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Intel and Tarocco Locations
Your objective in this mission is to find a launcher and disarm it. Follow the way points to the first set of enemies, they're located around a few ruins. Stick close to the wall on your right so you don't get flanked by anyone. Clear out the area and walk to the next way point in a river. Walk under a bridge where two enemies are standing, take them out before they see you. Walk up to the next set of ruins which acts as an enemy base. Stick to the rocks on the right just like before. Walk up the steps to find a great vantage point. Keep an eye out for any enemies with rockets.
Once the area is clear, head down and find an intel datapad. It's on one of the crates in the middle of the base.
Follow the way point to the next set of enemies. A sentry turret is set up right around the corner. Stick to cover and take it out with a grenade. There are enemies all around this place, including a few snipers in the back. Eliminate all hostiles in the area and move up to the next way point. The next area is full of enemies and sentries. There are sentry turrets which fire machine guns, and sentry cannons which fire rockets. Shoot the red barrels around them to blow small areas up quickly.
Once the area is clear, walk down to pick up any weapons or ammo. The second intel datapad is in the Western area on a crate.
Keep moving up the hill to the next area. The enemies will ambush you with snipers and rockets. Stick back and take out the snipers or they will kill you from behind cover. They're at such an elevated position that cover won't matter. Take out all men on the ruins and move forward. More men will walk out as you move up.
Continue on into the temple. You won't find any enemies right away, but stay on guard. You will eventually reach a big room full of many enemies. These guys will have the best armor, shotguns, rockets, and assault rifles. Stay behind cover and use any explosives, if you have them. Clear the room and pick up the third intel datapad on a table.
Exit the temple and walk towards the Launcher way point. A tarocco is slightly hidden on the way to the launcher. Use this map to find it:
Reach the launcher and prepare for a fight. Set your team up behind the walls in front of you. Waves of enemies will come pouring out of the ruins. You will face every enemy the game has thrown your way so far. Defend the launcher until the mission ends.
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It would be nice if Chris O'Donnell would take his hands out of his pants, crawl out from under his desk, and do something to change the course of this company. He is a do-nothing executive that clearly lacks the leadership necessary to run a company. It's no wonder he was high on Lane Cardwell and Dean Riesen's list of CEOs. O'Donnell is just like they are.
At least Mr. O'Donnell knows how to keep his pants zipped. All stocks are suffering, so to say that O'Donnell is the culprit is stupid. The stocks are going to continue sliding now with people not eating out as much. Mmmmmm....so what will you think of the comparative comps now?

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Transfer window is over, not gonna lie it sort of seems like every team in Serie A beefed up, but us. Llorente was a great deal, but we all knew it was coming eventually. Obviously we're all hoping for Anelka to succeed, for me he's the only question mark at this point. I've already seen enough of Peluso to know the player he is and the other three are all 20 years old or younger so time will tell. Glad Lucio is out and useless Ziegler is at least being loaned out... again.
Anyways, this window brings up another point I wanted to discuss. I don't know if you guys saw, but apparently we we're trying to pull off a last minute trade with Parma, Quagliarella for Belfodil. So my point of discussion is, why the fuck do we (and evey other team he's played on) want to get rid of Quagliarella!?! This is seriously something I will never understand, he should have never left Samp, Napoli, and now he shouldn't leave Juve! I get that he's an unorthodox striker and doesn't always make the easy ones, but he has the best scoring record on the team! So yeah, whats up with that? Poor Fabio.
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This has single handedly caused more companies to go bankrupt than anything else. Patrick Byrne has lead a campaign to stop this for the past number of years.He also writes a daily commentary on what the hedge funds are targeting to take down now.http://www.deepcapture.com/
investors, the real problem is not just that shorts target companies to beat down into oblivion, they do that..but, you can't eliminate shorting altogether, because it serves a useful purpose, and does provide liquidity to markets..but what has to be done now is to enforce laws vigorously against naked shorting..this is the problem..and everyone should write your congressman to remind the sec to actually enforce the laws already on the books..ie. catch a naked short artist, and prosecute him, make an example of a high profile hedge fund, not that hard to prove, and this behavior will cease..
I agree totally. Shorting stock has its place. But what these hedge funds are doing is borrowing stocks with the consent of the brokerage that don't exist.Sometimes the brokerage doesn't want to lose favor with a huge fund that may be its bread and butter. Phantom stocks are borrowed, way above the float in order to benefit the hedge funds that initiated the short knowing too well they will never be delivered.This is not limited to some rogue funds either. Something else happens in June 2006: a former SEC investigating attorney named Gary Aguirre writes an 18-page letter to Congress. If the contents of this letter are accurate - as they are later proven to be - this is the biggest scandal in the SEC's seventy-plus years of operation.Aguirre writes, "I believe our capital markets face growing risk from lightly or unregulated hedge funds just as our markets did in the 1920s from unregulated pools of money - then called syndicates, trusts or pools. Those unregulated pools were instrumental in delivering the 1929 Crash. …There is growing evidence that today's pools-hedge funds-have advanced and refined the practice of manipulating and cheating other market participants."Aguirre then describes an investigation that he led at the SEC. "The investigation was two-pronged," he writes. The first prong concerned allegations that the head of a major investment bank provided an illegal inside tip to a large hedge fund. "The second prong of the investigation…market manipulation…involved two classes of suspected violations: wash sales and naked shorts."That is, this investigator was investigating phantom stock sales by hedge funds.He writes, "Some of my colleagues believed [the naked short] prong held a greater potential to severely injure the financial markets."Unfortunately, Aguirre continues, this investigation was "stopped in its tracks" because the investment banker in the insider trading prong had "political connections." In later media stories, it is revealed that the investment banker was John Mack, head of Morgan Stanley. The hedge fund that Aguirre was investigating was called Pequot Capital.http://www.deepcapture.com/the-story-of-deep-capture-by-mark-mitchell/


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I'll see your:AFE- king,woodgate,hutton,berbatov, keane,baleand raise you Jenas, O'Hara, Bent, Hudderstone, Zokora and Tanio, (the latter two are very versatile, the board won't let him make such a loss on Bent after only 1 season, O'Hara's ripe for him to mould, and Jenas has been on form lately)50/50 (in likeliness to stay order) - Malbranque (almost def stay - I've liked him this season - but O'Hara & Bale are clearly meant to replace him eventually), Chimbonda (he's proved his versatility) , Robinson (you can't lose your top 2 keepers in one go can you?), Lennon (depends what else is on offer), Rocha, Dawson, Kaboul (depends what else he buys but at least one of these has to stay. I'd like it to be Dawson as he's young & when he's on form he's brilliant, but he's sporadic & the other 2 have been injured so have that to suggest they have more time before he makes a decision)GOING-stalteri,gardner,boateng,cerny, 3 or 4 of the 50/50's, and anyone who's so rubbish I can't remember I've missed them. I've given him quite a big squad to work with haven't I... financially that might not be acceptable, what with Joe's money problems these days.


