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More from my interview with Mathew Block, who asks how God uses our human imaginations to reach us. [Read more…]
"With fear and great joy"
When the Angel of the empty tomb appeared to the Roman guards, those courageous battle-hardened soldiers were so afraid that they passed out. When the same Angel appeared to the women who came to care for the body of Jesus, they were also afraid, but they left "with fear and great joy." What was the difference? The women had the Word of God proclaimed to them. So explained our pastor in an illuminating Easter sermon, excerpted and linked after the jump. [Read more…]
The Lutheran roots of Radical Orthodoxy
Not long ago we posted about the theological and philosophical movement known as Radical Orthodoxy, asking whether Lutherans could have a seat at that table. Well, in another context, my friend George Strieter put me on to Johann Georg Hamann, a devout Lutheran who was friends with Kant and Hegel but who critiqued their philosophies with some extremely innovative philosophy of his own. It turns out, Hamann's thought is said to be a major influence on " Oswald Bayer, John Milbank and David Bentley Hart." The latter two are the most prominent figures in Radical Orthodoxy. And that Oswald Bayer , perhaps the favorite contemporary German theologian at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, is mentioned here puts him in the company of the radically orthodox. [Read more…]
Better than witnessing the Transfiguration
Yesterday was the climax of the Epiphany season, Transfiguration Sunday, marking the most explicit epiphany of Jesus during His time on earth. St. Peter saw witnessed it personally, as he describes in His second epistle. But he goes on to say that we have something even better, even more certain, than witnessing the Transfiguration. [Read more…]
He opens their mind to understand the Scriptures
More from Pastor Douthwaite's sermon last Sunday, on the connection between Scripture and Jesus:
Luke tells us: "Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures." Like the parent who after embracing her child opens the closet to show him that there are no monsters, or who kneels and shows her that there is nothing under the bed, so Jesus next opens the Scriptures to show His children the truth – the truth of His Word. That what happened the past few days was no accident, no series of unfortunate events, and not things spinning out of control – but what had been prophesied and spoken of from the beginning and all through the Scriptures. Everything that had been written, spoke of and pointed to Him and His Easter work.
And so Jesus opened the Scriptures to them and filled their minds with the truth. He told them about the cross and Isaac's burden of wood in Genesis. He told them about His Supper and the flesh and blood of the passover lamb in Exodus. He told them about His atonement for sin and the sacrifices in Leviticus. He told them about His death for the life of the world, like it was with Joseph. He told them how He was the real strong man, like Samson, who came to crash the gates of his enemy. He told them about the hatred and villainy He and a former King of Israel – David – received, even from their own people. He told them about the being pierced from Zechariah as He showed them His hands and side. He told them how He was Isaiah's Suffering Servant. He told them about dry bones and resurrection. And with each teaching, each story, each shadow revealed, their fears were taken away and their faith increased. The monsters of uncertainty and the ghosts of sin were taken away, and replaced with the Spirit and Word of God.
Oh, they were still children! They would always be children, just as we will always be. But they were learning as they drank the pure spiritual milk of the Word, and growing up to and into their salvation – which is not a what, but a who. Growing up and into Christ – the one who was speaking to them and not only informing, but forming, them.
And that distinction is important. That the Word of God not only informs us, but also forms us. For being a child of God is not simply a matter of the head, but of the heart. Of life that is not just known, but lived. Perhaps we have too often put asunder these two things that God has joined together. The Word of God became flesh, and He still does, as He now comes and lives in and through us. That we live who we are; who we have been made in our baptism.
That is what John means when he goes on to talk about the "practice of sinning" and the "practice of righteousness." That is not simply of matter of knowing what is right and wrong, or of will power and determination to follow the Law. It is a matter of being, of abiding in Christ. That born anew as children of God, we no longer follow the false promises and lies of the devil, but instead, follow the true and sure promises of God, and find our life in Him. Practicing righteousness by repenting of our sin and abiding in His forgiveness and love, and thus growing into Him.
Not tasting death until Christ comes in His Kingdom
There is that passage in Matthew 16 in which Jesus says that there are among those listening to him at that moment who will not taste death until He comes in His kingdom. Liberal Bible critics say, "See, Jesus and the early church thought that the Second Coming would be imminent, and of course they were wrong." Some more conservative Bible scholars say, "See, Christ's Second Coming happened with His resurrection, or was some kind of spiritual event that happened before the Romans destroyed the Temple," while others explain it in other ways.
But look what our pastor, Rev. Douthwaite, did with it in his sermon on Sunday (part of the sermon I linked to yesterday):
You are among those who will not taste death until you see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. For the Son of Man and His kingdom is coming not just in the future, on the last day – His kingdom is coming already now, and is here, where His Word and Spirit are working, gathering, forgiving, sanctifying, and strengthening. For as the catechism teaches us to understand the petition in the Lord's Prayer, Thy kingdom come: How does God's kingdom come? God's kingdom comes when our heavenly Father gives us His Holy Spirit, so that by His grace we believe His holy Word and lead godly lives here in time and there in eternity (Small Catechism: Explanation of the Second Petition).
And so as our heavenly Father gives His Holy Spirit here in baptism, in the preaching of the Word, in absolution, in His Supper, His kingdom is coming. Coming to you. It is His work, the work of the cross, for you. For the cross is how Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God for you. The cross is everything. Or as Luther put it around the start of the Reformation: The cross is our only theology.
Jesus must go to the cross. You must bear your cross. This talk should not surprise us. For it is how your Father in heaven loves you and saves you. Which doesn't make it easy, but does make it good.
Many people treat the Bible as just an assemblage of facts, history, and doctrine. Of course it includes such things. But consider another dimension: It is God's Word; that is, God's voice personally addressing those who hear it, with the purpose of bringing them to repentance and faith.
A lot of texts we fight over, perhaps with good reason (the details of creation; the last days), and yet what does it do to them to read them as means of grace?


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The Seoul Metropolitan Govt on Wednesday awarded a W500,000 allowance to a couple 2,800 handpicked young unemployed other people (US$1=W1,118).
The Ministry of Fitness and Welfare straight away condemned the move, which went forwardregardless ofincreasingly more frantic attempts by potential of the ministry to forestall it.
The ministry acknowledged information technology "cannot allow" what it called "populist" welfare policies aimed at bribing young voters. It gave the town government an ultimatum of nine a.m. Thursday to cancel the policy and threatened to revoke the city's powers.
Seoul urban officials countered by threatening to take the ministry to court.
The unemployment allowance is paid for up to 6 months to make a choice young individuals between 19 and 29 who have lived in the capital for more than a year and paintingsnot up to 30 hours a week. The purpose is to assist them out as they look for jobs.
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Just getting back into WoW, and to stay true to my nerdy roots, I want to make a Bleach themed Character.
Which classes have the most powerful power-ups?
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Warriors are pretty strong on burst DPS. They have three main DPS increasers (four if you're counting on-use trinkets, and five if you're using potions) that can be lumped together into one nice bite-sized KILL EVERYTHING macro.
Popping that will send you flying up the DPS charts.
