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Ranking: No. 1 OT | No. 2 overall
Robinson is an elite offensive tackle and he is the total package at that position. He plays light on his feet, he has long arms, he is a strong run blocker who can get to the second level while holding down the edge to protect his quarterback's blindside. Not many project better than this young man.
Marlon Humphrey | 6-0/174 | CB | Hoover (Ala.) Hoover
Ranking: No. 1 CB | No. 4 overall
Humphrey picked off a pass against South Panola in the 2011 season opener and he did the same this year late in August. He is rarely tested, but when it comes his way, he makes plays. He can cover, he has length, he can tackle, and he knows the game.
Leonard Fournette | 6-1/210 | RB | New Orleans (La.) St. Augustine
Ranking: No. 1 RB | No. 6 overall
Fournette is a running back who has been known for years in Louisiana, but he hit the national scene a year ago. He is a big back with some speed and power. He can catch the ball out of the backfield and he is known for getting stronger as the game progresses.
Sony Michel | 5-11/205 | RB | Plantation (Fla.) American Heritage
Ranking: No. 2 RB | No. 8 overall
Michel is like a living legend in the state of Florida. He ran for over 1,500 yards on the varsity level when in eighth grade and he is one of the best in the country. He is coming off a torn ACL and things are going well. He runs with a mix of grace and power and can break the big run from anywhere on the field.
Gerald Willis | 6-4/260 | DE | New Orleans (La.) Edna Karr
Ranking: No. 2 DE | No. 9 overall
Willis is a very active defensive end and he has shown he has the ability to play the run and get after the quarterback. He has been known to over-pursue plays and be a little too aggressive, but he has improved in that area this season. He is strong at the point of attack and he has active hands.
Laurence Jones | 6-2/210 | S | Monroe (La.) West Neville
Ranking: No. 3 S | No. 12 overall
Neville puts Jones on the opposing teams best receiver right now and he is a strong cornerback on the high school level, but he projects as a safety on the next level. He is a very physical player with great ball skills. He is very explosive.
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19 Tips for Getting the Most Out of SXSWi
South by Southwest Interactive gets better – and bigger! – each year, and 2012 is no exception. PR Newswire is sending a large team to the event, and I've been sharing some tips for navigating SXSW with some of our newbies.
Planning your SXSW experience:
Get organized: Before you go, spend some time with the SXSW schedule and identify the sessions of most interest to you. Then, note whether they are being held in the convention center, or one of the hotels. It can take some time to travel between venues, and many sessions fill quickly. Simply put, you won't be able to leapfrog between venues. My best advice – picks a venue and stay there for several sessions. Our manager of blogger relations, Tom Hynes, agrees, noting, "Last year I found success in trying to stick to one track. For me it's the journalism/media/publishing track. By not trying to do too much, I feel I was able to get a richer, albeit more focused experience."
- While you're at it, put Who Do You Trust? Vetting in the Age of Social on your schedule for Tuesday. It's one of Mashable's top picks, and was originally proposed by PR Newswire. 🙂
Don't focus on just the big names: As my colleague Vicky Harres, our director of audience development and a fellow SXSW veteran says, "There are treasures in the trenches." Some of the best sessions we've attended featured speakers that weren't big names, but who had unbelievable experience to share. Hearing from the people who get down and dirty with development, implementation and making things really work is fascinating. Don't skip a session just because you've never heard of the speakers.
Get out of your comfort zone: It's tempting to focus on the sessions that align closely with your interests. But do yourself a favor – spend some time exploring concepts that are foreign to you. SXSW features some of the brightest minds – take advantage and learn something new from the very best.
Flirt with serendipity: Did you miss out? Go find a session nearby that's not full. You're still going to learn something. Many of my best experiences at SXSW have been happy accidents.
Smile and say hi: You will meet interesting people everywhere. The person sitting next to you on the bus or standing next to you in line might be launching a start up, looking for business partners, or hosting a party. Smile and say hi! You never know who you'll meet. A couple years ago I offered some people hanging out waiting for the show shuttle bus a ride downtown in my rental car. It turned out that one of the people who took me up on the offer was someone I had been communicating with via Twitter for more than a year. As big as SXSW feels, it can be quite a small world!
Getting around Austin
The logistics of SXSW can be challenging, especially if you are staying at a hotel that's not right downtown.
Grab a hotel shuttle: Many of the outlying hotels are on an SXSW shuttle line. Take advantage of the shuttles to ferry you back and forth.
Rent a car: This is not as crazy as it sounds, and is the way to go if you're at an outlying hotel that's not on the shuttle line. I rented cars several years running, and had no problem finding reasonably-priced parking downtown, about 4 blocks from the convention center.
Ride in a pedicab and pay those folks generously: A battalion of very fit folks driving pedicabs (bicycle-cab thingies) abound and they are willing to haul your tired self to bars, parties or back to your car. They are so worth it, and if you tip generously, you might be handed a business card and wind up with a guy that's willing to come pick you up.
Apps to download:
SXSWGo: The official mobile app for SXSW, lets you build your schedule and stay up to speed with news and events.
Foursquare: Even if you're not into recording your every move in "real life" it's fun to do so in Austin. Special badges are usually deployed for SXSW, which are often amusing. And Foursquare is a great way to see where your friends are.
GroupMe: Group texting. Essential if you're part of a team.
Localmind: An app that lets you check out what's going on at your favorite bar or restaurant before you even get off your couch. They've loaded SXSW party info into the app, so you can find out where people are (and how ridiculous the lines are) as you traverse Austin.
A QR code scanner: I've used I-nigma for a few years and it's worked well for me. Lots of information is available via QR code and the scanners are useful.
What to bring
Communications gear: I will be taking two mobile phones (work and personal) and iPad and my laptop. I don't plan on lugging the laptop around during the day, but you never know. Staying connected is crucial – and fun!
Back up power, and all of your chargers: You will want to take every opportunity you can to replenish your batteries. Backup power is also important.
Multiple pairs of comfy shoes. Tom Miale, our director of multimedia engagement, notes "You will be on your feet for long periods of time. Substance trumps style here!" My own advice – bring multiple pairs of shoes. You will be putting so much mileage on your feet that even old favorites might rub.
A water bottle. Between racing around the event and staying up past your bedtime, you will need to stay hydrated.
An umbrella. Rain is in the forecast. Texas needs rain so we are not complaining.
Mints. You'll be in close quarters. 'Nuff said.
Have fun at SXSW! To stay in touch with the PR Newswire crew, follow our PRN @ SXSW Twitter list, and keep an eye on our Tumblr page for photos and quick hits.
Sarah Skerik is PR Newswire's vice president of social media, and is the author of the free ebook Unlocking Social Media for PR.
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Ever witness a miracle? I have. It was a bona fide 100 percent act of God with no possible earthly explanation. It transformed my life but it might also have ruined someone else's.
I don't normally brag my miracle up. It's a deeply personal experience. But for purposes of this column here it is: In 1975 an attractive and perfectly normal woman agreed to marry me.
That's it. That's my miracle. Pretty cool, huh? Nearly 40 years later, I'm still in awe of it. Absolutely no one would have predicted such a thing possible.
I realize this probably isn't a miracle or even a big deal for you. You might even argue that there's a perfectly simple and temporal explanation for it.
What we have here is nothing more significant than a regrettable departure from sanity on the part of yet another woman who married far beneath herself. Happens every day.
You could be right. But then you weren't there and really can't say for sure. I was there and have been ever since. If it wasn't a miracle that she married me in the first place, it's definitely a miracle that we're STILL married.
Perspective is where most reported miracles exist. Something happened that was amazing and because it couldn't be explained with logic, it had to be the work of God.
Also, a miracle isn't something that can be reproduced on demand. Any truth comes down to the claims of those who reportedly witnessed or felt it.
That's the problem with past miracles: People don't always agree on whether or not they really happened. Even being there isn't always reliable.
Was Moses parting the Red Sea a miracle? Probably to the Jews. But what about some poor chariot driver who just wanted to finish his shift and go home?
The Bible contains accounts of Jesus performing any number miracles and wondrous things water into wine, healing the sick, making the blind see, walking on water, etc.
The idea behind these miracles is/was to prove a point. Namely that someone with really special powers has to be someone really, well, special.
Human beings have shaky perspectives and worse memories. It's one thing to take it on faith that Jesus performed miracles in the Bible and a whole other thing to take the word of eye witnesses.
