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Appalachian State football players will wear new uniforms during the university's final season in the FCS.
The new uniforms feature five combinations - black jerseys with black pants, white jerseys with white pants, black jerseys with white pants, white jerseys with black pants and an alternate grey jersey with black pants.
The grey alternate jerseys will be auctioned to fans following the season.
The Mountaineers will wear new black helmets with a matte finish as opposed to the traditional glossy look, and the Block "A" logo has a black background to complete the slick new design.
Appalachian State opens the season at Montana on Aug. 31. The perennial Southern Conference power will move up to the FBS next year.


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3-30-05 - RIPLEY, Okla. (AP) A 16-year-old Ripley High School student and a Cushing man are dead and three people are hospitalized with injuries after a pickup truck crashed into a Ripley school bus in Payne County.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says 16-year-old Sandra Deann Combs of Agra and 57-year-old Carl Edward Tarver of Cushing were killed in the crash just after 4 yesterday afternoon.
Bus passenger Halli McKintire, bus driver Jimmie Sue Blose and a passenger in Tarver's truck -- Linda Tarver -- are all reported in stable condition this morning at area hospitals.
Trooper Steve Burrows says the bus was eastbound on a county road when it failed to yield to the northbound truck on State Highway 18 south of Ripley in southern Payne County.
The Ripley school district has about 300 elementary and 125 high school students.

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Series I. Correspondence and personal papers, 1886-1968
Scope and Content Note
Letters between family members, 1886-1905
Letters from Huidobro, 1905-1917
Telegrams, 1916
Correspondence, 1923-1968
Correspondence, n.d.
Personal documents and family history
Series II. Photographs, 18??-ca. 1945
Scope and Content Note
Huidobro with family members and friends
Scope and Content Note
Four dramatic pieces
Scope and Content Note
Altazor, 1931
Poems from various collections, 1917-1940
Poems from El ciudadano del olvido, 1941
Poems from Ultimos Poemas, 1948
Unidentified poems or poem fragments
4 notebooks containing poetry, prose (Alicia Mir), political material
Documents regarding Huidobro's editing of magazines
Interviews with Huidobro and articles about him
Series IV. Publications and printed matter, 1921-1938
Scope and Content Note
Tout a coup, 1925
Manifestes, 1925
Poster, gallery announcement: Homenaje a Vicente Huidobro , 1938
Presentaciones, 1932
Creación (No. 1) Apr 1921
Creación (No. 2) Nov 1921
Creación (No. 3) Feb 1924
3 clippings (reprints)
Poèmes, 1925
Collage poem made of words cut from newspapers, 1931


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UNCW faces one of the ineligible teams this weekend, Old Dominion
George Mason's decision to depart the CAA for the Atlantic 10 next fall means, per conference bylaws, the Patriots' baseball team is ineligible for this season's conference tournament, set for May 22-25 in Harrisonburg, Va.
Their departure, combined with previous defections, leaves only seven CAA teams fighting for the six spots to decide the championship and the automatic bid to an NCAA Regional that comes with it.
UNCW faces one of the ineligible teams this weekend, Old Dominion, which forfeited its shot at the postseason when it joined Conference USA, a move that takes effect next season and stems from a decision to upgrade to FBS football.
The Seahawks swept another of their ineligible conference mates, Georgia State, last weekend to improve to 4-1 in the CAA (the Panthers are headed to the Sun Belt, also to jump up to FBS football next season). Winning this weekend's series in Norfolk would push UNCW closer to ensuring it will be around to defend its CAA title at Veterans Memorial Park.
William & Mary, behind stellar pitching, leads the CAA with a 5-1 record. The Tribe is on an eight-game winning streak during which it has recorded five shutouts and registered an earned run average of 0.75. The 18-8 record represents William & Mary's best start since 2004.
Seahawks in the stats
Ryan LaGrange suffered a rough night playing third base in Wednesday's 10-6 loss to N.C. State. However, the Laney product continues to shine at the plate. He's become an everyday player because he's sixth in the conference in batting average (.424).
Infield mate Michael Bass, is putting together a CAA Player of the Year-caliber season at second base. Batting in the leadoff spot, Bass is seventh in hitting (.421), first in runs scored (32) and first in steals (13).
Easily the Seahawks' best fielder, he makes spectacular plays look routine and has committed only three errors in 142 chances for a .979 fielding percentage. The senior also has a 21-game hitting streak dating to last season.
Sophomore pitcher Jordan Ramsey is second in the CAA in earned run average (1.70) and tied with teammate Mat Batts for second in strikeouts (35) entering his start Saturday against the Monarchs. Ramsey has walked 11 batters and allowed a .248 batting average in 42.1 innings pitched this season, recording two complete games.
Walk on, young man
Patience and freshman are rarely used in the same sentence, although shortstop Terence Connelly is bucking that trend.
He leads the Seahawks with 21 walks drawn (second in the CAA) and has reached base in 17 consecutive games. His ability to reach base batting ninth sets the table for Bass and the other run producers atop the Seahawks lineup.
Connelly, who earned the starting nod at shortstop with his glove is batting .290, fourth on the team.
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Team Conf. All William & Mary 5-1 18-8 UNCW 4-1 17-8 James Madison 6-2 14-9 Georgia State* 5-4 16-10 Towson 5-4 13-10 Delaware 3-3 15-8 Old Dominion* 4-5 13-10 George Mason* 4-5 12-12 Northeastern 2-7 12-11 Hofstra 0-6 8-16
* – Ineligible for CAA Tournament
Weekend Series
UNCW at Old Dominion
James Madison at Northeastern
Georgia State at Delaware
George Mason at Hofstra
Towson at Pittsburgh
High Point at William & Mary


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|2010-08-20, 16:51
|Link #22
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Ugh, that looks like a translation from babelfish xP
SHijima is unable to contact anyone near him due to a powerful cosmo. So he sends a message out everywhere. And shion's psychic abilities are able to hear it. He then sends Tenma and SHun to tell OX, because he can't leave because the specters are coming.
And then yeah, Suikyo knows the Crystal Wall's weakpoint since he trained with Shion.
|2010-08-27, 11:50
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Pisces no saint
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: France
Yeah real blood tear O_o.
Ah Ikki didn't spank Hecate .
Too bad
And yeah a repetition of what we saw in Hades sanctuary! But well, it's not that bad. I know that a lot of people don't like Next Dimension...
|2010-08-31, 00:43
|Link #28
Pisces no saint
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: France
Me too... I hope that Ikki will not pwn Suikyo like he pwn Eaque in the original story...
But Suikyo seems important and have a background so perhaps he will not be pwn by Ikki.
But well you see how Ikki seems badass in these scans (close eyes like a lot of Kurumada's character ) ? I would be not surprise if Ikki pwn Suikyo .
edit: ah we have a spoiler from Archange:
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|2010-09-04, 17:44
|Link #30
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007
there was never much women in the first S-S serie,but no it's worse,we cant even see the two silver S.,there's only two women left,one of wich is a baby;seriouly kurumada,couldn't you at less have found a role for seika(he forgot about her!).
she seemed someone special to me,able to sense the life(force?) of the five bronze knight in elysion from the sanctuary.i wish she could have helped to save her brother.
|2010-09-05, 15:26
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007
i don't think women can become gold saint-even aphrodite is a guy!and for silver or bronze,with only 1chap/month at best and 3 days plot wise, i doubt he'll have time to introduce one;remenber Thetis the nereide:in mythologie she was a godess so she should have been as strong as hypnos or thatanos,yet he made her weaker than the 7 shogun,barely at the level of a silver S.and she died by drowning in the sea-a mermaid!!
As for pandora,she was the woman i was talking about(why doesn't she have a supplice?).
By the way,who is preventing "shaka"(forgot the virgo new name)to use telepaty,Hades or a third party like ares?would be a nice change.
|2010-09-06, 11:13
|Link #34
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
No you got it wrong, Thetis was fish saved by Julian when he was little. And she died thanks to her injuries and the water pressure when Poseidon's Sanctuary fell. She had nothing to do with the goddess ^^
And yes women can become Gold Saints.
|2010-09-08, 01:08
|Link #37
Pisces no saint
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: France
Oh I'm so disappointed, I would like to see a new Saint Seiya manga after the end of Lost Canvas .
