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Well, this is it. After eight exhibition games and 72 regular season games, the three-week playoff round begins on Sunday and ends with the Grey Cup on November 25.
A football season definitely has different blocks of time with a different purpose to each. When training camp began back in June, you were trying to build your team by picking all the right players to be on your team. Depending on how your coach wants to run training camp, it can be the longest three weeks of the season as you're either trying to take someone's job or protect your own. Everyday is pretty much the same in every way and has a competitive intensity to it that I have never experienced in any other aspect of life. Football training camp is not fun. It is tough, intimidating and filled with tension and stress.
The next block of time is regular season football: Games 1-18 over 19 weeks. In the beginning, football is fun. The optimism of trying to have a great season both as an individual player and team is felt throughout. Then as Game 1 turns into Game 3 and that into Game 6, what was fun has become a grind. I always thought the toughest month was August because the playoffs look so far in the future, and the best month was October because the playoffs are so close. If you started all 18 games and played in all the plays, congratulations; that is a major accomplishment of toughness and durability.
Even though the regular season is over in a little over four months, it seems like it goes on forever. I have never known a player that was not happy to be moving on to what every player desires; playoff football. And in this block of time lasting three weeks, whether you are the sixth-best team or the best, an opportunity to win it all is right there for the taking.
What most remember about playoff football is the seriousness of it through the week. Players do care about winning and I always remember that in clear detail. The meetings were very quiet, very focused and the practices were back like training camp with everyone fighting for a job . And I remember the cab ride to the stadium, and being in the locker room and how everyone was so ready to go mentally, physically and emotionally.
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America's wild horses are in trouble, and the federal government isn't helping
Why did this animal that had prospered so in the Colorado desert leave his amiable homeland for Siberia? There is no answer. We know that when the horse negotiated the land bridge... he found on the other end an opportunity for varied development that is one of the bright aspects of animal history. He wandered into France and became the mighty Percheron, and into Arabia, where he developed into a lovely poem of a horse, and into Africa where he became the brilliant zebra, and into Scotland, where he bred selectively to form the massive Clydesdale. He would also journey into Spain, where his very name would become the designation for gentleman, a caballero, a man of the horse. There he would flourish mightily and serve the armies that would conquer much of the known world.
It's been a hot, stormy summer on the Red Desert range in southern Wyoming, around Rock Springs and the state's southern boundary with Colorado, where Interstate 80 takes long-haul truckers and tourists through one of America's least hospitable landscapes. The desolate land even includes Sweetwater County, one of those romantic cowboyesque names that mockingly crop up from place to place in the Rocky Mountain West, more an aspiration than a reality when you consider that there isn't much water there and what there is isn't so sweet.
In this forlorn place are two "herd management areas" called "White Mountain" and "Little Colorado," places were some of America's wild horses roam free pursuant to federal rule and regulation. According to Bureau of Land Management statistics, the federal government owns or controls 849,033 acres of land in the area, Wyoming owns another 15,877 acres, and private entities own 149,647 more. BLM officials estimate that, after the 2011 foaling season, there are approximately 970 wild horses on White Mountain and Little Colorado lands.
If you do the math, based only upon the federal land figure, it comes to 875.29 acres per horse. Do a little more math and you learn that 875 acres equals approximately 1.37 square miles. Ask any horse owner you know if she could get by on that horse-to-land ratio and the answer is an immediate and emphatic "Yes!" At first glance, it seems like a perfectly harmonic arrangement; our nation's wild horses peaceably tending to our nation's less desirable lands out of the way of most human traffic. The symbol of our nation's history and growth simply left alone to graze land most of us would never see if we were to live a hundred lifetimes.
But alas it's a lot more complicated than that. Intertwined private ownership of lands within the management areas, differing land-use priorities, a lack of bureaucratic courage and creativity, and a 30-year-old deal between ranchers and a long-gone horse group, all have eliminated the possibility of simply working the acreage numbers for the benefit of the horses. The herd areas themselves are part of a "checkerboard" pattern of public and private land (the ratio is close to 50-50, say ranchers) and the horses themselves haven't helped their own cause. During the winter, they often migrate from public land onto private land, where they are considered a nuisance to some property owners.
This natural pattern has persisted for generations and it's been closely monitored by the feds for at least the past 30 years. With this history, geography, and horse biology in mind, the BLM announced last month that there were, again, too many wild horses on the two Wyoming ranges. Wildlife officials now plan in mid-August to begin to cull roughly 70 percent of the herds out of Little Colorado and White Mountain in a particularly controversial way. And, in response, wild horse advocacy groups and others filed a federal lawsuit Monday in Washington, D.C. seeking a restraining order that would halt the roundup.
All the time and all over the West, horse advocacy groups battle the federal government over the fate of wild horses. The story is almost always the same. The "horse lobby" cannot compete politically (i.e. financially) with the cattle or ranching industries. Invariably, it's the wild horses which lose out to the cattle or to the sheep or to other business interests. And invariably, its the federal government, acting through regulators who are captive to the industries they are supposed to regulate, which helps ensure that this occurs. In this case, for example, we see the federal agency responsible for protecting wild horses struggling to justify a decision that undoubtedly will harm a great many of those horses and, indeed, the future of those herds.
On June 14th, the BLM announced a plan to remove all of the wild horses on Little Colorado and White Mountain and to then return a small number of castrated or spayed horses to the range. Here is how the Bureau describes how the roundup occurs:
Multiple capture sites (traps) would be used to capture wild horses within the White Mountain and Little Colorado HMAs... Capture techniques would include the helicopter-drive trapping method and/or helicopter-roping from horseback. Bait trapping may also be utilized on a limited basis, as needed.
