gestures and visible renunciations as by extending loving attention to the minutest particulars of our lives. Every relationship, every thought, every gesture is blessed with meaning through the wholehearted attention we bring to it. In the complexities of our minds and lives we easily forget the power of attention, yet without attention we live only on the surface of existence. It is just simple attention that allows us truly to listen to the song of a bird, to see deeply the glory of an autumn leaf, to touch the heart of another and be touched. We need to be fully present in order to love a single thing wholeheartedly. We need to be fully awake in this moment if we are to receive and respond to the learning inherent in it.
- Christina Feldman and Jack Kornfield, from Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart, posted to allspirit
Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results, there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change, there will be more clarity in your thinking and feeling, purity in your behaviour. You need not aim at these - you will witness the change all the same...
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
All that we experience is subjective, there is no sensation without interpretation. We create the world and ourselves; only when we stop do we see the truth.
- Deng Ming-Dao, posted to The_Now2
Following the Vajrayana teachings, we do not give up or reject anything; rather we make use of whatever is there. We look at our negative emotions and accept them for what they are. Then we relax in this state of acceptance. Using the emotion itself, it is transformed or transmuted into the positive, into its true face.
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This beautiful, classic Savitri Devi text is from Chapter 1 of Savitri Devi's, Souvenirs et réflexions d'une Aryenne translated by R.G. Fowler.
"If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one—"pure, dure, sûre," [pure, hard, certain]—in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.
Oh, you who exalt the fight without end, even without hope, attach yourself to what is eternal! That alone is; the remainder is only shadow and smoke. No individual, man or beast, no group of individuals, no people as such deserves your concern for them; each, on the other hand, deserves, as a reflection of the eternal, that you devote yourself to it to the limit of your capacities. And individual beings and natural groups reflect the eternal more or less. They reflect it insofar as they approach, on all levels, the archetype of their species, insofar as they represent it as living things. He who represents only himself—even one who makes and unmakes history and whose name resounds from afar—is only shadow and smoke.
You who exalt the image of the solitary rock delivered to all the assaults of the Ocean, lashed by the winds, battered by the waves, struck by lightning at the height of the tempest, unceasingly covered by the furious foam, but always standing, millennium after millennium—you who would like to identify with your brothers in faith, with this tangible symbol of the Strong, in order to feel, "That is us! That is me!," free yourself from two deadly superstitions: the search for "happiness" and concern for "humanity"—or take care never to fall into them, if the gods grant you the privilege of being exempt in your youth.
Happiness—which, for them, consists in unopposed natural development, to be neither hungry, nor thirsty, nor cold, nor too hot; to be able to freely live the life for which they are made, and sometimes, for some of them, also to be loved—would have to be granted to living things which do not have the Word, the father of thought. It is compensation that they are due. Use all your power to ensure it to them. Help the animal and the tree—and defend them against the selfish and mean-spirited man. Give an armful of grass to the horse or the weary donkey, a bucket of water to the buffalo dying of thirst, harnessed since daybreak to its heavy cart under the burning sky of the tropics; a friendly caress to the beast of burden, whatever it is, whose master treats it like a thing; nourish the dog or the abandoned cat that wanders in the uncaring city never having had a master; set a saucer of milk at the edge of the path and caress it with your hand if it allows you. Carry the green branch, torn off and thrown in the dust, into your house so that it is not trampled, and put it in a vase of water; it too is alive and is entitled to your solicitude. It has nothing more than silent life. That, at least, you can help it to enjoy. To live, that is its way—the way of all the beings of flesh, to which the Word was not given—of being in harmony with the eternal. And to live, for all these creatures, is happiness.
