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You awaken stranded on a hostile alien world, after your journey to colonize the planet. Rhyldan, takes a catastrophic turn. Armed with only your fists, your wits and fragments of knowledge buried deep within a damaged clone's mind, you must ensure the survival of the human race. Harvest local resources to get started, and hunt wildlife with crafted weapons to provide food and protection from the elements. As you survive you will regain access to knowledge and important skills to aid in your survival. Unlock advanced technologies to build giant structures, advanced weaponry and defenses, tame the wildlife, engineer and grow new living species, build robots and vehicles and use it all to support your allies or crush your enemies.
Fragmented is available in multiple rulesets allowing for PvP focused content, or working together with other players to survive against the environment. Play online or in single player mode. Players will have the option to host their own servers as well and tweak many of the settings to provide an easier experience or a much more harsh experience including hardcore options.
Surviving in the world of Fragmented has its advantages. As you gain more experience you will be able to unlock higher level skills opening up different play styles and survival options. You can focus on combat related skills to take the fight to the wildlife or your enemies or you can focus on skills that will improve your base and your storage capabilities. Fragmented features a level system that grants points you can spend on a handful of skills to better customize your character. You can spend the points on the following skills.
- Construction allows you to create buildings, props, storage containers, and various types of crafting stations.
- Electronics includes the creation of Electronic Devices, Turrets, Medical Scanners, or Robotics.
- Melee provides bonuses in melee combat, as well as the creation of melee weapons and tools.
- Ranged provides bonuses in ranged combat, and allows creation of ranged weapons and grenades.
- Refining is used to process raw materials, unlocks harvestables, and creates tools.
- Subsistence reduces the effects of hunger and thirst, and allows the creation of foods, drinks or medical compounds. It also includes genetic engineering on the high end.
- Survival increases your health and allows the creation of traps, torches, and campfires, as well as basic tools and waterskins.
- Textiles is used to create armor, clothing, pouches, and backpacks.
There are many different types of harvestable resources in the world, including dead creatures. Primitive tools will get you the basics, but you will need to build better tools to achieve better results and to gain access to rare materials. Creatures also increase in difficulty as you venture out, including boss encounters and other surprises.Using better tools and fighting harder creatures you also can run across rare resources that can used to create even more powerful weapons and tools.
Rulesets and Hosted Servers
Fragmented will be offering a variety of ruleset configuration options, catering to many different playstyles. This includes PvE and PvP options, both with casual, normal, and hardcore modes, all available on the official servers. If you wish to host your own server, you will have control over those options, as well as having more granular control over the other aspects of the game, such as food/thirst rates, damage, mob difficulty, experience gained and several others.
PC requirements:Minimum:
- OS: 64-Bit OS Required, Windows Vista 64 Bit or Newer
- Processor: Dual Core Processor
- Graphics: DX10 GPU with 1GB VRAM: NVidia GTX 460/ AMD Radeon 5850
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- OS: 64-Bit OS Required, Windows 7, 8, 10
- Processor: Quad Core Processor
- Graphics: DX11 GPU with 3GB+ VRAM: NVidia GTX 970/ AMD Radeon 390
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 10 GB available space


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Friday, April 16, 2010
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6 comments:
- Squeaky CleanApril 16, 2010 at 11:39 PM
I'd be glad to donate a razor and a steam iron to this chap.ReplyDelete
Not sure why you'd want to iron your polo, unless you wanted someone to think that you're a huge prick. Polos usually come out fine from the dryer. If they get a crease from sitting in the drawer? Then so be it.ReplyDelete
i've got the orange one.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 17, 2010 at 10:44 AM
I feel your pain. I'm pretty small and I assume you are too. But I found a Lacoste Polo second hand and it looks just like the red one shown above...And lo and behold, its a perfect fit. Sometimes you need to buy a more pricey brand to get the fit you want.ReplyDelete
The J Crew Vintage polos fit me like a glove. I got 2 or 3 of those suckers for $7 each last summer and they're always at the top of my stack. J. Crew sales FTW. Will have to check these out when they're marked way (way) down.ReplyDelete
- Squeaky CleanApril 17, 2010 at 11:31 PM
Nothing ever comes out fine straight out of the dryer...not even "non-iron" shirts. I can assure you that the joy of ironing far exceeds the joy of looking like a slob.

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Bill Haley, in full William John Clifton Haley, Jr., (born July 6, 1925, Highland Park, Michigan, U.S.—died February 9, 1981, Harlingen, Texas), American singer and songwriter considered by many to be the father of rock and roll, thanks to his 1955 hit "Rock Around the Clock."
If not the father of rock and roll, Haley is certainly one of its fathers. He cut his first record in 1948 and the next year settled into a job as a disc jockey in Chester, Pennsylvania. At the time, his groups played a small-band version of western swing, and Haley continued recording country songs until 1951, when he covered (rerecorded) Jackie Brenston's stomping rhythm-and-blues hit "Rocket 88." Although his version sold poorly, Haley was intrigued with the possibility of selling big-beat music to teenagers, so he dropped his cowboy image and changed the band's name from the Saddlemen to Bill Haley and His Comets. In a conscious effort to capture the growing teen audience, he also incorporated the music of jump-blues stars into his sound (and later speculated that through them he was probably influenced by Louis Jordan). It worked, and Haley's self-written "Crazy Man Crazy" (1953) is often considered the first rock-and-roll record to hit the Billboard pop charts. Haley's original Comets were arguably the first self-contained rock-and-roll band and featured the booming slapped bass of Al Rex (b. July 15, 1921, New York City, New York, U.S.—d. March 3, 1985, New York City), John Grande (b. January 14, 1930, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—d. June 2, 2006, Clarkesville, Tennessee, U.S.) on the boogie piano, the screaming saxophone of Rudy Pompilli (b. April 16, 1924, Chester, Pennsylvania—d. February 5, 1976, Brookhaven, Pennsylvania), and the guitar interplay between Danny Cedrone (b. June 20, 1920, Jamesville, New York—d. June 17, 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and Billy Williamson (b. February 9, 1925, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania—d. March 22, 1996, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania).
In 1954 Haley signed with his first major label, Decca. "Rock Around the Clock" sold disappointingly that year, but in 1955 it was reissued as part of the sound track to Blackboard Jungle, one of the most popular juvenile delinquent movies of the 1950s, which was accompanied by teen rioting in many theatres. Haley rode the controversy to number one on the charts. Through the end of 1956 he tallied eight more Top 40 hits. His tour of Britain in 1957 caused pandemonium.
By the end of 1958 (the year of his last significant hit), however, Haley was sinking. A balding, overweight, middle-aged man in a plaid suit and ludicrous spit curl, he did not serve teen rebellion nearly as well as Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and many others did. Haley was on the nostalgia circuit just five years after his first hit, and—while it served him well, especially in Britain—he started growing bitter and unpredictable. He spent much of the 1960s in Mexico City. In the weeks before his death, he was seen wandering around the South Texas brush country mumbling to himself, a tragic and lonely end for a once-articulate singer who had sold some 60 million records. Haley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and in 2012 the Comets were inducted as well.


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David Horowitz is a nationally known author and lifelong civil rights activist.
He was one of the founders of the New Left in the 1960s and editor of its largest magazine, Ramparts. In the 1970s, he created the Oakland Community Learning Center, an inner city school for disadvantaged children that was run by the Black Panther Party.
In the 1990s, he created the Individual Rights Foundation, which led the battle against speech codes on college campuses, and compelled the entire "president's cabinet" of the University of Minnesota to undergo five hours of sensitivity training in the First Amendment for violating the free speech rights of its students. In 1996, he was a spokesman for the California Civil Rights Initiative, which barred government from discriminating against "or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin." In 2002, he joined Ward Connerly's campaign to pass a Racial Privacy Initiative. This is an anti-racial profiling initiative that would prevent government agencies from asking citizens about their race. David Horowitz is an outspoken opponent of censorship and racial preferences, and a defender of the rights of minorities and other groups under attack -- including the rights of blacks, gays, women, Jews, Muslims, Christians, and white males.
David Horowitz is the author of numerous books including an autobiography, Radical Son, which has been described as "the first great autobiography of his generation," and which chronicles his odyssey from radical activism to the current positions he holds. Among his other books are The Politics of Bad Faith; Hating Whitey; Left Illusions; The Party of Defeat; Unholy Alliance; Uncivil Wars; The Professors: the 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America; Indoctrination U; One Party Classroom; and Reforming our Universities.
His book The Art of Political War was described by White House political strategist Karl Rove as "the perfect guide to winning on the political battlefield."
In 1988, Horowitz created the Center for the Study of Popular Culture as a vehicle for his campaigns. It was renamed the David Horowitz Freedom Center in July 2006 to institutionalize his campaigns against the Left and its anti-Americanism. The Center is supported by 100,000 contributors and publishes FrontpageMagazine.com, an on-line magazine, which receives a million page views per month and features columnists Ann Coulter and Andrew Sullivan, and libertarian talk show host Larry Elder. He is also the founder of Students for Academic Freedom, a nation-wide coalition of 200 student groups dedicated to promoting intellectual diversity and academic freedom at America's colleges and universities.
David Horowitz has spoken at over 300 colleges and universities. He has appeared on "Nightline," "Crossfire," "Today," "Hannity and Colmes," the "O'Reilly Factor," "Good Morning America," C-SPAN, CNBC, Fox News Channel, "CBS This Morning," "MSNBC," and is appearing regularly on the Dennis Miller Show, and gives hundreds of interviews yearly on radio and television.


