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Well, this update's been a long time coming. You'd be forgiven for assuming that we just decided to call it quits without telling anyone – after all, it's been well over a year since we played our last show!
The truth is, after our last gig in September 2012, we all got busy in various projects: Dan was working up in Dublin (which meant mid-week jamming was out for him); Eoin started another year of college, where it wasn't long before the project deadlines were coming thick and fast (making him also unavailable most of the time); and Dave and I both ended up having lots of overtime to do at our jobs, as well as being busy raising our families. Basically, life happened 😛
And so, over 3 months went by before we had another jam (we were all around over the Christmas holidays, so we took the opportunity to meet up and make some noise). Then another 3 months, and another…
Between January and August we managed a total of 2 jams – 4 hours altogether. We were pretty happy that everyone remembered how to play all the old songs (although I'm starting to forget a lot of the lyrics), but we weren't getting much time to work on any new material (I had recorded a few demos for us to start moulding into new songs – they're on our soundcloud page if you fancy a listen). My biggest fear at this point was that the months of inactivity would cause apathy to take root leading to our eventual dissolution.
Then, at the end of August, the worst happened: Eoin came to me to say that since he was about to start his final year in college, he didn't feel that he would be able to devote enough time to the band to keep us going. He also plans to get out and see the world a bit once college is over so he suggested we find another drummer (he in fact started putting out feelers himself to see if there were any drummers available to take over his position). This was pretty tough for me to take for a while, since when we started this band it was just the two of us: in fact we've been playing music together since 1997. But I always felt this band was about being friends first and bandmates second, so I didn't feel right demanding that he put his life plans on hold just to stay and so we started pondering the question of who to ask to play drums for us.
Actually, strike that: first we had to decide whether we should even keep going – a decision that didn't really take that long to make, thankfully…
So I was mulling over the various drummers that I know about in Cork when I suddenly remembered that before playing bass with Slugbait, Eoin Costello used to play drums in Fat Actress (back when they were known as Ephialtes). I figured a) he plays drums, b) he's sound and c) he actually likes our music! I asked the lads what they thought and we all agreed he'd be an asset, so I texted him to see if he'd be interested in having a jam with us. Unfortunately he was in the Sates at the time, so we would have to wait a while to see how things would pan out (and just to show his integrity: before he agreed to jam with us, he wanted to know what the story with Eoin was and to make sure everything was above board).
This all happened several weeks ago. Since then, I've had the chance to jam a few times with Costello and he's already learned several songs. Next week we should be able to arrange a full band jam or two and get ready to start playing shows and writing new songs again!
This beast is stirring; it's time to rise…
A year in the GravePosted: December 4, 2013 in Uncategorized
Well, this update's been a long time coming. You'd be forgiven for assuming that we just decided to call it quits without telling anyone – after all, it's been well over a year since we played our last show!


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Expectations vs. reality
Lights. Camera. Action.
When the official blows his whistle tonight, the kickoff will be for real.
The hits will be the same as they were in earlier scrimmages. But this time, they will keep score on the scoreboard.
The opening of high school football season is finally here, and with the start of the season comes high expectations and aspirations.
All the preseason talk of competing, making the playoffs and winning championships is now silent as scores are settled on the playing field.
Coaches from Ringgold to Monessen, Charleroi to Yough, and Belle Vernon Area to California all say expectations are high going into the season.
But now is the time where teams build on those expectations or begin to slowly watch them come tumbling down.
New Charleroi coach Don Militzer is taking over a program that has won just four games in the past two seasons. He is expecting to win more games than that this season.
"I've always believed in setting expectations high," Militzer said. "I could never understand why some other coaches don't. I like to challenge my players. When I came here, I said the goal for us was to make the playoffs. We want to win now."
Charleroi travels to Southmoreland to face the Scotties in an Interstate Conference opener.
Belle Vernon Area travels to Trinity in a Big Nine Conference opener, and new Lep mentor Matt Humbert says his team is ready.
"We are as ready as we will ever be," said Humbert, who coached at Ringgold the last four seasons.
Humbert said the first game of the season is always a different animal, but he tries to downplay it to his players as much as possible.
"It is different, for sure, but I try not to make it a big thing with the players," Humbert said. "It's kind of like the time when the kickstand comes off the bike and the players are out there on their own.
"It's an exciting time."
Monessen coach Andy Pacak has been through 11 straight opening nights, including tonight's Eastern Conference trip to Greensburg Central Catholic.
Although he knows his team will be decidedly younger than it has been the last couple of seasons, he is not dialing down the expectations.
"Every year, our kids know what we expect from them," Pacak said. "The bar is always set high and it's up to all of us to try and reach it. Inexperience is never an excuse for us."
Pacak added that no matter how many years he has been a coach, opening night always has a special feeling.
"The kids are little more excited," he said. "I've been here a long time, and that first game of the season always has a different feeling to it than the others. You can feel it in the locker room. You get to find out how far your team has come after conditioning, two weeks of camp and scrimmages. You just can't wait to get going."
In other openers involving area teams, Ringgold travels to Thomas Jefferson and Elizabeth Forward goes to Laurel Highlands in Class AAA's Big Nine Conference. Yough goes to Hollidaysburg in its first Class AAA game in the Greater Allegheny Conference.
In Class A, Frazier hosts Avella and Bentworth goes to Carmichaels in the Tri-County South Conference. California entertains Clairton in a non-conference contest.
Jeff Oliver is a sports editor for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 724-684-2666 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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New AATA bus pullout on Washtenaw Avenue finished
The new Ann Arbor Transportation Authority bus pullout on Washtenaw Avenue is complete, the agency announced Friday.