But those who have the Word, father of thought, and among them the Strong especially, have something better to do than pursue "happiness." Their supreme task consists in finding this harmony, this accord with the eternal, of which the Word seems initially to have deprived them; to hold their place in the universal dance of life with all the enrichment, all the knowledge, that the Word can bring to them or help them to acquire; to live, like those who do not speak, according to the holy laws that govern the existence of the races, but, this time, knowing it and wanting it. The pleasure or the displeasure, the happiness or the discontent of the individual does not count. Well-being—beyond the minimum that is necessary for each to fulfill his task—does not count. Only the task counts: the quest for the essential, the eternal, through life and through thought.
Attach yourself to the essential—to the eternal. And never worry about happiness—neither your own nor that of other men; but accomplish your task, and help others achieve theirs, provided that it does not thwart your own.
He who has the Word, father of thought, and who, far from putting it in service of the essential, wastes it in the search for personal satisfactions; he who has technology, fruit of thought, and who makes use of it especially to increase his well-being and that of other men, taking that for the main task, is unworthy of his privileges. He is not worthy of the beings of beauty and silence, the animal, the tree—he who himself follows their path. He who uses the powers that the Word and thought give him to inflict death and especially suffering on the beautiful beings that do not speak, in view of his own well-being or that of other men, he who uses the privileges of man against living nature sins against the universal Mother—against Life—and the Order that desires "noblesse oblige." He is not Strong; he is not an aristocrat in the deep sense of the word, but petty, an egoist and a coward, an object of disgust in the eyes of the natural élite.
All society, all "civilization" that proceeds from the same aspiration to human well-being above all, to well-being or human "happiness" at any price, is marked by the seal of the Powers of Decadence, enemies of the cosmic order of the play of forces without end. It is a civilization of the Dark Age. If you are obliged to suffer it, suffer it by unceasingly opposing it, denouncing it, combating it every minute of your life. Make it your glory to hasten its end—at least to cooperate with all your might with the natural action of the forces leading to its end. For it is accursed. It is organized ugliness and meanness.
Rid yourself not only of the superstition of "happiness," if it ever allured you, but also that of man. Protect yourself from the attitude, as vain as it is stupid, that consists in trying "to love all men" simply because they are men. And if this attitude was never yours, if, from childhood, you were impermeable to the propaganda of the devotees of "humanity," give thanks to the immortal Gods to whom you owe this innate wisdom. Nothing prohibits to you, certainly, from giving a hand to a man who needs help, even the most worthless. The Strong are generous. But in that case, they would be good to him as living flesh, not as a man. And if it is a question of choosing between him and a creature deprived of the Word but closer to the archetype of its species than he is to that of the ideal man, i.e., the superior man, give your preference and your solicitude to this creature: it is more an artwork of the eternal artist.
For "man," who is esteemed so highly, is not a reality but a construction of the mind starting from living elements of a disconcerting variety. No doubt all "species" are a construction of the mind: their names correspond to general ideas. But there is an enormous difference: the living realities that are the individuals of each species resemble each other. The species exists in each one of them. All the specimens that are attached to it reflect the eternal to the same degree, or thereabouts. The individuals of the same race, races that do not have the Word, are almost interchangeable. Their possibilities are fixed. One knows what the world of living things gains every time a kitten is born; one knows what it loses every time a cat, young or old, dies. But one does not know what it gains—or loses—every time a human baby is born. Because what is a man?
The most perfect Nordic specimen, whose heart is noble and whose judgment is firm and just, and whose features and carriage are those of the Greek statues of the finest age, is "a man." A Hottentot, a Pygmy, a Papuan, a Jew, a Levantine mixed with Jews, are "men." "Man" does not exist. There exist only quite diverse varieties of primates that by convention are called "human" because they share an upright stance and the Word, the latter to quite unequal degrees. And within the same race—moreover, within the same people—there are insurmountable divergences, psychic as well as physical, divergences that one would like to be able, even though morbidity explains them partly, to blame on interbreeding in the remote past, so much do such differences between individuals of the same blood appear to be against nature. It is already shocking to witness such frequent and violent ideological (or religious) oppositions between racial brothers. It is even more shocking to learn that, even though Saint Vincent de Paul was French, there are child-abusers who are French also, or to learn that the beautiful and virtuous Laure de Noves, countess of Sade, had, four centuries after her death, among her descendants the marquis of ill-repute who bears the same name.
