text: Home » Games » Wheelman (PC) Wheelman (PC) Stuart Davidson April 12, 2009 Games It seems to be a prime time for Vin Diesel with several computer games including Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena released recently. Today we are taking a look at Wheelman, a game much closer to what you would expect from the musclebound anti hero if you went to the cinema to see his latest film. It is all about fast cars, lovely looking women and plenty of weaponry. The mainstream press have slated this recently, but I find it quite enjoyable! Vin Diesel plays Milo Burik, an undercover policeman from Miami who is in Barcelona to deal with the Catalonian underworld. He does so by getting a name for himself as an expert driver with a mastery of all vehicles from bikes to trucks. This basically gives you an excuse to drive around, kick some ass and wreck the city in any way you want. There are insane stunts, slow motion take downs and flying carjacks on the motorway. As you get used to the game you begin to see how much fun it can be and that Vin Diesel is a very versatile character capable of handing out a ton of pain in a variety of ways. Midway Studios Newcastle appear to be onto an interesting concept because while many have unfavourably compared this to GTA the focus is mainly about solving your problems from behind the seat of whatever vehicle you happen to be behind at the time. If you want to take people out in other vehicles you can use the right mouse button and motions to sideswipe them until their car is in critical condition and they explode, or you can use your guns to take out their fuel tanks, tires … as well as the people themselves inside. You can do this with a simple lock system or you can earn enough speed boost to enable you to use a bullet time style slow mo mode called Cyclone or Aimed Shot to take them out in only a few shots. Car jacking is a brilliantly fun mechanic and it only works against the general populace or on missions in specific situations. You hold down the right mouse button until an icon above the vehicle in front changes from red to green, let it go and wham Vin Diesel jumps onto the roof, slams through a window, takes control and drives off as if nothing had happened. This is particularly useful if your car or bike is damaged and you need to quickly change to a fresh set of wheels without stopping. The vehicles range from scooters and sports bikes, through to various cars, vans and even 18 wheel lorries. They all handle quite well and it is quite amusing to see the musclebound Diesel riding along on a little pink moped with a submachine gun strapped to his back. The city of Barcelona is a stripped down environment which works reasonably well in the context of the game … sure, don't be expecting GTA4, but in fairness the graphics and design aren't really all that bad. There are broad roads connected by various alleys and there are specific landmarks such as parks, train stations and shopping districts. Everything about the game is designed to let you drive around like a maniac much like you would expect from him in The Fast and The Furious and to ram the point home the story attempts to bring up the dozens of side missions on your GPS map, which all revolve around you racing, smashing things up and creating as much mayhem as possible. Finishing all the side missions unlocks garages, weapon caches and upgrades for your focus meter that powers your Cyclones and boosts … it is all very arcade like. Vin Diesel is a gamer because he has his own game company and it is clear when he came up with this game that he said "let the players have as much fun as possible and wreck everything" because frequently on the missions there are shells of destroyed vehicles everywhere. The side missions however are rather weak and repetitive and it was only almost when I had finished the game that I decided to play through as many as I could. You do the same things in various parts of the city, just normally in a slightly different environment with a slightly different time limit. The car combat entertained me for quite a time and even though while I knew it wasn't 'awesome' something about this game just appealed to me from start to finish. Cyclone and Aimed shot are novel ideas and work great in the contexts of the game especially when you see Vin Diesel spinning around in his seat and shooting out the engine of a pursuing car. Sideswiping is the only aspect of the car combat which didn't really work for me, but I was able to forgive it because I was having a lot of fun in the primary missions. The AI isn't wonderful and it is quite obvious when you are pursuing someone and you fall behind to realise that their icon has almost stopped to let you catch up a little. Equally so, the frustration is high when you are trying to escape only to have the enemies never give up and never fall behind no matter how hard you try and how many of them you seem to take out. This also happens in the secondary street races which is a little silly. The car handling worked for me and even though it is firmly footed in the arcade sector it works quite well … most of the vehicles handle as you would expect. Motorbikes accelerate quickly, don't take much punishment while an 18 wheeler will be the complete reverse. You can also get out of the vehicles to wander to other rides, or to enter into hand to hand combat which I also quite enjoyed. The cover system isn't the greatest, but at least it has one … you hit space to duck behind barrels or walls to regain your strength and reload your weapon. There is a lock on mode, but I preferred the freestyle options as it offered more of a challenge. The enemies don't prove much of a challenge unless you walk out of cover and decide to take on a handful with sub machine guns which means you do need to use the cover system to advance. Visually the game is not bad at all. I have read comments that it is bland and unatmospheric, but i found it acceptable if you don't try and compare it to GTA4. The Unreal engine as we all know runs well on a variety of hardware and on my quad core with 260 GTX it was capable of running along really smoothly at 2560×1600 with everything maxed. The characters unfortunately don't look wonderful with not a lot of attention to detail, however Vin Diesel has been realistically recreated. Nothing is 'bad' and the extremely smooth running engine makes up for a lot of the shortcomings. The environments repeat with roads looking very similar and a specific limit of objects being repeated from time to time and without the map it would be very easy to get lost as it is hard to make out more than a handful of specific landmarks as you drive around. Thankfully the game developers do not force you to drive around to every mission start as you can hit the GPS key (P) and click the left mouse on the mission you wish to play. The soundtrack is sadly lacking however the ambient effects are perfectly fine and they give enough impact to sound just as you would expect them to if you were wandering around yourself. Vin Diesel handles his own voice acting and the rest of the voice actors are great. Wheelman contrary to popular belief isn't an unmitigated disaster and I honestly enjoyed playing the game from start to finish, even though there was a certain amount of repetition after a while. The combat worked for me and while the environments weren't comparable to the detail in Grand Theft Auto 4, if you are in a fun mood and don't have any set pre-expectations then there is quite a lot of positives to be taken from the game. I still remember some of the missions and while the storyline is silly and a little contrived some of the characters would make good movie crossovers. Don't let the critics put you off trying this game, because you might actually enjoy it. Gameplay 78 An interesting concept with some clever game mechanics. Graphics 80 Powered by the Unreal engine which means it will be very smooth for most people. Sound 80 Great voice acting from a plethora of actors, including Vin Diesel himself. Value 75 I played it for 12 hours solid over the weekend and enjoyed it all. Overall 78 Well worth a look, even with the faults. Share On


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- [Voiceover] When working with objects in Maya,…you may want to match the transformations…so that objects align with each other.…This new version of Maya has a number of tools…that allow you to do that.…Now we can find that under Modify Match Transformations.…Then notice how it's close to Reset…and Freeze Transformations,…and this is really just an extension of that concept.…So if we go into Match Transformations,…notice how we have a number of menu options.…I'm gonna go ahead and click on this dotted line…to tear that off so we can just play with this new menu.…
So, we have a couple of chairs here,…and notice how each one of them…is in a slightly different orientation,…and one of them is a little bit bigger.…So we can use Match Transformations…to align these.…Now how this works is that you can select…as many objects as you want,…and the last object selected…will have its transforms matched to all the others.…So, let's go ahead and start with rotation.…So I'm gonna go ahead and select this object,…Shift select this object,…
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This Pumpkin Coffee Cake will get you in the mood for pumpkin season! Filled with pumpkin flavor, topped with a cinnamon pecan streusel, this is Fall in a bite.
