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And what about Volcarona?
And what about Volcarona?
I'm gonna ing you all night long!
Well mine has psychic.
Edit: HP rock, electric or iceis good though.
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Rotom-M @ Choice Specs
Nature: Modest
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 Sp Atk / 252 Def / 4 Sp Def
-Leaf Storm
-Hidden Power [Rock]
-Volt Switch / Trick
The end-all-be-all answer to bulky Water types. Hit a Water/Ground type with STAB Leaf Storm and anything else with Thunderbolt. Hidden Power [Rock] covers Rotom-M's Fire, Ice and Bug weaknesses. Finally, Volt Switch lets you get a favorable matchup or Trick lets you cripple walls. The 252 Defense EVs allow it to wall Swampert and Quagsire, but more Sp Def bulk could be useful. I guess that's why I want it rated though.
Max HP instead or def and use bold nature, also definitely use trick over volt switch.
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Because rotor isn't powerful enough to sweep, what it does best is taking out Walls and tricks helps it do that.
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Here is mine :3
Volcarona @I don't really know what to use xD
Trait: Flame Body
Timid (+Speed / - Attack[I know everybody here knows that is just a thing that i like n.nU)
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Sp Atk / 252 Speed
» Quiver Dance
» Psychic
» Flamethrower
» HP Bug (Would be replace with Bug Buzz)
Also is currently Level 61 n.nU
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The only thong I see is the choice of fire move. Also use a life orb for extra damage but anyways, you could use fiery dance for the sp attack boost, or fire blast for sheer power. It's really your choice.
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-Sky Drop
Item Attached: Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EV's and Nature:
EV's: 252 HP / 132 Def / 124 SpD
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
Not sure if Sky Drop is banned ._. If it is, tell me and suggest another Toxic-Stalling set :3
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So here's mine
Infernape (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Iron Fist
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- Stone Edge/ThunderPunch
- Flare Blitz
- Close Combat
While I'm posting, here's one more set.
Arcanine @ Life Orb
Nature: Adamant
Ability: Intimidate/Flash Fire
EVs: 252 Attack / 252 Speed / 4 HP
-Flare Blitz
-Close Combat
-Morning Sun
Between the Life Orb and the recoil from Flare Blitz, he'd be 2HKOing himself, so Morning Sun is critical. Therefore, with Sun support, this is a proven effective sweeper and has been widely used. But I'm not running a sun team, so any Sun support would be coincidental. How well would this set function without Sun? Also, Intimidate or Flash Fire?
SD/NP infernape works very well if you can predict the switch
Galvantula@Life Orb
Nature: timid
EV's: 252 spe 252 sp. Atk 4 hp
Ability: Compoundeyes
-Thunder Wave
-Bug Buzz
-Substitute/Energy Ball
This poke can Thunder wave to slow opponents and deal serious damage. Substitute is a great move and helps set up thunder wave. Energy ball owns water/ground types.
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Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth who have carried out His ordinances; seek righteousness, seek humility. Perhaps you will be hidden in the day of the Lords anger.
Maybe HP ice for the last move.
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Could somebody help me on my Rain Tank Swampert set? I just bred and RC'ed this to 100 on my SS, so feel free to suggest SR, as I still have access to it. The set takes advantage of Swampert's typing, his natural bulk, and his high base 110 Attack.
Swampert @Leftovers
252 HP/252 Attack/4 Def
Hammer Arm/Stealth Rock
Avalanche/Stealth Rock
Takes hits and deals them.
Credit to Beck for the RNG userbar.
As of August 18th 2012, I resigned as a CG leader.
Tirtouga @ Eviolite
Ability: Swift Swim
EVs: 98 Atk/160 Def/252 Spd
Nature: Adamant
-Shell Smash
-Aqua Tail/Waterfall
-Stone Edge
With rain support, Shell Smash Tirtouga can actually be a threat even in OU. Waterfall is more accurate but Aqua Tail gives a bit more power (100% OHKO against Scarfed Tyranitar). Stone Edge is for a second STAB move while Earthquake is for coverage. The reason for 160 Def EVs is so Tirtouga can survive an Earthquake from an Adamant Excadrill.
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vandslaux: Looks solid, although Swampert is very outclassed this generation. That's probably about as good as Swampert is going to get, but Swampert isn't all that good anymore.
pseudo pro: Seems like Skill Link Cloyster still outclasses it. You're trying to make it bulky and defensive, and then break all those defenses so you can sweep. You should probably just pick one or the other; trying to overextend like that, expecially on a NFE Pokemon with Eviolite, will backfire more than it will work. Probably still usable, just not wise.
Machamp @ Life Orb
Nature: Adamant
Ability: No Guard
EVs: 252 Attack / 240 HP / 16 Special Defense
-Ice Punch
-Fire Punch
-Stone Edge
This varies from the traditional Dynamicpunch Lead Machamp in 3 ways. Number one, it uses Life Orb over Lum Berry; I have the Life Orb available to my team (no one else on the team has claimed it yet) and I'd rather have more power over getting out of status, but I can change it if the Lum Berry is critical. Number two, the 4 EVs put into Speed to outrun "max Speed Blissey" according to Smogon's writeup are put into Attack so it maxes out to 252; this seems like a small change to me, and I need him to have as much brute strength as possible to make up for his other shortcomings. Number three, Fire Punch over Payback; Dark and Fighting gives unresisted coverage, and Machamp certainly has the Speed to utilize Payback, but I've been wracking my brain for the last few days trying to come up with something to fill the last slot on my team, and a physical Pokemon with access to the type combination Fighting-Fire-Ice-Rock is what I determined I need.
With Thundurous' and Tornadus' Prankster, Volcaron's Flame Bofy, and Breloom's Spore, Lum Berry pretty much has to be there.
Bullet Punch is one of Machamp's main niches as a lead. You will loose too many 2HKO's without it.
Also, you need to have a reliable 2nd attack for those Sub/Disable Gengar's that seem popular right now. If you really don't think you need Payback, you need Bullet Punch more than ever to not risk getting 2HKO'd.
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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, today is a gift, that's why it's called the present."
Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.
