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They look amazing!
And they made it through an interview and photo shoot without killing each other. Can you stand it?
The new cover of Entertainment Weekly featuring Kelly Taylor and Brenda Walsh willing to answer the tough questions – like their past, like the fights, like how they feel about Tori Spelling.
Suffice to say, Shannen Doherty does NOT like Tori Spelling.
Just another reason for you to LOVE Shannen Doherty.
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The aluminum foundry is propane fired using a venturi nozzle built from pipe fittings. The burn chamber is an old propane bottle that was thoroughly cleaned out before being cut open with a cutting wheel on an angle grinder.
Here's an example of what I've done with it.
The mould is made from greensand (a mixture of fine silica sand, bentonite clay powder and water)

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What could be more enjoyable than spending a whole weekend stitching! There was a group of very enthusiastic quilters gathered around the tables at Somerset last weekend. When they arrived there was a lovely parcel of fabrics, all colour co-ordinated and sorted to make their very own Chintz Medallion Quilt.
This is what they were working towards. My version of a traditional antique style appliqué quilt.
The girls cut and chopped and placed their pieces in an assortment of combinations to make their own designs.
Jane was not fond of the stars so her version has just a few, but, she found a few more flowers to appliqué instead.
Jenny created another twist by including hexagons in the layout.
Wendy's pile of leftovers doesn't quite fit in the box anymore!
And where did I get my inspiration?
This gorgeous Broderie Perse quilt was spotted on Barbara Brackmans blog last year!
It instantly captured my imagination and I felt the urge to play with similar fabrics and create my own design.
Summer School continues this week and I will try to keep you posted with the next round of interesting projects,
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Marantz Reference TT 15S1
Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?)
coming from a very high end system in my home which is all Krell based and I have an Oracle Mk 7 turntable which is superb and a piece of art just sitting still. I browsed online and I did purchase a few units from REGA and Project for my other residence but i honestly was no happy with their quality and lack of weight on their base and tone arms. I decided to buy the Marantz from Crutchfield since they have great customer support i was confident that if i didn't like it they would accept my return no questions asked. i have to the say the Marantz unit is very cool to look at and very well made. it is made in Germany by Clear Audio and the included phono cartridge is superb and almost 75% of the cost of the unit is in the phono itself setting up the tone arm with the counter weight is a pain since they want you to have the arm perfectly parallel to the platter but its not easy but i got mine very close. i have been playing in for past few days and i honestly love the styling, the sound, the upper midrange and high range frequencies is superb, Bass response is incredible.. it easily blows away every other turntable Crutchfield is offering and it might just be the amazing Clearaudio phono which comes with this kit but the unit is heavy and balanced and this is very important. great piece overall and if your serious about music and vinyl this is the unit to buy.
Pros: Amazing styling Great build quality Made in Germany Clear Audio Virtuouso Wood Phono included Nicely weighted tone arm Nice Anti Skate design which doesnt have a silly counter weight and string like most others in this price range platter mat is much thicker and better than all others in this price range Zero hum Zero noise great phono cables good hardware Amazing clarity and detail Bass, midrange and upper frequencies are brilliant!
Cons: Vague instructions, a good set up video would be ideal I used my calipers and other measuring devices for set up As an engineer i understand why they motor is separate from the base for noise and harmonics but it annoys me when you have to move the unit. Belt makes slight noise on start up that does go away. The motor should have an aluminum pulley instead of the flimsy plastic one with plastic set screws I will make! The platter should have a cut groove for the belt.


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Grassroots Leaders: Empowering Communities is Resilience Building
Participants at the first Community Practitioners Academy meeting, which was held ahead of the Fourth Global Platform for Disaster Reduction in Generva. - Photos: Margaret Arnold/World Bank
Communities are organized and want to be recognized as partners with expertise and experience in building resilience rather than as clients and beneficiaries of projects. This was the common theme that emerged from the key messages delivered by grassroots leaders at the Fourth Global Platform for Disaster Reduction [1] taking place in Geneva this week, organized by the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) [2]. The Global Platform is a biennial forum for information exchange and partnership building across sectors to reduce disaster risk.
Ahead of the Global Platform, 45 community practitioners from 17 countries - Bangladesh, Chile, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Samoa, Uganda, Venezuela, and the United States - met for a day and a half to share their practices and experiences in responding to disasters and building long-term resilience to climate change, and to strategize their engagement in around the Global Platform. I had the privilege to participate in this first Community Practitioners Academy [3], which was convened by GROOTS International [4], Huairou Commission [5], UNISDR, the World Bank [6], Global Facility for Disaster Risk and Reduction [7] (GFDRR), Act Alliance [8], Action Aid [9], Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation [10] (JANIC), Cordaid [11], and Oxfam [12], and was planned in partnership with the community practitioners from their respective networks.
Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, opened the Academy, recognizing that communities already come well organized, and urged them to engage actively in the Global Platform dialogue and to say what they are willing to take on to enable local resilience building.
In the sessions, Academy participants demonstrated just how much communities take on, and their expertise in dealing with all types of natural hazards, nuclear accidents, environmental degradation, land grabbing, climate change, conflict and epidemics — often in combination and on an ongoing basis. A sampling of some of these stories shows how much communities are involved in coping with disasters.
Ichio Muto, a member of an organic farmers' association in Japan, shared how the community responded to the Fukushima nuclear disaster following the 2011 earthquake, and how they are using organic farming methods to reduce the radiation level of crops. Deborah Katina of Kenya showcased her work with community women to mitigate drought risk by building sand dams for water storage. And from Nicaragua, Haydee Rodriguez, head of women's farmer cooperative, explained how they are training local government officials on climate change adaptation and working with them and with the national government to facilitate community participation in national disaster risk management and reforestation policies.
The community practitioners and the experiences they shared were impressive, and I felt inspired by a few aspects that should be kept in mind as we ramp up efforts to support disaster and climate resilience building:
- Women are often the designers and builders of community resilience in poor communities. The leadership role played by women figured strongly in the Academy, and our research on disasters and climate change also reveals that women's empowerment is a key ingredient to resilience building.
- Communities are dealing with localized, recurrent "everyday" disasters that are the results of persisting poverty, environmental degradation, social marginalization, and other factors unrelated to natural hazards. Godavari Dange, leader of a self-help women's federation in Maharashtra, India, emphasized that over the years sugar and grape crops have drained the water, forcing them to dig over 1000 feet deep to collect water for drinking. All practitioners emphasized that they were not only working on reducing disaster risk, but on changing the way development is done. Understanding exposure to climate and hazard risk is important, but if we are to reduce climate risk, we need to focus strongly on addressing the underlying, non-climate related drivers of vulnerability.
- Community leaders not only build resilience at the local level, but can contribute as experts to policy making. Examples from Central America were particularly impressive. Grassroots women are training their governments, and participating in policy discussions at the local, national, and regional level. The governments of Guatemala and Honduras served as role models by including grassroots women on their official national delegations to the Global Platform.
The strategies that communities use to manage risk are poorly understood and often ignored by governments and development partners. We need a better understanding of the "autonomous adaptation" and social innovations that are taking place on a daily basis at the local level so that we can support it effectively. Leaders at the Community Practitioners Academy are committed to building partnerships at national and regional levels to amplify their networks, voices, practices, and impacts. We should take them up on this invitation.
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The Son of Our Heartby Steve Charles • July 26, 2010 Share:
It was the fall of 1991. Ro Gillooly and her husband, Dave, had just joined the Community Friends program that hosts the College's international students, and Ro decided to give the young men a tour around the town. She knew they had arrived on campus early, didn't know anyone in Crawfordsville, and might like to see a friendly face. And faces and demeanors don't come much friendlier or more welcoming than Ro's.
The first student she met was Faisal Ahmed '95 from Bangladesh. Ro walked the students around downtown Crawfordsville, showed them the banks, restaurants, grocery stores, and a garage sale. ("None of them had ever seen one.") Most listened politely but talked among themselves.
Except for Faisal.
"He walked with me the whole time, asking questions," Ro recalls. "There was an immediate connection."
It was the kind of exchange and diversity she and Dave had missed since retiring from the military (and Honolulu) and moving to Crawfordsville.
