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knives of ice wrote:Ok, watched the end of the CBC broadcast on gamecenter and Letang was going to shoot third for the Pens. Geno was definitely sitting, even the shootout. I had wondered about that.
There is no doubt the pens need to be better defensively, but believe it or not i think I can see improvement over the past 3 games. they were much improved against tampa, the philly game i can't blame the defense for most of those goals MAF was horrible that game. tonight, i think the first goal is soft, the 2nd nobody in the league would have stopped and can't blame the d on that one either. the leafs got some crazy bounces on the goals tonight. at least we haven't had defensemen badly pinching in the offensive zone causing breaks the other way. there has been some improvement in the past few games as sad as that is. we'll see if there is more evidence this week.
the big measuring stick for me to see where this team is will come this week against the bruins.
also, i expect some big pickups at the deadline. last year i think shero thought we were fine and loved the team, hell everyone did for the most part. this year i think he will try frantically to fill holes.
And I agree that the D can be better, but I believe that they will make moves too. I do not see 2 on 1s or 3 on 2s all over the ice, so I don't think that you can just say they don't care.


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Phased radio frequency (RF) arrays use numerous small antennas to steer RF beams without mechanical movement (think radar without a spinning dish). These electronics are invaluable for critical DoD applications such as radar, communications and electronic warfare. Their lack of moving parts reduces maintenance requirements and their advanced electromagnetic capabilities, such as the ability to look in multiple directions at once, are extremely useful in the field. These benefits, though, come with a high price tag. Current phased arrays are extremely expensive and can take many years to engineer and build.
One of the main factors driving the dollar and time costs of current phased array programs is the need to start engineering from scratch, to customize the array to a specific defense application every time a new system is needed. Because the resulting arrays are so specialized, even upgrading them is often prohibitively expensive. The drawn-out process for designing and building custom arrays also means that actual gains in performance have slowed to the point that commercial-off-the-shelf electronics are catching up rapidly in their ability to counter phased arrays. This emerging parity threatens to diminish the technological advantage DoD has traditionally enjoyed in military electronics. A technical solution is needed to bring military array programs to more manageable cost levels and timescales.
DARPA created the Arrays at Commercial Timescales (ACT) program to seek new technologies to form a shared hardware basis for many future DoD phased array development programs. If ACT is successful, the resulting technologies may save DoD billions of dollars and require years less research and development time for new systems. ACT will oversee technology research into three technical areas: 1) a common building block for RF arrays, 2) a reconfigurable electromagnetic interface (the antenna interface from the electronics to the waves in the air) and 3) over-the-air coherent array aggregation.
"What DARPA is looking for is essentially three tiers of technology that together form a configurable system that would serve as a starting point for any new array program," said Bill Chappell, DARPA program manager for this effort. "Current DoD array development programs can take more than a decade and cost tens of billions of dollars. That's because these programs start from zero, from a clean slate, every time and work toward an endpoint as specific as a radar system for a single class of warship. We want to give those efforts a common foundation. Success with technical areas one and two would lead to a significant reduction in program costs, namely the 30-40 percent nonrecurring engineering costs these programs average. We'll also save time, allowing DoD to field the effective new systems and readily refresh systems already in the field. Because of the rapid evolution of electronics, cost and time translate directly to performance. So not only do we hope to make arrays significantly cheaper at a faster time scale, we believe that this will in turn allow for much greater performance."
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This handmade perspex conifer leaf necklace was inspired by Victorian jet necklaces. The surface pattern was created using individual conifer leaves. They are collected, dried and pressed then used to emboss the surface. I use my own method of dying and embossing acrylic which I call 'fossilized plastic' due to the fine details, like fossils, that are captured on the embossed surface. The colours (in this case lemon yellow and green) are applied around the leaves like stencils, making each component individual.
I harness nature to create original pieces, which are a memory of each individual skeleton leaf. This botanical necklace evokes both a contemporary and a vintage feel. A classic piece that can be worn for years. I have found the necklaces attract a lot of attention!
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- Does elevated insulin cause obesity; does obesity cause elevated insulin; or both?
- Is there a unifying hypothesis that's able to explain all of the seemingly conflicting evidence cited by each side of the debate?
Why am I giving this talk? Two reasons. First, it's an important question that has implications for the prevention and treatment of obesity, and it has received a lot of interest in the ancestral health community and to some extent among obesity researchers. Second, I study the mechanisms of obesity professionally, I'm wrapping up a postdoc in a lab that has focused on the role of insulin in body fatness (lab of Dr. Michael W. Schwartz), and I've thought about this question a lot over the years-- so I'm in a good position to speak about it.
The talk will be accessible and informative to almost all knowledge levels, including researchers, physicians, and anyone who knows a little bit about insulin. I'll cover most of the basics as we go. I guarantee you'll learn something, whatever your knowledge level.


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Hello. I am having a problem with my code where I keep getting Null Pointer Exceptions and also I am having trouble with my file intake. This is my code minus the printlns at the end
import java.io.*; import java.util.Scanner; public class P1 { public static void main(String[] args){ int fileLinesCt=0, totalLinesCt=0; int httpCt=0, httpsCt=0, ftpCt=0, otherSchemeCt=0; int eduCt=0, orgCt=0, comCt=0, otherDomainCt=0; Scanner scan = null; String url = null, scheme = null, schemeSP = null, domain = null; File file = new File("input"); try { scan = new Scanner(file); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } Scanner scan2 = new Scanner(System.in); while (!"end".equals(scan.next()) || (!"end".equals(scan2.next()))){ if (scan.hasNext() == true) url = scan.nextLine(); String[] parts = url.split(":"); scheme = parts[0]; schemeSP = parts[1]; if ("http".equals(scheme)) httpCt++; if ("https".equals(scheme)) httpsCt++; if ("ftp".equals(scheme)) ftpCt++; else otherSchemeCt++; for (int j=0; j<schemeSP.length(); j++) if (schemeSP.charAt(j) == '.') domain = schemeSP.substring(j); if ("edu".equals(domain)) eduCt++; if ("org".equals(domain)) orgCt++; if ("com".equals(domain)) comCt++; else otherDomainCt++; fileLinesCt++; totalLinesCt++; }
Now what the basis of the assignment is is that i have to take files that include urls that will be automatically tested to my code and run through them counting the number of times different schemes appear (http,https) and count the number of times different domains appear(.com,.edu). Now I do not know what the names of these files will be and this seems to be a problem I am having. Also, Null Pointer Exception is appearing on line 19 which is the first line of the while loop. Also, a FileNotFound exception is appearing on line 13 whick is the one that says scan = new Scanner(file);.
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UConn's Geno Auriemma looks for eighth national championship against Louisville
NEW ORLEANS -- Geno Auriemma has never lost an NCAA championship game.
Of course, his UConn Huskies haven't had to face a team like upstart Louisville, which is making an unprecedented run through the tournament. A victory Tuesday night over the Cardinals would be UConn's eighth title, matching them with Tennessee for the most ever in women's basketball.
Auriemma didn't want to think about it.
"Talking about things that haven't happened yet is never a good idea," Auriemma said.
History is on the Hall of Fame coach's side: UConn is 7-0 in title games, including a victory in the 2009 game against Louisville and the 2004 game that was also played in New Orleans. That game was the college finale of Diana Taurasi, who finished with three straight championships.
This trip to the Big Easy could be the beginning of a new dynasty for the Huskies led by Breanna Stewart. The heralded freshman has been on one of the most remarkable runs of any first year player in the history of the NCAA tournament. She had a season-high 29 points in the semifinal victory over Notre Dame and was honored as the most outstanding player of the Bridgeport regional.
Auriemma said he couldn't remember a player having a better game in such a setting.