The new pullout is on eastbound Washtenaw Avenue, east of Pittsfield Boulevard and opposite the Arborland shopping center. AATA said a shelter would be installed at the stop in the next several weeks.
AATA bus stop
The completion means buses on routes 4, 7 and 22 have stopped using a temporary stop about 50 yards to the west of Pittsfield Boulevard.
Arborland previously had a major bus stop and transfer station in its parking lot until July 1, 2009, when the shopping center ended the AATA's lease on the station. The closing of the Arborland bus stop affected an estimated 1,000 bus riders per day after 30 years of use. At the time, AATA officials said the main issue Arborland had with the bus stop was the 150 parking spots being used by commuters, according to a previous report.
The project cost about $154,000 and was paid for with federal stimulus money granted to the AATA.
Peter Eckstein
Sun, Dec 4, 2011 : 7 p.m.
In defense of the operators of Arborland, it should be said that the two major closings--Circuit City and Borders--were the result of the bankruptcy of their national companies and had nothing to do with the performance of the Arborland outlets. On the other hand, there is little that can be said in defense of their decision to remove the AATA bus stop. Buses stopping to unload and load passengers on Washtenaw Avenue itself are one important cause of the intolerable rush-hours congestion on the road. Having more stops off-road, like the one at Dollar Tree, are a step in the right direction. More needs to be done to reduce congestion. The "visionary" plan to create a Washtenaw Avenue development authority--to add housing and greater density generally, possibly to create bike lanes within the road--will only make matters worse. Let's have some serious traffic engineers figure out some ways--maybe some combination of alternative routes, adding lanes, improved traffic signal coordination, and easier exits--to reduce the congestion that plagues the corridor.
Andy Piper
Sun, Dec 4, 2011 : 2:16 p.m.
Bus riders are still considered second class citizens by The folks at Arborland. Lack of parking is an excuse. It's sad that bus transit and mass transit in general in this area is practically non-existent. On Friday night, in downtown Ann Arbor there was so much traffic it took about 20 minutes must to move through town, with only one car at a time able to turn left at a stop light. While I was moving through town I noted not one bus! Zero mass transit bringing people in and out of downtown on this super busy Friday night. Fail.
Sun, Dec 4, 2011 : 4:46 a.m.
Arborland just keeps making these questionable decisions. Why rid themselves of the bus stop? I know the mentally-challenged in Ann Arbor take the bus, but so do other people that will spend money. Why deter potential shoppers? Arborland failed as a regular mall because when one store at a time closed, nothing came in to replace and the customer counts dwindled. They're doing the same thing. I love Arborland, and loved the old mall when I was a kid. It's very frustrating. Whoever is running it is doing a terrible job.
Ann English
Sat, Dec 3, 2011 : 11:50 p.m.
Completed already? I thought it would takes weeks longer. I was about to make it a habit to reach the Dollar Tree off Yost from the south, instead of from Washtenaw, perhaps until next year.
Sat, Dec 3, 2011 : 11:45 p.m.
With Borders gone, I wonder if Arborland still needs those 150 parking spaces? I also have to wonder if business has gone down at the other stores with the difficulty of crossing Washtenaw on foot?
Sun, Dec 4, 2011 : 4:07 p.m.
I have to agree with this one. Arborland needs to rethink why they opted those buses out of there. Those who were waiting for a bus did go into Borders for coffee and maybe a magazine or two. Borders lost biz when those buses were ordered off the property. I too hope they reconsider the buses.
Pixie Belle
Sun, Dec 4, 2011 : 12:42 a.m.
Business has defiantly gone down there isn't really anything over there that you couldn't find anywhere else. People still try to jay walk over there even though there is a crosswalk at Washtnaw and Pittsfield


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March on Washington Turns 50: Interview with John Lewis
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. famously changed the course of American history with four powerful words "I Have a Dream." On the podium with Dr. King, John Lewis, the youngest among the leaders of the March, looked out at the masses of Americans who came to support the struggle for equality and felt that day was the "peak of hope."
Only 23 years old, Lewis had already dedicated his young life to protecting civil rights. Growing up on his family's farm outside of Troy, Alabama, Lewis would listen to Dr. King on the radio as a young boy and was inspired by his example of nonviolent protest, along with that of Rosa Parks and others involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He began organizing sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters as a student at Fisk University and, in 1961, he was one of the original Freedom Riders, risking his life to challenge segregation at interstate bus terminals across the South. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Lewis came to be considered one of the Big Six leaders of the movement, along with Dr. King who had inspired his own activism.
Now 73 years old and the only surviving speaker from the March, the longtime congressman from Georgia remembers that historic day 50 years later and looks at how far the "Dream" has come.
At just 23 years old, you were the youngest person to speak at the March on Washington. Can you describe what you were feeling that day?
I was honored to have an opportunity to speak on August 28th, 1963. I had just been elected the National Chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and when A. Philip Randolph, the dean of the Big Six of the Civil Rights Movement, presented me I went straight to the podium and I looked to my right and I saw hundreds and hundreds of young people standing to the side, and then I looked to my left and I saw many young men, black and white, up in the trees trying to get a better view of the Lincoln Memorial and the podium. And then I looked straight ahead and I said, 'This is it,' and I started speaking and I did my best.
Can you describe what it was like to look out from the podium at the masses of people who attended the March?
It was one of the finest hours in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. You saw a sea of humanity. We thought maybe we would have 50,000 to 70,000 people, but it was many more. Two hundred fifty thousand they say, but I think there was probably a half million people there. When you looked out you saw men and women, young people and middle aged, black, white, Asian American, Native American, people from all over the country who wanted to be there as witnesses. Even when the March was over, people were still trying to get into Washington to participate in the March.
