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This one is cute, so I took a pic, lol. This is Murakami's charater, DOB, also his alter-ego (I think that's what one synopsis said)
Don't I look so cute? lol, I liked that specific statue
I liked this one because all the jellyfish eyes and faces make one big face.
Don't I look so cute? lol, I liked that specific statue
I really enjoyed going to the museum (especially with Kevin). I liked the exhibit very much. After this trip, we decided to include more culture in our lives by going to new restaurants (trying new food), going to the museum more often, other things that include culture, we'll try it,lol. From the museum, we went to Subway to grab something to eat. We then walked to Atlantic Terminal/Mall and I had to get my new addiction: Coldstone's ice cream, lol. I swear I am addicted to their ice cream. Just last week, I had it twice, so sad, lol.
Look at me, cheesing with my sweet cream w/rainbow sprinkles in hand, lol
I enjoyed my ice cream on our way to the promenade (one of our many spots). We just chilled there, talked, looked at the "waterfall", just enjoying each others company. I had a really good day.


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Pure Reason Revolution:
Guerillas of the Surreal
I don't sleep a lot-- in fact, I average four, maybe five hours a night. Seven hours is sleeping in for me. Don't get me wrong--I would love something beyond a ten minute"power nap" (another one of those pre-fab labels whose meaning completely eludes me), but the constraints of American time-sense--not to mention that pesky 24-hour solar cycle-- make that next to impossible. I'm not whining. I'm just saying.
There's a plus side though--sleep deprivation, when utilized properly, can be an extremely effective creative tool. Once you've blurred the lines between dream and wakefulness, reality takes on a different hue. At least, that's what I keep telling myself.
On their debut album, The Dark Third, Pure Reason Revolution nimbly traverses such territories in a work that clearly establishes them as the new prog movement's best and brightest hope. What places this British quintet at the forefront of the neo progs is their uncanny ability to translate seventies progressive rock to a language relevant to the 21st century. They've managed this by drawing on contemporary influences such as Radiohead and Nirvana and tracing them back to what influenced those bands--Yes, Led Zeppelin and, of course, Pink Floyd. The result is an album that both pays homage to those influences, and transcends them.
While I would hesitate to label The Dark Third a "concept" album, its title alludes to that part of life that is spent in the subliterate world of dream state. As such, it flits between idioms and musical time frames without regard to obvious references. This is most apparent on the almost twelve minute long "The Bright Ambassadors." The title itself being a reference to a line in Pink Floyd's Meddle, the track intros in a Fairport Convention meets Evanescence groove, transmutes into a melodic moment of strings and synths, evolves into a literary refrain reminiscent of William S. Burroughs as translated by Pink Floyd and lopes into a Fleetwood Mac harmony interlude before shredding into a bass and drums- driven climax that echoes Led Zeppelin's Coda days. In lesser hands, the resultant piece would have been chaos, but Pure Reason Revolution pull it all together seamlessly.
Much of the reason The Dark Third succeeds has to do with the vocal interplay between Jon Courtney and Chloe Alper, who serve as the focal point of the band. They counterpoint each other so effectively that the actual lyrics become secondary to the inherent power of the tune. The tunes, though, ultimately make the album--Andrew Courtney's drums accentuate every phrase and James Dobson's synths, coupled with Jamie Wilcox's guitar riffs, imbue every song with a power that is at once both ethereal and firmly grounded in the elements of rock.
It's August as I write this, so I think it's safe to start passing out "best of" nominations for 2006. I was skeptical concerning Pure Reason Revolution when I first heard about them, what with all the hype about them being the next Pink Floyd. Jaded critic that I am, I thought I would dismiss them as "Pink Floyd: the next generation." In one way, I was right--they are that. They've picked up the mantle that Syd Barrett absentmindedly tossed aside one day. But they have done more than that--they have picked up where he left off, passed it around to others who shared his vision in one way or another, absorbed their scents and created something familiar yet dangerously new.
What Pure Reason Revolution has done with The Dark Third is nothing short of revolutionary. By delving into the roots of their roots and updating those roots, they have validated rock and roll in a way not heard of since Green Day's American Idiot.
The Dark Third is easily the best rock album I've heard this year. And Pure Reason Revolution is far and away the best rock band to emerge in 2006.

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Monday, 13 December 2010
I have also done a series of wedding card ideas. This is one of them. If I just relax with a theme in mind it's scary where your thoughts will take you. It made me smile though.
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Friday, 10 December 2010
If anyone is trying to get on my website I have to tell you that it has a problem and I am finding it difficult to upload new material. I will be looking at it on Monday so more new stuff should go up soon after that.
Sorry about that.
Sorry about that.
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
One of a set of four christmas card designs with snowmen. Merry Christmas everyone.
If you want to use it feel free to use it.
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Well, at least not in Texas. Under Texas law, legally blind people are allowed to hunt under the supervision of a sighted person. However, no hunters are allowed to use laser sights. Apparently the light makes the animals stand still while you shoot them. Where is the sport in that? Well, Rep. Kuempel thinks that the legally blind should be able to use such sights while they hunt (you must carry proof that you are legally blind). Apparently there is some powerful contingent of legally blind hunters in Texas and he is taking up their cause. I had no idea. The Texas Concealed Handgun Association supports this legislation (no doubt other organizations will as well). What this has to do with your right to carry a concealed handgun in Texas I have no idea. I'm just glad that the our law makers will be taking up this and so many other important issues next session.
Monday, December 11, 2006
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- mad said...
Blind hunters couldn't possibly be as bad a shot as Dick Cheney, heh.
Hey, did you see Tom Delay's blog? I heard they took it down after 75 minutes because so many people had posted obscene comments.
- pineapple said...
I considered making a Cheney joke, but I refrained. I considered the thought that his sighted supervisor was too drunk to help him out.
I hate that I missed tommy's blog. I would have left an obscene comment, too. I guess I will just have to post obscene blogs about him instead.
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
Some bleeding heart is propsing a Cow Tax Bill...good greif
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Oh someone must have been to New Zealand then and read a very stupid piece of proposed legislation that was referred to by our irate farmers as FART Tax. So here I am reading exactly about the same thing that was hastily dropped by the now previous government after strong protests from Federated Farmers and related groups. Someone hasn't done their research then very well have they and instead has decided to try to impose a stupid unrealistic tax upon you guys. On this one I concur. Instead the Federal Government should be concentrating on developing alternative fuel sources and employment solutions for the rural sectors. Our current government has decided to spend millions of dollars on cycle ways for tourists. How stupid is that?ReplyDelete
That's nothing, I was just going to mention the FART tax but Liz beat me to it. Sometimes government officials think up the stupidest weirdest thing to get more money in the coffers *sigh*ReplyDelete
Well said liz....cycle ways??? About as dumb as the FART tax! LOL I love that...Fart tax! he he he!ReplyDelete
You got that right Amy....I think they all need a little more to do dont you? They are obviously bored!
