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A photo of a baby smiling while being cradled by a pair of motorcycle gloves next to a motorcycle helmet is helping a grieving family find closure. The baby in the picture is named Aubrey. Kim Stone, the photographer who took the pictures said that she didn't do anything special to make Aubrey smile for the camera."It was just so special," she told Inside Edition. "As soon as I put the glove on top of her, the baby started smiling. I didn't have time to set up lights or anything, I just started taking photos."
The gloves to which Stone refers belonged to Aubrey's father Hector Daniel Ferrer Alvarez. Aubrey will never get to meet him because his life was cut short when he was gunned down by an acquaintance at a motorcycle club in Pompano Beach, Fla. He was just 25.
Before he died, Alvarez had been looking forward to Aubrey's arrival. He and Aubrey's mom, Kathryn Seable Williams, were planning to get married after she was born. They also made plans to travel as a family from Florida to Puerto Rico to show Aubrey off to Alvarez's family.
Though Willams and Alvarez had great plans for the future, the thing that let everyone know that Alvarez, a motorcycle enthusiast, was looking forward to Aubrey's arrival was that he traded in his sports bike a for a more mature one—a Harley Davidson.
Williams said that Alvarez wanted the Harley because he didn't want a motorcycle accident to prevent him from seeing his daughter grow up. However, just in case something happened and he wasn't around, Alvarez told Williams that he knew she would take great care of their child.
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The Ugandan Athletic Federation says at least five athletes missed out on qualifying for the Olympics after discovering Japanese religious group Happy Science was using the national stadium in Kampala.
Athletes instead competed at a local university track, which the UAF claims has an inferior running surface and lacks proper timing equipment and is the reason no competitors established qualifying times.
Ugandan religious leaders call Happy Science a cult. Its founder, Ryuho Okawa, claims to be a medium to the spirits of Muhammad, Christ, Buddha, and Confucius.
Given the increasing violence in Uganda, deadly landslides, and proposals to make homosexuality punishable by death, it might seem Uganda has more to worry about than its Olympic team. At the same time, a focus on international athletic competition tends to draw a nation away from its troubles, so this is unfortunate. A small team of Ugandans will have the opportunity to register qualifying times next week at the African Athletic Championships in Benin, but for those who aren't making the trip, their Olympic dreams are over.

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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA - University of Massachusetts Boston women's volleyball player Cassy Hanneman (Denver, CO) has been named Little East Conference Volleyball Rookie of the Week for the second straight week and for a league-high fourth time this season. She earns the award for the week of October 20-26 after being selected for the weeks of September 22-28, September 29 to October 5 and October 13-19, it was announced today by the conference.
Hanneman's comfort zone with the college game seems to grow more each week. The freshman set for 100 assists in 10 sets over three matches for 10.0 per set and fired four aces to go with nine digs for 0.40 aces and 0.90 digs per set, while getting up for a block solo. The setter also put down eight kills and maintained a .182 hitting percentage. She set for at least 28 assists in each match and registered 41 assists in the Beacons' four-set victory at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on October 25 and 31 helpers vs. Plymouth State University in the same day as part of an LEC tri-match. The first-year player also set for 28 assists to go with four kills and three digs vs. Pine Manor College on October 21. Hanneman matched her career-high with four aces vs. PSU and added three digs and a kill, while registering three kills, three digs and a block vs. UMass Dartmouth.
The 5'9" setter has quickly established herself as one of the best setters in the Little East Conference, averaging 8.99 assists per set for the season to rank third among league leaders, while leading the league with 0.56 aces per set as one of the team's most reliable servers. Her assist total of 845 is already the second-highest mark in a season at UMass Boston and just 21 short of breaking the all-time mark, while serving up at least one ace in 22 of 27 matches and multiple aces in 15 contests. A graduate of Arapahoe High School, she fired at least one ace in 10 straight matches from September 27 to October 21. She has not only directed the team's offense, but has also proven to be one of the team's best all-around players, averaging 1.88 digs and 0.22 total blocks per set to rank third and fourth on the team, respectively. Hanneman is the only player on the squad to play in all 94 sets on the campaign and has set for at least 20 assists in all but one match, including 14 occasions with 30 or more. She was also named the Most Valuable Player for the Salem State College Invitational on October 4 and was selected to the Virginia Wesleyan Wingate Innvitational and the Plymouth State Days Inn of Campton All-Tournament teams earlier in the season.
The Beacons are currently 21-7 on the season and have won a school-record 12 straight matches and 14 of 15. UMass Boston is also 3-1 in Little East Conference play to place second in the standings and will be in action on Tuesday, October 28 when it travels to inner city rival Emerson College at 7:00 p.m.


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NEW YORK (CNN) -- President Obama said Monday that the need for the federal government to help prop up the nation's hard-hit financial system is fading.
President Obama says he wants to end the idea that some firms are "too big to fail."
"While there continues to be a need for government involvement to stabilize the financial system, that necessity is waning," he told an audience of key financial and political leaders at New York's famed Federal Hall on Wall Street.
"After months in which public dollars were flowing into our financial system, we are finally beginning to see money flowing back to taxpayers."
Obama noted that although taxpayers won't necessarily "escape the worst financial crisis in decades entirely unscathed," banks have repaid more than $70 billion in government bailout funds.
He called for the closure of regulatory loopholes that contributed to the current financial crisis.
"We've got to close the loopholes that were at the heart of the crisis. Where there were gaps in the rules, regulators lacked the authority to take action," he said.
This weakness "in oversight engendered systematic, and systemic, abuse."
The president said that, while "holding the Federal Reserve fully accountable for regulation of the largest, most interconnected firms, we'll create an oversight council to bring together regulators from across markets to share information, to identify gaps in regulation, and to tackle issues that don't fit neatly into an organizational chart."
Obama noted that, under his plan, "we'll also require these financial firms to meet stronger capital and liquidity requirements and observe greater constraints on their risky behavior."
The only way to avoid a repeat of the financial crisis, he said, "is to ensure that large firms can't take risks that threaten our entire financial system and to make sure they have the resources to weather even the worst of economic storms."
Obama said he is proposing creating "resolution authority" in the event that a failure of a particularly large financial firm threatens the stability of the financial system.
"This is intended to put an end to the idea that some firms are 'too big to fail,' " he said.
"For a market to function, those who invest and lend in that market must believe that their money is actually at risk. And the system as a whole isn't safe until it is safe from the failure of any individual institution."
The president also called for the creation of a "Consumer Financial Protection Agency" to help protect consumers and enforce new rules governing the nation's financial system.
Right now, Obama noted, "there is no single agency charged" with doing so. "That is what we'll change," he said.
The new agency, he noted, "will have the power to make certain that consumers get information that is clear and concise, and to prevent the worst kinds of abuses. Consumers shouldn't have to worry about loan contracts designed to be unintelligible, hidden fees attached to their mortgages, and financial penalties -- whether through a credit card or debit card -- that appear without warning on their statements."
The president urged closer international cooperation both to contain the current financial crisis and prevent it from repeating in the future.
"We need to close the [regulatory] gaps that exist not just within this country but among countries," he said.
"We know that abuses in financial markets anywhere can have an impact everywhere. ... Just as gaps in domestic regulation lead to a race to the bottom, so too do gaps in regulation around the world. Instead, we need a global race to the top, including stronger capital standards."
Obama noted that he will push for new measures at next week's Group of 20 economic meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Just ahead of National Signing Day and adding fresh personnel to the football program, Houston has found itself losing a veteran member of its defensive line.
According to the Houston Chronicle, defensive lineman Zeke Riser has decided to transfer from the Cougars. While no transfer destination was given — the Texas Longhorns are a rumored destination, however — Riser indicated that he would be heading to a program that's closer to family.
"190 miles or 70? Think about it… #FamilyOverEverything," the player tweeted Saturday afternoon.
Riser graduated from UH in December, meaning he would be eligible to play immediately at an FBS school if he enters a grad program not offered at his former university.
As a true freshman in 2009, Riser started all 14 games for the Cougars. A knee injury sidelined him from all of the 2010 season, but he came back to start 13 games the past two seasons. Nine of those starts came in 2012 as a redshirt junior.


