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We are SO BEYOND thrilled to have this beautiful styled shoot featured on Grace Ormonde Wedding Style! Eternal Reflections Photography has been requested to be one of Grace Ormondes Platinum Vendors and now to have our work featured on Grace Ormonde's site is an extremely huge honour!
We are so thankful for the wonderful team that brought this vision together!
"Mixing lush colors with animal prints gives this stylized shoot eclectic feel" – Grace Ormonde Wedding Style
Event Design: Awespiring Weddings and Design, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Floral Design: Fabloomosity, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Rentals: Elegant Touches, River City Events, and Dress My Day, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Cake: Cake Couture, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Stationery: Love+Design, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Hair: Justine at FLAUNT Salon, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Make-up: Faces by Olive, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Bridal Gown: Lazaro, Delica Bridal, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Tuxedo: Derks Formals, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Photography: Eternal Reflections Photography, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;
"Mixing lush colors with animal prints gives this stylized shoot eclectic feel" – Grace Ormonde Wedding Style
The elite Grace Ormonde Wedding Style Magazine has chosen to honor Eternal Reflections Photography on their invitation-only Five Star Platinum List, a directory of top wedding professionals from around the world.
Grace Ormonde Wedding Style, the wedding world's premier magazine, is a breathtaking publication that showcases the "best of the best" of the wedding industry in Canada, the U.S. and around the globe. Grace Ormonde is dripping in elegant & luxurious weddings & as such, Wedding Style, is an absolute inspiration to photographers. It is hands down the highest class of wedding magazine around the globe. It is the prestigious country club of the wedding world…nearly impossible to get into & extremely exclusive. To be included on such a prestigious list is a personal endorsement from the best of the best.
Previous clients of Grace Ormonde 5 star Platinum list include Demi Moore,Chelsea Clinton, Ivanka Trump, Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady and Kim Kardashian, to name a only a few. The entire publication, cover to cover, is by invitation-only . The honor is further noted; when one notices that their distinction & exclusivity is reflected in the fact that in their current issue they have ONLY 1 photographer listed in Canada & only 5 online; in ALL of Canada! Grace offered for us to be featured both online & in the upcoming print magazines!
A position on the Grace Ormonde Platinum List is an honor–and a prestigious endorsement–that is extended by invitation only. Elite vendors, national and international, are carefully selected, and only those who offer outstanding services or products are invited, as this note in the magazine makes clear: "The Platinum List is not an open advertising section. Vendors have been asked to participate by special invitation only, and have been chosen for the style of their work and the quality of their service."
Our inclusion on the prestigious Platinum List, places Eternal Reflections Photography (based in Edmonton & Vancouver) among the top wedding professionals in the nation and in the world. Appreciative of this honor, we are committed to continue to deliver the excellence, the creativity, and our unique "wow" factor to our discerning clientele.
Eternal Reflections Photography has maintained an extensive domestic (Edmonton, Vancouver) and international client (Italy, Hawaii, Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Japan & soon South Africa) base for nearly a decade and prides itself on perfection every time. Please visit our website and let us show you our luxury wedding photography style.


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This past weekend, the 2013 Los Alamos County Fair and Rodeo served as an excuse for people to take a relaxing, fun-filled promenade down Central Avenue. The fair, which featured exhibits, arts and crafts, a concert, a parade and, of course, rodeo, brought together crowds of all ages, from little children, to post-grad interns, seniors and everyone in between.
This year's theme was "100+ Years of Homesteading," honoring those that set foot on Los Alamos soil before the lab era. The fair officially began on Friday, with a pool tournament at the Betty Ehart Senior Center. Exhibits at the Mesa Public Library were also open that day. The summer concert series featured James Hyland and Joint Chiefs, who put on a mellow show for the County Fair-goers.
The Saturday morning parade drew big crowds. While people-watching, one could observe every age group present at the event. The parade itself featured local businesses in a fun, carefree environment, which included a giant squirrel and vintage cars. Each participant tried to spice up his or her own march by adding twirls, dances, or just good ol' large smiles across their faces. The parade was organized by the Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce.
Ashley Pond, Fuller Lodge, and Mesa Public Library all opened their doors to local vendors, craftsmen, and others with wares for sale. The fair, which took place at Ashley Pond, was a chance for people to raise awareness about Los Alamos County, voter registration and pet adoption, among others. The Jemez Valley Animal Amigos set up a dog adoption station, as well as a dog-kissing booth. Their efforts found two of the four dogs that were brought to the event a new home on Saturday. "We have been there for several years now and find the venue wonderful and one of the nicest we have ever been to, so we will be back for sure," Lynne Kito, the Operations Manager of Jemez Valley Animal Amigos, said of the fair venue.
Arts and Crafts vendors came from places such as Santa Fe and Ruidoso, bringing handcrafted jewelry, garden ornaments, and of course, witty T-shirts with messages like "Be rational! Get real!" posted next to irrational and imaginary numbers.
Lastly, the exhibits at Mesa Public Library featured award-winning entries from every age category and hobby.
Quilts were intricately patterned and hung in the upstairs library area. Other showstoppers included Lion King and Polar Express art from high school student Emily Pittman and photography by teen Derek Selvage. Some entries received a "Best of the Best" award, gaining 'priority seating' during exhibit visits.
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Author Notes: Don't let making homemade pastry intimidate you. It takes only a few minutes to put together pastry dough in the food processor. This pate sucree pastry dough is rich and sweet, much like a cookie dough. I have enhanced it with vanilla bean extract and orange zest to make a truly tasty pastry. You may also PRESS this pastry into a 12" tart pan if you don't like rolling out pastry dough. The apple filling is simply flavored with cinnamon, allspice and just a pinch of nutmeg. My favorite Fall apples are Honeycrisp as they stay crisp and sweet/tart when baked. —Lorraine Fina Stevenski
Serves 12
- 2- 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, more as needed
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold, cut into pieces
- 2 large egg yoilks
- 2 teaspoons vanilla bean extract
- 1 teaspoon orange zest
- 3 tablespoons whole milk, cold, more if needed
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 5 medium Honeycrisp apples
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- pinch ground nutmeg
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
- TOPPING: White coarse sparkling sugar and vanilla sugar
- MAKE THE PASTRY: To the bowl of a large food processor, add the flour, sugar,baking powder and salt. Pulse a few times to blend. Add the butter pieces and pulse just until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add the egg yolks, vanilla and zest and pulse a few times to blend. Add the milk and pulse until a soft dough forms but still has coarse crumbs; pinch to see if the dough holds together. Add more milk if too dry. Turn the dough out on a lightly floured surface. Push into a ball and knead a few times. Form into a flat disk, wrap in plastic and refrigerator for 1 hour or overnight. Makes one 14" galette or one 12" tart pastry.
- MAKE THE APPLE FILLING: To a large mixing bowl, add the lemon juice. Peel, core and cut each apple into 8 slices; toss in the lemon juice. Repeat with the remaining apples. Toss in the brown sugar, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cornstarch, vanilla and salt. Drain excess juices before adding to the pastry
- PUT IT ALL TOGETHER: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a 1/2 sheet pan with parchment paper. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the chilled dough to a 14" circle. Put the scraps aside for cutouts to decorate the top. Transfer the pastry to the parchment lined sheet pan (it will hang over temporarily). Mound the apples in the middle of the dough leaving about a 3" border. Fold the dough over the apples leaving a circle of apples exposed in the middle. Pinch the dough in pleats to flatten. Reroll the scraps and cut out into seasonal shapes. Stars are always nice to see! Press on top of the apples and on the dough. Finish by sprinkling the top with coarse sugar, cinnamon sugar or vanilla sugar. Bake about 45 minutes or until the apples are bubbling and the pastry is golden brown. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream or freshly whipped cream.
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Would You Call In Sick To See Your Favorite Team Play?
