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I was mind-blown, for sure. "Upstream Color" got me blown. Shane Carruth's previous flick, "Primer", takes more than a single view to understand (and I understand it after a second-viewing; in my first view I was like, "What the hell is this movie?") because Carruth likes to make his own law in a world he created for the movie. Now, it takes only a first attempt to not only understand, but also be blown by it (maybe because I have prepared my mind before watching it?). Yes, this is the kind of movie you have to anticipate not by preparing snacks and cola, but by setting up your mood and refreshing your brain instead. Pay close attention to what is happening and make sure you notice every detail.
I don't know what I have to write as a synopsis for "Upstream Color" not only because I avoid making spoilers, but because I also don't know where to start. LOL. And the synopsis written in its IMDb page is probably one of the most absurd synopsis I have ever read. But the thing is, we know that a woman named Kris (played by Amy Seimetz) is put under trance by a man for money. As soon as her consciousness is back, she meets Jeff (played by Shane Carruth). The two then fall in love and try to connect to each other as they reconcile with their pasts.
"Upstream Color" is grounded on its own world with its own regulation. It takes you to understand the ground first before trying to enjoy its story because if you don't stand on the same ground, you won't enjoy the story as a whole. But I guess, since I myself am able to understand it just from my first viewing, you can capture the big idea of the story in the first viewing too. Easy, this is not the kind of riddle game movies like those of, say, David Lynch because there is still a good coherence and correlation from one scene to another scene. What is way more interesting is the idea. For me, Shane Carruth doesn't only make a movie: he makes a pseudo-scientific theory and sets up a few ground rules about the theory. I guess he starts writing the script by thinking about this theory first rather than arranging how he wants the story be explained. He knows that he needs to develop the background clearly, so he doesn't need to make a somersault package with too much overturning style. "Upstream Color", finally, is more than just a movie: it's a presentation of a concept.
You'll still be able to enjoy the subplots, but without comprehending the theory, I doubt that you'll be able to capture the idea and finally find it less interesting. It silently thrills you, and in a certain way, it is psychologically haunting. But, in most parts, it is also a heart-breaking elegy of love. Carruth stays in a balanced proportion of adequacy, letting the viewers be starved by their own curiosities. No one, not even me, has ever imagined that this blend of drama and sci-fi can be so much thought-provoking. It is a calm river stream that flows down to a rocky waterfall. "Upstream Color" is full of enigmatic concepts (that's why I called it "a pseudo-scientific theory" because the possibilities of it being proven by today's science is arguable, although there may be a chance) and I agree that Carruth is undoubtedly a new genius on this field. "Primer" has turned into a popular cult, and I guess "Upstream Color" is gonna be the next one.
From the two paragraphs above I think you still can't catch the reason of why you should watch this movie (beside, I didn't even write a good synopsis about this movie so I guess until this line you are still questioning what kind of movie "Upstream Color" really is). The basic idea is, "Upstream Color" is a search of identity. The sci-fi side of this movie doesn't come up from technology or modern physics sort of things, but from biology and psychology. The basic questions like why people do certain things, why we think in a certain way, and why we decide something are the factors that "Upstream Color" has in order to touch viewers right on the most hidden part in our brain. So easily questioned, but not so clearly answered. And Carruth offers his own imagination wrapped in a full-package concept of pseudo-science as an alternative answer that is probably way too far from the ground, but still tickles the far side of our brain. This is a good movie to debate, but since I watched this movie with no company, what I really did after finished watching it is asking to myself, "What if it really happens in our real life?"
Shane Carruth did most parts of the movie by himself. In "Upstream Color", he is the screenwriter, the director, the star, the producer, the composer, the editor, the cinematographer, and the camera operator. The plot only revolves around Seimetz and Carruth, but I guess it is not interesting to discuss their acting. The score is what is most interesting. I love the score; it supports the atmosphere of curiosity of the movie by playing a kind of techno, ambient, and wavy sound effect. Feels a bit repetitive, but still interesting. The dynamic movement of the camera sometimes feel a bit overload (like the way the camera rotated to 90 degrees or so), maybe because Carruth wants to give more treatment to the concept itself. The editing is nice; I love how Carruth and his co-editor, David Lowery, puts blank screens before some heart-jumping scenes. So conventional, but gives a more dramatic effect.
I expect something more climaxing in the ending actually, but the third act is enough to get me astonished. Without the concept, "Upstream Color" is just a plain movie with an unclear story. It is your own curiosity that turns over the draggy storyline into a haunting sensation. If you read this review after watching it and still can't understand the whole concept, I think you should read this post from Slate (beware: so much spoilers in there) and try to give this movie a second-viewing. I am really intrigued to watch it again. This is a movie that is not only entertaining, but also expands your insight.
▲ A brain-tickling concept, attracts curiosity, cool scoring
▼ Needs extra effort to understand, exaggerating camera work
UPSTREAM COLOR | COUNTRY USA YEAR 2013 RATING n.a. RUNTIME 96 min GENRE Drama, Sci-Fi CAST Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins, Kathy Carruth WRITER Shane Carruth DIRECTOR Shane Carruth MORE INFO


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FLOW was an innovative outdoor visual and digital arts programme that engaged new audiences for contemporary art, and was delivered on a scale never before seen in the county.
The project included spectacular laser light installations 'HERO' at Broughton House (used as a set in the Hollywood hit musical Les Miserables and the Northamptonshire home of the Duke of Buccleuch), and '180 degrees of Light' which saw the creation a gigantic laser triangle hovering over five square miles of the county's landscape..
The artists used water inspired locations to present their work – be that a river, a canal, water tower or reservoir. These new artworks appeared in places and communities where nothing quite like it had ever happened before.
Project creator, Graham Callister, explains: "FLOW brought together some amazing British artists and local arts organisations. It has involved volunteers, developed relationships with businesses, engaged with local communities and schools to raise the profile of Northamptonshire and help make the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad a genuine success."
FLOW was a semi-finalist at the 2012 National Lottery Awards.
For more information about FLOW visit the website.
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JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (Reuters) - Louis Oosthuizen and Branden Grace provided a bright spot for the International team on Thursday when they continued their brilliant partnership to post another victory against the United States.
After winning four matches in the previous event in South Korea, the South African duo beat American Brooks Koepka and Daniel Berger 3&1 in windswept conditions at Liberty National.
It was the only victory in five foursomes (alternate shot) matches by the Internationals, who also eked out a halve in another match to finish the opening day trailing 3-1/2 to 1-1/2.
"We knew we needed to do something," 2010 British Open champion Oosthuizen said after he and Grace improved to 5-0 as partners. "In the middle (of the round) we didn't hit very good shots but we knew it was going to be a grind all day.
"Then we started really flushing the ball and really giving ourselves putts for birdies and making pars. In these conditions today, par on some holes is good enough to win."
Grace, a low-ball hitter, was at home in the wind, and relieved to help his team avoid what could have been a terrible first day.
"It was nice to hit clutch shots when it mattered," he said.
"We get along great and don't give each other too hard of a time out there when things get tough. It was just a grind, especially on a day like today.
"You know somebody is going to make a mistake and you know to lift the other one up and I think we do that great."
International captain Nick Price kept Oosthuizen and Grace together for Friday's four-ball, when they will play Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler.
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Monday Morning Star Count 2014/6
I love teaching, but when I get home I always want to just sit and SEW! I did make progress on TQ#5-- one full diamond and most of a second. Let me keep working and I'll have pics next week.
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About Nick
I'm Nick!
I'm really into happiness & social media & UX & travel & #NYU. Also, naps & avocado toast.
Started from Nebraska, now I'm here [bklyn].
When I'm not going to a movie or reading or exploring rooftop bars or chill lounges, I'm usually working in the NYU Office of Interactive Media as the Community & Experience Strategist. Or sleeping.


