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This Guest Post is by Bill Lucas of Kishaba Juku of Tallahassee. Bill has been very supportive of me ever since I became a student of Sensei Katsuhiko Shinzato in 2002.
In my career life, I am the manager of a software engineering team for a state government agency. Developing software for state government is an interesting occupation, full of daily surprises, unexpected course corrections, legislative mandates, customers with high expectations, and many other lively activities. Delivering quality software within a reasonable time frame and meeting the business requirements of my customers is a constant challenge. Our Bureau Chief has a saying written on his whiteboard: "Good, Fast, Cheap, Pick 2." He likes to remind customers that they can usually only pick, at the most, 2 of the 3 items. Life is an exercise in compromise and software development is certainly no exception.
Kishaba Chokei, Sensei, had a saying that karate must have Speed, Power and Grace to be considered good. (I am paraphrasing, of course) Karate techniques should be quick enough to reach their intended target before the target can reach you. Techniques must be delivered with sufficient power to inflict appropriate damage to the intended target. And, techniques must be delivered in a way that utilizes the whole body in a graceful, interconnected way leaving the practitioner free to move in any direction and perform technique after technique.
Without Speed, Power and Grace working together, Karate is lacking.
You can see these forces working together in many sports and performing arts. Ballet is a good example of Speed, Power and Grace working together to produce the perfect Grand Jete. Another example is the execution of a perfect swing to yield a home run in Baseball. Without any one of these three elements, the ballet jump would fizzle and the bat swing would foul.
Koshi is the guiding force that brings Speed, Power and Grace together to make the perfect karate technique. Moving from a tightly compressed center and rotating in multiple planes like a gyroscope, Koshi directs the power, controls the speed and enables gracefulness for truly great karate.
Here's an exercise you can try the next time you practice Kata:
Perform a kata with speed only. Don't try to put any power in the techniques. Don't worry about how good it looks. Just try to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible. Next, try the same kata with power only. Make as much power as you can. Don't worry about being fast or beautiful in your execution of the kata. Then, repeat the kata with gracefulness. Be smooth and artistic. Flow like water and don't try to make it powerful or fast. Finally, combine all 3 elements together in a final performance of the kata. Analyze what body dynamics you had to employ to make it feel right. Repeat this practice frequently and you will make amazing progress.
For your Karate, don't compromise. Pick 3!
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'Laboratories Of Democracy' At Work On E-voting
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Last summer, Congress debated legislation that would have required a voter-verified paper trail on all e-voting machines. I supported the legislation and co-authored an op-ed saying so. That legislation didn't pass, but Joe Hall points out that Iowa is the latest state to switch back to paper ballots in its election system. He points out that thirty states now have rules requiring a voter-verified paper trail, with another 8 states using voter-verified paper trails without a specific state law requiring that they do so. Iowa looks to be even better than some of these other states because it's moving to an almost entirely paper-based voting system. Voting machines will only be used to help voters (especially disabled voters) mark their ballots. This approach is ideal because it ensures that the paper trail won't become an afterthought, as it often does when the "paper trail" is a roll of cash register tape that no one ever looks at.
Thanks to the hard work of voting activists, it appears that state legislatures are doing the job at the state level that Congress couldn't get done last year. In some ways, this is actually a better way of doing things. Last year's debate in Congress was very helpful in raising the profile of the issue, but even most supporters of last year's legislation recognized that some states wouldn't be able to revamp their election processes in time for the 2008 elections. More importantly, if Congress screws up -- as it did when it pushed e-voting on the states with the 2002 Help America Vote Act -- it's much harder to recover than if an individual state screws up. With 50 state legislatures looking at these issues independently, states can try a variety of different approaches tailored to the needs of their individual election systems and adopt the ones that prove most successful. The momentum for verifiable elections continues to grow; hopefully the 12 states that are still conducting elections without a paper trail will get on board in time for the 2010 elections.

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As sellers, buyers, or collectors of vintage clothing, we've all picked up a garment and wondered, "What fabric is this?" That often leads to more questions such as, "What's the difference between fiber and weave? Is this fiber natural or synthetic? What's the name of this weave?" And so on.
Well, there's a fantastic new resource in the vintage fashion world that can help! The Vintage Fashion Guild's Fabric Resource is the new "go-to" place for fabric identification.
A true "labor of love" from VFG trade member Maggie Wilds (denisebrain), this resource offers descriptions and photographs of various fabrics. Five years in the making, it was the result of Maggie's desire to make a "significant contribution" to the Vintage Fashion Guild. With a little help from friends within and outside of the VFG, her goal was realized when the Fabric Resource went online in 2012. More fabrics will be added over time to this already-extensive resource, which currently features more than 200 entries.
Resource listings are arranged alphabetically, and there are three different search methods you can use to identify a fabric: Fabric "Looks Like," Fabric by Fiber, Fabric by Use. The first is especially useful to novices, since you don't need to guess at what it is, but can use its appearance alone to start narrowing down the possibilities.
The Resource also features a section extremely helpful to the experienced and inexperienced alike—Determining Fiber. This gives tips, including the "burn test," on how to tell a fabric's fiber or fiber blend. Distinguishing between fiber (what a fabric is made of) and weave (how it's fashioned into fabric, its texture, etc.) is a key factor when dealing with vintage garments, since so many pieces carry no content or care labels. In the case of online buying and selling, this information helps sellers accurately describe an item and allows buyers to make a more informed buying decision. Many sellers aren't fully aware of the difference between fiber and weave (e.g., silk and wool are fibers, satin and twill are weaves), and will find the Fabric Resource absolutely invaluable!
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Along with the Crystal Lip Balms, Clarins has also released three lip glosses in clicky pens for the Summer Instant Sun Light Collection:
These three glosses have a SPF 6 and come in Vanilla, Coral and Cinnamon. Its the traditional clicky format.
The glosses were more pigmented than I expected and have a light texture – not too heavy for the summer. It also felt quite comfortable on my lips and hydrating.
Vanilla is a gold with lots of shimmers:
Vanilla is a natural, very shimmer light shade.
Coral is a orange with lots of micro sparkles:
Cinnamon – a rich brown and probably the most sparkly of the three – my favourite!
On the lips:
I liked these a lot – Cinnamon is my favourite shade. I also did the usual click click click thing and amazingly enough, the right amount came out of the applicators rather than 2/3 of the container which is what usually happens.
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Who doesn't love a good cat eye? The elongating technique is perfect for any night out — and gives you a smoldering, sexy stare. Don't believe us? Take a look at these celebrities who have all embraced the look. Now, who's ready to try it at home?
1. Selena Gomez
The actress rocked this multi-colored cat eye featuring pink, charcoal and white hues. The key here is to blend, blend, blend!
2. Gina Rodriguez
3. Bella Thorne
The estrella kept her cat-eye look chic and simple with a toned-down cat eye.
4. Eva Longoria
Eva knows the best way to draw attention to your eyes is with an intense, smoky cat eye.
5. Monica Cruz
Penelope's sis isn't afraid of a little drama — and a cat-eye look is definitely one way to up take your look up a thousand notches.
6. Naya Rivera
Go two-toned like Naya with a bronze shimmer underneath and a dark liner up top.
7. Zoe Saldana
Thick liquid liner is a perfect accent to almond-shaped eyes like Zoe's!
8. Jennifer Lopez
J.Lo knows the importance of countouring — and the benefits of a great #smize.
9. Nicole Richie
The fashionista knows how to take a risk, and this navy cat-eye look definitely paid off.


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Oh my adventures in brewing! Brewing a Stout right now. APA turned out awsome. Made and Oktoberfest last week. It's in the secondary looking nice O.G. 1.047 took a reading last night and it's at 1.010 right on target. Going to brew the Irish Red again next week. I have so many people who want to learn how to brew. I go to The Brew Hut in Aurora, CO anyon else from the Denver area? Bring on All-Grain. Anyway just wanted to let you guys know that all is going very well. Take it easy guys. LB
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Throwdown wrote:bubbrubb wrote:I would be all for trading sherm....dude is a goof. I was a casual seahawk fan his first year and I remember he cost us a penalty on a MNF game for his stupid antics. It was so stupid I remembered him...for wrong reason. Get rid of him while his stock is high.
My 49er fan alert just went wild, where's peaches to confirm this?
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Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has hinted in an interview with CNET that the Finnish company could be planning a flagship Windows Phone for US carrier Verizon. Much like the Lumia 920 deal with AT&T (and EE here in the UK), Nokia may have a device in the works that could well be exclusive to Verizon.
When asked if Nokia has a flagship phone for Verizon in the works, Elop responded with the following:
"We are planning a lot of exciting things with Verizon as well."
Elop also expanded on exclusivity deals that are being signed and why they're being favoured over mass availability:
"One of the things we had learned with the first launch was being very narrow would yield better results for us. We take a product and go exclusive with a particular carrier. In a market where subsidy and marketing dollars are heavy, we encourage them to promote it as a hero product, and use the subsidy to drive down the pricing to a competitive point. It also gives you access to in-store resources."
We know many would disagree with exclusivity pacts, but should a carrier actively promote the hero smartphone it can't be all bad for Nokia? The Lumia 920 has sold well with AT&T (according to all the reports on low stock), but until we see definite digits in a report, we're yet to know just how effective exclusive deals are for the company's Windows Phones.
We're yet to hear confirmation that a flagship Windows Phone is on the table for Verizon (or another US carrier), but if what Elop says becomes reality then we could see US subscribers on networks battling AT&T able to get their paws on an exclusive product. What that flagship handset could be is anyones guess. Lumia 922 anyone?
Be sure to read up on the full interview with CNET.
Source: CNET, via: StreetInsider; thanks, zyran, for the tip!


