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A Brief Paws in the Rebellious Life of Luke Skywalker0 Reviews
This is a response to a challenge, contains Luke and Vader, and if I say much more I'll give it away. Prepare to be surprised.
Rating: No language, not really any violence.
Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars, but this story is mine.
Chararacters: Luke, Vader, and OCs.
It was the third anniversary of the destruction of the Death Star. Rebel jubilations could be heard all throughout the temporary base as Rebels expressed their unrestrained ecstasy. Most of the Rebels had gathered together to celebrate, but as Leia Organa listened to Admiral Ackbar reminisce, she couldn't help but notice that two men she greatly admired were missing.
The first was unceremoniously held in a block of carbonite on a ship belonging to a galaxy renown bounty hunter, and the second had returned to his homeplanet for reasons she couldn't understand.
What Leia didn't know was that even he didn't fully understand his reasons. But as he stood over the graves of his aunt and uncle, he began to realize his reasons of temporary separation with the Rebel Alliance a bit more clearly.
He had nothing to celebrate.
His aunt and uncle were dead, killed because they had unknowingly bought a pair of droids carrying the blueprints to the same moon-sized space station he had destroyed on this very day, and his mentor Ben Kenobi had even been affected by that accursed Death Star, getting slain while trying to release the Millennium Falcon from a tractor beam. Remembering the Death Star's destruction just brought Luke more pain.
He could have stayed with Leia and the other Rebels, but Leia was still suffering over the abduction of Han, and he didn't feel like handling that at the moment. He had even left both droids behind and brought a one-man ship to Tatooine so he could complete his lightsaber and mourn the dead in solitude, as they should have been mourned long ago.
Sometimes Luke wanted to join his aunt and uncle. They had no more problems.
But even while they were alive they didn't let pressures from the outside galaxy concern them. They were always satisfied with what they had. It was Luke that had been constantly yearning to be anywhere but on the wretched desert wasteland.
And what had Luke Skywalker found when he left Tatooine? Darth Vader, a man who claimed to be his father, a man on the opposite side of what Luke fought for.
And he hated him.
Hated that dark mask, hated that black suit, hated every aspect about him. Luke was nothing like him....
But he was the only family Luke had.
Closing his eyes, he knelt on his knees, hands grasping at the dry, dead sand as if to find some trace of life. He couldn't hate him...He wanted to, wanted his own passionate animosity to rival that which Leia harbored....But he /couldn't/.
He couldn't hate his father.
Squeezing his eyes more tightly together, he murmured in desperation to the sand, "I only wish there was some way I could find out if there really is good in him."
A lesson to be learned by all is to never wish for things without specification. Regret can often follow such an action, and it certainly followed the wish that Luke made.
When he finally opened his eyes he discovered that no longer was it sand beneath his feet, but durasteel, and no longer did a desert loom around him, but an enormous hall whose size seemed to rival that of a hangar bay's.
Luke gasped, "What in the-," or at least he tried to. The noise that came out of his mouth didn't even sound vaguely similar.
As he gazed around with widened blue eyes a horrific thud/, /thud/, /thud came to his ears. A giant boot soon came into view, and as Luke's mouth gaped open he raised his head higher and higher and higher, and saw an enormous mask that had brought fear into more than one of his dreams.
Darth Vader was in a foul mood. It was the third anniversary of the destruction of the Death Star. Such a matter meant little to him; he had always thought that using such a vast amount of resources for a planet-destroying space station was a foolish plan, but Palpatine had been in a bad disposition over the matter of the anniversary of the first, destroyed Death Star, as well as the slow progress that was being made with the still unfinished second Death Star.
He had just finished talking with the Emperor and was now heading back to his quarters to relieve some of his anxiety with a good lightsaber duel against a pair of droids. Maybe if he chopped off a few robotic hands it would make him feel better.
For anyone to be standing in front of the door to the Dark Lord's quarters was quite unusual, but even more unusual was the sight before him.
A horrified tawny cat sat clenching with strained paws at the floor, looking like a womprat in the headlights.
Now, Vader hadn't seen an unsupervised animal in such a situation in quite some time, and as he pondered how in space a feline had gotten aboard his Super Star Destroyer, his steps slowed.
The surprised cat finally let loose a pathetic, "Mewl."
When Vader was younger he had always had a strange affinity towards animals, probably because on Tatooine he had never been able to keep a pet. As he had grown older, however, he had become more distant from the idea after seeing some of the hideous beasts the Emperor kept about. He was about to retreat and have a Stormtrooper or officer remove it when he noticed its strange blue eyes staring at him, looking much more humanlike than catlike.
Frowning beneath his helmet, Vader opened the door to his quarters experimentally. The cat looked to him, as if for reassurance, then entered.
On down the hall, an aide slowed and frowned. Biting his lip, he turned back from whence he came.
Luke thought he was about to explode as the realization of what had happened to him sank in. His paws, about the color of his hair in his human body, were tensely gripping the floor.
In his human body? What was he thinking?
This had to be a dream. Those could not be real whiskers in front of his face, nor could Darth Vader have just opened that door for him, a cat, to come inside.
He glanced behind himself as he began entering what he assumed were Vader's quarters, and instantly wished he hadn't. An upright tail swished behind him like a snake, taunting him for the situation he found himself in.
His brain went into overdrive.
He wasn't a cat, he wasn't a cat....Did he just smell tuna?
No, no!!! He wasn't a cat....He wasn't a cat....
Darth Vader stared at the cat.
The cat stared at him.
Feeling ridiculous, the Sith Lord finally inquired, "What is it that you want?"
The cat meowed, big blue eyes staring at him. He recognized those eyes....But he couldn't quite put his finger on them....
Vader finally went over to the food dispenser, returning with a plate of fish that he levitated down to sit in front of the feline. "If that is all you want, I suggest you eat, then leave."
The animal looked down at the fish, then up at Vader, then back. The feline sat down on its haunches, mrowling.
Vader sat down in a chair he rarely used; in fact, he couldn't quite remember why he had the chair. But a more important question was before him. Why didn't he just throw the beast out?