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Flashback: Safaree Says Women Can't Work Together, Too Competitive
Flashback to this interview from 2015 where Safaree speaking on industry friends, more specifically, the lack thereof. In this clip the rapper is asked why he thinks female artists refuse to get along, to which he says "no matter what there's always gonna be that competitive nature- it's in their blood."
"Everybody is very cool with each other" says Safaree about the new era of male rappers. When it comes to female rappers, however, he doesn't understand why they can't comply, stating that when it comes to "females of position and females of power, it's just different." Talking on his own friendships, the only name Safaree mentions is Mack Maine. "He reminds me of myself as far as the role he plays over [at Cash Money]," he states. Watch the clip to hear more.


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Sat, Jun 13, 2015
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer once said "When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die." Modern Christians seem to have forgotten that part of salvation. The message of the gospel that is most often given today is "Jesus died for you. If you believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord, and confess it with your mouth, then you will be saved." If you read that statement and see nothing wrong with it, then re-read it until you figure it out. There is something missing that is key to being truly saved; that is repentance.
Repentance, in the religious form of the word, is a complete surrendering of your life into the hands of the Lord and a willingness to follow every task that He has commanded us to do; leaving your old life behind and starting over new with the Lord. If that is the case, why do we find so many proclaimed Christians to be making the same lifestyle choices (sex outside of marriage, stealing, cussing, etc.) they did before they came to "know Jesus?" The answer is as simple as, they never really knew Him to begin with. They heard a false gospel message. I say that because any gospel that does not tell the whole truth is not truth at all. Leaving repentance out of the gospel message of Jesus Christ is like leaving sugar out of a sugar cookie. You have to have every ingredient in order for the cookie to turn out correctly, just like you have to have every element of the gospel message communicated in order for people to rightly comprehend and respond to it.
Most of the time, the people who don't change are the ones who were told nothing about having to change the way they lived in order to glorify God. They were never properly encouraged to read the bible that tells us in what ways we need to alter our lives in order to satisfy God and bring Him the most honor. People are being told that they can keep living the way they do and that it glorifes God and they are still promised eternal life because they said they believed in God. But the bible says otherwise in Luke 9:23-26 "Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father's, and of the holy angels.." We are not to continue living lives that help us gain the whole world because we will ultimately forfeit our souls to it. If the gospel message that exempts repentance tells us not to change who we are, then it is going against what Jesus Himself told us to do, and that is to deny ourselves and follow Him. He who never got drunk or had sex, who never murdered someone or stole; that perfect, sinless Man, called us to follow Him. God did die for our sins and He does offer us eternal life, but we cannot obtain it unless we believe that He is real, confess that He is God, and most importantly, repent of our sinful lives. We must die to ourselves in order to live for Christ. Nothing can change the truth in that.
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Training Course: APPETISER – An introduction on how to use the 'Erasmus+ Youth in Action' Programme for international youth work
Dates: 16-20 May 2017
Venue: Czech Republic
Eligible are 30 participants coming from: Austria, Belgium – FL, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Liechtenstein, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
Application deadline: 19th March 2017
Giving a strong positive first experience of international youth projects to motivate the participants to use the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme.
General Description
Appetiser aimes to give a strong positive first experience of international youth work and motivate participants to use Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme.
This aim summarises the entire idea of the seminar – to give a feeling, what it means to work with young people in an international setting. Leaving all explanations and knowledge aside it is about giving a space for participants to explore the advantage of "internationality" themselves.
Do you have experience as a youth work/leader at local level and yet did not organise international youth activities within Erasmus+ Youth in Action programme (and previous programmes)?
Do you want to know about Erasmus+ opportunities for international youth exchanges, European Voluntary Service or/and training projects for youth workers?
Are you in contact with young people or other people who would benefit from being involved in international activities?
Are you part of an organisation or informal group that is new to Erasmus+ or wants to get to know about new opportunities for international activities within this programme?
Should you have answered positively to the most of the questions above, when this course is for you!
"Appetiser" is designed according to the following objectives:
• To taste non-formal and intercultural learning
• To enjoy the first intercultural youth project experience
• To exchange local youth activities in the international context
• To explore possibilities of support available for international youth activities offered by the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme
• To analyse examples of qualitative youth projects supported by the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme
• To see how to benefit from international context in participants local work practice.
The network of National Agencies for "Youth in Action" organises several Appetiser TCs per year. You'll find an overview here.
This project is financed by the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme.
Being selected for this course, all costs (accommodation, travel, visa, etc.) relevant to participation in the course will be covered by the NAs involved in this project – except a participation fee which varies from call to call and country to country.
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Dr. Brian Silverstein is a national healthcare expert with extensive expertise in population health management, health care business models and provider systems. Dr. Silverstein has over 20 years of health care experience focused on systems and relationships that improve quality and operational performance and was named was named one of the "10 people to know in the World of ACOs" in 2010.
A highly respected industry thought leader and national keynote speaker; Dr. Silverstein is formerly a Managing Director of the Geisinger Consulting Group and an Executive Product Strategists xG Health Solutions, the company that is charged with generalization and dissemination of the population health management that is currently implemented at Geisinger.
Dr. Silverstein has population health operational experience as the former senior vice president Patent-Centered Medical Homes at CareFirst, BlueCross Blue Shield. In that role he ran one of the country's largest primary care ACO/PCMH program with over 1,000,000 patients and 3,500 doctors. Prior to joining CareFirst, Dr. Silverstein has extensive consulting and advisory services primarily for providers including hospitals, IDNs and physician groups. Dr. Silverstein's consulting career included roles as the senior vice president for the Camden Group (a division of HealthCare Partners) where he was in charge of the Chicago office, a vice president and national thought leader for Sg2 Health Care Intelligence and as a consultant for ZS Associates.
Dr. Silverstein holds appointments as a faculty member for The American College of Physician Executives and The Governance Institute and is an former advisor for the Medical Leadership Institute. In addition, he frequently has delivered invited presentations for National organizations such as the American College of Health Care Executives, Society of Healthcare Strategy and Market Development, The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and the Radiological Society of North America.
