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Pastries in France vary from region to region. The canelé hails from Bordeaux. This smaller than cupcake sized treat has a crunchy and chewy outside with a custard-like inside. True to the region, canelés are made with *vanilla and rum. However, other flavors can be substituted. In this version of canelé, I used Cointreau and orange extract from The Spice House. The orange flavoring in this extract is spot on. It's fruity without being overly orange or bitter. Oh. My. Yum. I am already planning frosted sugar cookies using this extract.
This recipe is best made by weighing the ingredients. Otherwise, the dough gets temperamental and will either puff too much or deflate like a fallen soufflé. Letting the dough rest in the refrigerator a day or two before baking also helps remove the air to render a custard-like interior.
Typical canelés are baked in copper molds lined with a mixture of butter and beeswax. Being that this was my first attempt at making this pastry, I opted for a more cost effective solution using butter-lined silicone molds. While the silicone molds did not produce the dark colored exterior that one would find using the copper molds, they did create the carmelized outer texture that are unique to this pastry. My American friends did not care about the color of these treats. They gobbled up two batches within a day. Even my French husband was singing my praise on these.
Orange Canelé de Bordeaux
by Tonda
Adapted from a recipe given to me from a friend in France
50 cl (2.11 cups) whole milk
50 grams butter
125 grams pastry flour
250 grams powdered sugar, sifted
2 whole eggs, plus 1 yolk
1 Tablespoon Cointreau
1 Tablespoon The Spice House Orange Extract
Butter for the molds
Add the milk and butter to a saucepan and boil until the temperature reaches 183°F. Remove the pan from heat and allow the liquid to cool. Add the flour, powdered sugar, eggs, Cointreau, and orange extract to a large bowl. Whisk until fully incorporated. Add the cooled milk and butter and whisk again to blend the ingredients. Cover and refrigerate for 24 to 48 hours.
Preheat the oven to 450°F. Melt a couple of Tablespoons of butter to brush inside the molds. Then, fill the molds 2/3 full with the batter. Set the silicone molds on a baking sheet and bake at 450°F for 15 minutes. Lower the temperature to 375°F, and bake and additional 40 minutes. This cook time is for the small molds. Immediately remove the canelés from the molds and allow to cool on a wire rack.
*To make the original recipe, slice open one Spice House Madagascar "Bourbon Islands" Vanilla Bean, and scrape out the beans into the milk and butter mixture. Add the sliced open bean to the milk before it boils to extract as much vanilla flavor as possible. Strain the cooled milk mixture through a fine sieve when adding it to the flour mixture.http://feeds.feedburner.com/37cooks
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I was fortunate enough to sidestep most of the processor growing pains by using a Matrox RT2500 hardware solution. I actually had two hardware cards for my two editing systems. I was enjoying the benefits of working in real time with transitions and effects, as well as a much faster export to MPEG-2, before authoring my DVDs using Sonic's ReelDVD. Then, in 2003, Premiere became Premiere Pro, the source code was completely rewritten, and my hardware solution was obsolete. It was nice editing in real time, but Premiere Pro did a much better job of generating previews than did earlier versions, so I went back to a software-only solution. For all its strengths in accelerating the editing process, I was quick to dump my hardware solution in place of newer software because I didn't like the fact that the video files were captured and stored in Matrox's proprietary AVI codec; it caused problems when I tried to work with my video files on another computer, such as my laptop or a client's computer, without the hardware card. Matrox fixed this problem. Its newer cards allow you to capture and work in real time with both standard AVI type-2 files and Matrox AVI files. Support is further extended with real-time editing of HDV, XDCAM EX MP4, Panasonic P2 MXF, and MPEG-2 I-Frame HD from analog component input.
Jump forward 5 years and I was happily editing away on Premiere Pro CS3, absolutely loving the multicam feature introduced in Premiere Pro 2.0 and starting to experiment with Blu-ray authoring in Encore CS3. Every year or so, I considered Matrox's current hardware offering for a fit within my workflow, but I found no compelling reason to use it with the types of projects I specialize in. Ultimately, I'd always decide to spend my upgrade budget on motherboard, CPU, RAM, and video card upgrades instead. Curious to see just how far Matrox had come since the RT2500, I contacted Matrox just prior to NAB. In July, I was sent the new RT.X2 LE card, which is a smaller version of the full-length RT.X2 PCI card. (It comes with the same effects as the larger card, which costs $400 more as stand-alone hardware, and has all the same features except for DVI-D preview.) I decided to put it through the paces of my two most time-consuming workflow areas to see how much better the RT.X2 LE would be over my existing software-only workflow.
The Workflow ChallengesMy first need was to find a workflow that would allow me to capture my tapeless video acquisitions and to edit using a multicam monitor. I've owned a Firestore FS4 since 2005, and I added a Sony HVR-Z7U with the HVR-MRC1K Compact Flash recorder earlier this year, so having a seamless tapeless workflow is high on my list. Tapeless acquisition allows me to extend my record time beyond the 60 minutes on a MiniDV tape, and it turns capture time from a linear process that needs to be tended to every 60 minutes to a speedy file transfer. The most common events I use this workflow for are dance recitals, figure skating, and conferences-or pretty much anything that requires two or more camera angles.
My second need was to speed up the time it took to perform a simple VHS-to-DVD transfer. After making a small mention in my quarterly client newsletter that I had noticed an increase in VHS-to-DVD transfers since the beginning of the year, I was bombarded with 50 additional transfers over the next quarter. I wanted a quicker way to capture, trim the VHS preroll and postroll, and insert a menu with animated thumbnails and chapter markers.
Enter the RT.X2 LEThe primary benefit of the Matrox RT.X2 LE is that even after you add several effects and layers of video, your video preview is done in real time. In addition, once you're done editing, the subsequent export does not first require rendering time for the effects and layers before encoding. Because of the hardware, this is an accelerated process. For the average wedding video producer editing on Adobe Premiere Pro, real-time editing with a Matrox card is sure to increase the creativity of the editing process as you can experiment with more effects without having to wait to see the results. I don't do wedding videos, so a hardware solution benefits me the most in accelerated export times for longer, multilayer projects with lots of effects, such as conferences and dance recital DVDs. A hardware solution for me is not as beneficial on shorter projects such as sports profile videos and website promotional videos.
When I first installed my RT.X2 LE in July 2008 on a freshly upgraded dual-core AMD Athlon X2 6000+ (3.0GHz). I was presented with so many presets to choose from for my projects that I was confused at the apparent similarity between some of the presets. I finally picked one that looked right for my source and desired output and then went to work testing my workflows. I actually didn't expect any problems and thought that this would be an easy review about all the benefits of a hardware solution. But almost immediately, I ran into some workflow issues.
My first workflow challenge was to import two sets of AVI files and edit them using the multicam monitor. The first angle was recorded on a Sony HVR-S270 to a Firestore FS-4 hard drive, and the second involved my Sony HVR-Z7U recording straight to CF. Both were filmed in 720x480 60i with a widescreen pixel aspect ratio of 1:2. I quickly transferred 6 hours of footage to a 2TB RAID. The footage off of the FS-4 hard drive came into the project as a Standard 0.9 PAR, which made everything look tall and skinny. The footage from the CF card came in at the proper aspect ratio, but it stuttered and displayed a red render bar above the footage when I put it on the timeline.