Yep. I'm going there. I'm starting pumpkin. In August.
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On Friday, I asked on Facebook what sort of recipe I should post today: Pumpkin or Apple. Pumpkin won by a landslide – but don't fret apple lovers. The apple recipe is coming later this week!
Remember the movie Field of Dreams?
{One of the best movies ever. Plus, James Earl Jones: I want his voice for my ringtone.}
If you build it, he will come.
If I make Pumpkin Coffee Cake…Fall will come. Summer can kind of suck it. It's been in the 90s or higher since the beginning of May and I know, from past experience, we will not have relief for a very long time.
I want cooler weather. Not cold, mind you. Cooler. $200 PG&E bill weather would be awesome.
So…if I make Pumpkin Coffee Cake…Fall will come. Eventually. In the meantime, I can pretend it's fall while I have coffee and coffee cake flavored like my favorite season.
You may be thinking…hmmmm. This coffee cake looks familiar. It might, because it's a re-do. I posted a version of this a looooong time ago.
Maybe it's better you don't remember. It tasted good back then but man-I thought those photos were GOOD. Prime photos, right there.
Anyway, the recipe is pretty much the same, but I did change a few things. I reduced the butter in the topping because OMG that must have been a typo. And I subbed greek yogurt for vegetable oil.
Let's talk about greek yogurt vs. oil. In a perfect world where calories are free and I am a size 2, I'd use oil. Until someone invents a teletransporter to take me to that place, I'll use greek yogurt.
I am really loving using yogurt in place of oil, but it does change the texture of the cake. It's a little chewier and has less crumb. I like that just fine, especially because I'm not hitting myself over the head with my fat pants as I eat my second slice.
If you don't have yogurt on hand, or prefer to use oil, you can substitute vegetable oil. I've even mixed yogurt and oil in recipes where I want to…mix it up. Get ambitious in the kitchen. If there's one thing I want to teach you from reading this blog besides "pie is perfect" and "sugar is life" it would be to try new things in the kitchen. Try a substitution…you never know what will work.
Kind of like I'm trying to rain dance Fall into Sacramento.
Chances are, you'll have more luck than me!
Pumpkin Coffee Cake
For the Cake
- 2 cups flour, divided
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- 3/4 cup pure pumpkin puree
- ¼ cup non-fat vanilla or plain greek yogurt (or you can sub vegetable oil, see note)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup milk
For the Streusel
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans, optional (or use walnuts)
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line a 9×9" pan with foil and spray with cooking spray.
- Whisk in pumpkin, greek yogurt, vanilla and milk in a large bowl until no lumps remain. Whisk in sugar, then baking powder, salt, and pumpkin pie spice. Stir in flour with a spatula or wooden spoon. Batter will be thick. Pour into prepared pan.
- In a small bowl, stir butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of flour with a fork. Stir in pecans. Spread on top of pumpkin cake layer.
- Bake about 20 minutes until a toothpick inserted 2" from the side of the pan comes out clean. Cool until you can't stand it anymore, then cut into squares and serve. It can take up to 30 minutes to bake, depending on your oven. Take it out as soon as a toothpick comes out clean along the edges. Remember, the yogurt will change the texture of the cake. It will be chewier.
If you prefer to use oil, you can substitute vegetable oil for the greek yogurt.
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Other recipes you'll love:
Sugar-Free Pumpkin Snack Cake (can be made with sugar)
Sweets from friends:
Caramel Apple Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake by Shugary Sweets
Skinny Pumpkin Pie for One by Back for Seconds
Pecan Pie Bread Pudding by Something Swanky
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Effect of Feeding Cyanidin 3-glucoside (C3G) High Black Rice Bran on Nutrient Digestibility, Blood Measurements, Growth Performance and Pork Quality of Pigs
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Effect of Feeding Cyanidin 3-glucoside (C3G) High Black Rice Bran on Nutrient Digestibility, Blood Measurements, Growth Performance and Pork Quality of Pigs
Kil, D.Y.; Ryu, S.N.; Piao, L.G.; Kong, C.S.; Han, S.J.; Kim, Y.Y;
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of feeding cyanidin 3-glucoside (C3G) high black rice bran on nutrient digestibility, blood measurements, growth performance and pork quality of pigs. In Exp. I, a total of fifteen pigs (19.91
1.80 kg, average initial body weight) were used in assay of nutrient digestibility and blood measurements. All pigs were allotted to 5 treatments with 3 replicates according to a completely randomized design (CRD) in an individual metabolic crate. Treatments included 1) CON: basal diet, 2) BRB-2: basal+brown rice bran 2%, 3) BRB-4: basal+brown rice bran 4%, 4) CRB-2: basal+C3G high black rice bran 2% and 5) CRB-4: basal+C3G high black rice bran 4%. The digestibility of dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), crude fat (CF), crude ash (CA) and crude fiber (CF) was not affected by dietary treatments. Serum triglyceride (TG) and high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol concentrations were not affected by addition of C3G high black rice bran. However, at the end of experiment, pigs fed rice bran showed decreased tendency in total cholesterol concentration. Especially pigs fed C3G high black rice bran showed significantly lower total cholesterol concentration compared to pigs fed brown rice bran (p<0.03). There was numerically lower total cholesterol concentration with increasing levels of black rice bran in the diet. In terms of serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (GOT) and glutamate pyruvate transaminase (GPT), there were no significant differences among treatments, even though pigs fed CRB-4 showed the lowest GOT concentration compared to other pigs. In Exp. II, sixteen finishing pigs (average initial body weight 89.96
0.35 kg) were divided into 4 treatments to investigate the effect of feeding C3G high black rice bran on growth performance and pork quality. There were no significant differences in average daily gain (ADG), average daily feed intake (ADFI) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) among the treatments. Pigs fed C3G high black rice bran showed numerical decrease in ADG and increase in FCR while not effecting feed intake. There was no significant difference in live weight, carcass weight, carcass rate, backfat thickness and carcass grade. However, pigs fed C3G high black rice bran tended to show lower backfat thickness than pigs fed basal diet. Pigs fed C3G high black rice bran showed a tendency of decreased TBA value than pigs fed basal diet, although there was no overall significant difference among treatments. In conclusion, nutrient digestibility, blood measurements, growth performance and pork quality were not significantly affected by feeding C3G high black rice bran to pigs. However, C3G high black rice bran might have an effect on lowering serum total cholesterol and decrease the TBA value in pork compared to control group and these effects might be due to high concentration of antioxidative compounds in C3G high black rice bran.
