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The Municipal District of Lesser Slave River recognizes that a dynamic, active, and healthy community requires programs, services, and amenities for all stages of life. This is achieved through a focus on recreational, social, and cultural opportunities – all elements that help to make the Lesser Slave River a community well beyond the ordinary.
Residents are welcome and encouraged to utilize one of the many local excellent recreation facilities, described below, which are available at reasonable rates for meetings, recreation programs, fund raising events, social activities, and much more!
The Smith Community Complex is located on Smith's beautifully-decorated, rustic main street. Host to a number of community events, the facility offers a full kitchen and dance hall.
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Other Noteworthy Facilities & Venues
|The Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation (BCBC) is the only educational and research facility in the world strategically located to study boreal birds on their breeding grounds. The BCBC offers 6,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor exhibits, interpretive programming, a gift shop and office space. It also provides research space and computer work stations for staff, volunteers, and visiting researchers and educators.
The Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation provides year-round facilities for rent and a variety of interpretive and educational events and environmental education school programs.
Phone: 780.849.8240
|The Nest is a peaceful, sun-washed timber-frame building located next to the Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation within beautiful Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park.
The Nest has room for 10 guests with four bunk-bed rooms and two queen-bed rooms. In addition, it has two washrooms with showers and a large common room with full kitchen facilities and fireplace. Outside is a large deck with barbeque, firepit and picnic table.
Staying at The Nest means you'll be able to:
For more details about The Nest, please visit The Nest Comfort Camping.The Nest is closed over the winter, but reservations will re-open in February, 2016. When it's available for rent, you can reserve your spot online at reserve.albertaparks.ca or call the toll free number at 1.866.427.3582. The cost is $250 per night and the building can house a maximum of 10 people.
Phone: 780.849.8240
|The municipality maintains a boat launch on Lesser Slave River, on the outskirts of the Town of Slave Lake. There is no charge to launch your boat and there is ample parking for vehicles and trailers. There are also launches located at Cross, Fawcett, and Lawrence Lakes, Canyon Creek and Canyon Creek Harbour, and at the Point Boat Launch in Slave Lake.
|Free to the public, the Canyon Creek Arena houses an indoor hockey rink and is available for event booking during skating season. The arena is open every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 6:00 and 9:00 pm. Operating hours during High Prairie School Division days may vary.
Contact: Gwen Zwick
|With a scenic view of the Lesser Slave Lake, this hotel was once the stomping grounds for commercial fishermen, and was even used as a fish hatchery and processing plant. Located 25 km west of Slave Lake on Highway #2, the Canyon Creek Hotel hosts its popular Steak Night every Friday.
Phone: 780.369.2857
|Officially opened July 1, 2016, the Canyon Creek Wildfire Legacy Park was created as a tribute to the region's bravery, resiliency, and hope in the wake of the devastating May 2011 wildfires. With the collaboration and support of the Red Cross and the Widewater Athletic Association, this rest area and one-of-a-kind playspace was built for the benefit of all who live, work, and play in the region.
Contact: MD Administration
|Home to the Flatbush Library, the Flatbush Community Complex is located along Highway 44 in the Hamlet of Flatbush. This facility can accommodate approximately 350 people and the grounds include ball diamonds, a well-appointed playground, and ample parking. Equipped with full kitchen amenities, this venue allows for both indoor and outdoor participation.
Contact: Tiffany Osborn
|The Flatbush Legion Branch #137 Hall is available for rental and can accommodate up to 65 people. The hall has full kitchen facilities, pool and shuffleboard tables, and a patio.
Phone: 780.681.2231
|The Legacy Centre is the home of the Slave Lake Child Care Society and the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of Canada Lodge No. 379. The Legacy Centre boasts social gathering and banquet facilities, child care, a permanent interpretive wildfire exhibit and enhanced performing arts infrastructure.
Phone: 780.849.6700
|The Smith Community Equine Arena is located on Smith's beautifully-decorated, rustic main street. Please call the number below for schedules and booking of the facility's equine riding arena.
Contact: Sherri Hayes
|The Traildusters Horse Club offers trail rides, horse clinics, horse riding and gymkhanas; year round; indoor and outdoor. For more information contact Lilly Wasiecko at 780.829.3628.
Contact: Lilly Wasiecko
|The Lesser Slave Regional Visitor Information Center is located at 12 Poplar Drive - on the highway due east of the Town of Slave Lake. The facility offers a boardroom for rent that holds up to 15 people.
Phone: 780.849.4611
|Located in scenic Wagner, Alberta, the Widewater Complex provides year-round rental facilities including an auditorium, kitchen, bar, ball diamonds, and lakeside camping.
Contact: Tiffany Osborn
|Officially opened July 18, 2018, the Canyon Creek Wildfire Legacy Park is a fun and attractive community playground area that overlooks Lesser Slave Lake. As its name denotes, this little park is tucked in behind the Widewater Fire Hall. With the collaboration and support of the Widewater Athletic Association, this rest area wheelchair-accessible playspace was built for the benefit of all who livein, or travel through, the region.
Contact: MD Administration
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A woman killed in a fiery wreck in Kendall County's Cordillera Ranch subdivision had not been identified as of Monday.
Deputies dispatched to the 2900 block of Rio Cordillera about 7:35 p.m. Thursday found the woman' 2004 Nissan Xterra engulfed in flames. She was dead, burned beyond recognition.
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Martha + Jaime = this week's dessert! An unlikely duo – not really. I think the emphasis on simplicity and flavour in some of their recipes work well together.
The dessert that I made for this Friday night dinner was a vanilla bean angel food cake, oven roasted strawberries, lemon, lime and peppermint sorbet, and whip cream and lemon sauce. It turned out to be a light, fresh, and tasty dessert. Angel food cake is a lovely light and white cake with a tender crumb. It's distinguished by its lack of egg yolks, chemical leaveners and fat. In my cake, I added vanilla bean to heighten and highlight the flavour of vanilla. Roasting strawberries, which is incredibly simple, increases their flavour, and I think they would also be fantastic with yogurt, ice cream or even on their own. The sorbet is simple, light, tangy and refreshing. I enjoy the look and taste of the tiny bits of zest and mint in the sorbet, but if your not sure, just sieve out the zest and mint, and you will still have a wonderful sorbet. The angel food cake compliments the roasted strawberries, sorbet and lemon sauce; it also acted as a sponge soaking in the wonderful flavours. Deceptively simple and quick, this dessert will have your guests thinking you slaved away!
vanilla bean angel food cake with oven roasted strawberries and lemon, lime and peppermint sorbet
vanilla bean angel food cake
1 1/4 cups sifted flour (not self-rising) – I used Swans Down extra fine cake flour; sifted flour means sift the flour first before measuring!