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The hydria, as its name implies (compare our word "hydraulics"), was used to fetch water from the well, a task entrusted to women. Two lateral handles enabled lifting; the vertical one, pouring. The austere appearance conceals the complexity of the vessel's manufacture: the body was hammered from sheet metal, the handles and foot cast from nine pieces, and the plaque below the vertical handle hammered from both sides (repoussé) for sharp definition. Metallurgical analysis has revealed significantly higher lead content in the cast elements (in order to make the molten metal flow into the mold) than in the hammered (where crispness and strength rather than fluidity was important). The parts were assembled using lead solder.
The plaque below the pouring handle shows Aphrodite with her arm over the shoulder of her son, Eros. She adjusts her veil in a bridal gesture. Since her husband in mythology was the god of war, Ares, this scene may be read as a symbolic celebration of love.
During recent conservation, crystallised scraps of a funeral shroud for the ashes of the deceased were identified inside the vessel. One could conjecture, therefore, that the vessel was created as a bride's dowry, and later consigned to a grave.


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Geringhoff, manufacturer of harvesting equipment, unveiled a "concept" corn head that promises to revolutionize how farmers harvest corn. The corn head can combine crops including corn from any direction and regardless of row spacing, opening the way for solid-seeded corn.
"The concept [of solid seeding] is there, and the ability is there, and maybe we can get a 10% yield increase with that alone," says Joseph Jandrisch, president and CEO of Geringhoff. "But how do you harvest the crop? That has been the challenge with historical corn heads. So with our independent head, we've overcome that issue."
Geringhoff has invested more than $4 million in the prototype, which can harvest corn independent of any set row spacing. The company expects to market the product in 2015.
See two videos of the corn head at farmindustrynews.com/national-farm-machinery-show- 2012. For more information, visit www.geringhoff.com.


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From The Files Of June 29, 1989 '89 Thanks to the tremendous efforts of about 75 firefighters, under the direction of Mc- Connellsburg Fire Chief Pete Lynch, downtown
McConnellsburg was spared a disaster and, even more importantly, a tragedy, early last Friday morning, June 23. What the downtown area got was the gutting of a landmark and the scorching of two others. It was a disaster for Gerald L. Dupert 27, of Mc- Connellsburg, who had recently purchased the building at 212 Lincoln Way East from Jack Shimer and begun Dupert's Family Restaurant. The fire apparently began in the area of a basement apartment on the west side of the Dupert building.
The past week's violent weather caused problems in several areas of the county and surrounding areas. Last Tuesday night, a violent thunderstorm struck the area, particularly hitting the northern end of the county hard. Sinoquipe Scout Reservation Camp director told the "News" that the Boy Scout camp was flooded last Tuesday night when it was hit by what he estimated was fourplus inches of rain in less than two hours. Last Tuesday's violent storms were just a prelude to those which hit the region Saturday evening. Trees were downed in several parts of the county. But the county may have been lucky Saturday as a tornado struck the village of Cassville in southern Huntingdon County, about 15 miles north of Waterfall. Two dark funnel clouds hit the village, destroying Wright's carwash, tearing the roof off a mobile home and downing many large, old trees and blocking the village's roadways.
This is carnival week at Hustontown Fire Co. There will be entertainment and activities every evening along with rides, eats, etc.
Kelly Glee and Mark Evjene were united in marriage in an outdoor ceremony June 3 at Buchanan State Park in Cove Gap. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marlin Glee of McConnellsburg. The groom is the son of Mrs. June Evjene of Deer Lodge, Mont.
Births at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Steven Bonebrake of Harrisonville on June 18; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Norris of Woodvale on June 19; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Raph Berkstresser of Needmore on June 19; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Brian Mellott of Big Cove Tannery on June 20; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Martz of McConnellsburg on June 20; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Bookheimer of Mc- Connellsburg on June 22; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Ricky Northcraft of Chambersburg on June 22.
Marriage licenses: Marlin Bacher, Fair Play, S.C., and Catharine Brenneman, Harrisonvile; William Hoffman, McConnellsburg, and Marianne Sickles, McConnellsburg; Kevin Hensley, Hancock, and Janet Ebersole, Hancock; Ned Richardson, Crystal Spring, and Karen Pulcine, Crystal Spring; Adam Leavelle, Broad Top, and Andrea Hartman, Hummelstown; Harty Barnett, Mc- Connellsburg, and Annette Guessford, McConnellsburg.
Deaths: Charles Waters, McConnellsburg; Mary Shives, Hancock; Nellie Cromer Brindle, St. Thomas.
30 Years Ago
From The Files Of June 28, 1979 '79 Fourteen-year-old Michael D. Seville, Mc- Connellsburg, was slightly injured last Monday when he was knocked from his bicycle
by a car. Police said the accident happened on the Cito Road when the young cyclist made a left turn and was struck by a 1972 Mercury.
Union textile workers in McConnellsburg voted unanimously last Friday to end their nine-week-old strike against Waynesboro Knitting Co.
Lisa Mellott, 7-year-old daughter of Mrs. Patricia Mellott of Hustontown, was listed in satisfactory condition on Tuesday following emergency surgery on Monday for partial amputation of her foot, which was mangled in a lawn mower accident. The accident occurred at the home of her grandfather, rural mail carrier Clarence Barnett, on the outskirts of Hustontown, where her 17-year-old brother was mowing the lawn on a riding mower. He did not know his sister was anywhere near the mower.
After a grueling day trial, 25-year-old Richard Allan Milan of Kalamazoo, Mich., walked from the Huntingdon County Courthouse last Wednesday night a free man. Minutes earlier a Huntingdon County Criminal Court jury had found him not guilty of criminal homicide in the shooting death of Michael James Hess, a member of the Lancaster Pagan Motorcycle Club. The killing took place at a bluegrass festival at Harper Memorial Park, near Shade Gap, last July 22.
Marriage licenses: Theodore B. Woodring, Mercersburg, and Deanna Lorraine Atkins, Millersville, Md.; Larry A. Shoemaker, Big Cove Tannery, and Karen Tresa Spade, Needmore.
Specials at th IGA: Royal gelatin, 6 packs for 99 cents; IGA catsup, 3 for 87 cents; Seltzer's Lebanon bologna, $2.19 lb.
Births at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Fultz of Berkeley Springs on June 16; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Dougals Watkins of Waterfall on June 15; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Horne of Shirleysburg on June 19; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Russell E. Mellott of Needmore on June 20; a son to Mr. and Mrs. David Fogal of Waterfall on June 22; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Terence Powell of Berkeley Springs on June 22.
Deaths: Ira W. Bain, McConnellsburg; Arthur R. Black, Huntingdon; Orrin L. Shaw, McConnellsburg; Miss Leotta Wheeler, Hancock; Lorraine R. Goble, Harrisonville.
40 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 10, 1969 '69 A total of 15 marching bands and majorette groups, 15 fire companies and equipment and numerous floats and other marching organizations
will be featured in the annual firemen's parade, which will get under way in Mc- Connellsburg Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
FFA students from Fulton County were in the spotlight at the 1969 mid-year convention at University Park this past week. Bryan Lane of the Forbes Road Chapter won the FFA public speaking contest and may eventually compete in the national contest at Kansas City in October. Duane Johnston of the McConnellsburg FFA will enter the dairy products contest at Kansas City this fall since he won a second place at Penn State. Rodney Keefer and Gary Decker of McConnellsburg were winners in their respective contests. Rodney won a first place silver certificate in agriculture mechanics, while Gary received honorable mention in dairy judging. Other McConnellsburg FFA members taking in the activities were George Mellott, livestock; Peter Naugle, forestry; and Ronald Martz, FFA State Band. Carl Detwiler and Donnie Truax of the Forbes Road Chapter worked together as a team to win a second place in the small gas engines contest. Other students from Forbes Road were: Mike Keebaugh, delegate; Kenneth Keebaugh, land judging; Dale Drenning, forestry and Glenn Kesselring, machinery adjustment and farm power. Students representing Warfordsburg were David Beale, band; David Smith, band; Dale Deneen, floral design; Lex Mellott, agricultural salesmanship; Tom Strait, forestry; and Bill Shives, forestry.
Marriage license: Dennis Gress and Darlene Keefer, both of McConnellsburg.
Specials at the local IGA: Libby tomato catsup, 19 cents, 14-oz. bottle; fruit cocktail, 25 cents, 1-lb. can; Chef Boyardee cheese pizza, 59 cents; cantaloupes, 33 cents each.
A community swimming pool, which was constructed in two months following a year of planning, was dedicated on June 28 at Three Springs, which has a population of slightly more than 400 residents. The $150,000 swimming complex consists of a "Z" shaped 62,000- square-foot pool, bathhouses and children's wading pool, all entirely fenced in.
Deaths: Dortha M. Evans, Greensburg; Charles H. Mann, Waynesboro.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. John Clark of Needmore on July 3; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Pittman of Mercersburg on July 3; a son to Mr. and Mrs. David Seiders of McConnellsburg on July 2; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Snow of Fort Loudon on June 28; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Myers of Mc- Connellsburg on June 27.
50 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 9, 1959 '59 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stadler of Silver Spring, Md., took their daughter, Claire, to New York City where she and friends boarded a plane
for a six-week vacation in Europe. In Switzerland, she will visit her father's relatives.
Miss Harriet Sloan left on Saturday on a conducted bus tour out of Baltimore which will take in the Grand Canyon, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Chief Merrill Seville issued warning to motorists that parking against traffic is a violation of the law, adding that offenders in the future will be prosecuted.
Mrs. C.B. Chubb is recuperating at home after undergoing oral surgery last Thursday at Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown.
Miss Martha Lodge is spending this week in New York City on a buying trip for her store.
Ensign Eddie MacKinlay is now stationed at Mayport in Florida.
David Kendall, Allen Cover, Dale McQuade, Dick Ray and Bob Kendall were released from the armed forces recently after serving their two-year compulsory service.
An ordinance has been passed by Borough Council to bring into the borough limits the annex of the Mc- Connellsburg Joint School property.
Work was begun this week on a rollerskating rink at the Ambrose Game Farm and Zoo.
Gene R. Mellott, aviation structural mechanic second class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon L. Mellott of Needmore, is scheduled to graduate from the Parachute Rigger School on July 16 at the Naval Air Technical Training Unit in Lakehurst, N.J. One of the prerequisites of the school for graduation is for a student to make a freefall jumping a parachute personally packed by himself.
Larry Royce Smith and Doris Laverne Chesnut were married on June 21.
Ten families with homes on the Medical Center Street joined together on July 4 for a community picnic supper on the lawn of the home of Dr. and Mrs. G.T. Lorentz. A total of 35 adults and 16 children attended.
A Broad Top City man and a 16-year-old Saxton boy were struck dead by lightning last Wednesday afternoon while observing a timbering operation near Woodvale. E. Clair Shore, Huntingdon County coroner, said that Franklin Figard, 25, and Michael B. (Nick) Brennan were killed instantly when a bolt of lightning crashed down through a tree and bounced over to a chain saw that one of the victims had picked up.
State unemployment checks last week totalled 134,720, with a monetary value of $3,647,731.
The Warfordsburg Lions Club, in conjunction with the Fulton County Red Cross Chapter, will sponsor swimming lessons this year for youths in the lower end of Fulton County. The classes will be held at Berkeley Springs.
The local school board has accepted the resignation of Ronald Chaney, geography and science teacher in the junior high school.
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Terry L. Higgins to Vaughn L. Hoover.
Elton Marshal Bequeath Jr. and Helen Deanne Keebaugh were married on June 6.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bard of McConnellsburg on June 30; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hann of Harrisonville on July 1; twin sons to Mr. and Mrs. John Witner of Warfordsburg on July 2; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald McQuait of Hustontown on July 4; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Clark of Hustontown on July 5.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Parson of Pleasant Hill are the new proprietors of the Atlantic gas station at Burnt Cabins.
Mrs. Catherine Appleby of Burnt Cabins, who had been living alone since the death of her husband, Bruce Appleby, is now living in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Foreman of Carlisle. Although Mrs. Appleby, who is approaching 90, was still able to do her own household chores, her relatives felt it necessary that she have a certain amount of care.
Mrs. Sarah Everts of Needmore is seriously ill.
Homer Mellott of Needmore was injured when his tractor upset, breaking his collarbone and ribs.
Ralph Ritz of Amaranth is up and around after a week in bed due to a bad case of mumps.
William Ott, an aged man who lives in the home of Mrs. Bessie Glunt, received a bad cut on the leg by a power saw, which required seven stitches to close.
Deaths: Walter Scott Smith of Warfordsburg; the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wayne Regi.
60 Years Ago
From the Files of July 14, 1949 '49 The efforts and dreams of many hard working Fulton countians will begin to materialize on Saturday of this week when ground
will be broken for the Fulton County Medical Center. The ceremonies will be held on the 1-1/2-acre of land donated by Mr. and Mrs. M.C. Morton of Hagerstown. Credit for the original movement to build a medical center goes to the Green Hill Civic Club, which advanced the idea on November 4, 1946.
Births: a son, John Emeron, on June 13 to Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Plessinger; twin daughters on July 12 to Mr. and Mrs. George L. Sponsler of Harrisonville.
Lyle Duffey was elected commander of the local American Legion on Monday night.
Russell Carnochan, manager of Austin's Furniture Store here, has set up two television sets in the store, both of which will be operating well off an antenna.
The state will have a one-day doe season this year.
Deaths: Florence V. Hess of Needmore; Ms. Margaret Bradnick of near Knobsville.
70 Years Ago
From The Files of July 13, 1939 '39 Deaths: Henry A. Comerer of McConnellsburg; Roy Waite of Three Springs; James Albert Ensler of Martinsburg.
A report issued this week from the county superintendent's office shows that 85 students graduated this year from the four high schools in Fulton County.
Dr. D.R. Sipes has returned to Everett Hospital after completing an intensive post-graduate course in general traumatic surgery at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Ill.
To curb the excessive speed through town, new 25- mile speed limit signs have been purchased by the borough and will be placed along routes 30 and 522 within the borough and will be placed along routes 30 and 22 within the borough limits.
WPA layoffs have accounted for an increase of 22,260 cases in the relief rolls in the state since April 15.
Mrs. Anna Mumma of Laidig has been admitted to Everett Hospital for observation and study. Treated at the hospital dispensary were J.F. Stenger of Mc- Connellsburg, x-ray of the right knee; Daniel Winters of McConnellsburg, x-ray and treatment of a fractured rib; Cloyd B. Souders of McConnellsburg, treatment of contusions of the chest; Aubrey B. Hicks of Wells Tannery, treatment of lacerations and fracture of the nose; Norman Hess of Saluvia, lacerations of the left elbow.
Sheriff Ross W. Hamil noted this week that there have been no sheriff sales in the county since January 1, 1939.
Inez Fields, Bernice Fields and Marian Morton of McConnellsburg and Evelyn McElhaney of Lurgan left this week on a trip to Chicago, Canada, the World's Fair and other points of interest.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ray of East Lincoln Way are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son on Wednesday.
A minor accident occurred on Sideling Hill on Saturday when cars driven by Clarence Johnson of Wells Tannery and Beatrice Parsons of Saluvia collided.
Prof. Harold C. Welsh was installed as president of the local Lions Club on Tuesday evening at a ladies' night dinner. He succeeds Thad M. Shimer of the Fulton Motor Sales. Close to 50 Lions and their ladies assembled for a delicious dinner and interesting program.
Hildebert Smith and Mary Smith were married on July 9.
The Enterprise Electric Co. is now building a line from New Grenada at Three Springs.
Miss Helen Truax of Warfordsburg is a patient in the Bon Secours Hospital in Baltimore where she underwent a serious spine operation.
80 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 11, 1929 '29 Two representatives of the Manufacturers Light and Heat Co. called on Burgess W.H. Nesbitt on July 4. After some discussion, the gentlemen left with the burgess an agreement to be signed by the council and an ordinance which must be passed. If the agreement is signed and the ordinance passed, then the company will install a pipeline over the mountain and supply McConnellsburg with natural gas. The agreement gives the company the right to dig up the borough streets and alleys to install lines, but it stipulates that the company restore the streets and alleys to as good a condition as it found them. If the company is given the permission to install "the fuel of the future" here, the service charge will be on a graduated scale to each consumer, the cost getting smaller in proportion to the amount used.
Deaths: Simon H. Garland of Brush Creek Township; Mrs. Charles Mellott of Pleasant Ridge.
Raymond McCleary and Lillian A. Burkett were married on June 29.
Albert Miles Latshaw Jr. and Lorella Hollenshead were mar- ried on July 2.
The local school board has elected Miss Alegra Gluck of Chambersburg as teacher of art and music in the borough school, completing the teaching roster for the coming year.
During the electrical storm last Friday afternoon, lightning struck the home of Elbert Lake in the East Extension, doing considerable damage. The bolt also struck 7-year-old Estalene Lake, knocking her unconscious for some time and rendering her hand and foot useless until the next afternoon. The same bolt set the house afire and only through the prompt work of Vernon Schooley, who was working nearby, was the Lake home saved. During the same storm, lightning struck the cupola of the Lutheran Church and a falling board just missed Jeanne Greathead, daughter of Postmaster and Mrs. W.H. Greathead.
A contract for $1,140 per year for four years has been awarded to Clyde Sponsler for daily delivery of mail between Everett and McConnellsburg.
Marshall Sigel is erecting a new dwelling house on his farm near Amaranth.
Miss Cora Oakman, a nurse in training at Chambersburg Hospital, is spending her vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. Oakman.
Because of a slumping work, Clarence Bender is home from his job in Michigan. He drove a new motorcycle home, traveling almost 500 miles in one day.


