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In the town of Tamarindo there is a dirt road that runs past Cala Luna Resort. Keep going south on this road for about 1-2km. Area was being developed with apartment buildings overlooking the break last time I was there.
DistanceTake a car
WalkInstant access (< 5min)
Easy to find?OK
Public access?Private access
Special access4x4
Wave qualityRegional Classic
ExperienceExperienced surfers
FrequencyDon't know
DirectionRight and left
PowerFast, Fun
Normal lengthShort (< 50m)
Good day lengthNormal (50 to 150m)
Good swell directionWest, SouthWest
Good wind direction
Swell sizeStarts working at 1.0m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft and holds up to
Best tide positionLow and mid tide
Best tide movementRising tide
Week crowdFew surfers
Week-end crowdFew surfers
- Rips / undertow
- Rocks
You will notice depending on the tide tha tthe wave peaks at the same place every time. Even though this is a river mouth there is a coral head that is exposed during low tide and remains just below the surface at high tide. Also keep an eye on your position with regard to the shore. (To the north of the mouth are submerged rocks that extend from the beach out fairly far)
As much fun as Playa Negra on fair sized surf. One of the better spots in the immediate area. If you want epic surf try Roca Bruja. (witch's rock)
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By The Goat , 07-04-2009
Langosta - Rivermouth can be heavy. Beachbreak south of rivermouth can be nice too but be careful of reef/rock. Sliced my toe pretty good. Early morning on mid/high tide is best. Practically deserted. crossing with the currents in the estuary is fun too.
By Anonymous , 09-04-2008
yellowblack - If you look south of the rivermouth, you will see a closed out beach / shore break that looks small with fast grinding tubes from far away. It actually has fast grinding stand up tubes and is only surfed by locals. If you have the skill and guts to drop into a walled up thundering super fast hollow wave it could give you a great intense tube. There is a main place (hole?) where it forms shoulders for the waves breaking north or south of it, but I aint saying nothin. Fast, free falling, looks like a close out but isnt, thundering, shallow, sand bottom ( except for one random rock-good luck) vertical, drops and tubes. The main spot with the peak and the rock at the river mouth, blah blah blah is not what Im talking about. That place is crowded, filled with kooks, smells like feces (because the river is full of it) has rocks sticking up here and there and is fat and slow at higher tides and good and hollow at low. Low tide at Tamarindo, including Pico Grande, means no surf or rocks sticking up in the face of the wave at Pico Grande. But look beyond langosta River mouth at the tiny fast tubing waves, as you walk and walk and walk it gets bigger and bigger. If you are a kook or less then highly talented, its a dumping close out. If you are talented and are on a short board it make Playa Grande look like detritus, and you will come out of the tube to boost an air or bash the lip or do a spectacular floater of the end section that hooks in a bit.
By Over hyped poo , 18-09-2006
What spot - Been here for a year and this spot sucks. Playa Grande is a beach that actually has shape and could be called a spot. I guess a backed off closed out wave is a spot in Costa Rica. The only thing that is worse is Tamarindo, stingy ray capital of Costa Rica. Good luck. Other spots north or south have shape and are legit surf spots
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Vice President Jim Foley is stepping down from his position as Vice President for External Relations. He will continue his work in university licensing and federal relations particular to research funding for the next year. "My family and I are honored by the opportunity to serve the State and the University of Montana these last seven years," he said. "Both Julie and I believe we got far more out of the relationship with UM than we have been able to give back. We are grateful for the friendships we have made with the many students, student athletes, and staff over the last seven years. We look forward to our next chapter."
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You must want to get some special military deployment gifts ideas if your husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend or your parents and friend is deploying to Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria. Being a member of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps etc. has always meant there was a chance that you would end up overseas.
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The first question you'll probably have is "What kind of gift do I give?" There is no specific gift that will please everyone. It's up to you to consider what type of gift your loved one typically likes and also to set a budget that will work for you.
Choosing military deployment gift according to your soldier's need, interest or taste is thoughtful and meaningful. Military personnel and you will be interested in the deployment gift that show your appreciation, love and proud for their sacrifice and service from the heart.
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Honor Bear
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Call Number: TR647 .E327 2007
Hans Eijkelboom's book Paris – New York – Shanghai is subtitled "A book about the past, present, and (possibly) future capital of the world." In it, Eijkelboom showcases the end (or near-end) result of his "Photo Notes," where the photographer would head into each town and photograph as many of certain type of people (people carrying kids, cops, guys wearing striped polo shirts, business women on their morning commute) within the space of about two hours.
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Family members told deputies Melanie Reyes, 20, had posted a statement on her Facebook page indicating she was going to shoot her son, Jonah Mendoza, and herself, according to a release.
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The sign, a parody of a Seattle Department of Planning and Development land use sign, indicates that the empty lot will be used "to construct one ground level ball pit pond containing 1,200,000 cu. ft. of rainbow plastic balls."
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Alright so crappy pics but we were rushing this, no time to do any good set-up, take good ones, not to mention I wasn't at home so not many resources to take good pictures with.
The fringe planet Irinia was mostly uninhabited, with the exception of one major peach colony. After foreign forces swooped in and destroyed it, the peaches called upon the Allied Nations to label them refugees and rescue them, although it was secretly a ploy by the peach governments to evacuate a prominent scientist who was residing there.
Reports had come to the intelligence agency of the Trattorian government that this scientist was among the refugee convoy and had a stolen bar of synthesized antimortallium, which the government felt could not fall into pro-immortal hands. They have the largest force on the map, with a tank, a dreadnought, and a squad of marines.
The Time Traveling Super Jews wanted to interrogate this peach scientist for their own devious reasons. They brought a small exploratory squad and a tank killer, which truly lived up to its name later on in the battle.
The Assyrians arrived for obvious reasons: kill the peach refugees. In their eagerness and haste to start killing peaches though they didn't bring and vehicles with them.
The truck with the five peach refugees and the peach scientist. It is being driven by two AN peacekeepers, which we decided couldn't shoot at a faction until that faction attacked it.
