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Call me crazy, but I think it's silly that we use those dang Ziplock bags for one thing and throw them in the trash. Even though we do a lot of "green" things in our home like homemade house cleaners, cloth diapers, etc., I don't consider myself to be in that clique.
I just never realized how much I was wasting my money until my little person with a ravenous 14 month old belly started making it a necessity to buy a new box of bags a couple times a month with all those snacks that I have to be packed in the diaper bag.
So I started looking into reusable snack bags at my local baby boutiques and online and wasn't impressed with how expensive it was when it looked so simple to make myself.
After venting my frustration with some other Mama's, who also happen to know how to sew and have the patience to teach a slacker like me, we (Deanna, Emily, and myself) set out to make our own for about $1 a piece instead of the $8-15 a bag.
- Hook & loop (velcro) closures
- A couple yards of PUL (a moisture wicking fabric that is machine washable)
- A couple yards of fun fabric
- Scissors/rotary cutter
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- Pins
- Sewing machine
First, I dragged this cute little thing to my friend, Deanna's house so she could play with these fun guys while we worked.
Then we developed a pattern for two different sized bags. One bigger one for puffy snacks, whole fruit, or sandwiches. Another smaller bag for things like cheerios, cheese sticks or crackers.
Then we cut out the PUL and favorite material for our big and small bags (7×7 and 4.5×7)
Then we folded the PUL on the inside of our material and pinned our hook and loop in place. When we folded the material over, we made sure there was some overlap on the top so nothing could spill out when the velcro was fastened.
Then we let the sewing begin….starting with sewing the hook and loop and then sewing all the way around until you have the finished product! It was really that simple!


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Kelly Osbourne Sprains Ankle to Avoid Falling Into Public Toilet
Reality star Kelly Osbourne is on the mend after spraining her ankle in a public restroom! The "Fashion Police" critic explained on Twitter that when her foot got stuck, she had a choice between a sprain and a face plant into the toilet.
She added, "I just could not bear the thought of my face landing in a public toilet! However, I'm now questioning my decision due to the pain!"


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Activision has won a legal dispute revolving around the modernwarfare3.com domain and will be taking ownership of it.
Miami, FL resident Anthony Abraham had purchased the domain on July 11th and used it to redirect to the page for Electronic Arts's upcoming and competing shooter, Battlefield 3. Activision filed a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) complaint with the National Arbitration Forum, who is authorized to handle ICANN related disputes, four days later. On July 19th, Mr. Abraham's name was identified as the registrar of the modernwarfare3.com domain, GoDaddy, removed their Domains By Proxy service as part of their policy in dealing with UDRP issues. Yesterday, Activision won their dispute.
The modernwarfare3.com domain was originally registered on March 26, 2009, according to a WHOIS search of the domain.
The key crux of Activision's case was that Mr. Abraham was using the name as a direct attack against their Modern Warfare franchise by aligning the domain with the competing Battlefield 3 shooter.
It appears that the Respondent supports the game Battlefield from the game developer Electronic Arts ("EA"). EA is one of Complainant's principal competitors in the video game industry, and Battlefield game competes in the marketplace with Complainant's MODERN WARFARE games and its other military-themed shooter games in the CALL OF DUTY series.
Mr. Abraham has defended himself by calling his site a parody of Modern Warfare 3. The domain has also hosted a comedy video called "Modern Warfare 3 Sucks." Currently, the domain is empty.
Analysis: It's quite easy to be reactionary and go after Activision for beating up on a poor, defenceless guy who was just having some fun with a domain that Activision should have bought themselves, but the correct ruling was made here. This isn't the case of someone claiming their right to space first (like, if I had bought the gamingbus.com domain before another company named Gaming Bus, or who used those words as a trademark, had the chance). Mr. Abraham was directly using Activision's trademark to do them harm and was directly helping EA, a company that has not been shy about attacking Activision over the Battlefield versus Modern Warfare rivalry. The best example I can think of in a similar case would be someone who bought Wayne Rooney's domain while he was still a youth player at Everton and then profiting off of searches for the name. In both cases, the registrars were squatters and had no legitimate right to the name.
Just because the right decision was brought out doesn't mean that the process isn't ripe for criticism, however.
First off, I'm hearing people around the Internet saying that Activision "finally" won, after almost two months. This is remarkably quick for an ICANN issue, which take forever mostly. It hasn't been confirmed, but a large part of why this was addressed so quickly is because Activision is a huge company, and this was a high-profile case. Another thing to remember is that while Activision "only" paid $2,600 for this request, the majority of disputes like this involve people much smaller, to whom $2,600 is a month's take-home pay. I make good money, and I couldn't afford a dispute like this.
Secondly, GoDaddy must be kicked—hard—for their policy of just ignoring someone's privacy. People sign up for Domains By Proxy and other similar services to protect their privacy against everyone (Dreamhost offers a similar program, but it's free and I don't use it; all of my domains are registered under my full name). The fact that they're so cavalier about giving up the name of a guy who pays for the service—via a publicly searchable WHOIS lookup, no less—is disgraceful. Flat-out, GoDaddy is perpetuating a scam and, according to ZDNet's Scott Raymond, has been for years.
But most importantly, I find it embarrassing, and even negligent, that a regulatory group like ICANN is mediating through a privately owned organization like the National Arbitration Forum (NAF), and especially embarrassing that they do so even considering that company's history. Simply put, it's nothing more than a pro-business front business that provides little actual mediation. In fact, there have been many (PDF) examples of the NAF showing bias towards companies that employ them specifically to "mediate" issues between them and consumers, to the point where Congress has tried to get involved. Some companies even force customers and employees, through contracts that they must sign for either business or employment, to go through NAF mediation on disputes, which has caused consternation with women in the workplace who have tried to file sexual harassment claims. In short, it's nothing more than a front organization for big business. Even the mafia was more upfront than this, and it's humiliating that a so-called government organization is so tied into private business.
So yes, Activision won, and won justly. But if another company goes after someone who isn't being as brazen as Mr. Abraham was, the end result is not likely to end with proper justice.


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I look like crap when I run. I don't mean when I'm chasing after a well-timed ball or a midfielder, when I step into a magical place of fleet-footed form and fox-like swiftness. I mean when I go out for a few miles of pavement. I've never had a running coach work with me to improve my form, so I just sort of point myself in one direction or another and go. It seems that every step falls harder than the last one and my face turns a color of red that was never meant for faces. Every block passed seems to see my hair getting more and more crazy, as each follicle struggles to get off the ride. On really long distances, you can actually begin to see salt build up, like hard water stains in a sink that's seen a few too many toothbrushes since the last time it was cleaned.
The thing is, when I'm out for a run, I'm not really thinking about how I look. I don't really care. That's not what I'm running for. When I run, my mind wanders even further than my feet take me. I usually spend the time praying or just talking to myself (in my head – I don't want to look crazy, too!). Often, lessons and messages come into shape while I run. Sometimes, songs or blog posts are written internally to the staccato cadence of my steps. Big decisions are weighed and options analyzed for possible outcomes. Occasionally, as it has been lately, the weight of these options is temporarily suspended as I run – as if the run creates its own gravity, allowing me to just move and breathe and think.
What's peculiar for me in all of this is how, in just about every other area of my life, I hate for people to see the process. The process is messy and cluttered and unfiltered and sometimes ugly. The process is painful and risky. I want people to see finished products. Don't watch me halfway through the marathon, talk to me after I've finished and showered away the salt licks and can hold up the finisher's medal. (The red face takes a while to fade, so I won't make you wait that long.)
But life doesn't always work that way. Youth ministry doesn't work that way. It's a messy process, in which solo artists who refuse to let anyone collaborate in the clutter get very little traction.
Who do you need to allow into your process?
How can I give you entry into mine?


