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Michael Wertz's pictures look easy to do. The lines are simplified, the colour is flat, the style very graphic. But this is deceptive. In fact, they aren't traditional drawings or paintings at all; they're "drawn" on a computer—which doesn't lessen the skill involved one bit. Wertz creates his drawings by building up multiple layers, using Photoshop; the lettering in them is all hand-done—hand-done, that is, on the computer, using rectangles of colour as starter shapes, which he then cuts into with a mouse. These non-paintings/drawings look as if they've been silkscreened, or possibly lino-cut, but they're manipulated in such a way that they seem purposely sloppily printed. The blocks of colour have texture, as though they'd been rolled on with a dryish roller, and the register of the layers is just off enough to seem laid with ink. But Wertz's "sloppiness" is very deliberate, and the work is painstakingly done.
Wertz has just produced the second poetry book for children that he's done with writer Betsy Franco, entitled A Dazzling Display of Dogs. What particularly intrigues me about both books (the other is about cats) is not just the images of dogs, and the poems themselves, but that each letter in each word in each poem is hand-drawn. The images—words and pictures—are labours of love as well as joy.
The joy of silkscreen
Wertz fell in love with silkscreen early in his career, and he has made that look and style his own. It doesn't matter that he no longer goes through the rather tedious and fiddly business of actual silkscreening; that old technique drives the look, and he couldn't achieve that look without having previously got his hands dirty doing the real thing and becoming familiar with the process of printing. "The nice thing about Photoshop," he says, "is that you can kind of approximate or cheat, and get a silkscreened look without having to go through all that stuff that takes so long and sometimes doesn't go right anyway."
In the early 1990s, fresh out of art school at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, Wertz began screen printing to get away from the difficulty of making the big pastel drawings—"this big!"—that he was producing for clients in his new career as a designer. "I couldn't fix them," he explains, "because if you fix a pastel drawing the bright colour goes away." If he sent the oversized artworks through the mail, or if printers tried to drum-scan them, the drawings got ruined and the clients got furious. This was before home scanners and suchlike, of course, so he had to figure out a different approach. By chance, a friend with the wonderful name of Flower Frankenstein who had a shop, Little Frankenstein's, in San Francisco where she made all her own silkscreened toys—"rather weird dolls and T-shirts"—introduced Wertz to silkscreening. Inadvertently, he had stumbled on a world he loved and wanted to be part of: a world of very do-it-yourself comic-book art. "Around that time Flower made a Jimbo doll for the artist Gary Panter," he says, "who was already a hero of mine." Panter was one of the creative directors on the campy children's show Pee-wee's Playhouse, which ran on American TV from 1986 to 1991. "It was a huge influence on me," says Wertz. "It was really funny. Little kids could enjoy it, but it was subversive enough for weirdos like me to enjoy it, too."
At Little Frankenstein's two of Wertz's obsessions came together: in 1998 he had his first show of dog silkscreens. "Learning to silkscreen was really what changed my style forever," says Wertz. "It produces these very light, bright colours that I've always loved. It kind of found me, but it also melded with my taste really perfectly." Silkscreen colour, that is, the ink on paper, has a luminosity that is different from paint on paper. In part this is because it's applied as a very thin coat, so that the white of the paper underneath shows through; an effect not unlike the one produced by the light behind the screen on which you're reading this article. "It's also because the ink is built to reproduce," says Wertz. "When you're working with silkscreen it's always a thin coat of super-bright, saturated colour." Silkscreen colour is richer than other pigments; the ink looks as if it's wet, with a slight sheen. If you touch a silkscreen print, along the edge of the colour you can feel a little ridge that defines the layer of ink sitting on top of the paper.
Formative influences
Wertz can pretty much pinpoint where his love of silkscreen began: "It's a pillowcase that belonged to a sheet set my mother bought me when I was a kid," he says. "The sheets were dark blue, with stars and planets. I think that was a very early influence in terms of a flat, graphic style." The image on the beloved pillowcase was by the American illustrator and graphic artist Peter Max, who famously helped define the counter-culture and psychedelic movement in graphic design in the late 1960s and early 1970s. "Of course Max was doing all his work by hand," says Wertz. "It must have been a really steady hand to make the black lines all the same width. What patience to make all those separations!" He feels that Peter Max's design sense and style had such broad appeal that even his mum (who, he says, is "relatively normal"—meaning, not a hippie) really enjoyed his work: "When the pillowcases were too worn out to use anymore, my mother cut them apart, stapled them to a frame and hung them on a wall." And, years later, when Wertz figured out that he too could use big blocks of colour to create images, he was simply enamoured of silkscreen and wanted to use that style in his own work.
Coming to art
Wertz came to illustration late, as it happens. "I kept a sketchbook in high school," he says, "but I never really drew as a pastime." He did his undergraduate degree, in French, at the University of California, Santa Cruz (class of 1990); though he took a few art classes for fun, his focus was on languages. "It was a lovely, lovely place to study and grow and discover yourself," he says; it was also where he met his future husband—they both worked at the college radio station. "All the bands I loved then, I still love now," says Wertz, who feels lucky to still be doing work for one of those bands, Camper Van Beethoven. "Then a friend of mine caught me sketching on a napkin in a restaurant and said, 'You know, you should really look at that sketch and take this seriously and consider going to art school.' So I went, and discovered that I was an illustrator, although I didn't know what I was getting into at the time."
He still wasn't sure what kind of artist he wanted to be. "This isn't the case anymore," he says, "but for a lot of art schools at the time you could have glued macaroni to a piece of paper with Elmer's and they would have accepted you as a student." He began teaching himself from a book that he says he's read cover to cover many times: Betty Edwards's Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, which was published in 1979, stayed on the bestseller list for more than a year and has been in print ever since. "It's basically a bunch of exercises to help you turn off the left side of your brain, the more analytic part, and turn on the more spatially directed part, in order to teach yourself to draw," says Wertz. "It taught me to look at things differently, to think of objects in terms of how they reside in space, as well as about contour and shading. I still use the contour exercises when I draw in my sketchbook." In life drawing, he says, students are often taught to draw objects in space from the "inside out"—to draw bones and muscle mass and gesture before worrying about outline and detail. "I prefer to go right for the outline, which I suppose is one of the reasons why my work is so graphic. I like to think of objects in space as being cut out of pieces of paper. That makes them easier for me to draw, because I'm so myopic."
"I didn't really have a portfolio when I applied," he continues. "I just had a general interest in making art. I also didn't know anything about running a business, and so much of illustration is really running your own business." So he set about learning that, too, partly by mixing with people who were already in that world—his teachers, many of whom are still friends today: artists such as Ward Schumaker and Vivienne Flesher, Susan Gross and Bud Peen, all of whom are still working illustrators. Wertz isn't reluctant to give credit to his influences: another was the artist (and his former teacher) Lynda Barry, whose writing class he took in both Madison, Wisconsin, and San Francisco. Her Poodle with Mohawk image was the first work of hers he ever saw. "It was so funny and weird, and I felt I could inhabit that space," he says. "That dog space." Another big influence was Bonnie MacLean, who created many memorable music posters in the 1960s and early '70s for the Fillmore Auditorium. "I like the loose design and lettering," says Wertz—and he's an expert in loose lettering. "Those posters were designed for a specific audience—if you're a square, you're less likely to spend the time and read what it says!" Not surprisingly. he admires her colour sense, too: "I love those eye-popping color combinations."
The art of illustration
"Being an illustrator is really about collaboration," says Wertz, "It's about making imagery in service to a larger project that may or may not be self-directed." The lines between illustration and art are often blurry. "You look at people like Gary Panter or Leigh Wells or Katherine Streeter or Vivienne Flesher—their work is very fine-art focused," says Wertz. "It's lovely, it's lyrical, it's an area I like." But he likes that collaboration with another person, too.
