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A short while ago, I launched my special interest website www.80s-tennis.com. It is a connoisseur site for fans and collectors of 70s and 80s tennis stuff. Amongst other things, the visitors can view a huge vintage racquet gallery, diverse vintage tennis fashion galleries, old vintage ads of the manufacturers, player profiles, comprehensive statistics, etc. 80s-tennis.com is a unique project that attracts a worldwide public.
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YouRockRed client Lido Pimienta wins Polaris Music Prize 2017!
A major career highlight happened for me last night for YouRockRed when Lido Pimienta won Polaris Music Prize and shout me out on CBC TV saying that it was working with me on a marketing plan really kicked her into gear towards building her team that led her to this. (who were also thanked, )
From the moment I heard La Papessa I was like, this is gonna win Polaris… AND IT DID!!!!! This morning I woke up and was like, HOLY SHIT, she accomplished everything we planned for December and January essentially overnight now. Such an incredibly deserving artist.
Congrats to Lido and her team!!!
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Bubba Ho-Tep
(2003) Directed by Don Coscarelli. Resting in the confines of a Mud Creek, TX, nursing home after fading into obscurity following his departure from the limelight, aging and embittered Elvis (Bruce Campbell) befriends a delusional patient named Jack (Ossie Davis) who claims to be John F. Kennedy. It seems that at the height of his popularity, Elvis had switched identities with a convincing double, and, upon the death of the substitute, missed his chance to reclaim his former fame. Despite his anger at never having made a comeback, Elvis finds a new reason to live when Jack tips him off to an evil mummy that is feasting on the souls of hapless nursing home inhabitants. Before long the geriatric duo must muster the strength to fend off the malevolent soul sucker lest they ultimately fall prey to the fearsome Bubba Ho-Tep (Bob Ivy). [Comedy / Horror]


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By Ed White
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DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Kelly leaves office Tuesday after 16 years on the state's top court, much of that time in the minority responding to opinions set by the conservative majority.
"It wasn't the way I would have scripted it if I had the option. It can be very lonely," said Kelly, a Democrat. "I still would have done it. It's such a great opportunity to try to shape the law."
Kelly, 74, is not hanging up her black robe by choice. The state Constitution bars judicial candidates over the age of 70 from running for office. That rule was part of the 1908 document and was retained in 1963.
"I would have run again because I'm in good health and I love the job," said Kelly, who was elected in 1996 and re-elected in 2004. "I don't know what conversations took place at the (1961-62) constitutional convention. There wasn't the keen awareness then as there is today about age discrimination."
Kelly was chief justice from 2009 through 2010, a two-year period when election results temporarily put conservative Republicans in the minority. During that stretch, the court opened the door for more lawsuits by people who were injured in car accidents.
She also was in the majority when the court threw out a 2004 decision that had greatly restricted lawsuits in environmental disputes. But that ruling stood for only four months; Republican justices regained control in the 2010 election and restored the earlier ruling. The GOP still maintains a 4-3 edge.
"From my point of view, the court is not in the middle of the road," Kelly said in an interview last week with The Associated Press. "The court is off to the right, and I've often written complaining about that. It should not be so difficult to get a claim to a jury as it has become under this court, simple accidents in everyday life."
She has dissented in decisions that have limited lawsuits in slip-and-fall accidents and set strict rules for people pursuing personal injury claims. Conservatives on the court, led by Chief Justice Robert Young Jr., say the majority is simply interpreting the law as the Legislature intended.
There have been victories. Kelly said she was pleased to have been part of a landmark 2005 decision that allows people to walk along miles of Michigan's Great Lakes shore, even if the beach is privately owned. In 2004, she was part of a unanimous ruling that limited the government's ability to use eminent domain to acquire private land for private purposes.
Kelly said she'll next turn to teaching at Wayne State University law school. But she also wants to educate the public about ways to change how Supreme Court justices are elected. She led a task force earlier this year that recommended an open primary election for candidates instead of having nominees blessed by political parties.
Candidates for the top court are nominated by parties but don't carry a political affiliation on the ballot, unlike candidates for other statewide offices. University of Michigan law professor Bridget McCormack, who was endorsed by Democrats, won a seat in the Nov. 6 election and will replace Kelly on Tuesday.
Kelly also believes a commission should be created to recommend people to serve on the Supreme Court when a vacancy arises, an idea that doesn't need approval by voters.
Gov. Rick Snyder "didn't promise us he would do something right away, but he said he would continue to look at it," she said.
And that age limit for judges? Kelly hopes voters someday scrap that, too.
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Democrats say they want to bring the Legislature back in a special session to take up four issues related to job creation, but the Republican head of the Assembly is dismissing the request as political theater.
Republicans transferred power in the state Senate on Tuesday, July 17, in a brief meeting that was largely ceremonial. Democrats took control after John Lehman won a recall election over Republican Sen. Van Wanggaard.
Democratic Majority Leader Mark Miller says the people want immediate action and don't want to wait until next year.
But Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald calls Miller's request political theater and says it amazes him Democrats want to talk about job creation after they rejected a bill passed by the Assembly designed to help a new iron mine open in northern Wisconsin.


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Tesla & Nasdaq 100: Should Shareholders Celebrate?
Now Tesla Motors is in the Nasdaq 100, its shareholders have another reason to celebrate. Or do they? MarketWatch's Tom Bemis explains why they may not. (Photo: Getty images)
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YOW! Night Melbourne - Stuart Sierra & Dave Thomas - May 21
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013 from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm (AEST)
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YOW! May 2013 Double Feature
with Stuart Sierra and Dave Thomas
Join us for a jam packed double feature YOW! Night for May 2013 to hear Stuart Sierra and Dave Thomas.
Clojure: Lisp for the Real World (Stuart Sierra)
Clojure is a new dynamic language targeting the Java Virtual Machine, the .NET Common Language Runtime, and JavaScript. Clojure builds on the long history of Lisp-based languages while embracing modern platforms and pragmatic design. This talk is an introduction to Clojure and its core concepts: immutable values, code as data, software transactional memory, generic data access, and polymorphism without classes.
JVMs Demystified – A Tour of the LVM Engine Room (Dave Thomas)
Dave looks under the hood of LVMs (language virtual machines) to gain an understanding of what makes them tick as well as differences between them. He explains the essence LVM engineering including object representations, stack versus register machines, RISC versus CISC byte codes; static dispatch to polymorphic inline cache; context management; interpretation versus dynamic translation/tracing JITs versus compilation; garbage collection; and native types and code interfaces. He then discusses benchmark speed and space performance versus real application performance.