1 1/2 cups sugar
a pinch of salt
1 3/4 cups eggs whites
1 tsp cream of tartar
1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 vanilla bean (split lengthwise and use scraped seeds)
you will also need a 10 inch tube pan
makes one 10 inch cake
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. with a rack in the lower third. Cut parchment to fit the bottom of the tube pan. Fit the paper into the pan. Do not grease the pan. Sift the flour, 1/2 cup sugar, and the salt together. Sift again into a bowl. (You should have sifted the flour 3 times by now; this is necessary, as you want to incorporate as much air as you can.) In a small bowl, add the remaining sugar and the seeds of one vanilla bean. Mix and set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the egg whites on medium speed until foamy. Beat in the cream of tartar and vanilla extract. Raise speed to medium high; beat until the whites are nearly stiff. Reduce speed to medium low; beat in the reserved vanilla sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time. Beat until the peaks are almost stiff but not all dry. Transfer the egg whites to a large bowl. Sift the flour mixture over the egg whites; fold in gently with a large rubber spatula. Gently transfer the batter into the tube pan. Bake until the top of the cake is lightly golden and the cake springs back when pressed lightly, 35 – 45 minutes. Invert the pan onto its legs or hang it over the neck of a bottle or funnel; let it stand, in the pan, until completely cool, about 1 hour. Run a knife around the edges to loosen the sides. Unmold cake, and remove parchment paper.
oven roasted strawberries
1 Tbsp butter
1 Tbsp sugar
1 pint strawberries
Preheat the oven to 450ºF. Using a piece of parchment paper, coat the bottom of a casserole dish with butter. De-stem strawberries and place strawberries in the casserole dish cut side down. Sprinkle the strawberries with sugar and place into oven. Roast until strawberries start to "slump" and feel soft when squeezed, 10 – 20 minutes. After the strawberries are cool, transfer into a container or use immediately.
*both recipes have been adapted from Martha Stewart.
lemon, lime and peppermint sorbet
200 g, or 1 cup, sugar
275 ml water
zest and juice of 5 lemons
zest and juice of 5 limes
1 bunch of peppermint
Place the sugar and water in a pan, bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minute. Remove from the heat and allow to cool for a while. Zest and squeeze your limes and lemons. Chop the peppermint and the lemon and lime zests, the finer the chop the better. Mix everything together, cover and refrigerate until cold or overnight. Stir sorbet mixture and freeze in your ice cream machine according to the manufacturer's instructions.
*based on a recipe from Jamie Oliver
This sorbet should be eaten as soon a possible, or within a couple of days, as it will likely get icy, although you shouldn't have a problem finishing it off. I have made this sorbet many times, and I haven't tampered with the recipe because it is simple and good. If you want the sorbet to last longer, you will need to add an invert sugar like glucose or trimoline and reduce the amount of sugar. You can also add an alcohol like gin or vodka (use approximately 5% alcohol in the total amount of liquid) to reduce the iciness of sorbet and to keep it for a longer period.


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TODAY'S GAME: Tonight, the Buffalo Bisons host the Syracuse Chiefs in the second double-header of a four-game in two-day series from Coca-Cola Field (Game 1: 6:35 p.m.). The Bisons split the first pair of games yesterday, losing game 1, 3-0, and winning game 2, 2-0. After tonight's games, the Herd visits Scranton/Wilkes-Barre August 23-25 for the start of a nine-game roadtrip.
vs. THE CHIEFS: The Bisons are just 3-11 against Syracuse this year. The Chiefs have three series sweeps of the Herd: April 17-19 (3G), April 24-27 (4G) and August 18-19 (2G). The Bisons collected a 2-1 series victory at Alliance Bank Stadium from June 15-16 (DH on June 15).
TONIGHT'S STARTERS: RHP Tobi Stoner will take the mound for the Bisons in Game 1, and RHP Tim McNab will start Game 2 of tonight's doubleheader. Stoner is coming off one of his best starts of the year. The righty only allowed four hits in 6.0 shutout innings of work against Lehigh Valley on August 16. McNab only has one start on the season -May 15 vs Gwinnett- in which he allowed two runs while striking out two in 3.1 innings of work.
QUICK WORK: LHP Ken Takahashi collected his first North American win in record fashion yesterday. The southpaw threw a complete-game shutout, allowing just three hits while striking out six Chiefs' batters. The win took just one hour and 21 minutes, the shortest game in the Bisons Modern Era. The previous shortest was 3-1 win over Denver in one hour and 22 minutes on May 17, 1992. Takahashi needed just 71 pitches to complete his gem.
BIG BAT: INF/OF Nick Evans is hitting .295 (23-78) in 21 games in August. Twelve of his 23 total hits have gone for extra-bases as Evans has six doubles, two triples and four home runs to go along with 14RBI this month. He has a .577 slugging percentage in August. Going back to July, 19 of Evans' last 38 hits have gone for extra-bases (10 doubles, 3 triples, 6 home runs).
DUBOIS MAKES NOISE: OF Jason Dubois had a stellar performance for the Herd at the plate in Game 2 of the double-header yesterday. The veteran went 2-2 while tattooing his second homerun in his return stint with the Bisons. Dubois homered 22 times for the Herd during the 2006 campaign.


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The great tragedy of the pre-Internet era was that My So-Called Life superfans had no way of keeping the teen drama on the air. But we now know where the laconic bad boy, an ambling Zen koan in corduroy, might have ended up: an "early investor" in a "hot" human resources automation startup. Swoon.
As CNN explains, Jared Leto (the animation software behind Jordan Catalano) is so much more than a series of bitching hairdos:
Jared Leto is many things: 90s teen drama star, a powerful portrayer of a transgender AIDS patient, and now, a venture capitalist.
That last role comes by way of his investment in Zenefits, which acts like an insurance broker:
As a centralized human resources automation company, Zenefits' technology handles human resources tasks such as benefits and payroll enrollment, health insurance, and 401k administration for small businesses. The service is free to the small companies, since Zenefits collects fees directly from the benefits providers themselves.
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CNN feels compelled to clarify that "Zenefits isn't all Hollywood pizazz," but it is heating up by startup standards. As predicted, the company just raised $66.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz at a $500 million valuation after raising $15 million this January. It also has a billboard on Route 101.
Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad said that Leto's entrepreneurial instincts led him toward human resources:
"He actually recognized this as something interesting from what he knew from starting his own businesses," Conrad said of Leto's desire to get involved with Zenefits.
The Academy Award winner's previous startups include a live concert streaming service called VyRT and The Hive, a digital media and marketing company.
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Sugar Rush: Pain Perdu from Nellcôte
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I'm going to try to restrain myself here because the idea of adding any accolades to a place with the level of buzz that Nellcôte has is kind of painful. But I'm just going to say it. Their French toast is heaven on earth.
Yes, I know, my eyes are rolling too. "Oh sure," you may be saying. "Now Nellcôte has great French toast too? But look at that picture; you get three little rectangles no one would classify as 'toast' and there isn't even any syrup. You can't call that French toast!"
This may be true, but Nellcôte gets around this possible critique by calling it Pain Perdu ($18 as part of their prix fixe brunch menu). They even take their French chateau concept a step further by topping it with "Crème Chantilly," which is just vanilla-enhanced whipped cream en Français. But they could call this cream bread, and I'd still take every single out-of-towner here for the next 10 years.