Turn 1
Okay, so I think the turn order went Trattorians-Jews-Assyrians-Refugees/AN. I didn't take pictures of the Trattorians' turn so the TTSJ tank destroyer blasts an arm off the dreadnought. The infantry kill some Trattorians as well.
The Assyrians then mobilize, surrounding the truck and moving towards the TTSJs.
The Assyrians are successful on the western front and kill ALL(most) THE JEWS, establishing their reputation as racist, genocidal fanatics.
For this terrible and utmost racist deed the other Assyrians epic fail. Three of them aim at the peacekeepers but kill none, with the officer actually crit failing. The hero has more luck and kills a refugee though.
The AN truck advances.
Turn 2
The Trattorians move up and surround the truck, ready to retrieve the antimortallium bar.
However, the jews strike a blow to the Trattorians, with their tank completely obliterating the dreadnought. I don't know why I like the dreadnoughts so much, they are destroyed before they even get to fire a shot in all the games they've been in. Anyway, some more Trattorians are killed.
I'm not exactly sure what happened here, I think the Assyrians decided killing the refugees was more important than defending themselves from the Trattorians so they kill two more. The peach in the grey suit was the scientist so the TTSJs are now permanently unable to achieve their objective. The antimortallium bar also spills out.
Regardless, the AN soldiers push on, oblivious to the fact that they've lost over half the people they were trying to save.
Of course, because of the fact that they are stupid peaches, the AN peacekeepers think they can drive between two tanks and get away with it.
Turn 3
The Trattorians obtain the antimortallium. However, no one ever told the marine officer about its radioactivity so if he escapes the battle field he'll metamorphosis into a twisted and sick pedo-creature.
In celebration they kill a couple Assyrians.
The last refugees are slaughtered by the jews.
This is when the Jewish tank destroyer lives up to its name: In a single shot, it absolutely destroys and vaporizes the Trattorian main battle tank, perhaps a sign of things to come?
(Excuse me for crap lighting) However, the victory is short lived as a squad of Assyrians blast a tread off the tank.
The AN truck continued to push on to the other side of the field.
Turn 4
A marine attempts to put her OTC bayonet to good use and tries to backstab the Assyrian with it.
Of course, she critically fails.
However, her friends do it for her and manage to kick another into the underworld as well.
The TTSJs, despite being the ones mostly responsible for the inadequate AN response and efforts, can take no more of their insolence and fire all available guns on the Mother-Zuckerman at the peacekeepers.
Yeah, kind of explains it.
The infantry then avenge their fallen comrades...
...Before being avenged themselves.
Turn 5
Alright, something happened so that the Assyrian army was reduced to an officer and a medic.
Either way, the Trattorians have a firefight with the officer but still manage to mop him up and take the medic prisoner to support them in further operations on that planet. All seems well and done but the team seems to have forgotten something...
Ah yes, the tank destroyer!
But it turns out tanks aren't the only thing it can destroy.
An Overwatch of the carnage.
The only intact unit left on the field is the Time Traveling Super Sandwich Guy Mother-Zuckerman Tank destroyer, so they win. The only team to achieve their objective were the Assyrians. The Allied Nations totally failed in safely transporting any refugees and lost two peacekeepers as a result.
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So was this entirely played out by one person or were their different players controlling the various factions?
Re: Peach Massacre: now involving Allied Nations refugees!
It was played out between me and my dad, with my dad controlling the Trattorians, me the TTSJs, and both of us the Assyrians. The refugees just did whatever was the most logical choice.
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Pretty cool.
Btw, I don't have many friends either. Just a bunch of LGs that wouldn't want to do anymore than drink, get high, be dumbasses and fuck.
Btw, I don't have many friends either. Just a bunch of LGs that wouldn't want to do anymore than drink, get high, be dumbasses and fuck.
Fix'd.Silverdream wrote:Pretty cool.
Btw, I don't have any friends either.
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Dr. Kunal Kaushik is not a new name in the Vastu Shastra industry. He has an experience of our decade which also makes him a young and learned Vastu expert. Who has mastered the art of dealing with any and every type of Vastu flaw. He is a professional Vastu consultant and Vastu Shastra is in his blood. He is an embodiment of both-young and brains which adds a feature to his cap. He has been training students far and wide and has taught more than ten thousand students till date. He continues to be one of the most sought after Vastu consultants of this day and this has only been made possible because of his hard work, dedication and perseverance in his field which has helped him climb the ladder of Vastu Shastra.
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"Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Authoritarian globalism, not terrorism, is the biggest threat America and the Western world faces. Terrorism is an invented distraction to keep the police and military guards occupied, and a government trick whose purpose is to scare the people into giving up their natural rights and accept the total government takeover of their lives and society.
When we read that nations like Libya and Iran are rogue regimes, which are regimes that pose a threat to the lawless international banking establishment, we should remember that America was a revolutionary nation and a rogue regime of its own day in the eyes of the financial tyrants. Back when America was a free and independent nation and not a mercenary nation for the bloodsucking global private central bankers it did not start large wars or slander other nations. But those days were over when the private Federal Reserve Bank was established in 1913. Soon after America became a puppet for the criminal internationalist bankers and oligarchs, and began to lose its soul.
Nearly a century after the creation of the monstrous Fed, America is on the verge of starting a new world war in the Middle East to protect the interests of its global oligarchical masters. Regimes that are not subservient to the lawless international banking establishment have to be eliminated and destroyed.
The road to World War III and the centralized global government that is being designed to take shape after the war is over has been paved with the blood of innocent Americans who were murdered on September 11, 2001 by the tricksters and traitors in the United States government.
The September 11 attacks made clear three facts: the total loss of representative and lawful government, the planned destruction of America's constitutional republic, and the beginning of a new dictatorial order based on the total subversion of civil society to an Orwellian world state controlled and owned by the global private banking system and the monopolistic corporations that profit from this unfair system.
There is a globalist war against America, but the weapons are fear, propaganda, and disinformation, not bombs and cruise missiles. The political use of state terrorism and fear against the American people by the political, financial and military establishment in Washington means that the hijacked U.S. government is afraid of the American people. The rulers in Washington have not only betrayed the interests of the American people, but they are waging a full-scale war against the American people and against the constitutional institutions of America.