Where were you when Dr. King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech?
I was sitting on the podium, listening and watching him. I had heard him speak so many times before that, but on that day he turned the marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial into a modern-day pulpit and he preached a sermon. Even today when I walk up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where we stood 50 years ago, or if I fly over coming into Washington and look down and see the Lincoln Memorial, or if I stand on Capitol Hill and look that way, I can never forget what happened that day.
And what was the most important message of your speech?
My message was one of urgency, saying to members of Congress and President Kennedy, in effect, that we couldn't wait. One line in my speech was: 'You tell us to wait. You tell us to be patient. We cannot wait. We cannot be patient. We want our freedom and we want it now.' There was a growing sense of discontent all across America, but especially in the American South. People had been beaten, had been arrested, had been jailed for just trying to exercise their constitutional rights, their right to peacefully protest, their freedom of assembly. Places, homes and churches had been bombed. People had been denied the right to register to vote simply because of the color of their skin. Police officials in places like Montgomery and Birmingham had participated in the violence or stood aside. Bull Connor, the police commissioner in Birmingham, had used dogs and fire hoses on young children and women. Medgar Evers had been assassinated in Mississippi. And many of us, as Dr. King had said so well, were fresh from the jails and fresh from being beaten and we wanted change. We were demanding of the Congress and the President that they act.
You conveyed that sense of urgency in your speech, but you were asked to make some changes. What were you asked to change?
In the speech I used the word 'revolution' and the phrase 'black masses.' Some people had some concern about the use of these words, but my message was that we were involved in a nonviolent revolution and that the masses were restless. I also suggested in the speech that if meaningful changes did not happen that day, then the day might come where we may be forced to march through the South the way Sherman did, nonviolently, and some people said it was very inflammatory and I should delete it. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and A. Philip Randolph came to me and suggested it didn't sound like me and they said for unity and staying together could I make changes. I couldn't say no to Dr. King or A. Philip Randolph.
Did you know then that day would change history?
At that time I thought it would have an impact, but I didn't have any idea that the impact would be so great. I remember when the March was over and Dr. King was finished speaking, President Kennedy invited us down to the White House and he stood in the door of the Oval Office greeting each one of us. He was so proud. He was just beaming that everything had gone so well. He said, 'You did a good job.' as he shook each of our hands and when he got to Dr. King he said, 'And you had a dream.'
But President Kennedy was concerned before the March?
President Kennedy was very concerned. We met with him in late June and mentioned the idea of a March on Washington. A. Philip Randolph spoke up in his baritone voice and said: 'Mr. President, the black masses are restless and we are going to march on Washington.' And President Kennedy started moving and twisting in his chair and you knew he didn't like the idea. And he said: 'Mr. Randolph, if you bring all of these people to Washington, won't there be violence and chaos and disorder and we'll never get a Civil Rights bill through the Congress?' And Mr. Randolph responded: 'Mr. President, it will be an orderly, peaceful, nonviolent protest.' So President Kennedy and the people in his administration tried to discourage us from having a March on Washington. He thought there would be violence and they were very concerned. They had hundreds of thousands of troops on that side of the city. They were ready to cut off the speaker system if there was any disruption. But there was not one incident of violence. It was so orderly and peaceful.
How did people maintain the philosophy of nonviolence under such volatile circumstances?
People accepted the idea and the way of peace, the way of nonviolence. People who came from outside of the South and other parts of the country knew that the movement had been based on peaceful resistance, the way of Gandhi and what Martin Luther King Jr. and the students had followed all across the American South. No one wanted to do anything to provoke an incident or cause an act of violence.
You are the only surviving speaker of the 10 people who spoke that day. What would Dr. King and the other leaders think about civil rights in America today?
Dr. King and the others would be gratified by the changes that have occurred, the progress we've made and the distance we've come. I think Dr. King would be pleased to see the number of elected officials of color – African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and progressive whites. However, I think Dr. King more than anyone else would be very unhappy about the amount of violence that still occurs in America today and around the world.
What do we need to accomplish regarding civil rights?
We just need to look at the number of people who have been left behind or left out to see what needs to be done. Fifty years later, we need to still talk about the need for jobs. The March on Washington was a March for Jobs and Freedom. There are still too many people who are unemployed or underemployed in America – they're black, white, Latino, Native American and Asian American. We need comprehensive immigration reform. Dr. King wouldn't be pleased at all to know that there are millions of people living in the shadow, living in fear in places like Georgia and Alabama. He would say that's not right. That it's inhuman. It's unfair. It's unjust.
How can we keep the "dream" alive?
We can all do something. We can all play a role. It's important for people to come to Washington to march. As Dr. King said, there is not anything more powerful than marching feet and determined people. We have to register and at election time we all have to vote. The vote is powerful. It is almost sacred. We also have to be a little more human. We have to treat our fellow humans the way we're designed to be treated, to be kind, to be loving and not put anyone down because of their race, their color or their nationality.


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Welcome to our first hop of the month!
I'm super excited for todays hop since we are doing things a little different- we will all be working with the same stamp set each week! Our assignment this week is Mothers Love...
So of course I have to start with a very straight forward Mother's Day card. The flowers were fussy cut from the Painted Blooms DSP. Sentiment stamped in Blackberry Bliss.
Then I started thinking of ways to change things up a bit-
Gotta love those Stampin Write Markers! Tip: If your image doesn't come out dark enough just trace over it with the same marker.
Worked like a charm & eliminated the slight splotchy look that you can get when using markers on your stamps. I love the font of these sentiments!
I wanted to use my Flower Flair Framelits in a way I haven't done before & am liking this a lot!