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you could go BM hunter (ignore the pets when using them) and be a Quincy.
with rapid fire and bestial wrath.
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Paladins have somethign we can considering a "Shikai" or "Bankai" in the form of holy avenger, which transforms their sword.
Death knights can use that thing where their sword fights on it's own.
Switching between 3 swords of increasing power could be a makeshift excuse to call it transforming.
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for a short transformation Bankai every 3 minutes.
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Enhance shamans. Their concentrated CDs are insane.
Lets count them up shall we?
They can pop Ascendance, Feral Spirits, Bloodlust/Heroism, Fire Elemental Totem, Stormlash Totem, and Elemental Blast. If you are an orc you can add Bloodfury to that nasty combo, and if you are a troll, add berserking to that combo.
Now THAT is what I call one heck of a cooldown combo.
Death knights can use that thing where their sword fights on it's own.
That's a spec bonus of Blood, a tank spec, its not really that powerful.
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It's mostly for the whole "My sword is magik" feel.
Plus, it's a shonen anime, what shonen anime doesn't involve 5 cubic meters of blood.
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and you can pop up wings with it for more nuke dps and coolness :P
wings and holy avenger together, feels like 20 secs of bankai
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I'm thinking about learning hypnotherapy techniques. I know how to use deep relaxation techniques with clients with phobias - but I haven't had hypnosis training and it's always fascinated me. It's squeezing in these things when life seems to sweep you away.
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Please Save My Pandemonium! is a free cloud-based idle fantasy simulation RPG.
Pandemonium has been trampled down by the humans, and the prince of darkness is striving to take back his land.
As the prince of darkness, you organize an army of monsters.
Just select the operation time, strategy and items to bring, and then send your army to the battlefield.
The operation time is real world time. A 30-minute operation means the return of your army after 30 actual minutes.
Once the operation is over, you can get rescued monsters and items taken back in battle.
Surviving monsters gain experience and become stronger.
Some monsters will evolve into other monsters.
The Devil King himself also becomes stronger with experience, and is attended by more monsters.
You can hire mercenaries, buy items and build your headquarters with acquired money.
Then organize your army again for the next battle.
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Take back all of Pandemonium from the humans.
-The throne of the Devil King
Allows you to manage everything about your army
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- Recapturing operation
You will battle to recapture land from the humans.
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Make use of your master plan and luck to take back Pandemonium from the humans.
Prove that you are the true Prince of Darkness!
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The land of Pandemonium was very peaceful and tranquil.
The King was a great father.
The Queen was a gentle mother.
I was their beloved child.
It was thought this happiness would last forever, but it was shattered by the sudden attack of the humans.
Many monsters were killed, and most of the survivors were captured.
All the treasure of Pandemonium was stolen.
Most of our land was now in human hands.
And my father and mother were also killed.
I ran for my life to the end of our land, to the end of the world.
I was accompanied only by a goblin.
I thought it might be the end of everything.
But I didn't want things to end.
Before I escaped, my father spoke his last words.
"As long as you are alive, Pandemonium lives on.
As long as you don't give up, we will not lose."
I am at the end of our land.
Where the power of the humans can't reach.
I must fight.
I cannot run any more.
I looked into the eyes of my loyal goblin.
And strained to give my first order as the King.
"Take back our land from the humans!"
After a moment of silence, the goblin nodded.
And he started running with a war cry.
With great courage.
He made a reckless charge.
On a mission for the King.
Watching the receding back of the goblin, I prayed.
I just prayed.
"Please Save My Pandemonium!"
The battle for tomorrow began.
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Healthcare plans can be a complicated topic that many college students like to avoid, myself included! But when one breaks down healthcare insurance plans they are much less daunting and it is very important for students to be smart healthcare consumers! When you begin looking at a plan for yourself it is important to recognize the differences, to find the best plan to fit your needs!
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- Health maintenance organization (HMO): usually this plan limits coverage to providers who are within their network. If you see a provider outside of the network you will likely pay the full cost of the appointment. This type of plan generally requires you to see your primary doctor to get referrals before going to a specialist.
- Exclusive Provider Organizations (EPO): Same as HMO, in that you have a specific network, however you generally do not need to see your primary care provider before seeing a specialist.
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If you are granted immunity, then you must testify. And, Congress has the power to grant immunity. Absent a grant of immunity, an individual has the right to assert the fifth amendment.
Walsh Iran / Contra Report - Chapter 2 United States v. Oliver L. North
ditto... in the pic of her in her youth, she looked au naturale and attractive... but her natural look is not attractive today... i hate to say she let herself go, and in a perfect world, it should not matter... but it does--especially in this case... it doesn't excuse him, and there's no guarantee had she remain attractive that he would have stayed faithful... but in the colloquial words of today--"just sayin'"
Oh, yes you can. Unless you are granted immunity. Which Holder will not grant because he wants Petraeus to shut up.
Do you want her to give you a lap dance too?
Because he was head of the CIA and NOT a target.
I seem to recall Denise Rich (among others) plead the fifth over and over during the Clinton pardongate hearings.
I don't care about this. What I want to know is what he knows about Benghazi.
What do you mean "not a target" and why can't the head of the CIA be investigated?
One can lead a horse to water ...
The lapdog media is obsessed with WH talking points and designated anonymous sources.
My thanks to both of you for standing up for Mrs. P. I too get so sick and tired of 50-55-60-65 year old women being treated as failures, if they happen to carrying 40-50 extra pounds, dress matronly, don't dye their hair, and aren't in to spending hundreds of dollars on overpriced (faux) cosmetics.
"What I want to know is what he knows about Benghazi."
So do I, but unfortunately we need to wade through this crap to get us back on topic.
I'm sure she will, I know I would......., I would wait until this clears up before I took any steps as far as divorce goes.
Thinking Elizabeth Edwards.
Your post is funnier than the General's toupee.
I also think that her hubby "leased" her out, thinking BIG BIG $$$$$ trust fund for their retirement. I think it is possible he was aware and willing for his wife to be this involved.
The key will be in how the MSM portrays Kelley in their attempt to totally destroy Broadwell. Let them go first. Get them on record.
I am not defending the actions of Broadwell or Petraeus. But this is not about the affair. It is about Benghazi. The powers that be wanted to use this to destroy Petraeus. That isn't working--too many sympathies in DC. Now they are have to get to Petraeus through Broadwell.
Sadly, we have to wade through the media crap to get back to Benghazi.
It was all classiified. When he resigned he lost his clearance. He was "read off" all the clearances he had and can no longer divulge any classified information he knows without permission.
What power a Congressional Committee has to impact that I do not know.
If I was him unless I had something signed by the DOJ, DOD, DCI, CIA, etc., I'd keep my yap shut.
Women like this have a supreme need to bask in the light of what they perceive as greatness, because it is that which gives their own existence substance. Like those with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, their actions are the result of a personal emptiness that they are psychologically compensating for. The spouses of women like this - unless superhuman - will always be at risk of being left behind, because at some point they fall off their pedestal and thus lose the ability to provide the kind of greatness by proxy that the borderline requires. It's like needing a bigger and bigger, or at least newer and newer fix. If you look at all the pictures of her that have been pasted into news stories, they have a general feel of flamboyance - of someone seeking legitimacy and attention. Women with this personality disorder are self-destructive, and even cut themselves.
