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"Community" is bringing out The Gimp.
Thursday's episode of the best-sitcom-you-need-to-be-DVR-ing pays homage to Quentin Tarantino's classic crime epic "Pulp Fiction." The Greendale community college clique first says cheese – or more properly, "Royale with Cheese" – in costume as Vincent Vega, Jules, Mia, Butch and yes, that creepy leatherbound S&M slave for the "Pulp-y" pastiche at a surprise party honoring Asperger-ish Abed (Danny Pudi) and his pop culture obsessions.
"I think the costumes were hands down the best costumes that we've ever had," Pudi tells PopcornBiz." I was shocked at how well each person really just kind of fit the mold for each character, especially Ken [Jeong, as Bruce Willis' boxer Butch] and Yvette [Nicole Brown, as Samuel L. Jackson's gun-toting, scripture quoting Jules]. Their costumes are just spot on perfect."
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"But what I love about that episode is that it's really not about the costumes," adds Pudi. "It's not really even that much about 'Pulp Fiction,' versus more of the gang trying to do something for Abed that they know or think that he'll appreciate. So I think it becomes more of an episode about surprises and that kind of thing and the relationship between the group. I think the group has come a long way, that they know Abed so well that for his birthday they throw a 'Pulp Fiction' surprise birthday party where we have to dress up as the character just like Abed would."
Still, the gearing up in "Pulp Fiction" garb tickled Pudi's co-stars. "It didn't evoke the movie because it looked absurd, but Ken Jeong's bald cap [as Bruce Willis] I thought was awesome," says Gillian Jacobs. "I thought that they did such a great job because it really looked like Senor Chang took a bald cap and put a bunch of marker marks on it and it looked so weird. Him in that gold boxing robe was just amazing – I could've looked at that for a week."
Jeong had his own favorite: Yvette Nicole Brown as Jules. "Her sideburns and mustache just killed me!" laughs Jeong. "I love that episode. I really think that you get to see Danny Pudi bring it. You get to see his range. You get to see why he's truly one of the most talented actors working right now. It's so cool that we're all just fans of the show and the writing.
"I really loved Gillian as Uma Thurman," says Brown. "She had her little white shirt on and her black pants and her black flats. I thought that the wig was perfect. I thought that was my favorite visual."
"And then Chevy [Chase] as The Gimp," adds Brown. "You can't get any better than that."


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Stories To Tell Before I Forget: "My Deadliest Weapon"
September 1, 2009 in Blogs! | Tags: "Stories To Tell Before I Forget", 93.8 billion farts a day, atrocious, bowels, brand-new ammunition, Bruce Banner, cafeteria lunch, Discovery Health, fart, farting, farts, farts as weapons, FIRF!, flatulence, freak, funny, gamma bomb, gas, gaseous cows, gaseous elephants, Grandpa Hi-Guy, hero, humans, innate talent/curse, Mr. Fabulous, not funny, Peter Parker, radioactive spider, rare case, smelly pain, thunder through a canyon, villain, WADs, weapons, Weapons of Ass-Destruction | 15 comments
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Stories To Tell Before I Forget:
"My Deadliest Weapon"
I have absolutely zero shame in saying the following statement: I'm a 32-year-old man and I still think farting is funny.
Of course, I can hear my mom's eyes rolling as she reads this, but it's absolutely true. I mean, just stop and think about the pure math of gas:
The world's population is approximately 6.7 billion people. The average person passes gas fourteen times a day, emitting around a liter of gas every 24 hours. That means, on any given day, 93.8 billion farts take place all across the globe, shooting almost 7 billion liters of stink into our atmosphere.
And that's just humans! That's not including gaseous cows, elephants, or Mr. Fabulous, who I'm quite sure produces far more than a liter of gas a day.
And yet, with all of this gas being passed, with nearly 100 billion farts going on in the world every single day, the topic remains taboo. Instead, we choose to ignore or lie about them, burying ourselves deep in our seats to ensure that not one whiff of an embarrassing odor leaks out into a room to perhaps–gasp!–silently make its way to someone's nose!
My Grandpa Hi-Guy (nickname, not his birth name) was a very funny man. When it came to comedy, my grandfather knew just what to say and just how to say it to make an entire room of people crack up. But one item not in his comedic arsenal was flatulence.
I remember passing gas in front of him once and reacting as if it had been the funniest thing I had ever done, or probably ever would do. Hoping to get a laugh out of the old man, I instead found myself getting yelled at. Not because I had passed gas in front of him, but because he didn't appreciate my shtick.
"It's too easy," I remember him telling me. "It's just a sound gag. Everybody does it, which makes it not funny at all."
Over the years, I took a lot of what Hi-Guy taught me to heart. I learned a lot from him, including what was funny and what wasn't. Yet, as much as I learned from him, I can't stress this enough: When it comes to the comedic value of passing gas, he was wrong.
What makes passing gas funny is the very thing that Hi-Guy said made it unfunny: Everybody does it.
If just one person in the world passed gas, he or she would be labeled a "freak." If only ten people did it, they'd be a "rare case" and Discovery Health would do an hour-long special on them. But the fact that all of us are roaming the earth and tooting along the way makes it hilarious. At least it does to me.
Maybe it's because I never outgrew it. Maybe it's because I have an innate talent/curse when it comes to flatulence. (My friends can attest to that.) Or maybe it's just because, whether we like to admit it or not, it actually is funny.
One night in the late-eighties, my mother had made my sister Bethany and me what I'm sure was a delicious home-cooked meal. (I'm trying to win points with her here, since I'm sure this particular story isn't her cup of tea.) The exact details of the meal remain hazy, but its after-effects have, over the years, become a thing of Shady legend.
As usually was the case after dinner, Bethany and I went into the living room to watch TV while our mother cleared the table and did the dishes.
That night, I was in rare form. I'm not exactly sure why it was so atrocious; possibly because of the dinner we had just finished, or maybe because of the remnants of a cafeteria lunch from earlier in the day. Whatever the suspect meal, it had caused some inner turmoil inside my bowels that rumbled through me like thunder through a canyon.
It began innocently enough: Bethany and I were sitting next to each other on the couch when all of a sudden–FIRF!
My sister reacted pretty intensely to that first one. To this day, I firmly believe that if she hadn't reacted in that way at first, she probably would have saved herself from a world of smelly pain. But the fact that I had gotten a rise out of her made one thing abundantly clear: It was on.
Just as soon as a thick cloud would dissipate, I'd be cocked and ready to fire with brand-new ammunition–FIRF!
Bethany began to move away from me, which only solidified in stone my goal of doing it near her.
She'd move to the love seat; I'd move to the love seat–FIRF! She'd move to the floor; I'd move to the floor–FIRF!
This scenario repeated itself for probably a good ten minutes. Of course, to my tortured younger sister, I'm sure it felt like days.
It went something like this:
1.) Bethany moves to a new area of the living room.
2.) I chase after her.
4.) Bethany screams.
5.) Our mom yells at both of us from the kitchen.
6.) Go back to #1. Repeat.
Finally, our mother had had enough. With Bethany's chest pinned underneath my behind, our mother stormed into the living room with a wet plate raised in her right hand, dish soap dripping down it and onto the carpet.
I was laughing maniacally. Bethany was sobbing softly. Our mother was dead serious.
Ma Shady: "JUSTIN ROBERT SHADY! KNOCK IT OFF!"
Bethany: (quietly crying)
Justin: "What?!? I'm just farting!"
Ma Shady: "You are not just farting! You're using them as weapons! Do not use your farts as weapons!"
Up until that moment in my young life, I don't think I had ever laughed harder. I spent the rest of the evening in my bedroom of course, but A) I kind of deserved it, and B) it was worth it.
That night, my gas had surpassed being merely squeaks of offensive odor. Instead, they became WADs: Weapons of Ass-Destruction.
From that point on, everything was different; I was a changed boy. I felt like Peter Parker after being bitten by a radioactive spider, or Bruce Banner after being exposed to the radiation of a gamma bomb. What would I do with such power? Would I use it for good throughout my life, or evil?
Sadly, I must admit that I've been a villain far more than a hero when it comes to flatulence. But I stand by what I've always said: It's still damn funny.
Sorry if I let you down, Hi-Guy.
A story I'll now never forget,

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Posted by: Bladeless« on: October 01, 2013, 11:46:29 AM »
The guy that tries to sell you the Red Scimitar +3 is buggin' out. You can't select the weapon to buy it when he opens the shop up, and after about 2 seconds it closes and he says he's sorry I decided against helping him. I tried killing him, but he doesn't have anything good... I want that scimitar!
This is from QP, right?
This is from QP, right?


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Gavin A. Schwartz
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 07:49
Thu, 12/15/2011 - 7:49am
Air Force Airman Gavin A. Schwartz graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
Schwartz completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Schwartz is the son of Robert and Ruth Schwartz of Chugiak and a 2009 graduate of Chugiak High School.