Stewart already has scored 82 points in the NCAA tournament -- the most ever by a UConn freshman, passing teammate Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis' 79-point effort last season. And she has done it in four games as the Syracuse native sat out the opening round rout of Idaho.
"I was sitting next to Jim Boeheim at the Olympics and we were talking during the gold medal game," Louisville coach Jeff Walz said. "He said, 'There's this kid that plays in the open gym with the women up at Syracuse and she's going to UConn and is one of the best players I've ever seen.' It's not a surprise in what she's doing. She makes it look easy."
Stewart's exploits are reminiscent of two of the all-time greats. As freshmen, Cheryl Miller guided USC to a title in 1983 and Chamique Holdsclaw led Tennessee to a championship in 1996.
Auriemma's latest prize recruit missed this season's first game against Louisville as she recovered from an ankle injury. UConn still won that game by 14 points. The Huskies have had their way with the Cardinals, winning the past 12 meetings, including that 2009 championship.
"I don't remember a thing, you try not to remember anything about those games," Walz deadpanned. "We're playing better basketball. The kids are confident, not much more to say. We believe in what we're doing. No one thought we'd beat Baylor, no one thought we'd beat Tennessee."
Walz isn't fazed by his team's lack of success against Connecticut. It's hard to blame him the way the Cardinals have rolled through the tournament behind freewheeling guard Shoni Schimmel.
First came the upset of Brittney Griner and Baylor that shocked everyone. Then came the victory over the Lady Vols -- the winningest program in women's basketball history. And finally the Final Four win over tournament newcomer Cal to get back to the title game for the second time in five seasons.
"It's going to take the best game we've played to date," Walz said. "We are going to have to play better than we played against Baylor, Tennessee and Cal. We're going to have to play 40 minutes of pretty much perfect basketball."
That will start with Schimmel, who has been incredible all tournament. Whether hitting 3-pointers from way behind the line, a behind-the-back bounce pass to her sister Jude, or an over-the-head fling against Griner, Schimmel has been a star.
"We're not done with what we've come out here to do and that's win a national championship," Schimmel said. "Why not go out with a bang?"
No matter who wins the game, the Big East conference will have a ninth national championship. The conference, which will split apart after this season, has been the most dominant in women's basketball over the past decade.
"It's a special thing," Walz said. "Every time you turn on a Final Four there's Big East teams playing in it. This is the best league in women's basketball."


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(CNN) -- Michael Jackson couldn't sleep.
A coroner preliminarily has concluded Michael Jackson died of an overdose of propofol, court documents say.
Maybe it was anxiety over his upcoming comeback concert series in London, England. Perhaps his body was trying to process too many different medications.
The reason may never be known, but a sworn affidavit makes clear that the King of Pop couldn't get rest the night before he died on June 25.
The affidavit, from Detective Orlando Martinez of the Los Angeles Police Department, outlines probable cause for search warrants on the offices of doctors who are thought to have treated Jackson.
Yet it also opens a window into Jackson's final hours, revealing information about the singer's treatment and the drugs given him by Dr. Conrad Murray, his personal physician, before his death. Watch a panel discuss Jackson's death »
Based on interviews, visits to Jackson's home as well as records and documents gathered during the investigation, the affidavit provides the following account of Jackson's last days:
In May, Jackson hired Murray, a cardiologist. The singer was spending long days rehearsing for concerts that he saw as crucial to reviving his career.
For six weeks, Murray told police that he treated Jackson for insomnia. He said he had been giving the singer an intravenous drip with 50 milligrams of propofol, diluted with lidocaine, every night to help him sleep.
Jackson was already familiar with propofol, a powerful anesthetic, Murray said. The singer even called it his "milk" because of its milky appearance, he said.
With the concerts approaching, Jackson started to need these drugs every night, Murray said -- and the doctor said he worried that Jackson was becoming addicted to propofol. He wanted to wean Jackson off the drug.
Three days before Jackson's death -- on June 22 -- Murray gave the singer a combination of drugs that he hoped gradually would move the singer off propofol.
That mixture involved propofol, the anti-anxiety drug lorazepam (known by its brand name, Ativan) and midazolam (known as Versed). It succeeded in helping Jackson to sleep for that night and the next, Murray said.
But by the night of June 24, Jackson again apparently was unable to sleep. Learn more about the events of Jackson's final hours »
At 1:30 a.m. on June 25, Murray decided to forgo the propofol in favor of 10 milligrams of Valium. Half an hour later, with Jackson still awake in bed, Murray injected the singer with two milligrams of lorazepam.
It still wasn't working.
At 3 a.m., Murray gave the singer two milligrams of midazolam, pushed slowly into his IV. And two hours later, with Jackson still awake, Murray administered another two milligrams of lorazepam through Jackson's IV.
The drugs did nothing to help Jackson sleep.
At 7:30 a.m., Murray gave the singer another two milligrams of midazolam in his IV.
By that point, Murray wasn't even leaving Jackson's room anymore, let alone his bedside. The doctor told police he sat next to the singer in his bedroom, monitoring Jackson's pulse and oxygen levels.
More than three hours later, despite a night of medication and doctor's care, Jackson remained awake.
Jackson was repeatedly asking -- even demanding -- that Murray give him more propofol to help him sleep, the doctor told police. So Murray finally administered 25 milligrams of propofol diluted with lidocaine via Jackson's IV drip.
The singer now had his "milk," and it worked. After a restless night, Jackson was finally able to close his eyes and go to sleep.
Murray told police he watched Jackson sleep for about 10 minutes before going to the bathroom. It had been a long night for both of them.
The trip to the bathroom took less than two minutes, Murray told police. But when he came back, he said, he saw Jackson wasn't breathing.
He started cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but it didn't work.
Jackson was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead later that afternoon.
According to court documents released Monday, Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, the chief medical examiner-coroner for Los Angeles County, concluded Jackson died of an overdose of propofol.
Sathyavagiswaran reached that preliminary conclusion after reviewing toxicology results carried out on Jackson's blood, according to a search warrant and affidavit unsealed in Houston, Texas.
The coroner's office would not comment on the statements in the affidavit. But Ed Chernoff, Murray's attorney, took issue with some of the information included in the court documents.
"Much of what was in the search warrant affidavit is factual. However, unfortunately, much is police theory," Chernoff said, specifically referring to media reports the coroner would rule Jackson's death a homicide.
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office said it has not yet seen a police report on the case, and no criminal charges have been filed.
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You are currently browsing the tag archive for the 'serendipity' tag.
Amit Gupta wrote about social serendipity today, and it feels like we've got a landslide of that going on here at Penn State, though much closer to home than his examples (he's the guy behind Photojojo, for those not familiar).
As my follow list on Twitter grows, I'm finding more and more amazing, knowledgeable people out there who "get it," in the words of one of those folks, who it just so happens I got to meet for lunch today.
And the give-and-take of that community, online and off, has been amazing. You end up tapping into the collective knowledge of a ton of experts, as long as you're willing to wait for an answer.
This has happened to me before, in other forums and communities, but this is as close to home as it's come. And while it's really cool to have connections wherever you might need them–an online shout-out for info about Buffalo a couple months ago turned up online friends that I didn't know were out there, for example–having them right in your backyard is amazing.
I mean, hey. Impromptu lunches are a possibility, even.
But it does cost attention. Design for Emotion and Flow describes this really well in the second paragraph of the article. The rest is no less important, but it's unrelated to my point here.
There's a point of balance that I think most of us are still trying to find in this newfound community:
- how to give and take equally to one's network;
- how to enjoy oneself and others evenly;
- how to find a sympathetic ear to vent without alienating others;
- where "no invitation [is] required" and crashing the party;
- expansion of connections and input overload;
- "value" of contribution and "just being yourself."
