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What Does Current Morass Say About Middle East Studies?
The Middle East is in chaos. And while the sectarian and ideological forces which tear the region apart would exist regardless of U.S. policy, decisions made by President Barack Obama and his team of advisors have effectively thrown fuel on the fire. While history might be critical of President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq, oust Saddam Hussein, and seek to establish a democracy in the heart of the Arab Middle East, historians will likely be far more critical of Obama's decisions or, in some cases, failure to make decisions, and the impact of that action and inaction on countries like Syria, Libya, Yemen, Turkey, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Egypt.
For more than a half century U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East has been largely consistent and bipartisan. President Dwight Eisenhower briefly tried to reorient the basis of American policy away from close ties with Israel to a broader alliance favoring Arab states and the Arab narrative—hence the Suez debacle—but he quickly discovered that Israel simply made a better and more consistent ally than the likes of Gamal Abdul Nasser or the myriad Arab leaders, many of whom were simply the latest coup leaders.
It's worth considering why Obama is such an outlier. While, on paper, Obama might be expected to be the most international president—with Kenyan family and a boyhood in Indonesia—when it comes to the Middle East, he had little practical background. His introduction to the region appears to have occurred in American universities, if not directly in Middle East Studies courses, than through his friendship and close association with Middle East Studies luminaries like Rashid Khalidi and perhaps Edward Said as well.
Martin Kramer, currently president of Shalem College in Jerusalem, penned in 2001 one of the best researched, careful, and damning assessments of Middle Eastern Studies, in which he traced the inverse relationship between its polemics and relevance. Much of this can be traced back to Edward Said. Said, is of course, famous for penning Orientalism, perhaps the most influential book in Middle East Studies in the last half century. Few people who cite Orientalism, however, have ever read it. If they had, they would readily see the emperor had no clothes, for Said's essay is so full of errors of both fact and logic as to suggest scholarly incompetence if not academic fraud. Quite simply, the reason why Said is so popular on campus today is because his argument became a blessing to prioritize polemic and politics above fact and scholarly rigor. For Said, up was down, wrong was right, and power was original sin.
Rashid Khalidi, a close friend of Obama from their mutual University of Chicago days, now holds a chair named in Said's honor at Columbia University. He has consistently argued that politicians and diplomats do not listen to those like himself who claim expertise in the Middle East. This was a complaint which permeated his 2004 book Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East, which I reviewed here. The irony here, of course, is that Khalidi, who was previously the PLO spokesman in Beirut, had never been to Iraq but nevertheless castigated policymakers for ignoring his advice on the subject.
Khalidi, as with many others in his field, both sought to prioritize and amplify the importance of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. At the same time, he appears obsessed with post-colonial theory. American power is corrosive, and the road to Middle East peace runs through Jerusalem. Likewise, cultural equivalence predominates: what the West calls terrorism is not so black and white. Hateful ideologies? They are simply the result of grievance. America should apologize and understand and accommodate to the position of the other if it is committed truly to peace.
Obama entered office internalizing such beliefs. Rather than act as leader of the free world, he approached the Middle East as a zoning commissioner. What he lacked in understanding, he compensated for with arrogance—dispensing with decades of accumulated wisdom and experience of predecessors both Democrat and Republican. Rather than jump start the peace process, Obama succeeded in setting it back decades.
When it comes to the U.S. military, there are few places with less trust and understanding than the university campus. Generations have now passed through the Ivory Tower since the end of conscription and, especially at elite universities, few professors or students have any experience in or with the military. The U.S. military is treated in an almost cartoonish, condescending fashion. Rather than see its projection as the enabler of peace, Obama—like many of his university colleagues—saw it as an arrow in the U.S. policy quiver with which past American presidents engaged in wars of choice and unjust gunboat diplomacy. Sovereignty and nationalism were enablers of evil; it was the United Nations and other multilateral institutions that held the key to peace and justice, if only they might operate unimpeded by the United States.
Of course, when put to the test, these assumptions failed completely. Obama's promise to withdraw from Iraq did not win that country peace and stability, but condemned it to a return to terror and war. His failure to intervene in Syria early transferred a situation that might have been resolved with minimum force into a cancer which now spreads throughout the region. His outreach to Iran has shaken decades-long alliances with Arab allies to the core, and broken a trust in the United States and its red lines which will take decades to restore. Never before—not in 1979, not in 1967—has the Middle East been so torn asunder.
And yet, all Obama did was follow the prescriptions taught at so many American universities today: reconcile with Iran, condemn Israel, rationalize terror, trust Islamist movements, and refuse military solutions. The Middle East will test whoever succeeds Obama. It is doubtful that either a Democrat or a Republican will follow Obama's path. History will treat him as an outlier. Still, it is worth considering whether Obama represents academe's first grand experiment, enabling area studies professors to see their ideas put into action on the world stage. If so, perhaps it is worth considering whether many Middle Eastern studies programs are repositories of expertise, or rather have transformed themselves because of their own ideological conformity and blinders into a dustbin of wasted potential.
What Does Current Morass Say About Middle East Studies?
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Georgia on Our Minds
Podcast: Seven theories about Jon Ossoff's loss.
We're podcasting a day early here at COMMENTARY in order to take the measure of the result in the Georgia special House election. Abe Greenwald, Noah Rothman, and I posit seven possible theories to explain what happened—and then we attack the theories! It's positively Talmudic. Give a listen.
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Pamela Geller: The Threat to Free Speech
The following is an excerpt from COMMENTARY's symposium on the threat to free speech:
The real question isn't whether free speech is under threat in the United States, but rather, whether it's irretrievably lost. Can we get it back? Not without war, I suspect, as is evidenced by the violence at colleges whenever there's the shamefully rare event of a conservative speaker on campus.
Free speech is the soul of our nation and the foundation of all our other freedoms. If we can't speak out against injustice and evil, those forces will prevail. Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced.
With that principle in mind, I organized a free-speech event in Garland, Texas. The world had recently been rocked by the murder of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. My version of "Je Suis Charlie" was an event here in America to show that we can still speak freely and draw whatever we like in the Land of the Free. Yet even after jihadists attacked our event, I was blamed—by Donald Trump among others—for provoking Muslims. And if I tried to hold a similar event now, no arena in the country would allow me to do so—not just because of the security risk, but because of the moral cowardice of all intellectual appeasers.
Under what law is it wrong to depict Muhammad? Under Islamic law. But I am not a Muslim, I don't live under Sharia. America isn't under Islamic law, yet for standing for free speech, I've been:
- Prevented from running our advertisements in every major city in this country. We have won free-speech lawsuits all over the country, which officials circumvent by prohibiting all political ads (while making exceptions for ads from Muslim advocacy groups);
- Shunned by the right, shut out of the Conservative Political Action Conference;
- Shunned by Jewish groups at the behest of terror-linked groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations;
- Blacklisted from speaking at universities;
- Prevented from publishing books, for security reasons and because publishers fear shaming from the left;
- Banned from Britain.
A Seattle court accused me of trying to shut down free speech after we merely tried to run an FBI poster on global terrorism, because authorities had banned all political ads in other cities to avoid running ours. Seattle blamed us for that, which was like blaming a woman for being raped because she was wearing a short skirt.