The work he's done with writer Betsy Franco came about through an introduction from Franco's editor, Abigail Samoun at Tricycle Press (now part of Random House), and has fitted in with Wertz's increasing interest in more child-oriented imagery. After their first joint project, the highly visual "concrete poems" of A Curious Collection of Cats, published in 2009, they went on to A Dazzling Display of Dogs, which came out last year. They're now working on a third book together. "We're hoping to publish an undersea book," says Wertz. "We did cats, we did dogs and now we're hoping to do fish. I don't think we have a home for it quite yet, but we're working on it."
Unusually, after finishing A Dazzling Display of Dogs, Wertz did another book about dogs—on his own. The project, Dog Dreams, had in fact been 10 years in the making, so it was more or less coincidence that it came about in the same year he finished the Franco book. "An opportunity arose to make it happen and it happened," he says. "Dogs have long been an obsession of mine. Before I did either of these books, I did dog-a-day drawings that I posted on my website for a long time." Dog Dreams is dedicated to his own dog, Miss Olive, a pitbull-cattledog mix who's often the model for his work.
For the two Franco books, their editor, Samoun, acted as a go-between throughout. That was an important factor, Wertz feels: an author's and an illustrator's conceptions about how a book should look often differ, and this is particularly salient in works like Franco's, where the author naturally has strong ideas about how the words should fit into a shape and how the pictures should communicate a poem's feeling. Franco wrote her poems independently; while she made visual suggestions for each, Wertz was left free to ignore them if he felt that something else worked better. "The deal was, take what I suggest, do it if you want, but don't if you don't," he says. "I think when she is in her creative mode, she is playing, and she wanted to allow me that same creative space." While he was occasionally overruled, more often than not Franco let Wertz do his job. "She trusts my sense of design and line," he says, "and she let me really work that angle."
Making a book to make a book
Before any work began, Wertz actually went through another process. "I had a little trouble starting the dog book, so I took Lynda Barry's advice," he explains. "'To make a book, make a book'"—a scrapbook of all one's ideas, so they exist in one place and there's something tangible to hold. "Barry told me she once had trouble writing a book, so instead of sitting down at her computer and just struggling on, she felt it was helpful to make a book. Literally." She'd take bits of paper, fold them in half to make a signature, staple them together and start writing her book that way. "In fact, for one of her books she used a Japanese brush pen," says Wertz. "As she finished each page she'd buzz it dry with a hair dryer, turn the page and start the next. She wrote a whole book that way."
Wertz did pretty much the same thing, minus the hair dryer. "Essentially, I put together lots of scrap," he says. "I included all the imagery and ideas that eventually went into making the real book, and filled my scrapbook full of stuff." He printed out the Word document of Franco's manuscript and pasted it onto the first page, then added pictures from magazines, sketches and the photographs that his friends had sent him of their dogs—a lot of whom ended up in the book—as a way to start looking at shapes. "What's that head tilt look like? A cocked ear? I just kind of let myself play." He collected and drew doggy things—paw prints, tails wagging, dog bones, dogs chasing, dogs sleeping, dog shapes, dog poses, dog situations—until he had a complete vocabulary of dog details. The little detail of the bone on the dog's collar in "Circling Poem II" (see the illustration at right), for instance, came from one of his research photographs. The tilted head and cocked ear from another photograph (also at right in the picture of the scrapbook) became the basis of the art for another poem, "The Words Waffle Hears." Eventually Wertz had the pages bound together. "If I had another large kid's book project to do," he says, "I'd probably do this again." It gave him confidence, he says, when he was trying to come up with a new idea, "plus, all your sketches are in one place at the end." He takes it with him now when he visits schools to talk about his work.
The process
After the scrapbook comes the drawing. For A Dazzling Display of Dogs, Wertz made a pencil sketch of each poem on paper or tissue—the latter's texture takes pencil well, and allowed him to easily lay one preliminary sketch over another and see what should be changed here or there—and scanned them into the computer. "That method hasn't changed for me since Pamela Hobbs at CCA taught me Photoshop," he says. "At first I was concerned that using Photoshop would change my style, but Hobbs taught that Photoshop was just another tool to work with, and that your style could stay as it was." Wertz always uses 2B, 3B or 4B pencils—you get a "nice, fat line," he says, and it's also easy to erase. He rejects electric pencil sharpeners for the small plastic hand type, and he always uses square erasers.
In the final pictures the pencil lines from the sketch have all but disappeared. "At some point I'm going to have to figure out how to incorporate that line again and just leave that as part of the drawing," Wertz says. When he was an art student he says he saw the sketches as a kind of crutch, but now he's starting to think that maybe incorporating that pencil line might be nice. "At some point I'll revisit that," he adds. "As if I don't make things hard enough to begin with—now I have to come up with a whole new style!"
After scanning in the sketches, Wertz makes what he calls monoprints, using printing ink and a brayer, a hand roller that has a little bit of give to it. He lays ink down on a surface, runs the brayer over it and then applies the colour directly to a piece of paper—usually white, but he'll sometimes use tinted paper for a more sophisticated palette; with an off-white sheet, for instance, everything takes on that hue. The application is purposely imperfect, so as to achieve a mottled effect—a bit like a house painter might do when painting one colour over another. Wertz scans in the pieces of paper with the texture, shrinks or enlarges them a little, then plays around with the colour. He can add them as a see-through layer (in Photoshop this is the Multiply function, under Effects) and place them wherever he wants a bit of interest. By introducing and building up texture and layers in this way, he gives his pictures dimension even though the shapes themselves are all linear. Some images in the book have between as many as seven or even fifteen layers.
Franco's poem "Apollo at the Beach," in A Dazzling Display of Dogs, is a good example of this method used in the service of collaboration between author and illustrator, as Wertz picks up on Franco's suggestion of using the shapes of seagulls as vehicles for the words. He scans in his sketch and uses it as the base layer on which to build colour. You can see the monoprints at work on "Apollo at the Beach" in the sand under the little sailing boat or over the little dark cloud above it. As with the little bone on the dog's collar, the details matter: it was Wertz's idea to add the wings to Apollo's shadow that subtly illustrate Franco's line about "wishing he'd sprout wings."
The words
Wertz is aware that his Betsy Franco books are for children who are still learning to read, so he's mindful to ensure that the words read as clearly as possible. Every letter of every poem is hand-drawn in Photoshop; these are not computer fonts. And the lettering is on its own layer, so if a comma or a period is out of place he can go in and fix it easily. When he's building a letter, he begins by cutting it out of a large rectangle of colour. That's also the way the masks he uses in Photoshop work, so he's forming the letters by subtraction rather than addition, removing bits of coloured shape—sort of drawing backwards, by cutting out colour in a sculptural way. This also comes from the silkscreen influence, he says: "When you make a silkscreen, you're using just those little pieces you want on the screen, and letting just those bits of ink show through."
"Gwen In and Out"
In the poem "Gwen In and Out," the monoprint texturing is somewhat different, with a discernible pattern that Wertz uses to suggest wallpaper. In fact—finding a way to get his hands dirty even with a Photoshop process—he finger-painted the pattern using wallpaper paste mixed with acrylic paint. This is a technique he came up with himself, but he's seen other artists use it too. "Rex Ray makes all of his own handmade paper with textured patterns," he says, "and then cuts them up with an X-Acto knife into those great shapes."
This was one poem where Wertz diverged from Franco's original typographic suggestion of using slash marks down the middle of the text to resemble a flap door, instead exploiting the vertical edge of the door as the central visual. "We used a cat flap in the cat book that went back and forth like the slash marks," he explains, "and I didn't want to repeat myself." In yet another lovely detail here, the door knobs resemble a dog's bone.
