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Spectacular 'Sideways Glance' of Mt. Sharp in Gale Crater
Yep, you really want to click on this link to see the full color version of this great oblique view of Mt. Sharp (a.k.a. Aeolis Mons) in Gale Crater, taken by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Or you can click here to see the full "raw" strip from the spacecraft.
"The viewing angle is 45 degrees, like looking out an airplane window," wrote HiRISE Principal Investigator Alfred McEwen on the HiRISE website. McEwen noted that this color version doesn't show the Curiosity rover or the hardware left over from the landing on Mars, but it does provide a great view of Gale Crater's central mound.
So how "true" is the color in this image?
"It may be close, but not true," Christian Schaller from the HiRISE team told Universe Today. Schaller pointed out the description (pdf) of color in HiRISE images from the HiRISE team:
It isn't natural color, as seen by normal human eyes, because the IR, RED, and BG channels are displayed in red, green, and blue colors. For the Extras products, each color band is individually stretched to maximize contrast, so the colors are enhanced differently for each image based on the color and brightness of each scene. Scenes with dark shadows and bright sunlit slopes or with both bright and dark materials are stretched less, so the colors are less enhanced than is the case over bland scenes.
Jim Bell, the lead scientist for the Pancam color imaging system on the Mars Exploration Rovers, said he likes to use the term "approximate true color" because the MER panoramic camera images are estimates of what humans would see if they were on Mars. Other colleagues, Bell said, use "natural color."
"We actually try to avoid the term 'true color' because nobody really knows precisely what the 'truth' is on Mars," Bell told Universe Today in 2007 for an article about the art of extraterrestrial photography. In fact, Bell pointed out, on Mars, as well as Earth, color changes all the time: whether it's cloudy or clear, the Sun is high or low, or if there are variations in how much dust is in the atmosphere. "Colors change from moment to moment. It's a dynamic thing. We try not to draw the line that hard by saying 'this is the truth!'"
For more great shots from HiRISE, check out their website.
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Hardly fascinating…
Great resolution. There are some nice layered deposits as well.
I could spend hours examining this image…And probably will.
Nope, no Indain cave dwellings or horse drawings on that shot so far..But i'm still looking…Wow!!
This is amazing! I could star at it for hours as wel.
What is the blueish terrain on the last third from the right of the image made of?
When you magnify it, that bluish area looks just like a shallow lake. Not trying to start any rumors, just stating what it looks like.
I agree with this. Everything about the right side looks like water once flowed through it. This is why I'm curious to know what the blue terrain is made of… because it seems like an ancient dried up lake.
"Mt. Sharp (a.k.a. Aeolis Mons)". That surely should be, "Mt Sharp (correctly, Aeolis Mons)", or, "Aeolis Mons (a.k.a. Mount Sharp)". After all, from the horse's mouth: "Mount Sharp is only an informal name," says Guy Webster of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory". After all, "the
International Astronomical Union (IAU) selected 'Aeolis Mons' as the
name for the mountain". See: http://content.usatoday.com/co…
This is beyond amazing! I can't believe all of the geological features in this single crater. Does anyone have any links to other HiRISE images like this?
I wanna play on a blue sand dune!
I FOUND The Indian Village!!!
5 hut's in circle just "right" of the Large Rock that protrudes out of the
light tan Scale rock formation mount,
Or just right of the Large protrusion with dark shadow 1/4 way into the photo on the top
full screen view,zoom to right side of it.If you went to dunes 1/2 way in the pic ,went to
Or the dark area at 1'o'clock on the full frame mountain's upper circle
half at the left the full size view,look at the right that mount zoomed in some,5 dots in circle
All same location list above.
The Village is just Right of the Mountain with the lounge chair looking shadow, if zoom in. it's a Circled encampment???…8^o
Or Mars stoneendgie?
Lucky rock formation?
Didn't you know 'Native Martian' is considered the preferred term these days? =)
Hopefully we'll someday get around to sending a flying camera plane to Mars to fly over all that at 500ft…


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The Southern baseball team is running out of games and players.
The Jaguars had just 10 position players in uniform as they lost their final midweek game of the season 16-12 against McNeese State on Wednesday afternoon in Lake Charles.
Southern (8-25) will conclude the season with a three-game series at Prairie View on Saturday and Sunday. The Jaguars roster will continue to shrink with the impending conclusion of the semester, and Southern will not make up a doubleheader at Texas Southern on May 8.
"We're not going to have enough kids," coach Roger Cador said.
When the Jaguars failed to qualify for the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament, which begins May 14, Cador gave 10 players who are from other countries or have long distances to travel home permission to leave after final exams, which end May 7. The cost for the families to change the flights would be prohibitive, Cador said.
The SWAC was waiting until the completion of the regular season this weekend to see if the makeups would be necessary. A doubleheader between the Jaguars and Texas Southern was rained out March 15 in Houston.
If after this weekend the makeup games would have had the potential to affect second-place Texas Southern's ability to catch first-place Arkansas-Pine Bluff or be caught by third-place Prairie View, the doubleheader would have been made up — until the Jaguars' lack of players arose.
"Whatever the conference decides to do," Cador said. "We'll just have to eat it."
Earlier in the season, Cador said he was prepared to forfeit the games because the return trip to Houston would cost $5,000-$6,000 that wasn't in the budget. But Cador said Tuesday that he was prepared to make the trip and pay for it with money he had saved for recruiting before realizing the number of players who would be absent.
The Jaguars were short-handed for a different reason Wednesday as several players couldn't make the trip because they had final exams to take.