This kind of vilification and shunning is key to the left's plan to shut down all dissent from its agenda—they make legislation restricting speech unnecessary.
The same refusal to allow our point of view to be heard has manifested itself elsewhere. The foundation of my work is individual rights and equality for all before the law. These are the foundational principles of our constitutional republic. That is now considered controversial. Truth is the new hate speech. Truth is going to be criminalized.
The First Amendment doesn't only protect ideas that are sanctioned by the cultural and political elites. If "hate speech" laws are enacted, who would decide what's permissible and what's forbidden? The government? The gunmen in Garland?
There has been an inversion of the founding premise of this nation. No longer is it the subordination of might to right, but right to might. History is repeatedly deformed with the bloody consequences of this transition.
Read the entire symposium on the threat to free speech in the July/August issue of COMMENTARY here.
The Democrats' Crippling Apocalypse Fix
Hair immolation isn't a strategy.
The Democratic Party is in the midst of some soul searching after an overhyped Democratic candidate failed to flip a Republican district. For many, that soul-searching has taken the form of blame- shifting.
Buoyed by district-level polling and the abiding sense that the country was eager for an opportunity to censure President Donald Trump, Democrats became convinced of Jon Ossoff's electability in the race to represent Georgia's 6th District in Congress. Amid their grief over this misjudgment, Democrats are groping in search of a cause for this letdown other than their own imprudence.
The voters in Georgia's 6th didn't respond to Ossoff's centrist appeals and cautious campaign, some contended. What made the difference was vicious outside attacks like one (condemned by all parties) that sought to tie the Democratic candidate to the shootings in Alexandria, Virginia last week. The notion that the affluent, well-educated, urban professionals who populate this Trump-skeptical, GOP-leaning district in the outskirts of metro Atlanta are just too redneck to vote Democrat doesn't wash.
Others have suggested that Ossoff's message was poorly calibrated to meet this particular moment. The Democratic candidate's reluctance to specifically campaign against Donald Trump by name was, in their estimation, a miscalculation. "One important lesson is that when they go low, going high doesn't f**king work," declared Center for American Progress' exasperated president, Neera Tanden. "In an incendiary time, Ossoff has striven to be nonflammable," wrote The New Yorker's Charles Bethea. Indeed, Ossoff's reluctance to call for Donald Trump's impeachment and his skepticism toward progressive spending proposals led some liberals to speculate (sotto voce, of course) that this was the wrong man to pilot a "Trump-backlash trial balloon."
Implied in these frustrated expressions of angst is the notion that Ossoff just didn't speak the language of apocalypse to which Democrats in the age of Trump are accustomed. But this is untrue. Ossoff did speak this language. He devoted time on the trail to lecturing about the threat to American "prosperity and security" represented by climate change. "History will condemn us," Ossoff said after Trump announced his intention to pull out of the Paris Climate Accords. He cut campaign spots warning that Trump "could start an unnecessary war" and implied that he lacked the judgment to determine the appropriate response to the prospect of an incoming volley of nuclear weapons. In his concession speech, Ossoff praised his supporters for standing with him even "as a darkness has crept across the planet." Is this what amounts to caution and prudence in the modern Democratic rhetorical catalogue?
Democrats have been remarkably reluctant to conduct any public postmortem on their party's 2016 campaign, in part, because its members don't believe they did anything wrong. Perhaps they are operating on the assumption that Donald Trump's victory was some kind of fluke and the GOP's historic majorities on the state-and federal-level were the natural results of a pendulum swing against similarly prohibitive Democratic majorities. Whatever the thinking, this reluctance has led to what may become a crippling strategic disconnect. The Democratic Party's base and its elected representatives are not on the same page.
Jon Ossoff and his team used the unprecedented resources at their disposal to test and refine a message that was perfectly attuned to voters in Georgia's 6th District. Despite that well-orchestrated effort, he still came up short. Democratic partisans, meanwhile, having no other indicator of their rhetorical efficacy than their hysterical friends, are convinced that their representatives are simply not fraught enough. Democratic voters, not their elected representatives, call the tune. Eventually, they'll get what they demand.
Ossoff and the Democrats played a good hand well, but not well enough to beat the house. That happens. The risk for Democrats in this instance is to blame this losing candidate for failing to indulge their insatiable ids. It's a risk for any party to elevate candidates for high office solely because they tickle their base voters' erogenous zones. As The Resurgent's Erick Erickson warned, "get ready for the Democrat version of Christine O'Donnell." For Democrats in these overheated times, that's a risk they seem willing to take.
The Chaotic Post-War World Takes Shape
A post-ISIS Potsdam Conference.
Max Boot is right: Russia is not going to risk igniting a third world war by targeting coalition aircraft over the skies of Syria. And yet it would be a mistake to ignore Moscow's warnings. They are indicative of the unstable international environment that could become the new status quo in a world after ISIS.
As the ISIS threat is disrupted and the territory it controls in Iraq and Syria shrinks amid pressure from coalition fighters and their allies, the sovereign powers that intend to maintain their positions in the region after that conflict are asserting themselves in unpredictable and increasingly violent ways.
On Tuesday, the United States shot down an armed Iranian drone that officials said posed a direct threat to U.S.-led coalition troops on the ground in Syria. It was the second time this month that an Iranian-made military UAV was shot out of the sky after it allegedly targeted U.S.-supported forces. In a major escalation, a U.S. warplane engaged and shot down a Syrian Su-22 fighter-bomber on Sunday when it reportedly bombed American-backed forces laying siege to the de facto ISIS capital of Raqqa. Moscow responded to this attack on its vassal state with unnerving threats.
"From now on, in areas where Russian aviation performs combat missions in the skies of Syria, any airborne objects found west of the Euphrates River, including aircraft and unmanned vehicles belonging to the international coalition, tracked by means of Russian land and air anti-aircraft defense, will be considered air targets," read a statement released by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The implication that Russia would target and potentially attack Western aircraft was later downgraded to a promise to escort them out of area. But the important bit wasn't Russia's threat but the region Moscow had defined as off limits.
By delineating the territory west of the Euphrates as beyond the scope of the anti-ISIS coalition mission, Russia has drawn the preliminary outlines of an informal Syrian partition. It is no coincidence that the two Iranian drones destroyed by coalition forces were struck near the Syrian town of al-Tanf, located on Syria's southeastern border with Iraq. According to former Obama administration advisor and Georgetown Professor Colin Kahl, the regime wants "to own the rest of the Euphrates to the Iraqi border, where they hope to link [with] Iranian-backed Shia militia." Even if the West is not preparing for the post-conflict world, Iran, Syria, and Russia are.
The only post-war planning that appears to be on the minds of Western geopolitical architects is the need to rebuild Syria, if only to stave off a humanitarian disaster and prevent further migrations of displaced refugees into Europe. In early April, the European Union's Federica Mogherini revealed just such a plan, contingent upon progress toward Bashar al-Assad's abdication. This announcement was overshadowed, however, by a brutal chemical attack by regime forces on civilians—an attack that resulted in direct hostilities between the United States and the Syrian regime.