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Roger Elliott necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
Hypnosis Downloads.com
The parent company of HypnosisDownloads.com is Uncommon Knowledge (http://www.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk). We are a small focused psychology training company and have been showing people how to use modern, solution focused psychological techniques since 1995. We were the first company to take hypnosis downloads onto the web in 2000.
Although we are still the market leader, we have spawned hundreds of copycat competitors and need to differentiate ourselves clearly in an increasingly commoditized marketplace. Our point of difference is that our downloads are produced by psychology professionals and are based upon sound psychological principles. Many (most?) of our competitions' are not, and some are downright dangerous.
We look after our customers, and communicate with them constantly via email and our facebook group facebook.com/uncommonknowledge We honour our 10% guarantee without question and frequently spend a lot of time helping individuals with their problems. We are in this business because we are passionate about delivering the best help possible, right when people need it most.
People looking for help with psychological problems and help with personal development - usually in the 25-55 age band 50/50 male/female split
(Added: One way to look at this is that this product is something customers 'take', similar to a vitamin pill, or even a pharmaceutical drug. Therefore, the design needs to convey professionalism and trust. Please don't rely on our current site design which we feel is too 'cartoony').
We need a 'template' product image created for our downloads on Hypnosis Downloads .com. Features include:
1) An image related to the download topic. We also need access to a bank of images from which we can choose images for our top 100 downloads. These images will also be used on iTunes. I have considered the possibility of the designer choosing all 100 images, but it is such a tricky thing, I think it would be better if we could do that ourselves. On the other hand, perhaps you might come up with another way of solving the problem... :-)
An example page where the product would be used (potentially twice, large at the top and smaller down by the 'Add to Cart' button is:
2) A generic version that we can use for the other 500 products on which the image does not have to change.
3) The image needs to convey clearly that the product is a download (specifically because customers think otherwise that they are getting a CD).
4. The title of the download, in the above case 'Cool Down Blushing'. Again, we would need to be able to edit the image to create the hundreds of titles (groan!)
We are looking for a different approach to the typical glossy smiling people, that will set our product apart from the dozens of copycats out there (for an example, see instant-hypnosis .com)


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From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decrease,
His tender heir mught bear his memeory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
Sonnet 1: Translation to modern English
We want all beautiful creatures to reproduce themselves so that beauty's flower will not die out; but as an old man dies in time, he leaves a young heir to carry on his memory. But you, concerned only with your own beautiful eyes, feed the bright light of life with self-regarding fuel, making beauty shallow by your preoccupation with your looks. In this you are your own enemy, being cruel to yourself. You who are the world's most beautiful ornament and the chief messenger of spring, are burying your gifts within yourself And, dear selfish one, because you decline to reproduce, you are actually wasting that beauty. Take pity on the world or else be the glutton who devours, with the grave, what belongs to the world.
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i love this sonnet,
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Who is this poem directed to?
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Is this sonnet a rape threat…?
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I think this sonnet is calling me ugly.
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i love this beatifull sonnet, shakespeare is legend in love.
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I admire this charming translation because it conveys precisely and beautifully the spirit and beauty of the original sonnet.
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SEATTLE >> Maybe it's the mask.
Nneka Ogwumike scored 21 points for her fifth straight game in the 20s and the Sparks beat the Seattle Storm, 70-56 on Thursday night.
Candace Parker added 17 points and 10 rebounds for Los Angeles (7-9), and Chantel Lavender had 11 points. The Sparks shot 68 percent in the second and third quarters.
Ogwumike, coming off a season-high, 26-point performance Tuesday night in a loss to Chicago, was 10 of 16 from the floor. She has 113 points in the past five games on 64 percent shooting (48 of 75). She has worn a facemask the past few games to protect a bruised nose.
"It's taking me back to my freshman year at Stanford. I broke my nose that year and had to wear that mask the whole year," Ogwumike said. "My periphery vision is a little bit handicapped, but otherwise, I don't think about it."
Added Sparks coach Carol Ross: "Nneka put that mask on, and she has been a beast. She has just been playing at a very, very high level. I'm glad her effort finally turned into a win. You hate wasting a great effort (Tuesday."
Crystal Langhorne led the Storm (7-12) with 19 points and had eight rebounds. Shekinna Stricklen came off the bench to score 11 points, and Temeka Johnson had 10.
"I thought we struggled defending Parker and Ogwumike at times. We just made it way too easy for them," Seattle coach Brian Agler said. "They're good players, and very skilled, and they made some really good shots and moves on us. But I wish we would have competed a little bit tougher against them."
Los Angeles broke the game open by hitting 19 of 28 shots in the second and third quarters. That included three straight makes by Ogwumike midway through the third to push her past 20 points again. The Sparks shot 50.8 percent for the game. Seattle shot 39.7 percent.
The Storm played without scoring leader Camille Little because of her grandfather's death.
Los Angeles held Seattle scoreless for 5 minutes, 14 seconds bridging the first and second quarters, scoring eight straight points to take a 20-12 lead. After the Storm twice got within five, the last time at 25-20, the Sparks closed the half on a 15-2 run to take a 40-22 halftime advantage.