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Data storage and security provider Symantec on Jan. 17 began shipping Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 High Availability for Windows, a feature-packed enterprise storage software package that delivers high-end data and application availability for Microsoft Windows environments.
It combines two existing products—Storage Foundation for Windows and Veritas Cluster Server—for the first time with enhanced usability tools to ease storage management and disaster recovery for Windows data center applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint Portal Server, a company spokesperson said.
The launch represents one of the most significant storage software releases involving the integrated company since Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec and Veritas, of Mountain View, Calif., merged in December 2004.
Included in the release is Veritas Storage Foundation Basic for Windows—a free version of the Storage Foundation for Windows middleware—which is designed for edge-tier and infrastructure workloads.
Further reading
Storage Foundation Basic combines the Veritas File System and Veritas Volume Manager to provide a driver for heterogeneous online storage management. This enables users to benefit from a standard infrastructure operating system across every server in their data center without having to install it on every node.
Storage Foundation Basic for Windows includes DMP (Dynamic Multi-pathing) and runs on physical and virtual servers with system configurations that do not exceed 4 volumes or 2 physical processors in a single physical system.
Important part of Symantecs data center vision
"This is an important part of the vision that Symantec has for delivering a next-generation data center software infrastructure," said Bob Laliberte, a storage analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Conn.
"Symantec divides the next-generation data center software infrastructure into four distinct categories: data protection, storage management, server management and application performance. Their goal is to tie all these areas together with tightly integrated software that will provide a holistic view and management capabilities over complex and geographically dispersed data centers."
Customers are placing more of their mission-critical applications on the Windows platform, said Laura DuBois, research director of storage software at IDC in Framingham, Mass.
"They need storage management solutions that provide higher availability and better disaster recovery than ever before," DuBois said.
"Storage Foundation HA for Windows offers enterprises unique capabilities in non-disruptive storage operations, scalable high availability, and disaster recovery solutions—along with centralized storage visibility and control that are must-have requirements for Windows environments."
A broad feature set
Customers standardizing on Storage Foundation for Windows and DMP can use the broadest storage array support of any multi-pathing solution—including support for leading array families from EMC, HP, HDS, IBM, Network Appliance and Sun—to achieve the most agility and highest return on their storage hardware investments, a company spokesperson said.
Customers also have the flexibility to choose the storage network infrastructure that best fits their needs. Symantec is the only vendor fully certified with Microsofts MPIO framework for both Fibre Channel HBA StorPort and Microsoft iSCSI software.
Additionally, Storage Foundation for Windows introduces advanced iSCSI SAN management capabilities, including automated discovery, management and configuration of IP-based SANs.
"Standardization on Storage Foundation HA for Windows allows customers to have more flexibility in their storage hardware decisions and drives down operational costs by enabling them to use a single tool," said Rob Soderbery, senior vice president of Symantecs Storage Foundation Group.
"This release has furthered the ROI of standardization by reducing the cost of deploying Storage Foundation on every server and enabling customers to have visibility and centralized control of ... their entire data center."
Storage Foundation Management Server will support Storage Foundation for Windows 4.x and 5.0, Veritas Volume Replicator Option and Storage Foundation for Windows Basic, which means customers can view and manage all such instances of Storage Foundation across their entire data center through a single, unified tool.
A new configuration wizard makes storage, cluster and replication installation setup times more than 50 percent faster and allows administrators to use a simple GUI to schedule point-in-time copies when using the FlashSnap Option, the spokesperson said.
Whats the most significant aspect for this product for a potential buyer?
"They packed a lot of features and enhancements into this version, so it will depend on the customer environment, but clearly a few areas stand out," Laliberte said.
"For customers looking to enhance the performance of their key Windows applications, they have announced customized algorithms specifically tuned for Exchange and SQL. They were able to do this based on their vast experience working and testing these applications over the last two years while they became MPIO certified for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI.
"Also, they have introduced something they call Automated Track Aligned Volume, which helps to optimize the volumes and increase performance by up to 40 percent, which will help any Windows application."
The integration with other Symantec products, such as VCS (Veritas Cluster Server), VVR (Veritas Volume Replicator) and Veritas FlashSnap, is also very impressive, Laliberte said.
"These capabilities are more important as Windows platforms are utilized for more mission-critical applications. Customers with a lot of edge-tier Windows servers will appreciate the Basic version that is provided for free and the fact that the soon to be released Storage Foundation Server Manager will provide an enterprise-wide view and reporting capabilities for all the edge as well as core servers," Laliberte said.
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Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi was sentenced to 21 months in prison on Wednesday (July 6), after being found guilty of tax fraud.
According to CNN, a Barcelona court ruled that between 2007 and 2009, the 29-year-old was guilty of defrauding the Spanish tax office of almost 4.2 million euros. The court claims Messi and his father used a web of shell companies to evade taxes on income from the player's image rights… and sentenced both to 21 months.
However, it's unlikely he'll serve any jail time, because he doesn't have a criminal record. But, Messi will have to cough up $2.3 million USD in fines, while his father Jorge will have to pay a $1.7 million fine.
His team, FC Barcelona, said in a statement that it is "giving all its support to Leo Messi and his father."
"The Club, in agreement with the Government prosecution service, considers that the player, who has corrected his position with the Spanish Tax Office, is in no way criminally responsible with regards to the facts underlined in this case.
"FC Barcelona continues to be at the disposal of Leo Messi and his family to support him in whatever action he decides to take in defense of his honesty and his legal interests."
Furthermore, Messi's legal team says he has already paid back the money he owes.


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Gailey out, Haley in as offensive coordinator
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Rookie head coach Todd Haley fired offensive coordinator Chan Gailey and assumed that role himself Monday, 13 days before he opens the season with a very unsettled quarterback situation.
Matt Cassel was injured in Saturday night's preseason loss to Seattle, limping away with a knee injury. But Haley refused to discuss the injury to Cassel, who signed a six-year contract for a guaranteed $28 million.
Yahoo! Sports, citing a source in the organization, reported Cassel sprained the medial collateral ligament in his left knee and could miss two to four weeks.
The top candidates to replace Cassel are Tyler Thigpen and Brodie Croyle, who are 1-18 as starting quarterbacks in the NFL. Thigpen took about 80 percent of the snaps with the first team in practice Monday, but a decision could be based on who plays well in the final preseason game at St. Louis on Thursday night.
Haley, the offensive coordinator at Arizona the past two years, declined to say whether the offense will make any significant changes before beginning the Sept. 13 season opener at Baltimore. He also will serve as quarterbacks coach.
"That is something I put a lot of thought into," he said. "The advantage I have now is I know pretty much what my duties are. … Obviously, I think this is best for the team."
Gailey, a 16-year NFL coaching veteran, joined Kansas City in 2008 as offensive coordinator under Herm Edwards. Haley said he would be offered another job within the organization.
"I think the world of Chan as a coach, have the greatest amount of respect for him as a coach, as a person," Haley said. "But ultimately, the fate of this team, the accountability, falls to me."
A clash between Haley and Gailey seemed inevitable to running back Larry Johnson.
"It's like my mother says — too many roosters in the henhouse, so to speak," he said. "Two coordinators and both passionate about what they do and passionate about how they want to call plays."
In a statement released by the Chiefs, Gailey said there was "never great timing for situations like this."
"However, Todd has to do what's best for the team and for the future of the Chiefs. I respect that," Gailey said.
The Chiefs, 2-14 last year, are 0-3 in the preseason and have scored only two offensive touchdowns.
A year ago, Croyle was the Chiefs' designated starter for Edwards' rebuilding program. But injury-prone, he made only two starts before going down with a knee. Then backup Damon Huard also sustained season-ending injuries, leaving third-teamer Thigpen, a former seventh-round pick, to go 1-10 in 11 starts.
"To me, it seems like deja vu five times over," Johnson said. "It happened with Trent (Green in 2006), it happened with Brodie, it happened with Damon."


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Reflections on the first week of business school
The first few months of business school can be a whirlwind. From moving to a new city, meeting literally hundreds of new people, and getting back into the classroom there so many new and exciting opportunities and challenges that come with the beginning of business school. Maureen Keegan (Darden, '17) moved to Charlottesville in … [Read more…]


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application: High output humbucker built for aggressive playing styles. Recommended for old school metal, nu-metal, gothic, garage, punk, thrash and other heavy rock styles. Great for drop tunings.
description: Yields high output while retaining clarity. The massive ceramic magnet and hot coil windings deliver tremendous power and raw distorted rock sounds. More aggressive than the SH-5 Duncan Custom. Comes with four-conductor hookup cable.
complete setup: Available for both neck and bridge positions. Often a Distortion bridge is paired with an SH-2n Jazz Model in the neck for good clean tones and versatility.
guitars: For balanced and warm instruments. Works especially well with rosewood fingerboards.
available mods: Nickel or gold-plated cover. Trembucker. 7-string version. Colors (humbucker spacing).
players: John Connolly / Sevendust (bridge), Jerry Horton / Papa Roach (bridge), Meegs Rascon / Coal Chamber (bridge), Wayne Static / Static X (bridge), Eric Peterson / Testament (bridge)
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At the parallel market, the naira closed at N490 against the US dollar, the same rate it closed on Friday, the last official trading day of 2016.
According to a Reuters report, the Central Bank of Nigeria sold $1.5 million to boost market liquidity and prop up the naira value against the dollar after the currency initially traded at N315.50 to the US dollar before gaining N10.50 to trade at N305.
Experts have said "In the week ahead, pressure on the naira will linger, especially at the parallel market, as backlog from the official market continues to stoke imbalances," United Capital said in a research note on Tuesday.
The local currency had lost about 50 percent of its official value against the US dollar in 2016, plunging the stock market by 6.17 percent over the same period.


