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Calling the evaluation proces "encouraging," Hampton University athletic director Novelle Dickenson announced that Donovan Rose will remain the Pirates' head football coach.
"I was encouraged by the discussions that we had," Dickenson said Tuesday afternoon. "I was encouraged by the plans he has to implement qualitative changes throughout the program."
Rose, who just completed his fourth season as head coach at his alma mater, said that he received a one-year extension.
"I'm humbled that I've been given the opportunity to finish this," Rose said. "We had a lot of young guys and a lot of them got valuable experience. Now we need to point them in the right direction and make sure that we take advantage of the experience and clean up a little bit. We showed signs. We were our own worst enemy at times. We've just got to clean up a little bit and get going in the right direction."
The Pirates finished 3-7 overall, 3-5 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. It was the program's worst record since it became a Division I program in 1995. Hampton is 21-22 in four years under Rose and 16-16 in the MEAC.
Rose has been at Hampton for 23 years, as an assistant under former head coach Joe Taylor and then Jerry Holmes. He was promoted to head coach in early 2009, when Holmes was dismissed after one season.
Rose, a 1979 Hampton graduate, said that he was "fine" with the one-year extension and said that's enough time to demonstrate sufficient progress that will allow him to keep the position.
"I've been here 23 years, and I've got a little stock in this program," he said. "The biggest thing is that we can turn this thing around. Whether I'm given a year or a multi-year (extension), it doesn't matter to me. I'm concentrating on taking the program further."
Dickenson said that he understands a coach with only a one-year extension can be detrimental in recruiting, "but you have to convince parents and prospective athletes of the quality of the school and the program."
A strong program, athletically and academically, Dickenson said, will take care of any questions about a coach's tenure.
Dickenson would not discuss Rose's financial package -- Hampton is a private school and not required to disclose salaries. He declined to say if Rose's financial package is competitive with other MEAC programs.
Dickenson said that no performance benchmarks were placed on Rose for next season.
"We wanted to make sure that we have qualitative changes in place," he said, "in terms of strong academic students and a skill set that will allow them to succeed in college. If those things are in place, it will work out."
Dickenson also said that Rose wasn't required to make staff changes, that the coaching staff falls under his purview.
"It's his ship, so to speak," Dickenson said, "and it's up to him to steer it."
The program was saddled with NCAA penalties related to chronic underperformance on Academic Progress Ratings (APR). The Pirates were ineligible for postseason and docked one day of practice per week, and required to do academic work. The MEAC followed suit and ruled that Hampton was ineligible to compete for the conference title.
Rose is confident that Hampton will avoid further penalties related to the APR.
He also believes that structure is in place to return the program to the top of the MEAC. The Pirates won three consecutive conference titles and NCAA playoff berths from 2004-06. Eight times the Pirates won at least nine games under Taylor. But the program hasn't won a league title since 2006.
"Now, it's getting all the players and coaches to be accountable," Rose said. "I want us to concentrate on the teaching aspect. I've still got to drive myself and make sure that I'm more accountable. There's no excuses. At the end of the day, I've been given an opportunity and this is a great university, and we want to get back to where we're accustomed to being. I feel that's just around the corner, if we can tweak a couple of things. I'm excited and humble to begin that opportunity."
Rose said that he has not decided on possible staff changes. HU's assistant coaches have been on the road recruiting since the season concluded and are due back in town this week. He said he needed to learn his status before evaluating staff.
"Three-and-seven is nowhere near acceptable, and as far as where we stood in the conference is not acceptable," Rose said. "Everything happens for a reason, and I think this season is going to make our guys stronger and more accountable and ready to get back to where we need to be, a dynasty with this program."


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Why Trade Bonds When You Can Trade Ads?
Web Ads, Sold on Computerized Exchanges, Bring Wall Streeters Into the Fray
For many on Wall Street, landing an executive-level job at an established hedge fund would be a crowning career move. Until, that is, they get a chance to go into advertising.
Take Ted Yang, who two years ago launched a startup in the fast growing world of digital ad trading, MediaCrossing Inc., after 15 years in the financial industry.

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Choosing the Right Law School / BS/MS/JD accelerated program UPitt and CMU« on: March 04, 2004, 07:34:22 PM »
I'm in Carnegie Mellon, I just applied to their Heinz school of Policy accelerated 3-1-1 Masters program. I realized after next year I would have the oppurtunity to save another year and apply for the accelerated JD/MS program btwn the Heinz school and University of Pittsburgh. This would save a lot of money. I'm interested in GW's Intellectual property program with is critically acclaimed. UPitt has an IP certificate program. So my question is do I apply to the accelerated programs and save 2 years of higher education costs, we all know how expensive its getting these days, but go to a school w/ less a name for IP or do I finish my BS/MS program and hope to get into GW. How respected is the UPitt program? Do you even think I should bother w/ a MS in Public Policy and Management in IT if I can get an IP concentration in law school?


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The Italian came in for some heavy media flak last week after a loss to Ajax in Amsterdam left City needing a "miracle" - in Mancini's own words - to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League.
City failed to get out of their group in their maiden Champions League campaign last year, and their latest attempt has been another underwhelming one with just one point gained from the first three games.
And despite remaining unbeaten in the Premier League, the champions have also been below par at the start of their title defence.
With much made of Mancini's ultimately doomed decisions to continually change formation in Holland - and accompanying speculation that was unsettling players - the pressure appeared to be growing on the former Inter Milan boss.
But that eased slightly with a hard-fought win over Swansea last weekend and Mancini, who, it is suggested, held talks during last season about taking charge of Monaco, claims not to have been affected by recent pressure anyway.
Mancini said: "I don't read the newspapers. I know my job and I know when I make a mistake or do the right things.
"For this I talk with my club, my chairman and my staff, the other situations are not important."
Mancini has always remained confident in his ability to deliver and he famously guided City to title success last season after they had been eight points off the top with six games remaining.
But after what was a first league win in 44 years for the club, Mancini cannot understand where all the pressure and expectation for instant Champions League glory is coming from.
He said: "I don't know but maybe there are some that are happy for this, and some others that push for this.
"I don't know who or for which reason, but we are a young club for the Champions League. It could be that we lose some games."
Mancini also points out that for all Ajax's domination, City did lead 1-0 in the Amsterdam ArenA and had chances to score a second before eventually crashing 3-1.
He said: "Maybe we should do better because we didn't play well against Ajax, but when we were 1-0 we had two incredible chances to score the second goal.
"I think in that competition, when you have a chance, you need to score and close the game."


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Main Site - :: Why Won't God Heal Amputees? ::
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God did heal an amputee.
Religions need books because they don't have gods.
Thats nonsense, and u know it.
Lucifer, I find it interesting that you have "truth is powerful, and it prevails" on your sig. So you believe in absolute truth?
Dodging what? Is there a question in your past posts I missed?
