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As to longitude, I declare that I found so much difficulty in determining it that I was put to great pains to ascertain the east-west distance I had covered. The final result of my labours was that I found nothing better to do than to watch for and take observations at night of the conjunction of one planet with another, and especially of the conjunction of the moon with the other planets….
After I had made experiments many nights, one night, the twenty-third of August 1499, there was a conjunction of the moon with Mars, which according to the almanac was to occur at midnight or a half hour before. I found that…at midnight Mars's position was three and a half degrees to the east.
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Good gosh. Can you imagine having travelled so far on the globe—without a swift means of return, of course—that you literally had no idea where you were?
And what's more, ∄ science to save you. You can't ask anyone around you for the answer. Many of the people around you not only have never heard of Europe, but can't even conceive of such a thing.
Nobody knows the answer. ∄ books that purport to have the answer. ∄ communication channels back to home. You're all alone, mentally. To figure out what's going on all you have to go on is reason and facts. And if you get the answer right, whom are you going to tell?
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Just in case you forgot that primitive living means eating live cockroaches and bony rats' tails for extra protein.
The Adi people of Tibet/India (Aranatra Pradesh) play host to the BBC's Bruce Parry.
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NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Senior defensive end Raheem Orr (Elizabeth, NJ) was named Most Valuable Player of the 2003 Rutgers football team. Orr was the recipient of the Homer Hazel Trophy as the Scarlet Knights MVP at the 65th annual Rutgers Football Awards Dinner, held this evening at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The awards banquet is sponsored by the Rutgers Football Touchdown Club in conjunction with Rutgers' Division of Intercollegiate Athletics.
Regarded as a fierce pass rusher and a punishing tackler, Orr led all BIG
EAST Conference defensive linemen with 82 tackles, including a league best
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with 8.5 sacks. Orr, who served as co-captain and led Rutgers to a 5-7 record,
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Junior safety JARVIS JOHNSON (Miami, FL) was named Most Valuable Player – Defense. Johnson led the Scarlet Knights with 97 tackles, including a team best 51 solo stops. The 5-11, 195-pound Johnson also tied for the team lead with two interceptions, one of which he returned 47 yards for a score vs. Virginia Tech. Johnson also contributed a team-high nine pass breakups, and had four tackles for loss.
Sophomore quarterback RYAN HART (Coral Springs, FL) and red-shirt freshman fullback BRIAN LEONARD (Gouverneur, NY) shared Most Valuable Player – Offense honors. In his first full season as the starter at quarterback, Hart re-wrote the Scarlet Knights' single season record book for quarterbacks, with 398 passes, 234 asttempts and 2,714 yards. The 6-2, 195-pound Hart became the first Rutgers quarterback ever to throw for over 300 yards in consecutive games when he passed for 384 yards vs. Pittsburgh, and 316 yards the following week at Temple. In his first season of competition, the 6-2, 230-pound Leonard led the Scarlet Knights in scoring (86 points), rushing (880 yards) and receiving (53 catches). His 1,368 all-purpose yards in 2003 was the sixth best single season total in Rutgers history.
Senior linebacker BRIAN HOHMANN (Bergenfield, NJ) was named MVP – Special Teams. The 6-3, 242-pound Hohmann was a key member of the special teams unit throughout the season, and also saw action at linebacker. Hohmann had 32 tackles in 12 games, and also forced two fumbles. The MVP – Special Teams Awards is donated by Ron Kish, in memory of his father, Jess.
Senior center MARTY PYSZCZYMUKA (Sparta, NJ) was the recipient of the David Bender Trophy, awarded annually to the top lineman on the team. The 6-2, 280-pound Pyszczymuka, who also served as a co-captain of the 2003 Scarlet Knights, was the anchor of a vastly improved offensive line that cut the number of sacks it allowed by more than half from the previous season (23 in 2003 after 51 in 2002). The Rutgers offense also more than doubled its production on the ground from a year ago (620 yards in 2002, 1666 in 2003) and featured a record setting aerial attack that included three receivers with over 50 catches.
Senior cornerback NATE JONES (Scotch Plains, NJ) was the recipient of the Scholar Athlete Award, donated by Jo Rademacher and presented to the letterwinner who has the highest academic average and has demonstrated outstanding football ability. A starting cornerback for the Scarlet Knights, Jones who was third on the team with 73 tackles and tied for the team lead with two interceptions. He also led the squad in kickoff returns, averaging 25.7 yards per return. The 5-10, 180-pound Jones has enjoyed an outstanding career in the classroom. Selected to the CoSIDA First Team Academic All-America team, Jones will be recognized on Dec. 9 as a member of the National Football Foundation/College Football Hall of Fame 2003 Scholar-Athlete Class, one of just eight who played on the Division I-A level.
Sharing this year's Most Improved Player award, donated by the Rutgers Alumni Association, were red-shirt junior defensive tackle GARY GIBSON (Jamesville, NY) and red-shirt sophomore wide receiver TRES MOSES (Delray Beach, FL). A stalwart on the defensive line, the 6-4, 290-pound Gibson was sixth on the team with 44 tackles, including 7.5 tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks. Gibson also had seven quarterback hurries and recovered one fumble. Moses caught 52 passes for 536 yards (10.3 yards per reception) and five TDs. The 5-10, 190-pound Moses also returned 22 punts for 250 yards (11.4 yards per return) and one TD. His 66-yard punt return in Rutgers opening season 24-10 win over Army was the first TD scored by the Scarlet Knights in the 2003 season.
The Fan-ees Award, presented by one of the oldest support groups in the nation to the most improved senior, was given to offensive lineman MIKE WILLIAMSON (Barnegat, NJ). The 6-5, 289-pound Williamson started 11 of 12 games at left tackle for the Scarlet Knights and was a major contributor in the much improved offensive line.
Junior defensive end RYAN NEILL (Wayne Hills, NJ) was presented the Kevin
and Helen Collins Academic Improvement Award, given to the student-athlete
on the football team who has shown the greatest academic improvement. Neill
sat out the 2003 while rehabilitating a knee injury sustained in the 2002 season.
Homer Hazel Trophy -- Team MVP: DE Raheem Orr
Most Valuable Player – Offense: QB Ryan Hart
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Most Valuable Player – Defense: S Jarvis Johnson
Most Valuable Player – Special Teams: LB Brian Hohmann
Touchdown Club Trophy: DE Raheem Orr
David Bender Trophy – Top Lineman: C Marty Pyszczymuka
Most Improved Player: DL Gary Gibson
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Fan-ees Award: OL Mike Williamson
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Demolition crews set fire to a luxury home teetering precariously along a crumbling cliffside, destroying it before the home can collapse into the lake more than 75 feet below.