I'm not in any way excusing Petraeus. He made bad choices, and lost his self-respect, his position, and hurt his family in the process. He followed the 'Song of the Siren' to where it usually leads - self destruction.
Well said. I agree about watching the MSM's actions closely too. We will have opportunities to destroy them if we only keep in mind the need to.
All true. However, we really don't know their "arrangement", do we. I saw a news clip showing Petraeus receiving an award. They gave each other a brief peck and then she lightly patted him on the shoulder, like a mother would give her son an "atta-boy." It was all very maternal, so I would say he left the building a long time ago.
Who are these people and what do they have to do with this thread?
The prosecution may have prosecuted the case well, and the case included several landmark rulings related to the prosecution of former U.S. executive branch appointees in criminal cases ... but it was all ultimately meaningless because the immunity granted to North by Congress made any attempt to prosecute him a waste of time. LOL.
YOU: "Her twin sister is a lawyer who represents whistle blowers. Another odd coincidence?"
YOU: "Who are these people and what do they have to do with this thread?"
Khawam is the twin sister.
Keyword classified.
There may be aspects of our presence there that may be classified, but as far as I know, nobody got read-in or out of the Benghazi terrorist attack or the lies that followed.
I know for SURE that the "spontaneous reaction to a video" aspect wasn't classified, because it was complete fabrication.
"I also want his wife to lose 50 pounds, buy some appropriate and flattering clothes, get a good hairdresser and have a couple of lessons in applying a touch of make-up. Then I want her to take half of the marital assets, and kiss his adulterous a** goodbye."
She will get half of his pension in the case of his divorce. His pension is 75% of the base pay of a 0-9. You can bank on this.
Sorry about that. I only heard that Kelley had a twin who was a lawyer. Fox mentioned it this am, but did not mention her name. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I will go back and read your post again, now that I have been enlightened. Thanks.
Can't a Congressional Committee grant him immunity?
I seem to remember that once immunity has been granted, a witness has no choice but to testify.
Iirc a witness cannot even take the 5th Amendment, once granted immunity. Could be wrong.
I agree. I was married to one and was the sister of another.
Best reference, IMO: "Stop Walking on Eggshells"
She sounds like a total sleeze. Her sister also. "What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive".
Agree. The meda wants everyone to go off looking in the sex direction to get Benghazi off the radar, but everything will eventually lead right back to Benghazi. It is hard to keep the faith though with such spineless rinos running the house, dems running the senate and a jackal Marxist media.
" I was married to one.."
I'm sorry. Honestly. That must have been really hurtful and difficult.
Power is the greatest aphrodisiac, said Henry Kissinger.
Ladies: to give a Freeper a chubby, a drop of A-1 sauce behind one ear, Hoppes #9 behind the other.
Boy he must really have the goods on Obama if they are trashing him like this
Hillary must be loving this scandal and the diverted focus
This is all about Benghazi. None of the time lines add up. Paula's speech on October 26, wherein she talks about prisoners in the annex, suggest she's been in contact with GenP long after their romance was allegedly concluded.
Thus far, everyone everyone is lying! It's a huge cover-up for the Marxist over Benghazi.
I'm waiting to hear from FBI Director Mueller. If he lies then.... Our entire gov't is corrupt.
Mrs. P is a moonbat. She works for Obama and is a disciple of Granny Warren. As of last Tuesday I have no problem with anyone pointing out she is a dead ringer for Mikey Teutle of American Choppers.
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I was trying to remember....isn't Mueller originally a Clinton appointee and Bush held him over and promoted him?
Betcha one of them green beers he won't be. At least not to any Congressional panel.
Ridiculous is right and HUGE if the drive-bys ever reported the truth...and so this "sex scandal" continues to take the attention away from Benghazi and voter fraud.
LOL ... Think you are correct.
LOL, loving it? She's RUNNING it. Who do you think Paula WORKS for?
Hillary is discrediting Petraeus so that she doesn't lose her brain-dead witchette followers when he testifies that she was up to her eyeballs in the Benghai murder of Ambassador Stevens and his entourage.
Been praying since the year of 2000 for such to happen somewhere in this land. Maybe asked God for the wrong thing. Always thought the final Constitution Crisis would come when it all came down to where our Military stood, will stand, or would or would not man and woman up for the truth or a lie.
"Petraeus is going to have a huge law suit if he wasn't informed of this investigation straight away, because he has Constitutional rights, and Muelller and Holder had to inform the Marxist, so all of them were also derelict in duties when they did not inform the various Committee heads."
That's because all of them knew about the affair from the gitgo, don't you see. That was their hold over Petraeus so that he would play ball on everything their way. They were blackmailing him. Aren't you seeing the pattern here?
Now General Allen it is found was also being investigated by the FBI for his connections to the "other woman", Ms. Kelley, for either an affair or over possibly disclosing classified info to her, and he too was in line by Obama for a higher position. So, Obama planned on elevating another general whose background was compromised by an inappropriate relationship with a woman, just like Petraeus. And once again, Obama and his henchmen would have had total control over General Allen because they knew his little secret.
I have no respect for General Petreaus. Obviously he knew about his own afair, right? And he never should have accepted the job of CIA Director.
In my opinion the only way Petreaus can show he has ANY honor left at ALL is to go willingly to testify before Congress and to do so honestly.
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So I have a 1983 Scirocco project that i am prepping for paint. However, in the process of taking off the rubber side trim i found that it had been installed via rivets!
These are relatively small holes, and they run along most of the side of the car. I wouldn't worry if i was installing the same trim after i painted the car, but i'm not. The more modern trim i am using is placed lower on the vehicle... Long story short: I need those holes gone.
Being an inexperienced body man, i've asked around my local sources for advice. Fiberglass or welding seem to be my main options, and since this is my prized possession, i have a bad feeling about using fiberglass. I really don't want to risk having a change of texture on the surface, not to mention the decrease in stability over time (relative to plain old steel). Plus, i've done a few metal shop classes in high school (not too long ago) and i have a spare fender to even practice on!
Unfortunately, i have only used TIG on thin metals, and all i have is MIG. In an attempt to search for any specialized tool to help me out i found this: http://www.eastwood.com/magnetic-hole-p ... welde.html
It looks useful, but i'm not sure how its used, or if it would even be useful for my situation at all...
Summary: I would like to know more about this tool, and or how to tackle my problem.
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RDS,,Tell us more about the MIG welder. Is it a 110 volt model or 220 volt?
This would be a very simple fix with a MIG if you can turn it down low enough. Mig welding is the easiest one as long as the metal is clean................... Practice on your fender. (There is no need to make this post complicated with all kinds of technical welding information) "The number of parasites in the USA has now eclipsed the number of productive members of society"
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My mig is a 110.