Freshman infielder Sergio Torres was the only backup position player and was the sixth available pitcher.
"They did well with a patched-up lineup," Cador said after Southern took a one-run lead into the ninth but lost on James Cantu's walk-off grand slam. "We were short-handed. We made four errors that hurt us. On top of that, we walked 10.
"It shows that this is a good team if we could execute and just play a complete game."
The Cowboys (24-21) scored five runs against Ryan Flynn in the first and had a 9-4 lead after seven innings.
Flynn allowed eight runs in 4.1 innings, but Camilo Godoy followed with 1.2 scoreless innings and Victor Ilarraza pitched a scoreless inning, giving Southern a chance to rally.
A McNeese error and RBI doubles by Robinson Mateo and Jeremy Glore contributed to the Jaguars four-run eighth.
After McNeese scored two in the eighth, another Cowboys error, Marcus Tomlin's sacrifice fly and Tyler Kirksey's two-run double helped Southern scored four more and take a 12-11 lead in the ninth.
But in the bottom half, Harley Wiltz made an error and James Fontenot (1-1), allowed a double and two walks ahead of Cantu's hit.
"I figure we gave them seven runs," Cador said. "We got the key hits, but we just did not make the routine plays."

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Of course. But Roose always created a persona, so I doubted most of what he posted. Includng the wife and child routine.
I do, though, believe he disliked women and black folks.
Of course. But Roose always created a persona, so I doubted most of what he posted. Includng the wife and child routine.
I do, though, believe he disliked women and black folks.
More of my friends than not have always been black and brown, she's not the first black chick I've been with, but you can continue with your assumptions of how I'm going to turn out.
I grew up in the ghetto, I have a lot more in common with most blacks than I have with whitey tighty racists who lived sheltered lives like Deport and most of the other clowns I've banned and probably you as well.
I'm not here often, I missed it.
Didn't you used to be in the porn industry?
Yeah, so, maybe I still am?
It's your board, do whatever you want.
I just find it humorous Lotus believes a porn producer over Roose.
It's not very "feminist" of her.
I am basing my opinions/beliefs on Roose's posts, my dear.
Is Rancid still here?
If porn's so bad why did you vote for the guy with the lesbian porn star wife? hahahaha
Look at the eyes of the lesbain on the left and imagine them trying to avoid looking at The Donald in public.
are you a lesbian?
Yes, but alas, I am held captive in this all man body. It just isn't fair.
Funny how Trump voters always get confused when confronted with reality… lol @ trump voters…
When I was young I felt like a man trapped in a woman's body.
Then I was born.
Mmmm - no not probably me as well. I didn't grow up in a ghetto like you but I grew up in the household of two people who grew up poor and who I never heard speak a word of ill toward anyone based upon their race, religion, or economic status. I heard plenty of it in the community though for sure. When I left that place after HS I moved to Oakland CA which at that time was about 2/3s black. Me and my little crew were the only white people for blocks around since we weren't in one of the 2/3s sections, but I'll tell you man, I could always get a game at the courts, and everybody had watermellon, and that's my favorite mellon, homey. I've lived in mixed hoods ever since including this shitty welfare burg. Now, I did that by choice friend, while that's just where you dropped into life. You may think you're better than some dumbass white supremacist who grew up in a white supremacist community, and you might be the neighbor I'd prefer given the choice, but you are no less a preprogrammed robot than they are. You are simply a product of your environment and not the enlightened being you imagine yourself to be. You know what I find amusing? Here you are going on about no one is going to talk bad about blacks and you're so not racist and no one should even indirectly insult your girlfriend blah blah blah, but correct me if I'm wrong - wouldn't this be the same woman you have mockingly referred to as 50's housewife? I mean one thing I've taken keen notice of about you is that you never hesitate to belittle women and join in the gleeful misogynygasms that have been so commonplace on this board over the years, and I think that is soooo very enlightened of you, friend.
One thing this thread has been lacking is a soundtrack, so here is one your house servant gf might sing to you next time you axe her to make you a sammich:
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I'm sorry Roose's banning has you so troubled, I can tell your man love is strong.
Billdo, I would advocate for any one of the board members…
…except for that one dooshbag fraud.
I am truly shocked and dismayed that no one else is speaking in Roose's defense.
Troll on, MacDuff.
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Photo by Steve GullickJon Hopkins started playing piano at age five. Seven years later, he was studying piano at London's prestigious Royal College of Music.
- Names: Jon Hopkins
- Created on: August 15, 1979
- Location: London
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- Domain: Composing, recording and performing music.
When you try to imagine 800 sounds in a single, nine-minute song, you might anticipate a fast-moving train that either crashes in a wreck of noise or sweeps you away glitch by unexpected glitch. But for Jon Hopkins, an electronic musician who spent his teenage years training as a classical pianist at the Royal College of Music, such layering can be subtle and dynamically restrained. With tracks like "Light Through the Veins" (with its hundreds of sounds), "Circle" and his remix of Four Tet's "Angel Echoes," which build calmly and keep you feeling constantly grounded, Hopkins hints at a love for creating cinematic music. The Domino Records artist, who has collaborated with Coldplay, Imogen Heap and Massive Attack, just finished working on Small Craft on a Milk Sea, the new album by Brian Eno, due out this November.
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Tell us about yourself, your background and what inspired you to become a musician?
I have always been obsessed with music, from as early as I can remember. My parents bought me a toy xylophone when I was about three years old and I was apparently found bashing out basic tunes on it. I can't really do anything else so it was always the obvious thing for me.
How did you go from classical piano training as a kid to creating electronic music and working with such iconic figures?
