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infinite revenge+heroic strike spam!
The Talent Build
37/0/32 (PTR Calculator on Wowhead)
There are two leftover points. Recommendation is Last Stand and Vigilance, but you can customize it to your needs. You can also shift the points in Iron Will to Tactical Mastery, especially if you're using Juggernaut or Recklessness and need to stance dance early.
Why Unrelenting Assault
With the release of 3.1 coming up, many Protection Warriors have been concerned that Blizzard has made few changes that affect the standard Deep Wounds build. However, the introduction of Dual Specs has the potential to revolutionize the way we tank yet again -- and, yet again, this will have a very positive impact on how main tanks enjoy their experience in Warcraft.
As it stands, we've been recommending the Deep Wounds protection build because it covers everything from threat to mobility to damage reduction exceptionally well. However, the introduction of dual specs means that, like our gear, we will now have the ability to customize our talents to the encounters we're tanking. For many main tanks, balancing everything in a single build will no longer be the ideal to shoot for.
Full Protection is your first and most important build. As Xav pointed out several weeks ago, our Protection builds will now be going deeper into Fury and Protection rather than Arms. This will give access to survivability-oriented talents such as Improved Demoralizing Shout, and this is fine because most encounters do not put us in danger of losing aggro. We will be using this build for the great majority of progression encounters.
This is a good idea because we'll be able to balance it out with a secondary talent build. Since the primary build will already excel at survivability and AOE tanking, our secondary build is left as our Threat build. However, Deep Wounds Protection is not the best Threat build available to Warriors -- Unrelenting Assault is.
It's worth noting that much of the initial feedback I received on this was from posters who felt Deep Wounds Protection would be their secondary build. I understand this sentiment. However, the counter-argument to this is that a higher survivability Protection build is going to trump Deep Wounds Protection in virtually every situation until you hit an encounter like Hodir, where Threat suddenly becomes very important. Just like gearing, I think we'll be better served by creating builds that excel at encounter types rather than builds that are balanced.
Our Concerns
By presenting this video and this discussion, we've acknowledged that we run the risk of misleading some of our readers. More specifically, we're concerned that people aren't going to take the drawbacks to this build seriously. Please do.
With that said, the advantages of this build are very real. I know there's been a lot of discussion about this on the site and elsewhere in the community (Veneretio's blog, for one). We started discussing and refining the spec back in mid-January. Part of why we've avoided promoting it too much in the past was because it was not a competitive build in an environment where respecs were not readily available.
- You are hurting your raid and selling yourself short as a tank if you try to use this build on most bosses simply because it has an easier rotation -- full Protection is still your primary spec for encounters where survivability matters but aggro is not as big a concern.
- You should not use this in raids unless Sunder Armor or Expose Armor is readily available from at least one other source. Pay special attention to that if you're considering this for a 10-man.
- You cannot get this spec working without at or near full 25-man gear, ideally with a good selection to create a specialized set.
- You cannot min/max this spec if you aren't willing to take the time to min/max your gear set.
The Use of Shield Slam
In the movie, you'll see I use Shield Slam frequently as part of my rotation, which is contradictory to the advice I give that you leave it out unless you hit a dry spell. This was a mistake in my previous rotation based on the UI animation of Revenge, which led me to believe Revenge was staying on a 1.5s GCD while other abilities were only on a 1s GCD after using Revenge. In other words, I had hurt my own DPS by using Shield Slam in most of these situations, so don't look at the movie and model your ability usage after it.
I referred to a Revenge and Shield Slam macro in the movie. Here's what I'm using.
Revenge & Heroic Strike
#showtooltip Revenge
/cast Revenge
/cast Heroic Strike
This is safe to use so long as Revenge is keeping a solid up-time. Be careful that you don't continue hitting this if Revenge fails to proc so you don't deplete your rage pool.
Shield Slam & Shield Block
#showtooltip Shield Slam
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/cast Shield Block
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/script UIErrorsFrame:Show()
/cast Shield Slam
Use this immediately if Revenge doesn't proc. Activating Shield Block dramatically increases the chance the next incoming attack will be Dodged, Blocked, or Parried. (Note that it doesn't guarantee it since attacks can still Miss)
infinite revenge+heroic strike spam!
you can mana drain gothik aduring phase one, he regens mana at like 2mp5 and will melee all throughout phase 2
One thing I found Cider is that while grinding, you don't necessarily need the second mob hitting you really.
With the Block Glyph and the HS and Revenge glyphs, I found that if I ever got into a dry spiel with Revenge, I'd hit shield block to just get myself to block more often. This would light revenge up more often. I dunno, I never needed a second mob beating on me while i was killing st00f. I just used my CD to keep my rotation alive i suppose.
Which probably isn't a good thing while raiding. I just thought i'd add that caveat for information purposes.
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I've been itching to test this build out on 10 man 3d, i wasn't sure if it was the best best due to the lack of survivability as a full protection tank.
But with the added threat and damage I think it would be worth trying.
This video answered a lot of questions of mine,I really enjoyed it!
wow, that's totally...insane i'll give it a try right away.
I understand the focus here (and frankly, most of you here =D) is level 80/sweet gear stuff, but any thoughts on this for reg 5mans/heroics/even pre-80 for 70s levelling?
I'm guessing probably not so much well as I'm 78 I might fit it perfectly for a test as I'm just missing the two optional points - I know I'd be jumping the gun with it a bit but it sounds fun :}
Keeping in mind I'm dipping down in my aoe [and aoe aggro] of course.
I get I'll be a little low in the great avoidance #s, but it still looks good enough to try
Most of my fights I'd run in, let the guy smack me...but as soon as revenge popped up, I have it macro'ed to HS and I went to town. I could hit revenge at least 3 times with HS hitting as well and just decimate things dead fast enough.
I see the worth of having something beat on you though for a caster though, for sure. I just dislike something hitting me and I'm doing nothing about it. I find myself doing that on my Death Knight and then absolutely raging and killing both of them off because I dislike them hitting on me.
Hrm..now that you mention it..I wonder if I had a mob running after me while I fought another mob to get my Rune Strike to constantly come up, if I could get a Relentless Assault type deal going because of it. It works on the same mechanics of Revenge without having to deal with a stun.
Hrm, the possibilities here are intriguing.
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This is not a build for 5 mans and definately not the best for leveling. You have little to no AoE threat which is what most 5 mans are about. This is pretty much a boss tanking spec only. You can hold up to 2 maybe 3 mobs but you have to hit each one single target to do so. You don't get improved Tclap for good AoE threat.
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you also have to use sunder armor instead of devistate, and you don't have the imp slow effect of imp Tclap. so no it not really a good build for 5 or maybe even 10 mans.