What Ro didn't realize was that Faisal had already been on campus for a week, wandering the halls and living off the food his mother had sent with him. Community Friends volunteer Director Judy Schmidt had found him when she'd gone through Martindale to make sure rooms were ready for the incoming international students. She had invited him over to have dinner with her and her family.
"Faisal says that when he first saw Judy that day, he thought she was an angel," Ro says.
He was pretty hungry for social contact when Ro met him, too.
They hit it off so well that the Gilloolys asked Schmidt to assign them to be Faisal's host family.
"I went to The Children's Museum and got a Bangladesh flag and put it on a chop-stick," Dave laughs.
Their daughter, Kerry, came home from IU to be with her parents at the first Community Friends gathering of the fall. Faisal smiled when he saw Dave waving the Bangladeshi flag and found out who his host parents would be.
It was the beginning of a friendship that has only strengthened over the years.
"He is like a son to us," Ro says.
"The son of our heart," Dave adds.
"That's what we call him," Ro says. "He is the son of our heart."
I WALK THROUGH THE ZEN GARDEN in the Gilloolys' front yard in Crawfordsville's Northridge subdivision on the one of the first gorgeous days of spring 2010. Dave and Ro greet me warmly at the door and lead me through their uncluttered home to a room infused with natural light and with a table for four at its center. It seems a place made for conversation.
"All kinds of conversations," Dave says, recalling discussions that took place around this table during the four years that Faisal was at Wabash.
The only thing that impressed the Gilloolys more than the young man's curiosity was his intelligence and ability to integrate new ideas.
Those first conversations with Faisal were one-on-one, but soon he was bringing his friends, most of them other international students.
"I think they felt comfortable coming over here, and they would talk about whatever was on their minds," Dave says. "It was like an open forum—philosophical, political, religious, personal. What are women really like in the United States? What do you think of taking a break between college and grad school?
"Our home was his home, and that gave him a place to bring his buddies, a way into our culture for them."
And a place for the Gilloolys to soak up other students' cultures, too.
But Dave says the experience of hosting Faisal was almost as illuminating for the way the newcomer helped them to look at their own country with fresh eyes.
"We introduced him to a lot of cultural things—carving a pumpkin, hiding an Easter basket. One Christmas we took Faisal to Florida to see Disney World, Busch Gardens, and NASA. We went to the Martin Luther King Museum in Atlanta, the replica of the Parthenon in Nashville.
"It was wonderful for us just to see his expression and joy as he experienced so many things we take for granted," Ro adds.
After Faisal learned how to cook from friends at what was then the International House, he introduced the Gilloolys to Bangladeshi food.
"When he comes to visit us he still wants to cook us a meal as a gift," Dave says. "It's a deeper understanding of cooking and eating than we tend to observe. He sees this in spiritual relationship to the people who are eating, part of sharing himself with us."
NOW WITH THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund and making his home in Washington, DC, Faisal has shown his love for the Gilloolys in many ways. When he and Rebecca were married, he asked Dave and Ro to serve as representatives for his family, who couldn't make the trip to Minnesota from Bangladesh.
"He treated us like stand-in parents," Dave recalls. "It was a very, very great honor, and we have a lot of gratitude for that."
When Kerry was married, Faisal and Rebecca attended, too.
And last winter Dave and Ro flew to Washington, DC for two weeks after Faisal and Rebecca's baby girl was born to help take care of the baby.
"Sort of like proxy grandparents," Dave laughs.
While there, Ro got her first chance to meet Faisal's mom face-to-face via the Internet connection Skype.
"After 20 years of knowing of one another, it was wonderful to see her, for us to see each other and be able to talk. We're almost like co-mothers," Ro says.
THIS YEAR THE GILLOOLYS' Community Friends experience came around full circle. Faisal's nephew, Aakash, was a freshman at Wabash. Guess who signed up to be his host parents?
But that's only one of many connections Faisal has made for Ro and Dave. Thanks to those long conversations over this table, they still hear regularly about a number of international students from Faisal's era at Wabash, including Waseel Azizi '95, the former Afghan freedom fighter who co-founded the mosque in Martindale Hall.
"All these guys have hung together all these years, and because they have kept in touch with Faisal, they've maintained our relationship with them, too," says Dave.
Ro describes the photo albums she made for each year Faisal was with them. She gave the set to him as a gift at his Commencement—a history of his adventure at Wabash and of becoming a member of their family.
I ask to see a recent picture of Faisal, and Ro pulls out one of Faisal and Rebecca. Faisal looks like a happy man.
"He is a wonderful soul. He is kind, loving. I wish people who don't understand Islam or put the people of that religion into a particular category could meet him and see the beauty that seeps out of him," says Ro, like a proud mom, of the son of her heart.
Photo: Faisal Ahmed (left) and his nephew, Aakash, join Dave and Ro Gillooly around the family table.


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The first sheet from Rapiscan's patent 7,796,733, entitled "Personnel security screening system with enhanced privacy" is shown. According to the patent document, the invention "relates to image processing techniques that employ maximum threat detection performance and minimal information loss. More particularly, the invention relates to the field of radiant energy imaging systems and methods and to image processing techniques for detecting concealed objects carried on the body or clothing of a person without compromising the privacy of the person." A further explanation delves into how contraband can be detected by X-rays: "Non-metallic objects are commonly composed of low atomic number elements similar to those of human tissue, i.e. hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. Soft human tissue scatters a significant amount of X-rays due to the relatively low atomic number of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen in relatively high concentration. Due to the high atomic number of calcium, bones near the surface of the body, comprised mainly of calcium, produce much less scatter. Concealed objects, especially metals, can be easily visualized in the images due to their significant difference in atomic composition from the background of human tissue."
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Four Lucky Fans Could Win an Intimate In-Home Dinner Party Catered by a "Top Chef" Alum
New York, NY – November 19, 2013 – Bravo Media announced today a first of its kind partnership with Kitchit, an online destination for incredible food experiences, to bring a taste of "Top Chef" to fans around the country just in time for the holiday season. Through Kitchit, "Top Chef" fans can hire a chef to create a perfect dinner party, schedule a private cooking class, or find the perfect caterer for an event. As part of the partnership, Kitchit has worked with over 100 of its registered chefs – including many former chef'testants – to create "Top Chef" inspired menus that can be purchased through December 31 at kitchit.com/browse/top-chef.
In addition, four lucky "Top Chef" fans could win an intimate dinner party for them and seven of their friends in their own home catered by one of four former chef'testants including Marcel Vigneron, Nyesha Arrington, Richard Farina & Chris Crary. From November 19 to December 10, fans can follow @BravoTopChef on Twitter and answer a weekly question asking for their best dinner party idea using #TopChefDinner. Winners will be chosen based on creativity and originality of their dinner party idea.
"Our passionate 'Top Chef' fans are always asking us for the chance to immerse themselves in the taste and feel of the show and partnering with Kitchit is the perfect way to deliver on this request," said Ellen Stone, Executive Vice President of Marketing for Bravo and Oxygen Media. "As we did with 'Top Chef: The Tour' and the 'Top Chef Kitchen' pop up restaurant in NYC, Bravo endeavors to give our loyal viewers an opportunity to experience a 'Top Chef' dinner first hand from the comfort of their own home."
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After being inspired and captivated by the awesome scenery of the South Big Sur Coast and Silver Peak Wilderness on the South Coast Adventure, I was eager to return for more exploration in the region, this time for a very aesthetic loop that comes in around 25-26 miles. Aside from repeat visits to the incredible Mount Mars and Buckeye Trail, this loop added a lot of new terrain for me, including upper Villa Creek, Lion Peak, the Three Peaks area and Dutra Flats. If a point-to-point is too cumbersome to arrange (this is, after all, the most remote section of the Big Sur coast), than this loop is the perfect way to hit hit the highlights and see a lot of the terrain in the region. I'll definitely be returning for further exploration in the South Big Sur region. Strava GPS route here.