(These roundups can be so disturbing that they warrant their own treatment in a future article. I will try to get to it later this summer). Just one week later, however, under heavy fire from mortified advocacy groups, the Bureau partially changed its tune. It increased the number of horses that would be returned to the lands and decided not to spay the mares. Still, nearly 700 of 970 or so horses now on the Little Colorado and White Mountain range will soon be gone if the BLM gets its way. Here's how Interior Department officials described their new plan:
This modified decision returns about 177 geldings to the two HMAs to reach appropriate management level (AML). AML is the point at which the herd's population is consistent with the land's capacity to support wild horses in balance with other public rangeland uses and resources. The projected wild horse population remaining on the range following the gather would be about 205 in the White Mountain HMA and about 69 in the Little Colorado HMA.
There is no evidence that the horses are harming each other. And no factual detail about how their population has created an "imbalance" upon the vast range lands. Instead, Lance Porter, Field Manager at the Rock Springs office of the BLM, justified the "modified" decision" by writing that he had "concluded that gathering the excess horses is necessary to preserve and maintain a thriving ecological balance and multiple-use relationship" on the land. By bringing back only castrated stallions to the two Wyoming herds, Porter's plan was meant to "prevent the necessity to gather more frequently due to lower population increases over time."
Going forward, the two herds will be genetically limited in ways the government has not yet fully evaluated. This is perhaps the most significant part of the new BLM plan. It doesn't just purport to addres the current "overcrowding" it sees on these ranges. It seeks to impact the ability of these herds in the future to breed the way wild horses have bred for thousands of years. It's a sort of genetic engineering which horse advocate groups say needs a lot more scientific review before it can be implemented in the wild.
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DETROIT—Chris Wilcox scored a season-high 27 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to help the Detroit Pistons beat the Milwaukee Bucks 110-100 on Friday night.
Rodney Stuckey added 22 for the Pistons, including four straight free throws in the final minutes to help Detroit win its second straight.
California investor Tom Gores, guaranteed the Pistons a winning home record.
Detroit led 55-51 at halftime and went on an 11-2 run early in the third quarter to push the advantage to double digits. Milwaukee trailed 84-74 at the start of the final period and trimmed the lead to 100-96 with less than 3 minutes to play.
That's when Stuckey answered with his free throws, and the Bucks never threatened again.
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Miles Hansard
Lecturer, Vision Group.
Centre for Intelligent Sensing
School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
Telephone 020 7882 5776
Office CS-329-B
Current research
Random scene-models
. This work derives image-correspondence priors from global 3D scene-statistics.
Geometric and statistical models of biological vision
. I work on computational aspects of binocular vision, eye movements and neural processing.
Construction and rendering of 3D models from 'time-of-flight' range data
. We are working on multiple camera calibration, and on the combination of low-resolution depth maps with high resolution colour images. This is a collaboration with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea.
Active vision for robotics. I wrote real-time image processing and control software for the
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ECCV 2014 workshop
Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision
ICCV 2013 workshop
Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision
Introduction to Multimedia
Image and Video Processing
, EBU723U (BUPT, China).
MSc in Computer Vision
Recent publications
Cross-calibration of time-of-flight and colour cameras
M. Hansard, G. Evangelidis, Quentin Pelorson and Radu Horaud.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
, Accepted Sept. 2014.
Fusion of range and stereo data for high-resolution scene-modeling.
G. Evangelidis, M. Hansard and Radu Horaud.
Under revision
, 2014.
Automatic detection of calibration grids in time-of-flight images
M. Hansard, R. Horaud, M. Amat and G. Evangelidis.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
, 121, 108-118, 2014.
Time-of-Flight Cameras: Principles, Methods and Applications
M. Hansard, S. Lee, O. Choi and R. Horaud.
Springer monograph
, 2013.
Binocular Projection of a Random Scene
M. Hansard,
British Machine Vision Conference
, 2012.
Real-time visuomotor update of an active binocular head
M. Sapienza, M. Hansard and
R. Horaud
Autonomous Robots
, 34(1-2), 35-45, 2012.
Technical Report
Projective Alignment of Range and Parallax Data
M. Hansard,
R. Horaud
M. Amat
and S. Lee.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
Poster version
A differential model of the complex cell
M. Hansard and
R. Horaud
Neural Computation
23(9), 2324-2357, 2011.
Complex cells and the representation of local image-structure
M. Hansard and
R. Horaud
INRIA Research Report 7485
, 2010.
A Gaussian derivative model of the complex cell
M. Hansard and
R. Horaud
Perception 39; Abstracts of the European Conference on Visual Perception, 48
, 2010.
Filter transformations for shift-insensitive feature detection
M. Hansard and
R. Horaud
Perception: Abstracts of the Applied Vision Association Christmas Meeting 2009.
Vol. 39(2), 271, 2010.
Cyclo-rotation models for eyes and cameras
M. Hansard and
R. Horaud
IEEE Trans. Systems, Man & Cybernetics B; Cybernetics.
40(1), 151-161, 2010.
View-based approaches to spatial representation in human vision
A. Glennerster
, M. Hansard,
A. W. Fitzgibbon
Proc. Dagstuhl Seminar on Statistical and Geometrical Approaches to Visual Motion Analysis.
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5064, 193-208, 2009.
Cyclopean geometry of binocular vision
and the
LaTeX version
M. Hansard and
R. Horaud
Journal of the Optical Society of America A
, 25, 2357-2369, 2008.
Anxiety, inhibition, efficiency, and effectiveness: An investigation using the antisaccade task
N. Derakshan, T.L. Ansari, L. Shoker, M. Hansard & M.W. Eysenck.
Experimental Psychology
, 56(1), 48-55.
Audio-visual clustering for multiple speaker localization
V. Khalidov,
F. Forbes
, M. Hansard,
E. Arnaud
R. Horaud
5th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (MLMI)
86-97, 2008.