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The United States government is considering to expand liquefied natural gas exports. North American natural gas prices have been in slump in the past couple of years due to the oversupply caused by the shale gas production.
Natural gas is globally oversupplied basically, while steady growth in China and the urgent need for thermal power due to nuclear power shortage in Japan make East Asian gas prices higher than other regions.
Increasing LNG supply from the US is likely to reduce Asian gas prices through arbitrage.
However, US LNG export won't surge immediately after the deregulation. Further LNG shipments require new gas-liquefy facilities and loading infrastructures as well as LNG carriers.
Long-term energy forecast recently provided by the Energy Information Administration predicts that the US natural gas import/export balance won't be export excess until 2020. Then gas export excess is expected to increase despite steady growth of domestic demand. US gas exports are forecasted to exceed imports 55 billion cubic meters in 2030, and exceed 95 bcf in 2040.
Natural gas prices in North America, that has been depressed by oversupply, are also expected to rise in line with the change of fundamentals. Protesters against the deregulation who afraid about higher domestic energy prices might be right.
On the other hand, even if the US increased its LNG exports, Japan may not buy a lot.
Why? As many people know, Japan has hiked LNG consumption for thermal power after the severe earthquake in March 2011 in order to make up for nuclear power shortage.
Japan's LNG imports in 2011 rose 12.2% from a year ago to 78.5 million tonnes, according to the customs data. Imports in the first ten months in this year increased 13% on year to 72.9 million tonnes. Total LNG imports in 2012 are seen to be around 87 million tonnes or 120 bcf.
Japan's LNG purchase, however, won't increase further in 2013. The country's existing LNG unloading and storage capacities won't allow to accept more imports. It's already reached to the physical ceiling.
Power saving, economic slump or resume of nuclear power plants are likely to reduce Japan's natural gas consumption in 2013 rather than increasing.
In Japan, annual 1 million tonnes of a new LNG import terminal is planned to be built in Fukushima prefecture by 2018. A 200,000 tonnes new storage facility is also planned to be installed in Hokkaido. But any other big concrete plans for LNG import infrastructure are not announced.
Meanwhile, China has been the biggest LNG consumer in Asia since 2009. Its growth of LNG demand in 2011 exceeded Japan even though the urgent demand for thermal power boosted Japan's gas consumption.
China's natural gas consumption in the first nine months 2012 rose 13.6% on year to 106.5 bcm, according to the National Development and Reform Commission. Total demand in 2012 is seen to be about 147.7 bcm. China's LNG imports in January-September surged 35.5% from a year ago to 30.5 bcm.
If China is able to continue economic growth as the government anticipated, the country's natural gas demand in 2015 is forecasted to reach to 230 bcm. But, China may not eager to look for fresh import contracts, since its gas supply capacity (domestic production and long-term import contracts) are predicted at 260 bcm in the same year.
Middle Eastern natural gas supply is also expected to increase firmly, so Asian natural gas market is likely to be already oversupply when the US will start shipping LNG to the region earnestly.


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This nice little white Phal came to me at an odd moment so I just set it down on a bench in the greenhouse, then promptly forgot about it. It had just finished blooming and the stem had already been cut. It has now re-bloomed. I think it is worth mentioning for a couple of reasons.
One reason is that it re-bloomed from the very lowest node. I wasn't expecting that one to sprout. I might be because it was the only node left after the cut. As you can see, the stem died back to just above the sprout.
The main reason for pointing this plant out is that it is alive at all. In fact, it seems to be doing well with strong new growth. It should have died from crown rot and root loss. It gets water ever day from the misters above it.


