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First Manassas - First Bull Run
In early May, 1861, Robert E. Lee ordered a garrison of Virginia militia under the command of Philip Saint George Cocke to take a position near Arlington, Virginia so they could observe the movements of the Union troops on Arlington Heights, block the railroad between Washington and Richmond and protect the important rail junction at Manassas. As senior officer Confederate Brigadier General M. L. Bonham of South Carolina assumed command when he arrived with a brigade of recruits on May 21. Lee and Jefferson Davis wanted a stronger man to command "The Alexandria Line" and together decided on P. G. T. Beauregard.
To the west, Confederate Joe Johnston controlled much of the Shenandoah Valley from his position in Winchester, south of a Yankee contingent in Harper's Ferry under the command of Robert Patterson. The Rebels also established a defensive position further east on a road between the capitals of the two countries, Washington D. C. and Richmond, Virginia.
Beauregard ordered the Alexandria and Orange Railroad bridge across Bull Run at Union Mills (or Union Point) be destroyed, so that if the federals won the impending battle it would still be difficult to advance on the Confederate capital of Richmond. McDowell probed the area to the west, looking for the end of the Rebel line. Seeing that the Union general was looking for his flank, Beauregard's plan was to let the Yankees advance on his left while he attacked on McDowell's left, hoping to trap McDowell by capturing Centerville. Beauregard got some relief late on July 20 when units under Joe Johnston began arriving in camp from the station at Manassas Junction. Johnston had broken off contact with Patterson and moved undetected to Bull Run courtesy of the Manassas Gap Railroad.
Johnston's arrival presented a problem. Johnston, who outranked Beauregard, immediately became commanding officer. Beauregard began showing Johnston his plan on a map of the area. Johnston approved the plan, which called for an attack behind the main body of the Yankees towards Centerville. Since Beauregard was more familiar with the terrain, Johnston wisely gave Beauregard tactical command. It was important that the attack be carried out quickly, in case Patterson figured out that Johnston had given him the slip and moved towards McDowell.
At about 2:00 am on July 21, two divisions of McDowell's men under Col. David Hunter and Col. Samuel Heintzelman began a long march fron Centerville towards the Stone Bridge on Warrenton Pike. After the first two divisions turned right and followed a farm road west, Gen. Daniel Tyler opened the engagement at 5:30 am with a shot from a thirty-pound Parrot rifled gun towards Col. Nathan Evans position at the Stone Bridge. A line of skirmishers advanced in a pre-dawn feint.
Confederates at the Stone Bridge waited for an attack but Daniel Tyler only advanced skirmishers. In the light of the dawn Evans saw the dust of the Federal column heading for Sudley Springs. Realizing only then that the attack on the Stone Bridge was a feint, Evans withdrew most of his men and advanced on Sudley Church.
With Ambrose Burnside in the lead, Heintzelman and Hunter's divisions crossed Bull Run, a meandering stream in the Virginia Piedmont. After crossing at Sudley Ford they turned east. Shortly after 9:00 am on July 21, 1861 the Yankees ran into less than a thousand of Evans' South Carolinians, who had formed on Matthew Hill, west of Young's Branch. Small arms fire marked the start of the battle, but Confederates quickly began peeling off Yankees with grapeshot from twin howitzers that Evans had placed on either end of his line.
Burnside concentrated on the Confederate right while Alexander Porter's brigade came up and entered the fray hitting the left of Shanks Evans' line. By this time, David Hunter had arrived to see the battle. Calls went out on both sides for reserves to advance, but the Union army had significantly more men in the area. Hunter, leading the 2nd Rhode Island towards the Rebel line, was shot and seriously wounded. Porter, as senior officer, took command of the Union forces. As another Union brigade under George Sykes was lining up the 1st Louisiana Battalion began to advance, but the outnumbered Rebels didn't stand a chance against the Union line. Evans held his position against vastly superior numbers for more than an hour.
The calmness "Shanks" Evans displayed under fire did not carry back to Confederate headquarters. Beauregard failed to adequately cancel his original plan, leaving James Longstreet thinking he would be advancing across Blackburn Ford. He tried to order Dick Ewell and "Neighbor" Jones to attack Yankees on their front, but it was so badly worded that Beauregard literally ordered Jones to attack Ewell.
Behind Evans, Barnard Bee and Francis Bartow arrived and began working feverishly on a makeshift line. Finally, the Yankee onslaught began to break down the Rebel line and Bee advised Evans to withdraw to be in a line with the position Bee and Bartow had taken. As McDowell's men continued towards the battle from Sudley Springs they pushed the Rebel line back, first to the top of Matthews Hill. Luckily for the Confederates, the Union soldiers were slow to take advantage of the retreat. The Rebels crossed Young's Branch and continued retreating to Henry House Hill.
On Bartow's right young William Tecumseh Sherman crossed Bull Run at the head of a brigade and advanced, forcing Bartow to withdraw to protect his flank. A group of Confederates formed and attacked the rear of the Union line as Sherman's men advanced towards Bartow's men. After turning and engaging the Confederates, at least for a couple of volleys, Sherman withdrew to the line formed by Burnside and Porter. Johnston and Beauregard arrived, trying to rally their men, but the skilled Confederate commanders continued to battle their troops lack of training while the Union army advanced.
Then came one of those moments of fate. General Bee saw Thomas Jackson at the head of his men standing fast and Bee rallied his men saying "Look. There is Jackson standing like a stone wall!" (This is also quoted as "Look at Jackson's Brigade. It stands like a stone wall.") The Rebel line firmed and held in spite of McDowell's numerical advantage.
As the Rebel line firmed the Union advance paused, and the Confederates actually began to advance against the Union troops, driving the infantry away and garnering two prizes-cannon that moments before had been reigning death on the Confederate line. On the Confederate right, Sherman was driven back across Bull Run while on the top of Henry Hill the battle see-sawed back and forth. Federal troops were still arriving at a quicker pace than Confederates when news for the Southerners went from bad to worse. Generals Bartow and Bee lay dying and Yankees were making a push towards Confederate supplies. Finally, the Confederates began to hold the line and advancing in some areas. On the Yankee's right, Rebels took high ground near the Chinn House and Johnston's men were moving directly from Manassas Depot to the Rebel line. Slowly the tide turned and the Rebels began to advance. As the Union line collapsed, the soldiers inexperience quickly turned a retreat into pandemonium. In their haste to get as far away from the battle as quickly as possible they overran civilians who had come from Washington to watch the upstart Confederate army get defeated.
Jefferson Davis arrived on the scene and conferred with Johnston and, eventually, Beauregard. In the end Davis supported Beauregard's decision to pursuit the retreating bluecoats. The pursuit was not aggressive and as a result no further damage was done to the Union Army. General "Stonewall" Jackson was reputed to say after the battle that with 5,000 men he could destroy was left of the Union army. Federal losses (killed, wounded or missing) totaled 2,896 while the Confederates lost 1,982.
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McKayla Maroney & Aly Raisman Injured During Routine
The gold medalists both suffered injuries while performing as part of the Kellogg's Tour in Ontario, Calif.
Even members of the "Fab Five" can take a fall.
Olympians McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman were both injured while performing on uneven bars during Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics in Ontario, Calif., over the weekend.
Maroney – who took home one gold and one silver medal following this summer's Olympic Games in London – fell following a simple dismount from the bars. The 16-year-old 2011 world vault champion had to be carried out of the arena by medics.
Raisman – who took home two gold medals and one bronze in London – suffered a fall after she failed to land a Shaposhnikova.
Named after gymnast Natalia Shaposhnikova, the move begins on the low bar, facing away from the high bar. The gymnast then does a free hip circle around the bar, releasing the lower bar and propelling up to high bar, catching it to complete the move.