Detection and localization of 3D audio-visual objects using unsupervised clustering
V. Khalidov,
F. Forbes
, M. Hansard,
E. Arnaud
R. Horaud
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI)
, 2008.
The CAVA corpus: synchronised stereoscopic and binaural datasets with head movements
E. Arnaud
, H. Christensen, Y-C. Lu, J. Barker, V. Khalidov, M. Hansard, B. Holveck, H. Mathieu, R. Narasimha, E. Taillant,
F. Forbes
R. Horaud
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI)
, 2008.
A model of binocular gaze estimation
M. Hansard and
R. Horaud
Fourth Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE)
, 2007.
Patterns of binocular disparity for a fixating observer
M. Hansard and
R. Horaud
Advances in Brain, Vision, and Artificial Intelligence (BVAI)
, 308-317, 2007.


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Guatemala Part III
Sunday, September 30, 2012
As if to elevate our sublime Guatemalan experience into the realm of the surreal, the final part of our sojourn was spent at a resort owned by none other than Mr Francis Ford Coppola. It sits on the steep jungled banks of Lake Peten in the northern part of the country.
It's tropical up here – just when you thought it couldn't get any lusher – and from the balcony of our villa we are eye level with a rainforest canopy full of Howler and Spider monkeys whose noisy cacophony roars into life between the hours of three and five AM.
We visited the forest moon of Endor (also known as Tikal) on our first day here – the birthplace of the Mayan aesthetic and the place where it may all end on the 21st of December this year if you believe the Hollywood hype. Strangely though this magnificent spot does have a touch of Hollywood about it – Star Wars fans may recognise the reference at the beginning of this paragraph and the panorama shown above.
Every afternoon the rising heat and humidity gives way to spectacular thunderstorms which sweep across the lake discharging an almost unbelievable amount of energy and bringing with them some pretty amazing looking creatures (huge bugs) seeking shelter with us in what Lucy endearingly labelled "fenton&fenton's jungle HQ".
As a footnote, Guatemala reminded me that travelling is not to learn about other cultures like they were insects under the microscope of our gaze.
Rather we travel to find transformation in some way by being in those places with those people – and in that transformation lies beauty. On this journey we can emphatically say that we came home changed and the fenton&fenton aesthetic has evolved to encompass an even broader celebration of humanity's self-expression.
We can't wait to do it again!!!
Guatemala Part II
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Much of the aesthetic of Guatemala is a celebration of colour the likes of which we have rarely encountered. There is such abundant fertility here; the country teems with all manner of life, while also bearing the scars and instruments of the earth's destructive power. Being here I felt a palpable sense of conversation between planet and people – and it is the expression of that conversation which seems to be at the heart of the Guatemalan aesthetic.
Lake Atitlan was born of an immense volcanic cataclysm eons ago – a destructive event to which even the worst of humanity's efforts pales in comparison – remnants of the eruption have been found in Florida and Ecuador. Lake Atitlan formed in the caldera left by that eruption – a sublime scar left by the violence of the earth against itself.
During days in San Juan on the lake (above) and the market village of Chichicastenango (below), a traditional commercial hub for the various indigenous Mayan sub-groups, with the right guide and Lucy's skilled eye for diamonds in the rough, we discovered just a little about the depth of artisanship of the Mayan people.
Seventy to eighty year old textiles still imbued with vibrant hue; combinations of colour that reflect all the elements of both the sky and the earth – the only question that remains is what to do with them when we get them home!
Guatemala Part I
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Guatemala… I had my concerns. To be perfectly honest Lucy nearly had to drag me kicking and screaming onto the plane. I'm a nervous flier to begin with and the anxiety of wandering into unknown and infamously unpredictable territory weighed heavily on my mind. I have had to disregard all that I've been told about Guatemala… as a political entity it has seen excessive and terrible social upheaval, violence and injustice and to this day it is plagued by the consequences of obscene inequality. Purely as a piece of real estate it represents an incredible paradox. Above the surface it exists as a series of astoundingly dramatic and serenely beautiful panoramas, while beneath this piece of earth smoulder the extremes of the creative and destructive potential of our planet. Three separate tectonic plates collide in this place – there are thirty eight volcanos within its borders – and the virtual daily "tremblors" serve perhaps as a reminder of the transient nature of all human endeavour.
Antigua itself is littered with expressions of Guatemala's creative and destructive contradiction. Centuries old ruins – the remnants of past cataclysms – stand in defiance of the volcanoes which tower over the city. In 1979 UNESCO world heritage listed the city and in doing so froze it in time. Unfortunately I doubt that tectonic plates and volcanoes have much respect for such proclamations.
It was in Antigua that we began to discover the fruits both of Guatemala's colonial and indigenous history. On one hand, beautiful old religious relics like these timber rosary beads and on the other, antique and modern expressions of the rich and incredibly vibrant textile tradition that began a millennia ago with the Mayan people.
Later we discovered that beneath the network of volcanoes in the area surrounding Antigua is the largest accumulated body of magma on the planet. As if to confirm the niggling feeling I had that being there was playing chicken with the beast, two days later Volcan de Fuego erupted. It was our last night in Antigua and we watched the glowing red spectacle from the safety of a distant cocktail party on the rooftop terrace belonging to designer couple Eric and Bobby whose abode is nothing short of an architectural and decorative wonder. Nero would have been proud - we felt a bit weird about it. Surreal would be an understatement.
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Monday, September 03, 2012
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Treating Clear Cell Hidradenoma Of The Dorsal Medial Forefoot
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The surgeon then flushed the area with normal sterile saline and closed the wound sequentially with 2-0 Vicryl. The surgeon subsequently closed the skin with 4-0 nylon in a vertical mattress and simple suturing pattern, and applied a bandage. The patient left the hospital in stable condition and had no complications.