This week DiscoverCard's fan poll "discovered" that only 5% of fans would call in sick to see their favorite college football game for free. 70 percent, would tell their boss the truth and ask for the day off, while 15 percent would simply refuse the tickets and go to work that day. A few fans, 6 percent, would sell the tickets.
However, if their boss was a diehard fan of the rival team playing in that game, 19 percent of fans thought it a good idea to invite their boss to the game.
SEC fans were a bit more honest than most as 73% would tell their boss the truth and ask for the day off. Or, maybe we just feel like our bosses would be understanding. Maybe because our bosses are probably also SEC fans :)
Alabama is still #1 -- will be interesting to see how they fare in the next poll having barely beaten LSU. But, wow, 5 of the top 8 teams in the DiscoverCard Fan Poll are in the SEC. Alabama at #1; Georgia, Florida, LSU and South Carolina at 5-8.
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Of all the cuisines available in New York City, Portuguese was probably not something you realized you were missing. Yet like the Eventi hotel it occupies, Lupulo, a new restaurant by Portuguese chef George Mendes, has sprung up on the overlooked corner of 29th and Sixth Avenue where seemingly nothing was before. The open space, defined by an a huge marble horseshoe-shaped bar under a hatchwork of interlocking metal bars and lights suspended from the ceiling, has a very European feel, as if you had suddenly stumbled into Les Halles on the way to Penn Station. Kitchen staff shuck oysters plucked from large piles of ice, the place buzzes with conversation at the packed bar, and the smell of saffron is in the air. (more…)
Prolific restauranteur Stephen Starr has created many restaurants that loom large in our collective New York memory, but most are not memorable for the food. If you ever had a girlfriend who wanted a "Sex and the City" type experience when visiting New York, all you had to do was book a table at the latest Stephen Starr place. They were all consistently glitzy, sleek and populated with pretty young things. But now Starr has made an interesting match with chef Justin Smillie, who's just as serious about food as Starr is about setting the scene. (more…)
Ganso Yaki
Located on a sunny corner right near Barclays Center in Brooklyn, this spin off of Ganso Ramen specializes in Japanese street food and grilled meats and vegetables – basically everything you need to go with beer or sake. There are big wooden booths and counter seating overlooking the grill. It's a set up that works well with what socializing New York diners seem to be craving right now: drinks and shared food. (more…)
Hunt & Fish Club
There's a glitzy newcomer in town on 44th Street, a midtown stretch that desperately needs more dining options. Hunt & Fish Club falls squarely into the expense account steakhouse category, but here the fish is just as good as the meat. Go for the macho name or the promise of wild boar on the menu, but if you end up ordering something gathered instead of hunted, you will be equally happy. (more…)
Colombia Part II: Cartagena
The cab from the airport raced past kids playing soccer on packed dirt fields, families crowded onto the beach, and agua fresca vendors peddling down the highway. After two flights from the tiny island of Providencia, we were finally approaching Cartagena, the more cosmopolitan part of our journey to Colombia. When we came to the city walls, our cab driver turned into an impossibly small tunnel and emerged in a plaza surrounded by 16th century buildings. They were colorfully painted, outfitted with balconies, and festooned with flowering bougainvillea vines that cascaded all the way to the cobblestone streets below. Immediately it was easy to see the attraction of this city, a favorite of Colombians and foreigners alike. (more…)
Colombia Part I: Providencia
Imagine a Caribbean paradise that's blissfully free of American tourists. What it does have are beautiful beaches, gorgeous architecture, excellent food and a fascinating history, all in an environment that feels entirely safe. This is Colombia, and you should go now before all those other tourists catch up with you. (more…)
Chefs Club by Food & Wine
There's something to be said for good bones. Restaurant decor can go a long way in transforming an odd space into a good one – see Claudette, for example – but when you start with something as architecturally impressive as the interior of the Puck Building, you have more leeway in what you can hang on the walls – and put on the menu. It's an unusual concept to open a restaurant that's not the vision of any one particular chef or restauranteur but a magazine. Fortunately Chefs Club by Food & Wine Magazine gets a certain gravitas from the surroundings, whereas otherwise it might seem utterly newfangled. (more…)
So a new French bistro opened in the neighborhood. This wouldn't be so remarkable if it weren't for the closing of so many bistros in Greenwich Village and the East Village over the last decade – often to become a TD Bank – but Claudette, started by the guys who brought you perennially popular Rosemary's, was big news from the start. "It's right around the corner from your apartment," my mom said when we dined here on a random Monday night, months after it opened. "You should make it your neighborhood place."
"We haven't been able to get in until now!" This was sadly true. (more…)
Brooklyn Crab
In Maryland, you have not had a true taste of summer until you've eaten blue crabs coated in Old Bay and served with a pitcher of cold, cheap beer in a shack right on the water. You get to this place by boat (often the fastest way), and spend the better part of an afternoon picking chunks of crab meat out of cracked shells. And yes, it is worth the effort.
Could there be a place like this in New York? (more…)
Peche New Orleans
So what is it like to dine at the best new restaurant in the country? Thanks to our New Orleans in-laws, we paid a visit to Pêche in New Orleans just before it won the James Beard Award. Book your dinner reservation around the same time you book your plane tickets to New Orleans, and you too should have no problem getting into this friendly, democratic but still fabulous institution. (more…)
The Elm
There's a certain sort of meal you expect to have in Paris – white tablecloths, foie gras, beautifully plated food and bespoke service – that unfortunately I rarely get to have. During fashion week I am too busy running around taking photos, and at the end of the day I often emerge rain soaked and generally unpresentable for fine dining. (more…)
Narcissa is the new restaurant in an odd, L-shaped space that they said couldn't be saved. When Sam Sifton reviewed the old tenant Faustina here in 2010, he praised Scott Conant's food but said "no matter the meal, you will eat it uncomfortably…in what is unmistakably an institutional setting." (more…)
Trattoria La Griglia
Milan might not be the place that springs to mind when you think of great seafood, but there are some surprisingly good fish restaurants in this city. One of them, and one of the best values, is Trattoria La Griglia on Viale Premuda.
For the last ten years, one man has dominated the French restaurant scene for downtown New Yorkers: Keith McNally. It's hard to imagine the Meatpacking District without Pastis or SoHo without Balthazaar, two highly stylized restaurants that stole Paris bistro decor and food so effectively that the trend of antiqued mirrors, subway tiles and flea market fixtures has been stolen back by a copycat place in Paris.
But with Pastis closing for nine months in 2014 as a new building is constructed above and longtime chefs Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr leaving McNally's empire, change is afoot. Now popular local chef Andrew Carmellini (Locanda Verde, the Dutch) is throwing his hat into the ring with the opening of French mega cafe Lafayette. The old Chinatown Brasserie (and Time Cafe/Fez) space has been overhauled with no expense spared, columns covered in glossy Art Deco patterns of inlaid wood, red leather banquettes ringing the raised dining level, walls opened up with huge plate glass windows, copper pans glinting in the saucier and rotisserie station and glassware glimmering above the bar. Baz Luhrman could walk right in and film another scene for the Great Gatsby. (more…)
The Marrow
If it's true that "you are what you eat," we also are what we grow up eating. Harold Dieterle, the chef behind the Thai restaurant Kin Shop and American restaurant Perilla, has gone back to his roots with the Marrow, with a menu that highlights German offerings from his father's side, "Familie Dieterle," and Italian dishes from his mother's side, "Famiglia Chiarelli." (more…)


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By putting the car-buying experience into a mobile application using the DIY app builder at appsbar.com, Ron Anderson Chevy-Buick-GMC, serving the Jacksonville, FL region, as earned the App of the Day award.
The RA Chevy mobile app puts Ron Andersons large inventory of new and used cars and trucks in the palm of your hand with a searchable database that includes photos, information, and pricing. The app also offers social media links, a submission form to request information on a specific automobile, and the ability to schedule service right from the app.