"Circling Poem II"
The sleeping dog in "Circling Poem II" is Miss Olive, Wertz's own. "She's actually the one plopped on the carpet," he says. "She's a good dog." Here the texture seems less deliberate, except on the dog's body, where it's manipulated to suggest three dimensions and to give a little depth to the hindquarters. The effect is simultaneously random and precise. In his preliminary sketch of the lettering Wertz made numerous circles, inspired both by the idea of bees or flies buzzing around the dog and by a cartoonish sense of the movements the dog makes as she twitches in her sleep or circles to find a place to lie down. For the final picture, however, he simplified the path of the letterforms, which now look more like the design on the rug. And cleverly, he ends the poem right by Miss Olive's ear, as if its sound ended with the sleeping dog blissfully unaware of the noise.
The cover
Though the cover is the first image the reader sees, it's the part Wertz does last. "Ideas percolate while I'm making the inside images," he says. "Then they wind their way and eventually show up in the cover." It was his idea to let the lettering for the cover lead everything. In the preliminary sketch Wertz's efforts to perfect the lowercase g are visible where it's drawn twice: "I wanted to get that curve right," he says. "I wanted it to have just the right amount of sloppy, you know?" Though they're not cut out of paper, that's how the letters look. Few people can draw letterforms so freely. It's clear when Wertz uses a capital G at the end of "DazzlinG" that this isn't a mistake. He could make everything line up, but he's having fun, playing with inconsistency. Making a deliberately wrong thing look right is a skill he's perfected in the course of shaping every letter. Really, he says, "it's treating the letters like shapes, and having the shapes fit together like building blocks." He randomly coloured the smaller letters below the title that make up his and Franco's names, "kind of like the way little kids draw. It just doesn't matter to them if it's a consistent colour all the way through."
This is where Wertz is no doubt turning off the left half of his brain. "With colour, if things are going well, I'm like a little kid with a crayon," he continues. "I get into that playful head space where all this stuff just comes naturally. It's about activating the side of your brain that's interested in play, that doesn't really age," says Wertz. "I know I'm in my forties, but this could have been done by a four-year-old," he says proudly. And that might sum up his entire approach.—LUCY SISMAN


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February 16 marked a milestone in the history
of Hindi cinema.
Not for any record-busting film release, or stunning debut, or
indeed any onscreen event worth a mention. But because on that
day, two of the biggest families in Hindi filmdom came together
in the bounds of matrimony.
We refer, obviously, to the marriage of Shweta, only daughter
of Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, with Nikhil, son of Ritu and Rajan Nanda and grandson
of the legendary Raj Kapoor.
The Bachchan home Prateeksha -- a landmark even in the Juhu
Vile Parle Scheme area where there are more stars to the square
mile than there are in heaven -- was decked up
for the occasion. And the first step in the preparations was to
raise the high walls even higher, and thus shut out the star-gazing
public completely.
The proper festivities began on the 14th , when the
two families and their friends, numbering over 200, assembled
at Prateeksha for the Sangeet. A yellow and gold theme for the
interior decor, and a carpet of mogra and marigold flowers, were
the highlights of the arrangements, while the buffet dinner featured
the best Thai food to be had in Bombay.
The big tree that dominates the Bachchan lawn was meanwhile covered
with a mosaic of glass, while the entrance of the house, as also
the outside walls, were covered with mirrors to give the setting
a surreal appearance.
Pop star Daler Mehendi held the stage with his bhangra numbers,
and during a break in his performance, the bride's brother Abhishek
took over the entertainment, with help from sister Shweta, as
also Nikhil, Natasha Nanda and Karishma Kapoor, the groom's sister
and cousin respectively.
But even for that crowd -- the elite of showbiz -- Amitabh remained
the ultimate crowd-puller. And the greatest applause was thus
reserved for the superstar himself, when he sang the old hit Ao
Bachon tumhe sikhayen kahani Hindustani kihowever
changing Hindustan to Nandistan and taking a friendly dig at the
Nanda clan.
The next day provided more festivities, with Randhir Kapoor celebrating
his 50th birthday. Krishna Raj Kapoor , the matriarch of the clan,
hosted the party at the Kapoor home on the RK studios and again, the Bachchan
and Kapoor clans gathered for the festivities.
Came the 16th, and the mahurat for the wedding was
set at 9 pm. The Baraat set off from the suburban Leela Kempinski
hotel two hours before the auspicious time, with the groom
riding on horseback part of the way before transferring to a luxury
The groom got back on horseback just before the venue, and with
his escort -- the galaxy of Bollywood's rich and famous -- trailing
him on foot, reached the home of the bride to the accompaniment
of a spectacular fireworks display.
For the wedding, the decor was dominated by red and gold, with
roses replacing the marigolds of the Sangeet ceremony. Bride Shweta
was carried to the platform on a wooden stool, while Abhishek
carried the groom on a wooden stool.
The hour-long ceremony had four priests officiating, while guests
were seated at tables placed to provide everyone a clear view.
Once the serious business was over, Abhishek took over,
getting the guests out on the dance floor and boogeying to a hit
parade of Hindi film tunes. In due course, the bride and groom
were also teased into joining the celebrants -- and the
proverbial good time was had by all.
And throughout it all, a huge crowd of hangers on hung around
on the roads outside the Bachchan bungalow. Unable to get a peek
at the wedding of the year, the fans had still turned out in strength,
if only to bask in their nearness to the ceremony that unified
the two most prominent of film families in India.
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During school holidays the camping site is abuzz for activities for children! Sometimes parents even "complain": "We haven't even left the camping site because the children want to try everything!"
First thing in the morning we start with craft activities, chase some bad guys, organise a sports activity or teach you the dance steps to our favourite songs! Then Retteketet to Dreutelpret (don't miss this!) and how about joining us by the campfire? And all of these activities are centred around an exciting theme that takes place over 8 weeks throughout the summer! Some parents even say that they were bored during their vacation…..
Our sport field has a tennis court, baskettball field and a (short) football field. On firmly times you can play tennis and you can rent a tennisracket and the balls at the reception. Sometimes will be the tennis court for recreation activities like archery
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You can never receive too many party invites during the holiday season, right? That's why Puget Sound's SIGCHI is throwing a festive bash. And since FILTER loves a good party, they are hosting the SIGCHI soiree at their very own downtown digs.
Come and mingle with us on Thursday, December 11th. Grab a bite to eat and enjoy a drink. You'll get the scoop on the job market from the insiders, learn about Puget Sound SIGCHI, and have an opportunity to sign up for a membership if you're not part of our SIGCHI crew already (and hey, there's no charge to attend).
You'll also have a shot at winning one of four drawings. Tom Douglas restaurant anyone? Goodies from Amazon perhaps?
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Chloe Amour – College Rules
Jul 14, 2013
Natalie Lust is in a few of these pictures but she also have a groupsex scene that I will post over at her blog :) No point in posting the same stuff twice if I can avoid it.
These girls are really partying hard with the college boys. They show their asses to get them worked up then they split up and handle some cocks each. Chloe on her side hooks up with a hottie and has a little fun before they give a lucky bloke a double blowjob. Then they take turns getting drilled doggystyle by the young fellow.
Chloe still had more fuel left in her after the FFM and hooked up with Natalie and another girly for a lesbian threesome! These babes were really hungry for pussy as you can see!


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Killswitch 51 is Mordue Brewery's entry to the Newcastle beer festival's battle of the malts competition. The rules of the competition are simple; brew a beer between 4 and 5% abv using a single malt as the only fermentable material. Our idea was also simple, aim for around 5% and use munich malt, the amber-hued grain that signatures the German bock style lagers. Then we used six different hops (ok maybe not so simple) including a dry hopping with Bravo, Apollo and Cascade varieties.
It's certainly an interesting creation and at the festival will compete against offerings from many of the region's most respectable brewers. Alongside Pandazilla, IPA and Radgie Gadgie, Killswich 51 will be representing the Mordue crew. This year the beer list looks immense, and strangely enough even some of Ed's beers are on there. So with less than a week to go, I sure am looking forward to it.
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Rich Froning Jr. (born July 21, 1987) is an American professional CrossFit athlete known for his achievements in the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 CrossFit Games. He became the first person to win the title of "Fittest Man on Earth" four times with his first-place finish in the 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 CrossFit Games. In 2015 and 2016, he led team CrossFit Mayhem Freedom to the first-place finish in the Team category in the CrossFit Games and claiming the Affiliate Cup.