Christ healed the soldier in the garden after his ear was cut off. That would be healing an amputee.
Sorry, my bad. I sound like an Athiest. Answering a question with another question. of course it is historically accurate in many ways.
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
Blue, tell me, how does the myth, or religion of evolution differ from your example of the Wheel of Power?I am not saying you believe in evolution, but would like to see your comparison.
Blue, tell me, how does the myth, or religion of evolution differ from your example of the Wheel of Power?
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Plans to launch this service were announced in January of last year and now one of the biggest developments for public libraries is another step closer to realisation. The feedback process will allow users to review functionality and links to their own catalogues.
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Pinter Harold Essays About Love
Harold Pinter is sometimes associated with the generation of British playwrights who emerged in the 1950's and are known as the Angry Young Men . His first plays, with their dingy, working-class settings and surface naturalism, seemed to link Pinter with this group, but only the surface of his plays is naturalistic; most of a Pinter play takes place beneath the surface. His closest affinities are with a more centrally important movement, the Theater of the Absurd . As a young man, before he started writing plays, the works of Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett made a great impression on Pinter. Like Kafka, Pinter portrays the absurdity of human existence with a loving attention to detail that creates the deceptive naturalism of his surfaces. It is particularly with the meticulously rendered, tape-recorder-accurate language of his characters that Pinter pulls the naturalistic and absurdist strands of his drama all together. The language of his characters, bumbling, repetitive, circular, is actually more realistic—more like actual human speech—than the precise and rhetorically patterned dialogue found in what is considered to be "realistic" drama. Yet that actual language of human beings, when isolated on the stage, underlines the absurdity of human aspirations and becomes both wonderfully comic and pathetic as it marks the stages of human beings' inability to communicate what is most important to them. Pinter, however, is more than an accurate recorder of speech; he is also a poet. The language of his characters, for all of their inarticulateness, is finally profoundly communicative of the human condition. What makes Pinter one of the most important modern British dramatists is his consummate skill as a dramatist; the fact that in language and pattern he is a poet, especially a poet of contemporary language, both its spoken expression and its expressive silences; and his existential insight into human beings' place in the universe, which connects him with the most profound writers and thinkers of his time.
The Room
Pinter's first play, The Room, contained a number of features that were to become his hallmarks. The play is set in a single small room, the characters warm and secure within but threatened by cold and death from without. The Room is overtly symbolic, more so than Pinter's later work, but the setting and characters are, for the most part, realistic. Rose sits in the cheap flat making endless cups of tea, wrapping a muffler around her man before she lets him go out into the cold; her husband, Bert, drives a van. Under the naturalistic veneer, however, the play has a murky, almost expressionistic atmosphere. The room is Rose's living space on earth. If she stays within, she is warm and safe. Outside, it is so cold it is "murder," she says. She opens the door, and there, waiting to come in, is the new generation, a young couple named Mr. and Mrs. Sands (the sands of time? Mr. Sands's name is Tod, which in German means "death"). They are looking for an apartment and have heard that Rose's apartment is empty. "This room is occupied," she insists, obviously upset at this premonition of her departure. A man has been staying in the basement. She imagines it to be wet and cold there, a place where no one would stand much of a chance. The man wants to see her. Again the door opens, to reveal a terrifying intruder from the outside. He comes in. He is a black man—the color of death—and he is blind, tapping in with his stick, blind as death is when claiming its victims from the ranks of the good or the bad. "Your father wants you to come home," he tells her. Rose's husband comes in at this moment, shrieks "Lice!" and immediately attacks the man, tipping him out of his chair and kicking him in the head until he is motionless. On the naturalistic level of the play, the action seems motivated by racist hatred, perhaps, but at the symbolic level, Bert seems to have recognized death and instinctively engages it in battle, as later Pinter characters kick out violently against their fate. It is, however, to no avail: Rose has been struck blind, already infected by her approaching death.
While this summary stresses the symbolic dimension of the play, it is Pinter's genius to achieve such symbolic resonance at the same time that he maintains an eerily naturalistic surface—although less so in this first play than in later plays. Critics have objected to the heavy-handedness, the overt symbolism, of the blind black man, and characters with similar roles in later plays are more subtly drawn.
The Birthday Party
The Birthday Party was Pinter's first full-length play; in effect, it is a much fuller and more skillful working out of the elements already present in The Room. The scene once more is restricted to a single room, the dining room of a seedy seaside guesthouse. Meg, the landlady, and Petey, her husband, who has a menial job outside the hotel, resemble Rose and her husband of The Room. Meg is especially like Rose in her suffocating motherliness. In this play, however, she is no longer the main character. That role has been taken by Stanley, the only boarder of the house, who has been there for a year. He is pinned to the house, afraid to go out, feeling that intruders from outside are menacing bringers of death. Although he is in his late thirties, he is being kept by Meg as a spoiled little boy. He sleeps late in the morning, and when he comes down to breakfast, he complains querulously about everything she fixes for him. He is unshaven and unwashed, still wearing his pajamas. What is enacted symbolically by his refusing to leave the house is his fear of going out and engaging life, his fear that an acceptance of life—meaning going outside, having a job, having normal sexual relations with a woman his age—would also mean accepting his eventual death. He is refusing to live in an absurd world that exacts so high a price for life. It is an untenable position, and his refusal to live as an adult human being has left him a wrinkled and aging child. Further, it does him no good to remain in the house: If he does not go out into the world, the world will come in to him. In fact, he hears that two men have come to town and that they are going to stay at the guesthouse. He knows at once that they have come for him and is thrown into a panic. In the meantime, Meg decides that it is his birthday and gives him a present. The unintentionally chilling reminder of his aging is cut across by the present itself, a child's toy drum, which Stan begins beating frenziedly as the first act ends.
The symbolic action, though more complex, resembles that of The Room: What is new is the much finer texture of the realistic surface of the play. The relationship between Stan and his surrogate mother, Meg, beautifully handled, is both comic and sad—comic because it is ridiculous for this nearly middle-aged man to be mothered so excessively and to behave so much like a spoiled child; sad because one believes in both Meg and Stan as human beings. Both comedy and pathos, realism and symbolic undercurrents, grow out of the fully developed language of the dialogue. Its richness, its circumlocution—all elements that have come to be called "Pinteresque"—are evident even in this early play.
It is obvious that the two men who come, Goldberg and McCann, have indeed come for Stan. There is no concealment between them and Stan. He is rude to them and tries to order them out. They make it equally clear to him that he is not to leave the premises. McCann is gloomy and taciturn; Goldberg, the senior partner, is glib and falsely jovial. His language is a wonderfully comic—and sinister—blend of politicians' clichés, shallow philosophy, and gangster argot. There is a brilliant scene when they first confront Stan, cross-examining him with a dizzying landslide of insane questions ("Why did you kill your wife? . . . Why did you never get married? . . . Why do you pick your nose?") that finally leaves him screaming, and he kicks Goldberg in the stomach, just as the husband in The Room kicks the blind black man. It is too late, however, for they have already taken his glasses, and he has had his first taste of the blindness of death.