So my last card is for my hubby- we kind of joke around with the phrase "Like a Boss" so I knew exactly what I wanted to do when I saw the sentiments in this set.
Well I hope you have enjoyed my projects & I can not wait to see what the other gals have made so lets go visit Sarah!


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Risdon Vale bushfire cuts power to east coast
A large bushfire is threatening communities on Hobart's eastern shore.
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The bushfire started at Downhams Road in Risdon Vale as at 5:23pm is at a watch and act warning.
This fire may affect the communities of Downhams Road, Risdon Vale and properties along Flagstaff Gully Road, Tasman Highway fringe, Cambridge Road, Cambridge residents and residents of Mount Rumney.
The fire is also sending embers, smoke and ash over Risdon Vale, Flagstaff Gully, Mornington, Cambridge and Mount Rumney and spot-fires are starting one kilometre ahead of the fire front.
Much of the east coast of Tasmania is without power as Transend has cut power as the fire is burning near transmission lines in Risdon Vale. The Tasmanian Fire Service request the power be cut to enable fire fighters to work in the area in safety.
Seventeen thousand customers are without power in Sorell, the southern beaches, the east coast from Coles Bay to the Tasman Peninsula and inland to Oatlands.
What to do
- Check your bushfire plan. The ABC Emergency website has advice on planning to survive a bushfire.
- Listen to your Local ABC Radio station for the latest bushfire information. 936 ABC Hobart is streamed live online and via the ABC smartphone app.
- Watch the Tasmania Fire Service website for information on all fires burning in Tasmania. You can follow @TasFireService on Twitter too.
- Check the Tasmania Police website for road closures.
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It was about 1:30 this morning when I heard the banging on the door. It woke me up from a good sleep. I sat up dazed, wondering if that was part of a dream or if it was real.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang
WTF! Damn tenants. Did they lock themselves out?
I then began to think about who would be wanting anyone's attention at 1:30 in the morning. Could it be an emergency? I checked my phone to see if I had missed any messages. None.
I then heard the person try the upstairs doorbell. I figured that it must be for them now. I took a look outside the window and saw a car parked on the street with its lights on. I couldn't really make out much on the car but figured it wasn't anyone that I knew. Still, I figured I should throw some clothes on and check it out.
I thought about grabbing a weapon. A small Milwaukee Brewers souvenir bat was on the shelf. It would do the job if needed. But then I left it there. The back door has a window. I didn't need to open the door if some madman was on the other side.
But whoever it was had stopped banging on the door. They got in the car and began to drive away. I watched them go slowly around the corner and pull in front of the house. Then a light came shining up. That was when I noticed the decal on the car and flipped on the living room lights.
It was the police.
A quick thought of why they would be banging on my door raced in my mind. Was there some emergency news about family or friends? No. I would have had a phone call it there was. Maybe it was for the tenants after all. But I noticed I hadn't hear any noises from upstairs during this time.
I popped on the porch light and went outside to talk to the officer. She was an older woman. She told me was about to leave me a message on the door that my garage door was open. Really? I left the garage door open. I thanked her for letting me know. She made the comment that there have been a lot of burglaries in the area and that I should make sure I keep the door closed. I thanked her again and went to close the door.
Before I did, the comment about theft in the area rang in my mind. I better take a look and make sure nothing is gone. It would suck to go out for work the next morning and see only one vehicle in my garage. They were both there. I did a quick look and nothing appeared to be out of place. I don't keep much of value in the garage besides the two cars. The mower had been moved to the shed. The only thing of value in there might be a battery charger. Now that I think about it, I didn't look to see if it was there. I will have to do it later.
As I walked back to the house, I noticed the tenants car was not on the street. I guess they weren't home. That would explain why they didn't respond to the door bell. About an hour later, I would hear some footsteps upstairs (hell, I was wide awake after the cop made that much noise) and wonder if someone was home or if maybe I have ghost activity.
Monday, October 11, 2010
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The big match turned into a big mismatch.
An impressive Laguna Beach pregame warm-up prior to the start of Saturday's CIF-Southern Section Division II-AA girls' volleyball championship match against long-standing rival Corona del Mar had Breakers Coach Lance Stewart feeling pretty confident about his squad's chances against the Sea Kings.
"It was the best we've had in my four years here," Stewart said of his team's pre-match ritual. "We were hitting the ball, moving around nicely and had a bounce in our step. It was great to see."


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Our first object record in our new collection system
Thanks to our friends at eHive we have a fully operational online collection management system.
We are pleased to report that we were able to get the system set up and our first object record entered within the first 18 hours since the SBHS website went live.
Here it is.
'The switch' is one of the most important objects in our collection. One might call it our 'foundational object'. Our Curatorial staff are working around the clock to document the provenance of this special object.
We aim to have more records up as we make more acquisitions. Our Director, naturally, aims for a 'quick turnaround' on digital records.
You might ask how we came to choose eHive over other collection systems. The answer is simple – the city in which they are located has a rather famous spinny bar – Orbit! We hope that by choosing products from companies based in cities with leading spinny bars we will be able to develop a 360 degree relationship between the SBHS and our service providers. Our Development Director has her work cut out for her.


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Wednesday, August 13th, 2003
Leave The Biker
So to expound:
I had what I considered a very good lock – a Kryptonite U-lock that cost me about $55 not more than a month ago. I lock up on a very busy downtown street, in front of an architect's office where the fellow's desk is right up front in the plate glass window. I would have thought that these factors, combined with the fact that my bike really wasn't very expensive and thus, not that appealing to thieves, would have kept me safe. Guess not.