Efforts to create a post-war power-sharing framework have stalled, but the task is growing more urgent by the day. With Iran and its proxies, Russia, and Damascus on one side, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE and their proxies on another, and the U.S., U.K., Canada, France, and Australia presiding over all of it, theompeting interests in Syria are impossible to manage absent some kind of structure. Even when ISIS is routed and scattered, the Syrian regime seems likely to endure in some form. That alone ensures that these powers will remain at cross-purposes and, thus, that there will be no speedy troop withdrawals from the region.
The chaos in Syria is only going to get worse as the terrorist threat posed by the Islamic State is contained and controlled. Great power politics is about to make a comeback in the Middle East, and the West doesn't seem to be ready for it.
Iran's Real Missile Target Wasn't Syria
Old obsessions die hard.
On June 18, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched missiles into Syria in retaliation for a terrorist attack on Iran's parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini's tomb the previous week. While these missiles appear to have caused no casualties, Iranian officials were clear that their target went far beyond the Islamic State. According to the Tehran Times:
Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the IRGC aerospace unit, hailed the missile raids, saying any more evil act against Iran will result in "costly consequences." "Our enemies should know that Tehran is not London or Paris," Hajizadeh stated, a reference to the European capitals coming under numerous terrorist attacks over the past years. Iran vowed quick revenge after ISIS suicide bombers and gunmen stormed the parliament and the mausoleum of Imam Khomeini on June 7, killing 18 and injuring at least 56. In a statement released after the attacks, the IRGC vowed avenge, saying, "The spilling of any pure blood will not go unanswered." Also, Major General Mohammad Baqeri, head of the Iranian armed forces, pledged "unforgettable lessons" to terrorists and their backers after the Tehran assault. Former IRGC chief Mohsen Rezaei tweeted, "This was just the beginning of the revenge. Harsher slap is underway." Rezaei also called the missile attacks "the message of Iran's authority" to "the supporters of terrorism."
Ahmad Majidyar, an Iran analyst at the Middle East Institute and a talented Iran-watcher, noted that Rezaei tweeted, "Mr. Netanyahu, this was just the message of Zolfiqar (missile); the message of Shahab and Zelzal is much stronger!" before erasing his tweet.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry has recently been making the rounds lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize. Last week, for example, he traveled to Norway where he sat on a podium with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. There, both criticized the Gulf Arab state and the current U.S. administration. In Kerry's quest for the prize, he either lied about U.S. allies or leaked highly classified intelligence by detailing the (still-classified) contents of conversations. Either way, he sought to depict himself as a peacemaker when, in reality, he emboldened and resourced the main source of instability in the region. In his quest to secure an accord and to cement his own personal legacy at any strategic cost, he watered down language about Iran's ballistic missile program. This provided Iran with cover, or at least enough legal ambiguity, to pursue its ballistic missile program.
Kerry and his team knew Iran's aggressive intent but did not care. Numerous Iranian officials—including those surrounding Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei—have pledged to develop and even use nuclear weapons. It was Hassan Rouhani, as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, who managed, resourced, and oversaw Iran's covert nuclear program to develop such weaponry. Indeed, he subsequently bragged about it.
Despite Iran lobbyists' efforts to suggest that former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad never said that Israel's should be wiped off the map, pictures from Tehran and Iran's own official translations tell another story. When Major-General Hassan Moghadam died in an explosion at a missile laboratory and test facility in 2011, the Iranian press reported that his last will and testament asked that his epitaph read, "The man who enabled Israel's destruction." A year ago, Iran tested to ballistic missiles inscribed in Hebrew with calls for Israel's destruction.
Iran's immediate target might have been the Islamic State, but its ideological goal remains eradication of Israel. That the former commander of the Revolutionary Guards tweeted acknowledgment of such goal should not be as easily erased as his tweet. After all, Iran deal or not, it is the Revolutionary Guards and not Zarif who are in charge of the military applications of Iran's nuclear program.


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Inside Duke Basketball 2012
Emily Krzyzewski Center
Monday, November 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM (EST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Inside Duke Basketball
The Duke Basketball program and the Emily Krzyzewski Center will team up once again and allow basketball fans to get a rare glimpse inside Duke's four-time national championship program with proceeds benefiting the Emily K Center. 'Inside Duke Basketball' guests will have floor side seats in Cameron Indoor Stadium as Coach K leads the 2012-2013 Blue Devils in a preseason practice and shares his thoughts and insights with attendees. Attendees will also tour the Duke Basketball Museum & Athletics Hall of Fame and have dinner in Scharf Hall with Coach K. To cap off the evening, Coach K will welcome surprise guests and give fans a truly rare glimpse inside this storied program.
Tickets for the Monday, November 5 event are $250/person with proceeds benefiting the Emily K Center, a non-profit organization in Durham serving academically-focused, low-income students in out-of-school programming designed to help them achieve in school, gain entry to college, and break the cycle of poverty in their families. Check-in for the event begins at 2:30 p.m. Practice starts promptly at 3:15 p.m.
Please note, should you wish to pay by check, please contact the Emily K Center at 919-680-0308.
When & Where
Cameron Indoor Stadium
Whitford Dr
Monday, November 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM (EST)
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Friday's doubleheader postponed
Teams to play two on Saturday AND Sunday
By Buffalo Bisons | April 12, 2013 9:21 AM ET
Friday's scheduled doubleheader between the Buffalo Bisons and the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders at Coca-Cola Field has been postponed due to rain and wet grounds.
The teams will now play doubleheaders on both Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14 at Coca-Cola Field. Each doubleheader will begin at 1:05 p.m. and will consist of two seven-inning contests.
Both doubleheaders are also single-admission games. Gates will open at 12:00 p.m. on both days. The Coca-Cola Field Box Office will be open at 10:00 a.m. on both days.
Fans holding tickets to Friday's games can exchange them for a comparable ticket to any future 2013 Bisons game (excluding special events). All ticket exchanges must be made at the Coca-Cola Field Box Office. Please note that these exchanges do not have to be made on Friday, April 12. Fans with tickets can exchange them throughout the remainder of the 2013 season.
For more information regarding the exchange policy, fans can visit Bisons.com or contact the Bisons at THE-HERD (843-4373).
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I rode the Kitchensink this past Sunday at Kirkwood. Conditions were thicket cement powder with some areas of light fluffy snow.
POP: The tail is stiff so accessing the pop takes some work and effort but once you get it right it pops hard. Flat land pop is a lot tougher than pop from a jump/bump/hip/etc which in those conditions this board will sail you.
Spinning This board rivals my Rome Mod Rocker for spinning, just get on edge and load then release and the board will drive you hard into a spin. Flat land 180's and 360's were a breeze and when you spin off hits it spins like a dancer on a pole coming down. I was expecting the board to be catchy on incomplete spins but I was wrong, the board was extremely forgiving as long as you are an intermediate/advanced rider.
Speed/Base Has a great fast base but nothing spectacular but to be honest I was completely satisfied with it. I was passing up my friends riding Lib's/Gnu's with sintered bases. I also want to note that I ran over a fair amount of trees & rocks with no noticeable damage and that includes the edges as well so this board is tough from my observation from one day.