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1. Go to http://www.iimmgg.com/
2.Create account
3.Confirm account by clicking on the confirmation URL on the e-mail account you provided.
4. Log in to your account, sometime after you confirm the account you just created it will automatically log you in.
5.Click on the tab called "CUSTOMIZE"
6.On the subdomain type in the name of your website.
7.Go to linkbucks.com (your account) and copy your entire website url and make it into a payable link, you can make it into an "intermission" , "Pop-up" or "top banner"
8.Copy the new payable link you just created and paste it where it says Header's Link.
9.If you noticed there is a section that says "Header's Image" there you can upload a banner 900 x 100, this is just if you want, i prefer text instead but if you are creative you can create a good banner and call people's attention so they can click on it and they will be redirected to your site.
10.After you have pasted the LB payable link on the "header's link" you will see there is a bunch of stuff such as backgroud color, Content links and text color, etc. you can customize it if you want.
11.After you have customize it go to the bottom of the page and click "apply" By doing this you will be saving the current setting you just updated.
12.Go to "edit my account" tab
13.Fill in the following, Password: (type in your new password), Repeat Password: (type your new password again), Name: (type in your username or any name you would like, it does not really matter)
14.Select the Following under preferences:
When uploading pictures:
Tag pictures as Safe For Work? No
Thumbnails type: Squared (crop area that doesn't fit)
When displaying pictures:
Display "Previous" and "Next" links? No
Display "More images from this gallery" box? No
Display link for this picture? No
Display "view gallery" link? No
Display "download this picture" link? No
Display "download gallery" link? No
When displaying galleries:
Display "download gallery" link? No
When displaying picture's links:
Thumbs size: 160 x 160 pixels
Images display order: Ascending Descending
Add a line-break every: 10 pictures
Add a space between each picture: Yes
Add target="_blank" to HTML Links: Yes
15.Do not worry about stats Code section:
16. Click on update account
17. Go to the "Upload Images" tab
18.Select images you want to upload
19.On option #2 Click where it says "Display Advance Options"
20.On Max width / Height, do not do nothing there, leave it alone.
21.On "text tag Line" you are going to paste your Website URL (Do not paste a LB converted payable links, the real Website URL must be pasted on that section)
22.On "Tag Line Position" you will be various options the best of any picture for me is the Bottom Left section, choose whichever you want there is where your website url will be tagged.
23.On Gallery Title just leave it alone.
24. "New Gallery" type the name of the gallery you are about to upload.
25.On "Thumbnail Style" select "Squared (crop area that doesn't fit)"
26.On Safe for work section, here you need to be really careful if you are uploading "Adult" pictures you "MUST" select "NO", but if you are uploading "non-adult" Pictures select "YES"
27. Click on "Start Upload"
28. All your pictures will upload very fast.
29.After all the pictures get uploaded go to "Galleries" tab, and click on the name of your gallery you just uploaded, where you can the the name of your gallery you will see where it also says "View Gallery" click on it and it will take you to your gallery, scroll all the way down and click on "Posts this pictures on your blog or forum: get links for those pictures" there you will be able to see the BB-Codes, and HTML codes, even the URL for the whole gallery. Links (type 1) for Forums or BB:are the ones that work the best for most forums. Now you can convert those BB-codes and HTML codes and convert them into Linkbucks links and paste them on your forums, you will not get money by uploading images on the site but it is a good way to bring traffic to your site.
30. Click on any of the images on that gallery, if you uploaded a banner you will see that it appears there, if you are creative and you uploaded a good banner people will click on it and will be sent to your website, forum, or blog url. But if you do not uploaded a banner and left just the text you will be able to see the text only, the text is click able as well and will work the same as the banner.
I hope this site and my tutorial can help you, bring more people to your website. You need to be creative here folks.
Here is a sample of what i am talking about:
Click on this link: http://las-chicas-bonitas.iimmgg.com...1fbeff36a26e1/
On the top you will see the banner I created, click on it and it will take you to my site.
Click on any images and you will see my Website URL on the bottom of my pictures.
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Sarah Margolis-Pineo
Sarah Margolis-Pineo is a curator and writer based in Portland, Oregon. She is currently Associate Curator of Museum of Contemporary Craft.
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August 23, 2014
This is very different than our regular WTFs, if you can't tell. We found this watermelon slicer thingy on Gmarket, and thought it'd be great to try out. We were holding it off for a while, though, until we found that we needed to slice a watermelon. We had planned on doing a WANK by the Han River for weekend camping, but we were getting lots of rain, so we passed up on that. But this time we knew the time was right! Cutting watermelons by the river.
For any of you who have been following our activity lately, it's been really chaotic. We went to Sweden, and then opened up the You Are Here Cafe. Both experiences were incredibly rewarding and exciting, but they're also quite tiring. It's a lot to do! And the Eatyourkimchi Crew was all doing so many different things all separate from one another, we really felt the need to go on a family road trip and spend some more bonding time together. So, we went to a pension for the weekend. And, we figured, this would be the best time to shoot our watermelon slicer video while we were at it.
So, we sat in the river for a couple of hours. We bought a watermelon at the mart up the street (and by up the street, we mean 10km away). We were worried that the watermelon would be too warm to eat, though. We like cold watermelon. No worries, Soo Zee said: we'll just put it in the river and chill it there. SO BRILLIANT! Soo Zee, you're so brilliant sometimes. Get in touch with your inner ajumma! Or is it a common thing to chill watermelons in water? I don't know. I never did it before.
What's funny, though, is the random kids that popped up beside us. I have no idea how they got there. We didn't see them at all until the watermelon was sliced. It's like how we can't find Meemers in the morning until we touch his food dish. Then the fatass apparates beside us. Same with these kids. We had no problem sharing watermelon with them, of course. We had too much for the four of us to eat. We just found it hilarious how they appeared and had no qualms with eating food from a grunting lumberjack and a crazy lady with pink hair. UNGH!
Anyhow, if you want to get this lovely melon slicing device, you can pick it up on Gmarket. It's a lot easier than Soo Zee's watermelon slicing technique
We also have some pictures from the weekend, because we like taking pictures, even if we're not great at it. We just like how they look on the website, all in tiles in stuff. Yay!
Lastly, click on this pretty button below for more fun videos like this. We're heading out on our big road trip tomorrow, and we'll be gone for a week shooting lots of videos around Korea. Lots of fun, lots of pics, lots of videos. FAPFAPs and WANKs galore!
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Alumna named Oregon Teacher of the Year
October 17, 2011
Roosevelt High School, Portland, Oregon
Elena Garcia-Velasco M.A.T. '97, a Spanish teacher at Portland's Roosevelt High School, has received the state's highest honor for teaching—the 2011-12 Oregon Teacher of the Year award. Since 1995, six Lewis & Clark alumni have received this honor.
State Schools Superintendent Susan Castillo presented the award at a ceremony on October 13 and called Garcia-Velasco "a passionate and dedicated educator with a deep commitment to equity, closing the academic achievement gap, and helping all of her students achieve at high levels."
A native of Spain, Garcia-Velasco arrived in the United States speaking little English. She had no intention of becoming a teacher. But as she learned the language herself, she passed on her knowledge of Spanish to others, gradually embracing a role as a full-time Spanish teacher.
According to an article in The Oregonian, Garcia-Velasco's father, a lawyer for Spain's education ministry, suggested that she pick the top graduate program. She enrolled at Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling and, years later, still remembers what her professors said on her first day.
"They told us, 'Teaching is the most important job in the world. We want you to be agents of transformation,'" Garcia-Velasco said. "Working at Roosevelt, you get to breathe that."
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Thousands of trees in Lebanon's largest cedar forest are in danger of dying thanks to the larvae of a small cousin of the bee known only in Lebanon, according to a French scientist working with Lebanese colleagues to save the trees.
The majestic cedar, with its almost circular layers of branches that diminish gradually in diameter to taper off at the top, is the national symbol of Lebanon and is the central feature of the country's flag.
For centuries it has been a symbol of grandeur and strength in the Middle East, and its highly fragrant wood was used in the construction of King Solomon's temple.
But for many of the cedars of Tannourine, located on the west flank of Mount Lebanon, grandeur is a word that does not apply.
Their drooping branches, whose needles have been sucked dry of chlorophyl by the larvae and look as if they have been struck by lightning, seem to have fought in vain to survive.
The cedars of Tannourine are found over an area of 600 hectares (1,480 acres) between 1,500 and 1,800 meters (4,950 and 5,940 feet) in altitude.
While dying trees "only represent 15 percent of the forest for the moment, their numbers will certainly increase if a radical treatment is not applied," said Guy Demolin, research director at the National Institute of Agronomic Research in Avignon, France.