The Hill County Sheriff's Office decided to demolish the endangered luxury cliffside home in Whitney, Texas, after the home's owners, Robert and Denise Webb, decided that would be the best course of action.
The Webbs were forced to evacuate and abandoned the home a few weeks ago after the home and cliffside began to crumble back in April. The couple told WTSP that an inspection was done on the house when they first purchased it back in 2012 and that they were assured by geologists and inspectors that the house was "perfectly stable."
Unfortunately the pair's insurance policy doesn't cover earth movement, meaning they'll have to shoulder the financial blow. Tax records show the home in the White Bluff Resort subdivision near Whitney was built in 2007 and is worth more than $700,000, according to the Associated Press, a sum the couple took out of their retirement funds.
But the emotional blow may be even more costly for the pair.
"It's, it's really tough—that house was special and I don't even know why it was so special but it was special to me," Denise Webb told WTSP.
"I wanted to leave that to my grandchildren. It's a big hit," Robert Webb added.
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In this photo taken from video provided by WFAA-TV, a luxury house teeters on a cliff about 75 feet above Lake Whitney in Texas.
The 4,000-square-foot home sat above Lake Whitney, a popular vacation destination about 75 miles south of Fort Worth.
Neighbors told WFAA.com they heard a loud crash Tuesday evening, and they first thought it was an earthquake. Then they saw "smoke, dust, water ... a huge cloud of stuff," coming from across the lake.
Initial photos and video showed part of the cliff had washed away. A portion of the foundation, a back deck and other pieces of the home were also missing.
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BORDEN, Ind. (WHAS11) – The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has found two hikers that went missing Monday evening in the Deam Lake area in Clark State Forest.
Conservation officers said 25-year-old Ryan Matthews of Jeffersonville and 20-year-old Katrina Jackson of Georgetown became disoriented after starting their hike around 5 p.m.
Crews used ATV's to assist them in their search and found the hikers overnight Monday.
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Shahd and I just finished our first workshop about online fundraising in Turkey! We held it at the beautiful new Beyoglu Youth Center in the Sishane District (pronounced Shishanay), Istanbul. After meeting all of these wonderful representatives from Turkish organizations, we are so inspired by all of their work!
We had about 33 participants from a variety of organizations-ranging from youth political mobilizing, to girls education, to fairness in the carpet weaving industry, to combating soil erosion! So much innovation! Most of the organizations are fairly high capacity and are no fools to social media, so we were able to really dig into the issues surrounding online fundraising.
Since Turkey is a modern and developing country, we see the biggest impediment for organizations being successful on GlobalGiving is not being able to use social media, but instead being able to navigate the Turkish policy on fundraising and international donations. We've learned from our conversations with non-profit leaders that this issue is vague and can be problematic for some organizations. We hope that this workshop helps spark a conversation about these policies with in the non-profit sector, allowing projects to successfully raise international funds if they want to. We've already had one organization start the process of joining the site, so we hope the others will follow!
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The search is on for a suspect after an armed robbery in Raleigh County on Tuesday.
Dispatchers said the call came in around 9:50p.m. to the Dollar General Store in the Harper Heights area.
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Police say the man was wearing a black hoodie and black bandana at the time of the robbery.
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MOVIES: 'Guardians Of The Galaxy' Teaser Trailer Leaked
With the wake of the recent news that Vin Diesel would be playing Groot in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, a leaked teaser trailer has popped up online, giving us a glimpse of Chris Pratt as Star-Lord, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Dave Bautista as Drax The Destroyer, Rocket Raccoon, Groot and others. Be sure to check it out before it gets taken down!
As most leaked footage, the video quality is bad, but you can still make out what's going on. Enjoy!
Looks awesome, doesn't it? Guardians is Marvel's first attempt to introduce lesser known characters into their Cinematic Universe, which makes me really excited to see how regular moviegoers (and people who aren't so well versed in comics) take it. While I'm sure Guardians will make a killing at the box office, the film's success could mean more movies with Marvel's other supernatural/cosmic characters (Doctor Stange and Inhumans being some that are said to be happening.
Guardians of the Galaxy releases August 1, 2014.
No nova?
Nova isn't a part of the Guardians…
0:19 to 0:25. Back right. Nova.
A Nova. Not The Nova.
No, but you gotta start somewhere. He'll be around eventually. If not in GOTG, at least the presence of Nova Corps will likely assure his appearance sometime down the line. He's Nova.
A great trailers and somebody's always got to bitch "Where's Nova?" Nova isn't a fricking Guardian, so don't worry about it.
Is it just me or did this have a real Firefly kind of vibe to it? That's a great thing by the way.
A movie with a talking raccoon and a talking tree? This is going to be Marvel's first disaster since Disney bought them. Sounds like a Disney cartoon….
Sounds like somebody didn't read the comic.
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THE VILLAGES, Fla. -- Newt Gingrich is painfully aware that Mitt Romney is pulling away from him in Florida on the strength of one issue: electability. Republican voters here are determined to nominate the candidate most likely to defeat Barack Obama, and many are acting as armchair political analysts, trying to weigh Newt's baggage versus Mitt's baggage, and trying to divine how the media might cover Newt versus Obama versus how it might cover Mitt versus Obama. Among voters most concerned about electability, Romney leads Gingrich by a significant margin.
That is why Gingrich, on a visit to this sprawling, 85,000-resident retirement community in central Florida, hit Romney hard over the issue of who can win in November.
"It comes down to a question of who do we think can win, and how can you win?" Gingrich said to a crowd that numbered somewhere between 1,500 and 3,000 in a parking lot ringed by the golf carts many had used to come see him. "In 1980, we were involved in a campaign like this, and it was clear that you needed a conservative who was a long way from Jimmy Carter in order to win, because you had to show the difference. And I would argue we tried a moderate [Bob Dole] in 1996, and they couldn't show the difference. We tried a moderate [John McCain] in 2008. They couldn't show the difference."
Now, Gingrich said, Republicans should choose the candidate who can best delineate differences, not similarities, with Barack Obama. "We need to have somebody who can draw a sharp distinction," Gingrich said. Extending his hands about an inch apart, Gingrich said, "Romneycare and Obamacare are about this far apart. You can't make the difference." Extending his arms to each side, he continued, "But where we are as conservatives is about this far apart. Obama won't be able to hide from the difference."