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A California bill that would have forced drones to fly at a minimum height of 350 feet (107 meters) over private property has been vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown in the wake of criticism that it could have damaged the state's drone industry and the economy at large.
Senate Bill 142, had it become law, could have dealt a blow not only to hobbyists but to the aspirations of companies like Amazon.com that are aiming to make deliveries using drones.
The requirement to ask permission from property owners to fly below 350 feet would have forced companies to ask for permission from neighbors before making a delivery to a particular location.
In a message late Wednesday, Brown wrote to the members of the state senate that the issue had to be looked into more carefully. The bill as drafted, however well-intentioned, could have exposed "the occasional hobbyist and the FAA-approved commercial user alike to burdensome litigation and new causes of action."
The bill would have introduced trespass liability even if privacy was not violated, Brown added.
State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, a Democrat from Santa Barbara who introduced the bill, says drones raise privacy issues, despite their obvious benefits. The bill extended current rules pertaining to trespassing on private property to remotely operated aerial vehicles, according to Jackson.
The Federal Aviation Administration limits the flying of drones by hobbyists to a maximum of 400 feet. The 350 foot minimum altitude requirement of the proposed California law would have then limited hobbyists to a corridor of 50 feet.
Rules proposed by the FAA for commercial uses of drones limit the altitude drones can fly to 500 feet.
Some states have, however, have pushed ahead with their own legislation on various aspects of drones. In 2015, 45 states have considered 156 bills related to drones, according to data from the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Before Governor Brown for consideration are two other bills that place restrictions on flying of drones over prisons or county jails and schools in the state.
Trade association Consumer Electronics Association welcomed the veto. "While we agree issues of privacy and drones should be addressed, this legislation was the wrong approach," CEA president and CEO Gary Shapiro said in a statement. Safe and responsible drone use will transform the way people do business, he added.


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Throughout the history of Christianity, the book of Revelation has had an enormous influence in religion, history, and culture, and it still has an urgently needed message for the church. M. Eugene Boring's critical assessment of Revelation enlightens readers as to just what that message is.
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After comfortably residing for years in mobile devices like cell phones, chips based on the Arm design are finding their way into commercial laptops.
However, Arm processors could be relegated to co-processor status alongside Intel CPUs in commercial laptops unless the chips are able to run full-featured, Windows-based PC applications, analysts said.
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Though Arm can run multiple flavors of Linux and the Windows Embedded CE platform, Microsoft has said its upcoming Windows 7 OS would not support the Arm architecture. Microsoft said Arm is suited for specialized devices like smartphones and e-readers. As such, only the mobile version of Windows has been ported to the Arm architecture.
Nevertheless, Dell's move on Tuesday to use Arm chips in its latest business offering, the Latitude Z, raises the possibility of the processor architecture being used in more laptops.The Arm processor is a secondary CPU that sits alongside an Intel low-voltage CPU intended to run Windows-based applications. Dell is also offering Arm CPUs as an option with its ultraportable Latitude E4300 and E4200 business laptops.
The PC maker decided to use Arm processors because they add a smartphone element to the laptops, said Steve Belt, vice president of business client engineering at Dell.
The Latitude Z has a special motherboard with an Arm-based chip on it, which is designed to run the quick-boot capability called Latitude On. In addition to booting in just a few seconds, Latitude On gives the laptop "always-on" capabilities similar to those in smartphones. The environment provides quick access to commonly used applications such as e-mail clients, contacts, calendar and a Web browser. The feature helps avoid the longer boot times that versions of Microsoft's Windows OS undergo to run such applications.
Arm designs processor cores that are licensed to chip makers. The processors can be found in billions of mobile devices and are making their way into low-power devices, such as netbooks. Arm recently boosted the speed of its processor cores to reach 2GHz in an attempt to show that the processors are scalable and provide the performance needed to run demanding applications like multimedia.
However, it was the power-saving feature of the Arm processors that attracted Dell to use the chip in Latitude Z, Belt said. The PC maker is placing the Arm at the heart of the quick-boot environment, as it consumes much less battery life compared to Intel processors, Belt said.
"Here you get a great power-management story. That's how you get an instant-on story, because I have the power to burn," Belt said. The future of Arm CPUs in Dell laptops is partly tied to how customers respond to the quick-boot feature, Belt said.
"A lot of that is going to be driven by the acceptance of what we've built here. If we see people really like this and use it, trust me, I'm super-excited about this capability. But I'm not going to spend time building things people don't want, either," Belt said.
Many vendors have talked about including Arm processors in PCs. Asustek Computer, for example, has shown a laptop with Arm and Intel processors running in tandem.
Dell's laptop is a step in the right direction for Arm, which is trying to establish a larger presence beyond the smartphone space, said Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates.
However, Arm may struggle to replace Intel CPUs as the main processors in laptops, since the PC version of Windows has not been ported to the Arm architecture, Gold said. Most fully functional laptops today ship with Intel CPUs and a version of the Windows OS.
Software is more important than hardware in commercial laptops, said Dan Olds, principal analyst at Gabriel Consulting Group. But Arm chips could work in laptops if there is a move toward Web applications and adoption of the Linux OS grows.
Arm processors are already being used as an alternative to Intel CPUs in small, low-cost laptops based on the Linux OS. Those devices are designed mainly for people who do most of their computing on the Internet. Chip companies like Freescale and Qualcomm are expected to deliver chips for such devices, which they call "smartbooks," based on the Arm architecture.
Still, Windows 7 needs to be ported to Arm to get more consideration from PC makers as a replacement for Intel CPUs, Gold said.
"Dell has essentially relegated Arm to a co-processor," Gold said. "I can't see Arm replacing Intel or Advanced Micro Devices -- x86 architecture -- in notebooks. Arm will run Linux so in netbooks it makes sense," he said.
Laptop makers may continue to adopt Arm CPUs as co-processors to run specific functions like scanning Internet data for malware and viruses, Gold said. The power-saving capabilities and low cost of Arm chips make them a good choice as co-processors.
Arm declined to comment for this story.


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When District 9 director Neill Blomkamp makes his next film, he won't have a $100 million budget. Instead, he'll keep making films on the (relative) cheap, because it's the only way to make science fiction movies with creative freedom.
In a recent interview with the L.A. Times, Blomkamp made it quite clear that he wants nothing to do with $100 million budgets and major studio releases. The reason for this, he explains, is that he wants to be able to tell his own stories in his own way, and that just isn't possible when such massive amounts of money are involved. He cites this overwhelming need for studios to protect their investment as the main reason why almost all science fiction films are either adaptations, sequels, or reboots.
Blomkamp's observations weren't limited to the purely financial. He also delved into how these considerations affect the creative side of science fiction movies:
I think about this a lot – a hell of a lot actually – and how it plays out within the genre of scifi and horror. This concept of "Where does that fiction [in its source material form] come from?" If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from. But go back and look at something like [Joe Haldeman's 1974 novel] "The Forever War" – that is very much rooted in his experience in Vietnam, that's where the stimulation comes from. And that's my goal, really, is not to draw from other films in terms of the overall inspiration and stimuli. You can in terms of design and tone and stuff, certainly, but not in terms of the idea and the genesis of that idea.
In terms of his own future making movies, Blomkamp reflected on his process promoting District 9 as a template for what he hopes to achieve next time. Since District 9 cost relatively little to make, it didn't need to attract a particularly wide audience for it to be a financial success; the fact that it did become something of a minor mainstream hit was just a nice bonus. Blomkamp felt fairly comfortable that the film would do all right financially after it enjoyed such a positive reception at Comic Con. As long as his movies can keep finding an audience with genre fans, he feels confident he can keep making movies for the foreseeable future.
Blomkamp concluded the first part of the interview with his thoughts on what he was trying to say in District 9 and whether he feels audiences understood his messages:
For the most part, "District 9" is absolute popcorn. It's absolute fluff compared to how serious those real-life topics are. The topics in the film are on my mind all the time and they're very interesting to me. The bottom line is "District 9" touches on 1% of those topics in terms of how severe they could be portrayed, and I knew that when I made it. But people got the messages. Xenophobia, racism allegories – they got all of it. I don't think the film was misunderstood. Not everybody loved it. Nigerians weren't happy. They were pissed. And I suppose that's fair enough because I directly named them and they don't come off well in the film. But that was part of the whole satirical nature of the film. And that conflict, well, that's a South African thing.
The rest of the interview will be published on the L.A. Times blog in the near future.