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Maxbp needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 69 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
Our whole company is built around the theme of "Creating Great Hitters"
We provide a short menu of products specifically designed to maximize the ratio of skill improvement vs. time and money spent. Our products are affordable and practical yet still produce outstanding results.
MaxBP stands for Maximum Batting Practice. The flagship product is the whiffleball pitching machine….you can see something similar here- http://www.sandlotslugger.com.
DO NOT TAKE ANY INSPIRATION FROM THE SANDLOT SLUGGER WEBSITE. We are going for a whole different feel. We just want you to see a product similar to our main offering.
The logo will be used not only on our website, stickers on products we sell, banner ads at little league fields, on the sides of RV's, etc. We may also produce hats, shirts, and etc.
If the MaxBP logo ends up being conducive to the creation of a mascot, we have ideas for how to use one. This does not mean your logo ideas need to be mascot-friendly… just something we're throwing out there.
Our approach is to preach sound fundamentals, coupled with massive repetition in order to achieve excellence. And we show that this can be done without a ton of space or money.
The MaxBP pitching machine doesn't require a lot of space, costs less than $400 and has the added benefit of throwing balls that are a fraction of the size of real baseballs. Harder task mastered = Better hitter.
In the broadest sense, it's anyone who wants to improve at hitting, but doesn't have a massive backyard, or thousands of dollars to devote to it.
(note: "real" pitching machines can cost upwards of $1000-2000, require a full batting cage to surround them ($1000) and require at least 1500 square feet of space. )
In terms of skill/age level, we're considering 2010 to be a year of massive data gathering. We expect the market to begin to teach us just who this is the perfect fit for. But going in, we know that the prime contenders are:
1. Little League parents, purchasing for their children
2. High School kids and/or their parents purchasing to help them make the team or to earn a scholarship
3. Softball players at these same levels
4. Adult males who continue to play in competitive leagues (age 18-50ish) (you might be surprised how many of these there are)
5. Coaches (Little League, HS, College)
6. Retail Outlets
Look at this more as a "potential themes/ideas" section
We like baseball-related colors…green, infield dirt-brown, white, woodbat tan, etc.
The idea of incorporating a swinging batter is certainly plausible. If so, his swing needs to be mechanically correct.
This site has stop-action of the best hitters in the game at every stage of their swing:
Also, here are a number of pictures of consensus best hitter in the majors right now (Albert Pujols):
Including a swinging player is not at all a requirement, but may be just the thing.
The main thing is the image should be confident, fun, powerful and dynamic.
We are on a tight timeline, so there is a chance that if we see just what we're looking for early on, we could end the contest early.
There is the possibility of substantial future work. We are at the outset of a company launch that is expected to grow exponentially over the next few years.
We'll be checking in regularly, so feel free to ask questions and we'll do our best to provide prompt feedback on what we like.
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Mississippi men's basketball coach Andy Kennedy has been arrested in Cincinnati after a cab driver complained that the coach punched him and shouted racial slurs.
A pretrial hearing has been set for Jan. 16.
Kennedy's lawyer entered a written plea of not guilty in Hamilton County Municipal Court on Thursday. He said Kennedy emphatically denies the allegations.
The complaint filed in Municipal Court alleges that Kennedy assaulted Mohammed Ould Jiddou and "punched victim with a closed fist while shouting racial slurs."
The coach was arrested early Thursday.
Kennedy is in Cincinnati for his school's game in the SEC/Big East invitational Thursday night against No. 9 Louisville.
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Along with the Piedmont, Tuscany is Italy's most important wine-producing area. Chianti, Brunello, Vino Nobile, and Vin Santo are known all over the world, as are the ""Super Tuscans,"" a large group of important, high-quality reds born in the early 1970s and now representing some of Italy's best wines. Back then, producers began chafing under the restrictive regulations of the DOC (Denominazione di Origin Controllata). Some sought to avoid using certain legally recommended grape varieties, such as the Italian white grapes that were considered an integral part of Chianti; others started blending Cabernet and Merlot, which at the time were proscribed, with native grape varieties.
While Tuscany offers a plethora of riches to the wine lover, some of its most famous Tuscan wines, especially Chianti and Brunello, are experiencing a slump in sales. There are many reasons for this, beginning with a steep rise in prices over the last five or ten years. There has also been a wave of new, moneyed owners who have not let their lack of winemaking experience get in the way of buying a piece of this beautiful region. This has opened the floodgate for oenological consultants, many of whom work for numerous estates in the same area but routinely apply their tried-and-true recipe to winemaking, leading to the production of Tuscan wines that resemble one another to a dismaying degree. Add to this the insistence on making deeply colored wines that are often overconcentrated, overoaked, and charmless, and you begin to have a good idea of why Chianti and some other Tuscan red wines don't sell all that well anymore. Fortunately, producers have begun to recognize these errors, prices have finally stopped rising, and, mercifully, more trees are being allowed to live as less importance is afforded to new oak barrels.
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Computer Labs
The Lab consists of 14 Windows 2000 workstations, and 1 MacIntosh workstation.
Access to the computer lab is controlled by a key-code door, thus anyone with access to the building and the key-code has access to the lab (24 hours/day, 7 days/week). Geology majors and UAF students taking geology classes, faculty and staff, and attendees of programs and conferences associated with the Geology Department are encouraged to use the lab as needed.
Obtaining the Computer Lab Door Code, Usernames/Passwords
Contact Chris Wyatt (email@example.com or 474-7809) to obtain a username and password for access to the Geology Department network server ("NUGGET"). Lab users are required to obtain and maintain an Aurora account (call 474-6564). The computer lab door code changes periodically, and new codes can be obtained from the department office in Room 308.
Logging on Lab Workstations
To logon at any of the PC workstations in the computer lab, press Ctrl-Alt-Delete at the prompt, enter your username/password, check that the default domain (GEOLOGY) is selected, and press Enter.
Logging off Lab Workstations
Click the Start button (lowest left-hand corner). Click Shutdown … from the pop-up menu. Click the button "Close all programs and log on as a different user?" Click "Yes", and the workstation is available for the next user.
Usage Priority:
- Geology Class Work/Research Work
- Other class work
- Personal (email, non-Geology Internet Browsing)
If you would like to use a workstation for a higher priority item than it is being used for, then feel free to (politely) ask to use the workstation
The Geology & Geophysics Computer Lab is located in Room 316 of the Reichardt Building at 900 Yukon Drive, mid-way between the West Ridge Research Complex and lower campus.
If you have any questions about the Geology Computer Lab, or are having problems with the lab, please contact Chris Wyatt (firstname.lastname@example.com or 474-7809).
Useful Information
Email Access
Users will access their email in a variety of ways, depending on where there email server is located. If you are affiliated with UAF, you can access your email through a simple browser-based site: http://www.alaska.edu/google/
If you access your remote computer system through Telnet (or SSH Secure Shell), then you are probably familiar with a text-based email application (PINE or similar).
Printer Access
If you wish to print out a small number of pages of hard copy, feel free to use the laser printer in the lab. You may access this printer under the HP8150 PCL6. The printer is not a COPY MACHINE, nor is the Geology Computer Lab a PRINT SHOP. The size of Print Jobs are audited and if you are abusing the Lab's printing services -- say, more than 100 pages per week, you're account will be disabled. Exceptions are possible, but check with the lab administrator BEFORE submitting large print jobs.


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JERSEY CITY, NJ — PATH riders should add cash to their fare cards.
It will cost more to ride the trains beginning 3 a.m. Monday.
The price of a one-way ride will increase 25 cents to $2.25.
PATH riders will also pay more for multi-day passes. The seven-day Smart Link pass will cost $3 more or $24. The 30-day Smart Link pass will be $73, up $8.


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As of March 10, 2008, we will be referred to simply as IUCN. If you need to explain, it stands for the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Many of you have been confused for many years with the difference between our two names: IUCN and the World Conservation Union. From now on, you will only be hearing from us as IUCN.
This year we turn 60. We remain full of energy, intellect and passion about the environment. What better way to move forward than with a new face. So, from now we also have a new, simpler logo.
Our new logo, with its clear design, represents the Earth and our Union.
Although our name and logo are simple, we will continue working on the world's most complex environment and development issues.
Conservation is now a mainstream issue on political, social, business and media agendas around the world. In order to achieve IUCN's mission, we will continue to work with our ever-widening target groups of people and organizations across many different domains and sectors.
Our scientists and experts will continue to define conservation standards for the world. And we will continue working from villages to presidential palaces and the UN General Assembly to build bridges and find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing sustainable development challenges.