This isn't just me being cynical. The average group of people can't agree on something that happened five minutes ago, never mind 2,000 years ago.
Believers tend to believe that everyone who saw the same thing believed, and they would, too, if they had been there. But because we're talking about human beings, it doesn't always work that way.
Apparently the witnesses didn't always agree on what transpired. It's probably a safe bet that everyone who saw what happened didn't regard it as a miracle. If they had, things probably wouldn't have ended up the way they did.
Somehow I just don't see the Pharisees saying, "Yeah, Jesus can raise the dead and command the elements, but let's kill him anyway."
We could ask my wife whether agreeing to marry me constituted a miracle. And even though she was there when it happened, odds are we'd probably get some whole other explanation.
It more seems to me that miracles are deeply personal things that probably aren't intended for public debate. Never mind.
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So, here I am in the midst of writing stories about a world aflame, and what should happen in real life but the state I'm in is literally on fire. There are some 100 wildfires in the region right now. It looks from the map that 23 of them are currently considered "large fires". Driving [Read More…]
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Once upon a time, a long time ago, in another dimension where whole worlds can be built in a singular city, there was one such world on a magnificent volcanic mountain. The mountain was home to a vast number of humans of diverse skin colors, languages and cultures. The top of the mountain was covered [Read More…]
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You may have seen a comic by Chainsaw Suit called All Things Considered. It's three panels. The first one shows a guy saying, "Well, I think that ALL lives matter." The second shows a man holding a firehose and saying, "We should care exactly equally at all times about everything." The third panel shows the [Read More…]
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When we try to live according to our values, we cannot just do so in the private sphere. Our values-driven actions spill into the public space, whether we intend for them to do so or not. One might even argue that all of our actions are values-driven. Although some of our actions seem to be against our values, we tend to have reasons for taking those actions that speak of competing values that live alongside of, or interfere with our stated core. As we interact with other people in our families and communities, those values bump into friction points. That's where personal values often turn into political ones.
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Before the plane left Dar Es Salaam, a voice came over the P.A. to tell us that the chemicals they were about to spray posed no risk to our health. Then the flight attendants walked up the isles between the seats spraying something from small canisters up into the air to ensure that no dangerous African bugs would hitch a ride with us to Europe. [Read more…]
Anatomy of The Spirit of Place
May 21, 2015 By Sterling Leave a Comment
I am a conscious being who lives and has experiences which affect me and shape my identity and personality. This does not seem strange in any way, even though modern science tells me that most of my body is not actually made up of parts with my DNA. There are bacteria and virii as well as chemicals which course through me which, if taken separately, are not "me", but taken together are all part of me and all influence me, my thoughts and my activities. [Read more…]
On Place, Pagan Values, and Politicizing Paganism
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These woods where I live have a spirit to them, a kind of consciousness, and my own spirit is bettered when I deepen my relationship with these woods. This is my Paganism. [Read more…]
So, This is Tanzania…
May 19, 2015 By Sterling Leave a Comment
It's kind of amazing to think about the fact that we are standing on the surface of a ball that's hurtling through space. We can get into an airplane and fly over the surface of that ball, and when we get out, we're standing on another part. It's the same ball, but things are so different. People speak a different language. Many of the plants are different. The food is different. And yet, so much is the same. It is the same big ball, after all. [Read more…]
Be Here Now
May 18, 2015 By Sterling Leave a Comment
It's the day before hopping on a plane I am wound up tight as can be. I can't think straight. My breath is shallow. I feel fragile and cracked.
As I drive the tiny rental car between the place where I've been staying and the storage locker, a thought hits me right between my eyes. [Read more…]
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May 1, 2015 By Sterling Leave a Comment
My heart bleeds for the religious traditions that have been lost to the onslaught of evangelical religions. Christianity isn't the only one. Islam has wiped out many Pagan cultures, and so has Buddhism. But not all religious changes have come through force or evangelism. How should we Pagans act when we meet indigenous people who have left their traditional religions for these evangelical religions. [Read more…]


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During the renovation of Capitol Theatre, Ballet West dancers found themselves rehearsing in windowed space at the Salt Palace Convention Center during Comic Con.
In a lovely juxtaposition of artistic and popular culture, dancers observed costume-clad attendees wandering by, everybody from Iron Man to Spider-Man and Wonder Woman, all watching them rehearse. Once, a mime came up and performed for them through the glass.
But perhaps the most humorous moment was during a rehearsal when the dancers cracked up laughing: They'd just been mooned by a dude on a skateboard. "It takes a lot of nerve to moon a studio of ballet dancers, as they have some of the best rear ends in the world," says Adam Sklute, the company's artistic director.
Welcome to Salt Lake City's new arts season, marked by the renovation of the Capitol Theatre, the venerable former vaudeville house that's being retrofitted to be a better home to Utah's ballet and opera companies, as well as touring Broadway shows and Jazz SLC concerts.
The renovation, along with the building of a new Jesse E. Quinney Ballet Centre, is part of a years-long plan to create "the right-size venue for the right-size work," according to Phil Jordan, director of the Salt Lake County Center for the Arts. That vision includes plans for the controversial, larger 2,500-seat, $116 million performing-arts center to be built just around the corner on Main Street.
For now, construction at the Capitol means Ballet West and Utah Opera will be nomads this fall. The dance company kicks off its season with a revival of "The Firebird" at the University of Utah's Kingsbury Hall, while the opera company will present its first show at Abravanel Hall. Broadway Across America-Utah shows will be presented at Kingsbury, while the Capitol Theatre's newest resident company, the Jazz SLC series, will move to the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.
Touching up the grande dame's makeup • Don a hard hat and step into the construction zone of the Capitol Theatre on a recent weekday, and you'll see workers detailing molded plaster to match the pattern of the lobby's historic gold friezes.
The renovation was planned "to keep a very careful and responsible eye toward the history of the theater, the finishes, and the sense of high decorative art that occurred at the time it was built," Jordan says. "Every single finish selection was done with the inspiration of the theater as it is, or as it was historically. We saved the best of the best, and at the same time, improved it for more contemporary bodies."
The theater "will look modernesque with these century-old elements still in place," says Michael Currey, Ballet West's director of production. "It's a good mix."
The project, five years in the planning, will be completed in two phases. The remodeled building will open in December for Ballet West's run of "The Nutcracker" with a new name, the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre.
But the promised 30 new toilets, in the adjacent Jesse E. Quinney Ballet Centre, won't be available until the second phase when the new building opens in October 2014.
For theatergoers, the most prominent visual change will be a new carpeting scheme more on that later. "Elegant" is the word Cami Munk, communications manager for the Salt Lake County Center for the Arts, uses to describe the selection.
One prominent change is that the lobby's glass atrium, circa a 1978 remodel, has been removed, while the outlines of expanded concessions, patron services and box-office areas have been added. Planned for installation are six chandeliers that are replicas of those in the original theater.
From the lobby looking to the west, you can see where the theater arches will connect to the angled lines of the new building. Ground was broken Sept. 16, but for now the new building site is just an open pit, with construction details contained in HKS Architects plans and Okland Construction's work schedules.
Inside the house, theater seats have been removed to prepare for the floor's refinishing. Seat frames will be painted and refinished, then fitted with new upholstery, complete with more comfortable cushions that also have acoustical properties. New lights will line the aisles, and in front of the stage, new seat wagons will provide more comfortable infill seating, replacing the 44 not-exactly-comfortable chairs currently used for larger Broadway shows.
What most theatergoers won't ever see are two new separate air-conditioning and heating systems that will regulate temperature differently for performers and for the audience.
On the stage, crews are installing the wooden latticework to support the new sprung floor. The entire stage has been raised to improve sightlines. "We've added 6 inches so everybody has a better view of the stage," Jordan says.
In front of the stage, the expanded orchestra pit, which now will fit 50 players, yawns wide open, awaiting the reflective wood surfaces and new electric lifts aimed to improve the sound for musicians and theatergoers. While digging below the stage to expand the pit, construction crews found one of the surprises that come along with any historic project. The exposed soil appeared to be a creek bed, perhaps a branch of City Creek, and needed to be filled in, according to Charles Piper, Salt Lake County project manager.
For stagehands, one of the most heralded changes will be the 2 inches shaved from ceiling beams to allow better access for Broadway-sized set boxes to be wheeled through the hallways.
What won't change is the theater's limited backstage space, as the building's tight fit on the site means there's no room for expansion. Also not changing will be the expertise needed to back a 53-foot truck into the adjacent parking garage on 200 South, threading through a driveway split by a parking attendant booth "with literally 2 inches to spare," as Currey describes it.