As a specific example, Gingrich said the legacy of Romney's universal health plan in Massachusetts will make him ineffective in the fight to repeal Obamacare. "I can ask [Congress] to repeal Obamacare," Gingrich said, "because I haven't passed something which resembles it."
As he portrays himself as the genuine conservative in the race, Gingrich appears to be still smarting from Romney's attempt to minimize Gingrich's connection to the Reagan Revolution. Romney, who renounced Reagan during a run for Massachusetts Senate in 1994, has suggested that Gingrich played little role in the Reagan years and made little or no impression on the 40th president. In The Villages, Gingrich first noted support from Herman Cain and Sarah Palin, and added: "I am delighted that tomorrow Michael Reagan will be campaigning with me, which should tell you how false the ads were earlier this week by Romney which suggested I wasn't a Reagan Republican. Nancy Reagan said in 1995, 'Just as Barry [Goldwater] passed the torch to Ronnie, Ronnie has passed the torch to Newt.' And Michael will be here tomorrow, to prove to every doubting person, I am in fact the legitimate heir of the Reagan movement -- not some liberal from Massachusetts!"
That would be Mitt Romney.
Gingrich's new theme on Sunday reflected the latest stop in a long search for a line of attack that will work -- even as Romney pulls to a double-digit lead in a number of new polls. In a Fox News feature, pollster Frank Luntz reported that Gingrich's "Massachusetts Moderate" attack ad scored well with audiences and might conceivably eat into Romney's support. But the ad is playing infrequently in Florida -- Gingrich doesn't have a lot of money, and his super PAC doesn't seem to be interested in running it -- and the message has been lost amid Gingrich's rapidly-changing campaign themes.
Meanwhile, the voters here are weighing which man can win. "We're split down the middle," says Villages resident Allen Orchowski of himself and his wife Suzie. "My wife is concerned about electability. I'm more concerned about passion, and Newt's a fighter. I'll vote for either -- I'll vote for Elmer Fudd if I have to -- but on Tuesday, I'm voting for Newt, and my wife's voting for Mitt."
"It's electability," says Suzie Orchowski. "I just have some concerns about the past, some baggage -- I'm afraid of what will happen if Gingrich and Obama go head to head."


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Red Banana Series: The Mummy Family Find Fame
Author: Bradman, Tony
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Help! The Mummies are broke! There isn't even any pocket money for sweets. What are they going to do?
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RECIPE # 4795 RED ROBIN BANZAI BURGER Friday March 23, 2012
Sesame seed bun
Shredded lettuce
teriyaki sauce
Pineapple rings
Cheddar cheese
*For best results, use a grill.
Form hamburger into burger patties, about 5 oz each
Marinate patties in about 1oz in teriyaki sauce wrapped in celophane for at least 4 hours.
Pre heat grill on med heat.
Place marinated burger patties on grill surface and slow cook for 10 minutes our until patty reaches an internal temperature of at least 160 degrees.
While burger is cooking, toast bun open side down for 1 minute.
Place pineapple rings on bbq surface and heat for 2 minutes.
Spread mayo on both buns.
2 minutes before hamburger is finished cooking, place 2 slices of cheddar on the patty.
Place burger patty on bottom bun.
Place pineapple rings on top of cheese.
Place 2 tomato slices cut to desired thickness on the pineapple.
Place 1 oz wt of lettuce on top of tomatoes.
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Asked by caprinocultura
5. A description of my self-esteem.
I wrote something I liked a lot but then I accidentally deleted it and now I can't be assed to recreate it…. but that kinda demonstrates my self-esteem perfectly. (Sometimes I love myself lots but then I don't and it's too hard to get that back.)
10. My favorite animal.
I never know what to say to this question I think snails are kinda amazing and also I really like hermit crabs and come to think of it I really dig animals that have their own shell/home thing they can hide out in whenever but really I had never made that connection before so. It's something to sit with. (A House for Hermit Crab is on my list of top-10 picture books).
15 was answered
20. Favorite flavor of ice cream.
Cookie dough. I am super into ben + jerry's half-baked froyo rather than ice cream. Pistachio on and off since i was a kid. Spumoni is excellent even tho i hate cherry or chocolate icecream on their own. It's all about the pistachio.
25. What are my future plans?
I don't know but being me has taught me that shit works out, even if somewhat bizarrely.
30. Two of my insecurities.
my ability to be a grown-up (or lack there of), how others perceive me.
35. What bands I've seen live.
Solo artists too cuz why not. Britney motherfucking Spears; P!nk, They Might Be Giants, Girlyman, Tegan & Sara, Kevin Devine… dude is that seriously it? Wow I suck.
40. Where I would like to live.
Talbot house. Oh wait, I do. Seriously in life I have this problem where there is nowhere I want to live more than NYC/Queens, but also I want to not live in the same place forever. It's so hard to be from NYC? ha.
45. What I can hear right now.
An airplane, my own typing.
50 was answered (and I haven't gotten a text in the past 30 minutes.)
54. What I hate/hated the most about school.
I hate that I never learned to do it right, I hate that I went to a school that was so informal through 3rd grade so I never developed the sense that says "we do this because it's school and so we just do," I hate that Marisa Stone was always better than me at the Storytelling Contest, the Science Fair at Elementary School Part 2. I hate that I went to three schools in three years between the age of 10 and 13. Now I am a grown-up and I hate academic elitism, I still can't understand why school is a thing that we do…
And oh yeah I am an education geek. I like being confusing
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Gosling: Oracle 'Confused About What To Do With Java on Desktops and Cell Phones.'
In an interview with InfoWorld.com on Tuesday, James Gosling stated that Oracle "is confused about what to do with Java on desktops and cell phones."
He expressed a belief that Oracle will do an "excellent job" with the core JVM for server-side Java, but that he isn't so sure about the non-server side of Java.
According to the report, an Oracle representative declined to respond to Gosling's comments. Gosling left Oracle on April 2, 2010. Since then, he has joined the RCDb board of directors.


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Next week (from June 29 to July 5) is "Justice for Lewisham Week" in the London Borough of Lewisham, where the hospital that serves the 270,000 inhabitants has been under threat since last October, when Matthew Kershaw, an NHS Special Administrator appointed to deal with the debts of a neighbouring NHS Trust, the South London Healthcare Trust, through legislation known as the Unsustainable Provider Regime, decided that one way of doing so would be to severely downgrade services at Lewisham (unconnected to the SLHT except by geographical proximity), shutting its A&E Department and axing 90 percent of maternity services along with all acute services.