The loop starts with switchbacks on the Cruikshank Trail on a south facing chaparral slope that can be hot even in the morning. However, the trail soon rounds a corner and enters the lovely Villa Creek Canyon and begins one of the best sections of single track in all of Big Sur. From top to bottom, the Cruikshank Trail packs an incredible amount of biodiversity in its six miles, including redwoods, various pine species, Douglas fir, Santa Lucia Firs, Sargent's cypress, various oak species, and madrone. Note that there is also plenty of poison oak alongside the trail in its upper portion. The trail also has excellent views to the ocean and a rugged section of Villa Creek canyon with reddish rocks characteristic of this region. About 5.75 miles from the start, the Cruikshank Trail crosses a saddle with a young Sargent's cypress forest where a spur path heads west to Silver Peak while the main trail heads down to the beautiful Lion Den camp. This camp has to be one of the best in Big Sur, complete with a spring, ample shade under the pines, and a commanding view overlooking Salmon Creek canyon, Silver Peak and the Pacific Ocean. Beyond Lion Den Camp, the Cruickshank heads uphill a short distance to meet the South Coast Ridge Road. A short ways south along the road is an optional side trip to Lion Peak. While the road comes close to the summit, a small bushwhack is still necessary to reach the top. Most of the unpleasantness can be avoided by leaving the road at a small saddle near the peak and entering a dense thicket. While not entirely devoid of bushwhacking, travel is reasonable and the distance is short so it only takes 10-15 minutes. It is well worth the troubles with an excellent 360 degree panorama from the exposed reddish summit block. The vista includes Cone Peak and Junipero Serra Peak to the north, Silver Peak and Lion Den camp, Three Peaks, the Salmon Creek canyon, and interior views to Burro Mountain.
After Lion Peak, more quick running along South Coast Ridge Road leads to the Three Peaks Trail, which is an old firebreak along the ridge with vegetation that has filled in to make it a single track. Overall, the trail is in fairly good condition and largely brush-free save for a couple spots. It's an efficient way to go from the South Coast Ridge Road to the Dutra Flats area. The land is mainly covered in chaparral and exposed to sunlight, but there are some pretty stands of coulter pine and gray pine along the way with nice views back to Lion Peak and terrain to the south. Most of the way to Dutra Flats, the Three Peaks trail crosses a prominent ridge and on the other side are awesome views of the meadows in Dutra Flat and County Line Ridge. Dutra Flat is a peaceful meadow area with heritage oaks and pines. A camp is located at the flats under cypress trees and it appears this area is used for cattle grazing. From Dutra Flat, the Murray Mine Track which leads down to Dutra Creek and then steeply up to County Line Ridge. This is a pretty section with straightforward navigation and nice views of Mount Mars and the surrounding region.
From County Line ridge, take the Mount Mars use path up and over a couple false summits to the summit of Mount Mars, with nice views of Salmon Creek canyon, Lion Peak and Silver Peak. Descend through the vegetation tunnel on Mount Mars and emerge onto the grassy ridge with an outstanding view down the ridge to the Pacific Ocean and Salmon cone. From Kozy Kove meadows at the bottom of the very steep ridge, take the use path to the Salmon Creek Trail which quickly descends to the trailhead along Hwy 1. The Buckeye trail is a short distance away and climbs steeply at first (can be hot) but becomes more reasonable as it enters oak woodland beyond the junction with the Soda Springs Trail. There is typically water in Soda Spring Creek about halfway to Buckeye Camp. The Buckeye Trail features marvelous coastal vistas back to Mount Mars and Piedras Blancas, and is one of the best coastal trails in Big Sur. Buckeye Camp is always a treat with its cool fresh spring water and shady heritage oaks in the meadow. Beyond Buckeye Camp, the Buckeye Trail makes one final climb to Buckeye Vista before entering a pine forest that switchbacks down to upper Cruikshank camp. The final downhill portion along the lower Cruikshank Trail bring you back to the Cruikshank trailhead.


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Clarke revealed that aggressive expansion plans would be scaled back as the brand seeks to concentrate on marketing, smaller store formats, better service, and its online offering.
Speaking during an analysts' conference following the company's annual results, Clarke revealed the supermarket's renewed emphasis on marketing.
He said: "We've got to build better brands. Everyday Value [which was introduced this month to replace the Value range] we've been working on for the last six months, the venture brands are building and we've now got 12, and they are doing very nicely.
"This is a plan we started last year, it is not one we will start tomorrow.
Clarke alluded to a shake-up of its agency arrangements, referring to its decision to review its £110m advertising account, held by The Red Brick Road.
"There will be more personalisation and localisation [in marketing] and we have brought [Clubcard creator] Dunnhumby back where they belong, right at the heart of the business, and only last week we began a creative agency review, the first of a decade. Quite simply, we need a different conversation."
Clarke was reluctant to drill down into specifics of upcoming marketing plans, but admitted: "We lost the marketing battle at Christmas – we can't talk about upcoming plans because they are a commercially sensitive area, but customers will see a change soon".
A renewed focus on in-store customer service is also being carried out, with the supermarket claiming it is compressing three years' work into one year, with a £200m investment in recruiting and training new staff.
Clarke said Tesco had been working colleagues too hard after "running the stores too hot", but denied the retailer had been "delivering a bad shopping experience for millions of customers".
Instead, he claimed Tesco had been guilty of stopping incremental improvements and losing focus on the "every little helps" philosophy, which he called the "lifeblood" of like-for-like sales increase.
He stressed: "No part of the business is bigger than the Tesco brand – we don't need to find places to plant new flags. It is about putting the customer first."
The brand's focus on multi-channel retailing is being accompanied by a social media push, with Clarke claiming "social media will soon be as influential as press advertising".
He said multi-channel retail was being grown by rolling out of more dot.com-only stores, with the last two London stores to open by the end of 2013, followed by a store in Oxfordshire and West Midlands.
Clarke indicated the greater emphasis on e-commerce would allow Tesco to focus on groceries in-store and scale back the non-food offering in its superstores after the latters' sales did not live up to expectations.
The Tesco Direct non-food e-commerce site currently has 80,000 products online, but Clarke said there would be 200,000 products available by Christmas.
Clarke has denied reports that Tesco was "calling time on the hypermarket", but said the chain would instead focus on smaller format stores, where it sees opportunity for growth.
Tesco's vision for the future of the hypermarket is a slimmed down form focused on food, services and clothing, rather than other non-food items such as electrical items.
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Friday Video – Honeymoon Suite, "Feel It Again"
In retrospect, one could make a case for the clip for Canadian quintet Honeymoon Suite's "Feel It Again" as an example of when music videos attack. Author Greg Prato even dedicated a chapter to the subject in his oral history of MTV, and it's must-read material, as is (cough, shameless plug, cough) our interview with Prato. At the time, though, "Feel It Again" was cutting edge filmmaking, dudes, and a nominee for three MTV Video Music Awards.
Unfortunately, it was shot at the one moment in the lives of all five members when their hair – and clothes – looked the most ridiculous. Even worse than this picture, if you can believe that.
But get past that for a second and just watch. Singer Johnny Dee's running in place in the chorus. All right, that's silly, but look at everything that's going on around him. Now he has a hat. Now he's walking a dog. And here comes lead guitarist Derry Grehan to sing that big "Feel it agaiiiiiiin!" bit in the chorus. Needless to say, there's a lot of shit going on here, as if someone had been studying Zbigniew Rybczyński's videos (look him up, you won't regret it) very, very closely. That is never a bad thing, and the chorus to this song still boasts a hook the size of an anchor. Feeel it agaiiiiiin! Don't mind if we do. And look who was rocking the skinny jeans a good two and a half decades before they became trendy?
The real reason we're posting this is because our high school reunion is coming up, so be warned: there will be a few more flashbacks in the coming weeks. Rock on.
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Today I'm thrilled to share with you a wonderfully crafted, beautifully charming short film called Jim & Frank. The film was made by friend of the blog Tony Borden and focuses on the first meeting of Jim Henson and Frank Oz. I am a huge fan of this short piece and would love to see it turned into something longer... but the way it is, it is perfect and magnificent. Enjoy!
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The detail in this is INSANE. So good. SO Good. Thanks for sharing and I'd love for this to become a series of little moments.ReplyDelete
Gonna watch it again and share it.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I love all of the little Muppet references throughout the film. Very cool. I've shared it on FB as well.ReplyDelete
love it hope it becomes longer i also love it when they shake hands beautiful! - mariaReplyDelete
oh did anyone else notice that the newspaper say hotel statler rivals with hotel waldorf astria for citys finest or do i have no life without muppets ? - mariaReplyDelete
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The Peel board serves children age four to 21 in regular day school. The calendar year children turn four years old, they can start kindergarten in September.