Some of this, no one has talked about at much length. But I'm feeling it out there. And it's something we all have to work through. Personally, I worked out some of this by dividing my Twitter presence into personal and professional. Folks I meet at conferences may get one or the other depending on the context.
Some folks have made parts of this problem quite plain: Shannon posted two videos to explain why she might "unfollow" someone on Twitter. Other bits of this are way more unspoken.
It's exciting to me that these new modes of being create new problems, bizarrely enough. It means we're progressing, expanding. Perhaps not in a geologic time sense, but significant nonetheless.
I'm looking forward to solving these problems for myself and seeing what they mean on the grander scale, especially as re-localization becomes a trend.


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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band just don't want to leave the stage.
Wednesday night's concert at Citizens Bank Park in South Philadelphia lasted nearly four hours, four minutes, breaking the previous record for the group's longest U.S. show set last week.
Philadelphia Daily News sports statistician and Springsteen fan Bob Vetrone Jr. clocked the show at four hours, three minutes, 46 seconds.
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The band played four hours Aug. 30 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
The Boss' longest show in the world was four hours, six minutes in Helsinki, Finland, in 2012.
The New Jersey rock icon could break his own record again in Philadelphia Friday when the E Street Band plays a second night at the home of the Phillies. Some extra tickets to the soldout show were released earlier this week.
Springsteen's 75-show U.S. and European The River Tour wraps up with a show in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on Sept. 14. [[238904721, C]]
Foxborough officials voted last week to extend its concert curfew by 15 minutes, to 11:30 p.m., for Springsteen.


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Ticket Prices: $6 Adults, $3 All Others
Location: Mirrione Stadium Directions to Wheaton
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Committee announced Monday the field of 64 teams for the 2012 NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championship.
The Farmingdale State women's soccer team will travel to Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., who will be hosting First and Second round games. The Rams will face #9 Williams College in the First Round on Saturday, November 10th at 1:30 p.m. #25 Wheaton will face Westfield State in the opening First Round game at 11:00 a.m. Winners will square off on Sunday, November 11th at 1:00 p.m. in the Second Round.
The Rams (13-7) captured the Skyline Conference for the sixth consecutive season after defeating Mount Saint Mary College, 3-1, in the Championship game.
Williams (12-3-2), a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), defeated Bowdoin in penalty kicks to earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Host school Wheaton (16-1-6) fell on penalty kicks at Springfield in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Finals. The Lyons joined the NCAA Tournament field after earning an at-large bid.
Westfield State University (18-0-1) earned a bid to the NCAA's after defeating Bridgewater State, 2-0, in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship (MASCAC) game.
Forty-three conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2012 championship. One team was selected from Pool B, which consists of independent institutions, and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. The final 20 berths were reserved for Pool C, which are institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams.
Sixteen four-team sites will conduct first- and second-round play on the first weekend of the championship, Nov. 9-10 or 10-11. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites Nov. 16-17 or 17-18. All games, except the semifinals and final, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. Winners of the four sectionals will advance to the semifinals Nov. 30-Dec. 1, at Blossom Soccer Stadium in San Antonio, Texas.
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Marmalade muffins
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Nutrition: per muffin
- kcal206
- fat3g
- saturates1g
- carbs41g
- sugars26g
- fibre1g
- protein4g
- salt0.4g
- 175g plain flour
- 25g porridge oat, plus extra for sprinkling
- 175g light soft brown sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
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- 9 tsp chunky marmalade
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/ gas 6 and line a muffin tin with 9 paper cases. Combine the flour, oats, sugar, baking powder and bicarb in a bowl. Whisk the orange zest and juice, oil, yogurt and egg together with a fork, then lightly stir the 2 mixtures together until just combined.
Spoon 1 tbsp of the mixture into each muffin case, top with 1 tsp of marmalade, then cover with the remaining muffin mix and a sprinkling of oats. Bake for 15-20 mins until cooked through and golden, then leave to cool slightly.


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Hooray for a good day at work! I was able to get away from my desk for a little while and work with the public, which I'll admit can either be really fulfilling for me or really frustrating. Luckily, it was fulfilling. It was nice to get away from my desk too.
Breakfast this morning was Eggo fiber plus calcium frozen waffles and a coffee. My coffee tasted excellent and I think the trick is sticking to Starbucks coffee when I make it at home. I really have only found a few other brands that even come close in flavor. I know some people don't like Starbucks and think it tastes burnt. I also like Peet's coffee, which is based in California, but you can find their beans at the Fresh Market. That's the strong coffee that got me through grad school!
At work, I snacked on a banana because I had wanted to eat it for breakfast, but knew it wouldn't fit in my little tummy so I chose to eat it around 10 a.m. with some raw almonds.
Lunch was a Bruschetta Boca burger on an Arnold's Thin, an apple and two peanut butter girl scout cookies.
After work, I went straight to the Metro Market grocery store in downtown Milwaukee and picked up some ingredients for my dinner.
I made beer battered tofu for dinner using New Belgium Mothership Wit beer and Bob's Mill cornmeal.
I literally came up with the idea for beer battered tofu as I laid in bed the other night, thinking of what I could make for another New Belgium beer recipe. This recipe is one that I didn't create on my own, but had to adapt from here. Like the person who posted this recipe, I don't like fish, so that is why I wanted to make beer battered tofu.
* 1 (16 ounce) package of drained firm tofu (firm works well, but extra firm will make it easier to handle) or 1 (16 ounce) package extra firm tofu (firm works well, but extra firm will make it easier to handle)
* 1 (12 ounce) can cheap beer
* 1 1/2 cups flour (I used whole wheat, but regular white works too)
* 1 cup cornmeal
* 1 tablespoon paprika
* 1 tablespoon garlic pepper seasoning
* 1 tablespoon parsley
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
* 3/4 cup canola oil
* tartar sauce or sweet chili sauce
Prep Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 30 mins
1. Mix beer and flour in a bowl until you have a thin batter. Sometimes this uses more or less flour. Just adjust until it looks like a thin pancake batter.
2. In a second bowl, mix remaining 6 ingredients.
3. Cut tofu into 1/4 inch thick slices. I got about 10 or 12. Place slices on 1 piece of paper towel then place a couple of paper towels on top of the slices and pat to dry a little.
4. Heat oil in heavy skillet or cast iron pan until one drop of water splashed in spits around the pan.
5. Carefully dip slices of tofu in beer batter shaking off the excess. Place in cornmeal mixture and tap each side to get coating to stick.
6. Place in hot oil and fry until golden about 3 minutes each side. Remove from pan and place on paper towels to drain.
7. Serve with tartar sauce or sweet chili sauce.
It tasted yummy and was oh so appropriate for this week's British fever with the royal wedding. I seriously LOVE tartar sauce and it's such a shame I don't eat fish to enjoy it more often. I even dip french fries into it when Craig gets fish and chips at a restaurant.
Since my stomach has still been acting up, I felt really full after eating tonight, but dragged myself to the gym. I was excited to workout, but my body didn't feel the same way. I was bloated and my legs felt so heavy when running on the treadmill. I cranked out 2.0 miles exactly and walked for a warmup and cool down, so I did a total of 24 minutes. I also lifted a few weights, including free.
Once I got home from the gym, I had to meditate right away and here I am blogging late tonight, around 9, so it's off to relax a bit and then get ready for bed.
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My posts lately have been so multi-faceted and stream of consiousnessy lately, haven't they? Well, have some more!
- 2 piece bonus – Your Flash Heal critical strikes cause the target to heal for 25% of the healed amount over 9 sec.