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I can already hear it. Okay, says you, the reader, now we have just gone too far. Elevator shaming? Lesley? LESLEY, LOOK AT ME. WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT ELEVATOR SHAMING.
We are, though. Y'all can blame Twitter for this one, because yesterday, user @ezbake tipped me to a particularly depressing picture. For the non-clicky types, the image in question is a photo, probably taken with a phone, of a man in a wheelchair waiting for an elevator. The twist is that the elevator in question has a message emblazoned across its door: "Today is the day we take the stairs," a no doubt well-meaning but poorly considered ad for what looks like Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota. A health insurance provider! Of course.
The image is, on its own, a bitter, sad kind of funny, the humor resting on the idea that this guy is never going to take the stairs, today or or any other day, and yet he has to sit and stare at this cheery affirmation meant to guilt to able-bodied into not taking the elevator. When I (half-jokingly) asked my own Twitter followers whether I should write about "elevator shaming," a zillion people answered in the affirmative. I was surprised by the enthusiasm of the response. So here we are.
In my prior life as an office-bound employee, I worked in a building with an (ancient, impossibly slow-moving, often broken) elevator and stairs right next to each other, and I usually took the stairs. Up to two floors, anyway. Anything higher risked an asthma attack.
I did this, in part, because even if I was tired or menstrual-crampy or the stairwell was colder than the proverbial witch's tit, I didn't want to be caught using the elevator in a... frivolous manner. I honestly have no idea where this self-administered don't-abuse-the-elevator pressure came from, but whatever its source I had internalized it good and proper such that even when going upstairs with colleagues, I would often break my two-floors rule and arrive on the fourth floor landing wheezing and digging in my pocket for my inhaler, as apparently I preferred not being able to breathe over asking if we could take the elevator.
That said, I really only began to notice this so-called "elevator shame" in myself after an experience on a trip to New York several years ago. I'd arrived underground at an unfamiliar subway station with two heavy bags, one of them a stairs-unfriendly small rolling suitcase. Unwilling to wander up and down the platform looking for an elevator or escalator like an obvious tourist, I followed my fellow exiting passengers up the stairs. And up more stairs. And up more stairs.
It turned out this particular station was roughly ten miles below the street. I half expected to pass by a dwarven mine or the Stargate Project on my long climb out. And still I resisted the urge to look for an alternate means of surfacing (which may not even have existed, to be fair), thinking, "I'm sure the exit is just after this next flight," because I didn't want to be the person who admitted I was struggling to climb all these stairs, encumbered as I was.
When I finally reached daylight, I was gasping for breath in the cold air, and had to stagger over to sit down against a nearby building, to find my inhaler and get some oxygen into my lungs. I SAT DOWN on a NEW YORK SIDEWALK, and I wasn't even DRUNK.
Sitting there, I thought, Wow, I am a giant fucking tool. What is my problem with elevators?
It seemed obvious then that whatever shame I'd internalized was not entirely in my own head, as it had such a powerful grip on my common sense. It had to come from somewhere.
Health initiatives have been harping on the value of the stairs over the elevator for awhile now. In 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mounted a study "to see if making physical changes to a stairwell in the Atlanta-based Koger Center Rhodes Building, combined with music and motivational signs would motivate employees to use the stairs." Apparently some Enya and soaring eagle posters worked, because now the CDC includes a toolkit for how you can awesome up the staircase in your own building. Their suggested motivational slogans include the "Fight fat….Feel fit….Frequent these flights," and "Small steps make a big difference."
Although the benefits of taking the stairs -- for those that can, anyway -- seem to be common sense, the research on the subject as a standalone factor in people's health is comprised of just a few studies. One commonly cited 2008 study published in the European Heart Journal looked exclusively at the effects of increased stair use amongst a small group of hospital employees and found that, yes, it seemed to have some beneficial results. Unfortunately, three months later, the number of employees continuing to use the stairs had decreased from the original 69 participants to a small but committed 10. Maybe their stairs just weren't motivational enough, or maybe they should have taken a page from an office building in The Hague that lined its staircase with "slimming" funhouse mirrors in hopes of flattering people into taking the path of greatest resistance.
There's also some dubious anecdotal data, such as the tale of one Gregory Minor, who allegedly lost 80 pounds simply by taking the stairs at work for 18 months, as prompted by Duke University's employee health program called, unimaginatively, "Take the Stairs." (Call me a cynic, but I'm a little suspicious of this story, as it seems unlikely that your average stair usage would be enough to cause such a loss all on its own, without additional changes in diet and activity level. But whatever! Duke says take the stairs, it'll make you thinner. Maybe.)
In my own city, the Boston Public Health Commission has its own "Take the Stairs! Every Step Counts" campaign, which encourages the interested to "implement a stairwell campaign at your workplace." This sounds like a useful way to get your colleagues to hate you, if you need to make that happen for some reason.
My point being, these initiatives are widely popular. So what's wrong with positively encouraging people to use the three minutes they'd spend in an elevator to exercise instead? Nothing, on the surface. Unfortunately though, these efforts don't happen in a vacuum -- they happen in context with a lot of other, less positive messages. They happen in the same culture that condemns any perceived laziness and less-than-perfect physical condition as moral failures. And that's where things get a little more complicated.
As fun as it is to giggle and make up new and increasingly specific "shamings," what I'm calling elevator shaming is often just a particular variety of a much larger and more ubiquitous cultural force: namely, ableism, the chronic privileging in social and institutional spaces of folks who are currently able-bodied over those who are disabled.
Ableism is an especially insidious problem because our culture continues to be invested in the idea that disabilities are scary and bad. Many of us who are able-bodied simply don't know how to behave around a disabled person.
We have to get over it, though.