I wanted a manga about the very begining of Saint Seiya (mythologic era), something different!
Cool the Gemini . I want to see how he looks like.
|2010-09-08, 15:57
|Link #39
Miracle Man
Graphic Designer
I wonder if gemini saint have twin brother like aspros, defteros, saga & kanon
And please kurumada don't make gemini saint bad guy.
And i wonder where sagitarius saint he usually the most loyal saint, and always in athena side ? Evil Sagitarius Anyone
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Getting ready for summer with USPLabs and PES!
Getting ready for summer with USPLabs and PES!
USP and PES were extremely generous in handing out a few products to try, and they didn't even require a log!
I'm doing one though, because I have a feeling this is going to be awesome. I'd like to give a huge THANK YOU to USPLabs and PES for this opportunity.
Supps included:
Erase Pro
Modern BCAA
I'm undecided whether or not I'll be using the Prime at this time. I think I'll need to pick up a second bottle before I start.
Other staples I use year round:
Creatine Mono
Orange Triad
Salmon Oil
A little background:
I've been lifting weights since just after my daughter was born in January 2008. In the past 2 1/2 years, I've really dialed in my diet, and tried a lot of different supplements, so I'm familiar with what works for me and what doesn't. My gains are coming slower and slower now, so I'm excited to see if these products live up to the claims.
In June of 2010, I embarked on my first real attempt at a cut. I went super OCD on my calories and dropped 25lbs in 12 weeks with NO supplements. I was pretty happy that I was able to see my abs for the first time in my life, but there was a problem. I was way to freaking skinny!
Before: (200 lbs)
After: (175 lbs)
I made up my mind that I would not cut again until I put some real mass on. Since the end of August 2010, I've been packing on mass, some muscle, some fat. My goal now is to get similar results that I got from my 12 week cut, now in 8 weeks. But this time, I've got help.
So here's the new before pictures. I'll post side-by-side comparisons at the end of the log.
232 lbs!
Here's the equipment I'm working on:
(Yes, it's in my living room)
Occasionally I'll hit the gym, maybe once a week. I have a gym membership, but it's for a gym by my girlfriends house that is an hour away from where I live.
I hate it! I haven't done cardio since that last cut! I had my numbers checked recently though, and my HDL was Less than 15! I was advised that I needed to do cardio at least 20 minutes a day, 4 times a week. So for the past week, that's what I've been doing. During my last cut, I was getting up at 4:30 to go for a run, about 30-45 minutes, every day. I'm working my way back up to that. It's harder now with all this extra weight though!
I'll be starting this stack up in the next day or so, probably tomorrow since I'm so excited. I already cracked into the Jack3d and BCAAs for tonight's back workout. I'm not a big fan of fruit punch, and both the Jack3d and BCAAs are that flavor. I won't be rating taste on a scale of 1 to 10 because of that though. In fact, the only flavor I find worse than fruit punch, is watermelon. This goes for anything. I'm more of a grape, strawberry, apple kind of guy. I give mixability on the Jack3d and BCAAs about a 9 though. It was pretty smooth!
So buckle in, and let's get to work!
Thanks again USP and PES!
Excited for this run?Hardcore Purus Labs {Rep}
Lift the fücking weight from the floor, or leave it on the ground. The thoughts are supposed to be daunting. The pain is meant to be tormenting.
My current diet:
4 whole eggs
2 slices Ezekiel bread
Shake (1.5 cups milk, 2 handfuls berries, 2 scoops whey, blender)
10oz ground beefalo (hybrid cattle, bison and cow, low fat) prepared with taco seasoning
1 tbl spoon salsa
sprinkling of shredded cheese
1/4 cup frozen spinach
10oz chicken breast
1 whole potato (sometimes white, sometimes sweet)
1/2 cup veggies
3:30pm (preworkout)
1 cup plain greek yogurt
2 apples
7pm (post-workout)
Shake (1.5 cups milk, 1 banana, 1 handful berries, 2 scoops whey, blender)
8oz steak
Large salad
Damn you, jumping in already? So, you changing anything in your diet for this or you going to keep everything the same and see how the supps treat you?
Oh, btw, don't hurt yourself again.
dang it...you guys are lucky...usp labs are doing big things these days...lovin the beard
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Hardcore Purus Labs {Rep}
Lift the fücking weight from the floor, or leave it on the ground. The thoughts are supposed to be daunting. The pain is meant to be tormenting.
I did deadlifts tonight. Doctor said no deadlifts for at least a month. Screw it! I pick things up and put them down!
Current Workout info:
I'm in school two nights a week, and usually one day every weekend is occupied so I can't lift. That leaves about four days a week to lift. Occasionally I get lucky and squeeze in a fifth. My current split is as follows:
If I get a fifth day, it may be arms, or I'll just start over and something gets lucky and gets hit twice that week.
I'm lifting for strength and hypertrophy. I usually start with a heavy compound lift (bench, deadlift, squat,military press) for 5 sets of 3-5 reps, then I finish out the rest of the workout with sets of 3 in the 8-10 range. I often do drop sets on the final set of each exercise.
Thursday, March 15:
I absolutely killed it at the gym last night! On the once a week or so occasion that I go to the gym, I love it when it lands on leg day. My favorite part is doing calf presses on the leg press machine. I loaded up 12 plates and did 5 sets of 12 reps. My calves were loving that!
I'm still going lighter on squats right now, so I didn't go over 225lbs. For those not in the know, a little over 3 weeks ago, I was deadlifting and something snapped in my lower back. I went to the doctor because I couldn't stand up straight and I was barely able to walk. The pain was excrutiating. I didn't work out for a week and a half just waiting for it to heal, and I'm still having pain when I sit down.
I did a few other things like hack squats, Romanian deads, ham curls, leg extensions, then finished it off with some ab work. I hate ab work. I hardly ever do it. Usually, and it happened last night, when doing ab work, I get this intense pain where it feels like one of my ab muscles just curls up in a huge knot. It's quite crippling for a few minutes. Cardio didn't last long. I think I made 7 minutes on the stair climber. My legs were beat!
One thing that's a real head trip is drinking clear BCAA's that taste like fruit punch. Weird.
I'm pretty stim sensitive, and most of the time I'm flying high on one scoop of any preworkout. I haven't noticed anything irregular with the Jack3d yet. It's fairly mild thus far.
Yesterday was my first day, so I don't know if the Compound 20 and Erase Pro are doing anything yet, but I had one of the best nights of sleep in a loooooong time last night. I was even on my girlfriend's super hard bed last night. For those that caught my last log, AgeForce Melatonin Patch, you know that sleeping usually isn't very restful for me.
I haven't measured my bodyfat yet. I forgot to do that on Thursday morning when I started, and I stayed at my girlfriend's house last night, so I couldn't do it this morning. I'll try to remember to grab my calipers in the morning and check it out.
Using my crappy calipers and the 3 folds pinch method, my current bodyfat is 20%. I pinched a 66, which according to my chart is right on the line of 19% and 20%.
Now some comparisons.
My previous before and after pictures were 200 lbs at 20% bodyfat, and 175 lbs at 10% bodyfat, respectively.
The corresponding lean mass weights are 160 lbs and 157.5 lbs. Meaning that of the 25 lbs I lost during that 12 week cut, 2.5 lbs was muscle.
By the same calculations, right now at 232 lbs with 20% bodyfat, my lean mass weight is 185.6 lbs.
That's a gain of 28.1 lbs of muscle in 18 months.
Let's see if this C20 and Erase Pro can help me shed that bodyfat without any loss of muscle. Optimally, because of C20's recomposition properties, I'd like to see a higher lean mass weight at the end.
Friday, March 16th:
I did a quick chest workout when I got home while waiting for my girlfriend to come over. Started out with Incline Bench press x3 plus warmups, then heavy flat bench press x5 plus warmups. Moved on to superset Incline DB press with Pushups (x3). I finished it off with low weight decline DB press to really pump it up. I was feeling pretty good. I love that swole chest feeling.