The English essayist William Hazlitt said that in times of tyranny the interests of the people and the interests of the government are separated and the government by nature becomes the main enemy of the people. Hazlitt:
That Government is instituted for the benefit of the governed, there can be little doubt; but the interests of the Government (when once it becomes absolute and independent of the people) must be directly at variance with those of the governed. The interests of the one are common and equal rights: of the other, exclusive and invidious privileges. (Hazlitt: "What Is The People" from 'The Fight and Other Writings'; pg. 367).
Whenever the people are betrayed, robbed and murdered by their political leaders there is a need for a revolution. Putting off the inevitable solution to tyranny only makes the correction more painful and the suffering of the people more extreme. The terror of change is hard to overcome but survival depends on it. If the people do not act quickly and aggressively to recover their freedoms and retake their government then they will be destroyed by their political overlords. We are seeing this in America. The country is being deliberately brought down to its knees. A controlled demolition and collapse of America's constitutional government and American society is under away.
II. The Deliberate Disintegration and Destruction of America: The Eight Phases of America's Controlled Collapse
Below I will briefly list the eight phases of America's controlled collapse and disintegration and the five fronts in the war against America. Some of these phases have already been completed but not all may come to fruition if the American people are informed of the threats to their liberty, life, and country by the hijacked federal government and if they collectively resist their enslavement. The same applies for the people of Canada, England, Australia, and other Western countries.
Phase One: Militarizing The Police And Turning The Police Against The People
In the beginning of the 1970s, after the Civil Rights movement achieved victories for the people, the U.S. government began infringing on the civil rights of the people all over again, and this time it was done under the cover of the "War on Drugs." This war is not a faithful and honest war but a political war that was deliberately designed to take away the liberties of the American people, mostly black people, and unjustly imprison them in order to raise profits for a new prison industry.
Through the false and illegal war on drugs the police of every state has been brainwashed, militarized, brought under federal control, and received billions of dollars to chase around drug addicts and intimidate poor people. Naturally, this has created hostility between the people and the police. The police is seen as an occupying army on American streets which is an accurate representation because the government that they work for and defend has been hijacked and taken over by criminal bankers and globalist oligarchs.
Phase Two: Mercenary-Military Takeover of America's Constitutional Government Through The CIA and Military-Industrial Complex
The biggest lie that the U.S. government tells the American people is this one: We work for you. Nothing could be more false. The federal government works for the American people today in the same way that the Soviet Union worked for the American people during the Cold War. The truth is that America's chief political representatives and leaders are murderers and state terrorists, not protectors of America and the U.S. constitution. They are enemies of the public order and the common good of all.
Ever since President John F. Kennedy was murdered by the CIA the American government has not worked for the interests of the American people, but for a fascist clique and politically connected war racketeers who operate the CIA and the military-industrial complex. President Harry S. Truman correctly referred to the CIA as the "American Gestapo." It is led by anti-American traitors and war criminals who would prefer America to be a dictatorship than a free society.
Phase Three: The Complete Banking Takeover and Financial Rape of America
By now most people realize that the big banks on Wall Street robbed America and fleeced the American people. Watch this great interview of author Nomi Prins by Alex Jones on May 16, 2011 called " The Federal Reserve Holding America Hostage." Also, read these three articles of mine: Banksters Raped A Blindfolded America, Private Global Bankers = The Priesthood of Modern Western Civilization, and Greg Palast: "Remove the Bloodsuckers." And watch these videos by Alex Jones called The Banking Cartels Takeover: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3.
Part Four: Instituting a Regime of Repression and Terror, Enacting Emergency Law, Suspending the Constitution, Enlarging Executive Power, And Creating New Federal Agencies like Homeland Security to Spy on the American People and Treat Them Like Cattle
This phase speaks for itself. Professor Peter Dale Scott and others have written about the plan by Dick Cheney and the treasonous faction in the U.S. government to go ahead with Continuity of Government plans. I call this the COG in the War Machine. Read Professor Scott's article, Supplanting the United States Constitution: War, National Emergency and "Continuity of Government." And watch John Whitehead's informative interview of constitutional scholar and author Bruce Fein about his book ' American Empire Before the Fall ': Part 1; Part 2.
Phase Five: Stage False Flag Attacks To Increase The Power of The Government and Frighten The People
The tactic of false flag operations is a no-brainer if you're a tyrant. And it is self-explanatory so I won't go into much detail. Articles to read: 'America: A State of Terror' – 'Governments ADMIT That They Carry Out False Flag Terror' – 'Top Government Insider: Bin Laden Died In 2001, 9/11 A False Flag.'
Phase Six: The Criminalization of Patriotism and Dissent
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Alex Jones has talked about the fact that the U.S. terror state is now demonizing and targeting people inside America. The myth of the "White Al-Qaeda" is now being spread in the U.S. media in anticipation for future attacks against political resisters. The American white man is being called a domestic terrorist, a racist, and an extremist for refusing to submit to the criminal government in Washington. Expressing patriotism in ways other than supporting the troops and being informed about the Constitution is viewed as a threat to the treasonous establishment in D.C.
Phase Seven: The U.S. Government's War on Questioning and Human Reason
Another part of the government's demonization campaign is the oppressive use of language. Terms like "conspiracy theorist" and "domestic terrorists" are invented to isolate political resistance and make the general public believe that questioning the government is an act of delusion and a crime. Calling political dissidents mentally ill and conspiracy theorists for questioning the policies and statements of the U.S. government is a trick that the Soviet Union also used against its own political dissidents. A good article to read on this subject is 'The Psychologisation of Dissent: The Global Warming Skepticism Mental Disorder' by Brendan O'Neill, the editor of Spiked Online. O'Neill writes:
Psychologising dissent, and refusing to recognise, much less engage with, the substance of people's disagreements – their political objections, their rational criticisms, their desire to do things differently – is the hallmark of authoritarian regimes.