The two things always ran alongside each other, independently. I was learning the piano, but at the same time I was much more interested in writing music on the computer, and in discovering what synths could do. At the music college I went to, they had a small studio where you could spend an hour a week playing around with studio stuff. That was where I really started.
Video directed by Bison for Four Tet's remix of Jon Hopkins' "Vessel." The two artists swapped remixes, and in return Hopkins created a serene version of Four Tet's haunting "Angel Echoes."
Why do you choose to often use real instruments and edit the sound after, instead of working entirely through a synthesizer (not that a synth isn't a real instrument…)?
If you start with an acoustic instrument as your source, you have a lot more richness of sound as your starting point. Sound that reverberates through strings and wood is always going to be more complex and harmonically deep than things conjured up out of 1s and 0s in a computer. But then things from a digital source can cut through and provide a whole different type of energy in a track. I love how the two processes can be combined and set against each other.
What instruments do you play, other than synths and piano?
None. I would like to be able to play the drums though.
Many of your remixes sound different from each other. When you remix, are you working primarily as a musician with your own sound, or are you honing in on something that you think is latent in the song and trying to take it to a place it seems to inherently want to go?
I don't really think consciously about that when I'm working on something. I just have an idea for a track that I'm remixing, then I follow it through until the end, working on instinct really. To me, they all sound like they have my stamp but it's hard for me to say exactly what my stamp might be.
Much of your music feels cinematic, which is fitting as film scores inspire you. Why do they inspire you?
I love music that creates images for you in your head when you listen to it. There is also something within film scores that takes the elements of classical music that I love, like the beauty, the instrumentation and the atmosphere, but is simpler to listen to. I have quite simple tastes and have never been a fan of massively experimental music so film scores are great for me.
Hopkins performing "Insides" live at the ICA in London.
Do you have any favorite film scores?
I love all of Carter Burwell's scores for the Coen Brothers movies. Particularly A Serious Man, which is very understated and hypnotic. I also love the iconic Thomas Newman scores, such as The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, etc. These have been ripped off by so many other people since then, it's difficult to recognize how distinctive they were when they appeared.
How did you come to score The Lovely Bones with Brian Eno?
I'd been working with Brian for a few years already on various projects, and one day he told me he'd been asked to score The Lovely Bones by Peter Jackson, but he wasn't sure he wanted to take on such a massive task as doing a film score on his own. I told him I was a huge Peter Jackson fan and I'd love to get involved with the writing and recording of it, and he was into that idea.
It sounds like you and Brian Eno worked together very closely for a long time. What was it like to work with him on his new album, Small Craft on a Milk Sea?
It was amazing. We first met about seven years ago and ever since then we've jammed out a lot of ideas, along with Leo Abrahams, a mutual friend and genius guitarist/composer in his own right. Over the last couple of years, some of these ideas started to form this album.
How did you come to score Monsters? What were you working to convey in Monsters and what do you think the film, in turn, inspired in your music?
I was asked to score Monsters really as a result of my work on The Lovely Bones, and I already had a relationship with its production company, Vertigo Films. For me it was an amazing experience, as the imagery and emotion within the film suggested to me exactly what was needed musically. It's photographed so stunningly, it's almost like watching a painting at some points. There were several scenes where all the sound was faded out and the music becomes the total focus.
A trailer for the Hopkins-scored Monsters, directed by Gareth Edwards.
How is scoring different from writing your own music, or from remixing or producing?
Generally, I feel it's less pressure, as when you write your own music or remix someone, what you are doing is 100% of the focus, and you have to stay aware of that and be able to make something that completely absorbs the listener's attention. But when you're scoring, you're there to augment and intensify what's going on on the screen. It can be just as powerful, but it's not the full focus.
What new projects do you have on the horizon?
I have a few more remixes on the horizon. I have just finished one for Nosaj Thing that is out mid-November. And then I really need to write my next album. There's also a collaboration album that I've made with King Creosote, which should surface in spring next year.
Jon Hopkins will perform an exclusive DJ set tonight in Seattle as part of the Flux-curated Film Nights by Relentless screening of Monsters, before embarking on a North American tour with Four Tet.
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home: the wonderful world of wall stickers
For ages and ages, I've been deliberating on what to do with the big blank space behind the kiddos IKEA play kitchen; I thought about yet another print, but decided I wanted something a bit different, and had started looking at different decals when I got an email from the lovely folks at My Wall Stickers, asking whether I fancied trying out some of their products. Talk about well timed!
The only time I've ever come into contact with decals or anything in that area is when I had to apply the stickers to the windows in my old job as a merchandiser - and they were a total headache. They often refused to sit straight, and pretty much always ended up with bubbles underneath, or worst of all, just refused to stick on at all - so when they actually arrived, I expected it to be a long and difficult road to beautiful walls.
They had loads of different designs, but I went with the turquoise stars because a) the colour was perfect and b) I had a few DIY plans up my sleeve, and this shape was best suited to the job. They arrived on a roll with a special plastic tool for smoothing out any bubbles, and a pretty clear set of instructions that turned out to be easy to follow; a couple of snips and some rubbing later, and my test star was on the wall - and more to the point, it stayed there!
There were a few different designs and sizes on the roll, and I started by cutting out a few of the largest stars, and then making myself a raindrop template which fitted nicely into the centre. Ten minutes later, I had a pile of the most perfect turquoise raindrops, and ten minutes after that, they were trickling down the wall beneath a washi-tape cloud - it was pretty much one of the quickest and most fun DIY projects I've ever done!