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IMHO no-one can prove what can be felt by the body or not, & if it ads or not to recreating the illusion of a live sound, perceived by the brain as more natural.
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The frequency range is not an even scale. It doubles with each octave. So the difference between 20Hz and 40Hz is exactly the same as the difference between 10,000 Hz and 20,000 Hz. When you are talking about the difference between 20kHz and 21.5 kHz, you are talking about a single note's difference on a piano. 15kHz to 20kHz is four notes.
If you are "feeling" a high frequency note by turning up the volume, you aren't necessarily *hearing* that note. Everyone can feel sound pressure from inaudible frequencies if they're loud enough.
The middle of the frequency range is what matters. Don't worry about the stuff only bats can hear.
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Care to put a wager on that? I have 20$ and a baseball bat that says you're wrong.
Male 24 and I can't hear anything above 17khz
Kind of depressing :(
Guess I'm paying for the volumes of my teenage years (not only headphones but target shooting with .308s and playing large guitar amps with no ear protection, etc).
Edited by machoboy - 9/11/12 at 8:31pm
Hmm, in a very strange twist, even though I hear nothing from 17-20, I hear 21 khz extremely clearly. I verified this with the tone generator and slow, massive frequency sweep in my DAW. I mean, I hear 21khz more easily than I hear 15khz.
There's just a complete hole from 17k through just below 21 then it comes back for 1000hz clear as a bell, very strange.
Moral of the story: shoot with earplugs
Edited by machoboy - 9/11/12 at 8:38pm
25, Male. Can hear up to 22 htz ;). Weird part is I had a harder time hearing 20 htz out of them all. Was the most faint.
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Caused or brought to light?
Can't argue there. Would suck if they tried it backwards :P.
After more sine tones and sweeps, I can hear down to 1 hz but only up to 17 khz...
New meaning to the term "basshead"?
Edited by machoboy - 9/11/12 at 10:58pm
Am I mistaken when I google lowest audible frequencies and read that most people stop hearing at 20 hz? Wow. I hear practically the same volume from 0 hz through the entire spectrum up to 17 khz
I need to get a job on Dune listening for sandworms or something
The higher you go up the harder it gets to hear it. The lower it goes the harder on the ears it is lol. Gotta pump the volume down then :P.
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Up to 15kHz... It is what it is
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can hear up to 24Khz
i didn't really tried this test, but according to my audiologist i can hear sounds up to 24Khz which is really impressive/unbelivable?!
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Nike Drops Pacquiao After Boxer Says Gay People 'Are Worse Than Animals'Manny Pacquiao's latest disparaging comments about gays have cost him a contract with Nike.
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The 2011 NBA trade deadline has come and gone, but Page 2 envisions 10 blockbuster deals that could've reshaped the very foundation of the league.
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Robin Lopez for Brook Lopez
Phoenix sends center Robin Lopez to New Jersey in exchange for center Brook Lopez.
The skinny: The Suns make a significant statistical upgrade in the post, while the Nets get younger at the center position -- albeit only by about a minute. Win-win!
Ben Gordon, Tayshaun Prince and Tracy McGrady for Marcus Camby, Andre Miller and Rudy Fernandez
Detroit sends forward Tayshaun Prince and guards Ben Gordon and Tracy McGrady to Portland for forward Marcus Camby and guards Andre Miller and Rudy Fernandez.
The skinny: The Blazers acquire McGrady ... and get younger. Plus they clear cap space with Prince's expiring deal. Fernandez demanded a trade last offseason, so enjoy Detroit, fella! Meantime, the Pistons get out from under Gordon's contract and acquire two grizzled vets. John Hollinger's analysis formula predicts this trade will reduce the Pistons' win total by six and the Blazers' win total by eight. Lose-lose!
Chris Paul for Jason Kidd, J.J. Barea, Shawn Marion, Ian Mahinmi and Brian Cardinal
New Orleans sends guard Chris Paul to Dallas for guards Jason Kidd and J.J. Barea, center Ian Mahinmi and forwards Shawn Marion and Brian Cardinal.
The skinny: This maneuver would allow the Hornets to get three-plus seasons of Marion plus additional value for Paul, who likely will sign elsewhere (cough, New York, cough) after next season anyway. The Mavericks acquire a bona fide superstar and become Y2K compliant at the point guard position.
Jason Richardson, Ryan Anderson and Quentin Richardson for Caron Butler and DeShawn Stevenson
Orlando sends guards Jason Richardson and forward Ryan Anderson to Dallas for forward Caron Butler and guard DeShawn Stevenson.
The skinny: The Mavs aren't done dealing yet. Dallas replenishes its roster after going all out to land Paul, while the Magic bring in two vets for a playoff run. If necessary, Dallas can sign and ship the corpse of Keith Van Horn to Orlando to complete the deal.
Gerald Henderson for Tyler Hansbrough
Charlotte sends guard Gerald Henderson to Indiana for forward Tyler Hansbrough.