Raisman reportedly fell to her stomach, landing on a section of the arena's concrete floor that was not covered by a mat. But she was able to walk out of the arena.
Before the show, Raisman Tweeted a playful photo of herself and team mates, asking, "Ontario Are you ready for us?"
Neither Maroney or Raisman were included in the show's finale, when the gymnasts were lifted into the air, each clutching one of the five Olympic rings.
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Meanwhile, Maroney Tweeted on Monday: "Not bad for hospital food."
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UW study finds pacifiers may stall boys' emotional development
Three studies examined pacifier use in babies
MADISON, Wis. — A study led by psychologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison associates pacifiers with psychological and emotional consequences for boys.
Three studies looked into pacifier use in babies and what that meant for children as they grew into adults.
Humans of all ages, often unwittingly or otherwise, mimic the expressions and body language of people who are around them.
The studies looked at facial and emotional responses of boys and girls ages 6 and 7 years old as well as college-aged men.
The research found that pacifiers may stall the emotional development of baby boys and that frequent pacifier use during the day may disrupt emotional development.
Researchers said that's because it limits opportunities to mimic facial expressions.
"The longer boys used pacifiers, the lower their sort of emotional intelligence in that particular study was, so the less mimicry they showed over time, the lower their scores on perspective taking aspects of empathy," said lead author of the study, Paula Niedenthal.
The study found that pacifier use didn't affect baby girls' emotional progress due to their emotional development being stimulated in other ways.
Researchers said the next step is to study why girls react differently.


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Big Brother 14 Has a Winner!
Danielle Murphee, Ian Terry and returning player Dan Gheesling vied in Wednesday's finale
After 75 days, 16 houseguests and dozens of competitions, Big Brother 14 has a winner!
Following last Thursday's elimination of their fellow Quack Pack alliance member Shane Meaney, the final three houseguests – Danielle Murphee, Ian Terry and returning player Dan Gheesling – battled it out for the final Head of Household of season 14. Spoilers ahead!
Ian, 21, won the three-part competition and kept his deal with Dan, choosing to evict Danielle, who became the final member of the jury tasked with voting between the final two and awarding one of them the $500,000 grand prize.
After a tense interrogation with Dan and Ian making their cases, the jury awarded Ian, an engineering student at Tulane University in New Orleans, the money by a margin of six to one.
Wednesday night's finale closed with host Julie Chen announcing Frank Eudy, 28, as America's Favorite Houseguest and the winner of $25,000.
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Braided Cowl from Hell
Pattern: Braided Cowl, Vogue Knitting Holiday 2009
Yarn: 2.5 skeins Lion Brand Wool-Ease
Start/Finish: 10.26.10/12.20.10
Needles: US6
Notes: I connected it at four points (not including the center back seam) which you can kind of see in the pictures. I liked that the cowl is wider at one end and narrower at the other, it sits really well on the neck compared to others because of this.
I used a thicker yarn than called for and am glad I did, there's a lot more structure. The recipient likes snug things so it's perfect (though she does have to put it on before doing her hair or makeup!)
Kind of wishing I didn't have to give it up because there is no way I'm going to make another. I'm sure at this point I sound like a whiny baby, but I really really hated making this thing. Cabling with so many stitches on a needle was a PITA, joining the rows together was a PITA, seaming at the end was a PITA, and hiding all the ends was a PITA.
I don't know what it was about this project but UGH. The finished object is SO NICE and it's a great cowl, the process just royally sucked. I've never felt this way with a project before…
Anyway, Christmas is almost here and the recipient says I can put it under the (currently non-existent) tree but I think I should just fork it over now. It's been so cold these past few days!


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Avengers: Battle for Earth preview: Doing Kinect right
Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth is the sort of physical, easy-to-understand fighter that is perfect for young kids who are in the process of discovering how cool Wolverine really is, or players still wanting to continue their high from The Avengers movie.
It's not easy making a good Kinect game. Just look at Steel Battalion, which tried to leverage the Kinect in a unique way, and ended up getting eviscerated by critics and gamers alike. It takes more than hands-free motion controls to make a satisfying Kinect game. A lot more.
So what does it take to make a good Kinect game? Based on experience, it's a game that mixes simple, easy-to-perform gestures with some kind of multiplayer component. Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth appears to nail both sides of the equation, and mixes in some solid cel-shading aside. If it's looking for a niche with kids seeking to act out the roles of their favorite heroes, then it's probably going to fill it pretty nicely.
The basics are pretty simple. Every character--from Iron Man to Hulk to Spider-Man--has a set number of gestures. Raise your arms up, and Spider-Man will jump into the air. Swing your arms down, and he will swing in for an attack. There are kicks, and punches, and even a golf club-like swing from Hulk that will knock a foe into the air for a couple dozen punches.
Such physical actions are what help to separate the various heroes from one another. Iron Man shoots beams (thrust arms out), Spider-Man swings (jump and kick), and Hulk does what a Hulk does: smash. Of them all, Hulk is the most enjoyable to use, mainly because his physical combat style meshes perfectly with the Kinect. It's one thing to feel force feedback from a controller when performing a Hulk action. It's quite another to be smashing stuff yourself. It's odd that a Kinect game should feel as ... kinetic ... as Marvel Avengers, but it somehow manages to pull it off.
Of course, it doesn't go much deeper than that. The actual strategy, well, it's overall pretty minimal. Every battle is a tag team match, so a lot of the strategy is down to knowing when to switch out (just look at your character's health bar). It's also possible to interrupt enemy attacks; and if your meter is high enough, launch a devastating super attack. Overall, it's quite easy to build up momentum with a series of smaller strikes, then crush an opponent with a devastating super attack.
But strategy isn't really the point, is it? The point of most Kinect games is to get up, get a little exercise, and laugh as you punch Hulk into the next solar system. In that, Marvel Avengers already has the potential to be more successful than Steel Battalion, which made the mistake of introducing too much nuance into the motions (putting the self-destruct right next to the smoke vent, for instance). All of Marvel's moves are simple to understand, easy to pull off, and available right there on the screen.
For some, this type of praise might feel a little backhanded. Oh yes, the Kinect is only good for silly party games and brawlers, you might say. Well, no. The Kinect just happens to have a very specific, very narrow niche right now. That niche is to effectively 'put you in the game.' Try and go too far or too deep with the mechanics, and you risk ending up with a Steel Battalion.
Marvel Avengers is the sort of physical, easy-to-understand fighter that is perfect for young kids who are in the process of discovering how cool Wolverine really is (answer: really cool). In that, the most likely audience for Marvel Avengers is for parents and young kids who are looking to continue basking in the glow cast by The Avengers earlier this summer. It would be a little much to suggest that Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth captures the essence of being a superhero. But it sure is fun to play.
Kat Bailey posted a new article, Avengers: Battle for Earth preview: Doing Kinect right.
Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth is the sort of physical, easy-to-understand fighter that is perfect for young kids who are in the process of discovering how cool Wolverine really is, or players still wanting to continue their high from The Avengers movie.
You're so witty and original. We all know what's been released, but don't presume that this is another failure before it's even out of the gate. I haven't read every preview/review that Kat has written, but if there were issues with the game, I would like to think that she would have put them out there. Way to be a downer on a Friday.
Regardless, I'm sure I'll give it a "GF go" with my boys. While they weren't old enough to see The Avengers movie, they've enjoyed a lot of the cartoons and merch that is everywhere you look right now. I'm know my eight year old will enjoy the chance to smash and blast in a new Kinect game.


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10 Electric Boys – And Them Boys Done Swang (2011)
After a fifteen year absence, The Electric Boys reunited, and have delivered their fourth album, And Them Boys Done Swang.
The band mates of Electric Boys didn't exactly disappear during the bands hiatus. Connie Bloom and Andy Christell have been playing in Hanoi Rocks, and released a great album, Street Poetry in 2007.