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Our first walk of the week was a short one around Lake LaGrange. We seem to do this hike more often on Tuesdays than any other hike for two reasons. One is that, as was the case this time, I have a meeting to attend later in the evening once a month so this walk which is slightly less than three miles is perfect to allow time afterwards to get ready for the meeting. The other is that it is convenient, as we do not have to cross any roads and it starts and ends at our meeting place. In addition this is a
beautiful hike as the lake is very pretty as are the patches of prairie located near it.
As we walked we observe a variety of butterflies and saw a nice mix of prairie plants in bloom.
It was a warm evening and we encountered just enough mosquitoes to warrant a light spraying of repellent on our backs.
This was a hot and humid day and only seventeen adventurers came to hike. We decided that the Nordic trails north of LaGrange would be the best place to go as they are wide so we would get more breezes yet narrow enough to have shade for most of our walk.
Twelve of us seasoned hikers walked a long loop in the counterclockwise direction consisting of green and blue trail. We started on the green trail to the farthest east blue loop which we took. Then at the intersection of the next blue side trail on the ridge we re-hydrated and had a few trail snacks before taking that route. At the northwest blue loop intersection we split up with Bonnie Nommensen, Jerry Pfeifer, and Janet Bryant taking that loop while the rest of us continued to the parking lot. Here we relaxed a bit before going to lunch.
Along the way we found goldenrod beginning to bloom and a scattering of other wildflowers. A variety of butterflies entertained us throughout the hike.
Near either the south part of the east blue loom or the green shortly before the blue loop splits off the green, I do not recall which Norwin noticed a dead owl, possibly a barred owl, on the north edge of the path. I had been dead for some time and we speculated upon how it met its demise.
Our walk was about five and a quarter miles long and the three who took the last blue loop added another one and three quarter miles to this. We regrouped at the LaGrange General Store were they joined us for lunch.
In the meantime the short distance hikers had taken an entirely different route as reported by Ellen Davis:
On this warm and muggy Wednesday only four die-hard regulars and one brave occasional hiker appeared for the short hike. We car-pooled to the Nordic Trails, where Jake suggested that we walk the White Trail backward. That sounded like a serious challenge until he explained that we would simply hike the trail counterclockwise rather clockwise as indicated by the signage.
As we began our hike at the end of the White Trail, it soon became apparent that this was a fine day for butterflies. We noted cabbage butterflies, many giant swallowtails, assorted fritillaries, the occasional
yellow tiger swallowtail, and one mourning cloak. The wide trail was recently mowed, providing easy access to the ripe blackberries here and there along the edge. Four fifths of us indulged.
We lost the breeze and the butterflies as we entered the woods. The trail and the intersections look very different from the opposite direction; it was interesting to speculate about what landmark might be around the next turn. Both the temperature and the humidity seemed to be rising, so we took a short water break before starting our return trip to the beginning of the trail.
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Today's woman wants it all. A successful career, a loving family and an active social life are all aspects of the millennium woman's agenda. She may be tired, over-worked and stressed to the max, but her skin does not show it. As a result of the innovation of portable products that are quick and easy to use, flawless skin and perfect makeup even in transit have become effortless. Whether it is a lipstick touch-up on the way to junior's soccer game or nail polish maintenance before the big board meeting, today's cosmetic manufacturers have made primping-on-the-go a snap.
Essential to on-the-go cosmetics is packaging. Size and application are the primary components in the packaging of cosmetics for the road. If a product is too large, it will not function as an on-the-go cosmetic, as the ability to store the product in various small places such as purses and desks is vital. Many packaging companies are producing cosmetics and skin care in smaller forms, such as films. Secondly, the product should be easy to apply and not make a mess.
Lip products can be among the hardest to apply on the go. It generally requires a mirror and concentration, two elements that Paula Dorf has sought to eliminate with her Air Kiss Kit. The kit includes color cards in various shades of lip gloss, matte lipstick and glimmer lip stick, which are applied by peeling of the plastic cover and pressing to lips. The size of each card, smaller than a credit card, compared to the size of a tube of lipstick or lip gloss, makes the product more convenient and easy to store.
Aicello Chemical Co. Ltd. (Toyohashi, Japan) has recently launched Fusion Film, a film soap that dissolves in water. The company found that the average woman uses too much soap to wash her face and has reported that film soap is the solution, purportedly allowing just the right amount of soap per use. The product is available in a variety of sizes, formulations, fragrances, colors, logos and packaging.
The one touch-up women never thought they could perform on the go has become a reality thanks to innovations in nail enamel. In May 2006, Avon launched Instant Manicure Dry Nail Enamel Strips, which the company reported to be the first nail enamel that is applied dry. The enamel strips are said to last 14 days by combining normal nail enamel with base and top coat in one strip.
On-the-go cosmetics and skin care often address the issues on the surface, but deep down skin concerns can be addressed as well. Philosophy's Unplastic Surgery swabs pack the company's peptide technology into cotton swabs that reportedly tighten and firm deep wrinkles.
As women get busier and busier, on-the-go cosmetics will continue to evolve. Soon there may be little to no effort involved in quick touch-ups. Does this forebode an end to makeup drawers?
Katie Schaefer, C&T Magazine


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Summer around here means tending to the garden, pulling weeds, keeping everything watered and then waiting for everything to grow and ripen. It's that time so I've been busy canning. I wasn't quite sure I'd find a canning pot that would work with my induction top stove but I found this large size, stainless steel one at Walmart. Works like a charm. If you use an induction top stove, just make sure you see the induction compatible icon on the sticker. Then you'll know you're good to go.
Good canning supplies and clean jars are a must. I use only sterilized jars that are meant for canning.....no mayonnaise jars or cleaned up pickle jars. Usually I stick with Ball or Kerr and Ball lids. I like Certo Sure Jell for my liquid pectin but I tried the powdered version this Summer with good results too.
There's always a little pan of simmering water ready to warm up the lids. This is key as it gets the rubber on the lids softened and makes for a perfect seal every time. First up was the fruits and Peach Jam. My local grocery store had some nice, ripe fruit this year that was really sweet.
I spent two full days in the kitchen canning. Temperatures were very mild so I didn't mind heating up the kitchen for a while. My kitchen usually looks like this during canning season. The stove is a boiling, sticky or bubbly mess, the countertops are lined with clean towels and cooling jars. There's fresh picked zucchini, cucumbers and the like laying around....and there's always that wonderful sound to any canner's ears....the pop, pop, pop of sealing jars.
Next up I moved on to some sweet green peppers that I picked from the garden. I purchased the colored varieties at the store.
Next I picked a variety of hot peppers from the garden.
I was just about out of Candied Jalapenos. My family loves these over cream cheese with crackers, some dips and in Chili with a cool dollop of sour cream.
It feels so rewarding to grow your own garden goodies, preserve them in fun ways....and then reap the fruits of your labor come Fall and Winter. All the sweat and hard work pays off. I have lots of veggies still in the garden so most likely I'll be canning up more jars for Christmas gifts this year.
Haven't tried canning? Think it's too hard? It's not.....just get the right supplies, use fresh ingredients, follow the instructions exactly and you'll be on your way. Hope you give it a try and that we start a new canning revolution!