The skinny: These two players will be forever linked after their bloody on-court encounter in 2007. This deal would give the Pacers a fourth Duke alum on their roster, while providing Michael Jordan with a coveted Tar Heels legend for his Bobcats. Seriously, if Joe Wolf isn't available, can you do better than Hansbrough?
Shaquille O'Neal and Kendrick Perkins for Ron Artest and Theo Ratliff
Boston sends centers Shaquille O'Neal and Kendrick Perkins to the Los Angeles Lakers for forward Ron Artest and center Theo Ratliff.
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Four-team deal involving Andrei Kirilenko, Kenyon Martin, Yao Ming and Michael Redd
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Darko Milicic for Mike Miller
Minnesota sends center Darko Milicic to Miami for guard Mike Miller.
The skinny: The Timberwolves acquire a solid shooting guard in Miller, a South Dakota native who returns close to his childhood roots. The Heat fortify their interior with Milicic, adding the No. 2 pick from the 2003 draft to a roster that already boasts the No. 1, No. 4 and No. 5 selections from '03. Miami can also lean on the playoff wisdom of Milicic, who was the first player from that group to win a ring and the only one to make two NBA Finals appearances.
Amare Stoudemire for Samuel Dalembert
New York sends forward Amare Stoudemire to Sacramento for center Samuel Dalembert's expiring contract.
The skinny: Hey, who gave Isiah the code for the conference call?!
Blake Griffin, Eric Gordon and Baron Davis for Nick Collison, Daequan Cook and Nenad Krstic
Los Angeles Clippers send forward Blake Griffin and guards Eric Gordon and Baron Davis to Oklahoma City for forward Nick Collison, guard Daequan Cook and center Nenad Krstic.
The skinny: Donald Sterling decides to give away the farm in order to get out from under the contract of Davis, whom he heckled about being out of shape earlier this season. Seriously, would this be that out of character for an owner who once actually asked his head coach at the time, Paul Silas, to tape players' ankles himself in order to save the team money?
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"Stayed at the Empire Hotel for a short holiday in Brunei. First impressions as you enter the grounds and then the foyer are overwhelming. This feeling is repeated as you discover new areas including the pool area. However the most impressive thing about the Empire is the staff- always helpful, ge..."
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"The hotel room is clean, spacious. The staff is friendly. Had a good workout at the Fitness Zone with an extensive variety of gym equipments, group classes. Energy Kitchen sells healthy food & cold-press juices. WIFI is bad though."
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"Hotel was nice. Great building. You have to buy bottled water from the hotel staff. There's very little around the area, but it's only a 15-min bus ride to city centre."
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"I stayed in this hotel on my way to Cebu. The staffs were friendly, the check-in service was quick, and it's located across the street from the Green Belt Malls. The room was spacious, the air conditioner was cool too. And the best thing is, the room that I got has complimentary snacks and drinks..."
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Soros Sells Gold ETPs as Paulson Keeps Bet on Holding the Metal
Billionaire George Soros sold most of his physical gold holdings in the first quarter as bullion prices rallied toward a record, while hedge-fund manager John Paulson retained his stake in a bet the rally would continue.
Soros Fund Management LLC sold 99 percent of its holding in the bullion-backed SPDR Gold Trust, all 5 million shares in the iShares Gold Trust and cut stakes in NovaGold Resources Inc. and Kinross Gold Corp., a government filing yesterday showed. Paulson & Co. maintained 31.5 million shares in the SPDR Gold Trust, and boosted holdings of mining companies including Barrick Gold Corp. and Gold Fields Ltd., its filing showed.
The decade-long surge in gold lured investors seeking better returns than equities or bonds and an alternative to currencies, boosting purchases of exchange-traded products such as SPDR and iShares to a record in December. Accelerating inflation, Europe's debt crisis, a weakening dollar and fighting in Libya boosted the spot price to an all-time high of $1,577.57 an ounce on May 2. By May 13, ETP holdings had slipped 3.6 percent from their peak.
"We're somewhere in the fourth or fifth inning of the gold rally, and they're positioning for the last half of the game," said James Dailey, who manages $200 million at TEAM Financial Asset Management LLC in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. "As the precious metals rally ends, you'll get a transition toward related equities." Dailey said he expects gold to reach $2,500 over the next two years.
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Mining stocks trailed gold in the past year as the metal advanced 22 percent. During that period, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Gold & Silver Index of 16 mining companies advanced 8.6 percent. Kinross Gold slumped 22 percent and Randgold Resources Ltd. fell 15 percent, while Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. advanced 39 percent.
Soros Fund Management, based in New York, held 49,400 shares of SPDR Gold Trust as of March 31, compared with 4.72 million at the end of the fourth quarter, according to the filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Soros sold 9.41 million shares of NovaGold Resources and 2.58 million shares of Kinross, while buying 301,300 shares of Freeport and 7,600 shares of Goldcorp, the filing shows. Michael Vachon, a spokesman for Soros, declined to comment on the sale.
Paulson, 55, who bet against U.S. mortgage markets amid the subprime crisis, is also the biggest owner of Johannesburg-based AngloGold Ashanti Ltd., Africa's largest producer, filings and data compiled by Bloomberg show. New York-based Paulson's funds generated profits of more than $3 billion in 2007.
Armel Leslie, a Paulson spokesman, declined to comment before the filings were made public.
'Ultimate Bubble'
"While backward-looking, it is the best available indicator of investors' precious-metals exposure," Edel Tully, an analyst at UBS AG in London, said May 9.
Investors in 10 gold-backed exchange-traded products owned 2,041 metric tons as of May 13 valued at $98 billion with gold at $1,493.60, according to Bloomberg calculations. Gold futures settled at $1,490.60 in New York yesterday.
Soros Fund Management manages about $28 billion. The company's SPDR Gold Trust holding was worth $6.9 million as of March 31, the filing showed, compared with $655 million Dec. 31.