Seeming to think for a second, the cat hopped into his lap, then up onto the table next to him. It stared down at the food on the floor with what looked like a kitty frown, finally holding up a tawny paw and slicing it through the air multiple times.
"You want me to cut it for you?" the Sith Lord asked at last, incredulously.
He could have sworn the cat just nodded.
Cursing inwardly, Vader began to get up, but sat back down. It was inconceivable. This cat couldn't understand him.
But Luke understood Vader's speech very well, and understood his own position even more.
So, father has a soft spot for animals, huh? he thought wickedly. Let's see how far he'll let this go.
Luke began growling deep within his throat as he stared at Darth Vader, who looked more flustered than he had ever thought possible for a Sith Lord in dark armor to look.
Tilting his helmet at the cat angrily, Vader finally gave into his wishes, slicing the fish up. "Does that please you, you flea-infested beast?"
The feline began growling louder until finally Vader hissed, "I do not have to put up with this insolence!"
Then the tawny fur on the cat's back began to raise. "Very well. You do not have fleas." A warning growl. "You are not a beast either."
A low purr finally came from the more satisfied feline, who hopped down and began daintily scooping the slices of fish up in a small paw and placing them in an awaiting mouth.
Staring at the communications unit and wondering if he should call someone in to rid him of this pest, Vader finally inquired, "Are you male or female?"
The cat stared at the Sith Lord as if the fact that Vader even had to ask disgusted it.
"Seeing as you cannot talk, it appears I will have to find out on my own."
Blue eyes widened as the feline tried in vain to scurry away, but the Force lifted the cat easily up and towards Vader.
The Sith Lord grabbed the cat by both sides, and attempted to check the animal's more private areas when a shriek caused him to pause, and a massive spitting hairball began shredding his gloves and scratching at anything in sight.
Cursing, Vader dropped the foul creature, who ran over into a corner, hunching down and glaring laser bolts.
"Male, then. You may continue eating."
The feline looked at him suspiciously, tawny hair still sticking straight up in the air, but finally the cat walked over to the food bowl, keeping an eye on him.
Darth Vader was about to leave the room to engage in a duel that had been delayed for far too long when he paused. "Are you thirsty?"
Another one of those suspicious-looking nods.
Resisting the urge to sigh, Vader went searching for something liquid that would be appropriately catlike enough.
"Uh, sir?"
"Didn't I send you out with those datacards?" Grand Moff Zhiemm growled, spittle dropping from his swollen lips.
"Yessir," the black-haired aide, Souven, said quickly, "but I have some knowledge you might consider to be of some use to you."
"Irrelevant! Nothing you know is of any use to me!"
Souven continued anyway. "But sir, it concerns Darth Vader."
"Oh?" the brown-haired Grand Moff's interest was piqued. "Go on."
"Well, I was walking through the halls with the datacards-"
"Irrelevant!" Zhiemm interrupted. "To the point!"
"I saw Darth Vader, sir...letting a cat into his room," Souven was almost whispering.
"Doing what, do you say?"
"A cat...he let it in his room...."
The Grand Moff looked suspicious, "Are you sure you saw what you saw?"
"More sure than sure can be."
"Would you stake your life on it? I don't hold with other's treachery."
"I swear to it."
"We shall see."
Vader had kept trying to go off into another room, but Luke had prevented him from doing so several times. He knew now that Vader wouldn't hurt him in his catlike form. Yes, no kitty paws would be chopped off this time, err, no hands, and he was ready to wreak a little mischief.
As the Sith Lord turned once more, Luke hopped back up onto the table and took the datapad resting on it into his tawny paws, shoving it off the table. When it fell to the floor he jumped off the table, then sent the datapad flying under the nearby chair. He would be amused to see Darth Vader lean down to pick that up.
Luke was disappointed, however, when Vader used the Force to call the datapad to him.
Drats. He'd forgotten about that for a moment.
He scanned the room for a moment, eyes finally landing on a sort of black globe. It seemed to be some sort of droid....But it was shut off.
Luke flung his feline body across the room, landing on top of it and holding tight.
"What are you-" Vader growled, finally reaching out to the Force and using it to bring the ball-shaped droid to him, hoping the cat would fall off.
Luke didn't fall off, though, and instead watched wide-eyed as Vader's face came towards his own fast. Screeching with his feline lungs, Luke sprung off the interrogation droid and onto Vader's helmet, holding on tightly with sharp claws.
They remained that way for a few moments, Luke glued to Vader's helmet like a fly to flypaper, Vader standing stock still like a Tatooinian moisture vaporator.
Finally, Luke pried himself off the dark helmet claw by claw and looked sheepishly down at the two eyeholes in Vader's mask.
Stressed, he pathetically whimpered, "Mwrowl."
There was a cat on his helmet.
Vader had never thought he would live to see the day that a ball of living fur would latch onto his mask. A lot of strange things had happened to him, but this had to top them all.
When the cat mewled at him in an almost pleading tone his nerves finally calmed down. All thoughts of his frustrated search for his son and his master's bad disposition were gone.
All there was now was this blue-eyed cat, clinging desperately to Vader's head for dear life.
A person could learn a lot from an animal as simple as a cat. Why would a cat need to worry about a war raging in the galaxy when all it needed was in one room?
Vader gently took the cat off his helmet with both hands, staring at him. "Why are you here?"
The feline tilted his head almost sadly, blue eyes downcast.
Suppressing a sigh, Vader asked him, "Would you care to watch a little lightsaber duel?"
Souven winced as he attached the microscopic bug onto the droid. If Vader discovered it, necks would be crushed.
Zhiemm's droid was to enter Vader's quarters and give him a datacard concerning possible Rebel locations. If it didn't see the Sith Lord it was to exit immediately after depositing the hearing device. Souven just hoped it worked.
Luckily for Souven, after the droid typed in the passcode, known only by a few higher ups like Grand Moff Zhiemm, the robot was quickly in and out.
"It is done," its mechanical voice droned.
"Good," Souven smiled. Zhiemm was going to love this news.
"What?" Zhiemm shouted, his chubby cheeks turning red. "Irrelevant! Irrelevant, irrelevant, irrelevant! We could easily fake his voice! What we need is something we can /see/!"