About that new carpet • So what's the fuss about the new carpeting? The selection process took a year for a committee composed of donors, county and Ballet West officials, and the architects. The process was as complicated as negotiating a war treaty, one county official joked.
"The carpeting is the largest surface area of any project," Currey says. "It's the thing everyone will see, and hopefully nobody will notice."
Munk adds: "We hope to honor the integrity of the building with the carpet. It's such a big part of the theater. You don't realize that until you look at the theater empty, and you realize that the carpet is a big statement."
In the lobby, the new carpet will have a blackish gray background, with gold, red and black accents to complement wall colors and gold-accented wall friezes, replacing the old red carpeting with gold swirls.
In the house, the complementary carpet pattern will have a black background with gold swirl accents "very tasteful," Munk says. The darker background was selected so it won't provide illumination when the theater is darkened during shows.
The custom-designed wool carpets, from Shaw Contract Group, were the unanimous choice of the selection committee. The price was $185,296 for the flooring and installation in the Capitol Theatre, with an additional $230,430 planned for matching carpet and installation in the new building, according to Piper.
'Poetically right space' • Bené Arnold was ballet mistress when Ballet West debuted Willam F. Christensen's "The Firebird" at Kingsbury in 1967. Mr. C had choreographed a big ballet based on a classic Russian fairy tale. She's delighted to return to Kingsbury, Ballet West's original home, for the Nov. 8-16 revival.
How Sklute promotes the Kingsbury performance: "It was the physically right space, but also the poetically right space for us to open our 50th-anniversary season."
For Utah Opera, the Capitol Theatre's renovation offers an opportunity to experiment with theatrical elements, such as thrust staging platforms and dramatic lighting, to transform Abravanel Hall. Most of the front of the stage will be extended into the seating area for the company's season-opening "Salome," a co-production with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Opera Philadelphia.
"The box seats in the first tier are practically going to be in the action, it's that up close and personal," says Christopher McBeth, artistic director. In addition, orchestra players will be on the stage instead of a pit, "completely surrounded by the story of 'Salome,' " McBeth says. It helps, of course, that "Salome" is a one-act opera "with no real changes to the set, no matter how you present it. It works out perfectly."
In another experiment, from Nov. 14-17, the opera company is producing "Fatal Song," a stage play with musical moments featuring opera divas in an alternative universe who complain about having to die in the final act. The work, by Utah-based playwright Kathleen Cahill, will be performed with cabaret seating at The Rose. "I'm not letting anyone sit in the actual auditorium," McBeth says. "Everybody will be onstage."
For now, the effort to attract different audiences to opera appears to be working, according to McBeth, who claims the 250 seats available nightly are "selling like hotcakes."
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Find tickets and schedule information for Capitol Theatre's resident companies at ArtTix or at these company sites:
Ballet West • balletwest.org
Utah Opera • utahopera.org
Jazz SLC • jazzslc.com
Broadway Across America-Utah • magicspace.net/saltlakecity/#.UkNEwIW7OSE
Backstage at the Capitol Theatre
Capacity • 1,876
Opened • 1913 as the Orpheum Theatre, a vaudeville house, which also screened silent movies and "talkies"; renamed Capitol Theatre in the 1930s; purchased by Salt Lake County in 1976.
Renovated • In 1970s renovation, the stage was rebuilt, lobby expanded, adding box office and atrium; opened as a performing-arts center in 1978.
Current renovation • Begun in July; will be completed by December.
Phase 1A • $6 million renovation of the newly renamed Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre; improved sightlines, expanded orchestra pit; also new carpet, improved acoustics, audience seating and accessibility, and heating and air-conditioning systems.
Phase 1B • Construction of adjacent Jesse E. Quinney Ballet Centre, complete with 30 new bathrooms, ballet company offices and studios; scheduled to open Oct. 1, 2014.
Total project • $33.4 million combined budget for renovation and construction.
Backstage at Kingsbury Hall
Capacity • 1,913
Opened • May 22, 1930, as a performing-arts center at the University of Utah; original home for Utah Symphony, Ballet West, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and Repertory Dance Theatre.
Renovated • 1996; $14 million project expanding back-of-house operations, dressing and rehearsal rooms.
Renovated • 2007; front-of-house changes, eliminating center aisle, adding a rake to the floor and staggered center seating.
Historic elements • House murals, circa 1936, were a Works Progress Administration project; the 17-foot-square panels, designed by Florence E. Ware, depict drama through the ages.


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Andrew H. EMERITUS (5)...Kit Brown (4.5)ROOOOOAAAARRRRRR!!!!!!
"I do that rather well, don't you think?"...ImTheOnlyThugInTheBuildin (4.5)A benchmark in old school death metal...ExuberantGuitarist (5)The pinnacle album of Cryptopsy and all of technical death metal, an essential listen and ...
myhigherpie (5)"That's it...go ahead and run! Run home and cry to mama!"...dunksman23 (3.5)The faulted legend...Ire (5)...hectorkemp (5)Rapes the ears...
CrucifyTheInnocents (2)Boring, overrated, predictable, repetitive... An album that fails to impress, despite the ...Quebec (4.5)...
Album Rating: 4.5i needed to write a short review so here it is
Album Rating: 4.0Good album, good review, but I wished you would've spent more time on the technical aspect of the album rather than that small paragraph (when compared to the vocal/lyrics one). But again, it's just a personal view of the music. I'm not as impressed by Lord Worm as you are, instead, I rather think the guitar work/drums are the highlight here.
EDIT: wtf, I had this as a 4 earlier, and I guess it got deleted...? Oh well, it's back now This Message Edited On 03.19.07
Good review for a great album.
Album Rating: 4.5ech yeah i know i need more musical shit in there but i couldn't think of much more to say
Album Rating: 4.5Another good review. I've only heard the song on here and I like it a lot, so I may check this out.
Album Rating: 4.5Should I listen to this before or after those Burzum and Ulver albums?
Album Rating: 4.5it probably doesnt matter. if you can get into burzum then you can probably get into this.
Good review. I'm trying to get into a lot of death metal, so I'll check this out for sure.
Great album, Great Review. Cool avatar Syn.
Album Rating: 5.0This album slays, and you caught me listening to this album as I came upon this review. It's one of my favorite death metal albums.
Benedictine Convulsions has such a sick bass part.
Album Rating: 4.0This album is alot better than I originally thought. Phobophile, Slit Your Guts, Graves of our Fathers, and Benedictine Convulsion are all so brewtal
Album Rating: 4.5The myth behind the vocals/lyrics is that he recorded them drunk and wrote the lyrics after the fact
Album Rating: 5.0I doubt that. I can understand a word every once in a while...so I bet he wrote the lyrics before recording, but just used such br00tal screams that no one could understand them.
Album Rating: 4.5I dont know, I believe it. The odd word matches up but the phrasing and syllable counts don't seem to make sense.
Album Rating: 5.0Well that's where the whole "being shitfaced" factor comes into play. :thumb:
This album is so awesome. I love Benedictine Convulsions.
Album Rating: 4.0I love reading your reviews.
I would love to have this album. What Ive heard of it and what people have told me about it make me really want it. Every instrument is insanely good.
Album Rating: 4.0Im impressed Chan. Good to hear that you are expanding you musical tastes. Good review too, but a little light on the guitar and technical side of this album. Sounds like you clicked more with the vocals than the music side but thats just how you interpreted these guys at first listen. Good review!
I read, on this very site, something about Cryptopsy vocalist Lord Worm's insanely long scream in the song "Open Face Surgery."
That cover is so brutals and tr00.
But seriously, good review. This sounds pretty good.
Album Rating: 4.0Mike, you'd definitely enjoy it. Its like Arsis but much better with some of the most kickass drumming ever and brewtal vocals.
Also, Jon Levasseur kills that Malone guy on guitar. This Message Edited On 03.20.07
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Electric Zoo reveals expanded site for 5th anniversary
Electric Zoo is turning five this year, and as previously announced, all the animals in attenDANCE will be treated to five stages! To accommodate the extra stage, the festival has revealed an expanded site!
#EZOO5 includes a second main stage - Main Stage East, which will be home to Benny Benassi, Knife Party, Bassnectar, Dada Life, Madeon, Steve Aoki, Laidback Luke, Diplo, Tommy Trash, and many more throughout the three days at the festival.