Pathologists examined two specimens: a 2.2 x 2 x 1.5 cm rubbery tan soft tissue nodule and a 2 x 1 cm, partially bisected brown skin surface. Microscopic examination revealed the mass was a clear cell hidradenoma that was incompletely excised.
The patient followed up in the office weekly. At the first postoperative visit, the incision site was intact with no evidence of dehiscence, infection or recurrence. She reported a decrease in pain to the area. During the second postoperative visit, suture removal occurred without incident. At the six-month follow-up, there was no recurrence of the mass and the patient had returned to wearing normal shoe gear without any difficulties.
Final Words
Clear cell hidradenomas are generally asymptomatic, benign, slow-growing adnexal tumors. These neoplasms have both mixed solid and cystic components with the clear cells resulting from increased glycogen within the cytoplasm.1 Often, they are encapsulated and researchers have reported that they can be highly vascularized with vessels that may extend through the lobules of the neoplasm.1
There are many synonyms for clear cell hidradenomas. These synonyms include benign nodular hidradenoma, clear cell myoepithelioma, eccrine acrospiroma and eccrine sweat gland adenoma.1,5 These lesions are generally solid and cystic with a predilection toward the trunk, face and upper extremities. There is an approximately 3 percent incidence on the foot.1,2,6 Skin changes can occur. These changes may include thickening, ulceration, discharge, discoloration and tenderness. This tumor can occur at any age but it is most common in the fourth decade.1,2 However, there have been cases in patients as young as 3.5 years old.7
The treatment of choice is surgical excision as the rate of local recurrence is low.1-3,6,8 The potential for malignant change is low but studies have reported a malignancy rate of up to 6.7 percent.2,3,9
Due to the patient's age and the fact that she had remained asymptomatic postoperatively, the surgeon decided not to perform a second surgical procedure to completely excise the remaining aspects of the mass. The patient continues regular follow-up and monitoring for recurrence of the mass.
Dr. Pontious is the Acting Chair of the Department of Podiatric Surgery and Assistant Dean of Clinical Education at Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine in Philadelphia.
Ms. Spiess is a fourth-year student at the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine.
The authors thank Patrick Odgen, DO, a pathologist at Aria Hospital in Philadelphia.
1. Winkelmann RK, Wolff K. Solid-cystic hidradenoma of the skin. Arch Derm. 1968; 97(6):651-657.


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I personally love to hit the gym early before work and i feel great the whole day and during the workout. when is your favorite time to hit the gym?
I personally love to hit the gym early before work and i feel great the whole day and during the workout. when is your favorite time to hit the gym?
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I don't hit the gym but ideally I like to train in the evenings or on a day off early afternoon.
Mornings I feel so sluggish and ******ed.
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Lunch time.
"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." --James Madison, speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788
About 10 in the morning. I have had a nice breffas and a strong coffee so my energy is rockin'!
After work and a nice boost from caffeine annhydrous.
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I am a lot happier throughout the day after I've lifted. Could be the hormones, could be the fact that I feel I've accomplished something. But yeah, the earlier the better.
I'm feel best after my 20 rep squats are OVER
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Morning or else late at night!
usually around 3-5, though I've had workouts as late as 1 AM during the summer (it got very, very hot when I lived in missouri, and there I lifted in my garage). I'm downright awful in the mornings - I usually don't "wake up" until at least an hour after I'm up.
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Weight: 185-----187---------198---------198
Max Bench: 255---220-----------280------300
Max Squat: 405----395----------440------460
Max Dead:475-----485----------551------570
CHINUPS - Bodyweight + 135, x1, dead hang. Still working on the one arm chinup.
Late afternoon or early evening.
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I love the feeling that you get right after the gym. It really makes the rest of the day better.
Honestly? When I'm training, all is good no matter what time it is. The gym is my sanctuary. I'm sure it sounds corny, but it's true. But to answer the question, I usually start training around 5:30 PM, and sometimes during lunch.
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1pm is a good time for me to get in, crank the stereo and get some stuff done. 6pm is a great time for lifting when the powerlifting crew is in, I get really pushed around them!
Before work sucks, having to keep time blows.
Depends on what I am doing. If it's just cardio I prefer to do it nice and early, say 6-7am and get in and out.
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As luck would have it, July is National Ice Cream Month as established by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. He also appointed the third Sunday of this month as National Ice Cream Day because an estimated 90% of the nation's population consumes ice cream.
Can you believe how lucky we are to have not one, but two great ice cream producers in our midst—Penn State's Berkey Creamery and Meyer Dairy? What's your favorite flavor: Peachy Paterno from the Creamery or Rum Raisin from Meyer Dairy?
In the same way that most of us are avid conservatives or liberals, Phillies or Pirates fanatics, and Eagles or Steelers fans, most of us have also chosen our personal ice cream favorite: the Creamery or Meyer Dairy. The lines at both places suggest that business is booming, and the recession never hit the ice cream-craving public. So which is it for you?
Meyer Dairy: When you look at the dairy cows grazing on the green fields surrounding Meyer Dairy, you feel confident that those cows and that grass are a part of the ice cream you and your loved ones are enjoying. It is pure and basic and true. (Or as our 14-year-old and his friend said when asked their favorite: "It's more real.") There is no "carbon footprint" or BGH (bovine growth hormone) to worry about. Cow and grass to milk and cream, right there in broad daylight on the farm. It is at the heart of every cone Mr. Meyer sells, and it's been in the same location, doing business the same old-fashioned way for generations.
The Creamery: The Creamery embodies the science of ice cream. It's the largest university creamery in the nation. The slick, shiny Berkey building that houses the new "showroom" is all about the production science of milk products and is the crown jewel of Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. And they do sell a lot of tasty ice cream—each year approximately 4.5 million pounds of milk pass through the Creamery's stainless steel holding tanks. But even with over 100 flavors offered, vanilla is still the favorite. Now the Creamery is worldwide… via the Internet with the help of dry ice shipping.