Then, I got a bit carried away and got happy with some pom poms and washi tape...
There were 110 stickers on the roll (for the absolute bargain price of £19.99), and they literally go on forever - I could have easily covered the entire wall in different sized raindrops, but I had another idea in mind....
The handy thing about the stars is that the points on the triangle are pretty much the same size (with a little trimming in some cases), so the possibility for geometric patterns all over your walls (cupboards, drawers, desk, fridge, pots, husband, cat....) are absolutely endless. I'm already planning on buying a second set in a different colour to make some sort of triangle marvel on our kitchen cupboard doors, and I've got at least three plant pots that are going to get the same treatment as the one above.
I honestly can't rate these stickers highly enough; the delivery is fast (the very next day, actually!), they're really, REALLY easy to apply, and the quality and finish couldn't be better. As well as being easy to remove (fab for any fellow renters out there), it does say that they're non-reusable, but I managed to peel a couple off and re-attach them with no trouble when I'd stuck them to the wall a bit lopsidedly. (Although this might be something to do with the fact that our walls are covered in a washable satin paint, rather than a matte, so don't hold me to that!)
Huge thanks to the lovely team at My Wall Stickers for their patience in answering my endless DIY questions, and waiting so long for the review due to three sets of bad photographs. I received the Super Stars pack free of charge for the purpose of this review, but as usual, all words and thoughts are my own. I really, really recommend you grab some for your walls!
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What a great idea, it's such an easy way to liven up a space and love that you've customised them xReplyDelete
Wow! These are amazing! I don't normally like wall stickers but what you've done with them is genuinely stylish. I am so impressed by your creative spin on them.ReplyDelete
These look amazing!!! You have such a good creative eye...I would never think to revamp some plant pots and furniture with stickers! Will definitely check this company out...you've inspired me to get a little creative! xReplyDelete
These are really cool! love your kids kitchen play area xxReplyDelete
Nice one, love how you customised them you clever so and so! XReplyDelete
Oh I really love the rain cloud in the kids part of the kitchen - so cute and something a little different from the prints. You are so creative - great postReplyDelete
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15-oz. can pumpkin
12-oz. can evaporated milk
3 large eggs
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
½ tsp. salt
1 box yellow cake mix
1 cup chopped pecans
2 sticks melted butter
Whipped cream for garnish
- Grease bottom of 9-by-13-inch (or 9-in. round easy-release) pan and line with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, mix together everything but the cake mix, pecans and butter. Pour into the pan, and then sprinkle the dry cake mix evenly over the pumpkin mixture.
- Sprinkle top with chopped pecans, and then drizzle with melted butter.
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Becker College, Through the Years
Did you know…One individual at Becker College provided valuable communication with those who were serving during World War II at home and abroad? In the early spring of 1943, Mrs. Charlivine B. Davis, an instructor of shorthand at Becker College, launched a way to keep in touch with her students who had enlisted after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She began assembling news she received from them into letters she called "Roundup," which were mailed approximately every three weeks to 500 Becker men and women in uniform… Read more
Did you know…in November 1936, freshmen challenged seniors to a rematch rope pull—and won? According to the 1937 Beckerlogue yearbook, the freshmen were "heated up to the argument point by their upset during initiation week." The rematch took place at Clark University Pond, where the story unfolded: "The day was cold and there almost seemed to be a thin coating of ice on the Pond but the battle went on. It attracted considerable attention from the public and quite a crowd gathered to see the Seniors go to defeat, taking the punishment—a wade through the pond with clothes and all taking a ducking….No colds developed, and all was well."
Did you know…the Alumni Association offered Alumni "insurance" information in the Class of 1964 yearbook? The one-page "policy" identified graduates as beneficiaries and included the clause: "As Beneficiary of the name Becker College, any improvement in its public image will increase the importance of your words when you say, 'I am a graduate of Becker College.'"
Did you know…publication of the Becker Junior College 1979 yearbook was called "the first joint effort of the Worcester and Leicester campuses?" Building from the slogan, "Becker Junior College: One College, Two Campuses," the yearbook was dedicated to "Unity—Unity between the two campuses. While maintaining the uniqueness and individuality of each campus, we have benefited from each other. Each campus enriches the other. Separate we are incomplete. Together we are whole."
Did you know…During the 1938-39 academic year, The Becker Journal won second prize among papers of its classification in America—and also placed first in the business field for its editorials? The newspaper was published biweekly by the commercial journalism department and was a member of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. According to the 1939 Beckerlogue yearbook, its purpose was "to print articles of top interest to students, to show pictures of important school interests, and above all to keep the paper up to a strict journalistic standard."
Did you know…Students at Leicester Junior College participated in activities that catered to a wide range of interests? In addition to athletics programs that included soccer, basketball, wrestling, and tennis, the 1965 Weathervane yearbook highlighted such student organizations as the Newman Club, Student Christian Union, Social Committee, Activities Budget Committee, Hillel Society, Outing Club, Ski Club, Science Club, International Relations Club, Bowling Club, Debating Club, Political Affairs Club, and the Sports Car Club.


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Some people go their whole lives
without ever writing a single poem.
Extraordinary people who don't hesitate
to cut somebody's heart or skull open.
They go to baseball games with the greatest of ease.
and play a few rounds of golf as if it were nothing.
These same people stroll into a church
as if that were a natural part of life.
Investing money is second nature to them.
They contribute to political campaigns
that have absolutely no poetry in them
and promise none for the future.
They sit around the dinner table at night
and pretend as though nothing is missing.
Their children get caught shoplifting at the mall
and no one admits that it is poetry they are missing.