If you're only using it for random match up, Brightpowder is fine. If it's by Smogon/PO's standards, than yes, it's banned. As for the moveset, I'd go with something along the lines of:
- ThunderWave
- Spikes
- Substitute
- Shadow Ball/Ice Beam/Blizzard
IMO, I prefer Ice Beam over SB and Blizzard, due to it hitting move things in the meta super effectively, and having more PP than Blizzard, which makes a difference against anything that wants to try and stall you in return. Also, if it's for Smogon tiers, I'd go with either Leftovers or Lum Berry as the item. Leftovers for obvious healing, and Lum for incase you get hit with a Toxic if they're lucky enough for you to be not subbed up and get it through your Snow Cloak hax. I think the EVs are fine as well~


text: FGS is only a couple of weeks away and planning for it is my biggest task right now. The question of what to pack for a conference is always puzzling . There are so many variables between what I might bring and what others bring depending upon the mode of travel. Obviously, if you are driving you can throw in the extra pairs of shoes, just in case those new ones turn out to be not so comfortable after a long day. When traveling by plane, as I seem to always be, a little more planning is required. Firstly, never bring the new shoes that you haven't worn much! Having sore feet definitely puts a damper on your enjoyment of a conference and you could find your decisions about which class to attend or if you should walk back to the exhibit hall during the break being dictated by your shoe choice. Tennis shoes are great for the conference, but for air travel I don't want to pack them because they take up so much space and I don't want to wear them because of airport security. Comfortable slip-ons seem to be the best compromise for me. A second consideration is what do I wear?? Convention centers are huge cavernous spaces, usually broken up into different sized rooms with dividers. This means that the temperature inside can vary greatly from one room to the next. You could be burning up in a sweater in a crowded exhibit hall or a tiny over packed room, but shivering in a larger room or seated under an air conditioning duct. I generally solve this by wearing short sleeved tops with a sweater or jacket. During the course of a day that sweater will be on and off multiple times as the need arises. My third and biggest decision is what to bring to carry my stuff in during the day. I have tried most of the options with varying results. This year's FGS is going to be even more difficult to plan what to carry because I will be spending part of each day at the Allen CountyPublic Library doing research, so I do need my computer, and it's cord. I was not able to get into one of the original conference hotels right downtown so when the shuttle picks me up in the morning I have to have everything I will need all day with me. Just carrying my purse is great, but no room there for even my ipad, a bottle of water, or things I might buy. A backpack never actually gets properly put on my back and so I end up with a terrible backache from carrying it slung over one shoulder, plus it looks pretty unprofessional and I tend to wack people in the face with it when I do put it on my back. It's also quite unwieldy when I get to a room late and have to squeeze into a seat in the middle of the row. The last couple of conferences I have gone with a rolling briefcase, easy to transport without adverse effects on the back (unless lots of steps are involved), I can bring water and snacks in it and has room for any handouts or purchases and the computer. The biggest drawback to the rolling bag is that issue of squeezing into a middle seat again. I did purchase a smaller one that I used at NGS and at least it fits under my seat, but getting it there is sometimes quite difficult. For FGS this year I think that I will try using the great bag that was given out at Roots Tech this year. This bag has plenty of room for my computer/ipad, various notes and papers that I seem to collect, a wallet, snacks and even an outside water bottle pocket. Under the flap there are easily accessible pockets for pens/pencils and a pocket for my phone. The strap is long enough to be carried cross body if I am walking a long way, but it also has a small hand grip. Best of all, it takes up almost no room in my luggage so I will bring the rolling briefcase for my airplane carryon and the RootsTech bag will fit in my luggage. I can always revert to the rolling briefcase if the shoulder bag gets too heavy. I wish I knew what kind of bag will be handed out for FGS. Maybe I wouldn't need to bring anything at all! I wish that I didn't need to carry a water bottle because that is a large part of the weight I carry around, but I've found that I need to have the bottle with a measured amount of water in it to keep track of how much I drink. I need 4 of those 16 ounce bottles a day. Conference organizers are usually very good about having water dispensers with the little cups near the various classrooms, but for me, getting enough of those little 4 oz cups never really works well. Staying hydrated is not really a packing issue, but it is one of the most important tips that I can pass along. My brain just does not perform to capacity when I am not drinking enough water, there is a fog that settles in and comprehension drops dramatically. With all the time, effort and expense it takes to attend a conference, it is important to pay attention to the little things that ultimately determine how much information is gained. I'd better get to packing! See you there!

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What can I plant next to a pond?
Need advice on plants to put at the side of a pond that you can walk onJump to latest post
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03 Apr 2013 18:52
03 Apr 2013 19:17
Grasses look nice by ponds, the evergreen type. Ferns and hostas too, if one side is shaded.
Irises look great.
03 Apr 2013 19:20
marginal plants are what you need,I have kingcup marshmarigold,reeds,water iris.watermint,plants that live near edge of ponds .
03 Apr 2013 19:34
Just re-read what you wrote - "Need advice on plants to put at the side of a pond that you can walk on"
The last pond I dug out was edged with a combination of natural planting to soften/ hide the back/sides of the liner and big rocks. But because the pond was cut into the lawn, I saved some of the strips and used these to edge the front. Therefore, I was able to walk right up to the front and used this area for easy access, when, for example - maintenance was required.
I didn't want to use any kind of hard material like slabs which would spoil the natural look.
Not sure if this helps.
03 Apr 2013 19:34
My friend has amongst other things dierama - angel's fishing rod and it looks gorgeous
03 Apr 2013 19:52
Yeah - I i missed the walk on bit too 'cos wasn't in the message
03 Apr 2013 20:37
I saw some iris next to a friend's pond - looked lovely reflected in the water. And dogwoodfor winter reflection in pond.
04 Apr 2013 07:18
04 Apr 2013 07:36
There's a little plant called 'Mind you own business' which could be what you're looking for.
04 Apr 2013 07:48
04 Apr 2013 08:25
Lemonpixie wrote (see)
Thank you guys for all your responses. I will get my books out and check all you have suggested.
At the minute it's covered in small pebbles but just wanted it to look more natural but be able to walk on it for maintenance etc.......but didn't want to have to keep mowing it! Don't want much do I!
Once again thank you so much xx
Just one word Lemonpixie- sedges
04 Apr 2013 19:46
I have Gunnera Manicata next to my pond, its gorgeous and loves its feet wet by a pond - take a look at some pics of it x
06 Apr 2013 11:22
02 May 2015 20:45
I was quite surprised to see Fritillaria Meleagris in the marginal pond plant section at an aquatic store today. I've read they enjoy wet boggy areas but the pots today were three quarter immersed in water. Are they really marginal pond plants? Does anyone know? Google isn't too clear on this
I do love the look of these gorgeous yet weird plants so have now perhaps found the perfect excuse to purchase a few.
02 May 2015 21:02
Oops sorry Lemonpixie, didn't realise you were looking for plants to walk on. Attention to detail


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I want to turn Show Us Your Hands! into an official 501(c)3 nonprofit organization by the end of 2012!
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Opening essay from Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, Metropolis Books, 2008
The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape. Food grown in our front yards will connect us to the seasons, the organic cycles of the earth, and our neighbors. The banal lifeless space of uniform grass in front of the house will be replaced with the chaotic abundance of biodiversity. In becoming gardeners we will reconsider our connection to the land, what we take from it, and what we put in it. Each yard will be a unique expression of its location and of the inhabitant and his or her desires.
Our Planet
Most of us feel like we don't any have any control over the direction in which our world is headed. As always, the newspapers are full of daily evidence for concern. Unlike the challenges of past generations, however, these struggles are no longer just localized or broadly regional; they are an interlaced web of planetary challenges. How, then, do we respond in the face of the impossible scale of issues such as global energy production, climate change, and the related political aggressions and instabilities that accompany them? One thing we can do is act where we have influence, and in a capitalist society, that would be our private property. Here we have the freedom to create in some small measure the world in which we want to live.
Our Climate
We grow a lawn the same way anywhere in the world, but when we grow our own food we have to start paying attention to where we are. We experience our weather and climate in a personal way: they have a direct impact on us. The subtleties of sun, wind, air, and rain are meaningful.
Our Government
A functioning democracy is predicated upon an informed populace of citizens who are in touch with each other. A democratic society suffers when people are physically out of touch. An Edible Estate can serve to stitch communities back together, taking a space that was previously isolating and turn it into a welcoming forum that re-engages people with one another.
Our City
There was a time when the effect of a town on the land around it was clearly in evidence within a radius of a few miles. For the most part the town depended on the materials, food, trades, and other resources that were available in the immediate region. The detritus of that consumption would stay within that same sphere of influence. Today the entire story of the impact of any city has become invisible because it is global. Cheap factory labor, foreign oil, circuitous water distribution systems, industrialized agriculture, and remote landfills all contribute to a general ignorance of the effects that daily human life has on the planet.
What happens when you graft agriculture onto a city? The more we keep ourselves in touch with the byproducts of our daily lives, the more we are reminded of how it is all connected. Edible Estates puts that evidence back in our cities and streets, back in our face.
Our Street
Edible Estate gardens are meant to serve as provocations on the street. What happens when we share a street with one of these gardens? The front-yard gardeners become street performers for us. Coming out the door to tend their crops they enact a daily ritual for the neighbors. We get to know them better than those who have lawns. We talk to them about how their crops are doing. They often can't eat everything they are growing, so they offer us the latest harvest of tomatoes or zucchini. We go out of our way to walk past the garden to see what is going on. Just the act of watching a garden grow can have a profound effect. When we observe as seeds sprout, plants mature, and fruit is produced, we can't help but be drawn in. We become witnesses, and are now complicit and a part of the story.