National Ice Cream Month sounds tasty and worth celebrating. So how about it? At Harrison's we're launching "Local Ice Cream Week" from July 25th - 31st. We'll be offering a Meyer Dairy and Creamery sampler with four side-by-side choices to savor and compare. Which is your favorite?
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The supergroups will hit the road for a must-see concert event this summer. Aptly titled the MONUMENTOUR, the bands will showcase their trademark brand of fiery, hard-charging rock music across the United States. With a string of Top 10 singles, platinum albums and countless sold out shows around the globe, both bands have proven that they deliver fans the absolute best live concert experience around. Shows will feature astonishing stage set-ups and well-known setlists from both groups. The exclusive tour announcement from the bands can be seen at Summerfest.com.
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Info: After more than one and a half decade and more than 390 releases, Compost Records bundles some of their finest tunes as Various Artists digital download compilation albums. The variety and full spectrum of Compost's repertoire has never or rarely been presented in form of a musical genre compilation. These releases will be compiled or DJ-mixed by Compost's artists and are available as digital downloads, except in some rare cases very very limited as 500 CDs.
Since the early days of Compost Records, latin, especially brazilian influenced music played a major role. In the mid 90s the label started to release the renowned "Glücklich" compilation series (Vol. I – IV – compiled by Rainer Trüby), which would collect a variety of uplifting brazilian fusion grooves and have a significant impact on new genres like NuJazz, Lounge or Chill Out.
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Never anger a witch
I'm meant to be playing a cold, calculating murderer -- a man who assassinated an empress and gave her innocent daughter to traitors. So why am I hiding atop a broken chandelier, a mess of tightly wound nerves and sweat? Because I pissed off a witch, that's why. A whole coven of witches, actually. And they are hunting me down, not like nervous gang members searching for a ghost, but like predatory animals.
The Brigmore Witches, Dishonored's second expansion, might begin mere hours after The Knife of Dunwall ends, but it's a different beast. The horror that existed on the peripheries of the previous outings is now center stage, and with it comes greater challenges while peeling back the layers of Dunwall and the surrounding isles, revealing its darkest elements. This is Dishonored at its very best.
Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches (PC [reviewed], PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
Developer: Arkane Studios
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Release: August 13, 2013
The Knife of Dunwall's slightly contrived tale of a broken assassin attempting to atone for his heinous acts was surprisingly impersonal. Daud's not very charismatic, helped little by Michael Madsen's half-hearted vocal talents, and while his investigation into the mysterious painter known as Delilah was a good excuse for lots of wonderful stealth and murder, it wasn't in the least bit gripping.
The Brigmore Witches immediately fixes this with its sharp focus: Daud's out for revenge. There's still a lot of nonsense about atoning for past sins, but playing in high chaos like I was, there's little forgiveness to be found or earned. Instead it's a hunt for Delilah. She who caused Daud's protégé to betray her master. We're still dallying in the realm of clichés, but it's one that doesn't come with the baggage of dissonance.
The first of the three missions sees Daud sneak into Coldridge Prison, not long after Corvo's escape. What could have so easily been a regurgitated level manages to be entirely fresh, and Arkane use it to expertly showcase the features that make The Brigmore Witches stand out from both the core game and its sister DLC.
Favors remain, introduced in The Knife of Dunwall, and continue to completely change the dynamic of a mission. For a fairly small amount of gold, Daud's able to get his hands on an Overseer disguise, and makes it into Coldridge right through the front door, unimpeded. None of the intensity provided by slowly sneaking into the imposing prison is lost, as Daud's instructed to stick to only a small part of the facility, and there's always that sense that he's going to be discovered.
Goodies locked away behind bars, like gold or elixirs, are a splendid excuse to use Daud's new power. A simple ability gifted to him by the Outsider, allowing the master murderer to pull items towards him. Upgraded, it can even snare people, leaving them vulnerable to a killing blow from Daud's bloodied knife.
Coldridge is on edge after Corvo's escape. The guards are meaner, more paranoid; the river has been drained, stopping anyone from leaping off the bridge; and those considered responsible for letting the Lord Protector slip through the grasp of the Lord Regent are about to be executed. It's the smallest of the three missions, but it does the best job of connecting the old with the new.
It is in Drapers Ward, the textile and seamstress district making up the second act, where most of Brigmore takes place. Canals, sewers, once glamorous streets now filled with detritus and crumbling buildings, factories, and a dock collide, making it by far the most diverse location. A savage gang war is tearing the place apart, with the dapper, top hat-wearing Hatters on one side, and the Dead Eel smugglers on the other.
While criminals paint the streets red with blood, Daud prowls above them. They fight amongst themselves, against the hungry rats, and like all the enemies in both expansions, they patrol erratically, making them tricky bastards to predict. Initially, both gangs will attack Daud on sight, but a side is taken, and deals are struck.
Where The Knife of Dunwall fleshed out the grisly whaling industry, Brigmore gives depth to Dunwall's criminal element and its textile industry. There's plenty of history to be devoured, all of it interesting, despite textiles not normally conjuring up exciting images. It's a history of oppression, and a fall from grace that revealed the true face of one of the city's most popular districts. The criminals are just more open about being criminals now.
Dark, claustrophobic tunnels sit beneath towering apartments and wide open spaces, demanding players switch strategies to tackle the varied geography of this slice of Dunwall. Options are plentiful, with additional objectives, side-missions, secrets, and puzzles making the ward a content-rich space. A quest from Granny Rags involving a corpse wedding, locked safes and homes, the opportunity to eradicate a whole section of the city in one fell swoop -- there's plenty to keep Daud busy.