Froning has not only been successful in the sport; he has been a pioneer in making a living off of the sport of CrossFit. Froning has won over $1,050,000 in prize money for winning the CrossFit Games four times, and has accumulated significant sponsorships from brands like Reebok, Oakley, and Rogue Fitness. In early 2015, Reebok released a shoe designed in part by Froning which bore the name of the Bible scripture tattooed to his side, the Reebok CrossFit Compete 6:14.
Froning owns and operates the affiliate gym CrossFit Mayhem, located in Cookeville, Tennessee, and is a member of the CrossFit Level 1 Seminar Staff.
Froning has competed in the CrossFit Games since 2010. Froning won the 2011 CrossFit Games, and followed that up by winning every stage of the 2012-2014 Games season including the worldwide Open, Regionals, and the Games. That winning streak ended after he retired from Individual Competition in 2015, and he subsequently took second place in the world in the 2015 Open, behind Mathew Fraser. However, as part of his new team, CrossFit Mayhem Freedom, he began a new winning streak by earning first place at both the 2015 Central East Regional and at the Games.
In 2010, Froning qualified for the 2010 Southeast Regional competition through the Sectional Qualifiers, a precursor to the online-based Open. Froning won the Regional, thereby qualifying for the fourth CrossFit Games at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California.
At the 2010 Games, Froning earned five top 5 finishes including two event wins, and never dropped below 13th. He was leading heading into the final event, however the rope climb portion of the final event exposed "a chink in his armor" in terms of technique. Froning did not know how to wrap his legs and feet around the rope, so he was forced to attempt the rope climbs only using his arms. Fatigued, Froning fell from the rope multiple times. His 12th-place finish on the final event opened up the space necessary for Graham Holmberg to move up to the top spot. The 2010 Games podium had Holmberg in first, Froning in second, and Chris Spealler in third.
In 2011, Froning finished behind Navy SEAL Josh Bridges and Dan Bailey in the inaugural year of the worldwide Open.
In 2012, Froning and Annie Thorisdottir were the first athletes to win the CrossFit Games twice. In the years following, Froning set the standard for the "Fittest Man on Earth" with four consecutive CrossFit Games wins. In a documentary released in the summer of 2015, "Froning," documentary filmmakers from CrossFit, Inc., argued that Froning is the Fittest Man in History.
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North Carolina
Wondering how UNC could lose to Wofford? Here are a few things that went wrong.
Roy Williams following loss to Wofford : 'Terrible, terrible coaching job'
Joel Berry used the word "effort" so many times in trying to explain North Carolina's shocking loss to Wofford the senior guard stopped himself.
"We keep saying it, but that's what it is," Berry said.
Specifically, the 7-minute stretch to open the second half cost the fifth-ranked Tar Heels on Wednesday in a 79-75 home loss to the Terriers.
Wofford (8-4) made 9 of 13 shots and outscored the Heels (10-2) 23-10 to open the second half.
The Terriers led 57-43 at 13:27 before the Tar Heels really knew what had hit them.
UNC coach Roy Williams questioned his players' effort, and just about everything else, after losing to a team that entered the game ranked No. 197 in the Ken Pomeroy rankings – the lowest such-rated team Williams has lost to in his 15 seasons at UNC.
"Bad movement, bad defense, bad coaching," Williams said. "It was a disgusting thing for me the entire game."
Berry, who had 23 points, and junior forward Luke Maye (17 points, 14 rebounds) led a second-half rally. The season debut of Cam Johnson, a grad transfer from Pittsburgh, helped, too.
Johnson, who had knee surgery and missed the first 11 games, had 10 points in 17 minutes.
Berry was encouraged by the addition of Johnson, but the senior guard kept circling back to effort.
"The effort has to be there," Berry said. "We can't just come out and give that effort that we did."
Williams was more visceral with his assessment.
"We've got to, by God, be ready to play and not act like we're prima donnas, (like) we've got North Carolina (on our jerseys) and we can walk out there and the other team is going to fold," Williams said.
Just where UNC's effort went wrong can be difficult to quantify, but Wofford was the first team to shoot 50 percent (17-of-34) or better in the second half against UNC this season.
The Terriers were also only the third team – Michigan State and Tennessee were the others – to get at least 34 rebounds against UNC.
UNC lost to Michigan State and trailed for all but the last minute of the Tennessee game.
The Heels finished with a slight rebounding margin, 38-34 but were at a loss to find an answer for Wofford forward Cameron Jackson.
The 6-8, 245-pound junior scored in the low post on UNC freshman Garrison Brooks in the first two possessions of the game. Fletcher Magee led Wofford with 27 points, but Jackson – who finished with 18 points, nine rebounds, six blocks and three steals – was the reason the Terriers won.
He had a block of Brooks, with 1:43 left and UNC down 73-70, that looked like he was taking a toy away from a child. Two possessions later, he took a charge on Berry to help seal the win – Wofford's first over a ranked team.
Williams was so disgusted with his team's effort, he said he wanted to practice at 6 a.m. The Heels weren't back to work that early on Thursday, but the players knew what to expect.
"I think Coach will hit us pretty hard the next couple of days and make sure we give that effort," Johnson said.
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Music schools » Careers in Music » Careers by Music Major » Piano and Organ
Piano and Organ
The students of the organ and the piano perfect their skills as organists, pianists or of other instruments.
OrganIn the organ sequence the courses include athem accompaniment, transcription of piano and organ accompaniments, organ pedagogy, supervised student teaching, conducting from the console.
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Friday, September 18, 2015
DK Has An All New Limited Edition General Lee Bicycle For 2016!
Our friend Jesse at DK Bicycles shared with me their newest General Lee bike. Going back to its high end roots, the 2016 DK General Lee will be extremely limited.
Jesse, who has a great Dukes name, sent me the following information.
"Here are some photos from the day at the trails, obviously in the woods jumping is where the GL belongs! Back in 1998 the first General Lee frame was made in the USA, a high end frame only. Since then the General has been made for almost every budget. From USA made frame, to high end complete then down to an entry level bike and everywhere in between. At one point (2006) we made a run of GL's in 12", 16", 20", and 24".
"Now for 2016 the GL is back at the top. Built around a full 4130 Chromoly frame with a "MID" bottom bracket (sealed bearings press right into the frame), Integrated Headtube (sealed bearings fit right into the machined headtube, no need for cups), tapered tubing to reduce weight, and a custom Star brake bridge. The 8.75" DK bars and fork are also full 4130, and matched with our new Chamberlain hi rise Top Load stem.
"The drive train is highlighted with the aftermarket DK Social crank, one of the strongest cranks on the market. Sealed hubs with clean female style bolts, and a 25/9 gear ratio. The seat is a Wise "Denim" TriPod style with a Wise Tri Pod post, clean and simple. Frame weight is right around 4.5lbs and the complete bike weighs in at 24lbs.
"Numbers are very limited. Anyone interested should contact their local DK dealer or bike shop. "
Thanks Jesse. This bike is beautiful. It deserves a place in anyone's collection and also deserves to be out there tearing up the trails and hitting those jumps.
Jesse also shared this ad for the DK General Lee from 1999. Very cool to look back at the bike's early days.
Thanks again to Jesse and DK for reaching out and sharing their newest creation. Contact the bike shops quick. This one won't last.
My DK General Lee
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01 Mar The Great Fear by Iain Laird
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SCREENING: MAY 28, 2017 – Sunday
DIRECTOR: Iain Laird
A film about a collapsing food industry, a lonely farmer, a lonely botanist and the wraith like elements that disconnect and veil us all. Set in the American Prairies of Montana, The Great Fear introduces us to a quiet farmer named Victor. He is forced to forfeit his cattle following a questionable inspection of his farm by a large agricultural corporation known as Vassal.