Our Neighbors
What happens when an Edible Estate garden is not welcomed by the neighbors? Why do some people feel threatened by it? Anarchy, rodents, plummeting property values, willful self-expression, wild untamed nature, ugly decaying plants, and winter dormancy are some of the reasons that have been given. More to the point is a general sense that Edible Estate gardeners have broken some unspoken law of decency. Public tastes still favor conformity when it comes to the front yard, and any sort of deviation from the norm signals a social, if not moral, lapse. The abrupt appearance of such a garden on a street of endless lawns can be surprisingly shocking, but after the neighbors watch it grow in, they often come around. Perhaps the threats evoked by this wild intrusion into the neighborhood will eventually be a catalyst for questions. How far have we come from our the core of our humanity that the act of growing our own food might be considered impolite, unseemly, threatening, radical, or even hostile?
Our House
Private property and in particular the home has become the geographic focus of our society. When we take stock of the standard American single-family residence, it becomes quite clear where the priorities are. It is within the walls of the house that the real investment and life of the residents occur. The land outside the walls typically receives much less attention, and can even become downright unwelcoming. Any activity in the yard will typically happen in back, where there is privacy. We are obsessed with our homes as protective bubbles from the realities around us. Today's towns and cities are engineered for isolation, and growing food in your front yard becomes a way to subvert this tendency. The front lawn, a highly visible slice of private property, has the capacity to also be public. If we want to reintroduce a vital public realm into our communities, those with land and homes may ask what part of their private domain has public potential.
Our Dirt
Just the act of spending an extended period of time outside with our hands in the dirt is a profoundly deviant act today! There is no rational or practical reason to do it. We can get anything we need at the store, right? The mortgage company refers to the physical house we live in as one of the "improvements" to the property. Pretty landscaping may be considered another improvement. But as far as the bank is concerned, the actual fertility and health of the dirt in our front yards has no economic value. Wouldn't it be great if a chemically contaminated lawn made a property impossible to sell, while organic gardening and thirty years of composting would dramatically increase our property values? Alas, today you can chart the exact economic stratum of any residential street based exclusively on the state of its chemically dependent front lawns.
Our Food
In the process of making the Edible Estate gardens I have encountered some interesting reactions from people on the street. Some actually find it strange and a bit unseemly to ingest something that has grown in your yard. Yet most of us don't think twice before eating something grown under the most mysterious of circumstances on the other side of the world. What you don't know can't hurt you; out of sight out of mind. The act of eating is the moment in which we are most intimately connected to the world around us. We ingest into our bodies earthly matter that grew out of organic and environmental cycles happening all the time. We are all at the receiving end of dung and corpses decomposing, rainfall and evaporation, solar radiation, and so forth. What happens when the source of our food is far away and hidden from us? In moving food great distances, we pollute and expend precious energy, but perhaps more important, we lose visible evidence of our humble place in the big food chain.
Our Time
It is easy to romanticize gardening and food production when your life does not depend on what you are able to grow. An Edible Estate can be a lot of work! A lower-maintenance garden might be full of fruit trees and perennials well suited to your climate, but a more ambitious front yard might be full of annual vegetables and herbs that are rotated every season. Either way it demands a certain amount of dedication and time. Do we have enough time to grow our own food? Perhaps a better question is: How do we want to spend the little time that we do have? How about being outside with our family and friends, in touch with our neighbors, while watching with satisfaction as the plants we are tending begin to produce the healthiest local food to be found? It may be harder to defend the time we spend sitting in our cars or watching television.
But for those who just can't be bothered, what if all the front lawns on an entire street were turned over to urban farming teams? Each street would be lined in a series of diverse crops. The farmers would sell the produce, and give what was left over to the families whose yards they tend. When buying a house, depending on your taste, you could decide if you wanted to live on artichoke avenue or citrus circle or radish road.
Our Modest Monument
Edible Estates has no conventionally monumental intentions; it is a relatively small and modest intervention on our streets. The gardens are just beginning when they are planted and they continue to evolve. With just one season of neglect some gardens may disappear entirely. Politicians, architects, developers, urban citizens, we all crave permanent monuments that will give a sense of place and survive as a lasting testament to ourselves and our time. We were here! These monuments have their place, but their capacity to bring about meaningful change in the way we live is quite limited. A small garden of very modest means, humble materials, and a little effort can have a radical effect on the life of a family, how they spend their time and relate to their environment, whom they see, and how they eat. This singular local response to global issues can become a model. It can be enacted by anyone in the world and can have a monumental impact.
Edible Estates regional prototype gardens will ultimately be established in nine cities in nine very different parts of the United States. An adventurous family in each town will offer their front lawn as a working prototype for the region. They will dare to defy the sweeping conformity of their neighborhood's green-lined streets. Working together with the family and additional helpers, we will remove the front lawn and replace it with an edible landscape. This highly productive garden will be designed to respond to the unique characteristics of the site, the needs and desires of the owner, the community and its history, and especially the local climate and geography. Each of the nine regional prototype gardens will be sponsored by a local art institution and developed in partnership with a horticultural, agricultural, or community gardening organization. Each garden will be planted in the spring or early summer. A photographer and videographer will visit weekly to tell the story of its first season of growth for later public exhibitions and presentations. With the modest gesture of reconsidering the use of our small individual private yards, Edible Estates takes on our relationship with our neighbors, the source of our food, and our connection to the natural environment.
Edible Estates is an attack on the front lawn and everything it has come to represent!
Edible Estates is an ongoing series of projects to replace the front lawn with edible garden landscapes responsive to culture, climate, context and people!
Edible Estates reconciles issues of global food production and urbanized land use with the modest gesture of a small domestic garden!
Edible Estates is a provocation, a call to arms and a radical intervention on the banal, repressive streets of zombie lawn-lined monotony!
Edible Estates is nothing new, growing our own food is the first thing we did when we stopped being nomadic and started being "civilized"!
Edible Estates is a practical food producing initiative, a place-responsive landscape design proposal, a scientific horticultural experiment, a conceptual land-art project, a defiant political statement, a community out-reach program and an act of radical gardening!
– Fritz Haeg, 2008
{excerpt from "Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn", published by Metropolis Books, 2008}


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Dayalbagh Educational Institute
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Dayalbagh Educational Institute or DEI is an educational institution located at Dayalbagh in city of Taj Mahal, Agra. The institute has been given deemed university status by the University Grants Commission of India in 1981. Prof. Prem Kumar Kalra[1] is the Director of Dayalbagh Educational Institute since September, 2013.
|Public / Deemed University
|Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
Founded as a primary school in 1917, and becoming a technical college in 1927 for training in automobile, electrical and mechanical engineering, it later developed into a Deemed University. Prof. M. B. Lal Sahab, a former Vice Chancellor of the Lucknow University, founded this institution and was also the first director of DEI.
The foundation of DEI goes back to 1917, with the foundation of Radhasoami Educational Institute. Soon after Dayalbagh was founded in 1915, the Radhasoami Satsang Sabha started the Radhasoami Educational Institute, as a co-educational Middle School, open to all, on 1 January 1917 administered by a Managing Committee registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860. The institute got divided and also spawned new institutions. Within six months, it was raised to the level of a High School; Intermediate classes were started in 1922; it became a Degree College in 1947, with the introduction of B.Com. classes affiliated to Agra University; B.Ed. (B.T.) classes were added in 1951 and the first batch of B.Sc. students was sent up for the final examination in 1955.