Phase Seven: Rounding Up Political Dissidents Into Concentration Camps, Disarmament, Torture, and Wiping Out The Enemies of The New Authoritarian Regime
To understand what America's concentration camps might look like and what they will be used for, watch this 18 minute video of Chile's concentration camps under General Pinochet 's regime.
The government threat of disarming the American people to prevent them from fighting for their freedoms is very real, but some threats cannot be carried out. Japanese Admiral Yamamoto said near the beginning of World War II that "You cannot invade America. There is a rifle behind every blade of grass." This fact hasn't changed in seventy years.
Phase Eight: Total Slavery For The People, Acceptance of New Government Structure, New Currency, And New Way of Life.
If all goes according to plan, America will be no more. A North American Union with a whole new political system and laws is being planned for North America, and it will then be connected with the European Union and other global bodies to form a unified and authoritarian world state.
Many people believe a new world state is necessary for humanity to survive and for the global community to prosper in these challenging times. The people who are involved in the conspiracy against America, Canada, and Mexico do not believe that they are committing evil by lying to the people and keeping the agenda for world government a secret. They honestly believe they are doing good. Obviously, they are mistaken because good deeds are transparent. Secrecy breeds corruption and tyranny. A global government controlled and owned by a ruthless and cunning private international banking establishment along with multinational corporations will be an absolute disaster for the human race, much like the Soviet Union was a disaster for Russia in the last century.
III. The Deliberate Disintegration and Destruction of America: The Five Fronts In The War Against America
There are many fronts in the globalist war against America besides the five listed below such as the biological front and the cultural front, but I believe these are the most important.
Front One: Psychological Front – Psychological Warfare
There is a concerted, deliberate, and systematic effort to psychologically condition the American people into accepting the war on terror as a justified war, and the attack on their freedoms as reasonable and good. The brainwashing of the American citizenry began long before September 11, 2001, but the neocon gang and Bush administration took it to an extreme, which has backfired against the dark establishment in Washington.
Dutch-American psychoanalyst Joost A.M. Meerloo, author of the 1956 book, "The Rape of the Mind," wrote in a chapter called 'The Cold War Against the Mind' that totalitarian regimes act irrationally in order to fool their enemies, both foreign and domestic, and to keep people terrorized with panic and confusion. Meerloo:
There is another important weapon the totalitarians use in their campaign to frighten the world into submission. This is the weapon of psychological attack. Hitler kept his enemies in a state of constant confusion and diplomatic upheaval. They never knew what this unpredictable madman was going to do next. Hitler was never logical, because he knew that was what he was expected to be. Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot–it confuses those who think straight. The Big Lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason. While the enemy is still searching for a reasonable counter-argument to the first lie, the totalitarians can assault him with another. (Meerloo: 'The Rape of The Mind'; pg. 101)
Psychological tricks and disinformation campaigns are being directed against the American people because undermining the psychological health of the American people is one of the goals of the traitors in power.
Front Two: Economic Front – Economic Warfare
Simply put, a poor population is more likely to be dependent on the government to meet the basic needs of life than a self-sufficient and wealthy population. Besides tyranny, poverty is the greatest enemy of freedom. The economic war against the American people has led to massive unemployment, housing foreclosures, homelessness, and general impoverishment. It is important to know that the economic crash in 2008 did not happen by accident but a result of government policy. And the bank bailouts were not intended to provide jobs but save the dysfunctional and corrupt banking system. America's political and financial ruling elite is beyond ruthless. They will stop at nothing from crushing the American people and turning America into a bankrupt, poor, and miserable police state.
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Front Three: Terror Front – Political Warfare
State terror and the political use of fear is common in authoritarian and unpopular regimes. A government staged terrorist attack keeps the people in a state of panic and confusion, afraid for their lives, and pleading for security from the government. What more can tyrants ask for? Using state terrorism to resolve social and political problems is a win-win-win formula. Nothing else equals the magical spell that is cast on the people through the instrument of fear.
Front Four: Illegal Immigration Front – Demographic Warfare
Immigration is good. America was built on immigration. But an excess of anything is bad. The problem with America's immigration system today is that it has been hijacked by globalist conspirators who are using immigration as a political weapon to weaken the American people's resolve to deal with tough economic and political issues, and to further divide the country into the rich and poor, white and Mexican, citizen and non-citizen, etc. A wise and just policy is not being taken to address the immigration problem by the establishment in Washington because they do not want to do anything about it. Their goal is to destabilize and ultimately destroy America, not protect and save it.
If Mexico's economy was not destroyed by NAFTA and other corporatist policies that benefit a small financial and political elite in Mexico, America, and Canada then there would be more jobs for the Mexican people in Mexico and less incentive to migrate to America to work. It is important to understand that both the Mexican people and the American people are the victims in the illegal immigration crisis which is connected to the larger economic crisis.
Front Five: Media Front – Information Warfare
There is not much that needs to be said here. It is self-evident that the mass media is interested in propaganda rather than informing the people about what their government is doing in their name. I view the deliberate withholding of information that proves that America is controlled by traitors who murdered Americans on September 11, 2001 as a crime against humanity. It is the greatest betrayal of the people's trust.
IV. The War For The Hearts And Minds of The American People
"Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed–and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment– the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"–but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion." – President John F. Kennedy, The President and the Press: Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961.
The murder of John F. Kennedy was a tragedy and a crime against humanity, but it is nothing compared to the murder of an entire nation. America is being lined up to be killed and destroyed just as JFK was on November 22, 1963.
But America is not going down without a fight. The war for the hearts and minds of the people is being fought every day. One of the great generals in the infowar is Alex Jones. People wonder why Alex Jones is angry at the U.S. government and why he is always ranting. They say Alex is eccentric and psychotic for being mad but I think this criticism is stupid, backward and crazy because anger is a natural reaction to treason and grand deception. The American people are treated like fools and cattle. Alex Jones is passionate and mad for good reason. "Passion," said William Hazlitt, "is the essence, the chief ingredient in moral truth."
If you are not angry then you are not informed. And when you are not informed you make it easier for tyrants to lie to you, rob you, enslave you, and kill you.
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Working on 3d tetris clone. Yippe.