My girl came over, and we went and ate chinese food. My favorite! I don't eat out a lot, maybe once or twice a month. I allowed this indulgence at the beginning, because I'll be dropping cals from here on out.
Saturday, March 17th:
Parades suck, let's pound iron!
Woke up at about 9am, ate breakfast, waited about 45 min, drank my Jack3d, waited another 35min, then hit a shoulder workout!
I'm going to post up my entire workout. Shoulders are a bit higher volume for me. I've found that it takes higher volume to make my shoulders grow. I know they look kind of flat in my pictures, but at lower bodyfat, they don't look bad. They didn't really start growing for me until I started higher volume.
Military Press: 5 sets, 5 reps, 150 lbs
Behind the Neck Military Press: 3 sets, 8 reps, 100 lbs
Side Lateral Raises: 3 sets, 10 reps, 25 lbs
Superset with
Front Lateral Raises: 3 sets, 10 reps, 25 lbs
Supermans: 3 sets, 10 reps, 50 lbs
Superset with
Rear Lateral Raises: 3 sets, 10 reps, 35 lbs
Cable Face Pulls: 3 sets, 10 reps, 55 lbs
Superset with
Upright Rows: 3 sets, 7 reps, 100 lbs
Shrugs: 3 sets, 10 reps, 275 lbs
Dumbbell Shrugs: 3 sets, 15 reps, 45 lbs (burn in to pump the traps)
Dumbbell Shoulder Press: 3 sets, 10 reps, 45 lbs (losing steam)
Reverse Grip Military Press: 2 sets, 15 reps, 45 lbs (burn in to get that pump at the end)
My shrugs, like my deadlifts, are staying a bit lighter as I work my way back up from lower back injury.
Then I finished out with a 25 minute jog. I'm beat!
Third day on C20 and Erase Pro. I don't notice any real change in body composition yet.
Sunday, March 18th:
I hit up an arms workout, but wasn't motivated enough to do any cardio. I need a stair climber in my living room or something.
I started off with some dips and chin-ups, just banging out as many as I could for 3 sets of each. Moved on to Skullcrushers for 5x5, then straight barbell curls for 6reps x 5sets (need to increase weight next week). Worked out a nice pump by supersetting tricep rope pulldowns and hammer curls at about 10 reps each for 3 sets. Then moved onto forearms with barbell forearm curls and that little rope on a stick thing that you twist (I call it the Forearm Blaster).
Arms is something I'm going to try doing a more dedicated day of. I've always done arms linked with another day whether that was chest/tri and back/bi or chest/bi and back/tri, but I feel my arms are lacking in comparison to the rest of my body. So for the past couple of weeks, I've split them off when I could.
I'm feeling pretty hungry all the time now. The only thing I've adjusted in my diet so far was cut out the cheese on my salad last night, and in my taco meat today. I bought a light oil based dressing instead of the creamy caesar dressing I've been using, but won't switch to that until I run out in a few more days. That should cut just a few more calories out. I was maintaining fairly well on what I was eating, so with the addition of the C20 and Erase Pro, I don't think I should cut many calories right off the bat. We'll see. I've plenty of time to adjust.
Tuesday, March 20th:
No workout on Monday because of school after work.
I had a great back workout tonight though!
Snapped this pic cuz I thought it looked good.
The workout:
Wide Grip Pullups: 5 sets, 5 reps, bodyweight
Lat pulldowns: 3 sets, 8 reps, 140 lbs
Behind Neck Pulldowns: 3 sets, 8 reps, 100 lbs
Cable Rows: 3 sets, 10 reps, 150 lbs
Wide Grip Cable Rows: 3 sets, 10 reps, 110 lbs
One-arm Dumbbell Rows: 3 sets, 10 reps, 65 lbs
Deadlifts: 3 sets, 10 reps, 135 lbs
Deadlifts are staying low for awhile since my back is still hurting. I'm hoping I can lift that weight back up again soon. It sucks not being able to pull the big weights.
Since it's raining all this week, I don't have much chance for cardio. I don't finish my workout in time to make it up to the clubhouse to run on the treadmill before they close up. I can't run outside because that's no fun getting drenched. So tonight I hit the punching bag. I'm not sure how my neighbors below me feel about that, but they haven't complained yet. I don't do it for too long, as I get fatigued really quickly. It takes a lot out of you!
Update to how I feel.... Hungry! More now than I used to.
Will weigh myself again at the one week mark.
No workout last night because of classes again, but an update to my progress.
This morning while doing dishes after breakfast, I noticed more veins than usual in my forearms. Also, it appears that my chest is tightening up a bit. My shoulders feel bigger. I don't know if they're actually bigger, or if I can just feel the muscles easier because of leaning out. I just know that when I put my hand on my shoulder, it feels different, more solid.
Also, I have acne popping up more abundantly on my shoulders, and my hunger is still crazy.
I don't really notice any change in my stomach region yet, but it's early.
I'll be hitting up the gym for a leg workout this evening!
Thursday/Friday, March 22nd & 23rd:
I was feeling great all day yesterday! I had some extra energy coming from somewhere. I felt so good, that after I took my Jack3d on the way to the gym, I started getting this anxious feeling. It was weird.
I pounded out a solid leg day at the gym. My legs are sore this morning!
Weighed myself this morning. Came in 2 lbs lighter at 230 lbs after one week. Also, my belt is feeling more loose. I think I'll be cinching up a notch soon. The only calories I've cut were about 200 calories in shredded cheese. Crazy!
Your workout looks like a modification (higher volume) of the NeedSize 5x5 I found recently. Is it? Or is it something you have evolved into? Looks similar to what I used to do. Minus the military. I would only do bench, deads, squats. 3x a week.
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Smiles, hugs, champagne and salmon were plentiful at the 5th Annual Kenai River Women's Classic. Sixty-eight of Alaska's top business leaders cashed in on good weather and silver salmon fishing. "No Mother Nature doesn't have a sexual bias, she has a fear of Purcell!" joked KTUU Channel 2's meteorologist Jackie Purcell. Purcell has been the ladies only events emcee since its inaugural year which has seen beautiful autumn weather without exception. "We had to use lines to catch the fish today there was no wireless fishing, but in the future who knows anything is possible and we do have a passion for bringing the latest technology to Alaskans," commented Alaska Communications director Heather Cavanaugh.
Plenty of pinks and silvers were online for anglers during the annual fundraising fishing event, which is organized by Kenai River Sportfishing Association (KRSA). Proceeds from participant fees, sponsorships and a live and silent auction go to KRSA's fishery conservation programs and the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce Camp Startup Scholarship Program. The Chamber's Athena Society provides scholarship funding for young Alaskan women who aspire to own their own companies someday to attend an entrepreneurial skills camp each summer. "The first year we had 38 participants and this year we had 68, so it's growing popularity across the state and was a huge success on every level," said Kenai River Women's Classic Chair Kristin Mellinger, of Soldotna. "The fishing was great, the weather was cooperative and we successfully raised some money for the Kenai River."
The winning silver weighed in at 13.2 pounds, caught by Tara Sweeney senior vice president of external affairs for Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. "I was ecstatic when the fish hit the line, this was the first fish I've ever caught on the Kenai even though fishing has been a way of life for my people forever, it was trilling and I'm so excited to be a part of this event," Sweeney told the Dispatch in an interview. Second place was captured by Terri Good of Premera Blue Cross of Alaska at 10.9 pounds and coming in third place at 10.8 pounds was Kara Moriarty of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association.
Participants in the women's fishing, networking and fundraising event enjoyed two sun-filled mornings of silver salmon fishing with professional guides. They also attended a kick-off, riverside barbecue, and a dinner and auction at the Challenger Learning Center that featured a three-member panel discussion on leadership, mentoring and management skills. Elaina and Ted Spraker held a women on target shooting event where the ladies emptied their pistols at a charging bear (a target on skids pulled by a four-wheeler). "It was a hoot!" said Kelly Hanke, KRSA event coordinator. "But we had a number of volunteers that coordinated other day events that were really great too." Some opted to take a tour of river restoration projects, learn new salmon recipes with Bunny Swan Gease or go to the spa.