Soros described gold in January last year as "the ultimate asset bubble." In a Nov. 15 speech the 80-year-old investor said that conditions for the metal to keep rising were "pretty ideal" and in January this year he said the boom in commodities may last "a couple of years" longer.
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Investor demand for precious metals accelerated after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in September 2008 and as governments and central banks pumped trillions of dollars into the world financial system. The Federal Reserve has held interest rates near zero since December 2008 and Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has said he's in no hurry to raise interest rates and that he will keep reinvesting proceeds of maturing debt held by the central bank in bonds.
The European Central Bank last month raised rates for the first time in almost three years to cool accelerating consumer prices. President Jean-Claude Trichet said May 9 that the world's central bankers are united in fighting inflation. Some investors buy bullion as an inflation hedge, while higher interest rates increase the opportunity cost of holding the non-interest-bearing metal.
Soros's biggest holding at the end of the first quarter was Adecoagro SA, the South American farmland venture that sold shares to the public in January.
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Along with gold investments, Soros reduced his stakes in Delta Air Lines Inc., Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. and Ford Motor Co., while divesting holdings in Plains Exploration & Production Co. and Best Buy Co. The hedge fund boosted its stakes in Motorola Solutions Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co.
Gold ETP holdings declined 69.94 tons, or 3.3 percent, in the first quarter, the first drop in a year, as prices increased 0.8 percent. Silver holdings rose 1.9 percent, palladium assets fell 1 percent, while platinum holdings gained 12 percent.
Some "ETF liquidation in the quarter was not actually outright gold selling," UBS's Tully said. "In some cases, investors switched their gold exposure from ETP-based to allocated. This somewhat distorts the ETP ownership picture."
Eric Mindich's Eton Park Capital Management LP reduced its stake in the SPDR Gold Trust by 48 percent during the first quarter, according to a government filing. Eton Park sold 2.165 million shares, cutting its holdings to 2.328 million as of March 31, the filing shows.
Touradji Capital
Touradji Capital Management LP, founded by Paul Touradji, sold all of its assets in the SPDR Gold Trust during the first quarter. The fund held no shares of the exchange-traded product as of March 31, compared with 173,000 shares at the end of the fourth quarter, the company said in a filing last week. Touradji also reduced its holdings of Barrick Gold, the world's largest producer of the precious metal.
Money managers who oversee more than $100 million in equities must file a Form 13F with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 45 days of each quarter's end to show their U.S.-listed stocks, options and convertible bonds. The filings don't show non-U.S. securities or how much cash the firms hold.
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Plasma Catalytic Extraction of Oxygen from the Martian Atmosphere
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AbstractPlasma catalytic techniques are proposed for the extraction of oxygen from the abundant carbon dioxide contained in the Martian atmosphere (95% CO2).. The Phase I project will clearly demonstrate the feasibility of achieving these goals by focussing on key aspects of the technology, such as efficient microwave plasma catalytic conversion at relevant pressures and processing rates. The Phase II program will advance the technology through a more in depth development effort to the point where a fully functional prototype will be assembled and tested. Successful culmination of this effort will result in a self contained, energy efficient technique that can be utilized in robotic precursor missions to Mars to stockpile oxygen in support of future manned missions to the planet.
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Suge Knight's Jail Cell Toilet Is Haunting Him….And He Might Have A Tumor
The L.A. County Jail should really make Suge Knight teach community college theater students how to bring the theatrics and raw drama in extra heavy doses, because he knows how it's done. Since Suge has been in jail on murder charges, he has collapsed in the court room all extra dramatic-like, had a panic attack and appeared before a judge in a wheelchair, because what kind of cold-hearted judge is going to punish a weak soul in a wheelchair? Since the meanie judge has yet to take pity on Suge's plight and transfer him from his jail cell to a suite at the Four Seasons, he has stepped it up. Suge is crying that his toilet is crazier than him and claims he might have a brain tumah.
Tom Mesereau, who represented Michael Jackson during that child touching trial, is Suge's new lawyer and he recently filed papers asking for the Blanche DuBois of gangsters to be moved to a different cell. Suge is crying that his toilet is broken and flushes every 20 minutes all day and all night. Poor delicate, dew drop Suge doesn't have a proper velvet settee to have his fainting spells upon and now he has to deal with a busted toilet disturbing his beauty sleep. Even the toilet is sick of his shit.
On top of Suge's possessed toilet woes, he also claims that doctors think he could have a brain tumor since he regularly experiences numbness on the side of his body. That numbness could merely be from Suge sleeping on a cheap jail cot instead of an Egyptian cotton-covered mattress filled with swan feathers like he's used to. Suge asked that his new cell be in a jail that has access to a medical facility.
The judge is still not taking pity on Suge's plight. The judge denied Suge's transfer request, so he'll have to continue to deal with the sound of the ones he's wronged saying, "Suuuuuuge, Iiiiiii'm goooooing to geeeeet youuuuu," through the haunted toilet. The judge also denied Suge's request to lower his $10 billion bail.
So what now? Suge can either borrow a stunt from fellow jail bird drama queen Roxie Hart by faking a pregnancy or he can start working on an escape plan by wooing a sad and desperate jail house sewing teacher whose clit gets the throbs for diabolical rap mogul dick.
Ian Somerhalder Will Not Be Taking Pictures With You Today. It's HIS Day.
You'd think that any Ian Somerhalder fan who is devoted and crazy enough to stand outside of his hotel in Paris would know that May 28th is International Ian Somerhalder Day and on that day, Ian Somerhalder does not take selfies or sign autographs, thankyouverymuch.
Yesterday in Paris, Ian and his partner in cheese Nikki Reed walked out of their hotel and straight into a group of fans who wanted a picture with him. Since it was May 28th and his day, Ian Somerhalder dramatically let his fans know in an impassioned speech that he would not be posing with them. If you're fluent in side-eye reading, then you can clearly see the guy in the black suit and t-shirt saying, "Um, you know you could just take a quick picture with them in the time it's taking you to give this long ass speech," with his side-eye
That crying girl… It's just Ian Somerhalder! It's not like it's a legendary Ian like Ian Ziering or anything.