Carving I'll be honest, I'm not much of a charger and usually just straight line runs including those I hike and only carve to regulate speed. With that said this board relit a passion for carving. I found myself railing groomers as hard as I can in a carve and this thing just held strong and never once felt like the edge would wash out. Also, from the stiffer tail you can really feel the board drive you out of a carve, it actually made me miss camber....
Powder At medium to high speeds it floated great but not excellent, you still had to pull up on the nose from time to time and keep your weight focused back, no severe leg burn was noticed. At slow speeds... it feels like a camber board but with a slightly better float due to the nose and buttercups. Bottomline if you want that effortless float keep your speed up or look for something different if you're still learning to ride powder. For me i'll take the trade off with all the other advantages this board has.
Stability This board is like an old child hood friend who gots your back through thick and thin, especially the type of friend who can beat everyone else's ass. The only way I can put it is this board is solid as long as you trust it. It lacks the overly stiff and freeride feeling most boards have that one would put all hope into getting out of tough situations so once I realized this board will handle anything in it's path I opened her up and was blown away by the stability. One great example is there was a group of riders we caught up with off-piste who stopped to examine an area before dropping in with some decent sized drops and hips, I was feeling so damn confident on this board I gave a 2 second glance and continued straight to a hip that led to a drop then into a small firm pillow line and this board slapped the mountain around. The other group when they caught up were giving compliments on the line I just took.
Dampness This is the other area this board lacks in, it's damper than a burton (everything is damper than a burton IMO) but it's not where close to the dampness you'd get out of a Neversummer/Smokin/Mervin/etc. Just expect at the end of the day to have some sore feet, a case of beer and a hot tub. This thing rides like a Porsche GT3 that's meant for a circuit racing, you'll get a lot of feedback but at least it's not a damn rice rocket sitting on bump stops (Burton).
Riding Switch felt fine to me, no issues.
Jibbing Waste of money if you want a board for jibbing, way better options out there. I can definitely see how it would be a great jump line board though.
My Final Thoughts An excellent choice if you want a somewhat aggressive board to attack the whole mountain with a freestyle orientation looking for natural hips/jumps/drops/rollers to pop and spin off of. I would not recommend for a dedicated anything deck (park/powder/freeride). I'd also recommend it to a groomer rider who wants the power of camber in carves but also wants some catch free forgiveness, I'd also recommend the Flow Quantum to that same person.
Here is how this board would fit into my quiver:
- Groomer/Park/spring time board = Mod Rocker
- Highspeed assaults where you absolutely need a solid deck for chunder poundings/rough terrain/thick powder = Neversummer Heritage
- Take both of those and combine them with the lack of dampening and excellent float you have the Kitchensink.
|Sorry for digging up this older thread but I'm very interested if anyone has ridden the Kitchensink by now. There are a few pretty sweet deals on it right now and it sounds like a pretty great board. Any wisdom here?
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I'd heard early hype with this board. Anyone actually got to ride it?
Anyone ridden/ reviewed Forum's Kitchensink?
I'd heard early hype with this board. Anyone actually got to ride it?
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A person comes across hundreds of things to distract his attention in the course of the day. During the busy daily life, it is only possible to deepen one's faith and reflect with more certainty on the existence of the Hereafter by way of true faith. In particular, thinking about death and realizing that that one's existence in this world will come to an end at a time appointed by Allah (God) and that one can embark on one's eternal life at any moment take on a very distinct form in the mind.
That is because with death, many worldly things that had been of such value up until then, that had seemed so important and had such time expended on them, will lose all significance. The proximity of Paradise and Hell can be better realized with this seriousness of faith that thinking about death brings with it. One obtains a deeper understanding of the proximity of the Hereafter and that the world is merely a place of testing. People who do not understand faith as it requires have a vague view of death and the Hereafter in the life of this world. But when faced with death, this vagueness will become a sharp accuracy, and all these people will grasp the reality of the Hereafter in full clarity. This clear understanding at the moment of death is revealed as follows in the Qur'an:
The throes of death come revealing the truth. That is what you were trying to evade! The Trumpet will be blown. That is the Day of the Threat. Every self will come together with a driver and a witness: "You were heedless of this so We have stripped you of your covering and today your sight is sharp." (Surah Qaf, 19-22)
The words "… You were heedless of this so We have stripped you of your covering..." in the verse are to be interpreted in terms of people living heedless of the transitory nature of the life of this world, the existence of the Hereafter and the Day of Judgment. At the moment of death, however, even someone who has never thought about Paradise and Hell during his life acquires a far sharper perspective and clear understanding. But that person's test is now over and the verdict has been given. There is no way back. There is no possibility of one's wish that "I have understood the reality, so let me start my test all over again" becoming a reality.
Since believers have a great fear of encountering such a situation in the Hereafter they spend their lives looking for ways to draw closer to Allah and have a deeper faith. Believers look only to Allah's good pleasure, mercy and Paradise. Everyone must achieve a serious comprehension of the proximity of Paradise and Hell before the moment of death arrives, and must turn to our Almighty Lord.


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I was at a Hot Hues (Dupont) seminar saturday. They said to base, and then use the clear intercoat like everyone says.
He did mention that it NEEDED to be lightly sanded before applying your graphics or topcoat!
Thanks for the tips guys, I'm feeling more confident that I will be able to pull this off.
|go with these guys recommendations. try and use intercoat whenever you can. it save time and alot of work. as far as recoat....most that i have seen recommend 24 hours. personally i think thats BS. everthing i paint has some sort of graphics or airbrushing on it. alot of these jobs can get very intricate and take a long time especially when you are working on 3 at once. its not uncommon for me to have something based out and sit for 2-3 weeks while artwork is being done. when its done i clear it like anything else. i do get to see alot of customers and i have never seen one project where the clear is chipping off. they look as good 2 years later as the day i sprayed it. so basically i wouldn't worry about it. if for some reason you feel it has sat too long then mix up some intercoat 50/50 with high or very high temp reducer and spray a coat on an hour before you plan on clearing. the solvents should just soften up that base. you can also add about 10% reducer to your clear.
You can lay a base then clear or use an inter coat clear which is what it's designed for. Graphic's work. Like a base paint but is a clear coat without the UV additive.
I use this alot with complex layout's and it's a nice base to work over. This way IF you make a mistake on the second or third layer,just "erase" it and no harm to the underlying paint.
One of the toughest parts of this job will be the disassembly and reassembly taking care nor to dirty the white and orange basecoat. Your idea of spraying the clear is good but I would use an intercoat clear instead of a topcoat urethane clear. Light colored basecoats attract fingerprints and staining very easily, if you apply two coats of intercoat clear over these colors before disassembly it will protect the light colors and provide a surface you can actually clean. Another plus to the intercoat clear is it is thin like BC.
Your idea of using a topcoat clear will also work but it also opens the door to possible lifting problems when you apply the third color, fresh urethane can be really sensative to solvents.
Intercoat clear can also be used to freshen the basecoat prior to clear application if you're worried the BC has dried to long. Get all your color work done then apply a coat of intercoat clear, let it flash good then apply your urethane clear.