At the end of January, Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, approved the recommendations, but the people of Lewisham — myself included — refused to give up. Campaigning has continued relentlessly, and two judicial reviews were launched in response — one launched by Lewisham Council, and another by the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign. £20,000 was needed for the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign's judicial review, which was raised by supporters of the hospital, including Millwall F.C. and other people (including 6,000 supporters of the campaigning group 38 Degrees) who understand that Lewisham is a test case for what the would-be butchers of the NHS can get away with (both in the NHS's own senior management, and in government).
The judicial reviews will be taking place in the High Court in London from Tuesday July 2 to Thursday July 4, and the campaign is calling for people from the community to attend the hearing each day, and also for a big group of people to be there at the start of the proceedings on the morning of July 2nd. Please email Dagmar to sign up. Read the rest of this entry »
Please note that my books Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield are both still available, and I also wholeheartedly recommend Travelling Daze: Words and Images from the UK's New Travellers and Festivals, Late 1960s to the Here and Now, Alan Dearling's epic review of the traveller scene (to which I was one of many contributors), which was published last year, and is essential reading for anyone interested in Britain's traveller history.
Every year, on the summer solstice, I am confronted by two particular questions, as, I'm sure, are many people old enough to have spent their youth growing up under Margaret Thatcher, or in the years previously, under Ted Heath's Tory government, and the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan, when an unofficial civil war was taking place in British society.
Those two questions are: what happened to my youth, and what happened to massive, widespread societal dissent?
The former of course, is an existential question, which only young people don't understand. It's 29 years since the last Stonehenge Free Festival, an annual anarchic jamboree that lasted for the whole of June, when Britain's alternative society set up camp in the fields across the road from Stonehenge, and it's 39 years since the first festival was established, by an eccentric young man named Phil Russell, or, as his friends and admirers remember him, Wally Hope. Read the rest of this entry »
I just have time to throw out a quick reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday June 11, there's a Carnival Against Capitalism taking place in London's West End, beginning at 12 noon, at the start of a week of action against the G8, which takes place on June 17-18 in Northern Ireland. There are two suggested meeting points — one at Oxford Circus and one at Piccadilly Circus — and this is what Milena Olwan, a social worker, told the Guardian about the protests against the G8, echoing what many people think, as politicians meet, who, at best, are deluded, and at worst, like the Tories, are revelling in the opportunity to impose savage austerity cuts on the most vulnerable members of society.
"The G8 are anti-democratic, unaccountable, and they represent an extinct world order," she said, adding, They embody the old ways of protectionism, imperialism and greed … [W]e will show them that ordinary people coming together taking action can forge alternatives that do not destroy lives but create a life beyond capitalism."
This is how the organisers describe the Carnival Against Capitalism:
This action will only be as effective as the people participating in it. We have not negotiated with the police and we will not be controlled. If we look after each other, stay mobile, don't get caught in kettles and are ready to make quick decisions about what to do next we can make the most of the day. Read the rest of this entry »
On the 100th day of the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo, please ask the US authorities to free prisoners and take concrete steps towards finally closing the prison. Call the White House (202-456-1111, 202-456-1414), US Southern Command (305-437-1213) and the Department of Defense (703-571-3343). You can say, "I support closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay. President Obama can and should resume transfers, today, for the 86 cleared prisoners who are still held. Indefinite detention without charge or trial is a human rights violation." You can also call or e-mail your congressperson and senator to ask them to support swift executive action to close Guantánamo, and you can also send a letter to a prisoner.
To mark 100 days of the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo, events are — or have been — taking place in the US, the UK and worldwide, involving, amongst others, my friends and colleagues in Witness Against Torture, Amnesty International, the Center for Constitutional Rights, World Can't Wait and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture in the US, and the London Guantánamo Campaign and the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign in the UK.
In the US, the various groups delivered petitions to the White House containing over 370,000 signatures, including, in particular, the petition on Change.org initiated by Col. Morris Davis, which currently has over 200,000 signatures, and is still ongoing. In London, campaigners will be performing street theatre outside the US Embassy tomorrow (Saturday May 18) at 2pm. For further information, including other actions you can engage in, see the Witness Against Torture website, and Amnesty International's Facebook page. Also see the video for "Hunger Strike Song" by the Peace Poets and Witness Against Torture.
Following the action in Washington D.C., the National Religious Campaign Against Torture sent out a press release, in which executive director Rev. Richard Killmer stated, "Years of detention without charge or trial have created a sense of desperation and hopelessness among the men at Guantánamo, which has led over 100 of them to join a hunger strike. The human crisis in Guantánamo is a moral one that needs to end immediately. The faith community calls on the President to close Guantánamo. It is the right thing to do." Read the rest of this entry »
Please attend the march at 12 noon on Saturday May 18, 2013, from Jubilee Gardens (on Concert Hall Approach near the South Bank Centre) to Whitehall, where there will be a rally outside Downing Street at 2pm. The marchers will cross Waterloo Bridge and walk up The Strand to Whitehall, and NHS campaigners, politicians and union representatives will address the crowd from an open-topped bus. See the Facebook page here and the website here.
The irony could hardly be starker. Across London, and countrywide, cuts begun under the Labour government and aggressively continued under the Tories are wreaking havoc on the NHS. Nor it is only politicians who are to blame, as the cuts are enthusiastically endorsed by senior NHS officials.
As I have been reporting here since October, when plans to disembowel Lewisham Hospital were first announced, across the capital A&E Departments face closure or downgrading, even though the need for them has never been greater. In addition, the closure or downgrading of A&E will have a horrendous knock-on effect for the millions of people affected — as frontline services also close, and, to give just one example, maternity services are cut savagely, as only births regarded as safe can take place in hospitals without emergency services.
This is what is planned for Lewisham, where the recently refurbished A&E Department is to be closed, leaving just one A&E Department, at the distant and already overstretched Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, to deal with the 750,000 inhabitants of three London boroughs — Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley — including, of course, babies and children as well as adults. Read the rest of this entry »
A Year of Protest – The NHS, Disabled Rights, Guantánamo, Bradley Manning and the Occupy Movement, a set on Flickr.