Also, I would recommend Lavanthor's Talisman - Item - World of Warcraft to be used in this spec. This will increase your block rating significantly allowing for more revenges, and will give you upwards of 9-10k shield slams. With revenge lighting up as quick as it does, you should be able to get 3-4 big shield slams with this trinket and shield block both up.
This somewhat goes against what cider says about saving shield block & shield slam for dry patches, But depending on the boss it should increase your DPS/TPS using it every 2 minutes when the trinket is off cooldown.
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Thanks much for the video Cider. I had been toying with trying this build, and you have answered 90% of my questions. It should be quite a boon for those of us like myself who frequently run 10 mans with fewer than the requisite numbers of raiders and are looking to pitch in a bit more on DPS.
I do have a couple of questions you might know the answer to though:
1.) Does the 20% damage boost to revenge added to UA on the PTR stack with the 20% from Improved Revenge in Prot? Given that this build seems to have viability pre 3.1 this would merely be icing on the cake, but i was curious.
2.) Is the target dodge/block/parry number you cited for 25 man content? If so, is there any substantial difference in what one would aim for in the 10 man versions?
Thanks again for the hard work -Haru
Macro looks like:
#showtooltip Lavanthor's Talisman
/use Lavanthor's Talisman
/cast Shield Block
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The initial findings of the French air accident investigation agency, the BEA, based on a reading of the so-called black boxes recovered from the ocean depths, found that the captain had been resting when the emergency began.
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Safe to defragment recovery partition?
I would like to know whether it is safe to defragment my recovery partition? Seeing as it is listing in the Disk Defragmenter, which states that only disks which can be defragmented are shown i am assuming that it is.
I recently had to reinstall windows on one of my laptops so checked the disks for fragmentation a fews days later and i noticied that all disks had been defraged apart from C: drive and the recovery partition.
I also have a brand new laptop, which is also running Windows 7 x64 and all disks were defraged apart from C: drive again. Having looked at the schedule the date/time had not come up yet so i am assuming that is why, but why would windows choose to defrag one drive but not another?
Lastly, i notice Windows chooses to schedule a defrag every Wedneday at 01:00 by default so i assume if my laptop is off it will start the defrag process the next time i turn my system on, correct?
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That makes no sense since the content of the recovery partition never changes.
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Hello there.
It is perfectly safe to defrag the recovery partition, but there's no real reason for it.
As for the defrag of all disks apart from C:, it's possibly not marked for defrag in the scheduler. Here's a useful link to help you with the use of windows disk defragmenter: disk defragmenter-open & use.
On another note, there are better (free) disk defragmenters out there, I personally use Defraggler, it's a great little program.
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I have gone into the defrag scheduler and the recovery partition is selected by default. I agree, i cannot see the need to ever defrag this partition so why is it selected by default?
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Should i also assume that the System Reserved partition should NOT be defragmented either?
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Usually recovery partitions are hidden, as is the system reserved (100 or 300mb) partition. If you're seeing them, perhaps it's worth investigating that first . I would agree, however, that defragmenting either of these types of partitions is only looking for trouble at best.
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MERRILLVILLE | More parks improvements are scheduled in Merrillville, including new play equipment, town officials said.
Town Councilman Tom Goralczyk said workers are expected to install new playground equipment early this week at Rosenbalm Park near the intersection of 73rd Place and Chase Street.
The park also will receive a new rubberized surface and landscaping changes, he said.
"Everything should be done and in place and ready to be used by Oct. 1," Goralczyk said.
He anticipates Merrillville would have a re-dedication ceremony for Rosenbalm after the work is complete.
Parks officials have received multiple inquiries about the status of the project after the previous equipment was removed months ago, Parks Superintendent Caryn Wilson said.
She said the park could receive more use with the new equipment than it did with the prior apparatus. Rosenbalm was among several parks the town identified as needing upgrades following a review of its facilities earlier this year.
After the review, the Town Council decided to designate $75,000 from the cumulative capital development fund for new parks equipment.
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Merrillville removed the previous equipment at Pruzin, 5750 Tyler St., shortly before the town's summer day camp started there.
Stefek Park, near the intersection of 70th Place and Harrison Street, is next in line for improvements, but it appears work on that project won't begin until next spring, Wilson said.
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Gross meat germs cost us billions in healthcare dollars annually! »
I get a lot of questions about being vegan:
Q. Do you actually like tofu?
Q. Don't you miss steak?
Q. How did you get to be so beautiful?
A: I'll never tell.
One of the most irritating questions is, "Isn't veganism crazy expensive?" and I'm all, "How much did that carton of free-range eggs cost you?" Now science can back me up: Some study ranked pathogens found in food according to how much they cost society, and more than half, including the top three, are found in meat products.
Guess what was at the very tip-top? A food contaminant called Campylobacter, which is found in the nastiest of factory-farmed products: chicken! Campy, as it shall be affectionately known henceforth, sickens 600,000 people and costs society $1.3 billion per year in terms of medical care, missed work, chronic health problems, and even death. DEATH, Y'ALL. Could this all be fixed, as the article suggests, by overhauling the USDA? Probably not—they be in the pockets of the meat and dairy industry, yo!
In conclusion, while veganism might sometimes cost me slightly more money right off the bat (assuming I choose to eat exclusively processed faux meat products) than eating burgers and chili dogs, it saves me AND society money in the long run!
∞ posted at 12:31 by sarahmsmart
What to Eat: The Environmental Impacts of our Food voiced by Jason Schwartzman. That damn Schwartzman is all kinds of sexy. You heard me! I'd totally tap that. I might even make him tofu scramble in the morning. If I let him sleep over. Men are so clingy!
The video appears to be part of Farm Sanctuary's Plate to Planet project:
Small decisions we make every day about what we eat can make a huge difference. Going vegan may be a big step, but simply lessening our meat consumption still goes a long way. If we all pledged to eat meat-free meals throughout the week, we'd not only be healthier individuals but our planet would benefit too.
Plus, did you know that 50,000 pigs on a factory farm create as much waste as Salt Lake City! That's crazy! And so depressing! The site is pretty great and has lots of tips for your average omni to become more veggie friendly. This video is kind of cute, not amazing. If Schwartzman weren't voicing it, I prob wouldn't post it. What are your thoughts? I think it's cool to offer a view of your average American family man and how you can make a change just for one day and it's not going to ruin your life.
∞ posted at 09:51 by youtalkfunny
Humane Society investigates Cal-Maine battery cage farm: surprise, it's a hellscape »
Rows of cages stretch alongside a pile of overflowing chicken manure.
This is absolutely the least disturbing photo of the 12 released today by the Humane Society as part of its 28-day undercover investigation at a Cal-Maine factory farm in Texas. Each hen is allowed "67 square inches" of space in which to live and die; the cages are stacked on top of each other; and there are approximate 1 million hens laying eggs at this place.