I came out of the office yesterday, walked to where my bike was locked up, and thought, "this is not my bike". And it wasn't. It was someone else's beater bike, leaning against the post, unlocked. (sidenote: that was yesterday at 5pm. IT'S STILL THERE THIS MORNING, UNLOCKED. Talk about a slap in the face). Confused, dismayed, I wandered up and down the block for a few minutes trying to make sense of what had happened. My bike, and all trace of it, was gone. No pieces of the lock, it was like it never was. I had to ask myself for a minute, "did I even ride today?", but the fact that I was carrying my bike helmet said, "yes, you did". That was the longest walk to the subway I'd ever taken. Walking is so slow. It's like I've had my wings clipped or something. Blargh.
I am cheesed about my bike being gone barely three months after I got it, and the $400 I had put into it also being gone, with nothing to show for it except my helmet and the headlight and tailight, which I can't even mount anywhere because the brackets ARE ON MY OLD BIKE (but I can get new mounts, I checked). I'm mostly upset that the new lock which had given me a better sense of security proved so utterly ineffectual. What's the point? But it's not like I had grown up with this bike, or I spent the evening weeping over old snapshots of me and the bike in simpler, happier times. I didn't, really.
So today I will go through the motions, call the local bike stores and tell them to keep an eye open for my bike on the remote chance that some chump tries to sell it. But mostly, go buy another bike. Nothing nice this time. Something used, ugly and functional. I hope that I don't have to trade off too much comfort and quality for a sense of security, but if that's what has to happen, that's what'll happen. I use it for transportation and as long as it does the job, then it'll do. Pffft.
Postscript to the guy who stole my bike – I hope the chain breaks and gets your pants all greasy. Fucknut.
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Flip walk
This exercise was harder than it looked.
I started by copying the key frames onto paper by eye. I started with Frame 4 because the body is fully stretched out at its highest point. I wanted to see the un-scrunched proportions. Then I compared it with the original in PhotoShop.
After making corrections:
In retrospect I can see that I didn't understand the actual head shape at the time. It's hard to make out from the original clip.
But I compared it again, and it looked okay:
Then I compared my outline of Frame 4 against Frame 1, so I could see how Flip moved from 1 to 4.
I did this so that when I copied Frame 1, it would be accurate in relation to Frame 4. Here's my Frame 1:
I drew the first four keys this way.
But they were crappy because I wasn't really seeing the underlying construction. When you study original animation frame by frame, you see a lot of wobblyness due to poor inbetweens and probably inking mistakes. Copying from that end result just makes it worse.
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2. Study how the body squashes. Some of the frames in the original have a very obvious fold above the tummy, which makes sense as the leg raises to its high position while the head is moving to its low position in the middle of the step. But I didn't do it consistently with the movement.
3. Study the arcs.
4. Clean up all the wobbliness.
P.S. I worked on this for over week before I realized why he leans forward and backward on alternate steps: because he's compensating for the weight of the papers under his left arm! (I left out that action because it would have confused the body construction lines, and I didn't need any more confusion.)


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Yes I am planning a new video showcasing my Dreamcast collection soon...
However, stuff has been hectic at work and getting a new part time job to go along with my low paying full time job.
It's too bad I had to shave my goatee just for a part time job but it's like $20 and hour...
So yeah. I will sacrifice my facial hair for more money to buy video games.
Speaking of video games I was playing the original "Beats of Rage" for the first time the other night and it was pretty fun. The zombie level in Battletoads Beats of Rage is still my favorite though. It's fun to play the original games after trying out the homebrew.
I got a MINT copy of Final fight for the Sega CD and it acutally seems "Arcade Perfect" at least to my fuzzy memories of playing the actual arcade game in the laundry mat in college.
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No new Videos! -random ramble.
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- fatherkrishna said...
WTF? You've compromised your beard to get a job and you're living off protein shakes? What gives dude? You are the American Dreamcaster!
You should have people queuing up to give you work! LOL!
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We're all about celebrating people around here, so we figured we had to tip our hat to Britney Spears and Fergie's Josh Duhamel birthday cake.
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These Instagrams are so impressive, they will require their own separate subheadings. Otherwise, we wouldn't do them justice. We'll start with Spears, who has recently jetted off to Hawaii with boyfriend, David Lucado, and her sons, Sean and Jayden. Luckily for us mere mortals, the pop icon treated us to a scorching hot bikini shot, which makes us want to chew our arm off.
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Fergie friends have given her the greatest gift of all on her 39th birthday: a cake featuring (or rather, proudly displaying) a shirtless photo of hubby, Josh Duhamel, from Win a Date With Ted Hamilton. We don't say this often, but. . . hubba hubba!
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The kids are all either away at camp or at day camp this week. I have lots of sewing planned!
Happy Quilting!!
Beautiful finish.
I have a piece of pre-quilted fabric that makes a half hoop to of my hoop. I use it to pin the edge of little projects to. I also use it for the edges of big quilts.
Your quilt looks great!
Lovely - you have done a beautiful job! love the diagonal crosshatching.
oh I just love this quilt and your quilting always impresses me. I love the binding choice.
its a beautiful little quilt.
enjoy your week :)
Super cute and I think it looks vintage!!
That looks really nice. I am glad it is growing on you, it would be a shame to tuck it away somewhere...
looks very pretty to me.
I love the final result. All the colors complement each other wonderfully. It reminds me of a somewhat cowboy theme. Thank you for sharing.