DURATION: 1 hr 45 mins
Writer-Director Iain Laird (Born Iain Andrew William Laird) was born in London, Ontario, Canada and grew fascinated with filmmaking at the early age of ten. He would use his father's 8mm Sony video camera and gather all of his friends together to make movies whenever it was possible to do so. He grew up in the small prairie town of Okotoks in Southern Alberta, Canada.
International Screenings
dragon dreaming film festival
delhi international film festival
borrego springs film festival
miami international science fiction film festival
singapore world international film festival
sci-fi-london film festival
"cayfilm" cayman international film festival


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Richard Heinberg
Click here for a description of the Energy Democracy Panel
Richard will be appearing via Skype to participate in the Energy Democracy Panel
Richard Heinberg is a journalist and educator who has written extensively on energy, economic, and ecological issues, including oil depletion. He is the author of thirteen books, and presently serves as the senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute. He is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels. He has written for Nature, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Christian Science Monitor among other publications, and has delivered hundreds of lectures on energy and climate issues to audiences around the world.
He is the author of thirteen books including:
Richard Heinberg is the author of thirteen books including:
- Our Renewable Future (June 2016)
- Afterburn (2015)
- Snake Oil (2013)
- The End of Growth ( 2011)
- Peak Everything (2007)
- The Party's Over (2005)
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Pearl District businesses, generous volunteers, and a dose of sunshine made the Bunny Hop a huge success this year!
The weather was perfect for the annual Hippity Hop Bunny Hop Through the Pearl held on April 15th. Over 500 children and their parents enjoyed activities like face painting, bracelet making and hunting for eggs at the 35 participating businesses, collecting stamps at each stop along the way. Also hopping about the neighborhood was the Easter bunny who stopped in at local businesses to take photos with the kids and spread the holiday spirit!
This year the Pearl District also hosted the very first scavenger hunt through the Pearl using our new app, PEARL DISTRICT SWAG'R. The app took users to many fun destinations in the neighborhood, including some great bars and restaurants.
After exploring the neighborhood, families gathered in Jamison Square for a party that included live music from Micah & Me, cookies from Lovejoy Bakers, and coffee from Café Umbria.
A special thank you goes to the event sponsors, Hoyt Realty Group, KIN Living and The Brewery Blocks. And also to all of the Pearl District businesses that donated items for the raffle prizes. Raffle winners went home with some great prizes, including gift cards to Brix Tavern, a free treatment at Pearl MedSpa, and a box full of chocolates from World Foods.
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Most read Realitybase posts in December 2013
The Dysfunction and Corruption of Our Healthcare System, Its Damage to the National Economy and other Basic Healthcare Matters (Guest Post) Describing a system that is destroying global competitiveness of American business, that violates fundamental insurance risk principles, and that has inherent conflicts of interest preventing quality national health care delivery and cost efficiency; and proposing a solution.
The other American Dream of rising incomes—Horatio Alger stories One of my earliest and longest inquiries into upward socioeconomic mobility in America. The rate of upward mobility has been declining since 1980, and Horatio Alger stories are now more likely to occur in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Canada, Australia, and other advanced nations than in the US.
The American Dream died in February 1973. With graphs showing stagnation of inflation-adjusted middle class incomes since the 1970s after strong and steady post-WWII growth.
Americans have more than enough education to fill 21st Century jobs. A chart shows that only the 3% of workers with Ph.D.s and professional degrees had increasing earnings, while earnings of those with masters and bachelors degrees or some college declined even more than the earnings of those with high school only. The fact of falling earnings is inconsistent with the claim that there is a shortage of college-educated workers.
How mortgage backed securities increased systemic risk The securitization of mortgages and other debt obligations gives senior tranche holders less risk of individual defaults, but increases the risk to a general economic downturn. The increase in systemic risk was not generally appreciated but is demonstrated by Coval, Jurek, and Stafford in The Economics of Structured Finance. The paper contains exceptionally lucid descriptions of how structured finance works and uses simple examples to demonstrate the sources and magnitudes of systemic risks. This post is my summary of the paper.
Obama's Legacy—If Any Just before Obama's second inauguration, I examined pundits' lists of first term accomplishments and concluded, "If Obama is going to be remembered as other than a seat-filler, it's going to have to be for something he does in his second term."
In reporting about a rigorous statistical analysis showing different rates of intergenerational income mobility, NYT leads with stuff they just made up. The article bungles the reporting of a significant new study by saying that commuting difficulties were found to cause reduced intergenerational income mobility. The study does not say anything like that, as the author (David Leonhardt) clarifies in a blog post pointing out a striking similarity between the map of immobility and the map of race. The Executive Summary of the study is quoted in my post.
Wages for college graduates in the cross hairs of US business. How US employers are driving down domestic wages by offshoring, importing guest workers, and deliberately creating an oversupply of American college grads.
Comparative Advantage—The Unicorn of Free Trade Collection of sources and analyses demonstrating that the assumptions of classic Ricardian trade theory rarely if ever align with real-world conditions.
What's killing American females? A recent study shows that Americans rank last in life expectancy in a group of 21 high-income countries, that American females are falling behind much faster than American males, and that Americans rank near the bottom in almost all causes of death. Several charts.


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The resolution of an image is determined by the number of individually addressable points that make up the image, whether it is the number of pixels that make up a screen image, or the number of dots that make up a printed image.
The more dots that are used to create an image, then the more detail the image can resolve and the sharper it appears when viewed.
When using bitmap graphics, whatever resolution is chosen, information needs to be stored for each pixel or printer dot. This means the higher the resolution, the more information needs to be stored for an image of any given size.
This does not apply when using vector graphics, as the decision about resolution, only needs to be made when the image is printed, or exported as a bitmap.
Colour depth is used to describe the maximum number of colours that are used in the image. The higher the number of colours then the more realistic the image will appear. Once again, with bitmap images, the chosen colour depth will affect the final file size.
Let's look at how these colour models work, although these examples refer to pixels, the same applies to dots in a printed image.
Monochrome (e.g. Black & White)
This has the lowest storage requirement, because we only need to know whether the pixel should be on or off, the information for each pixel an be stored in a Bit, or put another way, we can store the information for eight pixels in one Byte of storage space.
Greyscale (256 shades of Grey)
Because a Byte can be one of 256 values, then each pixel requires one Byte of storage space.
256 Colours (Palleted)
This format allows each pixel to be one of 256 colours stored in a Colour Look up Table (CLUT), more commonly referred to as the palette. The palette is also saved with the file so this adds slightly to the file size, but the information for each pixel is stored in one Byte of storage space.
Note. The GIF format, is a variation of the above, in that it allows you to decide upon the size of the palette stored with the image, this allows you to reduce the overall file size, if your image does not use many colours. Generally 256 colour formats store the whole 256 colour palette, whether the image uses them or not.
16 Bit Colour (High Colour)
Though not quite as common now as a few years ago, this format uses two Bytes to store the information, one Byte for the colour and one Byte for the shade of the colour. This gave a total of 65,536 colours (256x256). So each pixel requires two Bytes of storage space.
24 Bit Colour
This format stores the Red, Green and Blue value for each pixel. Each of these can be one of 256 values, giving a total of 16,777,216 colours (256x256x256). Using 16 million colours allows for very photorealistic images, but increases the storage space requirements to three Bytes for each pixel.
32 Bit Colour (True Colour)
This format uses the same format as above for the Red, Green and Blue colours but also stores transparency information for each pixel. This allows each pixel to be one of 256 values from fully opaque to fully transparent. Because of the extra transparency information, the storage space for each pixel now requires four Bytes.
Using simple calculations, it is possible to estimate the approximate storage space or memory required for a particular image. Here are some examples.
Creating bitmap images for a slide show
First of all calculate the number of pixels, let's assume a screen resolution of 800x600. This gives 480,000 pixels. We will use a 24 Bit colour depth. This means we will need three Bytes for each pixel, or 1,440,000 to display the image.