The app is optimized for both iOS and Android smartphones and tablets.
Launched in 2011, Appsbar opens up the mobile marketing category for small and medium-size businesses, artists and musicians, and individuals who want to create in that space. Appsbar has done this by removing the two largest barriers; cost and programming expertise. Appsbar is doing for mobile apps what companies like Intuit and Blogger have done for novices looking to publish websites and blogs.
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What else is new? The American Stasi is out en force yet again to shut down, shut up and strip away the rights of those with whom it disagrees.
Progressive women's rights group UltraViolet has launched a petition demanding that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos remove Donald Trump paraphernalia from its online marketplace.
The petition has thus far garnered 36,000 signatures from fellow fascists, ordering Bezos to reject Trump's "racism, sexism and xenophobia" or else. The Washington Examiner reports
Trump's name is currently attached to more than 30,000 products on Amazon, though not all of them are owned and manufactured by the Trump Organization. In addition to dress shirts and ties, "Trump 2016" bumper stickers and knockoff "Make America Great Again" hats are currently for sale.
"Amazon has a history of doing the right thing and removing sexist merchandise," UltraViolet's co-founder Shaunna Thomas said in a statement.
She continued, "Donald Trump has promoted violence at campaign events, stoked the fires of sexism and racism in America and espouses a political philosophy that borders on fascism [and] these values have no place on the Amazon marketplace."
Shortly after Trump likened illegal immigrants to criminals and "rapists" during his announcement speech last June, Macy's announced its decision to pull Trump brand merchandise from its shelves.
"Macy's did the right thing — listening to its customers and concluding that Trump was bad for business," Thomas said.
While hoping Amazon will do the same, the company has not yet responded to the group's petition. A spokesperson for Amazon return the Washington Examiner's request for comment.
No, Macy's did not do the right thing. No one here seems to be doing the right thing. The right thing is to allow a free people in a free society to make their own choices concerning what to buy and what not to buy, and who to listen to and who not to listen to, and who to vote for and who not to vote for.
If left-wing spoiled brats want to boycott something how about they just not buy the Trump T-shirt and vote for a Democrat in the general election? That would be too fair and too easy though, right?
Ironic also that these same activists won't call for Che Guevara t-shirts to be pulled from retailers' shelves or take any substantive stand against actual racism and barbarism throughout the world. Because that would be tough. That would call for consistency of principle and some intellectual honesty and it would lift the veil off their entire ruse.


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25 oz. water bottle
Simple yet stylish, the QUENCH bottle holds up to 25 oz of your favorite beverage. With an easy-to-drink spout and a wide mouth for inserting ice cubes, lemon wedges, and cucumber slices, QUENCH is perfect for staying hydrated on the soccer field, at the gym or even during meetings.


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Whiskey cough remedy
How to make a whiskey cough remedy
Though it might not be a popular home remedy to lessen cough, whiskey cough remedy does reap benefits for anyone suffering with cough.
Cough may either be described as a dry or wet cough depending upon the kind of congestion. Cough irritates the larynx and sometimes the chest muscles and abdomen region also. If left unattended, cough may lead to severe results. Whiskey cough remedy aids to relieve the cough in grown ups and children.
Whiskey cough remedy is surely an age-old theory. The ingredients for this kind of recipe are malt whiskey, honey, sugar and lemon juice. Take a small container or jar and include whiskey and honey within it in equal amounts. After some time, put some sugar only for taste. Add few drops of lemon juice to the syrup. Make sure that this sugar has dissolved in the whiskey and honey blend. Mix all the ingredients and you will start see that it resembles a cough syrup. This grandmother's recipe works well even for children. Care should be taken that a small amount of this whiskey cough remedy is given to kids. Also, this mixture can become diluted with water previous to giving it to kids. Adults can consume this kind of syrup one teaspoon each time for four times on a daily basis.
And that's the way to make a Whiskey cough remedy.
Whiskey is made up of fermented grains such as wheat, barley, maze and so on which are crushed together.
Thereafter, it is stored inside big wooden casks to keep it there for long. Since, it is an alcoholic drink it is serves as being a sedative which soothes your body. Intake of whiskey helps someone to sleep or rest effortlessly. Honey is known due to its medicinal properties. It is a natural sweetener and it in addition kills microbes / bacteria that cause cough. Therefore, honey helps to calm cough and will give a good taste to whiskey cough remedy. Lemon juice plays the actual role of balancing the sweet taste of honey and possesses medicinal disinfectant properties.
Brandy can also be of use instead of whiskey for the whiskey cough remedy. A teaspoon of brandy in addition to a teaspoon of honey mixed together may be taken before sleeping. It is a very helpful cough remedy. Most of the cough syrups and expectorants contain some level of alcohol which functions like a sedative. Rest and sleep are essential factors to cure cough in the earliest. Therefore, adopt a whiskey cough remedy when you need it and leave behind the cough.
Though it may not be considered a popular home remedy to relieve cough, whiskey cough remedy does reap benefits for anyone suffering with cough.
Cough may either be described as a dry or wet cough depending upon the sort of congestion. Cough will irritate the throat and sometimes the chest muscles and abdomen region as well. If left unattended, cough may lead to severe results. Whiskey cough remedy aids to relieve the cough in grown ups and children.
When you have a huge spoon of a whiskey cold remedy, it slowly moves straight down your esophagus. At this point, it is absorbed by the esophagus and so additionally, it cures the trachea.
The whiskey cure boosts mucus production but since the newly formed mucus will be thin in consistency it may be easily expelled from your body. The hardened or thickened mucus inside the trachea is also expelled at the same time thus clearing the respiratory system. This is why people often think that whiskey can "melt" hardened mucus therefore whiskey for cough and cold bouts is extremely common. A whiskey remedy is often used included in a home remedy for the wet cough as it will help to clear congestion. Clearing the respiratory system of thickened mucus is essential as the viruses causing the infection tend to thrive from the mucus and expelling the mucus will eliminate the pathogens causing the infection which helps to reduce the severity of an infection and enable you to recover quickly. A whiskey cure for any cold or cough may well be more effective if you follow a balanced and healthy diet that includes plenty of warm liquids like broths and soaps.
There are also a few more ways in which one may use whiskey in home remedies for respiratory infections. You can pour several cups of water right into a small saucepan and take it to the boil on high temperature. Lower the temperature when the water begins to boil and as soon as it starts to simmer on low heat you are able to place the saucepan on the table. Pour two tablespoons of whiskey in to the water and then situate yourself over the saucepan to be able to easily inhale the increasing vapor. Place a towel over the head as this will assist you to trap in the steam and increase the potency of this remedy.
Alcohol evaporates rather rapidly, so you will have to add another teaspoon of whiskey in the water in about 10 to 15 minutes. You may experience somewhat discomfort at first since the vapor that emanates from your saucepan will have the characteristic pungent odor of whiskey.
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The unique location of our hostel will be a pleasant surprise as for those who are looking for the nice quiet plase, so for the party goers as well. Although, the neighborhood is realy calm historical center, there are plenty of cafes, bars, clubs, museums and theatres just in a few minutes by foot. The interior of our hostel could be a real time machine and show you the sights of old Kazan as it was several decades ago. There are few spacious dormitories and one homey twin room. Besides, we have a kitchen and the common room where our guests can relax, read, plan trips and socialise together. Thus, our quality-to-price ratio is really worth mentioning: you can book a place to stay in the 12 beds dormitory only for 500 rubles.
To sum up - if you are looking for the hostel in Kazan, then you just have found the ideal place!
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BillieRacks designs and manufactures the most advanced sports and equipment rack systems for pick-up trucks. Our mission is to make it faster and easier for you to load and unload your truck. The way we look at it, the less time and energy you spend managing your gear the more time you have to actually use it!