Armed with this knowledge, he then tackles some of the common LVM debates. How can a JVM or PHP VM be faster than C++? When is the JVM or CLR better? How does the language, or the language library impact the LVM? Are strongly typed languages always faster than dynamic languages? How does hosting with CRuby, compare to JRuby or Java? Let's put the LVM in hardware? How do functional language LVMs differ from object LVMs? How can thousands of processes in Erlang be efficient compared to using native OS threads?
|Welcome networking with refreshments
|Presentations "Clojure: Lisp for the Real World" and "JVMs Demystified - A Tour of the LVM Engine Room" followed by Q&A
|Networking refreshments and close
About the Presenters
Stuart Sierra has been involved in Clojure/core since (almost) the very beginning and is the author of many open-source Clojure ilbraries. He helped found the Program on Law & Technology at Columbia Law School, where he built AltLaw.org, the first real-world Clojure web applications and open-source search engine for legal references. He is the co-author, with Luke VanderHart, of the book ClojureScript: Up and Running and Practical Clojure.
Dave Thomas is an expert in dynamic languages and has decades of experience building and deploying language VMs for mobile, instrumentation, embedded command and control, and business application on platforms from mainframes to a microprocessors. He is widely known and respected in the programming language community and this year will be presenting the keynote at the Commercial Users of Functional Programming (CUFP) conference.
While CEO of OTI, now IBM OTI Labs, he over saw IBM's Smalltalk and J9 family of Java JVMs, OSGi as well as the initial releases of Eclipse. He lead an IBM OTI research effort into universal virtual machines. After leaving IBM he worked on JVM support for dynamic languages and the use of V8 for embedded applications. For the past 6 years Dave has been working with high performance vector functional virtual machines, DSLs and most recently exploring special purpose HW VMs.
YOW! Nights Sponsor
This YOW! Night is proudly sponsored by realestate.com.au.
Community Sponsors
Thank you to the Melbourne Java & JVM User Group, clj-melb, Melbourne Functional User Group and Melbourne Scala for their ongoing promotion of functional programming in Melbourne and their support of YOW!
Want More Clojure in Melbourne?
Stuart Sierra is running a 2 day "Introduction to Clojure" training course for the first time right here in Melbourne on May 20-21. Whether you are looking to start your functional programing journey or learn more about Clojure, make sure you reserve your seat now!
Want More Functional?
YOW! Lambda Jam, a conference for functional programmers, will be held in Brisbane on May 16-17, 2013. This is the first conference dedicated to functional programming and tickets are still available.
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013 from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm (AEST)
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Concerning the End of "Combat Operations" in Iraq
Several of today's front pages feature iconic images of U.S. troops marching onto troop transports and into the sunset in Iraq. Today's story by Ernesto Londoño in the Washington Post, features Lt. Col. Mark Bieger of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, "This is a historic mission!" Beiger bellows as his troops prepared to depart Baghdad for the last time, "A truly historic end to seven years of war."
No disrespect to Col. Bieger and his troops, but the war isn't over, and it won't be so long as there are significant number of U.S. troops in Iraq at risk of being caught in the cross‐fire of a sectarian civil war.
The Iraqi government, more than five months after nationwide elections, remains in limbo. Talks over a power sharing arrangement have broken down. Meanwhile, violence is on the rise. Call it whatever you like, but the 50,000 troops who remain in Iraq are still dealing with a lot of challenges.
Much of the confusion in the media reporting revolves around semantics, words and phrases such as "combat" and "combat units." It doesn't help that George W. Bush declared on May 1, 2003 that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" under that infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner. But beyond Bush's irrational exuberance, such terms are increasingly misleading in an era in which conventional, state vs. state organized violence — what we used to think of as war — has been replaced by murky, disorganized violence, perpetrated by disparate militias, or merely disgruntled individuals unhappy with their lot in life, and determined to take it out on anyone who happens to be around at the time.
Unfortunately, I have very little confidence that that state of affairs will change any time soon. And I seriously doubt that our people — our men and women in uniform, and, explains Michael Gordon in the New York Times, soon many more U.S. civilians and contractors — will be able to put everything right, and not for lack of trying. Meanwhile, I am deeply troubled by the rising chorus of voices calling on the Obama administration to ignore the remaining provisions of the status of forces agreement (SOFA) and prepare for an indefinite military presence in Iraq. (On this, see Ted Galen Carpenter's latest entry at TNI's The Skeptics blog.)
So, no, the war isn't over. For better or worse (and chiefly the latter), Americans will remain associated with an unpopular and government in Baghdad as it struggles to hold together the country's disparate factions. They will be at great risk if the current political paralysis collapses into still wider violence.
Needless to say, I hope that doesn't happen. But I won't be striking up the band and declaring the war American in Iraq to be truly over, until all of our troops are back home.


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Mower Mountain 2018
July 25-29
This is it, y'all. The big one. The event you can't miss. Mower Mountain brings the greatest and best Sisel has to offer for an event unlike any other. Experience quality training from the incredible minds behind our products and explore the business of success. Gain confidence in your sales as you learn effective and efficient tips on growing your downlines. This is high-level training that you can't get anywhere else; the kind of training that makes Masters.
And what would a Mower Mountain be without adventure? Explore scenic Utah; from the slopes of the Rockies, to the saloons and general stores of Downtown Salt Lake City, to the rustic country beauty of Tom Mower's estate. Gain invaluable skills with our many team-building activities and improve relations with your business partners. Enjoy incredible, authentic food as you kick up your boots and lie back Under the Stars during our live concert Saturday night.
To put it simply, it's the event to go to. Nowhere else will you get this level of hands-on training with Sisel and its incredible products. Nowhere else will you meet new friends and reunite with long-time colleagues. And fun? We've got it in spades. Aces, too. Whether you're a Mower Mountain sheriff or this is your first rodeo, everyone learns, everyone grows, everyone leaves a better business owner.
So what are you waiting for? Open up your scheduler, find July 26 and write down "Going to Mower Mountain." We'll see you there, partner.
Featured Activities
Saddle up, partner…this is it. The showdown at high noon. Calamity Jane and ol' Butch don't have nothin' on this! We're going to paint the town red with all the activities we've got in store! Hog wrasslin' buckin' broncos, lassoes and more! And if that ain't enough…food so good it'll knock you straight on your tail. We're talking lip smackin', finger lickin', write-home-to-your-momma-it's-so-good food. And to wrap it all up? Sisel Under the Stars, complete with a live concert. You'll be begging to stick around till the sheriff comes and drags you home! (He's been known to do that 'round these parts)
Can you make it across the Artesian Beam? Or navigate through the Spider Web? Do you trust your team to lift you 30 feet into the air? Get ready for an exciting adventure that will help you better appreciate the power of teamwork. Bring comfortable outdoor attire, sturdy footwear, sunscreen and sunglasses.
