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Friday, October 30, 2009
Nuggets Blazers Recap
Remember when I said that I would never do another game recap? No? Oh, good. I just put one up over at Bust a Bucket. Click here to read my rambles.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Vote Bust a Bucket Or Die
(Damn you Sean Combs. Exactly how have you managed to make me still be aware of your existence?)
Bust a Bucket is up for some Bloguin Network Awards:
Bust a Bucket is up for some Bloguin Network Awards:
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- Best basketball blog
- Blog of the Year
Go HERE and vote early and often. I would love to bask in the glory of something I had nothing to do with. (I am a sports fan after all. Its what we do.) Also, a vote for Bust a Bucket is a vote for Finland. Unless you hate Finland (anti-Finlandism is an ugly sore on the body of humanity), in that case a vote for Bust a Bucket is a vote for whatever it is you that you like.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Portland Trailblazers: Worst font in basketball?
Click here and see the court design of every NBA team. Below is your Portland Trailblazers:
I've never complained about this before, but seeing all the court designs side by side really seems to show the lameness of the Blazers' font. Portland has an awesome team, a solid abstract artsy logo, and that stupid red-outlined sort of italicized gray corny font spelling out the team name. It reeks of trying too hard.
This is supposed to be a season full of nods to the old school, right? Why not go back to something like this, and leave it.
(Assist TrueHoop.)
I've never complained about this before, but seeing all the court designs side by side really seems to show the lameness of the Blazers' font. Portland has an awesome team, a solid abstract artsy logo, and that stupid red-outlined sort of italicized gray corny font spelling out the team name. It reeks of trying too hard.
This is supposed to be a season full of nods to the old school, right? Why not go back to something like this, and leave it.
(Assist TrueHoop.)
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Ron Artest's latest: Afghan Women
The jokes are easy. I'm sure we'll see plenty. But this latest video from Artest is a little more than that. The man is trying to make a positive difference in the World, albeit in his unique way. Honestly, its hard for me to clown a guy thats more active in that department than I am.
On and off the court Artest has often seemed like that puzzle piece that doesn't quite fit like it should. Not necessarily in a sad way. Its more like if that jigsaw piece realized it didn't fit, said fuck it, and kept it moving. (Can puzzle pieces keep it moving? I'm bad at metaphors.) Following that idea I can't help but find Artest empowering.
I'm sure I'll still laugh at some of Artest's actions. (Update: Yep.) Thats expected. But this video, more than anything else curiously enough, has me feeling like I understand him a little better. I'm done writing him off as nothing more than crazy sideshow entertainment.
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I heard that JJ Redick is a dope rapper
And Twitter continues to take over my life. I saw the above by following Marcel Mutoni. I haven't heard any of the album, but I think we can all agree that it will be the greatest of all time.
Also, follow me on Twitter. I'm riveting.
(Sorry about the 8 Mile reference.)
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Batum Out. This season sucks already.
Get ready for a whole bunch more Travis Outlaw jump shots. As you know by know, Nicolas Batum will be out for a while due to an uncooperative shoulder.
Batum was rapidly becoming my favorite non-Roy Blazer. He was coming off a run with the French National Team that had taken his confidence to a new level. Batum's rapid development was going to be one of the most interesting things to watch this season.
Don't act like this doesn't suck. Outlaw and Webster are substitutes? Please. If they were that capable Portland wouldn't have bothered getting Batum in the first place.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
JR Rider Watch: North Texas Fresh edition
I'm not sure how I managed to miss this for so long, but a team has signed JR Rider back into action.
The team is the North Texas Fresh and the league is the ABA. Their mascot appears to be a monkey gangster from the 1950's. Team merchandise is not currently available. (Way ahead of you on that one.) Yes, they happen to play their home games in a gymnasium that is owned, operated, and otherwise used by a high school.
The important thing is that Rider will indeed be doing something resembling professional basketball. That means the JR Rider Watch is still on. We will strive to cover the comeback of all comebacks as well as possible.
I must add: Should have been you, Yamhill HighFlyers.
UPDATE: Its been brought to my attention that the monkey gangster from the 1950's mascot strikes some as a sort of racist mascot, which is a lot less fun.
(Photo Assist: BIOHH EVENTS.)
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Joel Freeland Update: Watch This Man! Edition
Check out my Joel Freeland update over at Bust a Bucket. The guy seems to be turning into one of the better players in the ACB League. Very good news.
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Great Brandon Roy Picture
Jim Taylor (follow his Twitter here) put up an excellent photo of Roy from Aldridge's "I Get Money" press conference. (By the way Blazers management, you held off this long just to give LaMarcus a deal that is about 90% of a max contract? I really hope there was no high-fiving on your end.) Here is the photo link. Here is the photo tweet. I really feel like this should be the wallpaper on my laptop. It is a gift to have a franchise player that is so engaged in supporting his teammates. Forgive me for gushing. Brandon Roy for President of the Universe.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The C Word
Yeah. I'm not writing much these days. Don't worry my loyal readership, I will return with force in a couple weeks. All seven of you will be very pleased. For now just tickle the trickle. I put something new up over at Bust a Bucket.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Petteri Koponen Watch: Bum ankle edition
Hippo (formerly H.T.) makes use of the Finnagler nickname for the first time ever, I think. Huge step forward.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Ron Artest is looking for a Georgetown Girl
My decision to jump on the Twitter is still paying off big time. (Follow me!)
The latest gold comes from friend of the blog (I wish) Ron Artest. He has a new music video out. It contains enough comedy to make it worth watching. I would have thought that auto-tune would be too afraid of Ron Ron to be so bold and modify his voice. I was wrong. Please, savor the flavor:
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Brandon Roy a top 10 player
According to SLAM, at least.
We all know these types of lists require some silly assumptions and an above average tolerance for bullshit. I didn't link to the article because it has any objective value. The article itself is a mildly confusing read, and the responses are strange even by internet commenting standards.
But the article unintentionally raises an uncomfortable question. Is it possible for Brandon Roy to occupy a space where he is simultaneously not-famous (in the mainstream sense) and overrated? Is that even possible? How many NBA stars have had entered this territory?
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Chris Dudley for Governor?
Enormous breaking news over at Bust a Bucket.
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Petteri Koponen Watch: Block Party! Edition
New one up over at Bust a Bucket. These things excite me.
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
Kenny Anderson! KENNY ANDERSON!
Kenny Anderson is a former Blazer that I rarely hear fans speak of. In the micro bubble of Rip City celebrity even Robert Pack gets more buzz. Granted, we didn't really get to know Kenny. He was here less than two seasons. But he was here. And we are allegedly a group of rabid fans. There should be no player left behind.
In his one full season with the team he produced at high rate with 17.5 points, 7 assists, and 4 rebounds per game. He had a lasting impact on the franchise in that he was traded for Damon Stoudamire. (At which point he bravely stood up for America by refusing to play for that communist Canadian team. U-S-A! U-S-A!)