Sorry for the long post. I've been through a lot of grief keeping my posts short in the past so it's a habit of mine. ... So just go for it and start practicing on my fender? Nothing else needed except my welder and a good ground? In my experience a mig makes holes in metal that thin pretty easily. Thanks! |
Your post wasn't too long, I think Rick was saying there is no need to go into a long technical discussion on this -- you've got a relatively straightforward set of holes to fill there and like Rick said if you can turn the amperage down on the welder you are good to go.
Before I even looked at that tool I was going to tell you to get an old piece of copper pipe, bang the end of it flat and make yourself a copper backing-stopper for the weld -- that is exactly what that tool is. The mig weld will not adhere to the copper, that's the idea. Practice on scrap first, just drill some holes the same size. If the holes are small enough you may not even need the copper tool. -Chris |
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If your shielding gas is set properly, there should be no problem with burn throughs using MIG at a low setting. The gas along with the copper help in dissapating the heat.
If you need both hands free, or can't reach around to hold the copper while you fill the hole, any magnet strong enough will hold the copper in place. HF has some cheap welding magnets that work fine for this. Another option, which I've done many times, is to duct tape the copper in place. Just make sure the copper is large enough to be able to keep the tape a few inches away from the hole. Aluminum will work as well. |
Mig is the right way to solve this problem and is really eazy to do i just did a 73 nova and removed all trim holes from it..... That being said I have known of some shoddy body men just smear mud over those holes sand down and prime in. I AM NOT SAYING THAT JUST SAYING I"VE SEEN IT ALOT. It kinda came along with the whole mass rust car dealer reapiar going on in the late 80's early 90's.
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,,"So just go for it and start practicing on my fender?"
Yes RDS, you dont need any other tools,,just play around with your settings until you get it right. Its VERY simple. "The number of parasites in the USA has now eclipsed the number of productive members of society"
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I use a copper coin,hold it on the back of the hole,or get a friend to hold it.....not with your fingers lol,with a screwdriver or something similar....and just fill the hole in with your mig.
Daz,,,with a hole this small your copper penny trick is not needed.
Its just a tiny hole guys,,It takes about a second to fix this. Good GOD! There is no need to have 27 post on how to weld a 1/8" hole with a MIG welder..................... remember,,this is AutoBody101,,,not "Advanced Welding Technology". "The number of parasites in the USA has now eclipsed the number of productive members of society"
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The fact that the hole probably doesn't need backing was already stated, and not everyone knows about using copper so no harm done.
Who cares what the name of the site is...makes no difference to what we can and can't talk about here. |
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5 ways to be a better cook
As the Food Editor for EatingWell Magazine, I'm always hearing from readers who want to cook dinner, but feel like they don't have enough time. So as I worked on compiling our latest cookbook, EatingWell One-Pot Meals, which is all about simple, streamlined cooking, I came up with a list of tips that will make you a better cook (in addition to using really delicious, healthy recipes, of course) and will make cooking dinner a snap.
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Here are my five top tips to help you be a better, more efficient cook:
1. Organize your work space
Create a well-lit, clutter-free prep space in your kitchen that has space for your cutting board, ingredients and a bowl or two. Keep knives close by. And position a garbage can, trash bowl or compost bin within arm's reach so you can get carrot peels, onions skins and so forth out of the way. (Of course, your space may be constrained, if you live in a tiny apartment, for instance, so improvise where necessary!)
2. Shop smart and keep a well-stocked pantry
Half the battle of getting dinner on the table quickly is making sure you don't have to go to the supermarket every other day. The best approach is to make a weekly plan of what you're going to cook, consult your recipes and write a detailed shopping list. Organize your list by these sections: produce, meat & seafood, dry goods, freezer, dairy, refrigerator, bakery & deli.
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When you're making a shopping list, and as you cook and use up ingredients, jot it down on your list, you won't come up empty-handed the next time you're about to cook.
3. Use the power of herbs and spices
Herbs and spices are essential for making great-tasting food that's healthy too. They let you create bright, aromatic, vibrant-tasting dishes without loading them up with salt, sugar, butter or cream. So keep a well-organized array of dried herbs and spices, preferably close to your work space. Keep in mind that herbs and spices do lose potency the longer they sit on your shelves. After they've been there a year or two, replace them. And if you have space, plant an herb garden or, if you live in a colder climate, a small planter that you can bring inside in the winter.
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4. Cook like a pro
If you've ever watched line cooks in a restaurant then you know that the secret to how they churn out all those plates of food so quickly is that all their ingredients are prepared, organized and ready to go when they get an order. Chefs call this idea of having all the ingredients ready mise en place. Translated literally, it means everything in place. This is a great way to approach cooking at home, too—once you've read your recipe, head to the refrigerator and cupboards, pull out all the ingredients you'll need and set them up next to your work space. If it's going to take you a little while to chop and prep, then leave your meat in the refrigerator until closer to when you're ready to put it in a pan. As you prepare ingredients, if you don't have enough room to keep them organized in little piles on your cutting board, transfer them to small bowls. We like to use the glass ramekins that you can pick up at most supermarkets for prepped ingredients.
The other thing you may notice as you watch line cooks at a sauté station is that they use metal tongs for everything. Metal tongs are like an extension of the professional cook's arm. Try them: a decent pair is inexpensive and you will never want to cook without them once you do. (If you cook with a nonstick skillet a lot, you should also get silicone-coated tongs.)
5. Chop quickly
Nothing slows you down more in the kitchen than dull knives. Invest in a good chef's knife and paring knife. Then buy an inexpensive handheld knife sharpener—these can cost under $10—and take just a couple swipes of the knife through the little V groove before you get to work. You'll be slicing through the skin of ripe tomatoes like it's nothing. Also, if your chopping skills are slow and clunky, spend some time watching the pros on TV and mimic how they do it. You may not get as quick as them, but you can certainly pick up some of their technique, speed things up and be safer.


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So, we bought this cat tree awhile ago, and the cats never used it.
I put it in front of the window, and they use it as a stepping stool.
then we brought home Duke. now they all want tobe on the...
everybody loves his ears! and, well, so do I lol
he is such a great dog!
thank you all!
Obviously not too smart, these people.
What ever happened to common sense?
Thank you Wan, he's changing our live's already!
So we have had Duke for 6 days now.
He is quite a handfull, but not too much of a handfull.
still trying to break his habbit of jumping on visitors, he's getting better.
He is fine with our two...
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I looked up the Malinois and I think your're right. The color is the same and the distinctions in the face look a lot alike too.
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took him too the dog park yesterday. there were all sorts of dogs there and he...
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I've seen the Haspel ones a fair bit - I'm a bit hesitant though, with no idea how it would fit. 211 isn't bad for half canvassed though.
Funnily enough, Arthur Galan, David Jones just got in black/white seersucker suits. I'm not a fan of the colour, but more importantly, they aren't worth the $500. Feel so cheap and the quality is obviously not there (edit: fully fused). I might take a risk and go with the haspel one once I pay off a few bills.
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CR-48 In the House!
A little surprise came trouncing through the blizzard that is demolishing us in the northeast this morning, a long-awaited CR-48 ChromeOS notebook from Google.