So how does And Them Boys Done Swang stack up? In my opinion, I believe the band has cranked out their best album since their classic debut, Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride.
And Them Boys Done Swang sees the Electric Boys return to their funky roots. The music on this CD is a mix of funky glam rock, 70's psychedelia and classic hard rock. The majority of the songs are positively upbeat, fresh and highly listenable. This is definitely one of the more interesting albums I have heard in 2011.
Some of the highlights includes the rockin' opening cut "Reeferlord", the infectious "Father Popcorn's Magic Oysters" (see video below), the Beatles-like "Ten Thousand Times Goodbye", the silly yet fun "The House is Rockin" and the super funky "Sometimes U Gotta Go Look For the Car".
And Them Boys Done Swang is one of the surprise albums of 2011. This is a highly entertaining album, and a disc worth checking out. Don't miss this!
For more information on the Electric Boys, please visit the ElectricBoys.com.
Rating: Out of 10
Track Listing:
01. Reeferlord
02. My Heart's Not For Sale
03. Father Popcorn's Magic Oysters
04. Angel In An Armoured Suit
05. Ten Thousand Times Goodbye
06. The House Is Rockin'
07. Welcome To The High Times
08. Sometimes U Gotta Go Look For The Car
09. Put Your Arms Around Me
10. The Day The Gypsies Came To Town
11. Rollin' Down The Road
12. A Mother Of A Love Story
The Electric Boys are:
Franco Santunione – Guitar
Andy Christell – Bass
Niklas Sigevall – Drums
Conny Bloom – Guitar, Vocals


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Marc Anthony said he'll "always love" Jennifer Lopez, but the Hollywood power couple had to call it quits because their 7-year marriage wasn't "sustainable."
In his first post-breakup interview since the couple split in July, Anthony told ABC's "Nightline" that tabloid reports he cheated on Lopez were untrue.
"I'll tell you that it wasn't something sensationalistic happening," Anthony said of what caused the breakup. "It was a realization on both our parts. So you know it wasn't shocking. These things happen. It was a decision that we made jointly."
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"It's not that I didn't love myself before," the thrice-married performer told Vanity Fair for its September cover story. But she said, "sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves."
Anthony told "Nightline" not to think of their divorce as a "funeral."
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He reiterated, as Lopez has, that the ex-couple will stay in each other's lives because they are parents to 3-year-old twins.
He also said they plan to continue working together on their Latin talent reality show "Q'Viva! The Chosen."
Anthony's full interview with "Nightline" airs Thursday at 11:35 ET.


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Thursday, January 5, 2012
A Series of Half Finished Thoughts
On LFR:
When it's a blast, it's a fun ride. When it's painful, it's like putting needles in your eyes. I've had absurd luck in winning loot rolls, but mostly, I treat it as a "pre-trainer" for the actual raid, and a good easy source of 500 VP early on in the week.
It allows me the opportunity to maybe flesh stuff out so I don't feel guilty rolling against my raid team for tier tokens and the such; spreading the upgrades about better. A 384 is fine, too.
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For Christmas, my sister got me the Batman: Arkham City game. It's fun! It's like the old animated series we grew up watching, with the darker/edgier Christopher Nolan Batman seeping through it. (the number of returning VA help too)
Except, I feel bad for taking time away from playing World of Warcraft to play that instead. I feel like as a GM, I need to be prescient, I need to be seen AND heard often. I'm allowed to play other video games, but I always feel like, "You know, they probably could use one more for a dungeon, or you might have a JC cut they don't have..." while completely oblivious to the fact that I'm pretty easily reached.
More LFR Thoughts:
I feel we'll see less people applying to actual raid guilds because of this. Not because "If this is what raiding is, man, EFF THAT NOISE" or because "I can do this AS MUCH AS I WANT" or even because of some misguided direction towards elitism: People who are not constantly motivated by loot want to see content. And when they've done it, they're done. That's good enough for them! They can focus on doing other stuff in game instead of finding a guild that matches their schedule, arranging their schedule to allow them to continue to raid uninterrupted, finding time throughout the week to finish their weekly dungeon chores so they can buy upgrades to be better at raiding, taking time to study boss strategies, to watch videos, to read about how to play their class wholly and completely to their best, gemming and enchanting with the GOOD STUFF, the expensive enchants...
Or, they can queue for LFR, see the bosses once. If they win stuff, cool. If they lose stuff, cool. When the dragon is dead, they can nod and say "What's next?"
What do you have as a guild manager, a recruiter, a raid team to offer someone like this? LFR isn't going away, think about how you recruit, think about what you have. It's been a recruit's market for a while now, and that is not changing any time soon. Adapt.
On Insomnia:
Sleep deprivation affects a lot beyond "oh I'm just sleepy" - in the workplace, it can cause a number of issues, especially if you are in the detail works of things. Handling of heavy equipment can be made dangerous, too, if your attention slips just a bit.
We raid in the evenings; and by time we get to raid, I've been up at least fourteen hours. It's made putting my thoughts together to speak clearly kind of tricky, and I've been a liability to my guild because of it. A couple people in guild have stepped up to make these calls, and I thank them for it every week, but I want to thank them again because it never feels like enough to just say "thank you" to them in game.
Thank you, Rezz, Dee. I'll get sleeps soon, I think maybe.
Proper Internet Interactions:
No matter who you are, what you do, it's very easy for "an internet thing" to explode into a "real life thing" in the ways that are bad, obviously, which is what I'm vaguely alluding to.
Be decent. You'll find it's a lot easier to get on with people if you're respectful, as if they were there with you. As if you were close enough for them to reach across the table and cuff you upside the ear for saying something offensive.
On Dicking Around:
I like dungeons. It's kinda my thing.
I wish there were more in dungeon to explore, and more going on beyond "This is the Blackrock Mountain Level" or "This is the Skywall level" or "This is the cat people level."
I equate dungeons to dungeons - in Final Fantasy, the most easily accessible boxes have small loot that's good for there and then (potions, tents, healing items) and to find the best stuff, you have to explore the space a bit. I know this was done in Wrath with heroic bosses being "off the beaten path" - and as their content was no longer relevant, it got harder talking people into going back in and doing those bosses. Or, their content was trivialized to the point of being irrelevant because of LFD's introduction, and Triumph badges for EVERY boss kill?
That's all I've got at the moment, nothin' detailed enough to be a full blogpost, but I felt like sharing. What about you? What's on your mind?
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I am glad these opinions are free! Run, little opinions, and rejoice in the pixellated meadows!ReplyDelete
Re Vidyaguilt, my partner GMs our guild and has similar guilt issues when he plays Skyrim. He often logs onto WoW without a plan, only to say he feels he "should be sociable and catch up with people". If you're happy doing that it's fine, but ultimately you undoubtably contribute a lot already and you shouldn't feel bad for taking a little alone time :)
I really hope you get some nice sleep soon! I can't imagine taking my occasional bad nights and making it a daily occurrence. I'd be on long-term sick leave if that happened. You deserve a break soon!
Finally, absolutely agree with your point on treating others as if they are real people, actually there. So much would be solved by that small shift in manners.
Playing WoW instead of Arkham City is a god damned crime. Between my two play-throughs and my obsession with finishing the content, I've dumped 64 hours of my life into Arkham City, and have less than 70% completion.ReplyDelete
Azeroth will keep. Gotham needs you. =P
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 6:52 AM
I really do want to sit down and play Skyrim and ToR (both are sitting here waiting for install), but with some of the stuff that's gone down lately with people leaving the game within my guild, the last thing I want to do is lose my regular presence for my guildies. Your team is established on the other hand--take a break and enjoy it! The rest of us know where the heck to go to harass you ;)ReplyDelete
My best sleeps are drug induced--the problem is timing the drugs so I wrap on a raid night in a nice and cozy little state of mind so I can go to bed immediately after and pass out. It's what I should have done last night when we had wrapped at 9:30 because the raid was done for the week. But instead I sat and talked to people (which was, once again, a needed thing during this week for us), staying awake and losing my concentration on other stuff I was working on. Tonight I decided I wouldn't raid, so I'll be medicating and passing out at some point. I stopped raiding 10p-1a because of lack of sleep--LFR on Tuesday nights sorta puts me back into that time table, but I'm primarily blaming the holidays with messing up my sleep schedule (which was never great to begin with).