Scanning a photo for retouching.
Let's imagine that you have been asked to repair damage to an old 5" x 3" black and white photograph.
If we want to print the final result at 600 dpi, then we will need to scan at the same resolution. So our 5" x 3" photograph will use 3000 x 1800 dots or 5,400,000 dots in total. Because it is a black and white photo, we can use greyscale (one byte per dot), which will require 5.4 Mb for the initial scan.
If it were a more recent photo, let's say 6" x 4" colour. Then using the same resolution with a 24 Bit colour depth would mean 25,920,000 dots. That's 25 Mb for the scan.
I'll let you do the calculations for a 10" x 8" colour photo!


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May, 2010
Feeling: Excited
Always wondering why a nice guy like you can't get a girl? Did you ever think it's because you're not actually that nice?
Since I eat out every day, I've noticed that some of my favorite servers will often "forget" to charge me for my drink. Because of this, I "accidentally" tip them more than normal.
Amazing stop-animation of NES videogames.
Catholics shouldn't get all the credit. Other branches of Christianity try to cover up their rapist preachers too.
Abraham enjoys child bondage in the Blasphemer's Bible.
I was at the bookstore last night and I saw an old man in his 60s in one of those big over-stuffed chairs reading a huge book of dirty jokes. Awesome!
100 things you didn't know about The Empire Strikes Back.
I cataloged a lot more of the memory in Super C in the NES Hacker Wiki.
The Japanese plan to have a moon base for robots ready to go by 2020. I think I speak for everyone when I
say, "It's about time!"
I've got a nice busy weekend planned. Saturday will be spent at Cedar Point, Sunday at Mayfaire, and Monday I have off.
Feeling: Sleepy
Obama has declared a moratorium on oil drilling, and here's why.
Abraham lies to his son about murdering him in the Blasphemer's Bible.
For years, Warner Bros. has been suing people for pirating their media, but now it turns out that they may have been
pirating anti-pirating software! I'm interested to see how this is going to pan out.
Here's an awesome graphic of the periodic table of the chemical elements converted into The Empire Strikes Back.
Peter Sprigg is a closet-homosexual. You can tell because he so adamantly
opposes the upcoming repeal on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". He believes that if we allow gays in the military, there will be tons of straight soldiers getting raped, so much in fact, that they will quit the service, and we
will have an all-gay army. The marines will get fellated in their sleep, their superiors will be forced to protect the bro-raping homos. Sprigg's comments are actually really interesting because they're very similar to
those heard by extreme feminists. Just replace replace all the straight men with women, and all the gay men with straight men, and it sounds like he's talking about women being victims of routine abuse.
A flash mob in Switzerland protests nuclear power and scares a lot of people!
If you're taking any herbal supplements, you may want to have a look at this.
This baby is in flavor country.
Here are some interesting world records of the sexual variety.
Isaac nears his final destination in the Blasphemer's Bible.
A lot of Christians want to "teach the controversy" of evolution with Creationism in school. There isn't any controversy, but Christians use the idea as a tactic to get religion in public school. Well, The Onion
amazes me again with their idea of teaching the controversy over global warming and the apocalypse!
Andrew Wakefield, the doctor responsible for the recent vaccination scare, has been
stripped of his license to practice medicine in the UK due to the multitude of ethical violations regarding
his study. Here are some of the major issues regarding the study:
More Super C work in the NES Hacker Wiki.
Feeling: Happy
Three men who were convicted of raping a poor teenage girl in China have been released from prison because
an acupuncturist, after examining their ears, concluded that the three men were still virgins.
Happy Towel Day all my hitchhiking friends!
Abraham winds up in Middle-earth in the Blasphemer's Bible.
Cracked Online Magazine is always good for their lists. Here's the list of tiny creatures that can kill you real
good and sitcoms that have soul-crushing endings.
I feel bad for anyone who would have Sarah Palin as a partner on a quiz show.
Two teachers in Florida dumped holy water on an atheist teacher. I guess they expected the atheist to explode in flames
and return to hell from whence she came, but instead they've been suspended from their jobs.
Feeling: Cheery
Every country is the best at something. Germany has the most solar panels, Mozambique has the most
working women, and the USA has the most serial killers.
Even Abraham can't tell the difference between God and Satan in the Blasphemer's Bible.
Here's a fun Noah's Ark video to show your children.
More Super C code has been reverse-engineered in the NES Hacker Wiki.
Here's what some Christians believe would happen in atheists ruled the world. Get ready to facepalm.
Craterface is a sad, but cool short cartoon.
It's hard to tell the difference between God and Satan in the Blasphemer's Bible.
If you're a Disney fan, then check out these graphs of 250 Disney Characters and
100 Pixar Characters.
There is a list of "9 Questions That Stump Every Pro-Vaccine Advocate and Their Claims" going around. The list was written up by a naturopathic doctor
(i.e., not a doctor), and some people are really impressed with it. But not the people over at Science Based Medicine. They've issued a paper that disproves all of
the claims, and it didn't even take them very much effort. It's amazing what real doctors can do!
I added the memory addresses for Paper Boy to the NES Hacker Wiki. Now you can get infinite papers, infinite lives, infinite time, etc.
Today is Everybody Draw Muhammed Day. It's gone quite well according to this video.
Muhammed even makes an appearance in the Blasphemer's Bible.
Yesterday, I accidentally overwrote my blog entry on the 18th with my 19th entry. Not wanting to lose my excellent rant on how retarded Texas is, I checked several search engines to see if any of them had cached my
page on the 18th, but had yet to overwrite their cache with the 19th. None of them fit. However, I found something strange on Google. Their cached page was of the 19th, but their preview in the results list was from the
18th! The only problem is that the preview can't be viewed directly, so I was only able to get the first couple lines of the day. After playing with Google for awhile, I found that if I searched for different parts of
the preview, Google would reveal different parts of its cache. This got me the first five sentences, but then Google wouldn't return anything beyond that. I found another search engine that had a cache from the 18th, and
it gave me different results in their preview. I ended up copy and pasting the various fragments into the two search engines, and compiling the bulk of my 18th entry. I still came up short in some sections, but the more
I recovered, the more I could remember, and after about an hour of racking my brain and digging though online backups, I was able to get everything back! So, now my entry on the 18th, once lost, is found! Damn, how I
love technology!
Scientists claim to have successfully created a synthetic genome and injected it into bacteria, making the world's first artificial life!
One Saudi woman has enough, and beats the snot out of a virtue enforcer! Hilarious.
This light show is all kinds of awesomeness.
Here is a cartoon recap of the vaccination/autism scare created by the Wakefield study.
A anti-evolution bill in Missouri couldn't bolster up enough support, adding it to the ever-growing list of failing
anti-evolution bills. Sorry folks, evolution is a fact, get used to it!
Dear, BP. If an oil pipeline has been gushing thousands of gallons of oil into the ocean for several weeks, I think it's time to stop calling it a mere "spill". For a better description of the terms, read
Matt Bors.
Golf ball sized hail is pretty awesome when it hits a pool.
Abraham gets the well in the Blasphemer's Bible.
Improv Everywhere reenacts Ghostbusters at the New York Public Library!
I just discovered an interesting typo. If you misspell "cocktail" as "cocktale" a liquor suddenly becomes a story about a penis.
80s movies bullies montage!