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Cleveland Browns president Mike Holmgren on Monday said he expects Colt McCoy to compete for the starting quarterback spot.
Holmgren selected McCoy's likely successor, Oklahoma State QB Brandon Weeden, in the first round (22nd overall) of last week's NFL draft.
"In this business, you line them up, you give it your best shot, and then we have to choose," Holmgren said. "We have to choose somebody to play. Right now, we have four quarterbacks on the roster and they are going to compete for the position."
Weeden, a former New York Yankees' farmhand, likely would not have been chosen so highly if the Browns did not think he was ready to play right away.
"I think we have the best chance of making (the QB situation) work because of who the people are, who the players are," Holmgren added. "It is never easy, everyone wants to play. But you only have one ball and only one guy can play at a time."
Cleveland surprised draft gurus by taking Weeden as early as it did, considering his age (28) and the concern that his skills might not translate into the pro game. McCoy, whom Holmgren and the Browns selected in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft, is nearly four years younger than the rookie Weeden.
It is not known if McCoy has asked for a trade. His record as a starter is 6-15 over the past two seasons.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Guy Forced to Tweet 100 Apologies for Defaming Magazine
Watch out, people who tweet made-up stuff on Twitter (i.e. everyone on Twitter). A Malaysian guy is being forced to tweet an apology 100 times to the magazine company he defamed in a tweet.
Back in January, Fahmi Fadzil accused the BluInc Media of discriminating against a pregnant friend of his employed by one of the company's magazines. The publisher took legal action against Fadzil, and now has settled the case: Fadzil must now tweet 100 times a confession and apology. He's currently on number 25.
The punishment may be backfiring: Fadzil is basking in the new attention and followers the case has given him. Today he tweeted: "OMG @questlove IS FOLLOWING ME." Although becoming an international Twitter phenomenon is something of a nightmare in itself. [The Next Web via Slashdot]


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
I have been passed a project by a city council to look into the possibilites around home / device automation and communication systems for the elderly / disabled, etc. and cannot shake the idea that LinuxMCE needs exploring here. If this has already been done, then please point me to the correct thread.The project is pretty broad and includes device / home automation for those with limited movement (X10 stuff) and also communications / media delivery. I have been given a small residential flat and a budget to kit out said flat and showcase the benefits of modern technology as applied to common problems faced by people with restricted movement, memory problems, etc. This will be presented to the City Council and various Healthcare providers (technical Luddites), so there is scope for some real opportunities here.Just wondered if anyone here would have any ideas or recommendations that they would be willing to share?The reason I am being so vague is because, although familiar with Nix (been running Red Hat servers for years), device control is a new field to me. About 3 years ago I came across the LinuxMCE demo video and was utterly blown away. I wanted to test it out, but had no compatible devices (or at least could not get the devices I had to work with it). Moreover, the video seems more aimed toward media than home automation, though I can see massive potential in this latter field.There are two broad aspects to this project: automatiing devices and social isolation. For the former, I am looking into X10 devices / Marmitek controller and an HCF for security / monitoring. For the latter I am still in the thinking stage and I have a feeling that MCE could offer something solid here. This challenge really centres around old / disabled / immobile people, technophobes who don't want "a computer" in their house, but do like the idea of being able to video conference / social network with their kids, grandkids, etc. They are interested in things like Skype, but need a really user friendly interface that integrates seamlessly into their environment - preferably something controllable via a device that they are already familiar with (i.e. TV remote) and presented via the TV. It would be possible to bolt a small form factor PC to the back of their TV, thus getting the computer in the door without them objecting, but the front end to MCE is WAYYYYYY too complex for a newbie technophobe.iPads are the obvious solution, but I can't stand them, they are expensive and too limited.Would anyone be willing to discuss this? Anyone got any ideas?


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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Identify these panels... take 3
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Is it Barry Windsor-Smith? Doing that book, I forget the exact title, Machine man or something?ReplyDelete
- DamienMay 17, 2013 at 4:39 AM
It's from the Machine Man mini. I couldn't tell you offhand which issue.ReplyDelete
Machine Man #1 last page! Barry Windsor SmithReplyDelete
I'm probably way out, but the artwork and the fact that it's raining remind me of the 'Night of the Octopus' Iron Man story that was originally in Marvel Fanfare (which I saw as a back-up strip in the UK 'Transformers' comic).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 17, 2013 at 6:57 AM
Like Kirby Crackle for the King, these colored squares are BWS trademark: Is it Machine Man limited series with Barry Windsor-Smith making a comeback? «He's really back» Yeah! With a littlle bit of Blade Runner flavor. Keep it safe in your collection with your X-Men 205, iIncredible, with all the snowflakes! As a Canadian myself, I think it is the best depiction in a comic of a snow storm ever), - and Iron Man 232, Daredevil 217. Thank's Jason. - Patrick from Montreal.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 17, 2013 at 7:17 AM
Herb Trimpe latouts finished by BWS, as I think I read that he wasn't used to comics after years outReplyDelete
Indeed Machine Man #1, last page. Well done!ReplyDelete


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One of the objectives of the HWBOT Team Cup 2013 is to introduce our hardcore hobby to the masses. When MSI asked Madshrimps to attend an OverClock Academy, to promote their Z77 MPOWER mainboards, all systems were go. On the 21st of March we halted at the magnificent CDROMLAND shop located in the lovely Breda. Our goal was not to set new high scores, but to explain how overclocking works and to allow the gathered crowd to get into it themselves.
Of course these OC events reports don't need a lot of words, but rather require a lot of pictures from the action going on.


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Constructed from locally-sourced vegetable-tanned leather that is ready for your stories, musings and sketches. Inside you'll find line-free Strathmore drawing paper – thick, hand-torn, acid-free pages that work perfectly with ink, pens both thick and superfine, pencil, charcoal, and a myriad of other mediums. The pages are each hand-stitched with archival linen binder's thread, shaped and re-enforced with linen tape and tarlatan and finished with a red and golden headband. The books can be carried daily and beat up. They are strong creatures.
Foundlings is a collection that has come to life through the layering of hands that make: those that have caused to exist that which has been made and remade.
One end-of-winter morning, we ventured out into the last grey of the season-leaving, amongst sagging time-worn tables that house trash and magic. Flea markets are often secret repositories of history, and we were about to dive backwards some 200 years, as sparkly creatures, patiently waiting out their decades of idleness, nearly rose up from their tattered box to greet us. Farm animals, imagined animals, flowers, and other wonders of the natural world – painted by unknown hands in an unknown time, fairly pulsed with scintillating energy upon nests of scritchy, scratchy handwritten ledgers, lessons, and language, impeccably penned by generations past.
Our discovery of these mischievous old fellows has led to yet another transformation. A select few have been carved and cast to retain their child-like style and to celebrate the expressional whimsy of each nurtured creature, others have been selected to adorn walls, desk caddies, and journals. Now, in the 21st century, you bring your story to each piece, thus intertwining yours with theirs. What will future generations add to this great tapestry?