Fixing the FS-4 footage was simply a matter of selecting all the affected clips in the Project Panel, right-clicking and selecting Interpret Footage, and changing the pixel aspect ratio from 0.9 to 1.2, using the Conform To radial and drop-down menu selection. Within only a few mouse clicks, I made the clips usable in real time. Fixing the CF footage proved to be more difficult, leading me to conclude that AVI import from CF media is not supported. However, HDV from CF cards is supported, so the RT.X2 LE will benefit users working with HDV for DVD output. This will enhance my own workflow of the next few years, when I expect to be exporting HDV to Blu-ray Disc and DVD from the same project.
I continued my multicam editing by recapturing the second camera angle from tape (I recorded to both tape and a CF card on the Z7U); again, I encountered a problem. Another of Matrox's benefits is a WYSIWYG output via the supplied breakout box. This allows you to view, on an external TV monitor, your entire Program Monitor or Multicam Monitor output. This is especially important for multicam editing, and the breakout box supports component, S-video, or composite video cables.
Initially, I was excited about this feature-my LCD TV is much larger than my 22" computer monitor-but I encountered two issues with the display. I started editing with the display set to Show Preview Monitor, which displayed both the four Source Monitors and the Multicam Preview Monitor, but the images were all tall and skinny.
When I unchecked the Preview Monitor option, the aspect ratio problem went away. Then the breakout box output tried to display the Multicam Monitor on the entire overscan area, but my LCD HDTV only displays a much smaller underscan area (otherwise known as the action-safe area). This resulted in my four Source Monitors being cropped on the left or right sides, which made determining framing that much more difficult. This wouldn't be a problem with a proper broadcast HD monitor that displays the entire overscan area. But it is Matrox Axio users who are likely to have a broadcast monitor; RT.X2 LE users are more likely to have an HDTV.
It's also worth noting that I experienced the WYSIWYG aspect ratio problems only in the Multicam Monitor mode and that the breakout box output worked properly when displaying the program monitor off a traditional timeline.
VHS-to-DVD Transfer PerformanceMy second workflow, finding a faster VHS to DVD workflow, went much smoother. I still don't trust set-top DVD recorders to create a compatible DVD, and I need to manually insert chapter markers at specific spots, which isn't possible in set-top configurations (set-top recorders can do it only at regular timed intervals). I had been manually capturing VHS tapes to AVI using a Canopus Twinpact100 analog-to-digital converter. After capture I would trim the in and out points and insert chapter markers with chapter names.
Because I am most accustomed to creating DVDs from projects I shoot and edit myself, I find it faster and easier to insert and name chapters in Premiere Pro; I can benefit from being able to see the audio waveforms and titles that indicate the start of a new chapter and continue this workflow when transferring VHS tapes. I then export an MPEG-2 file to Encore, create my menus, and link the chapters to my menus. The entire process takes more than 4 hours using a software-only workflow.
Using the supplied Matrox breakout, I can capture an AVI straight to Premiere Pr. But Matrox does not support the export of chapter marks from Premiere Pro, so I had to wait until the file was in Encore to mark and name my chapter points. For a VHS transfer, this is a minor annoyance, but it becomes more annoying and time-consuming when working with a dance recital that has dozens of chapter points that all need to be manually found in Encore.
I did notice an accelerated export time using the Matrox Media Encoder, but the real benefit came when I altered my usual workflow and captured the VHS tape straight to MPEG-2 using the breakout box. In order to prevent having to rerender the captured MPEG-2, I go straight to Encore to trim the preroll and postroll, find the chapter points, and create the menus. Within a few minutes of completing my DVD navigation, I had a completed DVD and was starting the capture of the next one. The total capture time was reduced from 4 hours to 2 hours, 25 minutes. I predict the RT.X2 LE will save more than 25 hours of encoding time on one of my pending projects involving 17 VHS tapes.
ConclusionsAfter 6 months of testing the RT.X2 LE, despite the initial CF AVI issues, the card is becoming an important part of my workflow. I'm now phasing out the old SD-AVI workflow in favor of a dual-output, HDV-to-DVD and Blu-ray workflow. The RT.X2 LE will save countless hours in rendering and encoding for both formats.
The dramatic speed increase of VHS-to-DVD transfers is an added bonus too that only a real-time MPEG-2 capture can provide-no matter how fast your current eight-core, 64-bit operating system is. As far as I know, it's the only viable alternative to set-top DVD recorder transfer.
Although it's not perfect, I am happy to have the Matrox RT.X2 LE as part of my new workflow.
Shawn Lam, MPV (video at shawnlam.ca) runs Shawn Lam Video, a Vancouver video production studio. He specializes in stage event and corporate video production and has presented seminars at WEVA Expo 2005-7 and Video 07. He won a Silver Creative Excellence Award at WEVA Expo 2008 and an Emerald Artistic Achievement Award at Video 08.


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According to the Guardian newspaper, the youth texted his father from his mobile phone that he had been kidnapped Monday morning. When his father, who happens to be a Spanish police officer, phoned back, the boy claimed he'd been snatched while emptying the trash and was locked in a car trunk.
A national alert was sent out and Portugal authorities were notified in case the boy made it across the border. However, the dad noticed the keys to another house also owned by the family were missing. He found the boy hiding out there.
The "victim" admitted he was afraid of the pending parent-teacher conference and was trying to make a way to avoid it.
Fake kidnappings are unusual, but not uncommon. In November 2011, Kevin Ashton, 17, of Delray Beach, Fla., was accused of faking his own kidnapping in an attempt to to extort his father for $50,000.
Then in October, police in San Antonio, Texas, arrested Sheila Baley Eubank, 48, for faking her own abduction. She said she did it because she wanted more attention and a day off from work.
n A Minnesota man was arrested after allegedly pointing an AK-47 rifle at his daughter during an argument stemming from her getting two Bs — instead of straight As — on her report card.
Kirill Bartashevitch, 51, had recently purchased the gun because he was afraid that President Obama's push for gun control legislation would lead to a ban on those kinds of weapons, according to a criminal complaint.
Bartashevitch and his daughter, 15, were arguing about her grades on Jan. 13 in their St. Paul home, the complaint stated. When he swore at the girl over her lack of straight As, she told him she hated him, which led to him allegedly pointing the rifle at her.
A social worker at the girl's high school notified police of the event on Jan. 17. The social worker said the girl had sent a text message to a friend about the incident. The friend's mother saw the message and told the social worker about it.
Bartashevitch's wife told investigators their daughter was telling the truth about what happened, according to the Star Tribune. She added that she tried to protect her daughter, but her husband pushed her onto the floor and pointed the gun at both of them.
The man allegedly admitted to pointing the gun at this family, but added that he had checked the chamber beforehand to make sure it was not loaded. Officials said the daughter told them she was not afraid because she knew the gun was not loaded.