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Lindsay Lohan is refusing to accept responsibility for her Tuesday morning DUI arrest, releasing a straight-to-the-point statement to Access Hollywood's Billy Bush yesterday:
"Yes. I am innocent... did not do drugs they're not mine. I was almost hit by my assistant Tarin's mom. I appreciate everyone giving me my privacy."
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Wilson weighs in at 11.5 lbs. He is approximately 6-8 months old. He is very anemic, to the point that the vet was surprised he was still alive, let alone holding his head up and walking around. He is a tough little guy. He has hook worms and mange. Right now he is on antibiotics, deworming medicine, children's vitamins with iron. Please give tons of love to the team at Triangle Beagle Rescue for saving his life and giving him a second chance at love! He is on a long road to recovery. You can help Wilson with one simple tee. With every purchase we will send a $10.00 to help with his recovery.


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ABC News Editor Blames Transgender Change On Amnesia
ABC News Editor Don Ennis famously came out as trans to an accepting news staff back in May. But now, Don is claiming that he is actually a heterosexual man, and his brief time spent as "Dawn" was a fluke due to a raging two-day long case of amnesia.
"I accused my wife of playing some kind of cruel joke, dressing me up in a wig and bra and making fake ID's with the name 'Dawn' on it. Seriously," Ennis wrote in an e-mail to friends and colleagues Friday, explaining his shock after he woke up from what he called a "transient global amnesia" last month.
"It became obvious this was not the case once I took off the bra — and discovered two reasons I was wearing one," he said, referring to his hormone-induced breasts.
"I thought it was 1999 . . . and I was sure as hell that I was a man," Ennis said in the e-mail titled "Not Reportable, Very Confirmed."
"Fortunately, my memories of the last 14 years have since returned. But what did not return was my identity as Dawn," said Ennis, who had been wearing lipstick, skirts and heels.
"I am writing to let you know I'm changing my name . . . to Don Ennis. That will be my name again, now and forever. And it appears I'm not transgender after all. I have retained the much different mind-set I had in 1999: I am now totally, completely, unabashedly male in my mind, despite my physical attributes," he said.
Still, Don has managed to turn his experience into a positive teachable moment and has no regrets.
"I know my wonderful colleagues will no doubt make it easier for the next person to transition at ABC," he said, while referring to his time spent as a woman a "tremendous gift."