While stairs-encouragement may have some positive effects, it has negative ones too. Culturally, it places a heavy value on the ability to climb stairs in the first place, and marks this as both "normal" and the perferred state of things. It reinforces the idea that disabled bodies (or bodies that just aren't in good enough shape to run up a few floors) are somehow broken, mismanaged or defective, and together with the plethora of other ableist crap we live with every day, this has a powerful and cumulative impact on their quality of life. In a world that sees good physical condition as a signifier of morality and good character, this is a problem.
In fact, these pro-stairs movements are not simply restricted to a few motivational posters, but are even developing into a architectural design movement. In 2006, Virginia Commonwealth University was planning a new building for their business school, and chose a design which intentionally hid the elevators -- elevators designed to move more slowly than usual, at that -- at the rear of the building, and included a prominent staircase in the front.
Building on the let's-make-elevators-suck idea, the California Department of Transportation headquarters in Los Angeles has elevators that stop at every third floor, ostensibly in hopes of annoying people into heading for the stairwell (there is also a "special" less annoying elevator for disabled folks to use, although how they decide who ranks as disabled enough to use it remains unclear).
Innocuous as they may sound, "new" ideas like hiding the elevators are actually a significant setback for disabled people, who have spent decades fighting for fair and reasonable accessibility accommodations, and who are often denied them anyway, even when the law is on their side. And although the inconvenience may seem minor to currently able-bodied folks like you or me, for some people, a difference of an additional twenty feet may as well be twenty miles. Disabled folks' ability to get around is essentially being sacrificed in favor of feel-good cosmetic changes that let public institutions pat themselves on the back for being so forward-thinking. Ironic.
That image of the man using a wheelchair beside the elevator telling him to walk is a particularly vivid one, but here's the other thing -- not all disabled people use wheelchairs. A great many disabilities are invisible to the outside world, meaning you might look at a disabled person and never have any idea that they had a disability, even one that has an extreme impact on their lives and mobility. If we're encouraged to think of the stairs as the morally superior choice for those not using wheelchairs, where does that leave the folks who don't use wheelchairs but for whom climbing stairs is just as impossible?
Unless we're vigilant, even the most positive anti-elevator messages can be internalized as a criticism against those who would choose not to use the stairs -- or who can't do so (both of which reasons, I might add, are equally valid). The elevator becomes "bad" because it's associated with disability and laziness; the stairs become "good" because they're associated with able-bodiedness and some universal standard of "good health." (How many times have I gotten weird and unwelcome props from someone in a stairwell for being "good" and taking the stairs? Too many times.)
Add all of this together and the idea that some might feel judged, or even shamed, for using the elevator (or the escalator) over the stairs is not so baffling. Nor is it surprising that I myself might have internalized the whole stairs = good, elevator = bad ideology myself at some point.
What about elevator shaming on an individual basis -- you know, when a friend or colleague gives you a hard time for preferring modern technology to your fully functional legs? That sucks too. But the trouble with the broader institutionalized social shaming I'm discussing above is not simply that it makes some individual people feel badly about themselves. The trouble is that it contributes to a broader cultural issue that values the able-bodied and the "healthy" first, and which therefore makes life harder for disabled people (or just unhealthy people) who have every bit as much right to go to a hospital or their jobs or a movie without being reminded that the culture in which they must live thinks of them as less worthy and less important than the able-bodied.
It may seem, to some, like these problems are not worth talking about, as the greater good of encouraging stairs use is more important than the continued suffering of a few. But it is the refusal to analyze these attitudes that allows them to persist. You might think it's all very ridiculous now -- but if one day you're the one with the disability, odds are you're going to feel very differently.
I don't think good health should be a stick we beat people with. I think health initiatives that can apply to everyone, that acknowledge a range of experiences and abilities, and that recognize that one size of "good health" does not fit all, would be a far more useful and positive effort to put our energy into. It's okay to take the stairs. It's okay not to take the stairs. Until we start trusting one another with our bodies, and respecting our differences, shame will continue to rule our decisions about our health. And that doesn't seem like a very positive place to be.


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I don�t watch professional wrestling anymore. It has nothing to do with the matches being staged.
I don�t watch professional wrestling anymore.
It has nothing to do with the matches being staged. I knew that 30 years ago. In fact, the only reason I ever watched wrestling was because it was fake � and thus much more entertaining than normal sports.
I�ve never cared much for sports. It didn�t help that I was always picked last.
But I grew up fascinated with pro-wrestling because of the storylines. And as I got older, the storylines in the faux sport seemed to mature as well.
Those stories reached a tipping point when Hulk Hogan joined other big names in a coup d�etat of a wrestling company. The action was fake, but it mirrored several real-life takeovers by long-time WWE promoter Vince McMahon.
The hard-to-tell-what-was-real narratives marked a highlight in pro-wrestling history. No longer were the bouts about nonsense like babyfaces versus heels or squabbles over silly arguments. For almost a decade from 1995 to 2005, the matches may have been choreographed, but the feuds fueling them were as real as disgruntled employees hating their employer. We have all � at one time or another � felt that way.
But something else was going on behind the scenes. The matches were faked, but the violence was real. Dozens of pro-wrestlers were hopping up on steroids and popping pain pills to keep up the pace.
Then one by one they began to die. At first the business ignored the problem, but then like everything else, the real-life epidemic became part of the make-believe storyline.
If it wasn�t heart failure due to steroid abuse it was overdosing on painkillers. What began with the tragic cautionary tale of the Von Erichs spiraled out of control. It�s hard to pinpoint exactly when the deaths went from isolated tragedy to near extinction. Wrestlers have always died young, but in the mid-1990s, more and more grapplers weren�t making it past their 50th birthday. The advent of the Internet made finding out about the deaths much easier. The dark secret that pro-wrestles were burning out at an increasing rate couldn�t be hidden by promoters any longer.
Eddie Gilbert, 34, died in 1995. Dick Murdoch, 39, died in 1996. Brian Pillman, 34, died in 1997. Louie Spicolli, 27, died in 1998. The Junk Yard Dog, 46, died in 1998. Rick Rude, 41, died in 1999. Bobby Duncum Jr., 34, died in 2000. Yokozuna, 38, died in 2000. Terry Bam-Bam Gordy, 40, died in 2001. Big Dick Dudley, 34, died in 2002. Davey Boy Smith, 39, died in 2002. Kurt Hennig, 44, died in 2003. Miss Elizabeth, 42, died in 2003. Road Warrior Hawk, 46, died in 2003. Crash Holly, 32, died in 2003. Hercules Hernandez, 45, died in 2004. Big Boss Man, 42, died in 2004. Chris Candido, 33, died in 2005. Eddie Guerrero, 38, died in 2005. Earthquake John Tenta, 42, died in 2005. Bam Bam Bigelow, 45, died in 2007. Mike Awesome, 42, died in 2007. Brian Adams, 43, died in 2007. Andrew �Test� Martin died in 2009. Umaga, 36, died in 2009. Dr. Death Steve Williams, 49, died in 2009. Chris Kanyon, 40, died in 2010. Lance Cade, 29, died in 2010.