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Flippfly is an indie games company consisting of two brothers who quit our jobs in April '12 to create indie games full-time.
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Forest San Filippo
Forest has been doing graphic and web design for over 13 years, and his focus on Flippfly is on the user's visual experience. He's also a talented musician, and is responsible for all things audio in our games. He created the website you're reading right now, and most of the visuals you'll see in our games. He also brings extensive business experience to Flippfly, having owned a sign shop in the small town of Wautoma, WI for several years.
Aaron San Filippo
Aaron is Flippfly's programmer. After spending over 7 years in the "AAA" game industry working on titles such as Singularity and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Aaron decided it was time to move onto something smaller and more creative. He's responsible for all coding, and much of Flippfly's game design. He's also been known to dabble a bit in art, to the horror of those who actually know what they're doing.
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A while ago, I found myself using the word liminal when describing the practices and perspectives of the Evolutionary Collective. Given the emergent nature of this work, it often happens that the living logos of this consciousness chooses words and images that I come to understand more fully after they are spoken and worked with. The consciousness of the new paradigm is an expression of the power of the 'space between' or the liminal.
The concept of liminality was first developed in the early 20th century by anthropologist Arnold van Gennep and then later expanded upon by Victor Turner. It comes from the Latin word limen, which means 'a threshold'. It is used to describe the transition phase in a ritual – the ambiguous and disorienting space that occurs when our sense of identity before the ritual is no more and the new sense of self hasn't arisen. We stand at the 'threshold' between our previous reality and way of structuring our experience and the new reality we are moving into.
You may have heard the word used in Tibetan Buddhism for the bardo state – the "transitional state" or "in-between state" or "liminal state". Used loosely, the term "bardo" refers to the intermediate state of existence between lives on earth. The liminal space lies between the known and the unknown – the space is a transitional space of heightened intensity. When we are in the midst of true creativity we are in a liminal space.
If you feel into your sense of the 'liminal' right now – the subtle space between any sense of identity you'll find there is something there that is neither and both and more. There is a dimensionalization of consciousness that allows us to exist in a kind of quantum reality where both 'the particle and the wave' co-exist. The practice of mutual awakening allows people to focus on this liminal space. Some people think it's a simple practice that allows two people to be in the present moment with one another and go into a deeper space of relationship. Of course, that happens but there is a much deeper invitation to develop, over time, a capacity to reside in this liminal consciousness. I feel this is the consciousness we are being invited to move into as a species.
In the current paradigm our self-reflective consciousness gives rise to linear thinking, deep interiority, rationality, witnessing, mindfulness and the awareness of choice. The consciousness of the new paradigm arises in the space between – it's both the wave and the particle simultaneously – it's the sense of unity that includes a clear experience of individuation that doesn't depend on being fixed in any way. It doesn't depend on groundedness and embodiment. It effortlessly includes those elements but the locus of consciousness is elsewhere. In extreme sports, athletes sometimes defy the laws of time and space – they move into what I am calling the liminal, a powerful flow state where new potentials are possible. They become the whole, while functioning individually from a place of pure spontaneity and choicelessness and a portal opens that allows for the impossible to occur.
As we learn to release our identification with being fixed entities (the particle) and allow ourselves to exist in a kind of multidimensional freedom we may discover openings that allow us to 'pop-through' into new worlds, with new solutions. Could it be that that is the new paradigm? A consciousness that allows for new realities to display themselves without the painful linear struggle as a fixed identity in a fixed reality with laws of cause and effect? Our normal sense of identity (egoic structure) is more or less fixed – in the current paradigm we work to heal that sense of identity, we learn to ground ourselves deeply within and heal and grow. Maybe in the new paradigm – we discover that the origination point of Being is always there – so unique and so profound is our experience of being 'home' that we no longer need to be so solid and fixed. New paradigms really are 'new' paradigms.
Wormholes are bridges through space-time that create a shortcut from one reality to another. The consciousness we are exploring in the Evolutionary Collective is liminal in nature – a consciousness that is wormhole friendly. The 'space-between' is a 24/7 consciousness that we are living in and giving to that is dissolving the need for a solid sense of self. As we practice together, our unique point of existence (the point) is alive, vibrant and scintillatingly awake and the 'wave' or flow of existence simultaneously arises. Liminality, the space between, the both/and, spontaneity and multidimensionality are all characteristics of the consciousness.
One of the definitions of liminal is 'barely perceptible' and of or relating to a sensory threshold. The subtle and causal dimensions are invisible. We need to develop soft eyes and highly sensitized inner senses to remain available to occupy this liminal world and develop a tolerance for being more invisible. It's a place where more people will not be able to see or understand you and the results that are occurring around you. A liminal persona is a different category of existence. The more power you are able to access in this dimension, the more invisible and the more effective you become. It helps to remember that as human beings, we can never see beyond our own level of development. So even though the consciousness and the power of it may not be recognized easily – those who are sharing the space of this consciousness of awakened mutuality have the joy of discovering what its potentials are together.
The dissolution of order during liminality creates a fluid, malleable situation that enables new forms to arise. We speak of emergence – but it's usually inside the unexamined current perspective of thinking emergence is an action that happens between solid realities – rather than an ongoingness – a quality of consciousness that exists 'as emergence'.
This is a note from one of the Evolutionary Collective Core members in New York that gives a sense of the liminal:
There seems a felt, but unlanguaged, commitment underlying the interplay, which appears to be sourcing it and that is quite perfect. I no longer need to "know" its/our intent as I trust the we/I. The farther afield the "I" goes the more difficult it may be to describe but there is more of a sense of being "at home". I am welcomed by the "we" and "they" quite happily merge into one……dancing into a multitude of musical collections, each with its own distinct loveliness.
I'm loving it. Justin
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Friday, January 25, 2008
I know that I want to see a JJ Abrams Star Trek film -- one that has the character and personality of the creator. I think that brings about the best sort of franchise work -- when it's not just putting something out there generically, but brings the talents of the people to play. That's what has worked with the better comic book adaptations -- and if you look at Star Trek as something similar to that, you should want that here as well.
But the NCC-1701 site -- where you have to dial in the shipyard cameras -- is one of the first real solid signs that we're going to have that same sort of fun, and a film isn't just a two hour trip to the movie theater, but an experience over a much longer period of time.
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The 2012 New York Mets season has already seen its share of injuries, tough luck losses and just outright poor, frustrating play. However, the positives in defeat, losses and watching players fail is you can determine what are your weaknesses as a team, and how can it be improved. So far, some hitting flaws have been exposed, some hitters have adapted better to new roles under the tutelage of Dave Hudgens while others have struggled to combine patience with a selective approach. Some bullpen pitchers have seen their stars fall, while others have capitalized on learning new pitches to help equalize the competition.
Ike Davis has come out of the gate, and been just about as bad as someone could have hoped. After yesterday's game, Davis is hitting .170 with five home runs, 20 RBI and a 11/46 BB/K ratio. Ike has been getting killed on breaking balls, seeing less and less fastballs while swinging at more breaking balls on the outside corners and in the dirt. Defensively, Ike has been as stable but a few times it seems his struggles have come with him into the field.
The Verdict: The fans and possibly management itself overplayed how ready someone with just over 600 at-bats would adapt after a long lay-off. Ike has shown some signs of resurgence, but consistent ability to make quality contact has killed him. The BABIP will have to rise (.208) which is well below league-average.
Andres Torres went down on opening day with a flare-up of the calf injury that kept him out of the majority of the spring training games. While many Mets fans were prepared to see some combination of Hairston/Baxter/Bay patrolling center (yeah, looking back that was crazy), the Mets did something many fans wished they would, and called up Kirk Nieuwenhuis. Despite a major problem with striking out (53 on the season, tied for fifth with Cincinnati Reds CF Drew Stubbs), Kirk has managed to make his contact count, still hitting .288 with a .358 OBP and some solid, if not great center field defense. The performance merits playing time, but once Jason Bay returns, it will be interesting to see the utilization
The Verdict: Kirk was infact MLB ready, and the strikeouts are the only issue, but most expected him to have a high strikeout total. With better knowledge of how MLB umpires call games, Kirk will turn the strikeouts into walks and hits. While he may not be an All-Star, Captain Kirk is one of many reasons these Mets are six games over .500
Bobby Parnell, who has witnessed his stock and future role with the Mets waver every year came into the season expecting to be a situational righty, especially with the additions of Jon Rauch, Ramon Ramirez and Frank Francisco. What he has become is the most consistent right-handed option in the bullpen who has finally learned to harness his stuff, as evidenced by his 3/21 BB/K ratio over the course of the young season. His ERA of 2.75 is only bested by Tim Byrdak's 2.57, but Byrdak has been a machine himself. The knuckle-curve he learned from Jason Isringhausen seems to have made a difference, as hitters are forced to guess in any strikeout count: Will he throw me a fastball anywhere from 92-101, or paint a corner with an 83 MPH curve?
The Verdict: Parnell pitches much like a hitter hits – in streaks and stints. Parnell hasn't really had any poor outings yet, and four of the six earned runs he's allowed have come in two different outings. Bobby just may have figured out how to pitch now, and increased his value in the Mets bullpen drastically.
This isn't to say there aren't other stories to be spoken about such as the emergence of Mike Baxter as the best pinch-hitting option off the bench, Manny Acosta rendering himself incapable of getting out MLB hitters, Johan Santana returning to his old form or David Wright borrowing MJOLNIR from Thor to become one of the best hitters in the NL. It just means, when all things were assumed bad – there was an upside to it. Finding out what we thought we know wasn't true, and finding out what we didn't know was a lie.