"But sir, a device to do that would be more noticeable, and he would probably-"
"Irrelevant!" the Grand Moff huffed.
The aide narrowed his eyes, frowning, "You keep using that word-I do not think it means what you think it means."
Zhiemm stared at him.
Luke was awed as he watched his father in action. He was pitted against three lightsaber-wielding droids, and yet, he was somehow easily holding his own.
The Sith Lord's movements were so fluid Luke wondered how he had ever been able to survive the duel at Bespin.
But as Luke watched Darth Vader fight, he realized how immoral fighting was. The truth could win or lose in a fight. The battle accomplished little, only showed who was the better fighter. People should just talk out their problems...the way a family should.
As Luke looked down at his tawny paws it was hard to believe that such a powerful man was his father. He finally realized that as long as his father was alive, he would have something to fight for.
There was good in him. Had the man wholly been Darth Vader he probably would have unknowingly crushed his son's windpipes and thrown the dead feline body into the garbage chute.
Luke blinked at the red saber, and his thoughts began to muddle as it slowly coalesced into green; as he kept blinking he realized he was back on Tatooine, his own ignited saber in his hand. Frowning, he looked down at his aunt and uncle's graves.
Had it all been a dream?
Meanwhile, back on the /Executor/, Vader had finally downed all three droids, and as he stood staring around for his tawny companion, he realized the cat was gone.
Frowning inwardly, Vader left the room and with his boot crushed a microscopic bug he had just sensed. He would have a short talk with that Admiral Zhiemm. That would be the last time the ambitious man tried to usurp Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith.


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Hades appreciation post.
He is kind of one of my favorite Disney villains.
He's so sassy! I love it!
He's one of the reasons why I point out this movie is hilarious.
YES, I KNOW IT'S NOT THE ORIGINAL FRICKIN' MYTH. But it can still be good/funny for what it is.
"Mr. Zeus. Mr. High-and-Mighty. Mr. Hey-You-Get-Off-of-My-Cloud."
Fun Fact: They rewrote most of the dialogue for the part after James Woods auditioned. Many of the oneliners were improvised. The top gif was his greeting to the writers when they were first introduced.
This is true! Everyone they were auditioning for the part were acting all large and scary and "I AM HADES, LORD OF THE UNDERWOOORRRLLLLD" and James Woods was like "fuck it" and walked into the room like "Name is Hades. Lord of the dead. Hi, how ya doin'?"
James Woods has told Disney he will always reprise this role whenever it arises. He loves the character that much. It's him in Kingdom Hearts. It's him in House of Mouse. And he will never give up this role.
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If you don't reblog these in a pair I hate you
I actually had to do it twice, because I accidentally reblogged Malfoy first, and that's almost as bad as not reblogging both of them.
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Pizza gif set
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Allison Robert said...
I really don't have issues if people want to shove a few PvP pieces into gear slots, but there's a definite difference in threat generation between a PvE- and PvP-geared bear. Otherwise, it all comes down to -- compare it to your current gear, and if it's an upgrade, bung it in. I'd be the world's biggest hypocrite if I didn't acknowledge this, given how much use my main's gotten from the stuff.
But my biggest worry is seeing bear tanks who are reliant on PvP gear tanking for DPS who are advancing through Firelands. The more PvP gear they've got, the more that threat tends to be an issue, particularly for DPS rocking the more godlike weapons and trinkets.
I'll start adding PvP gear if people really want (and you're entirely right about the two-piece bonus), but I still think the slightly higher ilevels per tier makes it look deceptively useful in relation to its PvE counterpart, and I don't want a preponderance of PvP gear in guides to be construed as a wholesale endorsement of it.
Granted, misses/dodges are also like nails on a chalkboard for me...


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By LORIN D. CLARK
U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
Metamorphic rocks of the western Sierra Nevada near the Merced River are of Jurassic and Paleozoic age. They are on the west limb of a faulted synclinorium, the central part of which is occupied by the Sierra Nevada batholith. Parts of the eastern limb are preserved in the eastern part of the Sierra Nevada and in the White and Inyo Mountains still farther east. The metamorphic rocks strike northwest, as reflected in the map pattern of lithologic units (pl. 1), and nearly everywhere dip steeply eastward or are vertical. The metamorphic rocks are divided into three structural blocks by the Melones and Bear Mountains fault zones (Clark, 1960). The structure within each block is generally homoclinal with younger beds to the east, but the gross distribution in the metamorphic belt as a whole has been reversed by fault movement, for the youngest metamorphic rocks are in the western fault block and the oldest in the eastern block. Dominant strike-slip movement along the Bear Mountains and Melones fault zones is suggested by steeply-plunging minor folds and b-lineations within the zones. The stratigraphic separation along the Melones fault zone near the Merced River is at least 10 miles, and the stratigraphic separation along the Bear Mountains fault zone farther north exceeds 3 miles. Because the dihedral angle between bedding and faults is small, the net slip along the fault zones must be much greater than the stratigraphic separations.
The Paleozoic rocks, which are entirely east of the Melones fault zone in the area of plate 1, are all included in the Calaveras formation. The lower part of the formation, exposed near Bagby, consists largely of phyllite derived from siltstone, but contains some interbedded tuff and graywacke and sparse lenticular limestone. These are overlain by metavolcanic rocks, derived mostly from coarse andesitic breccia but in part from pillow lava and tuff. From Briceburg northeastward to the large horseshoe bend in the Merced River, the Calaveras formation consists largely of black phyllite derived from siltstone but contains thin-bedded metachert, sparse limestone lenses and, in the upper part, intraformational conglomerate.
From the horseshoe bend eastward the black phyllite persists, but metachert constitutes a considerable part of the section, lenses of limestone and dolomite are larger and more abundant, and lenses of mafic metavolcanic rocks are common. The age of the Calaveras formation near the Merced River is based upon H. W. Turner's identification of Fusulina, which he considered to be of Carboniferous age, from a locality a few miles southwest of El Portal (1893, p. 309). No fossils other than crinoid debris have been found in the lower part of the formation. Because of shearing of parts of the Calaveras formation east of Briceburg, its thickness cannot be determined accurately, but it is almost certainly more than 25,000 feet, and it may be more than 50,000 feet thick.