Like me, Kenny Anderson is on Twitter. This is the main reason I forced out this post. Go visit him now. Yes, that really is a picture of him sitting with co-tragically under-mentioned Blazer Rod Strickland. (Who can forget when Rod showed up and the team's chemistry was destroyed, never to recover? So Whitsitt.) Yes, that really is a basketball in between them that might have the F-word written on it. It gets better, here is his most recent post as of this blog entry:
ABOUT TO GO TO SLEEP I'LL HOLLA U COCK SUCKERS! LOLabout 2 hours ago from web
I love Twitter.
UPDATE: It appears our man has deleted his instant-classic Twitter post. We honor it's memory.
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Happy Antoine Walker Appreciation Day!
Don't question it. Just take a little time out of your day and appreciate Antoine Walker. Before the weight become such an issue, before he resorted to doing nothing more than standing at the 3 point line and launching everything he could get his hands on, before we knew about the gambling and got kind of worried about Employee Number 8, he was doing things few power forwards had ever done before.
To Antoine Walker: Thank you.
To Everyone else: Happy Antoine Walker appreciation day.
Potluck style!
- FreeDarko said it before, much better than I ever could.
- Walker's stats. Of note:
- Contributions from dying media:
- His second year in the League (97-98): 82 games, 39.9 minutes per, 22.4 points, 10.2 boards (3.3 offensive), 3.3 assists, 1.7 steals.
- 2001-02: Eight (8!) three point attempts per game.
And of course, we end with a youtube highlight package. Thanks for joining in, see you next year.
- 1996 article from Kentucky (remember, he left KU after just two seasons. Before that sort of thing was easily accepted) talking about how immature Walker is.
- 2003 article, Walker pissed at Danny Ainge. Remember how much Ainge sucked as a GM before he unified Earth, Wind, and Fire?
- 2002 article, Rick Pitino mentions spending years attempting to get Walker to model his game after Magic Johnson.
- 2001, SI article about Walker and his buddy Paul Pierce taking the C's back to the top.
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Brandon Roy's star power growing
Portland fans have known how special Roy is for a while. The rest of the League, sans-Bucher, warmed up to him last season.
Respect from home fans and basketball people is one thing, mainstream commercial appeal is another. I've been waiting to see if and when the masses will become aware of Brandon Roy the celebrity. This is indication that he is on his way.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Sun Yue waived by Knicks
That was quick. I'm still holding out hope that Sun Yue finds a roster somewhere in the NBA this season. In my fantasy the Spurs see his true potential, sign him, and in a few seasons Sun is a problem for the opposition. I may need help.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Petteri Koponen Watch: Supercup Edition
Hey there, new Koponen Watch up over at Bust a Bucket. I think H.T. has changed his moniker. Is the Finnish Mafia on to him?
I am perfecting the art of posting new entries at times that will minimize page views. Worst. Blogger. Ever.
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
Zach Randolph Watch: 18 pounds and HALF THE FAT! Edition
Sometime in the near future I will be eagerly typing up another snarky Zach Randolph entry then suddenly be interrupted by a sad realization. My bitterness towards Z-Bo has become so ingrained in my identity that I just can't let it go. The Blazers have a beautiful team now, loaded with potential and poised to return Portland to an elite level. And here I am writing about Zach Randolph. That will be a truly sad day.
But until then, enjoy another Zach is finally in shape! article. Ha!
Eighteen pounds? Half his former bodyfat? Even by Zach Randolph standards this is getting a bit out of control. We patiently await the Zach has finally matured! article. (So far we only have a Zach might have matured! article.) Don't let us down Memphis.
While I didn't see Zach Randolph play but a couple of times last year, he too looked trimmer than I remembered. Pranica notes that Zach has dropped 18 pounds and about half his former bodyfat. Grizz trainers say that both Randolph and Gasol look as if they won't be as strong, but that's misleading. Both added muscle mass while dropping bodyfat.
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1. See photos of Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss before they hit it big. [The Cut]
2. Fashion runs in the family? Kendall and Kylie Jenner are set to design a juniors line. [WWD]
3. Marilyn Monroe's diet included raw eggs and milk. The food of superstars. [The Cut]
4. Johnny Depp launched his own publishing imprint called Infinitum Nihil, which means "Nothing is forever." [E! Online]
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When Bruce Hahn wanted to sell off a portion of his property in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley a few years ago, he listed the parcel with a local broker who offered his services as a "dual agent." And when the broker landed a would-be buyer, Hahn asked the broker, as any savvy seller would, just how high he thought the buyer was willing to go. The broker's reply startled his client: "He told me, 'I can't tell you that because I signed him up as a 'buyer's agent,'" Hahn recalls.
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Title – I Am Number Four
Director – D.J. Caruso
Starring – Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant and Dianna Agron
Release Date – February 25th
I am Number Four is a typical teenage coming-of-age film: boy lives alone with his father, boy moves from town to town regularly, boy meets girl and falls in love, boy is an alien with flashlights for hands. Ok, so maybe it's not all that typical.
Alex Pettyfer (Stormbreaker) stars as John Smith in this film, which has been adopted from Pittacus Lore's eponymous novel. John and eight other children were forced to escape their home planet before it was destroyed (in a very, very Superman-esque fashion) when they were infants. These children look identical to normal humans except for superhuman powers that develop as they go through puberty.
As the film opens, we see a child running from unseen pursuers, who is eventually caught and killed. This child was third of the nine, and it is revealed that the same aliens who destroyed their home planet, have tracked the children to Earth. John realises that as number four, he is next on the list and goes on the run. He is not alone however; his guardian, Henri, played by Timothy Olyphant (Hitman) accompanies him and they start a new life.
As for the aliens who are supposedly hunting down these children, a less intimidating bunch of people could hardly be found. Apart from one particularly unsettling scene, the aliens have little to do besides very slowly track down these children and kill them. In fact, they aren't even given names – even the main alien, who has significant screen time, is rather pathetically credited as 'Mogadorian Commander.'
This sentiment is carried on throughout the film, with no real evidence of character development. There are some moments of dialogue between John and Henri that buck this trend, but these are exceptions. Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, creators of the television show Smallville: Superman, the Early Years, wrote the screenplay for the film and it seems as though they still have to get the hang of writing emotional conversations.
With all its faults however, it is not a bad little film. The action scenes are well paced, and the visual effects, while not mind-blowing, are competent and decent throughout. Just don't look for anything revolutionary.
In a nutshell: It'll keep you busy for an afternoon, but don't expect it to change your life.


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At the Fourth Annual Peter A. Jaszi Distinguished Lecture in Intellectual Property, Judge Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will present a lecture on the role of the fair use doctrine within the structure of copyright law. Judge Leval is responsible for introducing the concept of transformative use to United States fair use jurisprudence and will discuss the development of the doctrine to date. He is the author of the court's opinion in Authors Guild Inc., et al. v. Google, Inc. (October 16, 2015) in which the court held that Google's digitization of copyright-protected works, creation of a search functionality, and display of snippets from those works are non-infringing fair uses. Judge Leval also authored Toward a Fair Use Standard, 103 HARV. L. REV. 1105 (1990).