Meg comes in, and they stop scuffling, the two henchmen putting on a show of joviality. They begin to have a birthday party for Stan. Lulu, a pretty but rather vulgar young woman, is invited. Lulu in the past has frequently invited Stan to go outside walking with her, but he has refused. She and Goldberg hit it off together, and she ends up in his lap kissing him as everyone at the party drinks heavily. They begin a drunken game of blindman's buff—"If you're touched, then you're blind"—and the recurring image of blindness serves as a foretaste of death. McCann, wearing the blindfold, comes over and touches Stan, so that it is Stan's turn to be "blind." To make sure, McCann breaks Stan's glasses. The drunken Stan stumbles over to Meg and suddenly begins strangling her. They rush over to stop him, and suddenly the power goes out. In the darkness, Stan rushes around, avoiding them, giggling. The terrified Lulu faints, and when someone briefly turns on a flashlight, the audience sees that Stan has Lulu spread-eagled on the table and is on top of her. With his mortality approaching him anyway, Stan, buoyed up by drink, makes a desperate effort to get out of the house, out of his entrapment in sterile childhood. He struggles to strangle the mother who is suffocating him and to have a sexual relationship with an appropriate female—a taste of the life he has denied himself in order to escape paying the debt, death. It is too late. In the morning, a nearly catatonic Stan is brought downstairs by the two henchmen. He has been washed and shaved and dressed in a suit, as if for burial. A black limousine waits outside the door. Petey, Meg's husband, makes a halfhearted attempt to save Stan from the henchmen, but to still his protests, they need only invite him to come along. One is reminded of the medieval morality play Everyman. When Death is carrying off Everyman, Everyman's friends and family promise to be true to him and help him in any way, but the moment they are invited to come with him, they find some excuse to stay behind.
The play in some ways points one back to other possible intentions in The Room. Perhaps Rose, like Stan, has denied life. Afraid to go out in the cold, she does not escape having the cold come in after her. What she has lost is the pleasure she might have had in actively engaging life. Her husband, for example, comes home after a cold, wintry day out driving his van and talks with almost sexual relish about the pleasure he has had in masterfully controlling his van through all the dangers of his route.
The Dumb Waiter
The Dumb Waiter has much in common with The Room and The Birthday Party. Again, the setting is a single room in which the characters sit, nervously waiting for an ominous presence from the outside. The two characters are a pair of assassins, sent from place to place, job to job, to kill people. They are, then, rather like McCann and Goldberg of The Birthday Party. What is interesting is that the cast of The Birthday Party has been collapsed into only these two, for they are not only the killers who come from outside, they are also the victims who wait nervously inside. While they wait in an anonymous room for their final directions on their new job, a job in which everything begins to go wrong, they pass the time by talking. The conversation ranges from reports of what one character is reading in the paper to discussions of how to prepare their tea, but in this oblique fashion it begins circling around to much more pressing speculations on the nature of their lives, questions with which these semiliterate thugs are poorly equipped to deal. The dialogue is quite comical at first, the verbal sparring between the two Cockneys handled with Pinter's customary assurance, but the play is also witty in a more intellectual, allusive manner.
In the opening scene, a number of direct allusions are made to Beckett's play, En attendant Godot (pb. 1952, pr. 1953; Waiting for Godot, 1954). There is, for example, a great deal of comic business made over putting on and taking off shoes and shaking things out of them, and at one point a character walks to the apron, looks over the audience, and says, "I wouldn't like to live in this dump." Ben and Gus (like Didi and Gogo) are waiting, with varying amounts of patience and impatience, for the arrival of a mysterious presence to reveal the meaning of things to them—the person who makes all the arrangements and sends them...
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For Pinter, as for so many, the game's ancient home was much more than a place where cricket is played. It was there that he went in his student days, bunking off from RADA to watch 'the Middlesex twins', Denis Compton and Bill Edrich, and nothing could erase those golden memories.
Appropriately it was Lord's that provided the stage when the BBC organised a reception to introduce a season of his work in 2003. Pinter, who had just emerged from a gruelling battle with throat cancer, paid tribute to his wife, Lady Antonia Fraser, and to his surgeon as he welcomed guests to the Long Room, "the greatest room in the world".
Yet his hero, somewhat oddly for a Londoner, was Sir Leonard Hutton, the great Yorkshire opening batsman. In "Hutton and the Past", a superb essay written for the Sunday Telegraph in 1969, Pinter considered Hutton's bat to be "an extension of his nervous system". You can find the essay in the "Cricketers' Companion", perhaps the best collection of writings on the game. Pinter contributed another fine piece, a memoir of Arthur Wellard, the Somerset all-rounder who became coach of Gaieties, to a collection called "Summer Days: Writers on Cricket".
Cricket metaphors and references abound in his plays, notably in No Man's Land, which is currently being revived in the West End. In a play about memory the four characters are named after famous cricketers of the past - Hirst, Spooner, Briggs and Foster: George Hirst, the Yorkshire all-rounder; RH Spooner, the Lancashire batsman; Johnny Briggs, the Lancashire slow left arm bowler; and any number of Foster brothers, who played for Worcestershire.
In Accident and The Go Between, two of the films he scripted for Joseph Losey, Pinter included scenes from village cricket matches. In the latter the way in which Leo Colston, the young go-between, catches Ted Burgess, the big-hitting tenant farmer in the outfield, serves as a visual metaphor to the real 'catching-out', and loss of innocence, that we witness later.
Two summers back I sat with Pinter in his box at Lord's, as he luxuriated in the beauty of Brian Lara's batting, and recalled the great players he had seen. I reminded him of the evocative words he had written in Hutton and the Past to describe one of his bunks from RADA: "that beautiful evening Compton made 70."
"That's right," he said, eyes glinting. "That's right."


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The only giveaway that this gorgeous spring-like celebration took place in the middle of January is the abundance of rich jewel tones. They add a gorgeous, cozy layer to this Austin affair designed by 36th Street Events along with florals by Stems. With images by Jen Dillender, set your sights on a wedding day blessed with perfect weather and the ultimate fairytale backdrop of the lawn of the Four Seasons.
Our sweet, stylish bride, Nicole, envisioned a lush outdoor wedding, reminiscent of spring (despite taking place in the middle of January) and she trusted the talented team behind 36th Street Events to make it happen. Not only did they exceed her expectations with their beautiful design, but somehow we managed to avoid any signs of winter and experienced the perfect wedding weather! The clear reception tent was overflowing with greenery and bright berry-hued florals from Stems Floral Design and the added strings of lights gave the evening a starry atmosphere, well into the evening. Cody and Nicole, the bride and groom, were precious together and really soaked in what turned out to be a wonderful day. One of my favorite elements was the bride's dreamy Naeem Khan dress, the vibrant floral decor, and the one-of-a-kind cake topper that said "To the Stars and Back" because the groom made a point to remind his bride often that the stars were further away than the moon. The entire event was fresh and romantic from beginning to end!