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Thus I have made up:
Once the Buddha was walking along the
forest path in the Oak Grove at Ojai, walking without arriving anywhere
or having any thought of arriving or not arriving
and lotuses shining with morning dew
miraculously appeared under every step
soft as silk beneath the toes of the Buddha
When suddenly, out of the turquoise sky,
dancing in front of his half-shut inward-looking eyes, shimmering like a rainbow
or a spider's web,
transparent as the dew on a lotus flower,
–the Goddess appeared quivering like a hummingbird in the air before him
She, for she was surely a she
as the Buddha could clearly see
with his eye of discriminating awareness wisdom,
was mostly red in color
though when the light shifted
she flashed like a rainbow.
She was naked except
for the usual flower ornaments
Goddesses wear
Her long hair
was deep blue, her two eyes fathomless pits of space
and her third eye a bloodshot
ring of fire
The Buddha folded his hands together
and greeted the Goddess thus:
"O Goddess, why are you blocking my path.
Before I saw you I was happily going nowhere.
Now I'm not sure where to go."
"You can go around me,"
said the Goddess, twirling on her heels like a bird
darting away, but just a little way away,
"or you can come after me.
This is my forest too,
you can't pretend I'm not here."
With that the Buddha sat
supple as a snake
solid as a rock
beneath a Bo tree
that sprang full-leaved
to shade him.
"Perhaps we should have a chat," he said.
"After years of arduous practice
at the time of the morning star
I penetrated reality, and now…"
"Not so fast, Buddha.
I am reality."
The Earth stood still,
the oceans paused,
the wind itself listened
–a thousand arhats, bodhisattvas, and dakinis
magically appeared to hear
what would happen in the conversation.
"I know I take my life in my hands."
said the Buddha.
"But I am known as the Fearless One
– so here goes."
And he and the Goddess
without further words
exchanged glances.
Light rays like sunbeams
shot forth
so bright that even
Sariputra, the All-Seeing One,
had to turn away.
And then they exchanged thoughts
and the illumination was as bright as a diamond candle.
And then they exchanged mind
And there was a great silence as vast as the universe
that contains everything
And then they exchanged bodies
And clothes
And the Buddha arose
as the Goddess
and the Goddess
arose as the Buddha
and so on back and forth
for a thousand hundred thousand kalpas.
If you meet the Buddha
you meet the Goddess.
If you meet the Goddess
you meet the Buddha.
Not only that. This:
The Buddha is the Goddess,
the Goddess is the Buddha.
And not only that. This:
The Buddha is emptiness
the Goddess is bliss,
the Goddess is emptiness
the Buddha is bliss.
And that is what
and what-not you are
It's true.
So here comes the mantra of the Goddess and the Buddha,
the unsurpassed dual-mantra.
Just to say this mantra, just to hear this mantra once,
just to hear one word of this mantra once
makes everything the way it truly is: OK.
Hey, silent one, Hey, great talker
Not two/Not one
Not separate/Not apart
This is the heart
Bliss is emptiness
Emptiness is bliss
Be your breath, Ah
Smile, Hey
And relax, Ho
And remember this: You can't miss.
(NOTE: Rick Fields started his journalism career at the Whole Earth Catalog in 1969 and was a co-founder of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review magazine. Later, he was editor of Yoga Journal and a contributing editor of New Age Journal, and finally editor-in-chief of Vajradhatu Sun magazine, which became Shambhala Sun. He died of lung cancer at 57.)


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Pastor Jack's Sabbatical Update #10
"It is finished!" At least for now. I turned in my first draft of my major project paper to Trinity yesterday. See attached photos. Thank you so much for your prayers and being a part of the team! There were a lot of last minute corrections and editing to do before it was ready to submit. Now I wait to hear from my mentors regarding corrections, additions, and deletions wh...Keep Reading


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Live with Kelly: Daytime Emmy Award Winners
Guest co-host Carrie Ann Inaba, dancer and judge on "Dancing with the Stars," joined Kelly today as she came out with her brand new Daytime Emmy Award. Over the weekend, "Live With Kelly" was awarded two Daytime Emmy Awards: one for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show, and one for both Kelly and Regis as talk show hosts. The Emmy that Kelly was holding was Gelman's Emmy, and she revealed that the award was a long time coming: Gelman had been nominated in the Outstanding Talk Show category a whopping 24 times! Kelly joked, "did you hear that, Susan Lucci?"
Although it's Gelman's first time being awarded an Emmy, Kelly has won twice before: once for hosting "Live," and once for hosting the Walt Disney World Parade. Kelly's children hold on to her other awards for her. Lola has one Emmy, which she uses to hold her hair accessories. Joaquin has the other Emmy, which he plays with and pretends is a deceptacon. Over the weekend, they were fighting over who would get the new Emmy. Kelly's oldest son, Michael, reminded them, "I don't even have one!"
Carrie Ann Inaba: Dance House USA Hamptons
Kelly told the audience that the last time she saw Carrie Ann was in Hawaii, where Lola interviewed Carrie Ann for a school project. Kelly thanked her for being so nice and helpful, because the project was a big hit with her class. Like Carrie Ann, Lola is very interested in dance. Kelly said that she takes hip-hop lessons.
Carrie said that she is teaching at a dance convention this summer in the Hamptons called Dance House USA. It is a one week intensive program in July that will feature great choreographers such as Mandy Moore and Dave Scott from "So You Think You Can Dance." Carrie said that Lola would love it, and she invited her to take part in the program. Kelly said that she wants to take a class, too!
Kelly Ripa: Family Vacation in Colorado
Kelly said that she had been away in Colorado, on vacation with Mark and the kids. She brought some great pictures of Colorado's natural beauty. The Consuelos's took hikes, went fishing, and visited a ghost town. They also took a train through the the mountains. Kelly said that Lola tried for hours to catch a trout, and Joaquin put his net in and caught one right away.
Kelly had a great– but quite embarrassing– story to share about Joaquin. While the family were mountain biking, Joaquin had an accident and flew over the handlebars. He scraped both of his knees badly and was bleeding and covered in dirt. Kelly panicked, because she did not have any first aid supplies with her, so she made the best out of what she did have: a Kotex tampon! Kelly recalled how she hilariously wet the tampon and attempted to clean her son off with it. She lied to him and told him it was a "wound healer." She was very impressed with the amount of water it held– it would not leak! Kelly announced to Kotex that they can feel free to use the story for their new campaign.
Live With Kelly: Psychic Week
Kelly and Carrie Ann announced that this week is Psychic Week on "Live." Tomorrow, Sylvia Brown will appear, on Tuesday, "Long Island Medium" star Teresa Caputo, on Thursday, intuitive medium Char, and finally on Friday, pet psychic Sonya Fitzpatrick.
Live With Kelly: Surf's Up Travel Trivia
Since Spring is officially over, it's time for a new trivia segment on "Live." This summer's game is called Surf's Up Travel Trivia. Unfortunately, on the first installment, the caller lost out on a trip when she did not know that the new summer set featured coffee trees. However, both she and an audience member won a gift set from Lenox china.


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Short Film Premiere: I Am Going to Break Your heart | Music from Mike Galbraith, Holly Bernt, Marlon Morton, Mike Anton, and Roninpawn
Thu, May 11, 2017 @ 7:00 pm to 11:00pmView event on Facebook
Thursday, May 11 / 7pm / $5
DOG IN A BATHTUB presents Brandon Frye's new short film, "I am Going to Break Your Heart."
ONE NIGHT ONLY at PJ'S LAGER HOUSE. Musical performances by Mike Galbraith, Holly Bernt, Remnose, Mike Anton, and Ronin Pawn.
Starring Marlon Morton (of Detroit-based band Remnose) and Clare Maclean, this film peeks into a relationship on the rocks.
Suggested donation: $5
As a songwriter, Detroit's Mike Galbraith owes as much to the Replacements as he does Bob Dylan, to Nirvana as much as Neil Young, to Calvin and Hobbes as Ernest Hemingway. Simple truths and insightful storytelling mark modern tales, oft beset by booze and heartbreak. No fat. No feathers.
"Mike Galbraith's influences blend modern country-tinged indie-rock acts like Wilco, along with rustled-and-tumbled blues-pop flavors of The Replacements. When Galbraith belts a bluesy note, the whole room feels it, with this gravelly timbre that plucks at the heartstrings, while his main collaborator James Anthony strums a sublime lead along the frets of an accompanying guitar."
— FADL Observer
Holly Bernt was born in Minnesota but she moved to South Dakota at age five and then to Oregon when she was fourteen. She lived with her older brothers, baby sister, and her parents. Even when talking about her father now, Holly's eyes brighten up. She recalls how he would just sit back and listen to her play piano for long amounts of time. At the age of six Holly would sit down at the piano and be able to play any song she had heard. At one point her mom signed her up for piano lessons but after getting rebuked about her form etc. by the teacher. Holly promptly quit and learned on her own. If you ask her now she would say that she is grateful to not have been stifled by music theory "my music comes through my soul not some notes on page". Holly's music is characterized by soft melodic chords and the often blues/jazz influenced guitar songs that rip the listener out of their comfort zone. Her music could be related to those such as Ingrid Michaelson, Joni Mitchell, and even Taylor Swift.
Music for Holly hit an all time high when she was sent to boarding school at the age of fifteen. The one place she felt solace was in the chapel at the piano. She spent many hours there and unknowingly developed her talent to a much greater level then before.
Holly Bernt is now 23 and lives in Rochester Michigan and works as a dental assistant. She attends Oakland University and will be graduating in the spring of 2011 with a double major in political science and psychology. Holly plans on taking the next year off to work on more music and figure out what the next step is. She has a passion for current events and the start up of a "Peaceful Revolution" through music and self-sustaining practices.
She plays guitar and sings original songs with such a powerful emotion, captivating anyone who listens to them. Writing has helped Holly go through many hard moments of her life through her lyrics. She defines writing as her coping mechanism and her preferred method of expression through both dark and light times. More recently she has used to music as information and to wake up people.
She says in her song, 'The Real Thing', "When the world gets me no-where, I know I've got the real thing." No matter what life throws at Holly, she has no problem taking it with a smile. You can tell just by looking at her that Holly Bernt definitely has "the real thing."
Marlon Morton is in Remnose, four want-to-be Yoopers making up-north music from underneath the bridge. Think rowboats, think Lake Superior, think something.
Mike Anton has three bands: The Mantons, Factory Girls, and CHAW. Plus, Mike Anton is a solo performing songwriter. He has music on a couple of other sites, but this site is where he's decided to archive some personal recordings not administrated by outside sources. Mainly, this is a site for his own personal stuff, and for the band CHAW. Mike lives and plays music in the Detroit area.