Even while exploring a prison filled with mechanical security systems and the one-time heart of the textile industry, magic flows throughout The Brigmore Witches. Runes and bone charms return, of course, giving Daud new abilities or upgraded old ones, but with them comes corrupted charms. Made from broken bits and pieces of other charms or put together by amateurs, they do not work as intended. A charm designed to make its owner's attacks stronger also makes said attacks slower, while another gives the wearer preternatural speed at the cost of hardiness.
Frankly, they are a bit crap. Daud's a pretty deadly fellow as it is, so they payoff isn't really worth the negative side effects. There are so many regular bone charms (especially if you're using a save from Knife of Dunwall, letting you keep all the ones you found in the earlier DLC) that there's simply no reason to cripple yourself unless you want a bit of extra challenge.
It's a missed opportunity. There are a few books and accounts of these corrupted charms scattered throughout the maps, and there's a huge difference between those being described and those Daud finds. One charm apparently made its bearer able to deflect attack as if he wore armor, but every time he was struck, one of his teeth would turn black and fall out. Another account describes a man purchasing a charm that would allow him to dream of a night spent with the object of his affections, but instead fed him nightmares where he saw her sleep with every single one of his enemies. I would have loved to see a more creative application of these dark objects, but instead they provide some minor buffs and debuffs.
Elsewhere, magic is more deftly handled. The eponymous witches are bloody horrifying. Decaying women consumed by magic and nature, they fight with powers similar to Daud's, but with greater intensity. Blinking in and out of existence, they viscously stab and slice, before vanishing only to appear far away, where they start to shriek like banshees, assaulting Daud with their screams.
Deadly and unpredictable on their own, these harridans are unfortunately rarely alone. In the once beautiful and now dilapidated Brigmore Manor, the setting of The Brigmore Witches' final act, they not only tend to patrol in groups, but are flanked by hellish mutts that will hunt their quarry to the ends of the earth. What both Dishonored and The Knife of Dunwall sorely lacked were truly threatening antagonists. The Brigmore Witches is not so hampered.
Daud's final mission is undoubtedly his most challenging. I confess that I'm glad I was going for a high-chaos run, as staying hidden from this army of eldrich women and avoiding all conflict would be a tall order -- though it's one I will endeavour to attempt somewhere down the line.
It is only in the final moments where I felt let down by The Brigmore Witches. A shaky, humdrum "boss" confrontation that throws stealth and planning out the window, and then an epilogue that flies in the face of my own experiences in Dishonored felt tacked on, but they fail to mar an otherwise superb expansion.
All I really wanted was more Dishonored, but what I got was something that surpasses it. Intricate level design, nuanced worldbuilding, and gameplay that demands a thoughtful approach even when resulting in flashy, bloody violence -- The Brigmore Witches is setting the bar very high for future stealth romps.
THE VERDICT - Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches
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When appealing everyman Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) is inexplicably fired from his job as a big box store clerk, he realizes it's time for some meaningful change in his life. Deeply in debt and without direction, he returns to college where he befriends a group of scooter-riding students and eventually develops a real affection for his beautiful speech class instructor, Mercedes Tainot (Julia Roberts).
Charming and smart, Larry Crowne reminds us of life's small surprises. Sometimes clouds really do have a silver lining. It's also about the power of new beginnings like the time Larry Crowne, an ordinary man with a gentle heart, was forced to downsize his world...and ended up expanding his life.
Larry Crowne was released July 1st, 2011 and stars Tom Hanks, Sarah Mahoney, Roxana Ortega, Randall Park, Brady Rubin, Alex Quijano, Tina Huang, E-Kan Soong. The film is directed by Tom Hanks.


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Dominique Forma's Scenes of the Crime is a well-acted neo-noir with strong characters and an effectively tense and seedy tone, but sloppy plotting and weak dialogue hamper its overall entertainment value. Jeff Bridges delivers a typically strong performance as Jimmy, the coiled-snake calm kidnapping victim. The cast around him is surprisingly effective. Of particular note is Noah Wyle, who sinks his teeth into a nasty role, clearly relishing a chance to play the heavy. His performance is not quite convincing, but it's enjoyable. Jon Abrahams, best-known for his comedic roles, has a natural lunkheaded quality that gives Lenny an appropriately comic edge. Jimmy, seeing Lenny decked out like Steve McQueen from Bullitt, immediately underestimates him, which is understandable. Madchen Amick (of Twin Peaks fame) and Morris Chestnut (a talented, underutilized actor who launched his career with Boyz 'N the Hood) are very engaging as a hot-blooded couple working in a nearby deli who get drawn into the intrigue. But after establishing their relationship, and involving them peripherally in the story, Forma essentially forgets about them. This is indicative of the haphazardness of the film's plot line. The situation these characters find themselves in is extremely contrived and the film's big twist is pretty predictable. The run-of-the-mill tough guy dialogue is rarely sharp enough to compensate for these flaws. The film is mildly entertaining, but forgettable, and it lets down its talented performers.
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Staff from House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees explained details of the law's impact on the VA and veterans.
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Legion and Rebuilding Together spruce up the exterior and interior of the Pine Valley Community Center in Charlotte, N.C.
War dead in Belgium cemetery now have volunteeers to tend their graves.
Legacy Run wraps up in Kings Mountain, N.C., ending another succesful fundraising effort by the Legion Riders.
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More than 270 motorcycles travel from Indianapolis to Charlotte, N.C., on American Legion Legacy Run; more donations expected during national convention.
Nearly 90 veteran-friendly employers expected to be on hand Aug. 26, accepting résumés from attendees and even interviewing on the spot.
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Legacy Run leaves North Carolina for a stop in Georgia, collecting more than $60,000 in donations along the way.
Defending champions Brooklawn, N.J., defeated Midland, Mich., 18-0 in seven innings; paid attendance record broken.