Mesozoic rocks, consisting of complexly intertonguing metavolcanic and metasedimentary strata, constitute the central and western fault blocks and occur in the eastern fault block east of Bear Valley. The Mariposa, Consumnes, and Logtown Ridge are among the named formations. The metavolcanic rocks were derived chiefly from tuff and volcanic breccia of intermediate composition, but in part from basaltic lava, some with pillow structure, and in part from felsic lava and pyroclastic rocks. The metasedimentary rocks were derived largely from siltstone, but graywacke and mixed-pebble metaconglomerate constitute much of some sections. Metamorphosed chert and cherty shale are abundant locally. Both the sedimentary and volcanic rocks accumulated in deep water for graded beds are common in both tuff and graywacke throughout the region. Marine fossils found in both metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks are of Late Jurassic (Callovian to Kimmeridgian) age. Everywhere in the western Sierra Nevada the Jurassic strata are truncated by faults or erosionthe section in the central fault block along the Merced River is nearly 18,000 feet thick and is among the thickest preserved.
Two groups of plutonic rocks intruded these metamorphic rocks during Late Jurassic time and one group in middle-Cretaceous time. The first was an ultramafic group, now represented mostly by serpentine, and the second a group ranging from diorite to granodiorite. In middle-Cretaceous time, according to radiometric data obtained by Curtis, Evernden, and Lipson (1958, p. 7-9), the Sierra Nevada batholith was intruded. Rocks of the batholith are described by F. C. Calkins and D. L. Peck elsewhere in this guidebook.
Uplift and perhaps gentle folding occurred in the Sierra Nevada region between about middle Permian and middle Jurassic time, but most of the deformation of both Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata occurred during Late Jurassic and possibly Early Cretaceous time. The synclinorium was formed in Late Jurassic time, before intrusion of the older series of granitic rocks, and resulted in the northwest strike and steep dip of Mesozoic and Paleozoic strata. Axes of folds formed during this deformation plunge northwest and southeast at angles of less than 30°. The second major deformation also began before emplacement of the older granitic rocks, but possibly continued into the Early Cretaceous. The major faults, pervasive shearing of the eastern block, and steeply plunging minor folds and lineations resulted from the second major deformation.
Clark, L. D., 1960, Foothills fault system, western Sierra Nevada, California: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 71, p. 483-596.
Cloos, Ernst, 1932, Structural survey of the granodiorite south of Mariposa, California: Am. Jour. Sci., 5th ser., v. 23, p. 289-304.
Curtis, G. H., Evernden, J. F., and Lipson, J., 1958, Age determination of some granitic rocks in California by the potassium-argon method: California Div. Mines Special Rept. 54, 16 p.
Turner, H. W., 1893, Some recent contributions to the geology of California: Am. Geologist, v. 11, p. 307-324.
Turner, H. W., and Ransome, F. L., 1897, Description of the Sonora quadrangle [California ]: U. S. Geol. Survey Geol. Atlas, Folio 41.
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El Paso, TX (KDBC) — Stores across the city were packed with shoppers Christmas Eve day -- trying to buy those last minute gifts.
The Quinones siblings are all smiles this Christmas eve day as they play with an item that's about to be their own. "I'm just happy. I'm getting something that I really needed so I'm grateful for that," Anjelica Quinones said.
Like many Borderland residents, the Quinones parents, Miguel and Lilliana, visited the Fountains at Farah to score some last minute deals. Many stores knock down prices on Christmas Eve. "We're saving about $200, today. As if I would have come yesterday. I always wait for the last minute," Liliana Quinones told us.
The Quinones family were not the only ones looking for deals. "It's just hours until Christmas. Yeah, I know. But she's kind of picky so she doesn't want what I already bought for her," Elsa Samaniego of Juarez said.
"I usually get everything done before Thanksgiving. This year I don't know what happened. I guess I procrastinated too much," Jose Silva of East El Paso said.
Online surveys by retailmenot.com and Consumer reports predicted this heavy shopping trend. Claiming 90-percent of consumers would be shopping at stores like best buy at the very last minute. "I think right now is when we get the best deals. I found really good stuff," Liliana told us.
And with stores offering some deep discounts just before Santa hits our chimneys.
Consumers like the Quinones family are counting on last minute Christmas shopping to score deals...
"I'm just happy, you know, that I can provide something for them right now," Miguel Quinones said.
And also reminding them what the season is all about. "Thank you, Dad. Yeah, thank you Dad," the Quinones siblings chimed.


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The Camera app on the iPhone 5s can not only record video but it can record 120 frames-per-second (fps) slow motion video as well. Slow motion video means just what you'd expect — everything recorded moves more slowly, but still smoothly. It's like the effects you see in movies and on TV. Better still, Apple lets you quickly and easily set in and out points for the slow down effect at any time, so you can make sure your video only goes slow, and stays slow, for the precise moments you want.
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- Record the video you want to have a slow motion portion in just like you'd record a regular video.
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That's why I didn't suggest uploading from the Facebook app. In the last portion I even put that you should use the native sharing option in the Photos app and choose HD (there are screenshots of what I'm talking about too).
Facebook HD works too. Or emailing it to yourself.
Sent from the iMore App
Yes, this is correct. The recipient WILL see the video in slowmo, even if it does not display correctly in your own iMessage.
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Thanks for the suggestion! I noticed the limitation this evening when trying to import slow-mo video into iMovie. Have you heard whether or not this is a limitation based on lack of developer support? Or based on the lack of necessary APIs for developers to use? Can't seem to find that answer...
I have a different problem. I love editing videos with Imovie on the Iphone, but when I select in Imovie one of my slow-mo videos, they are not in slow motion anymore. And this is nlt gold cause I was really looking foward to editting slow-mo videos with Imovie for IOS7
The video should be in 120fps. Simply use a time remapping feature to extend certain parts that you want in slow mo. It will look the same.
Couldn't upload the slow mo video on Instagram. Tried sending to myself as you suggested but the quality becomes very low. Anyway to work around it?
What about uploading a slo-mo video from iphone to my mac desktop, the slo-mo
goes away? What's up with this?