This is where all of the magic happens. Take a tour of our amazing, world-class 400,000 square foot manufacturing facility, and learn why Sisel truly is different form any other company and why we have been able to pioneer the manufacturing of safe products for over 30 years.
Take this exciting game for a test drive (150 yds or more, preferably) as golf and bowling collide in a unique experience unlike any other! Work together with your team as you compete for the top spot, and enjoy great food, fun and laughs along the way! Bring light, breathable clothing, comfortable footwear, sunglasses and sunscreen.
Sisel Under the Stars listening to a live band under a beautiful night sky.
Prices and other Expenses
What does it take to be a part of this party? A Mower Mountain Full Activity Package is only $500. Or put down a $200 deposit and we will reserve your spot until you can pay the rest. (Both the package and the deposit are non-refundable.)
Your Mower Mountain Full Activity Package covers:
- Event transportation
- All activities as outlined in agenda
- Lunch and Dinner for Thurs, Fri, Sat
Wednesday, July 25
All Day: Arrivals
Thursday, July 26
• Mower Mountain
• Horseback riding
• Trap shooting
• Fish in Tom Mower Sr's private pond (catch and release).
• Water Fight
• Rodeo Obstacle Course
• Mechanical Bull
• Sack Race
• Cattle roping instruction and demonstration
• 3-Legged Race
• Watermelon Eating Contest
• Archery Tag
• Huge Slip and Slide
• ATVs
• Mexican Fiesta Lunch
• Oklahoma! Summer Theater at Sundance with dinner
Friday, July 27
• Top Golf
• Ropes Course
• Factory Tours
• Golfing
• Mountain Excursion
• Lunch included
• Old West Days Rodeo
• Dinner Included
Saturday, July 28
• Mower Elite Training
• Back Office: Tools to Your Success – Thomas Mower
• Marketing Your Business: Social Media and Beyond – Marketing
• A Beautiful You – Leisel Mower
• Wealth Builder – What You Ought to Know – Wealth Builder
• Building a Global Business – Aaron Rennert
• The Future of Sisel – Tom Mower Jr.
• An Afternoon with the Legend – Tom Mower Sr.
• Recognition
• Dutch Oven BBQ
• Sisel Under the Stars with Live Band
Sunday, July 29
All Day: Departures
Lodging and Transportation
Provided here are a handful of options to select from when choosing where to stay and how to travel during Mower Mountain. This is not an exhaustive list; there are many other choices besides the ones provided here.
Hampton Inn Provo
Address: 1511 S 40 E St, Provo, UT 84601
Phone: (801) 377-6396
Provo Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
Address: 101 W 100 N, Provo, UT 84601
Phone: (801) 377-4700
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Address: 1290 W University Pkwy, Orem, UT 84058
Phone: (801) 655-1515
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It's been a good few weeks for me. A lovely long weekend in France seeing a friend and her family after a couple of years of just skyping. Wow! I had forgotten quite the quality of energy a 17 month old requires. Then it was the end of term and the holidays. We visited friends and family, it was great overall. Great, but exhausting. George was a little under the weather so a fair bit of it was slow but it was as you can imagine busy despite lots of filmwatching a sofa days. On my 'free' days during the term when the children are both at school and playschool I've had hospital and dental appointments lined up. It's felt a bit like I am on a treadmill, just ticking things off a neverending to do list than getting any 'me' time.
Following all that kind of disruption to the usual routine comes a period of adjustment, this week is about getting back on top of life. The laundry's piled up, I've caught the cold going round, my head feels like it's in a vice. I'm behind on my nutrition course which I promised myself I wouldn't do (my peer coach assures me this time next year I will be so healthy I won't get colds which sounds good to me!) , I don't blog here anymore, I don't read the craft blogs I like anymore (or comment) everything feels a little off kilter - unbalanced, like that part of my life just took off somewhere. In the evenings, particularly if the children have been to something after school I get the dinner on, eat, get them ready for bed, tidy the kitchen and do the washing. I seem to get to this point for around 9pm. 9PM!!!! Then I don't feel like I've got anything left, the day's been too full, I. AM. DONE. I've done little crocheting, which is a sure fire indicator things are not feeling right, I make too many mistakes when I'm feeling bushed. Instead of feeling grateful when I look at the possibilities of March and the full calendar of stuff we have lined up: seeing friends, going to see Bonobo and Bombay Bicycle Club, dinners, birthday parties, nights out, there's also that underlying sense of dread at fitting it all in and anticipation of inevitable exhaustion. Argh! I think it's because I have a head cold - do you get that? Basically looking at everything with a heavy dose of negativity when you feel done in? I know everyone gets that. What am I talking about? When I'm like this I also seem to I spend my time overconsuming on generally useless material (shopping sites and facebook) I feel less than myself, wasting time looking at what people I am not interested in have been up to or not making decisions about stuff I want to get for the house. It's exhausting, too much consumption, not enough creation.
I do read a few blogs now and again, self development/health ones mostly because of the course, I'm apt to overdose on those a little, but I just checked in with an old crafty favourite at Meet me at Mikes (not generally useless material!) and read this post and did it resonate?! It did.
I don't really participate in blogland in the same way I used to and I miss it because for the last few years even though I'm no *serious* blogger, I have been supported by the network. In the early days I felt this weird compromising feeling of spending my time 'making' when everyone from university was forging what I viewed as a successful interesting career in the big smoke. Don't get me wrong, I'd go to workshops at the Make Lounge and there were plenty of people interested in the same stuff at the same time, but nobody in my 'inner circle'. I got lots of encouragement from the family and I had one friend spending time knitting but it felt a bit inferior getting back to knitting and starting the love affair with crochet. I'd manage to do bits in the fragments of the day when I wasn't looking after small children and compared to what everyone else was doing, pulling in big salaries, going to warehouse parties, getting memberships to private clubs and travelling, it felt very small time for my biggest achievement to have been learning how to do a granny square or managing to potty train a toddler. It felt a bit lonely to be honest. Blogging was a big part in encouraging me to keep going with my crafts, I didn't know anybody who'd had a baby and there were all these mummy blogs out there as well. It was a bit revelatory. But now, I don't check in everyday, I don't get to 'know' blogs anymore, I don't comment, I rarely inspire myself on pinterest any longer, I don't check in with or participate in twitter anymore. In fact I'm ashamed to say that weeks after my last post I've only just got onto the typepad interface that two lovely readers commented on my work and I failed to 1) pick up the emails that would have alerted me to these (my inbox is so spammy I have thousands of useless emails clogging it up) 2) reply to them, which is just common courtesy. I have started to document my life, I've said this before, on instagram and only instagram but I'm missing starting to miss the blog commitment. Half of it is lack of time and half not knowing how much you want to share. Before, when it was basically anonymous and no-one I knew read it, I felt alot different. Now I can't decide where to draw the line or what to write about. And also, in all honesty, organising a photo or writing on a day that has been happy, but quite a bit like every other day can feel more like a self imposed obligation than a pleasure!