A Technical School, which later developed into a College, was started in 1927 for imparting training in automobile, electrical and mechanical engineering, leading to the award of diploma in the concerned branch of the Board of Technical Education, U.P. The Leather Working School, started in 1930, gives instructions in both theory and practice for manufacture of leather goods.
To further the cause of women's education, Prem Vidyalaya was started in 1930. It is now an Intermediate College. The Women's Training College was established in 1947 for B.A. and B.Ed. classes. M.Ed. classes were added in 1958. M.A. in Psychology, English and Hindi in 1969 and M.A. (Music) in 1976. Engineering College, affiliated to Agra University, for the degree of B.Sc. (Engineering), was the latest (1950) addition to the chain of educational institutions in Dayalbagh.
Dayalbagh Educational Institute was registered as a body in 1973, which integrated and brought under one umbrella all the educational institutions of Dayalbagh, including the School of Comparative Study of Religion, the School of Languages and the School of Art and Culture.
In 1981 the Ministry of Education, Government of India, conferred the status of an institution deemed to be a University on the Dayalbagh Educational Institute, to implement the new program of undergraduate studies.
In 2002, Professor Sant Saran Bhojwani, a plant embryologist and plant tissue culturist, took over as the Director of DEI.
Prof V.G. Das took over as the Director of the Institution after Prof. Bhojwani's retirement in 2005. He had his education in Dayalbagh since 1956. He did his B.Sc. Engg. in 1965 from Agra University, ranking I in Electrical Engineering; obtained M.Tech. degree in the same branch of engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1970 and Ph.D. degree from IIT Delhi in 1978.
- Faculty of Engineering
- Technical College
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Commerce
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Arts
The campus is situated in Dayalbagh, away from the noise of the city. It is situated at a distance of about two Km. from the city of Agra on its northern periphery. It is conveniently connected to the railway stations and bus-stands by the city bus, rickshaws, auto-rickshaws and taxies.


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This may be a trick other people have known and used for awhile but I just learned it so I am sharing here.
I am working on the outline for the literature review for my dissertation. Outline only but I used the comments feature to document my thoughts regarding the various elements of the outline and how I plan to tie them together. That way my instructor can help advise me in my thinking.
I wanted to print out the Google Doc along with the comments. Turns out, here is how to do just that.
First, on the Google Doc, use the File menu to select Download As and then Web Page. An HTML file will be downloaded to your computer. Open that HTML file in a web browser and you will see the text of the Google Document with footnotes for each of the comments.


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Lotus F1 'Joins Forces' With Linkin Park On Weird iPad App Before Monaco Grand Prix 2012, But Why?The Lotus F1 Team made one of its weirder announcements for the Formula 1 season on Monday when it said that it had teamed up with the slightly whiny and outdated emo rock band Linkin Park to create an iPad App for the 2012 Monaco Grand Prix.
Billboard Music Awards 2012 Best Dressed: Carrie Underwood, Carly Rae Jepsen And More [PHOTOS]The 2012 Billboard Music Awards brought the biggest music stars of today to Sin City for a night of exciting performances and tributes. Carly Rae Jepsen, Carrie Underwood, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, LMFAO, Brandy, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and more hit the red carpet (though its color was white) before the big event to flaunt their best.
Celebrity Arrivals On The 2012 Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet [PHOTOS]Celebrities touched down in Sin City on Sunday night for the 2012 Billboard Music Awards. This year's show is set to be both celebratory and commemoratory. Tributes have been planned for fallen musical legends Whitney Houston, Donna Summer and Adam MCA Yauch.
Watch A Live Stream Of The Billboard Music Awards 2012 Red Carpet CoverageThe 2012 Billboard Music Awards kicks off Sunday night live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas at 6:30 p.m. EST with a red carpet to remember. Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Bieber, The Wanted, LMFAO and more will be in attendance. Watch a live stream of the red carpet, plus backstage access, here!
Brooke Hogan Joins The Wrestling BizTalk about following in your father's footsteps. Brooke Hogan has reportedly inked a deal to join the Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling family, TMZ reported on Friday. She follows her professional-wrestler father, Hulk Hogan.
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Apple iPhone 5 Features Surface: Leaked Audio Components Signify Departure From Old Design [RUMORS]Little by little, we are slowly putting the pieces of the iPhone 5 puzzle together. On Saturday, Hong Kong-based components supplier SW-Box claimed to have come into possession of a group of new components, including a headphone jack, ear speaker, and a Wi-Fi cable part, which are all allegedly being built for Apple's sixth-generation iPhone. What else does Apple have in store for the iPhone 5?
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Apple?s ?Correction?: 5 Reasons Why The Shares Have DeclinedA month ago, shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, closed at their record high of $628.64. On April 10, they hit their all-time high of $644. Now they are at $570.
Mother's Day 2012 Tech Gifts: Top 5 Affordable Ideas [PHOTOS]Mother's Day 2012 is just around the corner, but its not too late to buy an unforgettable tech gift that will keep your mom engaged throughout the year.
'Mad Men' Season 5: Creator Paid $250K for Beatles Song Featured In Episode 8In a move to stay true to the 1960s, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner paid $250,000 in licensing fees to use the Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows in last Sunday's episode of Mad Men.
Smartphone Evolution: From IBM Simon To Samsung Galaxy S3We are living in a world where a smartphone is not just a mobile device used for making calls and sending text messages, rather it's a full-fledged touch-based computer (can come with QWERTY keypad also) that embeds features like operating system, Internet access, third-party apps and user interface and it acts like your small entertainment box, your reminder of important tasks, your calendar and so many more.
iOS 5.1.1: From Bug Fixes To Performing Tethered Jailbreak On A4 Devices Using RedSn0w, All You Need To KnowThe iOS 5.1.1 update is now available to users as both an iTunes and OTA update. However, those users, who are currently using an untethered jailbreak on iOS 5.0.1, are recommended to avoid updating to 5.1.1. However, the latest iOS version can be jailbroken tethered on A4-powered devices such as iPhone 4, iPad 1, iPod touch 4G and below.
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Samsung Galaxy S3 Launch: Top 10 Groundbreaking Software Features Of The New Smartphone [PHOTOS]Samsung unveiled its highly anticipated Galaxy S3 on May 3. The smartphone comes with a quad-core turban Exynos processor, a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display, an 8 megapixel camera and a gigantic 2020mAh replaceable battery.
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From Thursday night's Fox News All-Stars.
On John Boehner's comment to Bret Baier that even if Obamacare can't be repealed, "There's a lot of tricks up our sleeve in terms of how we can dent this, kick it, slow it down to make sure it never happens. And trust me, I'm going to make sure this health-care bill never, ever, ever is implemented":
I think the idea here is right, although I wouldn't have used the phrase 'tricks up his sleeve.' It's not exactly the way you want to start off. You probably should say: I want to work within all the rules and the Constitution and get this changed or stopped. But I think the idea is right.
Obamacare was clearly the overriding issue in the campaign because it stood for, it was the epitome of what Obama had tried to do, of the liberal agenda. It was not, as Obama pretended yesterday, a response to a crisis. It was an idea that Democrats have had for 50 years, it represents a principle of theirs, and it was soundly rejected — with Democrats all across America either losing over it or running away from it.
And remember, in '09 and this year, the Democrats have tried to get it [health-care legislation] done quickly and behind them. Remember there was a deadline in the summer of '09. Well, that didn't hold. And [then] November of '09. They wanted it behind them because they understood it was unpopular.
What they've discovered is that it remains unpopular and increasingly so. As purely a tactical issue — although Republicans oppose it on principle as well — if you keep it out there for another year and a half, it's going to hurt Democrats enormously, and you set it up as the major issue in '12 — because in '12 is the only chance you're going to have of repeal, is if you elect a Republican president.