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Four Dogs LLC needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 231 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
We need a simple, bold, logo to brand us. One that literally interprets animals + money. Raising money is a serious endeavor, our logo must inspire confidence (meaning no cuddly teddy bear cutesy stuff). Styles we like http://www.graphicdesignblog.org/20…os-cooool/ especially iron duck clothing, elephfruit, and chili dog.
Our market is internet savvy, active people who care about the environment, shop and bank online, use Skpe, have a rescue dog or cat, may or may not have kids, drive Hybrids, eat organically, and stay abreast of modern technology. Think "catchy, cool logo that will sell T-shirts and brand us as a lifestyle". Our logo will be used on flyers, other print media, tshirts, and our website. Function and design packaged in a hip clean logo is what we seek.
Item 1...Our core colors are light green Pantone 585CVU and Chocolate brown Pantone 4975CVU with accent colors bright light blue Pantone 629 CVU and earthy orange Pantone 1665CVU. Must use chocolate.
- Item 2...The logo must be able to translate to Black and White without losing effectiveness
- Items 3.... We want a flat image, not 3D
- Item 4.... Simple, simple, simple
- Items 5... The format should be vector like that produced by Illustrator or Photoshop
- Item 1... Not juvenile, not too cutesy
- Item 2... No color fading or shading. No photographs or realistic drawing
- Item 3...Not too busy - not with lots of different animals
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The Future of Metallizing
- Published: January 31, 2006, By Corey M. Reardon, AWA Alexander Watson Assoc.
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7
Metallized Products
Europe dominates consumption of metallized products with 33% of the global market. North America and Asia, at 24% and 23% respectively, come in second and third. Packaging and labels are the major market segments, but metallized products—both film and paper—span a variety of markets, from textiles and cigarettes to gift wrap and technical/construction applications.
For metallized films, there are strong growth opportunities in bakery applications for replacing waxed paper and polyethylene, while metallized films also are increasingly popular for snack food packaging. Clear oxide barrier coatings are opening new markets, as are product security and brand authentication and electronics (antenna arrays/displays, etc).
While metallized papers may be losing market share to films in some areas, they also have some positive drivers for continuing future growth. They have a good image in the promotional and point-of-sale arena, where consumer shoppers are proven to be positively attracted by the sparkle of metal.
Metallized papers also have an advantage in the common perception of their environmental properties over metallized films. Practically speaking, they offer good barrier properties, are available with clear and opaque functional coatings, and—best of all—are very cost effective.
On the down side, however, aluminum has a poor image in some regions—e.g., the Nordic countries and Germany—and metallized paper's environmental credentials are irrelevant in the strong growth areas in Asia Pacific and the other developing economies of the world. Innovation in metallized papers is hard to come by, and competition from alternative coatings and packaging formats is increasing.
Nevertheless, the market for metallized products can be described as positive for both the manufacturers of the film and paper substrates—as well as for converters.
Data for this article is taken from the library of reports and conferences on vacuum coating and metallizing topics available from AWA Alexander Watson Assoc.
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Sad news out of Texas: Don Trask, former vice president of operations for Online Alarm Quotes, died last week in Dallas at age 75.
"Don was one of the very first employees of Monitronics and helped build their central station," Tom Fowler, president of Online Alarm Quotes, told SSN. "A very good soul. He was one of the nicest people I ever encountered in any walk of life. Please make mention of his passing and keep his family in your prayers."
Trask was the executive vice president and CEO of Trask Enterprises, doing business as New West Security in Duncanville, Texas. Before his employment at Online Alarm Quotes and Monitronics, he worked for Southland Corp., the Arthur Trask Corp. and 3M Corp., according to his profile on LinkedIn.
Trask was born and raised in the Chicago area and attended the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Sheri Trask; daughters Nancy and Elizabeth; stepson Corey, and his grandchildren.
"Don was the kind of friend that renewed faith in people," Fowler said. "He was there for you without asking and without question."
YONKERS, N.Y.—Online Alarm Quotes, a niche dealer program based here, recently announced it has upped its funding to dealers. That allows dealers to offer customers the latest in home automation technology with no money down, said Tom Fowler, co-owner of the dealer program, which was launched early last year.
YONKERS, N.Y.—Online Alarm Quotes—a new dealer program based here that says it's unique because it buys accounts for renters and those with low credit scores—recently announced it has selected Honeywell as its exclusive supplier.
YONKERS, N.Y.—Online Alarm Quotes, a new dealer program based here, recently announced it has added a funding program and closed a deal with 2GIG Technologies to offer its products.
YONKERS, N.Y.—A new business called Online Alarm Quotes offers the benefits of a dealer program and allows dealers to maintain complete independence, according to Tom Fowler, co-founder of the new venture.
The company has been in development for about two years and its official launch was Jan. 17, said Fowler, who also is president and CEO of 24-7 Security, which serves the New York metropolitan area.
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Jane, your man is pussy-phobic. I'm surprised you haven't run into his kind before. There's a shit-load of them out there.
It's a masculine thing for some guys; they absolutely will not eat out a girl no matter what. It's not like they tried it a couple of times and just don't like it; they simply won't fuckin' try it because they're manly men. Don't ya just love it?
Jane, if you're blowin' this dude and he's not reciprocating with some mighty fine cunt-lappin'; then you're the fool, not him. He 's getting everything he wants and there's no reason for him put out for you. Men are pigs, dear. So if you're looking for more mutuality in the sex department, lay down the law. In the immortal words of Hannibal Lecter; "Quid pro quo, Clarice! Only don't call your man Clarice.
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Gender: Male
Age: 26
Location: home
Is it ok to swallow your own cum?
Yep, it's perfectly fine. In fact, I recommend it…especially if you want your partner to swallow. Every man should know what his spunk tastes like, if you ask me. And before you ask; no, eating your own cum will not make you queer. Eating your own spooge and LOVING IT…that makes you gay. Just kidding!
If the idea of you ingesting your own seed disgusts you, as it does so many unenlightened men out there, then don't go trying to feed it to anyone else. That would just indicate that you're trying to denigrate partner with your cum, not gifting it to him and/or her.
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I like to jack off using other guys' spunk. Is this risky?
Let's review something I said in my first podcast. There is some risk involved with everything we do.
In that podcast, I initiated a little code — you know, like the festive rainbow colored homeland security codes we've all come to know love. I'll be referring to this code a lot, so it bears repeating. The Dr Dick Health Risk Code is simple. 1) Advised — 2) Advised with Minimal Risk — 3) Advised with Caution and 4) Not Advisable.
Now back to you, Brian. Dr dick is gonna label jerkin off with another guys jizz — Advised . Cum, as we all know, can transmit the HIV virus if it's present in the host. However, there's virtually no risk for HIV transmission unless you have abrasions on your dick. And if you do have abrasions on your cock, you need to give your johnson a break till you heal.
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If you're still looking for some inspiration, we've rounded up some of our favorite menus from the Food52 community. These home cooks have planned some delicious feasts using our Thanksgiving Menu Tool. Take a look, find a few new ideas, and then get thee to the grocery store!
On EmilyC's Table:
• What We Call Stuffing: Challah, Mushroom, and Celery
• Caramelized Butternut Squash Wedges with a Sage Hazelnut Pesto
• Brown Butter-Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Arugula and Bacon
• Kale Salad with Apples and Hazelnuts
• Monica's Sour Cream and Chive Mashed Potatoes
On Vivian Henoch's Table:
• Apple Rye Punch
• A Medley of Roasted Potatoes with Homemade Za'atar & Aleppo Pepper
• Mashed Potatoes with Caramelized Onions and Goat Cheese
• Gingered Cranberry Fig Stuffing
• Tuscan Onion Confit
• What We Call Stuffing: Challah, Mushroom, and Celery
• Homemade Green Bean Casserole
• Potato Mash with Leek Confit and Bacon
• Cardamom, Orange and Chocolate Ribbon Cookies
• Pumpkin Rugelach with Walnuts and Sage
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• Special Occasion Turkey
• Vegetarian Mushroom Thyme Gravy
• Canal House's Cranberry-Port Gelée
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• Double Corn, Quinoa & Cheddar Muffins
• Butternut Sage Scones
• Momofuku's Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Fish Sauce
• Bacon Bird with Turkey Neck Gravy
• Boston Greens with Tarragon Buttermilk Dressing, Red Pears, and Toasted Hazelnuts
• Rum Apple Cake
• Canal House's Cranberry-Port Gelée
• Bumble Brown Punch
• Nothern Spy's Kale Salad
• Roasted Carrot Soup
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• Russ Parson's Dry-Brined Turkey (a.k.a. The Judy Bird)
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Brown Announces Greenhouse Gas Agreement With Los Angeles Port
LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today announced that the Port of Los Angeles will take several important steps to "identify and reduce" the significant greenhouse gases generated at the Port of Los Angeles. The agreement, which was approved last night by the Harbor Commission, specifically addresses the global warming impact of the TraPac terminal expansion.
"This path breaking agreement calls for several important steps that will identify and reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with maritime operations at the Port of Los Angeles," Attorney General Brown told a news conference today with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Under the agreement, the port will conduct a comprehensive inventory of port-related greenhouse gases—-tracking these emissions from their foreign sources to domestic distribution points throughout the United States. The port will annually report this data to the California Climate Action Registry, a program which gathers baselines emissions data about greenhouse gases generated in California. This annual report will include:
• Emissions of all ships bound to and from the Port of Los Angeles terminals, encompassing points of origin and destination
• Emissions of all rail transit to and from Port terminals, encompassing major rail cargo destination and distribution points in the United States
• Emissions of all truck transit to and from Port terminals, encompassing major truck destinations and distribution points
The port-wide inventory will be conducted annually until AB 32 regulations become effective.
"Today's agreement demonstrates the commitment of the City and Port of Los Angeles to take specific and concrete steps to fight global warming," Brown said.
Under the agreement the Port will also construct a 10 Mega-Watt photovoltaic solar system to offset approximately 17,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually. The Port is also adopting a program to use electricity, rather than conventional fossil fuels, to power ocean-going vessels when in port.
Imports of foreign goods are a growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. A recent study published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers estimated that the annual emissions associated with the foreign manufacture and importation of electronic goods into the United States total approximately 470 million metric tons—-the equivalent of nearly all the emissions from the State of California. Ocean-going vessels alone emit more CO2 emissions than any nation in the world except the U.S., Russia, China, Japan, India and Germany. These emissions are projected to increase nearly 75% during the next 20 years.
The need for action to combat climate disruption is urgent. Last month, Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chief of the Noble-prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that, "if there's no action before 2012, that's too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment."
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that while industrialized countries account for about 80% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, the poorest nations will suffer the most severe consequences of climate change. Increased flooding from glacier melting could reduce freshwater availability for Central, South, East, and South-East Asia, potentially harming more than a billion people by 2050. Disruption of freshwater access in Africa could decrease agricultural production and may threaten up to 250 million people by 2020. Latin America will likely see a drop in crop productivity due to global warming, leading to an increased risk of starvation.
A copy of the agreement is attached.