The family dog howls all night,
lonely and starving for more poetry in his life.
Why is it so difficult for them to see
that, without poetry, their lives are effluvial.
Sure, they have their banquets, their celebrations,
croquet, fox hunts, their sea shores and sunsets,
their cocktails on the balcony, dog races,
and all that kissing and hugging, and don't
forget the good deeds, the charity work,
nursing the baby squirrels all through the night,
filling the birdfeeders all winter,
helping the stranger change her tire.
Still, there's that disagreeable exhalation
from decaying matter, subtle but everpresent.
They walk around erect like champions.
They are smooth-spoken and witty.
When alone, rare occasion, they stare
into the mirror for hours, bewildered.
There was something they meant to say, but didn't:
"And if we put the statue of the rhinoceros
next to the tweezers, and walk around the room three times,
learn to yodel, shave our heads, call
our ancestors back from the dead--"
poetrywise it's still a bust, bankrupt.
You haven't scribbled a syllable of it.
You're a nowhere man misfiring
the very essence of your life, flustering
nothing from nothing and back again.
The hereafter may not last all that long.
Radiant childhood sweetheart,
secret code of everlasting joy and sorrow,
fanciful pen strokes beneath the eyelids:
all day, all night meditation, knot of hope,
kernel of desire, pure ordinariness of life
seeking, through poetry, a benediction
or a bed to lie down on, to connect, reveal,
explore, to imbue meaning on the day's extravagant labor.
And yet it's cruel to expect too much.
It's a rare species of bird
that refuses to be categorized.
Its song is barely audible.
It is like a dragonfly in a dream--
here, then there, then here again,
low-flying amber-wing darting upward
then out of sight.
And the dream has a pain in its heart
the wonders of which are manifold,
or so the story is told.
Poet: James Tate
Poem: Dream On
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So first thing about Twisted Fate here, is his damage mostly relies on Pick A Card, while having Stacked Deck.
Basically, early game,
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because it's crucial having the money for this build.
You can go with,but you'll be slow as ****. :)
Now that starting items are out of the way, let's keep in mind,
I took the extra little bit of gold in the Utility tree, on top of the bonus gold you get, from Twisted Fate's passive, making him do extremely well when it comes to farming.
Ashe also has this feature, and I've had success with this build on my characters, but that's besides the point.
Well first, another reason Twisted Fate is most beneficial in Middle, is because he can keep an eye on Bottom and Top, for any open ganks, low HP's, etc.
Another reason, is his Pick A Card, if you can pull out Red, you can push the lane back or forward fairly quickly, not to mention, harass like a mad man, if Stacked Deck is in possession.
Always, always, always, ALWAYS, have Stacked Deck ready when you need to gank, cannot stress it enough, that the damage is sooooo much better when using it.
Sometimes I'll get lazy, pick Gold without it, and still gank at full potentional, just because you can get stacked deck fairly quickly with the default attack speed, and already farmed up your BF Sword.
Which is another thing, as Phreak and many people will say ;
Last hitting, is key, but you probably know this.
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John Mayer continued his support for soldiers last week (ends28Apr13) by painting a veteran's home in Shreveport, Louisiana.
The singer, who donated proceeds from his 2012 tour to help former servicemen and women, picked up a paintbrush in aid of the Veterans Build 2013 campaign, which aims to provide properties for those returning from duty.
He tells the Shreveport Times, "You'd be surprised how quickly you take value in your work when you start putting the first couple of brush strokes down.
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Hipcask, formerly Indian Wine List, is India's first wine & spirits' focused smartphone app and consumer platform.
More than a fifth of alcohol produced in the world is consumed by Indians. A study by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry in India three years ago found that the liquor industry was expanding 30 per cent year-on-year. The wine industry is about 20 years old, it's only now that we have serious wine producers in the country. By volume, India is the largest consumer of whisky in the world.
Hipcask is also the first product in India to provide comprehensive data and analytics in the alcohol domain and helps brands reach out and engage to their consumers like never before.
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In the midst of a last push toward completion of the fake disease guide, I've had a couple of hours of solitude during which I've not been connected to the Internet, not had the TV on, not been working on something. It's been a long time since I've had solitude. The lack of it can eat away at your center. In a writer, it can shorten attention span, make it difficult to get into that deep, submerged place that your power comes from. Instead of allowing things to come into you, you are continually projecting things out from you, if that makes any sense. It will seem as if you are in a sense accumulating more power, but in fact you are diminished because nothing is flowing into you. It creates fatigue, and a certain amount of irritation.
Now that I can see the disease guide almost behind me, I can also see how much white noise I've allowed to accumulate around me. Except it's not really white noise--it's more of a dark noise, a noise with a substance and texture like an electric shock or sandpaper. It's a barrage of positive reviews, negative reviews, good vibes from a contact made, bad vibes from a contact made, anger and irritation and satisfaction and fondness and love originating from a hundred glimpsed or participated in electronic conversations about everything from New Weird to the festival of the freshwater squid. Taken separately, it's harmless enough, but all bundled together it equates to a hundred received ideas trying to get into your skull and make you into their version of what they think you are. (This is not a complaint--when you decide, as I have, to push your work hard, it's inevitable--but it does mean I need to reevaluate. At some point, there has to be an end to it: an end through which the work itself flies through to a new place, impervious to what anyone might think of it.)
