text:
Digital Production
The Gnomon Workshop offers the most comprehensive set of Digital Production tutorials anywhere. The broad scope of the tutorials contained in this section range from foundational understanding of the software tools all the way to the professional application of these tools and concepts used by artists working in the film and game industries.
Entertainment Design
The Gnomon Workshop is widely regarded as the global leader in training tutorials for the designer working in the entertainment industry. With tutorials ranging from foundational drawing and design concepts to process tutorials from some of the top concept and character designers in the world, there is surely something here to inspire.
As the tattoo industry has seen an explosion in popularity over the last few years, the need training in this field has also grown. In these video tutorials, some of the top tattoo artists in the world share their techniques and their take on the art of tattoo. The tutorials range from absolute beginner level to advanced color and blending techniques used by some of the world's best.
The Gnomon Workshop offers professional training on most of the software applications used in today's digital pipelines. There are foundational titles to introduce users to the software and tools, as well as advanced production titles that discuss application tools and processes vital to the production of digital assets and media.
Professional Training for Artists
The Gnomon Workshop seeks out the most highly-regarded traditional and digital artists and technicians currently working in the entertainment and design industries. Our instructors have shared their practices working at such top studios as Pixar, ILM, Blizzard, and many more.Instructor GalleriesInstructor Interviews
Sebastien Larroude, a.k.a. Rainart, graduated from the Superior School of Photography and Multimedia (E.T.P.A) in France, where he studied audio-visual, fine art and digital techniques. With over ten years of experience in the industry, Sebastien has built a strong reputation as a lighting artist, concept artist and matte painter. He has been invited to speak at various events and workshops including ADAPT. Sebastien currently works as a senior concept artist on the game DeusEX III at Eidos Montreal and has participated in the development of video games such as Myst IV: Revelation, Assassin's Creed, WET and Indiana Jones as well as many commercial projects with various advertising agencies in France and the United States. Along with his friends David Levy (Vyle), Thierry Doizon (Barontieri), Nicolas Ferrand (Viag) and Joel Dos Reis Viegas (Feerik), he recently started STEAMBOT Studios, a collective of creative artists whose goal is to inspire and push the boundaries of concept art, matte painting and digital art.
"Sebastien is one of the few artists who can bridge concept art and matte painting. In this tutorial we are very fortunate to see all the steps of Sebastien's unique working pipeline. It is wonderful to see the work of someone who is equally comfortable with creative speed painting as well as more technical 3D work and compositing."
Try a Class on Campus
Gnomon specializes in computer graphics education for careers in the entertainment industry.


text:
Belgium Waffle e-liquid
$ 9.99
Belgium Waffle e-liquid
Belgium Waffle flavor feature a delectable blend of cinnamon, thick bread and maple syrup a must try for every vapor-er!
- 30 mL, 60 mL & 120 mL Bottles with Child Resistant Cap
- 50VG/50PG, 70VG/30PG or MAX VG available
- Various Nicotine Levels: 0 mg, 1.5 mg, 3 mg, 4.5 mg, 6 mg, 12 mg, 18 mg, & 24 mg available in all vape flavors
- Strong flavor with made in the USA 20% flavor concentrate used in all flavors to provide great taste.
- All our best e juice are manufactured in a FDA compliant HEPA filtration room by our supplier in the USA.
- Our supplier uses 1000 mg pure nicotine made in the USA to cut down to required level for fresh and pure mixtures.
- Propylene Glycol, Vegetable Glycerin, Nicotine and Flavoring concentrates are all of premium quality and the only ingredients in our eliquid.
This product contains nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive chemical
- Eliquid contains nicotine (unless 0mg is ordered). Nicotine is addictive and it should not be used by anyone under 18 years old, pregnant women or nursing women.
- Eliquid does contains propylene glycol. Those who are allergic to propylene glycol or with other medical conditions should consult a physician prior to use.
- If large amounts are swallowed or excessive or prolonged skin contact please seek medical attention!
- Keep out of reach of children and pets!
- Store in a cool dry place, out of direct sunlight.
- Do not drink or swallow eliquid!
- Use at your own risk!

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Rep. Joe Sestak handily defeated Sen. Arlen Specter and ended his three-decade career in last night's Pennsylvania Democratic senate primary. Sestak is a former naval admiral and very strong on progressive and LGBT issues. Specter switched parties last year and had strong support from state and national Party leaders.
The switch didn't fool many Democratic voters, reports NBC10.
Sestak, a two-time Congressman who spent 31 years in the Navy before running for U.S. House, will now face off against GOP candidate Pat Toomey in November. Specter switched to the Democratic side of the aisle last year after casting the critical vote in the Recovery Act. But, many believed he switched parties because he would have lost a Republican primary against Pat Toomey. But even before Tuesday's vote, it seemed Specter was done anyway. In the days leading up to Tuesday's vote, Specters biggest supporters -- President Obama and Vice President Biden—didn't come out to stump for the venerable pol. Obama avoided Pa. altogether in recent days, staying away from the Keystone State even while he spoke in nearby Ohio.
With 99-percent of precincts reporting, Sestak received 562, 037 votes, or 54 percent; Specter received 479, 934 votes, accounting for 46 percent. The race was marred by low voter turnout likely caused by rainy weather and voter apathy. Specter amazingly only carried three of the commonwealth's 67 counties—Philadelphia, Dauphin and Lackawanna.
"For Democrats, the case against Specter was encapsulated by an ad that showed Specter being praised by George W. Bush in 2004," reports CBS News. "And showing Specter saying his party switch would enable him to win re-election. Those images, coupled with a devastating tag line 'Specter changed parties to save one job -- his, not yours,' said it all.
As moderate Republican, Specter often voted with Democrats on social issues. Economic issues not so much. Only one day after "switching" parties, Specter joined his "former" GOP colleagues to vote en masse against President Obama's budget. As a Republican, Specter supported the Employee Free Choice Act—the key legislative initiative for organized labor—but switched to be competitive in the Republican primary and retained that opposition as a "Democrat." Specter was one of the three extra GOP votes on the stimulus, fwiw.
TIME's Joe Klein wrote a devastating obituary to Specter's career last week called the "Price of Opportunism." It's worth the read.
Specter was decent on LGBT issues. The Pennsylvania senator had a 70 percent rating (PDF) from the Human Rights Campaign for the 110th Congress. Specter was one of the original Senate co-sponsors of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and co-sponsored the hate crimes bill. As a Republican, Specter opposed repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Specter immediately switched these positions in the Democratic primary.
On the other hand: Sestak has been a reliable progressive and pro-LGBT vote. The former naval admiral has been one of the leading voices opposing DADT. Sestak participated in a live chat at Pam's House Blend and said: "More than anything, I learned in my military career is that everyone is created equal and I believe God believes that." The congressman's campaign website has a whole page devoted to his LGBT positions—co-sponsors all of our legislative agenda, such as ENDA, Domestic Partnership Benefits Obligations Act (DPBO), hate crimes and repealing DOMA.
Meanwhile: Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln was forced into a June run-off against Lt. Gov Bill Halter. Lincoln has been a reliable vote against health care, labor unions and LGBT issues. Last week the new SEIU president, out lesbian labor activist Mary Kay Henry, warned her union would withhold ALL support (cash and volunteers) from Lincoln if she wins the primary. Good.
A very good night for the "Democratic" wing of the Democratic Party.


text:
I have had success with replacing the micro switches and servo motor with worm gear & which fail, but usually most just want the lock disabled & so it can't fail again?
What's the point of locking the steering if the car can't be started anyway on an old car, no one wants to steal this POS anyway?
Lots of reports of the lock not unlocking in cold weather and people pissed off?
Example not endorsed......


text:
Fighting prescription drug abuse among wounded soldiers uneven, report says
- The Pentagon should make sure close monitoring of drug use is uniform
- A thousand drug overdoses reported in one year.
- Military needs to be able to take back unused pills to avoid abuse.
Even after a dozen years of war, top Pentagon health officials have yet to impose uniform standards on fighting prescription medication abuse among troops wounded in combat, according to a Defense Department inspector general's report issued Friday.
The result is a patchwork of efforts among military branches, with some of them tougher than others in making sure that a recovering service member isn't abusing prescription pain pills or psycho-tropic medications, the report said.
Investigators found, for example, that the Army has an aggressive policy to guard against wounded troops "doctor shopping" and using the same prescription to obtain more pills than they are prescribed, potentially for abuse. The Army threshold for closely monitoring a soldier's prescription practices is when he or she is receiving four drugs, including one that is a controlled substance.
The Navy also provides the same scrutiny, but at some locations the threshold is only if a sailor or Marine is receiving five controlled substances.
"Medication management polices, especially for the high-risk patient population of wounded warriors, need to be standardized," the report said.
Dr. Jonathan Woodson, the Pentagon's top medical officer, said he agreed with the report's findings. Corrective steps are being taken, according to responses cited in the report.
The inspector general report is the second review in two days critical of Pentagon healthcare practices. A study issued Thursday by the Institute of Medicine complained that dozens of programs have been launched across the military during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan aimed at preventing mental illness, but there is little evidence that any work.
The inspector general report issued Friday noted that in 2010 -- the latest data cited -- nearly a thousand troops were hospitalized for drug overdoses. A Pentagon health survey of troops conducted the next year found that one in four use pain medication.
The IG report focused on a potential drug abuse among patients who are supposed to receive the most focused care in so-called Wounded Warrior units. Dozens of overdose deaths have occurred in these units during the war years.
The report also urges the Pentagon to be more aggressive in seeking federal approval for allowing pharmacies to take back unused medication from troops.
Currently, these "take-back" programs are conducted only twice a year at military installations under the legally required auspices of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.
The inspector general said the Pentagon should speed efforts to obtain DEA authority to conduct take-back programs routinely at military pharmacies.
"Wounded warriors did not have a reliable, safe, accessible and accountable method to dispose of medications that were no longer needed for treatment," the report said.