I would hasten to add there is 'real life' stuff that makes me feel like my head's in a permanent fog as well. Bad news at the end of last year, related to the family. The sort of bad news that makes it harder and more difficult to see the good, dredges up alot of stuff from the past. Strange, sticky, unresolved and almost tangible energy concerning what this life thing is all about starts to descend into the everyday. Sad thoughts begin to permeate the mind. It stops your head working properly. You start overthinking - past friendships and relationships surface, understanding how current people got into your life, who you spend time with and what it means to you. It's complicated and a whole other post or entirely new blog I think! I feel like there's water spilling out daily - read this piece by Sarah Wilson to understand what I'm talking about.
But the work I'm doing in my online course has been an inspiration and the community of people I've met through partipating in that has kind of taken the place of the blogging, so it's all good really. Not to say I'm not going to keep this going but something has to give and it just means I check in less here and create a little less. This is what I've been doing to keep myself inspired and at the end a little list of links.
* I'm writing morning pages everyday. I follow the format by Julia Cameron in her book 'The Artist's Way'. You basically write anything you can remember from when you were asleep, brain dump any thoughts on your mind and list 10 things that you're grateful for. You write 3 pages. It's a powerful method, believe me it works for the good in your life. I got onto it from a lecture in my course, there are so many helpful suggestions and methods that I'll be able to use to coach clients (I'm training to be a health coach) that I'm banking and also implementing. This one is a keeper.
* I'm practicing yoga everyday. Ten minutes minimum. Sounds ridiculously short? It is, you're absolutely right, but if I can do more I do and even if I don't it's well over an hour more yoga a week than I was doing. Achievable and beneficial.
* Reading everyday. I love to read, it's a non negotiable. Even having kids, everyone can manage 10 pages. I just finished 'Wild' by Cheryl Strayed which was hugely inspiring and am half way through 'The Goldfinch' by Donna Tartt which is quite extraordinary. I want to write like that woman.
I've been listening to London Grammar and Little Comets both of whom we saw live last week.
I've been reading Sarah Wilson and getting the kind of life talk and tips on health that light me up.
I've been watching House of Cards on Netflix and settled down to a cosy evening the other night with an amazing friend to watch About Time by Richard Curtis. It damn near kept me sobbing for an hour after but if your dad left this world to cancer I challenge it not to do the same to you.
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For "full length" you mean A through H + epilogue and addendum? I actually don't have the whole lot in a single file.Equinox wrote:Prehaps, you or I could upload one with more Information about the septemberclues.info website, clues .forum ETC
I will probably do that in a few hours, I believe there is certain method, to upload a whole full length movie to youtube.
But wouldn't it be best to link directly files from Simon's youtube channel?
It's better if the view count goes all to him rather than being spread around...
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Tuesday afternoon, Blizzard announced the new PTR boss testing schedules for the week. Flame Leviathan (Normal) would be open from 4 PM onwards. But it looks like someone was trigger happy and they decided to pop it open an hour earlier. I happened to be on right as it opened up and sounded the alarm on Twitter, my guild, and in the WoW Insider war room. Alex Ziebert, shadow Priest extraordinaire, was able to join me. Once we filled up, we got the ball rolling.
So what kind of vehicle does a big, badass Dwarf drive around when he's feeling bloodthirsty?
That's right. It's the only vehicle fit for a dwarf. It's big. It's got rams. And it's got guns. I let someone else drive while I manned the guns on top. After talking to Bronzebeard, we started the event and the Alliance 1st Armored division rolled out of the garage. The division consisted of two tanks, two demolishers and two choppers (bikes). The two siege engines lead the way absorbing the brunt of the Iron army. Demo's formed up on the rear and attacked at range while choppers were cleaning up anything else that got behind the siege engines.
1st Armored decided to start off with gunnery training. Most of us had no idea what to do so it made sense to start firing on anything that moved and any structures that were destructible. We literally rolled over the opposition with little difficulty.
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I found the gun controls were quite stiff to move. It's like the engineers forgot to add WD-40 to the damn turrets or something. If you've ever done Wintergrasp, the controls for aiming are quite easy. You hold down your right mouse button to aim the direction of the camera and the targeting reticle changes direction accordingly. But it's different in Ulduar. I found that it wasn't as fluid nor as smooth.
After clearing out the towers, one of the recon choppers noted what looked like a repair pad on the side. We gathered up and repaired our vehicles to full health. Up ahead there was a gate flanked by two Ulduar Colossi.
Up: Repair pad
Down: Ulduar Colossus
The Colossus is pretty damn large. But the larger they are, the harder they fall. They more really slow, too. I told my driver to switch with me because I had a hunch the vehicle would have a larger vehicle pool. Blizzard did say vehicles would scale with gear. Sure enough, my tank jumped from ~750k health to ~810k.
Matticus was in the hot seat now.
Left: Matt tries to take on the Flame Leviathan to no avail
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"Matt! Run! Hit the gas!â€Â
â€ÂWTF do you think I'm doing?! Twiddling my thumbs?!â€Â
We didn't last much longer after that. But I found it a lot of fun. And it is absolutely nothing like Malygos phase 3. Players who have an aversion to vehicle encounters should definitely give this a try at least. And if they hate it, they'll hate it. But at least try it with a clean slate. Worse comes to worse, if you don't like driving or shooting, you can be one of the brave souls willing to be thrown on to the top of the Flame Leviathan.
Pretty neat bug where a demo has grappled another demo. There's still some quirks to be resolved. Towards the end, Alex grappled me onto his demo. I was unfortunately stuck and had no idea how to eject myself. I don't think I was loaded into the launching arm.
Our best attempt was around 35% before our live raids forced us to cancel out.
Ignis is going to be available for testing today. Try to be on about an hour earlier to avoid the queues that is going to be prevalent. I'll be in there at around 3 to see if I can scramble some players.