For the second year of a three-year-Lebanese ministry of agriculture-project, Demolin heads a French team that is working with two scientists from the American University in Beirut, Nasri Kawar and Nabil Nemer, to save the trees.
Demolin told AFP that the culprit is a small cousin of the bee that has been dubbed the "Cephalcia tannourinensis" in honor of the area in which it was discovered.
It lays its eggs in the trees' budding needles at the end of May, with the larvae hatching in June. These larvae, initially yellowish in color, engorge themselves on the needles of the cedars, absorbing the chlorophyl and taking on its color.
Once the larvae have had their fill, they descend to the ground by means of a thin thread of saliva and burrow some 15 centimeters (7 inches) underground to hybernate, Demolin said.
By July, the desperate trees, weakened by the larvae, put out new shoots of needles that are easy prey for numerous insects.
The final blow to the trees comes from wood-eating insects, which are difficult to exterminate.
Entymologist Nemer said the insects have infested 80 percent of the forest.
However, treatment by spraying from over flying helicopters is helping.
When the trees were first sprayed last year with a chemical that impedes the larvae's development, leading to their death, the infestation was an alarming 1,200 larvae per square meter (yard). That figure has dropped sharply to 400, Nemer said.
However, Nemer said the larvae could survive as long as three years underground and that for the treatment to be effective it must be applied three times.
Faddoul Faddoul is one volunteer working to save the cedars that has a passion for this wild mountain, with its aroma of incense in the air and its small monasteries nestled amoung centuries-old trees.
"I came to give a hand," he said, "mixing the (chemicals) and refilling the spraying tank of the helicopter each time it sets down."
Pilot Philippe Rigoreau says the work is grueling - TANNOURINE (AFP)
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"You ever try to hit a rock with a cane?": The Original Golf Swing & The 18th Century Contextual Development of the Game and the Swing
As the origins of golf simply flow out of the musings and playing of bored, or rather industrious, shepherds on the coastal "links" lands of Scotland (as well as in some other similar places). These creatively sporting fellows came up with the great little gaming of gowf, goff, or in other words the earliest form of the modern golf. By hitting a rock into a rabbit hole, or some such "hole," with only the use of their staff, a crude yet functional and necessary shepherd's instrument, the time was passed on these low rolling dunes and gorse grass spotted windswept lands while watching their flocks or even while hunting the rabbits.
Considering these humble beginnings it is no stretch to picture the first golf swings.
Village Scots tapping at little stones around rough grassy links lands in sight of the sea. Or for the lengthy distances to the desired hole, a great whirling high of the staff club and a major twisting of the shoulders, arms, and torso followed by a resounding crack of the hardwood sending the rounded stone hurling through the breeze over a dune, over a creek, til it landed and rolled through the sandy grass a hundred yards or so away. What a sight this would have been to the other curious shepherds, who would then of course be brought in to the gaming!
As the game got picked up by the aristocracy, the leisure time afforded by their lifestyle and funds would have undoubtedly brought more sophisticated swing thoughts and techniques. The craft of making clubs for the gentlemen's game would allow for these swing techniques to be further fashioned and developed. By the 15th century A.D. (1457, 1470, 1491, with plenty of developments and documentation through the 16th and 17th centuries also), the game seems to have been fairly in the main for certain affluent persons, though undoubtedly, some golf was still being played by the links land shepherds.
The club making and other "technological" equipment changes (the featherie in 1618), growth of golfing population (1641 Charles II played at Leith Links), and time lapse since golf was first played all would have brought about a highly developed game with clear ideals, even if only informally, for course design, playing rules, and of course "how to play," or "how to make a swing."
This can be seen by the very quick formalizing of all these things around the same time, mid to late 18th century:
Golf is being played in Dornoch (1621), St. Andrews of Fife (1552), Leith and other places in Edinburgh (1457), and even in on the west coast at Glasgow (1589).
1687 – 1st [known] detailed writing on golf is done by Thomas Kincaid, "Thoughts on Golve" (including details for the golf swing mentioned below, as well as the first mention of "caddy"): http://digital.nls.uk/golf-in-scotland/serious/kincaids-diary/index.html; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kincaid; http://www.scottishgolfhistory.net/bruntsfield_links_oldest_golf_clubhouse.htm
1724 – 1st newspaper report of a game, "A solemn match at golf for the sum of 20 guineas" (Golf's Greatest Eighteen, Joey Kaney, pg 216)
1735 – The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh is formed
1743 – 1st golf clubs brought to the Americas via Charleston, SC
– 1st literary work solely for golf by Thomas Mathison, The Goff, an epic
1744 – Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers is formed playing at Leith Links
– this is the 1st golf club
– the 1st golf rules are officialized at Leith by the HCEG: "Rules of Golf" (http://digital.nls.uk/golf-in-scotland/rules/index.html)
– the annual golfing competition for the Silver Club is begun by the Edinburgh golfers at Leith, of which John Rattray is the first winner
1754 – St. Andrews golfers begin an open competition championship for a purchased silver cup played on the Old Course, of which William Landale is the first winner
1759 – earliest reference to stroke play comes from St. Andrews, as all previous play [recorded/documented] was match play; "stroke" was often known as "medal"
1764 – St. Andrews course changes result in the 22 holes becoming only 18, which becomes the subsequent standard
1766 – 1st golf club outside of Scotland is formed in London, the Royal Blackheath Golf Club (http://www.royalblackheath.com/index.lasso?pg=ec7e88a710c7a8e9&mp=cbc638823c5eb85e)
1768 – Leith has the 1st golf clubhouse, The Golf House
1774 – 1st golf course "professional" is hired at Leith, where he is also the greens keeper
1786 – 1st American golf club and 1st golf club outside the UK, the South Carolina Golf Club, Charleston, forms, where they play on Harleston Green, the 1st golf course in America
As previously mentioned, surgeon-apothecary of Edinburgh Thomas Kincaid's diary contains an exquisite information source for the golf swing at the time of his writing, 1687, which predates so much of the important golf history of the 1700s. Below is a transcripted section from the National Library of Scotland's Golf in Scotland website (http://digital.nls.uk/golf-in-scotland/serious/kincaids-diary/index.html):
The way of playing at the Golve. Jan 20
after dinner I went out to the Golve with Hen[ry] Legatt. I found that the only way of playing at the Golve is
- to stand as you do at fenceing with the small sword, bending your legs a little and holding the muscles of your legs and back and armes exceeding bent or fixt or stiffe, and not at all slackning them in the time you are bringing down the Stroak (which you readily doe.)
- the ball most be straight before your breast, a little towards the left foot.
- your left foot most stand but a little before the right, or rather it most be even with it, and at a convenient distance from it,
- ye most lean most to the right foot,
- but all the turning about of your body most be only upon your legs holding them as stiff as ye can.
- then ye most incline your body a little forward from the small of the back and upwards; for seeing all the strength of the stroake is from the swing of the body in turning about, then certainly the further forward you incline your body or shoulders they most have the greater swing, and consequently give the greater stroak, but you most not incline so fare forward as that it make you stand the more unstedfastly and waver a little in bringing down the stroak.
- you most keep your body in. this posture all the time both in bringing back the club and forward, that is, you most nither raise your body straighter in bringing back the club nor incline it further in bringing down the club, but ye most bring back the club by turning yourself about to the right hand, and that as it were upon a center, without moveing your body out of the place of it, but only in chainging the position of it in thrawing it about or turning it about upon that center, so then ye most cast the weight of your body off the on[e] leg on the other in the time you are bringing about the club: neither most you in the least turn down your left shoulder and up your right in bringing back the club, thinking therby to give the club a larger swinge, and so incresse its force or to raise the ball: for it is a verie unsettled motion that throw of the body whereby you turn down the left shoulder and up the right, so that therby you will verie often misse the ball, and almost never hitt it exactly.
- your armes most move but verie little, all the motion most be performed with the turning of your body about. The armes serve only to guid the club and to second and carie on that motion imprest upon it by turning of your body therefore ye most never begin to bring about the club with the motion of the armes first, but their motion most be only towards the end of the stroak.
- all the motion of the armes most be at the shoulder and all the motion of the legs most be at the upmost joint at the loyns.
- you most make no halt or rest, which is a slackning of the muscles of the back, between the bringing back of the club and the bringing it forward, but bring it about with that swiftness that the naturall swing of the club requires holding it pretty fast in your hands. In every motion the muscles that concur to the performing at golve keep bent and stayd which in all motions of your armes you will be helped to do by contracting your fingers, and so if there be anything in your hand you most grip verie fast.