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This time of the year, we need our products to get checked by the
customers before shipment if they work properly.
Today, we had a customer from Shikoku.
We demonstrate how the machine worked so they can see everything's okay.
One of the guests said,
"Every time I came here, I realize ISOWA is changing. Also, technical
staff are all young."
That was exactly what I was thinking.
Mr. S of technical division who did a presentation is in his 9th year.
Mr. S who actually operated the machine is in his 2nd year. Even Mr. M
who just joined ISOWA this year was in charge of the control system.
The way Mr. S was working was so impressive that I can't help saying,
"I'm in love with your industriousness."
Seeing Mr. Y in his fourth year at the end of the printer, I said,
"With other members, it seems like you are not young anymore."
He answered,
"I have to keep up the effort not to get left behind.
The new generation is getting stronger.
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SSC Orissa Inspector Recruitment 2012
Barrack No.1,
Unit – V,
Bhubaneswar – 751 054.
Selection of candidates for the SSC Orissa 2012 recruitment to the post of Inspector Weights & Measures ( Legal Metrology ) Department of Food Supply and Consumer Welfare, Government of Odisha. Applications for SSC Orissa recruitment 2012 are invited from eligible candidates for recruitment to the post of Inspector, Weights and Measures ( Legal Metrology ) under the Food Supply and Consumer Welfare Deptt., Govt. of Odisha, Bhubaneswar carrying pay in the pay band – I of 5200 – 20,200/- with Grade Pay of 2800/- per month.
1. SSC Orissa Online Application Form Details 2012
- Candidates have to apply Online SSC Orissa recruitment using the website of the Staff Selection Commission www.odishassc.in. By clicking on the tab 'online application' in the home page of the website, the SSC posts advertised for online application and detailed instructions for submitting any Orissa SSC 2012 application online, are displayed on the computer screen. The Instructions are to be read carefully before proceeding further. The Orissa Staff Selection Commission Application Form can be generated by clicking on 'apply online' after selecting the SSC post.
- Blank Application Form specific for the particular post will be generated on the screen, and the candidate has to fill in the required details against the various items in the SSC Form, including the candidate's recent passport size photograph which has to be uploaded, without leaving any item blank. The filled in SSC Orissa Application Form can be submitted by clicking on the 'submit' button. After the form is successfully submitted, a user ID and a password are generated on the screen, which the applicant has to note down for his / her future use in accessing the system to find out the status of the application. The candidate has to click on the button 'print application form' to generate the filled in Orissa SSC Application Form. This time the Application Form for SSC is generated by the system with a unique bar code and bar code number printed on the format, which is the index number of the Staff Selection Commission application.
- The candidate has to take two printed copies of the SSC application, one OSSC copy and the other the applicant's copy. The OSSC copy is meant to be promptly sent to the Staff Selection Commission, duly attaching therewith
- The original Treasury Challan in proof of payment of SSC 2012 application fees
- Photocopies of the certificates / documents in proof of date of birth, record of educational career, caste, documentary claim for being considered as reserved category / special category. The SSC Detailed Application Form ( DAF ) with all the above requisite certificates / documents, and with the signature of the candidate at the indicated space on the Form has to be submitted to the Staff Selection Commission by registered post, or in person at the appropriate drop box in the SSC Commission's office.
- Applications for SSC 2012 received incomplete are liable to be summarily rejected.
- The candidate may find out the status of his / her application at different times by accessing OSSC website, clicking therein 'online application' tab, and thereafter clicking on the candidate's log in, and providing the user ID and password.
2. Last date for receipt of SSC Orissa Recruitment Application 2012
- The last date for SSC Orissa 2012 online submission of application in response to Orissa SSC advertisement is 21.08.2012.The system will be disabled from 5 P.M of the said date after which the SSC 2012 application form for this particular post will not be generated any more at the candidate's end.
- The closing time for receipt of Detailed Application Form for SSC ( refer to para 1.c. above ) in the Staff Selection Commission's office is 5 PM of 28.08.2012.
3. Number of SSC Posts to be filled up and Reservations
- As per information filed by the concerned department vide their letter No 5278/LM dated 23.03.2012 letter No. 8843/LM dated 22.05.2012 and letter No l0883 / LM dt 6.7.2012 the category wise brake-up of the posts to be filled up is as follows :
Category No. of vacancies Vacancies reserved for women S.C 1 Nil S .T 3 1 S.E.B.C 3 1 UR 3 1 Total 10 3
- One SSC post will be reserved for persons with disability ( PWD ) of O.A. ( One arm affected ) / O.L ( MNR ) ( one leg affected, but mobility not restricted ) / P. D. ( Partially deaf, Deafness fitted with suitable aid ).
- The number of vacant posts to be filled up on the basis of SSC Orissa 2012 recruitment is subject to change without any prior notice at the discretion of the State Govt.
4. Eligibility for SSC Inspector Post 2012 :
- Age :The minimum age for the post is 21 years and the maximum age is 32 years as on 01.01.2012. The upper age limit for SSC is relaxable by 5 years for candidates belonging to SC / ST / SEBC / Women candidates, by 10 years in case of Ex-Servicemen. However, a candidate can avail of only one type of SSC age relaxation as per rule.There is no relaxation of SSC upper age limit pertaining to vacancies which arose in previous years. To be eligible, candidates not enjoying any relaxation of upper age limit must not have been born earlier than 2nd January, 1980 and not later than 1st January, 1991.Date of birth entered in the High School Certificate or equivalent Certificate issued by the concerned Board / council will only be acceptable to the Staff Selection Commission.
- Educational Qualification for Food Supply Inspector : The candidate must be a graduate in science with Physics or a graduate in Engineering from a recognised University or Diploma in Engineering with three years professional experience.
5. Application Fee for SSC Orissa Recruitment 2012
Candidates other than those belonging to SC / ST have to pay application fee of 100/- only through treasury challan under the head of account '0051 -PSC-104-UPSC/SSC-examination fees-0047-fees collected for conducting examination fees". The treasury challan No. and date are to be filled in the SSC Orissa online application, and the original treasury challan has to be submitted with the detailed application form for SSC.
6. Plan of SSC Examination for Inspector Post :
There would be a main written examination which would consist of one composite paper covering questions to test the proficiency in
- English and Odia languages ( usage, vocabulary and grammar ), (ii) General Studies ( General Knowledge including current social economic and cultural issues, General Science, Indian geography history and polity ), and questions on reasoning ability and quantitative aptitude, and
- Physics of B.Sc. standard and Engineering subject of Diploma standard. There would be 50 questions from each of the above subject categories, and all questions will be compulsory. Each question will carry one mark. The composite paper will have maximum 150 marks and will be of two hours duration. The paper will carry all objective type questions with multiple choice of answers. The answer papers will be OMR sheets in which correct answer choices against each question have to be filled in by the candidate in black or blue ball point pen.
7. Certificates / documents to be submitted alongwith the detailed application form ( DAF) :
- Original Treasury challan in support of deposit of l00/- ( Rupees one hundred ) only towards Examination Fee ( except SC / ST candidate ).
- Candidates of SC / ST category shall enclose self attested photocopy of caste certificate issued by the competent authority.
- Candidates claiming reservation under SEBC category shall enclose self attested photocopy of appropriate & valid SEBC certificate issued by the competent authority.
- Self attested photocopy of HSC certificate& mark sheet or equivalent certificate in support of declaration of age issued by the concerned Board / Council.
- Self attested photocopy of +2 / Intermediate certificate & mark sheet.
- Self attested photocopy of Degree certificate & mark sheet.
- Candidates have to submit a certificate either of passing HSC examination with Odia as a compulsory subject, or in lieu thereof a certificate of passing Odia of M.E. standard issued by competent authority.
- One unsigned recent colour photograph ( 3.5 Cm X 4.5 Cm size ) to be pasted in the space provided in the SSC 2012 application form. Besides, another photograph of the same size duly attested by a Gazetted officer should be enclosed.(i) Postage stamp worth 5/- affixed thereon with ( an envelope of size 23cm X 12cm ) is to be attached to the SSC 2012 application. The candidate is required to write his / her complete mailing address on this envelope with pin code for despatch of Admit Card.
8. Place and Date of SSC Written Examination
The date / time / venue of the written examination for SSC will be intimated to the eligible candidates by issue of admission letters in due course.
9. SSC Orissa Admit Card 2012 :
Admit Cards for SSC Orissa Recruitment 2012 will be issued to each candidate by post about three weeks before the date of the SSC examination; carrying the photograph and signature of the candidate and signature of the Secretary of the Staff Selection Commission. This will carry intimation about the date, time and venue of the SSC examination. Each candidate can download his / her admit card fourteen days before the date of the SSC examination by going to the website of the Staff Selection Commission, and clicking at the sub-menu 'download admit card for Inspector Weights and Measures ( Legal Metrology )'.
10. SSC Viva-voce Test :
The viva voce or personal interview for SSC will carry 20 marks. Candidates of different categories numbering maximum 3 times the number of SSC posts in the respective categories, on the basis of performance in the Main examination , subject to securing a minimum uniform cut off mark as may be fixed by the Staff Selection Commission will be called for viva-voce test.
Note :
T.A will be paid to SC / ST candidates for appearing in the viva voce examination. Before being allowed to appear at the viva-voce test, a candidate is required to produce original certificates as listed at para-7 above, failing which he / she shall be debarred from the viva-voce test.
11. Select List
The select list shall be prepared, category wise on the basis of the sum total of marks secured by the candidate in the main written examination, and viva- voce test taken together.
12. Result :
The SSC results will be published in due course in the Staff Selection Commission's website. Mobile phone or any other communication device is not allowed into the premises of the OSSC examination centre. The candidates are advised not to bring any such banned items to the SSC examination centre venue, as arrangements for safe keeping can not be assured. Any infringement of these instructions might entail debarment of the concerned candidate from the particular examination for SSC.