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According to traditional Chinese medicine, jasmine tea is said to reduce nervous tension, break down saturated fat and increase circulation. Great with strong-flavored, spicy foods or after meals as a soothing digestive.


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About Jen
" I really do wonder why that's "very reasonable." If someone were to write that remix of Levine's book... who would care? Would it impact Levine's actual book? Would the creation of such a work somehow make Levine's actual book disappear and the only way you could read his book is with the words "Rob Levine eats stinky poo"? Of course not. No one would care, because putting such things in his book is a stupid idea that no one in the market would care about. Now, if someone actually does create something that the market cares about, in the form of a remix, then the world is actually better off."
a good example of this is the remixed books of 'Quirk classics'.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Sense and Sensibility and Sea monsters
Android Karenina
Jane Slayre
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire slayer
These are remixed books from classics, but i don't see them jumping all over the copyrights that the (original) Authors (and their descendants) had. no one gets upset about how they have 'remixed' these classics and are making 6-10 (or more depending on if it's a hardcover) dollars per book.
but if someone dares to add a little techno to a song, it's so terrible. i think that they need to look into adapting to the new trends that are surfacing everyday, and get a handle on what they want before trying to force it down people's throats with bad information.
but if they start touching social sites (facebook, myspace, google+, 4chan) that allow video and such, then people will feel it, and be really upset that they didn't help stop it.
what is extremely upsetting is that because of how broad this is, it would be more than easy for big business to look at a small business website, and go " they are doing well, lets screw with them." then say that they are infriging on one copyright or another, and close them down.
That of course is assuming that the person who wrote this isn't in the pocket of big business.
but so far i've seen nothing to prove that thought.
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Shape cream cake mixture four and one-half inches long by one inch wide, by forcing through a pastry bag and tube. Bake twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Split and fill with vanilla, coffee, or chocolate cream filling. Frost with Confectioners' Frosting to which is added one-third cup melted Fondant, dipping top of éclairs in frosting while it is hot.
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Commissions are forums enabling member countries to take a direct voting position on technical issues relating to their mandates. Commissions are also active on ongoing projects both at member country level and at regional level.
Regional Commissions are entities created by agreement between FAO member countries and established by the FAO Council under the FAO Constitution.
The European Commission for the control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD Commission) was established in 1954 at a time when Foot-and-Mouth disease was ravaging post-war Europe. Its Secretariat is hosted by FAO, but members of the Commission are the European countries. The Commission is primarily a forum to foster cooperation between member countries and to coordinate their efforts to prevent and control FMD. It is also tasked with providing technical expertise, epidemiological information and advice to member countries and with assisting in the development of international standards and harmonisation. It aims to make best use of the EuFMD/FAO capacity to bridge the divide between free and non-free countries in away that assists in meeting the needs of both.
The Commission on Livestock Development for Latin America and the Caribbean is the technical advisory organism on animal production and health for the LAC Regional Conference. The Commission has three sub-regional chapters (South Cone, Andean, and Mexico-Central America-Dominican Republic) which meet every two years to discuss relevant issues for the livestock sector development and identify priorities for South-South and FAO technical cooperation in the region. Member Countries are represented by government delegates from institutions belonging to the Foreign Ministry or the Ministry of Agriculture and observers from international organizations, the private sector, livestock organizations and civil society. Each chapter develops a two-year work program including technical cooperation project preparation, working group meetings, capacity-building activities, livestock policy and technical workshops, and thematic fora. The main areas of discussion include policy and technical issues on animal health, livestock services, sustainable livestock production and climate change, family livestock agriculture and livestock development trends. The conclusions and recommendations of each chapter meeting are reported to the LAC Regional Conference. FAO is in charge of the technical secretariat.
The Animal Production and Health Commission for Asia and the Pacific (APHCA) was established by FAO and became operational in December 1975 as awareness built over the vital role of livestock in sustaining Asia's agriculture and its potential to increase income levels, rural employment and living standards for millions of smallholder farmers. The purpose of APHCA is to promote livestock development in general, and more specifically to promote national and international research programmes relating to animal husbandry and health problems. Regional and national livestock programmes are based upon collective self-reliance and mutual assistance within the Region. The Commission is also entrusted with promoting livestock production as an industry and as part of the farming system based on self-reliance at the farm level. Among the Commission's goals is also that of raising the nutrition level and living standards of smallholder farmers and rural communities through optimal exploitation of resources for livestock development.
The Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is a permanent forum where governments discuss and negotiate matters relevant to genetic resources for food and agriculture, including their conservation and sustainable use and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits derived from their utilization. As of June 2012, 175 countries and the European Union are members. The Commission aims to reach international consensus on issues of global interest. An agreed Multi-year Programme of Work is being implemented. A subsidiary body of the Commission, the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, reviews issues related to livestock biodiversity, and advises and makes recommendations to the Commission on these matters. AGA acts as the secretariat of the Working Group.