I found this to be a bit complicated but theres this App that lets you do this a bit easier, called Slomogram. http://www.slomogramapp.com
I just used an iPhone app which converts my videos and make them Instagram ready, it is called SlomoGram, here is the link : http://bit.ly/1dxp0Tr
A Friend of mine, posted a video in slow motion HD to facebook, after it was uploaded we could see it on his phone on facebook. But when i go to where it was posted, the post isn't even there not even on my computer(windows) and android phone?


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As many St. Louis Cardinals fans already know, right-handed pitching prospect Trevor Rosenthal has been promoted from Double-A Springfield to the big league bullpen. Maikel Cleto was optioned to Memphis, with Jaime Garcia being moved to the 60-day disabled list to clear a 40-man roster spot. The unusual move has led to a number of questions today, so I decided to jot down my thoughts here. What does this say about Rosenthal's recent past? It indicates to me that the organization is pleased with his progress since his impressive spring training in major league camp. With Springfield recently, Rosenthal has been walking fewer batters and pitching deeper into games, both very positive. He was the organization's May Pitcher of the Month and made the Texas League All-Star team. There was a minor scare earlier in the month when Rosenthal injured his lower back in the weight room, but he returned strong after missing just one start. What does this say about Rosenthal today? The organiza...
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Before today's game, Pro Football Focus ranked the Cowboys Doug Free as the best offensive tackle in the NFL. That's amazing considering Free was the most penalized lineman in the league last season. On top of that, he was nearly released by the Cowboys in the offseason but opted to cut his salary in half to stay. But in Sunday's game, he regressed. Free was called three times during the game for false starts. That's just ridiculous!
Defensive end Jason Vega was just activated this week to the active roster due to the injury to DeMarcus Ware. But I won't be surprised if he's cut by next week. Vega had two near back-to-back offsides penalties. One of those calls negated an interception by linebacker Bruce Carter. Vega was later bailed out by an interception by linebacker Sean Lee. But still his mistakes could have been costly.
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nice green trip. lovely vulcano view and the walk to the lake Botos in the green is lovely. a must have seen thing
I went there when there was a huge international event with shows, international food and stores with local goods from every part of southern/central-america.
Great place. We had a great time. Had to hike to the beach but there were plenty of monkeys and other wildlife to keep us company. The view of the ocean is spectacular.
If you've already been on a number of forest/jungle hikes in Costa Rica with the goal of seeing wildlife, you might consider passing on this one. You will not see the range of wildlife in this very busy park as you might in other jungles of Costa Rica. The large crowds tend to startle away many of the would-be spottings....
Great trees, nice and shady, the monument still in great shape!!!,
Great memories of my childhood. Park was clean.
Manuel Antonio Park is not exactly as I expected. My wife and I took a guided tour with Iguana Tours. There is good and bad in taking a guided tour. The good is that our guide was very informative, found many animals and insects that you got to see them up close because he had a scope. My guess is...
don't get a guide. don't go on a tour. don't expect wild life except monkeys (who come to the trail for the people, probably fed there by the park). just bring what you need for the beach, including your own refreshments, choose one, and have a great day out
Great place to meet friends and hang out for a picnic. There is a little lake but no swimming. Lots of people around all the time and seemed very safe during the daylight hours. Trees for shade or fields for football/frisbee. Parking around the edge of the park with no issues. Bathrooms available. I did not see any food concessions....
I visited this park briefly, and I thought it was a nice and pleasant park to spend a bit of time in, but I would not call it a must see at all.
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The Fine Arts Department of NEISD is hosting the fifth annual Greater San Antonio Area Auditions at Ronald Reagan High School on Monday, November 19, 2012. Application are no longer being accepted. The auditions will be open to graduates and high school seniors seeking to major in acting, musical theatre or technical theatre and design.
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21 February 2011
Button Button Who Got the Button?
Author: PEACHES
I googled around and found plenty of places that sell by the dozen, but I need somewhere that sells by the pound. Or bushel. Or bucket.
Assorted colors/sizes or plain white would be great. The cheaper the better.
As y'all can see from my little mirror, I love me some buttons. I collect them as I can, but it took ages to save up enough to do this little mirror frame. Now I have my sights on something BIG and need a source for the materials.
I know some seriously resourceful people read this blog so I would welcome any insider tips!
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I have seen bags of buttons at the thrift store that people donated. They have them at the craft store too sometimes but those are smaller bags. Cute mirror!ReplyDelete
I don't know about where you live, but the thrift stores by my home sell bags of random buttons (think a pound or bigger) for about $1-$2 a bag.ReplyDelete
Cute idea too!
I bought a pound of buttons at Walmart for $3... lots of shapes and sizes.ReplyDelete
Thanks Jessi, I will have to check that out!ReplyDelete
And I want to go thrifting with YOU guys, my local thrift stores never sell buttons like that :( once in a while I will see a mason jar at the flea market running $20 and up, but that's it. I need to go thrifting w you guys!
- eleonoraFebruary 21, 2011 at 10:46 AM
Did you check whether there are button makers in your area?ReplyDelete
More than 30 years ago, my mother came back from a walk with her bag and all her pockets full of slightly misshapen mother of pearl buttons: a factory close by had used them to fill potholes in their driveway!! We have been living on that stock since... :)
Maybe you won't be that lucky, but who knows, there could be a factory outlet or something similar.
My craft room overflows with buttons ... and my secret .. "Ask elderly ladies ..." OMGosh ! Just mention you want buttons and they will pull out tins and jars and plastic bags and small boxes ... filled with buttons.ReplyDelete
Respectfully .. they are depression era survivors who do not throw away ANYTHING and if they do .. they cut all the buttons off first.
That's my source ... and it gives the elderly a warm feeling to know they can still be helpful to someone ... so it is doubly rewarding !!
Love the blog ~~ as always
Ebay. you wont really get to look at what you're buying before hand but you'll spend just a couple bucks and end up with a huge collection to sort through in front of your tv.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2011 at 1:54 PM
try www.dickblick.com I haven't purchased buttons because the ones I want are out of stock... but they have others....ReplyDelete
I'm always trying to find buttons too! I'm partial to vintage mother of pearl, I can usually find some on Ebay or Etsy but not in huge quantities.ReplyDelete
You can get buttons by the pound on The Oriental Trading Co: http://tinyurl.com/4frcxuc
& Discount School Supply: http://tinyurl.com/4fegjxw
Hope that helps!