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I have just recently returned to Seattle/Squamish from a long trip in the Central Alaska Range. This year I ended up spending 55 days living on the Kahiltna glacier system. Although a lot of time generally makes your odds of success better, it is obviously no guarantee, as this year the only climbs I was successful on were the East Ridge of Mt. Francis and the West Buttress of Denali. I did however make one good attempt at soloing the north buttress of Begguya, and although I wasn't quite able to pull it off, it was a good effort that I am proud of.
I flew into Kahiltna basecamp on May 6, and spent the first portion of the trip climbing by myself. My original plan was to try to solo the Bibler-Klewin route, which, from a previous attempt on the route, I knew I would want to do mostly with a rope. I took three day-trips onto the lower pitches of the Bibler-Klewin to practice my self-belaying techniques and hopefully gain some efficiency. However, self-belaying, rappelling, and jumaring on every pitch turned out to be so slow and tedious that it killed my psyche.
I decided to change tactics, and I turned my attention instead to a line on the right side of the buttress that looked to be the line of least resistance. Actually, the easiest route to the top of the north buttress is the first one that was climbed: the 1980 Björnberg-Ireland. However, the beginning of the Björnberg-Ireland is extremely threatened from serac-fall, so I chose an alternate line that would join the Björnberg-Ireland after the second ice band. I planned to climb through the second rock band on Deprivation, and for the first rock band I spied a passage on the very right edge of the buttress that I believe hadn't been climbed before. I figured that I could safely free-solo the vast majority of this route, so I could pare my equipment down to a bare minimum: an 80m 7.0mm rope, 4 ice screws, 6 pitons, 4 stoppers, and a few slings. I had already descended the buttress twice before via the Bibler-Klewin route, so I knew that I could rappel the entire way solely from v-threads. I brought two v-thread tools, since otherwise dropping one would be a catastrophic mistake.
As is usual in Alaska, the weather gods toyed with me, and I hoped to try several times before I eventually did. On May 24th I skied up to the base of the north buttress to cache my climbing gear. On May 25th I was all packed and ready to go, but the forecast was very pessimistic. I skied up to the base of the north buttress and retrieved the gear that I had left the day before. In the early evening it started dumping snow again. I had a climbing partner flying in to join me in a couple days, so I completely unpacked, finally resigned to the idea that I wouldn't get to try to solo Begguya at all. At 11pm the skies suddenly cleared, and I re-packed everything. I tried unsuccessfully to sleep for a couple hours, and then skied up to the north buttress again, early on the morning of the 26th.
I crossed the bergschrund at 6:15am, and started weaving my way up the line I had spotted on the bottom right margin of the north buttress. The route used a bunch of diagonal snow ramps to connect moderate climbing. I climbed a couple sections of AI4, but it was otherwise mostly steep, exposed snow climbing. The exit pitch of the first rockband proved to be the most difficult part, and I used a makeshift self-belay to protect this short step of what felt to be roughly M4. Immediately afterwards, I used a back-loop (a rudimentary form of self-belay) to protect an exposed ice traverse onto the first iceband.
I climbed diagonally up and left across the first iceband to join Deprivation, and followed Deprivation through the second rockband on a straightforward ice ramp, with one section of AI4. Above the second rockband I essentially joined the Björnberg-Ireland route, but I actually took a line further above and to the left for quite a ways, partly to reduce potential serac hazard, and also to avoid any bergshcrund issues on the hanging glacier that the Björnberg-Ireland briefly joins. On this rightward traverse I again used a backloop on one particularly exposed traverse.
Before joining the massive gully that defines the upper portion of the Björnberg-Ireland, I stopped to melt snow and take a brief rest. Even though I had a long ways to go I was already very tired – not only did my route involve a lot of time-consuming traverses, but I always exert a lot more energy when free-soloing, because I drive my picks deeper into the ice and my ice tool shafts deeper into the snow. After my rest stop I started up a direct entrance I had spied to the massive gully. This turned out to be a bit harder than it had looked from far away, and I ended up making one more back-loop on a pitch of roughly AI4 to gain the massive gully itself.
The upper gully of the Björnberg-Ireland seemed interminable, and alternated between 60 degree snow and 60 degree brittle ice. The final 30 meters to the ridgecrest required digging a trench and then tunneling through the cornice. I finally popped out from the cornice at 9:25pm (15 hours and 10 minutes after crossing the bergschrund), and just below me on the east side of the ridge I was quite surpised to see the only other climbers on Begguya! A team of four Korean climbers had started up the Bibler-Klewin a few days beforehand, and now they were making a bivouac here on the ridge after returning from the summit.
I hung out at the top of the buttress for a few hours, chatting with the Koreans and melting some snow. At around 2am I finally started up the upper Northeast Ridge, leaving almost all my equipment at the top of the buttress. The tracks from the Koreans had unfortunately mostly blown in with snow, but they were still better than nothing. I was extremely exhausted, however, and progressed slowly. I hadn't been higher than 10,000 ft. previously on the trip, and now the altitude, combined with all the physical exertion up to that point, was really draining me. I even felt a bit dizzy and that my balance was off – I realized I was walking with the same clumsiness that I have witnessed in West Buttress clients near the top of Denali.
On the upper Northeast Ridge of Begguya there is a small plateau about 100m below the summit. In 2009, while attempting the Bibler-Klewin route, Bjørn-Eivind Årtun and I had been forced to descend from the downhill edge of this plateau by a violent storm. This time I made it across the plateau, but then sat down in the snow and stared up at the final 100m summit pyramid. I felt about as exhausted as I ever have, and I was anxious about my descent – I would have to reverse my steps to the top of the buttress (including down-soloing a short step of AI3), and then rappel 4,000 ft. of steep terrain by myself. The final summit pyramid certainly didn't look difficult, but it wasn't walking either, with some mandatory climbing on 60-degree ice. I finally came to the decision that I had already pushed myself too far – that I shouldn't be clumsy while alone high on Begguya – and that I needed to begin my descent without exhausting myself any further. I think that I probably could've continued to the summit of Begguya safely if I had tried, and in hindsight it is hard not to wish that I had, but it was simply starting to feel too reckless. Instead I started down-climbing to the top of the north buttress.
When I got back to the top of the north buttress I discovered that the Koreans were still there. I had originally been adamant about descending on my own, because I don't think a solo is a truly a solo if descending with others. But at that point I already knew I had failed in my objective, so I chose the easy way out, and rappelled the Bibler-Klewin route with the Koreans. The chore of pulling rappel ropes was of course nothing compared to the stress that making about 50 solo rappels would have involved. Only one of the four Korean climbers spoke much English, and on the descent it was interesting to compare their methods and techniques to those that I'm accustomed to.
When I got back to Kahiltna basecamp, thirty-some hours after departing, my friend Nick Elson had arrived from Squamish. We took a rest and organization day, and then started up the west buttress of Denali, where we would spend the next few weeks acclimatizing. In the end, for various reasons, we never ended up climbing anything other than the west buttress itself, but so it goes sometimes… c'est la vie!
I have now reached the top of Begguya's north buttress four times by four different routes, and despite my best efforts have only managed to reach the summit of Begguya on one of those four occasions. This ratio confirms to me what I already knew after my first experience on the north buttress – the crux of any climb on the north buttress of Begguya is the upper third, from the "cornice bivy" to the summit.
This year (at least as of the start of July, and therefore likely the whole year) there were only two ascents of Begguya, both via the north buttress, and both by Korean teams. Last year (2011) Begguya saw only one ascent by the north buttress, also by Koreans, so for the past two years the only ascents of Begguya by the north buttress were all by Korean climbers! And while they typically have climbed in larger teams than is typical for European or North American climbers (in teams of three or four climbers, rather than two), all their ascents were done in clean, alpine style, and at a normal pace.
The 2011 ascent of the Bibler-Klewin was made by Sukmun Choi, Jongil Park and Heeyong Park.
The first Korean team in 2012 climbed Deprivation, with a new variation start. The team was composed of Sukmun Choi, Sung wook Moon and Jongneung An (making Sukmun Choi one of very few people who have climbed Begguya via the north buttress two times). They had originally planned to climb a new line through the first iceband, and made an attempt on the line, but were turned back when a big section of ice broke off.
The second Korean team in 2012 (with whom I rappelled) climbed the Bibler-Klewin route, and had an average team age of 49 years. The team was composed of Seung kwong Chung, Jongkwan Park, Gyutaek Jo, and Jongil Park (making Jongil Park one of very few people who have climbed Begguya via the north buttress two times, and certainly the only person who has climbed the Bibler-Klewin route twice!).
Aside from my solo attempt, there were other notable attempts on the north buttress this year as well. Slovenian climbers Blaz Navrsnik and Matjaz Ducic made a single-push attempt on the Bibler-Klewin to 600 meters below the summit (retreat from the "cornice bivy").
Americans Kyle Dempster and Justin Griffith made a single-push attempt on the Wall of Shadows, and Justin broke one of his two monopoints low on the route. Kyle led every pitch from there to the third iceband (and Justin followed on one frontpoint!), from where they retreated. Several days later, Kyle and Justin went back on the north buttress for a single-push attempt on the French route (Grison-Tedeschi). They climbed to the "cornice bivy," but then were forced to retreat because they accidentally dropped their stove.
Not on Begguya, but also of note while I was in the central Alaska Range – Britons Nick Bullock and Andy Houseman made the sixth ascent of the Slovak Route on Denali.
I know of two other solo attempts on Begguya's north buttress prior to mine. Around 1997 Steve House made a solo attempt on the Bibler-Klewin. He free-soloed to the base of the Prow via the Aubrey-Stump variation start, and then began rope soloing. He turned around at the start of Tamara's Traverse because his self-belay system did not seem trustworthy on his iced-up, skinny rope. In 1999 Andy Parkin made two solo attempts on the north buttress, climbing through the first rockband somewhere to the right of Deprivation, and then climbing through the second rockband on the Björnberg-Ireland. On his first attempt he made it through the second rockband, and on his second attempt he was thwarted at the base of the second rockband by an incoming storm.
A panorama of the north face of Begguya, from the summit of Mt. Francis:
Routes and attempts on the north buttress of Begguya, as of 2012:
Begguya from the northwest (taken from high on Sultana) at sunset, 2010:
Leaving my skis at the base of the north buttress, just before starting my solo attempt:
Looking up the start of the line I took through the first rockband:
A snow ramp traversing up and left:
My tracks coming back right on the "Traverse of the Dogs":
Re-fueling near the top of the first rockband:
Looking up the exit from the first rockband, which felt roughly like M4:
Looking back down the exit from the first rockband:
Traversing onto the first iceband:
Looking up the ice ramp of "Deprivation," at the start of the second rock band:
The exit I took out of the second rock band, which proved to be a bit steeper than it looked from below, and felt to be about AI4:
Looking down on the second iceband while traversing to the Björnberg-Ireland:
Looking up and across while traversing to the Björnberg-Ireland:
Feeling fatigued and taking a short brew stop before joining the Björnberg-Ireland:
Looking up the direct entrance to the Björnberg-Ireland:
Looking down upon joining the massive gully that comprises the upper portion of the Björnberg-Ireland:
Looking down from high in the gully, almost to the ridge-crest:
Evening light and clouds upon reaching the ridge-crest atop the north buttress:
Surprised to find four Koreans below me as soon as I emerged from my cornice tunnel:
Getting extremely tired while climbing the upper Northeast Ridge, with Denali behind:
The view over towards Sultana from high on the Northeast Ridge:
Looking up the final 100m-high summit pyramid, and the mandatory 60-degree blue ice that it would require:
Decision to bail:
My Korean rappel-mates just before we began descending the north buttress:
Resting in base camp the day after returning from my solo attempt, and displaying the minimalist rack that I took on the north buttress. Photo by Nick Elson:
Feeling hungry at the 11,000ft. camp while working our way up Denali. Photo by Nick Elson:
Skiing in the "rescue gully" about the 14,000ft. camp on Denali. Photo by Nick Elson:
Descending the West Buttress below the 17,000ft. camp during an acclimatization venture. Photo by Nick Elson:
Nick above the 17,000ft. camp during another acclimatization venture:
Forced to cook in the vestibule during stormy weather:
Slogging above Denali Pass on the West Buttress. Photo by Nick Elson:
On the summit of Denali for my twelfth time, and Nick's second. Photo by Nick Elson:
Starting down Denali's summit ridge. Photo by Nick Elson:
Nick acclimatizing more on the Upper West Rib:
Britons Andy Houseman (left) and Nick Bullock (right) would soon make the sixth ascent of Denali's Slovak Route, but first, they kindly offered us a quesadilla:
Andy lubing his cams with our olive oil:
The state of the lower "206 Ramp" (AKA "Seattle '72 Ramp," AKA "Wickwire '72 Ramp") as of late June 2012. Photo by Nick Elson:
A lenticular on Sultana at sunset. Photo by Nick Elson:
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Sorry Julia, Reese and Sandra. The actress who really ruled the past decade was … Emma Watson.
The Guinness Book of World Records has named Watson, 19, as the biggest-grossing female star of the 00s; her film work in the past decade has grossed $5.4 billion in global box office receipts.
Remember Emma Watson's "wardrobe malfunction"?
Cinching the young British actress's top spot was her co-starring role as Hermione Granger in the six Harry Potter films released so far. Fun fact: Watson's overall work actually earned even more in ticket sales than her male Harry Potter chums Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint. (Watson lent her voice to the 2008 animated hit The Tale of the Despereaux.)
Which stars totally lost it in 2009?
Who's the second top-earning actress of the decade? Not Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon or Sandra Bullock: it's Dame Maggie Smith, the revered British actress and fellow Harry Potter star (Hogwarts teacher Minerva McGonagall).
What about the men? Guinness names Samuel L. Jackson of Star Wars and other films, but Entertainment Weekly begs to differ, crowning Orlando Bloom, who commanded $6.5 billion in ticket sales in mega-franchises the Pirates of the Caribbean and The Lord of the Rings.
Look back on the year's worst-dressed stars!
Currently an Ivy League student at Brown University in Rhode Island, Watson will next appear in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2 in 2010 and 2011.