If you set it up as the major issue the way it was in '10, you win.
On John Boehner's plans to put an end to detainee transfers from Guantanamo:
If you have the power of the purse, you can curtail what the president will do. You can't actively do stuff if the president isn't inclined, but you can stop it. And if he wants the closing of Guantanamo and bringing the prisoners into America — because there's nobody else who's going to take them — the House will stop him, and the country will be grateful.
On the lame-duck Congress, and whether it will attempt to enact a list of "nefarious things" such as card check that Democrats had been talking about:
When you suffer a defeat of this magnitude, all nefarious stuff is off the table.


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I see you conveniently did not comment on his personal affront to me...but noted my personal affront to him.
Are you a Paul nut too, or just not objective in your slams?
Oh, I'm totally a Paul nut. Just enjoying playoff football today. Hope you're doing the same. Shaping up to be a pretty good game thusfar.


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Referee Training Program
To bring the best experience to the players, the PSP wants to rejuvenate the Referee Training Program. With Paul Richards and Marcus Shepherd now on board, we will be offering several clinics starting mid of January, in the regions where our events will be held, plus additional clinics around the country.
The current PSP referees will sign up for a clinic free of charge to get up to speed with the new rules and the opportunity to advance in their certification and get to the next level, while new referees will pay a fee that is refundable at their first PSP assignment.
PSP certification is highly praised not only by local and national leagues but also around the World. International PSP Affiliates will be looking for upper level PSP certified referees that could travel overseas to ref some of these events. Who wouldn't want to go to Malaysia, Colombia or even Europe?
From Paul Richards: "At events I will be working with Leon overseeing the pro fields while Marcus and his new assistant will supervise the divisional fields. We will also be responsible for certification clinics, their structure and content, rules revision and implementation and the design and implementation of a comprehensive system that will simplify and systematize the referees' organization and ultimately create a replicable system that will maintain the league's standards into the future."
PSP is looking forward to bringing you the best referees to officiate the most popular format again this season.
PSP will also invest in training and retaining quality score keepers. So if you want to be part of the premier paintball league but don't want to get shot at, come and join us.


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On May 18, 2012, the Walton County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Unit executed a search warrant at 392 Long Road in the Mossy Head area of Walton County. The investigators initially responded to an anonymous report of an active methamphetamine laboratory at this location. During the investigation deputies observed enough items in plain view to secure a search warrant for the residence.
Upon executing the search warrant, a methamphetamine laboratory was discovered including all the chemicals and paraphernalia necessary to manufacture the drug. Methamphetamine finished product and methamphetamine oil were both recovered from the residence.
Melissa Ann Clifton, 39, was arrested at the scene and charged with Manufacture of Methamphetamine (1st degree felony), Trafficking Methamphetamine (1st degree felony), and Possession of Narcotics Equipment (1st degree misdemeanor). Clifton was transported to the Walton County Department of Corrections for booking and first appearance.


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Beyonce might have stirred controversy with her recent trip to Cuba.
But lawmakers are still going to make some money while Bey croons at a concert in Washington this summer.
Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) and Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) both have fundraisers scheduled for her July 29 show at the Verizon Center. Other lawmakers might follow suit; previous Beyonce concerts have been popular on the novelty-starved local fundraising circuit.
The pop diva's recent visit to embargoed Cuba with husband and rapper Jay-Z prompted some criticism, including from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who on Sunday called Jay-Z uninformed and "hypocritical."
Casey even jokingly elevated himself to a co-headliner for his concert/fundraiser. The invitation bills it as a "Beyonce (and Bob)" concert. Does that mean we can count them among the "Beyhive," as her fan community is known?
Not exactly.
Alas, a Shimkus spokesman tells us that his boss actually won't be in attendance at the show. The way it works for this and other concert fundraisers, we're told, is that the campaign snaps up a slew of good seats, then offers supporters the chance to buy them.
Shimkus also has a fundraiser slated for the boy-band reunion concert featuring New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, and 98 Degrees. Again, he won't be in the house for the show.
We hear his taste runs more to classic rock


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How the Web is Changing the Face of Charity Forever
It's no secret that access to the internet has given individuals the ability to make a bigger impact on the world than ever before — often with very little effort. Want to break into the world of film? Experiment with YouTube and you'll find a global audience. Want to get published? Start up a blog and tell the world what you think.
What if you want to do something even bigger? What if you want to raise money for a cause you believe in, without going door-to-door or cold calling potential donors?
Well, it turns out there's a way to easily do that online, too. The key is a special type of online fundraising called "crowdfunding."
So what is crowdfunding, anyway? Lately it's gotten a lot of press as a method of funding independent art, publishing and tech projects — particularly through the popular Kickstarter platform. As crowdfunding rises in popularity, more and more people and organizations are turning to this innovative method to fundraise for charity.
Some are more organized (and ambitious) efforts than others. When bus monitor Karen Klein made national headlines after being verbally harassed to the point of tears by students in her care, Max Sidorov knew he had to do something to help make things right. His solution? To set up a charity campaign on the site IndieGoGo — and raise $5,000 to help Klein take a well-deserved vacation. The campaign went viral and ended up raising more than $700,000, which allowed the 68-year-old to retire and establish her own anti-bullying foundation.
Since then, Sidorov has gone on to fundraise for a number of various causes on IndieGoGo, including support for Sandy Hook victims, and anti-bullying projects…however, none have managed to find the same amount of support as his first project, most hitting around $1,000 in donations and one topping out at $25.
Sidorov's failed campaigns don't spell disaster for charitable crowdfunding, but they do stress the unpredictable nature of the medium. More organized charitable causes have met with more success, and more media-saavy organizers have been able to run multiple successful campaigns.
Take Matthew Inman. Already a popular internet cartoonist, his first foray into charitable crowdfunding was actually an angry response to a frivolous lawsuit. After complaining publicly about FunnyJunk.com, a site that repeatedly reposted his artwork without credit, attribution, or a link back to his site, he found himself staring down a letter from FunnyJunk's lawyer demanding $20,000 in damages for his accusations that the site used copyright infringement as a business model.
That didn't go over well with Inman. Instead of responding to the legal threat, he wrote an open letter inviting his readers to help him raise $20,000 to donate to two charities: the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society. He ended up raising $220,024. (By the way, as you can imagine, the lawsuit didn't really go anywhere in the end.)
After seeing the success of his first campaign, Inman ended up teaming with a New York nonprofit to raise money for a cause near and dear to his heart: preserving the legacy of Nikola Tesla and establishing the first Tesla Museum at the site of the scientist's historic laboratory. In the end, the museum fundraiser ended up earning $1,370,461 — with a matching grant of $850k from the state of New York. After years of fruitlessly searching for the funding to build the Tesla Science Center, crowdfunding was the secret ingredient that has finally made it a reality.
While Inman has led two of the most successful charity funding campaigns to date, others are also finding success with less ambitious projects, notably raising funds to cover medical costs for cancer patients and to help rescue animals. One campaign on GoFundMe.com has even managed to raise more than $171,500 to help one of the critically injured victims of the Aurora theater shooting last July.
Even Occupy Wall Street got in on the crowdfunding action last year — raising half a million dollars in order to help buy off and forgive over $11 million in medical debt across the U.S.
While the concept of crowdfunding is largely still in its infancy, nonprofits, charities and ordinary people who'd like to make a difference in the world need to start taking notice of this powerful vehicle for social change. As more and more of public life makes its way online, crowdfunding — and not traditional fundraising campaigns — may increasingly be the way of the future.
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Just because New Year's Eve is said and done doesn't mean that the party has to end, so get back into the spirit of things with the photo series aptly titled 'Let's Party' by Igor Oussenko. Fun and playful, it features a lot of good-looking individuals having some really good times.