I, for one, love Ian's anti-Norma Desmond "I am NOT ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille" monologue. With a few changes, it's the perfect speech to say in many situations. The next time a bill collector calls you, say to them, "You guys, I am not taking a single call from a bill collector today. It is MY day. Don't call me, please. I love you. You're so awesome." Make sure you grab and shake your left titty when you say "MY" so they can really feel the emotion through the phone.
But seriously, if Ian really wanted those fans to leave him alone, he should've just said to them, "Hi, everyone, I'm not Zac Efron." They would've said, "Oh shit," before shuffling away.
Presenting Taylor Swift's High School Drama Club Performance Of "Blank Space"
I watched all 3 hours of last night's American Music Awards and it took a lot of the sweet nectar to get through it. I'm surprised I'm not typing this from a hospital bed as a nurse stands next to me, wringing the booze out of my liver before shoving it back up my asshole. Watching it felt like being stuck in a suburban 10-year-old's iTunes playlist. It was one shit song after another and at one point I weeped for our nation's children, because when I was a kid our ears were filled with the artistic melodies put out by real artists like Milli Vanilli and Vanilla Ice.
Taylor Swift opened the crap song buffet with a performance of that "Blank Space" song and she probably gave the best performance of the night. I'm only saying that because it was a wreck from start to finish. Tay Tay recreated her video by playing a crazy-eyed, boyfriend-ruining psycho (read: herself, basically). It works in the video, but it was a mess live. Bitch ran around like an ostrich with mad squirrel disease. It's like the deranged spirit of Norma Desmond possessed the body of a vintage Barbie.
Tay Tay's performance looks like it was done on the set of a non-union touring production of Scooby Doo Live. I kept waiting for Shaggy and the gang to come out, pull off Taylor Swift's mask and reveal that she's actually Old Farmer Jenkins and it was him killing all those young, hot white men. Tay Tay's acting wasn't the only messy part of that performance. At first I thought she was mouthing to a track, but it became apparent that she wasn't totally lip-synching when an off-key note shot out of her mouth and drop kicked my eardrum.
For the rest of the show, Taylor did what Taylor does: she held court with the "popular girls" (Selena Gomez and Selena's one-time arch rival Lorde) and busted her out inflatable wind dancer moves in the front row. During Selena Gomez's ~emotionally raw~ performance in front of a screensaver, Tay Tay did this:
Those duo of side-eyes…. They say everything.
Lorde (aka Emily the Strange with a spiral perm) is thinking to herself, "Cry, bitch, cry more! Your pain feeds my Hot Topic soul" and Taylor is either crying from the raw emotion or she's crying from the second-hand embarrassment she feels while watching Selena squirt out tears over Justin Fucking Bieber.
And at the end of the show, I made the same face Taylor's making when I realized that I wasted 3 hours of my night and could've watched The Comeback instead.
Katy Perry Responds To The Rumor That She's Taylor Swift's Regina George
Uh oh, passive-aggressive shots fired! It was revealed yesterday in a Rolling Stone interview that human Werther's Original Taylor Swift had written a song for her upcoming album 1989 about a super-mean tour-sabotaging former showbiz frenemy titled "Bad Blood", but it could have also been called "Bad Blind" because it was pretty obvious she was talking about Katy Perry. Now would be a good time to remind you that Taylor Swift is almost 25 and Katy Perry will be 30 years old next month. You know, just in case you thought we were discussing the drama between two 13-year-old girls.
Even though Tay-Tay Butterscotch Sundae never named her by name (CALL A BITCH OUT, TAYLOR), Katy Perry took to Twitter (via UsWeekly) to let everyone know that even though a certain someone (CALL A BITCH OUT, KATY) might act all sweet and innocent, she's actually more of a mean girl than she lets on:
"I prefer to think of myself as a sweet lil' apple pie-baking spring lamb, but sheep works too I guess" – Taylor Swift.
So let me get this straight: Kay-Kay and Tay-Tay used to be friends until Kay-Kay started doing some major plastics sabotage by hooking up with Tay-Tay's leftovers and trying to steal her dancers and saying mean things to Tay-Tay, which made Tay-Tay cry tears of liquid butterscotch into her hand-embroidered lace-trimmed pillows. So she decided to get revenge by showing everyone what an awful person Kay-Kay is by writing a song about her, but she doesn't say who she's talking about, because she's SUCH a good person and would NEVER do something so bitchy. Then Kay-Kay gets revenge on Tay-Tay by
pushing her in front of a bus dragging a bitch on Twitter.
Oh my god, does Ms. Norbury have to call you two into the gymnasium and talk about the times you've felt personally victimized by each other?? Well she isn't going to, because Ms. Norbury is a high school teacher and YOU ARE TWO GROWN-ASS WOMEN!
Madonna Proves She's Still A Nasty Bitch By Taking An Angry Swipe At Lady Gaga On Her New Album
Madonna's 13th studio album isn't expected to be released till like, Christmas or 2016 or some shit (whenever she takes a break from Instagramming sexy memaw selfies in the bathroom, really), but the details of one track have already been leaked, and I'm sure it was totally by accident and not carefully choreographed, because Madonna would never pull such a cheap stunt to drum up publicity for an upcoming album. Never!
According to the Daily Mail, the cunty diss-hissing Madonna of days past makes a return during a song called "Two Steps Behind Me" (aka where the assistant who was hired solely to administer her daily Botox injections is at all times) which is rumored to be about unauthorized Madonna impersonator Lady Gaga. And just like Lady Gaga, the a sampling of the lyrics shows that "Two Steps Behind Me" is destined to be a busted mess:
"You're a copycat, Where is my royalty? You're a pretty girl, I'll give you that. But stealing my recipe, it's an ugly look."