As long time truck owners we know how frustrating it is to constantly crawl in and out of your truck bed to get that piece of gear you really need. That's why we created the patent pending BillieRack. With the BillieRack, managing your bikes, tools cargo and outdoor equipment is as easy as opening and closing your tailgate.
The BillieRack is designed to hold bikes, cargo or a combination of both without taking up your full truck bed (leaving room for other items or your favorite hunting companion). When you're done using the BillieRack, you can rotate it up and off your truck bed allowing the full truck bed to be used for whatever task comes your way. And yes, you still have the BillieRack installed for the next time you want to use it. Whether you're a hard core mountain biker, avid hunter, fisherman, or the best finish carpenter in town, BillieRack can make things faster and easier for you. Give us a call and we can get your truck outfitted with a BillieRack today!


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New NOM Hate Video Features African-American Gay Bashers
In response to criticism of its deliberate strategy of attempting to pit African-Americans against gays, NOM is attempting to pit African-Americans against gays.
NOM's new gay-bashing hate video is titled "Is Gay Marriage a Civil Right? African-American and Latino Leaders Speak for Themselves."
For its gay-bashing hate video, NOM did not interview any African-American and Latino leaders who favor LGBT equality.
You read that right; NOM has not posed the question "Is gay marriage a civil right?" in order to provide an objective answer to that question. It has posed the question in a hateful propagandistic attempt to rile African-American and Latino anti-gay bigots up against gay people, to fan, disgracefully, hostilities between the minorities.
NOM and its supporters are scumbag anti-gay bigots.
NOM's Maggie Gallagher is a lying scumbag. NOM's Robert George is a lying scumbag.
NOM's latest hate video lies about civil rights, and lies in implying that no African-American or Latino leader supports LGBT equality.
The phrase "The Civil Rights Movement" does in the United States most commonly refer to the gradual undoing of the racial apartheid system. However, civil rights are universal, whether any particular society is granting them to everybody or not. Civil rights do not belong exclusively to African-American anti-gay bigots, nor do African-American anti-gay bigots, or anti-gay bigots of any race, have any authority to evaluate whether a right for gay human beings is a civil right. Examples of civil rights movements in the United States pre-dating that which undid the racial apartheid system abound. Jews, for example, did not have the vote in Maryland until 1825; and even then, they had to sign a paper saying they believed in the afterlife.
The anti-Jewish bigots of that time believed that Jews had no civil right to vote, just as anti-gay bigots of our time believe that a homosexual person has no civil right to marry a person of their same sexual orientation. Yet, for American Jews prohibited from voting, voting was a civil rights issue. And, today, for gay people prohibited from marrying a person of their same sexual orientation, marriage is a civil rights issue.
NOM is so shameless with its gay-bashing bigotry, that this latest hate video includes footage from last May's anti-gay hate rally in the Bronx, where a NOM-approved speaker told a mob of gay-bashers that homosexuals are "worthy to death." Present at the anti-gay hate rally, wearing a pimp's outfit, was the arch-bigot Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr. He screams at the crowd that in New York, marriage equality was pushed in people's noses by the legislature and the courts, even though his own son Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. supports equality, and his lesbian grand-daughter Erica Diaz published an article in the New York Post condemning her grandfather's bigotry. Creating a further impression that he is profoundly ignorant, Diaz whipped the crowd of gay-bashers into a frenzy "Let the people vote for it."
Civil rights are civil rights; there is no legitimate voting by bigots on whether civil rights should be allowed to the object of their bigotry.
NOM"s video features a hit parade of bigots, not acknowledging that there is no legitimate voting against civil rights. Reverend Patrick Wooden, who has suggested that this publication's editor Pam Spaulding needed a so-called "corrective rape" to make her sexually happy with a man, and has in one million additional ways proven himself to be a gay-bashing bigot, says in NOM's video that African-Americans are overwhelmingly against LGBT equality. Again with that erroneous idea that a bigot block can legitimately vote down a hated minority's civil rights.
Other homo bigots shown in NOM's hate video include the ethically-challenged, violence-inciting Pastor Herbert Lusk, saying that neither same-sex marriage nor homosexuality can be considered civil rights. Note that Lusk's ethically-challenged relationship with the Bush administration echoes that of NOM's lying sack of gay-bashing bigotry Maggie Gallagher. (Gallagher has yet to comment about this article enumerating her gay-bashing lies. She has not commented on it, because she is a lying scumbag anti-gay bigot). Lusk's thought — that homosexuality itself is not a civil right — is in line with that of NOM mastermind Robert George, who wrote a Supreme Court brief arguing that gay people should be jailed for their intimacy. In these sick bigots' minds, twisted with hate, (which they should be discussing with competent therapists), the freedom of association does not extend to gay people having a right to be intimate with each other.
At the end of NOM's bigot parade, arch-bigot George D. McKinney is heard ranting about how African-American anti-gay bigots must not let LGBT equality supporters "steal" civil rights.
McKinney evidently has not heard that the National Black Justice Coalition says that Bayard Rustin "was a proud Black gay man who was an indispensable architect of the Civil Rights Movement."
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is named for one white gay, and one black victim of ignorance-fueled bigotries.
That law involves protection of the basic civil right, not to be murdered because you are a particular minority member. (Hater Harry Jackson, who figures in NOM's gay-bashing video — fraudulently alleging that LGBT rights supporters are "hijacking" civil rights — was fiercely opposed to the James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act).
NOM's gay-bashing hate video, by a most revealing, characteristic contrast to the Matthew Shepard Act, includes footage from a NOM hate rally where bigots were told that homosexuals are "worthy to death."
Neither NOM nor anybody in NOM's bigot parade has any authority to evaluate whether marriage equality is a civil right.
Watch the video at that link. It shows a Faith Press Conference headed by the African-American Reverend Dr. T. Anthony Spearman, an equality supporter.
Now watch this video of North Carolina NAACP leader Reverend William Barber condemning the proposed anti-gay, anti-human bigot ballot in his state. The African-American Reverend Barber says "Far right forces are trying to roll back civil rights." Listen as Barber issues his scathing condemnation of NOM and other far-right haters and officious manipulators.
The integrity, intelligence, and decency of Barber's statement puts every sleazebag character in NOM's gay-bashing hate video to shame.
NOM itself is sleazy and shameful for titling its hate video "Is Gay Marriage a Civil Right? African-American and Latino Leaders Speak for Themselves" without giving Reverend Spearman and Reverend Barber a chance to speak in it. At this link you can read the African-American Pastor Michael Bledsoe's rebuke of NOM's anti-gay bigotry.


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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Fall color
When I got back home I had to stop to appreciate my own front yard. Our burning bush is living up to its name.
Our creek seems to be entirely dry right now—the first time I've seen it that way. Looking down the creek toward the conservation zone next to our house. I'm glad we moved out here.
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You are so fortunate. Here in California the tree leaves just turn yellowish-brownish and then fall off. I used to take October trips with my parents to see the fall colors in New York. It is something that cannot be captured on film. Now, a quilt maybe?ReplyDelete
Stunning. The trees never do that here. :(ReplyDelete
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Wonderful pictures. I'm glad you moved there too! We have also had a dry autumn in Tennessee, so our usually beautiful season is just dead brown this year. Bummer.ReplyDelete
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David Slade Drops From DAREDEVIL Reboot
Some sad news for the day: David Slade (30 Days of Night) has recently dropped out of directing the upcoming Daredevil reboot. The reason? So he can helm the upcoming Hannibal TV show. But now 20th Century Fox must hurry to find a replacement director so the rights won't go back to Marvel/Disney.
I just hope they find a solid director to deliver a solid movie. The ongoing Daredevil comic is one of the highest critically acclaimed series out right now, and it deserves an equal movie.
I actually think this is a good move on Mr. Slade's part sticking with the darker genre. 30 Days of Night is one of my favorite vampire movies.
