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Associate Professor, Environmental Science
Contact information
- Office: 608C Academic Hall
- Phone: 412-392-3856
- Fax: 412-392-6180
- Email: email@example.com
- Bachelor of Science, Biology-Environmental Science, Mansfield University
- Master of Science, Environmental Science, Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind.
- Doctor of Philosophy, Aquatic Biogeochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Courses Taught
- Biological Evolution
- Botany
- Ecology
- General Chemistry
- Introduction to Natural Sciences II
- Politics and the Environment
Matthew Opdyke, Ph.D., is an associate professor of environmental science at Point Park University. Opdyke earned his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign studying the connection between stream geomorphology and nitrogen cycling in steams impacted by agriculture. He then pursued a postdoctoral research position at Michigan State University in East Lansing where his research focused on novel, stable isotope techniques to differentiate among sources of nitrous oxide in soils. As a professor at Point Park, Opdyke received external research grants to fund his research with students and send them to international conferences.
Opdyke's research projects include (1) assessing watershed health in preparation for a Coldwater Conservation Plan for Fishing Creek watershed (Columbia and Sullivan Counties, Pa.); (2) studying the application of lichens as indicators of habitat alteration and air quality; and (30) monitoring long-term changes in wetland plants following the rehabilitation of a floodplain wetland at Windfield Pines in Bridgeville, Pa.
Curriculum vitae
Selected Publications
- "Checklist of Lichens of Crawford County, Pennsylvania," co-authored with Joshua Daugherty, Evansia, March 2016.
- "M.R. Cladistics: A Tool for Teaching about Evolutionary Relationships," Green Teacher, 95:31-35, 2012.
- "Wingfield Pines Wetland Plant Monitoring Report 2008-2012," Final Grant Report, Allegheny Land Trust, Sewickley, Pa., 2012.
- "A study of epiphytic lichen communities in urban and rural environments in southwestern Pennsylvania," (with B.E. Dolney, L. Frost, and J.D. Roy) Journal of Pennsylvania Academy of Science, 85:151-158, 2011.
- "Fishing Creek Watershed Coldwater Conservation Plan 2009-2011," Final Grant Report, Coldwater Heritage Partnership, Harrisburg, Pa. 2011.
Selected Presentations
- "Coldwater conservation plan for Fishing Creek," (with R.S. Opdyke), Columbia County, Pa., Keystone Coldwater Conference, 2012.
- "Monitoring wetland plant diversity and growth at Wingfield Pines," Allegheny Land Trust Open Forum Meeting, 2012.
- "Distribution and diversity of lichen communities influenced by urbanization in southwestern Pennsylvania," Botanical Society of America, 2012.
- "Gigapan Technology: A web-based platform for ecological research and outreach" and "Dendrochronology as an assessment tool of tree growth in wetland restoration projects," Ecological Society of America Meeting, 2011 and 2009.
- "Results of developing a Coldwater Conservation Plan in Fishing Creek watershed in Columbia and Sullivan Counties, Pa.," Fishing Creek Sportsman Association special meeting, July 2011.
- "What are Lichens and What Do They Say About Air Quality in Our Region," Café Scientifique-Pittsburgh, May 2011.
- "What Fluffy Dust, Candle Flame and Other Lichens Tell us About the Air," interviewed by The Allegheny Front, Sept. 2010.
Research Interests
- Lichens as indicators of anthropogenic disturbances
- Aquatic ecology and the relationship between fluvial geomorphology, water quality and biological diversity
- Wetland ecology and restoration
In the News
- "Newsmaker: Matthew Opdyke," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Aug. 30, 2015.
- "Newsmaker: Matthew Opdyke," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 24, 2014.
- "Lichens Take a Likin' to Upper St. Clair Trees," Upper St. Clair Patch, July 23, 2013.
- "The Next Page: The Secret World of Lichen," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 30, 2012.
- "The Power of Cladistics," Green Teacher magazine, Spring 2012 issue.
Point Park Features
- "Air and water quality explored through faculty, student research," The Point, Winter 2016 issue.
- "Professor Presents at Ecological Society of America Conference," Point Park University website, Aug. 24, 2015.
- "Ecology Students Shadow Dinosaur Expert at Carnegie Museum of Natural History," Point Park University website, March 31, 2015.
- "Botany Class Studies Wetland Conservation, Collaborates With Allegheny Land Trust," Point Park University website, Oct. 9, 2014.
- "Professor and Graduate Student Awarded Grant to Study Lichen," Point Park University website, April 15, 2014.
- "Environmental Science Professor Presents at 2013 Susquehanna Water Science Forum," Point Park University website, Oct. 21, 2013.
- "Recent Biological Sciences Grad Discusses Her Research on Tree Cores," Point Park University website, May 20, 2013.
- "Science Majors Participate in Tree Planting Event on Sycamore Island," Point Park University website, May 6, 2013.
- "Botany Shadowing Assignment Connects Students to Environmental Experts," Point Park University website, Nov. 7, 2012.
- "Green Teacher Magazine Publishes Article by Professor of Environmental Science," May 25, 2012.
- "Professor Opdyke to Discuss His Research on the Lichen Community," Point Park University website, April 15, 2011.
- "Prof. Opdyke, Students Research Lichen as Indicator of Air Quality," Point Park University website, May 28, 2010.


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Thanks opie, I'll have to pass this one. I was able to work something out here in the Netherlands right after my post
Since I'm an amsteel noob I'm stuck with the question about the difference between 1/8 and 7/64 inch amsteel.
the breaking strength of course and a little weight, but I'm more concerned about it being 'idiot proof' (the idiot being me of course) than weight savings.
Is there anything I'm missing here??
Zy, the only differences are the strength, physical diameter of the line and 7/64 is 8 strand while all other sizes are 12 strand. There are escalating bury lengths as you increase in line diameter also.
All spools have been rounded off. I'll get some math done after work today.
No math today. Snowing so I need to go to bed. Gotta be up in a few hours to go back to work.
However, I should be home just about all day tomorrow so I can get the payment arrangements worked out. I did forget to add in the paypal fees in my quick price figure a few posts back. I think its still 3% and $.29 per transaction.
However, the IRS, starting this year, is requiring Paypal to report any accounts that have $20,000 AND 200 transactions within the calender year. Not sure if this includes personal payments so I need to look into that. Since Im not selling the line for profit, Id hate to have this venture count against me next year on my taxes.
Having been self-employed in the past, you'd need to keep records of the costs of goods, and the sale prices. You deduct the cost of goods sold from the sales price. In this case, you won't profit, so nothing to pay taxes on... Of course, you'll need to track all your ancillary expenses: postage, supplies, etc. Those are a cost of doing business, so net-net, you may take a loss at some point and owe little to the tax-man...
Get a good accountant if you're going to be in business for yourself.
Besides, you're small potatoes. They won't target you over a few thousand dollars...
"Do or do not, there is no try." -- Yoda
Im figuring shipping prices right now.....
You international folks that arent in Canada are going to get hammered.
I figure I can get 200' of 7/64 into a small flat rate box which goes for $11.95 to Canada and Mexico and $13.95 everywhere else.
Anything above 200' will need to go in a medium box which goes for $27.95 to Canada and Mexico and $45.50 everywhere else.
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Official works
- From the album art for Frog Hunt: POOR DAVE!
- Not long after Alternia was released, Andrew announced that another album was already in the works. What did it turn out to be? A Squiddles album!
- GameGrl. Stylistic Suck at its finest.
- The promo video for Homestuck Vol 10.
- "Do you remember where you were every time John died? Think it'll stick this time? Don't hold your breath! It's time to ascend!"
- "Looks like those Strider boys are in trouble again! And not just because kissing boys is illegal!"
- "Remember when a dog chased another dog for three years? Now that's what I call a Fetch Quest!"