The investigation showed dead hens left in cages with living hens. It showed hens covered in manure from the hens in the cages above them. It showed hens with massive wounds left untreated. It showed eggs covered in the hens' blood and manure. Eggs: "nature's perfect food!"
Cal-Maine recalled "24,000 dozen," which is to say 288,000 eggs on Friday, Nov. 5, because one of its suppliers had had its eggs test positive for Salmonella Enteriditis! This supplier, Ohio Fresh Eggs, LLC in Croton, Ohio, presumably still keeps its hens in battery cages, as the agreement reached in January of this year prohibits the building of new battery cages. Looking at the photos of the Cal-Maine facility in Texas, it's not hard to see how naughty Salmonella might hop from the hens' excrement to their eggs. California's egg-eaters and its chickens are so lucky for Prop. 2, right? Except that one of the recalled brands sells eggs all over California, ha ha ha.
The detailed report from HSUS [pdf] is a very good, if nauseating read. It'll be nice/depressing/appalling to see the omnivorous (food) world's reaction to this. Meanwhile, anyone for a nice cruelty-free dessert? Or maybe wait a little while until you've recovered from that horror show.
∞ posted at 13:02 by seriousmeaveness
Annals of self-promotion: we're angry about additives! »
Laura wrote about eggs in veggie food products like Quorn and Lightlife for SF Weekly! Using eggs in otherwise vegan products is unnecessary and inconvenient and what the hell, companies?
Meave got angry about gelatin hiding everywhere. Seriously, everywhere! Every time the pretty ladies in the commercials say "collagen," imagine "bone from the slaughter of cattle [that] is cleaned, degreased, dried, sorted, and crushed to a particle size of about 1-2 cm. The pieces of bone are then treated with dilute hydrochloric acid to remove mineral salts. The resulting sponge-like material is called ossein." Yeah. A "sponge-like material" made from dead cows' bones. That's what you're slapping on your faces, and you can't even absorb it through your skin!
What are you all raging about today?
∞ posted at 16:19 by seriousmeaveness
What's wrong with organic eggs? »
As new photos reveal, PLENTY. I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds that eggs are one of the most difficult foods to talk people out of. We've all had that conversation with that person who insists that they are totally down with your veganism but you see, they eat organic eggs, so there's no, uh, foul. Try as I might to talk about the essential meaninglessness of feel-good labels like "free range" or "organic," it can be hard to combat those pleasant misconceptions without any shocking, awful photo evidence.
(Un)Fortunately, we now have it.
The Cornucopia Institute, an organization that promotes family farms and more sustainable farming, visited 15 percent of egg farms in the United States, and released a report titled "Scrambled Eggs: Separating Factory Farm Egg Production from Authentic Organic Agriculture." While the report is aimed at protecting the interests of smaller-scale family farmers rather than ending animal agriculture altogether, it's a useful read for vegans looking to combat the "happy egg" myth.
The conclusion of the report is something vegans should already know: most "organic" eggs aren't really any different from regular eggs, with the sole exception that layer hens who produce "organic" eggs are fed "organic" food. The chickens are still kept confined in too-tight quarters, denied access to the outdoors, prevented from exhibiting their natural behaviors, and generally treated horribly their entire lives. To the large industrial farms examined in the report, "organic" is just another brand, and the current standards for what can be labeled as organic are a joke. The report shows how many of the larger producers are playing the system, providing "outdoor access" to chickens in the form of a tiny skylight or window.
What reports like this really mean is something everyone who eats food in this country needs to recognize: we can't trust big agriculture to give us the food they're marketing. If it's cheap and convenient, chances are someone got screwed in its production. What's the solution? This Vegansaur says cut it out with the eggs already. TOFU OMELETTES FOR LYFE!
∞ posted at 13:01 by jordanpattern
Farmers markets, consumer warnings and political scandal in your egg-recall update! »
The Humane Society wants us to know that eggs from the farmers market can come from hens treated just as terribly as hens that supply eggs for supermarkets. Many of you are probably like, "duh," but before I became vegan, I was unaware of this sort of thing. I even assumed "organic" automatically meant humane! But it's just not so. Side note: that was actually why I initially became vegan, because if you don't go directly to the farm, you just don't know how the animals are treated. But I can't be running around on farms everyday just so I can eat omelets! I've got work to do and dance moves to perfect!
Last week, the Humane Society sent letters to California's farmers markets asking them to forbid the sale of eggs from caged hens: "To increase food safety, improve animal welfare, and to meet the expectations of their consumers, we hope California's farmers markets will stop allowing their well-earned 'halo effect' to extend to companies and products that don't deserve it." LGBT Compassion regularly protests the live-chicken vendors at Heart of the City Farmers Market—did you know that these hens aren't protected by California's poultry slaughter laws?
Of course cage-free doesn't necessarily mean the hen can go outside or anything silly like that, but they generally* do have enough room to spread their wings and actually move in general. And as the Humane Society points out, "cage-free" also means safer, according to the last 10 studies on the subject.
In other egg-recall news, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says consumer notification systems in food-recalls are plain janky. She says it's imperative for their health that people get up-to-date information and they should be notified within 24 hours of any recall. I'm going to have to cosign this movement as I was talking to friends just last weekend who had heard jackshit about the egg recall. Dang it! I love most of my friends! I don't want them to die from Salmonella!
Does anyone else remember the E. coli outbreak in spinach in 2006? When I went to Whole Foods around then, every single bag of spinach had an E. coli warning—have they done that with the eggs? I don't know, I don't buy eggs, but I doubt it. And you know why? Politics!
That's right, in the world of food safety, corruption abounds. A survey released yesterday by the Union of Concerned Scientists showed that almost half of the scientists and inspectors at the federal agencies in charge of food safety say big business and congress has interfered in their work. This was a problem under the Bush administration and apparently there's been little improvement under Obama. From the LA Times:
"What we found is that action is needed to curtail interference in science, both political and that driven by the private sector," said Francesca Grifo, director of the Scientific Integrity Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. "We have two very different agencies giving very identical responses, and this suggests the need for broad reform."
Inspectors responding to the survey reported pressure from their own agencies to make problems disappear and to help offending companies remain open even when there are clear violations. So basically, we're screwed! Business over safety, that's the American way.