Want to keep up to date with your concerts? Check out sonicliving.com. Add all your favorite artists to your wishlist, and you'll be emailed whenever they play a concert in your
Feeling: Okay
Unless you live in Texas, you may not have heard about their textbook reform. Texas is odd in the fact that all of the state's schools are
controlled by a single board of 15 elected members. These 15 people control aspects of the schools, including which textbooks will be bought for every public school in the entire state. The problem with this is that the
people deciding what goes into the textbooks are not teachers or scientists, so they aren't qualified to make such important decisions. Furthermore, they're pushing a political agenda by trying to downplay important
historical figures that they don't like, such as Thomas Jefferson and his freedom of religion contributions, so that they may increase the time devoted to their personal heroes, like anti-feminist
Phyllis Schlafly. They also want to ditch scientific facts like evolution, and instead teach kids the importance of the NRA. Because every Texas school has to
adopt these idiotic measures, it accounts for a large percentage of the sales of textbook publishers. However, this doesn't just affect Texas because textbook publishers may not be able to afford to make a special
textbook for the ignorotti of Texas, so other states end up with the same Republican propaganda in their books too. Well, California is
fighting back! They've introduced a bill that will prevent textbooks with obvious political agendas from being sold in
their state. This will give textbook publishers fewer reasons to bother with the new Texas propaganda since California is the largest textbook buyer in the US.
Check out the videos over at Climate Denial Crock of the Week to see the various ways they make this happen.
Kitty makes strange tongue motions.
What is a good age for girls to start dancing like whore? Probably not this young!
Ever seen an octopus kill a shark? AWESOME!
Ishmael and Hagar are saved at the last minute in the Blasphemer's Bible.
Calling doctor Jones: The Europop band Aqua has regrouped and is planning to release an new album this year.
Birds in slow motion are pretty awesome.
Nerdiest wedding cake ever!
John McCain has introduced a doozy of a bill into the Senate. It's called the Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010. To
paraphrase, the president may declare anyone, even a US citizen, a "terrorism suspect" without even giving a reason. Once deemed a "terrorist suspect" the person will be detained by the US military for as long as they
want. The "terrorist" is automatically considered guilty and will never receive a trial. They won't be told why they're being imprisoned, they won't be given a phone call, they won't even get to speak to a lawyer. And,
the entire time they're in custody, they can be violently interrogated. Land of the free indeed!
Abimelech and Abraham reach an agreement in the Blasphemer's Bible.
Finally, a nice warm sunny Friday!
The politics of global warming is very similar to the politics of smoking. Large wealthy corporations and Conservative talking-heads are doing everything in their power to prevent people from learning the truth about
it. They manipulate studies, hire unqualified "experts", and often just outright lie. Check out the videos over at Climate Denial Crock of the Week to
see the various ways they make this happen.
Kitty make strange tongue motions.
Calling doctor Jones: The Europop band Aqua has regrouped and is planning to start recording a new album
this year.
I had an odd dream involving fireworks and barbers.
When I got out of the shower this morning, I grabbed my towel off the rack and dried my face. When I pulled the towel away, a huge spider ran across it. That's a good way to start the day; drying your face with a
I've noticed that the old rhyme, "April showers bring May flowers," could more accurately be sung, "April showers bring much bigger May showers that persist for weeks."
Ishmael and Hagar may die in the Blasphemer's Bible.
News flash! People are gullible.
I just looked at my DAP, and I have over 14 -days- of music on it, and it's only half full. I love technology!
Feeling: Aggravated
I spent the first two hours at work this morning tracking down a bug that had already been fixed by my coworker! GAAAH! We need better source control.
I'm quite fond of mocking Fox News for it's inability to present unbiased journalism. But, am I being unfair? I don't think so. Just recently Fox News aired a segment where they attacked the message of Mr. Rogers.
Their main beef was the fact that Mr. Rogers told children that they were special just they way they were, which they interpret as giving children an undeserved sense of entitlement. They cited a study that came out
of Louisiana State University. I'm fine with them questioning Mr. Rogers. I mean, it's not like he was a child psychologist or anything. I always interpreted his message to be a positive one, reminding children that they
shouldn't have to change who they are to be accepted, especially in a world that is going to constantly tell them they're not good enough. People are allowed to have dissenting opinions, but Fox fancies itself a news
organization, and as a news organization, they shouldn't mix a curt fact with five minutes of conjecture. Yet, that is precisely what Fox News did. The story begins with the Fox crew calling Mr. Rogers an
"evil man". In-between their insults and assumptions, they mention a study from LSU, which they often refer to as an "expert" source. When you search for the source,
you'll find that the attack on Mr. Rogers was written by, no, not a child psychologist, but a professor of finance! Apparently, professor Don
Chance's background in economics has made him an expert at parenting. He discovered that Mr. Rogers was corrupting our nation's youth after his American students often ask for a better grade while his Asian students just
accepted their Cs. I'm not sure how he manages to find a causal link between his own racism and Mr. Rogers causing his students to seek a higher grade, but what can you do?
Ishmael and Hagar are kicked to the curb in the Blasphemer's Bible.
My replacement battery for my digital audio player arrived yesterday. I performed some minor surgery on my DAP, and gave it a test drive. My last battery had dwindled down to about 3 hours of use, but I left my new one
on all night long and it only reports a quarter power drained. Finally! I will have music for long road trips again.
Last night, I also played my first game of Magic: TG online using Lackey CCG. Lackey is a program that lets you play practically every CCG online for free! It doesn't control the
game the way that some programs do, but instead you have to manually take care of everything. It's a great way to practice decks you're working on.
Ishmael mocks little Isaac in the Blasphemer's Bible.
This site has a neat graphic effect where you rub off the picture to reveal new pictures.
What happens when the Japanese you splice videogames together? Odd results.
Which Christian is the biggest liar for Jesus? Here's a top 12 list.
Showed up late for work this morning when my brain confused 8:30 AM with 9:30 AM. I got the minutes right, that should count for something!
One of the unforeseen hazards of using stock photos for advertizing.
Want to bilk people out of money by preying on the ignorant? Learn these tips to become a psychic.
Sarah gives suck in the Blasphemer's Bible.
Be sure to read up on the important advances of fake science.
While at the bookstore yesterday I overheard the following, "Mom, some gay guy just hit on me." I turned around to see a feathery-blond-haired teen walking towards his Midwestern 50-year-old mother. "Well," she
replied, "it's probably because you're so cute."
If you like watching kids cry and scream after watching scary parts in movies, you'll love this list.
If you're Catholic, prepare to be embarrassed. Archbishop Monsignor Grings fears that human culture will soon openly accept pedophilia.
Why? Because we are now openly accepting homosexuality. He believes that the only way we can prevent rampant child rape, is to snuff out the humans rights of homosexuals. Ignoring his abuse of the
slippery slope fallacy, and that there is no
evidence to backup his claim, the only large organization that protects pedophiles is, drum roll please... the Catholic Church!
Thankfully, Crayola has helped simplify Arizona's new immigration laws.
Despite all the recent hubbub about depictions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, he has actually been displayed in art and parody fir hundreds of years. Here are some images of him
down through the ages.
Isaac is circumcised in the Blasphemer's Bible.
A font from Team Fortress 2 has been added to the Game Font Database.
Feeling: Annoyed
Today is the National Day of Reason, a secular holiday meant to combat the anti-Constitutional
National Day of Prayer, a remnant of McCarthyism. The National Day of Prayer specifically states that Americans should gather together and pray to
God. Such an edict violates the first amendment of the US Constitution by establishing preference towards a specific religion.
It only took a month and some change, but I finally got my Pittsburgh vacation pictures posted!
Until today, every web URL had to be written with Latin-based letters. This is because the USA created the World Wide Web, and dammit, we love our English. We're so cool that any URL without a country code is
automatically considered an American URL. Well, today that changes. The first Arabic URLs have been created, and soon URLs for many other scripts will be
People getting hit in the face by water balloon condoms. In slow motion. In reverse!
Isaac is born in the Blasphemer's Bible.
RPG Heroes are jerks.
The Onion sure creates some hilarious mother-fucking articles.
Yesterday, George Alan Rekers, the anti-gay activist who went on a week-long trip to Europe with a gay prostitute, said he didn't know that the 20-year he hired from a gay-prostitute website was a gay prostitute.
After being grilled by reporters, Rekers said that he spent most of the trip trying to cure the prostitute of his gayness. Sure.
The makers of Starbursts finally took my advice and created a bag of just the red flavors.
God is a condom in the Blasphemer's Bible.