If you are not aware, the CR-48 is part of a pilot program from Google to get exposure and testers for their upcoming ChromeOS which will be coming out for public release at some point in the future. ChromeOS is a unique operating system in that it is primarily just a browser, everything you do is within a browser and all files and such are stored on the web or "in the cloud." We submitted for a test model to try out when Google opened up the applications and we are really excited that one has finally arrived.
I'll keep first impressions pretty brief as I plan to do a full report on it after I give it a solid week or so of use. I do a lot of my work for clients in the web and in a browser so I am curious as to whether ChromeOS will get the job done for me. Hardware is very solid, nice and small, but not so small that it is unusable like a netbook. Construction is very good and the entire notebook is covered in a soft touch finish which is really nice. I'll save the rest for my full review but check out the pics in the meantime!
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I love my CR-48. The only thing I hate is how nasty it looks after you touch it. Oh well, I can't complain about a free Google Chrome OS laptop, can I?
Yes I have noticed that fingerprints do show a bit on the case. Not nearly as bad as a glossy Asus laptop (I have one which I actually sanded down because finger prints drove me nuts) but there nonetheless.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- In a time when many Americans accept that a 50 percent divorce rate is inevitable, some communities have found ways to nearly "divorce-proof" the marriages in their area. One example is the Kansas City metro area. While the divorce rate in Kansas City, Mo. was going up between 1995 and 2005, just across the border in smaller Kansas City, Kan., the divorce rate was plunging.
Clergy on the Kansas side believe they know what made the difference. Pastor Jeff Meyers of Christ Lutheran Church in a Kansas City suburb was distressed with the devastating effects he was seeing as a result of marriages falling apart.
"If it fails, it's the pebble in the pond, the waves reverberate out and go on for generations," he told CBN News.
Research shows children of divorce still feel the pain of the breakup well into their adult life:
•Their chances of having their own marriages dissolve are doubled. •Children of divorce are three times as likely to get kicked out of school or become unwed pregnant teens as are those children in intact families. •Their chances of being physically abused are 14 times higher. •Their chances of living in poverty five times higher.
Where's the Church?
Since some 80 percent of couples get married in a church, Meyers realized pastors might have more power to strengthen marriages than most consider.
"I thought, 'Where's the church?' This is our issue. This is the thing we should be dealing with," Meyers said.
That's when Meyers began interacting with Mike and Harriet McManus of Marriage Savers. The Maryland couple pushes all sorts of methods for strengthening marriage, including getting as many religious leaders in an area as possible to band together and sign a Community Marriage Policy. With that, they pledge not to marry anyone in their houses of worship unless that couple takes a pre-marital inventory and holds pre-marriage sessions with a pastor or marriage mentors.
Meyers teamed up with Pastor Leroy Sullivan of the inner-city Bread of Life Church. The two came from different worlds, but felt the same urgency about dealing with the divorce crisis, and the failure of most churches to do so.
"We're so busy talking about 'Let's go to heaven,' we never teach people how to live on earth," Sullivan said.
"And it's important for pastors and churches to get into their minds how critical it is to invest in each and every union," Meyers added.
Divorce Rate Plunges 70 Percent
Meyers and Sullivan spent months recruiting dozens of other pastors in the Kansas City, Kan. area in 1996 to sign a Community Marriage Policy. And over the next 10 years, the town saw an amazing 70 percent plunge in the divorce rate -- from 650 in 1995, to just 196 in 2005.
Both pastors feel a particularly strong method of strengthening marriages has been the use of marriage mentors -- especially when it comes to working with couples who want to marry.
Dave and Rhonda DeFreece are members of Meyers' Lutheran church and have mentored couples for 14 years.
"You're using your years of experience coupled with some training in listening skills and communication skills," Dave said.
"The preparation process, lots of times, brings out areas that maybe they've never discussed before or thought about," Rhonda said.
McManus recruited Patti and Victor Llewellyn to be mentors in Maryland. They agree it's especially important for couples considering marriage to get some mentoring.
Patti said mentors can help them answer crucial questions, like, "Will you have the communication tools to give and take and find out how you're going to work together?"
"How do we expect them to just pop into a healthy, interacting great marriage? It's not going to happen. It takes help," Victor added.
These "marriage coaches" can help couples work their way through a premarital inventory, which can predict with 80 percent accuracy which couples will likely divorce. That can lead incompatible couples to give up on getting married before it's too late.
"I know we've had two couples decide not to marry," Patti mentioned.
How to Cut the Divorce Rate in Half
Pastors in more than 220 communities have signed Community Marriage Policies. But McManus feels it's now time to start pushing secular authorities as well to do something to strengthen marriages. He's championing a couple of potent ideas in his new book "How to Cut America's Divorce Rate in Half."
The U.S. rate is triple that of France and Britain, and McManus thinks one big reason is because of the waiting periods for a divorce in those nations.
"You have to wait five years in one country and six years in the other to get the divorce. You know what happens in five years? A lot of reconciliation," he explained.
Meyers pointed out research that shows if those in a failing marriage would simply wait it out for five years, they'd likely see a big turnaround.
"Sixty-six percent of those couples will report a stronger, happier, wholesome marriage if they will just do that," he said.
Some researchers say 86 percent of couples who decide to stall a divorce for five years end up with happier, enduring marriages after those five years.
McManus would like to see all state legislatures institute waiting periods of at least two years before they'll grant a divorce.
No More No-Fault
He's also pushing to get rid of no-fault divorce for couples who have juvenile children and no history of adultery or abuse. His book documents that America went from having 639,000 divorces in 1969, the year of the first no-fault law, to more than a million by 1975. And the divorce rate has stayed that high since.
"What's called no-fault divorce is really unilateral divorce," McManus said.
He wants states to replace no-fault divorce with mutual consent divorce where both spouses have a say in dissolving a union.
"Here are two reforms, each one of which in many states could cut the divorce rate in half," he said confidently.
Divorce Costs All Taxpayers
The states could also save a huge amount of taxpayer dollars. Taxpayers cough up $112 billion a year to pay the huge costs of families fragmenting, according to the Institute for American Values. McManus thinks the total might actually be closer to $200 billion a year.
While only one percent of married women are in poverty, 24 percent of divorced women are.
McManus said of most of that 24 percent: "They're eligible for Medicaid and food stamps and earned income tax credit and subsidies for housing and day care and all that."
"That's what costs so much," he explained. "If you could cut the divorce rate, you'd be doing a great fiscal favor for taxpayers."
"It's a devastating thing. Divorce is within our communities, families, the lives of our children personally to societally," Meyers said.
Which is why those in the Marriage Savers movement feel so fiercely about it.
"I really believe that what we're doing is making eternal benefits for couples down the road," Maryland mentor Llewellyn said.
"Marriage really is the best solution for all the problems we have in society today," Sullivan said.
Sullivan has only had a couple of divorces in his church since his fellow pastors banded together in 1996.
As for Meyers' church, "I've had roughly a hundred weddings I've performed since then," he said. "I've had no divorces."
"If we have a culture promoting marriage, and if our churches begin to capture the vision that they can be marriage savers, I think we could drive down this divorce rate nationally in half," McManus said.