If your child was born in 2014, he or she can start kindergarten in September 2018. All Peel elementary schools are now open for kindergarten registration for the 2018-19 school year.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. took an $8.8 billion charge citing "a willful effort to mislead investors and potential buyers" at Autonomy Corp., the software company it agreed to purchase last year for $10.3 billion.
"HP is extremely disappointed to find that some former members of Autonomy's management team used accounting improprieties, misrepresentations and disclosure failures to inflate the underlying financial metrics of the company, prior to Autonomy's acquisition by HP," Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard said today in a statement.
More than $5 billion of the total charge is due to accounting practices, which were disclosed by a senior executive at Autonomy after founder Mike Lynch departed, Hewlett-Packard said. Autonomy's U.K. spokesman George Lockett didn't have an immediate comment.
Former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker agreed to buy Autonomy, the second-largest U.K. software maker, to expand in cloud-computing and add software that searches a broad range of data, including e-mails, music, videos and posts on social networks such as Facebook Inc.
The shares of Hewlett-Packard fell as much as 12 percent in early trading. Hewlett-Packard advanced 3.5 percent to $13.30 at the close in New York yesterday, and is down 48 percent this year.
Also today, Hewlett-Packard forecast fiscal first-quarter profit that missed analysts' estimates amid a continuing slump in personal computer sales.
Forecast Miss
Earnings excluding some items will be 68 cents to 71 cents a share for the period, which ends in January, Hewlett-Packard said in a separate statement. Analysts on average had estimated profit of 85 cents a share, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
CEO Meg Whitman is paring product lines and cutting staff to make the supplier of PCs, printers and data center gear more competitive. The company, once a hotbed of invention and the world's biggest PC maker, has suffered from declining sales and has been late to develop mobile and cloud computing products.
"They have a lot of deep-rooted problems," said Eric Maronak, chief investment officer at Victory Capital Management Inc. in New York, which owns Hewlett-Packard shares. "A lot of it is self inflicted."
The net loss in the fiscal fourth quarter was $6.85 billion, or $3.49 a share, compared with net income of $239 million, or 12 cents, a year earlier.
Results included an impairment charge of $8.8 billion from the acquisition of Autonomy Corp., due to "accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations" that happened before Hewlett-Packard purchased the company.
Profit excluding some items was $1.16 a share, topping analysts's average $1.14 estimate.
Fourth-quarter sales fell to $30 billion. Analysts had projected revenue of $30.4 billion.
Hewlett-Packard, which gets more than a quarter of sales from PCs, is suffering as consumers and business users increasingly favor smartphones and tablets.
"The environment remains challenging for HP and other technology companies in the space," said Abhey Lamba, an analyst at Mizuho Securities USA Inc. "HP is unlikely to post revenue growth for a couple of years due to market dynamics in the PC and printing businesses."
The total PC market will contract by 1.2 percent to 348.7 million units this year, according to IHS iSuppli. That's the first annual decline since 2001, the market researcher said.
Whitman said at the company's annual investor meeting last month that a turnaround won't happen anytime soon. At the time, she forecast earnings for the current fiscal year to $3.40 to $3.60 a share, lower than analysts had expected.
She is cutting 29,000 jobs by the end of fiscal 2014 to save as much as $3.5 billion a year. Whitman is also streamlining Hewlett-Packard's unwieldy line of printers, overhauling technology services to improve profit, and re- entering the tablet computer market in January with the company's ElitePad. The company is also focusing on products that help run corporate data centers, which yield higher profits than PCs.
The earnings report came less than a week after Dell Inc. reported fiscal third-quarter revenue fell 11 percent and PC sales dropped 19 percent, amid competition from Apple Inc.'s iPad and other tablet computers.
"HP is faced with many of the same secular and cyclical headwinds as Dell," albeit with a lower percentage of sales from PCs, Jayson Noland, an analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co., wrote in a research report.
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OCZ RevoDrive 240GB PCIe SSD Full Performance Review
Introduction, Packaging and Specifications
Yesterday we received a pre-production sample of the new OCZ RevoDrive for evaluation. This is an entirely new product for OCZ, placing a pair of SandFocre controllers (lifted from their Vertex 2 line of SSD's) behind an integraged RAID solution, all packaged neatly on a single PCIe 4x full height card.
Here it is, in the flesh!
So, what should I put this yummy piece of storage gear up against? Hmm...
A pair of ioXtreme's and an ioDrive!
We may as well compare the packaging of all solutions:
From left: ioDrive 160, ioXtreme 80, ioXtreme Pro 80, RevoDrive 240
- Capacity: 120GB / 240GB
- Flash type: MLC
- Interface: PCIe 4x (Gen. 1)
- Max read: 540 MB/sec
- Max write: 480 MB/sec
- Sustained write: 400 MB/sec
- 4KB random write (aligned): 75,000 IOPS
- Seek time: 0.1 ms
- Power consumption: Idle 3W / Active 8W
And now for the ringer:
Other PCIe SSD solutions out there are not bootable (most notable the Fusion-IO line of SSD's). Since the RevoDrive builds on a simple RAID controller, it sees the same benefits, such as a low footprint driver that can be executed by the Windows installation environment, enabling windows to be installed directly on the RevoDrive itself!.
Read on for the full review as these drives duke it out in true celebrity deathmatch fashion!
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OCALA, Fla., September 17, 2013 George Zimmermans highly controversial prosecutor, Angela Corey, is now under state investigation for firing Ben Kruidbos, the Jacksonville Times-Union reports.Kruidbos received a letter from the Florida Commission on Ethics earlier this week saying the investigation was occurring, the T-Us Larry Hannan wrote last week. Investigator Specialist Kathleen Mann, who sent the letter, declined to comment on the investigation when contacted by the Times-Union on Friday.


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This is the funeral card of Marie Louise LaCasse Rivet, biological mother of Marie Claire Rivet, Joseph Albert Rivet and Raymond Dedace Rivet. Marie Louise was born in Saint-Côme, Joliette, Québec and dies in Cohoes, NY, USA. Thank you to the widow of Uncle Ray Rivet for sharing this card.
Stories of family and ancestors who lived and worked in Cohoes (textile and garment workers, butchers and barbers), Waterford (canalers), Whitehall (farmers and canalers), Port Henry (iron miners and Civil War soldiers), Champlain (canalers and farmers) and other towns along the Champlain Canal in New York State with some diversions to the places they emigrated from....Quebec (landless farmers, shoemakers, sailors, soldiers), Acadia (more farmers), and even Cornwall, England (tin miners).
Thursday, November 22, 2012
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Letter, J. J. I. [John James Ingalls] to Dear Father [Elias T. Ingalls]
Author: Ingalls, John James
Date: November 21, 1858
Much of this interesting letter, dated November 21, 1858, from Sumner, describes the Ingalls law practice and the nature of a "frontier" court proceedings that often attracted "nearly all the population." According to Ingalls, "the chief difficulty arising [in the courts came] from the conflict of the two Codes, adopted by two hostile legislatures, each of which had adherents who call the other 'bogus.'" Ingalls also discussed the business of land sales, as something many successfully combine with the practice of law.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: John James Ingalls Collection, #177, Box 1, Folder 1
Item Number: 102101 Number of images: 6
Keywords: Adams, Henry J.; Atchison County, Kansas Territory; Coal; Courts; Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900; Land sales; Lawyers; Lecompte, Samuel D. (Samuel Dexter), 1814-1888; Pikes Peak gold rush; Sumner, Kansas Territory; Thanksgiving Day; Weather
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Life is sometimes tragic, but always humorous.
I got a good chuckle this week at my book club. Our hostess spent the first 30 minutes of our monthly meeting trying to get the hang of her new automatic wine bottle opener-which was quite handsome, I admit.
She was determined to show us how handy it was. It took all ten of us pushing and pulling to get the thing to work. It would have been easier and quicker to chew the cork out of that bottle. When everyone finally settled down with their glass of wine, we couldn't remember which book we'd read!