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A third visit to the Solomon islands aboard the Bilikiki with a group of friends celebrating Mark Myers 70th birthday . Lots of fun and amazing diving! We were very pleased to find the corals as healthy as we saw them on our last visit. The same goes for the fish population. We even saw new critters that we had never seen before.Read More


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Buffett: Hike tax on $500K earners
Warren Buffett is proposing a higher threshold for an increased tax on the wealthy than President Barack Obama - the "Oracle of Omaha" says he prefers boosting taxes only on those making more than $500,000 a year, according to a New York Times op-ed published Monday.
Obama has proposed a $250,000 limit.
"I support President Obama's proposal to eliminate the Bush tax cuts for high-income taxpayers. However, I prefer a cutoff point somewhat above $250,000 — maybe $500,000 or so," Buffett, who has endorsed Obama, wrote in The Times.
He also suggested a minimum 30 percent tax on income between $1 million and $10 million, and a 35 percent tax on amount above that.
"A plain and simple rule like that will block the efforts of lobbyists, lawyers and contribution-hungry legislators to keep the ultrarich paying rates well below those incurred by people with income just a tiny fraction of ours," Buffett wrote.


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This is the photo on almost every cover in England today:
Hot Harry is in love!
Hot Harry found The One?
Well, she's blonde, she's thin, she's moneyed, she's discreet. It's a good start. And since he had to go without for so long in Afghanistan, Harry can't be held back, openly showing his affection for Cressida Bonas on a ski holiday with cousins Beatrice and Eugenie and their mother Fergie.
Cressida, as you know, was linked to Harry last year - click here for a refresher - well before he covered his ball sack in Vegas. Evidently he managed to talk his way back. And who could deny him, the scamp? I've been trying to photoshoppe my life into these shots all morning. Aren't you? Look at this embrace. He's a f-ck up and a hypocrite but his ma gifted him with that intangible charm, more personality than his stilted brother, and less responsibility too.
Apparently, according to the Daily Mail, Harry and Cressida couldn't stop making out apres-ski. She was on his lap, their faces were mashed together, his hand on the back of her head, rubbing. Jesus! Royal Porn! Oh the benefits of being the spare.
And still, my favourite part of all this is the fact that Harry's doing this in front of Fergie. He would never in front of his dad or any proper royals. It's like...
Oh. Don't worry. It's just Fergie. She sold access to my uncle and got caught on camera. She's my people, for real.
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This is almost all my bracelets I only have about 5 more pictures in each. I have had a bit of a love affair with memory wire this last year same with the beaded necklaces. I think its because I can wear them at work or the store without looking to over dressed. Plus I am a cocktail waitress at a sports bar and bowling alley and I have lost a few stones with all the running I do so I have learned not to wear my best pieces at least at work. No one has ever found any in the food or drinks just so you know.


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Watch Paradise Kiss Episode 12 English Subbed at shahid4u
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Yukari is a typical high-school student who listens to her parents and attends school everyday. As she starts to question her way of life, she encounters a group of fashion design students who has a clothing label known as "Paradise Kiss". The group needs to find a model to showcase their designs in an up-coming fashion show and decides to pick Yukari instead. Initially, Yukari was reluctant to be associated with this seemingly eccentric group, but eventually, she realizes that they are really nice people.
Furthermore, their passion and enthusiasm to follow their ideals and dreams make Yukari realise that she has not been enjoying her life and this motivated her to pursue her own dreams.


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Jazzanova Does Remix Contest on the Cloud
We're really excited to tell you that Jazzanova are doing a remix contest for their new single 'I Can See' on SoundCloud. We just had a listen through the parts and it really sounds like a fun remix project to work on. Ben Westbeech does a great job on the vocals and it seems one could do fun stuff with the piano backing track. The original tune is really good as well! Check and download the samples for yourself here:
To start working, just head over to the Jazzanova remix site, register with your email, download the parts and drop your mix in the DropBox. The Jazzanovas will then listen through and comment directly on your track! The deadline is January 15th.
A bunch of nice prizes (including Ableton Live licenses and SoundCloud PRO accounts…) are waiting for the lucky winners- and on top the chance of a digital release on Berlin-based label Sonar Kollektiv. The remixes will be presented on the Jazzanova website and Soundcloud. And the winner of the competition will be picked by the Jazzanovas themselves.
Oh, and here's the video for 'I Can See':
UPDATE: The remix contest has been extended, the deadline is now 15th of January.


