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Evil Horde, The
The Evil Horde are the primary antagonists of the She-Ra television series. However, most of the male characters appear in the He-Man toy line, including the Marvel comics, UK comics and mini-comics from 1986 onwards.
Origin #1 (Vintage Mini-Comics):
Unlike the cartoon's portrayal of a galactic empire in which Hordak is subordinate to the mysterious Horde Prime, the Evil Horde was initially presented as a seemingly small group of formidable creatures of whom Hordak was clearly implied to be the supreme leader. Far less explicitly technological, the initial toys and minicomics depicting the Horde indicated a more mystical background, similar to Skeletor and his Evil Warriors. Indeed, the later cartoon's version of Hordak as Skeletor's former mentor in spite of an apparently inferior command of magic (generally delegating mystical tasks to Shadow Weaver, although it should be said that Hordak's own "technological" abilities were quite likely magical in origin) makes much more sense in this original minicomic's equivalent of the same mentorship. Here, Hordak is shown to be a sorcerer of equal or greater power than Skeletor, who is just as interested in plundering the mystical treasures of Castle Greyskull as his former pupil.
As originally depicted (and manufactured as a playset), the Horde's base of operations the Fright Zone was an ancient cave-like fort rather than a sprawling tecnolopolis. Technological elements only began to appear in later waves of Horde toys, and their accompanying minicomics depicted further discontinuities with the animated series, such as showing the legions of Horde Trooper robots as a new invention (manufactured on Eternia, no less, unlike the cartoon versions which invaded Eternia two decades ago), as well as the introduction of later cybernetic characters such as Dragstor, Mosquitor and Mantisaur. Nevertheless, Hordak's primary interest remained in magic and his place as supreme leader of the Horde remained unaltered even in the last minicomics which involved the return of the ancient structure known as The Three Towers of Eternia, something he indicated having helped to build, suggesting either time travel or near immortality on Hordak's part.
Origin #2 (Filmation Cartoons):
In the cartoons, the Evil Horde is a vast, interstellar empire bent on the domination of various worlds across the universe. The center of the empire is called Hordeworld. The Horde was summoned to Eternia by Morgoth, a giant wizard once imprisoned by the Ancients. The Horde sent a scout ship to Eternia and its crew aided Morgoth in taking control of a few towns and villages. One of these was the home of Teela'Na. To defeat the Horde, Teela'Na was told by an old man about Castle Grayskull. Teela'Na sought Castle Grayskull and became the new Sorceress of the castle in order to defeat Morgoth and the Horde. She managed to do so, but was trapped in her position for the rest of her life (It should be noted that at this point, the members of the Horde are unnamed, but their distinctive bat insignia clearly designates them as such).
The Horde scout ship apparently managed to send a message to the Evil Horde's ultimate leader, Horde Prime, because soon, the vile Hordak and his Horde Troopers arrived in full force. While Hordak waged his war against Eternia and the city of Eternos, he took Skeletor under his wing, teaching him what he knew of dark magic. In time, the Royal Soldiers of Eternos and the magic of Castle Grayskull defeated Hordak. However, learning that King Randor and Queen Marlena's twin children both have a special destiny, Hordak and Skeletor kidnapped them. A young Man-At-Arms and Queen Marlena were able to halt the kidnapping of Prince Adam, but Princess Adora was captured. Skeletor, however, was captured by the guards. He then revealed the secret location of the Horde's lair: Snake Mountain.
Man-At-Arms and the Sorceress went to Snake Mountain, but were too late. Hordak had escaped with Princess Adora. Both were then seen on the planet of Etheria. Hordak and his minions captured many kingdoms, the last of which to fall was the kingdom of Bright Moon.The She-Ra series is largely dedicated to the struggle of the Etherian rebels against the occupying force of the Horde. In each episode, Hordak has a new dastardly scheme to either destroy The Great Rebellion or make life worse for Etherians. Each scheme meets its demise at She-Ra's hand. The comics largely follow this overall story as well, though where the cartoon Hordak has abandoned plans to invade Eternia, save for a few occasions, in the comics he still tries. Sometimes he works with, and sometimes against, Skeletor.
The Horde has bases planet-wide though its main headquarters is Doom Tower located at the center of the Fright Zone. The Horde possesses vast resources and has a great deal of highly sophisticated technology.
Origin #3 (200X Continuity):
The Horde portrayed in the MYP He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon has much more mysterious characters. The Horde had been a menace on Eternia long before the modern day. Hordak had been the nemesis of King Grayskull. He was also an enemy of King Hiss and defeated his army of Snake Men before putting his sight back on destroying King Grayskull. Upon its final defeat the Horde was sentenced to exile in the timeless dimension of Despondos. While imprisoned, Hordak became more demonic and his power and advice could be channeled through sorcery. By invoking Hordak, Skeletor is able to cast a spell to replace his head with the familiar floating skull. When Skeletor betrays Hordak years later by refusing to release him, Evil-Lyn and Count Marzo step up to the task. However, just as Hordak is about to emerge from Despondos, He-Man stops the spell.
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After losing two-of-three games Friday and Saturday to Belmont at Shelby Park the Bisons are back on the road again, this time making the short drive to Vanderbilt's Hawkins Field for a 6 p.m. game Tuesday.
Vanderbilt leads the overall series 44-10, including wins in the last four games in the series.
"We just always look forward to playing those Southeastern Conference teams that make us better in the long run," Bisons coach Jeff Forehand said. "Playing Vandy is a tough game to back with. But it should be a good atmosphere."
The Bisons, 6-13, will send junior right-hander Chad Fromm (1-2, 4.24 earned run average) to the mound. This will be the first start of the season for Fromm. He has made eight appearances in relief and has two saves.
"Chad is going to start because he hasn't gotten the innings that we need him to get," Forehand said. "Hopefully, he will give us a boost starting the game. And then we will fill in with the bullpen with some guys that need to get some work.
"Right now Chad is not throwing strikes consistently. Against Belmont he had three walks in one inning. He has his velocity, but he is not competing in the strike zone. He is more than capable of doing it. Hopefully, he will get himself out of that against Vanderbilt."
Vanderbilt, 16-4 overall, will counter with junior right-hander Chase Reid (2-1, 1.74 ERA).
The Bisons have scored double figures in runs in five of their last six games. The Bisons have also lost five of their last six games. Friday they beat Belmont 12-3. Saturday they lost game one 8-3 and 12-10.
Vanderbilt beat Alabama Sunday 5-4, their only win in the three-game SEC series.
"We had a great game on Friday against Belmont," Forehand said. "We came back and just didn't get it done. In the second game on Saturday we were off to a good start. If we can put up 10 runs like we did in the second game on Saturday we should be in good shape."
Forehand stresses that he hasn't been concerned about the offense for a couple of weeks. Pitching and defensive lapses are at the top of his list of concerns.
"I think we are scoring," Forehand said. "We just need to slow some guys down. And we made some mistakes that cost us in the second game.
"Defense has been solid, but we have had some mental breakdowns. When we were up 10-6 against Belmont we had a walk and an error that let them swing back to the top of the lineup. Belmont's top of the lineup is good and they were able to get four runs. That is the inning that changed the game."
Forehand complimented the work of pitchers Alex Ross, Matt Bowling and Mike Grace.
M.L. Williams has the longest hitting streak for the Bisons after a slow start to the season. He enters the Vanderbilt game with hits in his last 11 games.
"M.L. has his average back up to a respectable point," Forehand said. "We knew all long that the slow start couldn't last. He is too good a player.
"Sometimes his speed gets him hits that help his average go up. He is coming around and hitting the ball hard. He is getting on base and causing some problems for the defense."
T.J. Hoelzer is expected to return as the designated hitter against Vanderbilt. He has played three games and has six hits and seven runs batted in. One of his hits is a home run. He has produced multiple hits and multiple RBI in two of his games.
"T.J. is hot right now," Forehand said. "He will keep getting his shot to play as long as he is swing the bat like this."