As infectious as all the smiles are in the Let's Party by Igor Oussenko photo series, the fashion is even more captivating. Styled by Georgy Rushev, the photo shoot is filled with colorful and youthful outfits that happen to address various party situations from elegant cocktail parties to more casual get togethers. The photo series relies heavily on the wardrobe and models to create a jubilant ambiance.
Let's Party by Igor Oussenko features makeup by Ekaterina Kudrina and Anna Rykova with hair by Julia Belkova.
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'Let's Party' by Igor Oussenko is Jubilantly Fashionable
- By: Meghan YoungJan 22, 2012
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Airsoft is in an extremely delicate position right now. It only takes one person to ruin airsoft for everybody else. Furfags ruin everything they touch.
Bring out the .43 bbs if you see a furry on the field.
He's the one that ate everything.
Why the FUCK
Over $1000
on a fucking FURSUIT?
To each their own I guess, no matter how fucked up this is, it's not harming anyone.
I can buy one of these things and some extra gear for under 100 dollars. You know why Codemoney has all of that gear?
He likes it.
Same reason why a furry would buy or make a suit that is around 1,000 dollars. They could easily spend 10 dollars and buy a tail and get their point across, but they like dressing up.
Excellent and well-informed post.
The airsofter in that screencap is, you'll never guess this: ME.
Try to dig in deeper and find my more disgusting porn and fetishes before you try to ~publicly humiliate me~ in a harmless thread about furries who play airsoft.
also it's quite unsettling that you saved the link to that art since the 24th of december lmao.
it's just a matter of what people like.
you guys think that dressing up in weaboo schoolgirl outfits or fursuits is spergy as fuck because you don't like that stuff.
however, on the other end of the spectrum, others think we're a bunch of spergos because we dress up like military dudes and talk about guns constantly.
this thread needs a good tac nuking before it turns worse than it has
postal halp :(
This thread is hilarious, per say.
incorrect usage of per say
My excuse, french is.
at least furries are doing something harmless and thier own thing, whereas purify fags are spreading incredibly stupid hate.
ps: taiwanese you're like the only one ever to agree with me, thanks boron
im cool with furries as long as they dont shove their fetish in my face
I never got why people hated on "normal" furries.
sorry if i dont agree with your bestiality issues.
That's like a priest complaining when nobody agrees with his side interests in little boys.
What was a humor thread is now a furry battleground
i still don't understand the point of this thread
-snip- (impossible request)
why all da hate?
obviously you can't handle people that are different than you
D:: WOWW1!1 that ugy likes DIferENT things than me, BUT HE HAS AN AK!!!1
HE RUnNDED AKs!1!! PURIFY HIM >:[
Milk, seriously dude, you've been around these parts a pretty long time and you have garnered respect from the posters in this section (at least you have with me)
but you could not have really thought this thread was going to go anywhere but here
please for the love of god just let it die, or even better, get a mod to close it
its not worth it :c


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I had to leave yesterday for a double period Russian before the big guns and didn't get to see D/S - so saw it now - and it was really really good. They looked like they were the only ones who weren't trying too hard, the costumes were beautifully understated, they looked secure. You could see that he has knee problems even when they took their bows though, congrats to him for skating through it like he did.
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Journal Paper number 155, of the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, the Indiana Department of Conservation cooperating. The data in table 1 were used in a thesis presented to the University of Wisconsin Graduate School by the senior author in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Development of the testis in the ring-necked pheasant†
Version of Record online: 15 FEB 2005
DOI: 10.1002/ar.1090890306
Copyright © 1944 The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
The Anatomical Record
Volume 89, Issue 3, pages 317–324, July 1944
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Kirkpatrick, C. M. and Andrews, F. N. (1944), Development of the testis in the ring-necked pheasant. Anat. Rec., 89: 317–324. doi: 10.1002/ar.1090890306
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Last night I screened the television programme Cougar Town.
I enjoyed it.
It was fun and smart. And the chick from Friends was like almost totally naked.
2 moobs up.
Before you get a mental picture of my moobs, let's quickly pivot to the real issue at hand.
Cougars are older women who like younger men.
They are a gift to my universe.
When I bus to the local pub, after dozens of younger chicks have hilariously rejected my advances, I am left with the cougar.
The 49 year-old dyed-blonde hair, cigarette-smoking, Nascar-watching, fake-tan-having, wonky-eyed cougar.
Who are always from "just outside the city".
The cougar will pay attention to me.
When I can't score with super hot women, the cougar will coddle my shattered spirit back to health.
And then steal money from my jeans.
But not all cougars are like this. There are hot cougars, like Courtney Cox in Cougar Town and busted fat cougars like the ones that find me charming.
A very wide spectrum indeed.
Since I'm a friend to cougars, I will now instruct them on how to use Twitter to find their prey: the young college-aged male.
If you're not a cougar, exit here.
This is just for them.
1. Stop Being So Obvious.
Look, I know you like to "just go for it" and pinch the buttocks of young men you see at the salsa bar.
It doesn't work like that on Twitter.
Here's a search you probably try every day.
Doesn't work.
2. Start Being Relevant Again.
When you were a teenager, I'm sure the Beatles were big.
That's cool. I love the Beatles. But guys who go to the University of Texas at El Paso don't give two shits.
Start being relevant.
Modify your tweets:
Your tweet now: My friend Margaret and I are going to have a ladies night tonight! Can't wait to unwind with a good merlot.
Your tweet after: OMG, M where U at, girl!? jonny & peaNut r waiting at the club. hurry up u whore. lolz
Trust me.
Use Jonny and Peanut.
3. Get In On The Trending Topics That Were Brought To Us By Large Amounts Of Marijuana.
Twitter has been hijacked by young people.
Each day, a bunch of them cut class and meet at a bus stop in Encino, California to generate the dumbest hashtags known to man.
To the rest of us, this is annoying turbulence on our Twitter voyage.
For you, opportunity.
Get in on this, tweet to the trending topics.
It's where the guys are.
And when you're done, translate that shit to me. I have no idea what any of it means.
4. It's OK To Use That Picture Of You From Ten Years Ago.
Young guys don't want to be affronted with startling reality.
Use the picture from ten years ago.
Who's counting.
5. Search Smart.
I showed you a horrible search.
Here are a few that can really help you out.
This search provides individuals who are upset at the immaturity of younger girls. This is exactly the sentiment you are looking for. Note the last tweet. Rob is a targeted match.
This search generates all individuals in your fan club. I have highlighted some targets. Also, the last individual has provided you with possibly the best idea I've ever heard.
Run with it.
And there you have it, cougars.
I hope this helps you on your quest for college-aged men.
You can follow me on Twitter for more tips.
Now I must leave.
Jonny and Peanut are waiting at the club.
Let's poke-intercourse each other on Facebook here.
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Jeff Johnson doesn't just read comics, he appears in them.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. - You can hear the pride in his voice as Leavenworth, Kan., resident Jeff Johnson describes his achievements during the last seven years.
"I'm a zombie gettin' hit by a car," he said, pointing to a framed panel on his wall.
All his achievements involve comics but he's not an artist or a writer, at least not yet.
He's something more than your average fan boy.
He's kind of like an extra in the movies.
"I'm in 'Supergirl,' at a ballgame in Metropolis, which is cool," he said as he pointed to another framed panel.
His drawn likeness has appeared in the background of comics you've heard of including "Supergirl," "Wolverine" and "Star Trek"
He's also been in some you probably haven't heard of.
"Thirty-nine books to date and I've got about five more on the way," he said.
Ultimate comic fan gets drawn in |
How did he do it?
He asked. He knows some local comics artists and he's met others at conventions.
"I just hand out fliers and I email people asking them if they would draw me into a background or crowd," Johnson said.