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Desperate times call for desperate measures and Ray Drecker's situation couldn't be much tougher. The former high school sports legend turned middle-aged high school basketball coach is divorced and struggling to provide for his kids when his already run-down house catches fire. Looking to take on a second job, Ray decides to exploit his best asset in a last-ditch attempt to change his fortunes.
Created by Dmitry Lipkin (creator of 'The Riches') and Colette Burson, HUNG uses dark humor to tell the story of a man fighting to survive personal setbacks that have been compounded by a troubled economy.
The series stars Thomas Jane ('The Punisher,' '*61') as Ray Drecker; Jane Adams ('Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind') as Ray's business partner, Tanya Skagle; Anne Heche ('Men in Trees') as Ray's ex-wife, Jessica Haxon; Eddie Jemison ('Ocean's Thirteen') as Jessica's successful husband Ronnie; Sianoa Smit-McPhee ('As the Bell Rings') as Ray's daughter Darby; and Charlie Saxton ('The Lovely Bones') as Ray's son Damon.
Created by Dmitry Lipkin and Colette Burson; executive producers, Colette Burson, Dmitry Lipkin, Alexander Payne, Michael Rosenberg, John Morayniss and Noreen Halpern; co-executive producers, Scott Stephens and Emily Kapnek.
Having skirted the watchful eye of family and friends, Ray and Tanya take their business to the next level this year. But will they continue to fly under the radar of the law after setting up a new, very public, front for their gigolo enterprise? Tune in to find out on an all- new season of HBO's hit comedy series Hung!