text:
Afghanistan female parliamentarian Fariba Ahmadi Kakar kidnapped by Taliban, officials say
KABUL, Afghanistan A female member of Afghanistan's parliament has been kidnapped by the Taliban in eastern Ghazni province and is being held in exchange for four insurgents detained by the government, provincial officials said Thursday.
Amanullah Kamrani and Hamida Gulistani, both members of the Ghazni provincial council, confirmed that Fariba Ahmadi Kakar was kidnapped last Saturday while driving from Kabul to the southern province of Kandahar.
The government has refused to comment on the kidnapping or even confirm it has happened. The governor's office in Ghazni city said it would not comment on the case.
The council members said Kakar was taken on the outskirts of Ghazni city as she drove to her Kandahar constituency to celebrate the Eid holyday that marks the end of Ramadan.
- 3 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan
- Afghan graveyard bomb kills 14 women and kids
- Drones a significant topic as Kerry meets Pakistani leaders
They said the Taliban later released her three children and a driver but were holding Kakar to exchange her for four insurgent commanders. They did not know who the four were.
Kakar is one of 69 female deputies in the 249-seat lower house of parliament.
The main highway linking Kabul to southern Kandahar has been the focus of insurgent attacks in recent months as the Taliban try to retake territory following the handover of security from foreign forces to the Afghan army and police.
Two stretches of the highway in Ghazni and in Wardak provinces, next to Kabul, have been particularly hard hit. Besides attacking coalition and government convoys, the insurgents have also been kidnapping people they think work for the administration or foreign forces. Those people are usually shot or held for ransom.
Last week, the bodies of eight Afghans abducted from a bus were found with gunshots to their heads on the side of the highway in Ghazni.
The Taliban have said government employees, Afghan troops and those who work for the NATO-led international coalition are legitimate targets.
Afghan civilian casualties have spiked this year as the Taliban stepped up their campaign of violence.
Insurgents in Ghazni last week also ambushed the convoy of a female Afghan senator, seriously wounding her in the attack and killing her 8-year-old daughter and a bodyguard, officials said.
Senator Rouh Gul Khirzad's husband, son and another daughter were also wounded in the attack in the Muqur district of Ghazni. She was traveling from Kabul with her family to their home province of Nimroz for the Eid.
Khirzad was elected to Afghanistan's 102-member upper house in late 2010. She is the head of defense and internal security commission.
The lower house is made up of 245 members.
The upper house has a regulatory function, approving laws generated by the lower house. After upper house approval, the laws need the endorsement of the president.


text:
NOTE- Below given Add information regarding admission guidance to various colleges in INDIA.
We provide Admission guidance in Post Graduate and Diploma courses in Medical field is one of the most Important, yet difficult, decisions for Medical graduates that you will ever have to make. So it is essential you make a well informed decision. Our services cover all aspects of the PG admissions.
Medical Courses:-MBBS, MD/ MS, BDS, MDS, BHMS, BAMS, BPT, MPT, D Pharm, B Pharm, M Pharm, B.Sc, PBC, GNM, M.Sc – Nursing
PG Courses
• MD – Anaesthesiology
• MD – Aviation Medicine
• MD – Bio-Chemistry
• MD – Medicine• MD – Dermatology
• MD – Dermatology & Venereology
• MD – Forensic Medicine
• MD – General Medicine
• MD – Hospital Administration
• MD – Microbiology
• MD – Obstetrtics & Gynaecology
• MD – Paediatrics• MD – Pathology
• MD – Pharmacology
• MD – Physiology
• MD – Psychiatry
• MD – Radio Diagnosis
• MD – Radiology
• MD – Radiothrapy
MD/MS/MBBS/BDS /MDS/BAMS/Nursing admissions in almost all private colleges ofkarnataka, maharashtra, tamil nadu, andhra pradesh
delhi/NCR through Managemet Quota, NRI Quota.
NOTE-We Provide Admission guidance for the private colleges from the below listed states
Medical Colleges
•SRM Medical College, Chennai.
•Saraswati Institute of Medical Sciences, uttar pradesh.
•MVJ Medical College & research Hospital, Bangalore.
•Sri Devaraj URS Medical College, Kolar, karnataka.
•Vinayaka Missions University, Salem.
•Saveetha Medical College, Chennai.
•Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital, Chennai.
•Sree Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences & Hospital, Puducherry.
•DR.DY PATIL MEDICAL COLLEGES in Pune and Mumbai.
•Shri BM Patil Medical College, Bijapur.
•Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Secunderabad
•Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar.
•Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research(Meenakshi university), Chennai.
•Tagore Institute Of Medical Science & Research Centre,Chennai.
•Terna Medical college
•NKP Salve Institute Of Medical Sciences
•NDMVP Samaj Medical College
•ACPM Medical College
•maharashtra Institute of Medical Education
•Maharashtra Institute of Medical Sciences
•Dr.Vithalrao Vikhe Patil Medical College
•Smt.Kashibai Navale Medical College
•Dr.Ulhas Patil Medical College & Hospital
•Dr.Panjabrao Deshmukh Medical College
Dental Colleges
•Sri Siddhartha Dental College,Tumkur
•Bharati Vidyapeeth Dental College & Gospital,Pune
•Dr.D.Y Patil Dental College and Hospital,Pune
•Narayana Dental College and Hospital,Nellore
•Dayanand Sagar College of Dental Sciences,Bangalore
•M.S. Ramaiah Dental College,Bangalore
•SRM Dental College,Chennai
•Saveetha Dental College and Hospital,Chennai
•Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital,Chennai
•Mahatma Gandhi Missions Dental College & Gospital,Navi Mumbai
•Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences,
•Rajah Muthaiah Dental College and Hospital,Annamalai Nagar
•Vinayaka Missions Sankarachariyar Dental College,Salem.
•Maruti College of Dental Sciences and Research Centre, Bangalore
And many more university etc…
Our Service:
• Student Advisory services
• Admission Guidance
• Career Counseling
• Team of Highly qualified consultants
• Economical Package
• Partnership with 550 Academic Institutions, Colleges, Universities
• Hassle free Processing
NOTE:- Above given additional information regarding admission guidance to various colleges in INDIA.
Advance seat booking started for academic year 2015 so call us now and book your seats, Book your seat in advance at very modest and genuine rate.
Contact at the earliest to confirm your seat in your budget constraints.
!! Seats are limited. Hurry up !!!
If You are Looking For a Management Quota Seats In MBBS / BDS / MD / MS Courses
Contact Below Provided Mobile No.
Timings To Call 10 AM to 1 PM & 3 PM to 6 PM.
No Phone Calls Please On Sunday.
Send Your Query To firstname.lastname@example.com
Our Offices Locations : We are based In PUNE / NAGPUR / INDORE / NOIDA & BANGALORE.
Note :We are receiving a lot of queries regarding medical & dental admission. If we couldn't answer your call you are requested to mail your detailed requirement in the above given e-mail id.
:::::::: NOTE:::::::This ad provides information regarding management quota admissions to various colleges in India. That does not mean that all the colleges have got management seats or subjected to any authorization with us. Also, all colleges do not provide direct admission without entrance exams. We endorse all the private medical colleges proudly as ours one of the venerated and alleged allies in India.