The whispered horror stories shocked America with headline news in 2007 when world champion Chris Benoit, jacked up on steroids and paid medications, killed his wife and son in their Atlanta area home before hanging himself with the cords to a weight-lifting machine.
I couldn�t stomach it anymore. I couldn�t enjoy sports entertainment knowing it was built on the broken bodies and shattered minds of the wrestlers.
The first opinion piece I ever penned for The Daily News back in 2007 was a fill-in for Joe Miller�s weekly wresting column. I said then that I had enjoyed watching the �male soap opera� since I saw Ric Flair and Wahoo McDaniel fight it out at my small-town high school. Not anymore.
I stopped watching years ago. And I don�t see me tuning in again.
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Discussion in 'Religion and Ethics' started by William Joyce, Nov 10, 2005.
But Kwanzaa is great, so is Hannukah:
Can you explain to me how the term "Happy Holidays" suggests that Kwanzaa and Hannukah are great while at the same time, bashing Christmas?
Christians are offended that they only hear Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. They feel slighted.
Apparently, that's offensive because "Happy Holidays" groups Christmas with those other pagan observances.
It's because they specifically mention Kwanzaa and Hannakuh while intentionally avoiding mentioning Christmas. It's as if they're saying that Kwanzaa and Hannakuh are ok to celebrate publicly while Christmas must be suppressed and hidden behind generic terms like "holidays."
Some people just dont have a life I guess, theyll bitch and make shit up to fill the gaps.
Just for the hell of it I search the Wal-Mart site with the word Christmas..
The result was this
It always amused me that, on one hand, people bitch about the commercialization of Christmas and that every year we get further and further from the true meaning of Christmas.
But on the other hand, when they're at Walmart or Kohls or Sears or wherever, they want everyone to say Merry Christmas and have Christmas decorations up all over the place. "Happy Holidays" is offensive, but then so is using "Merry Christmas" to make money. I've never really grasped it, I probably never will.
Great point. Which is why you have to make judgement calls. You can't please everyone. The fact that any Christian would be bitching either way is just silly.
I agree.
Personally I don't go shopping to get my holiday greetings. With that said, I don't think I've ever said Merry Christmas to anyone who did not return the greetings. I've had lots of interactions with Jews, they always wished me a Merry Christmas, not happy holidays. I always responded with Happy Hannuka or Happy New Year, with a thanks.
I know far fewer Muslims, but in the grocery stores, they too have wished holiday greetings. Seems to me that some are just looking for trouble.
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text: Smith & Wesson K & L Frame Real Ivory Gr... MOTHER OF PEARL GRIPS FOR S & W Grips for S&W model 39 439 639 Triple K ... Tyler T Grip Adapter Smith & Wesson K L ... Grips S&W K or L Frame Square Butt Pachm... Non Guns Gun Parts Grips Smith Wesson Smith Wesson model Factory Goncalo Grips s GR XX fits Non Ambidextrous Variants Only Good Condition | 1487 | 0 | Lc | 546.8866ms View Category Smith & Wesson model 39 439 639 Factory Goncalo Grips 1980s GR08XX fits Non Ambidextrous Variants Only Good Condition For Sale from Robertson Trading Post | Positive feedback: 99% View | Verified Seller | 21888 Completed Sales View Sellers Items /UserImages/87270/953464664 6312937.jpg /UserImages/87270/953464664 6312938.jpg /UserImages/87270/953464664 6312939.jpg /UserImages/87270/953464664 6312940.jpg /UserImages/87270/953464664 6312941.jpg /UserImages/87270/953464664 6312942.jpg /UserImages/87270/953464664 6312943.jpg /UserImages/87270/953464664 6312944.jpg Description: Buyers please bear with us, we are still a couple hundred orders behind, 2-3 days. It's very helpful when buyers provide their FFL's info; many times we already have the FFL on file. This listing is for One set of grips, the exact ones in the photos. Sometimes we get multiple sets, but we photograph them individually. Here is a very attractive set of factory grips to fit any Smith & Wesson full size model 39 or 39-2 pistol without ambidextrous safety. It will also fit some variants of the model 439, 539, and 639; but only the ones that have a safety lever on the left side of the slide for a right handed shooter. These panels will not work for a 439, 539, or 639 that has an ambidextrous safety lever on the right side of its slide. They will not work for a model 59, or a model 659. They Will Not work on the third generation 39 series pistols; Will Not Work on a 3904 or 3906. They will only fit models 39, 39-1, 39-2, 439, 539, and 639 with single side safety lever. Manufacturer, of course, is Smith & Wesson of Springfield, Massachusetts. Construction is Brazilian Goncalo Alves wood. Finish is cut checkered gloss finish with nickel plated factory logo shields. Surface detractions are moderate on this set, with some finish loss du to service contact and weathering. We rate them as Good Condition, 70 to 75 percent vicinity by our estimate; but photos ought to suffice for our distinguished shoppers to judge finish grade for themselves. The 639 Adjustable partially showing in some of our photos is not included. Its purpose is to show the absence of an ambidextrous safety lever. Screws are not included. These grips were manufactured in the mid 1980s, before production of the Third Generation Autos began in 1988. We're offering the factory Smith & Wesson grips in the photos for only $ 39.00. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Grips, Magazines, slings, holsters, scopes, mounts, parts & most any small light items, entire accessory orders only $10.00 total shipping no matter how many a person buys. $10.00 for an entire order, Not $10.00 per item or anything of the sort. $20 Flat Fee on magazine orders to Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico, and gun parts to PR civilians must ship to an FFL. Magazines and any small light non-gun items ride free with ammo orders. We accept checks with no more than 7 days hold. GA Pay, MC, Visa, Discover phone- or fax-in 7 3 1 9 8 9 4 7 2 3 orders, USPS Money Order items shipped ASAP please put your full information, venue number, and what the item is on any messages. Internet phone hours 8:30 – 4:30 CST Mon – Fri. Robertson Trading Post 117 Front Street PO Box 365 Henderson, Tennessee 38340. We buy, sell, and trade. Always have, since 1952. Read More Condition: Used, As New Location: TN Trades Accepted: We Buy, Sell, or Trade. Always have. Read More Don't let your buddies use your account. Registered user must be the buyer, with his or her own money. Buying firearms and related items for other people can result in felony charges. Don't try, either, to circumvent any law; for example, a California civilian may not buy a high capacity magazine and have it shipped to his brother-in-law in Nevada. That is a felony. GA Pay buyers are NOT charged until we confirm we have the item and are ready to ship it. The same thing is true for phone-in, fax-in, and mail-in payments. In this respect, and in several others, Guns America outshines all its competitors. This is the best firearms website there is, hands down. Shipping Notes: $10.00 total for an entire order lower 48. for any combination of small light items. 20 to AK, HI, or PR. Grips Magazines & all small items ride free with Gun or Ammo shipments. We Buy, Sell, or Trade. We always have. Read More Share Item Item #: 953464664 Stock No.: GR0839 Robertson Trading Post Seller Since: Jul. 2007 Seller Level: Trusted Seller This seller is an FFL City: Henderson State: TN Price: SOLD This Seller Accepts Online Payment Shipping: $10.00 Accepted Payment Methods: Returns: 7 Days Your Recently Viewed Items


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By Ingrid Melander
PARIS (Reuters) - France's National Front scored its best ever local election result, but its hopes for power remain thwarted by widespread distaste for its anti-immigration policies and an election system that allows voters to block it from office.