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A Letter to the Members of the U.S. Congress
We the undersigned advocates who work with survivors of sexual assault to find healing and recovery, members of law enforcement who investigate their cases, and prosecutors who hold their perpetrators accountable, write today to ask that you join us in our effort to give survivors the justice they deserve.
We urge Congress to prioritize the President's budget request for $35 million in dedicated funding for competitive grants that will provide communities across the country with the vital resources they need to create a coordinated response to thousands of rape kits sitting untested in police storage facilities—from testing to prosecution, and each step in between.
Over the past five years, we have learned of large numbers of untested rape kits languishing in police departments across the country with alarming frequency: 12,500 in Los Angeles; 4,000 in Cleveland; 6,600 in Houston; 3,000 in Phoenix; 11,304 in Detroit; 12,164 in Memphis. Because most law enforcement agencies have not been required to report the number of untested kits in their custody, it's likely the largest numbers in many of the communities we serve have yet to be discovered.
Untested rape kits represent lost opportunities for healing and justice for survivors, and accountability for perpetrators. But we know that testing is just the first step to comprehensive reform. Once a backlog is acknowledged and the first kits are sent out for testing, cities are left to grapple with the enormous task of not just finding a way to test all of their backlogged kits, but also figuring out how to investigate and prosecute these cases, re-engage survivors in the process, and address any systemic failures that led to the creation of the backlog in the first place.
This work takes political will, but it also takes significant resources, and up until now, finding the money has been a struggle for jurisdictions that want to enact a multi-disciplinary community approach to rape kit reform.
For years, we have stood together in this work, in support of full funding for the Debbie Smith Act – a crucial tool for testing rape kits, especially those backlogged in crime labs. We applaud the House's passage of the reauthorization, and look forward to the Senate's. This new $35 million Department of Justice grant opportunity is a needed complement - without funding for the investigation and prosecution of the findings, test results may fall short. Based on successful results from multi-disciplinary efforts in Detroit, Houston and other cities, this funding focuses exclusively on meeting community needs for investigation, prosecution and victim reengagement.
Those cities brought together law enforcement, prosecutors, victim advocates and crime labs to address untested rape kits in police storage facilities, to create multi-disciplinary teams to investigate and prosecute those cases, to conduct victim notifications and reengage victims with the criminal justice system and to develop and implement comprehensive policies to prevent future backlogs. Communities nationwide want the opportunity to follow these models and continue to build on this foundation.
We urge you to fully fund this new program, which is endorsed by advocacy organizations and service providers from across the country. For more information, please visit http://www.endthebacklog.org/government/35-million.
Thank you,
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
- Break the Cycle
- Crime Victims Treatment Center, Mt. Sinai St. Luke's and Mt. Sinai Roosevelt Hospitals
- DC Rape Crisis Center
- Downstate Coalition for Crime Victims
- The Enliven Project
- Futures Without Violence, formerly Family Violence Prevention Fund
- Hollaback!
- Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault
- Joyful Heart Foundation
- Memphis Area Women's Council
- Natasha's Justice Project
- National Alliance to End Sexual Violence
- National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
- National Network to End Domestic Violence
- National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault
- National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
- North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault
- Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence
- Peace Over Violence
- Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
- Rape Victim Advocates
- Safe Horizon
- Test 400k
- Texas Association Against Sexual Assault
- Urban Justice Center
- Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs
- Wayne County (Detroit) SAFE
- YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
- April 29th, 2014
ENDTHEBACKLOG is a program of the Joyful Heart Foundation to shine a light on the backlog of untested rape kits throughout the United States. Our goal is to end this injustice by conducting groundbreaking research identifying the extent of the nation's backlog and best practices for eliminating it, expanding the national dialogue on rape kit testing through increased public awareness, engaging communities and government agencies and officials and advocating for comprehensive rape kit reform legislation and policies at the local, state and federal levels. We urge you to learn more about the backlog, where it exists and why it matters. We invite you to take action and support efforts to test rape kits. Help us send the message that we must take rape seriously.


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A fake hippy who complains about every polluting object known to man but uses the same products that they complain about.
Oh those awful cars but hey I just bought a Suburban! Check it out it has a V8!
by Chris Walker October 29, 2004
A fake hippy. Usually found playing hackey sack and getting stoned, a hippycrite is someone who moans at you for the products you buy or for 'killing the planet' then drives the half mile to KFC for some battery farmed chicken and drops the wrappers out the car window.
James is doing my head in, chatting shit about the environment when he goes on holiday every other day and his carbon footprint is about the size of a dinosaur. He's such a fucking hippycrite!
by wassonthen February 11, 2011
One who claims to be of the hippy culture but doesn't live up to his or her proclaimed status. Usually found in rural college towns and places that have a "hip" hippy culture. Generally asimilates themselves with real hippys because it's "cool" at the time.
Al was just with us at the global warming march last week, why is he driving that Hummer now? He's such a hippycrite!
by RJ_Singleton May 25, 2007
Any person who is "all" for the environment and green movement while driving a hummer, having campfires, eating meat, wearing leather, and just making lots of pollution.
Al Gore is all for a "green world" yet he has a huge house, a huge suv, and is totally fat. He is a big fat hippycrite.
by thefifinator August 19, 2010
Environmentalist who wants to save the world by reducing emissions and producing clean energy, but derides alternative energy sources because they look bad.
Those hippycrites won't let us build a wind farm because it ruins the view!
by Mike Lerley May 03, 2007
those bitches are such hippycrites
by haha47 July 13, 2010
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Focus on Control
Most feeders operate as part of a larger system, interconnected to produce a coordinated formulation. This section introduces you to today's flexible, high-connectivity SmartConnexTM environment for full spectrum continuous and batch solutions from single device control to multi-line supervisory systems.
Individual feeder accuracy is only part of the performance equation. In plastics as in most other process applications, several feeders must act in concert with each other and with associated processing equipment. System wide control, connectivity and communications is a key factor in achieving and maintaining end product quality.
This section introduces Coperion K Tron's innovative SmartConnexTM Control Environment, detailing its applicability to the full range of controls applications encountered in plastics processing.
NOTE: Clicking on "additional info" in this section will deep link you to the appropriate page on the Coperion K-Tron website (www.coperion.com) where you can view and download additional technical information.


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Texas AG charges two from company scamming local seniors
The Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today charged Syam Tax Services, LLC and two of its officers – Shannon Mays and Marshrief Shead – with fraudulently obtaining elderly Texans' sensitive personal information and illegally filing falsified federal income tax returns on their behalf. In response to the State's enforcement action, Judge Michael Gomez of the 129th District Court of Harris County today froze Syam's assets and entered a temporary restraining order against all named defendants.