text:
2010 was chock full of crazy shit. Teena Marie just died—as did Leslie Nielsen a few weeks back. LeBron made a deal with the devil's advocate, Pat Riley. There were the Nashville floods no one heard about because of the BP oil spill. Of course, the economy continued to tank, with the politicians too busy circle-jerking each other to get anything of substance passed, besides a half-assed health bill. And even Tron disappointed, for having too much of "The Dude," for chrissakes.
But there were some bright spots. Christopher Nolan continued to push the boundaries of film for the better. The World Cup justified AM drinking. And "The Dude" won an Oscar.
As always, the (good) music never stopped. The year will best be remembered for Kanye's second-semester ubiquity, from his tweets to the leaks to his almost-masterpiece. Eminem solidified his comeback, with the only album (besides Taylor Swift) that sold well this year. Dame Dash continued his own resurrection, too, cleverly hopping on the Curren$y bandwagon. Janelle Monae finally released a full-length, which was arguably the year's best. Big Boi proved his independence worthwhile. B.o.B. went pop, which is good for him, I guess. And Jay-Z rapped over a Pete Rock beat. God is good, sometimes.
Special thanks to Devin Chanda of Scheme Engine and The Smoking Section for blessing us with the introduction.
If you listened closely, you caught a lot of great music this year. If not, we've got you. We gathered our friends to tell us their five favorite beats of the year. DJ Eclipse got to pick six because he's special. You can find part two here. Forming today's musical brain trust we have…
Mark Ronson – DJ, super-producer, "the best-connected man in pop"
DJ Eclipse - DJ, La Coka Nostra, host of Rap is Outta Control on Sirius/XM
Jackie Chain – Mr. VIP, his mixtape Who Da Mane is out now
Daedelus – underground LA beat man
Will Power – producer of Yelawolf's Trunk Muzik, the most buzzing mixtape of the year
Block Beattaz – Alabamian monster production duo
DJ Burn One – country rap expert, DJ, producer of Starlito's Renaissance Gangster
Moss – producer for Ghostface, Raekwon, and this year's At Last with Eternia
Von Pea – rapper, producer, 1/3 of Tanya Morgan, his album Pea's Gotta Have It is out now
Paul White – maker of incredible beats
6th Sense – underground NY producer
Zilla Rocca – rapper, producer, your favorite blogger's favorite blogger (Clap Cowards)
Jerry Barrow – NODFACTOR.com and TheUrbanDaily
Aaron Matthews – Canned Thinking
HL – Droptops & Stacy Lattisaw Tapes
Craig Jenkins – Prefix Magazine and Potholes In My Blog
And your Metal Lungies editor in chief/youngest in charge, KNOBBZ aka Moose
Ahmir '?uestlove' Thompson
The Roots – Doin' It Again
6th Sense: How I Got Over is another classic in The Roots catalog. That and Kanye's album were my favorites this year. I could've picked anything from The Roots album but I chose this one cause it's so big! Sample a live John Legend recording? Sure, why not! And shouts to Jason Goldstein on the mix.
Ahmir '?uestlove' Thompson, Jeremy Grenhart, Karl B. Jenkins
The Roots – Now or Never (ft. Phonte, Dice Raw)
Joey: Let those of us now in the throes of our youth's twilight take a moment to thank the Roots. A song about the turmoil of change, the ambivalence of growth, the onward march of time did not have to be so generously paced, so dulcetly scored. Ahmir et al. might have opted for a song that was severe and lurching, self-aware and self-indulgent as it sought to lecture and mean something. But the Roots, as usual, were smarter than that. Serious but still fun, and walking swiftly rather than sauntering or sprinting toward the abyss, "Now or Never" is the quintessential grown-folks rap song. Stripped of its poignant rhymes, the track would likely succeed as this kind of champion all the same. The drums are insistent but sparse in a fashion that calls a listener to attention but doesn't crowd him. We must own up to who we are, but we aren't going to be judged. These percussive demands echo across a commodious keyboard landscape that is soft enough to be accommodating. The track creates a canvas. Thompson, Grenhart, and Jenkins then fill it with brisk cymbals and an ever waning hint of guitar. Collectively, the elements are a wonderful mixture that captures the pivot for which the song is intended. Luckily, it's not such a sudden change, nor such a severe referendum.
Anonymous Twist
Theology 3 – IT'S THEO3
DJ Eclipse: This is my sleeper joint of the year. Not as many people are familiar with either the MC or producer compared to the other names on my list, but damn this track bangs! One of those records made for DJs to cut up. Good to see the art form isn't lost on the youth.
The Diplomats – Salute
Brandon: Previously known for last year's screeching, mini-epic, "Get It In Ohio," off Cam'ron's Crime Pays, AraabMuzik spent 2010 producing pretty much everything Cam rapped on, and making a name for himself with live MPC performances that are more like avant-garde noise workouts than anything hip-hop-related — or maybe he took rap back to when it was a little closer to avant-garde noise? Sampling Nosferatu's "The Desolate One," a chunk of goofy trance that already has New York hip-hop in its sonic DNA (Nas' "Hate Me Now"), the young producer turns it into the theme from Psycho (love that scream that drops at just the right moment) for the Lex Luger generation: all horror movie atmosphere, with drums that pound like 90s rap and skitter like 2000s rap.
Audible Doctor
Joell Ortiz – Battle Cry (ft. Just Blaze)
DJ Eclipse: This joint was dope out the box, but the Just Blaze's mixed version of AMD's beat just made it stand out that much more. And Joell tears this track up. Blaze's adlibs hype it up that much more. Good build up of anticipation until Joell starts. Banger for sure.
Baths – ?
Daedelus: Another new sound on the scene was Baths LP Cerulean, wherein his own vocals against never easy beats became quite a blunted uplift.
Beanz N Kornbread
Paul Wall – Round Here (ft. Chamillionaire)
Will Power: This beat is infectious. Paul Wall and Chamillionaire killed the hook.
Katy B – Katy on a Mission
Ronson: Benga and Skream and a few of those other producers have been making underground records for awhile, but I feel like this is probably the first one with a female vocalist and actually becoming a fucking big pop record. I guess you could sort of count Skream's remix of La Roux as the first dubstep kind of pop remix, whereas Katy B is like an artist to come out of that scene. [The song] basically shows that [Skream and Benga] can make a hit for Britney Spears or anybody. That sound has suddenly become so ripe and it's certainly the most exciting thing on British radio when it comes on. The first time I heard dubstep, it was hard for me to understand what separated it from other genres, because it's got elements of hip-hop and drum and bass, but I guess the thing is the throbbing huge sub bassline that makes it special and I guess the style of the drum programming. That was the breakout pop hit of that dubstep scene.
Bink! (additional production by Mike Dean)
Kanye West – Devil in a New Dress (original version)
Zilla Rocca – He might wax his chest and do anthills of cocaine off Icelandic linens now, but at his core Kanye West is still a soulful loudmouth from the suburbs of Chi-town who is a master of utility. Case in point, bringing in Bink! for "Devil in a New Dress." It's been almost a decade since The Blueprint, where Bink!'s contributions "The Ruler's Back," "All I Need," and "Momma Loves Me" rivaled anything from young 'Ye and Just Blaze. My Dark Twisted Fantasy walks the ladder of excess like Bad Boy's expense account in 1998, but "Devil" is simple, elegant, and gorgeous. The Smokey Robinson sample "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" takes center stage. It's drenched in nostalgia and mournful soul. When that beat kicks in, you forgive Kanye for all tantrums and radical impulses and misguided attempts to become a world-turning avante garde rap artiste because he had enough sense to fly Bink! out to Hawaii and snag this effortless banger.
Download from Kanye West: Kanye West – Devil in a New Dress (original version)
Kanye West – Devil in a New Dress (ft. Rick Ross)
6th Sense: Early on in the year, The Kid Daytona brought me over to Bink!'s place 'cause they were working on some stuff. At some point, Bink! just started playing beats and this beat came on. To this day, I use my reaction to that beat as a litmus for other beats. I started LAUGHING. Hard. That's how ill the beat was. For months I would tell close peers about this Smokey Robinson beat that Bink! had. Thank you Mr. West for killing that beat and making a classic with Bink! He's such a talented dude, he can play every instrument, and I'm looking forward to all the new stuff he's got coming.
Big K.R.I.T.
Big K.R.I.T. – Now Or Neva
DJ Burn One: The epitome of country rap tunes in 2010. K.R.I.T. has been honing his production the past few years and joints like this prove just how cold he is. 80s inspired funk over southern drums. What more could you ask for?
Big K.R.I.T. – Country Shit
Will Power: I love this beat. I'm a Big K.R.I.T. fan for the beats and rhymes!
Black Milk
Black Milk – Deadly Medley (ft. Royce da 5'9″, Elzhi)
Joey: The twang in the melody sounds as though someone made a mistake while playing. Only, this is a rap track produced by a masterful sampler. The music is not original, nor was it re-created in studio. Within those re-calibrated parameters, then, that notable fissure in the music's purity instead might suggest that the plastic of a tape got stretched out ever so slightly, and this contaminated the sound as it was transferred from a tape deck to a computer. A tape would make sense; "Deadly Medley" is dusty. It sounds like you'd need a pencil to fix. Only, that wouldn't be right, either, because the original Blackrock joint from whence this music comes is just as screwy. Once you learn that, the track's brilliance finally comes into focus. Stretched across booming drums in a fashion that makes the melody seem like a hide set out for tanning, those distorted notes absorb punishment and emerge well worn. Accommodating intense rapping from Detroit's finest, "Deadly Medley" sounds old but new, and passive but powerful, almost like the city, itself. "Medley" also stands as a microcosm for Black Milk's singular talent: no one is as adept at imbuing creaky soul with modern vitality.
Black Milk – Black and Brown (ft. Danny Brown)
HL: I was once told by a stoner that Album of the Year blew his high due to "all those fuckin' drums". Although I don't indulge in the funny cigarettes (D.A.R.E. class of 1993), I can definitely identify with the critique. That's not to say the instrumentals are horrible (individually they're each admittedly well crafted), but as a collective the beats become quite repetitive with the exception of "Black & Brown". The kicks on this song are indeed thunderous, but in a good way. Not in the way that gives me the urge to jump through a wormhole, travel back to September 2009, and jam at least half the pads on Black Milk's MPC.
Block Beattaz
Jackie Chain – This is Not Enough (ft. Assasyn, Mali Boy)
Jackie: Who was that sample by? Tots or tits or toto or tutu or something? But that "This is Not Enough" beat is one of the hardest beats I've heard this year.
Drake – 9 AM in Dallas
Moss: The best song on Drake's album to my ears. I have to tip my hat to what 1da managed to do this year.
G-Side – I'm Sorry
Block Beattaz: Used vocals as an instrument. Low tight bass with great track and vocal manipulation.
Wiz Khalifa – Mezmorized
DJ Burn One: More cowbell. Every beat could use more cowbell. Apparently Cardo agrees, because he mixed one up on here with a fuzzy synth lead and a jamming sub bassline. The perfect backdrop for Wiz Khalifa's blunted melodic tales.
Block Beattaz: Great album opener. Laid back, but aggressive. He delivered the verses as designed by the track.
Christolph & Free
The Niceguys – Toast
Craig Jenkins: I have always wanted my own superhero theme music, but I could never find a band that was willing to be paid in french fries and PBRs. Sucks, right? Luckily the Niceguys came out with this banger. Those horns sound downright triumphant, and the more attentive listener will notice how the keys play a quiet melodic counterpoint to the epic brass. Also, the marching band rendition of Steely Dan's "Do It Again" that's folded into the fray pleases my inner 70s pop fan greatly. I would love to see a picture of what my face does whenever this song comes on. I must look ridiculous.
Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams
N.E.R.D. – God Bless Us All
Ronson: I was doing a photoshoot for some French magazine with Pharrell and he took me in the back room and [they were] trying to finish the N.E.R.D. record. So he played me some stuff and I was pretty blown away. And I'm surprised it hasn't made a bit more of a splash. I think it's just more of a sign of how fucking horrible and homogeneous radio has become. The thing about N.E.R.D. records is, usually that's where they indulge their sort of live side and they usually have a lot of musicality. What I like about this record is that it has a lot of the musicality, but it has those hard drums that remind me of the Clipse records like "Cot Damn" or "What Happened to that Boy." The beat is kind of hard and it's got beautiful chord changes and stuff.
Damian Marley
Nas & Damian Marley – As We Enter