The daughter was taken to a shelter, and Bartashevitch was charged with two counts of terroristic threats. He was scheduled to appear in court Friday.
• Lots of folks are going to eat out this weekend. I wouldn't recommend Applebee's.
Michelle Windgassen, 27, of Louisville, Ky., and her boyfriend, John Lewis, 32, were arrested on charges of endangering a minor while they were under the influence of drugs.
Officers were called to the Applebee's after getting a call about two intoxicated adults, and allegedly found Windgassen in the bathroom snorting heroin, according to published reports. She also allegedly had a container with Xanax bars inside her purse.
Police said they found Lewis intoxicated in the driver's seat of his car with a 3-year-old boy in the back seat.
Lewis admitted he and Windgassen had been with the boy all day, and investigators said he told them he had also snorted heroin about 2-3 hours before the arrest.
Along with the child endangerment charge, Windgassen and Lewis were also charged with public intoxication with a controlled substance.
• Police in Springfield, Mass., said three masked men who tried to rob a Chinese restaurant ran away empty-handed because they couldn't figure out how to open the cash register.
The men, one of whom had a gun, entered the Peking House restaurant at about 8 p.m. Monday. A female employee saw the gun, ran out the back and called police.
Police said the thieves couldn't figure out how to open the cash drawer, so they took off.
Police scoured the neighborhood but couldn't find the suspects. The attempted theft remains under investigation.
How about looking for three guys who can't figure out how to change a light bulb? Shouldn't be too hard.


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Contrary to popular opinion, fashion is not just about branding. Believe it or not, the style, quality and originality of the product are actually quite important too. Is it not therefore important that we should have laws to protect a product's uniqueness that are comparable to the trademark laws that protect the brand?
There have been several attempts in the last few years to extend U.S. copyright to cover fashion designs, including the proposed Design Piracy Prohibition Act in 2006 and the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act in 2010, but so far these have not been successful. Ingenious intellectual property lawyers in the U.S. have therefore had to rely on other laws, such as copyright provisions, which were created to protect sculpture rather than garments.
By contrast, the European Union has had a harmonized law for 10 years, which protects designs with a legal regime that is separate but parallel to copyright.
European design law encompasses both a registered and unregistered design right. A registered design right provides monopoly protection for up to 25 years, renewable in five-year tranches. But it's the unregistered design right, which protects a piece from copying for just three years, that is of more relevance to the fast moving fashion industry
A designer may produce numerous designs in a season and will not necessarily know which ones are going to be the most commercially successful. Registering a design is less expensive than registering a trademark, but even so, it can be prohibitively expensive to register an entire collection. Unregistered design rights, on the other hand, are free and provide extremely broad protection (the European law is wide enough to cover materials and colors, as well as shape and configuration). They may only last for three years, but three years is a long time in fashion.
Some brands will adopt a strategy that utilizes both forms of European design right. A shoe manufacturer, for instance, may have distinctive patterns on the soles of its shoes, which it will use again and again. These soles can be protected with a registration, while unregistered rights are used to protect copying of the uppers, which are more likely to change with every season.
The need for tougher laws in fashion is often framed in terms of the impact of technology on the catwalk. The speed of modern communications and manufacturing can mean that "knock-offs" are able to hit the stores just days after their catwalk premiere. But opponents of new laws say that legislation to stop this would be an irrelevance. After all, the consumers who decide to purchase cheap mass market imitations are very unlikely to be the same consumers who would spend thousands of dollars on a couture garment. If the trademark has not been infringed, where's the harm?
However, fashion feuds are not limited to high-end design versus mass-market. The industry is much more layered than that. Original designs are also produced by mid-market stores and it is here that design rights are of vital importance. One chain store may employ an in-house design team to produce a new range of clothing (or watches or handbags or jewelry) and find that their designs are being copied, rebadged and sold by a competing chain that does not have to pay designers and so is able to undercut the originator. Here, the battleground is for the same consumers' dollars.
Critics of proposals to reform U.S. law point out that the fashion industry has always relied on imitation and inspiration and that design protection would cripple the industry. That has not been Europe's experience. Protecting that innovative spark only incentivizes creativity since lazy copying is no longer acceptable.
Further, those critics fear increased litigation brought about by new legal rights and argue that small designers who cannot afford lawyers will be disadvantaged. There are those, even in Europe, who share these views. Some designers prefer to simply use social media to "name and shame" design copyists. For example, designer Tatty Devine recently launched a Twitter campaign against UK retailer, Claire's Accessories.
Readers of my previous article for InsideCounsel will know that I do not condone unnecessary and ill-judged litigation, but do believe a design right claim is often a better course of action than trial by media. Social media can be a useful tool, (as of course can traditional media, the influence of which should not be ignored) but naming and shaming will not get you damages, undertakings or injunctions. It may even be counter-productive. Consumers might not look upon the infringement with disgust; they might simply take away the message that they can buy essentially the same product elsewhere, for less money.
A designer being "ripped off" is often newsworthy, but that doesn't mean that the media is a more cost-effective forum. On the contrary, the fear of adverse publicity coupled with strong legal rights mean that there is an incentive on defendants to settle design right cases early. Such settlements will usually involve payment of damages and legal fees. In that context, using lawyers to enforce design rights is an extremely cost-effective exercise.
The European design right laws are not perfect, but practical experience suggests that in the main, these rights do provide an effective sanction against those who would rather imitate than innovate.


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Bass player Björn Boehm – Circle of Silence
Interview by Anders Sandvall
Thanks to Tom Hack for setting up the interview.
Thanks to Massacre Records for providing the promo pics.
Once again it's time to check out what's happening in the Circle of Silence camp. I and bass player Björn Boehm hooked up to have a chat about what's happened since the last time we spoke. The brand new album is titled THE RISE OF THE RESISTANCE and is jammed with brilliant heavy metal music. Our chat was of course about the new album, the past and present of the band, and what lies ahead for Circle Of Silence in 2014. If you're into heavy metal music then be sure to check out the German act Circle Of Silence.


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CARSON,Calif. – Tensions will be high when the SuperClasico kicks off on Sunday, but what has the mood been like this week around The Home Depot Center?
I provided this piece on the banter –or lack thereof—around The HDC this week.
But what do the Galaxy expect from a Chivas USA side that underwent a significant reformatting during the offseason? That remains to be seen.
"Our meetings have been sort of 'We don't know what formation they're playing' and 'They've been kind of hard to read,' " defender Omar Gonzalez said. "They won their last game, but having said that, I don't think Dallas had their best game. It's a whole bunch of new players, a new coach, and so we're really just going in there not blind, but, you know, unsure."
Although Chivas are something of a mystery, one thing is for sure, the Galaxy will be in for a battle.
"We're not sure to what to expect. There's a lot of guys that we're not sure of and the coach is obviously an animated guy who is definitely going to get his team up for this game," said Mike Magee. "We're definitely well-aware that this is a pretty big game for them and we can't take it lightly."


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Kemp faces live pitching, eyes Sunday return
By Andrew Simon / MLB.com
WASHINGTON -- Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp hit against live pitching before Friday's game against the Nationals, and said he feels ready to return on Sunday, the first day he is eligible to come off the 15-day disabled list.