"Did you study me hard enough? You're never gonna be, you're just a wannabe me. Like a sister all messed-up, who's gonna help you out? In your fantasy, you can try it all. But you can't be me."
"You can walk the walk, even talk the talk. But you'll always be two steps behind me."
Oh my god, I love bitchy Madonna as much as the next person, but this song sounds like it was written by Regina George coming out of a Kalteen Bar coma. NO! Regina George would be more creative than that! This is the song Kim Kardashian would write about the "haters" if she knew how to write. It's so bad. But you know the video will be way worse, and I'm actually really excited about that. Madonna is about as subtle as a shit in a shoe, so the video will definitely have a low-budget Lady Gaga ("So a low-budget Madonna?" – You) spying on Madge with binoculars and tearing Vogue-era pictures of out of magazines and hanging them on her wall. It's going to be a melodramatic middle school-looking disaster. I can't wait!
Beyoncé And Jay-Z Want To Call It Quits Without Getting A Divorce
And now for your hourly update on the state of Beyoncé and Jay-Z's maybe-crumbling marriage. According to Page Six, the everlasting love between Yawncé and Joe Camel is as dead as the wifi signal in the basement (Unable to join the network "Is there not a box of old weaves I asked you to organize, Solange?"). But because Beyoncé has an ego the size of …well…Beyoncé's ego, and Jay-Z doesn't want to admit that one of his 99 problems is, in fact, his bitch, they're doing everything in their power to keep from getting divorced.
A source claims that Jay-Z hired marriage counsellors to travel with them on their "On The Run" tour, but they're really only there to help them pretend they don't totally hate each other as they sing about being sooooo in love night after night. Apparently, once the tour ends, Beyoncé plans on putting everything Jay-Z owns in a box to the left and telling that hussy-chasing camel to hit the bricks. The source also says they stopped wearing their wedding rings a long time ago, and that Blue Ivy was a band-aid baby. Basically, IT'S OVER. Except that it's not:
"They are trying to figure out a way to split without divorcing. This is a huge concert tour and they've already gotten most of the money from the promoters up front."
The only thing those two whores love more than attention is money, so this must be a tough decision for them. While Stuntyoncé and Jay-Z would no doubt kill for the chance to milk the hell out of a public divorce, they also want to keep counting their money without getting that guilty feeling that comes from swindling gullible fools at $75 a pop. That's what's known in the legal community calls a Katch-22, aka "The Kardashian Connundrum".
And how dare I refer to Blue Ivy a band-aid baby! I should know better. Band-aids are for commoners. Surely there's some kind of luxury designer adhesive bandage product on the market. Maybe in France? Oh shit, I spoke to soon…
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T.I. Got Into Another Fight Over Tiny, This Time With Azealia Banks
That Model Magic-faced troublemaking Muppet is at it again! Less than a month after an Instagram picture of Tameka "Tiny" Cottle instigated a fight between T.I. and boxer Floyd Mayweather that turned into an ugly Memorial Day chair-throwing Fatburger brawl, she's found herself in the middle of yet another one of her husband's fights, this time with full-time professional crazy Internet person (and sometime rapper) Azealia Banks. Billboard says that it all started after the release of T.I.'s single with Iggy Azalea, "No Mediocre", to which Azealia Cupholder Full of Loose Change Tweeted (then deleted):
"U want no mediocre but…Have you seen your wife?"
RUDE! Tiny Cottle is the very definition of remarkable and extraordinary, you jealous hag. Naturally a statement that nasty would make anyone want to reply back: "Bitch, have you seen how long it's taking you to release an album??", but T.I. took the high road and said nothing. This must have pissed off Azealia even more, because she kept taking swipes at T.I. and Tiny in an insanely bold Twitter rant on Tuesday (which has since been deleted, because Azealia has a hard time releasing stuff) but thankfully Billboard hit ctrl+C before she did. This shit is long and messy, so it's after the break:
Bethenny Frankel Is Bringing All Kinds Of Drama To Her Custody Battle With Jason Hoppy
If you ever wished someone would combine the harrowing courtroom custody battle from Kramer vs. Kramer with the over-the-top drama school theatrics of a Real Housewives reunion show and just a pinch of Michael Jackson face, then I have good news for you! Bethenny Frankel, former RHONY cast member, former talk show host, and former praying mantis (needs verification) is currently fighting with her ex-husband Jason Hoppy over the custody of their 4-year-old daughter Bryn, and Us Weekly says that Bethenny is putting on a performance worthy of a Daytime Emmy with her testimony against her ex. For your consideration...
Bethenny brings the Lifetime made-for-TV movie drama:
"Jason said to me, 'Get ready, we are going to war. It's over. We're done." He would hold Bryn, and he would say, 'You're finished, you're done. I'm going to ruin you.'"
Bethenny brings the classic afternoon telenovela drama:
"He said, 'You're dead to me. I want nothing to do with you. You think I want to be with you on the holidays? You're a piece of shit. You're garbage. You have no idea what I've got on you."
Bethenny brings the Disney Channel drama:
"He would say, 'Mommy should be Ursula the witch. She's a great witch. You be the princess, I'll be the prince, Mommy will be the witch."
Bethenny bring some sort of A&E's Hoarders-themed drama:
"He would leave the house in shambles. There would be dishes everywhere. He would pee and poop and leave it in the toilets."
I understand wanting to come for a trifling hoe in a court of law, but damn, this custody fight is getting messy. I'm not a parent, but it was my understanding that as long as you gave them clean clothes, food, hugs, snuggles, and teach them shapes and shit, you're doing an a-ok job raising your kid. As it turns out, floating a bootycake in the toilet bowl is grounds for losing custody of your child.
And I hope the first thing the judge did after hearing Bethenny's testimony was politely inform her that being compared to Ursula is a compliment, not an insult.