- "Warning: Penumbra Phantasm is not featured on this album."
- In the post-game official snapchat, we have the little Halloween Episode. Most notably would be Jake dressed up as a Na'vi. And by "dressed up", we mean pretty much completely naked except for a loincloth, blue paint and a fake tail taped to his bare behind. John's caption and Rose and Kanaya's reactions really sell the moment.
John: april 2009 was a good time for old earth to stop making movies
- The fact that Kanaya's dressed like Mom Lalonde and Rose is dressed like the Dolorosa is equal parts funny and adorable.
Meta & Fan Content
- From the Homestuck wiki, the plot summaries for each episode of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff are quite a delight to behold.
- Buying character shirts from the store would yield you some wise words from one, usually the character who wore them:
Tavros: uHH, dON'T gET iN tHE rECUPERACOON, wHILE wEARING tHIS, sO yOU wON'T hAVE tO, uHH, cHANGE,
Aradia: i'm 0k with this shirt. maybe y0u are t00. 0r n0t. i'm 0kay with either possibility
Terezi: TH1S SH1RT SM3LLS D3L1C1OUS, BUT DONT COUNT ON 1T TO M4SK TH3 PUTR1D ST3NCH OF YOUR D3C31T FROM TH3 PROS3CUT1ON, H3H3H3H3H3 >:]
John well... i guess you probably can't do the windy thing, bit that's ok! you can be my trusty sidekick. i'll handle all the windy stuff.
Vriska: Hahahaha. You think you have what it takes to wear this???????? Don't you know you have to 8e strong and 8rave to wear this and not 8e an em8arrassment to yourself???????? - The Works of Evil: Andrew Hussie's Devil Worship is quite possibly the funniest article ever written about Homestuck.
- Keep in mind though that the article as well as the entire ChristWire site is a satire on the overly conservative Christian Republicans.
- Then there's Andrew Hussie's comment: Just as planned.
- Go to the Betty Crocker Wikipedia page. Scroll down to 'in popular culture.' Suddenly realise how utterly absurd Homestuck truly is.
- Saved due to it constantly being removed:
A fictionalized version, of the Betty Crocker character, is a supporting character in the webcomic Homestuck, wherein she is sometimes referred to as the "Batter Witch". This portrayal is married to a fictionalized version of Mark Twain in the early 20th century. It is strongly implied that she's a malevolent, nigh-immortal alien from another universe, and is using her corporate empire to control the population, and to bring about the ruin of this universe.
- Saved due to it constantly being removed:
- A fan on the forums by the name of Lotus wrote a 15 page research paper on the ship teasing between John and Rose. The panel immediately after this featured a lotus in the book Rose was reading, before proceeding to be a ridiculously ship teasing conversation. A link to the requisite doctoral thesis.
- As if it wasn't funny enough, many updates after that paper was written Rose and Kanaya hook up in a committed relationship, singlehandedly destroying the entire paper's thesis.
- This poor guy's reaction to the absolute terror known as [s] Jade: Wake Up, in a schadenfreude sort of way.
- kyouger: stop
- An MSPA GIF site has appeared (hilariously) ripping off another comedy site.
- In the anticipation of the EOA5 Flash, Michael Bowman of the music team gives us a little preview...
- The End of Act 5 Flash was hosted on Newgrounds. Soon after it went up, the entire site crashed due to the sheer amount of traffic. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Awesome.
Hussie's Twitter feed: well that didn't work
- To give an idea as to exactly what "soon" means in this context, using time codes on forum posts, people figured out that Newgrounds went down in about 3 minutes. From EoA5 posting to Newgrounds' demise. That's less than half of the length of the Flash itself.
jephjacques @andrewhussie the internet is going to explode when you hit 100%, you fucker - Cake ft. Jake. That is all. Saying anything else would ruin the surprise.
- One day on the Tumblr blog of Andrew Hussie, he allowed questions to be submitted for ten minutes. Knowing how big the fandom is, it had Gone Horribly Right.
- Green Eggs and DEAD This fanmade comic turns the glut of character deaths into hilarity.
- And it's been voiced!
- Here's what The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has to say about trolls.
- Dante Basco, actor of Rufio, is reading Homestuck. This is funny, or will be funny if and when he reaches Act 5.
- Until then, we have Hussie fanboying over it on Twitter:
Andrew Hussie: Guys, I don't want to alarm you, but it seems that Dante Basco, aka Rufio from Hook, is currently reading Homestuck.Andrew Hussie: I wonder what he will think when he discovers me kissing his corpse?Andrew Hussie: Assuming he makes it that far. Do Hollywood superstars even have that kind of time??Andrew Hussie: I have to make sure I don't scare him off or anything. Do NOT fuck this up Hussie. Pull it together. There is a lot riding on this.Andrew Hussie: And just like that, I have already gone too far. [1]◊- Hell, Dante's liveblog alone is filled with crowning moments of funny as he reminds us all of precisely how confusing the first few acts are, which combined with the undoubtedly strange feeling of thousands of people egging you on and encouraging you leaves him hilarious nonplussed about the entire thing.
And yes, I saw the Hello Dante I greeted him on twitter I have to admit, thats pretty dope. I wonder if he makes this first part so hard to get as an obstacle for those not worthy to get the story a somewhat right (sic) of passage maybe Im just rambling and have no idea what Im talking about Back to reading.
- He was successfully trolled by Hussie with the fake end of Act Four, the bunny distribution flash.
- And now we wait. >:D
- And it FINALLY happens! And The Fandom Exploded.
- Bonus points because he was a little drunk at the time.
- Thanks to him "Azula" started reading it too! And before you ask of course she's voicing Vriska.
- Dante decided to do voice acting for Dave. Hilarity ensued.
- While we're looking at Tumblr, you should also check out What the Fuck is Homestuck, where one girl chronicles her reactions right throughout the entirety of the comic, only catching up early into Act 6. She loves using a copious amount of gifs from all sorts of sources, especially when she overexcited.
- It's especially funny from the perspective of one who's read the comic: right from meeting him, she hates Gamzee, which just makes her reaction to his freakout in Act 5 Act 2 a hilarious Foregone Conclusion.
- Not to mention her reaction to finding out her starsign is Capricorn, as well.
WtFiH: Correct! My star sign is Capricorn! However, Gamzee is- what- wait... oh, oh FUCK ME.- In a hilarious coincidence, the same thing happened in another reaction blog. In this case, the author is quite skeeved out by Equius and is asked what his sign is...
SIARH: [...] SagittariusSIARH: waitSIARH: FUCK- She also loves using the tags for extra effect. Sometimes they're funnier than the main post.
- Recently she wrote a poem about Caliborn shooting Gamzee titled True Happiness. It must be read to be believed
- Good lard... Jegus
- This video seems innocent enough to the casual viewer, but for any Homestuck fan...
- On a related note, this poster, merchandise for the book in that video. These are all over elementary schools in the US.
- Then, there's this book. At first glance, it seems like an innocent book for kids about how they can be happy in their daily lives. However, a Homestuck fan would find this not-so-innocent. To make things worse, there are similarly-titled books about "filling buckets" and "daily happiness" in the same title and/or book cover.
- This article about the Juggalos had someone comment in character as Gamzee (find it near the middle of the third page of comments). Then, Karkat showed up. Then Nepeta joined in on the commenting, followed by Kanaya.
- Andrew Hussie's personality in general; you may bear witness to his humour on formspring or other social networking sites.
- How did Hussie announce MSPA going adless? In true MSPA fashion of course.◊
- The DirkJake Chorus (Bad Horse Chorus Parody).
- Every conceivable ship is now officially canon. All the ships. All of them.