Speaking of business and corruption, Grist had a good piece yesterday about the crazy egg empire of Jack DeCoster. DeCoster owns Wright County Egg, one of the egg factories subject to the recall, and according to Grist writer Tom Philpott, he's "one of the most reviled figures in industrial agriculture." DeCoster views violating food safety laws as no big deal, and paying fines as another part of doing business. OMG this guy rules! Wright County Egg is only the ninth-largest egg producer in the U.S. BUT! DeCoster may very well be numero uno of the egg market! BUT! It's very confusing! Philpott tries to get to the bottom of it:
[There are] four large egg producers—DeCoster Family Farms (Wright County Egg), Hillandale Farms, Ohio Fresh Eggs, and Quality Eggs of Maine—which [are] controlled by or have extremely intimate links with Jack DeCoster. The Cal-Maine list of the largest U.S. egg producers puts the hen flocks of DeCoster Family Farms, Hillandale, and Ohio Fresh at 9 million, 14 million, and 7.6 million, respectively. It doesn't list Quality Egg of Maine, but the Boston Globe says it keeps 5 million hens…. [T]hat amounts 35.6 million hens under management by companies owned by or tightly linked with DeCoster—more than 10 percent of the nation's total flock (340 million).
Philpott is not done yet but I'll keep you updated. God bless his tireless soul!
I know our vegan readers don't buy eggs, but many of our friends and loved ones do. One thing we can do is get them hip to the farmers market jive and tell them to always ask egg vendors if the hens are cage-free, and to ask farmers market organizers if they allow eggs from caged hens. I find that even when omnivores don't care how animals are treated, many of them are über-scared of food-borne illnesses so the increased danger caused by small cages is a good thing to make them aware of. Everybody now: BABY STEPS!
*This is an update. Cage-free doesn't necessarily mean they can spread their wings or anything superfluous like that. FYI.
[Top image from Animalvisuals.org; click to see full chart. Bottom from Grist]
∞ posted at 12:35 by youtalkfunny
Lax food safety standards make veganism a safer choice »
"Food safety" is totally conceptual, right? Like "equal rights for all humans," everyone's all for it in theory, but in practice it just…isn't.
The forced labor camps in Iowa where all the Salmonella-eggs came from had "pits beneath laying houses where chicken manure was piled four to eight feet high" and "hens that had escaped from laying cages [were] tracking through the manure." Not to mention the "meat and bone meal" chicken feed tested positive for Salmonella AND was kept in bins full of holes! Want to feel worse? Read all the stories on Chow's list of the terrible history of the DeCoster farms.
Or, OK, leave off the half-million recalled eggs; maybe they were some kind of huge outlier. An FDA inspector hadn't seen the inside of one of those chicken-prisons in at least six years, anyway. How's the meat industry doing? Very poorly, is the answer! They've fought every change to every regulation, claiming that they follow all the rules and new ones are unnecessary. Now a super-rare strain of E. coli has appeared in ground beef from Cargill, but the American Meat Institute says that they're so busy working on preventative measures, which would be blown all to pieces if the Dept. of Agriculture dared to list this new scary E. coli as an illegal substance in ground beef. Even though it has already make people sick, and forced a recall of 8,500 pounds of Cargill ground beef—no no, it's not THAT bad! Shut up and listen to the nice executives, FDA.
And if you don't eat meat: how about some honey from China? It's full of delicious antibiotics! Not that China has time to worry about one company's scam; it discovered that 402 tons of imported dairy products—99.8 percent of total dairy imports!—were full of Enterobacter sakazakii, plus "excessive amount of nitrites, zinc and total bacterial count." Wait, E. sakazakii has "historically high case fatality in infants," up to 80 percent, and the aforementioned "dairy products" were POWDERED MILK FORMULA? That people FEED THEIR INFANTS? Way to go, every country involved in this disgusting scandal, which include Australia, France, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, the U.S., and of course China: you are all reprehensible. [news links via Tom Scocca]
Of course it's safer—and more humane, but duh—not to eat animal products, but for how much longer? If we don't change our methods of food production, the world is fucked. The animal-borne bacteria will get into our produce because giant farms aren't careful with their runoff, and we'll all perish of some kind of horrible E. coli/Salmonella hybrid. Good luck out there, everyone.
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A long-tailed macaque living in Bali adopted a lost kitten! He just found the kitten wandering around his home in Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary in Bali, and brought the kitten back to his troop ("a troop of macaques"), and now they are pals. Please excuse your Vegansaurus, whose eyes have begun leaking. [photo by Anne Young]
Events! Events events events!
We already told you about Dusker tonight at Hayes Valley Farm—really, why aren't you there now, hippie? And tomorrow is Sábado Gigante!, a.k.a. the start of Oakland's Eat Real Festival. Now here are even more ways to spend your time!
Vegans in the Washington, D.C. metro area should head out to the annual Columbia Heights Day, which happens tomorrow, Saturday Aug. 28 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Harriet Tubman Elementary Field at 11th and Kenyon Sts. NW. Why? Because at 3:30 there's a Sticky Fingers cupcake-eating contest on the second stage!! Live out one of your Vegansaurus' dreams! Or at least take a photo for us DEAR LORD.
VERY IMPORTANT: Dino Bike at the Hemlock on Sunday, Aug. 29 at 9 p.m. Pay $5 and see our Laura, Jonas and possibly Jordan—plus other guaranteed-cramazing humans—do things on stage that you could not possibly imagine. There will be vegan cupcakes for free and booze for sale and all the money raised goes to pay for sweet, sweet Hazel's nauseatingly expensive surgery. BE THERE!
On Monday, Aug. 30, the Green Arcade bookstore in San Francisco will host a free discussion with Chris Palmer, author of Shooting in the Wild: An Insider's Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom. It sounds like Chris Palmer does our favorite thing: "pulls back the curtain on the dark side of wildlife filmmaking, revealing an industry driven by money, sensationalism, extreme risk-taking, misrepresentation, staging, fabrication, and even abuse and harassment of animals," actually naming names! Of course he also offers solutions and praises the people who are not total dicks (hint: Bear Grylls is not on the "good" list). The discussion begins at 7 p.m. at the Green Arcade, 1680 Market St. at Gough Street.
On Sunday, Aug. 29, LGBT Compassion will hold a peaceful demonstration against animal cruelty—specifically, the live-chicken vendor—from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Northeast corner of the Heart of the City Farmers Market at U.N. Plaza. For further information, visit their website, and please RSVP if you plan to attend!
West Contra Costa Adult Education will offer a series on vegan cuisine this fall, beginning on Sept. 14 with "Italian style." Each class meets once for four hours at the Richmond campus and costs $45. Enrollment is limited to 16 students, so you might think about registering sooner than later. Chef Panos Ly of Symphonie Vegan Restaurant in Point Richmond will lead the class.
News! Articles and essays and news!