Dr. Silverstein is also a prolific author that has articles published in the American Bar Association The Health Lawyer, BoardRoom Press, H&HN Magazine, Strategy Alert by The Forum for Healthcare Strategist, The Governance Institute White Paper and many others. In addition to the published articles, Dr. Silverstein is frequently quoted in publications including Medscape, Forbes, Healthcare Executive and many others.
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As a small token of appreciation on Veterans Day, veterans employed with Dakota Gas were greeted with smiles, words of thanks, and a complimentary meal ticket.
The recognition meant the world to Maas, Dakota Gas controls system engineer. He served in the North Dakota Army National Guard, and has appreciated being recognized by Dakota Gas every year.
"I really appreciate that Dakota Gas and Basin Electric honor the fact that people who work for the cooperative are also committed to supporting the country and its military needs," Maas says. "It's nice to be recognized for that time you volunteer."
Dale Johnson, Dakota Gas vice president and plant manager, shared his appreciation for veterans with Dakota Gas employees the week of Nov. 9.
"I would like to personally thank all employees who have served or are currently serving in the military," Johnson says. "Thank you for all you have done to serve our country."
The cooperative supports employees in the military
Basin Electric employs more than 200 veterans and 46 active members of the military. Paul Sukut, Basin Electric CEO and general manager, addressed the cooperative's level of military appreciation Nov. 11.
"There are so many good reasons to work for Basin Electric. One of the things I'm most proud of is the cooperative's long history of supporting veterans and current military service members," Sukut says. "Their selflessness and sense of duty embody the cooperative spirit and serve as an inspiration to us all."
If employees are stationed abroad, Basin Electric tries to make the time away from home as comfortable and worry free as possible for them and their families. Watch the video.
Here are some of the benefits Basin Electric offers to its military service members:
• Supplement military pay for employees while they're deployed
• Continue benefits during employment
• Provide cell phones and laptops to military service members
• Offer extra leave when military employees return from deployment
• Provide an open door to family members to raise concerns that develop while their loved ones are deployed
Basin Electric recognized for its support of employees in the military
• In 2012 Basin Electric was selected to receive the Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award, the U.S. government's highest recognition given to employers for exceptional support given to their employees serving in the U.S. Army National Guard and Reserve. The cooperative was also a finalist for the award in previous years.
• The Bismarck-Mandan (ND) Chamber of Commerce recognized Basin Electric for its support of employee soldiers with the Golden Eagle Award.


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Bootleg Zones VG: Virtual Station
A famiclone system that loves playstation and comes with motion control soccer, boxing and ping pong. Also a DDR rip of with a dance mat!
A famiclone system that loves playstation and comes with motion control soccer, boxing and ping pong. Also a DDR rip of with a dance mat!
The retron 5, plays NES, Famicom, SNES, Super Famicom, GB, GBA, Genesis/Mega Drive games! Sweet! Does it play bootlegs though?
The demake of Super Mario World for regular Famicom! Looks really great for the most part but doesn't play quite as well.
A really strange blue Pokemon Gold cartridge that leaves you wondering what the meaning of life is.
A Nintendo Famicom clone or Famiclone system with a Sega Genesis style logo that really likes Unchained Melody and to pretend there was 9,999,999 games for the NES.
I wanted to make a short video showing my appreciation of the series and create a bit more awareness of the campaign, so I hope you enjoy this short version of E-Heroes! Thanks so much for watching!
This video has been under construction and rewritten for months on end but I finally got a chance to film and edit it. Since I initially wrote this video to be the introduction to my retrospective series, the news of Mighty No. 9 had come out and I was very excited about it. I re-wrote […]
You get to see both player's views as Phelous and ChaosD1 make the ultimate Portal 2 team.
The good and bad of Resident Evil 6. (Spoiler free)
My mixed feelings on Silent Hill Downpour, it's got some good, some bad, and some that just should have been fixed.


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Saudis postpone Yemen ceasefire until 0900 GMT on Tuesday
A ceasefire to halt nine months of Saudi aggression against its southern neighbor Yemen will take hold at noon local time (0900 GMT) on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia says.
In a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA), Riyadh said the truce, which was earlier scheduled to begin at midnight on Monday, will begin the following day upon a request by fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
The statement also warned that Saudi Arabia "reserves the right to respond in case of any violation" of the truce.
According to the statement, Hadi wrote to Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, informing him of a decision by the former Yemeni government to "declare a seven-day ceasefire initiative" on the eve of UN-brokered peace talks on Yemen in Switzerland.
"The ceasefire (will last) for a period of seven days starting from the 15th to the 21st of December in conjunction with the launch of consultations, and will be renewed automatically in the event of the commitment of the other party," the statement quoted Hadi as saying.
Two previous ceasefires, in May and July, were followed by accusations of violations by both sides.
Representatives of both the Houthi Ansarullah movement and the Saudi-backed former Yemeni president are now in Switzerland ahead of the Tuesday talks aimed at ending the conflict in Yemen.
Yemen has been under Saudi military strikes on a daily basis since late March. The military campaign is meant to undermine the Ansarullah movement and return Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh, to power.
More than 7,500 people have been killed and over 14,000 others injured since the strikes began. The Saudi war has also taken a heavy toll on the impoverished country's facilities and infrastructure.


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There's this one show everyone raving about. Critics are applauding. Your friends won't shut up about it. The Internet is ablaze with it. You finally go to watch it, and it's everything it's cracked up to be and more. Then one say, you see that one episode. The plot is so atrocious kindergarteners could have written it. Characters are not being true to prior characterization. If it's animated, the art just plain sucks. It's like the writers just decided to show up drunk one day and have a party, leaving the actual work to the very last minutes. You look it up and find that everyone else hated it. The critic are snobbing it. The fans loathe it. Indeed, the fan base seems to be reveling in is hatred of this episode. Congratulation, you found a scrappy episode. This is the episode or episode(s) of a otherwise good or at least decent work that everyone hates. If it's subject to any kind of Dis Continuity or Retcon, there is a good chance it's this.
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This is definitely going to have to be YMMV, because, while I think this could certainly work, it would be very subjective, due to differences of opinions. Live Action TV
- A Long Runner like M*A*S*H has a few of these:
- The cast and crew feel this way about "Major Fred C. Dobbs", from Season One, mainly because the network forced them to make this episode, after someone at the network read that Korea was the fifth-largest producer of gold in the world, and wanted the show to do an episode about it.
- "Hawkeye", from Season Four; in it, Hawkeye sustains a head injury while driving back to the 4077th, is taken in by a Korean family, then basically spends the rest of the entire half-hour monologuing, because he's afraid of slipping out of consciousness. Word Of God was the episode was to see if one character could carry the show by itself, however, Hawkeye was already the unofficial star of the show, so it made little sense to have him carry the torch for his own episode. Other such episodes include:
- "In Love and War", from Season Six, in which womanizing Hawkeye falls deeply in love with a Korean aristocrat who spends her days taking care of her ill mother and children in the village, and actually lives very modestly and humbly. Many fans consider it sappy and maudlin.