Ronson: It says it's produced by Damian Marley, which, I mean, I don't know if he was hunched over an MPC or cracking the whip on some little kid producer Puffy style, but it doesn't matter really. It's just a fucking great beat. There's a certain kind of hip-hop beat that's dying a slow death. When you think of like a great sample and some tough drums – it doesn't have to sound like a golden era record, but I feel like "As We Enter" kind of did that. It's like tough drums, got that horn break — it doesn't hurt, of course, that Nas and Damian Marley are going back and forth and they're in two completely different dialects, but they sound like they could be EPMD or Smif-N-Wessun. They're obviously supposed to be going back and forth. They just go so well together. I just love that track. That's probably the record I played out the most in my DJ sets this year as well.
DJ Burn One
Starlito – GH
Brandon: Like Curren$y and Ski Beatz's Pilot Talk series, Starlito and DJ Burn One's Renaissance Gangster is what happens when a casually brilliant rapper and a quietly experimental producer enter collaborative mind-meld mode. "GH" is closing credits music with somber Quincy Jones chords pulsing through a haze of almost in-the-red Aphex Twin-like electronics. The drum programming is elaborate and full of counterpoints and quiet shifts in tone — it's more like Burn One's composing than beatmaking here. In the same year that Kanye West sampled Aphex Twin ("Avril 14th" on "Blame Game"), Burn One just made his own melancholy, melodic rap beat in the vein of Richard D. James.
DJ Clark Kent & the Remedy
Rick Ross – Super High (ft. Ne-Yo)
JLB: With so many people eating off of the sample-resurgence it was nice to see one of the original don-dadas get his due on the radio. The way he put some octane to a sliver of Enchantment's "Silly Love Song" to help RAWSE make a…silly love song is just perfect.
DJ Burn One: Hear that bassline? yeah – best of the year.
DJ Premier
Big Shug – Spit Six
DJ Eclipse: I don't think any year could go by without having a Premier beat in the top 5. Many joints to choose from of his catalog this past year as well, but this one he gave Shug is definitely a head nodder. Different from a lot of the other Premo produced joints he put out this past year.
Joell Ortiz – Project Boy
KNOBBZ: I breathe differently when I listen to this song. The beat constantly builds toward a violent outburst, but never reaches it. It's definitely not bombastic enough for a killing spree. Rather, "Project Boy" is for when you're twirling the blade in your pocket, trying to picture your landlord with the lower half of his face missing. Tense. Menacing. And I grew up in the burbs!
Don Cannon
STS – Fuck A Hook
JLB: Jay-Z must be kicking himself for passing on this one. Electric guitar has been a punchline in hip-hop thanks to the GZA bus, but cannon seamlessly layers it with piano, synth, and alternating kicks and claps to make one of the most slept on beats of 2010.
Young Jeezy – Stop Playing With Me
Brandon: All that party rave trash from your favorite hipster DJ or cornball South African joke-rap duo should sound this ruthless and indefatigably A.D.D. There's your typical Jeezy track hidden inside of this one (the booming synths, the epic simple drums), but Dready just piles on the sounds, while folding it all into a loop, so there's still something for your ears to latch onto, and enough open space for a groaning, monstrous rapper like Jeezy to fit-in his talk-raps. Sci-fi movie sounds squeak and wail, a dying battery keyboard provides melody every once in a while, and a chipmunk vocal climbs to the top of the mountain of noises before then falling back into the mix. There's maybe an e-mail alert sound in there too?
Drew Byrd
Dom Kennedy – Me Again
Ivan: Produced by L.A. beatsmith Drew Byrd, "Me Again" is a fitting outro to Dom Kennedy's From the Westside with Love, one of the year's greatest mixtapes. The beat really resonates with me as Dom's nostalgic lyrics and delivery are perfectly complimented by wistful soundscapes and a sonant soul sample. It's beautiful.
E-40 – Back in Business
Brandon: Droop-E hands his dad some nutty Bay Area slap with film noir movie clips in lieu of a chorus. Those samples could've been finely-chopped, EQ'd, and whatever else until that Cagney-esque "we're back in business" was all we hear, but Droop-E lets some of the melodramatic, doom-filled Hollywood score and the grit of the aged audio sneak into the track. This is a legendary streetwise rapper and his tripped-out, beatmaker son (who got to be a producer weirdo because his dad was a streetwise rapper) in concert with one another: That gloomy gangster movie score snippet is a weird sonic flourish and a subtle way to hint at the sort of dread E-40 has always sneaked into his crime rhymes.
Drumma Boy
Waka Flocka Flame – No Hands (ft. Roscoe Dash, Wale)
Jackie Chain: I thought that beat was real hard. I always liked the song, I like Waka, I like Roscoe Dash, I like Wale, so I thought it was an usual and good collabo. I thought they all complemented that beat pretty good. My homies the Motion Fam shot the video. The beat, the song, the whole package – I thought it was a real good look this year. I fuck with Drumma Boy too.
El-P – Meanstreak (In Three Parts)
Zilla Rocca: El-Producto makes future pain funk, but 2010 saw him start whipping cats from the BDP boombox with a dash of reasonable radio, and dare I say accessible, options. His remix of Justin Bieber's "Baby" proved what we all feared–this guy could one day potentially rule the minds of unconscious pop lovers if his mass damper was tuned into that frequency. "Meanstreak" is a cat batting around a helpless mouse: Part 1 sounds like a hectic train-dodging outtake from I'll Sleep When You're Dead. Part 2 lifts the Zapp drums we grew up on from "Bounce to the Ounce" and instead of EPMD-ing with moooree bounce or paying homage to Biggie's favorite west coast destination, he spills a rolling synth from "Lost in Space" everywhere. Part 3 finds the Rick Rubin/LL Cool J tribute in full swing, but instead of "Going Back to Cali", El-P takes us to Dune in a drop-top with Dade County donks rattling the nightmare strip. Yeah, just another go 'round from the pioneer of indie hip hop who slips absinthe and paranoia in the party punch.
El-P – Drunk with a Loaded Pistol
Craig Jenkins: El-P has always had a knack for dense, cinematic beats, and he really put his foot in "Drunk with a Loaded Pistol." I like how the music here resembles the title. The ticking clock, the somber synths, the chunky bass, the frantic double-timed snares, all these things on top of one another sound like a kind of personal hell. A word of advice: go out, get bombed, put this track on, bug the fuck out.
Elvis Williams, Polow da Don
Usher – Lil Freak (ft. Nicki Minaj)
Block Beattaz: Stevie wonder sample used perfectly. Track is intense and suspenseful. Low end bubbles during the whole ride.
Ronson: I think the way that they flipped the Stevie Wonder sample is really clever. It's weird because, that sample that they used is just the turnaround in the Stevie song. But out of context, it's something that sounds all sinister and kind of Middle Eastern. It almost sounds like it was lifted from "Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin or something. It's just dope. I like Polow da Don, I like his drums. This was the first time I ever heard him flip a familiar sample and taking Stevie Wonder, it better be fucking seriously dope or it seems like a bit of a waste. It's definitely stacking it up against you when you're sampling Stevie, because it's gotta be so different from the original that it's great. You don't wanna just loop up the horns from "Sir Duke" and have someone rap over it. It would be fucking horrible.
Fly Union
Fly Union – We Out
Von Pea: Speaking of Car Music, I can't NOT nod my head to this. I've tried and it's impossible. Fly U is really good at making cool music for you to ride to…even if you're on the train. In a perfect world this would be a hit song and I'd be tired of hearing it by now, but instead I'm on listen 100 in my iTunes.
Flying Lotus
Flying Lotus – Do The Astral Plane
Daedelus: More housed then the rest of the fantastic Cosmogramma, Flylo's jacked swing was my summer soundtrack.
Flying Lotus – Computer Face//Pure Being
Craig Jenkins: The week Cosmogramma dropped, I could be heard for miles around declaring it to be the album of the decade. I've eased off the trigger a bit since, but I'm no less blown away by the way Flying Lotus blends so many genres together and still manages to sound so effortlessly good in the process. "Computer Face//Pure Being" is full of seemingly incongruous sounds: skittering, rickety dubstep drums, airy 8-bit synths, cartoon sound effects, and beats with shifting accents. It shouldn't work, but it really does.
Frank Dukes or Statik Selktah
Reks – This or That
Ghostface Killah – Purified Thoughts
Moss: Tie because both used the same sample almost the same way. Just a dope sample.
Gaslamp Killer
Gonjasufi – I've Given
KNOBBZ: A lot of great albums fizzle at the end but A Sufi and a Killer wraps with a psychedelic dirge about unrequited love, punctuating the album with a wild eastern melody and beautiful instrumentation. Don't get antsy and skip because of the long intro. "I've Given" is well worth the wait.
Georgia Anne Muldrow
Georgia Anne Muldrow – The Language of the Flame
Paul White: Love Muldrow's magic music, really inspiring for live stuff!
Skyzoo & Illmind – Speakers On Blast
JLB: It was hard for me to pick just one beat from this album, but anyone that can take filtered chimes and and bit crunch them on an AKAI s20 to make it sound like a sample should be applying for for MENSA membership post haste.
J Beatz
Big Boi – General Patton
Craig Jenkins: OK, so the whole 808s-and-a-sample thing has been done to death by now, (see: the Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, and Young Jeezy catalogs for evidence), but "General Patton" seriously knocks. I like how J Beatz lets the drums function as the bassline, while the orchestral hits and compressed horns smack you in the eardrums. This is some old storming Normandy shit, some real hostile takeover music. How could Big Boi not spit acid on this?
J Dilla
J Dilla – Bars & Twists
Paul White: Stupid ill beat, the imagination and creativity here is amazing!
J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League
Rick Ross – Aston Martin Music (ft. Chrisette Michele, Drake
Will Power: Real classy shit.
Jackie Chain: I mess with J.U.S.T.I.C.E. hard too. Everything I've heard from J.U.S.T.I.C.E League pretty much is good. They're real talented cats. They was on my DJ Smallz mixtape. They're real musical. They use a lot of intricate sounds and they go a route a lot of producers don't go. A lot of their beats could be R&B songs. It was just something I could really ride to. I actually had that as my ringtone for awhile and I only use my own shit for my ringtones. When it comes on, it just makes you feel good. If I had an Aston Martin, that would be my theme song. Even when I was rolling in the Jag. Usually I like the hard BMF style beats, but that's a real nice riding song. Something when the sun's out, roll the windows down, roll the windows down, roll one up and just ride out. You could play it back to back.
J.R. Rotem
Mann – Buzzin' (ft. 50 Cent)
Ivan: What can I say? This one's a guilty pleasure. Who else would've thought of sampling Nu Shooz? No, really. All bets seem to indicate that J.R. Rotem is the rightful heir to Puff Daddy's "take hits from the 80s" throne (who's Diddy?). And the track's fire. I dare you to stop yourself from bopping your head and snapping your fingers to this one.
Jack Sample Pros
Pac Div – Don't Mention It
Von Pea: The groove of this track is just so damn cool. Pac Div is probably best known for the 808 old school Cali beats, but on this project there was a little bit of everything and the closing/title track was my absolute favorite. I don't know if that lead trumpet is a sample or a well EQ'd keyboard, but it's hypnotizing. The bassline is like the audio version of sitting in a hot tub. Add in the drum track borrowed from Mr. Yanceys "African Rhythms" (fellow Dilla heads be quiet, he sampled and he can be sampled, it's all good) and it all makes for a great finale.
Check out part two here.
Related Posts
There are 8 commentsAdd yours
Beat Drop: Best of 2010 (Part 2).
[...] Continued from Part 1. [...]
The Year In Beats « Cromeo's World
[...] Part 1: click here [...]
No Apollo Brown??? Damn, y'all really dropped the ball on that one.
Rap Round Table, Weeks Ending 12/31/2010
[...] Beat Drop: Best of 2010; Pt. 2 by Metal Lungies & Co. (incl. yours truly) [...]
Mark Ronson's Post-Christmas Giveaway.
[...] to excavate some music from his hard drive and post it on Facebook. So what did the super-producer/Beat Drop contributor have in his [...]
Metallungies Hollers @ Mark Ronson, Interview.
[...] Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Daniel Merriweather, Duran Duran) three weeks ago to talk about his favorite beats of the year. After he thoroughly educated me (I've listened to "Katy on a Mission" 40+ [...]
Mo Kolours – Biddies.
[...] tapped a lot of people to talk about their favorite beats for last year's colossal year-end Beat Drop, but I was especially excited to get Paul White's picks. The largely overlooked British Dilla [...]
Replica Oakleys
I'm really impressed with your writing skills and also with the layout on your weblog. Is this a paid theme or did you customize it yourself? Anyway keep up the excellent quality writing, it's rare to see a nice blog like this one today.