Driving home, I pondered how we complicate our lives with gadgets that are not only expensive but need to be stashed somewhere when not in use – which is most of the time. I went straight to my gadget closet and surveyed the wasteland of seldom used, nay, NEVER-used gismos.
There was the obsolete salad shooter that can catapult lettuce clear to Sturgis. It has developed a love affair with the nearby Slap and Chop I ordered from an infomercial during a weak moment. It works just fine, but must be cleaned with a toothbrush. My trusty Henkel does the trick nicely and needs only a swipe with soapy water.
There was the electric can opener I retired 10 years ago, opting instead for the old- fashioned manual variety my mother used during the second world war. It not only performs the task, but I remember her fondly every time I open a can. Besides, I figure it works out my triceps.
Up front is my Paula Deen toaster which poaches your eggs while you "toast" your muffins. Unfortunately, I lost the instructions and don't remember how it works.
Parked way in the back so I don't have to look at it, is that disgusting Mr. Coffee who drools and dribbles like an old man chewing tobacco.
I replaced Mr. Coffee this year with an old electric percolator like I had in college. So why am I keeping him around? I don't know, maybe someday I'll need to make a pot of decaf and don't want that wimpy stuff to taint my good pot.
At left is my new Mrs. Coffee who kicks Mr. Coffee's butt!
The one useful gadget in my cadre of gismos is my electric knife which I use twice a year – Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was a wedding gift and after four decades of use, the blades are bent. It sounds like a concrete drill and grinds the turkey, rather than slicing it. (My children smile sweetly and claim they always look forward to my ground turkey during the holidays.)
Also lurking about is my seldom-used George Foreman grill, a food processor that weighs more than an elephant, an electric mixer I only use when I bake (I DON'T bake), and a bread maker the size of a casket!
I think I'll load all the gadgets into the bread maker and go bury it all out back. A century from now, someone will unearth the stuff and put them in a museum.


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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Rant: Ninja Gquitters are Cowards
In times like these guild rosters are heavily influx. Some guilds fall apart. Others need to recruit heavily to fill spots. It is not unexpected for raiders to look for greener pastures in this situation. In fact, all three of my guild moves occurred during the summer, so I understand the situation very well. That said there is a right way to make a change and a wrong way, and in my opinion ninja quitters are a bunch of cowards.
It's Not about Loyalty:
At this point many bloggers would go on a rant about guild loyalty and such. I won't. I think the concept of guild loyalty is overblown quite often and in general I think guild members owe very little to their guilds in the long run. No one is paying my 15 dollars for me, and no one can tell me went to play, what to play, or who to play with.
I know it sucks when a valued guild member leaves the guild or goes casual. I've had quite a lot of experience with it lately in fact. Not only have many of our veteran raiders gone casual, but we have also lost a couple of leaders who decided to quit the game or go casual. I don't begrudge them their rights to do so. I just think here is, or at least should be, an etiquette for making this transition.
The Etiquette of Leaving:
Give Notice: Though it may feel like it at times WoW is not a job. I am not suggesting that you give your guild 2 weeks notice though it would be nice. However, every guild does deserve some notice even if it is only a couple of minutes. Take for example the inspiration for this post. Last night two of our raiders didn't show up for raid. We waited a little bit but started without them in hopes that they would show up soon. However, after about an hour someone noticed that neither of them were on the guild roster any longer. They had ninja quit without saying anything on the forums or cancelling their raid sign up. As a result we raided short most of the night.
Some of you may be thinking "what's the big deal?" If we had the people available to replace them we would have. Since we didn't, it probably wouldn't have mattered if they and told us a head of time. I disagree.
First off, at the very least it wastes the guilds time. We used valuable raid time wondering where they were and trying to replace them. Second, who knows what could have been done in a days time. I know we are getting apps to the guild still. Even with very little time a couple of those could be approved and included in raid. Third, we have several member ranked guildies that are available for raid on occasion and are willing to fill in when necessary if they can. By ninja quitting you don't allow any of these things to happen and as a result waste the time of 24 other people.
Be Considerate: As said before I think guildies owe their guilds very little, and in general I don't think they owe anything for the gear they receive. If your their for the fight, you earned it just like everyone else. However, some guild assign specific jobs to guildies like being the guild crafter. These people are given preference for patterns and mats. With in reason, I think these people should repay the guild for some of the things they receive. Certainly return any mats you are given, and if possible provide compensation for the patterns you receive, especially if you are quitting the game and giving away all of your gold.
I know I am drawing a fine line here and some of you may not see the difference. I will admit that some of my comments are coming from the bitterness I feel over wasted raid time last night. To some extent I am probably blowing this out of proportion. However, just because I am angry and possibly a little irrational doesn't mean I'm completely wrong. If you are thinking of making a guild change I wish you good luck, just be considerate in how you leave.
Yes, we are Recruiting:
If you hadn't guessed my guild is recruiting again. We have spots for a Feral Druid, almost any Ranged DPS (included a moonkin, damn you Murmurs), and hybrid healers. If you're looking for a focus guild that gets a lot done in just 9 hours a week, the LoE may be the place for you. You can find more info here.
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- Tsuki said...
I can only imagine the stress of being a moonkin in your guild. It's almost like being Kungen's OT :P
On topic: it's hard to be considerate when you're leaving a guild. It's like ending a relationship, it's rarely on good terms. Sometimes your notice would be saying "I'll miss two of you, the rest of the douches and lootwhores can go to hell, bye". Might as well drop a word to an officer via whisper and vanish.
But I understand your frustration, my guild's going through the same thing. Cataclysm beta and summer are just around the corner, it's gonna take a lot for guilds to survive, regardless of size.
- May 25, 2010 at 6:24 PM
- Graylo said...
Let me rephrase this. I'm not asking for a group hug. I'm not even asking for an explination. Neither of those things are necessary or would even matter in the long run. I just think people shouldn't leave without giving any notice. Something as simple as "this guild is no longer working out for me, bye" would be fine in my opinion. I just don't want to be left hanging thinkin where did so and so go.
- May 25, 2010 at 8:00 PM
- Hardy said...
I think it is just the polite thing to do. Tell an officer or one of the regulars you are leaving. The same applies if you are a regular raider and decide to cut back on your raid times, just tell someone or post in your forums. It's just a game, but it affects the other 9 or 24 ppl raiding with you.
- May 25, 2010 at 8:22 PM
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- May 25, 2010 at 10:25 PM
Hear hear, Graylo. The only thing that makes it easier to deal with is that the same thing happens every summer, so on some level, I anticipate it. That still doesn't stop me from being pissed off when people just leave without saying anything.
We've been working on LK hard mode for a while (10-12 weeks or something? We unlocked it a week after it was possible) and we have had probably 50 people see the fight due to what is essentially a revolving door of guild membership. It can definitely be frustrating.
- May 25, 2010 at 10:26 PM
- Foofy said...
We just had the same thing happen. A druid we recruited to help heal and dps when needed was handed tokens and gear galore. Then just ups and leaves. No word..nothing. Rumor was she was quitting all of the sudden and deleted her toons. Which came out of no where. Then apparently she transferred off somewhere. I wouldn't be so pissed if she would have said something like she disliked the guild or something, but don't waste my time or other people's time taking you in, gearing you up; only to have you leave a few weeks later.
- May 25, 2010 at 10:27 PM
- Artofficial said...
I think guild loyalty is a major problem, because there is none of it. I myself build very strong relationships (some good some bad) with the people in my guild. I felt very strong about my loyalty to my previous guild Paragon of War, in fact I was probably the most loyal and patriotic member. However, this led to my downfall. I don't like flakes (People who don't show up) and I voiced my opinion very strongly to our guild leader to "Fucking man up".
I believe you should have guild loyalty, and that the guild shouldn't discourage new members from joining the inner circle. Many new members of PoW were welcomed by me...after a few jokingly bully comments. Guild loyalty allows for relationships to be built and progression to prosper. We had free enchants for all new gear, materials,etc, etc... From my experience if a player is not having a good time in the guild then they should leave and nobody should care if they left because skill should follow skill. If you sucked that's prolly' why you'd have left PoW, not because of internal issues.
- May 25, 2010 at 10:37 PM
- Tyler said...