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Steyer's green group NextGen Climate Action posted a list of candidates who are strong advocates of the controversial TransCanada oil pipeline on its website, asking people to pick which one it should target for its Keystone XL television ad.
One of the five lawmakers will be the focus of Steyer's next Keystone XL ad. If it's Landrieu, it might not bode well for the vulnerable Democrat.
"These are a sample of lawmakers misled by tar sands lobbyists about "energy from a trusted ally," said Mike Casey, a consultant for NextGen Climate Action, in a statement on Wednesday.
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Casey said NextGen Climate Action is leaving it up to its online community of several hundred thousand to select the candidate. The ad will then run in the lawmaker's home state.
The likelihood of Democrats keeping a majority in the Senate is already in question. Were Steyer's action group to target Landrieu and fellow vulnerable Democrats like Sen. Mark Begich (Alaska) and Mark Pryor (Ark.) — who both support building Keystone XL — Republicans could take control of the Senate come November.
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Skip to comments.Darwin Marketed to Kids (totalitarian evos on the march, use power of state to stamp out opposition)
Posted on 11/11/2009 7:52:41 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
Nov 10, 2009 Theres a move on to get Darwins ideas taught to tots. Britain is giving a birthday present to Darwin, wrote Andrew Copson for The Guardian, in the form of national curriculum for primary schools that will mention evolution for the first time and prohibit teaching of creationism or intelligent design in science lessons.
The addition of evolution to elementary school curriculum was in response to a letter promoted by the British Humanist Association and signed by scientists and experts. Copson was obviously delighted with what he perceived as a long-overdue smackdown against intelligent design a belief espoused by the majority of his fellow Britons:
Those who care about public reason are routinely shocked by opinion polls and surveys showing high levels of credence given to the idea of intelligent design. The most recent poll purported to demonstrate that a majority of Britons think that it should be taught alongside evolution in schools. To solve this problem...
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Yup. I own it.
After enough evos complained that being an evolutionist did not equate to being an atheist because they believed in God AND evolution, I used the term to distinguish those evos who were atheists and had the atheistic agenda of trying to destroy or eliminate religious faith and those who did not.
But as usual, evo twisted and distorted it and refused to recognize the distinction and presumed that I was implying that all evos are atheists, which I never said or implied.
But considering how evos like to lump everyone who expresses any kind of confidence in the truth of the Biblical creation account as 6 day, 6,000 year, must read the whole Bible literally in all contexts, YEC's, that doesn't surprise me that they would come to that conclusion.
Evos tend to be great at projecting and extrapolating and misrepresenting.
The ToE itself is based on philosophy, the interpretation of the fossil record based on a philosophical world view and as such does not belong in science class either.
Teach all or none.
Don't give one creation account precedence over another.
If it were simply a matter of real science, I'd agree, but the ToE is one of the biggest tools used in the attack on Christianity going.
And besides, there's not one shred of evidence that teaching creation and ID along with evolution is going to harm one's science education in the least.
The teaching of evolution only has had a monopoly in the public school system for decades and our performance in the sciences and math has continued to tank worldwide over the same time period.
Most private Christian schools and homeschoolers teach both and consistently have better standardized test scores and SAT/ACT scores than their public school counterparts, who are not taught to think for themselves.
I've asked the evos several times to provide evidence that teaching creation and/or ID hurts a student in the scientific fields and have yet to receive any response other than mockery and ridicule.
No one has to date, provided one source of verifiable data to support their contention.
The students in public high schools aren't even getting the teaching of evolution right at that grade level. It's a pretty sure thing that grade schoolers won't. All this just smacks of trying to brainwash the kids at an earlier age in the hopes that more will come to believe in the ToE, although why that's so important to some is still a mystery, which is another reason that it puts the whole issue in the ideological arena.
One can understand the ToE as presented and not accept it as true or accurate, but that seems to be irrelevant. One must ACCEPT the ToE as true to satisfy the evos.
You "conservatives" on FR will bemoan big government trying to use tax dollars to indoctrinate kids and using high taxes to create a welfare state until it comes to doing so by forcing Darwinism. You rant about the media and the schools teaching leftism to the exclusion of other ideas until it comes to Darwin. You get angry about Marxism but support the Marxist school system. You're all frauds.
Well, as all the faux conservatives who post on these threads regularly point out, so called science should be forced on kids. Sex has plenty of scientific implications, prohibitions on sex-ed are forced by theocrats. I'm speaking as a fool.
You're a great example of a blue blood RINO that's destroying our party.
Which is exactly what earns the evos the label of *liberal*.
It isn't because they are evolutionists but because they support big government control of education and because of liberal positions they've taken on other subjects.
Science most certainly does NOT have unlimited scope!!!
They have even starting limiting what little they could see/observe when the 'consensus' agreed to abide by naturalism. Acting as if there is no God b/c anything super-natural may not be repeated nor proven. And in the process many have made themselves and/or their science a god.
The biggest problem for evolution claiming to be science is that most of its' claims are based on assumptions and interpretations of history. Nothing scientific nor empirical is involved in its' most grandiouse claims.
Neiher are any of its' weaknesses allowed to be discussed. I'd guess from your own comments that neither of you two are even aware it has any weaknesses?
I'll give you a simple analogy from computer programming. A good programmer can write code to perform all the requested functions flawlessly. If not the first time then all the flaws can be eliminated upon subsequent testing.
The problem? 99.9% of the time, the real world wants and needs changes. These often cause the code to include more functions and logic paths. Over time the code can end up going through multiple programmers who may not even have the time to understand all of the logic. They change one or many lines of code to 'enhance' the functionality. Along with those changes come bugs - usually hidden bugs.
The point of this analogy? Anyone who studies DNA should quickly realize it represents the ultimate 'computer code' for each and every life-form. God declared it good or perfect when completed. The corruption of the fall (sin) has been wreaking havoc on all His intended code (purpose) ever since, with one caveat He does not allow Satan complete dominion over those changes (see book of Job).
For more in-depth answers read all of His book - The Bible.
Bravo Sierra. I am not playing by your rules. I am not converting anyone else's work product into personal gain or signing my name to it and claiming it as mine. I am putting facts on the table which is what make you feel uncomfortable. If you can refute the content of posts you might have a legitimate complaint. I recognize that you would rather debate in the absence of facts so that your accusatory, belligerent, bullying, tattle to the mods approach eventually makes those who see through your bovine scat go away. That ain't gonna happen. While you are (self)absorbed in "catching" people in grammatical and protocol errors I will continue to "catch" you on scientific and theological errors.
What is immoral is for you to continue to lie about science and scientists to advance your view of how things ought to be.
That would be a reasonable opinion, IF there were the ability to have a non-science based ID class also. Since there is not, the attempt needs to be made to get it in somewhere.
If you can't stand truth (the recognition of reality) get out of the kitchen.
The first great mistake of creationists is that they set up the strawman of "proof" and say that science fails at it. But proof is not the goal of science. The true goal of science is to see which explanation/model holds up best against challenges which attempt to disprove its predictions. ID makes no testable predictions; it is a static model."
Good post but I have some questions. No flame.
Is the Big bang scientific since "it only offers an explanation without disprovable hypotheses or testable predictions of as-yet unobserved things."
If the big bang is "spiritual cosmology" should we expunge it from the science books? Thanks.
You are close. As in solving any problem unknowns are represented by a variable. In solving the Creation - ID - Evolution mystery the various theories can be represented by "x" in an effort to rationalize or reject the supporting data. The possibility / probability / certainty of each of the three competing theories cannot yet be fully established, hence the often heated debate.
The part of my post you referenced was in quotes where I was quoting and responding to another poster. No problem, just wanted to clarify.
"Intelligent design makes a lot of sense to me, but its not science and does not belong in a science class".
Alot of scientists disagree.
Alot of parents if not most, also disagree.
And I know most FReepers disagree.
Virtually all conservatives and Christians disagree.