A woman was caught attempting to smuggle a tiger cub from Thailand to Iran. The three-month-old cub had been drugged and stuffed in her suitcase—along with some stuffed toy tigers, for camouflage? He's now recovering at a wildlife conservation center in Bangkok, and DNA testing should reveal more precisely where he came from. Residents of Taiji, a.k.a. "the place from The Cove where they murder all the dolphins," are totally nonchalant about the documentary and its effects. "They're not going to stop the hunts," says a councilman, basically because it's tradition and also dolphin is tasty. Neat! "You race camels, why not milk them?" Excellent question, Occident-man! And what was Orient-man's response? He didn't have one, so the western dudes went out and began camel-exploitation for themselves. Now they are milked in metal stalls by automated pumps, just like number-one most delicious American cows! It can't come to the U.S. fast enough. What we won't get, because the FDA are total Puritan prudes, are eating-cows fed with wine to make their flesh taste even better when we devour it. I mean, pigs get to drink beer, why can't cows have some red wine with their all-natural COWFEED 3000?
What's been going on with the Great Egg Recall of aught-10? This week we learned that the FDA rejected a vaccine for hens that British egg producers have been using for over a decade and that would have cost "less than a penny per a dozen eggs." Ha ha whoops! Your Vegansaurus loves the cheap choices: "We have a problem with Salmonella infecting these eggs!" "How can we solve it?" "We could stop feeding chickens bone meal, maybe." "But that's like recycling! And it makes them grow SO FAST!" "What about making the cages we force the hens into a little larger, or not smashing so many of them into those tiny cages at once?" "And lose production space? No way!" "What about pasteurizing the fuck out of the poisonous death-eggs, then putting them in ice cream and mayonnaise?" "BRILLIANT! We won't even have to disclose that on the food labels! The company is saved!" A deli meat company recalled nearly 400,000 pounds of its products due to contamination with Listeria, but that was really hard to pay attention to this week.
Hey L.A., have you been to Millions of Milkshakes: Our Brianna writes: "IT IS SO FUCKING YUMMY I WANTED TO CAMP OUT THERE. I went two times in the span of four days. Yeah, it's really tacky, but I think it pretty adequately encompasses LA culture. I got a peanut butter-oreo shake the first time, and a peanut butter-banana shake the second time. Best milkshakes I've ever had." Ooh, celebrity vegan shakes! Ooh again: a totally polite and helpful thread on Serious Eats about cooking for vegans and omnivores in the same kitchen—they even discuss sharing pans! How heartwarming. Hey Las Vegans (har har), your life just got better thanks to Steve Wynn, who's expanded (read: brought into existance) the vegan dishes on all his hotels' menus. Finally, an interview with Jack Norris of Vegan Outreach by (the infamous) Rhys Southan. Naturally your Vegansaurus recommends ignoring the comments, one of which implies that nectarines are certain squirrels' only food source and that to eat said nectarines is tantamount to murdering said squirrels.
One of Scott "model-senator" Brown's staffers found a cat on the street in Washington, D.C., and she has since been named Lucky and become the office kitty. Look, there are photos! This is arguably the most selfless act performed by any member of the Senate in several years, and Scott Brown didn't actually rescue the cat himself. Even suffering the pressures of political life, Lucky is considerably better off than nearly half the pets in Coachella Valley: 44 percent of the 40,000 animals who have been left at shelters in Riverside County were euthanized this year, and Save-a-Pet of Desert Hot Springs, a no-kill shelter, has no room for animals. Thanks, Depression 2.0!
So which would you rather eat: Magical salmon genetically engineered by AquaBounty Corp. to grow twice as quickly as evolutionarily engineered salmon by natural selection; or willingly donated human meat? Whatever, our "agricultural empire" is DOOMED, DOOMED anyway, let's just eat (easily veganized and very tasty) jar cake to keep the end-of-the-world panic attacks down for another day.
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» Egg prices are rising due to recall! FUCK YEAH!
Woohoo! Make those suckers like a hundred dollars each! They're someone's baby, after all. Actually, If I were to ever have a baby (IUD, don't fail me now!), I'd probably sell it for less so maybe I should stop making that argument. You might say, "LAURA! BABIES ARE OUR MOST PRECIOUS RESOURCE!" And to that I say, "Also our stinkiest! Think about it!"
Think about it.
[Thanks for the heads up, Eve!]
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Dailies Paused
Dailies will have to be paused for a while until finals are over.
Want to make a more elaborate piece. Will have to split between daily drawings.
exploring moods.
25min Speed paint.
Inspired by Limbo's grainy, dark world.
More boards
Working on stryboard.
pretty happy with the lighting idea on this. maybe some darker greys around the boarder will look better
Been looking around for ways to adjust Pressure sensitivity falloff in photoshop to find out it has none.
Sure, you can set your brush to change properties via pressure, but modifying how much influence pressure sensitivity will have on a property is another story.
Other softs like Open Canvas and (if I'm not mistaken) Manga Studio allow these alterations.While I couldn't find any Photoshop plugin, some forum users have pointed to Tablet Pressure Curve Tool as a workaround (Windows only). Tried it myself and didn't work. probably because it was built for non-64 bit systems. If this works for you then hurray :)!
If this doesn't work, Intuos 4 and 5 have simpler options in their configs that allow you to drag 3 points around the graph. Firm pressure configs (like the one shown here) allow for smoother size transitions which are great for lineart and general sketching.
Quick painting for a contest on deviantart.
Limited color palettes again :)
testing perpective effects in After Effects
Cliff bridges
This is so far away from the original idea.
Inspired by Seirenes, by Christopher Tin
Something to relax for the night. Been hearing Christopher Tin's new album built around water journeying through its cycle on earth.
These were colors I felt like exploring with today.
45 min
Some boards from an animation project I`m working on
Busy day. Lots to do for Thesis.
Quick sketch. Liked how spontaneous the pose came to be,
some quick fine tuning and exploration of colors and this guy is done :)


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Q. What are the similarities and differences between a home appraisal and a home inspection?
A. Inspections and appraisals play key, but separate, roles in the home-buying and home-selling process.
An inspection is primarily intended to protect a prospective buyer from purchasing a home that has structural defects and other major problems. The appraisal is meant to protect the lender from paying more than the house is worth.
Home inspectors and appraisers shared with our team the highlights of what they do:
The bank requires that a property be appraised before a sale to determine its market value. The lender often hires the appraiser during the closing to look for improvements or deficiencies that may lower the value. In addition, the appraiser takes into account the house's location, square footage and the sale prices of homes of similar size in the same area.
The appraiser usually addresses conditions that are apparent or observable. Unlike a home inspector, an appraiser does not test mechanical systems and major appliances.
The appraisal helps the lender determine how much to lend against the home, what type of loan to offer, how much of a down payment will be required and, in many instances, what the interest rate will be. The buyer should get a copy of the appraisal.
Note that while the lender orders the appraisal, the buyer pays for it, usually within the closing costs. The fee can be several hundred dollars.