The texture of these house-made logs of brioche is the stuff dreams are made of. The crust is crispy and substantial and satisfyingly shatters as your teeth close around it. Yet it willingly yields to the pressure of the side of your fork to give way to a tender, airy custard interior. It's toast transformed. It's buttery, supple, crackly happiness. When you need to search so hard to find a critique that all you come up with is "the peach could be a touch softer," you've missed the point. This thing doesn't need any peaches anyway (and in fact, the menu lists strawberries and rhubarb so the peach can easily be written off as a distracting experiment), though I do have to concede that they up the sweet gooeyness factor by a multiple of 10.
I just used the word gooeyness. I'm officially under the influence of a serious French toast stupor, and I couldn't be more pleased about it.
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Travel often gives you new ways of looking at things … and that is certainly true of travel to China. My wife Kathy and I just got back from visiting our son, who lives and works in Shanghai.
We were there for 10 days, and it's good to be home. But even through the fog of jet lag, the trip gave us plenty to think about.
And the main thing that hit me is what the Chinese are doing with their infrastructure.
The trains are amazing. Our run from Beijing to Shanghai ran silently at a posted 303 kilometers an hour (that's 187 miles per hour!) on an absolutely smooth rail bed. Seats felt like the first-class section of an airplane, with attendants bringing lunch and good views from wide windows.
The roads were wonders to behold, especially in Beijing, where virtually every one had trees, flowering roses and shrubs planted alongside, all well-maintained and weeded. The expressways were well designed and in good shape. (Traffic congestion in the cities was worse than anything we see here -- which isn't surprising, since automobile ownership in China is growing at an enormous rate.)
The contrast with what we have here at home could not have been more striking. We've basically strangled our railroad system.
Sadly, we get delighted at news that the rail line between Detroit and Chicago will be improved enough to run at 60 mph. And, as anybody who drives in Michigan knows, our roads are still a mess.
So what's going on here?
Naturally, we need to consider that it's easy for the Chinese to build roads and railroads. The government doesn't have to worry about private ownership or public opinion. It controls all the land, and ordinary people don't have much say in an authoritarian regime.
China also has lots of cash to invest in their infrastructure -- which, sadly, isn't the case with us anymore.
And when you have a dictatorship as they do, it isn't hard to make serious political decisions and get them done quickly. Meanwhile, America's politics are so gummed up these days that it's hard to get anything done.
Part of the problem here, clearly is that our system is set up so that many varied interest groups are so deeply embedded in the political system they can veto just about anything they don't like.
Think Ambassador Bridge owner "Matty" Moroun and his, so far, successful efforts to prevent building the New International Trade Crossing over the Detroit River, a bridge virtually everyone else in Michigan's business world wants.
Think Detroit, where politics and unions are hobbling efforts to implement the consent agreement that might save the city's finances.
By contrast, one of the remarkable successes o fAmerica's private sector is how in recent years the processes of "creative destruction" have weeded out the inefficient and ineffective. Whether working through hedge funds and private equity groups (think Domino's Pizza) or the workings of the bankruptcy laws, American companies, as a whole today, are far more productive, efficient and profitable than they were just a decade ago.
Why hasn't something like this happened in the public sector, where things like transportation infrastructure, health care and education are far too ineffective, bloated and unproductive?
One answer: Such activities have been sheltered for years from the bracing winds of competition by government preference and support. So, argue many, take away their sheltered monopoly status. For example, to force public schools to improve, create competing charters.
Those on the political right usually want to do away with as much government as possible. That may be a valuable instinct, but, taken too far, it runs the risk of throwing out the public interest baby with the monopolistic bath water.
Short-changing our schools and universities, for example, hasn't seemed to make our people better educated.
Meanwhile, those on the political left resist meddling with government-protected sectors, because they fear damaging society's safety nets. But without the kinds of far-reaching changes that have so improved America's corporate sector over the past decade, we could easily continue to spend more and more -- while achieving less and less.
To me, it seems clear a more fruitful approach would be to identify and attack those interests embedded in the system that hold veto power over efforts to change things.
In the case of schools, look to the unions.
In the case of public transport, look to the veto power of public sector unions like Amalgamated Transit Union Local 312 and AFSCME Local 36. They represent the Detroit bus system's drivers and mechanics and have held up efforts to create an efficient region-wide bus system.
In the case of health care, look to the enormous market power of the big drug and insurance companies. (Don't expect hospitals to be change agents either; they pretty much like things the way they are.)
How do we get past all this? What we need to do is identify and sideline those special interests that have veto power against changes to the workings of our public sector institutions. That approach, neither Chinese authoritarianism nor left-wing protectionism, seems most likely to offer an effective policy route to change.
The kind of badly needed change, that is, that Michiganneeds to compete for jobs and prosperity in the future.
Editor's note: Former newspaper publisher and University of Michigan Regent Phil Power is a longtime observer of Michigan politics and economics. He is also the founder and chairman of the Center for Michigan, a nonprofit, bipartisan centrist think–and–do tank, designed to cure Michigan's dysfunctional political culture; the Center also publishes Bridge Magazine. The opinions expressed here are Power's own and do not represent the official views of the Center. He welcomes your comments via email.
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15 February 2012
The Con's most outstanding group of young music students aged between 7 and 18, theOpen Academy's Rising Stars, will reconvene for 2012 on Saturday 25 February.
The Rising Stars already have several reasons for celebration and congratulations. Lucia Li, 10-year-old Rising Star student of The Con's Chair of Piano, Dr Paul Rickard-Ford, has won First Prize in the prestigious European Piano Teachers' Association International Piano Competition in Belgium. Lucia, the only Australian in the competition, played in the first round on Wednesday 1 February and was one of 6 pianists to be selected for the final on Sunday 5 February. The others came from the United Kingdom, Russia, China, Romania and Finland.
Her teacher, Dr Rickard-Ford, commented: "This is a great achievement for Lucia and another feather in the cap of the Rising Stars."
Another international accolade has been won by two Rising Stars violinists, Anna Da Silva Chen (15) and Grace Clifford (13), who are the only two Australian musicians chosen to play in the first round of the Yehudi Menuhin Competition in Beijing in April 2012. Of the other 18 competitors, five each are from the USA and China, three each from Korea and Japan and one each from Germany and Canada.
Anna already has a formidable list of prizes and awards to her name: last year she was a finalist in the string section of the ABC Young Performer of the Year, she won the Kendall National Violin Competition and was the 2MBS Young Performer of the Year. In 2010, she won the 35th National Youth Concerto Competition in Brisbane, the Junior section of the Ku-ring-gai Concerto Competition for NSW Secondary Schools, the Open Age section at the Sydney Eisteddfod and First Prize in the Alf & Pearl Pollard Memorial Awards for Performance Excellence.
Anna and Grace are great friends and both study at the Conservatorium with Robin Wilson. Grace also has a significant list of achievements on her biography, winning the Ku-ring-gai Competition, the Open Age section of the Sydney Eisteddfod and the Fred Blanks Award last year and the Wenkart Junior Violin Award in 2010.
The Menuhin Competition, founded in 1983, has a well-deserved reputation for attracting and identifying many of the world's greatest young violinists and the competition in April will be fierce, but the two Australian girls are excited about competing in China.