He's been a comics fan since his father got him hooked as a kid during the "Death of Superman" story more than 20 years ago.
He's collected a lot of comics - and other collectibles - since then. The small room he's devoted to them is overflowing.
He's also collected some rejections, but many artists have responded by drawing him, in their own style, in the panels of their comic creations.
He kept his identity secret at first.
"I didn't want to advertise what I was doing very much, for fear of copycats. I didn't want to be the person that started the trend of everybody bombarding all these artists with these emails," he said.
He's been profiled in " Wired" and European magazines, so he figures the cat's out of the bag now.
He even has a website so artists can see his photo and previous comic appearances.
He's enjoyed getting 'into' his hobby—literally, "for as long as it lasts," he said.
But he'd like to turn it into his business one day, either opening a comic shop or writing his own comic.
In the meantime, he'll have to settle for being the startled bystander or jaywalking zombie.
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Mike Cobb, the musical mind behind the "1st Place Radio" Podcast, interviewed David Sickmen & Brian Gorby about the Charismo, the songwriting process and the challenges of being on the road.
Listen to the 1st Place Radio Podcast episode with the Hackensaw Boys HERE, and read an excerpt from the interview below.
Elmore Magazine: How do you write songs?
David Sickmen: Some come instantly, and those are normally the best ones, and then there's the hard part, sitting yourself down and trying to do it, which I no longer do. I try to just let them come to me. Really all you gotta do is take notes during your day to day. There's a lot of things being said that are lyrical when you're talking to people, and with a phone in your pocket, you can type it in or sing it. And I have a phone full of those kinds of things, and then you're terrified– what if it gets zapped? So it's strange, what you gain in efficacy and quickness, you lose in permanence. Maybe having a suitcase full of lyrics on bar napkins is a good way to go too. [Laughs]
EM: Is it harder to make a living today than when you started out?
DS: I think it's equally difficult. Yeah, we drove up from Virginia for six hours, but then you get to play music. So that part is joyful, and that's what I'm trying to focus on, because the rest of it is kind of a pain in the butt, especially since I'm not a good businessman!
EM: Brian, tell me about Charismo. Beside the name of your record- and a play on the word charisma- how would you describe the thing itself?
Brian Gorby: It's a percussion instrument that you wear made out of recycled cans, wood, bottle caps, hubcaps, a backpack strap, and I play it with wire brushes. Metal on metal, you know?
EM: And that's on the cover shot, right?
DS: Yeah, well we figured that's the one thing that's been constant with the whole history of the band. I consider it found art, like functional art. We were in Europe with our buddy Thomas Oliver, who plays with the band when we go there, and he was like, "Man it's gotta be about the charismo!" So we just decided to call it that.
EM: What do you think it is about Americana that continues to resonate throughout time?
DS: Well, hopefully there's an honesty in it. When you boil things down to their simplest components, it's easy for people to hear it. I think the reason why there's still an appeal, is that it's the same as it ever was.
EM: Is it a challenge being on the road, away from family?
DS: Yes. That is the hardest part of this job. We love our kids, and it puts a lot of burden on our wives. That's the hardest part.
EM: Can you tell me about working with Larry Campbell?
DS: I'm glad you asked that; it was awesome. We went to Justin Guip, who was the engineer at Levon's barn, but he has his own little studio just outside of Woodstock, NY. We were a bit nervous, but the moment we arrived at Justin's, Larry came out with a big smile on his face. He treated us like old friends.
EM: What was it like working with him?
DS: The thing about Larry is that all the rhythm tracks are live. We did some overdubbing. But what Larry does is, he's in the room with you the whole time. He literally counts you in, smiles, and keeps the beat going. He's a conductor. He's such a nice, normal human being. I really think Larry was such a positive vibe that it shows up in the takes.
EM: Do you feel like you're getting better at making records?
DS: I don't know. I've never made the exact record I want to make. I don't know if anybody has. But Larry provided a space that you trusted him, and when he said that's good enough, we were like, that's cool.
EM: Did you feel the presence of Levon?
DS: I feel Levon now. Of course he's a hero, and the Band as well.
BG: I did. My son's name is Levon, and I play the drums and sing.
DS: Of course we asked Larry all the questions like, "Is Keith Richards cool?" He was like, "Yeah, he's really fucking cool!" [Laughs] I mean, Larry's played with everybody: Cyndi Lauper, Phil Lesh, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan… He's like a cosmic cowboy, and he brought that vibe to the record. He plays on two or three tracks, like the simplest little mandolin part that just made the song. I was like, do more! 'Cuz I wanted to watch him play! [Laughs] But he was like, nah, man. He could just play effortlessly. I'd like to work with Larry again, for sure.
EM: Sounds like it was an enjoyable experience.
DS: Yeah! We also decided before we went there, that we were gonna shut the fuck up and listen, which is hard to do when it's your song. But you get over it! First world problems. But by the end of the process, he was giving us a little more space to try stuff.
EM: I guess it's all about whatever works, right?
DS: Yeah man. It's about trying to be true to ourselves, and that's a hard thing to do. Just trying to be a good person. It's tough out here, and we need to spread as much love as possible, and that's my goal in this band. It's not about a whole lot of other things. It is nice that people care about the records, but any good that comes from that should only be used to create more good. And that's always been the Hackensaw Boys' goal.


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The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) said that small business confidence in March recovered some of its February decline. The Small Business Optimism Index increased from 91.4 in February to 93.4 in March, but it had fallen from 94.1 in January. Sentiment among small firm owners has generally moved higher over the course of the past year, with quite a bit of volatility. For instance, just over the past six months, the Index has ranged from 91.6 to 94.1, with the government shutdown, weather and persistent uncertainties dampening optimism at times.
Despite the higher headline figure, the underlying data were largely mixed. On the positive side, the percentage of firms saying that the next three months were a "good time to expand" increased from 6 percent to 8 percent, returning it to the level recorded in January but still below December (10 percent). Of those saying that it was not the right time for expansion, the economy was the primary reason.
Still, "poor sales" – a proxy for the current economy – was not listed as the "single most important problem." Instead, the top concern was a tie between taxes and "red tape," with each cited by 21 percent of respondents. This was followed by poor sales (14 percent), the cost of insurance (10 percent), and the quality of labor (9 percent). Indeed, the net percentage of respondents saying that they expect higher sales in the next three months rose from 3 percent to 12 percent, reflecting a pickup in sentiment.
Nonetheless, earnings figures remain weak overall, and the employment and capital spending data were less positive. Small business owners said that the hiring slightly declined in March, with the net percentage planning to bring on new workers in the next three months down from 12 percent in January to 7 percent in February to 5 percent in March. Hopefully, the uptick in optimism on sales will reverse this trend in the coming months. Meanwhile, capital spending has edged marginally lower, with capital expenditure plans essentially unchanged so far this year.
Chad Moutray is the chief economist, National Association of Manufacturers.
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A series of attacks on British Jews visiting the Soviet Union has sparked a bitter diplomatic now between the two countries. Nikolai Lunkov, the Soviet Ambassador, was called to the Foreign Office Tuesday and told of an organized KGB campaign of "assault, intimidation and harassment" against British tourists.
The Soviet Embassy said yesterday that Britain's protest was part of its campaign against the Moscow Olympics and an attempt to intimidate would-be visitors to the Games. It denied there was a campaign against Jewish tourists and replied that Moscow and Leningrad were no different from London where certain parts of the city are unsafe.
In fact, Jewish communal circles here had been buzzing for months with reports of attacks on British visitors to the Soviet Union who were trying to maintain contact with Jewish "refusniks" there. The attackers were always in plainclothes, but the victims had no doubt that they were secret policemen rather than private individuals.