Thus I repeat: one does not know, one cannot predict, what the world of living things gains or loses every time a young being called human is born or dies. And the less the race is pure, i.e., the fewer possibilities each baby has from the start, and roughly uniform—and also, the less the society tends to pour all individuals of the same group into the same mould, i.e., the less it tends always to encourage the development of the same possibilities, and that, roughly, in the same direction—the less it is possible to guess it. Because then, the more the exception—unclassifiable individuality—will be frequent within a group of the same name, this "name" corresponding no more to reality. It will be relatively possible, and also easy, to envisage in precise circumstances the reactions of a member of an American Indian, African, or Indian tribe—say, a Jivaro or a Masai or a Santal remaining in his natural environment and subjected to his tradition—and those of an Aryan (German or not) who is at the same time an orthodox Hitlerian. It will be more difficult to envisage those of an unspecified non-aligned Western European.
It is, however, true that—beyond a certain degree of mixing of races and cultures and conditioning on a vast scale, thanks to all the modern means of communication—people end up resembling each other strangely, psychically if not physically; they resemble each another in nullity. They think that everything testifies to their independence and originality, yet, in fact, their reactions in similar circumstances are as identical as those of two individuals of the same tribe of Blacks or Redskins, or . . . those of people of the same race, bound by the same faith. The extremes meet. The ethnic chaos of the masses of a metropolis at the forefront of technological progress tends to acquire a uniformity of grayness, a kind of manufactured homogeneity—desired by those who control the masses—a sinister caricature of the relative unity natural to people of the same blood that binds a scale of values and common practices; a uniformity which, far from revealing a "collective mind," at whatever level of awareness, reveals only the deterioration of a society that has definitively turned its back on the eternal—in other words: a damned society.
But one can still sometimes discover an exceptional individual within such a society, an individual who disdains the ethnic chaos that he sees around him and of which he is perhaps himself a product, and who, in order to escape, adheres to some doctrine of the extinction of the species, or even puts himself completely at the service of a true race, with all the renunciation that entails for him. The mechanism of heredity is so complex and the play of external influences so random that it is not possible to envisage who among the children of a declining society will become such individuals—no more than it is possible to envisage which new-born member of a tribe will aspire one day to something other than received values and ideas, or which child raised in a particular faith will hasten to leave it as soon as he can.
The exception is sometimes probable and always possible in a human group, even if it is homogeneous—which is not to say that, in practice, one can or even must always take this into account: that would complicate the relationships between groups ad infinitum. Moreover the exception, if he represents something more than himself, changes groups whenever he can. If there were an Aztec who was shocked by the sacrifices offered to the gods of his people, this man would be among the first to adopt the religion of the Spanish conquerors; and an Aryan of Europe who, in our time, feels only contempt for the "Christian and democratic" values of the West and dreams of a society in the image of ancient Sparta, adheres, if he has a taste for combat, to the Hitlerian faith."


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Oppo R11 Plus will finally hit the market on June 30 and prior to the availability of this device, its registrations already reached 500 thousand within 72 hours. Oppo just announced that the R11 Plus together with its R11 will be made available in China this month too.
Together with its available in the market, the Oppo R11 Plus will be offered at a price of CNY 3, 699 which the consumers already know. It can be recalled that the week after the Oppo R11 was launched, it went immediately on sale. But it will be a different case for the R11 Plus as that might change this week.
According to GSM Arena, the Oppo R11 will be made available in China on June 30 but its registrations already hit 500 thousand in just a matter of 72 hours. The R11 Plus is a bigger version of Oppo R11 as what the name suggests.
Speaking of its features and specifications, the Oppo R11 Plus comes with a 6-inch Full HD display and also features a Snapdragon 660 processor. This processor also includes 6GB of RAM and 64 GB of board storage compared to R11 which only has 4GB of RAM.