The far-right FN won one in four votes in the first round of local elections on March 22, its highest score ever. In the second round last Sunday, it secured 62 councillors in 14 departmental assemblies, less than 2 percent of councillors nationwide but a big jump from the single councillor it had before.
Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls acknowledged the "lasting upheaval" the FN had brought to an electoral landscape dominated for decades by a center-right and a center-left party.
But FN leader Marine Le Pen had hoped to top the party's unprecedented victory in last year's EU elections and the strong showing in the first round of the local elections with another milestone: obtaining control of one or two departments. That did not happen.
"(The FN) is undeniably spreading and putting down roots," said Ipsos pollsters' analyst Jerome Fourquet. "It's just maybe at a slightly less spectacular pace than some had hoped or predicted."
Like other fringe parties in Europe, the FN has attracted voters angry with rampant unemployment and a stagnant economy and disillusioned with mainstream politicians such as President Francois Hollande, who is deeply unpopular.
It has proven particularly popular in the southeast of France and in the unemployment-ridden northeast.
Le Pen blamed her party's failure to win any department on election rules that she said were "made to prevent the FN, and therefore its voters, millions of French people, from having elected officials".
France's two-round system, where individual candidates need to attain a threshold to reach the first-past-the-post final round, does indeed put at a disadvantage parties such as the FN who fail to strike alliances with others.
Although some in ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP would be tempted by deals with the FN, both Sarkozy and the Socialists have ruled out alliances with a party that wants to take France out of the euro and is still viewed by many in France as too right-wing to be acceptable.
Under Marine Le Pen, the party stopped being content with attracting protest votes and worked hard to clean up its image of having links to neo-Nazi groups and peddling anti-Semitism.
Despite these efforts, and Le Pen's growing popularity, most voters still find the FN's policies unpalatable: 68 percent of French voters would consider it a bad thing if their local department council was ruled by the FN, an Ipsos poll showed.
This phenomenon has long been dubbed the "republican front". While it is weakening, especially among voters on the right of the mainstream spectrum, analysts see it holding it enough for now to keep the FN out of power.
"When you have 30 or 40 percent for the FN, it means there are still 60 or 70 percent who do not want it to win," said political science professor Philippe Cossalter.
Building a network of local officials is key to promote Le Pen's bid for the 2017 presidential and parliamentary elections. Her father and party founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen, had been content with being an outsider in national polls, but his daughter wants power.
In a telling sign that an FN presence on the center stage of politics has become normal, the party's recent successes did not provoke a mass outcry such as in 2002, when Jean-Marie Le Pen made it to the second round of the presidential vote.
His breakthrough took France by surprise and hundreds of thousands took to the streets to march against the FN. By 2015, its leaders have become a regular feature on news shows and supporters readily appear on TV.
Analysts see more FN candidates being elected to parliament in 2017 but remaining a minority, not strong enough to directly influence government policy. And Le Pen would likely make it to the second round of the presidential election but lose it.
"The FN has made a spectacular leap compared to three or four years ago but winning the presidential election is not an issue for the moment," Fourquet said.
(Additional reporting by Gregory Blachier; Editing by Andy Callus and Raissa Kasolowsky)


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WASHINGTON, June 21 - Republicans joined longtime Democratic critics in Congress on Tuesday to berate the Pentagon for withholding information about the Halliburton Corporation's disputed billing under a $2.5 billion contract for Iraqi oil site repairs and fuel imports.
Saying the Pentagon is acting as if "it has something to hide," Representative Christopher Shays, Republican of Connecticut, said at a hearing that he would support issuing a subpoena to the Pentagon next week if the administration did not provide long-requested documents relating to the contract, which was awarded to Halliburton in early 2003 without competition.
Mr. Shays is chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, which held the hearing.
The subcommittee seeks in particular to explore why Defense Department officials tried to keep secret their own auditors' findings last fall that questioned the validity of more than $200 million of Halliburton invoices under the 2003 contract.
Lawmakers from both parties expressed frustration with the Pentagon at the session, which is the first Congressional hearing to be devoted specifically to American management of $19.6 billion in Iraqi funds.Continue reading the main story
The money, mainly from oil revenue, was gathered in an account called the Development Fund for Iraq, which was controlled by the United States from early 2003 to mid-2004, when sovereignty was transferred to an interim Iraqi government.
The fund is the successor to the so-called oil-for-food aid program, in which the United Nations monitored Iraqi oil sales and revenue in the final years of Saddam Hussein's rule, and which has been a subject of more than a dozen Congressional hearings over allegations of mismanagement and corruption.
Although it has received little attention by comparison, the subsequent American handling of Iraqi funds "has discredited the United States and, I think, brought shame to our nation," Dennis J. Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, said at the hearing. He was referring to findings by federal auditors that the occupation authority spent billions, in addition to the disputed Halliburton contract, with little oversight.
Most of the money spent under the 2003 oil repair and fuels contract with the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root was drawn from Iraqi funds, which a United Nations resolution authorized the American-led alliance to use "in a transparent manner" and for the good of Iraq.