This is my two week notice that I will not be joining your guild Graylo. =P
In all seriousness, LoE is a really amazing guild, but they do have you and I can't have other people around that might make me look bad. Apples just seemed like they would end up being a better fit for what I currently need - although I am beyond upset that I have lost all of my alts ($55 dollars per toon to transfer is a bit much when I would have to drag 6 level 80 characters along for the ride.)
- May 26, 2010 at 12:03 AM
I've been a semi-recent offender of being a hard core raider then all of a sudden going casual and/or not logging on the game at all during long periods of time. Let me tell you it doesn't go well, at least in my guild it didn't. I got a lot of backtalk by the officers about me being casual. They'd make fun of stuff I'd do and call me a newb. What's funny is the guy that was doing it the most was the druid class officer who happens to be the feral main tank. So I finally said to hell with it and left the guild after being in it for 3+ years.
Life changes for everyone. For me it changed by having my first child. Plus the game changed in a way where it got so boring doing the same crap every single week.
Now I'm ultra casual. I log in and do my pvp daily, maybe the cooking/fishing daily, and log back out. I'll do VOA and Wintergrasp also but that's it. No heroic dailies because i'm so sick of them. No ICC because I'm sick of that place as well.
- May 26, 2010 at 1:04 AM
Hope things get better for you guys. also thanks for all the useful info on your site =)
- May 26, 2010 at 2:00 AM
Got to agree, there is nothing stopping people being polite.
If you want to avoid confrontation then do a post on the guild forum but I would suggest dont burn bridges, you never know when you will be playing with these people.
But at the very least its decent to cancel any raids you are on, you are just wasting 9/24 other peoples time if you dont.
- May 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM
- Qieth said...
I view guilds much like football teams. Players switch around more often than not.
I am not a guild jumper, but I will switch to upgrade myself if need be. I am very social in guilds, and make a lot of friends, so it is tough to decide to switch guilds.
But I play to raid. If something is not living up to the standards I am looking for - raid time, performence, attention etc - then I start looking for something better. Its somewhat the "I expect others to do what I do", so if I'm in a guild that does not focus as much as myself, then I feel like I am wasting time.
Before my current guild, I was in one for six months. I was active as always, and was even made the caster class master. But when people started dropping out, slacking at raids, and the situation couldn't be remedied, I decided to opt for another guild. I find that perfectly reasonable. If I am not enjoying myself when raiding, then why raid?
But I let people know before I leave. I told my old GM that I had started sending out applications (well, one, that was all I needed), and while I didn't share this with the whole guild, the other officers knew.
In terms of items. Imagine if someone gets a DFO and then leaves the guild. Nobody can say that it was not in his right: If this person has enough DKP to be the next in line, then he has worked for that item regardless. It sucks for the guild, sure, but the player has earned the item for his contribution to the raid.
It should all be done correctly, though. Leave on a nice tone, and don't let it come as a suprise - i try to fix things, or at least complain about them to the higher-ups, before I decide to leave. At the moment im raiding 3 nights a week, clearing 11 hardmodes on the first night, playing with friendly people who know their stuff - so I can't complain ;)
- May 26, 2010 at 7:16 AM
This particular summer/end of cycle will be especially bad methinks. A LK kill is a nice way to "go out". A lot of players who have been considering quitting have probably held on for that.
This is the real reason for the ICC buff. ;) 20% extra healing and damage means we can raid short the rest of the way.
- May 26, 2010 at 8:17 AM
- Graylo said...
Your cool. Don't worry about choosing to go somewhere else. It would have been awesome to have you in the guild, because I like having someone inguild to talk about things with. However, I would be the more established member, and wouldn't have to sit as often if at all. I can understand why you would choose a guild with a greater need. In the end I think that is the big reason why Alleine left.
- May 26, 2010 at 8:36 AM
To be honest I agree with what many people are saying about guild loyalty in the comments and I wish it was more prevalent. Unfortunately corporate culture which has crept into many of the guilds out there does not promote loyalty at all.
The main thing in this type of culture is a thought of I'll help you until it is no longer profitable for me. This is why you will see people pop into a guild for a few weeks and gear up quickly then be gone to a guild higher up the food chain with barely a word. Their thought process in this is that your guild is no longer profitable and to reach their goals they used you as a stepping stone and worked their way up the ladder.
Raiding guilds really aren't a social contract for most people as many people will have no social commitment to the other people in the raid. It is more a business deal between 10-25 players and at the end of the night they can either choose to continue the deal if it is profitable for them or they can cancel the deal and head out. As is seen when they cancel the deal they may not say a word about it and just disappear. That is just the nature of this culture that has pervaded into the raid scene and will be continued to be seen as long as raiding guilds are around. I really see no reason to get angry about it in the end.
- May 26, 2010 at 9:15 AM
- Maragon said...
"In the end I think that is the big reason why Alleine left."
It's exactly the reason. I've never had anything against you, Graylo, or LoE - but in the end it didn't really matter how good I was, it mattered that you were senior.
In many ways, I still think that most guilds should really only need one good moonkin. Even with our starfall buff, we should be beaten by a myriad of classes on any given fight. While I can put in a good showing and be in the top 8 or so on any given fight, there's no reason to pick up another moonkin to round out your top 15 when you can pick up another rogue or mage to round out your top 5.
I think that the current 3 day transfer system and the tiered raiding structure has really created and perpetuated a "grass is greener" approach to raiding. If you don't like your guild's progress, it would take you an afternoon to hop on the WoW forums, find some guilds to your taste and send them an application. The ease of guild-hopping essentially assures that it will happen, often.
Best of luck to you, Graylo. I still read you often.
- May 26, 2010 at 9:29 AM
- Hana said...
All I would ever ask as a guild leader of someone who wants to leave is to just give me notice when the time comes. While my guild is still raiding strong, I'm fearing that sometime in the coming weeks we will lose someone to the point of be crippled, and that will be the end of our WotLK progression, but it'll be an easier pill to swallow if I have some notice and the rest of the guild can prepare.
- May 26, 2010 at 1:07 PM
A lot of people are just too selfish to be bothered by thinking about the impact their decision to not show up makes. You're literally making 9 or 24 other people who have real lives to tend to, that carve out precious time for WoW, wait around for your sorry ninja quitting arse.
Imagine you and some friends agreed to meet up to take a drive out to the brewery for a beer tasting. It's really far away, so you carpool. One guy shows up late, or not at all (only calling you to let you know 30 minutes after he's supposed to arrive). That guy would be a jerk, right?
Same thing in WoW. If you want to quit, give them time to find someone to replace you. It's not hard. But don't treat 9 or 24 other people like their time is worthless.
- May 26, 2010 at 2:15 PM
I completely agree and can relate to your post. As a player who has been raiding since Molten Core I've seen hundreds of people come and go, burnout and disappear.
I joined a new guild this spring after spending nearly 3 years in my previous guild. The guild had been crumbling and people leaving for months and I was one of the few holding on, out my own sense of loyalty. Most of us called each other by first name. But I was no longer happy there.
It took weeks to the decision to move on and find the right guild to apply to. I had my goodbye post saved for as soon as I got accepted. I talked to some officers on vent at the same time and gave a short farewell message in game.
I would have liked to give a longer notice but it was emotionally draining for me and I didn't want to deal with any anger or disappointment. I think any notice is better than nothing.
- May 26, 2010 at 2:54 PM
- GamingLifer said...
Fucking Myraxa.
- May 26, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Sometimes leaving a guild without notice is better for everyone. There are tons of bad guilds that need to disband and the only way to disperse them is to cripple them. On the flip side, bad guilds are very good at grouping crap players together thus creating a fundamental need in WoW, a who to avoid list. It happened with Rated M on Tichondrius and Ruinous on Kil'Jaeden, these are helpful things.
Oh yeah, my vacation RV'ing out West sucks.
- May 26, 2010 at 9:36 PM
- Ettin said...
A lot of guilds are going through that lately, I think. The last stretch of an expansion is always the "fun" part.
My guild's been kicked in the balls by ninja gquits a few times in the last few months
1) DPS warrior recruit, a server transfer who was making our server his third (at least). Ninja transferred to Malygos because he got benched, picked up some loot, transferred to Area 52... unfortunately the trail went cold or I'd still be tracking him for fun. All of that happened within about two months.