Thought I'd show off what I've been toiling on so far for a few days. Playing with shader idea and multitexturing innards. Not much yet, just a single block -- however I have finally finished the rendering function for the blocks to be completly customizable by the calling function (ie the hard/tedious part) moving on to game play now.
Planned features:
:visual themes
- retro (current backgroun/retro colors)
-disco (similier background with groovy disco ball spinning colors)
-classic (fixed bg of places, colors)
-minimalist (white bg, perhaps shadow effects, nothing too contrasting)
~~~more as they come
:3D Cube for playing field
- old school 2d field cheat code
- old school pieces + 3d remixs
:Powerups !
-gravity blocks (normal blocks fall strait down, but when theres a gravity cube, it tends to move towards that direction)
-transpasic cubes (fall through obstructions into missed open areas
-bomb blocks (blows out entire row, or column, or both)
-super dense blocks (un remove able blocks that fall in random places -- with a REally cool effect. They fall super fast (not limited to speed) and when they hit, all the blocks kinda bounche up a little bit before resettling)
-filler blocks - lands and fill entire row / column or both
-anti blocks - removes any block it touches, and disapears
-crazy disco retro dance dance revolution and other genres, plus it will read a directory for custom music/music paks
-cheat code for old school music rip
EDIT:PS: Lol. Oh man. I just realized how the picture very mutch makes this thread seem like a "Hey My first textured cube" kinda deal. Rest assured, there is much more at work behind the scenes then a textured cube!


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Camp Down to 31 Phillies
Camp down to 31 as John Mayberry, Dane Sardinha and Ozzie Chavez were sent to Carpenter Complex this morning.
Six more players need to go to make the 25-man limit for opening day. Including the two-game On-Deck Series Games next Friday night and Saturday afternoon, there are seven games left before the season opens.
Tomorrow is a packing day. Equipment truck leaves Tuesday morning. Team has a charter flight to Philly after Thursday's game. Spring training is nearly over. "Hard to believe, Harry" as the late Richie Ashburn used to say.
Final Five
Thanks to you the fans, we now have a final five in the Phillies Wall of Fame balloting process for 2010. Over 23,000 fans, the most ever, voted online. Appreciate all the support.
Five finalist, in alphabetical order: Darren Daulton, Jim Konstanty, John Kruk, Jimmy Wilson and Rich Wise.
A special Wall of Fame Selection Committee, consisting of members of the media, Phillies executives and Phillies historians, will select the winner that will be inducted on August 6.
Paint the Town Red
Yearly pre-season promotion begins tomorrow noon at the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia.
20,000 pounds of the Phanatic will be on display. No, it isn't one King Kong-sized Phanatic but 20, 6-foot, 100-pound fiberglass Phanatic's that will be on display at the Museum until 2 in the afternoon. Scott Franzke and the Ballgirls will also be there.
Event, co-sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation, is open to the public at no charge. In other words, free.
In the true spirit of the week-long events, Phillie Phanatic will be red. Sorry, but the mascot looks better in green.
Alumni Memories
A daily feature–spring training memories by Phillies Alumni, who were asked three questions: (1) Memories of their very first spring training; (2) What they liked the most about spring training, and (3) What did they like the least.
Kevin Sefcik (INF, 1995-2000)
"Favorite thing about spring training had to be the weather. Coming down from Chicago in mid-February was awesome. Clearwater was a great location. I experienced a couple of other areas in spring training after leaving the Phillies and nothing was better than Clearwater. Least favorite part? Nothing. There is nothing better than playing baseball whether it was spring training or the season.
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so, they didn't use a burlap sack, with a candle in the back, for them to "walk towards the light"?unjonharley wrote:theCryptofishist wrote:I would guess nets as well. I read a book about early man which suggested that net hunting including the entire tribe was probably a very common way of gathering protein pre-neolithic revolution. Nets just don't survive a few thousand years in the ground as readily as spearheads. I can remember sometime in the past couple dozen years reading aboutEric wrote: There are actually reports from early settlers (post-contact, obviously) on how the Native Americans in the New York area did it. I don't have the book near me so I can't give you the details. I seem to remember it involved nets (speculation on my part since I don't have the references at hand)- but this is after the pigeon population had boomed due to the aforementioned population loss.
the French tradition of capturing birds with nets for food, while the birds were migrating between Europe and Africa (and what effect that was having on the population of said birds.)
They could also have eaten the eggs.
And small bird bones might or might not survive in midden heaps; soil chemistry would be just one factor.
The native Am. also use a trap.. Simple, dig a tunnel at a few degrees and bait it.. Birds can not walk backwards.
and, I didn't really participate, in an ancient american ritual, waiting in the dark, except, using a flashlight instead of candle?


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By: Associated Press
Dust storms are traveling across the plains thanks to drought and windy conditions.
Dust storms are traveling across the plains thanks to drought and windy conditions.
By: Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Seemingly unrelenting winds and drought conditions have whipped up massive dust storms this week across the High Plains, but respite is near since the weather system that's to blame has moved east into the Great Lakes and Northeast, the National Weather Service said Wednesday.
Blowing dust is blamed for the zero-visibility conditions in central Kansas that caused a traffic accident in which a man died Monday. Stanton County schools in far western Kansas also cancelled classes and activities Tuesday. The wind is also affecting winter wheat by sucking up the little moisture that had been in fields.
Monday's dust storm was so large it covered most of Kansas, western Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle and eastern Colorado, said weather service meteorologist Jeff Hutton in Dodge City. Tuesday's dust cloud was more localized, only found in some parts of Kansas.
"That is what happens when you get drought, a lack of vegetation and you have wind," Hutton said. "I mean, that is just the nature of the High Plains. And then that dirt that was lofted is eventually carried into eastern Kansas."
Kansas is dry so far this year, but not anywhere near what it was during the 1930s and 1950s, he said. Much of the dirt has blown in from eastern Colorado, where it is drier, but a lot is also coming from Kansas fields that have been plowed, Hutton said.
On his central Kansas farm, Tom Giessel said the high winds coupled with dry conditions have been tough on crops. Giessel has recorded just a little over an inch and a half of rain since January; normally, he would have had well over 5 inches by this time of the year.