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Michigan Anglers Win Bassmaster Team Championship
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Michigan Anglers Claim Team Title At Toyota Bonus Bucks Bassmaster Team Championship
GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. — Everything went right for Chris Risner and Timothy Eaton during Friday's second round of the Toyota Bonus Bucks Bassmaster Team Championship on Lake Guntersville.
Collegiate Fishing: What it means to me
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Every young tournament angler shares the same dream - making it pro. But in today's world this dream is often laughed at by society. I have had countless people tell me "that isn't realistic," or that I'm full of myself for thinking I could ever become a professional.
A Competition Under The Surface
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There are a wide variety of sports and competitions that take place on the high school level. From football to cross country, from volleyball to soccer, student athletes have a bevy of extracurricular options to pursue. Some of these garner more attention than others, while some of the less traditional high school sports are given barely any attention at all from 98% of their communities.
California roots fuel Great Lakes win on Kentucky Lake
By Jeff Nedwick on Jul 19, 2014 | In Bass Tournaments, FLW Tour, FLW Outdoors, Pro Anglers, Michigan | Send feedback »
Michigan bass pro Skip Johnson wins 1st FLW Tour Title in his rookie season
Add another name to the growing list of Michigan bass pros making their mark on the tournament trail. Skip Johnson of Goodells, MI made headlines – and heads turn – by notching his first Walmart FLW Tour win in the last event of the 2014 season held June 26 – 29 on Kentucky Lake.
Bass Fishing Added to Varsity Roster at Adrian College
By editor on Mar 19, 2014 | In College Bass Fishing, Adrian College | Send feedback »
ADRIAN, Mich. – The Adrian College Athletic Department announced the addition of Bass Fishing to its athletics roster. The College is the latest to add one of the fastest growing collegiate sports in the country to its athletics arsenal. The program, set to begin for the 2014/15 academic year, is the latest addition to the Bulldog's 32 club and varsity teams. Athletics at the College have garnered national attention in recent years, with this announcement being no exception. The program is slated to be among the nation's first varsity bass fishing programs.
Aaron Martens Interesting Adventure
By editor on Feb 23, 2014 | In Bass Tournaments, BASS, Bassmaster Classic, Pro Anglers | Send feedback »
Southern Hospitality to the Rescue for Amart and Me
I had the distinct pleasure of riding along with one of the best professional bass anglers in the world Wednesday, the last official practice day for the 2014 Bassmaster Classic. Of course, we were on Alabama's Lake Guntersville and I was with Megabass Bassmaster Elite Series pro Aaron Martens.
Waterford native is 2013 FLW co-angler of the year
By Jeff Nedwick on Oct 27, 2013 | In Bass Tournaments, FLW Tour, FLW Outdoors, Forrest Wood Cup, Michigan | Send feedback »
Add one more name to the list of Michigan anglers making their mark on the professional bass fishing scene in 2013 – Theo Corcoran.
Corcoran took a major step toward fulfilling his lifelong dream of making a career out of professional bass fishing by winning the 2013 Forrest Wood Cup title August 15 – 18 on Louisiana's Red River.
College Anglers Face Off In Battle For Classic Berth
By editor on Sep 27, 2013 | In Bass Tournaments, BASS, Bassmaster Classic, College BASS, Michigan | Send feedback »
Michigan's Grand River Gives Up 15-2 for Jordan Lee
MUSKEGON, Mich. — Jordan Lee is on the road to redemption. The Auburn University senior brought in 15 pounds, 2 ounces of bass Friday to lead the first day of the Carhartt Bassmaster College Classic Bracket by almost 6 pounds over his closest competitor.


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How your sense of smell helps you taste foods. Without your nose, you may not be able to tell the difference between foods — especially if the foods all have the same texture (for instance, jelly beans with various flavors, gloppy yogurt and pudding, or slices of different fruits and vegetables).
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Public libraries are undergoing huge changes in the shift from analog to digital media. Some large city libraries have hired digital strategists to help them take appropriate steps in this transition. Smaller or poorer libraries don't have the benefit of having a full-time staff person working on the transition. To keep those libraries from falling behind, it makes sense to devise a national plan for this transition – a plan that will unfold in increments over the next ten years. With such a plan in place, libraries – and the communities they serve – will have a good idea of where their own libraries are in the transition.
Truth is, nobody really knows what public libraries will look like in 2020. That doesn't stop us from imagining how they could best serve the community in the digital age. And the time for having conversations about that topic is now. We can't wait until 2015 to discuss these kinds of things.
At the heart of a National Library Transition Plan is a broad understanding of the core purposes of public libraries. Yes, public libraries are about books, but they are also about so much more than books.
Consider the oldest public library in Ohio, the Dayton Public Library, founded in 1805. At that time, Dayton was a very small town – with probably fewer than 500 residents. (In 1820, Dayton's population was 1000.) With a population smaller than some modern apartment buildings, the town of Dayton, Ohio, set up a public library in 1805. About 90 years later two youngsters from Dayton walked into that library and started reading magazine articles about people in other countries who were attempting to build a flying machine. The Wright Brothers were voracious readers. I can picture them sitting at the library thumbing through magazines. The Dayton Public Library might have been where they read about German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, whose gliding experiments inspired their own.
So it's no small coincidence that the first public library in Ohio happened to be located in the same town where airplanes were invented. Libraries are about books, but they're also about much more than books. They're about ideas and invention and imagination and play and curiosity and wonder and hope. Yes, libraries are all about hope. They are houses of possibilities.
Whenever a new public library is being planned, community members are invited to a brainstorming session to answer the question, "What would you like to see at your public library?" That's a great starting point, but it should not be an ending point. People in any community may or may not be able to fully articulate all their needs. Nor may they understand the new kinds of library services being made possible in the digital age. Any community earnestly planning their new public library ought to be seeking the best ideas from both near and far.
And in designing future public libraries, we do need to turn to the wisdom and insights of architects. Architects need to design public libraries for purposes we haven't imagined yet. In other words, public libraries of the future need to be immensely flexible in how their space is used. Probably all furniture needs to be on wheels. Meeting rooms will need exterior doors, so they can be used when the library is closed.
Then again, maybe public libraries should never be closed. In an information-based economy where knowledge workers drive almost all innovation, shouldn't the public knowledge place be open seven days a week? If 7-Eleven and FedEx Office and McDonald's can stay open 24 hours a day, is it not possible for libraries to do so, too? This might seem like a pipe dream under current budget challenges, but maybe we don't need to live within the boundaries of those challenges. Where there is a will, there is a way.
New ideas create new jobs. Public libraries create new ideas. Public libraries are places where ideas are remixed. How can we facilitate more and better remixing of ideas in public libraries? Do we need to design hacker spaces to be part of future public libraries? What if the Dayton Public Library had a "tinkerer's room" set up as part of the library and that anyone in the community could submit a proposal for possible uses of the tinkerer's room? Well, in 1901, the Wright Brothers might have used that room to set up their first wind tunnel. And they would have invited other community members to see their thinking and to contribute their own ideas to the conquest of flight. The great moment of insight, the day when the Wright Brothers understood that wing warping was the secret to flight, could have been a shared community moment – right there at the public library.
I'd sure be interested in knowing the names of the people who founded the original Dayton Public Library, back in 1805. They set in motion a culture of curiosity that culminated in the invention of the airplane. And that culture of curiosity exists to this very day in Dayton. Are we doing enough to uncover and encourage it?
Here's what we need to think about in 2010 as we embark upon the journey of digital public libraries. What can we set in motion today that might bear fruit in 2020, 2030, 2040, and 2050? How can we extend the traditional role of public libraries, giving access to books and magazines, in whole new ways? Is the purpose of public libraries to celebrate the human imagination in all ways? Is the purpose of public libraries to enable self-education in a solitary way or in a communal way – or both? What can we expect to happen if our nation does not have a national transition plan for public libraries?
Interestingly, some of the boldest thinking about library transitions is happening outside of public libraries – in school and academic libraries. How can changes in public libraries best be integrated with the changes coming to school and academic libraries? What happens when there is dissonance between these different libraries? What are the economic and cultural advantages of having better integration among them?
The questions surrounding the transition from analog to digital libraries are many and sometimes difficult. We would do well to address these sooner rather than later. A national library transition plan is sorely needed. Such a plan need not be written in stone, but it does need to be written.
If nothing else, such a plan will be a starting point for further conversations on this important topic.
The blogger is an educator and community builder in the Washington DC-area. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro
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NFL playoff picture taking shape after Week 12
With 12 weeks down and five to go in the NFL season, the playoff race is taking shape. The Bears' win and the Packers' loss changed the top of the NFC North, while the Bengals' win and the Steelers' loss tightened the battle for the final AFC wild card spot.
Below we provide the state of the playoff race through Week 12, with the six playoff teams that would be in the postseason in each conference if the playoffs started today.
1. Falcons (10-1): Beating the Buccaneers makes the Falcons the overwhelming favorites to win the NFC South, and the heavy favorites to win home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs.
2. 49ers (8-2-1): A big win in New Orleans strengthens the 49ers' hold on the No. 2 seed and a first-round playoff bye.
3. Bears (8-3): They lead the NFC North for now, but a big three-week stretch looms with the Seahawks, Vikings and Packers coming.
4. Giants (7-4): Their big Sunday night win over the Packers, combined with the Redskins beating the Cowboys on Thanksgiving, gives the Giants some breathing room in the NFC East.
5. Packers (7-4): Green Bay's five-game winning streak came to a screeching halt in New Jersey. Now the Packers need to bounce back against the Vikings next week.
6. Seahawks (6-5): Despite Sunday's disappointing loss in Miami, Seattle's head-to-head tiebreaker edge over Minnesota and conference record tiebreaker edge over Tampa Bay still gives the Seahawks the inside track for the final wild-card berth.
In the mix: The 6-5 Buccaneers and 6-5 Vikings both missed golden opportunities to capitalize on Seattle's loss, but they remain right in the thick of the playoff race. The 5-6 Redskins own the head-to-head tiebreaker edge over both the 5-6 Cowboys and the 5-6 Saints. No other NFC teams have realistic playoff hopes.
1. Texans (10-1): The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC goes through Houston.
2. Ravens (9-2): Baltimore's overtime win in San Diego keeps the Ravens in prime position to earn a first-round playoff bye.
3. Patriots (8-3): New England owns the head-to-head tiebreaker over Denver.
4. Broncos (8-3): Denver clinches the AFC West with either a win or a Chargers loss next week.
5. Indianapolis (7-4): With the Colts in the wild card lead, a showdown between Peyton Manning and his former team looks likely in the first round of the playoffs.
6. Pittsburgh (6-5): The Steelers currently own the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Bengals for the final wild-card spot.
In the mix: The 6-5 Bengals control their playoff destiny, as they still have a Week 16 rematch with the Steelers. The rest of the AFC -- including the 5-6 Dolphins, 4-7 Chargers, 4-7 Titans, 4-7 Bills and 4-7 Jets -- will all need something approaching a miracle to reach the playoffs.