- 4 piece bonus – Your Circle of Healing and Penance spells have a 20% chance to cause your next Flash Heal cast within 6 sec to reset the cooldown on your Circle of Healing and Penance spells.
(They've been updated since they were first announced)
I know some people are pretty enthusiastic about the bonuses. But this is my blog, and I think they suck. So nyeh.
The 2-piece: Per WoL, my average Flash Heal hits for approx 2600. The HoT would heal another 650, broken up into however many pieces, over the next 9 seconds. That total heal is 1/3 of my average Renew tick. Let me repeat 1/3 of my average Renew tick. But wait! What about a Discipline Priest? Well ours is geared to the hilt and her average flash is approx 2200. Her total healing from the 2-piece would be 550. Also, it's somewhat unlikely the HoT would self-stack, meaning the Discipline Priest would only get ticks if their Penance is off cooldown and they take the time to Penance/re-shield. Otherwise, it would exist in the no-man's land of constant overwriting.
Also, the above numbers are best-case. If you get a crit on overheal, the phrasing seems to state that only the amount healed gets the HoT value. Double plus-plus useless.
People have also been commenting that the 2-piece is the old FoL HoT v 2.0. I counter that the pally FoL hot was a copy of the Priest 8-piece T2 bonus (yes, 8-piece, I'm going back to the golden age of raiding before tier tokens when you had to WORK for your set bonuses). Back in my day, that was the only stacking-hot in the game. And it still kinda sucked.
The 4-piece: I'll be the first to admit I kinda miss the days of no-cooldown CoH. (You miss them too, you know it!) I also have no qualms with admitting that the spell was totally OP at its height. Smart, not party-limited… no cooldown. mmm… Tasty, tasty OP'ness. The problem with messing with the cooldown length on cooldown-based spells is always going to be rhythm and muscle memory.
Muscle memory may be something you can train yourself out of pretty easily, but only if the changes made are consistent. The 4-piece is not a consistent change, it's a chance on proc.
1. Jov hates procs. Murphy's Law of Procs = shit never procs when you need it, only when you don't.
2. Jov hates procs.
3. Did I mention Jov hates procs?
Best definition I've heard of the 4-piece bonus was "Has 20% chance of screwing up your rotation." Yes, it has a strong potential for burst healing, but at the same time, most people have a feeling for when they can hit their Penance or CoH, and missing this proc is MUCH worse than missing out on a SoL.
Final Goodbyes
It was great knowing you all, but I'm leaving…
HA! Fooled you! Y'all are stuck with me for the next while at least.
The past few weeks have seen the official closings of two of the best and brightest lights in the Priest Blogging community. While Ego's final goodbye was expected, as her departure had been announced quite a bit earlier, the finality of the doors closing did drive the point home. Seri and I are still friends with the player behind the horns, and have a promise from Hannelore that we're her first stop if she ever feels the urge to post in the future, but it's always difficult to see something important to you move on.
And speaking of important and moving on, Dwarf Priest has also closed her doors. While Ego's departure was expected, Dwarf's was a sudden blog silence, leading many to have concerns about her health (and even some rumors of her death). While quick to dispel rumors of her death (vastly overrated), the health concerns proved to be true, and she has moved on, both from the responsibilities of the game and of the blog.
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sunnie_skys wrote:Decrease wrote:Sunnie,
So, you believe that government should never tell someone if murder is wrong or not? If science determines life begins at a certain point, we should not say it is wrong to take that life? Would you say it would be okay that a 1 day year old be terminated if the mother chose not to keep the baby? Would you say that if it was philosophically decided that a certain group of people were a burden on society, that society should be able to get rid of those people?
The issue is whether the baby in the belly is a person. If so, it is murder to have an abortion.
I believe scientifically it is logical to conclude that life begins at conception... that baby is a human. Murder is the taking of an innocent human life. Therefore, it is murder. If we should not make laws outlawing murder then where would you draw the line? Why?
I guess I threw myself into this situation so I will defend my words. I said I myself would NEVER have an abortion! For us to tell someone what to do with their own bodies is beyond it. Its just like telling someone they can not do drugs. They do it anyway dont they. I am against drugs as well but what poeple decide to do is what they are going to do. And laws wont help it, they will only go into closets to do it there. I never once said I believed in abortion, I said I believe in the choices people have.
It is irrational to say that since people will do something we should keep it legal. People will murder but we should not keep it legal. We should make it illegal and understand people will break the law.
Do you think the taking of a life should ever be left up to the choice of any person? At what age?


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Volquez leads Padres to win over Pirates
San Diego 3, Pittsburgh 1
It didn't result in a win but Kevin Correia gave the Pittsburgh Pirates a great effort.
Just one day after pitching two innings in Pittsburgh's 6-hour, 7-minute 6-3 win in 19 innings on Sunday afternoon at St. Louis, Correia was back on the mound.
But Edinson Volquez struck out 10 and Will Venable drove in two runs to lift the San Diego Padres to a 3-1 victory over the Pirates on Monday night.
Pittsburgh is a half-game ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers for the final wild-card berth.
Correia (9-8), who went into the game with a 75-pitch limit, gave up three runs -- two earned -- and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings.
"I wish I could have thrown a little bit better," Correia said. "It would have been tough to beat (Volquez)."
"His effort was solid and he gave us a chance to win the game," Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle said.
Volquez (8-9) got help from his bullpen, which pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings. Included in that group were Brad Brach and Dale Thayer, both of whom each struck out NL batting leader Andrew McCutchen late in the game with runners on base.
The Pirates finally reached Volquez when McCutchen led off with an infield single and went to second on third baseman Chase Headley's throwing error. McCutchen took third on a groundout and scored on Neil Walker's single.
The Pirates added an extra pitcher to the bullpen when they recalled two rookies, Kyle McPherson and Justin Wilson from Triple-A Indianapolis to provide some relief for the overworked bullpen. McPherson and Wilson each made their major-league debuts. McPherson pitched two scoreless innings and Wilson threw one scoreless inning.


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'Fashion rebel' joins Dior
Christian Dior has named Belgian designer Raf Simons as its new artistic director, seven months after its icon, John Galliano, was convicted by a Paris court for drunken anti-Semitic ravings.
A fashion rebel of a different sort, Simons - who began his career as a furniture designer and has had his own successful menswear label - will present his first show for the renowned Dior fashion house in July, according to Monday's announcement.
Galliano was dismissed by Dior in March 2011, days before its autumn/winter runway show, after a video went viral on the internet showing the designer inebriated and insulting a fellow client at a Paris cafe. He was heard slurring "I love Hitler," among other incendiary remarks.
The 44-year-old Simons, who designed for the minimalist Jil Sander label from 2005 until just recently, was a top name among rumoured candidates for the Dior job.
A statement by Dior said Simons will serve as artistic director for haute couture, ready-to-wear and women's accessories. It praised him as "one of the greatest current talents" and said he will "inspire and propel into the 21st century" the style carried on by the prestigious house since its creation in 1946.
"I am thrilled to join this great house," the statement quoted Simons as saying. "The house of Dior is the symbol of absolute elegance."
How Simons will translate his own vision for Dior will doubtless be the top question at the Paris show in July. His palette has produced both minimalist and maxed-out colours on precision designs.
Simons has had a quirky career. After moving from furniture to menswear in 1995, he then took a sabbatical and ended up as a professor of the fashion department at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, from 2000 until 2005. His menswear label mixed a rebellious touch with precision.
"The most important message Raf wants to communicate is: pride in individuality," his official CV says.
Simons was clearly preparing for his Dior moment with his February shows in Paris then Milan - his last for Jil Sander. At his Milan finale, he shed tears and took a second curtain call after ovations and a spontaneous invasion of the runway.