"Targeting senior centers and churches, Syam Tax Services launched an apparently well-orchestrated scheme to defraud the elderly – and even worse, those who rely on federal benefits for their well-being," Attorney General Abbott said. "My office is working to put a stop to this despicable fraud, and thanks to the court order we obtained today, Syam is prohibited from continuing to violate the law. We first informed Texans of this scam in December, and are now moving swiftly to shut down Syam's deceptive operation and prevent other seniors from becoming victims of this scam."
The Attorney General began the state investigation after The Examiner's most recent investigation that revealed Syam had been flourishing even after the federal government began investigating the company for ripping off local seniors, See that story at http://www.theexaminer.com/stories/news/victims-accumulate-while-feds-investigate.


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Hey Calvin!
Do you feel like getting together perhaps next weekend? Paula and Louis might be down too, I'd really like it if we could all 4 of us (it seems the most actively talking) could come together and have a doubles game. It would be more of an ice-breaker than a singles game and we could get to know each other and move from there!
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Staten Island, NY - Matrix Games and Binary Evolution Studios are pleased to release the new comprehensive 1.20 update for their WWII turn-based strategy game, Operation Barbarossa – The Struggle for Russia. The new update includes three new scenarios ("Germany - Berlin 1945", "Germany - Minsk 1941", "Russia - 3rd Battle of Ladoga"), additional terrain for map creation, expanded modding capabilities, and more.
David Heath, Director of Operations at Matrix Games, said "Operation Barbarossa – The Struggle for Russia gives both new and veteran wargamers the chance to experience the strategic challenges facing the Russian and German armies during the Second World War. With plenty of modding capabilities and easy map/scenario creation, the game's replayability is substantial, but these three new scenarios can't hurt either!"
On June 22, 1941 an avalanche of 153 German divisions crash into the Soviet Union and the largest military operation in history is begun: Operation Barbarossa. In this elegant turn-based strategy game, compelling gameplay combines with gripping history to create an addictive mix.
Aimed at all levels, from those who have never played a wargame before to those who know the history of World War II in detail, this is an entertaining and mentally challenging game of combined arms strategy. Your armor, infantry, artillery and air units will follow you through the most crucial battles of the Eastern Front. You will be able to choose from 47 different upgrades and improvements for your units as well as add new forces based on your success in the campaign.
Take command in two German and one Soviet campaign as well as individual scenarios and determine the fate of the Eastern Front. When you've played through all the campaigns and scenarios, try your hand at the editor to create new scenarios for yourself or to share with others!
This update is comprehensive and will bring all previous versions of Operation Barbarossa to 1.20. Get more information on Operation Barbarossa from its official product page.
Matrix Games produces, markets and publishes historical wargames as well as other computer gaming products. Since 2000, Matrix Games has published over one hundred titles and several award-winning games, including Gary Grigsby's War in the Pacific, Close Combat: The Longest Day, Harpoon 3 Advanced Naval Warfare, John Tiller's Campaign Series, Conquest of the Aegean, Crown of Glory: Emperor's Edition, Battles In Normandy and Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War III. Matrix Games is based in Staten Island, New York. For more information, visit the Matrix Games website at www.matrixgames.com.


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Design clothing line logo online jobs
Hi, we are NSFW clothing and looking to find people to work with that can create illustrations that are based on erotic and sexual nature. Ideally looking for 25 designs. The illustrations will be printed on t shirts, female figure with breasts and bum wearing kinky underwear.
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Need a solid Logo for my new compmay.
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Need a Logo for baby clothing website. Name found in the attached document
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The product line will be in Grey, Black, Navy Blue and Orange. The project is about to design a hoodie, a sweatshirt and a t-shirt - from scratch. WNR is a casual clothing brand for people who are into extreme sports. We are going to produce a line of hoodies, sweatshirts and t-shirts. There will be more releases to work on in the future if everything
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I need a creative graphic designer who can create cool & interesting designs for my clothing brand. Please message me if you are interested, then I will share further details.
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Help with fashion design of an athletic t shirts
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Photoshop of E-commerce Clothing 100 Products.
Looking to make my kids clothing logo! Looking for something hip and fun!
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MUST BE PROFICIENT IN MAILCHIMP, PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, HTML. We need a visually pleasing email for a clothing company. It needs to be modern yet easy to read on all platforms. There is a dropbox link below that includes the following: 1.) sample of newsletter with the content we want in it, but the style is wide open and up to you. Any text in
We have a new clothing brand which name is CUASAR. Cuasar means is a galactic nucleus. You can read about Cuasar from here: [login to view URL] We want a logo relevant with clothing and Cuasar also...
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Looking for someone to create a logo for a clothing website in a similar style to the attached file but with the face of a cheetah. Please be creative when designing the work. A good job on this project may lead to future work.
I am starting a womens clothing line geared towards ladies that drive pick up trucks, lifted and lowered. Need some fresh ideas and designs.
I am looking for a google and facebook ads expert who can help in getting sales you'll be responsible for: 1) Going through the website and selecting products you think you can sell using fb ads 2) Setting up facebook pixel as you think is correct 3) setting up ad campaigns for google and facebook 3) estimate ad budget and sales he/she can get from that ad based on previous experience. (you...
I need a logo designed!
I need a logo designed.
I am creating an online clothing line and am also creating a website I need a logo which will go onto my products and be the face of business so it needs to stand out and grab peoples attention while being elegant and appealing to my target market.
I need a website created for my new clothing online, the website must be able to take orders, receive payments show stock levels and notify me when an order has made so it can be shipped. I basically need a professional invitBig stylish website for a new clothing line that can do everything.
I want SEO optimization and when you search COASTL Clothing on google I want it to come up instead of "Coastal Clothing" I need someone with experience of growing websites.
Large car enthusiasts merchandise store. Looking for a graphic design to send .AI file of the project. Sketch has been made and will be sent in private.
Looking for someone to build my website for women's clothing brand. Currently we don't require any online shopping. This website will describe more about work we do and about the company. We just want to upload all the pictures of our collection in every season. We need below pages on our website HOME COLLECTIONS ABOUT US SALES
I will be launching my first collection baby clothing and essentials early next year. As I grow I will require childrenswear design, sketch and tech packs. So I am interested in finding a designer that I can work with long term. I am looking for a designer who can take my concepts and ideas and apply their creativity to create sketches for the collection
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text: Check out the new platform for Suffrage Wagon News Channel. The regular blog stays the same: that is, linked to suffragewagon.org Note that things are organized differently –by news and 60-second history lessons. And the spring special issue of the newsletter is now published. Highlights include new art work by Peter Sinclair of the suffrage wagon, the article by Tara Bloyd in "Albany Kid" about little Serena Kearns who was a suffrage poster child, and a great music video about the suffrage movement. Also, a special feature: Who's behind "Suffrage Buffs of America"?