His stunted wheat, which is under irrigation, has not been this short since 1989, he said.
"Yeah, it's damn dusty," he said, adding he stays inside on his farm, which is seven miles northwest of Larned, when it gets that bad. "I don't remember having that many consecutive days with high winds."
The ground is so dry that he is planning to plant about 40 percent of his normal amount of row crops. The only reason he says he is planting any corn at all is because he had already bought the seed and could not return it.
"My father always told me, 'Don't look at the calendar, you farm according to the weather,'" Giessel said. "And now I kind of changed to where I farm according to the climate because of the way our climate I think has shifted with heat and the boundaries have been stretched.
"There is more uncertainty … than there has been in the past and so I am making some shifts in how I operate," he said. "The inputs for these crops are way too pricey to just be rolling the dice that it is going to rain."
The dust storms are negatively impacting winter wheat crops, eroding the soil and exposing the roots, said Don Keeney, an agricultural meteorologist with the Maryland-based commodity risk firm MDA Weather Services. That will cause crop conditions to decline more rapidly, particularly since the forecast calls for the cool weather to warm rapidly in the coming days before rain late next week.


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SAN FRANCISCOGoogle on Thursday unveiled an ultrafast Web service along with an Internet television subscription in Kansas City, Kansas, as part of a pilot project to boost broadband speeds.
The Google Fiber superfast broadband network will be available starting in September, with one-gigabyte per second speeds about 100 times faster than most current Internet subscriptions.
The wired home project will allow people to replace cable television and Internet with a single subscription to be controlled by a Google tablet computer, which will be offered for free.
Google Fiber is 100 times faster than todays average broadband, Google vice president Milo Medin said.
No more buffering. No more loading. No more waiting. Gigabit speeds will get rid of these pesky, archaic problems and open up new opportunities for the web. Imagine: instantaneous sharing; truly global education; medical appointments with 3D imaging; even new industries that we havent even dreamed of, powered by a gig.
The packages offered will include not only Internet but regular TV, the kind you could only get from your cable provider, as well as on-demand programs, Medin told the kickoff event in Kansas City.
Google said it was offering a full ultrafast Internet and television package for $120 a month, with waived installation fees and a free tablet. It also will offer Internet only for $70 a month.
It will also offer free Internet at the current speed of five megabytes per second but will charge an installation fee.
It was not immediately clear when or if Google would expand the project to other US cities.
Google announced its plan to build an experimental high-speed Internet network two years ago, saying the United States had fallen behind other major nations in broadband speed and access.
Fast is better than slow. On the web, nobody wants to wait for a video to buffer or a website to load, Medin said.
Abundance is better than scarcity. Theres a plethora of rich content available online and its increasingly only available to people who have the speeds and means to access it.


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With a title like Reference Guide to the International Space Station, this book doesn't really need a back-cover blurb. It has one, however; and it says, "This book is designed to provide a broad overview of the International Space Station's complex configuration, design, and component systems. As well, the sophisticated procedures required in the Station's construction and operation are presented". But this is not strictly accurate. The book's overview is actually quite detailed – it gives, for example, the physical dimensions, and other related facts and figures, about every module of the ISS. It is also copiously illustrated (see sample pages here and here), with lots of wonderful photographs.
In fact, if I have one criticism of this book, it's that it needs updating. It was originally published in 2006, so it's already three years out of date. Given that the ISS was originally planned to be de-orbited in 2010 – although that's likely to be extended to 2016 – it's certainly time for a new edition of Reference Guide to the International Space Station.
Although the copy reviewed here was published by Apogee, Reference Guide to the International Space Station is actually a reprint of a NASA document – available in parts as PDFs on the NASA web site here. All the same, it's an excellent resource and belongs in every self-respecting enthusiast's collection.
Reference Guide to the International Space Station, edited by Gary Kitmacher (2006, Apogee Books, ISBN 978-1-894959-34-6, 98pp + appendix)


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Opera has patched a brace of critical vulnerabilities with the release of the latest version of its web browser.
The release notes accompanying Opera version 9.60 focused on features such as speed improvements and a cleaner layout for feeds. But underneath the bonnet, a couple of security vulnerabilities have been patched.
Firstly, the improper validation of URLs left users of earlier versions of the browser at risk from code injection attacks. The bug was unearthed by security firm Matasano. More details on the implications of the bug can be found in a bug entry here.
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Popular city traditions could be on chopping block
City parades risk funding
For nearly 100 years the Findlay Market Opening Day Parade has delighted thousands of people in Greater Cincinnati.
The city's current budget battle could prove to be the strike-out pitch for the Opening Day Parade and other events.
Parade organizer Neil Luken said it cost the city almost $40,000 to put the parade on.
Opening Day Parade, Saint Patrick's Day Parade, Juneteenth and the Midwest Regional Black Family Reunion all get city dollars. The event organizers only have to cover 10 percent of police and fire costs of their events.
Luken said city leaders should be able to get this done.
"If these guys can't put on a parade they need to find another line of work," he said.
An email was sent by the Black Family Reunion's producer to the city manager and council members asking the city to honor its commitment to the BFR for August 17 and 18.
BFR producer Cassandra Robinson said, "Of the four heritage events, three of them will have occurred before June 30. We're the only event after the June 30 budget date."
Robinson said that without the city's support, BFR will have to decide whether to scale back to one day or cancel the 25th anniversary celebration.
His goal right now is for the show to go on with the help of corporate partners.
"A lot of them have pledged for this year and have sent in their money so I must go forward with the event this year," Robinson said.


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Sadie Turner is not a control freak, just…orderly. When a cheating spouse topples Sadie's impeccably tidy world, she packs up her kids for a summer vacation at her aunt's lake house, hoping to relax, reboot, and pick up the pieces away from men. All men. But eccentric Aunt Dody has other plans: she's determined to see Sadie have a little fun - with Desmond, the sexy new neighbor.