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It's just the kind of place you'd want to be your neighborhood park – welcoming spaces for biking, sleeping or taking your humans out for a walk.
"It's gorgeous obviously. Everybody's super friendly," said one walker FOX40 stopped on a trail.
But, Davis police say a couple is now under arrest for trying to be too friendly and literally pervert the peace of Community Park.
Thirty-year-old Wenyi Xu of Folsom is accused of exposing herself to kids riding near the Covell Boulevard bike overpass on the park's north side Wednesday morning.
A quick-thinking park employee saw something going on and made a call that helped police make the arrest.
"Pretty surprised … I would never expect that here," said another walker.
"Not out here. Not exposed to children. No," said Michael Neff of Davis.
The man Xu was spotted with, 61-year-old Nicholas Bowen of Grizzly Flats, is now facing charges for capturing her alleged display on film or video.
"Yikes! I would hope that it wouldn't be true," said one woman.
Investigators in Davis think the pair may have taken their peep show on the road in the past – possibly to Sacramento and El Dorado counties. They're looking for anyone who may have seen too much of Xu and Bowen to come forward.
It's a little too much to take for the Raffuse family, who've only called Davis home for two days.
"Well that's pretty disturbing and very strange," said Sean Raffuse.
Folks in Davis are now taking comfort in the arrests and that their park can once again be used for the right purposes.
Xu and Bowen are now being held at the Monroe Detention Facility in Woodland.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off Northern California early on Monday at a relatively shallow depth of 4.3 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The quake, which was initially reported as magnitude 6.1, hit 40 miles west of Eureka, California, USGS said.
There was no danger of a tsunami, the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center said.
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Craig Levein on Tuesday night refused to walk away from his job as Scotland manager after watching his side crash to the bottom of their World Cup qualifying group after a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Belgium.
The Scots headed into their clash knowing they needed a victory in Brussels to have any real hope of salvaging an ailing campaign. A win would also have eased the pressure which has been mounting on the manager, following home draws against Serbia and Macedonia last month and Friday's loss in Wales.
Instead, goals from Christian Benteke and Vincent Kompany handed the Belgians a 2-0 win to leave Scotland's hopes of reaching Brazil in 2014 in tatters. Asked if he would consider his position, Levein said afterwards: "Not at all. I'm very proud to be the Scotland national team manager and I want to continue to do so."
He added: "I've been in football for long enough to understand when the players are trying at their maximum and they're doing their best for each other and for the team - and they did that tonight and on Friday night.
"They didn't have any energy left at the end of the match and they did everything possible to get a result for Scotland tonight.
"I've seen again tonight a group of players who are determined and hungry and desperate to do well for Scotland.
"As long as that is the case, I'm quite happy to be working with these players."
Of course, the decision could be taken out of Levein's hands by his bosses at the Scottish Football Association.
He added: "All I can tell you is that I want to remain as the manager - that's what I want to do. Other than that, you will have to ask other people the questions you are asking me."
The result means Scotland are the only team in Group A without a win and Levein conceded that hopes of qualification were already all but over. He said: "It looks very difficult. We are sitting with two points out of 12."


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Imagine viewing London's eclectic skyline—the soaring glass Shard, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Tate Modern—as you cycle three stories above the street on an elevated pathway reminiscent of New York City's High Line. When architect and cycling enthusiast Sir Norman Foster released his bold plan for the SkyCycle just before the new year, it sent the blogosphere abuzz, even if it might not be realized till 2030.
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Similar futurist leanings pepper our list of cool new tourist attractions you can actually check out. From an office building in China that glints in the sunlight like a giant gold coin to a glass-bottomed platform that knee-quakingly arcs out over a 1,000-foot-high cliff, there is plenty to capture the imagination in 2014. Thrill seekers can strap on a pair of aqua rockets or strap into a wooden roller coaster with an almost 90-degree drop. More sedate travelers can check into a tropical archipelago turned eco-resort or kick back for a Rocky Mountain high.
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Museum lovers can especially rejoice: lots of projects we've been looking forward to will finally open their doors to the public this year. Blame the financial downturn, complicated architecture, or overoptimistic launch dates, but this particular scourge of tourism—the ever-shifting completion date—was a frequent theme among our picks.
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From Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Museum of Image and Sound in Rio to Paris's long-delayed Picasso Museum and Gehry's BioMuseo in Panama: all prove the old adage that the best things come to those who wait.
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So wait. Did Haseo suddenly develop massive tits and asscheeks?
Ivy crossover confirmed? She plays The World (whatever name they call the fictional game-within-a-game by G.U.) in her off-hours when she's not looking for Soul Edge?
So I guess that new whip sword will replace his usual giant sword like the guns replaced his dual blades. Surprised they didn't just go ahead and give him some ridiculous morphed up Scythe too. They're saving that for the next remake they'll do in another decade I guess.
Oh yeah, we got English screenshots yesterday of Vol. 4 content. http://gematsu.com/2017/08/hackg-u-last-recode-fourth-volume-screenshotsAs a reminder, the JP release date is Nov 1....so we are getting English screenshots before the JP release. This is freaking weird (in a good way). Some people are speculating we might be getting a simul-release. Even if we don't the US/EU release window is Fall 2017...so max of 1-2 months after the JP release. Are we sure that Bandai-Namco is handling this? It sounds way too well handled for me to believe that. XP
To be fair, most of the work is already done. It's only the new volume to localize and possible rerecordings to cover any changes to the OG VA crew.
Well stuff happened today. First we got scans from Famitsu that indicated that Haseo's new sword is called the Gate of Ouroboros and it has the ability to change to 8 different forms (based on the 8 phases?) each with an associated skill and different attack strings.Then we got a new trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoDX6yRn9GwHighlights from the trailer are that Volume 4's English name is Reconnection and the US release date is Nov. 3 (2 days after the JP release date). GET HYPED!


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Last month, I accompanied my father on a visit to his home village. In China, one would call the hometown on the paternal side of be one's own. However, in my thirty-(big) plus years of existence, I had never before been to "my" home village.
My father had not been back for 29 years either, due to various unfortunate reasons. We had to stop several times on the country road to ask for directions. One of the old ladies – their backs bent under the bamboo baskets they were carrying – who stopped to answer turned out to be a distant cousin of his. Half of the village shared our family name, my father had told me several times before.
Finally we reached the family compound, a cluster of brick houses expanding away from the dilapidated center courtyard. Relatives did not exclaim in joy or surprise; they just sauntered over, from their own houses or the field, handing out cigarettes with big smiles.
"You are back," they would say to my father. "You are getting old," with a chuckle they would add.
Our clan, directed by the widowed matriarch, originally moved from Hubei to Sichuan in the early 18th century. The seven sons (if I understood the family genealogy correctly) settled in the farming-friendly region of rivers, flat plains and rolling hills. Over the next three hundred years, the clan multiplied and the family spread farther and farther away. My father had enjoyed telling me and my sister such stories back "home," but I was not sure if we had been engaged listeners.
After dropping off our bags, father took me visiting the families of the direct line from my grandfather. My grandfather had three daughters and three sons, each of whom had between three to five children who grew up and moved to urban areas for migrant jobs. They sent money to build brick houses that stood empty, waiting for their eventual return.
It was strange to see the family compound peopled by only the old and the very young. But at least the smaller number helped me telling them apart. Other than the uncle we were staying with, I knew none of my relatives' names or their relation to me. They, on the other hand, sounded as if knowing me from way back. "You are back too," they would say. And they would ask, almost apologetically, "can you city folks get used to our shabby dirty places?"
No no no, I would quickly reply, I like my "home village." The field is green, the air is clean, and the food is healthy. If only they had wifi and coffee machines, I could imagine myself living here for a long period of time.
The home village looked much better than I had imagined. My had told me of the family suffering from the famine brought by the Great Leap Forward, of everyone working back-breakingly hard, etc. etc. But the village I saw was peaceful, the houses clean (relatively) and the old people leisurely. The government's policy had done them good, my relatives told me, despite the corruptions and stupid projects that often ended up nowhere. The sons and the daughters working in the cities sent back money too. Two families' adult children had migrated en mass to Aksu, an industrial city in Xinjiang.