- you most aim directly to hit the ball it selfe, and not aim to scum the ground or strick close to the ground; thinking that then you are sure to hitt it, for this is but ane indirect way of hitting the ball neither is it sure when the balls lies inconveniently; neither 3dly is it exact, for you will butt seldome hitt the ball exactly and cleanly this way; and 4ly it is more difficult then the other way, whereas the other way is more easie. 2, sure, 3, better for hitting the ball exactly. The way to learn this is to tie your ball at first pretty high from the ground.
- the shaft of your club most be of hazel. your club most be almost straight that is the head most make a verie obtuse angle with the shaft, and it most bend as much at the handle as it doth at the wooping, being verie supple and both long and Great.
- Your ball most be of a middle size nither to[o] big nor too little, and then the heavier it is in respect of its bigness it is still the better. It most be of thick and hard leather not with pores or grains
- all the motion of the armes most be at the shoulder and all the motion of the legs most be at the upmost joint at the loyns.
- you most make no halt or rest, which is a slackning of the muscles of the back, between the bringing back of the club and the bringing it forward, but bring it about with that swiftness that the naturall swing of the club requires holding it pretty fast in your hands. In every motion the muscles that concur to the performing at golve keep bent and stayd which in all motions of your armes you will be helped to do by contracting your fingers, and so if there be anything in your hand you most grip verie fast.
- you most aim directly to hit the ball it selfe, and not aim to scum the ground or strick close to the ground; thinking that then you are sure to hitt it, for this is but ane indirect way of hitting the ball neither is it sure when the balls lies inconveniently; neither 3dly is it exact, for you will butt seldome hitt the ball exactly and cleanly this way; and 4ly it is more difficult then the other way, whereas the other way is more easie. 2, sure, 3, better for hitting the ball exactly. The way to learn this is to tie your ball at first pretty high from the ground.
- the shaft of your club most be of hazel. your club most be almost straight that is the head most make a verie obtuse angle with the shaft, and it most bend as much at the handle as it doth at the wooping, being verie supple and both long and Great.
- Your ball most be of a middle size nither to[o] big nor too little, and then the heavier it is in respect of its bigness it is still the better. It most be of thick and hard leather not with pores or grains whether it be better that the in equality of gamsters be remedied in the game or in the stakes.
pin easily passe through it especially at the soft end. I came in with Hen[ry] And John Pringle we mett with John Corss and went in to a change house called Willsons we stayed till 11 of the clock Hen[ry] payd 49 shill[ings] I payd 13 shill[ings] John Corss payd 7 shill[ings].
21. Freed. I rose at 7. I thought upon this way of playing at Golve. I ex. till 9. I wrott this till 8 of the clock at night. I thought upon the question whither it is better in giveing advantadge in gameing to make the game equall, and the stakes unequall, or to make the stakes equall and give some advantadge in the game, as at the glove whither it is better to give a man two holes of three; laying equall stakes, or to lay three stakes to his on[e] and play equall for so much every hole. For answer we most distinguish between the giving a man so great advantadge as to putt him within on[e] hazard of the game, and the putting him only within two or three hazards of the game. For the worst of gamesters may readily winne on[e] hazard but the[y] will hardly win two or three in on[e] game. For solution then of the question we say, that if the game depend upon on[e] hazard it is all on whither ye make the inequality in the stakes or in the game. But if the game consist of more hazards then on[e], it is by farre securer for the giver of the advantadge to make the inequality rather in the stakes then in the game. For when the game is equall and depends on many hazards it is almost all
the necessity and way of hitting the ball exactly Jan 21
it is almost alltogether improbable that a bad player will gain it on[ce] in 20 times, whereas if he gett the advantadge in the game, he may be fair to win it every time, at least he will readily win it at some time. Therefore with these that are worst gamesters than yourselfe make always the game depend upon mo[r]e hazards then on[e], and the mo[r]e the better, but with these that are better gamesters make always the game to depend upon on[e] hazard.
I found that the first point to be studied in playeing at the golve is to hitt the ball exactly; for if you hitt the ball exactly though the club have butt little strength yett the ball will fly verie farre. The way to attain this perfection is to play with little strenth at first but yet acuratly observeing all the rules of poustaur [posture] and motion before sett down, and then when ye have acquired ane habit of hitting the ball exactly ye most learn to incresse your strenth or force in the stroak by degrees, staying still so long upon every degree till you have acquired ane habit of it; neither will the knowledge of these degrees be altogither uselese afterward, for they will serve for halfe chops, and quarter chops and for holling the ball. But then in going through all these degrees of strenth you most be verie attentive and carefull not to alter that postaur of your body of [or] way of moveing and bringing about the club, which ye observed when ye playd with little strenth
that the greatest and strongest motion most begin first.
for the only reason why men readily miss the ball when they strick with more strenth then ordinare is because their incressing their strenth in the stroak makes them alter their ordinare position of their body and ordinare way of bringing about the club, as also it makes them stand much more unsetledly and waver in bringing about the club, and so they readily miss the ball. I found that I n all motion the greatest and the strongest motion most begin first
24. [Jan] Moond[ay] I rose at 4 and ex. till 5 I wrott this and thought on severall things till 8 as of the way of standing at the Golve, that your feet most be both of ane equall distance from the ball at least the ball most ly [lie] upon a line that is perpendicular to that line that passeth between the on[e] foot and the other. These places will be found by drawing a circle round about the ball which most be the center and placeing your feet on that circle, that your feet most not stand parallel to the way you would have the ball to fly, but upon a line declineing towards the left hand as it were 10 or 15 degrees
Jan 25, 26 some particulars of the motion of playing at the glove
25. Tuesd[ay] I rose at 5 I wrote the analysis of some psalms till 7 I wrott all the remarks out of Glasar's Compleat Chymist till 11. I glewed the club head and sat with Mr Crawford I boyld the unguentum album with vinagar I read some of Berbett de fractures et luxationibus. After dinner I took out the plains and made a little skelpe to putt on the club. I took of[f] the piece that was joynd to the old shaft . I glewed too that skelpe till 3. I read Berbett de ambustione, and some other places of him till 4. James Duncan came in and sat till 6 …
26. Wed[nesday] I rose at 7 …
I thought on the playing at the Golve.
1. I found that ye most rest most upon the right legg for the most part, but yet not too much as to be exactly perpendicular upon it, which ye will know by the ballanceing of your body.
2. I found that the club most always move in a circle making ane angle of 45 degrees with the horizon.
3. that the whole turning of your body about most be by thrawing the joints of your right legg and then when … [manuscript torn here] you most throw the…
small of your back so that the left shoulder will turn a little down wards, because the body is inclines a little forward, but ye most beware of raising the on[e] shoulder higher than the other as to their position in the body, for that motion is not convenient for this action.
- I found that in bringing down the club ye most turn your body as farr about towards the left following the swinge of the club as it had been turned before towards the right hand.
- I found that seeing the swinge of your body by the turning it upon your legg is the largest and strongest motion, therefor it most begin first, and the turning at the small of the back most only second it, and then most follow the motion at the shoulders. The other motions most be but verie little and imperceptible, neither most these motions at the small of the back and shoulders, being till the club have hitt the ball or at least be verie near it. I thought on these and wrott them till 5. James Craige came in and sat till 7 …
27 Jan Thurs[day] I rose at 7 I thought on severall things … I joynd a piece to the shaft of the club till 4
4. I found that the making a club waver in bringing it back did make you add a great deal more force to it in bringing it foreward then otherways you can get added to it. The way to make the club waver in bringing it up is by drawing in your armes and hands close to your breast, and the reason that this postaur adds more strenth to the stroake is because the further out that you streatch your armes they are still the weaker, and the closers to your breast they are the stronger …
8. Tuesd[ay] I thought upon the way of ordering pathology and of distinguishing it into its proper parts and at good method … Hen[ry] Legatt came in an desired me out to the golve. I putt on my cloths and went to him. He bought a club in Captain Fosters we went down to Leath in a Coach which was 10 shill[ings] We played till 5. I bought three balls 14 shill. We went in to Captain browns were we satt till 6
waiting on the coach but could not get it, we came up to John watts where we gott some collips I spent 14 shill[ings] and was exceeding seek.
9. Wed[nesday] I rose at 7 I thought upon the method of pathologie and on playing at the golve I found that in all motions of your armes ye most contract your fingers verie strait and grip fast any thing that is in them for that doth command the motion exactly, and keeps all the muscles of the arme verie bent. I digested the rules of playing at the golve into verse thus. Gripe fast stand with your left leg first not farre
Incline your back and shoulders but beware You raise them not when back the club you bring make all the motion with your bodies swinge And shoulders, holding still the muscles bent play slowly first till you the way have learnt At such lenth hold the club as fitts your strenth The lighter head requires the longer lenth. That circle wherein moves your club and hands At forty five degrees from th[e] horizon stands.
What at on[e] stroak to effectuat you despair Seek only 'gainst the nist it to prepare.