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The Story of Captain Lane A. Briggs
Captain Lane Briggs
|Captain Lane Alan Briggs was born
in Mars Hill North Carolina on June 18, 1932. When Lane was
15 he saw the ocean for the first time, and he knew immediately that
that was where he belonged. He signed on a fishing boat as
deckhand, and later joined the Coast Guard. A long maritime
career had begun.
Lane eventually settled in Norfolk, Virginia, with a wife and four sons. In Norfolk Lane assisted in the construction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, ran a commuter Hydrofoil in the James River, and in the 1960's purchased the tug Steel Rebel. Lane started a successful towing and salvage operation named Rebel Marine Service based at Willoughby Spit. Eventually Lane purchased the Marina where his boat was based and named it after his business. The Marina remains family owned and operated today. In May of 1980 Lane launched the first sail assisted tug, the Norfolk Rebel, registering it as the one and only Tugantine. The Norfolk Rebel is recognized and welcomed in ports up and down the east coast of the U.S. and Canada, and on into the Great Lakes.
But Lane's history is really much more than just dates and facts. Lane's real history revolves around his spirit, his passion, his generosity, and his unique vision. Lane never met a person who didn't become his friend.
|Lane always
the future, and inspired many events such as Norfolk's Harborfest and
the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race. Lane promoted both
maritime history and conservation, and constantly sought ways to bring
these to the public's eye. And wherever Lane went, he was
always ready to share
hospitality with men and women from all strata of society.
Aboard Lane's vessels he trained countless young people in the lessons of seamanship, including his four sons and one of his grandsons, who now all hold Captain's Licenses. Lane was presented with many awards in his lifetime, including the coveted American Sail Training Association's Lifetime Achievement award. But for Lane the greatest prize was watching one of his trainees make Captain.
Captain Lane Briggs passed away on September 19, 2005. His ashes were spread along with his old dog Rebel's in his beloved Chesapeake Bay. But Lane generously left behind his spirit to inspire the next generation.
Why Build a Tugantine?
|The idea of a Tugantine began at
Rebel Marine Service's first Crab Regatta hosted by Capt. Lane Briggs.
The rules of the race stated that only vessels fitted with
sails could participate in the event . A race
participant claimed Capt. Lane could not come to his own party
because Lane's
boat, the tug Steel Rebel, had no sails. Lane was never one
to miss a party, so he fitted the Steel Rebel with sails. And
lo and beyond, it worked!
After that Lane tried setting sails on the Steel Rebel again, this time towing two barges from Norfolk to Baltimore. When the wind direction was right he was able to use the sails on a straight course, and discovered the vessel's speed increased by 1.6 knots. This allowed him to cut both fuel consumption and time on his trip. He speculated that 60% of the time wind and course would be favorable for sail assisted towing. He thought if he had a vessel built specifically for sail assist, the savings could be even greater.
The vessel Lane envisioned was be a two masted gaff rigged schooner. Lane, a lover of maritime history, had seen Brigantines and Barquentines before, so he decided he would build the first sail-assist tug and call it a Tugantine.
In 1977 Naval Architect Merritt Walter drew up the plans per Lane's specifications. Howdy Bailey was signed on as master builder. On April Fools Day 0f 1978 the Tugantine's keel was laid. In May of 1980 Lane christened his boat with the name Norfolk Rebel, and the one and only Tugantine was launched.
Captain Lane Briggs with Tugantine Norfolk Rebel under construction
|The Norfolk Rebel is a 33.2 ton
vessel powered by a 871 V8 320 HP
Detroit Diesel turning a single four-bladed propeller. The
boat's overall length is 51.5 ft. with a waterline of 48 ft..
Her beam is 15.25 ft., and has a draft of 5.5 ft..
The gaff schooner rig has a sail area of 750 sq.ft..
Lane received a grant from the National Marine Fisheries Service to test the merits of sail-assisted towing. The results proved a 50% fuel savings when the wind was favorable. And on a long tow, with the vagaries of weather included, the overall fuel savings averaged 30%. The concept of a Tugantine worked!
Merritt Walter, NA
Howdy Bailey Yacht Services
Steel Rebel at Crab Regatta
Norfolk Rebel at 2007 Harborfest - Courtesy of Bob Postle
Friends of the Norfolk Rebel
1553 Bayville St., Norfolk, VA 23503


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One of the most exciting aspects of NBC's coverage of the 2013-14 Premier League season is that, for the first time ever, all 380 matches will be available online for free with authenticated access.
That means no $14.95 or $19.95 monthly subscriptions to only see a selection of the matches played — whether it was FOX Soccer 2Go, FOXSoccer.tv before that or Setanta-i.
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- Excellent modelling properties
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Warning: This book contains male homoerotica. A massive interstellar war is raging, led by a vicious alien race known as the Maedrom. Humanity has become allied with many other alien races, all of which are trying to survive in the middle of this battle. Gabriel Nagra is a human engineer, assigned to develop a defense for the Maedrom's deadliest weapon. Assisting him is Jhuun, a male Eunnoian to whom Gabriel grows close…perhaps even a little too close. The war has already led to heartbreak and the tragic loss of a lover for Gabriel. In addition, he worries about embracing physical intimacy with an alien. In the middle of destruction and uncertainty, will Gabriel let go of his doubts and fears for a chance at happiness with Jhuun, or will he risk facing the future alone yet again?


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Washington, DC — Senator John McCain and three other Republican Senators are unveiling legislation that would protect the Pentagon's budget from the sequestration cuts required in the debt deal, forcing greater cuts in domestic investments.
The Campaign for America's Future's co-director Robert L. Borosage said:
"Republicans believe bloated Pentagon budgets strengthen American security. In fact, the reverse is true. The most important security priority for America is making the investments here at home vital to reviving our economy, modernizing our infrastructure, educating our children, and getting our fiscal house in order. To achieve this, we need to reduce unnecessary spending – and there is no greater source of that than the Pentagon.
"The Cold War is over. Bin Laden is dead and Al Qaeda dispersed. The U.S. cannot and should not police the world. The Pentagon now spends almost as much on the military as the rest of the world combined. It is the largest source of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. The Pentagon budget more than doubled over the past decade, bringing total U.S. defense spending to historically high levels not seen since World War II. It's higher in comparable dollars than it was under Ronald Reagan in the midst of the Cold War.
"We can and should reduce our military spending, revise our forces to fit the new world we live in. Even after the full sequester, the U.S. will retain by far the most powerful – and expensive – military in the world. These Senators would weaken our security, not strengthen it. They are defending the entrenched interests of the military-industrial complex a Republican President, Dwight Eisenhower, warned us about, not the real security of the American people."