- "Inga", from Season Seven. It won an Emmy in 1979, however, it has not aged well, considering the episode reflected feminism at the time, and when viewed today, comes off as incredibly dated and uncomfortable, especially how Hawkeye and Charles's male egos are wounded by being shown up by a woman doctor.
- Seinfeld: The general consensus among fans is that "The Finale" is not only the worst episode of the series, but was a terrible way to wrap up the series, in having the New York Four be held accountable for all their wrong-doings throughout the entire series, then face jail time for it.
- Arthur: Many fans feel this way about "Arthur's Big Hit", because of how one-sided the issue of the episode was handled - Arthur spends a week building a model airplane, tells D.W. repeatedly not to touch it, D.W. tosses it out the window to see if it would fly, after it's busted, an enraged Arthur punches D.W., Arthur is grounded for punching her (and belittled by his friends as well), while D.W. receives no punishment for her actions whatsoever. Fans were pissed.
- Cow And Chicken has "Chicken in the Bathroom", in which Chicken just sits in the tub, refusing to take a bath, while Cow, Mom, and Dad spend almost the entire episode dancing around in the hallway, spouting out various different euphenisms for needing to use the bathroom.
- A Long Runner like M*A*S*H has a few of these:
How different is this from Wall Banger and Dethroning Moment Of Suck — both of which are on the Darth Wiki, by the way?
Western Animation
- "The Principal and the Pauper", a ninth-season episode of The Simpsons, revealed that Principal Skinner is actually a man named Armin Tanzarian who stole the identity of the real Seymour Skinner, whom he believed to be dead. Eventually everyone decides that they like the fake Skinner better, so they kick the real Skinner out of town and let Armin Tanzarian reassume his fake identity. Making a popular character like Skinner a liar and a fake, as well as conducting a radical Ret Con of his whole backstory, proved to be very controversial with both fans and critics. TV critic Alan Sepinwall singled out this episode as the beginning of the show's decline, Simpsons creator Matt Groening called it one of his least favorite episodes, and Harry Shearer, who does the voice of Skinner, vigorously disapproved of the episode.
Live-Action TV
- The Babylon 5 episode "Grey 17 is Missing" gets a lot of enmity from the fans, mainly due to the cheesy one-off Rubber Suit Alien (the "zarg") in the episode, and the bad-science way Garibaldi defeats it. (The annoying gibberish-spewing cult leader that inhabits the "missing" Grey Level 17 probably didn't help either.) The A-plot of this episode is so bad (even Straczynski has disowned it), that the B-plot, which is actually decent, arc-related, and has some heartwarming humor at the end, is oft forgotten, unfortunately. Had this been the A-plot (and reflected as such in the episode title), the whole ZARG! thing would probably have been quickly forgotten as just a quirky B-plot.
This could be the moment when many agree a show Jumps The Shark (as The Simpsons example above ^^ implies, although in its 20-whatever years I'd say the Simpsons has jumped many sharks). The episode of Happy Days where Fonzie does jump a shark on waterskis might be a Scrappy Episode too.
- If gamebooks count, the 5th edition Grey Knights codex for Warhammer 40 K should be mentioned. From a gameplay point of view, most units were extremely overpowered (depending on how one weapon's rules are interpreted, entire factions are shut down), but the main complaint were the radical changes to the lore. The Grey Knights, who had the best rate of success against Chaos because they never fell for the trap of trying to use it against itself, now happily use demonically-possessed weapons or fight alongside daemonhosts, cover themselves in the blood of fallen Imperial Sisters of Battle, and their Chapter Master Kaldor Draigo reads like a twelve-year-old's Self Insert Fic, reaching new lows in God Mode Sue (defeating a Daemon Prince in one of his first battles, carving names in another one's heart, defeating a Greater Daemon by himself, wandering through Hell since centuries without falling to temptation or losing a single battle). The justification that nothing he does in the Warp has any lasting effect does little to change the fanbase's opinion.
The Star Wars Holiday Special George Lucas will ensure it won't be released on DVD as long as he lives. Also Jumping the shark is when the show goes down hill this trope is a bad episode but other wise a good show.
Western Animation
- South Park fans tuned in to the second-season premiere of the show expecting to see the resolution to the first season's cliffhanger, the identity of Cartman's father. Instead they got "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus", an entire episode featuring Terrance and Phillip, the profane, endlessly farting stars of the Canadian Show Within A Show that the South Park kids love so much. It was April 1, 1998, and creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone made the show as an April Fools' prank on the fans. Comedy Central was deluged with angry phone calls, and e-mails. The episode is rarely shown in reruns.
- My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic has:
- The Mysterious Mare Do Well, where Rainbow Dash, discovering that everyone cheers her whenever she performs heroic actions, soon allows her ego get the best of her and she becomes very presumptuous, resulting in her friends having to remind her that a true hero doesn't brag. They do this by taking turns in pretending to be the titular Mare Do Well and performing heroic actions themselves. Most of the complaints revolve around the Broken Aesop and the aforementioned friends bragging about their own deeds themselves, and Rainbow Dash becoming the Butt Monkey of the episode and having an unbearable characterization.
- Dragon Quest, mostly for promising us with a great idea of delving into Spike's origins (he's a dragon that hatched from his egg during Twilight Sparkle's initiation test for the magic school, and he lived with her ever since), but ended up being a wasted opportunity and revolving mostly around Spike dealing with a bunch of cliche, unlikeable teenage dragons.
- Spike At Your Service. In short, Applejack saves Spike's life from a bunch of timberwolves, and he vows to serve her for the rest of her life because of his Dragon Code. Now, where do we even begin? Conspicuous CGI Timberwolves (with the show never using CGI before), Spike's unbearable characterization and suddenly being turned from a likeable, intelligent, sometimes snarky guy into an absentminded klutz, Ass Pull in the form of his Dragon Code that was never brought up before, characters acting out of character in general, very cliche premise, and to top it all off, this episode was originally meant to be actually about Spike serving Rarity - for whom he had a crush from the beginning of the show and it would actually justify a lot of the stuff happening in this episode - but it was scrapped and Rarity was replaced with Applejack because the main writer couldn't write her in a way that wasn't turning her into a giant bitch.
- It says a lot that all of the above episodes were written by the same writer.