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Jared Leto Is On To You, Jennifer Lawrence
In between tripping down the red carpet, riffing to the audience at the Academy Awards, and stuffing her face full of pizza, Jennifer Lawrence appeared to be going for a new personal best in regards to convincing us that even though she's at the Oscars, she's still just a frumpy food-hongray bridge troll who snuck into Hollywood and keeps it rill by ripping farts in her Dior dress. However, some people thought she might be laying in on a little thick, one of which being Jesus's druggy fuckup brother Jared Leto, who all but dramatically screamed "STUNT QUEEEEEEN!" when asked by Access Hollywood about J-Law:
Shortly before presenting an award, Lawrence looked into the crowd and said, "Why are you laughing? What, is this funny? I'm still watching you!"
And it seems as though Leto, and his family, were to blame for the distraction just moments after she walked out onto the stage.
"She said, 'What are you laughing at?' But what she didn't know was that Ellen [DeGeneres] was on the side…making, pantomiming [motions like], 'Don't fall, don't fall!', and my mom and brother are all cracking up," he revealed.
"I guess we don't have manners. You can take them out of Louisiana, but you can't take the Louisiana out of them, right?"
That would be enough evidence for the government to make you mysteriously disappear. But I guess Jared keeps it more real than J-Law and doesn't give a fuck about taking America's Sweetheart's name in vain, because he then said this:
The Dallas Buyers Club actor jokingly dissed J.Law when asked what he thought about her latest falling incident:
"You know, I'm starting to wonder if this is a bit of an act."
And immediately after the last word left his lips, a cloth bag was thrown over Jared's head and he was ushered away into protective custody, where he'll live out the rest of his life as a pharmacy assistant at a New Mexico Walgreens under the assumed name of Darren Sbarro.
(Pics: Splash)
And For His Next STUNT QUEEN Trick….
Shia LaDouche is facing a lawsuit from comic book artist Daniel Clowes for stealing some of Clowes' work for his short film and he's also facing a class-action lawsuit from millions of humans who sprained their necks while shaking their heads at his copy + paste theatrics. Everybody hates Shia LaDouche right now. So because Shia's name is the #1 answer for the question, "Whose face do you want to punch repeatedly?" on Family Feud, he's taking the hint and retiring. Shia dramatically announced on Twitter last night that he's taking his final bow and is done with creating. To quote Jon Gosselin's piece after he cums and says he's done fucking her: "I wasn't even aware you started, bitch." Shia LaDouche has only created a crotch crabs and dick fleas mutant hybrid, but whatever.
Shia is so sick and tired of hating whores calling him out for his acts of shameless thievery that he's done with public life. As an entire world weeped and screamed out "OH GOD OH GOD WHY?!" at the fact that there will never be an Even Stevens reunion movie, Shia twatted this out:
In light of the recent attacks against my artistic integrity, I am retiring from all public life.
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) January 10, 2014
My love goes out to those who have supported me.
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) January 10, 2014
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) January 10, 2014
Not too long ago, a certain douchey piece of trash toddler was so sick of everyone "picking" on him for being a crusty ass sore that he took all his toys away, said he was done playing and went to sulk in the corner thinking everyone would scream, "No. Don't go. Please." That toddler's name is Justin Bieber. So Shia LaDouche is plagiarizing Justin Bieber now….
Well, at least we have Eagle Eye to remember Shia LaDouche's artistic contributions to culture.


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Economists Split Over Inflation
Economists were evenly divided between those who fear inflation will accelerate over the next year and those who see a bigger risk that the inflation rate will slow from already low levels, according to the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey.
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- See forecasts for growth, unemployment, housing and more. Plus, views on the Fed's rates, stimulus and more. Survey conducted April 9-13. (Or download all data as .xls)
- Complete Coverage: Forecasting Survey
On average, the 56 surveyed economists, not all of whom answer every question, expect tame inflation, forecasting consumer prices in December will be just 1.8% above year-earlier levels.
But there was a wide variance in the estimates which ranged from predictions of no increase in prices at all to a 4.4% increase. Consumer prices barely rose in March from February, and increased 2.3% over the previous year.
When asked what presents a bigger risk over the next year, 23 economists said accelerating inflation and 23 said slowing inflation. That mirrors a divide inside the Federal Reserve. At their March policy meeting, some officials argued the downturn in house prices is causing key measures to understate prices increases; others focused on the decline in inflation measures that exclude food and energy. Chairman Ben Bernanke appears to be in the latter camp.
"The moderation in inflation has been broadly based, affecting most categories of goods and services with the principal exception of some globally traded commodities and materials, including crude oil," he said Wednesday.
The inflation issue is a key consideration for Fed officials debating when to signal markets that they are preparing to raise their target for short-term interest rates, now being held near zero.
"The Fed doesn't want to start raising rates when you haven't got really solid employment momentum," said economist Kurt Karl of Swiss Re, who doesn't see much risk of inflation amid widespread unemployment.
About the Survey
The Wall Street Journal surveys a group of 56 economists throughout the year. Broad surveys on more than 10 major economic indicators are conducted every month. Once a year, economists are ranked on how well their forecasts have fared. For prior installments of the surveys, see: WSJ.com/Economist.
On average, the economists expect the unemployment rate, currently at 9.7%, to fall to just 9.3% by December while the economy adds around 1.9 million jobs over the next 12 months. The survey found that, on average, the economists expect the U.S. economy to expand at about a 3% annual rate in each of the four quarters of this year, although three-quarters said growth is more likely to be stronger than weaker than their forecast.
Economists continued to push back their expectations for when the Fed will begin raising rates. On average, the economists don't expect the central bank to move until November; two months earlier they were predicting September. But predictions ranged widely from June 2010 to January 2012.
Some respondents worry that Fed officials are too focused on today's measures of consumer inflation. "Pipeline price pressures are there," said Conrad DeQuadros of RDQ Economics. He noted signs of increased prices of imports, commodities and at the wholesale level. "Commodity prices are increasing very rapidly, which suggests markets are sniffing out an inflation problem down the road."