Kemp, who is out with an irritated AC joint in his left shoulder, does not believe he will need to go on a Minor League rehabilitation assignment. He last played on July 5, when he suffered the injury taking a swing.
"He's probably had enough of [rehab assignments]," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "There's a lot of guys who think they don't necessarily need them. Nobody wants them."
Kemp already missed 24 games earlier this season with a strained right hamstring. If he is activated Sunday, he will have sat out another 11.
Kemp took swings against left-hander Ted Lilly in a simulated game consisting of six or seven at-bats, and said he had no problems. The outfielder will do the same on Saturday. He said it's difficult to tell if he feels like himself until he gets into a real game.
"I don't know. We'll see when I start playing," Kemp said. "It's hard to tell. Practice is totally different from the game. But I feel good."
Kemp has hit .254 with a .666 OPS in 61 games this season, and now is trying to bounce back from an injury for the second time.
"It is what it is. You've got to deal with it," he said. "When you do come back, try to not get hurt. Just dealing with it. It can be frustrating at times, but it is what it is. Injuries are part of the game."
Puig part of rejuvenated LA trio back in lineup
WASHINGTON -- Taking advantage of the rest provided by the All-Star break, the Dodgers got three regulars back in their starting lineup for Friday night's series opener against the Nationals.
Left fielder Carl Crawford (stiff lower back), right fielder Yasiel Puig (sore left hip) and second baseman Mark Ellis (left knee) all were back in the lineup after missing some time with minor injuries late in the first half. Crawford led off against the Nationals' Stephen Strasburg, Puig hit second and Ellis was in the No. 8 spot.
None of the three players started the team's first-half finale on Sunday against the Rockies. Puig entered in the fifth inning and played the rest of the way, going 1-for-3. Crawford missed his fifth straight start, but entered as a defensive replacement in the ninth inning and went 0-for-1. Ellis fouled a ball of his knee on Saturday and came out the game.
"Carl was pretty good that last day, and Yasiel was actually pretty good that last day back in L.A., so I had a pretty good feeling we'd come out of the break good," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "Mark Ellis was the guy where I had a little question mark about how he'd come out, but he's come out pretty good. So we're pretty much ready to go."
Puig will be trying to get on track. In 10 games since he crashed into the right-field wall in Colorado on July 3, he is 11-for-42 (.262) with one extra-base hit, a .286 slugging percentage, one RBI and 13 strikeouts.
Crawford is making his first start since July 9.
Out with neck injury, Lilly throws simulated game
WASHINGTON -- Dodgers left-hander Ted Lilly threw a simulated game before his team's series opener against the Nationals on Friday, as he continues to come back from a neck injury.
Lilly said he threw about 20 pitches and used his whole arsenal while facing center fielder Matt Kemp, who also is on the disabled list. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said the plan is for Lilly to do the same on Saturday, take a couple of days off, then throw a "multiple-inning" simulated game next week when the team is in Toronto.
Lilly said he "felt good" during the outing, but isn't sure when he will be ready to return. He hasn't pitched for the Dodgers since June 4 and has made five starts on the season while spending three stints on the DL. The 37-year-old made two rehab starts for Class A Rancho Cucamonga before the All-Star break, but wasn't sure if would need any additional rehab games.
Considering the toll the injuries have taken, Lilly's plan is to return to the Dodgers as a reliever, despite the fact he hasn't appeared in that role since 2003.
"That's what he's wanting to do," Mattingly said. "In Teddy's words -- and I don't want to totally put the words in his mouth -- but he's feeling like his body is not responding to 90 pitches, and he's got a better chance of responding to 20 or 25. He's thinking his body's going to hold up a little bit better in a relief role, and so that's what we're trying to do."
Dodgers happy with Marmol's Minors progress
WASHINGTON -- Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said on Friday that reliever Carlos Marmol has "been throwing the ball good" at Class A Rancho Cucamonga.
The Dodgers acquired the veteran right-hander from the Cubs on July 2, and after Marmol cleared outright waivers, he accepted a Minor League assignment. In three appearances with the Quakes, he has given up two runs on four hits over three innings, walking one and striking out four.
"I think they're happy with his progress," Mattingly said. "So we'll make a decision here fairly quickly with Carlos, but everyone's happy with his progress and the work and effort he's put in.
"He's going to throw a couple more times, and we'll make a decision."
The 30-year-old was dominant at times during his tenure as the Cubs' closer but also fought bouts of wildness. He walked 6.8 batters per nine innings for Chicago this season and posted a 5.86 ERA in 31 appearances.
"We know his stuff is good," Mattingly said. "It's a matter of getting him more reps to be able to be a little more consistent. He's been pitching a long time. We're not going to change the world, give him this whole makeover. We're just trying to help him be a little more consistent. … We're allowing enough time to work on some stuff and hopefully gain some consistency, and he's a guy who can hopefully help us."
Worth noting
• Mattingly said the team's workout at Nationals Park was modified a bit to account for the weather in Washington, where the heat index climbed well over 100.
• Of the All-Star break, Mattingly said: "It was a time to basically ask guys to turn it off, really, turn the brain off and relax, try to diffuse a little bit, but make sure we turn it back on coming into the workout today, knowing that we've got to be ready to play."
• The Dodgers have hired Isao O'Jimi as their head scout, Japan. O'Jimi worked for the Mets from 1997-2011, first as a scout and then as director of Pacific Rim scouting, starting in December 2003. He was involved with the signings of several players during that time, including Kazuo Matsui and Tsuyoshi Shinjo.
Andrew Simon is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @HitTheCutoff. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Could we have found a better picture of Oliver Platt? Would we have wanted to?
Oliver Platt is confirmed to be joining the cast of X-Men: First Class as a "The Man in Black". The character is not a mutant and is (to my knowledge) not in the comics. Maybe between now and when the film begins production next month in London they'll let us know what's up with that. I'm guessing Platt's character will be a douchebag who doesn't like mutants and gets in the way, but then ultimately proves useful to them. (Really, Hollywood, Platt can play other characters. He can.)
Also, Rose Byrne (28 Weeks Later, Knowing, "Damages") is in final negotiations to play Moira MacTaggert, reports THR. MacTaggert is an expert on genetic mutations and is the love interest of Charles Xavier (James McAvoy). Byrne's been nominated for two Emmys and two Golden Globes, so it's nice to see a female love interest in a major motion picture who's not just a bland, pretty husk for the lead to chase after. She may even steal scenes from McAvoy while he's busy making this face.
Here's a list of confirmed cast members in X-Men: First Class:
- James McAvoy as Charles Xavier
- Michael Fassbender as Magneto
- Kevin Bacon as one of the villains (identity to be announced)
- Alice Eve as Emma Frost
- Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique
- Nicholas Hoult as Beast
- Comrade Fancy Whiskers as Professor Catsworth
- Caleb Landry Jones as Banshee
- Lucas Till as Havoc
- Edi Gathegi as Darwin
- Jason Flemyng as Azazel
- Chauncey Brookes-Ashdown the guard velociraptor as Himself
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So, Kakashi haters would say kakashi got free chakra and then they would end up saying he didn't improve at all and will say he will die after using 3 kamui :sy:
And kakashi fanboys will keep saying this is the only time kakashi got free chakra and before this point, he was all on his own.