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Unz Review, May 7, 2017:
Donald Trump's election has elicited impassioned affirmations of a renewed commitment to unvarnished truth-telling from the prestige media. The common theme: you know you can't trust him, but trust us to keep dogging him on your behalf. The New York Times has even unveiled a portentous new promotional slogan: "The truth is now more important than ever." For its part, the Washington Post grimly warns that "democracy dies in darkness," and is offering itself as a source of illumination now that the rotund figure of the 45th president has produced the political equivalent of a total eclipse of the sun. Meanwhile, National Public Radio fundraising campaigns are sounding an increasingly panicky note: give, listener, lest you be personally responsible for the demise of the Republic that we are bravely fighting to save from extinction.
If only it were so. How wonderful it would be if President Trump's ascendancy had coincided with a revival of hard-hitting, deep-dive, no-holds-barred American journalism. Alas, that's hardly the case. True, the big media outlets are demonstrating both energy and enterprise in exposing the ineptitude, inconsistency, and dubious ethical standards, as well as outright lies and fake news, that are already emerging as Trump era signatures. That said, pointing out that the president has (again) uttered a falsehood, claimed credit for a nonexistent achievement, or abandoned some position to which he had previously sworn fealty requires something less than the sleuthing talents of a Sherlock Holmes. As for beating up on poor Sean Spicer for his latest sequence of gaffes — well, that's more akin to sadism than reporting.
Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now), journalism remains pretty much what it was prior to November 8th of last year: personalities built up only to be torn down; fads and novelties discovered, celebrated, then mocked; "extraordinary" stories of ordinary people granted 15 seconds of fame only to once again be consigned to oblivion — all served with a side dish of that day's quota of suffering, devastation, and carnage. These remain journalism's stock-in-trade. As practiced in the United States, with certain honorable (and hence unprofitable) exceptions, journalism remains superficial, voyeuristic, and governed by the attention span of a two year old.
As a result, all those editors, reporters, columnists, and talking heads who characterize their labors as "now more important than ever" ill-serve the public they profess to inform and enlighten. Rather than clearing the air, they befog it further. If anything, the media's current obsession with Donald Trump — his every utterance or tweet treated as "breaking news!" — just provides one additional excuse for highlighting trivia, while slighting issues that deserve far more attention than they currently receive.
To illustrate the point, let me cite some examples of national security issues that presently receive short shrift or are ignored altogether by those parts of the Fourth Estate said to help set the nation's political agenda. To put it another way: Hey, Big Media, here are two dozen matters to which you're not giving faintly adequate thought and attention.
1. Accomplishing the "mission": Since the immediate aftermath of World War II, the United States has been committed to defending key allies in Europe and East Asia. Not long thereafter, U.S. security guarantees were extended to the Middle East as well. Under what circumstances can Americans expect nations in these regions to assume responsibility for managing their own affairs? To put it another way, when (if ever) might U.S. forces actually come home? And if it is incumbent upon the United States to police vast swaths of the planet in perpetuity, how should momentous changes in the international order — the rise of China, for example, or accelerating climate change — affect the U.S. approach to doing so?
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Simply Saving Saturday - Alternatives to Cable and Satellite T.V.
Our satellite t.v. provider sent us a notice that our bill is going to increase $5 per month starting in February. That's an extra $60 per year! We have considered switching to a basic cable plan, but we are pretty sure we will eventually have the same problem with increasing rates, so this week I did a little research on alternatives to cable and satellite t.v. and here are the options that we are considering:
1. Buy an HDMI cable.
Pros: The cable would allow us to stream video from our computer to our t.v and we would be able to take advantage of the many free shows available online from Hulu, pbs.org, cbs.com, etc. This is also one of the least expensive options; the cable costs around $12.
Cons: We wouldn't be able to watch any local programming and would not be able to watch our beloved Patriots football games. Also, the free programming available online is shown a day after it airs.
2. HDMI cable + antenna.
Pros: We would be able to pick up local programming with the antenna (and, hopefully the football games) along with the free programming we could watch with on our t.v. with the cable.
Cons: My husband went online and found that we would need to mount the antenna on our roof in order to get a strong enough signal and we're not sure how many channels we would be able to get. The cost of these antennas, I believe, is somewhere around $100 depending on what you need for your location.
3. Antenna + Roku.
Pros: A Roku is a device for streaming wirelessly to a t.v. and offers many shows for free. There are other options for streaming wirelessly, but this seems to be the best and least expensive option for us.
Cons: A Roku costs between $50 and $100 depending on which version you buy. There are a few sports networks available through the Roku for a fee (MLB, NHL), but football isn't available. The free version of Hulu does not work on the Roku.
Some things to consider before disconnecting:
*Early termination fees (if under contract)
*Internet connection speed needs to be high enough to be able to stream movies without interruption.
*Make sure the internet package does not include bandwidth caps. Extra fees will be charged for usage beyond the cap.
Have you disconnected from cable or satellite t.v.? What has worked for you as an alternative?
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From publisher blurb:
Brave the unexplored canyon. Track the low-down villains that kidnapped the rancher's daughter. Overcome obstacles and rough terrain. Rescue the young lady. A traditional western adventure for cowpokes ready to prove themselves on the frontier.
Hidden Canyon is a 48 page adventure, intended for 4-8 characters of 4th to 7th level.
The heroes find themselves in the town of Grafton, near Zion Canyon in the Utah territory, at the end of a cattle drive. They soon learn that a young woman has gone missin'. Efforts by the locals to find the girl have failed; her father, a local rancher, seeks a group of game men willing to traverse the rough terrain around the canyon and bring back his daughter. No coffee-boilers need to apply.
Because the Dog House Gang always strives for flexibility, we offer the trusty DHR "Forks in the Road" to help you blaze a different trail, includin' ways to change the set-up and scope of the adventure, adapt it to fit with ornery PCs, or expand it with follow-up scenarios. Iffin' the heroes ain't cattle drovers, just use one of our other Forks to explain why they made their way to Grafton. Iffin' the heroes ain't the rescuin' kind or the Judge wants to stretch the adventure, use one of the forks to alter the ending.
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This blog is about my cycling journey to lose weight and get fit, with tips and advice to help you achieve your goals.
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
April - tick!
4th month in a row hitting my monthly target of 130 miles. I've just gone over 600 miles for the year. This time last year I had only done 263 miles.
Highlights of the month were completing the Meon Valley Riser in under 4 hours 10 which was the bronze standard. You can read the write up here.
The second highlight was making it up Harvesting Lane, which goes up Butser Hill. I had to walk up it during The Riser, so it was great to be able to tackle it again and beat it. Check it out here.
The third highlight was getting Haribo Joe back out on his bike, first time since his operation, it's good to have him back.
I'm doing well with my cycling goals, but my weight loss has slowed down a bit. But I'm refocused on that part as I know losing the weight will help with those hills. I like to think that I eat a pretty healthy diet, fresh veg etc, but portion size is still my problem.
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Ketha are a band from Poland that plays a very experimental, avant garde and technical form of death metal and this is a review of their 2017 album "0 Hours Starlight" which will be released in November by Selfmadegod Records.
Clean yet distorted playing starts off the album before going into a heavier direction while synths can also be heard at times along with some spoken and melodic vocals while the solos and leads are also done in a very melodic fashion and some of the tracks are long and epic in length.
Avant garde and mathcore elements can also be heard at times while the music is also very experimental along with some psychedelic sounds also being added into certain sections of the recording as well as the solos and leads also being done in a very melodic and progressive style, death metal growls are also utilized at times and one song also adds in a small amount of slide guitars.
Ketha plays a musical style that takes experimental, avant garde, death metal and mathcore and mixes them together to create something very original, the production sounds very professional while the lyrics are based upon the writings of Stainslaw Lem.
In my opinion Ketha are a very great sounding mixture of experimental, avant garde, math core and technical death metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Khranda" "Bliss" "Holos" and "HyperGiant". 8 out of 10.