These extracts are available from the NLS's Golf in Scotland site! This is a photo of Kincaid's diary.
The First Golf Clubs in America: a full set of golf clubs from 1840s
This is a typical looking of a full set of golf clubs from as early as in the 1700s and on through the 1800s. 5 or 8, or so, of these would be loosely carried in the arm or by a caddie. This particular set is dated to the 1840s, but the "long-nose" clubs and a couple irons are the typical make for a long time in the history and play of golf.
The "technology" for the craftsmenship of these early clubs was developed from archery equipment making and blacksmithing. It is interesting to note that these craftsmen would have been making a lot of equipments for military use, and thus the earliest documentation of golfing [in Edinburgh, Scotland] was the forbidding of golf play and football play on the archery military practice range.
The first set of clubs shipped over to the Americas in 1743 that arrived in Charleston, SC, would have looked very similar.


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Jill Biden, Second Lady and co-founder of Joining Forces, was at Fort Riley April 6 where she visited local schools and complimented Dean Debbie Mercer on being an early adopter of the Educate the Educator initiative.
In an interview with "The Today Show" about her visit, Biden said she appreciates the way teacher preparation programs are embracing military-connected children.
"Teachers' colleges have stepped up to educate people going into education so that they will realize that there are military children in their classroom and celebrate those children and make their transitions easier for them," Biden said in the interview.
During her speech at the White House Convening on Operation Educate the Educator, Biden specifically thanked Dean Mercer for her support as K-State was one of the first 100 colleges in the nation to embrace the initiative. The college created a documentary "A Walk in My Shoes: Military Life" and developed a non-credit class for pre-service teachers wanting deeper knowledge about the needs of military-connected learners.
"I'd like to take a moment to thank Dean Deb Mercer, from Kansas State University, for being here today and facilitating last week's discussion with the KSU student-teachers at Fort Riley Middle School. The work that you are doing — that your student-teachers are doing in the classroom — is so important. Thank you."


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Academics / Courses / DescriptionsCOMP_ENG 392: VLSI Systems Design Projects
Quarter OfferedSpring : MW 3:30-4:50 ; Zaretsky
PrerequisitesCOMP_ENG 355 or COMP_ENG 391
Design of a cutting-edge VLSI chip. Teams of 5 to 10 students undertake a large circuit design problem, going from specification to VLSI implementation while optimizing for speed, area, and/or power. Group collaboration and engineering design.
REQUIRED TEXTS: None
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COURSE INSTRUCTOR: David C. Zaretsky (email@example.com)
COURSE COORDINATOR: Prof. Alok Choudhary
COURSE GOALS: Students should become familiar with the technical and non-technical aspects of complex, group engineering design projects, focused on the VLSI/CAD domain. Students should learn VHDL, synthesis concepts, FPGA concepts, and design library techniques. Students will learn how to take a set of project requirements and develop an implementation meeting these goals. They will also learn how to present technical information, both in oral and written form. Finally, they will learn how to collaborate on a complex, group project.
- Fundamentals of logic design.
- VLSI layout techniques.
- Area and speed optimizations in CMOS.
- The use of CAD tools for VLSI layout.
DETAILED COURSE TOPICS: During the first week of class students select projects and form project groups. During subsequent weeks students give oral reports in class on their progress, culminating in a final project review. Advanced topic areas relevant to that quarter's projects will also be presented to the students during class as necessary. Students are expected to produce an initial project plan, a mid-quarter status report, and a final project report describing the entire project effort.
COMPUTER USAGE: Students will typically require the use of VLSI CAD tools on Unix or PC platforms, primarily focused around the Mentor Graphics toolsuite. Specific computer usage requirements vary based upon the projects selected by the students.
LABORATORY PROJECTS: All students will pursue a complex, group engineering design project, focused around VLSI/CAD applications. Project details vary based upon student and instructor interests.
GRADES: Grading is based upon the following factors
- In-class presentations
- Status reports and final project report
- Technical competency in pursuing project goals
- Proficiency in collaboration, as measured by overall project integration and success.
Note that the exact grading criteria must be tailored to the specific projects chosen, and thus cannot be set for the course as a whole.
COURSE OBJECTIVES: When a student completes this course, s/he should be able to:
- Integrate into a group environment to pursue technical goals.
- Present technical material in both oral and written form.
- Plan a design effort from specification to implementation.
- Make design tradeoffs to optimize for potentially conflicting goals.
- Effectively manage their time on complex projects.
ABET CONTENT CATEGORY: 100% Engineering (Design component).


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Working closely with Hunter's Creative Director Alasdhair Willis, the model shots for the campaign were captured by acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Elaine Constantine, chosen for her inimitable vision of British youth, which has featured in iconic campaigns and publications such as The Face, Vogue and W magazine.
BAFTA nominated for her film, Northern Soul, Elaine coached the cast in the studio environment in order to convey the unique spirit, nostalgia and sense of youthful adventure that runs throughout the campaign. The photography comprises four scenes, presenting different stages of the journey. From a picnic complete with sandwiches and a Thermos flask to navigation with orienteering maps and trekking poles, a traditional British adventure is created for the campaign. Climbing ramps and ladders, the models played out the journey against green screens, later transformed into a backdrop of the rugged landscapes of Scotland.
In the spirit of Hunter Original, the Scottish Highlands, the heritage of the brand, were recreated with digital renders in a new, modern treatment of the brand's home and heartland, produced by pioneering visual artist Thomas Traum. Blurring the renders and photography into one, the cast is set within a dramatic and hyperreal Scottish landscape of heathers and lichens, mountains and lakes, in each scene the skies becoming darker as rain clouds roll in.
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(Powiat of Brzozow, province Lwow)
Comments in brackets [] are those of Mr. Korn.
The nucleus of settlement that became Brzozow began as a royal village established in 1359 based on the Privilege of Kazimierz the Great. The village was founded on the principles of the Magdeburg Law, and its inhabitants were exempted from all taxes towards the king for a period of twenty years. In 1384, the ownership of Brzozow was passed over to the bishopric of Przemysl, whose bishops used to spend the summer months in the village. Between the years 1403 and 1413 municipal status was granted to Brzozow. In the first half of the seventeenth century plagues fell upon the residents of the region. Most of the population was occupied in trade and petty crafts, but particularly prominent was comb manufacturing, wood-carving, and the weaving of wool and linen. It was only in 1930 that Brzozow was linked to an electric grid. From the time of the Austrian annexation [1772] Brzozow became a subdistrict settlement.
Like other cities owned by the priesthood, it was forbidden for Jews to live in Brzozow and in the surrounding estates. This prohibition was reconfirmed in 1676 by the bishop Staniskaw Sarnowski in a regulation wherein was stated that Jews were not permitted to live in the city, to take possession of fields or houses, to lease stores, nor to engage in trade. This may have been a response to the attempts at settlement on the part of some Jewish families. Indeed, until 1783 not one Jew had ever resided in Brzozow. In the years following, however, in the wake of the Austrian annexation and the subsequent cancellation of the privileges of the noble and priest owners of the cities, Jews began to settle in the region. By 1808 there were as much as one hundred and forty-four Jews residing in Brzozow. At the end of the nineteenth century the general population grew in number, and with it also the percentage of Jews: in 1880 it had reached 20.5%, and 28.3% in 1910. A decline in the number of Jews began after the First World War and subsequent to the economic difficulties that followed in the wake of the war.
In the fall of the year 1918 the residents from the villages surrounding Brzozow rioted against the Jews. Even prior to that, the Zionist activist Dr. Zelenfreund, upon witnessing the outbreak of anti-Semitism in the region, had turned to the local administration with the request to absorb Jews into the municipal militia. However, his request was rejected. On November 3, 1918, one hundred and four Jewish homes were plundered by rioters; but, there were no bodily casualties. The local militia did not respond at all to what was taking place under their watch. It was in these circumstances that a Jew by the name of Klarman, who had been a captain in the Austrian army, organized a Jewish self-defense group consisting mainly of high school students. The group succeeded in forcing the hooligans from the city.
The Jewish community council [the Kehilah] in Brzozow was established apparently during the first half of the nineteenth century. To the best of our knowledge, the first rabbi in Brzozow was Rabbi Eliyahu Veber. (He served there in 1868.) His son, Rabbi Shlomo, served as rabbi after him until 1912. In the eighties of the nineteenth century, Rabbi Moshe Issar Gabbel served in Brzozow either as an adjunct rabbi, or as a religious judge and teacher. His position was inherited in 1884 by his son, Rabbi Shlomo Gabbel, who continued in his duties right into the inter-war period.