But the Oppo R11 Plus and the Oppo R11 have similarities as the two devices share the same 20MP+16MP dual camera. When it comes to the battery, it's obvious that the R11 Plus has a huge 4, 000mAh battery compared to R11 which has 2,900mAh battery. For the software, the two devices are also the same as they are being operated by Android 7.1.1 Nougat out-of-the-box.
As the Oppo R11 Plus will go on sale this June 30, the cost will start at CNY 3,699 or approximately $540. The said device also comes in a variety of colors which consist of black, rose gold, and gold. But reports were claiming that China will be the first market to get it.
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2014, SAN DIEGO LOCAL SPOTLIGHT FEATURE, 98 mins
Segments from eight of the leading indie horror filmmakers including Tony Masiello (San Diego's Own!), Tim Ritter, Brad Sykes, Donald Farmer, Todd Sheets, Chris Seaver, Ron Bonk, and Marcus Koch. Each director was challenged to go back to their roots, using analog equipment while tapping into their years of experience to tell a story that is fresh and edgy. Shot all over the USA, the result is a collection of tales that has something to horrify everyone.
HI-8 (Horror Independent 8) Official Trailer – Wild Eye from Wild Eye Releasing on Vimeo.
CastMike Bunell: Gary
Vanessa Nocera: Lauren Alaine Huntington: Emily Mike Malloy: Ted Andrea Adams: Tara Sheets Bobbi Beach: Phoebe
Tony Masiello is a filmmaker and visual effects artist from San Diego, CA. A devout horror fan sense childhood, Tony was inspired by the SOV (shot on video) horror films of the 80's and 90's to pursue his dream of working in the film industry. After attending college (studying digital video production), Tony worked on his first feature film "Hobgoblins 2". Since then he has worked on over 50 feature films spanning several genres. Currently, Tony is in post production on "SOV The True Independents", a documentary web series found at www.sovhorror.com. Tony directed "The Tape" for "Hi-8".
Tim Ritter is a diehard horror fanatic, heavy metal enthusiast, and filmmaker who has gotten notoriety for writing and directing such movies as the original "Truth or Dare" trilogy, "Killing Spree", "Creep" and "Deadly Dares- Truth or Dare 4". He has contributed to the independent movie scene in various capacities for three decades now. Ritter also penned The Hammer Will Fall and the semi-autobiographical Unreel. He is currently hard at work on delivering more outrageous books and movies to the unsuspecting public and works primarily with indie distributor SRS Cinema out of New York. Tim wrote and directed the segment "Switchblade Insane" for "Hi-8" and also contributed to the movie as an Executive Producer.
Marcus Koch is a special effects artist and director who got his start at a very young age. His parents raised him on horror films, watching movies at the drive-in and renting videos from his local mom and pop video store. Once he got his hands on his dad's video camera, he began making shorts and testing out FX gags. At age 18, his 4th feature movie, "Rot" got picked up for distribution, which slowly gained a small cult following. For the next 10 years, he focused on honing his artistic skills and handling FX on many different movies, before jumping into directing again with the gorefest "100 Tears". To this day, he continues to supervise FX for films, as well as directing. For "Hi-8", Marcus wrote, directed, and did the special effects for "A Very Bad Situation".
Ron Bonk wrote and directed "Gang Them Style" for "Hi-8". Ron has been making movies on video since 1992 and distributing them since 1993 under his companies Salt City Home Video, Sub Rosa Studios and SRS Cinema. His film "Clay" won several awards at the Bare Bones Film Festival including Best Filmmaker, and his most recent movie is "She Kills", an old to 1970's Grindhouse flicks, currently in post-production.