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Bev told us that Eukanuba was changing the look of all of the bags, and reformulating their kibbles to add a special prebiotic ingredient which they refer to as FOS. We were intrigued because the only "FOS" that we've ever heard of were the members of the Catster group Friends of Skeezix (the Cat).
But apparently the "FOS" in the Eukanuba food is actually somethin' called Fructooligosaccharides. Hmmm ... never heard of 'em. Thankfully, Bev knows all about those FOS an' she provided some information to educate us 'bout what they do:
"Fructooligosaccharides, a prebiotic fiber, provides a food source to the beneficial bacteria in the digestive tract, which helps reduce the bad bacteria. This helps maintain a healthy balance in the digestive system and supports healthy defenses. This prebiotic is now in all Eukanuba cat formulas."
If you wanna get some additional information about FOS an' what it does, you can visit Bev's personal blog.
A few days after we accepted Eukanuba's offer to be taste-testers, our Man-in-the-Brown-Shorts arrived with a ginormous box of FREE Eukanuba bags! Bev sent food especially chosen for our unique needs: Charmee an' Sparky Fuzzypants received bags of Eukanuba Indoor Hairball formula; Pumpkin got a bag of Eukanuba Kitten formula because he needs the additional nutrition after having a debilitating stroke; Cocoa Puff's bag was Eukanuba Weight Control; and bein' a "geezer-ette," I got Eukanuba Senior formula.
When Mom put the box onto the dining room table, we all wanted to see what we'd gotten. It was better than CHRISTMAS! Charmee literally got into the box with the five bags of food an' tried to open them with his teeth. Have I mentioned that we really love Eukanuba? When there's a new bag of food in the house, Mom knows that she's gotta open it up an' let us have some right away. But not this time ... Mom had a job to do first an' it didn't have anything to do with "weaning" us onto the new formulation (Of course, efurryone knows that kitties with sensative tummies should eat a mix of their "old food with their new food for a couple of days" just to be safe).
Why was Mom takin' her sweet time before openin' those bags an' lettin' us taste 'em? Well ... She wanted to get the bags photographed first an' they don't look quite as pretty when one of us has his/her head stuffed into the bag an' is gobblin' away ...
Needless to say, we couldn't detect any difference in the flavor, color, texture, size or shape of our Eukanuba kibbles. We plowed through bowls of it each and efurryday just like we always do. Personally, I don't think that you'll notice any difference either ... Other than the labels on the bags (which feature larger kitties on each bag and clearer item descriptions). I suppose the intention was to keep cats' intestinal tracts healthier by reducing the bad bacteria and enhancing the beneficial ones. Mom has noted that our litter boxes don't tend to smell as odoriferous (Mom actually says, "Rank nasty!") than prior to the beginning of our taste-testing. The odor change happened within seven days. Even Grandma has noticed a marked decrease in fecal odor in addition to fewer loose bowel movements from those of us with more sensative tummies. We owe this improvement to Eukanuba with FOS. The bags of food have also lasted a bit longer than normal, too. Mom's attributing that partly to the warm weather reducing our appetites, but we think that the new formula is more satisfying than what we've eaten in the past. Hmm ...
In addition to the five bags of newly formulated Eukanuba kibbles for kitties, Bev an' her colleague, Emily, also sent us FIVE vouchers each good for a FREE 4-pound bag of Eukanuba Cat food. Five lucky commenters on this post will each receive a voucher (courtesy of Eukanuba) with a little prize-pack from me. If you wanna Eukanuba ... an' your fambly lives in the United States (sorry international readers) ... leave me a comment on this post. If there is more than one kitty livin' at your house, you can leave a separate comment from each kitty (up to five kitties total) ... to give efurryone a chance at a coupon. Only one coupon will be awarded to a household, so if Zoey, Cha-Ching, Chewie, Smoke, an' Tigger each leave me a comment, an' Chewie is selected to receive a coupon an' prize-pack, then no other kitty at their house can get one. Unnerstand? Good.
In the interest of full transparency: DaisyMae Maus an' the Feline Americans received the five FREE bags of new Eukanuba Cat food an' the five FREE 4-pound Eukanuba Cat food vouchers to give away to readers courtesy of the Eukanuba Company and at no cost. Additionally, FOS was already in Eukanuba Cat Sensitive Stomach formula, so no change there. FOS has been added into all of the other formulas. The biggest change is in how the packages look.
If you are one of the five lucky kitties to receive a voucher for a FREE 4-pound bag of Eukanuba kibbles, please send Bev some feedback via her bloggie: Pet Care Bev. We think that you'll enjoy Eukanuba Cat kibbles with FOS as much as we have. The five voucher recipients will be selected at 12:01 AM on Thursday, October 1, 2009 (Grandad's birthday!).


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If you only could choose one book to represent the potential–maybe even the highest form–of the comic book medium, a new book hitting the stands today may be on your short list. IDW Publishing is releasing a stunning anthology of the history of the Holocaust as seen in comic books of the past, presented with an introduction and afterword by Stan Lee, the creator who broke more stereotypes in his stories than anyone in comic books' first century. In We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust, artist Neal Adams, who changed the way comic book stories were told in the early 1970s with his Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman series, Holocaust scholar Rafael Medoff, and comics historian Craig Yoe have compiled what is arguably the most noble use of comic books–educating kids in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s on a subject of history virtually ignored in mainstream circles. Along with Congressman John Lewis's March series about the civil rights movement, We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust should be in every library and taught in every history class.
My high school history teacher was astonished to learn none of us knew the details of Watergate–we were only infants at the time–and I recall the realization he saw of what he and his peers were not teaching. This weekend my eighteen-year-old nephew mentioned watching the footage of 9-11 in school this year for the first time. In the 1980s only the last paragraph of the last chapter of our World History textbooks discussed the Holocaust, yet we at least spent a week talking about the subject. But not until the 1990s was the Holocaust taught in most of American school systems. Even today only 35 states require education in the subject in school curriculums. Certainly the most important lessons in history can be taught with its study, and in that light We Spoke Out should serve as a wake-up call to everyone, citizens, educators, and leaders. Oddly enough, for generations of American kids, the only place they learned about the murder of six million Jews, the stories of concentration camps, of the atrocities committed by Hitler and his Nazis, was in the comics pages.
The stories in the anthology present the atrocities of World War II without the overdone blood and gore of many 1950s "horror" comics. In an April 1955 story from Impact Issue #1 we meet a Jewish man post-War still haunted by his memories in what would now be called PTSD. In the pages of December 1951's Frontline Combat, Issue #3 story the then-lauded Nazi general Rommel is dressed down, revealing the villainous truths of his leadership in the face of contemporary efforts to re-invent Rommel as a military hero. Based on the real-life Nazi Ilse Koch, in a story from Beware! Terror Tales, Issue #4, we are reminded of the vilest of humans who made household goods from the tattooed skin of captured Jews–a real-life horror some may think is only the stuff of fiction from Silence of the Lambs. Among these stories ripped from real life, Adams, Medoff, and Yoe fill in the blanks of time with historical context, including details of what the stories leave out.
We Spoke Out includes works by well-known comic book creators, including Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood, Harry Harrison, Vince Napoli, Archie Goodwin, Gene Colan, Gil Kane, Roy Thomas, Neal Adams, Denny O'Neil, Chris Claremont, Frank Miller, Sal Buscema, and others, with stories from popular titles like Captain Marvel, Captain America, The Uncanny X-Men, and Batman. In the pages of Sgt. Rock, Joe Kubert paraphrases George Santayana reminding readers of the importance of remembering the Holocaust: "We are doomed to repeat in the future–the lessons and mistakes in history–that we forget!"
Here is a preview of the first few pages of the book, courtesy of the publisher:
You can bet We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust will be an Eisner Award contender next year, and is certain to be on the required reading lists for better history programs at colleges this fall. Eighteen stories of history, of terror, of vengeance, and truth–an important read highlighting some of the best writing and artwork from more than thirty years of comics can be found in this new book.
Get your copy of We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust from your local comic book store available today, or order it here from Amazon.