Sponsors of the 2012 Kenai River Women's Classic include title sponsor GCI, and event sponsors ConocoPhillips, Premera Blue Cross of Alaska, the Pebble Partnership, AngloAmerican, Harvey Gulf, and Corvus Gold. Dozens of volunteers and businesses from the Kenai Soldotna area donated their time or products and services to make the event a success.
Kenai River Sportfishing Association (KRSA) is a non-profit, membership-based educational and conservation organization of sport anglers, conservationists and others whose primary goal is to preserve and improve salmon habitat while promoting responsible sport fishing on the Kenai River. Learn more at www.krsa.com.


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What is the Alternative Vote, aka AV?
On May 5th 2011, there will be a referendum on whether or not to change the British voting system, from First Past The Post to the Alternative Vote. This video explains simply and clearly how AV works. It is conceptually a bit more complicated than FPTP, but probably fairer with the added benefit of requiring MPs to appeal to a broader base.


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GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS -- Commissioner Jeff Whitmire inherited a difficult situation when he succeeded Johnny Waldrip as county commissioner for precinct one in January.
A county employee at the precinct one barn came forward after Whitmire took office, accusing two co-workers of stealing gas from the county.
"Taking gasoline and using it for their own personal use," Sheriff Keith Gary said.
The sheriff's office began investigating and the employees were fired.
The case was handed over to the district attorney's office Friday, where charges are expected to be filed in the coming days.
The dilemma for Whitmire is that employees might have known of the alleged gas theft for months before telling authorities.
"When I talked to other employees about, there were people who had possibly heard rumors about it, that type of thing, but they were concerned about their getting fired if they turned someone in," Whitmire said.
Whitmire brought that sentiment to his fellow commissioners this morning, with the goal of creating an anonymous tip line for county employees.
They decided to stick to the county's current online tip line, instead of creating a new phone hotline.
"What we've been doing is very, very successful," Gary said.
"We need to do everything we can to try to get people to stop these things before they get too far away," Whitmire said.


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I posted this at the XT6.net board but thought some here may be interested in something like this as well. I'm sure the XT6s aren't the only scoobies that have the trip computer installed that displays the outside temperature. Well, I took the probe and installed it into the intake so I can monitor the air intake temperature. Here's what I posted....
"Hey All,
I located the outside temperature probe that displays the outside temperature in our (XT6s) trip computer. I wanted to somehow install it into the intake so I can monitor the air intake temperature. I plan on doing this on both of my XT6s so we can compare how a cold air intake is vs one that is sucking air in from the engine bay.
I took some pictures so that if those that are not familiar with where the temp probe is, they locate it and try this for themselves. This could be a good experiment to see just how cool the snorkus works, especially one routed to the passenger side headlight.
Pic# 1 is of the probe itself. It's located just above the power steering pump(On XT6s) near the firewall. It's the blue wire that ends in a black plastic tip. It has one bolt holding it down (8mm I believe).
Pic#2 is with the one screw removed from the firewall part. It's hard to see but there is another tiny screw that needs a philips screwdriver to remove it. It is what holds the plastic piece to where the blue wire comes into the black probe part.
Pic #3 is with the probe in the intake. I wanted to use a rubber vacuum hose and metal clamps but I didn't have a rubber hose big enough to house the blue wire and the plastic piece. Duct tape is always nice. It's far enough into the intake where half of the probe is in the path of the air rushing in. The other half is in the vacuum nipple part but there is room around the probe itself in there so air can circulate around it.
I'm not concerned with the probe piece being sucked off into the intake as it seems pretty secure. Should be interesting to see just how cold/cool the air is coming in.
I'm sure some of you have tried this on other Subbies with the trip computer but I was looking and didn't see any info posted on this, so I posted up.
Any thoughts?
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Outside Temp Probe installed in Intake
Started by Myxalplyx , Nov 14 2004 03:58 PM
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Posted 14 November 2004 - 03:58 PM
Posted 14 November 2004 - 04:15 PM
Damn good idea. Let us know what you find.
Posted 14 November 2004 - 05:48 PM
Cool idea Kevin. I never thought of that.
Now to find where the probe is on my wagon...
Now to find where the probe is on my wagon...
Posted 14 November 2004 - 06:50 PM
My RX doesnt have one....
Posted 14 November 2004 - 07:30 PM
Dude I have been wanting to do that for the longest time!!! Cool that someone finally used this really cool feature for something that can really be informative. Lets see outside temp, put hand to window, ya it is cold, there is your thermometer, now put one on the intake yea!!!! Awsome post and let us know how it works.
I was thinking about putting one inside my IC at the outlet side. In the FSM it states it has a range of -22 to 176 deg F I think that would be perfect for downstream IC temp probe, upstream I don't know I think it would excede that range. Totally let us know how it goes.
I was thinking about putting one inside my IC at the outlet side. In the FSM it states it has a range of -22 to 176 deg F I think that would be perfect for downstream IC temp probe, upstream I don't know I think it would excede that range. Totally let us know how it goes.
Posted 14 November 2004 - 08:47 PM
thats a great idea, theres one more reason to figure out how to stick the trip computer in my hatch =]
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"I'll start the book, it'll be like my next Lily and Spencer book [the characters from her novel The Girl in Times Square] and then you'll come in and do your thing," Simons said to Rankin, the man who created the 19-book series focusing on Scotland's best detective Inspector Rebus.
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A man accused of multiple murders on the west coast is now considered a suspect in multiple murders here.
Suspected serial killer Samuel Little is now a prime suspect in murders in Tallahassee and three surrounding counties.
Samuel Little was indicted in Los Angeles this week for the strangulation murders of three women back in the 1980's.
Detectives there are scouring cold cases to see if he's linked to any more.
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Court records show he went to prison for stealing $300 worth of steaks and electronics from the Walmart on West Tennessee.
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Barack Obama's relationship with American progressives is like a bad marriage. In 2008 he made all sorts of vows and promised to be faithful. Hardly had he taken office - brought there by our door-knocking, our phone calls and our votes - when he started jumping into bed with our rivals: the rich, the powerful, the warmakers, the reactionaries of all sorts.
Like so many unfaithful spouses, though, every so often he gives us a gift to try to set things right and keep our loyalty. Tom Hayden and Juan Cole are the latest major figures in the progressive movement who urge us to appreciate these gifts and keep the marriage alive. Like most influential progressives, they offer lists to prove their point: Obama supported health care reform, the stimulus package, bringing troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan, support for gay rights, curbs on deportations, etcetera, etcetera.
But this laundry-list approach misses the greatest gift that Obama is giving progressives, the one that's on the order of the new car the philanderer gives the betrayed spouse for Christmas. It's not a specific policy. It's a narrative frame:
"Our destinies are bound together," as Obama said in his acceptance speech. "A freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity, is unworthy of our founding ideals." We "believe in a country where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules," he said.
"We travel together. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up."
Many progressives won't appreciate that this narrative is a gift. Some will continue to press for a divorce. That's because they judge Obama, and all the rest of the politicians, only by their specific policy positions. Few progressives realize how absolutely crucial narrative is to political success.
But professional politicians, who judge success by how many elections they win, know it very well. As the Democrats' veteran pollster and strategist Stanley Greenberg once wrote, if you want to win a presidential election, "A narrative is the key to everything." Candidate Obama proved that he understood that very well.
Strangely, once he entered the White House, Obama seemed to forget it, as he admitted to an interviewer a few months ago: "The mistake of my first term - [first] couple of years - was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right. And that's important. But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times."
That's not just the nature of the presidency. It's the nature of politics. Every candidate who wants to win, and every movement that wants to succeed, has to tell the American people that kind of inspiring story.
Ever since Ronald Reagan's 1980 victory, baffled progressives have stared at polls showing a majority of Americans agreeing with progressive positions on a host of issues, while at the same time a majority vote for Republicans or centrist Democrats who don't support those popular positions.
"What's going on here?" progressives ruefully ask each other. Then we go out and offer the public more facts and logical arguments to support their positions, with no compelling narrative to create the sense of unity and purpose and optimism that most voters crave. And the progressive impact in the political arena continues to be extremely modest, to put it politely.