In a sense, the total immersion in the disease guide and other projects, including PR for projects, is reducing me to starting over. When I start to write again, it will be hesitant and stumbling. I'll have to relearn or re-remember certain ideas or rules I knew before but have not had to live inside of for many months. In relearning them, I will come to see them from a different angle. This will in turn make the writing take on different facets or fractures. It affects the reading, too. because my attention span has been so divided between so many different projects, my reading has been sporadic, embryonic--start-stopping on one book after the next; a collection of beginnings with no middle or end. As I become a pure writer again, without distraction, I'll learn to read again, in a way.
Whenever I'm at the end of a tough, long campaign for a book I've written or edited, I begin to turn away from it--it's just a husk, a skeleton, dry and brittle--and I turn toward this kind of space that is not yet filled or complete. It's dark around the edges. It might contain a horizon, or it might just be a field of stars. There's a sense of something coming down from above, from a distance, at a great speed, but so far away that even if I saw what it was it would appear to be moving slowly. I can sense the need to become hermitlike, to withdraw, in order to receive what's coming.
This time, something quite different is coming. Whatever's waiting is a kind of sea-change for me. It won't be evident right away, because I'm working on a novel I've been working on for years, and that novel is going to pull me back into what I did before. But it may be evident in some of the new short stories. I feel good about it. I feel good that something new seems to be coming out of me.
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CHICAGO, August 8, 2012 — Impact Engine, a new accelerator that supports for-profit businesses trying to make the world a better place, welcomes eight early stage companies into the program's first-ever class. From empowering women in rural India to improving education in the United States to providing renewable energy to the people of Africa, the 2012 class includes a diverse group of entrepreneurs tackling both domestic and global challenges.
Led by managing director Chuck Templeton (founder of OpenTable), Impact Engine launched last year as one of the nation's few accelerators focused on impact investing. The organization is dedicated to finding solutions to today's societal and environmental problems through market-based business ideas.
"I am excited to welcome these companies into the program. It is inspiring to be around entrepreneurs who use business principles to address the societal and environmental challenges we face," said Templeton. "To see people building business models around water purification, sustainable employment, or services for the underbanked is seeing capitalism at its best."
Impact Engine received more than 175 applications from 15 states and nine countries, including Canada, Uganda, and Spain. Companies participating in the 12-week program, which launches in September, will receive $20,000 in seed capital, mentoring from seasoned professionals, user-centered design training, office space at Chicago's entrepreneurial hub 1871, access to investors, and more.
Impact Engine's inaugural class, known as Impact 1, includes:
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How do you exhibit leadership in the NBA?
Is it simply being the guy who commands the ball in the fourth quarter when the game is on the line and sinks the winning shot?
Is it sacrificing your body and drawing a charge on defense or busting your lip or bloodying your forehead fighting for a rebound?
Is it delivering a fiery speech at halftime to get your teammates motivated?
Udonis Haslem has never been the guy to have the ball in his hands in the fourth quarter. That was Dwyane Wade's job for the last 13 years. But Haslem has been that other guy, the one who made winning plays either with a screen, a rebound or a block. He delivered plenty of fiery, expletive-filled halftime speeches that woke the Heat up and prompted rallies.
As he enters his 14th season with the Heat at age 36, Haslem isn't the physical presence he used to be on the court. After playing a career-low 260 minutes last year in the regular season and making a few spot appearances in the playoffs, he may not be on the floor again very much as the Heat transition into a new era with a younger roster and a faster, more uptempo style.
Still, his presence and leadership – in ways the public doesn't often see – is very much needed and valued. It's why coach Erik Spoelstra named Haslem the Heat's lone team captain last week, and why the coach remarked Monday "if I announced somebody else they would say, 'Coach are you sure?' "
"It means a lot," Haslem said Tuesday of being captain, a title he shared with Wade and Chris Bosh last year. "I don't take it lightly. I put just as much responsibility and pressure on myself as a coach or anybody else could to make sure I handle that position and honor that correctly and also bring guys along with me.
"I don't just talk it, I walk it. I exemplify it," Haslem said of his leadership. "You see it, you feel it, you know it's pure when you're around me. Everything that I say to these guys, they know I've either done or I'm willing to do myself."
Tuesday, after the Heat wrapped up its final preseason practice and headed to Orlando for its season opener on Wednesday, Haslem was still on the practice court inside AmericanAirlines Arena, running sprints alongside injured second-year guard Josh Richardson.
Why? Because he wants Richardson to understand how badly the team needs him back. Haslem also knows Richardson is a big part of the Heat's future, and leadership values have to be passed down the way they were to him by Shaquille O'Neal, Alonzo Mourning, Gary Payton and others.
"I don't know if he knows how much it means to me, but that's the kind of captain I want to be," Richardson said after he and Haslem finished a series of 10 sprints up and down the court Tuesday after practice. "When I get to be the captain of the team or it's my team or some other young guy's team, that's how I want to be. It just leaves an impression."
The Heat, in the midst of a roster makeover with Wade now in Chicago and hris Bosh unlikely to ever play for the franchise again, is looking for its next round of leaders to emerge. Spoelstra is counting on Haslem to be both the bridge and the trail blazer to that point.
Center Hassan Whiteside is showing flashes of it this preseason Haslem said. So has Goran Dragic, Justise Winslow and Tyler Johnson. Even newcomer Dion Waiters has, Haslem said Tuesday.
Ultimately, Haslem said, Miami needs someone to emerge and not just show flashes. He'd like for it to be Whiteside.
"His numbers are going to be his numbers. He's going to put up his 20s and 20s. He's going to block his shots. But for him, the next step is to take that step leadership-wise, be that voice on the floor, set an example for these guys," Haslem said at the start of camp.