Fashionistas will clearly be glad to have him back, this time at a house with deep roots in a venerable fashion institution. After its founding in 1946, Dior presented its first collection a year later. Today, Dior is one of the world's top fashion houses, producing finely crafted couture to widely available cosmetics.
The interim design leadership at Dior came from Bill Gaytten and was safe and serviceable, but likely not enough to sustain Dior's buzz and prestige.
With the announcement, Dior can close for good the painful chapter of the Galliano affair.
Galliano was convicted in September of "public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity" but not given a prison term or forced to pay a fine, imposed but suspended.
At the trial, the once prideful designer humbly explained he had a "triple addiction" - to alcohol, barbiturates and sleeping pills - and said he recalled nothing. He said he was sorry for "the sadness that this whole affair has caused".
In testimony before the court in proceedings in June, Galliano said he didn't recall anything.
Where Galliano had showmanship and flair - sometimes outrageous - Simons tends to be more restrained. He took the helm at Jil Sander when the faltering label was looking for a designer who could push the line further without abandoning the minimalist trademark of the founder, who had since left the company.
Simons began with a black and white womenswear collection. His evolution there culminated several seasons ago in a burst of colour that dazzled the fashion world.
The winter 2013 show, presented on the fourth day of Milan Fashion Week on February 25, was his last as creative director for the label. It was feminine soft.
Simons has much support in the industry. His designs have increasingly becoming a bellwether for trends. Lately, his clothes gained support in fashion magazines, and the Jil Sander show became a must-have ticket during the Milan Fashion Week.
Still, he doesn't have the celebrity of a Galliano, and Jil Sander didn't have as broad an audience to please as does Dior. It will be the trick for Simons to balance exciting, fashion-forward design with global appeal that will find its place on red carpets and in department stores.
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In Houston, the Amaya family has spent the last few days waiting by the door for UPS to arrive. But after 10 days and two delays, they had just about lost hope. KPRC-TV's Gianna Caserta reports.
The Grinch has company.
Thousands of Americans awoke to find that special something missing from beneath the Christmas tree Wednesday, a day after UPS acknowledged getting swamped by the seasonal cheer and failing to deliver orders in time.
Now, rival FedEx appears to share the blame for the holiday that wasn't.
"We're sorry that there could be delays and we're contacting affected customers who have shipments available for pickup," Scott Fiedler, a spokesman for FedEx, told the Associated Press Wednesday.
Pressed Christmas afternoon, a supervisor at 1-800-GoFedex, the customer support line, went further in a call with NBC News. He declined to give his last name, citing company policy, but acknowledged "extraordinary" delays at the shipping giant and said his team had been apologizing to customers.
"We give our apologies to customers," he told NBC News, noting that bad weather had crippled planes and delivery trucks and unforeseen demand swamped what vehicles remained in operation.
That mirrors what UPS first acknowledged on Tuesday, as the complaints piled up and packages failed to arrive.
"The volume of air packages in our system exceeded the capacity in our network," UPS spokeswoman Natalie Godwin said in a statement.
And less-than-jolly customers of both companies took online to pummel the shipping giants.
"UPS SUCKS," wrote Kip Ingram in a post on the company's Facebook page, just a short scroll from a "Happy Christmas" message from the company's delivery crew. "They just FAILED. SUCK, SUCK, SUCK!"
"Merry Christmas FedEx," wrote Teri Martin in Phoenix, Arizona. "Thanks for taking my money, ruining my son's Christmas and taking days off to avoid dealing with desperate customers trying to find out how to get their packages! NEVER AGAIN!!!"
"I. WILL. NEVER. USE. UPS. AGAIN!" vowed Judie Larson on Twitter, which fluoresced with messages bearing the hashtag "#UPSfail."
For some, the void under the tree came despite days of phone-and-Web wrangling with UPS customer service. In Houston, the Amaya family toggled between tracking their package online and waiting by the door for UPS to arrive. But after 10 days and two delays, they finally gave up hope.
"My kids and the rest of my extended family have no presents," a deflated Jill Amaya told NBC News.
Christmas is about more than just stuff, many posters acknowledged, but even some of the smaller, more symbolic gifts of Christmas got lost in transit.
Samantha Edussuriya, the director of online content at Fuse.tv, the music website, took to "social media shaming" after FedEx failed to deliver her mother's passport in time for a family trip to Mexico.
The document was supposed to arrive in San Diego by Tuesday, she told NBC News, but instead the family tracked the package through Texas and Indiana. Even after it was marked "en route" it appeared not to be moving—and as of today it still hasn't arrived.
"Everyone was gushing with guarantees on Sunday when we asked FedEx if they could handle the order," says Edussuriya. "Now my mother is alone in San Diego and in tears."
Katherine McEachen of Fairfield, Conn., suffers from lupus and complications left her bedridden much of the fall, when she leaned heavily on her father for help. She recovered by the holidays and the family cut down a tree together, a moment McEachen recorded with a photo she arranged to have put on a mug and shipped to her father, beneath the message, "I love you"— a message that has yet to arrive.
"UPS ruined my Christmas," McEachen told NBC. "It's just a mug, but it was supposed to be so special and it's the only way I can say those words to him."
"Can UPS Save Christmas?" reads an unfortunately timed headline on the cover of the current edition of Bloomberg Businessweek, which went out to the magazine's one million subscribers.
The answer, evidently, was "no."
"UPS understands the importance of your holiday shipments," the company said in a Christmas Day statement on its website. "However, the volume of air packages in our system exceeded the capacity of our network immediately preceding Christmas so some shipments were delayed."
Amazon.com, one of the country's biggest package shippers, also cited UPS's "failure" in an apologetic email to customers on Christmas morning.
In addition to reviewing the performance of delivery carriers, Amazon spokesperson Mary Osako confirmed that Amazon is also attempting to placate affected customers by providing gift cards and refunds for shipping charges.
UPS itself is on a condolences tour, telling NBC News in a statement that only "a small percentage" of packages were affected and pledging that most of these will arrive by Thursday.
The last time a significant number of UPS packages were late for Christmas was 2004, when an ice storm crippled Worldport, the UPS distribution center in Louisville, Ky., in the run up to the holiday. Back then employees ended up manually loading packages for days, and surprising revelers with Christmas Day deliveries. This year the company declined to call its workers in for holiday service.
It's still unclear where the UPS network broke down, and the company has declined to specify the size of the problem. But Bloomberg Businessweek published just this week detailed the challenges likely to have stymied Santa's corporate helper this year — and spotlighted the man who may take a fall for the year's mishaps.
Scott Abell is known as "Mr. Peak" to the brown-shirted faithful, and he spends his whole work year outlining the company's holiday delivery plans, scrambling hundreds of planes and thousands of trucks from his office at Worldport.
Beyond icy weather, which hampered the UPS and FedEx distribution hubs, the companies were likely squeezed by a smaller window for holiday shopping and a record number of e-purchases being pushed through at the last minute. There were just 26 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas
At the same time, there was the continued growth of online shopping, which not only facilitates last-minute gifting but often rewards it with deeper discounts.
Online spending jumped 9 percent, to $37.8 billion, between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15, according to the online research firm comScore, and retailers expect overall holiday sales to be up nearly 4 percent, exceeding $600 million.
UPS anticipated delivering 132 million bundles in the week before Christmas, according to Bloomberg Businessweek, and to meet that wave of holiday cheer, Abell organized 55,000 part time workers, 23 extra planes and what amounts to a second fleet of delivery trucks.
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, FedEx handled 275 million shipments, Fiedler, the UPS spokesman, told the AP. Those that were not delivered in time, he said, "would be very few."