If you're familiar with how the Zoo is set up, the second main stage will be across from the Riverside & and Hilltop Arena tents, in an expanded space.
Check it out:
3-day passes are still available, and can be purchased here.
A few of the official afterparties have been announced and feature Benny Benassi, Deniz Koyu, Sultan + Ned Shepard, Mark Knight, Stefano Noferini, Gina Star, MK, a Dirtybird label night, Fedde Le Grand, and more is to be announced soon!


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The owner of two Utah smoke shops faces federal charges for selling a banned substance known as "spice."
Adel Al-Mukahel, 44, is charged with four counts of conspiracy to distribute and possession of a controlled-substance analogue and with one count of money laundering. A federal grand jury also indicted an employee on distribution and possession charges.
Al-Mukahel, who lives in West Valley City, and the employee have both entered pleas of not guilty. A four-day trial is set for March 5 before U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby.
The Davis County Metro Narcotics Strike Force and the DEA Metro Narcotics Strike Force investigation began after police received a tip that spice was being sold at Victor's Smoke Shop in Kaysville. Spice is an herb and plant mixture that is sprayed with or soaked in the chemical compound THC, found in marijuana. When ingested, spice produces similar physical effects to marijuana.
An undercover agent bought $40 worth of spice labeled as "Fusion Potpourri" in March at the Kaysville shop. A confidential informant and an undercover agent each subsequently bought $25 worth of spice labeled as "4 Acez" or "X Chill" at the South Jordan store.
The investigation also documented additional purchases of the banned substance, which a search warrant estimates made up 75 percent to 80 percent of the sales at the Kaysville shop, through October.
A court document alleges proceeds of those sales were then laundered through a known member of the Iraqi Mafia Gang.
The search warrant estimates that in August 2012 alone, the two stores sold more than $77,000 worth of spice and related merchandise.


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Step 1: Assemble the soldering tools
The recipe for soldering success calls for two parts prep work and one part science. If you do the two critical preparation steps well—joint cleaning and heating—the solder itself will finish the job. When the joint is hot enough, molten solder instantly flows into the joint and covers the entire mating surfaces completely, almost as if following detailed instructions. It hardens there as it cools. Presto, you have a solid, leakfree joint.
In this article, we'll walk you through the basic steps for soldering the copper tubing used in most homes. As you'll see, you don't need special skills to solder copper successfully. You can easily solder a leakfree joint on the first try—but you can also make mistakes. We'll show you how to avoid them, as well as alert you to simple, but critical, safety precautions that'll protect you from burns and keep your home safe from fire.
The basic soldering tool is a propane torch, which consists of a regulator and tip combination that you screw into the top of a small tank. To operate, open the fuel adjustment valve and light the tip. For lighting ease, we recommend the regulator that has a built-in igniter (above left). The gas lights at the push of a button. If you buy the simpler version (above right), buy a striker as well. Squeezing the wire handle produces sparks, which ignite the gas. The striker is simpler and safer than matches.
Also buy either "tinning flux" (Photo 5) or "paste flux." The flux acid-cleans the copper surface as you heat the joint, enabling the solder to flow evenly. Both types work well. The tinning flux contains a tiny bit of solder, but you have to add more solder anyway.
You can find all the basic soldering equipment at full-service hardware stores or home centers—a propane torch, solder, emery cloth (Photo 3) and flux. We also recommend a tube cutter, flame protector cloth (see opening photo) and heavy gloves and eye protection. Wear the gloves and goggles as well as a heavy, long-sleeve shirt and a hat to protect yourself from burns if molten solder drips.
Step 2: Cut copper with a tube cutter
Photo 1
Cut copper tubing cleanly with a tube cutter. Clamp the pipe between the cutting wheel and the guide wheel and rotate the cutter, scoring the pipe all the way around. Tighten the cutter knob a quarter turn and rotate the cutter again, scoring the pipe deeper. Continue tightening and rotating the cutter until the pipe snaps off, about eight turns in all.
Copper is a soft metal that's easiest to cut with a tube cutter (Photo 1). Buy one that cuts up to 1-in. tubing, the largest size you're likely to need for most household water supply lines. Cut larger tubing with a hacksaw, but make sure to file off all the burrs left from the saw teeth. Otherwise your joint will leak. Grip the copper tubing firmly in one hand and tuck one end under your knee to keep it from slipping while you tighten and rotate the cutter (Photo 1). Don't tighten it too fast; you'll dent the pipe and have to start over.
Step 3: Remove the burrs
The cut may look clean, but remember to remove the small inside burr (Photo 2), a ridge of copper that's forced inward by the cutting wheel. Otherwise, it'll impede the flow of water through the pipe.
Step 4: Clean with emery cloth
Then clean the mating areas of the tubing and fittings, even if they look brand-shiny new. Thorough cleaning is the A-1 key to copper soldering success. It ensures a solid, leak proof joint.
Step 5: Clean with a fitting brush
Cleaning is a two-step process—first, clean all corrosion off the mating surfaces (Photos 3 and 4), and second, coat the surfaces with flux (Photo 5), an acidic paste that chemically etches the copper.
Pros clean copper with strips of 120-grit emery cloth, which is usually sold alongside the solder and flux on hardware and home center shelves (Photo 3). But fine steel wool or regular 120-grit sandpaper will do in a pinch. Clean the inside of fittings with the emery cloth too; simply roll a short piece around a finger and reach inside. But you'll soon get sore fingers! The handy fitting brush shown in Photo 4 makes this task easier, especially with small (1/2-in.) fittings.
Step 7: Flux the joint
Step 8: Heat the joint
Photo 6: Heat the joint and flow the solder
Heat the joint with your propane torch, moving the cone back and forth to heat it evenly. Hold the solder against the joint on the side opposite the flame until it melts and flows into the joint. The joint should appear full on all sides. Move to the next joint. The solder hardens as it cools.
Typically it's easiest to clean, flux and assemble the entire run of copper and then solder the joints in place all at once (opening photo). Fire up your torch and adjust the flame so the blue cone in the center is about 1-1/4 in. long. The longer the cone, the hotter the flame. The hottest point is at the tip of the cone, so hold the flame so that the tip just touches the fitting (Photo 6). It's not necessary to heat the copper tube directly, because the fitting quickly conducts the heat to the tube inside the joint. When the temperature of the copper reaches the solder melting point, the solder wire you're holding against the copper will suddenly liquefy and flow into the joint. Hold the solder opposite the flame, the coolest point, to make sure all parts of the joint are hot enough. Solder won't fill spots that are cooler than its melting point. Fill the joint until solder drips out, then move on to the next joint. Give the joint 30 to 45 seconds to cool and harden before putting pressure on it. Be careful; it'll still be too hot to touch.
Step 9: Use special techniques for tough spots
You can't solder tubing that has water in it. You have to drain water lines and dry the tubing in the area being soldered. Heating the tube with your torch speeds this up. Make sure any pressure that builds in the tube during soldering can escape. The easiest way is to keep a faucet open at one end of the line.
- If you're using tubing larger than ¾ in., heat the joints of tubing from several sides to raise the temperature more evenly. Add solder from several points and examine the joint to make sure the solder fills the joint on all sides.
- Soldering brass fittings, like the valve in Photo 7, requires more heat. Leave the valve open so pressure doesn't build inside the tube and cause the joint to leak. And if the valve has soft plastic or rubber parts, remove them if possible to avoid ruining them.
Safety Tiips
- Temporarily hang a flame protector cloth (opening photo) or a steel plate over wood and other flammable materials when soldering nearby. In any event, keep a fire extinguisher or bucket of water handy in case you start a fire.
- Shut off your torch when you set it down. The propane tank is tippy. Eventually a lit torch will fall over and burn something.
Keep a fire extinguisher and a bucket of water or spray bottle handy. . . just in case your torch starts a fire. Remember, your household water supply is often turned off while you work!


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Chicago completed this month and Los Angeles to be occupied in April.
Creative Circles' NYC office
NEW YORK -- Creative Circle, a creative services staffing and resource firm, has selected TPG Architecture to develop brand standards for all of the firm's offices and they've already implemented them into its New York City location. TPG is now applying these standards to flagship office expansions in Chicago and Los Angeles. The 8,000-sq.-ft. Chicago office, located at 330 North Wabash Avenue, will be complete this month. Creative Circle will occupy the 14,300-sq.-ft. Los Angeles office, at 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, in April.