- As a joke for Homestuck's Kickstarter project, Hussie is giving out silly◊ rewards◊ for◊ high◊ dollar◊ amounts◊. The joke's on Hussie though - someone actually donated 10,000 dollars, enough to reach the first tier. No wait, make that two someones!
- Too bad they didn't reach the second tier - that means their fantrolls aren't guaranteed to survive for more than one panel.
- You can tell Hussie wasn't prepared for it because he closed that tier after those two reached it, even though before then there were 10 slots in it.
- And here they are! And as promised...
- John and Dave discussing curse words and why they're not a big deal, then replacing the swears with more sanitary language, culminating in John yelling "SEX YOU!" while flipping the bird.
- The crowner is when Bro shows up to admonish them for their "foul" language.
- Behold, the REAL reason Jadesprite was always crying.
- Ke$hastuck: When the MSPA website went down for a few days the fandom went a little more insane than usual and made a world where living (Ke$ha; Lady Gaga), dead (Kurt Cobain), and fictional (Vocaloid; Gorillaz) musicians replaced the kids. May have something do do with Ke$ha's latest single being called "Die Young" and her acting like a Lady Drunk like Roxy. Post-Trickster Mode bonus: Her newest single C'mon mentions lollypops.
- "Raging Bull", in which Tavros celebrates his new found ability to walk and assert himself...by terrorizing all of the other Trolls. It's all a mix of hilarious and awesome but Terezi's line at the end is what really sells it.
- I never expected my first sighting of Homestuck outside of the internet or convention photos would be in Slylock Fox in the Sunday Funnies◊. Then again fanart◊ has been submitted before◊ (okay, the last one's official art from a comic, but the author's not the one who submitted it). Congratulations Terezi! And thanks Chloe, age 15.
- Likewise, my second sighting was in the 4/12/13 issue of Entertainment Weekly's back page: a godtier Aradia cosplayer representing "Everything you missed at Wondercon" on the very edge of the Bulls-eye — still cooler than "Kim Kardashian's cameo in Tyler Perry's Temptation, which was just barely off the board.
- Accurate representation of any fan's reaction to Homestuck
- Sandwichsprite.
- The coloring for the funny pages here now feels reminiscent of Trickster Mode.
- Similar to the book listed above, we have this commercial. It helps that it sounds sexual even if you don't read Homestuck.
- John and Dave Play Sburb. Manages to integrate audio clips from Two Best Friends Play into Homestuck events beautifully.
- No. You go home and REVALUATE YOUR FUCKING LIFE! YOU BOUGHT A SMART CAR! Karkat's expression is what really sells it.
- This Trollmegle conversation. A roleplayer of an obnoxious fanmade lovechild of John and Karkat has a run-in with an absolutely flawless Dave roleplayer. The results must be seen to be believed. Seriously, is this a roleplayer or the actual Dave Strider? Also to be found on the Crowning Moment of Awesome page.
- Dave: what if im gayDave: what if im into sheep
- Snoop Dogg himself uploaded this fanart onto his facebook, he referred to the fan art as "Snoop Homestuck".
- Karkat knew Jack was trouble when he walked in.
- Some of the... rather odd things the fandom got up to during the hiatus.
- This tweet by none other than Betty Crocker. It might just be an intern running the account, it might be a clever marketing ploy, but the point remains: Homestuck is now read by Rufio, Grey Delisle and Betty Crocker. Homestuck truly is taking over the world.
- Some of this Tumblr user's Homestuck comics involve the trolls trying to do human activities (most of the time trying to run a business) and failing spectacularly:
- "Storestuck". From Feferi flat-out threatening someone into taking care of their fish properly to Nepeta discovering catnip, there's plenty of laughs to go around.
Karkat: EXCUSE ME, BUT DO I LOOK LIKE THE HELP DESK? I'M HERE TO TAKE YOUR MONEY AND GET YOUR ASS OUT OF THE STORE.
- "Restaurantstuck" has the trolls attempting to hold jobs at a restaurant. Highlights include the Running Gag of Terezi struggling to find a booth, Sollux hacking the manager's Facebook account, and Jade suggesting they set the place on fire moments before that actually happens.
(beat)Gamzee: cHiCkeN nUgGeTs It Is ThEn.
- "Hotel Fruity Rumpus". Not only do they flood the first floor, but they also scare off potential guests. And then there's this exchange:
Aradia: Equius, you're the valet, right?Equius: D—> Yes.Aradia: Okay, why are all the cars really far away?Equius: D—> I have been arranging them by b100d color.Aradia: Equius they've all had the same blood color.Equius: D—> E%actly. (All the cars are against one side of the parking lot) D—> There were no more spaces so I stacked them.
- "Storestuck". From Feferi flat-out threatening someone into taking care of their fish properly to Nepeta discovering catnip, there's plenty of laughs to go around.
- Andrew Hussie's new project. Namco High is a Dating Sim involving a multitude of Namco Bandai characters in a High School A.U.. The concept is so absurd, it'll make your sides split just by reading a summary.
- Karkat mourning on a cliff. While that description could make for a Tear Jerker, what he's saying however...
- Operation Dirk, a cosplay skit from NärCon 2013 (Norwegian, but with English subtitles), where the Alpha kids are trying to find where Dirk has gone... and all the while Jake is trying to star in a musical.
- Oh lord. This Gigapause is not going to end well◊, if this is day 1.
- This parp chat between Feferi and Eridan.
- Fandomstuck. It's basically personified fandoms interacting with each other. And it's glorious.
- How it the Sufferer's final sermon actually happened.
- This MSPARP log. There's something inherently funny about Darkleer talking to a grub!Kurloz.
- "Let's Read Homestuck" has for the most part done a superb job of translating the webcomic into a video format, but they finally ran into something during the [o]ntermission they couldn't work around. So they ad-libbed:
Doc Scratch: To be less precise, 8^y. Which, if you were to type it out, would form a facsimile of the Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff sign. I told you bro. I told you about those sight gags that don't translate to video.
- Doc Scratch did it again with his "supply of forward arrows", saying that he is an excellent host "even if you are watching Homestuck in a video format on Youtube and have no idea what I am talking about".
- It seems that LRH's Doc Scratch is an veritable master of comedy, since even after he dies he manages to be hilarious; in the Alpha session, GCAT meows in the good Doctor's voice! You could say that GCAT is a Cat Scratch.
- The announcement of the Dancestor voice actors was done by the trolls, in character, lead by Karkat himself. This naturally lead to some great lines.
PAST Terezi: B3S1D3S, 3V3N 1 H4V3 TH3 L1ST. HOW 4R3 TH3Y JUST NOW G3TT1NG TO TH3 4NNOUNC3M3NT?
CURRENT Karkat: I DON'T KNOW, WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST TIME THESE ASSCLOWNS DRAGGED THEIR FEET ON SOMETHING. WHICH IS ALL THE MORE REASON WE SHOULD BE TAKING ON THIS IMPORTANT DUTY OURSELVES.
- In early July 2014, 4chan raided Tumblr, as 4chan is wont to do. They flooded some of the most popular tags (#frozen, #feminism, etc) with gore and weird porn. Then... they tried the same thing with the Homestuck fandom only to find that Homestuck has◊ so much gore and weird porn already◊ that they were thrown for a complete loop.◊
miktheflier: We did it guys. Homestuck is so weird that even 4chan doesn't know how to weird out the Homestucks.
- While this is mostly just a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, it has funny moments. For example:
Paper: My dad is smart because:Karkat: He's *MY* dad!
- All of this. Between John learning that Trolls of both genders get periods and that Karkat is always on his, Vriska's disturbed reaction to Karkat suddenly being nice to her, Tavros acting as a very uninterested sounding narrator, Karkat and Sollux's Shotgun Wedding, the way Karkat pronounces "baby"...