*Originally published February 11, 2010. http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2010/February/As-Pastors-Unite-for-Marriage-Divorce-Rate-Plunges-/
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Aluminum producer beat Wall Street expectations with its third quarter earnings report on Tuesday, posting earnings per share of 11 cents and revenue of $5.77 billion. Street estimates were five cents per share and $5.6 billion in revenue, according to a consensus report from Thomson Reuters.
In a statement announcing the earnings, Alcoa chairman and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld says that the results indicate that the repositioning of the company is on the right path. "Our commodity business delivered better performance in a tougher market environment, and we continued to reshape the portfolio to lower the cost base," he says. "Across the board, productivity was exceptional – achieving our full year target in the first nine months."
Third quarter net income is $24 million, a significant improvement over this time last year, when income for the third quarter of 2012 was a net loss of $143 million.
Alcoa says that these strong results were led Engineered Products and Solutions and Global Rolled Products, which posted after-tax operating income of $192 million and $71 million, respectively.
In a note released by Citi Research early Tuesday evening, analyst Brian Yu tempered the positive earnings report, saying, "The stronger 3Q result will likely be tempered by weak 4Q downstream guidance." Yu said that settlement discussions with the DOJ and SEC regarding the previously disclosed Alba investigation continue, which may lead to additional charges in future quarters.
Alcoa reaffirmed its 7% global aluminum price forecast for 2013, projecting particular growth in the aerospace (9-10%) and commercial building and construction (4-5%) markets. In the heavy truck and trailer market, it is raising its 2013 growth expectation to 5-9%, up from its previous prediction of 3-8%, citing improvements in the European market and a stronger Chinese market
The company's primary metals unit – the sector recently targeted by a analyst as a prime candidate for a spinoff – posted a third quarter after tax operating income of $8 million, compared to a negative $32 million in the second quarter of 2013 and a negative $14 million in the third quarter of 2012. Despite this gain, primary metals is still the weakest of Alcoa's units, falling $59 million shy of alumina's $67 million income and $191 million shy of Alcoa's Engineered Products and Solutions unit.
Of Alcoa's smelting capacity, also targeted by the Deutsche analyst as an area of concern, 16%, or 651,000 metric tons, is offline.
The better-than-expected earnings is welcome good news for Alcoa, which in September was booted from the Dow Jones industrial average, and earlier this year saw its credit rating cut by Moody's, which cited concerns over weak global aluminum prices.
Shares of Alcoa, which were down 0.38% at the bell, were up 1.76% in after-hours trading. However, shares of the company are down over 12% year-to-date. Alcan parent is up 0.17% year to date, while the Aluminum Corporation of China is down 13.7% year to-date.
While Alcoa has traditionally been viewed as the informal start to earnings season – and indeed, the number of companies reporting earnings will increase as the week goes on, and JP Morgan and report on Friday – its performance should not be seen as an overall indicator for the economy nor its corporate counterparts. As has been previously reported, research shows that whether Alcoa beats or falls short of the Street's consensus is not predictive of the next three months.


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Of the thousands of American soldiers court-martialed for desertion in World War II, Eddie Slovik was the only one put to death. One of the judges who convicted him looks back with regret.
September/October 1987 | Volume 38, Issue 6
At the time, Huie had first-rate conservative credentials as former editor of the American Mercury and as a national news commentator. During our conversation in my office before we met at dinner, this slight, tired-looking ex-naval officer from Alabama let some dire hints drop. Hostile questions were beginning to be asked by a conservative congressman from Slovik's district, among others, about Elsenhower's role. For example, why was a Catholic white boy the only man to be executed by the U.S. Army for desertion since Abraham Lincoln's time? What seemed to disturb Huie—or perhaps what he wanted to have disturb us—was the political hate that the extreme right right wing felt for Elsenhower, whom they saw as a soft middle-of-the-roader. These were the times of McCarthy, and it was not fanciful to imagine a new storm center building.
There was a certain brutal directness about Huie, possibly a profesional trait of the investigative journalist. He had told Slovik's widow—unaware till then—exactly how and why Slovik had died eight years before. He gave her a sum of money to talk with him and permit him to write the story. At dinner he asked us some challenging and personal questions. But he did not try to corral the answers he wanted. All those around the table, with the exception of Huie, knew one another, several as close friends. We were generous with our recollections and opinions. A few undertook to put Huie in touch with others who had had firsthand contact with Slovik or the case.
A few months after the meeting, true to his word, Huie sent me the pre-publication script of my remarks for review. The comments he attributed to me were not what I remembered and had noted. What appeared in the book was this corrected version:
Doctor Kimmelman: "A few weeks after I had voted for the death sentence for Slovik as a member of the court, I was captured in the Bulge battle, and didn't know of his execution until after my release from a German prison camp. In prison, we often talked about the case. I can't say positively what I would have done if I had still been with the division in January, 1945, but the experiences in the Battle of the Bulge altered my views. I came to believe front-line offenses ought to be judged only by front-line personnel. At trial time we had not been a court of front-line personnel. He got a fair trial under the circumstances, but in retrospect, the circumstances were not fair. I believe I would have tried to do whatever was in my power to get the entire case reviewed on this basis."
The one part of my statement in Huie's book with which I do not agree today is the next-to-last sentence: "He got a fair trial under the circumstances, but in retrospect, the circumstances were not fair." I meant to make plain by the term fair trial that no one had attempted to feed us inside information or influence us in advance. The statement otherwise is a contradiction in terms, like that bromide of vigilante justice "Give him a fair trial and then hang him." I should always have known that there cannot be a fair trial under unfair circumstances.
It all had begun for me late in the afternoon of November 10, 1944, when a Captain French and I were handed orders to report for a court-martial the next day. We were just returning to the bivouac area after a long, silent hike from the clearing company hospital, where we had learned that our best buddy, Captain Rokey, had died of his wounds. He had volunteered three weeks before to go forward to command a line company. I cannot know just what Captain French or any of the others assigned to the court were thinking as we took our seats at that judgment table the next morning. I do not even know that I succeeded in making my own mind and feelings neutral. After all, I was hearing the case of a deserter who had not been hurt and who refused to return to the line. However, there were no challenges by the defense. Captain Woods, the routinely assigned defense counsel, was good enough at his various jobs but was young like the rest of us and had no legal training. Even with the best will and devotion, he had to be out of his depth.


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Literature, comics, Bubbles the chimp—expect all of this when entering the new tasting room at Modern Times Beer. With walls papered with pages ripped from old books and owner Jacob McKean's personal comic collection, plus a mammoth collage portrait of Michael Jackson (the weird moonwalker, not the famous beer writer) and his pet primate made completely out of multicolor Post-It notes, it's one of, if not the most eclectic sampling spaces in San Diego.
Guests can also expect a shot of coffee. No, despite the fact McKean and company roast their own beans on-site in a large, crimson hot box, they're not going the Starbucks route. Those dark, shiny java nuggets are being cold-infused into Modern Times Black House, the new brewery's signature coffee oatmeal stout.