The sun finally shines on Riders in North Carolina, and in Virginia, the Run makes a new friend in a legendary radio host.
The Great Recession forced many Americans to tighten their personal balance sheets. But six years later, a dark cloud of debt still looms large.
More rain slows down the Legacy Run but doesn't deter the spirit of the men and women riding in it.
Brooklawn, N.J., and Midland, Mich., will play at 7 p.m. The game will be televised live on ESPNU.
CSX Corporation, the rail transportation giant and reputed military employer, will have a significant role at the Legion's 96th National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
Poor weather doesn't slow down the fund-raising efforts of the Legion Riders.
Nine Legion Baseball players will receive a scholarship, sponsored by Diamond Sports, for their scholastic achievements.
If, or when, Iraq crumbles, the United States should remember its 'old friends' - the Kurds.
New Jersey will play Hawaii at 5 p.m., and Nebraska will play Michigan at 8 p.m. Watch live on ESPN3.com.
More than $121,000 raised during opening night at Post 64 in Indianapolis; ride leaves Indy at 8 a.m. this morning.
Pool play wraps up Sunday with the top two teams from each pool advancing to the semifinals on Monday.
New Jersey and Nebraska are 2-0 in the pool play Series; Hawaii claims its first win of the tournament.
New Jersey, Nebraska and Michigan advance to Day 2 of the 2014 American Legion World Series with wins.
Department of South Dakota commander testifies at a congressional field hearing on necessity of keeping VA care in area.
2013 champ Brooklawn, N.J., wins Game 1 of American Legion Baseball World Series.
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Legion posts present at ceremony.
Week ending 8/1/14
American Legion staff will provide subject matter training Aug. 23 and 25 in the Charlotte Convention Center.
Legion to join Student Veterans of America in virtual conversation about impact of Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 on student veterans.
The American Legion sends its condolences to Mr. Williams' family and friends.


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Will 2014 bring free, ad-supported phones and data?
Smartphone users check their devices over a hundred times a day, making those home screens the most valuable digital real estate in the world for advertisers.
By Jim Probasco
How would you like a free mobile phone with free calls, texts and data thrown in for good measure? In exchange, would you be willing to put up with advertising?
In a recent AdExchanger column, Russell Glass, CEO of Bizo, said with 1.4 billion smartphones in use by the end of 2013, the most valuable digital real estate on the planet is the home screen of those devices.
It's only a matter of time, Glass said, before someone develops and offers a "completely advertising-and content-supported phone." And that time, he believes, is coming soon -- as early as the end of next year.
The reason is simple. On average, according to Glass, consumers check their phones about 110 times a day. That's 110 opportunities, per day, per phone, to deliver product advertising to a captive audience. Glass said it works out to more than 3000 "impressions" per month, per smartphone user.
Using the home screen for ads is only part of the picture. In exchange for a free phone and service, Glass said consumers would be willing to agree to location and buying habits tracking, all designed to help advertisers target consumers with relevant ads. This already happens with hundreds of apps used on mobile phones people pay for so transferring the cost to advertisers for many people would be a "no-brainer."
In addition, Business Insider noted that advertiser supported content is already "baked into the cake," so to speak, with television and radio broadcasts long a part of the American consumer experience. The difference with mobile is scale. With mobile devices accounting for almost one-fifth of U.S. media consumption, the temptation to take advantage of that potential scale is just too great for advertisers.
As Glass said, "The benefits to the market are endless. First, the cost of manufacturing a mobile device is relatively low compared to the value of this volume of rich, digital user impressions. With some simple math, you could see how a company could profitably fund a person's device and supporting services just via serving home-screen advertisements."
While admitting that the logical would-be players in advertiser-supported mobile devices would include Facebook (FB), Microsoft (MSFT), or Google (GOOG), Glass said he believes the first entry in the market will be a group of venture capital backed former Google or Facebook engineers who form a startup. (Microsoft owns and publishes MSN Money.)
Glass also predicted that model would fail at first but that eventually we would see a number of mobile devices available that would be completely free to own and use.
At the time of this writing, Jim Probasco had no position in any mentioned securities.
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Students Welcome Latest Addition to Campus Skyline
Kozmetsky Center Wraps Up Successful Fall Lecture Series
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St. Edward's Receives National Recognitions
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December 2006
When Margaret Whitney first arrived at Fulmore Middle School in April 2005 to volunteer with special needs students, she didn't exactly receive a hero's welcome. The counselors and principal were excited that she wanted to volunteer, but finding the extra time to help her get started seemed impossible. Not dismayed by the lackluster introduction, she jumped right into her mission: helping out wherever she could and assessing the students' needs so she could recruit more volunteers.
Embodying the mission of St. Edward's, Margaret's service project — the inclusion of the students into mainstream classrooms — is part of a scholarship funded by the Brown Foundation Inc. of Houston. Margaret, a pre-med Biology major from the Washington, D.C., area, is no stranger to volunteer work and helping people, particularly children with disabilities. Through her experiences, she discovered that she wanted to pursue medicine and continue helping people with disabilities.
"Not every child with needs and disabilities is the same," she said. "A child who is in a wheelchair has totally different needs than a child with Down syndrome, yet the current system throws them both into the same category."
The service project has also taught Margaret another valuable lesson. As project coordinator and leader, she brings other students from St. Edward's into the middle school to serve as volunteers in classrooms. "Managing those volunteers and trying to pair them up with the right classroom is a challenge," she said. "Most of the teachers are already overworked, and while they are open to having volunteers in the classroom, they don't have the time to hold their hands. If a volunteer isn't very outgoing or doesn't show initiative by jumping right in, it can actually be counterproductive."