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Sky Tower is a new ride at an amusement park in Denmark (Tivoli Friheden) that dangles riders by a rope before sending them into free fall onto a massive net with nothing but a helmet! I want to go on this sooo badly!!
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Sky Tower is a new ride at an amusement park in Denmark (Tivoli Friheden) that dangles riders by a rope before sending them into free fall onto a massive net with nothing but a helmet! I want to go on this sooo badly!!
Found on: Laughing Squid
In Toronto, Canada adverts have been popping up around town that definitely make people look twice. By cleverly using different bits of litter they rightfully mock those who choose to litter their streets!
High 5 Toronto!
This video just goes to show that some things just come naturally to animals. This cute little lion cub decided to test out his instinctual urges by stalking this dog…
Found on: YouTube
Instagram has launched a standalone app called Hyperlapse that allows you to create time lapses in real time on your phone without any additional software or know how!
I haven's had a chance to test it out fully yet, but so far its looking promising…
Cue flood of lame time lapses from your grandma!
Check out the promo video below.
GoPro's have brought us some amazing footage over the years, and this video is by far one of the best.
A POV of a cyclists happily cruising along, and the next thing a stray car pulls in front of him knocking him off his bike into the air, and by some miracle he lands of his feet. No doubt this guys does his own stunts!
Found on: YouTube
Kenny Random, a street artists from Italy has been perfecting his craft since the 80's. His silhouette creations have become revered is his hometown of Padua.
Found on: Visual News
Fukusawa Takayuki is a Japanese designer who clearly loves boobs! In his "Tanama Diver" series he created little figurine pendants diving into the breasts of the woman wearing it.
Lucky pendants!
This is not for people who are looking to continue the all night party, this is a for the person who just loves to get up and shake their ass to some funky beats before they start their day.
In 2013 Morning Gloryville appeared in London for the first time and has now spread around the globe. Don't get me wrong, I am sure initially it felt a bit weird for those involved to just let loose without the usual social lubricants but once they got over that I'm sure it became quite a party!
I for one would skip the gym and go stomp to some bad ass beats for and hour or two before work! Pass the freshly squeezed juice peeps!
Skydivers Niklas Daniel and Brianne Thompson decided to jump out of a plan and try land on a slip 'n slide. And they did it! Watch the video to see how much fun it looks!
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So with enough pestering, I finally got off my behind and tackled painting of room #2: Living Room so it doesn't look completely haphazard when the guests arrive sometime this month or next. To recap: #1 was the hallway in Benjamin Moore Silver Fox and #3 will be the master bedroom in Benjamin Moore Smoke.
I piled all the furniture in the middle of the room and put a drop sheet over it. Then I taped up all the edges with 3M Blue Painter's Tape that's about an inch wide. I had previously used a regular masking tape width and had quite a few accidents with that so this time I tried something wider.
When I first opened the paint, it was this crazy witch brew of black and brown sludge. After a good amount of mixing, it finally started to resemble paint. I noticed this with Silver Fox but not to this degree. It looks quite scary at first.
Here's a corner of the room painted. I'm showing it here in a few different lighting scenarios. Although these are just the result of different camera settings, this is very similar to the effect on the paint from various lighting - daylight, soft white light bulb, incadescent, etc.
I wanted a color that was both brown and gray. Something that could change with the decor. In the next couple years we'll be replacing both existing couches and hopefully putting in hardwood, crown moulding, and a built-in bookcase. Needless to say, this paint will need to stand the test of
I'm really satisfied with the way it turned out. It's not so dark as to be daring but enough to allow for that warm embracing feel.
The color is Benjamin Moore Taos Taupe and I highly recommend it for anyone who's fickle but loves his/her browns and grays.
Here's a before/after shot:
As you can see from my markings, there's definitely still a LOT to do (aside from cleaning up our mess!). Let's see....
-Put up curtain rods and drapes (this week)
-See how round mirror looks hung between curtained windows (this week)
-Hang art above white couch and perhaps posters either side of TV until built-ins (within 1-2 months)
-Put up hanging or semi-flush pendant lamps (within 1-2 mths)
-Replace saggy green sofa or both to match (within 1 year)
-Replace small 32" TV (within 1 year)
And more in the long term goals, in order:
-Install hardwood floors
-Install built-in bookcases
-Install crown moulding
Here's the color scheme I'm trying to work with (thinking cream or dusty blue curtains with bright or burnt orange accents) and the mirror I'm going to try between the curtained windows.


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It wos also a good opportunity to test out my new no pull (yeah right!) harness with its red 'go faster' strap.
Zoooooooom... oh drat, I do be attached to her!
We did find a giant stick by a giant puddle
I wonders if I can takes it home?
I did take mum closer to da giant puddle and we had a dip. She wore her wellies so didn't mind me dragging her in. Winston 1... no pull harness 0!
Cool me paws
Back on track for more walkings and sniffings
Come on woman, we has fings to sniff!
A bit further on and I did lets her stop to take more photos of me cos I do be very handsome indeed.
Does dis pose look natural?
Der wos a big brick fingy so she wanted to stops and have a look.
Dis better no be da holiday cottage you booked for us!
After being reassured dat we wos no going to live here for a few days, it wos time to carry on.
Shall we go dis way?
Or dat way?
Make a choice for dogs sake!
Well she finally chose to go dat way and we found another puddle with a wooden bridge but I is a water boy now so I did no use it.
Splish splash!
We got out of da woods and she did find a view to take photos of *tuts*
Back into da woods and on with da adventure!
Dis be my serious face
Well you will never guess wot happened when we gots home... she BATHED ME!! Outrageous I know!
I will gets my revenge *evil laugh*
Well I did decide for forgives her when I saw she wos going into my treat cupboard.
OMD looks at da size of it!
Mmmmmm I close my eyes to concentrate on da tastes
Well dat is all da news for today my pals, I is going to have a nap now to recover from my mini-adventure *waves paw*