Feeling: Sly
In a hilarious case of "doth the Christian protest too much," George Alan Rekers, a prominent anti-gay activist, was found at an airport returning from a week-long European trip with a homosexual prostitute he hired
from a website. Rekers didn't deny that he hired the gay prostitute, but he assured the Miami New Times that he only hired the prostitute to help him carry his bags, and he had no idea that
he was gay. If you can even consider believing that bullshit, just take a look at the web site
that Rekers hired the prostitute from: rentboy.com. That should clear up any doubt. Actually, I don't have any problem with Rekers hiring a gay prostitute for a sex-filled week in
Europe, I only have a problem with the fact that he should have to feel ashamed for doing so. Even worse, that he promotes causes that make him feel ashamed.
Your doctor might not be as well educated as you would hope. A recent study shows that many of them still believe in these disproved
traditional remedies and diagnoses.
To appease God, Abimelech gives Abraham a bunch of money and slaves in the Blasphemer's Bible.
A couple more fonts in the Game Font Database have been added.
Non-Stamp Collector has made a wonderful Bible Quiz Show.
This is why it's important not to celebrate a victory too soon in sports.
Top 10 moments in SNL history where the cast couldn't stop laughing.
Gymnastics is way more exciting outside of the Olympics.
Abimelech confronts Abraham in the Blasphemer's Bible.
Here is a HUGE scale timeline of the Earth and a HUGE scale timeline of humans.
I added another font to the Game Font Database.
Sometimes advertisers come up with something entirely charming.
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The Old Retcon Bait & Switch
A number of the ultrapious are attempting to promote the notion that if there are no godly candidates running in an election, then the true believer should perhaps refrain from voting all together.
What we have here is a derivative of the old bait and switch tactic.
Both Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum are both deeply motivated by their respective Christian faiths.
However, in numerous Facebook status updates posted by proponents of this perspective, it is constantly reiterated that neither of these candidates is good enough.
Those advocating such a position are not being fully open about their true position.
According to this form of Christian Reconstructionism, if a candidate disagrees on so much as a single issue not even directly related to issues of soteriology or Christology, you are not only forbidden from electing them to elected office but are also to toss them into outer darkness as one would any other unbeliever.
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(CNN) -- Is Luis Suarez currently the world's best footballer? He is certainly making a case for himself.
A day after the Uruguayan signed a new four-and-a-half year contract, Suarez found the back of the net two more times -- in brilliant fashion -- as Liverpool beat Cardiff City 3-1 to leapfrog Arsenal at the top of the English Premier League.
"Two brilliant goals, a genuine world-class player," stated Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, to the club website.
Suarez might have had a hat-trick, too, had he shot on goal instead of setting up Raheem Sterling on a two-man break Saturday.
Suarez now has 19 league goals this season -- despite missing the first six matches of the campaign due to a ban.
That's more than Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Diego Costa. His goals-per-game ratio in the league is also better than the high-profile trio, who ply their trade in Spain's La Liga.
If Suarez keeps up his impressive pace, he will smash the record for most goals in a Premier League season.
Suarez, deputizing as captain for the still injured Steven Gerrard, opened the scoring when he volleyed Jordan Henderson's chipped pass past David Marshall in the 25th minute.
He unselfishly assisted on Sterling's tap in three minutes before the interval and made it 3-0 with a curled effort across goal in the 45th.
Liverpool struck the bar twice in the first half, with Marshall thwarting Sterling.
Cardiff pulled a goal back through Jordon Mutch's header in the 58th minute during a brief spell of superiority but Liverpool soon reasserted its control and Suarez hit the outside of the post on a rebound.
"We played very well in the first half and in the second half not as well," Suarez told BT Sport. "But most important was that we won."
Liverpool leads Arsenal by a point, though the Gunners can reclaim first spot Monday against Chelsea.
Manchester City later went ahead of Arsenal on goal difference following a 4-2 win at Fulham and defending champion Manchester United ended a two-game league losing streak at home by downing West Ham 3-1 in a battle of teams who this week progressed to the last four of the League Cup.
Liverpool visits Manchester City -- a perfect 8-0-0 at home with 35 goals scored -- in Boxing Day's standout clash.
"We have been on a fantastic run," said Rodgers. "The quality of our football is at a really high level. We're pressing the game very well, our aggression to get the ball back is good.
"We'll arrive there on Boxing Day in a really good moment. It's a game I'm really looking forward to."
Manchester City has struggled away from home and looked like it might drop more points playing without injured striker Sergio Aguero after seeing a 2-0 lead turn to 2-2. But late goals by substitutes Jesus Navas and James Milner bailed out City.
Ashley Young, another substitute, scored for the second consecutive game to add to first-half strikes for Danny Welbeck and Adnan Januzaj at Old Trafford. United overtook idle Tottenham for seventh.
Newly promoted Cardiff stayed above the relegation zone but it may not be enough to prevent manager Malky Mackay from being dismissed by owner Vincent Tan.
Tan -- in attendance at Anfield -- is reportedly dismayed by the amount of money Mackay spent on players in the off-season and wanted the former Scotland defender to resign.
"I won't be walking away," Mackay told BT Sport. "That's the first thing. I'm proud to be the manager of Cardiff City."
Elsewhere, Newcastle blanked Crystal Palace 3-0 to maintain its push for a Champions League berth; Stoke overcame the disappointment of losing to United in the League Cup quarterfinals by toppling Aston Villa 2-1; and West Bromwich Albion drew Hull 1-1 in its first match since the sacking of Steve Clarke.
Ten-man Sunderland, which upset Chelsea in the League Cup, earned a point but stayed last after a 0-0 draw against Norwich.


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NEW YORK » Stocks finished a back-and-forth session mixed Thursday as investors grappled with weaker-than-expected economic data and weighed the chances of the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernan-ke is expected to speak today at the central bank's annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and said in a letter Wednesday to Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., that Fed policymakers are "prepared to act as needed" if the market's turmoil damages the economy.
The Fed's next meeting is Sept. 18, but some on Wall Street expect the central bank could act sooner.
The U.S. Commerce Department said second-quarter gross domestic product grew 4.0 percent -- its fastest pace in more than a year, and well above the 0.6 percent increase in the first quarter. But the broadest measure of economic health came in slightly lower than many anticipated, and the report also suggested that business investment, not consumer spending, was the main driver of growth.
In a sign that Americans' spending power may keep declining, the U.S. Labor Department said U.S. jobless claims rose last week to the highest level since April. Employment has been one of the stronger pillars of the economy recently, enabling robust consumer spending.
Considering how sluggish consumer spending has been this quarter, it's likely to post its worst back-to-back quarterly performance since early 2000, said Michael Strauss, chief economist at Commonfund. And given all of the mortgage market troubles, "there is a growing challenge for the economy to continue to grow at a 2.5 percent pace in second half of the year," he said.
To some investors, that's not bad news, because weaker-than-anticipated economic readings bolster the argument for a rate cut, which could loosen up the credit markets.
The Dow fell 50.56, or 0.38 percent, to 13,238.73 after dropping about 100 points early in the session.
Broader stock indicators finished mixed. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 6.12, or 0.42 percent, to 1,457.64, while the Nasdaq rose 2.14, or 0.08 percent, to 2,565.30.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 4.21, or 0.53 percent, to 783.11.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers by about 5 to 3 on the New York Stock Exchange, where consolidated volume came to a light 2.59 billion shares compared with 2.77 billion traded Wed-nesday.
Bond prices rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, fell to 4.51 percent from 4.56 percent late Wednesday.
The dollar was higher against most other major currencies except the yen. Gold prices fell.
Light, sweet crude fell 15 cents to $73.36 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Trading remained volatile yesterday as volume remained low and investors continued to position themselves ahead of the long Labor Day weekend.
In other economic news, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight said U.S. home prices rose just 0.1 percent in the second quarter compared to the first quarter, the lowest quarterly increase since 1994.


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