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Stylish beachfront resort Manathai Khao Lak opens
Greeted with a traditional Thai water blessing on arrival, the stylish new boutique beachfront resort Manathai Khao Lak promises a new take on Thai tourism.
Manathai Khao Lak offers breathtaking natural beauty, including wide stretches of pristine beaches, elephant treks, waterfalls, canoeing in stunning Phang Nga Bay and world-renowned diving, it epitomises the very best of Thailand's natural beauty and rich culture.
Just a 90 minute drive north of Phuket International Airport, on Bangsak Beach, Manathai Khao Lak sits on a stretch of unspoiled coastline with uninterrupted views of the Andaman Sea. The hotel's 158 chic and contemporary rooms are surrounded by lovely manicured gardens; it's a delightful boutique alternative to the straining tourist resorts that take up much of the mainland.
Additionally, its beachfront restaurant, Pad Thai, celebrates one of Thailand's most iconic and best-loved dishes, by offering traditional Thai dishes inspired by iconic Thai street food including 22 different and delectable variations on the traditional Pad Thai.
The stylish Thai hotel also boasts a swimming pool, a fitness centre, a 24-hour reception and concierge service, 24-hour security, complimentary Wi-Fi, room service, in-room dining, an on-call doctor, a private library, a private airport transport service, motorbike and car rental, a childcare service, and an activities and tour service. What more could you want?
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This is the second year I have participated in the Beads of Courage
Swap, Blog Hop and Auction hosted by Jennifer Cameron of Glass Addictions.
I made 22 charms in 2 different mediums and one of each of them will be
auctioned off to raise funds for Beads of Courage.
It's a wonderful program I hope you never have to use, but it's great to know it's spreading joy for those who do have children who have to endure so much medical treatment to stay here with us.
So start saving up a few dollars so when
November 15th
comes you can bid on some great art charms knowing
you are also adding smiles to the faces of some of the bravest children ever created.
Wondering where the other 20 charms went? Well, there are 38 artists from 5 countries who created art charms for this auction and Jennifer is giving us a sampling of those. So check back here on the 15th of November to see what I made, what I received and then head off to get your favorites from the ebay auction.
I'm almost as excited about this as I am about Christmas! The way the artists who have already received their packages are exclaiming I'm so very impatiently waiting. Yep, that's right until my package arrives I can't see any of them either. SO come back November 15th to also get a link list for the blog hop so you can see all sorts of pictures of the charms available to bid on.
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10 things you need to know before the opening bell
Morgan Stanley's US equity chief explains why the recent meltdown signaled the 'final stage' of the bull market. "We're very late-cycle in the economic expansion, and I measure that primarily through the labor market," Morgan Stanley chief US equity strategist Mike Wilson told Business Insider's Joe Ciolli. "We're at full employment or just below it, and to me it's pretty clear that there's not much slack left in the economy - and that's usually the final stage of a market cycle."
Get ready for the Year of the Dog. The Chinese New Year takes place on Friday, February 16, bringing in The Year of Dog, which is a good time to be cautious when it comes to finances, according to this year's CLSA Feng Shui Index.The UK economy grew slower than Europe for the first time since 2010. Eurozone economic growth came in at 2.7% for 2017 while UK growth was just 1.5%.
The Japanese yen hits its best level in over a year. The yen gained almost 1% in overnight action, hitting 106.84 per dollar, its strongest since November 2016.
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Western Union confirms it's testing transactions Ripple technology. Raj Agrawal, the company's chief financial officer, told Bloomberg that efforts were in a "testing phase" and there was nothing so far in the process that would be a "big unlock."
Uber's loss narrows. The ride-hailing app saw fourth-quarter revenue climb 61% year-over-year to $2.2 billion as its loss narrowed to $1.1 billion.
Stock markets around the world are mostly higher. Hong Kong's Hang Seng (+2.27%) led the gains in Asia and Germany's DAX (+0.71%) is out front in Europe. The S&P 500 is set to open up 0.37% near 2,673.Earnings reports keep coming. Dr. Pepper Snapple and Molson Coors report ahead of the opening bell while Cisco Systems and Marriott International release their quarterly results after markets close.
US economic data picks up. CPI and retail sales will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET. The US 10-year yield is up 1 basis point at 2.83%.