Last winter, when United Nations and Congressional overseers asked to see internal Pentagon audits of the oil contract, they were given copies in which all of the questioned charges and most of the critical remarks about Kellogg were blacked out, or redacted.
"The redactions violated the commitment to transparency and regretfully make it appear D.O.D. has something to hide," Mr. Shays told a panel of Defense Department officials at the hearing. He accused the Pentagon of "deferring completely to the contractor's absurdly expansive view of what constitutes proprietary information and must be shielded from view."
Unedited copies of some of the Pentagon audits were leaked in March to Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, who released them publicly.
At the subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, Mr. Waxman said that in a recent private briefing, Pentagon officials had disclosed that Kellogg Brown & Root had been allowed to dictate the redactions.
Pentagon officials said at the hearing that the department's general counsel had advised them that details of the audits, including alleged overcharges, could not be released without the contractor's permission. Independent experts on contracting have disputed that view.
In a series of reports, a federal agency created by Congress to monitor reconstruction spending in Iraq has criticized the occupation authority for poor financial management of both Iraqi and American funds, opening the way to fraud.
In January the agency, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, concluded that $8.8 billion had been provided to Iraqi ministries with poor oversight or controls. Among other problems, it described ministries that claimed pay for thousands of "ghost employees."
The former chief of the occupation authority, L. Paul Bremer III, argued then that officials were being held to an impossible standard and that in the emergency after the invasion it was vital to get ministries started and pay in the hands of Iraqis.
Another report by the monitoring agency found evidence of fraud by American officials who dispensed small development grants in the region around Hilla in south-central Iraq.
More than $7 million in cash is missing from that office, and criminal investigations are under way.
Mr. Waxman, who has been the most persistent Congressional critic of spending controls in Iraq, released a report on Tuesday called "U.S. Mismanagement of Iraqi Funds."
It describes the huge transfers of cash, mainly in $100 bills, from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to Iraq.
Because Iraq does not have a well-functioning banking system, payments to ministries and many contractors there have been in cash, in American currency, making it hard to monitor spending. Between May 2003 and June 2004, the report found, the Federal Reserve shipped $12 billion in cash to Iraq, all drawn from the account of the Development Fund for Iraq.
In June 2004 alone -- the final month of American control over Iraqi funds -- officials urgently shipped more than $4 billion so they could allocate the money before the transfer of sovereignty to Iraqis, Mr. Waxman said.
Yet "no certified public accounting firm was hired to monitor disbursements" of all that cash, Mr. Waxman said.
Memos Detail Hussein's Fraud
UNITED NATIONS, June 21 (AP) -- The Security Council had detailed knowledge of how Saddam Hussein was violating international sanctions but was so divided that many violations went largely unchecked, according to documents released Tuesday by a Congressional panel.
Despite the divisions on its committee monitoring sanctions, the Council managed to institute a pricing policy under American and British pressure to cut lucrative surcharges on oil sales that Mr. Hussein was pocketing.
The committee's divisions and Iraq's violations of the sanctions were widely reported starting in the late 1990's and until the program ended in 2003. But the documents released Tuesday, which include United States memos and reports on committee meetings, provide a more comprehensive picture of the political dynamics at play and the difficulty of enforcement.
Thomas Schweich, chief of staff at the United States Mission to the United Nations, released a statement on Tuesday to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight panel, saying the atmosphere in the sanctions committee as the program evolved during the late 1990's "became increasingly contentious."
Mr. Hussein "cleverly exploited" sanctions in a variety of ways, granting "oil and humanitarian supply contracts to those willing to bend the rules in Iraq's favor," Mr. Schweich said. Iraq's supporters on the Security Council included Russia, China and France until mid-2001.Continue reading the main story


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The connection between metabolic health and colon cancer. And how to increase your metabolic health
There's now yet another reason to pay attention to your metabolic health. According to a study published by the American Association for Cancer Research, post-menopausal women of a normal weight, but who are metabolically unhealthy, are at a "significantly higher risk for colorectal cancer" than those who are metabolically healthy.
This is a big deal because, according to the study's authors, 30 percent of normal-weight adults worldwide are "metabolically unhealthy." This is surprising, given metabolic health is normally associated with obesity. Science Daily explains a person's metabolism is considered unhealthy when he or she suffers from at least three of the following symptoms: "elevated waist circumference, elevated blood pressure, elevated levels of triglycerides, elevated levels of glucose, and lower levels of HDL-C."
The study, which looked at 5,000 post-menopausal women of a normal weight, found that those who were metabolically unhealthy had a "more than two-fold higher risk for colorectal cancer" compared with women who were metabolically healthy. The findings are of grave significance, given colorectal cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in American women. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only breast and lung cancer are diagnosed more frequently.
Maintaining metabolic health is important for both genders and at all ages. Continue reading below to learn the best scientifically proven tips for metabolic health:
1. Green tea. A study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition found drinking 5- 6 cups of green tea daily is useful for maintaining metabolic health. As a bonus, the study found green tea is equally as effective for maintaining cardiovascular health.
2. Whole grains. Researchers at Kansas State University analyzed several studies that consider the effect dietary fiber and whole grains have on metabolic health. They concluded dietary fiber may help keep body weight in check and improve the metabolism of carbohydrates. However, more research is still needed in both areas. It is therefore best to talk to your doctor about the right amount of dietary fibers and whole grains to include in your diet to match your specific metabolic health needs.
3. Milk. The medical journal Nutrition & Metabolism published a 2013 study that found dairy protein promotes lean body mass and metabolic function.
4. Probiotics. A study published by Cambridge University Press concluded probiotics, which work by selectively modifying microbiota in the gut, strengthen metabolic and colon health.
5. Water-based exercise. Water-based exercise is an excellent way to stay physically fit, especially for people for whom weight-bearing exercise can be damaging or difficult. While researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand say more research is necessary to definitively conclude the effectiveness of such exercise on metabolic health, they note regular water-based exercise has been shown to be beneficial for cardiorespiratory fitness, strength, and body fat distribution.


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Due to popular request... After beginning my "death by chocolate" oil painting series I have been urged to expand the concept... Paintings here will be based on human propensity taken to extreme, encompassing the "Seven Deadly Sins" and beyond. Thought provoking reflections.


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If you choose to pay with a check or money order, please let us know by typing, "Check mailed on mm/dd/yy." in the blank text field above the J9's K9s Cancellation Policy when you confirm your order. Remember, your class registration is not finalized until we receive payment of your tuition.