I don't vote rino or rat. 'your' party destroyed itself which means you are responsible for your failure.
I think you're talking about something other than, or at least much larger than, the theory of evolution. You seem to be talking about an alternate Creation Story or something (one not based on Genesis).
Different target entirely. You are railing at the Religion of "Evolution", which is (I agree) quite non-scientific at times.
But the scientific theory of evolution is much simpler, not grandiose at all. It seeks to explain the growth and interconnections of species over time, something that is so self-evident I don't feel it needs defense or explanation.
> Neiher are any of its weaknesses allowed to be discussed. Id guess from your own comments that neither of you two are even aware it has any weaknesses?
You're joking of course.
Did you actually read any of what I wrote? The entire business and purpose of scientific method is to challenge and disprove hypotheses, to postulate better ones based on observation, to make predictions that can be tested and disproven if incorrect, and to ferret out weaknesses.
Some theories are quite strong, and have few known weaknesses. Others are still hypotheses, with numerous weaknesses. Evolution (the scientific theory, not the religion) is quite robust, has withstood countless challenges, but has many more to go.
But Evolution-as-Religion is not science, any more than Creationism is science. It's religion, and can be debated as religion (or perhaps philosophy). You can't tart up a religious position as science just by calling it science, whether it's Evolution (the religion) or Intelligent Design (the religion).
Neither is amenable to the scientific method of inquiry, prediction, testing, and disproving. So they're not science -- it simply does not apply.
> Science most certainly does NOT have unlimited scope!!!
Sure it does (for all things where the scientific method applies, of course). To limit the scope of scientific inquiry, challenge, testing, etc. is to say that "it shall not go here". For what conceivable reason?
The only places science does not go are those where the scientific method does not apply -- religion, philosophy, emotion, metaphysics, etc. But the entire physical world, past, present, and future, is completely within the scope of science. And it is unlimited.
> They have even starting limiting what little they could see/observe when the consensus agreed to abide by naturalism. Acting as if there is no God b/c anything super-natural may not be repeated nor proven. And in the process many have made themselves and/or their science a god.
God is not amenable to the scientific method, and the scientific method does not apply to God. God is not science, and science is not God. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar and a fraud.
Thanks, and I appreciate that. ;-)
> Is the Big bang scientific since it only offers an explanation without disprovable hypotheses or testable predictions of as-yet unobserved things.
The Big Bang theory does actually provide quite a few testable predictions of as-yet unobserved things. The description of the events and conditions in the first few instants following the Big Bang are surprisingly well defined by the mathematical models developed over the past decades. They offer lots of opportunities to find flaws, to disprove assumptions, to trim and improve the model and the predictions one can make from the model.
There are, of course, numerous competing variations on the model, and the math, and the challenges fly fast and furious when the better scientists get together.
The high-energy particle colliders (like the LHC) are for exactly that purpose -- to test the predictions that can only be checked under conditions similar to the first instant of the Big Bang.
> If the big bang is "spiritual cosmology" should we expunge it from the science books? Thanks.
If it were, I would say "yes", but it's not -- it's actually very decent scientific theory at this point. All the best scientists have basically lined up behind it, but continue to challenge it and test it and try to poke holes in it, because that is the scientific method.
Did you know that the scientist who first advanced the theory (Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître) was a Roman Catholic priest? ... in addition to being a professor of physics and astronomer at the Catholic University of Leuven. Quite a guy.
It is wonderful and pleasing to me that the theory of the Big Bang, the best science can offer for the start of the universe, maps surprisingly well into my personal idea of how God created the universe. But my spiritual cosmology doesn't weaken the scientific basis for the BB -- it merely coincides well with it.
you wrote >> in the process many have made themselves and/or their science a god.
I wrote > God is not amenable to the scientific method, and the scientific method does not apply to God. God is not science, and science is not God. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar and a fraud.
There is, of course, one exceptional circumstance.
God can do anything. If God wanted to play "scientist" and run some experiments, of course He could and would. And indeed, one of my personal thoughts has been that our universe is one of God's "experiments".
But that's just my personal thought, and has no bearing on reality, whatever that may be in this context...
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Simply put, they've edited (cut, added and or changed, I don't know) the dialogues to appeal to younger audiences and families...
Simply put, they've edited (cut, added and or changed, I don't know) the dialogues to appeal to younger audiences and families...
Si vis pacem para bellum...
My sister works at Target and she just taunted me by saying that they got the shipment of the DVDs in today. It's the transforming box that I really want. She's being extra mean by saying that she won't set one aside for me.
They call me Ratchet Girl for a reasonl.
Yeah, I'm a girl...SO FREAKING WHAT????
I will always love Ratchet. Don't even try to take my title.
For a specially advertised feature, this looks like garbage
if that's true that's sweet
Optimus Prime. Never disappoints... Unlike YOU, Starscream!
At my store (Futureshop) we get new releases about a week in advance. and that goes for all new music/game/movie relases with a huge orage sticker on the box saying "DO NOT SELL UNTIL 20/10/2009" all over the box. lol we've already opened the boxes to count and the steelbook is just awsome. bayos awsome
Got mine pre-ordered at Blockbuster in Blu-Ray.
Here are my opinions "ramblings" on the release and some facts about some stuff. Maybe spoilers.
I can confirm that the release i got is in no way different from the theatrical. No changes to dialog etc..
Ive watched all the supplemet material, found all the hidden easter eggs. Same type of easter eggs as in the transformers 1 dvd/blu-ray. Just push left and right in the menus to find them.
The supplements are great! The human factor goes deep into the making of the film, interviews with everyone and it feels personal. I have a greater respect for michael bay after seeing through all this, and at the same time i feel a little sorry for him. He worked so damn hard on the movie till the last minute and i dont think that the current theatrical version is the version he was working to finish. At the end of the documentary when theres only 2 hours left for the asian premiere of the film he is still doing color corrections and fixes.
I think the final result of the film that was released reflects this both in the level of detail and the fact that the final cut that was released was not really finished and perfectly polished.
Im a filmmaker myself and i can relate to that, its very inspirational to se Michael who is a big director who easily could have not cared and just let it go. He puts so much hard work into the movie, and i am grateful for that. I grew up with transformers and always wanted to se it adapted.
I watched it with my brother who also is a filmmaker. The first thing we both said. We gotta get out and make another movie. 1+ for Michael twho inspires.
There are some deleted scenes on the disc, but nothing extradonirary. They feel more like blooper reels of improvised jokes than scenes.
Visual bayhem is fun, i hoped to see some animatics on transformers 1 supplements. I love supplemets that show a bit from the creative process, how it evolves to final versions.
There are trailers for the movie, trailers for transformers are great so it was fun rewatching them getting back the feelings i had during the pre-release.
Nest data hub is fun, lots of facts about robots and you can study the diffents versions going back to G1.
Bay in Tokyo was a fun little featurette also, funny when the try to transform Michael.
25 years of transformers is nothing special. Interviews with hasbro and talking about the brand.
My favorite featurette of all is giant effin movie. Its funny personal and one of the best supplemets ive seen ever! I see the image of my mother! Dear god i laughed so hard i almost feel of the couch! When i see this i wish i had worked on this movie.
And i still havent solved the allspark experiment, dear god i want the message from the future! When i come home i will play this game till i have all the robots, come hell or high water this puzzle will be defeated!
So thats a little on disc 2.
Disc 1 is the movie, its sounds awesome the transfer is great! No changes from theatrical cut at all. Im hoping that there will be a different version in the future, dont take me wrong i love the movie! Its alot better then transformers 1. Overall i was much more engaged in the storyline than i was seeing the first movie. Even though they had problems making it.
I think the movie is better because its darker, theres more adventure and emotonial scenes in it. And the first time i saw it i was chocked when prime died. So i was very engaged in the story from there, i love it when they are looking for clues to save optimus. Finding jetfire, tomb of the primes etc.