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Messerschmitt ME 410 A-1 Hornisse
Here are some images of Monogram's 1/48 scale Messerschmitt ME 410 A-1 Hornisse (Hornet) fighter bomber. The ME 210 was designed as the BF 110's successor and though resembling it in layout, it was a more refined aircraft. An interesting feature was the remote control machine guns on the side of the fuselage however the ME 210 had severe stalling and spinning problems and thus production was ceased in 1942. Lengthening the rear fuselage and the leading edge wing slats solved the ME 210's problems and led to the creation of the ME 410. This was a successful aircraft with a top speed of 388 mph and a service ceiling of almost 33,000 feet a total of 1,610 aircraft were produced before wars end.
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Now That I Found You - Michael Bolton
I can still remember
When all I had was time
A time when I had nothin'
But this empty heart of mine
When I needed inspiration
When the night was all I knew
You were the light shinin' into my life
The reason for all the love I'm feelin'
Now that I've found you
I don't know how I lived without you
I don't know how I survived without your love
Now that I've found you
I only know I'd be lost without you
I found the love
That I'll never find again
'Cause all I ever needed
And all I ever wanted
Has come true
I found it all now that I've found you
I could've searched forever
And never realized
The treasure of a lifetime
Was the love inside your eyes
When I reach for inspiration
In your touch, it's always there
Givin' me faith every step of the way
Givin' me all I ever needed
And every step of the way
Gonna dedicate my heart to you
Promise you my world forever
Pledgin' my love my whole life through
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To accompany that famous phrase in Vers Une Architecture, about 'the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light', Le Corbusier chose photographs of American grain elevators, which he doctored to make the forms even more stark and pure. Erich Mendelsohn was another enthusiast: 'I took photographs like mad, ' he said of seeing the grain stores in Buffalo. Years later, in his last book A Concrete Atlantis, Reyner Banham thought this early Modern aestheticising of grain elevators 'begins to look like good sense when one sees these blunt abstract forms in high contrast against the equally abstract surface of the snow'.
So Bernd & Hilla Becher, in their ceaseless quest to document industrial building types, have naturally had these structures in their sights, and the result is Grain Elevators (MIT Press, £48.95) - the latest volume in their unfolding oeuvre complète, with 246 examples from Europe and North America photographed over the last 45 years. Unlike Le Corbusier, however, the Bechers don't do airbrushing. While some of the elevators, with their serried concrete cylinders, have a Modernist purity, many others have excrescences which Corb would have eliminated: pitched-roof superstructures (surreally domestic) or crowstep-gables. The smaller-scale ones that recur across the American Midwest can even seem makeshift, with their rickety pipework and dishevelled metal cladding.
MIT Press has also published Susanne Lange's Bernd & Hilla Becher: Life and Works (£39.95) - an informative overview. Lange places the Bechers' project historically and considers their inuence, while the photographs show just how broadly they have ranged and how many variations each building type generates. There are valuable interviews with the Bechers themselves, Hilla saying: 'We undertook this work for the sheer visual pleasure we knew it would bring, pleasure from remarkable shapes' ( www. mitpress. org).
The next chance to see the Bechers' photos in an exhibition rather than a book (given the way they display them, this makes a difference) comes at Tate Liverpool, with a show called Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde, from 20 February ( www. tate. org. uk).
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Mystic visions take shape in Isharya's Pisces Hoop Earrings. Lapis lazuli beads dance in harmony with these astrological darlings; pair them with a flowing maxi dress to show your spirital side.
Handcrafted with blue lapis lazuli, blue and green enamel, cz and 18k gold plated brass.
Measures 5 cm across and 4.8 cm long. Each pair weighs 21 g.
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Top 16 Most Iconic Buildings in the World
For thousands and thousands of years, humankind has been obsessed with creating large, imposing and beautiful structures, and even though we're still breaking our own records year after year, we still don't know exactly what drives our fascination for architecture. In any case, the construction of iconic buildings is one thing we have in common with our early ancestors, so we decided to create a top 16 regarding some of the world's most iconic buildings, whether we're talking about majestic pyramids or staggeringly high skyscrapers.
1. Taipei 101
We start off our top 16 with a modern construction, namely the Taipei 101 – a glorious skyscraper that stands 1,669 feet tall in the Xinyi District of Taipei, Taiwan. The building was finished in 2004 and held the title of the tallest in the world until 2010, when it was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Apart from its imposing height and stunning architecture, the Taipei 101 includes a series of environmentally friendly technologies, which is why it was awarded the LEED Platinum certification in 2011. As the largest and tallest green building on the planet, this skyscraper was named as such because it comprises 101 floors. The construction process for this staggering landmark started in 1999 and ended up costing $1.8 billion.
2. Buckingham Palace
The Buckingham Palace is definitely one of the most impressive and important buildings in the United Kingdom, serving as the official London residence and main workplace of the British monarch. The palace can be found in the City of Westminster, and it was originally known as the Buckingham House. The main center of the building was initially a townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705, which received a number of additions over time, the last of them being implemented in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Each year, between August and September, the palace opens its doors to tourists and locals as part of the Summer Opening.
3. Space Needle
As one of the most valuable landmarks of the city of Seattle, the Space Needle is a fantastic observation tower built in the city center for the 1962 World's Fair. This grand event was also known as the Century 21 Exposition, and it attracted 6.6 million people. The Space Needle boasts a height of 605 feet as well as a width of 138 feet, and it once represented the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River.
Its observation deck is placed at an altitude of 520 feet, ensuring extraordinary views of the city and of the he Olympic and Cascade Mountains, Elliott Bay, Mount Rainer and Mount Baker. The Space Needle was officially declared a historic landmark on April 19, 1999 by Seattle's Landmarks Preservation Board.
4. St Basil's Cathedral
Saint Basil's Cathedral is one of the most beautiful Orthodox churches in existence, and it can be found in the Red Square in Moscow. The building itself has a maximum height of 156 feet and was built from 1555 to 1561 by Ivan the Terrible, who wanted to celebrate the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan.
What gives this landmark its indisputable significance is not only its incredible religious importance but also its unique exterior design. Sketched out to look like the flames of a bonfire rising up towards the sky, Saint Basil's Cathedral is part of the Moscow Kremlin and Red Square UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990.
5. The White House
The White House can be found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C, and it has been the official residence of the President of the United States since 1800. The residence was designed by James Hoban and built between 1792 and 1800 using Aquia Creek sandstone that was painted crisp white.
The White House was designed and constructed following the principles of Neoclassical architecture, and it now represents a vast complex that includes the East Wing, West Wing, the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and the Executive Residence. The property on which the house rests on is a National Heritage Site and a part of the President's Park.
6. The Petronas Towers
The Petronas Towers are two identical skyscrapers that are located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The construction process of these exquisite landmarks lasted 7 years from 1992 to 1999, when the towers were officially inaugurated by the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Soaring up to an altitude of 1,483 feet, the Petronas Towers were officially the tallest in the world until 2004, when they were surpassed by the Taipei 101.
The architect behind the designing of these exceptional buildings was César Pelli, who chose a sublime postmodern style that oozes grace and modernism. The constriction costs for the Petronas Towers were approximately $1.6 billion.
7. Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia boasts a rich historical heritage, and it can be found in Istanbul, Turkey. Originally an Eastern Orthodox cathedral, the building but was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral and to an Imperial Mosque. Since 1935, Hagia Sophia operates as a museum, and it is visited by a wide array of tourists each year.
The construction of this incredible landmark started in the year 532 and ended 537, which is 1476 years ago. The church was extremely famous for its beautiful dome, which is still considered one of the most groundbreaking examples of Byzantine architecture. Hagia Sophia was the world's largest cathedral for nearly a millennium, until the completion of the Seville Cathedral in 1520.
8. The Louvre
The Louvre is one of the most significant tourist attractions in Paris, France, since it is visited by millions of art lovers and history enthusiasts each year. The museum flaunts 652,300 square feet of space that are dedicated entirely for art exhibits. Almost 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are found within its walls, including art pieces signed by Leonardo da Vinci and Eugène Delacroix.
9. The Burj Al Arab
The Burj Al Arab, also known as the Tower of the Arabs, is a magnificent luxury hotel that can be found in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Boasting a splendid, unique design, the hotel was sketched out by a skilled architect named Tom Wright, who decided to create an exquisite layout resembling the sail of a ship.
The Burj Al Arab took 5 years to complete, from 1994 to 1999, and it cost $690 million. With a height of 1,056 feet, it currently represents the fourth tallest hotel in the world.
10. Sydney Opera House
The exquisite Opera House of Sydney sits proudly on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, and it represents a symbol of the city of Sydney as well as of the entire continent of Australia. The Opera House is visited by thousands of tourists each year, most of them being enthralled by its unique and stunning exterior design, which was sketched out by a Danish architect named Jørn Utzon.
As one of the most important buildings of the 20th century, this incredible landmark houses over 1,500 performances each year, which are attended by as much as 1,2 million visitors. The construction of the Sydney Opera House started on March 2, 1959 and ended in 1973. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007.
11. Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is one of the most famous and iconic buildings in New York and in the United States of America. This monolithic structure can be found in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and it boasts a total height of 1,454 feet (antenna included).
The building was constructed in the Art Deco style and was the tallest in the world from 1931 to 1972, when it was outmatched by the World Trade Center's North Tower. Due to its extraordinary design and immeasurable significance for the citizens of New York, the building has been designated as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
12. Taj Mahal
Everyone has heard of the Taj Mahal! This breathtakingly beautiful Indian icon can be found in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, and it was built by a by Mughal emperor named Shah Jahan honoring the memory of his third and most beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
The Taj Mahal was built following the principles of Mughal architecture, a style that involves design elements from both Indian and Persian styles. The construction of this highly important landmark required 21 years of hard work and planning, from 1632 to 1653. The mausoleum was constructed using white marble, and it boasts a total height of 561 feet. In 1983, the Taj Mahal became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
13. The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower was initially built as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair, but over the years it has become one of the most recognized symbols of France and of its capital city, Paris. The tower flaunts a height of 1,063 feet, representing the tallest structure in Paris. Moreover, due to its widespread popularity, the landmark is also the most most-visited paid monument in the world. When it was complete, the Eiffel tower was the tallest building in the world, a title held for 41 years until the completion of the Chrysler Building in New York City.
14. Big Ben
The Big Ben is actually known officially as the Elizabeth Tower, a name it received in 2012 in order to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. As the third-tallest freestanding clock tower in the world, the Big Ben was built in 1858, which means it is over 150 years old.
This incredible masterpiece of architecture and design houses the largest four-faced chiming clock in the world, showcasing the famous inscription " DOMINE SALVAM FAC REGINAM NOSTRAM VICTORIAM PRIMAM", which translates to "O Lord, keep safe our Queen Victoria the First".
15. The Colosseum
Widely considered as the finest example of Roman architecture and engineering, the Colosseum is a superb amphitheatre that can be found in the center of Rome in Italy. This massive structure boasts an elliptical shape and was built using stone and concrete. The Colosseum is indisputably the largest amphitheatre in the world, and its construction was commissioned by the emperor Vespasian in 70 AD.
In 80 AD, the giant Colloseum was finally complete, and it was used to showcase gladiatorial contests and public spectacles. People flocked to these events in the thousands, since this magnificent structure could hold between 50,000 and 80,000 spectators in its prime. In 1980, the Colosseum became a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and in 2007 it was declared one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
16. The Great Pyramid of Giza
Also known as the Pyramid of Cheops or the Pyramid of Khufu, the Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest pyramid of the Giza Necropolis, which can be found in Egypt, of course. This imposing masterpiece of ancient engineering is the largest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, boasting a height of 455 feet.
Experts believe that this outstanding landmark was built to serve as a tomb for an Egyptian Pharaoh named Khufu. Even though nobody knows exactly how the pyramid was built in the first place, many Egyptologists concur that it was constructed using massive blocks of stone that were carried from a nearby quarry and lifted into place. Once complete, the staggering Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years.