If only you were Horde, we could actually run stuffs! =P
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 7:01 AM
LFR: I came, I saw, I killed the Internet Dragon. I'm satisfied. Was it as powerful an experience as going through the months of wipes on LK? No. But I also don't think I found the story nearly as compelling anyways. I wasn't really planning on killing DW this expansion, but now that I have, I'm good.ReplyDelete
Guilt: Eff the guilt. I know this is hard because you're a responsible GM who takes pride in his guild, but - you have to look at your long-term interest and health and weigh it against the short term benefits of logging on "just to be social."
Log on with a purpose. It can be a silly purpose - grab some mog gear, do Netherwing dailies, fish for a mount, work on an alt - or it can be a serious one - but log on, do your thing, say good night and move on. If you feel there's not enough coverage throughout the week, tackle that like a manager and get officers to help cover those "shifts".
Sleep Dep: I've wrestled with this, my spouse has REALLY wrestled with it, and it's terrible. TERRIBLE. If it's a schedule problem, look at times where you can possibly nap before the raid. If it's a physical problem, SEE SOMEONE. If it's a mental problem, SEE SOMEONE. These things don't just go away on their own, and there are things that you can do to help.
As a sufferer of long-term sleep dep, I really don't want other people to go through it too. :(
Dicking around: I like BGs. They're my thing. I really wish I could run more BGs with people at different levels without compromising my desire for privacy; BattleIDs can't come soon enough. :)
@ Ara: I think there's a lot that needed to be said, even if I'm lacking time to frame it all! I might come back to some of these a bit more in the future, though, especially with the Cross Realm Raiding announcement.ReplyDelete
@ LS: Man, if you could see the backlog I've built up since becoming a GM, you would cry bitter tears... Arkham City is just the most recent addition. Gotham will keep, Azeroth has all my friends in it! (this is my logic every time unless I just flat out disappear for a week to play)
@ Miri: I know I'm easy to get a hold of, but, weird responsibility hang ups are weird.ReplyDelete
An established team is fine, but I feel like if I'm not on DOING STUFF then I worry STUFF won't get done, which is the exact opposite of what actually happens!
I'm changing my diet a lot as a result of the sleep deprivation though - no more energy drinks, healthier kinds of snack foods, paying a little extra for fresher vegetables. I even drink less coffee!
Also, I have considered faction changing someone to Horde side! Or, I could... yanno. Level the magelet.


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Hayley's Paradiso promo tour in NZ - climbs to no. 3
We are pleased to report that in the official New Zealand album chart at RIANZ this week, Hayley's new album Paradiso has climbed to no. 3.
Hayley has been in New Zealand for a week now, busily promoting Paradiso on TV and radio. You can click the links below to visit the HWI forum and read further details about each of her appearances with, for most of them, audio or video of her interviews and performances. These were provided by HWI member Ross, of Christchurch, and our thanks go to him for this excellent work.
Hayley is known to have appeared on:
Radio stations: Classic Hits Chistchurch on 2nd May, NewstalkZB on the 2nd May and 3rd May, MoreFM on 4th May.
TV Programmes: What Now (TV2) 1st May, Good Morning (TV1) 5th May, Breakfast Show (TV1) 6th May.
On several of the shows Hayley sung tracks from Paradiso, including on Good Morning:
Whispers in a Dream, Metti Una Sera A Cena and La Califfa.
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Transient Fireworks (うたかた花火, Utakata Hanabi), performed by Supercell, was the fourteenth ending of the Naruto: Shippūden series. It ran from episode 167 to 179 and was replaced with U Can Do It!.
Fui ni agatta hanabi wo futari de miageta toki
Muchuu de miteru kimi no kao wo
Sotto nusumi mita no
Kimi no koto kirai ni naretara ii noni
Kyou mitai na hi niwa kitto
Mata omoidashite shimau yo
Mou wasureyou kimi no koto zenbu
Konna ni mo kanashikute
Doushite deatte shimattan darou
Me wo tojireba
Ima mo kimi ga soko ni iru you de
もう忘れよう 君のこと全部
Rōmaji (Full Version)
Afureru hito de nigiwau hachigatsu matsu no omatsuri
Yukata wo kite geta mo haite karankoron oto o tateru
Fui ni agatta hanabi wo futari de miageta toki
Muchuu de miteru kimi no kao wo
Sotto nusumi mita no
Kimi no koto kirai ni naretara ii noni
Kyou mitai na hi niha kitto
Mata omoidashite shimau yo
Koonna kimochi shiranakya yokatta
Mou nidoto aeru koto mo nai noni
Aitai aitainda
Ima demo omou kimi go ita ano natsu no hi wo
Sukoshi tsukarete futari michibata ni koshikaketara
Tooku kikoeru ohayashi no ne
Hyururira nari hibiku
Yozora ni saita ookina ookina nishiki kamuro
Mou sukoshi de natsu ga owaru
Futto setsunakunnaru
Sakasama no HAATO ga uchi agatteta
Ahaha tte warai atte
Suki da yo tte
KISU wo shita
Mou wasureyou kimi no koto zenbu
Konna ni mo kanashikute
Doushite deatte shimattan darou
Me wo tojireba
Ima mo kimi ga soko ni iru you de
Amai toiki
Binetsu wo obiru watashi ha kimi ni koishita
Sono koe ni sono hitomi ni
Kidukeba toki ha sugi satteku noni
Mada kimi no omokage wo sagashite
Hitori kiri de miageru hanabi ni
Kokoro ga chikuri toshite
Mou sugu tsugi no kisetsu ga
Yatte kuru yo
Kimi to miteta utakata hanabi
Ima demo omou ano natsu no hi wo
The festival at the end of August flooded with people
wearing yukata and geta,*
making sounds of click-clack ring.
As the fireworks suddenly went off, we looked up,
and I stole a glance at your enraptured face.
I wish I could hate you.
But during days like today, I will surely
once again remember these memories.
I wish I never knew these feelings.
Yet even though we cannot meet again,
I want to see you. I want to see you.
Even now, I think of the summer days when you were here.
As we sat and rested on the roadside,
we could hear the sound of the ohayashi* far away,
the fluttering echo.
Giant brocade crowns bloom in the night sky.
As summer ends soon,
I suddenly feel sad.
My upside down heart jumped up
as we both laughed "ahaha."
"I love you."
And we kissed.
I want to forget everything about you.
As it is, I'm' still sad.
Why did I ever meet you?
If I close my eyes,
I can feel like you are there even now.
With a sweet sigh,
I feverishly fell in love with you-
That voice, those eyes-
Even though when I realised it, the time had already passed,
I still search for your face.
As I look up at the fireworks by myself,
my heart prickles in pain.
Soon, the next season
will be here.
The ephemeral fireworks I watched with you-
Even now, I think of that summer day.


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It's been 40 years since Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech." Thousands marched on Washington in remembrance of the historic event.
Tens of thousands of people flooded the Lincoln Memorial and the National Mall on Saturday, the first stop in a week of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s watershed "I Have A Dream" address and the March on Washington.