I feel a bit in a minority to say that i like mudflap and skids. I thought they were funny already when i saw it on the premiere in the theater, and that was before i read the reviews and opinions. I think they are funny and in the end they are actually pretty heroic they fight devs for christ sake. Brave little twins. When i watched the blu ray my 3 months son laughed as soon as they appeared. Babies usually dont react to movies. But he loves the twins. And the fact they are racist is bullshit. Michael Bay can´t be racist, he made the bad boys films. When i see the twins i just think of all the white hip hop wannabees out there. They are wannabees and they are young autobots who reflects teen society today.
Theres been alot of pyramids and such in movie lately but i think it fits in great in this one.
The complaints i have on the movie is that some of the jokes feel rushed. Probably because the movie was a troubled production overall. I dont mind humour in the transformers films, there are alot of jokes in rotf that are great! But there are some that are obvious improv "something that usually are great in michael bay films" that feel off. Like fallen calling mum and hash brownies on campus etc.
I also didn´t like that they have stock footage from the first film. Atleast look for alternative takes for this. And i think the movie still would have made sense without stock material. For example they use the same shot of the asteroids in space from transformers 1. If they didn´t have time for a new render, they could have just used the shots for the new movie only. Raptors scrambing also feels unesserary to reuse.
But all the good scenes in the movie overweigh the bad. Optimus forest fight is great, the end action in egypt is awesome overall.
I dont mind the small robot apperances "Rc and Jolt" it gives me a bobba fett feeling. I just see it as a good thing to have some mysterious side character robots.
Well thats what i have to tell you, great release great movie. Im pretty confident that tf3 will be special. Because theres no strike this time and more time to refine a better script.
I also hope Mikaela gets her own guardian for the next movie, just as Sam has Bumblebee. It would make sence that she and a robot like RC would be friends because she likes to ride a motorcycle.
What if we leave and youre wrong! Optimus is awesome!
I hopefully will get the 2 disc transforming Bumblebee tomorrow or Wednesday. They're also selling a boxset with TF1 and TF2, but normal versions.
Can't wait for my transforming little DVD!
Got my Blu-Ray at Blockbuster (2 Discs) around midnight.
Got mine! I tried to get that Optimus game to work, but it's so difficult. I pointed my camera at it like a webcam and go it to come up on my computer, but it just didn't work.
They call me Ratchet Girl for a reasonl.
Yeah, I'm a girl...SO FREAKING WHAT????
I will always love Ratchet. Don't even try to take my title.
Wal-Mart. Midnight. Feel Dirty.
Got mine at Wal-Mart last night at midnight as well. Watched most of the movie and then stopped it and put commentary on, but I feel asleep. I had to at least watch through the forrest battle. Looked absolutely awesome!
got my copy hour ago. omg it look great, especially the forest scene. shift aspect ratio ftw!!!
Michael Bay: Speed Demon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE1qfi_Avto
Michael Bay Tribute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJes7Etbkzw
okay, i got my steelbook from futureshop..its awsome..BUT i went to two Walmarts and they had NO IDEA what the 'Imax version' was; they didnt have it....now, is it exclusive to USA?
try Big Screen Edition, they might know. if not, then they fail
Got my Imax version today already. Sucks for those of you who dont have it yet. Sucks for me because now Im stuck at work for the rest of the day.
Got it. Can't wait to hear the commentary...always my favorite part.
im getting it in 45 minutes!! w00t!!
I just gotta keep telling myself that the MB autograph will be worth the wait! But, its makin' me crazy! I so suck at that whole "patience" thing!
Bot Girl
~~Age and treachery beats youth and skill every time!
~~You say "Nerd," I say "Intellectual Badass!"!
The Wal-mart/Imax version is great. Its a shame they put that sticker on a cardboard graphics cover... leave the sticker on or risk it


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Today in Germany, Sony dropped some game-industry bombshells at its press conference at the 2009 GamesCom expo. Chief among them is the new PS3 Slim due out next month--a new version of the PS3 that's lighter, consumes less electricity, and, most importantly, is cheaper, at a price of $299 US, €299 in Europe and £249 in the UK. The current PS3 models each had $100 shaved off of them: effective tomorrow, the 80GB PS3 will be $299 and the 160GB PS3 will be $399.
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In addition, the company announced new online service features and new developments for the PSP, including a comic-book reader application and a brand-new format for PSP games: PSP Minis. These cheaper, "snackable" games must be under 100MB and will be sold only via download, with the first titles being Sudoku and Tetris from Electronic Arts.
To make sense of the news avalanche, GameSpot editors now offer their gut reactions to Sony's announcements--and how they'll affect the now-white-hot console wars.
Ricardo Torres | Editor in Chief
Ready to rumble...finally.
It's nice to see Sony coming to the party with a price cut and a really solid hardware configuration. The new PS3 slim announcement, although not the best-kept secret in the world, along with the other bits of info Sony gave out at its German press conference, is showing the fighting spirit people have been expecting for a while. The global price cut, the new PS3, and the PSP Minis were all good to see.
The PS3 price cut makes a direct comparison between the PS3 and Xbox 360 easier, which should make things interesting later this year. At this point, the PS3 looks like a better deal on paper, with built-in Blu-ray, built in Wi-Fi, and a 120GB hard drive you can upgrade if you want. On the other hand, the Xbox 360 has Xbox Live and Marketplace, which still overshadow the PlayStation Network in terms of content. So we'll just see how this plays out by the end of the year. There are lots of really good reasons to buy a PS3, so personal preference (and probably several boatfuls of marketing dollars) may be what determines which system winds up winning the hearts of shoppers this holiday season.
The PSP Minis stuff sounds neat, I just want to see some of these games in motion. Hopefully our crew at GamesCom will get their hands on some and bring us news. Oddly enough, I'm more excited about the comic reader for the PSP. What? I'm a comic nerd and I travel. Being a comic nerd means I sweat the condition of my comic books. You think I'm going to lug around mint-condition books on a plane? Hell no. Digital comics to take with me? Hell yes. Now I just want more publishers on board. Marvel's cool, but where are DC and the indies?
It was also good to see some new PSP games announced. I'm really curious to see what's being done with Eye of Judgment. I actually liked the original and wouldn't mind a portable version for some card battling on the go. The only blemish to the PSP news is the price of the Go. It would be great if there were either an 11th hour price reduction or...a free Gran Turismo PSP like they're doing in Europe.
Overall I'd say Sony's headed, albeit belatedly, down the right path (if you shrug off the PSP Go's $249 price tag). Now that the playing field is more level, it's going to come down to content, and there's some really outstanding exclusive stuff coming to the PS3 in the coming months. Here's hoping things keep rolling next month at TGS.
Andrew Park | Managing Editor
Sony's press conference at the 2009 GamesCom event is over, and the company has revealed a ton of new hardware and game announcements. The most interesting to me are the obvious PS3 Slim price point, confirmed for $299 US (€ 299 in Europe, £ 249 in the UK) and the announcement of PSP Minis games that will apparently be constrained to a file-size cap of 100MB.
Obviously, the PS3 price drop is great news for consumers everywhere and could be a big win for Sony by Christmas. A $300 Blu-ray player is nothing to sniff at, especially when it also plays awesome games like inFamous and Resistance 2 and will be supplemented by upcoming releases like Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. This is also a smart move for a Western consumer market that finds itself strapped for cash as a result of ongoing economic problems and makes the once-pricey PS3 seem much more accessible. After all, it's just $50 more than the Wii now.
I'm also intrigued by the announcement of the PSP Minis, I guess partially because they were announced at a European show among the company of excellent Euro-developed games such as Little Big Planet. Even though consumers haven't always gotten the best treatment from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (considering all the late releases and higher price tags), the EU's development community has done outstanding work with Sony hardware, both for the living room and for portables.