After the First World War the economic situation of Brzozows Jews worsened as a result of the conflict and of the tax policies of the authorities. The Jews, who were occupied in petty trade, peddling and crafts, continued in these activities. In the twenties of the twentieth century the local Jews attempted to improve their situation somewhat with the aid of the Joint [i.e. The American Joint Distribution Committee]. A Gemmach Fund [Gemmach: abbreviation for Gemillut Chassadim = Payment of the Righteous] was established (In 1929 it made twelve loans in the amount of six hundred zlotys.) The Joint also cared for a group of children who had been orphaned by the war.
The first Zionist club was founded in Brzozow in the year 1902. The greater wave of Zionists, however, appeared during the period between the two world wars. In that time, several branches of the various Zionist parties were established: The General Zionists, HaMizrachi [= The East, religious Zionists], Poalei Tziyon [= The Workers of Zion, socialist], Hittachdut [= Unification]*, and the Revisionists [right wing Zionists]. In the twenties the local youth group named Bet Yehudah [= The House of Judah] was active, having both a library and a drama circle. In 1929 the influence of the Revisionists increased; a significant part of the members of Bet Yehudah had joined them. (Bet Yehudah existed until 1932.) In the thirties local branches of the following youth groups were found in Brzozow: HaNoar HaIvri [= Hebrew Youth], which afterward became HaNoar HaTzioni Akinv, HaShomer HaDati [= The Religious Guard], and Gordoniyah. (In the year 1933 Gordoniyah sent twenty-four of its members to a kibbutz for Aliya preparation). At that same time the organization Ezra was active in the city. [Ezra was a German-Jewish organization supporting Zionist settlement, but in response to the pogroms in Eastern Europe, it also sent aid there as well.] From among the Zionist parties the one that had the strongest influence initially was HaMizrachi. At the elections for the Zionist Congress of 1927 it won 49 votes, while the General Zionists received 15 and the Revisionists gained 13. The situation changed before the Zionist Congress of 1935, when the socialist List of the Working Land of Israel gained 145 votes, the General Zionists 120, and HaMizrachi received 85 votes.
The local branch of Agudat Yisrael [= Association of Israel, non-Zionist orthodox party] dealt mainly with matters concerning the Jewish community council. It should be indicated that this council was dominated by the Zionists. In the council elections of 1928 the General Zionists received 218 votes and three mandates, while Agudat Yisrael received 122 votes and two mandates. The Zionist activist, Dr. Zelenfreund, was elected head of the Kehilah council, and he apparently continued in this post until the outbreak of the Second World War. At the end of 1929 members of Agudat Yisrael attempted to remove Rabbi Gabbel, who was also a Zionist, from his position. This attempt did not succeed. In 1933 there were three Jewish representatives at city hall. In 1920 a Tarbut school [Tarbut was an educational organization founded on Hebrew language and culture and on socialist ideals.] was established in Brzozow. In 1923 it had four classes, two teachers and 105 students; and in the year 1925 five classes, seven teachers and 205 students.
Information concerning the fate of the Jews of Brzozow during the Nazi occupation is incomplete. What is known is that within the first days of the invasion the Germans shot about three hundred residents of the city and from the surrounding regions. The ghetto was set up certainly close to the second half of 1941, and Jews from the neighboring villages were also crowded into it. In September 1941 a branch of the JSS [Judische Sociale Selbsthilfe, later called Judische Unterstutzung-Stelle, Jewish mutual aid organization which operated under Nazi occupation] was active within the ghetto to give aid to the Jews there.
On the tenth of August 1942, most of the residents of the ghetto women, the elderly and young children about 800 in number were shot by the Nazis in the forest next to the city. The few people who remained after the selection were evacuated to Iwonicz, and from there apparently to the extermination camp of Belzec.
*a merging of two socialist Zionist parties: the Israel-based, HaPoel HaTzair (= The Young Worker) and the Diaspora-based Tzeirei Tziyon = The Youth of Zion). Hittachdut was absorbed into Poale Tziyon in 1930.
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What started as a site to crowdsource ideas is now a venture capital community. VenCorps invites startups to share their businesses, then professionals and amateurs alike help select the best in periodic "showdowns." Winners of showdowns receive a $50,000 investment (convertible debt, for the VC wannabes following along).
The service is in alpha, but still has managed to get some good attention. The company is funded by Spencer Trask and hired up former Flock-ster Will Pate to handle its community. Social software site Mashable is sponsoring a showdown.
The quality of the startups listed on VenCorps is surprising. Sure, there are a few nutty ones (several me-too social networks, plus a service that will launch your DNA into space), but there are also viable companies. Up-and-coming video site Viddler even listed itself.
VenCorps is an offshoot of crowdsourcing site Cambrian House, which invited the community to submit ideas. Then, other members would vote the ideas up or down. Finally, when the best ideas were determined, the community would pull together to build it. That was the concept, anyway, but it didn't work like the founders hoped. Earlier this year, Cambrian House sold its assets to Spencer Trask.
VenCorps is different from Cambrian House in that it addresses a major drawback to the previous concept: a startup team matter more than an idea.
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|Rocky Patel Cigars
Those who crave their cigars mellow in body yet long on flavor will instantly fall in love with RP Connecticut line.
Given the quality and the pedigree - as witnessed by Rocky Patel's bumper crop of hot new blends, many have grown extremely excited about this cigar. Mellow, smooth and loaded with crisp, soothing flavors that can satisfy just about any palate, the Connecticut by Rocky Patel is, simply put, another outstanding super premium from one of the hottest makers in the business today. This 20-cigar super-sampler offers a generous tasting of the RP Connecticut line. Enjoy five each of the four different sizes at a remarkable, discounted price!
The Rocky Patel Connecticut Mega-Sampler includes:
5 - Rocky Patel Connecticut Robusto (5.5" x 50)
5 - Rocky Patel Connecticut Toro (6" x 50)
5 - Rocky Patel Connecticut Torpedo (6.5" x 50)
5 - Rocky Patel Connecticut Churchill (7" x 48)
It's the PERFECT anytime of day cigar. Paired with coffee in the mornings... or a buttery , oaky chardonay in the evenings, this stick is outstanding! I love full body smokes, but this stick def gives me a break from the full body ones. Smooth and tasty... you can't go wrong with this!
Great variety. Nice bundle.
Always enjoyed a good cigar but never purchased one. Always looking for the brighter side of life and one day said today I am buying a quality cigar. Had no clue what a quality cigar cost or taste like. I did a little research on google and CI was at the top so I went to their site and realized that I new nothing about cigars. I new less about what I wanted after a half hour on their web site. All the brands, sizes, origins, makes and models. After feeling defeated about my new quest I said what the hell, just pick one. I chose a Rocky Patel. I went from a very novice cigar person to feeling like I was missing out on all these years. Take it from someone with very little knowledge about cigars. If you choose this as your first true cigar, Rocky Patel is more than worth your time. I am now on my fifth order from CI and about to make it my sixth. Enjoy my friends. Dana E
These are great cigars. This cigar starts out great even in the lighting it the fist hit of mild aroma hits you. The smoke and draw is enjoyed down to the last inch. They need this in a 60 gauge. I'm now on my third pack.
My favorite mild/medium cigar. Very we'll constructed, good draw, and nice smooth flavor. Not just that typical mild tobacco flavor. Much more to it. Smokes real nice when kept properly in the humi.
Great everyday burn from Rocky at an even better price. Not devoid of taste, but they do burn quickly. I give them 4 out of 5.
This is a fantastic sampler. I'm relatively new to cigars so it gave me a chance to try some different shapes and sizes. The Churchill has been the only one I wasn't that crazy about. I'll be buying more Rocky Connecticut for sure.
Great sampler, Great smoke, Great taste - If you like Mild cigars, this bundle will not upset you!
Great smokes! 5th time ordering the Rocky Patel's!
Ordered two bundles when they were on sale for $49.95. Worst bundles of cigars I've had. Most of the cigars were wrapped to lose, so the cigar "tunneled", only the center burned. They burned hot and tasteless. Won't buy them again.
So good, Highly recommend this sampler, great price, great taste! Very enjoyable.
Nice cigar, nice price. enough said. It is everything it claims to be
Consistently the best sampler/deal I get with the RP Connecticut's. These are a smooth light mild cigar that rival's ANY cigar in this category!
I have had maybe five or six of these. And that is about enough. I don't like them, and I will probably throw the balance away. Sorry. Not impressed. Some burned even. Some did not. They were accurately portrayed as being mild. But they were too mild for my tastes. Whatever. Some people may like them. I did not care for them.
Terrible value, and I actually got this sampler for $45 plus shipping ($50 total).... Every two out of three sticks was bad (I've smoked 18, and 12 were bad). I smoke a lot, at least one a day, sometimes three or four on a good day :) I love these cigars for their mildness-but this batch was anything but....they are harsh, foul-tasting, and nasty. If you are looking for a mild smoke, I DO NOT recommend this sampler....Sorry guys!