text:
This is a demo shop. Any orders placed through this shop will not be honoured or fulfilled.
Welcome to Russell & Chapple
Email to a Friend
Be the first to review this product
Availability: In stock
Copper Bound Wall Brush 4in
Copper Bound Wall Brush 5in
Copper Bound Wall Brush 6in
Copper Bound Wall Brush 7in
Use spaces to separate tags. Use single quotes (') for phrases.
You have no items in your shopping cart.
Fredrix 550 Black Acrylic Primed Cotton Duck 60in / 152cm
Cornelissen Green Cotton Artists' Apron
This website requires cookies to provide all of its features. For more information on what data is contained in the cookies, please see our Cookies Policy page. To accept cookies from this site, please click the Allow button below.


text: DISCLAIMER: We do not claim any kind of copyright on the photographic material posted here; tags are only present for dissemination purposes only. If you own any of it and do not wish for it to be shown here anymore, please get in touch with us and we will take appropriate action. Thank you.


text:
Anthony Franco unveils his new "Flor de Aqua" Resort Collection Spring / Summer 2014 during LA Fashion Week at the Thompson Hotel's rooftop in Beverly Hills, CA on October 21, 2013.
This time Franco hosted his own independent fashion show and I must say he did considerably superb while other designers shared a runway during Los Angeles Fashion Week. His debut was greeted by the pool side with an overwhelmingly positive response from press, buyers, celebrities and fashion stylists in attendance.
Franco's spectacular collection provided a full wardrobe for men and women. The "Flor de Aqua" collection reflects his personal aesthetic sensibility, inspired from vintage photography, music and fashion books. The self taught designer served up one of my favorite Los Angeles fashion shows of the season for his intricate and sculptural men's and women's suites. I definitely foresee Anthony Franco men's sleek suites worn by celebrities like Brad Pitt, Justin Timberlake, Will Smith, and Jaimie Foxx.
Men's Collection:
Women's Collection:
The brand has been featured in Vogue, Bazaar, Esquire, Flaunt Magazine, GQ, Society, Beverly Hills Lifestyle and other top publications. Some of his celebrity clients include Kelly Osborne, Zac Efron, Victoria's Secret model Rosie Huntignton-Whiteley, Francine Joy Drecher, and George Kotsiopoulos from Fashion Police.
For Anthony Franco's fashion show I decided to go for a versatile and feminine look. I chose to wear a one-shoulder vintage dress with a slit on the right side . To soften this look, I accessorized my blonde hair with a golden turban around my head complementing my half gold-black gown. Streamlining, the garnished turban reminded me of Old Hollywood's beauty and elegance era; The 20s, 40s, and 60s, when it was worn on the cover of Vogue and stars like Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor continuing this trend by current designers like Anna Sui and Prada.
Fact about Anthony Franco: In 2007, Anthony Franco won the Mercedes Benz Designer of the Year award for his Fall collection.
To keep up with Marina BerBeryan's style visit LA Fashion Judge and follow...
Facebook: @Marina-Celebrity Fashion Stylist
Instagram: @MarinaBerBeryan
Twitter: @MarinaBerBeryan
Google +: @MarinaBerBeryan
LinkedIn: @MarinaBerBeryan
Photo Credit: Peter Kasabian


text:
Pear & toffee muffins
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
Nutrition: per muffin
- kcal257
- fat11g
- saturates6g
- carbs36g
- sugars15g
- fibre0g
- protein5g
- salt0.62g
- 300g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
Baking powderbay-king pow-dah
Baking powder is a raising agent that is commonly used in cake-making. It is made from an alkali…
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 85g golden caster sugar
- 250ml milk
One of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a 'complete' food…
- 2 eggs, beaten
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 100g butter, melted
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 2 ripe pears, peeled and cut into small chunks
Like apples, to which they are related, pears come in thousands of varieties, of which only a…
- 100g soft toffee, chopped into pieces
There are few secrets to toffee. It is simply sugar that has been…
- 25g flaked almond
Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Line a 12-hole deep muffin tin with paper cases. Tip the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and a pinch of salt into a large bowl, then stir in the sugar. Mix together the milk, eggs and melted butter in a large jug and pour into the dry mix all at once, along with the pears and a third of the toffee pieces. Stir briefly until just beginning to combine – the batter should still be quite lumpy and have streaks of flour.
Divide the mixture between the cases, then sprinkle with the remaining toffee and the flaked almonds. Bake for 25-30 mins until the muffins are risen, golden and feel firm when pressed (the molten toffee will be extremely hot so be careful not to touch it). Remove from the tin to a wire rack to cool.


text:
English Teacher
Does anyone have a view on ideal participant numbers for a TEFL training course? The ones I have been involved with tended to have between 8 and 12 participants, divided into two groups for teaching practice. Occasionally, I was involved with courses of 15, divided into 3 groups of 5. In any case, these numbers are quite similar to those in TEFL classes in language schools - and allow the trainers to model different kinds of teaching activities, which the trainee teachers can use in their own teaching - i.e. what Tessa Woodward calls 'loop input'.
One reason I ask is that I noticed that trainee numbers for the courses run under the TEFL International label seem remarkably low. Judging by the reports on their website, the last 10 courses at TI Centres have averaged less than 4 trainees each. One of these ran with a single trainee and two of them with a brace. And in 2012 as a whole, 60% of the courses have averaged five or fewer trainees.
I imagine their running costs are relatively low (judging by the one TEFL International centre I've seen - essentially a single open-plan office in a commercial building, divided into an admin area, a self-study area and a single classroom area. Money is also saved by not having selection interviews or visiting assessors etc). However, with numbers as low as they are at present, you have to wonder how sustainable such an operation is - after all, rates, wages, overheads etc need to be paid. And it's hard to imagine their New York centre, for instance, clamouring to run another course with only 2 trainees. Much the same goes for centres in London, Tokyo, Florence, Seville, with just a handful of trainees on each course. How long can this go on like this?
And are courses of one, two, three trainees really worth running, from an educational point of view? What mingling or regrouping activities are going to happen in a group of three or four trainees, for instance? "Compare with your partner .. hang on a sec, I'll get you a mirror ...."
Martin McMorrow, Auckland, New Zealand
The TI numbers seem low to me- it's hard to see how much of a group dynamic in a pair, so a lot of the benefit of having other people's ideas would be lost IMO, and being the lone trainee sounds daunting. I think 6 would be an OK starting point and 10-12 an upper limit ideally.
Last edited by Tdol; 25-Apr-2012 at 09:03.


text:
+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 1 of 1
- Location
- Santa Ana, California, United StatesMember No: 184053
- Join Date
- Nov 2010
- Posts
- 98
- Rep Power
- 10
E3, E9, E12 - PSP (power steering pump) - REBUILD SERVICE
Hi Fellow Forum Members,
I have been working on repairing and rebuilding BMW parts for the last 5 years.
I started with Hydraulic Brake Servo Boosters,
I then added the e23, e24 SLS pump rebuild (self leveling suspension).
And 3 years ago started rebuilding PSP's (power steering pumps).
I also am Rebuilding e3, e9, e12, PSP pumps.
There are three basic types of PSP's for the e3,e9,e12, two are Cast Iron, and one is Aluminum. All 3 are 1 piece castings.
1. The early (CI) ZF - PSP pump has 2 bearings, one is a ball bearing & one is a needle bearing. (L photo)
2. And the later (CI) ZF - PSP pump has only one ball bearing. (M photo)
3. And the newer (ALUM) ZF - PSP is Aluminum, and does not have a bearing (R photo)
Here is a link to my Picasa Photo Site, please read the written instructions to view the ICON, on the right side of the photos, and the info panel.
LINK : https://goo.gl/photos/GfNKGk5qPfKHGiXo6
Please e-mail me with any questions, firstname.lastname@example.com
Booster repair
My 12 Websites
http://bigcoupe.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=28245Reply With Quote 22.214.171.124
Thread Information
Users Browsing this Thread
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)


text:
What Went Wrong?
The Blood Oranges
The Tenants
St. Urbain's Horseman
John Hawkes's The Blood Oranges fails because it is the work of a contemptible imagination. Hawkes has always seemed to me more an unadmitted voyeur of horror than its calm delineator, but in this new novel the pretense that what is being described is horrifying is dropped, and we have only the nightmare vision of a narrator unable to see how awful he is. He is a "sex-singer," a middle-aged expert in love who is frequently delighted to tell us in what good shape he is, how he looks in his trunks, how skilled he is in bed. He and his wife want and capture other people, in this case another couple, and they insist the world should learn to have its sex with the same impersonal, erotic ennui that is their staple emotion. Their insistence that they are flexible and free is belied by the rigid emptiness of their daily round: sit on the beach, climb a hill to see a peasant or a goat, screw expertly.
There is cruelty here that, because unadmitted, is not even palliated by the relish of sadism. The two men see a peasant girl in a barn and the narrator says: "Perfect, let's hunt her down." They do, and force her to strip so they can take pictures of her, and the other man is delighted by things like the hairs on her chin because he is making a collection of photographs of peasants: "That's perfect. Now let's just shove her over against the beam." Great fun.
And when the friend decides later on that he doesn't much like the idea of the two couples making a sexual foursome, we get lectured: "Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity (Body upon body, voice on voice) is naïve?" When the other man wants to keep his wife to himself, when the other woman collapses after the death of her husband and the departure of her children, they are to shape up, and to this standard: "It is simply not in my character, my receptive spirit, to suffer sexual possessiveness, the shock of aesthetic greed, the bile that greases most matrimonial bonds, the rage and fear that shrivels your ordinary man at the first hint of the obvious multiplicity of love." This deeply unreceptive narcissism has so little aesthetic greed, furthermore, or even mere desire to write well, that we find, on almost every page, something like "The sun was setting, sinking to its predestined death," or "And already the seeds of dawn were planted in the night's thigh."
Hawkes has many admirers, which means some will note that I have completely missed the fact that it is all a put-on; some others will suspect I am guilty of all those sins that Hawkes's narrator so cleverly exposes in your ordinary man. So be. But when horror becomes a pastime it should announce itself or at least know itself; when reticence and shyness…
This is exclusive content for subscribers only.
Get unlimited access to The New York Review for just $1 an issue!
Continue reading this article, and thousands more from our archive, for the low introductory rate of just $1 an issue. Choose a Print, Digital, or All Access subscription.
If you are already a subscriber, please be sure you are logged in to your nybooks.com account.


text:
Best Western Cobb Galleria properties are listed below. Search for cheap and discount Best Western hotel rates in Cobb Galleria, GA for your upcoming individual or group travel. We list the best Best Western Cobb Galleria properties so you can review the Cobb Galleria Best Western hotel list below to find the perfect place.
This page will also show you discounted Cobb Galleria, GA hotels & motels that have a comparable rating of a Best Western.Booking a group or meeting? Get bids from hotels in Cobb Galleria GA
How should we direct your call?