Chris Seaver has been making micro-budget films for twenty-two years, since founding Low Budget Pictures in 1991, and has made an astounding 50 features and over one hundred shorts. Many of his films are in worldwide circulation in stores and online, including Netflix. His work has been profiled in Fangoria, Rue Morgue, and Horrorhound and he has also appeared on the national television show "Movie Up" on the Reels Channel. In 2011, he launched Warlock Home Video, a label devoted to bringing back the glory days of 80's shot-on-VHS horror. For "Hi-8", Chris contributed the segment "Genre Bending".
Todd Sheets grew up in Drive In Theaters and Grindhouses in the Midwest, inspired by Famous Monsters of Filmland and Fangoria. Todd began making movies with his friends and his Father's Super 8 camera at the age of 9. His first break came when B-Movie icon David DeCoteau signed Todd to a 6 picture deal for Cinema Home Video. Todd disowns many of those early movies, yet fans of underground cinema have embraced them. Since that time, he has made 13 films. His newest feature is "House of Forbidden Secrets," which won 6 awards at the PollyGrind Film Fest and is currently enjoying a theatrical tour of the US. For "The Request", his contribution to "Hi-8", Todd created a short that was in the same style as the Marvel Horror and EC Comics he grew up reading, inspired by the same source material as films like Creepshow. For Todd being a part of Hi-8 was an incredible honor and a dream come true to work with many people whom he admires.
Donald Farmer is best known as the writer/director of over two dozen horror and action films including "Cannibal Hookers", "Red Lips" and "Chainsaw Cheerleaders". As a writer, he has contributed to Fangoria and created the 80's horror fanzine The Splatter Times, now revived in an online edition. Farmer also has a side career as an actor, starting as a zombie in George Romero's "Day of the Dead", co-starring with Camille Keaton in "Savage Vengeance", and most recently playing "The Producer" on the VH1 reality series "Megan Wants a Millionaire." Donald wrote and directed the segment "Thicker than Water" for "Hi-8".
Brad Sykes received his first Hi-8 camera at age fifteen, and hasn't stopped shooting since. Since his first feature "Scream Queen" in 1998, Brad has written and directed over 20 movies including the "Camp Blood" trilogy, "Death Factory", "Goth", and "Plaguers", which played at festivals worldwide and won several awards. His films have been distributed worldwide and received attention in many publications including Entertainment Weekly, Fangoria, The Hollywood Reporter, The Dark Side, LA Weekly, and several books. Brad served as Executive Producer on "Hi-8" as well as writing and directing "The Scout" and the wraparound story "No Budget Film Presents…"
Josephina Sykes fell in love with film from a young age, spending her childhood on soundstages and screening rooms before attending film school in Bucharest and Paris. She has been working in film production both in the US and abroad since 1997. In 2004, she started LA-based Nightfall Pictures with her husband/director Brad Sykes. She has since produced several feature films, including "Within the Woods", "Dead Letters", "Mutation" and the award-winning "Plaguers". She Executive Produced "Hi-8" and Produced the segments "The Scout" and "No Budget Film Presents…"
Chris Lorusso has been a film junkie since birth. Growing up with the local video rental store within walking distance helped feed his voracious appetite for film. All this cinema consumption lead to his love of editing and soon enough was cutting his first feature film "Kalamity". He has also worked in television and on several documentaries including "Cinemability". As a fan of many of the contributing filmmakers, Chris was fully prepared to take on the duties of supervising editor of "Hi-8".


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Eiza Gonzalez Steps Out After Kissing Liam Hemsworth
Eiza Gonzalez looks cute in an orange dress while stepping out for lunch at Fig & Olive on Wednesday afternoon (September 18) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 23-year-old Mexican actress was spotted kissing Liam Hemsworth the day before after spending the last few days together following their Las Vegas hookup.
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Boeing projects the world will face an unprecedented demand for pilots and aviation maintenance technicians over the next 20 years as global economies expand and airlines take delivery of tens of thousands of new commercial airplanes.
At the Farnborough International Airshow, Boeing released the 2012 Pilot and Technician Outlook, which indicates that by 2031 the world will require 460,000 new commercial airline pilots and 601,000 new airline maintenance technicians.