A tasteless wonder here. These cigars have a nice conn wrapper but that's about it. Note book paper has more taste. I'm going to stick these in a humidor and rest them for a while and see if they improve.
Fantastic cigar. Tastes good and smells good
Best value for a mild to medium smoke.
I really enjoyed these cigars. A friend of mine recommended them, once I got them I shared a few with other friends and we all had similar feedback. Great smooth cigar for casual smoker. I would imagine a hard-core aficionado would prefer something stronger, but for more casual smokers these are hard to beat....
Mild, yet awesome. I love these guys. Smooth start, good draw, great taste, and smooth finish. This has been added to my list of sticks to keep stocked.
I have to write a 2nd review as far as the construction of the Torpedo's and the Churchill's. The caps on both can be very loose and the wrapper may come away/apart half way down on both. Other than that, the Robusto's and Toro's are a very good smoke and will remain a permanent resident in my humidor.
I received this sampler 3 days ago and couldn't resist smoking one right away. At first, I was a little disappointed as there was a little construction issue with it and it was not smoking correctly. I put the rest in my humidor and smoked another last night at the Black Sabbath show and....what a difference that made. Very, very tasty cigar and I did not want it to end. Nice and mild and the draw is really good and it got a little spicy towards the end which is fine. Highly recommend this sampler! Thanks CI for the great prices !
Smooth tasting cigar. Arrived fresh. A must for beginners. I especially enjoyed the torpedoes.
Just what you would expect from R.P. This is a mild, smooth, creamy cigar, that has light touches of leather and pepper in the final third to the nub, The construction is good and the burn was nice, even out of doors. For those who like mild or a novice just getting into cigars, these are worth trying.
Flawless construction, perfect burn, and a smooth, creamy taste make these cigars my choice to pair with my morning coffee. Mild yes, but that's what I want in the first cigar of the day. What a great way to watch the sun come up.
The Rocky Patel Connecticut Mega-Sampler is one of the best bargains I've found. Top notch cigars that are very consistent. They are my move up from the CI brand Macanudo knockoffs for an every day smoke. A perfect burn for sitting on the tractor cutting the yard and field!
Summer is finally here in Alaska and that means cigar smoking in the warm sun! Just smoked a Churchill after being in the slow cooker for nine days. It was a very tasty smoke. Cool, silky smooth, mild, and oh yes, creamy. No pepper, no leather, just a great mild after lunch cigar. The Churchill that I smoked this afternoon was built like a BSH, I mean perfecto! Mouth watering aroma, thick smoke, and dense ash. It was an hour and a half of cigar bliss. These are a real prize and a hot smokin deal. What more could the working man want except for maybe a back rub and a nap. Thanks CI.
These are good if you like a milder cigar. I prefer full flavored. You can't go wrong for the price, and these are great as giveaways to curry favor with someone!
This is my fave cigar to date. (Rocky Patel Connecticut Mega-Sampler) I first smoked it last week for Thunder over Louisville and it made the experience that much more enjoyable. I may order a new humi just to stock these.
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Once again, last week's rumor is this week's news--Shane Black is in final negotiations to direct "Iron Man 3," reported Deadline.
Black has scripted several films over the past 24 years, including all four "Lethal Weapons," but it's his sole directorial effort, "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," that stands as his crowning achievement. Despite Black's experience as a screenwriter, it remains unclear who will write the script for "Iron Man 3."
Before Black cast Downey in "Kiss Kiss," the actor was a mess who'd been in and out of rehab and prison, and couldn't land a decent part to save his life. Now Black is coming to save Downey yet again--ah, the circle of life...
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It's a shame that Jon Favreau's legacy is tainted by walking away from this franchise after No. 2, a film that left pretty much everyone feeling let down. But the fact is he breathed new life into the super hero genre in 2008 with the first film. At least Favreau is leaving of his own volition, having begged off "Iron Man 3" so he could direct "Magic Kingdom."
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CHICAGO — Due to severe weather conditions across the Chicago metropolitan area on Wednesday evening, the Fourth Round Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup match between the Columbus Crew and Chicago Fire has been postponed. The contest – originally scheduled for 8:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday at Toyota Park – is now set for a 1:00 p.m. ET kickoff on Thursday, June 13 at the same venue. The match is scheduled to be streamed live via TheCrew.com.
READ: USOC match postponed due to inclement weather
Following this Open Cup clash, the Black & Gold (4-5-5, 17 points) return to Columbus on Thursday evening ahead of a pivotal MLS Eastern Conference matchup against the Montreal Impact (8-2-2, 26 points) on Saturday, June 15 (7:30 p.m. ET / Univision Deportes Netowrk, FOX Sports Ohio). The Impact is currently atop the Eastern Conference table, and the two clubs last met on April 14, when both Marco Di Vaio and Dominic Oduro traded goals in a 1-1 draw at Stade Saputo.
MATCH POSTPONED - Due to inclement weather in Chicago, tonight's #USOC100 match is being pushed to tomorrow at noon CT. #Crew96— Columbus Crew (@ColumbusCrew) June 13, 2013


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Saber – Do Or Die (indie release) ends at $140.38
Seller – delclemons
Starting Price = 99 cents
Bids = 14
Described as AOR/Melodic Hard Rock, there's not much else to describe Saber except to compare them to other rarities. No release year was given, only that this was an indie release by the band.
Shotgun Sally – Steamy Session (1993, indie) ends at $168.05
Seller – delclemons
Starting Price = 99 cents
Bids = 22
Another big sell for delclemons, one of the best sellers/collectors in the scene. I'd love to know how he finds these indie releases, what's his secret? Described as Roxxi meets Stage Dolls = Melodic Hard Rock from Norway.
Sgt. Roxx – Push and Squeeze (1990) ends at $170.27 for a 2006 Italian reissue
Seller – eagleyeeiii
Starting Price = $5.99
Bids = 28
Sgt. Roxx is one of the "holy grail" CDs for Hard Rock collectors but this isn't an original…..this is an Italian import from 2006. Bootleg? Probably. I'm in various collector's forums everyday so I would have jumped on an official reissue but I've never heard of it. I went to Google and nothing came up. Buyer beware!
Uprising – Let It Ride (1993, indie) ends at $179.50
Seller – delclemons
Starting Price = 99 cents
Bids = 16
Score three in one segment for delclemons! Like I said, the guy knows Hard Rock rarities, so I expect not only a CD that isn't around much but also a very expensive one at the end of the day. Uprising comes from somewhere in the Midwest U.S. and are compared to Dokken and Valentine.
Graham Bonnet – The Rock Singer's Anthology (1990) Japanese import sells for $258.37
Seller – yuzyp
Starting Price = 99 cents
Bids = 8
I own this CD, just not the Japanese import. The last time I saw this album fetch big money was back in August '07 when it got $203.51 for the European version. Lucky for me I picked this up for $20 in '99! It's long out of print and highlights Bonnet's days with The Marbles, Rainbow, and his solo career.
KK Wilde – Cocaine Cowboy (1991) sells for $266
Seller – c.lieck
Starting Price = 99 cents
Bids = 7
99 cents seems to be a magic starting price in this edition of Ebay Madness! KK Wilde is another one of those bands that has become highly collectible over the last 10 years. COCAINE COWBOY is actually the band's 2nd record, there's a bit of confusion out there because the debut, ROCK N ROLL, also came out in 1991. I haven't seen this CD for a long time so I knew it would get a high price.
Taken – Smell The Groove (1992, indie) ends at $316
Seller – bgard100
Starting Price = $7.99
Bids = 23
Another indie release that not only fetches big bucks but is widely sought after. The band members and roadies have chimed in over at the Heavy Harmonies Taken page for a little added history to the band and release. The auction describes it as '80s Hair/Glam Metal from Philadelphia. Interesting note: the winner for this disc also won the KK Wilde disc above.
Fantasia – s/t (indie release) sells for $455
Seller – delclemons
Starting Price = 99 cents
Bids = 20
Independent release by members of another indie Hard Rock band called Satin Street. The music is described as David Lee Roth era Van Halen and there are a few MP3 samples in the auction listing to check out. Big money!
And now for the highest grossing CD I could find for this installment…..
The Rolling Stones – 94/95 Voodoo Lounge Tour Souvenir Japanese In Store Promo Sampler CD sells with BUY IT NOW for $3000!
Seller – luvercd
BUY IT NOW Price – $3000
Bids – 1
I love seeing things like this! Who in their right mind has $3000 to spend on a CD? We'll never know because the buyer's ID was kept private by the seller. It's an "in-store sampler" for the Japanese Voodoo Lounge Tour so I'm thinking this was free for the lucky employee that convinced his employer to part with it after the tour was over. I also figure collector's got a hold of this for $30-$50 as an import from sellers in Japan pre-Internet and maybe even in Ebay's infancy. This is one of those discs I would love to run into…..imagine finding it and either selling it or being able to say you own a disc that sold for $3000! Not sure what I would do but my wife would make me sell it. Here is a link for more info on this CD: http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=206730


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I just received an e-mail from SW.com about "perks" for fan club members and such.