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on the last august evening I sat at the local cafe known as Starac, Old Man (and the Sea). I picked up a newspaper and a cheap summer romantic paperback. it is entertaining to a certain level but mostly incredibly boring. the usual summer-by-the-beach literature. this little town that I call my home is made up of less than two thousand people. the beauty of Starac is that it is kind of the centre of everything. locals and tourists come there to have a cup of coffee in the morning as well as a glass of wine in the evening. it is always busy. I chose my spot in the middle just as the sun began to descend. everything glowed in orange, red and yellow; people stopped by; laughed; talked; children drove past on bikes; everyone bathed in sunlight. summer makes people happy; summer makes me happy and particularly in croatia.
countries of the mediterranean are blessed with an atmosphere, food, people and culture that can be found nowhere else in the world. I guess what I missed the most and never realized it, was the mentality of these people. warmer, easy going and with nothing to worry about. two glasses of bevanda made me feel warm, I walked barefoot to the marina, taking photographs along the way. the moon is young tonight. in its first phrase and could be seen while the sun was still out. looking at it I thought it was the symbol of summer. it is my permanent association with my grandmother, in a way.
I walked around, choosing my yachts and thinking of life, thinking of where I could end up one day. but still I am convinced that this is the place I will always come back to. the locals were playing balote, just as always. I even recognized some of the players. it is strange for me to think that some people never move anywhere in their life. it is one of the things that will forever remain unfamiliar to me. I bought ice cream to keep me company on the way home and spent the rest of the night sitting on my terrace and starring into deep darkness that is the night sea. it fascinates me the way light reflections move on the water; disturbing the stillness of everything around, living their own life. and then I thought, maybe I am my own reflection.
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The mention of historical weather events can easily activate memories of those occasions: where we were and what we were doing when they occurred. Examples include Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina and even snow events and flooding. Scottish Missionary Robert Moffatt returned from Africa to try to recruit people to help him. Remembering a cold night, when only a few women and a boy were in attendance, Moffatt later wrote, "It's hardly worth my while to give this talk." He put his heart into his presentation and Moffatt inspired the young boy in attendance. The boy later became a doctor, a Protestant missionary martyr, scientific investigator, explorer and posthumous national hero. That man was Dr. David Livingstone.
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MONDAY: Colder (Partly Cloudy Icon) 57/34
TUESDAY: Chilly (Sunny Icon) 56/36
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The AgFreight.com website has been in operation since 1999 and helps truckers find loads to run their operations more efficiently. Shippers of agricultural commodities, such as grain, feed and fertilizer can post their loads on the website for free and truckers contact them to arrange for more efficient transportation of their products. The AgFreight.com website has a large searchable database of load listings and is used by hundreds of shippers and truckers across North America. There is also an extensive list of information such as commodity prices, highway conditions and fuel prices.
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Discussion in 'GBAtemp & Scene News' started by shaunj66, Oct 24, 2006.
"Rise and shine, Mister GBAtemp, rise and... shine. Not that I wish... to imply that you have been sleeping on... the job. No one is more deserving of a rest, and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until... well... let's just say your hour has come again. The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So wake up, Mister GBAtemp...wake up and...smell the ashes."
Wow, that's got to be the worst title screen ever.
I think "Kanshuu Nippon Joushikiryoku Kentei Kyoukai: Imasara Hito ni wa Kikenai Otona no Joushikiryoku Training DS" takes that title
Do the developers even make money of late and bad releases like this one?


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Volkswagen creates the Scirocco GTS
Volkswagen has created a very eye-catching version of their Scirocco coupe.
Badged GTS, the car packs a unique specification that includes a pair of broad stripes running the length of the vehicle from bonnet to tailgate, red- or white-coloured door mirror caps (depending on body colour), bespoke 18-inch "Thunder" alloy wheels and a panoramic sunroof.
But don't think you can order the Scirocco GTS in any colour that takes your fancy, as only Candy White (with black stripes and red door mirrors), Salsa Red (black stripes, white mirrors), Deep Black Pearl (white stripes, red mirrors) and Indium Grey (black stripes, red mirrors) are available.
Adding to the fully-packed specification of the R-Line model, the Scirocco GTS comes with black "Vienna" leather upholstery with red stitching and an embroidered GTS logo, bespoke multifunction steering wheel with GTS logo, floor mats with red piping, GTS sill plates, Piano Black and Black Peak decorative facia inserts and Piano Black door handles. The classic GTI "golfball" gearknob appears too.
As on the Scirocco R-Line, equipment includes an RNS 315 satellite navigation, Adaptive Chassis Control, 2Zone Climate Control, MDI multi-device interface and Bluetooth telephone connection.
The GTS is available with either a new 2.0-litre TDI 175bhp or 2.0-litre TSI 208bhp engine, and a six-speed manual or DSG gearbox.
Prices are £27,945 for the TSI manual, £29,345 for the TSI DSG, £27,980 for the TDI manual and £29,395 for the TDI DSG. Ordering opens January 2, 2013.
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- 6 cinnamon doughnuts
- ½ cup (125ml) maple syrup
- 8 scoops vanilla ice-cream
- NOTE: This recipe is best made just before serving.
Split doughnuts in half horizontally. Cook doughnuts, in batches, on a heated, oiled grill plate until browned lightly on both sides.
Drizzle doughnuts with maple syrup; serve with ice-cream.
Not suitable to freeze. Not suitable to microwave.
Cook's note
To ensure that you are buying pure maple syrup, check the label — it should be the only ingredient.
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Bring 2 pots of salted water to a boil. With the tip of a small knife, cut an X into the base of each Brussels sprout. Cook the beets and Brussels sprouts in separate pots until just tender. Prepare a bowl of ice water. When the vegetables are cooked, plunge them into ice water to stop the cooking. While the beets are still warm, peel them and cut them into 1/2-inch dice. Cut the Brussels sprouts in half and set aside. Meanwhile, cut the stems out of the squash and pumpkin. Peel them with a sturdy peeler or sharp paring knife. Cut in half, scoop out the seeds, and cut into 1/2-dice. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. When all the vegetables are prepared, toss them together and spread on cookie sheets or in earthenware baking dishes. Drizzle with olive oil and dot with butter. Sprinkle with sugar, plenty of salt, and nutmeg. Bake until tender all the way through and a little crusty, 30 to 45 minutes. Start checking the vegetables after 30 minutes. If you want to make the vegetables more crusty, raise the heat at the end of the cooking to 550 degrees. Bake until browned and serve immediately or at room temperature.
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To experience a luxurious, unique way of living, the Enclave at 1550 is the place to call home. The high-rise apartment is truly special. Located just 15 minutes from downtown San Antonio, this is an exceptional living experience. The Outer North Central neighborhood gives residents access to museums, dining, shopping and entertaining. There are several fine Mexican as well as American restaurants. For entertaining, there is the Martini Ranch, the Club West and the Backstage Lounge. Residents who love art can enjoy the Hildebrand Art Gallery, Greenhouse Fine Art of Alamo Heights and the Magic Lantern Castle Museum. The transportation system is available throughout the neighborhood. There are boutiques and regular stores in the area such as Hobby Town USA . The Park North Shopping Center is also nearby. The closest parks are Dellview and Windsor Parks. Grocery shopping can be done at H-E-B, Nassau Food Mart and the San Antonio Farmers Market.The Enclave at 1550 offers spacious one and two bedroom floor plans. Furnished units are also available. The apartments have washer/dryer connections, dishwashers, walk-in closets, air conditioning, ranges, and high speed internet.There is a concierge, controlled access, alarms, a package service, fitness center, game room, pool, on-site property management, and a variety of leasing options This community is wheelchair accessible and it is pet friendly.