2) Shaman recruit, apparently had a work schedule change that prevented him from continuing to raid with us, decided to app to another guild instead of saying something. Joined that guild, server transferred without warning a week later.
3) Enhancement shaman, long-time raider with many friends in the guild, joined a more progressed guild with a four-day schedule in the middle of the night without telling anybody. After he was told he could at least have said goodbye he made a post claiming he left because he wanted to play WoW less and promptly stopped talking to anyone.
4) Last week our pally tank suddenly vanished a day before raids. Main and alts don't show up on Armory any more, no warning, nothing. We found out when a friend of mine tried to armory him to copy his gems.
Oh yeah, and the ret pally who respecced to fill in for him got the Shadowmourne he was working on today. Sure hope he doesn't have to tank all the time now.
- May 27, 2010 at 3:20 AM
- Gevlon said...
There is a problem with note: often the person doesn't know any better.
If he trades up (join a more progressed guild), he knows. If he goes casual because RL forces him, he knows. But those who leave the guild because social reasons or leaving WoW because it's "no fun", usually don't know beforehand. If you asked him yesterday he'd say "there are problems but we are cool". Today he sits front of the login screen and just say: "I can't take this shit anymore" and press Alt-F4
- May 27, 2010 at 4:40 AM
- Cathy said...
Strange how in the game many folks lose their manners.
Even with my daycare kids, when they play I expect courtesy of everyone having a turn "being it" in tag. Don't quit the game when its your turn to find the other hiding kids. Start it at a young age.
I expect courtesy in all areas of life even in the game.
- May 27, 2010 at 7:52 AM


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Rookie Derek Carr will start and get ample playing time in place of injured Matt Schaub for the Raiders, while last season's opening game starter in Oakland, Terrelle Pryor, should get significant playing time as he fights for a roster spot with the Seahawks.
After a promising start to last season, Pryor's struggles eventually led him to lose his starting job in Oakland and then get traded to Seattle for a seventh-round pick in May's draft.
With Pryor out of the picture, the Raiders traded for Schaub to take over as starter and drafted Carr as his heir apparent. With Schaub struggling in the first three exhibition games and nursing a sore elbow, Carr might have a chance to speed up that process.
"Every day is an opportunity, a huge opportunity," Carr said. "You have to go out and prove yourself every day."
Carr has impressed the coaching staff ever since he arrived as a second-round pick out of Fresno State. He has adjusted to a pro-style offense after running the spread in college the past two seasons and has deep knowledge of the position having watched older brother David's NFL career.
Carr played well in the second exhibition game against Detroit, leading three scoring drives before leaving with a concussion and sore ribs. He sat out as a precaution last week in Green Bay but figures to get plenty of playing time against the Seahawks.
"The guy's comfortable in the huddle," offensive coordinator Greg Olson said. "The game's not too big for him. I still believe that he sees the field very well. I don't think the game's too fast for him, which a lot of times, that's a big concern with a rookie quarterback. But he's done some really nice things in some of the preseason games in terms of his pocket presence."
Pryor has not fared as well this summer in Seattle and is fighting to remain on the roster after cutdown day Saturday. He threw a bad interception late last week against Chicago after he was surprised to get put into the game.
"I thought I was sitting out the whole game," he said. "You have to own up to those things and I'll play better this week. That's a definite."
He has completed just 10 of 22 passes for 147 yards with no touchdowns and two interceptions this preseason. But he has rushed for 85 yards on 12 carries, including a 44-yard TD against San Diego two weeks ago.
With Tavaris Jackson entrenched as Russell Wilson's backup, Pryor needs to show enough to persuade coach Pete Carroll to keep a third quarterback on the roster this season.
"He's been a really good student of the game," Carroll said. "He just dove into it, taking great pride in commanding in the huddle. Right from the start, he was very impressive right from the beginning. Got a good way about himself in handling it. We can call the whole offense. We can do everything that we want to do. He's an explosive, dynamic football player. He's done a good job."
Pryor showed flashes of what he could do early last season for the Raiders, completing 68.1 percent of his passes for 845 yards, four touchdowns, two interceptions and a 97.6 passer rating in his first four starts. But he struggled after that and lost his starting job to Matt McGloin and lost the trust of his coaches.
But the Raiders know he still presents a challenge, especially the way he can run the ball, which will be a good test for an Oakland defense that might have to deal with Michael Vick in the season opener against the New York Jets.
"He's still extremely athletic," coach Dennis Allen said of Pryor. "He can make a lot of plays in the pocket, moving around in the pocket, creating. ... Obviously, his speed is something that we're certainly concerned about. So he's shown a lot of the same things that we saw when he was here."


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The Archive recently had the pleasure of conducting an interview with Mr. Danny Devito. Interviewer Amy Harrington of the Pop Culture Passionistas shares a few thoughts about the experience:
I knew that Danny DeVito was a great actor when I signed up to interview him for the Archive of American Television. After all I'd been watching him since I was a little kid and he was the dastardly Louie DePalma on Taxi. And I grew to admire him over the years for his roles in films like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Throw Mama from the Train," the latter of which he also directed.
But it wasn't until about two-thirds of the way through my sit down with the Emmy-award winning actor that I got a first hand glimpse of his incomparable talent. DeVito was discussing his role on the edgy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In the course of his response he started to talk about his time in Vietnam.
My mind frantically rifled through his resume for the period in his life when DeVito had served in the military — wondering how I'd missed his turn in the Armed Forces. That's when I realized I was no longer talking to Hollywood's Danny DeVito, I was speaking with Sunny's Frank Reynolds.
At that moment I looked into the eyes of the character, not the actor, and noticed an oh-so-subtle but undeniably present shift. DeVito had disappeared and Reynolds sat there in his place.
Luckily Danny came back for the follow-up question and I was back on track. But I'll never forget that moment of pure, unadulterated talent staring me in the eyes.
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Alternative Names
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Causes, incidence, and risk factors
A glomus jugulare tumor grows in the temporal bone of the skull, in an area called the jugular foramen. The jugular foramen is also where the jugular vein and several important nerves exit the skull.
This area contains nerve fibers, called glomus bodies, which normally respond to changes in body temperature or blood pressure.
These tumors usually occur later in life, around age 60 or 70, but they can appear at any age. The cause of a glomus jugulare tumor is unknown. Usually, there are no known risk factors. Glomus tumors have been associated with changes (mutations) in a gene responsible for the enzyme succinate dehydrogenase (SDHD).
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Monday, December 20, 2010
Happy Solstice!
I made this quilt a few years ago with inspiration from the cover of Georgia Quilts by Anita Zeleski Weinraub. The original quilt was made by Annie Parham Howard in 1960.
20 comments:
- Marit said...
This is such a lovely tribute to spring! Fantastic colors and beautiful quilting. Just the best way to brighten up Winter Solstice...
Maybe 2011 will bring me some tulips?
- December 21, 2010 at 2:22 AM
- Jackie said...
A beautiful quilt!! Just love the red background. Perfect for this time of year!
- December 21, 2010 at 3:33 AM
- Teodo said...
Happy Solstice to you with this great and wonderful quilt.
ciao ciao
- December 21, 2010 at 4:07 AM
- Lisa said...
Happy Solistice! I am so glad the days will get longer now too. Love the tulips, so springing.
- December 21, 2010 at 4:12 AM
- Pinkadot Quilts said...
I so love your red! Great quilt.
- December 21, 2010 at 4:18 AM
- The Scrappy Bee said...
Happy though strippy tulips with RED!!!! This is a great quilt. I would want to look at it every day till spring. Bonnie
- December 21, 2010 at 5:35 AM
- Sujata said...
I agree with Bonnie! It makes me happy every single time I look at this quilt. I might have to make one for myself!
- December 21, 2010 at 5:52 AM
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- December 21, 2010 at 5:54 AM
- Em said...
It is so wonderful to see the whole quilt!!!! SO beautiful!
- December 21, 2010 at 7:09 AM
- Judi said...
Wonderful flowers!
- December 21, 2010 at 7:19 AM
- Alexis said...
Happy Solstice! We celebrated last night with a trip to the Garden d'Lights- talk about vibrant flowers! I too want to make this quilt every time I see a block of it. Your is wonderful!