Among those attacked were a London doctor, Michael Herz, and Peter Fischer. During a visit to Leningrad in March, they were beaten up on the street by 10 people after visiting a refusnik's apartment and on the advice of British diplomats they cut their Soviet visit short. Also in Leningrad, two young women tourists from Manchester were attacked and robbed of their handbags.
Victims of official harassment include Mr. and Mrs. Wally Simpson of North London. During a visit to Kiev, they contacted a refusnik family, the Oleiniks, and were later held by the KGB for three hours and accused of trying to sell jeans and perfume. On May 2, Gerry Fyne was detained at Moscow Airport where officials confiscated some Hebrew literature and other documents. Another London couple, Harry and Sheila Davies, who visited Russia in March, said they were both constantly followed, were searched at the airport and had blank tapes and film confiscated.


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Camera is very pleasing to hold it, to use it, and produces not perfect but pleasing pictures. Great improvement over cx1 regarding dr photos. Now ghosting almost gone in typical shots. What one may regard as advantage others may see it as disadvantage, and here I talk about large number of settings. Number of them perhaps are not very useful. Normally fast setting and quick and good shots but sometimes it takes lot of time to process and get ready for the next one. The picture uploading to ...View review in forums Leave a comment on this review
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Local architect Michele Bonan has recently completed a picturesque rooftop terrace bar at the Continentale Hotel (a member of Design Hotels) in Florence. This 43 room luxury boutique hotel is owned by the Ferragamo family, and is located in the historical centre of the Tuscan city. Surrounded by some of Italy's landmarks including the Uffizi Gallery and the Ponte Vecchio, the rooftop bar - La Terazza - offers breathtaking 360 degree views.
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"WASHINGTON — The amount of plutonium buried at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is nearly three times what the federal government previously reported, a new analysis indicates, suggesting that a cleanup to protect future generations will be far more challenging than planners had assumed.
Plutonium waste is much more prevalent around nuclear weapons sites nationwide than the Energy Department's official accounting indicates, said Robert Alvarez, a former department official who in recent months reanalyzed studies conducted by the department in the last 15 years for Hanford…"
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Last week Mark Lynskey flew into the UK for a whistle-stop tour of dealers and magazines, and we managed to grab some time with him when he visited London bike shop Mosquito Cycles (a Lynskey dealer) where he showed us the new Sportive Di2C road bike.
It seems inevitable that disc brakes will become a common sight on road bikes in the years to come (unless the UCI change their mind). US titanium frame builder Lynskey think so and have brought out their first road bike that will accept disc brakes, in the shape of the new Sportive.
An existing frame in their range designed for long rides where comfort matters with a more relaxed geometry than their more racy offerings, the Sportive was the natural platform on which to experiment with disc brakes. The frame uses 3AL/2.5V titanium tubes with subtle profiling and curved seat stays and gorgeous plate dropouts with a three-leaf clover cutaway. It'll cost £1,299.
The Sportive Mark showed us is their latest design iteration. The most obvious visual clue to its difference from a regular road bike is the use of Avid's BB7 mechanical disc brakes, which give the bike a clean look. A new carbon fork with a different layup is fitted to the front, to meet the demands that the disc brake places on the fork.
When asked if the seat stays were of a thinner wall diameter, with the braking forces now concentrated at the rear dropout rather than halfway along the stays, Mark admitted that they could have, but decided to keep the same stays to ensure the frame delivery the required stiffness.
The Sportive has year-round versatility written all over it, with clearance for 28mm tyres and mounts for mudguards and racks. With mudguards fitted the widest tyres that will fit are 23mm front and 25mm rear. And now with disc brakes, we think this is going to be top of our list this autumn when we look to do most of our riding on a comfortable mudguarded bike.
And of course, as you can see from the photos, the frame has been designed for the fitting of Shimano's Di2 groupset.
Since we had the pleasure of Mark's company, we asked him if he though disc brakes were going to become a very common sight on road bikes in the next couple of years.
"My personal opinion is that it's an inevitability. There's certainly going to be the ongoing conversation for the next two, three and four years f why you need disc brakes on a road bike. To answer that question, the first thing you need to default back to is that is the disc brake situation better or worse, is it a good braking methodology? There are a lot of benefits to it. Is it needed on a road bike? No, not necessarily, but I think it's going to happen whether you like it or not. It's coming.
"The first phases of it are going to be interesting because I think, SRAM, Shimano will be taking their exiting mountain bike technology and adapting that. The next phase I think we'll start to see disc brakes that fully make sense for road bikes and they're really going to be significant. On a mountain bike you need to be able to stop, and you need to be able to stop fast. On a road bike it's more about modulation of your speed. It wouldn't surprise me if we see more brake style options in road than you do in mountain biking."
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Looks well thought through, but someone, somewhere, has to start producing a decent alternative to BB7s. I know there are some others on the market, but I'm yet to read of an alternative that gets more than mixed reviews.
I'm also waiting for a more elegant power solution for Di2. The current battery box is properly fugly, and always sticks out like a sore thumb on the bikes I've seen. Integrate it into a bottle cage, perhaps?
The battery in the seat post is a cheeky solution. At least it would encourage people to take the post out from time to time.
I'd hate to get a jammed seat post with a battery stuck in there too - nearly all of the standard removal techniques would be out of the question.
There's no need to remove the battery to charge it though, you can just charge through the harness
Really no excuse for a seized seatpost these days, but yes I agree that would be annoying!
Ah that makes a lot more sense.
Two of my mates have recently managed to stick their carbon seat posts into their frames. One on a Bianchi, one on a Mercian. Silly boys.
Too much variation could make for interesting wheel changes / neutral service car options!
I like discs but not the look on road bikes tbh. They make them look to 'heavy duty' imho. More cyclo x than an elegant race machine.
I can't imagine needing more power than my ultegra rim brakes on the road either but then I haven't done an alpine descent.
True. Modulation can be controlled by feel though, as old school as that sounds.
I guess I like the elegance most of all.
I like the discs on my mtb (shimano hydro) for feel but the mech discs (tektro) on my son's hardrock feel more powerful even though they aren't for eg.
Every time I read about the coming of discs (and I don't dispute they are coming) people rave about how much lighter wheels can be. True enough. But the brakes will be heavier.
It's not a weight issue that needs solving anyway, as most pro bikes could fall well under the uci weight limit without blinking.
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The Broncos will kickoff the 2011 season in 31 days. To help pass the time, we're going to look at 31 players (in alphabetical order) up until Game Day. Today's player: wide receiver David Anderson.
A sixth year receiver who played collegiate football at Colorado State, Anderson signed with Denver as a free agent during the offseason. Coming in at 5-10 and 193 pounds, Anderson is 28 years old.
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A sixth-year wide receiver who played 61 games (10 starts) in his first five NFL seasons with Houston and totaled 81 receptions for 886 yards (10.9 avg.) with three touchdowns.
- Made an impact as a slot receiver with the Texans, contributing to a passing attack that ranked third in the NFL with 262.8 passing yards per game from 2007-10.
- Started a career-high eight contests for Houston in 2008 and established personal bests with 38 receptions for 370 yards (9.7 avg.).
- Played 47 games (43 starts) at Colorado State University and left the school as the program's all-time leader in receptions (200), receiving yards (3,330) and 100-yard receiving games (15). Â
- Broke the Rams' single-season marks with 72 receptions for 1,282 yards (17.8 avg.) as a sophomore in 2003.
- Selected by the Texans in the seventh round (251st overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft.
Did You Know… Anderson was released and re-signed by Houston seven times during his career (four times during his first two years in the league). Such is the life a small, journey man wide receiver in the NFL.
Quote 'Em: "It was a win-win situation. It was either go to a team that really wants me or go back to a team that didn't want me to go." — Anderson on re-signing with Houston or joining Denver. (Via the Denver Post)
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