Love your blog!
:) Valerie
Windsor Button in Boston has a button barrel from which you can scoop buttons. They may be willing to mail you a scoop or two!ReplyDelete
I have some nice mixed buttons I would be happy to send you! For serious... I'm a big fan of the blog :)ReplyDelete
Meryl, I'll make you a deal: You send me buttons and I'll send you something I make with the buttons. Fair? If you are in, send me an email so we can swap addresses!ReplyDelete
Ok, Aunt Peaches, here it comes.ReplyDelete
I do live in Germany, in Berlin and in my hood there is a shop that's all and only about buttons.
Knopf Paul (Button Paul)
He has funny opening hours, no website and the shop's tiny with shelves and drawers up to the ceiling.
Button heaven.
Button haven.
I love your blog so much that I am more than willing to snailmail you a few pounds of buttons from here.
How many do you think you want ?
Like 2 pounds ? More ?
Let me go and scout this out and I'll come back to you. I am serious about this ! It would be an enormous pleasure for me to send you a box of buttons from Berlin.
I'll come back here in a few days. Ooooh, I hope it will work out !
Have a fun week,
Andrea! I just saw your comment, my goodness!! Berlin, ooo how glamorous!ReplyDelete
Well, I will offer the same deal as I did with Meryl-- if you send me some buttons I will be honored to send you something I make with the buttons. Send me an email to swap addresses :)
I have never posted a comment before, but I just had to tell you how happy I am that I came across your website. It is AMAZING!!! I have used several of your ideas in arts and crafts at my Boys & Girls club. The kids LOVE IT!!! As far as buttons go, orientaltrading company.com has all kinds of stuff at reasonable prices and in bulk.ReplyDelete
Please keep the great ideas coming.
Thank you so much!!!
Aw shucks Kat! Thanks for the complment :) I'm so glad you are using these projects. Let me know what you think about other stuff down the road.... I love hearing from you!ReplyDelete
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Celebrities get ready for the Met Ball on Instagram
If you got dressed up for the year's biggest fashion event, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute gala, and didn't Instagram the pics, did it really happen? Luckily, these stars all took many, many, many pics, which are here for your enjoyment.
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Cara Delevingne
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With Stella McCartney, Kate Bosworth, Reese Witherspoon
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when I self harmed i used to think my cuts were "pretty" and I liked how they looked besides the fact that were physical markings of my pain so that made them "special" and I guess that's what bothers me about the glorification of cutting pictures is like that mind set is NOT HEALTHY and you shouldn't be saying its okay for people who cut or are thinking about it. I'm not saying self harm is something you should be ashamed of because its something you'll get through and you'll grow and survive. But it should be seen as what it is, marks of a dangerous coping method not some sort of tragic beauty.
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Last night I dreamt that I was in the school during school time (our high school) and a lot of parents came into the school with guns and were taking us all hostage. They had a lot of students in HUGE cast iron cages on the main floor. My mom's friend, Kim Perpich had me face down on the floor with a revolver to my head. However, she still allowed me to text, which was odd.
Anyway, she walked away and I was somehow able to escape and around this time, some spies or something were able to break into the school and release all these kids that were in these iron cages. I reached them and they helped my brother and I into this tan suburban where we were sitting in the back seat waiting for the police to drive us away. While we were waiting we saw Mrs. Eddy drag her sun outside the school and shoot him dead. I screamed and started crying and then she turned her gun to us. We then looked and saw the keys in the ignition and we sped away with minor injury.
The scene then changes and we're in this pep rally at school and all the parents that were the killers are there and are not in trouble for their wrong doings. It was awful and a bunch of us kids were crying because no one would believe that they were the ones who did all the killings and held the hostages.
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Long branch attraction
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Long branch attraction (LBA), a phenomenon in phylogenetic and clustering analyses, occurs if terminals or clades that are thought not to be one another's closest relatives cluster together due to misinterpretation of shared homoplasies, usually in DNA sequence data. It is a result of the way clustering algorithms work: terminals or taxa with many autapomorphies (character states unique to a single branch) may by chance (convergence) exhibit the same states as those on another branch. A phylogenetic analysis that does not down-weight these apparent similarities will group these taxa together as a clade if there are not other synapomorphies that outweigh these homoplastic features and group these taxa with their true sister taxa.
The result of LBA in evolutionary analyses is that rapidly evolving lineages may be inferred to be closely related, regardless of their true relationships. For example, in DNA sequence-based analyses, the problem arises when sequences from two (or more) lineages evolve rapidly. There are only four possible nucleotides and when DNA substitution rates are high, the probability that two lineages will evolve the same nucleotide at the same site increases. When this happens, parsimony may erroneously interpret this homoplasy as a synapomorphy (i.e., evolving once in the common ancestor of the two lineages).
The opposite effect may also be observed, in that if two (or more) branches exhibit particularly slow evolution among a wider, fast evolving group, those branches may be misinterpreted as closely related. As such, "long branch attraction" can in some ways be better expressed as "branch length attraction". However, it is typically long branches that exhibit attraction.
These problems may be minimized by using methods that correct for multiple substitutions at the same site, by adding taxa related to those with the long branches that add additional true synapomorphies to the data, or by using alternative slower evolving traits (e. g., more conservative gene regions).
Of course, the recognition of an instance of long-branch attraction implies that there is some other evidence - often morphological - that suggests that the taxa so united are not, in fact, sister taxa. Otherwise, as per Hennig's Auxiliary Principle, putative synapomorphies should be viewed as de facto evidence of grouping (Hennig, 1966; Schuh and Brower, 2009).
- Bergsten, J. (2005): A review of long-branch attraction. Cladistics 21(2): 163-193. PDF fulltext
- Felsenstein, J. (2004): Inferring Phylogenies. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
- Hennig, W. (1966): Phylogenetic Systematics. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL.