A chorus of speakers rallied the massive crowd with prayers for peace and calls for justice that were at once testaments to King's historical legacy and nods to contemporary issues, from hotly debated policing tactics to voting rights.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who co-organized Saturday's march with King's son, Martin Luther King III, gave a fiery keynote address that carried out his earlier promise to focus the day's observances on the "issues that have stood in the way" of fulfilling King's goals.
Sharpton, who founded and heads the National Action Network and also hosts a program on MSNBC, aimed squarely at the Supreme Court's decision in June to strike down a key anti-discrimination provision of 1965's Voting Rights Act, which triggered a wave of restrictive voting laws in several states.
Fifty decades after Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, Rev. Al Sharpton reflects on Dr. King's legacy at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
"They are changing laws all over this country," Sharpton said. "Congress needs … to deal with what the Supreme Court has done."
Sharpton called on activists to march for jobs and economic opportunity, criticizing the federal government for "bailing out the banks" and corporations while many African-Americans grapple with poverty.
He later turned his attention to gun violence, saying, "We gotta fight against this recklessness that makes us so insensitive that we shoot each other for no reason."
Sharpton added: "Don't you ever think that Medgar Evers died to give you the right to be a hoodlum or the right to be a thug," referencing the civil rights leader who was assassinated in June 1963, just hours after President John F. Kennedy appeared on national television rallying for civil rights.
King III, who took the stage overlooking the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool around 12:30pm, paid tribute to his father and the forerunners of the modern civil rights movement, but pivoted sharply to a host of contentious issues, including the debates over Florida's so-called Stand Your Ground self-defense statute and New York's so-called Stop and Frisk policing tactic, which some have characterized as racial profiling.
"My father dreamed of a country where his children will not be judged by the color of their skin or the content of their character," King III said, "but Trayvon Martin shows that we are still profiled."
The parents of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin later appeared at the podium alongside Sharpton, pleading for tolerance and social reform.
"We have to fight for our children," said Sybrina Fulton, Martin's mother.
A parade of speakers took the podium over the course of the morning, including U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who recognized the monumental achievements of King's original movement but acknowledged that many of his objectives have not yet been fulfilled.
"Their march is now our march, and it must go on," Holder said.
Watch the full speech as Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the crowd at the 50 anniversary of the March on Washington. "We stand on shoulders of untold millions," he said.
"But for them," Holder added later, referencing King and his allies, "I would not be attorney general of the United States, and Barack Obama would not be president of the United States."
He reiterated earlier criticisms of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Voting Rights Act — a topic that quickly emerged as one of Saturday's focal points.
"This morning, we affirm that struggle must and will go on until every eligible American has a chance to exercise his or her right to vote," said Holder, who on Thursday sued Texas over a strict voter ID law.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Md.) urged activists to advocate for equality and fairness, placing recent social debates in the context of King's vision.
"Many of our people still inhabit islands of poverty, are incapable of finding good jobs, have no voice in our democracy, because they are told they have no valid ID," Hoyer said.
Booker, 44, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, called on young people to carry King's torch.
"Me and my generation cannot now afford to sit back consuming all of our blessings, getting dumb, fat and happy thinking we have achieved our freedoms," Booker said.
House Minority Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, says Dr. Martin Luther King would want people to celebrate his legacy "by acting upon his agenda, by realizing the dream."
U.S. Rep John Lewis (D-Ga.), one of the pillars of King's movement and the youngest speaker at the 1963 march, pressed the crowd to "fight the good fight" for freedom.
He energized spectators with a chant: "You've got to stand up, speak up, speak out, and get in the way! Make some noise!"
President Obama called Lewis, the last surviving speaker from the 1963 march, "a couple days ago," according to a senior administration official, adding that Obama is a "student of history" who thought the congressman would help him understand "the feeling of the moment."
Rhonda Hearns, 50, a physician from Prince George's County, Md., who will attend the march, said matters such as voting rights, equal pay and discrimination show that there are many unresolved issues remaining.
"I feel very honored to be able to attend this commemoration 50 years later, but it also stirs up a lot of emotion because we still have so far to go," Hearns said.
"It's still very important for people to show up and march again," she added. "Just a peaceful demonstration, like what Dr. Martin Luther King would have wanted."
Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1963, was more than a little nervous about the prospect of a big civil rights march coming to the city. That worry extended from the president on down -- a fear that if it went badly, it could derail the efforts to pass the nation's most important civil rights law.
Civil rights organizations, organized labor, the LGBT community and women's rights groups were all richly represented in the gathering.
Among the organizations participating in the march Saturday are: National Urban League, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, American Federation of Teachers, Human Rights Campaign, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Black Justice Coalition, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Service Employees International Union.
Unemployment, health care and education are issues that brought Yvette Young to the march. The 52-year-old Virginia resident and vice president at the Urban League of Hampton Roads hopes her daughter, 14, will have a better life than she did.
"My life hasn't been so bad, but I grew up in the 60s," Young said, adding that she had to witness a lot of discrimination. "I hope for a much better road for her," she added.
The organization is convening the event along with a range of civic, labor and business sponsors, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Sharpton and King III were joined Saturday by relatives of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy who was abducted, beaten and shot in the head in 1955 in Mississippi after he was accused of flirting with a white woman, organizers said in a press release.
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Participants in the March on Washington fill the space between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument on Aug. 28, 1963.
The so-called "Realize the Dream" march, which will cut a symbolic half-mile path from the Lincoln Memorial to the King Memorial, will also feature remarks from Attorney General Eric Holder, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., according to the release.
The march and rally will be followed by the "Let Freedom Ring" commemoration and call to action on Wednesday — marking exactly 50 years since King drew more than 200,000 to the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his groundbreaking "I Have A Dream" speech.
King's address is widely credited with spurring the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
Young said the events of 1963 carried a deep meaning for her.
"I always wished that I could've been a part of it," she said. "Tomorrow gives me a chance to be a part of it. It's 50 years later, but I'll be there."
Speakers at the Wednesday observance will include President Barack Obama and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, according to the event's website.
Obama's speech will center on the progress that has been made since the 1963 march as well as his vision for the future, according to a senior administration official.
Kristen Welker and Grace Bello of NBC News, as well as The Associated Press, contributed to this report.
NBC chief education correspondent Rehema Ellis talks to Cincinnati children aged 12 to 16 about the impact of Dr. Martin Luther King's historic "I have a dream" speech. "We can all play together, drink the same water, and go to the same water fountain," says one, while another says he would thank Dr. King "because I appreciate all the things he has done for us."
This story was originally published on Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:13 AM EDT


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BlackBerry 10 Release Will Likely Slip Into March
Research In Motion's struggle to get its new BlackBerry 10 operating system and the devices that will run it has been a long and difficult one, fraught with disappointment. After twice delaying the OS, the company finally promised to deliver it in the first quarter of 2013. And while the company is still on track to make good on that pledge, it's looking more and more like BB10 will ship at the tail end of Q1 2013, not the beginning, as many had hoped.
In other words, don't expect RIM's new make-or-break OS until March 2013.
"Management has been silent as to the timing of the launch within CQ1," Jefferies analyst Peter Misek said Tuesday. "But we believe plans for a January launch have now been pushed back until March, which means BB10 will miss RIM's February quarter."
Here at AllThingsD, we've been hearing similar chatter, with sources familiar with RIM's plans indicating that a January launch is, in the words of one, "probably too optimistic." This person also reiterated that the company is intent on releasing polished products. It's working quickly, but it isn't going to rush its new handset portfolio to market. Given its deteriorating market position, RIM needs an exceptional hit. And that's what it's shooting for.
For its part, RIM says all is well. "There's lots of rumors and speculation out there. I think that demonstrates lots of interest in BlackBerry 10," a RIM spokeswoman told AllThingsD. "As Thorsten mentioned during BlackBerry Jam Americas, we continue to be on track for our calendar Q1 target."