This is going to be a fan war now , People are gonna post useless prove threads that kakashi got chakra here and there whenever he was near naruto.
this will get annoying for me , too much idiots on the base.. :sy: now.
i am gonna take a break from NB, will come next wednesday now .. CYA !!:ice:
But BEFORE I SAY BYE, i am adding a POLL, As we say MAJORITY WINS, PLZ ask your friends and everyone you know to vote in the POLL,
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If you guys would like to, please share with us your opinions about the multiplayer, as is for now, in the open beta.
So far i must say that although i see the potential there are still many things to fix.
For example the Hunter mode, the hunters seem too fragile and all it takes for the Cell players to survive is to find a choke point from which they can't be attacked unless the hunter gets in close range. At this point blank range the Cell players can see the cloaked hunter, they hear a sound alarm and if they place the crosshair above the hunter, there will be some red thingy putting yet another label on him just in case he couldn't be noticed from orbit.
On the other hand, the hunter's only advantage is that the Cell players often stop and don't move much after they find a place to defend, making them an easy target if they are opened at long range from a certain angle. Also the hunter can hear automated "taunts"? from the players when he gets close. Which frankly i found annoying after playing CS zombie mode for so much time. Imagine having found a place to hide (like a secret hide out) and all of a sudden your caracter starts screeming out of nowhere giving away your position. The effect is even more infuriating when there are many players huddled together. At some point i felt like screaming "Shut the f*ck up dude".......
Crash site on the other hand, we know very well from Crysis 2. Nothing significantly new there, other than the maps.....and the alien walker (which from the little time i played, isn't that OP, you can easily get away from it).
On the technical side of things, i noticed that field of view can be adjusted only while you are ingame (weird right?), ranging from 50 (or was it 55?) to only 80 (wish they allowed at least up to 90). The weapons are gigantic, taking up much of the screen. Hopefully there will be a setting for it in the future. The biggest gripe so far for me is the zoomed in sensitivity, which is actually bigger than when you are not zoomed in. WTF is up with that? As far as i could tell, you can't ajust that sensitivity, yet. Hopefully this will get fixed in the future.
Overall, having also played the Crysis 2 beta back then, by comparison with the previous installment the game seems to have less issues. It's true though that i only played a little today, so i may discover more things in the future.
Graphics settings seem abundent and with a few on medium, most on high, 1xAA (SMAA that is) and 1xAF, at 1080p the game seems to run smooth enough even on my old GTX 560Ti. I presume that current mid end and high end cards handle the game (in the current build) just fine.


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We can't get enough of the friendship bracelet trend that we've been seeing everywhere. But of course we couldn't just rock a plain friendship bracelet without adding some DIY embellishment! So we whipped up two different studded friendship bracelets to add to your stack of arm candy. Check them out below.
1. Gather your supplies. All you need is a friendship bracelet and a pack of pyramid studs.
2. Starting at one end of the friendship bracelet, push the stud into the bracelet. Make sure the prongs go all the way through.
3. Flip the bracelet over and push down each of the prongs to hold the stud in place. You can use your fingers, but you may want to use something like a butter knife to push the sharp prongs down.
4. Continue to add studs to your bracelet until you reach the end. Now you're all done!
1. Get your supplies. You need a friendship bracelet, glue, and white round nailheads.
2. Apply a small amount of glue to the back of one of the nailheads. You may want to use a toothpick to do this.
3. Gently place the nailhead near one end of the friendship bracelet. Hold in place for a few seconds while the glue dries.
4. Use the same technique to apply the rest of the nailheads to the bracelet.


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Downtown Pleasanton Hate Speech
Original post made by Mrs. Fields, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Aug 31, 2013
a resident of Birdland
on Aug 31, 2013 at 2:42 pm
Yes I heard the guy. He was some kind of union troll telling everyone they'd go to hell if they didn't support fast food workers. Our children won't be safe until we do away with unions.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 31, 2013 at 7:49 pm
"as I have two small children whom were both scared by this man" They were with you...their parent. Why be scared? Maybe explain, Freedom of Speech to the children and then give them a cookie...Mrs. Fields.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 10:14 am
If this is the same fellow I'm thinking of, he was at the Farmers' Market on the East side (the Main St side). I went up to him and stood very close and took some pictures. This bothered him a bit but he soon went on with his speech. Not much you can do about him. If your kids are old enough, he provides a good teaching moment concerning the right to free speech.
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 1, 2013 at 11:20 am
I think Joe says it well. If you hear someone in the public square voicing an idea, do your best to bother them. You know, stand real close with a menacing posture, photograph them, point fingers at them, let them know that they're being watched -- you know, anything to intimidate them. Our children can learn a lot from this teaching moment.
a resident of Downtown
on Sep 1, 2013 at 11:26 am
Yeah Joe! when someone is exercising their right of free speech, and you don't like what they have to say, you should intimidate them.
a resident of Highland Oaks
on Sep 1, 2013 at 3:27 pm
London's Hyde Park has a nice setup.
FOS is important enough to defend with guns, but there also has to be consideration for the environment. I don't feel FOS gives license to interrupt others who are involved in an activity that a location is set up for unless the speaker is expressing a grievance that is specifically related to that location.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 4:55 pm
You misunderstand, I'm 100% in favor of free speech, but not when I'm not given a choice as to whether I have to listen or not.
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 1, 2013 at 8:25 pm
Joe, I guess you can't simply turn and walk away, eh? No, instead you attempt to menace them? Yes, Joe, I'm with you. This country would be a lot better for everyone if every time they didn't like what someone was saying in public they got up into the speaker's grill so as to intimidate them. Yes, doing that and rolling back restrictive gun laws would really turn this country around.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 8:42 pm
It's so true, right. All those times you've protested at those baby killing clinics and not one pro choice advocate has gotten in your face. The first amendment works for everyone, not just you ignorant leftists.
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 1, 2013 at 9:36 pm
Ah yes, those high-minded ones who seek to intimidate and frighten women who seek an abortion. And pro-choice folks getting into their faces. How ignorant of them. And gosh, yes, shouldn't we be able to intimidate these women's defenders just like we intimidate the women?
Isn't it about time you begin advocating for more gun ownership?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 9:47 pm
"Right," you miss the point. Yes I could have walked away, but I chose not to. Not when some guy's screaming on the corner and denying anybody their own right to simply not listen.
Funny, though, how I've spent more time explaining this to you than I spent up-close looking at that guy yelling.
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 1, 2013 at 11:34 pm
What amendment covers the right 'to simply not listen'? So, it must sort of be like 'you have freedom of speech until in infringes on my right to not listen.' That's a good one, Joe. I bet you're a professor of constitutional law, just like our president, yes?
a resident of Del Prado
on Sep 2, 2013 at 9:52 am
Claudette McDermott is a registered user.