- All the extremely bizarre videos made by this guy. Random Events Plots abound, characters get killed off and brought back randomly, AR is the president for some reason, John is an Eldritch Abomination, Equius cheats on Nepeta with a horse, Karkat is a butterfly, Aradia and Eridan want to be Pooh Bear when they grow up, etc., etc.
- In one episode, Karkat's hive catches fire and his first concern is that his movies will burn. What really makes this one funny is that such a reaction might not be entirely out of character for Karkat.
- Most if not all of this cosplay skit of Terezi, Dave and Rose holding a Kangaroo Court against Eridan, Kanaya, Vriska and Gamzee. It's a laugh riot all over:
- Terezi's unconventional lawyering skills.
- Vriska gushing over Kanaya's beating of her and Gamzee and killing of Eridan. And Vriska's performance in general; she has been compared to Peridot by several commenters.
- Aradia's testimony:
"I think he was holding a jar of mind honey... Oh! And then he killed me!"- Terezi telling the Joker Jury to declare Vriska either guilty or guilty.
- Equius gets distracted in the middle of a story (about his own death) by talking about a slain musclebeast he found.
- The revelation that it was all just an elaborate FLARPing session and nobody's actually going to be hanged.
- Despite the server upgrades that took place during the inactivity, the fandom managed to accidentally DDOS the site within five minutes of the first post-gigapause update, a feat that manages to reach on par with the Cascade debacle and possibly surpass it.
- Presumably learning from this and Cascade, what does Hussie do with the long-awaited EOA6 and Act 7 flashes? Post them on YouTube, where viewers in the millions is average.
- Hussie actually wrote an Amazon review for Caliborn's "How to Draw Manga" book...In character as Caliborn. Naturally, the fandom noticed and made it the highest rated review. Bonus points for putting the review up way before the gigapause ended and Caliborn's attempts at drawing manga were revealed.
- Rhinos! We've been shipping rhinos!
- As a result of funny coincidence (since post gigapause upd8s have a years worth of time from its creation to present), Vriska and Meenah's handholding update came right after the The Legend of Korra finale which mostly confirmed Korrasami. People drawing parallels to it caused Hussie to respond on his twitter.
Andrew Hussie: " homestuck will eventually reach a gay singularity. mark it down. it will make korra look like republican propaganda."
- Andrew announces the start of a new pause on 1/19/15, and then goes on to say that he's not sure what to call it, and makes several suggestions.
So what do we call this pause? I've been batting ideas around all day. We could go with the obvious choice, the MINIGIGAPAUSE. Or maybe, MEGAPAUSE 2: BACK IN THE MEGASADDLE. Or if that makes too much sense, we could always settle on the MICROTERAPAUSE. As you can see, there are so many incredibly intelligent and meaningful things we could call this pause.
- How to make zodiac jokes funnier: Have the trolls act them out. When they're drunk, how they express love, and how they carve pumpkins.
- Tavros' dancing accompanied by "U Can't Touch This".
- [S] Dirk: Synchronize + Unite syncs up surprisingly well with the William Tell Overture.
- Calliope meets The Felt.
- Jane and Dirk like to mess with people.
- Someone posted a review for Harry Anderson: Wise Guy from the Street to the Screen in character as John.
- are you squidward
- This post shows what happened when Nepeta found a box of Sweethearts on Valentine's day. While Karkat's scene at the end is heartwarming, It shows what the hearts of every other troll said. Which are mostly puns, and a couple of flat-out rejections.
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In the solo exhibition 'Painting the King', in honour of Beijing-born artist Ouyang Chung, the Me Collectors Room Berlin (Auguststraße 68, 10117 Berlin) presents artworks which were created during the 'King' cycle (2006-2009). The exhibition encompasses thirty paintings, some of which measure over five metres, which tell of a king's life, of his victories and defeats, of life and death.
Through his choice of topics and the frequent use of golden and bronze colours and gold foil, the artist relates to a tradition reaching far back. PX Berlin processed the artworks for the exhibition catalogue and reconditioned them to be printed with gold as the fifth colour. GoSee is happy to present the impressive works.
With his distinctive paintings, Ouyang Chun is considered one of the most extraordinary members of the 'young generation', the force of contemporary Chinese artists. He graduated in Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Art in Xian, 1995.
A shoot was realised in Berlin with Ralph Mecke for German VOGUE. The series features well-known art collectors from Germany, such as Julia Stoschek and Katharina Grosse.
Photographer Johanna Brinckmann commissioned PX with the fine art printing for the photographs of her 'Fritten Rotweiss' exhibition at the Neon Chocolate Gallery in Berlin (amongst others). The 1100 cm x 733 cm motifs were printed on Hahnemühle PhotoRag, 308g.


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Alojzy "Ollie" Mollen, 77, a Toledo firefighter for more than 30 years who was burned during the fierce 1961 Anthony Wayne Trail tanker fire, died yesterday in his West Toledo home of heart-related problems.
Mr. Mollen drove a ladder truck for most of his fire career, which began in 1949. Early in his career, he was at No. 7 station at Bancroft Street and Franklin Avenue. He was assigned later to No. 25 station on Central Avenue.
He was an inspector for several years in the fire prevention bureau and retired in 1980.
Mr. Mollen was in the second wave of responders June 10, 1961, to a gasoline tanker fire on the Anthony Wayne Trail, daughter Sandy Tober said. Four firefighters were killed; others were burned badly. His hair was singed, and his face and eyes were injured. But once healed, he didn't hesitate to return to duty.
"He loved that job, and he had such a strong work ethic," his daughter said. "That was his thing. He felt great kinship with the other men and a real dedication and pride."
His son, a firefighter at No. 24 station, said: "He liked the excitement of going on fires." Mr. Mollen even spoke recently of how much he missed of going to fires, his son said.
He grew up on Dexter Street near Warsaw Street in North Toledo and attended Woodward High School.
An Army veteran of World War II, he was stationed in Hawaii and was part of forces ready to invade Japan when the war ended. He worked for Willys-Overland Motors after the war. He was a member of Regina Coeli Church and a volunteer at the Our Lady of Toledo Shrine on Coy Road in Oregon, founded in 1997 by Sally Steadman. He loaned his gardening talents to the shrine and grew roses there.
Surviving are his wife, Janet, whom he married April 23, 1949; daughters, Christine Vance and Sandra Tober; son, Joseph; five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
The body will be in the Sujkowski Mortuary Northpointe after 6 tonight, with an honor guard and last alarm service at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the mortuary and a recitation of the Rosary at 7:30 p.m. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Regina Coeli Church.
The family requests tributes to the Our Lady of Toledo Shrine in Oregon or Hospice of Northwest Ohio in Perrysburg Township.