So RIM will continue to face challenging conditions in the current quarter, with the holidays being particularly tough. But even the skeptical Misek sees a chance of things beginning to turn around next year, after BB10 ships — particularly if RIM licenses the OS to others. "We still believe a third ecosystem will emerge, but the probability of BB10 filling the role is wholly dependent on whether RIM can convince Samsung, Huawei, and ZTE to license," Misek said. "We think Samsung and some other Asian OEMs might be interested, but we think they see better terms and entry points months from now."


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Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green Welcome a Baby Boy!
Oct 2012
Congratulations to the Fox-Green family, which recently welcomed a baby boy. Actress Megan Fox wrote on her Facebook page Wednesday:
"We have been very lucky to have had a peaceful few weeks at home, but I would like to release this myself before others do. I gave birth to our son Noah Shannon Green on September 27th. He is healthy, happy, and perfect."
Megan and husband, actor Brian Austin Green, started dating in 2004 and have been married since 2010. They announced Megan's pregnancy in June. Brian has a ten-year-old son, Kassius, from a previous relationship.
"We are humbled to have the opportunity to call ourselves the parents of this beautiful soul and I am forever grateful to God for allowing me to know this kind of boundless, immaculate love," Megan wrote.
Who are your favorite celebrity parents? How did you announce your new baby to friends and family?


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Survey: Many in Muslim World Want Shariah as Law of Land.
Large majorities in the Muslim world want the Islamic legal and moral code of Shariah as the official law in their countries, but they disagree on what it includes and who should be subject to it, an extensive new survey says.
Over three-quarters of Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia want Shariah courts to decide family law issues such as divorce and property disputes, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life said on Tuesday.
Views on punishments such as chopping off thieves' hands or decreeing death for apostates is more evenly divided in much of the Islamic world, although more than three-quarters of Muslims in South Asia say they are justified.
Those punishments have helped make Shariah controversial in some non-Islamic countries, where some critics say radical Muslims want to impose it on Western societies, but the survey shows views in Muslim countries are far from monolithic.
"Muslims are not equally comfortable with all aspects of Shariah," said the study by the Washington-based Pew Forum. "Most do not believe it should be applied to non-Muslims."
Unlike codified Western law, Shariah is a loosely defined set of moral and legal guidelines based on the Koran, the sayings of Prophet Muhammad (hadith) and Muslim traditions. Its rules and advice cover everything from prayers to personal hygiene.
More than four-fifths of the 38,000 Muslims interviewed in 39 countries said non-Muslims in their countries could practice their faith freely and that this was good.
This view was strongest in South Asia, where 97 percent of Bangladeshis and 96 percent of Pakistanis agreed, while the lowest Middle Eastern result was 77 percent in Egypt.
The survey polled only Muslims and not minorities. In several Muslim countries, embattled Christian minorities say they cannot practice their faith freely and are, in fact, subject to discrimination and physical attacks.
The survey produced mixed results on questions relating to the relationship between politics and Islam.
Democracy wins slight majorities in key Middle Eastern states — 54 percent in Iraq, 55 percent in Egypt — and falls to 29 percent in Pakistan. By contrast, it stands at 81 percent in Lebanon, 75 percent in Tunisia, and 70 percent in Bangladesh.
In most countries surveyed, Muslims were more worried about Islamist extremism than any other form of religious violence.
Suicide bombing was mostly rejected, although it won 40 percent support in the Palestinian territories, 39 percent in Afghanistan, 29 percent in Eygpt and 26 percent in Bangladesh.
Three-quarters say abortion is morally wrong and 80 percent or more rejected homosexuality and sex outside of marriage.
Views on whether women should decide themselves if they should wear a headscarf vary greatly, from 89 percent in Tunisia and 79 percent in Indonesia saying yes, and 45 percent in Iraq and 30 percent in Afghanistan saying no.
Majorities from 74 percent in Lebanon to 96 percent in Malaysia said wives should always obey their husbands.
Only a minority saw Sunni-Shi'ite tensions as a very big problem, ranging from 38 percent in Lebanon and 34 percent in Pakistan to 23 percent in Iraq and 14 percent in Turkey.
Conflict with other religions loomed larger, with 68 percent in Lebanon saying it was a big problem, 65 percent in Tunisia, 60 percent in Nigeria and 57 percent in Pakistan.
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A Mark of Performance Perfection
Borne from an unyielding desire to achieve performance perfection, the F Marque is inspired by the famed Fuji Speedway, the home of Lexus performance vehicle development.
The story of F begins in 2008 with the launch of the IS F V8 sedan, followed by the LFA supercar in 2011 - the pinnacle of Lexus' performance-car history - and the RC F and GS F in 2015 and 2016.
With every model, pure driving pleasure has been reimagined to create a truly iconic performance brand.
Today, the F symbol that is seen on every vehicle in the Lexus F Sport range is a mark of driving perfection and performance.
10 years of f
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the F Marque, the acclaimed V8-powered RC F coupe and GS F sedan have been re-released, reflecting the very best of the F Sport range. Infused with the DNA of the original LFA supercar, these new Limited Edition models feature uniquely crafted interiors, stunning exterior accents and exhilarating performance features.
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As Per NEW Tradation of CBR to Avoid Lag Time, We are Starting a New 2019 Thread!
So As always Lets Go with Tradation of Honoring the Open Pages of 2018 Thread!
Opening Image Brought By Veteran Wanda Fan Wiccan! =)
An Orignal Page Open from Original Thread that was brought to 2018 Page by another Veteran Wanda Fan Leokearon! =)
And There Came a Day Unlike Any Other, when The Avenger: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Recruited 2 New Members to their Ranks, The 1st 2 Mutants to Join the One Day to become Legendary Team.
One of them was a Young Lady that went by the Name of:
Wanda Maximoff,
The Scarlet Witch
"Wanda Maximoff was a Women Born of Destiny and Hardship, Powers of both of the Physical and Mystical Worlds. Born Near the Mystical Wundagore Mountain, part of a Band of Gypsys with her Twin Brother Pietro and a life of Poverty. Both Born as Mutants, The Twins where almost killed by a mob when Magento saved them and then the Twins joined Magneto's Brotherhood, but only until their depth was paid to him. Once Free, they moved to the U.S., putting their powers for the use of Good as the 1st Mutant Members of the World Famous Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!
In Time, Wanda become one of the Most Dedicated and Loved members of the Avengers. Fighting along side the worlds Greatest Heroes, Wandas Powers and Will lead to Victories over Threats like Ultron, Kang, Loki, Enchantress, The Serpent Crown, Thanos, Onslaught, Morgan Le Fey, The Red Zone Plague and Many More! Wanda would go on to Marry the Synthetic Human Vision and start a family, only to lose them a some time later.
Wanda would also face more tragedy when it was believed she lost control, which lead to the Event stories of Avengers: Dissembles and House of M. However, since then, it was revealed Wanda was under the manipulation of Dr. Doom and Possessed by a Cosmic Entity known as The Life Force. This was found out by her Newly Resurrected Children, Wiccan and Speed of the Young Avengers!
Since Her Return, Wanda has Pledge to make the World better for Mutants, being a Critical part in both the Childrens Crusade Arc, Avengers vs. X-Men and now as a Founding-Member of the Unity Team in the Uncanny Avengers, Key Member of the Avengers NO SURRENDERS Team and Quicksilver NO SURRENDER Journey of 2018, Scarlet Witch Solo Adventure by James Robinson and New Member of the Avengers No Road Home Team of 2019!"
Wanda Maximoff Embodies the Ideals of Hardship, Will
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Welcome All To The Scarlet Witch Appreciation Thread III ~ 2019!!!


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I'm one of those people who likes a happy ending, as long as I feel like the story has earned it. But I hate it when creators tack a nice ending onto a story just to make audiences feel good. What science fiction and fantasy stories do you think have the most believable happy endings? Yes, there will be spoilers.