They had settled down there, raising kids and moving into the new apartments they had bought.
It was an emotional trip for my father. He visited the graves of my grandparents – neither of whom I had ever met – burned paper money, lit firecrackers and silently cried as the noise and the smoke fanned upwards to the grey sky. Back at the old family courtyard where all the families used to share residence, he pointed out the different quarters that relatives close to him used to live. The main rooms where grandparents had lived had crumbled to empty shafts and mud patches hanging off the shafts. Nobody had bothered with the upkeep.
"In ten years, these room will run into the ground," my dad commented with an awkward smile. The crumbling of the places storing his childhood memories must have been weighing on him.
Standing there with him, I was not so sure of how I felt. I was fulfilling my filial pious duty by taking my father home. I was intrigued by the country way of life which I had only read about, once romanticized about, and later abandoned the romanticizing of in pursuit of high-techy urban way of life. Nothing around me tugged inside of me to make me feel…attached.
Yet everyone came up to me and told me that was my home. You should come back for Chinese New Year from now on, they said, since now you know your way home. Standing in front of dingy Buddhist temple of the village, I found most of the names on the donor's list shared my last name, many even with my generation middle name. This place seemed determined to prove its connection to me.
The next day a lunch banquet was held in honor of my uncle's 75th birthday. All relatives from my grandfather's line came, except for one family who had long quarrel with my uncle. Three cousins of my generation also came, having taken the long train ride home from Aksu to attend their dying father. Everyone asked if I, coming from the sophisticated city, could tolerate their country home-style cooking.
I said hell yeah. The food tasted much more…authentic. Perhaps it was the strong baiju talking.
After the banquet, relatives played mah-jong. My father sat outside and talked to relatives. He asked about everyone. Many had died. Most of the living had various health problems. Father shed tears again hearing about the deaths of those he was close to. I sat next to him looking at the yard where two new-born puppies fighting behind their mother for a chance to feed.
"We are simple hardworking people," father whispered to me. "Your uncle was also very bright in school, but he stayed home to support the family so I could go on to college. Your aunt and her husband supported me in a big way too, but I didn't even have the chance to say good-bye to her."
My mind drifted to the thought of my possibly passing by my blood relatives – God knows how many of them after 300 years of multiplication – in the streets of Chengdu, Beijing or Urumqi, and not knowing us being related. I might consider them just part of the story of urban migration or Han taking over Uighur jobs that one reads so much in the media, and forget that when examined closely, we shared certain subtle facial features dictated by heredity.
What hath fate wrought? I wondered.
At the request of father, my baiju-elated birthday uncle brought out the family genealogy record. Contrary to my expectation of a long scholarly scroll of beautiful calligraphy, it consisted of six simple pages of literary Chinese phrases copied down with a ball pen. The Wu clan, it says, descended from Taibo, the founding king of the Wu Kingdom at the end of the Shang Dynasty (around 1000 B.C.). As the old people worked through the writing, struggling with incomprehensible phrases, they highlighted certain individuals who made into the government bureaucracy and brought glory to the clan.
On the last page, almost at the end of the record, I found my name. Did I bring glory to the clan?
"Are you going to bring home a wife next year and starting to add the names of your children here?" My uncle asked, his smiling eyes receding into two straight slits.
Oh that. If it were only that simple…
"I'll make you a copy," he pointed at the genealogy record. "It's time you start your own."
On my way back to the airport, I hired the van owned by a distant relative. Around 30 years old and one of the few adult males still around, he taught at the village middle school and drove the van for additional income.
According to the genealogy, he should call me great uncle.
On the long drive to the airport, he asked why I still have no kids. I said – huh… You city folks are very sophisticated, he said, with all of your options. Here if people don't get married by mid-twenties, neighbors would find you strange. Living together before marriage was still a taboo, although on TV I saw people can easily do that in the big cities, he said.
"I would like to have as many kids as possible," he added, even though he clearly can't have a second, working for a school and all.
"So when I go, I won't have just one kid sending me off."
For a moment, the straight-forwardness of that logic floored me. It was spring and the land we sped pass was lush green. For a moment, I found the burden of tradition endearing, for it is simple and easy to follow. As someone who had lived in so many cities that the idea of home grew increasingly elusive, it was nice to know that in a particular place on this planet one would be welcomed by strangers simply because someone way past decided to keep a genealogy record of every descendent.
And for a moment, I was bewitched by the idea of starting my own genealogy tree, sometime in the future when I actually settle. Perhaps the best way to honor my heritage is not to send money home to the relatives I know little of, but to, after the examples of my ancestors, go off into the unknown world, work hard and start my own line of procreation, so someone in the future would look at a piece of paper and notice my name.
I must really be getting old, in a really Chinese way to boot.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
My Home Village
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Speaking of integrity
A good friend of mine, who's a high-level executive at a local Internet company, had an emergency toothache. His assistant arranged an emergency operation for him at one of the best dental hospitals in Beijing, via her father's old friend who knows one of the dental experts there.
They did not have to make any appointment and just walked into the office. The old friend of the assistant's father stuffed several hundred RMB bills into the hand of the dental expert. The expert grabbed a scalpel and immediately operated on my friend.
My friend wanted to pay his assistant back for the... guan xi... money after the operation. The assistant was incensed,
"No worries about that. He's an old friend of my father's and is of the highest integrity. He'd be incensed if we pay him back."
They did not have to make any appointment and just walked into the office. The old friend of the assistant's father stuffed several hundred RMB bills into the hand of the dental expert. The expert grabbed a scalpel and immediately operated on my friend.
My friend wanted to pay his assistant back for the... guan xi... money after the operation. The assistant was incensed,
"No worries about that. He's an old friend of my father's and is of the highest integrity. He'd be incensed if we pay him back."
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CHL Playoffs Game Night: 4/9
Results from Sarnia, Lethbridge, and Seattle.
Game 4: (1) Kitchener Rangers 6 @ (6) Sarnia Sting 2
Kitchener wins Best of 7 series 4-0
Steven Stamkos*, SAR:
Game: 0-0-0, -1, 4 PIM (cross-checking, goaltender interference)
Series: 4 GP, 2-0-2, -2, 10 PIM
Playoffs: 9 GP, 11-0-11, E, 20 PIM
Season: 61 GP, 58-47-105, +18, 88 PIM
The Rangers, who are now 8-0 in the playoffs, again denied Stamkos any kind of time or space with which to work and held the star forward scoreless for the third time in the series. That's not to say Stamkos didn't fight back, however. After the game was decided in the third period, Stamkos, while killing a 7 minute, highly-disputed Rangers power play that was awarded after a teammate came to Stamkos' aid when he was hit with a flying elbow and knocked to the ice, sent a message of his own by knocking Rangers goalie Josh Unice to the ice chasing a loose puck. He then got in a scrum, but showed with his physical play and unwillingness to back down that he's not purely a skill forward. In that realm, he drew comparisons to the Lightning's Vincent Lecavalier by the Sarnia play-by-play announcers.
Stamkos ended his junior career by receiving a standing ovation from the Sarnia crowd when he took the ice for his last shift with under 30 seconds left in the game. Stamkos repaid the crowd by picking up a loose puck in the neutral zone, darting between two defenders, cutting into the middle of the ice and while he was being knocked down – taking a stick to the head in the process – he got off a dangerous wrist shot as he was hitting the ice. Unice made a great save on the shot, but the effort drew more applause. Stamkos received a cut above the eye for the effort, however.
What's Next for Stamkos: The next time we see Stamkos he will likely be pulling a Lightning sweater over his head at the NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa in June. At this time it's speculated he'll spend next season in the NHL.
*Stamkos, though not Tampa Bay Lightning property, is the consensus No.1 pick in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. The Lightning holds the top pick.