"We asked TPG to help us express our brand visually within the entire office space," says Kenneth Lockart, director of real estate for Creative Circle. "TPG has been invaluable in helping us define 'common areas,' such as the café/pantry and meeting spaces that provide an improved overall working environment for our staff. TPG's work in this area has greatly improved staff morale as we move into these new flagship offices. Real estate brokers who represent our New York City building even tour prospective tenants through our office, telling them, 'This is what you could do.'"
TPG designed the offices to support the youthful and energetic staff. A central café/pantry is the heart of the open work environment. Brightly colored accent walls and mid-century modern furniture in the café and reception areas enliven crisp white walls and desks.
In addition to the brand standard red highlight around the interview rooms, café, and open plan area, the Chicago office has a divisible training room with mobile marker boards. Koroseal WallTalkers allow the main wall to be used as a marker board and projection surface.
TPG paid special attention to the architecture and play of light within the LA office.Color and pattern are prominently featured throughout the space, clerestory windows utilized and open ceilings were carefully considered to give as much height wherever possible.


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Bolling Falsely Claims That The Affordable Care Act -- Which Lowers The Deficit -- Actually Costs $4 Trillion
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The right-wing media remains desperate to obscure the fact that the Affordable Care Act lowers the deficit. In the latest iteration of the claim, Eric Bolling teamed up with Fox's "brain room" to inflate the cost of the health care reform law to a whopping $4 trillion.
Affordable Care Act Lowers The Deficit
CBO: Health Care Reform Lowers The Deficit By More Than $100 Billion. In March 2011, the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation issued a joint report finding that "[o]n net, CBO and JCT's latest comprehensive estimate is that the effects of the two laws on direct spending and revenues related to health care will reduce federal deficits by $210 billion over the 2012-2021 period." The CBO subsequently determined that the Obama administration's decision to indefinitely suspend implementation of the portion of the Affordable Care Act that enacted the CLASS Act lowered the deficit savings of the Affordable Care Act by $83 billion. [Congressional Budget Office, 3/30/11, 10/31/11]
Nevertheless, Bolling Falsely Claims Affordable Care Act May Cost As Much As "$4 Trillion"
Bolling: Because The IRS Cannot Throw You In Jail For Refusing To Buy Insurance Or Pay The Penalty, The Affordable Care Act May Really Cost $3 Or $4 Trillion. From the March 29 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
BOLLING: I spent the better part of a full day looking through this, and I found something in the health care law, in the Obamacare law, dealing with -- specifically dealing with enforcement. Brian, if you don't pay your taxes, what happens? The IRS comes after you, right?
BRIAN KILMEADE (co-host): Eventually.
BOLLING: They take you to court, eventually they take you to court, they can even garnish your wages, they can put a lien on your home, a tax lien on your property. Fast forward, the IRS will be the enforcement agent to Obamacare written in the bill. What happens if you don't buy health insurance either on the individual level or your company on a corporate level, you don't buy health insurance?
STEVE DOOCY (co-host): You pay the fine.
GRETCHEN CARLSON (co-host): You pay the penalty.
BOLLING: Well, you get assessed a fine, tax, penalty, whatever it is. What if you say, Steve, go jump in the river, IRS. I'm not paying the penalty either?
KILMEADE: Same thing.
BOLLING: No.
KILMEADE: Really?
BOLLING: Wrong. Nothing. Specifically, if I may --
DOOCY: So this is a mandate with no teeth?
KILMEADE: You're not going to sing another song, are you?
BOLLING: No, I'm going to read this. Waiver of -- this is section 1501, subsection (g)(2)(a), waiver of criminal penalties in the case of any failure by taxpayer to timely pay the penalty imposed by this section, such taxpayer shall not be subject to any criminal prosecution or penalty with respect to such failure and the secretary shall not file a notice of lien with respect to property and respect --
DOOCY: Well, politically though, they couldn't pass a bill where you go to prison.
BOLLING: Here's the -- well, they could give it -- they could give the IRS the same teeth to enforce tax law that they do Obamacare. Here's the point, though. Forget what this means. What it means to the taxpayer, it means, the CBO intially told us it was be $938 billion, the Obamacare. They recently upped it to $1.76 trillion. If this is true and if we're reading it right and I spent a lot of time with lawyers, with the brain room, with the accountants --
CARLSON: How dare you read the bill?
BOLLING: Listen to me. This could be double. This could be a $3 trillion bill, a $4 trillion bill. Because people will specifically say, if I don't have to pay and I'm not -- the extent of the enforcement's harassing phone calls. If that's all I have to deal with, there's going to be a section of population that doesn't pay, and people who do pay are going to pick up the tab for people who don't. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 3/29/12, emphasis added]
Bolling's Argument Relies On Three Clear Falsehoods
Bolling's Falsehood: "Nothing" Happens To You If You Don't Buy Health Insurance And Then Don't Pay The Penalty. When asked what would happen if you didn't buy insurance and then didn't pay the penalty assessed to people who don't buy insurance, Bolling answered: "Nothing." In fact, the penalty will be assessed against any refund or tax credit that a taxpayer would otherwise receive. From the Joint Committee on Taxation:
Specifically, the filing of notices of liens and levies otherwise authorized for collection of taxes does not apply to the collection of this penalty. In addition, the statute waives criminal penalties for non-compliance with the requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage. However, the authority to offset refunds or credits is not limited by this provision. [Joint Committee on Taxation, 3/21/10]
Bolling's Falsehood: CBO Has Not Taken Into Account The Effect Of The Enforcement Mechanism For The Individual Mandate. Bolling claimed that, after having "spent a lot of time with lawyers, with the [Fox] brain room, with the accountants," if the effect of people saying "I don't have to pay" were truly taken into account, the CBO estimate of the cost of the bill "could be double. This could be a $3 trillion bill, a $4 trillion bill." Actually, the CBO and Joint Committee on Taxation have already taken this into account and have estimated that "collections from those penalties will be about $4 billion per year." From an April 2010 CBO report:
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have estimated that about 21 million nonelderly residents will be uninsured in 2016, but the majority of them will not be subject to the penalty. Unauthorized immigrants, for example, are exempted from the mandate to obtain health insurance. Others will be subject to the mandate but exempted from the penalty -- for example, because they will have income low enough that they are not required to file an income tax return, because they are members of Indian tribes, or because the premium they would have to pay would exceed a specified share of their income (initially 8 percent in 2014 and indexed over time). CBO and JCT estimate that between 13 million and 14 million of the uninsured in 2016 will qualify for one or more of those exemptions.
Of the remaining 7 million to 8 million uninsured, some individuals will be granted exemptions from the penalty because of hardship, and others will be exempted from the mandate on the basis of their religious beliefs. Among the uninsured who do not obtain an exemption, many will voluntarily report on their tax returns that they are uninsured and pay the amount owed. However, other individuals will try to avoid making payments. Therefore, the estimates presented here account for likely compliance rates, as well as the ability of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to administer and collect the penalty. After accounting for all of those factors, CBO and JCT estimate that about 4 million people will pay a penalty because they will be uninsured in 2016 (a figure that includes uninsured dependents who have the penalty paid on their behalf).
CBO and JCT estimate that total collections from those penalties will be about $4 billion per year over the 2017-2019 period. [CBO, 4/30/10]
Bolling's Falsehood: The CBO Has Already Increased The Estimate For The Affordable Care Act To $1.7 Trillion. Bolling claimed that "CBO intially told us it was be $938 billion, Obamacare. They recently upped it to $1.76 trillion." In fact, Bolling was referring to just the gross cost of the insurance coverage provision, not the entire bill. In addition, in the report to which Bolling is referring, the CBO estimated that the insurance coverage provisions will cost "just under $1.1 trillion," less than previously estimated. [Media Matters, 3/16/12]
- Even The Conservative National Review Online Acknowledges That The Talking Point That The Affordable Care Act's Cost Has Doubled Is Nonsense. From a post by National Review Online's Patrick Brennan:
The House Republican Policy Committee, for instance, put out a statement claiming that "the new CBO projection estimates that the law will cost $1.76 trillion over 10 years -- well above the $940 billion Democrats originally claimed."