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East Timor's international airport was closed yesterday after a man was shot and killed during clashes between rival gangs near the facility, the aviation authority and hospital officials said.
The shooting was part of escalating violence in recent days in which four people have been killed and 47 wounded, said Antonio Caleres, director of East Timor's main hospital.
The Australian Defense Force said in a statement one of its soldiers, part of a foreign peacekeeping mission, had fired shots in self-defense yesterday morning at an armed man who approached one of its positions at the airport.
The man fled and his condition was unknown. It was unclear if the incidents were related.
The unrest began on Sunday following the release last week of a UN report into the violence that wracked the tiny nation earlier this year. A special commission largely blamed the government of former prime minister Mari Alkatiri for a wave of killings and arson in April and May that left 33 dead and forced 155,000 people into overcrowded displacement camps.
UN spokesman Adrian Edwards said UN police had mediated to halt battles between youths near one of dozens of displacement camps around the capital, Dili, and that the situation was "more or less under control."
He said he would not characterize the situation as an escalation and that the airport would hopefully reopen after a few hours.
The UN had "no information suggesting linkage with the report," Edwards said.
"If there is a link that will hopefully become clear in next few days," he added.
However, other officials said tensions had risen since the report's release.
Lino Mesquita, a village chief in the Comoro area at the center of recent clashes, said "the situation is very complicated now after the release of the UN report."
Foreign peacekeepers need to use "deadly force against trouble makers so that the fighting can be avoided," Mesquita told reporters at the airport.
Caleres, the hospital director, also linked the bloodshed to the report: "So far, four people died and 47 people were injured, 13 of them in critical condition, since the announcement of the UN report."
Assis Hendrique da Silva, 25, was shot in the head by unknown gunmen near the airport yesterday morning, said his father, Evaresto Hendrique de Silva, 54.
Another man was shot and killed on Tuesday night and seven were injured in clashes between rival gangs in the Comoro neighborhood, Caleres said.
"The airport has been totally closed due to security reasons," Romaldo da Silva, director of East Timor's Civil Aviation Authority, told reporters. "There was no security for my staff this morning and I therefore decided to close temporarily until we feel secure enough to reopen it."
Da Silva said fighting on the main road connecting downtown Dili and the airport had cut off all traffic and that he had been unable to reach his office.
International peacekeepers fired rubber bullets at groups of battling youths on Tuesday night and yesterday morning, a reporter at the scene said. They patrolled the city in Blackhawk helicopters as ambulances shuttled the wounded to the local hospital, the reporter said.


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Here's what Vatican Radio reported about the words of Pope Francis:
[The pope] said "The emblem of the infinite patience that God has for man is reflected in the infinite patience that Jesus has for Judas."
Pope Francis was inspired by the scene of today's Gospel, in which Judas criticizes Mary, sister of Lazarus, for anointing Jesus' feet with three hundred grams of precious perfume: it would be better - says Judas – to sell it and give the proceeds to the poor. John noted in the Gospel that Judas was not interested in the poor, but in stealing the money.
Yet, Pope Francis said, "Jesus did not say: 'You are a thief.'" Instead "he was patient with Judas," trying to draw him closer through patience, his love. During Holy Week, we would do well to think of the patience of God, the patience that God has with each one of us, with our weaknesses, our sins.
"The patience of God is a mystery!" Pope Francis said. "How much patience he has with us! We do so many things, but He is patient."
The Holy Father likened him to the father in the Gospel, who "saw his son from afar, the son who had left him with all of his inheritance." And why, the Pope asked, did he see him from afar? "Because every day he went out to see if his child would return." This, Pope Francis affirmed, "is God's patience, this is the patience of Jesus."
He concluded: "Let us think of our personal relationship, in this week: How patient has Jesus been with me in my life? Just this. And then the words will rise from our hearts: 'Thank you, Lord! Thank you for your patience."
These words haunt me because in the world of ecological protection there is often a great deal of impatience, personal attacks, and character assassination. Such vice has no place among disciples of Christ who seek to care for creation. Indeed, caring for creation cannot occur unless we first care for our brothers and sisters—even when they disagree with us.
My recent piece about energy in Catholic World Report resulted in discouraging comments by those who are convinced that the science of climate change is a scam—or worse. But then, I have known colleagues to say unkind words about the "crazies" that question the science of climate change.
This back and forth is unhelpful. And it is very often unchristian.
And so in Holy Week, we ecologists who proclaim Christ Crucified and Risen have this task: to double our efforts to love those that disagree with us—those who refuse to accept what science is showing us about man's impacts on the created order. Just as Christ has patience with us, the Holy Father reminds us, so we must have patience with others. This is of course not easy (which is why we need God's grace).
Still, as our Lord could forgive those who crucified Him, we must attempt to forgive those who attack us, whether personally or professionally. In fact, as Christians, we are called to love them. We are called to offer them again and again a path for dialogue. Patience does not mean accepting and enabling ignorance, fear, or unkind (and unprofessional) words. It means bearing them in love and with the hope of conversion.
Let us then heed the reminder of Pope Francis about the great mercy, love, and patience that God has for us, and let us seek to mirror this love and patience in our encounters with others.


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Liberace and Scott Thorson
Behind the Candelabra was one of the most eye-popping films of the year (and the rightful winner of the Best Costumes Emmy). Perhaps you'll win an award of your own as this couple. For Liberace, wear the most fabulous, sequined, bejeweled jacket you can find, but add even more sparkles to the vest underneath for good measure. With Scott, it's fine to be a little more subtle, but be sure to include his driver's hat.
Liberace: Sequin jacket, $325, sequin blazer, $98, sequin bow tie, $12, tuxedo pants, $110, at Screaming Mimi's; Wig $18.99, at Spirit Halloween.
Scott: Sequin blazer, $98, go-go hat, $19, sequin bow tie, $12, tuxedo pants, $110, at Screaming Mimi's.


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Porsche only fully assembled a single 935/78 "Moby Dick" and used this car in four races in 1978 before it was retired to the Porsche Museum. In all events the chassis 935-006 was painted in the colors of the "Martini Racing Porsche System" team. The following starting numbers were used:
#1 (s) – 6 h Silverstone
#43 – 24 h Le Mans
#1 – 6 h of Vallelunga
#40 – Norisring Trophy (200 miles)
The skins are available in normal (2048x2048) and high resolution (4096x4096).
Porsche 935/78 "Moby Dick" - Martini Porsche skin pack (chassis 935-006) 1.1
Skin pack of four livery variants of the "Moby Dick" 935-006 used in 1978.