Star Wars Celebration IV -- Fan Club Members Have Exclusive Passport to Fun!
Members of Hyperspace: The Official Star Wars Fan Club, and members of other official Star Wars Fan Clubs worldwide, will enjoy their very own exclusive benefits at Star Wars Celebration IV this May. Scheduled for May 24-28, 2007, the 30th anniversary weekend of the Star Wars saga, Celebration IV will bring days of fun, events, entertainment, and exhibits to the Los Angeles Convention Center -- and members of the Fan Clubs can enjoy one extra free day of exclusive access on Thursday, May 24!
Fan Club members who purchase a four-day, full show pass will be allowed entry one day before the rest of the general public is admitted to the show, at no extra cost. Here's what's in store for Members on Thursday, May 24:
Exclusive, First Access to the Celebration Store:
The Celebration Store will feature a great selection of cool merchandise created just for Celebration IV, including a yet-to-be-revealed exclusive action figure. Fan Club members can start shopping in West Hall A of the Convention Center at noon on Thursday, May 24. The store will be open just for them until 10:00 AM on Friday, May 25, when it will open for other show attendees.
First Access to the Celebration Exhibit Hall:
Fan Club members will get to have the first look at what's new in Star Wars collectibles, toys, and merchandise from licensees and dealers in the Exhibit Hall. Open from 12 noon to 8:00 PM on May 24 just for members, the exhibit hall will feature great displays, shopping, and planned Celebration IV exclusives from licensees.
First Access to Autograph Celebrities:
Official Pix will be returning to Celebration IV, and anticipate an even larger guest list of celebrities for fans to meet. The show's location in Los Angeles opens the door to many potential new guests as well. The Celebration Autograph Hall will be open just for Fan Club members on Thursday, May 24 from 12 noon to 8:00 PM.
Celebration IV Art Show:
Star Wars artists will offer spectacular, original lithographs created for Celebration IV, and Fan Club members will be the first to have the option to shop at the Art Show. Scheduled hours are 12 noon to 8:00 PM on Thursday, May 24 for Fan Club members only, and then for all attendees the rest of the weekend.
First Access to the Fan Fair Hall:
Once again, Star Wars fans will be a great part of the entertainment for Celebration IV. The Fan Fair Exhibit Hall, scheduled for Hall G in the Los Angeles Convention Center, will be sparkling with exhibits, activities, and stages dedicated to the love of Star Wars. Members of the official Fan Clubs will get a chance to wander through and enjoy the displays before anyone else, from 12 noon until 8:00 PM on Thursday, May 24.
First Viewing of the Star Wars Celebration Archive Exhibit:
Lucasfilm will produce an exhibit of props and costumes from the movie archives especially for Celebration IV, that will look back on 30 years of Star Wars magic. Members of the Fan Club have one extra day to take in this wonderful exhibit, from 12 Noon to 6:00 PM on May 24.
Two Special Celebration IV Film Tracks:
Members of the Fan Club can sit back and relax from the busy pace of Members-Only day in one of two soon-to-be-announced film tracks. The tracks will be open for continuous viewing from 12 noon on Thursday, May 24 until midnight just for Fan Club members, and then for everyone attending the show the rest of the weekend.
Join the Fan Club Now and Register for Celebration IV!:
To enjoy a the Members-Only day at Celebration IV, first join the Official Star Wars Fan Club. Then, register for a 4-day pass for Star Wars Celebration IV. Only Fan Club members with 4-day passes will be allowed in on the exclusive Fan Club day. Members of other official Star Wars Fan Clubs worldwide should sign up for their fan clubs (United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Spain), and then register for Celebration IV.
Q: How will I prove that I'm a Fan Club member at Celebration?
A: When you register for Star Wars Celebration IV, check the "Fan Club Member" box. Membership status will be checked in April of 2007, before passes for the show are mailed. Membership will also be checked onsite against current membership lists from all clubs for those who pick up their passes at Will Call. Members will be given a special lanyard to attach to their passes, that will identify them as a Fan Club member and admit them to Members-Only Day and special shows and events. In short, make sure your membership is current from April 2007 through June of 2007 to be safe.
Q: What other benefits can I enjoy at Celebration IV as a Fan Club member?
A: Members of the Official Star Wars Fan Club who purchase 4-day passes in advance of the show will also receive 4 Friends & Family coupons. These coupons can be used once, and will allow members to admit one family member or friend for each coupon to Member-Only Day, to the Fan Club Lounge, and to Fan Club exclusive shows.
The Fan Club Lounge is the Celebration IV exclusive meeting place for members only. Members can enjoy food and beverages to buy in their own private lounge, as well as scheduled meet-and-greet sessions with celebrities.
Select shows and entertainment are scheduled for Fan Club members, too! Members will be seated first for certain shows, and non-members allowed only if there are still seats available.
See even more of this can't-miss Star Wars party, Celebration IV, as a member of the Official Star Wars Fan Club!
Times and locations for all events and exhibits may change. Please check
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I may just get it so I can get the brunt on my autographs done on that first day so I can enjoy the rest of the weekend. But thats the only reason I'd want to get the "Fan Club".
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Sir Elton John and Lee Hall are reportedly teaming up again to write a new musical based on George Orwell's satirical classic "Animal Farm."
The two brought "Billy Elliot" onto Broadways' Great White Way , earning 10 Tony Awards for the musical.
"I'm deep into it, writing songs for pigs and other four-legged friends," said Hall to The Daily Mail.
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He added that the animals' Seven Commandment creed like, "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others," make for great lyrics.
"Animal Farm," an allegory first published in 1945, tells the story of a "worker's revolt" during the Stalin Era in the Soviet Union and events leading up to World War II.
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Hugin is an opensource graphical user interface (GUI) for Panorama tools.
Like other GUI front-ends, hugin provides an easy-to-use unified point-and-click interface to a whole range of other command-line tools including:
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- nona for remapping input images and rendering output images.
- enblend and enfuse for seamless blending of output images.
The Hugin project's mission is not only to provide a powerful GUI, but also to provide opensource replacements for the small number of closed source components of Panorama tools, especially PTStitcher. A PTStitcher replacement, called nona has been developed, supporting its most important features.
Among the many flexible Hugin workflow options, it is possible to correct exposure, Vignetting and White balance between photos; generate HDR or exposure blended output from bracketed photos; or use 16bit and HDR input data natively.
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The following tools are part of the hugin suite:
- hugin the gui front end.
- nona a command-line replacement for PTStitcher.
- fulla correction of barrel distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting.
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- autooptimiser an experimental tool with the same interface as PTOptimizer except using pairwise optimization which doesn't require any manual pre-placement.
- align_image_stack a tool to automate the process to align a stack of photos.
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- panoglview OpenGL panorama viewer stored in sourceforge SVN alongside hugin which must be built separately.
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More information, documentation and tutorials are available on the project website.
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Open season for European ISS robotics
A new robotic race has begun in Europe. Following a brilliant performance earlier this year, a squadron of miniature satellites will come to life again on the International Space Station (ISS), following commands of students.
Spheres − short for Synchronised Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites − are volleyball-sized satellites that have their own power, propulsion and navigation systems.
Last winter, 25 teams of secondary-school students from Europe operated the Spheres in a Zero-Robotics competition under the watchful eye of ESA astronaut André Kuipers.
Owing to the success of last year's competition, it is now open to a larger number of European participants. The tournament this year will welcome up to 25 teams per ESA member state.
European students are invited to create programs to make the Spheres revolve, spin, move and hover. Volunteer mentors will help the youngsters to control the droids on the Space Station.
How to master the Spheres
To compete for the finest moves, mentors must register their teams on the Zero-Robotics website for the European 2012 competition before September. Please create an account first, then register for the European tournament.
On 9 September, the game and rules will be unveiled at an event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. The event can be followed via a live webstream and questions posted to the organisers via Twitter.
All tournaments are free of charge and open to upper secondary schools. Teachers and professionals are encouraged to work on the challenge together with the school teams.
Check the dates to submit code and play against other teams in simulation rounds to get the highest scores and reach the finals.
Finalists will participate in a special event to see the real Spheres responding to their commands on the Space Station in January 2013.
Competition information
|9 September
|Kickoff webcast live from MIT
|Online simulation competitions
|28 September
|2D simulation competition deadline
|12–14 October
|2D ground demonstration
|26 October
|3D simulation competition
|27 October
|Alliance formation event
|14 December
|Final submission deadline
ESA's 19 Member States are Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
For further information, please contact:
Nigel Savage
Head of Education Unit
Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations
Email: email@example.com