But now, unexpectedly, we progressives are getting the gift of a chance to be effective. A president is putting a narrative that we can wholeheartedly embrace into the center of mainstream political discourse: it's selfish individualism versus the common good - "You're on your own" versus "We're all in it together and we pull each other up" - and the well-being of every ordinary American is at stake.
Isn't that the very heart of the progressive message, the message that Hayden spelled out in the Port Huron Statement exactly 50 years ago? It's no coincidence that Hayden is now urging us to support a president who is staking his re-election on that story.
Franklin Roosevelt staked his 1936 re-election campaign on the same story. But it hasn't happened since. In the intervening three quarters of a century, the progressive narrative has been largely ignored by presidential candidates, and by most Democratic candidates for lesser offices too. Now Obama has put it back in the center of the political stage. What a gift!
Of course that doesn't mean that if Obama wins he'll be miraculously transformed into a real progressive. He'll probably be the same moderate Democrat he's always been, cheating on the progressives who once loved him.
But if Obama wins, the political conversation in this country will hardly be the same. When a candidate wins, his or her narrative wins. If the progressive story triumphs on Election Day, mainstream politicians and the mainstream media will no longer be able to dismiss it as irrelevant "60s radicalism." The narrative will be part of mainstream American politics. That's the gift Obama is offering to progressives.
What happens after an Obama victory depends in large part on how wisely progressives can take advantage of the new political atmosphere that victory would create. That's not Obama's job. It's our job.
And it's not a very hard job. It's no great challenge to tell the progressive story in a way that gives most Americans a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times. When Roosevelt did it, he was far from the first great American to do it. There was his cousin Theodore before him, and Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln before TR. After FDR, Dr. Martin Luther King did it more radically than any. And his birthday became a national holiday.
They all proved that progressivism is patriotic. The story of unlimited opportunity and endless new frontiers - a distinctively "made in America" story of a better future for all through cooperation and justice - is as American as apple pie. If we progressives get over our fear of patriotism and stop ignoring the power of a great story, our opportunity can be unlimited, too.
That's the chance Obama is offering us.
A smart spouse who gets a lavish gift doesn't expect it to signal a change of the giver's heart. But a smart spouse takes the gift anyway, says thank you and makes the most of it. Let's remember, though, that Obama's gift is useless unless he wins on Election Day.


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Altruism connected to size of grey matter
What makes a person altruistic? Philosophers throughout the ages often pondered the question but failed to get concrete answers. New research from the University of Zurich in Switzerland shows that the answer may lie in our brains, or more accurately, that the volume of a small brain region can influences one's predisposition for altruistic behaviour. The results, presented in the journal
, indicate that individuals who behave more altruistically than others have more grey matter at the junction between the parietal and temporal lobe. This shows for the very first time that there is a connection between brain anatomy, brain activity and altruistic behaviour.
The junction (yellow) between the parietal and the temporal lobes, in which the relative proportion of grey matter is significantly positively correlated with the propensity for altruistic behaviour.
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Contary to past studies that showed that social categories like gender, income or education cannot fully explain differences in altruistic behaviour, recent research in the area of neuroscience have demonstrated that differences in brain structure might be linked to differences in personality traits and abilities. Now, for the first time, a team of researchers from the University of Zurich, headed by Ernst Fehr, the director of the Department of Economics, demonstrates that there is a connection between brain anatomy and altruistic behaviour.
For their study, the researchers asked volunteers to divide money between themselves and someone else who was anonymous. The participants always had the option of sacrificing a certain portion of the money for the benefit of the other person. The monetary sacrifice was considered to be altruistic because it helped someone else at one's own expense. The researchers found major differences in this respect: some participants were almost never willing to sacrifice money to benefit others while others behaved very altruistically.
Previous studies showed that the place where the parietal and temporal lobes meet is linked to the ability to put oneself in someone else's shoes in order to understand their thoughts and feelings, an ability the researchers considered closely related to altruism.
So the team hypothesised that individual differences in this part of the brain might be linked to differences in altruistic behaviour. And, according to Yosuke Morishima, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich, they were right: 'People who behaved more altruistically also had a higher proportion of grey matter at the junction between the parietal and temporal lobes.'
The researchers also discovered that the subjects displayed marked differences in brain activity while they were deciding how to split up the money. In the case of selfish people, the small brain region behind the ear is already active when the cost of altruistic behaviour is very low. In altruistic people, however, this brain region only becomes more active when the cost is very high. The brain region is activated especially strongly when people reach the limits of their willingness to behave altruistically. The reason, the researchers suspect, is that this is when there is the greatest need to overcome man's natural self-centeredness by activating this brain region.
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- Lower-cost insurance could come at the cost of fewer choices of health care providers
- Aaron Carroll: Insurance companies have been doing this for years to keep costs down
- He says just as there's no policy that is perfect, there are tradeoffs to Obamacare
- Carroll: One way to fix this is to have a public option, which might have a larger network
It seems difficult to open a paper, turn on TV or visit a website these days without hearing some awful new "discovery" about Obamacare and how it's going to end the world. More often than not, these claims are overblown, designed to get attention and score political points.
This week, the New York Times published an article explaining that the savings many people hope to see in lower-cost insurance could come at the cost of fewer choices with respect to health care providers. This is very true.
If we want to be realistic about health care reform, we have to acknowledge that everything comes with a tradeoff.
In order to make insurance cost less, private insurance companies have to make use of the tools available to them.
In the past, they could have tried preferentially to cover healthier people and refuse coverage to those with chronic conditions. That leaves a cheaper risk pool, which results in lower premiums.
But Obamacare no longer allows that. If we want guaranteed issue and community ratings (so that no one can be denied insurance and no one can be charged more for being sick), then insurance companies must use other strategies to save money.
In the past, insurance companies could have tried to issue policies that didn't cover as much. Policies with skimpier benefits are cheaper, too. But Obamacare sets minimums with respect to what qualifies as comprehensive coverage. So that tool was taken away as well.
In the past, insurance companies could have set lower annual or lifetime limits, which confines their risk and allows them to sell insurance at a lower price. Or, they could have set really high deductibles or out-of-pocket maximums. These, too, are now more tightly regulated.
So what's left? How can insurance companies make health care cheaper so that they can deliver lower premiums to people and attract more business?
Well, one thing they could do is limit their administrative costs. But if you ask insurance companies, they tell you that they are already running pretty lean. They also like to make a nice profit, and they like to pay their executives well. So they are left with one really good option: Pay less for care.
How do they do this?
One way they've been doing it for years is to contract with certain doctors and hospitals to provide care for their beneficiaries for less money. Providers will agree to this because it guarantees them a certain amount of business. Insurance companies like it because it means they can pay less, charge lower premiums and sell more policies. And that is how many plans in the health care exchanges will compete for your business.
Please understand that this is nothing new with respect to health insurance. At my job, there are a number of different plans offered to employees. The most expensive plan allows us to see the widest range of physicians. There's a cheaper plan available, but my kids' pediatrician (whom we revere) isn't in that network. So we pay for the more expensive plan. That's a choice we make as informed consumers.
Problems will arise if people don't understand what they are getting into. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
If you buy the cheapest plan, it may not include the doctor you want. If choice is your No. 1 goal, then you will probably have to pay for it. What makes this a problem for Obamacare, though, is that some health exchanges aren't offering a choice. For instance, in New Hampshire, only one insurance company is offering exchange plans, and it has a rather limited network.
If you were previously uninsured, then the most straightforward argument is that the plan you're getting, probably with subsidies to make it cheaper, is better than nothing. But some people, who might have had individually issued policies before Obamacare with larger networks, will not be happy with their new plans. They may be cheaper, but they may have preferred to pay more for choice, and now they won't be able to.
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So it's totally possible to offer more choice. But that will require politicians to work together to amend the law to make it better.
It will be instructive to watch how people react to news like this. If they are truly concerned about fixing this problem, then they will seek solutions to do so. If they use this issue only to demagogue against the entire law, though, it's likely that they care more about politics than policy.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan's former envoy to China says his country erred in choosing to buy islands claimed by both Japan and China last fall, infuriating Beijing, and now both sides have no choice but to allow the issue to cool.