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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
So how was your Christmas?
Mind you, here at St. Onuphrius' we have had a most enjoyable Noël. Since Bishop Quinine, like most faux-Bishops, firmly believes in Santa Claus (c'mon – that's nothing compared to what they believe regarding their own self-importance) things are always a bit more complicated than they might be: finishing the milk and "cookies" he leaves out has in past years left at least one member of the Ministry Team hospitalized until the new year.
This time, however, I hit upon the brilliant idea of dividing the treat into small nicely wrapped packets, which we then kindly delivered to the other members of my local Minister's Fraternal. (With the natural exception of the Baptist, on account of this hardly being an appropriate occasion to risk violating my restraining order, and the Rabbi: after I last tried teaching him about Christian generosity he responded by organizing an informative dialogue with two Mossad representatives, and waking up on Christmas morning to find myself chained to the wall of a Tel Aviv basement doesn't quite coincide with my medium-term ministry strategy.)
As we expected, this resulted in most of our town's Christmas morning services crossing the fine line between "liturgically unprepared" and "bedlam". I've been told the United Methodist felt compelled to munch Twinkies throughout his sermon, while the woman at the UCC simply read aloud the lyrics of The Dark side of the Moon. Although, to be fair, she may well have just been following her denomination's lectionary. Meanwhile the Methodist was convinced he'd had a personal visitation from Charles Wesley, who allegedly thinks the local District Supervisor "can't recognize talent when it's staring him in the face". (Since the apparition also opined that "if 'Shine Jesus, Shine ' had been around in my day I'd have taken Calvin's line on hymnody" I'd caution My Beloved Sinners against being too hasty in dismissing the vision entirely.) While the Seventh-day Adventist made a tearful public confession to regularly enjoying a secret Friday evening snack of pork rinds.
The Pentecostal, on the other hand, was hardly affected. Except for occasionally pausing to interpret a glossolalic prophesy supposedly emanating from a potted palm on the side of the podium ("Behold the sowing of tears and the reaping of joy, sayeth the Lord, thou shalt honor My anointed and surrender the whole of thy tithe – plus a bit extra – every single Sunday"), Pastor Morebuck handled it like a pro. Which he quite possibly is, given that prior to receiving the call to ministry he was an accountant with one of the Big Four. Or maybe he just sold condominium timeshares in Florida: there's not much difference from an ethical perspective.
All of which resulted in an exceptionally good turn-out for our own services: a great many people who would have otherwise been in Godless Christian churches outside the Anglican Tradition were instead blessed with the kind of solid Bible Teaching only ever found in the pugnacious wing of a Communion tearing itself apart over the incarnate God's right to love everyone.
Which brings us to something I intend to share with all of you more deeply in My Next Important Homily. While preparing for the day's herculean preaching load it struck me how shockingly unBiblical the Gospel accounts of our Substitutionary Atoner's birth actually are. Clearly the Nativity was actually intended to serve as a "How not to" example of Christian parenthood, and I'm not just referring to the Blessed Virgin's failure to forgo parturition in favor of a medically lucrative elective c-section. No indeed; the Scriptural narratives are at this point simply riddled with transgressions of basic Biblical principles, and it's about time they were called to answer for themselves.
Until then, however, My Generous Prayer is that you would all continue to enjoy this festive season's aftermath. Take care to cherish friends and family, including that strange Republican uncle-by-marriage with an interest in naturism, who's been spending an unwholesome amount of time locked alone in the bathroom. May the Lord Bless you all richly, and may none of you eat improperly refrigerated leftovers. And remember: if God had wanted us to drink and drive St. Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus would have been accompanied by a late-model SUV and a six-pack. And zebra crossings would be packed with slow-moving Scientologists.
I'm Father Christian and I teach the Bible.
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You forgot the Five Percent Nation of Gods and Earths.
What's today's Mathematics?
- December 27, 2011 at 12:50 PM
- The Rev. Dr. Christian Troll said...
Sometimes, little Brad my son, your diversity is a bit too cryptic for those of us not occupying a universe of our own to comprehend. Even so, we are indeed celebrating your apparent progress beyond an obsession with vestments and sexuality, and sincerely hope the reference to mathematics isn't a precursor to some kind of manic counting phase.
- December 27, 2011 at 5:03 PM
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- December 28, 2011 at 12:22 PM
- The Rev. Dr. Christian Troll said...
You know the rules, Brad. Turn racist and I'll stop you playing quicker than you can say "Delete Button".
- December 28, 2011 at 1:35 PM
In hindsight I am sorry I drove over to Hanford to attend an Episcopal Christmas service with tasteful carols and prayers . . . when I could have gone to Bethlehem and enjoyed Christian priests throwing broomsticks at each other in church. How exciting!
- December 28, 2011 at 6:14 PM
- December 28, 2011 at 7:49 PM
I enjoyed celebrating the Birth of Our Saviour, born to a nice,normal heterosexualist couple like Mary and Almighty God.
- December 28, 2011 at 10:54 PM
- Lapinbizarre said...
Love the Wesley aside.
- December 29, 2011 at 12:45 AM
What IS today's Mathematics?
- December 29, 2011 at 6:52 PM
- The Rev. Dr. Christian Troll said...
Why do you need to ask, little Brad my son? Has Matron double-knotted your laces and prevented you removing your shoes and socks?
- December 29, 2011 at 10:02 PM
And signify!
- January 2, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Always learn something important about doctrinally sound Christian practices from your posts, R.Dr.Troll. Yesterday I drove thru the Pa-Oh-In Bible-belt and heard Biblically Based Pastors preaching precisely the passages you stated they would need to hit hard after Christmas. Each AM station reminded me of a must-do-that-God-requires lest I be smited or struck down by his almighty loving hand. One of them said this could happen in the very instant I heard but did not believe. So thanks for the "heads up".
As far as Christmas math, isn't this the equation?
""One and one and one is three"
Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see.
Come together, right now, over me"
- January 3, 2012 at 6:19 AM
For you alone are the holy one, you alone are the Nixon, you alone are the Milhous, Tricky Dick, in the Agnew Spirit, in the glory of Henry K.!
- January 3, 2012 at 4:12 PM
- Brother David said...
I think that someone is off his meds!
- January 4, 2012 at 7:57 PM
- The Rev. Dr. Christian Troll said...
My thoughts exactly, Brother David - although there is the possibility that the shock of Michele Bachmann quitting has been more than poor little Brad can handle.
- January 4, 2012 at 8:41 PM
NO! The Wisconsin Synod finally has the chance to prove the truths of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalkald Articles and BOTH the Large AND the Small Catechisms! Say it ain't so!
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Hi girls! Happy Monday (?)! Quick post today because I just wanted to share something my friend Julia showed me which I'm sure will be near and dear to all of our hearts. She shared with me a trailer for a documentary about nail art! I haven't seen this yet but thought it was really cool and is just another way that nail polish and art are becoming more mainstream. Here's the trailer:
There's one screenshot I took of a board of nails, one with a bunch of bows and it inspired me! I want to try this soon - and hopefully, it can inspire us all to try out our artistic side since we can only get better with practice! Nail wheels are a great way to try stuff out, which is shown on lots of nail wheels in the trailer. Let me know what you think! I didn't create this, but it seems really apropos :)
Monday, August 13, 2012
FYI: Nail Documentary
4 comments:
- Dolores Zimerl said...
Great video =)!
- August 16, 2012 at 3:33 PM
need to see the whole thing!!
- August 19, 2012 at 7:32 PM
- Amanda, Nail Polish Enthusiast said...
I know, the trailer gave me so many ideas!
- August 19, 2012 at 9:47 PM
- Amanda, Nail Polish Enthusiast said...
Thanks! I hope the whole movie is interesting, hopefully I get to see it!
- August 19, 2012 at 9:47 PM
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Veeeeeegaaaaaaan Gaaaaainnnzzzz! Dat bulge tho! <3
i think its his belt
Cockodile Dundee hey you don't say that (in will ferrel voice)
stop wtf
GodWorksOut I wanna suck it?
Hey do you have to get a filming permission from your gym to be allowed to
film there?
SLY ask the owner?
SLY i do it until they say not to.. then i just sneak and do it.. better
not to ask so you can get some type of footage.. at one gym (crunch) they
never say anything to me.. ill wear a go pro on a head strap and run on the
treadmill.. check my channel for proof…planet fitness it depends on who
is working..
I wanted to get some gym footage too, but I'll probably need a tripod and
it's gonna be pretty obvious. Plus, germans are crazy with their bureaucracy
CANT GET ENOUGH OF THIS GUY! I started my own weight lifting series.
Vegan GainsJR you really are vegan gains jr lol
VeganCheetah's butthole must look like a crater now after all the anal
poundings he got
+FRAGG PJI-KBI damn son.. you serious?
FRAGG PJI-KBI . U talking about constipation?
Stop bouncing the weight tho it's called deadlift for a reason
+CanadianAsiandude And he doesn't, you have a point. He's too young to be
in a gym lifting. Although he's not too young to lift food into his mouth.
+frblaze2 ok so then where is your proof controlled tng's cause injury? Lol
I've tng 510lbs for 4 shouldn't I have been injured by now? Your just
blurting bullshit for no reason
+Samurai Squat there is no proof, just that TNG = no reset = as the reps go
on your forms breaks down more and more without you realizing leading to
the infamous back cramps and pains some people might feel, especially when
the weight gets high
I don't know I mean I drink 40000000 cups of coffee per day, and have never
had any heart issues… if drinking 40000000 cups of coffee per day was
bad, wouldn't have I had heart issues?
+frblaze2 lmfao oh so here's the flaw in your logic friend, you know you
can stop before going to failure right? Another flaw in your little
paragraph is too much coffee is shown to have ill affects lol tng doesn't.
Not to hate but I'm 150 lbs and have been training for not even a year and
a half and can pull 415. That veganism ain't for strength brah
Pic or didn't happen phaggot
Haha what a wimp, I've never trained and I can pull 600, come at me bro
Jack Janovec come over and check my channel before you put every vegan into
a specific category.
Penis sticks out every rep
Dylan Lenn
dam son sick burn
Might be his belt
+Harmzy 1 wow if that impressed you…you must be tiny ?
lol you can see his huge vegan junk at the top of his deadlifts
Brad Allen haha, WTF? ?
+AlbeitBeast Like big red?
Why do you call it vegan lol it's funny af because you classify it
Hahaha loool vegan junk, hilarious
Brad Allen all these people that say its huge i feel sorry for…they must
be super small in the pants
If you weren't vegan you could probably dead lift 485 lb
take the 4 off from that stupid number
+moral dilemma Thanks! I would prefer it if Richard could speak XD
+Goat Fucker I like your name
Jerod Rumney thanks buddy
Its my birthday today
Like if you dont give af
Happy birthday to me video I uploaded :'(
Fasachi happy birthday random stranger
BBC ain't fucking around.
405 is my max but I need straps and a belt. You'll have it raw in no time.
since there are different type of vegan diets which one is best for loosing
What's your opinion on vegan lifters using leather belt products? Such as
inzer belts etc..
Damn Son that's insane it must hurt you back so bad.
I definitely see more gains! Pls do more workoutvideos.
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Sunday, April 24, 2016
New Zealand: How we do 'The Big OE' Wrong
Kiwis are often told, that we are the World's best
travelers, mainly by our own media, report after
report in the print media, in the online media and
on Television and Radio all say the same thing,
New Zealander's are the world's best travelers,
and no one does 'The Big OE' like Kiwis.
Well I tend to to disagree, I think Kiwis are the
world's worst travelers, not all Kiwis of course,
but the ones who tend to mouth off the most
about how they are so well traveled, but when
you hear their stories, it doesn't seem like they traveled
at all.
I'm not of course talking about Kiwis who may spend
a year or two traveling thru Africa thru various organizations,
or going to college in the USA, or tramping thru South America,
or getting cultured in Asia or the Middle East.
I'm not talking about the Kiwis who may spend thier time
working their butt's off in Europe somewhere and on their
days off, going where the Euro rail will take them, having
experiences that will last them for the rest of their life's
The people who do it wrong, are the Kiwis who are most
likely to tell you, they're the ones that are doing it right.
They're the people who as soon as they arrive in
London, will head straight to the New Zealand/Australian
district, will put on their 'NZ Rugby' shirt, order a
steinlager and spend the majority of their two years
in England hanging out with other Kiwis, watching
Rugby, drinking NZ Beer, eating "Weetbix"
What a horrible 'OE' that must be, how it can be
called an Overseas Experience is beyond me, travelling
to the other end of the world, to do exacetly what you
do in New Zealand is not an Overseas Experience.
What memories do you create for yourself??
That you drank beer in a bar with other kiwis?
You watched a Rugby game?
The thing that gets me, these are the type of people
who would ripped into a person who actually got
to see Europe, the Real Europe.
The media can't wash their hands of this, whenever
their is footage and talk of how Kiwi's travel, these
are the guys they show.
My advice to any Kiwi doing 'The Big OE' and
being based in London is, "Your doing this for
a experience you cant get in New Zealand, stay away
from Kiwi centered places and Kiwi's, get to know the
local's, buy yourself a Euro Rail pass, and just go out
and explore.
Here's hoping more and more young Kiwis will do this.
Time will tell.
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Queue this pattern and Favorite, please!
I'm seriously falling in love with chevron again, but the texture in my Chevron Flare blanket is what is really doing it. Not only is the chevron visually appealing, but this texture is to die for and I am already planning a king size throw with it. With this texture, a neutral, solid color throw would be divine. Here is a closeup of my Lovey Shells and Chevrons which shows just how it looks in solid. I love it!
That was my first time falling in love with the texture and yarn! So, without further adieu, here is all the info you need for this pattern complete with links to purchase the yarn. The colors available are rich and plentiful.
Complete with a sizing guide for Baby blanket (30" L x 24" W) up to King (76" W x 80" L), yarn amount suggestions, and convenient pdf HERE for your personal stash.
Yarn Note: The amounts I give are a guestimation from my personal experience. I was able to make 2 swatches from the amount of yarn above, plus the blanket. Use your judgement when ordering yarn. I typically order an extra skein of each color just in case I want to make it larger or add a border for fun.
Materials- I/ 5.50mm, hook, scissors, yarn needle
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Grade: F
Doing it at: no early and often doing it can save this book. The sex scenes were so repetitive that I was high speed skimming through, just trying to find the end of this.
Catnip: BDSM; Hate Read; Controlling Sociopath; Bad Writing; Dom Jeans; Stalkers; Abusive Relationship; Fan Fiction
Shame Scale: Red hot burning shame, this is the most shameful thing a romance reader can be caught reading, because this crap is what everyone derivitively thinks we are reading
Fantasy Cast: Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan
Book Description:
Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.
But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven and demanding Fifty Shades.
While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her, and make the most important decision of her life.
I know that I am like six years late to this garbage heap of a book. I started reading it way back when the Fifty Shades craze was just sweeping the country (complete with sex toy product tie ins!), but it was just so badly written that I couldn't finish it and moved on to actual GOOD romance. Flash foward to January 2017, the Fifty Shades Darker movie is set for a Valentine's Day release, and Mary and I are planning another installment of Drunk at the Movies! Somehow Mary decided that she didn't want to be the only one who had read this horrible thing, and told me if I didn't read it, I couldn't accompany her to the movie. And I love movies with my bae. So here we are, guys. Here. We. Are.