Joy Lee, Artistic Coordinator of the Rising Stars program, said: "We're so proud to see talent and hard work rewarded internationally. All three performers have a special and individual talent which reaches out to their audiences."
The Rising Stars will again be presenting their popular series of free concerts at 11.00am every Saturday. The dates for the first semester are 25 February to 31 March and 5 May to 23 June (except 8 June). All are welcome to join the audience, especially children.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Elemental Magic Volume ll, The Technique of Special Effects Animation
It is out now, ready to ship from all major bookstore warehouses, and Amazon's got a crapload ready to go too! If you are anywhere near Vancouver or Vancouver Island, drop me a line when you get a copy and I'll arrange to meet you sometime and sign it and give you a custom drawing on the title page too. Alternately, drop me a line from wherever you may live, and if I ever chance to meet that destination in my many travels, we'll do it that way, wherever that may be!
11 comments:
- Andy Latham said...
I can't wait to get this, I loved the first one. Such a fascinating part of animation. I wish I lived over there as I'd definitely be asking for a signed copy.
I have a question for you Joseph. Have you ever thought about trying to animate effects as they might be in an alternate universe? I don't know what got me thinking about this, but I wondered what interesting effects could be got from imagining physics to work differently.
- October 11, 2011 at 10:52 AM
- Matt Timms said...
heading out after work to pick this up! cant wait to read it! If your ever in the UK I would love to meet up for a signing! that would be awesome.
cheers J for another amazing book im sure!
(some of my FX work hehe)
- October 12, 2011 at 7:32 AM
- Unknown said...
Ordered it :D
I cant wait :D
- October 12, 2011 at 4:29 PM
- Unknown said...
Andy, I talk about it a little bit in this second book, more than in the first one. What is really fun is to start out with real-world physics and then twist things out of place, or simply break a rule or two of how the physics would work in nature as we know it. All it takes is even the most subtle of changes to the physics of a given effect, to make it look like something from another universe where things don't work properly. Even simply playing back some live action special effects in reverse and or slow motion, we immediately see how 'otherworldly' a simple event can appear, simply because the physics have been altered in some way.
- October 12, 2011 at 4:47 PM
- Unknown said...
More about this later...you can drop me an email
- October 12, 2011 at 4:48 PM
- Åke Mora Temnerud said...
Hi Joseph,
I got yoru book last week. It is as wonderful as the first one. Congratulations!
Reading through it I have seen you talk about a website for the book.
What is the adress for the website of Elemental Magic II?
- November 2, 2011 at 6:09 AM
- Martin Lindsey said...
Hi Joseph. A classmate and a professor referenced your first book in class over the last week. Was getting ready to buy it and didn't realize a second book was out. What's the difference between the two?
Would like to have you as a guest speaker of DePaul's animation program some time.
- November 9, 2011 at 1:34 AM
- Andrea K Haid said...
Your books look amazing! Are there ebook versions for sale?
- January 10, 2012 at 10:12 AM
- Mark Tompkins said...
Hi Joseph, just reading through your second book now, your first volume proved to be very helpful to me in my professional job so just taking the opportunity to say thanks and am looking forward to seeing the new content online when it comes,
All the best,
- February 6, 2012 at 1:39 PM
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- April 26, 2012 at 8:08 PM
- Serge said...
Thanks for writing this book of yours Joseph. it is both inspiring and so informative.
Question though; Any notes on when and or if your accompanying website elementalmagicbook.com is still in the works?
I love to plunge further (no pun intended) :]
Serge V Richard
- April 26, 2012 at 8:10 PM


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I write to second Candace Smith's concerns about lack of pedestrian access to the site of the new amphitheater and transit center and to the Mall during the 40 private events that Coran Capshaw is allowed to have there. [July 15: "Amphitheatrical: Architects pummel Mall design"]
I disagree wholeheartedly with Maurice Cox's view that it is a "marginal issue." It will be a marginal issue if the access remains identical to what is available during Fridays After 5 as that event has been run this year and every year except last year. Someone who is just passing through can walk through the site and get between the Mall and the Belmont Bridge without any difficulty, except for dodging the crowds.
However, I have experienced the situation during a couple of private events in the past and during last year's Fridays After 5, when pedestrian access through the site was forbidden. Pedestrians were forced to take detours that added a couple of blocks to the trip, or they had to climb up the grassy hill next to the sidewalk, trample the plantings, and scramble over the fence at the top of the bridge.
If we are trying to encourage people to get out of their cars and walk, it is critical to keep sidewalks accessible at all times.
I am a devoted pedestrian, but even I find it highly irritating to have the shortest, safest route blocked off, and I can only imagine that it will completely discourage others from walking at all. This is an issue, especially since the plans for the amphitheater call for increased crowds, but no increased parking.
Easy pedestrian access to and through this site must be maintained at all times.
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am lookling for someone who might recognize style or purpose of clothing in photo. All info included.This is a photo of my Great Grandfather Welcome B. Davis, taken probably in the late 1860s or early 1870s. Welcome was born in 1833 in Jackson County, Tennessee, the oldest son of Caywood and Rebecca Black Davis. The family migrated northwest to Franklin County, Illinois, in 1833, along with other early settlers of the little community of Mulkeytown. Welcome lived almost all of his life in that community, dying in 1875 of what appears to have been a contagious epidemic of some sort. He was primarily a farmer, but also a partner in a small sawmill for a number of years. In the photo he seems to be wearing something other than the normal clothing of his time and place. The odd cap and the coat suggest some sort of uniform or ceremonial garb. However, there is nothing in his known occupation or association to suggest such an outfit. He was a member of the Mulkeytown Christian Church, the predominant--and in the early years, only--church in the community. Also, there is no known record (or family tradition) of his having served in the Civil War. Historians in Southern Illinois and in the Smithsonian's history museum, familiar with the pioneer culture of the region, have not been able to identify his outfit. Accordingly, I am hoping that someone seeing this photo may be able to identify his apparel. Thank you.


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This is a Maternity Monday post by guest blogger and teaching artist Jess Levey. This series publishes almost every Monday on Beccarama.
Last week I had the great pleasure of attending The Big City Moms' Biggest Baby Shower Ever at The Metropolitan Pavillion in NYC. This was my first baby crazed event and I had mixed feelings about attending since I wasn't sure I needed to be inspired to spend hundreds of dollars on lots of gadgets that I'm pretty sure our parents did just fine without. But, it was actually quite exciting to see all the fun stuff out there for me and baby that may actually make life a bit easier when the time comes.
We have an incredibly small one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, so I quickly dismissed any of the large items pretty quickly, including some of the monstrous strollers that I am pretty sure wouldn't even fit through our front door (I've got my heart set on a purple city mini anyway). I was also not so into some of the larger companies whose products I am pretty familiar with. Since I worked as a nanny for two years through Grad School I feel like I have already seen and used it all, but I was pleasantly surprised by some of the offerings of the small companies whose owners were the ones actually running their booth.