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Judge orders further environmental assessment of proposed Placentia Bay fish farm
CBC NEWS - NEWFOUNDLANDJudge orders further environmental assessment of proposed Placentia Bay fish farm2016 decision to release Grieg NL Seafarms project from further environmental assessment overturnedBy Mark Quinn, CBC News Posted: Jul 20, 2017 5:30 PM NTA Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador judge has overturned a provincial minister's decision to release a proposed Placentia Bay salmon farming project from further environmental assessment."I conclude the minister lacked the jurisdiction to release the project. The only possible conclusion he could reach was that the project had both 'significant public concerns, and the potential for significant negative environmental effects,'" wrote Justice Gillian Butler in her July 20 decision.Grieg Seafarms plans to establish sea cage sites in Placentia Bay. (Aqua Maof Group/Submitted)Butler also ordered that the project should be subject to a full environmental impact statement (EIS)."I find the obligation to order as EIS was such a duty owed to the people of the province," she wrote.Butler also ordered that the government pay the Atlantic Salmon Federation's (ASF) court costs. The other plaintiff, lawyer Owen Myers, didn't seek costs.Atlantic Salmon Federation reactsMembers of the ASF said they were thrilled when a copy of the court decision arrived in their email inbox."My feet were off the ground to see the judgement come in and then to realize that the judge did decide in our favour. We are very, very happy," said federation spokesperson Neville Crabbe.The Salmon Federation challenged two items: the decision to accept the project for registration and then the decision to release it from any further environmental assessment."The judge agreed with us that because of the overwhelming public concern and potential significant, negative environmental affects that this potential Placentia Bay aquaculture project poses it should never have been released [from an environmental assessment] and the only option for the minister was to order an EIS," said Crabbe.Environment minister's 2016 decisionOn July 22, 2016, Perry Trimper, who was then minister of environment and climate change, released the Grieg NL Nurseries Ltd. and Grieg NL Seafarms project from further environmental assessment. The decision was appealed Aug. 31, 2016, in accordance with Section 107 of the Environmental Protection Act.But in a later news release, the provincial government announced: "The minister has considered the appeal documents and has determined that the original decision to release the project from further environmental assessment will remain in effect."Massive proposalGrieg's plans include a new $75 million state-of-the-art hatchery and nursery facility in Marystown. The facility will produce seven million fish annually to stock 11 sea cage sites for a harvest of 33,000 tonnes of Atlantic salmon.If the plan goes ahead, it would more than double the province's annual production of farmed salmon.Grieg will now have to decide to if it wants to continue to pursue its plan to build in the Placentia Bay area.Crabbe said if it does, the salmon federation expects to participate in the environmental assessment process."We will be an active participant. We will certainly use public opportunities for comment," he said.http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/judge-orders-further-environmental-assessment-of-proposed-placentia-bay-fish-farm-1.4214517
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4) The Power of Three - 30 minutes of bliss, 15 minutes of guff
Ja. This is the year where I realised something had gone wrong.
I don't really blame RTD or Moff. In many ways, they're the showrunners we deserve. I'm not one to bang on about the Good Old Days, but I think back to the classic series whose humility was held in check by an appalling budget. Parameters encourage creativity. If you take away all parameters and sprinkle in (sorry) slavish fanbase, a writer on the make can polish any turd and be called a genius... Remember Moffat telling us how he loved the West Wing BECAUSE it was fast-paced and unintelligible and forced him to fill in the blanks. Either he was trying to revolutionize the medium or convince us that his pre-digested chunks and internet memes were some high art.
Another big problem is that Moffat has fallen into the trap of believing Doctor Who's run out of ideas just because HE has run out of ideas. There is a difference between being Trope-aware (Whedon at his best) and constantly tweaking the viewer's nose (and worst) because "it's all been done". Of course it's all been done, there is nothing new under the sun, it is your job to present it in a way which feels fresh and new. Don't draw on obscure past episodes to find loopholes justifying bending the characters into your desired shape.
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Lately it has been bittersweet seeing God working in other people's lives. Don't get me wrong, it is great to see God working and answering people's prayers, but sometimes it feels like I'm forgotten. To be honest sometimes I become jealous seeing how God is working in someone else's life when I can't see Him working in my own. I go to Him and seek Him for guidance but sometimes it feels like my prayers are cast into a void. I know this is so untrue and one prayer does not get overlooked or is unanswered by God, but sometimes that is just how I feel.
Sometimes I wish I could see God working in my life and answering my prayers like I see with other people around me. I have gone to God with so many issues on my heart recently and I feel like He hasn't answered. I can't feel Him with me and I wish I could just see a small glimpse that He's working and in control.
I feel like it is in these times that God truly tests my faith. It shows me what I'm really made of and how I react when I have nothing left, nothing under control and I've got nothing to give but myself and my faith in Him. It is during these times that it shows me that when everything is a mess God is the one true thing that I can always go to for reliance.
Even though it may feel like my prayers are unanswered and God seems far away, I know that God always has an answer to my prayers, but it may just not be the answer I'd like. It could be that it is not the right time yet or it is not for my best. When I don't feel like God hears me or is with me, I know that it is just me doubting and Satan trying to get me to question God's sovereignty. God always promises to be with us and to never forsake us (Deuteronomy 31:8).
Sometimes we think our prayers aren't being answered and God's not working in our lives, but sometimes it takes digging a little deeper than just looking on the surface. We may be looking for certain answers to our prayers, but often God answers them in different ways that we might imagine. We might be looking for God to answer us in a specific way, but God could be using our prayer to strengthen our relationship with Him or He's working in a way we weren't even looking for. God's answers to our prayers may be different, but they are always for our benefit. God's up to something in your life, you may just not be aware of it!