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Rounded corners in CSS
How many times have you heard "I'm sick of websites looking boxy", no? Well, I get it almost every week. Once again ALA come up with the goods with a fantastic article of creating rounded corners using css and semantic markup.
What's really interesting here is when the user's font size is increased, the thing doesn't break at all! I had to get up to about 300% of the original specified font size for the corners to start degrading. Thing is, it wasn't the corners that degraded - it was the type within the div (breaking out of the div). Very nice.
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To set up Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) on your dev machine, you just need to create a workspace and then add your code.
Before you start you have to create a team project as the following:
- Connect to the server and team project collection where you want to create your team project.
You can access Team Explorer for free by installing Visual Studio Community or any other Visual Studio version.
You must connect from a client that is at the same version level as TFS. That is, you must connect to TFS 2015 from a version of Visual Studio 2015.
2. Name the team project. Don't specify more than 64 characters.
And, note that after you've created a team project, you can't change its name.
3. Choose a process template from the packed with TFS of your choice such as Agile, Scrum and CMMI. (as I'm a Scrum guy, I will choose Scrum 🙂 )
4. Choose your source control system, either Git distributed repositories or TFVC, one centralized repo.
5. The team project collection is configured to support a SharePoint project portal, So you have the option to create a SharePoint portal for your team project documents, collaboration and reporting.
6. Now you are done, click finish to complete the wizard.
7. When you're finished, you can see your team project in Team Explorer.
Now lets create a workspace and get the code 🙂
From Visual Studio, go to the Team Explorer Connect page (Keyboard: Ctrl + 0, C) and then connect to the team project.
(If the team project you want to open is not listed, choose Select Team Projects and then connect to the team project.)
Map the team project to a folder on your dev machine.
Map the workspace and get your code.
After creating the workspace lets add the code to the version control ..Yummy 🙂
Create a new solution under version control
If you've got an idea for a new app, you can use version control from the start. Create a new code project (Keyboard: Ctrl + Shift + N), and add it to TFVC version control:
When the Choose Source Control dialog box appears, choose Team Foundation Version Control.
When you are ready, check in your changes (Keyboard: Ctrl + 0, P).
In my next post, I will write about connecting the team to Team Foundation Server 2015 cross different platforms.
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|The osteological terms used here follow those established by Witmer and Baumel (1993), and Witmer (1997) for archosaurian anatomy; anglicized versions of Latin terms in those sources are used when an English equivalent is not provided.
Antorbital cavity: The space ahead of the orbital fenestra, lateral to the nasal airway and medial to the external surface of the bone (Witmer, 1997). Laterally this space is enclosed by the external antorbital fenestra, and the dorsolateral surfaces of the palatine bone and the palatal process of the maxilla bound it ventromedially (Witmer, 1997). The cavity includes the external and internal antorbital fenestra, maxillary and promaxillary fenestrae, and the antorbital fossa and its subordinate openings (Witmer, 1997).


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These breathtaking adventurous photos from this year's Red Bull Illume Image Quest will get your blood pumping just by looking at them.
More than 5,600 photographers around the world participated in the company's fourth edition of its international photography competition focused on action and adventure sports.
A panel of judges spent months sifting through nearly 35,000 submissions from 120 countries to ultimately select one extraordinary winning image for each of the 11 categories. They chose Lorenz Holder, a professional photographer from Germany, as the overall winner.
"In my photos, I like to show the viewers the beauty of the environment where athletes perform," said Holder, whose photos won both the Masterpiece and Playground categories. "I'm a huge fan of landscape and architectural photography and I try to combine those genres with action sport," he added.
Take a look at some of the best shots from the contest, as the talented photographers reveal the behind-the scenes stories in their own words.
Overall Winner, Masterpiece CategoryLorenz Holder/Red Bull lllume
New Creativity CategoryAle Di Lullo/Red Bull lllume
Wings CategoryMicky Wiswedel/Red Bull lllume
Enhance CategoryDean Treml/Red Bull lllume
Sequence CategoryDaniel Vojtech/Red Bull lllume
Playground CategoryLorenz Holder/Red Bull lllume
Close-Up CategoryDenis Klero/Red Bull Illume
Lifestyle CategoryJody MacDonald/Red Bull lllume
Mobile CategoryVegard Aasen/Red Bull lllume
Energy CategoryLuke Shadbolt/Red Bull lllume
Spirit CategoryDean Treml/Red Bull Illume