Tell us what stories have realistic happy endings, or at least ones that don't feel slapped on at the last minute. Remember, a happy ending can be relative. Sometimes just surviving an ordeal is a happy thing, even if you don't get a medal from the princess for it. Books, comics, movies, TV, games — anything goes! Just give us a picture, a video, or a link to spice things up!


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Playing with cousins!
The cousins, minus 3 of them!
My brothers and the spouses!
Doesn't he clean up nice!
My big 4 year old!!
Typical day in the life of Carson!
The best family picture we got at the beach!
The sexy dads!
The sexy Mommas!
Good thing he has his floaties on in that deep water!
A quiet dinner at the Gaylord!
Lookin' good for 10 years:-)
My favorite picture of the summer!
Not sure what this is?
Just playing in the sprinkler!
Oh me oh my, where do I begin? It's been forever since I've been motivated to update this blog! I noticed on my front page of the blog that I've posted something 192 times! I've been blogging since Hayden was born in 2005 and I feel like I've been having a bit of a brain fart! With an almost 4 year old and one nearing 2, you'd think I'd have tons to blog about! So where do I begin? I'll start in April/May with Matt being involved in his 5th MS 150. He wanted to raise a lot of money this year and set his goals high! $5,000 was his goal. With the help of Facebook and a casino party fundraiser, he raised around $5500! We didn't even send out fundraising letters this year! Matt wanted to think of a unique fundraiser this year and with the help of my dear friend Kimberly, we hired a casino company, dressed in our fanciest get ups and raised a lot of money! After the MS 150, we started looking forward to our annual Galveston trip with friends. This year was a blast! Yes, even with 10 adults and 9 kids under 5, we survived! In June, Matt and I celebrated 10 years of marriage at the Gaylord while the kids were at Mimi and Pawpaw camp with the cousins. Then the rest of the summer has been spent trying to stay cool, going to the pool and all that jazz. I start teacher inservice on Wednesday and Thursday, have meet the teacher on Thursday night and school starts on the 1st. Carson is in a class this year instead of the teacher's infant room and he's so excited about having a back pack, lunch box, and nap mat! Hayden will be in the big 4 year old class and he's excited that his bud Noah will be in his class. I'm teaching the oldest 13 kids in the school and I've been getting stuff together for that. Hayden also turns 4 on Friday so we are having the big Chuck E Cheese party that they all have to have! So, there's the past 4 months in a small nut shell. On to a ton of pictures.......
Monday, August 24, 2009
Summer '09
Playing with cousins!
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Bueller? Bueller??
Ok, I do still stalk blogs even though I'm obsessed with Facebook. Before I do a marathon post....is anyone out there still dropping by the Noe Wonder blog? Give me a shout if you are. If I get zero comments, back to FB I go:-)
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
We will be on vacation in 3 weeks...from today!! I'm so excited. We need a vacation, but doesn't everyone? Hayden is really excited to go to the beach and he can swim this year too. I think Carson will have a blast this year. He was only 7 months old last year when we went! So here's some pictures of last year's vacation, at the same place, and here's to summer vacation. Woo Hoo!!!!
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
He's Still the Man!!
Even though the MS 150 was cut to 86 miles this year, he's still the man! For the first time ever, the MS Society canceled day 2 of the race b/c severe weather was forecasted for Sunday. I don't think it rained a drop on Sunday!! Matt did, however, give a great, quick speech at the award dinner Friday night and ride 86 miles in 5 hours on Saturday!! In years past, I've watched that ride and always thought "man, all these people riding for folks they don't even know, like Matt's mom!" This year I looked at 3,000 strangers and thought "wow, they are doing this for ME and they don't even know who I am!!" That's a pretty good feeling that there are that many people out there who will raise thousands of dollars for MS research and THEN go out and ride miles and miles on a bike! One of my favorite thing about the MS 150 is Matt's team he rides with. Our friend Alyce was diagnosed with MS about 8 years ago and she and her husband decided to do the MS 150 with about 6 friends. They called their team the Feisty Devils. Their team now has about 300 people and have raised 1.2 million dollars!! Here's to my amazing husband and all the people out there I don't even know. Thank you!! And here's to the Feisty Devils....Riding Like Hell to Fight MS!!
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Monday, April 20, 2009
What a man!
150 miles....done!
Finishing day two at Sundance Square
Matt and his mom Valorie
Our family at the end of day one
Half way there!
I have a husband who is more amazing than most people will ever know! I've always said that if he met you one time and your car broke down an hour away and you called, he'd go get you!
We met in 1996 at ACU because we moved in next to each other at UP (For you ACU folks). The rest is history! I remember meeting his parents for the first time and Matt later telling me that his mom had MS. I honestly had no idea what that was. I could tell that he worried about her but that's still all I really knew.
Once we married and moved to the metroplex, we were eating at Subway one day and we saw a flyer for something called the MS150. It was a 150 mile, two day bike ride that raised money for the MS Society. He said "I can do that!" So he bought a used bike, joined a team called the Feisty Devils and began raising money. His first year he raised enough money to be in the "100 Club" which means he was in the top 100 fundraisers that year! The night before the ride, all the teams have a pasta party aka carb load dinner. The team captains, Doug and Alyce (she's the founder of the team. She was diagnosed with MS about 8 years ago) asked Matt if he'd like to give a speech about why he rides. Well, he got up there and gave the most heart felt, tear jerking speech about his mom. People came up to him the day of the race introducing themselves and telling him they heard about his speech. It was almost like I was married to a celebrity:-)
Well, he's since then participated in 4 MS 150's, given even more speeches about his mom, and raised about $6,000. People know his name at that event b/c of his passion for finding a cure for MS....and there are 3,000 riders!
The speech is going to change quite a bit this year b/c one week after last year's MS150, I was diagnosed with MS! He has told me that in years past, he's given a tear jerker speech but this year he's pissed! I love that!!
The MS150 is May 2-3 and it's not too late to donate since donations are not due until June 3rd. If you would like donate any amount, please click here. His goal for fundraising this year is $5,000. He's so ready to ride for his mom AND wife. I'm so proud of him and the support he gives me. You have no idea what he does for me! This isn't the path I would've chosen for myself at the age of 32, but I couldn't think of a better man to go down it with me!! Be thinking of my man next weekend!
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Monday, April 13, 2009
If you're still reading.....
I haven't updated this blog since March 7th!! I think since I've been blogging since Aug '05, I'm finding it hard to motivate myself to update. And there's also that thing called Facebook! I do have some new pictures though so what better time to update, right? We went to the Grapevine Botanical Gardens with some friends on Friday and I actually got some pretty decent pictures! Candid shots, not staged are the name of the game at this phase in the boys life! Matt also gave Carson a little haircut at home and he looks really cute! And finally, some Easter pictures. It rained so the Easter bunny just left their baskets on the front porch and we had an indoor egg hunt with some friends. Ok, so there's my monthly update, if you're still checking this blog:-)
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This view of Tolbachik Volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula was captured in infrared and visible light on Dec. 1 by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA's Earth Observing 1 satellite. The infrared readings in red highlight hot lava flows from the volcano.
Smoke and lava issue forth from Russia's Tolbachik Volcano in a pair of pictures from NASA's Earth Observing 1 satellite. What a difference in the perspectives!
The visible-light view from EO-1's Advanced Land Imager, captured on Dec. 1, shows billows of ash and steam, with a stream of dark lava cutting across the landscape.