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"This is 'The Things They Carried� for women in Iraq." --The Boston Globe, August 2011 --Herald-Dispatch, September 2011 --Publisher's Weekly, June 2011 --New York Journal of Books, August 2011 --Booklist, June 2011 Helen Benedict is the author of six novels and five books of nonfiction. Her latest novel, SAND QUEEN, is set in the Iraq War. Culled from real life stories of female soldiers and Iraqis, SAND QUEEN offers a story of love, courage and struggle from the rare perspective of two young women on opposite sides of a war. Helen Benedict's books, SAND QUEEN, and THE LONELY SOLDIER, along with her articles about the sexual assault of women in the military, inspired the award-winning documentary, The Invisible War, nominated for an Oscar in 2012. Benedict's work also inspired a landmark law suit against the Pentagon on behalf of victims of military sexual assault, and won the 2010 EMMA award from the National Political Caucus, the Ken Book Award, and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism. READING GROUPS I really enjoy talking with Reading Groups. Go to my contact page and let me know the time/date of your meeting. I will contact you to make arrangements for a speakerphone call or visit. Reading Sand Queen at Ashland University
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Kirsten Wasson interviews Benedict about Sand Queen and her work --Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain --Chronogram Magazine, August 2011 --Shelf Awareness, August 2011 --Roxana Robinson, author of Cost -- Valerie Martin, author of The Confessions of Edward Day and Trespass SAND QUEEN is based on Benedict�s research for her most recent nonfiction book, THE LONELY SOLDIER: THE PRIVATE WAR OF WOMEN SERVING IN IRAQ (Beacon Press, 2009 and 2010). THE LONELY SOLDIER has won several awards, including the EMMA (Exception Merit in Media Award) from the National Women's Political Caucus and the Ken Book Award, both in 2010. Benedict has testified twice to Congress on behalf of women soldiers, and lectures at colleges and military academies around the country about gender justice and the military. Her book and play about women soldiers inspired the the February 2011 class action suit against the Pentagon and Secretaries of Defense Rumsfeld and Gates on behalf of military women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted while serving. |


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URL Routing problem with ASP.NET 4 on GoDaddy IIS 7
If you get 404 errors when trying to add URL Routing with ASP.NET 4 (Web Forms) on GoDaddy, simply reference the relevant modules in your web.config file:
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<remove name="UrlRoutingModule" />
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Plenty of give and take at USC
LOS ANGELES USC's football team is already deep into its season of giving and sharing.
Turnovers have been a big part of the narrative for the Trojans, both in a positive and negative sense.
USC ranks sixth nationally in turnovers gained (28) but is also seventh-worst in turnovers lost (26).
That puts USC slightly above the middle of the pack in turnover margin — tied for 47th, out of 120 teams — but Coach Lane Kiffin would like to see improvement in USC's final two games, starting Saturday against UCLA.
Last week, the Trojans threw three interceptions and lost two fumbles, and forced four Arizona State turnovers.
Interceptions are plentiful in USC games this season. Matt Barkley has thrown 13 of them and the Trojans have lost 13 fumbles. That's the most total turnovers since 2006, when USC also had 26, and in recent history it trails only the 2000 team, which had 36 .
"Obviously it's a major concern,'' Kiffin said. "Red-zone turnovers have really cost us this season. We've left a lot of points out there.''
USC's defense has 18 interceptions, already double last seasonn's full-season total, and the Trojans have recovered 10 fumbles.
Assuming USC's defense finishes the season strong, the turnover total will compare favorably to those of the Pete Carroll glory days. From 2003-05, USC's defense averaged 22 interceptions and 17 recovered fumbles per season.
"We've done a great job of improving that from our first two years here,'' Kiffin said.
"It was an area of focus. I think our defensive staff has done a great job of emphasizing that, and it was really paid off and our players have made a lot of significant plays.''
UCLA has similar turnover numbers this season, as the Bruins have gained 25 and lost 21.
Marqise Lee on Monday was chosen one of 10 national semifinalists for the Biletnikoff Award, given annually to college football's best receiver. Three finalists will be announced next Monday.
Lee was not on the award's preseason watch list, which was compiled in July, but he is having perhaps the best season of any NCAA receiver, and USC has started a Heisman Trophy campaign on Lee's behalf.
"He's the best player at his position," Barkley said of Lee. "He's done some tremendous things this year with the ball, as a receiver, as a kick returner and across the board.''
Kiffin would not say whether running back Silas Redd, who was not available against Arizona State but stood on the sideline in full uniform, would be able to play against UCLA. "I hope so," Kiffin said. …
Kiffin also remained coy as to whether Lee would get any snaps at defensive back against UCLA. Last week, Kiffin hinted at turning Lee into a two-way player, but Lee was on the field for only one defensive snap.
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Alaska Supreme Court Rules Voters Can See Write-In List After All
Murkowski (R) lost the Republican nomination to Joe Miller, and the two are now locked in a tight race for the seat.
Anchorage Superior Court Judge Frank A. Pfiffner had ruled Wednesday to temporarily block election officials from handing out the list, which he said "smacks of electioneering at the polls." Later in the day, the state Supreme Court blocked his ruling.
Dan Joling of the Associated Press reports:
The Supreme Court said the list of registered write-in candidates must be limited to names only, with no party affiliations or other information.Besides issuing the emergency stay, the high court said it would expedite a state petition for review of the lower court ruling. It said responses from the state Democratic and Republican parties are due by Thursday afternoon on that point.
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OpenBSD Installation and Upgrading Installing and upgrading OpenBSD. |
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Gnome - Clear Font in all applications
today I installed gnome on my desktop. What I recogniced very fast is, that it's very hard to look longer times at the screen and try to read texts. Why? The font looks very unsharp and definetly not clear. Rendering is switched on. I tried to select subpixeling for tfts and the other options within gnome I got, but this does not solve my problem. I want clear fonts as I know them out of windows and other Linux derivates. How can I solve my problem? |
Fonts are an interesting problem, people prefer different things.. generally additional fonts and/or configuration are needed to get things suitable for regular users.
Linux distributions include various font packages, and have system-wide fonts.conf configuration files to make things presentable (..rules for hinting, alias, font substitution, etc). It's not going to be super easy, but, if you take the time.. you can get things how you want, and you can even "borrow" TrueType fonts from your friends Windows/Mac system if you don't care about licensing. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/truetype.html |
thanx for your reply.
I´m not really sure if the problem is not the display driver itself? I would agree with you, if it would not be that unclear like it is on my screen. Seems like some letters are smoothed, and some not (like if someone uses 1280x7xx screen resolution, but it should be 1440x900 for example). Coding is very very hard for my eyes with this problem. If I change to other fonts and other sizes, it is still the same problem. |
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Knowledge translation & commercialization
Knowledge translation: definition
A dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically-sound application of knowledge to improve the health of Canadians, provide more effective health services and products and strengthen the health care system.
This process takes place within a complex system of interactions between researchers and knowledge users which may vary in intensity, complexity and level of engagement depending on the nature of the research and the findings as well as the needs of the particular knowledge user (Graham, 2010).
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Here's the abstract from the Pycon talk:
"Two years ago I developed a case of Emacs Pinkie (RSI) so severe my hands went numb and I could no longer type or work. Desperate, I tried voice recognition. At first programming with it was painfully slow but, as I couldn't type, I persevered. After several months of vocab tweaking and duct-tape coding in Python and Emacs Lisp, I had a system that enabled me to code faster and more efficiently by voice than I ever had by hand.
In a fast-paced live demo, I will create a small system using Python, plus a few other languages for good measure, and deploy it without touching the keyboard. The demo gods will make a scheduled appearance. I hope to convince you that voice recognition is no longer a crutch for the disabled or limited to plain prose. It's now a highly effective tool that could benefit all programmers."
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Ramon Dominguez is back riding GIO PONTI for the Dubai World Cup and partners I WANT REVENGE in the Godolphin Mile. He graciously gives his insight on both, and hopes to go a bit better in the 2011 edition after a fourth in the $10 million race.
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Best Jockey ever! good luck Ramon
Great champion that he is, and has been over the course of his career. I just really think it's a stretch to think Gio Ponti can improve off of his 4th place finish in last year's DWC. This year's field is markedly tougher, and coming to Dubai with no prep whatsoever certainly isn't doing him any favors. The bottom line with Gio Ponti, IMO, is that although he ran a really big B.C. Classic against Zenyatta on the pro-ride at Santa Anita. That race is a lifetime ago, and Gio Ponti is just a better horse on turf than he is on a synthetic surface. If Gio Ponti was a bit stronger over 1-1/2? I have an inkling that we'd be seeing him in the Sheema Classic instead of of the DWC. Not too sure that the Duty Free might not have been the most winnable slot for Gio Ponti to have gone to this year? JMO.


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By Patrick Anderson
PBN Staff Writer
Bike share isn't easy.