This claim, that the CBO's 2012 estimate suggests Obamacare will cost twice as much as originally projected when the bill was passed in 2010, has been widely trumpeted, by some rather doggedly, as another Obamacare failure, but unfortunately, it's entirely dishonest accounting, as a range of liberal bloggers have pointed out. [National Review Online, 3/20/12]
Right-Wing Media Pretend All The Time That The Affordable Care Act Is A Budget Buster
For Years, Right-Wing Media Outlets Have Pushed The Falsehood That The Affordable Care Act Will Cost The Government A Fortune. Examples of conservative media making false claims about the costs of the Affordable Care Act include:
- Right-Wing Media Falsely Claim Cost Of Health Care Law Has Doubled. [Media Matters, 3/16/12]
- Wash. Times' Wolf "Lie[s]" To Accuse Obama Of Lying On Health Care. [Media Matters, 7/20/11]
- Doocy Echoes Bachmann's New, False Claim That $105 Billion Was "Hidden" In Health Care Law. [Media Matters, 3/9/11]
- Carlson Allows Former GOP Aide To Falsely Claim HC Reform Does Not Reduce Deficit. [Media Matters, 1/24/11]
- Rove Still Pushing Health Care Deficit Reduction Misinformation. [Media Matters, 1/20/11]
- Red State Advances Bogus Claim That Repeal Of Health Care Reform Will Not Increase Deficit. [Media Matters, 1/6/11]
- Ingraham Accuses CBO Of "Spinning" On Health Care Reform. [Media Matters, 1/6/11]
- WSJ Revives Tired Claim To Suggest Health Reform Increases Deficit. [Media Matters, 1/4/11]
- Fox Promotes Boehner's Falsehood That Health Care Law Will "Bankrupt" The Country. [Media Matters, 9/9/10]
- Fox Falsely Claims CBO Estimated Health Care Reform Would Add To Deficit. [Media Matters, 7/7/10]
- Varney Still Pushing Tired Claim That Health Care Reform Bill "Will Not Lower The Deficit." [Media Matters, 6/30/10]
- Rove Continues To Mislead On CBO's Health Care Estimate. [Media Matters, 6/4/10]
- Goldberg Falsely Suggests Health Care Reform Isn't Paid For. [Media Matters, 4/4/10]
- Kilmeade: "How The Heck" Can Health Care Reform Reduce The Deficit While Also Spending $940B? [Media Matters, 3/26/10]
- Kristol Says GOP "Can Make A Compelling Case" That Health Care Reform "Will Bankrupt The Government." [Media Matters, 3/22/10]
- Cavuto Falsely Claims That Health Care Reform Is "Most Costly" Bill "In A Generation." [Media Matters, 3/20/10]
- Fox Responds To CBO Score Of Health Care Bill By Portraying CBO As Untrustworthy. [Media Matters, 3/19/10]
- Attention Fox News: The CBO Has Not Undermined Its Deficit Reduction Estimate. [Media Matters, 12/23/09]
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Spindle Back ArmChair
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Steel the show. The powder-coated steel Spindle Back Armchair is our durable take on the classic turned wood chair. With a vibrant powder coating and fully welded construction, it's ready to work overtime in dining rooms and kitchens.
• Powder-coated steel.
• Fully welded construction.
• 21.25"w x 23.25"d x 31.8"h.
• Arrives fully assembled.
• Wipe clean.
• Imported.
• Select styles are online/catalog only.
- Details + Dimensions
• Overall product dimensions: 21.25"w x 23.25"d x 31.8"h.
• Seat height: 18.5".
• Number of boxes: 1.
• Shipping package: 25"w x 23"d x 34.5"h.
• Packaged weight: 35.9 lbs.
Arrives fully assembled.
Wipe with a soft, dry cloth. To protect finish, avoid the use of chemicals and household cleaners. Hardware may loosen over time. Periodically check to make sure all connections are tight.
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These are the ballet flats that help to combat the effects of plantar fasciitis with a comfortably soft, stabilizing orthotic footbed that provides superior arch support. The deep heel cups are molded into the flats' shock-absorbing EVA footbeds, aligning the feet into a natural position for those who over-pronate, when the heel bone angles inward, a determining factor in the development of plantar fasciitis. The soft PVC low-profile uppers have completely waterproof, comfortable outsoles made from resilient rubber molded with a non-slip pattern. The biomechanical footbeds provide optimal comfort and support when the flats are worn for at least a few hours per day over the course of two weeks. Women's whole sizes. For half sizes, order the next size down. Bronze. (8 oz.)
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The Lady's Plantar Fasciitis Ballet Flats come with The Hammacher Schlemmer Lifetime Guarantee. If this product ever disappoints you, for any reason, you may return your Hammacher Schlemmer purchase for exchange, credit, or refund.
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Very Stiff
By Kim
from Pa
Shoes were cute and stylish but very stiff to wear and because they are not leather they did not give, also the arch was too excessive.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Hammacher Schlemmer Response: Thank you for your feedback. We value all the input we receive from you and other concerned customers because it helps us improve the quality of our merchandise, sharpen the product descriptions in our catalog and website, and provide even better customer service. If you are ever disappointed with a product - for any reason - we request that you return it to us. Please call our 24-hour customer service hotline at 1-800-321-1484 and one of our representatives will be happy to assist you.
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Very nice quality
By Flat foot
from Baltimore
I am sending the shoes back, since my foot is too wide.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Very comfortable attractive shoe.
By Princess
from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Canada
Would like to see more choices of this kind of footwear. Thank you for the selection you do have.
Wore them to a wedding wonderful all day
By Debbie
from Ma
Wore all day at a wedding that we were at 2 weeks ago and I danced no foot pain
Comfort wear shoes look good in office.
By Accountant Bobbie-bird
from El Paso, TX
Finding shoes that look dressy enough for the office yet are supportive to problem feet is hard. These shoes look good with slacks or skirt suits.
Patent Leather-yecch
By LynneinChgo
from Chicago, IL
I am going to return these shoes. Did I miss the description of the black shoe as being, "Patent Leather'?If so, I apologize.
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Comfortable, but...
By Stareid
from Southern NH
The leather is rubbing off in the tip of the shoe and I have only worn them 3 times.
Hammacher Schlemmer Response: Our customer service team is available at 1-800-321-1484 to assist you in exchanging for a new pair.
The Road to Recovery
By Kathy
from Maryland
After suffering and limping for over a month I tried this shoe. It definitely gives good arch support and helps with the heel pain. I recommend not trying to wear it in the beginning all day. I wear it for several hours at work and slip into another pair of shows. Still not there yet, but this shoe definitely has me on the way to recovery. I only wish the black wasn't patent because it could have been much more versatile.
A nice looking shoe!!
By Jan
from Oakland, CA
Helps relieve pain of my plantar faciitis. Sizing was a problem. Had to return for correct fit. Info regarding half sizes was a bit confusing. I usually order the next larger size if half size are not available, not the size below.
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By Bargain Lady
from Austin, TX
thought the price quite reasonable, especially with the HS guarantee...solves my foot problem without looking like "granny" shoes.
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This was its state through the Anglo-Norman and Plantagenet reigns.
There is a whole literature of these romans d'aventure in the Anglo-Norman dialect of French.
But there was always a tendency to lawlessness wherever the Anglo-Norman went.
Before the close of the medival period, a great part of Ireland had been reconquered by the tribes from Anglo-Norman hands.
Anglo-Norman and Celt, feudalist and tribesman, alike were Catholics.
The "half horse, half alligator" was an Anglo-Norman assimilation of a later date.
Perhaps the Anglo-Norman fault had ramifications in the affected areas?
The Anglo-Norman language exhibits certain superadded elements.
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There's a lot to like about chimichurri sauce.
Mostly because there are endless variations of the traditional Argentinian sauce, so there's a good chance you'll find a version that you like. The basic recipe has parsley, oregano, garlic, vinegar and olive oil. But it's not unheard of to involve tomatoes, peppers, cilantro, rosemary, thyme and my favorite addition, paprika. The constant in chimichurri for me is the paprika – no matter what herbs are thrown in I must have olive oil, garlic and paprika. I love the deep orange tint and rich, full flavor it gives.
Another excellent rendition is this kalamata olive chimichurri, from Bon Appetit's 2012 cleanse menu. The salty olives are a perfect foil for the fresh parsley and smokey paprika.
This sauce was intended for a nice piece of grilled beef, which I still plan on using it with, but I also thought I would try it out on some fresh grilled vegetables. To me, the kalamatas are meaty and the paprika is reminiscent of chorizo, so I didn't even really miss the beef. That said, this makes for a beautiful side to grilled fish, steak, or a seafood paella. You could also serve it over brown rice for a satisfying and colorful meat-free meal.