But the challenges aren't stopping her. Margaret continues to seek out new volunteers, particularly students from the School of Education who are training to be teachers. She also hopes her project will continue to grow and thrive after she graduates in May 2007 and moves on to medical school. For now, Margaret can enjoy access to the new John Brooks Williams Natural Sciences Center, which formally opened its doors to the St. Edward's community on Sept. 8, 2006.
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It's not easy making sense of all the different water filters out there. Add the daily headlines about new toxins discovered in our water, (most recently concerning pharmaceutical residues), and many people throw up their hands at the thought of ever being truly confident about the quality of the water they are drinking. No wonder people are willing to spend $3 a pint for specialty waters with claims of super-purity and ultra-hydration!
Actually, creating truly pure, hydrating water begins with an understanding of difference between a water filter and a water purifier.
Each type of purifier has one or two toxins it doesn't deal with very well, but this is overcome by the synergy gained through the use of complementary filters. One reason that most purifying systems on the market such as reverse osmosis do not create truly pure water is that while they usually utilize filters in a complementary way, they rarely use multiple purifiers to remove above the 90-95% purification rate and stay there over time. Reverse osmosis systems for example, start at 90-95% purification when new, but decline over time to well below that. Thus, when you change your membrane after a year, you could be drinking water that is only 80% pure or less! With the number of toxins in our water today, that figure is unacceptable. Our 14-Stage Biocompatible Drinking Water System, which we have featured for the last thirteen years, is rare in that it combines filters and purifiers in the optimal way to create water that is 99.999% pure when the system is new, and never falls below 99.8% pure over time. Moreover, the pure water is returned to a natural state through essential restructuring and remineralization.
Once again, to make sense of the water purification confusion, remember that filters are good at removing a small spectrum of toxins but are not designed to do the heavy lifting that purifiers do. Only the right combination of filters and purifiers, along with proper restructuring and remineralization, can create truly pure and alkaline drinking water for true peace of mind.
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How to Comfort Someone With Bipolar Disorder
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Neurofeedback Therapy for Bipolar Disorder
With this therapy, brain waves are "trained" to keep mood more stable.
Is Bipolar Disorder Avoidable?
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Bipolar Disorder: Foods That Help and Foods That Hurt
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Bipolar Disorder: What's Normal, What's Not?
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Signs Your Loved One Has Bipolar Disorder
While bipolar disorder symptoms are similar to signs of regular depression, they are more likely to involve irritability, guilt, unpredictable mood swings.
Women, Men, and Depression
Depression affects both men and women. But there are key difference in their symptoms.
Health by the Numbers: Bipolar Disorder
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While talking to a trained mental health professional can be invaluable for many patients, nothing compares to talking to others who are going through the same experience. But can the Internet substitute quality interpersonal dialogue?
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Antidepressants are the most commonly prescribed medication in the country, so mental health experts are trying to understand if, when, and how patients should cease taking them. Here, a guide to the transition to life without depression medication.
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe and chronic mental health condition that disrupts a person's ability to regulate their emotions. Read on to get the comprehensive information you need to navigate the condition.
Mood Disorders: Are They Caused by Vitamin Deficiencies?
Vitamins play a critical role in mental health. And insufficient intake of certain vitamins have been linked to mood disorders. So, which deficiency is resulting in your symptoms? Find out here.
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Accurate Upside Down Bike Sign
The turning signals are a little weird, though.
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Accurate Upside Down Bike Sign
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How to Kiss Your Lady Without Being Gross [Click to animate]
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Guy Biking with Gas Tank and Watermelon on Head
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Tourist Photobombed by Bike Faceplant
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If you look on the bright side, he'll fit right in with the rest of his schoolmates at Cornell come September.
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Jolly Guy Rides Penny Farthing Bike
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Drake's self-confidence continues to grow on his next album Nothing Was the Same, according to producer-in-crime Noah "40″ Shebib. "It's a huge change in tone," 40 told Rolling Stone. "Before, Drake was a nice guy. Here he's stepping up the attitude and playing hardball."
Examples include "bombastic" introduction "Tuscan Leather" and "Paris Morton Music II," the sequel to Drake's riff off Rick Ross' "Aston Martin Music" that has wowed J. Cole. 40 says that in both songs Drake took care (sorry) to change up his flow multiple times, after having apparently been self-conscious.
To an extent, 40′s story only backs what Drake did to announce Nothing's original release date. (It's since been pushed back to September 24.) That same day, the Toronto MC released four new songs and remixes that featured nothing but confident raps from him, as if to show that he's stopped wallowing since Take Care.
Still, as if with ballad "Hold On We're Going Home" in mind, Drake doesn't seem to mind handing out reminders of his rapping capabilities."This album is about growth," he previously said to Rolling Stone. "When I play it for people, they ask, 'Who's that rapping?' I'm like, 'That's me.'" Check out the rest of Rolling Stone's fall music preview in the magazine's current issue, out now.
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Minneapolis' East Bank stairways lead to quiet riverside solitude
The river in this part of the city can seem almost subterranean, separated and buffered from the flat, gridded, concrete expanses of southeast Minneapolis above it by sheer wooded bluffs. Descending the stairways, one gets the sense of traveling underground. The path down by the river is, on a Sunday morning, almost wholly deserted, and the roar of vehicular traffic over Franklin and 94 sound like it's coming from some distant point overheard.
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ok….just wanted to Edit this right quick to express my love. Good lord, guys…..I am so happy you like Eli's cosplay so much…I'm practically dying from pure joy over here. QAQ
Also…I just wanted to note how his horns are staying on him. They're hot glued to a piece of thin black thread then tied around his head. :'DD <3
These are some photo's of my cat, Eli, in his finished Karkat cosplay. :DDD
I think it turned out pretty awesome~ I'm especially proud of how his horns turned out. I've never made any before so I'm happy they came out good <3 ((they're made of polymer clay if you wanted to know <3))
Here's a video I took of him in his cosplay too~<3
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