Tall, tanned, muscular - and even great with her kids - Desmond is Sadie's worst nightmare. He must have a flaw - he's a man, after all - so Sadie vows to keep her distance. But as summer blazes on, their attraction ignites, and the life Sadie is trying so hard to simplify only gets more complicated…. But maybe a little chaos is just what she needs to get her future, and her dreams of love, back in order.
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- Sue Casey
- 30-12-2017
It's ok
Nearly didn't finish this book the narrators normal voice was fine, it was the characters voices that was just awful!
- 01-12-2014
Notes for the Narrator
Would you try another book from Tracy Brogan and/or Lori Reyes?
I might try another book by the author. The writing is predictable. When the main character would think something like "I'm acting stupid" I would find myself thinking, "Yes, you REALLY are-- in fact, too stupid for someone of that age." I would not try Lori Reyes again. I found myself switching to other books and not really caring if I finished this one.
Would you recommend Crazy Little Thing to your friends? Why or why not?
No. IMO, you should only recommend books that you think are great and worth reading.
What didn't you like about Lori Reyes's performance?
Ms. Reyes needs to work on her character voices. Her normal voice is -- well, normal for a woman. Soothing low tone which was great for the main character. But for every other female character, she raised her voice. For the great aunt (80-something year old woman) she went extremely high pitched -- higher than the 6 yr old girl. Plus, for every inflection she went a little screechy. I tried to ignore it but by chapter 8 I finally switched to the Kindle version of the book and used "Text-to-Speech" so the computer voice could read the book. It's a terrible reflection on the narrator when a computer does a better job. I strongly suggest she never uses that high pitched voice again. Also, for the gay man character she used a "swishy" voice that sounded like she had a slight lisp. In real life, they don't sound that way. I've known several flamboyant, "swishy" gay man and they only time they use that tone or inflection is when they are making fun of the stereotype. The only time I've heard a gay man use that tone was an actor on TV or a movie.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
No. And they wouldn't make this into a movie. Not even a Lifetime movie. Too predictable and the character's behavior was annoyingly stupid.
14 people found this helpful
- Frances
- 29-05-2015
Meh... avoid this Narrator at all costs
I needed a lighthearted story and this would certainly count as one. A nice distraction, nothing too gripping and missing a day here or there didn't stress me out like sometimes when I'm in the throes of a great listen. No pressure to grab a listen... stress free.
The narrator tanked it, however. If my elderly aunt spoke in the same screechy voice the narrator used when reading Aunt Dodie, I'd run for the hills, not spend a summer vacation with her! And the Scottish accent the narrator used for the love interest, sounded more like a muddled Dutch/Swedish accent... just miserable... this makes me wonder if the author auditions narrators before letting them read their books?
Anyway, I am just finishing and and it was a chore, let me tell you! Trade a credit at your own risk on this one!
12 people found this helpful
- Stinkerbelle
- 07-03-2015
I hate to say this, but....
the voices were awful. The narrator's voice is quite nice, but Aunt Dodie's voice was like nails on a chalkboard. The story was good enough to keep me hanging in there. Not great, but good working/driving story.
5 people found this helpful
- Ann
- 09-08-2015
Squeaking awful narration
The voice of the aunt was horribly annoying. I could not listen with earbuds in. Eventually I gave up. Aren't these recorded in studios? Why doesn't someone say that voice is horrible, like nails on a chalkboard ? Ruined the entire book for me.
4 people found this helpful
- Bammerok
- 07-05-2015
endless twaddle
the narration was great for just the main character. listening to the rest was difficult, especially the aunts voice. story kept repeating the same things endlessly and skipping over things that could have had some interest. didnt connect with any of the characters. very shallow characterizations. no depth.
4 people found this helpful
- Sara
- 25-03-2015
couldn't get past chapter 3
How could the performance have been better?
The voice of the narrator was just so grating and sing songy. The accents were stereotypical and so overdone
4 people found this helpful
- Nancy Devault
- 17-06-2013
Any additional comments?
This was a waste of my time and credit. It was an awful story that in my opinion centered mostly around aunt Doodie. The romance was severely lacking! The narration of Aunt Doodie was utterly annoying making an already crappy story even crappier! Don't waste your credit on this one!
12 people found this helpful
- Jane
- 31-05-2013
4 ½ stars. Very enjoyable first person narrative.
Don't do the audiobook - terrible narrator. Read the paperback or ebook.
Story Brief:
Sadie and her children spend the summer with Aunt Dody and cousins. Sadie is recently divorced. She doesn't want a new relationship, but she is attracted to Dody's gorgeous neighbor Desmond.
I really enjoyed this. I smiled a lot. I liked being in Sadie's head. I loved her interaction with her cousin Fontaine, a gay interior decorator. I enjoyed the developing relationship with Desmond. This was not a powerful wow story. It's a pleasant, everyday people around you kind of story. There were several conflicts caused by Sadie making inaccurate assumptions and jumping to wrong conclusions. Those were nicely done. But one of them bothered me - toward the end Sadie was mad at Des for something that she should not have been mad about.
Sadie has some low self image problems and does some silly things. I was fine with that, but some readers might prefer a stronger heroine. This book has a chick lit feel, but it does have a romantic happy ending. Although I wish there were more romance and declaration of love at the end.
The narrator Lori Reyes was a huge problem. She had a terrible, high-pitched screechy voice for Dody and the children. It was like fingernails on a chalkboard. I cringed every time she used that voice. She would be a good narrator if she NEVER raised her voice to a higher pitch. Her natural voice and low voice for men was good.
Genre: contemporary romance, divorce
7 people found this helpful
- Bonnie Graham
- 23-10-2012
Awful Narrator
What did you like about this audiobook?
I just purchased the book today and I have already had to toss it out. The narrator is the worst. She is so annoying that I can not listen to the book. It is a shame because the story line sounded good.
What did you find wrong about the narrator's performance?
Awful. Annoying. Can not listen to book.
11 people found this helpful
- Jessica
- 09-04-2015
Underwhelming -bordering time wasting
Would you try another book from Tracy Brogan and/or Lori Reyes?
I can't tell if I didn't like the book or if I didn't like the preformer. I wouldn't be quick to try another book from this author. I really disliked the main character, so I might try another Tracy Brogan just to see if it was the character I didn't like and not her writing.