Sometimes it feels like God is giving you more than you can handle and you can't take what you are dealing with one minute longer. God knows how much you can take and He is using what you are going through to teach you something. Use the struggling you are going through to deepen your faith with God, not dry it up. Keep living a life for God and doing what's right even when everyone else around you may tell you differently. Keep trusting in God even when everything around you tells you to doubt and lose faith. God is working even when you can't see it and some things we will only know their impact when we reach heaven. In due time God will restore your life and you will be able to look back at this time in your life and see that He had never left your side. One day you will see the purpose of what you are going through and see it was all worth it. Never underestimate God's power and discretion, He always knows what is best.
Psalm 71:20
Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again, from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.
Dueteronomy 31:8
The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.


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Number 409, March 11, 2007
"She's real fine my 409!"
Overreach, Shmoverreach: A Special Note From The White House
Special to The Libertarian Enterprise
Dear The American People,
Hi there from your friends at the White House. As you may know, the worst paper in the history of civilization, The New York Times, recently published an editorial called "The Must-Do List." This editorial called on our friends in the Democratic Congress to undo the last five years of so-called "presidential overreach" and "Congressional collaboration." If the paper gets its way, everything we've worked so hard to accomplish will be overturned. Which would suck.
In the interests of open, fair, and balanced government, we've decided to answer a few of the Old Bag Lady's concerns point-by-point. As you will see, nothing the Worst Paper Ever says makes any sense whatsoever, while everything we say is better and good.
"Restore Habeas Corpus": For some strange reason, The Times seems to think enemy combatants should be able to challenge their imprisonment in court. Who would really benefit from that sort of move? Enemy combatants. . . or greasy, slimy lawyers? We're sick of attorneys attaching themselves like barnacles to every ambulance or global war on terror they see. Stop abusing the American legal system with your habeas corpuses and rights to fair trials. "John Edwards" is the British word for "cigarettes."
"Stop Illegal Spying": If we stopped spying, it wouldn't be illegal anymore. Then we could it. But then it would be illegal. Nice try, New York Times. We're not falling for that one again.
"Ban Torture, Really": The New York Times wants us to stop beating the crap out of prisoners in an effort to get information. This just shows how misinformed the paper is. America doesn't beat the crap out of prisoners for information. We do it for fun. When prisoners give us info, it's usually volunteered.
"Close the CIA Prisons": Now there's a good idea. Here we have special prisons set up in secret places to hold the enemies we catch on the field of war. What would you rather us do, New York Times? Put all those prisoners in American prisons back home? There's no room for them. Those prisons are overflowing with pot-smoking black people. You can't fit a round peg through a square hole!
"Account for 'Ghost Prisoners'": Walter Peck made that mistake at the end of Ghostbusters. Next thing you knew, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was stomping all over New York City. You know, we've said it before, we'll say it again: Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
"Ban Extraordinary Rendition": The New York Times wants us to stop sending prisoners to countries known for torture. If we did it more often, it wouldn't be "extraordinary." It would just be ordinary. But then you would complain.
"Tighten the Definition of Combatant": Once again, The New York Times shows its ignorance. There's a reason why the word "combatant" is vague. It's because it means anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world. We thought we made this clear years ago. Maybe The New York Times never learned to read.
We could go on and on about how silly this all is, but we think you get the point. After five years of conducting this war, we think we've proven we'll do anything to win it. And if that's not good enough for The New York Times' editors. . . well, bite us.
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Trump 'committing' U.S. to Article 5
U.S. President Donald Trump says ''I'm committing the United States to Article 5,'' during a news conference at the White House, weeks after disappointing NATO allies for not mentioning his support. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) STORY: "I'm committing the United States to Article 5," said U.S. President Donald Trump during a news conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at the White House. Speaking at NATO headquarters recently, Trump disappointed allies by not mentioning his support for Article 5, which states that an attack on one member of the alliance is viewed as an attack on all. During his election campaign, Trump appeared to called Article 5 into question by suggesting that NATO members who did not pay their fair share for the alliance may not deserve to benefit from it. "I think it's extraordinary that there would be an expectation that the president would have to say explicitly that he supports Article 5. Of course he does," U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster told reporters at the end of a Group of Seven summit in Sicily. "He did not make a decision not to say it," McMaster continued. "It was implicit in the speech. There was no decision to not put it in there. It is a matter of fact that the United States, the president, stands firmly behind our Article 5 commitments under NATO."


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Toshiba announced in Japan the new dynabook SS RX2/WAJ (part number: PARX2WAJLD10MAW3) ultra portable notebook that comes with a 512GB SSD and integrated support for WiMAX connectivity. The laptop is basically the WiMAX-equipped version of the Portege R600-ST4203.
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When you launch Readme.txt, Windows obligingly loads the file into Notepad. It knows to do that because the file extension .txt is associated with the file type Text Document, and Notepad is registered as the program that launches files of that type. The Windows 95 Explorer offers just a few functions for managing file associations. Freedom of Association supplies features Explorer lacks and provides an overview of your system's extensions and file types. With this utility, you can:
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Wednesday, 18 January 2017
Street Food: The Corny Vendor
During my holidays in the Philippines, I was looking for some healthy snacks in the market one morning when I stumbled upon a market vendor selling newly boiled, sweet yellow corn.
Some were being sold for 10 pesos a piece; others 15. Indeed, they were sweet, crunchy and still warm. And healthy, too!
I remember they also sold boiled corns at the neighborhood market in Seoul, but these ones from the Philippines were much sweeter. And cheaper!
The next time I crave for some healthy snacks, I now know whom to look for: the corny vendor.
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Film Review: DriveDanish director Nicolas Winding Refn's coolly beautiful action thriller looks like a slick, Hollywood thrill ride, but it's actually a bleakly funny deconstruction of genre movie clichés that will delight some viewers and infuriate others.