Uichiro Niwa, a former trading house executive who served as ambassador to Beijing from mid-2010 until late last year, told reporters on Monday that the purchase of the uninhabited islands in the East China Sea by Japan's central government was poorly timed and seemed driven by factors he could not explain.
"They may have had access to information that I didn't know," Niwa said at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. "But from my personal point of view the timing was bad."
Niwa, the first private sector figure to be chosen as ambassador to China, found himself at odds with the Japanese government, especially after then-Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda pushed ahead with a plan to buy several of the islands from their private owner.
The purchase was apparently aimed at pre-empting a plan by outspoken Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara to not only buy the islands but develop them, but Beijing was outraged. The islands, known as the Diaoyu in China and the Senkakus in Japan, have been under Japanese control for decades, but Beijing says they have been Chinese territory for centuries. Taiwan also claims them.
The purchase prompted sometimes violent anti-Japanese protests in China and hammered exports to Japan's biggest overseas market.
"The Japanese government should have taken into account the possibility that this may have been a point of contention," Niwa said. At the very least, he said, Japan needed to provide "a better explanation to China and to the international community."
Niwa, whose former company Itochu Corp. has extensive interests in China, faced criticism from some in Japan for not being tough enough toward China regarding the disputed islands, which are surrounded by rich fishing grounds and a potential wealth of gas, oil and other undersea resources.
The first envoy named to replace Niwa, Shinichi Nishimiya, died before he could take up his position in Beijing, which was later filled by veteran diplomat Masato Kitera.
Apart from confrontations between Chinese and Japanese vessels near the islands, both sides have scrambled fighter jets to trail each other's planes, raising the risk of missteps that could lead to a clash.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who took office a month ago following a landslide parliamentary election victory by the Liberal Democratic Party, appears to be seeking to cool tensions.
Last week, a senior envoy conveyed a letter from Abe to Chinese leader Xi Jinping that struck a cordial tone and noted the two sides' "shared responsibility for peace and prosperity" in the region.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama arrived in China on Monday in the latest effort to use diplomatic backchannels to improve ties. Former prime minister Yukio Hatoyama also recently visited. Both senior leaders are considered friendly to China.
Niwa said that based on his many meetings with top communist party officials, he believed Beijing would not want the territorial tensions to veer into armed conflict.
But he said he believed the Chinese side viewed Tokyo's actions as a violation of an unstated agreement to avoid raising the dispute.
"There was a feeling on the Chinese side that Japan violated a relationship of trust," he said. Coming shortly after a meeting between Noda and Chinese President Hu Jintao, it was viewed in Beijing as an "insult."
"It is unfortunate the Japanese side misread the situation," he said.
Commenting on the ongoing dispute, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Monday emphasized the need for the sides to "overcome the prominent difficulty and work toward the strategic mutually beneficial relations between China and Japan."
However, Hong also expressed concern about a report that Japan was boosting defense spending, in part to deal with increased Chinese activity around the islands.
"We hope Japan can take the path of peaceful growth, respect the concerns of other countries in the region, learn from history and focus their efforts more on regional peace and stability," Hong said at a regularly scheduled press briefing.
Niwa said that regardless of why relations between China and Japan have deteriorated, given their close relations as neighbors and trading partners, both sides have no choice but to take a break and cool off.
"If we were a married couple, we could opt for a divorce, but we cannot," Niwa said. "There is simply no other choice."


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Philly Productions... Capturing Memories to Cherish for a Lifetime.
Philly Productions focuses on capturing the excitement, energy, and emotions of your big day allowing you to relive those special moments. We will capture your wedding story and showcase all the special details of your day. We pride ourselves on capturing amazing images and editing them in a creative way that will compliment each couples' unique personality. We will focus on all the details of your big day in an unobtrusive & professional manner.
As a husband and wife team, we know the importance in providing couples with professional wedding services at an affordable price. We value each couple & client and take pride in the work that we provide to them. Philly Productions has an amazing team of photographers, videographers, and editors - all of which are highly trained and professional experts in their field. We are committed to helping our brides & grooms capture memories to cherish for a lifetime.
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Philly Productions has divisions in Southeast Michigan and Central Florida.
Our Story
Philip & Kelly Bicy, owners & operators of Philly Productions, have been married for over 12 years and are the proud parents of three beautiful little girls.
Philip attended Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, where he obtained hands on experience as a camera-man, film-maker, and videographer. As the Director of Videography & Editing, he oversees the creative aspect of both the photograph/videography and editing. His experience in wedding videography started while working for various local companies as a freelance camera-man/videographer. In addition to wedding videography, Philip produces music videos, commercials, short films and more as a full service Film Production company.
Kelly's professional experience is in marketing, sales, and recruiting. As the Director of Sales & Marketing, she guides couples through the process from the initial phone call through the delivery ensuring that the couples' vision is carried out.
The Bottom Line
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You will want to remember the sights and sounds of this day for the rest of your life. Don't miss reliving the fresh romance and young love that was budding on your wedding day. Watching your wedding video will evoke emotions and memories from that wonderful day. Memories that have almost been long forgotten. It will touch your heart to see your mom fighting back her tears as she helps you with your veil and will fill you with enthusiasm as you watch your bridesmaids cheering you on. You'll remember how tight your dad held you and what he whispered in your ear as you marched down the aisle. You will hear the words your fiance said to you and see those precious glances and loving caresses.
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2. Life is not a dress rehearsal. Memories are priceless and you can't get those moments back. You can, however, memorialize them with video and keep those memories near and dear to you for generations to come.
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7. Unfortunately, sometimes we experience loss. Losing someone that is important in our lives is hard to overcome. Although it is a tragic reality, it is comforting for many people to remember that they have a wedding film where they can hear and see that person again.
8. Peace of mind in knowing that you took advantage of a wonderful opportunity. We hear so many couples say how they wished they had hired a professional wedding videographer. These regretful couples offer many reasons why they initially opted not to book videography including money savings or being over budget, fear of being intruded upon on their big day, deciding to have a friend film the wedding, and just not seeing it as a necessity. Overwhelmingly, these couples tell us that opting out of video was their biggest wedding day regret.
We are committed to helping couples obtain wedding videography coverage on their big day. We are passionate about providing a service that will help couples "capture memories to cherish for a lifetime". We will work with you to customize a video package for your specific needs and budget. Most importantly, we will provide quality coverage without being intrusive, in your face, or in your way. We capture real footage as it happens without forcing shots or asking your guests to pose, act rehearsed, or feel uncomfortable. We would love the opportunity to show you how you can incorporate a quality video for your big day, on your terms, so that you can enjoy the benefits without any regret.
9. Preserving quality memories. Many couples ultimately decide to have a friend record their video and save some money. Although this might sound like a good plan in theory, the reality is that your friends and family are coming to your wedding to… well… SEE you get married. They want to join in the activities and enjoy the day WITH you. Needless to say, many times this results in missed footage, technical difficulties, and a lack of quality. Not the results that you would want to memorialize your wedding day.
Hiring a professional videographer is quite different from having a family friend do it as a favor. This is YOUR wedding we're talking about - make sure that the important aspect of preserving the memory isn't left to an amateur. At Philly Productions, our videographers have degrees and experience with all facets of film production, videography, editing, and audio/visual. We do not just set a camera on a tri-pod and record. We utilize professional videography cameras and equipment, but most importantly, we use creative angles to capture wonderful shots, we utilize wireless mics to capture clear, crisp sound, and we tell a story… YOUR STORY… in our footage.
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Please give us a call to discuss your wedding videography preferences, vision, and budget. We would be honored to help you capture memories to cherish for a lifetime!


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My fellow stoners; pastry chefs, A&R executives, old people with YouTube channels, minor league baseball players, Lebowskifest attendees, James Cameron, Pisces and anyone else who appreciates catching a buzz --
2013 is a historic year for our subculture, which we will now refer to as just the whole, like regular, culture. Patriots in the great states of Colorado and Washington have won their battles for the legalization of marijuana, which gives regional bonafidation [sic] to our wonderful plant and way of life.