To pay by check or money order (payable to J9's K9s), mail to:
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In the wake of an emergency, cash transfer programs have proven to be an effective and quick way to respond to the needs of those affected by disasters – both giving people much needed cash while also injecting money into local economies. Cash transfer programs also place decisions about recovery priorities in the hands of affected populations, ensuring that response efforts uphold dignity and are responsive to individual household needs.
In response to recent natural disasters in the Philippines, Lutheran World Relief (LWR) has successfully implemented various types of cash transfer programs to best meet the needs of disaster-affected communities.Download PDF (1 MB)


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Wikipedia and Wikisource, the Wikipedia in Hebrew gets more eyeballs than all Wikisources combined. When you consider the potential public for both projects, the public for Wikisource is bigger by orders of magnitude.
On the main page of the English Wikisource it says: "We now have 783,122 texts in the English language library". It is less clear how many of these texts are in a final form; meaning ready for casual readers. The pages linked to the proof read tool indicate 691 completed pages and 3588 pages ready for proofreading. This does not imply that there are 691 text that are ready.
For a reader, the sources at Wikisource are works in progress. A text featured on the Wikisource main page, like the Celtic Fairy tales, is very much a Wiki page. The presentation of the text and illustrations is very much accidental. It is a bit sad is, but the pages where easier to read when they still needed to be proofread.
As you can see, the long lines below are not easy to read and the font used in the original book made the text more legible.
The Hebrew Wikipedia is easy to read. We can and should do better for Wikisource.


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3 Makeup Looks Inspired by My Favorite Albums of 2016
Since I'm a visual person I hardly ever remember the album title but I just remember what the album art looks like.
I was recently introduced to It Cosmetics, an innovative cosmetic brand that's brought me such staples as Bye Bye Redness Concealer and Bye Bye Under Eye Concealer. I've also found myself toting around their compact Naturally Pretty Essentials eyeshadow palette.
After making such a good impression, I was obviously pretty stoked when I heard they were adding a large, super versatile eyeshadow palette to their line. SuperHero Eye Transforming Anti-Aging Super Palette is available at Ulta, costs $42, and contains 12 nicely varying shades.
If you're wondering where the anti-aging claim comes in, direct your attention to the three colors at the top of the palette. Those are all "eye foundations," meant to be applied on the lid as a color-correcting priming powder. I do find that it creates a nice, silky base. I also use the two colors on the left to blend a lot, as they're matte and happen to be similar to my skin tone.
The remaining nine colors are grouped together in threes. The furthest left is dubbed "nudes," perfect for a low-key daytime look. The middle is "neutrals," which is also nice for daytime, but obviously a little more playful. The furthest right is a group of "liners," but they also double as eyeshadow if you're craving a smoky eye.
To demonstrate the versatility of the palette and show you how the colors wear, I've put together three different looks.
Daytime Cat Eye
For this look, I used the "nudes" grouping on the furthest left of the palette. After applying the priming powder, I applied Powerful, the lightest shade, across my lid. I used a mixture of Aura and Limitless to define my crease and smoked out a bit of Aura on my lower lash line, as well. I followed up with a tiny cat eye flick.
Anytime Neutral Smoky Eye
After applying the priming powder, I applied a swash of Unstoppable (the gold) across my entire lid. Next, I came in with Fearless (red copper) on the center of my lid and toward the outer corners. Finally, I added Superstar beyond my eyes in a V-shape. I used a brown eyeliner and smoked it out with a mixture of Fearless and Superstar. I also applied Unstoppable in the inner corners.
I want to take a moment to note my biggest gripe with this palette, which is that it has a lot of fallout. The colors are gorgeous and silky, but it takes time to build up pigmentation and in that process, you do get eyeshadow dust on your face. To combat this, I waited to do the rest of my makeup and then did a little cleanup before moving on to foundation.
Nighttime Smoky Eye
I felt like I was kind of breaking the rules here by wearing the "liners" colors as eyeshadow, but I wanted to see if it worked. Every large palette needs to provide the ability to create a smoky eye, and I'm glad to report that SuperHero delivers.
For this look, i applied the priming powder and then applied a mixture of limitless and Auro across my entire lid. From there, I combined Bold and Superhero (the blue and black) and started building up color along my crease and outer corners. I went back in with Magical, the top color on the furthest right, on the center of my lid to create some more dimension. Finally, I applied black eyeliner to my upper and lower lash line and then generously smoked it out with a mixture of Bold and Superhero.
Personally, I love the effect of all three looks. I think I'm most likely to wear the second one on any given day, though I'm partial to the cat eye, as well. Which is your favorite look? Do you think the liners work in the creation of a smoky eye?


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ZURICH/VIENNA (Reuters) - Books are already covered for the listing of BAWAG PSK [CCMLPB.UL], the Austrian bank majority owned by U.S. private equity group Cerberus Capital Management [CBS.UL], one of the bookrunners said on Thursday.
BAWAG plans to raise up to 2.1 billion euros ($2.49 billion) in its initial public offering, which would be the biggest IPO in Austrian history. The deal values the bank at up to 5.2 billion euros.
"Books are covered within the range on the full deal size including greenshoe," the bookrunner said.
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Nothing Says "I Don't Care" Like a Shiny New Mercedes
We spend so many pixels attacking Hummers but look at who has the worst record of reducing CO2 emissions in Europe: DaimlerChrysler, now just Daimler. The EU wants significant reductions in CO2 by 2012 and they are not even going in the right direction. ::Economist


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Molesworth will discuss her upcoming exhibition This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s.
Helen Molesworth is the Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston. While head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary art and the Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museum, she presented an exhibition of photographs by Moyra Davey and ACT UP NY: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis 1987-1993. From 2002 to 2007 she was the Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts where she organized the first US retrospectives of Louise Lawler and Luc Tuymans, as well as Part Object Part Sculpture, which examined sculpture in the wake of Marcel Duchamp's erotic objects and hand made readymades of the 1960s. From 2000-2002 she was the Curator of Contemporary Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art, where she organized Work Ethic, which traced the problem of artistic labor in post-1960s art. She is the author of numerous articles and her writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum, Art Journal, Documents, and October. Her research areas are concentrated largely within and around the problems of feminism, the reception of Marcel Duchamp, and the socio-historical frameworks of contemporary art. She is currently at work on two major exhibitions: Dance/Draw opened at the ICA this past October and This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s premieres at the MCA Chicago on the winter of 2012.
About The Speakers Series: Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.


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As from today Giovanni Lombardi is working half time (19 hours per week) for the Belgian Floorball Federation. He has therefore decided to resign as president of the federation. Nicolas Senez will serve as interim president until the next general meeting in September.
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