Most of the respondents—45 of 52 who answered the question—think that over the next five years, the risks of accelerating inflation are bigger than the risks of slowing inflation. Some say near-term inflation debate shouldn't be the key to Fed policy.
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"A move on interest rates shouldn't even be tied to inflation," said Joseph Carson of AllianceBernstein. "The Fed dropped the funds rate to near zero due to a fast and sharp decline in the economy. Having avoided a 1930s-type scenario, is a 0% policy rate still justified? We criticize banks for offering teaser rates to buy homes, but the Fed is offering a teaser rate for the entire economy."
Among other findings of the survey:
- On average, economists said that if allowed to trade freely China's yuan would be valued at around 5.56 yuan to the dollar compared with the rate of 6.83 yuan at which the Chinese government is holding it. They said there is just a 35% probability that China will be able to maintain growth rates over 10% over the next decade.
- Twenty-six economists said the recently enacted health-care overhaul will do more harm than good while 15 said it will do more good than harm. Asked how the new law will affect the growth in medical costs, 24 said it will accelerate growth, seven said it will slow growth somewhat and 15 said it will have little-to-no effect.
- Economists were split down the middle on whether the U.S. will impose a value-added tax in the next decade. Many of the skeptical economists said such a policy is politically untenable. Others said the government will need it to raise revenue.
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Recently, my site has been experiencing weird inconsistencies when sharing to Facebook.
The site is: http://owlandbear.com
Sometimes (not all the time), Facebook only picks up the URL, not the description or the title, leading to FB posts that look like this:
Other times, it appears to work fine right off the bat:
The only way to fix this the problem seems to be to change the WordPress permalink AFTER the post has been published. Using a custom permalink before a post is published does not yield consistent results, but if I change the permalink after a post is published, it always fixes the problem.
Any thoughts on why this might be occurring?
I have tried disabling all plugins, and even using different themes (like 2011), and it continues to do it. It also does it regardless of whether I use default permalinks or the date & name permalinks.


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The Press Box: Barrio
With its wall of flickering candles and winding, mosaic-topped bar, Barrio is certainly a feast for the eyes. It's also a feast for the palate, presenting a menu of upscale Mexican cuisine enhanced with a Pacific Northwest sensibility. Spirits abound as well, from tequila and mezcal to pisco. Read on to learn more about this Seattle hotspot:
"Inventive tacos fill house-made tortillas with roasted beets and crunchy pumpkin seeds, or pork with caramelized pineapple." — Gayot
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Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 13:30 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:Toshio Kuratomi wrote:I suggested that it the "SHOULD" be changed to "MUST". A package that doesnt even start shouldnt be getting past reviews.On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 20:32 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:Hans de Goede wrote:Not true many reviewers review on the latest stable, it says nowhere that a review should be done on rawhide.Review is about guidelines and nowhere in the guideline does it even say that the fucntionality of the package should be tested. When I suggested that it be added I got back a knee jerk reaction to participate in reviews myself.http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines:: - SHOULD: The reviewer should test that the package functions as described. A package should not segfault instead of running, for example.1. packages never start, applications do.Pendantic waste.2. many applications, when being cluelessly used, only mean they have a functional "usage()"Which covers base functionality.
Ralf wrote in reply to this: "<beep> - You apparently don't have any clues about what you are talking about."
I do not agree with the beep, but let me stress the point: "You apparently don't have any clues about what you are talking about." What Ralf means with: >> 2. many applications, when being cluelessly used, only mean they have a >> functional "usage()"And which should be fully understandable by anyone who claims to have enough domain knowledge to discuss and decide policies, is that if a reviewer just runs app foo like this:
foo <enter> That changes then are large the user will see something like: usage: foo [opt] <input-file> or <output-file>Which sure does NOT cover basic functionality. First please get a clue about what we are talking about (by say packaging 30 packages?) and then return to this discussion.
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Helen Molesworth, chief curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center, talks about the Landscape Confection exhibition and the ideas behind its creation.
Stop in before or after a gallery talk and grab a cup of coffee, snack, or sandwich at The Belmont Deli. Located on the ground floor of The Belmont Building, the deli is open weekdays 7:30 am to 4 pm.
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St. John Jubilee visitors got a different view of the stars, beside the one from the top of the Ferris wheel at a booth with a pile of graffiti style cosmic art.
Daniel Newingham's cosmic drawings are created by mixing layers of different color spray paint, some splatters and a few crumbled up pages from a magazine for texture.
"I saw it online and thought I could probably do that," Newingham said.
Newingham, originally form St. John now residing in Ashland, had only been doing the art for a few weeks before setting up his display at St. John's Jubilee.
"After he saw it, I went and bought him a three cans of cheap paint," his wife said. "After he busted out a few, I went and spent $60 or $70 on paint."
Newingham sells his creations starting at $5 for a standard 11x14 print. He can be contacted through Facebook.
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reminds me of my old fave guitar when i was little. this shot's awesome!
So beautiful!
lol i think i have a bass simiuar to that one X3
Great Photo!
This reminds me of the Tusken Raiders from Star Wars, excellent shot! His silhouette against the fiery sky is majestic.
wow cool!
Impressionante! Let´s get rock! Do you want to ROCK my world?
It's a very inspired picture. Thanks to photoshop for the epic colours. Still, it's a genius idea - congrats!
You did it again. Your works are incredible, because they're more than just pretty pictures. They inspire and amaze me. This one is - once again - one of my favourite pictures I've ever seen.
Sorry, I meant passionate.
It somehow feels passonate!
I can feel absolutely energy! Great!
Epic and beautiful, this photo just makes me amazingly happy. A wonderful visual depiction of the power of music. Well done, thanks for sharing!
I love this more than anything
Epic bass is burning epicly!
Awesome pic.
this is awesome!!
like this
It really is! So much passion!
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oh my god, i think my friend has that bass! it looks exactly the same from the back
and btw, this photo is awesome
and btw, this photo is awesome