Projected demand by region:
- North America – 69,000 pilots and 92,500 technicians
- Asia Pacific – 185,600 pilots and 243,500 technicians
- Europe – 100,900 pilots and 129,700 technicians
- Middle East – 36,100 pilots and 53,700 technicians
- Latin America – 42,000 pilots and 47,300 technicians
- Africa – 14,500 pilots and 16,200 technicians
- Russia and CIS – 11,900 pilots and 18,100 technicians
For more information: Boeing.com
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British supermodel Naomi Campbell is recovering from emergency abdominal surgery to remove a cyst in Sao Paulo Brazil. The notoriously hot tempered model flew all the way from London to have the surgery, which reportedly took four hours.
On Tuesday, Campbell was said to be "resting comfortably" at Hospital Sirio-Libanes, one of Sao Paulo's best hospitals.
Doctors confirmed the 37-year old had undergone laparoscopic surgery for a cyst but would not elaborate further on her condition.
"It was an emergency operation, but everything went well," Campbell's surgeon said on Tuesday. "There were no incidents or problems that worried me during the operation and she is completely cured."
Campbell often visits Brazil, where she has been known to show up at Carnival festivities and is frequently photographed at parties with Brazilian celebrities.


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With respect, you've not exactly thought that through.The UN will not cease to exist simply because the USA withdraws. What it will have, however, is much greater freedom of action, since one of the only 7 nations who can unilaterally block UN action will no longer have a say in what happens.If a beast exists, it's better to be the one holding the leash, right?
The US not joining The League of Nations ultimately doomed them. The UN would suffer the same fate if we pulled out.
I agree.
Lets keep the UN. Tear down this building Mr. Trump. They can Telecommute from their own countries and we can give them each a PO Box at the UPS store.
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Let me cut it first short, our MLODs for ARMA 1 and sample ARMA 2 were released under specific license only and only for usage with our titles, period. There never was any release allowing usage for games not from our studio.
Nobody is allowed use them outside the license approved scope (our titles) for profit nor non-profit (it doesn't matter). Nobody is allowed use them w/o our prior written approval, if You do so then You in volation of Intelectual Property of Bohemia Interactive.
Same applies for using various DX rippers, model rippers (easy to spot due to bugs caused by both types of tools) from our newer games, whose models weren't released even to our community (except some samples).
You need to realize that fair use means that You first COME and ASK for PERMISSION to USE work of someone else. In modding are same rules as for normal development, if the original authors not granted some universal unlimited open license You must obtain permission first. Even IF Your request is declined You must accept it and make own models or find someone who make some for You (not just ask another guy to give you yet another ripped models).
Modding communities shall accept fair approach and take care of the violators of IP because in the end it harms the modding scene (less and less companies will allow it). Also ripped content is then sold to various "sales" sites and as paid addons for games which allow such stuff. In the end authors of original modding content find themself ripped aswel.
e.g. like here Moddb.com vs Moddb.com
Also if modding communities fail to self-policy on IP violations then You should no be surprised when affected game studios or IP owners came in and take rightful legal actions to protect theirs own work.
So, IFs mod is using anything from our game(s) - not just model, could be sound, texture, voice etc. then it's breaking IP laws and main rule of this site which is quite clear:
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Sprocket wrote:Pondero wrote:https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/uk-university-granted-first-license-to-make-three-parent-embryos
This means destroying life to create new life. This should not be allowed
The principle of double effect does not mean you can do evil in order to obtain good. The principle of double effect means something completely different.
For example, A doctor operates on a patient with appendicitis. It is not expected that the patient will die, this is an unintended effect of the operation to save a persons life. The doctor is not morally responsible for killing the patient.
That's not double effect either. The classic example of double effect is giving powerful painkillers to a terminally ill patient, knowing that they will shorten the patient's life still further. The intention is to relieve pain; the earlier death is an unintended but unavoidable side-effect.
What you wrote Sprocket does not contradict what I wrote.