A last-minute decision by one of UPS's clients — reportedly Amazon.com — dumped additional packages into the system last weekend, but Abell doubled the number of shifts at Worldport, still hoping to stay ahead. It wasn't enough.
Abell usually heads to Florida in January to play golf and decompress after the madness of the holidays. When he returns, the 31-year veteran of the company gathers his lieutenants for a special lemon session, detailing all that could have gone better in the weeks before.
Already he's taken a small personal step to alleviate his workload, telling his immediate family to go easy on the online shopping. "I tell them that they should do it early," he said, according to his magazine profile. "Early's better."


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Picking up where I last left off, Michelle and I continued our journey around the US of America, left Philly, NYC, and Long Island, and then headed more towards upstate New York and back west. There we met our friend "Liam Devowski," who's real name is not Liam, but who has requested to be left somewhat anonymous because of his regular habit of making illegal graffiti (which you'll see down below). "Liam" lives in the city of Syracuse, which was named after the original Syracuse, a city on the eastern coast of Sicily, Italy, with which it shares some similarities, including a formerly important salt industry and a neighboring town of Salina. Woo-hoo. The city has functioned as a major crossroads over the last two centuries, first between the Erie Canal and its branch canals, then of the railway network. Today, Syracuse is located by the intersection of Upstate New York's two major interstate highways (which will rape any and all with their constant tolls), and its airport is the largest in the region. Internationally, the city today is best known as the home of Syracuse University, which I think Liam goes to(?) Syracuse kinda reminded me of Eugene, OR in a lot of respects, which we visited earlier in our cross country road trip. (You can read all about that here: Hippies, The Coast, And Psilocybin.) I could be wrong though. It wouldn't be the first time. It just seemed like the same kind of small, pseudo-hippie college town, and it had a similar earthy, ride-a-bike kinda vibe going on. Some huuuge rasta lady even offered to sell us some pot one night while we were walking around town looking for beer and burritos.
Here's our Syracuse host and his half-tailed kitten. I swear, there's nothing wrong with the cat aside from it having half a tail, and that it's not being hurt ... I can't remember the cat's name, but I do remember that it only had half a tail because before Liam adopted it, it tried sleeping under the hood of a car to stay warm. Someone started the engine, and oops, there goes the other half of the tail.
This little kick ramp or whatever was on Liam's deck where he painted it. He's got quite the thing for painting/drawing/building old synth keyboards, and you can check some of them down below.
Casio rock, literally.
Big daddy stay puft.
Hipster and dog. Pretty cool huh? To check out more stuff by Liam, click here to be redirected to his Flicker page, or click here to go to his 'space. Anyhow, I should mention that I didn't know Liam at all until I actually pulled up to the front of his house to crash. I don't really know very many people over on the east coast, and so I didn't have anywhere good to stay for this leg of the trip. I posted somthing up here on the Fecalface.com asking to see if anyone wanted to help a brutha out, and Liam came to the rescue. He totally showed us a good time and was really generous to us. He fixed us breakfast and showed us around town, and he took us on some really rad adventures over the 2 days that we were there. It just goes to show how awesome Fecalface and its Fecettes can be. Thanks again, mang.
One day Liam drove us down to the nearby town of Ithaca, NY to check out a big swimming hole with cliffs for diving. The swimming hole was awesome. It was basically a river that was dammed off to form a reservoir, but you can swim in it and the water is really warm. I also have to mention that during the drive down we passed through a small town with a lot of trailers that allegedly has the highest incest rate in the country! It was cool. Lots of above ground pools and stuff. Unfortunetly, we didn't actually get to witness any of the incest going on ...
See that sign nailed to the tree across the water? Well, basically what it says is somthing to the effect of "Don't swim here. It's illegal, and dangerous. Go away."
And this is the reason why. It's the dam that makes the reservoir possible, and for inexperienced swimmers, it could mean sudden DEATH. You can swim right up to it and it's kinda scary. I tried it once but didn't stick around long, fearing I might get sucked over or somthing.
Here you can not only see a kid jumping from extreme hights into the water, but also a couple of girls sitting on the edge of where all that water pours over. Ballsy.
This was one of Liam's friends climbing up this little house/tower to jump off of. I think his name is Erik.
Michelle made it up too.
Here's another x-treme pic. Pete's getting ready to do some illicit spray painting and there's another kid jumping to his death in the background.
He makes it look so easy.
Gold maybe wasn't the best color choice, but I think it was all Liam had, and it ended up looking pretty cool in the end.
There was also one completely random naked fat dude who was kinda creepy and hung out the whole time we were there. The scene at a place like this is usually younger adults and families, and bathing suits, while optional, are typically "customary". This is especially true when there are young children around. The entire time we were there this dude was just lurking around. This is fine and all, but at one point he gathered up his things and headed up the hill like he was leaving. He was gone for a while, and then we saw him again, but this time he was following a crew of 10-13 year old girls.
I could tell that the girls didn't know him and didn't really know how to act in that kind of a situation, so they just went about swimming like they probably would have normally. The naked guy just hung out the entire time right by them, acting slightly creepy, standing over them, and then "sunning" himself on a large rock nearby.
The naked dood was riiiiight behind us.
I can't put more pictures of him on here 'cos some of you will just say I'm ghey for showing the peen, even though it was itsy-bitsy and hella funny. You people who always leave negative comments on here went ahead and ruined it for the rest of us who wanted da cock shot. Shame on you.
Eventually a ranger wandered down and told the guy to keep his pants on, but it was entertaining/creepy to watch the whole event unfold. Sadly, she didn't want anyone swimming anymore either, so everyone climbed outta the water and we took off. Still, our day of exploration was far from over.
After the swimming hole, we went to check out an old abandoned gun factory not too far away. The idea sounded weird at first, but when we got there it was really big and filled with tons of cool graffiti. It was fun to explore, and there were even some eerie reminders left over from the old factory, like a rusted out caddy for a shit ton of old time cards.
This is the building we climbed into. The one pictured up above this one, with the huge brick chimney, was puny compared to the size of this place.
To get inside we had to climb up a hole that was under the building, opening into the first floor. Yes, we were tresspassing ...
Super creepy.
Mattress stairway?
This place was fucking HUGE by the way. I think it had 3 floors, each the size, if not larger, than a football field. There was a basement too, but it was way to dark to go down there since there wasn't any electricty running in the place.
Liam threw up a piece.
Keyboard monster.
I really like the black, squiggely face at the bottom right corner of the orange in this one. There's also a little squid done over the letters K and E that I think I've seen before ...
A shaved bowling ball?
This and that other one up above that says FATE are my all time favorites. The colors are so awesome in this, and the sad goblin with the word KRAKHED above him ... I love it!
One of the old bathrooms. I checked for turds but came out empty handed :(
haha weiner!
This is one of the first things I saw when I climbed into the building. Hella spooky.
Fuck the fucking fuckers, grow a goatee.
The most profound piece there. The little guy looks like he's really stumbled onto somthing.
This reminds me of a combination of things. One being the bad guy from The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the other being a little condom character that's painted on the side of Michael Sieben's gallery, Okay Mountain. Speaking of which, has anybody seen the show that's up there right now, titled Staff Infection? Man, wish I could check that out for the sheer excuse of picking up one of those t-shirts made especially for the event. Great design.
Looking out at Ithaca.
The ceiling.
Outside and behind the gun factory was an alley and another smaller building to explore.
Any of you bike nerds notice the blue chain ring stencil?
Fetus and mummy worm monster.
You guys remember Jesse Edwards? Well he does some pretty cool B&W portraits that blow these outta the water. Check 'em out here, here, here, and here.
Goblin's Alley.
This was taken inside the smaller building adjacent to other one we first explored. Apparently after the gun factory closed, someone illegally used this place as a chop shop for bikes, and there was a huge room filled with all these rusted bike parts.