In contrast, the infrared-plus-visible view reveals a nightmarish red river, running through a bilious green landscape. This version of the scene gets its eerie look from the false colors used to represent different wavelengths in the infrared part of the spectrum. The blood-red shade reflects the high surface temperatures of the lava, while the shades of green signify colder surroundings on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
A similar infrared-plus-visible image comes from the ASTER instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite. The ASTER image, our third view of Tolbachik's hell, combines a picture of the volcano from July 19 with fresh infrared data from Dec. 3 showing the lava flow.
The outburst marked Tolbachik's return to active status after 36 years of dormancy. The lava flows reportedly destroyed two research camps and forced school closures in nearby villages. Some experts worry that Tolbachik could unleash an eruption as powerful as Eyjafjallajökull's Icelandic blast, which disrupted trans-Atlantic air traffic for weeks back in 2010.
In the past few days, Russian authorities have downgraded Tolbachik's alert status from red to orange. Nevertheless, the mountain bears watching: Denison University volcanologist Erik Klemetti is monitoring the situation on his Eruptions blog.
The visible-light view from NASA's EO-1 satellite shows Tolbachik's lava flow as a river of darkness cutting through the snowy scene.
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A false-color view from the ASTER imager on NASA's Terra satellite shows the Tolbachik Volcano and its surroundings in infrared and visible wavelengths. A scene from July 19 provides the background, with vegetation in red, older lava flows in dark gray and snow in white. A nighttime thermal infrared image, acquired Dec. 3, has been overlaid on the earlier image and highlights the hot lava flows in bright yellow.
More vistas from space:
- 2012 Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar
- Day 1: A fantastic Chinese fan
- Day 2: Satellite shows a Grander Canyon
- Day 3: Typhoon stirs awe — and alarm
- Day 4: Glittering nighttime view of Riyadh
- Day 5: Night lights shine on 'Black Marble'
- Day 6: Holy sites seen at night
- Day 7: Blue Marble still leaves its mark
- 2011 Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar
- 2010 Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar
- The Atlantic: Hubble Advent Calendar
- Zooniverse Advent Calendar
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Did Senate Republicans win a political victory with their filibuster (though they've declined to call it that) of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel? Or will it prove to be a Pyrrhic one?
On the one hand, Republicans are again putting the White House on notice that, despite their minority status, they still have the power to block pretty much any part of President Obama's agenda – including even his cabinet nominees – and that Democrats are going to have to work with them, if they want to get anything done.
On the other hand, Republicans have opened themselves up to charges of taking "obstruction" to new heights, with an unprecedented filibuster of a cabinet nominee, who happens to be a decorated Vietnam veteran and a Republican. Republicans have done this, Democrats will argue, because they view Mr. Hagel as a traitor to his party for turning against the Iraq War (an issue on which the majority of Americans side with Hagel, according to polls).
More to the point, this may prove to be just the incentive Democrats need when it comes to passing meaningful filibuster reform – as opposed to the watered-down measure passed last month – in order to put more constraints on the power of the minority.
In hindsight, it's telling that Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) decided to go ahead with the cloture vote, knowing he probably didn't have the 60 votes needed to end debate and proceed to an up-or-down vote on Hagel's nomination. Reid could have just delayed the matter, while Democrats tried to get one more Republican to agree to cloture. But instead he forced the other side to go through with their filibuster threat.
As Sen. John Cornyn (R) of Texas theorized later: "The White House and the majority leader were determined to have this vote in order to try to get a story in the newspaper, one that misrepresents the nature of the objection on [the Republican] side."
Indeed, Senator Reid immediately charged those Republicans blocking Hagel's nomination with jeopardizing the nation's security in order to please their base. "Watching Republicans with otherwise distinguished records on national security place their desire to please the tea party ahead of doing the right thing for our troops is one of the saddest spectacles I have witnessed in my 27 years in the Senate," Reid said on the floor Thursday night.
But if Democrats do succeed in, as Senator Cornyn put it, "misrepresent[ing] the nature of the objection," that will also be because Republicans haven't put forward anything close to a unified, coherent argument as to why they're blocking Hagel's nomination.
For some, like South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, it isn't about Hagel at all, but an attempt to get more information from the White House on the terror attack in Benghazi. For others, like Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, it's about demanding more financial disclosure from Hagel.
For still others, it seems more like a personal vendetta. Arizona Sen. John McCain's much-replayed comments to Fox News Thursday almost certainly won't be helpful to the Republican cause. "There's a lot of ill will towards Senator Hagel because when he was a Republican, he attacked President Bush mercilessly," McCain told host Neil Cavuto. "At one point, he said [Bush] was the worst president since Herbert Hoover, said that the surge was the worst blunder since the Vietnam War, which is nonsense – and he was very anti his own party and people. People don't forget that."
The fact that enough Republicans have already publicly said they'll vote in favor of cloture when the Senate reconvenes, thereby allowing Hagel to be confirmed – since there are already more than 50 senators in the "yea" column – makes Thursday's filibuster seem even more petty and political. The only saving grace for the GOP is that this fight is still an inside-the-Beltway issue that the majority of voters aren't likely to be following all that closely. (A Quinnipiac poll from last week found that more than two-thirds of Americans "haven't heard enough" about Hagel to have either a favorable or unfavorable opinion of him.)
Given everything else White House officials are focused on these days, they may choose to just let the matter quietly resolve itself 10 days from now. But if they decide to go on offense – in an effort, perhaps, to salvage Hagel's reputation – it's not hard to see how they could turn this matter against Republicans.


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August 2nd, 2011
New member of proven high-speed camera family offers more flexibility, optional CoaXPress or Camera Link interfaces available
Eindhoven, the Netherlands, August 2, 2011. Adimec (http://www.adimec.com/), a world leader in application-specific, leading-edge industrial camera solutions, today introduced the QUARTZ Q-2A340 area scan camera, extending its popular line of Quartz cameras based on high-performance CMOS sensors from CMOSIS. This camera combines proven global shutter CMOS technology with the proprietary Adimec True Accurate Imaging® approach that results in CCD-like image quality with unmatched speed. The 2 megapixel Q-2A340 transmits up to 340 frames per second (FPS) at a 2048 x 1088 resolution with 10 bits per pixel over either a standard 10 tap Camera Link interface or two standard coaxial cables using the dual CoaXPress version.
"Systems developers have a range of needs and a single camera cannot meet all requirements. We continue to build on the proven foundation of our QUARTZ family and the use of our True Accurate Imaging approach to provide an optimal combination of speed and quality. This new addition to the product line offers another way to take advantage of the Adimec innovations in CMOS-based cameras, with a flexible and cost-effective solution for a wide spectrum of vision applications," said Marcel Dijkema, strategic product manager at Adimec.
As with other members of the QUARTZ family, the new camera offers a range of quality-enhancing features. Advanced Flat Field Correction (FFC) capabilities, even in color and with field calibration support, deliver better image uniformity. The camera delivers signal-to-noise improvements of up to 12 dB shot noise improvement compared to off-the-shelf CMOS sensor performance. It also offers an HDR mode for large scene dynamic capture capabilities.
The QUARTZ Q-2A340 uses True Accurate Imaging to manage inherent sensor imperfections and maximize image uniformity, image reproducibility, blemish corrections and signal to noise performance. True Accurate Imaging improves the quality of images to provide accurate registration of the smallest details.
The QUARTZ Q-2A340 camera is available in monochrome or color models, and offers optional near infrared (NIR) capabilities. Customization of the camera is supported to optimally fit the application needs.
About Adimec
Adimec specializes in the development and manufacturing of high-performance cameras that meet the application-specific requirements of key market segments, including machine vision, medical imaging, and outdoor imaging. Founded in 1992, the company partners with major OEMs around the world to facilitate the creation of industry-leading cameras. Its products meet a wide range of performance, size, cost, interface and application requirements and its Adimec True Accurate Imaging® technology provides new levels of precision and accuracy to vision systems. Adimec has offices around the world focused on creating customer value and satisfaction through local, personalized support.
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