"My minutes come few and far between. So we have to have a guy that's going to have to be vocal on the floor. We don't really understand Goran all the time. So, it's going to have to be Hassan. But we don't really understand him all the time either. We have to figure out -- it's got to be one of these guys."
For now at least, it's Haslem's voice that's the loudest and most respected in the locker room.
"He's the most experienced guy in this team," Dragic said. "He won three championship rings. He knows what it takes to be at this high level and compete. I feel like he's a box you need to open up and just learn from him because he has so much knowledge."
At times this preseason, Haslem was spotted standing and yelling toward the court from the Heat bench. Although it may be perceived he's shouting at his teammates, Whiteside said Haslem is "talking mostly to the other team."
"He's not going to scream at you," Whiteside said. "He's going to talk to you, help you out."
Said Haslem: "When I yell at our guys it's only at halftime. But I don't really yell at anybody. It's more of a motivational thing."
And getting guys motivated, Haslem said, hasn't been a problem.
He hasn't had to have a talk with Whiteside about staying calm or in control of his emotions once yet and doesn't think he'll need to. That's something he had to do in the past.
"Hassan has been great, man," Haslem said. "I think he understands how big a responsibility he has now and how important he is to our success and how much we value him as a player and as a person."
Little by little, Haslem said, the Heat's future leaders will emerge. For now, he's going to be the front man and nobody has a problem with that.
"Right now he's the heart and the soul and we kind of move around him," Winslow said. "It will be nice one day to have that role. But you've got to take steps."


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5 Asian drama OST songs you can't miss when the lead actor sings
When you watch a drama, not only the plot intrigues you and the male and female leads attract you, but also the beautiful sound track pulls you in. It is not rare that the actors or actresses contribute to sing the theme song for the drama. Here are the beautiful songs played by your beloved stars.
1. Yao Chen, the female lead in Divorce Lawyers sang the song "Don't Let Love Get Lost" (别让爱迷路)
2. Raymond Lam, who played Emperor Wu Liu Che in The Virtuous Queen of Han sang the song "Protect" (守护)
3. Myolie Wu, Empress Consort Hao-sun in Curse of the Royal Harem, contributed to its OST
4. Ji Sung sang "Manchurian Violet" in Kill Me, Heal Me
5. Kirsten Ren sang "Loneliness, Love or Not" (爱不爱都寂寞) in Someone Like You (听见幸福)
Bonus: Some audiences asked for the ending song for Divorce Lawyers. Here are the Chinese version and the English version of that song. The singer Wanting Qu is is a Chinese-born singer-songwriter and pianist who is now based in Vancouver, Canada.
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Too often, people confuse passion with financial reward, reasoning that if something is rewarding for their bank account it will also be a fulfilling pursuit for them to follow. Unfortunately that reasoning is flawed, and is a quick way to burn out...
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Leading property investor turned respected real estate investment educator, Rick Otton, has recently recorded a podcast in which he discusses the key components needed to ignite an individual's passion.
"Whether it's investing in property, playing darts, or rock climbing, passion is the key ingredient to getting better at any pursuit", said Mr. Otton.
"Too often, people confuse passion with financial reward, reasoning that if something is rewarding for their bank account it will also be a fulfilling pursuit for them to follow. Unfortunately that reasoning is flawed, and is a quick way to burn out or lose interest in the process. This often means that you will fail or won't achieve the results you set out to achieve" said Mr. Otton.
"For example, if you want to get into property investing, it's important to find a passion for what interests you in that area. For me personally, it's structuring deals to sell properties and get income streams for investors, and educating folks about how to grow their wealth" said Mr. Otton. "For others it may be travelling to find far-flung rural properties, finding the best apartment opportunities in capital cities, or locating unloved gems in the suburbs that need a bit of work to really shine" Mr. Otton went on to say.
"Whatever the passion, it's important to goal set and measure your progress. Doing this can have a snowball effect for investors, as they are encouraged by successes and are motivated to do more and do it better. On the flip side, tracking progress against your goals also allows you to identify where you're making mistakes and prevent prolong periods of mistakes and losses" said Mr. Otton.
Investors who are interested in hearing more about the creative real estate investing strategies for which Mr. Otton has a passion can tune in to the We Buy Houses Radio Show. In these podcasts he discusses new and evolving strategies, and goes into the specifics of property investing in detail.
Previous episodes of the show, as well as full transcripts are available for download at no cost at http://www.WeBuyHousesRadio.com
For over 24 years property investment specialist Rick Otton has built an impressive real estate portfolio using innovative strategies that he has developed – that don't require taking out traditional bank-type loans. He constantly refines his techniques as he buys and sells properties through his We Buy Houses business which operates in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
A gifted speaker and educator, Mr. Otton conducts regular free seminars across Australia, which build on the concepts he shares in his book 'How To Buy A House For A Dollar'. The book was voted by Money Magazine and Dymocks Book stores as one of the Top 10 Most Popular Finance Titles for 2013.
He regularly broadcasts, records, and publishes the transcripts of, his iTunes podcasts via We Buy Houses Radio.
Known for his innovative low-risk, high-reward approach to Australian real estate investing, Rick has been featured in a variety of television programs and magazines, including Today Tonight, Hot Property and Australian Property Investor.
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By Brian McCulloch
The San Luis Rey Road Race has been a fixture in the Southern California cycling season for over 25 years. The course has changed over the years as the area has become more populated, but the competitiveness of the field has never diminished. The race course features varied terrain with a solid climb to the finish as well as plenty of rolling windy sections to create an event that is very challenging and selective for the racers.