What do you think your next listen will be?
I just purchased Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, so I will be giving that a go next.
Would you be willing to try another one of Lori Reyes's performances?
No, I am curious actually to see if it was her performance that I hated or the characters of the book that I didn't buy into. I think that her portrayal of all of the main characters ruined the book for me. I hated the overexaggerated flaymboyancey of the main characters cousin and the horrible high pitched portrayal of her wacky aunt. I love both of the characters, but the voices for them and the inntonation of 'their' voices I think really underminded the way they were written.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Crazy Little Thing?
The scene where Sadie runs off after their post dinner prelude on the first date. I thought the author may have been trying to portray how unsure she was about herself, or how uncomfertable Sadie is getting back into the dating scene, but I hated how it was done.
Any additional comments?
I had a real problem with the main character. For some reason I didn't find her relatable at all. Maybe I see some of her flaws a little to critically. I think the main piece I took issue with was how powerless she made herself. I get that after her divorce she would need to work on her empowerment and trust issues, but I found her "flaws" to be so dramatically portrayed that it almost seemed dishonest and unnatural.
2 people found this helpful
- Cheshire
- 11-06-2015
lovely gentle story
performed well except for the dodgy Scottish accent. lovely romantic story with adorable characters especially Dodi
1 person found this helpful
- Rob Plant
- 15-03-2013
The story line is poor and so boringly predictable. The gays are predictably always nice and like all the other characters exaggerated and unatractive making it impossible to believe in any of them. To make it worse the accents are annoying. Where did the Scottish accent come from. If the novel had been any good this would have ruined it.
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Artist Moeller takes us on a European Grand Tour
Paintings take visitors on a trip abroad
It once was the practice among the scions of American millionaires to set off on a European Grand Tour for months at a time after college or to refresh one's spirit among friends -- to polish one's language skills, soak up history and culture and sensitize the palate to exquisite foods and wines.
Few of us these days have the time or money for extended vacations, but we can live vicariously -- through the evocative paintings of Stan Moeller, of York, Maine.
Moeller's passion is sketching on site -- en plein air -- especially at many of the favorite Grand Tour sites, from the piazzas of Florence to the cafes of Paris.
"Stan really captures the light of the piazzas and the stance of a tourist and the ex-pat and the student outside the palais," said Sissy Biggers, co-owner of Southport Galleries, which is hosting an exhibition of Moeller's works.
"His paintings are so captivating in that they seize a moment like a memory of a favorite day on a long-awaited and long-remembered trip abroad," she added.
The exhibition, which includes 20 paintings, runs through Wednesday, July 10.
More InformationIf you go: Southport Galleries, 330 Pequot Ave. in the Southport section of Fairfield. Summer hours, now in effect, are: Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment. For more information: www.southportgalleries.com: 203-292-6124; or http://www.stanmoeller.com/.
All the paintings have been done within the past few months following trips to Europe. He was in Paris just weeks ago, and when we chatted recently, Moeller was still working on a French cafe scene for the Southport show -- painting in his studio within a huge 180-year-old mill on a river in Salmon Falls, Maine, a few miles from his home.
Moeller, 60, creates his pieces following trips to his favorite haunts in Europe, including the South of France, where he makes on-the-spot sketches.
Before the growth of the middle-class and relatively cheap travel throughout the world, artists could go to a place like Paris, set up an easel and paint away for hours or days without much concern about being overwhelmed by hoards of tourists and locals alike.
"But nowadays, that's really not possible" because so many of the world's historic sites are crowded "sometimes elbow to elbow. A sketch allows you to work quickly," he said, and to move on. He also uses written notes and videos to prompt memories of a particular place while working on his large-format oil paintings in his studio.
Moeller's path to painting -- and to Maine -- is a tortuous one. Growing up in Indiana, on the border with Michigan, Moeller said he was surrounded "by farmland, farmland."
"But it was back in the day when public schools actually had good art programs and art instructors," he said, adding that his foundation in art was set in the 1960s. He went to college in Kalamazoo, Mich., but never graduated because his style of painting -- realism-- had fallen out of fashion and his teachers were not keen on the direction he was pursuing.
(His heroes: Sweden's Anders Zorn, Spain's Joaquín Sorolla and America's John Singer Sargent -- all master painters who were renowned for their figurative works.)
But his time in Michigan was not wasted, for it was there he met his wife, Tammy, who was trained as a vocalist and musician at Boston's Berklee School of Music. Moeller, who played guitar and was also a singer-songwriter, decided to join forces with her and embark on a musical career as a duo.
But about 15 to 20 years ago, Tammy was ready for a solo career, and "I wanted to get back to painting full time," Moeller said. That's when the couple moved East, initially to Portsmouth, N.H., and then buying their York home from a friend.
For the past 12 years, Moeller has taught plein air painting workshops on Monhegan Island in Maine, as well as workshops in Tuscany and the South of France. He recently taught a master class, "En Plein Air Figure in the Landscape" at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, where he has taught oil and acrylic painting courses for many years.
In 2004, Moeller won the Marine Environment Award for Best Depiction of Wildlife in its Natural Habitat in the 25th annual International Marine Art Exhibition at the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport. A year earlier, Moeller was awarded a monthlong residency in Dinan in France's Brittany region by Les Amis De La Grande Vigne.
His paintings have been featured in American Art Collector, Southwest Art and International Artist Magazine; his work is exhibited at the Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara, Calif.; Gardner-Colby Gallery, Naples, Fla.; and several other galleries on the East Coast.
Moeller said he is focusing almost exclusively on "figure in movement" at a particular site.
"I know this must sound corny, but I love the way light works around the object, folds around" the human form. "I never tire of trying to capture that ... and trying to get better at doing that," he said.
email@example.com; http://www.twitter.com/PhyllisASBoros; www.ctpost.com/boros/ to see more paintings.
If you go
Southport Galleries, 330 Pequot Ave. in the Southport section of Fairfield. New summer hours are: Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment. For more information: www.southportgalleries.com; 203-292-6124; or http://www.stanmoeller.com/.