Game 4: (3) Lethbridge Hurricanes 2 @ (5) Kootenay Ice 1 (2OT)
Lethbridge leads Best of 7 series 3-1
C Mitch Fadden, LET:
Game: 0-0-0, E, 0 PIM
Series: 4 GP, 2-1-3, +1, 9 PIM
Playoffs: 10 GP, 4-7-11, -1, 13 PIM (plus 10 min misconduct)
After outshooting Kootenay 15-5 in the first overtime, the Hurricanes scored on their second shot of the second to gain a 3-1 lead in the series. The Game 4 winner was scored by second-year WHLer Dan Iwanski (1990). The 'Canes played without likely 2008 first rounder Zach Boychuk, who was out with an "upper body injury," though some in the press are speculating it's a concussion.
Game 5 is Friday night in Lethbridge where the Hurricanes can close out the series and advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.
Game 4: (1) Tri-City Americans 3 @ (4) Seattle Thunderbirds 2 (OT)
Tri-City leads Best of 7 series 3-1
G Riku Helenius, SEA:
Game: Did not play
Playoffs: 9 GP, 4-4-1, 2.70 GAA, .911 sv%
The top-seeded Americans are just one win away from the Western Conference Finals after scoring on their first shot of overtime to defeat the Thunderbirds 3-2 Wednesday. The game winner was scored at the 45-second mark by former Traverse City Lightning Colton Yellow Horn, his 6th of the playoffs. Riku Helenius, after stopping 42 shots Tuesday night, watched as Jacob DeSerres stopped 37 of 40 shots and earned the game's Second Star in the loss.
Seattle again played without L.A. Kings' first rounder Thomas Hickey, who took a knee to the head in the second period of Game 1. The day after the hit the Seattle papers said Hickey was cleared to return in the third period of Game 1, but he hasn't seen the ice since.
Game 5 is Friday in Kennewick.
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The Ghost Issue | 2014
First issue designed for SURFER Magazine was the biggest issue of all, featuring the best rides of all. At the time this was designed, I was still working at Quiksilver and because of that was lucky enough to have designed the front and back cover of the book (Slow Dance ad on back cover). It was an excellent crash course in all things SURFER and a promising start to my time with the crew.


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Pushing modified behavior process that requires less arguments and appends scoutname to ros node name. and a compiling but not tested version of test_behaviors (scheduler and wh_robot)
Updated the licensing information in many files.
This is a broken commit because I decided to do this at a bad time. Sorry! The build will be working after next commit, I promise (and I won't push till then). This commit reflects the licensing in the files after I used my auto-add/remove script.
Modified the Behaviors to take a scoutname.
Scoutname now specifies which scout the behavior will affect. Scoutname must be passed to the constructors of each control module (some of which are now in need of modification), so that they can publish to the correct topic....
Updated the Behavior definition and extensions.
The Behavior.cpp/h class now works and can be extended by simply implementing its run() method. However, the subclass must also be extantiated and used in an external executable. An example of this can be seen in PriyaBehavior.cpp/h, and the executable, priya_behavior_process.cpp. In the future, we should move all behaviors into a behaviors/ folder, and autogenerate the executable to be compiled....
Got motor control working with scoutsim
Behaviors can now use the MotorControl class to change the speed of the motors in the simulator. The simulator correctly handles the command.At the moment, the set_motors command is limited to 'scout1'. We should look into prefixes to specify which scout (scout1, scout2, etc) each behavior should command....
Made a lot of changes to the general structure.
Applied object-orienting techniques to the code, cleaning it up considerably. Major design changes are as follows:


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Last week I was in the Bronx helping to teach a new course, the Battlefield Medical Responder. You must be wondering how I got myself into this.
About a year ago, Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya. Tim was a prize-winning photojournalist and filmmaker/videographer. His death was deeply felt by combat-zone reporters everywhere, especially by Sebastian Junger. Although Sebastian is most famous for the book the Perfect Storm, for over 2 decades, he has reported with clarity, insight and compassion from many hotspots around the world. Tim and Sebastian were close friends and collaborators as the directors of the movie Restrepo. This documentary chronicles a year-long push by an infantry platoon to establish control over a strategically important location in a heavily contested area of Afghanistan. It is 93 minutes of riveting cinema that is masterfully done. Forget the questions of why we are there and all the good or bad that we may or may not be doing. Restrepo is about young men trying to do their job, a thankless and very difficult one. It left me numb and heartbroken. These men represent the too-often overlooked elephant in the room for America. They are the emotionally damaged goods of the last decade's conflicts in the SW Asian theater. The costs of the repatriation, rehabilitation, and support that these people and their families will require will easily dwarf the costs of the materiel used to wage war. But this past week was about Tim and the others who risk their lives to tell the stories we don't want to see and hear but need to. These are the images and descriptions of the soldiers and the collaterals, the women, children and the elderly, innocent victims of the purposeful and accidental acts of the combatants on both sides.
Although the big networks and print media provide training for their combat-zone correspondents, most freelancers working in these dangerous places live on meager budgets and therefore have none. After Tim's death, Sebastian was haunted by grief and guilt, especially after learning that Tim might have been saved with some decent first aid. As a result, Sebastian organized a not-for-profit (RISC) to help underwrite the training for the freelancers. That's where we came in. Sebastian approached us last autumn and asked if we would be interested in doing the training. He had only a vague notion of what he wanted, including some things that did not make sense to me. After my initial proposal was accepted, we went to work. The 24-hour course is based on our 16-hour first aid course, expanded to meet some special needs. The main foci included care under fire, travel concerns, and general medical/injury management. The leader for this project is Sawyer Alberi. After 6 years with the Coast Guard, she enlisted in the army reserves and has served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a frontline, combat medic. Sawyer is a wonderful instructor who had a clear vision of where we needed to go. We used our usual teaching materials and then produced a supplement for the students.
The course was run at the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) housed in a beautiful restored building on 151st Street in the Bronx. We stayed in Chelsey in lower Manhatten, near 23th and 3rd. Our backdrop was a classroom wall covered with photographs from the recent conflicts. It was a graphic reminder of why we were there. Each day was packed with didactic sessions, skill labs and simulated rescuer/patient interactions. We supplemented our usual class materials with body armor, sound effects, smoke flares and lots of fake blood powder. It was a lot of work for everyone involved. The neighborhood was engaged as well, especially when we conducted drills outside. On the final day the students had to pack a large, bleeding wound (innards of a chicken from which fake blood was hand pumped out) and rescue an unconscious, bleeding patient (180 lb dummy) in a simulated street scene.
We had 24 students in class, including photographers, writers, a cameraman, and several documentarians. We didn't know much about any of them during the class. Later, in a bar sharing drinks after the class was over, we found out that many are award-winning journalists producing work that has appeared in important venues around the world.
It is hard to write about how all of this felt and the impact I believe we had. Given their zeal to get to the truth, I have little doubt that someone will use this training in an important way. We are scheduled for a course in London in Oct and Beirut sometime in late 2012 or early 2013. Below are a couple of links that have blog posts. The bronxdoc and facebook links have some pictures, too. I will forward a video link once it has been posted.
Sebastian Junger, Michael Kamber, Lily Hindy, the BDC and other members of RISC are to be commended for their collective vision and efforts.
Tags: Battlefield medicine, BDC, BMR, Bronx Documentary Center, DJ, RISC, Sebastian Junger, Wilderness Medical Associate, Wilderness Medical Associates International


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Bob Belden
Belden seems to be among the small (but growing) number of jazzmen who can find gold in the rock generation's song catalogs. Here is one of the richer lodes, all originally found on a single Carole King album called Tapestry, and Belden gives them an appealingly smooth, near-Wave treatment but with propulsive drum grooves to keep things from bogging down. Not only that, Belden chooses to present the tracks from Tapestry in the original sequence in which they appeared on King's album, a thoughtful and artistically sound gesture that will trigger the nostalgia banks of any rockers-turned-jazzers among the boomers. The songs suit Belden's relaxed, R&B-slanted soprano sax; Tim Hagans' yearning, muted trumpet; the Rhodes-like electric piano sound that Kevin Hays conjures; and the lovely acoustic and electric guitar work of John Hart. The uptempo groovethon "I Feel the Earth Move" and the surprisingly energetic Weather Report-like treatment of "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman" are the most irresistible cuts on the disc. ~ Richard S. Ginell


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Musterbrand signs Assassin's Creed IV clothing range
Hamburg-based clothing firm Musterbrand has teamed up with Ubisoft to offer a new range based on Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.