We can only hope these victories are signs of saner marijuana legislation to come, and - at the very least - should expect better music from these states in the coming years; with the exception of mainstream hip hop, which hasn't been good since 2003.
On a side note: The capitol of marijuana has been relocated to Boulder, Colorado. At dusk the blue shades of distant mountain ranges slowly dissolve into the star-filled sky. It was a no-brainer.
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have either legalized marijuana for medical purposes or somehow decriminalized it, and 10 more could do the same by the end of the year. Even Rhode Island got into the groovy mix by making possession of an ounce a non-arrestable offense. And, if Rhode Island can do something, that pretty much means every other state can do it too, right?
Still, not all of us can live in places that aren't bat shit crazy about weed. That is why we, as a culture of marijuana enthusiasts, need to be more outspoken about our affinity for smoking fatties. We should not retreat to our homes to toke up but instead blaze blunts on beaches and in the streets – from the highest mountains and atop the tallest structures made by man!
[hold for applause]
The era of the closeted stoner is over and in its place will soon be an America where all citizens can enjoy a paranoia-free buzz whenever and wherever they want. And, if you doubt my vision for our nation, just look at the everyday cannabis-loving citizens you share this great country with.
… This winter I visited with Celia and Stephen Rigby in Huntington, New York. Celia and Stephen are amazing examples of ganja evangelists. From the Phish bumper sticker on their station wagon to the Cheech and Chong DVDs they pass out at Christmas, these two wear their hearts on their hemp-sewn sleeves.
"I actually don't care much for Phish's music," Celia said as she programmed her DVR to record a Mob Wives marathon. "But is there any better calling card for being a stoner than a Phish bumper sticker? Not a chance, sundance!"
Stephen, on the other hand, told me his outward stance on reefer is based on regrets. "Three years went by before we knew our next-door neighbor smoked weed," he said while staring into a styrofoam container of crab rangoon. "I think back to all the bongs we could have smoked and it breaks my friggin' heart, man. Never again."
Another progressively proud pothead is Richard Simpkins of Springdale, Arkansas. Richard owns Green River Kayaking, an adventure company that partakes in routine safety meetings before its trips down backwood waterways. "Safety meetings is code for smokefests," Richard shared as he placed a plastic-wrapped pipe in his cockpit. "The only thing sweeter than carving through class five rapids is doing it with a marvelously mellow high."
Richard is able to coordinate his increasingly popular river trips via social media and online message boards, but has also mastered the intrapersonal art of dropping hints. "When I meet new kayakers I use the term dank as soon as possible," he explained. "I'll say it's shaping up to be a super dank day, and six out of ten peeps will know I'm totes down to match bowls."
Richard is building his chill grass-smoking community with a grassroots effort, but for others - like Sabrina Spellman of Overland Park, Kansas - a pilgrimage is required to dabble in doobers.
Sabrina - your average driven, optimistic and quasi-likeable law student - was already due to graduate at the top of her class this spring, but first wanted to partake in a college tradition that nearly passed her by.
"I've never done the weed," Sabrina shouted at me during a ten-hour adderall-fueled cramming session. The only reason she hadn't lit up a spliff over the years was because it's illegal in her state and she, like many of her naive classmates, has ambiguous political aspirations that were recently rekindled after watching House of Cards. Instead of risking her potential career she decided to take a spring break trip to Colorado for a controlled and completely legal indica initiation.
I'm happy to report Sabrina took that trip, smoked an ounce of Skywalker OG in three days, dropped out of law school and now makes ganja peanut brittle for a living. In her spare time, which is pretty extensive, she lobbies for marijuana reform. Everybody wins.
In closing, I'd like to say that the State of the Stoner is a grand one and will only get better with more honest and outward support from the people who enjoy our majestic herb. The stress-free society we so deeply desire is now, more than ever, within our grasp. Raise your voice and do your part to ensure this American dream becomes a reality.
God bless you.
God bless reefer.
And God bless the United States of America.
Written by Jason Sereno. Follow Jason on facebook and twitter.


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Met Opera
Ringing in its 125th anniversary season, the Metropolitan Opera is known world-wide as the premier venue for the world's greatest voices and as the vibrant home for the most talented artists of our day. The most widely heard opera company in the world, the Met was founded in 1883. The first Metropolitan Opera House was built on Broadway and 39th Street by a group of wealthy businessmen; decades later, the Met joined with other institutions to form the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and a new home became possible. The new, state-of-the-art facilities opened at Lincoln Center in 1966, where dozens of U.S. and world premieres have since been staged by the most imaginative directors in the industry, among them Puccini's
In celebration of its 125 years, the Met has polished the interior of the opera house, renovated its gift shop, and organized a series of special performances. The anniversary was also commemorated with a series of six Moleskine notebooks, used as company gifts and made available for purchase for Met Opera fans. Three pocket-sized books (a sketchbook, ruled notebook and music notebook) and three large books (a sketchbook, ruled notebook and memo pockets) were specially designed with the Met's signature curtain as inspiration. The curtain pattern is blind debossed on each cover, and the paperbands feature various photographs of it. An explanation of the object's history is silkscreened inside: "the Met's famed gold curtain, woven in pure silk by Scalamandré, echoes the design of the Met proscenium, and has over the years become one of the most recognizable design elements of the opera house."


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July 2013
Released: 2013, Napalm Records
Rating: 3.5/5
Reviewer: Erich
The female fronted symphonic metal genre is a crowded one, but the Dutch bands tend to rule the roost. For those unfamiliar with Delain, they are essentially a more commercial version of Within Temptation, and while that is often considered a slight in the metal world, it is not in this case. There are ties between the two bands through past members as well as ties with Epica. INTERLUDE is exactly the purpose of this album, and after leaving Roadrunner is the band's first release on Napalm Records. It is a combination of new tracks, live versions, cover tunes, and two new mixes of previous songs, designed to sustain fans until the next studio album is released. While the complete package comes with a DVD that no doubt adds to the value, this review is for the CD only. Napalm Records states, in the promotional material, "Interlude" is not only a must for loyal Delain fans, but also for those who have not experienced the music by Charlotte Wessels and her band members so far. It is the perfect introduction to the world of DELAIN and the starting point to an emotional and bombastic journey!" I guess I cannot really argue with that, even though normally that tends to be typical label hyperbole. As always, the value of these is in the worthiness of the new tracks and whether or not the die-hard fans feel the need to collect the band's covers and live tracks.
There are two new tracks, each of which is outstanding. The intro to "Breath On Me" features Charlotte Wessels, imploring in a whisper for someone to breathe on her. It is slightly annoying, but it does reveal one of the distinguishing features of her as a vocalist, compared to others in the genre. She has the ability to be seductively flirtatious in her singing, not content to be merely a technician reaching for the stratosphere. Wessels effortlessly alternates between sounding girly in one sentence to mature sophistication in the next. It is a nice contrast. The song is catchy, uncomplicated, and relies far less on symphonic keyboards than most of the band's tunes. "Collars and Suits" is more traditional, the keyboards opening the track before a detuned guitar precedes the opening verse. It is a decent tune, but the lesser of the two new ones.
The band also offers a new mix for "Are You Done With Me", the most commercial tune on the last album. The tune is now crisper, louder (gasp), and much more energetic. This new energy and versatility is most evident in Wessel's vocals and while it has single written all over it, the songs is a fine tune nonetheless. Wessel's also stretches those gorgeous vocals into the upper registers here for the first time on INTERLUDE. The other new mix is a piano ballad of the 2011 single, "We Are The Others", suddenly made melancholic and slow. I prefer the upbeat version.