- December 21, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- Quiltycat said...
I love this quilt...the background reds, the tulips, all!
Happy Solstice to you too!
- December 21, 2010 at 8:46 AM
- Helen said...
I love Winter Solstice... and looking forward to longer days... and spring tulips... and your red quilt!!!
- December 21, 2010 at 9:35 AM
- Grazia said...
It's so wonderful...I loved your small avatar, I'm so happy to see the whole quilt!
Grazia :)
- December 21, 2010 at 1:23 PM
- YankeeQuilter said...
I've had this quilt sketched out for ages but like so many it lingers on my inspiration-board (a bulletin board in my sewing room that is so stacked with inspiration that I can't see anything on it!)
- December 21, 2010 at 8:47 PM
- Barb said...
Happy Solstice indeed and a full moon to boot. Hasn't happened in over 450 years.
Fun to see this whole quilt - thanks.
- December 22, 2010 at 3:45 AM
- Janet said...
This is one of my favourite quilts of yours, I just love it.
- December 22, 2010 at 4:30 AM
This quilt is awsome! I love the bright red!
- December 23, 2010 at 2:36 PM
- ROZ said...
What a super quilt! I've seen the pattern before, but you have made the best use of it, for sure
- December 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM
- Vesuviusmama said...
One of my favorites! I was just commenting to someone how reading your blog has given me a new appreciation for RED!
- January 5, 2011 at 10:22 AM


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Ok, I re-read everything and yea I have to admit, it does look like Zodd is duckin outta the way.
To me, this raises more questions than gives answers, and it's dangerous to go supposing a bunch of things about the situation based on this one panel for which we don't know the context (like, if Griffith is actually there or not).
alot of stuff discussed feels like a "what if Skullknight is Guts from the future?!!!!" theory that the child is Griffith.
Obviously he is related to Griffith...literally.
although you raise fairly valid points, I'm gonna have to see to believe on this one.
We will probably have to wait at least till the next full moon for futher evidence.
Well, we've seen Griffith with the moon (not full) in the last page of 258... Another hint?! Void
On that note I was trying to see the moon in the last few episodes, but was unable to
it's probably been a week (manga time) betwen ep.258 and now.
Brilliant sleuthing Aaz, it's a very sound theory.
I'm still not sure on the werewolf aspect of Griffith turning into the moon child.
In vol 27 (not sure which episode) when Zodd and Griffith retreive Charlotte, there's a two-page spread of them flying over what looks like a full moon. Now judging by the continuity, this would be around the night before the moon child's appearance on the beach
Hey Aaz, I didn't mean to offend in any way by my comparison. I give your theory alot more credit than the SK one hands down. I was just being sarcastic.
I'm just gonna wait to see what happens with that one because at this point it's a little tough to say how exaclty the whole thing physically would work...not to discredit it...but solely on the fact that at this point we don't have a ton of facts.
I was also wondering if possibly we may be leaving out some details on Zodd's involvment though...? Is he just a big lug who can't fit behind a hill while babysitting or do you think there's more to his involvment that could maybe even add a new dynamic to his character?
When Mule and Sonja return to the campsite, that was episode (goes to check)...ep 258, the last page is Griffith staring at the moon, reinforcing the whole importance of the moon. (P.S.) This episode was later removed if I'm correct right? Was it because Miura felt it interupted the pacing or some other reason?
When Mule and Sonja return to the campsite, that was episode (goes to check)...ep 258, the last page is Griffith staring at the moon, reinforcing the whole importance of the moon.
Well, we've seen Griffith with the moon (not full) in the last page of 258... Another hint?!
This episode was later removed if I'm correct right? Was it because Miura felt it interupted the pacing or some other reason?
No hard feelings.
It's still interesting in this regard even if trivial though, and could also be linked (albeit superficially) to SK's analogy of the events taking place at the time (that world being the reflection of the moon on water, and Guts having to create ripples to change the events).
Like, SK isn't a fish.
Speaking of which...
I'm glad you brought this up. I know you think I take the analogies too far, but in the Berserk world it really seems that they could be read as hints as well.
I hate the fact that there really is no direct proof, just postulation...
Useless conjecture or not, there's a lot out there that can be connected. It just depends on if you're searching for it with a biased frenzy, as I'm prone to doing.
Looks like Miura was prepping us for the little Zodd and go seek game in vol. 28 and we didn't even know it.
I was just pointing out that it was a very similar looking shot, and the same type of technique only this time, revealed what was behind the hill because there's no reason to really hide it. I think Miura may have put it there to train the reader's eye to notice that type of thing if Zodd really was the second gunman.
Now I'd like you not to pollute this thread to try to bring some half-assed justification to what you were saying in another one, since you apparently have nothing to say that's on topic.
There's often direct proof of things. Then there are things that can relate, with a various degree of superficiality. And finally there's stuff that's just really far-fetched and unrelated.
Everything can be connected. It just depends on how far you're willing to take things. But in the end to connect unrelated stuff to relevant one just because you think it's fun weakens the original point, like I told you before.


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Train trip OK, but expected better
Wick's World
Dear Amtrak,
Thank you for the complimentary bottle of champagne. It helped ease the shock my wife and I felt when we saw the size of the roomette that would become our home for the next 40 hours. Make that 48.5 hours due to all the delays that caused both my wife and I to miss a full day's work.
We bought tickets for a roomette for three times the price of a seat in coach, but only half the price of a real sleeper … our first mistake. The last time we rode in a sleeper was in 1975, shortly after you were established. Our $20 Mexico trip went from Juarez to Mexico City and on to Vera Cruz. We had a brand new Pullman sleeper with a bathroom, shower, two beds and walking space. We remember that train trip as the most pleasant and comfortable one we had ever taken. Only the Copper Canyon Train to Creel, Chihuahua, and The Orient Express to Istanbul, Turkey, had more exotic scenery.
Like the tiny shoebox compartment we were stuffed into, the scenery for the Empire Builder Train from Chicago to the Pacific was a big disappointment for us. I cannot blame Amtrak for this as a higher power is responsible for building the landscape.
The chef you hired for this trip was world class. I never dreamt the food could be as delightful and well-prepared coming from an Amtrak menu. All of the staff on the train, from the conductor to the porters gave us top-notch attention — the exception being the two waitresses we had to endure every breakfast, lunch and dinner. The brunette was just plain grouchy. The blond came right out of a "Dukes of Hazard" rerun. She tried to play the part of a foul-mouthed, in-your face comedian. It never worked at all with this crowd. We were grouchy also, as most of us realized we would either miss our connections or arrive at our destination a half-day late.
Amtrak, you deserve high marks for providing all of our meals for free (actually, they are included in the price of a roomette or sleeper). I also like your policy of placing strangers together in the dining room. We made many new acquaintances, including the mother/daughter riding the train to Washington D.C. The last we saw of them we heard the mother say, "I'll never set foot on another train!"
The entire trip was not dull and boring; just mostly Montana and North Dakota. We booked this train ride back to our home in Minnesota for the express purpose of seeing the fall colors. Here is my autumn color report: From the western side of Montana, where the mountains meet the prairie all the way to Minnesota, I counted a total of 20 trees. Six were red, five were orange, four were yellow, and three were still green; the other two appeared dead.
We did have a few scenic highlights. The six-inch fresh snowfall in western Montana reminded us of our Minnesota winter to come. A pleasant surprise for us was the thousand wild horses that had recently been rounded up and corralled waiting to be auctioned.
In defense of Amtrak, I must state that it was not your fault that the train continually ran late. You see, Burlington Northern owns the actual train track. Amtrak is allowed to use it. Here is the stickler — any train carrying freight has the right-of-way over a train carrying passengers. In railroad terms, you are officially worth less than an old lump of coal. We often sat waiting our turn while watching trains loaded with everything from coal and lumber to containers of merchandise from China go whizzing by.
Our overall experience was OK but we expected better. The relaxing scenic trip back home that was to be the culmination of a 10-day vacation didn't happen. We were tired, stressed and cramped instead of relaxed and well rested.
Dear Amtrak, if there is a next time, I will be sure to book the larger size sleeper car. Our cramped roomette reminded me of a Japanese office worker's pull-out draw rented for sleeping purposes … and get rid of Thelma and Louise.