Mr/Ms Right is very much like the street "Screamer," he's trying to get a rise out of who ever is in yelling distance :)
Pop in a pair of earplugs and ignore the annoying scamp, or find another place to enjoy for the day because yes, the police can not chase this irritating creature from his/her perch, then perhaps he/she will go away.
Taking pictures will only give rise to his/her purpose and make him/her feel like a celebrity.


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SpaceX to Develop Reusable Launch System for Cheap Spaceflight, Mars Settlement
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Elon Musk with the Falcon 9
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SpaceX founder Elon Musk hopes to send humans to Mars in 10 to 15 years
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is looking to build a fully reusable orbital launch system that could make spaceflight more affordable, and eventually send people to Mars for permanent settlement.
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, has mapped out a way for the Falcon 9 rocket to deliver a Dragon spacecraft to orbit, then return to the launch site by touching down vertically under rocket power on landing gear. At the same time,
the Dragon
would make a supplies delivery to the International Space Station and return from orbit to make its own landing.
Achieving a reusable space transport has been difficult because of the engineering challenges associated with such a feat, but many have tried because a totally reusable rocket would cut the cost of spaceflight. Traditional rockets can only be used once, and a Falcon 9, for example, can cost about $50 million to $60 million.
Over the past year, Musk and his team at SpaceX managed to solve the complexities that have stumped many before and even made an animation of how the plan could work, which is a 90 percent accurate depiction. They now hope to make the reusable rocket system a reality.
"Now, we could fail -- I'm not saying we are certain of success here -- but we are to try to do it," said Musk. "And we have a design that on paper -- doing the calculations, doing the simulations -- it does work. Now, we need to make sure that those simulations and reality agree, because generally when they don't, reality wins."
According to Musk, a Falcon 9 can cost about $50 million to $60 million, but fuel and oxygen for one launch only costs $200,000. So if the rocket can be reused, he said, around 1,000 times, the capital cost of the rocket per launch would only be approximately $50,000.
"If it does work, it'll be pretty huge," said Musk.
As far as long-term goals go, Musk sees the reusable rockets carrying settlers to Mars in an effort to "make humanity a multiplanetary species" in the event that something disasterous should happen on Earth.
Musk went on to suggest that spending a quarter of a percent of an annual gross domestic product of $14 trillion (which would be $35 billion annually) on space development and a focus on Mars-related missions. This sort of budget could drop the cost of Mars travel to $500,000 per person, he said.
According to Musk,
sending humans to Mars
could take as much as 10 to 15 years, and estimates that if the human population is at 8 billion at that time, that a minimum of 8,000 people could afford to travel to Mars.
Before launching humans into space, SpaceX capsules must first meet the safety standards that the
now-retired NASA Space Shuttle program
had to meet. This includes a launch escape system, which SpaceX capsules currently do not have, but reportedly will in about two or three years.
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Marguerite Louise O'Riorden, of Longboat Key, died July 8. She was 69.
Mrs. O'Riorden moved with her family in 1958 to Longboat Key. She graduated from Manatee High School in 1961 and then attended Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga. She married attorney, Jerry O'Riorden. She was an avid pilot and accumulated more than 10,000 hours flying with an airline transport pilot rating. She was also a ceramics painter.
She is survived by her husband, Jerry; sister, Kristen Copes; brother, Tony Copes; and daughter, Laura.
A memorial service was held July 11, at Toale Brothers Funeral Home. A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, July 20, at St. Martha Catholic Church, 200 N. Orange Ave., Sarasota.


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se la cago culiando y encima le acabó adentro y la dejó preñada.
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@Chabo: She goes by the name of Anjelica/Abby/Snejanna...
nice big creampie at the and :)
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could nobody have told her to clip her nails?
Why in fuck were you looking at her nails with that insanely wet and gorgeous pussy to feast your eyes and wild imagination on?????? I would love to slip my eight inches into that slot and fill it with cum and then watch it run out while I get my cock hard for the next round of fucking her mouth and asshole! This babe is INSANELY FUCKABLE and I want to fill her snatch and asshole and mouth with my cum!!!!
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The Beautiful Young woman Rides him to a Very Happy conclusion for him and Herself. The beginning of the video is pretty normal mostly foreplay of a sort arousung her and she fellating his penis then comes the love and sex on the Lounge She is a good rider does not make to much noise too while enjoying herself sexually
Someone should get down there and lick up all that come.
Anjelica is perfection, indeed!
Angelica Ebbi you are so fine wish you didn't shag this douche bag most of the time.
22 min of real perfection of pleasure
Big fan of x-art, where it makes sex ... well art. Something you would adorn your wall with and be proud to show someone the beauty. It's still porn of course, but it does manage to tiptoe that thin line of hokey sentimental, and believable passion, whilst tiptoeing that other thin line of fun music, and... elevator music. The beginning of this particular video is quite slow, however the finale is enjoyable. Too slow/long didn't watch? skip to like the last sixth of this video.
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He definitely has a David Tennant thing going, and I can picture her as Billie Piper... Very satisfying for a Doctor Who fangirl...
I found this so boring and she was flat
is romantic...
Wonderful setting, cute actors (or couple??), nice fucking :) XArt at its best! A woman
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Oh my god, what a SUPERFUCK!!!!!!! These two people were more into each other and keeping the fuck going than any I've seen lately. She is a super hot sexy well formed young lady with SUPERB fuck skills and the guy - well - he knows his way around the pussy too!! I have to say my computer keyboard will require some judicious cleaning to remove my cum from it because I had to cum twice watching this blazing hot example of grade AAA+++ fuckflicks. She has the ability to cause a dead guy's pussy to become hard!!!!! This may be in my top five of the hattest fuckflicks ever.
Clumsy man!
Last part with cum pouring out of her pussy is amazing! :D The whole thing is just great! Only thing i would want improved is when he is licking her asshole right after she took off her panties, he should have gone for waaay longer, cuz that was INSANEly hot... for real :D
What a spectacular video! Sexy. Beautiful. Inspiring. How did 12% of viewers vote this video down?
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waw this is so ..........
soo beautiful
hot girl but all in all,the video is to slow
Always love X-Art videos. Feels like you're watching people make love, not fuck.
Did he finish fucking her yet? I am going to sleep. Gonna jerk off I guess. Thanks.
i got my dick up :P
really great. looks like it should be. total love.
She looks so much like Jewel Stait
That girl is sooooo hot and he's got the most gorgeous green eyes I've ever seen.
It Looks a Bit more like Love
This video is excellent !!! although its a bit long but it still very nice... This video show out the art of sex... This is good and was done it very well... LIKE IT !
Did i miss the gynecologist close-up? Didn't glimpse anything on the inside... total outside porn! Misleading title!
woooo hot
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"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
"Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books."
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"I'm in shock. I'm in awe. These guys I've been honored to coach have kept surprising me and surprising me and surprising me. This is the greatest turnaround in Cal State Fullerton history."
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"I support your bill," Barney told Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) at a Senate hearing on her nomination on Tuesday, March 10. Kohl is a sponsor of the legislation, which the Judiciary Committee approved March 5 and sent to the full Senate for consideration.