There's community hostility to worry about – from drivers, anti-gentrification activists and even neighbors who don't like a system's chosen color – plus numerous technical land mines and the challenge of staying solvent.
In the past year Montreal bike-share pioneer Bixi has filed for bankruptcy and New York City's popular Citi Bike system has reportedly run into serious financial distress.
So Alta Bicycle Share, the Oregon company chosen to launch bike share in Providence, is moving carefully and deliberately to piece together the first such system in Rhode Island.
After initially hoping Providence bike share could debut this year, city officials have confirmed that the spring of 2015 is now a more likely time frame. Selected over two other bidders to run the Providence system late last fall, Alta has spent the past three and a half months laying the groundwork for a crucial element of almost any contemporary bike-share system: finding a corporate sponsor to bankroll operations.
Alta has hired Nail Communications Inc. of Providence to seek out and pitch potential sponsors on the benefits of supporting a city bike-share system.
It's been a meticulous process, with Nail compiling data, seeking out corporate contacts and tailoring its pitch to different industries.
The firm doesn't expect to begin actually pitching companies until May, with an eye toward collecting the best offers in June.
"We will be providing some reference points of what it is worth in media terms to their brands and contrasting that with other cities," said Nail Managing Partner Jeremy Crisp. "Then they can put in a bid they think is fair. Our anticipation is we will see a number of solid bids and then take time to try to maximize their value for the city."
Bike sharing is one of the strategies for achieving Mayor Angel Taveras' transportation goal for the Sustainable Providence Plan, says Sheila Dormody, the city's director of sustainability. The plan focuses on environmental sustainability goals for energy, food, water, waste, land use and development, and transportation.
This is Rogue Island, more bikes will be stolen then ridden.
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Mungo Jerry is one of rock's great one-hit successes. Outside of England, they're known for exactly one song, but that song, "In the Summertime," is a seasonal anthem known by listeners who weren't even born when it was released. Mungo Jerry was a solid blues outfit as well -- in fact, one suspects they were the kind of blues band that purists Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies would have loved, had they ever intersected -- and knew how to get the most out of their jug band sound, which has helped them survive for three decades. Mungo Jerry was formed in 1970 by singer/guitarist Ray Dorset (born March 21, 1946), who had a fascination with early rock & roll sounds, as well as skiffle and blues. The other original members were Mike Cole on upright bass; Paul King on guitar, kazoo, and jug; Joe Rush playing washboard; and Colin Earl at the keyboards. Dorset and Earl had first hooked up in the Good Earth, a group with a mixed rock & roll and blues sound, which cut some tracks for the mid-priced label Saga, none of which sold. Cole, King, and Rush came aboard and the lineup was complete. The name Mungo Jerry - from a T.S. Eliot poem - came next, with a contract from Pye Records.
The quartet had a pleasing, low-key jug band sound, folk-like but also bluesy, which was unusual in 1969, a time when most British bands that were into blues were shooting for high-wattage virtuosity. They sounded less like Cream or Blind Faith and a lot more like Jesse Fuller or Tampa Red, or even Piano Red (aka Dr. Feelgood). Mungo Jerry became one of the very first acts placed on the Pye label's new Dawn Records imprint, a progressive label that was intended to update Pye's image. In May of 1970, following an appearance at the Newcastle Hollywood Festival, their debut single "In the Summertime," written by Ray Dorset, was released. The record, an easygoing, catchy skiffle-like piece reflecting the mood of the season in its title and the sexual ethos of the late '60s was an instant hit, shooting to number one in England in only two weeks and riding the charts for much of the summer. Concerts and television appearances followed in profusion, although the most often seen among the latter is a performance mimed to the single. It was a Top Ten hit in America, riding the charts for weeks, and was a success in practically every country in which it was released, ultimately selling between eight and 16 million copies around the world.
A self-titled debut album was rush-released that summer to capitalize on the hit. By the time the LP was recorded, washboard-player Rush was gone, and Cole had left by the time the record was issued, the beginning of a dizzying series of personnel changes. The group's second single, "Baby Jump," was a chart-topper in England but didn't fare as well overseas, and heralded a second album, Electronically Tested, and was followed by a third, You Don't Have to Be in the Army, that same year, with a parallel U.S. release, Memoirs of a Stockbroker (Janus Records). "Maggie," "Johnny B Badde," "Mighty Man," "Lady Rose," and "You Don't Have to Be in the Army to Fight in the War" all charted in England and got decent, if not spectacular, airplay at various other points around the globe.
The membership of Mungo Jerry began coming apart almost from the outset of their success. Cole, who was replaced by John Godfrey, was followed out of the lineup by King and Earl, although their exit was somewhat more acrimonious. They attempted to take the name Mungo Jerry, but Dorset, as the singer, guitarist, and songwriter, held onto the name. Instead, King and Earl cut solo albums for Pye and went on the road as the Earl King Boogie Band with former bandmate Rush in the lineup. Meanwhile, Dorset recruited keyboard player Jon Pope and drummer Tim Reeves for Mungo Jerry.
Essentially, from 1972 onward, Dorset was Mungo Jerry, even more than Ian Anderson was Jethro Tull. Drummer Paul Hancox (ex-Chicken Shack), bassist (and future Ozzie Osbourne alumnus) Bob Daisley, and keyboard man John Cook passed through, as did piano player Ian Milne and guitarist Dick Middleton, and that was just during the band's time on Pye through 1975. In the later '70s, when the band was signed to Polydor, original members Earl and Rush were back in the lineup. Earl and King later formed a group called Skeleton Crew.
Mungo Jerry's chart hits stopped coming, but they continued to
attract audiences on-stage everywhere from Eastern Europe to the Middle
East. Ironically, Dorset found himself unable to emerge from the shadow
of his group's identity. His solo albums, including 1987's A Case for
the Blues, featuring Peter Green on guitar, failed to attract any
attention. Twenty-nine years after its founding, Mungo Jerry, which can
consist of any lineup from a quartet down to Dorset with taped
accompaniment, continues to work on-stage and "In the Summertime"
remains their signature tune.
Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
Official Homepage: www.mungojerry.com
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Steamboat Springs Jerry Taylor said he'd be happy to chat while skiing toward a chair lift Friday morning - as long as you can keep up with him.
"I'm going to go fast through this part," the 72-year old Taylor called back over his shoulder. He pulled his goggles to his eyes as his knees broke into a racer's tuck, dug his poles into the ground and zipped away.
Seconds later, after navigating his way to the base of the Steamboat Ski Area, zigging and zagging through skiers new and old, he popped up out of his tuck, slid the goggles on top of his helmet and waited.
The Christie III lift is a much better place for a conversation anyway, and what kind of racer would Taylor be if he poked along through one more opportunity to refine his form?
Welcome to the NASTAR ski races, running all weekend at the ski area.
Welcome to Jerry Taylor's Olympics.
Taylor, a part-time Steamboat resident, is racing in the NASTAR National Championships for the 11th time. Much to his chagrin - at least playfully - so are his archrivals, Fred Fushimi from Ohio and Bernhard Palm, who qualified for this weekend's races through Cascade Mountain ski resort in Wisconsin.
"I've been skiing against a couple of those guys at least five years now," Taylor said. "It's a lot more competitive now. There are a lot better skiers in all categories."
There used to be something big at stake, Taylor said. His first trip in 1975 to the NASTAR nationals was free - his prize for qualifying. That's no longer the case, although with the serious approach of many of the skiers, one gets the impression there's big bucks on the line.
Friday - the day the ski area came within two inches of its all-time snowfall record - marked the 100th day of skiing for Taylor. He said he's enjoyed all the powder, although it often worked against his overall goal.
Taylor wants to go fast, and no season-long compilation of numbers was going to alter his focus Friday.
"I just like to race," Taylor said. "I need to tighten it up and go faster."