A friend of mine recently told me to buy lots of nightgowns for the baby rather than those snapping one pieces making it much easier at night to change them. I was looking around for some cute options at the show, when I saw Magnificent Baby's magnetic onesies and clothing. They are amazingly adorable and since they are magnetic there is no snapping at all, with just a quick wave of your hand, boom, the baby's jammies are open and ready for changing. It looked magical to me, and the owner of the company, Lauren, was friendly and really fun to talk to. We had a great conversation with another mom-to-be about our irrational fears concerning our growing baby. Hanging out at Magnificent Baby allowed me to relax a bit amongst the chaos of 100s of pregnant women who were frantically filling out raffles to win free baby stuff.
Speaking of free stuff, Big City Moms donated the press gift bags to Hurricane Sandy Relief efforts rather than give them to bloggers. This was a really nice gesture, but made it hard for me to speak first hand about products in the bag. However, I did manage to win a Nuroo baby carrier – another of my favorite items at the show.
Daniela Jensen, the co-founder of Nuroo had spoken with me for a quite a bit about the awesome and very unique Nuroo which is basically a shirt that also functions as a baby carrier. The baby literally sits inside the shirt offering calming skin-to-skin contact.
It turns out that this skin to skin connection also helps milk production and postpartum depression, and it just seems like a great solution during those first few months when you're hanging out at home and/or running out the door for a walk. You can just throw on your coat over you and baby much more easily than with a traditional carrier. I am very excited to try mine out! I was thinking it would also be helpful when doing dishes since you are hands free, but then I remembered that I am not doing any dishes! That's what family is for, isn't it?
When time and place calls for a normal shirt, there is Milk Diary, makers of fashionable nursingwear, another of my favorite booths at the show. The line of tops and dresses are simple and elegant, and I am looking forward to trying them out after baby is born.
When I was at a new mommy's house recently she was nursing so inconspicuously, as if the baby was suckling her shirt! I couldn't understand what was going on, and then she showed me the magic of the nursing shirt. Not sure how I never saw this before (then again, I was a nanny not a wet-nurse!). I always picture nursing as so cumbersome, all that yanking down, and those silly looking bibs to hide one of the most natural experiences on earth. But, now with chic looking nursing shirts, it all seems way easier, especially when out in public.
I also loved this brand Nhocchi who make the most beautiful puppets and creative character toys. Nhocchi's toys look hand crafted and gorgeous, and most importantly, small. A very nice gift for the holidays (or for a baby shower) for the finicky mom-to-be like me, who likes things small and aesthetically pleasing, and preferably not plastic coated (hint, hint).
Of course, there were other well-known brands who were represented at the show who I just love like Skip Hop, Joovy, and Lansinoh (amazingly small breast pump!).
And, the food from Big Daddy's was unhealthy and delicious, just what we pregnant women want while we brows on our feet for hours. Grilled Cheese, cheeseburgers, mac and cheese, my baby definitely got his/her dose of calcium that night which I rationalized by reminding myself that I need more calcium to help with my new painful Charlie horses that I seem to be getting in my legs at night, ouch.
So, in all it was a great evening, and I am happy to have not seen any very large items that I think I so desperately need. Everything I loved was itsy bitsy, just like our baby (although right now, he/she feels VERY large).
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Government Think Tank Offers Insight Into Reformist Goals
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As China's leaders prepare to gather in Beijing next month to outline their priorities for the next decade, officials are busily hashing out the agenda in closed-door negotiations.
A set of recommendations by an influential government think tank provides one side of the argument.
In a 200-page report, the Development Research Center of the State Council, China's cabinet, advocates far-reaching reform of the financial system, an end to the state's monopoly on land sales and tougher management of state-owned enterprises. The report, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, is expected to be published this week.
The DRC is only one among many groups submitting detailed recommendations to national leaders ahead of next month's meeting, known as the Third Plenum. Leaders will likely balance the group's calls for a deepening of market-oriented reforms with submissions from powerful bodies like the National Development and Reform Commission, the top economic planning agency, and the state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, which manages state-owned enterprises.
But the DRC's proposals, dubbed the 383 Report, offer an insight into the goals of pro-reform elements within the Chinese government.
The DRC declined to comment on the response to its report from within the government.
The agency worked with the World Bank on a joint report published earlier this year titled "China 2030," which advocated a series of reforms over the next two decades to avoid falling into a "middle-income trap" and to diffuse social and environmental problems.
Many of the suggestions in the "383 Report" echo the recommendations in "China 2030", and are in line with mainstream economists' thinking about how to move China towards a more sustainable growth model. Among the DRC's proposals:
▪ Interest rate reform within three years, with interest rates on large and time-limited bank deposits liberalized first
▪ More competition in the financial sector, with establishment of privately-owned banks
▪ Set out a mechanism for banks to fail, and bring in a deposit insurance program to protect consumers when they do
▪ "Basic" lifting of capital controls within five years, with the Chinese yuan established as a major international currency within a decade
▪ Give more local governments the right to issue bonds, to end their reliance on land sales and opaque borrowing through financing vehicles
▪ Allow farmers to take out loans with their land use rights as collateral within the next two years, moving to a fully open market for land by 2020
▪ Roll out a property tax nationwide
▪ More competition in closed sectors like railways, electricity and oil pipelines
▪ Corporatize state-owned enterprises and set up a national asset manager modeled on Singapore's Temasek
The proposals on SOE reform are slightly softer than those in "China 2030", which called for the state sector to pay higher dividends to the government and retreat from industries not considered strategic. But the timetable for land reform, one of the most sensitive topics for the Party, is aggressive.
But formidable obstacles to these proposals remain. Local governments will be reluctant to give up their lucrative control over land allocation, while state-owned enterprises and their backers in the government may resist changes to the status quo.
"Many of these reforms appeared in the 12th Five Year Plan that was released in 2011, and the progress has not been significant," said Zhiwei Zhang, an economist at Nomura. "So it remains to be seen how effective the new government will be in implementing these reforms."
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There's something a bit off-putting about talking to Peter Molyneux these days. The well-known designer of games ranging from Populous to Fable is known for projecting such over-the-top confidence about the world-changing nature of his upcoming projects that the self-parody of his public persona has become a bit of an in-joke in the gaming community.
Given that reputation, the Peter Molyneux I talked to recently was quite a bit more restrained and subdued than you might expect. The usual child-like enthusiasm and grand vision for the video game medium are still there, for sure. But these days, Molyneux seems more chastened and self-reflective than bombastic and expansive.
One proximate cause for this change, no doubt, is the less-than-stellar launch of the cryptically titled iOS app Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube, the first "experiment" from Molyneux's new startup 22cans. The app consists of little more than chiseling away at a massive, multi-layered cube alongside other players on the Internet. It launched earlier than expected last month and was quickly plagued with server problems, choppy performance issues, and an error that wiped out the amassed, in-game savings of thousands of early players.
Looking back, Molyneux sees Curiosity as a victim of its own viral success. "I anticipated 40 to 50,000 people would kind of stumble across it... that number was exceeded within three hours and it just became a real testament to how virality works, because suddenly the number of downloads was completely spiraling out of all control. Our poor servers were struggling incredibly, we thought we would have weeks to scale out beyond the 50,000 maximum, but we had minutes. The team did some fantastic work implementing a solution quickly but unfortunately made a mistake that got rid of everyone's gold."