- My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic has:
- The Simpsons episode "A Star Is Burns" was also reviled by Groening and several fans at the time of airing, due to being a crossover to less than shrewdly advertise FOX's newer animated show The Critic.
- The Antoine focused shorts of the second season of Sonic Satam ("Fed Up With Antoine"/"Ghost Busted" and "The Odd Couple"/"Ro-becca") receive negative press from the fans. The half length episodes were a result of Executive Meddling asking for more light hearted stories, however while some comedic Slice Of Life episodes with the Freedom Fighters at least had some potential, most of the shorts are somewhat misplaced cartoony antics focused near entirely on the imbecilic behavior of the team's Load (who already had an excessive amount of spotlight in most of Season Two to begin with).
- "Ponyville Confidential" also seems to treated somewhat negatively by fans. The plot revolves around the Cutie Mark Crusaders becoming school news reporters, making embarrassing reports on the rest of Ponyville. Other ponies enjoy the articles immensely...until they become involved in the stories themselves. Meanwhile the Cutie Marks get trapped in a Mortons Fork situation, blackmailed by the paper's editor Diamond Tiara to keep making stories but made pariahs by the rest of the town for their actions (to put this into perspective, a trio of little kids have been alienated and borderline disowned by their family and friends for making somewhat embarrassing stories about them). Similarly to the "Mysterious Mare-Do-Well" Aesop, the other ponies are placed in Rightly Self Righteous Designated Hero territory, with the Cutie Marks apologizing for their actions and risking humiliation by quitting (though Diamond Tiara is caught out before this happens), with only Rarity remotely admitting her hypocrisy on the matter.
^^^^ Yes I know. I wasn't saying this trope is Jumping The Shark, but that a Scrappy Episode can sometimes be what makes a show jump the shark, the point where audiences start thinking it's going downhill. I.e. something to maybe include in the page text. One critic felt that that Simpsons episode mentioned above ("The Principal and the Pauper") was a shark jumping: "TV critic Alan Sepinwall singled out this episode as the beginning of the show's decline", quote from that post. That's what made me make the connection. I certainly don't think "Grey 17 is Missing" made Babylon 5 jump the shark—not by a long shot. In fact, the show never jumped :). (Okay, maybe it did with Byron... season 5 was somewhat anticlimactic anyway.)
Lots of the examples have incorrect Example Indentation. If there is more than one example in a single show, the format goes like this:
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- "The Great Divide" from Avatar The Last Airbender. It has nothing to do with the plot in the long run, and the aesop is broken in the endnote . So much that the episode "The Ember Island Players" (which somehow retells Aang's tales in a theater) decides to skip this part.
Instead of spending more time into the revilement of something we don't like we have to spend some into praising things we like.
Filed a motion to discard - as Complaining About Shows You Dont Like says, we don't want more complaining pages.
How about you choose some tropable aspect related to these bad episodes and make a page for that instead?
^ As long as it isn't covered by an existing entry under Bad Writing Index.
I really don't want this launched under the title. "Scrappy" as a synonym for "unusually hated" is a usage I'm sick of on this wiki.
This is a tv series version of That One Level or That One Boss. That One Episode? Dunno if snow cloning is kosher here.
That One X is usually about hard video game mechanics/concepts.
Video game difficulty is an objective thing, audience reactions to an episode are not.
^^^^ Y'know you can try thr TRS or ATT and see if The Scrappy falls under Grandfather Clause or not if the latter, you can cask for the name to be changed, that should stop the association and subsequent synonymic meaning.
^ It surely falls under Grandfather Clause since it's an Overdosed Trope with many links.
The Scrappy did go through TRS. The rename was voted down, and it would likely have been vetoed even if it passed. Now, anyone against discarding this draft?
I never said I wanted to rename The Scrappy. What I'm against is the use of "scrappy" for things other than characters. I think that would deserve its own LTP cleanup thread; the existing STP cleanup thread doesn't address that issue.
All things considered, I do like this trope idea. Wall Banger and Dethroning Moment Of Suck mainly draw from the opinion of one or more poster, whereas this trope draws from a more general opinion of the majority of the fandom. Here's a few cartoon examples (Anyone else can elaborate on them, I'm just providing a jumping point):
- Arthur: "Arthur's Big Hit"
- Avatar The Last Airbender: "The Great Divide"
- Captain Planet And The Planeteers: "The Number's Game"
- Ed Edd N Eddy: "If it Smells Like an Ed", "Your Ed Here"
- The Fairly Odd Parents: "It's a Wishful Life"
- Family Guy: "Not All Dogs go to Heaven", "The Juice is Loose"
- Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends: "Everyone Knows it's Bendy", "I Only Have Surprise for You", Foster's Goes to Europe"
- The Garfield Show: "King Nermal"
- Hey Arnold: "Arnold Betrays Iggy"
- King Of The Hill: "What Makes Bobby Run"
- The Looney Tunes Show: "The Float"
- My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: "Feeling Pinkie Keen"
- Peanuts: "It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown"
- The Powerpuff Girls: "Mime for a Change"
- Regular Show: "The Best Burger in the World"
- The Simpsons: "The Boys of Bummer", "That 90s Show"
- South Park: "Douche and Turd"
- Sponge Bob Square Pants: "Plankton's Regular", "A Pal for Gary", "One Coarse Meal"
- Time Squad: "Hate and Let Hate"
- The Transformers: "B.O.T."
Killing Brian in the Family Guy episode "Life of Brian" wasn't a particularly smart move on the part of the writers either.
- The Twilight Zone
- "Cavender is Coming" is probably the most hated episode. Rod Serling tried to make a new series about guardian angels. His first try was rejected and he turned it into the Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Bevis" in the first season, which is generally disliked. In the third season, Serling tried and failed again. He turned into "Cavender is Coming" People hate it for it's painfully unfunny humor and incompetent direction. Sci Fi added a Laugh Track in syndication so people knew when to laugh.
- "Uncle Simon" is hated because the entire plot consists of two bland, irritation characters insulting each other
- "Sound and Silences" is hated because the Be Careful What You Wish For story has been done numerous times better on the show before and the main character is unbearably annoying.
- The Twilight Zone
Doctor Who's Love and Monsters
I think it should be explained why these particular episodes are scrappy.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer "Beer Bad"... But can someone explain it? Highlander "The Zone", among a few other eps, is hated because of its lack of any real immortal element and lackluster plot. However, this one is usually deemed the worst.
Ok, let's make something clear here... hats are to be given only when the draft is ready to be launched in its current state. This doesn't even have a single example listed yet, so this clearly isn't the case. Hatting is not a way of saying "I think this is tropable". People need to stop giving this hats it doesn't deserve.