Available now, the officially licensed range will support the release of Black Flag, the sixth entry in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise.
The new line features Black Flag-influenced products, such as coats, hoods, t-shirts, scarves and bags inspired by the game's pirate protagonist Edward Kenway.
Musterbrand has done a great job again this year at producing stylish, wearable clothing inspired by Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag. I can truly say that the threads express what the Assassin's Creed franchise is all about: freedom, agility and a sense of adventure," said Jean Guedson, creative director on Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is out October 31st on Xbox 360 and PS3, and November 22nd on Xbox One, PS4, Wii U and PS4.


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myideaguy needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 177 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
World Teacher Aid, http://www.WorldTeacherAid.org
World Teacher Aid is a Canadian charity that helps fund the salaries of teachers in third world countries. In addition we also fund a variety of school feeding programs and school renovation projects.
The "Write To Give" program is one campaign that is run through World Teacher Aid. The campaign involves kids throughout schools in Canada who each write a portion of a real book. This book is then compiled, printed, published and sold - of which the money goes towards World Teacher Aid initiatives.
So the kids really are "Writing To Give" :)
The target audience is school kids, teachers, and parents as well as potential donors.
- We would like a logo for the "Write To Give" campaign.
- The logo should try to match the look and feel of our existing charity called World Teacher Aid. This logo can be found here:
- The World Teacher Aid Website is here: http://www.WorldTeacherAid.org
- We'd like the logo to include the words "Write To Give"
- We have no preference regarding colors
- We would just like the logo to be fairly simple and easy to work with as it will likely be used on websites, print materials, and clothing.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Can You Read It?
This is the signature of my German-born ancestor, born somewhere in the Germany of the 1820s. This signature for her comes from her husband's estate papers and is a last name she barely had for a few months.
The digital image of the estate papers was made while at the Family History Library in Salt Lake this week.
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Peter Valentin - Hi Guys, Peter Valentin here, a life long Muppet Fan and Collector from Australia. I grew up with the Muppets, starting with Sesame Street as it began and followed the Muppets to their own show and subsequent Muppet family spin offs like Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, etc. I am now in my late forties and still just as facinated with them. I have a huge Muppet Memorabilia Collection which I would like to share with you. I have a lot of figures and even neat props.
|From The Muppets' Wizard Of Oz, the storybook that opened and closed the movie and the Oz For Dummies book.
|Custom Gonzo plumbing truck statue
|Head casts of Miss Piggy, Statler, and Waldorf. They are the only 3 characters
that used molds.
|A walk-around Miss Piggy head from a Muppet live-costume show.
|An unfinished Gonzo head.
|A background frog photo puppet.
|A pair of Miss Piggy's shoes.
|A replica Doozer.
|Jim Henson bust and Dark Crystal toys.
|Model of the alien spaceship from Muppets From Space, Golden Gonzo statue, Croonchy Stars box and Swedish Chef doll.
|One of my favorite Muppets is the venerable Fozzie Bear.I have nearly every Fozzie figure ever made(excluding Plush).
|The pride of my Collection is....(drumroll) Mister Fozzie Bear himself! This is a photo puppet actually used for many Muppet photo shoots. It's really Fozzie!
The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier, email@example.com


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Place a small amount of gel-wax in the palm of your hands and then dispense it evenly throughout the hair. Applying a small amount of gel-wax will create hold and a semi-wet effect.
Apply some gel-wax to your fingertips then pull through the ends of your hair in a downward motion to achieve a semi-wet, textured result.
Using a small amount of gel-wax, work it through the mid-lengths and ends in a downward motion. For a more textured, grungy look, use more gel-wax while pinching the ends as you go.
Apply gel-wax to your fingertips and then pinch small clumps of hair in an up and forward motion. For a wetter look, use more gel-wax.
Apply a very small amount of smoothing shine to the palms of your hands and then run it through the mid-lengths and ends of your hair. Be careful not to add any to the roots or a large amount to any section of the hair as smoothing shine can be very heavy on the hair, weighing it down and making it appear oily.


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{-# OPTIONS_GHC -cpp -fglasgow-exts #-} {-# LANGUAGE CPP #-} -- , GADTs, PatternGuards #-} #include "gadts.h" module Darcs.Patch.Core ( Patch(..), Named(..), join_patchesFL, concatFL, flattenFL, nullP, isNullPatch, infopatch, n_fn, adddeps, namepatch, anonymous, merger_undo, isMerger, getdeps, patch2patchinfo, patchname, patchcontents, ) where import Prelude hiding ( pi ) import Darcs.Patch.Info ( PatchInfo, patchinfo, make_filename ) import Darcs.Patch.Patchy ( Patchy ) import Darcs.Witnesses.Ordered import Darcs.Patch.Prim ( Prim(..), FromPrim(..), Effect(effect, effectRL), n_fn ) #include "impossible.h" data Patch C(x y) where PP :: Prim C(x y) -> Patch C(x y) ComP :: FL Patch C(x y) -> Patch C(x y) Merger :: Patch C(x y) -> RL Patch C(x b) -> Patch C(c b) -> Patch C(c d) -> Patch C(x y) Regrem :: Patch C(x y) -> RL Patch C(x b) -> Patch C(c b) -> Patch C(c a) -> Patch C(y x) instance FromPrim Patch where fromPrim = PP -- | The @Named@ type adds a patch info about a patch, that is a name. data Named p C(x y) where NamedP :: !PatchInfo -> ![PatchInfo] -> !(p C(x y)) -> Named p C(x y) -- ^ @NamedP info deps p@ represents patch @p@ with name -- @info@. @deps@ is a list of dependencies added at the named patch -- level, compared with the unnamed level (ie, dependencies added with -- @darcs record --ask-deps@). instance Effect p => Effect (Named p) where effect (NamedP _ _ p) = effect p effectRL (NamedP _ _ p) = effectRL p isNullPatch :: Patch C(x y) -> Bool isNullPatch (ComP ps) = and $ mapFL isNullPatch ps isNullPatch _ = False nullP :: Patch C(x y) -> EqCheck C(x y) nullP (ComP NilFL) = IsEq nullP (ComP (x:>:xs)) | IsEq <- nullP x = nullP (ComP xs) nullP _ = NotEq isMerger :: Patch C(a b) -> Bool isMerger (Merger _ _ _ _) = True isMerger (Regrem _ _ _ _) = True isMerger _ = False merger_undo :: Patch C(x y) -> Patch C(x y) merger_undo (Merger undo _ _ _) = undo merger_undo _ = impossible\end{code} %Another nice thing to be able to do with composite patches is to `flatten' %them, that is, turn them into a simple list of patches (appropriately %ordered, of course), with all nested compositeness unnested. \begin{code}
{- INLINE flattenFL -} flattenFL :: Patch C(x y) -> FL Patch C(x y) flattenFL (ComP ps) = concatFL (mapFL_FL flattenFL ps) flattenFL (PP Identity) = NilFL flattenFL p = p :>: NilFL join_patchesFL :: FL Patch C(x y) -> Patch C(x y) join_patchesFL ps = ComP $! ps infopatch :: Patchy p => PatchInfo -> p C(x y) -> Named p C(x y) adddeps :: Named p C(x y) -> [PatchInfo] -> Named p C(x y) getdeps :: Named p C(x y) -> [PatchInfo] namepatch :: Patchy p => String -> String -> String -> [String] -> p C(x y) -> IO (Named p C(x y)) namepatch date name author desc p | '\n' `elem` name = error "Patch names cannot contain newlines." | otherwise = do pinf <- patchinfo date name author desc return $ NamedP pinf [] p anonymous :: Patchy p => p C(x y) -> IO (Named p C(x y)) anonymous p = namepatch "today" "anonymous" "unknown" ["anonymous"] p infopatch pi p = NamedP pi [] p adddeps (NamedP pi _ p) ds = NamedP pi ds p getdeps (NamedP _ ds _) = ds patch2patchinfo :: Named p C(x y) -> PatchInfo patch2patchinfo (NamedP i _ _) = i patchname :: Named p C(x y) -> String patchname (NamedP i _ _) = make_filename i patchcontents :: Named p C(x y) -> p C(x y) patchcontents (NamedP _ _ p) = p\end{code} The simplest relationship between two patches is that of ``sequential'' patches, which means that the context of the second patch (the one on the left) consists of the first patch (on the right) plus the context of the first patch. The composition of two patches (which is also a patch) refers to the patch which is formed by first applying one and then the other. The composition of two patches, $P_1$ and $P_2$ is represented as $P_2P_1$, where $P_1$ is to be applied first, then $P_2$\footnote{This notation is inspired by the notation of matrix multiplication or the application of operators upon a Hilbert space. In the algebra of patches, there is multiplication (i.e.