- Schuh, R. T. and Brower, A. V. Z. (2009): Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications, (2nd edn.) Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.


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Two DPD officers fired for lying; incident caught
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Boondox681 August 5, 2011 3:21:38 PM CEST
you wanna hear some crazy shit?the guy who fired them was forced to resign by the police unions.
Bobbybee July 28, 2011 9:25:25 PM CEST
I'm from England, but I see this sort of behaviour by US police regularly on Disclose TV. I commend the guy who has sacked these officers, although I've seen far worse and nothing has happened! Still, this must be seen as a step in the right direction. The public must be able to trust the police and lately that trust must be very thin - let's hope a lot more sackings follow.


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I had a Google alert about 'Emergenetics' being used somewhere in cyberspace, and I found Manager Tools in the process.
I run a learning and development firm, in Singapore and of course, Emergenetics is one of the assessment tools in our stable. Our programme foci are on improving individual and group learning, and enabling team and leadership effectiveness.
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Welcome! I think you'd find the early podcasts on One-on-Ones, feedback and coaching to be a good foundation for the forums and the later podcasts (see the archives).
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Based on neuroscientific research, Emergenetics is an assessment tool that captures a person's thinking preferences and behavioural attributes. It comes out of Denver, Colorado.
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On the Emergenetics profile, I come out as an Abstract Thinker. I still like using DiSC especially in interpersonal communications settings, 'cos it's easy to understand and apply on the part of participants.
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post 3rd party URLs here, so if you need more info, you can pm me.
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You can purchase an online DiSC test from the MT site here. Although it looks like it might be temporarily unavailable.
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A bunch of us here have our numbers in our signatures. I added my numbers to my signature so people could know why I am the way I am.
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Pope offensive lineman Thomas O'Reilly received an invitation this week to become an Under Armour All-American.
If he accepts it he will play in the the Under Armour All-American high school all-star game next January in St. Petersburg, Fla.
But O'Reilly hasn't accepted the invitation just yet because he said he is also a nominee for U.S. Army All-American Game in San Antonio, Texas, around the same time.
So what's he plan to do?
"I think I'm definitely leaning toward the Under Armour for a few reasons," O'Reilly told me. "One of the big ones is two other linemen that are committed to Auburn right now are playing in it."
That would be center Reese Dismukes of Spanish Fort, Ala., and guard Spencer Region of Cullman, Ala. Along with O'Reilly the three linemen form the nucleus of yet another impressive class for Auburn. Coach Gene Chizik's Tigers put together a top five class last year.
O'Reilly, a 6-foot-3, 295-pound guard, chose Auburn over Georgia Tech, Florida State and Mississippi State, among others, earlier this month. He was a Class AAAAA first-team all-state selection by the AJC as a junior last season.
"I actually had my mind made up a while ago," O'Reilly said of choosing Auburn. "After I went to their junior day back before national signing day I told them I wanted to do it right then but I had to talk to my parents first. I knew from the beginning that's where I wanted to be."
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April 28th, 2010
11:13 am
April 28th, 2010
11:14 am
UGA didnt offer this kid because UGA is loaded and dont realy have to offer anyone in the state
April 28th, 2010
11:18 am
No 1
April 28th, 2010
11:19 am
Auburn will take over LSU soon as one of the SEC big 3.
April 28th, 2010
11:21 am
It dont matter to me where this kid can go and play, as long as he is not a TECh or GA commit, no big deal to me
April 28th, 2010
11:24 am
2010 Line up EAST SEC 1. UGA
April 28th, 2010
11:26 am
Another All American leaving the state?
April 28th, 2010
11:30 am
When you have the kind of football we play here in Georgia; it's impossible to keep them all. Gillislee, you must be from Tenneshee, where you don't have that issue. Go Dawgs!!
April 28th, 2010
11:32 am
In the words of Judge Smails, "The world needs ditch diggers too, son"
"grew up a GA fan, but never received an offer" let's see… we are still 10 months out on signing day…sometimes the 10 girl doesn't rush into your arms son. She usually has options but if your patient she just might say yes. Trust me Aubbie would have been there 10 months from now.
Good luck and AJC quit with trying to paint UGA as the bad guy here. There will be 100's of D1's that won't get UGA offers nor UF noe BAma nor Tech nor…you get the picture and I am sure some of those kids grew up big fans of each the respective programs and they won;t get offers from their "favorite" team. Hey with 20 or so schollys you have to target needs and based on what I have seen UGA has OL targets that they feel better fit what they want or need. Get back with me in 3 years. Next!!!
April 28th, 2010
11:43 am
Oh and by the way UGA currently has a starting center who grew up in AL, wonder who his "favorite" team was growing up??? It was kind of fun watching King and Ealey run over Aubbie right over the AL natives back!!!! Guess Aubbie sux at recruiting in their own state huh???
April 28th, 2010
11:48 am
You know Aubbie has that "Tiger Prowl" rolling now. It's kind of like Old School where they pull into town and grab anybody they can (even 80+ year old men) to pledge to the fraternity. Yeah that's the picture…complete with croachs in Tommy Bahama bowling shirts…yep that's a real first class image there BARN…First Class.
April 28th, 2010
11:51 am
this kid commited to a loser school, look how dawg has rule and run Auburn in four years in a row. Thanks to coach Rich keep on silencing Auburn like that
April 28th, 2010
12:21 pm
Who cares?
April 28th, 2010
12:33 pm
Hope that's not all you got today chip would like to have something else to read.
April 28th, 2010
1:05 pm
"UGA didnt offer this kid because UGA is loaded and dont realy have to offer anyone in the state."
April 28th, 2010
1:21 pm
Scout gave him 3 stars. I'm just sayin…
April 28th, 2010
1:25 pm
Real teams don't wear Under Armour.
April 28th, 2010
1:25 pm
Big time tech fan: This isn't an ACC blog and AU blows. AU and GT got beat by the worst team UGA has had in 12 years and you think they are going to be elite. What a maroon!
April 28th, 2010
1:47 pm
spending 4 years of your life in auburn alabama is pathetic
April 28th, 2010
2:18 pm
and UGA was also 7-5, irrelevant nationally, and unranked.