A year ago yesterday, I embarked on a huge and ongoing project — to photograph the whole of London by bike. A year and a day later, I have taken around 13,000 photos, and have published nearly 1,700 on Flickr. As it happens, my time has been so consumed of late with my ongoing campaign to close Guantánamo — where the prison-wide hunger strike, now in its fourth month, has finally awoken the world to the ongoing horrors of the prison — that I have not had time recently to publish photos from this project, although I have continued to take photos on an almost daily basis. I am currently organising the photos by area — largely, in fact, by postcode — as I work out how best to show them and to market them, but to mark the anniversary I will soon be posting a selection of photos from the first year of the project – and if anyone has any good ideas abut how to take tis project forward, then please don't hesitate to get in touch with me.
In the meantime, I realised that today — May 12 — is the first anniversary of an event organised by the worldwide Occupy movement (inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York), and that I had photographed the event that took place in London, and so, to coincide with that anniversary, I've put together a selection off photos from the various political campaigns and protests I've been involved in over the last year. Read the rest of this entry »
UPDATE MAY 7: It has just been confirmed that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will now be taking part in this event, via video link from the Ecuadorian Embassy, from 7.30 to 8.15pm.
It's almost three years since Pfc. Bradley Manning, who had been working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, was arrested by the US military and imprisoned in Kuwait for allegedly making available — to the campaigning organization WikiLeaks — the largest collection of classified documents ever leaked to the public, including the "Collateral Murder" video, featuring US personnel indiscriminately killing civilians in Iraq, 500,000 army reports (the Afghan War logs and the Iraq War logs), 250,000 US diplomatic cables, and the classified military files relating to the Guantánamo prisoners, which were released in April 2011, and on which I worked as a media partner (see here for the first 34 parts of my 70-part, million-word series analyzing the Guantánamo files).
In July 2010, Manning was transferred to the Marine Corps Brig, Quantico, Virginia, where the conditions of his confinement began to cause international concern. I first wrote about his case in December 2010, when he was being held in solitary confinement, in an article entitled, "Is Bradley Manning Being Held as Some Sort of "Enemy Combatant"?" and I followed his story into 2011, and his transfer to less contentious conditions of confinement in Fort Leavenworth on April 20, just five days before WikiLeaks released the Guantánamo files.
In the last two years, I have largely deferred to other writers, researchers and activists, dedicated to Bradley Manning's story, to cover developments in his case, particularly relating to a series of pre-trial hearings. His trial begins on June 3 (preceded by an international day of action on June 1), and I'm delighted to have the opportunity to revisit his story this Wednesday, May 8, at an event in London organized by Naomi Colvin and Katia Michaels, at which I am honoured to be sharing a stage with Chase Madar, the author of The Passion of Bradley Manning, and Ben Griffin, a former SAS soldier and conscientious objector. Read the rest of this entry »
It's now eleven days since the House of Lords voted against a motion proposed by the Labour peer, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, which was intended to strike down regulations relating to Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act that had caused alarm to campaigners when they surfaced in February. Following a massive grassroots campaign, featuring a petition by the campaigning group 38 Degrees that secured over 350,000 signatures, the regulations were rewritten, but those of us who fear, understandably, that the government is committed to the privatisation of the NHS remain deeply suspicious, as they were only tinkered with, and not, it seemed, sufficiently to prevent the key section, relating to an obligation in the regulations designed to put almost all NHS services out to tender, from surviving intact.
I described the outcome of the vote in an article at the time, entitled, "This was the Week the NHS Died, and No One Cares," but below, to provide further details, I'm cross-posting the debate that took place that night, when important speeches were made by Lord Hunt, Lord Owen, Lord Turnberg, and Lord Davies of Stamford — and some important points were also made by Baroness Masham of Ilton.
There is much in the debate that will not reassure those who campaigned so hard against Section 75, and who continue to campaign to save the NHS from the government's destructive aims — and the deluded machinations of its own senior management — but it is useful for understanding how the provision of NHS services is seen by members of the House of Lords.
However, before I cross-post the transcript of the debate, it is worth asking: what now? There has, sadly, been very little media coverage of the issues since the debate, but one useful article was published in the Guardian on April 30, written by Bob Hudson, a professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University. Read the rest of this entry »
On Wednesday April 24, the House of Lords voted by 254 votes to 146 to dismiss a motion, proposed by the Labour peer Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, a shadow health minister, to prevent the passage of regulations relating to Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act (the Tories' wretched legislation for NHS reform, passed last year), which was sprung on an unsuspecting public back in February.
The reason I call this the week that the NHS died is because the regulations enforce competition on almost all NHS business, paving the way for private companies to swiftly and effectively dismantle it, cherry-picking services they can easily make profits out of, and cowing the newly appointed Clinical Commissioning Groups (the GPs responsible for 80 percent of the NHS budget), who will be afraid of ruinously expensive legal challenges if they dare to take on the private sector.
It is not strictly true, of course, that no one cares, but I stand by the necessity of such a provocative headline. In fact, a 38 Degrees petition was signed by over 360,000 people, but millions should have been on the streets since the Tories first announced their intentions to destroy the NHS. That, however, has never happened. On the night of the Section 75 motion last week, despite furious lobbying of peers, and some great speeches in support of the NHS (by Lords Hunt and Owen in particular), the last chance to block the legislation was lost. Read the rest of this entry »
On April 24, 2013, campaigners calling for the release from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, held a demonstration outside Parliament following a Parliamentary debate in Westminster Hall from 9.30 to 11 am. Shaker, who has a British wife and four British children, is one of 86 prisoners cleared for release by an inter-agency task force established by President Obama in 2009 but still held, and, in recent weeks, his story has finally become prominent in the mainstream British media, as he is part of the prison-wide hunger strike that began on February 6, and there are fears for his life (see my recent reports here and here).
The Parliamentary debate followed a successful e-petition, calling on the British government to "undertake urgent new initiatives to achieve the immediate transfer of Shaker Aamer to the UK from continuing indefinite detention in Guantánamo Bay," which secured over 100,000 signatures, through the tireless work of numerous campaigners, making it eligible for a discussion in Parliament. Please note that an international petition for Shaker is still ongoing. Read the rest of this entry »
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03 March 2014 - 02:12 AM
So the facelifted focus is revealed - what do you think?
i like the idea of the new 1.5L ecoboost
18 January 2014 - 06:51 PM
Well, we have had the 70mph motorway speed limit since 1968, cars have changed a lot since then, and 70mph is a very slow speed, 47 years later, for a modern car
But - what do you consider fast?
and what would be regarded a quick 0-60mph?
off road, of course!