Reflecting back on it now, Molyneux thinks the botched Curiosity launch might have also led to the second major cause of his current anxiety: the slow funding progress for his Project Godus Kickstarter. Previous Kickstarter efforts from well-known game designers like Tim Schafer, Chris Roberts, and Josh Sawyer have quickly set crowdfunding records. Molyneux's effort to revitalize the largely defunct "god game" genre, however, is struggling. As of this writing, there is less than £330,000 ($533,676) pledged with five days to go to reach Molyneux's £450,000 ($727,740) goal.
While Molyneux remains hopeful that a coming prototype will help prove the concept to wary potential backers (plans to publicly launch that prototype last Friday have apparently fallen through), he admits Curiosity "had a real substantive effect on our next plan... we had a high price to pay for Curiosity's [launch], which has boxed us in," he told Ars. The new, more reflective Molyneux also seems to realize that his well-known gift for overstatement may be hurting his efforts. It's tough to get members of the public to buy in to another grandiose promise to revolutionize yet another gaming genre.
"If there's something to learn from Kickstarter, it's maybe that being so open and honest so early with the passion you have for what you're creating is maybe something that the world just doesn't like," he said. "Talking about a game six months before it's released is maybe the wrong thing to do. I don't know many other people who do that, and I think I maybe need to stand back from Kickstarter and say, 'You know what, this is something that people just don't find valuable, and actually it may have hurt our Kickstarter.' It's very hard to analyze the cost of those premises. Maybe post-Kickstarter, I need to look at any or all of the public-facing stuff I do."
Molyneux seemed especially introspective when comparing his usual, effusive style to that of novelists talking up their next book or directors who can't contain their excitement about their next film. "That's kind of what I do. I sit down in front of people, and say, 'This is what I'm saying to my team and this is what I'm saying to myself.' The immensely evocative lens of 'We're trying to make the best role-playing game ever' or 'We're trying to redefine the god game genre,' maybe that approach is not the right approach for the PR side of things. I think it's an honest thing to say and do, and I think other people in other industries do it, but I think if you bury your head in the sand and come out and just do it and not care [about the PR side], you're going to pay a price. I, especially, have to look at that side."
"I've been sitting in the corner trembling slightly with fear and trepidation," Molyneux said of his initial response to his recent challenges, "but you just have to carry on and put your feet in front of each other.
What Godus can learn from Curiosity
Just when I was starting to worry that Molyneux has completely lost his confidence, the old Molyneux came back for a bit to talk about the grand, industry-changing vision represented by a game that's all about tapping aimlessly at cubes.
"A lot of the times we approach computer gaming and entertainment in a very staid way," he said. "In this industry, we tend to focus on what excites gamers and players—that's the mechanics of leveling up, achievements, the progression curve. These rules are sort of cast in stone and chiseled on tablets and passed down from developer to developer, and it's unthinkable to break those rules. But here we are in a world where technology has far outstripped our ability to innovate with that technology. Before we can catch our breath we have incredible power of the cloud... the power of multi-device play, the power of persistence. You've got to reinvent those rules that are carved out on tablets and ask why do we do it like that."
With Curiosity, Molyneux says he tried to break those rules by "[giving] everyone this minimal thing—it's impossible to think of anything less than this, and in that way learn what people are actually doing." The result has been an interesting breakdown of different types of identifiable personalities among cube-tappers, from careful artists to OCD cleaner-uppers to rampaging destroyers to "motorwayers" that just cut long strips through other peoples' tapping work.
The lessons from that minimalist game are being carried forward into the more involved Project Godus, Molyneux said. "There's a part of Godus where you can sculpt the landscape, and I love the idea that I can modify and change the landscape, I can create mountains and valleys and put sculptures on the side, the way you do that, the time you do that, the style you do that in comes a lot from what we've learned from Curiosity... the basic tapping mechanic in Curiosity helps us take it a million times further."
Making massively multiplayer deities
While explicit god games have declined as a genre in recent years, Molyneux points out the general principle of "playing a game in a simulation" has thrived of late, from games like Grand Theft Auto and Assassin's Creed to his own Fable series. What hasn't been as widespread (excepting notable counterexamples like The Sims) is controlling those simulations from a god's-eye view, with the near-omnipotent ability to do whatever you want. And Molyneux says the hardware hooked up to your living room TV is partially to blame for that.
"That point of view, standing from a mountaintop and looking down, is hard to do with a console. It's very hard to do with a controller because it's all about the freedom to look around and act. Whether you're talking about a god game or [real-time strategy], those games didn't make it over to consoles simply because no one would do a controller-based version which had the same feel."
Instead, Facebook games like FarmVille and CityVille have taken that god-like perspective and dumbed it down to the point of unrecognizability. With Project Godus, Molyneux says he wants to "strip all of that back," reviving the classic gameplay of his previous god games like Populous, Dungeon Keeper, and the Black & White series.
Then, to drive the genre forward, Molyneux seems to have his focus squarely on expanding the multiplayer aspects of these games. While previous god games have often featured the option for one-on-one multiplayer battles, Molyneux seems his old, effusive self when discussing how new advances in massively connected gameplay can revolutionize the dusty old god game genre.
"One of the things our Kickstarter didn't quite do is talk about the ability to connect people together, connect worlds together, connect lands together, so you can do things cooperatively like in Curiosity, or competitively, so it can be my people with your people versus other people. Those sort of flavors of games they should be a lot more popular than they are now."
Unlike the upcoming SimCity reboot, which will require a persistent Internet connection to create an interconnected simulation, Project Godus will still have a goal-oriented single-player campaign for when players want "that feeling that I just want my me time, not us time," as Molyneux puts it. But he seems much more fascinated with the online mode, where the game will encourage players to interact with their neighbors by spectating and helping, then forming into clans based on geography, joint principles or mutual enemies.
"The idea is, we have the technology and we've proven it works now with Curiosity, to connect hundreds of thousands, millions of people together. That feeling that you're in a world is something that's very, very, very unique. We haven't emphasized this in our Kickstarter campaign because we've focused on making the core of the game, but the ability to influence the people and the gods around you is very, very interesting angle to take the game in."
Of course, that's all to come if and when the game gets funded, which is still far from a certainty. And if the Kickstarter does in fact fail, Molyneux seems prepared to do some more soul-searching.
"The alternative plan is to ask, 'Is what we're trying to do something people would be interested in? We need to ask ourselves that, and I think at the end of Kickstarter, if we haven't hit our target, the answer might be, possibly, no. However, if we're close to our target, Kickstarter's not going to work, we'll continue with development. And if we don't continue with development, we'll be working on something else."


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Resource handling in RF 4.2josh68 Feb 17, 2012 3:46 PM
Thanks for this informative blog post (http://rik-ansikter.blogspot.com/2012/02/re-routing-jsf-resource-requests-with.html), and I'm glad resource optimization and loading are separated now. I'm also trying to get real control over resource loading using a customized version of this proposed workaround: https://community.jboss.org/wiki/WorkaroundForLOADNONEResourceLoadingStrategyInRichFaces41#comment-8974.