\ composition), which is associative but not commutative, but no addition or subtraction.} There is one other very useful relationship that two patches can have, which is to be parallel patches, which means that the two patches have an identical context (i.e.\ their representation applies to identical trees). This is represented by $P_1\parallel P_2$. Of course, two patches may also have no simple relationship to one another. In that case, if you want to do something with them, you'll have to manipulate them with respect to other patches until they are either in sequence or in parallel. The most fundamental and simple property of patches is that they must be invertible. The inverse of a patch is described by: $P^{ -1}$. In the darcs implementation, the inverse is required to be computable from knowledge of the patch only, without knowledge of its context, but that (although convenient) is not required by the theory of patches. \begin{dfn} The inverse of patch $P$ is $P^{ -1}$, which is the ``simplest'' patch for which the composition \( P^{ -1} P \) makes no changes to the tree. \end{dfn} Using this definition, it is trivial to prove the following theorem relating to the inverse of a composition of two patches. \begin{thm} The inverse of the composition of two patches is \[ (P_2 P_1)^{ -1} = P_1^{ -1} P_2^{ -1}. \] \end{thm} Moreover, it is possible to show that the right inverse of a patch is equal to its left inverse. In this respect, patches continue to be analogous to square matrices, and indeed the proofs relating to these properties of the inverse are entirely analogous to the proofs in the case of matrix multiplication. The compositions proofs can also readily be extended to the composition of more than two patches. \begin{code}


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Brandon Desilva's curly mohawk bobbed through crowds of runners along the edge of the Boston Common.
Desilva glided with long strides, pumping his arms steadily as he rounded the corner near Beacon and Charles streets. He breezed past other racers as spectators cheered him on.
Just 14 years old, Desilva looked like a seasoned runner, but the race around the park on Sunday — the 2.62-mile Common Man's Marathon — was his first.
The race, organized by the Downtown Boston Rotary Club, was a noncompetitive event, but Desilva placed third out of all boys, clocking a time of just over 16 minutes.
"Since it's my first time running, I'm really proud of myself," he said.
But for Desilva and more than 60 other participants, the goal of the program is more than just a speedy time. Sole Train pairs kids from different Boston neighborhoods with adult mentors, aiming to build community and show teens how they can achieve daunting goals. The young runners practice two or three times a week, and they participate in multiple races, building up to either a half-marathon or 5-mile run at the end of the year.
"If we can bring people together in a supportive, safe environment to run together, we can bridge the divides that exist across different areas of Boston," said Jessica Leffler, Sole Train's executive director.
Quinton Hurd Jr., 17, of Quincy said he has worked with Sole Train for about four years, not so much for the running, but because he likes meeting new people and making friends.
"I feel like we're all in unison; it doesn't matter if you're from Roxbury, Dorchester, Hyde Park," Hurd said. "I feel like here, we're all a family."
The Common Man's Marathon took place just blocks from the Boston Marathon finish line, where three people died and scores more were wounded in bombings two weeks ago. The attack was on the minds of some Sole Train runners on Sunday, but it did not loom over the event.
David Delmar, 28, of Jamaica Plain is a mentor with the program who ran in the Boston Marathon two weeks ago. The young man he mentored last year joined him near Coolidge Corner for part of the Marathon.
"It was amazing," Delmar said. "He was telling me the same words of encouragement and stuff that I was telling him back in October."
Delmar wore a blue-and-yellow Boston Marathon jacket Sunday and said he has relished the outpouring of support that followed the bombings.
"Sometimes I wish that the sort of camaraderie that came out of the Boston Marathon lasted a little longer or extended to other parts of the community that needed it," Delmar said.
Programs like Sole Train can help bring people together, he said.
"Everybody in their own way, I think, has been shaken by the events two weeks ago," Leffler said. "We're saying we're going to come together and remember that running in a community should be a safe, supportive, invigorating, fun thing."
Sole Train works to expand the running community by attracting students from a number of local schools as well as juvenile offenders through the state Department of Youth Services, Leffler said.
Part of the program's mission is to raise awareness about and prevent the violence that some of the city's teens face daily.
The runner that Delmar mentored last year was involved with Sole Train through the Department of Youth Services, and he is now out of custody and working on a degree at a Boston technical college.
"I got to see him discover talent that he never knew he had," Delmar said.
Desilva, the 14-year-old first-time racer, said the program has in some ways already helped him to become a mentor himself. He said he lives in a section of Dorchester that is "kind of a bad neighborhood," and Sole Train offers him a chance to be a leader for his peers.
"I can set an example," he said. "I can get out of that neighborhood. I can be a runner, be a part of a family, a group, a community. Just have fun."Zachary T. Sampson can be reached at email@example.com.
Correction:Because of a reporting error, an earlier version of this story misidentified the organizer of the Common Man's Marathon. It was put on by the Downtown Boston Rotary Club.


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STGNZ necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 125 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
Chirpy and Chirpy Server http://www.chirpyservers.com
Overall brand - "Chirpy"
Will also promote "Chirpy Servers"
Long term will promote "Chirpy Domains"
The target market for Chirpy and Chirpy Server customers will be designers and internet professionals who seek low-cost but high-quality servers and services and are technically capable of running their own infrastructure with minimal support requirements.
Brief Guide:
1) Logo incorporating a bird, and maybe the words "Chirpy" or "Chirpy Servers"
2) New Colour Scheme for new website (web 2.0 feel)
3) Winning logo design must be provided in a vector format we can use (psd). Fonts must be named.
This is a brand-new brand-name and so it is a completely new look. Logo and colour scheme should stand out and preferably have a simple web 2.0 look and feel. The key themes we are looking to convey are simple, clean, professional, quality, no frills.
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The assembly of these blocks was quite painless...The first 2 from left to right were paper pieced while the last was traditionally pieced.
I'm thrilled how well this schoolhouse block (below) went together...eventually! I don't know how I did it, but the original templates I printed were the wrong size. I'm sure I ticked the box for actual size, but somehow they all came out wrong. I reprinted them and checked the box "choose paper source by PDF page size" and that seem to fix the problem. It shouldn't have had any effect, but second time round the templates were the right size and the construction of the block went smoothly.
It was a mixture of rotary cutting and freezer paper templates which were ironed to the wrong side of the fabric and stayed in place while you sewed as to mark the pivot point for the Y seams. This was a very effective method of piecing these odd shaped pieces and all my points ended up in the right place...oh and the block measures right and is flat! LOL I'll never be so lucky again.