Pulled another hat, for the following two reasons:
- As Complaining About Shows You Dont Like says "Creating a trope for the sole purpose of listing shows you despise ("Moron Fodder: Shows that you'd have to have a single-digit IQ score to enjoy!") is not allowed." Plus, No new complaining pages.
- No examples —> not suitable for a launch.
Yanked a hat, this is just going to descend into complaining, edit wars, natter and all manner of justifying edits. Please kill it now, kill it with fire, it is far too subjective to be of any use. Maybe it could be a forum thread, but apart from that. Motion To Discard.
Again, this could work, but, it would have to be a YMMV, certainly because of differences of opinions. Personally, almost all of the examples I listed above that could be used towards this YKTTW are based entire on the overall opinion within the fandoms, and such as the case of M*A*S*H, as noted, the episode, "Major Fred C. Dobbs" is hated by the actual cast and crew, and a lot of fans do also consider it a poor episode; likewise, with Seinfeld, it's been mentioned in many different interviews with different cast members that many fans hated "The Finale". So, it would certainly help only if examples that are submitted are episodes that a majority of the fandom agree are pretty poor. On the other hand, yes, I can see the concern some people are expressing about this turning into a complaining trope, or fueling edit wars... but ya know what? A lot of YMM Vs already garner a lot of that kind of stuff. Getting back to Seinfeld as an example, the Seasonal Rot on that show's YMMV page is edited all the time. And yes, I agree it would be nice if the OP would take care of this YKTTW and added some of these examples to the description.
It definitely is something you tend to see, the episode people tend to hate. I don't think it would cause too many issues if it suddenly appeared. I mean, we have the Wall Banger and Dethroning Moment Of Suck pages to divert the more subjective opinions.
So what, should this go to Darth Wiki instead? (but then all Scrappy pages should go there too...)
I vote dump it. I count six motions to discard including mine, so I'm gonna pull the trigger.
Danny Phantom episode "Double Cross my Heart" is a very stupid episode. Sam calls out Danny for spying on her and her boyfriend Gregor/Elliot. The reason why this episode pissed me off is because Sam doesn't have the right to belated Danny for spying when she spied on him during that time he was dating Valerie. On fanfic writer even pointed out how hypocritical Sam was.
The Family Guy episode "Seahorse Seashell Party". You know, the episode where the writers all but outright say that people who are being abused should stay in an abusive relationship because it will benefit their abusers? Seriously, what the HELL where they thinking?! No, better question - WERE they thinking?!


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A drug that causes multiple sclerosis patients to have fewer and milder attacks should get Government approval, a Federal advisory panel said today.
If approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the drug copolymer 1, which was developed in Israel, would become the second type of drug available to treat people with mild to moderate forms of the crippling nerve disease. The other two drugs on the market are similar to each other.
By inhibiting multiple sclerosis attacks, copolymer 1 lessens the chance that patients will suffer progressively worse impairment of mobility, researchers said. The Peripheral and Central Nervous Systems Drugs Advisory Committee, a panel of outside doctors and scientists, did not say that the drug would halt the progress of the disease or reverse its disabling effects.
Copolymer 1, a protein, was developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. It is manufactured under the name Copaxone by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, based in Peta-Tiqva. The drug resembles a component of myelin, a fatty substance that insulates nerves, and apparently tricks the body's immune system into attacking it instead of the myelin, although scientists don't know exactly how or why the drug works.
The advisory committee based its recommendation largely on two studies in which some patients received the drugs and others received a fake. The F.D.A. is not obliged to follow such panels' recommendations but normally does.Continue reading the main story
The main study was headed by doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center and the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center. Eleven medical centers took part nationwide. The study of 251 patients found that those who took the drug for two years showed a 29 percent drop in attack rates, and those who took the drug up to 35 months had a 32 percent drop.
The study also seemed to indicate improvement in the physical condition of some patients, but panelists raised questions about those results.
''It always is a little disappointing when we're talking about small effects that are not curative,'' said Dr. David Drachman, a panelist from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.
Since 1993, two other drugs have been approved to go after the disease rather than its symptoms. Both are synthetic versions of interferon beta, part of the body's natural immune system. Those drugs must also be injected. Some patients have complained about side effects like short-term flu-like symptoms.
Copolymer 1 was found to produce some mild reactions, including chest tightness and flushing. One interferon drug, Avonex, has been found to slow the progress of disability.Continue reading the main story


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As much as I love a good show about zombies (why won't October come sooner The Walking Dead?) I am a fan of all sorts of post-apocayptic set ups, and today I'm thinking specifically of the pandemic scenario, wherein a fast moving disease drops the world's population by a huge amount. In books like The Stand and Earth Abides, or television shows like Survivors.
Which brings me to this week's genre character, Greg Preston.
Before the influenza virus wipes out most of the world in the story, Greg was a systems analyst, not necessarily what you would expect when you think of post-apocalyptic survivor, but what sets Greg apart almost immediately is his initial quick thinking, leaving a city filled with the dead but making sure to stop at a Camping supply store first.
Played by Paterson Joseph Greg comes across as a man doing his best under extreme circumstances. Initially he plans to go it on his own, but after meeting with a woman named Abby Grant, he joins a small band of survivors, trying to make their way in this strange new world.
If you haven't checked out the show yet (which itself is a reboot of a series of the same name from the 70s), it's well worth the watch, very intense, and leading to a lot of self examination, if almost everyone around you had died, what would you do?
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Hyperopia is commonly called farsightedness, and is poorly understood by most people. In hyperopia, the image of a far distant object falls behind the retina (part of the eye on which the image is supposed to fall – often compared to the film in a camera). A young hyperope is able to use the focusing muscles of the eye to move that image forward onto the retina, resulting in a clear image. When the object moves close to the person, the image moves back again and the young hyperope focuses a little harder and clears the image again. So the young hyperope can see clearly at all distances. THEY CAN EASILY PASS THE SCHOOL VISION SCREENING. The problem is that in order to see clearly they have to focus hard and strain their eyes. The strain is even worse for reading than it is for long distance. This is because the closer an object is the more focusing power it takes to clear it.
Focusing closer cause's convergence of the eyes so the harder an individual focuses, the more the eyes will tend to cross.
The hyperope may not complain of blurry vision, instead, symptoms may include eye strain headache, intermittent blur, intermittent double vision, fatigue, short attention span, avoidance of reading, poor school performance, crossing of the eyes, and other symptoms. EARLY DETECTION AT OUR OFFICE WILL AVOID THESE PROBLEMS RELATED TO SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT, LEARNING, AND COMFORT.