There are also three cover tunes, the best and most appropriate to the band's style is "Cordell", originally recorded by The Cranberries, with Wessels singing to the accompaniment of an acoustic guitar. The original "Small Town Boy" is a cool tune by Bronski Beat, but an unimaginative choice by Delain. Their version clearly plays second fiddle to Paradise Lost's version, which has to be considered the superior and definitive cover of the original. The live tracks are well executed and recorded quite capably, but where is the crowd in the mix? Could be much of these live tracks were touched up in the studio. Either way, the band and label have included some good tunes on here, especially the new ones while the cover tunes are a novelty and for the collectors and die-hard fans. I really dig Delain, but I just cannot give a high ranking to what is basically, a compilation with a few good live tracks and one really
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01. Breathe On Me (new song)
Charlotte Wessels (vocals)


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Justin Ates and Teria'le Rawls had bright futures, until indiscriminate gunfire ended their young lives
An uneasy silence filled the room. Some of the young men held their heads in their hands. Others sat with blank expressions on white chairs arranged in a circle in the Janie's Garden community clubhouse.
Police Officer Dominic Harris, who founded the Brotherhood of Men mentorship group seven years ago to help young men from Sarasota's toughest neighborhood rise above their circumstances, spoke slowly as he addressed the group with news of one of their own.
"Remember how I tell you after every group how much I love y'all and that's the reason we are here?" Harris asked, pausing to wipe his mouth with a muscular arm. "We had a tragic situation with a member this weekend."
Justin Ates, 19, was a seven-year member of the mentorship group, a recent graduate of Sarasota Military Academy who dreamed of becoming a Navy intelligence officer.
He was shot and killed as a car drove by a house party off Proctor Road and its driver sprayed the home with bullets. Although there were nearly 70 people at the party at one point, only a handful remained when shots rang out around 4 a.m.
Just a couple of weeks earlier, Justin had been at the Brotherhood of Men meeting, a returning member eager to share how the group helped him stay out of trouble.
His death is now a cautionary tale, and a reminder of how fleeting life can be.
Justin was one of two teenagers shot to death within 48 hours last weekend. In both cases, the shootings appear indiscriminate; the victims were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Teria'le Rawls, a Riverview High School cheerleader who dreamed of becoming a veterinarian, was shot and killed in a friend's car as she left an Oneco movie theater parking lot early Monday.
The two deaths have shocked the area, particularly because both teenagers were known as good students with bright futures.
Arrests have been made in both cases, and the suspects, like the victims, are all under 21.
Darian Keith Davis, 20, of Bradenton, is charged in Ates' death; deputies found his car's title tag in a vacant lot near where Ates was shot. Detectives say Davis became enraged after a fight over a girl at the party, left to pick up a gun, then came back to shoot at the house. Ates, sitting on his Cadillac in the driveway, was hit as Davis drove past.
Frank Brice, 19, a former running back for Southeast High, and Jasper "Lamont" Dudley, also 19, were arrested and charged with murder after a witness identified them as having shot at the car in which Rawls was riding.
Episodes like these two often raise the question of why -- especially when they involve youth violence.
Local youth advocates, mentors, educators and others point to several key factors — aside from mental illness — that can contribute to violent behavior in teenagers and young adults: lack of a parent or mentor figure, exposure to violence, economic stress, and poor coping and decision-making skills.
The list is not exhaustive and does not apply to every violent outburst, but Skip Wilhoit, a youth intervention specialist at the Manatee County School District, said these are are among the most common factors in those cases he sees.
"They're living in virtual combat zones," Wilhoit said. "We meet kids every day who come into our schools suffering from unresolved trauma. When you look at kids predisposed to violence, they're exposed to it in their own homes and neighborhoods."
Most at-risk youngsters he sees often come from low-income, single-parent households.
But the other factors are never far away. For instance, even if a teenager wanted to, finding a job has become increasingly challenging.
More than 15 percent of all adults between 18 and 29 are unemployed. Among African-Americans in the same age group, about 22.5 percent are unemployed. The overall national unemployment rate is 6.2 percent.
Easy access to guns often becomes the spark that turns a young person's rage into something lethal.
As Dr. Dwight Fitch stood outside Thursday's Brotherhood of Men meeting, he likened the struggles faced by the children he mentors to those he confronted growing up on the streets of Detroit.
Fitch, an oncologist, said most of the young men in the program could easily get a gun within hours if they wanted to.
"The excuse you hear is that everyone else has one. It makes them feel big and bad," Fitch said. "When I was growing up in the 1980s, that's when it really escalated to where people got shot over a fight."
Fitch said trouble invariably arises from the mix of bad decision-making and ready access to firearms.
"They get so angry and can only see this far in front of them," he said, holding his hand inches from his nose. "If Mr. Davis had thought for a minute about what might happen if he pulled the trigger, he would have not only realized someone innocent could have died, but that his own life would be spent in prison."
But it's difficult for young people to develop coping and decision-making skills when they're worried about where their next meal may come from, or their own safety, or domestic violence in their own homes.
Said Wilhoit: "When you have people with poor coping skills, and their first response is violence, you're going to have a lot of unintended victims."
Victim's mother speaks
Justin's mother, Sharon, is passionate in praising her eldest son.
She keeps his trophies, medals and certificates across the living and dining rooms, alongside the equally impressive accomplishments of Justin's 17-year-old brother, Devin.
A RisingStar Literacy Program achievement award. A Dollar Dynasty Excellence Award. A certificate of achievement from the Jacob Lawrence Art Program.
And photos. Photos of Justin in Little League, at violin lessons, at Busch Gardens. Pictures of him kickboxing and doing volunteer work.
Sharon gingerly held a membership letter from the Order of the Knights of Pythagoras. "It's what a mother takes pride in," she said, beaming at the paper through tearful eyes.
Sharon saw Justin last Friday, when he told her he was going to a party. She was on her way to Augusta, Georgia, to pick up a friend's son who was stranded.
She got the phone call at 7:43 a.m. Saturday.
"I just said, 'Oh Lord have mercy, Jesus,'" Sharon said as she cried. "My body, my soul -- I couldn't drive. I was so far away from home."
She shook her head and closed her eyes as she wept.
"This is the one time I wasn't home, and here I'm coming back, and I have to bury my own son."
She didn't expect there to be a violent outburst at the party. Couldn't imagine that anyone — let alone her son — might die at the party.
Sharon raised her two boys with an iron hug; they were fearful of her discipline but adored her. She kept them busy with extra-curricular activites so they would not fall victim to this type of crime.
As the Ateses prepared to bury Justin on Aug. 9, Sharon worried about the families of the suspected shooters.
"Lord, that's someone's child, too. There's a family out there hurting just like mine," Sharon said. "The only difference is, my son isn't coming home."
Calls to a listed number for the father of Darian Davis, who is accused of killing Justin, were not returned.
With the exception of his recent arrest for murder, Davis has no felony arrests as an adult in Manatee or Sarasota counties. He was arrested in February 2012 on charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia in Manatee County, but those misdemeanor charges were dropped.
Earlier this year, he received a traffic citation for failing to display vehicle registration.
Stopping the violence
The mentors at Thursday's Brotherhood of Men meeting said they wished they or another group could have steered Justin's accused killer from violence.
"It starts with education and jobs," Fitch said. "Those are two of the best ways I know to expand someone's horizons."
But he estimated only about 10 percent of children who grow up in households without a stable parent are able to motivate themselves to seek out education and opportunities.
Without someone to love these teenagers, to instill in them a sense of responsibility and accountability for their actions, they can often be pulled into the orbit of troublesome peer groups, Fitch said.
That's why the Brotherhood of Men came into existence — to show these young boys, most of whom do not have fathers, that an adult male loves and cares for them.
It was also founded to show students there is more to their hometowns than Newtown.
"Some of these kids who were born and raised here have never been to Siesta Key," Fitch said. "And they don't see a way out. They walk down Martin Luther King and all they see are people standing on the same corner for five years in a row."
But the young men will see a lot more of the country later this month. Through donations, the Brotherhood of Men is taking most of its members to a trip to Washington, D.C.
Shortly before Thursday's meeting, the mentors learned they had been approved to take a tour of the White House and perhaps even meet President Barack Obama, the first president to look like those in the Brotherhood.
Fitch hopes the experience will show the program's youth what they can accomplish.
Before the young men left Thursday's meeting, each was given a task.
"We need to get the Darian Davises in here," Officer Harris said. "That's why, next week, I want each and every one of you to bring in two people. Two people who you know as trouble-makers, two people you know need our help.
"Then we'll be pumping on all cylinders. Then we'll really be making a difference."