17 December 2013 - 08:27 AM
Latest news from the BBC -
For various reasons insurance is too high (tell us something we don't know:) -
Also, the price comparison sites charge insurance companies to use them, then insist they can not offer the same product at a lower price elsewhere.
28 October 2013 - 09:12 PM
Its always frustrating when your car does not start - may people would phone the AA, or get a mechanic/ to w it to a garage - there is more than 1 way of cooking an egg - here is how basil does it -
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Ideal for those that need that little bit extra power for towing etc -
And plenty of power for safe overtaking!
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The post popular color for a new cars is? What's your guess? I thought it would be silver or blue and I was wrong!
White has overtaken silver as the most popular color choice of car buyers.
Car sale figures from last month show white as the most popular color with 22%. Black came in second with 19% followed by gray with 14% and silver and blue tied for fourth with 13%.
One explanation for whites new popularity has been called the Apple effect referring to iPhones and other gadgets which come in the color.


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Georgia Tech is the front-runner to land a commitment from Thomasville safety Fred Holton.
As an underclassman, the 6-foot-1, 180-pound Holton envisioned one day lining up as a wide receiver in the Jackets' offense.
But Holton, who has scholarship offers from Georgia Tech, Central Florida, Kansas State and Ole Miss, appears destined to play in the secondary on Saturdays.
"I know he's always been a fan of [former Tech receiver] Calvin Johnson," Thomasville coach Richie Marsh said. "He's always shown a lot of interest in Tech.
"He thought he was going to be a wide receiver in his early years. But he's being recruited as a defensive back by all these schools."
The Jackets are targeting several defensive backs in the class of 2010.
"I went up to Georgia Tech and talked to coach [Paul] Johnson last week," Marsh said. "He said they've offered six defensive backs and that [Holton] is one of the ones he wants.
"I think Georgia Tech is his front-runner right now. Clemson is in the mix, but I don't have a written offer from Clemson yet."
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This is a Hidden story about Ashe (Final Fantasy 12).
The strong military kingdom rules the continent, and the resistance army is having financial problems. One day, Ashe received a letter..... The letter from a slave trader says "I am ready to finance your activities in return for a one night stand." After much distress, she goes where the man is.
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Just in time. I'm healed. Thanks to you.
Happy Halloween!!
"you're the one that never lets me sleep to my mind, down to my soul you touch my lips you're the one that i can't wait to see with you here by my side i'm in ecstasy"
"Don't try to contaminate me, with your smile, with your eyes and the way you stare at me. I promise you, it's not gonna work. Not anymore."
Tomorrow's Halloween! Well, it's not my favorite holiday, but hey it's fun. Uhmm, today was alright and fun. I'm just happy its friday!!!
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I'm so desperate that I wrote the names on a piece of paper, cut them out, folded them, then randomly selected. It's so hard. I seriously DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO.
Each person is responsible for his or her own happiness, so do not feel an obligation to put a bright smile on the face of a notorious sourpuss. Some people are happier when they have something to complain about — you can't cheer up someone who wants to be miserable. Stick to your optimism and your happier outlook. You have things in the right perspective — don't let a naysayer tell you there's no such thing as a happy ending.
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HOMEWORK! Can someone please wish me a goodnight sleep tonight? I've been restless for 3 days :(
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So like, I watched the movie last night, with a couple of friends, and we got our tickets by my friend's Uncle&Auntie, well anyways it was funny because we all brought our stuffed animals, and Aiza brought a blanket, and the previews before the movie were very interesting, I would like to watch The Lovely Bones :) Okay so the movie was short, 1hr & 39mins, but I have to say it was worth it. The movie is very suspenseful, but I didn't scream at all during the movie, for some reason I kept laughing, weird isn't it? Also, Andrea and all the girls I were with kept screaming and covering their eyes, I covered my eyes only at the end and in the middle of it, but the end got me really mad, and it was a horrible ending, well to me it was, anyways I think it was worth 11 dollars, but hey that's just me, and you should watch it, if you're ready for nightmares :) And people said you wouldn't be able to sleep at night? But for an odd reason I slept super early and very comfortable, well good luck if you watch it =D
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The UTHSC Bouldering Wall is a great place to begin your climbing experience with beginner friendly holds and engaged community. For those looking for more advanced climbing or training we have two sections of steep terrain and clearly marked problems that are reset on a rotating schedule. The facility is not directly supervised with no top roping capabilities available at this time; please sign an assumption of risk form prior to climbing.
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Live Link: Men's USAG Collegiate Nationals - Event Finals
Air Force is hosting the Men's USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships this Friday and Saturday. Saturday's session features the Event Finals.
Competition begins at 5 pm Mountain Time.
Link: Live Video
Men's: Air Force Wins USAG National Team Title
Air Force defended its Men's USAG Collegiate National Championship title on Friday, posting a season-high 341.05 for the home win. William and Mary was 2nd at 331.85, Navy 3rd at 326.9 and Springfield 4th at 324.35. ASU won the Men's club title with the 3rd highest team total on the night.
In the AA race, Navy's Andrew Faulk won the title with an 84.3. Event finals are Saturday night.
Link: Air Force Release
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2012-13 Savona to LSU
Jessica Savona, Canadian High Performance gymnast, has tweeted about her commitment to LSU. She recently competed at the Gymnix, finishing 4th in the all around and 12th on bars in the event finals. Last season she finished 2nd AA at the Canadian Championships and 1st on beam and floor in the event finals.
2013-14 Kreager to UC Davis
Rachel Kreager, L10 from San Mateo Gymnastics in California, has committed to UC Davis. This season she placed 2nd AA (1st FX) at the Red Heart 10.0 meet and 2nd AA (1st UB) at the Wine Country meet. She placed in the top 10 all around at all of her 2012 meets, including a 7th place finish at the Nor Cal meet last weekend.
2014-15 Brannon to Bama
MacKenzie Brannan, an elite from Capital Gymnastics in Texas has committed to Alabama according to Chalkbowl, her webmaster. This season she has competed at the San Diego Classic (2nd AA; 1st V), the Alamo Classic (1st AA; 1st V/UB/FX), the Nadia Comaneci Invite (1st AA; 1st BB/FX) and the WOGA Classic (1st AA; 1st V/UB).
2014-15 Fassbender to UF
Ericha Fassbender has committed to Florida according to a tweet from Chalkbowl, her webmaster. The former Jr. International Elite from Stars in Texas has competed in several Level 10/Open sessions this season, finishing 1st AA at the HNI (1st AA; 1st V) and the National Gym Challenge (1st AA; 1st V/UB/BB/FX). She also competed at the Lady Luck meet and finished 2nd AA and 1st on vault.