April 28th, 2010
2:33 pm
UGA is looking for tackles – not guards.
You have to give out scholarships to areas of need and UGA has other positions that need focus on for this year's class. OG is not a need for the 2011 class.
With limited scholarships – certainly there are kids out there you wish you could offer!
I agree that Auburn maybe taking over LSU for SEC WEST #2. More likely to happen in 2011 – but could happen this year. LSU is playing at Auburn.
I do not agree that UGA will pass Florida this year. Florida has reloaded – again. Has had several tremendous recruiting classes – and they do play their depth.
UGA should have a very good year as well – SEC #2 – in position for double digit wins – could happen! I have a good feeling about UGA in 2010 – which will help with recruiting – this class 2011 – but real impact will be class of 2012.
Ready for kickoff!!!
April 28th, 2010
2:40 pm
Stephon Tuitt from Monroe also got an invitation to play in the Army game today.
April 28th, 2010
2:45 pm
Stock Report:
UGA Stock – declining
UT stock – bottoming out
AUBURN stock – rising
LSU stock – flat
AL stock – has peaked – working to maintain
FL stock – invest!!! invest!!! invest!!!
Auburn seems to be building – wish we played them more often – always a clean hard hitting game. Auburn will challenge LSU for #2 SEC this year.
Bulldogs will get pounded – yes, pounded – I mean really pounded at the Gator Cocktail Party AGAIN this year. Richt is a good man – a good coach – but he is not Elite. Did Jim Donnans teams suffer as many blowout losses to Tennessee and Florida as Richt teams of late have? It's all mental – UGA expects to lose in JAX – and it becomes a reality. Zook beat that Richt butt in Jax! Urban has flat crushed the dogs – what was the score last year????
Florida and Alabama aspire to be national champions.
Georgia aspires to be better than South Carolina and Kentucky!
Any takers on the game in JAX this year?? NO??? NONE???
April 28th, 2010
2:47 pm
"When you have the kind of football we play here in Georgia; it's impossible to keep them all. Gillislee, you must be from Tenneshee, where you don't have that issue. Go Dawgs!!"
Yes we (Georgia) have plenty of talent but All Americans are special and in state schools must do everything possible to keep as many of them in state as possible. Go Gators!
2010 Under Armour All Americans – 12 players from Georgia, 3 stayed in state. 1 to Ga tech and 2 to Georgia.
2010 Army All Americans – 3 players from Georgia, 1 stayed in state. 1 to Georgia.
April 28th, 2010
3:02 pm
Welcome to Auburn Mr. O'Reilly, and War Eagle! You made a good choice in coming to Auburn, a school that holds the lead in the all-time series against UGA.
First team 5-A all-state as a junior, UA and Army AA but the Dawgs couldn't use him? Riiiiight.
April 28th, 2010
3:47 pm
Gator Bob-see you in T-Town later. RTR
April 28th, 2010
4:10 pm
UGA recruits come in as 4 and 5 star recruits, and leave as 4 and 5 star felons – instead of counting how many players UGA sends to the NFL, we should count how many they send to prison – they would win in a landslide
April 28th, 2010
4:22 pm
As a Dawg fan and someone in marketing, I think the Tiger Prowl Idea is pretty damn good. With the bus they are using this year just riding all over that area and then a big gathering that night, it is great marketing idea. You will notice that both UGA and FSU have copied Auburn some this year by sending all of the coaches together to some of the major schools.
At Talledega Alabama had a car completely covered in the Bama Crimson. Another great idea. National TV coverage.
April 28th, 2010
4:38 pm
News Flash though a good prsopect O'Reilly was not selected or asked to ne a member of teh U.S. Army All American Game.
April 28th, 2010
4:41 pm
Gator Bob, you may be right, the dawgs might get pounded again, but since you know how the season will play out then why should we even play the games..It amazes me how many gator fans are pounding their chest like they are the greatest..Well you were handed it on a platter by Bama last year but i'll give you some credit, you made it to the title game, the dawgs didn't, but when things do turn and trust me they will lets see how much you run your mouth then…I apologize to the other gator fans but the ones like GatorBob just run their mouth…I'll reserve judgement on what happens in Jax until the game is played. If they beat us again, then more power to you, but the constant pounding of your chest Tarzen Gator Bob is getting old…Everyone is aware of the fact that the gators have the dawgs number right now..Oh by the way we still lead the overall series, but what does that really matter..Answer: it shows that over the years the dawgs have had your number…Of course really doesn't count because its what have you done for me lately..You may beat the dawgs again this year because i truly believe we are a year away from having a great team, but the gators will be vulnable, maybe not to the dawgs, but you will be had this year by some teams that will turn the tables on you…Can't wait to see that happen.
April 28th, 2010
5:02 pm
April 28th, 2010
5:04 pm
Once again, either learn to count or don't claim bogus titles.
April 28th, 2010
5:47 pm
Whats with all the negative comments? We should be glad that this young man is going to college period. Auburn is a wonderful school as well as UGA or any of the other SEC schools. Lets show some class and stop with the immature comments.
April 28th, 2010
10:31 pm
Welcome MR O REILLY To AUBURN.
April 28th, 2010
10:38 pm
Coach Johnsons Paul needs to get his facts correct. The parents of your Ga center both went to Ga, but lived in North Al. Ala was NEVER on his list of schools & was not offered by Ala. He went to Al camp but they had higher linemen on the board.
April 29th, 2010
10:39 am
I have been to Auburn Alabama and Athens Georgia both and boy lemme tell ya Auburn aint got crap on Athens..Well maybe Crap but that would be it. I dunno why anyone would want to go Auburn over Georgia. Evidently dude is retarded or Auburn has paid him off..Jus sayin!
April 29th, 2010
12:16 pm
April 29th, 2010
10:39 am
I have been to Auburn Alabama and Athens Georgia both and boy lemme tell ya Auburn aint got crap on Athens..Well maybe Crap but that would be it. I dunno why anyone would want to go Auburn over Georgia. Evidently dude is retarded or Auburn has paid him off..Jus sayin!
This from a rube who lives in freakin' DALTON???!!!! That is rich. Dalton, I spent a month there one night….


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