One of Liam's bike nerd friends, Erik, was in that room checking out bike parts, when he fell into a hole filled with nasty mucky water! We heard his yells and came running.
Pobrecito fell into a nasty hole and got the wind knocked outta him. Sucked big time.
Some graffiti on the walls in that same room ... "Fuckame Indian Tribe."
The hole our friend fell in. I didn't even see it until I used the flash on my camera to light the room. Word to the wise, if you go into an abandoned, pitch black building, be sure to watch your step ... Learn somthing new everyday!
Ouchy-wa-wa. Later some stupid Cornell frat boys saw us in the parking lot and tried to scare us by telling us that the factory was filled with lead dust, but I don't think I believe them ... completely. I still have nerve function and I ain't gonna have any kids anyway... so I rule that the gun factory is still cool. Of course we went right home and looked it up on the internet just to be safe ... It turns out that the factory was a huge site of lead contamination, until the City of Ithaca bought the property from Cornell University ten-plus years ago for one dollar. Because the area is a watershed and the river below had a dangerous concentration of lead, the EPA came in and cleaned it up. Now the lead levels are well below the safe "minimum", but apparently the legend still lives on among the frat brothers ... and is still kinda freaky. Also, we ate at a really good pizza/sandwich/sub shop before we left Ithaca that was really, really good. I can't remember what it was called, but I have a feeling it was one of those small town eateries that all the locals know about. I think the building was orange and had a convieniance store built in with snacks and a soda fountain. I also remember that to place an order you had to fill out a piece of paper, checking all the boxes for the type of sandwhich you wanted. Some damn good grub.
Oh yeah, this pic's a bit random. When Michelle and I were in Idaho last November, some hillbilly hit Michelle's car while it was parked and then did the dickhead move and just drove off. We found a dent puller at a dollar store in Syracuse, so Meesh got it and tried unsuccessfully to pull out the dent. Oh well ... Any of you remember the old post I did on the old Fecalface site about that N. Idaho Thanksgiving trip I took? There were shop vacs and private parts involved ... Ring a bell, anyone? It was a classic.
Anyhow, we stayed at Liam's place one more night and watched the movie October Sky. That movie's good. Liam also gave me this piece that him and his friend collaborated on by mail. Pretty cool, huh? After all that though, we had to press on and head towards our next destination, Niagara Falls. Thanks again for letting us crash at your place "Liam." We had a great time, and wanna let you know that you're always welcome if you ever make it over here to the Seattle, WA area. Keep making all the cool synth stuff!
And we were off. Luckily Syracuse isn't too far from the falls, so we were able to get there pretty early in the day to hang out. To get to and from the falls you have to drive over these blue toll bridges first.
I think it costs like $1.50 each way or somthing. Seems like that would suck if you were a local who wanted to leave town every so often. Man, I hate tolls.
Oh, here's a shot of how far we've traveled thus far. Each stop along the way we continue to paint a line on the back of our car's map, showing where we've been. You wouldn't believe how many people honk and wave at us in support. People cut us some major slack too if we drive kinda funny, cuz they know we're not from around the area. People in general really seem to have sympathy for us road-trippers.
Niagara only has a population of about 9,000, and it seems like a lot of the economy is built on the fact that tons of tourist come to see the falls. While we were there we saw lots of side attractions around like this big ass balloon.
And this colossal casino. For some reason the camera didn't pick it up, but a lot of those windows had rainbow colored lights flashing from behind them.
When you first get there you have to walk over a small bridge that goes over the water that eventually pours over the falls. It moves pretty fast and is probably frigid as shit.
That's Canada over there, with a couple of the Maids of the Mist boats down below.
Here's a side shot of the American Falls.
And here's a closer one still ... No human has ever survived a plunge over the American Falls, thanks to the many boulders and the relatively weak current. But, there have been a handful of survivors and daredevils who have passed over the Horseshoe Falls, where there are fewer boulders and the current can "throw" a person farther away from the brink and (hopefully) avoid the rocks.
There's all the boulders that kill everyone ... The wooden walkway that makes it's way over those boulders is for a guided tour that takes you down to the "Cave of the Winds." We didn't take the tour ourselves, but I guess tropical storm-like conditions can be experienced, as winds can reach up to 68 mph down there.
The falls create so much mist that in some areas you can just barely see through to the Canadian side of the falls. Recent construction of several tall buildings (most of them hotels) on the Canadian side have caused the airflow over the Falls to change direction. Students at the University of Guelph demonstrated, using scale models, that the air passes over the top of the new hotels, causing a breeze to roll down the south sides of the buildings and spill into the gorge below the Falls, where it feeds into a whirlpool of moisture and air. The result is that the viewing areas are now often obscured by a layer of mist. Another possible explanation for the mist is a rise in local ground temperatures due to global warming. In either case, solving the problem will be difficult, but I gotta say that I'm pretty impressed with the intelegence it took to come up with either of those theories.
I nabbed this shot from online, showing what the Niagara Falls area looks like from an aerial view. Hopfully it helps in showing you where I took all my pictures within the park.
From here we could hear a live band at a restaurant covering a bunch of songs written by the Charlie Daniels Band. They seemed out of context to say the least.
Here's a picture looking over the Canadian "Horseshoe" falls. In October 1829, Sam Patch, who called himself The Yankee Leaper, jumped over the Horseshoe Falls and became the first known person to survive the plunge. This began a long tradition of daredevils trying to go over the Falls and survive. In 1901, 63-year-old Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to go over the Falls in a barrel; she survived virtually unharmed. Soon after exiting the barrel, she said, "No one should ever try that again." Since Taylor's historic ride, 14 other people have intentionally gone over the Falls in or on a device, despite her advice. Some have survived unharmed, but others have drowned or been severely injured. Survivors of such stunts face charges and stiff fines, as it is illegal, on both sides of the border, to attempt to go over the Falls.
Here's an old photo of one dood who made it in 1911. His name? Bobby Leach, and what a stud! In what some called the "Miracle at Niagara", Roger Woodward, a seven-year-old American boy, was swept over the Horseshoe Falls protected only by a life vest on July 9, 1960. He and his sister, seventeen-year-old Deanne, were taken on a boat ride in the upper Niagara River by a local man named Jim Honeycutt. The boat's motor failed and it capsized, sending its passengers into the water rapidly approaching the cataract. Honeycutt was swept over the Falls and died. His body was found four days later. Deanne was rescued from the water just meters from the brink of the Canadian Falls, by a man who climbed over the rail and reached out for her. She managed to grab his thumb, and somehow maintained her grip. The little kid, Roger, wearing only a life jacket, went over the Horseshoe Falls and miraculously survived. A Maid of the Mist boat lifted him out of the water downstream of the Falls. He suffered only a slight concussion and has a really awesome story to tell everyone he meets for ever and ever.
We spent $11.50 each to ride one of the "Maid Of The Mist" boats, and it was definitely the best $11.50 I've ever spent. They drive you right into the center of the Horseshoe Falls where you get totally drenched and blown around by the wind.
To get down to the boat you have to go down this huge elevator.
It's so high you'll lose your head. har har.
Meesh and I suited up and prepared ourselves to get soaked.
To the upper deck!
I thought this guy was so funny. Check out the little booties he made for his feet! Gotta protect the kicks! Not to mention that the phrase "Maid of the Mist" stretches across his chest. haha!
Our ship mates.
There were a bunch of young Japanese girls on the boat with us and they kept taking pictures of each other in front of the falls flashing the peace sign. The boat got really rocky at one point and one of them looked like she was about to hurl, but I think she was okay. I really felt bad for her, but I don't think there was anything I could have done. For some reason Japanese tourists always take pictures flashing the peace sign ...