Good luck with the project, you've got some stress ahead of you pulling that freshly colored sheetmetal off and then reinstalling it. Do a few test sprays to get your fade technique ironed out. Take your time, Bob
|i would do all my basing first then clear.most bases have a 7 day window before you have to sand and rebase, mike
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I am planning on painting a 3 color paint job and need some advice on the best way to do it. I am planning on painting the car using BC/CC, and it is going to be tiger striped. Im not new to painting cars but in the past I have only used single stage paint so BC/CC is new to me and Im not sure how to proceed exactly.
My plan is to paint the base color (orange) then fade in the white underbelly on the sides, this is where the hard part comes in for me the stripes. Some of the parts will have to be painted separately then assembled to the car to tape out the stripes then removed again for the black stripe paint and CC.
Being that for me at least this will be at a 2-3 day job due to the amount of assembly and disassembly, Im wondering how long do I have to do this before I have to clear the BC and Im wondering if it would be best to put maybe a coat or two of clear over the orange and white and then stripe over the clear then clear again when the stripes are done.
My thinking is that say it is a day or more before I finish the tapeing for the stripes it wont be a big deal if I have clear on and scuff it before I start, or is my thinking AFU?
Needless to say I want to do this right and I only want to do it once Any and all suggestions are appreciated!
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I have an old Jango vest that had snaps for attaching the armor. The spacing of the snaps is too close so I was going to remove them and then use the vest to test fit armor or possible for a custom mandp sometime in the future. My problem is that I can't seem to get the snaps off without ripping the pleather. Anyone have any expeirence with this?
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How much stuff do you own? The answer for most people ranges from a few changes of clothing to a large house full of possessions – your material self. It turns out that most of us also have a digital self – the information and items we create or that others collect about us. It is your footprint, your impact on the digital world. Without a digital self, you don't exist in the world of computers and the Internet.
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I recently went for coffee with a very interesting gentleman who had previously been responsible for threat and vulnerability management in a global bank – our conversation roamed far and wide but kept on circling back to one or two core messages – the real fundamental principles of information security. One of these principles was "know your assets."
Asset management is something that many CISO tend to skip over, often in the belief that information assets are managed by the business owners and hardware assets are closely managed by IT. Unfortunately, I'm not convinced that either of these beliefs is true to any great extent.
Take, for example, Anonymous' recent hack of a forgotten VM server within AAPT's outsourced infrastructure. VM "sprawl" is one of the key risks that Forrester discusses, and this appears to be a classic example – a virtual server created in haste and soon forgotten about. Commonly, as these devices fall off asset lists, they get neglected – malware and patching updates are skipped and backups are overlooked – yet they still exist on the network. It's the perfect place for an attacker to sit unnoticed and, if the device exists in a hosted environment, it can also have the negative economic impact of monthly cost and license fees. One anecdote I heard was of a system administrator who, very cautiously and very successfully, disabled around 200 orphaned virtual servers in his organisation – with no negative business impact whatsoever.


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In this sequel to An Introduction to Machine Learning with Web Data, bit.ly lead scientist Hilary Mason shows you how to solve real-world problems with machine learning. Using real data from an actual ecommerce website, you will apply production quality algorithms to understand all the issues that arise when working in a live environment.
Learn how to apply best practices to common types of machine learning problems, extract quantifiable data, and explore several open source tools and how to use them.
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Hilary is Founder and CEO of Fast Forward Labs, an independent data technology research lab, and Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners. Previously, Hilary was Chief Scientist at bitly. She co-hosts a DataGotham, a conference for New York's home grown data community, and co-founded HackNY, a non-profit that helps engineering students find opportunities in New York's creative technical economy. Hilary served on Mayor Bloomberg's Technology Advisory Board, and is a member of Brooklyn hacker collective NYC Resistor.
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The title of this video series promised so much but I'm slightly disappointed.Though many topics are covered, the detail of how each technique works is not conveyed to the extent that you will learn how to implement them. Presentation of the material is a bit awkward but you do get a clear idea of what techniques are available and when to use them.Although each video is of high quality, I couldn't help thinking "Why?". Most of the time you're left watching folk sitting around a table trying to look interested in the speaker. This adds little to conveying any information to the viewer and is even distracting. On-screen content is presented with slightly lower quality which is counter-intuitive because it contains the key information being presented. I much prefer an on-screen style.If you have little experience with Machine Learning, you will be introduced to some fundamental techniques and pick-up some good practices along-the-way. Decision Trees, K-Means Clustering, Sim-Hashing, Bloom Filters and many others are presented. The style is friendly to novices and you will not feel lost. When and how to use these methods is covered well and may assist you in identifying the appropriate one for your projects.In combination with the accompanying source code, one can get a reasonable overview of some important machine learning techniques. The example code uses many third party, open-source libraries which are not easy to install but, more importantly obscure, the detail of the techniques being discussed. You will not gain much knowledge of how the techniques presented work but this series does provide good introductions to a range of really useful ones and demonstrates their appropriate use.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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I watched this video as part of O'Reilly Media's blogger program. I haven't worked with machine learning topics in the past, and I was interested to learn a bit from this video. It turns out that I use many of the machine learning concepts in the linux terminal almost daily, but on much smaller data (personal computer logs). I've even parsed Apache logs in almost the same way as presented in this video's "Learning from your data" segment.At first, I was little confused why this video is called "Advanced Machine Learning" because I didn't feel like any of the topics were all too advanced. Each segment seems to only skim the surface of a very general topic. In fact, it seems to me that this video is more of a continuation of Ms. Mason's other Machine Learning video on O'Reilly-- "An Introduction to Machine Learning with Web Data." It may be more appropriately named "An introduction to data analysis", and that's not a bad thing! Don't be turned away by a misleading title. Fair warning: I've rated the video based on the content with my proposed title.If you're looking for an in-depth discussion of machine learning algorithms, this isn't the video for you. If you're looking for an introduction in getting things done with data, you should check out this video. Although the amount of information is pretty light, it is still a good way to get your start conceptually. If you look at the scripts and sample data provided in the code repository, you'll be off to a good start to learn more about your data.For instance, Hillary makes it a point to break things down into a few simple steps:1) What is your data?2) What do you want to learn from your data?3) How to extract that information.Again, I wouldn't recommend this video if you're software engineer with a desire to learn in-depth machine learning algorithms. I do recommend this video if you're interested in understanding some fundamentals of machine learning and how they're applied in some advanced production scenarios (especially at bit.ly).I also recommend checking out the code examples and learning the basics of the python modules used in the scripts. They will help you analyze your data in a meaningful way.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Advanced Machine Learning video collection is a quick presentation of some machine learning techniques and algorithms covered in just over 2 hours. Even though this is a short period to try and cover any of the many algorithms in machine learning, there is a chance that you might learn something. If you are an experienced in the many topics of machine learning, then you will know that you cannot cover anything in enough detail in 2 hours and therefore this would not be helpful to you. If you are fairly new to the topic, then you might learn a little bit about interesting algorithms, but if you expectation is that you will be able to directly apply them or be able to explain them to co-workers then you will have to dive deeper somewhere else. There were some interesting algorithms that were covered that I had not worked with like Bloom Filter, Simhashing, and Hamming Distance. Hilary explains these algorithms through examples written in Python and utilizing libraries that have implemented these algorithms. The problem is that she does not go into enough detail that you will be able to implement them in another language, therefore you will need to research them to get a better understanding. I did enjoy the advice that she gave about becoming a better data analyst is to watch and talk with other data analyst to see the tools that they use and the approaches that they take. If you take that approach to what she is presenting here, then you will learn some new topics to apply to data mining with the caveat that you will need to spend time researching to better understand the details of the algorithms. Personally I would have enjoyed learning more details about the random forest decision tress and on dimensionality reduction. Since Hilary has the opportunity to create a collection of videos on advanced machine learning, she had the opportunity to dive a bit deeper on the different algorithms and the different situations you can apply them. She could have also taken the time to explain the results that are presented after running the algorithms.On a side note, it even seems like the students in the class don't seem to fully understand what is being presented to them. Not to mention, what is the person with the iPad even doing the entire time of the videos. She seems to never look up and there is no way that she is coding or if she is, then I would like to know what application she is using.The only people that I would recommend this collection of videos for would be someone interested in starting to be a data scientist and have not taken a machine learning class. Otherwise, I would look at other books like "R in a Nutshell" or the course provided by Standford or other free online courses.If you do get this collection of videos, I do recommend downloading the source and files from Github. Then you can follow through the examples even if you are using Window. I would recommend installing cygwin before watching the videos and make sure that you have python and a editor configured.