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dcc55 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 82 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
Home Internet Jobs
We are an internet based home job training company. We create online training programs that show people how to work from home.
People interested in working from home.
We need a professional and clean looking logo that includes our name 'Home Internet Jobs'. As for colors, stick with light blues, greys, and just an overall clean feel.
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2005-12-14 / Schools/Sports
Amity soccer news
After coaching for 17 memorable seasons, it looks like Pete Casserly will be hanging up his turf shoes. The Hurricanes played a hard fought game with fierce offensive support by Scott Westin, Jeremy Kusmierski, and Robbie Crowley.
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Posted by Editor on 12/28/05
Klassen is Canada's Female Athlete of the Year
Courtesy Speedskating Canada
Early in her speed skating career, Cindy Klassen was told she skated like a hockey player.
Not surprising, considering Klassen played hockey until she was 18, then took up long-track speed skating during her first year at university for something to do. Hockey's loss turned out to be Canada's gain as Klassen has blossomed into one of the world's best speed skaters and a medal threat at the Turin Winter Olympics in February.
An outstanding 2005 season, which saw her set four world records and win eight World Cup medals, made Klassen a decisive winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's female athlete of the year in a survey by The Canadian Press and Broadcast News.
"It's incredible," Klassen, a Winnipeg native who now lives and trains in Calgary, said in her typically modest fashion.
"Just doing the sport itself is so rewarding. To be honoured with something like this is something special. I'm really excited about that. It's quite an honour."
The award is named after Bobbie Rosenfeld, the track star who was Canada's female athlete of the half-century in 1950.
As she's done in so many races, Klassen dominated the field in this year's balloting, collecting 264 points and 71 first-place ballots in voting by sports editors and broadcasters across the country.
"Cindy Klassen continues to dominate in her sport," said Lorne Motley, deputy sports editor at the Calgary Herald.
Klassen, 26, also becomes the third speed skater in five years to win the award. Two-time Olympic gold medallist Catriona Le May Doan won in 2001 and 2002.
Christine Sinclair, the Burnaby, B.C., soccer player who led the University of Portland to an undefeated season and the NCAA championship, was second in this year's voting with 81 points and 14 first-place votes. Diver Blythe Hartley of North Vancouver, B.C., who won a gold medal in the one-metre springboard at last summer's world aquatic championships in Montreal, was third with 65 points and eight first-place votes.
Other women who received consideration included speed skater Clara Hughes of Winnipeg; moguls skier Jennifer Heil of Spruce Grove, Alta.; Olympic hockey team forward Jayna Hefford of Kingston, Ont.; cross-country skier Sara Renner of Canmore, Alta.; mountain biker Marie-Helene Premont of Chateau-Richer, Que.; and alpine skier Emily Brydon of Fernie, B.C.
Armstrong Takes Fourth AP Award
Lance Armstrong won his fourth Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year award for his seventh Tour de France title. He is the only athlete to have won the award four times. Armstrong took 30 of 83 votes cast. The Heisman Trophy-winning footbal player Reggie Bush was second.
One Day Left for Canadian Cyclist Awards
There is a little over 24 hours left before voting closes for the ninth annual Canadian Cyclist Awards. Cast your ballot before 9:00 pm EST tomorrow (Thursday, December 29th) by clicking on the Vote button in the upper right hand corner of your browser window.
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Pkahn needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 105 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
MoreThan Flowers
Jonathan has a long established history in business. Started a packaging company and later listed it on Australian Stock Exchange.
This is a new start up company based on a unique product. Our desire is to grow it Australia wide and include other products in our range.
We are creating a new market. Our flowers are REAL, beautifully colored with a fragrance. They are not dried or artificial.
Our flowers will be part of a range of gift items eg hampers and fruit.
We are targeting both males and females who are wanting to treat themselves or others with FRESH flowers which last. We will also target business, corporate and hotels.
Our plan is to launch the product widely in the media and ultimately sell it over the web.
We need our company name
(MoreThan flowers), logo and words "long life fresh flowers".
FLOWERS ARE OUR LAUNCH PRODUCT BUT WE INTEND TO USE THE "MoreThan' FOR FUTURE PRODUCTS. eg" More than hampers"
We are looking for a logo to represent our GIFT BUSINESS.
Logo must reflect the "MoreThan" and be generic enough to handle a number of products. Starting with flowers and moving into fruit and hampers.
NB: NO flower in the logo.
We would like it to be sophisticated, elegant and stylish so that it appeals to individual adults as well as corporate.
Please : No cartoons, no stock images or clip art.
We leave it up to your creativity to design something that is as unique and eye catching.
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As you can see there's a new look to Erocolle – its been a long time coming! We are still tweaking and adding things so the site is not 100% ready but its getting there.
If you have any feedback I'd love to hear it…
Is something not working?
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Volary needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 69 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Volary means either a flight or a flock of birds, or the cage you keep them in. I'm a singer/songwriter releasing my first album, and it's very much in keeping with the contradictions of the word volary. Almost all of the songs are available to stream on my website if you'd like to form your own opinions.
I'd like to appeal to as many people as possible, but my guess is that my audience will most likely be college age and above, rather than teenagers.
I'd like a logo of an empty birdcage with an open door. Maybe there's a bird, or maybe not, but it's important for it to feel like the bird just escaped. I imagine the cage to be an old-fashioned one, as in the pics below.
I plan on using the logo for business cards, on T-shirts, etc, so something that comes out clearly and isn't too detailed is probably best. I imagine my business card as having a black background, with white text and graphics.
The font I'll be using for the word Volary will be the font used on the album cover (shown below). I've uploaded the logo text as a .png file so that you can work with it if positioning is important.
The files I will require are:
Print file format - Adobe Illustrator (CMYK).
Web file format - layered Photoshop file (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
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Another round of chiding those evil "evolutionists" who aren't nearly as smart and informed as Ken Ham:
https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/ ... t-or-fable
Because it is convenient, Ham decides that the dragons of lore MUST be dinosaurs! Of course, if he had actually investigated what historians and scientists actually think, he would have learned:
1) Dragons are not hard to find even today.
Has Ham never heard of a Komodo dragon? Nowadays not many of them survivor in the wild long enough to get HUGE, yet children and even adults get carried off by them tragically often. They look like dragons and they ARE dragons. But you won't hear about them from Ken Sham.
How about crocodiles, both in India and Egypt, where some of the big ones can be 18" longer and more! NO doubt explorers returned to Europe and told of their exploits in fighting the fearsome DRAGONS of the Nile River. (Isn't it interesting that mythical dragons and crocodiles both have scales and tough hides?)
2) Many have suggested that the dragons of Chinese legends (and other peoples around the world) could have been the natural result of unearthing protoceratops fossils. The fossilized skeletons would have naturally led to "artists renderings". Doesn't a protoceratops skeleton look like it could have been part of a dragon? After all "dragon" is simply one of those terms used to describe a fearsome beast.
3) Which is more likely: Dragons were inspired by real life encounters between men and the dinsaurs of some 65 million years ago? Aren't #1 and #2 far more likely explanations?
Of course, Ken Ham always goes with the interpretation that fits his agenda. One can't make much money selling books which explain dragons based on the two more likely explanations above.
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In 1930, approximately 75 percent of U.S. cotton acreage was planted to short staple varieties, measuring 1-inch or less. By 1950, the short staple varieties accounted for only about one-third of the total production. Staple was improved by about 0.05 of an inch over the 25-year period, 1974 through 1999.
Between 1979 and 1984, the staple increased from about 1.05 inches to about 1.08 inches, and between 1990 and 1991, from about 1.08 inches to about 1.10 inches. The most noteworthy aspect of this situation is that the staple has been more or less static since 1991, with the exception of a precipitous drop to a near 1983 era level of 1.07 inches and 1.06 inches in 1998 and 1999, respectively.
From 1975 through the early 1990s, the average micronaire value of the U.S. crop was good and did not vary widely. Beginning in 1993, the average mike value moved up abruptly to about 4.35 and then steadily increased to a high of approximately 4.66 in 2001. This has become a serious problem. Fiber strength faltered in the late 1990s. Much of the decline in fiber strength (grams/tex) may be related to the dramatic increase in mike value.
At the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show earlier this year, cotton merchant William Dunavant raised the question, "What went wrong?" The question related to the quality of the 2002/03 Memphis/Southeastern cotton crop. Actually the intent of the question probably could have been more accurately stated as, "Who did this to us?"
The merchant's major concern seemed to be that he could not sell this cotton into the competitive market at a satisfactory profit. I have no doubt that there is some truth in this perspective, however, a more appropriate question would have been, "What did we do wrong?"
The truth is that producers have responded properly to the message from the marketplace; that is, quality has little or no monetary value. The opportunities available to producers for enhanced profitability are primarily increased yields, reduced production costs and avoidance of discounts. There is little incentive to improve quality above the base levels of the loan chart.
This means that the answer to the question, "What did we do wrong?" is we failed to provide market incentives for the production of the cotton qualities desired by the market. Thus, the error, or "wrong," was perpetrated not by the production side of the industry, but instead by the utilization side.
The implied accusation in these questions is that cotton producers must be blamed for these problems. The truth is that producers have had little to say about the policies which led to this problem.
Now we come to the crux of the questions, i.e., "How do we put it right?" We do owe Mr. Dunavant for using his prestige to bring attention to the problem. Now, we must ask him and the leaders of the other segments of the industry to address the solution, or the answer to the last question.
There must be a mechanism whereby the value of fiber quality can be properly identified by the market! Make no mistake about it, once the market places adequate monetary value on the kinds of fiber quality it wants, the production side of the industry will respond vigorously.
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Smug techies commission uber-pimped pads
Want to read another self-congratulatory article about how much money everyone is spending in Silicon Valley? You didn't? See you tomorrow, then! Thanks very much to Burbed reader PK for alerting us to this important development that nobody at all saw coming.
Silicon Valley techies spur home building and remodeling boom
By Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News
Taking advantage of Silicon Valley's robust economy, affluent techies are building or remodeling homes, transforming parts of the area's older housing stock and fueling a boom for Bay Area architects and interior designers.
"The problem is finding time to sleep," said architect Roger Kohler, of Palo Alto, whose firm has more than 20 projects in construction or just completed in Los Altos, Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Atherton.
The tech workers range from midlevel engineers at startups or at tech giants like Apple (AAPL),Facebook and Google (GOOG) to older CEOs or founders selling their companies. Some are doing relatively straightforward, if pricey, remodels, while others are leveling old homes and building new ones with basement game rooms, large garages and the latest in high-tech features.
Catherine Jhung, a vice president at Cleantech.com, and her husband, Brian Buchholz, who works at Google, are including "a lot of the new technologies for green building" in the San Carlos Craftsman-style home they will soon break ground on. The existing home — which they bought seven years ago — was torn down. Construction bids are coming in at $270 to $285 a square foot, or about $900,000.
There really isn't much to say about the article itself, although do check out the photo in the extended gallery of the steampunk bathroom pipes. No, once more the fun is in the comments. Here are some we really enjoyed.
Oops here comes the haters. Techies forget they live in the bubble. Outside of the bubble, is the long lines of haters.
Wait, we live in a bubble?
This is the kind of Silicon Valley self-congratulatory stuff that is typical of the Mercury News. I can hardly believe that anybody smart enough to make that much money would be dumb and vulgar enough to flaunt it in print like this.
Yeah! Go hide your money in a Swiss Bank Account like we do!
Steampunk? 20 years ago we called it postmodernism. Don't see any compelling reason to invent a new term when a perfectly good one exists.
You, my friend, do not get steampunk. Then again, not sure the architect did either. There's a distinct lack of gears, valves, and, well, steam. This looks more like the Rube Goldberg ball machine at the Tech Museum.
The final comment is our personal favorite, in reply to this section of the story:
Tim Williams and his wife, Renee, both work in biotech and were "half looking around" when they found a lot in Los Altos Hills for sale on Craigslist. "We're not in the 1 percent," said Tim Williams, "so it was a bit of a stretch for us."
The couple lived in an old cottage on the property during construction of the 3,100-square-foot, contemporary home, designed by Bahi Oreizy and Mariela Pfennig-Mahmud of 360 Design in Los Altos. The new home is stucco, metal and wood on the exterior and has tile floors, under-floor heating and lots of south-facing windows to help sunshine warm the home in winter.
not 1% ??? bought a lot in Los Altos and put up 3100 sq ft home with heated floors? I got news for you, YOU ARE in the 1%. and your just too stupid to realize it.
I got news for you, when you call someone stupid, you'd better not confuse the difference between your and you're. Not that we don't 100% agree with this, as we did stick the home photo in next to the text for some serious cognitive dissonance.


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Sergeant First Class Enters Guilty Plea To Bribery And Theft Schemes
GREENVILLE – United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, JAMES EDWARD TRAVIS pled guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Kimberly A. Swank to a Criminal Information charging him with demanding, seeking, and accepting bribes, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 201(b)(2)(A) and (B), and to theft of government property in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 641 and 2.
United States Attorney Walker reflected, "Public corruption such as this defendant's criminal conduct undermines our nation's reconstruction efforts overseas and dishonors the sacrifice our military makes every day."
According to the Criminal Information filed on November 13, 2013, and information presented in open court, JAMES EDWARD TRAVIS was a Sergeant First Class in the United States Department of the Army assigned to the Operational Detachment-Bravo for Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group for a wartime deployment to Afghanistan. Between January 3, 2012, and October 4, 2012, TRAVIS was deployed to Afghanistan, working out of Forward Operating Base Sharana. During his deployment, TRAVIS acted as both a paying agent and a contracting officer representative. As a contracting officer representative, TRAVIS was responsible for, among other things, approving completion of contracts and then approving payments. TRAVIS was also in charge of contracting for cargo vehicles or "jingle trucks" to move supplies and equipment as well as small construction projects. TRAVIS accepted kickbacks from various vendors on a "quid pro quo" basis for various contracts. The kickbacks ranged from $4,000 to $7,000 per contract. TRAVIS received approximately $211,890 in kickbacks.
In addition, TRAVIS, another U.S. soldier, and a local Afghan worked together to steal fuel from FOB Sharana in Afghanistan. On multiple occasions, TRAVIS paid the other soldier to escort an Afghan driver to the fuel point on FOB Sharana, to load fuel into the Afghan's tanker truck, and to escort the driver with the stolen fuel back off FOB Sharana. Agents determined that 182,815 gallons of fuel were stolen. Based on an average price of $2.31/gallon for JP-8 fuel, the loss from the fuel theft scheme to the government is estimated at $422,302.65.
"Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) Special Agent in Charge John F. Khin, Southeast Field Office, commented, "It is disheartening when a military member abandons his code of conduct and violates a position of trust for personal enrichment. The DCIS investigates fraud and corruption that undermines the integrity of the Department of Defense. We continue to aggressively investigate violators to preserve precious American taxpayer dollars and better support our Warfighters serving honorably and selflessly in Southwest Asia."
"American servicemen and women face dangerous situations every day; their lives should not be put at risk by fellow soldiers working for their own profit. James Edward Travis stole thousands of dollars meant to support efforts in Afghanistan, but he could not hide his crimes from the FBI and our military partners dedicated to upholding justice," said John Strong, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in North Carolina.
"Theft of fuel in a war zone is serious. Not only does it rob US taxpayers and damage the reconstruction effort, stolen fuel can also wind up in the hands of insurgents bent on harming Americans. There must be zero tolerance for this kind of crime -- and SIGAR is dedicated to ensuring that anyone engaging in this activity will face justice," commented Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John F. Spoko.