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This is the 11th painting in my Spring/Summer 2016 Collection titled, "Silver Princess". Watercolor on paper measuring 15cm x 23 cm (6″ x 9″).
I explore movement, transparency and color of floral blooms and leaves in my Spring/Summer 2016 Collection. There is a total of 12 paintings in the collection.
Please allow 1-2 business days for the item to be packaged and shipped. Please note that the painting will be shipped unframed.


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6 Unexpected Things You Can Make from Fruit & Vegetable Peels
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Published: July 20, 2016Updated: July 22, 2016
Waste not! Remember these 6 great tips to utilize your fruits and veggies to the max!
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In his ongoing coverage of Anthony Weiner's bulging junk, The Daily Show host John Oliver on Monday gleefully reported that the New York mayoral candidate was slipping in the polls. Oliver noted that Weiner's campaign manager had resigned, probably due to the fact he got tired of "sucking on the everlasting gobstopper of embarrassing revelations." The latest revelation? Weiner spent $45,000 in campaign donations to hire experts to investigate the alleged hacking of his Twitter account, which he later admitted never happened.
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There are many trends to exploit from the past season of American Idol: Randy Jackson's constant refrain, "In it to win it!"; Jennifer Lopez's vague compliments that could be applied to any contestant, regardless of who they are or what they did (never forget: "Do you watch rap?"); Steven Tyler's perpetual lechery; the way the entire panel hedges about criticism by qualifying it by saying, "At first ..." and then explaining how any given contestant pulled it together; Jacob Lusk's wordless wailing. Instead, we're saying goodbye to this season of Idol with a look at the finest moments of a longstanding tradition on the show: ending a performance by singing the song's title one last time to drive it home. Nothing says cheese like ending on the title, and these are all photo-worthy finishes.
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Our short-term apartment rentals offer the luxury of home furnishings with the accessibility of downtown Boston.
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knittingILove ep40 - all those giveaways
Hand Made Bags by Diane - all these bags
sharemypassion.eu - beautiful stitch markers / progress keepers
www.wolffundschafe.com - prize ep40
knittingILove Shop - knittingILove POUCHES and Markers
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Crafty Spring MAL open until 31st of May
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Prize ep40 - THIS EPISODE
Amazing yarn from Monika www.wolffundschafe.com, my pouches from knittingILove Shop and two patterns New Horizons Set by Jenn Sheelen and my new Forgotten Path Hat.
I draw prizes for:
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Unboxing video - KnitCrate
Instagram - giveaway new pattern
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June 2017 - WINNER - Grocery Girls (Jodi & Tracie) - congratulations!!!
In The Jar - Wool, Needles, Hands Podcast (Tayler) | Coo Coo For Cowls Podcast (Jillian)
In The Jar - Scrumptiouspurl (Samanta) | The Anxious Knitter (Joy)
WHAT'S OFF - under each Finish Object video on YouTube link to the project page with link to a pattern
Mercury Socks by Kim McKenzie FREE PATTERN Drops Fabel 602 Silver Fox
Stargazer Shawl by Marsha Ibuki PAID FOR PATTERN - is blocking
Toy - from a book - baby & toddler Knits
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Patterns Mentioned
Homestead Shawl by Marsha Ibuki
New Horizons Set by Jenn Sheelen
Stargazer Shawl by Marsha Ibuki
Forgotten Path Hat by Barbara Nalewko (Me)
So Close by Viktoria Zachanowich - video below
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Koji saves: Uehara pitches scoreless ninth inning for Red Sox
Credit: Matt Stone
Koji Uehara's first save opportunity since taking over as the Red Sox' closer couldn't have gone more smoothly.
Uehara tossed a scoreless ninth inning Wednesday, securing a 5-3 victory in the series finale against the Rockies. He needed only 11 pitches to strike out Tyler Colvin, get Yorvit Torrealba to ground out to shortstop and fan Josh Rutledge on three straight pitches to end the game and record his 16th career save.
"My approach was the same, no different feeling at all," said Uehara, who replaced deposed closer Andrew Bailey last week. "The pressure, the stress level is the same wherever I pitch, so it's nothing different."
The Red Sox have closely monitored Uehara's workload throughout the season, allowing the 38-year-old right-hander to pitch on back-to-back days only six times.
But if the Red Sox face a save situation tonight against the Blue Jays, Uehara insists he'll be ready.
"I understand how the team considers my workload, but I can go back to back," said Uehara, who spent part of the 2010 season closing games for the Orioles and was a closer for one season in Japan. "The only goal that I have is just to continue pitching in the majors. I'm old, so I don't have to think about the future, I just concentrate on what is in front of me."
Finally, we'll leave you tonight with this: Mike Napoli has caught 61 of John Lackey's starts, more than any catcher except Bengie Molina. But even from his first base position, Napoli can tell Lackey looks a little different lately.
"Actually, I think he's throwing a little harder than he was," Napoli said. "He's just locating his ball. You could tell when he throws the ball he knows where it's going and puts it where he wants it. He's throwing strikes, going after hitters. It's something good to see."
More from Napoli and Lackey in Thursday's Herald. ...
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Alfred Noyes: And the cost of war, they reckoned it in little disks of gold
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Alfred Noyes: Selections on war
Alfred Noyes
From The Wine Press: A Tale of War (1913)
We must not think. We must not tell
The truth for which men die.
To watch the mouth of a harlot foam
For the blood of Baptist John
Is a fine thing while the fiddles play;
For blood and lust are the mode to-day,
And lust and blood were the mode of Rome,
And we go where Rome has gone.
But that fate deftly swings the net
And blood is best unseen.
God shields our eyes from too much light,
Clothes the fine brain with clay;
He wraps mankind in swaddling bands
Till the trumpet ring across all lands.
"The time is come to stand upright,
And flood the world with day."
Not yet, O God, not yet the gleam
When all the world shall wake!
Grey and immense comes up the dawn
And yet the blinds are not withdrawn,
And, in the dusk, one hideous dream
Forbids the day to break!
Around a shining table sat
Five men in black tail-coats:
And, what their sin was, none could say;
For each was honest, after his way,
(Tho' there are sheep, and armament
With all that this "connotes.")
One was the friend of a merchant prince,
One was the foe of a priest,
One had a brother whose heart was set
On a gold star and an epaulette,
And – where the rotten carcass lies,
The vultures flock to feast.
But – each was honest after his way,
Lukewarm in faith, and old;
And blood, to them, was only a word,
And the point of a phrase their only sword,
And the cost of war, they reckoned it
In little disks of gold.