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Meet the Big Muff Pi and the Muff family!
Meet The Muffs: All About the Big Muff Pi and the Muff family! (EXCLUSIVE NEW STORY!)
From Jimi Hendrix to the first Muff, From New York to Russia, from Pink Floyd to the White Stripes...here's the story of the world's favourite fuzz pedal, and a look at the whole Muff family available today!
The Muff family...bringing vintage fuzz tones to the world. IN STOCK NOW!
If today distortion pedals (such as the Boss DS-1 and DS-2, Pro Co RAT etc) are usually the most popular, in the 60's it was all about fuzz. Once Dave Davies made the fuzzy guitar sound popular with The Kink's "You Really Got Me", the gates were open for a new - and louder - era in rock'n'roll!
Some of the first fuzz boxes to become popular were the Maestro Fuzz (used by The Rolling Stones on "Satisfaction"), the Tone Bender (used by Jeff Beck in The Yardbirds) and the Fuzz Face, made famous by Jimi Hendrix.
The First Muff
In 1968 Mike Matthews founded Electro-Harmonix, and amongst their first inventions was a tiny fuzz box called the "Muff Fuzz". The Muff Fuzz was the original Muff, and is today incredibly collectible.
The first Muff: Muff Fuzz
The box couldn't be simpler: an on/off switch and a gain control. Watch demo here
The Muff Fuzz has been reissued by Electro-Harmonix, in the shape of the nano Muff Overdrive. This simple and affordable pedal offers a pure vintage sound and is a faithful reproduction of the original Muff.
Even better, is the Double Muff, which brings together, in one box, two Muff Fuzz circuits, meaning double the sound! On "double mode", with gain to the max, the Double Muff can do a good Big Muff impersonation, very White Stripes-y. This pedal is already a classic in its own right, and, alongside the Muff Overdrive, they are only new Muffs not inspired by the Big Muff, but by the original Muff Fuzz.
The Muff Overdrive and Double Muff are great for simple, vintage fuzz tones, with no tone control - raw, loud, with a silky overdriven tone. Because of this, they'll work much better on valve amps.
The Arrival of the Big Muff - 1971
The Big Muff starts to take shape...Axis Fuzz (left) and Foxey Lady
Contrary to myth, the Big Muff was not used extensively by Jimi Hendrix and, in fact, production models were not available until 1971, a year after Hendrix's death in 1970. But Big Muff creator Mike Matthews has claimed that Hendrix used a Big Muff prototype in some sessions prior to his death and he was reportedly impressed enough to want to use it on his next album. Hendrix played an integral part in the making of the Big Muff, as Matthews has often stated that Hendrix's guitar sound was the inspiration for the creation of the Big Muff.
An earlier EH pedal, the Axis fuzz (picture above) was also manufactured by EH for the Guild guitar company as the Foxey Lady and used a similar chassis as the early Big Muffs but had a simpler two-transistor circuit. You can see by the picture that the Electro-Harmonix Axis Fuzz had a similar chassis to the modern Big Muff, but only two knobs (volume and fuzz) like all the classic fuzz pedals of the sixties.
With the introduction of the Big Muff the Axis was discontinued and the Foxey Lady pedal became a rebranded Big Muff. It was available at least until the mid '70s.
Amongst the first Big Muff users we can mention David Gilmour, Carlos Santana, John Lennon, Frank Marino and others.
The inventor of Big Muff: Mike Matthews, we salute you!
The first version was a chrome bent-sheetmetal box 4 1/2 w by 6" long with a black finished aluminum bottom. The angled top featured three knobs (volume, sustain, and tone) in a triangular pattern and an on/off switch for the battery in the upper left hand corner. Jacks were on the far end; graphics were minimalist, silk screened in black. By 1973 or early '74 the size had been increased to 5 1/2 " x 7", the knobs were now in a straight line across the top, and the battery switch was moved to between the jacks.
Graphics were jazzed up and screened in red (rare in blue). This variation also has a goofy face in the lower right-hand corner; sort of a Tolkienesque thing with hair that looks like ivy. This has been referred to as a "sheep's face" but sheep around here don't look like that....
Circa '76-'77 the Big Muff made its final costume change; the logo was now inch high red letters with a shadowed effect. Control function type was in black; there was also a large black, solid block of ink around the foot switch (this was dropped from the design on some of the last big muffs made around 1984).
The first pedals with this design had the battery switch but soon a switching input jack was used and the switch became a bypass for the tone control. Around 1978 some B-Muffs were made with a circuit using 741 Op-amps instead of the usual four transistors. This design had one less gain stage, losing some essence of Muff and was discontinued after a couple of thousand were produced.
Big Muff Pi Today
Today the Big Muff is the world's most popular fuzz pedal, no question about it! In the late 80's and early 90's, it became *the* grunge pedal of choice: it inspired the title of Mudhoney's debut album 'Superfuzz and Big Muff' and was used by bands such as Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth and Nirvana.
It's hard to find a band who's never used a Big Muff: from Black Keys to Muse to Red Hot Chili Peppers, from U2 to The White Stripes, everyone seems to love the Big Muff, and the wide range of artists of all styles who play the Big Muff displays this pedal's tonal versatility. It's simply superb...and, best of all, it's still quite cheap!
Electro-Harmonix thinks one Big Muff is not enough, and recent new models subtract or add to the classic Big Muff design, offering features to fit all kinds of players. Here's a look at the new versions of the Big Muff:
Nano Big Muff Pi
The smallest member of the EHX Muff family, however through the wonders of modern technology the Nano Big Muff Pi squeezes the full sound of the Big Muff Pi into a Nano style enclosure. The full, rich sustain guitarists know and love in a dinky enclosure.
Little Big Muff
The Little Big Muff uses the same circuitry of the Big Muff. If you like the Big Muff, you'll like the Little Big Muff! The only difference is the size...you get the same power of the Big Muff, but in a smaller, die cast package. If you don't care about the classic Big Muff look and needs more space in your pedalboard, the Little Big Muff is your choice. By no means it's a "lesser" pedal. In fact, some top artists such as Jamie Cook of the Arctic Monkeys, started with a Big Muff and switched to the Little Big Muff.
Bass Big Muff Pi
A smoother, creamier Big Muff, in part inspired by the sough-after green Russian Big Muff, by Sovtek. However, this new model has been tailored for bass and has stereo outputs and a bass boost function. There was simply no way the Bass Big Muff could go wrong, and its instant success is proof of that. It's a well known fact that Big Muffs work great with bass guitars...and this new Bass Big Muff is definitely the best option, finally giving bassists a Big Muff made specially for them. About time!
Deluxe Bass Big Muff
The Deluxe Bass Big Muff goes even further than the Bass Big Muff Pi by offering DI Out, clean blend and a footswitch for a filter that can go between balanced distortion and full on raging fuzz. There's also a noise gate and three outputs to send your wet, dry and DI signals anywhere you need. A top bass fuzz from EHX, while everyone loves fuzz pedals it's important for bassists to retain that low end fundamental.
Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker
This cool, white Big Muff is already incredibly popular, adding new features to the classic Big Muff sound. You can switch the tone knob off for a purer fuzz sound, or use the wicker to boost the treble a bit...a good feature for those who think the tone of the original Big Muff can get too "muddy". The Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker sounds like a true Big Muff...but offers much more!
Metal Muff
The Big Muff of choice for metalheads! For heavy metal, shredding rock'n'roll gods, no Big Muff will sound better than the Metal Muff. Why? It offers more EQ possibilities than any other muff (hi / mid/ low) and also a top boost feature. For maximum power onstage, nothing will beat the Metal Muff...it's the ultimate pedal for heavy metal distortion! Check the product page and watch the demo!
Electro-Harmonix Germanium 4 Big Muff Pi
The very first fuzz pedals were made using germanium transistors and many purists feel they have a unique, warm character. EHX agree and that's why they created the Germanium 4 Big Muff Pi.
Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Big Muff Pi
Arguably the new daddy, the Deluxe Big Muff Pi gives guitarists what they've long craved, complete control over the mids and low end. This is the biggest change to the classic Muff formula since the 1970's and you can really dial in a huge range of tones and easily emulate the sound of vintage models like the Rams Head as well as the sound of many of the Big Muffs boutique imitators. For loads of information on the Deluxe Muff (and indeed the whole range) pedal fanatic Kit Rae has gone into great depth on his Big Muff Pi page, even going so far as to create a video and temple for you to write down your pedal settings on.
Electro-Harmonix Big Bass Muff Pi Nano
Everyone loves the Green Russian Muff, long the weapon of choice for fuzzy bassists. The Bass Big Muff Nano takes this sound as it's template and features a few enhancements for bassists.
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Tips to Ace Your Healthcare Interview
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Don't Be Cocky
Attitude plays a key role in your interview success. There is a fine balance between confidence, professionalism and modesty. Even if you're putting on a performance to demonstrate your ability, overconfidence is as bad, if not worse, as being too reserved.
Take Care to Answer the Questions
When an interviewer asks for an example of a time when you did something, he is seeking a sample of your past behavior. If you fail to relate a specific example, you not only don't answer the question, but you also miss an opportunity to prove your ability and talk about your skills.
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When asked if they have any questions, most candidates answer, "No". Wrong answer; it is extremely important to ask questions to demonstrate an interest in what goes on in the company. Asking questions also gives you the opportunity to find out if this is the right place for you. The best questions come from listening to what is asked during the interview and asking for additional information.
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When you interview with the "please, please hire me" approach; you appear desperate and less confident. Maintain the three C's during the interview: cool, calm and confident. You know you can do the job; make sure the interviewer believes you can, too.
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This degree option is an expanded version of the Associate of Science in Air Traffic Control, offering additional preparation for a future in aviation leadership with business-related courses, extensive aviation training courses, and coverage of general business topics.
LETU's Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative (AT-CTI) program is designed to prepare you to fill air traffic control specialist positions in towers and radar centers around the country through hands-on learning using high-tech radar and tower simulators. Once you've honed your skills as a controller, you'll be more competitive for leadership roles with the bachelor's degree in air traffic management. FAA applicants must meet physical requirements and typically must be under the age of 31 to be hired.
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Smash N' Crash through the Shrek universe atop a mount with a personality all its own! Play as your favorite Shrek character and pit your racing and combat skills against an assortment of twisted fairy-tale opponents. Grab your mount and bump, crash and slide your way across 12 fairy-tale locations. If you fall behind, don't worry - use magical pick-ups to even the odds or battle your way back by knocking your opponents off their mounts. Beat your friends to the finish line in this fun and funny smash and crash twisted fairy-tale adventure!
Also known as: Shrek Smash and Crash Racing
Release Region: United States
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Publisher: Activision
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Release Date: March 16, 2007
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Also available on: PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Game Boy Advance, GameCube
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A gray halter top and pants, worn while relaxing after a session with [[Jillian]] and again later with [[Parson]] in the library at night. It appears again on Turn 8, in the war council after [[RCC]] seizes the [[Outer Walls]].
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Wanda has made frequent costume changes throughout the series, and has in fact had more costumes than any other two characters combined.
Turn 1 and 2
A Black, white, and red robe, with red pointed toed strapped boots, red gloves, and a white skull in her hair.
Turn 3
A small white leather tank top and leather pants with red strings. Red boots and white gloves. Worn at the beginning of a torture session with Jillian.
Turn 4
A gray halter top and pants, worn while relaxing after a torture session with Jillian and again later with Parson in the library at night. It appears again on Turn 8, in the war council after RCC seizes the Outer Walls.
A white shirt and red tie, with black bodice. Legs are not clearly shown, but pants are suggested since she does not apepar to ride side saddle. Red riding gloves. White hat with skull motif.
Turn 5
A red and black backless dress that reveals ample cleavage.
Worn with the intent of fast removal, this is a short white robe with red blotches that intentionally resemble blood stains. On the left breast, the red blots form into a pink skull with red eyes (click on image for higher-resolution version which makes the pink skull much clearer). The robe is closed by a red sash.
Turn 6
Actually worn either early in the fighting with the RCC before the comic starts, or as far back as Faq's era, this is a white and red one piece, worn with thigh length red boots and a skull adornment in her hair.
Turn 7
Initially, this outfit appears to merely be a black, hooded robe, but once the energies of her casting come into play, the robe flies back to become a cloak, revealing a Red and black one-piece. A skull-topped staff accessory completes the ensemble.
Turn 8
For the Croakamancer on the go, this simple... cha right... Its red and black armor with a skulled helm and goat's head topped staff.
An homage to Michael Jackson in his Thriller video, this red and black suit is made for dancing.
Turn 9
This ensemble appears after Wanda finds and attunes to the Arkenpliers. It is a black and red... Uhm... something. I really dunno what this is technically called. Oh, right, yes I do. It is FAN SERVICE.
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- Wanda's dance-fighting costume from Turn 8 is an homage to Michael Jackson in his Thriller video.
- Her hooded rob and skull-topped staff from Turn 7 may be a homage to Skeletor from Masters of the Universe.


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the same meaning as wimp but with a more personnal feel to it. calling someone a wimpface is more offensive then wimp.
by Superdave161 July 05, 2006
The face that one makes, or is compelled to make, when drinking a strong alcoholic beverage. Resisting it is a sign of strength and high tolerance for alcohol. An alcohol virgin is almost guaranteed to make this face when first tasting a straight shot of whiskey, rum, or other strong alcoholic beverage.
I can't drink a shot of Wild Turkey without making the wimp face.