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Looking back to a major safety initiative undertaken in 2013, Mayor Gary W. Starr reminds residents that public safety in our buildings continues to be the number one priority for city officials.
What was important two years ago – taking measures, in wake of the Sandy Hook school shootings, to protect the children at the public and private schools in Middleburg Heights – remains important today.
Through "Operation Protect Our Children," implemented at the beginning of the 2014-15 school year, the city has taken all the necessary steps possible to address any similar situation that may occur.
Operation Protect Our Children was developed under the guidance of two former Secret Service directors hired for that express purpose by the city. Because of this work, a complete risk assessment and response strategy is now in place, and law enforcement and first responders have been provided the necessary equipment they need to respond effectively.
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The Twin Holy Birthdays refer to the Birthdays of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, Who are known as the "Twin Manifestations of God". This important festival celebrates the birth of not one, but two Manifestations of God sent to usher in a new era of peace, brotherhood and unity for humankind. Each of these Manifestations revealed their own Writings and founded their own religion, but they are connected in a very important way: The Báb came to prepare the way for Bahá'u'lláh, Whom He called "He Whom God shall make manifest", and commanded His followers to seek Him out and to follow Him. The followers of the Báb eventually discovered Bahá'u'lláh and became Bahá'ís.
These Holy Days were once celebrated at different times in different parts of the world, but as of the year 172 BE (2015 AD), they are celebrated together by all Bahá'ís around the world, on the eighth new moon following Naw-rúz each year. Bahá'u'lláh tells us that His birthday and that of Báb "are accounted as one in the sight of God".
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"The Birthday Festival is come, and He Who is the Beauty of God, the All-Powerful, the All-Compelling, the All-Loving, hath ascended His throne." (Bahá'u'lláh)
- Love for Bahá'u'lláh, from Enable Me to Grow.
- Songs from the Ruhi Institute:
- Bahá'u'lláh;
- Bahá'u'lláh, the Glory of God;
- I Have Found Bahá'u'lláh;
- The Báb;
- The Promise;
- Who Is the Prophet of God for Today.
The Twin Holy Birthdays are a perfect occasion to tell stories about the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, especially stories about Their childhood.
- The story of the Báb's first day of school, as narrated in The Dawn-Breakers.
- Various stories about Bahá'u'lláh's childhood.
- The story of the dream of Bahá'u'lláh and the fish, as dreamt by His father.
The story of the two sacred Houses of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh would also help to explain the special relationship between the Twin Manifestations.
- Word search: The Báb, Bahá'u'lláh.
- Written exercises: The Báb: The Gate to Bahá'u'lláh; The Báb joyfully sacrificed His life.
- Artist Monika Ahlkvist Mackenzie produced two beautiful colouring pages for the Twin Holy Birthdays: One based on an image of the Earth, and one based on the names of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh.
- Gate Craft for the Non-Crafty, presented by All Done Monkey.
- Unity Tree, also presented by All Done Monkey.
- Children can create their own story book to tell the story of the lives of the Twin Manifestations.
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- Many different kinds of service projects could be appropriate to celebrate the Twin Holy Birthdays, especially those which aim to bring joy and gladness to the people around us. A few examples include: Visiting the elderly, or those who are sick or infirm; offering a musical performance or a similar artistic activity that brings good cheer; collecting food and other necessary items for those who are in need, or helping a family that has other, specific needs; planting a garden in a space that is open to the community; and so on.
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"This is the month wherein Paradise itself was decked forth with the splendours of the countenance of its Lord, the All-Merciful, and the heavenly Nightingale warbled its melody upon the Divine Lote-Tree, and the hearts of the favoured ones were filled with rapture. But alas the people, for the most part, are heedless. Blessed be the one who hath recognized Him and apprehended that which was promised in the Books of God, the Almighty, the All-Praised; and woe betide him that hath turned aside from the One upon Whom the Concourse on high have fixed their gaze, Him who hath confounded every wayward misbeliever.
"When once thou hast received this Tablet, intone it in the sweetest of melodies and say: Praise be to Thee, O my most merciful Lord, for remembering me in this Tablet whereby the fragrance of the garment of Thy knowledge was diffused and the oceans of Thy grace were made to surge. I bear witness that Thou art potent to do as Thou pleasest. No God is there but Thee, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise." (Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásmání, vol. 4, p. 342; concerning the Birthday of Bahá'u'lláh)


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WILKES-BARRE, TWP. – Casey DeSmith was masterful in net for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, but Alex Lyon – who entered the game 1:32 in after an injury – was just a bit better.
Lyon stopped 33 shots — and then Zach Aston-Reese, Tom Kostopoulos and Oskar Sundqvist during a shootout — to lead the Lehigh Valley Phantoms to a 2-1 win over the Penguins in front of 5,013 at Mohegan Sun Arena on Wednesday night.
The win clinched a playoff spot for the Phantoms, who tied the game at 1-1 in the third thanks to a goal from Taylor Leier and then won it when Corban Knight picked the top corner on DeSmith during the second round of the shootout.
On paper, the game meant nothing to the Penguins, who clinched the Atlantic Division title this past Sunday, but 12 showdowns – including 10 in the final 30 games of the regular season – has bred some bad blood.
"From the outside, I guess it seems like this one didn't really matter for us, but that's a team we play a lot," said DeSmith, who stopped 33 shots and then two of three during his first shootout action all season.
"There are a lot of disagreeable things that have (occurred) on the ice where we don't like them and they don't like us. We didn't want to give them anything tonight and I think that showed with how hard we played."
The Penguins, who fell to 7-4-0-1 against the Phantoms this season, entered Wednesday night with a 255:48 shutout streak going against Lehigh Valley that stretched back 10 periods of play. It didn't come to an end until the third period when Leier's 12th of the season tied the game.
Lyon entered the game after Phantoms starter Anthony Stolarz suffered a lower-body injury trying to get into position to make a save on a Kostopoulos shot that hit the post.
Dominik Simon had the lone Penguins goal early in the third period.
Turning Point: After taking a 1-0 edge in the third, the Penguins took their foot off the gas and spent the rest of the period hemmed into their own zone. At the 13:11 mark, Taylor Leier was able to clean up a rebound and end the shutout streak. The Phantoms carried that momentum into the shootout.
What it means: The Penguins (50-19-3-2, 105 pts.) have now secured at least a point in 10 of their last 11 games. … Wilkes-Barre/Scranton now leads the Atlantic Division by 8 points over the Phantoms (97 pts.), who clinched a playoff spot with the win. …. Around the division: Providence (95 pts.) lost to Springfield; both Hershey (93 pts.) and Bridgeport (92 pts.) were off.