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Bruce Burton's Steel Three-Window
Just about every true car guy has done it: made a list of what he'd like on his dream car-the one he'd like to own some day. For 67-year-old Bruce Burton, the dream is now a reality, thanks to the efforts of Jamie Johnson of Hot Rod Haven in Albuquerque, New Mexico. But Jamie wasn't even alive when Bruce was a pre-teen living in West Texas and hacking up cars with his buddies, mostly because there wasn't much else to do in West Texas in those days. Bruce remembers it seemed every farm had some old cars laying around, and they always had tools and a welder to repair the farm equipment, so why not drop that Flathead into that Model A frame and see what she'll do? Bruce sheepishly admits and wonders out loud why he and his friends weren't killed with the contraptions they cobbled together, but luck was on his side.
Luck was also with Bruce when he met and married his wife, Darlene. More than 47 years later, she's still by his side, even after Bruce's career wandered through several different stages: from working in a body shop to managing and owning a retail motorcycle and automotive dealership. Nowadays he buys and sells a lot of cars on the Internet, and occasionally he even trades hot rods. But buying someone else's hot rod and driving it around is very different than having one built to your specs. Deciding the time was right and ready to commit to the endeavor, Burton tracked down local hot rod builder Jamie Johnson to help attain his dream.
Bruce came to the table with a few non-negotiable thoughts. The car had to be a highboy '32 Ford three-window, it had to be a steel body, and it had to have a unique engine. The theme of the build also had to reflect the time frame Bruce had really enjoyed: the mid- to late-'50s. Johnson came to table with years of experience, which belay his young age of 34 years. Growing up with a hot-rod-obsessed father helped Jamie appreciate what it takes to build a car up from nothing and, with his dad, Jim, being something of a perfectionist, passed that trait along early on to his son. While Jamie was growing up family outings included local and some not-so-local "vacations" spent retrieving old cars out of hillsides and ditches. Currently running his own shop with an eye for vintage and traditional rides, Jamie is as busy as he wants to be.
Burton and Johnson started gathering parts and pieces for the build in November of 2007. Bruce located a Brookville Roadsters steel three-window body in Oregon and had Steve's Auto Restoration do the chop on the car, and he then obtained a '32 chassis from SO-CAL Speed Shop in California. But the real fun was when Bruce told Jamie of his desire for an odd motor, like an Olds J2 V-8. Jamie listened intently and then walked Bruce to the back of the shop and there, in the midst of Jamie's engine collection, was a '57 Olds J2 engine, and Bruce was stunned. With the pieces starting to come together, the first thing was to convert the chassis to a roller. The SO-CAL chassis uses Model A crossmembers front and rear, with the front suspension being dialed in with a dropped I-beam axle, a Posies tapered leaf spring, an original wishbone split and then chromed, and a Johnson-fab'd steering arm.
The base for the rear end is a polished Halibrand V-8 quick-change (3.78:1) from Hot Rod Works. But wanting a vintage look, Jamie liked the early brake drums with their "snout" sticking out of the middle. The drums are intended for tapered axle applications, but Johnson equipped the quick-change with modern 9-inch Ford axles, so he cut the snout off some old drums and attached them to a plate that he then indexed to the new axles and sandwiched between the wheels and the brake drum. The look is old (he even chromed the little nuts to hold the fake axle) but it is entirely modern.
Lincoln hydraulic brakes were used on each corner, as were reproduction Halibrand magnesium "solids" that are now being made by Ray Franklin at Vintage Engineering in Redwood City, California. Vintage made up a pair of 16×5 wheels for the front while a set of 18×5 were for the rear. The way these wheels look when you get them is a smooth concave look on the front side and some webbing on the back side for strength. But Jamie chose to turn the wheels around, facing the webbing out and using it as an accent. Hand-painted Firestone bias-ply rubber (4.50-16 and 6.50-18) were then mounted to the wheels.
Burton's "unique" engine requirement was fulfilled with the installation of the J2. Originally used to power the legendary Olds 88, the 371 was rebuilt by Frank Brown to include Jahns pistons and a Sig Erson camshaft. A Powermaster PowerGEN alternator keeps the vintage look intact, as does the running of a stock cooling fan (though a Walker radiator helps keep the motor cool).
Up top a trio of Rochester carbs, restored by Buzzard Carburetor Rebuilding in Florida, fit the factory J2 manifold and the exhaust is handled by a header system fab'd by Johnson. The V-8 bolts into the chassis via a Hurst-style front mount setup, which was also created by Johnson. Burton gets the power to the road through a TH350 trans, which uses an adapter from Bendtsen's Transmissions to mate to the Olds motor.
Once the chassis was a roller and the engine dialed in, Johnson turned his attention to the fit and finish of the body. The gaps around doors and trunk lid were tightened up and then Jamie and his dad performed the body work before Jamie sprayed the entire car with single-stage Glasurit maroon paint. Final items, such as the '32 roadster mirror mounted to the driver's door, the Pontiac taillights, and the Arrow headlights from SO-CAL were then added to tie up the exterior.
The three-window '32 dashes are different than the ones you find in similar-year roadsters in that they have a glove box on the right side, inside which Jamie installed two of the six Stewart Warner gauges found in the car. The tach was mounted under the dash near the glove box, and points directly at the driver but is unobtrusive otherwise. In the center of the dash a trio of gauges mounts to a stainless steel engine-turned panel. Dynamat insulation was run throughout the interior before Ron Mangus came along and covered the floor with brown wool loop carpet. Mangus then recreated a stock '32 bench seat and covered it with a pleated brown leather design, which was copied to the door panels. Finishing up the inside was the installation of the '40 Ford truck steering wheel and column, which mounts to a steering gear (from Gordon Schroeder) that is mounted under the dash. Al Edwards wired the car, which included a headlight dimmer switch that is operated by a fake clutch pedal (remember: it's an automatic). The cigarette lighter jewel is actually a turn indicator light.
When building a hot rod, sometimes it's hard enough just to make something work right every time, let alone get tricky and fabricate something that not only works well but looks good, too, but that's what Jamie enjoys doing. We'd say he's something of a dream weaver, as he was able to help Bruce Burton take a life-long dream and make it a reality. Look for the coupe on the roads of Albuquerque as Burton likes to drive all of his cars, and isn't afraid of getting this dream car dirty!


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Goddess or Freak?
Rembrance isn't sure if she is a goddess or freak. Her outstanding beauty and talent makes her special and interesting. But her other qualities such as purple shadow like bruises under her eyes and the pale skin makes her weird. Rembrance sets out on a quest to find out about her past and who her parents are. Now she will learn a little more about herself then she would ever wish to know. THe 5th chapter is on it's way! Mem won't be able to avoid danger for very long... Reviews are very much appreciated! GOOD OR BAD!
This was a story idea I had thought of during a drive back from one of my swim meet. I thought bringing in a new character would be fun along with bringing back some old ones, wanted or not.*Wicked glint in eyes*. Hope you enjoy! ~DarkAngel
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I'm a freak! I had finally came to that conclusion
I looked at myself in the mirror once more. Even through my beauty there were many faults. I had straight luscious brown hair that went a little bit past my midback. I was skinny with perfect curves. Plus I had elf like features, even a bit of a point to my ears. And I was talented. I was the best swimmer on the swim team.
Yet I was clumsy! How could that be? Probably because in the water I defied gravity. With the good there is always the strange.
I had a very pale complexion, you could say I was as white as a ghost.
Maybe I am. I thought grimly. I didn't know anything about my past or my parents, so for all I knew I could be a ghost.
One rainy evening, wait it's always raining! Anyways I had been left on Charlie's doorstep attached with a note.
Take care of Rembrance please it had read. Charlie had taken care of me all my life and I was content.
He said I reminded him so much of his daughter, Bella. I loved to hear stories of her. A few weeks before he found me Bella had diappeared. They searched for weeks but there was no luck. Some say she ran off with love of her life, Edward Cullen. Others claim she become lost at sea on that stormy night.
Whatever the case I loved to hear stories about her and Charlie didn't mind sharing. he had been so happy when I showed up. It was like having another child to fill the empty space in his heart.