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Our Fitness Blog
"Lukewarm water never makes steam"…..
If you have any goal in the world, it simply becomes a wish unless you put the fire behind it! You must be on FIRE FOR YOUR DESIRE!
Many, many "wishes" are put out at the beginning of each New Year, only to stagnate and never become FIRE.
If you are struggling to manifest a goal into reality, there are a few questions you can ask yourself to discover what is missing. Be honest with yourself.
- How much consistent effort have I really put into this goal?
- Are you doing the same things, expecting different results?
- Are you just talking about it, or doing about it?
- Do you take each day as it comes to you, or do you plan each day before it is here?
- Do you have a lot of reasons why it probably isn't working for you (aka excuses) or are you determined no matter what?
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EVERYONE can be fit. That's the truth.
If this is true…why isn't everyone?
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A trainer to motivate you!
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What's great is that everyone loves a cupcake (or two!). Bake some and frost them any how you like it and finish it off with additional topping of your choice. It's all so versatile and easy to handle. And of course, they're really really fun to make! I especially enjoy and love the decoration part of it.
These lovely moist chocolate cupcakes with delicious strawberry frosting were actually made over two months ago for my co-workers for a little tea time treat we had in the office. So this is actually my long overdue recipe post.
The cake here is an old recipe of moist chocolate cake I found hand-written in my old trusty recipe notebook. I made it into cupcakes and instead of using plain vanilla butter cream for frosting, I decided to give it a strawberry twist instead. I pureed about 2 cups of fresh strawberries and then strained out the juice before mixing in with the butter cream. And the result was....delicious!! It really made a difference to the normal butter cream. One can't argue that chocolate and strawberry make oh such a wonderful pairing!
Chocolate cupcake:
180 g butter
340 g caster sugar
3 large eggs
1 tsp instant coffee granules, dissolve this with 1 tbsp hot water
1 tbsp brandy
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup water
Sieve together:
240 g plain flour
75 g cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
~ Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy, and then add in the eggs one at a time, mixing well in between.
~ Combine brandy, vanilla, dissolved coffee granules and the hot water together, stirring it well.
~ Fold in flour mixture alternately with the coffee liquid to the creamed butter, sugar and egg mixture. Mix well in between flour and liquid.
~ Mix everything well together. Fill up to a maximum 3/4 full in each cupcake liner/case that is fitted in a muffin pan. Bake at 150 deg C for around 40 minutes (depending on your oven) or until an inserted cake tester comes out clean.
~ Cool the cupcakes completely before icing them.
Strawberry butter cream:
2 cups fresh strawberries
2/3 cup butter
1/4 cup vegetable shortening
2 cups sifted icing sugar
~ In a mini blender or food processor, puree the strawberries. Strain/squeeze (can use a muslin cloth) out excess juice (it need not be too dry, just as long as the excess juice is rid off)
~ Cream the butter, shortening, and icing sugar till fluffy. Add in the blended strawberry. Mix really well.
~ Fill up a piping bag with large star nozzle and pipe out a circular swirl on each cupcake. Topped with half of a fresh strawberry for a more luscious and tempting look.
(Add more icing sugar for a stiffer frosting if you prefer)