Worth mentioning: The win clinched the Phantoms their first trip to the Calder Cup playoffs since the 2008-09 season. … The Penguins shutout streak against the Phantoms ended at 268:49. … Wilkes-Barre/Scranton finished the year 7-4-0-1 against Lehigh Valley. … Prior to the game, there was a moment of silence for former Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins captain Dave Gove, who passed away last week. … Garrett Wilson and Sam Morin dropped the gloves during the first shift of the game. The bout served as a bit of revenge for Wilson, who missed six weeks of action with a separated shoulder that came after a Morin cross check earlier this season. … Teddy Blueger, who assisted on Simon's 15th goal of the season, leads all Penguins with 10 points (1G-9A) in 11 games against Lehigh Valley. … The shootout loss was just the second this season for the Penguins and the first with DeSmith in net. … Lehigh Valley finished the season 3-3-0-0 at Mohegan Sun Arena. … The Phantoms power play is 0-for-its-last-14 against the Penguins over the last four match-ups and just 6-for-53 overall.
By the numbers: 104 – consecutive saves made by the tandem of Tristan Jarry (56) and Casey DeSmith (48) over the course of the Penguins 268:49 shutout streak against the Phantoms that ended at the 13:11 mark in the third.
Quote: "We knew they needed one point to clinch (a playoff spot) so we were trying to hold them off and make it tough for them," Garrett Wilson said. "We play these guys so many times that you start to hate them a lot. If we meet them in the playoffs I'm sure it's going to be intense."
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Developing a Potential Discovery Path within Cryptozoology
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I made a batch of triple chocolate brownies (homemade) after dinner and we watched a Disney movie with the kids while I worked on Carly's hair. It's funny how your kids start to mimic you. Carly has been going around today giving me points on the white board when I'm good. Then, when she went to bed tonight she told me if I was really good tomorrow I would get a prize. When I actually put her in bed she told me if I got her up really early she would make me a bead necklace tomorrow. Lol.
Well, at least I know some things are sinking in. And it was nice to get a few "Good Mommy" points today. Although, as late as it is now, I doubt I will earn my bead necklace tomorrow. Better get myself to bed so I have a shot at it. Lol!


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"Kuwait is fully committed to the efforts aiming to curb the carbon dioxide emissions," Al-Omair, also Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs, told reporters on the sidelines of the technical conference and industry exhibition.
The two events are being organized by Kuwait Society of Engineers in collaboration with a group of Indian oil engineers under the title of "energy and environment - engineering and administrative challenges.
"Kuwait, as a main oil exporter, maintains close ties and fruitful cooperation with India - one of the world's major oil consumers with the fast economic growth rate," the minister pointed out.
"The ongoing conference provides an opportunity for both countries to share technical knowledge in the areas of oil industry and environment protection," Dr. Al-Omair affirmed.
He noted that Kuwait took part in the preparations for an international conference on climate change, to be held in Paris next year.
On the new oil refinery, the minister said the Central Tenders Committee (CTC) approved the rehabilitation of the consortium implementing the project, noting that the approval is a crucial step towards smooth implementation.
"The new refinery is a part of our ambitious strategy to produce clean fuel for power plants and seawater desalination stations that could meet the environmental standards," Al-Omair added.
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Today's fossils and badlands of Arizona's Petrified Forest give the best view on Earth of a wet tropical world from the Triassic Period (~220 million years ago); a time and place where some of the very first dinosaurs walked beside much larger creatures in the shade of the Park's world-famous giant trees, which had not yet fallen and fossilized.
The Park commissioned me to create a new life-sized wall mural to update its original museum displays of this ancient life, some of which dated back to the 1930's when much less was known of the local fossils and formations.
Giant salamander-like forms longer than a man, chunky and vicious croc-relatives on two legs, beaked yet rhino-like proto-mammals, and small, agile dinosaurs were just some of the strange cast of characters that breathed in this lost Triassic wilderness, which is today found only as many square miles of dusts, stone, and bones within the soft vibrant hills called the "Painted Desert." And of course, littered throughout, are giant stony logs shaded in brilliant colors of gem-like minerals., fallen forests turned to stone.
Above: from left, in a detail from the new Leshyk Mega-Mural, a small ground-running crocodylomorph (immediate crocodile ancestor) an aetosaur (Desmatosuchus), an early dinosaur (Coelophysis sp.), and a yet different aetosaur (Typothorax sp.) try to look busy for the camera.
The challenge of updating the Park's previous imagery required a reinvention of the anatomy, posture, appearance, and behavior now posited for the many fossil creatures found in the Park. In my new work, the early dinosaur Coelophysis wears a trim coat of primitive pin-feathers in line with the new thinking that feathery insulation on warm-blooded theropods may have arisen very early in dinosaur evolution. Scientists now recognize an early "side-group" to dinosaurs called dinosauromorphs, which ran alongside the earliest dinosaurs but went extinct before the great Age of Dinosaurs entered full swing. In the new mural, the Park's dinosauromorphs are represented by swift quadrupedal Silesaurids which leap and scatter before a top predator like reptilian deer. The bizarre, heavily-armored swimming reptile Vancleavea and a tree-dwelling chameleon-shaped drepanosaur also make their debut among the smaller illustrated fauna.
Key among the needed updates to the old views of the Petrified Forest was perhaps the most iconic feature to portray correctly; the trees which were themselves this National Park's namesake. For years, the famous multicolored logs which tumble out from the Park's eroding hills had been reconstructed as tall naked poles with a dense crown of branches only at the top. This lollipop / umbrella-shape was based on today's monkey-puzzle trees, as early researchers thought the petrified logs to be the ancient ancestors of the primitive Araucaria trees which today survive only in South America as holdovers from the Mesozoic.
Close study of the Park's petrified wood now shows that there is more than one type of fossil tree in the mix, but whatever they were, their full identities are not yet known as much of the wood is present only as fossil logs which were denuded of all branches, bark, and foliage when washed and bashed together down streams and rivers before getting buried in muds and sands. However, knots and short branch stubs on these logs show that a major type of petrified trees were probably tall conifers that had many long slim branches from crown to base which probably bowed gracefully as they extended further away from the trunk.


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Established in the year 2012, we, "KVALIFICERA CLOTHING Co.", are a repute organization, engaged in manufacturing and supplying an exclusive range of Men's Shirts. These are designed using soft fabric sourced from reli ...
Kvalificera Clothing Co.
M - 36, Navneet Darshan, 16/2, Old Palasia, Indore
indore, MP 452001
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