Bella fascinated me and so did Edward. Sometimes I fantasized that they were parents and had no choice but to give me up. I snorted. Right, and I'm a mythical creature from a world beyond.
I yawned though yet I wasn't the least bit tired. I didn't sleep much and I had started sleep less and less over the years. I have these bruise like shadows underneath my eyes which give a more mysterious look.
Whenever Charlie complimented me on my looks or talent I would blush scarlet and give him a weak thanks.
Just then I heard Charlie call me down to dinner. I sighed, I would've cooked but he insisted on doing so since I was only 16.
I tried to be stealthy going the stairs whch didn't work and I tripped making my noisy entrance.
" Hello Mem," Charlie said cheerfully though I could see the ancient sadness that would forever remain in his eyes. " Thought you would like some old fashioned cheese burgers tonight."
"Thanks Charlie." I replied. I took the first bite of my burger. It was a little dry and neede salt and pepper but I didn't say anyting and just gave him a grateful smile.
I didn't want Charlie to ever leave me. He was the closest thing I ever had to a father.
Yet I couldn't denie the enevitable. He was getting old, old enough to be my grandfather. But who would take care of me if he wasn't here?
I pushed these thoughts away and concentrated on my food.
After dinner I went up to my room to get ready for bed. I used Bella's room as my own and loved to think of the mysteries that lay in the walls. Thinking of all the secret visits Bella and Edward must have shared here made me smile.
For some reason both Charlie and Jacob Black and his friends despised Edward. I couldn't imagine why at all.
And when we visited the Blacks I usually just stood awkwardly in Jacob's presence. He was always giving me knowing and protective glances.
My curiosity burned inside of me to know Bella's dark past for Charlie only shared her good times. Even though I didn't share it I was really nervous about my first day of being a Junior. It was nerveracking not knowing if I would be accepted not that I cared but it was always easier to lay low and not be noticed when you weren't labled as the weird girl.
I lay in bed awile thinking of nothing particular until I drifted off into a peaceful sleep.
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Massachusett's Democratic Rep. Edward Markey is currently a front-runner to succeed John Kerry in the Senate from the Bay State, and he's perhaps the only candidate who can make Elizabeth Warren seem intelligent and probative by comparison. I've always thought Markey's advocacy of low-wattage light bulbs is obviously congruent with his low-wattage intellect, and who can resist thinking of him as Rep. Malarkey? He's one of those kind of politicians who will say anything to try to win the day.
Markey has always hated all fossil fuels, and is the kind of person who has said many times that we need more wind and solar to help get us off foreign oil (there is zero connection between the two), but a few days ago he said that one problem with the sequester is that it would . . . slow domestic oil and gas drilling! And we're really supposed to take this guy seriously? If he meant that, you'd think he'd be for the sequester.
But Malarkey has now outdone himself, comparing the Citizens United decision to Dred Scott. Great Scott!! "The Constitution must be amended," Markey said; "The Dred Scott decision had to be repealed, we have to repeal Citizens United." GOP spokesman Brad Dayspring had a good reply:
"Out-of-touch statements like these simply reinforce the fact that Ed Markey has been hibernating in Washington back rooms since Carlton Fisk was behind the plate for the Red Sox and disco ruled the world. If Ed Markey really believes this to be the modern equivalent to slavery, he'll quickly return the millions that he's raised from PACs over his career."
It should be understood, however, that the Left's outrage over Citizens United actually goes far beyond the old-fashioned, and not entirely unreasonable, concern about the potential corruption involved with large campaign contributions (though for the record I think this is overblown: whenever anyone is ever challenged to connect a single changed congressional vote to campaign cash, the response is always chirping crickets). Markey is not the first lefty to compare Citizens United to Dred Scott; his usage just shows he gets all of his ideas second hand. Beyond campaign cash, the Citizens United outrage is connected to the larger Marcusian/Chomskyite critique of "corporate control" of media. In other words, public opinion is "enslaved" by the corporate control of mass media, just like Dred Scott, QED. The Left's remedy would involve not just government control of campaign finance, but "redistribution" of free speech rights and mass media. The inimitable Cass Sunstein explicitly calls for this in his book Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech. In other words, get ready to be forced to watch Amy Goodman on "Democracy NOW" TV. Can't wait for that blessed day.
I doubt Markey has much of a clue about the deeper background of the Left's thought on this subject. Perhaps he should be asked about whether he thinks the government should "redistribute" speech rights along the lines Sunstein suggests. I imagine the answer will be occasion for further hilarious Malarkey.


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Rising energy prices, government incentives and enhanced public image are driving energy efficiency in buildings to new heights as a growing number of building owners races to reduce energy consumption, according to the results of the fifth annual global Energy Efficiency Indicator Survey.
The International Facility Management Association, Johnson Controls' Institute for Building Efficiency, and the Urban Land Institute led the survey of nearly 4,000 building owners and operators around the world.
Rising costs are clearly on building owners' minds. Eight in 10 respondents expect double-digit energy price increases over the next year. As a result, owners have set an average reduction target of 12 percent.
"We are seeing record levels of energy management and reduction projects around the world, driven mainly by financial reasons, more than environmental concerns," said Dave Myers, corporate vice president and president of building efficiency for Johnson Controls. "Regardless of the motivations, buildings account for 42 percent of global energy usage, so the growing trend of making buildings more energy-efficient is smart business, helps create local-market jobs, and benefits the environment."
Although the primary motivation for energy-efficiency projects continues to be energy cost savings, government incentives and enhanced public image were also important, ranking second and third in the survey. Greenhouse gas reduction, which ranked as the second highest motivator in 2010, ranked fourth in 2011.
But there are significant obstacles to meeting these ambitious goals. The survey cited access to funding and financial returns as the top barrier globally. Indeed, barriers to capital access topped the list for respondents in the United States, Canada and Europe.
Highlights of the survey results for North America show a double-digit increase in U.S. and Canada building owners who believe energy management is important to 66 percent as compared to the prior year when it was 52 percent. Building owners expect lighting and smart building technology to have greater adoption rates than renewable-energy technologies in the United States and Canada over the next 10 years. And, 77 percent of U.S. and Canadian building owners plan to include green building elements in their facility plans in the next 12 months.


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Orioles to hold Season Ticket Tag Day Saturday, March 8
Fans invited to ballpark to select their season seat location; Opening Day tickets still available to plan holders
With the start of the season fast approaching, the Orioles will host the return of Tag Day on Saturday, March 8, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
Tag Day gives fans interested in purchasing either a full or partial Season Plan for the 2014 season the opportunity to "try out" their seats before they buy. Available seats will be tagged with pennants, and Orioles sales representatives will be stationed in each section to discuss season plan options and answer questions.
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Liberty triathletes head to nationals
April 20, 2012 | Lynchburg, VA
For most people, a 1 mile swim, a 25 mile bike ride or a 6.2 mile run would be a good workout. For Liberty University's triathlon team, it'll be all three as they compete in the 2012 USA Triathlon Collegiate National Championships in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Saturday, April 21.
This is the third year Liberty has sent a team to nationals.
"We really improved dramatically in just a couple years," said coach Beth Frackleton, who has been with the team since its inception in 2009.
Liberty finished the fall season second in the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Triathlon Conference in the men's division while the women finished third.
Leading the way into nationals for the men is Joseph Anderson. The freshman from Washington, D.C., finished second in the Lake Lure Triathlon showcase event in the "draft legal" race last month. Last fall, he also qualified, along with teammate Parker Spencer, to represent the United States at the World Age Group Triathlon Championships in Auckland, New Zealand.
Senior Scott Fritz won the collegiate race at the Lake Lure event.
Blakely Harris leads the way for the women. A senior, Harris came in fifth in the women's race at Lake Lure.
There will be more than 1,500 athletes competing in the two races this weekend as they contest the "Olympic distance" for triathlon: 1.5K (about 1 mile) swim, 40K (about 25 mile) bike and 10K (about 6.2 mile) run. The women's race starts at 7:30 a.m. with the gun going for the men's race at 10:30.
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