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I have seen presentations made by Hilary already (e.g. from Strata) and I think they were very good in terms of being presented as conference materials. During conference, you have limited time and you obviously want to show as much as possible. On the other hand, when it comes to lectures and workshops you have as much time as you can devote to the topic. That's why I have expected much deeper analysis of the topics covered in this particular video material. My expectations were that by watching this video I will learn all the topics and will be able to apply them right after finishing the show.This was not quite the case.Let's talk about bight sides first. I must admit that for people who are new to data analysis this video is really a good overview of some of the tools available on the marker. There are loots of various algorithms and applications discussed here. You will learn about various metrics, decision trees, k-nearest neighbor basics, dimensionality reduction, principal component analysis, simhash, Hamming distance, Bloom filters, MapReduce, Hadoop. And this is definitely a benefit for people who are not yet familiar with these topics. However, there is another side of the coin. The deepness of the lecture is quite shallow. Basically, you will be presented with some basic examples for each topic, based on very simple data. The fact is, that Hilary presents these basic data analysis quick and dirty way, using CLI and Python, and does it quite efficiently. For sure this will be very useful for computer geeks who are familiar with CLI (mostly Linux users and advanced OS X users) and Python itself. I'd argue that Python is the best tool to visualize the results in a first place, but it's just a weapon of choice. It could be done in R as well, which in my opinion, is far more suited for data analysis than Python is. When it comes to Windows users, I am pretty sure that they will not benefit from this video, as they mostly use Excel for brief data analysis, have no idea what CLI is and when they hear 'Python' they think 'ZOO'. Advanced Windows developers, please excuse my irony.The last thing I am not happy with here are explanations of the results. Hilary simply assumes that values produced during calculations are self-explanatory. They are not. I think that for people who see the tree for the first time having detailed explanation of how to read the tree would be very helpful. The same refers to other topics presented during the lecture.I'd suggest this video to people who start working with data analysis and just want to get the right direction. Make sure to dig for details somewhere else. If you don't know Python and are not familiar with CLI I would strongly consider buying this Video. Maybe "R in a Nutshell" would be a slightly better idea.
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By Rob Kelly
Theo Walcott admits he is "dead excited" about returning to the Far East for Arsenal's 2012 Tour next week.
The England forward is part of the Gunners squad heading to Asia to take part in matches, training sessions and events in Malaysia, China and Hong Kong.
The passion the supporters exhibited on last summer's tour made a big impact on the 23-year-old and he cannot wait to see them once again.
"I am dead excited - it is great to see the fans," Walcott told Arsenal Player. "It means lot to them because they never really get to see us in person.
"As players we get to see a different side to the game, seeing fans who may never be able to come to Emirates. It makes their dreams come true and that is what we want to do.
"They love the Club so much, they love the players and they want to be close to us. They're proper fans and all want the Club to do well. It is fantastic for us to see another side of it."
Walcott admits he was surprised at the reception the players received in the Far East, but is eager to experience it once more this summer.
"There was a young lady who we saw at every training session," he said. "Her boyfriend spoke to me and said, 'She loves you more than she loves me'! She was everywhere, following the coach, everywhere. It was crazy!
"The fans were unreal. I could hear them chanting our names every morning , they would call for different players and see if they would come out and look over the balcony. It was fantastic.
"[The Asian culture] is very different. They are so helpful, very happy, very generous. It was one of those experiences you need to see it for yourself.
"We went there last year and we're doing it again, and I am looking forward to every moment of it."
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Bring on the comments police!
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Try Disqus - it's easy to implement, easy to comment and has some anti-spam options too.ReplyDelete
Thanks Andrew!ReplyDelete
I can see why you would go that route, you have literally hundreds of comments on a daily basis. Not my case by a long shot, though, so I think I am good with this approach, plus it should allow me to stop any "heated" discussions before they take place.
Thanks again!
I had to do the same thing some time ago, I don't think that anyone except the spammers and anontrolls will mind. :DReplyDelete
Do what I do - require comments to be reviewed after the post is more than X days old. In my case I make it after 5 days.
The reason I say this is because I've found most spam comments are left on older posts :)
Also Chem, what gadget are you using for the share thing at the bottom of each post? That is slick.ReplyDelete
Hey Jeff, thanks for your advice.ReplyDelete
Not sure I understand the bit about old posts... I thought any comment to any post would have to go through my approval from now on in order to be published? Is that not the case, because you are right, I do see more spam in older posts.
As for the share thingy, I have no idea, buddy. that must be standard Blogger stuff, I didn't do a thing.
Take care
In blogger under Settings->Comments in the old interface (I can't find this same option in the newer interface) you will find this:ReplyDelete
It allows you to only have to manually approve comments on posts over X days old.
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UMCMA 2013 Gathering
July 17–20 at Iliff School of Theology in Denver
The United Methodist Campus Ministry Association (UMCMA) will gather in 2013 exploring the theme Awaken: Christ Shall Give You Light!
The 2013 Gathering will explore the life of campus ministry and campus ministers in breathing the life of Christ into ourselves, within our ministries, with the people with whom we minister and with the institutions where we serve.
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|Enuma Okoro is an award-winning author of three books on the call and challenge to the spiritual life. Embracing the classic spiritual traditions, the contemporary arts, and her uniquely diverse global and cultural, Enuma writes and speaks on numerous issues based off of three key areas: 1. Spiritual formation, growth and holistic wellness; 2. Women and the transformative power of personal narratives; 3. Identity and Belonging in a diverse world. Enuma will be with us throughout the conference, giving two keynote address and then engage Leonard Sweet in a public conversation.
|Leonard Sweet has made a career provoking the church to meet the challenge of the ever-changing world. A theologian, historian, pastor and prolific author, Leonard Sweet has become an influential leader pushing aside assumptions about church and helping craft a vision for the future of the Christian movement. Dr. Sweet will give two keynote addresses and have a public conversation with Enuma Okoro.
|Nadia Bolz Weber is the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints, an ELCA mission church in Denver, Colorado. She's a leading voice in the emerging church movement and her writing can be found in The Christian Century and Jim Wallis' God's Politics blog. Her Sarcastic Lutheran blog enjoys wide-readership. Nadia will be with us on Saturday morning giving a keynote address than sharing with us during our closing worship.