I have mixed feelings about capping the file size of PSP Minis at 100MB--it's understandable given the PSP Go's download-only game delivery (since the hardware doesn't have a UMD slot), but I'm concerned it may constrain development for the handheld itself. The PSP is a big, beautiful handheld with a lot of power under the hood, and it would be a shame to see the game library go from top-flight games like the Soul Caliburs and the Gran Turismos to lower-quality, rush-job games that got the nod because they were cheap to produce and weighed in at under 100MB.
Tor Thorsen | Senior News Editor
Nearly three years after the PlayStation 3 was launched, Sony has finally decided to get competitive. This price drop removes the last smacks of Kutaragi hubris from Sony's marketing campaign, which began in 2006 with the presumption that Joe Gamer would plunk down $600 because the PS3 had the word "PlayStation" on the box. Despite a bevy of features, that didn't happen. Sony has been staring at Microsoft and Nintendo's hindquarters ever since--a trend Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai has apparently had enough of.
Now, the 120GB PS3 Slim is the best deal in video gaming, period. Even if, as rumored, the 120GB Xbox 360 Elite matches its $299 price later this month, Microsoft now finds itself soundly trumped on the feature front. For the same price, consumers get a Blu-ray player--unavailable on the Xbox, period--and built-in Wi-Fi, which costs an outrageous $100 extra for the 360. Though it lacks the Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm integration the 360 will get later this year, the PS3 offers direct access to those sites via its Web browser. (Netflix streaming remains Microsoft's sole platform-exclusive service, although third-party apps can fix that as well.) Throw in Sony's far more reliable hardware--which is now more energy efficient, cooler, and quieter thanks to a smaller 45nm-process Cell chipset--and it's a package too attractive for any serious gamer not to own.
But now that the price playing field is leveled, Sony has to catch up in two areas. While free, the PlayStation Network remains a far less robust and compelling experience than the gold standard, Xbox Live (which, like the 360's wireless adapter, isn't free). The other is blockbuster exclusives, which, up until recently, Microsoft has done a better job of locking down, with megahits like Halo 3, Gears of War 2, and the Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable content. Following the less-than-stellar sales of Killzone 2 and Infamous, that too looks set to change with Uncharted 2: Among Thieves due this fall and God of War III due next March.
Nintendo and Microsoft, the ball is in your court.
Giancarlo Varanini | Editor-at-Large
The price cut for the PS3 is fantastic and long overdue for a system that has struggled to make major inroads--at least on the sales charts--against its competitors. And while I usually like the idea of system redesigns, the approach taken with the PS3 Slim seems to fall outside the rubric for a typical refresh. In other words, the smaller PS2 was introduced in 2004 as a means for reintroducing the system to the market and giving it new life on store shelves. Meanwhile, this new PS3 has been birthed by the need to cut costs on manufacturing in order to allow a more competitive price point.
The result is a design approach that goes far, but not far enough. Sure, it's ostensibly smaller in terms of volume, but it still carries a similar footprint when laid flat, and that bothers me for some reason. Of course, I'm looking at this as someone who already owns a PS3 and likes the current PS3 design, so perhaps this slimmer system--combined with a new price--is exactly what's needed for those sitting on the fence.
I'm glad that the PSP wasn't completely overshadowed by the PS3 announcement, however. The PSP Minis program sounds like a great idea for a system that has been woefully neglected by the masses despite having some amazing games released for it over the past year or so and some equally cool titles coming up in a few months. A constant barrage of PSP Minis should help keep it at the forefront in between bigger releases, and this could lead to some interesting crossover between iPhone and PSP development.
Shaun McInnis | Associate Editor
I had the pleasure of watching the Sony GamesCom press conference live and in person. It's hard to say the crowd was abuzz with speculation over what the big news of the night would be, since pretty much everyone knew the PS3 Slim was going to be announced. In fact, a temporary billboard cover across the parking lot from the entrance read "Watch this space 18-08-09" prior to the show, only to be removed later with a shot of the PS3 Slim and the phrase "It's the new PlayStation 3!" greeting those leaving the conference later in the evening. Nobody in line thought this was going to be an ad for Kolsch beer or a knockwurst sale at your local Aldi supermarket.
However, when Kaz Hirai took to the stage at the end of the night, the crowd still roared over the official unveiling of the Slim. You certainly can't go wrong with a new PS3 that manages to be smaller and more energy efficient than the old model at a price that's $100 cheaper. If you complain about that, you're insane--or you're someone who just bought the original PS3 last week. On top of that, the new PSP Minis store seems like a fun idea that could give Apple's App Store a run for its money in terms of light and cheap independently developed games. And while I'm not much of a comics fan, the deal with Marvel to distribute its books over the PSP seems like a neat idea as well.
The rest of the news seemed pretty heavily focused on the show's primarily European audience. A new BBC iPlayer for the PlayStation 3, a video store for the UK audience at long last, Gran Turismo PSP as a free download for people who buy a PAL-region PSP--these are things that don't really interest a Yank like me. But for the European market, I'm sure they're quite exciting. Overall, it was a surprisingly interesting show from start to finish. Nice job, Sony.
Andre Segers | Game Guides Editor
Forget the price drop. I'm pumped that the Slim now has actual power and eject buttons instead of that touch-sensitive nonsense. At any rate, the reduced price is a welcome (if completely expected) announcement. Although I still think it's overpriced for a game console, it should give the sales figures a nice kick start as we enter the holiday season, which is something the PS3 has long needed.
The rest of the conference seemed relatively noneventful. I don't personally care about new PSP colors or using said device to read comic books. I do hope Heavy Rain comes out soon, if only so they can stop showing it at every single press conference. It was disappointing that more wasn't shown of the new PS3 motion controller, but I'm eager to see what they have in store for TGS.
That said, the announcement of the PSP Minis (despite the poor name) is exciting, as it should allow bite-sized, iPhone-style games to flourish thanks to the PSP's...what's the word...oh right: buttons (eat your heart out, iPhone). And from what was shown, it looks like the catalog is already more impressive than the entirety of the DSiWare store. Hopefully this idea will be embraced by developers and gamers alike, as it may pave the way for games more befitting a portable system than the myriad downsized console ports that currently infest it.
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On the 2nd of July a cheerful and loud baby girl was born. The little girl soon developed her love for music and at a young age she started singing and playing instruments such as the drums, piano, jembé, etc. When she turned 6 she appeared in the choirs of music shows on Belgian channels. At school she and her brother were very involved in the school play and choir. Around the age of 10 she already owned an impressive collection of music instruments. When she turned 17, she developed an interest in the art of mixing music. That is when her father came home one day with the best present ever: 2 turntables. After some practice it soon became obvious that she had a gift for mixing. By the end of the next year she started to make her first
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but has a little diff with your aim , it is not open source database. It's so expensive.
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I am looking for ideas how to scale database horizontally as opposed to adding more CPUs, memory and disks on a single machine.
Here are the main requirements:
We need to store apporx 300 GB of data a month. It will be OLTP system.
We want to use commodity hardware and open source database. we are willing to
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table should be returned in 2 sec.
Start with one server, when it reaches its capacity add one more server and so on.
Oracle RAC doesn't fit as it is single storage system. MySQL cluster database replicates data to all its cluster- we don't want to replicate the data.
I am trying to emulate google type file system with RDBMS capabilities something like a database farm where each database work independently. A query is submitted to all databases in the farm, matching data found and gathered at one place and returned as single output.
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09/20/2013 10:44amThe KSL Sports team has made their predictions for this week's games featuring Utah State against Pac-12 opponent USC, and BYU hosting in-state rival Utah.
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09/20/2013 4:32pmLinebacker Spencer Hadley was suspended Tuesday by BYU for unknown Honor Code violations. The details surrounding Hadley's violations, however, may have an impact on BYU, following allegations that a booster loaned money to Hadley as part of a trip to Las Vegas.