Rob Zehner wants to go fast, too, and he did, blasting down the See Me run and across the finish line with one of the top times of the day in his age group.
It was nothing new for the Steamboat Springs High School graduate, now 25 years old and a graduate student at the University of Colorado.
Zehner said NASTAR has become a family affair, thanks to his parents. He participated as a child, then spent his adolescent years racing for the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, and later still with the club ski team at CU.
He's been on the shelf for the past few ski seasons after sustaining a crushing anterior cruciate ligament injury, but said he's back at 100 percent and has been going hard whenever he's been able to slip away from school to visit his parents in Steamboat.
"I've maybe lost a little bit, but it's mental," Zehner said of returning from his injury. "It's still there physically. It comes back fast. I've been hitting it hard and I feel good."
Zehner raced in the 21- to 29-year-old platinum male division. His mom, Patti Zehner, competed in the female 60- to 64-year-old platinum division.
"I have fun with the competition, but it's more important to have fun with the family," Rob Zehner said. "It's great to have it all here at Steamboat. It's great for the resort, and the athletes really enjoy it, too."


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Miller: Just call him the King of Aces
SANTA ANA – As proof, he still has the scorecards — each signed by witnesses — and every golf ball that has left the tee box and not come to rest until settling at the bottom of the cup.
By now, some of the Titleists and Bridgestones have gone a pale yellow.
Steve Asay keeps the precious evidence not in a safe but in a Ziploc bag, and the oh-so-ordinary approach fits well a man who has turned once-in-a-lifetime into once-in-a-while.
"It's exciting and you remember them all," Asay says. "But once you get to a certain number ... there are people who have had a lot of hole-in-ones in their lives."
The group includes this 65-year-old from Mission Viejo. On Nov. 19, playing here at Willowick Golf Course, Asay had the 19th hole-in-one of his life. That's 19, 1-9!
Incredible? Three holes later, he had No. 20.
Amazing? He pronounces his last name ACE-ee, with the emphasis on ace, another name for a hole-in-one.
Impossible? This was the second time Asay, in the same round, had two holes-in-one.
"The first one, I was certainly excited to see it," he says. "But the second one, that got my heart thumping pretty hard."
Now, before asking, the answer is no, Asay's total is not a record. A Texan named Mancil Davis reportedly has had more than 50 aces.
And no, Asay doesn't have any secrets to his one-and-done magic, and he doesn't play golf daily from dawn to dusk. He has a standing Saturday morning tee time at Willowick and occasionally will get out more often.
He had begun his round Nov. 19 birdie, birdie, birdie before acing No. 4, a 155-yard par-3, using a 5-iron. Asay followed with his next hole-in-one on No. 7, a 183-yard par-3, using a 3-iron. He made the turn at 27, en route to shooting a 64.
At one point, on the back nine, someone called from the bar next to Willowick's practice green. News of Asay's first ace already had bellied up there, and the tradition of the hole-in-one shooter buying a round for everyone was being practiced. And then it was being practiced a second time.
"You're starting to amass a pretty good bar bill here," someone told Asay. "Is that going to be OK?"
Yeah, Willowick is a shorter course — 6,061 yards from the blue tees — but shooting below your age is impressive on any course that doesn't ask you to putt through a windmill.
Ten of Asay's holes-in-one have come at Willowick, where the five par-3s are listed at the very legitimate distances of 195, 155, 183, 154 and 178 yards.
"He's one of our best customers," says Ken Kobayashi, who is a teaching pro at Willowick and was playing with Asay on Nov. 19. "After the second one, he was like, 'Oh, it's happening again.' It didn't even seem like a big deal."
Asay's absurd resume includes aces at Winged Foot Golf Club (site of multiple U.S. Opens and a PGA Championship) and Westchester Country Club (where the PGA Tour stopped annually from 1967-2007).
"I've never considered myself a real lucky person," says Asay, whose handicap once was a 4 but — he insists — is now closer to 17. "But yeah, OK, I've had some good luck playing golf."
One of his holes-in-one skipped twice off a pond before crawling onto the green and finding the hole. One of them hit the cup on the fly.
Asay was playing in Utah once and, during the same round, had three eagles. There's a trophy in his office commemorating the day he had a double-eagle at Arrowhead Golf Club in Oceanside. He holed out from 240 yards, with a 3-wood.
"I never hit a 3-wood that far before," he says. "I hit it really well, but then it hit probably a sprinkler head because it went straight in the air going forward. It bounced on and went right between some guys walking on the green.
"I don't know how the ball didn't hit someone. Those guys looked up and they were upset. Then they saw how far back I was. They gave me a round of applause."
Asay's matter-of-fact attitude about a feat that is, as a matter of fact, not matter-of-fact at all also is understandable considering he never knew this game without holes-in-one.
Asay aced the second hole he ever played, in 1966, while he was a student at BYU. Having grown up in rural Wyoming, he never swung a club as a kid.
"I didn't know what golf was," Asay says. "I had never even played miniature golf."
Using a set of rental clubs he pulled out of an orange barrel in the pro shop, Asay had a 10 on the first hole at Mount Timpanogos Golf Course in Provo.
Standing on the tee at No. 2, a 176-yard par-3, he grabbed the driver.
"My shots weren't even getting off the ground," he says, "so I figured I might as well hit something that would roll as far as it could go."
His tee shot rolled a long way, all right, and straight in, launching a career of repeatedly unbelievable moments that must be believed.
"Golf is a game of honor," Asay says. "I'm basically a very honest person. To me, making up a story about getting a hole-in-one is about as ruthless as you can get."
After 20 of them, he is an expert on one of the most uncommon moments in golf, even if the moment, for Asay, seems incredibly, amazingly, impossibly common.
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I'm going to one tomorrow, and I have no clue what to make! Any ideas?
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I really liked the Morning star black bean burgers but they have milk and egg in them. I have tried to make my own but so far they have been on the dry side.
We love veggies on the grill. Marinate them in a little olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt, & pepper for about an hour then grill them until they just start to get soft. The sweet bell peppers are our favorite right now. I leave them whole and they stay so juicy!
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Pros: My first step-up after many crappy earbuds. And yes, they were a present from my mom for me, so I didn't have to pay.
Cons: The value for money still is bad. Although better than many stock earbuds. Cable did break after 6 or 7 months. Didn't sit well on my head.
After having tried out various earbuds, I told my parents that I wanted good headphones for my birthday. Somehow they decided for these ones and I was happy to have a bit better sound than before. I even don't remember the sound signature anymore. The design matches perfectly all the skater boys one can see around with other skullcandy or wesc-headphones. These ones kept slipping off my head when letting it down, somehow the plastic construction survived, but not the cable at all. Afterwards I broke them for an educational video on youtube to let people know what not to buy. There are loads of better headphones for the same price, especially the IEMs, but also things as the all-known Koss Porta Pro.
At least I've learned to buy headphones on my own from my own money. And found out what exactly the lower end of the audiophile bar is. A very educational experience. I'm glad it was free for me.


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2012-07-05, 00:07 | Link #841 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
When's the last time there was a none-generic character? With so many new series constantly being pumped out, practically everything has being tried already. How the writer uses the characters in the story is more important than the characters being "generic."
2012-07-05, 00:16 | Link #842 |
Loves the Experience
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Earth...hopefully
No, giving the character a personality is the important thing, because I can't care for a character that feels artificial (aka, almost all the characters in Fate/Zero). The Sankarea anime tried to give them personality, but after Rea turned into a zombie, she lost all of it. Chihiro has nothing for him besides his zombie fetish, which isn't a personality trait. Wanko is okay, but her weak love for Chihiro annoyed me. Rea's parents are fine.
I'm not asking for the characters to not be stereotypes. I'm asking for some life to them. Edit: Alternatively, the characters can be funny. I can accept a generic character if they're funny. I did not laugh once during this show, so guess how I rate its comedy.