Barney commended co-sponsor Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) on the antitrust legislation, and said that she will "enforce" it. She was questioned why the DOJ had not fought any of the railroad mergers during the George W. Bush Administration years—failing to realize that none took place in that time period.
Comments Railway Age Contributing Editor Larry Kaufman: "That's when she lost me once and for all. The last merger between Class I's was the joint purchase of Conrail by Norfolk Southern and CSX—in 1997. That was during the Clinton Administration. The CN/BNSF proposed combination was killed off by the STB in 2000—also during the Clinton presidency. Obviously, DOJ's 'good offices' were not needed by STB. DOJ did not oppose the Santa Fe/Southern Pacific merger in 1986—during the Reagan presidency—but DOJ wasn't needed. DOJ actually supported that merger, and the ICC killed it on antitrust grounds all by itself. All of the modern-era mergers were supported or accepted by DOJ except for the Union Pacific/Southern Pacific transaction, and DOJ filed a really shoddy, sophomoric brief at the STB on that one."
The Association of American Railroads has said the legislation to repeal the industry's limited antitrust exemptions "creates an unprecedented and confusing regulatory scheme that could alter the current economic oversight of the railroads."
The AAR noted that the Senate committee action came as the Senate Commerce committee was developing legislation "that could subject the railroads to still more economic regulation" by the Surface Transportation Board.
"We face two disparate schemes that spell nothing but confusion for the railroads and those charged with enforcing the regulations," said AAR President and CEO Edward R.Hasmberger. "Congress should be promoting policies that help jumpstart the economy and regain consumer confidence, not overburden an industry that stands ready to get America back on track."


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Ronald Reinstein, retired judge with the Superior Court of Arizona and judicial consultant for the Arizona Supreme Court,
explained that his group opened with a discussion of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and organ
donation. Group members asked, Is the autopsy report and related information a public record? They discussed logistical problems,
such as obtaining out-of-state medical records, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical records, psychiatric records and
chemical dependency records. Some participants suggested revising HIPAA to include the release of medical records, but others
felt that this might cause additional problems. There was a clear consensus on the need for better education and easier access
to protected information.
The group said that all decisions regarding organ procurement should be in the hands of the medical examiner. They noted,
however, that there is often tension with organ procurement organizations, particularly in child fatality cases or when an
investigation is still pending.
The group then discussed ethical, liability and legal issues. Participants discussed what is discoverable under Brady v. Maryland. They asked: Should conversations between medical examiners and their staff — and any disagreements over the manner of death
— be documented? Some members said that this could have a chilling effect on the field. Others noted that there are no standards
for what must be provided to the defense. Participants agreed that it should come down to the materiality of the evidence
and relevance to the case.
The group turned to testimonial issues with regard to Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts. What happens when the forensic pathologist who worked on a case has left the office? Should someone else testify? Participants
agreed that until the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the issue, substitution will continue to be decided state by state.
Participants also discussed the lack of training in courtroom presentation. Medical examiners and coroners should not use
medical and legal jargon because jury members must be able to understand what they are saying in order to make a fair decision.
Group members added that interviews should be more accommodating to medical examiners and coroners.
Some of the group's recommendations included:
Next section: Leveraging Research and Development and Technology in the Death Investigation Community.
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Mr Bill wrote:Tanker27, As you may have discovered by now; the first 5-mans and scenario's which you can enter at level 85-90 will give you level 400+ gift armor just for running the dungeon. In fact the first two 5-mans will give you 4 pieces right off the bat that will instantly make you epic compared to 85 Cata. Go, run a couple 5-mans, ASAP.
Edit: Oh yeah, also, the first scenario you can get in to will give you a superior weapon.
superjawes wrote:There is a gear vendor (any spec and just gold) after you quest some in Jade forest. It's a goblin (I forget his name) for Horde, and I think all the gear is around 376. (maybe?) That should help out a lot.
superjawes wrote:As for professions, if you're set on dropping one, drop blacksmithing. Gems will always be profitable, while gear can devalue and the only thing you can really sell consistently is a belt buckle. But consider leveling a miner while you gain some rested experience on your paladin. I started leveling my shaman again with full rested and plowed through level 87 quickly with almost a full level of rested XP to spare. I know swapping between toons probably isn't ideal, but blacksmithing/JC is awesome from a power perspective (my pally has those profs, too).
tanker27 wrote:What is this farm thingy you speak of?
Starfalcon wrote:Well this week was fun, I finally got a 2 piece tier bonus for my char out of RF last week....and now this week I get 2 pieces of 489 out of vaults that are the same as my tier pieces So now I am stuck with 2 pieces of gear I cant use unless I want to break my set bonus...
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COMMENTARY: The news has been fast and furious and more than any one reporter or activist can track. So let's take a step back to last week when Cleve Jones announced an October March on Washington and mayhem ensued -- was it the right time, the right use of resources, was it warranted? Some thought we should focus energy on the states -- forget the federal government, what has it ever done for us? States are where the movement is.
As the debate spiraled into outright disagreement, Stampp Corbin, a prominent LGBT supporter of Barack Obama's candidacy, was calling for a new leader to emerge in the movement -- someone who could speak with one voice and to whom politicians could listen without question. Both appeals from Jones and Corbin, in my opinion, fall into the same category as the Olson-Boies lawsuit: expressions that something -- anything -- needed to be done to seize the opportunity that appears to be senselessly slipping through our fingers.
Enter DOMA -- the Defense of Marriage Act brief filed last Friday by the Justice Department, which advanced some pretty reprehensible logic in support of a law that, by its very existence, debases and mocks the relationships that fortify our lives. The brief prompted myriad questions from activists about whether the Justice Department was compelled to defend a law to which President Obama is opposed and, further, if anyone at the highest levels of the White House had weighed its political implications.
Truth is, you get 10 lawyers in a room and they will all present differing opinions bolstered by differing arguments as to the Justice Department's legal obligations and whether the language they used was beyond the pale.
In some ways, none of that struck me as particularly important. The brief, rightly or wrongly, became a unifying moment for the movement... a rallying cry that bubbled up from the depths of our longing. Bloggers went wild, five major LGBT organizations cosigned a letter decrying the brief, our two favorite California mayors took the administration to task, and former DNC chair Howard Dean called it "a big mistake."
As the White House fought to combat criticism of the brief and appease the community, what they didn't realize was that the DOMA outcry was merely a lightning rod for months of bumbling and snubbing and tiptoeing around LGBT issues altogether. The combination of watching Robert Gibbs dodge all manner of LGBT-related questions for months, seeing Defense Secretary Robert Gates and National Security Adviser Gen. Jim Jones freelance a bunch of answers about kicking "don't ask, don't tell" down the road, and then, ultimately, having the president himself completely disregard the pain and anger of thousands of gay Californians who had just been denied their constitutional rights by a bare majority of voters -- it all added up to one thing: infuriation.
As longtime LGBT activist David Mixner told National Public Radio, "I've had enough! I'm 63 years old and I want to know what it's like to have all the rights and privileges of other Americans before I die."