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The Birmingham Whisky Club is hosting five new events to celebrate its fifth birthday. Since 2011, the club has built up a loyal following of 1000s of whisky lovers, drank through 5,000 bottles of whisky over 200 different events and worked with over 70 different brands. To celebrate this, they are hosting five unique events throughout the city.
On November 3rd, the club will be hosting a very special tasting to start the festivities. They will be working with The Electric Cinema (the UK's oldest working cinema) and independent bottlers Douglas Laing for a 'drink-along' screening of Ken Loach's 'The Angel's Share'.
Throughout the celebrations, events will be held with Chivas (a collaboration tasting themed on the history of whisky blending and bespoke tailoring at Clements & Church), whisky legends such as Highland Park and Glenfiddich and finishing with their 5th annual 'Peat Freaks' tasting at The Wellington.
Amy Seton (owner of The Birmingham Whisky Club) says: "I started the club 5 years ago to share my love of the 'Water Of Life' with the people of Birmingham. Since our very first tasting in December 2011, we have seen over 4,500 people at our events, tasted whisk(e)y from over 10 different countries and drank our way through around 5,000 bottles. We have worked with dozens of fantastic brands and great independent venues and shared some knowledge on the way."
October has also seen the release of tickets for the club's much-loved flagship event... Whisky Birmingham. The festival (now in it's fourth year) will be held on Saturday March 4th 2017 at the beautiful canal-side location of The Bond in Digbeth. As well as a chance to try hundreds of different kinds of whisk(e)y, guests can enjoy delicious local streetfood, live entertainment and innovative masterclasses throughout the day.
For more information on The Birmingham Whisky Club's upcoming events, head to their Facebook page. Further details about Whisky Birmingham 2017 can be found at http://www.birminghamwhiskyfestival.co.uk.
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NWSB Insider and Vancouver Canucks writer Josh Hall delivers you a list of site the Nucks should see before Tuesday's tilt versus the Nashville Predators. Could Ryan Kesler use some motivation from Oprah. Would some BBQ Pulled pork help beef up Chris Higgins? Maybe Sami Salo would benefit from a visit to the Parthenon.
Game 60 Canucks vs. Predators: Oh the Sites We Can See
February 20, 2012 By Josh Hall
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caseywright needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 130 designs submitted by 50 freelance designers.
This is a new company that will be launching in 3-4 months. It will specialize in websites for real estate professionals. What makes this company unique is that it will not only design websites, it will push regularly-updated blog content to these websites on the agent's behalf, so agents can have a dazzling, engaging, constantly evolving website that they never have to touch.
Primary audience is real estate professionals (agents, mortgage reps, title reps), however we may expand to serve other industries at some point in the future, so please steer clear of designs that tie us to the real estate industry.
This logo will be included in our website, on our print materials, in our presentations....pretty much everywhere.
1. Clean, bold, and professional
2. Icon and text (with option to use just the icon or just the text and still have it look cool)
3. Versatile (looks good in print on the web, on black backgrounds, white backgrounds, etc)
4. Clever (find a creative way to make use of wires and wings in the design)
5. Appears active and futuristic
6. Ages well (looks good 5, 10, or 50 years from now)
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ROTTEN ROLL REX - Label & Mailorder
SERRABULHO - Inverted Poopifix - T-Shirts
GUTALAX Caps and Beanies:
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Death-Grind Legend
Genre: Goregrind, Death-Grind
SERRABULHO - CD - Porntugal
SERRABULHO - CD - Ass Troubles (re-issue of the debut album)
2nd full album from Czech Grind-Gore band CHOKED BY OWN VOMITS
Recommaned to fans of Dead Infection, Jig-Ai, Driller Killer
- Download Code
- Info / Inlay Sheet
GUTALAX - Holy Shit - Girlies "don't worry...girls don't fart"
new GUTALAX - Big Business - T-Shirts
GUTALAX - Toilet Brushes T-Shirts reprints + new colors:
Genre: Goregrind
- 2x 12" Vinyl
- incl. Download Code
- Side A and B: "Sicko Baby" Album 1997
- Side C "Bizarre Tales Of The Abnormal" Demo '95
+ "Remind The Bizarre" Tracks from split 7" w. Cabal from 1998
- Side D: blank
- incl. printed sheet with the original demo cover and other side with old bandpic with printed autographs from old lineup.
- Inside the gatefold cover sind old flyers, fotos, and other old evidence from old times
Vinyl Limitations:
- 100 Vinyl in pink
- 200 Vinyl in white / black splattered
- 200 Vinyl in clear red
Genre: Goregrind
Mucupurulents debut album for the first time on vinyl. This classic album of german goregrind enlarge the scene back in the days to a new groovy way of gory Grind 'n Roll. Together with bands like Impetigo, Gut, Regurgitate or Last Days Of Humanity, MUCUPURULENT related to the dinosours of the scene.
This deluxe vinyl edition contains the "Sicko Baby" Album 1997, the "Bizarre Tales Of The Abnormal" Demo '95 and the "Remind The Bizarre" Tracks from split 7" w. Cabal released in 1998
September Releases:
NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE "Backwoods Spirit" shirts out now:
BLOOD - 12'' LP - Gas Flames Bones
12" Vinyl
incl. Download Code
incl. Bonus track: "Wizards Of Gore" from "Wizards Of Gore - Tribute To Impetigo"
incl. lyric sheet
Vinyl Limitations:
- 100 Vinyl in Red (transparent)
- 100 Vinyl in blue / white splattered (transparent)
- 300 Vinyl in Black
Genre: Goregrind/Deathgore
Their sound is anywhere beteen Spasm, Jig Ai or typical dutchs like Rectal Smegma.16 hymns of sickness and brutality coming your way!
Debut album of ASILENT from Singapore. Ultra heavy weight and brutal Death, sometime the 2nd vocals reminds to old Demilich or Xysma Gore-Death. Check them out and do not miss them on their first europe tour in summer 2018!
Genre: Goregrind
A NAIL THROUGH THE URETHRA - CD - The Hangover Avodkalypse
Genre: slamming brutal Death Metal
Debut album of A NAIL THROUGH THE URETHRA from italy is finally out now.
Brutal, technical and slamming Death Metal in the vein of Kraanium or Vulvectomy.
Topical you can expect black humour, alcohol, clinical pathology, sarcasm, sex, slam parties.
Genre: Goregrind
2nd full album of DEEP THROAT from Czech Republic, groovy goregrind with some
influence from mince-grind like old Malignant Tumour or Agathocles, unless the extreme blood-gurgling, shifted vocals take it back to trve Goregrind!
RECTAL SMEGMA - Fingerbang Orang-Utan - T-Shirt
Genre: Death Metal / Deathgrind
incl. Bonus tracks from split 7"EPs with Psycho and Mystic Circle
incl. lyric sheet
Vinyl Limitations:
- 100 Vinyl in Red (transparent)
- 100 Vinyl in Clear/black splattered (transparent)
- 300 Vinyl in Black
BLOOD, the cult oldschool Death-Grind act from Speyer/Germany is back.
Here is the first ever vinyl version of their 1996 Album "Depraved Goddess".
As bonus on this records, the tracks from split 7'' EPs with PSYCHO and MYSTIC CIRCLE , which was released in 1997.
official remastered re-issues:
each CD includes:
- new designed 8-page booklet + OBI strip and Pit-Art CD.
- 4 bonus tracks
- all remastered in 2018.
EXIMPERITUS - 12" LP and Shirts
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
We are proud to present you the vinyl-version of
Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum debut album:
"Projecting the Singular Emission of the Doctrine of Absolute and All-Absorbing Evil…"
Pronounced in full: "Eximpe-ritu-serqethh-zeb[ul]ib-šiptu-gakkath-šu[r]l-welia[l]r-za-xu[l]ł-um", but it is usually shortened to simply "Eximperitus".
for brutal nerds: lern how the speak
"Eximpe-ritu-serqethh-zeb[ul]ib-šiptu-gakkath-šu[r]l-welia[l]r-za-xu[l]ł-um" :-)
corlored GUTALAX shirts,
printed on mega quality: Gildan "Ultra Cotton"
Spasm and Jig Ai shirts re-printed:
April Releases:
VHS - CD - The New Batch
Genre: sick Horror Grinding Death Metal
16 tracks of sickest Horror Grinding Death Metal,
for fans of IMPETIGO and EXHUMED - full stream online now!!!
Guests appearances:
Stevo from Impetigo
Dave Ingram of Just Before Dawn/Benediction/Bolt Thrower
Maniac Neil of Blood Freak/Frightmare/Lord Gore
Bob Shaw of Existential Dissipation
GOREGONZOLA - CD - Dick im Geschäft
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Deathgrind
Ultra Heavy Weight Brutal Death Metal / Death-Grind from Frankonia/Germany.
Fast, Hard, Humoristic!
DEVANGELIC - Inferno - T-Shirt
ZOEBEAST - CD - Zoebeast
Genre: Grindcore / Death Metal / Slamminggutturalbrutaldeathcore / Electro House
ZOEBEAST – is a unique mixture of Grindcore and Death Metal, being influenced also by extraterrestrial music styled from slamminggutturalbrutaldeathcore to electro house. The lyrics are funny and at the same time is covering the current social, gore and porn issues, being inspired by the vital problems of the planet Earth and its neighbours.
LAST DAYS OF HUMANITY Caps and Beanies
(some of the special color caps are just mimited to 5)
RECTAL SMEGMA - "Hymen Hysteria'' - new song 2018 taken from upcomin' split with Last Days Of Humanity and Cliteater.
Out sooooon on ROTTEN ROLL REX as CD, Vinyl, Digital
March Releases:
new sexy Shirts:
- RazorRape "Stripped to Kill" T-Shirt
- Rotten Roll Rex "Label Shirts - est. 06.06.2006"
Support RRR with that sick label shirts, designed by Dahmer Art
RAZORRAPE - CD - Stripped to Kill
Genre: Goregrind / Deathgrind
Swedish death/gore grinders RazorRape returns after 3 years with their fourth album "Stripped To Kill". Recorded and produced by the band, the new album contains 14 songs that will leave you dead in the pit with a broken neck. Prepare for the bands most brutal album to date!
MURDER INTENTIONS - CD - Excessive Display of Human Nature
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Grindcore/ Hardcore
3rd album of hatefull Brutal Death Metal from Belgium with elements of Hard- and Grindcore!
BLOOD "Mental Conflicts" LP
Genre: Death Metal / Deathgrind
12" Vinyl
incl. Download Code
incl. Bonus: "Spittle Red of Blood" EP
incl. lyric sheet
Vinyl Limitation:
- 100 Vinyl in Red (transparent)
- 100 Vinyl in Green (transparent)
- 300 Vinyl in Black
BLOOD, the cult oldschool Death-Grind act from Speyer/Germany is back.
Here is the first ever vinyl version of their 1994 Album "Mental Conflicts".
It was the debut of Clausi on vocals, he stays in BLOOD for 20 years (now in MORONIC, ABNORM).
As bonus on this records, the tracks from "Spittle Red of Blood" 7'' EP, which was released in 1995.
February Releases:
MATANZA - CD - Sangriento
Genre: Goregrind
after 4 month in post-mail and at customs the MATANZA CDs finally arrived from Mexico. This is ultra sick Goregrind for fans of Gut, Gutalax, Asesino, Brujeria...
PULMONARY FIBROSIS - 12" LP - Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Vinyl version of this Goregrind-Classic
black Vinyl, includes lyric-sheet and download code
January Releases:
THE CREATURES FROM THE TOMB - CD - The Terryfying Menace
Genre: Bulldozing Goregrind
T.C.F.T.T. from Germany, founded in August 2012. What we have here is flawless slow motion heavy Horror-Gore. This album is based on the horror movie "Creature from the Black Lagoon"
For Fans of CBT, The Day Everything became Nothing
PORNTHEGORE - The Impaling Rites of Count Dickula
Genre: Goregrind/Pornogrind
PornTheGore from Romania plays funny goregrind, active since 2008 they have out now their first full lenth album,
beside some selfreleased stuff and splits. For Fans of: Gutalax, Serrabulho, Spasm
Genre: Death-Grind / Nekro-Grind / Punk....???
The Fickers returned again, since 1993 they have left deep scares in the music-scene. In 2018 they have entered a Radio Station and recorded their 25th anniversary album called: KFFM 931.8 in order to finally win their fight against musical decency and good taste.
More than ever, the Fickers violate different genres and styles and present and album that is so rich in his variety as it is poor in its propriety.
From sleazy rock tunes to icy black metal breakdown sounds!
Experience KADAVERFICKER's awkwardly versatile Necrokore Style and tune it to KFFM 931.8 NekroRadio - The Corpse Station
December Releases:
SMASHING DUMPLINGS - CD - Side Effects
Genre: Death-Grind / Gastro Grind
2nd full CD of czech grinders SMASHING DUMPLINGS, 11 new tracks,
heavy, clear and brutal production as expected from czech republics grind-bands!
Influenced Grindcore, Death-Grind, Death Metal and some Punkrocks.....
check them out!
ANALEPSY - The Thing - T-Shirts
October Releases:
DEVANGELIC - 12'' LP - Phlegethon
LP includes: Bandcamp download code, Full Color Lyric Sheet
Color Limitation:
100x turquoise + black splattered
100x silver
300x black
Devangelic unleashes an unholy opus of brutal death metal madness with their highly anticipated sophomore album titled 'Phlegethon'. Earth-shattering aural devastation awaits you from this merciless Italian death metal leviathan. 'Phlegethon' is based on the dark surroundings of Dante's Inferno and is an
exemplary follow up to their phenomenal 2014 debut 'Resurrection Denied'. Expect ten blistering tracks of mind-numbing, unrelenting guttural savagery that will surpass all standards in the genre. You've been warned!
CRYOGENOCIDE - MCD - Torn Apart By Two Gravities
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
CRYOGENOCIDE is a brutal / technical Si-Fi death metal band with the aim to create the sickest modern technical death metal brutality Finland has ever spewn. With Members of CUMBEAST.
Recommended for fans of: Wormed, Origin, Cytotoxin....
WORLD GOREGRIND FEDERATION 2 - House of Horror - CD -
Genre: Goregrind
- Rapemachine
- Paracoccidioidomicosisproctitissarcomucosis
- Truepick
- Adamantium
WHORE - CD - Doing It For The Kids
Genre: Death Metal/Gore Metal
Contain members of Fornicator and Lord Gore, lyrics based at anti-feminism on black humor.
Strongly recommend for fans of typical US stuff like: Waco Jesus, Exhumed, Lord Gore, Fornicator, Frightmare...
MEAT SHITS - CD - Ecstasy Of Death
Genre: Grindcore/Pornnoise, oldschool Noisecore/Cult Shit!
reissue of an sold-out classic album from 1993, cult porn-grind, no words needed, just the Meat Shits!
September Releases:
BRODEQUIN - Inquisition - T-Shirt:
August Releases:
NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE - CD - Hidden Bloodiness
NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE - Banjo Zombie - T-Shirt
The 5th full-lenght album of NxOxGxOxAx.
Full power Banjo-Slam strikes back again! Fresh, young and entertaining grooves.
Outstanding Slam Death, far away from most of the standard slam bands theese days!!!
NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE - CD - Widowmaker
re-issue: new front cover, new booklet and inlet design, + Bonustrack: "Stop Animal Experiments (Use Rapists)! " feat. Martin (KRAANIUM) R.I.P.
The second full-lenght album of NxOxGxOxAx, this time again a solo work of
Andreas "Andi" Schüssler and the brilliant special on this album are Banjo parts
on every song !!! The result is amzing sick Banjo Slam !!!
UNDYING LUST FOR CADAVEROUS MOLESTATION - CD - Glory Glory Holelujah!
2nd full album of the south german bulldozer goregrinders, in good old german
tradition of heavy slow motion Goregrind bands like C.B.T, Gut or Plasma.
IMPETIGO - Ultimo Mondo Cannibale - T-Shirt
BRODEQUIN - Shorts
PATHOLOGY - 12" LP - Pathology
Under Licence of Comatose Records we are proud to present you the vinyl-version of PATHOLOGYs self titeled new full length album. Colored vinyls are extra heavy 180 gramm and exclusive on Rotten Roll Rex
LP includes:
- Bandcamp download code
- large Logo Sticker: 23 x 12 cm
- Full Color Lyric Sheet
Vinyl-Color Limitation:
100x transparent-green + white splattered (180 gramm)
100x transparent-yellow (180 gramm)
300x black (140 gramm)