2012-07-05, 11:44 | Link #843 |
How a character has "life" also comes down to personal opinion.
I feel like a lot of the characters in Fate/Zero had "life" to them actually. Lots of distinct differences, beliefs, etc. But I do agree that a bunch of the characters in Sankarea (with how the anime was) could make you snooze after a short time since there was nothing BEHIND the characters really. They just..."are"...
2012-07-05, 12:43 | Link #844 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Earth...hopefully
As for Sankarea, the characters had some personality in the beginning. Moreso than in the manga. But after Rea became a zombie, they just lost it.
2012-07-05, 12:49 | Link #845 |
Well, I'd say it fit perfectly considering they were in a "war" where they (felt) they had to kill, literally, every other participant and their Servant in order to win, lol. But if they were to show them in between wars or something, we'd probably see different sides to some of them. We did catch a few glimpses at the very beginning.
And yeah, Rea seemed more interesting at first like when we saw her screaming down the well and her initial hangouts with Furuya, but now all the attempts at being a "normal girl" feel a bit moot at times given her becoming a zombie comes with its own set of problems, like how she's kept cooped up in the house a lot and whatnot.
2012-07-05, 16:43 | Link #846 |
Last Engage
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Florida
Streams were a week behind. Such is the internet.
I know they're completely different genres with completely different goals, but of the works in Mitsuru Hattori's oeuvre that have been turned into anime, I prefer Umisho a little more. It played faster and looser with everything about itself, but it also had more material to work with. The tone was more appropriate to my tastes, but that's not to say Sankarea was bad. That the same author could go from nude swimming to zombies is feat in itself. This story does have more layers, so Hattori's writing has become somewhat more polished since then. Rea's story was heartbreaking, though the show took a while to find its legs and have Rea actually become a zombie. Did make us feel more for her. Wanko still stands as one of my favorite characters from the show, and gramps provided some nice laughs on his own. I'd expect a second season to do more with the premise, now that it's just starting to roll, as the last scene hinted at. I can appreciate the artistic value of the series, and the adaptation was fairly well done... Umisho just lines up with my interests more. |
2012-07-07, 07:15 | Link #847 |
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Under the piercing blue sky
"I don't want to have any regrets."
I liked this episode. They also kept the good looking artistic visuals up to this point. The dialogue scene with Chihiro and Rea back in the abandoned bowling alley was nice. Though this episode was largely anime-original, I don't think it derails the story to endanger future chances of adapting more material from the source. There was no strong sense of closure; but I believe it implied an intention not to end it all here. A strong signal to me that there is an intention for a sequel in the future. There's still much more to come, after all. Rea declaring that she intended to return to school and Chihiro's plans to preserve her using certain methods could serve as a preview of a few things yet to come. Spoiler for more:
I'm a bit let down that I didn't get to see that iconic (well, to readers) "morning bicycle ride" scene get animated yet, though. I have high hopes for a sequel in the future. Because I too, don't want to have any regrets.
2012-07-10, 10:22 | Link #850 |
The Voice of Reason
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Netherlands
Age: 40
BD sales are 1,487 for volume 1, which is even lower than I had expected. And last I heard, the manga didn't really do any better than usual either (at least, I'm not familiar with any significant boost in sales), so I think we should pray for a miracle if we want to see more.
2012-07-12, 05:30 | Link #851 |
cho~ kakkoii
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: 3rd Planet
So I just finished watching this series and the only question that comes to mind: Is there more to it? I'm echoing a lot of fans in the thread that the ending was anything but one. I want to know what happened in ep 12. Did she bite him? Why? Also was anyone able to explain the ending for episode 12? I'll comb through the thread if I have to, but feel free to write one if there isn't one yet. The show could have ended at episode 11, but not at episode 12.
This isn't even an open ended ending. I seriously thought there would be a preview at the end credit for episode 13. So yes, does the manga continue? I must know what happens next.
2012-07-12, 05:42 | Link #852 | |
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2012-07-19, 19:48 | Link #854 |
The Chaotic Dreamer
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: In a cruel yet beautiful world
Age: 25
Got around to listening to the official soundtrack today. The music particularly added a whole lot to the experience of watching this show for me, and I thought all of the BGM was very appropriate for the plot/mood. (There are even certain tracks I even keep in mind while going over later parts of the manga that have not yet been adapted).
The full version of Fuhai (the creepy yet pretty almost Halloween-esque music that often played when Furuya was writing in his diary) is haunting and charming to listen to. It was my personal fav BGM piece of the entire series. It also very appropriately translates to 'decay'. The track after it, Utsukushiki Kyoufu, is kind of epic, too. Oh, and the cover/booklet and CD artwork are pretty. :3
2013-01-01, 11:15 | Link #857 |
The Voice of Reason
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Netherlands
Age: 40
Spoiler for 14:
From what I've heard, episode 13 seems to hint at there being more in store for us in the near future. I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know, but I wouldn't mind more of this show, even if it wasn't all that well-received as I hoped it would be.
2013-01-09, 09:52 | Link #859 |
a random Indonesian otaku
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Xanadu
Age: 25
I think ep 13 and ep 14 are well-done...
now let's hope there will be a lot of demand for second season since I'm interested with that Boyle Professor... glad that both Babu and Rea are aware about their body condition... I hope this series will have a happy ending although the chances are pretty slim |
2013-01-09, 13:51 | Link #860 |
The Voice of Reason
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Netherlands
Age: 40
They're really pushing for a second season here. Instead of answering every question one could still have, they only raise more by showing us Babu's 'confused state' and a new character. Furthermore, they're strongly hinting that Rea is actually in love with Chihiro. She's barely able to hide it anymore.
Also, does no one in that school ask Rea why she's wearing a trenchcoat when it's not raining, or even remotely cloudy? Given how popular she is, you'd think at least one person would start asking questions.
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l) The guest agrees not to drive nails, screws, or hooks (including sticking hooks) into or in any way deface the walls of the premises.
m) If the said property has internet and the internet is deemed not to work because of a problem with the guests computer and is proved to work with the agents computer, the agency will take no responsibility. The agent is not responsible to fix the guests computer. If the agent is to attend the property this will be at a cost to the guest of $50/hour.
n) All TVs are tuned prior to tenancy. Should they need retuning during or after tenancy this will be charged to the guest.
o) The guest agrees that the Agent or Landlord does not accept responsibility for damage to persons or property whilst occupying the premises. This extends to damage caused by vehicles parked on the roadside in front, rear or near of the property.
p) Despite any other provision of this lease, if a goods and services tax (GST) is imposed on any supply made to you in connection with this lease, the amount you must pay for this supply is increased by the rate at which that GST is imposed.
q) If the box at the end of this clause is ticked then other special conditions will apply. The other special conditions will be attached to this agreement as Annexure 1. Other Special Conditions:
Should the guest breach the terms and conditions above then the Landlord and/or Agent may re-enter the premises. Breach of any of these terms and conditions shall also permit the Landlord and/or Agent to refuse to hand over the keys and/or immediately terminate the holiday letting.
I/we the guest do hereby certify that I/we require the premises for the purpose of a holiday/corporate short term rentals.
Please note that all of our properties need a 500 dollar security deposit to be paid before keys can be handed out. This deposit is refundable at the end of your stay if there are no damages to the property or household items.
Please note that we have a 3 week minimum booking period on all of our properties during the Christmas/New Year period on all of our properties as it is our busiest time of year.


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Sean Lee is the only Cowboy to make the PFW Mid-Season All-Pro team. Well deserved. I was surprised to see Mark Barron, the rookie safety that Tampa drafted this year make the team.
Yeah, not sure how Ware didn't make it. They based it off a 4-3 but c'mon.. E: Maybe they didn't, but still.