At first glance, Nicolas Winding Refn's nameless protagonist (Ryan Gosling) has little to recommend him: He's handsome in a bland, unthreatening way, but that satin baseball jacket with the green-and-gold scorpion design on the back screams "dork," and the everyday art of pleasant small talk seems beyond him—the ratio of uncomfortable silences to words verges on excruciating. It takes a sharp eye to see the seething wariness he's hiding behind a façade of pleasant dullness. No one would ever guess he's in the movie business, a highly paid stunt driver who doubles for glamorous action-movie stars. And no one would ever, ever imagine that he's got a sideline in driving getaway cars or that he's so in demand that professional thieves will pay to play by his rules: He won't carry a gun, he doesn't want to be friends and he's on the clock—no matter what happens on the inside, he won't wait one second past five minutes.
The driver lives alone, in an apartment as anonymous as he strives to be; he has no family and only one friend, Shannon (Bryan Cranston), the mechanic for whom he works. But when he falls for Irene (Carey Mulligan), the single mom next door, he falls hard, courting her politely, playing father figure to her little boy and looking out for her with the quiet vigilance of a sheepdog keeping an eye on an especially vulnerable lamb, even after she drops a bombshell called Standard Gabriel (Oscar Isaac) into their fledgling relationship. Standard being her husband, who just got out of jail; she didn't mention him before because, well…she can't seem to explain why, but now that he's out, she's going to try to make things work.
The driver calmly makes nice with Standard, who's understandably suspicious of this guy who's taken such an interest in his wife, and even comes to his aid when it becomes apparent that Standard's out of jail but still reluctantly in thrall to the thug life. The driver takes on a job that's supposed to clear Standard's debts once and for all, but it all goes straight to hell in a burst of violence that leaves no corner of the driver's life unstained.
Refn's debt to movies from Walter Hill's existential noir thriller The Driver (1978) to Michael Mann's limpidly seductive Collateral (2004) is evident, and make no mistake: You're meant to notice. Drive is a glittering toy designed to delight a particular kind of movie lover, one thoroughly steeped in the conventions and tropes of genre movies and enthralled by the way shifting one element of the formula reveals the works clicking away under the skin of mindless entertainment.
Everything about Drive is slightly off: the dialogue ever so faintly stilted, the rundown apartments and brutally bleak streetscapes perfectly worn and faded, the costumes—from the little-girl clip that pins back Irene's hair to that satin jacket—a touch overdetermined, and the supporting players just a hair too perfectly cast. Albert Brooks as a pasty, jovially sadistic Jewish mobster? Perfect! Ron Perlman as his partner, who wants so badly to be a bona-fide mafioso that his cover business is a pizza parlor? Flawless! Christina Hendricks as the trampiest tramp who ever snapped her gum and reapplied her lipstick too often? Unbeatable!
Taken together, it all adds up to a thriller whose thrills are vaguely depressing rather than adrenaline jolts to the gut, utterly fascinating without being visceral. It's a throwback to the kind of '70s art movie in exploitation drag epitomized by Two-Lane Blacktop, with which it would make a terrific double bill.


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The Harrington Studios
Located in our courtyard, the Harrington Studios are purpose-built artist's studios which aim to support local, contemporary and multi-disciplinary arts practices. The mission of the studios is to encourage curiosity for the surrounding region and environment while fostering relationships between residents and the wider artistic community, bringing critically engaging contemporary practices to the broader public. The artist's studios are free to visit and allow visitors to experience the artist at work and engage with both the artist and their output.
The artist currently in residence are Naomi Draper.
Previous artist in residence
Gavin Porter
Gavin Porter is a Belfast born artist based in Co Sligo. His art practice consists of painting, drawing, sound and installation,assemblage and predominantly, printmaking. By applying simple linear, often repetitive and reductive drawing techniques in an indeterminate way, my current work endeavours to reveal patterns and form amongst the seemingly unpredictable and chaotic, patterns which are discernable in the natural world around us, but also in the events and routines that govern our lives. . Each work on paper is executed with intricate detail and employs optical techniques referenced from historical engraving. The resulting images are poised between the sublime and the absurd, incorporating elements of the real and the imagined, mimesis and abstraction
Central to these observations lies a fascination with science and the mechanics of nature, , entropy, erosion and evolution.
'' Forms depicted by Gavin Porter have a clear recurrent structure, but they seem to have no start and no end. They are in a continuous but unpredictable process of development, as if they were never to complete their forming. We can observe the same process in our everyday lives, filled with repetitive tasks performed as part of our daily routines and with efforts of which results can rarely be clearly predicted, our existence is built of patterns but is still full of uncertainty."
Marta Slawinska, Curator In Isolation at Broadstone Studios, Dublin
Naomi Draper
Naomi Draper graduated from NCAD with a Bachelor of Design specialising in glass in 2007. Following an Erasmus programme at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design, Prague, she received a scholarship to attend the Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle. In 2011, she completed a Postgraduate Diploma Community Arts Education at NCAD. From her studio base at The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick on Shannon, Naomi has participated on a number of residency programmes within a community and educational context. She is currently Artist in Residence at two public crèches commissioned by Fingal County Council Arts Office, and the Artist In Schools Programme with Leitrim County Council. Forthcoming exhibitions include the Practice National Tour, held at The Axis Arts Centre, Dublin, Skibereen Arts Centre, Cork and The Model, Sligo (2014).
Naomi Draper's multi-disciplinary practice explores the fragility of our built and natural environment, investigating what defines space and how it is lived and activated by humans and non-humans. Combining a range of mediums and processes particularly through drawing and glass, Draper examines the structures and boundaries, limitations and new potentials of public and private environments.