Play up, then, fiddles! Play, bassoon!
The plains are soaked with red.
Ten thousand slaughtered fools, out there,
Clutch at their wounds and taint the air,
And…here is an excellent cartoon
On what the Kaiser said.


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We witnessed it at Wimbledon, when Nadal finally vanquished Federer.
It would be hyperbolic to draw too many parallels between that battle and a snooker match in Glasgow. But the Grand Prix triumph of Judd Trump, 19, over world No 1 one Ronnie O'Sullivan did have the whiff of a 'I've seen the future' moment. If O'Sullivan needed reminding that all champions have their time, being beaten next door was Steve Davis.
Just as The Hurricane was finally blown away by The Whirlwind, one suddenly imagined The Rocket being grounded by the curious-looking space oddity that is Trump: spikey hair, sickly pallor and shy demeanour, all strangely reminiscent of a young David Bowie.
"I like that hairstyle," chortled Dennis Taylor to fellow commentator, Willie Thorne. "Reminds me of yours when you were young." Whatever Thorne lacks in hair, he sprouts in expertise. And he rates Trump big time. Trump was, after all, the youngest to make a 147 – at 14, breaking O'Sullivan's record.
What a match Friday's was. There were few big breaks but it swung amazingly. O'Sullivan made the greatest escape I've seen, off five cushions. He came back from a snooker down, sunk a screaming pink, then missed a regulation black. With the decisive black dangling over a pocket, he conceded – earning a warning.
Davis, 51, said before his match that his ambition was to score a break equal to his age. One day, to our dismay, that will be Ronnie.
Coverage? Hazel Irvine has the fashion sense of a Stasi interrogation specialist and the whiskery commentators miss stuff, but all ooze charm. Not so the toe-curling MC, whipping the crowd into a false fervour.
But this was not the programme's greatest failing. Those – me especially – who complain when big sporting occasions are not screened free to air were reminded that specialist sports channels have their merits. OK, not Setanta. But on Friday I was perched on the edge of my seat watching BBC2 as Trump bent over the crucial pot to almost certainly knock out the champ, when Irvine announced they were going off air for a must-see edition of Escape to the Country.
We whose houses are littered with remotes could, eventually, watch by pressing various red buttons. But when the match ended, Thorne and Taylor fell silent, leaving us pictures of spectators: no interviews, plaudits, summaries, just silent CCTV footage. And what of those without red buttons, unable to see the ending? The BBC wouldn't cut a football match, so why snooker? If it thinks snooker doesn't matter, why bid for the rights?


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The Fire and EMS Divisions carry separate and independent budgets, so both entities need your support.
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You would think that the most popular Android app would be one of Google's own, but a recent report from Nielsen shows that Facebook was the most used app in the U.S. during the last 30 days. Facebook was found to be the most active app among users 18-24 and 25-34, where it rack up an amazing 80% usage.
When it comes to app stores, Google's Android Market topped the charts with usage rates of 89-95%. This should come as no surprise since it comes pre-installed on most Android devices. Amazon's Appstore, which debuted this year and must be manually installed, made a strong showing with usage rates of 14-24%.
The most popular game was Angry Birds, which ranked highest among the older age group. Usage rates by age were 22% for 18-24, 29% for 25-34, and 35% for 35-44. Zynga's Words With Friends also ranked highly with usage rates of 21-25%.
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Suffer little children to come unto me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.
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After a long day, the sun finally went down.
The mood at St.Regal changed. Everyone started packing and looking forward to something more exciting.
The crowd started to leave the experience halls
As we were all leaving the hotel, I got the chance to meet and talk with the CTO of Flipboard. Fanboy moment.
Then we all arrived at another location where the bbq pool party took place.
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The following is a slightly modified version of the poster presented at the
Workshop on Ground-Based Geophysics on the Moon,
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, January 21-22, 2010
that emphasized the deployment of a low power digital fluxgate magnetometer for lunar networks.
This is one example of the magnetometers being developed by UCLA.
Digital Fluxgate Magnetometer Optimized for Lunar Networks
R. J. Strangeway1,2, C. T. Russell1,2, V. Angelopoulos1,2, P. J. Chi1, D. R. Pierce1, K. M. Rowe1, M.-C. Vassal3
1Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, 2Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA, 33D Plus, 641 rue Hélène Boucher - Z.I., France
Grimm and Delory [NLSI Lunar Science Conference, #2075, 2008], and references therein, discuss the importance of magnetic field measurements for studies of the structure of the moon. Such studies can use magnetotellurics, where electric and magnetic fields are measured to determine the impedance of the medium, or inductance, where the magnetic fields induced by a change in the external magnetic fields are measured. Both require magnetometers, such as the classic fluxgate magnetometer, to measure low frequency magnetic fields with high precision in a variety of environments.
UCLA has a long heritage in building space-qualified fluxgate magnetometers, and here we describe our recent efforts in building a magnetometer suitable for deployment on the lunar surface. We have recently received a prototype of a multi-stack-module (MSM) implementation of UCLA's digital magnetometer known as the Pierce-Rowe Magnetometer (PRM). The PRM has evolved from earlier efforts in migrating the original analog design to the digital domain, via magnetometers built for Space Technology 5 and the DSX mission. Here we will review that development, as well as our objectives for a magnetometer that can be deployed on the moon.
Space Technology 5
Space Technology 5 (ST5) was a three-spacecraft low Earth-orbit mission designed to investigate the feasibility of miniaturization of various spacecraft subsystems [Slavin et al., GRL, 2008]. The ST5 spacecraft included a low power and mass magnetometer built by UCLA. This magnetometer used ~ 500 mW of power, with sensor mass of 55 g, and electronics mass ~ 500 g, including 300 g for the chassis. Figure 1 shows a photograph of the ST5 engineering unit boards and sensor, with Figure 2 showing the engineering boards and the chassis. The ST5 magnetometer used a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to move some of the analog functions to the digital domain. The ST5 magnetometer was required to be low power and also provide 17 bit resolution data. This necessitated the use of low radiation-tolerant Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs).
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Figures 3 and 4 show data from the ST5 spacecraft and the FAST spacecraft [Carlson et al., GRL, 1998]. Figure 3 shows the time series data, but with the ST5 data reversed so that they have the same footprint distance from the point of conjunction. Figure 4 shows the data projected into polar coordinates. These figures show that the ST5 measurements were comparable to the FAST measurements, but the ST5 magnetometer required about one third of the resources used by the FAST magnetometer.
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DSX - Pathfinder for the Pierce Rowe Magnetometer
Figure 5 shows the functional block diagram for the DSX magnetometer, and Figure 6 shows a flight board. This magnetometer follows on from the ST5 design, in that it also uses an FPGA to replace much of the analog function of earlier magnetometers. In addition, the DSX magnetometer removes the need for high radiation-tolerant ADCs. The ADC function is built into the magnetometer itself, rather than having the ADCs solely converting the output from the magnetometer to a digital signal for subsequent processing.