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OK, now let's start. How do you think those adult games which are erotic or violent? In some countries, those games seem hard to be accepted, and someone even think they will result in criminal acts in real life.
And below are some of these games I selected. Have you ever tried these games? If your answer is yes, then how do you think of them?
The Patriot Ledger said this game is beyond the limit of the violent games, since the gamers can even kill a little girl.
It doesn't need to say more about this game, since it's always be the model of the "killer games".
This game is generally recognized as a horror game, since it presents the violent picture perfectly. Some people even think it should be responsible for the violent incidents in Columbia high school.
How can it be a controversial game? The main reason may be Barrat Wallace. As the first black man in Final Fantasy series, his appearance and slang are criticized.
I'd say, GTA is a quagmire filled with sex, violence, and drug.
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After more than two years of consultations, leaders from Catholic health care, the labor movement and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have agreed on a set of principles designed to ensure a fair process when health care workers decide whether to join a union. A 12-page document laying out the principles, titled Respecting the Just Rights of Workers: Guidance and Options for Catholic Health Care and Unions, was released on June 22. "The heart of this unusual consensus is that it's up to workers—not bishops, hospital managers or union leaders—to decide...whether or not to be represented by a union and if so, which union, in the workplace," said Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington and a participant in the consultations. "Because Catholic health care is a ministry, not an industry, how it treats its workers and how organized labor treats Catholic health care are not simply internal matters," the cardinal added. The document calls on unions and employers to respect "each other's mission and legitimacy" and to pledge not to "demean or undermine each other's institutions, leaders, representatives, effectiveness or motives."
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The origin of EchoBrain began at a Super Bowl party in 1995, when Metallica bassist Jason Newsted invited a handful of neighbors to his house to watch the game and jam in his home studio, known as "The Chophouse." The veteran musician was impressed with a local 16-year-old jazz/funk drummer named Brian Sagrafena and the two spent the rest of the evening working through their favorite Tower of Power tunes, eventually missing the end of the football game. Sagrafena, the son of a drummer who spent a stint in the '70s San Francisco funk/soul band Sassafras, was never a Metallica fan, so his jam sessions with heavy metal royalty never really affected him, but his friend and musical collaborator Dylan Donkin was admittedly sweaty palmed upon meeting Newsted. The three kept a loose relationship throughout the '90s, with Newsted recording a demo for Donkin and Sagrafena's funk band the Discojefes.
In 1999, Sagrafena and Donkin took a road trip to Baja, Mexico, writing new songs and polishing their old ones. When they got back to the States, they recorded a handful of new songs on eight-track, playing them for Newsted when he returned home from touring. The rough demos caught Newsted's ear and he offered to collaborate with the two, helping out on bass and assisting with the songwriting. In May of 2000, the trio entered a recording studio in Northern California and documented the songs that would become their debut album, with help from several fellow musicians, including Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, some banjo and guitar work from ex-Faith No More guitarist Jim Martin, and assistance from members of the San Francisco Symphony.
Metallica frontman James Hetfield had always had a ground rule that no member of his band was permitted to work on side projects — the theory being that if one of the bandmembers was putting his creative energies toward another project, they wouldn't be giving Metallica the 110-percent that he demanded. Tensions within the group escalated, and on January 17, 2001, Newsted announced that he was leaving the band due to "private and personal reasons." Despite veiled references to "the physical damage" incurred over the years with the notorious band, many suspected his departure was due in part to Hetfield's "with us or against us" policy.
EchoBrain's live debut came in August of 2001 at a showcase of Bay Area bands, joined on-stage by guitarist Chris Scianni and keyboardist David Borla (of the New York duo Dangerman). The self-titled Chophouse/Surfdog full-length followed in 2002, and received solid notices in the press. EchoBrain returned two years later with Glean. Though Newsted received an exec producer credit, bass duties had been taken over by vocalist Dylan Donkin's brother Adam Donkin. Guitarist/keyboardist Andrew Gomez also made his debut.
Echobrain opened several shows for Neil Young and appeared in his film Greendale.
Echobrain has since become inactive and all of its members have moved on to other projects. Dylan Donkin is a solo artist. His brother Adam is a producer who focuses on producing emerging artists, including Dylan. Andrew Gomez fronts the acoustic rock outfit; The Cons. Newsted joined Voivod for a time as their studio bass player.


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On a blustery, subfreezing night in a sandbagged guard tower, Army Spc. Anthony Ross, 24, of Carson, Calif., twisted and spun in a brief dance. Sometimes Ross does push-ups on guard duty to stay alert, sometimes he dances.
His fellow boredom-fighter for the evening, Sgt. Ulisses Monteoncruz, 21, of Los Angeles, looked up, then went back to the tedium of scanning the rolling, muddy terrain behind the base through a night-vision device that rendered it in shades of gray.
Guard-tower duty is seldom exciting, and it's particularly tedious in Afghanistan in winter, as hundreds of American soldiers in towers across the country that same night were painfully aware. And Ross knew that in a week or two, when he'd rotate off tower duty back to his regular job – patrolling the roads to clear them of improvised bombs – there probably wouldn't be much action then, either.
For a little while.
Scholars debate whether the war in Afghanistan has been America's longest, but as one last "combat season" is about to begin before most U.S. troops leave, there's little doubt that this war has been America's most cyclical.
For more than 11 years, U.S. and NATO troops have followed an odd annual rhythm, a pattern so obvious – whether measured in casualty figures or the number of insurgent attacks – that Pentagon officials, the soldiers on the ground and journalists alike casually refer to the annual "fighting season." Generally, they describe it as beginning and ending with the warmer months. The winter lull is ascribed to snowbound mountain passes that prevent insurgents from moving between their refuges in Pakistan and the fighting grounds in Afghanistan.
But that common wisdom isn't exactly true, and may have distorted the real picture of how the war has evolved, counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen says. He thinks that the Taliban, hit hard by U.S. and NATO forces in recent years, may have begun cautiously hoarding their fighters over the warm months, biding their time until the Americans leave. Having fighters in reserve will strengthen their bargaining position with the U.S.-backed Afghan government so that they can negotiate the best possible terms in a settlement.
"The insurgents have been in a kind of permanent winter mode since 2010, and because of the election next year and everything else, they're on a different calculus now, where they basically are not thinking, 'How do I gain the most possible military advantage?' but instead, 'How do I preserve the largest possible force while still staying sufficiently engaged so as to maintain pressure on my opposite number in any future negotiation?' "
Kilcullen, who's been senior counterinsurgency adviser to Army Gen. David Petraeus in Afghanistan and Iraq, says the meaning of the combat lull is so misunderstood that he discourages the use of the term "fighting season" with anyone he works with on Afghanistan issues.
"It's not as simple as in summer they fight and in winter they don't," he said. "If you live through more than a year or two there, you realize that there are a couple of lulls. There's a lull that happens in sort of the April time frame. That's the poppy harvest lull, where there is genuinely a reduction in the fighting because people go and harvest their poppy."
The Taliban don't stop fighting in winter, Kilcullen says. They simply turn their energies from combat in the rural areas to terrorism in the towns and cities, targeting important local and national officials.
"I would say a better description of the seasonality is that the insurgency doesn't stop in the winter, it just goes urban," he said.
Casualties are indeed much higher in the warm months, but Kilcullen said that to focus on sheer numbers was a mistake.
He cited the assassination attempt in December on Asadullah Khalid, the head of the Afghan domestic intelligence service, who was badly wounded. Khalid had built a reputation as a particularly aggressive foe of the Taliban.
"The sheer number of guys killed doesn't track to the importance of any given hit," he said. "If just three guys are killed in an attack, but those three guys killed were important Afghan ministers, that's big, and Khalid, even though he wasn't killed, that had a pretty significant political effect."
The war's characteristic cycles have another impact, said James Dobbins, a former U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan who's now the director of the RAND International Security and Defense Policy Center: They make it hard for a commander to track progress.
"It can lead to sort of false positives, where violence starts to go down and one thinks one has made progress until one remembers it goes down every year at this time," he said "So, instead of measuring yourself against a constant line, you have to measure yourself not against where you were last month, but where you were this same month last year. This means that each commander is not measuring his progress against his own previous experience, but against the previous commander's experience."
That also applies to combat troops, most of whom now serve a year or less in Afghanistan, and thus don't ever see two winter lulls. That means they can't build on their previous experience.
"People have described it as not being a 10-year war but rather 10 wars of one year each," Dobbins said. "There's something to that."
Kilcullen, who now runs Caerus Associates, a consultancy in Washington, thinks the summer-winter pattern also masks broader changes and trends, including changes in the way the Taliban are approaching the war.
"Right now, you've got guys at ISAF" – the International Security Assistance Force, the NATO-led coalition – "saying, 'Well, we've broken the back of the insurgency. The operational defeat of the Taliban is accomplished, because are not seeing the guerrilla groups out in the countryside like we were two or three years ago,' " Kilcullen said. "But that's not necessarily true, right? It may be that they have gone to another mode of operating and we won't know for sure until the drawdown takes place."
As to the high mountain passes to Pakistan being closed by snow, Kilcullen doesn't believe that's the central reason for the winter drops in rural fighting. Pakistan aside, Afghans traditionally stay indoors as much as possible in the harsh winter months.
"Afghanistan, probably half of it is covered by snow every year for three or four months, and yet there is no evidence I have ever seen of any attempt at developing over-the-snow technology: no skis, no sleds, no skates, no snowshoes, nothing," he said. "So for thousands of years, no one has said, 'Hey, why don't we figure out some way of moving over it?' They all just basically sit down for four months."
The first Western observation of a fighting season here referred only to the poppy harvest, Kilcullen said. It originated in the 1960s with Louis Dupree, an archaeologist and anthropologist from Greenville, N.C., who taught at Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, among other places, and was perhaps the best-known Western scholar of Afghanistan.
"One of the things he wrote about was how a rural society like Afghanistan can't farm and fight at the same time, so when it's harvest season or there are other major agricultural activities going on, you've go to stop fighting to do that," Kilcullen said. "So he sort of invented this idea that there's a fighting season and a farming season, and people tend to do one or the other, but it's very hard to do both."
For the record, the insurgents may fight more at some parts of the year and less at others, but the NATO-led coalition doesn't, said its spokesman, German Brig. Gen. Gunter Katz.
"ISAF doesn't have a fighting season," he said. "We pressure them 365 days a year, 24 hours a day."
The predictable rhythms do have an upside, especially for new soldiers in rural Afghanistan who arrive in the quiet time. It gives them an opportunity to understand the environment they're fighting in before they're likely to have to engage in daily combat.
Spc. Ross and Sgt. Monteoncruz, who are serving as combat engineers with the 3rd Infantry Division in Zabul province, are among those.
"We arrived Jan. 25, for a nine-month tour, so we're seeing the lull, and the rise and the peak and then the fall," Ross said, as he listened to routine radio traffic from the other towers. "It's actually a pretty good thing, because this way the learning curve won't be bad at all, like it might be if we got dropped in right in the middle of the fighting season and things were just crazy."
He calls the lull "the Taliban's biggest mistake."
"It gives us time to learn what the routes are supposed to look like when everything is normal, and by extension what they shouldn't look like," he said.
Then he spun and peered intently into the darkness with his night-vision scope. Finally, some excitement: The tower door opened and the next guard shift stepped in, accompanied by one of the last frigid blasts of the quiet season.