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The "Logan's Run" remake Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn's are plotting is a pretty straightforward affair, but previously we've only gotten scraps about their other film, "Only God Forgives." A new synopsis, via Collider, should clear up a few questions.
Julian, an Englishman living in Bangkok, is a respected figure in the criminal underworld. He and his brother Billy run a Thai boxing club which is in fact a front for smuggling drugs to London. When Billy is murdered, their mother Jenna arrives from London to bring back the body. Jenna is herself the head of a powerful criminal organization and is used to getting exactly what she wants. She sets out to settle the score along a bloody path of rage, betrayal, and vengeance, hurtling toward an ultimate confrontation and the possibility of redemption.
"We're doing 'Only God Forgives,' we're shooting that in Bangkok—that's a wild city. It reminds me of a mix between New York and Los Angeles in one city with 12 million people," Refn told us back in September.
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Earlier reports had the film being about "a Thai police lieutenant whose rivalry with a gangster sees the two settling their differences in a Thai boxing match," and saying that "Julian is on the run from the British police. He runs a Thai Boxing club in Bangkok which is a front for a drugs smuggling operation. He is well respected within the criminal underworld, but deep in his heart he feels that his life is lacking something. He meets a retired cop, The Angel of Vengeance, and finds out that he has to confront his mother."
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Good afternoon everyone. I am having trouble understanding sme things about this game. Maybe i'm not doing it right. I am level 16. When i am fighting a level 11 cave slug it just about kills me or actually does. I dont understand why a level 11 mob is so hard. When Im in he Krog sewers trying to fix the sewers by pulling the levers, its just about impossible to make it far enough into the dungeon to get to the second lever. I have crafted plate armor and am using a battle axe atm. Can someone help me out here, am i doing something wrong, or is te game that difficult.
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Well, I don't know how much you know about the game, so I'll go over some possibilities to why it may be difficult for you.
#1: Orbs
I don't know how much you know about them, but they are pretty important. You get 2 every level and you distribute them on your inventory screen in the upper left hand corner If you wish to be a warrior, it is suggested that you place all of your orbs into strength until it is capped so that you deal more damage. There are ways to reset your orbs in the store, but at such a low level if your orbs are already too far off then maybe making a new character is what you want to do.
#2: Gear
It has been a long time since I was level 16, but gear at that point takes more effort to get than it actually helps you. I don't know what server you are on, but joining a guild would definitely help out a lot, in all aspects, not just gear. Anyways, the best gear for low levels is usually from quests, such as the alchemist in the main building in Krog has a fairly easy quest to find 3 special trees along the south road for a nice pair of leggings.
#3: Level
In this game, creature levels and player levels aren't really comparable because players are usually stronger, however, this always have some exceptions. You may not be willing to spend the money on the game at the moment to get max exp, however, you may find it useful to know how. First of all, Heroes sever gives much more exp than Legends if you are VIP (Which is subscription) because PvP is allowed on Heroes. Second, if you have all expansions, you can sail to roycroft south of valmond to get a DTM quest that is something like kill 400 of any type of monster you choose for a bunch of bonus exp when you are done. This is the method most people use to level up, however, most people use the monk quest in Silvest on new characters because it awards around 100k experience at any level and all you have to do is survive the journey to multiple cities.
I hope this helped, I know it can be tough to be a new player, especially in this game. I remember it taking me a long time to figure out most aspects of the game and it was definitely worth it because even though it has not seen an update in many years, this game has an amazing end-game. But I do highly recommend joining a guild that will help you out (perhaps you want to play on Legends first where people are usually more helpful). Plus, we can always help you here on the forums.
Good luck!
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Thank you very much Orbiss.
I started an account what seems like 3 or so years ago. I never made off the intro island back then. 3 days ago I decided to give it anther go, and created a new character. I do believe i screwed while spending my orbs, so maybe i will make a new character.
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that might be a good idea, if you do make sure you get the wolf pup totem before leaving valinor island. theres plenty of websites on there that have gear/weapons, maps, guides, etc. definitely find yourself a guild. they will help you level
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Shuck, Trout rally Angels past Brewers 5-3
Gomez hits 19th home run in loss
J.B. Shuck hit a three-run double in the seventh inning to rally the Los Angeles Angels past the Milwaukee Brewers 5-3 on Sunday for a three-game sweep of their interleague series.
Mike Trout tripled and doubled among his three hits to help the Angels finish an 8-1 road trip. They have won eight in a row against the Brewers in Milwaukee, dating to 1997.
C.J. Wilson (14-6) gave up three runs and three hits over six innings, improving to 10-1 in his last 15 starts. Wilson has gone 10 consecutive starts without a loss, tying his career high set in 2011 with Texas.
The Brewers loaded the bases in the eighth on two walks and a single. With one out, the Angels brought in closer Ernesto Frieri, who struck out hot-hitting Jonathan Lucroy in a 12-pitch battle and Khris Davis to get out of the inning.
Frieri also pitched a scoreless ninth for his 30th save in 34 chances.
Kole Calhoun drove in two runs for the Angels.
Kyle Lohse went six innings for Milwaukee, giving up one run and seven hits. Rob Wooten (3-1) allowed three runs in relief.
Calhoun's RBI single in the third gave the Angels a 1-0 lead.
Milwaukee tied it in the bottom half. Jeff Bianchi doubled to right and went to third when the ball got by Calhoun for an error. One out later, Lohse bunted in front of the plate and Bianchi was able to slide under the tag of catcher Hank Conger when the toss from Wilson was high.
Carlos Gomez's two-run homer in the fourth gave the Brewers a 3-1 lead. It was his 19th of the season and first since Aug. 6.
Los Angeles grabbed the lead for good in the seventh by scoring four runs. Conger and Luis Jimenez singled to start the inning. Andrew Romine advanced both runners with a sacrifice, and pinch-hitter Josh Hamilton was intentionally walked.
Shuck then hit a grounder down the first-base line that hit the bag. The ball rolled into short right field and by the time Norichika Aoki could get it back in, all three runners had scored.
Calhoun's RBI double made it 5-3.
NOTES: Hamilton was out of the starting lineup for the third straight game. He is battling a sore left shoulder and migraines. ... Milwaukee acquired RHP Michael Blazek from St. Louis as the player to be named in Friday's trade that sent reliever John Axford to the Cardinals. Blazek appeared in 11 games for the Cardinals this season, compiling a 6.97 ERA. ... The Brewers recalled RHP Donovan Hand from Triple-A Nashville. Hand is 0-4 in 21 appearances this season with Milwaukee.