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Multi-Stack-Module for the PRM
Figure 7 shows the functional block diagram for the Multi-Stack-Module (MSM) implementation of the PRM. Figure 8 shows the Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) sensor and the prototype of the 3D Plus MSM module. The MMS sensor acts as a prototype for the MSM-PRM magnetometer, but is representative of the current sensor technology we are using. The sensor occupies a volume of ~ 125 cm3, and has a mass of 63 g. The MSM-PRM module is 4 cm x 4 cm x 2 cm, and has a mass of 51 g. Figure 9 shows the PRM module attached to its test board.
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Instrument Development Objectives
Based on the development to date of the PRM, we have the following objectives for a magnetometer suitable for deployment on the lunar surface:A complete 24-bit 3-axis Fluxgate Magnetometer
120 dB Signal to Noise Ratio @ 1.0 – 50 Hz
-100 dB Total Harmonic Distortion 0.1 – 1.0 Hz
Up to 70,000 nT continuous full scale range, 100 Hz bandwidth, 1 pT rms noise floor
Operate from single 8V supply, power < 1W, low power operating mode < 600 mW
100 kRad-Hard version available (prototype ~ 25 kRad)
Wide electronics operating temperature range -50&ndeg; – +70° C
Internal heater for electronics to extend ambient operating temperature to -100° C
No active components on sensor allowing wide operating range
Simple 6 wire interface including power using CAT-5 cable, lengths can be > 150 meters
Sensor volume less than 100 cm3, mass less than 100 g
Electronics volume 7 cm x 7 cm x 5 cm, mass 100 g
We are in the process of testing the MSM-PRM prototype to determine the noise and thermal characteristics of the magnetometer, as well as the harmonic distortion characteristics. Other areas of activity include the migration to a rad-hard FPGA.
The development of the 3D Plus MSM implementation of the PRM was facilitated through NASA Grant NNX07AM69G from the Planetary Instrument Definition and Development Program.
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We've been too busy with home improvements on weekends to get out and see it, but the flowers are gorgeous this year.
5 thoughts on "The SoCal Superbloom"
Given the soaking the area has taken this year that's hardly surprising.
You should take a break, go for a drive, enjoy the view. The opportunity may not come again soon.
You know the old saw about stopping to smell the roses … it is a cliché for a reason.
Looks like stores are going to be running short on Kleenex.
Hwy 223 descending from Hwy 59 toward Arvin is always great, and was well under way Saturday. Most of the color was at the lower altitude end, so it will be increasing over next few weeks. Plenty of rain forecast this week, and even snow in Tehachapi means it will continue to improve.
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Every two years the Josephson Institute of Ethics sends out a report card on high school students who admit to stealing, cheating and lying, and the results of the survey are always a cause for alarm with headline writers, educators and parents because it's a wakeup call about how miserably we're doing as a nation with educating our young people about values.
Things that might have come naturally for previous generations, such as telling the truth, have unfortunately become problematic in 21st century America.
This year's survey, however, had some minimally encouraging results: For the first time in a decade, the number of students who said they cheated, lied and stole decreased.
Results of the survey of 23,000 high school students showed that those who admitted to cheating on an exam in the past two years dropped from 59 percent to 51 percent.
Those who said they lied to a teacher about something important dropped from 61 percent in 2010 to 55 percent.
And those who stole from a store decreased from 27 percent to 20 percent.
Despite the favorable trends, which Michael Josephson, the president on the institute, viewed as "a pretty good sign that things may be turning around," there was another unsettling statistic: 45 percent of the boys surveyed and 28 percent of the girls believed that "a person has to lie and cheat at least occasionally sometimes in order to succeed."
There you have it -- a virtual indictment of our education system, parenting and the U.S. workplace. The sad reality is that lying and cheating on the job and in the classroom is a commonly accepted practice.
We have a crisis of values in America, and it's not just among high school students. The Great Recession, which led to a serious loss of wealth and jobs for Americans, was primarily the result of greed and a lack of values, manifested in the mortgage meltdown and Bernie Madoff-like ponzi schemes. These questionable and criminal activities are symptomatic of greed in an age of excess, where values are only given lip service.
But higher education has a purpose, and ultimately that purpose must be founded on enduring values. That means at the most fundamental level, we have to teach students the difference between right and wrong, and make sure they know it's an important distinction. Muddying the waters when it comes to ethical decisions, whether in corporate America, law or business, is only another form of lying. It will be a long way back, but we in education have a serious moral obligation to do our part.
The American public realizes there is a crisis of values, and nowhere is that crisis more evident than in business. A poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus last year showed that eight in 10 Americans believe Corporate America's moral compass is pointed in the wrong direction.
More than nine in 10 say executives are governed by self-interest, including advancing their careers, personal financial gain, increasing profits and gaining advantage over competitors. At the same time, 77 percent of the responders believe it is possible to be successful and ethical. If Americans believe in honesty and integrity, why are our young people missing the mark?
What is to be done? At Sacred Heart, values are central to our curriculum. Learning to live a principled life requires training and education. Our core curriculum is called The Human Journey. The Human Journey focuses on four fundamental and enduring questions of human meaning and value:
1. What does it mean to be human?
2. What does it mean to live a life of meaning and purpose?
3. What does it mean to understand and appreciate the natural world?
4. What does it mean to forge a more just society for the common good?
By their very nature, these questions lend themselves to thought and discussion around ethics, morals and values.
In addition, every student must take a capstone course that focuses on the practice of ethical thinking and moral decision-making. This dialectic in the classroom is how values are shaped in young people.
We also recently hosted the Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl, which is sponsored by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Some 14 colleges and universities sent students to consider ethical cases before a panel of judges. In the end, the ability to cut to the heart of an ethical quandary and make a sensible moral decision is something that comes with practice based on a fundamental understanding of right and wrong, which we work to provide our students.
As a nation, we have a long way to go to get America back where it should be. As educators, parents, business executives, political leaders, journalists and religious leaders, we have a serious obligation. Once cheating and lying become culturally acceptable, a society -- not to mention a civilization -- is clearly endangered. There is much work to be done, and young people must be taught how important values are to them and to our future.


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Tutorial: Building A Platform Game With Corona And Tiled
I've mentioned the 2d iPhone game engine Corona, and the Tiled map editor in the past, but have never discussed using them together. I found an excellent step-by-step tutorial that defines the procedure for doing just that. The tutorial is from Kwigbo who has released some open source iphone apps in the past.
The tutorial covers loading in the tilemap using a library known as Lime, defining the physical environment, creating the player controls, defining the animations, and more.
Here's a video of the completed tutorial in action:
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It's hot, it's muggy, and it's not even the peak of summer. You are in Tashkent: annoyed with the constant police surveillance, sweating your balls off, waiting for your visa to come through.
There really is only one way out, and it's to head for the mountains. You could say that mountains are not what you came to Uzbekistan for – that's what all the other Stans are for!
And you would be wrong.
A 2-hour ride northeast from Tashkent lies Chimgan, Tashkent's mountain resort. In wintertime it's the place to be in Uzbekistan for skiing and heliskiing. In summer, it's a great weekend getaway from the city: cheap, quiet, and right in the middle of an endless stretch of glorious mountain scenery.