text:
Onslow Oktoberfest has truly become a premier event in Jacksonville and Onslow County.
Great attendance, outstanding community participation and wonderful weather made the 6th Annual Oktoberfest a major success.
More than 8,000 patrons enjoyed succulent food, fine entertainment, arts and crafts, amusement rides and exhibits from businesses and civic groups. Children played in the Wells Fargo children's area and 150 runners participated in the Marine Federal Credit Union 5K. Illustrating the regional growth of the festival, 40 percent of the booths were occupied by out-of-town vendors.
Onslow Community Outreach is very grateful for our business sponsors, Friends and 120 volunteers who cooked food, served beverages, set up tables and chairs, parked cars and picked up debris.
Oktoberfest provides much needed financial support for the local soup kitchen, homeless shelter and Caring Community Clinic.
Thank you,
Diane Devusser
2014 Onslow Oktoberfest Chair


text:
6 Better-for-You Milkshakes to Enjoy this Summer
Jun 25, 2016 03:32AM
By Family Features
(Family Features) With warmer weather ahead, milkshakes are a perfect on-the-go option to cool down and indulge your sweet tooth. Adding fruits and vegetables to your milkshake can help you indulge guilt-free. For added nutritional value, build your milkshake using a combination of good-for-you ingredients like fruit, vegetables and milk.
Using dairy milk as the base of your milkshake provides nine essential nutrients like vitamin D and calcium, as well as 8 grams of natural high-quality protein per 8-ounce glass. For a more flavorful milkshake, use frozen fruit instead of ice cubes in your sweet treat. Then, consider adding ingredients like fresh greens, spices, nuts, whole grains and more. There are almost endless nutritious milkshake combinations to suit every taste. Here are six delicious, better-for-you milkshake recipes to try this summer.
1. Creamy Green Goddess Milkshake – Try a new take on a favorite flavor: a green goddess milkshake. Start your creamy green milkshake with milk, then add spinach, banana, avocado and pineapple. This recipe is an easy way to drink your vegetables.
2. Protein Power Player Milkshake – Combine chocolate, banana and almonds for a tasty milkshake with 7 grams of protein that makes for a great morning or afternoon snack.
3. Protein-Packed Berry Burst Milkshake – Having a berry boost milkshake for breakfast can fuel your morning. Blend 8 ounces of milk with berries for a tasty milkshake recipe perfect for a breakfast on the go.
4. Banana Breakfast Milkshake –This shake is an easy breakfast drink bursting with banana flavor.
5. Peanut Butter and Jelly Milkshake – Fruit and peanut butter milkshakes make great grab-and-go breakfasts for kids of all ages. Turn a classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich into a milkshake by adding 8 ounces of milk. If you want to take a PB&J on the road without all the crumbs and stickiness, try this peanut butter and jelly milkshake recipe for a new twist on a lunchtime favorite for breakfast, a snack or anytime.
6. Peaches and Cream Milkshake – Using frozen peach slices, honey and fresh mango, this sweet and creamy milkshake, made with an 8-ounce glass of milk, is reminiscent of the classic Southern dessert.
For additional recipes, nutrition tips and more, visit MilkLife.com.


text:
State AG Tries To Order Removal Of Public Records From Journalist's Blog, Resulting In Records Being Posted Everywhere
from the my-god...-it's-full-of-files dept
Georgia state Attorney General Sam Olens recently decided to play hardball with a journalism student who published certain documents at the Society for Professional Journalists blog network. Needless to say, it backfired. (via Jim Romenesko)
First off, University of Georgia student David Schick made a public records request for documents concerning names of candidates for his university's president, as part of an investigation into
the school's Georgia Perimeter College's $16 million budget shortfall. According to Schick, the obfuscation began there. The published part Olens objected to is only four of the 700 pages Schick ended up with -- but he had to fight hard to get anything at all.
First, the school charged him $2,963 to forward him emails. When he got a volunteer lawyer who threatened to sue, the price tag was knocked down to $291. But then administrators printed out each email and then re-scanned them – which meant Schick couldn't search them for keywords.Schick is still awaiting a decision for his lawsuit brought against the
According to Olens, the information (which was released as part of a public records request) wasn't supposed to be made public.
"The four pages of documents," says the motion Olens' office filed last Wednesday, "contain the names of a number of individuals who applied for the position of president at one of the Board of Regents' colleges or universities. None of these individuals was selected as a finalist for the position for which they applied."So, rather than deal with the entity which (allegedly) "improperly released" the information to the student, Olens went after the student instead, using a little attempted prior restraint. News of this bullying behavior spread quickly -- as did the offending documents themselves.
Michael Koretksky, another blogger for the SPJ, posted 21 pages (including the four Olens was seeking to take down) at his blog and encouraged others to do the same. Many others did, including the president of the Society of Professional Journalists, David Cuillier.
Olens says the names should not have been released, so the student must take them down. Sorry, Mr. AG, but you can't do that. There's something called case law (e.g., Pentagon Papers), and we in America don't care much for prior restraint (or post restraint, for that matter).With the documents being quickly spread around the internet, Olens either realized a) fighting this would require all-day sessions at the courthouse or b) he looked completely, ridiculously thuggish because he has decided to withdraw his legally unsupportable request.
Also, the idea that candidates for university president should be secret is silly, and unfortunately more states are incorporating this exemption into their public record laws. A shame when it involves something so important. We need to push back against efforts to make that process hidden from public view.
There's nothing like a little bad publicity to make would-be censors rethink their tactics. Obviously, the
Filed Under: david schick, freedom of information, georgia, public records, sam olens, streisand effect
Companies: society for professional journalists


text:
2GC builds mutually beneficial relationships between companies and their audience with solid strategies to develop awareness and grow businesses. We take the guess-work out of marketing and brand development, to help your company build its client base and expand its services or product offerings. We're here to support your business's ability to focus on growth without losing momentum to branding and marketing missteps.
your message. your clients. your business.


text:
Here's another gadget to add to my ever-growing, paranoid (or more, perhaps, cautious) parent list. I've read about this at three separate sources today, so I figure it's probably worth mentioning here.
Students at Brigham Young University have created what they call The Owlet baby monitor. This device is supposed to help combat SIDS, which is the leading cause of death for infants in the United States. It is a sock-like monitor that is placed on a baby's foot while they sleep, and uses pulse oximetry to indicate if a child stops breathing, has low-levels of blood-oxygen, or irregular vital signs. The creators hope that it will help alert parents to potentially fatal and harmful situations. Here is a picture of the sock monitor, as well as the app.
The team who created it had personal reasons for wanting to create a monitor like this. In an interview with KSL.com, co-founder of Owlet, Kurt Workman said that he partly came up with the idea because his wife was a near-SIDS victim as an infant, and a cousin had passed away from SIDs as well. Another one of the team members, Jacob Colvin, is a father and understands how parents worry about their child breathing. The tagline for Owlet is "up all night, so you don't have to be." I definitely think that statement has some truth to it.
Here is a video, explaining a bit more about the product and it's development, as posted on a news release on Brigham Young University's news website:
There are some other monitors out there to help monitor an infant's breathing, but I think this one is definitely different. I love that it shows the blood-oxygen level. I think I've mentioned before that my son was in the hospital when he was a few weeks old with RSV. A few days before his admittance, he had his two-week appointment. His levels were pretty low (around 85), and the nurses just said the machine wasn't working. However, that wasn't true — his levels truly were too low, and he went a few days without getting adequate oxygen. While the doctors and nurses should have acted on this, rather than dismissing it as a fluke, I wish we could have had this monitor then, so we could have seen his oxygen was low earlier on. I'm grateful that nothing happened, but it would have been nice to have something to alert us that something really was amiss with our son.
I posted this article to Facebook, and a friend immediately responded, stating how much she wanted it. When her daughter was first born, she had some episodes where she quit breathing. Luckily, my friend was always around, but it has made her very nervous to let her daughter sleep by herself. This monitor would truly give many mothers (and fathers) peace of mind. Parents of babies don't get a lot of sleep to begin with — not feeling the need to wake up every few hours to ensure that their child is breathing might give everyone a little more sleep (I'll be the first to admit that not only have I woken up to check on my son, but I've woken him up in the process, when it's so dark, I'm half asleep, and I can't tell if he's asleep.)
The Owlet won first place in the Student Innovator of the Year competition that was sponsored by the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology and the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. They won $6,000 to help with the improvement of their device, and got valuable feedback from judges. While the Owlet won't be on the market for awhile, its creators are motivated to get it into the mainstream market, and approved by the FDA. I like how Jacob Colvin described some of his motivation in this device:
If we can hear just one mother say that we made a difference, it would all be worth it. That makes all the difference in the world.