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I am using the ArcGIS Explorer SDK and have run into an issue surrounding a query I would like to perform with SQL. I believe my query is built wrong or perhaps I am looking at the wrong fields. Would anyone have any input on my code below and/or possible solutions?
I would like the code to query a column for specific values then return them into a combo box. My query simply returns a blank value at the moment. Below is the code for that block.
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Yesterday, my state's legislature tried twice to pass any-sex marriage in the lower house and they'll be at it again at noon today. In the Maryland House of Delegates, the Democrat/Republican balance is 98 to 43, and in the State Senate it's 35 to 12. So, heavily Democratic. The governor, the Speaker of the House, the Senate President, Democratic party leaders generally, they all feel it's very important that marriage be an any-sex, gender-indifferent institution, but it still takes exquisite timing to get enough rank-and-file legislators to say "yes" to that at the same time. Timing is one of the very important advantages of being the majority party, however.
Last year, party leaders figured they had the House of Delegates all sewed up, so they passed any-sex marriage in the State Senate first. Then the House surprised them, the votes weren't there, and it was not brought to a vote. This time they're working the Orwellianly-named "Civil Marriage Protection Act" through the House first. (The Delegates from my district are co-sponsors along with 53 others.) The vote was postponed yesterday until a special evening session. That session was
adjourned recessed very shortly without doing anything; apparently one of the "yes" votes belonged to a Delegate who was hospitalized for a serious medical emergency. Perhaps I should have been more focused in my prayers, should have pleaded for a swarm of locusts or something else bothersome but not painful.
These depressing events have combined in my mind with Charles Murray's depressing new book, Coming Apart. (Here's the best of the many things I've read addressing the book: "Charles Murray on the new upper class" by Andrew Gelman. "From one side he argues that the upper class has good habits that they should transmit to ordinary Americans; on the other side he says that the upper class should become more like the rest of the country. But I can't see how you can have it both ways.")
Entwined with our various social pathologies is the noxious phrase, "A family is a group of people who love each other." Maybe there's a mother and father married to each other. Or maybe they aren't married. Maybe the father(s) live somewhere else and love their children from afar. Or maybe Dad is out of the picture altogether, but Mom is there loving her children and they her. Unless she's not; maybe the kids live with their grandparents. Whatever. It's all good. Just so long as there is someone who loves someone. That's what a family is.
Once the injustice is remedied that some people want to marry but not to another sex, perhaps the inequality faced by single people who want to marry will be addressed. Why should the person that a person marries have to be another person? Why is marriage arbitrarily limited to couples? Why can't a person marry herself if that's who she loves?
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Montgomery County police are investigating robberies this week of banks in Rockville and Bethesda.
Both targets were PNC Bank branches, and authorities believe the same person may be responsible for both robberies.
Police say the first occurred Monday at a bank inside a Giant Foods store in Rockville, where a man handed a teller a note demanding money and implied that he had a gun.
The second happened Wednesday at a PNC Bank on Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda, when a man also demanded money from a teller and left with cash.
Police say the suspect in both robberies was wearing a dark hat and a red jacket and was about the same age and height.
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Ed sent me this message along with his 31 pictures of unidentied ancestors.
After our little discussion of the Alexander family and from what little research I have done, I believe I have some old photographs that might be from their family. When my aunt died in 1963, her mother, my grandmother, brought back to Georgia a steamer trunk containing some of my aunt's things. In that trunk was a group of old photographs. They were in my grandmother's things in 1975 when she died and they have finally come to rest with me.
No one was ever able to tell me anything about the pictures (I never even thought to ask Uncle George). They are of babies, children, families, and individual men and women, all dating to the late 1800s and early 1900s.
None have any names indicating whom the pictures are of, however some do have photographer's marks. There are 31 photographs and 16 have Holyoke, Massachusetts labels, 2 have Quebec labels, and 1 has a label from Bristol, Connecticut. These are all places associated with the Alexanders. In 1920 and 1930, Jean-Baptiste and his family were living in Bristol, CT; in 1910, they were in Holyoke, MA and prior to that, they were in Quebec.
All of Ed's 31 pictures do not ring a bell at all when I look at them closely, so, in point of fact, this should ring a bell.
Could these people be related in some way to the Courchesnes. Odila Courchesne (Courchaine) was George Alexander's mother?
None of these people has any facial ressemblance with the Alexanders I have pictures of.
And I do have a lot!
So let's go full speed ahead with the three family pictures Ed sent and let's try to find some clues. This will be quite a fascinating journey into the unknown.
This is Family 1, for now that is. A man, a woman and a young lady. Daughter, mother and father? Most probably.
I don't have a faintess clue how they are related to the Alexanders. Also nothing on the Internet about Welcome & Covey photographers. They seemed to have been established in 1894. So this picture is taken in or after 1894 in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
That's not a lot to go on.
In my search, I found that this picture is called a cabinet card. I like to learn new things. It must be evident if you have been reading this blog from the start.
Now let's turn our attention to Family 2.
Family 2
Again Welcome & Covey… 1894… 175 High St., Holyoke, Mass.
My 3rd cousin told me once that very youngs boys were dressed like girls in those days. So the girl could be a boy with his father and mother. Notice that the little boy puts his hand on his father's shoulder.
Still no clue though, but I am sure you would like to put on name on these faces.
Last family picture…
New photographer!
I found information about B. F. Ogden on this site, the same one I found the information about cabinet cards…
Welcome to the Cabinet Card Gallery. Cabinet card photographs were first introduced in 1866. They were initially employed for landscapes rather than portraitures. Cabinet cards replaced Carte de visite photographs as the popular mode of photography. Cabinet cards became the standard for photographic portraits in 1870. Cabinet cards experienced their peak in popularity in the 1880′s. Cabinet cards were still being produced in the United States until the early 1900′s and continued to be produced in Europe even longer. The best way to describe a cabinet card is that it is a thin photograph that is mounted on a card that measures 4 1/4″ by 6 1/2″. Cabinet cards frequently have artistic logos and information on the bottom or the reverse of the card which advertised the photographer or the photography studio's services. Enjoy your visit.
Fascinating site!
Getting back to Ed's cabinet cards, I have no idea who this family is.
This could take years you know…, but I am patient like Ed.
Next time women's pictures if you're still interested.
As a footnote to all this, click here.
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James L. Fraser, 82, founder of Fraser Management Associates, Inc., investment counselor, writer and artist, died peacefully at home in Williston, on Feb. 4, 2013.