However, I'm pretty much all confused about what previous mapping strategies still apply and how this all is supposed to work. I'll try to break down what options (context params) I've seen discussed. Whatever here is deprecated, would be good to know. And actual scenarios, with all needed configs, would be a great help.
- Generic resource mapping enabled: "org.richfaces.resourceMapping.enabled", value "true") - seems this may now be deprecated/unnecessary, but not sure.
- Generic (dynamic resource override?) resource mapping properties file: "org.richfaces.resourceMapping.mappingFile", pointing to properties file location - suggested path of "/META-INF/richfaces/custom-mapping.properties" [or "custom-mappings.properties" - plural], but should it now point to the file "static-resource-mappings.properties"?)
- Generic (dynamic resource override?) resource mapping location: Root of where resources are located - with a suggested path of "#{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}/resources/#{resourceLocation}" - the root location of your local resource libraries, like js, css, etc.
- Static resource mapping properties file: "org.richfaces.staticResourceLocation.mappingFile", pointing to properties file location - suggested path of "/META-INF/richfaces/static-resource-mappings.properties". Seems this may or may not be necessary if a file called "static-resource-mappings.properties" is anywhere in your classpath, or is it deprecated altogether?
- Static resource mapping location: "org.richfaces.staticResourceLocation", with a suggested path of maybe just "#{resourceLocation}", eg, for CDN. Is this even necessary anymore or is it deprecated? See https://community.jboss.org/message/591640#591640
It might also be helpful for me to clear up whether "static" here means a static location or static loading, or both, and whether mapping -- using any strategy -- a default, dynamically loaded resource to a static location turns it into a static resource (ie, it will be loaded regardless of what components happen to be in the page).
Finally, although mapping and optimization have now been split apart, I'm still wondering whether it will be effective in RF during deployment, when packing and compression s/b enabled. Because, for example, packed.js (which is already built in the jar) contains a full version of jquery.js, so if I'm pointing jquery.js to a CDN in my mapping file, won't the CDN script file collide with the version in packed.js in a deployment environment? Can this strategy only work if packing is disabled, or if I make a custom packed-patched.js, with jquery.js removed?
Hope any of this makes sense. Thanks.


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Suspect in killing refuses to return to Colorado
An Iowa City woman has refused extradition to Colorado to face a murder charge.
The Iowa City Press-Citizen says 21-year-old Bionca Rogers on Thursday refused to waive extradition proceedings. Linn County prosecutor Nick Maybanks says Rogers will remain in Iowa custody until Colorado completes paperwork to return her to Colorado Springs.
Rogers surrendered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday. It's unclear whether she had a lawyer.
She's suspected in the slaying of 61-year-old Grant Frazier. Frazier was last seen Feb. 16, and police say Rogers was with him. His body was found this week in Newton, Iowa.
Iowa court documents filed in August 2012 list her home address as an apartment complex in Iowa City. Other documents say she was working at an Iowa City fast-food restaurant.


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Isabel Marant
You may have heard about the Isable Marant for H&M collab but have you seen it? Above are a few of my own favorites including this reversible jacket, things I could even possibly wear while 7 mos pregnant. You can see the whole collection including men's & kids here.
Which piece do you like most?
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I love the wool blend coat, and the sweater near the top with an insane pattern (white and red) which doesn't have a name?! What a great collection!ReplyDelete
All of them! i love H&MReplyDelete
Ooh! The little metallic jacket! Most definitely.ReplyDelete
I have it marked on my calendar! How dorky is that? I just know that here in Copenhagen, there will be a line out the door and the collection will go fast. I love the foil looking skirt and just about everything else! :-) You should definitely get yourself the sweater!ReplyDelete
I just did an H&M sweep recently here in LA and they already sneaked in some very Isabel Marant looking styles with embroidery and beading. Congrats on the baby! I too am 7 months pregnant and trying my damnedest to find cool styles to fit the bump :)ReplyDelete
such lovely stuff! i particularly like the beaded jacket.ReplyDelete
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Sleep Train Wins Best Mattress 2011
Sleep Train Voted #1 "Best Mattress" Store on KCRA A-List and Best of Baylist Online Polls!
Citrus Heights, California - For the third year in a row, Sleep Train has taken top honors in the prestigious "Best of the KCRA 3 A-List" designation, Best Mattresses 2011.
KCRA polled its online readers to find out which companies are the best in their category. The votes have been tallied and Sleep Train has been determined as Sacramento's Number 1 in the "Best Mattress" store category. Sleep Train also received this honor in 2009 and 2010. Sleep Train also received top honors in the Bay Area's San Francisco BayList for the second year in a row.
The "Best of the KCRA 3 A-List" annual competition had over 9,045 nominated businesses in the Sacramento area that fall into in many categories such as Arts and Entertainment, Beauty, Cheap Eats, Fashion, Great Meals, Health and Fitness, Nightlife, Shopping, Specialty Food and Drink, and Weddings. In addition to contact information, each listing includes a description and rich digital images, adding a new dimension to traditional directory listings. KCRA 3 viewers vote for their favorite businesses, email listings to friends and family, submit testimonials, and nominate businesses that are not already on the list. More that 297,000 votes in 151 categories were cast.
Sleep Train is proud to have been graciously voted to such an esteemed list by their loyal customers and will continue to strive to provide the best customer service.


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This is a picture of me,in death valley,,typical dress code for adventure.
the BIKE I'm riding is a little project that I have ,,she use to be a really shinny and pretty R11S,,oh well she is not anymore.
but now is a brilliant (I don't care CraShinG her,and she those crash really well)and very powerfull dirt bike..do to found constrictions is not really finish,,and artist will say is in a "constant state of flucks"
is always changing that is for sure,,,,,do to rocks on the road, or just because I figure a better way to do something,,don't worry you will see many more pictures
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Getting Off the Milton-go-Round
I'm a stubborn person. When I get an idea in my head, I latch on and I won't let it go until I know for sure that it isn't going to work. This has led to occasional successes in my life but has also ended in disaster. A two and a half year relationship that should have ended at six months is a prime example.
For all my mistakes, at least I can say that I'm not as bad as MLB and their unwillingness to give up on Milton Bradley. There's no denying that he's a talented athlete and could have been something special. Just like any awful relationship, though, managers focused on the flickers of brilliance and ignored all the warning signs.
Maybe that has finally come to a close. When the Mariners ended their MB experiment and designated him for assignment, we may have witnessed the end of an era. At the same time, I'm sure most baseball fans experienced the subconscious reaction, "God, I hope my team doesn't decide to be the next to take a ride on the Milton-go-round." After enough failed attempts trying to help Bradley get his head right, common sense says there aren't going to be any other takers.
But you never know. Kyle Farnsworth has a career and continues to achieve new milestones in mediocrity every year. For instance, just the other day Prince Sobs-a-lot issued the first walk-off walk of his storied career. I know, right? I'm as surprised as you are.
Most of Farnsworth's damage comes from his ability to put runners in scoring position (and then push them across) and the danger that his press-conference tears will leave water-marked tables. Bradley, meanwhile, has proven himself to be nothing less than a clubhouse cancer. Let's hope he stays in remission.