Derrick Scott and the CCW Band will lead worship. Heading up the Campus to City Wesley Foundation serving the campuses of Northeast Florida, Derrick leads with heart, soul, mind and strength. The CCW Band made up of college-age adults has earned a reputation for solid musicianship. They write much of their own material and have garnered a large following.
Page CXVI also leading worship and will be in concert as The Autumn Film. After forming The Autumn Film, band members Reid and Latifah Phillips and Dann Stockton were leading worship at churches and could not deny the strong beckoning of the hymns. They decided to develop a parallel band; the same people with a new purpose of making hymns accessible again under the new name, Page CXVI. The somewhat cryptic name was intentional. It's drawn from the page number in a particular copy of The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis, the brilliant passage where Aslan begins to sing Narnia into creation out of a black void. For more information and free music from Page CXVI, visit their official website at pagecxvi.com
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* A conversation on campus ministry taking the lead on assessments
* Three workshop opportunities covering a wide-range of topics
* A dialogue with the newly formed University Church Network
* Feedback and conversations following keynote addressses
* A night out on your own in Denver
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UMCMA Conference Participants can attend a MLB game between the Colorado Rockies and the Chicago Cubs on Friday, July 19. We will have seats in our block for $18 each (compared with $28).
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As I've said before the prototypes aren't done yet but if there is intrest for a pair of westars PM me or post, this isn't an order list, just seeing who would be interested in getting a pair.
Price isn't set but I'm guessing around $200-$400 or $300. Just depends. most likely it will be $300 but we will see, if you look at the thread titled "I'm making my own wesar 34's" you will find the prototype pics. Which the prototypes are dinged up (thats why they are prototypes) and scratched but the next pairs will be way better with different trigger guards.


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'But the reality is, Brown saved Buffalo's bacon. You see, after the Sabres tallied two goals in the initial 2:18 of the game – the second fastest pair of game-opening scores in Buffalo playoff history – coach Lindy Ruff's team began playing as if this one was over.'
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BB, can get a shot of your new ESB helmet -vs- DP 95,96, or 97 for size comparison?
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BB, can get a shot of your new ESB helmet -vs- DP 95,96, or 97 for size comparison?
Or anyone else?
I don't think BB can, but I can.... here you go... 95 DP white viynl reg.
Man thats a big bucket : ). cant wait to get one.
the 10 gallon bucket. :)
It's HUGE, but with my glasses on, I still have to turn my head sideways, put it on, then turn my head back to where it should be. My glasses, as small as they are, don't clear the cheeks. :( It's a small price to pay for such a helmet, though. ;)
I love it anyway!!! It's truly a masterpiece! :D
It does hold water quite well. I filled it up with water after sanding/cutting the T visor area out. ;)Quote:
Lynn TXP 0369 wrote:the 10 gallon bucket. :)
that would be a new way to keep that damn fiberglass dust down!!! :p That stuff is nasty.
Tell me about it! I was wearing THICK rawhide work gloves, and after cutting for about 15 minutes, I took my gloves off and my hands were WHITE! The micronized fiberglass powder somehow went THROUGH my gloves! :eek
Goggles and a respirator are a MUST, too! :D
Lynn TXP 0369,
Thanks for the pics!
I saw the pics before, but did't realize that your Jango was a DP.
Thanks again.
respirator,.....I just pull my T-shirt up over my nose,and put on safety glasses :lol
I would rather not mess with fiberglass. Are there any ABS, styrene, sintra, etc. buckets around close to the size of this one, or are all the plastic cast/re-casts the size of the DP's?
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i dont know of any abs buckets out there at all.
on another note, what are you guys using to cut the fiberglass? dremel? some sort of saw? just curious. i have always worked with plastics before so the fiberglass thing will be all new to me. :D
The closest you will come to finding a ABS helmet is Altmann's Armour. It is made out of the same plastic that is used in football helmets. It is not the most accurate helmet out there (by far), but it is bigger than the 95-97 DP's.
Goat, I just used a Dremel with cutting wheels to trim mine. I just used good ole' sandpaper & elbow grease to get to the hard-to-reach places.


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Cover Girl's New NatureLuxe, Definitely Worth Checking OutSunday, December 26, 2010
Remember recently when I shared Taylor Swift's new CoverGirl ad? Well, these are the products that she was advertising. A new line from CoverGirl, so far there is only a foundation and lippie, though I expect more products will be coming.
First, more about the foundation. CoverGirl says that this is a silk foundation with "a touch of cucumber water and a hint of jojoba and rose hip extracts". I have no idea what all of that really means. There's silk in it? What does cucumber water do? I'm not sure. What I can tell you is that this foundation is the next step up in coverage from the Neutrogena foundation (but easier to blend) that I fell in love with this summer. It is perfect for fall/winter and I'll be recommending it to all of my friends.
The NatureLuxe is light to the touch and spreads/blends on my skin beautifully with just a few passes of my fingertips. The coverage is light to medium and it definitely looks natural on my skin. At the end of the day it looks just as good as it did in the morning. It is so light I have no idea that I'm wearing it through out the day. In essence, this is an amazing foundation that comes in 14 shades (see image to the right, click it to enlarge), though the selection for women of color is a bit lacking at the moment.
The foundation does come with a SPF rating of 10. Remember that you likely do not apply any where near enough foundation over your entire face to achieve this SPF. So, I view the SPF in makeup as "bonus coverage", which is nice but not needed.
Foundation, SPF 10:
The other product currently in the NatureLuxe lineup is the Gloss Balm. It has the moisturizing qualities of a balm, but with the shine and color of a gloss. Really, it does feel pretty great on my lips, and while not crazy shiny, the shine definitely is much more along the lines of a gloss. The Gloss Balm has no flavor and lasted several hours despite eating and drinking. It is easy to carry around in your pocket and apply without a mirror whenever you want.
I have both #255 Marble and #270 Spice. Marble is a light pink that is fairly translucent, not much color is seen on the lip. Spice is definitely more pigmented, and is very similar in tone to my MAC Spice Lip Liner, though perhaps 1-2 shades lighter. Love it!
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NatureLuxe has a rolling launch date depending on where you live and what stores near you have decided to do. It's already on shelves in some areas, while some stores will be putting it out in January. Regardless, you can order it on-line from CoverGirl directly if you can't find it near you.