A home inspector, hired by the would-be buyer, focuses on the "guts" of the home. He or she assesses the overall condition, paying close attention to mechanical systems – such as plumbing, electrical, heating and cooling – as well as major appliances.
An inspector determines if the home needs repairs, whether everything meets code standards and if there are health or safety concerns.
A home inspection is highly recommended, though not required. The inspection usually costs a few hundred dollars and can take three or four hours.
If possible, plan to be present at the inspection. Make sure to read the inspection report, which should be thorough and easy to understand. It should include narrative accounts of the inspector's findings, along with pictures and diagrams. Be aware, however, that an inspection is not a warranty and there's no guarantee it will find all problems with a property.
Most reports will find some areas that need attention, but if the issues are major, you may want to use the report to renegotiate your original offer for the house.
Before you hire
Appraisers must be licensed in the state where they work and are required to follow various government requirements. Most, but not all, states require that home inspectors be licensed. Be sure that the person you hire is properly experienced and preferably, certified by an appropriate trade association.
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Anil Kapoor is wearing a white dress and is lying down and thinking. Madhuri Dixit, also in a white dress comes close to him and he gets scared. Madhuri Dixit sits down and Anil Kapoor rests his head on her lap. Madhuri is moving his hair and Anil Kapoor tries to untie a string in Madhuri Dixit's dress. Madhuri Dixit smiles and runs away. She stands at some distance from Anil Kapoor, gets aroused and opens her top. Then they move to a bed and the real action starts. The scene was so beautifully shot. The lights, the way Anil Kapoor kisses Madhuri Dixit's body, everything's great about the scene. Anil Kapoor kisses Madhuri Dixit all over her body. He starts from her knee, moves to her thigh, then to her palm, to her back and then to her face. It looks like Anil Kapoor suffers from premature ejaculation while Madhuri Dixit faked orgasm in the scene. Everything finishes so fast. They plan to name their son born through the conception, Siddharth!
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I'm just a regular woman sharing my experiences with my natural hair transition and all that life has to offer! Blog of hair, beauty, fashion, life and encouragement :)
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Hi! I was just opening tumblr when I saw that I have a new message. I saw that it was a person that sent me a video or something. I could'nt remember but it was Teisha or something… with a gmail account. I clicked the video and decided to change my settings to prevent this from happening again so I clicked the settings button and I somehow got logged out.
I tried everything and it didn't work. I went to check the email I attached with the account and I couldn't access it (but that's probaby because I forgot my password, but at the same time I suspect someone's using that account too.)
Anyway, please don't click the video if you got it. Please and Thank you.
Awwww <3
I do too!
Oh, is…that for me?
Goodness…you really didn't have to, Mr. Shigaraki…[the prosecutor takes the box, lifting the lid. Inside, a very familiar something; a hat, more specifically, a hat resembling his father's. Edgeworth smiles, obviously a bit touched by the present.]
…..it's wonderful.
Glad you like it!
Oh and there's something else in the box too!
asktateyukishigaraki replied to your post: *Tateyuki knocks on Edgeworths door*
Ah! Miles! I figured this was your house. Anyway, Happy Birthday Miles! *gives him a big hug*
[The prosecutor gives him a bemused look.]
….you remembered about my birthday after all these years…?
Goodness me…it's been almost 20 years and yet you remembered…
Of course! You were always excited for your birthday when you were little. Such a cute child you were…
Anyway, here you go!
[Tateyuki gives him a gift]
Loyalty: He's always been loyal to his family, friends, and his clients. If he knew though something was wrong, it could lessen his loyalty. But of course, he's especially loyal to Mr. Gregory and Miles.
Laugh: He had a hard time laughing, let alone smiling when Gregory died. But to keep up his mask he has to force himself to laugh in a lot of situations.
Memories: He will never forget Gregory and Miles. But also the DL-6 and the IS-7. That also includes Manfred von Karma… He also won't forget the struggle he had to go through to continue on being a lawyer and be happy. ))
Of course! I never turn down a hug!
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- Insanity
- Slaughter
- Order
- Morality
- Loyalty
- Promise
- Betrayal
- Epiphany
- Apathy
- Memories
- Loss
- Lies
- Death
- Love
- Plans
- Pawns
- revenge
- Monster
- Time
- Waiting
- Laugh
- Trend
- Alliance
- Natural
- Pretence
- Urge
- Impression
- Critic
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- Stranger
- Judgement
- Delirious
- Instinct
- Damage
- Illusion
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[Just then, thanks to the anon's repeated hugs. He got turned into different animals six times. A lizard, snake, frog, a small bird, a collie, and now he's stuck as a monkey, specifically, a chimpanzee.]
Well this is quite a predicament…
Before anyone says anything, this is NOT a shipping picture :_D
I'm very heavily biased towards the Edgeworth family, but I mean, DL-6 didn't just affect them. It affected a LOT of people.
Maya's also always held a special place in my heart, so I figured this was appropriate.
I want to believe that if Miles Edgeworth ever found out that the spirit medium who channeled his father, and then had to deal with the shame and embarrassment that the whole DL-6 incident brought her and her family, was Maya's mother…and how it affected Maya so much…I'd like to think he'd apologize to her.
"Because that what a gentleman would do…isn't it, father?"
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|Damon to stay off DL for now
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Damon left Friday night's 10-6 loss for a pinch-hitter because of cramps in both calves and a sore Achilles' tendon in his right leg. He's missed several games this season, and been forced to leave others, because of the lingering ailments.
There was no indication of when Damon might start again. He talked to team officials Saturday, and it was decided to keep him off the 15-day disabled list.
``I think we all thought it wouldn't be 15 days,'' Damon said. ``It's probably not even five.''
In the meantime, Damon will get massage and whirlpool treatment. He'll also keeps his legs elevated in the clubhouse during games.
``I need to be right. When I'm not, it makes it tougher for the team,'' he said.
The 33-year-old Damon is batting .269 with two homers and 16 RBIs. He played in 40 of the Yankees' first 46 games - he has played at least 145 games in each of his last 11 seasons, the longest current streak in the majors.
In Friday's loss, Damon said he had trouble catching up to a couple of long fly balls and also lacked a quick first step to get to liners in front of him.
``Johnny's not as young as he used to be, but he's not old,'' manager Joe Torre said.
Minus Damon, Melky Cabrera started in center field against the Angels and Bobby Abreu moved into the leadoff spot. Abreu has been in a season-long slump, and the former All-Star was batting just .236 with two homers and 22 RBIs going into Saturday's game.
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If you really think about it, it's unnerving. The dull, permeating roar that serves as the backdrop to city life. It doesn't matter where you are, a constant drone driving subtly through your head. You can be out for a walk in the park on a sunny afternoon, walking through abandoned school corridors late at night, or even be shut in your room studying, that buzz will be there. At best, you'll call it white noise, a necessary and expected side effect of urban society. At worst, you'll call it a symbiotic parasite, slowly nibbling away at your sanity.