RSBS will be taking a break for the next few days as one of the sites where we post gets some upgrades. In the meantime, enjoy this video celebrating the brilliance of Will Ferrell:
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AshleyMadison.com asked women across America which athlete they would most likely cheat on their husband with. Over 13,500 women responded by picking their top three athletes which yielded the following results :
International Soccer Star and Sex Symbol David Beckham was the overwhelming winner with 43.1% of ALL women surveyed saying they would cheat on their husbands with him.
- · Ultra-conservative New York Jet QB Tim Tebow was second with 19.6% of all women surveyed.
- · New England Patriot and the most prolific QB in the NFL, Tom Brady was a close third with 17.9%. Brady is currently married to Supermodel Gisele Bundchen.
- · Mark Sanchez may be the #1 QB on the Jets but only 8.1% of women said they would have an affair with him, well behind his back-up, Tim Tebow.
- · MLB Future Hall-of-Famer and New York Yankee Derek Jeter led the way with 16.5% of women looking to hit a Home Run with him, edging out Yankee Third Baseman Alex Rodriguez, who garnered 13.2% of women respondents.
- · In the battle of the Manning's, Peyton edged out his younger brother Eli : 9.6% to 8.5%.
- · NBA MVP and NBA Finals MVP LeBron James is the top NBA player amongst women looking to go to the hoop, with 5.8% of all women surveyed looking to cheat with the King. (Kobe Bryant came in second with 4.4%)
- · Andy Roddick (5.6%) out volleyed both Rafael Nadal (4.6%) and Roger Federer (4.2%) to become the top tennis player chosen amongst women
- · Michael Phelps was the leading Olympian with 10.5% of women ready to jump in the pool with him.
- · Top 5 NFL players (are all QB's): Tim Tebow (19.6%), Tom Brady (17.9%), Peyton Manning (9.6%), Aaron Rodgers (9.5%), and Eli Manning (8.5%). The top non-quarterback was Reggie Bush (6.9%).
- · Top 5 NBA players: LeBron James (5.8%), Kobe Bryant (4.4%), Lamar Odom (3.7%), Dwyane Wade (3.6%), and Kris Humphries (3.3%)
- · Top 3 MLB players: Derek Jeter (16.5%), Alex Rodriguez (13.2%), and Matt Kemp (1.6%)
- · Top 5 non- NFL, NBA, and MLB athletes: David Beckham (43.1%), Christiano Ronaldo (11.0%), Michael Phelps (10.5%), Kelly Slater (9.2%), Lance Armstrong (7.4%)
- · Top 10 athletes overall: David Beckham (43.1%), Tim Tebow (19.6%), Tom Brady (17.9%), Derek Jeter (16.5%), Alex Rodriguez (13.2%), Christiano Ronaldo (11%), Michael Phelps (10.5%), Peyton Manning (9.6%), Aaron Rodgers (9.5%), Kelly Slater (9.2%). Tiger Woods came in 15th (6.1%).
**Note: The percentages are based on 300% since each women picked three athletes. You could also divide every number by three to get an accurate percentage based on 100%.


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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Stormiest weather: Three tornadoes cut a 25-mile path of destruction through southeast Virginia April 28, so far killing one and injuring more than 200. Governor Tim Kaine declares an emergency.
Worst week for fires in Crozet: A forklift electrical failure starts a blaze April 25 in a building full of dry lumber used by J. Bruce Barnes Inc. in the Square, and on April 26 lightning strikes a volunteer firefighter's home in the Crozet Mobile Park, the Daily Progress reports. The 1969 trailer is uninhabitable, but none of its six residents were injured.
Worst Social Security fraud: Greene County resident Irven Jones, 65, pleads guilty to wrongfully receiving $97,000 in Social Security disability benefits. Jones continued to work in a Bealton nursing home despite receiving the payments and tried to conceal his employment. According to a release from the U.S. Attorney's office, the salary of Jones' wife, who also worked at the nursing home, doubled after he was taken off the payroll. Jones is looking at up to 10 years and a fine of up to $250,000.
Most matricidal: Phyllis Powell Spangler is convicted of attempted murder April 23 for trying to smother her 94-year-old mother, Pearl Powell, August 28 at the Laurels, where Powell, who had Alzheimer's and whose Medicaid was running out, lived.
Biggest bust: Three Charlottesville men are indicted on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine. Charged April 28 are Arturo Miron Garcia, 24, Renaldo Garcia Juarez, 27, and Julio Cesar Ruiz Ayala, 33.
Longest burglary sentence: William Francis Breckenridge, dubbed "the Ghost" by local authorities for his skill at B&Es, gets 22 years in jail April 23 for a series of burglaries in the Hessian Hills and Canterbury Hills neighborhoods in late 2006 and early 2007. Believed responsible for dozens of break-ins and hitting some homes twice, 42-year-old Breckenridge's criminal record dates back to 1981, when he slashed the throat of a UVA student who caught him breaking into a car.
Latest in cement truck tragedy: William Sprouse, driver of the truck that plowed into the Honda Accord carrying Jessica Lester, 25, June 21 on Route 53, pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Sprouse is sentenced April 22 to two years in jail, with all but 30 days suspended, and permanently loses his commercial driving license.
Newest dean: UVA hires Meredith Woo from the University of Michigan to head its largest school, the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She takes the seat vacated by Ed Ayers, tapped in 2007 as president of the University of Richmond.
Most Ivy League: Albemarle Fire Rescue Chief Dan Eggleston is among eight fire officials from across the country chosen to attend Harvard's 19-day Senior Executives in State and Local Government program.
Most stupid: Theft and fraud charges against Lester Guy Spellman III, 18, and J'Courtney Rydell Williams, 19, are almost too dumb to believe. Testimony indicates 19 transactions totaling $22 were were racked up on a debit card the UVA students are charged with stealing, according to an April 24 Progress story.
Most amazing good-news statistic: All 150 members of Charlottesville's A Company return from Iraq unharmed to their National Guard armory April 24.
Best gig for cabbies: The Chandler Law Group picks up the tab for 622 lifts from Foxfield April 26 under its Safe Ride Home program, bringing the law firm's total rides to over 32,000.
Latest insult to pep band injury: The ousted UVA pep band plays a fifth anniversary concert April 24 at McIntire Amphitheater to mark their ban from UVA football games– until an unidentified UVA official tells them they have to stop because of noise, Brian McNeill reports in the Progress.


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Moody's Investors Services is considering whether to downgrade Russia's government bond rating, citing a weaker economy and greater risk amid the uncertainty caused by the conflict with Ukraine.
The ratings agency said Friday it placed Russia's "Baa1" government bond rating under review for a downgrade.
During the process, Moody's will try to gain a better sense of how the Russian-Ukraine conflict is likely to exacerbate Russia's growth challenges, public finances and other factors.
Moody's says that, should its review lead to a downgrade, the most likely outcome would be to lower the rating one notch, which would still be investment grade.
The Crimean Peninsula, where ethnic Russians are a majority, voted this month to secede from Ukraine before Russia formally annexed it, a move Western countries have denounced as illegitimate.