Reminds me of when we went to Albuquerque earlier on the trip and saw this rainbow.
This was when things got really windy and everyone's ponchos started flapping around.
This mist was coming in pretty heavy too, so in effort to protect my camera I tried taking a photo from the inside of my poncho.
The larger water fall to the left is the American Falls, and the thinner one on the right are the Bridal Veil Falls. That's the walkway I mentioned earlier that leads to some cave. I think it cost like $8 to go, but the boat ride sounded way better.
Here's a really weird photo I found on the internet of the American Falls "shut off" during a few months of 1969. I had no idea this kind of work was possible, but appearantly it was done to try and help with preservation efforts and to cut back on erosion issues. When they were all done doing whatever it was they had to do, they blew up the damn they created with dynamite, redirecting all the water back to the drop off.
The wind down here is so strong that it climbs up your poncho and puffs you up like a pillow.
Entering the Horseshoe Falls.
You get DRENCHED down here from all the mist floating around.
Video I took of inside the falls with my camera, showing how wet and windy and blue it is down there.
Eventually we made it back to our campsite where I burned a bunch of stale bread and we got drunk off of some strange kind of bitch beer made to imitate iced tea, but with booze. I think we drank all 6 without ever feeling a buzz, but it did taste okay.
Okay, I think there's enough good stuff crammed into this update for now ... I'll leave you with this picture we took of our tent at the KOA, guarded by the tape skull Mark Jenkins left us, from when we visited him in D.C. Speaking of which, check out one of the coolest things he's ever made, here! Anyhow, after Niagara we had to press on and head to Chicago for the Pitchfork Music Festival. I'll try to update this soon with more traveling updates. I am psyched!{moscomment}
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'Gossip Girl' Can't End Next Season — Chair And Dair Fans Need To Come Together
If 'Gossip Girl' producers shorten its final season, it will be a disservice to ALL shippers! Chair, Dair, Derena, HECK — even CHERENA fans — 'Gossip Girl' needs our support!
A new report has surfaced that Gossip Girl producers are going to cut short season 6 — its alleged final season — due to poor ratings. If this is true, Gossip Girl could potentially only have 10 to 15 episodes to go and then its life as a series is over. Just writing these words bring tears to my eyes. Gossip Girl is my favorite show; I'm not ready to say goodbye just yet!
It's no secret these are some very troubling times for the CW show. It's safe to say these the Dark Ages of Gossip Girl. Even though the show attracted 1.4 million viewers for its 100th episode Jan. 30, that still was a significant drop from the 3.4 million viewers that tuned in for the season 2 premiere in 2008. Coincidentally or not so coincidentally, this was the season that primarily focused on the relationship between Chuck (Ed Westwick) and Blair (Leighton Meester).
Now, before you Dair fans call me biased and attack me for being a Chair fan, the numbers show viewers favor Chair over Dair. And while this is difficult for me to propose, I think it needs to be done because if the final season of Gossip Girl is going to be shortened, it would be a disappointment to ALL fans. The series wouldn't end how it was originally planned to end!
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According to The Wall Street Journal's "On the Runway" blog, wedding retailer Alfred Angelo has been working with Carolina Herrera -- who designed the original for the movie -- in secret to make sure that the dress would be available shortly after the premiere:
Back in May, bridal retailer Alfred Angelo began working with Summit Entertainment to replicate the wedding dress in time for the film's November premiere, under a confidentiality agreement that designer Michael Shettel jokes was "signed in blood." The company, which used undisclosed code names for the Twilight dress project, limited its circle of principals involved to only about four people, the designer said.
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On Oct. 10, Kelly Clarkson and Will.i.am announced the nominees for the 2013 American Music Awards on 'Good Morning America' — and it's quite an impressive list!
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Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist
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Bruno Mars
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Imagine Dragons
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Bruno Mars
Taylor Swift
Justin Timberlake
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Miranda Lambert
Taylor Swift
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Luke Bryan
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Blake Shelton
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Lady Antebellum
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"Crash My Party" — Luke Bryan
"Here's to the Good Times" — Florida Georgia Line
"Red" — Taylor Swift
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Lil' Wayne
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
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"Magna Carta Holy Grail" — Jay Z
"Good Kid, m.A.A.d City" — Kendrick Lamar
"The Heist" — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
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Alicia Keys
Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist
Robin Thicke
Justin Timberlake
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"Unapologetic" — Rihanna
"Blurred Lines" — Robin Thicke
"The 20/20 Experience" — Justin Timberlake
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Maroon Five
Bruno Mars
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Chris Tomlin
Matthew West
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Imagine Dragons
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Marc Anthony
Prince Royce
Romeo Santos
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Daft Pink
Calvin Harris
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Pitch Perfect
The Great Gatsby
Les Miserables
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I love my job. I have several active clients, and I work part-time for each of them from the comfort of my home office. This arrangement provides great flexibility in managing my tasks and my life. But it has at least one pitfall: procrastination.
There, I admitted it. I am a procrastinator. Sign me up for Procrastinator's Anonymous. Wow, the Great Google informs me that there really is such an organization. I don't think my case is quite that bad, though. Out of the 10 signs of compulsive procrastination, only three of them apply to me (wanna guess which three?).
You'd think that you'd only be tempted to procrastinate when you believe that you have plenty of time to get all your work done. But the truth is quite a different story. When I have one client waiting for a specification, another waiting on code, a third on help debugging a problem, and a fourth on a weekly TechRepublic post, guess what I do? Apply software updates, read my feeds, chat with apotheon, play a game of backgammon, check my Technorati stats, anything but work on what so urgently demands my attention. On the other hand, when I only have a few well laid-out tasks to perform, then I'm ready to get them done and check them off.
Therein lies the key, I think, to overcoming procrastination. If you feel overwhelmed by the enormity of what you need to accomplish, then it's easy to put off getting started -- because you feel like you'll never get finished. So, the most important step is to break down your work into small tasks that can be easily accomplished. Make a list. As you check each one off, your sense of progress helps you to keep going on to the next task. Make sure that you give yourself a break now and then, as a mini-reward for getting things done. But then turn right around and get started again.
Getting started is the hardest part. Once you start working on a task, it's pretty easy to keep on going. So minimize interruptions. Every time you're interrupted, you have to force yourself to get started all over again. Make sure that the people around you understand that and respect your "on" time. I've even stopped answering the phone, unless the caller ID shows me that it's going to be related to my current task. Otherwise, please leave a message.
Incidentally, one of the reasons why I've always preferred billing by the hour is that it represents an incentive to keep me working, because time spent procrastinating is time without pay. But honestly, that doesn't help much.
Sometimes procrastination represents a passive-aggressive pushback against a task that you never wanted to perform in the first place, but you agreed to do anyway. You've got to ask yourself some hard questions when that happens. Why did I agree to do this? Did I feel powerless to refuse? Is this really the kind of work that I want? One of the best cures for procrastination is to weed out some of those tasks. Sometimes you just need to say no. Once you get that monkey off your back, your remaining tasks will seem even more rewarding. And if you can't get rid of an onerous task, then get rid of it by doing it first.
A site called Procrastination Help offers some "quick fixes.".I like "get attractive tools for tasks that cause your procrastination" (as if I needed another excuse for buying new gadgets). Why does that approach work? Because it helps you to envision the task differently, as something fun. You could also try other ways to change your attitude towards the work, like thinking about how cool this job would seem to someone else -- maybe even to yourself several years ago. "If I could have known when I was a lowly entry-level programmer that I would be doing this kind of work today..." should help to lift your spirits. But of course, if you would complete that thought with "... I would have slit my wrists," then maybe it's time for a new job.