2014 - 15 Williams to NU
Grace Williams has tweeted about her commitment to Nebaska. Williams competes at Level 10 for Geddert's in Michigan. Grace has picked up the AA and vault titles in all of her meets this season, while also picking up five bars titles, two beam titles and three floor titles. Grace will be joining her Geddert's clubmate, Karerin Moore, at Nebraska.
Men's National Rankings for the Week of March 26th
With a season-best performance this weekend, PSU takes over the top spot in the Troester GymInfo National Rankings for the Week of March 4th. OU is 2nd and Stanford is 3rd.
The Men's rankings from Troester GymInfo are now using the "Four Meet Average". To get this average, the four highest scoring meets are taken, of which no more than two are home meets, the high score dropped, and the remaining three are averaged.
Individually, Jake Dalton of OU holds the top spot in the AA. He is also the leader on floor and PB. This week, the big change is that PSU's Craig Hernandez takes over the top spot on PH. Teammate Scott Rosenthal retains his lead on Rings. Stanford's Eddie Penev ranks first on vault. On the pipe, Illini Paul Ruggeri also retains his lead.
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Recruiting Tips: Identifying Important Areas of the NCAA Manual
The NCAA Manual is the "go to" resource for prospects and families as they begin to build their education base in the college search. Between the Division 1, 2 and 3 manuals there is well over 1,500 pages of helpful information!
The aim of this article is to direct you toward these resources, help you simplify your search and wrap your arms around recruiting terms, rules and procedures you will encounter as you navigate your personal college quest.
First, let's search for a copy of the manual!
Go to www.ncaa.org.
Click the "resources" tab.
Under "Resources," Click either the Division 1, 2 or 3 manual links.
From there you can either order a hard copy of the manual or download a free PDF version.
If you haven't done so already, create a college folder on your computer. Add a subfolder and label it "NCAA." Save the manuals to your folder for easy access in the future.
The manual is loaded with tremendous information, but to be very honest with you, there is only a fraction of information parents and athletes need to really study closely. When you break it down, only 3 chapters or "Articles" in the manual are the most vital to understand and utilize: (In the below I refer to the D-1 manual)
Article 13 Recruiting
This is a very important chapter that will provide you with the nuts and bolts of how recruiting works and the limitations and time-lines college coaches and families are bound. Below is a list of sub-articles I suggest you place your most attention:
- Definitions and Applications
- Contacts and Evaluations
- Recruiting Materials
- Campus Visits
- Letter of Intent
You will notice in some cases multiple "revisions" of a rule or definition. Simply look carefully to the most recent date of the revision and the effective date and you will be right on target!
This chapter is a great "first read" that will begin to help shape your personal recruiting picture in your mind. Remember, the recruiting process is like learning a new language -- sometimes you have to simply "jump in." That being the case, the more you practice the more you will learn and understand.
Article 14 Eligibility: Academic and General Requirements
Boy, is this ever an important chapter! Can you imagine going through the entire recruiting process, showing up to your college campus in the fall of your freshmen year and getting the news from your new coach and compliance officer that you are ineligible to practice or play?
Academic eligibility is a necessary part of the college recruiting process and you want to be certain you are on track every step of the way. Whether it is scheduling the proper coursework during your high school years, registering for the NCAA Eligibility Center or taking the ACT's you want to be sure you have your ducks in a row and are hitting tangible targets! Below are important sub-articles to research:
- Definitions
- General Eligibility Requirements
- Freshmen Academic Requirements
- Transfer Regulations
- Certification of Eligibility
This is a critical chapter that will provide you with a clearly spelled out list of academic requirements you will be expected to meet as well as recruiting pitfalls you want to avoid! Remember, you can't play the game if you don't know the rules!
Article 15 Financial Aid
This chapter is equally important and it will give you a very clear and informative analysis of both need based and athletic related financial aid (scholarships). It not only defines an athletic scholarship and how they are distributed, it also clarifies maximum limits of athletic aid (by sport).
This is a pretty short chapter and I suggest you focus on each sub-article:
- Definitions
- Maximum Limits of Aid (Individual)
- Terms and Conditions
- Elements of Aid
- Maximum Sports Limitations
About Tom Kovic:
Tom Kovic is a former Division I college gymnastics coach (Penn) and the current director of Victory Collegiate Consulting, where he provides individual advisement for families on college recruiting. Tom is the author of "Reaching for Excellence", an educational guide for college athletics recruiting. For further information visit: www.victoryrecruiting.com
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US Government Powned!
Wired news has coverage of an event many Terra Novans attended at State of Play, the roundtable on eRulemaking. It covers some of the discussion, has a couple of quotes from Raph, credits Professor Noveck appropriately, but in some ways mischaracterizes the discussion. The government wasn't there to get opinions from game developers about how to improve their process. Instead, they were there to solicit ideas on how to use games to educate citizens about the process.
What's unfortunate is that they ignored the obvious flaws in their design. After all, they were just talking to a bunch of game designers and developers.
The flaws are probably obvious to any TN reader. By moving away from publicizing rules and proposed rules in the Federal Register and allowing responses by snail mail towards electronic publishing and commenting, the government is hoping to broaden democracy and to allow more participation. As anyone who has participated in anonymous and unmoderated forums will immediately recognize, this has some flaws. First, the number of submissions is going to skyrocket, compounding something that the representatives of EPA and DOT folks there mentioned, reading all of the submissions is already a problem. Second, and more dangerous, organizations will be able to more efficiently scour proposed rules for issues that they don't like and then bombard the agency with millions of like-minded comments, greatly exaggerating the actual representation of that organization. Obviously, lobbiests already have an advantage in the rulemaking system. Sadly, the proposed changes will increase their advantage, not decrease it.
However, I don't want to focus too much on this specific case. Raph, who also saw the flaws in the proposed system and commented on them at the conference, either didn't give those quotes to Wired or they chose not to use them. Should Raph, as one of the most visible game designers in the US right now, be writing white papers on "MMO Lessons for Real Democracy"? If Al Franken can be a visiting professor at the Kennedy School of Government, shouldn't Raph (or other MMO creators/designers/educators)? Wouldn't it be in Sony's long term best interest to be able to announce that? A friend went to KSG after being Mayor of a small Northern California town. Shouldn't the folks keeping 300,000 users happy be able to leverage their experiences in the same way?