Born in 1930 in Paris, Mr. Fraser was the son of Leon and Margaret Maury Fraser of New York City and North Granville, N.Y.
He attended the Buckley School in New York City, Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Mass., Brooks School in North Andover, Mass. and Dartmouth College, graduating in 1952. While at Dartmouth, he majored in economic geography and was a Rufus Choate Scholar as well as a Senior Fellow, one of 10 seniors chosen each year for their intellectual caliber, independence of character and imaginative curiosity, and allowed to generate and control their own senior year curriculum.
Following college, Mr. Fraser married Mary Ann Gunther. He served in the Army Counter Intelligence Corps and was stationed in Tokyo toward the end of the Korean War. Receiving an honorable discharge, he moved to New York City and worked for First National City Bank. Subsequently, he worked for the brokerage firm of Hayden, Stone & Company of Glens Falls, N.Y. while living in North Granville, N.Y. with his wife and three children. In addition to his professional efforts, Mr. Fraser served the community in many ways, ranging from president of the Lion's Club, Boy Scout leader, member and clerk of the Board of Education, and president of the volunteer fire department.
In 1961, Mr. Fraser founded the Fraser Publishing Company in Wells, Vt., which published books focusing on creativity and independent thinking as it relates to investments, speculation, socio-economics and the history of Wall Street. These books were called the Contrary Opinion Library. He also was publisher and editor of various economic and investment letters including The Neill Letter of Contrary Opinion, written by his mentor and founder of the Contrary Opinion investment philosophy, Humphrey Neill, and The Contrary Investor. Mr. Fraser also collected and sold out of print books on these topics eventually creating one of the largest collections in the U.S., much of which has been given to the Museum of American Finance.
From1963 to 2004, he was the chairman of the Contrary Opinion Forum, a gathering of investors from around the world pursuing independent thinking. The Forum, which takes place in Vermont, celebrated its 50th year in 2012. Additionally, Mr. Fraser was the Vermont coordinator of the World Future Society for 20 years, exploring the future of Vermont with local leaders at monthly luncheons.
In 1969, Mr. Fraser moved Fraser Publishing to Burlington, where in 1971, he also founded Fraser Management Associates, Inc., a financial and investment counsel firm which employed the Contrary Opinion investment philosophy. In the late 70s, he was a columnist for U.S. News and World Report, as well as a columnist in Better Investing. While in Burlington, Mr. Fraser also served on the board of Champlain Drug and Alcohol for many years.
In 1970 he divorced, and then in 1973 married Victoria Keller Becker, an artist and administrator.
A longtime athlete, Mr. Fraser was an excellent downhill skier, he also played squash and could often be seen bicycling through Burlington to business appointments occasionally wearing a top hat. He played ice hockey until he was 66 years old.
In addition to being athletic, Mr. Fraser was a photographer and artist, creating a number of unusual drawings. He was devoted to trees of all kinds, raspberry bushes and nature in general.
Mr. Fraser was most known for the wide range of his intellectual curiosity, his optimistic perspective on the world, his ability to withstand and overcome adversity, his wonderful sense of humor, his trusting nature, kindness and generosity. His jokes at various conferences and meetings, and among friends, were eagerly anticipated.
During the last nine years of his life, Mr. Fraser was extraordinarily well cared for at home by his wife of 39 years, Victoria, and a team of devoted caregivers. Their love and tender kindness made the completion of his life full of beauty and peace. The family would particularly like to recognize Joan Peters, Zia Emmanuel Gbau, and Louise Brown for nine years of loving attention to Jim, and caregivers Judson Kimble, Trisa Gay and April Thompson for years of high quality caretaking.
Mr. Fraser is survived by his wife, Victoria K. Fraser; son, Mark Fraser of Burlington; daughter, Maury Tooley of Arlington, Vt.; the grandson he and Victoria raised, Christopher Fraser of Boston, Mass.; additional grandchildren Travis Norton, Emily Gillis, Rebecca Tooley, Elizabeth Tooley, Meagan Tooley, and Douglas Fraser; and six great-grandchildren.
Mr. Fraser was pre-deceased by his parents and his son, Kevin Fraser.
Donations in lieu of flowers are suggested to Branch Out Burlington!, a volunteer organization that helps plant and care for Burlington's trees. Their goal is a city graced by beautiful, healthy trees and citizens involved with the sustained conservation and growth of the urban forest that Jim loved so much. Contributions are tax-deductible. Checks should be made out to Branch Out Burlington!, C/O Margaret Skinner, 93 Howard Street, Burlington, VT 05401.
Visiting hours were held on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. A memorial service was held on Saturday, Feb. 9, at 3 p.m. in Christ Church, Presbyterian on the Redstone Campus at the University of Vermont followed by a reception. A memorial celebration event is anticipated in the summer. To send online condolences, please visit www.readyfuneral.com.


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We all know that there is a relationship between bright and deep coloured food and how alluring we find them and this seems as, if not more true with little people. I showed my toddler some Beetroot other day and thankfully he only had a vest on at the time. 'Oooh, what's that mumma'.
I'd caught his interest, clearly. I willed him to bite into a chunk as I let him mess about with it. I recalled a magazine editor telling me that her fussy eater showed no interest in food until he went fishing and caught a fish which he then wanted to eat as he was involved from catching it, to cooking it. Maybe this messy Beetroot was my boys fish?
He did bite into it, but he didn't ingest any, it ended up in my palm. Great. But it did get me thinking about how I could get him to eat beetroot given that he liked colour. I thought about my visits to Mumbai and being surprised at the inclusion of Beetroot in so many dishes. 'I thought beetroot is a western vegetable', I questioned. You can imagine what they thought of that!
There was beetroot in masala sarnies (freaking awesome), beetroot in dosa, beet in chaat, beet in gram flour fritters even. I didn't see any Beetroot in curries…why haven't I made one yet? It transpired that Beetroot works pretty well with masala and everyone loves rice don't they, especially kids.
My recipe today is deep, sweet, spicy and alluring. That just sounded a big like one of those dating adverts didn't it? Or a blind date catch line. Jokes aside, it's light, packed, juicy and beautiful.
250g cooked Beetroot, cut into chunks
200g basmati rice, washed
200g butternut squash, peeled and cubed
2 tbsp ground nut oil
1 tsp fennel seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
One red chilli, finely chopped (optional)
One red onion, finely chopped
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/4 tsp black pepper
Salt to taste d
250g red and white quinoa (I used the merchant gourmet ready to eat pack)
200g basmati
1. Par boil the rice, for about 8minutes until the rice has swelled and needs the starch removed. Wash the rice and drain the water and leave it to a side.