text:
Walks costly for Cards after Wacha fans 10
NEW YORK -- With winds gusting up to 41 mph at game time, the Mets fanned nine times in the first three innings against Michael Wacha -- only the 11th time in the expansion era this has happened, per the Elias Sports Bureau -- a performance so dominant that they appeared powerless to do anything but tip their hats, even as they tried to hold them on their heads.
Wacha, in fact, lost his cap while pitching to Travis d'Arnaud in the second, two innings before he lost the plate. Bases-loaded walks to Ruben Tejada and Kirk Nieuwenhuis enabled the Mets to overcome a one-run deficit and caused manager Mike Matheny to end Wacha's night after four innings and 93 pitches in a 3-2 Cardinals loss.
After Wacha recorded 10 strikeouts, five walks and three hits in the shortest start of his 14 in the Major Leagues, Lucas Duda took reliever Seth Maness deep for a mammoth home run to right-center. It turned out to be the difference, barely, when Matt Carpenter, the potential tying run, was cut down at the plate on a perfect ninth-inning relay of Tejada after pinch-hitter Daniel Descalso hit the ball over the head of center fielder Nieuwenhuis.
One batter later, with Descalso at second, Kyle Farnsworth got Matt Holliday to fly out to the right-field corner to end a game that was maddening on swirling levels. Wacha lost the plate, and Carpenter didn't get there quite in time, a fact that both he and Matheny, who challenged the call by home-plate umpire Marty Foster, agreed was evident from a review that lasted only one minute and 20 seconds.
"I didn't even think there was going to be a play," said Carpenter, who, with the Cardinals trailing, 3-1, had singled with one out in the ninth to move Jon Jay to second. "I was rounding second as the ball was going over [Nieuwenhuis'] head.
"The only chance they have is to make two perfect throws, and they were able to do it. [Tejada] just threw it in a perfect spot. Where [d'Arnaud] was reaching to catch it brought him to me where I was sliding. If the throw is in any other direction, I am sliding around him.
"I didn't feel the tag, but he got me. The call was right."
"I could tell by Carp's reaction, and what I saw, it was close enough that we needed to take a good look at it," said Matheny of his first challenge of the season. "The ball kind of led [d'Arnaud] up the line to where he wasn't blocking the plate. I didn't think that was an issue. It was just a matter of whether he got to the plate before the tag was made. They got the call right."
Thus, what started as an extraordinary night, perhaps even headed toward an historical one, ended in a loss for Matheny's team. As Mets fielders fought blowing popups in the wind, Wacha solved that problem for the Cardinals by avoiding all contact save for Curtis Granderson's solid single in the first inning. Seven of the strikeouts were swinging, but all three of New York's hits off Wacha were hard contact.
Daniel Murphy started the fourth with one of those, a solid single to left and, after he was forced at second on a Chris Young grounder, Wacha lost the plate with a five-pitch walk to Duda. Despite the conditions, third-base coach Tim Teufel chose not to send Young home on d'Arnaud's subsequent solid single to right, only to see Shane Robinson's wind-blown throw sail through Yadier Molina.
That did not appear to be the correct decision, especially with the eighth and ninth hitters due up. But after Wacha saved the tying run by backing up the throw, he gave it to the Mets regardless by walking Tejada on five pitches. Wacha next went 3-2 on pitcher Jon Niese before nailing the inside corner for a called third strike, then walked Nieuwenhuis on five pitches, too, before Carpenter wrestled down Granderson's foul pop.
Matheny figured 93 pitches were enough.
"He looked like he was going to have his stuff," said Matheny. "He was just missing at times for whatever reason, getting a little bit side to side. He looked like he felt strong and was jumping at times, then the next thing you knew, you would see a beautifully executed pitch in the bottom of the zone. Then he was off wide to the side again -- no good explanation. He tried a couple of adjustments, and they didn't work."
Wacha didn't waste any of his wind blaming the wind.
"I don't credit it for losing my mechanics in that inning," said Wacha. "You have to be more mentally tough than I was tonight. Walking in two runs is just unacceptable.
"Looking at the video, mechanically, my arm was dragging. I just wasn't in sync. I felt good through the first 30 pitches, not really sure what happened after that."
What happened after Wacha exited really determined the game. Duda's homer proved to be the difference not just because of the relay in the ninth but because Jhonny Peralta, hitless in his last 21 at-bats, popped up in the seventh after Molina's second double of the game set up runners at second and third and one out.
Molina's first double of the night had scored Carpenter, who led off the game with a single off Niese before Wacha even went to the mound.
Wacha was his own Nor'easter for three innings before blowing himself out.
"As we saw, the conditions were really, really tough, and I'm not sure how much Wacha's had to pitch in conditions like that," said Mets manager Terry Collins. "There were a lot of things being said on the bench, some of them we can't talk about. But one of them was, [let's] make him throw a lot of pitches, see if we can get him out of there, because he's got great stuff, and we finally did."


text:
Skip to Content
Home > Find a Location > Locations Profile
New Search
UHS Outpatient Mental Health Clinic
33 Mitchell Avenue
Summit Building Sute G80
Binghamton, NY 13903
Main: 607-762-2340
Fax: 607-762-3298
Student Health
Nurses Improving Care forHealthsystem Elders
© 2020 United Health Services. All rights reserved. United Health Services, Inc. and the members of the UHS System neither are affiliated with, sponsored, endorsed nor approved by, nor otherwise associated with, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS), UHS of Delaware, Inc. nor their affiliates, which can be found at www.uhsinc.com.


text:
curl (one's) lip(redirected from curl their lips)
Like this video? Subscribe to our free daily email and get a new idiom video every day!
curl (one's) lip
To sneer at something. When I heard what was for dinner, I curled my lip in disgust. Don't you curl your lip at me! I did nothing wrong here!


text:
QualityShare This
Quality fats in every way
The food industry today is more complex than it has ever been before. At Bunge Loders Croklaan we strive to achieve continuous quality excellence to fulfil our customers' expectations and protect their valuable brands.
Over the years, we have acquired a great deal of control over every aspect of our supply chain – from tree to customer. Our focus on quality extends to all areas of our company. Every single day we work to optimize all aspects of our operations, from our analytical capabilities to our engineering solutions, in order to meet the highest quality and food safety requirements.
Being proactive and tailoring to the needs of the market are of vital importance to us as we care for our customers, people and products and are dedicated to continuing to meet the world's needs far into the future.


text:
Delicate and cheerful background track, which works perfectly with voiceovers due to the light arrangement.
The cheerful mood is given by ukulele strums, warm vocal touches (male and female mixed together), glockenspiel bells and a lighthearted airy whistle (real whistle from my mouth here … not samples).
The rhythmic part consists of a lot of hands clapping and snaps, tambourine and shakers.
This song is very useful for any product video promo and commercial requiring an upbeat and optimistic vibe and it does its best with children projects.
Don't forget to check out my latest cheerful track: Happy


text:
Deep Vintage IIRegular price $41.18 Sale price $22.65 Save $18.53
The DEEP VINTAGE line brings "deep" sounding heads to contemporary drums with no loss of resonance.
Aquarian's multi-ply vacuum molding process. eliminates "dead air" spots and adds depth and durability to the two 10mil plies.
The DEEP VINTAGE two ply models bring the true authentic sound of traditional calfskin heads to the "modern" drum and drummer, but with better performance results.
More than just for appearance ,the slightly thicker vintage coating slows the vibration of the head and results in a lower, warmer tone with a softer feel and a classic look.
- Two 10mil plies enhance deep, low-end frequencies
- Thicker Vintage Coating adds warmth
- Vacuum Molding Process. for better resonance
- Organic feel and performance


text:
The Vatican newspaper has declared that Homer Simpson is part of the pope's flock — a claim that leaves "The Simpsons" TV producer baffled.
"Few people know it and he does everything to hide it but it is true: Homer J. Simpson is Catholic," L'Osservatore Romano wrote in its weekend edition under the headline: "Homer and Bart are Catholic."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Behind The Scenes Of 'Sarah Palin's Alaska'
U.S. & World
Last December, the newspaper praised the show on its 20th anniversary for its philosophical leanings and irreverent take on religion.
The weekend story was the latest example of the Vatican paper's efforts to be more relevant in the last few years, and follows stories not only lauding Harry Potter but even praising the Beatles and waxing philosophical about John Lennon's boast that the British band was more popular than Jesus.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Spike TV's 'SCREAM 2010'
The paper quoted an analysis by a Jesuit priest, the Rev. Francesco Occhetta, discussing Homer's and his son Bart's conversion in a 2005 episode after meetingwith a sympathetic priest, Father Sean, voiced by actor Liam Neeson.
L'Osservatore says the analysis shows that behind the TV program's jokes are themes "linked to the sense and quality of life."
"'The Simpsons' remain among the few programs for children in which the Christian faith, religion and the question of God are recurring themes," it said. "The family recites prayers together before meals and, in its own way, believes in heaven."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Inside Kim Kardashian's 30th Birthday Bash!
While noting that "The Simpsons" often takes jabs at religious figures, it said parents should not be afraid to let their children watch "the adventures of the little guys in yellow."
But the show's producer told Entertainment Weekly the Vatican may have gone a step too far in its analysis of the satire, noting that Homer and Bart only consider converting in the 2005 episode.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Celebs Who Moved To Splitsville In 2010
"My first reaction is shock and awe, and I guess it makes up for me not going to church for 20 years," EW.com quoted executive producer Al Jean as saying.
Jean noted that the Simpson family attends the First Church of Springfield "which is decidedly Presbylutheran."
"We've pretty clearly shown that Homer is not Catholic," he told the entertainment website. "I really don't think he could go without eating meat on Fridays for even an hour."
But L'Osservatore would seem to take that in stride, too.
"Skeptical realism seems to prevail in the Simpson stories," it wrote. "Young generations of television watchers are educated to not let themselves be fooled. The moral? None. But one knows that a world without easy illusions is a more human world and, perhaps, more Christian."
Copyright 2010 by Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Related Content from AccessHollywood.com:
PLAY IT NOW: Brandy Battles Her Way To The Top On 'Dancing' (October 18, 2010)
PLAY IT NOW: Kyle Massey On 'Dancing' Score: 'I Know It Wasn't Fair' (October 18, 2010)
More from Access: [ 'The Simpsons' TV ]


text:
RIM's Tablet to Go On Sale April 19, Pricing Borrows From the iPad's PlayBook
Research In Motion offered up more details on its long-awaited PlayBook on Tuesday, announcing that the tablet should hit shelves on April 19 and will sell for basically the same price as a comparable iPad.
That means the 16GB model will sell for $499, a 32GB for $599 and a 64GB model will sell for $699, each with Wi-Fi connectivity but without a cellular modem. RIM plans to offer models with connectivity from Sprint and other cellular carriers later in the year.
RIM said that Best Buy stores will take pre-orders for the Wi-Fi PlayBooks starting immediately.
"Previews of the BlackBerry PlayBook have generated tremendous excitement and we know that customers are eager to get their hands on one," RIM's Craig McLennan said in a statement. "We share that excitement and we are very pleased to announce that customers can begin placing their orders with Best Buy today."
The April 19 date is a little bit later than the first quarter timing that the company had originally targeted.


text:
Download The Awakening Study Guide
Form and Content
(Masterpieces of Women's Literature)
The Awakening deals with the sexual awakening of a woman who has led the conventional life of an upper-middle-class wife and mother until the age of twenty-eight, then finds herself feeling so frustrated and suffocated that she is willing to defy the conventions of Louisiana Creole society to gain spiritual independence. She gradually abandons housekeeping, social visits, entertaining at home, and all the duties of a woman of her station. Defiantly, she begins to lead a bohemian lifestyle and to exercise freedom of choice in matters of sex.
The novel is divided into thirty-nine short chapters, each consisting of a single significant scene. Most of the story is told through the viewpoint of Edna Pontellier, an exceptionally sensitive and observant woman who can see into the characters of other people. The scenes not only present the various characters' personalities but also paint a picture of homes, furnishings, clothing, servants, entertainment, and other aspects of life in the late nineteenth century.
The first scenes take place at a summer resort on Grand Isle near New Orleans. City dwellers come to escape the city heat, but even on the island the subtropical heat and humidity are oppressive. The women and children remain on Grand Isle throughout the summer, while most of the men come over only on weekends and return to the city to conduct business.
A few younger men have no pressing business matters to which to attend. These bachelors amuse themselves by flirting blatantly with the married women. This behavior is tolerated in Creole society because the code of sexual morality is so strict that it is taken for granted that the relationships will remain platonic. Edna Pontellier, who is the most attractive woman on the island, is courted by the handsome young Robert Lebrun with the benign approval of Edna's husband. A combination of factors, however, turns their affair from a game into something more complex and potentially disastrous.
Once Edna falls in love with Robert, she experiences an adverse reaction to her husband. She realizes that she has never truly loved him and can barely stand to continue having intimate marital relations with him. Edna's character transformation is described in detail; it is also dramatized through Edna's overt behavior.
In one nighttime scene, Leonce keeps calling to his wife to come to bed. It was impossible for authors in Kate Chopin's day to discuss sex in explicit terms; however, Edna's repeated refusals to her husband's entreaties make it clear what is happening. She knows that he wants to have sexual intercourse and, for the first time in their marriage, she is refusing to allow herself to be used.
Robert is in love with Edna but not so deeply that he is willing to make any extraordinary sacrifices. Instead, he goes to Mexico to pursue a lucrative business opportunity. Robert steadfastly avoids communicating with her by mail because he realizes that such correspondence would exceed the bounds of social propriety.
Edna accepts the advances of another young man, Alcee Arobin, although she senses that he is only intoxicated by her beauty and does not understand her as a fellow human being. Here again, the author is unable to describe how far their relationship goes, but she provides strong suggestions that Edna and Alcee become illicit lovers.
By this time, Edna finds her husband so repulsive that she insists on moving out of their home and setting up her own household, providing her with better opportunities to see Arobin. She is becoming a successful artist, and her sketches and paintings are bringing in enough money to allow her to declare her independence.
When Robert returns, Edna finds that she is even more in love with him and that Arobin means little more to her than her own husband. Robert still loves her but lacks her courage and contempt for public opinion. At the last moment, when she is prepared to run away with him, she finds a note stating that he cannot bring himself to...
(The entire section is 3,811 words.)