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Ken Rosenberg telling Carl Johnson about the plan to protect Johnny Sindacco from the Forelli Family
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Intensive Care is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas given to protagonist Carl Johnson by Ken Rosenberg from the office at Caligula's Palace, located along The Strip in Las Venturas, San Andreas.
Carl drops by the office and finds a problematic Rosenberg. Kent Paul persuades him to tell Carl his problems. Rosenberg narrates that things were beautiful before, but now, he is the middle-man of the three Mafia families - the Leone Family, Forelli Family, and the Sindacco Family - since no one would trust anyone else to run the casino. The families hate each other, so a hit between the families would be dangerous to him, as a family could blame him and he would be screwed. To make things worse, the Forellis learn about Johnny Sindacco, who is recovering from a coma caused by Carl himself at the hospital. Carl offers himself to move the body someplace safe, for Ken to not be in danger.
Carl heads for the hospital. Once there, he looks for Johnny - however, the receptionist says that someone else picked him up in an ambulance. Carl realizes that it must have been one of the mob families who took Johnny, so he takes off and finds the ambulance. He eventually finds the right ambulance. For Carl to take over the ambulance, he smashes the ambulance up a bit, forcing the Forellis inside to get out of the vehicle. Carl enters the vehicle and makes his way to the meat factory in Whitewood Estates. On the way, Forelli backup arrives, but Carl manages to avoid them. He then arrives at the abattoir - two Sindacco thugs then approach and pick up Johnny, who is in a wheelchair.
Kent Paul: Oi, Rosie, liven yourself up, Carl's here.
Ken Rosenberg: Hello.
Carl Johnson: What's happenin'.
Maccer: Eh, there's some top fanny down at that pool, Pabsy.
Kent Paul: Leave it out, dimlo, what's wrong with you? Well are you going to tell him, or shall I?
Ken Rosenberg: I'm really screwed.
Kent Paul: Crack on, Rosie - spit it out.
Ken Rosenberg: I threw it all away. OK, I had the power, the money, the ladies... But I couldn't lay off the blow, so I went into rehab. And everything went to shit, but so what? So when I came out I started representing the Liberty City mob, again and that's how I ended up here. But, no one family would trust another family to run the casino, so I was put forth as a neutral party. So now I spend my days waiting for one family to cap me and blame the other one. My only friend is a bird named Tony.
Tony: I never fucked anyone over in my life who didn't have it coming to 'em.
Carl Johnson: Shit - let me think about this. You're gonna have to break it down for me real quick.
Ken Rosenberg: OK, OK - the Sindaccos are on the warpath. OK? I mean, something terrible has happened to Johnny. I mean, he's in a shock-induced coma at the hospital across town. Now the Forellis - they will take this opportunity to rub him out. Now if any hit between the families succeeds on my turf, I will get the axe, bullet, machete, whatever...
Carl Johnson: OK, OK, relax. I'm gonna shoot over to the hospital, and move the body or something.
Kent Paul: There you go, my love, things ain't so bad, are they?
Tony: Badabing.
(Outside the casino)
Carl Johnson: So here I am, about to try and rescue some guy I've scared half to death. If he wake up through all of this, I'm screwed...
(Carl arrives at the hospital)
Receptionist: Hello, Sir, can I help you?
Carl Johnson: Yeah, I'm here to pick up Mr. Sindacco.
Receptionist: Mr. Sindacco? There must be some mistake. An ambulance just picked him up.
Carl Johnson: Oh, OK. Thank you for your help.
(Carl tracks down and smashes up the ambulance, forcing Forellis to get out)
Forelli #1: Alright, who's messing with Forelli business?
Forelli #2: Yeah, who's got a death wish?
(Carl arrives at the meat factory)
Sindacco #1: Hey, Johnny, how you feelin'?
Sindacco #2: I didn't think he was going to be discharged 'til tomorrow!
- Tony the bird says a line "I never fucked anyone over in my life who didn't have it coming to 'em" this a clear reference to the Scarface movie where Tony Montana says the same line. This could be why the bird was named after Tony Montana.
- After Maccer says 'Eh, there's some top fanny down at the pool, Pabsy", during the cutscene, you could really see Maccer masturbating while looking at the girl at the pool. To really make sure he was masturbating you could clearly see his hand moving.
- During this mission, the LVA Hospital parking lot is one of the rare chances to obtain a Patriot without military response.
The rewards for this mission are $5,000 and an increase in respect. The mission The Meat Business is unlocked.
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Carl Johnson rams the Forelli ambulance containing Johnny Sindacco.
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