If you've spent some time living in the city, that noise becomes a part of life. A gentle disturbance in the balance of your daily routine. You won't even notice it, save for the rare occasion where it's pointed out or you just suddenly stumble upon the epiphanic notion it's actually present. The hubbub of traffic, ventilation systems, soaring jet engines, wailing sirens, and general chatter meld together in a perfect murmur. Just loud enough to be there when all is supposedly quiet, but also faint enough that you can carry a conversation without a second thought.
It's so pervasive that on the rare occasion when you might actually be somewhere totally quiet, the silence is what strikes you as odd. There's no rumble of the local highway, no screams emanating the playground, no whining of computers in the office. Nothing, except silence. The silence that you're biologically engineered to fear. Where there is life, there should be sound. There should be birds warbling in the trees, crickets chirping in the bushes, and breezes slipping through leaves. But hey, how often do you hear that in the city anyway?
You're sitting in a coffee shop, or maybe the bus. There's a well-dressed man nearby that's gesturing angrily and spouting expletives into his iPhone. Something or other about a trade gone wrong in the foreign exchange, a bit too loudly for you to really enjoy that book you're perusing. What do you do? Well you could ask nicely for him to keep it down, but something tells you that in his current mood, he might not take it the right way. So, why not pull out your headphones and enjoy some music? That, is how unwelcome noise is often dealt with in the city. Use more pleasant noise to drown out the undesired noise. Layers upon layers of sound built up, forming a cocoon within which we live out our lives. Rare, is the case where a sound is actually eliminated from the cacophony.
Silence is very much deafening. But, also a welcome reprieve at times. Silence is golden. Goodnight.
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"I will assure you that services will not be cut…guaranteed."
Rob Ford
Toronto Star (October 8, 2010)
Today is September 13th, 2011, nearly a year after a grassroots campaign on ending the City of Toronto's gravy train successfully catapulted Rob Ford in to mayoralty.
Today, Joe Pennachetti, the City Manager, unveiled his list of recommendations to City Council on how to tackle a $774 million shortfall that will exist in the 2012 budget. The report that KPMG, the firm that the City hired to analyze its core services, delivered was less then…well, let's just say it knocked the socks off of some people what $780 million means. With cuts galore in an attempt to find "efficiencies", there's no doubt that services got cut into after all. But wait a second, just because KPMG recommended it, doesn't mean that the City is adopting it right? Let's take a look at this report…
So what possesses me to sift my way through a 26 page municipal document full of legal vagueness? Probably that faint hometown spark that still commands loyalty. (Sigh).
Anyway. Blah blah blah, mumble jumble jargon poo, "KPMG … identifies 69 opportunities for Council's consideration to eliminate, divest, or reduce some services.", yadda yadda yadda, "Most of the services KPMG put forward for consideration have not been recommended for consideration."… wonder how much of the suggestions actually originate from the KPMG report? That'd be too much documentation to cover.
Aha! Here's the juicy stuff:
Alright, alright. Thanks for sticking with me so far. I'll admit that was dry. Feel free to check out the actual report, I guarantee that it's drier :P But anywho, all in all, some of the cuts are a good idea, some are absolutely horrible, some are sacrifices that I think Torontonians should be willing to make, but most of it seems to be missing its mark. Finding "efficiencies", as Ford so easily phrases it, is not nearly as easy as doing a service review and cutting things. What needs to happen is that each city branch, department, agency, etc. should undergo a stringent audit on overall performance and financial efficiency and then internal changes should be strictly enforced. It's an internal culture issue, not a service issue.
Take the TTC for example. What possesses the transit commission to try and spend $210 000 a year on one art consultant!? At this time!? That makes no sense, financially, logically, howeverally. If we need an art consultant, we do not need a brand name consultant; a competent one will do quite nicely thank you very much. There are people working for this city who are definitely off their rockers. I mean, we need the Province to step in and crack down on this!? And there's so much more! Just in the TTC, the stories that exist on the inefficiency of how the whole commission is operated. It's yearly $1.4 billion doesn't even nearly need to be that much if it streamlined its operations, which I am fairly confident can be done with minimal effect on service.
Overstaffing and inefficient performance are the key underlying problems here. Cuts to service will cut into this $774 million shortfall, but look at how much? $100 million in 2012 and $200 million to $300 million over the next three years. What about the remaining few hundred million dollars eh? Is this not proof enough that cuts aren't being made in the right places? The next thing you know, our City Council will have sold the city to pay down debt. I mean look at what Pennachetti says, or as always in the nature of political speech, his choice of vocabulary and what he doesn't say if the Council approves his recommendations, "That would contribute to assisting and balancing the budget for 2012." Note, "contribute to" and how it's not "That would balance the budget for 2012."
In order to fix Toronto, the City will have to go through a long and arduous process of improving its overall efficiency. Not stumble along and blindly trying to get lucky by "finding efficiencies". There is no fast way to financial prosperity here; the service cuts will only do so much. It's like building a hockey team. Maybe, Mr. Ford, you can learn something from Mr. Burke, who's actually doing a rather excellent job of rebuilding the Toronto Maple Leafs at the moment. A culture change needs to be affected and the "culture of entitlement" needs to be ridden from this city.
"I will assure you that services will not be cut…guaranteed." Mr. Ford, I think you've broken your promise. Services will be cut…guaranteed. Oh yes, a 2% - 2.5% tax hike next year too. At least that's what he says now. Cheers. Re-election odds at this stage of the game? Slim to none. But for the sake of fairness ladies and gentlemen, please remember that this whole thing is but a report of recommendations from a City Manager to the Executive Committee. That's all. No need to judge- yet. Let's wait until our Council actually decides on what we're going to do. But for the time being, feel free to dust off those pitchforks and torches.
Stay tuned though, because up next in politics, the Ontario Elections. Scale up the scope of the government, scale up the financial problems. No longer are we in the realm of the hundreds of millions, but the hundreds of billions! A $245 billion debt in fact. Mr. McGuinty, it's time to stop mentioning how you inherited a $5.6 billion debt.
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Dorner died of self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, authorities say
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Christopher Dorner, the former LAPD police officer who carried out a vengeful rampage against his fellow ex-cops and others, died of a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head during an intense firefight with police in rural Big Bear, Calif., authorities said Friday.
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The charred human remains located in the burned out cabin in Seven Oaks, Calif., have been positively identified to be those of Christopher Dorner, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
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The chase, shootout, standoff and inferno that ended the search for suspect ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner began when a mother-daughter team startled the suspect in his mountainside hideout, officials told NBC News.