And then we witnessed something that we have perhaps never witnessed within the course of our march for justice. Democrats extended a hand and the LGBT movement -- from big-dollar establishment donors to the grassroots troops of door knockers, phone bankers, and true believers -- turned its proverbial back.
Within the course of this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid held a hate-crimes press conference and pledged to try to pass the bill by August; Rep. Barney Frank readied to introduce a trans-inclusive ENDA; President Obama held a televised LGBT-specific signing ceremony in the Oval Office in which he recommitted himself to repealing DOMA; both Gibbs and Reid said repealing DADT could happen this congress; the administration announced that it's seeking to include gay couples in the 2010 Census; and, on Friday, the Department of Justice agreed to meet with lawyers who are challenging DOMA on behalf of same-sex couples.
All the while, a steady stream of usually dependable Democratic stalwarts dropped out of a normally prestigious and well-attended LGBT DNC fund-raiser being hosted by Vice President Joe Biden on June 25 -- David Mixner, blogger Andy Towle, the Human Rights Campaign's Marty Rouse, former Clinton adviser Richard Socarides, millionaire Bruce Bastian, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders attorney Mary Bonauto, and the National Stonewall Democrats, to name a few.
In a letter to the DNC, Bruce Bastian probably said it best: "I will continue to support certain congressmen, congresswomen, and senators whom I believe will continue to fight for our rights, but I don't think blanket donations to the Democratic Party right now are justified…"
So there's our brave new world. Arms folded and casting a dubious look, community members now wait and watch to see if this week's events are a new beginning of mutuality or just a systematic and fleeting response from Democrats. It is, after all, an eerily familiar pattern. During the presidential primary, candidate Obama made himself available to the LGBT press twice -- once after the Donnie McClurkin imbroglio, and again following sustained criticism that he wasn't granting nearly as much LGBT access as Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
The difference now is that a much wider array of people are registering their discontent in unison. Our rights are on the line. After the 2010 midterms, Democratic majorities will almost certainly dwindle. And within the heart of the movement, a palpable sense exists that justice delayed could literally be justice denied.


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Stop! I know you're incredibly busy, but you must take care of some things for your small business right now, during the month of December.
Some options will disappear entirely, such as tax breaks on sport utility vehicles, if you neglect to take advantage of them now. Other steps are highly advisable — such as transitioning to new systems to be ready to go Jan. 1 — to help you be more productive and profitable in 2013.
The beginning of the year is a natural and ideal time to switch to new financial and back-office systems. It makes record keeping far easier if you change when the calendar year changes, assuming you operate your business on a calendar year basis as most small businesses do.
And it's great to start fresh Jan. 1.
But you have to spend time in December to be ready to go when the new year rolls around.
So here are seven year-end steps you've got to do for your small business now:
1. Buy a truck or heavy SUV. The clock is ticking on a tax deduction that disappears Dec. 31.
Heavy vehicles, trucks and large SUVS of more than 6,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, qualify for a 50 percent bonus depreciation in 2012 as well as the ability to deduct up to $25,000 as an expense the year it's placed in service.
If you buy a $60,000 heavy SUV and use it 100 percent for business, you get a tax break worth $46,000! You can deduct $25,000 as an expense, write off 50 percent of the remaining cost with the bonus depreciation, or $17,500, and take $3,500 regular depreciation.
You'll end up paying for this in gas costs for such a behemoth, but if you need it for business, buy it in 2012. Of course, check with your own tax adviser.
2. Buy a business car or van. If you buy a smaller car, you'll get a bigger deduction in 2012 — up to $11,160 — than you'll have next year.
But the luxury car limits are complicated, so be sure to get some expert advice if tax considerations are your motivation.
3. Check your health insurance. Many insurance companies allow you to change your policies only once a year, right at the beginning of the year.
If you want to lower your premiums, increase your benefits or tailor your plans to your changing needs, make those decisions this month. My best advice: Find a really good small-business health insurance broker.
While we're talking about health insurance, be sure to use your 2012 benefits before they expire, such as checkups, dental visits, or a new pair of eyeglasses if you have plans that include them.
4. Update your accounting system. Still using Excel spreadsheets to take care of your bookkeeping, or worse, pen and paper?
Jan. 1 is the perfect time to switch to accounting software or cloud-based accounting programs. That way you'll keep your 2012 and 2013 records in separate systems, rather than splitting a year between two systems.
And you'll finally enter the 21st (or maybe 20th) century when it comes to understanding your financial information.
5. Change your bank. Since we're on financial matters, if you've been thinking about changing your banking relationship, the end of the year is a good time to switch over, for the same reason: It makes record keeping easier.
6. Take your payroll system to the cloud. Here's one of Rhonda's Rules: "If you have even one employee, you need a payroll system."
It's far too easy to make a costly mistake managing payroll taxes on your own. The government fines you heavily for messing up.
In my company, we switched to an online payroll service a number of years ago, and it's been terrific — saving us money, giving us more capabilities and providing my employees with more transparency about their paychecks.
7. Take care of your retirement plan. If you don't already have a retirement plan for you and your employees, ask your tax adviser about one now.
Many plans need to be established by Dec. 31 though you don't have to put money in them until April 15. And if you're going to change plans, you often need to do that at year's end.
Rhonda Abrams is president of The Planning Shop and publisher of books for entrepreneurs. Her most recent book is "Entrepreneurship: A Real-World Approach." Register for Rhonda's free newsletter at PlanningShop.com. Twitter: @RhondaAbrams. Facebook: facebook.com/RhondaAbramsSmallBusiness.
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What It Works: Transverse abdominus and obliques
A. Lie on your right side, with your right elbow under your shoulder, forearm in front for stability, and stack your left foot on your right. Raise your left arm over your head.
B. In one motion, lift your hips to create a straight line down your left side. Lower your hips a few inches off the floor; do 10 to 15 reps, then switch sides.
Why It Works: Strong obliques improve your stability in the saddle, letting you take on hairpin corners with more control and speed.
Core Exercise #6: Scissors Kick
What It Works: Transverse abdominus, hip flexors, inner and outer thighs
A. Lying on your back with legs straight, place both hands palms down under your lower back.
B. Pushing your elbows down into the floor and pulling your belly button toward your spine, raise your shoulders off the floor and look toward the ceiling. Raise your legs 4 inches off the ground and scissor them: left leg over right, then right over left. That's one rep. Work up to 100.
Why It Works: A comprehensive movement that connects key cycling muscles, the kick also builds inner-thigh muscles, which help you achieve hip, knee and forefoot alignment for a proper and efficient pedal stroke.
Core Exercise #7: Catapult
What It Works: Entire core
A. Sitting with a slight bend in your knees, press your heels against the floor. Extend arms to the front at shoulder height, palms facing each other.
B. With a straight spine and upward gaze, inhale deeply, then exhale and slowly lower your torso to the floor over five counts as you inhale. Arms are overhead.
C. In one smooth movement, leading with the arms, exhale and explode back to the starting position. Do 20 reps.
Why It Works: Contrary to its name, the catapult encourages supreme body control.
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