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I didn't say much at the roundtable on account of how it wasn't really my place to comment on ways to improve democracy in a country I was visiting as a guest.
I would like to say, however, that I was hugely impressed that Neil Eisner and Oscar Morales were willing to sit down with a bunch of game designers (and researchers interested in game design) to ask our opinions. I can't conceive of this happening in the UK at present, nor for years to come - if ever. If it did, the game designers would actually be heads of game development companies, heads of organisations of game development companies, the head of whatever division BT has at the moment working on what they think are games, and perhaps some economics professor specialising in "game theory". No way would they talk to the people who actually design games.
Be proud, America. At least you get a discussion for your technology media to mischaracterise.
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Richard> Be proud, America. At least you get a discussion for your technology media to mischaracterise.
I love when one of Richard's posts makes me laugh out loud at my desk. Something about the British sense of humor that at times come through perfectly in the written word.
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BTW, it's "pwned". The o is silent.
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Scott> BTW, it's "pwned". The o is silent.
Sheesh. Next thing I know people will be question my 133tness.
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u just got powned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I wish you great success, good luck and a lot of fun for the future. Maybe one day you will really be the best of all.
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'From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series' Photo with Santanico Pandemonium
The supernatural crime saga (based on the cult classic film of the same name) will feature an international cast including: D.J. Cotrona (Dear John, G.I. Joe Retaliation); Zane Holtz (Holes, The Perks of Being a Wallflower); Jesse Garcia (Quinceanera, Sons of Anarchy); Eiza González (Lola Erase una Vez); Wilmer Valderrama (That '70s Show, To Whom It May Concern); Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights, G.I. Joe Retaliation); Jake Busey (Starship Troopers, Enemy of the State, Identity); Don Johnson (Django Unchained, Nash Bridges); Madison Davenport (Save Me, Shameless); Lane Garrison (Bonnie and Clyde, Prison Break); Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The X-Files); and Brandon Soo Hoo (Tropic Thunder, Ender's Game).
Based on the thrill-ride film, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series is a supernatural crime saga centered around bank robber, Seth Gecko (Cotrona) and his violent, unpredictable brother, Richard "Richie" Gecko (Holtz), who are wanted by the FBI and Texas Rangers Earl McGraw (Johnson) and Freddie Gonzalez (Garcia) after a bank heist left several people dead. While on an escape route to Mexico, Seth and Richie encounter former minister Jacob Fuller and his family who they take hostage. Using the family RV to make a run for the Mexican border, chaos ensues when the group detours to a strip club that is unknowingly populated by vampires, and forces them to fight until dawn in order to get out alive. The series deepens the tone of the film, adds new characters and backstories and expands the Mesoamerican mythology behind the vampires.
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@2movieguys It's the part Salma Hayek played in the original. The lusty stripper vampire. It would be an understatement to say the scene is worth a watch or 12.
who the hell is: Santanico Pandemonium!?!?.
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Poulin LE456 v1.1 VST amp simulator – Metal!
Hello everyone!
This is a quick demonstration using the VST amp simulator LE456 by LePou. Video is available in the "Videos" section of the website.
LE456 is a preamp simulator based on a piece of famous German gear.
LE456 has 2 channels and 2 modes per channel. Each channel/mode share the same features. Apart from the usual tone controls (drive, low, mid, high and contour), each channel/mode offers two different tone stacks that can be accessed via the focus switches. Bottom and bright switches can be used to boost the low and high frequencies respectively. On the low gain channel only (Clean/Crunch), the effectiveness of the bright switch decreases with the gain settings.
Signal chain: Ibanez prestige rg1570 with Bare Knuckle Aftermath pickups through an Omega Lexicon recording studio processed in Cubase 5. Using TSE 808 v2.0 Overdrive, Poulin LE456 v1.1 amp, keFIR impulses, Superior drummer for drums and a simple pick bass taken from Cubase 5 HALion One. Guitar tuning is drop C.
You can download free all these VST's by simply copying the following links to your browser.
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Tip! Once you've downloaded these stuff, simply extract them somewhere and copy the .dll files to your VST plugin folder in your hard disc so you can load them through your recording program!
Feel free to ask anything you want! I hope you all enjoy and find this tutorial helpful.
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Last Wednesday night, at the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside, BB King was in concert with Kenny Wayne Shepherd as the opening act. I love the blues, and specifically blues-rock. So much of rock as we know it today is based on the blues. All the big names, from Zep and the Stones, to Stevie Ray, were in some way influenced by the blues. Someone at the show mentioned that BB King was a legend. I think he is more than that. BB King is what normal everyday legends call a legend, and at 86 he is still going.
When it comes to hits, the big one for KW Shepherd is "Blue On Black". He did that, along with 9 others, but the final song was a killer version of Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child. Holy crap this guy can play! The Beatles "Yer Blues" was also a standout. While watching, I realized that I was seeing something special. I mean, not a "good guitar player" type special, or even a "great guitar player", but something beyond that. I felt like this is what watching a young Stevie Ray must have been like.
The rest of the band was just as tight. There was one thing that was a surprise. I have always liked Noah Hunt's vocals, but now I know that a studio does him no justice. I was constantly shocked at what this guy can do vocally. Gotta see him live again someday.
On bass was Tony Franklin, formerly of The Firm. He plays a fretless bass and has got to be one of the best I've seen. Drums were handled by Chris Layton, and it was no surprise he was Stevie Ray Vaughn's drummer. On keyboards was well known studio player Riley Osbourne. Yeah, it was that good.
Kenny Wayne has been involved with BB King since he was a teen, and mentioned he considered King a father figure. King later returned the compliment noting he considers Shepherd like a son.
BB King, as I mentioned before, is a legend and more. 86 years old and kickin' ass. Watching him play the blues is like watching any master display their skill. It's pure gold. His band is large with horns, guitars, drums and more. He took the time to introduce the band at the start of the show and he seemed to be related to a lot of them.
The band opened alone with two songs before BB came out, and then they all did two more. At that point BB went into the introductions and some story telling. Half an hour into the show he had played on only those first two songs, and yet that was fine with everyone there. Listening to him tell stories was mesmerizing.
Bottom line with any show is that talent rules. When you see a legend, or a someday legend, it's gonna be good.
Part of the show experience to me is that the Fox, Riverside is a great place to see a show. I've mentioned before how I like the venue, I grew up watching movies there, but it's more than that. To have this place locally to see these great shows is wonderful, and this show sounded great.
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