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With a chase, a raging gun battle, and a blazing cabin fire, the hunt for suspect Christopher Dorner that has kept Southern California in terror for the past week may have come to an end on Tuesday. Charred human remains were discovered in the Big Bear cabin where police sources say the burly ex-LAPD cop barricaded himself in what might have been the deadly end to the biggest manhunt Los Angeles has ever seen.
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A charred body identified by a source as the corpse of former LAPD cop Christopher Dorner was found Tuesday night in the torched mountainside cabin where he had barricaded himself after killing one sheriff's deputy and wounding a second in a gun battle.
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A massive manhunt is under way for a hulking ex-LAPD cop suspected of carrying out a twisted plan — detailed in a chilling online manifesto — to settle old grudges by executing police officers and their families. Christopher Dorner (pictured on lef), a 270-pound former Navy reservist who was tossed off the police force in 2008, is wanted for the double murder of a retired captain's daughter and her fiancé in Irvine, Calif., on Sunday.
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I actually attack the concept of happiness. The idea that - I don't mind people being happy - but the idea that everything we do is part of the pursuit of happiness seems to me a really dangerous idea and has led to a contemporary disease in Western society, which is fear of sadness. It's a really odd thing that we're now seeing people saying "write down 3 things that made you happy today before you go to sleep", and "cheer up" and "happiness is our birthright" and so on. We're kind of teaching our kids that happiness is the default position - it's rubbish. Wholeness is what we ought to be striving for and part of that is sadness, disappointment, frustration, failure; all of those things which make us who we are. Happiness and victory and fulfillment are nice little things that also happen to us, but they don't teach us much. Everyone says we grow through pain and then as soon as they experience pain they say "Quick! Move on! Cheer up!" I'd like just for a year to have a moratorium on the word "happiness" and to replace it with the word "wholeness". Ask yourself "is this contributing to my wholeness?" and if you're having a bad day, it is."
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VIDEO: Prada S/S 2013 Commercial
Today, Prada released its Spring 2013 campaign video to accompany the print ads the brand released in December.
The video was shot by Steven Meisel and stars ten of today's top working models: Vanessa Axente, Saskia de Brauw, Irina Kravchenko, Eva Herzigova, Sung Hee,Irene Hiemstra, Kirsten Owen, Sasha Pivovarova, Maartje Verhoef and Raquel Zimmermann.
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Zuma's Revenge - Article
Zuma's Revenge Arrives Next Month from PopCap
Video games are largely reserved for recreational purposes as many people find them a great way to unwind after a hard day spent at the office or doing other things that weren't that fun. But lately there has been an invasion of sorts of fun and addictive video games from which we cannot escape not even at work.
Partly responsible for this epidemic is PopCap Games, which launched titles like Bejeweled, Peggle or the more recent Plants vs. Zombies, which have severely impacted productivity in a lot of offices where a computer had such titles installed. Another great title from the company was Zuma, which paved the way for the domination of all other casual games developed by PopCap.
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The original Zuma has millions of fans around the world, said Jason Kapalka, co-founder and Creative Director at PopCap, so there was a lot of pressure when doing the sequel to really deliver something they'd love, without wrecking the classic Zuma gameplay. Zuma's Revenge! adds a ton of variety to the mix, with over 60 new maps, all new power-up balls like the Laser Frog and Lightning Color Nuke, and a half dozen custom 'boss battles' against giant, evil tiki spirits. Plus we've added several new modes, including a speedy 'blitz'-style challenge game and the fearsome Iron Frog gauntlet for the most elite players.
In this new Zuma game, players will take the role of the fearless ball-shooting frog once more and explore other ancient temples and ruins. A series of arcade challenges await, which will test your ability in color matching the balls in the various puzzles. Higher screen resolutions, new 3D particle effects and support for widescreen monitors will be enabled right out of the box and will attract a lot of players.
In Zuma the player takes the role of a fearless ball-shooting frog, exploring ancient temples and ruins. By firing colored spheres into an advancing chain of balls to make matches of three or more, the frog blasts his way through a series of arcade challenges. The sequel brings the player to an all-new setting, the Polynesian paradise of Zhaka Mu, and ups the ante with nearly triple the screen resolution of the original game, cool 3-D particle effects, and support for widescreen monitors. A full list of new features in Zuma's Revenge! will be available at launch.
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Covering all of Leeds and surrounding areas, we have a strong base of regular residential window cleaning customers. Our ladderless pure water fed pole systems ensure a spotless, streak free finish, including uPVC frames and doors at no extra cost. Our window cleaners are fully insured and qualified, meaning you are getting a professional cleaning service. We also offer specialist window and conservatory PVC cleaning.
Carpet Cleaning
We will clean, freshen, and revitalise your carpets. Together with our professional and powerful cleaning machines, and eco-friendly cleaning products, you will get the best results. We cover all of Leeds and surrounding areas for both domestic carpet cleaning, and commercial carpet cleaning. We also travel across West Yorkshire for larger commercial contracts. For more information, and a free no-obligation quote, please go to our carpet cleaning Leeds page and contact us today.
Commercial Window Cleaning
Alongside a wide variety of residential properties, we also clean schools, businesses, offices, student accommodation, shops, restaurants, hotels, and more - both large and small. We hold regular contracts with property management companies and landlords. Our commercial window cleaners can travel across West Yorkshire so please get in touch for more information and a free quote.
Solar Panel Cleaning
Get more output from your domestic and commercial solar panels with our solar panel cleaning services! Your solar panels may be 'self cleaning' but your electric output will still benefit from a once or twice yearly clean using our pure water system, getting rid of tough dried on dirt and pollution. Using our water fed pole system, we remain safely on the ground with little or no disturbance to you or your property.
Get in touch with Squeak and Bubbles!
To make a booking, for more information, or for a free no-obligation quote, please contact us:
- Pure water window cleaners are no more expensive than a traditional window cleaner, PLUS we clean your uPVC frames at no extra cost.
- Pure water fed poles are quicker and more effective at removing grease, dirt and water marks than conventional window cleaning, and your windows stay cleaner for longer!
- We don't need to use ladders giving you greater privacy, enables us to clean previously unreachable windows in complete safety, and being only pure water it's environmentally friendly.
- We can clean glazing up to 50 feet high! Our feet stay safely on the ground and can reach your windows without damaging areas such as lawns or flower beds.
Find out more about us.
Our Squeak and Bubbles dedicated supplies shop is coming very soon!
The Squeak and Bubbles team work really hard to ensure our school's windows are squeaky clean!
I contacted Squeak and Bubbles at short notice to clean carpets for a property I was working on. They did a thorough job. You couldn't tell I'd been working there!
Darran does a great job cleaning my windows. He's trustworthy, friendly, and efficient.