The darkest of Modern Times' core beers, Black House pours onyx in color and posts up a thick, cocoa-colored head. Notes of coffee and chocolate come through in spades on the nose, but the presence of all that java—a house blend of 75% Ethiopian and 25% Sumatran—is much more subdued on the taste buds. Instead of heavy roastiness and coffee astringency, the beer is mellow, chocolaty, and drinkable. The Joe is there, but it's a component as opposed to the focal point, which makes for something that will appeal to caffeine addicts and non-coffee fans alike.


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The A-Team press conference
We caught up with the stars of the eighties reboot in London...
"Quite appalling". That was Liam Neeson's view when asked about the recently proposed closure of the UK Film Council. The Northern-Irish born actor was speaking the day after he and the rest of The A-Team cast rolled into Leicester Square in – you guessed it – the iconic black GMC van, and, if that wasn't enough, a giant tank for good measure.
Besides a backhanded slap aimed at Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, spirits were high in the camp, and given that the worldwide gross currently stands at $137 million it's hardly surprising. The four soldiers of war may be battling injustice, but it's clear that they have struck gold (read my review here).
For Sharlto Copley who rose to fame in the acclaimed District 9, The A-Team was more than just another project: "It was moving…the show was a big part of my childhood. Murdoch particularly was a character that was an inspiration for me to get into film in the first place. It was a real honour. I just tried to play the Murdoch that I would like."
On the other hand, given the male-centric nature of the cult 80s TV show and its remake onto the big screen, there was, I imagine, less for Jessica Biel to shout home about. The female star of such box-office hits as I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry, and multi-strand rom-com Valentine's Day, seemed unsurprisingly more sedate than her male co-leads. "It was really interesting. I actually quite enjoyed it. I really like action movies, being a part of them. I don't have an insecurity being on set with lots of men. Clearly you can see they're very cool. It's really a lot of fun and they made me feel comfortable and I had a really good time".
Someone who seems to be permanently having a good time is Hangover superstar Bradley Cooper who, with a recent string of hits that has moved him up into the premiere league of acting, never seems to go for more than a minute without breaking into a guffaw or grin. However, when it comes to his alter-ego Templeton "Face" Peck, the paragon of vanity so we thought, it seems that either he or us has completely misread the character: "Maybe I missed the boat. I didn't see it like that, I don't know why. I didn't really see him as that vain. I guess he was, but I thought he was more bored and in prison and he liked being outdoors…I didn't really see him as an exfoliator." Thanks for clearing that up Bradley.
In truth, though, despite the big Hollywood names present, it is Neeson who was the big catch for writer/director Joe Carnahan. The veteran actor plays leader of the group Hannibal Smith replete with Cuban cigars for his moments of triumph. A necessary evil, it seems, for the reformed smoker of sixteen years who had to put away his nicotine patches for the shoot: "Joe insisted I smoke those cigars. After day one I got what cigars were about, so it was difficult for a couple of days."
"I told him to blow some of the smoke my way," piped in Cooper, another ex-smoker.
The biggest surprise, however, was just how quiet Ultimate Fighting Champion Quinton Jackson had been. It was a whole ten minutes before we found out why. "I don't understand why here you have the premiere and then early next morning you have the junket," he said to much amusement. And it seems that it wasn't only Jackson who enjoyed the post-premiere bash, "See, we [Jackson and Neeson] know how to have fun, and the nightlife you might find us in clubs and bars dancing, drinks in our hands, whereas Bradley and Sharlto…they'll probably read a book or something". Then there was no stopping him: "We should do M*A*S*H next. I could be an extra in that…or what about Knight Rider? I could play K.I.T.T."
As far as interviews go this was more like The Marx Brothers than The A-Team, there was so much humour and good feeling pervading the room. And whilst Carnahan was very clear to avoid talk of a sequel, it seems frankly ludicrous to imagine that the studios will not be pushing to get the boys back on the road fighting injustice in all its forms.
Their next job? Let's just say Jeremy Hunt may wish to go into hiding.
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The movie is worth it for me just to see the hispanic kid comforting the younger sister to sleep in the closet. All I could think of all movie long is "Damn, there's an osananajimi couple in the making if I ever saw one".
As for the movie itself, I remember that one scene where zombies atttack and Brad Pitt just sighed a "zombies AGAIN?" look (of which I mirrored IRL because I thought that they kinda got in the way of the experience). Because really, I like how they did the mystery aspect of the movie, but the action portions were kinda repetitive.
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Ohhh ok. You probably want to check out the Nylon sleeving like I was talking about, it feels more like a fabric, rather than a plastic, which I am assuming Techflex feels like. It appears that he just used the nylon sleeving and heatshrinked, or something similar to it, the wires at the Y after stripping off their outer casing of course.
I heard something about shrink tape, simply applying it and it shrinks without the need to heat up which I might look into it. The Y section still might need one of the ones I linked too, I might even add an extra bit of tubing.
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The San Antonio Spurs just shut that "Splash Brothers" stuff all the way down. They got hit with a couple buckets of confetti early in the series and that was plenty. They'd had their fill of splash, which is a good thing for the Spurs, because now they're playing the Grizzlies, and the last splashy thing to come out of Memphis was one of Elvis' jumpsuits.
San Antonio made the Golden State Warriors look cute in Games 5 and 6, wrapping up the series with a 94-82 win Thursday in Oakland, Calif. The Spurs made Golden State's entire identity look a little gimmicky, and ran away with a series that once looked headed the other direction. And that's all great, but it's over now. Memphis doesn't do cute and gimmicky. Memphis plows its fields with a pair of oxen, Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol, who will challenge the Spurs in all the ways Golden State could not. Andwho havebeaten the Spurs in the playoffs before.
But first, the Warriors.
The Spurs won the series the way the Spurs always win series: They take their chances with you making difficult shots, and they spend their time making sure they get easy ones. It's awfully annoying, because it can look like luck or bad defense. You hear people talk about the Spurs' execution and you think, "Yeah, whatever, but look what Steph Curry just did. Do they have anybody who can do that?"
And the answer is: No, not quite, but it doesn't usually matter.
It's never an emergency with the Spurs. That's the whole point. The Spurs don't often get caught stuck in their offense. They don't often get to the end of the shot clock with nowhere to go, they don't get too far down. They keep themselves out of desperate situations. That's most of the time. But then on those unusual occasions when things do get desperate, Manu Ginobili will go and make a shot that maybe 50 people in the whole world would make, and everything turns out fine because there is margin for error.
The Spurs played such good defense in Games 5 and 6 that halfway through the third quarter of Game 6, the Warriors already looked defeated. Every shot they took was a difficult one, and they made a few, but it was just a trickle. The water was still on, but the Spurs had kinked the hose.
And then Stephen Curry's shoulders started drooping and it was over. The Warriors are not capable of beating the Spurs with a frustrated Curry bumming around.
Let's get it on the record that the Warriors missed David Lee in this series. Maybe with him, their 18-and-11 guy, their All-Star, that hose isn't so easy to kink. Maybe it's a different series. It seems likely, anyway. In the few minutes Lee played, he was effective, and not a lot of teams that have an All-Star forward can lose him without suffering some fairly destructive consequences to their offense. The Warriors just could not really pressure the Spurs' defense without a scoring threat inside. Their offense was no longer inside-outside and side-to-side, it was only side-to-side. It was 2D.