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Thanks for the great review Christine! These look like fantastic products. I can't wait to try this foundation!!! And, I am so happy to see it has a wide shade range so hopefully there will be one fair enough for my hard-to-match skintone. The tinted lipbalms look really nice too! Cant wait to give this line a try! :) XOXO!!!ReplyDelete
Awesome review! Sounds like a great product from Cover Girl! :)ReplyDelete
This looks exactly the same as the new Max Factor Xperience Weightless Collection. Same style packaging, similar advertising, basically same products. Maybe they're owned by the same company?ReplyDelete
Since Max Factor is only available on Drugstore.com in the US (and I don't think they're releasing any new products in the US now) I had no idea what you were talking about. I went to the MF UK site and found what you were talking about, and I agree with you, the same 2 products, almost the same descriptions, though the Cover Girl products appear to be available in more shades.
You're right, both Max Factor and Cover Girl are owned by Proctor & Gamble. In the past the 2 brands have not shared products that I'm aware of, though this may have been different given the lack of Max Factor's presence in the US.
- AnonymousJanuary 17, 2012 at 6:25 PM
I have two of these glosses...Clay Argile (light pink) and Pinot (my natural lip color). I love them because they have the just the right amount of color, feel smooth & soft (not drying) and have a great shimmer. Great product!ReplyDelete
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These documents can offer a peek into our ancestors lives and are a wonderful addition to your genealogy if one of your family names features in the database.
There would be an outcry these days if a house was on fire and the fire brigade simply watched it burn down because the owners hadn't contributed to the fire station funds!! But that was exactly what happened in the 18th & 19th century. A number of insurance companies owned teams of fire fighters dotted around the country mainly in the larger towns and cities, these fire fighters with their hand pump engines would race to see if the burning building displayed one of their plaques, if they did then they fought the fire, if it didn't then they simply watched. Simple really
The National Archives A2A website has a list of those living in London who insured with The Sun Fire Office I am not convinced it is a complete list, but there is quite a large number of names and addresses so well worth a look if you have London ancestry. There is a good brief description and history of the collection at the beginning of the page.
I did a search for the surname Pottinger and found the following ….
16 August 1837
Insured: William Pottinger, 27 Queen Street, Cheapside, tailor and draper
Other property or occupiers: Parish of Great Pornder, Essex (Law and others); Parish of Bloxham, Oxon (baker)
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What would you do if you were stuck in Afghanistan for several days, unable to leave the town you were in due to security concerns? Most of us might put our feet up, read a book, chill out, that kind of thing.
Not Christoph Zurcher, a Swiss journalist who found himself in Bamiyan province for a few days and spied a snow-covered mountain in the distance. He went to check it out and to his surprise, nobody seemed to be taking advantage of the ideal conditions for skiing. In fact, nobody seemed to be interested in skiing at all.
His solution was to found the Afghan Ski Challenge. The lack of local interest in skiing, lack of lifts and even lack of equipment were no object to Zurcher bringing skiing to Bamiyan province, and founding a ski club.
The Ski Challenge has now been running for three years, and has been so successful that local officials in Bamiyan are working to create a tourism industry.
Yes, all of this in a country where there's a war going on!
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The Minnesota Wild have been rumoured to have offered Marian Gaborik upwards of $8 million per season on a long term contract but so far Gaborik has refused to accept any of Minnesota's offers. It seems almost certain that Gaborik's days in Minnesota are drawing to a close. Unless Gaborik changes his mind he will almost certainly be traded before the trade deadline and maybe even much sooner than that.
There are really two types of teams that would be interested in Gaborik. The contenders and the rebuilders. The contenders are top level teams looking to bring in Gaborik primarilly for a Stanley Cup run. The rebuilders would look at Gaborik only if they could get him to sign a long term contract and become a key component of their rebuilding team. So, lets take a look at who might be interested in Gaborik and what they might need to offer in return.
The Montreal Canadiens have 13 regulars set to be free agents next summer, many of them of the unrestricted variety. Because of this Montreal is likely to make all the moves they can to make a serious push for the Stanley Cup this year as this might just be the Canadiens best hope for another Stanley Cup over the next couple years. If Montreal wants to get serious about acquiring Gaborik the starting price will almost certainly be someone like Chris Higgins and a first round pick.
The Ottawa Senators are desperately looking for another top 6 forward and would probably have an interest in Gaborik but his price tag is probably too high both in terms of what the Wild would want in return and in fitting Gaborik's salary under the cap.
Other contending teams that might be interested are the Flyers and Rangers but both have salary cap issues that would need to be dealt with first. It is less likely that the Wild will trade with a western conference contender but if they are open to that I wouldn't be surprised if Dallas was interested (again, if they can resolve salary cap issues) and Brian Burke in Anaheim has never shied away from making bold moves in an attempt to improve his team, which is struggling mightily right now.
There have been rumours that the Los Angeles Kings might have an interest in Gaborik. Of course, this would only happen if they can get Gaborik to sign a long term contract. Should they make the trade it is likely that Frolov or Dustin Brown would be going the other way along with a top prospect or a first round draft pick.
The Vancouver Canucks need offense badly, especially if they don't think they can re-sign the Sedin twins, and might have an interest in Gaborik and reuniting him with his good friend Pavol Demitra. The Canucks don't have as many quality forwards to offer the Wild as either Montreal or Los Angeles but they do have some quality defensemen that might help get the deal done. Kevin Bieksa might be at the top of that list. If a forward were necessary to get the deal done the Wild might choose to go after Ryan Kesler but may settle for Steve Bernier. A prospect or draft pick is likely going the other way as well.
There haven't been any rumours but one wonders if Cliff Fletcher and the Leafs might try to get involved. Fletcher has also rarely shied away from making the bold moves, particularly when rebuilding a team. Though he may be interested in Gaborik, I suspect he won't make a move like this since he isn't the long term GM of the Leafs and might let a future GM make such a move.
There is no doubt there will be a number of teams interested in Gaborik. He is a superb talent with ample offensive skills. The main drawback to Gaborik has been his health. He has only played more than 65 games once in the past 4 seasons (77 last year) and is already injured this season. That might be enough for some teams to shy away from giving him a long term contract.
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I'm posting this for a very good client of mine. He had 3 of these brought into the United States in 2001 and they are all legit for the USA. It was hemogenized and has a full 17 digit VIN Number. I've personally sat in this car and driven it and it is unbelievable. He bought 3, sold off one back in 2001 and currently has two of them (his and hers). This vehicle has not been beaten on any whatsoever (couple are in their early 70's) just true Audi enthusiasts. Vehicle holds a clean Colorado title and is located in Aspen, CO. Seriously enquires only please.
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*Car is certified for US use by DOT and EPA. Accordingly, Germany only parts are available from Audi US. Colorado titled.*
Audi Factory Racing Department (RS) slotted rotors and calipers, Audi Factory Racing Department sport cat and exhaust system, remote escort radar/laser detector, hood bra, Audi bright leveling headlights, new updated Audi Factory Boge shocks, sport/racing seat belt harness system, newly replaced factory Bose speakers, XM radio installed and ECU factory Audi Racing Department remapped for 91 octane gasoline. Germany 98 octane. $3,500 remapping essential, according to Factory Audi Racing Department, to eliminate detonation.
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Exercising her right to vote, Dianna Agron showed up at a Los Angeles polling location to cast her ballot earlier this afternoon (November 6).
The "I Am Number Four" starlet proudly displayed her "I Voted" sticker as she encountered some photographers upon her stroll back to her car.
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