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As I'm now populating the Power-Up game with enemies, I thought I'd start my blog breaking down the enemy I've just put in.
I haven't decided what BUSCraft is short for yet. I called this baddie ship a bus because, well... it looks a bit like one.
Basically, as the player has a bit of an array of upgradeable weapons which fire in different directions, at different rates and at different levels of power, etc, I though it best that the design of the game encourage the player to use them all as evenly as possible for the best results (rather than just to power up the basic front firing lazer and buldose their way through the game with that... which the player could do if they wanted to, but would then find themselves pointlessly overly powerful against a frontal assault while desperately lacking and evasive against attacks from the top, bottom and rear..... you with me?
With that in mind, and having already thrown a few enemies at the front of the player, I decided to throw something at the back. After some thought, I went for three big, relatively heavily armoured tanks which would move in from the left, taking up quite a bit of screen while shooting random multi-directional projectiles and giving the player the time to wear the ships down and get megapoints for each kill..... provided, of course, that the player had suitably powered up their rear firing shot beforehand... See what I did there? ;)
After some 2D hand drawn tests, I realised quite quickly that the best approach was rendered 3d with plenty of 2D influence in the textures and in post production. This way I could get the subtle twists and turns that the vehicles would need to make when moving about, while not wasting precious hours drawing and re-drafing animation frames.
|The BUSCraft model. I've kept it simple so as to make the most of the timescale I've given myself for the project.
I chose to make basic 3D models, designing them as I go.
After the modelling, I found myself doing a quick render of the basic frames I thought I'd need. This would allow me to code a rough draft of the baddie's attack pattern into the game and would tell me how big the ship would need to be and at what angles it was to be seen at. In the case of the BUSCraft, it was to be really just the side view.
|Here it is from the back. Notice that even in the spherical shapes, I've capped the detail to make life as easy as possible when texturing, bearing in mind that the whole vehicle won't appear in game at much more than 250x150 pixels in size.
This phase in the baddie's implementation lets me see what's working and what isn't. The main problem with three big ships entering the screen at the same time is making them look independent from one another. If they enter as one big block it's hard for the player to differenciate between them and it just looks, well, wrong. So what can I do about it?...
Well, first off, I can seperate the ships out and put a delay between their entrances. As a new, learning programmer this took some serious brain power on my part as I was no longer working within the constraints of what I had already learned, but soon I had three objects with slightly different timings, moving onto the screen with a delay between them. Here, they would stop for a while, then one by one, they would shift back to the left and out of play.
|Rough-coding the BUSCraft into the game. Here I worked out the ship's size on screen, basic movements and any animations & effects needed to make this happen.
So far so good... But it still wasn't right. These are big floaty spaceships hanging in space and as such they needed to appear to float. Having done my fair share of Shockwave games, I'd figured out how to make a character jump, setting a height number then taking 1 off it for every frame of the game and making a character's height appear to arc. All I had to do was translate that process from Director Lingo into Xna/C#, then do a reversed version to make it arc back up, THEN loop the lot and... Voila! floaty big spaceships!
Next was the multi-directional firing. Using a variant of the player's shot effects I'd already done, I was able to make the big sphere in the middle of the bus light up and using a variant of the player's shoot code, I was able to put a projectile on the screen, making the BUSCraft's big central sphere the spawn point. As this was a multi-directional projectile, it would have to have images for every direction. A good time saving alternative to this, and something that's widely recognised in this genre as a baddie projectile is a glowing sphere. I'd kind of decided on this when desinging the BUSCraft.
|Having put in the basics, I tried out adding projectiles, effects, and some dynamic movement to the BUSCraft baddies.
When designing my ships, I needed to come up with a means of doing things quickly so that I wasn't getting hung up on any one area of production. Nothing kills an indie game in-development like boredom does. My biggest concern was the texturing process. In my experience, one of the most time intensive art processes is the texturing of a model. By keeping the model simple I am able to do a quick printscreen of each side of the model and paint the texture straight on using gradients, layer effects and hand drawn elements. I can then UVW map/unwrap the texture straight back onto the model with a minimum of fuss.
|Texturing the BUSCraft.
Having all of the game's ship models saved into one 3D scene with a camera and lighting rig already set up also helps for consistency when I blast out the renders I need. For Power Up I generally render in 800x600 pngs so there's no background colour to pull out when I put the animations together. As the renders are much bigger than needed, I get plenty of leighway when reducing the sprites to the game's sprite sheets. Having drawn the booster effects on, I then import the sprite steets into the game and give it all a little test.
Now for the final flourishes. With a bit of tweaking, the game segment is complete and I'm almost ready to move on.
Getting the ships' move speeds to slow down into the stop part of its sequence was my first port of call. This just added a little more panache. then I tightened up the ships' floaty wobbles, got the effects for the shooting at just the right animation speed, optimised how much damage the BUSCraft ships could take to make it suitably challenging, shrunk down the multi-directional projectiles and lowered the rate of fire (after all, we're quite early in the game, while I can continue to balance things up later, I don't want it to be too hard just yet).
|The fully textured BUSCraft: I've put some lighting on the boosters as a standard. All ships will need lit areas for boosters. Remember, once you have the areas of your model texture-mapped you can always add the detail later if you need to.
Playing it through a few times, I realised that there was something STILL missing here. It looks as though a slow rear attacking baddie does lack something afterall. Don't ask me why, but this section of the game seemed to be missing an attack from the front. Something in me was just expecting it.
Using the modelling processes outlined above, I stuck with the glowball motif used in the multi-directional projectiles and central shooting sphere of the BUSCraft and added some un-shootable mines.
While I was happy with the style and shape of the mines I quickly realised that I had to make them noticeably bigger and different in movement speed physichal characteristic to my circular pickup sprites as my first impulse was to pick it up!! A few extra animated parts were promptly grafted on and the mine was clearly not a pickup.
I've still got a little tweaking to do to this segment of the game before I move onto the next one, but here's what it looks like at the time of writing...
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Coming back from Oaxaca in December, 2006, I wrote "I don't want to be that gringo, bleeding all over the page . . ." And I still don't. . I was supposed to be in Oaxaca to tell the story of people living under an occupation, not to write about myself.
But its all coming back. In Minneapolis, when police in dark uniforms walked through the hall of our hotel, my heart raced and my whole body tensed and in mind they became indisinguishable from the Mexican Federal Preventitive Police (PFP) I had seen in the streets of Oaxaca. And last night, watching the video of Amy Goodman being roughed up by police in riot gear, I felt an uncontrollable rage coming over me.
I tell myself these are normal reactions. But in my gut I know there is something more going on.
We arrived in Oaxaca shortly after the last street battles, when the barricades fell under the onslaught of riot squads and tanks.
Just over a month earlier, a plainclothes police officer had shot and killed an American journalist, Brad Will, who was trying to tell the story of how the people in Oaxaca had risen up against desperate poverty and violent repression. Just before we arrived, police announced plans to arrest other gringos who they accused of fomenting rebellion.
Oaxaca was tense and strangely alive. Tanks controlled the central square, the Zocalo. By day we met with people in hiding -- the sister of a man shot by police, members of the teachers union who had been beaten and jailed, human rights workers trying to find missing people.
By night we stood on the roof of the hostel where we were staying, drinking mescal and watching white pick-up trucks roll by carrying men in black uniforms armed with automatic rifles on their way to kick down doors of people suspected of taking part in the uprising, beat them, and fly them across the county to distant prisons where they would be tortured.
On our last night there, walking home from a restaurant, one of the white pick-up trucks passed just a dew feet away from us. The PFP officers had taken off their badges and covered their nameplates and wore masks over their faces. Their rifles were cradled in their hands. The truck stopped at their corner and I locked eyes with one of the cops.
For a split second I was certain he was about to point his gun at me and put me under arrest. But the truck pulled away.
I felt a wave of relief -- followed by the sickening realization that that someone else was going to be flown to the prison in Nayarit that night, someone who didn't have the protection of the U.S. consulate, someone whose torture would bring no Congressional inquiry. I was embarassed at my selfishness and fear.
The next night it was all I could do to remind myself that the State Trooper standing next to me in the airport bathroom in Boston wasn't PFP.
For months afterwards, every time I saw a police car, my heart would beat furiously and every muscle in my body would tense. One night, passing a cop on a dark road in rural Maine, with one headlight of my van out, I flew into a panic. I concoted an entire scenario that I was thoroughly convinced was about to unfold -- cop pulls me over, brings up my record on the computer in his car, sees that I am an activist and pulls me out of the car and beats me, then writes in his report attacked him and he acted in self defense. The cop never pulled me over to begin with. I was three miles further down the road before I realized that I had never been in real danger.
I am telling this story because my very resistance to telling it tells me it needs to be told.
I am telling this story because when I am gathering stories in Latin America and I get together with other journalists and human rights workers at the end of the day we drink too much.
And I normally hardly drink at all.
I am telling this story because often when I get together with veterans and hear there stories I remember Oaxaca and Colombia and Bolivia and the same thing happens.
I'm embarrassed to say that because my own brief forays at the edge of war zones are meaningless in comparison to a year or more spent in combat in Iraq.
I am telling this story because these past few days my body has felt very much like it did right when I came back from Oaxaca.
I am telling this story because there must be something compelling me to be sitting at a computer at 11:47 after days of not enough sleep.
Every bit of judgement I have is telling me this is all melodramatic and self indulgent. And every bit of sense I have tells me to delete everything I just wrote.
But instead I am clicking on the bright orange box that says "publish post."