Kalamata Chimichurri
(adapted slightly from Bon Appetit)
– 2 tablespoons olive oil
– 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
– 1/4 teaspoon of red chilli flakes
– 1 bay leaf, broken in half
– 1 medium sized shallot, finely diced
– 1/4 cup fresh parsley
– 1/4 cup roughly chopped kalamata olives
– 2 tablespoon red wine vinegar
– 2 teaspoons paprika
– 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
– salt and pepper, to taste
Heat olive oil in a medium sized skilled over a medium heat. Add garlic, chilli flakes, and the bay leaf and cook for 1 minute.
Add shallots and cook for about 2 minutes, until translucent. Stir in paprika and cayenne and remove from heat. Stir in parsley, olives, vinegar, and a teaspoon or two of water.
You can prepare ahead and let stand at room temperature until you're ready to use. Add more water in very small amounts if the sauce needs thinning.
For the Grilled Vegetables:
Ideally, I would do this on a BBQ, but I did a quick pan "grill" session, to speed things up.
All you need is a little olive oil in a pan over a medium-high heat, season the veggies with some salt and pepper and you're on you way. I used:
– Red pepper/capsicum, cut into thin strips
– Broccoli florets
– Zucchini, cut into thin strips
Add the vegetables that take the longest to cook to the pan first. I put the red peppers in first, because they take a little while to soften but also because they give off the most aromatic flavor of the bunch. Then in went the broccoli for a minute or two, and the zucchini last. I covered the pan to trap a little steam in there to move things along. All up, my veggies took about 10 minutes total.
Spoon chimichurri over the top to serve.


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Saturday, August 11, 2012 - 13:45
Jump starts and drive-thru penalties
In the 20-minute race - held in finally dry conditions - several of the 19 drivers made mistakes. Nearly the entire Team Lotus line-up (Artem Markelov, Kimiya Sato and Sheban Siddiqi) received drive-thru penalties for having made jump starts - a particularly tough decision for Markelov who held second position when he had to come in for his drive-thru penalty. In addition to the three Lotus drivers, Dennis van de Laar and Dominik Kocher also made jump starts and just like Tom Blomqvist, Denis van de Laar and Kimiya Sato also received time penalties after the race for having deliberately gone of the track several times.
On lap six, Jimmy Eriksson and Lucas Stolz (Germany) had a close encounter in the Schlossgold corner and while the Swede could continue, Stolz was forced to cruise back to the pits to retire. In the ATS Formula 3 Trophy, Andre Rudersdorf once again delivered in superior style. The 16-year old German shared the podium with guest driver Maximilian Hackl (Germany) and Belgium's Jordy Weckx.


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Hours: 11am-4:30pm
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Description: A fun farm treat for the whole family. October is pumpkin month at the Farm Museum. Families can enjoy wandering through the pumpkin patch to find their favorite pumpkin. Price of the pumpkin is based on pumpkin size.


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Pear Head
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 7:29 pm
Post subject: Duluth News Tribune article
DNT article
I don't know how long the URL stays active - should be 7 days at least I would think.
I haven't noticed this in print yet - it may show up in Sunday's paper (or I may have missed it in Saturday's paper). Or it may not show up at all.
Overall I was happy with it, being what it could have been. EskoClimber did a good job I believe on taking the reporter (and I think there was a photographer) around to IBCrashen's cache.
The cache in question is gone now (naturally). In hindsight, it probably wasn't the best to begin with. Hindsight is always 20-20, isn't it?
And, with most things you read in the paper, there's always a little more to the story than what's in print. It's probably easier just left that way.
I showed it to a co-worker to get his reaction to the article - is it good or bad for us? He thought it was good overall (and followed up by asking me a number of caching questions).
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Thanks for sharing the link with us. Pretty good article too. Considering the "Bong bridge incident", the article was a lot more positive than many.
Thanks to EskoClimber for working with the reporter.
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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:52 pm
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After seeing it in print today I am very pleased. The article is on the front page of one of the inside sections (Outdoors?). It takes up a large portion of the first page and follows into the second page taking up quite a bit of space. There are a number of photographs which all turned out well. They also included a couple of sidebars - one of EskoClimber's 5 favorite caches (actually there's 6 there but no one's counting) and another sidebar of some geocaching basics. Very nice indeed.
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pear head,
Could you get the full article with the pics and all? It would be fun to see the article as it appears in the paper. Thanks,
King of the Jeff Gordon TB's!
They put that cache WHERE?
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 7:27 am
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I just archived a cache because of the article.....
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 7:37 am
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Kitch wrote:
I just archived a cache because of the article.....
Well, your cache wasn't quite as bad as CAG's out in the middle of the bridge in Hastings. At least there was a good sized divider and a "safe" walking area. I didn't feel quite as uncomfortable poking around on that bridge (as you could always claim you were enjoying the view of Ft. Snelling or something) as I did doing CAG's cache which had no physical barrier and didn't have a good sized walking area.
One of my more famous run ins with law enforcement came while I was poking around a bridge searching for a cache.
Ahhh, the joys.
Sad state of affairs.
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Moe knows how to get to the cache:
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:25 am
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When the moon hits your eye
Like a big pizza pie
That's aMOEra
"Hi, I'm Moe, or as the women know me - Hey! You in the bushes."
-Moe, The Simpsons
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:44 am
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Great story, until I read the dreaded "Geomuggles" term.
For once, Id like to rad a story that doesn't toss that in.....It just makes me cringe-
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This doesn't look at all suspicious, does it? Just normal summertime fun on an October morning, right?
...formerly 'dachebo'.
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:26 pm
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loneeagle_24 wrote:
Could you get the full article with the pics and all? It would be fun to see the article as it appears in the paper. Thanks,
I agree that it would be nice although it would probably get me or someone else in some hot water over copyright issues...
What you're missing is what sells papers I guess..
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:41 pm
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In the last couple of weeks I've seen four new cachers that registered after the article and have hit my caches or a couple that are on my watch list. Sounds positive... One mentions the article in his/her bio as getting them started. I would guess that there are a couple of others that are caching now that haven't hit any of my caches yet.
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Discover Charles Peale Polk's painting of George Washington.
This award-winning exhibition interprets 16,000 years of Virginia history—from the earliest Native American artifacts to life in the state at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Visitors can learn about the cultural and historical transformations of the commonwealth as they travel from one gallery to another. Enjoy exploring the Story of Virginia.


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Wash. Times ' Lambro misled in comparison of Social Security and private retirement accounts
Research ››› ››› DUNCAN BLACK
Washington Times chief political correspondent Donald Lambro misleadingly argued that Social Security provides a poor investment return for workers by ignoring Social Security's survivor and disability benefits.
In his March 17 column, Lambro asked, "Who today would invest in an IRA or 401(k) plan whose average yield is less than 2 percent?" But this comparison ignores Social Security's substantial insurance benefits. Unlike 401(k) plans and individual retirement accounts, participation in Social Security entitles eligible workers to receive benefits if they become disabled before reaching retirement age. In addition, if an eligible worker who has dependent children dies before reaching retirement age, his or her spouse is entitled to receive benefits, as are the children. And, upon reaching retirement age, the spouse of a deceased worker is entitled to the full retirement benefits to which the decedent would have been entitled. For 401(k) and IRA plans, heirs receive only the balance of the accounts.
For example, the Social Security Administration calculates that the surviving spouse of a worker born in 1975 who received an annual salary of $40,000 from his or her 18th birthday until death at age 30 would be entitled to a monthly benefit of $1,279 for as long as he or she had dependent children. In addition, each dependent child would also be entitled to a monthly benefit of $1,279, up to a total maximum monthly family benefit of $2,985.10. The surviving spouse, upon reaching full retirement age, would be entitled to a monthly benefit of $1,705, even if he or she had never personally paid Social Security taxes. If the decedent had a 1-year-old and a 3-year-old child at the time of death, total benefits over the 17-year period during which there would still be dependent children in the family would equal about $598,710. Before death, the decedent would have paid a total of $29,760 in Social Security taxes, not adjusted for inflation.
As further illustration, if instead of paying Social Security taxes, the worker had invested every year the entire annual contribution of $2,480 in a mutual fund earning a 6.5 percent real rate of return, an investment performance commonly assumed by advocates of privatization, at the time of death the account would contain $43,079 in today's dollars.
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Multnomah University prepares students for meaningful careers that serve Jesus whether they're called to traditional ministry or the marketplace.
Stay connected to our community and help the next generation of Christian leaders become agents of positive change, whether they're serving across the street or across an ocean.