Chimgan's surroundings are a great place for mountain biking and hiking, and just feel sooo relaxing after the oppressive atmosphere occupying Tashkent.
Charvak reservoir
For those who just want to relax by the water, the road to Chimgan ends 20 minutes earlier in Bakachur at the Charvak reservoir. The brilliant blue of the reservoir attracts large crowds in summer. Uzbeks generally content themselves with a little plop in the water, while the Russians are more likely to be seen windsurfing, paragliding or performing their inimitable standing-up-sunbathing routine.
You will see lots of tents along the shore, with meat-scented smoke emanating from the fires grilling shashlik on the beach. If you don't have a tent yourself, you can stay at one of the hotels or grab your sleeping bag and stay in a choikhana offering beds under the open sky. Beware, it gets cold.
Coming from Tashkent, Chimgan really feels like a different world. Mountain flowers are blossoming, in the distance lie snow-capped peaks, and the village guys are riding a horse. It really felt to me like we had already arrived in Kazakhstan as we visited one June afternoon, and as it turned out, 80% of the population of Chimgan is actually ethnically Kazakh.
It's remarkably quiet in Chimgan in summertime; Uzbeks aren't hikers. When we were there, 95% of the visitors were ethnic Russians. They had all come for a bard festival, which is a sort of open mic night in nature centered around bluesy songs about prison life and odes to Mother Mary.
As for hiking, anywhere is great. Ask for Kyzyldzhar or Aksay peak, Mramornaja Reka (the Marble river) and Gulkamsay waterfall.
Chatkal biosphere reserve
Going up further inside the extended finger digging into Kazakhstan's belly, you will find nothing but loneliness, and excellent rafting on the Pskem and Chatkal rivers. Or you can try kayaking from Koksu to the Saryram lakes.
The sky is the limit here, really, and since everyone is focused on Kyrgyzstan or nearby Aksu-Zhabagly in Kazakhstan, you have this gorgeous, unspoiled nature all to yourself. We met one English man who had been in Chimgan for a month already, exploring new tracks every day.
Even more unspoilt is the Chatkal biosphere reserve; 350 km² of forested slopes harboring bears, boars, snow leopards and Siberian goats. Petroglyphs can be found on the banks of the Tereksay river, and in spring, the area is covered in a flush of red, as blossoming wild tulips spill over the borders of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Practical information
- In Chimgan, you can camp or stay in a dacha for 10$/night. A number of hotels offer accommodation options ranging from rock-bottom to stylish luxury.
- Marshrutkas to Chirchik and Gazalkent start at Buyuk Ipak Yoli metro station. Don't be fooled by the taxi drivers, it's just a bit further than the metro exit. A shared taxi will cost about double what you pay for public transport. If you are lucky, it takes the same amount of time with the marshrutka.
- At Chirchik or Gazalkent, get in another marshrutka or a shared taxi to Chimgan or Charvak reservoir.
- A bit lower than Chimgan lies Beldersoy, another, quieter option with good walking options, or skiing in winter.
- Check out our hiking tours in Uzbekistan for guided trips around Chimgan and beyond.


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this game has "nerd" written all over it
I hate these Trading Card Game games...they're never fun and most people don't know how to play them.
The Yu-Gi-Oh card game games are actually decent... this one is a steaming pile of crap.
ya, the yugioh ones arent that bad.. but marvel.. this one does have fail written all over it..


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Garretstown is a spot where your guaranted at least 4 footers every time. Waves are nearly always bigger on the West beach and the wide bay ensures that Garretstown picks up any southerly or southwesterly swells.Because the beach has a small gradient with a holllow in the middle, it works better at low tide with the waves losing a lot of their power at higher tide.The East beach comes into its own in a really high swell when the other beach have only foam
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4ft waheeeey - The people who are saying that this is 4ft all the time are the people on the yellow foam boards that you see in most of the pictures. (4ft = 1.5ft mush)I live 10 mins away in Kinsale and have seen it 4ft maybe twice this year. Even when it is 4ft it's usually fat straighthanders. No self-respecting surfer would surf here unless desperate. Out of the 20 photos, can you see even one wave you would like to be on?
By Maurice F , 05-12-2006
Miss G-town - Grew up in Old Head and started surfing in G-town Summer 2004. Currently living in Perth and head down to Margaret River and North regularly for the nice breaks... still miss the local though. And for those who complain about it... I've been surfing in Oz for 2 years now and have never had clean 3-4 footers on a beach entirely to myself which I used get all the time back there. So shut the hell up and appreciate it.
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Stolen Songbird (The Malediction Trilogy #1)
by Danielle J. Jensen
published by Strange Chemistry
expected release date: April 1, 2014
genre: Fantasy, Romance,
**eGalley received from netGalley/publisher in exchange for honest review.
Summary (Goodreads): For five centuries, a witch's curse has bound the trolls to their city beneath the ruins of Forsaken Mountain. Time enough for their dark and nefarious magic to fade from human memory and into myth. But a prophesy has been spoken of a union with the power to set the trolls free, and when Cécile de Troyes is kidnapped and taken beneath the mountain, she learns there is far more to the myth of the trolls than she could have imagined.
Cécile has only one thing on her mind after she is brought to Trollus: escape. Only the trolls are clever, fast, and inhumanly strong. She will have to bide her time, wait for the perfect opportunity.
But something unexpected happens while she's waiting – she begins to fall for the enigmatic troll prince to whom she has been bonded and married. She begins to make friends. And she begins to see that she may be the only hope for the half-bloods – part troll, part human creatures who are slaves to the full-blooded trolls. There is a rebellion brewing. And her prince, Tristan, the future king, is its secret leader.
As Cécile becomes involved in the intricate political games of Trollus, she becomes more than a farmer's daughter. She becomes a princess, the hope of a people, and a witch with magic powerful enough to change Trollus forever.
My Thoughts: For a debut book this was a really great read. I could not stop reading it. Even when I had other things to do, I just kept telling myself 5 more minutes. One of my favorite things was the fact that there was a romance without either a triangle or insta-love.
Cecile was an interesting character. She started as a strong female that was getting ready to jump feet first into a future she had been working her whole life towards only to have it all pulled out from under her. The author did a good job making her feelings, to the different things that happen while she is in Trollus, believable. Watching her go through every emotion possible with Tristan made their falling in love a natural thing. Cecile spent a lot of time not only trying to find out more about him but about this new world that she is forced to live in.
Overall, this story has a lot of everything that I enjoy in a book. There is court politics, messed up family drama, and a great fantasy world. Along with a subtle reveal of what the trolls really are this is a series that I cannot wait to read more of.
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Daniel Kaluuya glowed at the 2018 Oscars on Sunday. It might've been because the British star was up for his first Academy Award, but it also might've had a little something to do with his foundation.
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Dennison I. Rusinow. Yugoslavia: Oblique Insights and Observations. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. 400 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4361-7; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6010-2.