text:
Friday, September 30, 2011
String up the lights
Well we've made it to the fifth and final day of the digi release reveal week at Some Odd Girl! There are 14 new images coming your way and we are also doing things slightly differently by having some extra fun with this release. Each day, Monday through Friday, we will be revealing 2-3 new digis on the Some Odd Girl challenge blog. Not only do you get to BUY the digis on the day of their reveal, you'll also get a special discount! On the day they are revealed those images will be available in the shop at 25% off but its FOR THAT DAY ONLY!
That means today's reveals will ONLY be available on sale until the next reveals are posted, and then the next batch will be available and on sale tomorrow! The sale will not be held over so stop back daily to see what's new and snatch them up at the fab sale price. :)
Today my card features the industrious home decorator, Bright Lights Kaylee. She is bundled up for the cold, ready to climb that ladder and make her home the best decorated house on the block. Yep, move over Clark Griswold 'cause Kaylee's not going to stop with just decorating the house... the trees, shrubs, fence and anything else else left standing still are all going to get treated with some baubles and bling, LOL!
Now be sure to head over to the SOG blog and check out the other new Christmas cuties that are being previewed and released today... they are all fantastic! :)
Have a great weekend everybody!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- Imaginisce
digi stamp- Some Odd Girl (Bright Lights Kaylee)
stamp- Paper Trey Ink (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox creamy brown
Creative Imaginations epoxy tree stickers
Ranger Icicle Stickles
Sakura clear glaze pen
Sharpie white marker
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20, R22
hair- E50, E51, E53
eyes- BG72, BG75, BG78
clothes- B95, B97, B99, E31, E33, E35, E37, E50, E30, 0, E81, B00, B12, B14, E57, E59, E49, W5, W7, W9
lights- YG03, YG67, B12, B14, Y38, YR14, YR04, R83, R85, R05, R27, R46
26 comments:
- Annette Allen said...
woo hoo first to comment... great card..love that image..
- September 30, 2011 at 6:16 AM
- Angie S said...
Cute card! Wonder if Kaylee could stop by my house to decorate as well.
- September 30, 2011 at 6:27 AM
- Creations by Shirl said...
Cute cute Kaylee! Love her color choices on her outfit....and the string of lights are so pretty too.Great bg papers!
Have a super weekend Amy!
- September 30, 2011 at 6:54 AM
- Juls said...
fabby! Love your combo of papers! Hugs juls
- September 30, 2011 at 7:18 AM
- gobeagirl said...
Amy I am running so behind, but I will be back tonight to read and admmire your wonderful cards. They both look so beautiful. Hugs
- September 30, 2011 at 7:24 AM
- Виола said...
Amy, your card, as always, is positive and beautiful. And you have your own interesting style, I'm glad you follow it from card to card
- September 30, 2011 at 7:48 AM
- Jas said...
Oh my gosh, I'm fallin in love with SOG stamps!!! Another must have in my wish list!!! TFS, Amy. Love your card as always and this time you really convinced me to try this wonderful stamps. My favorite holiday Christmas! Thank you!
- September 30, 2011 at 7:48 AM
- Cindy H. said...
What a cutie! Beautiful color, gorgeous coloring!!
- September 30, 2011 at 7:58 AM
- lalalulapilula said...
preciosa. muy lindo trabajo. y ella muy moderna. cariños. Lula :O)
- September 30, 2011 at 7:59 AM
- Rhonda Miller said...
Oh how cute.
- September 30, 2011 at 8:03 AM
- Nancy Thomas said...
She looks like she is ready to string those lights on the tree. Beautiful.
- September 30, 2011 at 9:38 AM
- Jenny said...
Oh my, she's a cutie!
- September 30, 2011 at 10:04 AM
- Crafty Loops said...
Oh wow this is really beautiful. Lee xx
- September 30, 2011 at 10:15 AM
- AtStudioD said...
Love. Love. Love.
Love. Love. Love.
That is all. hehe.
x0, Damaris
- September 30, 2011 at 10:58 AM
- Unknown said...
Awww how cute, and sweet, love the bright colours xxx
- September 30, 2011 at 11:00 AM
- kris said...
Fab coloring on the image!! card is rockin' lights!! =D
- September 30, 2011 at 11:32 AM
- Kimberly said...
WOW!!! this is one fantastic card. I just love how you put this together...super fabulous...tfs
- September 30, 2011 at 11:47 AM
- Maria Therese said...
Luuuuuuuve your card sweetie ♥
- September 30, 2011 at 12:55 PM
- corryskaart said...
hallo amy
iedere keer als ik naar je prachtige kaarten kijkt,valt mijn mond bijna open van verbazing hoe mooi je iedere kaart inkleurd!
groetjes van corry
- September 30, 2011 at 1:26 PM
- Patricia said...
Super cute card I love it =P
- September 30, 2011 at 2:16 PM
- Karla said...
fabby! Love your combo of papers!
- September 30, 2011 at 4:21 PM
- Stamping Cafe said...
You make me want to create holiday card, Amy! I'm loving these Odd Girl images, super cute! Love your design and your superb coloring as always, Amy!! Have a happy weekend!
- September 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM
- Unknown said...
This is such a sweet card, Amy! You got me into working on xmas cards! Thanks so much for the inspiration!
- September 30, 2011 at 9:51 PM
- gobeagirl said...
Wow Amy I finally got home tonight and wanted to come back and tell you just how stinkin cute this is. You do such a wonderful job of coloring these girls. I don't know why I haven't tried them yet, I think I am a little intimidated. lol... Have a great evening. Talk to you in the am. Hugs, Lisa
- September 30, 2011 at 10:11 PM
- RiNNE said...
Aiyayayayay!!! You must have the steadiest hands, Ames (can I call you that? ;))! Your coloring and cutting of those Christmas lights are so precise!! And your design is always en pointe!! On my Google Reader, your store is listed before this blog (alphabetical order)...I was going gaga over there trying NOT to buy anything!! ;)
- September 30, 2011 at 11:37 PM
- Izabela said...
Fantastic card!
- October 1, 2011 at 1:50 AM


text: Quick View Compare Happy Couple ATS SKU: AT-0334 $8.95 Largest stamp, 3-7/8" wide by 2-1/8" tall. Contains 2 Stamps.Made in the USA of high quality, deeply etched red rubber with cling mount. Our stamps create one of the best impressions on the market, giving you a perfect stamped image every time. Add to Cart


text:
Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North
5 January 2013
Today, January 5, 2013, a historical agreement was signed between all Sudanese opposition forces and in particular, representatives and the top leadership of the Sudan Revolutionary Front and a senior delegation representing the National Consensus Forces, youth, women and civil societies. After five days of deliberations, we arrived at a document to answer the questions: how Sudan can best be ruled during the transitional period and how we can accelerate and coordinate a peaceful uprising to get rid of the genocidal regime of the National Congress Party.
Sudan will collapse and disintegrate if this regime shall continue.
All the opposition forces agreed to reinforce a peaceful uprising by a joint action on the basis of the "New Dawn Charter", which is the first charter after the end and the collapse of the National Democratic Alliance that brought all the opposition under one umbrella.
It came after a lot of consultations and meetings between all the opposition political groups and civil societies, youth and women inside and outside of Sudan, and we agreed to form a coordinating council that will coordinate our joint work.
This is a major qualitative development that will have a huge impact on the Sudanese political scene, and we are calling upon the Sudanese inside Sudan and in the Diaspora and in the refugee camps to support this move to end the war and to bring a just peace and democracy to our country and to establish a government that the Sudanese deserve.
We agreed that the transitional period will be for four years. Within the four years, we will hold a national constitution conference.
The New Dawn Charter has adopted a new approach refraining away from business as usual, answering many questions of today and absorbing and taking seriously the painful experience of the National Congress regime that forced South Sudan to secede.
The New Dawn Charter addresses how we can unite the rest of Sudan and look forward for strategic relations with the Republic of South Sudan that is based on the mutual interests and historical ties, building two viable states and seeking in the future a Sudanese union between two independent states.
We call upon the friends of Sudan in the region and in the international community to support the unity of the Sudanese opposition forces and the New Dawn Charter to achieve peace, democracy and stability. It has been proven beyond doubt that stability can only be achieved through democracy, and if you sacrifice democracy for the sake of stability, you will end up sacrificing both of them.
The regime of General Bashir is the ugliest and most brutal regime on the African continent. The Sudanese people need to end the war to realize peace and democracy. This is a cause that should be supported by all lovers of peace and democracy.
Yasir Arman | Secretary General, SPLM-North | Secretary for External Affairs, SRF | January 5, 2013


text:
Mustang MonthlyHow To Paint Body
How-To Install A Turn-Signal Switch In A '65-'66 Mustang
Though Not the Most Glamorous Thing to Think About, Properly Functioning Turn Signals Are Important on Any Car-Vintage Mustangs Included
Ford never meant for a '65 Mustang to last upward of 40 years. But here we are four decades later and first-year Mustangs are still among the most desirable of all collectible Ponies-and it looks to remain that way for the foreseeable future.
As a car ages, there will always be little components that wear out and need replacement. For example, this '65 fastback's turn signals were no longer working. We tried a new flasher and checked out all the bulbs. We also inspected the taillight and parking-light housings and everything seemed to be in order. Thinking a new turn-signal switch-which is mounted in the steering column-might be the answer, we ordered one from California Mustang. It's considerably easier to install than you might anticipate, and after about an hour we were in business with newly functioning turn signals on this daily driven car.