2. Boil the butternut squash until it is soft enough to piece all the way through. Drain and leave it to a side.
3. Heat the oil in a pan and add the cumin seeds, fennel seeds, turmeric and chilli. Allow the seeds to crackle and then add the onion and salt. Sauté until the onions are soft and lightly browned.
4. Stir in the Beetroot and butternut squash and then add the black pepper.
5. Blend the butternut squash and Beetroot smooth and turn the heat down to a flicker.
6. Introduce the rice and the quinoa and gently blend it all together. Cook for a further 6-7 minutes on a low flame until the rice is cooked.


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Filed under: "Joby Bock" Maibock Ale (2011)
No, Yellow City Brewing Company isn't a new craft brewery you can visit or buy beers from in a store. Maybe one day though. You see, I'm a craft beer enthusiast who's written a beer blog at 1YOB for the last year. And I've recently taken up the hobby of homebrewing my own beer. Yellow City Brewing Company is a blog following those efforts.
Being a huge fan of Shiner Bock, I had to brew something similar. So I selected a Maibock recipe kit from Sograte homebrew shop here in Lubbock and picked up an extra ounce of hops to give it a little extra kick. Here's our exact recipe for a five-gallon batch:
- Pilsen Light Malt Extract – 6-pounds liquid
- Munich Malt Extract – 3.3-pounds liquid
- Columbus Hops – 1-ounce pellets (40 minute boil)
- Kent Goldings Hops – 1-ounce pellets (20 minute boil)
- 1 Smack Pack of Wyeast American Ale II Yeast
On March 20, 2011 my good friend Trey Roach drove down to Lubbock from Amarillo, Texas to help me brew my very first batch of beer. Neither of us having brewed beer before, I'm sure the scene was quite comical. Things started out a bit clumsy. But with Trey here to calm me down and me having taken a "Homebrewing 101″ class at Sograte the weekend before, we eventually got our act together.
Now fast-forward six weeks to today. After 60 minutes of boiling, the weeks long fermentation and bottling process, I've opened a few bottles of my homebrew. Without sounding too self-absorbed, I must say the beer kicks ass. My brew is supposed to be a Maibock. Some purists would say I've bastardized the style. Maibocks (and all other Bocks) are traditionally lagers. But being new to homebrewing, I have limited resources to maintain the cold temperatures necessary for fermenting a lager. So I brewed it with ale yeast instead. I also added an extra ounce of Kent Golding hops to give it a little extra kick; thus throwing it way off the official style guidelines. The closest commercially available brew to mine is Rogue's Dead Guy Ale.
It's a very bright and flavorful brew. It's pretty well-balanced with neither hops nor malts standing out too much over the other. To be honest with you, my homebrew reminds me more of an ESB like Red Hook or Left Hand's Sawtooth Ale than it does a malty Maibock.
I'm calling it Joby Bock after a hilarious YouTube video we've all had a laugh about at my office. And I even designed some pretty sweet labels for my beer. The beer is still pretty fresh though; and these few bottles I've drunk are only initial tastings. I've already noticed the flavor change a little over a few weeks (mostly hops calming down). Now the only challenge is to keep enough around to age and compare to next years batch of Joby Bock!
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October 28, 2010 National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Honors Nation's Veterans
Free Talking-Book Service Helps America's Most Honored Citizens Keep Reading in Their Lives
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This Veteran's Day, as the nation honors the brave men and women who have risked or given their lives for this country, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), Library of Congress, stands ready to provide eligible veterans access to a free library service that promotes independence, wellness and quality of life.
"This November 11, as an expression of our deepest gratitude, we wish to remind these men and women who have given so much that we are here to serve them," says Kurt Cylke, NLS director. "For the past eight decades, NLS has ensured that blind and physically handicapped veterans are able to continue to enjoy their love of reading."
The NLS talking-book program offers its patrons a wide selection of digitally recorded books and magazines and digital audio equipment at no cost. The program, which celebrates its 80th anniversary on March 3, 2011, also delivers digital talking books over the Internet.
Tom Miller, who was blinded by a land mine in Vietnam in 1967 and is executive director of the Blinded Veterans Association (BVA), is an appreciative user. "The talking-book program provides a much-needed way for veterans to continue to learn and connect with others and their communities through reading," he says. "Without question, the NLS program enhances the quality of our lives."
The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that about 158,000 U.S. veterans are visually impaired or blind, and more than one million have low vision. According to BVA, 13 percent of wounded U.S. military troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have received a serious eye injury.
The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), Library of Congress, administers the digital talking-book program, a free library service available to U.S. residents or American citizens living abroad whose low vision, blindness, or physical handicap makes reading a regular printed page difficult. Through its national network of regional libraries, NLS mails books and magazines in digital audio and in braille, as well as digital audio equipment, directly to enrollees at no cost. Select materials are also available online for download and music instructional materials are available in large print, braille, and recorded formats. Further information on eligibility requirements and enrollment procedures for the program is available at www.loc.gov/nls/ or 1-888-NLS-READ (1-888-657-7323).


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epiktistes wrote:...which will eventually collect every previously published story...
paw2612 wrote:epiktistes wrote:...which will eventually collect every previously published story...
Which begs the question: what about the stories that haven't been previously published?
owlcroft wrote:Is there any estimate of the total number of volumes ultimately to comprise the collected short fiction? As you say, they are a bit pricey. Also, at what intervals are they likely to appear? Somehow, psychologically, big expenses don't seem quite as big when spread out enough.
owlcroft wrote:I strongly suspect that in the near to middle future we will see significantly more economical editions. These seem to be aimed at bibliophile collectors rather than the general market.
Say owlcroft, just how far away is the near-to-middle future?
Maybeso the Lafferty bibliophile collectors are too tight to be quickly milked. I bet Lafferty wouldn't like his books sitting around unread while greedy speculators speculate.
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Since there was no Category for 6601 family , starting a thread here.
We current have all our development on 6501 SOM and plan to evaluate the 6601 upgrade option.
I see 6601 has support for Android and Linux versions. However when I do try to buy the SOM i only have an option for Android. Can i still order this and change the OS to Linux? If so where do i get access to the linux builds ?
Also what about the availability of Linux version.


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The fourth annual Ride2Survive will take place on June 21st 2008.
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There is no doubt this is a tough event but it symbolizes the tough fight cancer patients have every day - the ride is merely one day. The spirit of the Ride2Survive lies in the memory of those who have lost their battle with cancer, those in the throes of their fight, those in remission, and those who remain as yet undiagnosed.
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