Reviewed by Tom Gallagher
Published on HABSBURG (May, 2010)
Commissioned by John C. Swanson (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
An American Sage on Yugoslavia
Today the fate of the South Slav lands may seem as bleak and inglorious as that of the defeated states of the American South after the 1861-65 Civil War. But, writing in 1966, Dennison Rusinow convincingly argued that "Yugoslavia [is] a place of far greater importance than its size and strength, or even its strategic location, would seem to warrant" (p. 51). The bold decentralization in the context of one-party Marxist rule set it apart from all other communist states. After breaking with Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union in 1948, the architect of the state, Josip Broz Tito, performed an adroit balancing act between East and West. Yugoslavia remained aloof from the Warsaw Pact and came increasingly to rely on credits and loans from the International Monetary Fund. Tito's leadership of the nonaligned movement in the 1950s and 1960s provided Yugoslavia with a degree of international stature which no Balkan state has ever enjoyed since the era of national states began for this contested corner of Europe in the 1830s.
Dennison Rusinow first visited Yugoslavia in 1953 while a graduate student at the University of Oxford. In 1963, after completing a doctorate there on the history of the lands Italy inherited from the Hapsburg Empire, he began a twenty-five-year association with the American Universities Field Staff, for whom he supplied regular reports on the kaleidoscopic reality of modern Yugoslavia. It is hard for him to conceal his empathy with Yugoslavia, "the garden of nationalities," to use Johann Gottfried von Herder's phrase, struggling to put internecine rivalry and hatred behind it through egalitarian policies overlain by extensive autonomy for nearly all of its ethnic components.
Rusinow's careful eye for detail and ability to do justice to the medley of Yugoslav life with a colorful phrase is shown in part 1, called "Oblique Insights." He examines how the experiment in economic "self-management" evolved in practice through describing the arrival of supermarkets from the late 1950s and, more improbably, how the stable in Slovenia breeding the Lipizaner horses, originally developed for the Hapsburg court, fell under the control of an import-expert firm. It is in this section that most attention is given to Serbia, a village feast being described in the summer of 1963 followed by a brief account of apartment life in the new Belgrade being constructed around the same time. He periodically forsakes high politics in the rest of the volume as when he describes the korso, the traditional evening promenade which, at the start of 1980, he observed in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, where it "exceeded all others in its intensity and vivacity" (p. 284).
Part 2, entitled "Crisis Moments," comprises the bulk of the volume. The first report explores the conflict between liberals and conservatives in the power structure that, following the removal in 1966 of Aleksandar Rankovic, head of the security services, resulted in an ambiguous and temporary victory for the former. Rusinow's ability to crisply sum up a complex set of events is well illustrated here. For him the conflict that brewed from the mid 1960s "contains elements of a clash of generations, of quasi-Marxist class conflict under socialism, of regional differences, and, hence, of a conflict among Yugoslav nationalities, plus elements of a simple power struggle and clash of ideologies" (p. 54). An impasse occurred due to an inability to progress from liberal authoritarianism to a conventional democracy. The resulting political frustrations, combined with growing economic strains, led to inter-ethnic tensions resuscitating even before the architect of the distinctive socialist commonwealth, Tito, went to his rest in 1980. His remarkable skills as a mediator, which continued to be exercised into his eighties, are particularly well described in Rusinow's account of the short-lived Belgrade student revolt of 1968. The episode is meticulously reconstructed and shows his skills as a miniaturist able to unpack and coolly analyze what to less experienced observers was a bewildering flare-up. These and dozens of other reports were published and therefore available to the Yugoslav authorities. Censorship was a hallmark of the system, which may have required Rusinow to abstain from providing any frank portraits of Tito, the ultimate arbiter and lynchpin of the system. He shows how the elaborate decentralized arrangements, meant to steady the country after he was gone, were unable to promote elite consensus. Because the 1980s is largely overlooked, the fate of the social contract with the working class, meant to bury toxic nationalism by ensuring that the state was the guarantor of acceptable living standards, is not examined.
The inevitably small section of reportage collected in this volume mainly concentrates on how the doctrine of national self-rule was modified in the ethnic patchwork of the western Balkans, "where pure ethnic boundaries among states are impossible and where Great Power interests interact and would inevitably dominate minuscule but still ethnically heterogeneous national states" (pp. 298-99).
Tito feared the capacity of a divisive past to blow away the communist experiment, but instead of coming to terms with the wartime bloodletting that saw 11 percent of the population die violently in the Second World War, his regime preferred to keep the past "under the surface, un-attended, un-healed, unappeased."[1]
Enmity between Serbs and Croats, which first erupted in earnest in 1918, and contributed in no small measure to the wartime fratricide, was rightly viewed as posing particular danger to a state based on the unity of the Yugoslav working class. No less than one-third of the volume comprises four lengthy chapters dedicated to the crisis in Croatia that started at the end of the 1960s. A popular and youthful party leadership pushed demands for even fuller autonomy with symbols of sovereignty. This group was more liberal than nationalist but it linked up with noncommunist and openly nationalist elements, and by the autumn of 1971 Tito felt obliged to reassert central party discipline and authority.
Rusinow endeavors to be detached, but he openly admitted in his 1971 report that he was glad the Croatian nationalist upsurge had been checked while being sad at the arbitrary nature of the crackdown, and concerned about the future: "Observers should not pretend that they can or do avoid making judgments" (p. 136). In particular he was keen to challenge the assumption that "Croatia and Croatian Communists must always lie on the 'liberal' and 'progressive' side of the political barricade ... with Slovenia ... economically and socially the most developed part of Yugoslavia." He believed that such reasoning was "based on unverified assumptions about ... a deterministic relationship between levels of economic and social development and levels of actual or potential modernization" (p. 109).
Republican centers grew in influence as "the penultimate arbiters, under Tito, of Yugoslav politics" (p. 140). Nevertheless, it was without liberal reformers in both of the pivotal republics, the Serbian party witnessing the purge of pro-Yugoslav liberals in 1972. A process of "negative selection" saw them replaced by obedient apparatchiks who talked wooden language and were unable or unwilling to stem the rise of nationalism in Serbia in the later 1980s, (the reader having a brief and somewhat unexpected encounter with Slobodan Milosevic in the last chapter). It is a pity that elite developments in the post-Tito era do not find a place in this volume. By 1988, the U.S. academic body which had commissioned Rusinow's work was bankrupt and he was poised to return to the United States, when perhaps his insider knowledge was needed the most. The main Atlantic democracies were reliant on information from diplomats who were often disinclined to move outside Belgrade to view conditions in parts of the federation where unscrupulous forces were stoking conflict. The myopia of the West helped to ensure that not only Yugoslavia hurtled to a tragic demise but many of the benefits of its own ambiguous victory in the Cold War were frittered away. This book is a fitting monument to the scholarship of someone with unrivaled long-term knowledge of Yugoslavia who had the analytical insights and journalistic gifts to bring the country alive for many of those fascinated by the Yugoslav experiment.
[1]. Gail Stokes, "Nationalism, Responsibility, and the People-as-One," Studies in European Thought 46, nos. 1-2 (June 1994): 94.
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