And let's get it on the record that the Warriors played some doggone good defense in Game 6. They held the Spurs to 66 points through three quarters, and ordinarily a team like the Warriors would feel pretty good about that.
That's the kind of thing Memphis does, not Golden State.
But the scoring wasn't there, and San Antonio knew it. Once the Spurs figured out the Warriors' offense had gone 2D, the Spurs played without anxiety. They only had to do one thing make Curry and Thompson take difficult shots and the series was theirs.
It won't be so easy against Memphis, which is not a jump-shooting team. The Grizzlies are going to play through the oxen, and the oxen have a soft touch and a jab step. Memphis can't make hard jump shots like Golden State can, but Memphis doesn't need to.
The Grizzlies are like the Spurs in that way. Except there is an irony here. The Spurs knew all they had to do was keep the Warriors' guards from getting hot, and now you wonder if Memphis is cooking up the same gameplan.
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After 5 whole days in Vegas for the WPPI Convention, Angelica and I thought it would be a good idea to drive to LA for a couple of days. We were so exhausted from Vegas, that we decided to lay low rather than hit the club scene while in LA. We were staying at the cutest hotel, Barn Diva, that had sweet little details and was painted deep turquoise. Our first thought when we saw the hotel was PHOTO SHOOT! So, Angelica posted an announcement on her blog for LA models and within hours she had emails! The first response was from fellow photographer and mega hottie, Trista Lerit. Then, Angelica got in touch with Terry, the drummer from Angelica's favorite band, Young Love & Hearts Revolution! So, as I'm sure you can imagine... we had a blast!!!!!!
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For the third year in a row, I attended WPPI's {Wedding and Portrait Photographers International} Convention held in Vegas. This year, I decided to enter a few prints into the competition for a little learning experience. I arrived on Saturday and was rooming with my good friend / own personal wedding photographer, Angelica Glass. We partied the first couple nights and Monday night after our shoot, I decide to lay low and have a late night meal at the hotel's restaurant with friend, Ingrid of Ingrid Joy Studios. I was tired of drinking and eating crappy foods, so I went for something healthy. NOT A GOOD IDEA! I ended up with food poisoning for the next 2 days living in misery in my hotel room! And, didn't get to see how I did in the competition until the last day! I had several friends telling me they saw one or two or four hanging! I didn't know who to believe, so on the last day I was able to manage my way down to walk the aisles of winners. I received Award of Excellence merits for 4 out of the 5 prints! I was a bit shocked and pretty excited!
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While in Vegas attending the WPPI Convention, my friendAngelica Glass invited me and good friend Jason Clark for some fun shooting Chicago photographer, Molly Grace for the day. We dressed her up and Angelica had her in some hot poses. Here are a few of my favorite shots from the day.
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by Staff Writer / Detroit Red WingsJohan Franzen broke Gordie Howe's record of eight goals in seven games, by scoring nine goals in four games. |
After losing two straight games in the first round against Nashville, some questioned Detroit's playoff mettle. Well, Red Wings forward Johan Franzen, better known now as the 'Mule' these days, has put those fears to rest almost singlehandedly.
In the second round, the Red Wings left little doubt of their dominance against their injury-riddled nemesis, completing an 8-0 finish against the sixth-seeded Avs this season with a four-game sweep.
Unlike the previous five postseason series meetings between the teams, this series was never really in doubt following a 5-1 Game 2 victory in Detroit. In that game, Franzen registered the first hat trick of his career.
``He's a big man with a lot of skill and good hands,'' said Red Wings coach Mike Babcock. ``When you can't get the puck off the guy and he gets in tight, he's tough for the goalie to handle.''
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Now, the Wings look forward to avenging a six-game loss to Anaheim , the eventual Cup champion, in last year's Western Conference finals. This season, Anaheim was eliminated by the Dallas Stars – Detroit's next opponent -- in the opening round.
``It's great to see (Franzen) take the puck to the net,'' Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom told DetroitRedWings.com. ``He really tries to hang on to it. He's scoring goals where he's just being patient and going to the front of the net. We wanted to try and hang on to the puck down low and make (Colorado's) whole five-man unit play defense.''
Franzen's 11 goals have already established a Wings record for a playoff year. Petr Klima (10 goals in 1988), Sergei Fedorov (10 goals in 22 games, 1998) and Brett Hull (10 goals in 23 games, 2002) were the previous record-holders. His nine goals against Colorado also a club record for a series, breaking Gordie Howe's eight goals in seven games in 1949.
``Every time you get mentioned with (Gordie Howe), it's a great honor,'' Franzen said. ``I don't know what to say. I feel real lucky.''
In the Western Conference semis, the Red Wings outscored the Avalanche, 21-9, including an 8-2 series-clinching victory at Pepsi Center in Denver. In that game, Franzen notched his second hat trick of the series.
The Avalanche were without forwards Peter Forsberg (groin), Ryan Smyth (foot), Paul Stastny (knee) and Wojtek Wolski (upper body), four of their leading scorers, in the final game of the series.
In addition to Franzen, Samuelsson and Henrik Zetterberg each hit twice, Pavel Datsyuk had three assists and Lidstrom, Filppula and Jiri Hudler each chipped in two assists during the Game 4 barrage. Tomas Holmstrom had the other goal.
The Wings also chased Avalanche goalie and opening-round hero, Jose Theodore, for the third time in four games.
``At this point last year, we were playing pretty good, but it's hard,'' Babcock said. ``But 'Mule' is a better player, (Dan) Cleary is a better player, (Filppula) is a better player, (Niklas) Kronwall is a better player. We may be better. We'll find out.''
Indeed, it'll be difficult for any opponent to slow down these Wings. Babcock, whose career playoff record in three seasons with Detroit stands at 26-6, has four productive offensive lines, six playoff-caliber defensemen and a pair of All-Star goalies. That's scary-good.
The Red Wings also head into the Western Conference final as healthy as they have been all season. Dan Cleary, Kris Draper and Dallas Drake have worked well together, as have Darren Helm, Darren McCarty and Hudler. In addition to Franzen's line, the other top unit consists of Holmstrom (21 hits), Zetterberg (10 takeaways) and Datsyuk (12 takeaways), who have combined for 32 points (14 goals) in 10 playoff games.
Defensively, Lidstrom and the smooth-skating Brian Rafalski, a combined plus-14 in the playoffs, have been flawless. Hard-hitting Brad Stuart (21 hits, plus-2) is proving to be a splendid trade-deadline acquisition alongside Kronwall and Brett Lebda is working hard with either veteran Chris Chelios (lower-body injury) or third-season performer Andreas Lilja. Chelios, who was scratched from Game 4 against Colorado just after warmups, should be ready to go in the conference final.
Since replacing Dominik Hasek between the pipes in Game 4 against Nashville in the opening round, Chris Osgood is 6-0 with a sterling 1.52 goals-against average, .937 save percentage and one shutout.
Author: Mike G. Morreale | NHL.com Staff Writer