A survey of principles from the field of psychology as they relate to the problems of contemporary man and a biblical worldview.


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If you don't know what backtrack is, why did you download it.
If you are still unclear as to what it is, then read the main site, this forum and the wiki.
I guess if you have not got an idea of what card to buy after reading 100's of posts, then perhaps you should try reading them again and perhaps use the search function where you will find all the other posts asking that question. I will give you a clue, there is no single answer that will cover everyone and every situation.
It looks like it is not the site that has overstretched itself.
Constructive help on what, you haven't worked out what backtrack is yet.


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|Url: https://live.gnome.org/Almanah_Diary
|Summary: GTK+ application to allow you to keep a diary of your life
Almanah Diary is a small application to ease the management of an encrypted personal diary. It's got good editing abilities, including text formatting and printing. Evolution tasks and appointments will be listed to ease the creation of diary entries related to them. At the same time, you can create diary entries using multiple events.
* Thu Mar 29 2012 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add %glib2_gsettings_schema_* schema handling in preamble and post/postun. - Don't complicate post/postun with checks for obsoleted openSUSE versions. * Mon Mar 26 2012 email@example.com - Update to version 0.9.0: + Removed 'definitions' in favour of hyperlinks. + Move to a new XML-based entry serialisation format. + Use the new GApplication single instance mechanism. + Various fixes to the import system. + Search is now asynchronous and case-insensitive. + Fixed build with --enable-spell-checking and - -disable-encryption. + The first phase of a major re-working of the UI to make it more GNOME-3-ish. + Re-enable spell checking with GTK+3. + Automatically save the current entry every 5 minutes. + Bugs fixed: bgo#631835, bgo#622193, bgo#647691, bgo#647690, bgo#662016, bgo#662014, bgo#667263, bgo#666801, bgo#671801, bgo#669927. + Updated translations. - Drop almanah-largefile.patch: fixed upstream. - Remove gnome-common BuildRequires and call to gnome-autogen.sh: they were only needed for above patch. - Add pkgconfig(gtkspell-3.0) BuildRequires for spell checking support. * Sat Mar 03 2012 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add X-SuSE-DesktopUtility to the categories of almanah in order to fix the build. * Sat Dec 24 2011 email@example.com - Add almanah-largefile.patch to fix build, instead of changing CFLAGS. - Cleanup for inclusion in Factory. * Sat Dec 03 2011 email@example.com - Initial package (version 0.8.0)
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text: CCU's Hannah Rapoport Named All-American Monday, June 04, 2012 at 9:30 AM After leading the Colorado Christian University Cougars to the NCAA tournament in the inaugural season of softball at the school, Hannah Rapoport has been named a First Team All-American by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. The first CCU athlete ever to earn that status, Rapoport batted .459 this year while notching 34 RBIs, 15 doubles, and 20 stolen bases. One of two players from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference to earn the honor, Rapoport was also named RMAC Player of the Year.While the award is for a tremendous individual accomplishment, Rapoport is quick to point to the influence of her team. "This honor for me has everything to do with them," she says. "When we step on the field together every one of those girls is my sister. They were my support this season."Also named to Daktronics Second Team All-America, Rapoport is a new arrival at CCU, transferring in for the spring 2012 semester. She credits her coach, Daven Bond, with her move: "The fact that he could see something in me, which even I couldn't see, helped me to take the risk to transfer."Hannah's transfer began just six months ago--last Thanksgiving. Daven Bond tells it: "Just after Thanksgiving this past year, I was looking at softball recruiting videos on YouTube, of all places. I clicked the tab for the most recently uploaded and the very first one that popped up was Hannah Rapoport. I must have watched that video 20 times that night. The very next morning, I contacted Hannah and invited her to visit our campus during her Christmas break. She came on a visit to CCU that same week and fell in love with the team, campus, and Denver. It's amazing how things worked out. We were so fortunate to have her this year."Bond adds, "Awards like this only happen when a team performs well. This is the result of the girls coming together and reaching the NCAA regionals in their first year." After a momentous year, Rapoport sees greater things for CCU's future. "If people think we came out with a bang this year, just wait until next year. It's going to be amazing what we can accomplish as a team." Coach Bond is more tempered in his approach but similarly enthusiastic. A strong recruiting class and successful first year have set high expectations. "I already miss the girls and can't wait to get started in the fall." Tweet


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|Public Law 90-287
|Tiwa Indians of Ysleta, Tex. Designation.
|Sec. 2
|Responsibility, transfer.
|Sec. 2
|42 U.S.C. 2701 note.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Indians now living in El Paso County, Texas, who are descendants of the Tiwa Indians of the Ysleta (Isleta) del Sur Pueblo settling in Texas at Ysleta in 1682, shall, from and after the ratification of this Act, be known and designated as Tiwa Indians of Ysleta, Texas, and shall continue to enjoy all rights, privileges, and immunities enjoyed by them as citizens of the State of Texas and of the United States before the enactment of this Act, and shall continue to be subject to all the obligations and duties of such citizens under the laws of the State of Texas and the United states.
Responsibility, if any, for the Tiwa Indians of Ysleta del Sur is hereby transferred to the State of Texas. Nothing in this Act shall make such tribe or its members eligible for any services performed by the United States for Indians because of their status as Indians nor subject the United States to any responsibility, liability, claim, or demand of any nature to or by such tribe or its members arising out of their status as Indians, and none of the statutes of the United States which affect Indians because of their status as Indians shall be
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applicable to the Tiwa Indians of Ysleta del Sur. Nothing herein shall preclude the application to the people of the Tiwa Indians of programs undertaken pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 508), as heretofore or hereafter amended.
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Columbia River Ikoma Sampa Gentleman's Tactical Folder 3.125" Ti-Nitride Combo Blade, Aluminum Handles - 5335K
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CR5335K: Ikoma Sampa
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An encouraging trait of the international custom knifemaking community is a sense of brotherhood and the willingness to share and encourage other members. As an example, take the friendship of Hawaiian knifemaker Ken Onion and Brazilian knifemaker Flavio Ikoma. Ken has encouraged use of the Ikoma Korth ball bearing pivot system on his CRKT knives, and had also counseled Flavio on the directions his designs might take. Our Sampa, Flavio Ikoma's first folder designed for CRKT, is the fruit of that friendship.
Ken suggested the general parameters of a "gentleman's tactical" folder and Flavio did the rest. In overview, this is a lightweight and stylish locking liner folder with a clean open build and exceptionally fast and fluid flipper opening. The blade is premium AUS 8 stainless steel in a drop point shape with recurve and high hollow grind. The Model 5330 has a high satin finish with a Razor - Sharp cutting edge, while the Model 5335K has a Combined Razor-Sharp and Triple-Point Serrated edge with a black titanium nitride blade coating.
The Sampa frames are cold-forged 6061-T6 aluminum, which is clean-up machined, gray anodized for a titanium look, and then surface finished, revealing a bright surface pattern which aids grip. The strip locking liner is 420J2 stainless steel, precision inset into one frame. Flavio developed the IKBS ball bearing system to be entirely raceless, the bearings running in channels machined into the blade and frame. In this case, we have incorporated a stainless steel race/bushing in the aluminum frames for long life. The IKBS pivot system is durable and requires little maintenance, yielding a folder with great rigidity and no blade play. A spring-loaded ball detent keeps the blade securely closed until needed. Then, a fast press on the flipper yields instant opening and lock-up. A custom removable Teflon-coated stainless clip is standard on both models.
This is clearly a personal knife for the high-achiever who values innovative design and custom-knife quality in a personal accessory. It is also an excellent value.
- Dimensions
- Open Overall Length: 7.25 inches
- Closed Length: 4.25 inches
- Weight: 2.7 ounces
- Blade
- Length: 3.125 inches
- Thickness: 0.115 inches
- Material: AUS 8
- Blade-HRC: 58-59
- Finish: Ti-Nitride
- Grind: Hollow
- Style: Drop Point
- Edge: Combo
- Material: 6061 Aluminum
- Type: Locking Liner
- Carry System: 1 Position Clip
- IKBS: Yes
- Flipper: Yes
UPC Code: 794023533507
A very widely used EDC steel, AUS-8 can take a very nice edge while also maintaining moderate edge holding and corrosion resistance properties.
Includes a pocket clip for easy accessibility and a more secure carry.
A solid, lightweight material that can be molded, textured or anodized to provide better grip under extreme conditions.


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