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One of the great things about doing this blog, besides constant exposure to the raucous and bawdy adventures of my corpulent, concupiscent compadre in crime, The Duke of DVD, is the opportunity it has afforded me to delve into the dark recesses of world cinema. In the years since we started this project, the Duke and I have discovered the wonders of Indonesian Black Magic, Canadian Canniblism, Brazilian batshittery and even Finnish sexploitation featuring lustful Laplanders. And still there remains so much to be uncovered, so much out there awaiting experience, the task can be a little daunting. Without the hand of a dark deity guiding one's steps to the altars of the Mad, Forgotten Gods we worship here at MMMMMovies, one might swim through oceans of cinematic sludge before alighting on a paradisaical beach of wonderment.
Luckily for you, dear readers--and indeed, for us all--one such Dark Deity has sprung from the Scandinavian hinterlands to offer said guidance. In earthly form he goes by the name Daniel Ekeroth, and his tome of knowledge, Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema, is a book that should be on the shelves of mad movie fans the world over. With 200+ reviews of Swedish exploitation films from the 1950s through the 1980s, Ekeroth gives readers an encyclopedic tour of the maddest the Swedes have to offer, and also paints a nostalgic picture of a bygone time in international filmmaking when anything went--and when it did, usually went through Stockholm.
Ekeroth has an engaging, conversational writing style, both in the reviews and in his wonderful introduction, in which he traces the origins of the "Sensationsfilms" genre as a reaction against the stringent censorship Sweden's homegrown product was subjected to. If you know nothing about Swedish culture and history, don't worry--Ekeroth broadly but helpfully sketches the Swedish cultural mindset circa 1950 and how it changed over time, a change documented by the sensationsfilms and later influenced by them. He also traces his own personal history, growing up in the most frenzied era of sensationsfilms (the 70s, of course) and how he, like his country's filmmaking heritage, was shaped by their peculiar and often insane forms of excess.
The reviews themselves are organized alphabetically, none more than a page long but full of concise synopses, interesting facts, critical reactions, and often witty authorial asides. Ekeroth sees the sensationfilm as a big tent concept, including sleaze merchants like Joe Sarno (whose sensationsfilm Vampire Ecstasy is reviewed on MMMMMovies here), and Bo A. Vibenius (Thriller: A Cruel Picture) as well as acknowledged masters like Ingmar Bergman. (Bergman's 1960 film The Vigin Spring [Jungfrukällan] was of course the inspiration for Last House on the Left and its many grindhouse imitators; and Ekeroth also reckons it includes the first ever onscreen vomiting in cinema history! Take that, Mr. DeMille!)
The types of films run the gamut from the sexy (Kärlekens språk, 1969) to the comedic (Här kommer bärsärkarna, 1965) to the violent (Stockholmsnatt, 1987) to the downright baffling (Breaking Point, 1975). Through it all, the author displays an affection for the mad and an adherence to the Doctrine of the Glorious Failure that marks him as a kindred soul to your ever-lovin' Vicar. Which I like.
In his afterword, "A World Without Sensationsfilms," Ekeroth narrates the downfall of the genre in the 90s, though he closes with a little hope for the future thanks to some modern blockbusters with sensationsfilms sensibilities--most notably Let the Right One In and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. But whether a new golden age is dawning in Sweden or not, the author makes a strong argument for mad movie gluttons everywhere to go in search of the obscure and insane movies he's just lovingly detailed. And with his ultra-helpful appendix, 20 Sensationsfilms to See Before You Die, he even provides a shopping list to start from!
Also included is a detailed interview with the Queen of Sensationsfilms Christina Lindberg, brief biographical sketches of some of the most important actors and directors in the genre, and a glossary of Swedish cultural terms that is nothing short of hilarious. Cover to cover, a wonderful read, and 3 Literary Thumbs Up!
Swedish Sensationfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema is available from Bazillion Points (publishers), Amazon.com, and god knows where else. A worthy addition to your library, and worth every penny!


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IBIT Solutions needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 16 designs submitted by 2 freelance designers.
We are a new company looking to launch Australia wide in early March. To do this we need a fresh, slick, and modern looking wesbsite that will help us achieve success and attract and impress clients.
We would also look to having an ongoing professional relationship with the winning individual in regards expspanding the site through time and performing updates etc
Our clients are global tier 1 banks so the site would give you allot of exposure to high end clients!!
Our target audience is our clients (Global Investment banks and brokerages) and professionals looking for employment with in the IT Industry specifically in Information Technology and the development of real time trading systems.
We would need a front page and templates in order to build more pages.
The site homepage will have stock market real-time market pricing (ASX)
and up to date banking industry gossip/news from reuters.
There will also be tabs including :
what we do
IT professionals
Contact us
Register with us
a twitter section and buy side and sell side sections
Buy side will be a job posting board
Sell side will be a forum for IT proffesionals to post ther details when avalable for employment
We have an idea for the logo find attached but not yet finalised!!
Colour to be determined and decided which means you can determine that through your design.
Blues white greys with an accent colour is probably the direction we r looking to go in. But am open!
I have also added some web content files that should give you more of an idea of what we do.
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Bunker Ponds Park
Bunker Ponds Park
At various times over the past million years, global cooling allowed massive glaciers to form over much of the northern United States. These ice sheets surged southward from Hudson Bay in Canada, collecting boulders, cobbles, gravel, and soil on the way. As temperatures began to rise 12,000 years ago, the last glacier receded from Staten Island. As the ice melted, the debris was deposited throughout the landscape. This process created the rolling landscape that is characteristic of Staten Island today. The kettle pond in this park was created as the glacier dragged debris across the ground and thereby dug out a hole. As glacial ice melted, runoff filled the newly formed hole with water, making a pond.
William T. Davis (1862-1945) and Charles W. Leng (1859-1941) surveyed this area for an 1896 map. The location is referred to as Bunker Hill, and while the pond is depicted, it is not specifically identified. In his studies of the spot, Davis found various artifacts including arrowheads and spear points, and thereby concluded that the site had been a Lenape Indian settlement. Davis, a renowned naturalist and entomologist, co-founded the Natural Science Association of Staten Island. He was largely self-taught, but nonetheless made huge contributions to the study of Staten Island's community and natural history. His 1892 memoir Days Afield on Staten Island catalogues the island's plants and animals, while Staten Island and Its People, which he coauthored with Leng in 1930, is one of the greatest recordings of Staten Island history.
The Department of Real Property assigned this property to Parks on December 30, 1994. Local residents had feared that the land was going to be privately developed, so they asked Parks to take it over so as to preserve its natural beauty. The site's boundaries are Hylan Boulevard, Arbutus Avenue, Huguenot Avenue, and Shore Avenue. The last of these, Shore Avenue, has eroded and no longer exists (even though it still appears on maps of the area). Where it had run is now waterfront, giving Bunker Ponds Park some sea frontage. Swain Avenue is named for a family that resided here as early as 1706. At the time, seven Swain males were heads of their own households, with eleven boys among them. They sustained the name, and Swains continued to be active on Staten Island for years to come, particularly with the Church of St. Andrew, which is located in Richmond Town on the corner of Old Mill and Arthur Kill Roads. That church is particularly interesting because it was probably the birthplace, and certainly the baptismal place, of Mother Elizabeth Seton (1774-1821). Seton was made a saint in 1975-the first American in history to be canonized.
Located across Huguenot Avenue, Intermediate School 7 (Elias Bernstein Intermediate) uses this park in its science enrichment program. With its variety of wildlife, the park affords students the opportunity to observe plants and animals in their natural habitat. The swamp is home to the spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer), the smallest species of frog on Staten Island. There are also red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus), green frogs (Rana clamitans melanota), painted turtles (Chrysemys picta), and garter snakes (Thamnophis). In July and August, swamp loosestrife (Decodon verticillatus) blooms its bright pink wildflowers. Many bird species stop in Bunker Pond Park to rest, but two particularly frequent visitors are mallards (Anas platyrhyncos) and wood ducks (Aix sponsa). Others birds that can be seen are the great blue heron (Ardea herodias), black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), little heron (Butorides striatus), snowy egret (Egretta thula), crow (Corvus), cardinal (Cardinalis), black capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus), northern oriole (Icterus galbula), rufous sided towhee (Pipilo erythropthaimus), and the great crested flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus).
This park's woods contain red maples (Acer rubrum), sweet gums (liquidambar styraciflua), pin oaks (Quercus palustris), white ash (Fraxinus Americana), scarlet oaks (Quercus coccinea), white oaks (Quercus alba), black birch (Betula occidentalis), and several species of hickories (Carya). Yellow pond lilies (Nuphar advena) and bladderwort (Utricularia) thrive in the pond itself. The latter is especially interesting because it is a carnivorous plant; it traps and digests tiny animals such as insects and worms. There are also several species of fish, including bluegills (Lepomis macrochirus), green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus), catfish (Siluriformes), and eels (Anguilliformes).


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Free College Basketball Betting Odds & Picks for the the Oregon State Beavers vs. Washington Huskies Thursday matchup. UW are 6 point favorites in this contest at home, the total is set at 158. Lorenzo Romar is 14-5 all-time against Oregon State, including 8-1 at home. The Huskies finished third in the Pac-10 last season at 11-7 and were 24-11 overall.
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