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By Mary L. Chang
When red blood cells break down, so does hemoglobin. A byproduct of this breakdown, bilirubin, has been hypothesized to act as an antioxidant; some in vitro studies have suggested that low-density lipoprotein can be protected from breakdown by oxidation by bilirubin. This, along with the idea that bilirubin has anti-inflammatory properties, may explain why low concentrations of serum bilirubin are associated with a higher risk for cardiovascular disease.
Pernette R.W. de Sauvage Nolting and colleagues at the Academic Medical Center of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, investigate in the article "Serum bilirubin levels in familial hypercholesterolemia: a new risk marker for cardiovascular disease?" whether a statin can change blood bilirubin levels in people with familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic disorder characterized by high levels of cholesterol, especially LDL. They also investigated whether bilirubin level was a reliable risk marker for cardiovascular disease.
Male patients between 18 and 80 years old who had one copy of the hypercholesterolemia gene were given a daily oral dose of statin for two years and followed for the entirety of this cross-sectional study.
The statin was shown to reduce total cholesterol, LDL and triglyceride levels while elevating high-density lipoprotein; but, more importantly, median bilirubin levels increased from baseline after treatment.
This increase was more obvious in patients who had been diagnosed with cardiovascular disease than those without cardiovascular disease.
While the study had limitations (particularly patients' concurrent aspirin use and their lifetime smoking habits), the publication appears to be the first to consider bilirubin level as a potential risk marker in an FH population and proposes that long-term use of a statin can protect that population from cardiovascular disease.
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Knockout of the Day: Unlucky Brazilian Gets Front-Kick KO'd, Then Flying Knee KO'd [GIF]
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This gif comes to us from Saturday's Jungle Fight event in Sao Paulo, where Nova Uniao product Ari Santos made short work of opponent Robert Fonseca, finishing him in just 63 seconds. Anytime the Seagal Kick is landed in MMA competition, it's worth mentioning — but Santos picks up mad style points by dazing Fonseca with a front kick, then lowering the boom with a jaw-crumbling flying knee. Ari Santos, you are officially on our radar!
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7 Offbeat things to do in Havana
Cuba is top of many a traveller's wishlist, there is no shortage of things to do in Havana. A captivating capital, its galleries, theatres, markets and memor…
Beautiful, heady SANTIAGO DE CUBA is the crown jewel of Oriente. Nowhere outside Havana is there a city with such definite character or such determination to have a good time. Spanning out from the base of a deep-water bay and cradled by mountains, Santiago is credited with being the most Caribbean part of Cuba, a claim borne out by its laidback lifestyle and rich mix of inhabitants. It was here that the first slaves arrived from West Africa, and today Santiago boasts a larger percentage of black people than anywhere else in Cuba. Afro-Cuban culture, with its music, myths and rituals, has its roots here, with later additions brought by French coffee planters fleeing revolution in Haiti in the eighteenth century.
The leisurely pace of life doesn't make for a quiet city, however, with the higgledy-piggledy net of narrow streets around the colonial quarter ringing night and day with the beat of drums and the toot of horns. Music is a vital element of Santiaguero life, whether heard at the country's most famous Casa de la Trova and the city's various other venues, or at the impromptu gatherings that tend to reach a crescendo around carnival in July. As well as being the liveliest, the summer months are also the hottest – the mountains surrounding the city act as a windbreak and the lack of breeze means that Santiago is often several degrees hotter than Havana, and almost unbearably humid.
Although Santiago's music scene and carnival are good enough reasons to visit, there are a host of more concrete attractions. Diego Velázquez's sixteenth-century merchant house and the elegant governor's residence, both around Parque Céspedes in the colonial heart of town, and the commanding El Morro castle at the entrance to the bay, exemplify the city's prominent role in Cuban history. Additionally, the part played by townsfolk in the revolutionary struggle, detailed in several fascinating museums, makes Santiago an important stop on the Revolution trail.
One downside to a visit here is street hustle in the downtown area. Begging and being propositioned is an unbearable problem, especially in and around Parque Céspedes. The level and persistence of hassle is worse than in any other Cuban city – and women travelling on their own, in particular, need to grit their teeth.
Established by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in 1515, the port of Santiago de Cuba was one of the original seven villas founded in Cuba. Velázquez, pleased to find so excellent a natural port near to reported sources of gold (which were quickly exhausted), named the port Santiago (St James) after the patron saint of Spain. With the construction of the central trading house shortly afterwards, the settlement became Cuba's capital.
After this auspicious start – boosted by the discovery of a rich vein of copper in the foothills in nearby El Cobre – the city's importance dwindled somewhat. Buffeted by severe earthquakes and pirate attacks, Santiago developed more slowly than its western rival and in 1553 was effectively ousted as capital when the governor of Cuba, Gonzalo Pérez de Angulo, moved his office to Havana.
Santiago's physical bounty led to a new boom in the eighteenth century, when Creoles from other areas of the country poured sugar wealth into the area by developing plantations. The cool mountain slopes around Santiago proved ideal for growing coffee, and French planters, accompanied by their slaves, emigrated here after the 1791 revolution in Haiti, bringing with them a cosmopolitan air and continental elegance, as well as a culturally complex slave culture.
Relations with Havana had always been frosty, especially as culturally distinct Santiago had fewer Spanish-born Penínsulares, who made up the ruling elite. This rivalry boiled over during the Wars of Independence, which were led by the people of Oriente. Much of the fighting between 1868 and 1898 took place around Santiago, led in part by the city's most celebrated son, Antonio Maceo.
The Cuban army had almost gained control of Santiago when, in 1898, the United States intervened. Eager to gain control of the imminent republic, it usurped victory from the Cubans by securing Santiago and subsequently forcing Spanish surrender after a dramatic battle on Loma de San Juan. The Cubans were not even signatories to the resultant Paris peace settlement between the US and Spain, and all residents of Santiago province were made subject to the protection and authority of the US. As an added insult, the rebel army that had fought for independence for thirty years was not even allowed to enter Santiago city.
Over the following decades, the American betrayal nourished local anger and resentment, and by the 1950s Santiago's citizens were playing a prime role in the civil uprisings against the US-backed president Fulgencio Batista. Assured of general support, Fidel Castro chose Santiago for his debut battle in 1953, when he and a small band of rebels attacked the Moncada barracks. Further support for their rebel army was later given by the M-26–7 underground movement that was spearheaded in Santiago by Frank and Josue País. It was in Santiago's courtrooms that Fidel Castro and the other rebels were subsequently tried and imprisoned.
When the victorious Castro swept down from the mountains, it was in Santiago that he chose to deliver his maiden speech, in the first week of January 1959. The city, which now carries the title "Hero City of the Republic of Cuba", is still seen – especially in Havana – as home to the most zealous revolutionaries, and support for the Revolution is certainly stronger here than in the west. The rift between east and west still manifests itself today in various prejudices, with Habaneros viewing their eastern neighbours as troublemaking criminals, and considered as solipsistic and unfriendly by Santiagueros in return.
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