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Fifteen of California's 53 congressional districts are expected to see competitive races in the November election. Among the most interesting congressional races:
Congressional District 3
Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, faces Republican Dr. N. Eugene Cleek, a surgeon and farmer from Orland who has received the National Republican Congressional Committee's "Young Guns" label and support. The district stretches from Solano County to the Sacramento Valley and is 40 percent registered Democrats, 31 percent Republicans and 24 percent no party preference.
Congressional District 7
Rep. Ami Bera, D-Elk Grove, faces GOP Sacramento County Sheriff...


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Thursday, 31 October 2013
Bright Bugs Learning
Wow, we have been doing some fantastic independent learning in the Bright Bugs. During reading time one of our independent activities is to write fast words on the whiteboards. Another activity is to create something at the 'Making Table' that begins with our blend of the week using the lego. You can see Nelson's cool 'ship' and a car that 'shoots'! We have also been working really hard on being independent after lunch, showing kawenga - (responsibility) by coming in and reading a book from the library corner. What a super job Bright Bugs. Josharn has also written a super story with Whaea Lorraine this week on the whiteboard, listening for the sounds he can hear in the words. Our writing this week was all about positive relationships (whakawhanaungatanga) - What makes a good friend?'. We had to think of a friend and then give reasons about the things they do that make them a good friend. Josharn wrote "Riya is a good friend because she likes me."
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Maserati Alfieri Sportscar Delayed Yet Again0
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Fiat Chrysler has delayed the two-door Maserati Alfieri sportscar yet again – postponing its arrival until at least 2020.
The Aliferi, which debuted in concept form at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show, was originally slated for a 2016 arrival. Maserati delayed it until 2018 amid a sales slowdown in China before rumors surfaced that it would be delayed even further. Then we heard it could actually still arrive for 2018 and now we're hearing it's delayed again. Quite the saga, we know.
Maserati was planning on launching the Alfieri alongside the next-generation of its GranTurismo and GranTurismo Cabriolet two-doors. The Alfieri is expected to be more compact and performance focused than the GranTurismo, which is tailored more for touring than performance. It's not clear when the next-gen GranTurismo will launch, either.
When or if the Alfieri does arrive, the sportscar will likely appear very similar to the concept shown at Geneva. Maserati's 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V6 is expected to serve as the sole engine option and all-wheel drive may also be on the table.
Via Autocar