It has been a few years since our team has sent a full squad to this event due to travel conflicts with other events. However, for 2014 Team KHS-Maxxis pb JAKROO was back and we lined up ready to race hard from the outset with five team members clad in our vivid yellow and blue kits.
The team strategy was simple. Make the race hard. Ensure that a break-away would roll early in the race and strengthen it with teammates. Then give-it-hell in the final to bring home the bacon…or in this case the bottle of wine that was awarded to the winner. I can tell you that we completed our plan as outlined, except for the final result, but that is where the story begins.
The energy in the peloton was palpable as the Race Referee/Chief Commissaire could barely keep the attention of the collected peloton. After our pre-race instructions, we were on our way on the open road. With my favorite partners-in-crime, David Santos, Fabrizion Von Nacher, Cory Williams, and Steven Davis we set out to make the race hard. As if the 103 miles somehow would not already be challenging enough. It did not take but a few minutes and the attacks were already coming fast and thick, each time with a KHS-Maxxis pb JAKROO rider present. The peloton was moving fast and we covered a lot of ground while the inevitable rubber band effect of attacks, accelerations, and then regrouping of the peloton took place.
It was not too long, maybe ten miles or less into the race, and a break-away had already established itself off the front. It was a sizable move with nearly ten riders, We had two riders in the move with David Santos and myself representing our team. The break-away group quickly gained a gap that would prove impossible for the chasing field to close down. But not before the break-away was strengthened by one more teammate, Fabrizio Von Nacher. With my two capable teammates, we set about to ensure that this break-away stayed away from the peloton.
We worked hard to get the gap established and fortunately for us, the entire group worked really well together. This was an unexpected bonus and something that helped solidify the race early. The race winner would most certainly come from this group.
As the race went on, probably about fifty miles into the race, our Team Manager instructed us to split the break-away down in order to increase our odds of winning. Some of the riders in the break-away did not make the selection and the break-away was trimmed down to seven.
The unfortunate reality of this selection left one rider off the front of our reduced group with only two laps to go in the race. This would prove to be a tactical error for our team, while at the time it seemed that one rider off the front was not a huge threat, that rider did a great ride to hold off our chasing break-away.
Before we could organize a chase and control the gap, our competitors used some accelerations on the climb to further reduce our group in numbers. This left only six of us chasing the lone leader with one out-and-back lap remaining. It was crunch time. By this time our representation in the group consisted of myself and Fabrizio. I knew Fabi could win, but I had to be willing to bury myself to give him a chance.
We have made mistakes in this scenario in the past, having not committed to the chase. That was not going to be the case today, or so I thought. We began chasing hard and reduced the gap steadily, but the leader was fighting hard, it was going to be a tough battle. With just under 10km to go in the race, our break-away split down further under the pressure of the chase. This left Fabrizio and another rider chasing the lone leader with me and two other riders chasing the three ahead.
In the end, Fabi was able to take over a minute out of the race leader in the final kilometers of the race, but it would not prove enough. We had waited too long to chase. Fabi took second in the race and I was able to keep my composure and earn 4th in a sprint to the line.
Earning 2nd and 4th was not necessarily the goal at the start of the day. But we had executed a great race and really pushed ourselves hard. Certainly there were things we would change in hind-sight, but I must say that I am proud of the way that Fabrizio took 2nd and being in a break-away for nearly 100 miles is always a good way to spend the day! I am proud of our results on the day and being as this was my first result of the season, it is a good confidence boost for the goals ahead.
I must conclude with this, spending the day racing my bike hard with my teammates is a very rewarding endeavor and I am very thankful to have the support of very generous sponsors. The KHS-Maxxis pb JAKROO team is supported by many great partners and I thank each of them for their role in our successes, without this support the pursuit of racing excellence that we are striving for would not be possible.
San Luis Rey Road Race: 1st Cory Greenberg; 2nd Fabrizio Von Nacher; 3rd Chris Walker; 4th Brian McCulloch; 5th Logan Bass.
Thank you to everyone!
Until next time be safe, ride hard, and have fun,
Thank you KHS, Maxxis, JAKROO Custom Apparel, Shimano, Serfas, Hammer Nutrition, Rudy Project, IRT Wheels, Xpedo, Velo Saddles, Praxis Works, Rennie & Associates, Q2, Bike Religion, Chamois Butter, WD-40 Bike, Bicycle Blue Book and the Management of IPA sports.
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text: "Dear Harvey: You had to go get yourself killed for being a faygeleh? You couldn't let somebody else have such a great honor? Alright, alright, so you liked the boys, I wasn't wild about the idea. But I got used to it. I never said you wasn't welcome in my house, did I?" So goes a passage from A Letter to Harvey Milk, the stage adaptation of the short story by Leslea Neman, author of the PTA favorite Heather Has Two Mommies. Harvey Milk was a charismatic leader who did as much for gay politics in San Francisco as anybody in the '70s. He turned politics on its ear by running for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, trying three times until he finally won in 1977, making him the first openly gay elected city official ever. When former City Supervisor, ex-cop and fireman Dan White snuck into City Hall on November 28, 1978 and assassinated Milk and the popular Mayor Mascone, the city was left in shock, and gay politics lost its leading light. A Letter to Harvey Milk, performed by Yaron Schweizer (pictured), is a one-man show telling the story of a Jewish man's journey from Poland to San Francisco, from the Holocaust to the struggle for gay rights. The play will be performed as part of Manbites Dog's "Don't Ask/Don't Tell 2002: A Festival of Queer Theater and Performance," June 13-16, at the Manbites Dog Theater in Durham. Call 682-3343 for details.